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Developing A Methodology For Assessing Safety Programs Targeting Human Error In Aviation, Scott Shappell, Douglas Wiegmann Nov 2006

Developing A Methodology For Assessing Safety Programs Targeting Human Error In Aviation, Scott Shappell, Douglas Wiegmann

Publications

There is a need to develop an effective methodology for generating comprehensive intervention strategies that map current and proposed safety programs onto well-established types of human error. Two separate studies were conducted using recommendations from NTSB accident investigations and several joint FAA and industry working groups. The goal of the studies was to validate a proposed framework for developing and examining safety initiatives that target human error in aviation. The results suggest five approaches to reducing human factors associated with aviation accidents. When combined with the Human Factors Analysis and Classification System, the resulting Human Factors Intervention Matrix will provide …

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Parental Involvement In Youth Sports, Kristin Leigh Greene Nov 2006

Parental Involvement In Youth Sports, Kristin Leigh Greene

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The purpose of this paper is to understanding the motivating factors pertaining to the involvement of youth in sport and how parents can assist in providing their children optimal sport experiences. The paper will begin by providing a background of youth sport involvement, and include the benefits and drawbacks of youth sport participation. To ensure that young athletes are positively motivated toward sport participation, it is important to understand their reasons for participation, as well as how others, such as parents, impact their motivation toward sport. This paper will address a number of motivational theories. Deci and Ryan's cognitive evaluation …

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Constitutional Crisis In The Commonwealth: Resolving The Conflict Between Governors And Attorneys General, Michael Signer Nov 2006

Constitutional Crisis In The Commonwealth: Resolving The Conflict Between Governors And Attorneys General, Michael Signer

University of Richmond Law Review

In this article, I argue the solution to agency conflict and the broader problem of establishing the proper scope of executive authority lies in establishing that Virginia has a "statutory" rather than a "common-law" model of the Attorney General's powers, and that the Office of the Attorney General is therefore circumscribed by statute. Contrary to popular understanding, I will argue that Wilder v. Attorney General of Virginia effectively establishes Virginia as a statutory state and resolves the conflict in favor of the Governor. Because the Supreme Court of Virginia is unlikely to act more strongly in favor of the statutory …

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Refining The Production Burden For "Regarded As Disabled" Claimants, Jennifer Schechter Sharret Nov 2006

Refining The Production Burden For "Regarded As Disabled" Claimants, Jennifer Schechter Sharret

Cardozo Law Review

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The Nato-Russia Partnership: A Marriage Of Convenience Or A Troubled Relationship?, Stephen J. Blank Dr. Nov 2006

The Nato-Russia Partnership: A Marriage Of Convenience Or A Troubled Relationship?, Stephen J. Blank Dr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

Four years after the NATO-Russia Council came into being, it represents a picture in ambivalence and incomplete realization of partnership. This monograph focuses on the Russian side of this growing estrangement. It finds the Russian roots of this ambivalence or alienation in the increasingly visible manifestations of an autocratic and neo-imperial Russian state and foreign and defense policy. These strong trends in Russian policy inhibit the formation of a genuine security partnership that can provide for Eurasian security in the face of multiple contemporary threats. Indeed, it is debatable whether Russia really wants a comprehensive partnership with NATO. The author …

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Violence And Coping Of Emergency Department Nurses, Sarah Fraser Nov 2006

Violence And Coping Of Emergency Department Nurses, Sarah Fraser

Graduate Research Projects

The purpose of this research is to gather information about the types of interventions that best help victims of ED violence. Studies demonstrate that there is a definite problem of violence in the Emergency Department (ED). Studies also show there has been an increase in the victimization of ED staff. The problem of violence in the ED is not just a problem within the United States but also found in countries such as Ireland and Australia. There is a need to improve the safety measures of the ED so that staff will feel safe and can perform their jobs efficiently …

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Juror Questions During Trial: A Window Into Juror Thinking, Shari Seidman Diamond, Mary R. Rose, Beth Murphy, Sven Smith Nov 2006

Juror Questions During Trial: A Window Into Juror Thinking, Shari Seidman Diamond, Mary R. Rose, Beth Murphy, Sven Smith

Vanderbilt Law Review

The jury has undergone a dramatic transformation from its earliest incarnation when jurors acted as witnesses, investigators, and tribunal. In the modern American jury trial, the parties determine what jurors learn during the proceedings. Jurors of today, assigned the role of audience members until deliberations begin, typically speak in the courtroom only during jury selection and through their verdict at the end of the trial. In light of their enforced silence throughout the trial, jurors have no opportunity to clarify or check on their interpretation of the evidence and they provide few external indications about their thinking as the trial …

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The Commodification Of Insurance Defense Practice, Herbert M. Kritzer Nov 2006

The Commodification Of Insurance Defense Practice, Herbert M. Kritzer

Vanderbilt Law Review

In this paper, I present an analysis of insurance defense practice using the heuristic of a commodity.7 Essentially, I argue that many, perhaps even most, insurance companies have come to view the more routine work of insurance defense as something to be purchased in a marketplace where there are a large number of interchangeable providers.8 Loyalty between buyer and seller, to the extent that it had been an important element of the relationship, has faded. Today, insurance companies frequently shop for the best deal, which may include producing insurance defense services in-house rather than purchasing those services from an outside …

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In Texas, Life Is Cheap, Frank Cross, Charles Silver Nov 2006

In Texas, Life Is Cheap, Frank Cross, Charles Silver

Vanderbilt Law Review

What is the life of a Texan worth? Some might suggest very little. Payments in thousands of tort cases in which Texans died provide some evidence for this hypothesis. Although Texas has been a focus of much of the national controversy over the costs of tort litigation, payments in death cases have seen relatively little disciplined research. Existing research often misses the primary effect of the system because it focuses on trial outcomes rather than settlement payments. This Article provides some evidence of the actual payments made in Texas in death cases, their determinants, and the implications of those findings …

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Objectifying Anxieties: Scientific Ideologies In Bram Stoker’S Dracula And The Lair Of The White Worm, Diane Hoeveler Nov 2006

Objectifying Anxieties: Scientific Ideologies In Bram Stoker’S Dracula And The Lair Of The White Worm, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

Scientific ideologies swirl throughout Stoker’s two most gothic novels, Dracula (1897) and The Lair of the White Worm (1911), and this essay will address those ideologies as literary manifestations of just some of the “weird science” that was permeating late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Europe. Specifically, the essay examines racial theories, physiognomy, criminology, brain science, and sexology as they appear in Stoker’s two novels. Stoker owned a copy Johann Caspar Lavater’s five-volume edition of Essays on Physiognomy (1789), and declared himself to be a “believer of the science” of physiognomy. The second major “weird science” infecting the gothic works of Stoker is …

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Does How I Feel About It Matter? The Role Of Affect In Cognitive And Behavioral Reactions To An Illness Diagnosis, Darnell Schuettler, Marc T. Kiviniemi Nov 2006

Does How I Feel About It Matter? The Role Of Affect In Cognitive And Behavioral Reactions To An Illness Diagnosis, Darnell Schuettler, Marc T. Kiviniemi

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Individuals often have low rates of compliance with treatment recommendations. We examined the role that experienced affect at the time of illness diagnosis might play in influencing thoughts and feelings relating treatment compliance. Participants were randomly assigned to receive a positive, neutral, or negative affect induction after imagining they were diagnosed with kidney cancer. They then reported on thoughts and feelings about the illness and the treatment regimen. Participants also reported interest in additional information about the illness and behavioral intentions for complying with the treatment regimen. Affect significantly influenced interest in information and behavioral intentions. Both effects were mediated …

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Contributions Of Muhadhdhab Al-Deen Al-Baghdadi To The Progress Of Medicine And Urology. A Study And Translations From His Book Al-Mukhtar, Rabie E. Abdel-Halim Nov 2006

Contributions Of Muhadhdhab Al-Deen Al-Baghdadi To The Progress Of Medicine And Urology. A Study And Translations From His Book Al-Mukhtar, Rabie E. Abdel-Halim

Saudi Medical Journal

This study of the Arabic 4-volume book of Al-Mukhtar Fi Al-Tibb (Choice Book on Medicine) written by the Muslim physician Muhadhdhab Al-Deen Al-Baghdadi (515-610 H, 1117-1213 AD) aimed at evaluating his contributions to the progress of medicine and urology along with providing English translations of relevant excerpts. Al-Baghdadi laid emphasis on the morals of medical practice and the principles of medical education describing how to select medical students and how to evaluate graduates. He stressed on the need for a long training program directly supervised by skilled expert doctors both in hospitals (Al-Bimaristanat) and during home visits. A good part …

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Risk Factors For Urinary Incontinence In Turkish Women. A Cross-Sectional Study, Tuncay M. Filiz, Cefariye Uludag, Nursan Cinar, Suleyman Gorpelioglu, Pinar Topsever Nov 2006

Risk Factors For Urinary Incontinence In Turkish Women. A Cross-Sectional Study, Tuncay M. Filiz, Cefariye Uludag, Nursan Cinar, Suleyman Gorpelioglu, Pinar Topsever

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To explore the association between conventional risk factors and urinary leakage among a random sample of adult Turkish women. METHODS: Six hundred and fifty patients (mean age 33.2 ± 10.6 years; range 17-65 years) attending 6 Primary Health Care Centers in the Eastern Marmara Region, Turkey were randomly enrolled in this study, between September 2005 and December 2005. After signing their informed consent, all patients filled in a questionnaire consisting of questions inquiring any kind of urinary leakage, related symptomatology and personal medical history. RESULTS: One hundred and six women (16.4%) with urinary incontinence (UI) were reported. The most …

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Taking The Sting Out Of Reporting Requirements: Reproductive Health Clinics And The Constitutional Right To Informational Privacy, Jessica Ansley Bodger Nov 2006

Taking The Sting Out Of Reporting Requirements: Reproductive Health Clinics And The Constitutional Right To Informational Privacy, Jessica Ansley Bodger

Duke Law Journal

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Moving Past Hippies And Harassment: A Historical Approach To Sex, Appearance, And The Workplace, Erica Williamson Nov 2006

Moving Past Hippies And Harassment: A Historical Approach To Sex, Appearance, And The Workplace, Erica Williamson

Duke Law Journal

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Arab Women’S Education And Gender Perceptions: An Insider Analysis, Amani Hamdan Nov 2006

Arab Women’S Education And Gender Perceptions: An Insider Analysis, Amani Hamdan

Journal of International Women's Studies

Studies focusing exclusively on the connection between Arab Muslim women’s educational pursuits and their gender perceptions, and how their gender perceptions may have changed as a result of living in two different cultures, are rarely conducted. Additionally, the factors that may influence an Arab Muslim woman’s educational pursuits seem seldom investigated. This article is highlighting some factors that may influence Arab Muslim women’s gender perceptions. In researching Arab Muslim women’s experiences, I considered the diversity and multiplicity of their race, ethnicity, class, and experience. How Arab Muslim women construct the gender aspect of their identities and how these identities may …

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The Jamaican Female Skills Surplus And Earnings Deficit: A Holistic Explanation, Dawn Richards Elliott Nov 2006

The Jamaican Female Skills Surplus And Earnings Deficit: A Holistic Explanation, Dawn Richards Elliott

Journal of International Women's Studies

This paper addresses the poor socio-economic performance of Jamaican females despite superior human capital. A holistic explanation exploring female lifestyle choices is advanced since discipline-specific theories fail to explain occupational clustering and the resulting earnings gap. It is hypothesized that both reflect lifestyle constraints, which may be linked to characteristics of the social environment. Since these constraints affect different groups of women differently, then policies designed to reduce occupational dis-similarity and female-male earnings gap must adapt a dis-aggregated analysis. Catherine Hakim’s model of female dis-aggregation and data from the World Bank’s Living Standards Measurement Survey, LSMS, are used to advance …

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Interaction Between Objective And Subjective Occupational Conditions Affecting Physical Health Of Women Workers, Jinky Leilanie Lu Nov 2006

Interaction Between Objective And Subjective Occupational Conditions Affecting Physical Health Of Women Workers, Jinky Leilanie Lu

Journal of International Women's Studies

This is an investigation on the interaction between the subjective and objective occupational conditions in affecting the overall health of women workers in industries that have accommodated information technology. The sample consisted of 23 establishments and 630 women respondents. Results show that the most prevalent issues among workers in the electronics industry included the need to upgrade skills, repetitive and fast paced work, pressure at work, and work that entailed both physically and mentally demanding tasks. It was found that the overall good physical health of the workers was affected by these factors: overtime, mental work, close monitoring, medium industries, …

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Gender, Romance Novels And Plastic Sexuality In The United States: A Focus On Female College Students, Huei-Hsia Wu Nov 2006

Gender, Romance Novels And Plastic Sexuality In The United States: A Focus On Female College Students, Huei-Hsia Wu

Journal of International Women's Studies

This analysis gauges gender difference in time spent reading romance novels and sexuality. Respondents were 770 white American college students, including 436 females and 334 males, age 17–49. Males are viewed as a reference group. Drawing upon the “plastic sexuality” thesis and feminist theory, this study hypothesizes that female readers of romance novels have higher levels of interest in sexuality (at least in the attitudes) than male readers, and non-readers but such a sexual interest is not necessarily converted into a more active sexual behavior. Most romance novels promote deeply constraining patriarchal values, reading romance novels plays a role in …

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Attitudes Toward Women Managers In Turkey And Pakistan, Semra Güney, Raheel Gohar, Sevcan Kılıç Akıncı, Mehmet Mutlu Akıncı Nov 2006

Attitudes Toward Women Managers In Turkey And Pakistan, Semra Güney, Raheel Gohar, Sevcan Kılıç Akıncı, Mehmet Mutlu Akıncı

Journal of International Women's Studies

This paper examines managerial attitudes toward women managers in Turkey and Pakistan by using “Managerial Attitudes toward Women Executives Scale (MATWES)” and draws a cross-cultural comparison between these two countries’ respondents. Significant differences were found in several managerial attitudes between these two countries’ respondents, and both women and men in Turkey have a negative attitude toward women managers as compared to Pakistani respondents. In contrast to the early findings in the literature, women’s attitudes toward women managers in Turkey were more negative than that of men’s while Pakistani women have more favorable attitudes than Turkish women toward women managers. The …

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“A Sea Captain In Her Own Right”: Navigating The Feminist Thought Of Huda Shaarawi, Rula B. Quawas Nov 2006

“A Sea Captain In Her Own Right”: Navigating The Feminist Thought Of Huda Shaarawi, Rula B. Quawas

Journal of International Women's Studies

Huda Shaarawi was one of the first Egyptian women who argued for women’s liberation, starting with education which would lead to full participation in the social and cultural reform and result in social usefulness and in legal and civic equality. A socialist feminist, Shaarawi promoted a successful program for social change not only from within the existing social and political order but also from within the framework of Islam and its value system. She came to be a speaking subject of feminist politics and a feminist living text for the women of her own generation. She was, and still is, …

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‘And Not Destroyed By The Destruction Of The Body’: Documenting Incarceration: Joya Mitra’S Killing Days, Tutun Mukherjee Nov 2006

‘And Not Destroyed By The Destruction Of The Body’: Documenting Incarceration: Joya Mitra’S Killing Days, Tutun Mukherjee

Journal of International Women's Studies

This paper discusses an unusual and disturbing narrative of a young student who is incarcerated for four years in Indian jails for participating in an ideological battle with a state government that steadily escalated in violence and brought students like her in direct confrontation with the state machinery. In prison, she is categorized as a ‘political detainee’ and must await her trial which is not allowed to happen until the political dispensation changes. Killing Days is a prison memoir – not of Mitra alone but of all the women she meets and shares pain and anguish with through the period …

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Book Review: American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life Of Anne Hutchinson, The Woman Who Defied The Puritans, Marla Kohlman Nov 2006

Book Review: American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life Of Anne Hutchinson, The Woman Who Defied The Puritans, Marla Kohlman

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans by Eve LaPlante

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Book Review: Body Work: The Social Construction Of Women’S Body Image, S. M. Belcher Nov 2006

Book Review: Body Work: The Social Construction Of Women’S Body Image, S. M. Belcher

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Body Work: The Social Construction of Women’s Body Image by Sylvia K. Blood

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The Cartel Party And The Rise Of The New Extreme Right, Riccardo Pelizzo Nov 2006

The Cartel Party And The Rise Of The New Extreme Right, Riccardo Pelizzo

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

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Assimilation And Contrast Effects In Cultural Frame Switching: Bicultural Identity Integration And Valence Of Cultural Cues, Chi-Ying Cheng, Fiona Lee, Veronica Benet-Martinez Nov 2006

Assimilation And Contrast Effects In Cultural Frame Switching: Bicultural Identity Integration And Valence Of Cultural Cues, Chi-Ying Cheng, Fiona Lee, Veronica Benet-Martinez

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

This study examines how the valence of cultural cues in the environment moderates the way biculturals shift between multiple cultural identities. The authors found that when exposed to positive cultural cues, biculturals who perceive their cultural identities as compatible (high bicultural identity integration, or high BII) respond in culturally congruent ways, whereas biculturals who perceive their cultural identities as conflicting (low BII) respond in culturally incongruent ways. The opposite was true for negative cultural cues. These results show that both high and low BIIs can exhibit culturally congruent or incongruent behaviors, and have implications for understanding situations where high and …

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The International Protection Of Cultural Property: Some Skeptical Observations, Eric A. Posner Nov 2006

The International Protection Of Cultural Property: Some Skeptical Observations, Eric A. Posner

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

Cultural property is subject to two international legal regimes, one of which protects cultural property during wartime, and the other of which regulates the international trade in cultural property. Neither legal regime has been notably successful. Cultural property is often targeted and destroyed during wars, or given inadequate protection. And the international trade in cultural property flourishes because states have been unwilling to invest resources in controlling it. As a result, scholars and advocates argue that both legal regimes should be strengthened. Sanctions should be enhanced; states should be forced to devote greater resources to complying with treaties; treaty obligations …

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Otras Perspectivas (Other Perspectives), Volume 10, Issue 01, November 2006, Occupational Therapy Graduate Program Nov 2006

Otras Perspectivas (Other Perspectives), Volume 10, Issue 01, November 2006, Occupational Therapy Graduate Program

OTras Perspectivas: UNM Occupational Therapy Program Newsletter

Acknowledging that the success of the Occupational Therapy Program hinges on the mutual investment of community and friends beyond the local community, the UNM Occupational Therapy Program faculty and staff have initiated this newsletter. The goal is to provide an additional forum for communication, and provide updates about the program's development, faculty, students, alumni, and friends.

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Future Of Bankruptcy: A Roundtable Discussion Nov 2006

Future Of Bankruptcy: A Roundtable Discussion

Missouri Law Review

Moderator: Michelle Arnopol Cecil, William H. Pittman Professor of Law, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law Participants: Marianne Culhane, Professor of Law, Creighton University School of Law A. Mechele Dickerson, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Fulbright and Jaworski Professor of Law, University of Texas School of Law The Honorable William Edmonds, Chief United States Bankruptcy Judge, Northern District of Iowa Daniel L. Keating, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Tyrrell Williams Professor of Law, Washington University School of Law Katherine Porter, Associate Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law John Pottow, Assistant Professor of Law, University of …

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Index Nov 2006

Index

Missouri Law Review

Index

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