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Inside Unlv, Shane Bevell, Diane Russell, Grace Russell Jan 2007

Inside Unlv, Shane Bevell, Diane Russell, Grace Russell

Inside UNLV

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Reinventing Downtown San Diego: A Spatial And Cultural Analysis Of The Gaslamp Quarter And Horton Plaza, Jordan Chase Ervin Jan 2007

Reinventing Downtown San Diego: A Spatial And Cultural Analysis Of The Gaslamp Quarter And Horton Plaza, Jordan Chase Ervin

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This research project explores issues of historic preservation, gentrification, and the contention over public space and culture. More specifically, it analyzes these elements within the setting of the historic Gaslamp Quarter and Horton Plaza in downtown San Diego. By tracing their development and conception from the early 1970s into the twenty-first century, this research reveals the different types of images and cultures that city leaders and developers created within the built environment. More importantly, the project sheds light upon how different social groups understood, experienced, and responded to the transformation of these spaces. This type of analysis is crucial for …

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Identification And Interpretation Of Botanical Remains From Neolithic 'Ais Yiorkis, Cyprus, Leilani Espinda Jan 2007

Identification And Interpretation Of Botanical Remains From Neolithic 'Ais Yiorkis, Cyprus, Leilani Espinda

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The botanical remains from the 2005 field season at 'Ais Yiorkis , Cyprus demonstrates a distinct economic assemblage that has yet to be identified in the Aceramic Neolithic of Cyprus. In addition to the unusually high proportions of two-grained einkorn and the low ratios of other plant parts, 'Ais Yiorkis is characterized by an atypical architectural phenomenon in the form of raised circular platform structures. Furthermore, the archeology is marked by a distinct lithic and groundstone tool industry as well as a massive faunal assemblage, which includes the presence of cattle, previously rare in the Neolithic. Together with the archaeology …

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Gypsum Cave Revisited: Faunal And Taphonomic Analysis Of A Rancholabrean-To-Holocene Fauna In Southern Nevada, Elizabeth Marie Glowiak Jan 2007

Gypsum Cave Revisited: Faunal And Taphonomic Analysis Of A Rancholabrean-To-Holocene Fauna In Southern Nevada, Elizabeth Marie Glowiak

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Gypsum Cave, near Las Vegas, Nevada, was excavated in 1930, yielding a Rancholabrean-to-Holocene mammalian fauna intermixed with many human artifacts. The bone assemblage, which is now housed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, contains burned and fractured bones with conspicuous grooves that have never before been studied. The objectives of this study are to (1) identify and describe the Gypsum Cave fauna, (2) interpret the taphonomy of the fauna to test the hypothesis that Gypsum Cave represents a site of interaction between Pleistocene animals and Paleo-Indians, and (3) use the Gypsum Cave fauna to better characterize the …

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Organization Of Lithic Technology At The Bowman Site (26ny809), Pahrump Valley, Nye County, Nevada, Annette Joye Smith Jan 2007

Organization Of Lithic Technology At The Bowman Site (26ny809), Pahrump Valley, Nye County, Nevada, Annette Joye Smith

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The organization of lithic technology and its relationship to mobility and resource procurement contributes to the understanding of hunter-gatherer lifeways. In this study, lithic or stone tool requirements, raw material availability, and procurement strategies are all considered. The study area is located in Pahrump Valley, which lies within the southern Nevada portion of the Mojave Desert. Potential pathways from the Bowman Site to Eureka Quartzite sources are studied to determine their use by prehistoric hunter-gatherers while procuring Eureka Quartzite. A determination was made regarding the organization of lithic technology and direct or embedded procurement, establishing a mobility strategy used by …

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Access To Dental Care For Victims Of Domestic Violence, Carolynn J Taylor Jan 2007

Access To Dental Care For Victims Of Domestic Violence, Carolynn J Taylor

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This thesis presents an ethnographic description of women living in Safe Nest, a shelter for victims of domestic violence in Las Vegas, Nevada. The purpose of this research is to investigate why dental care is rarely utilized by women residing in the Las Vegas shelters, even when dental conditions may be impeding an individual's level of self-confidence and opportunities for employment. This study presents evidence that access to dental care is hindered by social and economic factors and a lack of communication between residents in the shelter and the service providers in the community; Since utilization of health care services …

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Human And Pet Interaction: Companion Animals And The Formation Of Identity, Lisa Louise Sarmicanic Jan 2007

Human And Pet Interaction: Companion Animals And The Formation Of Identity, Lisa Louise Sarmicanic

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Keeping companion animals is commonplace. Each year Americans spend over 34.3 billion dollars on pet food, pet toys, and veterinary care, and within households, the person with primary responsibility for the care of a pet is usually female (American Pet Product Manufacturers Association 24(34). Although literature on the human/animal bond is becoming more extensive, relatively little has been written about the dynamics of the daily social interaction between humans---specifically women---and pets. In response to this lack of literature, this study asks: What is the nature of the social interplay between women and their companion animals? And how do women integrate …

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An Examination Of Inner Experience: Anxiety, Lessel Lyle Hutchins Jan 2007

An Examination Of Inner Experience: Anxiety, Lessel Lyle Hutchins

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Descriptive Experience Sampling (DES) is used to examine the inner experience of seven individuals who have been diagnosed with at least one anxiety disorder and four control individuals. Idiographic results for each of the 11 participants are provided, including a description of frequent and rare/unique experiences of each participant. These results are followed by between participant nomothetic comparisons. Among the results, it was found that anxious participants experienced more indefinite figure-ground and concrete experiences when compared to controls. Anxious participants are also more likely than controls to engage in negative valence self-evaluations and rate moments as being anxious. There is …

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Cultural Implications Of Architectural Mortar And Plaster Selection At Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, Shane David Rumsey Jan 2007

Cultural Implications Of Architectural Mortar And Plaster Selection At Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, Shane David Rumsey

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The research presented here utilizes both mineralogical and elemental analyses to examine prehistoric architectural mortar and plaster samples from kivas at two Pueblo III period cliff house sites in Mesa Verde National Park. In order to provide a thorough geochemical characterization of mortar and plaster samples analytic techniques including x-ray diffractometry (XRD), inductively coupled plasma---mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), and analytical electron microscopy (SEM-EDS) have been utilized. Similarities and differences in mortar selection among those sites and kivas sampled are then discussed in terms of cultural implications. The most significant result is a temporal trend in mortar selection from early to late …

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Living And Dying In An American Neo-Pagan Community, Benjamin C Wilreker Jan 2007

Living And Dying In An American Neo-Pagan Community, Benjamin C Wilreker

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

American Neo-Paganism is a new religious movement imported to the states from Britain in the 1930s. As a new religious movement, Neo-Pagans are, for the first time, dealing with the death of members, and as such have had to create funeral ritual of whole cloth. This study is, first and foremost, an ethnographic field account of seven funeral rituals in American Neo-Pagan communities in diverse locations throughout the United States. On basis of this ethnographic evidence, I show that Neo-Pagans visualize their dead as retaining agency, while participants in the American civil religion do not. I describe the American civil …

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Performance Management Process Report: John Jay College Goals & Targets 2007-2008, John Jay College Of Criminal Justice Jan 2007

Performance Management Process Report: John Jay College Goals & Targets 2007-2008, John Jay College Of Criminal Justice

Reports and Publications from John Jay College

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An Interview With Fred Wilson, Mark Graham Jan 2007

An Interview With Fred Wilson, Mark Graham

Faculty Publications

Abstract The medium of artist Fred Wilson is the museum. He delves deep into museum collections to expose unexamined assumptions about power, place, privilege, and history. His installations include wall labels, educational materials, lighting, and non-traditional pairings of objects.His work is not only about the objects on display, but about how the whole museum environment can generate meaningful questions about art, history, and the role of the museum in its community. In this interview, Fred Wilson discusses how he works with the objects, places, and people that are part of the museum environment.

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American Refugees: An Ethnographic Study Of The Street Homeless*, Jason Adam Wasserman Jan 2007

American Refugees: An Ethnographic Study Of The Street Homeless*, Jason Adam Wasserman

All ETDs from UAB

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An Analysis Of Ludwig Feuerbach‟S Criticisms Of Judeo-Christian Views Of Nature In The Essence Of Christianity, David Johnston Jan 2007

An Analysis Of Ludwig Feuerbach‟S Criticisms Of Judeo-Christian Views Of Nature In The Essence Of Christianity, David Johnston

Honors Capstones

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Gender Bending And Comic Books As Art: Issues Of Appropriation, Gender, And Sexuality In Japanese Art, Harley Blue Acres Jan 2007

Gender Bending And Comic Books As Art: Issues Of Appropriation, Gender, And Sexuality In Japanese Art, Harley Blue Acres

All ETDs from UAB

In Japanese high art, popular art (such as comic books and animation), theater, and music, representation of gender is a blurred line that is commonly crossed, more so than in the West. I argue that this fluidity is the result of disparate artistic sources that have filtered through Japanese culture since the Edo Period (1603-1867) with the flourishing of Kabuki Theater (in which men played women on stage) and the emergence of ukiyo-e (particularly shunga/erotica prints). This artistic lineage impacted arts of the Showa Period (1926-1989) notably Takarazuka Theater (which feature an exclusively female cast that portrays men) and the …

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Outcome Assessment On Skeletal Stability After Rigid External Distraction Osteogenesis In Cleft Lip And Palate Patients, Julio Enrique Tabarini Jan 2007

Outcome Assessment On Skeletal Stability After Rigid External Distraction Osteogenesis In Cleft Lip And Palate Patients, Julio Enrique Tabarini

All ETDs from UAB

Purpose: Distraction osteogenesis (DO) using an external distraction device in the correction of maxillary hypoplasia (MH) in cleft lip and palate patients has been shown to be an effective and stable technique. The purpose of this study is to determine the outcome of skeletal stability for this procedure using the Rigid External Distraction (RED) System in patients with cleft lip and palate (CLP). Materials and methods: Twenty CLP patients with moderate to severe maxillary hypoplasia were treated between June 2000 and June 2006. Their average age at the time of the surgery was 12.6 years. DO was started after a …

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Varieties Of Evolutionary Psychology, David J. Buller Jan 2007

Varieties Of Evolutionary Psychology, David J. Buller

Faculty Articles, Papers, and Other Scholarship

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Balancing Ambition And Gender Among Decision Makers, Rebecca Hannagan, Christopher W. Larimer, Kevin B. Smith Jan 2007

Balancing Ambition And Gender Among Decision Makers, Rebecca Hannagan, Christopher W. Larimer, Kevin B. Smith

Faculty Articles, Papers, and Other Scholarship

In this article, we use an original laboratory experiment to test how people react to ambitious decision makers, allowing for interactions with gender. In the experiment, participants are told two decision makers will be dividing some valuable resource on their behalf. One decision maker (either high or low in ambition) is “appointed.” Participants vote from a slate of candidates, about whom they have information on gender and ambition, for the second decision maker. We find that people tend to associate high ambition with male and self-interested behavior and that the selection of the second decision maker depends on the level …

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Breaking The Rule Of Discipline In Interdisciplinarity: Redefining Professors, Students, And Staff As Faculty, Alison Cook-Sather, Elliott Shore Jan 2007

Breaking The Rule Of Discipline In Interdisciplinarity: Redefining Professors, Students, And Staff As Faculty, Alison Cook-Sather, Elliott Shore

Education Program Faculty Research and Scholarship

In this article we attempt to complicate traditional--and, we argue, limited and exclusionary--definitions of interdisciplinarity as the bringing into dialogue of established disciplines without questioning the parameters and practices of those disciplines. We propose that interdisciplinarity instead might mean teaching and learning among, between, and in the midst of those of innate or learned capacities--not only college faculty but also students and staff. To illustrate this more radical iteration of interdisciplinarity, we draw on a range of definitions of the key terms, “discipline” and “faculty,” and we offer a case study of a workshop we co-facilitated in which we brought …

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Undergraduate Catalog 2007-2008, University Of North Florida Jan 2007

Undergraduate Catalog 2007-2008, University Of North Florida

UNF Course Catalogs

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The Spirituality Of Trees In Later Seventeenth-Century Horticulture, Sandra Sherman Jan 2007

The Spirituality Of Trees In Later Seventeenth-Century Horticulture, Sandra Sherman

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.

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Book Reviews Jan 2007

Book Reviews

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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The Diaspora Of Korean Children: A Cross-Cultural Study Of The Educational Crisis In Contemporary South Korea, Young-Ee Cho Jan 2007

The Diaspora Of Korean Children: A Cross-Cultural Study Of The Educational Crisis In Contemporary South Korea, Young-Ee Cho

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

The diaspora of Korean children first started after the Korean War in the 1950s. Abandoned by their impoverished mothers and shunned by society, many orphan children were sent abroad for adoption, which was the best, if not the only, available solution at the time. Half a century later, South Korea today is no longer a desperately poor country, and yet an increasing number of young children are still being sent abroad. The exodus of children, termed as the diaspora of Korean children in this study, is an out-of-country solution chosen by both students and parents in response to an educational …

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Theory: The Elephant In The Scholarship Of Teaching And Learning Room, Pat Hutchings Jan 2007

Theory: The Elephant In The Scholarship Of Teaching And Learning Room, Pat Hutchings

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

Excerpt: November, 2006 marked the third annual meeting of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and it was another blockbuster, with 850 participants, a rich array of sessions, the “Commons@ISSoTL” for informal exchange and sharing of resources, and a true international feel. As in past years, the conference also provided a window into the character and progress of the work, and a chance to ask where we are, what has been accomplished, and where we’re going. These questions leave room for considerable disagreement, of course. As in the parable of the blind men and …

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Cultural Identity And Continuity At The Missions Of New Spain: Examining The Native American Experience At The Spanish Missions Of Texas, William E. Altizer Jan 2007

Cultural Identity And Continuity At The Missions Of New Spain: Examining The Native American Experience At The Spanish Missions Of Texas, William E. Altizer

Nebraska Anthropologist

The Roman Catholic missions of New Spain were an essential component of the Spanish colonial enterprise, and the effects of the missionization process on the Native American populations of the Americas were profound. How did these native populations respond to the new imperatives of colonization and religious conversion? In what ways were they able to maintain their cultural identity under the mission system? This paper examines the ways in which archaeology can address these questions of cultural continuity, with particular emphasis on the eighteenth-century Spanish missions of San Antonio, Texas.

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Getting Your Hands A Little Less Dirty: An Exercise In Using Geophysics To Understand Hopewell Earthwork Construction, Erin C. Dempsey Jan 2007

Getting Your Hands A Little Less Dirty: An Exercise In Using Geophysics To Understand Hopewell Earthwork Construction, Erin C. Dempsey

Nebraska Anthropologist

Hopewellian earthworks are extremely complex in their make-up and indicate precise and planned soil placement by participants in the Hopewell culture. As such, recent research at the Hopeton Earthworks in Chillicothe, Ohio has focused on understanding how earthworks were constructed. Eight backhoe trenches excavated through the earthwork walls have revealed intricate and diverse soil stratigraphy. However, researchers do not yet know where the soils originated; this study aims to answer that question. To accomplish this, magnetic susceptibility testing was conducted on soil cores taken from in and around the earthworks. These results are compared to susceptibility testing results done on …

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The Impact Of The Atlantic Slave Trade On West Africa: Polygyny And Female Reproductive Success, Katherine Lamie Jan 2007

The Impact Of The Atlantic Slave Trade On West Africa: Polygyny And Female Reproductive Success, Katherine Lamie

Nebraska Anthropologist

J.D. Fage (1969) and Patrick Manning (1981; 1990) examine demographic data from historical records, in the West African political and economic context, in order to formulate theories of the impact of the Atlantic slave trade on West African populations and social structure. However, Fage and Manning come to markedly different conclusions. Fage maintains that the intensification of polygyny in West Africa that accompanied the Atlantic slave trade preserved African populations. In contrast, Manning argues that intensified polygynous marriages on the West African coast decreased the fertility of female slaves, thereby depressing population growth and affecting traditional social structures. Manning later …

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The Past Is How We Present It: Nationalism And Archaeology In Italy From Unification To Wwii, Andrew P. Mcfeaters Jan 2007

The Past Is How We Present It: Nationalism And Archaeology In Italy From Unification To Wwii, Andrew P. Mcfeaters

Nebraska Anthropologist

Between the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, Italian archaeology was greatly influenced by nationalism. The political use of archaeology by the Italian government can be seen in the years following unification and even more so when Benito Mussolini came to power, determined to make a new Italy modeled after the Roman Empire. He planned to do this by enforcing the adoption of ancient Roman culture, but also by resurrecting the Roman past through various archaeological projects to remind the Italians of their heritage. This goal guaranteed a nationalistic approach to the …

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Nebraska Anthropologist Volume 22: 2007 Table Of Contents Jan 2007

Nebraska Anthropologist Volume 22: 2007 Table Of Contents

Nebraska Anthropologist

Cultural Identity and Continuity at the Missions of New Spain: Examining the Native American Experience at the Spanish Missions of Texas (William E. Altizer) The Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade on West Africa: Polygyny and Female Reproductive Success (Katherine Lamie) Getting Your Hands a Little Less Dirty: An Exercise in Using Geophysics to Understand Hopewell Earthwork Construction (Erin C. Dempsey) The Past Is How We Present It: Nationalism and Archaeology in Italy from Unification to WWII (Andrew P. McFeaters) Bioprospecting and Biopiracy in Latin America: The Case of Maca in Perú (Amanda J. Landon) Overcoming the United States' Policy …

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Cultural Mentoring At Lincoln North Star High School: A Case Study, Stephen Damm Jan 2007

Cultural Mentoring At Lincoln North Star High School: A Case Study, Stephen Damm

Nebraska Anthropologist

Mentoring relationships are fraught with obstacles for both mentor and mentee. Despite challenges, these relationships provide assistance and guidance in ways not possible through other means. After the establishment of a theoretical framework for mentoring, the principles of community based participatory research(CBPR) are applied to a cross-cultural mentoring program between students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) and students at North Star High School in Lincoln, Nebraska in an attempt to qualitatively analyze the program's benefits.

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