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Roger Scruton: The West And The Rest Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

In The West and the Rest, Scruton examines the clash between two civilizations: Islam and the West. He contrasts the dynamic, highly institutionalized, but increasingly decadent secular legal tradition of the West, which promotes such ideas as citizenship, corporate personality, and territorial jurisdiction, with the backward-looking but unified vision of a universal community associated with the Koran. One thing that troubles the relationship of these two civilizations today is a crisis of confidence in the West, which has produced a nihilistic, self-condemning “culture of repudiation.” This countercultural solvent has been infiltrating the flood of cultural byproducts of the West that …

In Slow Motions : The Democratic Process In Critical-Liberatory Pedagogy, Michaelia Morgan

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Prior to conducting a required graduate-level proseminar utilizing democratic methods, the instructors perceived that they possessed a quantity of ideas as to how to proceed; during the course of teaching the class, they recognized that they also maintained some arresting lacunae. Thus, I have attempted to convey what Dr. Whang and I encountered, discerned and learned as we left authoritarian measures at the door and unflinchingly attempted to bring democracy into our classroom. It is my hope that educators will endeavor to produce more democracy by placing democratic principles at the helm of their deliberations. It is conceivable that everyone …

Percutaneous Multiple K-Wire Fixation For Humeral Shaft Fractures, Abdul Q. Khan, Aftab A. Iraqi, Mohammad-Khalid A. Sherwani, Mazhar Abbas, Adesh Sharma

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Amyloid-Depositing Plasmacytoma Of Cervical Spine Masquerades As A Granulomatous Inflammatory Reaction, Ibrahim S. Tillawi

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Understanding Gilia Tenuiflora Ssp. Arenaria Population Fluctuations And Community Relationships, Brianne Bieschke

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Around the world, species are being lost to development and invasive species. An endangered species, Gilia tenuiflora ssp. arenaria, exists within the East Campus Housing area of California State University, Monterey Bay on the former Fort Ord military base. As part of the Fort Ord Habitat Conservation Plan, the Gilia must be monitored as part of the Federal Endangered Species Act and for population management. Little is known about this Gilia species, and the goal of this study is to establish baseline data on population fluctuations and community structure in the East Campus Housing area in order to better manage …

Promoting Parental Involvement Among Latino Parents At Glen View Elementary School, Maricela Ortiz

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

This project was designed to increase Latino parents' knowledge regarding how to get more involved in their children's education. Research has shown that children do better in school when their parents participate in their education. Therefore, the ultimately purpose of this project was to maximize children's full learning potential through coordinating a field trip to the library and giving to presentations, one on healthy habits at home and the other on homework strategies. When this project was completed, the participants indicated that their knowledge increased and that they felt more motivated to get more involved in their children's education.

Safety Sitter Class, Rachael Pino

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

According to statistical information, 40.8% of children living below poverty level and 35% of children living above poverty level must spend part of their day without adult supervision (Johnson, 2002). These children are vulnerable to physical injury, fear, and loneliness, and they must face emergencies alone. However, many agencies provide safety information and coping strategies for children in these situations. One such agency, The Lyceum of Monterey County, has collaborated with a local fire chief to provide a "safety sitter" class. After two decades of offering this class, the Lyceum has recognized the popularity of this class and has identified …

Senior Capstone Project : Educating And Empowering Local Women, Jenny Thomas

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

This paper is about an education program designed for local women in recovery homes. Educating them on the HIV/AIDS epidemic and ways in which they can keep themselves safe; while making choices that will empower them and enable the women to pass on this information to others in the community.

Senior Capstone Project : Resources For Juvenile Sex Offenders In Monterey County : Monterey County Probation Department -- Juvenile Division, Ignacio Pacheco

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

An overview of juvenile sex offender characteristics, treatment resources in Monterey County, and recommendations for better service delivery to this population and the community. This report is of scholarly nature and was completed for the Monterey County Probation Department to address the problem that these perpetrators pose to the community.

Implementing Task-Based Teaching From The Ground Up: Considerations For Lesson Planning And Classroom Practice, William Comer

Russian Language Journal

In the past twenty years, Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) has become a widely discussed approach to teaching foreign and second languages, and a significant body of literature has grown up around it. The approach has even been implemented on a large scale in some areas; for example, since 1990, instruction in Dutch as a second language in the Flemish areas of Belgium has been organized solely around the principles of TBLT (Van den Branden 2006, 13).

Fda Jurisdiction: A Matter Of Definitions, Lewis Grossman

Contributions to Books

This chapter, new in the third edition, concerns how Congress, the Food and Drug Administration, and the courts have treated the definitions of "food," "drug," "cosmetic," "device," and "human biological product." The scope of FDA's power is delineated almost entirely by the list of product categories over which it has jurisdiction. As the materials in this chapter show, the product definitions are strikingly broad and thus confer jurisdiction over a vast range of goods. Furthermore, the definitions are remarkably plastic, providing FDA with great flexibility to decide whether and how to regulate products. Sometimes FDA has interpreted the definitions expansively, …

Japan In 2006: A Political Transition, Gene Park

Political Science and International Relations Faculty Works

Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro stepped down in September 2006 after a five-year term in which he reshaped Japanese politics by undermining his own party's political machine, stretched the constraints on Japan's military role, and promoted a program of “structural” economic reform. In his final year in office, he confronted a backlash against his economic reform program and presided over a chill in relations with China and South Korea. Abe Shinzo replaced Koizumi, pledging to repair relations with Japan's neighbors and to promote a pro-growth economic strategy.

Community Knowledge And Attitudes Toward Refugees And Asylees In Miami-Dade And Broward Counties: An Analysis For The International Rescue Committee, Brianne Gilbert

Political Science and International Relations Faculty Works

This paper presents the findings of a research project on knowledge and attitudes about refugees and “asylees” in two South Florida counties. The project was a collaboration between the International Rescue Committee (IRC), an international NGO that assists refugees and asylees with resettlement in the United States and other countries, and four graduate students in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Florida International University in Miami. South Florida receives large numbers of refugees and asylees, principally from Latin America and the Caribbean, and the IRC was interested in finding out more about the knowledge and attitudes in the community …

Correcting Misperceptions And Reducing Risky Drinking Through A Student-Designed Poster Campaign, Joseph W. Labrie, Eric R. Pedersen, Karie Huchting, Alysha D. Thompson, Justin F. Hummer

Heads Up!

A letter to the editor is presented focusing on correcting misperceptions and reducing risky drinking through a student-designed poster campaign.

Partying Before The Party: Examining Prepartying Behavior Among College Students, Eric R. Pedersen, Joseph W. Labrie

Heads Up!

Objective:

The authors examined the phenomenon known to college students as prepartying, which is the consumption of alcohol prior to attending an event or activity (eg, party, bar, concert) at which more alcohol may be consumed.

Participants:

To explore the extent of this behavior, the authors surveyed 227 college students about each drinking event over a 1-month period.

Results:

Principal results revealed that 64% of participants engaged in prepartying (75% of drinkers) and that prepartying is involved in approximately 45% of all drinking events. Prepartying was predictive of more drinking throughout the day of the drinking event and alcohol-related …

Classifying Risky-Drinking College Students: Another Look At The Two-Week Drinker-Type Categorization, Joseph W. Labrie, Eric R. Pedersen, Summer Tawalbeh

Psychological Science Faculty Works

Objective

The present study examined the effectiveness of the 2-week period currently used in the categorization of heavy episodic drinking among college students. Two-week drinker-type labels included the following: nonbinge drinker, binge drinker, and frequent binge drinker.

Method

Three samples of college student drinkers (104 volunteers, 283 adjudicated students, and 238 freshmen male students) completed the 3-month Timeline Followback assessment of drinking. Drinking behavior during the last 2 weeks of the month before the study was compared with drinking behavior during the first 2 weeks of the same month to compare behavior and resulting labels during both 2-week periods.

Results …

Opinions Of Students Enrolled In An Andalusian Bilingual Program On Bilingualism And The Program Itself, Francisco Ramos

School of Education Faculty Works

The Regional Ministry of Education of the Autonomous Government of Andalusia, an autonomous community in the South of Spain, has established several bilingual programs to improve language proficiency of its student population. The programs, which undertake second languages as vehicular languages at the classroom, encourage student’s bilingualism, academic development and positive attitudes toward other groups. The following paper examines opinions given by a group of students enrolled in an Andalusian bilingual program about those matters. Students had different positive opinions on bilingualism as well as the program in general; however, they had some doubts over the intellectual and cognitive benefits …

Programas Bilingües Y Formación De Profesores En Andalucía, Francisco Ramos

School of Education Faculty Works

La Consejería de Educación de la Junta de Andalucía está llevando a cabo un extraordinario esfuerzo para lograr la implantación de cuatrocientos programas bilingües en inglés, francés y alemán en todas las provincias de su comunidad autónoma antes de 2008. Estos programas, que usan los idiomas como vehículos de instrucción y comunicación, ayudan a los alumnos a lograr un dominio de las competencias lingüísticas y académicas en las dos lenguas enseñadas, que es muy superior al de los programas tradicionales, lo que ha contribuido a dotarlos de un bien ganado prestigio. A pesar de que son numerosos los factores que …

Regional Climate Modeling For The Developing World: The Ictp Regcm3 And Regcnet, Jeremy S. Pal, Filippo Giorgi, Xunqiang Bi, Nellie Elguindi, Fabien Solmon, Xuejie Gao, Sara A. Rauscher, Raquel Francisco, Ashraf Zakey, Jonathan Winter, Moetasim Ashfaq, Faisal S. Syed, Jason L. Bell, Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Jagadish Karmacharya, Abourahamane Konaré, Daniel Martinez, Rosmeri P. Da Rocha, Lisa C. Sloan, Allison L. Steiner

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Works

Regional climate models are important research tools available to scientists around the world, including in economically developing nations (EDNs). The Earth Systems Physics (ESP) group of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) maintains and distributes a state-of-the-science regional climate model called the ICTP Regional Climate Model version 3 (RegCM3), which is currently being used by a large research community for a diverse range of climate-related studies. The RegCM3 is the central, but not only, tool of the ICTP-maintained Regional Climate Research Network (RegCNET) aimed at creating south–south and north–south scientific interactions on the topic of climate and …

Opensourcepacs: An Extensible Infrastructure For Medical Image Management, John David N. Dionisio, Alex A T Bui, Craig Morioka, David B. Johnson, Usha Sinha, Siamak Ardekani, Ricky K. Taira, Denise R. Aberle, Suzie El-Saden, Hooshang Kangarloo

Computer Science Faculty Works

The development of comprehensive picture archive and communication systems (PACS) has mainly been limited to proprietary developments by vendors, though a number of freely available software projects have addressed specific image management tasks. The openSourcePACS project aims to provide an open source, common foundation upon which not only can a basic PACS be readily implemented, but to also support the evolution of new PACS functionality through the development of novel imaging applications and services. openSourcePACS consists of four main software modules: 1) image order entry, which enables the ordering and tracking of structured image requisitions; 2) an agent-based image server …

Leibniz And China: A Commerce Of Light By Franklin Perkins (Review), Robin R. Wang

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

A Group Motivational Interviewing Intervention Reduces Drinking And Alcohol-Related Negative Consequences In Adjudicated College Women, Joseph W. Labrie, Alysha D. Thompson, Karen Huchting, Andrew Lac, Kevin Buckley

Heads Up!

College students who violate campus alcohol policies (adjudicated students) are at high risk for experiencing negative alcohol-related consequences and for undermining campus life. Further, college women may be especially at risk due to differential intoxication effects and sexual consequences experienced mainly by female students. Research on interventions for adjudicated students, especially adjudicated females, has been limited. One hundred and fifteen college women who received a sanction for violating campus alcohol policies participated in the study. The two hour group intervention focused on female-specific reasons for drinking and included decisional balance, goal setting and other exercises. Participants completed follow-up surveys for …

Working Selves, Working Gendered Contexts [Review Of The Book Negotiating Gendered Identities At Work: Place, Space And Time], Craig Rich

Communication Studies Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Peer Networks In Mediating And Moderating Racial Disparities In Youth Violence, Louis F. Burdi

Master's Theses and Capstones

In the present study the influence of peer networks in mediating and moderating racial disparities in youth violence is examined using wave I and wave II of the National Youth Survey (N=1725). Data on peer attitudes and behavior, and individual self-reported incidences involving violent behavior were analyzed through a series of regression models. This study asserts first, that peer association and socioeconomic status mediate racial differences in violence; second, that an interaction between race and differential association and an interaction between race and socioeconomic status exist that affects violent behavior; lastly, an interaction effect will exist between socioeconomic status and …

Immigration And Mission: The Spanish Story, Cristian Dumitrescu

Journal of Adventist Mission Studies

No abstract provided.

The Development Of Organizational And Leadership Paradigms In The Seventh-Day Adventist Church, Barry D. Oliver

Journal of Adventist Mission Studies

No abstract provided.

Cross-Cultural Servanthood: Serving The World In Christlike Humility / Duane Elmer [Book Review], Cheryl Doss

Journal of Adventist Mission Studies

No abstract provided.

Adventist Perspectives On Short-Term Missions: Brief Survey And Evaluation, Wagner Kuhn

Journal of Adventist Mission Studies

No abstract provided.

Distributing Indivisible Goods Fairly: Evidence From A Questionnaire Study, Dorothea K. Herreiner, Clemens Puppe

Economics Faculty Works

We report the results of a questionnaire study on the fair distribution of
indivisible goods. We collected data from three different subject pools, first- and secondyear students majoring in economics, law students, and advanced economics students with some background knowledge of fairness theories. The purpose of this study is to assess the empirical relevance of various fairness criteria such as inequality aversion, the utilitarian principle of maximizing the sum of individual payoffs, the Rawlsian “maximin” principle of maximizing the payoff of the worst-off individual, and the criterion of envy-freeness (in the sense of Foley, 1967).

Remarks Of An Sec Associate General Counsel, Richard M. Humes

Case Western Reserve Law Review

No abstract provided.