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Blanco V. Burton: What Did We Learn From Louisiana's Recent Ocs Challenge?, Ryan M. Seidmann, James G. Wilkins Jun 2008

Blanco V. Burton: What Did We Learn From Louisiana's Recent Ocs Challenge?, Ryan M. Seidmann, James G. Wilkins

Pace Environmental Law Review

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Ferro Ingenio: An Archaeological And Ethnohistorical View Of Labor And Empire In Colonial Porco And Potosi, Brendan J. M. Weaver Jun 2008

Ferro Ingenio: An Archaeological And Ethnohistorical View Of Labor And Empire In Colonial Porco And Potosi, Brendan J. M. Weaver

Masters Theses

Porco, Bolivia, is known as the source of silver which ornamented the Inca temple of Coricancha, and as the seat of the earliest Spanish mining operations in the Andes. The colonial silver processing site of Ferro Ingenio, on the outskirts of Porco, is comprised of domestic and industrial structures, constructed and used over multiple occupations. Ferro Ingenio is the best preserved and most complete site of its kind in the Porco region and the first Andean stamp-mill ever to be excavated. This investigation uses ethnohistorical and archaeological evidence to examine the organization and the changing social roles of colonial labor. …

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Mobile Phone Communication Competence (Mpcc): Development And Validation Of A New Measure, Emil Bakke Jun 2008

Mobile Phone Communication Competence (Mpcc): Development And Validation Of A New Measure, Emil Bakke

Masters Theses

More than two billion people around the world have adopted mobile phones for communication. Interpersonal communication research has found that communication competence is an essential human need required to fulfill interpersonal objectives to achieve physical and psychological satisfaction (Spitzberg and Cupach, 1984), however, mobile phone communication competence has yet to be studied. The purpose of this study is to develop and validate a new scale designed to measure Mobile Phone Communication Competence (MPCC); a principal component factor analysis uncovered the structure and dimensionality of the MPCC measure. The results from the factor analysis in this study identified six constructs: asynchronous …

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Concrete Containment In Late Capitalism, Mysticism, The Marquis De Sade, And Phenomenological Anthropology, Apple Igrek Jun 2008

Concrete Containment In Late Capitalism, Mysticism, The Marquis De Sade, And Phenomenological Anthropology, Apple Igrek

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of Arts and Humanities

Georges Bataille is known for being complex and multifaceted: influenced by Christian mystics as well as Hegelians and Marxists, his work is also linked with that of the surrealists and existentialists of his own mid-20th century France as well as the post-structuralists - in particular the Tel Quel collaboraters - who followed in his wake. It would be astonishing, then, if Bataille's thinking were not conflated with precisely those movements and those ideas with which he has so much in common, despite the fact that we should refuse to expect this. Much of Bataille's work was devoted to the ambivalent …

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Soldados De Salamina (2001): Cercas En Busca De Un Héroe Con El Instinto De La Virtud, Marie Guiribitey Jun 2008

Soldados De Salamina (2001): Cercas En Busca De Un Héroe Con El Instinto De La Virtud, Marie Guiribitey

The Coastal Review

The work analyzes the role of literature in reconstructing historical memory and in serving to attest against the collective amnesia which takes place during the transition to democracy in Spain. The recreating of a historic episode during the Civil War allows the narrator of Soldados de Salamina to remake the past and call for the recovery of historical memory. Also examined is Maurice Halbwachs’ premise-the need to maintain “an affective community” in order to arrive at a reconstruction of memories.

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Mixed Methods Analysis And Information Visualization: Graphical Display For Effective Communication Of Research Results, Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie, Wendy B. Dickinson Jun 2008

Mixed Methods Analysis And Information Visualization: Graphical Display For Effective Communication Of Research Results, Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie, Wendy B. Dickinson

The Qualitative Report

In this paper, we introduce various graphical methods that can be used to represent data in mixed research. First, we present a broad taxonomy of visual representation. Next, we use this taxonomy to provide an overview of visual techniques for quantitative data display and qualitative data display. Then, we propose what we call “crossover” visual extensions to summarize and integrate both qualitative and quantitative results within the same framework. We provide several examples of crossover (mixed research) graphical displays that illustrate this natural extension. In so doing, we contend that the use of crossover (mixed research) graphical displays enhances researchers’ …

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Extending The Conversation: Qualitative Research As Dialogic Collaborative Process, Trena Paulus, Marianne Woodside, Mary Ziegler Jun 2008

Extending The Conversation: Qualitative Research As Dialogic Collaborative Process, Trena Paulus, Marianne Woodside, Mary Ziegler

The Qualitative Report

Collaborative research often refers to collaboration among the researcher and the participants. Few studies investigate the collaborative process among researchers themselves. Assumptions about the qualitative research process, particularly ways to establish rigor and transparency, are pervasive. Our experience con ducting three collaborative empirical research studies challenged and transformed our assumptions about qualitative research: (a) research planning taught as concrete and linear rather than as emergent and iterative, (b) data analysis conceptualized as individual discovery rather than collaboratively-constructed meaning, and (c) findings represented as individual product rather than as part of an ongoing conversation. We address each assumption, including how our …

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First Love: A Case Study In Quantitative Appropriation Of Social Concepts, Diederik F. Janssen Jun 2008

First Love: A Case Study In Quantitative Appropriation Of Social Concepts, Diederik F. Janssen

The Qualitative Report

Peer love is a highly invested autobiographical marker, and its scientific ascent can be studied in terms of its literature’s motives, stated objectives, exclusions, and delimitations. In this article an overview of numeric and selected ethnographic data on the timing of “first love” is presented, to inform an assessment of the ontological underpinnings of milestone research common to quantitative sociology and developmental psychology. Complicating scientific normalization of love’s initiatory connotation, selected ethnographic observations on the timing and notion of early/first love in non-Western societies are presented. These observations facilitate a critique of love as a heterosocial, propaedeutic event, and hence, …

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Social Network Characteristics And Risky Sexual And Drug Related Behaviors Among Homeless Young Adults, Kimberly A. Tyler Jun 2008

Social Network Characteristics And Risky Sexual And Drug Related Behaviors Among Homeless Young Adults, Kimberly A. Tyler

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Although research finds high rates of risky sexual and drug related behavior among homeless young people, little research had examined how the characteristics of their social networks encourage or constrain risky behaviors. Based on a sample of 145 homeless young adults in the Midwestern United States, results revealed that having used alcohol with at least one of their network members and the presence of more conflict was associated with engaging in a greater number of sexual risk taking behaviors. Correlates of engaging in a greater number of substance use related behaviors included having older peers within the network, having used …

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Framing A Voice: A Mental Health Consumer Movement's Media Discourse, Jon Birgir Einarsson Jun 2008

Framing A Voice: A Mental Health Consumer Movement's Media Discourse, Jon Birgir Einarsson

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Cultural Persistence And The Bedouin Of Egypt's Sinai Penninsula, Simeon Roos-Eefsting Jun 2008

Cultural Persistence And The Bedouin Of Egypt's Sinai Penninsula, Simeon Roos-Eefsting

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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To "Make Life In Living It": The Everyday Among Elderly Upper-Class Egyptian Housewives, Hala Osman Jun 2008

To "Make Life In Living It": The Everyday Among Elderly Upper-Class Egyptian Housewives, Hala Osman

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Women, Personal Blogs, And The Cultural Public Sphere: Surveying Females' Blogsphere In Egypt, Lobna Abd Almaguid Shoukry Jun 2008

Women, Personal Blogs, And The Cultural Public Sphere: Surveying Females' Blogsphere In Egypt, Lobna Abd Almaguid Shoukry

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Internet Dependency, Motivations For Internet Use And Their Effect On Work Productivity: The 21st Century Addiction, Megan L. Hilts Jun 2008

Internet Dependency, Motivations For Internet Use And Their Effect On Work Productivity: The 21st Century Addiction, Megan L. Hilts

Theses

Past research has studied peoples’ addiction to the radio and television. Today some media scholars suggest that one can become addicted to or dependent on the Internet. The present study compares Internet use among college students and full-time employees to determine differences between those who are dependent and non-dependent Internet users, their motivations for Web sites visited and the effect of dependency on work productivity. The present study discovered that dependent Internet users are more likely to report that Internet use negatively affected their work productivity at both school and work and also reported higher levels of motivation for going …

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Global Health And Politics: Julia Alvarez’ Saving The World, Amrita Das Jun 2008

Global Health And Politics: Julia Alvarez’ Saving The World, Amrita Das

The Coastal Review

Julia Alvarez’ novel Saving the World (2006) is a comment on the politics of Global Health. Alvarez reconstructs the tale of Isabel Sendales y Gomez, the lone female participant in the early 19th century’s Spanish Royal Expedition to eradicate smallpox around the world, mainly in the Spanish colonies. The historical narrative is paralleled by the tale of Alma Rodríguez, a 21st Century Dominican American author who is faced with a similar situation, aiding in an idealistic project to eradicate AIDS in the Dominican Republic. Alvarez’ work throws into sharp relief what happens when the philanthropic ideals of healing the world …

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Word Recognition Materials For Native Speakers Of Taiwan Mandarin, Shawn L. Nissen, Richard W. Harris, Alycia Dukes Jun 2008

Word Recognition Materials For Native Speakers Of Taiwan Mandarin, Shawn L. Nissen, Richard W. Harris, Alycia Dukes

Faculty Publications

Purpose: To select, digitally record, evaluate, and psychometrically equate word recognition materials that can be used to measure the speech perception abilities of native speakers of Taiwan Mandarin in quiet. Method: Frequently used bisyllabic words produced by male and female talkers of Taiwan Mandarin were digitally recorded and subsequently evaluated using 20 native listeners with normal hearing at 10 intensity levels (-5 to 40 dB HL) in increments of 5 dB. Results: Using logistic regression, 200 words with the steepest psychometric slopes were divided into 4 lists and 8 half-lists that were relatively equivalent in psychometric function slope. To increase …

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Dominic Bryan, Carl Milofsky May 2008

Dominic Bryan, Carl Milofsky

Northern Ireland Archive

Dominic Bryan is an anthropologist and a research partner of Neil Jarman. Bryan discusses how physical space is related to the conflict between the Republicans and Loyalists. He discusses divided communities and how people from one town do NOT go into another town with a different religion. He talked about how this started through the Civil Rights movement. Bryan discussed public order difficulties and how parades were banned and got out of hand at times. The changing from the Protestants controlling everything to everyone having a fair share was mentioned, as well as the difficulty in transitioning to that. He …

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Stan Champer Column, Stan Champer May 2008

Stan Champer Column, Stan Champer

Indian Head Rock Project

Columnist Stan Champer writes in the Ashland Daily Independent on the story of Indian Head Rock from May 30, 2008.

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“Posing Off:” Performance And Body Language On The Jamaican Stage, Andrea Elizabeth Shaw-Nevins May 2008

“Posing Off:” Performance And Body Language On The Jamaican Stage, Andrea Elizabeth Shaw-Nevins

CAHSS Faculty Presentations, Proceedings, Lectures, and Symposia

My paper will explore reggae dancehall album covers and the seductive yet dismissive ways in which bodies pose for the camera while concurrently seeming to ignore it. What accounts for this intrigue with the camera as well as an apparent repulsion towards it? Within the arena of national beauty politics, how do we account for those Caribbean bodies that are positioned for the global camera?

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'You Will Have No More Dreams; Have Children Instead' Or, What's A Nice Egalitarian Girl Like You Doing In A Book Like This?, Jennifer L. Woodruff Tait May 2008

'You Will Have No More Dreams; Have Children Instead' Or, What's A Nice Egalitarian Girl Like You Doing In A Book Like This?, Jennifer L. Woodruff Tait

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

No abstract provided.

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Beard, Tara (Fa 283), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Beard, Tara (Fa 283), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 283. Paper: "Teenage Cruising and Hanging Out" written by Beard for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

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Foster, Jon (Fa 288), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Foster, Jon (Fa 288), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 288. Paper: "[Cruising]" written by Jon Foster for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

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Indian Head Fact Sheet, Kentucky Heritage Council May 2008

Indian Head Fact Sheet, Kentucky Heritage Council

Indian Head Rock Project

Fact sheet published by the Kentucky Heritage Council on the Indian Head Rock in 2008.

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Leible, Ann (Fa 290), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Leible, Ann (Fa 290), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 290. Paper: "Butterflies, Cyclones, and Jewelry Trees: My Family Folklore" written by Leible for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

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Koenig, Helen (Fa 292), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Koenig, Helen (Fa 292), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 292. Paper: "My Family Folklore" written by Koenig for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

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Hammers, Clark Porter (Fa 244), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Hammers, Clark Porter (Fa 244), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 244. Paper: "The Porter Family of Butler County from 1736 to 1950" written by Clark Porter Hammers for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

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Maltry, Janet A. (Fa 250), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Maltry, Janet A. (Fa 250), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 250. Paper: "Reminiscence" written by Janet A. Maltry for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

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Badley, Kristie A. (Fa 267), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Badley, Kristie A. (Fa 267), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 267. Paper: "My Family Folklore: Functionary Mechanisms" written by Kristie A. Badley for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

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Emotional Speech Corpus Construction, Annotation And Distribution, Brian Vaughan, Charlie Cullen, Spyros Kousidis, John Mcauley May 2008

Emotional Speech Corpus Construction, Annotation And Distribution, Brian Vaughan, Charlie Cullen, Spyros Kousidis, John Mcauley

Conference papers

This paper details a process of creating an emotional speech corpus by collecting natural emotional speech assets, analysisng and tagging them (for certain acoustic and linguistic features) and annotating them within an on-line database. The definition of specific metadata for use with an emotional speech corpus is crucial, in that poorly (or inaccurately) annotated assets are of little use in analysis. This problem is compounded by the lack of standardisation for speech corpora, particularly in relation to emotion content. The ISLE Metadata Initiative (IMDI) is the only cohesive attempt at corpus metadata standardisation performed thus far. Although not a comprehensive …

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Webb, Andra R. (Fa 263), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Webb, Andra R. (Fa 263), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 263. Paper: "Folklore in Its Everyday Life" written by Andra R. Webb for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

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