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Hazard Adaptations Along The Ohio River: A Case Study Of Bushman's Lake, Clark County, Indiana, Jennifer L. Lathem May 2008

Hazard Adaptations Along The Ohio River: A Case Study Of Bushman's Lake, Clark County, Indiana, Jennifer L. Lathem

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Hazard researchers define a hazard as a threat to people and their belongings (Cutter 2001). An adaptation, for the purposes of this research, is any alteration, physical or behavioral, made by a person in which the person is better able to survive in their "hazardous" natural environment. The challenge facing individuals and communities is the ability to adapt to these hazards so as to continue with normal everyday life. People living near a waterway are faced with flooding, which becomes a hazard when it alters everyday social structures. The purpose of this study is to identify flood hazard adaptations in …

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Integration Of Remote Sensing And Census Data For Land-Use And Land Cover Classification And Population Estimation In Indianapolis, Indiana, Guiying Li May 2008

Integration Of Remote Sensing And Census Data For Land-Use And Land Cover Classification And Population Estimation In Indianapolis, Indiana, Guiying Li

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Increasing population and economic growth has resulted in rapid urban expansion in the past decades. Timely and accurately mapping urban land-use and land-cover (LULC) and associated population dist1ibution are often required for many applications such as urban management and planning, and environmental monitoring and assessment. Although many techniques have been developed, urban LULC classification is still a challenge based on remote sensing data. This research explored the integration of Landsat ETM+ image and census data for improving urban LULC classification accuracy, focusing on the distinction of different densities of residential use. The housing data were examined for use at three …

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Faculty Senate Senate Membership, 2008-2009, Vol 41, P 650, Unm Faculty Senate May 2008

Faculty Senate Senate Membership, 2008-2009, Vol 41, P 650, Unm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Documents

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Faculty Senate Voting Faculty, Academic Year 2007-2008, Vol 41, P 614-648, Unm Faculty Senate May 2008

Faculty Senate Voting Faculty, Academic Year 2007-2008, Vol 41, P 614-648, Unm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Documents

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From Public Square To Market Square: Theoretical Foundations Of First And Fourteenth Amendment Protection Of Corporate Religious Speech, Julie Marie Baworowsky May 2008

From Public Square To Market Square: Theoretical Foundations Of First And Fourteenth Amendment Protection Of Corporate Religious Speech, Julie Marie Baworowsky

Notre Dame Law Review

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Traditional Natural Resource Use And Development In Northeast Thailand, Christie Moulton May 2008

Traditional Natural Resource Use And Development In Northeast Thailand, Christie Moulton

Senior Honors Projects

This paper explores the effects of development projects on traditional natural resource use in three communities in Northeast Thailand, a region known as Isan. I interviewed villagers in each community and asked them to describe their environmental perceptions, management practices and livelihood strategies. Participants described several subsistence livelihoods that have traditionally been present in Isan. These include rice farming, fishing, community forestry, and wetland use. Residents from the three communities all described various cultural activities, knowledge systems, and religious ceremonies that are closely tied to their local resources. Raising silk worms, making clay pots, and performing rituals for a spirit …

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An Ethnography Study Of Hiv Positive Midlife Black Women, Charlotte Stoudmire Phd May 2008

An Ethnography Study Of Hiv Positive Midlife Black Women, Charlotte Stoudmire Phd

Dissertations

Black women, ages 45 and older, are disproportionately affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. In 2001, Black women comprised 11% of all older women in the United States; however, they accounted for more than 50% of AIDS cases and more than 65% of HIV cases (Winningham et al., 2004). The literature review reflected little research specifically looking at the reason(s) for the increase in HIV in Black women, ages 45 to 60. Furthermore, few research studies focused on HIV patient health beliefs and their experiences in living with HIV. This study was conducted with an ethnography research method coupled with the …

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The Role Of Residential Learning Communities In The Faith Development Of First Year College Students, Dayanne Izmirian Phd May 2008

The Role Of Residential Learning Communities In The Faith Development Of First Year College Students, Dayanne Izmirian Phd

Dissertations

Although student development theories have recognized the complex processes of identity development, they have not adequately addressed the development of the spiritual self. Rather than given separate consideration, spiritual development is often discussed in the context of other aspects of development, such as the cognitive. Consequently, student affairs practitioners have not been adequately trained to address, facilitate, nor support the spiritual development of college students. One approach that has been proposed for facilitating the faith development of college students is Residential Learning Communities. Unfortunately, the assertion that Residential Learning Communities are a promising method of facilitating faith development in college …

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University Of San Diego News Print Media Coverage 2008.05, University Of San Diego Office Of Public Affairs May 2008

University Of San Diego News Print Media Coverage 2008.05, University Of San Diego Office Of Public Affairs

Print Media Coverage (1947-2009)

Printed clippings housed in folders with a table of contents arranged by topic.

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Kenyon Collegian - May 1, 2008 May 2008

Kenyon Collegian - May 1, 2008

The Kenyon Collegian

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Vol. 30, No. 3/4 (2007): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Brigham Young University–HawaiʻI May 2008

Vol. 30, No. 3/4 (2007): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Brigham Young University–HawaiʻI

Pacific Studies

Pacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US $26.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, …

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Intersections, Lorena Salcedo-Watson May 2008

Intersections, Lorena Salcedo-Watson

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

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Ontogeny Of Locomotion In Saimiri Boliviensis And Callithrix Jacchus: Implications For Primate Locomotor Ecology And Evolution, Jesse Wyatt Young May 2008

Ontogeny Of Locomotion In Saimiri Boliviensis And Callithrix Jacchus: Implications For Primate Locomotor Ecology And Evolution, Jesse Wyatt Young

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

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Drawing As An Investigation Of Perception., Nicholas Croghan 1981- May 2008

Drawing As An Investigation Of Perception., Nicholas Croghan 1981-

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

My recent work juxtaposes dualities such as natural/artificial, macro/micro, instantaneous/changing, and conscious/unconscious. As a process oriented artist, I enjoy creating tactile, illusionistic surfaces by building translucent layers through calligraphic gestures. This includes drawings on stone, mushrooms, wood panel, and paper using silverpoint, copperpoint, prismacolor, acrylic, ink, watercolor, graphite, charcoal, tusche, clay, eggshells, coffee, and tea. From afar, the background washes appear random and chaotic, but as one approaches intricate details engage the curious in multiple surprises. The silverpoint, which will tarnish and darken over time, is most evident against the white gesso ground as synthesized forms representing images the viewer …

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Grandparenting Styles In An Urban/Rural Borderland In New Zealand, Sally Keeling May 2008

Grandparenting Styles In An Urban/Rural Borderland In New Zealand, Sally Keeling

Pacific Studies

This paper on grandparenting styles draws on ethnographic interviews with old-old (80 and older) Anglo-Europeans living in a small-town community in New Zealand. The interviews were collected as part of the social content of a lon tudinal study of the epidemiology of a ng in an urban/rural borderland setting. Analyses indicate that grandparent status and role are both central to and contingent upon how old-old people negotiate and sustain independence and autonomy in the context of family and friendship networks. Diversity is examined using a typology developed from research on American Indian grandparents in an urban/rural situation as a framework, …

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Changing Contexts For Grandparent Adoption On Raivavae, French Polynesia, Jeanette L. Dickerson-Putnam May 2008

Changing Contexts For Grandparent Adoption On Raivavae, French Polynesia, Jeanette L. Dickerson-Putnam

Pacific Studies

This paper examines change in grandparent adoption and care of grandchildren on the Austral island of Raivavae in French Polynesia. The focus is on how Raivavaens have utilized the flexible, negotiable, and contingent institution of grandparent adoption as a strategy for coping with changing global/local linkages, out-migration for employment, and introduction of nonindigenous institutions and processes. The inherent flexibility of the adoptive relationship is apparently enabling Raivavaens to mold it in ways that serve a new set of needs and circumstances, most of which reside with the grandchild's parents rather than the grandparents. Grandparents appear to have extended and otherwise …

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Que Ondee Sola - May 2008, Xavier Luis Burgos May 2008

Que Ondee Sola - May 2008, Xavier Luis Burgos

Que Ondee Sola

Student publication founded in 1972, articles include: A New LGBTQ Initiative in Humboldt Park, Star Gay, Paseo Borcua Pageant 2008, Slogans and Silences, LGBT Contingent Rallies on May Day, Finding My Identity as a Latina Lesbian, Rafael Otero Rivera: Fighting HIV/AIDS in Puerto Rico, Gabriel Mistral: Poet and Lesbian?, The Stonewall Riots, Poetry

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Geography, Poverty, And Development Policy In The New African Millennium: Monitoring The Millennium Development Goals Through Human Development, Joseph Tamba Koroma May 2008

Geography, Poverty, And Development Policy In The New African Millennium: Monitoring The Millennium Development Goals Through Human Development, Joseph Tamba Koroma

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The eight United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality and empower women, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, combat HIV I AIDS, ensure environmental sustainability, and develop a global partnership for development. The eighth goal (MDG 8), aims to develop and strengthen a global partnership for development between rich and poor countries. Three main components of the latter (MDG 8) aim to accelerate the infusion of official development aid (ODA), liberalize international trade, and introduce information and communication technologies (ICT) in the hope of creating a conducive …

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Resistance, Ha Na Lee May 2008

Resistance, Ha Na Lee

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The subject of my work aspires to represent the meaning of individual experiences of psychological and physical trauma. My work often appears as sequential images in an unconventional narrative form, and seeks to consider the intimate interactions and interrelationships between the female body and various objects such as fruit, oysters, pearls, or conversely, needles and ants as well as other symbols that serve to symbolize or objectify the female experience and female sexuality in western culture. The objects themselves are intentionally evocative and symbolically loaded in the tradition of vanitas paintings exploring themes related to repression, resistance, submission, resignation, and …

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Academic Program, Fall 2008 (Online View), International Marian Research Institute May 2008

Academic Program, Fall 2008 (Online View), International Marian Research Institute

IMRI Course Listings, Program Guides, and Assorted Academic Materials

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Introduction: The Practice And Prospects Of Grandparenting In The Pacific, Dorothy Ayers Counts May 2008

Introduction: The Practice And Prospects Of Grandparenting In The Pacific, Dorothy Ayers Counts

Pacific Studies

The contributors to this special issue represent the orientations and approaches of several social science disciplines and are variously involved in interdisci­ plina1y endeavors. However, anthropology is the primary discipline and ethno­ graphy a shared methodology. It is a main task of any ethnography to make the exotic familiar and to treat the familiar as though it were exotic. The papers in this special issue achieve this for grandparenthood in the Pacific. The familiar concept of grandparenthood is shown to have multiple meanings in close examinations of how the status is achieved, for example, what it means for a person's …

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Undergraduate And Graduate Course Descriptions, 2008 Summer, Wright State University May 2008

Undergraduate And Graduate Course Descriptions, 2008 Summer, Wright State University

Course Descriptions

Wright State University undergraduate and graduate course descriptions from Summer 2008.

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May 1, 2008, Council On Academic Affairs May 2008

May 1, 2008, Council On Academic Affairs

Minutes

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Inside Unlv, Grace Russell, Shane Bevell, Mamie Peers, Michelle Mouton May 2008

Inside Unlv, Grace Russell, Shane Bevell, Mamie Peers, Michelle Mouton

Inside UNLV

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“Solidarity And Solidarność: A Search For The Person In Community”, Elizabeth Mary Johnson May 2008

“Solidarity And Solidarność: A Search For The Person In Community”, Elizabeth Mary Johnson

Honors Capstones

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May 1, 2008, University Of North Dakota May 2008

May 1, 2008, University Of North Dakota

University Senate Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the May1, 2008, meeting of the University Senate. 52 pages

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Creating Alternative And Demedicalized Spaces: Testimonial Narrative On Disability, Culture, And Racialization, Parin Dossa May 2008

Creating Alternative And Demedicalized Spaces: Testimonial Narrative On Disability, Culture, And Racialization, Parin Dossa

Journal of International Women's Studies

The literature on disability, gender and “race” has benefited from the political economy perspective. With its emphasis on unmasking the workings of power, this perspective has brought into relief the systemic, institutionalized and spatial oppression of disabled persons, compounded in the case of gender and “race.” This narrative of deconstruction, however, remains incomplete in the absence of voice and subjectivity of persons with disabilities. Using narrative moments, recounted by an immigrant woman with two “disabled” children, this paper makes a case for an integrated framework for a study of racialized persons with disabilities. Here, the margins2 are not out there …

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Opening The Aperture: Examining Images Of War In The Press, Jeffrey Albanese May 2008

Opening The Aperture: Examining Images Of War In The Press, Jeffrey Albanese

Senior Honors Projects

A number of policymakers have attributed America’s defeat in Vietnam, the first “television war,” to a collapse of public support caused by nightly news coverage of combat with associated iconic photographs and moving images. The assumptions underlying this opinion are that photographs and video footage of war have an inherent pacifistic bias, that the emotional impact of visual images can override reason, and that powerful images can drive or overturn foreign policy. This has led subsequent administrations to increase their control over the media’s coverage of war. During the Vietnam War, the press was relatively uncensored. As a response to …

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Unspoken Voices: Captain Cook's Third Voyage, The Lono Question, And The Discourse Of Trade, Gordon Sauer Iii May 2008

Unspoken Voices: Captain Cook's Third Voyage, The Lono Question, And The Discourse Of Trade, Gordon Sauer Iii

All Theses

This thesis examines the polarized debate regarding Captain James Cook's apotheosis waging on between anthropologists Marshall Sahlins and Gananath Obeyesekere. By illustrating how and why binary interpretations of Cook's death render a shallow examination of associated travel texts, the thesis re-examines two travel journals resulting from Cook's third and final voyage--journals from the American, John Ledyard and Captain James Cook--and an account, 'Captain Cook's Visit to Hawaii,' taken from Samuel Mānaiakalani Kamakaua's (nineteenth-century Hawaiian historian) Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii. Focusing on discussions of trade, this project reconfigures the apotheosis debate in order to highlight the significance of the discourse …

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Grandparenting Among The Chamorros Of Guam, Vicki Torsch May 2008

Grandparenting Among The Chamorros Of Guam, Vicki Torsch

Pacific Studies

For the Chamorros of Guam, contemporary grandparenting reflects the cultural tension between the forces struggling for continuity with cherished traditions and values centered on caring and sharing, and those requiring adaptation, cultural change, and expanding lifestyle choices. Descriptions and analyses draw on data collected in 60 life-history inte1views and participant observation research. The paper focuses on an emerging duality in grandparenting styles and contrasts the gendered perspectives on grandparenting roles and attitudes. The diversity of styles is embedded in personalities, gender, educational level, and lifestyle choices, and reflects different responses to dramatic change in sociocultural and economic conditions.

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