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Promoting Critical Reading In An Advanced-Level Japanese Course: Theory And Practice Through Reflection And Dialogues, Noriko Iwasaki, Yuri Kumagai

East Asian Languages & Cultures: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Dichotic Auditory Training On Children With Central Auditory Processing Disorder, Kiley Edwards Stephenson

Doctoral Dissertations

(Central) auditory processing disorder (CAPD) is a condition in which individuals with normal hearing present with difficulties often associated with hearing loss. While there are currently many tests available for the CAPD assessment, there are very few therapies for the remediation of a CAPD. A new therapy program, called Dichotic Auditory Training (DAT), aimed at improving the performance of those individuals with CAPD, was the focus of this study. Eight children between the ages of seven and twelve went through the four week training. The Staggered Spondaic Word (SSW) test, the SCAN-C/A, and a test designed after the DAT …

Efficacy Of Central Auditory Processing Case History Form Used At The Louisiana Tech University Speech And Hearing Center, Michelle L. Smith

Doctoral Dissertations

Central auditory processing disorder (CAPD) is a deficiency in processing of auditory information. Due to this deficiency, a variety of behaviors can be seen including listening difficulties in background noise, difficulties following oral instruction, and difficulties discriminating and identifying speech sounds. These behaviors result in inattention and academic difficulties. With these characteristics being present in other disorders such as attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, language/learning deficits, and high functioning autism (i.e., Asperger's syndrome) diagnosis of CAPD becomes complicated.

The Louisiana Tech University Speech and Hearing Center uses a CAPD case history for a child that was adopted from Robert Keith in 2003. …

Refugee Integration Into Diasporic Society: A Case Study Of Somali Bantu Refugees Living In Boise, Idaho, Fred Waweru

McNair Scholars Research Journal

For decades Somalia has been affected by catastrophic events that have left millions of its people displaced. Among the events that have caused these tremendous displacements of Somalis is the civil war that intensified in the early 1990s. Many of these displaced people still live in refugee camps across east African countries, notably Kenya. Some, however, have sought asylum and been accepted by many industrialized nations such as Canada, United States, Norway, and Australia. The resettlement of Somali refugees to these diasporic nations has come with extensive challenges related to starting over a new life. Difficulty in assimilation to their …

Tibetan Medicine: Carving A Niche In The Modern Medical And Scientific Community, Devon Marie Fitzgerald

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Tibetan medicine is an ancient tradition, stretching back over one thousand years. Today, the Tibetan medical community, centered at the Men-Tsee-Khang (Tibetan Medical and Astrological Institute) in Dharamsala, India, is trying to bring Tibetan medicine into the modern world. They are doing this mainly by focusing on research, based on modern scientific methods, to produce clinical and laboratory studies demonstrating the efficacy of Tibetan medicine. This paper compiles interviews from Men-Tsee-Khang staff closest to these projects, articles about modernizing traditional medicine from both the Tibetan and Western perspectives, and a review of some of the recent studies to come out …

The Stories Of Juruti Velho, David Mittelman

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

This paper presents a collection of stories from the communities of the Juruti Velho region of the municipality of Juruti, Pará, Brazil. The inhabitants of this region represent just one group affected by the current mining undertaking by the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa). Following some important background information on ribeirinhos populations, Amazonian development, and Alcoa’s history of displacing communities, the study presents the past, present and potential future of these communities in their own words. Stories were collected in loosely structured interviews and transcribed, in order to capture what is important to the community members’ sense of identity and …

The Pentacle Quest: Wiccan Religion In The Media, Paula Johnson

Graduate Student Dissertations, Theses, Capstones, and Portfolios

No abstract provided.

Utpa Commencement – Spring 2008, University Of Texas-Pan American

Edinburg Archives - Legacy Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

A Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging Analysis Of The Cerebellar Deficit Hypothesis Of Dyslexia, Michelle Y. Kibby, Jill B. Fancher, Rochelle Markanen, George W. Hynd

Publications

Recent work by Nicolson and Fawcett suggests the primary source of dysfunction in dyslexia is the cerebellum. In order to examine the cerebellar deficit hypothesis of dyslexia, 20 children with dyslexia (11 had co-morbid ADHD) and 20 without dyslexia (11 had ADHD, 9 were typically developing controls) were assessed with neuropsychological testing and quantitative MRI. Results demonstrated that volumes of both hemispheres and the vermis were not significantly different between groups (ps > .10). However, children without dyslexia demonstrated greater rightward cerebellar hemisphere asymmetry compared to children with dyslexia, F(1,33) = 4.09, p < .05. In addition, children with ADHD only were more comparable to controls in cerebellar asymmetry (none had reversed asymmetry); whereas those with co-morbid dyslexia and ADHD were more comparable to those with dyslexia. The relationship between cerebellar morphology and phonological processing also was assessed. For those without dyslexia, bilateral hemisphere volume moderately correlated with phonological awareness and phonological short-term memory (ps < .05); hemisphere asymmetry moderately correlated with rapid naming errors (p.10), anterior vermis volume was moderately correlated with inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity (ps < .05) and right hemisphere volume was moderately correlated with inattention and hyperactivity (ps < .05). Overall, our findings provide mixed support for the cerebellar deficit hypothesis of dyslexia. Although cerebellum morphology is atypical in some individuals with dyslexia, cerebellar morphology does not appear to be related to cognitive or motor dysfunction consistently. In our sample, cerebellum morphology may be related to about a third of our cases of dyslexia. Hence, dyslexia may be best accounted for by a combination of cortical and cerebellar contributions.

Charting A New Path Toward Gender Equality In India: From Religious Personal Laws To A Uniform Civil Code, Shalina A. Chibber

Indiana Law Journal

Symposium: Missing Information: The Scientific Data Gap in Conservation and Chemical Regulation, held on March 24, 2006 at Indiana University School of Law- Bloomington.

Contributors, Marvels & Tales Editors

Marvels & Tales

No abstract provided.

Intelligent Design In Public University Science Departments: Academic Freedom Or Establishment Of Religion, Frank S. Ravitch

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.

Reflective Intensions: Two Foundational Decision-Points In Mathematics, Law, And Economics, Robert Hockett

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Bad U . . . ?, Pierre Legrand

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Design Research Quarterly Volume 3 Issue 2, Peter Storkerson

Design Research Quarterly (2006 - 2009)

Design Research Quarterly (2006-9) was a hybrid journal-newsletter of the Design Research Society. It contained news of the society, its members and regions and its sister societies, as well as peer-reviewed articles about issues of importance to design research, theory and knowledge.

“No Mexicans Served”: Redefining Race As A Social Construct In Hernandez V. Texas, Scott Jensen

Brigham Young University Prelaw Review

No abstract provided.

Legal Limits On Religious Conversion In India, Laura Dudley Jenkins

Law and Contemporary Problems

In contemporary India, government assessments of the legitimacy of conversions tend to rely on two assumptions: first, that people who convert in groups may not have freely chosen conversion, and second, that certain groups are particularly vulnerable to being lured into changing their religion. These assumptions, which pervade the anticonversion laws as well as related court decisions and government committee reports, reinforce social constructions of women and lower castes as inherently naive and susceptible to manipulation. Here, Jenkins contends to carefully scrutinized the assumptions since like "protective" laws in many other contexts, such laws restrict freedom in highly personal, individual …

Force Of Nonlaw: Alain Badiou's Theory Of Justice, Bruno Bosteels

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Choosing What We Mean By Causation In The Law, Jane Stapleton

Missouri Law Review

In a radical new account of "causation" in the Law, I argue that "causation" is a term we use to express diverse information about the world. Clarity is promoted if we use the term "causation" to refer to the information yielded by only one type of inquiry. Lawyers have used the term to refer to more than one type of enquiry, and philosophers often do not specify an inquiry. The most useful inquiry for legal purposes is one that compares the actual world of a particular phenomenon with a hypothetical world and thereby determines, in the context of that comparison, …

Sac Outreach Bulletin 2008, The South Asia Center

Newsletters from the South Asia Center

The South Asia Center welcomes new Hindi instructor

Animated Realities: The Animated Film, Documentary, Realism, Paul Ward

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

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One of the most potentially interesting areas for discussion in Animation Studies is how animation relates to conceptions of the real and realism. As Maureen Furniss has noted (1998: 5ff), a typology of moving image production can be most usefully constructed around the relative realism attached to particular representations. The two opposing tendencies of mimesis and abstraction offer a multitude of intermediate positions where a specific text can be placed and thereby understood. There are two basic ways that one can approach this area. First of all, one can analyze and evaluate how animation "is realistic" (or not, …

Delicate Diplomacy On A Restless Frontier: Seventeenth-Century Sobaípuri-O'Odham Social And Economic Relations In Northwestern New Spain, Part 2, Deni J. Seymour

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Otterbein Aegis Spring 2008, Otterbein Aegis

Aegis: The Otterbein Humanities Journal

Contents: Editor’s Introduction; Interview with Dr. Robert Miklitsch; Articles: A New Type of Queen: The Emergence of Beauty Pageants in America, 1880-1921 – Randi Hopkins; “What have we women to do with these matters?”: Women and Femininity in Pre-Revolutionary America, 1763-1775 – Megan Hatfield; Reduce! Reuse! Recycle! – Whitney Prose; Kenny and Wee on the Necessity of ‘Liberty of Indifference’ in Descartes’ Theory of Judgment – Larsa Ramsini; Iannis Xenakis - Metastasis – Adam Berner; Pope Pius XII: His Role with the Vatican in WWII – Kevin Crafton; The Genocide of the Herero Set the Tone for the Holocaust – …

Soundings 2008-04, N/A N/A

Soundings

No abstract provided.

Acouple Of Generations Ahead Of Popular Demand': The First National Law Program At Mcgill University, 1918-1924, John Hobbins

Dalhousie Law Journal

Following the First World War, Dean Robert Warden Lee introduced some radical changes to the curriculum at the McGill Law Faculty Three-year courses were instituted leading to either a civil law degree or a common law degree, and a four-year course in which both degrees could be obtained. The program was extremely controversial, running into opposition within the part-time faculty the Montreal legal community and the bar societies of several provinces. Difficulties in obtaining professional accreditation for the common law graduates led to a decline in enrollment, and the common law option was discontinued in 1926. Lee's vision of a …

Colonialism And The Process Of Defining Aboriginal People, D'Arcy Vermette

Dalhousie Law Journal

It is not uncommon for Aboriginal law students to experience discomfort in studying the law The discomfort is not unique to legal studies, but the law provides a venue where the effects of the imposition of colonial norms are starkly revealed. In law school the author had to confront how Canadian law has attempted to control Aboriginal identity, at first through legislation and then through the courts. While the locus and style of controlling Aboriginal identity has changed over time, the practice of controlling Aboriginal identity is ever present. This process of control dehumanizes individualsand peoples and continues into the …

University Reporter - Volume 12, Number 08 - April 2008

1996-2009, University Reporter

This issue of the University Reporter includes articles onthe University's annual Community Breakfact and Quinn Awards presentation, the gains made by women leaders (featuring Cambridge mayor Denise Simmons), Massachusetts' first ever anti-hunger summit (featuring Governor Deval Patrick), a forum on racial and ethnic tensions, and other news from UMass Boston.

A Genre-Based Approach For Teaching Writing To Low-Proficiency Efl College Students, Yi-Chun Pan

PASAA

This paper describes a genre-based approach paired with a range of activities, aiming to provide low-proficiency EFL college students with the ability to create whole texts. A genre-based approach clearly assists students to understand textual and linguistic features, and various activities facilitate student reinforcement of their abilities in both the mechanics and organization of writing.

C.S. Lewis's Critique Of Hume On Miracles, Robert A. Larmer

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

Empirical Legal Research: The Next Big Thing For Law Librarians?, Darla Jackson

Other Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.