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The Relationship Between Academic Achievement And Physical Fitness In Adolescents, George William Centeio Jan 2009

The Relationship Between Academic Achievement And Physical Fitness In Adolescents, George William Centeio

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

In today's schools, there is a major emphasis placed on academic proficiency particularly in the areas of reading, math, and science. Society is also seeing increases in the number of people who are obese and inactive. Some believe that increasing physical activity and/or improving physical fitness will result in better academic achievement of students in school. This study examined the relationship between academic achievement and physical fitness in adolescents. The participants included 200 ( 118 male, 82 female), high school students, at a rural high school located in the Midwestern region of the United States. Student's third trimester, end of …

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A Master's Recital In Percussion, Matthew M. Andreini Jan 2009

A Master's Recital In Percussion, Matthew M. Andreini

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

This recital was given in partial fulfillment of a Master of Music degree in Percussion Performance at the University of Northern Iowa. The selections included in this program are works which are representative of both the historical and contemporary styles of percussion composition. The following abstract provides discussion in the historical background, compositional styles, systems of notation, and performance techniques used in each of the works from the program.

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Rape Myth Acceptance In A Dynamic Environment: Application Of Social Impact Theory To Rma, Zebbedia G. Gibb Jan 2009

Rape Myth Acceptance In A Dynamic Environment: Application Of Social Impact Theory To Rma, Zebbedia G. Gibb

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

This study examines conditions under which attitudes related to sexual assault, commonly known as rape myths, may be transmitted through culture by applying the tenets of Social Impact Theory (Latane, 1981). Social impact theory suggests that three forces influence attitude change, namely the immediacy of the source to the target, the strength of the source, and the number of sources of a message. It was hypothesized that participants who chatted with a confederate who was similar to them and endorsed rape myths would report accepting those beliefs at a higher rate than participants who chatted with a confederate who was …

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Arabs And Muslims In Orientalist Hollywood: Trends In Perception Before And After 9/11, Marwa Hassan Genena Jan 2009

Arabs And Muslims In Orientalist Hollywood: Trends In Perception Before And After 9/11, Marwa Hassan Genena

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Before 9/11, almost all Hollywood Orientalist films fit the tenets of Orientalist discourse, which Edward Said describes in Orientalism. Brushed with a series of negative qualities, the Oriental character is usually represented as an absolute opposite to the Western character, whose perfection is highlighted by the former's numerous flaws. Not only is the Arab or Muslim character in pre-9/11 Hollywood dumb and inept, but evil and dangerous as well. Additionally, Orientalist filmmakers avoid a solid, deep construction of their Arab or Muslim characters in such a way that the personal or humane side of these characters is completely ignored. In …

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The Aims Of Public Scholarship In Media Law And Ethics, Erik Ugland Jan 2009

The Aims Of Public Scholarship In Media Law And Ethics, Erik Ugland

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

This essay urges scholars in media law and ethics to reevaluate the extent and utility of their public-scholar efforts and to consider ways that they can transfer research-based knowledge to public audiences while also playing a more deliberate role in holding media and government institutions accountable. It suggests that the devolution of standards in mass communication, the increasing encroachments on media autonomy, and the broader collapse of power into fewer hands make this a particularly urgent moment for scholars to reengage the public and to abandon their feckless neutrality on public issues. The overarching aim of public scholars ought to …

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Newsgathering, Autonomy And The Special-Rights Apocrypha: Supreme Court And Media Litigant Conceptions Of Press Freedom, Erik Ugland Jan 2009

Newsgathering, Autonomy And The Special-Rights Apocrypha: Supreme Court And Media Litigant Conceptions Of Press Freedom, Erik Ugland

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

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What’S In A Name? Managing Multiple Organizational Identities In A Catholic University, Sarah Bonewits Feldner, Scott C. D'Urso Jan 2009

What’S In A Name? Managing Multiple Organizational Identities In A Catholic University, Sarah Bonewits Feldner, Scott C. D'Urso

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

This paper examines the situation surrounding a proposed nickname change for Marquette University. The analysis draws upon current work that explores multiple organizational identities and stakeholder participation in making such a decision. The article focuses on Catholic universities and considers tensions that emerge as the faith mission interacts with the secular purposes of the organization. We argue that, rather than focusing on the faith-mission alone, Catholic universities are at their best when they attend to multiple identity targets when communicating decisions to various constituency groups.

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Nike Women’S Advertising: A Matter Of Principle, Jean M. Grow Jan 2009

Nike Women’S Advertising: A Matter Of Principle, Jean M. Grow

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

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Teaching Media Ethics At The Graduate Level, Kati Tusinski Berg Jan 2009

Teaching Media Ethics At The Graduate Level, Kati Tusinski Berg

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

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World War I And The Mobilization Of Maternal Sacrifice: Considerations For Peace Politics, Ana C. Garner, Karen L. Slattery Jan 2009

World War I And The Mobilization Of Maternal Sacrifice: Considerations For Peace Politics, Ana C. Garner, Karen L. Slattery

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

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An Interview With Julian Agyeman: Just Sustainability And Ecopedagogy, Salma Monani Jan 2009

An Interview With Julian Agyeman: Just Sustainability And Ecopedagogy, Salma Monani

Environmental Studies Faculty Publications

This interview with Julian Agyeman, a key originator of the concept of just sustainability, engages Agyeman in discussion of how just sustainability evolved, and how its theoretical and practical dimensions relate to the principles of ecopedagogy.

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International Human Rights Law, Co-Parent Adoption, And The Recognition Of Gay And Lesbian Families, Elizabeth Burleson Jan 2009

International Human Rights Law, Co-Parent Adoption, And The Recognition Of Gay And Lesbian Families, Elizabeth Burleson

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

Children would benefit substantially if governments legally recognized same sex marriages and parenting. This article analyzes international human rights law, co-parent adoption, and the legal recognition of gay and lesbian families. It addresses civil marriage and adoption challenges for same sex families and assesses European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence relating to same-sex adoption. This Article considers the international community's efforts to implement the best interest of the child standard concluding that recognition of same sex families is in the best interest of the child and should be facilitated in a timely manner by jurisdictions at all levels.

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Energy Policy, Intellectual Property, And Technology Transfer To Address Climate Change, Elizabeth Burleson Jan 2009

Energy Policy, Intellectual Property, And Technology Transfer To Address Climate Change, Elizabeth Burleson

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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Social Factoring The Numbers With Assisted Reproduction, Bridget J. Crawford Jan 2009

Social Factoring The Numbers With Assisted Reproduction, Bridget J. Crawford

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

In late winter 2009, the airwaves came alive with stories about Nadya Suleman, the California mother who gave birth to octuplets conceived via assisted reproductive technology. Nadya Suleman and her octuplets are the vehicles through which Americans express their anxiety about race, class and gender. Expressions of concern for the health of children, the mother’s well-being, the future of reproductive medicine or the financial drain on taxpayers barely conceal deep impulses towards racism, sexism and classism. It is true that the public has had a longstanding fascination with multiple births and with large families. This is evidenced by a long …

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National Security Courts: Star Chamber Or Specialized Justice?, Mark R. Shulman Jan 2009

National Security Courts: Star Chamber Or Specialized Justice?, Mark R. Shulman

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

In October 2008, the author moderated a panel discussion addressing the utility of establishing a new national security court system for administering the detention and trial of terrorist suspects. The discussion featured comments by five lawyers with significant academic and practical experience in the field: Richard Zabel, a litigation partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney and co-author of In Pursuit of Justice: Prosecuting Terrorism Cases in the Federal Courts; Glenn L. Sulmasy, an Associate Professor of Law at the United States Coast Guard Academy and author of the forthcoming book, The National …

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Marketing Mothers' Milk: The Commodification Of Breastfeeding And The New Markets For Breast Milk And Infant Formula, Linda C. Fentiman Jan 2009

Marketing Mothers' Milk: The Commodification Of Breastfeeding And The New Markets For Breast Milk And Infant Formula, Linda C. Fentiman

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This paper explores the commodification of women and biological processes, the confusion of scientific evidence with social agendas, and the conflict between marketing and public health. I assert that key actors in the healthcare marketplace - government, businesses, and doctors – have acted to enable weak medical and scientific evidence to be manipulated by ideological and profit-making partisans in a poorly regulated market. I focus on the unique role of the medical profession, which has acted with government and the private sector to shape the markets in human milk and infant formula. In a striking parallel to the pharmaceutical industry, …

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In The Name Of Fetal Protection: Why American Prosecutors Pursue Pregnant Drug Users (And Other Countries Don't), Linda C. Fentiman Jan 2009

In The Name Of Fetal Protection: Why American Prosecutors Pursue Pregnant Drug Users (And Other Countries Don't), Linda C. Fentiman

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

For more than three decades, American prosecutors have been bringing criminal prosecutions against pregnant women based on their use of drugs while pregnant, with charges ranging from child abuse or neglect to murder. Almost all of these women are poor, and the vast majority are also women of color--many with histories of childhood sexual or physical abuse and mental disability. In all but three states-Alabama, Kentucky, and South Carolina--such prosecutions have been declared unconstitutional or the resulting convictions have been overturned. Nonetheless, prosecutions continue to be brought, in what can only be described as a crusade against pregnant women in …

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The Importance Of Lawyers In Judge Barksdale's Writings, Andrew C. W. Lund Jan 2009

The Importance Of Lawyers In Judge Barksdale's Writings, Andrew C. W. Lund

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

It is my honor to contribute a piece to this wonderful collection commemorating Judge Barksdale's extraordinary career on the bench. It was truly a privilege to clerk for the Judge and it is no less so to have the opportunity to write a bit about his impact on the law.

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Maxwell Garnett Rule For Dielectric Mixtures With Statistically Distributed Orientations Of Inclusions, Marina Koledintseva, Richard E. Dubroff, Robert W. Schwartz Jan 2009

Maxwell Garnett Rule For Dielectric Mixtures With Statistically Distributed Orientations Of Inclusions, Marina Koledintseva, Richard E. Dubroff, Robert W. Schwartz

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

An analytical model of an effective permittivity of a composite taking into account statistically distributed orientations of inclusions in the form of prolate spheroids will be presented. In particular, this paper considers the normal Gaussian distribution for either zenith angle, or azimuth angle, or for both angles describing the orientation of inclusions. The model is an extension of the Maxwell Garnett (MG) mixing rule for multiphase mixtures. The resulting complex permittivity is a tensor in the general case. The formulation presented shows that the parameters of the distribution law for orientation of inclusions affect the frequency characteristics of the composites, …

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Métodos Qualitativos E Quantitativos Na Pesquisa Sobre Stress Ocupacional, Irvin Sam Schonfeld, Edwin Farrell Jan 2009

Métodos Qualitativos E Quantitativos Na Pesquisa Sobre Stress Ocupacional, Irvin Sam Schonfeld, Edwin Farrell

Publications and Research

O presente artigo examina as formas pelas quais os métodos qualitativos e quantitativos se apóiam mutuamente na pesquisa sobre o stress ocupacional. Os métodos qualitativos incluem (a) obtenção de informações a partir de descrições livres de vivências no trabalho, (b) observações diretas, cuidadosas no local de trabalho e (c) observadores participantes que descrevem uma determinada experiência de trabalho a partir do local onde ela ocorre. Mostra, também, como a pesquisa qualitativa estimula o desenvolvimento de teorias, a geração de hipóteses e a identificação de estressores no trabalho e de respostas de coping. As limitações da pesquisa qualitativa, especialmente na área …

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Cookie Monsters: Seeing Young People’S Hacking As Creative Practice, Gregory T. Donovan, Cindi Katz Jan 2009

Cookie Monsters: Seeing Young People’S Hacking As Creative Practice, Gregory T. Donovan, Cindi Katz

Publications and Research

This paper examines the benefits and obstacles to young people’s open-ended and unrestricted access to technological environments. While children and youth are frequently seen as threatened or threatening in this realm, their playful engagements suggest that they are self-possessed social actors, able to negotiate most of its challenges effectively. Whether it is proprietary software, the business practices of some technology providers, or the separation of play, work, and learning in most classrooms, the spatial-temporality of young people’s access to and use of technology is often configured to restrict their freedom of choice and behavior. We focus on these issues through …

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Recreational Drug Regulation: A Plea For Responsibility, Donald A. Dripps Jan 2009

Recreational Drug Regulation: A Plea For Responsibility, Donald A. Dripps

Utah Law Review

This Article has argued that U.S. thinking about drug policy is inconsistent with the criminal law's rejection of any addiction defense and that the criminal law is right to reject that defense. Once society accepts that the choice to use drugs is not categorically different than the choice to consume many other consumer products with dangerous potentials and insidious long-term consequences, it is possible to see how misguided supply-side efforts have been. Supply-side enforcement wastes large quantities of resources with real economic opportunity costs, causes massive reductions in consumer welfare, and addresses the external costs of drug use inefficiently and …

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Validating Victims: Enforcing Victims' Rights Through Mandatory Mandamus, Steven Joffee Jan 2009

Validating Victims: Enforcing Victims' Rights Through Mandatory Mandamus, Steven Joffee

Utah Law Review

The American criminal justice system "has long functioned on the assumption that crime victims should behave like good Victorian children-seen but not heard." I As a result of this assumption, for centuries, crime victims and their families have been excluded from participation in criminal proceedings, often leaving them secondary victims to the very system to which they had turned for justice? In an effort to end this tradition, in October 2004, the United States Congress enacted the "the most sweeping federal victims' rights law in the history of the nation," the Scott Campbell, Stephanie Roper, Wendy Preston, Louarna Gillis, and …

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New Frontiers In Family Law: Introduction, Laura T. Kessler Jan 2009

New Frontiers In Family Law: Introduction, Laura T. Kessler

Utah Law Review

A new discussion about families and care is unfolding in family law. Reproductive technologies, globalization, and left-of-center critiques of same-sex marriage offer an especially fertile environment for imagining sex, intimacy, care, and reproduction outside marriage and the nuclear family. These reconceptualizations continue the revisioning enabled by reproducti~e freedom, no-fault divorce, and women's entrance and integration into the workforce. The implications of these trends are significant. What happens to family law when a range of relationships and intimate practices .displace heterosexuaf marriage from the epicenter of thinking about the family? Although the full effects of this diffusion are not yet clear, …

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Pioneers, Probate, Polygamy, And You, Michael Cobb Jan 2009

Pioneers, Probate, Polygamy, And You, Michael Cobb

Utah Law Review

The point is this: as we start to spin out our own wonderful and grotesque ideas about love, marriage, death, and wills, religion, and Marx, we also need to start thinking of marriage and family commitments as wills in and of themselves, pondering the implications of making the family a supeniatural relation of terror, longing, loss, and arrest. The Last Will and Testament that we are always making when we are in families, when we "I do," is shot through with a deep connection between love and property that keeps us wishing that we could survive our deaths. The will …

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Who's Afraid Of Polygamy? Exploring The Boundaries Of Family, Equality And Custom In South Africa, Penelope E. Andrews Jan 2009

Who's Afraid Of Polygamy? Exploring The Boundaries Of Family, Equality And Custom In South Africa, Penelope E. Andrews

Utah Law Review

By recognizing the reality of polyganious unions, the South African legislature gives effect to its constitutional promise of allowing everyone to practice the culture or religion 'of their choice. For a pluralist constitutional democracy, such latitude is crucial. But such recognition also suggests that the South African government is not prepared to make the hard choices that are necessary to ensure that the pursuit of gender equality is not derailed. Even though the Act is a celebration of cultural diversity, it also reflects a continued reticence about gender equality. As I've tried to argue in this paper, while polygamy may …

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The "Opt Out Revolution" And The Changing Narratives Of Motherhood: Self Governing The Work/Family Conflict, Brenda Cossman Jan 2009

The "Opt Out Revolution" And The Changing Narratives Of Motherhood: Self Governing The Work/Family Conflict, Brenda Cossman

Utah Law Review

The self governance discourse of the opt out revolution may thus operate to deflect attention away from the multiple levels of state, market, and family that constitute the terrain of women's choices. However pointing out this obfuscating effect should not be equated with denying the fact of choice. Rather, this Article's argument is that it is precisely the degree of choice operating in these women's lives that makes the narrative so powerful, and so difficult to effectively challenge. Instead of denying the descriptive, analytic, or onnative reality of choice, an effective feminist response may be to shift its analysis to …

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Somebody's Children, Laura Briggs Jan 2009

Somebody's Children, Laura Briggs

Utah Law Review

This article has been interested in how and why liberals, and even feminists like Elizabeth Bartholet, joined the campaign against "illegitimacy" waged by neoconservatives in the 1990s as part of the effort to get rid of federal entitlements that supported single mothers. As we have seen, the 1996 Interethnic Placement Act was redefined to separate it from the previous controversy over Gingrich's remarks about orphanages, and even, ultimately, from the measure to end AFDC. It was called, instead, as legal scholar Joan Heifetz Hollinger defines it, a "law aimed at removing the barriers to permanency for the hundreds of thousands …

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The Diary Of A M.A.D. Black Mama: The Blessings Of Reality, Lynette L. Phd Jan 2009

The Diary Of A M.A.D. Black Mama: The Blessings Of Reality, Lynette L. Phd

Utah Law Review

Still, the meaning of MAD for me is what sustains me. "M" is for the Mercy that I have for myself and others because in many ways we are all victims of humanity. "A" for the Amazing' grace that God has shown me each and every day of my life; and D for the Devotion, dedication and· drive that catapults me from this space and place any time I need, so that I can get up and do this thing called life all over again. And just when I feel overwhelmed and lonely for Black male leadership and presence in …

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Disability-Selective Abortion And The Americans With Disabilities Act, Dov Fox, Christopher L. Griffin, Jr. Jan 2009

Disability-Selective Abortion And The Americans With Disabilities Act, Dov Fox, Christopher L. Griffin, Jr.

Utah Law Review

This Article examines the influence of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) on affective attitudes toward children with disabilities and on the incidence of disability-selective abortion. Applying regression analysis to U.S. natality data, we find that the birthrate of children with Down syndrome declined significantly in the years following the ADA’s passage. Controlling for technological, demographic, and cultural variables suggests that the ADA may have encouraged prospective parents to prevent the existence of the very class of people it was designed to protect. We explain this paradox by showing the way in which specific ADA provisions could have given rise …

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