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Anthropological, Theological, And Ethical Aspects Of Human Life And Procreation, Christopher Kaczor

Philosophy Faculty Works

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Philosophy And Theology: Notes On Procreative Beneficence, Christopher Kaczor

Philosophy Faculty Works

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Teaching Star Trek As Anthropology, Margaret Williamson Huber

Southern Anthropologist

The original Star Trek television show is a “natural” for teaching anthropology. Like all science fi ction, the show is a refl ection of contemporary concerns--a form of mythology. Beyond this, the original show relied extensively on anthropological theory and ethnography in the construction of its plots. The author’s undergraduate course, described in this paper, aims to make students aware of these and also of the concerns of the nineteen-sixties (Viet Nam, the Cold War, civil rights, Hippies) that motivated many of the episodes. In the process, it illustrates how popular culture texts can be used in the classroom to …

Structures For Environmental Action, Katherine Bunting-Howart, Avi Brisman, Willett Kempton, Dorothy C. Holland, Peggy F. Bartlett

Southern Anthropologist

This article develops a typology of what we term “structures for action”—strategies, mechanisms, and means—used by local environmental groups to facilitate actions such as lifestyle shifts, civic protest, and environmental preservation. Based on data from nineteen groups in several states, we distinguish between internal structures that facilitate action for members of the groups and external structures that facilitate action among nonmembers and other groups. Within both internal and external structures, we identify three dimensions: knowledge, meaning, and praxis. Our typology of structures for action is designed to stimulate further research and to be useful for environmental groups, as well as …

Complete Issue, Journal Editors

Southern Anthropologist

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Dora Chen, Assistant Professor Of Family Studies, College Of Health And Human Services And Leslie Couse, Associate Professor Of Education, College Of Liberal Arts, Both Travel To China, Leslie J. Couse, Dora Chen

Faculty Travel Reports

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Working In Groups And Alone: Effects Of Group Gender Composition On Cognitive Insight Problem Solving Performance, Viktoria Tidikyte

Psychology Theses & Dissertations

This study examined how working within a group versus working alone affects creative problem solving and what role gender plays in influencing problem solving performance. Previous studies yielded contradictory predictions of whether working in a group improves or impedes creative problem solving performance and whether gender has an effect on problem solving efficiency of a group. I proposed that contradictory results of the previous studies might have been due to the gender by group interaction. Two hundred and six Old Dominion University undergraduate students participated in this study. A 2 (groups vs. individual) X 3 (gender group composition) X 2 …

The Effects Of Post-Outcome Information On Hindsight Bias, Brad Whittet

Psychology Theses & Dissertations

The Hindsight Bias Effect describes the observation that people's retrospective judgments are systematically more in favor of the given outcome than their predictive judgments. Over the last 30 years, the Hindsight Bias has been one of the most researched judgment phenomena and a number of competing theories have arisen to explain the effect. This study investigated the effect of post-outcome information on the size and direction of the hindsight bias. In order to test the predictions of different theories of hindsight bias, two aspects of post-outcome information were manipulated: I) source (internal vs. external), and 2.) congruency with the outcome …

Investigating Delay In Health Related Decision Making Versus Non-Health Decision Making, Ann Lassiter Edwards

Psychology Theses & Dissertations

Health and non-health decision domains were examined to explore the differences in decision domain and delay preferences. Using an existing cognitive theory of delay (Bastardi & Shafir, 1998; Tykocinski & Ruffle, 2003), type of scenario (health vs. nonhealth) was manipulated within subjects with participants receiving three scenarios of each type. Certainty (certain vs. uncertain) and delay choice condition (no delay, delay, one-week delay) were manipulated between subjects. This resulted in a 2 (health) X 2 (certainty) X 3 (delay choice) split-plot factorial design. The dependent measure was the proportion of action responses (deciding to change status quo) across the three …

The European Union's Struggle To Realize A Human Rights-Based Approach To Trafficking In Human Beings, Conny Rijken, Eefje De Volder

Connecticut Journal of International Law

Reliable data on the number of persons being trafficked is difficult to collect, but it is estimated that every year at least 600,000 people are trafficked worldwide.' Virtually every European state is affected by the crime of trafficking in human beings ("THB"), be it as a country of origin, transport, or destination. Although the fight against THB is already part of the political agenda of many states and of regional and international organizations, the number of persons being trafficked is not declining.

The most objectionable element of trafficking is its severe violation of the victim's human rights. Therefore, approaches to …

A Blight On The Nation: Slavery In Today's America, Ron Soodalter

Connecticut Journal of International Law

For two years, twelve Mexican and Guatemalan field workers in south Florida were enslaved by the Navarretes, a family of traffickers. The family beat them, chained them to a pole, and at night, locked them in boxes and truck trailers, with little food and no plumbing, while keeping them in ever-increasing debt. During the day, they were taken to work in the tomato fields of two of the state's biggest growers-Six Ls and Pacific, both members of the Socially Accountable Farm Employers program, SAFE for short, which was created to prevent worker abuse. When their day's work was done, they …

Race, Economic Class, And Employment Opportunity, Trina Jones

Law and Contemporary Problems

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The Declining Significance Of Presidential Races?, Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Osamudia James

Law and Contemporary Problems

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Patient Negligence, Michele Goodwin, L. Song Richardson

Law and Contemporary Problems

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Distress With Breathing In People With Lung Cancer: A Systematic Review, Elizabeth Quast, Marie Williams

Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice

While the prevalence of shortness of breath has been reported to be as frequent as pain in people with lung cancer, less attention has been paid to the distress associated with this symptom (dyspnea). This systematic review of the literature was undertaken to investigate how this symptom has been assessed and whether breathlessness in people with lung cancer is distressing. Using a pre-determined search strategy and inclusion criteria, thirty-one primary studies were identified and included in this review. A variety of outcome measures have been used to assess the experience of dyspnea with domains including intensity, distress, quality of life, …

Quality Of Life In People With Epilepsy And Their Family Caregivers. An Arab Experience Using The Short Version Of The World Health Organization Quality Of Life Instrument, Jude U. Ohaeri, Abdel W. Awadalla, Ali A. Farah

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To assess the subjective quality of life (QOL) of Sudanese epilepsy patients with generalized tonic clonic seizures and their family caregivers, compared with the general population, and previous Sudanese data for chronic conditions, and to examine the predictors of QOL. METHODS: This cross-sectional study using the World Health Organization9s 26-item QOL instrument, was carried out from December 2005 to December 2006, on consecutive government hospital Neurology Clinic attendees and their family caregivers, who fulfilled the study9s inclusion criteria, in the cities of Khartoum, Wad Medani, and Atbara, Sudan. RESULTS: There were 276 patients (56.5% male; mean age 29.5 years). …

Written And Oral Persuasion In The United States Courts: A District Judge's Perspective On Their History, Function, And Future, Mark R. Kravitz

The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process

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Effect Of Self-Determination Theory-Based Strategies For Staging Recreation Encounters On Intrinsic Motivation Of Youth Residential Campers, Mark F. Roark, Gary D. Ellis

Kinesiology and Health Science Faculty Publications

Parents and caregivers generally believe that the camp experiences they purchase for their children will not only yield transient pleasure and lasting memories of fun encounters, but significant developmental outcomes as well. Camp professionals serving over 11 million youths each year embrace such outcomes and commonly advance mission statements that point to the development of friendship skills, self-confidence, competence, self-reliance, independence, citizenship, and many other developmental outcomes. Empirical evidence of how these outcomes might be facilitated through specific recreation leadership strategies (e.g., activity staging) is lacking. The Self-Determination Theory (SDT) would suggest that youth leaders (e.g., camp counselors, recreation activity …

Utpa Stats At A Glance - Fall 2009, University Of Texas-Pan American

UTPA Archives - Stats At A Glance

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Smc Fact Book 2009, Saint Mary's College Of California

SMC Fact Book

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Conscientiousness Is Not Always A Good Predictor Of Performance: The Case Of Creativity, Roni Reiter-Palmon, Jody J. Illies, Lisa M. Kobe-Cross

Psychology Faculty Publications

Meta-analyses investigating the relationship between Conscientiousness and performance suggest a positive relationship for a variety of criteria. However, recently it has been argued that Conscientiousness is not always a good predictor of performance, particularly for creative performance. Additionally, it has been suggested that Conscientiousness includes two distinct components, achievement and dependability, which may have different relationships with criterion measures. Two studies were conducted to determine whether the components of Conscientiousness predict creativity better than the full factor. Students in each study completed a measure of the Five Factor Model and a measure of creative performance. In the first study, creative …

Mental Illness And Self-Representation: Faretta, Godinez And Edwards, Christopher Slobogin

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

In the recent decision of Indiana v. Edwards the Supreme Court held that the right to represent oneself may be denied to defendants who are competent to stand trial if they "still suffer from severe mental illness to the point where they are not competent to conduct trial proceedings by themselves." Edwards was a surprise, given the Court's holding 15 years earlier in Godinez v. Moran that Nevada courts did not err when they permitted a mentally ill person who had been found competent to stand trial to waive the right to counsel, plead guilty and waive the presentation of …

On The Limits Of Supremacy: Medical Marijuana And The States' Overlooked Power To Legalize Federal Crime, Robert A. Mikos

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

Using the conflict over medical marijuana as a timely case study, this Article explores the overlooked and underappreciated power of states to legalize conduct Congress bans. Though Congress has banned marijuana outright, and though that ban has survived constitutional scrutiny, state laws legalizing medical use of marijuana constitute the de facto governing law in thirteen states. This Article argues that these state laws and (most) related regulations have not been, and, more interestingly, cannot be preempted by Congress, given constraints imposed on Congress's preemption power by the anti-commandeering rule, properly understood. Just as importantly, these state laws matter, in a …

The Ethical Health Lawyer: An Empirical Assessment Of Moral Decision Making, Ellen Wright Clayton, Joshua E. Perry, Ilene N. Moore, Bruce Barry, Amanda R. Carrico

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

The empirical literature exploring lawyers and their moral decision making is limited despite the “crisis” of unethical and unprofessional behavior in the bar that has been well documented for over a decade. In particular we are unaware of any empirical studies that investigate the moral landscape of the health lawyer’s practice. In an effort to address this gap in the literature, an interdisciplinary team of researchers at Vanderbilt University designed an empirical study to gather preliminary evidence regarding the moral reasoning of health care attorneys. The primary research question was how health lawyers respond when they encounter ethical or moral …

How The New Economics Can Improve Employment Discrimination Law, And How Economics Can Survive The Demise Of The "Rational Actor", Scott A. Moss, Peter H. Huang

William & Mary Law Review

Much employment discrimination law is premised on a purely money-focused "reasonable" employee, the sort who can be made whole with damages equal to lost wages, and who does not hesitate to challenge workplace discrimination. This type of "rational" actor populated older economic models but has been since modified by behavioral economics and research on happiness. Behavioral and traditional economists alike have analyzed broad employment policies, such as the wisdom of discrimination statutes, but the devil is in the details of employment law. On the critical damages-and liability issues the Supreme Court and litigators face regularly, the law essentially ignores the …

Unforgettable Instruction: Designing Learning Experiences That Stick, Eric Frierson

LOEX Quarterly

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The Classic, Fall 2009, Public Relations

The Classic, 2000-2009

Zwemer View: Don't Keep It Secret; In Box; Executive Decisions; Campus Enhancements; Spanglish Hoops; Of Course: You in Context; Mission Minor; Teaching Leader; First-Year Faculty: Weston Cutter, Yin Lam (Nicole) Lee, Jonathan Sabo, Richard Sowienski; Courses Online; Compiling Kudos; Face Value: Dave Nonnemacher; On Board; Music Maker: Kimberly Utke Svanoe retires after three decades at NWC; 1000 Words: Class Pride; Class Warfare; Funding Northwestern's Mission: 2008-09 giving spurred by $250,000 gift; Family Tree: Families who branch out through adoption grow in more ways than one; Red Ties; Class Notes; New Arrivals; Marriages; In Memoriam; Pen Pal; Wildlife Lover; Cities by …

When What You Don’T Know Can Hurt You: Third Party Liability For Fraudulent Misrepresentation In Non-Commercial Settings After Doe V. Dilling, 888 N.E.2d 24 (Ill. 2008), Laura Barke

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

Fraudulent misrepresentation actions most commonly arise in the commercial context. In Doe v. Dilling, however, the plaintiff attempted to expand the tort’s usage to an extremely personal context and hold the parents of her fiancée liable for fraudulently misrepresenting her fiancée’s HIV status. Although this Casenote agrees that the Illinois Supreme Court reached the correct result in denying the plaintiff’s claim, it argues that the court failed to provide a clear framework for future cases. Because this case is susceptible to misinterpretation and could potentially bar all claims for fraudulent misrepresentation within non-commercial settings, this Casenote sets forth a test …

Patriotic Cosmopolitanism: China’S Non-Official Intellectuals’ Dream Of The Future, William A. Callahan

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

One of the fascinating things about China today is that it is a country in flux. With each turn along China’s path of rapid economic growth, a new set of political, economic and social questions arises. Hence it is very difficult to understand what is going on in China – not only for outsiders, but also for the Chinese people themselves.

No Rational Basis: The Pragmatic Case For Marijuana Law Reform, Eric D. Blumenson, Eva Nilsen

Faculty Scholarship

This article presents a critique of marijuana prohibition and suggests some alternative regulatory approaches that would be more productive and consonant with justice. Part I relies on a forty-year empirical record to demonstrate that (1) reliance on a law enforcement approach has aggravated rather than mitigated the risks involved with marijuana use, and (2) criminalization, which results in the arrest of more than 700, 000 Americans annually for possession of any amount of marijuana, is an inhumane and destructive response to an act that almost 100 million Americans have committed. Part II assesses the relative merits of several alternative reform …