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The Women Potters Of Mata Ortiz: Growing Empowerment Through Artistic Work, Kiara Maureen Hughes

Anthropology ETDs

The contemporary production of pottery for global ethnic art markets set in motion a series of economic and social transformations that completely changed the Chihuahuan community of Mata Ortíz. This dynamic art form has included women and men since its initial stages over thirty-five years ago. Today, there are women of talent and expertise represented at every level of pottery execution and quality along the market continuum. Individual creativity and market recognition work together to create a context in which both men and women are able to capacitate themselves by acquiring the skills and competence needed to gain control over …

Constitutionalism, Legal Pluralism, And International Regimes, Alec Stone Sweet

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

The international legal order, although pluralist in structure, is in the process of being constitutionalized. This article supports this claim in several different ways. In the Part L I argue that most accepted understandings of "constitution" would readily apply to at least some international regimes. In Part II,I discuss different notions of "constitutional pluralism," and demonstrate that legal pluralism is not necessarily antithetical to constitutionalism. In fact, one finds a great deal of constitutional pluralism within national legal orders in Europe. Part III puts forward an argument that the European Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights, and …

Oral Communication And Presentations In Mathematics, Brian Johnson

Action Research Projects

In this action research study of my classroom of eighth grade mathematics, I investigated the attitudes of students toward mathematics along with their achievement levels with the use of oral presentations in my Algebra class. During the second semester the class was divided into groups of two for each presentation, changing partners each time. Every other week each group was given a math problem that required more work than a normal homework type problem. On the last day of that week the students gave a short presentation on their problem. I discovered that while there was no significant evidence that …

Reasonable Or Not? A Study Of The Use Of Teacher Questioning To Promote Reasonable Mathematical Answers From Sixth Grade Students, Marlene Grayer

Action Research Projects

In this action research study of my sixth grade mathematics class, I investigated the influence a change in my questioning tactics would have on students’ ability to determine answer reasonability to mathematics problems. During the course of my research, students were asked to explain their problem solving and solutions. Students, amongst themselves, discussed solutions given by their peers and the reasonability of those solutions. They also completed daily questionnaires that inquired about my questioning practices, and 10 students were randomly chosen to be interviewed regarding their problem solving strategies. I discovered that by placing more emphasis on the process rather …

Migratory Bird Hunting Activity And Harvest During The 2007 And 2008 Hunting Seasons, Robert V. Raftovich, Khristi Wilkins, Sheri S. Williams, Howard L. Spriggs

United States Fish and Wildlife Service: Publications

Table of Contents

Abstract ................................................................................................1
Introduction ..................................................................1
Design and Methods.....................................................................2
Survey Results...............................................................................3
Acknowledgements .......................................................................5
References ......................................................................5
Waterfowl harvest estimates Species, state, flyway...................................7
Special seasons...............................................................................28
Canada harvest ...........................................................................................31
Long-term trend graphs................................................................................33
Waterfowl age and sex ratios ...................................................................35
Long-term trend graphs.............................................................................47
Dove and pigeon estimates...................................................................51
Woodcock estimates................................................................................53
Snipe, coot, gallinule, and rail estimates ....................................................54
Species-specific rail estimates.............................................................60

Water Current, Volume 41, No. 3, Summer 2009

Water Current Newsletter

One-Two-Three Punch Clobbers Toxic Algae, Restores Fremont Lake
Fall Platte River Basin Science and Resource Management Symposium: October 14 and 15 in Kearney
Lessons On Water Scarcity
Meet the Faculty: Robert J. ‘Bob’ Oglesby, Ph.D.
Meet the Faculty: Karrie A. Weber, Ph.D.
Study: Low Flows on Niobrara Could Result in Economic Losses Water
Featured Partner: Audubon Nebraska
Sediment, Microbes and Environmental Fate of Emerging Contaminants
WRAP Update
Vance Anderson Receives Kremer Award
2009 UNL Water and Natural Resources Tour of the Bay-Delta Region of Northern California: June 15-18, 2009<
UNL Extension Continues Helping Farmers Learn Irrigation Strategies to use Less …

Data Note: Work Incentives And Ssi Recipients With Intellectual Disabilities, Frank A. Smith, John Butterworth

Data Note Series, Institute for Community Inclusion

Congress has enacted a number of work incentive programs for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients with disabilities after concluding additional incentives were necessary to help individuals become self-supporting. Moreover, Congress has noted that individuals who could work outside of sheltered workshops might have been discouraged from doing so by the fear of losing their benefits before they had established for themselves the capability for continued self-support. In this Data Note, we explore the degree to which SSI recipients with Intellectual Disabilities (ID) work and participate in these incentive programs.

Teaching Ecological And Feminist Economics In The Principles Course, Julie A. Nelson, Neva Goodwin

Economics Faculty Publication Series

It can be difficult to incorporate ecological and feminist concerns into introductory courses, when one is also obliged to teach neoclassical analysis. In this essay we briefly describe how one might extend existing “multi-paradigmatic” approaches to feminist and ecological concerns, and then present an new alternative approach that may be more suitable for some students. This “broader questions and bigger toolbox” approach can be applied in both microeconomics and macroeconomics introductory classrooms.

Bond To Society, Collectivism, And Conformity: A Comparative Study Of Japanese And American College Students., Miyuki Fukushima, Susan F. Sharp, Emiko Kobayashi

Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications

An argument is developed that the purported collectivism in Japanese society generates stronger social bonds in Japan than in the more individualistic United States, which might then explain the lower level of deviance often found in Japan. We test this using survey data from samples of Japanese and American college students on measures of deviance and social bonds. Results indicate that Japanese students engage in significantly less deviance than Americans, and although variables from Hirschi's (1969) social control theory behave similarly across cultures as predictors of deviance, the theory failed to account for the lower level of deviance among Japanese.

Nebraska Wind Power: A Comparative Study Of Knowledge And Attitudes, Cameron Helgren

Department of Environmental Studies: Undergraduate Student Theses

Abstract The goal of this project is to assess the knowledge and attitudes of Nebraskans on the issue of wind power. The point of this research is to learn whether the presence of wind power has a positive effect on a person’s knowledge about and attitudes toward wind power and wind turbines. Using mail surveys, qualitative and quantitative data were collected from the towns of Pierce and Ainsworth Nebraska. The surveys aided in seeing patterns of knowledge about wind power and wind turbines and positive and negative attitudes and major concerns regarding wind power.

Institutional Data Book 2008-2009, University Of Minnesota, Morris Office Of Institutional Research

Campus Documents and Reports

No abstract provided.

Design Research Quarterly Volume 4 Issue 3, 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.

Religion And The Politics Of Ethnic Identity In Bahia, Brazil (Book Review), Jan Hoffman French

Sociology and Anthropology Faculty Publications

Stephen Selka investigates the role of religion in encouraging, or discouraging, the formation of black identity in Bahia, the Brazilian state that is regarded as the center of Afro-Brazilian culture, religion, and politics. As he strives to understand and theorize the crucial, but complex, relationship between religion and what he terms "Afro-Brazilian identity," Selka describes how adherents of the three primary religious trends in Bahia (Catholicism, Candomble, and evangelical Protestantism) view the effects of their religious institutions on the construction of that identity. This question is addressed through selected quotes from leaders and members of the respective religious groups (and …

Sunny Samaritans And Egomaniacs: Price-Fixing In The Gamete Market, Kimberly D. Krawiec

Law and Contemporary Problems

Krawiec compares the egg market to sperm market to illustrate the extent to which public-interest rhetoric enables private wealth transfers in the egg market. She also illuminates why such rhetoric is so effective, playing on deeply held societal norms. In addition, she provides an overview of the oocyte business, highlighting issues relating to recruitment, compensation, controversy, retrieval, and risk. She does the same for the sperm business. Furthermore, she discusses the anticompetitive behavior in the egg market and argues that the horizontal price-fixing embodied in the American Society for Reproductive Medicine's pricing guidelines violates the Sherman Act. Lastly, she concludes …

Qualitative Research Interviews, Sarah Knox, Alan W. Burkard

College of Education Faculty Research and Publications

After presenting a brief overview of the complexity of the qualitative interviewing process used by psychotherapy researchers, the authors discuss some of the major ideas that psychotherapy researchers using such interviews must consider both before and during the interview process. They then offer thoughts regarding approaches to strengthen qualitative interviews themselves.

Peasant Movements In Latin America: Looking Back, Moving Ahead, Cliff Welch, Bernardo Mançano Fernandes

Peer Reviewed Articles

No abstract provided.

Beyond Barriers: A Phenomenological Study Of Women Reporting Intimate Partner Violence In College, Megan Watson

College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the experience of intimate partner violence and help-seeking in college women. This study used a phenomenological approach and qualitative interviews to elicit descriptions from a sample of five college women who had been in abusive relationships and had subsequently sought counseling. These were undergraduate women who had experienced abuse while in college and had recently been or were currently in counseling. Themes from the analysis of the participant interviews highlight the individual experiences of intimate partner violence as well as bring to light the experience of intimate partner violence in the …

Framing Red Power: The American Indian Movement, The Trail Of Broken Treaties, And The Politics Of Media, Jason A. Heppler

Department of History: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This study explores the relationship between the American Indian Movement (AIM), national newspaper and television media, and the Trail of Broken Treaties caravan in November 1972 and the way media framed, or interpreted, AIM's motivations and objectives. The intellectual and political currents present in the 1960s, including the ideas of Vine Deloria, Jr., and the successes of the Civil Rights Movement, influenced the development of AIM's ideas about militant tactics and the role media played in social movements. AIM entered the national stage with the occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in late 1972 and used television broadcasts and …

Framing Red Power: The American Indian Movement, The Trail Of Broken Treaties, And The Politics Of Media, Jason A. Heppler

Department of History: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This study explores the relationship between the American Indian Movement (AIM), national newspaper and television media, and the Trail of Broken Treaties caravan in November 1972 and the way media framed, or interpreted, AIM's motivations and objectives. The intellectual and political currents present in the 1960s, including the ideas of Vine Deloria, Jr., and the successes of the Civil Rights Movement, influenced the development of AIM's ideas about militant tactics and the role media played in social movements. AIM entered the national stage with the occupation of the Bureau oflndian Affairs in late 1972 and used television broadcasts and print …

Primary &(And) Secondary Education Law Review Digests

The Journal of Law and Education

No abstract provided.

Transmaturities: Gender Trouble As Tentative Analogue For Maturity Trouble, Diederik F. Janssen

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

Recent contributions to queer studies have been marked by what can provisionally be called a turn toward time, specifically time's various normative condensations around issues of community formation, most notably with respect to the family and the subculture. While the specter of time often seems suspended between elite contemplation and public imagination, the emergent rubric of temporalities, explored in GLQ's special issue (2007;13/2-3), announced a possibly radical moment in which genders can be analyzed as breaking down "over time" politically and taxonomically, perhaps to the effect that deconstructive momentum realized in the context of gender/sexuality may facilitate …

Review Of Extreme Metal: Music And Culture On The Edge, By Keith Harris-Kahn, Scott Inniss

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

Since the appearance in the early 1990s of Deena Weinstein’s Heavy Metal: A Cultural Sociology and Robert Walser’s Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music, there has been a relative dearth of serious, book length inquiries into this often maligned musical form. Keith Harris-Kahn’s Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge offers not only to rectify this situation but more specifically to perform a cultural analysis of those much more aesthetically radical and socially marginalized metal subgenres—death, doom, and black metal as well as grind and metalcore—that have emerged since the …

Ursinus Magazine, Summer 2009, Wendy Greenberg, Kathryn Campbell, Cynthia A. Fisher, David Driver, Ellen Labrecque

Ursinus Magazine, 1995–Present

Alumni forum • Upcoming exhibitions • By the numbers: Student achievement • 2009 Commencement • Faculty expertise: Film studies • Growing greener: Ursinus invests in a sustainable planet • Class of 2009: A balance of studies and athletics • Class notes • 1959 & 1960: Carol Lecato & Jeanne (Lecato) Myers • A message from the Office of Career Services • Spotlight: Jay Defruscio 1982 • Spotlight: Jessica Lamina & Neal Cooper 2008 • Ann Paterson 1994: From bees to the captivating behaviors of the brown anole lizard • Marriages • Births • Deaths • In memoriam • Alumni academy

How Great Judges Think: Judges Richard Posner, Henry Friendly, And Roger Traynor On Judicial Lawmaking, Edmund Ursin

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Factors Influencing Career Success Of Minority Healthcare Industry Executives, Celesia D. Valentine

Graduate Student Dissertations, Theses, Capstones, and Portfolios

Research has been conducted on the effects of a "glass ceiling" that still exists in US organizations for racial, ethnic, and female executives. A new barrier, defined as a "concrete ceiling" that is more difficult to penetrate, denser and less easily shattered than the glass ceiling has recently been identified as a barrier to progress namely for women of color (Catalyst, 1999,2000,2001; Moore & Jones, 2001).

The primary purpose of this non-experimental, correlational, (explanatory), causal comparative (exploratory) study is to investigate the relationships among ethnicity, race, and gender on career success outcomes of healthcare executives and to examine those factors …

Analysis Of Boys Hope Girls Hope Of Nevada, Andrea Sundberg, Brad Giles, Cedric Pittman, Imelda Delatorre, Rebbeca Morris Fridley

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

One of the most important components of any business is the ability to effectively market the organization. Marketing is critical in shaping the public's knowledge of services offered and how an organization distinguishes itself from other organizations within a community. This type of recognition ultimately affects an organization's sustainability. To effectively conduct outreach and create an effective marketing strategy nonprofit organizations are increasingly becoming reliant on volunteers to meet these missions. With nonprofit organizations taking on larger caseloads with limited staff, organizations are becoming more reliant on volunteers, which include the Board of Directors, to assist in marketing and fundraising. …

Nonprofits In Crisis: How To Retain Employees In The Nonprofit Sector, Liz Armstrong, Jocelyn Bluitt-Fisher, Lori Lopez-Newman, Diana R. Paul, Keith R. Paul

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

In today's worsening economy more and more people find themselves seeking help through the services of nonprofit groups. Families are in worsening situations and the need for effective and efficient nonprofit human services is growing faster as more people are put out of work. It is clear that the nonprofit organizations must find a way to retain already trained employees to stave off the cost of finding and training replacements. It would be easy to think that nonprofit employees would stay if only their salaries were to increase, however, the literature review and focus group interviews found that is not …

La Dimensión Microsociológica De La Metáfora Teatral, Miguel Beltrán Villalva

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

No abstract provided.

University Reporter - Volume 13, Number 10 - Summer 2009

1996-2009, University Reporter

This issue of the University Reporter features, among others, articles about the appointment of Winston E. Langley as Provost, the 2009 Commencement ceremony (which included remarks from Senator John Kerry), Dominique Powell (the recipient of the 2009 John F. Kennedy Award for Academic Excellence), and Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, as well as peices about academic and outreach programs at the University, including the Center of Math and Science in Context (COSMIC).

Cloaked Websites: Propaganda, Cyber-Racism And Epistemology In The Digital Era, Jessie Daniels

Publications and Research

This article analyzes cloaked websites, which are sites published by individuals or groups who conceal authorship in order to disguise deliberately a hidden political agenda. Drawing on the insights of critical theory and the Frankfurt School, this article examines the way in which cloaked websites conceal a variety of political agendas from a range of perspectives. Of particular interest here are cloaked white supremacist sites that disguise cyber-racism. The use of cloaked websites to further political ends raises important questions about knowledge production and epistemology in the digital era. These cloaked sites emerge within a social and political context in …