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Ua94/6/1 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Western Kentucky University Small Collections, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Small collections of personal papers and oral histories relating to the Western Kentucky University.

A Procedure To Correct Proxy-Reported Weight In The National Health Interview Survey, 1976-2002, Eric N. Reither, Rebecca L. Utz

Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology Faculty Publications

Background

Data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) show a larger-than-expected increase in mean BMI between 1996 and 1997. Proxy-reports of height and weight were discontinued as part of the 1997 NHIS redesign, suggesting that the sharp increase between 1996 and 1997 may be artifactual.

Methods

We merged NHIS data from 1976–2002 into a single database consisting of approximately 1.7 million adults aged 18 and over. The analysis consisted of two parts: First, we estimated the magnitude of BMI differences by reporting status (i.e., self-reported versus proxy-reported height and weight). Second, we developed a procedure to correct biases in …

Who Owns This Text?: Plagiarism, Authorship, And Disciplinary Cultures, Carol Petersen Haviland, Joan A. Mullin

All USU Press Publications

Carol Haviland, Joan Mullin, and their collaborators report on a three-year interdisciplinary interview project on the subject of plagiarism, authorship, and "property," and how these are conceived across different fields. The study investigated seven different academic fields to discover disciplinary conceptions of what types of scholarly production count as "owned." Less a research report than a conversation, the book offers a wide range of ideas, and the chapters here will provoke discussion on scholarly practice relating to intellectual property, plagiarism, and authorship---and to how these matters are conveyed to students. Although these authors find a good deal of consensus in …

Folklore And The Internet: Vernacular Expression In A Digital World, Trevor J. Blank

All USU Press Publications

Folklore and the Internet is a pioneering examination of the folkloric qualities of the World Wide Web, e-mail, and related digital media. It shows that folk culture, sustained by a new and evolving vernacular, has been a key, since the Internetýs beginnings, to language, practice, and interaction online. Users of many sorts continue to develop the Internet as a significant medium for generating, transmitting, documenting, and preserving folklore. In a set of new, insightful essays, contributors Trevor J. Blank, Simon J. Bronner, Robert Dobler, Russell Frank, Gregory Hansen, Robert Glenn Howard, Lynne S. McNeill, Elizabeth Tucker, and William Westerman showcase …

But Can S/He Lead? Market Assessments Of Black Leadership In Corporate America, Alison Cook, Christy M. Glass

Management Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Ua56/1 Fact Book, Wku Institutional Research

WKU Administration Documents

Statistical and demographic profile of WKU.

Socio-Economic Factors In Technology Development And Adoption: An Assessment Of The “Push-Pull” Technology Of Controlling Maize Stem Borers In Trans Nzoia District, Dorothy Mukudi Wanyama Masinde

All PhD Dissertations

This study sought to examine the collaborative participation approach and technology adoption. The objective of this study was to determine the linkage between socio-economic factors in collaborative participation and technology adoption and diffusion among Trans Nzoia district resource-limited farmers. Collaborative participation involves farmers, researchers, and extension agents in developing and disseminating technology. The study reviewed the push/pull' technology of controlling maize stem borers. The goal was to provide information that would contribute to improvement of the collaborative participation approach, eventually enhancing adoption of developed technologies.The study was conducted in the villages of Yuya, Wamuini, Kaminini, and Kissawai in Trans Nzoia …

Hispanic Attitudes Towards Adoption, Adriana Ventura-Ramirez

Theses Digitization Project

This study was conducted to assess what factors influence Hispanic attitudes toward adoption. the study suggests that Hispanic cultural beliefs and concerns will affect decisions about adoption. Understanding these factors may facilitate adoption on Hispanic children into Hispanic families.

Peering Into The Judicial Magic Eight Ball: Arbitrary Decisions In The Area Of Juror Removal, 42 J. Marshall L. Rev. 813 (2009), Kimberly Wise

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.

Exploring The Placelessness Of Reading Among Older Teens In A Canadian Rural Municipality, Paulette Rothbauer

FIMS Publications

Situated in a review of rural, cultural, and youth geographies, this article reports on a qualitative study of the role of reading and libraries in the lives of older rural teenagers. The primary method of data collection was the use of in‐depth, flexibly structured interviews with twenty‐seven youth between the ages of fifteen and nineteen years, supplemented with data from unobtrusive observation and environmental scanning in a specific geographic locale. Four themes are discussed: the habitual, quotidian reading of teenagers; the shifting visibility of the public library; the Internet and the World Wide Web as a default reading site; and …

Common Insights, Differing Methodologies: Towards A Fusion Of Indigenous Methodologies, Participatory Action Research, And White Studies In An Urban Aboriginal Research Agenda, Mike Evans, Rachelle Hole, Lawrence D. Berg, Peter Hutchinson, Dixon Sookraj

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

In this paper we discuss three broad research approaches: Indigenous Methodologies, Participatory Action Research, and White Studies. We suggest that a fusion of these three approaches can be useful, especially in terms of collaborative work with Indigenous communities. More specifically, we argue that using Indigenous Methodologies and Participatory Action Research, but refocusing the object of inquiry directly and specifically on the institutions and structures that Indigenous peoples face, can be a particularly effective way of transforming Indigenous peoples from the objects of inquiry to its authors. A case study focused on the development of appropriate research methods for a collaborative …

The Residential School System, N.A.

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.

The Indian Act, N.A.

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.

Royal Proclamation, 1763, N.A.

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.

Reserves, N.A.

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.

Indian Status, N.A.

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.

Enfranchisement, N.A,

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.

What Is Bill C-31, N.A.

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.

Bands, N.A.

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.

Aboriginal Title, N.A.

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.

Aboriginal Rights, N.A.

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.

Aboriginal Fisheries In British Columbia, N.A.

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.

Security And Belonging: Reconceptualising Aboriginal Spatial Mobilities In Yamatji Country, Western Australia, Sarah Prout

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

Since British colonisation of Australia began, Aboriginal mobility practices have been poorly understood within the Anglo-Australian consciousnesses. This paper examines current discourses and conceptualisations of Aboriginal mobilities in Yamatji country, Western Australia. Finding none of these explanations and interpretations singularly sufficient to encompass the diverse spatial practices of Aboriginal people in the region, the paper proposes an alternative framework for interpreting and understanding these population dynamics. The central tenet of this reconceptualisation is that contemporary Aboriginal spati- alities – including spatial distribution, movements, and immobility – are iteratively shaped by the processes of procuring, contesting, and cultivating security and belonging. …

Forgetting Aborigines, Elizabeth A. Povinelli

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.

Football Barriers – Aboriginal Under‐Representation And Disconnection From The ‘World Game’, John Maynard

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

Indigenous Australians have had some great successes in Australian football and rugby. However, this success has not been mirrored in the ‘world game’, soccer. This study examines the reasons for such under-representation in Australia. The barriers to access to soccer were a combination of racist government policy which restricted the movement of Aboriginal people, and thus their opportunities to engage with a game that was not located near the isolated reserves in which they were held. The most successful Aboriginal players were fortunate that their circumstances placed them in close proximity to locales that were soccer strongholds. Moreover, the multicultural …

On Time And Off Time Career Trajectories In The New Economy: The Case Of Information Technology Work, Emily Vera Jovic

Digitized Theses

There are significant changes happening in the world of work, under the guise of a 'new' economy that embraces innovation and technology, flexible labour, and risk and uncertainty. With the proliferation of less conventional work arrangements and new career forms, traditional notions of employment careers and life trajectories are in flux. To better understand these trends and potential consequences for workers, this research considers the relative timing of entry to a prototypical new economy sector, information technology (IT). Using the life course perspective as a guide, I investigate entry pathways to IT, assessing who is 'on time' (i.e., made a …

The Interaction Between Gender And Risky Lifestyles On Predicting Violent Victimization: A Test Of The Chivalry, Convergence And Evil Woman Hypotheses, Jennifer Elizabeth Angela Reynolds

Digitized Theses

This thesis explores the interaction between risky lifestyle behaviours and gender in predicting violent victimization. Using a combination of routine activity theory (Cohen and Felson 1979) and lifestyle theory (Hindelang et al. 1978) and 'doing gender' literature, the chivalry hypothesis, convergence hypothesis and the evil woman hypothesis are examined. Prior research suggests that individuals with high-risk lifestyles are prone to violent victimization. In this thesis, I utilize the General Social Survey on Victimization (2004) and employ a series of logistic regressions to examine how gender and high-risk lifestyles interact to predict personal victimization. The chivalry hypothesis, convergence hypothesis and the …

Subjugated Knowledges And Dedisciplinarity In Cultural Studies Pedagogy, Joseph D. Parker

Pitzer Faculty Publications and Research

Discussions of the contested politics of academic fields that have emerged from social movements often emphasize course content while deemphasizing the ways that power circulates through specific sites in the academy. Certainly women's studies, queer studies, and the different ethnic studies fields have struggled to maintain links to the social movements that engendered them. and a concomitant focus on social change. In a more complex fashion, the same is true of postcolonial studies. Similarly, cultural studies may be understood as an academic field emerging from class-based social movements that are affiliated in complex ways with various Marxist analyses whose academic …

Leisure Notes, Summer-Fall 2009, State University Of New York College At Cortland

Recreation, Parks, & Leisure

SUNY Cortland Department of Recreation, Parks, and Leisure Studies Alumni Newsletter.