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The Adolescent Experience In-Depth: Using Data To Identify And Reach The Most Vulnerable Young People—Sierra Leone 2008, Population Council

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

“The Adolescent Experience In-Depth: Using Data to Identify and Reach the Most Vulnerable Young People: Sierra Leone 2008” is part of a series of Population Council guides that draw principally on data from the Demographic and Health Surveys to provide decisionmakers at all levels—from governments, nongovernmental organizations, and advocacy groups—with evidence on the situation of adolescent girls and boys and young women aged 10–24 years. The data are presented in graphs, tables, and maps (wherever possible), providing multiple formats to make the information accessible to a range of audiences. Section I is the Foreword. Section II offers brief technical notes …

The Adolescent Experience In-Depth: Using Data To Identify And Reach The Most Vulnerable Young People—Egypt 2008, Population Council

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

“The Adolescent Experience In-Depth: Using Data to Identify and Reach the Most Vulnerable Young People: Egypt 2008” is part of a series of Population Council guides that draw principally on data from the Demographic and Health Surveys to provide decisionmakers at all levels—from governments, nongovernmental organizations, and advocacy groups—with evidence on the situation of adolescent girls and boys and young women aged 10–24 years. The data are presented in graphs, tables, and maps (wherever possible), providing multiple formats to make the information accessible to a range of audiences. Section I is the Foreword. Section II offers brief technical notes specific …

Romance And Sex Before Marriage Among Young Women And Men In India, International Institute For Population Sciences (Iips), Population Council

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

This policy brief was produced in association with the International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai (IIPS). Data was drawn from the Youth in India: Situation and Needs study to examine pre-marital partnerships and relationship among youth in India. Findings call for family life or sex education, and increased awareness and education of condom use.

Schooling And Conflict In Darfur: A Snapshot Of Basic Education Services For Displaced Children, Cynthia B. Lloyd, Safaa El-Kogali, Jenny Perlman Robinson, Johanna Rankin, Ali Rashed

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Schooling and Conflict in Darfur, a joint project of the Population Council and the Women's Refugee Commission, is a report based on a 2008 survey designed to provide a more accurate picture of the state of formal and non-formal education for displaced children of primary school age (6-14) in North and West Darfur. The findings are based on a scientifically selected sample of internally displaced persons (IDP) communities in North and West Darfur. The goal of the report is to provide donors, policymakers, and practitioners information to help plan and implement effective, targeted education programs for internally displaced children in …

Health And Social Consequences Of Marital Violence: A Synthesis Of Evidence From India, Shireen J. Jejeebhoy, K.G. Santhya, Rajib Acharya

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

This review paper was produced with support from UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund), and synthesizes what is known about the health and social consequences of marital violence for women in India. The review focuses on sexual, reproductive and child health consequences, including contraceptive use, experience of symptoms of infection, pregnancy-related care, unintended pregnancy and abortion, fetal, perinatal and early childhood mortality; maternal and child nutrition; and mental health outcomes. It also reviews evidence of a range of social outcomes including substance use, women's autonomy and self-efficacy; and inter-generational effects (witnessing parental violence when growing up).

Ethiopia Gender Survey: A Study In Seven Regions, Annabel Erulkar, Abebaw Ferede, Worku Ambelu, Woldemariam Girma, Helen Amdemikael, Behailu Gebremedhin, Berhanu Legesse, Ayehualem Tameru, Messay Teferi

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

“Ethiopia Gender Survey: A Study in Seven Regions” is a 2009 population-based survey. Over 8,000 Ethiopian women aged 15 to 49 were interviewed to examine a better understanding of HIV behavior, gender issues and reproductive health in Ethiopia. The information serves as the baseline survey for four initiatives in Ethiopia related to adolescent health and development, gender-based violence, women’s empowerment, and female genital cutting/ mutilation.

Philanthropy: Are We A Profession? Should We Be?, Karl Stauber

The Foundation Review

· When philanthropy is assessed against seven standards for what constitutes a profession, it meets only 3 of them.

· Questions remain about the core concepts of the field, and how the field builds and disseminates knowledge.

· There is much discussion about “scientific philanthropy,” but the inability to answer these questions limits the field’s ability to function scientifically.

· Wisdom, rigor, and learning may be better approaches to philanthropy that a scientific approach.

Phytosociological Structure Of Nemrut Mountain (Adıyaman/Turkey), Ahmet Zafer Tel, Adem Tatli, Ömer Varol

Turkish Journal of Botany

This investigation was carried out between 1996 and 2001 in order to research the vegetation of Nemrut Mountain, one of the most important national historical park of Anatolia, on the south-east Taurus (Adıyaman-Turkey). Vegetation studies have been carried out according to the Braun-Blanquet's method. In this study we determined 7 plant associations, 3 sub associations, and 1 plant community, all of which are syntaxa new to science, in 4 different vegetation types. Associations and its higher units are as follows: Quercetea ilicis Br.-Bl. 1947 Qercetalia ilicis Br.-Bl. 1947 Quercion calliprini Zohary 1962 1. Pistacio khynjuki-Cotinetum coggyriae ass. nova Quercetea pubescentis …

Beyond Cardboard Clients In Legal Ethics, Kate Kruse

Faculty Scholarship

This Article argues that the construction of cardboard clients in legal ethics has disserved legal ethics by obscuring what is arguably a more central problem of legal professionalism: the problem of legal objectification. The problem of legal objectification is the tendency of lawyers to "issue-spot" their clients as they would the facts on a blue-book exam, overemphasizing the clients' legal interests and minimizing or ignoring the other cares, commitments, relationships, reputations and values that constitute the objectives clients bring to legal representation. This Article proposes an alternative ideal of legal professionalism for "three-dimensional clients" based on helping clients articulate and …

Jesus Take The Wheel: Country Music And Whiteness, Andy Watts

Belmont Humanities Symposium Journal

I am more interested, not in what country music is (as if I possessed the expertise), but in what country music does. My guiding question is: how does the music function as a cultural expression of the norming norm, whiteness?

Biography Of A Biographer, Donald Cusic

Belmont Humanities Symposium Journal

It started in the sixth grade. My teacher was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and they had a contest for school children to write something or draw something or whatever—I don’t remember any details—but I wrote a poem.

Hyphenated Festivals: Italian And Italian American Festivals, Francesca Muccini

Belmont Humanities Symposium Journal

Festivals are indigenous to virtually all human cultures. In many parts of the world they provide opportunities for individuals, regardless of class affiliations or social, religious, and political status, to interact with other community members in unified ways. Participants celebrate life in a spirit of joyous extravagance, devotion, unity, and with highly sophisticated imaginative artistry.

Apocalypse In Two Senses: Mccarthy’S No Country And The Road, Mike Awalt

Belmont Humanities Symposium Journal

The work of Cormac McCarthy has always contained apocalyptic elements. These elements become dominant motifs in two novels produced in the early 21st century – No Country For Old Men and Th e Road. These two novels imagine the nature of the apocalypse in two tenses - the present and the future. No Country For Old Men is set in the current world of our experience. Though its time is in the recent past (1982), it is still the metaphorical time of our present. It is a world marked by border difficulties, drug wars, and a changing culture. The Road …

Formalism, Realism, And Patent Scope, Tun-Jen Chiang

IP Theory

No abstract provided.

University Of Nebraska- Lincoln: Fact Book 2009-2010

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Administration: Reports, Papers, Publications, and Presentations

Fact Book Table of Contents

General Information

UNL Core Values ....................................................................... 4

Role and Mission Statement .............................................................................. 5

Institutional & Professional Accreditations ........................................................... 8

UNL Organizational Chart ............................................................................... 10

Student Credit Hours

Fall SCH Since 1979 .......................................................................... 11

SCH by College and Student Level, Fall & Spring Semesters, 5 Year Trend ...... 12

SCH by College and Student Level, Fall Semester, 5 Year Trend .................... 13

SCH by College and Student Level, Spring Semester, 5 Year Trend ................. 14

Summer Sessions Student Credit Hours ............................................ 15

Retention, Degrees and Majors

Student Retention & Graduation Rate Analysis ................................................. 16

Total Degrees …

Choreographed Cartography: Translation, Feminized Labor, And Digital Literacy In Half/Angel’S The Knitting Map, Deborah Barkun, Jools Gilson

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

The Knitting Map was a large-scale, durational textile installation by the Irish-based performance production company half/angel that took place during Cork’s year as European Capital of Culture (2005). Bringing a decade of experience with emergent technologies and art practice, half/angel developed technologies to connect the physical busy-ness of Cork City (captured via a series of CCTV cameras) with correspondingly complex knitting stitches (stitches became more complex when the city was busy), and Cork weather (captured by a weather station) to yarn color. The resulting textile was an abstract documentation of a year in the life of an Irish city, in …

Chapter 5 - The Impact Of Preservice Teachers' Experiences And Beliefs On The Learning And Teaching Of Peer Conferencing, Jacqueline P. Larose

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at EMU

When I finished drafting this chapter, I knew that it would be sent to a reviewer or two who would read it and write feedback that I would be expected to take into account when doing revisions. I would never see these reviewers and we would not have a conversation. I would not have the opportunity to ask them to clarify their comments or to focus on a part of the text that I’d found particularly challenging to write. I would not know if they had frowned over my draft or chuckled out loud or lingered over my language. I …

Chapter 4 - What Running A Class Wiki Taught Me About Teaching History, R. D. Jones Ph. D.

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at EMU

No abstract provided.

State Agency Promising Practice: Massachusetts - Using A Collaborative, Person-Centered Planning Approach To Facilitate Community Employment, Jennifer Bose, Jaimie Ciulla Timmons, Thinkwork! At The Institute For Community Inclusion At Umass Boston

ThinkWork! Publications

The Northeast Region Supported Employment Project was developed by the North Shore area office of the Massachusetts Department of Developmental Services in 2007. This pilot program, open to any individual with ID/DD who wanted to work, emphasized a person-centered planning approach to achieving the individuals’ goals for employment in the community. The project emphasized the individual’s choice of employment providers, collaboration with the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission (MRC), and use of an independent facilitator to support career and life planning. The project was spearheaded by two DDS administrators dedicated to communicating the value of community-based employment to the Department.

State Agency Promising Practice: Maryland - Collaborating To Promote Self-Employment For People With Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities, Jennifer Bose, Thinkwork! At The Institute For Community Inclusion At Umass Boston

ThinkWork! Publications

Self-employment has emerged as a viable option for individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD). To meet increased self-employment demands, Maryland’s Developmental Disabilities Administration (DDA), in collaboration with the Maryland Division of Rehabilitation Services (DORS), adapted services offered through the Reach Independence through Self Employment (RISE) program. The RISE program, funded by DORS, provides technical assistance and financial support to people starting their own businesses. DDA’s role in this self-employment initiative has helped people with IDD start a wide variety of businesses and achieve meaningful employment.

State Agency Promising Practice: Michigan’S Job Development Incentive, Jaimie Ciulla Timmons, Thinkwork! At The Institute For Community Inclusion At Umass Boston

ThinkWork! Publications

Michigan’s Department of Community Health, Mental Health and Substance Abuse Administration (MDCH) has expressed a strong desire to improve the state’s employment outcomes among people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Set against this desire is a major obstacle: Michigan is among the states hardest hit by the continuing economic recession, with the highest unemployment rate in the nation. MCDH delivers supports through local Community Mental Health Services Programs (CMHSPs). These CMHSPs not only experience differences in employment rates but also have high variability in their funding levels and structures, payment methodologies, and reimbursement mechanisms. Local CMHSPs individualize their contracts …

The Crescent And The Cross: Islamic Influence In Southern Culture, Jesse Wright

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

To a large degree, America has adopted African American culture as its own. One may hear and see African American influence in popular music, grammar, fashion and art, but rarely are the sources of these influences divined, in no small part to difficulties inherent in interdisciplinary studies. This thesis will examine the Islamic aesthetics in African American quilts. This work focuses on design and color elements and I trace Islamic influence from West Africa to the U.S. South by way of the slave trade. The original scholarship comes from in the Mississippi Delta, although this thesis also uses quilt books …

Dignity And Defamation: The Visibility Of Hate, Jeremy Waldron

Faculty Articles

In his three 2009 Holmes Lectures published here, Professor Waldron seeks to describe and defend laws forbidding group defamation — what we commonly refer to as “hate speech” — as affirming the basic dignity of each member of society. Part I defends the characterization of hate speech as group defamation. It argues that hate speech impugns its victims’ standing as equal members of society. Part II describes hate speech regulation as the protection of a fragile public good: the assurance offered by each member of society to all of its members that they can live free of fear, discrimination, violence, …

A Psychology Of Intellectual Property, Jeanne C. Fromer

Faculty Articles

The article discusses the discrepancy between patent and copyright laws in terms of protectability standards. It examines the differences between protectability in patent and copyright law and the explanations for these distinctions. It proposes that the distinctions in the protectability standards governing patent and copyright law agree with psychological findings on creativity, although it is unlikely that these findings motivated the enactment of the different standards. It presents the psychological literature on creativity.

Desegregating Legal Education, Peggy C. Davis

Faculty Articles

The Carnegie Foundation's thoughtful critique of legal education has made law faculties across the country more conscious of the responsibility we hold as we initiate people into a profession that is central to how we function as a society and how we relate to one another. Carnegie has a long tradition of holding professions accountable for how they define themselves and educate their members. It is no surprise, then, that its 2007 report on legal education triggered fresh and frank assessment of what we teach law students, how we teach it and how we measure student learning.

Constructing Commons In The Cultural Environment, Michael J. Madison, Brett M. Frischmann, Katherine J. Strandburg

Faculty Articles

This Article sets out a framework for investigating sharing and resource-pooling arrangements for information- and knowledge-based works. We argue that adapting the approach pioneered by Elinor Ostrom and her collaborators to commons arrangements in the natural environment provides a template for examining the construction of commons in the cultural environment. The approach promises to lead to a better understanding of how participants in commons and pooling arrangements structure their interactions in relation to the environments in which they are embedded, in relation to information and knowledge resources that they produce and use, and in relation to one another. Some examples …

Relative Doubt: Familial Searches Of Dna Databases, Erin E. Murphy

Faculty Articles

The continued growth of forensic DNA databases has brought about greater interest in a search method known as 'familial" or "kinship" matching. Whereas a typical database search seeks the source of a crime-scene stain by making an exact match between a known person and the DNA sample, familial searching instead looks for partial matches in order to find potential relatives of the source. The use of a familial DNA search to identify the alleged "Grim Sleeper" killer in California brought national attention to the method, which has many proponents. In contrast, this Article argues against the practice of familial searching …

Criminal Analysis And The Effect On Police Decision Making, Deanna T. Dimartino

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Shysters, Gods And Monsters : How The Symbols Of Journalists In Film Altered Their Image In Reality, Alex Beene

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Spreading A Positive Message About Work, Earnings And Benefits Through Peer Networking: Findings From The Peer Employment Benefits Network, Jennifer Sullivan Sulewski, Rick Kugler, John Kramer

All Institute for Community Inclusion Publications

Misunderstanding and fears about the impact of earnings on benefits represent a significant barrier in the return-to-work efforts of people with disabilities. This pilot project evaluated an approach to spreading a positive message about work and dispelling myths about the effects of work on Social Security benefits through outreach and networking in the disability community. A peer leadership project was developed by enlisting 33 people with disabilities, mainly through disability advocacy organizations, who had experience with disability benefits. They received several days of basic training about work incentives, networking strategies, and community resources that support employment. These peer leaders then …