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The Role Of Men In Gender Equality_Eire Report, Niall Hanlon

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Eire Report for the study The Role of Men in Gender Equality European strategies & insights

A Consideration Of Theory, Principles And Practice In Collaborative Archaeology, George P. Nicholas, Amy Roberts, David M. Schaepe, Joe Watkins, Lyn Leader-Elliot, Susan Rowley

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

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Off The Beaten Path: Obstacles To Success In A Community-Based Conservation And Ecotourism Project In Ankarana, Madagascar, Ashley Marie Patterson

Digitized Theses

This thesis examines a Community-Based Conservation and Ecotourism (CBET) project, known by the acronym KOFAMA (Kopa’beny Fikambanana Ankarabe Mitsinjo Arivo), operating in northern Madagascar. Developed in 2007 by local residents and a Peace Corps volunteer, KOFAMA was designed to foster community cohesion and participation, while creating awareness of environmental conservation in rural areas. In this thesis I address some of the obstacles that have faced those involved in the planning and execution of this project. Through ethnographic research and in-depth comparisons with other community-based projects operating in Madagascar and around the globe, I argue that although community dynamics play a …

Urban Agriculture As A Place-Making Project In Havana And Detroit, Aaron Lawrence

Digitized Theses

Practices of urban agriculture in Detroit have been variously represented as a response to

economic crisis or as the emergence of a new green capitalism. In Havana, representations of similar practices also frame it as a response to economic crisis and highlight the role of the Cuban state in initiating and supporting the activity. Such representations submerge existent diversity and the potential for commonalities in perceptions and motivations across difference. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Havana and Detroit, this thesis argues that practices of urban food production across different national contexts can be understood as place-making projects, exemplary of …

An Examination Of Vertebral Compression Fractures In A Pre­ Columbian Peruvian Population, Alyson Jaagumagi

Digitized Theses

Skeletal remains recovered from the Late Horizon Inca site of Farfân on the North Coast of Peru showed high prevalence of vertebral wedge deformities in all age categories. This thesis employs a multi-method approach to the identification of the vertebral wedge deformities, through the use of three non-destructive methods. Among myriad possible causes considered, two potential conditions, osteopenia and Scheuermann’s Kyphosis, were identified through the use of differential diagnosis. However, differentiation between these conditions required the analysis of bone mineral density (BMD) and microarchitectural changes. Three imaging modalities, dual-energy x- ray absorptiometry (DXA), micro-computed tomography (microCT) and

radiogrammetry, were employed …

Testing The Efficacy Of Aspartic Acid Racemization For Aging Adult Human Skeletal Remains, Mathew Teeter

Digitized Theses

Few problems have confounded bioarchaeological research as that of aging older (> 40 years) adult human skeletons. Researchers have targeted virtually every area of the skeleton and dentition in order to develop sequences of morphological and microscopic changes that can be correlated with chronological age. The key problem is that the morphological and microscopic changes are more variable with increasing age and this variance reduces their correlation with chronological years. In the past three decades molecular research has impacted virtually every research area in bioarchaeology except aging. The main objective of this thesis is to test aspartic acid racemization in …

Language Change And Value Orientations In Chinese Culture, Xing Lu, Guo-Ming Chen

Communication Studies Faculty Publications

We contend in this paper that language shapes as well as reflects social reality, thought patterns, and value/belief systems of a culture. We substantiate our claim by closely examining Chinese family value orientations and their relationships with language expressions. The linguistic features and cultural implications of the value orientations are explicated. We further investigate the impact of changes in the use of language on the social reality and thought patterns of Chinese culture. We conclude that language and culture are intertwined. The interplay between language and culture creates infinite discursive possibilities and multi-dimensional and ever changing human experiences. [China Media …

Multicultural Literature, Literally!, Stan Steiner, Maggie Chase, Eun Hye Son

Literacy, Language and Culture Faculty Publications and Presentations

This article is titled multicultural literature literally because we wanted to focus on literature that reflects diversity in the pictures and story lines. We felt it was important to call librarians’ and teachers’ attention to some of these books because they reflect the natural interactions across race that occur with our children and adults. The books we refer to may have the ability to break down racial discrimination in their own subtle ways if we have them available in our libraries or classrooms and share them with our patrons.

Bridging The “Excluded Middle”: The Case Of Brazilian Evangelical Missionaries Serving Among Arab-Muslims, Edward L. Smither

Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary (1973-2015)

Since Paul Hiebert first challenged missiological reflection with his notion of the “excluded middle,” missiologists and practitioners from the West have been forced to face the deficiencies of a rationalistic worldview; especially when serving in animistic contexts. Hiebert, Bill Musk, Rick Love, and others have further asserted that Western missionaries serving among Folk Muslims need to be better equipped to minister to the felt needs of their host peoples. While the literature and evidence of missionary practice suggest that North Americans and Europeans are working hard to climb “learning curve” dealing with this worldview. Missionaries from Brazil serving among Arab-Muslims …

Missão Integral [Holistic Mission Or The ‘Whole Gospel’] Applied: Brazilian Evangelical Models Of Holistic Mission In The Arab-Muslim World, Edward L. Smither

Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary (1973-2015)

In this article, I will first show the historical development of this theological approach within the Brazilian and Latin American evangelical spheres through the work of the Latin American Theological Fraternity – a movement founded in 1970 that maintained historic evangelical values (i.e. a high view of Scripture, the necessity of conversion) whilst also taking Latin America’s great social needs into account. Nurtured by thinkers such as René Padilla (Ecuador), Orlando Costas (Puerto Rico), Samuel Escobar (Peru), and later Valdir Steuernagel (Brazil), the movement has not only responded to the concerns raised by Liberation theologians, but it has also influenced …

Between Reason And Faith: Breaking The Status Quo In Bram Stoker’S Dracula, Erin Newcomb

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.

Issue No. 86: January 2011, Historical Society Of New Mexico

La Crónica de Nuevo México

1 Frank Lloyd Wright Visited University of New Mexico Campus
1 We Are Born at a Time
6 Alfonso Ortiz, 1939-1997
6 Mescalero
6 In Memoriam
7 From Our President
7 Membership Benefits Historical Society of New Mexico
8 Books, Open Range: The Life of Agnes Morley Cleaveland
8 New Books for Your New Mexico History Bookshelves

Medicinal Garden In Peru, Crystal Galarza '13

Linfield Magazine

Charlotte Trowbridge '10 and Josh Ness '11 dug in and got their hands dirty when they led a binational team effort to create a medicinal garden at the ancient Chimu site of Chan Chan, Peru, last summer.

My Name Is Kate And I Am Your Teacher, Laura Davis

Linfield Magazine

Much has changed for Kate Peterson '09 in recent months. She answers to "Kiria," Greek for female teacher. She sports an olive branch crown on special occasions, most recently her birthday. And she takes in stride goat heads when they're served in the school cafeteria.

Faculty Endowment Creates Opportunity, Linfield Magazine Staff

Linfield Magazine

When Amy Orr learned she had been selected as the first George A. Westcott III Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Linfield College, she was both honored and flabbergasted. Honored to be selected to serve in the first endowed faculty position established at Linfield in decades. And flabbergasted to learn that it carried with it an increase in compensation and funding not only for professional development, but also for hiring a student research assistant.

Common Factors That African American Adults Attribute To Their Graduation From A Predominantly African American Midwestern School District: A Case Study, Adriennie Yvette Hatten

ETD Archive

This qualitative research study examines the reflections of African American adults on their high school journey to graduation in the late 20th Century from one Midwestern public school district where African- American students represented the majority of the student body. The particular emphasis of this study was to identify common factors that the participants perceive as critical to their own high school graduation, as the measure of academic success and lifelong learning. This dissertation addresses two research questions through the methodology of narrative inquiry: 1) what are the experiences of the African American adults who were educated in the same …

Design Of An Implant For First Metatarsophalangeal Joint Hemiarthroplasty, Atul Kumar

ETD Archive

Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common form of arthritis and it affects 27 million US adults. OA disease involves all of the tissues of the diarthrodial joint and ultimately, may lead to softening, ulceration, loss of articular cartilage, sclerosis and polished appearance of the subchondral bone, osteophytes, and subchondral cysts. The first metatarsophalangeal joint (MTPJ1) is affected in up to 42 cases of OA. Besides osteoarthritis, other conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis and gout also affect the MTPJ1. Involvement of MTPJ1 with these conditions invariably leads to deformed toe such as hallux valgus and hallux rigidus. Over 150 surgical techniques …

Taking Sides, But Who’S Counting? The Decagonal Tomb Tower At Maragha

Textile Research Works

Lu and Steinhardt introduced the term “girih tiles” to describe the set of equilateral polygons that structures a colorful two-dimensional decagonal tiling on the Darb-e Imam in Isfahan, Iran (1453 CE) with distant roots in the five-fold symmetries articulated in brick on the Gonbad-e Qabud, a tomb tower dated to the late 12th century CE located at Maragha in western Iran. Their work seeks to establish the early existence of quasi-crystalline tilings long before such means of covering the plane were understood mathematically in the West. Questions remained unanswered as to whether those who constructed these monuments were aware of …

Cultivating The Next Generation Of International Digital Government Researchers: A Community-Building Experiment, Natalie Helbig, Sharon S. Dawes, Meghan E. Cook, Jana Hrdinova

Center for Technology in Government

5th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV2011), Mon, 26 Sep 2011.Over the last two decades universities and post-secondary education policies have addressed globalization trends by internationalizing curricula and articulating global concern in their missions. This paper presents an evaluation of an international training program for early-career digital government researchers, designed to develop their interest and skill in cross-cultural, multidisciplinary, and practice-oriented research. The program overall appears to stimulate participants’ individual creativity, scholarly productivity, and professional networks, while broadening their appreciation for work that investigates internationally important topics and involves not only multidisciplinary but multicultural teams. The …

Become The Change Newsletter For January 2011, Center For Nonviolence And Peace Studies

Center for Nonviolence & Peace Studies

The January 2011 issue of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies newsletter, Become the Change, is a periodical with articles written by faculty, ongoing research projects, upcoming course offerings and Center events.

The Nature And Origins Of Dually Diverse Neighborhoods, Jackie Michelle Cutsinger

Wayne State University Dissertations

This study investigates the extent to which neighborhoods that are both racially and economically diverse, hereafter referred to as dually diverse neighborhoods, exist within the metropolitan landscape of the United States and what factors contribute to the emergence of such neighborhoods. Using the Neighborhood Change Database, this study defines what a diverse neighborhood is and gives a descriptive portrait of the characteristics of these neighborhoods. The entropy index (H) is used as the measure of neighborhood diversity because of its ability to take into account the presence of more than two groups, unlike other more commonly used measures of segregation …

Collective Identification In Arab American Emerging Adults: Does Affirmation To Ethnic, National, Family And Religious Groups Predict Positive Adjustment?, Mona K. Poinsett

Wayne State University Dissertations

There has been little work investigating multiple social identities, though an individual can identify with several groups (Kiang, Yip, & Fuligni, 2008). The aim of this study is to investigate the relationships among theoretically significant ingroup identifications and their contributions to adjustment in Arab American emerging adults. The Inclusion of the Ingroup in Self (IIS) measure and the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure - Revised (MEIM-R) were adapted to measure affirmation to ethnic, national (American), family, and religious groups. The results indicate that a pure model of pure affirmation could not be supported - it may be important to consider exploration …

Rendering Borders Obsolete: Cross-Cultural And Cultural Psychology As An Interdisciplinary, Multi-Method Endeavor, Franziska Deutsch, Mandy Boehnke, Ulrich KüHnen, Klaus Boehnke

IACCP Proceedings of the Biennial International Conferences

A peer-reviewed book based on presentations at the XIX Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2008, Bremen, Germany.

(c) 2011, International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology

Host Acculturation Orientation: Some Preliminary Impressions Of The French Students On Ethnic Minority Groups In Montpellier, S. France, Jyoti Verma

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

The objective was to study the host acculturation orientation of a sample of 100 French students of a S. France University. For this purpose a nine-items Host Acculturation Scale was used. Observations gave the impression that the students considered it significantly ‘more important’ that the immigrants maintained their heritage culture in their homes rather than doing so in general or at the workplace. Furthermore, it was considered only ‘partially important’ that the immigrants adopted the French norms, values and customs in general and at the workplace, and ‘not important at all’ that they did so in their homes. Ethnic groups …

Liturgy And Ethics, M. Therese Lysaught

Institute of Pastoral Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

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Autonomy And Care In Medicine, Hille Haker

Theology: Faculty Publications and Other Works

This paper argues that the core principle of bioethics, autonomy, is rooted both in the 20th century history of the development of new medical technologies as in political liberalism transferred to medical practices, rendering the medical decision-making of patients a centerpiece of medical interventions. The paper shows how the ambiguity in the interpretation of autonomy reflects the ambivalence of bioethics towards making normative claims on the moral agents insofar as these go beyond the respect for a patient’s autonomy. In the second part, the paper analyzes the alternative approach of care ethics, which intends to emphasize both the vulnerability and …

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State Of The Climate In 2010, Jessica Blunden, Derek S. Arndt, Molly O. Baringer

United States Department of Commerce: Staff Publications

Several large-scale climate patterns influenced climate conditions and weather patterns across the globe during 2010. The transition from a warm El Niño phase at the beginning of the year to a cool La Niña phase by July contributed to many notable events, ranging from record wetness across much of Australia to historically low Eastern Pacific basin and near-record high North Atlantic basin hurricane activity. The remaining five main hurricane basins experienced below- to well-below-normal tropical cyclone activity. The negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation was a major driver of Northern Hemisphere temperature patterns during 2009/10 winter and again in late …

Small Founding Number And Low Genetic Diversity In An Introduced Species Exhibiting Limited Invasion Success (Speckled Dace, Rhinichthys Osculus), Andrew P. Kinziger, Rodney J. Nakamoto, Eric C. Anderson, Bret C. Harvey

United States Department of Commerce: Staff Publications

Molecular evaluations of successful invaders are common, however studies of introduced species that have had limited invasion success, or have died out completely, are rare. We studied an introduced population of speckled dace (Rhinichthys osculus) from northern California, USA that has rapidly increased in abundance but remained restricted to a 25-km stretch of river since its introduction in the mid-1980s. Field and laboratory analyses indicate that invasion success of speckled dace is constrained by the combined effects of multiple predators. The role of bottleneck effects associated with the introduction has not been studied. We assayed variation in seven …

Creating A Culture For Leading And Performing In The Extreme, Donald H. Horner Jr, Luann P. Pannell, Dennis W. Yates

United States Army: Publications

By early 2008 in the Iraq War, the positive effects of the U.S. "surge" had started to become visible in the streets of Baghdad, as shops began to reopen and people again filled the streets.1 Despite these outwardly positive appearances, a sinister undercurrent flowed through the population. Rumors ran rampant in Iraqi military and government circles that the radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army was about to launch an offensive against the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a fellow Shiite, because of Sadr's unhappiness with his waning political influence.

In the neighborhood of Zafaraniyah, in Baghdad's southeastern quadrant, Sadrist …