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Note: Tipping Nagpra's Balancing Act: The Inequitable Disposition Of "Culturally Unidentified" Human Remains Under Nagpra's New Provision, Matthew H. Birkhold

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.

Environmental Crisis And The Paradox Of Organizing, Gregg P. Macey

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Initiatives In Context: Agricultural Productivity, Water, And The Paradox Of Ethiopia, Annie M. Cafer

Nebraska Anthropologist

This paper will look at Ethiopian policies and their effect, in most cases negative, on water issues, irrigation, and agricultural productivity in the country. Additionally, this paper will address how water issues, irrigation, and agricultural productivity affect the health of Ethiopians and the resulting food and seed aid required to help many individuals and communities survive. This paper is designed to illuminate the paradoxes Ethiopian officials, local communities, and development agencies work to solve. Many initiatives will be discussed, some in detail others more generally, and the details that render them successfitl or failures will be addressed

The Nebraska Anthropologist Volume 26 (2011) Contents

Nebraska Anthropologist

Male-Male Competition, Synchronous Estrus, and Reproductive Skew in Multimale-Multifemale Primate Groups (Michelle Night Pipe) .............................................................. 5

Variations in Arrow Technology: An Experimental Exploration of the Effectiveness of Fletching (Steven J. Sarich) .................................................................. 19

The Power of Squares: Ideology in Landscape Archaeology and the Rectangular Land Survey of the United States of America (Owen O'Reilly) ................................................................... 30

Initiatives in Context: Agricultural Productivity, Water, and the Paradox of Ethiopia (Annie M. Cafer) ................................................................... 46

The Effect of Sea Access on Economic Income Level in African Nations (Tiffany Napier) .................................................................... 64

Слышишь меня? Can you hear me now? Signaling Theory and the Cold …

Male-Male Competition, Synchronous Estrus, And Reproductive Skew In Multimale-Multifemale Primate Groups, Michelle Night Pipe

Nebraska Anthropologist

In recent years, paternity assessments utilizing DNA testing of primate populations have yielded valuable iriformation regarding reproductive skew, male-male competition and synchronous estrus. In this paper, genetic data and demographic factors of multimale multifemale primate groups including West African chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus), bonobos (Pan paniscus), savannah baboons (Papio cynocephalus), mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei), and mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) are examined and compared The revealed patterns of paternity in multi-male groups are shown to support the priority-ol-access model. The role of malemale competition in attracting females to the group is considered, as is the function of synchronous estrus in constraining …

A Reexamination Of The Nature Of Male Parental Investment, Nathan R. Sell

Nebraska Anthropologist

The role of male parental investment has recently been the subject of much research and debate in anthropology. By understanding the role of male parental care, its evolutionary development, function to the individual, and implications to the larger society, anthropologists can make better sense of observed cultural phenomena. This paper reviews the anthropological literature published on the different facets of male parental investment, and provide an overview of major trends in the research. The role of mating and parenting effort, cross-species comparisons of male parental care, and possible hormonal causations for male parental care are addressed As a proxy for …

Where Hope Takes Root, Faculty Of Arts And Sciences, East Africa

Faculty of Arts and Sciences Archives

Our Vision, A Liberal Arts Education for Africa, Inspiring Lives Educating Leaders, A Hub of Inquiry

The Politics Of Practical Reason: Why Theological Ethics Must Change Your Life, Mark Ryan

Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications

Ought we conceive of theological ethics as an activity that draws from a community's vision of human goodness and that has implications for the kind of person each of us is to be? Or, can students of the discipline map the ethical implications of what Christians confess about God, themselves, and the world while remaining indifferent to these claims? Habituated by modern moral theories such as consequentialism and deontology, Mark Ryan argues, we too often assume that Christian ethics makes no claim on the character of its students and teachers. It is rather like yet another department store within the …

Better Late Than Never? The Effect Of The Native American Graves Protection And Repatriation Acts' 2010 Regulations (Comment), Zoe Niesel

Faculty Articles

No abstract provided.

Suicide Bombing: A Geopolitical Perspective, Haider Naqvi, Syed Faraz Kazim, Shafqat Huma

Department of Psychiatry

Suicide bombing is a very complex phenomenon. It has been a focus of research in recent times. However inherent biases of researchers muddle the picture: researchers from western countries focus the issue around political liberty and notion of democracy, while those from Islamic countries tend to take the afterlife-reward notion as an incentive for suicide bombing. However in order to understand this complex phenomenon it is important to consider the contextual factors. In this review we have attempted to highlight various geopolitical factors which contribute to increased incidence of suicide bombing in South East Asia.

Taking Ownership Of Legal Outcomes: An Argument Against Dissociation Paradigm And Analytical Gaming, Liaquat Ali Khan

Saint Louis University Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Undergraduate Viewbook- 2011, Student Activities Staff

Student Handbooks

Sudent handbook

2011 Annual Report Usf St. Petersburg, Usf

USF Accountability Reports

No abstract provided.

Survey Of “Northern” Child And Maternal Health Research Being Conducted In Canada, M. H. George, Robert Armstrong

Paediatrics and Child Health, East Africa

Objectives: The purpose of the study is to better understand the scope of research being conducted by Canadian paediatric and maternal health centres on the topic of maternal child health of northern populations. In addition, the results are intended to help assess the prospects for the creation of a research network dedicated to this topic.

Study design: Questionnaire study complemented with review of database.

Methods: Data were collected using a short questionnaire with qualitative and quantitative questions. Surveys were sent by email to members of two Canadian national paediatric groups, representing 17 organizations. Supplementary information was obtained through review of …

The Place Afforded To Mary In The Initial Evangelization Of The Stone Age People Of New California, Lawrence Scrivani

Marian Studies

No abstract provided.

Focus Emu, May 10, 2011, Office Of Public Information

Focus EMU

No abstract provided.

Cultural Landscapes Of Rochester New York, Joanne Rapone

Historic Preservation Final Projects

No abstract provided.

2011 Annual Report, Office Of Research Development

ORDA Annual Reports​

No abstract provided.

Board Of Regents Meeting Materials, October 18, 2011, Eastern Michigan University

Board of Regents Meeting Materials

No abstract provided.

An Examination Of The Relationship Between School Climate And Student Growth In Select Michigan Charter Schools, Benjamin P. Jankens

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine what relationship exists between school climate and student growth in Michigan charter schools. Data were collected through the use of a school climate survey and standardized assessment results. The Organizational Climate Descriptive Questionnaire for Elementary Schools (OCDQ-RE) developed by Hoy, Tarter, and Kottkamp (1991) was used to assess teacher perceptions of school climate. Student growth data were calculated using the fall and spring reading and math results from the Performance Series test by Scantron, and the MAP test by NWEA.

The population of this study consisted of 355 teachers from 11 participating …

C. S. Lewis And René Girard On Desire, Conversion, And Myth: The Case Of Till We Have Faces, Curtis A. Gruenler

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

”Tag, You’Re It!”: Using Social Media “Tags” To Help Solve The Problem Of Church Classification In Sociology Of Religion, Steven Losco

Pitzer Senior Theses

Edited Abstract for presentation:

Categorizing humans and human activity can be difficult. In my own research on evangelical church styles in Los Angeles, I found that the services defied discreet categories. I turned to the social web for inspiration on how to categorize the services and landed on blog post “tags” as something that could give me a flexible and dynamic way to “define” the church. Briefly, tags are a set of words or phrases that users categorize anything from blog posts, books on GoodReads, website bookmarks, etc, in other words: metadata. What makes tags so potent as definition is …

"A Mother There": A Survey Of Historical Teachings About Mother In Heaven, David L. Paulsen, Martin Pulido

BYU Studies

Since the 1840s, leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) have taught that in addition to a Father in Heaven, we have a Mother in Heaven. This cherished doctrine has been an important, although relatively obscure, part of the Latter-day Saint understanding of the premortal origins and divine nature of humankind. The authors, a professor and a student of philosophy at Brigham Young University, present historical statements by Mormon leaders about Mother in Heaven. Contrary to criticism in some quarters, Church leaders have not relegated this deity to a confined role. Statements from the late 1840s …

Temple Elements In Ancient Religious Communities, Brent J. Schmidt

BYU Studies

The idea of Zion or utopia has fascinated the human race since ancient times. This topic has special meaning to Mormons, since latter-day scripture revealed to Joseph Smith is replete with references to building Zion. What, then, can Latter-day Saints learn from attempts by other groups? One thing we learn, writes Brent Schmidt, is that certain characteristics appeared in some successful ancient communities, characteristics that invoke the temple as known in the Bible and in Latter-day Saint use.

Temple teachings were known and widely dispersed throughout antiquity as a means of forming good communities within religious groups. Indeed, temple themes …

A Quantitative Study Into Grade Inflation (Perceived And Actual) In The College Of Business, Technologicl University Dublin, Derek Simon

Theses

Most academics have an opinion on the existence or otherwise of grade inflation. Some people deny the existence of grade inflation. Some argue that it is damaging to academia while some argue that it is a normal phenomenon and is not damaging while others assert that it is impossible to measure. Due to the difficulty in measurement of grade inflation this study was devised to measure firsts and distinctions to ascertain the quantity of grade inflation. This study takes a two pronged approach to discovering the real and perceived existence or otherwise of grade inflation in the College. In the …

Review Of Homay King, Lost In Translation: Orientalism, Cinema, And The Enigmatic Signifier., Ana Salzberg

Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature

Homay King, Lost in Translation: Orientalism, Cinema, and the Enigmatic Signifier. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. 205 pp. ISBN 9780822347590.

Boundary Work: An Interpretive Ethnographic Perspective On Negotiating And Leveraging Cross-Cultural Identity, Noriko Yagi, Jill Kleinberg

Scholarship and Professional Work - Business

The complexity of global organizations highlights the importance of members’ ability to span diverse boundaries that may be defined by organization structures, national borders, and/or a variety of cultures associated with organization, nation-based societal and work cultures, industries, and/or professions. Based on ethnographic research in a Japan–US binational firm, the paper describes and analyzes the boundary role performance of the firm's Japanese members. It contributes toward theory on boundary spanning by introducing a “cultural identity negotiation” conceptual framework. We show boundary spanning as a process shaped through the interplay of the contextual issues that make a boundary problematic; an individual's …

“Success Stories” As An Evidence Form: Organizational Legitimization In An International Technology Assistance Project, Cheryl Klimaszewski, Gail E. Bader, James M. Nyce

Library Staff Research and Scholarship

This paper looks at how evidence and success were constructed in Biblionet - Global Libraries Romania, an NGO-led, technology-based project in Romania. The main focus of Biblionet is to provide public access to computers and the internet in public libraries throughout Romania. Here, we discuss how project staff relied on one particular set of measures to legitimatize, validate and "sell" their project to audiences in Romania and in the West. This NGO tended to "demonstrate" success using relatively weak measures. Perhaps the most suspect of these were, paradoxically, appeals to" science," that is to say, "hard" numbers and and one-time, …

Family Relationships And Latina Teen Suicide Attempts: Reciprocity, Asymmetry, And Detachment, Lauren E. Gulbas, Luis H. Zayas, Allyson P. Nolle, Carolina Hausmann-Stabile, Jill A. Kuhlberg, Ana A. Baumann, Juan B. Peña

Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research Faculty Research and Scholarship

Using qualitative data collected from adolescent Latinas and their parents, this article describes ways in which family relationships are organized within low-income Latino families (n = 24) with and without a daughter who attempted suicide. Based on a family-level analysis approach, we present a framework that categorizes relationships as reciprocal, asymmetrical, or detached. Clear differences are identified: Families of nonattempters primarily cluster in reciprocal families, whereas families with an adolescent suicide attempter exhibit characteristics of asymmetrical or detached families. Our results highlight the need for detailed clinical attention to family communication patterns, especially in Latino families. Clinicians may reduce the …

Teaching Intersections, Not Assessments: Celebrating The Surprise Of Gift Giving And Gift Getting In The Cultural Commons, Anne Dalke, Alice Lesnick

Literatures in English Faculty Research and Scholarship

Unlike current assessment protocols, which emphasize prediction and control—often at the expense of engagement with the unknown, emergent, and new—we explore here our experiences as professors opening to surprise, in pedagogical interactions that have unpredictable outcomes. We imagine and advocate for institutional structures that, rather than predetermining goals and measuring how well we have achieved them, necessitate surprise and strengthen us to respond creatively and liberally to it. Without room for surprise, we argue, education is denied, and distorted by the loss of, one of its central energies: the circulation of the gifts of chance and serendipity.