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A Phenomenological Approach To An Aesthetic Theory Of Western Concert Dance, Lara Murphy

Open Access Theses

The goal of the paper is to develop a framework in which to ground the analysis of the aesthetics of Western concert dance, particularly contemporary concert dance, in order to help dancers, choreographers, critics, and the general dance audience understand and discuss dance from the perspective of a common intellectual ground. Examined are the relationship between epochs in concert dance and the corresponding aesthetic theories and the elements that differentiate and unify contemporary concert dance from other Western concert dance, including the unique spatiotemporal nature of dance and the simultaneous presentation of universal human-ness and individual truth via the kinesthetic …

June 15, 2011 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

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Network Polarization, Zeev Maoz

2011

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The Family: What Is To Be Done?, Scott Yenor

Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

We have seen how the logic of contract and the movement to conquer nature have resulted in a triumph of autonomy and the demise of family. The family thus stands in need of a defense. Defense of the family means defense of an institution, and that defense requires some defense of the nature that these institutions react to and reflect. This is where contemporary advocates have focused their attention. Both the modern principles—the principle of contract and the move to conquer nature—are partial truths, and it is best to understand how they each fit into a proper understanding of married …

Volume 48, Number 43: June 15, 2011, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

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A Comparative Study Of Environmentally Responsible Design Adoption By Architects, Facility Managers, And Interior Designers, Amanda Gale

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

The design and building industry has a tremendous impact on the environment that is often negative when environmentally responsible design (ERD) strategies are not adopted. The purpose of this exploratory, descriptive study was to determine the firm and practitioner characteristics that impact the adoption of ERD strategies, to ascertain practitioners’ knowledge of ERD strategies and certified products, and to document the adoption of ERD strategies using Rogers’ model of the innovation adoption process.

The web-based, national survey utilized a purposive sample of 146 architects, facility managers, and interior designers who belonged to professional organizations (AIA, IFMA, ASID, and IIDA) that …

The Current State Of Cooking In Ireland: The Relationship Between Cooking Skills And Food Choice, Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire, John Lydon

Articles

This research investigated the attitudes of Irish people to food to ascertain whether the acquisition of cooking skills influences food choice. Caraher et al. (1999) report on the state of cooking in England noted that changing lifestyles has had a significant impact upon the demand of food offerings and on the variance of domestic cooking skills. Caraher et al. (1999) found that cooking skills play an important part in healthy eating as a vehicle for lower-paid people to achieve a healthy diet and is an essential life-skill. While these discourses advance, the deficiency of inherently Irish empirical data contributed to …

Alliance Formation And Coercion In Networks, Timo Hiller

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers

This paper presents a game-theoretic model of network formation, which allows agents to enter bilateral alliances and to extract payoffs from enemies. Each pair of agents creates a surplus of one, which allies divide in equal parts. If agents are enemies, then the agent with more allies obtains a larger share of the surplus. I show that Nash equilibria are of two types. First, a state of utopia, where all agents are allies. Second, asymmetric equilibria, such that agents can be partitioned into sets of different size, where agents within the same set are allies and agents in different sets …

Natural Decrease In America: More Coffins Than Cradles, Kenneth M. Johnson

Carsey Publications

This brief summarizes recent regional patterns of natural decrease in the United States. Natural decrease occurs when more deaths than births occur in an area in a given year. The growing incidence of natural decrease has gone largely unnoticed, yet natural decrease is no longer an isolated phenomenon occurring in a few remote corners of the country. Last year, 24 percent of all U.S. counties experienced natural decrease. And, for the first time in U.S. history, deaths now exceed births in an entire state. Author Ken Johnson discusses the implications of natural decrease, as well as the impact of the …

Summer Reading Program To Highlight Diversity At Iwu, Jackie Connelly '12

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

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Religiosity And Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Latina Adolescents: Trends From 1995 To 2008, Lisa M. Edwards, Kristin Haglund, Richard J. Fehring, Jessica E. Pruszynski

College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine trends in the influence of religiosity on sexual activity of Latina adolescents in the United States from 1995 to 2008 and to determine if differences existed between the Mexican American and other Latina groups.

Methods: The sample comprised the subset of unmarried, 15–21-year-old (mean 17 years) Latina female respondents in the 1995 (n=267), 2002 (n=306), and 2006–2008 (n=400) National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) datasets. Associations between religiosity (importance of religion and service attendance) and history of ever having sex, number of sex partners, and …

Ua51 Preparing Information Literate Students At Wku: Report Of The Task Force On Universal Information Literacy, Bryan Carson Chair, John C. Gottfried, Amanda Hardin, Jonathan J. Jeffrey, Sara Mccaslin, Tammera Race, Amy J W Slowik, Wku University Libraries

Library Annual Reports, Reports, and Statistics

Purpose:

The Task Force on Universal Information Literacy was formed in the fall of 2010 and charged with reviewing the advisability and viability of providing information literacy instruction to every student at WKU.

June 13th 2011, Csusb

Coyote Chronicle (1984-)

No abstract provided.

Daughters Of The American Revolution - Samuel Davies Chapter - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 363), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 363. Records of the Samuel Davies Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes membership applications and data, minutes, yearbooks and financial records.

Division Of Labor And Marital Quality In Russia, Carol Synae Kim

Theses and Dissertations

This study examined whether investigation of the linkages between division of labor and marital quality would produce the same results in Russia that have been found in the U.S. Russian couples (n = 172) participated in the study by answering three packets of questionnaires. The Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale was used to measure each partner's rating of their levels of satisfaction with their marital relationship and their spouse. The results from the structural equation models indicated that the more the wives perceived themselves doing more and expressed dissatisfaction of their spouse's contribution to child care tasks and apartment maintenance, the …

Addressing Information Needs In Sport Management, An Interdisciplinary Field, Kendra Spahr, Stephanie Wiegand

University Libraries Publications

Sport management as a scholarly discipline is relatively new, and very few students who earn doctorates in this field go into academia, instead choosing to go into practice where salaries are much higher. Due to these circumstances, literature research in sport management is difficult for students as well as librarians, as very little primary research exists in published journals and books. This poster reviews challenges for librarians, the best information resources to support academic sport management programs, common student questions, and tangential research areas that support research in this discipline.

Investigating The Influence Of Computer Programs On Perception And Application Of Mathematical Skills, Neil M. Bly

Theses and Dissertations

Existing research suggests an intuitive relationship between mathematics and computer programming. These previous studies have focused primarily on the cognitive connection and have ignored the potential impact of programming on an individual's perception and application of mathematical skills. By surveying and interviewing a variety of participants, this study aims to provide a descriptive foundation for the experiential side of cognitive correlations and causalities. These phenomenological accounts, garnered from individual interviews of seven different programmers, indicate four specific areas of interest. First, learning to program provided context for many abstract concepts. Second, programming illustrated the important distinction between understanding the application …

2011 Commencement Program, Commencement

Commencement Archives 2010-19

The program for the Portland State University Commencement ceremony held June 12, 2011.

The Honorable Betty Roberts, J.D., received an honorary doctorate. Scott Davis, Chairman and CEO of UPS, received an honorary doctorate and delivered the commencement address.

Nurturing Students As Community Advocates, Li Yu, Michelle Kwok

Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議

No abstract provided.

Promoting Healthy Diet To Hostel Residents In University Via Integrated Learning Program With A Built-In Research For The Prevention Of Non-Communicable Diseases (Ncds), Hiu Yan, Fanny Chan, Pui Yee, Phoebe Tang

Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議

No abstract provided.

Capacity Building For Research And Evaluation : Using Service-Learning To Expand Research On Service Learning Programs, Robert Shumer

Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議

No abstract provided.

Enhancing Local Wisdom Of Low-Income Settlements In The City Of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Paulus Bawole

Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議

No abstract provided.

Motivating School Students In Service-Learning Through Happiness Points, Vincent Ng, Edith Chan

Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議

No abstract provided.

Using Service-Learning For Conducting Research : A Case Study Of A Health Profile Of Yunnan Province, China, Chun Ni, Jenny Chin

Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議

No abstract provided.

From University To Community : Through Knowledge Transfer & Sl, Cheung Ming, Alfred Chan, Pui Yee, Phoebe Tang

Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議

No abstract provided.

How The Intergration Of The Service-Learning Program Into Major Currculum Effects Students' Work : Based On The Viewpoints Of Graduates, Huei Chin Ho, Shwu Chyong Chen

Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議

No abstract provided.

Continuing The Tradition Of Volunteering, Kei Shun, Samson Wong

Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議

No abstract provided.

Service-Learning In Design : Balancing Fulfillment And Conviction, Listia Natadjaja

Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議

No abstract provided.

Case Study Of The "Little Eagle Project" : A National Service-Learning Project For Building Up A Harmonious Society In China, Philip Hui, Min Tang

Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議

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Touching Hearts Through Service Learning : The Taiwan Experience, Belen M. Sy

Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議

No abstract provided.