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Seeing Is Evolving: Biocultural Evolution Of Refractive Error And Stone Tool Industries, Erin Mcquillan-Hicks

Anthropology Undergraduate Senior Theses

While previous studies have examined different aspects of hominin Biocultural evolution and stone tools, this project will consider the role which vision might have had in tool production. Paralleling Key and Lycett's line of argument, we believe that vision would have played just as integral a role in producing an ideal cutting tool as precision gripping. If a certain type of vision was "adaptive" to stone tool synthesis, then this would explain its frequency in modern human populations. Consequently, this study will attempt to answer why there is such a significant number of individuals possessing seemingly maladaptive visual errors in …

Muslim Students In Scriptural Reasoning: Trangressive Readings Of The Qur'an, Nermeen Mouftah

Journal of Scriptural Reasoning

No abstract provided.

Theatrical Samaritans: Performing Others In Luke 10:25-37, Howard Pickett

Journal of Scriptural Reasoning

No abstract provided.

Scholarworks Statistics - August 2012, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

For the month of August 2012, ScholarWorks recorded a total of 17,305 full-text downloads and 14,822 page views.

Graduate Bulletin | 2012-2013, Jacksonville State University

Bulletins & Catalogs | Graduate

Vol. 34, No. 1 (August 2012). Jacksonville State was granted University status in 1966 and began adding graduate programs to its curriculum at that time. Graduate bulletins and catalogs contain information on the academic calendar, policies and procedures, faculty, scholarships and tuition, and degree requirements for graduate programs.

Miedo En El Navío Inestable. Navegaciones Atlánticas Hispánicas, Siglos Xv-Xvii, Vera Moyo Sordo

Traversea: The Journal of Transatlantic History

No abstract provided.

Usft Institutional Repository Annual Report: Fy 2011-2012, Rebel A. Cummings-Sauls

Digital Commons @ USF Publications

In the fall of 2011, the Academic Resources Unit of Tampa Library officially launched Scholar Commons, the University of South Florida’s (USF’s) institutional repository (IR), as a virtual showcase for research and creative energies. Scholar Commons provides digital preservation and free, open access to all scholarly works produced by the USF Community. Scholar Commons will be a vehicle to drive research communication across disciplines and the globe.

This is the first annual report of the IR at USF Tampa, however this review covers the history of the IR beginning in December of 2007. This was done so that a compare …

Graduate Catalog. 2012, Fall., University Of Mississippi. Graduate School

Catalogs

No abstract provided.

August 2012 News Releases, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.

Paper Towns: Sense Of Place In Industrial, Small-Town New England, 1869-1927, David William Deacon

History - Dissertations

After the Civil War, new technologies and business structures transformed the American economy and society. One area that has received much attention in the antebellum period but much less after the Civil War, is small town New England. In the late 1860s, the introduction of wood pulp paper technology transformed formerly small market and manufacturing communities into centers of heavy industry. This dissertation is a study of this transformation. It focuses on three communities: Bellows Falls, Vermont, Franklin, New Hampshire, and Turners Falls, Massachusetts.

This study examines four broad areas: the historical background of the towns, and townspeople's awareness of …

Quantification Of The Peroneus Longus Groove In Primate Cuboids: Implications For Ardipithecus Ramidus, Erin Jean Achilles

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Significant debate surrounds the question of locomotor pattern in the last common ancestor (LCA) of chimpanzees and humans. Traditionally, most researchers have agreed that the morphology of the LCA was similar to that of extant African apes. However, recent analyses of the foot of the possible stem hominin Ardipithecus ramidus by Lovejoy et al. (2009) suggest the earliest hominins may have possessed a locomotor pattern more similar to that of a monkey. This argument is based in part on the morphology of the groove for the peroneus longus tendon located on the cuboid bone. The orientation of this groove is …

Histomorphometric Differences In Tibial Cortical Bone Based On Sampling Location, Stepahnie Nicole Blatch

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Histomorphometric analysis of cortical bone is often used to estimate age at death of skeletons or to make inferences about mobility in past populations. Although previous studies have indicated that remodeling is variable within a single cross-section of bone, there has been little examination of the nature of these differences in the human tibia. This study investigated whether there are differences in remodeling based on sampling location in human tibiae, specifically examining inter-quadrant differences (anterior, posterior, medial, and lateral) as well as differences between periosteal, endosteal, and midcortical sampling locations. Slides of undecalcified sections of human tibiae at midshaft (N=10) …

Morphological Correlates Of Primate Hallucal Grasping, Katherine Elizabeth Goodenberger

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Primates are unusual among mammals in having a well-developed hallucal grasping mechanism. Hallucal grasping has been featured in many adaptive scenarios of primate evolution. Some authors have suggested that primates possess more powerful hallucal grasping than non-primate euarchontans and that there are variations in hallucal grasping power and grasping type among primates. In these scenarios, powerful grasping is associated with the use of different substrate size and orientation and some authors have argued that these differences should be reflected in the morphology of the hallucal metatarsal (Mt1). Using data taken from the primate behavior literature, this thesis examines the morphology …

Male-Male Competition And Loud Calls In One-Male Groups Of Simakobu (Simias Concolor), Wendy Marie Erb

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Sexual selection arises when individuals compete for access to mates, resulting in differences in reproductive success. In mammals, where females invest much more in offspring through gestation and lactation, sexual selection is usually stronger in males, whose fitness is limited by access to receptive females and who compete to monopolize them. Males can maintain exclusive access to a group of females by avoiding other groups, aggressively excluding rival males, or by herding females or defending an area in which they range. In polygynous species, male weapons, ornaments, and displays are often well developed for intrasexual competition, and males may use …

An Exploration Of African Folktales Among The Gullah Community Of The South Carolina Sea Islands : History, Culture, And Identity., Tytianna Nikia Maria Wells Smith 1987-

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is an exploration of Black cultural space and its influence on the retention, adaptation, and transmission of African folktales during and after the antebellum era. During slavery, the survival of kinship and family helped to create an environment that existed through which African folktales were used to educate and socialize children on South Carolina Sea Islands plantations. This research conducted a literary and cultural analysis of the historical and current function of ten folktales that impart moral lessons and cultural values that encourage children in Gullah communities to appreciate their African heritage and challenge the world in which …

Narrative Of Modern Chinese Masculinity In Ha Jin's Fiction., Lezhou Su

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation consists of readings of three selected novels by Ha Jin-Waiting, The Crazed, and A Free Life. These novels cover three historical periods of Contemporary China under the rule of the Communist Party in sequence-the Mao's era (1949-1976), post-Mao era (1976-1989) and post-Tiananmen Square Incident era (1989 onwards). The readings are predominated with gender issues in the literary works, particularly with the construction and representation of contemporary Chinese masculinity. Drawing mainly on the Kam Louie's theory which pins down traditional Chinese masculinity in terms of wen (literary power) and wu (physical power)-the two concepts deeply entrenched in Confucianism, the …

Extending Story Listening As A Practice Of Communal Formation At The Lake Orion Church Of Christ, Eric R. Magnusson

Doctor of Ministry Theses and Dissertations

This doctor of ministry thesis presents the results of a project that explores the potential for extending a practice of story listening as a way of forming community across social circles at the Lake Orion Church of Christ in Lake Orion, Michigan. The intervention involved guiding a group of six participant-researchers, each of whom had previous experience in story listening, through six sessions in the fall of 2011. Each phase of the project was informed by a participatory social Trinitarian theology. The first three sessions were designed to empower participant-researcher pairs to facilitate story listening groups of four to five …

The Social Bioarchaeology Of Childhood As Applied To The Analysis Of An Excavated Mid- To Late-Nineteenth-Century Mennonite Cemetery, Berne, Indiana, Jennifer L. Hildebrand

Department of Anthropology: Theses and Student Research

This thesis provides a social-bioarchaeological analysis of the Old Mennonite Cemetery (1852-1896) in Berne, Indiana, with emphasis on treatment of child burials as a reflection of Mennonite identity and beliefs. Social bioarchaeology combines the methods of both social archaeology and bioarchaeology. When applied to the study of children in a mortuary context, social bioarchaeology allows determination of cultural age categories and a fuller understanding of childhood. In this study, various forms of historical documentation were utilized to provide a social context for analysis of the cemetery. These materials revealed a collective religious identity based on practices pertaining to children, most …

Status And Prosociality In Egalitarian Societies, Zachary Garfield

Department of Anthropology: Theses and Student Research

Egalitarian societies have been the subject of significant academic attention for their unique cultural qualities, both as a representation of a distinct political category, and as a base line in the context of biological and cultural evolution. Although the domains and degrees of egalitarianism vary cross-culturally, certain characteristics seem universal. Egalitarian societies are nonstratified social systems that lack hereditary statuses with ascribed coercive power. In egalitarian societies leadership is achieved and dependent upon personal qualities and individual behavior. Leaders are granted authority but lack coercive power and rely on techniques such as persuasion to exert influence over others. Multiple theories …

Graduate Connections- August 2012

Graduate Connections: A Newsletter for UNL Graduate Students

In This Issue:

Navigating Graduate

School ............................................. 1

Time Management: How to Plan for a

Successful Semester

Treating Graduate School Like a Career

Creating a Professional Online Presence

Good Practices in Graduate

Education ........................................ 4

Fine Lines in Academic Integrity

Five Reasons to Attend Academic Integrity

Week Events

Professional Development .............. 5

Preparing to Interview at a Conference or

Convention

Teaching Blogs You Should be Reading

Teaching Tip ................................... 6

Forget the Syllabus and Let Learning

Begin

The Graduate Student Writer .......... 7

Twitter Citations in Academic Writing

Funding Opportunities ..................... 8

Events ........................................... 10

Campuswide Workshop for Graduate

Teaching …

The Functions And Consequences Of Intergroup Aggression Among Argentine Tufted Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus Apella [Sapajus] Nigritus), Clara Joann Scarry

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Intergroup encounters provide dramatic examples of cooperative behavior, in which unrelated individuals may coordinate aggression when mutual benefits arise from defending access to resources. While between-group competition over mates and resources are pivotal factors in theoretical models of the evolution of primate behavior, systematic study of these interactions has been limited due to the relative rarity of intergroup encounters and the logistical difficulties of studying multiple social groups simultaneously. Here I examine the nature and consequences of between-group competition in tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella [Sapajus] nigritus) in Iguaz?? National Park, Argentina. I followed four neighboring groups, collecting explicit measures …

Negotiating Conflicting Rhetorics: Rancheras And Documentary In The Classroom, Dora Ramirez-Dhoore

English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations

As a young teenager, I remember sitting in the back seat of my parent's car, rolling my eyes at the noise coming from the radio speakers. On the airwaves being sent directly from Texas and Florida and behind the overbearing static sound, I could make out the TAN, TAN of the ending of the rancheraⁱ song my father was singing and enjoying. My mother would be next to him singing and whistling along, ignoring the static sound that was louder than the music and that would invariably give my teenage self a headache.ⁱⁱ My sister and I, two …

Poor Women And The Protective State, Khiara M. Bridges

UC Law Journal

This Article puts poor, pregnant women’s current experience with the state into conversation with the science of prenatal and early childhood brain development and looks at the effect on women’s autonomy of government regulation of individual behaviors that may harm fetal brain development. Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork with poor, pregnant women that reveals that indigent women’s current experience with the regulatory state is one in which their autonomy is already grossly compromised, this Article argues that the infringement on vulnerable populations’ privacy rights is guaranteed should the government attempt to manage or reduce assaults on prenatal brain development through the …

Producing An Animated Tattoo Visual Effect, Zachary Trabookis

All Theses

Throughout society tattoos have established a mode of expression for individuals
that allows them to communicate without verbal means. This form of interaction may
appear somewhat static to the observer, but significant meaning and emotion are often
conveyed. With the advent of visual effects tools available today, tattoo representation
can be enhanced by including motion. This thesis presents a solution for illustrating this
form of visual communication using two-dimensional compositing and three-dimensional
techniques in a short animated film entitled '< italic>Legion.'

Journal Of Cave And Karst Studies, Volume 74, No. 2, August 2012, Table Of Contents, National Speleological Society

KIP Articles

No abstract provided.

Realistic Cultural Threat And Opposition To Immigration In The U.S., Ben Jordan Newman

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

My dissertation explores the realistic dimensions of the cultural threats posed by immigrants and their impacts upon Americans' immigration policy preferences. Cultural threat, at present, is an under-theorized concept within the opinion research on immigration. The existing literature conceptualizes the cultural threats posed by immigrants largely in terms of social identity and symbolic politics theories, where immigrants are cast as posing a collective level threat to the American identity and its related symbols. What remains largely under-developed is a theoretical and empirical exploration of the more tangible and realistically rooted cultural threats posed by immigrants to individual native born citizens. …

Ei Espacio Y La Identidad En Un Contexto Transnacional, Katherine Michelle Norris

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

La migracion transnacional ha puesto en dud a las perspectivas tradicionales sobre la migracion internacionalla cual fue caracterizada anteriormente como un cambio pennanente de residencia entre dos estados-naciones, Y la cual ultimaruente Ileva a la asimilacion en el destino del migrante. Sin embargo, en contraste a los migrantes internacionales que han sido estudiados anteriormente, los transmigrantes toman medidas, hac en decisiones, y experimentan preocupaciones conectadas con dos 0 mas sociedades simultaneamente (Mendoza, 2006). Para comprender mejor el proceso de la migracion transnacional en su contexto completo, es importante explorar y entender las causas y los efectos de la transformacion espacial …

Genetic Characteristics Of An Ancient Nomadic Group In Northern China, Haijing Wang, Lu Chen, Binwen Ge, Ye Zhang, Hong Zhu, Hui Zhou

Human Biology Open Access Pre-Prints

Nomadic populations have played a significant role in the history of not only China but also in many nations worldwide. Because they had no written language, an important aspect in the study of these people is the discovery of their tombs. It has been generally accepted that Xiongnu was the first empire created by nomadic tribe in the 3rd century B.C. However, little population genetic information is available concerning the Donghu, another flourishing nomadic tribe at the same period because of the restriction of materials until Jinggouzi site was excavated. In order to test the genetic characteristics of ancient people …

Review Of David L. Schindler’S “Ordering Love: Liberal Societies And The Memory Of God”, Jason Paul Bourgeois

Marian Library Faculty Publications

A review of book published by Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2011.

Paternal Lineage Analysis Supports An Armenian Rather Than A Central Asian Genetic Origin Of The Hamshenis, Ashot Margaryan, Ashot Harutyunyan, Zaruhi Khachatryan, Armine Khudoyan, Levon Yepiskoposyan

Human Biology Open Access Pre-Prints

The Hamshenis are an isolated geographic group of Armenians with a strong ethnic identity who, until the early decades of the twentieth century, inhabited the Pontus area on the southern coast of the Black Sea. Scholars hold alternative views on their origin, proposing eastern Armenia, western Armenia and Central Asia, respectively, as their most likely homeland. To ascertain whether genetic data from the non-recombining portion of the Y chromosome is supportive any of these suggestions, we screened 82 Armenian males of the Hamsheni descent for 12 biallelic and 6 microsatellite Y-chromosomal markers. These data were compared with the corresponding datasets …