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2015 Author Recognition Bibliography, Grand Valley State University

Author Recognition

No abstract provided.

Halmos College Of Natural Sciences And Oceanography Graduate Program Catalog, Nova Southeastern University

Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

The Isom Report - Spring 2015, Jaime Harker, Theresa Starkey

Isom Report

The official newsletter of the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies. The first issue of reformatted/rebranded "The Isom Report."

Displacing And Disrupting: A Dialogue On Hmong Studies And Asian American Studies, Hui Wilcox, Louisa Schein, Pa Der Vang, Monica E. Chiu, Juliana Hu Pegues, Ma Vang

English

This article summarizes a roundtable discussion of scholars that took place at the Association for Asian American Studies Conference in San Francisco, 2014. Hailing from various academic disciplines, the participants explored the relationship between the emerging field of Hmong/Hmong American Studies and Asian American Studies. Questions of interest included: In what ways has Asian American Studies informed Hmong/Hmong American Studies, or failed to do so? In what ways does Hmong/Hmong American Studies enrich/challenge Asian American Studies? What are the tensions between these two fields and other related fields? How do/should the new programs in Hmong/Hmong American Studies relate to the …

Mesa Verde Vegetal Survey, Stanley L. Welsh

Books by Faculty of the Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum

Abstract

This write-up is mainly concerned with plant specimens recovered and examined from major prehistoric cliff dwellings being excavated during the Wetherill Mesa Project. It also includes anecdotes from the author’s experiences in Mesa Verde. An overall summary of the species identified is presented at the end of this work, including suggestions as to how plants may have been used based on modern Native American surveys.

Table of Contents

Preface

Prologue

Introduction

Wetherill Mesa

Climate

Collections

Identification

Modern Plant Assemblage

Contemporary Species Compliment

Archeological Plant Assemblage

Plant Species Recovering from the Major Ruins

Kinds of Plant Materials Recovered

Wood-worked Items …

Cooking, Creativity, And Culture: An Analysis Of The Meaning Of Cooking, Ashley Mcilroy

First Class: A Journal of First-Year Composition

No abstract provided.

A Culture That Aspires, A Culture That Inspires: A Case Study Analysis Of The Calvin College Philosophy Department, Hannah M. Adderley

Master of Arts in Higher Education (MAHE) Theses

This study explored both the history and current practices of the Calvin College philosophy department with the intention of forming an assessment of a successful, reputable academic department. The purpose of the study was to determine what characteristics of this department’s culture could be adapted and implemented to enrich other academic departments across varying disciplines and institutional types. To capture the essence of this productive departmental culture, the researcher conducted semi-structured interviews with 25 participants connected to the department; these participants included current students, past and present faculty, program assistants, a former provost, and a local educational historian. Results indicated …

"Grace To Be Born And To Live As Variously As Possible": Tracing The Influence Of The Visual And Performing Arts On The Poetry Of Frank O'Hara, Elizabeth Grice

Honors Thesis Collection

My thesis traces the influence of the three peripheral art forms on Frank O'Hara's poetry—visual art, cinema, and music. Jumping in and out of abstraction through catalogues that capture New York City as gritty and gilded, O'Hara diverts attention away from the heightened emotional state of the narrator. He additionally channels the fragmentary nature of Abstract Expressionism, jump cuts, and improvisational jazz. By the time of his death at the ripe age of forty, O'Hara produced a body of work as multifaceted as his artistic interests.

L'Image De L'Anthropologue Français À Travers Les Siècles (1771-2006), Isabella Lettere

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Ethics Of Access In Displaced Archives, Samantha R. Winn

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

This paper presents an exploratory review of archival literature on access to displaced archives. In order to understand the ethical imperatives that govern access to displaced archives, archivists must navigate a complex web of competing moral claims, contradictory legal frameworks, shifting national security norms, and customary practices that reflect centuries of colonization, occupation, and conquest. In the absence of either rigorous professional engagement or a clear ethical framework, institutions managing displaced archives may establish policies that unnecessarily restrict access, violate the values of the creators, privilege certain groups of users over others, or inflict harm upon members of the originating …

2015-2016 Lindenwood University Undergraduate Course Catalog, Lindenwood University

Course Catalogs

Lindenwood University Undergraduate Course Catalog

Book Review: Science, Reason, Modernity: Readings For An Anthropology Of The Contemporary, David B. Levy

Touro University Libraries Publications and Research

The author reviews the book Science, Reason, Modernity: Readings for an Anthropology of the Contemporary.

Book Review: Nature, Human Nature, And Human Difference: Race In Early Modern Philosophy, David B. Levy

Touro University Libraries Publications and Research

The author reviews the book Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference: Race in Early Modern Philosophy.

The Ecology, Biogeochemistry And Phylogeny Of Methane Seep And Non-Seep Benthic Foraminifera From The Pacific Margin, Ashley M. Burkett

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In an effort to understand the relationships between active methane seep and adjacent non-seep (inactive) populations of the deep-sea foraminifera Cibicidoides wuellerstorfi, a common paleo-indicator species, from methane seeps in the Pacific were analyzed and compared to one another for genetic similarities of small subunit rDNA (SSU rDNA) sequences. Pacific Ocean C. wuellerstorfi were also compared to those collected from other localities around the world (based on 18S gene available on Genbank, e.g., Schweizer et al., 2009). Results from this study revealed that C. wuellerstorfi living in seeps near Costa Rica and Hydrate Ridge are genetically similar to one another …

Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Was Inversely Associated With 3-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Chinese Oldest Old: Data From The Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey, Yue-Bin Lv, Zhao-Xue Yin, Choy-Lye Chei, Han-Zhu Qian, Virginia Byers Kraus, Juan Zhang, Melanie Sereny Brasher, Xiao-Ming Shi, David Bruce Matchar, Yi Zeng

Sociology and Anthropology Faculty Publications

Objective: Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) is a risk factor for survival in middle-aged individuals, but conflicting evidence exists on the relationship between LDL-C and all-cause mortality among the elderly. The goal of this study was to assess the relationship between LDL-C and all-cause mortality among Chinese oldest old (aged 80 and older) in a prospective cohort study.

Methods: LDL-C concentration was measured at baseline and all-cause mortality was calculated over a 3-year period. Multiple statistical models were used to adjust for demographic and biological covariates.

Results: During three years of follow-up, 447 of 935 participants died, and the overall all-cause …

The Evolution Of Difficult Childbirth And Helpless Hominin Infants, Holly M. Dunsworth, Leah Eccleston

Sociology and Anthropology Faculty Publications

Because of the implications for behavioral, social, and cultural evolution, reconstructions of the evolutionary history of human parturition are driven by two main questions: First, when did childbirth become difficult? And second, does difficult childbirth have something to do with infant helplessness? Here we review the available evidence and consider answers to these questions. Although the definitive time frame remains unclear, childbirth may not have reached our present state of difficulty until fairly recently (

Virginia Commonwealth University Courses [2015], Virginia Commonwealth University

VCU Bulletins

Listing of courses for the 2015-2016 academic year.

The Inclusion Of Women’S Health In Sustainable Medical Mission Trip Models: A Pa Student’S Perspective, Jillian G. Goles

VA Engage Journal

Like many disadvantaged countries around the world, Nicaragua is visited by numerous medical missions each year. The efficacy of these missions relies on the organization’s relationship with the communities they serve. Although the general goal of all medical missions is to ultimately help underserved populations, many missions inadvertently do harm. Two critical causes of such inadvertent harm are lack of sustainable practices and failure to form a long-term relationship with the communities. Shenandoah University’s Physician Assistant Program has worked tirelessly to form an ideal medical mission model and relationship with El Ayudante, a local non-government humanitarian organization, and the local …

The Culture Of Mass Incarceration: Why “Locking Them Up And Throwing Away The Key” Isn’T A Humane Or Workable Solution For Society, And How Prison Conditions And Diet Can Be Improved, Melanie Reid

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.

Deification In Cassian’S Conferences: Analysis Of John Cassian’S Writings On Unceasing Prayer In Conferences Nine And Ten As A Description Of Deification, Christina Beu

Theology Graduate Theses

No abstract provided.

Melvyn Hammarberg, The Mormon Quest For Glory: The Religious World Of The Latter-Day Saints, Reviewed By Richard Buonforte

Mormon Studies Review

No abstract provided.

Sacred Alliance? The Critical Assessment Of Revelation In Fichte And Kant, Tom Spencer

Religion in the Age of Enlightenment

Religion encountered a host of problems in the eighteenth century: the decline of Biblical authority, the rise of scientific skepticism, and an emerging spirit of human autonomy. Each of these developments diminished the function of religious institutions in public life, but this is not to say that religion lost its importance. Western modernity has not been able to ignore or replace Christianity- even if modernity generally cannot incorporate it. As Jonathan Sheehan observes, "secularization always is and always must be incomplete. Even as religion seems to vanish from politics and public culture, it never ceases to define the project of …

Book Review: Jacob’S Wealth: An Examination Into The Nature And Role Of Material Possessions In The Jacob-Cycle (Gen 25:19-35:29), Roger S. Nam

Faculty Publications - Portland Seminary

Excerpt: "In a revised doctoral dissertation under Drs. Ernest Lucas and Gordon Wenham (Bristol, 2008), Paul Vrolijk explores the motif of wealth in the Jacob-cycle. By analyzing the multiple references to bless ing, narrations of economic exchange and prominent regard to "the land,” Vrolijk attempts to better understand the role of material blessing in the portrayal of Jacob in hopes that such understanding can provide new perspectives on the patriarchal narratives. Vrolijk intentionally restricts his parameters: "In this study, I will limit myself to investi- gating the Jacob-cycle (Gen 25:19-55:29) and in particular the role of wealth within it” (6). …

Center For Geospatial Studies Newsletter. 2015 No.1 (January), Minnesota State University Moorhead, Center For Geospatial Studies

Geospatial Center Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Latinos And The Colorline, Clara E. Rodriguez, Nancy Lopez, Grigoris Argeros

Sociology Faculty Publications

This essay reviews the issues and current literature on how “race,” skin color, and/or phenotype operate as stratifying agents among Latinos in the United States. We review the trends and emerging issues in this area with regard to health, housing and segregation, and socioeconomic status (SES), including education and criminal justice.We do so in the context of the Census Bureau’s release of its 2010 Alternative Questionnaire Experiment (AQE) study. This 5-year study focuses on how to best ask the race question. One of the key findings of the study was that including “Hispanic/Latinos” as a race in the combined questionnaire …

Graduate Catalogue 2015-2016, Seton Hall University

Graduate Catalogues

No abstract provided.

Representation By Design: Mining The Source, Kris Heintz Nelson

Higher Education Resources

This unit is a hybrid, combining art history, studio instruction, and visual culture and has been interwoven into a freshman foundations drawing course where students are taught observational skills, use of media and process, and introduced to the creative processes of generating ideas and developing personal inquiry. The inquiry is intended to guide students to question dominant assumptions regarding representation and how artists engage in visual research.

Late Wisconsin And Holocene Landscape Change And Buried Site Potential Of Brouilletts Creek, Rebecca Taormina

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Climate, tectonics, and drainage-basin characteristics dictate the conditions that control the discharge and sediment dynamics of rivers in continental interiors. Fluvial-system response and a partial human record have been recorded in valley landscapes. Regional patterns in the timing of sedimentation in the present day Midwestern United States have been recognized in several case studies throughout the region. However, there is much more that can be done to better understand climate change and climate responses in the region and particularly along the Wabash River in Indiana and its tributary streams. This study focuses on the Late Wisconsin and Holocene landscape change …

New World Courtships: Transatlantic Alternatives To Companionate Marriage, Melissa M. Adams-Campbell

Dartmouth College Press

"The first scholarly study to recover a geographically diverse array of eighteenth and nineteenth-century countertexts that actively compare culturally diverse marriage practices from Canada to the Caribbean"--Provided by publisher.

Rights Information

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License © Trustees of Dartmouth College

The Civilian Basilian: Marshall Mcluhan And St. John Fisher College, Timothy Madigan

Philosophy and Classical Studies Faculty/Staff Publications

In lieu of an abstract, here is the chapter's first paragraph:

In 2004 I became a professor of philosophy at St. John Fisher College, a small liberal arts institution in the Rochester, New York founded in 1949 by a Catholic religious order called the Congregation of St. Basil (CSB). Some years after joining the college, while working on a project with Diane Lucas, our then-campus archivist, I was startled when she mentioned to me in passing that Marshall McLuhan’s daughter Stephanie had been doing research in our archives on her father’s work. Marshall McLuhan?! I was astonished to hear that …