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Paradoxes In Physical Health, Robert Crosnoe, Aida Ramos-Wada, Claude Bonazzo Jan 2015

Paradoxes In Physical Health, Robert Crosnoe, Aida Ramos-Wada, Claude Bonazzo

Faculty Publications - Department of Sociology

This chapter reviews the evidence from social science and medical research that sheds light on this potential immigrant paradox in health -- when, where, and for whom it holds or does not apply. In doing so, two important points need to be kept in mind. First, the existence of the paradox does not necessarily mean that immigrants are doing than everyone else. Rather, it means that they are doing better than social and economic positions suggest that they should be. Second, paradox may apply in general but not hold in specific domains of health for certain subgroups or at certain …

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Ethnic Identity Maintenance Within The Latino-American Church: A Structuration Perspective, Charles W. Choi, Deborah Berho Jan 2015

Ethnic Identity Maintenance Within The Latino-American Church: A Structuration Perspective, Charles W. Choi, Deborah Berho

Faculty Publications - Department of Sociology

The Latino ethnic/immigrant church plays a significant role in maintaining the ethnic identity of its congregants. Through the perspective of structuration theory, this qualitative analysis investigates how the activities of the church impact its members and how an individual might contribute to the cultural structure of the Latino church (i.e., duality of structure). Interviews of 25 pastors from Spanish-speaking congregations in both urban and rural settings in Oregon resulted in several themes including the initial planting of the church, the denominational structure, the emergence of a new multiethnic cultural identity, generational differences, and the influence of Spanish.

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Maurice Blondel: Precursor Of The Second Vatican Council, Peter J. Bernardi Sj Jan 2015

Maurice Blondel: Precursor Of The Second Vatican Council, Peter J. Bernardi Sj

Theology: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The ecclesial renewal promoted by the Second Vatican Council would not have been possible without the intrepid labors of Catholic theologians, philosophers, and pastors in the decades preceding the Council. Among these Catholic visionaries, the French Catholic philosopher Maurice Blonde! (1861-1949) rnerits special recognition. He had a decisive impact on ressourcement theologians who helped to draft the conciliar documents. Blondel's influence is especially evident in their critique of conceptual rationalism that marked the pre-conciliar scholastic manuals, in the articulation of a richer understanding of the Church's tradition, and in the Council's teaching of a unitary human destiny. Blondel's thought contributed …

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Auditors' Liability And Corporate Fraud In The Uk: Does Corporate Size And Structure Matter?, Dr. Adolfo Paolini Jan 2015

Auditors' Liability And Corporate Fraud In The Uk: Does Corporate Size And Structure Matter?, Dr. Adolfo Paolini

Journal of Business & Technology Law

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All Joking Aside: The Role Of Religion In American Jewish Satire, Jennifer Ann Caplan Jan 2015

All Joking Aside: The Role Of Religion In American Jewish Satire, Jennifer Ann Caplan

Dissertations - ALL

Jewish humor is a well-known, if ill-defined genre. The prevalence and success of Jewish comedians has been a point of pride for American Jews throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. What I undertake in this dissertation is to isolate one particular form of humor-namely satire-and use it as a way to analyze the changing relationship of American Jews to traditional religious forms. I look at the trends over three generations, the third generation (who came of age in the 40s and 50s), the Baby Boom generation (who came of age in the 60s and 70s) and the contemporary generation (who …

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The Political Economy Of Ceramic Production In Barbados: From Plantation Industry To Craft Production, Dwayne Scheid Jan 2015

The Political Economy Of Ceramic Production In Barbados: From Plantation Industry To Craft Production, Dwayne Scheid

Dissertations - ALL

This project examines archaeological, historical, and ethnographic data regarding ceramic production in Barbados during the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. The project uses multiscalar analysis, microhistory, and craft and industrial production as lenses for examining the production, distribution and use of local ceramics to explore changes in local craft production. The local production of ceramics allowed sugar plantation managers and owners to use local resources by providing ceramics used in the production of sugar which facilitated economic production on the island's plantations. Sugar pots and cones were used directly in the production of sugar and other ceramic items like tiles …

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Modulation And Interactions Of Charged Biomimetic Membranes With Bivalent Ions, Adolphe Kazadi Badiambile Jan 2015

Modulation And Interactions Of Charged Biomimetic Membranes With Bivalent Ions, Adolphe Kazadi Badiambile

Dissertations - ALL

The biological membrane of an eukaryotic cell is a two-dimensional structure of mostly phospholipids with embedded proteins. This two-dimensional structure plays many key roles in the life of a cell. Transmembrane proteins, for example, play the role of a gate for different ions (such as Ca2+). Also found are peripheral proteins that are used as enzymes for different purposes in the inner leaflet of the plasma membrane. Phospholipids, in particular play three key roles. Firstly, some members of this group are used to store energy. Secondly, the hydrophobic and hydrophilic properties inherent to phospholipids enable them to be used as …

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The Effect Of Short-Term Study Abroad On Second Language Spanish Phonetic Development, Silvina Bongiovanni, Avizia Y. Long, Megan Solon, Erik Willis Jan 2015

The Effect Of Short-Term Study Abroad On Second Language Spanish Phonetic Development, Silvina Bongiovanni, Avizia Y. Long, Megan Solon, Erik Willis

Faculty Publications

This study explores the impact of study abroad (SA) on second language Spanish phonetic development. Twenty-seven English-speaking learners of Spanish, 15 who were participating in a 4-week SA program in the Dominican Republic and 12 who were studying at their home (AH) institution, were recorded 5 weeks apart (at the approximate beginning and end of their respective programs). Recordings were analyzed acoustically, and four groups of segments were examined: word-initial /p t k/, intervocalic /b d ɡ/, intervocalic /ɾ/ and /r/, and word-final /l/. Productions at Time 1 and Time 2 as well as between the SA and AH groups …

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The Modernist Novel In Its Contemporaneity, Pamela L. Caughie Jan 2015

The Modernist Novel In Its Contemporaneity, Pamela L. Caughie

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Through the writings of Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, and Nella Larsen, this chapter considers the temporality of the now, the modernist novel in its contemporaneity, to show how the ambient environment of daily life takes shape in, and shapes, the modernist novel.

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White Woods And Blue Jasmine: Woody Allen Rewrites A Streetcar Named Desire, Verna Foster Jan 2015

White Woods And Blue Jasmine: Woody Allen Rewrites A Streetcar Named Desire, Verna Foster

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The film's reviewers almost invariably commented on the parallels with Streetcar, many noting, too, that Cate Blanchett, who plays the title character, Jasmine, had also successfully played Blanche Dubois in Liv Ullmann's 2009 production of the play at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.2 But for all the similarities in character types and plot structure and for all the allusions to specific lines in Streetcar, the themes of Blue Jasmine are very different from those of Williams's play because the story that Allen tells also channels the fall of Bernie Madoff and his wife, Ruth. The flashbacks are a filmic equivalent …

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Raising Pan Americans: Early Women Activists Of Hemispheric Cooperation, 1916–1944, Dina Berger Jan 2015

Raising Pan Americans: Early Women Activists Of Hemispheric Cooperation, 1916–1944, Dina Berger

History: Faculty Publications and Other Works

This article examines the early years of the Pan American Round Table (PART), a women’s group founded in Texas in 1916 that internationalized to Latin America by 1928. While men built bridges and highways that connected the United States and Latin America, women of the PART built metaphorical ones of friendship and understanding. They acted as agents of “soft” diplomacy reshaping Pan Americanism, a U.S. foreign policy goal intended to foster commercial and political ties and to spread democracy in Latin America. Their activist work on behalf of Pan Americanism became a vehicle for personal and community enrichment: through education …

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Discovery, Prevalence, And Persistence Of Novel Circular Single-Stranded Dna Viruses In The Ctenophores Mnemiopsis Leidyi And Beroe Ovata, Mya Breitbart, Bayleigh Benner, Parker Jernigan, Karyna Rosario, Laura Birsa, Rachel Harbeitner, Sidney Fulford, Carina Graham, Anna Walters, Dawn Goldsmith, Stella Berger, Jens Nejstgaard Jan 2015

Discovery, Prevalence, And Persistence Of Novel Circular Single-Stranded Dna Viruses In The Ctenophores Mnemiopsis Leidyi And Beroe Ovata, Mya Breitbart, Bayleigh Benner, Parker Jernigan, Karyna Rosario, Laura Birsa, Rachel Harbeitner, Sidney Fulford, Carina Graham, Anna Walters, Dawn Goldsmith, Stella Berger, Jens Nejstgaard

Marine Science Faculty Publications

Gelatinous zooplankton, such as ctenophores and jellyfish, are important components of marine and brackish ecosystems and play critical roles in aquatic biogeochemistry. As voracious predators of plankton, ctenophores have key positions in aquatic food webs and are often successful invaders when introduced to new areas. Gelatinous zooplankton have strong impacts on ecosystem services, particularly in coastal environments. However, little is known about the factors responsible for regulating population dynamics of gelatinous organisms, including biological interactions that may contribute to bloom demise. Ctenophores are known to contain specific bacterial communities and a variety of invertebrate parasites and symbionts; however, no previous …

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Multidimensional Metrics For Estimating Phage Abundance, Distribution, Gene Density, And Sequence Coverage In Metagenomes, Ramy Aziz, Bhakti Dwivedi, Sajia Akhter, Mya Breitbart, Robert Edwards Jan 2015

Multidimensional Metrics For Estimating Phage Abundance, Distribution, Gene Density, And Sequence Coverage In Metagenomes, Ramy Aziz, Bhakti Dwivedi, Sajia Akhter, Mya Breitbart, Robert Edwards

Marine Science Faculty Publications

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The Importance Of Humour In Educational Staffrooms, Kmita Maria Jan 2015

The Importance Of Humour In Educational Staffrooms, Kmita Maria

Plymouth Institute of Education Theses

Staffroom humour constitutes an integral part of teachers’ workplace culture and contributes to the quality of workplace relationships, yet it remains under-researched in the field of educational research. This thesis explores the importance of humour in relationships between teachers and its meaning for the overall workplace culture. This research has two foci; one intended and one acquired. Originally this research was set up to investigate staffroom humour in three educational settings. However, humour between participants and I became another focus of the research. Therefore, apart from exploring how staff use humour in the staffroom and what influences staffroom humour, this …

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What Is Love In Nursing Care? A Qualitative Study, Tracie North Jan 2015

What Is Love In Nursing Care? A Qualitative Study, Tracie North

School of Nursing and Midwifery Theses

Abstract What is love in nursing care? A qualitative study Recent failures in care highlighted through documents such as the Frances report have pointed to lack of kindness, respect and dignity in patient care and lack of professionalism. As a consequence, nurse education has come under the microscope, with questions about the potential to teach nurses compassion. The demonstration of these values were once, perhaps, more tangible and overt in nurse training and nursing care. The expression ‘tender loving care’ was used as an expression of nursing intervention, which often gave comfort and confidence to patients and their loved ones. …

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Being A Judge In The Modern World, Lady Justice Hallett Lady Justice Hallett Jan 2015

Being A Judge In The Modern World, Lady Justice Hallett Lady Justice Hallett

The Plymouth Law and Criminal Justice Review

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The Common Agricultural Policy: An Adequate Means Of Supporting Biodiversity And Ecosystem Services Within The European Union?, Annie Martyn Jan 2015

The Common Agricultural Policy: An Adequate Means Of Supporting Biodiversity And Ecosystem Services Within The European Union?, Annie Martyn

The Plymouth Law and Criminal Justice Review

This research presents a critical analysis of the 2013 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reforms and their ability to support the European Union in reaching its target of halting biodiversity loss by 2020 and to preserve and restore ecosystem services. In light of the link between agriculture and its negative effects on the environment, the role of the CAP will be examined. In particular, this paper will focus on the tension between the ambition set out in the Policy to provide sufficient economic support to farmers and the EU-wide focus to prevent further environmental damage caused by agriculture, and whether, in …

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Jus Cogens: The History, Challenges And Hope Of 'A Giant On Stilts', Stefano Congui Jan 2015

Jus Cogens: The History, Challenges And Hope Of 'A Giant On Stilts', Stefano Congui

The Plymouth Law and Criminal Justice Review

This article broadly engages with international law and human rights protection. Its focus is on jus cogens, but it also considers universal jurisdiction and erga omnes. In its examination of jus cogens, this article analyses its history, trajectory and philosophical underpinnings.

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From Civil War To Ebola: Justice And Legal Education In Sierra Leone, Hugo Derijke Jan 2015

From Civil War To Ebola: Justice And Legal Education In Sierra Leone, Hugo Derijke

The Plymouth Law and Criminal Justice Review

No abstract provided.

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Europeanization, Environmental Policy And The Uk, Analyzing Perspectives Of Offshore Wind Farms And Planning Procedures, Samantha Loveridge Jan 2015

Europeanization, Environmental Policy And The Uk, Analyzing Perspectives Of Offshore Wind Farms And Planning Procedures, Samantha Loveridge

The Plymouth Law and Criminal Justice Review

Sustainable development is an important principle for improving human life and ensuring the wellbeing of the planet. It posits a desirable future for human societies in which living conditions and resource-use meet human needs, without undermining the sustainability of natural systems and the environment, so that future generations may also have their needs met. It ties together concerns for the capacity of natural systems and challenges faced by humanity which concentrates on a balance between social, economic and environmental variables in relation to current and future existence. To accomplish a successful balance of these variables a transition is required which …

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Life After Death, Louis Blom-Cooper Sir Jan 2015

Life After Death, Louis Blom-Cooper Sir

The Plymouth Law and Criminal Justice Review

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High Times: An Ethnography Of Young Adult Drug Use, Ben Coombe Jan 2015

High Times: An Ethnography Of Young Adult Drug Use, Ben Coombe

The Plymouth Law and Criminal Justice Review

This research explores the phenomenon of 'legal highs' or Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS), directing substantial focus towards the exploration of user attraction. Whilst legal high research is expanding, the topic of legal highs still remains a relatively under-researched topic. In particular, research concerning the user is in short supply, as policy makers remain detached from the importance of understanding the attraction for users (Winstock and Ramsey, 2010). Therefore, this paper attempts to capitalise in the expansion of this knowledge and discover what reasons users attribute for the use of these psychoactive substances. A comprehensive review of the current literature has …

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The Historical Background Of The Relationship Between Foreign Nationals And Crime: A Case Study Of Irish Criminality In The Uk, Khamael Al-Faris Jan 2015

The Historical Background Of The Relationship Between Foreign Nationals And Crime: A Case Study Of Irish Criminality In The Uk, Khamael Al-Faris

The Plymouth Law and Criminal Justice Review

Historically, immigrants from different parts of the world were welcomed to Britain and at times even seduced into coming to live and work here. However, when their population increased, or other issues of the time were connected to their presence in the country, political and public concerns began to emerge in relation to demographics, health, the economy and crime.2 This paper will explore the temporal aspects of connecting foreign nationals to different non-immigration criminal offences by tracking the historical role of immigration policy and political debates in immigrant criminality in order to understand the background to this issue, which has …

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Liberty And Security In The Age Of Terrorism: Negotiating A New Social Contract, Ifeolu Tokimi Jan 2015

Liberty And Security In The Age Of Terrorism: Negotiating A New Social Contract, Ifeolu Tokimi

The Plymouth Law and Criminal Justice Review

The prevalent rise in terrorism related attacks and the susceptibility of the State to such attacks has, in an effort to counter future threats and neuter the ability of terrorists, brought to the fore the tensions between liberty and security. Ironic as it might seem the values that made western democracies the shining examples of free and rules governed societies are the same values that provide fertile ground for planning and executing horrific acts of terror. Taking a historical look at the concepts of security and liberty, this paper aims to understand if these ideals can still co-exist in a …

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The Illustrious House Of Hanover, Ann Lyon Jan 2015

The Illustrious House Of Hanover, Ann Lyon

The Plymouth Law and Criminal Justice Review

The Hanoverian kings have attracted none of the affection the popular imagination accords to the Tudors and Stuarts, still less the romanticism. They are dismissed as a boorish bunch of Germans, with the possible exception of George III, who went mad and lost America, and perhaps George IV, who left the Brighton Pavilion as a monument to extravagance and had a decidedly colourful matrimonial history. When a reporter described the Queen as a 'scowly, jowlly Hanoverian', he was not being complimentary, and even Diana Princess of Wales once attributed many of her problems to marrying into a 'German' family. The …

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The Geomorphological Development Of Ephemeral And Relict River Valley Systems In The North Part Of The Iraqi Western Desert, Waleed Hamed Jan 2015

The Geomorphological Development Of Ephemeral And Relict River Valley Systems In The North Part Of The Iraqi Western Desert, Waleed Hamed

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

This research project provides a geomorphological and geological analysis of ephemeral and relict river valley systems in the north part of the Iraqi Western Desert. The area surveyed covers approximately 30 000 km2 and is one of the remotest and least studied parts of the Arabian Peninsula. Part of the reason for the lack of research in this area in recent years has been the ongoing security problems and all fieldwork undertaken for this thesis was carried out with the support of armed guards and police. In addition much of the work on the geology and geomorphology of the region …

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Using Ocean Bottom Pressure From The Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment (Grace) To Estimate Transport Variability In The Southern Indian Ocean, Jessica K. Makowski, Don P. Chambers, Jennifer A. Bonin Jan 2015

Using Ocean Bottom Pressure From The Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment (Grace) To Estimate Transport Variability In The Southern Indian Ocean, Jessica K. Makowski, Don P. Chambers, Jennifer A. Bonin

Marine Science Faculty Publications

Previous studies have suggested that ocean bottom pressure (OBP) from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) can be used to measure the depth-averaged, or barotropic, transport variability of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC). Here, we use GRACE OBP observations to calculate transport variability in a region of the southern Indian Ocean encompassing the major fronts of the ACC. We use a statistical analysis of a simulated GRACE-like data set to determine the uncertainty of the estimated transport for the 2003.0–2013.0 time period. We find that when the transport is averaged over 60° of longitude, the uncertainty (one standard error) …

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Evidence For Multidecadal Variability In Us Extreme Sea Level Records, Thomas Wahl, Don P. Chambers Jan 2015

Evidence For Multidecadal Variability In Us Extreme Sea Level Records, Thomas Wahl, Don P. Chambers

Marine Science Faculty Publications

We analyze a set of 20 tide gauge records covering the contiguous United States (US) coastline and the period from 1929 to 2013 to identify long-term trends and multidecadal variations in extreme sea levels (ESLs) relative to changes in mean sea level (MSL). Different data sampling and analysis techniques are applied to test the robustness of the results against the selected methodology. Significant but small long-term trends in ESLs above/below MSL are found at individual sites along most coastline stretches, but are mostly confined to the southeast coast and the winter season when storm surges are primarily driven by extratropical …

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The Influence Of Engineering Design Considerations On Species Recruitment And Succession On Coastal Defence Structures, Juliette Elizabeth Jackson Jan 2015

The Influence Of Engineering Design Considerations On Species Recruitment And Succession On Coastal Defence Structures, Juliette Elizabeth Jackson

Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses

Engineering design considerations of artificial coastal structures were tested to resemble as far as possible the nearest natural equivalent habitat, ecologically valuable rocky shores, as a potential management option. Coastal areas around the world attract urbanisation but these transitional areas between sea and land are inherently vulnerable to risk of flooding and erosion. Thus hard structures are often built in sensitive coastal environments to defend assets such as property and infrastructure (roads, railways, ports) against rising and stormy seas. The design, construction and maintenance of hard defences should wherever possible incorporate ecological considerations to enhance biodiversity, including maintaining or restoring …

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Using Marxan And Marxan With Zones To Support Marine Planning, Frances Peckett Jan 2015

Using Marxan And Marxan With Zones To Support Marine Planning, Frances Peckett

Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses

With the growth in human pressures on the marine environment and the increase in competition for space and resources there has been recognition by many governments of the need to use the marine environment sustainably and allow for its acceptable allocation for each sector. The aim of this thesis is to evaluate the use of Marxan and Marxan with Zones as practical tools to enable the production of marine plans that integrate environmental and socioeconomic data and to suggest best practice in the types of data used. In this thesis three key aspects of data type and integration were identified …

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