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Don’T Point That Gun At My Mum: Geriatric Zombies, Gerry Canavan Jan 2016

Don’T Point That Gun At My Mum: Geriatric Zombies, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Seventh-Day Quaker: A Spiritual Memoir, Kim L. Ranger Jan 2016

Seventh-Day Quaker: A Spiritual Memoir, Kim L. Ranger

Books

In an intimate spiritual memoir, Ranger shares her reflections on a journey of self-discovery. Through a narrative written in diary format, she compares and contrasts the Religious Society of Friends and the Seventh-day Adventists and calls for better understanding of and bridges between liberal and conservative Christians. Seventh-day Quaker examines the role and practice of sabbath, silence, prayer, rites and rituals, evangelicalism, the Bible, Creationism, God's existence, and the call to ministry.

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Insanity Acquittees In The Community: Legal Foundations And Clinical Conundrums, Michael J. Vitacco Jan 2016

Insanity Acquittees In The Community: Legal Foundations And Clinical Conundrums, Michael J. Vitacco

Fordham Urban Law Journal

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A Flipped Classroom Redesign In General Chemistry, Scott A. Reid Jan 2016

A Flipped Classroom Redesign In General Chemistry, Scott A. Reid

Chemistry Faculty Research and Publications

The flipped classroom continues to attract significant attention in higher education. Building upon our recent parallel controlled study of the flipped classroom in a second-term general chemistry course (J. Chem. Educ., 2016, 93, 13–23), here we report on a redesign of the flipped course aimed at scaling up total enrollment while keeping discussion sizes small (i.e.,students), and maintaining equivalent contact hour load for faculty and workload for students. To that end, the course format featured lecture contact pushed outside of the classroom in the form of video lectures (mean duration 13 minutes) paired with online …

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University Of Texas At Tyler Catalog, 2016 - 2017, University Of Texas At Tyler Jan 2016

University Of Texas At Tyler Catalog, 2016 - 2017, University Of Texas At Tyler

Catalogs

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Transforming Teacher-Family Relationships: Shifting Roles And Perceptions Of Home Visits Through The Funds Of Knowledge Approach, Kristin Whyte, Anne E. Karabon Jan 2016

Transforming Teacher-Family Relationships: Shifting Roles And Perceptions Of Home Visits Through The Funds Of Knowledge Approach, Kristin Whyte, Anne E. Karabon

Teacher Education Faculty Publications

Education has embraced the idea of an ‘asset approach’ to working with families and children, creating a focus on developing collaborative relationships with families by building on what they bring to the table. In this paper we explore what happened when early childhood teachers entered homes to learn from families and identify their Funds of Knowledge. The findings show how issues of power and perception surfaced when teachers attempted to shift their role from that of teacher to learner. In analyzing teachers’ experience before, during, and after ethnographic home visits we saw their general desire to adopt an asset-based mentality. …

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The Case Of Three Karen Refugee Women And Their Children: Literacy Practices In A Family Literacy Context, Sabrina Dm Quadros, Loukia K. Sarroub Jan 2016

The Case Of Three Karen Refugee Women And Their Children: Literacy Practices In A Family Literacy Context, Sabrina Dm Quadros, Loukia K. Sarroub

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

The lack of research about the Karen—one of 135 ethnic groups from Myanmar—limits literacy educators charged with educating this refugee population in public schools. In this case study the authors explore the literacy practices of Karen families when at school and in their homes and within an ESL family literacy program. The case of these refugee families and their experiences are analyzed within a sociocultural theoretical framework along with a focus on literacy adaptation through the lenses of crosscultural studies, adult and language teachers involved in literacy practices, and literacy studies. Four core themes emerged from participant observation, including adult/ …

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Annual Report Ay 2015-16, Center For Innovative Pedagogy Jan 2016

Annual Report Ay 2015-16, Center For Innovative Pedagogy

Annual Reports and Newsletters

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Africana Primary Source Collections, Ucf Libraries Jan 2016

Africana Primary Source Collections, Ucf Libraries

Technology Fee Funded Projects

The Department of Africana Studies, in collaboration with the UCF Libraries, requests $103,801 for the purchase a bundle of five Africana primary source databases. These resources will fill a crucial need for African American primary source material, especially pertaining to slavery, emancipation, and early American history. They will provide foundational support for students in the Africana Studies program as well as many other departments across campus. The selected collections are available from reputable vendors known for providing access to high quality primary sources.

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Sage Collections 2016, Ucf Libraries Jan 2016

Sage Collections 2016, Ucf Libraries

Technology Fee Funded Projects

The UCF Libraries is requesting $148,574 ($150,574 less a $2,000 cost share from UCF Libraries) for the one-time combined purchase Six SAGE Collections:

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The Effect Of Doctors Without Borders On Low- And Middle-Income Countries In Sub-Saharan Africa, Nathan Hayenga Jan 2016

The Effect Of Doctors Without Borders On Low- And Middle-Income Countries In Sub-Saharan Africa, Nathan Hayenga

Honors College Theses

This research studies the relationship between the activity of medical disaster-response humanitarian aid and the rate of growth in developing economies. Data of total annual GDP and Doctors without Borders (MSF) activity in 23 countries was analyzed over the years 2000-2014 with correlation and regression analysis. Under this analysis results are inconclusive, with a correlation of zero between MSF activity’s within a country and change in that country’s rate of GDP growth. A conclusive response was found on the comparison between GDP growth in countries MSF was active in compared to countries with no MSF activity, showing that countries in …

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Bmkt 412.01: Nonprofit Marketing, Carol L. Bruneau Jan 2016

Bmkt 412.01: Nonprofit Marketing, Carol L. Bruneau

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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Anty 459.01: Archaeology Of The Arctic And Subarctic, Anna M. Prentiss Jan 2016

Anty 459.01: Archaeology Of The Arctic And Subarctic, Anna M. Prentiss

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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Anty 427.50: Anthropology Of Gender, Richard A. Sattler Jan 2016

Anty 427.50: Anthropology Of Gender, Richard A. Sattler

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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Frontlines: Policing At The Lexus Of Race And Mental Health, Camille Nelson Jan 2016

Frontlines: Policing At The Lexus Of Race And Mental Health, Camille Nelson

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

he last several years have rendered issues at the intersection of race, mental health, and policing more acute. The frequency and violent, often lethal, nature of these incidents is forcing a national conversation about matters which many people would rather cast aside as volatile, controversial, or as simply irrelevant to conversations about the justice system. It seems that neither civil rights activists engaged in the work of advancing racial equality nor disability rights activists recognize the potent combination of negative racialization and mental illness at this nexus that bring policing practices into sharp focus. As such, the compounding dynamics and …

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Anty 433x.01: Indigenous Global Health And Healing, S. Neyooxet Greymorning Jan 2016

Anty 433x.01: Indigenous Global Health And Healing, S. Neyooxet Greymorning

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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Sovereignty And Indigenous Peoples In North America, Kent Mcneil Jan 2016

Sovereignty And Indigenous Peoples In North America, Kent Mcneil

Articles & Book Chapters

This article examines the concept of sovereignty and its application in the context of European colonization of North America. It seeks to define sovereignty so as to avoid Eurocentric notions that denied sovereignty to Indigenous peoples. The article does this by distinguishing between defacto and de jure sovereignty: the former depends on actual possession and control of a territory, whereas the latter depends on the application of a particular legal system. Unlike de facto sovereignty, which is empirical, de jure sovereignty depends on a choice of law. Because more than one legal system can be applied to territories occupied by …

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Placing Twail Scholarship And Praxis: Introduction To The Special Issue Of The Windsor Yearbook Of Access To Justice, Sujith Xavier, Amar Bhatia, Usha Natarajan, John Reynolds Jan 2016

Placing Twail Scholarship And Praxis: Introduction To The Special Issue Of The Windsor Yearbook Of Access To Justice, Sujith Xavier, Amar Bhatia, Usha Natarajan, John Reynolds

Articles & Book Chapters

This Special Issue of the Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice collects some of the written reflections of participants from the Third World Approaches to International Law [TWAIL] Conference held in Cairo, Egypt, from 21 to 24 February 2015. TWAIL is a loosely affiliated network of scholars and practitioners of international law and policy. TWAIL scholars and practitioners are animated by the relationship between the Global North and the Global South, and the ensuing disparities in wealth and health spurred on by processes of diverging and converging colonial and postcolonial histories.

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The Folklore And Symbolism Of Authorship In American Copyright Law, Shyamkrishna Balganesh Jan 2016

The Folklore And Symbolism Of Authorship In American Copyright Law, Shyamkrishna Balganesh

Faculty Scholarship

Despite its formal commitment to “authorship,” American copyright law pays surprisingly little doctrinal attention to understanding the concept. Originality, taken to be modern copyright law’s proxy for authorship, has come to assume a life of its own, with little regard to the system’s supposed ideals of authorship. What role then does authorship play in modern American copyright law? This Article argues that authorship is best understood as a form of folklore and symbolism in copyright law. Drawing on the anthropological strand of Legal Realism advanced and developed by Thurman Arnold, the Article argues that authorship serves an important symbolic purpose …

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Against Circumspection: Judges, Religious Symbols, And Signs Of Moral Independence, Benjamin Berger Jan 2016

Against Circumspection: Judges, Religious Symbols, And Signs Of Moral Independence, Benjamin Berger

Articles & Book Chapters

This chapter questions the interpretation of religious ­ signs and symbols— and the interpretive possibilities that emerge when we demand more from one another in thinking about such symbols— by ­ examining the question of judges and religious dress in the particular context of the judge’s role as wielding the coercive force of the state through the exercise of criminal punishment. I advance the argument that recent debates have proceeded on a misleadingly simplistic approach to understanding the meaning of signs of religious belonging and identity in this setting and that, with this, we miss an opportunity for a deeper …

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Voices Of The First Women Leaders In The Federal Bureau Of Investigation, Ellen Glasser Jan 2016

Voices Of The First Women Leaders In The Federal Bureau Of Investigation, Ellen Glasser

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This qualitative study utilized elite, semi-structured interviews of a purposive sample of the first women who became Special Agents and supervisors in the highly gendered Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The historical context for their experiences is significant in light of social and legal mandates for equal opportunity and the increased interest in gender-specific research that took place during the 1970s. Literature relating to feminist perspectives, the integration of women into nontraditional occupations, and the gendered nature of bureaucracy supported the conceptual framework. Guided by educational criticism, four strategies were used recursively: typological analysis was used to define categories of …

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Dietary Patterns Of Paquimé: New Evidence From Dental Calculus And Microfossils, Daniel King, Michael T. Searcy, Kyle Waller Jan 2016

Dietary Patterns Of Paquimé: New Evidence From Dental Calculus And Microfossils, Daniel King, Michael T. Searcy, Kyle Waller

Faculty Publications

As part of a larger multinational project, we gathered and analyzed 112 samples of dental calculus (fossilized plaque) from human remains discovered at Paquimé and other sites in the Casas Grandes river valley to identify various microfossils still present in the silica matrix. Once identified, we used the prehistoric plant remains to reconstruct human/plant relationships present during the Viejo and Medio periods in and around Paquimé. Our data suggest that maize was used throughout both time periods, which supports current theories regarding Paquimean diet. Various types of grasses were also found, as were unspecified types of algae. Using our data, …

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Survivor, It’S Not For Everyone: Perceptions Of The Cancer Survivor Label By Individuals Diagnosed With Cancer As Emerging Adults, Rachel Murphy-Banks Jan 2016

Survivor, It’S Not For Everyone: Perceptions Of The Cancer Survivor Label By Individuals Diagnosed With Cancer As Emerging Adults, Rachel Murphy-Banks

Journal of Pedagogy, Pluralism, and Practice

Seventy-thousand adolescents and young adults are diagnosed with cancer in the United States every year. The term cancer survivor is broadly used as a descriptor in mainstream society, and academic and oncology literature to reference individuals who have been diagnosed with cancer. It was originally used to provide a message of hope, not a label. This study provides an overview of the evolution of the term survivor and explores the often-overlooked perspectives of those who fall into this demographic, many of whom do not accept this identifier. Reasons for rejecting the survivor identity are shared with the intention of highlighting …

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The Effects Of Structural Violence On The Well-Being Of Marginalized Communities In The United States, Rakhshanda Saleem, Akansha Vaswani, Emily Wheeler, Meredith Maroney, Marta Pagan-Ortiz, Madeline Brodt Jan 2016

The Effects Of Structural Violence On The Well-Being Of Marginalized Communities In The United States, Rakhshanda Saleem, Akansha Vaswani, Emily Wheeler, Meredith Maroney, Marta Pagan-Ortiz, Madeline Brodt

Journal of Pedagogy, Pluralism, and Practice

Structural violence refers to injustices embedded in social and institutional structures within societies that result in harm to individuals’ wellbeing (Galtung, 1969; Farmer, 2004). Using the structural violence framework, our research proposes to investigate its impact on marginalized communities through an intersectional analysis. Traditional academic scholarship in psychology demonstrates notable absence of voices and stories of individuals from such communities due to the lack of linguistic, class and other privileges that provide opportunities for research participation. Our data will come from interviewing members from three communities, “undocumented” Latinos (as) immigrants, Muslims (immigrants and non-immigrants), and LGBTQ+ persons who have experienced …

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Continuity And The Declaration Of Independence, Darrell A. H. Miller Jan 2016

Continuity And The Declaration Of Independence, Darrell A. H. Miller

Faculty Scholarship

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Hprv 400.01: Historic Preservation, Michael T. Monsos Jan 2016

Hprv 400.01: Historic Preservation, Michael T. Monsos

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

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Danc 305.01: Contact Improvisation, Nicole W. Bradley Browning, Heidi M. Eggert Jan 2016

Danc 305.01: Contact Improvisation, Nicole W. Bradley Browning, Heidi M. Eggert

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

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An Empirical Research Agenda For The Forensic Sciences, Jonathan J. Koehler, John B. Meixner Jr. Jan 2016

An Empirical Research Agenda For The Forensic Sciences, Jonathan J. Koehler, John B. Meixner Jr.

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

After the National Academy of Sciences issued a stunning report in 2009 on the unscientific state of many forensic science subfields, forensic science has undergone internal and external scrutiny that it had managed to avoid for decades. Although some reform efforts are underway, forensic science writ large has yet to embrace and settle upon an empirical research agenda that addresses knowledge gaps pertaining to the reliability of its methods. Our paper addresses this problem by proposing a preliminary set of fourteen empirical studies for the forensic sciences. Following a brief discussion of the courtroom treatment of forensic science evidence, we …

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Unequal Edge Inclusion Probabilities In Link-Tracing Network Sampling With Implications For Respondent-Driven Sampling, Miles Q. Ott, Krista J. Gile Jan 2016

Unequal Edge Inclusion Probabilities In Link-Tracing Network Sampling With Implications For Respondent-Driven Sampling, Miles Q. Ott, Krista J. Gile

Statistical and Data Sciences: Faculty Publications

Respondent-Driven Sampling (RDS) is a widely adopted linktracing sampling design used to draw valid statistical inference from samples of populations for which there is no available sampling frame. RDS estimators rely upon the assumption that each edge (representing a relationship between two individuals) in the underlying network has an equal probability of being sampled. We show that this assumption is violated in even the simplest cases, and that RDS estimators are sensitive to the violation of this assumption.

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The Veneration Motif In The Temptation Narrative Of The Gospel Of Matthew: Lessons From The Enochic Tradition, Andrei Orlov Jan 2016

The Veneration Motif In The Temptation Narrative Of The Gospel Of Matthew: Lessons From The Enochic Tradition, Andrei Orlov

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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