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1908 - Decisions Of The Department Of Interior And General Land Office, July 1, 1907 - June 30, 1908

US Government Legislation and Statutes

A compilation of the decisions of the Department of Interior and General Land Office concerning the administration of the United States public land laws.

1928 - Digest Of Decisions Of The Department Of The Interior In Cases Relating To The Public Lands (Indian Matters Included), Part I, Volumes 41-51, Inclusive

US Government Legislation and Statutes

Compilation of the decisions of the Department of Interior and General Land Office concerning the administration of the United States public land laws.

Fighting For Their Lives: Why The Marginalized Irish From The 1840s-1910 Dominated American Prizefighting, Owen Marshall

Honors Program Theses and Projects

One of the most recognizable figures in the world during his lifetime, heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, previously Cassius Clay and Cassius X, put his self-esteem on display with the simple declaration “I am the greatest.” This was a phrase he told himself long before he truly was the greatest, but he proved it to the world in 1964 when he defeated defending champion Sonny Liston. Upon knocking out his dangerous, violent, and cheating opponent, Ali whipped himself into a frenzy, as onlookers saw him fall over the ropes, scream at the ringside reporters who had previously doubted him, and …

The Role Of Interest Groups In Shaping U.S. Governmental Responses To Military Sexual Trauma, Patricia Ann Harnois-Church

Nursing ETDs

Military sexual trauma (MST) is a significant problem in U.S. military service branches, service academies, and National Guard units, with both immediate and longer term traumatic effects on survivors who are disproportionately female. MST includes sexual harassment or assault during military service and the ensuing consequences for physical health and psychosocial well-being of service members and veterans. The Department of Defense is committed to reducing the incidence of sexual assault and harassment among service members, encouraging victims to report, and mitigating the impact of MST. However, the estimated prevalence of sexual assault among active duty service members remains unacceptably high, …

Test Of Personal Intelligencemini-12 (Topi Mini-12): Brief Manual And Test (9th Edition), John D. Mayer, Abigail T. Panter, David R. Caruso

UNH Personality Lab

Personal intelligence can be defined as the capacity to reason about personality and to use personality and personal information to enhance one’s thoughts, plans, and life experience (Mayer, 2008, p. 209). It is a “hot” intelligence in the sense of operating on information that is personally relevant and of importance to the individual.

The gold standard for measuring intelligences is through the use of ability scales. The Test of Personal Intelligence (TOPI), a 134-item ability measure, has been developed over three versions (1.0, 1.1., and 1.2) to test the existence of personal intelligence and to provide for its measurement (Mayer, …

1897 - Digest Of Decisions Of The Department Of The Interior An General Land Office In Cases Relating To The Public Lands; Volumes 1 To Xxii Inclusive

US Government Legislation and Statutes

Compilation of the decisions of the Department of Interior and General Land Office concerning the administration of the United States public land laws.

1913 - Digest Of Decisions Of The Department Of The Interior An General Land Office In Cases Relating To Public Lands, Volumes 1 To 40, Inclusive, Part 1 And Part 2

US Government Legislation and Statutes

Compilation of the decisions of the Department of Interior and General Land Office concerning the administration of the United States public land laws.

1885 - Decisions Of The Department Of Interior And General Land Office From July 1884 To June 1885

US Government Legislation and Statutes

A compilation of the decisions of the Department of Interior and General Land Office concerning the administration of the United States public land laws.

1897 - Decisions Of Department Of Interior And General Land Office From January 1897 To June 1897

US Government Legislation and Statutes

A compilation of the decisions of the Department of Interior and General Land Office concerning the administration of the United States public land laws.

1904 - Decisions Of The Department Of Interior And General Land Office From January 1904 Through May 1904

US Government Legislation and Statutes

A compilation of the decisions of the Department of Interior and General Land Office concerning the administration of the United States public land laws.

1906 - Decisions Of Department Of Interior And General Land Office, July 1, 1905 To June 30, 1906

US Government Legislation and Statutes

A compilation of the decisions of the Department of Interior and General Land Office concerning the administration of the United States public land laws.

A Teacher's Role In Feedback And Instructional Conversations In A Kindergarten Ela Classroom, Emerie Fairbanks

Education

This teacher action research examines the role of the teacher and the use of feedback to support kindergarten students' language development. This study provides three emergent categories: A) Corrective feedback provided by the teacher with and without the option of the correct form of students' utterance. B) Student provided feedback: self-correction (no teacher influence) or correcting a classmate. C) Extending the conversation through teacher prompting and students collaborating in the meaning-making process. The findings showed providing feedback was beneficial to students' language development. The findings in this research study can be used to inform educators interested in the role feedback …

Haa LéElk'w HáS Ji.Eetí, Our Grandparents' Art: A Study Of Master Tlingit Artists, 1750-1989, Zachary R. Jones

Anthropology

This dissertation examines the lives and creations of twenty-three master Tlingit artists that practiced in Southeast Alaska between 1750 and 1989. Biographical examination of master Tlingit artists showcases how artists created sacred art objects, known as at.óow, which play a central role in the social and spiritual life of the Tlingit people. Historic Tlingit artists came from the aanyádi, the aristocratic class, and were tasked with the responsibility of not only creating sacred art, but also serving as community leaders and exemplifying Tlingit values throughout their lives. The study of Tlingit artists and their creations also sheds light on objects …

I See What You Meant To Say: Anticipating Speech Errors During Online Sentence Processing, Matthew W. Lowder, Fernanda Ferreira

Psychology Faculty Publications

Everyday speech is rife with errors and disfluencies, yet processing what we hear usually feels effortless. How does the language comprehension system accomplish such an impressive feat? The current experiment tests the hypothesis that listeners draw on relevant contextual and linguistic cues to anticipate speech errors and mentally correct them even before receiving an explicit correction from the speaker. In the current visual-world eye-tracking experiment, we monitored participants’ eye movements to objects in a display while they listened to utterances containing reparandum-repair speech errors (e.g., …his cat, uh I mean his dog…). The contextual plausibility of the misspoken …

Essays On Energy Economics And Environmental Policies, Janak R. Joshi

Economics ETDs

This dissertation contains three distinct empirical chapters in applied energy and environmental economics. Each chapter focuses on a unique set of research questions, methods, and data. The unifying motivation therein concerns the development of renewable or alternative low-carbon energy sources as a policy response to the challenges of climate change mitigation, local and regional environmental quality issues, and energy security concerns. Economic and environmental evaluation of the energy policies coupled with understanding energy use patterns is of paramount importance. Together, the empirical chapters focus on demand, supply, and policy aspects of energy markets in the United States (US).

First, Chapter …

Representing Outside The Box: Identity-Based Constituencies And Surrogate Representation In U.S. State Legislatures, Julia Hellwege

Political Science ETDs

This project asks: whom do representatives seek to represent and how do they do it? Specifically, I seek to understand how marginalized state legislators define the concept of “constituency” and the implications for their legislative behavior. I argue that marginalization affects legislators through two avenues: socially through their identity, and institutionally through the proportion their identity group holds in the state legislature. I argue that when legislators are marginalized their awareness of identity and identity-based issue needs are prioritized and they will come to define group members as a salient identity constituency. Furthermore, they will seek to represent this salient …

S.O.S. Eisberg Versus S.O.S. Iceberg - Two Nations' Visualizations Of Arctic Landscapes, Kerstin Anne Aloia

English

This project is a comparison of the perspectives on Arctic nature that are featured in the 1933 films S.O.S. Eisberg and S.O.S. Iceberg. I am arguing that the director of each version was influenced by his cultural background in visualizing the relationship between Arctic nature and the white explorers that encounter it in their films. Both Arnold Fanck, who created S.O.S. Eisberg, and Tay Garnett, who created S.O.S. Iceberg, worked with the same documentary footage that was filmed at Greenland's Arctic shores, but turned it into two different films. S.O.S. Eisberg turns the Arctic into a space whose hostile forces …

Paving The Way: An Evaluation Of Small Business Support Programs In The Kivalliq Region Of Nunavut, Gabrielle E. Morrill

Rural Development

Small businesses in Nunavut face many opportunities and challenges. The Government of Nunavut and Government of Canada have expressed a commitment to support small business development in Nunavut to promote economic development and improve socioeconomic conditions for Nunavummiut. The question is: how can they best do that? Nunavut has developed a complex business service network to support small business development. The network provides many products and services, particularly funding opportunities and advisory services. This research analyzes the history of economic and business development in the Kivalliq (southwest) region of Nunavut. This includes precolonial Inuit economic institutions, which are vastly different …

Integrating Comprehension Instruction, Multimodalities And Co-Construction Into Cultural Learning, Christine Harrington

Education

This study explores the impact of a story-based approach to teaching reading strategies, and examines the implementation of and co-construction within multimodal activities. Eight third grade students participated in this study in a charter school focused on Alaska Native cultural learning. The phases of the PACE Model focused on transitional words and phrases in the context of a traditional story from the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian cultures of Alaska. Their attention to the language feature was extended to summarizing and retelling as part of the Extension phase of the model. The results are consistent with previous studies that attributed focus …

Gizmos And Gadgets: A Guidebook Of Technological Resources In The Elementary Classroom, Rachel A. Dobrich

Education

This research examines the implementation of technology in elementary classrooms. Prior research has shown that elementary teachers have more positive perspectives towards technology incorporation when sufficiently trained through pre-service teacher preparation programs and professional development opportunities for existing educators. Adequate technology instruction is necessary because it teaches educators about available resources and how to appropriately and meaningfully incorporate them into their lessons. Teachers need to provide relevant, authentic learning experiences for their students, teaching them how to function in a technological society. Technology has the potential to increase engagement and academic performance. It also allows teachers to create an accessible …

Reindeer, Dogs, And Horses Among The Tozhu Reindeer Herder-Hunters In The Siberian Taiga, Tayana Arakchaa

Anthropology

Anthropological studies have typically represented reindeer as the uniquely key domesticated animal species for Siberian people. For Tozhu reindeer herder-hunters, however, such a perspective ignores the important roles of dogs and horses. These species are equally vital and interdependent partners of daily life in the mountainous areas of Tuva where Tozhu people live. Each animal comes with specific characteristics, challenges and benefits that necessitate a multispecies perspective--the reindeer-dog-horse triad of Tozhu hunting and reindeer herding economies. This research completes the picture of how taiga-dwelling Tozhu and the three important animal species co-exist together. It seeks to portray: 1) how the …

Attitudes And Perceptions Of Emergency Department Nurses Toward Attempted Suicide: A Systematic Review, Mikayla Mishel Cooksey, Anna Marie Kastelic, Kim Schafer Astroth, Wendy M. Woith

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Emergency department nurses' attitudes may play a significant role in the outcomes of patients who have attempted suicide. A systematic literature review was conducted to identify these attitudes and potential influencing factors. Findings report varied nursing attitudes, suggesting a gap in the literature, indicating the need for further research.

Integrative Research Review: Comparison Of Vascular Closure Devices To Manual Compression In Decreasing Postoperative Complications, Nichole T. Janca

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Vascular Closure Devices (VCDs) are used internationally and were created to overcome traditional problems associated with manual compression. These devices act as an alternative to manual compression with the goal of decreasing access site complications. The safety and efficacy of VCDs continues to remain controversial, as research is limited.

Do Community Clinic Patients Have Needed Internet Access And Experience To Use The Patient Portal?, Ruth A. Bush, Halsey Barlow, Alexa Perez, Bianca Vazquez, Jonathan Mack, Cynthia D. Connelly

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

This study quantified whether patients attending a community clinic in southern California had the technology and internet experience to access the patient portal. There was no association between income and portal use. Computer portal access was associated with likely future use. Computers may permit better internet access and record viewing.

Experience-Based Learning In Nursing Education, Aksara Kakarndee

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

The purpose of this study was to (1) compare problem solving ability of nursing undergraduatesthrough the use of nursing process and analytical thinking skills before and after they engaged in experience-based learning; and (2) compare the problem solving ability with the expected competency of nursing undergraduates.

Active Transportation And Cardiometabolic Health Among Adults: A Systematic Review, Elizabeth Ann Lorenzo, Jacob Szeszulski, Rebecca Lee

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

This review of active transportation literature is being conducted to determine the presence or absence of a causal link with cardiometabolic outcomes. Findings will inform an active transportation intervention, to improve cardiometabolic health, inform best practice, and advocate for policy changes to enhance the health of communities.

Nurse Migration And Distribution: A Global Determinant To Achieving 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, Veronica Wathome, Esther Park

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

The 2016 Global Conference on Health Promotion resulted in a declaration identifying health and well being as crucial to achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. This poster provides analysis on the impact of nurse migration and maldistribution on said goals, and pivots the profession as a critical determinant of success.

Being Black And Depressed Double Sucks, Stephanie C. Jones

Student Theses and Dissertations

This paper investigates the ways race and racism mediate perceptions and experiences of depression among young Black Americans living in the New York metropolitan area. Based on 25 in-depth interviews with Black Americans between the ages of 18-28, the research shows that the Black identity exacerbates suffering for participants because it fundamentally changes how depression is lived, felt, and navigated. This study extends research about the lack of cultural competence among American health professionals, stigma surrounding mental illnesses among the Black American community, and the effects of the systematic dehumanization of Black bodies in American society.

Usage Statistics: Project Counter R4 Database Report 1 (Db1) 2017-2018, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Project COUNTER R4 Database Report 1 (DB1) for the University of Rhode Island for the period from July 1, 2017 - June 30, 2018. Database Report 1 is defined as "Total Searches, Result Clicks and Record Views by Month and Database." This report presents an annual total only.

File for download is Excel spreadsheet generated by Alma Analytics.

Results: 808,084 regular searches, 365,398 result clicks, and 277,604 record views for 377 reported databases.

Ketchikan Cup O' News 2018-12, Tina Booth

Ketchikan Cup O' News

No abstract provided.