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Pvn-Lot-202-Em-001, Mary Hostenske Mar 2004

Pvn-Lot-202-Em-001, Mary Hostenske

Four Valleys Archive

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Vol. 27 Nos. 1/2 (2004): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Mar 2004

Vol. 27 Nos. 1/2 (2004): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Pacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US $26.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, …

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Elections On Guam, 1970-2002, Donald R. Shuster Mar 2004

Elections On Guam, 1970-2002, Donald R. Shuster

Pacific Studies

Guam, taken as a spoil of the 1898 Spanish-American War, has since been an unincorporated U.S. territory in the western Pacific. Although U.S. citizenship was conferred on the island people by the 1950 Organic Act, the chief executive was not popularly elected until 1970. This article describes electoral politics and parties on Guam: candidates, campaigns, results, and analyses. The first seven gubernatorial elections are surveyed, and the contests of 1998,2000, and 2002 are described in detail. The 1998 race, an especially contentious one, was finally settled by a U.S. Supreme Court decision. The 2002 governorship contest pitted media power and …

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Research Notes: Empty Nests And Parental Well-Being In An Asian-Pacific Population: An Exploratory Test, Thomas K. Pinhey Mar 2004

Research Notes: Empty Nests And Parental Well-Being In An Asian-Pacific Population: An Exploratory Test, Thomas K. Pinhey

Pacific Studies

Guided by theories of role loss and role stress, this study explores mental health outcomes for parents in Guam's Asian-Pacific community whose last offspring has left the family "nest." In contrast with findings reported in studies of U.S. mainland populations, the results of analyses of data from Guam's 1991 Behavioral Risk Factor Survey (N = 398) indicate that the launching of the last offspring from family homes results in role loss and significantly greater emotional trauma for Asian-Pacific women, thus suggesting that parenting may be less stressful for women in Guam. I present a discussion of the implications of the …

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The Commons Concept And Intellectual Property Rights Regime: Whither Plant Genetic Resources And Traditional Knowledge?, Chika B. Onwuekwe Mar 2004

The Commons Concept And Intellectual Property Rights Regime: Whither Plant Genetic Resources And Traditional Knowledge?, Chika B. Onwuekwe

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

[Excerpt] "The classification of plant genetic resources (PGRs) as the common heritage of humankind continues to generate controversies. The debate is between developing countries that are the primary sources of these resources and industrialized, biotechnologically advanced countries that appropriate and utilize PGRs as raw materials for various commercial products, such as medicine, seed variety, or pesticides. Scholars of diverse backgrounds express various opinions on whether PGRs obtained from plants found within a territory of a sovereign state should properly be designated “common heritage of humankind” or regarded as part of the “commons,” and therefore freely accessible. The debate also extends …

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Combining Causal Model And Focus Group Discussions: Experiences Learned From A Socio-Anthropological Research On The Differing Perceptions Of Caretakers And Health Professionals On Children's Health (Bolivia/Peru), Pierre Lefèvre, Charles-Édouard De Suremain, Emma Rubín De Celis, Edgar Sejas Mar 2004

Combining Causal Model And Focus Group Discussions: Experiences Learned From A Socio-Anthropological Research On The Differing Perceptions Of Caretakers And Health Professionals On Children's Health (Bolivia/Peru), Pierre Lefèvre, Charles-Édouard De Suremain, Emma Rubín De Celis, Edgar Sejas

The Qualitative Report

During the summer of 2002, thirty-one medieval frescoes went on display at the Museum of Texas Tech University, the only venue in the world for this extraordinary exhibition. This paper summarizes a qualitative research study that focused on the experiences of three visitors to the Medieval Frescoes from the Vatican Museums Collection exhibition. The study applied Gadamers (1993) idea of horizons to both the visitor-participants and the frescoes to illuminate the interpretive event, the meeting of horizons, and to uncover any obstacles that might hinder the fusion of horizons. The findings of the study are presented in a readers theatre …

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Mission Drift In Qualitative Research, Or Moving Toward A Systematic Review Of Qualitative Studies, Moving Back To A More Systematic Narrative Review, Kip Jones Mar 2004

Mission Drift In Qualitative Research, Or Moving Toward A Systematic Review Of Qualitative Studies, Moving Back To A More Systematic Narrative Review, Kip Jones

The Qualitative Report

The paper argues that the systematic review of qualitative research is best served by reliance upon qualitative methods themselves. A case is made for strengthening the narrative literature review and using narrative itself as a method of review. A technique is proposed that builds upon recent developments in qualitative systematic review by the use of a narrative inductive method of analysis. The essence of qualitative work is described. The natural ability for issues of ethnicity and diversity to be investigated through a qualitative approach is elaborated. Recent developments in systematic review are delineated, including the Delphi and Signal and Noise …

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An Introduction To Race As Proxy, Mark R. Bradford Mar 2004

An Introduction To Race As Proxy, Mark R. Bradford

DePaul Law Review

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Race As A Proxy For Drug Response: The Dangers And Challenges Of Ethnic Drugs, Rene Bowser Mar 2004

Race As A Proxy For Drug Response: The Dangers And Challenges Of Ethnic Drugs, Rene Bowser

DePaul Law Review

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Personhood And Freedom In Religio-Scientific Realism, Hisakazu Inagaki Mar 2004

Personhood And Freedom In Religio-Scientific Realism, Hisakazu Inagaki

Pro Rege

This article was originally published in English (with a Japanese abstract) in Christ and the World (annual monograph of Tokyo Christian University), vol. 12 (2002), pp. 55-76 and is an extended article originally presented at the conference “Cultures and Christianity A.D. 2000” in Hoeven, the Netherlands. The current version was edited after a presentation by Dr. Inagaki at Dordt College for publication in Pro Rege. When asked recently by Dordt Professor Roger Henderson of his own stand on Emergence theory, Dr. Inagaki replied that “only God is the cause of the emergence of the world and human being, and there …

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Faster, Richer, Better: Rapid Appraisal Techniques For The Study Of Is Implementation In Virtual Communities, Linda Wilkins, Paula Swatman, Tanya Castleman Mar 2004

Faster, Richer, Better: Rapid Appraisal Techniques For The Study Of Is Implementation In Virtual Communities, Linda Wilkins, Paula Swatman, Tanya Castleman

The Qualitative Report

A major issue in Information Systems (IS) research is how to combine relevance and rigor (Benbasat & Zmud, 1999) and reduce the widening gap between research results and adoption (Dunn, 1994). Qualitative researchers make use of interpretivist methods to add richness and depth to their understanding of user problems. Interpretivist methods applied to IS implementations can thus result in research which communicates those findings more effectively. However standard interpretivist data-collection and analysis methods can be time-consuming and expensive. Findings based on these methods may be irrelevant to practitioners by the time they reach publication stage. A potential solution to this …

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Worldview: The History Of A Concept (Book Review), Tim Mcconnel Mar 2004

Worldview: The History Of A Concept (Book Review), Tim Mcconnel

Pro Rege

Reviewed Title: Worldview: The History of a Concept, by David K. Naugle. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2002. xxii + 384 pp.

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March 1, 2004, The Daily Mississippian Mar 2004

March 1, 2004, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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Flesh And Machines: How Robots Will Change Us And Our Posthuman Future: Consequences Of The Biotechnology Revolution (Book Reviews), Charles C. Adams Mar 2004

Flesh And Machines: How Robots Will Change Us And Our Posthuman Future: Consequences Of The Biotechnology Revolution (Book Reviews), Charles C. Adams

Pro Rege

Reviewed Titles: Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us, by Rodney A. Brooks (New York: Pantheon Books, 2002). 260 pages. ISBN 0-375-42079-7, and Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution, by Francis Fukuyama (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002). 256 pages. ISBN 0-374-23643-7.

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National Insecurities: Humiliation, Salvation And Chinese Nationalism, William A. Callahan Mar 2004

National Insecurities: Humiliation, Salvation And Chinese Nationalism, William A. Callahan

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

While I was researching the South China Sea disputes between China, Vietnam, and the Philippines, I came upon an unlikely refer ence. In an otherwise hard-nosed analysis of the issue, a noted Chi nese expert cited a book called the Atlas of Shame. This odd juxta position of security studies, territoriality, and emotion piqued my interest, and I asked a friend in Beijing to track down this curious book. Once I got a copy of the Atlas of the Century of National Humili ation in Modern China, the correct title, I was fascinated by what seemed to be a unique …

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Diasporic Tycoons, Outlaw States And Beijing Bastards: The Contingent Politics Of Greater China, William A. Callahan Mar 2004

Diasporic Tycoons, Outlaw States And Beijing Bastards: The Contingent Politics Of Greater China, William A. Callahan

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

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Aggregation Techniques To Characterize Social Networks, Sara E. Sterling Mar 2004

Aggregation Techniques To Characterize Social Networks, Sara E. Sterling

Theses and Dissertations

Social network analysis focuses on modeling and understanding individuals of interest and their relationships. Aggregation of social networks can be used both to make analysis computationally easier on large networks, and to gain insight in subgroup interactions. Aggregation requires determining appropriate closely knit subgroups as well as choosing a measure or measures to represent the network data. This thesis provides the analyst with several techniques for using aggregation to analyze the characteristics of social networks. The contribution of this research lies in its ability to analyze a wide variety of social network structures and available data through two methods for …

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“It’S The Law.”: Social Norms And The Rule Of Law, Amir N. Licht Feb 2004

“It’S The Law.”: Social Norms And The Rule Of Law, Amir N. Licht

ExpressO

This Article posits that treating social norms as isolated regularities, as is commonly done in the legal literature, misses the big picture of social norms. Analyses of the relations between social norms and the law consequently run the risk of becoming “just so stories.” Economic analyses of other-regarding behavior may go beyond the narrow view of self-interestedness yet they remain confined to the individual level of analysis. To account for the societal-level mechanisms underlying social norms, this Article outlines a model in which norms form interdependent systems. Societal emphases on cultural values define the backbone of an evolving body of …

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Deafdigest: Gold Edition, February 29, 2004, Barry Strassler Feb 2004

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, February 29, 2004, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2004

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Pvn-Lot-202-Fb-043, David Rogoff Feb 2004

Pvn-Lot-202-Fb-043, David Rogoff

Four Valleys Archive

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Spartan Daily, February 26, 2004, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Feb 2004

Spartan Daily, February 26, 2004, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 122, Issue 19

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Rotunda - Vol 83, No 19 - Feb 26, 2004, Longwood University Feb 2004

Rotunda - Vol 83, No 19 - Feb 26, 2004, Longwood University

Rotunda

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Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Delivers Lecture On Politics And Civility March 2, Adam Moore Feb 2004

Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Delivers Lecture On Politics And Civility March 2, Adam Moore

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - The University of Mississippi chapter of Phi Beta Kappa presents a March 2 public address, "What Does Civility Have to Do with Politics?" by Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Virginia Sapiro of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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University Of Montana Events Friday, Feb. 27, Through Friday, March 12, 2004, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations Feb 2004

University Of Montana Events Friday, Feb. 27, Through Friday, March 12, 2004, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

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Pvn-Lot-202-Dw-018a, Claire Novotny Feb 2004

Pvn-Lot-202-Dw-018a, Claire Novotny

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvn-Lot-599-D-007, Leigh Ann Ellison Feb 2004

Pvn-Lot-599-D-007, Leigh Ann Ellison

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvn-Lot-599-C-014, Charles Webber Feb 2004

Pvn-Lot-599-C-014, Charles Webber

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvn-Lot-202-Ei-020, Laura Richardson Feb 2004

Pvn-Lot-202-Ei-020, Laura Richardson

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvn-Lot-202-Ei-019, Laura Richardson Feb 2004

Pvn-Lot-202-Ei-019, Laura Richardson

Four Valleys Archive

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Minutes From The February 26, 2004 Meeting Of The University Of Montana Faculty, University Of Montana--Missoula. Faculty Feb 2004

Minutes From The February 26, 2004 Meeting Of The University Of Montana Faculty, University Of Montana--Missoula. Faculty

University of Montana Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes

Meeting minutes from the February 26, 2004 meeting of the University of Montana faculty.

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