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The Role Of Non-Parametric Approach In Adjusting Productivity Measures For Environmental Impacts, Saleem Shaik, Richard K. Perrin

Department of Agricultural Economics: Presentations, Working Papers, and Gray Literature

This paper addresses the role of non-parametric analysis in adjusting agricultural productivity measures for environmental impacts. The modified Tornquist-Theil index computed using shadow prices derived from the programming procedures is compared and contrasted with a nonparametric hyperbolic Malmquist index for the case of Nebraska agriculture.

Testing The Impact Of Corporate Farming Laws On Hog Industry Growth: A Partial Adjustment Approach, Holger Matthey, Jeffrey S. Royer

Department of Agricultural Economics: Presentations, Working Papers, and Gray Literature

This paper analyzes the impact of corporate restrictions on the growth of the Nebraska hog industry. It utilizes a partial adjustment model to test the hypothesis that the restrictions hamper the development of the state's hog industry. The results support the argument that the regulations have slowed the growth of the Nebraska hog industry.

Welfare Differences Between Gross Water Pumped And Consumptive Use As Alternative Policy Control Variables To Meet Aquifer Management Objectives, Osei-Ageyman Yeboah, Ray Supalla, Derrel L. Martin

Department of Agricultural Economics: Presentations, Working Papers, and Gray Literature

The welfare cost of using gross water pumped instead of consumptive use as a control variable to meet consumptive use goal was estimated for Southwestern Nebraska. Crop simulation models for corn, grain sorghum, wheat and soybeans were estimated by EPIC. The models were then optimized for profit maximization under each irrigation scenario where groundwater is constrained through successive reductions. The results indicate that the social cost of reducing consumptive use is substantially overstated when using gross water pumped instead of consumptive use as the control variable, with the percentage difference declining as the size of the reduction increases. For example, …

Professional Development Grant Evaluative Report, Dana W. R. Boden

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

Survey of Chair and Institutional Correlates of Library Faculty Perceptions of Chair Faculty Development Roles and Leadership Practices

Non-Parametric Environmental Adjusted Productivity [Eap] Measures: Nebraska Agriculture Sector, Saleem Shaik, Richard K. Perrin

Department of Agricultural Economics: Presentations, Working Papers, and Gray Literature

Traditional total factor productivity [TFP] misrepresents the true change in agricultural productivity to the extent that environmental bads jointly produced with desirable outputs are unaccounted. Nonparametric productivity measures incorporating environmental bads are evaluated for Nebraska agriculture. The results indicate that prior to the 1980's the traditional TFP measures overstate productivity growth while it is underestimated afterwards, reflecting peak use of chemicals.

Rural Nebraska Tomorrow: The Gap Between The Preferred And Expected Future, John C. Allen, Rebecca Filkins, Sam Cordes

Publications from the Center for Applied Rural Innovation (CARI)

Many changes have occurred in rural Nebraska in the past twenty years. Globalization, centralization of agriculture, and an increase in telecommunication technologies have prompted many adjustments for rural Nebraskans. Given all these changes, what do they prefer to happen in the next twenty years? What do they prefer agriculture, their communities, their family structure and local government to look like? Also, are the futures they prefer similar to those they expect to see?

This report details results of 3,036 responses to the 1999 Nebraska Rural Poll, the fourth annual effort to take the pulse of rural Nebraskans. Respondents were asked …

Meaning And Measurement: Reconceptualizing Measures Of The Division Of Household Labor, Joan E. Twiggs, Julia Mcquillan, Myra Marx Feree

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

This article argues that task-specific measures of the division of household labor form a gender hierarchy that reflects dimensions of meaning in the organization of household work. We contrast these measures to the commonly used time-share and Likert scale measures, which assume all tasks are interchangeable. Using Guttman scaling, we test the unidimensionality of this task hierarchy. Using odds ratios, we measure relationships between specific tasks, and using logistic regression, we see differences in correlates of husbands’ participation by task and interrelationships among tasks that persist, controlling for gender ideology and socioeconomic factors. This work should encourage development of measures …

Interparental Conflict And Child And Adolescent Aggression: An Examination Of Overt And Relational Aggression, Stacey T. Mizokawa

Department of Psychology: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The relationship between interparentaI conflict and overt aggression has been a consistent finding for males, but not for females. As a result. females have been thought to be less affected by parental disputes. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether parental conflict could predict aggression in males and females if aggression is operationalized to include both the overt type that is common among males and the relational type that is more common in females. Participants were 102 fifth- (37 males; 65 females). 137 eighth- (54 males; 83 females). and 110 eleventh-graders (37 males; 73 females) and their parents. …

Book Review: Towards A Chinese Conception Of Social Support: A Study On The Social Support Networks Of Chinese Working Mothers In Beijing By Angelina W. K. Yuen-Tsang, Yan Ruth Xia, Zhi Zhou

Department of Child, Youth, and Family Studies: Faculty Publications

Towards a Chinese Conception of Social Support shows a profound understanding of a relation-oriented society (Liang, 1974) and captures the nature of traditional Chinese social support systems in urban China. It conceptualizes the underlying social support available for working mothers as “Chinese communal support networks.” These networks are characterized by the pooling of network resources, holistic provision of support, rigid boundaries between insiders and outsiders, and a strong sense of reciprocity throughout life. The research method is well justified, and the credibility of the findings is enhanced by the measures and data analysis. Methods used include focus groups, participant observations, …

Predicting Community Satisfaction Among Rural Residents: An Integrative Model, Rebecca Filkins, John C. Allen, Sam Cordes

Publications from the Center for Applied Rural Innovation (CARI)

Community satisfaction has often been linked to the level of satisfaction with a community’s infrastructure, job opportunities and social support networks. Yet, most empirical analyses of community satisfaction have focused on only one aspect of the available theory to predict community satisfaction. In this paper, we integrate multiple models to analyze community satisfaction of almost 4,000 rural Nebraskans. The integrated model indicates that social ties may have a greater role in predicting community satisfaction than had been previously thought.

The “Lost” U.S. Technical Reports: Obtaining Reports From The 1940s And ‘50s, Robert L. Bolin

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

Although centralized distribution of U.S. government technical reports began in 1946, the reports distributed by predecessors of the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) for the first 15 years are now effectively “lost.” They are not available from NTIS, and they are not listed in the NTIS bibliographic database. Those reports are available from the Photoduplication Service of the Library of Congress, and many are available from other sources as well. This article describes bibliographic tools and resources available to identify those reports and provides advice on how to obtain them at a reasonable price.

Mabel Lee And Louise Pound: The University Of Nebraska's Battle Over Women's Intercollegiate Athletics, Kristi Lowenthal

Department of History: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Mirroring a cultural shift that brought the American middle class from the Victorian era into the modern era, women's intercollegiate sports encountered stiff resistance from the two overlapping social groups. Mabel Lee, a woman physical educator, brought firmly held Victorian beliefs about feminine propriety and moderation to the University of Nebraska when she was hired as the head of the women's physical education department in 1924. Louise Pound, an English professor at the University, had for years excelled in highly competitive athletics as a member of the new modern middle class. Pound flouted Victorian restraints and refused to enter the …

Review Of By Grit And Grace: Eleven Women Who Shaped The American West Edited By Glenda Riley And Richard W. Etulain, Ruth Ann Alexander

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The biographical essays in this volume present a spectrum of diverse women to illustrate the mythical as well as the actual image of women in the American West. Some are flamboyant and unconventional like Santa Fe's gambling businesswoman Gertrude Barcelo ("La Tules") in the 1840s or Martha Canary (Calamity Jane) whose real and imagined exploits in Dakota and Wyoming Territory thirty years later were the stuff of dime novels. Some sketches characterize more typically "pioneer" types. Seventeen-year-old Abigail Scott Duniway followed the Oregon Trail west from Illinois with her family in 1852. The harsh experience became the basis for her …

A Town Of The Mind" Margaret Laurence's Mythical Microcosm Ofmanawaka, Nora Foster Stovel

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This passage introduces "Where the World Began," the concluding piece in Margaret Laurence's 1976 collection of travel essays, Heart of a Stranger, which functions as an autobiography, charting her life journey. Laurence wrote a preface to this collection that exists in manuscript at McMaster University, but which was never published-unfortunately, because it illuminates the autobiographical import of the essays-perhaps because the pattern of her life was clear to her by the time she wrote it in 1976: "I saw, somewhat to my surprise, that they are all, in one way or another, travel articles. And by travel, I mean …

Review Of Legends Of Our Times: Native Cowboy Life By Morgan Baillargeon And Leslie Tepper, Peter Iverson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Growing out of work for a major exhibition at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, where Morgan Baillargeon (Metis) is Curator of Plains Ethnology and Leslie Tepper is Curator of Plateau Ethnology, Legends of Our Times centers on the Native people of the Northern Plains and Plateau. The project, say Baillargeon and Tepper, began with two goals: "to help break the stereotype of 'the Indian versus the cowboy' and through remaking that image to bring to people's attention an entire field of western history and Native culture that remains largely unknown"; and "to acknowledge the contributions Native people have made to …

Review Of The Workers' Revolt In Canada, 1917-1925 Edited By Craig Heron, Bryan D. Palmer

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Working class history is more often than not the calm before the storm. But the storms do come. With striking regularity, the quietude of class relations is shattered as workers mobilize and challenge employers and the state.

A central chapter in this narrative of class struggle is the tumultuous period of 1917-1925, which saw the rise and fall of a particular in ternational "revolt" that, in its Canadian par~ ticulars, is admirably explored in this series of essays edited by Craig Heron. Once conceptu~ alized as a western upheaval, the centerpiece of which was the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, the …

Review Of Discover Saskatchewan: A Guide To Historic Sites By Meika Lalone And Elton Laclare, Warren Clubb

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Discover Saskatchewan provides insights into the fascinating history of Canada's third westernmost province by identifying the historic sites and buildings, plus the museums, that record and present the province's storied past.

A project of the University of Regina, provincial government departments, and history/ heritage organizations, the book presents itself as a travel guide, offering quick access to information on historic sites and heritage institutions for anyone traveling by road. The information is arranged by tourism regions, eleven at the time of printing. Each chapter contains a map of the travel region covered and brief descriptions of its sites, markers, heritage …

Notes And News- Summer 1999

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Notes And News

In Memoriam

Acsus Award And Fellowship

Frederick C. Luebke Award

The Past And Promise Of Environmental History

Rural Women's Studies Association Conference

Clements-Degolyer Library Grant

Review Of The Margin Speaks: A Study Of Margaret Laurence And Robert Kroetsch From A Post-Colonial Point Of View By Gunilla Florby, Mary K. Kirtz

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Between the literature of "First World" nations like the United States and the literature of "Third World" nations like those in the Caribbean lie those of the "Second World." These are countries, like Canada and Australia, often glibly defined as having "First World" standards of living but "Third World" political clout and frequently ignored on the world stage. As Margaret Atwood noted wryly in a conversation with Victor Levy-Beaulieu, "it was said that Canadian literature didn't exist, that Canadian identity didn't exist, but when you wrote a novel, the Americans and the British said, 'This is too Canadian for us.'" …

Review Of The Icelandic Voice In Canadian Letters: The Contribution Of Icelandic-Canadian Writers To Canadian Literature By Daisy L. Neijmann, Gudrun B. Gudsteins

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Daisy Neijmann's The Icelandic Voice in Canadian Letters is the first comprehensive study of the impressive literary output, in Icelandic and English, of the Icelandic diaspora in Canada. Briefly outlining the relevant historical and literary background, Neijmann explains that in the ninth and tenth centuries Iceland was settled "mostly, but not exclusively," by "Norwegians who came either directly from Norway or from other Viking settlements in the British Isles and elsewhere." She then proceeds with an overview of the Northern European heritage of literature and lore that the settlers of Iceland originally brought with them, its blossoming in Medieval Iceland …

Review Of People Places: Saskatchewan And Its Names By Bill Barry, T. D. Regehr

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Bill Barry has collected a vast amount of information on the more than 25,000 place names in Saskatchewan and made it accessible in three publications. There is, first, a comprehensive computer database, arranged alphabetically but also sortable by location, date, or class of entry, available from the author and in many Saskatchewan libraries. Barry has always had a particular interest in a thematic approach to the study of place names, however, and People Places: Saskatchewan and Its Names provides much interesting and personalized information on the naming of many, but certainly not all of the places identified in the computer …

Review Of The Philosophy Of Railways: The Transcontinental Railway Idea In British North America By A. A. Den Otter, Keith L. Bryant Jr.

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The Canadian Pacific Railway looms large in the history of Canada. As politicians, spokesmen for the British government, the railway's promoters, and business leaders in Toronto and Montreal touted the concept of a transcontinental line from Halifax on the Atlantic to Vancouver on the Pacific, Canadians came to believe that this private enterprise represented the national interest. The railway, its backers contended, would promote a sense of national purpose and unity, provide access to the vast reaches of the western prairies, and ensure the transnational exchange of goods and ideas. A rising sense of nationalism embraced a new technology to …

Review Of Selected Letters Of Margaret Laurence And Adele Wiseman Edited By John Lennox And Ruth Panofsky, Frances W. Kaye

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

For various reasons, a great many more of Margaret Laurence's letters to Adele Wiseman survive than those in the opposite direction; consequently this collection gives better insight into Laurence's life and voice and work than Wiseman's. Laurence's is definitely a life and voice and work meriting insights. Wiseman is not entirely lacking, though we learn more about the details of her everyday life than of her writing or inner concerns.

What these letters demonstrate most clearly is how uncertain Laurence was about her own writing and how misjudged both writers were by critics and, at times, even their own editors. …

Personal Essay Margaret Laurence's Long Journey Home "I Love The Damn Country, That's The Trouble", Lyall H. Powers

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The subtitle comes from a letter Margaret Laurence wrote to Al Purdy on 31 October 1968, when she was still vacillating over her second reconciliation with her husband.! She was also looking ahead to her return to Canada to be Writer-in Residence at the University of Toronto for the academic year 1969-70, and vacillating over that as well. There is evident reluctance in her confession to Purdy about her attitude to Canada. Resistance to any favorable attitude to that country began early in her and accounts for two persistent features of her life and career as she struggled to establish …

Review Of The Life Of Margaret Laurence By James King, Walter E. Swayze

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Advance publicity for James King's biography of the best-loved author in the history of Canadian literature aroused hostility among many readers who had been eager for the book to appear. With its emphasis on the revelation of Laurence's suicide and on her marital stresses, her sexual drive, and her drinking, the promotional campaign recalled the conclusion of William Watson's brilliant essay "The Punishment of Genius" (1890): "Such is the lot of the modern man of genius; living, he may escape the poisoned arrow; but dead, he is a banquet for the ghoul."

The book itself proves to be less sensational …

Review Of The Mythology Of Native North America By David Leeming And Jake Page, Thomas H. Lewis

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The authors' admirable aim is to make the Native mythology of North America as accessible as that of Ancient Greece and Judea to an audience more or less ignorant of all three. To do this they anthologize themselves, taking twenty-five myths {out of a total of seventy-five} from their own works. The reader will wish to know first of all who the authors are, what they have written previously, and from what other sources they draw their material. David Leeming is a professor of English; Jake Page was an editor of a popular science magazine. They have written together on …

Review Of An Archaeology Of The Soul: North American Indian Belief And Ritual By Robert L. Hall, Robin Ridington

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This rich and complex book reminds me of Sir James G. Frazer's The Golden Bough, with one big difference: Hall is a distinguished practicing archaeologist. He knows about the symbolic and ceremonial life of Native America from firsthand experience with its archaeological, ethno-historical, and ethnographic record. Archaeologists look to the earth for their information but look down upon it in order to discover meaningful patterns. Hall surveys the Native American symbolic vocabulary with an eagle's eye, discovering connections among such diverse symbols and practices as sacred poles, calumets, atlatl weights, spirit release ceremonies, and Hopewell interaction spheres.

Hall, whose …

Review Of The Inhabited Prairie Photographs By Terry Evans, James J. Penuel

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The land provides constant fascination to artists: from seashore to mountain, desert, and prairie the land inspires. It is also raw material for the photographer's arranging eye. In this third book of photographs, Terry Evans offers fifty black-and-white images of central Kansas taken from the air and at ground level, images showing us that the land can be anything from the bosom of nature to the throne of majesty, sacred space, fearsome predator, or garbage dump.

The images reveal an inhabited prairie. There are farms, highways, industrial and military installations. They tease us with details, structures, patterns, lines, and curves. …

Review Of Kate M. Cleary: A Literary Biography With Selected Works By Susanne K. George, Sharon M. Harris

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

"Sometimes it seemed to her that she could endure everything save the silence." Thus begins Kate McPhelim Cleary's 1893 short story, "Feet of Clay"; like many of her best stories, it captures Plains settlers'-and Cleary's-pervasive sense of isolation in the harsh environment of the Midwest at the turn of the century. Having moved nine years earlier from Chicago to Hubbell, Nebraska, Cleary in her life and writings adds to our growing understanding of middle-class homesteaders who migrated to the Midwest in the late nineteenth century, and to our recognition of the important contributions of Midwestern women writers to nineteenth-century US …

Book Notes- Summer 1999

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Wind River Adventures: My Life in Frontier Wyoming. By Edward J. Farlow

Back in the Saddle Again: New Essays on the Western. Edited by Edward Buscombe and Roberta E. Pearson

A Guide to the Indian Wars of the West. By John D. McDermott

Growing Up in Manitoba, 1924-1941. By Harold H. Draper

Comanches and Mennonites on the Oklahoma Plains: A. J. and Magladena Becker and the Post Oak Mission. By Marvin E. Kroeker

The Law Comes to Texas: The Texas Rangers, 1870-1901. By Frederick Wilkins

Sweetie Ladd's Historic Fort Worth. Paintings by Sweetie Ladd …