Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons^™

Great Plains Reseach Vol. 2 No.1, 1992 - Editor's Note

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

When manuscripts are evaluated for possible publication in Great Plains Research, the editorial panel has the question of “place” firmly in mind. The distinction is of a place rather than in a place. Residence of the author is certainly not a prerequisite. While it might seem that the best regional scholarship comes from the region, the cosmopolitan character of the academy belies that generalization. Nor is a study done in a region necessarily of the region. A fine paper may result from a survey of residents of Kansas, for example, without any insight into whether the location makes any …

Review Of "Nebraska Residents' Perceptions Of The State's Water Quality” By S. Kay Rockwell, Ann Ziebarth, Delynn R. Hay, And Shirley M. Niemeyer, J. Allen Williams Jr.

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

On the basis of national program initiatives, the Nebraska Cooperative Extension staff identified three high priority needs for the 19905 related to agriculture. These needs are to increase agricultural profitability, conserve and manage natural resources, and enhance water quality. This book focuses on water quality, especially with respect to domestic drinking water.

The investigators obtained 877 completed mailed questionnaires from an original sampling frame of 2,000 households stratified by city size. Forty of the questionnaires were returned as nondeliverable or as "addressee deceased." Thus, from the remaining 1,960 potential households, the response rate was 44.7%. This response rate is adequate, …

Review Of "At Odds With Progress" By Bret Wallach, William E. Riebsame

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Geographer Bret Wallach's stated goal in this book is to show that environmentalism is rooted in a fundamental human love for the land. He argues that we are "at odds with progress" and that this aversion is illustrated through efforts to protect the land from exploitation. But, .Wallach argues, our loyalty to the land is cloaked in "disguises" of efficiency, social welfare, and scientific ecology.

This argument is pursued through a series of personal reflections on places: northern Maine, southern Appalachia, Wyoming desert, San Joaquin oil fields, the national grasslands, and Texas High Plains. Wallach obviously loves these lands, and …

Review Of "Politics And Public Policy In The Contemporary American West” By Clive S. Thomas, Peter Longo

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Clive S. Thomas has edited a fascinating collection of works in Politics and Public Policy in the Contemporary American West. Scholars of public policy, especially those in the 13 states west of the l00th meridian, now have an excellent resource in Thomas' edited work.

Thomas sets the stage of the book by identifying ten enduring characteristics of western politics (p. 8). Those characteristics include political pragmatism, political individualism, direct democracy, regionalism and sectionalism, candidate-oriented elections, weak political parties and strong interest groups, weak political institutions, the dominance of economic development, dependence on government, and the paradox between myth and …

Review Of "Free Trade On The Prairies: The Implications Of Canada-U.S. Trade Pact For The Three Prairie Provinces" By Steve Dorey, Bashir Qasmi

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This book is based on a study funded, in part, by the Canadian Department of Regional Industrial Expansion. The book provides a good insight into the Canadian positions during the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations, the concerns and expectations of key industry groups in the Prairies, and a good review of several quantitative studies that 74 estimated the impacts of bilateral trade liberalization in Canada. However, the conclusions of the book are not based on anyone particular quantitative study.

The author's basic thrust is that in recent decades, the Prairie economies have become diversified and much less dependent on eastern …

Review Of "Agricultural Policy Reform: Politics And Process In The Ec And Usa” By H. Wayne Moyer And Timothy E. Josling, James G. Kendrik

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

In days gone by, Economics and Political Science were one. and the discipline was termed Political Economics. Here, it was recognized that acceptable economic theory was tempered by the political system in which the economy existed. The Mercantilism of England and the Netherlands was in direct conflict with the Physiocratic doctrines of France, yet each prospered in their own political environment-and could be studied separately as an integrated unit. Today, the separation of Economics and Political science can lead to frustration when an economic solution for the problems of one society is not perceived by another political system as appropriate. …

Review Of "Co-Operatives And Community Development: Economics In Social Perspective” By Brett Fairbairn, June Bold, Murray Fulton, Lou Hammond Ketilson, And Daniel Ish, Sharon Lord Gaber

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

For residents of rural towns throughout the United States and Canada, particularly in the Great Plains region, the issues of economic survival and community sustainability are paramount. Brett Fairbairn and colleagues book about cooperatives reintroduces an old strategy for community development. Their concept is that cooperatives are an "alternative kind of development"-well-suited to the needs of rural communities. The book is derived from the authors' concern for community development in Saskatchewan.

The book is divided into six chapters. Although not identified as such, the first three chapters serve to convince the reader that cooperatives are a good and viable mechanism …

Tenth Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The Tenth Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop (GPWDCW) was held 15-18 April 1991 in Lincoln, Nebraska. The goal was to provide a forum for individuals involved in wildlife damage management to discuss new ideas and recent advances in ecology, technology, public education, and policy. The format allowed for interaction and exchange on current issues, damage control techniques, priority areas for research, public education, and extension activities. The GPWDCW is one of three national conferences (including the Vertebrate Pest Conference and the Eastern Wildlife Damage Control Conference) that deal specifically with wildlife damage management.

More than 250 people from 22 …

Review Of "Colorado's Government: Structure, Politics, Administration And Policy” By Robert Stuart Lorch, Robert Sittig

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

For some decades a number of sponsoring agencies have sought to provide a standardized work on each state's government and politics; thus far this goal has proven to be unattainable. In the meantime, studies such as this one have appeared in nearly all the states; this serves to inform interested readers about a particular state's politics, and Lorch's contribution has been a handsome one over these past years.

Lorch recounts the quite old-how Colorado was settled, got its name, and achieved statehood-and the very new-adoption of the state's first presidential preference primary for the 1992 election cycle, and the approval …

Review Of "The Wright Space: Patterns And Meaning In Frank Lloyd Wright's Houses” By Grant Hildebrand, David Seamon

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This book by architectural historian Grant Hildebrand is a search for the special quality that makes Frank Lloyd Wright's houses so well liked, both by their owners and general public. Hildebrand calls this special quality a "pattern"-that is, a repetitive configuration of architectural elements that, although uniquely expressed in each house, is an underlying motif in all of them. Hildebrand believes that this pattern involves the spatial dialectic of inside and outside as expressed through repeated architectural parts-the entry, the fireplace, ceilings, solid and windowed walls, terraces, and openings from the house to the outside, especially immediate spaces. Hildebrand's aim …

Review Of "American Indianwaterrights And The Limits Oflaw" By Lloyd Burton, Richard B. Collins

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Professor Burton's work focuses on legal recognition and enforcement of Indian tribal water rights. He explains the uncertainty of tribal rights and the difficulties of perfecting rights in court. Lawsuits encounter jurisdictional disputes between state and federal courts, huge litigation costs, technical problems with engineering and hydrologic data, years of delay, and, in his view, hostile Republican judges on the federal bench. Given the difficulties with lawsuits, he examines in some detail tribes' efforts to pursue negotiations and legislation as alternatives to litigation. He is quite critical of the alternatives and concludes that litigation is still the best choice for …

Review Of "Crane Music: A Natural History Of American Cranes" By Paul A Johnsgard, Amy Richert

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

A well-known author among wildlife enthusiasts, Paul Johnsgard has dedicated much of his life to the study of birds. In his lyrically written Crane Music, Johnsgard thoroughly compares and contrasts the natural history of the world's cranes with special emphasis on the two North American species, the sandhill crane (Grus canadensis) and the whooping crane (Grus americana).

This book begins with an interesting historical overview of the importance of cranes to human cultures around the world. Through the years, these exquisite long-legged birds have influenced religion, mythology, derivation of words, and important conservation efforts. Johnsgard …

Review Of "Twenty-Eighth Annual Alberta Soil Science Workshop Proceedings" By David T. Lewis, David T. Lewis

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This volume compiles the papers of a workshop that had several foci: the philosophies of soil conservation, the sweeping generalizations from LANDSAT data and their use in GIS, and the infinite detail of classification and genesis of soils, quantification of soil productivity, and techniques for the injection of nitrogen into the soil. The theme of this particular workshop was "Sustainable Agriculture-A Soil Science Perspective." Canadian agricultural scientists, as their U.S. counterparts, appear to have latched onto the buzz word "sustainable." Neither group seems to be able to define clearly what the phrase means. Fortunately for the reader, there is no …

Great Plains Research Introductory Note - Vol. 2, No. 2, 1992, John R. Wunder

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This issue of Great Plains Research is co-edited by Paul A. Kay and Clare V. (Bud) McKanna, Jr. Professor Kay resigned as editor to accept an academic position with the Environmental and Resource Studies Department, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Bud McKanna, former editorial assistant, will be editor of Great Plains Research beginning with Volume 3, Issue 1 (February, 1993).

Hydrology And Texas Water Law: ...A Logician’S Nightmare, Otis W. Templer

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Scientists generally consider all water as merely passing through, but in different phases of, the endless hydrologic cycle. In contrast, the law divides water in the hydrologic cycle into several different classes based on real or supposed physical differences between classes. Legal classes of water are treated separately, usually without consideration of the many interconnections existing between phases of the cycle, and different rules of law have developed concerning the ownership and use of each legal class. Texas courts, like those of other Great Plains jurisdictions, have applied this fragmented classification system, recognizing diverse public and private rights to each …

Wpa News 35 (1992), World Pheasant Association

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Newsletters

WPA News (February 1992), number 35

Published by the World Pheasant Association

Transforming The Role Of The Social Security Administration, Colleen E. Medill

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

Social Security benefits were never designed to be one’s sole source of retirement income. Due to fiscal constraints, it is likely that Social Security benefits in the future will be less generous when the young workers of today retire. In the future, retirement income security will depend heavily on wealth accumulated during one’s working years. The role of the Social Security Administration must be transformed to one of motivating, informing, and educating the young workers of today about retirement financial planning so that they can adequately plan and prepare for a financially secure retirement tomorrow.

The Gettysburg Address As Written By Law Students Taking An Exam, C. Steven Bradford

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

A Cameroonian proverb states that "[h]e who asks questions cannot avoid the answers,"' and, unfortunately, that proverb applies to law professors. At the end of each semester, law professors must endure the agony of creation that Mary Shelley's Dr. Frankenstein had to experience only once in his life. We are horrified to see the monsters we have created, so different from what we intended. The joy of teaching is the constant challenge and interaction with students in the classroom; the agony of teaching is reading what some of those same students have written on their examinations.

Of course, not all …

A Comparison Of Organizational, Structural, And Relationship Effects On Subordinates’ Upward Influence Choices, Kathleen J. Krone

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

This research examined the extent to which organizational membership, centralization of authority, and subordinates’ perceptions of supervisory relationship quality affected how frequently they report using different types of tactics in their upward influence attempts. Participants from five different organizations were surveyed. A typology of upward influence tactics was created based on the extent to which: (1) the means employed to attempt influence are open or closed, and (2) the desired outcomes are openly expressed or left undisclosed. The resulting dependent variable consisted of three types of tactics: open upward influence, strategic upward influence, and political upward influence. MANOVA results indicated …

Situational Domains Of Social Phobia, Craig S. Holt, Richard G. Heimberg, Debra A. Hope, Michael R. Liebowitz

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Although social phobia is defined as severe anxiety in social situations, little is known about the range or prevalence of social situations that elicit anxiety in social phobic individuals. The present study developed the concept of situational domains, groups of similar situations that may provoke anxiety in subsets of social anxious persons. Four conceptually derived situational domains were examined: formal speaking/interaction, informal speaking/interaction, observation by others, and assertion. Ninety-one social phobic patients were classified as anxiety-positive or anxiety-negative within each situational domain, varying inclusion criteria of anxiety experienced in each situation and the number of anxiety-producing situations within a domain. …

Validity Of The Distinction Between Generalized Social Phobia And Avoidant Personality Disorder, James D. Herbert, Debra A. Hope, Alan S. Bellack

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Disorders of pervasive social anxiety and inhibition are divided into 2 categories, generalized social phobia (GSP) and avoidant personality disorder (APD). We explored the discriminative validity of this categorization by examining the comorbidity of GSP and APD and by comparing these groups on anxiety level, social skills, dysfunctional cognitions, impairment in functioning, and presence of concurrent disorders. Results from 23 subjects showed high comorbidity of the 2 diagnoses: All subjects who met criteria for APD also met criteria for GSP. APD was associated with greater social anxiety, impairment in functioning, and comorbidity with other psychopathology, but no differences in social …

Brief History Of Afmic (Total Manpower), Robert Bolin , Depositor, Jonathan Clemente

United States Department of Defense Military Intelligence

Brief History of AFMIC (Total Manpower) from WWI/ (33) to 1992 (82)

U.S. Army Medical Intelligence Office Under SG

DLA Assumes GMI Medical Intelligence Mission

Army SG Continues to Perfonn Medical S&TI

DLA has RIF: Medical Intelligence Division Abolished

Army SG Assumes Entire Medical Intelligence Mission

USAMIIA Fonned (Located at ForrestaJ Buildng)

USAMIIA Move to Fort Detrick (Building 862)

Congress Eliminates All Funding for USAMIlA

DIAlGDIP Program Manager Appeals

Congress Allows Re-establishment of USAMIlA

- Must be Tri-Service

- Must be an Intelligence Activity

Tri-Service AFMIC Established

Anny (DCSINT and SG) Executive Agent

New Building on Fort Detrick

First Non-Army …

Behavioral Parent-Teacher Consultation: Conceptual And Research Considerations, Susan M. Sheridan, Thomas R. Kratochwill

Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families, and Schools: Faculty Publications

The importance of involving parents in their children’s education has been documented consistently. Likewise, school psychology as a profession traditionally has recognized the importance of working actively and collaboratively with parents. Little conceptual or empirical work has been reported, however, that links home and school individuals systematically in collaborative problem-solving consultation. Behavioral consultation provides a useful framework for working within and between family and school systems to involve parents and teachers together in cooperative problem-solving, with a focus on the interacting systems in a child’s life. The potential advantages of having both parents and teachers serve as consultees are that …

Differential Toxicity Of Enantiomers Of Maackiain And Pisatin To Phytopathogenic Fungi, Leslie M. Delserone, David E. Matthews, Hans D. Vanetten

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

Enantiomers of the isoflavonoid phytoalexins maackiain and pisatin were tested for toxicity to 36 fungal isolates representing 19 species. Nine of these species were pathogens of red clover, which synthesizes (–)maackiain; seven species were reported to be pathogenic on garden pea, which synthesizes predominantly (+)pisatin and minor amounts of (–)maackiain. In general, non-host phytoalexins were more inhibitory than host phytoalexins to growth of these pathogens. In addition, the opposite enantiomer of the host phytoalexin was often more inhibitory to a pathogenic fungus than the normally-occurring enantiomer. There was little correlation between the tolerance of fungi to (+) versus (–)pisatin and …

An Introduction To The Five-Factor Model And Its Applications, Robert R. Mccrae, Oliver P. John

United States Public Health Resources

The five-factor model of personality is a hierarchical organization of personality traits in terms of five basic dimensions: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness to Experience. Research using both natural language adjectives and theoretically based personality questionnaires supports the comprehensiveness of the model and its applicability across observers and cultures. This article summarizes the history of the model and its supporting evidence; discusses conceptions of the nature of the factors; and outlines an agenda for theorizing about the origins and operation of the factors. We argue that the model should prove useful both for individual assessment and for the elucidation …

Narratives Of Action And Identity In Cloth: The Textiles Of Highland Luzon, The Philippines, B. Lynne Milgram

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

The textile artifact, although framed by its physical existence, is not an isolated entity, but functions as a vital part in the ongoing systems of society. By viewing the artifact as an actor with its own life history and with particular parts to play in every sphere of life's narrative, we are provided with an entry to discovering how both the textile object and the subject, its creator and user, collaborate to mutually define one another. To interpret fully the significance of textiles within their cultural context one must examine not only the artifact's physical qualities, its materials, techniques and …

Review Of Mother Earth Spirituality: Native American Paths To Healing Ourselves And Our World, Ward Churchill

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

When I was a little boy, my mother, bless her heart, used to buy me books like Ben Hunt's Indian Crafts and Lore in a forlorn effort to keep me somewhat "in touch" with the indigenous aspect of my heritage. Hence, early on, I was exposed to such boy scoutish "homages" to things Indian as using uncooked macaroni to simulate the bone employed in making chokers and breastplates, making "peace pipes" out of wooden dowels, and pasting carefully colored bits of graph paper to tee-shirts in an effort to create the appearance of a beaded "Indian costume." It was, mom's …

Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Fall 1992 Vol. 12 No. 4

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

Review Of The Painting & Politics Of George Caleb Bingham., Stephen C. Behrendt

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Nancy Rash's superb study exemplifies the sort of reevaluation that results from tearing down the artificial walls of the gallery and the salon and relocating an artist within an accurate historical and cultural context. Rash introduces Bingham the total person: artist, certainly, but also writer, politician, legislator, polemicist, and social activist. Indeed, Bingham considered himself a public servant who just happened to be also a painter. This important distinction has been blurred by generations of critics who refused to see the "whole" Bingham and who consequently constructed an image of an artist depicting-in the scenes of Missouri life that form …

Review Of The Invented Indian: Cultural Fictions & Government Policies And Lost Harvests: Prairie Indian Reserve Farmers And Government Policy, Paul A. Olson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Both of these books concern the force of myth. James Clifton's The Invented Indian, a book put together by Clifton with sixteen other authors, represents an account of the collaboration between Native Americans and whitesanthropologists, poets, do-gooders, and government policymakers-to create a stereotypical "Indian" and an equally stereotypical history of Indians. The stereotypes are conveyed as "facts" in school texts, the media, and "scholarship," i.e., that perhaps hundreds of millions of Indians lived in America when Columbus came, that Pocahontas saved the Virginians and Squanto the Pilgrims, that the United States Constitution derives from the Iroquois, that Indians worshipped Mother …