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Pilgrimages Along Sacred Paths, Robert Stoddard

Geography Program: Faculty Publications

Geographic explanations about circulation and movement are largely concerned with the role of distance in spatial behavior. More specifically, many geographic principles of location are based on the friction of distance as it tends to restrict circulation and movement of humans. Likewise, the geography of routes usually involves concepts of least effort and the minimization of travel distance. A few path. ways of movement, however, do not seem to entirely fit these basic geographic concepts.

When people engage in religious activities that involve travel along a prescribed path, the role of distance seems to function quite differently than expressed by …

Preface, Mary Jo Deegan, Michael R. Hill

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

To us, as feminist professors, the structural inequality of women is obvious. To our nonfeminist students, however, this inequality is often invisible. They believe, optimistically, that all women's problems have been solved or will be by the time they complete their undergraduate education. They are firm believers that American society is egalitarian and radically different from the world of ten or twenty years ago. This book is oriented toward our students and our vision. We, too, believe that people are flexible and can change, and that the United States Constitution guarantees equality for all citizens. We know, however, that women's …

Bomb Talk: Framing The Unthinkable, Michael R. Hill

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Our cultural apparatus appears ill-equipped, if not unable, to conceptualize or frame the present nuclear reality in a way that lets us effectively come to grips with it as it really is: a deployed, targeted, industrialized capacity to instantaneously annihilate all human life. This paper demonstrates that we key or transform our nuclear reality in virtually every conceivable way, thus normalizing it and treating it culturally the same as any other phenomenon, including the most mundane. I argue therefore that we have before us the immense and challenging task of finding a way – working with flawed and inadequate intellectual …

Helminth Remains From Prehistoric Indian Coprolites On The Colorado Plateau, Karl J. Reinhard, Richard H. Hevly, Glenn A. Anderson

Karl Reinhard Publications

Examination of coprolites excavated from archaeological sites in the Americas demonstrates excellent preservation of helminth eggs and, in some cases, larvae. To gain an understanding of helminth parasitism in prehistory on the Colorado Plateau of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, 319 coprolites from 5 archaeological sites were analyzed. Helminth eggs and larvae were recovered after the coprolites were rehydrated, screened, and sedimented. At a sixth site, soils excavated from 5 rooms used as latrine areas were processed with palynological techniques. The results indicate that all but 1 of the prehistoric populations examined were infected with intestinal worms. The helminths implicated …

Proceedings Of Perdix Iv: Gray Partridge Workshop, Richard O. Kimmel, John W. Schulz, George J. Mitchell

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Conference Proceedings

Foreword, John W. Schulz Introduction to Perdix IV, Ted W. Weins

The effect of insect abundance on gray partridge chick survivorship in New York, Jody W. Enck

Foods and feeding behavior of young gray partridge in Minnesota, Richard Erpelding, Richard O. Kimmel, and Drake J. Lockman

Are the results of research on the partridge in Britain relevant to the conservation of this species in North America? G. R. Potts

Imprinting: A technique for wildlife research, Richard O. Kimmel and W. M. Healy

The Wisconsin experiment: Perdix IX Workshop, Robert T. Dumke and William J. Vander Zouwen, Jr.

Gray partridge estabilshment …

Leaders And Non-Leaders, Paul Brooks, Will Norton Jr., John W. Windhauser

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Faculty Publications

Newspaper editors often think of community leaders as being different from other newspaper readers. Such an assumption is supported with studies showing that opinion ' leaders have greater exposure to mass media than their followers and read different types of articles than do non-leaders.

But a recent study in Oxford, Miss., shows that media use patterns by leaders and non-leaders in a small rural community do not differ as much as previous studies seem to indicate. Perhaps the main reason that former studies reported vast differences in these two groups was the selection of opinion leaders. Earlier studies were skewed …

A Study Of The Factors Which Influenced The Perception Of Cooperation Between County Extension Agents And Vocational Agriculture Teachers In Nebraska, Robert Duwaine Boettcher

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The primary purpose of this study was to determine the factors which county agents and vocational agriculture teachers perceived to influence the extent of cooperative arrangements and activities that exist in Nebraska. A questionnaire was used to survey county extension agents and vocational agriculture teachers in Nebraska. The sample was drawn from all agents and teachers in Nebraska in April 1986. A 50 percent sample of each population was selected to receive surveys with 34 of the 45 county agents and 61 of the 70 vocational agriculture teachers providing valid responses. The results were tested for frequency and then cross …

Wpa News 14 (1986), World Pheasant Association

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Newsletters

WPA News (November 1986), number 14

Published by the World Pheasant Association

What Sex Is Your Parachute? Interest Inventory/Counseling Models And The Perpetuation Of The Sex/Wage Segregation Of The Labor Market, Helen A. Moore, Jane Ollenburger

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

This article explores the “gender model” of job research instruments that are based on the Holland Occupational Classification scheme. The six Holland “environments” constitute a ubiquitous base for tests and measures in career counseling and research. Analysis of the 1973 Quality of Employment Survey provides evidence that the Holland Classification scheme replicates the segmentation of women into certain occupations that generate low pay, even after controlling for worker education, job tenure, and age. Comparable data for male wage earners show a significant segregation away from low-income, predominantly female occupations. Thus the Holland occupational scheme and the instruments based upon it …

Mortality Of White-Tailed Deer In Northeastern Minnesota, Michael E. Nelson, L. David Mech

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

Abstract: Two hundred nine white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) were radiotracked in the central Superior National Forest, Minnesota, from 1973 through winter 1983-84; 85 deaths were recorded. Annual survival was 0.31 for fawns (<1.0 years old), 0.80 for yearling (1.0-2.0 years old) females, 0.41 for yearling males, 0.79 for adult (≥2.0 years old) females, and 0.47 for adult males. Monthly survival rates were high from May through December (0.94-1.00), except for yearling (0.60) and adult (0.69) bucks during the November hunting season. Most mortality occurred from January through April when gray wolf (Canis lupus) predation was an important mortality source for all cohorts. Yearlings males were most vulnerable to hunting and adult males to wolf predation.

An Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of The Cooperatives Serving Our Community Instructional Unit As Perceived By Nebraska Vocational Agriculture Instructors, Timothy P. Davis

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Purpose. The primary purpose of this study was to assess the perceptions of Nebraska vocational agriculture instructors with regard to the Cooperatives--Serving Our Community instructional unit. Method. A mailed questionnaire procedure was used to obtain information from 108 of the possible 127 Nebraska vocational agriculture instructors. A total of 78 observations were valid. The dependent variables were instructors' perceptions of instructional unit quality, value, and in-service training. Independent variables included Nebraska Vocational Agriculture Association districts, years of experience as a vocational agriculture instructor, total number of students enrolled in local vocational agriculture programs, instructional unit use-rate and participation mode at …

Nebraska Farm Real Estate Market Developments 1985-86, Bruce B. Johnson, Ronald J. Hanson

Nebraska Farm Real Estate Reports

Results of the 1986 Nebraska farm real estate market survey indicate that farmland values continued to fall sharply during the past year as the current farm financial crisis persists. For the state, the average percentage decline from February 1, 1985 to February 1, 1986 was 24.7 percent. This drop in Nebraska land values of nearly 25 percent was even larger than the 23.5 percent decline reported a year ago. These percentage declines of the past two years now represent the largest decreases ever recorded in USDA's statistical series for Nebraska which dates back to 1912.

This downward trend in Nebraska …

Wpa News 13 (1986), World Pheasant Association

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Newsletters

WPA News (July 1986), number 13

Published by the World Pheasant Association

Relationship Between Snow Depth And Gray Wolf Predation On White-Tailed Deer, Michael E. Nelson, L. David Mech

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

Abstract: Survival of 203 yearling and adult white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) was monitored for 23,441 deer days from January through April 1975-85 in northeastern Minnesota. Gray wolf (Canis lupus)predation was the primary mortality cause, and from year to year during this period, the mean predation rate ranged from 0.00 to 0.29. The sum of weekly snow depths/month explained 51% of the variation in annual wolf predation rate, with the highest predation during the deepest snow.

"Martha's Rules": An Alternative To Robert's Rules Of Order, Anne Minahan

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

For several years I have been teaching a social work course on how social workers can make their employing organization more responsive to consumers. We study how decisions are made in organizations. The students and I have become intrigued with the use of consensus decision-making in some organizations. Many—but by no means all—of these organizations are feminist organizations that wish to put feminist beliefs and philosophy into practice within organizations and to avoid structured administrative hierarchies for decision making. In their study of consensus decision-making organizations, students have reported that some participants are impatient with the time required by the …

Melville’S Economy Of Language, Paul Royster

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

This essay discusses two works by American writer Herman Melville: Moby-Dick (1851) and Pierre (1852), with emphasis on the uses of economic metaphors and on the issues of labor and alienation in the production of whale oil and of literature. Its argument is that Melville considered the mythology of American capitalism positively in the earlier work, and negatively in the later one. Moby-Dick explores the economic relations of the (capitalist) production of whale oil and converts them to metaphors for metaphysical truths. Pierre explores the economic relations involved in the production of literature and exposes the extent to which a …

Economies Of Scale And The New Technology Of Daily Newspapers: A Survivor Analysis, Seth W. Norton, Will Norton Jr.

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Faculty Publications

The economics of the newspaper industry occupies a special place in industrial organization. Unlike the vast majority of enterprises, this business is intimately linked to the protection of freedom of expression. Constitutional democracies generally have monitored it with special care. In the United States the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970 provides some antitrust immunity for segments of the industry. Ignoring a captive regulation (pro-producer, wealth-maximizing) rationale for the act, we may presume that the United States Congress deems daily newspaper viability as an objective superior to the conventional reasons for antitrust. The received logic rests on the notion that newspapers …

An Attribute Analysis Of Sandy Lake Ware From Norman County And North Central Minnesota, Lynelle A. Peterson

Department of Anthropology: Theses and Student Research

Sandy Lake Ware, is a Late Woodland-Early Historic ceramic ware, found throughout northern Minnesota and parts of North Dakota, Wisconsin, Ontario, and Manitoba. No formal analysis of this ware has occurred since its definition by Cooper and Johnson in 1964. As a result, the basic information regarding the attributes, the interrelationship between attributes, and factors leading to variation within Sandy Lake Ware are poorly understood.

This thesis analyses the relationship between between attributes from 1459 vessels collected in Norman county, and north central Minnesota, using the chi square statistical method of analysis. This thesis also tests the implicit assumption of …

The Influence Of Factors On Student Enrollment In Vocational Agriculture Programs In Nebraska Secondary Schools, Calvin J. Wiechman

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

No abstract provided.

Personality Type Differences Of Licensed Nurses And Implications For Continuing Education, Sally L. Cole

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This research was undertaken with the specific intent to develop a personality profile of licensed nurses (RN's and LPN's) which would provide a basis for recommendations of techniques to be utilized in continuing education programs for nurses. The instrument selected to measure the psychological type preference, and thus create the personality profile, was the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Carl Jung's theory pertaining to personality, known as type theory, states that individuals perceive and respond to information differently according to their psychological type preference which is measured by the MBTI. There was considerable correlation between the findings of this study and …

Union-Nonunion Earnings Differentials And The Decline Of Private-Sector Unionism, Richard Edwards, Paul Swaim

Department of Economics: Faculty Publications

Recent years have been difficult ones for the American labor movement. Especially during the past half-decade, the economic and political environment for unions has become increasingly hostile-dominated by a growing anti-union sentiment in manage ment; the adverse effects of industrial restructuring, import competition, deregulation, and high unemployment; and the tightening constraints of a labor law and NLRB enforcement mechanism that have become markedly less supportive of unions. These and other external changes, as well as some continuing internal weaknesses, have thrust unions into a period of declining union membership, eroding bargaining strength, repeated contract concessions, and what at least some …

Dod6420.1-R, Organization And Functions Of The Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center (Afmic), April 1986, U.S. Department Of Defense, Robert Bolin , Depositor

United States Department of Defense Military Intelligence

This is the charter for a national-level medical intelligence agency. Specifically, the AFMC was a joint agency of the Military Departments … under the management of the Secretary of the Army…” This directive spells out the mission, functions, responsibilities, and management of the center. An Interdepartmental Advisory Panel (IAP) made recommendations to the Secretary of the Army concerning the director and officers serving at the AFMIC.

The directive contains a lengthy list of acronyms and detailed definitions.

The directive discusses close cooperation with Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia through a Quadripartite Medical Intelligence Committee (QMIC) headquartered in Washington, DC. …

The Multidimensionality Of Joining, Suzanne T. Ortega, J. Allen Williams Jr.

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

By focusing on membership in voluntary associations in general, the question of whether correlates of affiliation vary by organizational type tends to have been neglected. This is a significant omission from the standpoint of describing the characteristics of “joiners.” Additionally, most of what we know about the reasons for belonging has been inferred from observations of who joins. In this study, nine frequently identified correlates of voluntary association membership were examined in relation to five different types of organizations. Only two, education and race, were found to be related to all types. Thus, results indicate that affiliation is not a …

Developing The Personalized System Of Instruction For The Basic Speech Communication Course, William J. Seiler, Marilyn Fuss-Reineck

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

The purpose of this article is to discuss major planning and development decisions required in order to use the Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) method in the basic speech communication course. In this article we examine: (1) how major PSI components are implemented and (2) how the PSI course is managed. By documenting the decisions required to use PSI in speech communication courses which include performances, we hope to provide helpful guidelines for those interested in applying the PSI method to their basic speech communication courses.

Wpa News 12 (1986), World Pheasant Association

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Newsletters

WPA News (April 1986), number 12

Published by the World Pheasant Association

Wpa News 11 (1986), World Pheasant Association

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Newsletters

WPA News (February 1986), number 11

Published by the World Pheasant Association

Gatt Ministerial Meeting Punta Del Este, Uruguay, Clayton K. Yeutter

Clayton K. Yeutter, United States Secretary of Agriculture: Papers

Mr. Chairman, fellow delegates, this week GATT faces an historic challenge. Our task is more difficult than any that has confronted world trade since the very creation of GATT in 1947. What we do in Punta del Este will determine whether GATT remains a functional, dynamic institution serving the interests of its members or declines into a static and passive association that is irrelevant to the needs of international trade.

Cross‑Cultural Research On Kohlberg's Stages: The Basis For Consensus, Carolyn P. Edwards

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Kohlberg’s stage theory has been met by many theoretical statements attempting to refute aspects of his conclusions or claims about cultural universality. Equally of importance, the theoretical controversy has stimulated much empirical research intended to test the cross-cultural claims. This chapter reviews the status and current progress of comparative studies of moral judgment and addresses the following three questions: Is the dilemma interview method a valid way of eliciting the moral judgments of people in other cultures? Is the standard scoring system appropriate and valid for cross-cultural use? Is cognitive-developmental theory useful for understanding psychological development in comparative cultural perspective? …

Improving And Strengthening The Trade System, Clayton K. Yeutter

Clayton K. Yeutter, United States Secretary of Agriculture: Papers

The successful launching of a comprehensive round of negotiations will be the single, most important event in international trade this year. I urge our communique contain a vigorous, unequivocal endorsement for launching a new round with a comprehensive agenda, in September. Delegations in Geneva will go over the text of our communique very carefully, and they will judge our determination by both the tone and substance of our statement. We therefore must clearly set forth our desire to begin the new round, without delay.

Small Business And Economic Development For Nebraska, Bruce A. Kirchhoff

Center for Public Affairs Research (UNO): Publications

Economic theory and research data suggest that Nebraska policymakers should redirect economic development efforts toward the formation and growth of small businesses. A mechanism is presented for categorizing small businesses into sectors which are most likely to provide the economic growth so necessary to the state. Recommendations for implementing a search and screening process to identify businesses with high-growth potential in the state are discussed. Finally, recommendations for changing policies and programs to increase the formation and growth of small businesses in Nebraska are presented.