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Removal Period Cherokee Households In Southwestern North Carolina: Material Perspectives On Ethnicity And Cultural Differentiation, Brett High Riggs

Doctoral Dissertations

Nineteenth century accounts of Cherokee Indian society consistently refer to the existence of two classes among the Cherokees: the acculturated "mixed blood[s], who speak English and are considered the intelligent and wealthy class" and the culturally conservative fullbloods, whom white observers denigrated as "backward," "indolent," and "ignorant" pagans. This perceived dichotomy reflected the poles of a socioeconomic and cultural continuum that developed as a result of the differential Westernization of Cherokee individuals and households during the post-Revolutionary War era. As these socioeconomic classes diverged, they developed as the primary axis of competition and conflict within Cherokee society. Because these groups …

Quaternary Vertebrate Paleoecology Of The Central Mississippi Alluvial Valley; Implications For The Initial Human Occupation, Michael William Ruddell

Doctoral Dissertations

This study is based upon a Quaternary vertebrate assemblage from the Central Mississippi Alluvial Valley donated to the Memphis Pink Palace Museum, the Connaway Collection. A total of 2288 skeletal elements were analyzed. Of the 2288 analyzed, 1097 were identified minimally to the generic level. Significantly, 610 (NISP) of the elements identified were attributed to animals with a grazing or open grassland adaptation and 431 (NISP) adapted to a woodland or forest edge adaptation. Paleoecological analysis of this fauna along with nearby river valley assemblages, paleovegetation, geomorphology and microvertebrates assemblages of the Midsouth were analyzed in an attempt to understand …

Where Does Online Go From Here?, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Tenopir wonders where online technology will go in future. She explores such technologies as wearable information technologies, smart appliances, electronic paper and e-books.

An Archaeological And Historical Investigation Of The Blount Mansion Slave Quarters, Brooke Hamby

Masters Theses

Introduction: Archaeologists have been studying African-American material culture during slavery and subsequent freedom since the 1960's (McCarthy 1995). While most historians believed that no trace of African culture remained through slavery and consequent oppression, archaeologists (McCarthy 1995) and anthropologists (Herskovits 1941) sought to prove that African-Americans persisted with their culture as a rebellion or reaction to their forced migration to the Americas (Ferguson 1992). In studying African-Americans in archaeological context, historical archaeologists have not had to change thier methodology but had to modify their interpretive approach. Because a culture historical framework tells us only what types of artifacts African-Americans possessed, …

Hot Topic: Growth Plan Policy Requires Joint Development Board, Don Darden

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

As part of the urban growth planning process, Tennessee Code Annotated (T.C.A.) 6-58-114 requires each county to establish a Joint Economic and Community Development Board by interlocal agreement. Cities need to be aware that forming a Joint Economic and Community Development Board is part of the growth plan process. Certain grants will be unavailable to counties and cities if a board is not established by July 1, 2001.

Hot Topic: Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act Of 1996: You Must Comply, One Way Or Another, Richard Stokes

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) amended the Public Health Service Act (PHS Act), the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide, among other things, improved portability and continuity of health insurance coverage.

Patterns Of Use And Usage Factors For Online Databases In Academic And Public Libraries, Carol Tenopir, Danielle Green

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Database usage data from a random sample of academic and public libraries in the U.S. and Canada reveals patterns of use in selected types of libraries. Library users in both public and academic libraries tend to use commercial online databases most frequently early in the week, mid-day, and at times that correspond to the academic calendar (November in this sex-month sample.) The mean number of simultaneous users is correlated with the size of the population served and the number o workstations available, but relatively low numbers of users are simultaneously logged on to research databases at all sizes of libraries. …

Human Or Automated, Indexing Is Important, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Controlled vocabulary indexing was developed well over a century ago to provide a consistent way for users to search for information, but human-assigned indexing has always been labor-intensive and costly. Because of the importance of indexing, two major information companies are trying automated approaches.

Back To School Know-How, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Fee-based online databases such as Lexis-Nexis and Dialog are trying to attract a new crop of librarians by offering free training and enhanced password management.

Hot Topic: Fair Credit Reporting Act, Richard Stokes

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

The Fair Credit Reporting Act is designed primarily to protect the privacy of consumer report information and to guarantee that the information supplied by consumer reporting agencies is as accurate as possible. The amendments to the Fair Credit Reporting Act make numerous and significant changes to using consumer credit information and restrict an employer's ability to obtain background information without the consent of the individual, whether he or she is an applicant or employee.

Should We Cancel Print?, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Two ongoing print publications may be needed to track the number of journal, magazine and newspaper titles that are now available online. The Association of Research Libraries' Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters, and Academic Discussion Lists tracks e-journals and listservs starting from the early 1990s. Fulltext Sources Online is an alphabetic list of magazines, journals and news sources.

City Manager Recruitment Guide (1999), Warren Nevad

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

The purpose of this project is to examine and assess MTAS management's recent roles in the selection process for a city manager. As a result of this research, a brief guide is provided herein to assist MTAS consultants with future city management selection projects.

Hot Topic: Public Acts Affecting Cities, Dennis Huffer

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

The 1999 Tennessee General Assembly passed into law several acts that affect Tennessee municipalities. This Hot Topic summarizes some of these acts.

The Celtic Harp Revival: Ethnicity And Marginality In Scottish Culture, Stevan Reagan Jackson

Doctoral Dissertations

The focus of this research is the Celtic harp revival in the British Isles and how that revival relates to the political sentiments of its participants. Devolution and the possibility of outright independence from Great Britain are on the minds of contemporary Scottish citizens. In the context of music's historical association with Scottish political protest and the centrality of the harp to imagery of the Celtic past, this study examines the political sentiments of contemporary Scottish harpers. The study employs the concepts of internal colonialism, cultural hegemony, and transnationalism to explore the intersection of Celtic invented traditions, in particular, the …

Team Conflict, Integrative Conflict-Management Strategies, And Team Effectiveness: A Field Study, Donnamaria Christina Vigil-King

Doctoral Dissertations

A longitudinal field study examined team effectiveness, including both performance and viability, in relation to team conflict management strategies and three types of team conflict. Hypotheses predicted that integrative conflict-management strategies would correlate with team performance and viability, and that these relationships would vary with the level and type of team conflict. Teams using integrative conflict management styles were expected to have higher performance and viability than teams using less integrative styles. When higher levels of relationship conflict were perceived by the team, the performance and viability of teams using a more integrative strategy would be higher than teams using …

Interactivity And The ‘Cyber-Fan’: An Exploration Of Audience Involvement Within The Electronic Fan Culture Of The Internet, Victor Costello

Doctoral Dissertations

This study investigates the relatively new uses of the Internet by television fans for keeping up with their favorite television programs and for interacting with other fans through on-line channels of interpersonal communication. A distinction is made between traditional television fans and a newly emerging segment of the fan population that routinely uses the Internet to supplement the viewing of their favorite television program. The name cyber-fan is used to describe this savvy and innovative member of television fandom.

The study was designed within a uses and gratifications framework in an effort to specifically observe the behavior of cyber-fans within …

Multiple Regression Of Body Weight On Stature And Waist For Estimation In Forensic Anthropology, Eldred L. Pierce

Masters Theses

Questions have been present in the forensic literature for many years about the most proper and accurate method for calculation of human body weight. Many have tried and failed to measure aspects of the human skeleton and find some correlation with body weight at the time of death. This has never been possible and selected skeletal measurements regressed against known weight will bear this out. Simple measurements of the femur were regressed with weight and with stature to show that skeletal measurements in general have a higher correlation with stature than with weight. The bulk of this thesis will deal …

Identifying Osseous Cut Mark Morphology For Common Serrated Knives, Jenny Rebecca Martin

Masters Theses

Worldwide crime statistics indicate that while the firearm is the instrument of choice used in the commission of homicide, bladed weapons run a very close second. This being the case, the analysis of these implements and the cut marks they create in soft and osseous tissues demands the attention of the medico-legal and law enforcement community, particularly forensic pathologists and anthropologists. To this end, the author and several colleagues inflicted stab wounds with three pairs of common serrated-edged kitchen knives of differing blade structures to the thoracic areas of three euthanized domestic pigs (Sus scrofa) and examine the cut marks …

Gender Negotiation On The East Tennessee Frontier: An Example From The Bell Site, Thomas Charles Stinson

Masters Theses

Archaeological investigations involving questions of gender have become more prominent in recent years. Material recovered from the Bell Site (40KN202), the remains of an 18^th-century log house in Knoxville, Tennessee is examined to determine the role of women on the East Tennessee frontier. Historical information concerning social structuring of gender roles in the 18^th and 19^th century America is examined to determine the social factors involved in gender construction, and the impact these factors may have had on women living on the East Tennessee frontier. This documentary data is then compared with artifacts excavated at 40KN202. …

The Rime Of The Ancient Miners, Jay Douglas Franklin

Masters Theses

Terminal Archaic hunter-gatherers explored and heavily utilized deep passages of 3^rd Unnamed Cave, which lies at the bottom of the Western Cumberland Plateau Escarpment in north central Tennessee. Footprints, torch stoke marks, chert mining pits with digging stick marks, flintknapping debris accumulations and associated fireplaces, and petroglyphs remain as evidence of this intensive utilization. The focus of this thesis is largely technological, centering on the chert mining and subsequent reduction activities that followed. Specifically, insight into four major issues is developed, including the nature of the flintknapping activities practiced deep within 3^rd Unnamed Cave, the goal(s) of the …

Exploring Thematic Balance In Personal Narrative As A Marker For Responsiveness, Laura G. Porter

Masters Theses

Research on personal narrative as a template or map that organizes experience and creates a lens for the interpretation of reality has largely relied on structural analysis for its assessments of adequacy. As a synthesis of beliefs and values with actions, thoughts, and feelings, however, the tone and thematic quality of an individual's life story must also shape the narrative compass that guides interactions in the social world. Among these elements, one's theory of reality will exert a significant impact on the overall context within which the specific unfolding of narrative plots occurs. In Western societies in particular, this perspective …

Hot Topic: Requirements Of Fingerprint Law, Rex Barton

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

The Fingerprint Law was originally passed in the 1997 legislative session. The original law mandated that local law enforcement agencies (1) Fingerprint every person arrested and forward the fingerprint cards to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), and (2) Maintain at least an 85 percent retention rate. (This means that the TBI should not reject more than 15 percent of the fingerprint cards due to poor quality.)

Unlikely Partnerships, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Two new partnerships have created unlikely and controversial relationships in the online information sector. Dow Jones Interactive is merging with Reuters Business Briefing to form Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive. Northern Light is producing usgovsearch, a federal government information resource, through a partnership with the National Technical Information Service.

Hot Topic: Y2k Preparedness Planning, Don Darden

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

This Hot Topic discusses a law passed by the Tennessee General Assembly that provides a five-year immunity to local governments for any Y2K computer failures, provided that the municipalities have adopted a Y2K preparedness plan. Included is a sample Y2K preparedness plan.

Hot Topic: The 1998/99 Mtas Salary And Fringe Benefit Survey, Richard Stokes

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

The MTAS annual salary and fringe benefit survey for 1998/99 is complete and shows salary increases for city employees grew at a rate slower than 1997/98. This report contains a summary of the findings as well as a means to request specific information.

The Database Marketplace 1999: Data Dealers Forging Links, Carol Tenopir, Jeff Barry

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

A year ago, the database marketplace was described as stormy weather, and while this phenomenon won't cease in 1999, it may be getting more predictable. A look at the 1999 database marketplace is presented.

Hot Topic: Changes In Federal And State Reimbursement Rates For Travel, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

For those cities that elected to reimburse for travel using the federal reimbursement rates, the federal government decreased the vehicle-cents-per-mile reimbursement rate for 1999 to 31 cents per mile. This decrease became effective on April 1, 1999. Any mileage allowances paid to an employee before April 1, 1999, for mileage expenses incurred prior to April 1, 1999, still qualified for the previous rate of 32.5 cents per mile.

Database Use In Academic Libraries, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Staff from 58 academic librarians responded to survey questions regarding what influences the recommendations they make for use of electronic databases. Quality and usefulness of content was rated as most important, convenience (number of workstations, availability of remote login, and location of workstations) was also important, and familiarity played a role. Availability of full-text often overrides all other factors.

Simultaneous Usage Of Online Databases In Academic And Public Libraries, Carol Tenopir, Danielle M. Green

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Pricing based on the number of simultaneous (concurrent) users is an attractive pricing option for many academic and public libraries. Anticipating the needed number of simultaneous usage ports, however, often requires guesswork. If too few simultaneous users are allowed, patrons may be frustrated; too many and the library is paying for unused access. Usage patterns for academic and public libraries help take the guesswork out of the simultaneous user calculation. Six months of usage data (July-December) from a random sample of approximately 200 academic and public libraries that access online databases from a major database aggregator show similarities and differences …

Ex-Votos Religious And Social Commentaries In Northeast Brazil, Carolyn Lindsey King

Doctoral Dissertations

The religious tradition of offering anatomical votive images out of wood or clay has long been practiced in the impoverished state of Ceara, Brazil and is still a vital tradition at the Sanctuary of St. Francis of Wounds in Caninde. This study documents the ex-voto ritual, examining the carvings as works of art embodying the prayers of the subaltern, subordinated within interlocking hierarchies of class, race, ethnicity, and gender; and discerns what this popular ritual practice encodes about its relationship with the Roman Catholic Church. It also examines, from the perspective of the Northeast's impoverished people, what the offered anatomical …