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Review Of Refugees: A Third World Dllemma, John R. Rogge, Editor, Robert Stoddard

Department of Geography: Faculty Publications

The mass movement of humans takes on considerable geographic importance because of the associated changes in the source area, in the region of destination, and in the people who leave a home territory for a foreign environment. These repercussions are often accentuated when people are forced to flee their homeland and to beg for asylum in a strange setting. With the number of contemporary refugees in the world greatly exceeding the volume of voluntary international migration, the need among geographers for information about refugees is great. Refugees: A Third World Dilemma, a collection of thirty papers about various aspects …

Review Of Michael Bradshaw, Regions And Regionalism In The United States, Robert Stoddard

Department of Geography: Faculty Publications

The terms region and regionalism carry various meanings, so the book's emphasis is not conveyed by just the title. Unfortunately this confusion persists, even after reading the book. ... Nevertheless, the text is written clearly (in British English), the maps are pertinent, the index is helpful, and the various subtopics (see below) are presented succinctly.

After reviewing some familiar regionalizations of United States (e.g., the Census divisions, Trewartha's climatic regions, Zelinsky'S cultural area, and ones in regional geography textbooks), the author does a nice job of describing the historical conditions that produced regional differences within the United States. Also cultural …

Cancer Morbidity In Lamp Manufacturing Workers, Harry S. Shannon, Ted Haines, Charles D. Bernholz, Jim A. Julian, Dave K. Verma, Ellen Jamieson, Chris Walsh

UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications

A historical prospective study of cancer in lamp manufacturing workers in one plant was conducted. All men and women who worked for a total of at least 6 months and were employed at some time between 1960 and 1975 were included. Work histories were abstracted and subjects were divided according to whether they had worked in the coiling and wire drawing area (CWD). Cancer morbidity from 1964 to 1982 was ascertained via the provincial registry, and was compared with the site-specific incidence in Ontario, adjusting for age, sex and calendar period. Of particular interest were primary breast and gynecological cancers …

Perceptions Of Iowa And Nebraska Legislators Regarding Secondary And Adult Agricultural Education Programs, Bruce Burger

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

As the capacity for rural communities -to provide education services decreases, educators are looking towards notate legislators for support. Jailed (1984) reported that legislators must become more familiar with vocational education as they address the economic and social needs of the future. The purpose of this study was to determine the perceptions held by Iowa and Nebraska Legislators regarding secondary and adult agricultural education programs conducted within the public school system. The population for this study consisted of state legislators in Iowa and Nebraska. Seventy legislators, thirty-five from each state, were randomly selected for the study. Legislators were mailed a …

Identification Of Learning Styles Strategies Which Enable College Students With Differing Personality Temperaments To Cope With Learning Blocks, Gholam Hossein Zamani Zarghani

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

The purpose of this study was to identify the major coping strategies which college students with different personality temperament used to deal with their learning blocks. Students' temperament type was obtained from the pool of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator results available at the Agricultural College, UN-L. An instrument measuring learning blocks was designed and administered in the Fall, 1987. The Coping strategy Inventory (CSI) was developed and administered in the spring, 1988. One hundred and twenty seven agricultural college students responded to the first phase of the study, and 230 agricultural college students took the CSI. The Statistical package for …

Religious Homogamy And Marital Happiness, Suzanne T. Ortega, Hugh P. Whitt, J. Allen Williams Jr.

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Data from a representative sample of 1,070 married Protestants and Catholics were used to examine the relationship between religious homogamy and marital happiness. Although couples may vary in the extent to which they share religious views (e.g., beliefs, values), previous research has treated religious homogamy as a dichotomy; a couple is either homogamous or it is not. A partial explanation for this is that few studies have gone beyond the broad divisions of Protestant, Catholic, and Jew. In the present study religious bodies were classified on the basis of doctrine and ritual, yielding six categories: Baptist, Calvinist, Catholic, fundamentalist, Lutheran, …

Values, Beliefs, And Attitudes In A Sociotechnical Setting, F. Gregory Hayden

Department of Economics: Faculty Publications

Yngve Ramstad has recently inquired about how to define the components of the social fabric matrix and digraph system [Ramstad 1986; Hayden 1982a, 1982b]. To answer that question with regard to three of the matrix's components is the purpose of this article. The article will present, expand, and refine the author's introductory work on values, beliefs, and attitudes for the social fabric matrix [Hayden 1977, 19851. There are numerous meanings the word "values" evokes among institutionalist readers; for examples: social value, instrumental valuing, technological values, and valuation. Those concepts are concerned with "what ought to be," while the definition of …

Ingestion Of Lead Shot And Aluminum Bands By Bald Eagles During Winter In Nebraska, Gary Lingle, Gary Krapu

USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center

The Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalusis) a common winter resident along the Platte and North Platte rivers in southcentral Nebraska. Waterfowl are a major food of eagles during periods when fish are not readily available (Lingle and Krapu 1986). Eating ducks and geese can make eagles susceptible to lead poisoning, a significant cause of mortality of Bald Eagles in North America (Kaiser et al. 1980). Eagles ingest lead shot from waterfowl by eating shot imbedded in tissues or as part of the contents of digestive tracts. In this paper we describe the incidence of lead shot and Fish and …

Nebraska Farm Real Estate Market Developments 1987-88, Bruce B. Johnson, Joel Young

Nebraska Farm Real Estate Reports

Agricultural land values turned upward during 1987, after registering six successive years of decline. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln 1988 Farm

Real Estate Market Survey reported a 13 percent gain for the 12-month period

ending February 1, 1988. Increases were evident for virtually all types of agricultural land and in all areas of the state, although there was variation in magnitude among the substate regions.

The reversal of the long-term decline in agricultural land values stems primarily from improved farm income levels. Also, the preceding devaluation has positioned agricultural land values such that earnings have become more competitive with alternative investment …

A Sociobiological Perspective On The Development Of Human Reproductive Strategies, Patricia Draper, Henry Harpending

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

Humans show a great deal of variability in their reproductive behavior, including types of sexual activity, types of ties between males and females, and ways of arranging for the rearing of offspring. We will consider three principal topics: (1) Father absence versus father presence, contrasting children who are reared in a family system in which there is a closely involved and economically contributing father in contrast to a family system in which women rear their children in cooperation with other women (usually kin) and without consistent help from a man who is father to children. (2) Peer rearing versus parent …

Relationship Of Teaching Styles And Learning Styles To Classroom Environment, Lori A. Walla

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

Classroom environmental conditions establish the social climate or atmosphere of a setting. Stern in 1970 stated that student's perceptions of classroom climate or learning environment are useful in predicting achievement. The purpose of this study was to determine if there was an effect between teaching style and student learning style on classroom environment. The population of this study consisted of secondary high schools within 150 miles of Lincoln, Nebraska, which offer vocational agriculture programs. Seven schools elected to participate. Thirty-four vocational teachers were included in this study. Students completed the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and Classroom Environment Index. The Myers-Briggs Type …

Public Perception Of The St. Edward Vocational Agriculture Program, Steven Lynn Oberg

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

Purpose. The purposes of this study were: (1) determine importance of major program areas of the St. Edward vocational agriculture program by respondent group; (2) determine the importance of major components of the St. Edward vocational agriculture program by respondent group; (3) determine the most important vocational agriculture instructional areas which need to be taught in St. Edward by respondent group; (4) determine the extent to which residents are knowledgeable about FFA activities within the vocational agriculture program in St. Edward by respondent group; (5) determine how parents, business managers and taxpayers perceive the importance of SOE and summer employment …

Science Concepts Taught In Secondary Vocational Agriculture Programs As Perceived By Nebraska Secondary Vocational Agriculture And Science Instructors, Thomas L. Sabata

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

The study was conducted to identify the science concepts taught in the vocational agriculture curriculum which are the same as science concepts considered necessary in the secondary science curriculum in Nebraska, as perceived by 33 vocational agriculture instructors and science instructors in earth science (24), biology (30), physics (28) and chemistry (28). A mail survey was used to collect data for the study. The survey return rate for the vocational agriculture teachers was 75 percent; while science teacher returns were lower (54.5 to 68.2%). Science concepts were rated on a scale of 1 to 5 of importance for students to …

National Profile Of Agricultural Teacher Educators And State Supervisors Of Vocational Agriculture By Mbti Preference Type, Richard M. Foster, James T. Hornet

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Faculty Publications

Agricultural educators are In the business of communicating, teaching , learning and leading, all of which are affected by personality (preference type). Preference type of an individual has been shown to have far-reaching implications for virtually every aspect of a person’s personal and professional life. As such , preference type certainly affects how students learn, how teachers teach, how leaders lead and how everyone works and communicates. During the past 15 years, interest in the Myers-Briggs (Myers, 1962) type indicator (MBTI) among educators has grown tremendously.

Kiersey and Bates (1978) indicated that better communications and understandings are possible when both …

Evaluation Of The Social Interaction Self-Statement Test With A Social Phobic Population, Cynthia S. Dodge, Debra A. Hope, Richard G. Heimberg, Robert E. Becker

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

The convergent and discriminant validity of the Social Interaction Self-Statement Test (SISST) were evaluated in a sample of men and women awaiting treatment for fear and avoidance of social interactions. Partial correlations revealed that negative, but not positive, self-statement scores were generally related to self-report measures of anxiety and depression. Heart rate and subjective anxiety ratings derived from a behavioral simulation of a personally relevant anxiety-provoking situation were unrelated to SISST scores. However, subjects’ reports of negative thoughts obtained via the thought-listing procedure were related to the SISST negative self-statement scores, suggesting that the negative subscale of the SISST and …

Aesthesiometric Changes Over The Course Of A Workshift In Miners Exposed To Hand-Arm Vibration, T. Haines, J. Chong, A. B. Verrall, J. Julian, Charles D. Bernholz, R. Spears, D. C. F. Muir

UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications

The objective of this study was to investigate whether aesthesiometric threshold changes occur over the course of a workshift in vibration exposed hard rock miners relative to workers unexposed to vibration during the shift. The subjects were 99 miners and 40 smelter workers; four subjects declined to participate and nine were excluded from the analysis because of apparent failure to comprehend the testing procedure. Two point discrimination and depth sense aesthesiometry were conducted at the beginning and at the end of the workshift in all digits of both hands excluding the thumbs. In addition to the use of a vibrating …

Characteristics Of Buddhist Pilgrimages In Sri Lanka, Robert Stoddard

Department of Geography: Faculty Publications

Although pilgrimages have been studied by geographers for many decades, we still are uncertain about the universality of certain basic geographic characteristics of this religious activity. It is true that NOLAN (1983; 1984; forthcoming) has provided a wealth of data on Christian pilgrimages, especially in Western Europe, and several geographers have analyzed aspects of the hajj. But, there have been relatively few studies about groups in many other settings, such as the Muslems in the Philippines, the Christians in India, and the Hindus in Africa. We need to expand our collective knowledge about pilgrimages by studying them in a wide …

The E.J. Faulker Lecture University Of Nebraska College Of Business Administration Lincoln, Nebraska, Clayton K. Yeutter

Clayton K. Yeutter, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Papers

I am pleased to be back home in Nebraska. It is a special honor for me to be chosen to deliver the prestigious E.J. Faulkner Lecture at my alma mater. In particular, I welcome this opportunity to speak to the students of the College of Business Administration because upon graduation many of you will take jobs that are directly linked to the international economy. . Even though the state of Nebraska is situated in the heartland of the united state and insulated by thousands of acres' of land, it is a major player in the global economy. We must educate …

Ethnicity, Religion, And Gender: The Women Of Block, Kansas, 1868-1940, Carol K. Coburn

Great Plains Quarterly

Ethnicity, religion, and gender shape our past, providing a richness and texture to individual and group experience. This experience creates identities and communities that in tum educate the young and ensure the transmission of values, beliefs, and culture across generations. The women of Block, Kansas, provide an opportunity to examine the complex relationship of ethnicity, religion, and gender. Beginning in the late 1860s, this German Lutheran enclave used its ethnic heritage and its religious doctrine to create a separate, distinct community in south central Miami County, Kansas. Trinity Lutheran Church and School served as focal points in the development of …

Structure Of Agriculture And Women's Culture In The Great Plains, Cornella Butler Flora, Jan L. Flora

Great Plains Quarterly

T he family farm has prevailed as a bastion of petty capitalism in the Great Plains. Although capital and labor are highly differentiated in the larger society, they are combined in the family production unit in Great Plains agriculture. In addition to being the economic base for much of the Great Plains from the settlement period onward, the family farm provided a cultural base from which a series of values emerged. Women were important in reproducing this culture that tended to stress agrarian values and the primacy of the family as building blocks for a community based on the values …

Index To Vol 8

Great Plains Quarterly

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Review Of Life Of Bishop Machebeuf., Lance Larsen

Great Plains Quarterly

Original editions of this obscure diocesan biography, the major source of Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop, are all but inaccessible. The present reprint, an exact facsimile of the 1908 version, introduces to a wider audience the lively and memorable Joseph P. Machebeuf, first vicar apostolic of Colorado and Utah. To aid readers, the editors have included a bibliography, an index, and marginal asterisks pointing interested readers to a special notes section.

"There Is Some Splendid Scenery" Womens Responses To The Great Plains Landscape, Julie Roy Jeffrey

Great Plains Quarterly

During the decades of exploration and settlement of the trans-Mississippi West, travelers and emigrants encountered a new kind of landscape on the Great Plains. Aside from dramatic geological formations like Courthouse Rock, this landscape lacked many of the visual qualities conventionally associated with natural beauty in the nineteenth century. "It may enchant the imagination for a moment to look over the prairies and plains as far as the eye can reach," Sarah Raymond wrote in her diary in 1865, "still such a view is tedious and monotonous. It can in no wise produce that rapturing delight, that pleasing variety of …

Womens Culture In The Great Plains : An Introduction, Helen A. Moore

Great Plains Quarterly

Women, including plains Indians, European immigrants, blacks, and Chicanas, have always been essential to the development of Great Plains culture. Bounded by the patriarchal traditions associated with "women's place" in western society, women's diverse experiences are refracted through prisms of class, race, family structure, and work to create women's cultural legacies. In March 1987, scholars and other conference participants gathered in Lincoln, Nebraska, at the eleventh annual symposium of the Center for Great Plains Studies to address the theme of women's culture.

Review Of Helen Hunt Jackson, Valerie Sherer Mathes

Great Plains Quarterly

Helen Hunt Jackson, considered by Emerson "the greatest American woman poet," was author of more that thirty books and numerous newspaper pieces and articles. Virtually forgotten today, she is ironically the subject of two short biographies written last year, although neither eclipses the one written in 1939 by Ruth Odell.

Review Of Land Of The Burnt Thigh, Sheryll Patterson-Black

Great Plains Quarterly

Land of the Burnt Thigh recounts the adventures of two sisters, Edith Eudora Ammons Kohl and Ida Mary Ammons Miller, homesteading in South Dakota in 1907. "Timid as mice" and "city girls" at that, these young women are initially shocked by the rough frontier conditions they encounter but quickly rally to become successful homesteaders; Edith, in addition, becomes a newspaperwoman.

Notes And News For Vol.8 No.2

Great Plains Quarterly

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Review Of Emil Loriks: Builder Of A New Economic Order, Jonathan F. Wagner

Great Plains Quarterly

The author of Emil Loriks: Builder of a New Economic Order wrote the book in order to do justice to the life of her fellow South Dakotan Emil Loriks (1895-1985). Elizabeth Williams, an instructor of journalism and speech at South Dakota State University, has succeeded in producing a eulogy of an interesting and active farm leader. Her biographical portrait loudly praises Loriks for the variety of roles he played: as state legislator and Farm Holiday leader from 1927-34, as unsuccessful liberal Democratic candidate running against Republican Karl Mundt in 1938, as South Dakota Farmer's Union president during the later Depression, …

The Nebraska Capital Controversy, 1854-59, James B. Potts

Great Plains Quarterly

Early in 1857 Mark W. Izard, in a letter to Senator Stephen A. Douglas, summed up the frustrations that marked his tenure as governor of Nebraska Territory. "If there is anything on earth I desire more than all others," he told the Illinois senator, "it is to make this the model territory, and my faith is that if Congress will extend her a moderate share of liberality, the sacred doctrine of popular rights will fully be vindicated in her example." "But," he continued, "the path of your humble servant is extremely narrow and thickly set with snares on every side."l …

Review Of Ghost Towns Of Texas, Suzanne Lindau

Great Plains Quarterly

T. Lindsay Baker, curator of agriculture and technology in the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas, brings back to life eighty-eight Texas ghost towns. In describing each town, Baker relates its founding, its former significance, and the reasons for its decline. In addition, for each townsite he includes a map and full directions for reaching it.