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Great Plains Research 15 - Annual Index 2005 Oct 2005

Great Plains Research 15 - Annual Index 2005

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

Annual Index

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Review Of Teaching In Eden: Lessons From Cedar Point By John Janovy, Jr., Leanne Avery Oct 2005

Review Of Teaching In Eden: Lessons From Cedar Point By John Janovy, Jr., Leanne Avery

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

This is the rousing story of a rebel university professor who has spent a 36- year career passionately committed to teaching science students to be scientists rather than lecturing to them about science. Janovy's teaching experiences both at the Cedar Point Biological Station (CPBS) on the south shore of Lake Ogallala in Keith County, Nebraska, and at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's "city" campus can be described as an ongoing quest to bring the wealth of science in its context from Cedar Point to the "pedagogical poverty" of the large lecture hall setting in Lincoln.

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Optimum Windbreak Spacing In Great Plains Agriculture, Glenn A. Helmers, James Brandle Oct 2005

Optimum Windbreak Spacing In Great Plains Agriculture, Glenn A. Helmers, James Brandle

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

Integer programming techniques were used to determine the optimal windbreak pattern for corn and soybean production over a 70-year planning horizon. Field windbreaks provide numerous benefits to agricultural producers, including increased crop yields, erosion control, and wildlife habitat. However, windbreaks involve costs of establishment, maintenance, removal, localized yield reductions, and a loss of income resulting from cropland dedicated to windbreaks. As with any farm investment, windbreaks must be economically viable if they are to be adopted by producers. In addition to the direct costs of establishment, maintenance, and removal, yield increases must be large enough to replace opportunity costs of …

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Becoming Neighbors Or Remaining Strangers? Latinos And Residential Segregation In The Heartland, Ana-Mari Gonzalez Wahl, Steven Gunkel, Bennie Shobe, Jr. Oct 2005

Becoming Neighbors Or Remaining Strangers? Latinos And Residential Segregation In The Heartland, Ana-Mari Gonzalez Wahl, Steven Gunkel, Bennie Shobe, Jr.

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

Debate persists about the dynamics of segregation and their consequences for Latinos as well as others. This paper draws from the most recent census to examine these dynamics and their consequences in three midwestern cities: Omaha, Lincoln, and Lexington. By shifting the focus to new centers of Latino population growth, we clarify the complexities of Hispanic segregation across the United States. Our findings extend and inform previous debates in several ways. Using the index of dissimilarity, we find evidence of rising segregation in Omaha and Lincoln while Lexington appears a model of integration, at least at first glance. Class factors, …

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Review Of Every Farm A Factory: The Industrial Ideal In American Agriculture By Deborah Fitzgerald, Kimberly Porter Oct 2005

Review Of Every Farm A Factory: The Industrial Ideal In American Agriculture By Deborah Fitzgerald, Kimberly Porter

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

In many ways Deborah Fitzgerald's Every Farm a Factory is a familiar story. Students of early twentieth-century American agriculture will find recognizable contours: mechanization, standardization, economies of scale, depopulation, professionalization, and a developing managerial mind-set. What makes Fitzgerald's work an invigorating contribution to the history of rural America is her framework. The new "opportunities and constraints" confronting farmers and their families in the 1920s, she argues, were not an accidental convergence.

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Assessing The Economic Development Of Nature Tourism, Nancy Hodur, F. Larry Leistritz, Kara Wolfe Oct 2005

Assessing The Economic Development Of Nature Tourism, Nancy Hodur, F. Larry Leistritz, Kara Wolfe

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

Nature tourism is increasingly being considered as an economic development opportunity for rural areas of the Great Plains. As rural communities seek to develop nature tourism, questions regarding the attributes and interests of the nature tourist arise. This study sought to address these questions through a survey of participants at a birding festival held in central North Dakota in June 2004. The festival participants were predominately from outside the local area, and most of these visitors were from out of state. The festival participants were middle-aged and highly educated, and had relatively high income. The visitors spent an average of …

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Review Of Butterflies Of Oklahoma, Kansas, And North Texas By John M. Dole, Walter B. Gerard, And John M. Nelson, Ronald Alan Royer Oct 2005

Review Of Butterflies Of Oklahoma, Kansas, And North Texas By John M. Dole, Walter B. Gerard, And John M. Nelson, Ronald Alan Royer

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

This little book is a guide to 100 of the most common among approximately 255 butterfly species on record for the region it covers. Major taxonomic groupings are distinguished by color bars at the tops of pages. Colloquial nomenclature follows the North American Butterfly Association's Checklist and English Names of North American Butterflies (2001). Order of presentation and scientific names accord essentially with Opler and Warren, Scientific Names List for Butterfly Species of North America, North of Mexico (2002). Each species account presents up to four photographs of adults in nature, much in the style of the Butterflies through Binoculars …

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Review Of The Swift Fox: Ecology And Conservation Of Swift Foxes In A Changing World Edited By Marsha A. Sovada And Ludwig Carbyn, Raymond Matlack Oct 2005

Review Of The Swift Fox: Ecology And Conservation Of Swift Foxes In A Changing World Edited By Marsha A. Sovada And Ludwig Carbyn, Raymond Matlack

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

Swift foxes historically occurred throughout the short and mixed-grass prairies of the Great Plains. In February 1992, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) was petitioned by a private citizen to list the swift fox as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act. The USFWS concluded that listing of the swift fox was warranted but precluded because of higher listing priorities. In 2002, the USFWS removed the swift fox from candidate status.

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Review Of On The Great Plains: Agriculture And Environment By Geoff Cunfer, Gary Libecap Oct 2005

Review Of On The Great Plains: Agriculture And Environment By Geoff Cunfer, Gary Libecap

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

Geoff Cunfer has written an important book about the interaction between humans and nature in the Great Plains between 1870 and the end of the twentieth century. It will be useful to those involved in environmental and ecological science, agriculture and agricultural history, as well as economic history and economic development. One of the largest agricultural landscapes in the U.S., the Great Plains was at one time thought of as "the Great American Desert," and the Northern Great Plains was the last region to be settled on the agricultural frontier. Interpretation of Great Plains history is split between two camps. …

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Nebraska’S Tiger Beetle, Cincindela Nebraskana Casey, Mathew L. Brust, W. W. Hoback Oct 2005

Nebraska’S Tiger Beetle, Cincindela Nebraskana Casey, Mathew L. Brust, W. W. Hoback

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

Named for the state where it was discovered, Cicindela Nebraskana Casey is among the rarest insects in Nebraska. Although this beetle was described in 1909, only nine specimens had been collected in Nebraska in the 95 years before we conducted surveys in 2003 and 2004 in the extreme western portion of the state. Because of scant records, little was known about the Nebraska populations relative to populations of the species in the remainder of the western United States. We discovered two populations in Sioux and Scotts Bluff counties. We review the taxonomy of this species and document its habitat and …

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Review Of Revenge Of The Windigo: The Construction Of The Mind And Mental Health Of North American Aboriginal Peoples By James B. Waldram, Vicki Smye Oct 2005

Review Of Revenge Of The Windigo: The Construction Of The Mind And Mental Health Of North American Aboriginal Peoples By James B. Waldram, Vicki Smye

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

In Revenge of the Windigo, James Waldram provides an incisive critique of the use and abuse of culture in mental health theory and practice. In my view, one of the most important contributions of this book relates to Waldram's notice of the often unexamined and sometimes cavalier use of "Aboriginality" and related research methodological practices, including the uncritical appropriation of terminology in the field of Aboriginal mental health. I was particularly drawn to Waldram's attention to ideological positioning in which complex ideas are reduced to simplistic binary forms, for example, the use of the concepts of "traditional" and "holism," …

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Review Of Growing Penstemons: Species, Cultivars, And Hybrids Compiled By Dale Lindgren And Ellen Wilde, Ronald Weedon Oct 2005

Review Of Growing Penstemons: Species, Cultivars, And Hybrids Compiled By Dale Lindgren And Ellen Wilde, Ronald Weedon

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

This book clearly appeals to those of us who never met a penstemon we didn't like. Everything about it is oriented to making the experiences of the penstemon traveler easier and a lot more enjoyable, starting with the color photographs on the book covers.

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Review Of Storied Stone: Indian Rock Art Of The Black Hills Country By Linea Sundstrom, Kevin Callahan Oct 2005

Review Of Storied Stone: Indian Rock Art Of The Black Hills Country By Linea Sundstrom, Kevin Callahan

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

As a "place of power" for several millennia, the Black Hills region contains a wealth of rock art, ranging from possibly Paleoindian and early Archaic examples to the carvings of members of the Custer expedition. In Storied Stone, Linea Sundstrom-a private consultant in archaeology, historic resource management, and ethnohistory with a wide range of interests and an impressive depth of knowledge of the Lakota, Cheyenne, Mandan, Hidatsa, Ponca, eastern Dakota, and other Native American cultures-has produced a major new work in which she effortlessly handles and interweaves the archaeological evidence, historical documents, and ethnographic accounts relevant to her subject …

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Great Plains Research 15:2 (Fall 2005) - Frontmatter Oct 2005

Great Plains Research 15:2 (Fall 2005) - Frontmatter

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

Frontmatter

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Review Of Lewis And Clark And The Geology Of The Great Plains And Lewis And Clark And The Geology Of Nebraska And Parts Of Adjacent States By R. F. Diffendal, Jr., And Anne P. Diffendal, Harmon Maher, Jr. Oct 2005

Review Of Lewis And Clark And The Geology Of The Great Plains And Lewis And Clark And The Geology Of Nebraska And Parts Of Adjacent States By R. F. Diffendal, Jr., And Anne P. Diffendal, Harmon Maher, Jr.

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

When it comes to science in general, and the geology of the Great Plains in particular, there is arguably an imbalance between the wealth of material written for experts and the relative paucity written for the general public. These publications help correct that imbalance at a time when the various Lewis and Clark celebrations create an especially receptive and engaged audience.

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Preliminary Assessment Of Sand Dune Stability Along A Bioclimatic Gradient, North Central And Northwestern Oklahoma, Carlos Cordova, Jess Porter, Kenneth Lepper, Regina Kalchgruber, Gregory Scott Oct 2005

Preliminary Assessment Of Sand Dune Stability Along A Bioclimatic Gradient, North Central And Northwestern Oklahoma, Carlos Cordova, Jess Porter, Kenneth Lepper, Regina Kalchgruber, Gregory Scott

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

Sandhills of eolian origin and currently active dunes in Oklahoma are located mainly on the northern side of the main rivers. Their longitudinal distribution spans a gradient of annual precipitation ranging from 914 mm in the east to 403 mm in the west. Vegetation types along this gradient include cross-timbers woodlands in the east and sand-sage and short grasses in the west. The information presented here is a preliminary assessment of sand dune dynamics and morphology, soils, and vegetation as the basis for an ongoing study on past and present processes of sand dune stability. For this purpose, six areas …

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Review Of Immigrants And The American Dream: Remaking The Middle Class By William A. V. Clark, John Defrain Oct 2005

Review Of Immigrants And The American Dream: Remaking The Middle Class By William A. V. Clark, John Defrain

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

In three decades the immigrant population in the U.S. has increased from 10 million to more than 28 million and continues to grow. In 1970 the foreign-born population was little more than 4%; today it has reached 11 %. About 40% of the immigrant population growth in this 35-year period has occurred in the past decade alone. The consensus among demographers is that immigrants are the major contributor to the country's population growth.

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Family Predictors Of Well-Functioning Midwestern Adolescents, Douglas A. Abbott, Scott Hall, William Meredith Oct 2005

Family Predictors Of Well-Functioning Midwestern Adolescents, Douglas A. Abbott, Scott Hall, William Meredith

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

The purpose of our project was to investigate well-functioning adolescents to identify familial influences that may account for their positive developmental outcomes and healthy life choices. A family systems perspective was used to conceptualize this project. More than 300 teenagers were surveyed about family influences on adolescent outcomes. Results indicated that teen religiosity, parental warmth, parental monitoring, and a low occurrence of stressful life events were related to teen depression, participation in risky behaviors, and parental-teen conflict. General conclusions were drawn about the importance of the family environment on teen behavior and the usefulness of a systems point of view …

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Review Of Deep In The Heart: The Texas Tendency In American Politics By James Mcenteer, Gary A. Keith Oct 2005

Review Of Deep In The Heart: The Texas Tendency In American Politics By James Mcenteer, Gary A. Keith

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

George W. Bush has spawned a cottage industry of publications about his success in politics. One of the latest entries is James McEnteer's Deep in the Heart: The Texas Tendency in American Politics. In the 1990s, McEnteer wrote Fighting Words about firebrand journalists who challenged and shook up the Texas Establishment. Now McEnteer has penned his own fighting words about Bush's America. Like others, McEnteer retraces the Bushes' shady business deals. But it is the Alamo, rather than Bush, that serves as McEnteer's touchstone. McEnteer argues that the myth of the Alamo reflects a deep-seated cultural Texanism that has …

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Review Of Weeds Of The Great Plains By James Stubbendieck, Mitchell 1. Coffin, And L. M. Landholt, Craig C. Freeman Oct 2005

Review Of Weeds Of The Great Plains By James Stubbendieck, Mitchell 1. Coffin, And L. M. Landholt, Craig C. Freeman

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

Alteration of the Great Plains landscape during the past two centuries has permitted scores of weedy plants to flourish and expand their ranges, often profoundly affecting the ecology and economy of the region. As their numbers have increased, weed identification has become progressively more challenging. More than 600 of the 3,600 species of flowering plants and ferns documented in the Great Plains were not here 200 years ago. This book, updating and replacing Weeds of Nebraska and the Great Plains (1994), intends to enable users to "identify or confirm the identity of the most important weeds in the Great Plains."

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Review Of Oklahoma Breeding Bird Atlas Edited By Dan L. Reinking, Keith Arnold Oct 2005

Review Of Oklahoma Breeding Bird Atlas Edited By Dan L. Reinking, Keith Arnold

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

This volume culminates the typical five-year atlas study of breeding birds in a specific state, in this case one well within the Great Plains. Oklahoma abuts parts of five other states of that region and, as such, shares its avifauna with them. The obviously well-funded effort included a full-time seasonal employee each year to survey blocks and enter data, each one racking up an impressive 10,000 miles per season to reach blocks not covered by volunteers. Nonetheless, like most of those before it, this atlas project had to rely upon volunteers to accomplish much of the field work.

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Frame-Shifting In Humor And Irony, L. David Ritchie Oct 2005

Frame-Shifting In Humor And Irony, L. David Ritchie

Communication Faculty Publications and Presentations

Coulson's (2001) analysis of humor as "frame-shifting" is extended to irony and compared to other current theories of humor and irony, including Giora's (2003) graded salience model. It is argued that the effects of humor and irony often depend on a subversive relationship between the initial and alternative frames, which adds to both cognitive and social meaning; understanding these effects requires consideration of the expansion of common ground (Clark, 1996) and relevance effects (Sperber & Wilson, 1986) triggered by the shift from a culturally licensed to a subversive frame. Reanalysis of several examples from recent studies in the light of …

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Agroecology Of The Naso-Teribe: The Management And Conservation Of Traditional Agroecological Systems, Maisie Ganz Oct 2005

Agroecology Of The Naso-Teribe: The Management And Conservation Of Traditional Agroecological Systems, Maisie Ganz

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

The term “agroecology” is used to describe the sustainable design and management of agricultural systems by the application of ecological concepts and principles. The resulting agroecosystems, often practiced by indigenous or poor farmers in marginal environments without access to external technologies, are systems of food production that integrate cultivated crops into surrounding ecosystems. The Naso-Teribe, an indigenous community of approximately 3,800 individuals living in the forests of western Panama, practice a complex agroecological system. The Naso farmers’ agricultural practices contribute to, and are dependent on, the biodiversity of resources available. The ways in which Naso farmers manage, maintain, and preserve …

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Periodismo Medioambiental, Peter Weisberg Oct 2005

Periodismo Medioambiental, Peter Weisberg

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

INTAG is a community run, environmental newspaper that serves the county of Intag on the western slopes of the Andes in northern Ecuador. For the month of November 2005, I worked for the newspaper, writing articles and researching ways in which the paper can increase communication among different organizations that formed over the last eleven years of resistance to proposed mining. After interviewing eleven community leaders, I conclude that the paper can 1) do more to elicit the participation of groups that are currently inactive and 2) maintain its ecological position while gaining credibility by constructively criticizing the anti-mining community …

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The Super Market: Examining The Bangladesh Market As A Model For Local Economic Development, Sally K. Smyth Oct 2005

The Super Market: Examining The Bangladesh Market As A Model For Local Economic Development, Sally K. Smyth

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

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The Compass Rose Vol. Xix, No. 2, University Of Texas At Arlington Library Special Collections & Archives Oct 2005

The Compass Rose Vol. Xix, No. 2, University Of Texas At Arlington Library Special Collections & Archives

The Compass Rose

The purpose of The Compass Rose is to raise awareness of Special Collections' resources and to foster the use of these resources. The newsletter also reports significant new programs, initiatives, and acquisitions of Special Collections. The issues included here are scans of print newsletters from the 1990s and 2000s. Current issues and posts of The Compass Rose can now be accessed on the UTA Libraries Compass Rose Blog.

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Connections: Library News For Library Staff Vol. 2, Issue 9, University Of Texas At Arlington Library Oct 2005

Connections: Library News For Library Staff Vol. 2, Issue 9, University Of Texas At Arlington Library

Connections: Library News for Library Staff

The purpose of Connections was to build community within UTA Library staff by reminding people of upcoming events and dates, introducing new staff members, celebrating a department's achievements, and writing about other items of interest.

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Using Scenario-Based Training To Teach Single Pilot Resource Management Related To The Use Of The Brs Parachute, Shayna Danielle Strally Oct 2005

Using Scenario-Based Training To Teach Single Pilot Resource Management Related To The Use Of The Brs Parachute, Shayna Danielle Strally

Master's Theses - Daytona Beach

The Ballistic Recovery System is an emergency parachute for single engine aircraft which, when released, lowers the aircraft to the ground to prevent terrain collision. This study sought to examine the effects of scenario-based training on pilot’s use of the BRS. Of particular interest was the point at which the pilot decides to deploy the BRS. Single pilot resource management was included as a training objective, as it encompasses relevant cognitive skills such as decision making and situational awareness. The results showed participants in the scenario-based training condition performed significantly better than participants in a traditional training condition on several …

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Out Of The Blue: Re-Evaluating Electra-Glide In Blue, William Blick Oct 2005

Out Of The Blue: Re-Evaluating Electra-Glide In Blue, William Blick

Publications and Research

The 1970s was a time of moral ambiguity for the cinema. The cult- favorite, Electra Glide in Blue demonstrates the polarization of ideologies in America at the time. In this film, there are several conflicting views of the Vietnam War, "Hippies", drugs, conservatism, communes, and the mistrust of authority that made up a zeitgeist of the time. This short article defines the film as a examination of the ambiguity of the 1970s.

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Southeastern Law Librarian Fall 2005, Seaall Oct 2005

Southeastern Law Librarian Fall 2005, Seaall

Newsletters

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