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Brain Integrity And Cerebral Atrophy In Vietnam Combat Veterans With And Without Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Bruce L. Brown, Dawson W. Hedges, G. William Thatcher, Pamela J. Bennett, Shabnam Sood, David Paulson, Sarah Creem-Regehr, Steven Allen, Jamie Johnson, Brooke Froelich, Erin D. Bigler Jan 2007

Brain Integrity And Cerebral Atrophy In Vietnam Combat Veterans With And Without Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Bruce L. Brown, Dawson W. Hedges, G. William Thatcher, Pamela J. Bennett, Shabnam Sood, David Paulson, Sarah Creem-Regehr, Steven Allen, Jamie Johnson, Brooke Froelich, Erin D. Bigler

Faculty Publications

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with decreased hippocampal volume, but the relationship between trauma and brain morphology in the absence of PTSD is less clear. In this study, measures of brain integrity were determined by estimating gray and white matter regional brain volumes using structural magnetic resonance imaging in six patients with PTSD and in five controls with comparable trauma exposure but without clinical evidence of PTSD. The only statistically significant volume difference between groups was observed multivariately in the white matter of the right temporal lobe (superior temporal gyrus, fusiform gyrus, parahippocampal gyrus, white-matter stem, middle temporal gyrus, …

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Mano And Metate Manufacturing Techniques Of The Maya: An Ethnoarchaeological Approach To Understanding Standardization And Measurements, Michael T. Searcy Jan 2007

Mano And Metate Manufacturing Techniques Of The Maya: An Ethnoarchaeological Approach To Understanding Standardization And Measurements, Michael T. Searcy

Faculty Publications

Prehistorically, maize was the bulk of the Mayan diet, which made grinding stones an indispensable tool. Basalt quarries located in Highland Guatemala are still exploited by metateros who produce manos and metates today. This paper reports the recent research among metateros of two quarries in Guatemala and how they can be use to build new analogies that aid in the interpretation of prehistoric production economies of metates. It specifically investigates how systems of measurement are linked to standardization.

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A Cognitive Robotics Approach To Comprehending Human Language And Behaviors, Deryle W. Lonsdale, D. Paul Benjamin, Damian Lyons Jan 2007

A Cognitive Robotics Approach To Comprehending Human Language And Behaviors, Deryle W. Lonsdale, D. Paul Benjamin, Damian Lyons

Faculty Publications

The ADAPT project is a collaboration of researchers in linguistics, robotics and artificial intelligence at three universities. We are building a complete robotic cognitive architecture for a mobile robot designed to interact with humans in a range of environments, and which uses natural language and models human behavior. This paper concentrates on the HRI aspects of ADAPT, and especially on how ADAPT models and interacts with humans.

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Urban Sustainability Through Green Building, Andrea Anzalone, Virginia Sawyer, Robert Woolsey Jan 2007

Urban Sustainability Through Green Building, Andrea Anzalone, Virginia Sawyer, Robert Woolsey

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

This analysis is presented on urban sustainability through the use of "green building" in the City of Las Vegas, Nevada. This paper discusses the current practices used by the City of Las Vegas and compares them to the top 5 sustainable cities throughout the United States (as identified by the U.S. Green Building Council). Through comparison of nationwide initiatives and policies, this paper outlines recommendations the City of Las Vegas can adopt to increase their position as one of the leading sustainable cities.

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Taking Shape: Implementing Citizen-Centric Local Digital Government In Western Australia, Deborah Jane Stanton Jan 2007

Taking Shape: Implementing Citizen-Centric Local Digital Government In Western Australia, Deborah Jane Stanton

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Digital government, encompassing output-focused e-government (delivering services online) and outcomes-focused e-governance (developing ICT-enabled citizen interaction and participation) has been proposed as the next step in online interaction between government and its citizens. Local government is still coming to grips with providing a mechanism for implementation of both facets of digital government, particularly those of e-governance. The Local Digital Government Framework (LDGF) was developed in this study to incorporate the citizen-centric focus of e-governance, facilitating the move from the organisational, New Public Managementbased focus of e-government. The LDGF extends existing frameworks, providing continuity in the literature. It comprises a new conceptual …

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Pagbukadkad Ng Bulaklak = Blooming Of The Flower : An Ethnographic Study Of A Friendship Group Of Same-Sex Attracted Middle-Class Young Men From Metro Manila In The Philippines, Ronald Macdonald Jan 2007

Pagbukadkad Ng Bulaklak = Blooming Of The Flower : An Ethnographic Study Of A Friendship Group Of Same-Sex Attracted Middle-Class Young Men From Metro Manila In The Philippines, Ronald Macdonald

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

In this dissertation I examine “gay” life in the Philippines by focusing on a longstanding friendship group of same-sex attracted middle-class young men living in Metro Manila who identify as bakla/gay/homosexual. I explain how dynamics of gender and sexuality including identity expression are conceptualised, articulated and negotiated through the interphase of Philippine culture, social class, economic status and the cultural appropriation and adaptation of elements of Western gay discourse and lifestyle. Ethnography was selected as the most appropriate qualitative research method because of its theoretical and philosophical “fit” with the methodological assumptions that underpin this study. A key feature in …

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School's Out: Adolescent 'Leisure Time' Activities, Influences And Consequences, Lillian M. Fawcett Jan 2007

School's Out: Adolescent 'Leisure Time' Activities, Influences And Consequences, Lillian M. Fawcett

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

The current study investigated the out-of-school activities in which adolescents participate categorised in terms of structure, type (creative, physical, passive) and level of interaction (individual, group), the developmental, psychological and social consequences of such involvement, and the factors influencing participation. Questionnaires completed by 1280, 12 to 17 year old Western Australian metropolitan, high-school students provided information on adolescents' out-of-school time use, their perceptions of parental values and behaviours, friends' behaviours and relationships and their own behaviours and beliefs. A model, based on the research literature, indicated that parent support and intrinsic motivation were the two factors contributing most to adolescent …

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"Feelin' Blue, Oh What To Do?": Coping With Negative Emotions, Jana L. Brinkman Jan 2007

"Feelin' Blue, Oh What To Do?": Coping With Negative Emotions, Jana L. Brinkman

Graduate Research Papers

Over the past five years I have had the opportunity to work with children and youth, ages birth to eighteen, in a variety of environments. The settings in which I have interacted with children include nonprofit agency environments, after school programs, church environments, parks and recreation programs, individual and small group counseling sessions, classroom guidance settings, and home environments. My own observations and experiences along with those of parents, school staff, university faculty, fellow undergraduate and graduate students, and co-workers have supported my conclusion that children from early childhood to high school youth struggle with knowing how to appropriately respond …

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Counseling Children Of Alcoholics In Schools, Melinda Voss Jan 2007

Counseling Children Of Alcoholics In Schools, Melinda Voss

Graduate Research Papers

Children of alcoholics (CO As) make up a large population of students in the school system. These youth are at high risk for behavioral, emotional, social, safety, and academic problems due to the dysfunction within their homes. This paper will identify (a) the definition and prevalence of children of alcoholics, (b) the effects of parental alcohol abuse on children, (c) possible signs and symptoms displayed by COAs, and (d) implications for school counselors to best meet the needs of these students. School counselors can assist this population by providing the skills and support needed to cope effectively with parental alcoholism …

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Estimating The Economic Impact Of Tourism: A Comparative Analysis Of Albania, Croatia, The Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia And Greece, Arjana Çela Jan 2007

Estimating The Economic Impact Of Tourism: A Comparative Analysis Of Albania, Croatia, The Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia And Greece, Arjana Çela

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

This study assessed the economic impact of tourism on investment, government and imports expenditures in Albania, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic (FYR) of Macedonia, and Greece. The objectives of this study were to develop a model to determine the impacts generated from an incremental change in tourist expenditures in the economy of Albania, Croatia, FYR of Macedonia, and Greece; to estimate the multipliers of the tourism expenditures on investment, government and imports expenditures in Albania, Croatia, FYR of Macedonia, and Greece and to investigate the differences and similarities of the economic impact of tourism between Albania, Croatia, FYR of Macedonia, …

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The Road Less Traveled, Larry Spears Jan 2007

The Road Less Traveled, Larry Spears

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

WHAT HAPPENS TO SERVANT-LEADERS WHEN THEY GET TIRED? Not long ago I was reminded of a quote-two quotes actually-which the noted author M. Scott Peck had shared with us as part of his 1993 Greenleaf conference keynote address. Peck, who passed away in 2005, and who is best known as the author of The Road Less Traveled, had admitted at the time that he was feeling tired, and he quoted T. S. Elliot, who had written: "Middle age is when they keep asking you to do more and more, and you're not yet decrepit enough to turn them down."

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Vision And Poetry, Nadine Chapman Jan 2007

Vision And Poetry, Nadine Chapman

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

The poet uses imagery arising from the concrete, from observation, and from responses to specific people. Through the power of metaphor and symbol, poetry can capture the unique ethical relationship between human beings and their relationship with the physical world. The face of a stranger, a dream, or a dirt road may gain unforeseen depth. Robert Frost's poetry affected Greenleaf's understanding of journey. Other poets, such as Yeats, T. S. Eliot, and Whitman, inspired him. He freely acknowledged his debt to these writers for their creative language and vision.

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Servant-Leadership: Love, Honor, And Courage, Myrlie Evers-Williams Jan 2007

Servant-Leadership: Love, Honor, And Courage, Myrlie Evers-Williams

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

This talk was delivered by Myrlie Evers-Williams as a Keynote at the 2006 International Conference of the Robert K Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership in Indianapolis, Indiana. Good morning. Good morning to each and every one of you. I am delighted to have been invited to share this morning with you. A few months ago, as a matter of fact, I was in Chicago and had a chance to meet with Jeff Miller and others from the Greenleaf Center. We had an absolutely marvelous discussion and in a moment of weakness, when I was asked if I would speak, I said, …

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Modesty In Leadership: A Study Of The Level Five Leader, Lucia M. Hamilton, Charlotte M. Knoche Jan 2007

Modesty In Leadership: A Study Of The Level Five Leader, Lucia M. Hamilton, Charlotte M. Knoche

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

Human resource metrics and in particular, the management practices that impact bottom-line performance, have received increasing interest in recent years in the business community, as companies look to human capital rather than industrial capital to achieve success. A study that has garnered a great deal of attention in this area is the subject of Jim Collins' best-selling book Good to Great (2001). In it, Collins reports on the findings of his research team in their analysis of companies who significantly out-performed their competitors over an extended period of time. The research team examined companies who had a 15-year cumulative stock …

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The Journey Of Leadership Development From The Inside Out: Beginning, Paul M. Nakai Jan 2007

The Journey Of Leadership Development From The Inside Out: Beginning, Paul M. Nakai

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

The following essay is the first in a two part series by Paul Nakai. Look for the second installment, entitled The Journey of Leadership Development from the Inside Out: Going Forward in the 2008 International Journal of Servant-Leadership. A few years ago, a young boy climbed over a protective fence surrounding a high voltage transformer box. Unfortunately, the box's locking mechanism was faulty and the child managed to get into the transformer and was severely burned. As you would imagine, the various parties started to litigiously position themselves to insure a "fair" settlement. A flurry of emotions, accusations, defenses and …

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Book Review: Values-Driven Business: How To Change The World, Make Money, And Have Fun, Hector Javier Rocafort Jan 2007

Book Review: Values-Driven Business: How To Change The World, Make Money, And Have Fun, Hector Javier Rocafort

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

No abstract provided.

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A Priest Forever: The Story Of Rev. Florence Li Tim-Oi, Peter Lim Jan 2007

A Priest Forever: The Story Of Rev. Florence Li Tim-Oi, Peter Lim

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

[Florence Li] exercised her priesthood with such faithfulness and quiet dignity that she won tremendous respect for herself and increasing support for other women seeking ordination . .. The very quality of Ms. Li's ministry in China and in Canada and the grace with which she exercised her priesthood helped convince many people through the communion and beyond that the Holy Spirit was certainly working in and through women priests. -General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada, 2004 Resolution Apart from sectarian movements, the institutionalized protestant churches by and large did not provide women with opportunities for ministry in …

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Generating Ontologies Via Language Components And Ontology Reuse, Deryle W. Lonsdale, Yihong Ding, David W. Embley, Martin Hepp, Li Xu Jan 2007

Generating Ontologies Via Language Components And Ontology Reuse, Deryle W. Lonsdale, Yihong Ding, David W. Embley, Martin Hepp, Li Xu

Faculty Publications

Realizing the Semantic Web involves creating ontologies, a tedious and costly challenge. Reuse can reduce the cost of ontology engineering. Semantic Web ontologies can provide useful input for ontology reuse. However, the automated reuse of such ontologies remains underexplored. This paper presents a generic architecture for automated ontology reuse. With our implementation of this architecture, we show the practicality of automating ontology generation through ontology reuse. We experimented with a large generic ontology as a basis for automatically generating domain ontologies that fit the scope of sample natural-language web pages. The results were encouraging, resulting in five lessons pertinent to …

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Blogging: Rants, Raves, And Random Thoughts, Linda Jones Jan 2007

Blogging: Rants, Raves, And Random Thoughts, Linda Jones

The Christian Librarian

Unless you have been asleep or just born in the past three years, you will have found many library articles touting the growth and value of the weblog.1 You may also have attended one of the many technology/library conferences, such as Computers in Libraries, and even an ACL Conference and gone to a presentation on blogs. You will have heard that you must blog, and in conjunction use RSS – whatever that is – if you wish to communicate more effectively with your patrons, your staff, or anyone else.2 Hopping on the blogging bandwagon can “save” your institution, make you …

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Resources Available For Review, Phyllis Fox Jan 2007

Resources Available For Review, Phyllis Fox

The Christian Librarian

No abstract provided.

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Frontmatter (The Christian Librarian 50:2) Jan 2007

Frontmatter (The Christian Librarian 50:2)

The Christian Librarian

No abstract provided.

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William Tyndale As An Evangelical Theologian, Donald Dean Smeeton Ph.D. Jan 2007

William Tyndale As An Evangelical Theologian, Donald Dean Smeeton Ph.D.

The Christian Librarian

William Tyndale is rightly remembered as a sixteenth century Bible translator, but he was also a significant contributor to the formation of the English language and, more importantly, he was a theologian. This article highlights Tyndale’s contribution in each of these three areas and shows that his theology is compatible with ACL’s Statement of Faith. His theology motivated and guided his work as a translator and as a polemical and exegetical theologian.

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Managing Up: Subtle But Effective Communication With The “Powers That Be”, Lindsay L. Van Sicklen Jan 2007

Managing Up: Subtle But Effective Communication With The “Powers That Be”, Lindsay L. Van Sicklen

The Christian Librarian

There are plenty of resources on managing employees but only in recent years has there been an emphasis on managing those to whom we report. The article entitled “Social Styles and the Art of Managing Up” by John R. Darling published in the Journal of Academic Librarianship in 1987 was the springboard for a lively discussion that included seven library directors and eight individuals from a variety of positions.

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Preparing For Abhe Accreditation: Suggestions For Essential Elements 7 And 11, Carol Reid Jan 2007

Preparing For Abhe Accreditation: Suggestions For Essential Elements 7 And 11, Carol Reid

The Christian Librarian

What can you do to bring your library up to the ABHE Standards for Accreditation? At the 2006 ACL Conference, a panel of librarians (Patty Agee, Tony Garrett, and Carol Reid) looked at two essential elements of the requirements to see how our libraries measured up. Our areas were the library’s relationships with the faculty (essential element number seven) and with the information technology personnel on our campuses (number eleven). After examining the new Library Guidelines for ABHE Colleges and Universities, which are posted on the ACL website as a member benefit under the Bible College section link, we graded …

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Weeding The Circulating Collection At Bailey Library, Mick Williams Ma, Mls Jan 2007

Weeding The Circulating Collection At Bailey Library, Mick Williams Ma, Mls

The Christian Librarian

The weeding process used at Nyack College’s Bailey Library involves a year-round, piecemeal approach during a five-year cycle. The weeding of the circulating collection involves roles for student assistants, librarians, and teaching faculty, and is designed to be user-friendly and yet contain necessary checks and balances.

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Resources Available For Review, Phyllis Fox Jan 2007

Resources Available For Review, Phyllis Fox

The Christian Librarian

No abstract provided.

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Resource Reviews, Phyllis Fox Jan 2007

Resource Reviews, Phyllis Fox

The Christian Librarian

No abstract provided.

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A Constitutional Conundrum Of Second Amendment Commas: A Short Epistolary Report, William W. Van Alstyne Jan 2007

A Constitutional Conundrum Of Second Amendment Commas: A Short Epistolary Report, William W. Van Alstyne

Faculty Scholarship

Prompted by the court’s decision in Parker v. District of Columbia, this series of correspondence discusses the effect possible forms of punctuation may have on the Second Amendment. The article makes comments on the important grammars during the founding and also two possible writings of the Second Amendment that contain different sets of punctuation.

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Flexible Access Library Media Programs Bibliography, Donna M. Shannon Jan 2007

Flexible Access Library Media Programs Bibliography, Donna M. Shannon

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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Historical Statistics Of The United States, Millennial Edition, Janice Schuster Jan 2007

Historical Statistics Of The United States, Millennial Edition, Janice Schuster

Library Faculty and Staff papers

This is a review of Historical Statistics of the United States, Millennial Edition.

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