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China: The Pessoptimist Nation, William A. Callahan

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

China is the most optimistic nation in the world. 86 percent think that their country is headed in the right direction, up from 48 percent in 2002 according to the latest Pew Global Attitudes survey.

There are good reasons to be hopeful. 2008 is important not only because Beijing is hosting the Olympics. This year Chinese people are also celebrating thirty years of Deng Xiaoping’s economic reform policy, whose double digit economic growth has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, and created a new middle class that is larger than most European countries.

But China’s nationalistic pride takes pessimistic …

Rob Riggle Goes To China

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

All week, Rob Riggle of The Daily Show has been acting out his exuberant American routine in China. Last night’s interview with BizChina’s anchor Rui Chenggang was a particular gem for China media watchers. Rui, who has interviewed a whole host of prominent American business leaders (not to mention Chinese ones), gives no ground to Riggle, parrying all Riggle’s Daily-Show style ambushes. Unfortunately, the only available online clip is the entire episode of last night’s show at Comedy Central (head here–the clip starts at 6:42, and you’ll have to watch a short ad).

Pet Wine Bottles: Will Consumers Accept Them?, David Baird, Wayne Howard

Agribusiness

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Rationality And Reproduction: Health Insurance Coverage And Married Women's Fertility, Jennifer Adams Mendoza

Theses and Dissertations

Health insurance has become essential in mediating the extremely high costs of childbirth; however, it has been neglected in fertility research. This study examines health insurance coverage as an economic determinant of fertility and includes discussions of the cost of raising children, contraception and childbirth as well as opportunity costs to illustrate that the effect of health insurance may differ by resources, such as income and education. Using data from the 2001 Survey of Income and Program Participation, I analyze the effects of insurance on the probability of pregnancy and birth with Discrete-Time Hazard Models. Results show that health insurance …

Understanding Male Juvenile Sexual Offenders : An Investigation Of Experiences And Internalized Masculinity, Adam Brown

Theses, Dissertations, and Projects

Reoffense of nonsexual crime in juveniles is 3 to 4 times more likely than the reoffense of sexual crime (Burton and Meezan, 2004). The purpose of this study was to investigate how the literature-based factors of experienced trauma, masculine beliefs, and substance abuse affect the commission of nonsexual violence in sexually offending juveniles. Three related quantitative articles were written in this investigation. The first article explores each factor separately among a group of sexual offenders to see how each explains their nonsexually violent behavior. Assumptions about trauma and masculinity in this group were not supported, but alcohol use was. Each …

Male Obesity : A Qualitative Study Of Clinical Attitudes And Perspectives, Michael Joseph Carter

Theses, Dissertations, and Projects

This study was undertaken to explore the clinical attitudes of mental health professionals towards obese men as well as the effects of these attitudes on mental health treatment. In addition this study contributes to the growing body of literature concerning the shifting role of men's body image in the United States and the ways in which this is understood in the mental health field. Interviews were conducted with 12 male and female mental health clinicians in an inpatient and outpatient setting. They were interviewed regarding their perspectives on obesity, gender and obesity, male body image, and assessment and evaluation of …

Meaning Making For Survivors Of Suicide : An Exploratory Study Of A Complicated Process, Lavange Elizabeth Barth

Theses, Dissertations, and Projects

This study examined the ways that survivors of suicide make meaning following the death of a person they defined as a family member, intimate partner, or shared a close friendship with. Meaning making was conceptualized through the lens of postmodernism that assumed that meaning was not a fixed entity but an on-going process of evaluation and reinterpretation. Two frames of meaning were used to examine the process; the global understandings people use to organize and make sense of the world and the appraised meaning that people create around specific events. The appraised meanings are informed and shaped by the global …

Applying And Adapting Testimonial Psychotherapy To Address The Effects Of Race-Based Traumatic Stress On People Of Color In The United States, Amy Beth Basford

Theses, Dissertations, and Projects

Testimonial psychotherapy, a socially and politically rooted theory, has been proven to be effective in alleviating symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder with populations of varying races and ethnicities from all parts of the world. All of the people who have participated in testimonial psychotherapy have also been victims of torture and persecution by oppressive governments in their countries of origin. However, testimonial psychotherapy has never been used with populations whose country of origin is the United States. Racism is a sociohistorical and political construct that affects the lives of people of color in the United States in adverse ways. Overt, …

Three Studies Of Sexual Offenders : Female Perpetrated Sexual Victimization, Comparison Of Male And Female Perpetrated Sexual Victimization, And Escalation Histories, Sarah Guillaume Belanger

Theses, Dissertations, and Projects

This thesis incorporates three studies which explore adult and adolescent male sexual offenders. The first two articles examine the occurrence and effects of female perpetrated sexual abuse within a population of adolescent sexual offenders. The final article explores the occurrence of escalation in the offending histories of adult male sexual offenders. The first article examined the occurrence and characteristics of female perpetrated sexual abuse within a population of adolescent sexual offenders, as well as the arousal and victim chooses of the youth. The findings suggest that this population experiences female sexual abuse at increased rates. Also supporting the 'victim to …

"They Were Neither Typical..Nor Unique" : An Exploratory Study Of Enlistment Decisions Of American Veterans From Past To Present, Kelly Alexis Brogden

Theses, Dissertations, and Projects

This is an exploratory study of American veterans' decisions to join the military. Nine veterans from various branches of the military were interviewed regarding their decision process and what factors influenced their decision to join, including how they decided which branch to join, peoples' reactions to their decision, and how they reflect on their decision now. They were also asked their opinion on whether veterans today are receiving the services or acknowledgement that they think they should be getting. Participants were from various war eras and ranged in age from 24 to 88. Major findings regarding the decision to join …

New Galileo Password Today, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

Library Publications (1999-2023)

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Taking The Bait : Countertransference Among Female Clinicians Who Work With Men Who Batter, Georgia Louise Banks

Theses, Dissertations, and Projects

This study was conducted to explore the countertransferential responses in female clinicians who work with men who batter and to determine if the clinicians felt adequately trained and supported in their unique positions within the field of abuser intervention. Participants included nine female clinicians from the mid-Atlantic region of the United States who work or have worked with men who batter. The participants answered and expanded on five open-ended questions (three on clinical experience, and two on recommendations for the field) during an audio-recorded interview that lasted approximately one hour. The clinical questions asked participants to discuss (1) their motivations …

Emotions In The Classroom, Elizabeth D. Burris

Theses, Dissertations, and Projects

This study explores the classroom emotional experience of five teachers. It is based on the assumptions that teaching is an emotional enterprise; that teaching necessarily involves "emotional labor," or the work of emotion management; that attending to and working through emotions (a form of emotion management) can influence how teachers teach; and that doing this emotional labor in a group setting can be useful to teachers. An additional assumption is that psychoanalytic concepts can help frame teachers' emotional experiences. The study looks specifically at how teachers' awareness and understanding of emotions affect their experience of teaching and what it is …

Sexual Expression Among Black Women In Relationships With Men From Different Minority Racial Groups, Sara Tildon Burton

Theses, Dissertations, and Projects

This research was a qualitative study designed to investigate the expression of Black woman in relationships with males from different racial minority groups. The primary objective was to learn more about how Black women express their sexuality in interracial relationships with their partners. This study interviewed a group of Black women (n=10) within interracial relationships and explored their experiences of expressing their sexuality within these relationships both psychologically and physically (Bean, 2002). Through their narratives, participants were able to convey the impact of their partner's racial and/or cultural background on their sexual expression. The majority of these participants (n=7) would …

The Living And Spiritual Experiences Of Gay Men With Aids : An Exploratory Study, Jerry Dale Beene

Theses, Dissertations, and Projects

This research study will explore the experiences of ten gay men living with AIDS. Gay men with AIDS are a unique group in part because they are doubly stigmatized. Due to their sexual orientation, they have commonly experienced condemnation and marginalization, often from early on in their lives. My question for this study is: How does this particular group of men enduring this unique disease and treatment find and define their individual spirituality and sense of meaning as they face end of life issues? This qualitative research study used an exploratory, flexible methods design. I interviewed 10 gay men with …

An Economic Development Plan For Boulder City, Mel Barosay, Amber Z. Cunningham, Dollinda Fields, Silas Prince

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Boulder City is rich with natural resources such as abundant land, 50% of Hoover Dam's power generation at cheap rates, and a high priority right of Colorado River Water. In addition to low utility rates, Boulder City residents have the lowest property taxes by far compared to other cities in southern Nevada. Unfortunately due to needed infrastructure replacement and new expenses facing Boulder City, such as paying for a portion of the third intake at Lake Mead, revenue is no longer covering the city's expenses.

Through the previous group's (grad students of the Spring 2008 Semester) research, we combined both …

Temple Collection (Mss 55), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 55. Correspondence, 1931-1970 (33 items), chiefly of William Montgomery Temple, originally of Bowling Green, Kentucky, an autograph collector; his collection of papers of Kentucky governors, 1805-1951 (50); other autograph letters, 1715-1941 (17); and articles about Bowling Green, etc., (23).

Learning English, Learning Chinese, David Porter

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

“We are very proud to be Chinese!”

“We welcome everyone to come to China!”

Judging from recent interviews on Beijing streets that have been broadcast in recent days by American TV and radio journalists, these two phrases and others like them have topped the list of essential greetings in the city-wide cram courses in Olympics English that have proven so popular over the past year or so. A bit hackneyed, perhaps, but telling in the striking combination of hospitality and nationalism that has characterized Chinese self-presentation from the opening ceremonies to the China-US men’s basketball match-up.

The current craze for …

Purpose Transitions: China And The American Response, Jeffrey W. Legro

Political Science Faculty Publications

We know that China is rising, but what will China do with that power? Distracted by power trends, both American policymakers and political scientists have not paid enough attention to purpose--what states intend to do with their power. Power is critical in international relations, but it is not destiny. The dominant lens for understanding the rise of China has been power transition theory, which insightfully probes the effects of power trajectories between rising and falling countries (e.g., the expected future of China and the United States). Yet what we also need to understand is "purpose transition"--that is, when and …

Statistical Methods For Polarimetric Imagery, Daniel A. Lemaster

Theses and Dissertations

Estimation theory is applied to a physical model of incoherent polarized light to address problems in polarimetric image registration, restoration, and analysis for electro-optical imaging systems. In the image registration case, the Cramer-Rao lower bound on unbiased joint estimates of the registration parameters and the underlying scene is derived, simplified using matrix methods, and used to explain the behavior of multi-channel linear polarimetric imagers. In the image restoration case, a polarimetric maximum likelihood blind deconvolution algorithm is derived and tested using laboratory and simulated imagery. Finally, a principal components analysis is derived for polarization imaging systems. This analysis expands upon …

How Do Single Fathers Construct A Parent Identity To Incorporate Nurturing?, Janet Saxe

Theses, Dissertations, and Projects

This study explored how single fathers who had shared or sole physical custody of their children from a young age, thought and felt about their experience of nurturing. This qualitative, exploratory study aimed to broaden the knowledge of single fathers in this role, which has been largely unexplored. Heterosexual and gay fathers with shared or sole physical custody of their children from the age of four or under were recruited from New York and Massachusetts. Ten fathers participated in this study. Questions were grouped around topics such as: 1) the participants' experience of being parented; 2) the experience of being …

Exploring Internalized Racism : A Critical Review Of The Literature And Implications For Clinical Social Work, Keshia Unika Williams

Theses, Dissertations, and Projects

In social work, like many of its allied disciplines, the effects of racism on the racially oppressed has tended to focus on overt manifestations like violence and discrimination (Pyke and Dang, 2003). Largely missing from the mainstream social work literature is a clear and consistent definition and framework for internalized racism. An understanding of the deleterious effects of internalized racism- the subtle, often unconscious, processes by which racial inequality shapes the way that the oppressed think of themselves and other members of their group- is often lacking in clinical social work literature. Internalized racism represents a harmful consequence of a …

Examining Our Worst Fears, Jennifer Elmassian Leszkiewicz

Theses, Dissertations, and Projects

Fifty five graduate students in the 2008 class of Smith College School for Social Work, on average, seek symbolic immortality through existential themes, excluding religion. Additionally, the more students identify with themes that define meaning in their lives, the greater their fear of encountering threats to that meaning. Further, students reported that they daydream about existential fears that threaten symbolic immortality more frequently than they dream, or have memories of them; and that they dream about primal fears more frequently than they daydream, or have memories of them. This study tested the hypotheses that people fear what they imagine might …

Using Art Making In Cross-Cultural Clinical Therapy, Sara Ruth Schieffelin

Theses, Dissertations, and Projects

Literature in the field of multicultural counseling and therapy supports the need to develop effective theories and practical models for working cross-culturally. Literature in the field of art therapy provides strong evidence that art-making can be a successful tool for therapeutic use with a wide range of clients. Yet there is little research linking these two fields. This theoretical study aims to extend the limited research on this topic by looking at the literature from these two fields, and examining how art-making in therapy can be used as a tool to alleviate some of the problems that can occur when …

Vietnam Combat Veterans : Readjustment Through The Lenses Of Identity And Social Drama, Michael S. Slevin

Theses, Dissertations, and Projects

This thesis asks whether Erik Erikson's theory of psychosocial development and Victor Turner's theory of social drama can be usefully integrated to help social workers better understand the experiences and challenges of Vietnam veterans. Specifically, this thesis will apply Erikson's phase of identity consolidation and confusion that occurs in late adolescence. Turner's processual social drama will be applied to the rules, roles, and institutions of a changing society. The phenomenon is twofold: first, it comprises the social and ideological upheaval during the decade of the 1960s; second, it comprises the individual stories of challenge and change in the lives of …

State And Local Population Trends - A Look Ahead, Jerry Deichert, David J. Drozd

CPAR Presents: A Data and Research Series for Community Impact

This presentation features: State and Local Population Trends; CPAR Reports; Estimates from the Census Bureau; State population (1990-2000); State Population (2000-2007); County population (1990-2000); County Population (2000-2007); Natural change (1990-2000); Natural Change (2000-2007); Net migration (1990-2000); Net Migration (2000-2007); Cities/Towns (2000-2007); Population Change by Size of City/Town: 2000 to 2007; Race and Hispanic Origin; Projections 2000-2030; and Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Getting Ready For The 2010 Census, Jerry Deichert, David J. Drozd

CPAR Presents: A Data and Research Series for Community Impact

This presentation features: Getting Ready for the 2010 Census; What is the Census?; Who Is Counted?; When Is the Census Taken?; Where Is the Census Taken; Why Is the Census Taken?; How Is the Census Taken?; Why fill out the census form?; It's important; In Nebraska it can affect the legal definition of your community; Cities of the first class that may drop below population threshold; Villages and cities of the second class that may have a status change; 2010 Census is Different; The American Community Survey: What is it?; ACS Methodology in Brief; Partner with the Census Bureau; 2010 …

Vital Statistics And Components Of Population Change, David J. Drozd

CPAR Presents: A Data and Research Series for Community Impact

This presentation features: A population changes in 2 ways . . .; Migration is a somewhat complex topic . . .; Migration Considerations; Census migration data; Birth rates vary by mom’s age (2006 Nebraska Data); Fertility rates are increasing among Nebraska’s 3 major race/ethnic groups; Looking at Rates Provides Additional Information; and 2 major points from the Nebraska Births Report.

Census Overview:Basics, Acs, & Estimates, David J. Drozd

CPAR Presents: A Data and Research Series for Community Impact

This presentation discusses: Terminology & Definitions; Decennial Census Datafiles; Other Datafiles on American FactFinder; Geography; Geography vs. Data (A Duel); PUMA geography; The American Community Survey: What is it?; ACS Goals; ACS History and Timeline; ACS Methodology in Brief; ACS Methodology—Sampling; Differences between Census 2000 and the ACS; ACS and Census 2000: Other Differences; ACS New Subject Areas; Changes for the 2008 ACS; Nebraska ACS Data: Current Time Series; Nebraska ACS Data “On the Way”; ACS Data Release Schedule (full implementation in 2005); 2007 ACS Data Release; Small Area Data for Test Sites; Small Area Data for Test Sites (continued); …

An Introduction To Gis, Loren Ditsch

CPAR Presents: A Data and Research Series for Community Impact

This presentation discusses: What is GIS; GIS Uses; GIS Map Layers; GIS Layer Features and Attributes; GIS Surfaces; Zip Code Shape Files; Downloading Census Data; Census Data and GIS; Combining Two Excel Documents; Joining Tables; Using Symbology to Illustrate Data on a Map; and Creating A Final Map.