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Constructions Of Femininity: Women And The World's Columbian Exposition, Lauren Alexander Maxwell

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

The women of the Queen Isabella Association were the embodiment of what has been termed the ‘New Woman.’While the New Woman was an amalgamation of many different trends, historians agree that she “represents one of the most significant cultural shifts of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.”5 These women chose to “move beyond domesticity” and fought to become equal members of American sociopolitical life.6 Joanne Meyerowitz argues that their greater significance was the tendency of the New Woman to “challenge the dominant Victorian sexual ethos.” 7 She inserted herself into the public sphere on her own terms, without the protection …

Central Florida Future, Vol. 41 No. 29, March 20, 2009

Central Florida Future

Board approves new health M.S. program; Frat Faces abuse claim; UnCover Fridays; Don't worry be happy; Plus: UCF Arena gets smothered; Don't take a siesta, go to this fiesta; Economy spurs first Spring GradFair; Lottery leaves some homeless.

Organization Climate And Diversity Assessment (Ocda) Climatequal, Elaine L. Westbrooks, Tom Mcfarland

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Presentations

The purpose of the ClimateQUAL survey is:
1. Assess how well our policies, practices, and procedures support our mission
2. Assess whether or policies, practices, and procedures are facilitating the current and future needs of our customers
3. To develop a database of norms to help the library interpret its results

Fsu And Bobby Bowden Are Mildly Slapped, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Over the past several months Florida State University has been preparing to face the music in its latest athletic scandal. Now that the NCAA has made its ruling, FSU officials don't seem to appreciate the tune that the NCAA is playing. However, there is little doubt that many FSU athletes, with the proper academic counseling, could name that tune, although it might take more than three notes

Around The Web

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

We like to keep tabs on the contributors who write for us, and some of them have been publishing some interesting pieces lately. Here’s a quick reader of five excerpts from China Beatniks.

1. At Inside-Out China, Xujun Eberlein has translated an essay (in two parts) by Sun Liping, professor of sociology at Tsinghua University. The essay has been making the rounds on the Chinese Internet. A selection:

In recent years, signs of societal breakdown have become more apparent. The core problem is the loss of control over power. During the past 30 years of reform, despite the establishment of …

Lacuny Serials Roundtable Meeting Minutes, March 2009, Lacuny

Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

West Bend Library - More Imbalance - But We're Not Surprised, Ginny Maziarka

West Bend Community Memorial Library (Wisconsin), 2009

No abstract provided.

Thoughts On China Underground–A Book I Didn’T Want To Like (But Did)

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

To Tweet or Not to Tweet?

That’s not necessarily the question, but it’s one I’ve been pondering for a while.

On the one hand, I’m loath to add another new form of communication to my life. After all, blogging is only something I’ve been doing for a bit over a year.

On the other hand, as I argue in a commentary about blogs that I’m hoping will be published in the next couple of months (in paper format—as it is aimed at people still skeptical about online writing), things change so fast in the digital world that we need to …

Spartan Daily, March 19, 2009, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 132, Issue 31

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 84, No. 38, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Articles:

• Barczak, Mary. South Campus Wants Voice on Student Government Association
• Stewart, Colleen. Eastern Rhythms – Talkproject, Cultural Enhancement Series
• Moore, Josh. Western Releases New Energy Policy
• Diamond, Kala. A Thousand Words – Toynnia Dye, LifeSkills, John Fleenor
• Ulber, Emily. Freshman Dies in Car Accident – DuWayne Northey
• Hale, Marianne. Tuition Increase Percentage May Be Lowest in 20 Years
• Erskine, Anne. Editorial Cartoon: I’m Gonna Milk This Cash Cow for All It’s Worth – NCAA, Basketball
• NCAA Puts Revenue Before the Fans
• Hayes, Nathan. Students for Concealed Carry on …

Ua12/2/1 Ncaa: The Experience, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Special NCAA basketball edition of the College Heights Herald. Articles:

• Harten, David. Toppers Know What to Expect This Time Around
• Harten, David. Ken McDonald Prepares for First Tournament as Head Coach
• University of Illinois vs. Western Kentucky Univeristy
• Robinson, Andrew. Illini Saw Tops’ Look Earlier in Season
• Harten, David. Illinois Guard Out for Game – Chester Frazier
• Position by Position WKU – A.J. Slaughter, Orlando Mendez-Valdez, Sergio Kerusch, Steffphon Pettigrew, Jeremy Evans
• Position by Position University of Illinois – Trent Meacham, Calvin Brock, Demetri McCamey, Mike Davis, Mike Tisdale
• Harten, David. Players Balance School, Games During Tournament
• Lintner, Jonathan. Business …

Bravura, Mass Communication Department-Winona State University

Bravura

Bravura was produced by Winona State University Mass Communication students as part the senior practical application course for journalists and photojournalists. This issue of Bravura explored examining the everyday with different perspectives. Managing/Layout Editor: Sarah Burgen; News Editor: Fred Schulze; Photo Editor: Katie Derus; Online Editor: Andrew Eckerson; Assistant News Editor: Courtney Zinter; Reporters: Elizabeth Adams, Lydia Bergen, Laura Faschingbauer, Shannon McGraw, Stephanie Trask; Photogs: Sarah Botzek, David Busse, Chris Dillman, Jenni Gustafson, Jackie Hahn, Ellie Polus, Km Streblow, Chelsey Wilson; Faculty Advisor: unnamed

Seed Account Monitoring Research: Participants, Savings, And Accumulation, Lisa Reyes Mason, Yunju Reyes Mason, Margaret Clancy, Vernon Loke, Youngmi Kim

Center for Social Development Research

SEED Account Monitoring Research: Participants, Savings, and Accumulation

Economy Hard On Beef And Pork Demand, Darrell R. Mark

Cornhusker Economics

The inventory of all cattle and calves reached a 50-year low at the end of 2008. Pork producers reduced the size of the breeding herd late in 2008. Imports of feeder cattle, feeder pigs and slaughter cattle and hogs from Canada have dropped dramatically since the fourth quarter of 2008. And, never before seen drops in broiler production occurred in the last few months of 2008. With production of nearly all sectors of the meat industry lower than year-ago levels, why haven’t livestock prices rallied in response? The economic times we’re in have reduced demand. People haven’t been willing or …

It's That Efa* Time Of Year (*Extreme Fan Addiction), Donelson R. Forsyth

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

What an odd lot our ancestors must have been to let themselves get caught up in crazes like the 10th century dancing mania in Italy, or the alarming outbreak of biting mania in 15th century Germany, Italy, and Holland. Holland's 17th century tulipmania proved only economically painful, when wealthy families spent their savings buying and hoarding tulip bulbs, and were left in financial ruin when prices plummeted.

We are not so different from those long-gone dancers, biters, and tulipophiles, because a modern mania is about to descend upon us: March Madness. Sixty-four colleges and universities send their basketball teams into …

Vote For Me: Appeals To Voters In Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speeches, Donna R. Hoffman, Alison D. Howard

Collected Faculty Scholarship

With the proliferation of primary elections, party conventions began to ratify the choice of nominee typically already long decided. Conventions, however, still provide a forum to highlight and promote the parties' respective nominees. Above all, the convention offers a chance to convince (or, at least begin convincing) the general electorate that it should cast a ballot for the party’s nominee. A candidate’s nomination speech signals the launch of the general election campaign and provides each party’s nominee with a significant rhetorical opportunity. Up to this point in the presidential contest, primarily partisans have been engaged, the general electorate has not. …

Lanthorn, Vol. 43, No. 51, March 19, 2009, Grand Valley State University

Volume 43, July 10, 2008 - June 7, 2009

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Experience Corps: Health Outcomes Of Participation, Nancy Morrow-Howell, Song-Iee Hong, Stacey Mccrary, Wayne Blinne

Center for Social Development Research

Experience Corps: Health Outcomes of Participation

State Opposes Motion To Stay Rock Suit, Kenneth Hart

Indian Head Rock Project

Article in the Ashland Daily Independent on the trial related to the removal of Indian Head Rock from March 18, 2009.

Notes From A Phone Call Between Mary Weigand And District Attorney Todd Martens, Unknown

West Bend Community Memorial Library (Wisconsin), 2009

No abstract provided.

Free Speech, Maria Hanrahan

West Bend Community Memorial Library (Wisconsin), 2009

No abstract provided.

Chinese Intellectuals And The Problem Of Xinjiang, Part 2, Sebastian Veg

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

Having analyzed the issues of colonialism, cultural rights of Uyghur populations, and the question of a Han nationalist revival, Wang Lixiong concludes the book by three “letters” to his Uyghur friend Mokhtar, in which he reframes the discussion on Xinjiang within his more general ideas on political reform in China. His reluctance to consider Xinjiang as “different” from other regions in China (while he is less reluctant to do so in the case of Tibet) is not unproblematic; nonetheless his voice is important because he is a critical intellectual “on the edge” who has visibly not entirely renounced influencing the …

Prospectus, March 18, 2009, Cassandra Cunningham, Nada Youssef, Aaron Geiger, John Bouvet, Briana Stodden, Chuck Shepherd, Sean Hermann, Aaron Partridge, Levi Norman

Prospectus 2009

No abstract provided.

Ua3/9/5 Wku Energy Policy Announcement, Wku President's Office

WKU Administration Documents

Remarks and announcement by WKU president Gary Ransdell regarding WKU's energy policy and enumerating conservation efforts.

Adult-Young Ratio, A Major Factor Regulating Social Behaviour Of Young: A Horse Study, Alice De Boyer Des Roches, Martine Hausberger

Social Behavior Collection

Background: Adults play an important role in regulating the social behaviour of young individuals. However, a few pioneer studies suggest that, more than the mere presence of adults, their proportions in social groups affect the social development of young. Here, we hypothesized that aggression rates and social cohesion were correlated to adult-young ratios. Our biological model was naturally-formed groups of Przewalski horses, Equus f. przewalskii, varying in composition.

Methodology/Principal Findings: We investigated the social interactions and spatial relationships of 12 one- and two-yearold Przewalski horses belonging to five families with adult-young ratios (AYR) ranging from 0.67 to 1.33. We found …

Canada And The Legacy Of The Indian Residential Schools: Transitional Justice For Indigenous People In A Non-Transitional Society, Courtney Jung

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

The framework of transitional justice, originally devised to facilitate reconciliation in countries undergoing transitions from authoritarianism to democracy, is used with increasing frequency to respond to certain types of human rights violations against indigenous peoples. In some cases, transitional justice measures are employed in societies not undergoing regime transition. This paper outlines some of the potential complexities involved in processing indigenous demands for justice through a transitional justice framework. First, governments and indigenous peoples may differ over the scope of injustices that transitional justice measures can address. Second, governments may try to use transitional justice to draw a line through …

An Overview Of Major Health Information Technology, Public Health, Medicaid, And Cobra Provisions Of The American Recovery And Reinvestment Act Of 2009, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Melissa M. Goldstein, Taylor Burke, Phyllis Borzi, Lara Cartwright-Smith

Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications

A detailed side-by-side analysis of the individual components of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), signed into law on February 17, 2009. One of the most sweeping pieces of economic legislation ever enacted, ARRA not only provides hundreds of billions of dollars in new health and health care spending but also makes comprehensive reforms in health law and policy, particularly in the area of health information law, including health information technology (HIT) adoption and health information privacy.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 41 No. 28, March 18, 2009

Central Florida Future

Students champion Green Fee; Catholic relief; Library will add 20 PCs to first floor; New science grad school program considered.

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Theory Of An Efficacious Treatment Plan., Valerie Jeanette Johnston

Theses and Dissertations

There are numerous commonalities and similarities in the symptoms presented in those individuals suffering from Korsakoff's Syndrome, Vascular Dementia, B vitamin deficiencies and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. These similarities include physiological, neurological and psychological findings. B vitamin supplementation is being used effectively to treat several of these disorders. Because of these similarities and commonalities in both symptomology and physiology, it is my hypothesis that PTSD may be partially or totally a consequence of a B vitamin deficiency. Narrative re-exposure therapy is already in use to treat those with PTSD. Using the Biopsychosocial Model of health psychology, I propose an empirical study …

Performance Enhancements Of Ranging Radio Aided Navigation, Patric J. Ernsberger

Theses and Dissertations

Determining the position of team members is always useful information, whether it is a team of firefighters fighting a blaze or combatants clearing a building in the field. This information becomes even more decisive for the people responsible for their safety. To accomplish this in areas denied Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), such as around buildings or in steep valleys, alternative methods must be used. Radio ranging systems have been a part of the navigation solution for years. They unfortunately have poor performance in certain areas, such as inside buildings, due to multipath and other errors. To improve the position …