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Duty To Warn And Protect, George T. Williams, Lori L. Ellison

Counseling Faculty Research

Professional counselors, spurred by the courts, have a dual ethical and legal responsibility to protect others from potentially dangerous clients, to protect clients from being harmed by others, and to protect clients from themselves. The delicate balance between confidentiality and the duty to warn and protect others must be handled on a case-by-case basis. The majority of individual state laws require counselors to breach confidentiality in order to warn and protect someone who is in danger. All states and U.S. jurisdictions now have mandatory reporting statutes for suspected physical, sexual, or emotional child abuse or neglect. There are also several …

Jesuits In New France And Religious Discoveries 2: Religious Discoveries At Fort St. Joseph, Victoria Hawley

Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Panel 2. Archaeological Evidence of Catholic Life, A Chapel at Fort St. Joseph?, and Practicing Catholics.

Jesuits In New France And Religious Discoveries 1: The Jesuits In New France, Victoria Hawley

Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Panel 1. Jesuits: The Traveling Priests, The Man in Black: Portrait of a Jesuit Missionary, and The Fort St. Joseph Mission.

Disciplining Queer, Ian Barnard

English Faculty Articles and Research

This article analyzes a particular set of disciplinings by students and colleagues that coalesced around my teaching of a university course in ‘Queer Theory.’ I use these regulatory discourses and practices as a springboard to investigate how academic and other disciplines (English, in particular) enable and reproduce certain stylizations, epistemologies, and methodologies, and what they implicitly and violently conceal and demonize; how style functions as politics and what the politics of style are; how queerness—queer inquiry and intervention, queer methodologies and epistemologies, queer activisms and insubordinations—might activate, exacerbate, and expose some of these questions and mechanisms. The form of the …

Community Encounter, Linda C. Reeser

Academic Leadership Academy

The purpose of this project is to inform more students about the baccalaureate social work degree and the possibility of a career in social work and also to provide students with an educational opportunity before they decide on or embark upon a career, to get a greater appreciation of the realities and hardships some people face in living and surviving (e.g. poverty, homelessness, immigration). This project will potentially increase student interest in a social work/human service career. The methods used will be discussion with students in their classes and at a reception and offering students a community experience for two …

200911 Obiter Dicta: Christmas 2009, Steven Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Historical-Cultural Formations Within World-Systems Analysis: Reframing The Analysis Of Biomedicine In East Africa, David Baronov

Sociology Faculty/Staff Publications

This essay introduces a novel analytical concept for world-systems analysis, historical-cultural formations, for the purpose of analyzing reciprocal global cultural exchanges across the capitalist world-system. This is done through four basic procedures. First, the perspective of world-systems analysis is adopted for the purpose of analyzing biomedicine in world-historical context and biomedicine itself is re-conceptualized as a historical-cultural formation across a single capitalist world-system. Second, in order to conceptually incorporate historical-cultural formations, the basic analytical framework of world-systems analysis is expanded to include cultural forms as integral features of the capitalist world-system, parallel with economic and political structures. Third, biomedicine is …

Ua19/16/1 Athletic Media Relations - Media Guides/Programs, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Media Guides prepared by WKU Athletic Media Relations for the various athletic teams. Early guides were created by the Office of Public Relations. This series also contains schedules, rosters, game and tournament programs and season statistics. Files are arranged in the following sub-series:

1. Baseball
2. Basketball, Men
3. Basketball, Women
4. Football
5. Golf
6. Soccer
7. Swimming & Diving, Men
8. Swimming & Diving, Women
9. Track & Field, Men
10. Track & Field, Women
11. Softball
12. Tennis
13. Volleyball
14. Gymnastics
15. Riflery
16. Rugby
17. Multiple Sports

Ua19/16/4 Athletic Media Relations Clippings File, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Clippings related to the various sports played at WKU. Articles were clipped from College Heights Herald, Park City Daily News, Louisville Courier-Journal and USA Today among others. The clippings are arranged in binders in date order and have been further subdivided:

1. Football
2. Basketball - Men
3. Basketball - Women
4. Baseball
5. Various Sports
6. Athletic Department

Ua19/1 Athletics - Baseball, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by baseball coaches regarding the team, schedules and awards.

Ua1a University Archives Reference Books, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Reference books, non-WKU publications and recordings related to the history of Western Kentucky University and its founding institutions. Some of these items are available in the Harrison-Baird Reading Room.

Ua68/13/2 Potter College Of Arts & Letters Journalism & Broadcasting Administration, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Administrative records created by and about Journalism & Broadcasting. These include faculty meeting minutes, Professional Advisory Committee, annual reports and strategic planning.

Ua94/6/1 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Western Kentucky University Small Collections, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Small collections of personal papers and oral histories relating to the Western Kentucky University.

Ua19 Athletics, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by the WKU Athletics Department, especially the records of the Athletic Director and his immediate staff.

A Procedure To Correct Proxy-Reported Weight In The National Health Interview Survey, 1976-2002, Eric N. Reither, Rebecca L. Utz

Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology Faculty Publications

Background

Data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) show a larger-than-expected increase in mean BMI between 1996 and 1997. Proxy-reports of height and weight were discontinued as part of the 1997 NHIS redesign, suggesting that the sharp increase between 1996 and 1997 may be artifactual.

Methods

We merged NHIS data from 1976–2002 into a single database consisting of approximately 1.7 million adults aged 18 and over. The analysis consisted of two parts: First, we estimated the magnitude of BMI differences by reporting status (i.e., self-reported versus proxy-reported height and weight). Second, we developed a procedure to correct biases in …

Folklore And The Internet: Vernacular Expression In A Digital World, Trevor J. Blank

All USU Press Publications

Folklore and the Internet is a pioneering examination of the folkloric qualities of the World Wide Web, e-mail, and related digital media. It shows that folk culture, sustained by a new and evolving vernacular, has been a key, since the Internetýs beginnings, to language, practice, and interaction online. Users of many sorts continue to develop the Internet as a significant medium for generating, transmitting, documenting, and preserving folklore. In a set of new, insightful essays, contributors Trevor J. Blank, Simon J. Bronner, Robert Dobler, Russell Frank, Gregory Hansen, Robert Glenn Howard, Lynne S. McNeill, Elizabeth Tucker, and William Westerman showcase …

Adaptive Water Governance: Assessing The Institutional Prescriptions Of Adaptive (Co-)Management From A Governance Perspective And Defining A Research Agenda, Dave Huitema, Erik Mostert, Wouter Egas, Sabine Moellenkamp, Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Resul Yalcin

All UNF Research

This article assesses the institutional prescriptions of adaptive (co-)management based on a literature review of the (water) governance literature. The adaptive (co-)management literature contains four institutional prescriptions: collaboration in a polycentric governance system, public participation, an experimental approach to resource management, and management at the bioregional scale. These prescriptions largely resonate with the theoretical and empirical insights embedded in the (water) governance literature. However, this literature also predicts various problems. In particular, attention is called to the complexities associated with participation and collaboration, the difficulty of experimenting in a real-world setting, and the politicized nature of discussion on governance at …

Digital Commons Annual Report: Year One 2008-2009, Heather M. Leary

Digital Commons Reports

This report shows the progress for Utah State University's Digital Commons repository during it's first year, from October 27, 2008 through October 31, 2009.

Ua12/4 Stall Street Journal, Vol. 1, Wku Health Services

WKU Administration Documents

Broadsides developed by WKU Health Services to convey public health information in students in bathroom stalls. Incomplete run.

Adhd And Working Memory: The Impact Of Central Executive Deficits And Overwhelming Storage/Rehearsal Capacity On Observed Inattentive Behavior, Michael Kofler

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Inattentive behavior is considered a core and pervasive feature of ADHD; however, an alternative model challenges this premise and hypothesizes a functional relationship between working memory and inattentive behavior. The current study investigated whether inattentive behavior in children with ADHD is functionally related to domain-general central executive and/or subsidiary storage/rehearsal components of working memory. Objective observations of children's attentive behavior by independent observers were conducted while children with ADHD (n=15) and typically developing children (n=14) completed 10 counterbalanced tasks that differentially manipulated central executive, phonological storage/rehearsal, and visuospatial storage/rehearsal demands. Results of latent variable and effect size confidence interval analyses …

Mea Familia: Ethnic Burial Identifiers In St. Michael's Cemetery, Pensacola, Florida, Amy Giroux

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Grave markers from St. Michael'ss Cemetery in Pensacola, Florida, were studied for evidence of ethnicity and acculturation. The 1,447 grave markers dating from 1870 to 1939 were used to test two hypotheses: 1) the grave markers for ethnic groups represented in the cemetery during the project's time period have identifiable sets of burial attributes; and 2) changes in the visible ethnic attribute sets show evidence of the acculturation of ethnic groups over time. Physical attributes pertaining to grave markers, and personal characteristics (e.g. sex, age) for the individuals inscribed upon the markers were collected for analysis. Historical sources were used …

An Empirical Analysis Of The Impact Of Home Foreclosure On The Crime Rate: Evidence In Atlanta, Ga, Luis G. Acevedo

Empirical Economic Bulletin, An Undergraduate Journal

Over the past 28 years the United States has seen its share of prosperity and hard times. At times there have been significant increases in the number of subprime mortgages issued in the United States. Studies have shown that the number of foreclosures is highly correlated to the number of subprime loans issued. Another main issue that seems to occur with the abundance of loans and the spike in foreclosures is that crime rates tend to also increase during these times. The two major crimes that will be taken into account are violent crime and property crimes. I use foreclosure, …

Attitudes And Beliefs Toward Hoarding Among Adult Protective Services Workers, Jade Yuko Lambert

Theses Digitization Project

This study examined the attitudes and beliefs toward hoarding among Adult Protective Services workers in San Bernardino County. APS workers do not identify behavior as OCD although further research is needed to find out the correlation between hoarding behavior and OCD.

Hispanic Attitudes Towards Adoption, Adriana Ventura-Ramirez

Theses Digitization Project

This study was conducted to assess what factors influence Hispanic attitudes toward adoption. the study suggests that Hispanic cultural beliefs and concerns will affect decisions about adoption. Understanding these factors may facilitate adoption on Hispanic children into Hispanic families.

Detection Of Deception In Criminal Defendents: Treatment Or Trial?, Loran Noelle Bounds

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study is to determine how to detect whether a person is faking a mental illness. An area that is often malingered is insanity, where criminal defendents will fake that they are mentally ill as to avoid imprisonment or the death penalty. The death penalty is one of the most difficult defenses to raise and is rarely successful.

Shaping Our Children's Future: Perceived Self-Efficacy In A Montessori Environment, Candace Joan Andrews

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study was to investigate the possibility that students who spend more time in a Montessori environment exhibit higher levels of self-efficacy than children who have more of their school career exposed to traditional education methods. This study used a nonprobability convenience sampling where participants were selected using a volunteer process. The sample included a total of 36 children ranging from 7th to 12th grade who volunteered to participate in this study.

Some Estimates Of Private And Social Benefits Of Improving Educational Attainment Among Registered Indian Youth And Young Adults, Stewart Clatworthy

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.

Aboriginal Youth, Education, And Labour Market Outcomes, Jeremy Hull

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.

Breaking The Gridlock In Aboriginal Education, Jerry Paquette, Gerald Fallon, J. Marshall Mangan

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.

First Nations Educational Success: Assessing Determinants Using A Social Context Lens, Nicholas Spence, Jerry P. White

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.