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From The Ibpp Research Associates. Venezuela: Sharon Reimel De Carrasquel, Sharon Reimel De Carrasquel

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author, Sharon Reimel de Carrasquel, discusses the recently held presidential election in Venezuela.

Trends. Palestinian Mothers And The Death Of Terrorism, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the notion that there are no innocent victims as a component of terrorism.

From The Ibpp Research Associates. Turkey Zeynep Cemalcilar, Zeynep Cemalcilar

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author -Zeynep Cemalcilar -discusses his current educational studies in psychology at Purdue University and its impact on his home country of Turkey.

Denominational And Cultural Models And A Possible Ecumenical Strategy From A Romanian Context Part Ii: The Christian Churches And Social Responsibility, Péter Lakatos

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Shaping The Future Of The Profession, David N. Smith

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

No abstract provided.

Visions Of Gender And Democracy: Revolutionary Photo Albums In Asia, William A. Callahan

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

Nationalistic Tendencies In The Slovak Roman Catholic Church, Frans Hoppenbrouwers

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

The Middle Years Programme (Myp) Workshop For Teachers & Administrators Beginning With The Programme, Miriam Murphy

International Service Learning & Community Engagement

This workshop features Community Service as Defined by IBO; Structure of Community Service at L'ECOLE D'EDUCATION INTERNATIONALE, St. Hubert (Quebec), a Canada; and Break-out Session.

Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Active Labor Programs In Hungary, Christopher J. O'Leary

Upjohn Institute Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

A Randomized Trial Of The Use Of Print Material And Personal Contact To Improve Mammography Uptake Among Screening Non-Attenders In Singapore, Paulin Tay Straughan, Paulin Tay Straughan, E. H. Ng, H. P. Lee

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

The Singapore Breast Screening Project was a nationwide study inviting a random sample of women between the ages of 50 and 64 years for mammography at one of two hospital-based screening centres over two years. The current study was undertaken to determine if (1) mailed health educational material alone, or (2) the same material delivered during a home visit made to the subject and her family would increase the uptake among Singapore women who had not responded to two previous invitations for mammographic screening as part of the Project. This randomized trial employed a standard second reminder letter (R), the …

Berita Volume Xxiv, Number 3 (Fall 1998), John A. Lent

Berita

Table of Contents

A Message from the M/S/B Studies Group Chair, by Don Nonini ... 2

Requiem for an Unbending Singaporean: J.B. Jeyaretnam and His Political Party, The Worker's Party, by C.V. Devan Nir ... 4

Periodicals... 6

Books... 9

Graduate Student Survey, by Audrey E. Mouser... 12

Urban Egypt: Towards A Post-Metropolization Era?, Eric Denis, Asef Bayat

Faculty Book Chapters

The second of two issues, this volume covers aspects of Egyptian society. Contributors include: Donald Cole, Soraya Altorki, Asef Bayat, Eric Denis, Enid Hill, Ziad Bahaeddin, Malak Rouchdy, Linda Herrera, Jim Napoli, Hussein Amin, Mahmoud al-Lozy, Cynthia Nelson, and Shahnaz Rouse.

Vol. 2, No. 3: Xenophobia: Hostility 'Growing Alarmingly', Vincent Williams, Jonathan Crush

Southern African Migration Programme

No abstract provided.

Letter To The Editor: Grazing On Public Lands: An Alternate View, William A. Laycock

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

The review of the 1996 report by the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST), title "Grazing on Public Lands," by Kathleen H. Keeler (Great Plains Research 7:356-357) was quite critical. As Chair of the CAST task force that researched and wrote the report, I am in a position to respond to the criticism and present an alternative view. Keeler suggested that the report: 1) lacked objectivity and presented an industry view of grazing on public lands; 2) was poorly documented, in spite of more than 240 references; 3) repetitive in presentation; and, 4) a waste of federal funds. …

Letter From The New Editor, Svata M. Louda

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

The "changing of the guard" at Great Plains Research brings a different perspective to the journal. With this change has come a shift in editorial emphasis that I hope will make GPR a new outlet for synthetic, multidisciplinary scientific research relevant to the plains. As the new Editor, my aim will be to increase the availability of important ecological, economic and social sciences research results with relevance to the understanding and management of the Great Plains.

This vast, ecologically rich and varied grassland region covers the whole interior of the North American continent, north from Texas to central Saskatchewan and …

Great Plains Research, Fall 1998 - Annual Index

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

Annual index

Movie Theaters In The Maintenance Of Rural Communities In Kansas, Roy Christman

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

The population of rural towns in the Great Plains is generally declining. Between 1980 and 1990, over two-thirds of the 105 counties in Kansas lost population. The towns have been struggling with economic and demographic changes. In a number of Kansas towns, residents organized to save or refurbish their theaters. In this study I gathered information on the outcome of these activities from municipalities in Kansas in which a movie theater is owned by the town, the Chamber of Commerce, or a community group. Economic impact, fund raising activities, and volunteerism connected with the theater were explored. The results show …

Nuclear Dna Content And Chromosome Numbers In Switchgrass, Ku Lu, Shawn M. Kaeppler, Kenneth Vogel, K. Arumuganathan, D. J. Lee

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

Switchgrass, Panicum virgatum L., one of the three dominant grasses of the North American tall grass prairie, is a genetically and morphologically diverse species with an array of ploidy levels, or set of chromosomes, and ecotypes. The relationship between DNA content and ploidy level has been controversial. The objectives of this study were to provide clear photodocumentation of switchgrass chromosome numbers and to clarify the relationship between nuclear DNA content and chromosome number. Defining the relationship between ploidy level and nuclear DNA content will facilitate the use of molecular biology techniques, such as flow cytometry, in plant breeding and evolutionary …

Local Greenhouse Gas Emissions In Southwestern Kansas, Douglas G. Goodin, John A. Harrington, Jr., Gerold I. Holden, Jr., Brian Witcher

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

Recent international agreements for controlling emissions of greenhouse gases have focused the attention of both the climate research and policy communities on strategies for reducing the production and emission of these radiatively active substances. Most approaches have adopted a "top down" perspective, where mitigation strategies are framed at the level of national governments. However, emissions occur at local, rather than national scales. We describe a study aimed at documenting greenhouse gas emissions from a local area in the High Plains of southwestern Kansas that is currently undergoing marked economic change and population increase in response to restructuring of the meat …

Review Of U.S. Agricultural Response To Income Taxation By Hoy F. Carman, Allen L. Frederick

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

Hoy F. Carman has produced a useful volume on the economic relationships between production agriculture and the V.S. tax system. Focusing on individual income taxes, he also gives brief attention to other federal taxes, including social security, estate, and corporate income levies.

The book should interest academics (particularly those specializing in public finance, farm management, and agricultural policy), policymakers, professional farm managers, and agricultural leaders. Citing and describing a large number of academic studies completed since about 1960, Carman masterfully reports and integrates their results. Perhaps more importantly, he uses his own considerable knowledge to measure both the strengths and …

Review Of The Desert Grassland Edited By Mitchel P. Mcclaran And Thomas R. Van Devender, Rob Mitchell

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

The Desert Grassland examines the complexities of an extremely diverse community. Although focusing specifically on desert grassland systems, it offers an excellent overview of the structure and function of grassland ecosystems on the whole, making it a resource for academicians, land managers, and laypersons in more mesic environments. The volume also functions well as a guide for inquisitive tourists.

Nine chapters grouped under four sections make up the book's organization. Section One (chapters 1 and 2) functions primarily as an introduction to desert grasslands. Their formative history is the focus of Section Two (chapters 3, 4, and 5). Section Three …

Review Of The Explorers' Texas: The Animals They Found By Del Weniger, David O. Ribble

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

As a mammalogist residing in central Texas, I often try to imagine the great diversity and abundance of mammals present in this state prior to western settlement. There are of course legendary accounts in Texas history and folklore of some of the larger mammals, such as buffalo, bears, and wolves, but I know of no book that systematically recounts the historical distribution, abundance, and behavior of what was once an amazing collection of mammals. Del Weniger's study takes its place as such a unique and well-researched account. This is the second volume of his research, the first covering The Land …

Review Of North American Exploration: A Continent Comprehended Edited By John Logan Allen, G. Malcom Lewis

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

A Continent Comprehended is the final volume in a trilogy on North American exploration that began with the publication in 1997 of A New World Disclosed and continued with A Continent Defined. Disclosure, definition, and comprehension announce a conceptual approach appropriate to furthering the retrospective understanding of geographical exploration at the time of the Columbian Quincentenary, the event the volumes were originally planned to commemorate. Historiographers are unlikely to find much evidence of these or other essentially cognitive concepts in the exploration histories that celebrated the Quadcentenary one hundred years before. Yet here they are, more or less overt, …

Review Of Cahokia: Domination And Ideology In The Mississippian World Edited By Timothy R. Pauketat And Thomas E. Emerson, Alan J. Osborn

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

Cahokia is a spectacular eleventh- to twelfth-century village and earth mound complex near the confluence of the Missouri and the Mississippi rivers east of present day St. Louis. This prehistoric community may have supported 10,000 inhabitants and was part of an even larger array of settlements, platform and burial mounds, and cemeteries that stretched across 86,000 acres of fertile flood plains (the American Bottoms). Extensive archaeological work associated with highway construction in the 1970s and 1980s provided rich, diverse evidence for day-to-day domestic activities, as well as regional trade, immense corvee labor projects (e.g., platform mounds, "woodhenges," and palisades), military …

Review Of People And The Land Through Time: Linking Ecology And History By Emily W. B. Russell, Emily Greenwald

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

While some environmental historians have used the insights of the natural sciences in their historical work, Emily Russell, offering a scientist's perspective, challenges ecologists to incorporate historians' methods and insights into their studies. In People and the Land through Time, Russell outlines working principles for the "historical ecologist," a scholar who traces past human impacts on particular ecosystems. She makes it clear that her emphasis is on ecological systems rather than humans, but argues that ecosystems can't be fully understood without accounting for how human actions have affected them.

The book provides an introduction to methods and a variety …

Tallgrass Prairie: Remnants And Relicts, Jane H. Bock, Carl E. Bock

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

The tallgrass prairie once was continuous throughout the eastern Great Plains. Now, scattered remnants remain. The distribution of some of the most interesting and socially valuable remnants occur along the base of the Rocky Mountains as relicts from a past era. When the species composition of these Colorado grasslands is compared with that of the eastern tallgrass prairie by an index of similarity, the relationship is clear, even though the climates of the two regions differ greatly. It is likely that this western tallgrass prairie is left over from past geologic times rather than the product of long distance seed …

Great Plains Research, Fall 1998 - News And Notes

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

Contents:

Calls for papers
Conferences

Review Of Common Fields: An Environmental History Of St. Louis Edited By Andrew Hurley, Timothy Mahoney

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

The thirteen articles in this fine volume make a strong contribution to the intellectual effort to put the environment back into urban history by elevating it from a mere "stage" or "setting" to an active independent variable which shaped the course of urban development. The authors' collective goal is to demonstrate that the residents of St. Louis and its region were engaged in a dynamic interaction with the environment from the origins of human settlement in the area, and that the actions and strategies they undertook to generate urban development were shaped as much by the environment as by their …

Review Of The Hidden Sea: Ground Water, Springs, And Wells By Francis H. Chapelle

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

The Hidden Sea is divided into three parts. The first, "Myths and Models," tells "how both mysticism and rationality have been used to understand the puzzling behavior of groundwater." Second is "Bays in the Sea," which reports on "the strikingly different characteristics of ground water systems found in different parts of the country, and how their differences affect the people who use them." The last part, "Evil and the Wells," discusses "how ground water systems can become contaminated by various waste disposal practices, and how perceptions of this contamination are so often different from reality." Francis Chapelle, a research biologist …

Review Of Principles Of Geoarchaeology: A North American Perspective By Michael R. Waters, Rolfe D. Mandel

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

First published in 1992, this book-now in paper-presents the fundamentals of geoarchaeology, the field of study that applies the concepts and methods of the geosciences to archaeological research. Although a number of good books have been written about this subdiscipline of archaeology, Waters restricts his review to late Quaternary landscapes in North America. Furthermore, he limits his discussion to the field aspects of geoarchaeology. Stratigraphy, site formation processes, and landscape reconstruction are the centerpieces of this study. Readers looking for information about laboratory methods, dating techniques, or the application of geophysics and geochemistry to archaeology must go to other sources. …