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Review Of Essays On The Historical Geography Of The Canadian West: Regional Perspectives On The Settlement Process, Frank Tough

Great Plains Quarterly

Essays on the Historical Geography of the Canadian West is a fine example of a department's contribution to regional studies. The eight essays from six contributors in an attractive, readable, and well-bound monograph are a useful addition to western Canadian studies. The essays (Darby, "From River Boat to Raillines: Circulation Patterns in the Canadian West during the Last Quarter of the Nineteenth Century"; Holmes, "The Canmore Corridor, 1880-1914: A Case Study of the Selection and Development of a Pass Site"; Hadley, "Photography, Tourism and the CPR: Western Canada, 1884- 1914"; Evans, "The Origin of Ranching in Western Canada: American Diffusion …

Oglala Sioux Use Of Medical Herbs, George Robert Morgan, Ronald R. Weedon

Great Plains Quarterly

Despite the turmoil of Sioux cultural losses since contact with Anglo-European culture, the Oglala Sioux have maintained an interest in herbal medicines, although with each passing generation the number of plants actively used for curing has diminished. Fewer people have been learning the identification of plant medicines and their uses, the procedures for preparing plants, and the techniques of herbal cures. Many of the older Sioux blame reservation boarding schools for the disruption of cultural transmission, but other factors have been at work as well.

The Causal Relationship Between Social Security And The Federal Budget, Mark W. Crain, Michael L. Marlow

Economics

No Abstract

High Octane: A Primer On The Economics Of The Energy Crisis, 1990, Don P. Diffine Ph.D.

Belden Center Monographs

No abstract provided.

Table Of Contents, Volume One, Number One, Winter 1990, Risk Editorial Board

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Table of contents for the journal Risk: Issues in Health & Safety (ISSN: 1073-8673).

Us Army Foreign Science And Technology Center [A Brochure], Robert Bolin , Depositor

Department of Defense Military Intelligence

The Foreign Science and Technology Center (FSTC) was a special-purpose intelligence production organization concerned with weapons and equipment of foreign ground forces.

This document is a lengthy, polished brochure giving a general overview of FSTC apparently intended for recruitment purposes. It outlines the mission and function of FSTC and of its subdivisions and gives a thumb-nail sketch of the history of the organization.

Although it is undated, information in the text indicates that it was probably published around 1990.

Communications Challenges In A Smaller World, John G. Richardson, Stephen J. Lilley, Robert B. Gregory

Sociology Faculty Publications

Technological change and overlapping social, environmental. educational and political issues have increased the need for understandable communications among the different countries of the world. Because English is wldely used. many Americans have no other language capability and are at a disadvantage in many situations. In addition, changes in the ethnic composition of the United States have intensified the need for skills in other languages. The need for second-language skills is perhaps greater among agriculturalists than it is for other areas. The Cooperative Extension System has Important roles to play in expanding these communication skills.

An Overview Of Bibliotherapy And Its Applications In The Elementary Classroom, Kerry Sue Abernathy

All Graduate Projects

Bibliotherapy has been used for many years as an aid to the healing process. The concept of using literature to promote mental health has been increasingly accepted as a valid therapeutic method in recent years. Bibliotherapy has, in the past, been used primarily with adults. This study will focus on recent developments to help children grow and develop a positive self-concept through literature. Book lists have been compiled from the many children's books available on the subjects of death and dying, illness, divorce, fears, handicaps, blended families, single parents, friendship, physical development, family relationships, attitudes and values, emotions and feelings, …

Parent Handbook For Surviving Adolescence, Kay Fuson

All Graduate Projects

The purpose of this project was to gather information for a parent handbook for Sterling Middle School, which spoke to the following issues: 1) general characteristics, 2) parenting skills, 3) communication, 4) study skills, 5) parent concerns, and 6) community resources. These six areas were determined with input from parents after looking at parent handbooks from middle schools across the state. Research was done in the area of adolescent development and material was compiled for a comprehensive handbook for parents of adolescents.

Parents' Perceptions Of School-Community Reations Within One Elementary School Attendance Area, Lisa Hoffman

All Graduate Projects

The relationship between the school and its community is enhanced through effective communication. Parents were interviewed to discover their perception of effective communication and to understand, from their perspective, what is needed to improve communication. The interviews and implications thereof are discussed as well as the results.

Children's Book Festival, Karen Rowell, Onva K. Boshears Jr., University Of Southern Mississippi

Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival Programs

The program for the twenty-third annual Children's Book Festival held on the campus of The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 1990.

Airplay, Vol. 11, No. 4 (1990), Maine Public Broadcasting Network

Airplay: MPBN Radio Program Guide

Airplay is published to provide the most thorough information possible about MPBN Radio and its programs, hopefully in a visually appealing way. Each month of Airplay features works by Maine artists and photographers on its cover. Maine Public Broadcasting Network Radio is a member of National Public Radio (NPR) and the Eastern Public Radio Network (EPRN). Maine Public Broadcasting was founded by the University of Maine System and Colby, Bates and Bowdoin Colleges.

Privatization In The Center And The Latin American Periphery, Melvin Burke

School of Economics Faculty Scholarship

"Privatization" is being promoted in this decade as the ultimate economic panacea. The latest "privatization craze" began in 1980 in Britain under Margaret Thatcher and has since spread throughout the industrialized nations of the world, such as France, Japan, the United States. More recently, the policy of privatization has been introduced in Mexico, Brazil, and other Third World countries. Billions of dollars of public assets have already been sold on the market to private investors and billions more of government tax revenues have been contracted out to private firms during this decade.

What precisely is this latest economic phenomenon sweeping …

Explorations, Vol. 6, No. 1, Carole J. Bombard, George J. Mitchell, William S. Cohen, Gregory N. Brown, Daniel Belknap, Joseph Kelley, Mark E. Wood, William Duffy, Rebecca Smith, Andrew Walsh, Donald Robbins, Bradley W.B. Hay, Molly Horvath, Richard Hale, James Philip, Robert A. Strong, Bret P. Vicary

Explorations — A Journal of Research

Cover: Panthera pardus, Chui in Kiswatuli, was photographed by Dr. Linda Karbonit ar Dr. James A. Sherburne in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. Karbonit was accompanying Sherburne who was working on the design and development of the University of Maine, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, assistance program in wildlife training and conservation education to Tanzania’s National Parks. Sherburne, who has worked in Tanzania for several years, was there most recently in 1988 and 1989 working on the parks project. He serves as the Director of International Natural Resources and Agricultural Programs at the University of Maine.

Articles include:

"Research and …

Emotional Processing In The Treatment Of Simple Phobia: A Comparison Of Imaginal And In Vivo Exposure, Jeffrey E. Hecker

Psychology Faculty Scholarship

Two groups of moderately snake phobic college students were given either imaginal or in vivo exposure treatment. The groups were compared on self-report and physiological measures of fear activation during exposure trials, as well as on within- and across-session habituation of fear responses. On these measures, as well as on treatment outcome, the two groups were found to be very similar. The results lend further support to the importance of the concept of emotional processing in understanding fear reduction processes. Differences in treatment procedure may be important only when one procedure facilitates emotional processing more than another.

Jag Har En Vän (I Have A Friend), Chester Ringdahl

Maine Song and Story Sampler

"Jag har en van" is an old Swedish pietistic hymn, with words and music written by Nils Frykman in 1895. Swedish hymn writer Nils Frykman was part of the Swedish Free Church movement in old Sweden during the second half of the 19th century.

The Sting: Winter 1990, Cedarville College

The Sting

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Surgery On The Mental Status Of Older Persons. A Meta-Analytic Review, Arthur G. Cryns, Kevin M. Gorey, Marion Z. Goldstein

Social Work Publications

The data bases of 18 empirical studies were combined into one comprehensive data set and subjected to meta-analysis. The following trends were observed: (1) surgery has a significantly decompensating impact on the mental status of older persons, and the average effect size observed is modest (r = .37); (2) for all mental status measures included in the review (cognition, delirium and affect), effect size appears to be significantly moderated by patient age; (3) patient sex may be predictive of the kind of mental impairment that is most likely to occur within an older surgery population, with women manifesting a greater …

Identity Empowerment Through Clinical Sociology, C. Margaret Hall

Clinical Sociology Review

Identity empowerment is defined as the deliberate enhancement of clients' awareness of their values and goals and of clients' expression of these values and goals in everyday behavior. Values are the deepest and broadest objectives or goals with which an individual can identify. Identity empowerment culminates in observable increases in clients' behavioral expressions of their values in social commitments. The process of clinical discussion and behavioral applications promotes clients' well-being and effectiveness by increasing the durability and flexibility of their bonds with significant others and by strengthening their motivations to accomplish meaningful goals in their lives.

Two case studies illustrate …

A Technique For Predicting Intraorganizational Action, Robert C. Anderson

Clinical Sociology Review

This paper is addressed to the problem of forging a closer link between theoretical and empirical analysis of a given organization. An analytic research method and instrument capable of systematically transforming certain theoretical organizational concepts into operational form is presented. The technique and its instrumentation were designed to, when fitted with appropriate theoretical substantive variables, efficiently yet accurately describe, explain, and predict the consequences of changing specified organizational variables within an organization.

Legal Cases As A Teaching Tool, Jean H. Thoresen, Jeanette L. Miller

Clinical Sociology Review

No abstract provided.

Portland Residents Discuss Community Values, Decision Sciences, Inc.

Portland City Archives

No abstract provided.

Pioneers Of Modern Geography: Translations Pertaining To German Geographers Of The Late Nineteenth And Early Twentieth Centuries, Robert C. West

GreyZone

This collection of English translations samples the writings and/or critiques thereon of six important German geographers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: those of August Meitzen, Eduard Hahn, Otto Schliiter, Alfred Hettner, Siegfried Passarge, and Karl Sapper. Each of these scholars influenced in various ways the course of modem geographical thinking and instruction in German universities, and their methodologies were also adopted in part by professional geographers in other European countries and in the United States. Four of them—Hahn, Schliiter, Hettner and Passarge— were students of Ferdinand von Richthofen, often considered the “father” of professional geography in Germany. …

Separation Of Powers--The Federal Sentencing Commission: Unconstitutional Delegation And Threat To Judicial Impartiality, Lisa G. Esayian

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Fourth Amendment--The Reasonableness Of Suspicionless Drug Testing Of Railroad Employees, Heidi P. Mallory

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Fourth Amendment--Using The Drug Courier Profile To Fight The War On Drugs, Steven K. Bernstein

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Structuring Sentencing Discretion: The New Federal Sentencing Guidelines, Ilene H. Nagel

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Fifth Amendment--Affording Society's Interest Greater Protection In Double Jeopardy Analysis, John J. Jr. Sikora

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Errata

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Fourtheenth Amendment--Police Failure To Preserve Evidence And Erosion Of The Due Process Right To A Fair Trial, Sarah M. Bernstein

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.