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Information Systems For Mine Action From The Data Entry Point Of View, Zoran Grujic Dec 2002

Information Systems For Mine Action From The Data Entry Point Of View, Zoran Grujic

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

This article aims to provide readers with a closer insight into the endeavors of creating an information system and problems related with keeping data consistent and up to date, especially from the point of data entry. The author strives to provide honest and direct insight into the problems and solutions found while supporting mine action activities in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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The Survey Action Center, Cisr Jmu Dec 2002

The Survey Action Center, Cisr Jmu

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

The Survey Action Center (SAC) is an international organization with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It is registered in the United States as a non-profit organization. SAC serves as the executing agency for Landmine Impact Surveys (LIS). These surveys will allow greater prioritization of demining efforts and further integration of the various mine action sectors. On the SAC board of directors are four of the world’s top landmine-related non-governmental organizations (NGOs): Handicap International (France), Mine Clearance Planning Agency (Afghanistan), the Danish Demining Group (Denmark) and Norwegian People’s Aid (Norway). Jean Baptiste Richardier is SAC’s President; Bob Eaton is the Executive Director …

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War Child Television Series Joins Mine Awareness Campaign, Cisr Jmu Dec 2002

War Child Television Series Joins Mine Awareness Campaign, Cisr Jmu

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

“The Garden,” one film in a new series entitled War Child, raises mine awareness and presents ways individuals may become involved with the issue.

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The 3rd Dtif Workshop, Stewart Myles Dec 2002

The 3rd Dtif Workshop, Stewart Myles

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

The latest Demining Technology Information Forum (DTIF) workshop focused on the use of ground penetrating radar (GPR) in humanitarian demining. Participants were able to share knowledge and formulate plans for the future of GPR in demining efforts.

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Victim Assistance: A Way Forward Emerges, Suzanne Fiederlein Dec 2002

Victim Assistance: A Way Forward Emerges, Suzanne Fiederlein

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

The pillar of victim assistance, after lagging behind other components of mine action in funding and focused international attention, takes the initiative to shape its future and address lingering challenges.

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Helping Hands In A Shattered Republic: Victim Assistance In Chechnya, Hayden Roberts Dec 2002

Helping Hands In A Shattered Republic: Victim Assistance In Chechnya, Hayden Roberts

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Chechnya has endured over eight years of grueling combat with Russia. Thousands of landmines have been sown throughout Chechnya and the victim toll is constantly increasing. Victim assistance throughout the Caucasus has become an essential element of rebuilding the lives of those affected by landmines.

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Restoring The Spirit Of Asia’S Most Mine Affected Countries, Hayden Roberts Dec 2002

Restoring The Spirit Of Asia’S Most Mine Affected Countries, Hayden Roberts

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Various wars and internal conflicts have left the civilians of Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam in serious need of assistance. Today, several organizations are increasing their aid to mine victims by addressing both their physical and socio-economic needs.

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Landmine Survivors Network Victim Assistance Programs, Cisr Jmu Dec 2002

Landmine Survivors Network Victim Assistance Programs, Cisr Jmu

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

The Landmine Survivors Network (LSN) assists victims through the support of other landmine survivors. A number of programs and networks are available for coping and reintegrating survivors and their families back into their communities.

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Assisting A Disabled Population: A Look At Victim Assistance In Afghanistan, Cisr Jmu Dec 2002

Assisting A Disabled Population: A Look At Victim Assistance In Afghanistan, Cisr Jmu

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

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Sapl Newsletter : 2002 : 12 (Fall), Nelson Poynter Memorial Library., Society For Advancement Of Poynter Library. Dec 2002

Sapl Newsletter : 2002 : 12 (Fall), Nelson Poynter Memorial Library., Society For Advancement Of Poynter Library.

Society for Advancement of Poynter Library

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Testing The Effectiveness Of Behavioral Activation Therapy In The Treatment Of Acute Unipolar Depression, Jenifer M. Cullen Dec 2002

Testing The Effectiveness Of Behavioral Activation Therapy In The Treatment Of Acute Unipolar Depression, Jenifer M. Cullen

Dissertations

The present study sought to investigate the clinical effectiveness of Behavioral Activation (BA) Therapy, the behavioral activation component of Beck's Cognitive Therapy (CT; Beck, Rush, Shaw, & Emery, 1979). Seventeen adults seeking mental health services for Unipolar Depression were recruited from the Kalamazoo and Southwestern Michigan regions. All participants were randomly assigned to either (a) an Immediate Treatment Group, or (b) a waitlist control group, while both received 10 weeks o f BA therapy. Depressive symptomatology for both conditions were assessed at pretreatment, post-treatment, and 3-month follow-up with the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II; Beck, Steer, Ball, & Ranieri, 1996), the …

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Perspectives On Power: John F. Kennedy And U.S.-Middle East Relations, April R. Summitt Dec 2002

Perspectives On Power: John F. Kennedy And U.S.-Middle East Relations, April R. Summitt

Dissertations

A study of President John F. Kennedy's policy toward the Middle East illustrates the agency and unexpected power wielded by so-called "third world" countries during the Cold War era. In spite of careful planning in Washington, Middle East leaders often manipulated and directed Kennedy's approach to the region. Regional actors used American fears of Communism to gain increased financial aid, military support, and influence in the United Nations. Although seeming to submit to Western pressures in exchange for such support, these leaders played both superpowers against each other and shaped policy according to local needs. While this relationship meant a …

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The Relationship Between Insurance Type And Health Care Costs, Use And Choice Of Outpatient Provider, Dan-Alexandru Balan Dec 2002

The Relationship Between Insurance Type And Health Care Costs, Use And Choice Of Outpatient Provider, Dan-Alexandru Balan

Dissertations

The impact of insurance type on health care is a very important topic in health economics. This dissertation examines the relationship between insurance type and health care cost, use and outpatient provider choice using the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data. I examine separately three types of services: emergency, nonemergency hospital care and outpatient because the effect of insurance type on use may depend on the type of health care service provided. The insurance types analyzed are Health Maintenance Organization (HMO), private fee-for-service employer insurance, private fee-for-service non-employer insurance, government insurance and self insurance. For each service, individuals paying for health …

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Introduction To Cultural Text Analysis And Liksom's Short Story "We Got Married", Urpo Kovala Dec 2002

Introduction To Cultural Text Analysis And Liksom's Short Story "We Got Married", Urpo Kovala

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

No abstract provided.

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Cultural Studies And Cultural Text Analysis, Urpo Kovala Dec 2002

Cultural Studies And Cultural Text Analysis, Urpo Kovala

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article, "Cultural Studies and Cultural Text Analysis," Urpo Kovala discusses the role of textual analysis in cultural studies. He begins with a sketch of different conceptions of textual analysis within cultural studies by pointing to differences in the concepts of text and context themselves. Next, Kovala explores the reasons for including textual analysis as a category and method in cultural studies and in humanities and social sciences scholarship generally. Finally, Kovala sketches briefly a model for the cultural analysis of text where his main point is that the argument about the incompatibility of cultural studies and textual analysis …

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Reading Liksom's Short Story "We Got Married" In A Cultural And Political Perspective, Erkki Vainikkala Dec 2002

Reading Liksom's Short Story "We Got Married" In A Cultural And Political Perspective, Erkki Vainikkala

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his paper, "Reading Liksom's Short Story 'We Got Married' in a Cultural and Political Perspective," Erkki Vainikkala examines Rosa Liksom's short story as well as one reader's response to the text. In Vainikkala's analysis, the short story is described as a structure of inversions and reversals where sequences are opened and cut short, standpoints are offered and taken back immediately, and where the code of realism is suggested but not carried out as the development of the story lacks convincing motivation. The resulting effect of exhaustion, evident also in the manifestation of pathological narcissism in the story, is seen …

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Liksom's Short Story "We Got Married" And (Finnish) Identity Construction, Kimmo Jokinen Dec 2002

Liksom's Short Story "We Got Married" And (Finnish) Identity Construction, Kimmo Jokinen

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his paper, "Liksom's Short Story 'We Got Married' and (Finnish) Identity Construction," Kimmo Jokinen proposes the validity of common belief today that a shift into a late-modern era is taking place. It has often been claimed in contemporary sociological debates that our "post-industrial" life has become more thoroughly imbricated with culture and signs and sociologists, in their analyses of contemporary life, are interested especially in stories people tell, hear, and read. Based on readers' survey data in Finland, Jokinen analyses the ways in which Rosa Liksom's short story "We Got Married" is being employed in identity construction. For Jokinen, …

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Selected Bibliography Of Textual Analysis In Cultural Studies, Xianfeng Mou, Urpo Kovala Dec 2002

Selected Bibliography Of Textual Analysis In Cultural Studies, Xianfeng Mou, Urpo Kovala

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

No abstract provided.

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[Review Of] The Green Book Of Songs By Subject: The Thematic Guide To Popular Music, Robert A. Aken Dec 2002

[Review Of] The Green Book Of Songs By Subject: The Thematic Guide To Popular Music, Robert A. Aken

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

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The Use Of Psychological State Terms By Late Talkers At Age 3, Eliza Carlson Lee, Leslie Rescorla Dec 2002

The Use Of Psychological State Terms By Late Talkers At Age 3, Eliza Carlson Lee, Leslie Rescorla

Psychology Faculty Research and Scholarship

The use of psychological state words during mother-child play sessions at age 3 was examined in 31 children diagnosed with delayed expressive language at 24-31 months and 21 age-matched typically developing comparison children. Children and mothers in the late talker group made more references to physiological states and fewer references to cognitive states than the children and mothers in the typically developing comparison group. The children's use of cognitive terms correlated significantly with measures of language ability, including mean length of utterance, Index of Productive Syntax score, and use of propositional complements, as well as with their mothers' use of …

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The Role Of Mine Action In Victim Assistance, Eric Filippino Dec 2002

The Role Of Mine Action In Victim Assistance, Eric Filippino

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Of the five pillars of mine action, victim assistance seems to receive the least attention. At the request of the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS), the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) has recently completed a research project with a view to offering guidance on the future role of mine action in mine and UXO victim assistance.

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Interview With Lloyd Feinberg From The Leahy War Victims Fund, Cisr Jmu Dec 2002

Interview With Lloyd Feinberg From The Leahy War Victims Fund, Cisr Jmu

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

The Leahy War Victims Fund is one of the world’s leading contributors to the treating and rehabilitating survivors of armed conflict. The Fund has supported the successful passage of disability-related legislation in Vietnam and is working for similar results elsewhere. In Africa, The Leahy War Victims Fund is spearheading the ambitious Omega Initiative, which aims to bring various types of aid to the countries of sub-Saharan Africa. Lloyd Feinberg represents the Fund on many fronts; he is widely respected and recognized as both an authority and a humanitarian.

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Life Is More Than An Artificial Leg: The Luena/Angola Experience, Sebastian Kasack Dec 2002

Life Is More Than An Artificial Leg: The Luena/Angola Experience, Sebastian Kasack

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Medico International is a German non-governmental organization (NGO) that specializes in socio-medical care and advocacy from the onset of an emergency throughout the rehabilitation and reintegration process.

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Building Sustainable Local Capacities For The Assistance Of Landmine Victims In Southern Africa: A Concept From The Minefields Of The Zambezi Basin Escarpment, Martin Chitsama Dec 2002

Building Sustainable Local Capacities For The Assistance Of Landmine Victims In Southern Africa: A Concept From The Minefields Of The Zambezi Basin Escarpment, Martin Chitsama

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

After various intense conflicts in the region, southern Africa is plagued by landmines and UXO. The author describes the concept and implementation of Minefield Reaction Sticks to help alleviate the problem.

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Help Is Around The Corner: Cbr In Bosnia, Cisr Jmu Dec 2002

Help Is Around The Corner: Cbr In Bosnia, Cisr Jmu

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Community-based rehabilitation (CBR) allows Bosnians to receive rehabilitation services within their own community, offering many advantages to Bosnians and Bosnia.

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Landmines: A Survivor’S Tale, Ken Rutherford Dec 2002

Landmines: A Survivor’S Tale, Ken Rutherford

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

I am a bilateral lower leg amputee as a result of a 1993 landmine accident in Somalia. Many readers of the Journal of Mine Action know the horrible landmine casualty statistics and facts. I hope that you will also contribute to making the world safer for all of us and help prevent similar stories.

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Victim Assistance Policy Planning: Decentralization As A Key?, Philippe Chabasse Dec 2002

Victim Assistance Policy Planning: Decentralization As A Key?, Philippe Chabasse

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

While victim assistance is becoming an increasingly familiar topic for signatories of the Mine Ban Treaty, the problem remains of how best to implement such programs. The author suggests that it is time for a switch from “top down” to “bottom up” implementation.

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Socketless Option For Prosthetic Care, Ruth Clark Dec 2002

Socketless Option For Prosthetic Care, Ruth Clark

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Dr. Chaz Holder developed Socketless Technology for prosthetics, a revolutionary approach to prosthetic care. In this article, his colleague describes this technology and its many applications.

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Breaking New Ground: Assisting Farmers With Disabilities Through The Application Of Assistive Technology, William Field Dec 2002

Breaking New Ground: Assisting Farmers With Disabilities Through The Application Of Assistive Technology, William Field

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

With regards to agriculture in much of eastern Europe and northern Africa, the significant problem that landmine detonations present to farmers often goes unnoticed. This problem causes careers in agriculture to be labeled as the most hazardous occupations around the world. However, little attention has been given to rehabilitation practices and assistive technology to help those who have been disabled in this line of work. The Breaking New Ground Resource Center at Purdue University is attempting to resolve the problem at hand by providing technical assistance to those who have been impacted by physical disabilities, in hopes that others may …

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Somali Demining Action Group, Omar Mohamed Dec 2002

Somali Demining Action Group, Omar Mohamed

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Somali Demining Action Group (SDAG) aims to eradicate anti-personnel landmines in Central and south Somalia. Statistics are provided for mine casualties in central and south Somalia.

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