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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Personality Measurement In The Prediction Of Positive And Negative Police Officer Performance, Brian P. Enright
Personality Measurement In The Prediction Of Positive And Negative Police Officer Performance, Brian P. Enright
Dissertations
Police officer selection research has revealed a number of relationships between scores on psychological tests and performance on the job. Although a few of these predictor scales have been consistently linked with job performance, many still require further investigation. It was proposed that the personality scales most consistently linked to job performance concern two broad constructs including: (1) prosocial personality characteristics, and (2) level of psychological distress. Guided by findings from the police outcomes literature and research regarding the factor structure and intercorrelation of MMPI and CPI scales, it was proposed that Scales 4 and 9 from the MMPI and …
Smart Growth, State Policy And Public Process In Maine: The Dunstan Crossing Experience, Sylvia Most, Samuel B. Merrill, Jack D. Kartez
Smart Growth, State Policy And Public Process In Maine: The Dunstan Crossing Experience, Sylvia Most, Samuel B. Merrill, Jack D. Kartez
Maine Policy Review
Sprawling development in Maine’s growth areas continues in spite of the state’s emphasis on comprehensive planning over the past 20 years. In this article, the authors present some lessons to be learned from Scarborough’s Dunstan Crossing project, a planned development which would have incorporated many of the goals of the national “smart growth” movement. The project was approved by the elected town council (one of whom is co-author Sylvia Most), and it was in compliance with Scarborough’s town comprehensive plan. Nonetheless, the project for now has effectively been blocked after a lengthy period, described here, that saw a citizen referendum, …
Five Hundred Sixty Nations Among Us: Understanding The Basics Of Native American Sovereignty, Stephen Brimley
Five Hundred Sixty Nations Among Us: Understanding The Basics Of Native American Sovereignty, Stephen Brimley
Maine Policy Review
Stephen Brimley presents a general background on the historical context of Native American tribal sovereignty on the national level, and the current political and legal environment in which tribal rights are defined. He describes how tribes have retained varying degrees of the rights they had prior to European contact, and the ways in which state power over tribes has been expanded through court action in the past several decades. Maine’s Native American groups are in a somewhat unique situation with regard to sovereignty, as defined in the Maine Indian Land Claims Settlement Act of 1980.
The Other Iraq, Wayne Myers
The Other Iraq, Wayne Myers
Maine Policy Review
In the Margaret Chase Smith Essay, Wayne Myers discusses the Iraqi Kurds and their uniquely functional society within Iraq.
Tribal-State Relations, Donna M. Loring
Tribal-State Relations, Donna M. Loring
Maine Policy Review
Donna Loring’s commentary provides an alternative perspective on Native American sovereignty in Maine, looking at the sometimes contentious process of tribal-state relations.
"Sturdy Black Bridges": Discussing Race, Class, And Gender, Kaavonia Hinton
"Sturdy Black Bridges": Discussing Race, Class, And Gender, Kaavonia Hinton
Teaching & Learning Faculty Publications
Black feminist literary theory offers tools that teachers can use to initiate discussions on the issues of race, gender and class to analyze the works of adolescent literature. This feminist theory helps in reading and teaching literature about parallel cultures, like African-Americans and their love for self and community and their recognition of multiple oppressions in a way that differs from feminism.
Render Copyright Unto Caesar: On Taking Incentives Seriously, Wendy J. Gordon
Render Copyright Unto Caesar: On Taking Incentives Seriously, Wendy J. Gordon
Faculty Scholarship
This Essay suggests we bifurcate our thinking. Conventional copyright rules by money, so let it rule the money-bound. Let a different set of rules evolve for more complex uses, particularly when the users have a personal relationship with the utilized text. Much recent scholarship contains dramatic suggestions to secure a freedom to be creative, rewrite, and be imaginative. My work has long sought to defend such freedoms, but I believe we understand imagination and its conditions too little to employ it as a starting point. I suggest instead that we acquire a better conceptual map of the generative process and …
Back To The Future: The Future Of Long-Term Care In Massachusetts, Deborah H. Thomson, John J. Ford
Back To The Future: The Future Of Long-Term Care In Massachusetts, Deborah H. Thomson, John J. Ford
Gerontology Institute Publications
The state of Massachusetts, like the rest of the United States, is facing an approaching crisis in long-term care. Over the next few decades the number of Massachusetts residents age 65 and older will soar. As these numbers increase, so will the need for long-term care.
Massachusetts is ill prepared to provide the services that will be needed. Our current system of health care benefits leaves many elders with gaps in coverage. Those individuals who need long-term services often impoverish themselves and their spouses before the state pays for their care. Others languish on waiting lists to receive services. Our …
The Agency-Structure Model And The Embedded Individual In Heterodox Economics, John B. Davis
The Agency-Structure Model And The Embedded Individual In Heterodox Economics, John B. Davis
Economics Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Kentucky's Perpetual Prisoner Machine: It's About Money, Stephen C. Richards, James Austin, Richard S. Jones
Kentucky's Perpetual Prisoner Machine: It's About Money, Stephen C. Richards, James Austin, Richard S. Jones
Social and Cultural Sciences Faculty Research and Publications
Kentucky is currently facing a severe budget crisis and is seeking ways to lower its prison and community corrections costs. This article focuses on our study of the prison and parole experience of men and women in Kentucky. What we found is a virtual “perpetual incarceration machine” where prisoners are recycled from prison to parole and back to prison. The following discussion includes: Kentucky's prison population continues to grow, parole failure, methods, description of interview samples, interview data, the structure producing parole failure, and Kentucky's perpetual incarceration mechine. Based on our findings, several promising reforms are recommended that if implemented …
Review Of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: Facing Death, A Film By Stefan Haupt, John Steven Brantley
Review Of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: Facing Death, A Film By Stefan Haupt, John Steven Brantley
Faculty Research & Creative Activity
No abstract provided.
Review Of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: Facing Death, A Film By Stefan Haupt, John Brantley
Review Of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: Facing Death, A Film By Stefan Haupt, John Brantley
Faculty Research & Creative Activity
No abstract provided.
Chronic Pain: The Extra Burden On Canadian Women, Marta Meana, Robert Cho, Marie Desmeules
Chronic Pain: The Extra Burden On Canadian Women, Marta Meana, Robert Cho, Marie Desmeules
Psychology Faculty Research
Health Issue: Chronic pain is a major health problem associated with significant costs to both afflicted individuals and society as a whole. These costs seem to be disproportionately borne by women, who generally have higher prevalence rates for chronic pain than do men.
Key findings: Data obtained from 125,574 respondents to the Canadian Community Health Survey (2000–2001) indicated that 18% of Canadian women suffered from chronic pain, compared to 14% of men. This gender discrepancy, however, seemed to be linked primarily to differences in age, income, and education between adult men and women in this large sample. Age, income, depression …
Investigating Emotional Intelligence And Social Skills In Home Schooled Students, Jennifer Howard Adkins
Investigating Emotional Intelligence And Social Skills In Home Schooled Students, Jennifer Howard Adkins
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Jennifer Howard. Adkins April 12, 2004 51 pages Directed by: Dr. William Pfohl, Dr. Antony Norman, and Dr. Reagan Brown Department of Psychology Western Kentucky University In the United States today there are approximately 1.5 million students being home schooled. With this ever growing number, it is important to examine this unique population in order to determine the effects this alternative form of education will have on these students, not just academically, but in other areas as well. The purpose of this study is to examine the concepts of emotional intelligence and social skills in home schooled students. One hundred …
Analysis Of Social Aspects Of Migrant Labourers Living With Hiv/Aids Using Fuzzy Theory And Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps, Florentin Smarandache, W.B. Vasantha Kandasamy
Analysis Of Social Aspects Of Migrant Labourers Living With Hiv/Aids Using Fuzzy Theory And Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps, Florentin Smarandache, W.B. Vasantha Kandasamy
Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications
Neutrosophic logic grew as an alternative to the existing topics and it represents a mathematical model of uncertainty, vagueness, ambiguity, imprecision, undefined-ness, unknown, incompleteness, inconsistency, redundancy and contradiction. Despite various attempts to reorient logic, there has remained an essential need for an alternative system that could infuse into itself a representation of the real world. Out of this need arose the system of neutrosophy and its connected logic, neutrosophic logic. This new logic, which allows also the concept of indeterminacy to play a role in any real-world problem, was introduced first by one of the authors Florentin Smarandache. In this …
The 25th Anniversary, Don P. Diffine Ph.D.
The 25th Anniversary, Don P. Diffine Ph.D.
Belden Center Monographs
No abstract provided.
2004 American Incentive System Almanac, Don P. Diffine Ph.D.
2004 American Incentive System Almanac, Don P. Diffine Ph.D.
Belden Center Monographs
No abstract provided.
An Empirical Study Of The Dynamics Of International Stock Markets Interdependence, Michael Hutchinson, Farrokh Nourzad
An Empirical Study Of The Dynamics Of International Stock Markets Interdependence, Michael Hutchinson, Farrokh Nourzad
Economics Faculty Research and Publications
This paper examines the interaction between international national stock markets using daily data and a VAR model. The results indicate that the speed of adjustment to equilibrium after a shock is about two days, indicating that markets are highly efficient at processing international information. Moreover, the US market appears to be the most important in the system, while Japan is very independent and does not have much effect on the other markets in the sample. Finally, the recent Asian financial crisis appears to have amplified the importance of the Asian markets to the rest of the global exchanges.
Coming Of Age In America: Margaret Mead's Reconstruction Of Adolescence For The 1920s, Sarah Elizabeth Stevens
Coming Of Age In America: Margaret Mead's Reconstruction Of Adolescence For The 1920s, Sarah Elizabeth Stevens
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Pay For Labor: Socioeconomic Transitions Of Freedpeople And The Archaeology Of African American Life, 1863-1930, Shannon Sheila Mahoney
Pay For Labor: Socioeconomic Transitions Of Freedpeople And The Archaeology Of African American Life, 1863-1930, Shannon Sheila Mahoney
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"After Me Cometh A Builder": The Symbolic Landscape Of Secretary Nelson's Yorktown Estate And Its Transformation, Hank D. Lutton
"After Me Cometh A Builder": The Symbolic Landscape Of Secretary Nelson's Yorktown Estate And Its Transformation, Hank D. Lutton
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"Of More Consequence Than The President": Frances Folsom Cleveland And The Role Of First Lady In The Late Nineteenth Century, Ellen E. Adams
"Of More Consequence Than The President": Frances Folsom Cleveland And The Role Of First Lady In The Late Nineteenth Century, Ellen E. Adams
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
A Multidimensional Model Of Sociosexuality, Jenee James
A Multidimensional Model Of Sociosexuality, Jenee James
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Postnatal Ethanol Exposure And Attention: Implications For Sustained Attention Performance And Cholinergic System Integrity In Adult Rats, Kevin M. Woolfrey
Postnatal Ethanol Exposure And Attention: Implications For Sustained Attention Performance And Cholinergic System Integrity In Adult Rats, Kevin M. Woolfrey
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Warfighter-Peacekeeper Psychological Aptitude: Assessing The Soldier's Psychological Aptitude For Effective Performance In Combat Or Traditional Peacekeeping Operations, Matthew Charles Densmore
Warfighter-Peacekeeper Psychological Aptitude: Assessing The Soldier's Psychological Aptitude For Effective Performance In Combat Or Traditional Peacekeeping Operations, Matthew Charles Densmore
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
A Qualitative Study Of The Lived Experience Of Single, Gay Adoptive Fathers, John Daryl Matthews
A Qualitative Study Of The Lived Experience Of Single, Gay Adoptive Fathers, John Daryl Matthews
Theses and Dissertations
This qualitative study expands the existing literature on fatherhood, single parents, and gay and lesbian adoption to include the unique experiences of single, gay men who became adoptive parents after "coming out", or establishing a gay identity. To illustrate these unique and common experiences, individual ethnographic interviews were conducted with 16 fathers residing throughout the United States, as well as internationally. Specifically, this study explored the participants' experiences through their reflections of the adoption process, and through their experiences after the family was established. The participants had experiences to those found in previous studies on gay and lesbian adoption and …
Explaining Retention In Community-Based Movement Organizations, Sarah Kathryn Diehl
Explaining Retention In Community-Based Movement Organizations, Sarah Kathryn Diehl
Theses and Dissertations
An individual's initial acceptance of a recruitment pitch from a community-based social movement organization is usually based upon minimal information about the group and its efforts. It is only during the subsequent period of orientation that new members begin to learn more about the organization. During this period, the retention of new members is dependent on the successful alignment of individual and organizational frames. The failure to achieve such an alignment is likely to result in the new member's departure from the organization. This study explores the frame alignment process during early orientation to community-based SMOs. Using nineteen qualitative interviews …
The Impact Of Cognitive Development On Compassion Fatigue In Emergency Response Personnel, Aaron Hugh Jackson
The Impact Of Cognitive Development On Compassion Fatigue In Emergency Response Personnel, Aaron Hugh Jackson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
(At)America.Jp: Identity, Nationalism, And Power On The Internet, 1969-2000, Gretchen Ferris Schoel
(At)America.Jp: Identity, Nationalism, And Power On The Internet, 1969-2000, Gretchen Ferris Schoel
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
" america.jp" explores identity, nationalism, and power on the Internet between 1969 and 2000 through a cultural analysis of Internet code and the creative processes behind it. The dissertation opens with an examination of a real-time Internet Blues jam that linked Japanese and American musicians between Tokyo and Mississippi in 1999. The technological, cultural, and linguistic uncertainties that characterized the Internet jam, combined with the inventive reactions of the musicians who participated, help to introduce the fundamental conceptual question of the dissertation: is code a cultural product and if so can the Internet be considered a distinctly "American" technology?;A comparative …
Meaning What You Say, James Boyd White
Meaning What You Say, James Boyd White
Book Chapters
In this essay I talk about a wide range of themes in the hope of establishing a connection among them: writing (including the teaching of writing) and what is at stake, for the writer and the rest of the world, in doing it well or badly; certain forces in our culture-hard to define and understandthat tend to reduce or trivialize human experience, indeed the very value of the human being; the conception of the human being, not trivial at all, that underlies our practices of self-government in general and constitutional democracy in particular; and the idea of justice at work, …