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Promoting Multi-Methods Research: Linking Anthropometric Methods To Migration Studies, Lisa Cliggett, Deborah L. Crooks

Lisa Cliggett

The experience of migration includes costs and benefits to migrants and sending communities. In the tradition of a “letters” type discussion, this paper presents a synthesis of recent work from a longitudinal study from Zambia, Africa that used a mixed-methods approach to investigate the experience and outcomes of migration among the Gwembe Tonga. In this ethnographic study, we argue that including anthropometric methods in migration studies enhances our ability to empirically assess impacts of mobility to better understand the experience of migration. In this particular African context we see, on average, a beneficial outcome for migrants’ nutritional status, and livelihoods.

St. Cloud Area Quarterly Business Report, Vol. 9, No. 3, King Banaian, Richard A. Macdonald

St. Cloud Area Quarterly Business Report

No abstract provided.

The Ouachita Circle Fall 2007, Ouachita Baptist University

The Ouachita Circle: The Alumni Magazine of Ouachita Baptist University

U.S. News and World Report rated OBU #1 baccalaureate college in the South for academic quality, and #2 baccalaureate college in the "Great Schools/Great Prices" category

Difference Maker: Mike Huckabee lecture on behalf of Ouachita's new Center for Education and Public Policy

BOOM-A-LACKA!: Tiger Spirit Makes a Comeback

HOMECOMING 2007: Kappa Chi wins Tiger Tunes 2007, EEE and Tri Chi win second and third place

Two Minds for Missions: Cindy McClain ('80) and Debbie Moore ('74) join the ABSC Mission Support Team

Remembering: Dr. O. Fred Becker

Building a Better Place to Call Home: Alumni Work Toward the Betterment of …

The Least We Can Do, Susan E. Waltz

Human Rights & Human Welfare

In the early months of 2003, when the U.S. was only threatening war, humanitarian relief organizations expected thousands of refugees to flee from Iraq into neighboring countries of Jordan and Syria. They were surprised when it did not happen. Four years later, the anticipated wave has at last arrived—and in tsunami proportions.

Iraqi Resettlement: Why Congress Will Act, David A. Weinberg

Human Rights & Human Welfare

I would like to commend Human Rights & Human Welfare for their recent roundtable on the Iraqi refugee crisis. The Roundtable rightly draws attention to the United States government’s woefully inadequate efforts thus far to address a major humanitarian crisis of its own making.

However, I do not agree with Professor Daniel Whelan’s assessment of “why Congress won’t act” on Iraqi resettlement. Dr. Whelan argues that the new Congress appears reluctant to resettle a reasonable number of Iraqi refugees in danger because Democrats fear that doing so would precipitate Iraqi state failure by means of “brain drain.” Instead, I would …

University Of New England Library Services Annual Report 2006-2007, Une Library Services

Annual Reports

Highlights and accomplishments of 2006/2007 from the University of New England's Library Services department.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 032, Number 10, October 1, 2007, Grand Valley State University

2007-2008, Volume 32

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Lanthorn, Vol. 42, No. 12, October 1, 2007, Grand Valley State University

Volume 42, July 12, 2007 - June 12, 2008

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

A Functional Analysis Of Televised U.S. Senate And Gubernatorial Campaign Debates, William L. Benoit, Leann Brazeal, David Airne

Communication Studies Faculty Publications

This study extended previous research on the Functional Theory of Political Campaign Discourse to investigate the nature of 21 U.S. Senate campaign debates and 15 gubernatorial debates from 1994 to 2006. Acclaims were more common than attacks or defenses in Senate (56%, 30%, 14%) and gubernatorial (68%, 30%, 2%) debates. Challengers attacked more and acclaimed less than incumbents in both groups of debates. Senate and gubernatorial incumbents used past deeds much more to acclaim than attack; challengers were prone to use past deeds to attack more than acclaim. There was no consistent effect of political party on functions of debates. …

Which Sexual Abuse Victims Receive A Forensic Medical Examination? : The Impact Of Children's Advocacy Centers, Wendy A. Walsh, Theodore P. Cross, Lisa M. Jones, Monique Simone, David Kolko

Sociology

Abstract

Objective

This study examines the impact of Children's Advocacy Centers (CAC) and other factors, such as the child's age, alleged penetration, and injury on the use of forensic medical examinations as part of the response to reported child sexual abuse.

Methods

This analysis is part of a quasi-experimental study, the Multi-Site Evaluation of Children's Advocacy Centers, which evaluated four CACs relative to within-state non-CAC comparison communities. Case abstractors collected data on forensic medical exams in 1,220 child sexual abuse cases through review of case records.

Results

Suspected sexual abuse victims at CACs were two times more likely to have …

Toward A Legal History Of Children As Witnesses, William S. Bush, David S. Tanenhaus

History Faculty Publications

This essay offers a selective overview of recent trends in the historical scholarship on American childhood from the origins of the American Revolution to the early years of the Cold War. This overview of the literature has two purposes. First, it highlights recent sociocultural scholarship that presents substantive challenges to the conventional ways of understanding the history of children and the law. Second, in so doing, it points out that legal histories concerned solely with doctrinal matters can, and often do, present a limited and distorted window into the past. Instead, the essay argues that the place of children, historically, …

Increased Probiotic Yogurt Or Resistant Starch Intake Does Not Affect Isoflavone Bioavailability In Subjects Consuming A High Soy Diet, Theresa A. Larkin, William E. Price, Lee B. Astheimer

Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)

Objective: Probiotics and prebiotics that affect gut microflora balance and its associated enzymeactivity may contribute to interindividual variation in isoflavone absorption after soy intake, possiblyenhancing isoflavone bioavailability. This study examined the effects of the consumption ofbioactive yogurt (a probiotic) or resistant starch (a known prebiotic) in combination with high soyintake on soy isoflavone bioavailability.Methods: Using a crossover design, chronic soy consumption was compared with soy plusprobiotic yogurt or resistant starch in older male and postmenopausal females (n 31). Isoflavonebioavailability was assessed at the beginning and end of each 5-wk dietary period by samplingplasma and urine after a standardized soy meal.Results: …

2007 Nccaa Midwest All Region Men's Soccer Team, Cedarville University

Men's Soccer Rosters

No abstract provided.

We Are What They Ate: A History Of Food In South Carolina - 2007, South Carolina Institute Of Archaeology And Anthropology--University Of South Carolina

Archaeology Month Posters

This poster was released in conjunction with South Carolina Archaeology Month, October 2007.

Scottie Fitzgerald: The Stewardship Of Literary Memory, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina)

Rare Books & Special Collections Publications

The emphasis of this exhibition and its catalogue is on Scottie Fitzgerald as executrix of her parents' literary properties and as reluctant literary historian. The heavily illustrated catalogue begins with an overview of Scottie's life and her relationship to her parents and to their literary legacy, then the exhibited items are listed by topic: Childhood & Education, Scottie & F. Scott Fitzgerald, Scottie's Writings on F. Scott Fitzgerald, Scottie as Literary Executrix, Collaboration with Matthew J. Bruccoli, Scottie's Other Writings, and Scottie and the Matthew J. Bruccoli Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald. The catalog ends with a bibliography, Scottie Fitzgerald's …

Thomas Cooper Society Newsletter - Fall 2007, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina

Thomas Cooper Society Newsletter

Contents:

Willis Retires as Dean of Libraries; McNally Becomes Interim Dean..... p.1
The Thomas Cooper Society Events, 2006–2007..... p.1
Winners of the Thomas Cooper Library Student Book Collecting Contest Announced..... p.2
Plans Altered for Special Collections Library..... p.2
World War I Exhibit at Thomas Cooper Library..... p.3
In Memoriam: John E. Swearingen and Robert Hay Carnie..... p.3
Introduction of Kaye Gibbons, April 24, 2007..... p.4
Scottish Novel Exhibit at Thomas Cooper Library..... p.4
Athletics Academic Center Opens at Thomas Cooper Library..... p.5
Robinsons Provide Multiple Gifts to the University Libraries..... p.5
First Book by an African-Am erican Comes to TCL …

Imaging The Future Of Cross Border Environmental Resource Management Within The Fraser Lowland: A Delphi Analysis, Patrick H. Buckley, John Belec

Environmental Studies Faculty and Staff Publications

This report presents the findings of a study that utilizes a Delphi questionnaire technique to explore trans-border environmental governance issues in the Fraser Lowland of south-western British Columbia/ north-western Washington State. The international border that bisects this area, presents an implicit obstacle to coherent and consistent management of the environmental resources located in this unified bio-physical region. Moreover, as population and industrial pressures continue unabated, there is a sense that some degree of unified bi-national effort is inevitable in this cross-border region (CBR).

The Planet, 2007, Fall, Page A. Buono, Huxley College Of The Environment, Western Washington University

The Planet

No abstract provided.

Outpost Reference : Meeting Patrons On Their Own Ground, Samantha Hines

Mansfield Library Faculty Publications

This article discusses the creation of an outpost reference service as well as a roving reference project.

A Goal For Reform: Make Elections Worth Stealing, Todd Donovan

Political Science Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Introduction To The Special Issue On Spirituality And Psychotherapy, Kenneth I. Pargament, Stephen M. Saunders

Psychology Faculty Research and Publications

Religion and spirituality have been topics of interest to psychologists since the inception of the field, and this special issue devoted to spirituality and psychotherapy reflects the maturation of decades of research. Psychotherapy clients would like to discuss religious or spiritual issues with therapists, but therapists feel poorly prepared to do so. This special issue hopefully represents a step towards bridging the needs of clients and the expertise of providers. The seven articles in this issue reflect the progress psychologists have made toward understanding religion and spirituality, and they represent state‐of‐the‐art attempts at integrating these dimensions into treatment.

Ua35/1 Doers & Deeds Vol. 7, No. 2, Wku Provost

WKU Archives Records

Newsletter created by the WKU Provost & Vice President of Academic Affairs to highlight the activities of faculty, staff and alumni.

Presenting Libqual+ Results For Action, Margaret Martin Gardiner

Western Libraries Presentations

This is a presentation about how Western Libraries at the University of Western Ontario used LibQUAL+ results to achieve action expected by users.

A La Modernidad Por La Agricultura: Etica Rural Y Utopía Campesina En Domingos Vandelli (1789) Y Gaspar Melchor De Jovellanos (1794), Alvaro Kaempfer

Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies Faculty Publications

A fines del siglo 18, Vandelli y Jovellanos retornan a las reformas pombalinas y borbónicas de Portugal y España, respectivamente, para esbozar un proyecto que complete la modernización. Buscaban encarar la Modernidad de la Europa de Norte examinando la trayectoria cultural ibérica para diseñar su propia Modernidad. Esta Modernidad debía estar organizada en torno a la relación entre ética y economía sobre un programa cuya fortaleza surgía del mundo rural. Bajo esta perspectiva, ambos autores le dan forma a una narrativa cultural que integra tecnología, control demográfico y agricultura en función de un proyecto de modernización de la península ibérica. …

Singapore Management University Receives Friend Of The Arts Award, Singapore Management University

SMU Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Title And Contents- Fall 2007

Great Plains Quarterly

GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY

Volume 27 / Number 4 / Fall 2007

Contents

Introduction: From the Weight Of Gold To The Weight Of History In Hbo's Deadwood

Deadwood and the English Language

No Law: Deadwood and the State

"Whores and Other Feminists": Recovering Deadwood's Unlikely Feminisms

"Gold Is Every Man's Opportunity": Castration Anxiety and the Economic Venture in Deadwood

Review Essay: Reviewing the Western

Book Reviews

Notes and News

Review Of Katherine Anne Porter: The Life Of An Artist By Darlene Harbour Unrue, Thomas Austenfeld

Great Plains Quarterly

In contradistinction to earlier biographies- Joan Givner's groundbreaking work (1982, second edition 1991), Thomas Walsh's narrowly focused book on Porter and Mexico (1992), and Janis Stout's account of Porter's intellectual growth (1995)-this book provides primarily a fact-filled narrative of an artist's life shaped into elegant prose. Engaging and readable, Unrue's book documents her subject's entire life, but it is exceptionally strong and informative on the early childhood years notoriously difficult to research. In particular, Porter's religious formation and the disaster of her first marriage have never before been so well documented. Her youth in Texas and her brief but important …

Review Of Twilight Innings: A West Texan On Grace And Survival By Robert A. Fink, Paul Christensen

Great Plains Quarterly

Twilight Innings is an interesting book of essays for reasons that may go beyond the intention of Robert Fink, a poet and creative writing teacher at Hardin-Simmons University, a small, religious school in West Texas. Fink writes glowingly of his faith, the baseball games he loves to watch, the students he teaches in his "open admissions" poetry writing seminars, his wife's accomplishments as a school counselor.

What we learn is how this part of the Southern Plains hammers people into the same shape in its tiny oasis, Abilene. They share in common the Baptist religion, patriotism, a hard-edged conservative outlook, …

Review Of One Of Ours By Willa Cather, Becky Faber

Great Plains Quarterly

Published in 1922, One of Ours proved to be pivotal in Willa Cather's career. Although she had already penned four novels and gained increasing critical acclaim, One of Ours won Cather the Pulitzer Prize, elevating her to the highest rank of twentieth-century American authors.

One of Ours is sometimes referred to as a "war story," but Cather's intent was to portray a young man from the Plains who came to France in World War I and found himself. This character, Claude Wheeler, was based on Cather's cousin, G. P. Cather, who was killed in France in May 1918. Richard Harris …

Review Of The Midwestern Pastoral: Place And Landscape In Literature Of The American Heartland By William Barillas, Sarah Jayne Hitt

Great Plains Quarterly

Critical studies on the importance of place and landscape in Midwestern literature are not uncommon, but as William Barillas traces the trajectory of the pastoral tradition he provides a fresh perspective on how it has evolved through time and continues to influence contemporary writers. This analysis emphasizes ecology as well as landscape, making the book valuable for ecocritics as well as for scholars of the Midwest and Great Plains.

Barillas effectively argues that there is not one version of the Midwestern pastoral; rather, writers define the pastoral according to their individual artistic, cultural, and environmental concerns. Here Willa Cather is …