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Montana Tourism Businesses: 2011 Review And 2012 Outlook, Norma P. Nickerson, Jake Jorgenson

Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research Publications

Outlook for 2012 and Review of 2011.

Montana Nonresident Traveler Quarterly Travel Comparison: 2010, Kara Grau

Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research Publications

This report shows the 2010 quarterly visitation and length of stay data for nonresident travelers to Montana. It also displays average daily spending for various expenditure categories, as well as total expenditures for those categories.

Montana Nonresident Visitation Trends: 2000-2010, Kara Grau

Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research Publications

This report displays the total number of individual nonresidents visiting Montana from 2000-2010. It also shows the total number of groups visiting Montana during the same time period.

Tax Planning For Incoming Professional Team Athletes, John Karaffa

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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How Web 2.0 Is Changing The Way Students Learn: The Darwikinism And Folksonomy Revolution, Helen Crompton

Teaching & Learning Faculty Publications

In the 21st century, some argue that we have a new breed of students (Oblinger & Oblinger, 2005; Prensky, 2001). Technologies such as Web 2.0 have been held responsible for these changes as students are now becoming active, critical consumers of information (Klamma, Cao, & Spaniol, 2007). Two components of this Web 2.0 revolution are the ideas behind Darwikinism and folksonomy. Darwikinism is a portmanteau of Darwinism and Wikis, which describes how a system similar to Darwin’s theory of evolution is ordering and processing wiki information. Folksonomy, again a portmanteau of folk and taxonomy, refers to the way in which …

Inter-University Collaboration For Online Teaching Innovation: An Emerging Model., James Soldner

School for Global Inclusion and Social Development Faculty Publications

Distance education is constantly evolving and improving. To stay current, effective online instructorsmust utilize the most innovative, evidence-based teaching methods available to promotestudent learning and satisfaction in their courses. One emerging teaching method,referred to as blended online learning (BOL), involves collaborative education across multipleuniversity settings. In this article, we describe an inter-university educational collaboration designedto connect students from various academic institutions using the BOL teaching method.The article begins with an overview of the theoretical framework that informs the BOL method,followed by an overview of the method and its key components. Benefits of this collaborativelearning effort to students, educators, universities, and …

Relationships Among Leader-Member Exchange, Satisfaction, Productivity, And Self-Efficacy Of Rehabilitation Doctoral Students, James Soldner

School for Global Inclusion and Social Development Faculty Publications

A satisfactory relationship between doctoralstudents and their academic advisors is anessential component of successful doctoraltraining. The purpose of this study was toinvestigate the relationships between leadermemberexchange (LMX), satisfaction withtheir programs, self-efficacy, and productivityof rehabilitation doctoral students. We alsoexamined the potential effects of studentshaving advisors of a different gender orethnicity from the students’ own. Data werecollected from a nationwide sample of 101current rehabilitation doctoral studentswith at least one term of doctoral trainingexperience. An internet-based survey wasused for data collection purposes. Resultsindicated that LMX was significantlycorrelated with both satisfaction (r99 = .325,p = .001) and self-efficacy (r99 = .262, p = .008), …

Governor Deval Patrick And The Representation Of Massachusetts’ Black Interests, Ravi K. Perry

Trotter Review

This article examines the rhetorical strategies and legislative initiatives of Deval Patrick and his efforts to represent black interests in Massachusetts. Utilizing speech content analysis, census data, interview data, and archives of executive and legislative actions, the article identifies that Massachusetts’ only black governor has been able to advance policies and programs designed to represent black interests. The results indicate that when black interest policy actions are framed utilizing a targeted universalistic rhetorical strategy, Patrick advanced black interests as he detailed how his proposed initiatives benefited all citizens. At the state level, the finding exposes the limits of the deracialization …

Denver And Boston: Why One City Elects Black Mayors And The Other Has Not, Kenneth J. Cooper

Trotter Review

Denver’s population is only 10 percent black, and has never been above 12 percent in any Census, yet in July 2011 the city elected a black mayor. Michael Hancock, a former city councilman, is actually the second African-American mayor of Denver. Wellington Webb served the limit of three terms through 2003. Three of the city’s last four mayors have been of color. Federico Peña, a Mexican American, became the first in 1983.

At 24 percent, Boston’s black population is twice as large as Denver’s and has been so throughout the three decades during which Denver has sent two African Americans …

Commentary: Creating A Pipeline For A More Inclusive Democracy, Joyce Ferriabough

Trotter Review

After the 2010 elections, the number of women holding elective office in Massachusetts plummeted to 1998 levels, with women comprising only 24 percent of all officeholders and 20 percent of local elected officials.

The figures for women of color who were officeholders were even starker: They held only 2 percent of elected offices, despite people of color comprising more than 20 percent of the state’s population. Women of color who are current officeholders in Massachusetts are typically the “first and only.” In the state senate, there is one woman of color, Sonia Chang-Diaz. She is the first Latina woman to …

Considered A Foreign Policy Neophyte, Barack Obama Emerges As One Of The Nation’S Most Competent Commanders In Chief, Howard Manly

Trotter Review

During the 2008 presidential campaign, the main criticism against Barack Obama was that he was too green to lead America’s foreign policy and military.

It was a charge that Republican conservatives made against Democratic candidates with predictable frequency and had become a proven winning strategy after Ronald Reagan steamrolled perceived military bumbler Jimmy Carter in 1980. Conventional wisdom suggested that strategy would work even better against Obama.

In a move that foreshadowed his military decision-making, Obama authorized within the first four months of his administration the military rescue of Richard Phillips, the American sea captain taken hostage by pirates in …

Davis Studies Gray Areas Of Human Sexuality, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

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Nastasia Is All About Interpersonal Communication, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Heil Studies Terrorism, Sex Trafficking In U.S, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

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Maynard Teaches Art Of Journalism, Television, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

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Obscured Geographies Of The Emerald City: A Study On Gentrification In Seattle, Wa, Jonah D. White

WWU Graduate School Collection

The city of Seattle, Washington has received widespread acclaim both in popular literature and scientific research for its sustainable development efforts to improve quality of life and economic vitality. As a reflection of overall quality of life, the city frequently appears on lists of "Best Places to Live" and boasts a unique combination of cultural amenities and recreational opportunities. The city is also home to a robust high-technology economy with a highly-educated, professionalized workforce consistent with postindustrial city status. However, Seattle has not always been an attractive place to live as evidenced by notable population decline between 1960 and 1980. …

Pedestrian Perceptions: A Study Of The Mount Pleasant Neighborhood In Vancouver, B.C., Canada, Jeffery M. Guinn

WWU Graduate School Collection

Most short distance travel, less than three miles, is being completed by single occupancy vehicles in North America, which leads to many negative effects on the physical environment and citizens' quality of life. Therefore, understanding influences on travel behavior, more specifically non-automotive travel behavior, is crucial. Many researchers and city planners have touted specific factors for encouraging walking and biking, but the body of work to support such notions remains small and fragmented. This study was developed to test all previously identified motivating factors for walking and biking and their relative influence over one's choice. The Mount Pleasant neighborhood in …

Walking With Wapiti: Measuring Late Holocene Climatic Variability Through Cervus Elaphus Abundance And Stable Isotope Analysis In The Gulf Of Georgia Region, Angus M. D. (Angus Michael David) Tierney

WWU Graduate School Collection

Native hunters of the Northwest Coast valued the local wapiti subspecies (Cervus elaphus roosevelti) greater than any other land animals as a source of both food and raw materials for tools. Wapiti population size depends on the quantity and quality of their preferred foods: easily digestible, high protein plants that occur most abundantly in meadows and thickets, particularly after spring and summer rains. Changing climate regimes affected the productivity of these foods but there is disagreement about whether climate periods with long dry summers helped or hindered wapiti populations on the Northwest Coast. Lepofsky et al. (2005) suggests wapiti abundance …

Late-Holocene Mammal Use In The Salish Sea: A Case Study From The Cherry Point Site (45wh1), Northwestern Washington, Matthew A. (Matthew Adam) Dubeau

WWU Graduate School Collection

Mammal remains from the Cherry Point site (45WH1) are analyzed to provide information about the nature of prehistoric mammal use in coastal sites in the Gulf of Georgia region from the Locarno Beach period (3,500 to 2,000 BP) to European contact (250 BP). Expectations regarding the taxonomic structure of the 45WH1 mammalian assemblage in the context of regional patterns are developed and evaluated. Specific hypotheses relating to the transition from a generalized forager lifeway to a highly developed marine collector adaptation are tested. Thirty-four test cuts (2 x 2 meter excavation units), or approximately half of the cuts excavated at …

Self-Silencing Among Punjabi Women: The Interplay Of Cultural Adaptation, Depression, And Domestic Violence, Madhura Bhadra

WWU Graduate School Collection

Silencing the self theory predicts that women in oppressive relationships tend to experience loss of self through self-silencing, and are therefore more prone to depression. Past studies have found that both abuse and immigration are associated with higher levels of self-silencing and depression. The current study investigated the psychometric properties of the Silencing the Self Scale (STSS) and the Beck Depression Inventory II (BDIII), as well as the validity of the STSS subscales for a specific cultural population. Fifty-five Punjabi women completed the STSS, the BDI-II, and participated in in-depth focus groups for a mixed methods approach to a culturally …

The Processing And Content Of Family Narratives In Emerging Adulthood: Gender, Family Functioning, And Associations With Identity Development, Sarah Morrison-Cohen

WWU Graduate School Collection

The aim of the present study was to examine the family narratives of emerging adults. While previous studies have found that interpretative narrative content in adolescents' family narratives is related to identity development, this relation has not been explored in emerging adulthood. One hundred and fifty-eight university students, most in their first year, were asked to provide written narratives of times for the family that were happy, difficult, or transitional, as well as a narrative about themselves commonly told by the family. I examined the relationship between interpretive processing and identity within and across these narrative types, controlling for family …

Resiliency Strategies In Transnational Families: Case Study With Highland Guatemalan Women, Katie M. Fawell

WWU Graduate School Collection

The Maya from highland Guatemala are now involved in transnational migration that separates families. Most commonly men migrate first to the United States, leaving women and children behind. This leads to new challenges for women and children in Guatemala who must adapt to male absent households. One such community that faces these challenges is Aguacatán, Guatemala. The women in the Guatemalan homeland community, Aguacatán, are often married to men who have immigrated to the United States. Whatcom County, Washington is the destination for many families from Aguacatán due to both conflict within Guatemala and the need for families to give …

Motion Picture Film As A Government Record: Framing Films Within Archival Theory And Preparing For The Digital Future, Heidi Holmstrom

WWU Graduate School Collection

Governments have created and used motion picture films since soon after their invention, but government archivists have an uneasy relationship with films. Historically, the traditional archival literature has overlooked films in favor of a focus on textual records, while the film archive literature is unconcerned with the archival concept of the record. To define the scope of the problem, this thesis demonstrates the paucity of archival literature addressing motion picture film as a government record. Moving forward, motion pictures are examined through a lens of archival theory and set in their rightful place among other formats of government records. It …

Maps As Discourse In The Borderlands: An Analysis Of The Cartographies Of Power On The U.S.-Mexico 'Frontier', Austin Rose

WWU Graduate School Collection

The territorial conquest involved in making and regulating an international boundary has been central to the creation of many nation-states, as well as to the production of various social categories around those boundaries, particularly citizenship and nationality, but also race, ethnicity, and class. This research aims to analyze how cartographic representations of the U.S.-Mexico border function to communicate social difference. Drawing ideas from critical cartography and social constructivism, I highlight the ways in which maps of this particular border space are not merely objective representations, but rather embody powerful political discourses that have constitutive effects on the identities, and thus …

11,000 Years On The Rogue River: Prehistoric Occupation Of The Stratton Creek Site (35jo21), Josephine County, Oregon, Catherin M. (Catherin Maria) Bialas

WWU Graduate School Collection

This thesis presents results of analysis of materials from 35JO21, a deep stratified site on an elevated terrace on the Rogue River. An excavation by Oregon State University in 1992 revealed stratified cultural deposits to over three meters below the surface with some projectile point types that had been dated elsewhere to 8,000 years ago. No radiometric dates were obtained, however, and only a brief report was prepared. The goal of this thesis was to perform the necessary analyses to define site components and to confirm or disconfirm the proposed early age of the deepest material. Existing stratigraphic profiles were …

Transboundary Watershed Management In The Fraser Lowlands: Bertrand Creek And Fishtrap Creek, Ryan Anaka

WWU Graduate School Collection

Bertrand Creek and Fishtrap Creek are transboundary watersheds located in the eastern portion of the Fraser Lowlands border region. Population growth, land use practices, and urban development in British Columbia (BC) and Washington (WA) are pressuring surface and groundwater resources. As a result, questions of transboundary watershed management have arisen. Management of transboundary water resources creates dynamic governing scenarios, as mismatched levels of government and regulatory fragmentation both within and between neighbouring nations results in a confusing governing scenario. Consequently, cooperation between nations regarding transboundary resource management may be difficult to formulate. However, this thesis is based on the assumption …

Identity And Icons: Conflict And Consequences Surrounding The University Of North Dakota's "Fighting Sioux" Name And Logo, Jorelle Grover

WWU Graduate School Collection

Controversy surrounds the University of North Dakota's (UND) logo and nickname, The Fighting Sioux, generating a conflict with the neighboring American Indian tribe [Native American], the Standing Rock Sioux, dating back to the 1960's (Phillips and Rice 2010:511). Previous research done on this topic left a large discrepancy regarding the concept of cultural identity attached to the conflict, developments that have taken placed since 2005, and more recent developments. The question I examine is why this issue incorporates such differing opinions. I examined the concept that the root of this controversy lies within cultural identities which are linked to the …

No Dust In Cyberspace?: The Effects Of Internet Technology On Perceptions Of Archives, Caitlin Patterson

WWU Graduate School Collection

Drawing on research into digital technologies and their effects on society and archives, as well as research on the public image of archives, this thesis examines whether technological changes, specifically the Internet, have had any effects on public perceptions of archives and if so to determine the nature of those effects. It relies on a survey to measure possible effects of Internet technology on perceptions of archives. Findings suggest that there are a number of ways in which the Internet may be affecting perceptions of archives, including prompting both increased expectations for the provision of digital information and materials and …

The Impact Of Magnetic Resonance Imaging On Juror Perceptions Of Guilt, Christopher M. (Christopher Michael) Jackson

WWU Graduate School Collection

This study examined the impact of MRI-based evidence on juror perceptions of guilt in a criminal case. Jury eligible undergraduates read one of three mock trial summaries of a murder case wherein MRI evidence was manipulated: (1) MRI evidence with accompanying neuroimages, (2) MRI evidence without accompanying brain images, or (3) no MRI evidence. The proportion of guilty verdicts rendered was statistically similar across all conditions. In addition, participants did not list MRI evidence as the most influential piece of evidence for their verdict. Based on the results of this study it appears that MRI-based evidence and neuroimages do not …

Law Via The Internet: Report On The Conference, Yemisi Dina

Articles & Book Chapters

Cornell University, located in Ithaca, New York hosted the LVI (Law via the Internet) 2012. The conference also marked the twentieth anniversary of the LIIs (Legal Information Institutes) of the world, which have grown exponentially. The anniversary was not a cake-eating celebration but a two-day deliberation with members of an open access society who have been striving to make legal information freely available on the Internet. Many of the speakers at the sessions shared their experiences from the different projects they have been working on over the past twenty years or more, and the LIIs continue to improve. It was …