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  • The Underlying Differences in Greenhouse Gases (GHG) Emissions Control and Renewable Energy: Three European Countries Approaches to Policy

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    Wilson, Kweku N.
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    "It appears that the summer of 2003 was very likely warmer than any other summer in Europe back to 1500" (Luterbacher, 2004). This was the conclusion of a study about the changing climate of Europe by climatologists at the University of Bern, Switzerland, and published in Science in May, 2004....
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    Greenhouse Gases (GHG) Emissions Control and Renewable Energy: Three European Countries Approaches to Policy

  • The Value of New Technology : View Toward Reassessment

    Creator:
    White, Stephen J.
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    Abraham Heschel wrote that a philosopher's primary task was not merely to describe and judge the modes and facts of actual human behavior, but also to examine and understand the meaninq of those descriptions and judgements of modes and facts (Bella, 1978). Our values are critically tied to our structures...
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    observation and its ramifications in a business organizational, social, political and public administrative

  • Bowling Together: The Making of a Documentary

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    Campbell, Casey R.
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    In an attempt to better understand documentary theory and production, I created Bowling Together; a documentary recounting the experiences of one bowling team and looking at the relationship between participation in bowling leagues and civil society. This thesis provided me a first-hand experience at producing a documentary, allowing me to...
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    social capital, or a value given to the social networks created through participation. Social capital

  • The Blessingway : A Woman's Birth Ritual

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    Biddle, Jeanette M.
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    This study examines participants' perceptions of the significant messages and meanings communicated to them through the ceremony of the Blessingway (a ritual titled after the Navajo Blessingway), a contemporary women's birth ritual performed by midwives. A narrative approach was used for data gathering based on Fisher's rationale that meaning emerges...
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    on the social support provided by the midwives rather than the tragedy of my grandson's death. The

  • The Consequences of Infelicity : The Effects of Unhappiness on Biological and Social Evolution

    Creator:
    Martinez, Jorge R.
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    In social and biological evolution, infelicity can operate as a driving motor to force change. In this essay, for life other than human, infelicity is equated with physical unfitness to compete for the resources of a specific niche. For humanity it is defined as the result of an incongruity between...
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    unhappiness on biological and social evolution AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jorge R. Martinez for the

  • Attentional Bias Toward Facial Emotion Expression : Orienting vs. Disengagement

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    Martin, Nicole R.
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    The present study examined involuntary attentional bias toward facial emotion expression. Particularly, the study examined two different attentional components for emotional processing, namely, orienting vs. disengagement. A cueing paradigm using two cue presentation times (250ms and 350ms) was used to determine if attention would be involuntarily captured by an irrelevant...
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    engage or avoid various social situations (Gross, 2014). As such, how we attend to, interpret, and

  • Birthing Experience: Feminism, Symbolic Interaction, and (Re) Defining Birth

    Creator:
    Roland-Schwartz, Michele L.
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    In this paper, my aim is to call attention to the meanings women attach to their birthing experiences using the symbolic interaction perspective in conjunction with a feminist lens. I argue that the obstetrical model of childbirth defines the course of the relationship between the laboring woman and attendant, limiting...
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    2001 I interviewed 12 women who gave birth between the years 1932-2001. I found that the social

  • Exploration of Japanese women's patterns of educational attainment : the effect of gender of siblings

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    Michinobu, Toshiyuki
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    Guided by the emerging interest in gender of siblings as one important sociological component in American family studies, the major objective of this study was to examine the effect of sex composition of siblings on women's levels of educational attainment in the Japanese setting. The present study hypothesized that the...
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    " places in which to study. We have to recognize here the power of social institutions. In other words

  • The Disclosure of Gay and Lesbian Sexual Identities and Relational Outcome Uncertainties

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    Smith, Karen Nimitz
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    The purpose of this study was to analyze the change in gay/lesbian friendships after the disclosure of their sexual identity. Six specific areas were examined: (1) what are the circumstances under which persons find out their close friends are gay/lesbian (hereafter referred to as the event), (2) do relationships change...
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    , coming out, event, and relational outcome. R. Berger describes passing as "the social process whereby

  • Using Racial Humor at Work: Promoting Positive Discussions on Race

    Creator:
    Foxworth, Teela
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    Employees from two different organizations, a public university and a hospital in Oregon, were asked to take part in an interview to assess their perceptions of how race is discussed in their workplace, if racial humor is used in their workplace, if this humor offers an opportunity to discuss race...
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    racial issues. Clearly, some people view some aspect of the racial humor as funny. Some research has