There is a fundamental distortion in our understanding of Native people, especially Native women. This distortion is rooted in imperialism and the colonization of Native lands and has created a dominant/subordinate relationship between Non-Native/Native people. Anthropological life history research has traditionally reflected this relationship. As a Native woman, the author...
This thesis is a series of personal essays that explore themes of
fundamentalism, family, loss, personal growth and the question of free will.
The work reflects my study of the written word, of language, and of how
people have tried to define, or have experienced, the numinous. The essays
are...
The role of hypothalamic biogenic amines (norepinephrine,
dopamine and serotonin) in regulating the release of luteinizing
hormone (LH) in the ewe was investigated. Eleven experiments
utilizing mature crossbred or Hampshire ewes were conducted to
determine the ability of exogenous 17β-estradiol and various pharmacological
agents to alter the levels of hypothalamic...
The purpose of this study was to test the effectiveness
of two religious education curricula in facilitating measure-able
concrete-to-abstract movement in children's religious
thinking. Subjects for the study were 47 fifth and sixth
grade children enrolled in the Sunday School classes of four
Oregon United Methodist Churches. Twenty-four children who...
Soon the largest fusion project in the world, ITER, will attempt to produce more fusion power than required to sustain the fusion reaction, this is known as ignition. The tokamak (a toroidal fusion device) being built in France will be running at such high temperatures that heat distribution is a...
We consider development of sand ripples in shallow water flows which do not reach an equilibrium height but have a time-varying ripple height that slowly reaches a maximum value and then is quickly destroyed by the fluid. A simple scenario to explain the time periodic behavior of the sand ripples...
XML is a very versatile data format that has been used to represent many different kinds of data, including web pages, books, business and accounting data, programming interfaces, vector graphics, system logs, and games. In a short span of time, it has gained wide acceptance as the document and data...
Latinos have the lowest high school completion rates in the United States (United States Census, 2010). School counselors are well positioned to lead the efforts to increase these rates. Indeed, such leadership is mandated by both the ethical and program standards of the American School Counselor Association. However, little is...