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Engineering to Care: Exploring Engineering in Humanitarian and Social Justice Contexts through a Lens of Care Ethics
Engineering and technology have changed the lives of many on this planet. However, technical solutions are not the value-neutral panaceas we might imagine them to be. If we engineers are unaware of the values driving our ... -
Expressing Gratitude in a Foreign Language: Concept-Based Language Instruction to Teach Thanking in L2 Japanese
In the field of L2 pragmatics instruction, there have been calls to re-consider how L2 pragmatic competence is evaluated. L2 pragmatic competence consists of pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic knowledge. The former refers ... -
Focus groups as a method for accessing stakeholder voice in public sector community mental health
(2002)This research represents a secondary analysis of a series of thirty focus groups addressing the topic of public sector community mental health services. These groups were conducted with four designated constituency groups ... -
Formation and function of industrial districts in the rural Northwest: two cases
(2001)One of the great contributions of recent research into industrial districts is the elaboration of how clusters of small firms in relatively peripheral places can and do generate new competitive advantages. Relatively ... -
The impact of the Seljuq invasion on Khuzestan: an inquiry into the historical, geographical, numismatic, and archaeological evidence
(1982)The political, social, and economic changes associated with the Seljuq invasion of Iran in the fifth century A.H./eleventh century A.D. have long been considered pivotal developments in Middle Eastern history. But scholars, ... -
Listening to Earth: Experiments in the Sonification of Climate and Environmental Data
Climate change is a geologic event in which we are both witnesses and participants. It defies straightforward categorization yet increasingly alters daily life and poses an existential threat to species around the world. ... -
Police stress: value disparity, self-esteem and occupational strain
(1983)Comparative studies demonstrate that police officers suffer disproportionately from occupational stress and strain. Yet, few studies have examined the causes of observed health problems. One source of strain, previously ... -
A Post-Conflict Assessment of Breast Cancer in Kuwait Using Mixed Methods
(2013-07-23)The Gulf War oil well fires lasted over eight months in 1991. The subsequent environmental contamination has had real, yet poorly documented impacts, on Kuwait health. The chemical fallout from the war makes it a unique ... -
The Reported Processes and Outcomes of Supervisor Social Identity Verbal Self-disclosure and Social Identity Topic Management in Social Work and Higher Education
This research is concerned with client/student facing supervisees’ supervision experiences in social work and higher education settings and focuses on their reported experiences with supervisory dyads in which they have ... -
White Face, Black Space: My Journey as a Chief Diversity Officer at an HBCU
Considerable attention has been paid to the matter of diversity in higher education in recent years. Yet, the discourse around this critically important phenomenon has typically failed to include experiences regarding the ... -
The World in Miniature: The Interrelationship of Humans and Landscape in G. Mend-Ooyo's Altan Ovoo
(2013-02-25)The leading Mongol writer G. Mend-Ooyo's poetic novel <italic>Altan Ovoo</italic> offers a vision of nomadic literature based as much on the history and worldview of Mongol nomadic herders as on the late twentieth century ...