Issues in Evaluating Special Education Teachers: Challenges and Current Perspectives

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Max Weber on Property: An Effort in Interpretive Understanding

This article reviews Max Weber’s scholarly work pertaining to property, beginning with his first dissertation and ending with the compilation that is Economy and Society. Three phases of Weber’s work are described in detail: a legal phase, an economic-historical phase, and a sociological phase. It is argued that the sociological phase represents the culmination of the two prior phases, drawing on material and arguments from those earlier phases. In the sociological phase of his writing, it is argued that Weber developed a theory of property that is capable of accounting for that phenomenon in all of its dimensions: structural, material, and symbolic. The goal of the article is to show Weber’s relevance to contemporary theories of property: legal, sociological, and economic

Adult Suicide Attempts In Relationship to Life Experiences and Familial Tendencies

The purpose of this project was to describe the variables age, gender, child or adult abuse, educational level, family history of suicide, depression, economic level as factors related to adult attempted suicides. The Lazarus framework was used to examine factors contributing to adult attempted suicide. A suicide prevention community education project was developed with Lazarus’s theory of cognition and unconscious processes in mind. Lazarus’s theory focuses on the relationship between development of coping skills learned during childhood and how a person will respond using those skills as an adult. This project explored links between child and adult abuse, education or economic levels, age, gender or family history that may influence adult attempted suicide. Information was then presented in the form of patient resource materials that were placed in health care areas populations of individuals and families with high risk for attempted suicide

Max Weber on Property: An Effort in Interpretive Understanding

This article reviews Max Weber’s scholarly work pertaining to property, beginning with his first dissertation and ending with the compilation that is Economy and Society. Three phases of Weber’s work are described in detail: a legal phase, an economic-historical phase, and a sociological phase. It is argued that the sociological phase represents the culmination of the two prior phases, drawing on material and arguments from those earlier phases. In the sociological phase of his writing, it is argued that Weber developed a theory of property that is capable of accounting for that phenomenon in all of its dimensions: structural, material, and symbolic. The goal of the article is to show Weber’s relevance to contemporary theories of property: legal, sociological, and economic

Supporting OMPH Students and Professionals: The Case of the Research Guide

This poster showcases the research guides supporting public health students in the Oregon Master of Public Health program

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SummaryA headline on the front page of the New York Times for November 3, 1977, read “Scientists Discover a Way of Life That Predates Higher Organisms”. The accompanying article described a spectacular claim by Carl Woese and George Fox to have discovered a third form of life, a new ‘domain’ that we now call Archaea. It’s not that these microbes were unknown before, nor was it the case that their peculiarities had gone completely unnoticed. Indeed, Ralph Wolfe, in the same department at the University of Illinois as Woese, had already discovered how it was that methanogens (uniquely on the planet) make methane, and the bizarre adaptations that allow extremely halophilic archaea (then called halobacteria) and thermoacidophiles to live in the extreme environments where they do were already under investigation in many labs. But what Woese and Fox had found was that these organisms were related to each other not just in their ‘extremophily’ but also phylogenetically. And, most surprisingly, they were only remotely related to the rest of the prokaryotes, which we now call the domain Bacteria (Figure 1)