Letter from M.P. Gunderson, High School Principal to R.R. Best, Project Director [re: difficulty with Army guards over passes for teachers], May 31, 1944

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Relanzamiento of Nicaragua’s Christian Base Communities: Forging New Models of Church and Society for the Twenty-First Century

How do narrative practices used by members of Christian Base Communities (in Spanish, CEBs) construct particular Catholic-political subjectivities within the Church, the nation-state, and the larger global institutions? Christian Base Communities, the vehicle by which liberation theology is put into practice, played a significant role in Nicaragua’s Sandinista revolution. Their proclaimed renewal is happening under dramatically different contexts from which they first emerged. Their religious beliefs continue to justify and place a moral thrust on their struggle for a more egalitarian society despite the reduction of social programs on the part of neoliberal governments, including the current Sandinista party administration. I recorded elicited and un-elicited autobiographical narratives that are integral to participation as religious and political subjects. CEB participants recount processes of transformation, in which a new identity is being crafted by people on the economic margins capable of effecting change within the church and society. I focus upon liberation theology as a part of anthropology of Christianity and Catholicism. In that light I ask, might contemporary CEBs function as theological revolutionaries, seeking to transform Catholic practice

Community Health Workers: Bearers of the Light in Health, Healing, and Care

Since the 1940\u27s with the development of the community oriented Primary care model of sydney and Emily Kark that originated in Africa and was transposed to the United States, Community Health Workers (CHWs) have been integrated in community health activities. As individuals from the community intimately connected to its people and its cultural life-ways and meaning, they provide primary services and care as advocates, liaisons, educators, cultural brokers, and navigators; bridging multifaceted hanscultural constructs within systems. Thi increasing diversity of communities, the health inequities, and the call for culturally responsive care, reinforce the significance of understanding the practice of community Health workers in healthcare teams, programming, and community-based outreach. A model of transdisciplinary co-evaluation integrating Watson\u27s Nursing as a Caring Sctence (2008), aesthetic knowing, and advanced transcultural nursing praxis, recognizes diverse ways of knowing and potentially describes legible and illegible CHW impacts

The distribution and phylogeography of the Alaska marmot (Marmota broweri)

Thesis (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2007The taxonomic and distributional status of the Marmota broweri has been the subject of much debate and confusion since it was first described as a subspecies of the hoary marmot (M caligata). Through a review of all museum specimens, published accounts of this species, field surveys, and the identification of previously unidentified marmot specimens we have determined the current distribution of the Alaska marmot to include the Brooks Range, the Ray Mountains, and the Kokrines Hills of northern Alaska. The Yukon River forms the boundary between the peripatric distributions of M broweri and M caligata in Alaska. Since M broweri was a resident of Beringia during the Pleistocene, I expect the phylogeographic structure of Alaska marmots (M broweri) to exhibit the signature of persistence in Beringia and subsequent expansion into glaciated areas. My objective is to investigate the phylogeographic structure of Alaska marmot populations through phylogenetic tree construction, measures of genetic diversity, a mismatch distribution, and nested clade analysis of DNA sequence data from the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene. I found significant geographic structure across the range of M broweri. The results of my analyses suggest a recent population expansion from central Alaska (Beringia) into the formerly glaciated Brooks Range1. The distribution of the Alaska marmot (Marmota broweri) -- 2. The phylogeography of the Alaska marmot (Marmota broweri) based on DNA sequence variation in the mitochondrial gene cytochrome b -- General conclusion -- Appendix

The Etiology of Multiple Sclerosis and Correlation of the Distribution of the Disease with Migration and Settlement History of Northern Europeans

The geographic disparity of multiple sclerosis has been noted in the literature for well over a century. The frequency of the disease varies significantly both within countries and in different parts of the world. The goal of this project is to give new insight regarding the etiology of multiple sclerosis. Several theories regarding the etiology of the disease have been reviewed, including a geographic theory, a nutritional theory, and a genetic theory. Although the geographic and nutritional theories have been thoroughly investigated by researchers, neither of them provides a conclusive explanation for the etiology of the disease, and there are discrepancies with respect to both theories. The purpose of this study is to reveal the discrepancies in the epigenetic theories regarding the etiology of multiple sclerosis and to demonstrate the correlation of multiple sclerosis prevalence and the migration and settlement history of Northern Europeans, thus conferring the passage of a genetic susceptibility to the disease

The Influences of Culture, Socioeconomics, and Migration on the Mexican Immigrant Experience

During the past eight years, there has been an increase in the migratory patterns offtamilies from Mexico to a rural community in Minnesota, served by Maternal Child public health nurses. Many of these families are undocumented or are of Mixed Citizenship status, citizens and undocumented residing together, and live in poverty. This ethnographic study examines the migratory experiences of these immigrants and the interconnection to the socioeconomic and cultural influences of community. The primary tools of poetry, cultural stories, and photography, are incorporated in this field project. Understanding the cultural and socioeconomic context of migration for Mexican immigrants may strengthen individual and community-based cultural competence, health care reform, access, and practice-based social justice, and advocacy for the underserved

Deconstructing therapy outcome measurement with Rasch analysis of a measure of general clinical distress: the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised

Rasch analysis was used to illustrate the usefulness of item-level analyses for evaluating a common therapy outcome measure of general clinical distress, the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R; Derogatis, 1994). Using complementary therapy research samples, the instrument's 5-point rating scale was found to exceed clients' ability to make reliable discriminations and could be improved by collapsing it into a 3-point version (combining scale points 1 with 2 and 3 with 4). This revision, in addition to removing 3 misfitting items, increased person separation from 4.90 to 5.07 and item separation from 7.76 to 8.52 (resulting in alphas of .96 and .99, respectively). Some SCL-90-R subscales had low internal consistency reliabilities; SCL-90-R items can be used to define one factor of general clinical distress that is generally stable across both samples, with two small residual factors

Youth-Adult Differences in the Demand for Unionization: Are American, British and Canadian Workers All That Different?

This paper examines demand for union membership amongst young workers in Britain, Canada and the United States. The paper benchmarks youth demands for collective representation against those of adult workers and finds that a large and significant representation gap exists in all three countries. Using a model of representation advanced by Farber (1982) and Riddell (1993) we find that a majority of the union density differential between young and adult workers is due to supply-side constraints rather than a lower desire for unionisation on the part of the young. This finding lends credence to two conjectures made in the paper; the first is that tastes for collective representation do not differ among workers (either by nationality or by age) and second that union representation can be fruitfully modelled as an experience good. The experience good properties of union membership explain the persistence of union density differentials amongst youth and adults both over time and across countries