Caddo Ceramics from an Early 18th Century Spanish Mission in East Texas: Mission San Jose de los Nasonis (41RK200)

Mission San Jose de los Nasonis (4JRK200) and two contemporaneous Nasoni Caddo sites (41RK191 and 41RK197) were located by Mr. Bill Young more than 25 years ago in the southern part of Rusk County, Texas after the general area of the site had been cleared of timber. The mission site covers ca. 6.6 acres of an upland ridge along a small tributary to the Angelina River; the ridge projects into the Angelina River floodplain. The topographic setting of Mission San Jose conforms in all particulars to the settings of other known mission sites established among the Caddo: small hills adjacent to a floodplain, next to a stream, with the hills lower extensions of more extensive upland areas. Corbin also notes that these missions were located within the area of the local dispersed Caddoan village, none of the locations are places suited to support the Indian-based community that the Spanish hoped to entice to the location. This mission was established as one of six different missions by the Spanish in 1716 during their second attempt (the first being in 1690-1691) to establish a religious and political presence among the Caddo peoples in East Texas, specifically to minister to the Nasoni Caddo living in the area. Mission San Jose de los Nasonis ·was formally established on July 10, 1716. Father Espinosa and Captain Don Domingo Ramon, the leader of the expedition, had noted that there were many Hasinai Caddo ranchos in the general area along with arroyos of water and good places for settlement. Both Nasoni and Nacono Caddo were then living in this area of the Angelina river. Mr. Young made those collections available for study in 2006, and this article is a summary of the Caddo ceramics in the Mission Nasonis collections. In 1990, Dr. James E. Corbin of Stephen F. Austin State University (SFASU) and Dr. Kathleen Gilmore of the University of North Texas conducted limited excavations in Area A at the mission site, but these excavations have never been published. More than 930 Caddo ceramic sherds were recovered in that work, and are curated at SFASU; the separate analysis of these ceramic artifacts is underway

Middle Eastern Beliefs about the Causal Linkages of Development to Freedom, Democracy, and Human Rights

This paper investigates the extent to which people in five Middle Eastern countries endorse key beliefs of developmental idealism that associate development with freedom, democracy, and human rights. Developmental idealismis a set of beliefs concerning the desirability of development, the methods for achieving it, and its consequences. The literature suggests that these beliefs have diffused worldwide among elites and lay citizens and posits that when such beliefs are disseminated they become forces for social and economic changes. Although developmental idealism research has primarily examined family and demographic issues, developmental idealism has tremendous potential to influence other aspects of society. This paper extends knowledge by considering societal aspects not addressed previously in the developmental idealism literature: personal freedom, democracy, and human rights. Using survey data from Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, we investigate how publics of these countries associate development with these elements. We find that majorities believe development brings greater personal freedom, democracy, and human rights. Conversely, the data show that in four of the countries majorities believe more personal freedom contributes to development. These findings provide support for the idea that developmental idealism beliefs concerning freedom, democracy, and human rights have diffused to lay publics in these five Middle Eastern countries. We also find evidence of uniquely Islamic developmental models; a significant proportion of people in these countries believe that more religion will bring more development

Call Me BIG PAPA: An Extension of Mason’s Information Ethics Framework to Big Data

In 1986, Richard Mason proposed the PAPA framework to address four ethical issues society would likely face in the information age: privacy, accuracy, property, and accessibility. In this paper, we propose an extension to the PAPA framework by appending three additional issues relevant to information ethics in the big data era. First, we outline the four components of Mason’s original PAPA. Second, we briefly review the major technological changes that have occurred since Mason proposed his framework. Third, we outline concepts relevant to the big data context. Fourth, we propose and discuss our extension by appending three ethical issues related to behavioral surveillance, interpretation, and governance to Mason’s original PAPA framework, forming BIG PAPA. Lastly, we discuss how these issues impact practice and how they can inform future research

Taming the Wilde: Collaborating with Expertise for Faster, Better, Smarter Collection Analysis

The importance of collection assessment and evaluation has been a hot topic due to increasing budget restrictions and the need to prove worth to stakeholders through evidence‐based evaluations. More robust collection analyses, like comparisons of holdings usage to ILL requests, and gap analyses, are increasingly embraced by the library community. Less thought, however, has been given to how to best conduct these analyses to ensure that the cleanest data is used and that the data tells the right story. The data to do these types of analyses often reside in complex systems and web‐environments, which may not be fully understood by the collection managers or subject librarians. The University of Houston Libraries embarked on a largescale gap analysis of the collection by subject area. The key component to success was quickly, accurately, and properly mining the data sources such as Sierra and the electronic resource management system. Our collection team contends that collaboration with expertise in the Resource Discovery Systems Department allowed the team to more quickly develop complete and accurate datasets, and helped to shape the analysis conducted. This paper discusses the challenges of defining project scope, the process of forming methodology, and the challenges of collecting the data. It will also review how experts were able to contribute to each step of this process. Finally it will outline some initial findings of the analysis, and how this research was accomplished in a realistic time frame

Angle of Attack Equipment in General Aviation Operations

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in conjunction with the general aviation (GA) industry formed the General Aviation Joint Steering Committee (GAJSC) with the goal to improve overall general aviation safety. The GAJSC tasked their technical division, the Safety Analysis Team (SAT), with identifying safety issues present within GA. Upon review of fatal GA accidents between 2001 and 2010, it was concluded that over half of the fatal accidents were a result of loss of control inflight, or LOC-I. A Loss of Control Working Group (LOCWG) was formed between the FAA and the GA industry to research and recommend safety improvements. One of the recommended safety improvements offered is to consider the use of Angle of Attack Indicators in GA aircraft. This project is being conducted by the Partnership to Enhance General Aviation Safety, Accessibility and Sustainability (PEGASAS), an FAA Center of Excellence

Sucrose phosphate synthase expression influences poplar phenology

The objective of this study was to manipulate the intracellular pools of sucrose, and investigate its role in regulating plant growth, phenology (leaf senescence and bud break) and fibre development. This objective was achieved by differentially expressing an Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana L. Heynh.) sucrose phosphate synthase (SPS) gene in hybrid poplar (Populus alba · Populus grandidentata Michx.), a model system for tree biology with substantial industrial relevance in the context of short rotation forestry and a target bioenergy crop. Phenotypic differences were evident in the transgenic trees, as both the timing of bud flush and leaf senescence were altered compared to wild-type (WT) trees. Tree height and stem diameter were similar in WT and in the AtSPS transgenic trees, however, there were differences in the length of xylem fibres. Elevated concentrations of intracellular sucrose in both leaf and stem tissue of the transgenic trees are associated with a prolonged onset of senescence and an advancement in bud flush in the following spring. The association among sucrose content, tree phenology and elevated SPS gene expression implicates both enzyme and product in regulating poplar developmental processes

Apocalyptic Music: Reflections on Countercultural Christian Influence

During the late 1960s, thousands of young people in Southern California were swept up in a revival of conservative Christianity. Disenchanted with the existentialism found among various so-called “countercultural” groups, the “Jesus freaks” emerged. Though they proclaimed an ideology commonly associated with fundamentalist Christianity, hippie converts retained aesthetic practices emblematic of the hippie culture, in hopes of spreading the gospel using the cultural vernacular. The result was the birth of “Jesus music,” a folk rock style that would become contemporary Christian music (CCM), a genre that developed into a medium for articulating a particular interpretation of the End of Days.Pendant les années 1960, en Californie du Sud, des milliers de jeunes participèrent à une renaissance du christianisme conservateur. Désabusés par l’existentialisme d’autres groupes prétendument « contre-culturels », les « Jesus freaks » firent surface. Alors qu’ils prônaient une idéologie habituellement associée au christianisme fondamentaliste, ces hippies convertis maintinrent des pratiques esthétiques emblématiques de la culture hippie, espérant ainsi propager l’évangile par le truchement de la culture populaire. Ce mouvement donna naissance à la « musique de Jésus » [Jesus music], un genre de folk rock qui allait par la suite accoucher de la musique chrétienne contemporaine [contemporary Christian music], et qui servit de support à l’expression d’une interprétation particulière de la Fin des temps

Navigating into the ring : some of the many barriers keeping Equine Assisted Psychotherapy practitioners from connecting with prospective clients

This study was undertaken to explore some of the barriers that keep EAP(Equine Assisted Psychotherapist) practitioners from connecting with prospective clients and/or allowing them to make EAP a more viable part of their therapy repertoire. Similar to more traditional therapy, EAP can be used for a wide variety of disorders. A qualitative study was conducted by having qualified participants fill out a questionnaire and collecting their ideas and thoughts about what barriers exist and some ideas of how to overcome said barriers. Supporting questions were also asked, such as the efficacy of EAP with certain populations and how EAP can fit into and with more traditional forms of therapy. The findings were very revealing about different struggles that the participants are either going through at the time of answering the questionnaire, or had gone through in their past. Some spoke of how they have overcome or circumnavigated those barriers, and others stated their continuing frustrations. Every participant stated that they have seen impressive results from EAP, especially with certain populations. Yet everyone has also mentioned that financial concerns were one of the biggest barriers standing between the therapy and those that would benefit from it