Tools for Tragedy: Procedures for Assessing Historic Redress Claims

Programs providing monetary redress for historical injustices are oftenheralded as praiseworthy acts of national accountability. However, criticstend to judge their implementation harshly. Those unfavorable judgmentsrespond, at least in part, to trade-offs between important values that are“hard-wired” into the basic tools of assessment. Exposing those tradeoffscan help observers understand the compromises inherent in programdesign and, hopefully, support policy makers in creating more rationalprograms

State Redress as Public Policy: A Two-Sided Coin

Monetary redress programs that respond to injuries suffered by survivors of out-of-home care are increasingly common and very expensive. This article’s distinctive contribution is to approach these redress programs as a form of social policy. Both survivors and states have interests in the operation of redress programs. Some of those interests are mutually compatible, but there are obvious conflicts as well. The article concludes by advocating a strategy for resolving an illustrative conflict

A Preliminary Investigation into the Use of Humor in Sport Psychology Practice

‘Creative efforts’, such as the use of humor,have been found to be beneficial to the nurse-patient, teacher-student , and psychologist-patient alliance. Potentially humoruse might benefit the working alliance in applied sport psychology, yet to datethere is limited research. Sportpsychology consultants (n = 55) completedan online survey that explored humor use within their practice. Statisticalanalyses revealed most participants used humor for adaptive purposes such as tofacilitate the working alliance, reinforce knowledge, and create healthylearning environments. Therefore, possible client change is likely to befacilitated by practitioners’ personal qualities and skills such as humor useand humor style. Recommendations are made for sport psychology practitioners inrelation to humor use and further research.Peer reviewedFinal Accepted Versio

Magnetic Couplings in Edge-Sharing d7d^7 Compounds

High-spin $d^7$ Co(II) compounds have recently been identified as possible platforms for realising highly anisotropic and bond-dependent couplings featured in quantum-compass models such as the celebrated Kitaev model. In order to evaluate this potential, we consider all symmetry-allowed contributions to the magnetic exchange for ideal edge-sharing bonds. Though a combination of ab-initio and cluster many-body calculations we conclude that bond-dependent couplings are generally suppressed in favor of Heisenberg exchange for realistic materials. Consequences for several prominent materials including Na$_2$Co$_2$TeO$_6$ and BaCo$_2$(AsO$_4$)$_2$ are discussed.Comment: 12 pages, 8 figure

Plant and Breeding Bird Communities of Black-Tailed Prairie Dog Colonies and Non-Colonized Areas in Southwest Kansas and Southeast Colorado

This research was initiated to determine if plant and bird communities on black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus Ord) colonies in southwest Kansas and southeast Colorado differed from those found on associated non-colonized areas. Vegetation height and density, and the cover and frequency of numerous plant species differed between prairie dog colonies and non-colonized areas that were co-dominated by mid-height grasses and shortgrasses. A comparison of prairie dog colonies with non-colonized areas that were dominated solely by shortgrasses did not reveal a difference in vegetation height and density. The number of species that differed in cover or frequency between prairie dog colonies and non-colonized shortgrass areas was less than when the comparison of prairie dog colonies was made with areas eco-dominated by mid and shortgrasses. Plant species richness and diversity measures did not differ between prairie dog colonies and the non-colonized areas. Bird communities in 1996, following twelve months of drought conditions, were species poor relative to 1997. Fewer bird species were detected on prairie dog colonies than on non-colonized areas during both years. Burrowing owls were highly dependent on prairie dog colonies in region of this study, but there were several species for which prairie dog colonies were sub-optimal habitat. Horned lark habitat preference alternated between prairie dog colonies and non-colonized sites, probably in response to the influence of climatic variation on vegetation conditions. Fundamental differences in characteristic vegetation between semiarid shortgrass steppe and less arid regions of the Great Plains appear to contribute to regional differences in the influence of prairie dogs on plant and bird communities. Major Professor: Jack F. Cully, Jr

Home Is Where the Heart Is: Determining “Habitual Residence” Under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction

Part I.A first outlines the three major divisions in habitual residence interpretation within the United States, paying particular attention to the approaches of the Ninth, Sixth, and Third Circuits. Next, Part I.B briefly addresses international trends in habitual residence interpretation among other signatory nations. After analyzing the shortcomings of each approach in Part II, Part III emphasizes a renewed emphasis on the child in all habitual residence determination