Michigan Academician articles from March 2003

Michigan Academician archives from March 2003

Administration. (Abstracts-2003 Annual Meetings).
March 22, 2003... Human Resources in American Factories of Japanese Automotive Manufacturers. Richard Senter, Jr., Central Michigan University, Department of Sociology, Mount Pleasant, MI 48859 Japanese automotive firms have been manufacturing vehicles in...

Anthropology. (Abstracts-2003 Annual Meetings).
March 22, 2003... Femoral Cortical Bone Development in the Dickson Mounds Collection. Meghan Moran, Western Michigan University, Anthropology Department; home address: 4612 Wimbleton Way, Kalamazoo, MI 49009 The goal of this research is to improve our...

Biochemistry/Molecular Biology. (Abstracts-2003 Annual Meetings).
March 22, 2003... Vitamin D in The Prevention and Treatment of Prostate Cancer. Erik J. Tokar, Daniel E. Williams, and Mukta M. Webber, Departments of Zoology and Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Ml 48824-13 12 Prostate cancer, the second...

Botany & Plant Ecology. (Abstracts-2003 Annual Meetings).
March 22, 2003... Higher Plant Metallothionein-Like Gene Responsiveness to Cytokinin. John C. Thomas, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Department of Natural Sciences, 4901 Evergreen Road, Dearborn, MI 48128-1491; jcthomas@umd.umich.edu The biological...

Cinema studies. (Abstracts-2003 Annual Meetings).
March 22, 2003... Hitchcock and the Bomb. Toni A. Perrine, Grand Valley State University, School of Communications, Allendale, MI 49401 Alfred Hitchcock directed several cold war thrillers that relied on international espionage for plots that frequently...

Communication. (Abstracts-2003 Annual Meetings).
March 22, 2003... The Orangeburg Massacre and Newspapers: Black, White, and Wrong All Over. James Christian, University of South Carolina, College of Mass Communications and Information Studies; home address: 715 South Maple Street, Columbia, SC 29205;...

Computers. (Abstracts-2003 Annual Meetings).
March 22, 2003... Secure Sockets Layer: How it Works and Why We Need it. Ryan Laus, Central Michigan University, Park Library, 300 E. Preston, Mount Pleasant, MI 48859 Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL, was developed by Netscape Communications and has existed...

Economics. (Abstracts-2003 Annual Meetings).
March 22, 2003... Analysis of Michigan's Declining Share of the National Economy. David I. Verway, Wayne University, Department of Information Systems and Manufacturing, Detroit, MI 48202 In the earliest year for which the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)...

Education. (Abstracts-2003 Annual Meetings).
March 22, 2003... Smart Accessibility at Western Michigan University: The Application of a Systems Model for Improving Campus-Wide Accessibility for Students Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired. Albert Walker, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008 ...

Environmental Science & Ecology. (Abstracts-2003 Annual Meetings).
March 22, 2003... Genetic Population Structure of Two Frog Species Common to the Grand Valley State University Allendale Campus. Karel Rogers, Jessica Demeuse, Katie Smith, Stephen Burton, and Erin Davis, Grand Valley State University, Biology Department,...

French & Italian Language & Literature. (Abstracts-2003 Annual Meetings).
March 22, 2003... Medieval Motifs and Contemporary Narrative Structures in van Cauwelaert's L'Education d'une fee. Molly Lynde-Recchia, Western Michigan University, Foreign Languages & Literatures, 518 Sprau Tower, Kalamazoo, MI 49008 The setting of Didier...

Geography. (Abstracts-2003 Annual Meetings).
March 22, 2003... Groundwater Law: The Challenge of Allocating an Unseen Resource. Diane O'Connell, Schoolcraft College, Geography Department, 18600 Haggerty Road, Livonia, MI 48152-2696 The hydrologic cycle describes the continual movement of water from...

Geology. (Abstracts-2003 Annual Meetings).
March 22, 2003... George McCready Price and the Founders of the Law of Faunal Succession. Ralph Stearley, Calvin College, Department of Geology, Geography & Environmental Studies, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 George McCready Price is credited with launching the...

Geology and Geomorphology of the Lake Michigan Coast. (Special Session).
March 22, 2003... Influence of Late Holocene Lake Level on Shoreline and Dune Distribution in the Upper Great Lakes. Todd A. Thompson, Indiana Geological Survey, Indiana University, 611 North Walnut Grove, Bloomington, IN 47405 Analysis of Glacial Sediments...

Germanic Languages & Literatures. (Abstracts-2003 Annual Meetings).
March 22, 2003... Melancholy and the Female Artist in Bettina von Arnim's Die Gunderode. Lisabeth Hock, Wayne State University, German Department, Detroit, MI 48202 Historically, the term "melancholy" has had a double meaning: as a medical term and as a...

Health & Human Services. (Abstracts-2003 Annual Meetings).
March 22, 2003... The Social Construction of Abortion: An Analysis of Activist Opinions and Women's Experiences. Anne LaTarte, Kalamazoo College, Human Development and Social Relations; home address: 214 Woodward, Kalamazoo, MI 49007 This study examines the...

History. (Abstracts-2003 Annual Meetings).
March 22, 2003... Erasing Old Tipp: Richard Emmons's Tecumseh Play and the Election of 1836. Martin W. Walsh, University of Michigan, Residential College, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1245; narenlob@umich.edu An examination of the play Tecumseh; or, The Battle of the...

History of Science & Technology. (Abstracts-2003 Annual Meetings).
March 22, 2003... Scientific Communication Patterns in 1885-1925: The Leverett-Taylor Papers. Diane Baclawski, Michigan State University, Geology Library, East Lansing, MI 48824-1115 The processes of scientific discovery have remained consistent over the...

Language & Literature. (Abstracts-2003 Annual Meetings).
March 22, 2003... "A Great Moral Discipline": Gardens in Dickens. Natalie B. Cole, Oakland University, English Department, Rochester, MI 48309-4401 Writing in the year of Dickens's death, C. D. Warner calls gardening "a great moral discipline" for all...

Library & Information Sciences. (Abstracts-2003 Annual Meetings).
March 22, 2003... Library and IT Collaboration to Create the Next Generation Tech Support Center. Anthony S. Guardado and Mark A. Christel, Hope College, Van Wylen Library, Holland, Ml 49423; guardadoa@hope.edu, christelm@hope.edu During the summer of 2001,...

Medieval studies. (Abstracts-2003 Annual Meetings).
March 22, 2003... Who is Othea? The Pseudo Goddess and the Astrologer's Daughter. Halina Didycky Minadeo, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Humanities Department; home address: 1426 Berkshire Road, Grosse Pointe Park, MI 48230; maenad@umd.umich.edu Among the...

Philosophy. (Abstracts-2003 Annual Meetings).
March 22, 2003... Political Participation in Augustine's City of God. Mark Schemper, Calvin College, Philosophy Department; home address: 1417 Bemis SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49506; mschem73@calvin.edu In Book XIX of The City of God, Augustine explores the...

Political Science. (Abstracts-2003 Annual Meetings).
March 22, 2003... Internet Regulation of Pornography: A Public Policy Proposal. Svetlana A. Kobzar, Alma College, Department of Communication; home address: 950 Falkirk, Alma, MI 48801; svetta82@hotmail.com Many policy makers are concerned with the harmful...

Psychology. (Abstracts-2003 Annual Meetings).
March 22, 2003... Investigation of the Effects of a Depressant and a Stimulant on Brain Stimulation Reinforcement. Rebecca Foster, Sacha Shellenbarger, John Renfrew, and Cynthia Prosen, Northern Michigan University, Psychology Department, Marquette, MI 49855 ...

Rhetoric & Composition. (Abstracts-2003 Annual Meetings).
March 22, 2003... Fred Newton Scott and John Harvey Kellogg: Conceiving the Teacher/Physician. Ivan Davis, Andrews University, English Department, Old U.S. 31, Berrien Springs, MI 49104 Of the clinical metaphors employed at various times in the history of...

Slavic & East European Studies. (Abstracts-2003 Annual Meetings).
March 22, 2003... The "Holiness" of the Image of Russian Women in Works of Rasputin and Solzhenitsyn. Marina LeGrand, 911 W. Genesee, Lansing, MI 48915 The purpose of this article is to compare two female peasant characters, Matryona and Darya, and to...

Spanish Language, Literature, & Culture. (Abstracts-2003 Annual Meetings).
March 22, 2003... Espacio y genero en Nada de Carmen Laforet. Eva Payno Slotegraaf, Grand Valley State University, Modem Languages and Literatures, Campus Drive 1, Mak 9086, Allendale, MI 49418 El proposito de este ensayo se centra en el vinculo que se...

Zoology. (Abstracts-2003 Annual Meetings).
March 22, 2003... Comparative Studies of Five Populations of North American Limpets. Andrea Walther, University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources and Environment; home address: 4873 Packard Road, Apt. B5, Ann Arbor, MI 48108 Freshwater pulmonate...