Michigan Academician articles from March 22 2007

Michigan Academician archives from March 22 2007

A note from the editors.
March 22, 2007... Loyal readers of the Michigan Academician will have noticed a delay in production of the journal coinciding with a series of transitions of the Michigan Academy to a new host institution, new personnel, and a new editing organization. With this...

Changes in fish assemblages in Michigan lakes since the 1950s.(Report)
March 22, 2007... ABSTRACT A comparison was made of the species of fishes found in 35 lakes in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan sampled in the 1950s with duplicate samples taken in 2003-2004. These lakes have been subjected to many perturbations in the past...

What does the public know about wetlands in Michigan? Using focus groups for scoping and exploratory research.(Report)(Survey)
March 22, 2007... INTRODUCTION Vileisis (1997, xii) prefaces her highly regarded work on American wetlands by pointing out that, "we must know not only the science that proves [wetland] values but also the society that struggles to accommodate those values...

Organizational characteristics of successful advocates.(Report)
March 22, 2007... ABSTRACT Recent decades have seen an increase in government reliance on nonprofit agencies, particularly in administering social welfare programs. This research looks at one aspect of this relationship, specifically examining if and how...

Misdiagnosis of chronic pain: a bioethical problem.
March 22, 2007... ABSTRACT Chronic pain imposes a considerable toll on modern health care. Undiagnosed pain impacts the lives of those affected, families, employers, and the economy, and it puts a significant financial burden on the healthcare system....

Eroticism, mysticism, and liberation in Tahar Ben Jelloun's La Nuit de l'erreur, or the case for active female sexuality.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... In her very influential work entitled Beyond the Veil, the Moroccan feminist, sociologist, author, and intellectual, Fatima Mernissi, presents the notion that Muslim society is characterized by a double theory of sexual dynamics. There is an...

Ken Follett's On Wings of Eagles: narrative negotiation of "true story" fiction.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... In 1981, H. Ross Perot, who was then Board Chair of Electronic Data Systems, asked the British thriller writer Ken Follett to write a non-fiction account of a rescue mission to Iran during the height of the 1979 revolution. Although the...

The experience of local Michigan officials targeted for recall.
March 22, 2007... Recall is one mechanism for dealing with errant officeholders--removing them from office by a vote of the people. America's Progressive Movement sought to secure greater trust in the democratic process by means of citizen involvement--employing...

Organizing supply chains for Japanese automotive transplants in the United States.
March 22, 2007... ABSTRACT How have the American assembly plants of foreign automotive manufacturers organized sets of other companies' factories that provide their parts or components, that is, their supply chains? Foreign automakers' assembly plants in...

Through the "I" of the other: cross-gender narration in Rodoreda's Quanta, quanta guerra ...
March 22, 2007... Merce Rodoreda published prolifically throughout her lifetime and is probably one of the best-known authors in the Catalan language. She won the prestigious Premi d'honor de les Lletres Catalanes (she is the first woman to have done so), and...