215 research outputs found
My ‘Hair’itage
Get PDFAuthor: Garland McKinney | Designer: John Saenz | Illustrator: Alisa Jones | Editor: Kristy MastenIt is a girl’s first day at her new school, and she is challenged to fit in because of her unique appearance
Couples, money, and expectations: negotiating financial management roles to increase relationship satisfaction
Get PDFHow couples handle money has become a popular subject among scholars, practitioners, and the popular press. However, little is known about how finances should be treated within a clinical context. This study examined the financial management roles in which couples participate and their satisfaction level with these roles as well as couples’ communication tactics surrounding money and their impact on relationship and financial satisfaction. Results suggested that having shared goals and values about money were a stronger predictor of relationship satisfaction than were communication strategies. In addition, satisfaction with one’s financial management role participation may be more important than self-reported financial management roles each partner performs. In this study, financial management roles included 19 areas, including responsibilities such as bookkeeping, financial decision-making, and taxes
Does it matter who makes the financial decisions? An exploratory study of married couples’ financial decision-making and relationship satisfaction
Get PDFHow couples make financial decisions is known to be associated with relationships satisfaction. The current study uses symbolic interaction theory to examine how one’s involvement in financial decision-making and their satisfaction is related to relationship satisfaction. The results from this study indicate that whether couples make decisions jointly or not is nearly as important as the level of satisfaction they have with their involvement in financial decision-making process. The findings suggest implications for educators, financial therapists, and other professionals working with couples and their financial issues, as well as opportunities for further research in this area
Sociability and self interest: liberalism and the legacy of natural law
No full textSeventeenth and eighteenth century liberalism emerged in the context of the evolution of natural law jurisprudence into a theory of natural rights. This dissertation traces the development of natural law theory into a theory of natural rights and liberalism through the work of Hugo Grotius, Samuel Pufendorf, John Locke and Adam Smith. I explore the ways that the concepts of sociability and self-interest emerge from the natural law tradition and shape liberal notions of the individual and his obligations to the community. The results of this analysis are, I hope, the recovery of a moral basis for liberal political thought and a more nuanced reading of the individual and individual obligation in that discourse.
The development of natural law and liberal political thought shows an increasing political and moral legitimacy accorded to self-love and self-interest. But if self-love has the capacity to be socially productive, so too does it always threaten to tend towards egoism and solipsism. My reading of the natural law and liberal traditions indicates that thinkers who seek to validate self-interest also acknowledge that this self-love must be contained and restrained by sociability. If individuals are self-interested and self-loving, they also sociable and potentially other-regarding. The tradition which is the subject of this dissertation reveals the ways in which self-love is conceived as legitimate and socially productive because of the power of sociability to moderate and contain the potential excesses of self-love both ontologically and institutionally.
In this dissertation I seek to show that a close reading of the relationships between self-love and sociability point us to a more enriched understanding of the liberal individual and his formal relationships with his fellow men. Liberal self-interest, liberal rights and the liberal individual are always and already dependent on a sociable attitude towards others. The intellectual acknowledgment of this dependence and the subsequent creation of sociable institutions is essential to liberal political thought. This nuance will, I hope, enable us to conceive of the historical evolution of liberal political thought in more complicated terms than is usually done.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-215)by Kristy M. Kin
Female mate choice in the domesticated goat (capra hircus): current understandings and implications
No full textFemale mate choice is the tendency for females to distinguish among and mate selectively with one specific phenotype. In promiscuous species in which males contribute genes only, females should mate with higher quality males. This propensity accounts for the display of dimorphic characteristics that cannot be explained through Darwin’s theory of natural selection. Female mate choice has not been studied in domesticated species like the goat, in part due to single-male breeding programs and the use of artificial insemination which inhibit the opportunity for mate choice. However, existence of mate choice in a domesticated species would suggest that the underlying mechanisms of mate choice are robust. Results from a series of experiments support the concept of mate choice in domestic animals. Female goats are able to distinguish among and show preference for males with higher testosterone (T) concentrations. Females may use a suite of T-dependent physiological and behavioral cues that increase in frequency and intensity during the breeding season to assess potential mates, specifically courtship and chemical cues. Behavior studies indicate that morphological cues are not used to distinguish among males. Instead, males that display intense chemical and/or courtship cues are preferred by estrous females. Analysis of T concentrations reveals that males with higher T concentrations have more intense chemical cues and higher courtship rates than those with lower T concentrations. High testosterone concentrations appear to impose high energetic costs as males with high T concentrations lose more body weight during breeding season, likely due to the increased frequency of T-dependent physiological and behavioral cues. Testosterone concentrations and resulting T-dependent behaviors may serve as an honest indicator of a male’s overall fitness.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Kristy M. Longpr
Effects of Dogs on Depression Levels of Cancer Patients
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Date Presented 3/31/2017
This study examined the link between being a caretaker of a dog and depression levels in clients with cancer. An exploratory design was used to determine a correlation between two variables: depression and dogs. Dog caretaking could be a cost-effective method for preventive and integrated cancer treatment.
Primary Author and Speaker: Melissa Ricciardelli
Additional Authors and Speakers: Kristy Henner, Kelly McDade</jats:p
Evaluating control of groundwater contaminants through tile-line management
No full textby: Dr. John Selker (Oregon State University Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Principal Investigator), Dr. Maria Dragila (Oregon State University, Assistant Professor, Department of Soil Science, Co-Principal Investigator), Kristy Warren (Oregon State University, Department of Bioengineering, Graduate Research Assistant).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (pages 65-69).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Agenda for change: strategic choices for the next government
Get PDFThe next government has a primary requirement to be well briefed on the challenges inherent in Australia’s strategic circumstances and the policy options available to it. ASPI is publishing this report to layout our strategic choices and to provide recommendations.
Contributors are Peter Jennings on strategic policy, Mark Thomson and Andrew Davies on defence, Anthony Bergin and Kristy Bryden on homeland security, Russell Trood on foreign policy and Ryan Stokes on economic security.
This body of ideas makes a compelling contribution to the discussions which ought always to characterise the Australian strategic and defence debate
Opening Up OpenStack’s Identity Service
Get PDFOpenStack is a relatively new open source cloud computing project. It has rapidly become very popular since its first release on 21st October 2010. It has thousands of members, comprising technologists, developers, researchers, and cloud computing experts from 87 countries and more than 140 organisations.
Despite is openness until the University of Kent started to work with OpenStack, its Keystone identity service had no federated identity management capabilities, and all user accounts and passwords had to be stored in Keystone, usually in a backend LDAP directory.
This talk will describe the way that protocol independent federated access has been integrated into the core release of Keystone
Essays on institutional investors, portfolio choice, and asset prices
Get PDFThis dissertation is a collection of five independent chapters that aim to betterunderstand the investment decisions of institutional investors. Summarizing, thisdissertation has three main findings. First, regulation drives a large part of theinvestment decisions of institutional investors. Second, their investment decisionsmatter for asset prices. And third, their investment decisions have importantwelfare implications for the investors where we ultimately care about, namely, thehouseholds
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