Historically, research on Aboriginal education issues has ignored the needs of Aboriginal people and disempowered the Aboriginal community. This thesis seeks to offer a corrective to that trend. <p> The intent of the thesis research was to establish a process for conducting educational research with one Aboriginal community - the Dakota People of Wahpeton which would enable this community to have a legitimate voice and control over future research that will be conducted on their behalf. A methodology called community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) was utilized because it provided the means for community input and direction. Through the use of CBPR, collaborative relationships were established with 20 Dakota People of Wahpeton, who were identified as the research participants. The interview was used as the primary research method. <p> The thesis discusses how the conflict between two cultural world views - the Aboriginal view of the Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota People, generally referred to as "Sioux", and the contemporary Western view - was resolved within the process of implementing the Community-Based Participatory Research methodology. This resolution of differences was accomplished by bridging, then mirroring, the methodologies and ways of gaining knowledge unique to these two respective cultural world views. Additionally, theoretical and practical suggestions are offered so that the thesis might serve as a model for Dakota-Nakota-Lakota Community-Based Participatory Research in the future. <p> In keeping with Community-Based Participatory Research, the voice of the people will be emphasized in this thesis, through extensive use of quotes. Furthermore, the voice of the researcher will be clearly identified so that he may be held accountable for his input.

Historically, research on Aboriginal education issues has ignored the needs of Aboriginal people and disempowered the Aboriginal community. This thesis seeks to offer a corrective to that trend. <p> The intent of the thesis research was to establish a process for conducting educational research with one Aboriginal community - the Dakota People of Wahpeton which would enable this community to have a legitimate voice and control over future research that will be conducted on their behalf. A methodology called community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) was utilized because it provided the means for community input and direction. Through the use of CBPR, collaborative relationships were established with 20 Dakota People of Wahpeton, who were identified as the research participants. The interview was used as the primary research method. <p> The thesis discusses how the conflict between two cultural world views - the Aboriginal view of the Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota People, generally referred to as "Sioux", and the contemporary Western view - was resolved within the process of implementing the Community-Based Participatory Research methodology. This resolution of differences was accomplished by bridging, then mirroring, the methodologies and ways of gaining knowledge unique to these two respective cultural world views. Additionally, theoretical and practical suggestions are offered so that the thesis might serve as a model for Dakota-Nakota-Lakota Community-Based Participatory Research in the future. <p> In keeping with Community-Based Participatory Research, the voice of the people will be emphasized in this thesis, through extensive use of quotes. Furthermore, the voice of the researcher will be clearly identified so that he may be held accountable for his input.

Historically, research on Aboriginal education issues has ignored the needs of Aboriginal people and disempowered the Aboriginal community. This thesis seeks to offer a corrective to that trend. The intent of the thesis research was to establish a process for conducting educational research with one Aboriginal community - the Dakota People of Wahpeton which would enable this community to have a legitimate voice and control over future research that will be conducted on their behalf. A methodology called community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) was utilized because it provided the means for community input and direction. Through the use of CBPR, collaborative relationships were established with 20 Dakota People of Wahpeton, who were identified as the research participants. The interview was used as the primary research method. The thesis discusses how the conflict between two cultural world views - the Aboriginal view of the Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota People, generally referred to as "Sioux", and the contemporary Western view - was resolved within the process of implementing the Community-Based Participatory Research methodology. This resolution of differences was accomplished by bridging, then mirroring, the methodologies and ways of gaining knowledge unique to these two respective cultural world views. Additionally, theoretical and practical suggestions are offered so that the thesis might serve as a model for Dakota-Nakota-Lakota Community-Based Participatory Research in the future. In keeping with Community-Based Participatory Research, the voice of the people will be emphasized in this thesis, through extensive use of quotes. Furthermore, the voice of the researcher will be clearly identified so that he may be held accountable for his input.

Studies have shown that ecotourism is one of the fastest-growing sectors in the tourism market. To date, there has been very little systematic research focused on the general topic of ecotourism development on Indian reservations. This study researches possible ecotourism alternatives on the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation (SRSIR) in North Dakota. Choice experiments were employed to analyze the preferences of reservation residents and those of cultural tourists. Reservation tourism personnel and local investors will benefit from the information this study provides. Data for this research were collected through a series of field surveying campaigns. Surveying was conducted on the SRSIR as well as off reservation sites in the surrounding area. All respondents were adults and included a random sample of reservation residents and tourists who demonstrated an interest in cultural and/or nature-based tourism experiences. Results of this study demonstrate an overwhelmingly positive attitude by all populations toward ecotourism development. Local residents and powwow tourists proved to be insensitive to price, contradicting economic theory. Non-powwow tourists proved to be sensitive to price.

Knowledge regarding a nuclear power plants potential and limitations is of utmost importance when working in the nuclear field. One way to extend the knowledge is using fuel performance codes that to its best ability mimics the real-world phenomena. Fuel performance codes involve a system of interlinked and complex models to predict the thermo-mechanical behaviour of the fuel rods. These models use several different model parameters that can be imprecise and therefore the parameters need to be fitted/calibrated against measurement data. This thesis presents two methods to calibrate model parameters in the presence of unknown sources of uncertainty. The case where these methods have been tested are the oxidation and hydrogen pickup of the zirconium cladding around the fuel rods. Initially, training and testing data were sampled by using the Dakota software in combination with the nuclear simulation program TRANSURANUS so that a Gaussian process surrogate model could be built. The model parameters were then calibrated in a Bayesian way by a MCMC algorithm. Additionally, two models are presented to handle unknown sources of uncertainty that may arise from model inadequacies, nuisance parameters or hidden measurement errors, these are the Marginal likelihood optimization method and the Margin method. To calibrate the model parameters, data from two sources were used. One source that only had data regarding the oxide thickness but the data was extensive, and another that had both oxide data and hydrogen concentration data, but less data was available.  The model parameters were calibrated by the use of the presented methods. But an unforeseen non-linearity for the joint oxidation and hydrogen pick-up case when predicting the correlation of the model parameters made this result unreliable.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / This paper examines the history that influences the rate at which female justices are elected and appointed to state supreme courts. There are different variables like judicial campaign activity, limited pool, role expectations of women and advocacy that influence the selection process. I pick the states with the earliest history of selecting female justices (Ohio and New Mexico) and the states that selected female justices last (South Dakota and West Virginia) to address some of the variables mentioned above that have influenced the use of feminist jurisprudence on the bench. After selection, I examine if it is possible for said judges to use feminist theories (like liberal feminist theory) in decision-making processes on the bench. Specifically, can we, in fact use feminist theory to understand the decision making of female state Supreme Court justices? For the most part, I find that we can imply that they do and are additionally interested in creating policy and programs based on the decisions made. Does this change with political party affiliation, race and sexual orientation of the female judges? I determine that more research needs to be conducted in this area on the courts of last resort at both the federal and state level.

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nÃo hà / O objetivo desta dissertaÃÃo foi analisar como a polÃtica de descentralizaÃÃo industrial reconfigurada na dÃcada de 1990, a partir do governo Tasso Jereissati, no CearÃ, modificou o cotidiano da cidade de Russas, com a chegada da fÃbrica de calÃados Dakota Nordeste S/A, em 1998. De modo especÃfico, como que as experiÃncias no mundo do trabalho implicaram direta e indiretamente no cotidiano das vidas das mulheres trabalhadoras da fÃbrica, quando estas adentram territÃrios distantes da regiÃo metropolitana de Fortaleza, os quais sÃo marcados por um tripà de forÃa de trabalho abundante, ausÃncia de experiÃncia industrial e quase nenhuma base sindical desenvolvida. A âera Jereissatiâ à o divisor de Ãguas dessa polÃtica industrial cearense, que, por sua vez, à responsÃvel pela intensificaÃÃo do processo de urbanizaÃÃo em cidades interioranas, que recebem indÃstrias com intuito de deslocarem-se em busca de maiores lucros. De fato, este deslocamento industrial para os municÃpios cearenses fez emergir uma nova categoria operÃria. Dessa forma, sÃo decorrentes dessas transformaÃÃes econÃmicas, as novas formas de sociabilidades, de um modo rural dentro do urbano, que se recortam à luz das categorias de gÃnero, implicando mudanÃas sociais, econÃmicas, espaciais e culturais. A pesquisa baseou-se em um trabalho de campo com entrevistas as mulheres trabalhadoras da fÃbrica; funcionÃrios que assumiam funÃÃes de chefia, supervisÃo, programaÃÃo e controle pessoal e administrativo da empresa. Assim como, tambÃm, em bases secundÃrias de dados, via IBGE e informaÃÃes estudadas, anteriormente, por outros pesquisadores. Este estudo verificou a partir das condiÃÃes postas, um perfil de pessoas que entram na fÃbrica, muitas delas oriundas de experiÃncias e costumes rurais; carregam em si, a marca da ausÃncia e exceÃÃo do mundo da produÃÃo; possuem baixa escolarizaÃÃo e, por conseguinte, baixa qualificaÃÃo. Desse modo, o capital, ao âdeixar de joelhosâ este trabalhador, disputa sua subjetividade se fazendo como opÃÃo de uma vida melhor que antes. Sem fugir à regra, Russas, visualizada pela lupa do capital, enquadra-se nesta linha de âregiÃes novasâ, com uma categoria de trabalhadores, predominantemente mulheres, com direitos trabalhistas flexibilizados na precariedade do mundo do trabalho, de forma mais acelerada, do que a prÃpria legislaÃÃo brasileira conseguiu retroceder.