Jumping the rail: Exploring the lives of lesbian and bisexual women students on university campuses

Berryman, Terri Loyola University Chicago 2005 해외박사(DDOD)

Lesbian and bisexual students on university campuses face unique challenges in the development of a sexual identity. Due to the historical and cultural context in which they live, they come to campus with higher expectations for support and services. However, due to the understudied nature of sexual identity development in traditionally-aged college populations, little is understood about their experiences. This qualitative study explores the lives of eleven women on two Midwestern campuses over a three-semester timeframe. The study's conceptual framework, based on the research of D'Augelli, focuses on significant events, relationships, cultural context and sexual fluidity of these women. Using photo elicitation as a technique to allow students to set the study's context, the students took photos of people, places, and things representing significant support and detractors. The photos were used as prompts for in-depth interviews about student experiences. Data collected included photos, student journals, interview transcripts and researcher observations. Key findings are categorized utilizing D'Augelli's conceptual framework. Significant events include coming out and events in the national spotlight such as the gay-marriage debate. Coming out for these students is an on-going process. National events create an emerging sense of activism in these women. In terms of relationships, a strong social network with peers and allies is critical in the development of a sexual identity. Families of origin are often problematic. Becoming involved with a significant other often is the prompt for coming out. In terms of the cultural context on college campuses, these students often interpret small signs of acceptance as significant. They also comment on the assumed heterosexuality of faculty and students. The presence of a LBGT center and a space for congregating was the most important resource on campus for these students. Sexual fluidity is not apparent for these participants due to pressure from peers. Since lesbian and bisexual students arrive on college campuses with unique challenges and needs, colleges must create an appropriate climate. Campus climates can be placed on a continuum ranging from tolerance and moving through acceptance toward nurturance and integration.

Learning through autobiography: The crisis of faith, health, and vocation in the experience of American writers

Berryman, Warren Davis Michigan State University 2002 해외박사(DDOD)

This is a study of the relationship between autobiography and self-directed learning. Autobiography, as “self life-writing,” is an endeavor to create retrospective text in which the author and the object of study are one and the same. Self-directed learning is an endeavor to understand both what motivates a person to learn and how it is he or she undertakes the learning process. The two are interrelated. Six autobiographies form the core of this study. An author who both reflects upon and interrogates past experience wrote each autobiography. These reflections and interrogations were then brought together in the form of a written text. The books I used can be categorized as follows. Two deal with learning that transpired through participation in a religious pilgrimage. These are <italic> Virgin Time: In Search of the Contemplative Life</italic> by Patricia Hampl and <italic>The Gate Behind the Wall: A Pilgrimage to Jerusalem</italic> by Samuel Heilman. Two deal with learning that transpired through the experience of illness. These are <italic>An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness </italic> by Kay Redfield Jamison and <italic>A Whole New Life: An Illness and a Healing</italic> by Reynolds Price. Two deal with the learning that transpired through the experience of career change. These are <italic>The Cliff Walk: A Memoir of a Job Lost and a Life Found</italic> by Don Snyder and <italic>A Life in School: What the Teacher Learned</italic> by Jane Tompkins. The results of this study highlight the importance of autobiographical learning to the field of adult education over the course of a life. Each author extracted a story from his or her particular situation. It was a story that helped them understand the past in light of the present in order to live for the future. Through the process of writing and learning, the authors experienced a transformation that left them different persons. Each author changed his or her world to word in order to act upon it.

Knowledge management in virtual organizations: A study of a best practices knowledge transfer model

Berryman, Reba University of North Texas 2005 해외박사(DDOD)

Knowledge management is a major concern for organizations today, and in spite of investments in technology, knowledge transfer remains problematic. This study sought to determine whether a relationship exists among participant group demographics (experience), implementation of an integrated knowledge transfer system (best practices model), knowledge transfer barriers, and knowledge transfer project (Web-based training) outcome in a virtual organization. The participant organization was a network of individuals and groups who practice patient advocacy in the research and treatment of cancer. These advocates volunteer in various capacities and are not collocated nor do they report to any single organizational entity. Volunteer participants were randomly assigned to a treatment or control condition. The treatment participants received a training supplement based upon a best practices knowledge transfer model. All participants reviewed a Web-based communications training module scheduled for deployment by the participant organization. Upon completion of the training program, participants were instructed to practice specific techniques from the program. At the end of this period, participants completed an online survey that measured demographics, perceived barriers to the knowledge transfer, and project outcome. Knowledge transfer barriers were defined as knowledge, source, recipient, and organizational context characteristics that inhibit the expected transfer. Project outcome was a composite score of items measuring completion time, budget, and satisfaction of the user. Multiple regression identified two significant predictor variables, source (the training program and implementation) and experience (amount of time spent in advocacy practice). Additional analyses found knowledge (causal ambiguity and unproven knowledge) and the experimental treatment condition to show a strong relationship with the explained variance of the dependent variable, knowledge transfer project outcome. Results suggest that an online training implementation is a valid tool for certain specific transfer design characteristics. Experience was a negative predictor of outcome, suggesting that participant-specific level of training material may produce improved outcome. Furthermore, knowledge in the form of evidence that the material is useful as well as explanation of the cause and effect linkage is a factor in a more successful transfer. Finally, the application of a knowledge transfer system designed around organization-specific variables shows promise as a factor in enhanced knowledge transfer in Web-based training in virtual organizations. Further research is suggested to provide additional insight into the predictive value of these variables.

Epiphytic macrolichens in relation to forest management and topography in a western Oregon watershed

Berryman, Shanti D Oregon State University 2003 해외박사(DDOD)

This dissertation describes patterns in epiphytic macrolichen community composition, diversity, and biomass across various stand types in the Blue River watershed of western Oregon. It first examines the relative importance of ecological factors such as stand age, remnant tree retention, and topography to lichen communities in the landscape. It then develops models for estimating epiphytic macrolichen biomass and uses these models to assess potential impacts of forest management strategies on future lichen biomass in the watershed. Epiphytic macrolichen communities were sampled in 117 coniferous stands in uplands and riparian areas. Stands were typed by stand age (young, <20; pole, 21–80; mature, 81–200; and old-growth, >200 yrs) and by the degree of remnant tree retention (older trees that survived the most recent disturbance). Lichen biomass (oven-dried, kg/ha) was estimated for three functional groups: nitrogen-fixing cyanolichens, forage lichens, and matrix lichens in 63 of the 117 stands. Elevation was the leading factor related to differences in macrolichen communities and biomass. Cyanolichens (dominated by <italic> Lobaria oregana</italic>) were largely limited to lower elevations and were most abundant in old growth (median 1,377 kg/ha). Lichen community composition changed with stand age. Remnant presence was related only to lichen community differences in young stands. Lichen biomass increased with stand age and with remnant retention. Stands along perennial streams were cyanolichen hotspots compared to uplands. Lichen biomass was unrelated to uplands and riparian areas. Regression models estimating lichen biomass by functional group were developed from topography, stand structure, and lichen communities. The model for cyanolichen biomass had the strongest predictive power (R<super>2</super> = 0.85), whereas models for forage and matrix lichen biomass were less powerful (R<super>2</super> = 0.55 and R<super>2</super> = 0.58, respectively). We estimated cyanolichen and forage lichen biomass in the present watershed and forecasted lichen biomass in 200 yrs for two different management scenarios: the Landscape Plan (LP) and the Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP). Under both scenarios, lichen biomass was predicted to increase substantially from current levels due to increased remnant tree retention and the elimination of clear-cutting. The LP scenario yielded 12% higher forage lichen biomass and 8% higher cyanolichen biomass than the NWFP.

Boundaries of loyalty: Territorial consolidation and public allegiance in northwest Germany, 1797--1817

Berryman, Todd Blake The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2004 해외박사(DDOD)

This dissertation examines the politics of contested ideologies as they operated within the Kingdom of Westphalia, which serves as both a subject and site of this investigation. Born out of Napoleon's massive territorial consolidations of Central Europe---a region that went from boasting more than three hundred to just over thirty states in less than a decade---Westphalia was comprised of nearly two-dozen previously independent principalities and portions of states that continued to exist in shrunken form. With Napoleon's youngest brother, Jerome Bonaparte, placed upon the throne of this synthetic state, Westphalia became a hotbed of political contestation among those Germans who continued to direct their loyalties toward their recently deposed princes, those who came to believe that an alliance of ethnic Germans was the best solution to defeating France, and even those mostly forgotten Germans who collaborated with the French due to the promises of liberalism and constitutionalism as a welcomed alternative to the past. This cacophony of voices among both elites and everyday Germans is resurrected in this dissertation through treatment of contemporary journals, private correspondence, and published literature, as well as archival sources. Of central concern to this dissertation is nationalism's increasing appeal among Germans and how nationalists played off traditional political sentiment within the novel context of a progressive French state on German soil. I argue in large part that nationalists appropriated traditional political discourse, but for the fulfillment of new goals. In particular, this dissertation charts how the words "nation" and "fatherland", once used almost exclusively in regard to the people of individual principalities and to specific regions, gradually assumed new meaning during the Napoleonic Era among Germans who increasingly used them to reference the so-called German nation and German fatherland. This research, which belongs to a growing body of historiography that has begun to challenge the idea of nationalism's unhindered ascent during later periods, helps to explain more precisely its early development within German history and reveals the extent to which nationalism played a supporting (though not dominant) role during the Wars of Liberation.

Differences in three-dimensional shoulder kinematics between persons with multidirectional instability and asymptomatic controls

Berryman Ogston, Jena Kay University of Minnesota 2005 해외박사(DDOD)

Background and purpose. Evidence that persons with multidirectional shoulder instability (MDI) present with abnormal kinematics of the shoulder is limited. Knowledge of these kinematic patterns is important for the clinician in identifying abnormal patterns and subsequently providing an optimal rehabilitation program for these individuals. The purpose of this investigation was to analyze glenohumeral and scapulothoracic kinematics in persons with MDI compared to age and gender matched asymptomatic controls. Subjects. Sixty-two subjects were recruited from an outpatient orthopedic clinic. Methods. Electromagnetic sensors evaluated 3-dimensional motion of the trunk, scapula and humerus during frontal and scapular plane elevation and external rotation at 90° of abduction. A repeated measures ANOVA evaluated positional motion during 4 phases of elevation (0-30°, 31-60°, 61-90° and 91-120°) and glenohumeral translations. Results. Persons with MDI demonstrated a significant decrease in scapular upward and external rotation with elevation of the shoulder. No significant glenohumeral translatory differences were seen between groups. Conclusion and discussion. Abnormal scapular kinematics are seen in the MDI shoulder suggesting the importance of incorporating scapular positioning and stability during rehabilitation. Additional study is warranted concerning the efficacy of various rehabilitation programs including both surgical and non-surgical interventions in this population.

Context-Based Theological Education: An Appraisal by Partnering Churches

Berryman, Keith G Dallas Baptist University ProQuest Dissertations & 2022 해외박사(DDOD)

The current study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of leadership training as it is perceived by churches participating in the Immerse program, an example of context-based theological education. Seven churches that participated in the Immerse program took part in the current qualitative, multiple-case study. Each participating church provided three members to describe their church’s experience with Immerse. The primary means of data collection was semi-structured interviews with the 21 participants. Within-case analysis explored each church as a separate case. Cross-case analysis revealed six themes that formed the basis for an answer to the research question. Partnering churches had a favorable perception of Immerse overall. However, perceived leadership effectiveness varied depending on the task being evaluated, the personality of the student or graduate, and the culture of the church the student or graduate served. Thematic and ancillary findings of the current study suggest a program such as Immerse is a potentially effective solution to the current crisis in theological education in North America.