A slight modification of the Norris-Inglehart theory of secularity helps explain why Californians voted to ban same-sex marriage in November 2008. Despite overwhelmingly supporting Barack Obama and a majority of Democratic legislators, California vote . . .

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Humboldt State University (HSU), with 7,800 students (fall 2008), is one of the smaller campuses in the 23-member California State University (CSU) system. Our institutional repository, Humboldt Digital Scholar (HDS), originated as a pilot project dur . . .

In this article I discuss a verse narrative, Lục Vân Tiên, written by Nguyễn Đình Chiểu in the late 1850s. It is a story about the adventures of a young scholar, Lục Vân Tiên. On his way to the capital to take the mandarin exams he first saves a young . . .

Two new species of Clavulina Schroet. (Clavulinaceae, Cantharellales, Basidiomycota) and new distribution records for Clavulina amazonensis Corner and Clavulina sprucei (Berk.) Corner are described from the Pakaraima Mountains of Guyana, in the centra . . .

In this article I describe “coupling” in Vietnamese—the juxtaposing of two items that are antithetical, or nearly antithetical, in meaning. I give examples of coupling in myths, poetry, speeches, essays, and four-syllable expressions. In Vietnam’s myt . . .

Cercopithecus, the genus of guenons, is the largest of the African primate genera, and yet more than half of the species belonging to this group have never been the focus of a long-term field study. In this paper, I present data on group size and comp . . .

A professor's knowledge of forensic science is helping law enforcement solve local mysteries.

During the Second Indochina War, Nguyễn Minh Châu (1930-1989), a Communist Party member and writer for the army, wrote short stories and novels according to the dictates of socialist realism—works which glorified the exploits of revolutionary soldiers . . .

The density of a population is an indicator of its relative success when compared to the other populations within the same species. Few studies have examined population densities of Cercopithecus mona in its original range in Africa [1,2]. Previous to . . .

Until the late 1980s and early 1990s Vietnamese literary historians, most of them northerners, argued that the Vietnamese novel began in the north with Hoang Ngoc Phach’s To Tam (Pure Heart) and Nguyen Trong Thuat’s Qua dua do (The Red Melon). Both th . . .

Tác giả cho rằng có ít nhất bảy lý do giải thích hiện tượng Trịnh Công Sơn: sự mới mẻ trong những bản tình ca ban đầu của ông, việc ông gợi lên những đề tài Phật giáo, hoàn cảnh trình diễn đặc biệt của miền Nam Việt Nam vào những năm chiến tranh, cá t . . .

Tiểu thuyết đã xuất hiện tại miền Nam Việt Nam trước khi Hoàng Ngọc Phách xuất bản quyển Tố Tâm tại Hanoi năm 1925 (Xin xem bài “Tiểu thuyết xuất hiện tại Nam Kỳ” của John C. Schafer và Thế Uyên). Tuy nhiên tác phẩm này đã làm xôn xao dư luận. Hai tác . . .

This article attempts to explain the extraordinary popularity of Vietnamese composer and singer Trịnh Công Sơn. Although he attracted attention with love songs composed in the late 1950s, it was his antiwar songs, particularly those collected in Songs . . .

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In many primates, including humans, the vocalizations of males and females differ dramatically, with male vocalizations and vocal anatomy often seeming to exaggerate apparent body size. These traits may be favoured by sexual selection because low-freq . . .

The once endangered Aleutian Canada goose (Branta canadensis leucopareia) population made a dramatic recovery and was reclassifi ed from endangered to threatened in 1990 and removed from the threatened species list in 2001. In 1997 the birds began usi . . .

Previous researchers have ignored the effects of interaction between structural differentiation and changes in the president on reorganization. In the present research, I examined the interactions between two important variables, neglected in recent o . . .

This is an English translation of an article by Nguyen Ngoc, a well-known Vietnamese writer and critic, which was originally published in Vietnamese in 2004. The author revised and updated his original article before publishing it in English. Nguyen N . . .

The last comprehensive native forest structure survey made in the Grand Etang National Park and Forest Reserve of Grenada was in the 1940's, before Hurricane Janet hit the island in 1955. The data from this study were collected in the mid-1990's, prev . . .

This article describes Ngô Kha, a teacher, poet, army officer, and anti-government activist from Huế who was seized by undercover policemen in February, 1973, and never seen again. It describes his teaching, writing, friendship with Trịnh Công Sơn, an . . .

Fistulinella cinereoalba sp. nov., Austroboletus rostrupii, previously known from southeastern Asia, and Austroboletus festivus from Brazilian Amazonia are described for the first time from the Guiana Shield. These boletes were collected from tropical . . .

Morphological measurements were collected from 12 wild and 12 captive mona monkeys (Cercopithecus mona) on the Caribbean island of Grenada. Mona monkeys were introduced to Grenada from Africa approximately 200 to 300 years ago during the slave trade e . . .

In this article I investigate notions of womanhood in Vietnam by examining an autobiography by Lê Vân, a well-known actress. My approach, taken from literary studies, is intertextual: It assumes that in telling their life stories authors will inevitab . . .

Using student narratives, the authors argue for a heuristic tool, the identity project, claiming that identity projects are artifacts of identity as both process and category. Identity projects can offer teachers, researchers, and students insights in . . .

The novel genre had already emerged in southern Vietnam (see John C. Schafer and The Uyen’s “The Novel Emerges in Cochinchina”) when Hoang Ngoc Phach published his novel To Tam in Hanoi in 1925. Nevertheless this work created a sensation. It affected . . .

The following paper presents the findings from an evaluative research project that investigated the merits and challenges of an academic bridge program between Milwaukee Public School high school students and the University of Wisconsin Madison. Using . . .

A indication in writing that explains the new reporting structure in 1995. The Center for Indian Community Development began reporting to the Office of the Provost at HSU in 1995.

A handbook as a practical guide to the development of Native American Studies programs in general and the actual materials utilized by the University of California- Davis. Also includes a chronological history of Native American cultural development t . . .

This paper explains the Bach Flower Remedies and gives possible sources of inspiration for their developer's ideas about medical therapy.

Our knowledge of the historical events that occurred during the late seventh and sixth centuries,1 the events simultaneous with the evolution of the Theognidean corpus, is based on relatively few sources, mostly literary in nature. My purpose is to su . . .

A History of KHSU

Mãi cho đến những năm cuối của thập niên 1980 và đầu thập niên 1990 các nhà văn học sử Việt Nam, phần đông là người Bắc, đều cho rằng tiểu thuyết bắt đầu ở miền Bắc với Tố tâm của Hoàng Ngọc Phách và Quả dưa đỏ của Nguyễn Trọng Thuật. Cả hai tác phẩm . . .

To provide new hunting opportunities in California and reduce nuisance and damage complaints in Nevada, 645 western Canada geese (Branta canadensis moffi tti) were trapped n moffifi near Reno, Nevada, and released on state wildlife areas around Humbol . . .

The article uses the modern theories of justice to evaluate the justness of Islamic justice.