Emmett Oliver's Story: Psycho-Social Development of an Extraordinary Native American

development and implementation of an optimized control strategy for induction machine in an electric vehicle

in the area of automotive engineering there is a tendency to more electrification of power train. in this work control of an induction machine for the application of electric vehicle is investigated. through the changing operating point of the machine, adapting the rotor magnetization current seems to be useful to increase the machines efficiency. in the literature there are many approaches wh...

Psycho-Social Medicine

Mining Musical Traits of Social Functions in Native American Music

Native American music is perhaps one of the most documented repertoires of indigenous folk music, being the subject of empirical ethnomusicological analyses for significant portions of the early 20th century. However, it has been largely neglected in more recent computational research, partly due to a lack of encoded data. In this paper we use the symbolic encoding of Frances Densmore’s collect...

Stories of extraordinary Central American midwives.

From the 1970s to the 1990s, a series of long, violent and bloody civil wars in Nicaragua and El Salvador—against US-backed military forces—forced local people to take control of their lives in new ways. Conditions of extreme need and poverty were created by the constant threat of attack. Even in the so-called periods of ceasefire that brought "refuge" to the decade and a half of fighting, ther...

Exploring Social Exchange Theory Dynamics in Native American Casino Settings

The proliferation of Native American casino (NAC) gambling over the past few decades has generated a concern over the social, economic. and environmental impacts. This study examined the local resident perceptions of casino gambling impacts and their subsequent support for the NACs within the Social Exchange Theory (SET) framework. It further applied a similar framework to the non-NAC settings....