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Over the past year, several excellent new publications focused on the histories of mixed-race French-Canadian communities in western Canada and the Pacific Northwest. Of these books, Jean Barman’s French Canadians, Furs and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest merits special attention, because the author has successfully sought out, and integrated, vernacular voices as historical sources. And for this reason, Jean Barman is sometimes referred to as a “vernacular,” or grassroots historian. What is vernacular history? Is this genre a product of methodology or of one’s worldview? And can a vernacular approach to history help scholars navigate the increasingly politicised environment of indigenous studies? The author reflects on these questions, by sharing some of her personal experiences with Jean Barman that illustrate the complexity of the issues surrounding indigenous historical practice today., Au cours de la dernière année, plusieurs nouvelles publications d’excellente qualité se sont focalisées sur l’histoire des communautés canadiennes-françaises métissées de l’Ouest canadien et du nord-ouest du Pacifique. L’un de ces livres, French Canadians, Furs and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest de Jean Barman, mérite une attention particulière en raison du fait que son auteure a recherché et utilisé avec brio des voix « vernaculaires » comme sources historiques. C’est pourquoi on qualifie parfois Jean Barman d’historienne « vernaculaire » ou populaire. Qu’est-ce que l’histoire vernaculaire? Est-ce le produit d’une méthodologie ou d’une vision du monde? En outre, une approche vernaculaire de l’histoire peut-elle aider les historiens à se frayer un chemin dans le champ de plus en plus politisé des études autochtones? L’auteure de l’article, poussant la réflexion dans ce sens, partage avec Jean Barman quelques expériences personnelles pouvant illustrer la complexité des questions entourant aujourd’hui la pratique de l’histoire autochtone.

This study explored the effect of scroll bar and navigation menu co-location on web performance. Participants interacted with fictitious web sites that co-located the menu and scroll bar, or placed them opposite one another. We did not find support for the hypothesis that menu and scroll bar co-location would result in improved menu navigation performance. However, participants indicated a preference for co-location and found it easier and faster to use than non-co-location. The results show a strong advantage for the conventional right-side placement of the scroll bar and a potential benefit for the unconventional right-side placement of the menu.

At the Hearth of the Crossed Races: A French-Indian Community in Nineteenth-Century Oregon, 1812–1859 . First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies Series. By Melinda Marie Jette. (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2015. xix + 337 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $22.95, paper.) Melinda Marie Jette’s At the Hearth of the Crossed Races is the latest of a series of recent publications focusing on the combined Canadien (i.e., French Canadian) and indigenous roots of communities in the Pacific Northwest. These revisionist studies challenge and refute the prevailing narratives that portray this region’s history as a strictly Anglo-American phenomenon. Unlike Jean Barman’s French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest (2014), which has a much broader geographic focus, Jette has … Heather.devine1{at}gmail.com

The purpose of the present study was to place drinking motives within the context of the Five-Factor Model of personality. Specifically, we sought to determine whether certain personality domains and facets of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R) predict Enhancement, Coping, Social, and/or Conformity drinking motives from the Revised Drinking Motives Questionnaire (DMQ-R). A sample of 256 university student drinkers (M age =21.3 years) completed the NEO-PI-R and DMQ-R. In bivariate correlations, the two negative reinforcement motives (Coping and Conformity) were positively correlated with Neuroticism and negatively correlated with Extraversion. The two positive reinforcement motives (Enhancement and Social) were positively correlated with Extraversion and negatively correlated with Conscientiousness. Multiple regression analyses revealed that personality domain scores predicted two of the four drinking motives (i.e. the internal drinking motives of Coping and Enhancement), after controlling for the influences of alternative drinking motives. Enhancement Motives were predicted by high Extraversion and low Conscientiousness, and Coping Motives by high Neuroticism. Supplementary correlational analyses involving certain personality facet scores revealed that the depression and self-consciousness facets of the Neuroticism domain were positively correlated with residual Coping and Conformity Motives, respectively, and that the excitement-seeking and gregariousness facets of the Extraversion domain were positively correlated with residual Enhancement and Social Motives, respectively. These results provide further validation of Cox and Klinger’s 2 2 (valence [positive vs negative reinforcement] source [internal vs external]) model of drinking motivations, and confirm previous speculations that drinking motives are distinguishable on the basis of personality domains and facets. Understanding the relations between personality and drinking motives may prove useful in identifying young drinkers whose drinking motivations may portend the

This study was conducted to assess the relations between anxiety sensitivity (AS) and dimensions of alexithymia in a nonclinical sample. We also sought to determine whether these relations persist after controlling for trait anxiety levels and panic attack history, and after controlling for item redundancy between the Anxiety Sensitivity Index (ASI) and the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20). A sample of 238 undergraduate students completed the ASI, the TAS-20, and measures of trait anxiety and panic. A group of high AS participants (n=36) was found to have a significantly higher TAS-20 total score than a group of low AS participants (n=41), both before and after conceptually redundant TAS-20 items were removed. ASI scores were found to be significantly positively correlated with scores on the two TAS-20 subscales suspected of sharing a functional relation with AS (i.e., difficulty identifying emotions; difficulty describing emotions), whereas ASI scores were not significantly correlated with scores on the TAS-20 subscale believed to be functionally unrelated to AS (i.e., external-oriented thinking). This pattern of correlations between ASI scores and alexithymia dimensions persisted following the removal of conceptually redundant TAS-20 items, suggesting that the relation between AS and alexithymia is not merely an artifact of item redundancy. ASI scores remained significantly correlated with scores on the TAS-20's difficulty identifying emotions subscale, and marginally correlated with scores on the TAS-20's difficulty describing emotions subscale, after accounting for the influences of trait anxiety and panic history. The results also revealed that individuals who both experience frequent anxiety and who greatly fear their anxiety symptoms report the greatest difficulties identifying and describing emotional states. Implications for understanding the alexithymia construct, as well as potential clinical implications of the findings, are discussed.

Accessibility features in the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) help facilitate access to electronic information for people with disabilities. This workshop explores how to create accessible PDF documents, from within Adobe Acrobat and other applications; how to use the Adobe Acrobat PDF accessibility checker and repair workflow; best practices for accessibility; and how accessibility has been built into forthcoming ISO standards (PDF/UA, PDF 32000-2).