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St. Cloud Area Quarterly Business Report, Vol. 11, No. 3, King Banaian, Richard A. Macdonald

St. Cloud Area Quarterly Business Report

No abstract provided.

Macroeconomic Impact Of The Financial Crisis On Armenia, King Banaian

Economics Faculty Working Papers

As a small, open economy with a small export sector, Armenia has experienced a large amount of stress from the financial crisis. The government exited a peg-like exchange rate regime after a drain of foreign reserves. The loss of reserves was put to loss of revenues from mining exports, but can also be put to the effects of global financial crisis on remittance inflows. Worldwide, the World Bank expects remittances to fall from US$305 billion in 2008 to $290 billion in 2009. In this paper I explore the effect of global crisis on the loss of reserves supporting the monetary …

Medicine, Agriculture, Or Social Pathology? The Classification Of Materials On Coca In U.S. Libraries, Tina Gross

Library Faculty Presentations

Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, a professor of Sociology at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés in La Paz, came to the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures as a visiting professor in January and February of 2007. During her visit, I assisted her in conducting research on the subject classification of works on coca in North American libraries for a chapter in her forthcoming book.

Rivera has a longstanding interest in the subject treatment of library materials from Bolivia and in how classification practices and trends have changed over time. Her 2003 book Las fronteras de la coca: …

Lr&Ts Annual Report 2008-2009, St. Cloud State University

Library Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

St. Cloud Area Quarterly Business Report, Vol. 11, No. 2, King Banaian, Richard A. Macdonald

St. Cloud Area Quarterly Business Report

No abstract provided.

Cmst Connect, Vol. 1 No. 1 Spring/Summer 2009, St. Cloud State University

CMST Connect

This issue covers both spring and summer of 2009.

Lr&Ts Assessment Report 2008-2009, Chris Inkster

Library Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Resolving The Anti-Antievolutionism Dilemma: A Brief For Relational Evolutionary Thinking In Anthropology, Emily Schultz

Anthropology Faculty Publications

Anthropologists often disagree about whether, or in what ways, anthropology is “evolutionary.” Anthropologists defending accounts of primate or human biological development and evolution that conflict with mainstream “neo-Darwinian” thinking have sometimes been called “creationists” or have been accused of being “antiscience.” As a result, many cultural anthropologists struggle with an “anti-antievolutionism” dilemma: they are more comfortable opposing the critics of evolutionary biology, broadly conceived, than they are defending mainstream evolutionary views with which they disagree. Evolutionary theory, however, comes in many forms. Relational evolutionary approaches such as Developmental Systems Theory, niche construction, and autopoiesis–natural drift augment mainstream evolutionary thinking in …

St. Cloud Area Quarterly Business Report, Vol. 11, No. 1, King Banaian, Richard A. Macdonald

St. Cloud Area Quarterly Business Report

No abstract provided.

Minnesota Digital Library: Expanding Directions, M. Keith Ewing

Library Faculty Presentations

No abstract provided.

Bullying Or Mobbing: Is It Happening In Your Academic Library?, Susan Hubbs Motin

Library Faculty Publications

The behaviors of bullying and mobbing have only begun to rise in the public’s awareness or towards the legal standing of harassment. But, like harassment, bullying and mobbing can lead to the same results for employees: a loss of dignity, self-confidence and productivity, as well as an excessive amount of non-work related stress and other related health issues. Unfortunately, librarians, media specialists and other who work in libraries and information centers can also experience bullying and mobbing. It is important for people who work in libraries and information centers to understand bullying and mobbing, and toward that end this article …

St. Cloud Area Quarterly Business Report, Vol. 10, No. 4, King Banaian, Richard A. Macdonald

St. Cloud Area Quarterly Business Report

No abstract provided.

Cmst Connect, Vol. 2 No. 1 Fall/Winter 2009, St. Cloud State University

CMST Connect

This issue covers fall and winter 2009.

Summer 2009 Economics Newsletter, Economics Department

Economics Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Fall 2009 Economics Newsletter, Economics Department

Economics Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Loving The Longshot: Risk Taking With Skewed Gambles, Philip Grossman, Catherine Eckel

Economics Seminar Series

To examine the effect of increased skewness on risk taking, we conduct controlled laboratory experiments. Our instrument is an adaption of the Eckel and Grossman (2002, 2008) risk measure (with six gamble choices). The Eckel and Grossman measure is a simplest, easy to understand, exercise that gives sufficient heterogeneity in choices while at the same time minimizing errors. Its simplicity also makes it easy to adapt. The adapted gamble choices are designed to have the same expected payoffs and risk as the original gamble choices, but to exhibit increasing degrees of right skewness. The adapted instrument is used to address …

Spring 2009 Economics Newsletter, Economics Department

Economics Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Ethical Thinking And Practice For Parent And Family Life Educators, Ethics Committee Of The Minnesota Council On Family Relations, Glen F. Palm

Child and Family Studies Faculty Publications

Parent and family life educators face difficult ethical issues on a daily basis. These issues may include observing parenting practices that may be harmful to children, responding to parent remarks about their partners, or sharing information about a family with a professional in another agency. Some of these situations may be resolved by reviewing general principles of good practice with a colleague, while others may reveal a true ethical dilemma.

Parent and family life educators are working with complex family systems, diverse belief and value systems, and a variety of social institutions and agencies. Many face these issues in relative …