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Gatt/Wto Promotes Trade Strongly: Sample Selection And Model Specification, Xuepeng Liu

Faculty Articles

Some recent empirical studies examine the impact of the GATT/WTO on trade. This paper investigates the sample selection bias and the gravity model specification issues in the literature. First, the GATT/WTO not only makes existing trading partners trade more at the intensive margin, but also creates new trading relationships at the extensive margin. Most existing papers exclude zero trade observations and hence ignore the extensive margin. Secondly, due to the violation of some maintained assumptions, the traditional log-linear gravity regressions fail to uncover the role of the GATT/WTO even at the intensive margin. Using a large bilateral panel dataset including …

Enhancing Ocean Literacy Using Real-Time Data, Lisa G. Adams, George Matsumoto

Faculty Articles

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Ecotourism In Dominica: Studying The Potential For Economic Development, Environmental Protection And Cultural Conservation, Vanessa Slinger-Friedman

Faculty Articles

Over the last 20 years, the government of the small Caribbean island nation of Dominica has pursued the development of ecotourism on the island. The hope is that this industry will promote dispersed economic development while providing environmental protection and cultural conservation. However, not enough has been done to determine whether or not the industry is achieving the desired results. To this end, this study explores the growth of the tourism industry on Dominica and shows that, while not perfect, ecotourism is providing some definite benefits to the island in this regard.

2009 - The Fourteenth Annual Symposium Of Student Scholars

Symposium of Student Scholars Program Books

The full program book from the Fourteenth Annual Symposium of Student Scholars, held on April 13, 2009. Includes abstracts from the presentations and posters.

Facilitating A Successful College Experience: Increasing Graduation Rates Using A Global Village Approach To International Student Retention, Nancy Sanders

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

In today’s global economy, attracting and retaining international talents is not only the goal of business, but also the goal of institutions of higher learning. In a competitive world, keeping the best of the best must be a priority for all stakeholders. The Office of International Student Retention Services (OISRS) at Kennesaw State University is interested in evaluating the satisfaction of the international student population with regard to its services and programs. The purpose of this study is to evaluate international students’ opinions of the OISRS and to expose possible areas for service improvement.

Historically, the OISRS has focused on …

Careers And Languages, Lynne Mcclendon

Dimensions

In selecting the theme for the 2009 conference, the SCOLT Executive Board wanted to emphasize the need for languages outside traditional career paths and the ways that language professionals can contribute to those careers; thus was born the idea of “Empowerment through Collaboration.” The SCOLT Board invited spokespersons from non-profit agencies and business organizations to share information about their need for languages via special collaborative sessions during the conference. This article describes recent collaboration resulting in legislation to empower the language community. It concludes with a series of interviews with individuals whose careers outside the language profession require language skills. …

Preparing Students For The Teacher Licensure Exam: It’S More Than Just The Content, Jana Sandarg, Judith Schomber

Dimensions

Licensure exams have become one of the most important factors in teacher certification. Test-takers often are presented with obstacles as they attempt to pass the licensure exam, such as discrepancies between test format and best practices in the classroom, lack of sufficient practice for productive skills sections of the exam, and ignorance of test-taking strategies. This article addresses ways to overcome these obstacles and proven strategies to enhance performance on licensure exams. In addition, the article addresses the need for the entire profession to become involved in the preparation of students for licensure exams, including guidance in locating resources and …

The Center For Economic Development And Support For Foreign Language The Keynote Speech At Scolt’S 2008 Conference, Mike Petro

Dimensions

The Center for Economic Development (CED) published a report study on education for global leadership focusing on why business leaders are concerned about the lack of international studies and foreign language instruction in our schools and how some in business are responding to the challenges resulting from the lack of skills. The CED report lays out ways to bring about change and the prospects of bipartisan support of these programs.

Addressing Business Agility Challenges With Enterprise Systems, D. L. Goodhue, D. Q. Chen, M. C. Boudreau, J. Cochran

Faculty Articles

It is clear that systems agility (i.e., having a responsive IT infrastructure that can be changed quickly to meet changing business needs) has become a critical component of organizational agility. However, skeptics continue to suggest that, despite the benefits enterprise system packages provide, they are constraining choices for firms faced with agility challenges. The reason for this skepticism is that the tight integration between different parts of the business that enables many enterprise systems' benefits also increases the systems' complexity, and this increased complexity, say the skeptics, increases the difficulty of changing systems when business needs change. These persistent concerns …

Heaven Overland, Jim Murphy

KSU Press Legacy Project

These poems record, from our own language—spoken on the street in Atlanta or Dayton or Chicago, in the graveyard in Charleston, on the rivers of Ohio or Missouri or Illinois, on the road in Mississippi, or on the radio anywhere in America—momentary beauties, to show us that song, however rare, proceeds from the common tongue. So these poems promise that any speech, that any mouth, might be an occasion for beauty or blessing.

Everywhere in this collection, ears, eyes, minds open to discover new abundance in landscapes thought familiar. These poems discover in America and its history boundless vistas, to …

Review: The Body In The Reservoir: Murder And Sensationalism In The South, April Renfroe-Warren

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the non-fiction book "The Body in the Reservoir: Murder and Sensationalism in the South," by Michael Ayers Trotti.

Review: Carry Me: Animal Babies On The Move, Sarah Mcghee

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the children's book "Carry Me: Animal Babies on the Move," written and illustrated by Susan Stockdale.

Trade And Income Convergence: Sorting Out The Causality, Xuepeng Liu

Faculty Articles

This paper studies the linkage between international trade and income convergence across countries. Different theories offer conflicting predictions regarding how they might affect each other. In the existing empirical literature estimating the trade impact on income convergence, a long-lasting problem is the reverse causality from income convergence to trade. This paper provides a disaggregated bilateral trade data analysis to solve this problem. The results show that the reverse causality from income convergence to trade exists in differentiated product sectors, but not in homogeneous product sectors. Trade in homogeneous sectors reduces the income gaps among trade partners, but it is not …

Senior Recital: Christina Infusino, Soprano, Christina Infusino, Marcena Kinney

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

This recital is presented in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree Bachelor of Music in Performance. Ms. Infusino is a student of Oral Moses.

Fall 2008 Library Newsletter, Jon Hansen

Library Newsletters

2008 Fall Semester Newsletter for the Horace W. Sturgis Library.

Jefferson County News And Notes

Georgia Library Quarterly

Recent news from the Jefferson County Library System.

Coweta Encourages 'Reading Olympians'

Georgia Library Quarterly

The article presents information on the 29th Summer Olympiad program of Coweta County Library in Georgia from August 8 to 23, 2008. The public library system has presented two multicultural programs to stimulate interest in cultural diversity, the Olympics and sportsmanship. Its objective of the program is to encourage students to read. The library's other Olympics-themed event was the premiere of its new virtual travel program.

Uncle Remus News And Notes

Georgia Library Quarterly

Recent news from the Uncle Remus Regional Library System.

From Traditional Delivery To Distance Learning: Developing The Model, Marie F. Holbein

Faculty Articles

Today’s classrooms are no longer bound by geography. Distance learning has provided an attractive and increasingly highly regarded alternative to traditional face-to-face instruction. However, effective implementation requires a shift in thinking for both students and instructors. The purpose of this article is to describe a model for applying a traditional campus-based graduate course to a distance format.

Review: The Historic Oakland Cemetery Of Atlanta: Speaking Stones, Ronda Sanders

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the non-fiction book "The Historic Oakland Cemetery of Atlanta: Speaking Stones," by Cathy J. Kaemmerlen.

Review: Circling Home, Kate Farley

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the non-fiction book "Circling Home," by John Lane.

Review: Faithfully Yours: The Letters Of Byron Herbert Reece, Julie Camp

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the non-fiction book "Faithfully Yours: The Letters of Byron Herbert Reece," edited by Raymond A. Cook and Alan Jackson.

2008 - The Thirteenth Annual Symposium Of Student Scholars

Symposium of Student Scholars Program Books

The full program book from the Thirteenth Annual Symposium of Student Scholars, held on April 14, 2008. Includes abstracts from the presentations and posters.

The Belgian Connection, Lisa Signori

Dimensions

The land known today as Belgium is home to many important historical and cultural icons that many associate with France. Charlemagne, Jacques Brel, René Magritte, Georges Simenon, and even the ubiquitous “French” fries, all have an intimate Belgian connection. When one thinks of Francophone cultures, however, the focus normally turns to Africa, Québec, the Caribbean, perhaps Switzerland, but almost never to Belgium. This article presents a cultural unit on French-speaking Belgium that illuminates the country’s linguistic and cultural geography, its history, politics, arts, and gastronomy. In addition to these basic culture capsules, the article offers suggestions for teaching and for …

The Teacher Work Sample In Foreign Language Education, Marat Sanatullov

Dimensions

Based on a sample WebQuest, the article analyzes how the Teacher Work Sample (TWS) and the preparation of foreign language practitioners can be implemented in light of contemporary theory, research, practices, and expectations for foreign language teaching, learning, and teacher education. The TWS framework emphasizes the integration of contextualized, proficiency-oriented, and assessment-driven communicative tasks, technology, and learners’ multiple intelligences in the classroom.

Archival Work In A Surreal World: The Imagination Of George Saunders, Erica Olsen

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

When George Saunders’s first collection of short stories, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, came out in 1996 reviewers emphasized the surrealism of his fictional world of run-down theme parks and virtual-reality franchise businesses: "… a nightmarish post-apocalyptic world that might have been envisioned by Walt Disney on acid," wrote the Philadelphia Inquirer, while Newsweek called it "a cybernetic, postapocalyptic dystopia."

Review: Haunted Savannah: The Official Guidebook To Savannah Haunted History Tour 2007, Julie Poole

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the non-fiction book "Haunted Savannah: The Official Guidebook to Savannah Haunted History Tour 2007," by James Caskey.

Review: The New Encyclopedia Of Southern Culture, Volume 3: History, Vanessa Cowie

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the non-fiction book "The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 3: History," edited by Charles Reagan Wilson.

The Perceptual Northwest, James Lowry, Mark Patterson, William Forbes

Faculty Articles

Our goal is to survey cultural perceptions defining the U.S. Northwest region. As geographers, we should concern ourselves with mental constructs of regions, as they can easily impede or facilitate communication. Assumptions of others’ regional boundaries and images may be erroneous. Over the past several decades, a handful of geographers have begun to examine these perceptual (or vernacular) maps and regions. Students at 21 colleges and universities were asked to identify: (1) boundaries of the U.S. Northwest region; (2) Northwest regional characteristics and symbols; and (3) what cities or other places best represent the Northwest.

Nationally, student respondents largely followed …

Review: Imprinting The South: Southern Printmakers And Their Images Of The Region 1920s – 1940s, Edward Whatley

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the non-fiction book "Imprinting the South: Southern Printmakers and Their Images of the Region 1920s – 1940s," by Lynn Barstis Williams.