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The Information Edge - Library Newsletter - Fall 2003 Issue, Karen Desantis Ed.

University Library Newsletter

OpenURL, Federated Search Tools, One-Stop Shop and Why Libraries are Crazy About Them
Changing Library Instruction Sessions to Complement the New Core
Gone Fishin': Librarian Thomas Snyder Retires After 30 Years of Service
Proquest Update! New Enhancements & Features - Fall 2003
Hello My Name is...

Information Literacy Programmes And Course Curricula: The Case For Integration, Anne Ambrose, Brian Gillespie

Articles

The advent of the Internet and the profusion, complexity and haphazard nature of the information available through electronic and digital resources has highlighted the issue of information literacy in third level institutions worldwide. How do we deal with the information explosion to which we are subjected on a daily basis? In particular how do our students learn to exploit the range of resources available to advance their studies and research? Can these students become fully independent learners as proposed by the new teaching and learning methodologies without the necessary foundation skills? The authors argue, based on international standards and benchmarking …

Hastings Community (Autumn 2003), Hastings College Of The Law Alumni Association

Hastings Alumni Publications

No abstract provided.

When Accuracy Hurts, And When It Helps: A Test Of The Empathic Accuracy Model In Marital Interactions., William Ickes, M. Minda Oriña, Jeffry A. Simpson

Psychology Faculty Publications - Archive

This study tested predictions from Ickes and Simpson’s (1997, 2001) empathic accuracy model. Married couples were videotaped as they tried to resolve a problem in their marriage. Both spouses then viewed a videotape of the interaction, recorded the thoughts and feelings they had at specific time-points, and tried to infer their partner’s thoughts and feelings. Consistent with the model, when the partner’s thoughts and feelings were relationship-threatening (as rated by both the partners and by trained observers), greater empathic accuracy on the part of the perceiver was associated with pre-to-posttest declines in the perceiver’s feelings of subjective closeness. The reverse …

Consumer Expectations’ Last Hope: A Response To Professor Kysar, Aaron Twerski, J. A. Henderson

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Deference To The Majority: Why Isn't The Supreme Court Applying The Reasoning Of Atkins V. Virginia To Juveniles, Sharon Ongerth

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

Caregiver Strategy Use To Contend With Cognitive And Functional Decline In Persons With Dementia , Laura N. Gitlin, Marie P. Dennis, Walter W. Hauck, Laraine Winter, Sandy Schinfeld

Center for Applied Research on Aging and Health Research Papers

No abstract provided.

Prospect Theory And Institutional Investors, Melvyn Teo, Paul G. J. O'Connell

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

There is ample evidence that past performance affects the trading decisions of individual investors. This paper looks at this issue using a detailed database of currency trading decisions of institutional investors. Past performance manifestly affects currency risk-taking in this group, but the sign and magnitude of the effect runs counter to much of the existing theory and evidence. There is no evidence whatsoever of disposition effects; rather, the dominant characteristic is aggressive risk reduction in the wake of losses. This effect is more prominent later in the year, and among older and more experienced funds. A modified version of the …

A Behavioral Model Of Bargaining With Endogenous Types, Dilip Abreu, David G. Pearce

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

We enrich a simple two-person bargaining model by introducing “behavioral types” who concede more slowly than does the average person in the economy. The presence of behavioral types profoundly influences the choices of optimizing types. In equilibrium, concessions are calculated to induce “reciprocity”: a substantial concession by player i is followed by a period in which j is much more likely to make a concession than usual. This favors concessions by i that are neither very small nor large enough to end the bargaining immediately. A key difference from the traditional method of perturbing a game is that the actions …

The Situation: An Introduction To The Situational Character, Critical Realism, Power Economics, And Deep Capture, Jon Hanson, David Yosifon

Faculty Publications

Throughout most of this introductory Article, we will focus our arguments primarily on economics and law and economics. We believe, however, that the implications of our inquiry extend far beyond those domains. The tendencies we hope to elucidate find their origins in the human animal, not in any particular legal theoretic perspective. It happens that these tendencies are especially prominent in law and economics, currently the dominant theoretical paradigm for creating and analyzing legal policy. But the relevance of our thesis is not confined to one approach , or even to legal-political questions. All humans are more or less implicated, …

Inside Unlv, Gian Galassi, Cayrn Key, Carol C. Harter, Patrick Ferrillo

Inside UNLV

No abstract provided.

Update - November 2003, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- Editorial
-- Hindu Perspectives on Genetic Enhancements in Humans
-- HIPAA: Privacy and Public Good
-- 2003 Graduates

Front Matter, Jmasm Editors

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

No abstract provided.

Fortune Cookies, Measurement Error, And Experimental Design, Greogry R. Hancock

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

This article pertains to the theoretical and practical detriments of measurement error in traditional univariate and multivariate experimental design, and points toward modern methods that facilitate greater accuracy in effect size estimates and power in hypothesis testing.

Correcting Publication Bias In Meta-Analysis: A Truncation Approach, Guillermo Montes, Bohdan S. Lotyczewski

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

Meta-analyses are increasingly used to support national policy decision making. The practical implications of publications bias in meta-analysis are discussed. Standard approaches to correct for publication bias require knowledge of the selection mechanism that leads to publication. In this study, an alternative approach is proposed based on Cohen’s corrections for a truncated normal. The approach makes less assumptions, is easy to implement, and performs well in simulations with small samples. The approach is illustrated with two published meta-analyses.

Georgia's Public Service Bar Exam Alternative, Andrea A. Curcio, Clark D. Cunningham

Faculty Publications By Year

No abstract provided.

Statistical Pronouncements Ii, Shlomo S. Sawilowsky

Theoretical and Behavioral Foundations of Education Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Women's Voice, November/December 2003, Women's, Gender, And Sexuality Studies Program

Women's Voice (1991-2006)

No abstract provided.

Salt Equalizer, Vol. 2003, Issue 4, Society Of American Law Teachers

SALT Equalizer

Margalynne Armstrong, The SALT Annual Awards Dinner to Honor Quigley, Lewis, at 1.

Michael Rooke-Ley, SALT, FAIR Sue Department of Defense over Solomon Amendment, at 1.

Raleigh Hanna Levine, Introducing SALT’s New Co-Presidents, at 2.

Paula C. Johnson & Michael Rooke-Ley, Co-Presidents’ Column, at 3.

Eileen Kaufman, SALT Bar Exam Workshop, at 4.

Sally Simpson, The Community Legal Access BarAlt Program, at 4.

Andrea Curcio & Clark D. Cunningham, Georgia’s Public Service Bar Exam Alternative, at 5.

Marjorie M. Shultz & Sheldon Zedeck, Identification and Development of Predictors for Successful Lawyering, at …

End Matter, Jmasm Editors

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

No abstract provided.

A Comparison Of Equivalence Testing In Combination With Hypothesis Testing And Effect Sizes, Christopher J. Mecklin

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

Equivalence testing, an alternative to testing for statistical significance, is little used in educational research. Equivalence testing is useful in situations where the researcher wishes to show that two means are not significantly different. A simulation study assessed the relationships between effect size, sample size, statistical significance, and statistical equivalence.

Lessons Learned From Thailand's Experience With Financial-Sector Restructuring, Veerathai Santiprabhob

Documents

study commissioned by one of Thailand's think tanks analyzing the government's response to the crisis

Internet Sex Crimes Against Minors: The Response Of Law Enforcement., Janis Wolak, Kimberly J. Mitchell, David Finkelhor

Crimes Against Children Research Center

The Internet1 and computers have come to play a growing role in sex crimes that are committed against children and youth.2 Since the mid-1990s these developing technologies have posed challenges for law enforcement requiring them to confront situations not anticipated in criminal statutes, master technical advances, develop new investigative techniques, and handle criminal cases that often span multiple jurisdictions. To assist, legislators have acted on a number of fronts creating new statutes that encompass Internet offenses, stiffening penalties, and creating a national clearinghouse for reports of Internet-related crimes against children and the CyberTipline® operated by the National Center for Missing …

University Reporter - Vol. 08, No. 03 - November 2003, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1996-2009, University Reporter

No abstract provided.

Clark Memorandum: Fall 2003, J. Reuben Clark Law Society, J. Reuben Clark Law School

The Clark Memorandum

• Words of Hate, Words of Love (Constance K. Lundberg)
• The Trial of Christ (Cree L. Kofford)
• A Personal Philosophy of Professionalism (Cecil O Samuelson)
• Avoiding Pitfalls (Dale A. Whitman)

Landmine Clearance Projects: Task Manager's Guide, Gichd

Global CWD Repository

These World Bank guidelines on landmine clearance describe suggested good practice for use by task managers in the design and implementation of land mine clearance projects financed by the World Bank. It complements Demining - Operational Guidelines for Financing Land Mine Clearance, which the World Bank issued in February 1997, bringing together their experience in addressing this problem.

Fear Of A Paper Tiger: Enforcing Louisiana's Procedural And Statutory Rules In The Wake Of Harmless Error Analysis, James E. Boren, Michael A. Fiser

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Considerations Concerning Harmless Error In Louisiana Criminal Cases, Alfred Paul Leblanc Jr.

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Doctoring Up The Capital Defense System: Raising The Standards For Louisiana's Death Penalty Lawyers, Julie Hayes Kilborn

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Board Of Education Of Independent School District No.92 Of Pottawatomie County V. Earls: Will Louisiana Halt The United States Supreme Court's Continuous Corrosion Of Student Fourth Amendment Rights?, Ashley S. Green

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.