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The Micro-Politics Of The Omc Process: Ngo Activities And The Social Inclusion Process In Sweden, Kerstin Jacobsson, Hakan Johansson

International Collaborative on Social Europe

No abstract provided.

Report On Proposals Submitted And Funded, July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2007, Office Of Research And Sponsored Programs. Morehead State University.

Office of Research and Sponsored Programs Reports and Publications

Report on Proposals Submitted and Funded for July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2007.

Summer 2007, Billington Library

Library Newsletter

Feature on why librarians aren't quiet anymore, phase II of library renovations approved, a note on 2007 library usage statistics, the electronic resource Searchpath is described, new physical and digital items are described, a profile on Cassie Schwarz is given.

Transitions Into And Out Of The Wic Program: A Cause For Concern?, Alison Jacknowitz, Laura Tiehen

University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Discussion Paper Series

Despite the health benefits of participation in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), many eligible households do not participate in WIC during pregnancy and others exit WIC after a child turns one year old. This research uses the first two waves of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (ECLS-B) to advance our understanding of these transitions into and out of WIC. Findings suggest that those who exhibit better economic health across a variety of dimensions are more likely to delay entry into the program or exit after a child turns one year of age.

Stonehill Alumni Magazine Summer 2007, Stonehill College Office Of Communications And Media Relations

Stonehill Alumni Magazine

This issue of the magazine includes the following features:

• Attaining the Summit: Later this month, the College will launch a $55 million comprehensive fundraising campaign, Attaining the Summit, which is set to transform Stonehill into one of the top Catholic colleges in the country.
• Salameno Chair Announced: John Rodrigue, a nationally renowned expert on 19th century American history, joined Stonehill as the College's first endowed chairholder. As the Salameno Chair in History, Rodrigue will enhance the Department's already strong reputation for excellence.
• A Lens on History: When photographer Stanley Bauman died in February, he left Stonehill his collection of over …

Citizens For Peace Minutes 06-12-07, Linda J. Lieder

Citizens for Peace

Dr. Deepak Choprah's keynote address at the National Department of Peace Conference in Washington, D.C. in Feb. 2007.

He went on to say that it is impossible to solve all the world’s problems one at a time. Whatever is happening out there is a projection of what is happening in our collective souls. Today, there is a very deep distress in our collective consciousness. We need a shift in our collective consciousness in order to make real changes in the world.

• We need to evolve into a new way of being. In the history of humanity, there has always …

Citizens For Peace Minutes 07-10-07, Linda J. Lieder

Citizens for Peace

The topic for this evening was the Science of Peace, by James O’Day, who spoke at the Department of Peace Conference this past February, in Washington, D.C. He started his discussion with an explanation of the Art of War. He quoted Master Sung – “Without a full understanding of the harms of war it is impossible to manage it.” He went on to talk of the Sirens in the novel Ulysses, who were a loud distraction. Today, the Powers of War (media, 9/11. Alert codes, etc.) are all very loud now. These modern-day “Sirens” capture our attention and know how …

Fraud: The Human Factor, Sridhar Ramamoorti, William Olsen

Accounting Faculty Publications

Eighty percent of respondents to a National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) survey of public company audit committees felt that failure resulting from poor risk management couldn't happen to them. However, 50 percent thought it could happen to other companies.

This feeling of relative "invincibility" is similar to the statistically impossible "Lake Wobegon" effect--where "all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking and all the children are above average." Could this Lake Wobegon effect--which results from the human tendency to overestimate one's achievements and capabilities in relation to others--extend to an organization's assessment of its vulnerability to fraud …

Celebrating Paradoxes In Christian Leadership, Michael E. Cafferky

Faculty Works

Studying organizations as dynamic, open systems has captured the interest of organizational scholars for several decades. Along with other influences this has led to pr9gressively more sophisticated understanding of how leaders and followers interact and how their organizations interact with the external environment. In turn, as our understanding has improved, scholarly awareness of the complexity of leadership has increased. One might argue that this awareness correspondingly has produced a better understanding of the many tensions that derive from dilemmas and paradoxes that leaders face in their work.

Enterprise Resource Planning (Erp) Systems And The Manufacturing-Marketing Interface: An Information Processing Theory View, Thomas F. Gattiker

IT and Supply Chain Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

The manufacturing-marketing (MM) interface has received substantial consideration in the operations management literature; however, relatively little attention has been paid to the role of information systems in facilitating MM integration. As integrated cross-functional systems, enterprise resource planning systems (ERP) are well-suited to provide MM integration. Based on information processing theory, the central proposition of this paper is the greater the interdependence between manufacturing and marketing, the greater the benefit of ERP. Specifically, H1 states that the greater ERP-enabled coordination between manufacturing and marketing, the greater the benefit of ERP to the plant. H2 states that the degree to which ERP-enabled …

Macalester Today Summer 2007, Macalester College

Macalester Today

No abstract provided.

Linking Economic Development And Poverty: The Role Of Innovation And Innovation Capacity In The South, Jeremy Hall

University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Discussion Paper Series

While most economic development research views poverty as a sign of need for development or poverty reduction as an outcome of successful development, this study treats poverty as an independent variable alongside contemporary measures of innovation capacity that reflect state potential for economic development, examining the combined impact of poverty and innovation capacity on economic development outcomes. The study examines the effect poverty has on economic development outcomes given levels of innovation capacity, and the effect poverty has on formation of state innovation capacity. The methodology consists of pooled cross-sectional time-series analysis with panel corrected standard errors with lags. The …

Taylor: A Magazine For Taylor University Alumni And Friends (Summer 2007), Taylor University

The Taylor Magazine (1963-Present)

The Summer 2007 edition of Taylor Magazine, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

Affordable Housing And Civic Participation: Two Sides Of The Same Coin, Goutam U. Jois

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

No abstract provided.

One Nation, Under … The Watchmaker?: Intelligent Design And The Establishment Clause, Nicholas A. Shuneman

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

No abstract provided.

Sex, Trust, And Corporate Boards, Joan Macleod Heminway

Scholarly Works

This article collects and interprets social science research on sex and trust and uses this work to shed new light on the emerging case for gender diversity on corporate boards. Specifically, the article describes social science research findings indicating (1) that men and women trust and are trustworthy on different bases and (2) that there is a bias against women in chief executive officer (and potentially other corporate leadership) positions. Based on this research, the nature of corporate management and control, and current legal scholarship on corporate governance, the article asserts that gender diversity on corporate boards may be desirable …

Cc: Connecticut College Magazine, Summer 2007, Connecticut College

Alumni News/Connecticut College Magazine

No abstract provided.

Revisiting Deviance And Its Relevance: A Conceptual History And Some Recent Applications In Discussions Of Violence And Institutional Social Control (Review Essay), William T. Armaline

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Law And Topology, Kathleen M. Sullivan

Tulsa Law Review

No abstract provided.

Scholarly Books On The New Testament, Thomas A. Wayment

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

No abstract provided.

The Western Michigan University Magazine, Summer 2007, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Magazine (1997-present)

• Inside and out, it’s a masterpiece
• This year marks WMU’s 50th anniversary as Michigan’s fourth university.
• StoryCorps plumbs local oral histories
• For the love of the game
• Athletics
• College news
• Campus places
• Classnotes/Obituaries

You've Gotta Read This: Summer Reading At Musselman Library (2007), Musselman Library

You’ve Gotta Read This: Summer Reading at Musselman Library

Each year Musselman Library asks Gettysburg College faculty, staff, and administrators to help create a suggested summer reading list to inspire students and the rest of our campus community to take time in the summer to sit back, relax, and read. These summer reading picks are guaranteed to offer much adventure, drama, and fun!

The Classic, Summer 2007, Public Relations

The Classic, 2000-2009

President's Report: After 125 Years, an Even More Promising Future; Letters to the Editor; Service with a smile; Move-in day; Four join board; Summer in the lab; Presidential search progress; A plan for learning; Van Den Broek to lead alumni; Acting out the Bible; Strategic thinking; Musician to perform in Ireland; Brandt named conference AD of year; New roles in Center for Spiritual Formation; Photo Essay: Commence; A Different Mission Field: Rick Clark's classes feature award-winning teaching, bold faith, and a passion for Spanish; Looking Back: A Northwestern Tragedy; Hot Reads; Summer Love: SOS alumni share stories of the season …

Particularisation Of Child Abuse Offences: Common Problems When Questioning Child Witnesses, Martine B. Powell, Kim P. Roberts, Belinda Guadagno

Psychology Faculty Publications

Prosecuting child abusers is often difficult due to lack of particularising details. Two possible ways of addressing this difficulty are: (a) to change the justice system to better serve prosecution for repeated offences (i.e., allow generic testimony), and (b) to bolster children's testimony. As this article has illustrated, there is still considerable potential for increasing (b). Given the low prosecution rates of child abuse offences, the need for exceptional interviewer training programs coupled with resources for ongoing supervision is now critical. While there have been some major improvements in child witness investigative interviews over the past two decades, there are …

Global-Change Scenarios: Their Development And Use, Edward Parson, Virginia Burkett, Karen Fisher-Vanden, David Keith, Linda Mearns, Hugh Pitcher, Cynthia Rosenzweig, Mort Webster

United States Department of Energy: Publications

A scenario is a description of potential future conditions produced to inform decision-making under uncertainty. Scenarios can help inform decisions that involve high stakes and poorly characterized uncertainty, which may thwart other, conventional forms of analysis or decision support. Originally developed to study military and security problems, scenarios are now widely used for strategic planning and assessment in businesses and other organizations, and increasingly to inform planning, analysis, and decision-making for environmental issues, including climate change.
Scenarios can serve many purposes. They can help inform specific decisions, or can provide inputs to assessments, models, or other decision-support activities when these …

Must Utah Imprison Its Parents And Children?: Alternatives To Utah's Compulsorty Attendance Laws, Gilbert Bradshaw

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

No abstract provided.

Fall 2007 Nova Southeastern University Undergraduate Student Catalog, Nova Southeastern University

Undergraduate Programs Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Summer 2007, Seattle University

Seattle University Magazine

No abstract provided.

Empowerment Through Critical Pedagogy, Premakumari Dheram

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

In any multilingual country, it is imperative that the curriculum provide for a critical dialogue on the politics of language. Educators must address questions of linguistic and cultural identity especially in the context of the spread of English. Contrary to popular and academic conceptions, English has never been just a ‘link’ or ‘library’ language, and the epithets non-native speaker teacher/learner and second language teacher/learner echo a sense of marginality and displacement (Browne. 2005. Cummins.1996. Kachru.1982. Rampton.1990.Shondel.2005). For “…language itself is content, a referent for loyalties and animosities, an indicator of social statuses and personal relationships, a marker of situations and …

Cooperative Learning As An Effective Way To Interact, Gary Eisenhauer

Action Research Projects

In this action research study of my classroom of 8th grade mathematics, I investigated the effects of students’ interactions while cooperatively learning in groups. I discovered that in order to be cooperative, a lesson must be well-defined, open for discussion, and have positive face-toface interaction. The cooperative learning groups should be teacher generated rather than student-selected. When done correctly, cooperative learning tends to promote student relationships, more positive attitudes toward mathematics and the teacher, and greater self-confidence in a student’s mathematics abilities. As a result of this research, I plan to better incorporate cooperative learning into the classroom. Students will …