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The Social Construction Of The Responsible Corporate Citizen: Sustainability Reports Of The Global Automotive Firms, George Shinkle, J. William Spencer

Purdue CIBER Working Papers

The constitutive meanings of responsible corporate environmental citizenship are to be found in global discourses. We use Gubrium and Holstein‘s framework on interpretive practice to study the Corporate Sustainability Reports of multinational automotive companies regarding global warming. We observe three common themes – recognizing the issue of greenhouse gases, acknowledging stakeholders, and being role models for society. However, these themes take on unique meanings vis-à-vis each corporate identity. We utilize our analytic findings to offer theoretic propositions regarding emergent meanings of corporate environmental citizenship. These meanings are important to understand as firm behavior will be based on these socially-constructed meanings.

Fairy Tale Fragments, Candice Bailey

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Glacial Deposits, Vol. 36, 2007-2008, Department Of Geography-Geology

Glacial Deposits

Newsletter of the Department of Geography-Geology

Amendment (2008 Fall)

Amendment, 2004-

Amendment is a VCU student-produced progressive literature and art journal that provides a platform for students to promote equality, tolerance, and social progression through artistic expression.

Determinants Of Export Growth In Transition Economy Firms: Instituions, Aspirations, Incentives, And Inertia, George Shinkle, Aldas Kriauciunas

Purdue CIBER Working Papers

Exports are an important source of revenue, especially in transitional economies. To better understand export growth, we examine the influence of institutional development, managerial aspirations, private ownership, firm size, and age with a sample of Central and East European firms. We find that institutions affect export growth through their interaction with firm size and age, though in opposite ways. Also, while the impact of private ownership is conditional on the level of institutional development, managerial aspirations support export growth across all institutional environments examined. These results indicate the importance of institutions and their limits when behavioral factors are considered.

Tutoring Is Real: The Benefits Of The Peer Tutor Experience For Future English Educators, Janet Alsup, Tammy S. Conard-Salvo, Scott J. Peters

Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Publications

In this article, an English education professor, a university writing center administrator, and a recent graduate of an undergraduate English education program discuss the role peer tutoring might play in enhancing the education of preservice teachers of writing. The authors argue that by providing additional, authentic field experiences which reflect constructivist, student-centered philosophies often adhered to in English education programs, university peer tutoring can provide undergraduate students with authentic experience in learning collaboratively, developing rapport with students, and conducting student-centered, one-to-one writing conferences.

Listening To Revise: Mainstream Uses Of Text-To-Speech Software In The Writing Center, Tammy Conard-Salvo, John M. Spartz

Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Presentations

This presentation from the 2008 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) offers results from an a study of text-to-speech software in a writing center and explores the effect that writing centers and tutors have on students’ use of and attitudes toward technology and writing. Initial results confirm our hypothesis that Kurzweil’s text-to-speech features provides considerable benefit to students, and that students identified additional errors during the revision and editing stages of writing than during revision done independently.

The Jew’S Text: “Shem The Penman” And “Shaun The Post”, Maren Linett

Department of English Faculty Publications

Wyndham Lewis was one of the few early critics of Ulysses to see that, like Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom is a Joycean self-portrait.1 Driven by his anti-Semitism, Lewis was irritated by the sympathy Joyce garnered by portraying himself as a Jew. In Time and Western Man, he complains that Bloom has too much dramatic power: As it is, of course, the author, thinly disguised as a middle-aged Jew tout (Mr. Leopold Bloom), wins the reader’s sympathy every time he appears; and he never is confronted with the less and less satisfactory Dedalus (in the beau role) without the latter losing …

Experimental Investigation Of Local Heat Transfer Of Carbon Dioxide At Super-Critical Pressures In A Vertical Tube And Multi-Port Mini-Channels Under Cooling Conditions, Peixue Jiang, Chenru Zhao, Jianqiang Deng, Wenxing Zhang

International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference

No abstract provided.

Profiling Of Screw Compressor Rotors By Use Of Direct Digital Simulation, Nikola Stosic, Elvedin Mujic, Ian K. Smith, Ahmed Kovacevic

International Compressor Engineering Conference

No abstract provided.

Energy And Exergy Analysis Of A Micro Compressed Air Energy Storage And Air Cycle Heating And Cooling System, Youngmin Kim, Daniel Favrat

International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference

No abstract provided.

Breaking Forms: The Shift To Performance In Late Twentieth-Century Irish Drama, Christie L. Fox

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Reducing Estate And Trust Litigation Through Disclosure, In Terrorem Clauses, Mediation And Arbitration, Jonathan G. Blattmachr

Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution

This Article discusses how litigation relating to the administration of estates and trusts might be reduced through by careful planning prior to the property owner's transfer of wealth during lifetime or at death. As the article details, litigation involving trust and estate matters often involves an emotional element not present in most other legally disputed matters. That also suggests that methods to reduce the risk of such litigation occurring may be unique to such matters. In Part 1, certain background matters relating to the climate for such litigation are presented. In Part 2, the historic "tool" of a disinheritance clause …

What's A Cross-Cultural Mediator To Do? A Low-Context Solution For A High-Context Problem, John Barkai

Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution

This article will explore issues facing mediators in cross-cultural conflicts, offer suggestions for conducting cross-cultural mediations, and propose a template of factors that mediators should consider when assisting parties in cross-cultural mediation. The factors will come largely from research by social scientists and anthropologists, particularly Edward T. Hall and Geert Hofstede.

Technology Mediated Dispute Resolution Can Improve The Registry Of Interpreters For The Deaf Ethical Practices System: The Deaf Community Is Well Prepared And Can Lead By Example, David Allen Larson, Paula Gajewski Mickelson

Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution

This article examines the mediation process within the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf Ethical Practices System and suggests when and how technology may be utilized to enhance that process. Background information regarding the interpreting profession, the Deaf Community, and the process for filing and reviewing grievances will provide a context for this discussion. An overview of the technologies already being used within the Deaf Community and interpreting field will help to determine where new technologies can be introduced most effectively. Each of the three steps in the EPS will be analyzed to assess how additional technologies can be integrated …

Understanding Indigenous Dispute Resolution Processes And Western Alternative Dispute Resolution: Cultivating Culturally Appropriate Methods In Lieu Of Litigation, Carlo Osi

Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution

This article specifically focuses on Indigenous Dispute Resolution, Western-inspired ADR mechanisms, and Indigenized Western ADR as culturally appropriate methods to resolve disputes in lieu of litigation. This article will also focus on how these processes are able to help solve intellectual property rights disputes involving Indigenous communities. Generally, this article will describe how successful all three modes of dispute resolution have been in Indigenous conflict resolution, in the quest for benefit-sharing agreements, and the potential for their use in other controversies. This article proposes the adoption of an Indigenized Western ADR approach on issues surrounding intellectual property rights regimes.

Baby Steps To "Grown-Up" Divorce: The Introduction Of The Collaborative Family Law Center And The Continued Need For True No-Fault Divorce In New York, Gabriella L. Zborovsky

Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution

Part I of this Note describes the current state of divorce law in New York by examining the history of divorce culture in New York, the current state statutory scheme, the law's practical effect on New York residents, and the arguments in support of and against the adoption of no-fault provisions. Part II overviews the collaborative law method, illustrates how the method varies from other alternative dispute resolution methods, and discusses various ethical considerations relevant to the method. Part III argues that the introduction of collaborative law will have minimal practical effects unless combined with the adoption of a no-fault …

Use Of Palm Trees As A Sleeping Site By Hamadryas Baboons In Ethiopia, Amy Schreier, Larissa Swedell

Publications and Research

Hamadryas baboons sleep on cliffs throughout their range, and this can be attributed to the safety cliffs provide against predators in the absence of tall trees. In this paper, we report the first documented occurrence of hamadryas baboons sleeping in doum palm trees rather than on cliffs. Data derive from a study of hamadryas baboons at the Filoha site in lowland Ethiopia. During all-day follows, data were collected on travel patterns, band activity, and location. Variation in the baboons’ home range was characterized using vegetation transects. We discovered that one band in this population, Band 3, occasionally slept in doum …

Composition And Seasonality Of Diet In Wild Hamadryas Baboons: Preliminary Findings From Filoha, Larissa Swedell, Getenet Hailemeskel, Amy Schreier

Publications and Research

Here we report the first year-round quantitative data on dietary composition and seasonality in wild hamadryas baboons. Study subjects were adult male members of Band 3 at the Filoha field site in central lowland Ethiopia. Data collection consisted of 10-minute focal samples during all-day follows 4-6 days per month over the course of one year. The two largest contributors to the diet were Hyphaene thebaica and Acacia senegal, and these were the only plant species found in the diet during every month of the year. Other relatively major contributors to the diet, such as Cyperus grandibulbosus, Seddera bagshawei, …

Girls On The Stand: How Courts Fail Pregnant Minors, O. Carter Snead

Journal Articles

Girls on the Stand: How Courts Fail Pregnant Minors by Helena Silverstein. New York, New York University Press, 2007. 256 pp. $32.00.

Abortion may be the most controversial issue in American politics. It is a domain in which disagreement is not merely overheated, but seemingly intractable. Girls on the Stand: How Courts Fail Pregnant Minors ambitiously takes aim at one of the few abortion policies about which there is widespread agreement: parental involvement laws. It appeals to social science evidence to argue that popular support for these laws is misguided because, in practice, they impose too high a burden on …

Passive Immunity To West Nile Virus Provides Limited Protection In A Common Passerine Species, Nicole M. Nemeth, Paul T. Oesterle, Richard A. Bowen

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Passerine birds have played an important role in the establishment, maintenance, and spread of West Nile virus (WNV) in North America, and some are susceptible to WNV-associated mortality. Characterization of passive transfer of anti-WNV antibodies in passerines is important to understanding transmission and demographic effects of WNV on wild birds. We showed passively acquired maternal antibodies to WNV in the house sparrow (Passer domesticus). Although all seropositive females (N = 18) produced antibody-positive egg yolks, only 20% of seropositive mothers (3/15) produced seropositive chicks. The estimated average half-life of maternal antibodies in chick sera was 3 days, …

Key West Elegies / By Danielle Sellers, Danielle Sellers

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Imagining The Unimaginable : Witnessing Trauma In The Post-Segregation South / By Becca Walton, Becca Walton

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Staying Afloat In A Global World : Reflections On Life As A Mill Worker At Inman Mills, Inman, South Carolina, Jane Harrison Chapman Fisher

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Breakdowns A Collection Of Short Stories, Richard Robert Monroe

All NMU Master's Theses

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Ode To The Other: Displacing Self In Poetry, Jennifer Joy Simula Yeatts

All NMU Master's Theses

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Sheer Force Of Will, Teague Whalen

All NMU Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

New Perspectives On Celtic Feasting, Emily Greene

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

We Are Eaters : Examining Food Ministry Through The Women Of New Albany, Mississippi / By W. Andrew Tillman, W. Andrew Tillman

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Limits Of Our Native Earth : Eco-Critical Themes In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Man Of Adamant And Rappaccini's Daughter / Atkins Trout, Atkins Trout

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.