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Interview With Kathleen A. Saadat, Cameron Chambers

Black United Front Oral History Project

Interview with Kathleen Saadat by Cameron Chambers on March 2, 2010 in Portland, Oregon.

Kathleen discusses how her family provided her with a tradition of camaraderie, social justice advocacy, and education. She also emphasizes how her diverse friendships and relationships opened her up to perspectives that had a great effect on her.

Standard Of Care For Students With Disabilities: The Intersection Of Liability Under The Idea And Tort Theories, Ralph D. Mawdsley J.D., Ph.D.

Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Bulletin, Dmacc Marketing

Bulletin

No abstract provided.

Living In A Mixed-Income Development: Resident Perceptions Of The Benefits And Disadvantages Of Two Developments In Chicago, Mark L. Joseph

Faculty Scholarship

Policy-makers in several countries are turning to income- and tenure-mixing strategies in an attempt to reverse decades of social and economic isolation in impoverished urban areas. In the US city of Chicago, all high-rise public housing developments across the city are being demolished, public housing residents are being dispersed throughout the metropolitan area and 10 new mixed-income developments are being created on the footprint of former public housing complexes. Findings are presented from in-depth interviews with residents across income levels and tenures at two mixed income developments and the paper explores residents’ perceptions of the physical, psychological and social impacts …

Access Granted: The Winkelman Case Ushers In A New Era In Parental Advocacy, Laura Mcneal

Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Go! Green Outreach, Spring 2010, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Division Of University Advancement

Go! Green Outreach

"Sharing sustainability news, efforts, and ideas with the people of campus" --cover image

Alternative Technical Efficiency Measures: Skew, Bias, And Scale, Qu Feng, William C. Horrace

Economics - All Scholarship

In the fixed-effects stochastic frontier model an efficiency measure relative to the best firm in the sample is universally employed. This paper considers a new measure relative to the worst firm in the sample. We find that estimates of this measure have smaller bias than those of the traditional measure when the sample consists of many firms near the efficient frontier. Moreover, a two-sided measure relative to both the best and the worst firms is proposed. Simulations suggest that the new measures may be preferred depending on the skewness of the inefficiency distribution and the scale of efficiency differences.

Gsu View, 2010-03, Office Of Public Affairs

GSU View

Newsletter published by Governors State University 2007-current.

Family Affairs Newsletter 2010-03-01, Zack Paakkonen

Family Affairs newsletter (2004-2016)

FAMILY AFFAIRS was a free, twice-a-month, social activities newsletter for the GLBTQI (gay/lesbian/bisexual/trans/queer/intersex) community, sent out around the 1st and 15th of each month. It covered the State of Maine only. The list was begun and maintained for many years by Jean Vermette in Bangor, and later operated by Zack Paakkonen of Portland. Over the years it evolved from a social activities newsletter into a business directory, classified ad service, and community bulletin board.

Northwest Houston Academic Center Newsletter- March 2010, Elizabeth Jean Brumfield

Newsletter Collections

No abstract provided.

Scholarworks Statistics - March 2010, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

For the month of March 2010, ScholarWorks recorded a total of 3,661 full-text downloads.

Campus Connection, March 2010, Vol. 11 No. 6, California State University, Monterey Bay

Campus Connection

Walkers 'Step Ahead' For Top Honor -- Social Work Program To Meet Local Demand -- CSUMB Library Earns LEED Silver Certification -- Campus Puts Electric Vehicles To The Test -- Transforming The Old Library Into The Student Center -- University Promise Recognized By Salinas City Council -- Conference And Events Services Goes Year-Round -- Psychiatrist Joins Health And Wellness Services -- Sylvia Panetta To Speak At Commencement -- Spotlight: Mark O'Shea -- Composer Alan Silvestri To Appear On Campus -- CSUMB Employees Make Their Wellness Mark -- New Employees, Probation Passed -- Workplace Walk-off Challenge Begins April 5 -- World …

Current, March 01, 2010, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

Current (2010s)

No abstract provided.

Faculty Notes - John Carroll University, John Carroll University

Faculty Notes - John Carroll University

March 2010, Volume 3, Issue 1

Scoop

Animal Sheltering 2010-12

• In hard times, pet food pantries supply a lifeline
• An innovative HSUS program keeps pets and their people together
• Sanctuary for exotic animals hosts event for adoptable kitties
• Artists collaborate to bring money—and warmth—to shelters
• A socially conscious teenager helps a Colorado shelter go solar
• A Yonkers family and Farm Sanctuary shepherd a lamb to safety
• Fighting juvenile animal cruelty in Phoenix
• The right way to transport

March 1, 2010, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2010-2019

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Ua23 Newsletter, March 2010, Aurelia Spaulding, Leah Ashwill

ALIVE Center Publications

No abstract provided.

Prism #45, March 2010, Office Of The Provost

Prism: Western Michigan University's Newsletter for Academic Affairs

No abstract provided.

Draft - Design Team Academic Reorganization Proposal, Bruce Clary, Robert S. Caswell, Kate L. Forhan, Lynne Miller, Judith Ryan, James B. Shaffer, Timothy Stevens, Jeannine D. Uzzi

University Reorganization

This proposal is the result of the deliberations of the University of Southern Maine Reorganization Design Team: Professor Bruce Clary of Public Policy and Management, Executive Director of Public Affairs Robert S. Caswell, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Kate L. Forhan, Professor of Professional Education Lynne C. Miller, Vice President for Human Resources and Senior Advisor to the President Judith Ryan, Chief Operating Officer and USM School of Business Dean James B. Shaffer, Special Assistant for Planning and Project Development Dr. Timothy Stevens, and Associate Professor of Classics Jeannine D. Uzzi. All members of the Design Team …

No. 23: Labour Migration Trends And Policies In Southern Africa, Jonathan Crush, Vincent Williams

Southern African Migration Programme

Since 1990, there have been major changes to longstanding patterns of intra-regional labour migration within the Southern African Development Community (SADC). At the same time, new channels of migration to and from the region have opened. Labour migration is now more voluminous, dynamic and complex than it has ever been. This presents policy-makers with considerable opportunities and challenges. In order to understand the exact nature of these challenges, it is important to have a good grasp of current labour migration characteristics and trends. Unfortunately, reliable, accurate and comprehensive data on labour migration is not available. The quality and currency of …

Cognitive And Psychodynamic Mechanisms Of Change In Treated And Untreated Depression, Daniel Coleman, Diane Cole, Leslie Wuest

Faculty Publications - College of Social Work

Two patient-level mechanisms of change, defenses, and cognition were tested over 3 time points in 65 depressed adults, approximately half receiving treatment. Early changes in automatic thoughts and immature defenses were associated with symptom change from time-one to time-three. The directionality of early automatic thought change predicting symptom change was partially supported, but immature defense change occurs simultaneously with, or after, symptom change. Given the convergent evidence of cognitive change as a mediator of depression reduction, all depression therapies should consider how they address depressive cognition. To build a more complete understanding of how to ameliorate depression, future studies should …

Ylat Youth Leadership Advisory Team: An Innovative Approach To Systems Improvement, Marie Zemler Wu Mpp, Penthea Burns Msw, Marty Zanghi Msw, Dianna Walters

Children, Youth, & Families

The Youth Leadership Advisory Team (YLAT) brings together young people who are involved with the child welfare system and creates opportunities for them to learn and practice leadership and advocacy skills. YLAT is a three-way partnership including the Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine, Maine's Department of Health and Human Services, and Maine's youth in care. Amid a comprehensive system reform, YLAT has been a guiding force and a clear voice. YLAT has enjoyed many successes and garnered attention--including requests for replication--across the nation. This paper grew from a desire to clearly articulate the YLAT …

Undergraduate Symposium, 2010, College Of Arts & Sciences

Undergraduate Symposium Programs

No abstract provided.

Panel Data Inference Under Spatial Dependence, Badi H. Baltagi, Alain Pirotte

Center for Policy Research

This paper focuses on inference based on the usual panel data estimators of a one-way error component regression model when the true specification is a spatial error component model. Among the estimators considered, are pooled OLS, random and fixed effects, maximum likelihood under normality, etc. The spatial effects capture the cross-section dependence, and the usual panel data estimators ignore this dependence. Two popular forms of spatial autocorrelation are considered, namely, spatial auto-regressive random effects (SAR-RE) and spatial moving average random effects (SMA-RE). We show that when the spatial coefficients are large, test of hypothesis based on the usual panel data …

Who Me? Cheat?, Susan E. Murray

Lake Union Herald

No abstract provided.

Looking At The Initial Client Meeting Through An Interdisciplinary Lens: Applying Lessons From The Medical Profession To Law Teaching And Practice, Lisa Radtke Bliss

Faculty Publications By Year

In this essay a clinical law professor observes similarities in the way that physicians and lawyers interact with patients and clients during the initial consult/interview, based upon her experiences teaching in a medical legal partnership clinic.

From The Editorial Desk, Perry Francis

Michigan Journal of Counseling: Research, Theory and Practice

No abstract provided.

The Value Of A Statistical Life: Evidence From Panel Data, Thomas J. Kniesner, W. Kip Viscusi, Christopher Woock

Center for Policy Research

Our research addresses fundamental long-standing concerns in the compensating wage differentials literature and its public policy implications: the econometric properties of estimates of the value of statistical life (VSL) and the wide range of such estimates from about $0 to almost $30 million. Here we address most of the prominent econometric issues by applying panel data, a new and more accurate fatality risk measure, and systematic application of panel data estimators. Controlling for measurement error, endogeneity, latent individual heterogeneity that may be correlated with the regressors, state dependence, and sample composition yields an estimated value of a statistical life of …

Review Of Health Disparities In The United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, And Health. Donald A. Barr. Reviewed By Krista Drescher-Burke., Krista Drescher-Burke

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book review of Donald A. Barr, Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Health. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. $40.00 papercover.

Social Justice Implications Of The Organism Metaphor, Gerald V. O'Brien

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The denigration of marginalized groups is frequently supported through the widespread employment of metaphors that present a pejorative image of the group in question. The organism metaphor, wherein the target group is portrayed as a threat to the integrity of the social body, is a particularly important metaphoric theme in the advancement of social injustice. Drawing largely from primary source documents, this paper provides an overview of the organism metaphor as it has been employed historically to denigrate various social subgroups. Implications for the social work profession are discussed.