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Ethnic Differences In Cigarette Smoking Behavior, Gang Lee Jul 2011

Ethnic Differences In Cigarette Smoking Behavior, Gang Lee

Selected Works Temporary Series

The goal of this study is to identify and compare predictors of smoking initiation, persistence and smoking status among Hispanics and Whites. The sample includes 1,410 Hispanic and non-Hispanic White adults living in El Paso, TX, USA and Doña Ana and Otero counties, NM, USA from the Paso del Norte 2002 BRFSS. Whites reported higher rates of cigarette smoking and became regular smokers earlier than Hispanics. Males were twice more likely to initiate cigarette smoking and progress to regular smoking than females among Hispanics, but this gender difference among Whites was not significant. Childhood exposure to drinkers or alcoholics was …

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The Ideal Of Judicial Independence: Complications And Challenges, Edward A. Purcell Jr. Jul 2011

The Ideal Of Judicial Independence: Complications And Challenges, Edward A. Purcell Jr.

Tulsa Law Review

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An Analysis Of Consumer Behavior On Black Friday, Linda Simpson, Lisa Taylor, Kathleen O'Rourke, Katherine Shaw Jul 2011

An Analysis Of Consumer Behavior On Black Friday, Linda Simpson, Lisa Taylor, Kathleen O'Rourke, Katherine Shaw

Faculty Research & Creative Activity until 2018 (FCS)

The purpose of this study was to observe and analyze the consumer behaviors and commentary of the Black Friday customer. An observational instrument documented consumer in-line behavior while waiting for the stores to open, store entry behavior, and individual behavior. Findings show that the majority of the shoppers demonstrated calmness, courteousness, and happiness during the shopping experience; however, a number of shoppers exhibited negative and potentially dangerous behaviors which pose a safety concern for store personnel and other shoppers. Implications for retailers, researchers, and family and consumer sciences educators are discussed.

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Lost In Translation: Interpreting And Presenting Dublin’S Colonial Past, Theresa Ryan, Bernadette Quinn Jul 2011

Lost In Translation: Interpreting And Presenting Dublin’S Colonial Past, Theresa Ryan, Bernadette Quinn

Conference papers

As Alderman (2010: 90) has recently written, the potential struggle to determine what conception of the past will prevail constitutes the politics of memory. This paper aims to investigate the politics of memory at play in determining how Dublin’s colonial heritage is constructed and represented to tourists. Dublin’s profile as a tourism destination has grown recently. It attracted 5.4 million visitors in 2009 (Fáilte Ireland 2010). Culture and heritage underpin both its touristic appeal and the city’s official efforts to represent itself as a destination. Much of Dublin’s most iconic built heritage is strongly associated with its development as a …

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Urbanization And Daughter-Biased Parental Investment In Fiji, Dawn B. Neill Jul 2011

Urbanization And Daughter-Biased Parental Investment In Fiji, Dawn B. Neill

Social Sciences

Parental investment decisions guide parental actions regarding children’s productive work and are shaped by ecological context. Urban ecology enhances long-term payoffs to investment in human capital, increasing opportunity costs for work performed by children, and decreased workload should result. Using an embodied capital framework, self-reported data on urban and rural Indo-Fijian children’s work activities are compared. Results show higher workloads for older children, rural children, and girls. High scholastic achievement is associated with lower workloads for girls, but not boys. This pattern is interpreted as daughter-biased investment in the context of urbanization.

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Hall, Ann C. And Bishop, Mardia J. (Editors): Mommy Angst: Motherhood In American Popular Culture., Carol Shelton Jul 2011

Hall, Ann C. And Bishop, Mardia J. (Editors): Mommy Angst: Motherhood In American Popular Culture., Carol Shelton

Journal of Interdisciplinary Feminist Thought

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Ua41 University College Connection, Dennis K. George, Dean, Wendi Kelley Jul 2011

Ua41 University College Connection, Dennis K. George, Dean, Wendi Kelley

UC Publications

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Race, Gender, And Research: Implications For Teaching From Depictions Of Professors In Popular Film, 1985-2005, Mari Dagaz, Brent D. Harger Jul 2011

Race, Gender, And Research: Implications For Teaching From Depictions Of Professors In Popular Film, 1985-2005, Mari Dagaz, Brent D. Harger

Sociology Faculty Publications

When students enter college classrooms for the first time they inevitably have preconceived images of professors. According to research on student evaluations of teaching, these preconceptions have important implications in college classrooms. This study explores one avenue through which these preconceptions are perpetuated – popular film. Using content analysis we examine popular films released between 1985 and 2005 that contain professors in either primary or secondary roles. Our findings show stereotypical depictions beyond glasses, bow ties, and tweed jackets. Specifically, we find stereotypical images of race and gender as well as an emphasis on the importance of research, sometimes at …

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Migratory Bird Hunting Activity And Harvest During The 2009 And 2010 Hunting Seasons, Robert V. Raftovich, Khristi Wilkins, Sheri S. Williams, Howard L. Spriggs, Kenneth D. Richkus Jul 2011

Migratory Bird Hunting Activity And Harvest During The 2009 And 2010 Hunting Seasons, Robert V. Raftovich, Khristi Wilkins, Sheri S. Williams, Howard L. Spriggs, Kenneth D. Richkus

United States Fish and Wildlife Service: Publications

National surveys of migratory bird hunters were conducted during the 2009 and 2010 hunting seasons. Hunters of the following types of migratory birds were surveyed: waterfowl (family Anatidae), doves (mourning [Zenaida macroura] and white-winged [Z. asiatica]), bandtailed pigeon (Patagioenas fasciata), American woodcock (Scolopax minor), Wilson’s snipe (Gallinago delicata), American coot (Fulica americana), gallinules (Common moorhen [Gallinula chloropus] and purple gallinule [Porzana carolina]), and rails (king rail [Rallus elegans], clapper rail [R. longirostris], Virginia rail [R. limicola], and …

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The Impact Of Incarceration On Families: A Summary Of The Literature, Kolina J. Delgado Jul 2011

The Impact Of Incarceration On Families: A Summary Of The Literature, Kolina J. Delgado

Psychology Student Publications

Since the mid-1970s, the United States (U.S.) has seen a continuous rise in the rates of incarceration. Prior to the 1970s, the rate of incarceration had remained relatively steady at an average of 110 inmates per 100,000 residents for over half a century (Tonry, 2001). Between 1980 and 2000, the U.S. incarceration rates have increased by a minimum of 35,000 each year, with the average year bringing in between 55,000 and 75,000 new inmates (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2003). Contrasting the U.S. rates with those of other countries clearly demonstrates that the U.S. is a major outlier among its peers …

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Honorslink, Issue 2011.2, University Of Dayton. Honors Program Jul 2011

Honorslink, Issue 2011.2, University Of Dayton. Honors Program

HonorsLINK Newsletter

News and notes from the University of Dayton Honors Program. This issue is on scholarship and creativity.

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You've Gotta Read This: Summer Reading At Musselman Library (2011), Musselman Library Jul 2011

You've Gotta Read This: Summer Reading At Musselman Library (2011), 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!

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Ghost Dancing And The Iron Horse: Surving Through Tradition And Technology, Alex K. Ruuska Jul 2011

Ghost Dancing And The Iron Horse: Surving Through Tradition And Technology, Alex K. Ruuska

Publication

This article explores how railroad technologies, so critical in constructing the imagined nation of the nineteenth-century United States, were simultaneously shaped by multiple social groups including the native communities of North America. This analysis demonstrates how Native Americans’ resistance to and use of railroad technologies contributed to the revitalization and construction of ritual practices and pan-Indian identities associated with the 1890s Ghost Dance. Using case studies of the Northern Paiutes of western Nevada and the Sioux nations of South Dakota, Native Americans’ utilization of railroad technologies are examined during two periods of encroachment, revealing shifting attitudes and practices towards Euroamerican …

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Kcumb Communicator, Summer 2011: The Other Side Of The Tracks, Kansas City University Of Medicine And Biosciences Jul 2011

Kcumb Communicator, Summer 2011: The Other Side Of The Tracks, Kansas City University Of Medicine And Biosciences

Communicator (1991-2012)

Contents: From the President -- The Other Side of the Tracks -- Research Sheds New Light on Exercising While Pregnant -- Overcoming Obstacles -- Reflections of the Class of 2011 -- D'Angelo Library and Student Activities Center -- Campus News -- Alumni News -- Class Notes -- Passages -- Last Look.

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Book Review: No Stones: Women Redeemed From Sexual Addiction By Marnie C. Ferree (Intervarsity, 2010), Margaret English De Alminana Jul 2011

Book Review: No Stones: Women Redeemed From Sexual Addiction By Marnie C. Ferree (Intervarsity, 2010), Margaret English De Alminana

Selected Faculty Publications

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No. 24: South Africa's Two Diasporas: Engagement And Disengagement, Jonathan Crush Jul 2011

No. 24: South Africa's Two Diasporas: Engagement And Disengagement, Jonathan Crush

Southern African Migration Programme

The African diaspora is increasingly viewed as a key to realizing the development potential of international migration. At the same time, there remains considerable confusion about who exactly constitutes the diaspora and which groups should be targeted for “diaspora engagement.” For some, the diaspora consists of all migrants of African birth living outside Africa. The African Union’s definition of the African diaspora, for example, “comprises people of African origin living outside the continent, irrespective of their citizenship and nationality.” The World Bank goes a step further to distinguish between an involuntary and a voluntary, a historical and a contemporary, component …

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Science, Law, And Truth: Defining The Scope Of The Daubert Triology, Megan Dillhoff Jul 2011

Science, Law, And Truth: Defining The Scope Of The Daubert Triology, Megan Dillhoff

Notre Dame Law Review

The article offers on the Daubert trilogy. It states that the Daubert trilogy came into existence in 1990s which includes three cases dealing with admissibility of scientific evidence. It also informs that it does not apply all court cases related to the science and law as well as it does not help judges every time for ma king determinations that involve scientific topics.

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Rasch Analysis Of Repeated Measures, Trudy Mallinson Jul 2011

Rasch Analysis Of Repeated Measures, Trudy Mallinson

Health, Human Function, and Rehabilitation Sciences Faculty Publications

Repeated measures are common in rehabilitation studies where patients are scored on assessments at both admission and discharge. Yet repeated measures produce dependencies among responses. This paper presents an alternative approach that avoid dependencies in the data.

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How Transnational Advocacy Networks Mobilize: Applying The Literature On Interest Groups To International Action, Christina Kiel Jul 2011

How Transnational Advocacy Networks Mobilize: Applying The Literature On Interest Groups To International Action, Christina Kiel

Josef Korbel Journal of Advanced International Studies

Transnational advocacy networks (TANs) receive increasing attention in international relations, but little has been written so far about the initial formation of networks and the ways concerned organizations or individuals build a transnational coalition. Difficulties of group mobilization pose a particular puzzle: Why do actors in one country organize around an issue in another country, especially when the resolution of the issue apparently benefits only local actors? When do national/international groups become active and how do local actors facilitate their mobilization? In this paper I argue that in order to get support from international organizations, local groups acting as entrepreneurs …

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Code Switching And Social Prestige: Code Switching Among Iranian University Learners, S. Sadighian, Ali Rahimi Jul 2011

Code Switching And Social Prestige: Code Switching Among Iranian University Learners, S. Sadighian, Ali Rahimi

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

“Two or more phonemic systems may coexist in the speech of a monolingual.” This was what initially called “switching code” by Fries and Pike (1949). People change codes or use words other than their native ones while speaking in their native language. Codes are thus defined as a verbal component that can be as small as a morpheme or as comprehensive and complex as the entire system of language. (Ayemoni, 2006) code-switching is related to and indicative of group membership in particular types of bilingual speech communities, such that the regularities of the alternating use of two or more languages …

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Management And Leadership In The Health Services, Debbie Garvey Jul 2011

Management And Leadership In The Health Services, Debbie Garvey

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

Organisations require leadership and successful management if they are to succeed. Traditionally leaders have been romanticised in the literature within the health care industry. This paper will examine the concept of leadership is a romanticised position, and examine the differences between management and leadership. Clinical leadership will be explored along with perspectives of leadership perspectives from medical, nursing and allied health. The paper will conclude with a discussion of the move from dominant medical management of patient care to multidisciplinary team management in the context of how these views interact with the overall performance of a group, service or organisation.

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Pilgrim’S Progress: Lessons In Shared Governance, Stephen L. Hansen, E. Duff Wrobbel, Julie D. Hopwood, Paul W. Ferguson Jul 2011

Pilgrim’S Progress: Lessons In Shared Governance, Stephen L. Hansen, E. Duff Wrobbel, Julie D. Hopwood, Paul W. Ferguson

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

In the Spring of 2006, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) initiated a conversation to define a “Teacher-Scholar” Philosophy appropriate for the campus. In an experience similar to John Bunyan’s protagonist, Christian, in the classic 1678 allegory Pilgrim’s Progress, the SIUE faculty and administrators set off on a 21st century journey of discovery.[2] Our journey, however, was toward shared governance, rather than down the path to salvation. Like Bunyan’s Christian, we traveled metaphorically through the Town of Vanity, the Valley of Humiliation, the Slough of Despond, the Hill of Difficulty, and the Castle of Doubt. Unlike Christian, however, our journey of …

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The Concept Of Educational Leadership: Exploring Macro-Level Facets, Chetan Sinha Jul 2011

The Concept Of Educational Leadership: Exploring Macro-Level Facets, Chetan Sinha

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

At the dawn of the twenty first century, there is anticipation for better educational reforms both at the structural and functional level. Heck and Hallinger (2005) have observed that although various disciplinary and interdisciplinary movements, in their attempt to understand the history of educational leadership, have critically approached the issue; at a practical level all efforts still reside in the same individualistic resort. Authors have cited ample research dictating the processes of leadership in organizations both at individual and collective level (Bass, 1990; Knipe & Maclay, 1972; Heine, 1971; Hogg, 2001; Sinha, 1980; Yukl, 1998, 2002) however, in the arena …

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Keynote: The Crisis And Criminal Justice, Bernard E. Harcourt Jul 2011

Keynote: The Crisis And Criminal Justice, Bernard E. Harcourt

Articles

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Granite State College 2011-2012 Catalog, Granite State College Jul 2011

Granite State College 2011-2012 Catalog, Granite State College

Granite State College Catalogs

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Book Review Of: Development Policy Sans The Politics Of Development: A Review Of S.N.H Naqvi: The Evolution Of Development Policy, Javed A. Ansari Jul 2011

Book Review Of: Development Policy Sans The Politics Of Development: A Review Of S.N.H Naqvi: The Evolution Of Development Policy, Javed A. Ansari

Business Review

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The Socio-Demographic Progression Of The Pakistani Woman Manager 1988 To 2004: An Empirical Evidence From The Private Sector, Shehla Riza Arifeen Jul 2011

The Socio-Demographic Progression Of The Pakistani Woman Manager 1988 To 2004: An Empirical Evidence From The Private Sector, Shehla Riza Arifeen

Business Review

The purpose of this study was to help identify the types of women who had opted for managerial professions in the private sector, and to identify any trends in the social, economic, or educational backgrounds that might have had a bearing on the types of women likely to pursue a managerial career. Research for the survey included 152 organizations in the private sector that had employed graduates from business educational institutions. Out of these 87 organizations reported women at managerial levels. 207 managerial women answered the mail survey. The findings suggest that the profession still remains the domain of upper-middle-class …

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Wooster Magazine: Summer 2011, Karol Crosbie Jul 2011

Wooster Magazine: Summer 2011, Karol Crosbie

Wooster Magazine: 2011-2020

This edition of the Wooster Magazine was published in the summer of 2011. The magazine begins with an article by editor Karol Crosbie about IS celebrations--IS Monday and IS Symposium. Sara Patton '67 has retired this summer from her position as the vice president for development. Twelve student's Independent Studies are featured with the overarching theme of popular culture. Four alumni are highlighted for their farming practices: David Cleverdon '63, Susan Ordway Hurd '72, Sharon Mortimer Roeder '93, and Mike Eisenstat '70. The magazine concludes with an excerpt from L Gordon Tait's new manuscript titled Personal Reflections on the History …

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Bryant 360, July 2011, Bryant University, Office Of Admissions Jul 2011

Bryant 360, July 2011, Bryant University, Office Of Admissions

Bryant 360

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Volume 18, No. 2 (Summer 2011), Office Of University Advancement, Bryant University Jul 2011

Volume 18, No. 2 (Summer 2011), Office Of University Advancement, Bryant University

Bryant Magazine (1997-2019)(2024-present)

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