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Appropriations Meeting Minutes 06/06/2011, University Of South Florida. Student Government Senate

Legislative Branch Publications

Student Government Senate Committee on Appropriations Meeting Minutes for June 6, 2011

Mustang Daily, June 6, 2011

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

The Impact Of Depression And Health On Sexual Satisfaction For Older Couples, Victoria Celeste Scott

Theses and Dissertations

This study of 535 older married couples examined the relationship between depression and health and sexual satisfaction directly and when mediated by communication. The sample included 535 older couples who completed a survey questionnaire known as Project Couple Retire. Among the items in the questionnaire were measures of depression, health, perception of sexual intimacy, communication and other demographic information. Results from Structural Equation Modeling indicated that for women, health was a significant predictor of sexual satisfaction. For both genders, the results suggest that depression, when mediated by communication, is a predictor of sexual satisfaction among older couples.

Direct Effects Of Assets And Savings On The College Progress Of Black Young Adults, William Elliott Iii, Ilsung Nam

Center for Social Development Research

Direct Effects of Assets and Savings on the College Progress of Black Young Adults

Munro Book Awarded Caldwell Prize, Rachel Hatch

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

Reducing The College Progress Gap Between Low- To Moderate-Income (Lmi) And High-Income (Hi) Young Adults: Assets As An Understudied Form Of Economic Capital, William Elliott Iii, Monique Constance-Huggins, Hyun-A Song

Center for Social Development Research

Reducing the College Progress Gap Between Low- to Moderate-Income (LMI) and High-Income (HI) Young Adults: Assets as an Understudied Form of Economic Capital

The Age Old Question, Which Comes First? A Simultaneous Test Of Children's Savings And Children's College-Bound Identity, William Elliott Iii, Eun Hee Choi, Mesmin Destin, Kevin Kim

Center for Social Development Research

The Age Old Question, Which Comes First? a Simultaneous Test of Children's Savings and Children's College-Bound Identity

Commencement Program: 2011 , Governors State University

Commencement Documents and Videos

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Minutes - June 3, 2011, Usm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

Reconsidering The Benefits Of Minority Cohesion: The Difference Between Relative And Absolute Cohesion In The U.S. House Of Representatives, Bryce J. Dietrich

2011

Cohesion has long been a topic of interest for those studying minorities in the U.S. Congress. Generally, it is thought that cohesion gives minorities an advantage in legislative bargaining, which ultimately helps them influence the legislative process. However, this only assumes absolute not relative cohesion. When minorities work more with each other they are less able to work with those outside their group. This makes legislative influence more difficult for minorities. By examining sponsorship-cosponsorship networks from the 97th-103rd Congresses, I show that cohesion actually hurts the ability of minorities to influence the legislative process. This affect is felt differently for …

Integrating Ethics And Epistemology: A Normative Framework For The Inclusion Of Indigenous Communities In Technical Decision-Making, Kyle Powys Whyte

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

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Language In The Name Of National Security: The Transformation Of Arabic Language Instruction In U.S. Institutions Of Higher Education, Evelyn Daugherty

Sociology Honors Projects

Government designation of Arabic as a “strategic language” following WWII transformed Arabic language instruction in U.S. institutions of higher education. Funding from the government created a shift away from teaching students to read and translate classical Arabic for academic purposes and toward teaching modern varieties of the language for communication.  I employ a three-pronged institutional analysis that takes into account the role of government, the role of professional associations, and the role of individual instructors in the redefinition of norms governing Arabic language instruction during the past seventy years. I find that coercive pressure stemming from government interest affected Arabic …

From Construction To Conceptualization: Catastrophe Across Three Occasions, John Barnshaw, Lynn Letukas

ACURIL 2011: The Role of Libraries and Archives in Disaster Preparedness, Response and Research

This paper explores the process of developing and refining the conceptualization of catastrophe utilizing the extant literature collected following the Chernobyl nuclear reactor leak, the Indian Ocean tsunami, and the BP oil spill. A catastrophe is different from a disaster in that most or all of a community or area is impacted, many local individuals are unable to undertake their usual roles, the community undergoes a period of prolonged inoperability, media plays an increasing role in the construction of the public perception of the occasion, and the political arena shifts from a local or regional issue to a national or …

Macalester Board Elects Three New Trustees, Macalester College

College Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Daily Eastern News: June 02, 2011, Eastern Illinois University

June

No abstract provided.

Buying Racial Capital: Skin-Bleaching And Cosmetic Surgery In A Globalized World, Margaret Hunter

Sociology

The merging of new technologies with old colonial ideologies has created a context where consumers can purchase "racial capital" through skin-bleaching creams or cosmetic surgeries. The use of skin-bleaching creams is on the rise throughout Africa and the African Diaspora and cosmetic surgery has increased dramatically among people of color in wealthy countries. Public discourse, however, is fraught with tension over these manipulations of the body. This paper examines three competing discourses: 1) the beauty discourse, based on the mass-marketing of cosmetic whitening products, 2) the public health discourse, designed to dissuade potential skin-bleachers by exposing health risks and 3) …

Community Leader, Vol. 09, No. 03, University Of Dayton. Fitz Center For Leadership In Community

Newsletter: Community Leader

News and notes from the University of Dayton Fitz Center for Leadership in Community.

Earnings Volatility In America: Evidence From Matched Cps, James P. Ziliak, Bradley Hardy, Christopher Bollinger

University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Discussion Paper Series

We offer new evidence on earnings volatility of men and women in the United States over the past four decades by using matched data from the March Current Population Survey. We construct a measure of total volatility that encompasses both permanent and transitory instability, and that admits employment transitions and losses from self employment. We also present a detailed decomposition of earnings volatility to account for changing shares in employment probabilities, conditional variances of continuous workers, and conditional mean variances from labor-force entry and exit. Our results show that earnings volatility among men increased by 15 percent from the early …

Integral Review Vol 7, No 1, June 2011 Full Issue, Bahman Shirazi

Founders Symposium

Special Issue of Integral Review on Integral Education

Issue Editor: Bahman A.K. Shirazi, PhD

The essays appearing in this special issue of Integral Review are selections from the proceedings of the 2010 California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) Founders Symposium on Integral Consciousness. This annual symposium provides a forum for CIIS community members and friends to exchange and deepen their understanding of integral consciousness, its evolution, and its relationship to the current planetary challenges and transformational processes. Each year the Symposium covers one or two major themes, as well as several other themes pertinent to the integral world view and …

Class Of 2011 Joins Alumni Ranks, Merrimack College

Merrimack Magazine

No abstract provided.

Go! Green Outreach, Summer 2011, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Division Of University Advancement

Go! Green Outreach

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

Primetimes Newsletter, Summer 2011, Office Of Lifespan Studies

PrimeTimes Newsletter

PrimeTimes is the newsletter of the Office of Lifespan Studies in the College of Science at Coastal Carolina University.

Scholarworks Statistics - June 2011, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

For the month of June 2011, ScholarWorks recorded a total of 11,100 full-text downloads and 10,424 page views.

Organizational Chart, Academic Affairs, Office Of The Provost

Office of the Provost

No abstract provided.

A Multilevel Model Of Multimarket Contact: Competence Depletion And Punctuated Forbearance Hypotheses, Thomas E. Will

Organization Management Journal

Multimarket contact (MMC) research establishes a positive relationship between MMC and firm-in-market level prices and margins, supporting the mutual forbearance hypothesis that firms confronting one another in multiple markets tacitly collude. This article proposes that the MMC dynamics generating short-term firm-in-market level advantages paradoxically undermine firm-level performance over the long term. Examining recursive relationships traversing levels of analysis, I integrate a distinctive competencies perspective with the prevailing positional advantage perspective on MMC. At the firm level, I contend that MMC undermines competence development. At the population level, I propose that MMC attenuates the concentration stability upon which forbearance rests, such …

Organizational Behavior And Work: A Critical Introduction Fiona M. Wilson Oxford University Press, Oxford, 3rd Edn, 2010, 390pp., Paperback, Sambhavi Lakshminarayanan

Organization Management Journal

No abstract provided.

A Tale Of Two Cities? The Heterogeneous Impact Of Medicaid Managed Care In Kentucky, James Marton, Aaron Yelowitz, Jeffery C. Talbert

University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Discussion Paper Series

Does managed care produce lower health care utilization and costs through better aligned financial incentives and alternative delivery methods (the “pure” HMO effect) or by attracting more healthy enrollees (enrollee selection)? The purpose of this paper is to shed new light on this fundamental question using a quasi-experimental approach that exploits the timing and county specific implementation of Medicaid managed care plans in two distinct sub-sets of Kentucky counties in the late 1990s. We find large differences in the relative success of each region in reducing utilization that are likely driven by important differences in plan design. Asthmatic children enrolled …

June 1, 2011: When You Get To A Certain Age, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “When You Get to a Certain Age“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

Man, The State, And Revolution, Nicholas Bowen

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Despite the progress that has been made in revolutionary theorising over the past few years, most theorists of social change continue to neglect the influence of opposition leaders upon the revolutionary process. One of the few exceptions in this regard is Max Weber. In his analysis of legitimate authority, Weber asserts that the charismatic form of authority rests on popular devotion to the normative order ordained by a specific person at a time of crisis.

Though his work offers some important insights into the revolutionary process, Weber fails to take into account the conditions that give rise to such forms …

Media, Politics And The Portrayal Of "Climate-Gate" By Cnn And Fox News, Jennifer Renee Hill

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Mere days before the Copenhagen Climate Summit, the main server of the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia was illegally hacked and over 3,000 documents were downloaded and released onto climate change blogs with excerpts of emails exchanged between climate change scientists that discussed manipulation of data, faulty observation techniques, and their frustration over their inability to provide solid proof that global warming was occurring. The release of these emails set off a firestorm of debate and the incident was quickly coined ―Climate-gate.

This study examines the ensuing media coverage by CNN and Fox News and seeks …