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Power And Practice In Academic Library Materials Selection Paradigms, Elena S. Smith Dec 2011

Power And Practice In Academic Library Materials Selection Paradigms, Elena S. Smith

School of Information Student Research Journal

This article examines the theoretical and practical implications of three methods of materials acquisitions in an academic library. First, it evaluates how traditional collection development, electronic patron driven acquisitions (PDA) and other older forms of PDA affect materials storage, preservation, purchase speed and usage. Then this paper employs Foucault’s theories about power to discuss the ramifications of these acquisitions methods for librarians and three major user groups: faculty, graduate students and undergraduates. The article concludes that each method presents different practical and theoretical advantages and disadvantages.

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A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words: The Perplexing Problem Of Indexing Images, Lindsay L. Marlow, Amy Miller Dec 2011

A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words: The Perplexing Problem Of Indexing Images, Lindsay L. Marlow, Amy Miller

School of Information Student Research Journal

Indexing images has always been problematic due to their richness of content and innate subjectivity. Three traditional approaches to indexing images are described and analyzed. An introduction of the contemporary use of social tagging is presented along with its limitations. Traditional practices can continue to be used as a stand-alone solution, however deficiencies limit retrieval. A collaborative technique is supported by current research and a model created by the authors for its inception is explored. CONTENTdm® is used as an example to illustrate tools that can help facilitate this process. Another potential solution discussed is the expansion of algorithms used …

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Health Literacy: An Overview Of An Emerging Field, Mary Grace Flaherty Dec 2011

Health Literacy: An Overview Of An Emerging Field, Mary Grace Flaherty

School of Information Student Research Journal

According to the National Adult Literacy Survey, nearly 90 million American adults test below a high school level for literacy skills (Kirsch, Jungeblut, Jenkins & Kolstad, 1993).Because most health materials are written at least at the high school level, this finding has major implications in terms of health care provision in this country (Helitzer, Hollis, Cotner & Oestreicher, 2009). This paper attempts to give an overview of the field of health literacy and includes: a brief background with current definitions; a description of screening and measurement tools; a discussion of aspects of limited literacy; the implications for quality health care; …

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#Socialtagging: Defining Its Role In The Academic Library, Annalise Ammer, Katherine Bertel Dec 2011

#Socialtagging: Defining Its Role In The Academic Library, Annalise Ammer, Katherine Bertel

School of Information Student Research Journal

The information environment is rapidly changing, affecting the ways in which information is organized and accessed. User needs and expectations have also changed due to the overwhelming influence of Web 2.0 tools. Conventional information systems no longer support evolving user needs. Based on current research, we explore a method that integrates the structure of controlled languages with the flexibility and adaptability of social tagging. This article discusses the current research and usage of social tagging and Web 2.0 applications within the academic library. Types of tags, the semiotics of tagging and its influence on indexing are covered.

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Beyond The Walled Garden: Lis Students In An Era Of Participatory Culture, Michael Stephens Dec 2011

Beyond The Walled Garden: Lis Students In An Era Of Participatory Culture, Michael Stephens

School of Information Student Research Journal

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Participating In The Conversation, Maria Otero-Boisvert Dec 2011

Participating In The Conversation, Maria Otero-Boisvert

School of Information Student Research Journal

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Journal of Family Strengths

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Perceived Support, Belonging, And Possible Selves Strategies Among Incarcerated Juvenile Offenders, Samantha S. Clinkinbeard, Colleen I. Murray Dec 2011

Perceived Support, Belonging, And Possible Selves Strategies Among Incarcerated Juvenile Offenders, Samantha S. Clinkinbeard, Colleen I. Murray

Criminology and Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

Possible selves theory (Markus & Nurius, 1986) suggests that future-oriented expectations, fears, and strategies are constrained by feedback in one's sociocultural context. The current paper represents a preliminary look into the relationship between support in one's immediate context and the development of strategies for the achievement of desired future selves. Youthful offenders (N = 543) were surveyed in secured treatment facilities in Alaska, Idaho, Nevada, and Oregon. Program belonging was a consistent predictor of strategy generation among both males and females, and attributional support from a staff person was significant among males. The findings support further examination …

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Political Competition, Relative Deprivation, And Perceived Threat: A Research Note On Anti- Christian Violence In India, Chad Bauman, Tamara Leech Dec 2011

Political Competition, Relative Deprivation, And Perceived Threat: A Research Note On Anti- Christian Violence In India, Chad Bauman, Tamara Leech

Department of Public Health Scholarship and Creative Works

A preliminary subnational statistical analysis of violence against Christians in contemporary India, this article suggests that whereas the data provide very little support for simple, demographic explanations of this violence, they do more robustly support theories emphasizing the relative status of ethnic and religious minorities (vis-à-vis majorities) and the perception, among Hindus, that Christians (and other minorities) represent a threat to their numerical, political and economic strength.

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Robust Estimates Of Exporter Productivity Premia In German Business Services Enterprises, Alexander Vogel, Joachim Wagner Dec 2011

Robust Estimates Of Exporter Productivity Premia In German Business Services Enterprises, Alexander Vogel, Joachim Wagner

Economic and Business Review

A large and growing number of micro-econometric studies show that exporting firms are more productive than firms that sell their products on the home market only. This so-called exporter productivity premium qualifies as a stylized fact. Only recently researchers started to look at the role of extreme observations, or outliers, in shaping these findings. These studies use micro-econometric methods that are robust against outliers to show that very small shares of firms with extreme values drive the result. The large exporter productivity premium found for samples of firms including outliers are dramatically smaller in samples without these extreme observations. Evidence …

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Productivity Measurement For International Firms, Anže Burger, Črt Kostevc, Sašo Polanec Dec 2011

Productivity Measurement For International Firms, Anže Burger, Črt Kostevc, Sašo Polanec

Economic and Business Review

This paper extends recent work by Martin (2005) on estimation of total factor productivity by allowing heterogeneity of markets in terms of competitive pressure. We show that conventional methods of total factor productivity estimation yield biased measures of TFP when firms charge market-specific prices. Specifically, if, as widely believed, exporting price-cost markups are, on average, lower than domestic markups, then traditional total factor productivity measures will substantially underestimate exporter productivity and overestimate the productivity of non-exporters. Crucially, our results provide some possible clues on why empirical studies failed to find conclusive evidence on the learning-by-exporting hypothesis.

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Financial Integration And Financial Development In Transition Economies: What Happens During Financial Crises?, Arjana Brezigar-Masten, Fabrizio Coricelli, Igor Masten Dec 2011

Financial Integration And Financial Development In Transition Economies: What Happens During Financial Crises?, Arjana Brezigar-Masten, Fabrizio Coricelli, Igor Masten

Economic and Business Review

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the role of financial development and financial integration in the growth dynamics of transition countries. We focus on the role of financial integration in determining the impact of financial development on growth, distinguishing “normal times” from periods of financial crises. In addition to confirming the significant positive effect on growth exerted by financial development and financial integration, our estimates show that a higher degree of financial openness tends to reduce the contractionary effect of financial crises, by cushioning the effect on the domestic supply of credit. Consequently, the high reliance on international capital …

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The Zfx Gene Is Expressed In Human Gliomas And Is Important In The Proliferation And Apoptosis Of The Human Malignant Glioma Cell Line U251, Youxin Zhou, Zuopeng Su, Yulun Huang, Ting Sun, Sansong Chen, Tingfeng Wu, Guilin Chen, Xueshun Xie, Bin Li, Ziwei Du Dec 2011

The Zfx Gene Is Expressed In Human Gliomas And Is Important In The Proliferation And Apoptosis Of The Human Malignant Glioma Cell Line U251, Youxin Zhou, Zuopeng Su, Yulun Huang, Ting Sun, Sansong Chen, Tingfeng Wu, Guilin Chen, Xueshun Xie, Bin Li, Ziwei Du

Faculty Publications

Background: Zfx is a zinc finger protein of the Zfy family, whose members are highly conserved in vertebrates. Zfx is a shared transcriptional regulator of both embryonic stem cells (ESC) and hematopoietic stem cells (HSC), which suggests a common genetic basis of self-renewal in embryonic and adult stem cells. The level of Zfx expression correlates with aggressiveness and severity in many cancer types, including prostate cancer, breast cancer, and leukemia. However, the importance of Zfx in human glioma is largely unknown. In the present study, we examined the role of Zfx in human glioma. Methods. We detected expression levels of …

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Pleading For A Bargain: The Upcoming Debate Over Competing Standards Of Prejudice In Missouri V. Frye, Ian Hampton Dec 2011

Pleading For A Bargain: The Upcoming Debate Over Competing Standards Of Prejudice In Missouri V. Frye, Ian Hampton

Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy Sidebar

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Newsroom: Coombs Defends Accused 'Wikileaker', Roger Williams University School Of Law Dec 2011

Newsroom: Coombs Defends Accused 'Wikileaker', Roger Williams University School Of Law

Life of the Law School (1993- )

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The Value Of Foreign Ownership, John Romalis Dec 2011

The Value Of Foreign Ownership, John Romalis

Economic and Business Review

We use firm level data on cross-border mergers and acquisitions and share prices to explore the extent to which foreign ownership increases the profitability of firms in emerging markets. We find that cross-border ac¬quisitions add value to target firms. However, there is only weak evidence that such acquisitions add more value than purely domestic acquisitions. Further, most of this latter effect occurs when the target firm’s country is in a crisis.

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Interstaple Dithiol Cross-Linking In Au 25(Sr) 18 Nanomolecules: A Combined Mass Spectrometric And Computational Study, Vijay Reddy Jupally, Rajesh Kota, Eric Van Dornshuld, Daniell L. Mattern, Gregory S. Tschumper, De En Jiang, Amala Dass Dec 2011

Interstaple Dithiol Cross-Linking In Au 25(Sr) 18 Nanomolecules: A Combined Mass Spectrometric And Computational Study, Vijay Reddy Jupally, Rajesh Kota, Eric Van Dornshuld, Daniell L. Mattern, Gregory S. Tschumper, De En Jiang, Amala Dass

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

A systematic study of cross-linking chemistry of the Au 25(SR) 18 nanomolecule by dithiols of varying chain length, HS-(CH2)n-SH where n = 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, is presented here. Monothiolated Au25 has six [RSAuSRAuSR] staple motifs on its surface, and MALDI mass spectrometry data of the ligand exchanged clusters show that propane (C3) and butane (C4) dithiols have ideal chain lengths for interstaple cross-linking and that up to six C3 or C4 dithiols can be facilely exchanged onto the cluster surface. Propanedithiol predominately exchanges with two monothiols at a time, making cross-linking bridges, …

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Scholarly Inbreeding In Latin American Academically Managed Journals, Erwin Krauskopf Dec 2011

Scholarly Inbreeding In Latin American Academically Managed Journals, Erwin Krauskopf

Higher Learning Research Communications

From a bibliometric perspective, scholarly inbreeding has been identified in journals through the excessive use of both author and journal self-citations. However, editorial bias toward researchers from the same institution as the editorial management team has seldom been considered. According to the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology, this occurs when a journal publishes more than 20% of documents authored by researchers affiliated with the same institution as the editorial management team. The purpose of this study is to establish the extent to which 81 Latin American journals managed by universities publish intramural documents (defined as those published by its …

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Critical And Phase-Equilibrium Properties Of An Ab Initio Based Potential Model Of Methanol And 1-Propanol Using Two-Phase Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Sonal Patel, W. Vincent Wilding, Richard L. Rowley Dec 2011

Critical And Phase-Equilibrium Properties Of An Ab Initio Based Potential Model Of Methanol And 1-Propanol Using Two-Phase Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Sonal Patel, W. Vincent Wilding, Richard L. Rowley

Faculty Publications

Two-phase molecular dynamics simulations employing a Monte Carlo volume sampling method were performed using an ab initio based force field model parameterized to reproduce quantum-mechanical dimer energies for methanol and 1-propanol at temperatures approaching the critical temperature. The intermolecular potential models were used to obtain the binodal vapor-liquid phase dome at temperatures to within about 10 K of the critical temperature. The efficacy of two all-atom, site-site pair potential models, developed solely from the energy landscape obtained from high-level ab initio pair interactions, was tested for the first time. The first model was regressed from the ab initio landscape without …

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Dictionaries Fail: The Volcker Rule's Reliance On Definitions Renders It Ineffective And A New Solution Is Needed To Adequately Regulate Proprietary Trading, R. Rex Chatterjee Dec 2011

Dictionaries Fail: The Volcker Rule's Reliance On Definitions Renders It Ineffective And A New Solution Is Needed To Adequately Regulate Proprietary Trading, R. Rex Chatterjee

Brigham Young University International Law & Management Review

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A Search For The Transit Of Hd 168443b: Improved Orbital Parameters And Photometry, G. Pilyavsky, S. Mahadevan, S. R. Kane, A. W. Howard, D. R. Ciardi, C. De Pree, D. Dragomir, D. A. Fischer, G. W. Henry, Eric L.N. Jensen, G. Laughlin, H. Marlowe, M. Rabus, K. Von Braun, J. T. Wright, X. X. Wang Dec 2011

A Search For The Transit Of Hd 168443b: Improved Orbital Parameters And Photometry, G. Pilyavsky, S. Mahadevan, S. R. Kane, A. W. Howard, D. R. Ciardi, C. De Pree, D. Dragomir, D. A. Fischer, G. W. Henry, Eric L.N. Jensen, G. Laughlin, H. Marlowe, M. Rabus, K. Von Braun, J. T. Wright, X. X. Wang

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Works

The discovery of transiting planets around bright stars holds the potential to greatly enhance our understanding of planetary atmospheres. In this work we present the search for transits of HD 168443b, a massive planet orbiting the bright star HD 168443 (V = 6.92) with a period of 58.11 days. The high eccentricity of the planetary orbit (e = 0.53) significantly enhances the a priori transit probability beyond that expected for a circular orbit, making HD168443 a candidate for our ongoing Transit Ephemeris Refinement and Monitoring Survey. Using additional radial velocities from Keck High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer, we refined the orbital …

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Factors Influencing The Opinion Of Individuals In Determining Tumour Spread After Biopsy, Tayyaba Z. Ansari, Adnan A. Zaidi, Asra Parekh, Owais Iqbal, Nehal Masood, Ahmed Mateen, Tehseen Fatima Dec 2011

Factors Influencing The Opinion Of Individuals In Determining Tumour Spread After Biopsy, Tayyaba Z. Ansari, Adnan A. Zaidi, Asra Parekh, Owais Iqbal, Nehal Masood, Ahmed Mateen, Tehseen Fatima

Section of General Surgery

Background: People often have concerns regarding tumour spread after biopsy which leads to a delay in seeking expert medical advice. The data regarding this perception is scanty. Therefore, we conducted this cross sectional study to explore the beliefs and perceptions of individuals regarding tumour spread after biopsy and the basis of those beliefs.
Methods: The survey was conducted in outPatient areas of two different tertiary care hospitals of Karachi namely Aga Khan University Hospital Karachi (AKUH) and Karachi Institute of Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine (KIRAN). We interviewed 600 individuals and documented their responses on a questionnaire. There were 400 responders …

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Hyperspectral Data Processing In A High Performance Computing Environment: A Parallel Best Band Selection Algorithm, Stefan Robila, Gerald Busardo Dec 2011

Hyperspectral Data Processing In A High Performance Computing Environment: A Parallel Best Band Selection Algorithm, Stefan Robila, Gerald Busardo

Department of Computer Science Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Hyperspectral data are characterized by a richness of information unique among various visual representations of a scene by representing the information in a collection of grayscale images with each image corresponding to a narrow interval in the electromagnetic spectrum. Such detail allows for precise identification of materials in the scene and promises to support advances in imaging beyond the visible range. However, hyperspectral data are considerably large and cumbersome to process and efficient computing solutions based on high performance computing are needed. In this paper we first provide an overview of hyperspectral data and the current state of the art …

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Embedded Semiconductor Component, Aravinda Kar, Nat Quick Dec 2011

Embedded Semiconductor Component, Aravinda Kar, Nat Quick

UCF Patents

Patents filed by licensee. Patents connected to this disclosure were not entered into the ARGIS database therefore linking them all to this on disclosure.

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