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Exploring The Barriers And Opportunities For Building Social Support Among Burundians And Americans: Dayton, Oh, Colleen Quinlan Saxen

Master of Public Health Program Student Publications

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Women Career Advancement In Public Service: A Study In Indonesia, I. Abdul Ghani Azmi, S.H. Syed Ismail, S.A. Basir

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

There are lots of facilities provided by the Indonesian public service to the Muslim women public servant to ease the effect of working on their families such as child care, job sharing, flexible hours, longer maternity leave and working from home. On top of that, policies available that support the women are treating them with the same trust and confidence, giving them the same assignment, paying them comparable salaries as men and not to relocate them for the sake of career advancement. It is found out that the factors that contribute to their career success were experience, education, seniority, interpersonal …

Bias And Equivalence In Cross-Cultural Research, Jia He, Fons Van De Vijver

Online Readings in Psychology and Culture

Bias and equivalence are key concepts in the methodology of cross-cultural studies. Bias is a generic term for any challenge of the comparability of cross-cultural data; bias leads to invalid conclusions. The demonstration of equivalence (lack of bias) is a prerequisite for any cross-cultural comparison. we first describe considerations that are relevant when choosing instruments in a cross-cultural study, notably the question of whether an existing or new instrument is to be preferred.We then describe the definition, manifestation, and sources of three types of bias (construct, method, and item bias), and three levels of equivalence (construct, measurement unit, and full …

Review Of Harem Histories: Envisioning Places And Living Spaces Edited By Marilyn Booth, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2010., Susan Dewey

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

No abstract provided.

Communicating Ethics: Analysis Of Annual Letters To Stakeholders, Christopher Bryan

Communication & Leadership Dissertations and Theses

This research examines how executives, leaders and managers communicate their sense of ethics. Literature from various disciplines is increasingly focusing on the strong ethical tone-at-the-top and strong ethical culture to prevent organizational wrongdoing. The literature suggests that leaders face unique challenges in communicating their ethics and that the communication of ethics is inhibited by a psychological bias and the work is grounded in the cultural communication theory of Geertz and Pacanowsky and the organizational culture work of Schein. The research focuses on CEO annual letters written to stakeholders. This form of communication is a high-profile channel of communication and written …

An Analysis Of Coastal Marine Impacts Caused By Prehistoric And Historic Fishing Practices In Morro Bay, Ca, Darin Schmicking

Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

A Cross-Cultural Analysis Of Women's Sexual Health, Ariel Manu Eastburn

Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

A Life Of Water, Sherry Pogorzelski

Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

Reducing The Enviromental Impact Of Horse Keeping, Amanda R. Shere

Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

Articulating Sexuality: A Critical History Of Gay And Lesbian Anthropology, Carly Fox

Social Sciences

The purpose of this paper is to explore anthropological discourses regarding sexuality and relate them to the lived experiences of individuals. The paper is divided into two interrelated sections: historical and theoretical. Section one identifies a subfield within anthropology, gay and lesbian anthropology, most prominently represented by The Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists (SOLGA), and traces its emergence within the wider discipline of anthropology. It highlights the foundational scholars and theoretical shifts that have been crucial in defining the subfield as it is today and looks at how early anthropologists approached sexuality in general, and same- sex sexuality in …

How The West Was Settled: Teacher's Guide, Leah Sloan

Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

Commentary: Quotes And Obvservations From Furman Programs And Personalities, Furman University

Furman Magazine

No abstract provided.

Anthropology Major, Film Studies Minor Added, Furman University

Furman Magazine

No abstract provided.

Global Visitors Center Joins National Network, Furman University

Furman Magazine

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The New Crop Of Scholars, Furman University

Furman Magazine

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Vol. 35 No. 1/2 (2012): Pacific Studies Front Matter, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Brigham Young University–HawaiʻI

Pacific Studies

Front Matter for the Vol. 35, No 1/2-April-August, 2012 edition of the Pacific Studies Journal.

Fourth Annual Meeting Of The Native American And Indigenous Studies Association (Conference Program), Institute For New England Native American Studies, University Of Massachusetts Boston

Institute for New England Native American Studies Publications

The Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) is the premier organization for scholars in Native and Indigenous Studies, representing numerous indigenous peoples and their non-indigenous allies. The Institute for New England Native American Studies (INENAS) played a key role in planning 2012 conference, with Director Cedric Woods serving as co-chair of Executive Host Committee.

More Of A Receiver Than A Giver: Why Do People Unfollow In Twitter?, Haewoon Kwak, Sue Moon, Wonjae Lee

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

We propose a logistic regression model taking into ac- count two analytically different sets of factors–structure and action. The factors include individual, dyadic, and triadic properties between ego and alter whose tie breakup is under consideration. From the fitted model using a large-scale data, we discover 5 structural and 7 actional variables to have significant explanatory power for unfollow. One unique finding from our quantitative analysis is that people appreciate receiving acknowl- edgements from others even in virtually unilateral com- munication relationships and are less likely to unfollow them: people are more of a receiver than a giver.

The Immanent Body: A Thematic Study Of The Logic Of Immanence In Christology, Philosophy And Aesthetics, Francis J. Sanzaro Iii

Religion - Dissertations

This dissertation is comprised of two sections: 1) "The Immanent Body in Late Antiquity": an analysis of late ancient christology, Stoicism and philosophy; 2) "The Extended Body: Aesthetics": depictions of monastic bodies in late medieval, Renaissance and contemporary art.

I. The thesis of this dissertation can be stated as follows: the conditions under which immanence is thinkable in relation to bodies are found in conceptual personae. Contemporary philosopher Gilles Deleuze's concept of conceptual personae, developed in conjunction with French theorist Felix Guattari, helps navigate the complex relationship between bodies and ontology developed by these three ancient thinkers. In order to …

Food For Thought: Sustainability, Community-Engaged Teaching And Research, And Critical Food Literacy, Dianna Winslow

Writing Program – Dissertations

Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation. Marion Nestle's Food Politics. Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto. The films Food, Inc. and The Future of Food. Debates over the industrialized food and farming system currently circulating in nonfiction books, documentaries, and public forums have immediacy for college students--and for anyone who eats. Food for Thought: Sustainability, Community-Engaged Teaching and Critical Food Literacy argues that fostering the development of critical food literacy is necessary for college students to have a voice in current and future public conversations on food politics and environmental sustainability, and the social …

Real Remedies For Virtual Injuries, Anita Bernstein

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Engineering South Of The Border: A Librarian’S Experience In Nicaragua, Debbie Morrow

Presentations

I will spend the first half of May’12 in Estelí, Nicaragua, as a volunteer member of a project to teach product innovation and development skills to students and faculty of the Nicaraguan national university system. The two leaders, Engineering and Business faculty members from GVSU, require no special expertise or language skills for volunteers, but are excited at the prospect of having a library professional among the support group in this year’s seventh annual iteration of the program. I look forward to sharing what I learn about engineering and academics in a culture eager to develop.

Illuminations, Summer Issue, June 2012, Ucf Libraries

Libraries' Newsletters

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Sexual Misconduct And International Aid Workers: An Afghanistan Case Study, Jennifer Fluri

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

This paper seeks to add to existing study of gender and conflict by examining the complexities of interactions between international workers and local populations in spaces mired in war or post-war conflicts. Feminist scholarship on gender, war, and political violence/security provides the theoretical and empirically informed framework for this examination. I argue that in order to discuss Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA), it is necessary to first consider context with respect to location, gender, belief, and praxis. "Universal" conceptions of sexual conduct, misconduct, and SEA may be in opposition to acceptable practices within a particular site and situation. This includes …

Refugees, Sexual Violence, And Armed Conflict: The Nuances Between Victims And Agents, Erin Rider

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

The examination of forced migration of political refugees from sexual violence in armed conflict offers a unique vantage point for exploring the relationship between structure and agency. While it is significant to acknowledge the lack of autonomy accessible to political refugees, simultaneously, it is problematic to assume that their actions do not qualify as agency. I argue that it is possible on one hand to address the lack of agency related to the imposed structure, while on the other hand, to theorize marginalized actors’ form of agency based on their ability to actively negotiate forced conditions in order to secure …

At Home, At Work: Indian Immigrant Women In Colonial East Africa (C.1920-1940), Savita Nair

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

Situated in the broader context of the South Asian diaspora, Indian Gujarati merchant families in colonial East Africa participate in creating a modern history of migration. Building on preexisting connections between western India and eastern Africa, families create networks and recreate community in a unique diasporic context. Constituted not only of men, but also women who accompany and follow their entrepreneurial, adverturer husbands, and later daughters and wives, Gujarati business families are ensured a place in the historical record as a constituent community in British East Africa. In this new colonial site, newly marked by the railway systems, market towns, …

Review Of Gender Violence At The U.S.-Mexico Border: Media Representation And Public Response, Edited By Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba And Ignacio Corona, Tucson: The University Of Arizona Press, 2010., Oralia Gómez-Ramírez, Tiantian Zheng

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

No abstract provided.

Unilateral Paddling Device For Kayaking, Geoffrey Ledbetter, Derek Brangham, Courtney Sheffield

Mechanical Engineering

Disabled Sports Eastern Sierra (DSES), a nonprofit organization in Mammoth, California has a need for a device for someone with a unilateral disability to be able to paddle in a tandem kayak. Courtney Sheffield, Derek Brangham, and Geoff Ledbetter worked with Kinesiology students Kevin Bezerra and Jaime Santana, sponsor contact Maggie Palchak, and lab advisor Dr. Mello to design, build and test such a device. The following report describes the detailed final design along with background information and project requirements.

Li (Ritual/Rite) And Tian (Heaven/Nature) In The Xunzi: Does Confucian Li Need Metaphysics?, Sor-Hoon Tan

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Ritual (li) is central to Confucian ethics and political philosophy. Robert Neville believes that Chinese Philosophy has an important role to play in our times by bringing ritual theory to the analysis of global moral and political issues. In a recent work, Neville maintains that ritual ‘needs a contemporary metaphysical expression if its importance is to be seen.’ This paper examines Neville's claim through a detailed study of the ‘ethics of ritual’ in one of the early Confucian texts, the Xunzi. This text has sometimes been read as offering a form of naturalism in its discussions of ‘heaven (tian)’ as …

A Promised Land In The Diaspora: Christian Religion, Social Memory, And Identity Among Banabans In Fiji, Wolfgang Kempf

Pacific Studies

This article explores the evolving concept of diaspora, highlighting its departure from its original religious connotations to a broader framework encompassing migration, transnationalism, and identity. While religion has often been overlooked in contemporary diaspora studies, the article argues that Christian institutions play a pivotal role in shaping identity and social organization among Pacific Islanders living abroad. Focusing on diasporic Banabans in Fiji, the study examines how Christian discourses and biblical narratives—particularly the Exodus motif—have been appropriated to articulate a collective history of displacement and survival. The article situates Pacific migration within a historical and colonial context, demonstrating how religion functions …