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Response To Richard Bernstein, Michael Simmons Jr.

Education and Culture

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The Cord (October 31, 2012)

The Cord

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We Are...Marshall, October 31, 2012, Office Of Marshall University Communications

We Are ... Marshall: the Newsletter for Marshall University 1999-2023

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Volume 50, Number 11: October 31, 2012, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

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Enclaves And Entrepreneurial Success, Charles Braymen, Florence Neymotin

HCBE Faculty Presentations

We examined the effect of immigrant and ethnic enclaves on the success of entrepreneurial ventures as measured by firm profits and viability. Data on entrepreneurs and their new firms were provided byt eh kauffman Foundation and covered the years 2004-2008. These firm-level data were linked to Census 2000 Summary Files 3 and 4 at the ZIP Code level of measurement, and were used to empirically investigate the effect of enclaves. Our use of a selection correction allowed us to ground our analysis in a casual framework. We found a statistically significant negative effect of immigrant representation in an area on …

The Scarlet - Volume Xcii, No. 5 (October 31, 2012), Scarlet Staff

The Scarlet (Student Newspaper) (2011-present)

The October 31, 2012, 2024 edition of The Scarlet (est. 1939), Clark University's student-run newspaper. The Scarlet is intellectually and editorially independent of the University.

Anthony Reid (2010), Menuju Sejarah Sumatra; Antara Indonesia Dan Dunia, Susanto Zuhdi

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

No abstract provided.

The Spinnaker [Vol. 33 No. 106], University Of North Florida

Spinnaker

Student newspaper for the UNF community

Annual Report: 2010-11, N/A N/A

Annual Reports

I submit herewith the annual reports from the Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, for the period ending December 31, 2011. This is done in accordance with an act of Congress, approved March 2, 1887, entitled, “An act to establish agricultural experiment stations, in connection with the agricultural college established in the several states under the provisions of an act approved July 2, 1862, and under the acts supplementary thereto,” and also of the act of the Alaska Territorial Legislature, approved March 12, 1935, accepting the provisions of the act …

Thinking In Islands; The Portuguese Perception Of The Indonesian Archipelago And Particularly Of Sunda In Early Texts And Charts, Svann Langguth

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

This article discusses various early sources on the Indonesian archipelago. It starts with the status of knowledge before the first voyage of the Portuguese to the Moluccas from accounts of travellers to insular Southeast Asia in the Middle Ages and the picture on world maps European cartographers produced. Comparing that view with text sources and the resulting geographic material of the first expeditions by the Portuguese provides an insight into contemporary mechanisms of knowledge transfer. Certain effects can be traced and are repeated on different levels of access to the original facts mainly because most maps were drawn up in …

State-Of-The-Art In The Documentation Of The Papuan Languages Of Timor, Alor, Pantar, And Kisar; A Bibliography, Antoinette Schapper, Juliette Huber

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

The Timor-Alor-Pantar (TAP) language family has a special place in South-East Asian linguistics; its members make up the western extreme of the Papuan language sphere. Along with an exhaustive bibliography of works on the TAP languages, this paper presents a state-of-the-art review of the ongoing documentation of the TAP language family in terms of both linguistic description and (pre-)historical reconstruction. The paper concludes with a consideration of the prospects for future studies of the TAP languages.

Rda For Cartographic Resources, Katherine Rankin, Mary L. Larsgaard

Library Faculty Presentations

The purpose of this workshop is to provide a pragmatic, brief introduction and overview to using RDA to create bibliographic records for cartographic resources. The emphasis will be on differences between RDA and AACR2R and specific examples of bibliographic records.

Local Languages, Local Malay, And Bahasa Indonesia; A Case Study From North Maluku, John Bowden

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Many small languages from eastern Indonesia are threatened with extinction. While it is often assumed that 'Indonesian' is replacing the lost languages, in reality, local languages are being replaced by local Malay. In this paper I review some of the reasons for this in North Maluku. I review the directional system in North Maluku Malay and argue that features like the directionals allow those giving up local languages to retain a sense of local linguistic identity. Retaining such an identity makes it easier to abandon local languages than would be the case if people were switching to 'standard' Indonesian.

The Urban Anthropologist As Flâneur; The Symbolic Pattern Of Indonesian Cities, Peter J.M. Nas

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Cities are places full of symbols. In the past decades, Indonesian cities have become the cradle of urban symbolism studies. In this article, the author presents the results of these studies. The cities researched differ tremendously, ranging from the national capital to provincial capitals and small towns; some of them, such as Jakarta, are purely colonial in origin, while others are more or less traditional in character. Some of them have a top-down symbolic structure, largely the product of government activities, while others have symbolic configurations which have a more grassroots character and are based in the religious domain. The …

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

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Cseas Weekly Bulletin (October 29, 2012), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

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Person To Person In England, Lisa Ekstrom

2012-13 Field Notes

While still in the midst of their study abroad experiences, students at Linfield College write reflective essays. Their essays address issues of cultural similarity and difference, compare lifestyles, mores, norms, and habits between their host countries and home, and examine changes in perceptions about their host countries and the United States. In this essay, Lisa Ekstrom describes her observations during her study abroad program at the University of Nottingham in England.

Discipline‐Based Education Research: Understanding And Improving Learning In Undergraduate Science And Engineering, Stacey Lowery Bretz

Discipline-Based Education Research Group Speaker Series

The National Science Foundation has funded a synthesis study on the status, contributions, and future direction of discipline‐based education research (DBER) in physics, biological sciences, geosciences, and chemistry. DBER combines knowledge of teaching and learning with deep knowledge of disciplinespecific science content. It describes the discipline‐specific difficulties learners face and the specialized intellectual and instructional resources that can facilitate student understanding. The committee was charged to investigate questions essential to advancing DBER and broadening its impact on undergraduate science teaching and learning, synthesize empirical research on undergraduate teaching and learning in the science, explore the extent to which this research …

The Collegian (2012-10-29), Joe Molina

UTB/TSC Archives - The Collegian [Newspaper]

Vol. 65, No. 10

Crow's Nest, October 29, 2012, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The October 29, 2012, issue of the Crow's Nest.

A Model-Data Comparison For A Multi-Model Ensemble Of Early Eocene Atmosphere-Ocean Simulations: Eomip, D. J. Lunt, T. Dunkley Jones, M. Heinemann, Matthew Huber, A. Legrande, A. Winguth, C. Loptson, J. Marotzke, C. D. Roberts, J. Tindall, P. Valdes, C. Winguth

Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Faculty Publications

The early Eocene (~55 to 50 Ma) is a time period which has been explored in a large number of modelling and data studies. Here, using an ensemble of previously published model results, making up "EoMIP" – the Eocene Modelling Intercomparison Project – and syntheses of early Eocene terrestrial and sea surface temperature data, we present a self-consistent inter-model and model–data comparison. This shows that the previous modelling studies exhibit a very wide inter-model variability, but that at high CO2, there is good agreement between models and data for this period, particularly if possible seasonal biases in some of the …

A Key Challenge In Global Hrm: Adding New Insights To Existing Expatriate Spouse Adjustment Models, Ritu Gupta, Pratyush Banerjee, Jighyasu Gaur

The Qualitative Report

This study is an attempt to strengthen the existing knowledge about factors affecting the adjustment process of the trailing expatriate spouse and the subsequent impact of any maladjustment or expatriate failure. We conducted a qualitative enquiry using grounded theory methodology with 26 Indian spouses who had to deal with their partner’s expatriate assignment relocation. The open and axial coding techniques and the process of theoretical sampling are discussed at length. Our investigation reveals the recurrence of several factors earlier studied in previous models such as cultural novelty, family and peer support, the organization’s support and the spouse’s personality. Additionally, we …

The Mertonian Journalist, Joseph Marren

Northeast Popular Culture Association

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Dancing The Orishas: Exporting A Constructed Form Of Popular Culture From Havana To Arcata, Oluyinka Akinjiola

Northeast Popular Culture Association

“Dancing the Orishas: Exporting a Constructed Form of Popular Culture from Havana to Arcata”

The staged sacred and social dances of the Afro-Cuban community were chosen to represent the new “revolutionary identity” of Cuba. Maya J. Berry writes about this phenomenon in her essay, “From ‘Ritual’ to ‘Repertory’: Dancing to the Time of the Nation” in the Afro-Hispanic Review. This paper builds on that work.

First, it defines a bodily archives a performed identity. Constructed by the Conjunto Folklorico Nacional de Cuba (CFN), Compania Raices Profundas, Cutumba and Ballet Folklorico Afro-Cubano, this archives created the revolutionary identity. Through these dance …

Wales: A Hidden Cultural Gem, Clara Martinez

Fulbright Grantee Projects

In this presentation, Clara Martinez discusses exposure to Welsh academics, cultural interactions, and exploration of national landmarks as part of her participation in the Fulbright Wales Summer Institute in 2012, which focused on Contemporary Wales: Industry, Politics, Culture and Change. Martinez's presentation emphasizes her visits to museums, galleries, castles, and islands and provides a collection of photos and stories from her experience studying in Wales, United Kingdom.

Proclaiming Emancipation, University Of Michigan Law School, William L. Clements Library, Martha S. Jones

Event Materials

Program for Proclaiming Emancipation, held October 15 2012 - February 18 2013. This was a combination exhibit and symposium. Martha S. Jones and Clayton Lewis were Curators.

As we approach the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, commemorations can be a site for complex and nuanced reflections. They can also sanitize a messy past, making it palatable for popular consumption. Proclaiming Emancipation confronts myths with history. Oftentimes competing voices proclaim that no longer does Proclamation stand as an exceptional moment from the U.S. past. Instead, we understand January 1, 1863 as being situated on a timeline that stretches from …

A Survey Of Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) Of Prince Of Wales Island, Alaska; Combining Morphological And Dna Barcode Identification Techniques, Jozef Slowik, Gergin A. Blagoev

Insecta Mundi

Surveys during the summer of 2004 and August 2009 on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, USA resulted in collection of 1064 adult spiders representing 84 species. Barcoding of spiders collected in 2009 resulted in DNA barcode data for 212 specimens representing 63 species. DNA barcode data were then used to facilitate the identification of otherwise unidentifiable juvenile and female specimens as well as to investigate phylogenetically four lineages with large branch lengths between specimens. Using morphological and DNA barcode identifications provided a more complete list of identified specimens than was possible using morphological data alone.

2012 October 26 - Culture And Outreach Task Force Meeting Minutes, Culture And Outreach Task Force, East Tennessee State University, Committee For 125, East Tennessee State University

Culture & Outreach Task Force

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Water: Conserving Our Most Precious Resource, John Holmes Gcvo, Kbe, Cmg

Reports (USI)

This was a thoughtful discussion on a vital and still neglected issue. While there was enough fresh water in the world overall, its distribution did not match that of the global population. Climate change, continuing population growth, urbanisation and altered dietary habits were all exacerbating existing problems of fresh water availability. But there was little new action at national or international level, though local and private sector decisions were making a difference in some places. In the end we might have to take the water to the people rather than expecting the people to go to the water, as had …

The Fierce Green Fire: Vol. 3 Issue 7, Wofford College Environmental Studies Program

The Fierce Green Fire

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