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Autoethnography: Incorporating Reflective Research Into Medical Education, Casey Bonaquist Do, Breanna Henry Do, Erin Mccall Do, Elissa Foster Phd, Kristin Reihman Md

Department of Family Medicine

No abstract provided.

Factors Driving Key Account Manager Performance, Lesley Murphy, Joseph Coughlan

Conference papers

Key account management has been highlighted as a significant area of academic research (Leigh and Marshall 2001, Workman et al. 2003) and both managers and academics alike are of the view that suppliers need to develop long-term relationships with selected strategic customers. Despite a recent academic focus on Key Account Management, there have only been a limited number of published studies on the individual Key Account Manager (KAM) (Sengupta et al. 2000, Schultz and Evans 2002, Guenzi et al. 2007, 2009) and it remains an under-investigated research area (Guenzi et al. 2009). This paper endeavours to explain the underlying factors …

Metaphors, Models, And Meaning In Contract Law, Jeffrey M. Lipshaw

Suffolk University Law School Faculty Works

Why does there seem to be such a wide gap between the subject matter of the usual first-year contracts course and what practitioners (particularly transactional lawyers) actually experience? This article is an attempt to bridge the gap, combining insights from academic theory and real-world law practice. My claim is that the law as discipline has developed its own powerful but self-contained conceptual framework — in the coinage of one noted scholar, “an epistemic trap.” The subject matter of contract law, something that is largely the creation of private parties and not the state, requires dealing with legal truth not just …

The Role Of Employment At-Will On Job Loss And Unemployment In The United States, Gina B. Small, David E. Gunderson, Ernest A. Capozzoli

Journal of Business, Industry, and Economics

The United States has lost more than 8 million jobs since the recession starting in 2008. This level of job loss and corresponding unemployment issignificantly greater than what has occurred in other developed countries.Furthermore, reviewing swings in the unemployment rate in the developedcountries shows the United States has exaggerated unemployment swingsbetween times of prosperity and economic malaise compared to other developed nations. The doctrine of employment-at-will is explored as one ofthe causal forces in the differences between the United States and other compared economies wherein either the employer or the employee has theright to terminate an employment relationship at any …

Working Paper: Concentration Of Secondary Schooling For Irish And Uk Elite Politicians, Brendan O'Rourke, John Hogan, Paul Donnelly

Articles

The study of elites and their formation has returned to centre stage in recent years. The lessons from these studies can be made more universal if a measure of elite formation could be developed that is comparable. The multifaceted nature of the concept of elite formation makes this complex. However, in this paper, by building upon measures used in other fields, such as industrial economics, we offer such a measure that facilitates comparison of elite formation. We illustrate this measure through a comparison of the schooling of Irish and British political elites.

Bullies In A Wired World: The Impact Of Cyberspace Victimization On Adolescent Mental Health And The Need For Cyberbullying Legislation In Ohio, Kelly A. Albin

Journal of Law and Health

This Note examines cyberbullying's impact on adolescents' mental health and psychological development and explores an Ohio-specific legislative response to the problem. Part II addresses the urgent need for cyberbullying legislation, the inadequacy of Ohio law, and the detrimental effects that may result when juveniles are targeted by cyberbullies. Part III demonstrates how other states have reacted to the cyberbullying problem by amending already enacted bullying statutes or by creating new and specific cyberbullying laws. Part IV proposes a new cyberbullying statute that criminalizes the more extreme cases of cyberbullying, incorporates age as a sentencing factor, and introduces school-employee liability for …

Informal Trading Networks In West Africa: The Mourides Of Senegal/The Gambia And The Yoruba Of Benin/Nigeria, Stephen S. Golub, Jamie Hansen-Lewis , '12

Economics Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

The Oxford Handbook Of The Economics Of Poverty, Philip N. Jefferson

Economics Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Determinants Of The Size Of The Nonprofit Sector, Frederic L. Pryor

Economics Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Evangelical Protestants And Political Trust, Fei-Ran Lee

Honors Papers

Evangelicals in the U.S. tend to support candidates who advocate for a minimal government and significant downsizing, if not elimination, of the welfare state. This phenomenon may be the result of certain components in an Evangelical worldview. Though evangelicals in the U.S. may have higher interpersonal trust, they distrust the government more than non-evangelicals. This research will explore political theories that discuss the political functions of Protestantism and apply such analyses to contemporary American evangelicals. National Election Survey 2004 will empirically qualify some claims in my theoretical discussion.

Jazz Meets East: Cultural Dimensions Of Asynchronous Jazz Music Development In Modern China, Terence Hsieh

Honors Papers

Two important questions arise regarding the development of Jazz music in China. First, what common elements explain why Jazz music in these two cities, and indeed the country as a whole, is so less well developed than in other non-Western countries that managed to import and adapt it? Second, what explains the different aesthetic foci in the country's two greatest cities and major centers of such Chinese Jazz music? I will examine Jazz music in these two cities, with reference to the historical roots of Jazz in China, the competing co-development of different concepts of Chinese modernity in Shanghai and …

One Nation, Many Borders: Language And Identity In Mayan Guatemala And Mexico, Anna Caroline Peckham

Honors Papers

This paper explores language ideologies, code choice, and ethnolinguistic identity in Maya-dominated areas of Mexico and Guatemala. As the Maya, or Pan-Maya, Movement has grown in scope and force since the 1980s, particularly in Guatemala, possessing a "Maya" identity has become defined in new ways. Since Mayan languages are still spoken with a strong degree of vitality in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula and the western highlands of Guatemala, examining Maya identity through beliefs about, and use of, indigenous languages and Spanish is a particularly useful focus. In comparing Maya peoples' beliefs and identities in each of these regions, this paper argues …

Education, Citizenship, Political Participation: Defining Variables For Post-Conflict Reconstruction In Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sonia Roubini

Honors Papers

This paper examines the flawed reconstruction process undergone by Bosnia-Herzegovina after the Bosnian War. This paper posits that particular variables (education, citizenship, and political participation) were overlooked in this process - variables that could have led to a better outcome for Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The Effects Of Formal Group And Extracurricular Involvement On College Students’ Self-Esteem, Ramona Catherine Negroponte

Honors Papers

The purpose of this study was to understand the impact of college students' engagement in formal group activities on self-esteem levels. Youth and adolescent extracurricular involvement was also taken into account to help determine influence on college participation. Hypotheses suggested that group affiliation would positively affect self-esteem and that extracurricularly motivated children would be more likely to join formal activities in college. A sample of 149 Oberlin College students completed a survey that included the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, and nine of these subjects were selected for in-depth interviews. Both quantitative and qualitative data results indicated that formal group members’ self-esteem …

We Are Not These Bodies: Identity And Transcendence Among American Devotees Of Krishna, Rachel Lynn Williams

Honors Papers

This paper discusses the ways in which American devotees of Krishna understand their identities. Some second-generation Asian Americans have criticized American Krishna devotees of cultural appropriation, but devotees defend themselves against this claim with a philosophy of bodily transcendence. Many devotees practice transcendence through a rejection of nationalism and sectarianism. The paper also considers vegetarianism and ISKCON's attitude toward animals.

Fp-12-15 Demographic Profile Of Same-Sex Parents, Sarah Burgoyne

National Center for Family and Marriage Research Family Profiles

No abstract provided.

No Longer "Forgotten": Specialized Judges To Guarantee Rights Of Romanian Children, Melina Rozzisi

Public Interest Law Reporter

No abstract provided.

Delinquents After Exile: A Review Of Aftercare Programs, Jeremy Olson, Daniel R. Lee

Contemporary Issues in Juvenile Justice

No abstract provided.

Therapeutic Communication From A Constructionist Standpoint, Kenneth J. Gergen, M. M. Gergen

Psychology Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Crisis Management By Social Movements: Learning From Indian Microfinance, Andrew Pickup

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In October 2010, the state government of Andhra Pradesh issued an ordinance prohibiting microfinance institutions from distributing and collecting loans following allegations that over-indebtedness and coercive loan recovery tactics were causing borrower suicides. While no evidence substantiating a link between microfinance and borrower suicide has been provided, an anti-microfinance movement across India developed with clients reneging on their loans. Indian microfinance risked insolvency and the once lauded poverty alleviating movement was perceived as a villain by the international community. Microfinance was in crisis.

How a social movement such as microfinance responds to a crisis is an understudied topic in social …

Lives Under The Canopy: Spotted Owls And Loggers In Western Forests, Erik Loomis, Ryan Edgington

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

Environmental Justice With Chinese Characteristics: Recent Developments In Using Environmental Public Interest Litigation To Strengthen Access To Environmental Justice, Jingjing Liu

Florida A & M University Law Review

China's unprecedented economic growth and rapid urbanization in the past three decades has exerted a heavy toll on the country's environment. Set against the backdrop of China's daunting environmental challenges, this article will first discuss how the environmental justice issue manifests itself on Chinese soil and how its evolvement differs from the American experience. This discussion will be followed by an analysis on how environmental public interest litigation, inspired by citizen suits in the U.S., has been fermenting in China and advocated by environmentalists as a new approach to broaden and strengthen access to environmental justice. The article will then …

Adios To Paradise: The Yacyreta Dam And The Destruction Of Environmental And Human Rights, Itzchak E. Kornfeld

Florida A & M University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Commencement Program 2012, Whitworth University

Commencement Programs

Undergraduate Commencement exercises of Whitworth University in May 2012.

Stakeholder Theory And Marketing: Moving From A Firm-Centric To A Societal Perspective, Gene R. Laczniak, Patrick E. Murphy

Marketing Faculty Research and Publications

This essay is inspired by the ideas and research examined in the special section on “Stakeholder Marketing” of the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing in 2010. The authors argue that stakeholder marketing is slowly coalescing with the broader thinking that has occurred in the stakeholder management and ethics literature streams during the past quarter century. However, the predominant view of stakeholders that many marketers advocate is still primarily pragmatic and company centric. The position advanced herein is that stronger forms of stakeholder marketing that reflect more normative, macro/societal, and network-focused orientations are necessary. The authors briefly explain and justify …

Getting Real About Legal Realism, New Legal Realism, And Clinical Legal Education, Katherine R. Kruse

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.

From The African American Oral Tradition To Slam Poetry: Rhetoric And Stylistics, Shawnkeisha Stoudamire

McNair Scholars Journal

Slam poetry is one of the most recent cultural innovations of African Americans. As with many cultural innovations, the artistry of slam poetry is undervalued while its entertainment appeal is overvalued. Although slam poetry’s artistry lies in both verbal and non-verbal aspects of performance, this research project focuses mainly on selected verbal features of slam poetry. This research seeks to balance the artistic and entertainment appeal of contemporary slam poetry by demonstrating that its verbal features derive from a linguistic heritage in early forms of Black English vernacular oral storytelling and from new styles of performance poetry produced by African …

From The Enlightenment To Genocide: The Evolution And Devolution Of Romanian Nationalism, Shawn Wooster

McNair Scholars Journal

In the eighteenth and nineteenth-centuries attempts at gaining national and political recognition through the work of Uniate priests in Transylvania and secular intellectuals in the Regat eventually culminated in the 1848 revolution, leading to the recognition of an autonomous Romanian state in 1878. Romania was further enlarged at the end of World War I with the Treaty of Trianon. Along the path to nationhood nationalism took on an ever-increasing exclusivity. Using Romania as a case study, this article addresses how nationalism occasionally becomes murderous. More specifically it addresses the origins of Romanian nationalism and how it influenced Romania’s support of …

Supplement

McNair Scholars Journal

No abstract provided.

Modeling Micro-Economic Resilience And Restoration After A Large-Scale Catastrophe: An Analysis Of The Gulf Coast After Katrina, David L. Butler, Edward Sayre

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.