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Academic Librarians' Role In Gatekeeping: The Influence Of Vendor Labeling On Academic Library Collections, Melissa Cast-Brede

Criss Library Faculty Publications

The purpose of this study is to determine the influence of one corporate book vendor on collection holdings in seven Carnegie Class L academic libraries in the areas of practice of education and educational administration. The study uses the communicative rationality theory of Habermas (1989), the habitus work of Bourdieu (1988; 1993), and the gatekeeping theory of Lewin (1947) as theoretical frameworks for explaining how book vendors serve as a connection between organizations and individuals and the librarian’s gatekeeping role in collection development. Analysis of variance was used to measure overall congruence. Library employee size, vendorsupplied categories, and vendor-supplied labels …

Passionate Pedagogy And Emotional Labor: Students’ Responses To Learning Diversity From Diverse Instructors, April Schueths, Tanya Gladney, Devan Crawford, Katherine L. Bass, Helen A. Moore

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

This qualitative study examines emotional themes in student evaluations from required diversity courses at a predominately white, US public university. We analyzed two years of student evaluations from 29 instructors. Situated by the work of Acker, Jaggar and Hochschild, we find contradictory themes of perceived instructional bias and the balue of diversity lessons. Student evaluations resulted in systematic disadvantage for minority instructors that may be heightened for female instructors of color. Non-minority faculty (both male and female) gain privileges by avoiding dealing with diversity directly, which is reflected in student evaluations through the process of "ducking diversity." The organizational structure …

Our Next Challenge: Integrating Video Into The Academy, Stephen Rhind-Tutt

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Citizenship And The Law Of Time In The United States, Elizabeth F. Cohen

Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Why, How, And Where We’Re Going Next: A Multi-Institution Look At Data Management Service, Kiyomi D. Deards

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

This study compares the relationship of four university libraries with their institutions’ data management policies, services, resources, and plans for the future. It combines an examination of public documentation and services advertised by the universities and their libraries with interviews of librarians involved with data management. Four members of the Association of Public and Land- Grant Universities of similar size were selected for comparison: Iowa State University, Oklahoma State University, Kansas State University, and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. The study identifies how and why campus collaborations were created and describes possible next steps for expanding or refining existing data management …

Academic Affairs Division Newsletter, November 2013, San Jose State University

Academic Affairs Division Newsletter

No abstract provided.

52 | Jerusalem: Excavations In The Tyropoeon Valley (Giv‘Ati Parking Lot), Volume I, Doron Ben-Ami

IAA Reports—Monograph Series of the Israel Antiquities Authority

This is first volume of a series publishing the results of the excavations at the Giv‘ati Parking Lot in the northwestern corner of the City of David. This volume presents the results of the 2007 excavation season in Area M1, which was excavated down to bedrock to establish the stratigraphic sequence, and is designed as a stratigraphic key for the entire site. The pottery, coins, glass, metal and stone finds, military equipment, human and faunal remains and other artifacts, from the Iron Age through the Islamic period, are presented.

Effects Of Acculturation On Mammography Utilization Among Korean American Women, Jungeun K. Kim Phd

Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between acculturation and mammography utilization among Korean American (KA) women. The specific aims of this study were to determine the differences in demographic characteristics, perceived health beliefs, self-efficacy, and knowledge of breast cancer, and mammogram history among the four cultural groups (American identity, Bicultural, Korean identity, and Marginality) of KA women, and to examine the effects of the level of acculturation on the likelihood of getting a mammogram. Breast cancer remains the most commonly diagnosed cancer among KA women. However, KA women consistently have lower screening rates for breast cancer. …

November 2013 News Releases, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

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Males Show Improved Perspective-Taking Performance When Females Images Occupy Locations In The Spatial Array: Preliminary Evidence Consistent With Sexual Selection Of Spatial Skills?, Bradley R. Sturz, Karen Z. Naufel

Psychology: Faculty Presentations (2009-2022)

One tenet of sexual selection theory posits that females select males on the basis of physical attributes because these attributes serve as indicators of fitness. Relatively recently, evolutionary psychologists have suggested that females also select males on the basis of cognitive attributes because such attributes also serve as indicators of fitness. Spatial abilities are hypothesized to be one such cognitive attribute, but evidence supporting this hypothesis is lacking. We tested this hypothesis by having human male participants engage in a perspective-taking task (imagine standing at object A, facing object B, point to object C). We manipulated the content of the …

Introduction: Religion And Place: Landscape, Politics, And Piety, Elizabeth Olson, Peter Hopkins, Lily Kong

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

In 2010, a 14-year-old boy was brutally murdered in a suburb outside of Rio de Janeiro when a group of skinheads observed him at a party and suspected that he might be gay (McLoughlin 2011). This scale of horrific homophobia is not uncommon in Brazil, where rates of violence against gays, lesbians, and transgendered people are reported to be amongst the highest in the world. A study conducted with the support of Grupo Gay da Bahia offers the conservative estimate of 260 gays killed in the country in 2010, indicating that rates doubled in only 5 years. The statistic sits …

Late Archaic Inter-Personal Violence In The Middle Tennessee Valley, William Edwin Devore

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Three hundred and seventy sets of Late Archaic remains from Mulberry Creek, Perry, Flint River, Cox Mound, and Cox Village in the Middle Tennessee Valley are examined for trophy taking. The research was conducted to determine if trophy taking varies across the valley, who the victims are, what the frequencies of the types of trophies are, and how trophy taking manifest in the bioarchaeological record.Trophy taking varies across the valley, with higher levels in the west end of the valley. Trophy taking was seen in all age groups, and in both males and females. Sixty of these individuals had 94 …

University Of Minnesota, Morris Team To Restore Local Cemetery, University Relations

Campus News Archive

Led by Rebecca Dean, the team will help restore the Boerner family cemetery near Herman.

Willow: Reaching Hiv-Positive African-American Women Through A Computer-Delivered Intervention, Charles H. Klein

Anthropology Faculty Publications and Presentations

This study evaluates the efficacy of Multimedia WiLLOW in enhancing HIV-protective sexual behaviors and psychosocial outcomes among HIV-positive African American women, including condom use for vaginal and anal sex, and psychosocial mediators associated with risk reduction practices. Using a community-based randomized controlled design, 168 participants completed a baseline and follow-up assessment as well as an exit satisfaction survey. Intervention participants reported significantly higher proportions of condom protected sex acts in the past 30 days (p=.002), with both HIV-negative (p=.040) and HIV-positive (p=.003) partners. They were also more likely to report 100% condom use (OR = .10; p=.030); a lower adjusted …

Hypobaric Chamber Test Of Pacific Spaceflight Pressure Garment Mark I At Copenhagen University Hospital, Cameron M. Smith

Anthropology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Pacific Spaceflight's first proof-of concept pressure garment, the Mark I (model Gagarin), was worn by a test subject in a pressure chamber to test stable maintenance of blood oxygenation, body temperature and suit pressure. While breathing normal air at a simulated altitude of 4,000m (c.13,000ft) the test subject's blood oxygenation was 90%, a figure expected for an altitude of 2,590m (8,500ft). The test subject's blood oxygenation climbed back to normal (96%-95%) as the hypobaric chamber was repressurized to sea level figures. The garment successfully maintained the test subject in the first half of the Blood Oxygenation Disassociation Range of …

Harnessing Poverty Alleviation To Reduce The Stigma Of Hiv In Sub-Saharan Africa, Alexander C. Tsai, David Bangsberg, Sheri D. Weiser

OHSU-PSU School of Public Health Faculty Publications and Presentations

HIV is highly stigmatized throughout sub-Saharan Africa. In studies conducted among general population samples, stigma has been shown to impede uptake of HIV testing and increase sexual risktaking behavior. Among HIV-infected persons, stigma has also been associated with inhibited serostatus disclosure to sexual partners and potential treatment supporters, delays in HIV antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation, and ART nonadherence. The stigma of HIV also intensifies the poverty, stress, and insecurity endemic to many resource-limited settings, resulting in worsened mental health, itself an important determinant of AIDS-related mortality. Until we can better understand how to effectively intervene to reduce the stigma of …

Research & Strategic Partnerships: Quarterly Review, Volume 1, Issue 1, Portland State University. Research & Strategic Partnerships

Portland State Research Magazine

Bridges are the connective tissue of Portland, spanning our rivers, streams, and valleys. Similarly, Portland State University’s many partnerships link our institution with those organizations that provide the economic and cultural lifeblood of our region. The Office of Research and Strategic Partnerships (RSP) oversees the largest of these, with the Oregon Health and Science University, Intel, the City of Portland, Portland General Electric, Portland Public Schools, and the Technology Association of Oregon, among many others.

In this, RSP’s first quarterly newsletter, we provide a snapshot of how PSU’s faculty and students are working with these partners to make and apply …

Love Of All Loves: Politics And Fraternity In The Charismatic Vision Of Chiara Lubich, Antonio Maria Baggio

Claritas: Journal of Dialogue and Culture

Chiara Lubich gave a fundamental contribution to the rediscovery of fraternity, particularly during the last years of her public engagement. The present article tries to understand the original meaning that Chiara gave to fraternity. Her interpretation is rooted within the Trinitarian reality and, particularly, in Jesus forsaken; fraternity is deeply linked with the mystical experience of ’49. There is a “logic” of fraternity, that rises from the Trinitarian “logic.” As a matter of fact, on one side we may fully understand her conception of fraternity only in the religious background of the Christian faith. On the other side, Chiara’s thought …

The Forgotten Principle: Fraternity In Its Public Dimension, Antonio Maria Baggio

Claritas: Journal of Dialogue and Culture

In this article, the author presents background on the notion of fraternity, as well as events in Europe and in Latin America during the past decade or so that have led to a new scholarship on this “forgotten principle.” This scholarship that began in Europe, spread to Latin America, and then back to Europe with new insights and publications in the fields of philosophy, political science, sociology, psychology, economics, and theology. The author cites publications in both Europe and Latin America that have been important contributions to this scholarship. Chiara Lubich, as we will see in the following articles, has …

Transferring Self To Other: Radicalizing Human Being, Jesús Morán

Claritas: Journal of Dialogue and Culture

This article begins by indicating recent developments in philosophical anthropology that provide background for understanding some key elements in the view of what it is to be human that underlie Chiara Lubich’s text “Look at all the Flowers.” The author begins by looking at self-transcendence and notes the shift from previous instances of spirituality that comes about as a result of Chiara Lubich’s context of mutuality, of her reciprocal transfer of self to the other. He then looks at the metaphysical structure that supports this way of being, and explores three core categories: transcendence, relationality, and corporeality. These underpin relationships …

Editorial

Claritas: Journal of Dialogue and Culture

This new issue of Claritas is inspired by three topics that Pope Francis addressed during his recent visit to Brazil.

Spartan Daily, October 31, 2013, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 141, Issue 28

The Animal Question In Deconstruction, Rafe Mcgregor

Between the Species

Review of The Animal Question in Deconstruction, edited by Lynn Turner (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013)

Lecture To Probe Complexities Of Rosewood Massacre, October 31, 2013, Tom Scherberger

USF St. Petersburg Campus News and Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Hawks' Herald -- Oct. 31 , 2013, Roger Williams University

Hawk's Herald

No abstract provided.

Ksu Chamber Singers, "A Litany For Courage And The Seasons", Amy Hebel, Shannan O'Dowd, Alex Trull, Timothy Marshall, Jason Raphaël, Hunter Young, Tory Bethune, Joseph Mcbrayer, Dylan Gray, Andy Tuttle, John Warren, John Lawless, Sherri N. Barrett

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

Kennesaw State University Chamber Singers present David Maslanka's A Litany for Courage and the Seasons, six songs for chorus, clarinet and vibraphone on poems of Richard Beale at the 2013 National Collegiate Choral Organization 5th National Conference in Charleston, South Carolina, October 31 - November 2.

The Alestle - Vol. 66 No. 11 - 10/31/2013, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

The Alestle

Vol. 66 No. 11

Otter Realm, October 31, 2013, California State University, Monterey Bay

The Otter Realm

Dia de los Muertos: When Life and Death Go Hand in Hand -- What You Otter Be Doing October 31 - November 14 -- Shifting Priorities and Making Decisions -- Giving for the Sake of Sharing: "Really, Really Free Market" a Success in North Quad -- Volunteering for the Youth of the Nations: Village Project in Seaside Provides Opportunities for Service Learning -- Campus Prepares for New Business and Information Technology Building: Parking Options Subject to Change with New Construction -- No Privacy in Public Locations: City of Seaside May Install New Surveillance Cameras -- Gatorade Pong A Splash: Otter …

Class Notes, Georgia Southern University

Arts & Humanities: News & Publications (2009-2023)

No abstract provided.

October 30, 2013 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office

Cal Poly Report

No abstract provided.