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Spring 2013, Valparaiso University

The Lighter, 1958-Last Year

No abstract provided.

A Magical Look At The Shore, Suzanne Zack

Wrack Lines

A free digital resource helps you sea Connecticut changing.

The Regional Exchange: From Main Street To Shopping Mall To App Info-Structure, Christoper R. Depalma

Architecture Senior Theses

The current switch that has now made the shopping center model vulnerable to yet another evolution is the smartphone, which, since its introduction has become an essential component to American lifestyle even more quickly than the car, changing the way in which people engage in both social and commercial activity. Unlike their response to the automobile switch, if architects can recognize and accept the smartphone as a evolutionary tool, then they can take a center role in designing the next major regional exchange. This new social and commercial regional spatial organizer is still desired to be a physical place, however …

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes – April 2013, Faculty Senators

Minutes 2013-2014

This is the archived record of the April 17, 2013 faculty senate meeting minutes.

Cultural Times, Multicultural Center

Newsletters

Social Justice Summit

California Big Time and Social Gathering

"Poetry is Not a Luxury" & Outstanding Students Awards

Diversity at HSU: Spring 2013 Art & Essay Contest

Senior Highlights

Artist Space

Dress to Express

Holi

Calendar of Events

Why Diversity?

Madison Magazine

No abstract provided.

Returns To Schooling: A Quantile Regression, Arman Oganisian

Annual Celebration of Student Scholarship and Creativity

This paper contributes to the large body of economic literature that attempts to estimate the returns to schooling. It uses quantile regression to estimate the effect of an additional year of education on monthly wage for earners in different quantiles. Using data from the young men’s cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey, the paper attempts to control for ability, family background, geography, and race, and finds that the returns to schooling is approximately 3.49% for men. Furthermore, the paper finds that while the effect of education on earnings is not significantly different from quantile to quantile, the significance of education …

Southern Register. 2013.2 (Spring 2013), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture

Southern Register

No abstract provided.

Transport And Health: A Look At Three Latin American Cities, Janeth Mosquera Becerra, Rodrigo S. Reis, Lawrence D. Frank, Farah A. Ramirez-Marrero, Benjamin Welle, Eugenio Arriaga Cordero, Fabian Mendez Paz, Carlos J. Crespo, Veronica Dujon, Enrique Jacoby, Jennifer Dill, Lynn Weigand, Carlos M. Padin

Community Health Faculty Publications and Presentations

Transport is associated with environmental problems, economic losses, health and social inequalities. A number of European and US cities have implemented initiatives to promote multimodal modes of transport. In Latin America changes are occurring in public transport systems and a number of projects aimed at stimulating non-motorized modes of transport (walking and cycling) have already been implemented. Based on articles from peer-reviewed academic journals, this paper examines experiences in Bogota (Colombia), Curitiba (Brazil), and Santiago (Chile), and identifies how changes to the transport system contribute to encourage active transportation. Bus rapid transit, ciclovias, bike paths/lanes, and car use restriction are …

Tanzanian Agricultural Markets And The Resulting Effects On Farmers Market Mechanisms At A Local Level In The Western Usambara’S Lushoto District, Carson A. Casey

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

As a developing nation Tanzania is highly dependent on its agricultural sector, serving as a source of income generation for more than 80 percent of the population. Moreover, agriculture in Tanzania currently accounts for more than half of the country’s total Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Currently smallholder farmers dominate the Tanzanian agricultural market. In the Western Usambara’s Lushoto District there is a high concentration of smallholder farmers who are involved in both the cash crop and subsistence agricultural markets of Tanzania. The sample population was Lushoto District farmers identifying as head of household individuals from either the village of Mazumbai, …

Honors Convocation, 2013, State University Of New York College At Cortland

Honors Convocation Programs

Honors Convocation Program held in 2013.

Driving Tour Narrative And Map Of Historic Talbotton, Georgia, Amanda Rees, Ron Fuller, Jessica Juhan, Wesley Mellina

Columbus Community Geography Center

Talbot County Chamber of Commerce approached the Columbus Community Geography Center in December 2012 seeking help to update their historic driving tour of the county seat, Talbotton, GA. Students and faculty met several times with our community partner in Spring 2013. Students proposed preparing a new historic driving tour narrative and a tri-fold handout that would include a map locating each historic building featured on the tour.

Climate Data Manipulation And The Use Of Water To Build Political Power In The Southwest United States, Conrad Moore, Professor Emeritus

Earth, Environmental, and Atmospheric Sciences Faculty Publications

Models utilized by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change indicate a striking trend toward increasing aridity in the Southwest United States. Two landmark articles published in Science magazine have emphasized the critical future consequences of this trend. Data from 59 National Weather Service stations distributed across the region west of the continental divide and south of the 41^stparallel (the northern border of Colorado and northeastern Utah), including 36 stations in the Upper Colorado River Basin and lower Southwest, show that annual and winter precipitation increased over the 60-year period 1950-2010, although the record is impoverished by the deletion …

Nota Bene, April, 2013

Nota Bene, 2013

No abstract provided.

Factors Influencing Management Of Type 2 Diabetes Among Vietnamese Seniors In Worcester, Ma, Marianne M. Sarkis, Amelia Angevine, Chantal Begley, Kristina Nguyen, Thuha Le

Local Knowledge: Worcester Area Community-Based Research

What are the effects of diabetes among Vietnamese seniors on themselves and their communities?

This study examines the role of the social and physical environment in influencing type 2 diabetes management among the Vietnamese senior community. The researchers employed a concurrent mixed methods approach, utilizing both quantitative and qualitative instruments. Eleven diabetics participated in individual interviews and seven non-diabetic caregivers comprised the focus group. The study results suggest that in the study sample, the most important factors in influencing management include factors in the physical environment, such as safety and location, as well as social factors, including individual and community …

Supply Chain "Mega-Trends": Current Status And Future Trends, Edward Sweeney

Practitioner Journals

The supply chain management (SCM) concept has become embedded in the thinking of many organisations in recent years. Originally introduced by management consultants in the early 1980s, SCM has a strong focus on integration of processes across functions within firms, as well as between the organisations that comprise the wider extended enterprise. There is a significant body of research to support the notion that the consistent delivery of value to customers is predicated on higher levels of intra-firm and inter-firm integration. Putting the supply chain integration (SCI) concept into practice is critically dependent on the ability of firms to manage …

Competitions In Architecture And Urban Design, Miguel Baudizzone

Focus

No abstract provided.

Spring 2013 Commencement, Eastern Illinois University

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

A Philological, Epidemiological, And Clinical Analysis Of The Plague Of Athens, Corrin Powell

Senior Honors Projects

In the summer of 430 B.C. during the Peloponnesian War, a plague hit Athens a few days after the Spartans besieged the city. The plague raged continuously for two years and broke out again in 427 B.C. Most of the population was infected, and approximately 25% of the population died. Thucydides wrote History of the Peloponnesian War, which is the main literary source for the plague and other events in the Peloponnesian War. Although Thucydides took great pains to carefully describe the clinical features of the disease, physicians and classicists disagree on the identification of the disease. In the past …

Graduate Scholar 2013: Journal Of Scholarship And Recognition, Graduate School Of Eastern Illinois University

Graduate Scholar

No abstract provided.

Brains Vs… Something Shiny?, Kevin Midlash

ESSAI

No abstract provided.

Housing Markets In Spain And The Us: Some Lessons For India, Amandeep Singh, Amrit Nanda, Charan Singh

Working Papers

India suffers from severe housing shortages, especially for the economically weaker sections of the society. And the house prices have been booming for nearly a decade. The markets are opaque, price indices have not been developed, market suffers from absence of regulator and there is no redressal mechanism in place. The procedure for constructing and purchasing a house in India is varies across the country, legal practices are unclear, and laws pertaining to acquiring of land or a house are neither transparent nor uniform. Therefore, housing markets have not developed in India. The paper seeks to learn from the experience …

Value Proposition Of Banking Brands In India, Y L R Moorthi

Working Papers

One of the simpler and more practical brand related constructs is a brand's value proposition. A brand's value proposition can be defined as the sum of functional, emotional and self-expressive benefits offered by a brand (Aaker, 1996) [1]. This paper postulates that the value proposition of the banking brands in the West is different from that in India. It hypothesizes that while foreign banks in India are chosen overridingly for self-expressive benefits, private Indian banks are chosen for functional benefits and public sector Indian banks for emotional benefits.

Estimation Of Firm-Level Productivity Changes In The Indian Power Sector: Disentangling Unobserved Heterogeneity By A Transformed Fixed-Effect Stochastic Frontier Model, Anish Sugathan, Deepak Malghan, S Chandrashekar, Deepak Kumar Sinha

Working Papers

We measure firm-level productivity changes in the Indian electricity sector during a period that witnessed several pro-market regulatory changes. Using information collected from multiple sources we construct a unique panel of generating firms and transmission and distribution utilities spanning the years 2000 to 2009. We employ a recently developed improvement in the Stochastic Frontier panel method that allows controlling for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity. Using the method we jointly estimate inefficiency and exogenous determinants of inefficiency. We estimate a flexible translog production model and compute decomposition of productivity into components of changes in technology, efficiency, scale and price effect. During this …

The Challenge Of Relocating Urban Slums The Impact Of Program Governance On Its Acceptance, Dinesh Kumar Masta, Gopal Naik, Kanchan Mukherjee

Working Papers

The prevalence of slums in large cities has been a cause of concern for policy makers. People living in slums face deprivation on several fronts and slum themselves can be seen as dwelling arrangements, which are inadequate and unfit for habitation. Several attempts have been made through a series of programs like VAMBAY and BSUP (in India) to rehabilitate slum-dwellers by moving them into houses that conform to the minimum acceptable living standards (as defined by their respective societies).However, there have been many reported incidences when slum-dwellers refused to move into the houses built for them. The problem is more …

The Broadband Digital Divide And The Benefits Of Mobile Broadband For Minorities, James Prieger

School of Public Policy Working Papers

This study sets out the facts regarding broadband deployment and usage in the US and the particular promise of mobile broadband for minorities. Fixed broadband is nearly ubiquitous and most people have access to four or more mobile broadband providers. Growth in fixed broadband usage is leveling off, while mobile broadband usage growth remains robust. Blacks and Hispanics generally have fewer fixed broadband options but more mobile broadband providers available. Gaps in broadband usage overall (fixed and mobile combined) for minorities persist and are quite large. Matching estimators show that lagging broadband adoption among minority groups is not fully accounted …

Graduate Catalog, Spring 2013, Marshall University

Marshall University Catalogs 2010-2019

Marshall University Graduate Course Catalog for the Spring 2013 academic year.

Music At Otterbein Spring 2013 Newsletter, Otterbein University

Music at Otterbein Newsletter

Otterbein University Department of Music Newsletter which includes performance schedules and updates about the Department, Faculty and Students.

An Economic Impact Comparative Analysis Of Farmers’ Markets In Michigan And Ontario, Richard C. Sadler, Michael A. R. Clark, Jason A. Gilliland

Human Environments Analysis Lab (HEAL)

Farmers' markets play a vital role in local economic development by providing a site for local and small business incubation, creating an economic multiplier effect to neighboring businesses, and recycling customer dollars within the community. While several studies have evaluated characteristics of farmers' markets within single metropolitan areas, few have compared the impact of multiple markets in socioeconomically contrasting regions.

This research compares shopping habits and economic impacts of customers at farmers' markets in two North American cities: Flint, Michigan, and London, Ontario. Overall, 895 market visitors completed surveys. We conducted statistical and spatial analyses to identify differences between these …

Cultural Negotiations, David L. Browman

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

This meticulously researched reference work documents the role of women who contributed to the development of Americanist archaeology from 1865 to 1940. Between the Civil War and World War II, many women went into anthropology and archaeology, fields that, at the beginning of this period, welcomed and made room for amateurs of both genders. But over time, the increasingly professional structure of these fields diminished or even obscured the contributions of women due to their lack of access to prestigious academic employment and publishing opportunities. As a result, a woman archaeologist during this period often published her research under her …