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Detecting Well-Being Via Computerized Content Analysis Of Brief Diary Entries, William Tov, Kok Leong Ng, Han Lin, Lin Qiu Dec 2013

Detecting Well-Being Via Computerized Content Analysis Of Brief Diary Entries, William Tov, Kok Leong Ng, Han Lin, Lin Qiu

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Two studies evaluated the correspondence between self-reported well-being and codings of emotion and life content by the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC; Pennebaker, Booth, & Francis, 2011). Open-ended diary responses were collected from 206 participants daily for 3 weeks (Study 1) and from 139 participants twice a week for 8 weeks (Study 2). LIWC negative emotion consistently correlated with self-reported negative emotion. LIWC positive emotion correlated with self-reported positive emotion in Study 1 but not in Study 2. No correlations were observed with global life satisfaction. Using a co-occurrence coding method to combine LIWC emotion codings with life-content codings, …

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Between Evangelism And Multiculturalism: The Dynamics Of Christianity In Indonesia, Chang Yau Hoon Dec 2013

Between Evangelism And Multiculturalism: The Dynamics Of Christianity In Indonesia, Chang Yau Hoon

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Christianity has experienced rapid growth in Indonesia, particularly the Evangelical and Pentecostal/Charismatic movements, which find fertile ground among the urban middle class. This phenomenon has given rise to fears of Christianisation among the Muslim majority, who perceive the Christian growth as a moral threat. Tensions between Christians and Muslims have been part and parcel of religious developments in Indonesia. The author addresses the ways in which Protestant churches in Indonesia negotiate between evangelism (to fulfil the ‘Great Commission’) on the one hand, and multiculturalism (peaceful coexistence with difference) on the other. The article will examine how Christians in Indonesia navigate …

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Biafra And The Discourse On The Igbo Genocide, Chima J. Korieh Dec 2013

Biafra And The Discourse On The Igbo Genocide, Chima J. Korieh

History Faculty Research and Publications

There has been a reluctance or indifference to a systematic study and documentation of the Igbo Genocide in Nigeria. In the main, the reason has been due to official and non-official attempts to subvert a focus on an event in which more than one million Igbo were slaughtered through a process that was fomented, orchestrated, executed, and supervised by the Nigerian state.

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December 2013 Commencement Program, Bowling Green State University Dec 2013

December 2013 Commencement Program, Bowling Green State University

Commencement Programs

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The Influence Of The Scripted Task On Learning Outcomes In Collaborative Learning, Liang Yu, Rong-Huai Huang Dec 2013

The Influence Of The Scripted Task On Learning Outcomes In Collaborative Learning, Liang Yu, Rong-Huai Huang

Journal of Educational Technology Development and Exchange (JETDE)

Scripting task is one of the key issues on the study of collaborative learning thatprimarily focuses on the influence of scripted task on learners’ knowledge building. It is known that the outcomes of collaborative learning entail learners’ knowledge building as well as their acquirement of collaborative skills. The paper, through a quasi-experiment, examines the effects of individual characteristics (gender and learning style), group characteristics (task type and group production), and their interaction effect on learners’ knowledge acquisition and acquirement of collaborative skills. The result shows that (a) the group with the scripted task and the group with scripted task and …

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The Chapter 11 Efficiency Fallacy, Diane Lourdes Dick Dec 2013

The Chapter 11 Efficiency Fallacy, Diane Lourdes Dick

Faculty Articles

This article challenges the persistent claim that Chapter 11's increasing utilization of market mechanisms will help facilitate economically efficient resolutions of corporate financial distress. Using two recent case studies, this article shows that, in fact, these mechanisms are used by stakeholders with existing market power to take control of the restructuring process and extract rents at the expense of other constituents: creditors, equity holders, and—in the case of companies that receive governmental bailouts—taxpayers. These distortionary effects are obscured by a dominant, neoclassical legal paradigm that ignores institutional and political dynamics. This article advances a new explanatory model that draws upon …

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The Washington State Indian Child Welfare Act: Putting The Policy Back Into The Law, William N. Smith, Richard T. Okrent Dec 2013

The Washington State Indian Child Welfare Act: Putting The Policy Back Into The Law, William N. Smith, Richard T. Okrent

American Indian Law Journal

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Until Yesterday: Deterring And Healing The Cyclical Gender Based Violence In Indian Country, Samantha Ivette Morales Dec 2013

Until Yesterday: Deterring And Healing The Cyclical Gender Based Violence In Indian Country, Samantha Ivette Morales

American Indian Law Journal

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Children's Ideas About The Moral Standing And Social Welfare Of Non-Human Species, Gail F. Melson Dec 2013

Children's Ideas About The Moral Standing And Social Welfare Of Non-Human Species, Gail F. Melson

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Moral and social welfare issues related to humane treatment of animals confront children and continue to be important societal issues through adulthood. Despite this, children's moral reasoning about animals has been largely ignored. This paper addresses six questions concerning how children reason morally about non-human animals: (1) How do children think about the moral claims of animals? Is there a developmental progression in such reasoning? (2) How does moral reasoning about animals differ from moral reasoning about other life forms-plants and ecological systems? (3) What is the relation, if any, between children's moral reasoning about non-human animals and their moral …

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Institutionalizing Harm In Tennessee: The Right Of The People To Hunt And Fish, Lois Presser, Jennifer L. Schally Dec 2013

Institutionalizing Harm In Tennessee: The Right Of The People To Hunt And Fish, Lois Presser, Jennifer L. Schally

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

What discourses render harm to nonhumans a right? In this article we consider the case of Tennessee's Senate Joint Resolution 30, which proposed to grant citizens "the personal right to hunt and fish." To clarify the institutional logics legitimizing such harm, we analyzed the text of the Resolution as well as statements by politicians and others leading up to the passage of the amendment the Resolution would enact. Logics that supported the Resolution were: (1) claims of the economic utility of hunting and fishing; (2) veneration of the past; and (3) claims of future infringement on said activities. Nonhuman targets …

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Opening Doors: Preventing Youth Homelessness Through Housing And Education Collaboration, Courtney Lauren Anderson Dec 2013

Opening Doors: Preventing Youth Homelessness Through Housing And Education Collaboration, Courtney Lauren Anderson

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

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Introduction: Speaking Up For Justice, Suffering Injustice: Whistleblower Protection And The Need For Reform, Dana L. Gold Dec 2013

Introduction: Speaking Up For Justice, Suffering Injustice: Whistleblower Protection And The Need For Reform, Dana L. Gold

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

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Exploring Self-Efficacy And Stress Of Senior Nursing Students Who Participate In Progressive Simulation., Kaitlyn Nora Luckey-Smith Dec 2013

Exploring Self-Efficacy And Stress Of Senior Nursing Students Who Participate In Progressive Simulation., Kaitlyn Nora Luckey-Smith

Undergraduate Honors Theses

According to Bandura (1994), self-efficacy is defined as "the belief in one’s capabilities to organize and execute the courses of action required in managing prospective situations" (quoted by Pajaras, 1996, p. 543). Self-efficacy has long been theorized to increase job retention and success after graduation from a nursing program. In this study, the researchers explored whether high fidelity simulation during the senior semester of nursing school increases perceived self-efficacy among nursing students. We also evaluated the impact of stress levels on perceived self-efficacy. The study surveyed 135 senior BSN students from both traditional and accelerated programs a Southeastern Tennessee University …

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A Chance To Be Heard: Thoughts About Schedules, Caps, And Collateral Source Deductions In The September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, Stephan Landsman Dec 2013

A Chance To Be Heard: Thoughts About Schedules, Caps, And Collateral Source Deductions In The September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, Stephan Landsman

DePaul Law Review

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A Psychological Perspective On Compensation For Harm: Examining The September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, Tom R. Tyler, Hulda Thorisdottir Dec 2013

A Psychological Perspective On Compensation For Harm: Examining The September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, Tom R. Tyler, Hulda Thorisdottir

DePaul Law Review

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Grief, Procedure, And Justice: The September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, Elizabeth M. Schneider Dec 2013

Grief, Procedure, And Justice: The September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, Elizabeth M. Schneider

DePaul Law Review

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Money Talks: Searching For Justice Through Compensation For Personal Injury And Death, Deborah R. Hensler Dec 2013

Money Talks: Searching For Justice Through Compensation For Personal Injury And Death, Deborah R. Hensler

DePaul Law Review

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The September 11th Victim Compensation Fund: A Circumscribed Response Or An Auspicious Model?, Robert L. Rabin Dec 2013

The September 11th Victim Compensation Fund: A Circumscribed Response Or An Auspicious Model?, Robert L. Rabin

DePaul Law Review

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Compensation For Terrorism: What We Are Learning, Marshall S. Shapo Dec 2013

Compensation For Terrorism: What We Are Learning, Marshall S. Shapo

DePaul Law Review

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Radiating Effects Of Torts, Anne Bloom Dec 2013

Radiating Effects Of Torts, Anne Bloom

DePaul Law Review

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Perception And Decision At The Threshold Of Tort Law: Explaining The Infrequency Of Claims, David M. Engel Dec 2013

Perception And Decision At The Threshold Of Tort Law: Explaining The Infrequency Of Claims, David M. Engel

DePaul Law Review

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Fukushima: Catastrophe, Compensation, And Justice In Japan, Eric A. Feldman Dec 2013

Fukushima: Catastrophe, Compensation, And Justice In Japan, Eric A. Feldman

DePaul Law Review

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How The "Haves" Come Out Ahead In The Twenty-First Century, Shauhin Talesh Dec 2013

How The "Haves" Come Out Ahead In The Twenty-First Century, Shauhin Talesh

DePaul Law Review

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I Get By With A Little Help From My "Friends": How The National Labor Relations Board Misunderstands Social Media, Rebecca Stang Dec 2013

I Get By With A Little Help From My "Friends": How The National Labor Relations Board Misunderstands Social Media, Rebecca Stang

DePaul Law Review

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Melancholia & Metaphor In Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains Of The Day, Kristin Lasheaú Teston Dec 2013

Melancholia & Metaphor In Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains Of The Day, Kristin Lasheaú Teston

Master's Theses

Critics widely acknowledge the psychological grounding of Kazuo Ishiguro's writing. His 1989 novel The Remains of the Day presents a central character deeply afflicted by his inability to acknowledge his condition. Both literal and figurative loss proliferates throughout the novel, and turning to Sigmund Freud's influential essay, "Mourning and Melancholia," allows us to understand how loss influences Stevens's narrative. In this essay, Freud explores conditions that result after the loss of person or an ideal. For Stevens, the lost object is the myth of pre-war English traditions. Freud's theories regarding melancholia provide a crucial insight to Stevens's inability to acknowledge …

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Building Women’S Solidarity To Advance Women’S Rights In Bolivia, Luzdary Hammad Dec 2013

Building Women’S Solidarity To Advance Women’S Rights In Bolivia, Luzdary Hammad

Master's Theses

This paper takes a historical look at the deep-seated ethnic and class divisions between women in Bolivia. It also examines the cultural challenges that help explain the status of women in Bolivia and the obstacles women face to become politically active. It provides the theories of decolonization and depatriachalization as practical ways Bolivia can move past their colonial and patriarchal history. It also looks into what feminism means overall in Latin America and what strategies Latin American women have used to make change for women. It then provides a political history of Bolivia from 1994 to the present giving the …

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Corpus Callosal Microstructure Influences Intermanual Transfer In Chimpanzees, Kimberley A. Phillips, J. Schaeffer, William D. Hopkins Dec 2013

Corpus Callosal Microstructure Influences Intermanual Transfer In Chimpanzees, Kimberley A. Phillips, J. Schaeffer, William D. Hopkins

Psychology Faculty Research

Learning a new motor skill with one hand typically results in performance improvements in the alternate hand. The neural substrates involved with this skill acquisition are poorly understood. We combined behavioral testing and non-invasive brain imaging to study how the organization of the corpus callosum was related to intermanual transfer performance in chimpanzees. Fifty-three chimpanzees were tested for intermanual transfer of learning using a bent-wire task. Magnetic resonance and diffusion tensor images were collected from 39 of these subjects. The dominant hand showed greater performance benefits than the nondominant hand. Further, performance was associated with structural integrity of the motor …

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A Meta-Analytic Review Of The Dark Triad-Intelligence Connection, Ernest H. O'Boyle, Donelson R. Forsyth, George C. Banks, Paul A. Story Dec 2013

A Meta-Analytic Review Of The Dark Triad-Intelligence Connection, Ernest H. O'Boyle, Donelson R. Forsyth, George C. Banks, Paul A. Story

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

We conducted a meta-analytic review of the relations between general mental ability (GMA) and the Dark Triad (DT) personality traits—Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy—to determine if individuals who display socially exploitative social qualities tend to be more intelligent or less intelligent. Across 48 independent samples, GMA showed no consistent relation with any DT trait. These effects were not sufficient to support either the “evil genius” hypothesis (highly intelligent individuals tend to display socially exploitative personality traits) or the “compensatory” hypothesis (less intelligent individuals compensate for their cognitive disadvantages by adopting manipulative behavioral tendencies). However, these relations were moderated, to some extent, …

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Hospital To School Transitions For Children: A Multiple Case Study Of Family Experiences, Rhiannon Yvonne Rager Dec 2013

Hospital To School Transitions For Children: A Multiple Case Study Of Family Experiences, Rhiannon Yvonne Rager

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Children with emotional and behavioral disorders often present with significant impairments in social, emotional, and academic functioning. For those with the most severe impairments, hospitalization is an essential intervention. Prior to releasing children from the hospital, a discharge plan is typically created in order to facilitate successful transition from the hospital setting. Ideally, these plans set the stage for post-hospitalization supports by outlining a course of action for caregivers and coordinating services, with the ultimate goal of helping children maintain gains and reducing recidivism. Research suggests that current practices do not incorporate educational needs and supports into discharge plans. Although …

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Examining The Alignment Of Subject Learning Outcomes And Course Curricula Through Curriculum Mapping, Bick-Har Lam, Kwok-Tung Tsui Dec 2013

Examining The Alignment Of Subject Learning Outcomes And Course Curricula Through Curriculum Mapping, Bick-Har Lam, Kwok-Tung Tsui

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

Content analysis has been used to conduct curriculum mapping to map the course objectives, course content, and the assessment tasks of 14 compulsory courses, onto the five Subject Learning Objective (SLO) factors of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction (DC&I) in a teacher education institution in Hong Kong. The results show that the SLO factors appear either as a cluster or a concentrated whole in the courses, suggesting a connective nature and dominated feature among them. The situation can be explained by the planned integrated learning experience as well as emphasis on specific SLO factors in response to change in …

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