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Synchrony, Complexity And Directiveness In Mothers' Interactions With Infants Pre- And Post-Cochlear Implantation, Mary K. Fagan, Tonya R. Bergeson, Kourtney J. Morris

Scholarship and Professional Work - Communication

This study investigated effects of profound hearing loss on mother–infant interactions before and after cochlear implantation with a focus on maternal synchrony, complexity, and directiveness. Participants included two groups of mother–infant dyads: 9 dyads of mothers and infants with normal hearing; and 9 dyads of hearing mothers and infants with profound hearing loss. Dyads were observed at two time points: Time 1, scheduled to occur before cochlear implantation for infants with profound hearing loss (mean age = 13.6 months); and Time 2 (mean age = 23.3 months), scheduled to occur approximately six months after cochlear implantation. Hearing infants were age-matched …

Interpreting The Court Interpreters Act: A Practical Guide To Protecting The Rights Of Non-English Speaking Criminal Defendants, Jeffrey Archer Miller

Criminal Law Practitioner

No abstract provided.

Cultural Collisions And The Limits Of The Affordable Care Act, Jasmine E. Harris

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.

Neoliberal Logics Of Voice: Playback Singing And Public Femaleness In South India, Amanda Weidman

Anthropology Faculty Research and Scholarship

This article explores the impact of neoliberal logics of voice on the music - making and performance practices of female playback singers in the South Indian Tamil film industry. As singers whose voices are first recorded in the studio and then “played back” on the set to be lip-synched by actors, playback singers have been professional musicians and public celebrities since the 1950s. Their careers are governed by practices of voice cultivation and by modes of performance and public self-presentation, in the studio, on stage, and increasingly in mediatized contexts. Since the 1990s, neoliberal logics of flexibility, entrepreneurship and self-marketing …

Afraid To Be A Nerd: Effects Of Nerd Stereotypes On Women’S Math Performance, Jennifer Chau

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this research was to examine whether nerd stigma affects math performance. Specifically, it was hypothesized that women exposed to the nerd stigma would perform worse on a mathematics test than women not exposed to the nerd stigma. The current study also aimed to compare the effects of the nerd stigma on women’s math performance with the effects of gender stereotype threat. Gender identity, nerd identity, and fear of social exclusion were examined as possible mediating and moderating variables. Results did not support that nerd stigma affected math performance in either men or women, thus mediational analyses were …

Servant-Leadership: A Feminist Perspective, Kae Reynolds

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

At the heart of this paper is the notion that servant-leadership has potential as a feminism-informed, care-oriented, and gender-integrative approach to organizational leadership. Although there is a significant body of literature on feminist and gender-based interpretations of leadership, the same is not true for servant-leadership. The main contributors to date include Crippen's (2004) narrative inquiry of three women servant-leaders, Eicher-Catt's (2005) feminist critique of servant-leadership, Oner's (2009) and Barbuto and Gifford's (2010) empirical studies of gender differences in servantleadership, and Ngunjiri's (2010) phenomenological study of African women servant-leaders.

Students' Perspectives Of Ngo Service-Learning Experiences: A Case Study Of Operation Smile, Suzanne B. Unger, Shana Pribesh, Linda Bol, Daniel Dickerson

Educational Leadership & Workforce Development Faculty Publications

Past research demonstrated both strong and questionable benefits to students participating in domestic service-learning. However, we know little about high school and college students' perspectives of service-learning while working with nonprofit, non-governmental (NGO) agencies that serve international populations. This qualitative, exploratory study aims to determine how students perceive their lives are impacted as a result of their service-learning experiences at Operation Smile. Data were collected from two focus groups comprised of high school and university youth. Results indicated service-learning in an international setting positively influences areas of personal growth, career choice, and future philanthropic participation. It also affects level of …

The Search For Legislative Intent, Larry Alexander

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Law As Fact And As Reason For Action: A Response To Robert Alexy On Law's 'Ideal Dimension', John M. Finnis

Journal Articles

Robert Alexy’s 2013 Natural Law Lecture, published in vol. 58 of the American Journal of Jurisprudence, presents law as having two dimensions, ideal and real, and thus a dual nature, to be elucidated by a conceptual analysis distinguishing between the observer’s and the participant’s perspective. It argues on this basis for a “non-positivist” theory of law that is “inclusive” in that it classifies some unjust laws as laws, but not all (and is thus not “super-inclusive”); it rejects the “exclusive non-positivism” that would treat every injustice in a law’s making or content as excluding it from the class of valid …

Private Law In The Gaps, Jeffrey A. Pojanowski

Journal Articles

Private law subjects like tort, contract, and property are traditionally taken to be at the core of the common law tradition, yet statutes increasingly intersect with these bodies of doctrine. This Article draws on recent work in private law theory and statutory interpretation to consider afresh what courts should do with private law in statutory gaps. In particular, it focuses on statutes touching on tort law, a field at the leading edge of private law theory. This Article's analysis unsettles some conventional wisdom about the intersection of private law and statutes. Many leading tort scholars and jurists embrace a regulatory …

Front Matter Of Volume 9 Number 1, Tufail A. Qureshi

Business Review

Front matter, Contents and Editorial perspective

Cooking Up A Deal: Negotiation Recipes For Success, Jim Coben, Robert Dingwall, Dan Druckman, Noam Ebner, Howard Gadlin, Chris Honeyman, Sanda Kaufman, Michelle Lebaron, Roy Lewicki, David Matz, Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Michael Moffitt, Jen Reynolds, Andrea Kupfer Schneider, John Wade, Nancy Welsh

All Faculty Publications

If forced to be concise and pithy, what would a room full of negotiation scholars cook up? The compilation of recipes was in response to the request for each person’s own definition of negotiation effectiveness put in the form of a recipe. Not only is this interesting in terms of seeing the similarities and differences among this leading and diverse group of scholars, the exercise itself is one that can easily be replicated in negotiation or dispute resolution classes. It forces each participant to think about (a) ingredients; (b) amount of each; and (c) the order in which each skill …

Disclosing Big Data, Michael Mattioli

Articles by Maurer Faculty

This Article reveals that the law is failing to adequately encourage producers of “big data” to disclose their most innovative work to the public. “Big data” refers to a new industrial and scientific phenomenon that holds the potential to transform diverse industries—from medicine, to energy, to online services. At the heart of this phenomenon are innovative and complex practices by which experts shape featureless digital records into valuable information products. The fact that these big data practices are unlikely to be widely disclosed to the public is worrisome for familiar reasons: the law generally prefers to induce technological disclosure in …

What Jurors Want To Know: Motivating Juror Cognition To Increase Legal Knowledge And Improve Decisionmaking, Sara Gordon

All Faculty Publications

What do jurors want to know? Jury research tells us that jurors want to understand the information they hear in a trial so they can reach the correct decision. But like all people, jurors who are asked to analyze information in a trial—even jurors who consciously want to reach a fair and accurate verdict—are unconsciously influenced by their internal goals and motivations. Some of these motives are specific to individual jurors; for instance, a potential juror with a financial interest in a case would be excluded from the jury pool. But other motivations, like the motive to understand the law …

Ce 575 Syllabus: Addictions Counseling Multicultural Concerns, Mitch Moore

Counselor Education Syllabi

Multiculturalism is an important concept to examine in relation to addictions counseling. Client age, race, gender identity, ethnic identity, sexual orientation, economic status and/or disability status can impact the course of addiction or treatment. In this course, students will examine cultural influences as they converge with substance abuse and dependence.

Unfinished Business: The Affordable Care Act And The Problem Of Delayed And Denied Erisa Health Care Claim, 47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 887 (2014), Katherine Vukadin

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.

Rethinking Resistance: Reflections On The Cultural Lives Of Property, Collective Identity, And Intellectual Property, 47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1349 (2014), Caroline Joan Picart

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.

Ice's New Policy On Segregation And The Continuing Use Of Solitary Confinement Within The Context Of International Human Rights, Sarah Dávila A.

UIC Law Review

The purpose of this essay is to discuss ICE Policy 11065.1 on segregation, its deficiencies and its unlikely full implementation, and emphasize that the current use of solitary confinement in immigration detention is in contravention of international human rights principles.

Combating Trademark Squatting In China: New Developments In Chinese Trademark Law And Suggestions For The Future, Sunny Chang

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

Abstract: This Note explores the phenomenon of trademark squatting in China. Several characteristics relating to the development of Chinese Trademark Law, such as the first-to-file and multi-class application system, as well as the inherent complexities of the Chinese language, contributed to creating an environment amenable to trademark squatting. New developments in China, including a December 2011 opinion from the Supreme Court and a recent amendment to Chinese Trademark Law, signal that the country is moving forward towards stronger protection of intellectual property. However, these changes will likely not be enough to prevent trademark squatters from targeting well-known foreign trademarks, since …

Transplanting And Customizing
 Legal Systems: Lessons From
 Namibian Legal History, Martin Cai Lockert

Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business

No abstract provided.

Mexican-Origin Parents’ Latent Occupational Profiles: Associations With Parent-Youth Relationships And Youth Aspirations, Lorey A. Wheeler, Kimberly A. Updegraff, Adriana Umana-Taylor, Jenn-Yun Tein

Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families, and Schools: Faculty Publications

This study utilized an ecological, person-centered approach to identify subgroups of families who had similar profiles across multiple dimensions of Mexican-origin mothers’ and fathers’ occupational characteristics (i.e., self-direction, hazardous conditions, physical activity) and to relate these subgroups to families’ sociocultural characteristics and youth adjustment. The study included 160 dual-earner Mexican-origin families from the urban Southwest. Mothers’ and fathers’ objective work characteristics and families’ sociocultural characteristics were assessed when youth were in early to middle adolescence; adjustment was assessed during late adolescence and early adulthood for two offspring in each family. A latent profile analysis identified 3 profiles that evidenced distinct …

(Review) Jones, Christine A. And Jennifer Schacker, Eds., Marvelous Transformations: An Anthology Of Fairy Tales And Contemporary Critical Perspectives And Raynard, Sophie, Ed., The Teller’S Tale: Lives Of The Classic Fairy Tale Writers, Jeana Jorgensen

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Jeana Jorgensen's review of:

Marvelous Transformations: An Anthology of Fairy Tales and Contemporary Critical Perspectives. Ed. Christine A. Jones and Jennifer Schacker. (Peterborough, ON : Broadview Press, 2013. Pp. 580, introduction, notes on contributors, sources.)

The Teller’s Tale: Lives of the Classic Fairy Tale Writers. Ed. Sophie Raynard. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2012. Pp. vi + 183, introduction, list of contributors, index.)

Quantifying The Grimm Corpus: Transgressive And Transformative Bodies In The Grimms’ Fairy Tales, Jeana Jorgensen

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

What do bodies mean in fairy tales? Donald Haase’s engagement with the Grimms’ fairy tales has offered some hints, ranging from his attention to feminist scholarship on the Grimms to his multifaceted review of recent Grimm scholarship that addresses various meanings of bodies in the language and translation of their tales. Inspired by Haase’s work and encouragement, I created a database that lists every mention or description of a body in the Grimms’ tales and in five other European tale collections. I detailed the results of this quantitative investigation in my dissertation, generally treating all the tale collections as part …

The Use Of Clickers To Assess Knowledge In Foreign Language Classes And Their Failure To Increase Reading Compliance, Juan P. Rodríguez Prieto

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

This is the first quantitative research on reading compliance in FL courses. It investigated the effect of clickers on learning gains for regularly assigned readings, determined by 16 quiz grades during a semester. 38 intermediate L2 Spanish students assigned to two group conditions also completed a questionnaire at the end of the semester about their preparedness for the quizzes and their opinions about the use of clickers. Results indicated that participants in the Clicker condition obtained significantly lower grades in the quizzes than those in the Paper and Pencil one, despite clickers receiving positive feedback and comments, and even though …

Scientific Method In Meteorology, Triberiu Popa

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

This article explores the main aspects of Aristotle’s scientific method in Meteorology IV. Dispositional properties such as solidifiability or combustibility play a dominant role in Meteor. IV (a) in virtue of their central place in the generic division of homoeomers, based on successive differentiation and multiple differentiae, and (b) in virtue of their role in revealing otherwise undetectable characteristics of uniform materials (composition and physical structure). While Aristotle often starts with accounts of ingredients and their ratio (e.g., solids that contain a significant amount of water are liquefiable), the natural direction of his investigation is …

2014 Otterbein Football Game Day Program, Otterbein University

Football Programs

No abstract provided.

A Comparison Of Locus Of Control And General English Achievement In Students Of Medicine And Theology, Seyyed Ehsan Golparvar

Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

Locus of control refers to individuals’ orientation to attribute their successes and failures. Its effect on students’ academic achievement has scarcely been investigated within General English context. This study is aimed at exploring the difference in General English (GE) achievement between students of Medicine and Theology. It also examines the effect of locus of control (LOC) on GE achievement in these two groups of university students. University students’ General English scores serve as criteria for General English achievement. Fifty students of Medicine and fifty students of Theology participated in this study. The results of the study indicate that: (1) there …

Catalonia: The New European State?, Garcia Barcia

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

On September 11, 2012, a sea of Catalonians, 1.5 million according to the Urban Guard and 600,000 according to the Government Delegation, protested under the slogan: "Catalonia, new European State."'

Fiscal Year 2013-2014 Annual Report, Tennessee Commission On Children And Youth

Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

An Evaluation Of The 2014 Gateway Cities English Language Learner Enrichment Academies, Ruth M. López, Sara Mcalister, Kerri Ullucci, Julia Stoller, Rosann Tung

Education Faculty Publications

The purpose of the Gateway Cities English Language Learner Enrichment Academies was to support English language fluency and comprehension of middle and high school ELLs through summer programming. Twenty Gateway Cities in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts implemented four-week summer academies serving a total of 1679 middle and high school English language learners in 2014. This mixed-methods evaluation documents the program design, conditions, and outcomes of these academies. In this report, we share how the participants of these programs were the most vulnerable ELLs in terms of English proficiency and ELA and Math content knowledge when compared to their peers in …