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Whom Do You Trust? Doubt And Conspiracy Theories In The 2009 Influenza Pandemic, Shawn C. Smallman Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

The 2009 pandemic of H1N1 influenza led people around the globe to create narratives about the epidemic defined by the question of trust; these narratives ranged from true conspiracy theories to simply accounts in which mistrust and betrayal formed a motif. In particular, most of these narratives reflected a fear of capitalism and globalization, although in specific regions, other issues—such as religion—played a more central role. These stories were not unique to the H1N1 pandemic but rather have appeared with every contemporary outbreak of infectious disease. This paper will examine conspiracy theories and moral panics related to the H1N1 pandemic …

Haynes, Jeffrey (Ed.). Routledge Handbook Of Democratization. London And New York: Routledge, 2012., Laurens De Rooij

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Business Intelligence And Geographic Information System Lifecycle Architecture Using Cloud Computing For Smart Community, Rawan Sendi

Theses

Business Intelligence (BI) is a technique and IT tool that supports business decision making. BI is considered a unique source of competitive advantage in the market place and it can combine data, multimedia, and transactions all in one application to address people's needs. Using BI applications can increase both operational efficiency and customer satisfaction. In addition, BI improves planning that provides the foundation for top successful performances in the future. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) deliver productivity tools that are highly beneficial for businesses. These benefits include: visualization, business capacity, analysis, and interpreting data to understand relationships, patterns, and trends. Another …

Effectively Using Discussion Boards To Engage Students In Introductory Leadership Courses, Deborah N. Smith

Faculty Articles

This article discusses the use of online asynchronous discussion boards as a valuable tool for connecting students to leadership concepts, theories, and models in introductory leadership survey courses. Recommendations are given for designing effective discussion boards that engage students and enhance their learning. Student outcomes include construction on knowledge, relevant connections between course material and personal lives, and critical reflection.

Under Scrutiny: Judicial Review, King Ex Rel. Harvey-Barrow V. Beaufort County Board Of Education, And The Fundamental Right To Education In The State Of North Carolina, Mary Jean Tkach

North Carolina Central Law Review

No abstract provided.

Getches-Wilkinson Center Newsletter, Spring 2015, University Of Colorado Boulder. Getches-Wilkinson Center For Natural Resources, Energy, And The Environment

Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment Newsletter (2013-)

No abstract provided.

Do You "Park Your Car" Or "Pahk Your Cah''?: The Changing Dialect Of Southern New Hampshire, Melanie Platt

Inquiry Journal 2015

This article reports on a sociolinguistic study conducted in the summer of 2014 in which I interviewed native southern New Hampshire men and women, aged 18 to 89, listening for rhoticity (r variable) in their speech. I found that speakers younger than 60 years old are now exhibiting fully rhotic speech, which contrasts with the results of earlier studies.Possible motivations for the shift were also examined and compared with more recent studies on the r variable. I found in this study a correlation between the non-rhotic speech of many older speakers and small farming communities. The shift from non-rhotic to …

Table Of Contents

ESSAI

No abstract provided.

"All Writs" In Bankruptcy And District Courts: A Story Of Differing Scope, George Kuney

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.

Suhrke, Astri & Mats Berdal, (Eds.). The Peace In Between: Post-War Violence And Peacebuilding. London: Routledge, 2012., Joseph Stimpfl Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Acemoglu, Daron & James R. Robinson. Why Nations Fail: The Origins Of Power, Prosperity And Poverty. New York: Crown Publishing, 2012., Maximiliano E. Korstanje Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Quanah And Cynthia Ann Parker: The History And The Legend, Booth Library

Booth Library Programs

Photo galleries and supporting exhibits can be found on the QUANAH AND CYNTHIA ANN PARKER exhibit page.

Exhibit Dates

This exhibit was displayed at Booth Library February 7 - April 9, 2015

A Contemporary Decennial Examination Of Changing Agricultural Field Sizes Using Landsat Time Series Data, Emma V. White, David P. Roy

GSCE Faculty Publications

Field size distributions and their changes have not been studied over large areas as field size change datasets are not available. This study quantifies agricultural field size changes in a consistent manner using Landsat satellite data that also provide geographic context for the observed decadal scale changes. Growing season cloud-free Landsat 30 m resolution images acquired from 9 to 25 years apart were used to extract field object classifications at seven sites located by examination of a global agricultural yield map, agricultural production statistics, literature review, and analysis of the imagery in the US Landsat archive. High spatial resolution data …

Southern Register. 2015.2 (Spring 2015), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture

Southern Register

No abstract provided.

Friends Of Musselman Library Newsletter Spring 2015, Musselman Library

Friends of Musselman Library Newsletter

From the Director: Open Access (Robin Wagner)

Global Perspective: Library Participation in College’s Internationalization Efforts (Lucy Marinova ’12, Munya Choga ’12)

Remembering Gale Baker

Library wins 2014 Best in Show

Summer Reads 2015 Launches

Eisenhower Exhibit

Birds of a Feather: Photography Exhibit (Sandra Blair)

Heads Will Turn: Student Exhibit (Mark Warwick)

Edible Books

Audubon Print - Carolina Parrot (Geoffrey Jackson ’91)

Life in Photos: William H. Tipton exhibit

50^th reunion Gift of First Editions (John E. Rogers, Jr. ’65)

Sharing the Past: Alumni Memorabilia (Jessica Casale ’18, Julia Hendon, Clara A. Baker ’30, Gary T. Hawbaker ’66)

19^{th …}

Prism, Spring 2015, Office Of The Provost

Prism: Western Michigan University's Newsletter for Academic Affairs

No abstract provided.

Intra-Household Wealth Inequality And Economic Development: Evidence From Karnataka, India, Deepak Malghan, Hema Swaminathan

Working Papers

While wealth inequality has attracted attention in the recent inequality literature, such inequalities within the most elementary social unit -- the household -- remain neglected. We develop an empirical framework for measuring intra-household wealth inequality. Using unique individual-level wealth data from Karnataka, India, we report how a third of overall wealth inequality is attributable to inequality within the household. A significant barrier to interpreting intra-household wealth inequalities is the public goods nature of several household assets. We overcome this limitation with a simple normative framework derived from the Atkinson index. While welfare measures are incommensurable across different households, welfare loss …

The Cord (April 1, 2015)

The Cord

No abstract provided.

A Novel Root Based Arabic Stemmer, Mohammed N. Al-Kabi, Saif A. Kazakzeh, Belal M. Abu Ata, Saif A. Al-Rababah, Izzat M. Alsmadi

Computer Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

Stemming algorithms are used in information retrieval systems, indexers, text mining, text classifiers etc., to extract stems or roots of different words, so that words derived from the same stem or root are grouped together. Many stemming algorithms were built in different natural languages. Khoja stemmer is one of the known and widely used Arabic stemmers. In this paper, we introduced a new light and heavy Arabic stemmer. This new stemmer is presented in this study and compared with two well-known Arabic stemmers. Results showed that accuracy of our stemmer is slightly better than the accuracy yielded by each one …

Collaborative Power: Graduate Students Creating And Implementing Faculty Development Workshops On Multilingual Writing, Brooke R. Schreiber, Dorothy Worden, Eunjeong Lee

Publications and Research

A description of how a group of graduate students was able to coordinate institutional resources and connections to put on faculty development sessions for working with multilingual writers (often called ESL students) across the curriculum.

Ua42 Regional Review: Reaching New Heights In The Region Spring 2015, Heather Garcia ,Editor

Regional Campuses Publications

No abstract provided.

Marine Animalia Organism Diversity And Reef Condition On Two Reef Sites At Big Creek Beach And Boca Del Drago, Bocas Del Toro, Panamá, Bri Tiffany

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Ocean acidification, climate change, overfishing, and coastal development are endangering coral reefs across the globe. In Bocas del Toro, Panamá, coral reefs are especially threatened by the rapid growth in tourism and the subsequent anthropogenic effects caused by an increased human presence. To evaluate reef condition in this area, a study comparing percent coverage of live and dead coral as well as the diversity of marine Animalia organisms was conducted at one reef site in Big Creek beach and one reef site in Boca del Drago, Isla Colón, Bocas del Toro. It was predicted that dead coral cover would be …

Parnassus: Classical Journal (Volume 3, 2015), Corey J. Scannell, Rebecca Finnigan, Marianne Muro, Alexandra Larkin, Joseph Macneill, Valerie Kisselback, Kelsey Littlefield, Thomas Krueger, Meagan Freeze, Margaret Macmullin

Parnassus: Classical Journal (v.1-6)

Parnassus is an undergraduate journal published by the College of the Holy Cross in conjunction with the Classics Department. Parnassus' mission is to share the passion of Holy Cross students for the ancient world. All pieces aim to be generally understandable, allowing the field to be more accessible to non-specialists in the community.

Collection Development Policy, Philosophy, Richard H. Harrison

Libraries' Documents

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Attitude On Local Seafood Purchase Intention Of Tourist Couples Visiting South Carolina: A Multi-Level Approach, Guliz Coskum, William C. Norman, Dewayne Moore

Health, Education and Human Development Awards

Research on family travel decision making has shown that the roles of husband, wife and children have evolved through the years. In a research conducted about 40 years ago husbands were found more dominant in travel decisions (Jenkins, 1978). This study was replicated by Litvin, Xu and Kang (2004) more recently and a decrease in husband’s influence and increase in joint decisions were observed. Local food preference being one of the decisions made during travel, creates positive impact on the region through backward linkages between local food producers and tourism industry (Cohen, & Avieli, 2004; Torres, 2002; Telfer & Wall, …

Uni Grad Student News, V12n4, April 2015, University Of Northern Iowa. Graduate College.

UNI Grad Student News

Inside this issue:

-- Message from the Dean
-- Current Student Profile: Somtochukwu Ebede
-- Current Faculty Profile: Kavita Dhanwada
-- Alumni Profile: Shannon McClintock-Miller
-- Public History Student Attends an Academic Conference
-- Graduate Students Represent UNI at Academic Conference in New Mexico
-- Giving and Receiving Writing Criticism
-- Midwestern Psychological Association
-- Multicultural Graduate Student Association Reinstated at UNI
-- Career Spotlight: The Video Interview
-- School Counseling Students Attend Advocacy Event
-- Update Your Resume and CV
-- Graduate College Staff and Contact Information

Eighth Annual Uni Graduate Student Symposium [Program], 2015, University Of Northern Iowa

Annual Graduate Student Symposium Programs

Table of Contents
Welcome Letter from Dr. April Chatham-Carpenter ••• 3
Listing of Judges By Category ••• 4-7
Poster Presentations Listed by Presentation Type, Last Name ••• 8-17
Oral Presentations Listed by Room in Order of Presentation ••• 18-26
Creative Performances Listed in Order of Performance ••• 27-29
Acknowledgements ••• 30

Vegetation Dynamics And Mesophication In Response To Conifer Encroachment Within An Ultramafic System, J. Burgess, K. Szlavecz, N. Rajakaruna, S. Lev, C. Swan

Biological Sciences

The biological, ecological, and evolutionary significance of serpentine habitats has long been recognised. We used an integrated physiochemical dataset combining plot spatial data with temporal data from tree cores to evaluate changes in soils and vegetation. Data suggest that this unique habitat is undergoing a transition, endangering local biodiversity and endemic plant species. The objective of this work was to analyse the vegetation dynamics of a xeric serpentine savanna located in the Mid-Atlantic, USA. We employed vegetation surveys of 32 10 × 15 m quadrats to obtain woody species composition, density, basal area, and developed a spatial physiochemical dataset of …

Pbio Colloquium | Anomaly In Tree Growth In The Central Appalachian Mountains, April 10, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

Why Is The Color Of One’S Skin So Significant In Southern Mexico?, Savalda Jacqueline Platt

Capstone Collection

The following research examines and addresses an ideology about race and the color of skin. The goal is to bring forth knowledge about a Mexican community that experiences discrimination and racism due to their skin color. It will view how and why skin color became a tool against a community that has existed in Mexico for centuries. The villages reside off the coastal areas of Mexico evolved from the ramifications of slave trading and owning. Mixed marriages between villages altered the color fabric of Mexico’s society in many ways; fair skin was not the dominant player any longer. This began …