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Tuition-Free Program To Help Students Build Professional Experience, Office Of University Communications

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Gardner-Webb University’s Office of Career Development began a new program this fall that is designed to help students apply for and earn internships as well as provide assistance throughout the process with skills to prepare for future careers. Internships with the Certified Internship Program (CIP) will begin in the 2016 spring semester and the CIP will aid students in building resumes, practicing for interviews, and learning about networking through workshops and tutorials. While it is a tuition-free program, it does not offer course credit.

WGWG: Internship program at GWU

Psychological Well-Being Of Roman Catholic And Episcopal Clergy Applicants, Shannon Nicole Thomas, Thomas G. Plante

Psychology

The current study investigated the psychological functioning of over 200 applicants to the priesthood or diaconate in the Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches, as revealed by the subjects’ scores on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Second Edition (MMPI-2). Results revealed an overall trend of psychological health in the sample population, evidenced by few systematic elevations in indices of psychopathology. Within the Catholic sample, deacons demonstrated lower MMPI-2 scores on several measures, perhaps suggesting slightly better psychological well-being than their priest counterparts.

Culture Shapes Whether The Pursuit Of Happiness Predictshigher Or Lower Well-Being, Brett Q. Ford, Julia O. Dmitrieva, Daniel Heller, Yulia Chentsova-Dutton, Igor Grossmann, Maya Tamir, Yukiko Uchida, Birgit Koopmann-Holm, Victoria A. Floerke, Meike Uhrig, Tatiana Bokhan, Iris B. Mauss

Psychology

Pursuing happiness can paradoxically impair well-being. Here, the authors propose the potential downsides to pursuing happiness may be specific to individualistic cultures. In collectivistic (vs. individualistic) cultures, pursuing happiness may be more successful because happiness is viewed--and thus pursued--in relatively socially engaged ways. In 4 geographical regions that vary in level of collectivism (United States, Germany, Russia, East Asia), we assessed participants' well-being, motivation to pursue happiness, and to what extent they pursued happiness in socially engaged ways. Motivation to pursue happiness predicted lower well-being in the United States, did not predict well-being in Germany, and predicted higher well-being in …

Human Capital Development And Parental Investment In India, Orazio P. Attanasio, Costas Meghir, Emily Nix

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

In this paper we estimate production functions for cognition and health throughout four stages of childhood from 5-15 years of age using two cohorts of children drawn from the Young Lives Survey for India. The inputs into the production function include parental background, prior child cognition and health and child investments. We allow investments to be endogenous and they depend on local prices and household income, as well as on the exogenous determinants of cognition and health. We find that investments are very important determinants of child cognition and of health at an earlier age. We also find that inputs …

Human Capital Development And Parental Investment In India, Orazio P. Attanasio, Costas Meghir, Emily Nix

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, based on the Young Lives Survey. India has over 70 million children aged 0-5 who are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production functions include parental background, prior child cognition and health, and child investments, which are taken as endogenous. Estimation is based on a nonlinear factor model, based on multiple measurements for both inputs and child outcomes. Our results show an important effect of early health on child cognitive development, which then becomes persistent. Parental investments affect cognitive development at all ages, …

Human Capital Development And Parental Investment In India, Orazio P. Attanasio, Costas Meghir, Emily Nix

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, where over 70 million children aged 0-5 are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production functions include parental background, prior child cognition and health, and child investments. We use income and local prices to control for the endogeneity of investments. We find that cognition is sensitive to investments throughout the age range we consider, while health is mainly affected by early investments. We also find that inputs are complementary, and crucially that health is very important in determining cognition. Our paper contributes in …

Determinants Of Vendor Profitability In Two Contractual Regimes: An Empirical Analysis Of Enterprise Resource Planning Projects, Stefan Hoermann, Tobias Hlavka, Michael Schermann, Helmut Krcmar

Information Systems and Analytics

In this paper, we investigate the effects of four determinants of vendor profitability in enterprise resource planning (ERP) outsourcing projects under two contractual regimes: fixed price (FP) contracts and time and material (TM) contracts. We hypothesize that effect sizes are larger under FP contracts than under TM contracts. From a transaction cost economics perspective, we hypothesize that project uncertainty and project size are negatively associated with vendor profitability. From a knowledge-based view of the firm perspective, we hypothesize that industry knowledge and client knowledge are positively associated with vendor profitability. We tested these hypotheses on a comprehensive archival data set …

Navigating The Urban-Rural Divide: The Agency Of Rural Chinese Female Higher Education Students In China, Lifang Wang

Dissertations - ALL

This dissertation explores how rural Chinese female students at urban Chinese higher education institutions conceptualize and negotiate the urban-rural divide that often interplays with gender and the discourse of quality (suzhi) to shape their lives. A substantial body of literature discusses the profound inequalities that rural Chinese people encounter due to the urban-rural divide and household registration system (Chan & Zhang, 1999; Wang & Zuo, 1999; Loong-Yu & Shan, 2007; Tang & Yang, 2008; Whyte, 2010; Han, 2010). An increasing amount of literature also addresses the experiences of rural Chinese migrant women working in urban China (Gaetano & Jacka, 2004; …

Coteaching In Secondary Schools, Carol A. Willard

Dissertations - ALL

The use of coteaching as a means of supporting students with disabilities in the general education classroom is becoming more common. The literature base on the effectiveness of coteaching in elementary grade levels is well established; however, coteaching in secondary school is a less documented topic. Therefore, this study examines coteaching in secondary schools. Coteaching, as defined in this study, is one general and one special education teacher sharing instructional responsibilities for at least one group of students in one classroom for at least one instructional period. The research questions guiding the study focused on the models of coteaching used …

Pedagogy, Social Transformation, And Space: Toward A Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy For Space, Derek R. Ford

Dissertations - ALL

Building on the work of Peter McLaren, Henri Lefebvre, and David Harvey, this dissertation develops a revolutionary critical pedagogy for space. I begin with a historical and theoretical survey of the roots critical pedagogy, a pedagogical orientation that is often called upon but rarely situated deeply. I then break down revolutionary critical pedagogy into seven components. I elaborate the dominant trends in the current social-political moment. I introduce two terms here, neoliberalism and the global class war. I argue that the former is a necessary but ultimately insufficient framework for understanding the present moment, and that the latter provides a …

The Decision To Pursue The Principalship: Perspectives Of Certified Administrators In Upstate Central New York, Frederick Paul Kirsch

Dissertations - ALL

This qualitative research study sought to uncover the attractants and deterrents of educational administrative positions in Upstate Central New York (CNY) public schools by exploring the perspectives of both practicing principals and those that are certified but not currently employed in an administrative position. The study posed three research questions. First, how do educators who are certified as administrators in Upstate Central New York describe experiences that have influenced them to pursue or not pursue the principalship? Second, what do certified administrators perceive as the attractants and deterrents to the principalship in Upstate Central New York and which of these …

Compulsive Buying And Branding Phenomena, Seung-Hee Lee, Jane Workman

Articles

The purpose of this paper was to explore the impact of brand variables such as brand awareness, brand loyalty, brand attachment, and perceived brand quality on compulsive buying behavior. A self-administered questionnaire, containing demographic items and items related to compulsive buying, brand awareness, brand loyalty, brand attachment and perceived quality, was used to collect data. Participants were 269 US university students at a large mid-western university (138 men, 131 women; mean age = 21.96). Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test and MANOVA/ANOVA. Reliability of all scales was acceptable. In the current study, 18% of the participants were classified as …

Phrynosoma Cornutum (Texas Horned Lizard) Habitat, Alexander J. Wolf, Jennie Mook, Miranda Vesy, Raymond W. Moody, Donna Nolan

Publications

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Simulation Of Lateral Migration And Sedimentation Of A Flexible Fiber In A Vertical Weak Shear Flow, Ali Ibrahim Neamah Neamah

Masters Theses

This research is a thorough numerical investigation and critical analysis of lateral migration of a deformable particle settling in a vertical weak shear flow. Under the vertical weak shear fluid, the deformable particle may move either to the coagulation area, or the dispersion area, depending on Reynolds numbers, shear Reynolds number, fiber flexibility, and aspect ratio. In this study, a lattice Boltzmann equation is used to solve Navier-Stokes equation and a flexible particle method is employed to attack the problem of motion of a flexible fiber. A bounce-back rule is used to deal with moving boundaries interacting with fluids. Several …

An Exploration Of Strategic Planning Perspectives And Processes Within Community Colleges Identified As Being Distinctive In Their Strategic Planning Practices, Lisa J. Augustyniak

Dissertations

Community college leaders face unprecedented change, and some have begun reexamining their institutional strategic planning processes. Yet, studies in higher education strategic planning spend little time examining how community colleges formulate their strategic plans. This mixed-method qualitative study used an expert sampling method to identify three AQIP-accredited community colleges in one Midwestern state that were viewed as leaders in strategic planning. Using their AQIP Systems Portfolios and interviews with their senior leadership, this study examined these colleges’ strategic planning perspectives (i.e., the “point of view” that an organization has chosen to use as a basis for formulating their strategic plan) …

Parallels In Public And Private Environmental Governance, Sarah E. Light, Eric W. Orts

Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law

Private actors, including business firms and non-governmental organizations, play an essential role in addressing today’s most serious environmental challenges. Yet scholars have not fully recognized the parallels between public environmental law and the standard-setting and enforcement functions of private environmental governance. “Instrument choice” in environmental law scholarship is generally understood to refer to government actors choosing among options from the public law “toolkit,” which includes prescriptive rules, the creation of property rights, the leveraging of markets, and informational regulation. Each of these major public law tools, however, has a parallel in private environmental governance. This Article first provides a descriptive …

Water, Water, Everywhere: Surface Water Liability, Jill M. Fraley

Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law

By 2030 the U.S. will lose around $520 billion annually from its gross domestic product due to flooding. New risks resulting from climate change arise not only from swelling rivers and lakes, but also from stormwater runoff. According to the World Bank, coastal cities risk flooding more from their poor management of surface water than they do from rising sea levels. Surface water liability governs when a landowner is responsible for diverting the flow of water to a neighboring parcel of land. Steep increases in urban flooding will make surface water an enormous source of litigation in the coming decades. …

The Private Causes Of Action Under Cercla: Navigating The Intersection Of Sections 107(A) And 113(F), Jeffrey M. Gaba

Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law

The Comprehensive Environmental, Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) provides three distinct “private” causes of action that allow parties to recover all or part of their cleanup costs from “potentially responsible parties.” Section 107(a)(4)(B) provides a “direct” right of cost recovery. Sections 113(f)(1) and 113(f)(3)(B) provide a right of contribution following a CERCLA civil action or certain judicial or administrative settlements. The relationship among these causes of action has been the source of considerable confusion. Two Supreme Court cases, Cooper Industries, Inc. v. Aviall Services, Inc. and United States v. Atlantic Research Corp. have identified certain situations in which the …

The Sun Doesn't Always Shine In Ohio: Reevaluating Renewable Portfolio Standards In Light Of Changed Conditions, Jeffrey M. Smith

Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law

In 2014, with the signing of Senate Bill 310 (S.B. 310), Ohio became the first state to put a temporary “freeze” on its renewable portfolio standard (RPS) and energy efficiency mandates. The law has generated nationwide attention and been criticized as a step back in the state’s clean energy policy. This Note examines the central justifications for the passage of S.B. 310, challenging conventional wisdom that the law does not serve the interests of Ohio citizens. After the passage of Ohio’s RPS in 2008, the economic and energy landscape within the state changed dramatically, due in large part to technological …

Minimization Criteria For Off-Road Vehicle Use, Louisa S. Eberle

Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law

President Nixon recognized the controversy surrounding off-road vehicle (ORV) use on public lands when he signed Executive Order 11,644 in 1972. The Executive Order set out minimization criteria that bound federal land management agencies’ ORV area and trail designations. Forty years later, agencies are still struggling to implement the minimization criteria. Recent court opinions have struck down implementation attempts by the National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, and Forest Service. This note argues that agencies require additional guidance for ORV management, particularly in light of case law that sets a floor for achieving minimization. After examining how the mandate …

論清人三家《詩》分類理論中的"師承法" : 以劉向及《説苑》爲例, Kam Siu Cheung

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

本文以劉向及《説苑》爲例，指出清人誇大師法、家法的作用，并以此作爲通則，凡認定某人治某《詩》，其著作所見《詩》文、《詩》説就歸入某《詩》，推而及之，祖輩治某《詩》，其子孫必定代代相傳。清人把這個認識用在三家《詩》分類上，使三家《詩》佚文遺説大量增加，且家數判然。然而清人强調師法、家法的同時，忘記了漢儒治學也有其别出心裁、博學多聞的特色，因此在判斷家數的時候往往有牽强附會的地方。我們今天重新檢視三家《詩》材料，當詳考其治學歷程，以其《詩》説比對同屬某家《詩》學者之《詩》説，辨明異同，始下判斷。即使二人同治某家《詩》，其引《詩》、説《詩》的文字亦容或有異，不必如清人般强求一致。本文同時提出今後完善三家《詩》分類方法時，應當注意古籍重文互見的現象，同時要善用新出土的以及緯書的材料。

現代學術中的喪服研究 : 以三部喪服學著作爲中心, Fei Wu

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

喪服在中國傳統經學中占有非常重要的地位，但在現代的學術框架中，我們往往不易給喪服研究一個明晰的定位。本文即試圖總結現有研究中的優秀成果，希望能够爲在現代學術框架中言説喪服有所助益。近些年漢語學界比較重要的喪服總體研究主要有丁淩華先生的《五服制度與傳統法律》（原名《中國喪服制度史》）、丁鼎（程奇立）先生的《〈儀禮·喪服〉考論》，以及林素英先生的《喪服制度的文化意義》。本文主要從喪服形制、喪服義例、理論詮釋三個方面全面對比了這三部著作。喪服形制是進一步研究的基礎，没有對具體形制的辨析，是很難有進一步的理論詮釋的。三位先生都非常系統地繼承了清人的重要成果，釐清了很多具體問題，因而在義例方面具有非常大的一致性，都從親屬制度的角度理解喪服，也都從親親、尊尊的基本原則理解制禮方式。但在第三部分，三位學者出於不同的學科背景，有相當不同的現代理論工具，因而呈現出很大差異，分别從法律史、母系社會到父系社會的轉型，以及文化意義的角度理解喪服制度。作者認爲，這些努力都有非常大的意義，但要對喪服有更進一步的系統思考，需要整合所有這幾個方面，對以親親、尊尊爲基礎的禮法體系給出更全面系統的闡釋。

Parker Flex-It Stylet Is As Effective As Gliderite Rigid Stylet For Orotracheal Intubation By Glidescope, Saad A. Sheta, Ashraf A. Abdelhalim, Ismail A. Elzoughari, Tariq A. Alzahrani, Abdulhamid H. Al-Saeed

Saudi Medical Journal

Objectives: To evaluate Parker Flex-It stylet as an alternative to GlideRite Rigid stylet to aid tracheal intubation with the Glidescope. Methods: This prospective randomized trial was conducted at King Abdulaziz University Hospital, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia between May and December 2014. Sixty American Society of Anesthesiologists I-II patients were randomly assigned to one of 2 equal groups receiving intubation by Glidescope using either GlideRite Rigid stylet (Group GS) or Parker Flex-It stylet (Group PS). The total intubation time, ease of intubation, incidences of successful intubation at first attempt, number of intubation attempts, use of optimization …

區大典《詩經講義》述評, Hung Kai Lee

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

《詩經講義》是20世紀二三十年代區大典在香港大學講授經學的課本。是文透過評述《詩經講義》，指出其特點有六：（一）引《詩》互證；（二）引古籍説《詩》；（三）明通假義、引申義；（四）釋山川名物，地理位置；（五）明同義詞、虚詞；（六）評價前人注疏。此外，亦可窺見區大典在殖民地時期的香港，傳授傳統學問的一鱗半爪。區氏在殖民地時期的香港，傳授傳統學問，其貢獻值得肯定。

"鑄造全國青年之思想" : 歐游前後梁啓超講學路徑的變動, Xiaohong Xia

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

梁啓超一生以1917年底爲界，大致可分爲從政與講學兩個時期。前期致力於政治活動，卻也不時興起“社會教育”之思，以報刊文字爲啓蒙利器，梁氏更關注的是國民常識教育。至1917年，其擬想中的教育對象已逐漸從中年人轉嚮青年學生，預示了日後施教場域由社會到學校的遷移。梁希望借助巡迴講演，發明“學問研究法”與“人格修養”。後者在1918年“專爲青年修養而設”、分刊南北三家大報的“講壇”系列文章中，得到明確呈現。而其背後的深切關懷仍是社會政治改良。1920年歐游歸來後，梁啓超的講學路徑發生顯著變化，以“文獻的學問”與“德性的學問”并舉，分别倚重西方科學方法和儒家人生哲學。梁啓超認定，經由西方研究方法整理和闡發的中國固有文化，足可融入世界最新思潮，不僅能够拯救西方的精神危機，也實爲“培養新人才”的“新文化”之有機部分。

疊詞訓釋與經籍句讀 : 楚竹書《周易》釋文辨正, Chi Keung Wong

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

1994年春，上海博物館自香港文物市場購得一批戰國竹簡，當中58枚，上書1806字，可與今本《周易》相對照。竹書圖版2003年刊布於《上海博物館藏戰國楚竹書（三）》，并附整理者濮茅左所撰《考釋》，於文字訓詁、簡序排列多所發明。唯《周易》成書於二千餘年以前，其文句斷讀，異説頗多，孰是孰非，甚難論定。濮氏深於經學，所採斷句，泰半確當，然亦間有可議者。今謹就涉及疊詞訓釋之簡文，管窺蠡測，希於經文句讀之正，有小補焉。

申公臣靈王 (二) : "遇於枥隧", Wenqiang Liu

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

《上海博物館藏戰國楚竹書·申公臣靈王》篇首句“[吾戈]於枥隧”之首字“[吾戈]”，多數學者釋爲“禦”，獨周鳳五釋爲“圉”。唯不論“禦”或“圉”，皆無“禦於”或“圉於”辭例。本文釋該字爲“晤”，即“遇”，二者聲義既通，又有“遇”辭例，故無滯礙；因而遂論“遇”字，以明其事本末云。

香港大學"《春秋》、《左傳》學"研究述要續補, Chow Yiu Sin

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

筆者自20世紀70年代開始，即於香港大學講授《春秋》、《左傳》。1998年6月，筆者應“中央研究院”中國文哲研究所之邀，以“香港大學《左傳》學研究述要”爲題，作一演講，講稿其後刊於《中國文哲研究通訊》。2014年3月，筆者撰《香港大學“〈春秋〉〈左傳〉學”研究述要補》一文，宣讀於嶺南大學中文系主辦之“經學之傳承與開拓國際學術會議”，此文爲《香港大學〈左傳〉學研究述要》之續篇，以其篇幅過鉅，故分爲兩部分，上半採用原有題目，載於《嶺南學報》復刊第三輯，本文則爲續篇之續篇。内容包括（一）竹添光鴻《左氏會箋》論“五情”説管窺、（二）“五情”之相關問題、（三）《高本漢左傳注釋》孔疏杜注異義考辨、（四）《左傳》新注小學補釋芻議、（五）王夫之《春秋稗疏》研究。

重建歷史想象 : 周穎芳及其彈詞小説《精忠傳》考評, Yu Zhang

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

本文從家國危機與女性意識關係的角度考察晚清女作家周穎芳所著長篇彈詞《精忠傳》。通過搜索有關資料、對彈詞文本的解讀及與其他岳飛叙事的比較，考證周穎芳生平及文本中的自我呈現。周以另闢空間的方式在文本中建構了一種對歷史的不同想象，包括從女性視角對岳飛故事的改寫和對傳統家庭角色的重新思考與願景。通過對周穎芳《精忠傳》的重現與解讀，文章重申了對於明清女性文學，尤其女作家創作的叙事文學作品在文學史上的再認識、再探討的重要性。

《詩經·周頌》與《大武》重探 : 以清華簡《周公之琴舞》參證, Pui Ling Tang

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

《大武》樂章是先秦時期的樂舞組詩，歷史文獻稱之爲《大武》，又或簡稱作《武》。20世紀初，王國維先生發表《周大武樂章考》一文，根據《禮記·樂記》記載之《大武》“六成”提出“詩當有六篇”，包括《周頌》的《昊天有成命》、《武》、《酌》、《桓》、《賚》及《般》，其意見雖然受到研究者的普遍重視，但因分析角度及詮釋之異，後代仍有不少研究者提出異議，較爲重要者有高亨、張西堂、孫作雲、陰法魯、楊向奎等十數家。

《清華大學藏戰國竹簡（叁）》於2012年12月出版，其中刊載有《周公之琴舞》一篇，竹簡凡17枚，記載周公及成王儆毖詩共十首，保留迄今所見最早及最全面的先秦樂舞記録，能爲過去有關《大武》的討論提供重要的參考材料。本文將借助先秦兩漢古籍與《周公之琴舞》相參證，對《大武》的相關問題作重新探討。