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Making Is Thinking – How Doing Transforms Our Thinking Centric Paradigm Of Innovation And Education, Iain Kerr, Jason Frasca

Department of Management Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Making is thinking'. This is a much more radical claim than it might seem at first glance. It is not that making is simply critical to thinking (which is true), for to phrase it in this manner is to see making and thinking as two separate activi­ties. The claim Making is Thinking argues for something more fundamental-that the ve,y act of making is a form of thinking.

An Analysis Of The Barriers To Cross Border Trade In Hydroelectricity In The Himalayas, Eric Strahorn

Himalayan Policy Research Conference

There are many assumptions held by policymakers and scholars about the potential for hydroelectricity in the Himalayas. The first assumption is that the Himalayan rivers of Bhutan, India, and Nepal are a vast untapped source of hydroelectricity. The second is that the benefits of realizing this potential will provide for a routine cross border trade in relatively clean and sustainable electricity. The third is that despite the perceived benefits there are longstanding barriers that have prevented large scale hydroelectric development. Oseni and Pollitt (2016) argue that it would be worth understanding what barriers stand in the way of expanding cross …

Black Lives Matter At Bsu: Reflections On The Spring Teach-In And Town Hall Meeting, Christy Lyons Graham, Brian Payne, Sarah Thomas, Diana Fox, Polina Sabinin

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Trouble In Paradise: Political Economy And Cultural Criticism: Trouble In Paradise: From The End Of History To The End Of Capitalism, Edward Sandowski, Betty J. Harris

International Dialogue

Slavoj Žižek’s title Trouble in Paradise is also the name of a 1932 movie directed by Ernst Lubitsch, a movie which Žižek begins discussing as his first topic in his introduction. But the title obviously also reflects the notion that there is a difference between the superficial appearances of social life (often publically attractively depicted, with supporting justifications, sustaining collective illusions) and a time of deep societal troubles. Žižek says about his own title: “The ‘paradise’ in the title of this book refers to the End of History (as elaborated by Francis Fukuyama: liberal democratic capitalism as the finally found …

Country Roads, Take Me Home ... To My Friends: How Intelligence, Population Density, And Friendship Affect Modern Happiness, Norman P. Li, Satoshi Kanazawa

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

We propose the savanna theory of happiness, which suggests that it is not only the current consequences of a given situation but also its ancestral consequences that affect individuals’ life satisfaction and explains why such influences of ancestral consequences might interact with intelligence. We choose two varied factors that characterize basic differences between ancestral and modern life – population density and frequency of socialization with friends – as empirical test cases. As predicted by the theory, population density is negatively, and frequency of socialization with friends is positively, associated with life satisfaction. More importantly, the main associations of life satisfaction …

A Perspective On The Potential Role Of Neuroscience In The Court, Ruben C. Gur, Oren M. Gur, Arona E. Gur, Alon G. Gur

Fordham Law Review

This Article presents some lessons learned while offering expert testimony on neuroscience in courts. As a biomedical investigator participating in cutting-edge research with clinical and mentoring responsibilities, Dr. Ruben Gur, Ph.D., became involved in court proceedings rather late in his career. Based on the success of Dr. Gur and other research investigators of his generation, who developed and validated advanced methods for linking brain structure and function to behavior, neuroscience findings and procedures became relevant to multiple legal issues, especially related to culpability and mitigation. Dr. Gur found himself being asked to opine in cases where he could contribute expertise …

Public Views On Renewable Energy In The Rocky Mountain Region Of The United States: Distinct Attitudes, Exposure, And Other Key Predictors Of Wind Energy, Shawn K. Olson-Hazboun, Richard S. Krannich, Peter Robertson

Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology Student Research

Renewable energy is often framed by policymakers and the media as an environmental or ‘green’ issue motivated by global climate change and the need for greenhouse gas reductions. However, some researchers studying social responses to renewables have found that factors other than opinions about climate change may be more influential in determining support for renewables. This study analyzes survey data from a study of five communities in the Rocky Mountain region of the U.S. experiencing wind energy development to examine the relationship between environmental beliefs, climate change opinions, and support for renewable energy. Results show that views on renewable energy …

Immigrant Student Identities: How Bakhtin And Hermans'' Theories Conceptualize Their Fluidity, Xiaodi Zhou

Bilingual and Literacy Studies Faculty Publications

This essay discusses how Bakhtin's conception of double-voicedness and cultural identities, along with Hermans's theories of I-positionality and subjectivities, helps frame researchers' characterization of immigrant students' complex and fluid identities. This age of globalization has increased the number and dimensions of positions anyone can assume. Immigrant identities, particularly students, can especially be conceptualized as dynamic and in flux, fluctuating between at least two cultural positions. Sometimes their transnational identities can be conceived as hybridized and dialogic between these cultural norms.

Review Of The Most Controversial Decision: Truman, The Atomic Bombs, And The Defeat Of Japan And Hiroshima: Why America Dropped The Atomic Bomb, Alicia Espinosa

Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History

About the author

Alicia Espinosa is a junior at Boston University. She will be graduating in May 2018 with a Bachelor of Arts in History and minors in Anthropology and Public Health.

Summer 2016: East German Norbertines Do Business In Magdeburg, St. Norbert College

St. Norbert College Magazine 2013-2018

In 1989, as the Berlin wall fell and – as the Rev. Clemens Dölken, O.Praem., was finishing his doctoral thesis in economics – the economic challenges that East Germany would face following reunification were becoming clear. Soon afterwards, Dölken – on campus last month for Heritage Week – blazed the trail for a small group of Norbertines sent from the Abbey of Hamborn to reestablish the order’s presence in the East German city of Magdeburg.

New Plural Settlements: The Secular And Secularization, Nicholas Adams

Journal of Scriptural Reasoning

No abstract provided.

Drone Panel Presentation: Using Drones In Archaeological Research: Kasakh Valley Archaeological Survey (Kvas), Armenia, Ian Lindsay

Purdue GIS Day

No abstract provided.

Gis In Archaeology: The Pedestrian Survey Of Dana Island In Turkey, Noah Kaye, Gunder Varinlioglu, Nicholas K. Rauh

Purdue GIS Day

An international team of archaeologists conducted a surface survey of the remains on Dana Island, ancient Pithussae, near Silifke in south Coastal Turkey. The island sits 2 km offshore and is uninhabited. Architectural remains of stone quarries, large cisterns, houses and churches extend approximately 1.6 km along its western coast. At the crest of the mountain that rises above the shore stands the remains of an Iron Age fortress incorporated into later Byzantine structures. Relying on a base map constructed of the Google earth view of the island, digitized topographical maps, and an aerial photograph from 1990, the pedestrian team …

Reforming Regulation, Ganesh Sitaraman

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

The debate over federal regulation has long been at the center of political contests. But surprisingly, the degree of agreement about regulation is considerable. No serious commentator denies that regulation is essential to ensuring well-functioning markets; protecting the health and safety of workers and families; and preventing fraud, corruption, and theft. Smart regulation is what makes cars safe to drive, lakes and rivers safe to swim in, and food safe to eat. At the same time, every serious commentator recognizes that poorly designed regulations can be detrimental; they can stack the deck in favor of special interests, prevent competition, and …

From Alexander Street To The Classroom, Bennett Graff

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

And They Were There--Reports Of Meetings, Ramune K. Kubilius

Against the Grain

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Against the Grain

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Being Earnest With Collections--Let's Get In Formation: Standardized Data Review For Eresource Management, Kelli Getz, Michael A. Arthur, Lindsay Cronk

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Advocacy For Autonomy: Complicating The Use Of Scripted Curriculum In Unscripted Spaces, Grace Kang

Language Arts Journal of Michigan

No abstract provided.

Rrh Library Newsletter, November 2016, Libraries At Rochester Regional Health

Rochester Regional Health authored publications and proceedings

Newsletter sections include: The Cadillac Tax; Connect to Library Resources from Google Scholar; Remember to Renew Your UpToDate Anywhere Accounts; Need the latest guidelines?

Recovering Socialism For Feminist Legal Theory In The 21 St Century, Cynthia Grant Bowman

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

This Article argues that a significant strand of feminist theory in the 1970s and 1980s — socialist feminism — has largely been ignored by feminist jurisprudence in the United States and explores potential contributions to legal theory of recapturing the insights of socialist feminism. It describes both the context out of which that theory grew, in the civil rights, anti-war, and anti-imperialist struggles of the 1960s, and the contents of the theory as developed in the writings of certain authors such as Heidi Hartmann, Zillah Eisenstein, and Iris Young, as well as their predecessors in the U.K., and in the …

Annotated Bibliography Of Research In The Teaching Of English, Jessica Dockter Tierney, Ann Mogush Mason, Amy Frederick, Richard Beach, Blanca Caldas, Anne Crampton, Jenna Cushing-Leubner, Lori Helman, Anne Ittner, Ezekiel Joubert, Keitha-Gail Martin-Kerr, Tiffany Nielsen-Winkelman, Debra Peterson, Abigail Rombalski, Kay Rosheim, Andrew Rummel, Lauren Aimonette, Kris Isaacson, Tanja Janssen, Michael Madson, Maggie Struck, Kathryn Allen, Madeleine Israelson, Heidi Jones, Lisa Ortmann, Mark Sulzer, Amanda Haertling Thein

Teaching & Learning Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Academic Senate - Agenda, 11/1/2016, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.

Assessing Diversity Among Corporations In Brazil: An Exploratory Study, Helga Sheyla Pereira

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this thesis is to explore what corporations in Brazil, whether with Brazilian headquarters or not, are doing in regards to communicating their diversity practices and initiatives to the public. Understanding these companies' positions on diversity can paint a better picture of how much Brazil has advanced on diversity in the workplace matters, since the topic started coming about in discussions in the 1990s (Fleury, 2000). A sample of 15 companies was selected from Exame magazine "Melhores e Maiores Ranking 2014" (2015), and a content analysis of each company's website was performed during the summer of 2016, based …

Adulthood In Law And Culture, Vivian E. Hamilton

Faculty Publications

Young people today come of age in a cultural and economic milieu that prolongs their attainment of the traditional markers of adulthood. Their subjective conceptions of the transition to adulthood also depart radically from the traditional conception, with its emphasis on discrete transition events (including marriage and entry into the workforce). Instead, the modern transition to adulthood is a gradual process comprising the acquisition of general capabilities, rather than the achievement of externally constructed events. The state-established age of legal majority stands in marked contrast to this gradual and prolonged process. Not only does it categorically establish the inception of …

Memoriam For Gottfried Oosterwal, Russell L. Staples

Journal of Adventist Mission Studies

No abstract provided.

Five Strategies To Assist Spiritual Leaders In Implementing Self-Care Programs For Compassion Fatigue, Dallas Scales

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this thesis project is to provide five strategies for spiritual leaders to combat the negative affect of compassion fatigue due to trauma events. Although pastoral care and counseling is an effective instrument by which churches stay germane to changing human needs in a shifting society and churches, pastors and caregivers have grown susceptible to compassion fatigue. The researcher will gather data from a survey of 100 spiritual leaders constructed around four hypotheses related to self-care after a trauma event: psychological, emotional, physiological and theological created uniquely for this thesis process. This research will provide five strategies for …

Discipleship Counseling: Developing Healthy, Growing, Multiplying Followers Of Jesus, James Albritton

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This project will look at how professional or lay counseling can increase the effectiveness of making and maturing followers of Jesus. An effective strategy for disciple-making that targets the whole person will be established to help followers of Jesus overcome the emotional pain due to past sin and hurts which have left them ineffective and stagnant in their growth as disciples. Research will be conducted through articles, websites, and books dealing with the subject as well as a survey of at least 50 pastors to determine whether a clear process of disciple-making exists in their church and if any form …

An Examination Of Information Literacy: A Survey Of Community College Faculty, Jamie D. Smith

Education Doctoral

The purpose of this study is to identify the information literacy dispositions that community college faculty find important to their disciplines and therefore, to their students. The study examined who community college faculty members believe is responsible for teaching various information literacy concepts. The study analyzed community college faculty responses related to information literacy skills. Research was conducted in accordance with the Association of College and Research Libraries’ information literacy framework and measured the importance of specific information literacy skills from the perception of faculty. A cross sectional design used quantitative survey methods modeled after Gullikson’s significant research on faculty …

Freedom And The Incarnation, Timothy Pawl, Kevin Timpe

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

In this paper, we explore how free will should be understood within the Christian doctrine of the Incarnation, particularly on the assumption of traditional Christology. We focus on two issues: (i) reconciling Christ's free will with the claim that Christ's human will was subjected to the divine will in the Incarnation; and (ii) reconciling the claims that Christ was fully human and free with the belief that Christ, since God, could not sin.