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Some Social Differences On The Basis Of Race Among Puerto Ricans, Carlos Vargas-Ramos

CUNY Centro, The Center for Puerto Rican Studies

Puerto Ricans are a multiracial people. This is given by the fact that the Puerto Rican population is composed of people from different categories of socially differentiated and defined racial groups, and also because not an insignificant number of Puerto Rican individuals share ancestry derived from multiple racial groups. Yet, the analysis of social difference and inequities among Puerto Ricans on the basis of physical difference is largely avoided, and when it is conducted its findings are often neglected.

Ua42/3/2 Commencement Program, Wku Glasgow

WKU Administration Documents

Commencement program for WKU Glasgow Graduand Ceremony.

Essays On The Medicare Enrollment And Medicare Costs Of Older Americans, Yuanyuan Deng

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This dissertation consists of two chapters. The 1999 to 2010 data from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey are used in this dissertation. The first chapter empirically analyze the role of labor supply and Medicare secondary payer on Medicare costs, taking into account the recent evolution of labor supply and the implementation of the 1983 Social Security reform. The labor force participation rate of Americans 65 years and older has sharply increased since the mid-1990s. These increases have been accompanied by an increasing number of Older Americans covered by current employer-provided health insurance plans. For those covered workers, Medicare becomes secondary …

Sequential Monte Carlo Methods For Inference And Prediction Of Latent Time-Series, Inigo Urteaga

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

In the era of information-sensing mobile devices, the Internet-of-Things and Big Data, research on advanced methods for extracting information from data has become extremely critical. One important task in this area of work is the analysis of time-varying phenomena, observed sequentially in time. This endeavor is relevant in many applications, where the goal is to infer the dynamics of events of interest described by the data, as soon as new data-samples are acquired. This dissertation is on novel methods for sequential inference and prediction of latent time-series. We assume that a sequence of observations is a function of a hidden …

Margery Kempe: A Mirror Of Change In Late-Medieval England, Janet Tuthill

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Often considered the earliest autobiography written in English, The Book of Margery Kempe expresses social and religious commentary. This dissertation discusses Kempe’s life story as it mirrors the religious and social changes occurring in late-medieval England. I view Margery Kempe as a real person who was very involved in the production of her book, that the scribes who assisted her played an important part in shaping the text, but that we mainly hear Kempe’s voice. My view is that the work is neither a straightforward presentation of lived experience nor pure fiction, but based upon the real-life experiences of an …

Essays On Value Creation In Online Marketplaces, Warut Khern-Am-Nuai

Open Access Dissertations

This dissertation consists of three essays that study the transformative impact of new information technologies under three specific contexts using both empirical and theoretical approaches. Chapter 2 examines the online review system, which is the new type of information technology that replaces the traditional word-of-mouth communication. Particularly, we study the practice of the platform owner that uses monetary incentives to attract reviewers. The research problem is important as firms, which seek to strengthen their online review platforms, have considered various forms of incentives, including extrinsic rewards, to encourage users to write reviews. We encountered a natural experiment design where one …

El Leñador, December 2016, El Leñador Staff

2016

El Leñador is an English and Spanish newspaper produced by Humboldt State University students. Our staff cover and provide news to Latinx and other diverse communities on campus and in Humboldt County. We are committed to providing relevant news and expanding the representations and stories told about people of color and other marginalized groups. Our work helps create more social, political and cultural diversity in local media.

El Leñador es un periodico en español y inglés producido por estudiantes de la Universidad Estatal de Humboldt. Nuestro personal cubre y provee noticias a la comunidad Latinx y otras comunidades diversas en …

Connections, 12/2016, College Of Health And Human Services

College of Health and Human Services Newsletter

• CHHS faculty and staff recognized at State of the College
• Learn about this year's recipients. PA student awarded scholarship
• OT instructor receives EUP Community Engagement Award
• Students raise awareness about sexual and domestic assault
• AHEC hosts HOSA MED-TALK 2016

Review: Dolan, Josephine And Estella Tincknell, Eds. Aging Femininities: Troubling Representations., Carol Mukhopadhyay

Faculty Publications, Anthropology

A review of Dolan, Josephine and Estella Tincknell, eds. Aging Femininities: Troubling Representations. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2012. Hardback. ISBN-13: 978-1-4438-3883-2 , ISBN-10: 1-4438-3883-7 , Price: £39.99

Nebraska Legislative District Quick Facts From The 2011-2015 American Community Survey, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

Past Publications

The Nebraska Legislature's Planning Committee was created in 2009 with the passage of LB 653 in order to help establish a process of long-term state planning with the Nebraska Legislature. The committee was created to assist state government in identifying emerging trends, assets and challenges of the state and the long-term implications of the decisions made by the Nebraska Legislature.

Animal Health Matters, Jane Hennings, Larry Holler, Russ Daly, Linda Fawcett

Animal Health MATTERS Newsletter

[Page] 1 SDSU and SHIC Study on Senecavirus Offers Keen Insights
[Page] 2 Director's Message: Innovation in the Laboratory and Being Proactive in the Protection of Animal Health
[Page] 2 Bovine Abortion-Sample Submission Guidelines
[Page] 3 South Dakota One Health Meeting Covers Bacterial Zoonotic Disease
[Page] 3 Small Ruminant, Poultry Serology Offerings Expanded at the ADRDL
[Page] 4 Molecular Diagnostics Section Evolves, Adds New Tests
[Page] 5 Recent PCR tests Added by ADRDL
[Page] 6 New Employees
[Page] 7 ADRDL Continues Their Critical Role Supporting Animal Exports

Graduate Studies Newsletter, Graduate Studies Office

Newsletters

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Digital Commons @ HSU P.3

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Student Success Stories P.5,6

The Setonian, December 1, 2016, Seton Hall University

2016

No abstract provided.

An Overview Of Assessment In The Core Curriculum 2011-2016, Butler University

Assessment Documents

No abstract provided.

The Digital Musing Of A History Buff, Charles W. Kann

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Perhaps the best part of studying Computer Science (CS) is that it is not an isolated discipline; CS exists to produce systems and applications that support the business and interests of nearly every person in the world. Any area of inquiry is open to fanciful and meaningful exploration by computer scientists. In a very real sense, the world is the oyster of those who can use digital tools developed by CS.

In his talk, Dr. Kann will explore how he uses those digital tools to advance his enthusiasm for history. The talk will highlight some of the work he has …

Improving The Adherence Of Providers To The American Academy Of Sleep Medicine Guidelines For The Evaluation, Treatment, And Management Of Obstructive Sleep, Heather Miles

Doctor of Nursing Practice

The purpose of this project is to increase the adherence of clinic providers to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine’s Clinical Guidelines for the Evaluation, Management, and Longterm Care of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults. OSA is a chronic condition that effects from 2% to 10% of the U.S. adult population. Implications of undiagnosed OSA include excessive daytime sleepiness, fatigue, irritability, difficulty controlling chronic diseases including diabetes and hypertension, heart arrhythmias, gastroesophageal reflux disease, mood disorders, attention deficit disorder, and an increased potential for dementia if left untreated. A protocol was created to align providers with the clinical guidelines. Provider …

Theological Anthropology In The Theology Of Marriage And Family, Joseph S. Flipper

Journal of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium

The Catholic Church is faced with the challenge of theologically interpreting families that have experienced divorce, remarriage, and children outside of wedlock. The anthropology of conjugal self-gift, though valuable as an analogy to the Trinitarian communion, makes the nuclear family into an ideal. Since fewer than half of children in the U.S. live in the “traditional family,” it remains a problematic ideal. I suggest that familial and marital situations outside of the norm—often seen as problems illustrative of the breakdown of marriage in contemporary society—may be regarded in another light. A more adequate anthropology must consider how diverse marital and …

Progression Magazine, 2016 Winter, Coastal Carolina University

Progression Magazine

Magazine of the College of Science at Coastal Carolina University.

Deaf Southern Star, December 2016

Deaf Southern Star

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in New Zealand

Deaf Southern Star Finding Aid

How Ontarians Experience The Law: An Examination On Incidence Rate, Seriousness And Response To Legal Problems, Matthew Dylag

LLM Theses

Access to civil justice is a conceptual framework that, at its most basic, claims all people are entitled to have their legal disputes resolved fairly. However, it is currently understood that these ideals are not reflected in the day-to-day realities of ordinary people. Though scholarship has examined ways in which to better allow for meaningful access to civil justice, there is still a need for further quantitative research especially from the Canadian perspective. This paper provides an empirical foundation to this discussion by examining the 2014 Cost of Justice project survey. Specifically, it examines the incidence rate of civil legal …

October To December 2016

All Summaries

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The R Journal (December 2016) 8(2): Complete Issue, The R Foundation

The R Journal

Editorial, Michael Lawrence

Contributed Research Articles

multipleNCC: Inverse Probability Weighting of Nested Case-Control Data, Nathalie C. Støer and Sven Ove Samuelsen

QPot: An R Package for Stochastic Differential Equation Quasi-Potential Analysis, Christopher M. Moore, Christopher R. Stieha, Ben C. Nolting, Maria K. Cameron, and Karen C. Abbott

Design of the TRONCO BioConductor Package for TRanslational ONCOlogy, Marco Antoniotti, Giulio Caravagna, Luca De Sano, Alex Graudenzi, Giancarlo Mauri, Bud Mishra, and Daniele Ramazzotti

diverse: An R Package to Analyze Diversity in Complex Systems, Miguel R. Guevara, Dominik Hartmann, and Marcelo Mendoza

Simulating Correlated Binary and Multinomial Responses under Marginal Model Specification: …

School Of Culinary Arts & Food Technology Winter Newsletter 2016, James Peter Murphy

Other resources

The School of Culinary Arts & Food Technology - Winter Newsletter captured the many events, research, awards, significant contributions and special activities which the students and staff members of the school have successfully completed leading up to the Winter period of 2016.

Complex Glycan Utilization Preferences Of Human Gut Bacteria, Yunus Emre Tuncil

Open Access Dissertations

Complex glycans, making up dietary fiber, have gained significance in recent years as they are the main energy source for the colonic microbiota which are physiologically important for the host health. Understanding glycan utilization strategies of the members of this community is essential to maximize beneficial health outcomes obtained from them. In order to investigate how the members of our gut microbiota utilize glycans and activate their respective polysaccharide utilization loci (PULs), we performed a series of time-course assays in which two model organisms, Bacteroides thetaiotamicron (Bt) and B. ovatus (Bo), were individually grown in a medium containing carbohydrates utilized …

Gmo Awareness And Eating Behaviors Among College Students, Sarah Galvin

Perspectives

This study examines college students’ awareness of genetically modified (GM) foods and whether it alters his or her eating behaviors. This study draws on data from a sample of 318 undergraduate students enrolled at the University of New Hampshire, who completed an online survey via Qualtrics. The survey looked specifically at how aware students are of genetically modified foods, and how many GM meals he or she consumes per week. The results of this survey showed a strong correlation between higher levels of awareness and more consumption of GM food. These findings suggest that people with less awareness of GM …

Micro-Sociological Implications Of Domestic Violence On Adolescents In A School Setting, Kerri Schulz

Perspectives

Adolescent victimization and exposure to domestic violence has the ability to yield negative psychological, social, behavioral, developmental, and cognitive outcomes. Unfortunately, violence within the home is becoming increasingly prevalent. In 2007 alone, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported that roughly 794,000 adolescents were either abused or neglected within their household (Sousa et al. 2011:112). Another form of violence that is becoming recognized as a widespread public-health concern is intimate partner violence. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, intimate partner violence is present when the juvenile is not directly involved and acts more as a witness to …

The Psychological Impact Of Long-Term Solitary Confinement On Inmates In The United States, Kerri Schulz

Perspectives

Psychological distress among inmates is prevalent in correctional facilities throughout the United States. Although, according to Haney (2003), severe isolation of incarcerates has been commonplace in prisons since their inception, the use of secure housing units (SHU) and the development of ‘supermax’ prisons are becoming increasingly utilized within the last several decades. Legislators have expressed the need to increase punitive measures against delinquents in response to the rising prison population (Arrigo and Bullock 2008). Thus harsher crime control policies, such as administrative and disciplinary segregation, have been established in order to limit the personal freedoms of prisoners (Arrigo and Bullock …

15th Meeting Of The States Parties To The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Treaty (2016), Apmbc

Global CWD Repository

The 15th Meeting of States Parties to the AP Mine Ban Convention is a formal, diplomatic meeting of the 162 States which have accepted the Convention. They include most of the States that at one time used, stockpiled, produced or transferred AP mines and the vast majority of States that are or have been affected by AP mines. Several States that are not party to the Convention are expected to attend as Observers.

The 15MSP is a springboard to further action and an opportunity to reemphasize the commitment made by States Parties in the Maputo Declaration to implement the Convention …

Extending The Table: A Strategic Guide Of Missional Renewal For A Declining Congregation, Phillip Vaden Faig

Doctor of Ministry

The Lord took Ezekiel to the Valley of Dry Bones and asked him, “Son of Man, can these bones live?” (Ezekiel 37:3) Many churches in the large metropolitan cities of North America are looking over the Valley of Dry Ministries and asking essentially the same question, “Can these ministries live again?” The decline of the church in large metropolitan cities of the United States has been dramatic. It is not an unusual sight to drive through a major city and see church buildings that were once filled with congregants either shuttered and repurposed or with only a small remnant of …

‘All About That Bass’ And Photoshopping A Model’S Waist: Introducing Body Image Law, Marilyn Bromberg, Cindy Halliwell

The University of Notre Dame Australia Law Review

When women see images of extremely thin women, their body image may suffer as a result. Their poor body image can develop into an eating disorder. A handful of governments took action to try to stop models who have BMIs below a specific number from working and/or require a warning on photoshopped images (that modify models to make them appear thinner). The Authors of this article (“Authors”) created a term to apply to this newly developing area of law: Body Image Law. The Authors argue that there are some areas in which the actions that governments took in Body Image …