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Barrie's Traditional Woman: Wendy's Fatal Flaw, Charlsie G. Johnson

Oglethorpe Journal of Undergraduate Research

The primary goal of this literary critique of J.M. Barrie’s novel Peter and Wendy, with the utilization of a feminist psychoanalytical approach, is to explore issues such as: Neverland’s perpetuation of patriarchal structures under the guise of a false modernity and Wendy’s inability to achieve modernity through the societal expectations that undermine the freedom within Peter’s Neverland, as well as her inherent tendencies to gravitate to the traditional feminine role. The arguments and conversation of this topic is based upon a close reading of the Centennial Edition of The Annotated Peter Pan, Barrie’s Peter and Wendy, and articles …

2016 Annual Report On Unlv Research Activity

UNLV Innovation

An annual accounting of research and economic development productivity over the previous fiscal year.

The UNLV Division of Research and Economic Development reports annual data characterizing institutional research activity in order to evaluate campus research productivity and to facilitate benchmarking to promote future growth.

Data on sponsored programs expenditures, awards, and proposals, as well as technology transfer activity, doctoral conferrals, and more.

In Print

UNLV Innovation

Conserving America’s National Parks: 1916-2016, Celebrating 100 Years of Conservation, Commitment, and Care Scott Abella, CreateSpace

Dress Casual: How College Students Redefined American Style Deirdre Clemente,University of North Carolina Press

Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis Georgiann Davis, New York University Press

9/11 Fiction, Empathy, and Otherness Tim Gauthier, Lexington Books

Disruptive By Design, Raegen Pietrucha

UNLV Innovation

An actor. An opera singer. A filmmaker. A photographer. What do they have in common? All embrace the contradictory, using it to define both their work and their artistic identities.

Going Off Script: Nate Bynum says today’s actors need to be more than just performers.

Strange Songfellows: By marrying the contradictory, Linda Lister shakes up the opera scene.

Shooting for Progress: Brett Levner, leaving reality TV behind, uses film to fight underage sex trafficking.

Balance Through Contrast: For Catherine Angel, opposing modes create an unmistakable intimacy.

Brain Power, Sue Dibella, Raegen Pietrucha, Shane Bevell, Kevin Dunegan

UNLV Innovation

In 2007, UNLV began building its neuroscience program. Today, those efforts have paid off in the form of research that brings us closer to addressing neurological disorders and diseases.

Checking Into Research, Angela Ramsey

UNLV Innovation

Four hospitality researchers, like the industry they study, have put the customer first. In the process, they’ve uncovered some of the mysteries behind consumer behavior.

Research Briefs

UNLV Innovation

• A new bacterial phylum
• Battling underage trafficking
• A program to boost campus entrepreneurship
• Digging up the dirt on Mars
• Fighting HIV in Nigeria
• New ‘Innovation Corps’
• Music-oriented video games
• Walker Recieve Top NSHE Research Award
• The Rise And Fall Of An Ancient ‘Super-Earth’
• National Archives Grant Funds
• By the Numbers
• Nevada Regents’ Rising Researcher Award
• Researchers’ Health-Tracker Technology
• Gaming Research MOU
• Research Is Ours

“Leave Me Alone… Wait, Come Back!” Rubber-Band Relationships With Traumatized Children., Steve B. Parese Ed.D.

National Youth-At-Risk Conference, West (Archived)

Many children and youth in being served as “at-risk” have experienced childhood traumas, and have learned to become relationship-wary. To avoid deeper loss and pain, many have learned to control disappointment by sabotaging relationships. This inspiring workshop explores four self-defeating behaviors, offering valuable insights and skills needed to maintain a helping role with very challenging youth.

Hiv And Aging: Global Implications For Social Care Of A Vulnerable Population, Mark Brennan-Ing

Aging Studies Institute

In the early 1980s when Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the cause Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), was first identified, life expectancy following diagnosis was approximately two years (Halkitis, 2013). With the advent of highly-active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in the mid-1990s, life expectancy for people with HIV (PWH) increased sharply. PWH receiving HAART treatment shortly after diagnosis can now expect to live as long as uninfected individuals (van Sighem, Gras, Reiss, Brinkman, & de Wolf, 2010). As a result the population with HIV is aging. It is estimated that in 2015, 50% of PWH in the U.S. were age 50 and …

The Utah Statesman, October 25, 2016, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Mapping Omaha: A Geographic Assessment Of The Service Learning P-16 Initiative, Rosa Najera

SLA Scholarship

CUMU (Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities), 2016 Conference, Poster Presentations:

Racial divide in Omaha, NE is apparent—African Americans in the north, Latinos in the south, and Whites in the west, which is visually depicted in Cable’s racial dot map (2013). Beyond racial segregation, according to city data in 2013, 31% of the population are below the poverty level in North Omaha and 22.5% in South Omaha. These two regions result in a 30% poverty rate compared to 18% for all of Omaha. This clearly indicates that not only is the poverty rate higher for North and South regions …

Detrending Changes The Temporal Dynamics Of A Semantic Fluency Task, Steven Lenio, Frances M. Lissemore, Martha Sajatovic, Kathleen A. Smyth, Curtis Tatsuoka, Wojbor A. Woyczynski, Alan J. Lerner

Faculty Scholarship

Objective: To study the dynamics of clustering semantic fluency responses and switching between clusters. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study of participants (N = 60) in a study of patient reported outcomes who were given the Saint Louis University Mental Status test. Sixty-second animal naming tests were scored for the timing of responses as well as the clustering of responses into semantic categories. Time scores were detrended to correct for exponential exhaustion and normalize the time scale across individuals. Results: Grouped by number of responses given, low performers (LP; Carter et al., 2012) switched between clusters fewer times than medium …

A Brave New Borderless World: Standardization Would End Decades Of Inconsistency In Determining Proper Personal Jurisdiction In Cyberspace Cases, Jonathan Spencer Barnard

Seattle University Law Review

While various courts and numerous legal professionals have addressed the issue of inconsistent application of personal jurisdiction in cyberspace cases, the Supreme Court has yet to discuss the impact that technology might have on the analysis of personal jurisdiction; thus, many details remain unresolved. This Note examines the varying jurisdictional splits between the lower district courts, the courts of appeals, and the federal circuit court of appeals in determining the proper approach to take when dealing with Internet jurisdiction. After an examination of several key cases, this Note will explain why the Supreme Court, or the Legislature, should adopt an …

The Year-Long Adventures Of The Blue Shoes & Their Friends, Michael R. Hill

Zea E-Books Collection

While participating in a Teacher Workshop organized by Georgina Valverde at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2013, Michael Hill began a one-year artistic and pedagogical odyssey making original images (always featuring some aspect of one or more athletic shoes) and posting them daily to a visual blog he created to help kick-start writing projects among the many student athletes he tutored at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He started the year self-identifying as “scholar/teacher,” but at year’s end Michael looked in the mirror and said, OK, still “scholar/ teacher,” but also “artist.” Here are the workshop organizer’s foreword, the scholar’s …

Angels And Demons: Using Behavioral Types In A Real-Effort Moral Dilemma To Identify Expert Traits, Hernan Bejarano, Ellen P. Green, Stephen Rassenti

ESI Publications

In this article, we explore how independently reported measures of subjects' cognitive capabilities, preferences, and sociodemographic characteristics relate to their behavior in a real-effort moral dilemma experiment. To do this, we use a unique dataset, the Chapman Preferences and Characteristics Instrument Set (CPCIS), which contains over 30 standardized measures of preferences and characteristics. We find that simple correlation analysis provides an incomplete picture of how individual measures relate to behavior. In contrast, clustering subjects into groups based on observed behavior in the real-effort task reveals important systematic differences in individual characteristics across groups. However, while we find more differences, these …

Creativity And Cognitive Skills Among Millennials: Thinking Too Much And Creating Too Little, Brice Corgnet, Antonio M. Espín, Roberto Hernán-González

Economics Faculty Articles and Research

Organizations crucially need the creative talent of millennials but are reluctant to hire them because of their supposed lack of diligence. Recent studies have shown that hiring diligent millennials requires selecting those who score high on the Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) and thus rely on effortful thinking rather than intuition. A central question is to assess whether the push for recruiting diligent millennials using criteria such as cognitive reflection can ultimately hamper the recruitment of creative workers. To answer this question, we study the relationship between millennials' creativity and their performance on fluid intelligence (Raven) and cognitive reflection (CRT) tests. …

The Subject Librarian Newsletter, Psychology, Fall 2016, Carrie Moran

Libraries' Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Executive Committee - Agenda, 10/25/2016, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.

Lindenwood Digest, October 25, 2016, Lindenwood University

Lindenwood Digest

The Lindenwood Digest has been an employee newsletter since 2009.

Daily Eastern News: October 25, 2016, Eastern Illinois University

October

No abstract provided.

Men’S Soccer Welcomes Alumni Back To Statesboro Over The Weekend, Georgia Southern University

Athletics: News & Publications

• Men’s Soccer Welcomes Alumni Back to Statesboro Over the Weekend
• Eagles representing 1980 to 2013 came back for a packed weekend

Déterminants Cliniques Et Neuromécaniques Du Développement De L'Incapacité Lombaire Chez Les Travailleurs, Martin Descarreaux, Vincent Cantin, Mathieu Piché, Jean-Daniel Dubois, Arnaud Lardon, Isabelle Pagé

Rapports de recherche scientifique

Les blessures musculosquelettiques, et plus particulièrement les affections vertébrales, constituent le premier facteur responsable des incapacités fonctionnelles au Québec. Ce type de blessures ou de condition musculosquelettique réduit de façon importante l’espérance de vie en bonne santé des travailleurs, dont ceux qui sont plus âgés. Avec le vieillissement attendu de la main-d’œuvre québécoise, il est primordial d’améliorer les interventions cliniques dans ce secteur de la santé et de s’attarder aux travailleurs qui seront éventuellement appelés à prolonger la durée de leur participation active sur le marché du travail dans les prochaines décennies.

Au-delà de la simple lésion, …

The Current Volume 27 : Issue 10, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Gynecomastia: Psychological Correlates And A Test Of The Tripartite Influence Model Of Body Image, Daniel Luis Ordaz

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Gynecomastia is the proliferation of breast tissue in men. The purpose of this study was to compare psychological functioning across three groups of participants: treatment seeking men with gynecomastia, non treatment seeking men with gynecomastia, and men without gynecomastia. Though very little research has been done with this population, some research suggests poor psychological outcomes of gynecomastia. MANCOVA was used to test differences in psychological functioning across the three groups, and multiple regression was used to predict quality of life from psychological variables. Significant differences emerged between groups, with men with gynecomastia reporting worse psychological functioning. Additionally, no theoretical model …

Progressive Alternatives To Imprisonment In An Increasingly Punitive (And Self-Defeating) Society, Sandeep Gopalan, Mirko Bagaric

Seattle University Law Review

Criminal sanctions are a necessary and appropriate response to crime. But extremism, especially when coupled with a slavish and unthinking adherence to traditional practices, nearly always produces unfortunate consequences. Such is the case with the rapid growth in prison numbers in the United States over the past two decades. The prime purpose of imprisonment is to punish serious offenders and to prevent them from reoffending during the period of detention. The overuse of imprisonment has resulted in the violation of the most cardinal moral prohibition associated with imprisonment: punishing the innocent. The runaway cost of the prison budget has resulted …

Volume 114, Number 8 - Tuesday, October 25, 2016, Saint Mary's College Of California

The Collegian

No abstract provided.

Four Empirical Essays In Development Economics, Haftom Bayray Kahsay

Lingnan Theses

This dissertation contains four empirical studies on related topics in development economics. The four studies are all randomized field experiments and all of them use original data obtained from rural households in Northern Ethiopia for empirical analysis. The first study examines the medium term effects of commercial weather index insurance. I examine a randomized controlled trial in which commercial weather index insurance was offered to rural households who are highly vulnerable to drought. The results show that weather index insurance can significantly improve agricultural investments, agricultural yield and also household finance.

The second study evaluates the effects of weather index …

Executive Committee - Meeting Minutes, 10/25/2016, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

Media Multitasking And Memory: The Role Of Message Modalities, Le Nguyen

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This study explored the relationship between message modalities and memory performance in a media environment. In order to examine the role of message modalities in media multitasking activity, this research investigated the memory performance of participants after their exposure with the news stories and the commercials between same and different modalities. The research employed a 2 X 3 experiment using two independent variables: Modality of news broadcast (audio news vs. audio-visual news) and modality of commercials (audio commercials vs. visual commercials vs. audio-visual commercials). The research questionnaire was intended to reveal the influence of modality on participant performance by recalling …

Narratives Of Native American Women And Tribal Courts: The Framing Of The Violence Against Women Act Of 2013 In Mainstream, Native American, And Tribal Press Coverage, Alesha Marie Sangster

Dissertations and Theses

The Violence Against Women Act is a legislation created to expand more legal rights and services to survivors of domestic violence or intimate partner violence. Frame analysis was used to examine the coverage of the Violence Against Women Act of 2013 in three genres of press media: mainstream press, Native American press, and tribal press. Based on the media frames produced in the three media genres, the legislation was presented as more of a conflicting or controversial issue in mainstream press through the use of the conflict frame and the "Indian as other" frame. But all news coverage also presented …