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Communique (Winter 2016), Uc Hastings Center For Negotiation And Dispute Resolution Dec 2016

Communique (Winter 2016), Uc Hastings Center For Negotiation And Dispute Resolution

Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution

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Toward Equity In Higher Education: Women's Collegiate Decision-Making Processes, Heather D. Maldonado Dec 2016

Toward Equity In Higher Education: Women's Collegiate Decision-Making Processes, Heather D. Maldonado

New York Journal of Student Affairs

This purpose of this study was to better understand women’s collegiate decisions (e.g., opting to pursue a college education, the type of school attended, major choice, and ultimate career goals). Comparative qualitative methodology was utilized and the data were interpreted using Giddens’ (1984) structuration theory. Participants were women at an urban community college and a rural, public liberal arts college. Findings reveal that, while women’s collegiate decision-making processes continue to evolve toward more equitable higher education outcomes, there is still socialized inequity to be addressed. Implications for student affairs practice are discussed.

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Notes On People Of Dominican Ancestry In Canada, Ramona Hernandez, Sarah Marrara, Utku Sezgin Dec 2016

Notes On People Of Dominican Ancestry In Canada, Ramona Hernandez, Sarah Marrara, Utku Sezgin

Publications and Research

A brief profile of the Latino population in Canada, with a particular focus on Dominicans, in an attempt to develop wider interest and more scholarly research on the subject.

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2010 And 2015 Population Pyramids Comparisions In South Dakota, Wei Gu, Census Data Center Dec 2016

2010 And 2015 Population Pyramids Comparisions In South Dakota, Wei Gu, Census Data Center

Center Demographic Datasets

This document shows population comparisons for: the state of South Dakota; urban areas; rural areas; and the metropolitan areas of Rapid City, and Sioux Falls.

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Clemson Commencement Program, December 2016, Clemson University Dec 2016

Clemson Commencement Program, December 2016, Clemson University

Clemson Commencement Programs

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Nasty People: An Illustrated Guide To Understanding Sex, Sophia Weaver Dec 2016

Nasty People: An Illustrated Guide To Understanding Sex, Sophia Weaver

Senior Honors Projects

Sex made me and it probably made you too, but for many of us sex remains a mystery for our entire lives. I see sexual images every day, but I rarely hear it discussed openly or factually. This is problematic. If most people are having sex and most people have a lot of misinformation about it, STDs, unwanted pregnancies and even sexual assaults are much more likely. Research suggests that increased (and well developed) sex ed. can reduce all of the possible negative outcomes of sexual misinformation. My observations of everyday life and my research in academia have given me …

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Cljc Castellano Receive Ohio State Bar Foundation Grants, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences Dec 2016

Cljc Castellano Receive Ohio State Bar Foundation Grants, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

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Contents, Anon Dec 2016

Contents, Anon

Washington Law Review

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Pluralizing The "Sharing" Economy, Erez Aloni Dec 2016

Pluralizing The "Sharing" Economy, Erez Aloni

Washington Law Review

The so-called “sharing” economy presents one of the most important and controversial regulatory dilemmas of our time—yet, surprisingly, it remains undertheorized. This Article supplies needed analysis. Specifically, the Article offers a regulatory model that distinguishes between two separate kinds of transactions: conventional economic transactions and those that rely on temporary access to goods and services that would otherwise go underutilized (what I call “access-to-excess” transactions). The regulatory regime that this Article proposes would distinguish between true access-to-excess transactions and conventional transactions. The model is rooted in a version of pluralist theory that posits that the state is responsible for cultivating …

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Formulating A Covenant Of Discipleship For The Membership Of The Gwinnett Church Of Christ, David Chisholm Dec 2016

Formulating A Covenant Of Discipleship For The Membership Of The Gwinnett Church Of Christ, David Chisholm

Doctor of Ministry Theses and Dissertations

This project addressed the lack of a covenant of discipleship for the membership of the Gwinnett Church of Christ (GCC). The purpose of the project was to develop such a covenant document to help all the members of GCC better live out the process of becoming more like Jesus. To provide a theological foundation for this project, I explored discipleship in the exhortation sections of the book of Hebrews, which specifically addresses the need for greater commitment and intentionality amongst a community of faith. I also explored the theoretical framework of how formulating a discipleship covenant document could create progress …

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167th Commencement, Fall Dec 2016

167th Commencement, Fall

Commencement Programs

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Commencement Program 2016 December: College Of Liberal Arts, The University Of Texas At Arlington Dec 2016

Commencement Program 2016 December: College Of Liberal Arts, The University Of Texas At Arlington

Commencement Programs, Photos, and Video

No abstract provided.

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The World In The Screen: How The Mobile Device Symbolizes Technogenesis, Joel Mathew Morrow Dec 2016

The World In The Screen: How The Mobile Device Symbolizes Technogenesis, Joel Mathew Morrow

English Theses - Archive

The smart phone, or mobile device, holds a preeminent role in a technologically advanced society. These devices allow for connection, productivity, and distraction, and in doing so create new anxieties and underscore old ones. By tracing the provenance of this artifact, we see how our relationship with mobile devices amplifies our relationship with technology as a whole. This thesis examines the development of the mobile device from the viewpoints of social constructivism and technogenesis to illustrate how our increasing intimacy with these devices is part of a long-standing pattern of co-evolution between humans and the technologies they create.

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Student Voice: Perceptions Of Teacher Expectations Among First And Second Generation Vietnamese And Mexican Students, Sara Gandarilla Dec 2016

Student Voice: Perceptions Of Teacher Expectations Among First And Second Generation Vietnamese And Mexican Students, Sara Gandarilla

Doctor of Education (EdD)

This qualitative research study explored the perceptions first and second generation Vietnamese and Mexican high school students hold on teacher expectations based on their racial identity. Specifically, this study explores the critical concepts of stereotype threat, halo effect, and self-fulfilling prophecy. The primary purpose of this investigation was to enhance the understanding of how the perception students have impacts success or lack of success for two different student groups. This study utilizes interviews with student focus groups to examine student perceptions of teacher expectations among Vietnamese and Mexican students and its impact on student academic performance, the general nature of …

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Like A Duck On Water: Chinese Academic Migrants In The U.S. And Their Suburban Weekend Chinese School, Jianping Xu Dec 2016

Like A Duck On Water: Chinese Academic Migrants In The U.S. And Their Suburban Weekend Chinese School, Jianping Xu

Dissertations - ALL

Current literature is scarce on the diverse experiences of hundreds of thousands of mainland Chinese who, since 1979, have come to the U.S. primarily for graduate study and mostly settled here afterwards in dispersed university or corporate jobs and suburban residences. After the Immigration Act of 1990, many of them have become visible experts in science and engineering. Yet their struggles as Chinese academic migrants simultaneously privileged by their educational backgrounds and disadvantaged by their outsider status in the U.S. often remain invisible. Possibly due to the myth of “model minority,” mainstream America has seen them as doing-well and well-behaving, …

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The Family History Of Jerab Abraham Pino, Jerab Abraham Pino Dec 2016

The Family History Of Jerab Abraham Pino, Jerab Abraham Pino

Your Family in History: HIST 550/700

This paper recounts the history of several generations of the family of Jerab Abraham Pino. Included is a structured genealogy that covers five generations of his family tree.

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A Quantitative Policy Analysis Of Bronx County Public High School Students’ Mathematics Course Completion | A Quantitative Policy Analysis Of Bronx County Public High School Students’ Mathematics Course Completion, Ramon Emilio Fernandez Dec 2016

A Quantitative Policy Analysis Of Bronx County Public High School Students’ Mathematics Course Completion | A Quantitative Policy Analysis Of Bronx County Public High School Students’ Mathematics Course Completion, Ramon Emilio Fernandez

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

Education reform remains a work in progress. Research, government, and policy reports emphasize that a high-quality high school mathematics education is key to the future of the nation. Technical and research work in science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM), social sciences, and life sciences have been identified as essential requirements to bolster the economic growth, national competitiveness, and security of the United States. The academic preparedness, college aspiration, persistence, graduation, as well as earnings of high school graduates who complete college preparatory and advanced math courses are all positively, strongly, and significantly correlated to their math course completion. Despite various efforts …

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Audience Participation In Traditional Chinese Theatre, Zifei Wu Dec 2016

Audience Participation In Traditional Chinese Theatre, Zifei Wu

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

Traditional Chinese theatre is unique. Unlike its distinct stage elements with apparent Eastern features, the special role of audience participation in traditional Chinese theatre is less conspicu-ous and, to some, may seem disordered; however, underneath, the logic of audience participation suggests a theatrical communication and a performer-audience relationship that is completely different from the theatrical traditions of the Western world. There is an explosion of interest in the role of the audience among twentieth and twenty-first century theatre practitioners in the Western world. To these experimental theatre artists, forming a non-traditional performer-audience relationship is often an approach to show their …

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Education Dynamics In A Developing Country: Evidence From Indonesia, Elif Deniz Sumengen Dec 2016

Education Dynamics In A Developing Country: Evidence From Indonesia, Elif Deniz Sumengen

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

There is an urgent need for upper secondary-level and above educated people in Indonesia. According to a recent report, Indonesian companies cannot fill 50% of their entry level positions. To increase the educational attainment, government has been implementing various polices, such as school construction program, compulsory education and allocating 20% of its budget to education, but inadequate enrollment at upper secondary and tertiary levels and the quality of education still remain as big problems. To shed a light on these urgent and recent problems, I ask four questions: a) What is the effect of school quality on tertiary attainment? b) …

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The Answer Was Cooperative: How Anthropologists In Peru Redefined The "National Problem," 1948-1975, Ying-Ying Chu Dec 2016

The Answer Was Cooperative: How Anthropologists In Peru Redefined The "National Problem," 1948-1975, Ying-Ying Chu

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

The scholarly literature has often depicted the agricultural cooperative model implemented during the Peruvian Agrarian Reform in 1969 as an imposed policy. This dissertation challenges the state-centric view by exploring intellectual and policy debates, which were strongly influenced by grassroots developments, between 1948 and 1975. It shows how the cooperative model evolved from a radical project of the left into a well-accepted strategy of rural development and flourished in Peru during the post-World War II era. This study highlights the critical role played by a new generation of anthropologists and other social scientists, who mediated between the government, international aid …

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Ancient Greek Women: Weavers, Painters And Patrons, Mikaela Batista Dec 2016

Ancient Greek Women: Weavers, Painters And Patrons, Mikaela Batista

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

Linda Nochlin and the Guerrilla Girls, amongst others, have advocated for the equal representation of women artists. I have found that this contemporary concern of gender inequality can be traced back to Classical Antiquity. The patriarchal structure that women lived in assisted in the construction of female roles within society. Through these roles we can examine their contributions to the art world of Ancient Greece as weavers, painters and patrons. The analysis of their artistic significance led to their historiography by writers such as Pliny the Elder and Giovanni Boccaccio. Their written works, created in Ancient Rome and 14th century …

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Urbanization And The Formation Of Modern Nation-States In The Turko-Persian World, Can Ersoy Dec 2016

Urbanization And The Formation Of Modern Nation-States In The Turko-Persian World, Can Ersoy

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

Formation of modern states has been studied by numerous scholars over the last four decades however, the particular role of urbanization in this process have received considerably less attention. The few existing works that do focus on this issue exclusively examine the European experience and explain the interaction between cities and emerging states within that historical framework. This dissertation examines socio-political dynamics of urbanization and urbanism in the Turko-Persian geography during the establishment of modern nation-states in order to identify the ways, in which the dynamics affected the ensuing state-society relations. For this purpose I conducted a comparative historical analysis …

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Intactivism: Understanding Anti-Male Circumcision Organizing In The U.S., Amanda Owyn Kennedy Dec 2016

Intactivism: Understanding Anti-Male Circumcision Organizing In The U.S., Amanda Owyn Kennedy

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

While in the U.S. routine medical circumcision of male infants has long been justified on medical grounds, scholars have also pointed to surrounding discourses that suggest deeply held cultural prejudices, fears of sexuality, and racial contagion. However, little scholarship has addressed the questions of masculinity, despite a massive polemical literature that swirls around it. This dissertation takes those polemics, and several organizational efforts, as its source of data to understand the “Intactivist†movement as a social movement. Like all social movements, the Intactivist movement has many branches, is organizationally diverse and rhetorically diverse. So, how does the movement coalesce, and …

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"Lost My Job, Found An Occupation:" Space, Networks, And Organization In Occupy Wall Street, Gianmarco Savio Dec 2016

"Lost My Job, Found An Occupation:" Space, Networks, And Organization In Occupy Wall Street, Gianmarco Savio

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

While scholars have separately analyzed the role of both networks and space in social movements, little attention has been drawn to their relationship. This dissertation draws from in-depth qualitative research on the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement in New York City in order to provide an insight into this relationship. The findings discussed in the dissertation suggest, in particular, that social movements’ internal networks and various uses of space have a mutually constitutive and interactive relationship—that different uses of space create, reflect, and reproduce social movement networks. The findings of the research are presented in three substantive chapters. The first …

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Multi-Objective Clustering Analysis, Tingjun Ruan Dec 2016

Multi-Objective Clustering Analysis, Tingjun Ruan

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

Cluster analysis is an important tool for unsupervised learning. It is commonly used for pattern recognition and dimension reduction. Traditional clustering algorithms include hierarchical clustering and k-means clustering, as well as model based approach such as the group trajectory analysis. A major draw-back of the traditional clustering analysis is that it considers only a single objective (dissimilarity measurement) whilst in reality, one usually holds several criteria for the classification. Therefore, in this thesis, we strive to develop novel multiple-objective clustering methods – with a focus on the more approachable dual-objective ones. This thesis consists of two parts. In the first …

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The Limits Of Isomorphism: Global Investment Law And The Asean Investment Regime, Sungjoon Cho, Jürgen Kurtz Dec 2016

The Limits Of Isomorphism: Global Investment Law And The Asean Investment Regime, Sungjoon Cho, Jürgen Kurtz

Chicago Journal of International Law

This Article probes the unique ontogenetic path of ASEAN’s regulation of foreign investment by juxtaposing global investment law with the ASEAN investment regime. While the former delivers a powerful heuristic on isomorphism that ASEAN exhibits in its strong reflection of global investment norms, the latter sheds critical light on ideological and analytical blind spots by exploring distinct heterogeneities in ASEAN’s investment regulation. Those heterogeneities, especially preferences towards non-legal forms of cooperation and tailored flexibilities to pursue public and development outcomes, are not simply outliers, but reflect important historical and cultural values inherent to ASEAN and its members. The insights uncovered …

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Dance Usm! Program [2016], University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre Dec 2016

Dance Usm! Program [2016], University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Programs 2016-2017 Season

Directed by Maria Tzianabos

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Prefatory Matter And Table Of Contents Dec 2016

Prefatory Matter And Table Of Contents

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Municipal Golf Facilities And The Democratization Of Golf: Does Government Structure Make A Difference?, Clifford Smith Blumberg Dec 2016

Municipal Golf Facilities And The Democratization Of Golf: Does Government Structure Make A Difference?, Clifford Smith Blumberg

Public Affairs Dissertations - Archive

The game of golf has a tumultuous history that includes long bouts with classism, racism and sexism. From its arrival to the United States more than 200 years ago, golf has found itself as a barometer for democracy. The symbolism for elitism demonstrated through the demographic makeup of its participants is evident and remained practically unchanged during this time. However, within public administration, there is a massive void in research related to municipal golf policy. This study provides a comprehensive review of municipal golf policy in cities and towns where golf facilities are located in order to determine whether the …

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The Uses Of Religious Identity, Practice, And Dogma In 'Soft' And 'Hard' Counterterrorism, Aziz Huq Dec 2016

The Uses Of Religious Identity, Practice, And Dogma In 'Soft' And 'Hard' Counterterrorism, Aziz Huq

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

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