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Opening Keynote Address: Using Data To Understand Cultural Destruction, Brian I. Daniels

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Brian I. Daniels, Ph.D, Penn Cultural Heritage Center, University of Pennsylvania Museum.

Why is cultural heritage targeted in conflict? Under what circumstances? By whom? Today, due in part to the recent notorious instances of cultural destruction in the Middle East and North Africa, there is perhaps more attention among the broader scientific community than ever before about the phenomenon of cultural loss. At the same time, there are many significant data and analytical gaps. Little social science literature about cultural destruction exists and many critical questions—and avenues of research—are, as of yet, unstudied. A primary reason for this lack …

Naturalism, Specialism, And The Completeness Of Physics, Elek Lane

Episteme

No abstract provided.

Uncovering Gender In Hegel’S ‘Ethical Order’ In The Phenomenology Of Spirit, Heather Stewart

Episteme

No abstract provided.

Social Scholarship? Academic Communications In The Digital Age, Steven Weiland

Charleston Library Conference

A recent sign of the technological transformation of scholarship is the consolidation of views about the emergence of the “digital scholar,” a variation on the influential reform minded account of faculty work associated with Ernest Boyer’s Scholarship Reconsidered (1990). An essential feature of this new form of academic practice and identity is named “social scholarship,” or participation in scholarly communications via the growing variety of digital networks for professional interaction. Scholars and librarians can recognize the change while acknowledging the durability of academic workflow conventions. Libraries can guide the faculty in social scholarship and be gadflies in matters of the …

Building The Knowledge School, R David Lankes

Charleston Library Conference

No abstract provided.

From The Concept To Results: A Case Study On The Collection Development For The Odc–Opening Day Collection At Qatar National Library, Henry Owino, Katarzyna Helena Dudek

Charleston Library Conference

"A library collection should fit the mission for which it is created. The number of books it holds does not determine its worth." (E. J. Loveland, 2000)

If so, how do we create a national library, and how do we build its collection from scratch without making many mistakes? Since 2012, when the plans for the new national library were announced, Qatar National Library (QNL) envisioned as carrying out its mission to "spread knowledge, nurture imagination, cultivate creativity, and preserve the nation’s heritage for future generations” through three functions: National library, university and research library, and a metropolitan public library. …

Apples To Oranges: Comparing Streaming Video Platforms, Steven Milewski, Monique Threatt

Charleston Library Conference

Librarians rely on an ever-increasing variety of platforms to deliver streaming video content to our patrons. These two presentations will examine different aspects of video streaming platforms to gain guidance from the comparison of platforms. The first will examine the accessibility compliance of the various video streaming platforms for users with disabilities by examining accessibility features of the platforms. The second will be a comparison of subject usage of two of the larger video streaming platform providers (Alexander Street Press and Kanopy) done at Indiana University Bloomington, a large public university.

Collection Dashboards For Selectors, Lindsay A. Cronk, Wenli Gao

Charleston Library Conference

While collections dashboards are often used as an external communications tool, they have additional applications for improving internal processes and assisting subject selectors. The value of collection visualization for analytics and strategy cannot be underestimated as visualizations can help clarify complex information to improve decision-making. This paper summarizes the current efforts to deploy collection dashboards at the University of Houston libraries. Using Tableau to parse and visualize collections data, the library is embedding visualization frameworks into the acquisitions calendar to enhance selection and deselection processes.

The Minutes Of The Marshall University Graduate Council Meeting, October 27, 2017, Marshall University Graduate Council

Graduate Council Minutes

No abstract provided.

Religion And Law: Comparative Legal Semiotics, Bernhard Grossfeld

Law and Business Review of the Americas

No abstract provided.

Session One: Development Processes In Perspective, Jeswald W. Salacuse

Law and Business Review of the Americas

No abstract provided.

Tapping Immigrants' Skills: New Directions For Canadian Immigration Policy In The Knowledge Economy, Jeffrey G. Reitz

Law and Business Review of the Americas

No abstract provided.

The Interactional Production Of Race And Religious Identity In An Urban Catholic School, Robert Jean Leblanc

Journal of Catholic Education

This paper describes how students in an urban Catholic school draw on racial and religious categories to construct classroom-specific identities during coursework. When students engage with each other in classroom discussions, they use broadly circulating, institutional, and event-level categories to position one another, and in doing so articulate who may speak and participate in class talk. This paper draws from interactional ethnographic data, showing how Vietnamese American and African American students used different religious and racial categories to delimit the interactional floor during class time and in the process exclude speakers.

La producción de las interacciones de la identidad racial …

Boyd Briefs - Oct. 26, 2017, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law

Boyd Briefs / Road Scholars

Boyd Briefs provides weekly information regarding the activities and accomplishments of the faculty, students, and alumni of the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Anthropology Major Finds Summer Internship With A Phone Call, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

October 26, 2017, Caa

Minutes

No abstract provided.

Home Is Where The Hearth Is: Anthracological And Microstratigraphic Analyses Of Pleistocene And Holocene Combustion Features, Riwi Cave (Kimberley, Western Australia), Rose Whitau, Dorcas Vannieuwenhuyse, Emilie Dotte-Sarout

KIP Articles

The manipulation of fire is a technological act. The identification of the archaeological signatures of the controlled use of fire has important implications not only for the estimations of the origins and functions of the first fireplaces but also for our understanding of prehistoric technological development and resource use. At Riwi (Kimberley region, Western Australia), excavations over two field seasons have revealed a discontinuous occupation sequence over the past 45 ka, showing numerous, different combustion features interspersed within the deposit. Anthracological and micromorphological investigations at Riwi Cave indicate that the combustion features at the site can be categorised into three …

Communicative Function Use Of Preschoolers And Mothers From Differing Racial And Socioeconomic Groups, Danai Kasambira Fannin, O. A. Barbarin, E.R. Crais

Faculty Articles, Papers, and Other Scholarship

Purpose: This study explores whether communicative function (CF: reasons for communicating) use differs by socioeconomic status (SES), race/ethnicity, or gender among preschoolers and their mothers. Method: Mother-preschooler dyads (N=95) from the National Center for Early Development and Learning’s (NCEDL, 2005) study of Family and Social Environments were observed during one structured learning and free play interaction. CFs were coded by trained independent raters. Results: Children used all CFs at similar rates but those from low SES homes produced fewer utterances and less Reasoning, while boys used less Self-maintaining and more Predicting. African American (AA) mothers produced more Directing and less …

Understanding And Applying Emotional Intelligence: A Qualitative Study Of Tampa Veterans Administration Hospital Employees, Brenda Webb Johnson

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Emotional intelligence (EI) has not been studied extensively within the Veterans’ Health Administration (VHA). The VHA is the largest healthcare organization in America with over 360,000 employees and the organization invests heavily in competency development. The Tampa VA is a level 1 facility with over 5,000 employees in the Tampa Bay area. The facilities Education office offers competency development through soft skills training, leadership development, and contracted courses that include emotional intelligence for leaders.

The purpose of this study was to better discern ten Tampa VA medical center employees understanding and application of EI competence within their personal and professional …

2017 Program, Office Of Academic Affairs

Programs

Scholarship, creativity, innovation, and the many forms of collaborative engagement that shape faculty life and student learning are central to the mission of Eastern Illinois University. For that reason, our faculty, department chairs, college deans, the Provost, and the entire campus community celebrate the achievements and outstanding contributions of our colleagues and students to their disciplines and professions every year. And, as the following pages illustrate, faculty engaged in continuing scholarly and creative activities that have provided outstanding mentoring experiences for our undergraduate and graduate students.

In addition to recognizing faculty performances, shows, publications, grants and other professional efforts, the …

Sociology Alum Loves Role As Student Retention Manager, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

Happy Beginnings | Alum On Opiate Treatment Team: ‘It’S Good Work’, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

Notable Alumni | Lisa Maatz Is A Respected Advocate In D.C., Mentors Students At Ohio, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

Uni Bass Studio Recital, October 25, 2017 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music.

Music Recital Programs

Program of a music recital given by faculty, students, or guest artists from the School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.

Forggett, Essie (Fa 1104), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1104. Student paper titled “Slavery in Green County” in which Essie Forggett details the history of the settlement of Green County and its eventual dependence upon slave labor. Forggett also includes stories of slave auctions, punishments, attempted escapes, and religious practices of slaves throughout the region. Paper is based on information collected by Forggett from county clerk records and in-person interviews with slave descendants.

The Knowledge, Behaviors, And Attitudes Of Beginning Baccalaureate Nursing Students Using Health Literacy Strategies, Marion Caroline Alida Dunkerley

Biennial Convention (CONV)

This was a mixed study that looked at the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of beginning nursing students towards patients with low heath literacy before and after a teaching intervention on basic health literacy strategies. Changes in behavior were assessed using a standardized patient simulation.

A Country In Crisis: The Changing Demographics Of Japan, Katherine Ziomek

Laurier Undergraduate Journal of the Arts

No abstract provided.

College Of Education News, College Of Education, Georgia Southern University

College of Education: News & Publications (2003-2023)

• College of Ed undergraduates present at GERA 2017

Intelligibility And Normativity In The Study Of Religion, Bharat Ranganathan

Religion Faculty Publications

In his essay “The Devil in Mr. Jones,” J. Z. Smith issues a call. If religionists do not, he writes, “persist in the quest for intelligibility, there can be no human sciences, let alone, any place for the study of religion within them.” How should Smith’s call be construed? In other words, what constitutes the “quest for intelligibility”? And what (if anything) differentiates the religionist’s quest for intelligibility from that of other humanistic scholars? Taking as my starting point Smith’s call, I will mount a constructive proposal. On my proposal, religionists should conceive their task as twofold. First, religionists should …

Disaster Risk Perception Among Native Hawaiians: A Photovoice Feasibility Study, Morgan Aiwohi Torris-Hedlund

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Disaster preparedness is a growing priority. Photovoice is recognized for its capacity to give voice to marginalized communities, bolstering their capacity to share their perspective with policy makers. This study seeks to determine if Photovoice will facilitate community identification of risks for natural disasters among Native Hawaiians.