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Challenging The Myth Of English As A Lingua Franca In International Business, Steven J. Sacco Dec 2017

Challenging The Myth Of English As A Lingua Franca In International Business, Steven J. Sacco

Global Advances in Business Communication

The proposed paper features a case study that monitored and assessed workplace language use within a U.S. multinational company where English is the official language of business. The case study examined language use by Hispanic immigrant workers employed at a rice mill in a rural northwestern U.S. community. In the week-long needs assessment, the author interviewed 26 nonnative English speaking coworkers, 2 native English speaking coworkers, and 10 mid- and senior-level managers. The author also observed daily operations in all departments of the rice mill, participated in the safety training and testing, and shared his findings with senior officials at …

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A Hierarchical Perspective Of Employees’ Knowledge Sharing Behaviors: A Two-Phase Study, Kuok Kei Law, Bertha Du-Babcock Dec 2017

A Hierarchical Perspective Of Employees’ Knowledge Sharing Behaviors: A Two-Phase Study, Kuok Kei Law, Bertha Du-Babcock

Global Advances in Business Communication

This paper examines whether and how mid-level employees differ in their communication behaviors when sharing knowledge with targets from different hierarchical positions in an organization via a two-phase study design. The first phase of study involves semi-structured interviews with fifteen mid-level employees working in small- and medium-sized enterprises to explore how they behaved in different scenarios of knowledge sharing. Results showed that there are significant differences in their behaviors among different situations. A second-phase study was then conducted to statistically verify the effect of the three identified factors - efficiency concerns, compliance with social norms, and consideration of relationship – …

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Crossing Disciplines And Perspectives: Challenging Norms In Global Business Communication, David A. Victor Dec 2017

Crossing Disciplines And Perspectives: Challenging Norms In Global Business Communication, David A. Victor

Global Advances in Business Communication

No abstract provided.

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A New Island Species Of Centruroides Marx, 1890 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) From The Southwestern Caribbean, Rolando Teruel, Brandon Myers Dec 2017

A New Island Species Of Centruroides Marx, 1890 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) From The Southwestern Caribbean, Rolando Teruel, Brandon Myers

Euscorpius

Herein we describe a new species of the Buthidae scorpion genus Centruroides Marx, 1890. It occurs at least in two small offshore islands of the southwestern Caribbean: Cozumel in Mexico and Guanaja in Honduras, based upon type specimens from the former and photographic evidence from the latter. It belongs in the "gracilis" species-group and is most closely related to both Centruroides gracilis (Latreille, 1805) and Centruroides nigrescens (Pocock, 1898).

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Revisiting The Voluntariness Of Confessions After State V. Sawyer, Michael Theodore Bigos Dec 2017

Revisiting The Voluntariness Of Confessions After State V. Sawyer, Michael Theodore Bigos

Maine Law Review

Every individual in our society needs confidence in our criminal justice system to know that one cannot be convicted of a crime unless a fact finder is convinced of every necessary element with the highest assurances of the truth. The process of establishing facts in a criminal trial is highly dependent upon how decision-making power is allocated between the judge and the jury and upon the fairness of that allocation. This Note discusses the areas of confession law and burdens of proof in the context of how federal criminal constitutional doctrines that affect the fact-finding process offer less than clear …

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Instream Flow Regulation: Plugging The Holes In Maine's Water Law, Bradford R. Bowman Dec 2017

Instream Flow Regulation: Plugging The Holes In Maine's Water Law, Bradford R. Bowman

Maine Law Review

States East of the Mississippi River have long relied on the traditional common law of riparian rights to manage their water resources. Towards the end of the Twentieth Century, rising demand for consumptive water use due to population growth, modern agricultural practices and industrialization began to conflict with environmental concerns. Throughout the East, states recognized the riparian doctrine's failure to provide a reliable means for allocating water during times of scarcity. In response, most of these states replaced common law water rights with regulatory water management systems. Maine is the only state that has not followed this trend. It is …

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"The Exclusive Right To Their Writings": Copyright And Control In The Digital Age, Jane C. Ginsburg Dec 2017

"The Exclusive Right To Their Writings": Copyright And Control In The Digital Age, Jane C. Ginsburg

Maine Law Review

The recent coincidence of new technology and new legislation in the United States may have enhanced the ability of U.S. copyright owners to wield electronic protective measures to control the exploitation of their works. The legislation, which reinforces the technology, has led many to perceive and to deplore a resulting imbalance between copyright owners and the copyright-using public. Critics assert that the goals of copyright law have never been, and should not now become, to grant “control” over works of authorship. Instead, copyright should accord certain limited rights over some kinds of exploitations. Economic incentives to create may be needed …

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Rectifying The Tilt: Equality Lessons From Religion, Disability, Sexual Orientation, And Transgender, Chai R. Feldblum Dec 2017

Rectifying The Tilt: Equality Lessons From Religion, Disability, Sexual Orientation, And Transgender, Chai R. Feldblum

Maine Law Review

The joy and the challenge of being located in an academic setting is that I am also able to engage in forays (albeit intermittent forays) into scholarly analysis. Delivering this lecture, and publishing this piece, provides an excellent opportunity for me to engage in such a foray. This piece, then, is a scholarly reflection on my advocacy experiences. My goal is to use my experiences in advocacy as fertile soil from which to create, I hope, a lovely flower of theory and conceptual thought. Before setting out on this endeavor, however, I would like to offer two postulates. There are …

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Caring For Workers, Martha T. Mccluskey Dec 2017

Caring For Workers, Martha T. Mccluskey

Maine Law Review

This essay examines the question of conflict between market work and family care from the angle of family caretaking labor for workers rather than for dependents. Feminist legal scholars and activists have been concerned for generations about the effect of women's unpaid caretaking work on women's participation and success in the wage labor market. Better public support for this gendered family care work is crucial to many leading visions of feminist legal and economic change. Recent welfare reforms, however, have increased the extent to which public policy treats caretaking instead as a personal responsibility (or a sign of personal irresponsibility) …

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An Essay On The Production Of Youth Prostitution, Libby Alder Dec 2017

An Essay On The Production Of Youth Prostitution, Libby Alder

Maine Law Review

Youth prostitution is more multidimensional than I think most of us are prone to admit. This essay is designed to raise the profile of some of its less prominent aspects—aspects which are not unknown exactly, but which are underrecognized and generally ignored in the context of legal analysis. The phenomenon of youth prostitution involves some thorny, sometimes confusing, issues, but those issues are eclipsed by an ideology that fails to grapple with the complexity of youth agency and the consequent position of youth in law. The result is that some kids are left inadequately served and others are utterly unknowable. …

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Lessons From The Fields: Female Farmworkers And The Law, Maria L. Ontiveros Dec 2017

Lessons From The Fields: Female Farmworkers And The Law, Maria L. Ontiveros

Maine Law Review

In both the fields of labor law and gender studies, we learn the most from experience. The experience of workers coming together to demand equality and respect and the experience of women coming together to share their experiences has led to most of what we study in these fields. Unfortunately, too many times traditional legal doctrine does not fit these experiences. In those cases, we must struggle to change the law to be responsive to the lived experiences of women and workers. This Article explores the lived experiences of one particular group of workers—immigrant farmworking women in California. From their …

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Congressional Power To Regulate Sex Discrimination: The Effect Of The Supreme Court's "New Federalism", Calvin Massey Dec 2017

Congressional Power To Regulate Sex Discrimination: The Effect Of The Supreme Court's "New Federalism", Calvin Massey

Maine Law Review

Congressional power to prevent and remedy sex discrimination in employment has been founded almost entirely upon the commerce power and Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment, which gives Congress power “to enforce, by appropriate legislation” the equal protection guarantee. The commerce power has enabled Congress to prohibit private sex discrimination in employment, and the combination of the commerce and enforcement powers has enabled Congress to prohibit such sex discrimination by public employers. From the late 1930s until the early 1990s the doctrinal architecture of these powers was relatively stable, even if statutory action to realize the promise of a nondiscriminatory …

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Waffle Night Fall 2017, Central Washington University Dec 2017

Waffle Night Fall 2017, Central Washington University

Brooks Library Events

Waffle Night at Brooks Library, serving free waffles, coffee and tea in the Fishbowl.

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Cseas Weekly Bulletin (December 5, 2017), Center For Southeast Asian Studies Dec 2017

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (December 5, 2017), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

No abstract provided.

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A Cultural Comparison Of The Facial Inference Process, Janine K. Swiney, Anthony J. Stahelski Dec 2017

A Cultural Comparison Of The Facial Inference Process, Janine K. Swiney, Anthony J. Stahelski

Student Published Works

The purpose of this study was to compare emotion and personality trait attributions to facial expression between American and Indian samples. Data were collected using Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk). Participants in this study were asked to correctly identify the emotion and make inferences from pictures of three different facial expressions (scowling, frowning, and smiling) of young white females and males in six photographs. Each picture was randomly presented for 10 seconds followed by four randomized questions about the individual in the picture. The first question asked participants to identify the emotion shown from a list of six emotions (anger, disgust, …

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Warm Smiles, Soft Chairs: A Testament To The Power Of Ambience, Cari Phillips Dec 2017

Warm Smiles, Soft Chairs: A Testament To The Power Of Ambience, Cari Phillips

Tutor's Column

In this paper I discuss the effects of positive ambience within a writing center environment. Effective writing centers encourage student relaxation through positive tutor affect, soothing nature-based decor, and organization that promotes low power-distance. The use of open, friendly attitudes, warm colors, and breathing room allow writing center attendees to relax. As a result, attendees of this kind of writing center are more effective, engaged, and motivated to dig deep while pursuing the writing process. Combining research with personal experience, I relate an effective writing center to a positive classroom learning environment, comparing the effects of various methods of classroom/center …

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Spartan Daily, December 5, 2017, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Dec 2017

Spartan Daily, December 5, 2017, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2017

Volume 149, Issue 42

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A Minute Too Late, Camille Rasband Dec 2017

A Minute Too Late, Camille Rasband

Tutor's Column

Time management is a tool that everyone should learn to use. Tutors must manage time in the tutoring center for a successful session as well as in their everyday life. When tutoring sessions are rushed because time isn’t watched, there are many consequences. Relationships built between students and tutors are damaged, anxiety begins to build up, and an overall feeling of complete exhaustion begins to rule our bodies. It begins affecting individual lifestyles in and out of the workplace. It creates extreme stress levels which can impair abilities to control our emotions. There are several tactics we can turn to …

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Post Cards Collection, Aubrey Squires Dec 2017

Post Cards Collection, Aubrey Squires

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

The picture on the left is of three post cards sent to James’s distant family members from unknown places in Germany. These cards are stored in a large scrapbook. The second picture is of the front cover of the scrapbook. All the post cards are stored in this book.

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Pirls 2016: Reporting Australia's Results, Sue Thomson, Kylie Hillman, Marina Schmid, Sima Rodrigues, Jessica Fullarton Dec 2017

Pirls 2016: Reporting Australia's Results, Sue Thomson, Kylie Hillman, Marina Schmid, Sima Rodrigues, Jessica Fullarton

Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS)

The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) is an international comparative study of student achievement directed by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA). PIRLS 2016 represents the fourth such study since PIRLS was first conducted in 2001. Australia has participated in the two most recent cycles – PIRLS 2011 and 2016. In Australia, PIRLS is managed by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) and is jointly funded by the Australian Government and the state and territory governments. The goal of PIRLS is to provide the best policy-relevant information about how to improve teaching and …

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Bychkovska Lee Coauthor Article On Recurrent Multiword Expressions In Student Writing, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences Dec 2017

Bychkovska Lee Coauthor Article On Recurrent Multiword Expressions In Student Writing, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

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Save The Date Announcement, University Of Mississippi. Chancellor's Advisory Committee On History And Context Dec 2017

Save The Date Announcement, University Of Mississippi. Chancellor's Advisory Committee On History And Context

Implementation by the CACHC

No abstract provided.

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Deanna English V. Social Security Administration Dec 2017

Deanna English V. Social Security Administration

2017 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

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Willow Tree Figures, Aubrey Squires Dec 2017

Willow Tree Figures, Aubrey Squires

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

The picture on the left is of all the Willow Tree figures that I have collected as of now. The garden angel and the angel of kindness are on the air conditioner unit. One is in the middle front and the other is on the right side at the end. The second picture is of the nativity set that started the desire to collect more figures. The last picture is of the card that came with the angel of kindness. It says, “Thank You. Appreciating your kindness!”

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Collection Of Childhood Toys, Aubrey Squires Dec 2017

Collection Of Childhood Toys, Aubrey Squires

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

The picture on the left shows several of the toys I played with when I was young. There are Barbie dolls, a Barbie car with keys and luggage, Polly pockets, Legos, and an American Girl doll. The picture on the right shows the Disney princess and Strawberry Shortcake dolls that my daughters play with now. They too are being added to this childhood toy collection.

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Boyds Bears Collection, Aubrey Squires Dec 2017

Boyds Bears Collection, Aubrey Squires

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

The picture on the left is of CORI BEARIBURG. He was one of the first bears she ever bought. She bought him because she loved the sweater he was wearing. The tag in the second picture shows the bears name. After she bought him, she started collecting more and more bears. The last picture on the right shows the display case of all the BOYDS BEARS she has collected as of now.

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The Business Of Writing, Mikayla Doyle Dec 2017

The Business Of Writing, Mikayla Doyle

Tutor's Column

One of the greatest aspects of university study is the ability to learn from a wide variety of sources. Often, we assume that most of our knowledge about writing comes from our English classes. However, as a business student, I have learned many things that have helped me to become a better writer. In this essay I will address the importance of writing a purposeful thesis, creating a logical argument, using concision in writing, and making writing understandable.

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Faith Development Beyond Religion: The Ngo As Site Of Islamic Reform, Nermmen Mouftah Dec 2017

Faith Development Beyond Religion: The Ngo As Site Of Islamic Reform, Nermmen Mouftah

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Anthropological field studies of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in their unique cultural and political contexts. Cultures of Doing Good: Anthropologists and NGOs serves as a foundational text to advance a growing subfield of social science inquiry: the anthropology of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Thorough introductory chapters provide a short history of NGO anthropology, address how the study of NGOs contributes to anthropology more broadly, and examine ways that anthropological studies of NGOs expand research agendas spawned by other disciplines. In addition, the theoretical concepts and debates that have anchored the analysis of NGOs since they entered scholarly discourse after World War II …

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The Perfect Crime? Fifa And The Absence Of Accountability In Switzerland, Bruce W. Bean Dec 2017

The Perfect Crime? Fifa And The Absence Of Accountability In Switzerland, Bruce W. Bean

Maryland Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

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How Fifa Used The Principle Of Autonomy Of Sport To Shield Corruption In The Sepp Blatter Era, J. Gordon Hylton Dec 2017

How Fifa Used The Principle Of Autonomy Of Sport To Shield Corruption In The Sepp Blatter Era, J. Gordon Hylton

Maryland Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

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