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“The Island Of Thieves”: Rethinking Empire And The United States In Micronesia, Dominic Alessio, Wesley B. Renfro

Political Science Faculty/Staff Publications

This piece examines empire by purchase and lease in the Pacific and the manner by which the United States gained control over a series of strategically valuable islands in the region. Because Washington obtained its possessions partly through purchase and lease, and not via invasion, it argues that the United States can hide its standing as an empire. Therefore, this research suggests that the literature on empire, order, and hierarchy in international relations needs to allow for a more expansive definition of empire to better understand this important but understudied concept.

Contentious Coexistence: The Function Of Material Exchanges In Venetian-Egyptian Relations On The Eve Of The Ottoman Conquest (1480-1517), Jesse Jacob Hysell

Dissertations - ALL

This dissertation studies cross-cultural exchanges of material goods in order to better understand early modern encounters between subjects of Venice and the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt. It focuses on the period 1480 to 1517, when the ascendant Portuguese and Ottoman empires began to alter the balance of power in both the Mediterranean Sea and Indian Ocean. Venetian merchants had by this time established communities in Egypt and the Levant in their search for pepper and other spices, and periodically called in ambassadors to intervene with the Mamluk sultans on their behalf. An examination of gift giving and other exchanges of …

Education Initiative Improves Antibiotic Prescribing In Respiratory Tract Infections In Rural Primary Care, Erin Wilder Chiswell, Debra C. Hampton

Biennial Convention (CONV)

With the rise of antibiotic resistance, practicing antibiotic stewardship is of increasing importance, yet remains a significant practice challenge. This study examines a nurse practitioner-lead initiative that demonstrates improved guideline adherence and decreased antibiotic prescribing in respiratory tract infections is possible through evidence-based patient and provider educational interventions.

The Cosm Aggregate, Georgia Southern University

College of Science & Mathematics: News & Publications (2012-2022)

No abstract provided.

Framing Homelessness As Crisis: A Comparative Content Analysis Of Local Media Reports On Portland's Tent Cities, Katrien Cokeley

Dissertations and Theses

This content analysis of mainstream and alternative news narratives interprets the use of the crisis media frame, and describes the relationship between local policy initiatives, media discourse and public opinion on tent cities, organized by people experiencing homelessness in Portland, Oregon. Framing homelessness and housing as a crisis intensified the public debate, attested by an increase in mainstream media reports on tent cities, and by controversial policy changes that addressed the individually-experienced traumatic impacts of the City's anti-camping ordinance, as well as the systemic lack of affordable housing and emergency shelter. Media discourse related to city-sanctioned tent cities blurs the …

Oh Neat I Am On Snl Now Tweets Alum, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

2017-09-28 Agenda Book, Morehead State University. Board Of Regents.

Morehead State Board of Regents Agenda Books and Meeting Minutes

Agenda booklet for the Board of Regents for September 28, 2017. Included in the booklet are the meeting minutes for June 8, 2017 and August 24, 2017, diversity plan, and reports on property leases and service contracts.

The Weekly Challenger, September 28, 2017, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The September 28, 2017, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Size, Sustainability, And Urban Climate Planning In A Multilevel Governance Framework, George C. Homsy

Public Administration Faculty Scholarship

In the United States, the absence of federal leadership on climate change and a strong tradition of localism has created a system in which many greenhouse gas reduction efforts fall to the discretion of municipalities. This often leads to uncoordinated action across jurisdictional boundaries. Despite the widespread notion that cities can lead on climate policy from the bottom up, I find, using a logistic regression analysis of data from 1,837 municipalities, that local governments are more likely to enact climate change policies in an environment where higher levels of government have acted rather than in a decentralized one. Smaller municipalities, …

Toward A Nato Of The Gulf? The Challenges Of Collective Defense Within The Gcc, Jean-Loup Samaan Dr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

Although collective security in the Gulf is the topic of numerous policy publications, most of the available literature focuses on the political environment without considering the operational requirements of this scenario. This monograph offers an evaluation of Gulf defense cooperation programs in order to stir the discussion on the future of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) as the “NATO of the Gulf.”

Roma Inclusion Post Brexit: A Challenge To Existing Rhetoric?, Zoë James, David Smith

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

Corporate Environmental Responsibility And Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations In China, Zhaojun Yang, Weihao Liu, Jun Sun, Yali Zhang

Information Systems Faculty Publications

In China, environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) play an important supervisory role to address ecological issues together with government regulation and enterprise implementation. This study examines the effect of ENGO presence on corporate environmental responsibility (CER) performance, along with internal factors as covariate variables. With a sample of 677 enterprises, it operationalizes the independent variable in terms of the number of ENGOs within certain distances from each enterprise, and the dependent variable based on the corporate social responsibility report using the specific criteria in the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) sustainability reporting guidelines. The results of Tobit regression analyses indicate that ENGO …

One Nation, Two Voices: Whitman, Dickinson And The Combined Call Of American Poet And Prophet, Eleanor S. Swensson

Articulāte

No abstract provided.

2017 September 27 -- Agenda And Attachments

Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.

Mixed-Method Study Of Perfectionism And Religiosity Among Mormons: Implications For Cultural Competence And Clinical Practice, Samuel O. Peer, James S. Mcgraw

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

Extending prior research on perfectionism and religiosity, the current study investigated their relation among Latter-day Saints (LDS)–also known as Mormons–through a sequential mixed-methods design. An online community sample of 194 LDS completed the Religiousness Measure-Revised and the Hewitt Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale. Subsequently, six of these participants were interviewed to further explore how perfectionism manifests among Mormons in a qualitative pilot study. Quantitative results demonstrated significant positive correlations between religiosity and perfectionism, but only for self- and other-oriented perfectionism. Qualitative content analysis indicated further how adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism manifest in an LDS context. Implications for culturally competent practice and future …

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: The Temporal Stability Of Crime Hot Spots And The Criminology Of Place, Michael J. Deckard

Dissertations

It is widely recognized that the distribution of crime in urban areas is not randomly distributed, but is highly concentrated in small pockets of space known as crime “hot spots”. While the empirical evidence supporting the law of crime concentration is strong, most studies that have examined the stability of crime hot spots over time have aggregated crime across years. This dissertation seeks to expand our understanding of the temporal stability of micro-geographic crime hot spots by addressing three research questions: (1) How are high-crime micro-places distributed at the monthly level? How much variation exists in the distribution of crime …

Regional Meetings Of Diocesan Attorneys, James A. Serritella, Esquire

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Ted Strickland Joins Wealth And Poverty | Theme This Fall, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

Alma Link Resolver Subject Report 2016-2017, Andrée J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Statistics for 2016-2017 on the number of OpenURL requests by Library of Congress classification code made to the Ex Libris Alma link resolver for items held by the University of Rhode Island Libraries.

Information provided includes Classification Code, Classifications, Number of Requests, Number of Clicked Requests, and % Clicks from Requests.

Social Impact Measurement: Current Approaches And Future Directions For Social Entrepreneurship Research, Hans Rawhouser, Michael Cummings, Scott L. Newbert

Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology Faculty Research

Despite the importance of social impact to social entrepreneurship research, standards for measuring an organization’s social impact are underdeveloped on both theoretical and empirical grounds. We identify a sample of 71 relevant papers from leading (FT50) business journals that examine, conceptually or empirically, the measurement of social impact. We first describe the breadth of definitions, data sources, and operationalizations of social impact. Based on this analysis, we generate a typology of four approaches to conceptualizing social impact, which we use to organize insights and recommendations regarding improved measurement of the social impact of entrepreneurial ventures.

The Influence Of Recurrent Modes Of Climate Variability On The Occurrence Of Monthly Temperature Extremes Over South America, Paul C. Loikith, Judah Detzer, Carlos R. Mechoso, Huikyo Lee, Armineh Barkhordarian

Geography Faculty Publications and Presentations

The associations between extreme temperature months and four prominent modes of recurrent climate variability are examined over South America. Associations are computed as the percent of extreme temperature months concurrent with the upper and lower quartiles of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the Atlantic Niño, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), and the Southern Annular Mode (SAM) index distributions, stratified by season. The relationship is strongest for ENSO, with nearly every extreme temperature month concurrent with the upper or lower quartiles of its distribution in portions of northwestern South America during some seasons. The likelihood of extreme warm temperatures is enhanced …

Potential For Natural Evaporation As A Reliable Renewable Energy Resource, Ahmet-Hamdi Cavusoglu, Xi Chen, Pierre Gentine, Ozgur Sahin

Advanced Science Research Center

About 50% of the solar energy absorbed at the Earth’s surface drives evaporation, fueling the water cycle that affects various renewable energy resources, such as wind and hydropower. Recent advances demonstrate our nascent ability to convert evaporation energy into work, yet there is little understanding about the potential of this resource. Here we study the energy available from natural evaporation to predict the potential of this ubiquitous resource. We find that natural evaporation from open water surfaces could provide power densities comparable to current wind and solar technologies while cutting evaporative water losses by nearly half. We estimate up to …

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (September 25, 2017), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

No abstract provided.

Crow's Nest, September 25, 2017, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The September 25, 2017, issue of the Crow's Nest.

On Being A Teacher-Ethnographer: Nestling The Ethical And Logistical Dilemmas Among The Joys Of Insiderness, Miriam Hamilton

The Qualitative Report

This paper relates to an ethnographic study of a group of eighteen-year-old girls, in their final school year, in a secondary school in Ireland. The ethnography explored social class and gender discourses that presented in the girls’ various relationships in the school and in broader peer culture. This paper outlines the methodological phenomena I experienced as the ethnographic researcher and a teacher in the school. In this paper, I explore my insider positionality as a teacher-ethnographer from perspectives such as: access, ethics, power and relationships, within the specific context of this girls’ Catholic school in Ireland. The paper makes a …

Faye Caronan's Legitimizing Empire: Filipino American And U.S. Puerto Rican Cultural Critique, Review Author:; Charlie Samuya Veric

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.

Aesthetic Regime Change: The Burnham Plans And Us Landscape Imperialism In The Philippines, Scott; University Kirsch

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

Taking Daniel Burnham’s 1904–1905 visit to the Philippines as a starting point, thisarticle examines the unrealized dream of US colonial officials to extend American empire through the production of space, particularly the aesthetic dimensions or what might be called a landscape vision of US empire. It offers a brief but intimate history of the making of the Burnham plans for Manila and Baguio so as to better understand how the ideological contradictions of the imperial moment were built into American colonial spaces, sometimes brutally but sometimes through aesthetic means in the formation of setting and landscape.Keywords: landscape • urban planning …

Do Sagebrush Rebels Have A Colorable Claim? The Space Between Parochialism And Exclusion In Federal Lands Management, Ann M. Eisenberg

Public Land & Resources Law Review

No abstract provided.

Dinocyst Stratigraphy And Palaeoenvironmental Interpretation Of The Cretaceous/Paleogene Boundary At Stevns Klint, Denmark, Meriel E.J. Fitzpatrick, David A. Forber, Malcolm B. Hart

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

Verifying Client Media Playback Using Unique Embedded Metadata, Benjamin Seligman, Christopher Dinn, Damien Levin

Defensive Publications Series

The described subject matter is directed to injecting metadata into a media stream at (or just after) a cache edge of a content delivery network (“CDN”). A unique instance value (e.g., included within a tag or uniform resource locator (“URL”)), is embedded by an edge device into metadata for the media stream. Examples of media stream metadata include, but are not limited to, D3 timed metadata inserted in an MPEG-2 transport stream or an emsg box in the ISO-BMFF video container for MPEG-DASH. When a streaming media player receives the metadata, it generates a network request or callback request including …