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Participation In Selected Usda Programs By Socially Disadvantaged Farmers In Selected Black Belt Counties In Georgia, Lucy Asare-Baah, Robert Zabawa, Henry J. Findlay

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

This study examines the characteristics of African American Farmers (AAFs), a significant subgroup of socially disadvantaged farmers (SDFs) in the U.S. South, and their overall awareness of USDA programs. Specifically, these programs include the Farm Ownership Loan (FOL) and Operating Loan (OL) programs, the Environmental Quality Incentive Program (EQIP), and the Value-Added Producer Grant (VAPG) program. It also investigates the main reasons for participation and non-participation in these programs, assesses the relationship between program application and the rate of approval, and examines the relationship between USDA program outreach to SDFs and program implementation. Using convenience sampling, data collected from respondents …

Analysis Of Staying Time In Italian Agritourism Using A Quantitative Methodology: The Case Of Latium Region, Nicola Galluzzo

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

The aim of this article was to investigate and assess, using a quantitative empirical methodology, which variables influence the staying time at agritourism facilities in the Latium region of Italy. Using quantitative methodology derived from the chemical process of absorption, this case study explores the ability of a farm to absorb tourist flows. Findings point out the incidence of agritourists on the total tourism flow and the number of rooms are two variables directly correlated to the staying time. Simultaneously, the model estimated the level of “laziness” of tourists as a function of their staying time in agritourist facilities, which …

Changing Neighborhoods And Residents’ Health Perceptions: The Heart Healthy Hoods Qualitative Study, Paloma Conde, Marta Gutiérrez, Maria Sandin, Julia Díez, Luisa N. Borrell, Jesús Rivera-Navarro, Manuel Franco

Publications and Research

Cities, and therefore neighborhoods, are under constant change. Neighborhood changes may affect residents’ health in multiple ways. The Heart Healthy Hoods (HHH) project studies the association between neighborhood and residents’ health. Focusing on a middle–low-socioeconomic neighborhood in Madrid (Spain), our aim was to describe qualitatively its residents’ perceptions on the urban changes and their impacts on health. We designed a qualitative study using 16 semi-structured interviews including adult residents and professionals living or working in the area. Firstly, we described the perceived main social and neighborhood changes. Secondly, we studied how these neighborhood changes connected to residents’ health perceptions. Perceived …

Catalyzing Capacity: Absorptive, Adaptive, And Generative Leadership, Elizabeth A. Castillo, Mai P. Trinh

Management Faculty Publications

Purpose

Organizations increasingly operate under volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) conditions. Traditional command-and-control leadership can be ineffective in such chaotic environments. The purpose of this paper is to outline an alternative model to help leaders and organizations navigate effectively through VUCA environments. By developing three fundamental capacities (absorptive, adaptive and generative), leaders can cultivate organizations capable of continuous synchronization with their fitness landscapes. Central tenets of the framework include diversity, slack, learning, humility, reflection in action and abductive logic.

Design/methodology/approach

This framework is designed based on literature insights, conceptual analysis and experts’ judgment. The paper integrates knowledge from a …

Thirty-First Annual Bibliography 2017 (Contemporary German Literature Collection), Brian Vetruba, Leon Wiese, Paul Michael Lützeler

WashU Libraries Publications

The 31st bibliography for 828 volumes added to Washington University Libraries' Contemporary German Literature Collection. All published in 2017, these acquisitions include novels, poetry, short story collections, essays, autobiographical works, and literary and cultural periodicals from publishers in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Organized by author or editor, the bibliography includes local call numbers as well as subject and genre descriptors. This Collection serves as the research arm for the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature's Max Kade Center for Contemporary German Literature. A bibliography of items added the previous year is compiled each year by Washington University's Department of Germanic …

A Time To Be Bold, Mathieu Desan, Michael A. Mccarthy

Social and Cultural Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Economic Identity, Price And Policy: Willingness To Pay For Fracking Regulation In Colorado, Adam Mayer

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

This article considers public support for increased regulation of unconventional oil and gas development in Colorado. We examine the role of community economic identity and investigate the possibility of “colliding treadmills” in local political economies as drivers of policy preferences. We find that many place-based variables do little to predict regulatory support, but the cost associated with regulation (increased taxes) and political identity are especially important. Further, this study is one of a handful of sociological analyses to employ the contingent valuation method for environmental valuation, and in doing so it provides a first step toward establishing an empirically rigorous …

Utilization Of Agricultural Information And Knowledge For Improved Production By Rice Farmers In Ondo State, Nigeria, O. D. Adetimehim, J. O. Okunlola, K. E. Owolabi

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

The main objective of this study was to examine the utilization of agricultural knowledge and information by rice farmers in Ondo State, Nigeria. Multistage random sampling technique was used to select a sample size of 80 respondents. Primary data was collected with the aid of a well-structured interview schedule. The data collected was analyzed with both descriptive and inferential statistics. The results of the study revealed that rice farmers in the study area have a variety of information needs including information on pests and diseases management practices, mechanical land preparation and planting, use of farm machines, improved storage methods, and …

Selling Protest In The News? Movement-Media Framing Of Occupations: An Exploratory Study, Andrew David Butz

Dissertations and Theses

Using quantitative content analysis, this study explores social movement (SM) framing in commercial news media -- by comparing how leading newspapers covered prominent protest occupations in 2011 and 2016. More than other SMs, anti-systemic protests like the 2011 Occupy Wall Street (OWS) and the 2016 Malheur Refuge Occupation (MRO) only have partial frame-setting agency, raising a broad theory question (to inform the research questions below): If SMs and media relate as interacting systems, are protest news frames more movement- or more media- driven; and do media not just enable but also constrain SMs?

With the movement-media theory question above, the …

Ethics, Aesthetics, And The Representation Of Intellectual Disability In The Realist Narrative, Elizabeth Wells

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

In this dissertation, I argue for a renewed approach to realist texts that rely on conventional perspective and minor characters in their representation of intellectually disabled characters. While disability studies' concepts like narrative prosthesis and the normate have done essential work in arguing for the need for disability's representation from the perspective of the disabled, these ideologies have also negatively influenced the critical reception of texts that do not respond to this need in an immediate or obvious way. By offering new readings of novels with disabled characters whose representations have been frequently questioned, my aim is to complicate the …

Overview Of Using Visualisation In Programming Learning, S Alhammad, S Atkinson, Lj Stuart

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

There is a high demand for mechanisms that support programming teaching, particularly in finding a solution to the bottleneck in programming education. Nowadays, different methods of teaching can support the learning process and motivate students to learn. These methods improve the thinking and creativity that lead to defining and analysing the problem of supporting programming learning to devise ideal solutions. Approaches such as visualising the code or using a memory diagram to trace the program’s execution have made a vital contribution to the process of teaching and learning how to program. The purpose of this paper is to provide an …

Complete Issue 7(4)

Speaker & Gavel

Complete digitized issue (volume 7, issue 4, May 1970) of Speaker & Gavel.

Complete Issue 6(1)

Speaker & Gavel

Complete digitized issue (volume 6, issue 1, November 1968) of Speaker & Gavel.

Complete Issue 5(3)

Speaker & Gavel

Complete digitized issue (volume 5, issue 3, March 1968) of Speaker & Gavel.

(Re)Designing The Debate Tournament For Civic Life, John J. Rief

Speaker & Gavel

The presence of public audiences in competitive contest rounds, a central feature of early intercollegiate debate practice, was largely eliminated during the ascent of the tournament model over the last century. However, audience participation in tournament designs has recently become a topic of conversation among those committed to transforming the activity in line with the emerging civic and public attitudes of higher education. Given the preliminary nature of this conversation, we currently lack robust models for and scholarly reflection about the role audiences might play within the calcified and secluded structures of tournament debating. Building on recent work in American …

Recipe Card: Elect Donna Faxon, Democrat For State Senate District 5

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Political Advertisement for Donna Faxon, Democrat for State Senate District 5. Includes a sweepstakes winner recipe by her sister. No date given. Box 32 Folder 1

Handwritten Notes And Itinerary, Edna Louise Saffy

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Several handwritten notes, Summit of the America's, Miami, Florida. No year given.

Pilot Club Of Jacksonville, 53rd Annual Charities Antiques Show & Sale, 2002

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Pilot Club of Jacksonville 53rd annual charities antique show and sale brochure, Prime Osborn Convention Center Jacksonville Florida January 11-13, 2002. Agencies helped include Alzheimer’s Association, Children’s Home Society, Community Hospice, Girls Inc., P.A.C.E., Police Athletic League, Daniel Payne Academy and St. Johns Terrace Home.

Addendum Items For Auction

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Addendum items list for auction with handwritten notes. Uptown Civitan’s Swing Into Spring Charity Auction to benefit Pine Castle, Inc. No date given.

Uptown Civitan’S Swing Into Spring Charity Auction To Benefit Pine Castle, 1998

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Program for Uptown Civitan’s Swing into Spring Charity Auction to benefit Pine Castle, Inc., held April 25, 1998 at Deerwood Country Club.

Miracle On Ashley Street 2001 Program, Clara White Mission

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Program for Miracle on Ashley Street 2001 Celebrity Chefs and servers benefit for the Clara White Mission.

Jacksonville Human Rights Commission Brochure

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Jacksonville Human Rights Commission (JHRC) brochure explains the history, mission, vision and purpose of the organization. The JHRC is comprised of twenty diverse individuals appointed by the Mayor and approved by the City Council.

Handwritten Note

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Handwritten notes on discrimination and the middle class. No date given.

Analyzing Social Construction Of Knowledge And Social Networks In Online Discussion Forums In Spanish, David R. Gomez

Organization, Information and Learning Sciences ETDs

This mixed methods research project examined social construction of knowledge and social networks in three non-structured student centered online discussion forums, which were part of a graduate online course on web conferencing in Spanish within the Mexican sociocultural context. The purpose of the study was to identify interaction patterns among twenty-one graduate students by analyzing discussion forum posts, measuring student centrality, and generating social network diagrams in order to explain the characteristics of posts and social networks that may contribute to social construction of knowledge.

The researcher used a sequential approach, starting with the application of an interaction analysis model …

The Implementation Of Agrarian Reform In Semarang Regency, Bayu Dwi Anggono, Rofi Wahanisa

Journal of Strategic and Global Studies

The principle of national agrarian reform (Agrarian Reform) basically refers to the 1960 Basic Agrarian Law (UUPA), especially Articles 1 to Article 15 and Article 4 of the MPR Decree No. IX of 2001. Agrarian reform is needed to restructure the control, ownership, use and utilization of agrarian resources. Agrarian Reform is tested at the local level such as Semarang regency. In this study, the statements of the problem are: (a) how is the implementation of asset reform? and (b) how do the related institutions support access reform developed in Semarang regency? The study used a descriptive-qualitative method with a …

Knowledge Preservation Of Ondel-Ondel As Icon Of Jakarta, Farhan Bukhori, Tamara Adriani-Salim

Journal of Strategic and Global Studies

Ondel-ondel is a puppets become an icon pride city of Jakarta as a result of the community especially the Betawi culture as the original inhabitants of Jakarta. This paper attempts to reveal the icon Jakarta through the history, description, function and how to preserve the culture of local order not dragged down by the current modernization that progressively growing fast. This research uses qualitative methods and served proper techniques of descriptive obtained the Courtâ s website through the study of literature. Stage arts preservation ondel-ondel namely through stage screening, storage and actualization. The efforts to maintain and preserve the ondel-ondel …

Dissociative Social Interaction Among Extra-Campus Organizations Of Islamic Students, Alif Melky Ramdani, Chandra Perwira Negara, Ryan Taufika

Journal of Strategic and Global Studies

This article aims to explain a study of the factors causing dissociative social interaction among the big three extra-campus organizations of Islamic students in Indonesia, namely HMI, KAMMI and PMII at Padang State University, Indonesia. This study is a result of research using qualitative approach with type of case study research. The research data was collected through in-depth interviews by purposive sampling on leaders and active cadres of the organization and through documentary tracking. The study was compiled using interactive models popularized by Miles and Huberman (reduction, display and conclusion / verification), and analyzed using the Michael Michael Blau social …

An Evaluation On The Policies On Public Health Workers As Health Professionals, Muswandar Muswandar, Purnawan Junadi

Journal of Indonesian Health Policy and Administration

Law No. 36 of 2014 is a comprehensive law for health professionals. In that regulation, all health graduates that wish to practice their trade must have a letter of registration (STR). That policy also separated environmental health from public health. This was the reason why we decided to evaluate the policy that is related to public health professionals. This evaluation was a retrospective analysis that used in-depth interviews and literary research, respectively as primary and secondary data. From this research we discovered that public health graduates is has their own profession. And to obtain the right to practice their trade, …

Using A Multitheory Model To Predict Initiation And Sustenance Of Fruit And Vegetable Consumption Among College Students, Manoj Sharma, Philip M. Stephens, Vinayak K. Nahar, Hannah Priest Catalano, Vimala C. Lingam, M. Allison Ford

Faculty and Student Publications (Open Access)

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Dependence And Conflict On Qualitative And Quantitative Organizational Performances In Partnership, Bohyeon Kang

Asia Marketing Journal

This study examines the effects of dependence and conflict on organizational performances in partnership, qualitatively (trust) and quantitatively (sales) under four control variables (period of business, number of goods, competition density, and number of employees). Also, this study presents termination cost and alternative attractiveness as the antecedents of dependence, goal incongruity and unfairness as the antecedents of conflict. As the results of analysis with survey data from 360 distributors in manufacturer-distributor partnership, 7 hypotheses are supported and 2 hypotheses are rejected. The results of structural equation modeling (SEM) verify that termination cost increases dependence, that alternative attractiveness reduces dependence, that …