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College As Capability Enhancement, Cristina Lee

CMC Senior Theses

In this thesis I wanted to apply the Sen’s framework in Development as Freedom to college campuses. In my experience at Claremont McKenna College, I have seen how some students are able to take advantage of the resources better than others. Given that we were all accepted by the same admissions office, I always questioned why did some students know how to take advantage of the system. In order to explore this, I first discuss Sen’s capability approach. Then, I show how the capability approach is more comprehensive than social networking theory and William Deresiewicz’s account on elite colleges. Finally, …

Caffeine Withdrawal And Dependence: A Review, Alexander Roberts

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

With the prevalence of caffeine use increasing in modern lifestyles, it is important to look at the symptoms of caffeine use, including withdrawal and dependence, and whether these symptoms have implications for addiction. A limited number of assessments have been developed to assess caffeine withdrawal. In order to make a call for more assessments and programs to be developed to assist with healthy caffeine use, this literature review observed recent studies focusing on withdrawal and dependence. Ozsunger et al. (2009) classified caffeine withdrawal into three categories of symptoms. Three years later, Juliano et al. (2012) used an experimental approach to …

Megaloads And Mobilization: The Rural People Of Idaho Stand Against Big Oil, Corrie Grosse

Environmental Studies Faculty Publications

From 2011 to 2014 fossil fuel corporations trucked tar sands processing machinery along rural Idaho highways. The machinery was bound for the world's largest deposits of tar or oil sands, a heavy crude oil substance called bitumen, located in the western Canadian province of Alberta. These loads of machinery, what became known as megaloads, encountered much resistance. Throughout Idaho and the surrounding region, a network organized opposition. Neighbors, grassroots organizations, nonprofits, and the Nez Perce and other tribes all collaborated. They held information sessions, protested, waged legal battles, monitored the loads, and blockaded highways. What oil companies hoped would be …

Grassroots Vs. Big Oil: Measure P And The Fight To Ban Fracking In Santa Barbara County, California, Corrie Grosse

Environmental Studies Faculty Publications

In 2014, volunteers in Santa Barbara County, California, collected over 20,000 signatures in three weeks to qualify an anti-fracking initiative for the November election. The initiative, Measure P, met over six million dollars in opposition from oil corporations. Despite mobilizing 1,000 volunteers, the proponents of the measure failed to garner enough votes for success. Drawing on 43 in-depth interviews and participant observation with environmental groups before, during, and after the campaign, this article examines the strengths and weaknesses of grassroots organizing behind Measure P. Organizers, especially during the signature drive, successfully garnered broad-based support in the southern part of the …

Digitalcommons@Lesley Quarterly Report & Impact Infographic - December 2017, Philip M. Siblo-Landsman

Library Reports

Lesley University's institutional repository (IR) continues to grow since it's launch in May 2017. This report discusses the addition of new collections including the migration of an academic journal, and the addition of two conferences. It also discusses the outreach efforts of the digital team and comments on the download metrics and how they indicate the demographics of users accessing Lesley scholarly and creative works. An infographic is included to provide a visual report of these metrics and to highlight the impact of Lesley scholarship.

Digitalcommons@Cedarville Statistical Report For December 2017, Cedarville University

DigitalCommons@Cedarville Monthly Reports

No abstract provided.

Repository Additions, December 2017, Cedarville University

DigitalCommons@Cedarville Monthly Reports

No abstract provided.

Centennial Library E-News, November/December 2017, Cedarville University

Centennial Library Shelf Life

Articles in this issue: Staff retirements announced, Second year of undergraduate research journal launched with the fall issue, 12th Annual Library Careers Dinner held, Library sponsors successful fall photo contest, Recognizing Faculty Scholarship, Highlighting Alumni Publishing

St. Mark’S Catholic Community Of The Deaf, December 31, 2017

Saint Mark's Catholic Community of the Deaf

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Edmonton, CAN

Strategi Penambahan Dan Penghilangan Makna: Kasus Penerjemahan Teks Hukum Bisnis Dari Bahasa Inggris Ke Bahasa Indonesia, Florence E. Kotambunan

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

To show how important the equivalence of ST and TT in business law text is the main goal of this research. Besides that, the benefit of this research is to motivate a translator to become more critical and accurate in producing more quality translations. The results of research can be utilized as a benchmark to conduct further research in a similar study. The library research and field method are commonly administered in translation research. And the technique of analyzing data exerts comparative and causal model between the Source Text (ST) and the Target Text (TT). It is determined that the …

Peperangan Generasi Digital Natives Melawan Digital Hoax Melalui Kompetisi Kreatif, Yanti Dwi Astuti

Informasi

The phenomenon of hoax and hate speech dissemination that occurs in the digital world
has brought anxiety and concern in the community. Many of the hoax information
distributed by Social Media and Instant Messaging tend to be SARA, provocative and
bombastic. Ironically, not a few people who without thinking directly spread information
and even reproduce the information without thinking about the impact caused after.
Digital media is currently dominated by teenagers born in the millennium era and is a
"digital natives" that is a generation that cannot be separated by the digital world. If this
generation is not given enough …

Students On The Edge: Evaluating An Academic Support Group, Benjamin P. Heinisch, Nicole M. Smith

The Nebraska Educator: A Student-Led Journal

This qualitative case study evaluated the effectiveness of the Academic Skills Discussion Group, a new retention intervention targeting undergraduate students on academic probation. This intervention utilized a support group structure to provide social and academic supports to academically-poor students. These supports incorporated didactic educational presentations and interpersonal discussions relating to life change and college expectations. The case comprised one pilot administration of the intervention for three student group members. Data was collected from pre/post-intervention resiliency surveys, grade point average comparisons, journal-entry analysis and semi-structured exit interviews. The researcher conducted inductive data analysis by coding participant statements for meaning, calculating and …

The Futures Of Comparative Literature Envisioned By Chinese Comparatists, Sheng Meng

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In their article "The Futures of Comparative Literature Envisioned by Chinese Compara­tists" Sheng Meng and Yue Chen discuss the future of Comparative Literature from the perspective of Chinese comparatists. They argue that in response to the latest rhetoric around the crisis and death of Comparative Literature as a discipline, Chinese comparatists have fallen into four major repre­sentative groups. While the first one advocates restoring of international literary relations study of the French School, the second and the third camp see the future of the discipline lying in both the turn to translation and world literature respectively. However, the most ambitious …

Inquiry-Based Learning: Emirati University Students Choose Whatsapp For Collaboration, Robyn Albers, Christina Davison, Bradley Johnson

All Works

Considerable research has shown the value of Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL) regarding student engagement and motivation, depth of learning, and cognitive flexibility. Student collaboration is one component of this approach, since students must communicate and work together inside and outside of class time when engaging with an IBL project. Choosing a mobile learning tool can benefit student collaboration in so far as the tool enables anytime/anywhere collaborative learning. This study looked at how 118 Emirati undergraduate students in a government-sponsored university in the United Arab Emirates chose to collaborate in an IBL semester-long assignment. Unlike some approaches that dictate the technology …

Public Relations For The Next Generation: Middle East Public Relations Association (Mepra)'S Engagement With Students, Noela Michael, T. Serra Gorpe

All Works

This paper discusses the importance and benefits for students of an outside the classroom learning experience, attending an event presentation and workshop organized as part of a class assignment with the Middle East Public Relations Association (MEPRA) and industry guest speakers. This study showcases MEPRA's outreach attempts to students of public relations and communications, which turned into a learning process for the students where not only was the learning outcome of the course achieved, but also the engagement with the MEPRA empowered the students. Data was obtained from an exploratory questionnaire sent to all students who attended the event. The …

Opening The Conversation: An Introduction To Open Educational Resources, Stacy Katz

Publications and Research

This column explores the concept of, and issues surrounding, Open Educational Resources (OER) for librarians.

Social Media And Terrorist Organizations: Observing Success Of Recruitment Through Social Media, Vincenzo Cibra

Honors Undergraduate Theses

The Internet is an instrument that has revolutionized the world and the society since its introduction. Today, over 4 billion people around the world have access to it. While this technology comes with several positive innovations, it can also be used negatively by terrorist organizations to more efficiently spread propaganda messages. More so, the development of social media has fostered new methods of recruitment that allows to reach a broader audience anonymously and outside of the geographical area of operation of a terrorist organization.

The purpose of this research is to analyze the relationship between social media development and changes …

Model Tes Keterampilan Dasar Dan Kondisi Fisik Untuk Mengidentifikasi Bakat Calon Atlet Bolabasket, David Iqroni

Jurnal Keolahragaan

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menyusun model keterampilan dasar dan kondisi fisik untuk mengidentifikasi bakat calon pebolabasket yang sahih dan handal berdasarkan karakteristik keberbakatan dalam cabang olahraga bolabasket. Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian pengembangan yang mengadaptasi beberapa langkah penelitian yang dikemukakan oleh Borg & Gall (2007: 590) sebagai berikut: (1) studi pendahuluan dan pengumpulan data, (2) perencanaan pelaksanaan penelitian, (3) pengembangan produk awal, (4) uji coba produk awal, (5) revisi untuk menyusun produk utama, (6) uji coba produk utama, (7) revisi untuk menyusun produk operasional, (8) uji coba produk operasional, (9) revisi produk akhir, (10) implementasi produk akhir. Uji coba produk …

The Significance Of The Variation Theory In Cross-Cultural Communication, Yi Wan

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "The Significance of the Variation Theory in Cross-Cultural Communication" Yi Wan analyzes some problems that East-West Comparative Literature, as a discipline, has encountered and discusses the significance of the development of the Variation Theory, proposed by Shunqing Cao. The author aims to explore two important points of this new platform, namely, heterogeneity and variation, and compares this new perspective to the French School, which is based on "influences" and the American School which is based on "analogies." By investigating the variations of literary texts or theories during the course of cross-civilization communication from the perspectives of imagology …

Selected Bibliography For The Study Of The "Death" Of The Discipline Of Comparative Literature, Peina Zhuang

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

No abstract provided.

Evaluasi Program Pembinaan Prestasi Cabang Olahraga Bola Voli Pantai, Johan Irmansyah

Jurnal Keolahragaan

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengevaluasi pelaksanaan program pembinaan prestasi cabang olahraga bola voli pantai di provinsi Nusa Tenggara Barat (NTB) dan Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta (DIY) dengan menggunakan model evaluasi CIPP (Contexs, Input, Process, Product). Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian evaluasi. Data dikumpulkan melalui observasi, wawancara, angket, dan dokumentasi. Teknik analisis data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini yaitu análisis deskriptif kuantitatif dan kualitatif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa secara keseluruhan hasil evaluasi program pembinaan prestasi cabang olahraga bola voli pantai di Provinsi NTB masih kurang baik dan di DIY sudah berjalan dengan baik. Pada evaluasi program pembinaan prestasi di NTB, dari segi …

Mapping Digital Fluency In Diverse Socio-Economic Status Of Citizens Of Dki Jakarta 2017, Gilang Desti Parahita

Informasi

The loss of Ahok-Djarot, incumbent candidate pair, in the second round of gubernatorial
election was allegedly related to the spread of digital disinformation. In addition, racial
and religious sentiments in the society of DKI Jakarta have been fathomed evident in
the last election. The phenomenon has driven a study on digital fluency in diverse socioeconomic
status (SES) for example age, gender, religion, ethicity, religiousity, level of
education and level of income in family. Survey was conducted to 189 voters of DKI
Jakarta. Results show that respondents from different socioeconomic background have
diverse digital fluency with the widest gaps occurred between …

Pemahaman Literasi Media Di Lingkungan Pengurus Pimpinan Wilayah Aisyiyah Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta Periode 2015-2020, Mariana Ulfah, Choirul Fajri, Dani Fadillah

Informasi

As parents mothers play an important role in giving directions to targeted all relating to the event who deserves to consume by family. This study was conducted by adopting descriptive quantitative. Handing out the questionnaire to the Leader of 'Aisyiyah DIY the period 2015-2020. The result of shows that there has been understanding of literacy media of 'Aisyiyah DIY, the attitude shown to the son of/his daughter in preventing negative effects impressions television. But of the that good, do not affect significantly to the attitudes shown.

Sebagai orang tua Ibu memiliki peran penting dalam memberikan arahan kepada
putra-putrinya terkait …

Interaksi Simbolik Organisasi Masyarakat Dalam Pembangunan Desa, Muhammad Luthfie, Aida Viyala S Hubeis, Amiruddin Saleh, Basita Ginting

Informasi

This research analyze the symbolic interaction of Muhammadiyah as a community
organization in order to anticipate conflict due to different religious views to be able
to participate in rural development. Symbolic interaction as the role of communication
is done to influence society to accept Muhammadiyah and give opportunity to run
its organization program. The purpose of the research is to analyze the symbolic
interaction of Muhammadiyah to realize the trust and support of the community in
rural development. Through qualitative methods, research results show that symbolic
interactions made through interpersonal communication, dialogical communication
and group communication can achieve consensus and …

Tipe Mediasi Ibu Rumah Tangga Terhadap Keselamatan Internet Anak Dan Remaja, Inasari Widiyastuti

Informasi

The biggest of internet user is in the productive ages, most of them are children and
teenagers. They are the Internet of Things's (IoT) Generation who have the ability
to adapt of technology because of being born in the high technology era. Children's
internet activities tend to be supported and facilitated by the environment, especially
families. The aim of this research is to find out the digital literacy and medition type
of housewives. The mediation strategy is an effort that is appropriate to the activities
of children and teenager using handset and internet. The survey was conducted on
housewives of …

Watching Self From A Distance: The Whys Of Watching Sinetrons Among Malay-Javanese Women In Malaysia, Lily El Ferawati Rofil

Informasi

This article discusses the cognitive reasoning behind the love for watching sinetron expressed by Malay-Javanese women in Malaysia. The Malay-Javanese women in this context refer to female members of Javanese communities within Malay society. Malaysians of Javanese descent are constitutionally considered as ethnic component of Malay racial group due to similarities in cultural customs and religion of Islam. However, they retain some semblance of Javanese cultural heritage including speaking the language in their everyday life. In the context of Malay-Javanese women under this study, it is identified that sinetrons have become the main source of their cultural consumption from television. …

Konsep Diri (Self Concept) Dan Komunikasi Interpersonal Dalam Pendampingan Pada Siswa Smp Se Kota Yogyakarta, Pratiwi Wahyu Widiarti

Informasi

This study aims to determine, the self-concept of junior high school students in the city of Yogyakarta and description of the mentoring model for junior high school students in Yogyakarta city based on adolescent self concept. The research method used quantitative method, with descriptive statistical technique. The population of this research is all junior high school students in Yogyakarta city from 15 State Junior High School and 42 Private Junior High. The results is first, the self-concept of students is balanced between those who have low self-concept (222 people: 49.4%), with high self-concept (227 people: 50,6%). Second, from the self …

Representasi Perempuan Dalam Kolom Humor Si Palui Di Banjarmasin Post, Irene Santika Vidiadari

Informasi

The focus of this paper is the representation of women on Banjarmasin Post's humour
column, "Si Palui," whose stories are either about daily lives or domestic issues. On the
latter topic, the theme which regularly appears is marital problems such as poligamy,
divorce, and sexuality. On this column, women characters are merely supporting casts
and, hence, are subordinated. This research applies the critical language element of the
micro level of Norman Fairclough's Critical Discourse Analysis in order to understand
the representation issues through language: semantics, syntax, and lexycon. Th result
shows that the representation of women on Si Palui is …

Digital Literacy Among Sriwijaya University Lecturers, Alamsyah Alamsyah

Informasi

This article aims to describe patterns of digital literacy among Sriwijaya University (SU) lecturer and its contribution to the implementation of eLearning. We used a mixed approach. Our population is 635 subjects who have been running and organizing through the e-learning plat-form of SU. We, then, selected 30 lecturers randomly as our samples. Data were collected through offline and online questionnaires, in-depth interviews, and secondary data collection. Likert Scale is used to measure digital literacy among respondents and e-learning implementation is explained using the SIMPLE model. We find that digital literacy competence among SU lecturers is in a high position. …

Pola Komunikasi Internal Brajamusti Menjelang Pilkada Kotamadya Yogyakarta 2017, Dani Fadillah

Informasi

This study attempts to do an examination of communication dynamics occurring in
internal Brajamusti as a pro football team PSIM Jogja during the election of a candidate
mayor and municipal deputy mayor Yogyakarta.This study was conducted using
descriptive qualitative approach.Type of research is doing check deeply the dynamics
of what happens ranging from communication activities which is a formal culturally
to eventually become Brajamusti the agreement.Some activity carried out such as by
collecting and assess case, floated issues, even, and so on. Do the interview with the
members and Brajamusti's lead, an analysis of interviews, mapped problems faced, and
formulated …