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Protecting Democracy A Parsimonious Dynamic And Heuristic Model Of Controlling Crimes By The Powerful.Pdf, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

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Personality And Life Events In A Personality Disorder Sample, Linden R. Timoney, Zach Walsh, M. Tracie Shea, Shirley Yen, Emily B. Ansell, Carlos M. Grilo, Thomas H. Mcglashan, Robert L. Stout, Andrew E. Skodol, Donna S. Bender, Charles A. Sanislow, Leslie C. Morey, John G. Gunderson

Charles A. Sanislow, Ph.D.

Individuals with a personality disorder (PD) tend to experience more negative life events (NLEs) than

positive life events (PLEs). In community samples, the Five Factor Model of personality (FFM) predicts

both positive and negative life events. The present research examined whether FFM normal personality

traits were associated with positive and negative life events among individuals with 1 of 4 PDs: avoidant,

borderline, schizotypal, and obsessive– compulsive, and tested whether associations between the FFM of

personality and PLEs and NLEs were similar across the 4 PD groups and a control group. Among

aggregated PDs, neuroticism was positively associated with NLEs, whereas …

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Open Educational Resources And Institutional Repositories, Christine L. Ferguson 8095607

Cris Ferguson

This installment of the Balance Point column delves into the ways in which libraries create and store open educational resources (OER) in institutional repositories (IR), addressing issues such as preservation and versioning of OER content, copyright and licensing, funding, and staffing. Drawing on interviews and the literature, programs at institutions such as the University of Minnesota, the University of Kansas, and Grand Valley State University are highlighted.

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Horstman, Anderson, And Kuehl Doulas Health Communication 2017.Pdf, Haley Kranstuber Horstman, Jenn Anderson, Rebecca A. Kuehl

Rebecca A. Kuehl

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Anderson Et Al. (2017) Tbm Bsb Public Deliberation And Dissemination.Pdf, Jenn Anderson, Rebecca A. Kuehl, Sara A. M. Drury

Rebecca A. Kuehl

No abstract provided.

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Kuehl Hungerford Comm Teacher 2017 Article On Map Your Consumption.Pdf, Rebecca A. Kuehl, Hilary Hungerford

Rebecca A. Kuehl

No abstract provided.

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Kauṭilya And His Arthaśāstra, Vikas Kumar

Vikas Kumar

Kauṭilya and his Arthaśāstra

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The Long Run Impact Of Biofuels On Food Prices, Ujjayant N. Chakravorty, Marie Helene Hubert, Michel Moreaux, Linda Nostbakken

Ujjayant Chakravorty

More than 40% of US corn is now used to produce biofuels, which are used as substitutes for gasoline in transportation. Biofuels have been blamed universally for past increases in world food prices, and many studies have shown that these energy mandates in the US and EU may have a large (30-60%) impact on food prices. In this paper, we use a partial equilibrium framework to show that demand-side effects - in the form of population growth and income-driven preferences for meat and dairy products rather than cereals - may play as much of a role in raising food prices …

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Conservatism And Switcher's Curse, Aaron Edlin

Aaron Edlin

This paper formally models the virtues of Edmund Burke's conservatism, characterizes the optimal level of conservatism, and applies the model to management, law, and policy. I begin by introducing ``switcher's curse,'' a trap in which a decision maker systematically switches too often. Decision makers suffer from switcher's curse if they forget the reason that they maintained incumbent policies in the past and if they naively compare rival and incumbent policies with no bias for incumbent policies. Conservatism emerges as a heuristic to avoid switcher's curse. The longer a process or policy has been in place, the more conservative one …

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Ngo Strategies In An Authoritarian Context, And Their Implications For Citizenship: The Case Of The People’S Republic Of China, Jennifer Yj Hsu, Carolyn L. Hsu, Reza Hasmath

Reza Hasmath

This study argues that different cities in China have different resource environments available for NGOs. Organizations react to these resource environments by constructing appropriate resource strategies, which in turn shape the characteristics and structures of the NGOs of that city. It further examines how these characteristics and structures influence the construction and performance of citizenship in an authoritarian environment. Specifically, some types of NGOs encourage Chinese citizens to be passive, while others offer a model for people to actively engage with social issues. This is aptly demonstrated in an analysis of NGOs operating across four cities – Beijing, Shanghai, Kunming, …

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A Maturing Civil Society In China? The Role Of Knowledge And Professionalization In The Development Of Ngos, Jennifer Yj Hsu, Reza Hasmath

Reza Hasmath

This article suggests that Chinese NGO do not have the conviction that they are part of an epistemic community in mainland China. Interviews conducted in four cities, Chongqing, Kunming, Nanjing and Shanghai, suggests that this can be attributed to a lack of set standards and professionalization governing their sector of operation. Further, the study finds that Chinese NGOs do not see their primary role is to produce knowledge within their organizational development life cycle. This may indicate a varying path towards the maturation of the civil society sector in China, whereby Chinese NGOs do not conform to the organizational development …

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White Cat, Black Cat Or Good Cat: The Beijing Consensus As An Alternative Philosophy For Policy Deliberation?, Reza Hasmath

Reza Hasmath

The Beijing Consensus represents a philosophical movement towards an ultra-pragmatic view of conducting policy deliberation. Contrary to models of development which provide a subset of policy prescriptions for the policymakers’ disposal or a fundamentalist adherence to a particular economic tradition, the Beijing Consensus inherently recognizes that each development scenario has a potential set of challenges that may require unique and/or experimental solutions factoring the current political, social and economic environment. This ultra-pragmatism will require the policymaker to engage in greater policy experimentation, and to have a larger risk-elasticity. Further, this philosophy is most aptly demonstrated by looking at the aggregation …

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When A Joke Is More Than A Joke: Humor As A Form Of Networked Practice In The Chinese Cyber Public Sphere, Mathew Yates, Reza Hasmath

Reza Hasmath

Received wisdom views political humor, viz. egao, in the Chinese cyber public sphere as a form of resistance. This study creates and tests a framework that best conceptualizes how different functions of egao are connected with one another: to analyze the patterns of ties that link the different facets of the phenomenon together. The study contends that by framing egao within network society theory, we can appreciate its fluidity and better understand its online ubiquity. Analysis of survey data suggests that it is not the content solely but the networked practice of egao that dictates its true function. Namely, the …

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The Impact Of The European Union’S Policy Towards China’S Intellectual Property Regime, Natalia Wyzycka, Reza Hasmath

Reza Hasmath

This article evaluates the effectiveness of two major European Union technical assistance programmes, IPR2 and IP Key, in shaping China’s regional intellectual property (IP) enforcement. It argues that although technical assistance programmes have been effective in influencing the national IP legal framework, it has been less successful in assisting regional policy enforcement. This is primarily the result of divergent economic priorities at the sub-national level. The article further assesses potential priorities for future IP technical assistance.

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Medical Mental Health Screening, Michelle Flaum Hall, Scott E. Hall

Scott E. Hall, Ph.D., LPCC-S

The Medical Mental Health Screening tool assesses risk factors that can contribute to adverse psychological responses (specifically, traumatic stress responses) to medical events, illnesses, and procedures. It is a pre-screening tool and should be used as a means of flagging risk factors and intervening appropriately in order to prevent or minimize adverse emotional reactions to medical care.

The tool is a self-administered checklist that can be completed by patients during pre-admission to the hospital for a scheduled procedure, in a provider’s office prior to hospital admission, or in other circumstances deemed appropriate by clinicians.

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57. Spatial Language, Question Type, And Young Children’S Ability To Describe Clothing: Legal And Developmental Implications., Stacia N. Stolzenberg, Kelly Mcwilliams, Thomas D. Lyon

Thomas D. Lyon

Children’s descriptions of clothing placement and touching with respect to clothing are central to assessing child sexual abuse allegations. This study examined children’s ability to answer the types of questions attorneys and interviewers typically ask about clothing, using the most common spatial terms (on/off, outside/inside, over/under). Ninety-seven 3- to 6-year-olds were asked yes/no (e.g. “Is the shirt on?”), forced-choice (e.g., “Is the shirt on or off?”), open-choice (e.g., “Is the shirt on or off or something else?”), or where questions (e.g., “Where is the shirt?”) about clothing using a human figurine, clothing, and stickers. Across question types, children generally did …

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Success Through Community Cultural Wealth: Reflection From Black Female College Athletes At A Historically Black College/University And A Historically White Institution, Joseph N. Cooper, Christa J. Porter, Tiffany J. Davis

Dr. Christa J. Porter

The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of Black female college athletes at a Division I historically Black college/university (HBCU) and historically White institution (HWI) and identify key influences that facilitated their academic achievement and positive educational experiences. Two focus groups and eight individual interviews were conducted with three Black female college athletes at a HBCU and five Black female college athletes at a HWI. An 8-item demographic questionnaire was administered to obtain information related to the participants’ personal backgrounds. Yosso’s (2005) community cultural wealth framework was incorporated to highlight individual and environmental influences that contributed to …

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Cases In Organizational And Managerial Communication: Stretching Boundaries, Jeremy P. Fyke, Jeralyn L. Faris, Patrice M. Buzzanell

Jeralyn L Faris

In the 21st century, shifting workplace demographics, globalization, and the flattening of the world via new communication technologies has ushered in radical changes in our understandings of organizations and their members. Given the interest in engaged scholarship and more flexible and virtual forms within organizational communication, cases in this volume cross over different areas within the field and related disciplines. Furthermore, they cover topics and populations that are increasingly being seen in organizational communication literature. Cases delve into organizing structures, relationships, and visions for global not-for-profits, hybrid, creative industry, and entrepreneurial organizations. Some cases are "positive" in orientation and display exemplars …

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Quantile Treatment Effects In The Presence Of Covariates, David Powell

David Powell

This paper proposes a method to estimate unconditional quantile treatment effects (QTEs) given one or more treatment variables, which may be discrete or continuous, even when it is necessary to condition on covariates. The estimator, Generalized Quantile Regression (GQR), is developed in an instrumental variable framework for generality to permit estimation of unconditional QTEs for endogenous policy variables, but is also applicable in the conditionally exogenous case. The framework includes simultaneous equations models with nonadditive disturbances which are functions of both unobserved and observed factors. Quantile regression and instrumental variable quantile regression are special cases of GQR and available in …

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User Tools And Services Final Assignment, Shawn Martin

Shawn Martin

An assignment asking students to create a project plan for the creation of a digital library

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Fair Use Exercise, Shawn Martin

Shawn Martin

Exercise asking students to determine fair use of materials.

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The Image Of The Library In The Life And Work Of Charles Williams, Michael J. Paulus Jr.

Michael J. Paulus, Jr.

Charles Williams, the “third” or “oddest” Inkling, was an author and a publisher whose life was significantly shaped by books. But every book he read, wrote, published, or discussed was a compromise—of meaning, form, or craft. Yet each book participated in the hope of redemption and reconciliation through its connections with other books. The way these connections co-inhere suggests an important image for understanding Williams’s books as well as his life: the library.

Focusing on the Masques of Amen House, a trilogy of plays set in the library of the Oxford University Press London office, this paper explores the …

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Intersecting Sexual, Gender And Professional Identities Among Social Work Students: The Importance Of Identity Integration, Shelley L. Craig Phd, Gio Iacono, Megan S. Paceley, Michael P. Dentato Phd, Msw, Kerrie E.H. Boyle

Michael P. Dentato

Discrimination toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) social work students can negatively affect academic performance and personal and professional identity development. Intersectionality is a conceptual approach that states that social identities interact to form different meanings and experiences from those that could be explained by a single identity. This study explored how the educational experiences of LGBTQ social work students in the United States and Canada influenced their professional and personal identities. Using an intersectional analysis, three major themes emerged: the need for social work programs to better promote LGBTQ identity and emerging social work professional identity integration, …

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Exploring Authority In Linguistics Research: Who To Trust When Everyone’S A Language Expert, Catherine Baird, Jonathan Howell

Jonathan Howell

Many instruction librarians use the CRAAP test or a similar pneumonic tool as a regular activity in information literacy instruction classes. This involves having the students in the class select one or more sources and instructing them to answer a series of questions about these sources, as prompted by a simple checklist. Is the selected source Current, Relevant, Authoritative, Accurate and What is its Purpose? The goal is to help the students ascertain whether or not they should select this source and use it for an assignment. On occasion, a student will raise a hand and ask a simple question: …

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Exploring Bebras Tasks Content And Performance: A Multinational Study., Cruz Izu, Claudio Mirolo, Amber Settle, Linda Mannila, Gabriele Stupuriene

Amber Settle

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Brief Data Report On Prototype Of Moral Personality And Environmentalism, Fanli Jia

Fanli Jia

The data presented here was partially published in the article “Are Environmental Issues Moral Issues? Moral Identity in Relation to Protecting the Natural World” (Jia et al., 2017) [1]. The data was collected at State University of New York at Oneonta in 2016. It included a self-report questionnaire of moral identity, generativity, community engagement, environmental involvement, environmental identity, and demographic information.

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Increases Amygdala Connectivity With The Cognitive Control Network In Both Mdd And Ptsd, Haochang Shou, Zhen Yang, Theodore D. Satterthwaite, Philip A. Cook, Steven E. Bruce, Russell T. Shinohara, Benjamin Rosenberg, Yvette I. Sheline

Steven Bruce

Background

Both major depressive disorder (MDD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are characterized by alterations in intrinsic functional connectivity. Here we investigated changes in intrinsic functional connectivity across these disorders as a function of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), an effective treatment in both disorders.

Methods

53 unmedicated right-handed participants were included in a longitudinal study. Patients were diagnosed with PTSD (n = 18) and MDD (n = 17) with a structured diagnostic interview and treated with 12 sessions of manualized CBT over a 12-week period. Patients received an MRI scan (Siemens 3 T Trio) before and after treatment. Longitudinal functional …

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The Resilient Self: Gender, Immigration, And Taiwanese Americans, Chien-Juh Gu

Chien-Juh Gu

The Resilient Self examines how international migration re-shapes women’s senses of themselves. Chien-Juh Gu uses life-history interviews and ethnographic observations to illustrate how immigration creates gendered work and family contexts for middle-class Taiwanese American women, who, in turn, negotiate and resist the social and psychological effects of the processes of immigration and settlement.

Most of the women immigrated as dependents when their U.S.-educated husbands found professional jobs upon graduation. Constrained by their dependent visas, these women could not work outside of the home during the initial phase of their settlement. The significant contrast of their lives before and after immigration—changing …

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Social Movements As Catalysts For Corporate Social Innovation: Environmental Activism And Adoption Of Green Information Systems, Edward Carberry, Pratyush Bharati, David Levy, Abhijit Chaudhury

Pratyush Bharati

Although the literature on social innovation has focused primarily on social enterprises, social innovation has long occurred within mainstream corporations. Drawing upon recent scholarship on social movements and institutional complexity, we analyze how movements foster corporate social innovation. Our context is the adoption of green information systems (“green IS”), which are information systems employed to transform organizations and society into more sustainable entities. We trace the historical emergence of green IS as a corporate response to increasing demands for sustainability reporting, a key social innovation that environmental activists helped to create. Drawing upon extensive survey data from over 400 US …

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The Effectiveness Of Business Dealings On The Relationships, Edward Humphries, Jefferson W. Lee

International Scientific Journals

Despite the conventional wisdom that relationship marketing will generate favourable results, extant marketing research provides inconsistent evidence for this effect. This paper presents the effects of multilevel marketingon relationships and friendships in India. The paper describes what multilevel marketing is, where did it originate from, the way people approach customers and how the customers feel about it. Multilevel marketing is used for product distribution through independent distributors. This paper will also look into the type of mediums these distributors use and how effective each one is in selling their products. However, this paper was answered this question that: Does a firm's …

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Protecting Democracy A Parsimonious Dynamic And Heuristic Model Of Controlling Crimes By The Powerful.Pdf, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

Personality And Life Events In A Personality Disorder Sample, Linden R. Timoney, Zach Walsh, M. Tracie Shea, Shirley Yen, Emily B. Ansell, Carlos M. Grilo, Thomas H. Mcglashan, Robert L. Stout, Andrew E. Skodol, Donna S. Bender, Charles A. Sanislow, Leslie C. Morey, John G. Gunderson

Charles A. Sanislow, Ph.D.

Open Educational Resources And Institutional Repositories, Christine L. Ferguson 8095607

Cris Ferguson

Horstman, Anderson, And Kuehl Doulas Health Communication 2017.Pdf, Haley Kranstuber Horstman, Jenn Anderson, Rebecca A. Kuehl

Rebecca A. Kuehl

Anderson Et Al. (2017) Tbm Bsb Public Deliberation And Dissemination.Pdf, Jenn Anderson, Rebecca A. Kuehl, Sara A. M. Drury

Rebecca A. Kuehl

Kuehl Hungerford Comm Teacher 2017 Article On Map Your Consumption.Pdf, Rebecca A. Kuehl, Hilary Hungerford

Rebecca A. Kuehl

Kauṭilya And His Arthaśāstra, Vikas Kumar

Vikas Kumar

The Long Run Impact Of Biofuels On Food Prices, Ujjayant N. Chakravorty, Marie Helene Hubert, Michel Moreaux, Linda Nostbakken

Ujjayant Chakravorty

Conservatism And Switcher's Curse, Aaron Edlin

Aaron Edlin

Ngo Strategies In An Authoritarian Context, And Their Implications For Citizenship: The Case Of The People’S Republic Of China, Jennifer Yj Hsu, Carolyn L. Hsu, Reza Hasmath

Reza Hasmath

A Maturing Civil Society In China? The Role Of Knowledge And Professionalization In The Development Of Ngos, Jennifer Yj Hsu, Reza Hasmath

Reza Hasmath

White Cat, Black Cat Or Good Cat: The Beijing Consensus As An Alternative Philosophy For Policy Deliberation?, Reza Hasmath

Reza Hasmath

When A Joke Is More Than A Joke: Humor As A Form Of Networked Practice In The Chinese Cyber Public Sphere, Mathew Yates, Reza Hasmath

Reza Hasmath

The Impact Of The European Union’S Policy Towards China’S Intellectual Property Regime, Natalia Wyzycka, Reza Hasmath

Reza Hasmath

Medical Mental Health Screening, Michelle Flaum Hall, Scott E. Hall

Scott E. Hall, Ph.D., LPCC-S

57. Spatial Language, Question Type, And Young Children’S Ability To Describe Clothing: Legal And Developmental Implications., Stacia N. Stolzenberg, Kelly Mcwilliams, Thomas D. Lyon

Thomas D. Lyon

Success Through Community Cultural Wealth: Reflection From Black Female College Athletes At A Historically Black College/University And A Historically White Institution, Joseph N. Cooper, Christa J. Porter, Tiffany J. Davis

Dr. Christa J. Porter

Cases In Organizational And Managerial Communication: Stretching Boundaries, Jeremy P. Fyke, Jeralyn L. Faris, Patrice M. Buzzanell

Jeralyn L Faris

Quantile Treatment Effects In The Presence Of Covariates, David Powell

David Powell

User Tools And Services Final Assignment, Shawn Martin

Shawn Martin

Fair Use Exercise, Shawn Martin

Shawn Martin

The Image Of The Library In The Life And Work Of Charles Williams, Michael J. Paulus Jr.

Michael J. Paulus, Jr.

Intersecting Sexual, Gender And Professional Identities Among Social Work Students: The Importance Of Identity Integration, Shelley L. Craig Phd, Gio Iacono, Megan S. Paceley, Michael P. Dentato Phd, Msw, Kerrie E.H. Boyle

Michael P. Dentato

Exploring Authority In Linguistics Research: Who To Trust When Everyone’S A Language Expert, Catherine Baird, Jonathan Howell

Jonathan Howell

Exploring Bebras Tasks Content And Performance: A Multinational Study., Cruz Izu, Claudio Mirolo, Amber Settle, Linda Mannila, Gabriele Stupuriene

Amber Settle

Brief Data Report On Prototype Of Moral Personality And Environmentalism, Fanli Jia

Fanli Jia

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Increases Amygdala Connectivity With The Cognitive Control Network In Both Mdd And Ptsd, Haochang Shou, Zhen Yang, Theodore D. Satterthwaite, Philip A. Cook, Steven E. Bruce, Russell T. Shinohara, Benjamin Rosenberg, Yvette I. Sheline

Steven Bruce

The Resilient Self: Gender, Immigration, And Taiwanese Americans, Chien-Juh Gu

Chien-Juh Gu

Social Movements As Catalysts For Corporate Social Innovation: Environmental Activism And Adoption Of Green Information Systems, Edward Carberry, Pratyush Bharati, David Levy, Abhijit Chaudhury

Pratyush Bharati

The Effectiveness Of Business Dealings On The Relationships, Edward Humphries, Jefferson W. Lee

International Scientific Journals