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Beyond The Shelf: Serving Historic Kentuckiana Through Digital Access [October 2003], Becky Ryder, Eric Weig, Kopana Terry, Peter Hesseldenz

Library Presentations

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Pc Security In A Networked World, Joseph B. Miller

Information Science Faculty Publications

Over the last decade, the personal computer has been transformed from an isolated word processor and number cruncher into a communications device. The emergence of the Web, the expansion of broadband connectivity, and new versions of the Windows operating system have made it possible to share information and files around the world with the click of a mouse. So, the good news is that it is now easier than ever to connect to any other host on the Internet to share information or to set up your own Internet based information services. However, this is also the bad news because …

Reverend Thomas Fountain Blue, Reinette F. Jones

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

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Filling The Poverty Gap, Then And Now, James P. Ziliak

University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Discussion Paper Series

The extent to which means-tested transfers, social insurance, and tax credits fill the gap between a family’s private resources and the poverty threshold is a periodic barometer of the social safety net. Using data on families from the Current Population Survey I examine how the level and composition of before- and after-tax and after-transfer poverty gaps changed in response to changes in the policy and economic landscapes over the past two decades. The estimates presented here indicate not only dramatic changes in the level and sources of income maintenance programs filling the poverty gap, but also dramatic changes in which …

La Influencia Regional Y El Apoyo Ciudadano A Las Reformas Neoliberales Mexicanas, Charles L. Davis, Jorge E. Figueroa

Political Science Faculty Publications

Por medio de encuestas de opinión pública llevadas a cabo en México en los años de 1991 y 1996, el presente estudio examina empíricamente las bases regionales de apoyo popular a las reformas neoliberales (privatizaciones y el TLC). Se encontró que el apoyo ciudadano a estas reformas fue mayor en las regiones económicamente más avanzadas como el norte y el Distrito Federal y menor en los estados sureños y centrales, a pesar de que el nivel de este apoyo declinó en todas las regiones entre 1991 y 1996. Se analizan dos hipótesis alternativas para explicar las variaciones regionales de apoyo …

[Review Of] International Who's Who In Popular Music, Robert A. Aken

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

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Group Therapy For Incarcerated Women Who Experienced Interpersonal Violence: A Pilot Study, Rebekah G. Bradley, Diane R. Follingstad

CRVAW Faculty Journal Articles

This study evaluated effectiveness of group therapy for incarcerated women with histories of childhood sexual and/or physical abuse. The intervention was based on a two-stage model of trauma treatment and included Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and writing assignments. We randomly assigned 24 participants to group treatment (13 completed) and 25 to a no-contact comparison condition (18 completed). We evaluated treatment effects, using the Beck Depression Inventory, Inventory of Interpersonal Problems, and Trauma Symptom Inventory. The data demonstrate significant reductions in PTSD, mood, and interpersonal symptoms in the treatment group.

Measuring Underemployment At The County Level, Mark C. Berger, Christopher Bollinger, Paul Coomes

University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Discussion Paper Series

As labor markets tightened in the last half of the nineties, economic development and community leaders sought to identify more locally available workers than were indicated by published statistics. Using results from commissioned surveys, they pointed to large numbers of part-time workers who desired full-time work, and to full-time workers who were qualified for better jobs. These statistics were often used to negate low official unemployment rates that deterred firms, concerned by the ostensible shortage of workers, from locating in their counties. We have conducted a larger, statewide, survey of underemployment and linked it to the detailed demographic and labor …

[Review Of] Amg All-Music Guide, Robert A. Aken

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

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Psychosocial Stress And Cervical Neoplasia Risk, Ann L. Coker, Sharon M. Bond, Margaret M. Madeleine, Kathryn J. Luchok, Lucia Pirisi

CRVAW Faculty Journal Articles

OBJECTIVE: We assessed the association between psychosocial stress and preinvasive cervical neoplasia development controlling for HR-HPV infection.

METHODS: This case-control study enrolled low-income women receiving family planning services at health department clinics. There were 59 cases with biopsy confirmed HSIL and 163 with low-grade SIL and 160 controls with normal cervical cytology. A modified SLE scale was used to measure stressful events and the perceived impact of the event in the prior 5 years. Unconditional logistic regression was used to assess SIL risk and stressful events scores and by subscales.

RESULTS: After adjusting for age, HR-HPV infection, and lifetime number …

Exit Routes From Welfare: Examining Barriers To Employment, Demographic And Human Capital Factors, Colleen Heflin

University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Discussion Paper Series

This paper investigates how barriers to employment, human capital, and demographic characteristics affect women’s exit routes off welfare. Specifically, I address two questions. First, what are the avenues through which women leave welfare? Second, are mental and physical health problems, domestic violence, and lack of access to transportation, characteristics that have been ignored in other studies of welfare dynamics, associated with different welfare exit routes? Using multinomial logistic regression and data from the Women’s Employment Survey, this project examines the specific exit route chosen in detail and goes beyond general dynamics associated with welfare exit in order to capture the …

Southeastern Law Librarian Summer 2003, Seaall

Newsletters

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Towards Community Without Unity: Thinking Through Dis-Positions And The Meaning Of Community, Jonathan Lepofsky

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

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Citizenship In The Midst Of Transnationalization: Disclosure Interviews Kathryne Mitchell, Marcia England, Vanessa Hudson, Kyonghwan Park

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

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Book Review: Henry A. Giroux, Stealing Innocence: Corporate Culture's War On Children. New York: Palgrave, 2000., Jonathan Vincent

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

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Discourse And Civil Repair: Disclosure Interviews Jeffrey C. Alexander, Jessica Hollis, Natalia Ruiz-Junco, Brett Smith

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

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Editor's Preface, Jessica Hollis

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

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Beyond The State: The Return To Anarchy, Jeff Shantz

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

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Liberalism And The Challenge Of Fight Club: Notes Toward An American Theory Of The Good Life, Christopher M. Duncan

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

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Book Review: David Bell And Jon Binnie, The Sexual Citizen: Queer Politics And Beyond. Cambridge: Polity, 2000., Keith Woodward

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

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Entre Amigos / Among Friends, Patricia L. Price

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

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Southeastern Law Librarian Spring 2003, Seaall

Newsletters

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Beyond The Shelf: Serving Historic Kentuckiana Through Digital Access [April 2003], Becky Ryder, Kopana Terry

Library Presentations

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[Review Of] The Tin Pan Alley Song Encyclopedia, Robert A. Aken

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

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Books, Buildings, And Binary: A History Of University Of Kentucky Libraries, Antoinette Paris Greider

Library Presentations

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[Review Of] The Baseball Filmography, 1915 Through 2001, Robert A. Aken

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

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Parenting Adolescents, Sandra L. D'Angelo, Hatim A. Omar

Pediatrics Faculty Publications

The period of adolescence is often thought to be one of intense stress and turmoil. Yet many parents and teens negotiate this developmental stage without extreme family conflict and without sacrificing close relationships. This review summarizes a portion of the literature on parent-adolescent relationships, focusing on monitoring and control of adolescent behavior and parenting style. Basic principles to emphasize when working with adolescents and parents are also included.

Lower Class Mobilization And State Welfare Policy In The Era Of Welfare Reform, James M. Avery, Mark Peffley

University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Discussion Paper Series

The 1990s played host to the most significant changes in the American welfare system in the last fifty years— in particular, states were granted much wider latitude in deciding who is eligible to receive welfare. Taking advantage of these changes, we examine the linkage between lower class turnout and state adoption of restrictive welfare eligibility requirements after the passage of the historic welfare reform legislation of 1996. We find that in states where lower class turnout was relatively high, lawmakers were much less likely to pass a range of “get tough” welfare rules. Our findings provide novel support for the …

Poverty And Macroeconomic Performance Across Space, Race, And Family Structure, Craig Gundersen, James P. Ziliak

University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Discussion Paper Series

Understanding the link between poverty and economic growth is of long-standing interest, but heretofore it has not received much attention within the context of the dramatic changes in recent business-cycle conditions and social policies. In this paper we use state-level panel data from the 1981–2000 waves of the Current Population Survey to examine the impacts of the macroeconomy and welfare reform on family poverty. We estimate models of before-tax and after-tax poverty rates and squared poverty gaps for all families, by family structure, and by race. Our results indicate that a strong macroeconomy at both the state and national levels …

The Role Of Food Stamps In Consumption Stabilization, Craig Gundersen, James P. Ziliak

University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Discussion Paper Series

The Food Stamp Program provides assistance to households with incomes and assets below fixed thresholds. Although it is the largest entitlement program in the social safety net, little is known about the effect of food stamps on stabilizing fluctuations in household income and consumption. To estimate the volatility of income and the attendant reduction in volatility due to food stamps we use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics over 1980-1999 along with a model of income that admits permanent and transitory components as well as random growth rate heterogeneity. We then specify a model relating income changes to …