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Suffering From On The Job Stress Due To Computers And What To Do About It, Sonya Shepherd

Sonya S. Gaither

No abstract provided.

Immigration And Incarceration: Patterns And Predictors Of Imprisonment Among First- And Second-Generation Young Adults, RubéN Rumbaut, Roberto Gonzales, Golnaz Komaie, Charlie Morgan, Rosaura Tafoya-Estrada

Rosaura Conley-Estrada

No abstract provided.

Foreign Exchange Intervention By The Bank Of Japan: Bayesian Analysis Using A Bivariate Stochastic Volatility Model, Michael Smith, Andrew Pitts

Michael Stanley Smith

A bivariate stochastic volatility model is employed to measure the effect of intervention by the Bank of Japan (BOJ) on daily returns and volume in the USD/YEN foreign exchange market. Missing observations are accounted for, and a data-based Wishart prior for the precision matrix of the errors to the transition equation that is in line with the likelihood is suggested. Empirical results suggest there is strong conditional heteroskedasticity in the mean-corrected volume measure, as well as contemporaneous correlation in the errors to both the observation and transition equations. A threshold model is used for the BOJ reaction function, which is …

Best Practices Exchange 2006, Christy Allen

Christy Allen

No abstract provided.

Evaluation Of The Use Of Reflection Papers In Social Work Education: Social Work Students Speak, Lisa Mcguire

Lisa E. McGuire

No abstract provided.

Hiv/Aids Community Home Based Care Baseline Livelihood Assessment For Mwenezi District, Zimbabwe. Care., John Mazzeo

John Mazzeo, Ph.D.

No abstract provided.

Uncertainty, Insurance, And The Learned Hand Formula, Peter Grossman, Reed Cearley, Daniel Cole

Peter Z. Grossman

Note: Final definitive version is available at Oxford Journals. http://www.oxfordjournals.org Law and economics scholars have written extensively about how insurance markets affect the tort system. They have noted the beneficial cost-spreading function of insurance, as well as the detrimental incentive-distorting affects of insurance, stemming from problems of adverse selection and moral hazard. Surprisingly, however, scholars have over-looked one of the most important salutary functions that insurance serves for the tort system: it provides much of the information courts need to apply the Marginal Learned Hand Formula. This paper explains precisely how insurance markets collect and disseminate information about the expected …

Collaborative Games: Lessons Learned From Board Games, Jose Zagal, Rick Jochen, Hsi Idris

Jose P Zagal

Collaborative mechanisms are starting to become prominent in computer games, like massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs); however, by their nature, these games are difficult to investigate. Game play is often complex and the underlying mechanisms are frequently opaque. In contrast, board games are simple. Their game play is fairly constrained and their core mechanisms are transparent enough to analyze. In this article, the authors seek to understand collaborative games. Because of their simplicity, they focus on board games. The authors present an analysis of collaborative games. In particular, they focus on Reiner Knizia’s LORDOFTHERINGS, considered by many to be the …

Consequence Of Competing And Complementary Evaluation Approaches: A Case Study., Brandon Youker, Chris Coryn, Daniela Schröter, Michelle Bakerson

Brandon W. Youker Ph.D

A poster presentation demonstrating an evaluation of a summer school program for middle schoolers in which the evaluators divided into two teams and simultaneously evaluated the program. The first team examined the students' performance according to the program's ability to achieve stated goals while the second team intentionally avoided any knowledge of or reference to the stated goals and objectives throughout the entire evaluation. The two teams wrote separate reports and then a combined report.

Terrorism As Economic Warfare, Brenda Lutz, James Lutz

James M Lutz

The choice of targets for terrorist attacks is often considered to be random or illogical. In other cases targets are seen as being chosen for their symbolic importance to the audience the terrorists are seeking to reach or to indicate that no area of the country is safe. Terrorist groups, however, also choose their targets because of the economic impact that the attacks will have. There are patterns in economic attacks since different groups choose different kinds of targets. There may be increases in economic targeting, especially in the tourism sector where attacks create economic hardship and to reduce revenues …

Functional Connectivity In A Baseline Resting-State Network In Autism, Vladimir Cherkassky, Rajesh Kana, Timothy Keller, Marcel Just

Marcel Adam Just

No abstract provided.

The Emergence And Impact Of ‘Organic’ Research Collaboration, Craig Boardman, Barry Bozeman

Craig Boardman

No abstract provided.

Are Nouns Easier To Learn Than Verbs? Three Experimental Studies, Jane Childers

Jane Childers

No abstract provided.

Technology In Today's Library And Its Role As An Agent Of Change In Higher Education, Deann Buss

DeAnn Buss

No abstract provided.

Gender And Public Address, Karlyn Campbell, Zornitsa Keremidchieva

Zornitsa Keremidchieva

No abstract provided.

Conexionismo O Nativismo? Construcciones Con Se En Hablantes Bilingües., Joyce Bruhn De Garavito

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito

No abstract provided.

International Exposure: Perspectives On Modern European Pornography, 1800-2000 (L. Z. Sigel, New Brunswick, Nj: Rutgers University Press, 2005), Amanda Swygart-Hobaugh

Amanda "Mandy" J. Swygart-Hobaugh

No abstract provided.

Roundtable On Academic Publishing, Kembrew Mcleod

Kembrew McLeod

No abstract provided.

Bolivia’S Amayapampa And Capasirca Mines: Social Resistance And State Repression, Alejandra Roncallo

Alejandra Roncallo

No abstract provided.

Citizen-Centered Collaborative Public Management, Terry Cooper, Thomas Bryer, Jack Meek

Thomas A Bryer

Civic engagement and collaborative public management are concepts that are defined broadly, making theoretical explication challenging and practical application of empirical research difficult. In this article, the authors adopt definitions of civic engagement and collaborative public management that are centered on the citizen and the potential for active citizenship. Following a historical review of civic engagement in the United States, a conceptual model of five approaches to civic engagement is offered. Citizen-centered collaborative public management is enhanced through these approaches. The authors suggest the need for further empirical research on collaborative public management that is grounded in citizenship action.

National Imaginings On The Air: Radio In Mexico, 1920-1940, Joy Hayes

Joy E. Hayes

No abstract provided.

Place Matters: Linking Housing, Social Services, And Family Well-Being, Terri Lewinson

Terri Lewinson

No abstract provided.

Fur Into Feathers: Manly Hardy And His Collection Of North American Birds, William Krohn, Marilyn Massaro

William B. Krohn

The Real World: Developing Information Age Issues Forums, Mary Macdonald, Amanda Izenstark, Brian Gallagher, Jim Kinnie, Peter Larsen

Amanda Izenstark

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to describe the development of a series of forums on issues of the information age, created to address ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standard Five. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a case study, including citations to relevant literature. Findings – The paper provides a technique for addressing ACRL Information Literacy Standard Five, examples of topics, discussion of logistics, and value to students. Originality/value – The ideas and methods presented in the paper may be used by other librarians to arrange forums at their own institutions. A checklist to assist in preparation is also …

Art As Politics: Re-Crafting Identities, Tourism, And Power In Tana Toraja, Indonesia, Kathleen Adams

Kathleen M. Adams

Art as Politics explores the intersection of art, identity politics, and tourism in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Based on long-term ethnographic research from the 1980s to the present, the book offers a nuanced portrayal of the Sa’dan Toraja, a predominantly Christian minority group in the world’s most populous Muslim country. Celebrated in anthropological and tourism literatures for their spectacular traditional houses, sculpted effigies of the dead, and pageantry-filled funeral rituals, the Toraja have entered an era of accelerated engagement with the global economy marked by on-going struggles over identity, religion, and social relations.

In her engaging account, Kathleen Adams chronicles how various …

Terror And Tourism: Charting The Ambivalent Allure Of The Urban Jungle, Kathleen Adams

Kathleen M. Adams

No abstract provided.

The Psychologist As Novelist, J. Moreno

J. Kelly Moreno

Reviving The Corporate Medical Library: Using Technology To Become A Cost Center, Denise Hersey

Denise Hersey

Conceptualizing And Measuring White House Staff Influence On Presidential Rhetoric, Justin Vaughn, José Villalobos

José D. Villalobos

Scholars have debated extensively the impact of presidential rhetoric on public opinion and congressional behavior, but have largely ignored the determinants of what the president actually says. This inattention is partly the result of the difficulty of acquiring systematic observations of presidential speech crafting. We devise a method of quantifying White House staff influence over the composition of rhetoric that captures the multistage negotiations between the president's speechwriters and his policy advisors and provides a framework for future studies on the determinants of presidential rhetoric. We employ our method to study influence over the writing of President George H. W. …

Words Of Batswana: Letters To Mahoko A Becwana, Stephen Volz

Stephen Volz