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Review Of The Book The Source: A Guidebook To American Genealogy, 3rd Ed., John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

Review of the book The source: A guidebook to American genealogy, 3rd ed.

Interim Executive Director Program, Stuart C. Mendel

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

Interim Executive Director Program Guide

Aisr Connections, Fall 2007 (Library Insert)

The AC's Research Support Newsletter (Formerly AISR Connections)

No abstract provided.

33 | Nysa-Scythopolis: The Caesareum And The Odeum, Gabriel Mazor, Arfan Najjar

IAA Reports—Monograph Series of the Israel Antiquities Authority

This is the first volume of publications of the Bet She’an Archaeological Project, describing the large-scale IAA excavations at the site of Bet She’an, ancient Nysa-Scythopolis, during 1986–2002. The excavations were followed by vast preservation and development works. This first volume describes the stratigraphy and architecture of the Caesareum and Odeum, erected within the monumental Roman–Byzantine civic center of the city, as well as the Hellenistic-Roman pottery and architectural elements.

Commentary: The Use Of Focus Groups For Design And Implementation Of Collaborative Environmental Administrative Programs: A Comparison Of Two State-Level Processes In Ohio, Wendy Kellogg, Kevin E. O'Brien, Claudette Robey, Kirstin Toth

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

Development and implementation of administrative programs are important steps in the process of change through public law and policy. These programs set the specific mechanisms that will be used to carry out the intent of the law or policy as best an agency can determine. Administrative personnel may involve the general public and stakeholders in program development and implementation in order to improve program design, increasingly used as part of collaborative environmental management strategies. This article examines the use of focus groups as a stakeholder participation method in collaborative program development and implementation processes in two different environmentally-oriented agency …

Front Matter

Modern Psychological Studies

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The Impact Of Task Difficulty, Defendant's Race, And Race Salience On Conformity In Mock Jury Deliberations, Allegra Giorgia Poggio, Amy Bradfield Douglass

Modern Psychological Studies

Understanding what factors affect conformity in jury deliberations is an essential part of understanding the decision making process of reaching a verdict. This study manipulated three variables in a case summary: race salience (not salient vs. salient), defendant race (Black vs. White), and task difficulty (easy vs. difficult). The study used a mock deliberation paradigm based on Kassin, Smith, & Tulloch (1990). Participants read a case summary and provided a verdict with a short explanation. After doing so, participants read notes containing the verdicts and explanations of 5 other fictitious participants. Participants' verdicts were always in the minority. After viewing …

Advocate, September 2007, Vol. [19], No. [1], Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

With Clancy Gone, Health Services Down But Not Out; VP: Contract Woes Hinder Finding a Successor (p. 1)

Wireless at Last: Service in Place in Library, Commons, and Other Sites (p. 1)

CUNY Tightens Admissions Standards for Senior Colleges (p. 1)

From the Editor’s Desk: It Can’t Happen Here: Or Has It? (p. 2)

Graduate Center Technology: New Computer Blitz for Library, Computer Labs (p. 3)

Dispatches from the Front: Learning Teaching Excellence (the Hard Way). Rachel Porter (p. 6)

Adjuncting: Towards Adjunct Empowerment. Carl Lindskoog (p. 6)

Grad Life: On the Other Side of the Table …

Retirement Plans And Perceptions Among Rural Nebraskans, David J. Peters, Randolph L. Cantrell, Miguel A. Carranza, Bruce B. Johnson, Rebecca J. Vogt

Publications from the Center for Applied Rural Innovation (CARI)

• Most rural Nebraskans indicate an ideal retirement age of between 55-64 years (about 55%), or an ideal age of between 65-70 years (under 30%).

• However, only one-third of those ideally retiring between ages 55-64 think they will have sufficient income to do so, while nearly one-half of those ideally retiring between ages 65-70 think they will have enough retirement income.

• Over 40 percent of rural Nebraskans say they plan to work during retirement. People in their 40s and 50s are more likely to plan on working than those in their 20s and 30s.

• A majority of …

Rural Nebraskans And Health Care In Retirement, Randolph L. Cantrell, Miguel A. Carranza, Bruce B. Johnson, David J. Peters, Rebecca J. Vogt

Publications from the Center for Applied Rural Innovation (CARI)

• Rural Nebraskans are concerned about health and health care during their retirement.

• Concerns over health care needs are likely to influence where older Nebraskans choose to reside.

• The perceived need to provide personal health insurance for oneself is likely to keep older rural Nebraskans in the labor force.

• Upon retirement, rural Nebraskans expect to finance their health care in a variety of ways, but expect to rely most heavily upon Medicare.

• Reliance upon family and friends for any level of health care support is seen as an unlikely option by most rural Nebraskans.

Rural Nebraskans And Retirement Income, Bruce B. Johnson, Randolph L. Cantrell, Miguel A. Carranza, David J. Peters, Rebecca J. Vogt

Publications from the Center for Applied Rural Innovation (CARI)

• Most rural Nebraskans are concerned about adequate income for their retirement years.

• Social security is only one of many retirement income sources that rural Nebraskans are employing.

• Planning on continuing employment, either full or part-time, into the retirement years as an income source is the rule rather than the exception.

• Few rural Nebraskans plan to leave a portion of their estate to their community organizations and causes, even though they may think favorably about their community.

Where Do Rural Nebraskans Plan To Retire?, David J. Peters, Randolph L. Cantrell, Miguel A. Carranza, Bruce B. Johnson, Rebecca J. Vogt

Publications from the Center for Applied Rural Innovation (CARI)

Key Findings

• Younger people in their 20s are unsure of their plans to move in retirement (65%). Those in their 30s and 40s are also unsure (about 55%), but are also more likely to stay where they currently live (about 35%) than younger people.

• Plans to move become more definite as people get older. Those in their 50s and early 60s either do not plan to move (45%) or are still unsure (40%), while those 65 and older overwhelmingly plan to stay where they are (62%) rather than being unsure of their plans to move (20%).

• Only …

Rural Nebraskans Working In Retirement, Rebecca J. Vogt, Randolph L. Cantrell, Miguel A. Carranza, Bruce B. Johnson, David J. Peters

Publications from the Center for Applied Rural Innovation (CARI)

Key Findings

• Employment is an important part of retirement and retirement planning for rural Nebraskans.

• Many rural Nebraskans who are not yet retired expect to work past the traditional retirement age of 65, especially those age 40 to 64 and farmers and ranchers.

• Motivations for working past the traditional retirement age include to meet basic income needs and to keep both physically and mentally active.

• Retirees are more likely to work for enjoyment while persons who are not yet retired expect to work for basic income needs.

• Most rural Nebraskans are anticipating some form of …

Newcomers To The Nebraska Panhandle: How Do We Keep Them Here?, Cheryl A. Burkhart-Kriesel, Randolph L. Cantrell, Bruce B. Johnson, Charlotte Narjes, Rebecca J. Vogt

Publications from the Center for Applied Rural Innovation (CARI)

Key Findings

• Most new residents considered other locations before choosing their current location.

• Most new residents view their new communities as friendly, trusting, and supportive.

• Many new residents are involved in their new community, but are not as engaged as they were in their previous community.

• Many new residents are either not planning to stay in their current community or aren’t sure of their plans.

• Younger persons are more likely than older persons to be planning to leave or to be unsure of their plans.

• The feeling of belonging in the community has the …

Allen Keiswetter On Women In The Middle East: Past And Present By Nikki R. Keddie. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. 416pp., Allen Keiswetter

Human Rights & Human Welfare

A review of:

Women in the Middle East: Past and Present by Nikki R. Keddie. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. 416pp.

Brief Therapy: The Process Of Change And Episodes Of Care, J. Scott Fraser, Andy Solovey

School of Professional Psychology Faculty Publications

Brief therapy seems to be all the rage today. In most countries, third party payers, government health bodies, and service provider agencies are increasingly demanding “cost-benefit” or “cost-effectiveness” support for all outpatient psychotherapy. Employers supporting employee assistance programs, to help workers through life difficulties, are equally interested in the most time-effective interventions to retain valued employees and restore their productivity. In truth, it is the rare client who wouldn’t choose a treatment promising the quickest resolution to their distress. Yet, what is brief therapy, and is the pressure to practice it causing more problems for practitioners than the approach promises …

Sa-Rest And (S)Mashups: Adding Semantics To Restful Services, Jonathan Lathem, Karthik Gomadam, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

The evolution of the Web 2.0 phenomenon has led to the increased adoption of the RESTful services paradigm. RESTful services often take the form of RSS/Atom feeds and AJAX based light weight services. The XML based messaging paradigm of RESTful services has made it possible to compose various services together. Such compositions of RESTful services is widely referred to as Mashups. In this paper, we outline the limitations in current approaches to creating mashups. We address these limitations by proposing a framework called as SA-REST. SA-REST adds semantics to RESTful services. Our proposed framework builds upon the original ideas in …

Nexus, Fall 2007, Wright State University Community

Nexus Literary Journal

Nexus is a magazine that began as an insert in the Wright State Guardian student newspaper in 1965 and has since been published semi-regularly. It began only accepting creative writing, but has since expanded to include illustrations, photography and other non-written art forms. Today, it is published in a digital format and accepts submissions from around the country, though it maintains its commitment to the Wright State Community.

Continuidade E Mudança No Brasil: Os Legados Do Bacharelismo, João Batista De Castro Júnior, Bernd Reiter

Government and International Affairs Faculty Publications

In this article, we discuss some of the literature on the development of the Portuguese colonial legacy called "bacharelismo and seek to provide an answer to the question why clientelism and patronage are still such pervasive forces in Brazilian politics and indeed in broader society. By tracing back the ways how certain groups have conquered, maintained, and defended privilege vis-`a-vis popular sectors of Brazilian society and by following this process of defending inherited privilege all the way to contemporary times, we seek to support our main argument, which is that Brazilian society has never been sufficiently re-structured in order to …

Aisr Connections, Fall 2007 (2007-2008 Orientation Issue)

The AC's Research Support Newsletter (Formerly AISR Connections)

No abstract provided.

Tennessee Archivist 30, No. 3, Society Of Tennessee Archivists

Tennessee Archivist newsletters

Fall 2007 issue of the Tennessee Archivist, a newsletter produced by the Society of Tennessee Archivists.

Partner Profiles, Esr Review

Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review

No abstract provided.

Closing The Gender Gap, Dwight Haase

Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review

No abstract provided.

The Role Of The Common Prior In Robust Implementation, Dirk Bergemann, Stephen Morris

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

We consider the role of the common prior for robust implementation in an environment with interdependent values. Specifically, we investigate a model of public good provision which allows for negative and positive informational externalities. In the corresponding direct mechanism, the agents’ reporting strategies are strategic complements with negative informational externalities and strategic substitutes with positive informational externalities. We derive the necessary and sufficient conditions for robust implementation in common prior type spaces and contrast this with our earlier results without the common prior. In the case of strategic complements the necessary and sufficient conditions for robust implementation do not depend …

Belief Free Incomplete Information Games, Dirk Bergemann, Stephen Morris

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

We consider the following belief free solution concepts for games with incomplete information: (i) incomplete information rationalizability, (ii) incomplete information correlated equilibrium and (iii) ex post equilibrium. We present epistemic foundations for these solution concepts and establish relationships between them. The properties of these solution concepts are further developed in supermodular games and potential games.

What To Count, What To Report: The Revised Aba Annual Questionnaire (Aall Program Report), Ellen T. Mcgrath

Law Librarian Other Scholarship

No abstract provided.

More On The Future Of Bibliographic Control, Ellen T. Mcgrath

Law Librarian Other Scholarship

No abstract provided.

On Rate Optimality For Ill-Posed Inverse Problems In Econometrics, Xiaohong Chen, Markus Reiss

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

In this paper, we clarify the relations between the existing sets of regularity conditions for convergence rates of nonparametric indirect regression (NPIR) and nonparametric instrumental variables (NPIV) regression models. We establish minimax risk lower bounds in mean integrated squared error loss for the NPIR and the NPIV models under two basic regularity conditions that allow for both mildly ill-posed and severely ill-posed cases. We show that both a simple projection estimator for the NPIR model, and a sieve minimum distance estimator for the NPIV model, can achieve the minimax risk lower bounds, and are rate-optimal uniformly over a large class …

Collective Reputation, Professional Regulation And Franchising, Robert Evans, Timothy W. Guinnane

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

Collective reputation and its associated free-rider problem have been invoked to justify state licensing of professions and to explain the incidence of franchising. We examine the conditions under which it is possible to create a Pareto-improving collective reputation among groups of heterogeneous producers. If the regulator or franchisor cannot credibly commit to high quality then a common reputation can be created only if the groups are not too different and if marginal cost is declining. High cost groups benefit most from forming a common regime.

Pricing Without Priors, Dirk Bergemann, Karl Schlag

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

We consider the problem of pricing a single object when the seller has only minimal information about the true valuation of the buyer. Specifically, the seller only knows the support of the possible valuations and has no further distributional information. The seller is solving this choice problem under uncertainty by minimizing her regret. The pricing policy hedges against uncertainty by randomizing over a range of prices. The support of the pricing policy is bounded away from zero. Buyers with low valuations cannot generate substantial regret and are priced out of the market. We generalize the pricing policy without priors to …