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Information Outlook, March 2007, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2007

Volume 11, Issue 3

Montana's Outfitting Industry: Economic Impact And Industry-Client Analysis, Norma P. Nickerson, Christine Oschell, Lee Rademaker, Robert Dvorak

Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research Publications

The purpose of this study was to assess the current status and future of the outfitting and guiding industry in Montana through an analysis of the economic contribution, a supply side inventory, and the client-guide experiences.

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Japan-Azerbaijan Bilateral Relations, Tadahiro Abe

Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

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Giving The Learners Control Of Navigation: Cognitive Gains And Losses, Tamas Makany, Paula C. Engelbrecht, Katie Meadmore, Richard Dudley, Edward S. Redhead, Itiel E. Dror

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

E-learning often involves exploration of the information space that is somewhat similar to the exploration of space in the real world. Initial paths taken in any environment (be it a physical, virtual, or any other type) will not only guide the discoveries of what the environment contains, but also formulate the underlying organising principles. The suggested route in an art gallery frequently presents artworks that are either chronological or conceptually tied together. Deviating from this –and taking a route of our own, if at all possible– might be either confusing or insightful. The structure of the information, and the control …

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Checking Out Facebook.Com: The Impact Of A Digital Trend On Academic Libraries, Laurie Charnigo Heathcock, Paula Barnett-Ellis

Research, Publications & Creative Work

While the burgeoning trend in online social networks has gained much attention from the media, few studies in library science have yet to address the topic in depth. This article reports on a survey of 126 academic librarians concerning their perspectives toward Facebook.com, an online network for students. Findings suggest that librarians are overwhelmingly aware of the ‘Facebook phenomenon.’ Those who are most enthusiastic about the potential of online social networking suggested ideas for using Facebook to promote library services and events. Few individuals reported problems or distractions as a result of patrons accessing Facebook in the library. When …

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A Book Review Of Betty M. Merchant And Arlette Ingram Willis’ Multiple And Intersecting Identities In Qualitative Research, Rashmi Gangamma

The Qualitative Report

No abstract provided.

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Combining Historical Research And Narrative Inquiry To Create Chronicles And Narratives, Richard A. Wilson

The Qualitative Report

Stories about the Idaho State Library, chronicles and narratives, are reported in my doctoral dissertation (Wilson, 2005). The chronicles, reconstructed from documents and records, provided a presentation of the people, events, and activities to frame the stories. The narratives, excerpted from interviews, provided the rich description and unique perspectives of the two living State Librarians who directed the agency between 1962 and 2005. The focus of this paper is a presentation and discussion of the use of historical research and narrative inquiry to create chronicles and narratives.

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Qualitative Research In Counseling: A Reflection For Novice Counselor Researchers, Randolph Bowers, Victor Minichiello, David Plummer

The Qualitative Report

Counselors practice in a wide range of disciplines, but also represent a distinct discipline separate from medicine, psychology, and social work. Particularly in countries like Australia, Canada, and the Asia Pacific nations, as a relatively new field, counseling is taking up the challenges of encouraging a research culture that can both critique and support clinical practice and counselor education. This paper is thus written to support novice counselor researchers, and to inspire an emerging research culture through sharing formative experiences and lessons learned during a qualitative research project exploring minority issues in counseling.

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On Becoming A Qualitative Researcher: The Value Of Reflexivity, Diane Watt

The Qualitative Report

Learning how to conduct qualitative research may seem daunting for those new to the task, especially given the paradigm ’s emphasis on complexity and emergent design. Although there are guidelines in the literature, each project is unique and ultimately the individual researcher must determine how best to proceed . Reflexivity is thus considered essential, potentially facilitating understanding of both the phenomenon under study and the research process itself . Drawing upon the contents of a reflective journal, the author provides an inside view of a first project, making connections between theory and practice. This personal narrative highlights the value of …

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Embracing The Practical, The Pragmatic, And The Personal: A Review Of Clive Seale, Giampietro Gobo, Jaber F. Gubrium, And David Silverman’S Qualitative Research Practice, Ronald Chenail

The Qualitative Report

In their 2007 book, Qualitative Research Practice: Concise Paperback Version, Clive Seale, Giampietro Gobo, Jaber F. Gubrium, and David Silverman have offered students, teachers, and researchers a practical guide for understanding and conducting qualitative research. In doing so, they and their chapter contributing colleagues have also taken us as readers into their insiders’ worlds of being qualitative researchers, so we can benefit from their self-narratives of the “nitty-gritty of research practice.” The result is an excellent text that is both pragmatic and personal.

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Asian Currency Baskets: A Useful Surveillance Tool?, Charles Adams, Hwee Kwan Chow

Research Collection School Of Economics

This paper considers whether an intra-regional currency basket and the associated divergence indicators could play a useful role in official exchange rate surveillance. Recently, proponents of an Asian currency basket have referred to the role the European Currency Unit played in constructing exchange rate divergence indicators as evidence of the usefulness of intra-regional currency baskets for exchange rate monitoring. The paper shows that such indicators have a number of features that can lead to them obscuring underlying changes in exchange rates and that the signals they emit will often be difficult to interpret. In addition, the use of regional currency …

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Employer Branding In The Belgian Army: The Importance Of Instrumental And Symbolic Beliefs For Potential Applicants, Actual Applicants, And Military Employees, Filip Lievens

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

This study conceptualizes employer brand as a package of instrumental and symbolic attributes. Using a sample of 955 individuals (429 potential applicants, 392 actual applicants, and 134 military employees), we examine the relative importance of instrumental and symbolic employer brand beliefs across different groups of individuals: potential applicants, actual applicants, and military employees (with less than three years of tenure). Results show that instrumental attributes explain greater variance in the Army's attractiveness as an employer among actual applicants compared to potential applicants or employees. In all three groups, symbolic trait inferences explain a similar portion of the variance. In addition, …

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It Is Not Worth Learning If It Is Not Remembered: Designing E-Learning To Increase Memory, Paula C. Engelbrecht, Tamas Makany, Katie Meadmore, Richard Dudley, Itiel E. Dror

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

The collation, storage and retrieval of information are essential components of successful learning. Whether information is retained depends on a variety of factors, including how the information fits with an individual’s existing knowledge, the way in which information is presented, and its complexity. Some of these factors are under the direct control of the e-learning designers and developers. Investigating these factors and how they impact on memory is important and can enhance the quality of e-learning. Evidence from cognitive neuroscience suggests that information is stored in a semantically meaningful manner. It follows that e-learning technologies, which either mimic how knowledge …

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Trade Agreements With Domestic Policies As Disguised Protection, Gea Myoung Lee

Research Collection School Of Economics

WTO rules prohibit “disguised protection” in the form of domestic policies. How then do governments cooperate over trade and domestic policies when none can verify whether a nation's domestic tax reduction is a protective measure or a reaction to a production externality? In this paper, each government privately observes whether a production externality associated with its import-competing good is high or low. This paper finds that in an optimal agreement, disguised protection with domestic policies is never used by governments with a high externality, and is never commonly realized. Moreover, in an optimal agreement, tariffs may be conditional on domestic …

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Bias In Dynamic Panel Estimation With Fixed Effects, Incidental Trends And Cross Section Dependence, Peter C. B. Phillips, Donggyu Sul

Research Collection School Of Economics

Explicit asymptotic bias formulae are given for dynamic panel regression estimators as the cross section sample size N --> ∞. The results extend earlier work by Nickell [1981. Biases in dynamic models with fixed effects. Econometrica 49, 1417-1426] and later authors in several directions that are relevant for practical work, including models with unit roots, deterministic trends, predetermined and exogenous regressors, and errors that may be cross sectionally dependent. The asymptotic bias is found to be so large when incidental linear trends are fitted and the time series sample size is small that it changes the sign of the autoregressive …

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Long Run Variance Estimation And Robust Regression Testing Using Sharp Origin Kernels With No Truncation, Peter C. B. Phillips, Yixiao Sun, Sainan Jin

Research Collection School Of Economics

A new family of kernels is suggested for use in long run variance (LRV) estimation and robust regression testing. The kernels are constructed by taking powers of the Bartlett kernel and are intended to be used with no truncation (or bandwidth) parameter. As the power parameter ([rho]) increases, the kernels become very sharp at the origin and increasingly downweight values away from the origin, thereby achieving effects similar to a bandwidth parameter. Sharp origin kernels can be used in regression testing in much the same way as conventional kernels with no truncation, as suggested in the work of Kiefer and …

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Examining The Socioeconomic Impacts Of Irrigation In The Southeast Anatolia Region Of Turkey, Sachiko Miyata, Tomoki Fujii

Research Collection School Of Economics

We explore the socioeconomic changes following implementation of an irrigation system in the Southeast Anatolia region of Turkey, and examines whether the improvement originally envisioned was achieved. We surveyed seven irrigated and eight non-irrigated villages in Sanliurfa Province, collecting several indicators at the household level, including crop patterns, household living standards, and access to water. Local perception of the irrigation project and decisions regarding water use also are examined. The irrigation projects have improved knowledge sharing of irrigation technology and helped to introduce the sharing of agricultural machinery. The projects also seem to have shifted the tribal hierarchy toward peer …

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Seventh National Garrett Morgan Sustainable Transportation Symposium, Mti Report 08-02, Mineta Transportation Institute

Mineta Transportation Institute

The Mineta Transportation Institute brought together experts in surface transportation and students from middle and high schools to discuss sustainable transportation topics on April 1, 2008. The goal was to introduce the students to transportation-related careers and to inspire them to pursue the academic curricula that would lead to success in those careers. Students from California, Maryland and Virginia participated in a videoconference, during which they heard a keynote statement from US Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters. The students also presented project proposals for innovative transportation alternatives during the videoconference. The presentations were followed by a moderator-led question period featuring …

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The Fourth National Security Summit: Approaches To Passenger Screening, Mti S-08-01, Mti

Mineta Transportation Institute

The Fourth National Security Summit: Approaches to Passenger Screening is the transcript of a symposium held on March 14, 2007. It was sponsored by the Mineta Transportation Institute and the American Public Transportation Association. For this symposium, numerous experts on security and terrorism, public policy makers, transit executives, and members of law enforcement were invited to participate in an open forum. Topics of discussion included: how public transportation is vulnerable to terrorist attack, and how public transportation has become a target for terrorist both in the United States and abroad; what techniques in screening can be considered the most realistic, …

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An Evaluation Of Distinct Volumetric And Functional Mri Contributions Toward Understanding Age And Task Performance: A Study In The Basal Ganglia, Scott Aaron Langenecker, Emily M. Briceno, Najat M. Hamid, Kristy A. Nielson

Psychology Faculty Research and Publications

Prior work by our group and others has implicated the basal ganglia as important in age-related differences in tasks involving motor response control. The present study used structural and functional MRI approaches to analyze this region of interest (ROI) toward better understanding the contributions of structural and functional MRI measures to understanding age-related and task performance-related cognitive differences. Eleven healthy elders were compared with 11 healthy younger adults while they completed the “go” portion of a complex Go/No-go task. Separate ROI's in the bilateral caudate (C) and putamen/globus pallidus (PGp) were studied based upon previous findings of age-related …

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Spartan Daily, February 28, 2007, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 128, Issue 20

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Diablo Canyon Archaeology: Trans-Holocene Faunal Exploitation Along The Central California Coast, Terry L. Jones

Social Sciences

The objectives of the Diablo Canyon Archaeology project were to (1) refine the dating of archaeological sites CA-SLO-2 and CA-SLO-585; (2) identify the mammal, bird, and fish bones from these sites; (3) employ the resulting temporally controlled faunal matrix to improve understanding of California’s earliest coastal inhabitants and (4) address issues of nearshore ecology related to prehistoric human predation on sea otters and abalone as represented in the faunal record. The project was supposed to result in a published peer-reviewed paper and possible participation in a symposium on restoration ecology.

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The Anchor, Volume 120.17: February 28, 2007, Hope College

The Anchor: 2007

The Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor's history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular.

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Competing Visions Of U.S. Agriculture: Can We Have Our Cake And Eat It Too In Reforming Federal Farm Policy?, Thomas L. Dobbs

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.

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Prospectus, February 28, 2007, Takamichi Kono, Aaron Geiger, Donna Mayer, Erika Porter, Eric Harpring

Prospectus 2007

No abstract provided.

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Automatic Composition Of Semantic Web Services Using Process And Data Mediation, Zixin Wu, Ajith H. Ranabahu, Karthik Gomadam, Amit P. Sheth, John A. Miller

Kno.e.sis Publications

Web service composition has quickly become a key area of research in the services oriented architecture community. One of the challenges in composition is the existence of heterogeneities across independently created and autonomously managed Web service requesters and Web service providers. Previous work in this area either involved significant human effort or in cases of the efforts seeking to provide largely automated approaches, overlooked the problem of data heterogeneities, resulting in partial solutions that would not support executable workflow for real-world problems. In this paper, we present a planning-based approach to solve both the process heterogeneity and data heterogeneity problems. …

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The Guardian, February 28, 2007, Wright State University Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

Twenty-eight page issue of The Guardian, the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. The Guardian has been published regularly since March of 1965.

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Nalsig Meeting, April 20, 2006, Paulita Aguilar

Native American Libraries Special Interest Group (NALSIG)

Minutes from the NALSIG meeting, April 20, 2006, at Farmington, New Mexico.

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Central Florida Future, Vol. 39 No. 67, February 28, 2007

Central Florida Future

No abstract provided.

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Measuring Economic Development Ii - Persistent Income Inequality 1980-2000, David J. Peters

Cornhusker Economics

Economic development is “sustained progressive change to attain individual and group interests through the expanded, intensified and adjusted use of resources,” where “human welfare is the end product of the development process.”1 The previous issue of Cornhusker Economics2 used persistent poverty as one way to measure development at the communitylevel. Another way social scientists measure development is to look at how evenly income is distributed within a community. Thus, an equal distribution has ten percent of households receiving ten percent of the income, fifty percent of households receiving fifty percent of the income, and so on. Although the question of …

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Information Outlook, March 2007, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2007

Montana's Outfitting Industry: Economic Impact And Industry-Client Analysis, Norma P. Nickerson, Christine Oschell, Lee Rademaker, Robert Dvorak

Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research Publications

Japan-Azerbaijan Bilateral Relations, Tadahiro Abe

Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

Giving The Learners Control Of Navigation: Cognitive Gains And Losses, Tamas Makany, Paula C. Engelbrecht, Katie Meadmore, Richard Dudley, Edward S. Redhead, Itiel E. Dror

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Checking Out Facebook.Com: The Impact Of A Digital Trend On Academic Libraries, Laurie Charnigo Heathcock, Paula Barnett-Ellis

Research, Publications & Creative Work

A Book Review Of Betty M. Merchant And Arlette Ingram Willis’ Multiple And Intersecting Identities In Qualitative Research, Rashmi Gangamma

The Qualitative Report

Combining Historical Research And Narrative Inquiry To Create Chronicles And Narratives, Richard A. Wilson

The Qualitative Report

Qualitative Research In Counseling: A Reflection For Novice Counselor Researchers, Randolph Bowers, Victor Minichiello, David Plummer

The Qualitative Report

On Becoming A Qualitative Researcher: The Value Of Reflexivity, Diane Watt

The Qualitative Report

Embracing The Practical, The Pragmatic, And The Personal: A Review Of Clive Seale, Giampietro Gobo, Jaber F. Gubrium, And David Silverman’S Qualitative Research Practice, Ronald Chenail

The Qualitative Report

Asian Currency Baskets: A Useful Surveillance Tool?, Charles Adams, Hwee Kwan Chow

Research Collection School Of Economics

Employer Branding In The Belgian Army: The Importance Of Instrumental And Symbolic Beliefs For Potential Applicants, Actual Applicants, And Military Employees, Filip Lievens

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

It Is Not Worth Learning If It Is Not Remembered: Designing E-Learning To Increase Memory, Paula C. Engelbrecht, Tamas Makany, Katie Meadmore, Richard Dudley, Itiel E. Dror

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Trade Agreements With Domestic Policies As Disguised Protection, Gea Myoung Lee

Research Collection School Of Economics

Bias In Dynamic Panel Estimation With Fixed Effects, Incidental Trends And Cross Section Dependence, Peter C. B. Phillips, Donggyu Sul

Research Collection School Of Economics

Long Run Variance Estimation And Robust Regression Testing Using Sharp Origin Kernels With No Truncation, Peter C. B. Phillips, Yixiao Sun, Sainan Jin

Research Collection School Of Economics

Examining The Socioeconomic Impacts Of Irrigation In The Southeast Anatolia Region Of Turkey, Sachiko Miyata, Tomoki Fujii

Research Collection School Of Economics

Seventh National Garrett Morgan Sustainable Transportation Symposium, Mti Report 08-02, Mineta Transportation Institute

Mineta Transportation Institute

The Fourth National Security Summit: Approaches To Passenger Screening, Mti S-08-01, Mti

Mineta Transportation Institute

An Evaluation Of Distinct Volumetric And Functional Mri Contributions Toward Understanding Age And Task Performance: A Study In The Basal Ganglia, Scott Aaron Langenecker, Emily M. Briceno, Najat M. Hamid, Kristy A. Nielson

Psychology Faculty Research and Publications

Spartan Daily, February 28, 2007, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Diablo Canyon Archaeology: Trans-Holocene Faunal Exploitation Along The Central California Coast, Terry L. Jones

Social Sciences

The Anchor, Volume 120.17: February 28, 2007, Hope College

The Anchor: 2007

Competing Visions Of U.S. Agriculture: Can We Have Our Cake And Eat It Too In Reforming Federal Farm Policy?, Thomas L. Dobbs

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

Prospectus, February 28, 2007, Takamichi Kono, Aaron Geiger, Donna Mayer, Erika Porter, Eric Harpring

Prospectus 2007

Automatic Composition Of Semantic Web Services Using Process And Data Mediation, Zixin Wu, Ajith H. Ranabahu, Karthik Gomadam, Amit P. Sheth, John A. Miller

Kno.e.sis Publications

The Guardian, February 28, 2007, Wright State University Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

Nalsig Meeting, April 20, 2006, Paulita Aguilar

Native American Libraries Special Interest Group (NALSIG)

Central Florida Future, Vol. 39 No. 67, February 28, 2007

Central Florida Future

Measuring Economic Development Ii - Persistent Income Inequality 1980-2000, David J. Peters

Cornhusker Economics