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Academic Gateway, Fall 2008, San Jose State University Library

Library Gateway

No abstract provided.

Library News, Fall 2008, San Jose State University Library

Library News

No abstract provided.

The President And The Press: The Framing Of George W. Bush’S Speech To The United Nations, Stephen D. Cooper, Jim Kuypers, Matt Althous

Communications Faculty Research

In this essay, we provide a brief overview of how frames work, discuss the relationship of frames to the news media, and perform a qualitatively based, comparative framing analysis of President Bush’s speech to the United Nations and the mainstream American press response that followed. Findings suggest that by the end of formal military operations in Afghanistan, the press was increasingly framing its reports in such a way that President Bush’s public statements were inaccurately transmitted to the public at large. Three key findings are advanced: one, the press depicted the Bush administration as an enemy of civil liberties; two, …

Volume 21 Number 1, Newhouse Network, Fall 2008, Syracuse University S.I. Newhouse School Of Public Communications

Newsletters from School of Public Communications - Newhouse Network

Dean's Column -- Mirror Awards -- Making a film in Mumbai -- The view from Beijing -- A golden Opportunity -- ABC on campus -- Executive education suite -- Cirriculum changes -- Sportscaster U -- Legal reporting fellowships -- Cover Story: Lorraine Branham -- Alumna Amanda Raus '04 -- Alumnus Scott Kronick '85 -- Report from the Democratic convention -- Student news -- Faculty Briefs -- New faculty -- Coming back together -- In remembrance of Pan Am 103 -- Why Give? -- In memorandum: Alex Taft G'08 -- Class notes -- report of donors -- Scholarship in Action: Khristopher …

Issue 53, Autumn 2008, Society Of Bead Researchers

The Bead Forum: Newsletter of the Society of Bead Researchers

Ancient Adornments of the Kyivan Rus, X-XIII Centuries, by Maria M. Rypan.

The Joint Archives Quarterly, Volume 18.03: Fall 2008, Timothy S. Harrison, Geoffrey D. Reynolds

The Joint Archives Quarterly

No abstract provided.

The Liberation Hypothesis And Racial And Ethnic Disparities In The Application Of California’S Three Strikes Law, Elsa Y. Chen

Political Science

This paper examines the extent to which racial and ethnic disparities exist in the implementation of California's “Three Strikes and You're Out” law and whether racial and ethnic disparities vary by type of offense. Logistic regression analysis of individual-level data on over 171,000 California prison inmates indicates that African-Americans are more likely than whites and Latinos to receive third-strike sentences, even when legally relevant variables are controlled. The analysis also finds that Latino defendants are significantly less likely to receive third-strike sentences. The results also indicate that the black-white gap is greater for offenses known as “wobblers,” which can be …

Assessing The Effects Of Medicaid Documentation Requirements On Health Centers And Their Patients: Results Of A "Second Wave" Survey, Lee Repasch, Brad Finnegan, Peter Shin, Sara J. Rosenbaum

Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative

This report represents a "second wave" follow-up to a "first wave" study whose purpose was to measure the effects of the Deficit Reduction Act's citizenship documentation requirements on health centers and their patients. The earlier study, conducted six months after implementation, found that the law had a widespread impact, including delayed applications, interrupted enrollment, disruptions in care, and at least anecdotal evidence of a growth in the number of uninsured patients as a result of the denial or loss of Medicaid coverage. This "second wave" survey underscores the existence of serious, ongoing problems more than a year after implementation. Specifically, …

Second-Generation Consumerism: Increasing Consumer Activation To Improve Health Outcomes And Lower Costs For Patients With Chronic Disease, Judith H. Hibbard, Katherine J. Hayes

Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications

With health care costs increasing, some policymakers have sought to make patients better health care consumers through increased cost-sharing linked with greater information on the cost of care. These may be successful cost containment strategies in the short term. But patients are just as likely to forgo necessary as unnecessary care, which ultimately leads to greater demand for more intensive and expensive care in the long term. Patients can, however, play an important role in preventing the onset of chronic conditions or preventing deterioration in health once they have been diagnosed with a chronic condition. In this chapter we discuss …

Slouching Toward Health Reform: Insights From The Battle Over Schip, Sara J. Rosenbaum

Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

For Asians Only? The Perils Of Ancestry-Based Drug Prescribing, Perry W. Payne

Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications

The article discusses various aspects of ancestry-based drug prescribing and contemporary medical ethics in the U.S. Ancestry has been used by researchers to identify a subgroup of people most likely to have a certain allele linked to an adverse drug response. Also discussed are carbamazepine labeling, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Alert on drug prescribing based on allele testing and the ethics of genetically categorizing people.

Une Libraries Annual Report 2007-2008, Une Library Services

Annual Reports

Highlights and accomplishments of 2007/2008 from the University of New England's Library Services department.

Library Ledger, University Of Southern Maine Libraries

Library Ledger

Fall 2008

Afterschool Matters Occasional Paper Fall 2008, National Institute On Out-Of-School Time

Afterschool Matters

Youth Engagement and Quality of Experience in Afterschool Programs
By David J. Shernoff and Deborah Lowe Vandell
Research on middle school participants’ engagement in afterschool programs shows that such programs often serve as developmental contexts for promoting “flow” experiences. Compared to when they are in other settings after school, participants in afterschool programs are more likely to experience high concentrated effort and intrinsic motivation, experiences consistent with Csikszentmihalyi’s concept of flow. Organized sports, arts enrichment, and academic enrichment activities were found to be particularly engaging program activities, in contrast to homework completion. The importance of high levels of engagement in …

2008-2009 Lindenwood Lions Basketball Program, Lindenwood University

Athletic Guides

2008-2009 Lindenwood Lions Basketball Program

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index — October 2008, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

No abstract provided.

A Communitarian Critique Of Dr. Phil: The Individualistic Ethos Of Self-Help Rhetoric, Eric K. Jones

Communications Faculty Scholarship

Communitarians have criticized liberals for being too focused on individual rights and responsibilities. But not many scholars have raised this criticism in the area of self-help rhetoric. To address this void, this essay formulates a communitarian critique of the rhetorical devices Dr. Phil uses to counsel guests on his television program. Many scholars have published insightful work on the communitarian/liberalism debate. This paper extends that debate by providing a moral critique of the rhetoric espoused in this popular form of self-help entertainment. Dr. Phil's persuasive appeals to his guests reveal how notions of individualism appear during the show's dialogue.

Turkish – Eu Relations: Let’S Just Say, It’S Complicated, Cora Allie Treske

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Turkey’s goal of being accepted by the West began with the “westernization” of its culture in the 1830’s under the Ottoman Empire’s sultanates. Turkey’s application to the EU is the newest aspect of Turkey’s westernization project, and its potential membership represents a complete acceptance of its modern, secular identity, both as a people and as a state. The decision of membership is not only important for Turkey’s evolution, but also the European Union’s. The identities of both are at stake; the evolution of each will depend greatly on the course taken by the other. This paper argues that it is …

Baselines Newsletter, No. 3, Fall 2008, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Baselines: The Natural Resources Law Center Newsletter (2007-2011)

No abstract provided.

Vol. 3 No. 1, Moynihan European Research Centers, Fall 2008, Moynihan European Research Centers

Newsletters from Moynihan European Research Centers

EU Graduate seminar on EU immigration --"Notes from Alabama" by Megan Grimm -- "When entering the EU" Croatia and Europe -- New 'Europe' Faculty faculty at Maxwell -- Global Europe 2008 --FLAS Fellowship recipients

National Days Past: Five Things To Read Or Look At

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

To complement the last post on revolutionary anniversaries, here are some places to turn to get a sense of how October 1 has been marked in China between 1949 and 2007.

1) Let’s start with National Day 1950: for an idealized vision of the celebrations held that day, look at this poster.

2) For a fascinating discussion of past National Days that combines memories of personal experience and analytical moves rooted in the discipline of art history, see Wu Hung’s excellent Remaking Beijing.

3) For a look back at National Day 1984, when the 35th anniversary of the founding of …

School Desegregation In Norfolk, Virginia, Karen S. Vaughan

Libraries Faculty & Staff Presentations

Powerpoint slideshow (with audio) to accompany 2008 exhibit in the Old Dominion University Perry Library about School Desegregation in Norfolk, Virginia.

See also:

• digital collection at: no longer available
• online exhibition at: http://exhibits.lib.odu.edu/exhibits/show/sdinv

Fall 2008, School Of Information Studies

iSchool Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Spartan Daily, October 1, 2008, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 131, Issue 18

Iowa Academy Of Science: The New Bulletin, V04n3, Autumn 2008, Iowa Academy Of Science

New Bulletin

Inside This Issue:

--Message from the Executive Director

--A Message from your President

--Comments from the IAS Leadership

--2008-2009 IAS Section Chairs

--One Donation To Help Two Great Causes

--Iowa Junior Academy of Science Celebrating 75 Years of Service

--You are invited to Wiki with IJAS

--Dr. Jay Labov to Speak at IAS Annual Meeting

--Recognizing Great Science

--2008 Iowa Academy of Science Speakers Series Visitor Center, Saylorville Reservoir

--Recognizing Great Science Teaching

Distributional Effects Of Programmatic Features Of Medicaid/Schip On Transitions From Private Insurance Coverage Among Us Low-Income Children: A Dynamic Approach, Adetokunbo B. Oluwole

University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Discussion Paper Series

The goal of this study is to evaluate the effects of Medicaid/SCHIP eligibility and programmatic features on transitions from private insurance coverage among samples of American low-income children using monthly data from the 2001 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), a nationally representative data set. The estimation approach combines multilevel modeling and event history analysis, including a robust array of variables measuring programmatic features, individual child, family, and state attributes. Logistic regression results do not indicate an adverse effect of expanded Medicaid/SCHIP eligibility on private insurance coverage. Results also suggest that states which established stand-alone SCHIP …

Torch (October 2008), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project

Torch: The Civil Rights Team Project Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Among Friends Fall 2008 Vol 9 No 1, Friends Of The Bethel University Library

Among Friends Library Newsletter

Contents:

• Scholarship Award in Memory of Connie J. Larson
• Dear Friends
• Thank You, Generous Friends!
• My Summer with John Hassler
• A Presidential Selection
• Library Footnotes

Tcl Letter Volume 8 Issue 2, Touro College Libraries

Yearbooks and Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Volume 14, Number 3: September/October 2008, Suzanne Zack

UConn Libraries Newsletter

Page 2 -The Vice Provost for University Libraries looks at how the Libraries’ strategic plan will support the University’s academic plan.

Page 3 - Profile of artist Hans Weiss.

Page 4 - Noted children’s literature author Leonard S. Marcus to speak October 22.

Page 5 - In a guest column, the Vice President for Enrollment Planning, Management, and Institutional Research examines diversity, enrollment, and the University’s academic plan.

Page 6 - Both the longtime head of MAGIC and the Dodd Research Center retire.