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Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for September 9, 2008 meeting.

Ua35/11 Arête September 2008, Honors College

Arête: Honors College at WKU Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Topscholar™ And Selectedworks™: Forging New Paths Of Information Access And Research, Connie Foster

SelectedWorks™

No abstract provided.

Resolution 01-08-F - Support Of Emergency Communications, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Resolution in support of crisis management system.

Chase, Barbara J. (Fa 316), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 316. Paper: "A Study of the Black Cosmetology Field" written by Barbara J. Chase for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

Can The Confluence Model Predict Female Sexual Aggression?, Nichole M. Clay-Valorio

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this exploratory investigation was to test the pathways of the Confluence Model of Sexual Aggression (Malamuth, Heavey & Linz, 1996) for prediction of self-reported female sexual aggression utilizing various computerized measures with college aged female participants (n = 104). The confluence model states that sexual aggression is the interactive result of two simultaneous pathways: hostile masculinity (and/or hostile femininity) and impersonal sex. It was hypothesized that a combination of either of the hostility pathways (feminine vs. masculine) and the impersonal sex pathway would predict sexual aggression. Modified versions of the Sexual Experiences Scale (SES), Coercive Sexuality Scale …

Most Downloaded Documents For August 2008, University Of Nebraska–Lincoln Digital Commons

Institutional Repository Information

Most-Downloaded Documents: August 1 -- August 31, 2008 from DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln The Top 25:

1. The Constitutions of the Free-Masons (1734). An Online Electronic Edition.
2. Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection Bibliography - Volume II: English and European Languages (2000)
3. A Description of New England (1616): An Online Electronic Text Edition
4. Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology: Complete Work
5. Electronic Rodent Repellent Devices: A Review of Efficacy Test Protocols and Regulatory Actions
6. EFFECTS OF OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT: A CURRENT AWARENESS BIBLIOGRAPHY
7. Justice According to Law
8. PIGEON ASSOCIATED PEOPLE DISEASES
9. La …

Topscholar™ And Selectedworks™: Forging New Paths Of Information Access And Research, Connie Foster

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Presentation made before the WKU Academic Deans regarding the use of TopSCHOLAR and SelectedWorks in promoting scholarly publication among faculty.

Email Re: Minutes 9-2-08, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Email regarding the minutes for the September 2, 2008 meeting and committee meeting times.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 033, Number 03, September 8, 2008, Grand Valley State University

2008-2009, Volume 33

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Lanthorn, Vol. 43, No. 06, September 8, 2008, Grand Valley State University

Volume 43, July 10, 2008 - June 7, 2009

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Spartan Daily, September 8, 2008, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 131, Issue 5

Commonwealth Of Kentucky V. William P. King, Et Al. (Sc 1744), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1744. Record of trial held in Simpson County, Kentucky of William P. King, Charles Smith, Abraham Owen and seven others for the murder of Harvey King. Defendants and victim had all participated in a previous train robbery. Also includes a photocopy of The Life of King and Owen, Written by Themselves, Revised and Prepared by Rev. L. M. Horn, Explaining the Railroad Robbery and Murder of Harvey King (Louisville, Ky., 1867); and “‘A High Handed Outrage:’ The King & Owens Railroad Robbery of 1866,” a paper written …

Chinese Fireworks, Haiwang Yuan

DLPS Faculty Publications

This article introduces the history of fireworks in China, including its recorded and legendary origins. It also discusses the production of and market for the fireworks. Current challenges and innovations are also mentioned.

Communiqué, September 8, 2008, Lindenwood University

Communiqué

The Communiqué was the faculty/staff newsletter for Lindenwood University/College from 1982 to 2016.

Making Sense Of Their World: Sensory Awareness And Sensory Reactivity As Predictors Of Social Interaction In Early Childhood, Cortney Anne Evans

Theses and Dissertations

The purposes of this study were to (a) test the validity of a sensory reactivity measure adapted for parents of preschool-age children, (b) examine if different modalities of sensory reactivity (i.e. smell, touch, taste, etc.) emerge together or if differing thresholds of reactivity exist between sensory modalities, (c) see how parental ratings of preschoolers' sensory reactivity are related to children's behaviors in the classroom, and (d) see if sensory reactivity bears different relationships to children's social behaviors than do other aspects of temperament. A total of 260 parents (242 mothers, 18 fathers) and 10 teachers of 260 children (131 male, …

A Crime To Work: The Part Of "Illegal" I Don't Understand, Erik Camayd-Freixas

Postville Project Documents

Addresses the role of identity theft as the chief charge against most of the people detained in the Agriprocessors immigration raid in Postville, Iowa.

Luncheon Sponsored By The Friends Of The Henderson Library, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

Library Publications (1999-2023)

• Luncheon Sponsored by the Friends of the Henderson Library

Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 74, September 8, 2008

Central Florida Future

UCF student's funeral held today; Student count reaches 50,000; One final leap; SGA's Derek Harris resigns; Successful student-athletes get decal.

Factorial And Construct Validity Of The Revised Short Form Integrative Psychotherapy Alliance Scales For Family, Couple, And Individual Therapy, William M. Pinsof, Richard E. Zinbarg, Lynne M. Knobloch-Fedders

Psychology Faculty Research and Publications

The Integrative Psychotherapy Alliance model brought an interpersonal and systemic perspective to bear on theory, research, and practice on the psychotherapeutic alliance. Questions have been raised about the independence of the theoretical factors in the model and their operationalization in the Individual, Couple, and Family Therapy Alliance Scales. This paper presents results of a confirmatory factor analysis of the scales that delineated at least three distinct interpersonal factors as well as shorter versions of the three scales to facilitate their use in research and practice. The paper also presents the results of a study testing each factor's association with client …

St. Francis Of Assisi Catholic Church And Center For The Deaf Sunday Bulletin, September 7, 2008

Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church and Center for the Deaf Sunday Bulletin

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Landover Hills, MD

St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church and Center for the Deaf Sunday Bulletin Finding Aid

The Great Diversion

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

Allegations about money-laundering by former President Chen Shui-bian, his relatives, and his acquaintances have been front page news for three weeks, and, on some TV stations, occupy the first 30-40 minutes of the news hour. As might be imagined, this is also a hot topic on the political talk shows, day after day after day. New reports continue to surface about alleged improprieties, ranging from misusing government funds, to opening shady accounts in Swiss banks and tax havens like Liechtenstein and Aruba, to buying mansions and other properties in the U.S. The media hounds are now hot on the chase …

Segmenting Brain Tumors Using Pseudo-Conditional Random Fields, Chi-Hoon Lee, Shaojun Wang, Albert Murtha, Matthew R.G. Brown, Russell Greiner

Kno.e.sis Publications

Locating Brain tumor segmentation within MR (magnetic resonance) images is integral to the treatment of brain cancer. This segmentation task requires classifying each voxel as either tumor or non-tumor, based on a description of that voxel. Unfortunately, standard classifiers, such as Logistic Regression (LR) and Support Vector Machines (SVM), typically have limited accuracy as they treat voxels as independent and identically distributed (iid). Approaches based on random fields, which are able to incorporate spatial constraints, have recently been applied to brain tumor segmentation with notable performance improvement over iid classifiers. However, previous random field systems involved computationally intractable …

Recommended Readings

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

There was more “strolling” in China this week (see #4), and these are the pieces we enjoyed in our own strolls around the internet this week…

1) Head over to Beijing Sounds for a thoroughly enlightening and entertaining piece by Randy Alexander on spoken Chinglish–and particularly the sort that results from transcribing English using Chinese characters (yep, you read correctly–follow the link for images of the texts that teach using this method and even the amazing audio clips of what English spoken this way sounds like).

2) Victor Cha wonders if the Olympic Games were “too perfect”?

3) China Beat‘s …

The Continuing Cost Of Privatization: Extra Payments To Medicare Advantage Plans In 2008, Brian Biles, Emily Adrion, Stuart Guterman

Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications

The Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 explicitly increased Medicare payments to private Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. As a result, every MA plan in the nation is paid more for its enrollees than they would have been expected to cost in traditional fee-for-service Medicare. The authors calculate that payments to MA plans in 2008 will be 12.4 percent greater than the corresponding costs in traditional Medicare—an average increase of $986 per MA plan enrollee, for a total of more than $8.5 billion. Over the five-year period 2004–2008, extra payments to MA plans are estimated to have totaled nearly $33 billion. Although …

Olac Capc Moving Image Work-Level Records Task Force Draft Report And Recommendations, Part I: Moving Image Work Definition And Boundaries, Part Ii: Core Attributes And Relationships, Kelley Mcgrath, Susannah Benedetti, Karen Gorss Benko, Lynne Bisko, Greta De Groat, Scott M. Dutkiewicz, Ngoc-My Guidarelli, Jeannette Ho, Nancy Lorimer, Scott Piepenburg, Thelma Ross, Walt Walker

OLAC Publications and Training Materials

The Moving Image Work-Level Records Task Force of Online Audiovisual Catalogers (OLAC) Cataloging Policy Committee (CAPC) was charged with investigating and making recommendations on issues related to FRBR-based work-level records for moving image materials, including, but not limited to:

• Identifying characteristics of moving image works (possibly with some indication of relative importance) that should be included in work-level records and creating operational definitions of these characteristics.
  
  
• Identifying potential sources of information about these characteristics and examining the reliability of these sources.
  
  
• Examining existing bibliographic records to identify places where work-level information might be recorded and investigating the possibility of extracting …

International Knowledge Professionals: Contemporary Career Concerns And Implications, Marian Crowley-Henry

Conference papers

This study supplements existing contemporary research on knowledge workers. It takes an interpretivist approach to represent and analyse a new breed and under-researched sub-category of international assignee termed ‘bounded transnationals’ by the author. In the context of this paper these can be simply described as internationally-located knowledge professionals. This sample has committed to living indefinitely in the host country as foreign residents where they are employed under local country contracts of employment. The paper explores how the sample perceives and makes sense of careers in the context of globalisation and change.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 73, September 5, 2008

Central Florida Future

UCF and Valencia split $23 mil. facility; Valencia community college/UCF joint use building; Legacy policy alive at UCF; Radical Rush kicks off Monday; CodePink student arrested; Venue serves UCF-USF tickets.

Librarian Status At Us Research Universities: Extending The Typology, Mary K. Bolin

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

A typology of librarian status developed for land grant universities is extended to US research universities. Land grant librarians are tenure-track faculty in 70% of institutions. Librarians in the expanded population have that status slightly more than half the time. Institution size, geographic region, and public/private governance are discussed.

Web Site Content Management Systems: Selection And Usage At Land-Grant Universities, Deborah Dalhouse

All Theses

American land-grant universities generate large amounts of information for their Web sites, which serve a variety of audiences in addition to students, faculty, and staff. Many of these universities are beginning to search for Web site content management systems (CMS) to help organize this information. However, there are hundreds - if not thousands - of systems in this emerging arena, with no clear market leader. This paper provides a snapshot of the experiences of communicators at several universities where content management systems are in use. The purpose is to provide criteria to help Web site managers at universities and other …