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Cecil, Pam (Fa 222), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 222. Paper: "Thanksgiving" written by Pam Cecil for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

Stock Index Pricing With Random Walk And Agent-Based Models, Scott N. Swisher Iv '08

Honors Projects

The objective of this work is to empirically test the EMH (efficient market hypothesis) and compare its results to those of a viable agent-based competitor using computational simulation. The models are not directly fit to the data; random walk and agent-based methods of stock price determination are statistically compared using the criteria of stationarity, randomness, and autoregressive behavior. The agent-based approach used, styled the "ant trader" model, is based on the ant model established by Kirman in his 1993 work "Ants, Rationality, and Recruitment". Daily returns of the Hang Seng and Nikkei 225 indices are used over the periods 1987-2007 …

The State Of Education In Arkansas 2008: How Much Are Arkansas Schools Spending?, Joshua H. Barnett, Gary W. Ritter, Brent E. Riffel

Arkansas Education Reports

Over the last half century, more than forty states across the nation have experienced school finance lawsuits as a consequence of funding gaps between rich and poor districts. Arkansas is one such state, with a long history of school funding battles in the courts. The legal challenges began in 1983, when the Arkansas Supreme Court initially found the state's school funding system unconstitutional under the equal protection clause of the state constitution1 . The court found “no legitimate state purpose” and “no rational relationship to educational needs” in the state's method of financing public schools. This initial finding set the …

Identifying Factors That Produce Blame For Sexually Harassing Behavior, Colin W. Key

Theses and Dissertations

This research investigated how individual differences impact ratings of blame for sexual harassers and their victims and whether or not any relationships could be explained by defensive attribution theory. This theory claims that blame is a product of the relevance of the situation and the actors within that situation. Participants completed an online questionnaire in which they read hypothetical cases of sexual harassment. They rated the relevance of the situation and the individuals in the scenarios, attributed blame to hypothetical harassers and victims, as well as other information expected to predict ratings of blame. Results suggested that 1) defensive attribution …

Economic Sanctions Against Human Rights Violations, Buhm Suk Baek

Cornell Law School Inter-University Graduate Student Conference Papers

The idea of human rights protection, historically, has been considered as a domestic matter, to be realized by individual states within their domestic law and national institutions. The protection and promotion of human rights, however, have become one of the most important issues for the international community as a whole. Yet, with time, it has become increasingly difficult for the international community to address human rights problems collectively. Despite a significant development in the human rights norms, effective protection of fundamental human rights and their legal enforcement has a long way to go.

This paper will argue that economic sanctions …

Highlights: Analysis Of The Proposed Rule On Designation Of Medically Underserved Populations And Health Professional Shortage Areas, Peter Shin, Leighton C. Ku, Emily Jones, Sara J. Rosenbaum

Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative

For decades, the federal government has targeted health care funding, resources and staff to meet the health care needs of areas designated as "medically underserved areas" and "health professional shortage areas." Areas that qualify may, for example, receive federal funding to support the establishment and operation of community health centers, or receive National Health Service Corps (NHSC) physicians and clinicians. In addition, physicians who practice in these health shortage areas may receive higher payments under Medicare. These designations thus affect the availability of health care in thousands of urban and rural areas all across the United States. Community health centers …

Spartan Daily, April 14, 2008, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 130, Issue 40

Pvc-Cat-196-B-032-001-Cncmp, David Rogoff

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvn-Lot-202-Os-018, Chester Liwosz

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Pvn-Lot-202-Ph-003, Lara Britain

Four Valleys Archive

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Communiqué, April 14, 2008, Lindenwood University

Communiqué

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

Columbia Chronicle (04/14/2008), Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Chronicle

Student newspaper from April 14, 2008 entitled The Columbia Chronicle. This issue is 44 pages and is listed as Volume 43, Number 26. Cover story: "Elevator inspections past due" Editor-in-Chief: Amanda Maurer

Analysis Of The Proposed Rule On Designation Of Medically Underserved Populations And Health Professional Shortage Areas, Peter Shin, Leighton C. Ku, Emily Jones, Sara J. Rosenbaum

Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative

Numerous safety net programs and health care providers depend on Medically Underserved Area and Population (MUA/P) and Health Professional Shortage (HPSA) designations to qualify for federal funding, physician subsidies and placement, and health-related investments to improve access to care for communities and populations at high risk of poor health. These resources are particularly critical for federally-qualified health centers at a time when the number of uninsured is growing and the capacity of the safety net shrinking. On February 29, 2008, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a proposed regulation to alter the way these designations are made. …

2008 - The Thirteenth Annual Symposium Of Student Scholars

Symposium of Student Scholars Program Books

The full program book from the Thirteenth Annual Symposium of Student Scholars, held on April 14, 2008. Includes abstracts from the presentations and posters.

A Longitudinal Examination Of The Influences Of Family Processes And Demographic Variables On Adolescent Weight, Jessica Lee Price

Theses and Dissertations

Nationally representative studies estimate that almost one in five adolescents in the United States is overweight. This is a major concern for individuals' physical and psychological health and the overall economy in terms of health care costs and loss of productivity. The approach of this study was to understand adolescent overweight as influenced by family processes including: parent-adolescent relationship, monitoring or parental knowledge, control, family meals, and parenting styles. Race, sex, family structure, income, and mother Body Mass Index (BMI) were also included. A sub-sample of 4,688 adolescents from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 was used to address …

Report From The Road: Aas Meeting, 2008

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

As our regular readers will have noticed, China Beat has been unusually quiet of late. This is mainly because we were out of range of the internet two weeks ago to attend the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia (and in recovery from the conference hubbub the following week). The AAS is primarily composed of scholars but is also open to those in other fields who study and think about Asia; it has about 7,000 members, with a few thousand in attendance at this conference.

We took advantage of the largest gathering of China Beat contributors …

Mariama Khain Interviews Yema Janga About Kim Language, George Tucker Childs

The Kim and Bom Languages of Sierra Leone

Audio file of Mariama Khain interviewing Yema Janga about the Kim language, and inquiring why Kim is no longer spoken by the people.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 032, Number 36, April 14, 2008, Grand Valley State University

2007-2008, Volume 32

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

Pvn-Lot-202-Od-037, Jenny Dillon

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvn-Lot-202-Od-036, Jenny Dillon

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvn-Lot-202-Od-035, Jenny Dillon

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvn-Lot-202-Od-034, Jenny Dillon

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvn-Lot-202-Od-033, Jenny Dillon

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvn-Lot-202-Oz-001, Joanna Hayes

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvn-Lot-202-Oy-006, Joanna Hayes

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvn-Lot-202-Oy-005, Joanna Hayes

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvn-Lot-202-Oy-004, Joanna Hayes

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvn-Lot-202-Ol-005, Joanna Hayes

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvn-Lot-202-Ol-004, Joanna Hayes

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvn-Lot-202-Ol-003, Joanna Hayes

Four Valleys Archive

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