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Yul Annual Report; 2008-2009, Yale University Library

Yale University Library Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Citizens For Peace Minutes 12-8-09, Linda J. Lieder

Citizens for Peace

Kim Redigan spoke of her June 2009 trip to Haiti, to visit the first graduating class at the first rural University in the region of Fondwa.

Citizens For Peace Minutes 10-13-09, Linda J. Lieder

Citizens for Peace

A discussion about the Global Unity Project.

Wsuls 2009 Annual Report, Wayne State University Library System

Library Publications

2009 annual report includes: A message from Dean Sandra Yee; Renovations of SLIS offices and the building of the Mazurek Educational Commons, home of the Shiffman Medical Library; SLIS is reaccredited by ALA; NMIT develops Digital Learning and Development Environment with NEH Grant; Libraries offer amnesty period for overdue books; Library System's Adopt-a-Family Program; Library Liaisons reach out to Tech Town, faculty, and graduate students; New hires Virginia Thomas, Yolanda Jones, Paul Gallagher, and Rebeca Befus; Statistics; Frederick J. and Rose Sievert Business Information Endowed Fund; Remembering Lothar Spang and Su Bardeleben.

Providence College Library+Commons Promotional Branding Material: Library+Commons Wordle, D. Russell Bailey

Library Commons Basics

A PDF file containg a WORDLE graphic of Library+Commons concepts.

Bibliography: The Information Commons And Beyond, D. Russell Bailey

Library Commons Basics

A bibliography of resources about the Information Commons model in libraries.

The Effect Of Domestic Investment, Economic Growth And Human Development On Foreign Direct Investment Into China, Mike Paolino

Empirical Economic Bulletin, An Undergraduate Journal

This paper examines the relationship between foreign direct investment, domestic investment, human development, and economic growth, and uses the ordinary least squared technique, and a time series analysis using data for the period 1977-2007. The analysis seeks to answer the fundamental question of what impact Chinese domestic investment, economic growth, and human development has on foreign direct investment into the country. Research regarding foreign direct investment and its fundamental correlation with economic growth and domestic investment has produced varied results. This paper examines those variables, with the addition of human development variables, where research is partial. This paper seeks to …

The Effect Of Aid Dependency And Quality Of Institution In Alleviating Poverty In Ida Countries, Mahah Mirza

Empirical Economic Bulletin, An Undergraduate Journal

Poverty alleviation has been a topic of much discussion ever since the Millennium Development Goals were set by World Bank in the 1990s. This paper examines to what extent aid dependency and quality of institution affect 31 IDA countries in achieving the first of eight MDG. The study provides evidence that although these IDA countries experience a decrease in poverty, it may not be enough to meet MDGs by 2015. Aid dependency increases the poverty level whereas some Quality of Institution indicators such as control of corruption, rule of law and regulatory quality have greater impact in reducing poverty than …

(Review) After Life: An Ethnographic Novel, Robert Gay

Sociology Faculty Publications

The article reviews the book "After Life: An Ethnographic Novel," by Tobias Hecht.

For Both Love And Money: Viviana Zelizer's "The Purchase Of Intimacy", Martha M. Ertman

Faculty Scholarship

Viviana Zelizer’s recent book, The Purchase of Intimacy (2005) presents an innovative theory of how social and legal actors negotiate rights and obligations when money changes hands in intimate relationships--a perspective that could change how we understand many things, from valuations of homemaking labor to the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund. This essay describes Zelizer’s critique of the reductionist “Hostile Worlds” and “Nothing But” approaches to economic exchange in intimate relationships, then explains her more three-dimensional approach, “Connected Lives.” While Zelizer focuses on family law, the essay goes beyond that context, extending Zelizer’s approach to transfers of genetic material, and concluding …

"This Page Intentionally Blank:" Writing The Next Chapter In The Future Of The Federal Depository Library Program, Bill Sleeman

Faculty Scholarship

This paper reviews the history of the FDLP and offers suggestions on how best to position the program and prepare librarians for the future of government information.

Improving Declassification: A Report To The President From The Public Interest Declassification Board - A Review With Commentary, Bill Sleeman

Faculty Scholarship

This article examines the December 2008 report of the Public Interest Declassification Board (PIDB) with a particular focus on the impact of the recommendations for improving access to classified information and comparing the report to past efforts at reforming the declassification process.

Here Comes The Judge! Gender Distortion On Tv Reality Court Shows, Taunya Lovell Banks

Faculty Scholarship

In the judicial world of television court shows women constitute a majority of the judges and where non-white women and men dominate. In real life most judges are white and male. This essay looks at the gender and racial composition and demeanor of these television reality judges. It asks whether women TV reality judges behave differently from their male counterparts and whether women’s increased visibility as judges on daytime reality court shows reinforces or diminishes traditional negative stereotypes about women, especially non-white women.

Troubled Waters: Mid-Twentieth Century American Society On "Trial" In The Films Of John Waters, Taunya Lovell Banks

Faculty Scholarship

In this Article Professor Banks argues that what makes many of filmmaker John Waters early films so subversive is his use of the “white-trash” body—people marginalized by and excluded from conventional white America—as countercultural heroes. He uses the white trash body as a surrogate for talk about race and sexuality in the early 1960s. I argue that in many ways Waters’ critiques of mid-twentieth century American society reflect the societal changes that occurred in the last forty years of that century. These societal changes resulted from the civil rights, gay pride, student, anti-war and women’s movements, all of which used …

Beyond The University: The Ir And Research Distribution Strategies, Marilyn K. Moody

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Universities are realizing the importance of developing research distribution strategies that allow their research and scholarship to be broadly disseminated. Using the research distribution strategies model as a framework provides the following strengths:

•Emphasizes the campus mission, vision, priorities, and strategic plan.

•Provides a far-reaching framework that supports a broad range of individual strategies.

•Shifts the focus of efforts to institutional and faculty priorities of research and scholarship.

•Emphasizes direct benefits to faculty and students.

•Fits the changing publishing and scholarly communication environment.

This presentation describes the role of the institutional repository in carrying out research distribution strategies. It describes …

Planning, Organizing, And Hosting A Workshop: It’S All In The Details, Barbara C. Glackin, Cheri A. Folkner

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

A library training workshop is an effective way to teach and expand staff skills and, in the process, create interest in new library-related procedures. Hosting a workshop presents an opportunity to cultivate shared knowledge internally, and inviting outside participation provides a forum for strengthening external relationships and exchanging ideas. This article offers a detailed look at organizing a workshop—from budgeting and selecting a trainer to registering participants and making local arrangements. Additionally, it offers practical guidance for successfully planning and organizing a training workshop that will be a rewarding experience for participants, trainer, and host.

Energy Security: An Australian Nuclear Power Industry, Geoff I. Swan

Australian Security and Intelligence Conference

Climate change and energy security are driving a worldwide renaissance in nuclear power. An Australian nuclear power industry has also been seriously investigated by the Australian government and its agencies. This paper provides a broad overview of the nuclear fuel cycle and the nuclear power industry. It identifies aspects that are sensitive to nuclear terrorism and nuclear weapons proliferation to help security professionals identify threats and prepare for a possible Australian nuclear power industry.

The Market And The Social Economy: Can The Twain Meet?, Willie Cheng

Social Space

Can the different paradigms of the market and social economy be reconciled? Willie Cheng suggests that the current remaking of both economies offers an invaluable opportunity.

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index — January 2009, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

No abstract provided.

The Promise Of Sustainable Happiness, Julia K. Boehm, Sonja Lyubomirsky

Psychology Faculty Books and Book Chapters

From ancient history to recent times, philosophers, writers, self-help gurus, and now scientists have taken up the challenge of how to foster greater happiness. This chapter discusses why some people are happier than others, focusing on the distinctive ways that happy and unhappy individuals construe themselves and others, respond to social comparisons, make decisions, and self-reflect. We suggest that, despite several barriers to increased well-being, less happy people can strive successfully to be happier by learning a variety of effortful strategies and practicing them with determination and commitment. The sustainable happiness model (Lyubomirsky, Sheldon, & Schkade, 2005) provides a theoretical …

Kenneth W. Starr: A Biography, Ronald D. Rotunda

Law Faculty Books and Book Chapters

A biography of Kenneth Starr, American lawyer and judge best known for his controversial report that led to the impeachment of President Clinton.

Sluicing And Multiple Wh-Fronting., Lydia Grebenyova

Linguistics

This paper explores multiple wh-fronting under Sluicing. Contrary to previous proposals that an interrogative +wh complementizer licenses TP-ellipsis, I propose that +focus feature licenses this ellipsis operation. Assuming the deletion analysis of sluicing, following Ross (1969), I argue for focus-licensed sluicing based on data from Slavic languages like Russian and Polish, where it is possible to have focused R-expressions as remnants of sluicing. I demonstrate how semantic restrictions in multiple interrogatives are maintained under sluicing, presenting a new argument for the clausal structure of the sluice. Finally, I explore Superiority effects under sluicing, deriving those from parallelism in variable binding.

Economic And Social Networks;Impacts On Regional Economic Outcomes And Concentrations, Gil-Hwan Park

ETD Archive

The Republic of Korea's efforts to accelerate the development of its economy in the aftermath of an extremely destructive civil war led to the concentration of capital and activity in areas that resemble the growth poles described by Perroux (1950) and Hirschman (1958). These poles led to an extreme centralization of economic activity and people in the Seoul Metropolitan Area (SMA). More than 48 percent of the GDP, 90 percent of the headquarters of major firms, and 48 percent of the population is concentrated in 11.8 percent of the Republic's land (2006 figures). Despite the agglomeration economies, the national government …

The Effect Of Priming A Thin Ideal On The Subsequent Perception Of Conceptually Related Body Image Words, Teresa A. Markis

ETD Archive

There is a substantial amount of empirical evidence in support of the claim that the thin ideal portrayed by the mass media leads to body image dissatisfaction. Furthermore, a disturbance in the perception of body image is an essential feature of eating disorders. The Stroop task has been adapted to provide a measure of selective processing for body image related words in eating disordered individuals. Building upon this previous work, the present study was designed to examine the effect of priming the thin ideal on the subsequent perception of body image related words in participants without an eating disorder. In …

Relationship Between Foreign Film Exposure And Ethnocentrism, Lingli Ying

ETD Archive

This study looked at the relationship between foreign film exposure and ethnocentrism by both considering individual differences factors and motives to watch foreign films, based on the uses and gratifications theoretical model. The individual differences factors include cosmopoliteness, access to foreign films and environmental ethnic diversity. The uses and gratifications theory posits that social and psychological factors influence individuals' motives to use media and ultimately lead to different media effects. Accordingly, this research investigated how individual differences related to motives to view foreign films and how foreign film exposure affected people's attitudes to other cultures. A pilot study was conducted …

The Impact Of A Mindful State On Ego-Salience And Self-Control, Robert J. Goodman

ETD Archive

Convergent findings among several distinct lines of research have revealed that mindfulness, an open and receptive form of present-centered awareness, is positively associated with numerous indices of well-being. Much of this research has focused on dispositional mindfulness, the frequency with which one enters into mindful states over time. However, state mindfulness, the degree to which one is mindful at a specific point in time, has been left relatively unexplored. Current theories suggest that many beneficial effects attributable to mindfulness are due to changes in the way one relates to thoughts about the self. In this study we hypothesized that a …

Evolutionary Psychology, Social Emotions And Social Networking Sites: An Integrative Model, Sandra L. Suran

ETD Archive

Humans engage their environment through the combined effort of the mind, body proper and corresponding instinctual emotive devices (Damasio, 1994). These structures are a part of the same phenomena: human biology. Our emotive devices along with the brain and body act as an interwoven organism appraising the environment and making necessary adjustments for it survival and efficient functioning. Moreover, these structures actively engage socially complex signals like those that we experience daily in our social world. Plausibly, when these devices are not utilized the interwoven organism will be in a state of atrophy. Much like an antigen would trigger a …

Understanding The Attitudes And Beliefs Of Faculty Members In Regards To Learning Communities At Cleveland State University, Clare M. Gross

ETD Archive

This thesis examines the intentions of faculty members' in regards to their participation in learning communities at Cleveland State University (CSU). Like many higher education institutions, CSU offers learning community courses as an option to incoming students. Research has found that learning communities lead to a number of benefits for students, including higher grades and retention. However, CSU faces a continuous challenge in being able to offer learning community courses to students, and that is an increased need for faculty participation. The Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) was applied as a theoretical framework in order to better understand how the …

A Case Study Of Student Engagement In Collaborative Group Learning In A Blended Community Based (Service) Learning Module, John G. Mcgarrigle

Research Theses

Abstract: A participatory action research case study employed mixed methods to examine student collaboration and engagement in a Community Based (Service) learning module. A quasi experimental testing of Coates (2007) typology of student engagement found low agreement between students and lecturers in assigning the terms, passive, intense, independent or collaborative to student postings to discussion fora. Evidence from this case study found greater student collaboration in discussion fora when linked to practical course activity. Qualitative analysis of discussion threads using conversation analysis provided evidence for collaboration in deeper knowledge construction when supported by lecturers’ contributions. Discourse analysis examined interviews with …

Encouraging And Evaluating The First Year Experience, Kevin Griffin

Other resources

No abstract provided.