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"The Only Band That Matters": An Analysis Of The Relationship Between Punk Rock And Culture, Dillon Ferdinandi

Communication Studies

No abstract provided.

Climate Literacy In California K-12 Schools, Candice Maree Nosworthy

Communication Studies

No abstract provided.

Michael Vick's Redemption Strategy, Joseph Matthew Douglas

Communication Studies

No abstract provided.

Discovering Shifts And Trends In Beverage Packaging, Rachel Hutchinson

Graphic Communication

The purpose of this study is to better understand beverage packaging trends of today and what trends are necessary in order to profit in the industry today. It addresses aspects such as sustainability, marketing, labeling, and size and shape. In addition to determining trends on the rise, this study suggests methods in order to increase consumer appeal as well as lower production costs.

This study was based on specialized interviews with experts from different levels of the supply chain. Their insight was beneficial in understanding the current trends and the specific rationale for these shifts.

The results consist of addressing …

Major Trends In Gravure Printed Electronics, Donna Ariel Clark

Graphic Communication

Printing has become a mature industry, forcing printers to create new applications for their manufacturing process. One such application is printed electronics. The gravure printing process allows for incredible speed and exceptional quality for traditional graphic printing. Theoretically, this would be an ideal method for the commercial production of printed electronics. This study analyzes gravure’s capabilities to produce a uniform conductive ink line and what to expect in the future of gravure printed electronics. Printed line properties such as line widening and scalloped edges were determined to impede gravure’s ability to lay down a conductive ink line. Best results were …

Digital Video Communication And Preservation For Educational Purposes, Chelsea Lyon

Graphic Communication

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the benefits of digital video to communicate and preserve scholarly work. This study asks the question: How can digital video benefit communication and scholarly work? Combining both visuals and audio, digital video has become a unique educational tool between scholars and students alike to communicate, teach, and learn. As technology advances, the creation, preservation, and viewing of digital video continues to increase; however, so do the challenges that arise as a result. Digital video currently faces challenges in defining and effectively managing metadata standards for media files, bridging a gap between traditional …

Regional Science And Innovation Policies: Five Case Studies, Iryna Lendel, Luz Haack

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

No abstract provided.

Northeast Ohio High-Tech Economy Report, Iryna Lendel

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

No abstract provided.

Offshoring And The State Of American Manufacturing, Susan N. Houseman, Christopher Kurz, Paul A. Lengermann, Benjamin R. Mandel

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

The rapid growth of offshoring has sparked a contentious debate over its impact on the U.S. manufacturing sector, which has recorded steep employment declines yet strong output growth—a fact reconciled by the notable gains in manufacturing productivity. We maintain, however, that the dramatic acceleration of imports from developing countries has imparted a significant bias to the official statistics. In particular, the price declines associated with the shift to low-cost foreign suppliers generally are not captured in input cost and import price indexes. To assess the implications of offshoring bias for manufacturing productivity and value added, we implement the bias correction …

Effect Of Simulated Visual Impairment On Nighttime Driving Performance, Joanne Wood, Alex Chaparro, Trent Carberry, Byoung Sun Chu

Publications

Purpose. This study investigated the effects of simulated visual impairment on nighttime driving performance and pedestrian recognition under real-road conditions.

Methods. Closed road nighttime driving performance was measured for 20 young visually normal participants (M = 27.5 +- 6.1 years) under three visual conditions: normal vision, simulated cataracts, and refractive blur that were incorporated in modified goggles. The visual acuity levels for the cataract and blur conditions were matched for each participant. Driving measures included sign recognition, avoidance of low contrast road hazards, time to complete the course, and lane keeping. Pedestrian recognition was measured for pedestrians wearing either black …

Lsuhsc Facilities Daily Update: June 2010, Lsuhsc Property And Facilities Management

LSUHSC Facilities Daily Updates: 2010

LSUHSC Facilities Daily Updates from June 2010.

On the original documents, the daily update for Thursday, June 24, 2010 was misdated as Thursday, June 25, 2010.

These updates describe damage and a timeline of repairs at the LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans campus due to Hurricane Katrina which made landfall August 29, 2005.

Lsuhsc Facilities Biweekly Update: June 2010, Lsuhsc Property And Facilities Management

LSUHSC Facilities Biweekly Updates: 2010

LSUHSC Facilities Biweekly Updates from June 4 and 18, 2010.

These updates describe damage and a timeline of repairs at the LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans campus due to Hurricane Katrina which made landfall August 29, 2005.

Prediction Of Cognitive Sequelae And Ecological Validity In Critically-Ill Adult Patients, Fu Lye Woon

Theses and Dissertations

Survivors of critical illness have a high prevalence of long-term cognitive and psychiatric morbidity and poor quality of life years after hospital discharge. Data are lacking regarding whether cognitive screening tests predict which critically ill patients may be at risk to develop long-term cognitive sequelae and whether cognitive sequelae predict the patients everyday functioning. This study sought to determine whether cognitive screening tests, including the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and Mini-Cog, predict long-term cognitive sequelae and everyday functioning in survivors of critical illness 6-month post-hospital discharge. A second purpose was to investigate whether cognitive sequelae are associated with poor everyday …

Lidar Remote Sensing Variables Predict Breeding Habitat Of A Neotropical Migrant Bird, Scott J. Goetz, Daniel Steinberg, Matthew G. G. Betts, Richard T. Holmes

Dartmouth Scholarship

A topic of recurring interest in ecological research is the degree to which vegetation structure influences the distribution and abundance of species. Here we test the applicability of remote sensing, particularly novel use of waveform lidar measurements, for quantifying the habitat heterogeneity of a contiguous northern hardwoods forest in the northeastern United States. We apply these results to predict the breeding habitat quality, an indicator of reproductive output of a well-studied Neotropical migrant songbird, the Black-throated Blue Warbler (Dendroica caerulescens). We found that using canopy vertical structure metrics provided unique information for models of habitat quality and spatial patterns of …

Hidden Treasures: Four Great Reasons To Sign Up For An International Mission, Sherylyn Watson

Nursing Faculty Publications

I am a nurse who has said yes to calls to volunteer internationally for the past 10 years. Whether aiding victims of the tsunami in Sri Lanka and Hurricane Katrina in Mississippi or traveling on prearranged annual mission trips, I discovered personal and professional fulfillment.

A History And One Or Two Things I’Ve Learned, Irvin Sam Schonfeld

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Turkic And Islamic Factors For Current Kazakhstani Identity Information, Timur Kozyrev

Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

2010 June, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Press releases for June of 2010.

Trust In Others: Does Religion Matter?, Joseph P. Daniels, Marc Von Der Ruhr

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

Though the recent literature offers intuitively appealing bases for, and evidence of, a linkage among religious beliefs, religious participation and economic outcomes, evidence on a relationship between religion and trust is mixed. By allowing for an attendance effect, disaggregating Protestant denominations, and using a more extensive data set, probit models of the General Social Survey (GSS), 1975 through 2000, show that black Protestants, Pentecostals, fundamentalist Protestants, and Catholics, trust others less than individuals who do not claim a preference for a particular denomination. For conservative denominations the effect of religion is through affiliation, not attendance. In contrast, liberal Protestants trust …

Es Mucho Más Que Comprar… Discursos Y Prácticas Espaciales Cotidianas En Malls De Santiago, Joel Stillerman, Rodrigo Salcedo

Peer Reviewed Articles

This article seeks to analyze the discourses and, especially, the everyday spatial practices of different user groups at the Plaza Vespucio and Florida Center malls, and to establish how these practices and discourses transform the mall into an open and relatively free space where class and age identities are enacted and social inequalities are negotiated. We argue that the mall provides a meeting place where everyone, except the poorest, is accepted, as well as an attractive and welcoming environment that allows users to transfer practices from other spaces and generate specific practices of social differentiation. The mall also imposes limits …

Reconstructing Citizenship In A Global Economy: How Restricting Immigrants From Welfare Undermines Social Rights For U.S. Citizens, Rupaleem Bhuyan

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Scrutiny of immigrants' use of public benefits is a reoccurring theme in U.S. politics. Yet while the tough stance on immigrants taps into popular anti-immigrant sentiment, the consequences of such scrutiny are shared by all welfare recipients. Drawing upon interpretive policy frames, I examine how new requirements to verify citizenship and identity for Medicaid directly impacts social entitlements for both citizen and non-citizen populations. Analysis of state reports and policy studies of citizenship verification requirements for Medicaid illustrate that verification costs may exceed the costs of fraudulent misuse by unqualified immigrants. I argue that devolutionary shifts in welfare and immigration …

Why You Should Care About The Threatened Middle Class, Jill Littrell, Fred Brooks, Jan Ivery, Mary L. Ohmer

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

In the last two decades, the income and security of the individual middle class worker has declined and the gap between the middle class and the wealthy has widened. We explain how this is bad for democracy, the economy, and the aggregate health of the nation. We examine the governmental policies and interventions that increased the middle class following the depression and maintained its vigor through the post-World War II period. The impetus for these changes in governmental policies in the 1930s was to end the Great Depression. We pose the question of whether a nation can recover from a …

Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 37, No. 2 (June 2010)

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• LIMINAL LIVING AT AN EXTENDED STAY HOTEL: FEELING "STUCK" IN A HOUSING SOLUTION - Terri Wingate-Lewinson, June Gary Hopps, and Patricia Reeves
• FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS, PUBLIC PROGRAM PARTICIPATION, & CIVIC ENGAGEMENT - Richard K. Caputo
• RECONSTRUCTING CITIZENSHIP IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY: HOW RESTRICTING IMMIGRANTS FROM WELFARE UNDERMINES SOCIAL RIGHTS FOR U.S. CITIZENS - Rupaleem Bhuyan
• WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT THE THREATENED MIDDLE CLASS - Jill Littrell, Fred Brooks, Jan Ivery, and Mary L. Ohmer
• SKEW SELECTION THEORY APPLIED TO THE WEALTH AND WELFARE OF NATIONS - Susan F. Allen and Deby L. Cassill
• WOMEN'S RIGHTS=HUMAN RIGHTS: PAKISTANI …

Women's Rights=Human Rights: Pakistani Women Against Gender Violence, Filomena M. Critelli

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Gender-based violence constitutes a major public health risk and is a serious violation of basic human rights throughout the world. Counter to many Western images of Muslim women as passive victims, women's groups in Pakistan have begun to organize to respond to these conditions. This study is based upon in-depth interviews conducted with the founders and senior staff of Dastak (Knock on the Door), a shelter for women in Lahore, Pakistan that uses a human rights framework to provide services and advocate for public support for women's rights to safety and security. The study explores how Pakistani women are taking …

Review Of Both Sides Now: The Story Of School Desegregation's Graduates. Amy Stuart Wells, Jennifer Jellison Holme, Anita Revilla, And Awo Korantemaa Ayamda. Reviewed By Kala Chakradher., Kala Chakradhar

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book review of Amy Stuart Wells, Jennifer Jellison Holme, Anita Revilla and Awo Korantemaa Ayamda, Both Sides Now: The Story of School Desegregation's Graduates. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009. $24.95 papercover.

Review Of Indigenous Social Work Around The World: Towards Culturally Relevant Education And Practice. Mel Gray, John Coates, And Michael Yellowbird (Eds.). Reviewed By Jon K. Matsuoka., Jon K. Matsuoka

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book review of Mel Gray, John Coates and Michael Yellowbird (Eds.), Indigenous Social Work Around the World: Towards Culturally Relevant Education and Practice. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. $99.95 hardcover.

Review Of Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing Of Women's Reproduction In America. Jeanne Flavin. Reviewed By Debra Durham., Debra Durham

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book review of Jeanne Flavin, Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women's Reproduction in America. New York: New York University Press, 2009. $36.00 hardcover.

Review Of Children Families And Social Exclusion: New Approaches To Prevention. Kate Morris, Marian Barnes, And Paul Mason. Reviewed By James Midgley., James Midgley

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book review of Kate Morris, Marian Barnes and Paul Mason, Children, Families and Social Exclusion: New Approaches to Prevention. Bristol: Policy Press, 2009. $36.95 papercover.

Review Of Childhood, Youth And Social Work In Transformation: Implications For Policy And Practice. Lynne M. Nebell, Jeffrey J. Shook, And Janet L. Finn. Reviewed By Ann Reyes Robbins., Ann Reyes Robbins

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book review of Lynn M. Nybell, Jeffrey J. Shook, and Janet L. Finn (Eds.), Childhood, Youth and Social Work in Transformation: Implications for Policy and Practice. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. $60.00 hardcover.

Review Of The Legacy Of Edward W. Said. William Spanos. Reviewed By James Midgley., James Midgley

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book review of William Spanos, The Legacy of Edward W. Said. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2009. $25.00 papercover.