Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons^™

Potential Impacts Of The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill On Large Pelagic Fishes, Sarah Frias-Torres, Charles R. Bostater

Ocean Engineering and Marine Sciences Faculty Publications

Biogeographical analyses provide insights on how the Deepwater Horizon oil spill impacted large pelagic fishes. We georeferenced historical ichthyoplankton surveys and published literature to map the spawning and larval areas of bluefin tuna, swordfish, blue marlin and whale shark sightings in the Gulf of Mexico with daily satellite-derived images detecting surface oil. The oil spill covered critical areas used by large pelagic fishes. Surface oil was detected in 100% of the northernmost whale shark sightings, in 32.8 % of the bluefin tuna spawning area and 38 % of the blue marlin larval area. No surface oil was detected in the …

Chimes: October 7, 2011, Calvin College

Chimes

Religious tolerance celebrated by Jasmine Wilson

Jazz club keeps modern music alive by Tyler Slamkowski

Liberia program expands by Allysa Metzner

Science in 'Contagion' accurate by Allison Schepers

Occupy Wall Street protesters frustated with financial situation by Rachel Hekman

Golf looks to final tourney by Jess Koster & Mark Dehaan

Approaches To Open Data For Science In Spain, E Wulff-Barreiro

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

As observational data has attained new legal status, allowing their integration into open Internet systems, and experimental data continues to be assembled in common and free platforms, state of the art, easy to access data repositories have been designed in Spain. These repositories have removed many obstacles to re-utilization of GIS and other data. European legislation has also made advances in opening biodiversity data, including a European space in the Latin-American grid infrastructure. Open access biomedical repositories attract commercial attention while astronomical, meteorological, and oncological institutions promote data quality and access. This paper describes recent approaches to open access data …

The Revolution Of University-Based Information, Michelle Armstrong, Julia Stringfellow

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Traditionally, information and scholarship produced by universities has been disseminated by for-profits publishers who charge for access to this scholarship. This approach to sharing the output of our nation's academic community has significantly limited access to that scholarship. Institutional repositories are revolutionizing how university-based information is made accessible to society as a whole. This presentation will explore how libraries are supporting access to academic scholarship, issues involved in providing the scholarship such as types of information, intellectual property, and quality control, and ways users can access, evaluate, and utilize university-based information.

55,000 Ways To Say Yes: Customer-Driven Acquisitions And More!, Peggy Cooper, Barbara Glackin, Marilyn Moody

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

The Boise State University Albertsons Library is committed to providing excellent user services, resources and experiences. The panel will discuss how this user service focus has evolved and what is happening in the Library: strategically realigning staff; patron driven acquisitions, finding out what users want and delivering it quickly; increasing liaison outreach to foster personal connections; and exploring effectively embracing mobile technologies.

Lanthorn, Vol. 46, No. 13, October 6, 2011, Grand Valley State University

Volume 46, July 14, 2011 - June 18, 2012

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

Diversity Week 2011 - Out Of Diversity We Speak, Multicultural Center

Multicultural Student Services Center

Out of Diversity: We Speak.

Dr. Jody Lisberger, Director, and Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies; Dr. Robert Carothers, Academic Affairs; Dr. Adam Roth, Communication Studies; Dr. Ian Reyes, Communication Studies; Dr. Mercedes Rivero Hudec, Chemical Engineering; Dr. Jeremiah Dyehouse, Writing & Rhetoric; and students who will be speaking about their lives, in relation to diversity. Students and faculty rarely find time to engage each other around the arts and share the value of their individual and collective lives. This reading of expressive writing from four culturally diverse faculty and four students will reveal the influences of our diverse ways of being …

Superintendent Length Of Tenure And Student Achievement, Scott Myers

Administrative Issues Journal

This quantitative study, utilizing the backward method of multiple regression, examined the relationship between the length of tenure of a superintendent and academic achievement as defined by the percentage of students who scored “Proficient” or better on the 2008 Third Grade Kansas Reading Assessment. To put this relationship into context, five other predictive variables were included as a part of this study: the individual’s total length of experience as a superintendent, the superintendent’s total length of experience in education, each district’s assessed valuation per pupil, each district’s percentage of students who qualified for free or reduced meal prices, and each …

Qr Codes: A Guide For Libraries, Memo Cordova

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.

Learning To Live Without A Statistical Abstract: Thinking About Future Access To Government Information, James T. Shaw

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

Twenty-four years ago, in 1987, I made a presentation called “Basic Ready Reference: Documents that a Reference Librarian Cannot Live Without” at a meeting of the Iowa Library Association Government Documents Round Table. My top recommendation was the Statistical Abstract of the United States, that annual compendium of data so familiar and indispensible to American librarians everywhere. Twelve years ago, in 1999, I made a similar presentation at the NLA/NEMA Annual Conference, and again the Statistical Abstract took its place as the preeminent resource.

The title of my presentation today, “Learning to Live Without a Statistical Abstract,” signals …

Identifying Social Influence In Networks Using Randomized Experiments, Sinan Aral, Dylan Walker

Business Faculty Articles and Research

The recent availability of massive amounts of networked data generated by email, instant messaging, mobile phone communications, micro blogs, and online social networks is enabling studies of population-level human interaction on scales orders of magnitude greater than what was previously possible.1'2 One important goal of applying statistical inference techniques to large networked datasets is to understand how behavioral contagions spread in human social networks. More precisely, understanding how people influence or are influenced by their peers can help us understand the ebb and flow of market trends, product adoption and diffusion, the spread of health behaviors such as smoking and …

Law & Reference: Answering Legal Reference Questions, Wendy Moore, Maureen Cahill

Presentations

Answering legal reference questions can be challenging, especially when you are not doing it on a daily basis. More and more legal information is available freely on the internet, but sometimes it is hard to know what the best sources are and how to make certain you are not accidentally practicing law at the reference desk. This presentation provides exposure to helpful internet resources and discussion of effective strategies to help you answer legal related reference questions in a non-law library setting with skill and confidence.

Moving To The Other Side Of The Desk: An Examination Of The Practice Of Including Peer Support Specialists As Treatment Providers Within The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Paradigm, Chelsea Cawood

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

Dialectical Behavior Therapy is the primary empirically supported treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder. This multi-modal treatment consists of individual therapy, group skills training, the availability of 24-hour phone coaching, and weekly consultation meetings for therapists. A recent trend in Michigan Community Mental Health has been to add an additional component to traditional DBT, the inclusion of peer-provided services. In this role, graduates of DBT programs become members of the DBT team and may function to provide services at a variety of levels. Currently, no research exists examining this potential new treatment modality. The purpose of the current qualitative and descriptive …

The Cowl - V. 76 - N. 5 - Oct 6, 2011

The Cowl

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 76 - Number 5 - October 6, 2011. 32 pages.

Institutional Repositories (For The Nebraska Library Association), Paul Royster

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Presentations

Theory and practice of institutional repositories. Definition, features, objectives, mission, number rank, content types, copyright & permissions, and publishers' policies.

How content gets in: 4 models of content acquisition; self-archiving; mandates; services.

How content goes out: usage and downloads; most popular series and papers.

How you can use it: searches and traffic sources

Why we do it: good for faculty, dissemination, feedback, keys to buy-in; good for the institution, raising profile, extending reach; good for the state; good for the library.

The struggle over scholarly communication: commercial publishers and repositories.

Note: The "Download" button at right goes to a pdf-printed …

The Prospector, October 6, 2011, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Don't Ask, Don't Tell

Introduction To Resource Description And Access (Rda), Katherine Rankin, Cyrus Zarganj Ford

Library Faculty Presentations

Resource Description and Access or RDA is a set of guidelines and instructions on resource description and access for the cataloging of library materials covering all types of content and media. RDA is the successor to the second edition of the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules (AACR2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACR2, the current standard set of cataloging. This new set of cataloging rules was needed to bring together different editions and formats of a work, to fit better with emerging technologies, and to be a better way of cataloging digital materials. This talk is an introduction to RDA.

Do Child Development Accounts Promote Account Holding, Saving, And Asset Accumulation For Children's Future? Evidence From A Statewide Randomized Experiment, Yunju Nam, Youngmi Kim, Margaret Clancy, Robert Zager, Michael Sherraden

Center for Social Development Research

This study examines the impacts of Child Development Accounts (CDAs) on account holding, saving, and asset accumulation for children, using data from the SEED for Oklahoma Kids experiment (SEED OK). SEED OK, a policy test of universal and progressive CDAs, provides a 529 college savings plan account to every infant in the treatment group with automatic account opening and an initial deposit. SEED OK also encourages treatment participants to open their own 529 accounts with an account opening incentive and a savings match. Using a sample of infants randomly selected from birth records (N=2,70) and randomly assigned to treatment and …

Spartan Daily October 6, 2011, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 137, Issue 22

Savannah, Georgia, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Conferences, Panels, and Events

Highlights from Savannah, Georgia.

Seattle, Washington, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Conferences, Panels, and Events

Highlights from Seattle, Washington.

Rochester, Minnesota, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Conferences, Panels, and Events

Highlights from Rochester, Minnesota.

The Legacy, October 5, 2011, Lindenwood University

The Legacy (2007-2018)

Student Newspaper of Lindenwood University

Nor'easter News Volume 5 Issue 2, Nor'easter News Staff

Nor'easter News

The forty-first issue of the University of New England's student-run newspaper, Nor'easter News.

Spartan Daily October 5, 2011, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 137, Issue 21

Uri Lgbtq Community To Screen It Gets Better At Uri: Coming Out For Change Video 2011, Joseph A. Santiago

Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer Center

This is the press release for the It Gets Better At URI: Coming Out for Change video screening in 2011.

Nclb Waivers, Misty Newcomb, Gary W. Ritter

Policy Briefs

No Child Left Behind, or the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, is long overdue for reauthorization. Speculation concerning when and how this controversial act would be reauthorized has occurred throughout the Obama administration. In a somewhat surprising move last week, President Obama unilaterally created rules for NCLB waivers. This policy brief provides a brief background, followed by a discussion on the new NCLB flexibility and how these changes could affect schools in Arkansas.

Childhood Loss And Ad/Hd: Program Implications For Education Administrators, Helen Wilson Harris, Marlene Zipperlen

Administrative Issues Journal

Evidence-based practice and evidence-informed practice are not just buzzwords in education. It is essential that administrators encourage both the development and the application of new knowledge in the field. This study of 1755 elementary age children in Central Texas indicates a positive association between the experience of childhood loss and grief and a diagnosis of AD/HD. Implications of this information for administrators in education are explored, including the training of counselors and classroom teachers in grief interventions and accommodations for grief related attention problems in children.

Prospectus, October 5, 2011, Josh Grube, Chuck Shepherd, Sidney Germaine, Buster Bytes, Kelley Heaney, Spencer Brown

Prospectus 2011

LEE NATIONAL DENIM DAY HITS PARKLAND, Parkland College Foundation to Host 14th Annual Gala, Local Graphic Illustrator Showcases Novel, Study Finds Low Graduation Rates Among Part-Time College Students, Orchestra, Concert Band to Perform Fall Concert, New Net Price Calculator Helps Reduce Tuition Sticker Shock, Are College Students Bad Drivers?, Colleges Struggle with Students' Data Demand, Chuck Shepherd's News of the Weird, The New Age of Survival Tactics, Good Water Gone Bad: The Effects of Nitrates, Donnie's Story: As Told by a Journalism Class, Bridging the Digital Divide for Those in Need, Successful Musicians from Urbana-Champaign, Cobra Golf Swinging for Success, …

The Anchor, Volume 125.05: October 5, 2011, Hope College

The Anchor: 2011

The Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor's history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular.