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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Developing A Model For Long-Term Management Of Demand-Driven Acquisitions, Michael Levine-Clark
Developing A Model For Long-Term Management Of Demand-Driven Acquisitions, Michael Levine-Clark
Against the Grain
No abstract provided.
@Brunning: People & Technology, Dennis Brunning
@Brunning: People & Technology, Dennis Brunning
Against the Grain
No abstract provided.
Something To Think About -- Spring Fever?, Mary E. (Tinker) Massey
Something To Think About -- Spring Fever?, Mary E. (Tinker) Massey
Against the Grain
No abstract provided.
Ebooks And Memory: Down The Rabbit Hole?, Tony Horava
Ebooks And Memory: Down The Rabbit Hole?, Tony Horava
Against the Grain
No abstract provided.
From Your (Chocolate Loving) Editor, Katina Strauch
From Your (Chocolate Loving) Editor, Katina Strauch
Against the Grain
No abstract provided.
Atg Special Report -- Looking Beyond Etextbooks And Tapping Into The Personal Learning Experience, William Rieders
Atg Special Report -- Looking Beyond Etextbooks And Tapping Into The Personal Learning Experience, William Rieders
Against the Grain
No abstract provided.
Back Talk -- Under The White Nights Of St. Petersburg, Anthony (Tony) W. Ferguson
Back Talk -- Under The White Nights Of St. Petersburg, Anthony (Tony) W. Ferguson
Against the Grain
No abstract provided.
Collaborative Authorship And Indigenous Literatures, Albert Braz
Collaborative Authorship And Indigenous Literatures, Albert Braz
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In his article "Collaborative Authorship and Indigenous Literatures" Albert Braz discusses the duality of the writer. As suggested by Roland Barthes in his "The Death of the Author," the distinction between writer and author — the first being the historical person behind the text and the second a figure in the text — the duality of the author remains a paradigm of contemporary critical analysis. Braz argues that this new emphasis is not germane when it comes to Indigenous literatures, a field in which one often cannot determine who are the material producers of texts and/or their writers. Braz postulates …
A Publisher's Perspective On Pda, Rebecca Seger, Lenny Allen
A Publisher's Perspective On Pda, Rebecca Seger, Lenny Allen
Against the Grain
No abstract provided.
Towards Transnational Native American Literary Studies, Hsinya Huang
Towards Transnational Native American Literary Studies, Hsinya Huang
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In her article "Towards Transnational Native American Literary Studies" Hsinya Huang discusses how Native American literature can be adapted, translated, articulated, and interpreted in a transnational/trans-Pacific context, using the recently emerging Native American scholarship in Taiwan as a point of departure. Through collaboration across institutional lines, exploration of the community production of local knowledge, and our obligation and desire to participate meaningfully as intellectuals in the international initiatives in Native Studies, can we conceive of an expansive indigenous region across the Pacific? How can indigeneity be both rooted in and routed through particular places and articulated? Through envisioning an expanding …
Indigenous Literature And Comparability, Katherine Durnin
Indigenous Literature And Comparability, Katherine Durnin
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In her article "Indigenous Literature and Comparability" Katherine Durnin discusses some of the barriers to the comparative study of Indigenous literature alongside non-Indigenous literature. These barriers include the Eurocentrism of traditional comparative literature, certain aspects of postcolonial theory and, above, all the assumption that Indigenous and Western epistemologies belong to separate and incommensurable worlds. Durnin examines some recent theoretical and critical approaches that offer ways to bridge the two worlds and make comparative literature an ethical space of mutual respect and understanding.
On Reading Grace's Potiki, Eva Rask Knudsen
On Reading Grace's Potiki, Eva Rask Knudsen
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In her article "On Reading Grace's Potiki" Eva Rask Knudsen takes as her point of departure the critical impasse of postcolonial analyses of Indigenous literatures and the claim made by some (Indigenous) commentators that non-Indigenous scholars and critics often re-colonize the texts they deem to be "postcolonial" because — in their theoretical concern with issues of marginalization and resistance — they overlook (and so overwrite) the specific indigenous knowledges and ontologies that the literatures draw on. Through an analysis of the 1986 novel Potiki by Māori writer Patricia Grace, Rsak Knudsen looks in other directions than those catalogued by …
Introduction To About Indigenous Literatures, Angeline O'Neill, Albert Braz
Introduction To About Indigenous Literatures, Angeline O'Neill, Albert Braz
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
No abstract provided.
Politics Of Indigeneity In Fogarty's Poetry, Sean Gorman
Politics Of Indigeneity In Fogarty's Poetry, Sean Gorman
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In his article "Politics of Indigeneity in Fogarty's Poetry" Sean Gorman discusses Indigenous themes and issues with regards to the poetry of Murri writer Lionel Fogarty. As Fogarty is seen as a poet who writes complex prose, his material challenges non-Indigenous readerships by subverting Standard English and conventional reading practices. Gorman suggests strategies by which to engage with Fogarty's material and, employing the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin, namely heteroglossia and dialogism, to arrive at a better understanding of the rich and complex nature of Fogarty's work. Gorman executes his analysis in relation to the political debates that have arisen since …
The Implications Of Water Insecurity For Fragile And Failing States: The Case Of Pakistan, Jennifer Norins
The Implications Of Water Insecurity For Fragile And Failing States: The Case Of Pakistan, Jennifer Norins
Graduate Masters Theses
As we become more firmly established in the 21st century, the international system faces a number of increasingly more difficult challenges that pose threats to global security and human progress. Among these challenges, water scarcity and failing states have each received prominent attention in both the academic and policy realms. Water serves a number of critical purposes for human survival and socio-economic activity. The threat of water scarcity is becoming increasingly salient and the capacity of states to ensure water security, and other securities which water security supports, is being tested. Fragile and failing states also occupy significant space in …
Using Monte Carlo Simulations To Establish A New House Price Stress Test, James R. Follain, Seth H. Giertz
Using Monte Carlo Simulations To Establish A New House Price Stress Test, James R. Follain, Seth H. Giertz
Department of Economics: Faculty Publications
The focus of this paper is on the house price stress test (termed ALMO) that was designed to assess the fiscal strength of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and, if necessary, to trigger remedial action in order to avert a crisis. We assess whether the ALMO stress test was an adequate representation of an extremely weak housing market, given the best available information leading up to the Great Recession. A Monte Carlo simulation model is developed to estimate the severity of low probability events (i.e., severe house price declines). We illustrate the complexity and subjective nature of the process used …
Records Management Theory's Dilemma: What Is A Record?, Joshua Finnell
Records Management Theory's Dilemma: What Is A Record?, Joshua Finnell
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)
A familiar dialogue is taking place in the professional literature of records and information management. Since the early 1990s, the theoretical foundation of a records management theory has been constructed on convergence (Pemberton & Nugent, 1995; Walters, 1995; Zawiyah M Yusof & Robert W Chell, 2002). While certain concepts are shared across disciplines, arguably the most foundational definition is the most divergent: a record. Each discipline (Archival Science, Library Science, Computer Science) defines the term record in its own way. Records managers at all levels have difficulty espousing a universal definition of the term, while claiming sole responsibility for …
Effective Motivation Of Paraprofessional Staff In Academic Libraries In Nigeria, Iwu Juliana James
Effective Motivation Of Paraprofessional Staff In Academic Libraries In Nigeria, Iwu Juliana James
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)
The paper examined the factors that affect paraprofessional staff motivation and performance in academic libraries. It underlines the importance of well-motivated staff in ensuring a continuously maximized performance. The literature review comprises relevant papers which discuss how motivation is used to modify behavior of staff to improve performance. It explores Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and its application to the category of staff under study. Training and development of paraprofessional staff were some of the benefits highlighted.
Faculty Information-Seeking Behaviour In The Changing Ict Environment: A Study Of Commerce Colleges In Mumbai, Jayadev Kadli, B. D. Kumbar
Faculty Information-Seeking Behaviour In The Changing Ict Environment: A Study Of Commerce Colleges In Mumbai, Jayadev Kadli, B. D. Kumbar
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)
Changing technologies have brought a more sophisticated and higher speed of communication. Academic libraries are responding to this change in the learning and research environment. It changes in the behaviour of library users. Libraries are adding new electronic information resources and bringing services for the benefit of users. Developments in ICT have made drastic changes in the way the information collected, stored, and distributed by libraries and accessed by users. Information-seeking behavior is expressed in various forms, from reading printed material to research and experimentation. Scholars, students, and faculty actively seek current information from the media available in libraries. This …
Effective Communication For Reference Service Delivery In Academic Libraries, Felicia Yusuf
Effective Communication For Reference Service Delivery In Academic Libraries, Felicia Yusuf
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)
The paper examines the role of communication in effective reference services. Specific objectives include examining the effect of communication on reference services, discovering the duties of reference librarians, determining the impact of interpersonal communication on reference services, and identifying barriers to effective communication. Inferiority complex, stereotypes, etiquette and decorum, boundaries in relationships, low level of education, and frustration due to poor working condition were identified as some of the barriers that impede effective communication in reference services. The paper concludes by charging reference librarians to build strong capacity in the area of communication to enable them understand and meet the …
Copyright Across The Cohort: A Qualitative Evaluation Of The Dissemination Of Intellectual Property Information On Arl Websites, Janet Bishop
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)
Over thirty years of legislation since the Copyright Revision Act of 1976 has redefined how academic library professionals view their responsibilities regarding copyright oversight of their print and digital collections, as well as how they have disseminated intellectual property information to their constituencies. This article presents a qualitative evaluation of how copyright information is disseminated on twenty ARL websites—including how sampled sites communicate copyright leadership roles on campus and webpage "best examples". Sampled websites were also searched separately by the author and an undergraduate student to gauge how easily accessible the information was to a "novice user" and "experienced user". …
Factors Controlling Pre-Columbian And Early Historic Maize Productivity In The American Southwest, Part 2: The Chaco Halo, Mesa Verde, Pajarito Plateau/ Bandelier, And Zuni Archaeological Regions, Larry Benson
United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications
Chemical and nutrient analyses of 471 soil samples from 161 sites within four archaeological regions (Pajarito Plateau/Bandelier, Zuni, Mesa Verde, and the Chaco Halo) were combined with historical climate data in order to evaluate the agricultural productivity of each region. In addition, maize productivity and field-life calculations were performed using organic-nitrogen (N) values from the upper 50 cm of soil in each region and a range (1–3%/year) of N-mineralization rates. The endmember values of this range were assumed representative of dry and wet climate states. With respect to precipitation and heat, the Pajarito Plateau area has excellent agricultural potential; the …
Property Rights In Post-Conflict Sri Lanka, Ryan P. Anderson, E. Wesley F. Peterson
Property Rights In Post-Conflict Sri Lanka, Ryan P. Anderson, E. Wesley F. Peterson
Cornhusker Economics
This is the third and final article in a series on property rights. In the previous two articles we saw how conflicts often emerge during the transition from one set of legal or social institutions to another. In this article we consider how such challenges helped spark a prolonged civil war in Sri Lanka, and how they might finally be resolved now that peace has been realized.
Land Reform And Farm Structure In The Former Soviet Union, Marianna Khachaturyan, E. Wesley F. Peterson
Land Reform And Farm Structure In The Former Soviet Union, Marianna Khachaturyan, E. Wesley F. Peterson
Cornhusker Economics
Land is a critical input for agricultural production. At the same time, land has long been seen as a store of wealth, an asset that may be held for a wide range of purposes and that may account for a significant share of a nation’s resource stock. The way in which land is owned, used and transferred has varied over time and throughout the world. Laws and customs governing land ownership, use and transfer, are known as institutions, and are extremely important determinants of agricultural output. Insecurity of land ownership rights, for example, may reduce not only the incentive individual …
Topical Keyphrase Extraction From Twitter, Xin Zhao, Jing Jiang, Jing He, Yang Song, Palakorn Achananuparp, Ee Peng Lim, Xiaoming Li
Topical Keyphrase Extraction From Twitter, Xin Zhao, Jing Jiang, Jing He, Yang Song, Palakorn Achananuparp, Ee Peng Lim, Xiaoming Li
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Summarizing and analyzing Twitter content is an important and challenging task. In this paper, we propose to extract topical keyphrases as one way to summarize Twitter. We propose a context-sensitive topical PageRank method for keyword ranking and a probabilistic scoring function that considers both relevance and interestingness of keyphrases for keyphrase ranking. We evaluate our proposed methods on a large Twitter data set. Experiments show that these methods are very effective for topical keyphrase extraction.
Getting To Global Yes! Designing A Distributed Student Collaboration, Selma Limam Mansar, Randy Weinberg, Benjamin Kok Siew Gan
Getting To Global Yes! Designing A Distributed Student Collaboration, Selma Limam Mansar, Randy Weinberg, Benjamin Kok Siew Gan
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
The authors have taught a course called 'Global Project Management' for four years, engaging students in three international locations in hands-on distance projects. The distance projects are intended to provide students with enriching, realistic global project experience. With experience, improved planning and better coordination, each iteration of the distance projects has improved. In this paper, the authors present lessons learned and a mind map demonstrating key aspects of design of global hands-on projects.
Real-Time Trip Information Service For A Large Taxi Fleet, Rajesh Krishna Balan, Nguyen Xuan Khoa, Lingxiao Jiang
Real-Time Trip Information Service For A Large Taxi Fleet, Rajesh Krishna Balan, Nguyen Xuan Khoa, Lingxiao Jiang
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
In this paper, we describe the design, analysis, implementation, and operational deployment of a real-time trip information system that provides passengers with the expected fare and trip duration of the taxi ride they are planning to take. This system was built in cooperation with a taxi operator that operates more than 15,000 taxis in Singapore. We first describe the overall system design and then explain the efficient algorithms used to achieve our predictions based on up to 21 months of historical data consisting of approximately 250 million paid taxi trips. We then describe various optimisations (involving region sizes, amount of …