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Columbia Chronicle (03/04/2013), Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Chronicle

Student newspaper from March 4, 2013 entitled The Columbia Chronicle. This issue is 44 pages and is listed as Volume 48, Number 21. Cover story: "Meet Columbia's next president" Editor-in-Chief: Heather Schröering

That Awkward Moment When I Accidentally Internalized Racism, Rashida Aluko-Roberts

SURGE

I recently attended a conference about the importance of Africana Studies (AFS) and it had a panel of visiting professors that consisted of mostly black men and women. I was beyond impressed by their achievements and found myself engaged and excited by their discussions. My admiration for these scholars only grew exponentially when I learned that one of the female professors was from Sierra Leone, just like me! [excerpt]

Poor Immigrants Use Public Benefits At A Lower Rate Than Poor Native-Born Citizens, Leighton Ku, Brian K. Bruen

Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Lateralized Difference In Tympanic Membrane Temperature: Emotion And Hemispheric Activity, Ruth E. Propper, Tad T. Brunyé

Department of Psychology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

We review literature examining relationships between tympanic membrane temperature (TMT), affective/motivational orientation, and hemispheric activity. Lateralized differences in TMT might enable real-time monitoring of hemispheric activity in real-world conditions, and could serve as a corroborating marker of mental illnesses associated with specific affective dysregulation. We support the proposal that TMT holds potential for broadly indexing lateralized brain physiology during tasks demanding the processing and representation of emotional and/or motivational states, and for predicting trait-related affective/motivational orientations. The precise nature of the relationship between TMT and brain physiology, however, remains elusive. Indeed the limited extant research has sampled different participant populations …

Feasibility Study Of Consolidating Public Safety Answering Points In Richland County, Ohio, Daila Shimek, Eugene Kramer, Patrick Johnson

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

This report provides an assessment of the feasibility of consolidation of two public safety answering points in Richland County, Ohio. The report describes the methodology used to assess the feasibility. The findings are that consolidation of dispatch services among the potential participating entities is feasible. Consolidation of services would reduce capital costs expended across the county for public safety emergency dispatching over the long term. Given the proposed investment equipment and staff, the level and quality of service provided by a consolidated dispatch center should exceed those currently being supplied.

The Youth Bulge, Ishrat Husain Dr.

Faculty Research - Newspaper and Magazine Articles

The focus on short-term economic difficulties – the fiscal deficit, inflation, the exchange rate and foreign exchange reserves – is rendering us oblivious to an impending human resource crisis. There is barely any awareness or realisation of this, among public policy makers or even opinion makers.

Guidance On Performing Focused Ethnographies With An Emphasis On Healthcare Research, Gina M.A Higginbottom, Jennifer J. Pillay, Nana Y. Boadu

The Qualitative Report

Focused ethnographies can have meaningful and useful application in primary care, community, or hospital healthcare practice, and are often used to determine ways to improve care and care processes. They can be pragmatic and efficient ways to capture data on a specific topic of importance to individual clinicians or clinical specialties. While many examples of focused ethnographies are available in the literature, there is a limited availability of guidance documents for conducting this research. This paper defines focused ethnographies, locates them within the ethnographic genre, justifies their use in healthcare research, and outlines the methodological processes including those related to …

Kinetic Art And Transcendental Phenomenological Analysis, Martha M. Snyder

The Qualitative Report

Transcendental phenomenological analysis (TPA) is a form of qualitative research analysis that engages the researcher in the process of observation, interpretation, reflexivity, and imagination. It is a form science and art. This digital narrative is a story of how I studied TPA through the lens of kinetic art and more specifically, the art of making mobiles. In this video, I present a blend of narrative and photography to share how I made my first mobile and deepened my knowledge and appreciation of TPA

Interviewing Key Informants: Strategic Planning For A Global Public Health Management Program, Karen E. Kun, Anisa Kassim, Elizabeth Howze, Goldie Macdonald

The Qualitative Report

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Sustainable Management Development Program (SMDP) partners with low - and middle - resource countries to develop management capacity so that effective global public health programs can be implemented and better health outcomes can be achieved. The program’s impact however, was variable. Hence, there was a need to both engage in a strategic planning process and collect useful data to inform the process. We therefore designed a qualitative evaluation and findings that emerged concerning o ur program’s contribution to individual career advancement and professional growth; the need for institutional support and a champion to …

Academic Library Websites In Rajasthan: An Analysis Of Content, Sarwesh Pareek, Dinesh K. Gupta

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Services are the most growing and the fast changing segment of academic libraries nowadays. Survey of web sites of 52 academic, libraries, i.e. government, deemed self-financed universities and research centres libraries of Rajasthan based on 133-item checklist. The purpose of this paper is to investigate library web sites in Rajasthan, to analyse their content and navigational strengths and weaknesses and to give recommendations for developing better web sites and quality assessment studies.

Habits Of Effective Legal Writers, Jay M. Nadlman

Legal Studies Papers and Presentations

This guide is intended to introduce you to the habits that are followed by effective legal writers. As the word habit suggests, you should work to make these rules a part of your normal writing routine. These rules are a beginning. Follow them, and with practice, dedication, and experience you will become an effective legal writer.

St. Mark’S Catholic Community Of The Deaf, March 3, 2013

Saint Mark's Catholic Community of the Deaf

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Edmonton, Canada

Saint Mark's Catholic Community of the Deaf Finding Aid

St. Francis Of Assisi Catholic Church And Center For The Deaf Sunday Bulletin, March 3, 2013

Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church and Center for the Deaf Sunday Bulletin

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Landover Hills, MD

St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church and Center for the Deaf Sunday Bulletin Finding Aid

Automatic Detection Of Idiomatic Clauses, Anna Feldman, Jing Peng

Department of Linguistics Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

We describe several experiments whose goal is to automatically identify idiomatic expressions in written text. We explore two approaches for the task: 1) idiom recognition as outlier detection; and 2) supervised classification of sentences. We apply principal component analysis for outlier detection. Detecting idioms as lexical outliers does not exploit class label information. So, in the following experiments, we use linear discriminant analysis to obtain a discriminant subspace and later use the three nearest neighbor classifier to obtain accuracy. We discuss pros and cons of each approach. All the approaches are more general than the previous algorithms for idiom detection …

Thinking Outside The Bars: Examining All The Options In Sentencing, Lindsay Lasalle, Courtney Bryan, Larry Spottsville, Charles E. Auslander Iii

Working in the Public Interest Conferences

Covers the rationale behind the growing use of alternative court programs in the United States and the common methods applied in these programs.

Is The Decline In Juvenile Incarceration Due To Reform Or Falling Crime Rates?, Jeffrey A. Butts

Publications and Research

FBI crime data show a decline in juvenile incarceration while placement patterns have not changed since 1995. The per capita youth incarceration in 2010 was more than 40 percent lower than in 1995. This databit shows the rate of juvenile crime since 1995, how incarceration trends mirror arrests and referrals, and juvenile placement patterns.

Turning Followers Into Dollars: The Impact Of Social Media On A Movie’S Financial Performance, Joshua J. Kaplan

Undergraduate Economic Review

This paper examines the impact of social media, specifically Twitter, on the domestic gross box office revenue of 207 films released in the United States between 2009 and 2011. We find that under two different specifications the impact of Twitter on gross revenue and gross revenue per theater is statistically significant when accounting for several control variables. The models show statistical significance of runtime, and production budget. We also find that a film’s release period, genre, rating received, and whether or not it is based on previous material proved to be statistically significant factors in determining a film's domestic gross.

Entire Issue Volume 2, Number 1, Stacy Creel, Teresa Welsh

SLIS Connecting

Entire SLIS Connecting Volume 2, Issue 1

Scientometric Analysis Of Scientific Products With Co-Authorship Networks: The Case Of Sharif University Of Technology, Maryam Asadi, Somayeh Joolaei, Saman Saqhafi, Azam Bazrafshan

SLIS Connecting

Identifying the most important individuals, institutions, universities, and other academic activities related to scientific production can help in collaborating and also exchanging information in various fields of science. Scientific cooperation plays an important role in promoting qualitative and quantitative scientific publications. One of the forms of collaboration is co-authorship in which two or more authors collaborate to create scientific work. Co-authorship relationships form collaboration networks that can be analyzed and visualized. The structure of networks like co-authorship can reflect the degree of internal collaboration and show the changes of information through time and other variables

A Collection Analysis Of The African-American Poetry Holdings In The De Grummond Collection, Sarah J. Heidelberg

SLIS Connecting

This study presents an analysis of African-American poetry held in the de Grummond Collection at The University of Southern Mississippi.

Smith Wright Mercantile Store Ledger 1841 – 1845: Documenting The Content And History Of Archival Materials, Donna Ballard

SLIS Connecting

While earning a Graduate Certificate in Archives and Special Collections through The University of Southern Mississippi, a practicum at an archive or special collection was required. This obligation was fulfilled at the Billups-Garth Archives in the Local History Room of the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library in Columbus, Mississippi, during the spring of 2012. As part of the practicum requirements, archival collections were processed and research was conducted to document the context and history of a specific collection that is the focus of this study.

Highlights Of A Practicum: The Hattiesburg Coca-Cola Plant Collectibles Museum, Bernadette Birzer

SLIS Connecting

The Hattiesburg Coca-Cola museum is currently only opened for special company events and festivities, but there has been discussion of increasing availability to the museum. Even though this collection is currently closed to the public, it is valuable to the company because it generates feelings of pride regarding workers and provides a record of their history working in the community and surrounding area for over 100 years. This paper details the work done in a practicum at the museum.

46th Annual Fay B. Kaigler Children’S Book Festival, Karen Rowell

SLIS Connecting

The 46th Annual Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival will be held April 10-12, 2013, at the Southern Miss Thad Cochran Center. It looks to be another exciting year as the highlights will include awarding of the 2013 Southern Miss Medallion to recipient Jon Scieszka and a musical performance by four-time Grammy nominated folk-rock children’s music group Trout Fishing in America that will be open to the public.

Talk Dirty To Me: Why Books About Sex And Relationships Belong In Libraries, Stacy Creel

SLIS Connecting

Mississippi has the highest teen birth rate in the nation and over half of the teens in high school have had sex. This article discusses the facts about the state of Mississippi and why there is a need YA fiction and non-fiction in libraries dealing with sex & sexuality. It provides some brief tips for defending books in the library’s collection and a booklist of recommended titles.

From The Gas, Congratulations, Publications, And Presentations, Teresa Welsh

SLIS Connecting

Read a highlight From the GAs, and all about what our alum, students, and faculty have been doing in SLIS News: Congratulations, Publications, and Presentations.

Student Associations And Upcoming Events, Teresa Welsh

SLIS Connecting

Presents updates and news from the Library and Information Science Student Association (LISSA) and the Southern Miss Student Archivists Association (Southern Miss SAA) along with upcoming events of interest including but not limited to The Children's Book Festival, Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML 13), and British Studies.

Spotlights: Faculty, Alum, And Course, Stacy Creel

SLIS Connecting

Meet Dr. Xinyu Yu, who joined the School of Library and Information Science in fall 2007, and SLIS alum, Shelia Cork, who graduated from USM SLIS in spring 2002. Plus, there are two exciting courses taking place this summer. LIS 670 Literacy and Story Time is making its first appearance and LIS 666 has undergone major changes.

Slis Update, Elizabeth Haynes

SLIS Connecting

Welcome to the first issue of the second year of SLIS Connecting. These are exciting times for the School of Library and Information Science. We are conducting faculty searches for two positions, a new certificate program has been approved, there are new enhancements to the undergraduate program, and there are other developments as well.

Making Of A President: Candidates Lean On Colbians In Bids For The White House, Allen Lessels

Colby Magazine

Candidates lean on Colbians in bids for the White House; alumni who are staffers and aides ride the roller coaster of a presidential campaign.

The Diplomat: Ambassador Patrick Duddy Looks For Common Ground With Venezuela's President, Hugo Chávez, David Mckay Wilson

Colby Magazine

Newly appointed Ambassador Patrick Duddy ’72, a career diplomat, looks for common ground with Venezuela’s outspoken president, Hugo Chávez.