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Gender, Compensation And Choices, Michael Hemesath

Administration Publications

No abstract provided.

Columbia Chronicle (02/17/2014), Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Chronicle

Student newspaper from February 17, 2014 entitled The Columbia Chronicle. This issue is 44 pages and is listed as Volume 49, Number 19. Cover story: "Enrollment goes down, retention picks up" Editor-in-Chief: Lindsey Woods

Drinking Bourbon With Cupid, Joseph L. Kirkenir

SURGE

It was Valentine’s Day, and rather than enjoying the suspiciously commercial holiday with a romantic partner, I was alone watching reruns of “How I Met Your Mother,” from a cozy armchair with a cigar in one hand and a glass of bourbon in the other. The show prompted me to examine the nature of relationships; specifically, how the media portrays them vastly different than reality and the implications that arise as a result. Romantic relationships in film and literature appear to be idealized to a ridiculous degree. Unfortunately for us, this means that we create unrealistic expectations for our partners …

2014-02-17 Library Impact Statement For Bio 444 Insect Ecology, Michael Cerbo

Library Impact Statements

This is the Library Impact statement for BIO 444 Insect Ecology. No new library resources are required for this proposal.

Criss Chronicles, Volume 4, Issue 2

Criss Chronicles Newsletter

This edition of Criss Chronicles features the announcement of the renovation and expansion of the Archives and Special Collections, Document Delivery services, From the Archives: The Omaha Civic Opera Society Presents: The Barber of Seville, A Conversation With... Melissa Cast-Brede, Ph.D., Library Tours: Spaces, New Databases, books at the Kaneko-UNO LIbrary, a Trip to the Consumer Electronics Show, a calendar of events, and Conflict Zone in the Osborne Family Gallery.

The Changing Focus Of Education: How Rowan University Professors View The Shift Toward Online Education, Genevieve Cross

Theses and Dissertations

This study explores Rowan University professors' attitudes toward online education and its increasing prevalence. The researcher used an online survey program by which participants' feedback was gathered. The survey was sent to 201 Rowan University professors, and the data was analyzed with the computer program, Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) to obtain calculations and percentages. The survey results are presented in both narrative and chart form. The researcher concluded that from the results of the study that Rowan University professors' have diverse opinions about online education, but also recognize the value in this asset to higher education. Specific …

Graduating Black Males: A Generic Qualitative Study, Edward E. Bell

The Qualitative Report

Black males face a difficult educational battle. Across America, graduation statistics for Black males are sobering. The purpose of this study was to explore why Black males drop out of school and to examine the current employment status of the study participants. The research took place in rural North Carolina. Fifteen Black American male high school dropouts took part in a snowball sample. This study was qualitative and used open and axial coding. Findings from this study may provide guidance and directions for school and community leaders to help Black males stay in school through graduating.

One Step At A Time: A Journey Of Hope, Inspiration, And Determination, Melinda Hermanns, Barbara K. Haas

The Qualitative Report

Approximately three million persons in the United States face the challenge of living with Parkinson's Disease (PD). In spite of medical and surgical interventions, the disease progresses, resulting in bradykinesia, rigidity and postural instability that impair functional ability and quality of life. The purpose of this case study is to illuminate the impact an exercise program may have on an individual with PD. A single case study design was used to explore the effect of exercise on the quality of life of a 73-year old gentleman with advanced PD. Interviews and field observations of the client, wife, and staff at …

Aviation Consumers’ Trust In Pilots: A Cognitive Or Emotional Function, Scott R. Winter, Stephen Rice, Rian Mehta

International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace

Previous research has shown that stigmas play an important role in trust. While previous research has focused on trust in individuals with stigmas in various settings, no research that we know of has specifically looked at trust in pilots as a function of their stigmas, and what might mediate those effects. In two studies, we asked Indian participants to rate their trust in pilots as a function of gender, age, weight and ethnicity. The results of the first study indicated that Indians trusted female pilots less than male pilots, older pilots less than younger pilots, obese pilots less than slim …

Researching Children's Lives And Social Situations With Respect And Integrity, Dudu Jankie

The Qualitative Report

In Research with children: Theory & practice, Michelle O’Reilly, Pablo Ronzoni and Nisha Dogra engage the readers in navigating the successes and hurdles of researching with diverse children. The book, which is meant for “researchers who are new to research with children” presents engaging descriptions on how to link in culturally sensitive ways the overall research process involving the lives and social situations of children who are participants in qualitative and quantitative research projects. Furthermore, the book balances the theory and practice of research with children through the activities used and the practical examples provided, some of which are drawn …

St. Mark’S Catholic Community Of The Deaf, February 16, 2014

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

Stress Management: Corpus-Based Insights Into Vernacular Interpretations Of "Stress", Laurel Smith Stvan

Linguistics & TESOL Faculty Publications & Presentations - Archive

Examination of the term stress in naturally occurring vernacular prose provides evidence of three separate senses being conflated. A corpus analysis of 818 instances of stress from non-academic texts in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and the Corpus of American Discourses on Health (CADOH) shows a negative prosody for stress, which is portrayed variously as a source outside the body, a physical symptom within the body and an emotional state. The data show that contemporary speakers intermingle the three senses, making more difficult a discussion between doctors and patients of ways to ‘reduce stress’, when stress might be …

Prescribed Reading: February 2014, Centracare Clinic

Prescribed Reading

• Population health is way of delivering care
• In the Spotlight: Leading with Care
• Welcome to these new providers
• Welcome to these new employees
• Physician of Excellence awarded
• Melrose clinic receives quality award
• March into better health at Women’s Health 101
• Monticello Birth Center open house Feb. 27
• Free colon cancer screening during March
• Walk-through colon on display March 17
• Grant received to improve heart attack care
• Stroke Center offers telestroke services
• Do you know someone with spirit?
• Dermatology expands laser treatment options
• United Way Campaign saves the day!
• Campaign to raise awareness of aspirin use
• Feeling Fabulous with the Armadillos

Statement On Charter Schools, Delivered On February 14, 2014, Arend D. Lubbers

Presidential Speeches

Statement on Charter Schools, delivered on February 14, 2014 by Arend D. Lubbers, who served as President of Grand Valley from 1969-2001.

Orland Park Library Oks Compromise On Computer Porn, Lauren Zumbach

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

No abstract provided.

Orland Park Library Decides To Continue Allowing Internet Porn, Citing First Amendment, Unknown

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

No abstract provided.

Research Project Results: An Economic Comparison Of Two Rural Chilean Towns, Wade O. Bean, Dr. Darren Timothy

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Rural areas in developing countries are often the breeding ground as well as the testing ground for economic theory. Two rural towns near Santiago, Chile became of particular interest to me, as they were very similar in many aspects of their economic structure yet very different in others. In studying and comparing these two towns, it became evident that a certain combination of economic factors in these towns did yield the outcome that economic theory would predict.

Female Arguments: An Examination Of The Utah Woman’S Suffrage Debates Of 1880 And 1895 As Represented In Opposing Utah Women’S Newspapers, Janika Isakson

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The fight for woman’s suffrage in the Utah Territory, where many citizens supported the practice of polygamy, was full of contradictions from the very beginning. Following the Civil War, various groups, including Congress in 1868, proposed woman’s suffrage as a possible solution for terminating polygamy in Utah.1 Following Wyoming’s lead in giving women the right to vote in 1869, the Utah Territorial government in 1871, with the support ofLDS Church President Brigham Young, also gave Utah women the right to vote.’ Brigham Young advised, “Now, sisters, I want you to vote also because women are the characters that rule the …

Does Becker Know Best?, Matthew Butler, Dr. Eric Eide

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Most economists contend that racial discrimination cannot exist in a “free” labor market because competition will drive any firm that discriminates to bankruptcy. This contention is presented, perhaps most famously, in Gary Becker’s book the “Economics of Discrimination.” The question of whether Becker, and all economists, knows best is relevant because if “free” labor markets do work towards eliminating discrimination, the policy implications are for the government to take a laissez-faire stance towards regulating discrimination-to step back, and to simply allow the market to correct itself. The NBA provides a natural experiment to test whether or not “free” labor markets, …

Medicalizing America: An Etiology Of U.S. Health-Care Expenditures, 1948-91, Bradley L. Stoker

Journal of Undergraduate Research

In the 1990s, runaway health care expenditures have worried U.S.!awmakers and citizens alike. According to data in the 1995 Economic Report of the President, real per-capita health care consumption (in 1994 dollars) grew an average of 4.7 percent annually between 1948 and 1991, versus a real average NNP growth of only 1.85 percent. The price of health care during the same period increased 6.05 percent annually, whereas the general price index shows an average annual increase of only 4.16 percent. During 1993 and 1994, Congress and the White House sought remedies for health care expenditures that account for about 14 …

Trispectral Analysis Of Speech For The Hearing Impaired, Michael Welker

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Visemes (phonemes that look the same while viewing the lips) within the English language are extremely difficult for heating impaired individuals using speech-reading to distinguish. Contemporary spectral displays of speech are inadequate to reliably differentiate subtle differences in the acoustic signal. Our project has investigated novel ways to display the spectrum in order to emphasize these subtleties.

Analogical Modeling Of Japanese Loanword Formation From English, Nate Blaylock, Dr. Deryle Lonsdale

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The topic of this research, by way of review, was to try to predict, using the Analogical Modeling of Language (AML) method, the formation of Japanese loanwords from English. In other words, given an English word, how would a Japanese person pronounce it if they adopted it into Japanese. (Ice cream being pronounced aisu kurimu, for example). It was intended to be a test of the strengths and weaknesses of AML for this kind of a task (it has already been attempted by others using other methods).

The Creative Life Of A Genius: Nobel Laureate P. A. M. Dirac: A Monosyllabic Creative Genius, V. Krishna Kumar

Psychology Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

A Survey Of Student Use Of Sherrill Library, Marilyn Geller, Library Assessment Workgroup

Library Reports

In the summer of 2013, the Sherrill Library Assessment Work Group began work on a project to identify areas where the current physical library facility excels and where it warrants improvement, and to understand how and why students are using physical libraries in general and the Sherrill Library facility specifically. We chose to use an online survey that was distributed to all current EDS students and to all LU students enrolled in at least one class on campus during the fall 2013 semester. The combined population size for both schools totaled 3,675 students. To achieve a margin of error of …

The Olympics And The American Press, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

With the Winter Olympics finally under way, is it possible that the American journalists, if we can use that term in these circumstances, will be able to write about something other than the failure of Russia to be the United States? Having traveled to Russia multiple times since the collapse of the Soviet Union, I have witnessed the remarkable transformation of this society. Caught in a time warp created by the failure of the Soviet Union, the standard of living of the average Russian trailed behind that of most of Western Europe and the United States. The Soviet Union was …

Genetics And History Surrounding Chachapoyas, Peru, Joel E. Myres

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Anthropologists studying human diversity and distribution have long recognized that humans are the recipients of two major informational systems; one cultural and the other biological. Both these components of human diversity are inherited by organisms, be they individuals or populations, across spatial and temporal realms, and retain the ability to influence the behavior or continuance of the organism in terms of fitness. Similarly, the biological record can reflect cultural processes or transitions, such as migrations or disease, much as ethnographic studies can identify elements of cultural adoption, such as ideas or practices. In as much as these elements of culture …

The Maya Sculptor: An Epigraphic And Iconographic Study, Holly Sullivan

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The existence of artistic authorship within ancient writing systems, though rare, is a significant diagnostic tool. Such signatures can illuminate social positions of artists and networks of artistic production. They also represent a unique genre of text outside of formal written language which can reveal aspects of the language never considered before. Recently, Mayan epigraphers have begun to ask if such a program of authorship existed among the Classic Maya. For my research project I undertook the collection and decipherment of 95 proposed signatures or “name-tags” on stelae and carved monuments from 23 sites in the Central Maya region of …

Images Of Self: Constancy Amidst Social Change In India, Erika Gilroy

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Social changes currently taking place in India are primarily a result of the Indian government’s efforts to promote technological industries, introduce family planning programs, and provide greater educational opportunities to a larger number of its people. The major effects of these reforms are the movement of an increasing number of Indians from villages to cities in order to find employment, the shift from a dominantly agricultural society to one of urban industry, and the increasing number of Indians who seek, and for the first time are given, the opportunity for an education. While such reforms may be changing many of …

The Buzz About Bibframe, Angela J. Kroeger

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

No abstract provided.

A Recipe For An Online, Geospatial Transit Performance Archive, Jon Makler

PSU Transportation Seminars

Where and when does overcrowding happen on TriMet's bus network? Which routes have the best on-time performance? Portland State University and TriMet have collaborated to make this kind of data available to anybody through Portal, PSU's transportation data archive for the Portland/Vancouver region. This presentation will cover the use of General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) data for mapping TriMet’s performance data and the development of Portal’s innovative transit application. In the MAP-21 era of performance management, see how tools like Portal can support enhanced agency decision-making as well as community engagement.