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Deconstructing Reorganizations In Libraries, Steven W. Staninger

Copley Library: Faculty Scholarship

This article deconstructs the motivations and outcomes of library reorganizations. Deconstructive analysis can be applied to help library administrators be aware of the consequences of their decisions while planning reorganizations.

2014 Statistical Abstract Of The U.S. Added/ Webinars Scheduled, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

Library Publications (1999-2023)

• 2014 Statistical Abstract of the U.S. Added/ Webinars Scheduled

Putin And Business: Good Or Bad?, Abby D. Greutman

International ResearchScape Journal

Russia has long been considered a superpower, but why, then, is its economy faltering? With all of its natural resources, why is there not more international investment? This paper explores the effects of Russian political policies on the international and domestic business within Russia in order to better understand the reasons behind Russia’s unstable economic environment.

Marriage, College And Income Inequality, Michael Hemesath

Administration Publications

No abstract provided.

Communiqué, February 20, 2014, Lindenwood University

Communiqué

The Communiqué was the faculty/staff newsletter for Lindenwood University/College from 1982 to 2016.

Columbia Chronicle (02/10/2014), Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Chronicle

Student newspaper from February 10, 2014 entitled The Columbia Chronicle. This issue is 40 pages and is listed as Volume 49, Number 18. Cover story: "Columbia announces tuition increase" Editor-in-Chief: Lindsey Woods

Columbia Chronicle (02/10/2014 - Supplement), Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Chronicle

A special edition of the student newspaper from February 10, 2014 entitled The Columbia Chronicle proudly presents The Sex Issue. This issue is 24 pages.

Librarianship Is Neat!, Celia M. Hartz

Blogging the Library

I’ve got a few weeks under my belt now with this Internship and so far, so good. I’ll be totally honestly though, when I first started every time someone came near the desk I got a little nervous because after 3.5 years I thought I knew my way around the Library; nope. BUT, now with three weeks of perusing research guides, databases, asking a zillion questions and rereading everything in my training guide approximately three times, I feel confident that I can be helpful, and that’s great! [excerpt]

Ed Riggs '77, Musselman Library, Edward Riggs

Next Page

In this Next Page contribution, Ed Riggs ’77 talks about his adventures on the Appalachian Trail last summer, what he read to prepare for the trip, how he got his trail name, favorite authors to read when he's off the trail, and more.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 038, Number 20, February 10, 2014, Grand Valley State University

2013-2014, Volume 38

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

The Influence Of Peacejam’S Ambassadors Program On Youth In Relation To Their Future Career Choice, Community Involvement And Acceptance Of Diversity: A Qualitative Study Of Program Alumni From Four Affiliate Regions In The Us, Ashley Sicard

Capstone Collection

PeaceJam is a yearlong educational program for youth ranging from age 5 to 25 with a mission of creating the next generation of ‘Change Agents.’ Its curriculum focuses on the model of “Education, Inspiration and Action” with the intention of providing youth a comprehensive understanding of the complex problems of today and what is needed for them to gain the skills, knowledge and commitment to create positive change in themselves, their community, and the world in the future. Through previous research, the program has demonstrated success in achieving its short term and intermediate outcomes in the youth participants. However, no …

Group And Gender Differences In Total Recall And Serial Position Effect For Pictorial, Textual, And Contextual Stimuli, Kirk M. Lunnen

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Understanding how different modes of informational presentation can affect memorability is of great importance from advertising to education and in other disciplines. In education, for example, it relates to important issues such as determining the most effective strategies for increasing students’ vocabularies. In advertising, it means the difference between product recognition (and consequent consumption) and product failure. The search for a method of presentation that can maximize this memorability has been the object of numerous researchers (Esser, Die, Seholm, & Pebley, 1979; Lippman & Shanahan, 1974; Bower, 1970; Paivio, 1969).

Adult Offenders And The Family Profile Ii Scale: A Retrospective Assessment Of Prisoner And Non-Prisoner Families Of Origin, Matthew N. I. Oliver, Shirley Klein

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Past research on families consistently indicates that parents of delinquents are usually poor managers of income (1), and likely to use excessively lax or excessively strict discipline (2). Although much is known about the families of juvenile delinquents, little research has been done on adult offenders’ families of origin. The purpose of this study is to explore family of origin profiles of prisoners and non-prisoners and evaluate how those differences relate to the profile of juvenile delinquents’ family of origin. More specifically, this study explores the following hypotheses: Hypothesis 1: Non-prisoners’ families of origin will reflect more fictional financial management …

Lives In Transition: Experiences In The Persian Gulf, Reinhold Hill

Journal of Undergraduate Research

It is with pleasure that I report on my research results to the Research and Creative Work Office. The Research and Creative Work Office provided funding for my proposed project of collecting oral narratives from Utah reservists who served in the Persian Gulf. I began work on the project in January.

Cia And The Bomb: Korea, Brain Hagins

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Utilizing the newly released CIA documents at the National Archives in D.C., this research project explores the ins and outs of the government’s investigations into their use of nuclear power in war. Specifically of interest are the analyses that were produced by the government regarding the probable success of using nuclear weapons to bring the Korean War to a conclusion.

Social Changes And Women’S Issues Of Coimbatore India, Dana Diana Bowen

Journal of Undergraduate Research

I demonstrated in my application for The Research and Creative Work Scholarship last Fall semester that specific patterns of transition in women’s roles and statuses occur in evolving societies. Examples of this evolution were illustrated in the American, !Kung San, and Chinese societies. I further hypothesized that these same patterns of evolution are also occurring in India and possibly other countries.

The Value Of Life: A Contingent Valuation Study Of Risk Avoidance And Utah County Air Pollution, Christopher Michael Lee

Journal of Undergraduate Research

While prices established in competitive markets provide the most traditional and widely accepted valuation of goods and services, many commodities cannot be valued with price studies because no competitive market exists for those commodities. Economist have developed some methods by which valuations for non-marketed commodities can be estimated. These non-market methods are significant because they can estimate values for public goods, non-traded goods and services, and other items or amenities which the market does not or cannot allocate.

Creating A Musical, Erik Orton, Dr. K. Newell Dayley

Journal of Undergraduate Research

I originally received an ORCA grant for the purpose of developing a musical adaptation of The Scarlet Letter. During the ensuing months my subject matter changed to the life of Daniel O’Connell (1775-1847), an Irish patriot who led a movement to help the farming class regain their rights from England.

Russian Olympics, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

With the Winter Olympics finally underway 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 not …

Hot Doc: Congress App For Your Smartphone, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

Library Publications (1999-2023)

• Hot Doc: Congress App for Your Smartphone

Developing A Normative Sample Of Hispanic Youth Using The Spanish Youth Outcome Questionnaire, Michelle Nuttall, Dr. Gary Burlingame

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The Youth Outcome Questionnaire (Y-OQ) was developed by a group of professors at Brigham Young University to offer professionals in psychology an outcome measure for children between the ages of 4 and 17. This measure was to be easy to administer, quick to fill out and score, and cost effective. The main attribute it had to contain was a sensitivity to change that would allow the clinician and others the ability to track progress and monitor change in a specific individual. The result of this endeavor was the Youth Outcome Questionnaire, a 64 item parent report measure that takes about …

The Effects Of Employment On Women’S Life Satisfaction And Maiiital Quality, Jared L. Bleak

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The experience I had in researching and writing on the effects of employment on women’s life satisfaction and marital quality was a wonderful capstone to my education at Brigham Young University. The Research and Creative Work award I received made this experience possible. With the award I was able to decrease the number of hours I worked at my job and increase the time spent on my project. This extra time was essential in completing the research and writing the project required.

The Effect Of Role Assignment For Children With Specific Language Impairment Participating In Cooperative Learning Groups, Martin Fujiki, Jenifer D. Miskin, Alyssa Stanger

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Our research was conducted within a larger project designed to facilitate language and social skills in children with SLI. Fifty-six subjects between the ages of 6 and 11 participated in this project. Eight of these subjects were children with SLI, and the remaining forty-eight were typically developing. Each of the children with SLI was paired with two typically developing peers of the same gender to form a triad of children. Each triad worked on four different cooperative tasks.

Neurophysiological Substrates Of Cocaine Addiction, Dr. Scott Steffensen

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The main objective of this study was to characterize the role of GABA neurons in the ventral tegmental area in cocaine addiction. Research in my lab is dedicated to the elucidation of brain substrates underlying drug addiction. Elder Boyd K. Packer has stated, “It is my conviction, and my constant prayer, that there will come through research, through inspiration to scientists if need be, the power to conquer narcotic addiction through the same means which cause it.”(Packer 1989). This plea from Elder Packer is emblazoned on a poster at the entrance to my laboratory to remind us of …

Empowerment And Sense Of Adequacy In Infertile Couples: A Fundamental Need In Treatment Process Of Infertility - A Qualitative Study, Ali Zargham-Boroujeni, Fatemeh Jafarzadeh-Kenarsari, Ataollah Ghahiri, Mojtaba Habibi

The Qualitative Report

Many Iranian couples are suffering from infertility, and their needs have remained unexplored thus far; therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore the infertile couples’ needs and experiences during diagnosis and different stages of infertility treatment. Specific research question included: What are infertile couples’ viewpoints and perceptions about their needs in treatment process of infertility? Researchers used a qualitative design, based on a content analysis approach to analyze in-depth unstructured interviews conducted with seventeen infertile couples. The participants’ needs were categorized into five categories. All five categories had one theme in common which was identified as “empowerment and …

Teacher Educators Wrestling With Issues Of Diversity In Online Courses, Kristine S. Lewis Grant, Vera J. Lee

The Qualitative Report

This manuscript provides an overview of the findings of an ongoing qualitative exploratory study that examined how preservice and inservice teachers in two different online education courses (ED 600 and ED 500) developed an understanding of the multifaceted issues that affect diverse learners. The study also investigated the instructors’ reflections about their courses through their individual journals. An analysis of the study participants' Discussion Board posts and interactions online revealed how the Discussion Board forum was used as a critical, reflective space for participants' to engage in self-reflection and to exchange and challenge one another's ideas. The journals also revealed …

Lanthorn, Vol. 48, No. 41, February 10, 2014, Grand Valley State University

Volume 48, July 1, 2013 - June 2, 2014

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

Collaboration In Action: A Book Review Of Alice Mcintyre's Participatory Action Research, Jacqueline Fields

The Qualitative Report

In this review of the book, Participatory Action Research (PAR) by author Alice McIntyre, I write from the perspective of a PhD student at the beginning of her doctoral social work program and who is considering using PAR in her future research. I highlight McIntyre’s description of PAR, its application as a research technique, the challenges that confront the researcher, and the rewards that could result from the PAR approach.

St. Mark’S Catholic Community Of The Deaf, February 9, 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

Church Bulletin, February 9, 2014

Church Bulletin

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Ottawa, Canada

Church Bulletin Finding Aid