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Earning A Living In Nonmetropolitan Nebraska: 2014 Nebraska Rural Poll Results, Rebecca J. Vogt, Cheryl A. Burkhart-Kriesel, Randolph L. Cantrell, Bradley Lubben

Nebraska Rural Poll

Most rural Nebraskan households have full-time employment and many employed households derive part of their household income from self-employment. Self-employment is more prevalent in smaller communities. Most rural Nebraskans living in or near the smallest communities have self-employment in their household.

Some rural Nebraska households also have multiple job holding by members of the household. Again, this is more likely to occur in the smallest communities.

Most self-employed rural Nebraskan households get less than one-half of their total household income from self-employment. However, over one-quarter (29%) of self-employed rural Nebraskans get almost all of their household income from self-employment. Many …

Homogeneity And Heterogeneity As Situational Properties: Producing – And Moving Beyond? – Race In Post-Genomic Science, J. K. Shim, K. W. Darling, M. D. Lappe, Laura Katherine Thomson, Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, R. A. Hiatt, S. L. Ackerman

Sociology

In this article, we explore current thinking and practices around the logics of difference in gene–environment interaction research in the post-genomic era. We find that scientists conducting gene–environment interaction research continue to invoke well-worn notions of racial difference and diversity, but use them strategically to try to examine other kinds of etiologically significant differences among populations. Scientists do this by seeing populations not as inherently homogeneous or heterogeneous, but rather by actively working to produce homogeneity along some dimensions and heterogeneity along others in their study populations. Thus we argue that homogeneity and heterogeneity are situational properties – properties that …

Dimensions Of Religiousness And Cancer Screening Behaviors Among Church-Going Latinas, Jennifer D. Allen, John E. Perez, Claudia R. Pischke, Laura S. Tom, Alan Juarez, Hosffman Ospino, Elizabeth Gonzalez-Suarez

Psychology

Churches are a promising setting through which to reach Latinas with cancer control efforts. A better understanding of the dimensions of religiousness that impact health behaviors could inform efforts to tailor cancer control programs for this setting. The purpose of this study was to explore relationships between dimensions of religiousness with adherence to cancer screening recommendations among church-going Latinas. Female Spanish-speaking members, aged 18 and older from a Baptist church in Boston, Massachusetts (N = 78), were interviewed about cancer screening behaviors and dimensions of religiousness. We examined adherence to individual cancer screening tests (mammography, Pap test, and colonoscopy), …

Got Milk? The Impact Of Heifer International's Livestock Donation Programs In Rwanda On Nutritional Outcomes, Rosemary Rawlins, Svetlana Pimkina, Christopher B. Barrett, Sarah Pedersen, Bruce Wydick

Economics Faculty Publications

International animal donation programs have become an increasingly popular way for people living in developed countries to transfer resources to families living in developing countries. We evaluate the impact of Heifer International’s dairy cow and meat goat donation programs in Rwanda. We find that the program substantially increases dairy and meat consumption among Rwandan households who were given a dairy cow or a meat goat, respectively. We also find marginally statistically significant reductions in weight-for-height z-scores and weight-for-age z-scores of about 0.4 standard deviations among children aged 0-5 years in households that were recipients of meat goats, and reductions in …

Do In-Kind Transfers Damage Local Markets? The Case Of Toms Shoe Donations In El Salvador, Bruce Wydick, Elizabeth Katz, Brendan Janet

Economics Faculty Publications

We carry out a cluster randomized trial among 979 households in rural El Salvador to test whether shoe donations exhibit negative impacts on local shoe markets. Households in half of our communities were given a pair of children’s shoes at baseline (treatment communities), while all households were given coupons that could be used for shoe purchases at a local shoe store. Although point estimates on coupon redemption and difference-in-difference estimations indicate shoe purchases to be slightly lower among households receiving the donated shoes, we find no statistically significant difference in market shoe purchases between treatment and control households.

Does Child Sponsorship Pay Off In Adulthood? An International Study Of Impacts On Income And Wealth, Bruce Wydick, Paul Glewwe, Laine Rutledge

Economics Faculty Publications

We estimate the impact of international child sponsorship on adult income and wealth of formally sponsored children using data on 10,144 individuals in six countries. To identify causal effects, we utilize an age-eligibility rule followed from 1980 to 1992 that limited sponsorship to children 12 years old or younger when the program was introduced in a village, allowing comparisons of sponsored children with older siblings who were slightly too old to be sponsored. Estimations indicate that international child sponsorship increased monthly income by $13-19 over an untreated baseline of $75, principally from inducing higher future labor market participation. We also …

Developing Hope: The Impact Of International Child Sponsorship On Self-Esteem And Aspirations, Paul Glewwe, Phillip H. Ross, Bruce Wydick

Economics Faculty Publications

Recent research (Wydick, Glewwe, and Rutledge, 2013) finds positive and statistically significant impacts on adult life outcomes from child sponsorship, including large impacts on schooling outcomes, the probability and quality of employment, occupational choice, and community leadership. This paper uses data from two countries to explore whether these impacts may be due not only to a relaxation of external constraints, but also to higher aspirations among sponsored children. We use survey data from Kenya and Indonesia, and psychological data from Indonesian children’s self-portraits, to test whether sponsorship significantly affects psychological variables in children that are likely to foster better economic …

Do Risky Microfinance Borrowers Really Invest In Risky Projects? Experimental Evidence From Bolivia., Eliana Zeballos, Alessandra Cassar, Bruce Wydick

Economics Faculty Publications

This paper reports the results of an experiment designed to test a fundamental assumption in Stiglitz and Weiss (1981) model of credit rationing, that defaulting borrowers are associated with investment in risky projects. Through an artefactual field experiment with 200 Bolivian microfinance borrowers, we observe that subjects from real-world delinquent borrowing groups do not prefer risky projects to safer ones significantly more than subjects from repaying groups. Moreover, when faced with the choice between two options framed as consumption or a relatively safe investment project, risky borrowers significantly opt more for consumption, supporting more recent behavioral theories of credit market …

Is Us Bank Lending Sensitive To Exchange Rates? A Panel Data Investigation, Michael R. Jonas

Economics Faculty Publications

The goal of this paper is to examine the sensitivity of US bank lending to movements in the exchange rate. Using a panel of quarterly bank-level balance sheet observations, I show that there exists significant and meaningful exchange rate sensitivity of cross-border lending activity and total domestic loans. This relationship operates through traditional net export channels, as well as mechanisms specific to banks engaged in international lending. Further, I show that exchange rate innovations represent a source of long run lending volatility equivalent to monetary policy shocks for small banks. Lastly, exchange rate movements are shown to be associated with …

Institutional Quality, Culture, And Norms Of Cooperation: Evidence From Behavioral Field Experiments, Alessandra Cassar, G D'Adda, P Grosjean

Economics Faculty Publications

We examine the causal effect of legal institutional quality on informal norms of cooperation and study the interaction of institutions and culture in sustaining economic exchange. A total of 346 subjects in Italy and Kosovo played a market game under different and randomly allocated institutional treatments, which generated different incentives to behave honestly, preceded and followed by a noncontractible and nonenforceable trust game. Significant increases in individual trust and trustworthiness followed exposure to better institutions. A 1- percentage-point reduction in the probability of facing a dishonest partner in the market game, which is induced by the quality of legal institutions, …

The Dimensions Of Library Service Quality: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis Of The Libqual+ Instrument, Jody Condit Fagan

Libraries

The LibQUAL + instrument has been widely adopted by libraries to evaluate user perceptions of library service quality. Studies combining groups (e.g., Lane et al., 2012) have shown high correlations between two factors, suggesting the possibility that a two-factor model may fit as well as the three-factor model theorized by the developers. Also, previous studies have not closely examined residuals to analyze local misfit in the context of theory but instead have often correlated error terms to improve model fit. This study uses LibQUAL + responses from undergraduates at a public, comprehensive university to test three-factor, two-factor, and one-factor models …

Hegemonic Masculinity And Misconceptions Of Gender And Mental Health In Violent Criminality, Mina Dailami

Honors Papers

The present research investigates how masculine dominance in the criminal justice system is upheld through misleading media representations of violent criminality in women as predicated upon masculine traits or mental illness and masculine Identity Protection Cognition (which demonstrates the how implicit social information influences an individual to make judgments in favor of protecting their own socially dominant group). Responses to an online survey of 413 participants demonstrated that overall participants assumed men to be more likely than women to engage in violent action, and violence in men was judged to be a function of power, whereas violence in women was …

จดหมายเปิดผนึกจากใจกองบรรณาธิการ, กองบรรณาธิการวารสารบรรณารักษศาสตร์ จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย

วารสารบรรณารักษศาสตร์ (Library Science Journal)

No abstract provided.

การรับรู้เรื่องห้องสมุดสีเขียวของบรรณารักษ์ห้องสมุดมหาวิทยาลัย, ณัฐฐา เกิดมณี, พิมพ์รำไพ เปรมสมิทธ์

วารสารบรรณารักษศาสตร์ (Library Science Journal)

การวิจัยครั้งนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาการรับรู้เรื่องห้องสมุดสีเขียวของบรรณารักษ์ห้องสมุด มหาวิทยาลัยในด้านแหล่งสารนิเทศที่ได้รับความรู้ เนื้อหาเรื่องห้องสมุดสีเขียวที่รับรู้ การนำเนื้อหาไปใช้และปัญหาในการรับรู้เรื่องห้องสมุดสีเขียว การวิจัยครั้งนี้เป็นการวิจัยเชิงสำรวจ โดยใช้แบบสอบถามเป็นเครื่องมือในการเก็บรวบรวมข้อมูลจากบรรณารักษ์และบุคลากรวิชาชีพอื่น ๆ ที่ปฏิบัติในห้องสมุดมหาวิทยาลัยที่มีการดำเนินงานห้องสมุดสีเขียวจำนวน 7 แห่ง โดยได้รับแบบสอบถามกลับคืนมาจำนวน 183 ชุด (ร้อยละ 83.18) จากที่ส่งไปทั้งหมด 220 ชุด ผลการวิจัยพบว่าบรรณารักษ์ห้องสมุดมหาวิทยาลัยส่วนใหญ่รับรู้เรื่องห้องสมุดสีเขียวจากแหล่งบนอินเทอร์เน็ต เนื้อหาเรื่องห้องสมุดสีเขียวที่บรรณารักษ์ห้องสมุดมหาวิทยาลัยรับรู้คือเรื่องอาคารห้องสมุด บรรณารักษ์ห้องสมุดมหาวิทยาลัยส่วนใหญ่นำเรื่องการประหยัดพลังงานไปใช้ในระดับมาก และปัญหาในการรับรู้เรื่องห้องสมุดสีเขียว พบว่า บรรณารักษ์ประสบปัญหาในระดับปานกลางและระดับน้อย โดยปัญหาที่มีค่าเฉลี่ยสูงสุด คือ ผู้เชี่ยวชาญมีจำนวนน้อย The objective of this study was to inquire into university librarians’ perception of the green library practices, in terms of, information sources, contents, of contents, and related problems with their perceptive. This study was a survey research by using questionnaires to collect data from librarians and other professionals working at seven university libraries where the green library operations have occurred. 183 out of 220 questionnaires (83.18%) were returned by the respondents. The finding …

การจัดหาหนังสืออิเล็กทรอนิกส์ในห้องสมุดมหาวิทยาลัย, ศิวพร อโนทัยสินทวี, พิมพ์รำไพ เปรมสมิทธ์

วารสารบรรณารักษศาสตร์ (Library Science Journal)

การวิจัยครั้งนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์ เพื่อศึกษาการจัดหาหนังสืออิเล็กทรอนิกส์ในห้องสมุดมหาวิทยาลัยในด้านนโยบาย งบประมาณ การคัดเลือก วิธีการจัดหา ตลอดจนปัญหาที่ห้องสมุดมหาวิทยาลัยประสบในการจัดหาหนังสืออิเล็กทรอนิกส์รวมถึงวิเคราะห์หนังสืออิเล็กทรอนิกส์ที่ห้องสมุดมหาวิทยาลัยจัดหาในด้านภาษา ประเภทและสาขาวิชาการวิจัยครั้งนี้เป็นการวิจัยเชิงสำรวจ โดยใช้แบบสอบถามเป็นเครื่องมือในการเก็บรวบรวมข้อมูลจากหัวหน้าห้องสมุดหรือบรรณารักษ์ผู้รับผิดชอบการจัดหาหนังสืออิเล็กทรอนิกส์ในห้องสมุดมหาวิทยาลัย รวมทั้งสิ้น 105 แห่ง ได้รับแบบสอบถามกลับคืนมาจำนวน 94 ชุด (ร้อยละ 89.52) ผลการวิจัยพบว่า ห้องสมุดมหาวิทยาลัยส่วนใหญ่มีการกำหนดนโยบายที่ใช้ในการพิจารณาคัดเลือกหนังสืออิเล็กทรอนิกส์แบบไม่เป็นลายลักษณ์อักษร และใช้เงินรายได้ของมหาวิทยาลัยในการจัดหาหนังสืออิเล็กทรอนิกส์ โดยห้องสมุดทุกแห่งใช้เกณฑ์เนื้อหาสอดคล้องกับหลักสูตรการเรียนการสอนในหมาวิทยาลัยสำหรับปัญหาที่ห้องสมุดมหาวิทยาลัยประสบในการจัดหาหนังสืออิเล็กทรอนิกส์ พบว่า ห้องสมุดมหาวิทยาลัยประสบปัญหา 2 ระดับ คือ ระดับปานกลาง และระดับน้อยโดยปัญหาที่มีค่าเฉลี่ยสูงสุด คือ แหล่งที่ให้เปล่ามีน้อยในส่วนของการวิเคราะห์หนังสืออิเล็กทรอนิกส์ที่ห้องสมุดมหาวิทยาลัยจัดหา พบว่า หนังสืออิเล็กทรอนิกส์จำนวนเกือบทั้งหมดที่ห้องสมุดมหาวิทยาลัยจัดหาเป็นภาษาอังกฤษ ประเภทฐานข้อมูลหนังสืออิเล็กทรอนิกส์ และมีเนื้อหาอยู่ในสาขาวิชามนุษยศาสตร์ The objectives of this research were 1) to study the acquisition of electronic books in university libraries, in terms of, policy, budget, selection, acquisition methods and problems of electronic book acquisitions; and 2) to analyze the acquired electronic books is university libraries regarding language, type and subject. This study was a survey research in which data was collected from questionnaires distributed to 105 university library directors or …

Book Title: Crisis Information Management: Communication And Technologies By: Hager Christine, สมศักดิ์ ศรีบริสุทธิ์สกุล

วารสารบรรณารักษศาสตร์ (Library Science Journal)

No abstract provided.

Low-Hanging Fruit: Leveraging Short-Term Partnerships To Advance Academic Library Outreach Goals, Erin E. Meyer

Collaborative Librarianship

For academic libraries wishing to extend their outreach, existing and potential short-term, project-based collaborations are the low-hanging fruit. Such partnerships include student organizations, various institutional offices, and councils of one kind or another. Keys to success for libraries include flexibility, personal relationships, openness to work outside of academic units and outside of the library, strategic planning, knowing the resources needed and those that already exist, and a desire and ability to move from conversation to action. Leveraging these types of collaboration can enable the library to extend its reach far more than in acting alone

Ua12/2/2 2014 Talisman: Reckoning, Part Ii, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

2014 Talisman yearbook.

• Hutchins, Seth. A Cut Above – Chris Page, Barbers
• Rogers, Shelby. Out with the Old – Thompson Science Complex
• Melcher, Jaclyn. East Meets Western – Shima Alessa, Saudi Arabia, International Students
• Swanson, Kayla. Deep End: Tim Slattery – Swimming
• Swanson, Kayla. Tackling Time: Jim Meyer – Football
• Swanson, Kayla. Beyond the Basket: Kami Howard – Basketball, Class of 1986
• Moster, Brittany. Right Kind of Writing – Walker Rutledge, English
• Smith, Mary-Kate. A Bug’s Life – Keith Philips, Biology
• Kirz, Lindsay. Honors with Par – April Butler, Golf
• Belknap, Abby. Setting the Tone – Greek Week, Spring Sing …

Ua19/16/1 Hilltopper Basketball 2014-15 Media Guide, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Administration Documents

2014-15 men's basketball media guide produced by WKU Athletic Media Relations, includes athletic records and statistics, photographs, schedule and information regarding opponents.

President Obama's Executive Action & The Affordable Care Act, Katie Bullek

Washington Semester Program

No abstract provided.

Attitudes Towards Internationalism Through The Lens Of Cognitive Effort, Global Mindset, And Cultural Intelligence, Joan Romano, Judith Platania

Arts & Sciences Faculty Publications

In the current study we examine attitudes towards internationalism through the lens of a specific set of constructs necessary in defining an effective global leader. One hundred fifty-nine undergraduates responded to items measuring need for cognition, cultural intelligence,and a set of items measuring the correlates of global mindset. In addition, they provided their attitudes on items measuring internationalism. A series of linear regression analyses revealed cultural intelligence,need for cognition and traveling abroad predicted students’ preference for working full-time in a foreign country. In addition, underclassmen were more likely to endorse the notion that the US culture is superior to other …

Pda, Ebooks, Print Books Usage And Expenditures: Knowledge Ecosystem Remix, Antje Mays

Dacus Library Faculty Publications

This article presents data-rich findings of a comprehensive follow-up study on the patron-driven/demand-driven ebook acquisitions (DDA) plan chronicled in two prior articles from the DDA ebook plan's October 2011 inception. Into the third fiscal year, print vs. ebook usage preferences have begun to emerge, and the results broken out by discipline are presented.

Front Matter, Cheryl Oestreicher

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

No abstract provided.

“An Ever-Ready Source Of Inspiration And Information”: Ruth Blair And The Bicentennial County Historians, David B. Parker

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

In 1929, the Georgia General Assembly approved a resolution calling on each county to appoint a historian to compile the county’s history for the state’s bicentennial (1732-1932). Ruth Blair, director of the state’s Department of Archives and History, worked closely with the county historians. Their correspondence tells us much about the project and about Blair’s role in the project’s success.

Remembering The Schleswig War Of 1864: A Turning Point In German And Danish National Identity, Julie K. Allen

The Bridge

Every country tells itself stories about its origins and the moments that define its history. Many of these stories are connected to wars, for example the tale of how George Washington and his troops crossed the frozen Delaware river to surprise the British and turn the tide of the Revolutionary War, or the way the American public rallied after the attack on Pearl Harbor to retool the American economy and support American troops in the fight against fascism. Not surprisingly, the stories we tell about our own country are most often ones about wars from which we emerge victorious, rather …

Front Matter

The Bridge

No abstract provided.

Daily Life In Denmark In The 19th Century, Sofie Krogh Nielsen

The Bridge

The 19th century entailed a lot of change in Denmark. For instance, industrialization broke through and changed the landscape, society, and conditions of life; the 1849 Constitution abolished absolute monarchy so that the political scene was changed. The 19th century was also the century where nationalism started to blossom and the idea of one nation with one people and one language developed. Moreover, Denmark was reduced from a great power to a small state with the loss of Norway in 1814 and the duchies of Slesvig, Holstein, and Lauenburg in 1864. Finally, it was also a century of emigration, especially …

"I Long To Hear From You": The Hardship Of Civil War Soldiering On Danish Immigrant Families, Anders Bo Rasmussen

The Bridge

In 1917 the Danish American minister and immigrant historian Peter S0rensen Vig published Danske i krig i og for Amerika (Danes Fighting in and for America). Vig had taken it upon himself to take a deeper look into the Danish Civil War experience, at a time when Norwegian American immigrants had already published several books about their war service. Vig, however, discovered that the information available was not quite as substantial as he had assumed when writing Danske i Amerika (Danes in America) back in 1907, nor was it "compiled in one place." Vig's Danske i Kamp i og for …

Scrupulosity: Practical Treatment Considerations Drawn From Clinical And Ecclesiastical Experiences With Latter-Day Saint Persons Struggling With Religiously-Oriented Obsessive Compulsive Disorders, Kyle N. Weir, Mandy Greaves, Christopher Kelm, Rahul Ragu, Rick Denno

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

Scrupulosity, a religiously-oriented form of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), is both a clinical matter for treatment and can be an ecclesiastical concern for members, therapists, and priesthood leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Later-day Saints. Just as some people of all faiths suffer from scrupulosity, Latter-day Saints (LDS) persons are not immune. This article addresses the issues pertaining to scrupulosity and provides practical treatment considerations for working with LDS persons struggling with scrupulosity from both a clinical and ecclesiastical perspective. A treatment approach, including consultation with priesthood leaders, is outlined.

Cross-Cultural Psychology In The Rainbow Nation Of Africa – Nurturing Diversity For Sustainable Development, Deon Meiring, Leon Jackson, Erhabor Idemudia, Fons Van De Vijver

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

No abstract provided.