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Bridging The Food Gap: Addressing The Feasibility And Applicability Of Three Key Traditionally Western Food Preservation Techniques To Improving Household Food Security And Reducing Malnutrition In Uganda., Eva K. Baguma

Capstone Collection

Food wastage is the leading cause of food insecurity and malnutrition in the world today. A huge amount of food gets wasted along the food supply chain from the time it is harvested to the time it gets to our plates. A significant amount of the food wasted happens in the home as well as on farms, in restaurants and supermarkets across the globe.

In Sub-Saharan Africa, many families and communities are facing severe food shortages due to lack of electricity for refrigeration, poor storage facilities and limited access to markets.

However for many centuries, different cultures around the world …

Thumbpickers Hall Of Fame - Muhlenberg County, Kentucky (Fa 687), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 687. This collection features information and documentation of the National Thumbpickers Hall of Fame, founded in the birthplace of thumbpicking, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky in 1998.

A Review Of “Delivering Research Data Management Services: Fundamentals Of Good Practice”, Darren Sweeper

University Libraries Scholarship and Creative Works

No abstract provided.

The Prospector, September 16, 2014, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Perceptions Change Ink Doesn't

Effect Of Convergence Culture On Spectatorship, Amanda Marcus

e-Research: A Journal of Undergraduate Work

Media convergence has changed how we receive and process information. No longer are we passive spectators, but we are part of the media we consume. Because of the explosion of technology since the turn of the century and a new definition of spectatorship, producers of media can no longer control how their messages are received; they have to engage their audience and listen to feedback in order to remain functioning. Fellow peers serve as informants or as a new source of media. This also affects our individual identities, which shapes our cultural identity. Social media enables us to present ourselves …

On “Trafficking And Health”, Dominique Stewart

e-Research: A Journal of Undergraduate Work

This paper discusses the article "Trafficking and Health" by Joanna Busza, Sarah Castle, and Aisse Diarra. Human trafficking is unfortunately addressed by many political systems as a migration issue ‐‐ to be dealt with by restricting the rights of migrants, tightening border controls, etc. However, as we see in this article it is more of a health and human rights issue than anything else. Addressing a problem with the wrong diagnosis does nothing to solve it and oftentimes exacerbates it, and human trafficking is no exception to this. But with the right approaches, the damage caused by trafficking can be …

Here's Looking At You, Selfie, Mark Y. Herring

Dacus Library Faculty Publications

By the time you read this column this story may have lost all it relevance but it has made a bit of a dust up lately and so I think it deserves some further treatment. About two weeks ago, the cyberverse was all a twitter about naked selfies, mainly of celebrities, that had been hacked right out of the cloud. Imagine that. What goes online isn’t exactly private. Doh!

Punishment And Inclusion: Race, Membership, And The Limits Of American Liberalism, Andrew Dilts

Law

At the start of the twenty-first century, 1 percent of the U.S. population is behind bars. An additional 3 percent is on parole or probation. In all but two states, incarcerated felons cannot vote, and in three states felon disenfranchisement is for life. More than 5 million adult Americans cannot vote because of a felony-class criminal conviction, meaning that more than 2 percent of otherwise eligible voters are stripped of their political rights. Nationally, fully a third of the disenfranchised are African American, effectively disenfranchising 8 percent of all African Americans in the United States. In Alabama, Kentucky, and Florida, …

Oppl Agenda 9/15/2014, Orland Park Public Library

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

No abstract provided.

"Archive What I See Now" Bringing Institutional Web Archiving Tools To The Individual Researcher, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson, Liza Potts

Computer Science Presentations

PDF of a powerpoint presentation from the 2014 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) Project Directors' Meeting in Washington D. C., September 15, 2014. Also available form Slideshare.

Asenapine Sensitization From Adolescence To Adulthood And Its Potential Molecular Basis, Qing Shu, Rongyin Qin, Yingzhu Chen, Gang Hu, Ming Li

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Asenapine is a new antipsychotic drug that induces a long-lasting behavioral sensitization in adult rats. The present study investigated the developmental impacts of adolescent asenapine treatment on drug sensitivity and on 3 proteins implicated in the action of antipsychotic drugs (i.e. Brainderived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), dopamine D₂ receptor, and ΔFosB) in adulthood. Male adolescent Sprague-Dawley rats (postnatal days, P 43-48) were first treated with asenapine (0.05, 0.10 or 0.20 mg/kg, sc) and tested in the conditioned avoidance or PCP (2.0 mg/kg, sc)-induced hyperlocomotion tasks for 5 days. After they became adults (∼P 76), asenapine sensitization was assessed in a …

Communiqué, September 15, 2014, Lindenwood University

Communiqué

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

Columbia Chronicle (09/15/2014 - Supplement), Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Chronicle

A special edition of the student newspaper from September 15, 2014 entitled The Columbia Chronicle special supplement WAC Crawl as a Guide to the Wabash Arts Corridor Crawl on September 19, 2014. This issue is 12 pages.

Columbia Chronicle (09/15/2014), Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Chronicle (student newspaper)

Student newspaper from September 15, 2014 entitled The Columbia Chronicle. This issue is 40 pages and is listed as Volume 50, Number 3. Cover story: "Few students turn out for 9/11 commemoration" Editor-in-Chief: Tyler Eagle

Don't Shoot, Mauricio E. Novoa

SURGE

It always amazes me how some people

Seem to be experts in fields they’ve never seen,

Know the right directions on paths they’ve never walked,

And know people they seldom acknowledge as such

[excerpt]

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 039, Number 04, September 15, 2014, Grand Valley State University

2014-2015, Volume 39

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

Coalfield Project - Kentucky (Fa 686), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 686. This collection features documentation and oral history interviews with traditional folk artists and craftspeople from the eastern coalfield region of Kentucky.

Program Knowledge And Savings In A Child Development Account Experiment, Yunju Nam, Elizabeth Hole, Michael Sherraden, Margaret Clancy

Center for Social Development Research

This study investigates whether participants’ program knowledge is associated with savings outcomes in Child Development Accounts and whether differences in program knowledge explain racial and ethnic disparities in savings outcomes. Analyses of data collected from treatment participants in the SEED for Oklahoma Kids (SEED OK) experiment (N = 1,39) indicate that knowledge of SEED OK program features is low: on average, participants are aware of 1.24 of three features, and averages are lower among Blacks and Hispanics. Logit and Tobit regressions show that program knowledge is positively related to likelihood of holding a SEED OK participant-owned account and to individual …

Report Of The Alcts Creative Ideas In Technical Services Interest Group Meeting. American Library Assication Mid-Winter Meeting, Philadelphia 2014., Lynnette Fields

SIUE Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

This report from the 2014 American Library Association Midwinter Meeting, highlights table discussions from forty-eight librarians and LIS graduate students attending the ALCTS Creative Ideas in Technical Services meeting.

Metacognitive Planning: Development And Validation Of An Online Measure., Jian Li, Bo Zhang, Han Du, Ze Zhu, Yi Ming Li

Psychology Faculty Publications

Planning is the critical first stage of metacognition. Although it has long been emphasized theoretically, it has not been the subject of much empirical study due to the lack of a valid assessment tool. Because planning is a metacognitive process, online methods that collect data during task performance would much better capture it. The present study was conducted to develop an online measure of metacognitive planning. Researchers designed a puzzle task that took the form of the popular game Sokoban, and the ratio between planning time and total time of each item was chosen as the metacognitive planning index. The …

Getting Young Adults Tuned In To Public Radio: A Survey Of Uses, Perceptions, Content, And Programming, Johnathan Michael Reaves

Student Theses and Dissertations

Today's young adults are using many different mobile devices and media sources for entertainment and information. This puts traditional media at a disadvantage. For public radio, reaching out to young adults can be a challenge in a digital age. This study examined how young adults, between the ages of 18 and 25, are using radio today as well as perceptions they may have about public radio. Under the theoretical framework of the Uses and Gratifications Theory, this study measured how often the participants listened to traditional radio, what they preferred to listen to, and what their perceptions were about public …

Trendsetters Vs. Agenda Setting: A Comparison Of Agendas In Twitter And Newspapers Of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Almistadi

Student Theses and Dissertations

This study was designed to examine the agenda of traditional newspapers of Saudi Arabia and the agenda of Saudi Twitter users, and to compare between the two agendas. The salient issues in both traditional Saudi newspapers articles and tweets by Saudi users had to be content analyzed to accomplish the study's goal. The top three Saudi newspapers in circulation were chosen to draw the article sample, and a list of fourteen Saudi Twitter accounts were chosen based on how often their tweets got retweeted. The users whose tweets got the highest retweets were selected for analysis. The findings showed that …

Park Rangers' Behaviors And Their Effects On Tourists And Tibetan Macaques (Macaca Thibetana) At Mt. Huangshan, China, Rie Usui, Lori K. Sheeran, Jin-Hua Li, Lixing Sun, Xi Wang, Alexander J. Pritchard, Alexander S. Duvall-Lash, R. Steven Wagner

Biology Faculty Scholarship

Previous studies have reported the negative impacts of tourism on nonhuman primates (NHPs) and tourists and advocated the improvement of tourism management, yet what constitutes good quality management remains unclear. We explored whether rates of macaque aggression and self-directed behaviors (SDBs) differed under the supervision of two park ranger teams at the Valley of the Wild Monkeys (VWM) in Mt. Huangshan, Anhui Province, China. The two ranger teams provisioned and managed a group of macaques on an alternating monthly basis. Monkey, tourist and ranger behaviors were collected from August 16–September 30, 2012. Macaque aggression and SDB rates did not differ …

The Historic Role Of Boards Of Health In Local Innovation: New York City’S Soda Portion Case, Lawrence O. Gostin, Belinda H. Reeve, Marice Ashe

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Childhood and adult obesity pose major risks for cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease, with the poor and racial minorities suffering from disproportionately high burdens of obesity and chronic disease. With current policies failing, cities and states have moved forward with creative prevention measures–-with boards of health driving policy innovation in many local jurisdictions. The New York City Board of Board of Health’s (NYCBH) soda portion limit pushed the boundaries of innovation, but was struck down on June 26, 2014 by New York State’s highest court, which held that the Board trespassed on the City Council’s authority.

The Court’s decision ignored …

Refworks Usage Statistics Through June 2014, Andrée J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

RefWorks is a subscription-based, online software product that helps researchers save, organize, and format bibliographic citations. This report provides monthly statistics on the usage of RefWorks by the University of Rhode Island community from 2002 through June 2014. Data provided includes: user type summary, focus area summary, references created per month, accounts created per month, all user accounts by user type, all user accounts by focus area, last quarter number of accounts by user type, reference type detail, all references by focus area, last quarter references by focus area, last quarter references by user type, all references by user type, …

From Learning Comes Meaning: Informal Comentorship And The Second-Career Academic In Education, Joe Barrett, Hilary Brown

The Qualitative Report

Informal mentoring relationships develop out of mutual identification and the fulfillment of career needs. As new faculty, we struggled to balance and decipher all the various facets inherent in the research, service, and teaching responsibilities in our new roles. This paper chronicles an informal comentorship collaboration we struck up to support our efforts as second-career academics in the field of education, seeking to navigate our way through institutional resocialization at a mid-sized Canadian university. Using a collaborative autoethnographic approach, we collected data comprising handwritten notes, tape-recorded coversations, e-mail reflections, and metareflections crafted after scheduled meetings over the course of a …

Autoethnography As A Transformative Research Method, Dwayne Custer

The Qualitative Report

Autoethnography is a qualitative, transformative research method because it changes time, requires vulnerability, fosters empathy, embodies creativity and innovation, eliminates boundaries, honors subjectivity, and provides therapeutic benefits. This article discusses these seven lenses using select passages from “Jesus Christ and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups: A Narrative on Homosexual Identity, Spirituality, and Human Development” (an unpublished manuscript) written in 2013.

What They Left Behind: A Case Study Of Teachers' Experiences With School Improvement At Evergreen Elementary School, Amy Orange

The Qualitative Report

With the enactment of the No Child Left Behind Act, an unprecedented amount of pressure has been placed upon schools to increase student achievement. During the 2009-2010 school year, Evergreen Elementary School was in Year Four of school improvement for failing to make Annual Yearly Progress (AYP) in both reading and math. Drawing on observational and interview data from upper elementary school teachers, this paper will explore how striving to make AYP impacted teachers including increased workloads and stress, and how these factors led to teachers leaving the school, with a focus on a single teacher’s experiences.

Tech Services On The Web: Remember The Milk; Http://Www.Rememberthemilk.Com, Monica Berger

Publications and Research

Brief review of productivity app and website, Remember the Milk, with focus on tasks of technical services and electronic resources librarians.

Lanthorn, Vol. 49, No. 08, September 15, 2014, Grand Valley State University

Volume 49, July 7, 2014 - June 1, 2015

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