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We Are Not All Bruce Lee, Part 1, Justin Kh Tse May 2014

We Are Not All Bruce Lee, Part 1, Justin Kh Tse

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

What do we really mean when we say that Asian Americans have contributed to American religious life? Often, people seem to mean that Asian Americans are making what Diana Eck calls a “new religious America.” Asian Americans, we are told, are changing the face of American religion from its historic white Anglo-Saxon Protestant dominance to a multicultural, pluralistic landscape of mosques, gurdwaras, and temples.

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We Are Not All Bruce Lee, Part 2, Justin Kh Tse May 2014

We Are Not All Bruce Lee, Part 2, Justin Kh Tse

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

In 1973, the year that Lee died, there was a marked shift among both Asian Americans and Hong Kong cinema – the two sites where Bruce Lee worked – in the portrayal of Asian manhood and its relationship to religion. It was a much more realistic portrayal of what Asian American and Asia-Pacific men were actually up to in terms of religious practice.

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Committed To Us: Predicting Relationship Closeness Following Nonmarital Romantic Relationship Breakup, Kenneth Tan, Christopher R. Agnew, Laura E. Vanderdrift, S. Marie Harvey May 2014

Committed To Us: Predicting Relationship Closeness Following Nonmarital Romantic Relationship Breakup, Kenneth Tan, Christopher R. Agnew, Laura E. Vanderdrift, S. Marie Harvey

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

There is little research on the nature of relationships between individuals following the termination of a nonmarital romantic relationship. It is largely unknown to what extent former romantic partners remain close following breakup. The present research used the Investment Model of Commitment Processes, assessed prior to romantic breakup, to examine the closeness of post-breakup relationships. Results obtained from two waves of data collected from 143 young adults involved in romantic relationships at Time 1 and experiencing a romantic breakup by Time 2 indicated that pre-breakup romantic commitment mediated the effects of pre-breakup romantic satisfaction, investments, and alternatives on post-breakup closeness, …

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2nd Isca Productivity Scorecard And Benchmarking Survey Report For The Accountancy Sector In Singapore, Sze Yee Chan, Clarence Goh, Kay Zin May 2014

2nd Isca Productivity Scorecard And Benchmarking Survey Report For The Accountancy Sector In Singapore, Sze Yee Chan, Clarence Goh, Kay Zin

Research Collection School Of Accountancy

As the national accountancy body, the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA) is pleased to publish this secondProductivity Scorecard and Benchmarking Survey Report. This builds upon our inaugural scorecard and benchmarking reportlast year and, more importantly, is in line with our efforts to play a role in the national drive to restructure our economy byraising the productivity of companies in Singapore and helping them move up the value chain.

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Leaders’ Facial Features As A Potential Source Of Information For Prospective Team Members, Lay See Ong, Guihyun Grace Park, Michal Franc, Norman P. Li May 2014

Leaders’ Facial Features As A Potential Source Of Information For Prospective Team Members, Lay See Ong, Guihyun Grace Park, Michal Franc, Norman P. Li

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

We examined how facial features of team-leaders influence the perception of the team’s social environment by prospective team-members. Finding: highly dominant-looking leaders are related to perceptions of high-vertical and low-horizontal team mobility. We highlight the significance in understanding how these members perceive the team since teams are vital to organizations.

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The New Capitalism: Asia And The Future Of Business, Government, And Society, Ann Florini, Bindu Sharma May 2014

The New Capitalism: Asia And The Future Of Business, Government, And Society, Ann Florini, Bindu Sharma

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

To have a conversation, the appropriate language is needed. The language is just starting to emerge in both Asia and the West for one of the most important conversations the world is now having—the discussion about the future of business and capitalism. Thailand’s King Bhumibol refers to the sufficiency economy. Harvard’s Michael Porter speaks of shared value. Ellen MacArthur’s eponymous foundation supports the transition to the circular economy. John Elkington proposes breakthrough capitalism. Bhutan’s call to measure progress by gross national happiness (GNH), rather than the narrow metric of gross domestic product (GDP), is now attracting attention around the globe. …

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Perceptual Symbols Of Creativity: Coldness Elicits Referential, Warmth Elicits Relational Creativity, Hans Ijzerman, Angela K. Y. Leung, Lay See Ong May 2014

Perceptual Symbols Of Creativity: Coldness Elicits Referential, Warmth Elicits Relational Creativity, Hans Ijzerman, Angela K. Y. Leung, Lay See Ong

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Research in the cognitive and social psychological science has revealed the pervading relation between body and mind. Physical warmth leads people to perceive others as psychological closer to them and to be more generous towards others. More recently, physical warmth has also been implicated in the processing of information, specifically through perceiving relationships (via physical warmth) and contrasting from others (via coldness). In addition, social psychological work has linked social cues (such as mimicry and power cues) to creative performance. The present work integrates these two literatures, by providing an embodied model of creative performance through relational (warm = relational) …

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Causes And Consequences Of Corporate Asset Exchanges By Listed Companies In China, Fang Lou, Jiwei Wang, Hongqi Yuan May 2014

Causes And Consequences Of Corporate Asset Exchanges By Listed Companies In China, Fang Lou, Jiwei Wang, Hongqi Yuan

Research Collection School Of Accountancy

China's listed companies often exchange corporate assets with their parent companies. We find that listed companies that have been incompletely restructured from former state-owned enterprises and in sound financial condition tend to exchange higher quality assets for lower quality assets (i.e., tunneling). However, when there is a need to avoid reporting a loss and to raise additional capital, listed companies tend to exchange lower quality assets for higher quality assets (i.e., propping). We also find that the market reacts indifferently to asset exchange announcements. Finally, we find asset exchanges motivated by a tunneling (propping) incentive to be associated with poorer …

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Consent For Nondiagnostic Research Biopsies: A Pilot Study Of Participant Recall And Therapeutic Orientation, Roberto Abadie, Jonathan Kimmelman, Josiane Lafleur, Trudo Lemmens, May 2014

Consent For Nondiagnostic Research Biopsies: A Pilot Study Of Participant Recall And Therapeutic Orientation, Roberto Abadie, Jonathan Kimmelman, Josiane Lafleur, Trudo Lemmens,

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

A growing number of clinical trials incorporate invasive procedures like nondiagnostic tumor biopsies for biomarker or pharmacodynamic analysis.1 Such invasive research procedures are ethically contentious. Tumor biopsies involve pain and complication risk,2 and at least one procedure-related death has been reported.3 However, nondiagnostic tumor biopsies obtained in the research context generally have no value for managing the participant’s medical condition. Some commentators therefore argue that research biopsies “take” from participants without “giving in return.”4 Because such procedures are conducted contrary to research participants’ medical interests, an ethical framework for enrolling patients in studies that include a research biopsy rides heavily …

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Differential Extinction Of Disgust And Anxiety Among Victims Of Sexual Traumatization, Christal Badour May 2014

Differential Extinction Of Disgust And Anxiety Among Victims Of Sexual Traumatization, Christal Badour

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Emerging evidence suggests that in addition to fear, traumatic event-related disgust reactions may be integral to understanding the sequelae of sexual traumatization. Importantly, evidence broadly suggests compared to fear, disgust may be resistant to extinction. As such, conditioned disgust reactions may not evidence the same pattern of extinction observed with fear-based reactions. This may have important implications for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). As such, the current study sought to fill an important gap in the existing literature by examining specific processes and mechanisms that are likely to affect outcomes of exposure-based interventions following sexual traumatization. Specifically, 72 …

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Human Torches: The Genesis Of Self-Immolation In The Sociopolitical Context, Ryan Michael Nixon May 2014

Human Torches: The Genesis Of Self-Immolation In The Sociopolitical Context, Ryan Michael Nixon

Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

In 2012 there was a record number of self-immolations globally. This phenomenon has been associated with the civil unrest and the collapse of regimes. Most recently, self-immolations in Tunisia sparked a revolution that led to the collapse of the Tunisian government. In the study of politics, self-immolations frequently appear merely as footnotes in the discussion of other phenomena. Where research has been previously conducted, focus has rested mainly on how it initially became a tool of contention and how it spreads. This paper seeks to understand the conditions that lead individuals to choose this method of protest. To do so, …

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An Exploratory Study Of Generational Differences In Health Information Seeking And Smoking Behaviors In Bulgaria, Iva Stoyneva May 2014

An Exploratory Study Of Generational Differences In Health Information Seeking And Smoking Behaviors In Bulgaria, Iva Stoyneva

Communication & Theatre Arts Theses

Smoking is a serious global public health threat that causes more than 6 million deaths annually (WHO, 2013). Smoking is also the single, most preventable cause of death (CDC, 2014). According to a recent study, Bulgaria was ranked as one of onlyl 1 countries in the world, in which half of the adult male population smokes, as well as one of 11 countries in which more than one-quarter of the adult female population smokes. Research suggests that the most significant predictors of smoking behavior in Bulgaria were age and geographic location (Balabanova, Bobak & McKee, 1998). Contributing to these finings, …

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Transnational Organized Crime And The Illegal Wildlife Trade Global Ties And Global Crime, Zachariah Edward Long May 2014

Transnational Organized Crime And The Illegal Wildlife Trade Global Ties And Global Crime, Zachariah Edward Long

Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

World biodiversity is faced with many different threats in today's globalized world. One such threat is the emergence of transnational organized crime in the illegal wildlife trade. But why would transnational organized crime which is traditionally associated with such crimes like illegal drugs, weapons, and human trafficking be interested in the illegal wildlife trade? This thesis seeks to explore why transnational organized crime as a rational business actor would it be interested in participating in the illegal wildlife trade. To explore this relationship, this thesis will look at several different variables. First the economic conditions oflocals living with wildlife and …

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Youth Advocate Programs' (Yap) Approach To Wrap-Around Services Appears Intensive And Flexible, Douglas N. Evans, Sheyla A. Delgado May 2014

Youth Advocate Programs' (Yap) Approach To Wrap-Around Services Appears Intensive And Flexible, Douglas N. Evans, Sheyla A. Delgado

Publications and Research

This report, conducted by the Research & Evaluation Center at John Jay College, evaluates the impact of Youth Advocate Programs, Inc. (YAP) on high-risk youth referred by the juvenile justice system. The study, based on 3,523 cases of youth aged 11-18, found that YAP provides intensive, short-term services with an average length of stay of 17 weeks. On average, youth received 173 total service hours, with some receiving up to 250 hours or more. The findings highlight the program's flexibility in accommodating individual needs, providing a significant amount of advocacy contact and support to youth and their families.

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Most High Risk Youth Referred To Youth Advocate Programs, Inc. Remain Arrest Free And In Their Communities During Yap Participation, Douglas N. Evans, Sheyla A. Delgado May 2014

Most High Risk Youth Referred To Youth Advocate Programs, Inc. Remain Arrest Free And In Their Communities During Yap Participation, Douglas N. Evans, Sheyla A. Delgado

Publications and Research

This report, conducted by the Research & Evaluation Center at John Jay College, assesses Youth Advocate Programs, Inc. (YAP), which offers community-based services to high-risk youth to reduce reliance on out-of-home placements. Analyzing 3,523 juvenile justice-referred cases of youth aged 11-18, the study finds that YAP effectively serves the highest-risk youth, with judicial authorities showing confidence in referring these youth to the program. The findings demonstrate YAP’s commitment to providing intensive, community-based services aimed at long-term client well-being and reducing the need for institutional placements.

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Who Will Defy Authority? Personality Features And Destructive Obedience In The Milgram Paradigm, Ashton Caroline Southard May 2014

Who Will Defy Authority? Personality Features And Destructive Obedience In The Milgram Paradigm, Ashton Caroline Southard

Dissertations

The present study examined the potential role of individual differences in personality in the likelihood of engaging in destructive obedience to authority within a modified version of the Stanley Milgram paradigm (Milgram, 1963, 1974). Personality features examined included the Big Five dimensions of agreeableness, openness, neuroticism, conscientiousness, and extraversion, and the dimensions of the Dark Triad, which consist of narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism (Paulhus & Williams, 2002). Participants were 39 undergraduates enrolled in introductory psychology classes who participated in exchange for partial fulfillment of a research requirement. Data were collected in two phases. Phase 1 consisted of online completion of …

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Gatekeeping The Social Games In A Post-Broadcasting World: A Qualitative Content Analysis Of Nbc And User-Generated Olympic Twitter Coverage During The 2012 London Games, Daniel Anthony Sipocz May 2014

Gatekeeping The Social Games In A Post-Broadcasting World: A Qualitative Content Analysis Of Nbc And User-Generated Olympic Twitter Coverage During The 2012 London Games, Daniel Anthony Sipocz

Dissertations

This study examined the Twitter use of both traditional gatekeepers, such as NBC, and audience members during the 2012 London Summer Olympics. The exploratory study examined NBC and audience members as gatekeepers with a particular interest in the audience’s role as a gatekeeper through social media use. NBC used Twitter, a social media platform, in ways that supported traditional gatekeeping models. The network aimed to drive audiences back to the traditional television broadcast while providing the audience with the illusion of having an influence on Olympic coverage. Most significantly, this study argues that the audience became a gatekeeper of Olympic …

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The Influence Of Bystanders In Subsequent Bullying Behavior, Jenny Lane Morris May 2014

The Influence Of Bystanders In Subsequent Bullying Behavior, Jenny Lane Morris

Dissertations

Aggression that is targeted towards an individual or a group of individuals who is at a disadvantage to respond is known by several terms in the literature, including bullying, harassment, and mobbing. There has been much interest in this sort of targeted aggression among school-aged children and, therefore, a large body of literature on the topic exists. In adult populations, especially in workplace environments, much research has focused on the respective roles of the victim and bully in this adverse social dynamic, with less information available on the role of the bystander, which has emerged as an important part of …

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Faith-Based And Graduate Adult Educator's Negotiation Of Similarities And Differences Among People As An Indicator Of Their Multicultural Effectiveness, Elizabeth Conerly Smith May 2014

Faith-Based And Graduate Adult Educator's Negotiation Of Similarities And Differences Among People As An Indicator Of Their Multicultural Effectiveness, Elizabeth Conerly Smith

Dissertations

This study examined the relationship between adult educators‘ multicultural effectiveness scores and their negotiation of similarities and differences scores. The participants were in faith-based institutions, specifically Christian churches and in graduate adult education programs of universities and colleges in the United States. Multicultural effectiveness was measured by the Multicultural Personality Questionnaire (MPQ) that the authors reported measured multicultural effectiveness as the primary, encompassing variable. The MPQ is a five-point Likert scale with 91 items. The MPQ reliability was a Cronbach‘s alpha of .82 (Van der Zee & Van Oudenhoven, 2000). The Miville-Guzman Universality-Diversity Scale (M-GUDS) measured the negotiation of similarities …

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Citizens Without A Nation: The Construction Of Haitian Illegality And Deportability In The Dominican Republic, Saha Miranda May 2014

Citizens Without A Nation: The Construction Of Haitian Illegality And Deportability In The Dominican Republic, Saha Miranda

Master's Theses - Sociology and Anthropology

Migrant “illegality” has increasingly become a popular topic in political debates around the world, but illegal populations are not random or self-generating, they are created and patterned (DeGenova 2002:422). Through the recent enforcement of new and existing immigration laws, the Dominican State has begun to move large populations of Haitian immigrants and their descendants into irregular or “illegal” immigration status. A historical analysis of the relationship between the Dominican State and Haitian immigrants presents a paradox: the Dominican economy has become increasingly dependent on Haitian migrant labor, yet the Dominican State has persistently worked to force Haitians and their descendants …

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Social Capital And Relational Work: Uncertainty, Distrust, And Support In Azerbaijan, Dustin S. Stoltz May 2014

Social Capital And Relational Work: Uncertainty, Distrust, And Support In Azerbaijan, Dustin S. Stoltz

Master's Theses - Sociology and Anthropology

Much of the social capital literature focuses on unambiguous social situations where actors share generalized trust or interpersonal trust. Drawing on in-depth fieldwork in northwest Azerbaijan, this thesis focuses instead on distrust and the negotiation of conflicting interpretations of shared norms within moments of informal social support. In such situations, participants engage in an on-going negotiation of the situation, drawing on available cultural conventions to make sense of situations and perform relational work. They ultimately create meaning out of on-going social interaction and accomplish locally viable forms of social support.

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'From Jammet's To Guilbauds': The Influence Of French Haute Cuisine On The Development Of Dublin Restaurants, Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire May 2014

'From Jammet's To Guilbauds': The Influence Of French Haute Cuisine On The Development Of Dublin Restaurants, Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire

Books/Book Chapters

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Mechanisms For Arranging Ride Sharing And Fare Splitting For Last-Mile Travel Demands, Shih-Fen Cheng, Duc Thien Nguyen, Hoong Chuin Lau May 2014

Mechanisms For Arranging Ride Sharing And Fare Splitting For Last-Mile Travel Demands, Shih-Fen Cheng, Duc Thien Nguyen, Hoong Chuin Lau

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

A great challenge of city planners is to provide efficient and effective connection service to travelers using public transportation system. This is commonly known as the last-mile problem and is critical in promoting the utilization of public transportation system. In this paper, we address the last-mile problem by considering a dynamic and demand-responsive mechanism for arranging ride sharing on a non-dedicated commercial fleet (such as taxis or passenger vans). Our approach has the benefits of being dynamic, flexible, and with low setup cost. A critical issue in such ride-sharing service is how riders should be grouped and serviced, and how …

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Effects Of Country Of Origin, Country Animosity And Foreign Product Usage Experiences On Product Judgement: A Study Of Chinese Customers, Cong Sui May 2014

Effects Of Country Of Origin, Country Animosity And Foreign Product Usage Experiences On Product Judgement: A Study Of Chinese Customers, Cong Sui

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

An experiment was conducted to test hypotheses the country-of-origin, country animosity and product usage experience jointly determine the intention of product purchase. One hundred and seventy Chinese students participated in the experiment and responded to advertisements designed to promot laptop computers manufactured in Germany, Japan, India and the Philippines. Regression analysis results indicate that general product purchase intentions were significantly influenced by participants' pre-existing COO and CA perceptions. The interaction effects between COO, CA and product usage experience were also confirmed, meaning that the effects of COO and CA on purchase intentions were moderated by the variety and frequency of …

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"They're Our Bosses": Representations Of Clients, Guardians, And Providers In Caregivers' Narratives, Dina Vdovichenko May 2014

"They're Our Bosses": Representations Of Clients, Guardians, And Providers In Caregivers' Narratives, Dina Vdovichenko

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to examine how various characters are portrayed within the self-narratives of women who are employed to care for adults with disabilities. This research looks at how these women's personal narratives construct characters-their clients (the individuals they provide services for), clients' guardians, and how these women portray themselves as caregivers. Interviews were conducted with eight women who provide paid care services to physically and/or cognitively impaired adults who receive services through the Florida Developmental Disabilities Home and Community Based Services Waiver Program. This program endorses specific expectations about the nature and purpose of caregiving. According …

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An Analysis Of State Building: The Relationship Between Pashtun 'Para-State' Institutions And Political Instability In Afghanistan, Rebecca Young Greven May 2014

An Analysis Of State Building: The Relationship Between Pashtun 'Para-State' Institutions And Political Instability In Afghanistan, Rebecca Young Greven

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This study arose from the desire to research the effectiveness of state building policies in Afghanistan. In order to address this topic, I review state building literature and find that state building literature focuses largely on the processes of democratization instead of institution building. In the second part of this dissertation I conduct a comparative case study of Afghanistan during the Soviet and Taliban eras to study the relationship between Pashtun `para-state' institutions (PSI's) and levels of political instability. I hypothesize that Pashtun PSI's compete with central state institutions for popular support thus increasing political instability and reducing state institutional …

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Social Media Use During The College Transition, Kevin J. Yurasek May 2014

Social Media Use During The College Transition, Kevin J. Yurasek

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Starting college is an exciting and pivotal time for students. During this time, the student will be faced with challenges of his or her social identity and will need to develop or modify identities based on new social situations. Previous research shows that social media play a role in identity development, but there is little information regarding the extent. Are new college students using Facebook during their transition to communicate their new identity/social group to new peers? Are they using Facebook to maintain nostalgia for previous identities/social groups? This information will be valuable to higher education professionals working with these …

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Scholarly Publishing & Open Access Within Cuny: One Faculty Looks At Changing The Paradigm, Philip Pecorino May 2014

Scholarly Publishing & Open Access Within Cuny: One Faculty Looks At Changing The Paradigm, Philip Pecorino

Urban Library Journal

The author reports on what brought him as a CUNY faculty member to the position that he holds on Open Access as a new paradigm for scholarly publication and dissemination of information, knowledge and creations. He relates his experiences in bringing this topic to the attention of his CUNY colleagues and his understanding of what may happen in the future at CUNY as a response to the open access model. He will also relate his current efforts related to the archiving of the academic creations of faculty and of governance materials.

He presents his views on tenure and promotion review …

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Advocacy Begins At Home: Methods Of Promoting Faculty Awareness Of Open Access Publishing At The Brooklyn Campus Of Long Island University, Edward Keene May 2014

Advocacy Begins At Home: Methods Of Promoting Faculty Awareness Of Open Access Publishing At The Brooklyn Campus Of Long Island University, Edward Keene

Urban Library Journal

The paper reports on efforts of the Periodicals Librarian at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus, a mid-sized urban institution, to measure the awareness of open access (OA) publishing among faculty and document methods that proved effective in raising awareness of the advent of, and debate over, OA publishing. The author reports his survey findings; interprets their implications; reports on the means available at LIU to promote OA and those that proved worthwhile; notes the departmental and committee relationships integral to the process; proposes ideas for future initiatives at LIU/Brooklyn. The findings in the paper will add to the body of …

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Open Access And The Association Publisher, Summary Of A Presentation By Dr. Martin Blume, Jill Cirasella, Martha Corpus May 2014

Open Access And The Association Publisher, Summary Of A Presentation By Dr. Martin Blume, Jill Cirasella, Martha Corpus

Urban Library Journal

The American Physical Society (APS) publishes eight titles along with Physical Review Focus (a free service that provides lay-person explanations of selected articles from the other APS journals) and two open access journals, Physical Review Special Topics: Accelerators and Beams (funded with institutional sponsorship) and Physical Review Special Topics: Physics Education Research (funded by author charges). ...

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