Nbc Peacock North Fall 2015, Peacock North Staff

NBC Peacock North Newsletter

Highlights include: Johnny Carson Returns -- Father and son Emmy Awards -- SNL Emmy Winners --Mike Gargiulo Wins Lifetime Achievement Emmy -- Peacock Profile: Gabe Pressman -- 'Hooting' for Golf

Motivational Differences In Why Sports Fans Attend Minor League Baseball And Roller Derby Events, Anissa S. Pugh

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The aim of the current study was to examine the differences in sport fan motivation factors between mainstream (Minor League baseball) and atypical (roller derby) fans. Eighty-one fans (40 Minor League baseball and 41 roller derby) completed an 8 question demographic survey, a 26-item Sport Fan Motivation Scale, a 7-item Sport Spectator Identification Scale, and a 10-item Sport Fan Exploratory Curiosity Scale. It was believed that fans of Minor League baseball would be more motivated by the entertainment factor than roller derby fans. While roller derby fans would be more motivated by eustress, group affiliation and family factors at the …

The Effects Of Aging On Associative Learning And Memory Retrieval In Causal Judgment, Jessica Parks Arnold

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Research has shown that detecting and judging causal relationships requires associative learning and memory. Retrospective revaluation of causal cues requires associative memory (Aitken, Larkin, & Dickinson, 2001) to bind multiple cues together and use these associations to retrieve unseen cues for revaluation of their associative value. The difficulty that older adults experience with respect to retrospective revaluation could occur because of their deficit in associative binding and retrieval (Mutter, Atchley, & Plumlee, 2012). Like retrospective revaluation, blocking requires cue – outcome associative learning, but unlike retrospective revaluation, blocking does not require binding two cues together nor does it require using …

Examining The Relationship Between Functions Of Self-Directed Violence And The Suicide Implicit Association Test, Cody D. Haynes

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Suicide and non-suicidal self-injury are concerning and prevalent phenomena in the United States; as a result, much research has been undertaken in order to investigate these topics (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015a). Although the exploration of risk factors is a common approach, other novel approaches have been developed in order to better understand self-directed violence (Klonsky & May, 2013). One of these is a focus on functions served by these behaviors, which is theorized to contribute to grasping their etiologies and help provide effective treatment (Glenn & Klonsky, 2011). Another approach is investigating implicit cognition and selfassociations’ influences …

Check Out The Library, 2015 Fall Issue, Humboldt State University Library

Library Publications

Issue 1

• Welcome
• Play in the Library
• Library Vision
• Make Our Website Work for You!
• How Our Services can Help You
• Students are Talking
• Who Uses Display Cases?
• Library Interns Curate Online Exhibits
• Art Inside the Library
• Book of the Year
• Upcoming Events

The Lli Chronicle Volume 6 Number 3, Nova Southeastern University

Lifelong Learning Institute Newsletters

No abstract provided.

The Understanding Of A Single Story: Identities Amongst Black Students At Predominately White Institutions, Jonathan A. Franklin

Student Scholarship

This paper examines the structure of identities amongst Black students at predominately white institutions – particularly focusing on Wofford College. Extensive focus groups were conducted with members of the Black student body to further progress research. Racism regarding Black students and their social identity in addition to how it has structured the social identity amongst students are introduced in along with the identities of students on Wofford’s campus. Discrimination on campus has had the effect of narrowing Black students’ options for creating social identity and participating in campus community life. Black students regularly face a very confining choice to either …

Waste And Waste Management, Joshua Reno

Anthropology Faculty Scholarship

Discard studies have demonstrated that waste is more than just a symptom of an all-too-human demand for meaning or a merely technical problem for sanitary engineers and public health officials. The afterlife of waste materials and processes of waste management reveal the centrality of transient and discarded things for questions of materiality and ontology and marginal and polluting labor and environmental justice movements, as well as for critiques of the exploitation and deferred promises of modernity and imperial formations. There is yet more waste will tell us, especially as more studies continue to document the many ways that our wastes …

Between The Columns Newsletter: Fall 2015, Eastern Kentucky University Libraries

Between the Columns Newsletter

Table of Contents:

• From the Dean (p. 2)
• EKU Libraries Happenings and Highlights: Annual Faculty Breakfast; Future Colonels; Live @ Your Library: First to Fly; Long Night Against Procrastination (p. 3)
• Remember When You had to Actually Go to the Library to Get Help? (p. 4)
• New Library Spaces: Noel Reading Porch; First Floor Space (p. 5)
• So, What's the Deal with the New Library Search? Curation vs. Discovery (p. 6)
• Top 6 Search Tips (p. 6)
• Fall 2015 New Resources (p. 7)
• The New York Times Now Available in Print (p. 7)
• Get to Know Your Librarians: Heather Beirne, …

October 1, 2015: Safe On Campus Training, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

Learn to be a better advocate and ally to lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender people. Participants receive information on practical strategies for addressing homophobia, learn ways to support students who are coming out, and gain an understanding of respectful language use.

Marginalia No. 37, Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah State University

Marginalia

Merrill-Cazier Library Celebrates 10 Years.....John Elsweiler, Associate Dean of Public Services

Celebrating Staff:

Classified: Sara Skindelien.....Professional: Rose Milovich.....Faculty: Becky Thoms

Friends of Lecture Fall 2015.....Jim Steenburgh

Voice: Cache Valley Refugees

Merrill-Cazier University Library and Folklore Program Host Library of Congress Field School.....Randy Williams, Fife Folklore Archives Curator

Library Encourages Stressed Students to Paws and Breathe.....Pamela Martin, Coordinator of Outreach and Peer Learning

Website Face Lift.....Alex Sundt, Web Services Librarian

Merrill-Cazier Library Supports Research Week.....Betty Rozum, Data Services Coordinator and Undergraduate Research Librarian

Staff Publications and Presentations

Water: A Life's Work of Research at Utah State University

Lanthorn, Vol. 50, No. 11, October 1, 2015, Grand Valley State University

Volume 50, July 13, 2015 - June 6, 2016

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

Beyond Survey Self-Reports: Using Physiology To Tap Political Orientations, Michael W. Wagner, Kristen D. Deppe, Carly M. Jacobs, Amanda Friesen, Kevin B. Smith, John R. Hibbing

Political Science Publications

Some aspects of our attitudes are composed of things outside of our consciousness. However, traditional survey research does not use measurements that are able to tap into these aspects of public opinion. We describe, recommend, and demonstrate a procedure by which non-self-reported responses can be measured in order to test whether these responses have independent effects on individuals’ preferences. We use one of the better-known physiological measures—electrodermal activity or skin conductance—and illustrate its potential by reporting our own study of attitudes toward President Barack Obama. We find that both self-reported emotional responses and physiological responses to Obama’s image independently correlate …

Enhancing Key Digital Literacy Skills: Information Privacy, Information Security, And Copyright/Intellectual Property, Jacquelyn A. Burkell, Alexandre Fortier, Lisa Di Valentino, Sarah T. Roberts

FIMS Publications

Key Messages

Background

• Knowledge and skills in the areas of information security, information privacy, and copyright/intellectual property rights and protection are of key importance for organizational and individual success in an evolving society and labour market in which information is a core resource.
• Organizations require skilled and knowledgeable professionals who understand risks and responsibilities related to the management of information privacy, information security, and copyright/intellectual property.
• Professionals with this expertise can assist organizations to ensure that they and their employees meet requirements for the privacy and security of information in their care and control, and in order to ensure that …

Maternal Postsecondary Education Associated With Improved Cerebellar Growth After Preterm Birth., Mikaela L Stiver, Daphne Kamino, Ting Guo, Angela Thompson, Emma G Duerden, Margot J Taylor, Emily W Y Tam

Brain and Mind Institute Researchers' Publications

The preterm cerebellum is vulnerable to impaired development impacting long-term outcome. Preterm newborns (<32 >weeks) underwent serial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans. The association between parental education and cerebellar volume at each time point was assessed, adjusting for age at scan. In 26 infants, cerebellar volumes at term (P = .001), but not birth (P = .4), were associated with 2-year volumes. For 1 cm(3) smaller cerebellar volume (4% total volume) at term, the cerebellum was 3.18 cm(3) smaller (3% total volume) by 2 years. Maternal postsecondary education was not associated with cerebellar volume at term (P = .16). Maternal …

Journal Of Cape Verdean Studies, Vol. 2

Journal of Cape Verdean Studies

No abstract provided.

Immigrants From Cabo Verde In Italy: History And Paths Of Socio-Educative Integration, Clara Silva

Journal of Cape Verdean Studies

Cape Verdean migration to Italy started in the early sixties of the nineteenth century as an exclusively female one, mostly caused by the demand for domestic workers by bourgeois families. In the late eighties, the Cape Verdean community migrated to Italy was still composed of more than 90% of women. In 1990, the introduction of a legislation setting forth the right to family reunification allowed many women to reunite with their husbands and children remained in their homeland. In Italy, the gradual social inclusion process and the creation of a network of Cape Verdean migrants’ association, allowed to overcome all …

Ending Slavery In Cabo Verde: Between Manumission And Emancipation, 1856-1876, Lumumba H. Shabaka

Journal of Cape Verdean Studies

This article explores the ending of slavery in Cabo Verde by using the Committee of Protection of Slaves and Freed-person. Rather than just following the directives from Lisbon, it shows that local leaders were reluctant to establish the institution and cautiously approached the abolition of slavery in the colony. Nevertheless, enslaved Africans and their descendants fully exploited the new laws to gain nominal freedom. Like other parts of the Atlantic world, being freed was a state between manumission and emancipation, because there were struggles over payments, ‘rights’ for the manumitted individuals and mandatory seven years services were required by law.

Seven Questions For Assessment Planning: A Discussion Starter, Mary O'Kelly

Scholarly Papers and Articles

Do a quick Google search for assessment cycle or evaluation cycle and you’ll find thousands of variations. It’s easy for a newly emerging culture of assessment to stall as the participants agonize over which is the right way, which is the most thorough way, which is the perfect way to evaluate an instruction program.

I’ve been through many assessment processes and have experienced those long pauses firsthand. I have come to realize that the first and most important step is to simply have a conversation. Yes, there are rigorous assessment projects that require exceptionally detailed methods and a close involvement …

Connections, October 2015, University Library

Library Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Migration Governance And Migration Rights In The Southern African Development Community (Sadc): Attempts At Harmonization In A Disharmonious Region, Belinda Dodson, Jonathan Crush

Southern African Migration Programme

This paper examines prospects for enhanced regional migration governance and protection of migrants’ rights in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Migration in this region is substantial in scale and diverse in nature, incorporating economic, political and mixed migration flows. In addition to movements between countries within the region, migrants also come from across the African continent and even further afield. At its foundation in 1992, SADC as an institution initially embraced a vision of intra-regional free movement, but this has not become a reality. If anything, there has been a hardening of anti-migrant attitudes, not least in the principal …

Usability Definitions In A Dynamically Changing Information Environment, Yu-Hui Chen, Abebe Rorissa, Carol Anne Germain

Information Science Faculty Scholarship

The authors compared Web usability definitions, collected from library professionals at academic institutions of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) through online surveys in 2007 and 2012, to determine whether library practitioners’ perspectives had altered as information technologies evolved during this time. The authors applied three techniques of statistical data analysis— t-tests, cluster analyses, and the Mantel test—for comparisons. The results indicated significant increased emphases on the Interface/Design and Effectiveness attributes in the 2012 data set. This increase may be due to the rise in the use of mobile devices for information access, driving practitioners to place a stronger emphasis …

Rhode Island Election Tickets: A Survey, Russell J. Desimone, Daniel C. Schofield

Technical Services Faculty Publications

Rhode Island was the first English colony in America to issue printed election ballots, with the first issued in the mid-1740s. This survey of Rhode Island election tickets, while not exhaustive, is representative of the use of tickets in elections spanning a period of over 150 years and documents state and local politics, political factions and election results from the Ward-Hopkins controversy of the colonial period to political factions during the War of 1812, the Anti-Masonic period of the 1830s, the Law and Order coalition of the 1840s following events of the Dorr Rebellion, the temperance movement of the 1850s, …

The Merits Of Mentoring, Robert A. Seal

University Libraries: Faculty Publications and Other Works

No abstract provided.

Building An Ios App For Science Literature Searches, Barry N. Brown

University Grant Program Reports

Academic libraries, over the last few years, have recognized the significance and ubiquitousness of mobile devices and the dominance of mobile phones and tablets in the life of university students. Mobile phones and tablets are the tools most likely at / in hand whenever a student needs to accomplish a task. Most academic library websites and many academic library databases are mobile device friendly. However, not many libraries have experimented with creating and building apps for their users. And there are not many literature search related apps currently in the Apple App Store and none of them are of the …

Climate Change And The U. S. Energy Sector: Regional Vulnerabilities And Resilience Solutions, United States Department Of Energy, Office Of Energy Policy And Systems Analysis

United States Department of Energy: Publications

Executive Summary

Changes in climate create diverse challenges across the U.S. energy system. Some energy infrastructure assets have already suffered damage or disruption in services from a variety of climate-related impacts, such as higher temperatures, rising sea levels, and more severe weather events. In the absence of concerted action to improve resilience, energy system vulnerabilities pose a threat to America’s national security, energy security, economic wellbeing, and quality of life.

Building climate change resilience into our energy infrastructure planning is a challenging and complex undertaking. Planning horizons can span several decades (the typical service life of most energy assets), associated …

A Computational Translation Of The Phaistos Disk, Peter Revesz

School of Computing: Conference and Workshop Papers

For over a century the text of the Phaistos Disk remained an enigma without a convincing translation. This paper presents a novel semi-automatic translation method that uses for the first time a recently discovered connection between the Phaistos Disk symbols and other ancient scripts, including the Old Hungarian alphabet. The connection between the Phaistos Disk script and the Old Hungarian alphabet suggested the possibility that the Phaistos Disk language may be related to Proto-Finno-Ugric, Proto-Ugric, or Proto-Hungarian. Using words and suffixes from those languages, it is possible to translate the Phaistos Disk text as an ancient sun hymn, possibly connected …

Rural Civic Action Project Poster, Heartland Center For Leadership Development

Heartland Center for Leadership Development Materials

The final project for the Rural Civic Action Project is to create a poster that includes the Community Capital Mapping activity (CCMA; Keith & Kinsey, 2013). The Community Capital Maps provide an opportunity to evaluate the impact of the projects from the participants’ perspective. Fellows should include 2 maps on their poster: the map that was created through facilitating the CCMA, the map created by the fellows evaluating the impact of their service project (the work the fellows are doing in the schools). Also included on the poster is a narrative describing the maps.

Presidential Policymaking: Transaction Costs, Richie Romero, José Villalobos

Departmental Papers (PS)

No abstract provided.

Catalogs, 2015-2016, Anderson University - South Carolina

Catalogs

The 2015-2016 graduate & undergraduate academic catalog and introduction to the university.