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Don't Wait For Them To Come To You: Partnering With Student Support Services, Katie Bishop, Connie Sorensen-Birk, Derek Boeckner Jul 2015

Don't Wait For Them To Come To You: Partnering With Student Support Services, Katie Bishop, Connie Sorensen-Birk, Derek Boeckner

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

This poster discusses: Inquiry Question, Methodology, Results, Key Findings from the Literature, and Conclusions.

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Online Gender Discussions: Student Experiences In Discussions Of Gender Diversity, Rory Andrew Mckenzie Jul 2015

Online Gender Discussions: Student Experiences In Discussions Of Gender Diversity, Rory Andrew Mckenzie

Communication & Leadership Dissertations and Theses

This thesis examined graduate level students’ experiences of (mainly gender) diversity in the online classroom. The philosophical framework for this study came from John Rawls’ work utilizing the veil of ignorance as a strategy to create more objective determinations free from situational and circumstantial biases. Both critical pedagogy and the theory that individuals construct social and cultural meaning through communication provided the theoretical foundations for the thesis. The study analyzed experiences of the students via their contributions to the online discussion boards.. The study also utilized interviews of current and former students to discuss their experiences with diversity in their …

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The Role Of Element Type And Crossed Relation In Restructuring Difficulty, Zhonglu Zhang, Ke Yang, Christopher M. Warren, Guang Zhao, Peng Li, Yi Lei, Hong Li Jul 2015

The Role Of Element Type And Crossed Relation In Restructuring Difficulty, Zhonglu Zhang, Ke Yang, Christopher M. Warren, Guang Zhao, Peng Li, Yi Lei, Hong Li

Psychology Faculty Publications

Chunk decomposition is an aspect of problem solving that involves decomposing a pattern into its component parts in order to regroup them into a new pattern. Previous work suggests that the primary source of difficulty in chunk decomposition is whether a problem’s solution requires removing a part that is a meaningful perceptual pattern (termed a chunk) or not (a non-chunk). However, the role of spatial overlap (crossed relation or not) has been ignored in this line of research. Here, we dissociated the role of element type and crossed relation in chunk decomposition problems by employing a Chinese character transformation task. …

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Halting The Hallmarks: A Cellular Automaton Model Of Early Cancer Growth Inhibition, Jenna Butler, Frances Mackay, Colin Denniston, Mark Daley Jul 2015

Halting The Hallmarks: A Cellular Automaton Model Of Early Cancer Growth Inhibition, Jenna Butler, Frances Mackay, Colin Denniston, Mark Daley

Brain and Mind Institute Researchers' Publications

Cancer treatment is a fragmented and varied process, as ‘‘cancer’’ is really hundreds of different diseases. The ‘‘hallmarks of cancer’’ proposed by Hanahan and Weinberg (Cell 100(1):57–70, 2000) are a framework for viewing cancer within a common set of underlying principles—ten properties that are common to almost all cancers, allowing them to grow uncontrollably and ravage the body. We used a cellular automaton model of tumour growth paired with lattice Boltzmann methods modelling oxygen flow to simulate combination drugs targeted at knocking out pairs of hallmarks. We found that knocking out some pairs of cancer-enabling hallmarks did not prevent tumour …

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Strategic Behavior And Variation In The Supreme Court’S Caseload Over Time, Kenneth W. Moffett, Forrest Maltzman, Karen Miranda, Charles R. Shipan Jul 2015

Strategic Behavior And Variation In The Supreme Court’S Caseload Over Time, Kenneth W. Moffett, Forrest Maltzman, Karen Miranda, Charles R. Shipan

SIUE Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

Over the past sixty years, the size of the Supreme Court’s docket has varied tremendously, growing at some points in time and shrinking at others. What accounts for this variation in the size of the docket? We focus on two key strategic factors – the predictability of outcomes within the Court, and whether justices consider the potential actions of other political institutions – and assess whether these factors help to explain the variation in docket size over time. We discover that uncertainty and institutional constraints prevent the Court from choosing cases with complete freedom, even after accounting for other potential …

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Hall Of Fame Denial, Richard C. Crepeau Jul 2015

Hall Of Fame Denial, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

This past Tuesday the U.S. Justice Department announced that it was dropping the obstruction of justice case against Barry Bonds. He had been charged with perjury and obstruction of justice in 2007 for testifying to a grand jury that he had never knowingly used anabolic steroids or human growth hormone, Bonds’ testimony was given to the grand jury in 2003 as part of a federal investigation into steroid use by athletes popularly known as the BALCO case. Estimates of the cost of this failed pursuit of Bonds run upwards of $100M.

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Slis Connecting, Volume 4, Issue 1, Stacy Creel, Teresa Welsh Jul 2015

Slis Connecting, Volume 4, Issue 1, Stacy Creel, Teresa Welsh

SLIS Connecting

Entire issue of SLIS Connecting, Volume 4, Issue 1

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“Information Theory” Research Trend: A Bibliometric Approach, Maryam Asadi Jul 2015

“Information Theory” Research Trend: A Bibliometric Approach, Maryam Asadi

SLIS Connecting

One of the most controversial issues, in a multidisciplinary area, is information theory. The American Heritage Science Dictionary (2014) defines information theory as “a branch of mathematics that mathematically defines and analyzes the concept of information, statistics and probability theory, and applications include the design of systems that have to do with data transmission, encryption, compression, and information processing and deeply affected many fields.” It has a fundamental contribution to make in multiple disciplines, such as mathematics, statistics, computer science, physics, neurobiology, communication theory, information science, economics, and electrical engineering. Indeed, information theory played a crucial role to achieve many …

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Academic And Public Libraries’ Use Of Web 2.0 Applications And Services In Mississippi, Kalah Rogers Mlis Jul 2015

Academic And Public Libraries’ Use Of Web 2.0 Applications And Services In Mississippi, Kalah Rogers Mlis

SLIS Connecting

Libraries have guidelines and standards that hold them accountable to be effective institutions (Husid, 2010). The American Library Association’s (ALA) “Library Bill of Rights” sets six basic standards for all libraries to follow. Among other things, these standards encourage libraries to resist forms of censorship, grant access to all types of materials, and resist biases (ALA, 2007). However, as libraries have evolved, so have many of these guidelines and standards with respect to technology specifically. For example, the American Association of School Libraries (AASL) Standards for the 21st Century Learner requires that the students in today’s classroom strive to master …

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United Kingdom Libraries During World War Ii, Matthew Leavitt Mlis Jul 2015

United Kingdom Libraries During World War Ii, Matthew Leavitt Mlis

SLIS Connecting

Cultural attacks, especially attacks on books, have been common place during conflict throughout history (Stubbings, 1993). Libraries in particular have been targeted since books and libraries are symbols of cultures (Valencia, 2002). Nazi Germany was not an exception to attacks on culture before and during World War II (Figure 1). A total war had begun under the Nazis which meant that no area of society was exempt from attack (Valencia, 2002).

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Does Family Matter: The Parental Roles Of Young Adult Media, Antoinette Giamalva Mlis Jul 2015

Does Family Matter: The Parental Roles Of Young Adult Media, Antoinette Giamalva Mlis

SLIS Connecting

In young adult media there are different roles that parents of the main characters symbolize. The role of parental figures can vary in their original conception and throughout media forms. Readers and viewers have their opinions about how parental figures representation should be characterized. Sometimes parental figures are what drive the stories along in a more interesting manner. The four types of parental presences represented are: a healthy parental presence, lack of parental presence, a broken parental presence, and a substitute parental presence. Readers and viewers of young adult media have many questions about the roles that parental figures have …

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Student Associations And Upcoming Events, Teresa Welsh Ph.D. Jul 2015

Student Associations And Upcoming Events, Teresa Welsh Ph.D.

SLIS Connecting

Presents updates and news from the Library and Information Science Student Association (LISSA) and the Southern Miss Student Archivists Association (Southern Miss SAA) along with upcoming and recent events of interest.

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From The Gas, Congratulations, Publications, And Presentations, Teresa Welsh Ph.D. Jul 2015

From The Gas, Congratulations, Publications, And Presentations, Teresa Welsh Ph.D.

SLIS Connecting

Find out about what our alum, students, and faculty have been doing.

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Spotlights: Faculty, Alum, And Course, Stacy Creel Ph.D. Jul 2015

Spotlights: Faculty, Alum, And Course, Stacy Creel Ph.D.

SLIS Connecting

Meet Associate Professor Catharine Bomhold of The School of Library and Information Science, and SLIS alum, Ashley McLendon Mattingly, Archivist at NARA, St. Louis, MO. Learn about the Graduate Certificate in Youth Services and Literature.

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Celebrate The 50th Anniversary Of The Slis Graduate Program, Matthew Griffis Ph.D. Jul 2015

Celebrate The 50th Anniversary Of The Slis Graduate Program, Matthew Griffis Ph.D.

SLIS Connecting

This fall will mark the 50th anniversary of the graduate program in library science at the University of Southern Mississippi. SLIS will be commemorating the occasion with a number of events, bringing together past and present faculty as well as alumni. The event will be of interest to countless library and archives professionals across the southeastern United States since The University of Southern Mississippi’s library science program is the only fully ALAaccredited program in the state, and one of just a few nationally‐recognized library programs in The South.

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Slis Update, Elizabeth Haynes Ph.D. Jul 2015

Slis Update, Elizabeth Haynes Ph.D.

SLIS Connecting

Update on the Southern Miss School of Library and Information Science

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Entire Issue Volume 32, Number 2 Jul 2015

Entire Issue Volume 32, Number 2

The Primary Source

Complete issue of Vol. 32, No. 2 of The Primary Source.

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Mississippi's Role In The Civil War As Seen Through The State's Official Records, Jim Pitts Jul 2015

Mississippi's Role In The Civil War As Seen Through The State's Official Records, Jim Pitts

The Primary Source

Mississippi, the second state to secede from the Union, played a major role in the South’s bid for independence. The state provided troops to Confederate armies in Virginia and in the Mississippi and Tennessee River valleys. Factories in the state provided military equipment and the farms provided foodstuffs. Much of this is documented in the official records of the state held by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History at the William F. Winter Archives Building, 200 North Street, Jackson. The department was founded in 1902. The first object and purpose of the department, by state law, was “the care …

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William Harris Hardy And The American Civil War, Reagan L. Grimsley Jul 2015

William Harris Hardy And The American Civil War, Reagan L. Grimsley

The Primary Source

On Friday, May 31, 1861, a 24 year-old lawyer turned volunteer company commander gathered his unit of eighty men in the small central Mississippi town of Raleigh, the county seat of Smith County. The above quote described the scene that day as the soldiers and their families shared their last moments before the troops left for war. The company, nicknamed the “Smith Defenders,” would march the next day to Brandon, Mississippi and then continue onward via railroad to the state capital at Jackson. In both Brandon and Jackson, citizens greeted them with pomp and circumstance, characteristic of the early days …

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The Growing Digital Civil War Archive At The University Of Mississippi, Susan Ivey Jul 2015

The Growing Digital Civil War Archive At The University Of Mississippi, Susan Ivey

The Primary Source

In 2011, the University of Mississippi’s Archives and Special Collections began an ongoing project to digitize a portion of materials related to the Civil War. This started as a means of participating in the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries’ (ASERL’s) collaborative digitization project, Civil War in the American South, which was established to celebrate the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War. ASERL’s project provides a single access point for Civil War materials from multiple repositories, and currently includes over 10,000 items from 30 libraries. In addition to providing greater access to the University’s materials via the ASERL’s portal, the …

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Southern Cross Of Honor Records At The Mississippi Department Of Archives And History, Jeff T. Giambrone Jul 2015

Southern Cross Of Honor Records At The Mississippi Department Of Archives And History, Jeff T. Giambrone

The Primary Source

Some of the most widely requested records at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History are those related to the State’s participation in the American Civil War. The service records of Mississippians who served in the Confederate army, their postwar pension applications, and the list of veteran grave registrations are all frequently used by researchers. In addition to the above mentioned records, there is an often overlooked resource at the archive that might be helpful to someone researching a relative that fought for the Confederacy: the United Daughters of the Confederacy (Mississippi Division) Southern Cross of Honor Records.

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Charles T. Cotton's Civil War: "Whatsoever Thy Hand Findeth To Do, Do It With Thy Might", Christopher M. Laico Jul 2015

Charles T. Cotton's Civil War: "Whatsoever Thy Hand Findeth To Do, Do It With Thy Might", Christopher M. Laico

The Primary Source

In 2008, the Columbia University Libraries EAD Working Group developed workflows for creating EAD finding aids for newly processed collections. These work flows utilized a robust technical infrastructure for managing the EAD files and designed an attractive web presentation for the finding aids. These goals were achieved in 2009. In 2010, the archives unit at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML), Columbia University decided to apply these workflows to the conversion of all paper based and scanned finding aids into EAD. The RBML project addressed inconsistent descriptive practices, corrected outdated information, ensured DACS compliance and provided enhanced search tools …

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War And Remembrance: Walter Place And Ulysses S. Grant, Ryan P. Semmes, David S. Nolen Jul 2015

War And Remembrance: Walter Place And Ulysses S. Grant, Ryan P. Semmes, David S. Nolen

The Primary Source

In 1862-1863, General Ulysses S. Grant conducted military operations in the state of Mississippi, culminating in the siege and eventual surrender of the city of Vicksburg. During part of this time, Grant’s wife, Julia, took up residence at Walter Place in Holly Springs, Mississippi. In the years after the Civil War, Walter Place became known not just as an antebellum home, but also as a place with a strong connection to Grant and his family during the Civil War. When Mike and Jorja Lynn purchased the property, they began collecting Grant-related items for display in the home, including modern and …

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Entire Issue Volume 32, Number 1 Jul 2015

Entire Issue Volume 32, Number 1

The Primary Source

Complete issue of Vol. 32, No. 1 of The Primary Source.

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Mississippi Digital Library, Elizabeth La Beaud, Nicole Lawrence Jul 2015

Mississippi Digital Library, Elizabeth La Beaud, Nicole Lawrence

The Primary Source

The Mississippi Digital Library (MDL) is dedicated to increasing the awareness of and access to the diverse and valuable resources found within Mississippi. As the collaborative digital library program for the state, the MDL partners with a range of institutions to bring together the vast amount of primary sources found in Mississippi and provide worldwide digital access to those resources. Ultimately, the MDL aims to provide a digital portal for the wealth of diversity found in and about Mississippi, and enhance collaboration between cultural heritage institutions within our great state. Working with over twenty institutions, each with a distinct focus, …

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Visions: Art Outside The Box At The Ohr-O'Keefe Museum Of Art In Biloxi, Mississippi, Callie Wiygul, Barbara Johnson Ross Jul 2015

Visions: Art Outside The Box At The Ohr-O'Keefe Museum Of Art In Biloxi, Mississippi, Callie Wiygul, Barbara Johnson Ross

The Primary Source

The Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi, Mississippi, is the preeminent repository for the works of visionary Biloxi-born pottery master George E. Ohr (1857-1918). During his youth, Ohr was an apprentice to potter Joseph Fortune Meyer for approximately one year in New Orleans. It was during this time that he began to hone his artistic skills and to learn the mechanics of the pottery trade. After his apprenticeship, he traveled to potteries in sixteen states and numerous World's Fairs to learn about techniques and glazes. He came back from his travels and assisted Meyer once again in New Orleans at …

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A Past Honored: Preserving The History Of The Chinese In The Mississippi Delta, Emily Jones Jul 2015

A Past Honored: Preserving The History Of The Chinese In The Mississippi Delta, Emily Jones

The Primary Source

Over 130 years ago the Mississippi Delta was a stop along a sojourner's path. Those few months or years expected to spend in the region turned into decades and generations of roots being planted and families raised. Lives were lived, dreams were built and experiences were remembered. Yet time can also dash away a century of existence in a blink of an eye. What remains when people of different nationalities and ethnic backgrounds interact are traces of the blending of those cultures. For the Chinese in the Mississippi Delta, their presence may not be as strong as it once was …

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Lgbt Literature And The Twentieth Century: Collection Highlights From The Mccain Library And Archives, The University Of Southern Mississippi, Peggy Price Jul 2015

Lgbt Literature And The Twentieth Century: Collection Highlights From The Mccain Library And Archives, The University Of Southern Mississippi, Peggy Price

The Primary Source

Scholars interested in the publishing history of gay and lesbian literature will find key resources available at the McCain Library & Archives at the University of Southern Mississippi. As Curator of Special Collections, I did not set out to create a collection of LGBT materials, but as I worked with items from writers and others with Mississippi connections I noticed a fair amount of books and periodicals related to gay and lesbian topics on our shelves. Curators always hope for multifaceted research potential with the resources we obtain for our libraries, and I was pleased to discover the emerging opportunities …

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Diverse Collections In The Mississippi University For Women Archives, Derek Webb Jul 2015

Diverse Collections In The Mississippi University For Women Archives, Derek Webb

The Primary Source

In the history of higher education in America, Mississippi University for Women (MUW) occupies a peculiar, though rarely acknowledged, position. The University's history provides uniquely fertile ground for studies of diverse groups and their interactions in institutions of higher education, but the lack of a functioning archives has long impeded such study. It was a pioneer in women's colleges, intended to serve the educational needs of all economic classes, teaching Latin and penmanship alongside dressmaking and stenography. It also offers the distinctive perspective of a college explicitly founded for white women that underwent integration in the 1960s, which is still …

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Entire Issue Volume 31, Number 2 Jul 2015

Entire Issue Volume 31, Number 2

The Primary Source

Complete issue of Vol. 31, No. 2 of The Primary Source.

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