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University Of North Texas Libraries Profile Sep 2016

University Of North Texas Libraries Profile

Against the Grain

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Book Reviews--Monographic Musings, Regina Gong Sep 2016

Book Reviews--Monographic Musings, Regina Gong

Against the Grain

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Missing Multiculturalism: Finding Diverse Picture Books For A Library Collection, Angela Scott Warinske Sep 2016

Missing Multiculturalism: Finding Diverse Picture Books For A Library Collection, Angela Scott Warinske

Against the Grain

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The Weeding Planner--How A Research Library Weeded Approximately 2.76 Miles Of Print Materials From The Shelves To Repurpose Library Space Or Much Ado About The New Normal, Cristina Caminita, Andrea Herbert Sep 2016

The Weeding Planner--How A Research Library Weeded Approximately 2.76 Miles Of Print Materials From The Shelves To Repurpose Library Space Or Much Ado About The New Normal, Cristina Caminita, Andrea Herbert

Against the Grain

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Being Earnest With Collections--Voting With Our Dollars: Making A New Home For The Collections Budget In The Mit Libraries, Ellen Finnie, Michael A. Arthur Sep 2016

Being Earnest With Collections--Voting With Our Dollars: Making A New Home For The Collections Budget In The Mit Libraries, Ellen Finnie, Michael A. Arthur

Against the Grain

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Deadlines Sep 2016

Deadlines

Against the Grain

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Full Page Ads Sep 2016

Full Page Ads

Against the Grain

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Op Ed--Future Through The Past--Is The Future Of Libraries "The Library Of The Future?", Donald Beagle Sep 2016

Op Ed--Future Through The Past--Is The Future Of Libraries "The Library Of The Future?", Donald Beagle

Against the Grain

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Atg Interviews Eric Archambault, Ceo, 1science, Katina Strauch, Tom Gilson Sep 2016

Atg Interviews Eric Archambault, Ceo, 1science, Katina Strauch, Tom Gilson

Against the Grain

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Back Talk--Habemus Bibliothecariam! Alleluia!, Jim O'Donnell Sep 2016

Back Talk--Habemus Bibliothecariam! Alleluia!, Jim O'Donnell

Against the Grain

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The Scholarly Publishing Scene--Nightmare, Myer Kutz Sep 2016

The Scholarly Publishing Scene--Nightmare, Myer Kutz

Against the Grain

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Andrea Hebert Profile Sep 2016

Andrea Hebert Profile

Against the Grain

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Megan Lowe Profile Sep 2016

Megan Lowe Profile

Against the Grain

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Dr. Eric Archambault Profile Sep 2016

Dr. Eric Archambault Profile

Against the Grain

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Liz Mason Profile Sep 2016

Liz Mason Profile

Against the Grain

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Post-Secondary Acquisitions Budget Challenges: A Canadian Perspective, Michael Shires Sep 2016

Post-Secondary Acquisitions Budget Challenges: A Canadian Perspective, Michael Shires

Against the Grain

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Circus As Idée Fixe And Hunger, Anna-Sophie Jürgens Sep 2016

Circus As Idée Fixe And Hunger, Anna-Sophie Jürgens

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Circus as idée fixe and Hunger" Anna-Sophie Jürgens discusses circus fiction in which characters often display extreme, intense psychological traits. They are for example irascible, pyromaniac, sadistic, or megalomaniac. Particularly striking are protagonists with alternative psychological attitudes in fictional circus texts of the twentieth century such as Franz Kafka's hunger artist, Michael Raleigh's ringmaster Lewis Tully or Richard Schmitt's aerialist Garry, who can be seen as incubators of circus-related idées fixes. These literary circus characters develop fixations on circus that manifest themselves as a physical sensation of desiring circus like food, in other words: in circus …


The Cowl - V.81 - N.1 - Sep 1, 2016 Sep 2016

The Cowl - V.81 - N.1 - Sep 1, 2016

The Cowl

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Vol 81 - No. 1 - September 1, 2016. 24 pages.


Wrl Newsletter September 2016, Rebecca L. Seipp Sep 2016

Wrl Newsletter September 2016, Rebecca L. Seipp

WRL Newsletters

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The Increasing Happiness Of Us Parents, Chris M. Herbst, John Ifcher Sep 2016

The Increasing Happiness Of Us Parents, Chris M. Herbst, John Ifcher

Economics

Previous research suggests that parents may be less happy than non-parents. We critically assess the literature and examine parents’ and non-parents’ happiness-trends using the General Social Survey (N = 42,298) and DDB Lifestyle Survey (N = 75,237). We find that parents are becoming happier over time relative to non-parents, that non-parents’ happiness is declining absolutely, and that estimates of the parental happiness gap are sensitive to the time-period analyzed. These results are consistent across two datasets, most subgroups, and various specifications. Finally, we present evidence that suggests children appear to protect parents against social and economic forces that may be …


Environmental Ingredients For Disaster: Developing And Validating The Alvarado Work Environment Scale Of Toxicity, Claudia Alvarado Sep 2016

Environmental Ingredients For Disaster: Developing And Validating The Alvarado Work Environment Scale Of Toxicity, Claudia Alvarado

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

Leadership has been a much studied area within industrial and organizational psychology. Recently, scholars have begun to focus on the negative side of leadership; however, a lack of research has limited our understanding of toxic leadership. One step forward in this domain has been the development of the toxic triangle, which posits that toxic leaders are aided by toxic followers with a toxic environment. Although the leader has been studied within this triangle, relatively little has been researched regarding the follower or the environment. Specifically, that there has been a lack of research in the organizational environment that allows the …


Physiology And Political Beliefs: A Response To Knoll, O’Daniel, And Cusato, Johnathan C. Peterson, Kevin Smith, John Hibbing Sep 2016

Physiology And Political Beliefs: A Response To Knoll, O’Daniel, And Cusato, Johnathan C. Peterson, Kevin Smith, John Hibbing

Department of Political Science: Faculty Publications

n a recent paper in this journal, Knoll et al. question three studies from our laboratory. In this response to that paper, we address deficiencies in their “reproduction.” Notably, we demonstrate that their data provide little evidence of a negativity bias among research subjects, suggesting a failure not only to reproduce findings from our earlier studies, but also a failure to find a widely acknowledged universal human physiological response trait. This situation raises a number of questions regarding the data on which their analyses are based. We explore these questions below and speculate that Knoll et al.’s data collection procedures …


Residential Electricity Demand In El Paso: 1977-2014, Thomas M. Fullerton Jr., David R. Macias, Adam G. Walke Sep 2016

Residential Electricity Demand In El Paso: 1977-2014, Thomas M. Fullerton Jr., David R. Macias, Adam G. Walke

Border Region Modeling Project

This study analyzes the demand for residential electricity in El Paso, Texas, USA. Annual data are provided by El Paso Electric Company covering the period from 1977 to 2014. This study reports a negative long-run income elasticity for residential electricity demand. Per customer residential electricity usage declines by 0.68 percent for every 1-percent increase in real per capita income over the long run, indicating that electricity is treated as an inferior good by households in this metropolitan economy. That result runs counter to many earlier studies, but corroborates recent empirical evidence for Seattle, Washington and other regions of the United …


Emotion Moderates The Association Between Htr2a (Rs6313) Genotype And Antisaccade Latency, Mark S. Mills, Olivia Wieda, Scott F. Stoltenberg, Michael Dodd Sep 2016

Emotion Moderates The Association Between Htr2a (Rs6313) Genotype And Antisaccade Latency, Mark S. Mills, Olivia Wieda, Scott F. Stoltenberg, Michael Dodd

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

The serotonin system is heavily involved in cognitive and emotional control processes. Previous work has typically investigated this system’s role in control processes separately for cognitive and emotional domains, yet it has become clear the two are linked. The present study, therefore, examined whether variation in a serotonin receptor gene (HTR2A, rs6313) moderated effects of emotion on inhibitory control. An emotional antisaccade task was used in which participants looked toward (prosaccade) or away (antisaccade) from a target presented to the left or right of a happy, angry, or neutral face. Overall, antisaccade latencies were slower for rs6313 C allele homozygotes …


Cleaning Puparia For Forensic Analysis, Leon G. Higley, Tierney R. Brosius, Karl Reinhard, David Carter Sep 2016

Cleaning Puparia For Forensic Analysis, Leon G. Higley, Tierney R. Brosius, Karl Reinhard, David Carter

Karl Reinhard Publications

We tested procedures for removing adipocere from insect samples to allow identification. An acceptable procedure was determined: (i) Samples were sorted in petri dishes with 75% alcohol to remove any larvae, adult insects, or other soft-bodied material. (ii) Samples of up to 24 puparia were placed in a vial with 15 mL of 95% acetone, capped, and vortexed for a total of 30–90 sec in 10- to 15-sec bursts. This step removed large masses of adipocere or soil from specimen. (iii) Specimens were removed from acetone and placed in a vial of 15 mL of 2% potassium hydroxide (KOH) and …


Antipsychotic Drugs On Maternal Behavior In Rats, Ming Li Sep 2016

Antipsychotic Drugs On Maternal Behavior In Rats, Ming Li

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Rat maternal behavior is a complex social behavior. Many clinically used antipsychotic drugs, including the typical drug haloperidol and atypical drugs clozapine, risperidone, olanzapine, quetiapine, aripiprazole and amisulpride, all disrupt active maternal responses (e.g. pup retrieval, pup licking and nest building) to various extents. In this review, I present a summary of recent studies on the behavioral effects and neurobiological mechanisms of antipsychotic action on maternal behavior in rats. I argue that antipsychotic drugs at the clinical relevant doses disrupt active maternal responses primarily by suppressing maternal motivation. Atypical drug-induced sedation also contributes to their disruptive effects, especially that on …


Network Approaches To Substance Use And Hiv/Hepatitis C Risk Among Homeless Youth And Adult Women In The United States: A Review, Kirk Dombrowski, Kelley J. Sittner, Devan Crawford, Melissa L. Welch-Lazoritz, Patrick Habecker, Bilal Khan Sep 2016

Network Approaches To Substance Use And Hiv/Hepatitis C Risk Among Homeless Youth And Adult Women In The United States: A Review, Kirk Dombrowski, Kelley J. Sittner, Devan Crawford, Melissa L. Welch-Lazoritz, Patrick Habecker, Bilal Khan

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

During the United States economic recession of 2008–2011, the number of homeless and unstably housed people in the United States increased considerably. Homeless adult women and unaccompanied homeless youth make up the most marginal segments of this population. Because homeless individuals are a hard to reach population, research into these marginal groups has traditionally been a challenge for researchers interested in substance abuse and mental health. Network analysis techniques and research strategies offer means for dealing with traditional challenges such as missing sampling frames, variation in definitions of homelessness and study inclusion criteria, and enumeration/population estimation procedures. This review focuses …


Beliefs About Animal Assisted Interventions Among Medical Social Workers, Gyda D. Boyd Sep 2016

Beliefs About Animal Assisted Interventions Among Medical Social Workers, Gyda D. Boyd

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

Animal‑Assisted Intervention (AAI) is used to significantly reduce pain, lower blood pressure, decrease anxiety, and help ease depression in people with a range of health problems; however, it is not readily used in the hospital setting. Research involving the Human‑Animal Bond (HAB) is well established, yet most social workers receive no special training or coursework about this topic as it applies to working with patients or consumers. This study sought to understand the beliefs about AAI among medical social workers in healthcare settings in order to gauge what knowledge and degree of exposure they may have had to AAI. Eighteen …


Drawing On Walls And Other Alliances, Barbara Merolli Sep 2016

Drawing On Walls And Other Alliances, Barbara Merolli

Staff publications

How can the divide between science and the humanities be bridged? This article describes a series of collaborative art projects initiated by the science librarian at the College of the Holy Cross, who worked with faculty from Visual Arts and Creative Writing. Participating faculty were eager to help design opportunities that would highlight student work as well as form alliances with the libraries. These collaborations were innovative in that they brought together two academic worlds which don’t always have opportunities to mix with each other, generated other projects that drew non-traditional users into the science library, and, most significantly, enabled …


Is Only One Gps Point Position Sufficient To Locate You To The Road Network Accurately?, Hao Wu, Weiwei Sun, Baihua Zheng Sep 2016

Is Only One Gps Point Position Sufficient To Locate You To The Road Network Accurately?, Hao Wu, Weiwei Sun, Baihua Zheng

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Locating only one GPS position to a road segment accurately is crucial to many location-based services such as mobile taxi-hailing service, geo-tagging, POI check-in, etc. This problem is challenging because of errors including the GPS errors and the digital map errors (misalignment and the same representation of bidirectional roads) and a lack of context information. To the best of our knowledge, no existing work studies this problem directly and the work to reduce GPS signal errors by considering hardware aspect is the most relevant. Consequently, this work is the first attempt to solve the problem of locating one GPS position …