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Profitable Horizontal Mergers Without Efficiencies Can Increase Consumer Surplus, Charles J. Thomas

ESI Working Papers

In a simple model I show consumer surplus can increase after competing sellers consummate a profitable merger that generates no cost savings. This finding contrasts sharply with the conventional wisdom that horizontal mergers without efficiencies must enhance sellers’ market power to be profitable, thereby harming buyers. The model fits industries in which individual buyers conduct distinct procurement contests for which sellers incur costs to participate, say to assess their product’s fit with the buyer’s preferences. Mergers benefit buyers by inducing stronger contest-level entry, echoing common claims from merging parties that their merger is beneficial because it creates a stronger competitor.

Resiliency And Well-Being As Moderators Of Stress, Alexis Pietruszka

Senior Honors Theses

College students experience a great deal of stress as they prepare for the transition from adolescence to adulthood. Furthermore, the ability to navigate stress and anxiety is challenged due to underdeveloped resiliency skills. Resiliency and well-being can act as a coping technique in building hope, commitment, accountability, and passion. The measurement of these factors can be an indication of how a person responds to stressful events or feelings. The study expected to see an interaction of resiliency as an overall moderator in the perception of stress based on actual stress level. The High Capacity Model of Resiliency Scale (H-CAP) was …

Poverty In The Land Of Plenty? Deconstructing Role Of Community-Based Organizations In A Small Community, John Kevin Trainor

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Using the lens of a community-based childhood obesity intervention, it is possible to examine the role of non-profit organizations in community development and to deconstruct the “community” in community-based research and identify the many competing interests within a community. This contextual understanding includes how the community is formed, how a community’s agenda is set, and who will complete the tasks outlined in that agenda. In applied anthropological settings and public health interventions that are community-based, it is essential to understand the context of community and which community (or communities) the researcher is working with to ensure that the data you …

Recent Demographic Change In The Rio Grande Valley Of Texas: The Importance Of Domestic Migration, Igor Ryabov, Stephen M. Merino

Sociology Faculty Publications

The present study examines the role of domestic migration in a massive demographic change in the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) of Texas with a special focus on ethnic composition of migration flows. Specifically, using two datasets derived from the Current Population Survey (CPS) and American Community Survey (ACS), this project: (1) outlines demographic profiles of domestic inbound and outbound migrants; (2) identifies determinants of migration for different types of movers; and (3) predicts the change in the Index of Dissimilarity (IT) at the census-tract level in the RGV. Results indicate that: (1) compared to stayers, Anglos were overrepresented among all …

St. Francis Of Assisi Catholic Church And Center For The Deaf Sunday Bulletin, April 2, 2017

Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church and Center for the Deaf Sunday Bulletin

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Landover Hills, MD

St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church and Center for the Deaf Sunday Bulletin Finding Aid

St. Mark’S Catholic Community Of The Deaf, April 2, 2017

Saint Mark's Catholic Community of the Deaf

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Edmonton, Canada

Saint Mark's Catholic Community of the Deaf Finding Aid

To The Mountain: Heritage Preservation Through Archaeological Literacy In Belize, Sylvia Batty, Leah M. Mccurdy, Rebecca Friedel

Sociology & Anthropology Faculty Publications - Archive

No abstract provided.

Exploring Motivation: Integrating The Arcs Model With Instruction, Krista M. Reynolds, Lindsay Michelle Roberts, Janet Hauck

CUP Faculty Research

This paper provides an overview of Keller's attention, relevance, confidence and satisfaction model of motivational design and reveals that there are several areas librarians may investigate to improve the profession's understanding of students' motivation in developing their information literacy abilities.

Birth Weight As Destiny? How Parental Investment Reinforces The Birth Weight Educational Gap, Leah Gillion

Journal of Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences

Through numerous studies, scholars have come to view birth weight as having a lasting impact on educational outcomes. Normal birth weight is associated with greater educational attainment; however, much of the literature ignores the role of parental investment. Using data from the Fragile Families Child Well-Being Study, it was found that birth endowments alone do not produce varying levels of cognitive development, but these birth endowments do lead parents to make different choices for their children, choices that potentially exacerbate the educational divide. Children with normal birth weight receive more parental investment from birth to age 3 than children with …

Religion And Violence In Jesse James Films, 1972–2010, Travis Warren Cooper

Journal of Religion & Film

This essay analyzes recent depictions of Jesse James in cinema, examining filmic portrayals of the figure between the years of 1972 and 2010. Working from the intersection of the anthropology of film and religious studies approaches to popular culture, the essay fills significant gaps in the study of James folklore. As no substantial examinations of the religious aspects of the James myths exist, I hone in on the legend’s religiosity as contested in filmic form. Films, including revisionist Westerns, are not unlike oral-history statements recorded and analyzed by anthropologists, folklorists, and ethnographers. Jesse James movies, in other words, have much …

Global Catastrophe In Motion Pictures As Meaning And Message: The Functions Of Apocalyptic Cinema In American Film, Wynn Gerald Hamonic

Journal of Religion & Film

The steady rise in production of American apocalyptic films and the genre's enduring popularity over the last seven decades can be explained by the functions the film genre serves. Through an analysis of a broad range of apocalyptic films along with the application of several theoretical and critical approaches to the study of film, the author describes seven functions commonly found in American apocalyptic cinema expressed both in terms of its meaning (the underlying purpose of the film) and its message (the ideas the filmmakers want to convey to the audience). Apocalyptic cinema helps the viewer make sense of the …

Parental Blame Frame: An Empirical Examination Of The Media's Portrayal Of Parents And Their Delinquent Juveniles, Ashley Wellman, Eve Brank, Katherine Hazen

Center on Children, Families, and the Law: Faculty Publications

The most recent study discussed in this article examines how the media report issues of parental responsibility and blame regarding acts of juvenile delinquency. To accomplish this goal, we examined the frequency, context, and framing of parental responsibility in local and national print media via two content analyses. The results demonstrate that national media sources depict the notion of parental responsibility, whereas local media stories rarely mention parents. The national stories offer distant, more global statements of parental responsibility, while the local, specific stories tend to avoid any parental blame. The findings in this paper mirror public opinion polls that …

Cesme Lab Reference Librarian, Central Washington University

Brooks Library Events

Pop up refernce librarian in the Science II Room 301 for 5 days, 2 hours each.

Family Literacy Night Spring 2017, Central Washington University

Brooks Library Events

Free books and snacks for families. In partnership with the Diversity and Equity Center and the Early Childhood Education Department.

Finals Week At Brooks Library Spring 2017, Central Washington University

Brooks Library Events

Poster advertising all the events for finals week: Paws and Relax, Waffle Night, Button making and Relaxation Station.

What's Happening At Brooks Library: Spring 2017, Central Washington University

Brooks Library Events

List of library events from the Spring quarter 2017.

Divestment And Climate Change, William J. Mcnally

Economics Faculty Publications

In January of 2016, a number of Laurier faculty signed a letter (hereafter “The Letter”) urging the University to divest from fossil fuel companies in all endowment funds and the employee pension.1 This research note addresses a number of issues related to the divestment strategy—in particular, the stranded asset thesis, financial strategy alternatives, implementation challenges and the financial effects of divestment strategies. This note does not consider alternative strategies for decarbonizing the economy. The Letter itself does not explain why divestment is superior to alternatives like promoting research into clean energy generation, renewable energy sources, climate science, and environmental economics. …

Ce Spring 2017, Coyote Economist

Coyote Economist

Inside this Issue:
Commencement......2
New faculty member!......2
Staying informed......2
Toruno semi-retiring......3
Fall 2017 classes......8
Tentative classes......8

Mapping The Association Of College And Research Libraries Information Literacy Framework And Nursing Professional Standards Onto An Assessment Rubric, Gloria Willson, Katelyn Angell

Brooklyn Library Faculty Publications

Objective: The authors developed a rubric for assessing undergraduate nursing research papers for information literacy skills critical to their development as researchers and health professionals.

Methods: We developed a rubric mapping six American Nurses Association professional standards onto six related concepts of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. We used this rubric to evaluate fifty student research papers and assess inter-rater reliability.

Results: Students tended to score highest on the “Information Has Value” dimension and lowest on the “Scholarship as Conversation” dimension. However, we found a discrepancy between the grading patterns …

Deepening Community: Dispelling The Myth Of Small Through A Gospel Of The Small, Sarah R. Cordray

Doctor of Ministry Theses

This transformative, mixed-methods research project utilized a modified PAR in order to strengthen inter-relationships of a congregation and with its community. Intentional small acts of conversation and listening were utilized as the main tool to implement change, as participants were awakened from the myth of small-town living, in which assumptions of connectedness were made. This project was deepened through the use of key theoretical, biblical, and theological lenses, such as: community, social capital, open systems theory, transformational leadership, hearing, incarnation, perichoresis, and a sense of belonging. Results revealed a deepened sense of community, a growing awareness of inter-relationships, key differences …

Historical Questions And Informational Literacy, Robert D. Taber

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

No abstract provided.

Information Literacy In Class Room, Asitha Kodippili

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

No abstract provided.

Chesnutt Library Literacy Fellows Pathway: Ninth Cohort, Jennifer J. Marson

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

No abstract provided.

Chestnutt Library Fellows: What Worked (And What Didn’T), Heather Griffiths

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

No abstract provided.

Information Literacy And Precalculus Mathematics I, Wu Jing

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

No abstract provided.

My Experience Of Being A Chesnutt Fellow On Information Literacy (Final Report), Asitha Kodippili

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

No abstract provided.

Historical Questions And Informational Literacy (Final Report), Robert D. Taber

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

No abstract provided.

Analysis: Information Literacy And Sociology 390 (Final Report), Heather Griffiths

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

No abstract provided.

Using Information Literacy To Cultivate Scientific Literacy In Communication Research (Final Report), Alanna Miller

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

No abstract provided.

Information Literacy- Math 129 Precalculus Mathematics I Redesign (Final Report), Wu Jing

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

No abstract provided.