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Op Ed-Opinions And Editorials-Carla Hayden, The American Library Association And Where We Go From Here, Steve Mckinzie

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Optimizing Library Services- The Opac, Edward Iglesias, Elizabeth Leber, Lindsay Johnston

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Rightsizing Access To Journals And Databases, Robin Kinder

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Data Informed And Community Driven: Using Data And Feedback Loops To Manage A Journal Review And Cancellation Policy, Hilary M. Davis, Gregory K. Raschke

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Random Ramblings-Have Recent Trends In Collection Development Unfairly Penalized Foreign Literature Research?, Bob Holley

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Book Reviews-Monographic Musings, Regina Gong

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Atg Interviews Charles Watkinson, Associate University Librarian For Publishing And Director Of The University Of Michigan Press, Katina Strauch, Tom Gilson

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Eugene Garfield-Remembering-The Passing Of A Giant: Eugene Garfield Dies At 90, Katina Strauch, Tom Gilson, Nancy K. Herther

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The Employment Service-Unemployment Insurance Partnership: Origin, Evolution, And Revitalization, David E. Balducchi, Christopher J. O'Leary

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

This study traces the origin and evolution of the partnership between the employment service and unemployment insurance programs in the United States. We examine objectives of the framers of the Wagner-Peyser and Social Security Acts that established these programs. Using primary sources, we then analyze early actions of the architects of social insurance to facilitate cooperation between the two programs to meet economic exigencies, grapple with political cronyism, and surmount legal barriers. We also discuss factors that caused changes in the employment service–unemployment insurance partnership over time. We identify reasons for the erosion in cooperation starting in the 1980s, and …

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Nafta And The Gender Wage Gap, Shushanik Hakobyan, John Mclaren

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

Using U.S. Census data for 1990–2000, we estimate effects of NAFTA on U.S. wages, focusing on differences by gender. We find that NAFTA tariff reductions are associated with substantially reduced wage growth for married blue-collar women, much larger than the effect for other demographic groups. We investigate several possible explanations for this finding. It is not explained by differential sensitivity of female-dominated occupations to trade shocks, or by household bargaining that makes married female workers less able to change their industry of employment than other workers. We find some support for an explanation based on an equilibrium theory of selective …

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Assessing Preschool Professionals’ Learning Experiences In Ohio: What Have We Learned?, Shayne B. Piasta, Susie Mauck, Rachel E. Schachter, Caitlin F. Spear, Kristin S. Farley, Melissa M. Weber-Mayrer, Laura M. Justice, Ann A. O’Connell

Department of Child, Youth, and Family Studies: Faculty Publications

In the Assessing Preschool Professionals’ Learning Experiences (APPLE) project, we partnered with ecQ-net and the Ohio Department of Education to conduct an independent evaluation of Ohio’s statesponsored language and literacy professional development for early childhood educators. Participating educators were randomly assigned to experience the state’s 30-hour language and literacy professional development course, the course plus ongoing in-class coaching, or professional development on an alternative topic. Largely, the language and literacy professional development did not improve educators’ knowledge, dispositions, or classroom practices, nor did it improve children’s language and literacy outcomes. This may have been due to variability in implementation. Although …

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Can Wto Law Keep Up With The Internet?, Henry Gao

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

The regulation of Internet activities presents special challenges to the World Trade Organization (WTO), as its rules were mostly formulated in the pre-Internet era. The first difficulty lies in determining whether Internet activities should be classified as goods or services, as they are subject to different regulatory frameworks. Traditionally, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) only applies to goods. It was not until the establishment of the WTO in 1995 that services trade was finally brought within the scope of the multilateral trading system. While some activities, such as the online delivery of books and audiovisual products could …

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Nabataean Subadult Mortuary Practices, Courtney Dotson Ewert

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis provides the beginnings of further research on the correlation between Nabataean mortuary practices and specific biological age ranges. It seeks to answer the question of whether Nabataean infants were absent from, or under-represented, in Nabataean cemeteries. Several quantitative analyses and descriptive statistics were performed, comparing Nabataean adult and subadult burials from fourteen sites. Nabataean cemetery populations were also compared with Walter Scheidel's model life table. These analyses demonstrate that Nabataean burials typically consisted of either a single adult or multiple individuals of various age ranges. Subadults, individuals under the age of 20 years, were rarely found buried by …

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Economic Literacy: An Introduction, Bettina E. Berch

Open Educational Resources

This is presentation of some basic economic ideas for the beginning, community college student.

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Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Economics 201 (Macroeconomic Theory), Bettina E. Berch

Open Educational Resources

This is a zero textbook cost syllabus for teaching macroeconomic theory at the 200 level at a community college. It is designed for a one semester course, using a creative commons textbook and a variety of open source podcasts, newspaper articles, and other materials available to CUNY students.

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Raising Eaters Part Ii: Generational Effects Of Parenting Styles On Females Eating Behaviors In Childhood, Ellen Kaye Durham

Theses and Dissertations

Over the past four decades pediatric obesity rates have more than tripled and child eating disorders are on the rise, suggesting a significant health concern in children’s eating habits (US Department of Health and Human Services, 2013; Rosen, 2010). As females are identified as most at risk for disordered eating (Collins, 1991) and mothers remain the primary caretakers of children at home, females are the focus of the present study. Following Bandura’s principles of observational learning, attitudes regarding eating practices and body image are likely to be transmitted from mother to daughter and perpetuated across generations through parental control and …

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Examining The Potential Relationship Between Religious Identity, Ethnic Identity, And Attitudes Towards Sexualized Clothing Of Women Living In The United States, Diana Davis

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this research project was to examine whether ethnic and religious identity have a relationship with attitudes towards sexualized aspects of clothing. The sexualization of women in American culture, particularly in the media, has been noted by several institutions and researchers, including the American Psychological Association. However, there has been very little research examining the attitudes of individual women towards the kind of dress that is overtly hypersexualized. While there is a clearly observable portrayal of women in American media, the attitudes of individual women can be influenced by many other cultural factors, including ethnicity and religion. The …

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Transmitting Revolution: Radio, Rumor, And The 1953 East German Uprising, Michael Palmer Pulido

Dissertations (1934 -)

This project examines public opinion in the Dresden Region of the German Democratic Republic from the end of World War II through the summer of 1953. I argue that the Socialist Unity Party (SED) projected its legitimacy through an official public sphere by representing publicness to its citizenry. Through banners, the press, and choreographed public demonstrations, it aimed to create the appearance of popular support. Even more significantly, the SED used radio to ground its legitimacy in a burgeoning post-war internationalism that bound residents of the GDR in an imagined community of socialist nations under Stalin’s leadership. At the same …

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Stress And Prosocial Decision Making: The Influence Of Acute Stress On Trust Behavior, Stephanie Ross Potts

Dissertations (1934 -)

While acute stress exposure has been associated with modulation of risk-taking in decision making, the influence of stress on social decision making and trust has not been well-researched. The current study aims to advance scientific understanding of how stress influences trust behavior. Ninety-six participants (49 male and 47 female) engaged in an adapted Trust Game task, randomly assigned between-subjects to either an acute stress (cold pressor test or socially evaluative cold pressor test) or control group. The Trust Game was administered at different time points with respect to stress exposure to examine the potential differential roles of temporally distinct stress …

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Heterosexual Allies' Confrontation Of Sexual Prejudice: The Effect Of Gender, Attitudes, And Past Allied Behavior, Kelly L. Lemaire

Dissertations (1934 -)

Confrontation of prejudice is one method that has been demonstrated to reduce future discrimination on behalf of perpetrators and non-target witnesses in the future. The current study sought to 1) determine whether the gender of the perpetrator, target, or witness of heterosexist prejudice affects witness’s reactions to prejudice, including confrontation, 2) understand if other factors including participants’ attitudes about society, gender roles, and gay men and lesbian women, as well as their general level of assertiveness and previous allied behaviors were predictive of confrontation behavior and 3) examine participant’s satisfaction with their responses and anticipated future responses in relation to …

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The Cry Of The Poor: Anthropology Of Suffering And Justice In Health Care From A Latin American Liberation Approach, Alexandre Andrade Martins

Dissertations (1934 -)

This dissertation examines the connection between poverty and health inequalities from a liberation theological ethics perspective. It uses Simone Weil’s and Latin American liberation theology’s approaches to suffering and social justice as theoretical sources to address health inequalities and the suffering of the poor because of social injustice, vulnerability to diseases, and lack of healthcare assistance. First of all, these approaches are examined from how they shape an anthropology of suffering that enable us to understand the suffering of the poor and, at the same time, to recognize them as agents of their own liberation and struggle for justice in …

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Syntactic Adaptation To Relative Clause Sentence Processing: Contributions Of Experience And Memory, Elias Blinkoff , '17

Senior Theses, Projects, and Awards

One of the most robust findings in psycho linguistics is that object-extracted relative clauses (ORCs) are more difficult to process than subject-extracted relative clauses (SRCs) (Traxler, Morris, & Seely, 2002; King & Just, 1991; Ford, 1983). However, the reasons for this are still controversial. One view attributes this difficulty to experience: ORCs are harder to process because they are more rarely encountered than SRCs (Wells, Christiansen, Race, Acheson, & MacDonald, 2008; Gennari & MacDonald, 2008; MacDonald & Christiansen, 2002). Another view is that the word order of ORCs places a larger burden on working memory than SRCs (Miller & Chomsky, …

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The Current State Of Meta-Repositories For Data, Cynthia Hudson-Vitale

WashU Libraries Publications

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Social Justice Through Collaboration, Miranda Rectenwald

WashU Libraries Presentations

Presented at Midwest Archives Conference, spring 2017 Annual Meeting. This talk briefly outlines two collaborative projects (Documenting Ferguson, and Mapping LGBTQ St. Louis) going on at Washington University Libraries. These projects aim to both preserve and provide access to primary source (archival materials) of under-represented people in our (collective) historic record. These collaborative projects include archive staff working actively with members of the community, leveraging technology, and being open to new ways of approaching traditional archive tasks such as outreach, collection acquisition, and reference.

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Open Access And The Humanities: The Case Of Classics Journals, Paul Ojennus

Library Faculty Scholarship

Since the earliest pressures to develop open access (OA) options for journal literature were in the fields of science and medicine, the predominant models reflect those origins and fit those disciplines. These models are less applicable to humanities publishing models, which have been slower to embrace open access. Current literature on OA in the humanities focuses on theoretical frameworks and end-user perceptions. This study complements those perspectives by examining current practices in the humanities, specifically, the OA options offered by journals serving the discipline of the classics.

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Un Misionar Cultural Transatlantic. Exercitiu De Libera Circulatie Pe Urmele Lui Francis Lieber, Steven Samson

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Curated Exhibit Price Of War: Advances In Military Medicine, Laura J. Hall

Posters and Presentations

The Price of War: Advances in Military Medicine exhibit, curated by Laura J. Hall, MFA, explored the significant medical innovations arising from wartime, with a special focus on New Mexico's contributions. The exhibit highlighted the development of the atomic bomb at Los Alamos National Labs and the Trinity Site, the post-war work of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, and the pioneering efforts of Dr. Randy Lovelace in space medicine. On display from April 1, 2017, to March 17, 2020, it documented key medical advancements, from field surgical installations in World War II to modern prosthetics and regenerative medicine, showing how …

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Pnf 2.0? Initial Evidence That Gamification Can Increase The Efficacy Of Brief, Web-Based Personalized Normative Feedback Alcohol Interventions, Sarah C. Boyle, Andrew M. Earle, Joseph W. Labrie, Daniel J. Smith

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Gamified interventions exploit the motivational characteristics of a game in order to provide prevention information and promote behavior change. Despite the modest effect sizes observed in increasingly popular web-based personalized normative feedback (PNF) alcohol interventions for college students, previous research has yet to consider how gamification might be used to enhance efficacy. This study examines whether a novel, gamified PNF intervention format, which includes a point-based reward system, the element of chance, and personal icons to visually represent users, is more effective in reducing short-term alcohol use than the standard web-based style of PNF currently used on college campuses. Two-hundred …

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Assessment Of Tips From Former Smokers: Implications For An Advance Directive Completion Campaign For Young Adults, Kimberly Clark

Masters Essays

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Op Ed-Opinions And Editorials-Carla Hayden, The American Library Association And Where We Go From Here, Steve Mckinzie

Against the Grain

Optimizing Library Services- The Opac, Edward Iglesias, Elizabeth Leber, Lindsay Johnston

Against the Grain

Rightsizing Access To Journals And Databases, Robin Kinder

Against the Grain

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Data Informed And Community Driven: Using Data And Feedback Loops To Manage A Journal Review And Cancellation Policy, Hilary M. Davis, Gregory K. Raschke

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Random Ramblings-Have Recent Trends In Collection Development Unfairly Penalized Foreign Literature Research?, Bob Holley

Against the Grain

Book Reviews-Monographic Musings, Regina Gong

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Atg Interviews Charles Watkinson, Associate University Librarian For Publishing And Director Of The University Of Michigan Press, Katina Strauch, Tom Gilson

Against the Grain

Eugene Garfield-Remembering-The Passing Of A Giant: Eugene Garfield Dies At 90, Katina Strauch, Tom Gilson, Nancy K. Herther

Against the Grain

The Employment Service-Unemployment Insurance Partnership: Origin, Evolution, And Revitalization, David E. Balducchi, Christopher J. O'Leary

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

Nafta And The Gender Wage Gap, Shushanik Hakobyan, John Mclaren

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

Assessing Preschool Professionals’ Learning Experiences In Ohio: What Have We Learned?, Shayne B. Piasta, Susie Mauck, Rachel E. Schachter, Caitlin F. Spear, Kristin S. Farley, Melissa M. Weber-Mayrer, Laura M. Justice, Ann A. O’Connell

Department of Child, Youth, and Family Studies: Faculty Publications

Can Wto Law Keep Up With The Internet?, Henry Gao

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

Nabataean Subadult Mortuary Practices, Courtney Dotson Ewert

Theses and Dissertations

Economic Literacy: An Introduction, Bettina E. Berch

Open Educational Resources

Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Economics 201 (Macroeconomic Theory), Bettina E. Berch

Open Educational Resources

Raising Eaters Part Ii: Generational Effects Of Parenting Styles On Females Eating Behaviors In Childhood, Ellen Kaye Durham

Theses and Dissertations

Examining The Potential Relationship Between Religious Identity, Ethnic Identity, And Attitudes Towards Sexualized Clothing Of Women Living In The United States, Diana Davis

Theses and Dissertations

Transmitting Revolution: Radio, Rumor, And The 1953 East German Uprising, Michael Palmer Pulido

Dissertations (1934 -)

Stress And Prosocial Decision Making: The Influence Of Acute Stress On Trust Behavior, Stephanie Ross Potts

Dissertations (1934 -)

Heterosexual Allies' Confrontation Of Sexual Prejudice: The Effect Of Gender, Attitudes, And Past Allied Behavior, Kelly L. Lemaire

Dissertations (1934 -)

The Cry Of The Poor: Anthropology Of Suffering And Justice In Health Care From A Latin American Liberation Approach, Alexandre Andrade Martins

Dissertations (1934 -)

Syntactic Adaptation To Relative Clause Sentence Processing: Contributions Of Experience And Memory, Elias Blinkoff , '17

Senior Theses, Projects, and Awards

The Current State Of Meta-Repositories For Data, Cynthia Hudson-Vitale

WashU Libraries Publications

Social Justice Through Collaboration, Miranda Rectenwald

WashU Libraries Presentations

Open Access And The Humanities: The Case Of Classics Journals, Paul Ojennus

Library Faculty Scholarship

Un Misionar Cultural Transatlantic. Exercitiu De Libera Circulatie Pe Urmele Lui Francis Lieber, Steven Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Curated Exhibit Price Of War: Advances In Military Medicine, Laura J. Hall

Posters and Presentations

Pnf 2.0? Initial Evidence That Gamification Can Increase The Efficacy Of Brief, Web-Based Personalized Normative Feedback Alcohol Interventions, Sarah C. Boyle, Andrew M. Earle, Joseph W. Labrie, Daniel J. Smith

Heads Up!

Assessment Of Tips From Former Smokers: Implications For An Advance Directive Completion Campaign For Young Adults, Kimberly Clark

Masters Essays