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Theorizing Embodied Communicative Organizing: Fleshing Out Genre With Goffman’S Situational View, JoAnn Brooks 2011 Syracuse University

Theorizing Embodied Communicative Organizing: Fleshing Out Genre With Goffman’S Situational View, Joann Brooks

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Access To Business Research Resources Through Academic Library Web Sites: A Survey, John C. Gottfried 2011 Western Kentucky University

Access To Business Research Resources Through Academic Library Web Sites: A Survey, John C. Gottfried

DLPS Faculty Publications

This study is an examination of access to business research resources through academic library Web sites, including research databases, catalog services, research guides, and business librarians. The Web sites of 114 academic libraries serving top business programs in the United States were studied. Results reveal a wide range of access to business research databases among the schools studied (anywhere from 11 to 100 business databases available). Over 95% of the schools provided business research guides, and nearly all schools provided at least some contact information for business librarians.


Alzheimer’S Disease, Carol Watwood 2011 Western Kentucky University

Alzheimer’S Disease, Carol Watwood

DLPS Faculty Publications

Alzheimer’s disease is a common health issue mostly found in elderly persons. An overview of the disease and a list of reliable Web-based information sources suitable for a general audience are presented.


Profiles In Science For Science Librarians: "What Lives Where, And Why": Alfred Russel Wallace, And The Field Of Biogeography, Charles H. Smith 2011 Western Kentucky University

Profiles In Science For Science Librarians: "What Lives Where, And Why": Alfred Russel Wallace, And The Field Of Biogeography, Charles H. Smith

DLPS Faculty Publications

Biogeography, the study of animal and plant distribution, has a history extending back to at least the eighteenth century. But it was not until the work of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace in the mid-nineteenth century that it really came into its own as a science. Darwin’s importance notwithstanding, it was really Wallace who put the field on the map, and many of today’s research threads can be traced back to his influence. This article provides a summary review of Wallace’s life and work and biogeography as a field of study, including Wallace’s role in its development.


Helen Silving: Jurisprudence In The Old Testament Study Guide, Steven A. Samson 2011 Liberty University

Helen Silving: Jurisprudence In The Old Testament Study Guide, Steven A. Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.


Thucydides: The Funeral Oration Of Pericles Study Guide, 2011, Steven A. Samson 2011 Liberty University

Thucydides: The Funeral Oration Of Pericles Study Guide, 2011, Steven A. Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.


Hearing The Voices Of Lesbian Women Having Children, Misty Wall 2011 Boise State University

Hearing The Voices Of Lesbian Women Having Children, Misty Wall

Social Work Faculty Publications and Presentations

Whether single, or in the context of a lesbian relationship, lesbian women are choosing to become mothers, often through adoption. The path of lesbian women choosing motherhood is fraught with challenges and often disappointments (Martin, 1993, Oswald, 2002, Perrin, 2002, Stacey, 1996). In the United States, women are still very much socialized to want to be mothers and the desire to be a mother is not contradicted by sexual orientation (DiLapi, 1989; Dalton & Bielby, 2000). However, lesbian women receive messages that they should not want to be mothers and that they cannot be adequate mothers (DiLapi. 1989; Pies, 1990). …


Barriers And Opportunities For Evidence-Based Practice: Curriculum Changes In Fieldwork And Classroom In Social Work Education, Anwar Najor-Durack 2011 Wayne State University

Barriers And Opportunities For Evidence-Based Practice: Curriculum Changes In Fieldwork And Classroom In Social Work Education, Anwar Najor-Durack

Wayne State University Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to consider perceptions held by social work faculty and agency-based field instructors to incorporate EBP into social work student classroom and field placement experiences. This study identifies perceptions of social work faculty and field instructors about EBP, determines the extent to which social work faculty and field instructors incorporate and use EBP; and considers how organizational leadership and/or technology supports influence adoption and utilization of EBP. The population for this study included all full-time social work faculty members employed by three large public universities in southeast Michigan (Michigan State University [MSU], University of Michigan …


Sumner, Hitchens, Goh, Rigler, And Easterly Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson 2011 Liberty University

Sumner, Hitchens, Goh, Rigler, And Easterly Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.


Vishal Mangalwadi: India Study Guide, 2011, Steven A. Samson 2011 Liberty University

Vishal Mangalwadi: India Study Guide, 2011, Steven A. Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.


Michael Heffernan: The Meaning Of Europe Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson 2011 Liberty University

Michael Heffernan: The Meaning Of Europe Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.


201101 Obiter Dicta: New Year 2011, Steven Alan Samson 2011 Liberty University

201101 Obiter Dicta: New Year 2011, Steven Alan Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.


Helen Silving: Jurisprudence In The Old Testament Study Guide, 2011, Steven A. Samson 2011 Liberty University

Helen Silving: Jurisprudence In The Old Testament Study Guide, 2011, Steven A. Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.


Racial/Cultural Identity Development In Foster Children Placed In Transracial Foster Homes, Vanessa Brooks Herd 2011 Wayne State University

Racial/Cultural Identity Development In Foster Children Placed In Transracial Foster Homes, Vanessa Brooks Herd

Wayne State University Dissertations

This qualitative study was designed to identify how racial and cultural identity is developed and maintained in foster children who are placed in foster homes racially and culturally different than they are. The research questions included how the foster care system addresses racial identity issues and how foster parents assign meaning to the transracial foster care experience. Another area of interest was the preparation by the foster care system for foster parents to manage issues of racial identity. The pre-training curriculum for foster parents was subjected to a content analysis.


Work And Mexican American Parent-Adolescent Relationships: The Mediating Role Of Parent Well-Being, Lorey A. Wheeler, Kimberly A. Updegraff 2011 University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Work And Mexican American Parent-Adolescent Relationships: The Mediating Role Of Parent Well-Being, Lorey A. Wheeler, Kimberly A. Updegraff

Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families, and Schools: Faculty Publications

This study of Mexican American two-parent families (N = 246) examined the role of parents’ well-being (i.e., depressive symptoms, role overload) as a potential mechanism through which parent occupational conditions (i.e., self-direction, hazardous conditions, physical activity, work pressure) are linked to parent-adolescent relationship qualities (i.e., warmth, conflict, disclosure). Depressive symptoms mediated the links between maternal and paternal work pressure and parentadolescent warmth, conflict, and disclosure. For mothers, depressive symptoms also mediated the links between self-direction and mother-adolescent warmth, conflict, and disclosure; for fathers, role overload mediated the links between work pressure and hazardous conditions with fatheradolescent warmth.


The Australian Immigration Black Hole: A Radical Problem?, Alan Davies, Joe Ducie, Scott Eadie 2011 Edith Cowan University

The Australian Immigration Black Hole: A Radical Problem?, Alan Davies, Joe Ducie, Scott Eadie

Australian Counter Terrorism Conference

Australia has done what it can to secure its borders and to prevent terrorist attacks at home. The path to radicalisation is paved with the disenfranchised and the alienated. This paper assesses the conditions of radicalisation, and whether Australia’s strict immigration and detention policy for asylum seekers arriving by boat is a breeding ground for radical behaviour. The processes of radicalisation are explored and compared to previous attacks seen in Britain. The narrative of recruitment offered by organisations such as Al Qaeda is appealing to those bereft of cultural identity, incarcerated in prisons and inside detention centres (Gunaratna, 2011; Hamm, …


Economics, Behavioral Biology, And Law, Erin O'Hara O'Connor 2011 Florida State University College of Law

Economics, Behavioral Biology, And Law, Erin O'Hara O'Connor

Scholarly Publications

This article compares the relevance to law of two unexpectedly similar fields: economics and behavioral biology. It first examines the assumptions, core concepts, methodological tenets, and emphases of the two fields. It then compares the interdisciplinary fields of law and economics, on one hand, with law and behavioral biology, on the other—highlighting not only important similarities but also important differences. The article subsequently explores ways that biological perspectives on human behavior may, among other things, improve economic models and the behavioral insights they generate. The article concludes that although there are important differences between the two fields, the overlaps between …


The Dakota Father Friendly Assessment: Measuring Father Friendliness In Head Start And Similar Settings, Joseph M. White, Sean E. Brotherson, Adam M. Galovan, Erin K. Holmes, Jennifer A. Kampmann 2011 Foundation for Family Life

The Dakota Father Friendly Assessment: Measuring Father Friendliness In Head Start And Similar Settings, Joseph M. White, Sean E. Brotherson, Adam M. Galovan, Erin K. Holmes, Jennifer A. Kampmann

Faculty Publications

Head Start programs offer a setting to examine support that facilitates father involvement. The Dakota Father Friendly Assessment (DFFA) is designed to evaluate an organization's level of father-friendliness. To establish its psychometric properties, a sample of North and South Dakota early childhood staff (N = 609) completed the DFFA. A number of measure were included as indicators of validity. Factor analysis of the DFFA confirmed the presence of four expected factors and revealed a fifth factor (loadings ranged from .40 to .80). Coefficient alphas for DFFA sub scales ranged from .71 to .87. Moderate relationships existed between DFFA sub …


Factors Associated With Nurses' Practice Intentions To Provide Heart Disease Risk And Prevention Education To Women Patients, Felella K. Millman 2011 Seton Hall University

Factors Associated With Nurses' Practice Intentions To Provide Heart Disease Risk And Prevention Education To Women Patients, Felella K. Millman

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Attitudes, William A. Cunningham, Ingrid J. Haas, Andrew Jahn 2011 University of Toronto

Attitudes, William A. Cunningham, Ingrid J. Haas, Andrew Jahn

Department of Political Science: Faculty Publications

This chapter reviews social neuroscience research that links social psychological attitudes and evaluative processes to their presumed neural bases. The chapter is organized into four parts. The first section discusses how attitude representations are transformed into evaluative states that can be used to guide thought and action. The next two sections address the related processes of attitude learning and change. The final section discusses applications of these concepts for the study of prejudice and political behavior.


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