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Building Sustainable Societies: A Swedish Case Study On The Limits Of Reflexive Modernization., Cindy Isenhour

Cindy Isenhour

No abstract provided.

Symbolic Or Substantive Policy? Measuring The Extent Of Local Commitment To Climate Protection, Rachel M. Krause

Rachel M. Krause

Over 1,000 U.S. municipalities have formally committed to reduce their local greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through participation in one of several climate protection networks. This has attracted the attention of researchers interested in theories of free-riding and local political decision making who question why municipalities become engaged in this global effort. However, whereas joining a climate protection network or adopting an emissions reduction goal are relatively low cost acts, the implementation of such policies entails higher costs. This raises legitimate questions about the extent and type of follow-through made on municipal climate protection commitments. This paper begins to fill-in the …

Let’S “Transform” The Colts The Way We Do Public Schools: Phase 2, Jeff Abbott

Jeff Abbott

This article uses tongue in cheek to compare the possible closing, turnaround, restart, or transformation of the Indianapolis Colts with what is happening in school reform.

Libqual Results - Spring 2010, Lesli A. Baker

Lesli A Baker

No abstract provided.

The Economic Impact Of Shale Gas Extraction: A Review Of Existing Studies, Thomas C. Kinnaman

Thomas C. Kinnaman

No abstract provided.

Home Country Farewell: The Withering Of Immigrants' "Transnational" Ties, Roger D. Waldinger

Roger D Waldinger

This paper seeks to explore the importance of home country versus sending country comparing immigrants who moved to the United States as adults with immigrant offspring born abroad, but raised in the United States, the “1.5 generation”. Makes use of the public use data sets from four, large-scale surveys, the paper finds that home country connectedness is limited and that most immigrants view the United States as home. However, the 1.5ers have put down deeper roots and have steadily cut back their involvements in and ties to the countries where they were born. While we still know too little about …

Managing Medical Bills On The Brink Of Bankruptcy, Melissa B. Jacoby, Mirya Holman

Melissa B. Jacoby

This paper presents original empirical evidence on financial interactions between medical providers and their patients who go bankrupt. We use a nationally representative sample of people who filed for bankruptcy in 2007 to compare two popular but hotly contested methods of measuring medical burden. By applying both methods to the same filers, we find that nearly four out of five respondents had some financial obligation for medical care not covered by insurance in the two years prior to filing as measured by the survey method. The court record method paints a different picture, with only half of the cases containing …

Revisiting Richard Mckeon’S Architectonic Rhetoric: A Response To ‘The Uses Of "Rhetoric In A Technological Age: Architectonic Productive Arts’, David J. Depew

David J Depew

No abstract provided.

Person-Organization Incongruence As A Predictor Of Right-Wing Authoritarianism, Social Dominance Orientation, And Heterosexism, Kristie L. Seelman, N. E. Walls

Kristie L Seelman

Using a sample of 124 incoming social work graduate students, we examined whether levels of perceived incongruence with social work values and the perceived culture of a graduate social work program significantly correlate with social psychological constructs. The social psychological constructs are associated with maintenance and support for social stratification in general and with prejudicial attitudes based on sexual orientation more specifically. Results suggest that higher levels of cultural incongruence are associated with significantly higher levels of right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, hostile heterosexism, aversive heterosexism, and paternalistic heterosexism. Nonsignificant results emerged for amnestic heterosexism and positive stereotypic heterosexism. Implications …

A Nativity Song (How Far Is It To Bethlehem?) - Women's Choir, Keith D. Rowley

Keith D Rowley

An original Christmas carol arranged for women's choir (SSAA) and piano with words by Frances Chesterton.

A Taxonomy Of Small Firm Technology Commercialization, Dirk Libaers, Diana M. Hicks, Alan Porter

Dirk Libaers

This paper proposes a taxonomy of business models used by small, highly innovative firms focused on technology commercialization that disproportionately contribute to technological change in the US economy. The firms operate across industries and use a variety of technology platforms. Exploratory factor analysis of keyword occurrence on firm websites generated a taxonomy comprising: research organization; development stage biosciences; highly specialized component supplier; specialized subcontractor; product solutions providers; and service solutions providers.

When The 5 Rights Go Wrong: Medication Errors From The Nursing Perspective, Jackie H. Jones, Linda A. Treiber

Linda A. Treiber

Review Of Erotic Journeys: Mexican Immigrants And Their Sex Lives By Gloria González-López, Richard Mora

Richard Mora

[...] for one-third of the women, rape and/or incest were their first sexual experience, a fact that points to the role that dominance plays in the patriarchal gender regimes in which the women lived.

The Electoral Consequences Of Party Loyalty In Congress, Jamie Carson

Gregory Koger

No abstract provided.

"Embracing Humanimality: Deconstructing The Human/Animal Dichotomy", Carrie Packwood Freeman

Carrie P. Freeman

In seeking to rhetorically combat speciesism, how can animal advocates talk about humans and other animals in ways that are posthumanist? In answering this question, I draw upon posthumanist scholarship to critically analyze how these humanist tensions not only affect, but also exist within, animal rights philosophy itself, likely weakening arguments in favor of animal rights. My goal is to improve the logical basis upon which this philosophy informs animal rights advocacy. I begin by analyzing the paradoxes involving animal activists’ deployment of humanist adjectives like "humane" and "ethical," as well as tensions over whether animal rights strategies should promote …

Adaptation And Evaluation Of The Clinical Impairment Assessment To Assess Disordered Eating Related Distress In An Adolescent Female Ethnic Fijian Population, R H. Striegel, A E. Becker, J J. Thomas, A Bainivualiku, L Richards, K Navara, A L. Roberts, S E. Gilman

Ruth Striegel Weissman

Objective:

Measurement of disease-related impairment and distress is central to diagnostic, therapeutic, and health policy considerations for eating disorders across diverse populations. This study evaluates psychometric properties of a translated and adapted version of the Clinical Impairment Assessment (CIA) in an ethnic Fijian population.

Method:

The adapted CIA was administered to ethnic Fijian adolescent schoolgirls (N = 215). We calculated Cronbach's α to assess the internal consistency, examined the association between indicators of eating disorder symptom severity and the CIA to assess construct and criterion validity, and compared the strength of relation between the CIA and measures of disordered eating …

Nocturnal Eating Association With: Binge Eating, Obesity, And Psychological Distress.Pdf, Ruth Striegel Weissman

Ruth Striegel Weissman

Dell Hymes And The Ethnography Of Communication, Barbara Johnstone, William Marcellino

Barbara Johnstone

No abstract provided.

Central Bank Independence In Words And In Deeds: Lessons From Brazil And Chile, Taeko Hiroi, Douglas Block

Taeko Hiroi

Political independence of the central bank is considered to bring financial stability to a nation and therefore to foster economic growth by providing safe investment environments. However, granting a central bank autonomy is politically contentious because of the implications such independence will entail for politicians in terms of their ability to influence monetary policy. This chapter analyzes central bank independence in words and in deeds. The first part discusses the existing literature on central bank independence and problems associated with its measurement. The implications of this debate are analyzed with two Latin American countries, Brazil and Chile. In Brazil, the …

"Cities And Gender. By Helen Jarvis With Paula Kantor And Jonathan Clarke.", Winifred S. Curran

Winifred S Curran

No abstract provided.