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An Interdisciplinary Platform For Information Behaviour Research In The Liberal Arts Hobby, Jenna Hartel

Jenna Hartel

Purpose – The liberal arts hobby is a leisure pursuit that entails the systematic and fervent pursuit of knowledge for its own sake. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the liberal arts hobby as a setting for information behavior research.

Design/methodology/approach – The method of interdisciplinary translation work is used to relate existing research from the specialties of leisure studies, adult education, and information behavior. Drawing from leisure studies, the liberal arts hobby is presented within the context of the serious leisure perspective, a theoretical framework of leisure.

Findings – The basic informational features of the liberal arts …

State Of Play: Information Phenomena In A Leisure Context, Jenna Hartel, Ian Ruthven, Max Wilson, Christopher Young

Jenna Hartel

This panel presents current information behaviour research in the context of leisure. It continues a tradition of locating work within the theoretical framework of leisure, the Serious Leisure Perspective (SLP). Five years has passed since the last public discussion of this topic at an ASIS&T Annual Meeting and in the intervening time much progress has been made in understanding leisure information phenomena. Our goals are to stimulate interest in leisure as a setting for information behaviour scholarship; provide a status report on the topic; and introduce new ideas associated with digital gaming, fun, and happiness. The panel includes four concise …

An Arts-Informed Study Of Information Using The Draw-And-Write Technque, Jenna Hartel

Jenna Hartel

There are untold conceptions of information in information science, and yet the nature of information remains obscure and contested. This article contributes something new to the conversation as the first arts-informed, visual, empirical study of information utilizing the drawand- write technique. To approach the concept of information afresh, graduate students at a North American iSchool were asked to respond to the question “What is information?” by drawing on a 4- by 4-inch piece of paper, called an iSquare. One hundred thirty-seven iSquares were produced and then analyzed using compositional interpretation combined with a theoretical framework of graphic representations. The findings …

Understanding The South China Sea: An Explorative Cultural Analysis, Hans-Dieter Evers

Hans-Dieter Evers

The South China Sea has attracted considerable attention among politicians, journalists and scholars since it has become a contested maritime space. Most works concentrate on conflicts and negotiations to resolve the ensuing issues. In this paper, a cultural theory will be applied to stress the importance of conceptions of space found in different cultures. The South China Sea is defined as "Mediterranean." By comparing it to other maritime spaces, like the Baltic and the Mediterranean Sea, lessons will be drawn from the "longue durée" of history, as analysed by French historian Fernand Braudel and from concepts of the cultural theory …

Literature Review: The Religious Revival In China – Commercialism In China, Or Transnationalism And Overseas-Chinese At Work?, Joel Zhen Hong Pang

Joel Zhen Hong Pang

The evolving Chinese Institution of Religion is a national phenomenon catching the attentions of many both within China and the global community, seeing it as a proxy benchmark to the relative opening of China to the world. Religion like a simmered fire, aroused by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) when it came to power in 1949, institutionalized and enshrined in the constitution of China, 5 protected and sanctioned religions came into state-religious co-appropriation where the state uses the religion and the religion uses the state People’s Republic under Mao Zedong adopted a generally hostile stance to religion, particularly during the …

Equilibrium Institutions: The Federal-Proportional Trade-Off, Josep M. Colomer

Josep M. Colomer

Durable democracies display a huge variety of combinations of basic institutional formulas. A quantitative logical model shows that while there are multiple equilibrium sets of institutions, each involves some trade-off between the size of the country, the territorial structure of government and the electoral system. Specifically, the larger the country, the more important is federalism in comparison to proportional representation electoral rules for the durability of democratic institutions. The explanatory power of the model is positively tested on all current durable democratic countries. It is also illustrated with a few both fitting and deviant cases. A relevant implication is that …

Industrial Hemp: Canada Exports, United States Imports, Courtney N. Moran Ll.M.

Courtney N. Moran LL.M.

Industrial hemp, a non-psychoactive variety of Cannabis sativa L., (C. sativa) is the greatest renewable resource available to mankind. Industrial hemp is an environmentally friendly crop that does not require herbicides or pesticides and can clean up toxins in soil. Manufacturers can produce hemp into over 25,000 products.

More than 30 industrialized nations, including Canada, cultivate industrial hemp for commercial purposes. Despite the fact that industrial hemp is a viable agricultural commodity, in the United States hemp is classified as marihuana, a Schedule I controlled substance, under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). Therefore, it is illegal under U.S. federal law …

China's_Meritocratic_Examinations, Chenyang Li

Chenyang Li

No abstract provided.

Planning Local Economic Development In The Emerging World Order, Edward Feser

Edward J Feser

A new consensus is emerging around effective modes of government action in the economic sphere—in essence, a new approach to industrial policy—that has significant implications for the reform of the subnational economic development function currently underway in the UK and US. Leading edge local and regional economic development practise must be smarter, more flexible, more collaborative among stakeholders, more experimental and evaluative, and much less prone to generic diagnoses of economic challenges and the application of universal strategies. In turn, good planning scholarship is needed to help design the organisations and practises the new model requires and to train the …

Introduction: Obesity, Eating Disorders, And The Media, Karin Eli, Stanley Ulijaszek

Karin Eli

No abstract provided.

Annual Review Of United Nations Affairs, 2012-2013

Karl P. Sauvant

These volumes bring together the documents of the principal organs of the United Nations, issued during the UN Year under review. Each of the chapters is introduced by an expert on the specific organ that is being documented, providing an overview of developments in this organ during the Year.

Literature Review On China’S Hukou System, Kelvin Goh

Kelvin Goh

No abstract provided.

Ebola And Bioterrorism, Joshua P. Monroe

Joshua P Monroe

This paper will be a comparison of the United States government’s reaction to the recent outbreak of Ebola and will compare this response with the potential response by the United States government toward an act of biological or chemical warfare. The paper will analyze these responses from a cultural, political, legal, and policy standpoint

Upward Social Mobility Via Education For Rural Children In China, Ken Tat Lee

Lee Ken Tat

No abstract provided.

Literature Review. Cc6307, Kh Lau

KH Lau

While theory of modernization infers that rising education and income levels will give rise to a growing middle class whose social and economic preferences do not sit well with an authoritarian regime, China's middle class which has thus far been a beneficiary of the state led economic development seems content with an environment that enables it to continue to prosper though at the expense of the lower class . There is the concern that widening income and social gaps may lead to instability in the Chinese society. China is still in a relatively early stage of economic development and as …

A Cohort's Culture Of Learning, Kelly Visnak

Kelly Visnak

This study explored the social involvement among cohort members from a professional graduate program delivered in a blended learning environment. Qualitative directed content analysis was used with a methodological framework derived from Edgar Schein’s (2010) ten dimensions of learning culture. The findings showed the cohort developed a culture of learning.

Bargaining Under The Illusion Of Transparency, Kristof Madarasz

Kristof Madarasz

CEPR Discussion Paper #10327 (r&r, aer)

Projection Equilibrium: Definition And Applications To Social Investment And Persuasion (Old Version), Kristof Madarasz

Kristof Madarasz

2014 Sept Version, " The SelectedWorks of Kristof Madarasz Available at: http://works.bepress.com/kristof_madarasz/35

Projection Equilibrium: Definition And Applications To Social Investment And Persuasion (Longer Older Version With Private Projection And Auctions), Kristof Madarasz

Kristof Madarasz

also at http://works.bepress.com/kristof_madarasz/35 or CEPR Discussion Paper 10636 Current Version: http://economics.princeton.edu/sites/economics/files/inp_0.pdf

Biases Of Others: Anticipating Informational Projection In An Agency Setting, Kristof Madarasz, David Danz, Stephanie Wang

Kristof Madarasz

Evidence shows that people fail to account for informational differences and instead project their information onto others in that they too often act as if others had access to the same information they did. In this study, we find that while people naively project their information onto others, they also anticipate the projection of their differentially informed opponents onto them. Specifically, we find not only that better-informed principals exaggerate the extent to which lesser informed agents should act as if they were better-informed, but that lesser-informed agents anticipate such misperceptions as revealed by their choice of incentive scheme and elicited …

Travel Cost, George R. Parsons

George R. Parsons

No abstract provided.

Population Growth And Land Resource Conflicts In Tivland, Nigeria, Fanan Ujoh Ph.D

Dr. Fanan Ujoh

The complex issues of population-resources pressure vis-à-vis communal conflicts in Tivland is the focus of this study. Field interviews and observations were carried out while Census figures for 1953, 1991 and 2006, and Land Use/Land Cover (LU/LC) data of study area for 1987, 1997 and 2007 were used to calculate the Land Consumption Rate (LCR) and Land Absorption Coefficients (LAC). Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Post Hoc comparisons using Tukey HSD test were applied. The results reveal that: (i) greatest increase in LCR (0.019) was recorded between 1987 and 1997 while the later period between 1997 and 2007 recorded a …

Modelling Plume Dispersion Pattern From A Point Source Using Spatial Auto-Correlational Analysis, Fanan Ujoh Ph.D, Isa Dlama Kwabe Mr

Dr. Fanan Ujoh

The main objective of the study is to estimate the rate and model the pattern of plume rise from Dangote Cement Plc. A handheld Garmin GPS was employed for collection of coordinates at a single kilometre graduation from the centre of the factory to 10 kilometres. Plume rate was estimated using the Gaussian model while Kriging, using ArcGIS, was adopted for modelling the pattern of plume dispersion over a 10 kilometre radius around the factory. ANOVA test was applied for statistical analysis of the plume coefficients. The results indicate that plume dispersion is generally high with highest values recorded for …

Capacity Building And The Afghan National Police Views From The Frontline, Gordon Marnoch, Gavin Boyd

Gordon Marnoch

The article reports on a study of an intelligence management capacity building programme involving former Police Service of Northern Ireland officers mentoring members of the Afghan National Police. The study contributes to the formative evaluation of a policy transfer based on principles and practices developed in Northern Ireland. A short discussion of Afghanistan, policing, intelligence management and policy transfer is provided, before attention is given to the capacity building programme. The study is context rich drawing on qualitative data. Analysis draws on face to face interviews conducted with mentors working with the ANP during 2010-2012. Interview questions were broad in …

A Theory Of Outsourced Fundraising: Why Dollars Turn Into "Pennies For Charity", Zdravko Paskalev, Huseyin Yildirim

Huseyin Yildirim

Charities frequently rely on professional solicitors whose commissions exceed half of total donations. To rationalize this practice, we propose a principal-agent model in which the charity optimally offers a higher commission to a more "efficient" solicitor, raising the price of giving significantly. Outsourcing is, therefore, profitable for the charity only if giving is very price-inelastic. This, however, clashes with empirical evidence. We show that paid solicitations can benefit the charity if: (1) donors are unaware; (2) donors have intense "warm-glow" preferences; or (3) the charity worries mostly about watchdog ratings. Unable to regulate fundraiser contracts due to freedom of speech, …

Current Realities Of Collaborative Intellectual Property In Africa, Jeremy De Beer, Chidi Oguamanam, Tobias Schonwetter, Chris Armstrong

Jeremy de Beer

No abstract provided.

Innovation & Intellectual Property: Collaborative Dynamics In Africa

Jeremy de Beer

No abstract provided.

Racial Battle Fatigue For Latina/O Students: A Quantitative Perspective, Jeremy D. Franklin, William A. Smith, Man Hung

Jeremy D. Franklin

Previous literature demonstrates that as a result of racial microaggressions and hostile campus racial climates, Latina/o students often state they experience psychological, physiological, and behavioral stress responses during and after racialized incidents on campuses. The purpose of this study is to quantitatively test the racial battle fatigue framework for Latina/o students using structural equation modeling. Findings suggest that psychological stress responses for Latinas/os are most impacted by racial microaggressions in the racial battle fatigue framework.

Introducing The Laws Of The Knowledge Workplace, Dariusz Jemielniak

Dariusz Jemielniak

No abstract provided.

Ekonomia Daru I Społeczności Otwartej Współpracy – Nowe Kierunki Badań Społecznych, Martyna Kobus, Dariusz Jemielniak

Dariusz Jemielniak

Artykuł przybliża zagadnienie ekonomii daru w społecznościach internetowych jako nowego, fascynującego obszaru badań. Pokazuje, że ekonomia daru i forma organizacji w społecznościach otwartej współpracy mogą być rozumiane jako nowy paradygmat relacji wymiany. Opisuje problematykę ekonomii daru i organizacji otwartej współpracy w naukach ekonomicznych i – przede wszystkim – naukach o zarządzaniu, przedstawiając je jako temat wart szczególnej uwagi i zainteresowania badawczego, zwłaszcza początkujących badaczy.