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Gender Issues In The Lion And The Jewel By Wole Soyinka: A Linguistics-Oriented Analysis From A Systemic Functional Grammar And Critical Discourse Analysis Perspective :: Science Publishing Group, Patrice C. Akogbeto, Albert O. Koukpossi Jun 2015

Gender Issues In The Lion And The Jewel By Wole Soyinka: A Linguistics-Oriented Analysis From A Systemic Functional Grammar And Critical Discourse Analysis Perspective :: Science Publishing Group, Patrice C. Akogbeto, Albert O. Koukpossi

Bahram Kazemian

The term gender is relatively new in such disciplines as Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science, Sociolinguistics, let alone with Literary Linguistics. As opposed to sex which refers to biological characteristics, gender is culture based. Nowadays, it is actively recommended to include aspects of gender in whatever project we undertake. The present article is an attempt at probing the language used by male and female characters in Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel to see how gender issues are grounded in the play to let it play its didactic role. The aim is to pinpoint the way female and male are represented …

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Guía General De Escuelas Y Corrientes De Pensamiento Económico., Sergio A. Berumen Jun 2015

Guía General De Escuelas Y Corrientes De Pensamiento Económico., Sergio A. Berumen

Sergio A. Berumen

Guía general de las principales Escuelas y corrientes de Pensamiento Económico. Se hace una descripción por grupos y épocas. Este material docente es de libre acceso, favor de citarlo como sigue: SERGIO A. BERUMEN [2015]. "Guía General de Escuelas y Corrientes de Pensamiento Económico", Lecciones de Economía para No Economistas, ESIC, Business & Marketing School, 2ª edición, Madrid. ISBN. 978-84-15986-86-7. sergio.berumen@urjc.es

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Undergraduate Diversity Scholar Program: A Proactive Approach To Creating An Inclusive And Multicultural Workforce, Adrian K. Ho, Judy Sackett Jun 2015

Undergraduate Diversity Scholar Program: A Proactive Approach To Creating An Inclusive And Multicultural Workforce, Adrian K. Ho, Judy Sackett

Adrian K. Ho

The University of Kentucky (UK) Libraries approved a statement in September 2013 confirming its commitment to cultivating and encouraging diversity and inclusivity in its personnel policies and in its collections, programs, and services. The library subsequently developed an Undergraduate Diversity Scholar Program to provide two students with a paid internship in the 2014/15 academic year. UK undergraduates interested in diversity issues were encouraged to apply. Applicants were evaluated based on their work experience, volunteer or service activities, recommendations from two referees, and an essay about their belief in the benefits of a diverse society. The successful candidates started the inaugural …

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General Guide Of Schools Of Economic Thought, Sergio A. Berumen Jun 2015

General Guide Of Schools Of Economic Thought, Sergio A. Berumen

Sergio A. Berumen

This educational material is freely accessible. Please quote it in the following way: SERGIO A. BERUMEN [2015]. "General Guide To Schools Of Economic Thought", Lecciones de Economía para No Economistas, ESIC, Business & Marketing School, 2nd edition, Madrid. ISBN. 978-84-15986-86-7. sergio.berumen@urjc.es

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Update To The Nces Ipeds Academic Libraries Component, Robert Dugan, Teresa Fishel, Mark Mccallon Jun 2015

Update To The Nces Ipeds Academic Libraries Component, Robert Dugan, Teresa Fishel, Mark Mccallon

Teresa A. Fishel

This presentation was an update on the changes being proposed for the next iteration of the IPEDS academic library survey component. In addition, suggested changes for the annual survey conducted by ACRL to be implemented for the 2014-15 survey were presented. A discussion with members of the audience focused on issues they faced in completing the annual surveys.

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A Quick Journey Through Historical Fiction Covers And Trends, Sarah L. Johnson Jun 2015

A Quick Journey Through Historical Fiction Covers And Trends, Sarah L. Johnson

Sarah L. Johnson

This presentation provides a brief overview of selected trends in historical fiction cover art.

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Ramadan Fasting: Four Levels Of Spirituality, Muqtedar Khan Jun 2015

Ramadan Fasting: Four Levels Of Spirituality, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

The article identifies four levels of spirituality that can be attained through fasting.

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Closing The Door To Lost Earnings Under The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act Of 1986, Aaron M. Levin Jun 2015

Closing The Door To Lost Earnings Under The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act Of 1986, Aaron M. Levin

Aaron M Levin

After a wave of lawsuits against vaccine manufacturers hindered the profitability and production of life-saving vaccines, Congress enacted The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. The Act offers an incentive for individuals to get vaccinated in order to mitigate the population’s exposure to disease, while encouraging the continued production of these serums by pharmaceutical companies. Although imperfect, the Vaccine Act fosters promise in filtering out frivolous claims and provides a central route for due process to the individuals who suffer from a vaccine-related injury. By removing a potential state tort issue to the Federal Circuit, Congress created a reasonably …

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An Approach To The Regulation Of Spanish Banking Foundations, Miguel Martínez Jun 2015

An Approach To The Regulation Of Spanish Banking Foundations, Miguel Martínez

Miguel Martínez

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the legal framework governing banking foundations as they have been regulated by Spanish Act 26/2013, of December 27th, on savings banks and banking foundations. Title 2 of this regulation addresses a construct that is groundbreaking for the Spanish legal system, still of paramount importance for the entire financial system insofar as these foundations become the leading players behind certain banking institutions given the high interest that foundations hold in the share capital of such institutions.

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Challenge Of Leadership: The 3c Approach As Way Forward, Oluwaseun Viyon Ojo Jun 2015

Challenge Of Leadership: The 3c Approach As Way Forward, Oluwaseun Viyon Ojo

Oluwaseun Viyon Ojo

Leadership is a perennial problem in the Nigerian society and it is in dire need in every facet of the society. It is therefore expedient that urgent steps be taken to see to it that the vacuum of leadership is filled with a clear sight on the way forward. Thus, it is suggested in this piece that a 3c approach is the possible way forward most especially from the perspectives of youths, who are more often claimed as the leaders of tomorrow.It is hoped that the leadership gap will be narrowed if the suggestions are taken into consideration and applied …

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Small Firms And Domestic Bank Dependence In Europe's Great Recession, Mathias Hoffmann, Bent E. Sorensen Jun 2015

Small Firms And Domestic Bank Dependence In Europe's Great Recession, Mathias Hoffmann, Bent E. Sorensen

Mathias Hoffmann

The paper studies the role of small businesses (SME) in the transmission of the Eurozone crisis to member countries and whether regions or countries with many SMEs were less able to share risk. Our analysis draws attention to domestic bank dependence---defined as the share of domestic private credit originated by domestic banks---as a key variable modulated the impact of shocks on bank-dependent SMEs and thus on the real economy. We argue that Eurozone banking integration in the years after the creation of the single currency was lopsided in the sense that, until 2008, cross-border lending between banks increased markedly while …

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Avenues To Foreign Investment In China’S Shipping Industry—Have Lease Financing Arrangements And The Free Trade Zones Opened Markets For Foreign Non-Bank Investment?, Rick Beaumont Jun 2015

Avenues To Foreign Investment In China’S Shipping Industry—Have Lease Financing Arrangements And The Free Trade Zones Opened Markets For Foreign Non-Bank Investment?, Rick Beaumont

Rick Beaumont

No abstract provided.

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An Investigation Of Nominalization And Lexical Density In Undergraduate Research Proposals, Thu Ha T. Nguyen, Emily C. Edwards Jun 2015

An Investigation Of Nominalization And Lexical Density In Undergraduate Research Proposals, Thu Ha T. Nguyen, Emily C. Edwards

Bahram Kazemian

Academic writing is considered an essential skill for academic success not only for undergraduate study but also for students’ further education and professional development. This writing genre has certain characteristics often lacking in students’ research writing. This study explores two characteristics in students’ research proposals, nominalization and lexical density (LD), after the students completed courses on academic writing and Second Language Research (SLR) in their second year at a Vietnamese pedagogical university. It also investigates the effectiveness of writing training in increasing students’ performance regarding the use of given features. The findings, obtained from analyzing students’ proposals and recorded interviews, …

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Using Network Analysis To Understand Public Health Delivery Systems & Community Health Initiatives, Glen P. Mays Jun 2015

Using Network Analysis To Understand Public Health Delivery Systems & Community Health Initiatives, Glen P. Mays

Glen Mays

The increasingly connected world of health care delivery relies on an expanding frontier of multi-stakeholder structures and processes, from interdisciplinary patient-centered care teams, to virtual accountable care organizations (ACOs), to complex community-level interventions. This session highlights recent advances in applying social network analysis (SNA) methods to study the implementation and impact of these types of innovations. This methods workshop examines the benefits and limits of novel SNA applications based on the expanding availability of large, linkable electronic clinical and administrative data sources with dependent data structures. This paper profiles examples of using SNA principles and methods to study the implementation …

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Learning From Network Analysis: Care Transitions, Market Competition, And Community Interventions, Glen P. Mays Jun 2015

Learning From Network Analysis: Care Transitions, Market Competition, And Community Interventions, Glen P. Mays

Glen Mays

The increasingly connected world of health care delivery relies on an expanding frontier of multi-stakeholder structures and processes, from interdisciplinary patient-centered care teams, to virtual accountable care organizations (ACOs), to complex community-level interventions. This methods workshop highlights recent advances in applying social network analysis (SNA) methods to study the implementation and impact of these types of innovations. This session will examine the benefits and limits of novel SNA applications based on the expanding availability of large, linkable electronic clinical and administrative data sources with dependent data structures.

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Learning From Delivery System Behavior, Dynamics, And Interactions To Advance A Culture Of Health, Glen P. Mays Jun 2015

Learning From Delivery System Behavior, Dynamics, And Interactions To Advance A Culture Of Health, Glen P. Mays

Glen Mays

A new "Systems for Action" national research program flows directly from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Culture of Health action framework. This program will build evidence on how best to align the delivery and financing systems for medical care, public health, and community services & supports so as to promote wellbeing and resiliency, realize efficiencies in resource use, and reduce inequities in health.

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Changes In Public Health System Capital And Long-Run Health And Economic Outcomes: 1998 To 2014, Glen P. Mays, Cezar B. Mamaril Jun 2015

Changes In Public Health System Capital And Long-Run Health And Economic Outcomes: 1998 To 2014, Glen P. Mays, Cezar B. Mamaril

Glen Mays

Research Objective: The Affordable Care Act created new resources and incentives for hospitals, insurers, public health agencies, and others to contribute to disease prevention and health promotion activities, potentially changing the structure of public health delivery systems and expanding the implementation of strategies that improve population health. This study uses data from the 1998-2014 National Longitudinal Survey of Public Health Systems to examine: (1) the extent and nature of change in inter-organizational contributions to public health activities, which we use as indicators of public health “system capital”; and (2) the effects of these changes on preventable mortality and resource use. …

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The Hourly Minimum Wage And The Vouchers System In The 2014 Italian Reform And The Economic Policy Background, Barbara Grandi Jun 2015

The Hourly Minimum Wage And The Vouchers System In The 2014 Italian Reform And The Economic Policy Background, Barbara Grandi

barbara grandi

No abstract provided.

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The New Panama Canal In A Global Context, Herman L. Boschken Jun 2015

The New Panama Canal In A Global Context, Herman L. Boschken

Herman L. Boschken

Without the "container revolution" (1970-present) and its redesign of seaport and maritime-trade infrastructures, globalization as we know it would not exist. With the recent enlargements of the Panama and Suez Canals, many new implications for U.S. economic trade are unfolding. This presentation at the Commonwealth Club of California, outlines recent changes in world trade and infrastructure development, and poses five factors that will likely determine winners and losers in the unfolding developments of this highly competitive world trade-route system.

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Dataverse In The Universe Of Data, Christine Borgman Jun 2015

Dataverse In The Universe Of Data, Christine Borgman

Christine L. Borgman

Data repositories are much more than "black boxes" where data go in but may never come out. Rather, they are situated in communities, with contributors, users, reusers, and repository staff who may engage actively or passively with participants. This talk will explore the roles that Dataverse plays – or could play – in individual communities.

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Realism And Pm Narendra Modi’S Foreign Policy: Identification Of Gaps, Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr. Jun 2015

Realism And Pm Narendra Modi’S Foreign Policy: Identification Of Gaps, Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr.

Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr.

Indian PM Narendra Modi is a dynamic leader. There are several discussions on his foreign policy, most of these have not studied it with a realist perspective. The present paper uses realist theoretical framework to identify the gaps in foreign policy.

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Data, Data Everywhere — But How To Manage And Govern?, Christine Borgman Jun 2015

Data, Data Everywhere — But How To Manage And Govern?, Christine Borgman

Christine L. Borgman

Universities are drowning in data, not only data produced by their researchers and students, but also data they collect about their communities. Research data are subject to sharing and retention requirements by funding agencies and journals. Data from course management systems, faculty personnel records, security cameras, and social media are being used as indicators for decision making. This talk will identify some of the challenges faced by universities in managing and governing these complex categories of data. Material is drawn from Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World (Borgman, 2015, MIT Press) and the UCLA Data …

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Managing E-Book Patron-Driven Acquisitions, Rusty Tryon Jun 2015

Managing E-Book Patron-Driven Acquisitions, Rusty Tryon

Rusty Tryon

No abstract provided.

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National Health Security Preparedness Index: Recommendations From The National Advisory Committee, Glen P. Mays, Michael Childress, Anna Goodman Hoover, Chris Bollinger Jun 2015

National Health Security Preparedness Index: Recommendations From The National Advisory Committee, Glen P. Mays, Michael Childress, Anna Goodman Hoover, Chris Bollinger

Glen Mays

This meeting of the National Advisory Committee for the National Health Security Preparedness Index program discussed strategies for improving the theoretical framework, measures, and analytic methodologies used in assessing and comparing preparedness levels across U.S. states and the nation as a whole.

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Data, Management, And Digital Science, Christine Borgman Jun 2015

Data, Management, And Digital Science, Christine Borgman

Christine L. Borgman

No abstract provided.

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China's Global Growth In Social Science Research: Uncovering Evidence From Bibliometric Analyses Of Ssci Publications (1978–2013), Weishu Liu Jun 2015

China's Global Growth In Social Science Research: Uncovering Evidence From Bibliometric Analyses Of Ssci Publications (1978–2013), Weishu Liu

Weishu Liu

The phenomenon of China's rise as an emerging scientific power has been well documented, yet the development of its social science is less explored. Utilizing up-to-date Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) publication data (1978–2013), this paper probes the patterns and dynamics of China's social science research via bibliometric analyses. Our research indicates that despite the national orientation of social science research and the linguistic obstacle of publishing for an international audience, China's publications in the SSCI dataset have been rising in terms of volume, world share, and global ranking. But China is still not yet a major player in the …

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Cost Estimation In Public Health Services & Systems Research, Glen P. Mays Jun 2015

Cost Estimation In Public Health Services & Systems Research, Glen P. Mays

Glen Mays

Considerable uncertainty persists about the resources required to implement public health programs and policies, and about the factors that drive variation in resource needs and utilization across community and institutional settings. This paper reviews several alternative approaches to cost estimation that we have used in the field of public health services & systems research (PHSSR). This review was prepared for an expert panel meeting convened as part of a study commissioned by the U.S. Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) to estimate the costs associated with public health emergency preparedness capabilities.

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Capital Stock Series Of The Mexican Regions, Vicente German-Soto Jun 2015

Capital Stock Series Of The Mexican Regions, Vicente German-Soto

Vicente German-Soto

Database of the physical capital stock series of the Mexican states industrial sector.

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Not Just A Tool. Taking Context Into Account In The Development Of A Mobile App For Rural Water Supply In Tanzania, Robert Hoppe, Anne Wesselink, Rob Lemmens Jun 2015

Not Just A Tool. Taking Context Into Account In The Development Of A Mobile App For Rural Water Supply In Tanzania, Robert Hoppe, Anne Wesselink, Rob Lemmens

Robert Hoppe

The 'eGovernance' hype around the potential of mobile phone and geoweb technologies for enhancing 'good governance' is soaring. In East Africa, the extensive use of mobile telephony adds to the imagined promises of ICT. We reflect on the assumptions made by the proponents of such tools, using our own action research project as an example. We took great care to consider context in the development of software for enhancing empowerment and accountability in rural water supply in Tanzania. However, we found that the rural water supply context in Tanzania is much more complex than the contexts for which successful mApps …

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Course, Counselor, And Teacher Gaps: Addressing The College Readiness Challenge In High-Poverty High Schools, Rhonda Tsoi-A-Fatt Bryant Jun 2015

Course, Counselor, And Teacher Gaps: Addressing The College Readiness Challenge In High-Poverty High Schools, Rhonda Tsoi-A-Fatt Bryant

Rhonda Tsoi-A-Fatt Bryant

More than half of all public school children live in low-income families. As the number of poor children has risen, so has the number of children who attend high-poverty schools. According to 2012 data, the most recent available, 1 in 5 children attend a school where at least 75 percent of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch—up from 12 percent just 12 years ago. Concentrated poverty is most prevalent in urban areas, where 34 percent of students attend high-poverty schools. Given the racial/ethnic makeup of our nation's urban centers, many of these students are children of color.Students in high-poverty …

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