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Book Review Of 'Ambling Into History: The Unlikely Odyssey Of George W. Bush,' By Frank Bruni, Michael A. Genovese

Political Science and International Relations Faculty Works

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Book Review Of '...Ask What You Can Do For Your Country: The Memory And Legacy Of John F. Kennedy' By Dan B. Fleming, Michael A. Genovese

Political Science and International Relations Faculty Works

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Book Review Of 'Encyclopedia Of The Clinton Presidency,' By Peter B. Levy, Michael A. Genovese

Political Science and International Relations Faculty Works

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Book Review Of ' Fraud Of The Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, And The Stolen Election Of 1876' By Roy Morris Jr., Michael A. Genovese

Political Science and International Relations Faculty Works

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Book Review Of 'Grover Cleveland,' By Henry Graff, Michael A. Genovese

Political Science and International Relations Faculty Works

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Book Review Of 'An Independent Man: Adventures Of A Public Servant,' By James Jeffords And Yvonne Daly, Michael A. Genovese

Political Science and International Relations Faculty Works

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Book Review Of "Top Secret: The Kennedy-Khrushchev Letters" Edited By Thomas Fensch, Michael A. Genovese

Political Science and International Relations Faculty Works

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Taxing Problems; Japan, Gene Park

Political Science and International Relations Faculty Works

Most Japanese have long given up waiting for Junichiro Koizumi to achieve anything bold. On July 9th, parliament made a mockery of yet another of the prime minister's cherished causes, by passing a version of his postal-reform plans that fell far short of encouraging private competition.

A History Of Revenue Forecasts, Mark Rider

Faculty Articles

Feenberg et al. (1989) apply a simple regression-based method to test the rationality of state revenue forecasts. Using the same regression-based methodology, we test the rationality of federal revenue forecasts for fiscal year 1802 through 2001. We find that Treasury forecasts of federal revenues satisfy the conditions of weak rationality.

Old Dominion University Library: History, Jean A. Major

Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications

A history of the library at Old Dominion University, written by Jean A. Major, University Librarian 1992-2002.

Virginia Geographic Information System (Gis) Programs And Resources For Libraries, Stuart Frazer

Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications

Over the last ten years geographic information systems (GIS) have drawn increasing attention from the library community. In Virginia the way has been led by the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech library systems, both members of the Association of Research Libraries' GIS Literacy Project (http://www.arl.org/info/gis/index.html) begun in 1992. Many of the Commonwealth's other college and university libraries are now offering GIS services at varying levels of complexity. As library interest in GIS grows, the time seems right for a roundup of resources available from higher education and public sector organizations across the Commonwealth.

Old Dominion University Library: History, Jean A. Major

University History Bookshelf

A history of the library at Old Dominion University, written by Jean A. Major, University Librarian 1992-2002.

Osmotic Borders: Thinking Locally, Thinking Globally About The Causes And Effects Of Labor Migration, Roberto L. Corrada

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

The Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus defines osmosis both as "any process by which something is acquired by absorption," and as a biological cellular function by which solvents are absorbed through semipermeable partitions. The two articles by Professor Sylvia Lazos and Donna Maeda, which both deal with the causes and effects of labor migration, though on different levels and involving different populations, challenge traditional notions of the physical and metaphysical borders between nation-states.

In "Latina/o-ization" of the Midwest: Cambio de Colores, Professor Sylvia Lazos takes a close look at the increasing migration and presence of Latinas/os in the Midwest, particularly Kansas, …

Behavioral Information Security Item Ratings, Jeffrey M. Stanton

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

Item rating data from behavioral information security project.

Ontological Representation Of Learning Objects, Jian Qin, Christina Finneran

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

Many of the existing metadata standards use content metadata elements that are coarse-grained representations of learning resources. These metadata standards limit users ’ access to learning objects that may be at the component level. The authors discuss the need for component level access to learning resources and provide a conceptual framework of the knowledge representation of learning objects that would enable such access.

A Breadth Of Nlp Applications, Elizabeth D. Liddy

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

The Center for Natural Language Processing (CNLP) was founded in September 1999 in the School of Information Studies, the “Original Information School”, at Syracuse University. CNLP’s mission is to advance the development of human-like, language understanding software capabilities for government, commercial, and consumer applications. The Center conducts both basic and applied research, building on its recognized capabilities in Natural Language Processing. The Center’s seventeen employees are a mix of doctoral students in information science or computer engineering, software engineers, linguistic analysts, and research engineers.

Question Answering: Cnlp At The Trec-2002 Question Answering Track, Anne R. Diekema, Jiangping Chen, Nancy Mccracken, Necati Ercan Ozgencil, Mary D. Taffet

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

This paper describes the retrieval experiments for the main task and list task of the TREC-2002 question-answering track. The question answering system described automatically finds answers to questions in a large document collection. The system uses a two-stage retrieval approach to answer finding based on matching of named entities, linguistic patterns, keywords, and the use of a new inference module. In answering a question, the system carries out a detailed query analysis that produces a logical query representation, an indication of the question focus, and answer clue words.

Center For Psychological Studies Specialist Program School Psychology, Nova Southeastern University

CPS Postgraduate Course Catalogs

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The Development Of Private Universities In Kenya, Amadu Jacky Kaba

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Object Recognition Tasks: Comparing Paper Versions To Computerized Laboratory Methods, Jody Guyette, Chris Koch

Faculty Publications - Psychology Department

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The Acquisition Of Learning Strategies In The General Classroom, Kelly B.T. Chang

Faculty Publications - Psychology Department

Selfregulated learning strategies were taught in introductory psychology courses. Students who used the strategies frequently (N=9) and who did not use them (N=10) were interviewed about factors that influenced their use of strategies. Two models were developed: a) a model of contextual and motivational factors influencing study habits, and b) a model of the decision process for acquiring learning strategies. Salient factors influencing study efforts and use of strategies included implicit theories of intelligence, goals in college, interest in class, and valuing practice.

Carve-Outs In Workers' Compensation: An Analysis Of The Experience In The California Construction Industry, David I. Levine, Frank Neuhauser, Richard Reuben, Jeffrey S. Petersen, Cristian Echeverria

Upjohn Press

Employers and unions in several states during the 1990s were allowed to "carve out" their own workers' compensation systems. These innovative reforms gave the parties the right to collectively bargain their own systems outside the statutory systems. In addition, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) systems were implemented in order speed the legal process and reduce litigation costs. This book offers an evaluation of the first few years' experience with these organizational reforms in California.

Imports, Exports, And Jobs: What Does Trade Mean For Employment And Job Loss?, Lori G. Kletzer

Upjohn Press

Kletzer adds to our understanding of the magnitude of the costs and benefits of free trade. She presents a focused examination of the relationship between changes in international trade, employment, and job displacement for a sample of U.S. manufacturing industries. The link between international trade and domestic jobs is also explored through studies of both net and gross employment job change.

The Long-Term Effects Of Study Abroad Experiences On Career, Educational, And Travel Choices, Catherine A. Fagan

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Thousands of U.S. students travel to other countries each year to participate in study programs offered either by their home or the target country institutions. This study explores the effects that these study abroad experiences have on decisions that returning students make with regard to their future educational goals, career choices, and further foreign travel.

Using the alumni database of Cultural Experiences Abroad, a student travel organization, data were gathered from 185 primarily undergraduate students who spent from two weeks to one year as participants in a study abroad program. The students were from various geographic locations in the United …

Urban Librarianship: Libraries, Cities And Beyond, Beth Posner

Publications and Research

As urbanization and urban issues become increasingly universal, the study of urban libraries will become increasingly relevant to all librarians, all library patrons, and all citizens of the world. In light of this, this essay examines how the past development, present issues and future possibilities of cities, urban areas, and urban libraries relate to each other and to the study of urban librarianship.

Testing The Promise Of The Churches: Income Inequality In The Opportunity To Learn Civic Skills In Christian Congregations, Philip Schwadel

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Political researchers point to church activities as a major avenue for lower-class individuals to learn the civic skills necessary for many forms of political participation, the skills that higher-status individuals learn through education and occupation. This article tests this theory through multilevel analyses of the effects of both individual income and average congregational income on three measures of participation in church activities and organizations that offer participants the opportunity to learn and exercise civic skills. The results show that churches are only slightly stratified when it comes to members’ participation in charity, public policy, or social justice organizations within the …

Hemisphere Volume 11, Fall 2002

Hemisphere

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Logos, Biblios & Bibliotheke: Christian Influences In Library Development, John Mark Tucker

The Christian Librarian

The influence of the Christian faith in the growth and development of libraries begins with the fundamental character of Yahweh, God of the Bible. By outlining the characteristics of Yahweh, we begin to understand the conceptual framework on which libraries have come to exist as intellectual, physical, spiritual, and social institutions. Given the limitations of space and format, I am confining my remarks to thematic possibilities, ideas that may merit further exploration. Essential to Yahweh's character is that he acts in a powerful manner by speaking things into existence. He acts in a loving manner by creating individual human beings …

Effective Informal Learning: Considerations For The Workplace, Mark Yannie

The Christian Librarian

This article consists of an academic librarian's suggestions for an individual wanting to be a successful informal Learner in the workplace. Examples of modes of communication, scholarly activity, and education are explored, in addition to helpful mindsets and practical strategies for becoming an efficient and effective informal Learner. Discussion is given concerning an individual's responsibilities and the environmental factors necessary for success in this type of learning. Prevailing climates and attitudes by administrators and employers are examined in addition to how these factors might influence learning of this type

Managing A Digitization Project: One Library's Experience, Nancy J. Olson

The Christian Librarian

The Jessie C. Eury Library of Lincoln Christian College and Seminary (Lincoln, IL) is proud of the "Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement: Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection" on its website at www.lccs.edu/library/hymnals.

This online collection of more than 9,000 hymns from rare 19th century hymnals features works by Alexander Campbell, J.T. Johnson, Walter Scott, and Illinois residents such as Barton W. Stone, Silas W. Leonard, and the Fillmore Brothers. These hymnals were selected from some 2,000 gathered by Mr. Dowling, former academic dean at Lincoln Christian Seminary, throughout his lifetime, including nearly 200 affiliated with the Restoration Movement that arose …