Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons^™

Book Reviews -- Monographic Musings, Debbie Vaughn

Against the Grain

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Questions & Answers -- Copyright Column, Laura N. Gasaway

Against the Grain

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Cases Of Note -- Vicarious Copyright Liability - Grok Out, Bruce Strauch, Ruth Fischer

Against the Grain

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Books Are Us, Anne Robichaux

Against the Grain

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And They Were There -- Reports Of Meetings -- Fifth Timberline Acquisitions Institute And Ala Annual Conference, Editor

Against the Grain

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Lost In Austin, Thomas W. Leonhardt

Against the Grain

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I, User -- Task-Based Strategic Planning: Changing Libraries Through Workflow Analysis, Rick Lugg

Against the Grain

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Issues In Vendor/Library Relations -- Way Cul, Bob Nardini

Against the Grain

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Biz Of Acq -- Ten Years After: How Positions With A Serials Emphasis Have Changed A Decade After The World Wide Web, Rob Withers

Against the Grain

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Leaving The Books Behind -- Bookshelves, Mary E. (Tinker) Massey

Against the Grain

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Drinking From The Firehose -- The "Poof Effect:" The Impact Of E-Journals Bought And Sold, Eleanor I. Cook

Against the Grain

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Webworthy, Pamela M. Rose M.L.S.

Against the Grain

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Bet You Missed It -- Press Clippings -- In The News -- Carefully Selected By Your Crack Team Of News Sleuths, Pamela M. Rose M.L.S.

Against the Grain

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Desperately Seeking Copyright -- Going Global: Librarians Take On International Compliance Role, Edward W. Colleran

Against the Grain

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Rumo(U)Rs From Paddington, Daryl Rayner

Against the Grain

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When Content Goes Digital, Judy Luther Mls, Mba

Against the Grain

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Reexamining Mandatory Hiv Partner Notification In Florida

Florida Public Health Review

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Interpreting Workplace Learning In Terms Of Discourse And Community Of Practice, Adrian K. Ho

Western Libraries Publications

Based on the ethnographic data collected from the workplace of an academic library, I argue that workplace learning (WL) is a situated socio-cognitive process. It is expedited by knowledge management (KM), which is a collective effort to generate, share, and institutionalize work-related knowledge. KM is inherent in the face-to-face conversational interactions embedded in planned formal training, planned informal sharing, and spontaneous informal learning. When face-to-face interaction is not possible, KM is accomplished through textualization. It helps the members of the workplace acquire new work-related knowledge and integrate it to their common, contextualized knowledge base. The contents of the knowledge base …

Centennial Library E-News, November/December 2004, Cedarville University

Centennial Library Shelf Life

Articles in this issue: User education program now scheduling for Spring semester, Centennial Library participating again in national library assessment project, New nursing and music databases available on-line, 4,000,000^TH article and three new publishers added to the Electronic Journal Center, University faculty in print, Alumni in print, Library policy beat: Library holiday and semester break hours.

Rule-Based And Case-Based Reasoning In Housing Prices, Gabrielle Gayer, Itzhak Gilboa, Offer Lieberman

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

People reason about real-estate prices both in terms of general rules and in terms of analogies to similar cases. We propose to empirically test which mode of reasoning fits the data better. To this end, we develop the statistical techniques required for the estimation of the case-based model. It is hypothesized that case-based reasoning will have relatively more explanatory power in databases of rental apartments, whereas rule-based reasoning will have a relative advantage in sales data. We motivate this hypothesis on theoretical grounds, and find empirical support for it by comparing the two statistical techniques (rule-based and case-based) on two …

Retrospective On The Postwar Productivity Slowdown, William D. Nordhaus

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

The present study reviews the “productivity slowdown” of the 1970s and 1980s. The study also develops a new data set — industrial data available back to 1948 — as well as a new set of tools for decomposing changes in productivity growth. The major result of this study is that the productivity slowdown of the 1970s has survived three decades of scrutiny, conceptual refinements, and data revisions. The slowdown was primarily centered in those sectors that were most energy-intensive, were hardest hit by the energy shocks of the 1970s, and therefore had large output declines. In a sense, the energy …

Estimated Age Effects In Athletic Events And Chess, Ray C. Fair

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

Rates of decline are estimated using record bests by age for chess and for various track and field, road running, and swimming events. Using a fairly flexible functional form, the estimates show linear percent decline between age 35 and about age 70 and then quadratic decline after that. Chess shows much less decline than the physical activities. Rates of decline are generally larger for the longer distances, and for swimming they are larger for women than for men. An advantage of using best-performance records to estimate rates of decline is that the records are generally based on very large samples. …

A Note On Extending Scheffé’S Modified Multiple-Comparison Procedure To Other Analysis Situations, Xinyue Zhou, Joel R. Levin

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

This article extends Scheffé’s modified (sequential) multiple-comparison procedure in one-way analysisof- variance to other analysis situations, including interaction comparisons in factorial ANOVA designs, tests of partial regression coefficients in multiple-regression analysis, and comparisons of means in onefactor multivariate analyses of variance. Researchers who are concerned with maintaining familywise Type I error rates while increasing statistical power relative to the original (simultaneous) Scheffé-based procedures are encouraged to consider these improved multiple-comparison methods.

A Modification Of The Em Algorithm To Estimate An Andersen-Gill Gamma Frailty Model For Multivariate Failure Time Data, Maria Antònia Barceló, Marc Saez

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

A modification of the Andersen-Gill gamma shared frailty model is presented. The variance of the frailty is directly modeled by means of a generalized linear model, the EM algorithm is modified in order to simultaneously estimate a semiparametric model for the failure times and a model for the variance of the frailty. A simulation study is conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm (EMB algorithm) and compared with other methods, a marginal model, and a conditional model. Multivariate data from a nosocomial infection study is used to illustrate the methods. The EMB fit turned out to be better …

“Teaching” In Honor Of Cliff Blair, Howard Stoker

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

In this article, I conceptualize teaching as the profession of facilitating and stimulating learning. As “teachers”, we help students acquire learning skills that they may expand on later in their life. I review fifteen principles that facilitate effective learning.

Catholic Deaf Apostolate Bulletin, November 2004

Catholic Deaf Apostolate Bulletin

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Rockville Centre, NY

Newsletter Catholic Deaf Of Detroit, November 2004

Newsletter Catholic Deaf of Detroit

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Detroit, MI

Newsletter Catholic Deaf of Detroit Finding Aid

Measurement And Assessment Of Efficiency And Productivity In Kentucky State Government Services, William H. Hoyt

CBER Research Report

Excerpt from the executive summary:

This report examines the provision of a variety of government services within Kentucky. The provision of these public services, specifically the cost of providing these services is examined for the years 1992, 1997, and 2002. In addition, employment and salaries in government services are also examined. In addition to comparing costs within Kentucky during this period, the costs of providing public services are also compared to costs of the same government services by its neighboring states (Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia).

Start Improving Today The Next Year Of Your Life, Carla Kimbrough

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Faculty Publications

Is your life better today than it was a year ago?
That may sound similar to the political quip used during political debates, but the question is meant lo prompt thought about you and your life — professionally and personally.
Are you growing and learning? Has your reporting or editing improved? How about your knowledge ot the newsroom? Is it stagnant or alive? How are your leadership skills? Has your work been memorable this year? Has your work changed the way people live, work or play?

A First Step In Form-Based Category Abstraction By 12-Month-Old Infants, Rebecca L. Gómez, Laura Lakusta

Department of Psychology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

The present experiments investigate how young language learners begin to acquire form-based categories and the relationships between them. We investigated this question by exposing 12-month-olds to auditory structure of the form aX and bY (infants had to learn that a-elements grouped with Xs and not Ys). Infants were then tested on strings from their training language versus strings from the other language using a preferential-listening procedure. Importantly, the X and Y elements were new at test, requiring infants to generalize to novel pairings. We also manipulated the probability of encountering grammatical structures of the training language by mixing strings from …