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User Interfaces For The Exploration Of Hierarchical Multi-Dimensional Data, Mark Sifer

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

A variety of user interfaces have been developed to support the querying of hierarchical multi-dimensional data in an OLAP setting such as pivot tables and more recently Polaris. They are used to regularly check portions of a dataset and to explore a new dataset for the first time. In this paper, we establish criteria for OLAP user interface capabilities to facilitate comparison. Two criteria are the number of displayed dimensions along which comparisons can be made and the number of dimensions that are viewable at once¿visual comparison depth and width. We argue that interfaces with greater visual comparison depth support …

The Engineering Of Experience, Zhaohao Sun, H. Huo

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Experience has been playing an important role in history of human and current social activities. Automating experience is also one of the most important parts for artificial intelligence. This paper will examine experience and experience based reasoning, experience management, experience engineering and their interrelationships. Then it will propose a unified architecture of experience engineering from a viewpoint of systems development methodologies. This architecture ties together philosophies, methodologies, techniques, tools and applications into a unified framework that includes both logical and intelligent embodiments of the aspects of experience engineering. The proposed approach will facilitate the development of experience management, experience engineering …

Casualties, Polls, And The Iraq War, Jason Reifler, Christopher Gelpi

Political Science Faculty Publications

In their article “Success Matters: Casualty Sensitivity and the War in Iraq,” Christopher Gelpi, Peter Feaver, and Jason Reifler attempt to flush out the relationship between public opinion and the use of force as it pertains to the Iraq war.1 The authors promote the following proposition: “Our thesis is that expectations of future success are the key determinants of public casualty tolerance. That is, the U.S. public can accept that the war is not yet won and will involve continued and even mounting costs, provided that events thus far are not convincing it that eventual success is impossible” (p. 24). …

Reflections - Fall 2006, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina

Reflections

Contents:

William Sudduth Chairs Federal Depository Library Council..... p.1
Groundbreakings Herald Construction for New Library Wings..... p.1
University Receives Major John Milton Collection..... p.3
In Memoriam: T. Eston Marchant..... p.4
New Online Catalog and TCL Renovations Celebrated..... p.5
Enhancing the New Online Library Catalog.....p.5
TCL Receives Materials about the History of Personal Computing..... p.5
As Good as Gold: Library Volunteer Harvey Teal..... p.6
Rembert Gives Talk on Rare S.C. Watercolors..... p.6
Cultural Hearth: William Gilmore Simms And His State..... p.7
Evans Carlson in China: Symposium and Exhibit..... p.7
The Papers of the Reverend I. DeQuincey Newman..... p.8
Summer Scholars Visit …

The Need To Weed: Weeding The Nursing Print Collection – Justification, Marketing, Implementation, Karen Gilbert

Library Faculty and Staff Papers and Presentations

Examining issues around a major weed of EKU Libraries' print Nursing collection. With Victoria Koger.

Thomas Cooper Society Newsletter - Fall 2006, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina

Thomas Cooper Society Newsletter

Contents:

The Thomas Cooper Society Events, 2005–2006..... p.1
Groundbreakings Held for New Library Wings..... p.1
Rhett Jackson Receives Honors..... p.2
Audubon Exhibit Draws Appreciative Crowds..... p.3
Hunt Endowment Enhances Biography Holdings..... p.3
University Receives Major John Milton Collection..... p.4
Evans Carlson in China: Symposium and Exhibit..... p.6
Rembert Gives Talk on Rare S.C. Watercolors..... p.6
2006 Roy Fellow Is Kirsteen McCue..... p.6
William Price Fox Reading Held at SCL..... p.6
William Blake, Visionary and Illustrator..... p.7
Mountains Beyond Mountains..... p.8
Thomas Cooper Society Officers, 2006–2007..... p.8
Thomas Cooper Society Board Members, 2006–2007..... p.8

The Planet, 2006, Fall, Shawn C. Query, Huxley College Of The Environment, Western Washington University

The Planet

No abstract provided.

Afterschool Matters Occasional Paper Fall 2006, National Institute On Out-Of-School Time

Afterschool Matters

The Art of Democracy / Democracy as Art: Creative Learning in Afterschool Comic Book Clubs
By Michael Bitz
Over the past three years, hundreds of community-based afterschool comic book clubs have been launched in cities across the United States. These clubs have drawn in thousands of underserved youths in grades 1–12. In these clubs, children plan, write, sketch, design, and produce original comic books and then publish and distribute their works for other children in the community to use as learning and motivational tools. This synthetic and analytic research project explores the dynamics, outcomes, and impacts of afterschool comic book …

Montana Nonresident Traveler Expenditure Profiles: 2005, Kara Grau

Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research Publications

This report examines spending profiles of nonresident travelers to Montana. It displays the average daily expenditures by purpose of trip for different spending categories during 2005.

Rediscovering Toscanini: The Man Behind The Legend, Mark Mcknight, Susannah Cleveland

University Libraries Faculty Publications

Focuses on the Don Gillis Collection, which the University of North Texas Music Library acquired after Gillis's death in 1978. Gillis, a longtime associate of Arturo Toscanini, served as the conductor's assistant and the producer for the NBC Symphony broadcast concerts from 1944 until they ended ten years later. The collection includes hundreds of tape recordings, among them complete tapes of the NBC Radio programsToscanini: The Man Behind the Legend and Toscanini: The Centennial Series, and the interviews conducted for these two programs.

The Divorce Decree, Communication, And The Structuration Of Coparenting Relationships In Stepfamilies, Paul Schrodt, Leslie A. Baxter, M. Chad Mcbride, Dawn O. Braithwaite, Mark A. Fine

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

Using Giddens’s (1984) structuration theory, this study explored the communicative processes surrounding the divorce decree in coparenting relationships in stepfamilies. Participants included 21 adults who were coparenting children in stepfamilies who completed diary entries of all interactions with coparents over a 2-week period, and who completed follow-up interviews. Results revealed two structures of signification with respect to the divorce decree that enabled and constrained coparenting interactions. The first signification structure was one in which the decree was framed as a legal document, dictating the rights and responsibilities of parenting, especially with respect to child access and financial issues. The second …

Perceived Understanding As A Mediator Of Perceived Teacher Confirmation And Students’ Ratings Of Instruction, Paul Schrodt, Paul Turman, Jordan Soliz

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

This study tested two theoretical models of perceived understanding as a potential mediator of perceived teacher confirmation and students’ ratings of instruction. Participants included 651 under-graduate students who completed survey measures. Results of structural equation modeling provided greater support for the confirmation process model, whereby students’ perceived under-standing partially mediated the effects of perceived teacher confirmation on both teacher credibility and evaluations. Further, perceived teacher confirmation accounted for 64% of the variance in perceived understanding, and both confirmation and understanding accounted for 70% and 72% of the variances in teacher evaluations and credibility, respectively. Among the more important implications of …

Agendas, Arguments, And Political Theory, John D. Harman, Deborah Vanderbilt

Political Science Faculty/Staff Publications

If teaching is not the oldest profession, it certainly has a long historical pedigree. The frustrations teaching evokes likely have an equally long pedigree. One sees in Plato's Republic, for example, Socrates' frustration in trying to convey to Glaukon the aims of the educational scheme he is presenting to his interlocutors in Book 8. His evident difficulties relaying this information have doubtless struck sympathetic chords in the breasts of countless generations of teachers. Frustration has certainly been the case for the present authors, particularly in teaching the analysis and understanding of secondary commentary on classic texts; when reading such …

Field-Based Experience In Light Of Changing Demographics, Fred Jay Krieg, Joyce Meikamp, Stephen L. O’Keefe, Sandra S. Stroebel

School Psychology Faculty Research

Due to changing demographics of students admitted to the School Psychology Training Program at Marshall University Graduate College, it has become imperative to significantly expand field experiences beginning in the first semester to address the lack of educational background of most of the students entering the program. This organized sequence of field experiences continues throughout the program, parallel to classroom instruction, affording opportunities for students to put theory into practice and to interact with professionals in the field, while also allowing for exposure to the public school environment. The collaborative field experience sequence provides the students with early and continuous …

Mujeres Y Trabajo: La Participación De La Mujer En La Fuerza Laboral De La Frontera Texas-México, Irasema Coronado, Christine Thurlow Brenner

Irasema Coronado

No abstract provided.

The Southeastern Librarian V. 54, No. 3 (Fall 2006) Complete Issue

The Southeastern Librarian

Complete issue of The Southeastern Librarian, volume 54, no. 3 (Fall 2006).

Keeping Up With Expectations, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

USER EXPECTATIONS ARE CHANGING, mainly owing to the web, search engines, and advances in communications technology. Libraries and information industry providers are taking steps, both large and small, to keep pace.

Measuring Total Readings Of Journal Articles., Donald W. King, Carol Tenopir, Michael Clarke

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

There have been hundreds, perhaps thousands, of studies of journal reading by professionals in such fields as science, engineering, medicine, law, social science and the humanities. These studies have been done for many reasons, including research to better understand professional communication patterns and the role this plays in their work. Some studies also focus on providing specific information to journal system participants such as publishers, librarians, other intermediaries and their funders. In this article we present a description of a little used but powerful method of observing reading by scientists (1). This method is designed to measure the …

Age-Related Functional Recruitment For Famous Name Recognition: An Event-Related Fmri Study, Kristy A. Nielson, Kelli Douville, Michael Seidenberg, John L. Woodard, Sarah K. Miller, Malgorzata Franczak, Piero Antuono, Stephen M. Rao

Psychology Faculty Research and Publications

Recent neuroimaging research shows that older adults exhibit recruitment, or increased activation on various cognitive tasks. The current study evaluated whether a similar pattern also occurs in semantic memory by evaluating age-related differences during recognition of Recent (since the 1990s) and Enduring (1950s to present) famous names. Fifteen healthy older and 15 healthy younger adults performed the name recognition task with a high and comparable degree of accuracy, although older adults had slower reaction time in response to Recent famous names. Event-related functional MRI showed extensive networks of activation in the two groups including posterior cingulate, right hippocampus, temporal lobe …

Ua1b5 New Faculty 2006-2007, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

List of new WKU faculty.

New Expression: October 2006 (Volume 29), Columbia College Chicago

New Expression

October 2006, Volume 29, edition of New Expression, a news publication researched, contributed, written, and edited by Chicago high school journalists

Needs Analysis Of 6th-9th Graders At An English Writing Camp: English Writing Proficiency And Needs On English Writing, Jimin Khang

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages Faculty Publications

This study is to analyze needs of the students and the teachers in English writing for the betterment of a one-week English writing camp program. The participants of the study were 94 students, who enrolled in the writing camp, and 10 English native teachers in the camp. Three goals of the current study are 1) to examine the camp students’ level of English writing, 2) to analyze needs of the students and teachers of the camp, and, finally 3) to investigate the relationship between students’ level of English writing and various learner factors. In order to examine the students’ level …

Singapore Management University Receives A Significant Gift Of Art From Artist Chua Ek Kay, Singapore Management University

SMU Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Efficient Dynamic Auctions, Dirk Bergemann, Juuso Välimäki

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

We consider the truthful implementation of the socially efficient allocation in a dynamic private value environment in which agents receive private information over time. We show that a suitable generalization of the Vickrey-Clark-Groves mechanism, based on the marginal contribution of each agent, leads to truthtelling in every period. A leading example of a dynamic allocation model is the sequential auction of a single good in which the current winner of the object receives additional information about her valuation. We show that a modified sequential second price auction in which only the current winner makes a positive payment leads to truthtelling. …

A Complete Asymptotic Series For The Autocovariance Function Of A Long Memory Process, Offer Lieberman, Peter C.B. Phillips

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

An infinite-order asymptotic expansion is given for the autocovariance function of a general stationary long-memory process with memory parameter d in (-1/2,1/2). The class of spectral densities considered includes as a special case the stationary and invertible ARFIMA(p,d,q) model. The leading term of the expansion is of the order O (1/ k 1-2 d ), where k is the autocovariance order, consistent with the well known power law decay for such processes, and is shown to be accurate to an error of O(1/ k 3-2d ). The derivation uses Erdélyi’s (1956) expansion for Fourier-type integrals when there are critical points …

Log Periodogram Regression: The Nonstationary Case, Chang Sik Kim, Peter C.B. Phillips

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

Estimation of the memory parameter ( d ) is considered for models of nonstationary fractionally integrated time series with d > (1/2). It is shown that the log periodogram regression estimator of d is inconsistent when 1 < d < 2 and is consistent when (1/2) < d = 1. For d > 1, the estimator is shown to converge in probability to unity.

Book Review Of Plains Earthlodges: Ethnographic And Archaeological Perspectives Edited By Donna C. Roper And Elizabeth P. Pauls, Thomas D. Thiessen

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Nomadic Plains peoples such as the Cheyenne and Sioux have become the stereotypical image of North American Indians in general. In contrast to the hunting and gathering lifestyle of these groups, however, many Plains tribes lived in settled villages and grew extensive garden crops through much of the past millennium. These groups developed a habitation distinctly characteristic of the Plains village way of life-sturdy, earth-covered timber structures known as earth lodges. The remains of thousands of these structures dot the landscape of the Central and Northern Plains. Lodges of various forms persisted from about 1000 CE into the twentieth century. …

Hsu Library Newsletter, 2006-2007 Volume 1, Humboldt State University Library

Library Publications

• LibQual Results
• Library Booksale Scheduled for October 25
• Expression Sessions
• New Databases
• Library Web Page Navigation Improved
• Classical Music from the Library
• Basement Flood
• Library Budget

Book Review Of Discovering North American Rock Art Edited By Lawrence L. Loendorf, Christopher Chippindale, And David S. Whitley, Linea Sundstrom

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

If readers of Great Plains Research are seeking a window on rock art research in North America, this book provides a few clear panes, a few that are hazy, and a few muddy ones. Like many edited volumes, the weaker contributions and lack of a consistent style limit the book's usefulness. Some authors target a general readership; others clearly are addressing colleagues.

The book has two stated themes: the history of rock art research in North America and recent approaches to rock art analysis. Articles by Julie Francis and (jointly) David Whitley and Jean Clottes explore why rock art research …

Are Anti-Spit Tobacco Campaigns Striking Out? A Survey Of Iowa And Nebraska College Baseball Players, David C. Ogden, Teresa A. Lamsam, Hugh J. Reilly, Michael L. Hilt

Communication Faculty Publications

Anti-spit tobacco information is replete with fear appeals, including firsthand accounts of death and debilitation, to make users aware of the health risks and dangers. Those dangers, however, are well known by baseball players whose association with spit tobacco is historic. A survey of 217 Iowa and Nebraska college players showed that despite their awareness of spit tobacco's dangers, the players use spit tobacco to relax and focus on the field. This study supports other research showing that fear appeals may not be the most appropriate approach for anti-tobacco advertising campaigns. The study suggests that campaigns should promote relaxation and …