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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Montana Travel Research: 2008, Norma P. Nickerson, Melissa Bruns-Dubois
Montana Travel Research: 2008, Norma P. Nickerson, Melissa Bruns-Dubois
Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research Publications
Outlook for 2008 and Review of 2007.
Do Firms Have Short Memories? Evidence From Major League Baseball, Andrew Healy
Do Firms Have Short Memories? Evidence From Major League Baseball, Andrew Healy
Economics Faculty Works
When deciding what salary to offer an employee, a firm needs to predict that employee’s future productivity. One piece of information that a firm can use to predict productivity is the employee’s past performance record. Classical theory predicts that firms will effectively use the available information to choose an appropriate salary offer. Evidence from baseball contracts indicates, however, that memory-based biases influence salary offers. Consistent with insights from psychology and behavioral economics, salaries are affected too much by recent performance compared with past performance. All organizations do not suffer equally from short memories. The teams that achieve the most with …
Why Is It A Crime To Stomp On A Goldfish? - Harm, Victimhood And The Structure Of Anti-Cruelty Offenses, Luis E. Chiesa
Why Is It A Crime To Stomp On A Goldfish? - Harm, Victimhood And The Structure Of Anti-Cruelty Offenses, Luis E. Chiesa
Journal Articles
No abstract provided.
Drawing Back From The Abyss, Or Lessons Learned From Count Von Count, John Henry Schlegel
Drawing Back From The Abyss, Or Lessons Learned From Count Von Count, John Henry Schlegel
Journal Articles
No abstract provided.
International Trade In Seafood And Related Products: An Assessment Of U.S. Trade Patterns, James E. Kirkley, John M. Ward, Christopher M. Moore, Christopher Hayes, Brian Hooker, John Walden
International Trade In Seafood And Related Products: An Assessment Of U.S. Trade Patterns, James E. Kirkley, John M. Ward, Christopher M. Moore, Christopher Hayes, Brian Hooker, John Walden
Reports
No abstract provided.
Catholic Identity And Mission In Post Ex Corde Ecclesiae Catholic Highter Education: The Perceptions And Experiences Of Lay Faculty At A Jesuit University, Dan T. Jensen
Theses and Dissertations
The history of Catholic higher education in the United States details the substantial contribution of bishops, priests, brothers, and sisters dedicated to teaching and leadership at Catholic institutions of higher education. The past several decades have seen a decline of religious members' involvement and the laicization of faculty members at Catholic colleges and universities. Opponents of this transition fear the loss of religious identity that is critical to the mission of Catholic institutions. Others argue that lay faculty members can sustain the mission of adhering to religious traditions and identity while fostering a high quality academic environment. The purpose of …
Critical Factors For Training In Rural Psychology, Christine M. Boulton-Olson
Critical Factors For Training In Rural Psychology, Christine M. Boulton-Olson
Theses and Dissertations
Students in graduate level psychology training who intend to work in rural settings must be familiar with and educated in how rural life and identity impacts clients. Currently, there are few doctoral training programs in psychology that offer courses specifically tailored to rural populations despite the fact many psychologists are employed, or work with people, in rural settings. As such, there is a need to understand how to best prepare students in doctoral training in psychology for competent work as psychologists in rural areas. Given the nature of rural culture, rural mental health, urban versus rural characteristics, the current status …
The Social Change Model Of Leadership Development: Differences In Leadership Development By Levels Of Student Involvement With Various University Student Groups, Chastity Beth Gerhardt
The Social Change Model Of Leadership Development: Differences In Leadership Development By Levels Of Student Involvement With Various University Student Groups, Chastity Beth Gerhardt
Theses and Dissertations
The development of students as leaders is a priority for most institutions of higher education and research suggests that students' leadership skills increase as a result of engagement in the collegiate environment. Given the scarcity of leadership models and instruments designed specifically for college students, research regarding leadership development among college students is lacking.
The purpose of this study was to analyze the differences in leadership development among various levels of student involvement within several student groups as measured by self-reported scores on the Multi-Institutional Study of Leadership instrument. The basic research question was: Were there significant differences between student …
Document Selection For Extracting Entity And Relationship Instances Of Terrorist Events, Zhen Sun, Ee Peng Lim, Kuiyu Chang, Maggy Anastasia Suryanto, Rohan Kumar Gunaratna
Document Selection For Extracting Entity And Relationship Instances Of Terrorist Events, Zhen Sun, Ee Peng Lim, Kuiyu Chang, Maggy Anastasia Suryanto, Rohan Kumar Gunaratna
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
In this chapter, we study the problem of selecting documents so as to extract terrorist event information from a collection of documents. We represent an event by its entity and relation instances. Very often, these entity and relation instances have to be extracted from multiple documents. We therefore define an information extraction (IE) task as selecting documents and extracting from which entity and relation instances relevant to a user-specified event (aka domain specific event entity and relation extraction). We adopt domain specific IE patterns to extract potentially relevant entity and relation instances from documents, and develop a number of document …
Exploring Interdisciplinary Prayer Research In A Health Context, E. James Baesler
Exploring Interdisciplinary Prayer Research In A Health Context, E. James Baesler
Communication & Theatre Arts Faculty Publications
Communication, Psychology, and Sociology are three leading academic disciplines engaged in the social scientific study of prayer, the spiritual communication between a believer(s) and God, but rarely do these disciplines collaborate in interdisciplinary prayer scholarship. Possibilities for interdisciplinary prayer research in a health context are explored through a review of the literature and academic interviews. Interdisciplinary linkages in the prayer-health context are organized in an integral "all-quadrant" theoretical model, and an assessment of the viability of interdisciplinary prayer-health research is considered.
Others In The Making Of Selves, Roberta Coles
Others In The Making Of Selves, Roberta Coles
Social and Cultural Sciences Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Review: Homosexuality And The Black Church, Angelique Harris
Review: Homosexuality And The Black Church, Angelique Harris
Social and Cultural Sciences Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Voice Recognition Software: A Brief Case Study, Kirstin Duffin
Voice Recognition Software: A Brief Case Study, Kirstin Duffin
Faculty Research & Creative Activity
Dragon NaturallySpeaking is voice-activated software that allows users to communicate with a computer by means of their voice rather than their keyboard. The software’s aim will make anyone who failed Keyboarding 101 giddy with delight. Forgo typing, be it for a document, an e-mail or instant messaging. Dragon listens to your voice and records your composition faster than you can type. After a brief, 15-minute training and tutorial session, during which Dragon listens to the user and he or she learns commands to navigate within Dragon, you are ready to start using the program.
Tribal Nation Economics: Rebuilding Commercial Prosperity In Spite Of U.S. Trade Restraints–Recommendations For Economic Revitalization In Indian Country, Angelique Eaglewoman
Tribal Nation Economics: Rebuilding Commercial Prosperity In Spite Of U.S. Trade Restraints–Recommendations For Economic Revitalization In Indian Country, Angelique Eaglewoman
Faculty Scholarship
Tribal commerce created the current highways that stretch from coast-to-coast in North America today. The roads that are traveled by semi-trucks full of cargo, grocery produce, and all manner of commercial goods are on top of the ancient trade routes Natives have traveled for centuries. Unfortunately, the history and sophistication of Native commercial activities have been largely suppressed and left out of the story of the North American continent as Euro-Americans rewrote the continent’s history to reflect the glorification of colonization. The truth is that there was no need for the 'rugged pioneer' to cut through tall grass to head …
Costa Rican Ecotourism And The (Re)Construction Of Social-Natures On The Osa Peninsula, Brett Sylvester Matulis
Costa Rican Ecotourism And The (Re)Construction Of Social-Natures On The Osa Peninsula, Brett Sylvester Matulis
WWU Graduate School Collection
This thesis is concerned with the social construction of nature and society through ecotourism on the Osa Peninsula of Costa Rica. It demonstrates that ecotourism is based on an idealized conception of nature external to and separate from society, allowing uneven power relationships to go unexamined and causing themes of social justice and equity to go unaddressed in the development and implementation of it. In my research I show how society and nature are linked in a mutually re-constructive relationship in order to redirect attention onto the way in which powerful agents control the idea of nature in Costa Rica …
After The Reasonable Man: Getting Over The Subjectivity Objectivity Question, Victoria Nourse
After The Reasonable Man: Getting Over The Subjectivity Objectivity Question, Victoria Nourse
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
This article challenges the conventional notion of the “reasonable man.” It argues that we make a category mistake when we adopt the metaphor of a human being as the starting point for analysis of the criminal law and instead offers an alternate approach based on heuristic theory, reconceiving the reasonable man as a heuristic that serves as the site for debate over majoritarian norms. The article posits that the debate over having a purely subjective standard and a purely objective standard obscures the commonsense necessity of having a hybrid standard, one which takes into account the characteristics of a particular …
Growing Adult Readers: Promoting Leisure Reading In Academic Libraries, Renée Bosman, John Glover, Monique Prince
Growing Adult Readers: Promoting Leisure Reading In Academic Libraries, Renée Bosman, John Glover, Monique Prince
VCU Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
This article provides an introduction to the recreational reading promotion tools at VCU Libraries, including a book review blog, book swap, and bulletin board, as well as the libraries’ involvement with VCU’s summer reading program and Richmond’s citywide “One Community One Book” initiative. Policies and operating procedures will be examined, and these services will be discussed in the context of other libraries’ offerings. We will also discuss why there is a need for these services–which have traditionally been the purview of the public library–on a college campus. Reading among American adults is in dramatic decline, and the academic library is …
Civic Habits: A Predictive Model Of Volunteer Behavior, Susan G. White
Civic Habits: A Predictive Model Of Volunteer Behavior, Susan G. White
Theses and Dissertations
The findings of this research indicate that volunteering is influenced by a number of factors, one of which is gender. The data used in this study reveal a different profile of the volunteer than is presented in much of the research on volunteering, which tends to profile the "most likely" volunteer as female, employed by the public sector, possessing a higher education and having children. The questions addressed in this research are: 1) What are the contextual effects of volunteering and 2) Is there a relationship of one or more of these effects to gender? The findings indicate men in …
The Effects Of Family, School And Peer Support On The Achievement Outcomes Of African American Adolescents, M. Annette Clayton
The Effects Of Family, School And Peer Support On The Achievement Outcomes Of African American Adolescents, M. Annette Clayton
Theses and Dissertations
This study used survey design to explore the relationship between protective influences (support from parents, teachers and peers, social capital assets, and social support use), contextual risks, and two achievement outcomes in a representative sample of male and female African American high school seniors (N=317). Responses to two questionnaires, weighted cumulative grade point averages, and eleventh grade Virginia English Reading Standards of Learning test scores were analyzed. Multiple regression analysis revealed that some support variables were predictive of better achievement outcomes and others were associated with poorer outcomes. Three of the parent support predictors were associated with poorer achievement outcomes, …
The Impact Of Legislation And Litigation On The Education Of Students With Autism Spectrum Disorders, Selena Michelle Joy
The Impact Of Legislation And Litigation On The Education Of Students With Autism Spectrum Disorders, Selena Michelle Joy
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The purposes of this study were to review and analyze legal issues related to the provision of education for students with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Specifically (1) an examination of federal laws that affect the education of students with ASD; and (2) case law pertaining to the education of students with ASD.;This study focused on the No Child Left Behind Act (2001) and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (2004) as well as the litigation related to the education of students with ASD adjudicated in the United States Courts of Appeals between January 2001 and December 2007. The legislation …
Agriprocessors Inc. Warrant Information
Agriprocessors Inc. Warrant Information
Postville Project Documents
No abstract provided.
Agricprocessors Inc. Osha Citations
Agricprocessors Inc. Osha Citations
Postville Project Documents
Documents listing the citations stemming from two different inspections, including a document that is a reassessment of the penalties of the inspection done in August of 2008.
Agriprocessors Inc. Criminal Complaing
Agriprocessors Inc. Criminal Complaing
Postville Project Documents
Documents relating to the child labor violations filed against Agriprocessors ranging in date from August 2008 to January 2009.
Testimony From Director Forman On Ice Conduct During Raid, Marcy M. Forman
Testimony From Director Forman On Ice Conduct During Raid, Marcy M. Forman
Postville Project Documents
The statement given by Marcy M. Forman, Director of the Office of Investigations or the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to the United States House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security and International Law on their procedures and the Postville Immigration Raid.
Response Letters To Camayd-Freixas Article On Postville Raid
Response Letters To Camayd-Freixas Article On Postville Raid
Postville Project Documents
A collection of letters submitted to the Congressional Record written in support of an article on the Postville raid written by Erik Camayd-Freixas.
Letter To Dept. Of Justice And Dept. Of Homeland Security, Zoe Lofgren
Letter To Dept. Of Justice And Dept. Of Homeland Security, Zoe Lofgren
Postville Project Documents
A letter from Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren to Michael Mukasey, Attorney General of the United States, and Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland Security, concerning the alleged abuse of the workers who were detained during the Agriprocessors plant raid in Postville, Iowa.
Ice Application For Search Warrant
Ice Application For Search Warrant
Postville Project Documents
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement application for a search warrant for the Agriprocessors plant in Postville, Iowa, signed on may 9, 2008.
Flores-Figueroa V. United States Petition
Flores-Figueroa V. United States Petition
Postville Project Documents
A brief filed for Ignacio Flores-Figueroa in the appeal of a case of a Mexican citizen working in East Moline, Illinois who was convicted of identity theft. The grounds for the appeal were that the petitioner did not know that the social security and alien registration numbers he used were assigned to other people.
Detained Workers Location List
Detained Workers Location List
Postville Project Documents
A list giving the names, Bureau of Prisons number, race, gender, a date, and the location of those arrested in the Postville immigration raid.
Many Doses Of Kindness, Liz Rog
Many Doses Of Kindness, Liz Rog
Postville Project Documents
An account of seeking medical care for an immigrant woman with a bad headache after the Postville raid.