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Review Of John E. Joseph's (2006) Language And Politics, Adam Hodges Dec 2007

Review Of John E. Joseph's (2006) Language And Politics, Adam Hodges

Adam Hodges

No abstract provided.


Consuming Dark Tourism: A Thanatological Perspective, Philip Stone Dr Dec 2007

Consuming Dark Tourism: A Thanatological Perspective, Philip Stone Dr

Dr Philip Stone

Despite increasing academic attention paid to dark tourism, understanding of the concept remains limited, particularly from a consumption perspective. That is, the literature focuses primarily on the supply of dark tourism; less attention, however, has been paid to the demand for ‘dark’ touristic experiences. This theoretical paper seeks to address this gap in the literature. Drawing upon the contemporary sociology of death, it explores the relationship between socio-cultural perspectives on mortality and the potential of dark tourism as a means of confronting death in modern societies. In so doing, it proposes a model of dark tourism consumption within a thanatological …


Review: The 25 Best World War Ii Sites: European Theatre. The Ultimate Traveller’S Guide To Battlefields, Monuments And Museums, Philip R. Stone Dec 2007

Review: The 25 Best World War Ii Sites: European Theatre. The Ultimate Traveller’S Guide To Battlefields, Monuments And Museums, Philip R. Stone

Dr Philip Stone

Book review for "The 25 Best World War II Sites: European Theatre. The ultimate traveller’s guide to battlefields, monuments and museums"


Dark Tourism: A New Moral Peril?, Philip R. Stone Dec 2007

Dark Tourism: A New Moral Peril?, Philip R. Stone

Dr Philip Stone

This brief articles examines the ethics of dark tourism consumption.


Lis 623 Online Bibliographic Information Retrieval Syllabus (Taught Spring 2008)----- University Of North Carolina, Greenboro Lis Program., Barbara Tierney Dec 2007

Lis 623 Online Bibliographic Information Retrieval Syllabus (Taught Spring 2008)----- University Of North Carolina, Greenboro Lis Program., Barbara Tierney

Barbara Tierney


LIS 623

 Online Bibliographic Information Retrieval

 


Instructor:

 


Barbara Tierney


Email:


bgtierne@uncc.edu

 


Office/Voice Mail:


704-687-3098

 


Office Hours:


By appointment at Atkins Library 114 H

 


Class Meeting Time:


Mondays 5:30 to 7:30

 


Class Meeting Place:


Fretwell 420; Some classes will meet in Atkins Library (Room 124 or 273) as indicated on Syllabus

 


 

Course Description:

A study of the principles and strategies involved in online bibliographic information retrieval and the presentation of that information to library patrons.

 

Course objectives:

By the completion of the course students will be able to:

 


  • Describe …


Constitución Como Provisión E Irradiación Constitucional. Sobre El Concepto "Neoconstitucionalismo" (Primera Parte), Leonardo García Jaramillo Dec 2007

Constitución Como Provisión E Irradiación Constitucional. Sobre El Concepto "Neoconstitucionalismo" (Primera Parte), Leonardo García Jaramillo

Leonardo García Jaramillo

No abstract provided.


La Riqueza De La Nación, Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu Dec 2007

La Riqueza De La Nación, Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu

Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu

No abstract provided.


La Desnutrición Infantil En México En Perspectiva Internacional: 1988-2006, Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu Dec 2007

La Desnutrición Infantil En México En Perspectiva Internacional: 1988-2006, Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu

Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu

No abstract provided.


Parker V. The District Of Columbia And The Hollowness Of Originalist Claims To Principled Neutrality, William G. Merkel Dec 2007

Parker V. The District Of Columbia And The Hollowness Of Originalist Claims To Principled Neutrality, William G. Merkel

William G. Merkel

For many years following the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Miller,1 the orthodox opinion among academics and federal appeals courts alike was that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution did not protect possession of firearms unrelated to service in the lawfully established militia. 2 In recent decades, a growing chorus of polemicists, gun rights advocates, single-topic academics, and famously contrarian and exceedingly clever constitutional theorists (Sandy Levinson, Akhil Amar, Larry Tribe, and Randy Barnett among others) have challenged this old understanding on originalist grounds related to both the Second and Fourteenth Amendments.3 While the once dominant …


The Practice Of Compassion In Supervision In Residential Treatment Programs For Clients With Severe Mental Illness, Katherine Tyson Mccrea Professor Dec 2007

The Practice Of Compassion In Supervision In Residential Treatment Programs For Clients With Severe Mental Illness, Katherine Tyson Mccrea Professor

Katherine Tyson McCrea

Clinical supervision for residential care staff is essential, and yet has rarely been studied. Drawing from the reflective practice tradition, we interviewed residential care supervisors about their clinical decision-making process, and analyzed the data qualitatively to identify common themes and distill their beliefs and reported practices. We found supervisors prioritized a compassion-based model of supervision characterized by fostering staff self-care, developing staff’s empathy and responsiveness to clients, helping staff with disappointments in their relationships with clients, accurately evaluating client progress, preserving safety, and nurturing teamwork. Supervisor’s subjective experience of their caregiving of staff could be explained using a second-level analytic …


’"I’M Glad You Asked’: Homeless Persons Diagnosed With Severe Mental Illness Evaluate Their Residential Care, Katherine Tyson Mccrea Professor Dec 2007

’"I’M Glad You Asked’: Homeless Persons Diagnosed With Severe Mental Illness Evaluate Their Residential Care, Katherine Tyson Mccrea Professor

Katherine Tyson McCrea

Homeless clients with severe mental illness can offer considerable insight about their residential care, but there are significant methodological challenges in eliciting their service evaluations: maximizing participation, facilitating self-expression, and preserving clients’ natural meanings. This study addresses those challenges and presents qualitative data residential care staff obtained from 210 clients. While clients prioritized meeting their subsistence needs, they emphasized attaining inner well-being and mutually respectful relationships, and that group services needed to reduce confrontational interactions in order to be helpful. For after-care services, clients sought sustained relationships with staff grounded in client initiative, combining respect for their autonomy with psychosocial …


Risk Management In Security Policy, Beat Habegger Dec 2007

Risk Management In Security Policy, Beat Habegger

Beat Habegger

No abstract provided.


International Handbook On Risk Analysis And Management: Professional Experiences, Beat Habegger Dec 2007

International Handbook On Risk Analysis And Management: Professional Experiences, Beat Habegger

Beat Habegger

No abstract provided.


Marketing To Helicopter Parents: Hovering Headache Or Untapped Economic Resource, Oscar T. Mcknight, Ronald Paugh, Aaron Mcknight, Heidi Parker Dec 2007

Marketing To Helicopter Parents: Hovering Headache Or Untapped Economic Resource, Oscar T. Mcknight, Ronald Paugh, Aaron Mcknight, Heidi Parker

Oscar T McKnight Ph.D.

Too often helicopter parents are deemed bothersome to professionals in higher education. However, this research indicates that helicopter parents are a niche market. Thus, incorporating the helicopter parent into a university's offical target marketing campaign appears warranted and necessary given the current economic climate.


Unusual Burials And Necrophobia: An Insight Into The Burial Archaeology Of Fear, Anastasia Tsaliki Dec 2007

Unusual Burials And Necrophobia: An Insight Into The Burial Archaeology Of Fear, Anastasia Tsaliki

Dr Anastasia Tsaliki, PhD

No abstract provided.


Human And Fundamental Rights And Duties In Portuguese Constitution. Some Reflections, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha Dec 2007

Human And Fundamental Rights And Duties In Portuguese Constitution. Some Reflections, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

The Portuguese Constitution (1976) came after a period of 48 years of authoritarianism and a closed society, in which some happy few enjoyed great privileges while the great majority of people were charged with heavy duties So, by a very understandable "law of human nature", the constituent law givers could not reasonably impose constitutionally many obligations, in an autonomous way. As rights and duties are the twin sides of the same coin, the juridical formulation under the sign of rights also implies obligations, related to those same rights. This is kinder and more pleasant to do by a liberating Constitution...


El Derecho Natural, Historia E Ideologia, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha Dec 2007

El Derecho Natural, Historia E Ideologia, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

Intentemos retomar algunos hilos sueltos de discursos dispersos y con una nueva mirada analítica, procuremos ver una realidad sutil y huidiza: ese derecho natural que parece silencioso en nuestros días, y más silencioso aún en los discursos psitacistas: tanto en los pomposos como en los pseudo-rigurosos.


Princípio Republicano E Virtudes Republicanas, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha Dec 2007

Princípio Republicano E Virtudes Republicanas, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

O presente artigo procura unir traços de aparente heterodoxia, recuperando, porém, paradigmas e tópicos que não são novos. Com efeito, nem as virtudes, nem a república, nem sequer a felicidade são novidades. O que talvez seja novo (new again) é o espírito de buscar outra vez as raízes, as fontes, para um intento de renovação do ambiente juspolítico. Somos naturalmente favorável a uma Constituição principial e valorativa, como a nossa. Mas parece-nos que há nela lugar a Virtudes (que já existem nela), e que a descoberta das Virtudes nas Constituições, e, logo, no Direito, é, afinal, um ovo de Colombo. …


Da Constituição Antiga À Constituição Moderna. República E Virtude, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha Dec 2007

Da Constituição Antiga À Constituição Moderna. República E Virtude, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

Virtude e República necessariamente têm de levar-nos à Antiguidade: desde logo porque a primeira “começa” com a helénica "areté". Logo, é preciso ir, antes de mais, à Grécia Antiga, e especialmente ao legado ateniense. “Directly or indirectly, Athenian democracy as an extraordinary experiment in social history thus stimulates our own thinking about crucial issues of our own democracy and society, incomparably more complex though they are. The point is precisely that the ancients help us focus on the essentials" - como afirma Kurt A. Raaflaub.


Uma Filosofia Constitucional Comum (Luso-Brasileira), Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha Dec 2007

Uma Filosofia Constitucional Comum (Luso-Brasileira), Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

Onde melhor se pode aquilatar de uma filosofia constitucional? Além do cunho da constitução, que já vimos ser liberal na fórmula política (porque moderna ecodificada) e social na social, cultural e económica, o que mais exprime uma filosofia constitucional é a ética constitucional, e, antes de mais, são os valores. A Constituição cidadão brasileira e a Constituição portuguesa de 1976 comungam, em grande medida, dos meus valores de liberdade, igualdade, justiça, e outros, progressivos e de cidadania.


Cascading Infrastructure Failures: Avoidance And Response, George H. Baker, Cheryl J. Elliott Dec 2007

Cascading Infrastructure Failures: Avoidance And Response, George H. Baker, Cheryl J. Elliott

George H Baker

No critical infrastructure is self-sufficient. The complexity inherent in the interdependent nature of infrastructure systems complicates planning and preparedness for system failures. Recent wide-scale disruption of infrastructure on the Gulf Coast due to weather, and in the Northeast due to electric power network failures, dramatically illustrate the problems associated with mitigating cascading effects and responding to cascading infrastructure failures once they have occurred.

The major challenge associated with preparedness for cascading failures is that they transcend system, corporate, and political boundaries and necessitate coordination among multiple, disparate experts and authorities. This symposium brought together concerned communities including government and industry …


Firm Size And Innovation In European Manufacturing, Mario Pianta, Andrea Vaona Dec 2007

Firm Size And Innovation In European Manufacturing, Mario Pianta, Andrea Vaona

Mario Pianta

The paper investigates the differences between small, medium-sized and large firms regarding their performance in the introduction of new products and processes. After a review of the relevant literature, two models are proposed and tested in search for different business strategies and innovation inputs connected to product and process innovations. The empirical analysis uses innovation survey (CIS 2) data at the industry level for 22 manufacturing sectors, broken down in three firm size classes, for eight European countries. Special attention is devoted to tackling the issues of possible endogeneity of the regressors and of unobserved sectoral heterogeneity. The results – …


Innovations, Profits And Wages, Mario Pianta, Massimiliano Tancioni Dec 2007

Innovations, Profits And Wages, Mario Pianta, Massimiliano Tancioni

Mario Pianta

This paper investigates the dynamics of wages and profits and the influence innovation strategies have on them. The relationships between innovation, productivity, and distribution are modeled and estimated by employing panel data techniques. Two European innovation surveys (1994–96 and 1998–2000) are used with data at both the country and industry levels. Innovation is found to have positive effects on income dynamics beyond the role it has on productivity gains; it may weaken the distribution constraint posed by the competition between profits and wages. Profits are driven by both the Schumpeterian effects of new products and the diffusion effects of new …


New Process And New Products In Europe And Italy, Mario Pianta, Francesco Crespi Dec 2007

New Process And New Products In Europe And Italy, Mario Pianta, Francesco Crespi

Mario Pianta

This article investigates the differences in the mechanisms and strategies conducing to the introduction of new processes and products in Italy and Europe. After a review of the relevant literature, three models are proposed and tested in order to identify the different business strategies and innovation inputs associated to the successful implementation of new products and new processes. The empirical analysis uses innovation surveys (CIS 2-3-4) data at the industry level for 22 manufacturing sectors and 17 services sectors for 8 European countries, with a specific focus on the Italian case. The analysis shows that while the two types of …


Innovation After Lisbon: New Ideas For Innovation Policies In Europe, Mario Pianta, Andrea Vaona Dec 2007

Innovation After Lisbon: New Ideas For Innovation Policies In Europe, Mario Pianta, Andrea Vaona

Mario Pianta

Life after Lisbon has been disappointing for Europe. The aim to turn Europe into the most competitive knowledge based economy of the world has remained vague, with results far off the mark. Equally poor have been the outcomes of European Union efforts in 2005 to give the Lisbon strategy a new start, trying to combine sustainable growth with employment, competitiveness with solidarity.


Demand And Innovation In Productivity Growth, Mario Pianta, Francesco Crespi Dec 2007

Demand And Innovation In Productivity Growth, Mario Pianta, Francesco Crespi

Mario Pianta

The labour productivity impact of demand and innovation is investigated in this paper combining insights from the Kaldorian and Schumpeterian traditions. After a review of studies in such traditions, a general model is proposed for explaining productivity growth in European manufacturing and service industries in the late 1990s, followed by two distinct specifications for the industries oriented toward product innovation, and for those where process innovation dominates. The empirical analysis is based on the match of the SIEPI-CIS2 database developed at the University of Urbino and Eurostat Input–Output Tables at the industry level, for 22 manufacturing sectors and 10 services …


The Criminal Is To Go Free Because The Constable Has Blundered: Challenges Of Law Enforcement In The Face Of The Exclusionary Rule, Jospeter M. Mbuba Dec 2007

The Criminal Is To Go Free Because The Constable Has Blundered: Challenges Of Law Enforcement In The Face Of The Exclusionary Rule, Jospeter M. Mbuba

Prof. Jospeter M. Mbuba

The criminal justice system is in a quagmire; known criminals are easily let off the hook by suppression of the truth in pursuit of the truth. A survey of all state and local law enforcement officers in a large mid-western county revealed the enormity of the challenges that law enforcement officers grapple with against the technicalities and intricacies of the exclusionary rule. This reality, coupled with the outcome of an in-depth literature review inform the twin arguments of this article, that individual rights, which form the basis of the exclusionary rule, should be construed in a manner that does not …


Housework And Gender In Nuclear Versus Extended Family Households: Experiences Of Taiwanese Immigrants In Canada, Shirley Hsiao-Li Sun Dec 2007

Housework And Gender In Nuclear Versus Extended Family Households: Experiences Of Taiwanese Immigrants In Canada, Shirley Hsiao-Li Sun

Shirley SUN

This paper examines intergenerational and gender relations in the Chinese family system by comparing the division of household labor in nuclear and extended family households. Indepth interview data with thirty-seven new Taiwanese immigrants in Canada show that, in their household practices in Taiwan, the presence of the older generation intensifies the gendered division of labor between spouses, even in matrilocal residences. Husbands do not participate in housework in either patrilocal or matrilocal households. However, shared housework between couples is observed among less well-to-do nuclear families. In general, the dominance of traditional gender norms prevails, especially under extended family living arrangements. …


Invisible Americans: Migration, Transnationalism, And The Politics Of Difference In Hiv/Aids Research., Thurka Sangaramoorthy Dec 2007

Invisible Americans: Migration, Transnationalism, And The Politics Of Difference In Hiv/Aids Research., Thurka Sangaramoorthy

Thurka Sangaramoorthy

Using the scholarship on transnationalism and citizenship, this paper examines the politics of difference in HIV/AIDS prevention programmes in the United States and their impact on Haitian migrants and immigrants. It finds that there is a tremendous amount of complex movement of knowledge production and expertise among various constituents who work in the field of HIV/AIDS, and these individuals circulate ideas and technologies of HIV/AIDS across different fields in multiple ways. Through these circulations, information about HIV/ AIDS becomes entangled in the debates about relevant knowledge bases, and as a result, questions over culture and modernity. This paper traces how …


Squeaky Hinges: Widening The Door To Canadian Cross-Border Investment, Matt Krzepkowski, Jack M. Mintz Dec 2007

Squeaky Hinges: Widening The Door To Canadian Cross-Border Investment, Matt Krzepkowski, Jack M. Mintz

Matt Krzepkowski

No abstract provided.