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Analysis And Lessons Learned Instituting An Instant Messaging Reference Service At An Academic Health Sciences Library: The First Year, Daniel G. Kipnis

The Selected Works of Dan Kipnis

In February 2006, Thomas Jefferson University went live with a new instant messaging (IM) service. This paper reviews the first 102 transcripts to examine question types and usage patterns. In addition, the paper highlights lessons learned in instituting the service. IM reference represents a small proportion of reference questions, but based on user feedback and technological improvements, the library has decided to continue the service.

A Comparative Account Of Statutory Interpretation In Singapore, Yihan Goh

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

In 1993, the Singapore Parliament enacted legislative provisions adapted from Australian legislation directing, inter alia, that the courts apply the purposive approach in statutory interpretation. Those provisions also allowed for the extended use of extrinsic materials in the interpretative process. Fifteen years on, there is now a considerable body of Singapore case law to which a meaningful analysis may be undertaken. Indeed, from an initially cautious application of the enacted legislation, the courts began to read the enactments expansively, eventually providing for a statutory interpretation regime that is largely free of the confines of old. Nonetheless, the Singapore position does …

Unpacking Sources Of Comparative Advantage: A Quantitative Approach, Davin Chor

Research Collection School Of Economics

This paper develops an approach for quantifying the relative importance of different sources of comparative advantage for country welfare in a global trade equilibrium. To explain the pattern of specialization, I present a multi-country, perfectly-competitive Ricardian model that extends Eaton and Kortum (2002) to predict industry trade flows. In this framework, comparative advantage is determined by the interaction of country and industry characteristics, with countries specializing in industries whose specific production needs they are best able to meet with their factor endowments, institutional environment, and technological strengths. I estimate the model parameters using a large dataset of bilateral trade flows, …

"Selling Sin" In A Hostile Environment: A Comparison Of Ukrainian And American Tobacco Advertising Strategies In Magazines, Olesya Venger, Joyce M. Wolburg

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

Given that “sin” products must navigate different regulatory environments, it is important to compare cigarette advertising across cultures. Using text analysis, this study examined the message strategies and the ideological beliefs in cigarette advertising in American and Ukrainian magazines within the context of their different regulatory environments. The messages across the two countries differed in their use of creative appeals to ego, social needs, and sensory pleasure as well as their adherence to regulation. Many of the Ukrainian campaigns were reminiscent of earlier American campaigns and offer unique comparisons of cultures that are at different places historically, economically, and ideologically.

Breaking The Silence Surrounding Hepatitis C By Promoting Self-Efficacy: A Study Of Hepatitis C Public Service Announcements, Jean Grow, Stephanie Christopher

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

Hepatitis C (HCV) is the most common chronic blood borne virus in the United States. Despite this fact, there is a startling lack of awareness about HCV among individuals who may have contracted the virus. This study, grounded in self-efficacy theory, analyzes public service announcements (PSAs) for HCV. Using focus groups to contextualize the responses of individuals living with HCV, the authors conclude that stigma and structural barriers pose the greatest challenges for health communicators trying to reach at-risk populations. The findings suggest that expanded use of celebrity appeals, realistic drug portrayals, more extensive use of social networking in tandem …

Achievement Motivation In African American College Students, April Michelle Muldrow

Psychology Theses & Dissertations

This study investigated the relationship between academic performance and stereotype threat (ST), achievement motivation, and racial socialization for African American (AA) students at an historically black university. Participants were 108 students randomly assigned to high or low ST condition. Students completed a performance measure, Noncognitive Questionnaire (NCQ), and Teenager Experience of Racial Socialization Scale (TERS) (Sedlacek, 2004; Stevenson et al., 2002). Results indicated that performance was not dependent upon threat, p = .63. Appreciation of AA culture was negatively associated with performance, p = .05. Drive toward academic self-development was positively related to performance, p = .05. Limitations and implications …

Measures And Methods: Four Tenets For Rural Economic Development In The New Economy, Anita Brown-Graham, William Lambe

Carsey School of Public Policy

Rural communities working to find strategies for success in today's economy need to rethink the tools they are using. Brown-Graham is the executive director of the Institute for Emerging Issues and a policy fellow at the Carsey Institute. William Lambe is the associate director at the Community and Economic Development Program at the School of Government, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Entitlement, Incivility And Excessive Informality: The Instructional And Administrative Challenges Of Student Misconduct, Stanley H. Barrett, Nadia Rubaii, John Pelowski

Public Administration Faculty Scholarship

Increasing incidents of incivilities and in some cases outright violence are well documented in K-12 through undergraduate educational setting as well as in the workplace across all sectors, yet the academic and professional literature that reflects and informs public affairs education is striking in its omission of how incivilities necessarily impact our teaching and program administration. In this paper, the authors trace the growing problem of student incivilities, identify contributing factors linked to the entitlement society, and make the case for a more proactive and comprehensive response. They present suggestions for MPA faculty and administrators to use within and outside …

What's Up Newsletter, October 2008

What's Up Newsletter

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Milwaukee, WI

The Silent Witness, October-November 2008

Silent Witness, The

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Washington, D.C.

Aplicación De La Gerencia Social Incluyente En Servientrega Bogotá D.C, Segundo Periodo De 2007 Y Primer Periodo De 2008, María Carolina Díaz Rodríguez, Diana Carolina Oyuela Jimenez, Alexandra Alicia Wilches Vela

Trabajo Social

El modelo de desarrollo neoliberal en Colombia, ha incidido de manera significativa en la dinámica del contexto social y empresarial, generando desequilibrio entre los aspectos económico y social; esto a su vez ha repercutido en el aumento de la pobreza, la desigualdad, el desempleo, entre otros factores que impiden la consolidación del desarrollo humano en el país. En este sentido la Gerencia Social Incluyente, constituye una alternativa para la construcción de una sociedad más justa y equitativa en la que prevalece el bienestar y desarrollo integral de los sujetos. Por tal motivo la presente investigación tiene como objetivo conocer la …

Intervención De Trabajo Social Con Familias Desde Los Informes De Práctica De Entrenamiento Profesional De Trabajo Social. Universidad De La Salle 2002 - 2007, Nestor Julio Acero Moreno, Judith Ardila Ochoa

Trabajo Social

El propósito de esta investigación es avanzar en el conocimiento sobre la intervención de trabajo social con familias desde los informes de práctica profesional a partir sus componentes tales como sujetos sociales, objeto de intervención, intencionalidades, fundamentación, y métodos, con el fin de realizar un aporte a la línea de construcción disciplinar desde la sublínea de métodos de intervención en trabajo social. El método de investigación es cualitativo a partir de una revisión documental en la cual el nivel de la investigación es descriptivo, porque permite realizar la especificación de las características más relevantes. De esta manera en los resultados …

The Octofoil, October/November/December 2008, Ninth Infantry Division Association

The Octofoil

The Octofoil is the offical publication of the Ninth Infantry Division Association, Inc., an organization formed by the officers and men of the 9th Infantry Division in order to perpetuate the memory of fallen comrades, preserve the esprit de corps of the Division, promote peace and serve as an information bureau about the 9th Infantry Division. The Association is made up of 9th Infantry veterans from WWII and Vietnam, spouses, widows and lineal descendants.

Signs Of Our Times, October 2008

Signs of Our Times

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Providence, RI

Signs of our Times Finding Aid

Daily Devotions For The Deaf, October-November-December 2008

Daily Devotions for the Deaf

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Council Bluffs, IA

Daily Devotions for the Deaf Finding Aid

Cataloging As A Tool For Outreach - Bringing Campus Collections Together, Derek Wilmott

Presentations

Clemson University Libraries and Tillman Education Media Center cataloging project.

2008 October Newsletter, Nancy Rockey

Human Subject Research Archive

No abstract provided.

Homecoming Out Week [Flier], University Of Northern Iowa. Gender & Sexuality Services, Uni Proud.

UNI PROUD Documents

A flier promoting Homecoming Out Week.

National Study On Carless And Special Needs Evacuation Planning: A Literature Review, John L. Renne, Thomas W. Sanchez, Todd Litman

Planning and Urban Studies Reports and Presentations

No abstract provided.

2008-2009 Lindenwood Lions Basketball Program, Lindenwood University

Athletic Guides

2008-2009 Lindenwood Lions Basketball Program

Growing Greener: Step By Step, Alexandra Gomes, Laura E. Abate, Laurie Lyons, Hasna Ross

Himmelfarb Library Faculty Posters and Presentations

In 2008, the Green Himmelfarb task force identified areas in which the staff could easily improve the environmental impact of the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library. This poster presentation is a summary of the library's initiative to evolve into a "green library".

The Effect Of Marketing Cooperatives On Innovation, Kyriakos Drivas, Konstantinos Giannakas

Cornhusker Economics

Cooperative organizations constitute an integral part of the increasingly industrialized agri-food system, accounting for 25 to 30 percent of total farm supply and marketing expenditures. When compared to profit-maximizing investor-owned firms (IOFs), a distinguishing feature of cooperatives (co-ops) is that the owners are also the users of the services provided by the organization. With members as both owners and users of its services, a co-op is typically assumed to focus on maximizing member welfare rather than profits.

The economic ramifications of the different objective functions of the cooperative organization have received considerable attention in the relevant literature, with the main …

The Antelope, University Of Nebraska At Kearney

The Antelope

No abstract provided.

Evaluating The Social Effects Of Environmental Leadership Programs, Jonathan C. Borck, Cary Coglianese, Jennifer Nash

All Faculty Scholarship

In the past decade, EPA and over 20 states have created voluntary environmental leadership programs designed to recognize and reward businesses that take steps that go beyond compliance with the strictures of environmental law. Environmental leadership programs seek not only to spur direct improvements to environment quality but also to advance broader social goals that may lead indirectly to environmental improvements, such as improving business-government relationships and changing business culture. Measuring progress toward leadership programs’ social goals is a particularly challenging but essential task if researchers and decision makers are to understand the full impacts of these programs. In this …

Impacts Of Information And Communication Technologies On Country Development: Accounting For Area Interrelationships, Robert J. Kauffman, Ajay Kumar

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Single-item composite indices gauge ICT readiness at the country level but do not represent the direct impact of ICTs on a country's development. This paper describes a new approach to measuring the macrolevel impacts of ICTs across a range of development areas. The indirect effects of one area on others is taken into consideration by a simultaneous equation model that permits the inclusion of multiple development areas. The model is applied to data pertaining to four development areas in 64 countries: trade flows, agricultural productivity, R&D, and quality of life. ICT readiness is found to have a positive association with …

The Changes And Non-Changes Of China's Rural Land, Qian Forrest Zhang, John A. Donaldson

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

Revisiting The Total Incarceration Variable Should Researchers Separate Jail From Prison Sentences In Sentencing Research?, Michael P. Harrington

Journal Articles

Recent research has examined the use of the total incarceration variable. The results of these studies have shown that the factors affecting a decision to sentence an offender to jail are different than those influencing a prison sentence. These studies have suggested that disentangling jail and prison sentences will enhance our understanding of how race influences sentence outcomes. Neither of these studies examined the sentence-length portion using the expanded definition of the total incarceration variable. The research presented here examines the validity of using the total incarceration variable and whether the same factors affect the length of a jail sentence …

Torch (October 2008), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project

Torch: The Civil Rights Team Project Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Improving College Retention By Identifying Factors Influencing Student Success, Maryjane Felter Leonard Edd

Dissertations

Too many high school graduates are failing to complete higher education programs necessary to achieve the American dream. At a time when more Americans need a degree, it's becoming more difficult to get one––particularly for low-income and minority students. Are students ill prepared to meet the challenges of college level studies due to inadequate secondary school educational program, or do colleges need to reassess their teaching programs to meet the needs of this incoming generation of students? This study was carried out in three phases in a mixed methods research design using a series of student and instructor surveys and …

Straight From The Mouth Of The Volcano: The Lowdown On Law, Language, And Latin@S, Ȧngel R. Oquendo

Indiana Law Journal

Symposium: Latinos and Latinas at the Epicenter of Contemporary Legal Discourses. Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington, March 2007.