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Celebrating Faculty Scholarship: Bibliography - 2008, University Libraries

University Libraries: Faculty Publications and Other Works

A bibliography of faculty publications submitted for inclusion in the first annual 'Celebrating Faculty Scholarship' event sponsored by Loyola University Libraries. The event, which took place on November 10, 2009 in the Richard J. Klarchek Information Commons on the university's Lake Shore Campus, featured articles, books, creative works, and other materials authored by Loyola University Chicago faculty in 2008.

Madrassa Education In Pakistan: Assisting The Taliban’S Resurgence, Nicole M. Warren

Pell Scholars and Senior Theses

The education received in madrassas located in Pakistan is contributing to the Taliban’s resurgence in Afghanistan.

Public Library Collaborative Collection Development For Print Resources, Rebecca A. Nous, Matthew Roslund

University Libraries Faculty Scholarship

This paper will explore collaborative collection development in public libraries for print monographs. It will present an argument for collaborative collection development (CCD) programs, and describe successful existing CCD programs. It will also explain how these programs can be used as a model for a CCD project involving public libraries in the Capital District of upstate New York utilizing the existing services provided by the Capital District Library Council (CDLC).

Speak Clearly And Carry A Big Stock Of Dollar Reserves: Sovereign Risk, Ideology, And Presidential Elections In Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, And Venezuela, Anthony Petros Spanakos, Lucio Remuzat Renno Junior

Department of Political Science and Law Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Partisan theories of political economy expect that bondholders will panic with the election of a left-wing presidential candidate. The latter seems to be what happened in Brazil in the 2002 presidential elections. However, quantitative analysis of perceptions of sovereign credit risk in Argentine, Brazilian, Mexican, and Venezuelan presidential elections from 1994 until 2007 shows no real evidence of a link between partisanship and perceptions of risk, even if the left-right divide is further broken down into left, center-left, center-right, right. Instead, international and domestic economic fundamentals have a stronger influence on risk evaluations. Qualitative analysis of the individual presidential elections …

Rural And Urban Children Have Lower Rates Of Health Insurance Coverage And Are More Often Covered By Public Plans, Marybeth J. Mattingly, Michelle L. Stransky

Carsey School of Public Policy

This Carsey brief looks at the geographic distribution of health insurance for children. Based on data from the 2008 American Community Survey, it includes such findings as one in ten children are still uninsured, insurance rates vary considerably by geographic area, and rural children are most likely to depend on public plans for their health care.

New Hampshire Civic Health Index, Michele Dillon, Shannon H. Rogers

Carsey School of Public Policy

The Carsey Institute is participating in a study to examine America's civic health. Led by the Conference on Citizenship (NCoC), America's Civic Health Index is an annual study that measures a wide variety of civic indicators, such as community involvement and helping others. New Hampshire is one of six states partnering with NCoC to produce a state-specific report that examines the civic health in the Granite State.

A Means-End Approach To Understanding Adventure Race Participation, Brandii Brinkley

Human Movement Studies & Special Education Theses & Dissertations

This multiple purpose qualitative research initiative sought to (a) provide research on the relationship between attributes and values associated with adventure race participation, (b) discover motivations for adventure racing, (c) provide support for prior means-end research, and (d) research a new, emerging recreational activity. An adventure race was held on the campus of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. After the conclusion of the race, race participants were asked to complete a self-administered survey which offered attributes and values which potentially serve as motivations for adventure race participation. Means-end theory provided the framework for how the data obtained in the …

Just Doing What They Gotta Do: Single Black Custodial Fathers Coping With The Stresses And Reaping The Rewards Of Parenting, Roberta Coles

Social and Cultural Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

For single African American custodial fathers, parenting stress is exacerbated by the cultural expectation that Black fathers are "normally" absent and by the clustering of stresses that Black men are more likely to encounter. This sample of African American fathers have used a repertoire of problem-focused and cognitive coping strategies, including some that are frequently considered "culturally specific." Twenty Black single custodial fathers are interviewed and their narratives are analyzed for concepts and thematic categories related to stress and coping. Their narratives indicate that certain strategies are avoided because (a) these strategies are not available to them and (b) they …

La Escuela Como Escenario De Formación Para La Participación Política De Los Y Las Jóvenes Como Sujetos Con Responsabilidad Social En La Localidad 11 De Suba Bogotá 2008 - 2009, Adriana Buitrago, Natalia Gil, Mónica Vásquez

Trabajo Social

La pregunta de investigación que orienta la formulación de sus objetivos es: ¿Son las Instituciones educativas distritales de la Localidad 11 de Suba, escenarios de formación y construcción de procesos para la participación política de los y las jóvenes como sujetos con responsabilidad social?; el objetivo general platea identificar la existencia de procesos de formación para la participación política de los y las jóvenes de Suba, así como indagar y caracterizar las propuestas y escenarios que propicien tales procesos, en los Centros Educativos Distritales de la localidad, e identificar sobre los alcances de los procesos en los y las jóvenes …

Lineamientos De Las Políticas Públicas Nacional Y Distrital De Mujer Y Género En Los Procesos Institucionales Gubernamentales Y No Gubernamentales De Atención A Mujeres Víctimas De Violencia Sexual Bogotá 2008 - 2009, Stefanny Camila Castañeda Castilla, Paola Marcela Del Pilar Ballesteros Bernal, Diana Patricia Hernández Enciso

Trabajo Social

La investigación titulada “Lineamientos de las políticas públicas nacional y distrital de mujer y género en los procesos institucionales gubernamentales y no gubernamentales de atención a mujeres víctimas de violencia sexual. Bogotá 2008 – 2009”, se ubica en la línea de investigación: Derechos Humanos y Fortalecimiento Democrático, de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales del Programa de Trabajo Social. Esta propuesta investigativa es de carácter cualitativo, la cual busca explorar y describir como se orientan los procesos institucionales de atención a mujeres víctimas de violencia sexual con los lineamientos de la Política Nacional “Mujeres Constructoras de paz y Desarrollo” …

Interface, Fall 2009, School Of Information Sciences

Interface Newsletter

Interpreting climate change data and predicting what it could mean to life on earth and the environment that sustains it is an example of a major 21st Century challenge that a wide range of disciplines are working to address. Interdisciplinary efforts to tackle such concerns have been limited by a lack of collaborative tools for communicating and sharing information. The project DataONE (ONE being short for Observation Network for Earth) seeks to alleviate this difficulty by creating a mechanism and cyberinfrastructure through which communities of researchers worldwide can share data.

Anomalies In Tournament Design: The Madness Of March Madness, Robert Baumann, Victor Matheson, Cara Howe

Economics Department Working Papers

Tournament design is of crucial importance in competitive sports. The primary goal of effective tournament design is to provide incentives for the participants to maximize their performance both during the tournament and in the time period leading up to the tournament. In spectator sports, a secondary goal of tournament design is to also promote interesting match ups that generate fan interest. Seeded tournaments, in general, promote both goals. Teams or individuals with strong performances leading up to a tournament receive higher seeds which increase their chances of progressing further in the tournament. Furthermore, seeding ensures that the strongest teams or …

Among Friends Fall 2009 Vol 10 No 1, Friends Of The Bethel University Library

Among Friends Library Newsletter

Contents:

• Saying Good-Bye
• Growing Up Can Be Hard to Do
• From Scrolls to Scrolling
• Friends Giving Makes a Difference!
• Bethel University Digital Library is Launched!
• Lifelong Learning at Primetime Expands
• What's A Kindle?
• New Director of Libraries Named
• Library Footnotes

Mexico Consensus Economic Forecast, Alejandro Díaz-Bautista

Border Region Modeling Project

No abstract provided.

Newsletter Catholic Deaf Of Detroit, October 2009

Newsletter Catholic Deaf of Detroit

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Detroit, MI

Newsletter Catholic Deaf of Detroit Finding Aid

2009 October November Newsletter, Nancy Rockey

Human Subject Research Archive

No abstract provided.

Say Syrah, Syrah: Savoring The Rewards Of Patience, Contemplation, And Tlz, Thomas G. Plante

Psychology

My family and I fondly say that we have the best syrah Menlo Park has to offer. (Although to our knowledge, it is the only syrah grown in Menlo Park.) While that doesn’t put us in the league of prominent winemaking alumni and friends of Santa Clara—including Michael Mondavi ’66, the Sebastianis, and Fess Parker—it is the result of a decade of growing grapes at our home on the Peninsula.

Joint...Serving Each Other And Together, Loren M. Reno

Business Administration Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Baiting The Hook: Building Faculty Collaboration To Improve Student Information Literacy, Julie Miller

Scholarship and Professional Work

On Sept. 17, 2009, EWU Libraries hosted a workshop that drew 27 faculty from across disciplines (four of the six colleges of EWU were represented) and with varying classroom experience (full professors worked alongside newbie teaching assistants) to focus on improving student information literacy. How did we do it?

5523 St. Claude Avenue: Bringing Fresh Food To The Lower Ninth Ward, Department Of Planning & Urban Studies, University Of New Orleans, Kellstadt Graduate School Of Business, Depaul University, School Of Architecture, Louisiana State University

Planning and Urban Studies Reports and Presentations

In order to address the lack of a fresh food retailer in the Lower Ninth Ward, a need that has been repeatedly expressed in a variety of community meetings and plans, we propose thedevelopment of a grocery store on the 5523 block of St. Claude Avenue. This site sits in a city-designated Housing Opportunity Zone and is strategically located on a major commercial corridor that is accessible by public transit. It is also at the center of a variety of public and non-profit foundation investments in the neighborhood.

Conscientiousness Is Not Always A Good Predictor Of Performance: The Case Of Creativity, Roni Reiter-Palmon, Jody J. Illies, Lisa M. Kobe-Cross

Psychology Faculty Publications

Meta-analyses investigating the relationship between Conscientiousness and performance suggest a positive relationship for a variety of criteria. However, recently it has been argued that Conscientiousness is not always a good predictor of performance, particularly for creative performance. Additionally, it has been suggested that Conscientiousness includes two distinct components, achievement and dependability, which may have different relationships with criterion measures. Two studies were conducted to determine whether the components of Conscientiousness predict creativity better than the full factor. Students in each study completed a measure of the Five Factor Model and a measure of creative performance. In the first study, creative …

Structures For Environmental Action, Katherine Bunting-Howart, Avi Brisman, Willett Kempton, Dorothy C. Holland, Peggy F. Bartlett

Southern Anthropologist

This article develops a typology of what we term “structures for action”—strategies, mechanisms, and means—used by local environmental groups to facilitate actions such as lifestyle shifts, civic protest, and environmental preservation. Based on data from nineteen groups in several states, we distinguish between internal structures that facilitate action for members of the groups and external structures that facilitate action among nonmembers and other groups. Within both internal and external structures, we identify three dimensions: knowledge, meaning, and praxis. Our typology of structures for action is designed to stimulate further research and to be useful for environmental groups, as well as …

What The Text Is Happening? : Texting, Mobile Communications And The Academic Library, Audrey Defrank, Linda Parker

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

Academic libraries are looking for ways to stay relevant to the Millennial/Internetgeneration. At the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) Criss Library, we are conducting a pilot study on mobile computing to provide people to people (p2p) reference services. We will use smart phones and iPhones to interact with students who need information assistance. The study's objectives are the following: 1. Collect data to inform decisions about budgeting, reference services and staffing to re-tool for mobile computing; 2. Identify the audience for mobile computing; 3. Identify the skill sets needed by staff; 4. Create an action plan for redefining the …

2009-2010 Lindenwood Lions Basketball Program, Lindenwood University

Athletic Guides

2009-2010 Lindenwood Lions Basketball Program

Attachment Avoidance Predicts Inflammatory Responses To Marital Conflict, Jean-Phillipe Gouin, Ronald Glaser, Timothy J. Loving, William B. Malarkey, Jeffrey R. Stowell, Carrie Houts, Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser

Jeffrey R. Stowell

Marital stress has been associated with immune dysregulation, including increased production of interleukin-6 (IL-6). Attachment style, one’s expectations about the availability and responsiveness of others in intimate relationships, appears to influence physiological stress reactivity and thus could influence inflammatory responses to marital conflict. Thirty-five couples were invited for two 24-hour admissions to a hospital research unit. The first visit included a structured social support interaction, while the second visit comprised the discussion of a marital disagreement. A mixed effect within-subject repeated measure model indicated that attachment avoidance significantly influenced IL-6 production during the conflict visit but not during the social …

Institutional Design And Governance In Microbial Research Commons, Charlotte Hess

Libraries' and Librarians' Publications

Presentation slides on institutional design and governance to facilitate a global research commons for microbiology delivered at the International Symposium on Designing the Microbial Research Commons, sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, 8-9 October 2009.

Implementing A Mandated Space Change: The Unexpected Benefits To Library Systems, Kathe Obrig, Lionel Williams, Leah Pellegrino, Jennifer Mcdaniel, George P. Paul

Himmelfarb Library Faculty Posters and Presentations

In September 2008, the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library received a mandate to convert the second floor to quiet study space. The conversion involved the removal of the 70,000-volume bound journal collection. This poster presentation illustrates the steps taken to complete the collection relocation and describes the unexpected, beneficial results of this space change.

Culture As Common Sense: Perceived Consensus Versus Personal Beliefs As Mechanisms Of Cultural Influence, Xi Zou, Kim-Pong Tam, Michael W. Morris, Sau-Lai Lee, Ivy Yee-Man Lau, Chi-Yue Chiu

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

The authors propose that culture affects people through their perceptions of what is consensually believed. Whereas past research has examined whether cultural differences in social judgment are mediated by differences in individuals’ personal values and beliefs, this article investigates whether they are mediated by differences in individuals’ perceptions of the views of people around them. The authors propose that individuals who perceive that traditional views are culturally consensual (e.g., Chinese participants who believe that most of their fellows hold collectivistic values) will themselves behave and think in culturally typical ways. Four studies of previously well-established cultural differences found that cultural …

Wither Print Journals, Eric C. Shoaf

Publications

An introduction to the journal is presented in which the editor discusses the journal's transition from print to online-only format. In addition, some of the subjects covered in the issue are presented including participatory management, employee orientation and assessing library services.

A Community Benefit Reporting Toolkit For Critical Access Hospitals, John A. Gale Ms, Melanie Race Ms

Rural Hospitals (Flex Program)

No abstract provided.