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Threads Of Intersection And Distinction: Joining An Ongoing Conversation Within Organizational Communication Research, Sarah Feldner, Scott D'Urso

Sarah Feldner

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Departmentally Embedded Librarianship As A Way To Enhance The Traditional Library Liaisonship Program, Kathryn Waggoner

Kathryn L Waggoner

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Hook Up Culture: Setting A New Research Agenda, Caroline Heldman, Lisa Wade

Lisa Wade

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Distributed Representations Of Dynamic Facial Expressions In The Superior Temporal Sulcus., Chris Said, Chris Moore, Andrew Engell, Alex Todroov, James Haxby

Andrew Engell

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Renewal And Risk: The Dual Experience Of Young Motherhood And Aging Out Of The Child Welfare System, Julia Pryce

Julia Pryce

This interpretive study examines how childhood history and the personal experience of being mothered impact the meaning attributed to motherhood among young mothers aging out of the child welfare system.Through the use of an interpretive approach, findings are derived from interviews with 15 females who reported an experience of pregnancy or parenting at the time of the interview. In the midst of the strain and challenge of motherhood, these young women report that motherhood has the potential to provide opportunities relevant to their own identity as well as to healing from their pasts. Findings aim to inform ways of understanding …

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Does Patronage Still Drive Politics For The Rural Poor In The Developing World? A Comparative Perspective From The Livestock Sector, Sophal Ear, David Leonard, Jennifer Brass, Michael Nelson, Dan Fahey, Tasha Fairfield, Martha Gning, Michael Halderman, Brendan Mcsherry, Devra Moehler, Wilson Prichard, Robin Turner, Tuong Vu, Jeroen Dijkman

Sophal Ear

Is the analysis of patron–client networks still important to the understanding of developing country politics or has it now been overtaken by a focus on ‘social capital’? Drawing on seventeen country studies of the political environment for livestock policy in poor countries, this article concludes that although the nature of patronage has changed significantly, it remains highly relevant to the ways peasant interests are treated. Peasant populations were found either to have no clear connection to their political leaders or to be controlled by political clientage. Furthermore, communities ‘free’ of patron–client ties to the centre generally are not better represented …

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Young Children’S Analogical Reasoning Across Cultures: Similarities And Differences, Robert Morrison

Robert Morrison

A cross-cultural comparison between U.S. and Hong Kong preschoolers examined factors responsible for young children's analogical reasoning errors. On a scene analogy task, both groups had adequate prerequisite knowledge of the key relations, were the same age, and showed similar baseline performance, yet Chinese children outperformed U.S. children on more relationally complex problems. Children from both groups were highly susceptible to choosing a perceptual or semantic distractor during reasoning when one was present. Taken together, these similarities and differences suggest that (a) cultural differences can facilitate better knowledge representations by allowing more efficient processing of relationally complex problems and (b) …

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Mutual But Unequal: Mentoring As A Hybrid Of Familiar Relationship Roles, Julia Pryce

Julia Pryce

This chapter employs a conceptual framework based on the relationship constructs of power and permanence to distinguish the special hybrid nature of mentoring relationships relative to prototypical vertical and horizontal relationships common in the lives of mentor and mentee. The authors note that mentoring occurs in voluntary relationships among partners with unequal social experience and influence. Consequently, mentoring relationships contain expectations of unequal contributions and responsibilities (as in vertical relationships), but sustaining the relationships depends on mutual feelings of satisfaction and commitment (as in horizontal relationships). Keller and Pryce apply this framework to reveal the consistency of findings across several …

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Sincerity And Reason Giving: When May Legal Decision-Makers Lie?, Mathilde Cohen

Mathilde Cohen

Public reason-giving is an essential duty of democracies, said to promote better public decision-making by keeping the government’s discretionary powers in check. However, this aim may be compromised if decision-makers cite insincere and misleading justifications as a means of preventing accountability. This Article contributes to rethinking sincerity in legal decision-making by asking both a normative and a descriptive question. The normative question is whether and to what extent public institutions should disclose the reasons for their decisions. The practical question is whether and how the fact that decision-makers have failed to fully disclose their reasons can be established. The generally …

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Immigrant Youth’S Perceptions Of The Library: A Pilot Study Involving Youth Ages 14-18 Years Of African And Caribbean Origin, Joseph Artinger, Paulette Rothbauer

Paulette Rothbauer

Abstract: A pilot study of immigrant youth ages 14-18 of African and Caribbean descent revealed a generation wired to the internet for their information needs. The study finds that they would benefit from library programs better suited to their day to day life questions concerned with living in the adopted community.

Résumé : Une étude pilote auprès de jeunes de 14 à 18 ans d'origine afro-caribéenne révèle une génération qui se branche sur le web pour satisfaire ses besoins informationnels. L'étude démontre que ces jeunes tireraient profit de programmes en bibliothèque mieux adaptés aux enjeux du quotidien qui pavent leur …

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Reasons For Reasons, Mathilde Cohen

Mathilde Cohen

This chapter examines some popular justifications for public reason-giving common in liberal political thought. An obvious way of arguing in favor of the duty to give reasons is to point out that publicly substantiating decisions is an intrinsically valuable practice. Giving reasons simply makes for better decision-making. Yet in liberal democracies reasons are increasingly defended on “instrumental” grounds. Giving reasons is valuable because some other value will thereby be realized. Reasons are used for (other) reasons. Reasons become proxies for democratic values. The giving reasons requirement results in getting credit, not so much for increasing the quality of the underlying …

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The Rule Of Law As The Rule Of Reasons, Mathilde Cohen

Mathilde Cohen

This paper argues that in contemporary legal thinking, the concept of the rule of law has become inseparable from the idea that legal decision-makers should give reasons to justify their decisions. Yet, how far can the concept of the rule the law be understood as establishing a rule of reasons? I examine whether reason giving is necessarily connected with the rule of law in the sense that a legal system would not conform to the rule of law if its decisions were not supported by publicly articulated reasons. I proceed by arguing that the focus on reason giving vindicates both …

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China's Strategic Interests In Cambodia: Influence And Resources, Sophal Ear, Sigfrido Burgos

Sophal Ear

Cambodia is pivotal to China’s strategies to project greater influence in Southeast Asia, buffer longstanding rivals, and potentially tame America’s hegemony. China’s transformation from regional backwater into influential global actor raises concerns for many countries. As expected, the rise of a powerful regional player makes traditional hegemonic countries anxious.

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Schiller On Aesthetic Education: Radicalization By Return, Fred Baumann

Fred Baumann

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Documents Journey Through Time: Weeding A History, Vickie Mix

Vickie Mix

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to offer a reflective analysis of project planning for the legal disposition of a large Federal Documents Collection in an off-site storage facility. Design/methodology/approach - This paper provides a case study. Findings - This paper examines specific steps in a project plan for relocation and disposition of Federal Documents received under the Federal Depository Library Program. Originality/value - The paper contributes to the discussion of library space needs, the disposition of tangible resources in an increasingly electronic age and the challenges libraries face in managing collections.

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The Implicit Association Test As A Class Assignment: Student Affective And Attitudinal Reactions, Kathryn Morris, Leslie Ashburn-Nardo

Kathryn A. Morris

The Implicit Association Test (IAT) is a popular means of examining “hidden” biases. However, some express concerns about classroom use of the IAT, citing students' potentially negative affective reactions to taking the IAT and discovering their implicit biases. To investigate the validity of this criticism, 35 social psychology students completed affect measures after taking and discussing the Race IAT. Students reported more positive than negative affect both immediately after taking the IAT and 1 week later. They also reported greater awareness of their own and others' implicit racial biases, knowledge of implicit processes, and perceived value of the IAT demonstration.

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Utah Libraries News, Lesli Baker

Lesli A Baker

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Inferring Drug Use From Productivity Trends In Track And Field, Michael Seeborg, Allison Fisher

Michael Seeborg

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Cyberbullying In Mexico: The Importance Of Implementing Earlier Public Policies To Limit Its Growth, Daniel Tapia

Daniel Tapia

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Academic Integrity And Assignment Design, Stefanie Warlick

Stefanie E Warlick

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Workers On The Margin: Who Drops Health Coverage When Prices Rise?, Edward Okeke, Richard Hirth, Kyle Grazier

Edward Okeke

We revisit the question of price elasticity of employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) take-up by directly examining changes in the take-up of ESI at a large firm in response to exogenous changes in employee premium contributions. We find that, on average, a 10% increase in the employee’s out-of-pocket premium increases the probability of dropping coverage by approximately 1%. More importantly, we find heterogeneous impacts: married workers are much more price-sensitive than single employees, and lower-paid workers are disproportionately more likely to drop coverage than higher-paid workers. Elasticity estimates for employees below the 25th percentile of salary distribution in our sample are nearly …

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Vernon Briggs: Real-World Labor Economist

Vernon M Briggs Jr

[Excerpt] Vernon Briggs stepped into a wastebasket and launched my career as a labor economist. In the spring of 1969, I was sleepwalking through the undergraduate economics program at the University of Texas and sitting in Dr. Briggs’s labor economics class. He was vigorously making a point when his misstep off the small classroom stage produced a roar of laughter but did not break his train of thought. He woke me up; I thought, “Man, I want to be as passionate about my life’s work as this guy.

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Geheimnisvolle Musik, Jason Neal

Jason R. Neal

Looking beyond tradtional genre categorizations, this blog ties together strands of similarities among diverse types of music. As we enter the second decade of the 21st Century, people seem more open to different types of music than in previous times. Or, they at least admit to it more readily. Furthermore, many musicians and composers have engaged with genres beyond the ones with which they are most commonly identified. Still, defining one’s tastes by genre remains firmly established for any number of reasons. If nothing else, it can provide shorthand for identifying one’s status, or it can aid with marketing products …

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Insert Discourse: Rectal Douching Among Young Hiv-Positive And Hiv-Negative Gay Men In Vancouver, Canada, A. Schilder, Treena Orchard, C. Buchner, S. Strathdee, R. Hogg

Dr. Treena Orchard

Douching is a common practice among certain groups of women and MSM, and it is conducted for the purpose of cleanliness as part of bodily hygiene maintenance. Although there has been considerable research about female vaginal douching, understandings of rectal douching (RD) for MSM are limited. In the epidemiological and medical literature, RD is presented as a behaviour that removes beneficial bacteria and the surface epithelium layer of the colon, which can, potentially, increase the risk of HIV transmission in MSM. The paucity of research on male douching practices is curious given the primacy of anal sex in HIV prevention …

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Taming Toddlers, Peta Stapleton, Terri Sheldon

Peta B. Stapleton

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Philosophy And The Information Sciences, Jonathan Furner

Jonathan Furner

Philosophy and the information sciences intersect in various ways. Philosophical approaches to the study of information and information-related phenomena focus on metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical questions; philosophical approaches to the study of the information sciences focus on methodological issues. Metaphilosophical questions may also be asked about philosophy of information and about philosophy of the information sciences.

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The Faces Of The Rainbow: Multi-Racial People In American, Norman Powell, Roger Cleveland

Norman W. Powell

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Unacceptable Realities: Public Opinion And The Challenge Of Immigration - A Franco-American Comparison, Roger Waldinger

Roger D Waldinger

This paper analyzes survey data collected by the 2003 International Social Survey Program module on National Identity to compare French and American opinion toward immigration. The paper focuses on the views of residents with multi-generational roots: what might in France be called “les francais de souche,” what in the United States would be called “third generation whites,” and what we will describe as the “ethnic majority”.” Ethnic majorities in these immigrant democracies on the two sides of the Atlantic have remarkably convergent views. Majorities of the “ethnic majorities” in both countries want fewer immigrants, rather than more; likewise, majorities want …

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Folksonomies, Jonathan Furner

Jonathan Furner

Folksonomies are indexing languages that emerge from the distributed resource-description activity of multiple agents who make use of online tagging services to assign tags (i.e., category labels) to the resources in collections. Although individuals’ motivations for engaging in tagging activity vary widely, folksonomy-based retrieval systems can be evaluated by measuring the degree to which taggers and searchers agree on tag–resource pairings.

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Producing Filmed Entertainment, Alisa Perren

Alisa Perren

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Threads Of Intersection And Distinction: Joining An Ongoing Conversation Within Organizational Communication Research, Sarah Feldner, Scott D'Urso

Sarah Feldner

Departmentally Embedded Librarianship As A Way To Enhance The Traditional Library Liaisonship Program, Kathryn Waggoner

Kathryn L Waggoner

Hook Up Culture: Setting A New Research Agenda, Caroline Heldman, Lisa Wade

Lisa Wade

Distributed Representations Of Dynamic Facial Expressions In The Superior Temporal Sulcus., Chris Said, Chris Moore, Andrew Engell, Alex Todroov, James Haxby

Andrew Engell

Renewal And Risk: The Dual Experience Of Young Motherhood And Aging Out Of The Child Welfare System, Julia Pryce

Julia Pryce

Sophal Ear

Young Children’S Analogical Reasoning Across Cultures: Similarities And Differences, Robert Morrison

Robert Morrison

Mutual But Unequal: Mentoring As A Hybrid Of Familiar Relationship Roles, Julia Pryce

Julia Pryce

Sincerity And Reason Giving: When May Legal Decision-Makers Lie?, Mathilde Cohen

Mathilde Cohen

Immigrant Youth’S Perceptions Of The Library: A Pilot Study Involving Youth Ages 14-18 Years Of African And Caribbean Origin, Joseph Artinger, Paulette Rothbauer

Paulette Rothbauer

Reasons For Reasons, Mathilde Cohen

Mathilde Cohen

The Rule Of Law As The Rule Of Reasons, Mathilde Cohen

Mathilde Cohen

China's Strategic Interests In Cambodia: Influence And Resources, Sophal Ear, Sigfrido Burgos

Sophal Ear

Schiller On Aesthetic Education: Radicalization By Return, Fred Baumann

Fred Baumann

Documents Journey Through Time: Weeding A History, Vickie Mix

Vickie Mix

The Implicit Association Test As A Class Assignment: Student Affective And Attitudinal Reactions, Kathryn Morris, Leslie Ashburn-Nardo

Kathryn A. Morris

Utah Libraries News, Lesli Baker

Lesli A Baker

Inferring Drug Use From Productivity Trends In Track And Field, Michael Seeborg, Allison Fisher

Michael Seeborg

Cyberbullying In Mexico: The Importance Of Implementing Earlier Public Policies To Limit Its Growth, Daniel Tapia

Daniel Tapia

Academic Integrity And Assignment Design, Stefanie Warlick

Stefanie E Warlick

Workers On The Margin: Who Drops Health Coverage When Prices Rise?, Edward Okeke, Richard Hirth, Kyle Grazier

Edward Okeke

Vernon Briggs: Real-World Labor Economist

Vernon M Briggs Jr

Geheimnisvolle Musik, Jason Neal

Jason R. Neal

Insert Discourse: Rectal Douching Among Young Hiv-Positive And Hiv-Negative Gay Men In Vancouver, Canada, A. Schilder, Treena Orchard, C. Buchner, S. Strathdee, R. Hogg

Dr. Treena Orchard

Taming Toddlers, Peta Stapleton, Terri Sheldon

Peta B. Stapleton

Philosophy And The Information Sciences, Jonathan Furner

Jonathan Furner

The Faces Of The Rainbow: Multi-Racial People In American, Norman Powell, Roger Cleveland

Norman W. Powell

Unacceptable Realities: Public Opinion And The Challenge Of Immigration - A Franco-American Comparison, Roger Waldinger

Roger D Waldinger

Folksonomies, Jonathan Furner

Jonathan Furner

Producing Filmed Entertainment, Alisa Perren

Alisa Perren