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Less Is More: Essential Web Resources That Eliminate Clutter And Enhance Service, Naomi Gold

Naomi Gold

No abstract provided.

The High Price Of High Status: Popularity As A Mechanism Of Risk, David Schwartz, Andrea Gorman Hopmeyer

Andrea Hopmeyer Gorman

Particular emphasis is given to the risks and benefits of being popular. The volume reviews research linking popularity to substance use, poor academic performance, and other adjustment problems. Contributors also address the positive side of popularity, including its association with social competence and leadership abilities. Throughout the book, implications for prevention and intervention with adolescents are highlighted.

Bridging Your Online Content To Your User [Handout File], Nedda Ahmed, Jill Luedke

Nedda H Ahmed

No abstract provided.

Part 1 Of 4 Part Series On Helping Couples Uncover Their Sexual Potential, Tiffani Kisler

Tiffani S. Kisler

No abstract provided.

Planning, Population Loss And Equity In New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina, Renia Ehrenfeucht, Marla Nelson

Renia Ehrenfeucht

Shrinking, slow-growth and fast-growth cities have different opportunities and constraints. This paper uses New Orleans following the severe flood damage from the 2005 hurricanes as a case study to investigate the challenges to developing equitable and effective plans in a city with significant population loss. By addressing four elements that are necessary for effective planning in depopulated areas—strategies for targeted investment and consolidation; alternatives for underused areas; mechanisms to reintegrate abandoned parcels; and plans for infrastructure and service provision—we argue that the lack of effective tools was a pivotal impediment to effective planning.

Cultural Models Of The Self, Susan Cross, Jonathan Gore

Jonathan Gore

Describes the cultural foundations of divergent models of the self and reviews recent research comparing Western, independent conceptions of the self with East Asian, interdependent views of the self. The chapter concludes with comments on how cross-cultural investigations can continue to inform research on the self and its role in behavior.

The "Occupy" Movement: What's It All About?, Richard Philp

Richard B. Philp

The Occupy Wall Street movement has spread around the world and despite criticism that it lacks clear goals it has raised awareness of many of the societal problems afflicting the middle and working classes including increasing disparity of income between the very rich and the rest of the populace. This paper discusses many of these concerns and speculates on the evolution of the movement.

Collaborative Marketing For Electronic Resources, Marie Kennedy

Marie R. Kennedy

South African Conservation Crime And Routine Activities Theory: A Causal Nexus?, Greg Warchol

Greg Warchol

No abstract provided.

Diversity Management: Theoretical Perspectives And Practical Approaches, Sheying Chen

Sheying Chen

No abstract provided.

An Examination Of Conflict Style Preferences In India, Stephen Croucher, Kyle Holody, Manda Hicks, Deepa Oommen, Alfred Demaris

Manda V. Hicks

Purpose – This study sets out to examine conflict style preferences in India and the predictive effects of various demographic variables on conflict style preference.

Design/methodology/approach – Data were gathered in India (n=827) among Muslims and Hindus. Conflict was measured using Oetzel's Conflict Style Measure. To answer the research questions, repeated measures ANOVA and multiple regressions were conducted.

Findings – The findings reveal that conflict style preference among Hindus in India differs significantly and that Hindus prefer the integrating and dominating styles, whilst showing the least inclination towards the avoiding and obliging styles. Muslims prefer the integrating and compromising styles …

Political Development Of Iran, Huss Banai

Huss Banai

No abstract provided.

Media Use And Public (Mis)Understanding Of Climate Science, Ann Williams

Ann E Williams

No abstract provided.

Challenging Stereotypes: Understanding Islam, An Open Dialogue, Jesse Benjamin

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.

Land Management And The American Mustang, Gwen Sharp, Lisa Wade

Lisa Wade

No abstract provided.

Re-Inventing Reference, Lynn Sheehan

Lynn Sheehan

No abstract provided.

Social Work Curriculum For The 21st Century; In The National Network For Social Work Managers, 6 (1), 4-5, Monica Nandan, P. Scott

Monica Nandan

No abstract provided.

Race And Human Diversity: A Biocultural Approach, Robert Anemone

Robert L. Anemone

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Immigrant Transnationalism, Roger Waldinger

Roger D Waldinger

To say international migration is to say cross-border connections: the ties linking sending and receiving countries are a salient aspect of the migration experience, appearing during present as well as past eras of migration. This essay reviews the sociology of these cross-state ties and spillovers, typically associated with the literature on transnationalism. This essay discusses the intellectual history of the transnational perspective on migration, offers a critical evaluation and then presents a different approach, designed to identify the mechanisms generating and attenuating cross-border connections across a range of activities. Focusing on the experience in the Americas, the paper then turns …

Using Examiner Assignment To Estimate Causal Effects Of Ssdi Receipt, Nicole Maestas, Kathleen Mullen, Alexander Strand

Nicole Maestas

We present the first estimates of the causal effect of SSDI receipt on the labor supply generalizable to the entire population of program entrants in the present day system. We take advantage of a unique workload management database to match Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) applicants to disability examiners, and use natural variation in examiners’ allowance rates to estimate the labor supply effects of SSDI. Because applicants are randomly assigned to examiners (conditional on observable characteristics), examiner-specific allowance rates can be used to instrument for the allowance decision in a labor supply equation contrasting denied vs. allowed applicants. We find …

The Status Quo Bias And Counterterrorism Detention, Greg Mcneal

Greg McNeal

Counterterrorism detention policy in the United States is a mess. Commentators on both sides of the political spectrum have decried the U.S. approach. Those on the left have criticized the arbitrary and unfair nature of U.S. policy; they argue that detention policy has unfairly trampled on the rights of individuals, producing results that are inconsistent and, perhaps, counterproductive, especially in the eyes of U.S. allies and the Muslim world. Others have approached this question from a security perspective, decrying the granting of privileges to those who fail to follow the rules of civilized nations yet then demand the protection of …

Community Forums As A Unique Model Of Community Service-Learning In Higher Education, Sherrie Steiner, Buetta Warkentin, Michael Smith

Sherrie M Steiner

No abstract provided.

Media And Environmental Politics In East Asia, Mary Alice Haddad

Mary Alice Haddad

No abstract provided.

Politics And Democratic Consciousness In Modern Iran, Huss Banai

Huss Banai

No abstract provided.

Work Analysis: From Technique To Theory., Frederick Morgeson, Erich Dierdorff

Erich C. Dierdorff

No abstract provided.

Labeling The Victim Of Sex Trafficking: Exploring The Borderland Between Rhetoric And Reality, Michelle Dempsey, Mary Bosworth, Carolyn Hoyle

Michelle Madden Dempsey

In this article we discuss findings from a small scoping study into the experiences of victims of trafficking and those who work with them. We use testimonies from our interviews to examine issues of choice, slavery and escape. We challenge some of the current language and terminology in the literature on trafficking and call for a more nuanced appreciation of the relationship between agency and victimization.

Tracking The Sputnik Economy, Edward Barbier

Edward B Barbier

No abstract provided.

Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition, Ryan Allen

Ryan A. Allen

No abstract provided.

Journalism And Digital Technologies, Jane Singer

Jane B. Singer

No abstract provided.

China’S Natural Resource Appetite In Brazil, Sophal Ear

Sophal Ear

No abstract provided.