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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
The Value Of Scholarly Reading In The Life Sciences, Carol Tenopir, Rachel Volentine
The Value Of Scholarly Reading In The Life Sciences, Carol Tenopir, Rachel Volentine
School of Communication Studies Publications and Other Works
Surveys of academic staff in six universities in the U.K. provide insights for publishers and universities into scholarly article, book, and other publication reading patterns of academics and differences based on academic discipline of readers. These surveys were part of the 2011 UK Scholarly Reading and the Value of the Library Study funded by JISC Collections and based on Tenopir and King Studies conducted since 1977. Reading patterns of life and environmental scientists differ from other disciplines, in particular social sciences. Scholarly articles, especially those obtained from the library’s e-journal collections, are vital to the work of all academic disciplines. …
An Exploratory Study Of The Nature And Composition Of Current Library And Information Science Programs In Indian State Universities, Bharat Mehra, Devendra Potnis, Jennifer Morden
An Exploratory Study Of The Nature And Composition Of Current Library And Information Science Programs In Indian State Universities, Bharat Mehra, Devendra Potnis, Jennifer Morden
Faculty Publications and Other Works -- EECS
This brief article explores the current state of library and information science (LIS) programs in terms of their nature and composition in state universities in India. Preliminary findings were based on a content analysis of representative information regarding LIS education available on the websites of all state universities and colleges that offer LIS programs in India. Findings indicated broad trends in administrative structuring and nomenclature of LIS programs which requires standardization. The type of degrees awarded, the composition of faculty positions, student places per year and student-faculty ratios was also found to be varied among the different institutions. The lack …
2012 Annual Report, Mtas
2012 Annual Report, Mtas
MTAS Annual Reports
This annual report highlights changes and improvements at MTAS during 2012, including the adoption of a five-year strategic plan.
Municipal E-News: Issue 32: January 2012, Mtas
Municipal E-News: Issue 32: January 2012, Mtas
Municipal E-News
The “Municipal E-News” was created by MTAS in 2009 as part of our continuing efforts to meet our mission of providing timely, valuable information and assistance to Tennessee cities.
Bath, Maine: A City Of Ships, Taylor Witkin
Bath, Maine: A City Of Ships, Taylor Witkin
Historical Ecology Atlas of New England
Known as Maine’s city of ships, Bath sits on the shores of the Kennebec River, about 15 miles from the Gulf of Maine and 40 miles up the coast from Portland. Though small in population, Bath’s impact on Maine, the rest of United States, and even on the world has been anything but small. Today Bath is known mostly for the Bath Iron Works, which supplies the US Navy with a large portion of its fleets, however, in Bath’s early days it built large, wooden yachts and schooners mostly for trade, not war. The next few pages will explore Bath’s …
January 2012: Congressional Record App For Ipad!, Dacus Library
January 2012: Congressional Record App For Ipad!, Dacus Library
Dacus Docs News
No abstract provided.
Forgotten Voices: What Roosevelt Hs Students Have To Say About Education Reform Strategies And The School-To-Prision Pipeline, Angel Melendez
Forgotten Voices: What Roosevelt Hs Students Have To Say About Education Reform Strategies And The School-To-Prision Pipeline, Angel Melendez
African & African American Studies Senior Theses
America's once revered public education system is now in crisis. In the last two decades, with special emphasis on the time period since the 2002 passing of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the United States has seen an unprecedented decline in the overall value and worth of its education system. Graduation rates have plummeted, drop out rates have skyrocketed (The United States graduates fewer then 7 out of every 10 high school student)1, and the United States continues to fall behind other industrialized countries in the three main subject areas of math, science, and reading. However, …
More Than The Sum Of Its Parts: An Innovative Organizational Collaboration Model, Lauri Goldkind, Manoj Pardasani
More Than The Sum Of Its Parts: An Innovative Organizational Collaboration Model, Lauri Goldkind, Manoj Pardasani
Social Service Faculty Publications
For at least the past decade, the social service sector has been pressed by external forces to develop models of interagency collaboration. While many organizations use strategic partnerships, joint service delivery models, and even mergers to remain viable in climates of competition, few agencies have explored the possible rewards of sharing development and fundraising tasks. This article examines an innovative collaborative fundraising entity forged by three child welfare organizations in the New York City area. The authors conducted structured interviews with key stakeholders at each of the three agencies to describe the model as implemented by the agencies as well …
Senior Centers And Policy Advocacy: Changing Public Perceptions, Manoj G. Pardasani, Lauri Goldkind
Senior Centers And Policy Advocacy: Changing Public Perceptions, Manoj G. Pardasani, Lauri Goldkind
Social Service Faculty Publications
As critical components of the aging continuum of care, senior centers promote older adult health and well-being by providing opportunities for recreation, socialization, nutrition, health education, and access to vital social services. As the United States population ages rapidly, public funding, which is the primary source of support for a majority of senior center services, has remained stagnant. If senior centers are to continue to effectively serve older adults and meet their comprehensive needs, they need to demonstrate their relevance to the community and advocate for increased funding support. This paper explores the policy concerns of senior center administrators, investigates …
Dr. Alfred J. Kahn, Nancy V. Kahn
Dr. Alfred J. Kahn, Nancy V. Kahn
Social Service Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Creating Knowledge, Volume 5, 2012
Creating Knowledge, Volume 5, 2012
Creating Knowledge
It is my great pleasure to introduce the fifth volume of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences’ Creating Knowledge, our undergraduate student scholarship and research journal. First published in 2008, the journal is the outcome of an initiative to enhance and enrich the academic quality of the student experience within the college. Through this publication, the college seeks to encourage students to become actively engaged in creating scholarship and research and give them a venue for the publication of their essays. This fifth volume, like the ones that preceded it, gives considerable testimony to the creativity, hard work …
A Postulate For Tiger Recovery: The Case Of The Caspian Tiger, Carlos A. Driscoll, I Chestin, H Jungius, Y Darman, E Dinerstein, J Seidensticker, J Sanderson, S Christie, S J. Luo, M Shrestha, Y Zhuravlev, O Uphyrkina, Y V. Jhala, S P. Yadav, D G. Pikunov, N Yamaguchi, D E. Wildt, J D. Smith, Marker, Philip J. Nyhus, R Tilson, D W. Macdonald, S J. O'Brien
A Postulate For Tiger Recovery: The Case Of The Caspian Tiger, Carlos A. Driscoll, I Chestin, H Jungius, Y Darman, E Dinerstein, J Seidensticker, J Sanderson, S Christie, S J. Luo, M Shrestha, Y Zhuravlev, O Uphyrkina, Y V. Jhala, S P. Yadav, D G. Pikunov, N Yamaguchi, D E. Wildt, J D. Smith, Marker, Philip J. Nyhus, R Tilson, D W. Macdonald, S J. O'Brien
Faculty Scholarship
Recent genetic analysis has shown that the extinct Caspian Tiger (P. t. virgata) and the living Amur Tigers (P. t. altaica) of the Russian Far East are actually taxonomically synonymous and that Caspian and Amur groups historically formed a single population, only becoming separated within the last 200 years by human agency. A major conservation implication of this finding is that tigers of Amur stock might be reintroduced, not only back into the Koreas and China as is now proposed, but also through vast areas of Central Asia where the Caspian tiger once lived. However, under the current tiger conservation …
Northern Ireland, Caitlyn Boyd
Northern Ireland, Caitlyn Boyd
Stories of Immigration: Oral History Workshop Papers
No abstract provided.
Huetamo, Michoacan, Eribertha Gomez
Huetamo, Michoacan, Eribertha Gomez
Stories of Immigration: Oral History Workshop Papers
No abstract provided.
San Luis Potosi, Alexander Torres
San Luis Potosi, Alexander Torres
Stories of Immigration: Oral History Workshop Papers
No abstract provided.
Cueramara, Guanajuato, Sara Victoria Lopez
Cueramara, Guanajuato, Sara Victoria Lopez
Stories of Immigration: Oral History Workshop Papers
No abstract provided.
Melting Pot, Megan Day
Melting Pot, Megan Day
Stories of Immigration: Oral History Workshop Papers
No abstract provided.
Living In Poland, Adrian Skobelski
Living In Poland, Adrian Skobelski
Stories of Immigration: Oral History Workshop Papers
No abstract provided.
Narino, Colombia, Sarah Zumba
Narino, Colombia, Sarah Zumba
Stories of Immigration: Oral History Workshop Papers
No abstract provided.
La Fin De La Pensée? Philosophie Analytique Contre Philosophie Continentale, Babette Babich
La Fin De La Pensée? Philosophie Analytique Contre Philosophie Continentale, Babette Babich
Research Resources
No abstract provided.
Pegasus, Poni And The Ipad: A Thirty Year Strategic Alliance Creates An Environment For Technical Innovation And Enhanced Academic Support At Southern Methodist University., Gillian M. Mccombs, Joe Gargiulo
Pegasus, Poni And The Ipad: A Thirty Year Strategic Alliance Creates An Environment For Technical Innovation And Enhanced Academic Support At Southern Methodist University., Gillian M. Mccombs, Joe Gargiulo
Fondren Library Research
Southern Methodist University’s libraries and central IT staff have been working hand in hand for more than 30 years to provide high quality information technology tools in support of the University’s academic mission. The technology might change, the players might change, but the commitment of these two units goes above and beyond to serve University goals. Not intended to document every technological change on campus, this article focuses on the various stages in this fruitful relationship, and explores the organizational, cultural and environmental factors that have sustained this strategic alliance and fostered its growth over the years.
Women's Legal History Symposium Introduction: Making History, Felice J. Batlan
Women's Legal History Symposium Introduction: Making History, Felice J. Batlan
All Faculty Scholarship
This essay introduces the Chicago-Kent Symposium on Women's Legal History: A Global Perspective. It seeks to situate the field of women's legal history and to explore what it means to begin writing a transnational women's history which transcends and at times disrupts the nation state. In doing so, it sets forth some of the fundamental premises of women's legal history and points to new ways of writing such histories.
Regionalization, Development And Competition Law: Exploring The Political Dimension, David J. Gerber
Regionalization, Development And Competition Law: Exploring The Political Dimension, David J. Gerber
All Faculty Scholarship
In discussions of the regionalization of competition law, the political dimension often leads a shadowy existence. Regionalization tends to be presented with a hint of a halo around it. States are presented as acting for a shared policy objective intended to benefit all, and political issues often sit uncomfortably with that image. This is particularly true when regionalization involves ‘developing countries’. Here there is often a further level of ‘common good’ discourse. Regionalization is here portrayed not only as a communal experience and goal, but also as one designed to reduce poverty and aid economic development. Where regionalization involves competition …
Midterm Elections Used To Gauge President's Reelection Chances, Desmond D. Wallace
Midterm Elections Used To Gauge President's Reelection Chances, Desmond D. Wallace
Bridges: A Journal of Student Research
Since 1952 there have been thirteen instances in which the incumbent president's party lost seats in the House of Representatives in a midterm election. Researchers have created two competing theories to explain this trend. The surge-and-decline theory argues that the reasons for causing high voter turnout in a presidential election are absent in a midterm election, leading to a decline in voter turnout and subsequent losses by the president's party. The other theory, the referendum theory, argues that losses suffered by the president's party are due to the president's performance and the performance of the economy. When it comes to …
Proverbs: Ancient Wisdom For Contemporary Organizations, Jennifer Dose
Proverbs: Ancient Wisdom For Contemporary Organizations, Jennifer Dose
Business Educator Scholarship
This article discusses how the Biblical Book of Proverbs applies to contemporary organizations. An inductive study of the Proverbs related to organizational life elicited a set of thematic categories. All proverbs related to these categories are reported, and a subset of these categories is explored further. Select examples of proverbs are provided to illustrate each topic with connections made to current management scholarship. Finally, these topical themes are integrated in the context of organizational trust, demonstrating the importance of comprehensive adherence by organizations and their members to all the principles that Proverbs advocates. The degree to which all of the …
Organizational Effectiveness In Higher Education: Faculty Informal Structure As Social Capital, Jennifer Dose
Organizational Effectiveness In Higher Education: Faculty Informal Structure As Social Capital, Jennifer Dose
Business Educator Scholarship
Higher education institutions encounter complex external environments, requiring increasing responsiveness and innovation. Research on social capital has demonstrated that highly connected employee relational networks are more creative, effective, and exhibit higher member satisfaction. The present study examines one college to demonstrate how social network analysis can be used to assess the informal relational networks of faculty members within a higher education institution. Characteristics of the faculty social network are described and mapped. The relationship between aspects of individuals’ network linkages, governance participation, and their organizational commitment, satisfaction, and trust are assessed. Recommendations for building effective organizational networks, particularly through expanding …
Gender, Religiosity, And The Telling Of Christian Conversion Narratives, Jenell Paris, Ines Jindra, Robert Woods, Diane Badzinski
Gender, Religiosity, And The Telling Of Christian Conversion Narratives, Jenell Paris, Ines Jindra, Robert Woods, Diane Badzinski
Sociology Educator Scholarship
Conversion is one important element of religion, the ways in which people shift from one religion (or none) to another, or deepen their commitment within a religion. This study explores the way Christian conversion narratives are told by college students. It considers whether factors such as gender, age, religious denomination, time passed since conversion, and measures of religiosity and orthodoxy influence conversion testimonies. Fifty-nine subjects gave in-depth interviews and completed several surveys, and research was gathered and analyzed using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Deborah Tannen’s genderlect styles theory and a social constructivist perspective on Christianity’s overarching story line are …
Jon Springer2, Amber N. Brooks
Jon Springer2, Amber N. Brooks
The Stories of Greater Yellowstone
No abstract provided.
Champaign County Youth Risk Factors Survey, Center For Urban And Public Affairs, Wright State University
Champaign County Youth Risk Factors Survey, Center For Urban And Public Affairs, Wright State University
Public Health
In 2012, APRI (formerly CUPA) partnered with the Champaign Health District to conduct a youth health assessment with students in Champaign County schools. The assessment is part of a larger community health assessment which also includes a survey of adults in Champaign County and strategic planning based upon the outcome of the surveys.
Two surveys were developed to assess youth risk behaviors—a middle school instrument and a high school instrument. Survey questions modeled questions from the Search Institute’s Developmental Assets survey, as authorized by the Search Institute, along with selected questions from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YBRS), conducted by …
Clark County Community Health Assessment, Center For Urban And Public Affairs, Wright State University
Clark County Community Health Assessment, Center For Urban And Public Affairs, Wright State University
Public Health
The 2012 Clark County Community Health Assessment consists of a telephone survey of 1,053 Clark County adults. The primary purpose of the survey of adults is to evaluate the health status of residents, establish public health priorities, and identify baseline measures for establishing public health program outcomes.
The assessment is based upon questions from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey conducted annually by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as well as community health assessments conducted by neighboring communities and priority health needs within the county. The assessment addresses access to and utilization of health care; …