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Postcards From The Edge V: Film Studies [Presentation File], Nedda Ahmed

Nedda H Ahmed

No abstract provided.

Invisible Numbers, Dari Sylvester

Dari E. Sylvester

Dr. Dari Sylvester reflects on the political and psychological implications of "counting" in society. Blending humor and poignant snippets of personal insight, she challenges us to stand up and feel empowered in our own communities.

Beautiful, Good, Important, And Special: Cultural Heritage, Archaeology, Tourism And The Miniature In The Holy Land, Morag Kersel, Yorke Rowan

Morag M. Kersel

No abstract provided.

Intent To Purchase A Plug-In Electric Vehicle: A Survey Of Early Impressions In Large U.S. Cites, Rachel Krause

Rachel M. Krause

This paper examines consumer stated intent to purchase plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) and assesses the factors that increase or decrease interest. It utilizes a survey of 2,302 adult drivers in 21 large U.S. cities. The survey occurred in early fall 2011, before vehicle manufacturers and dealers began information and marketing campaigns, and thus serves to document early impressions of this emerging transport technology. The central finding of the analysis is that, given current battery technology and public perceptions, overall stated intent to purchase or lease PEVs is low. Interest in plug-in hybrid technology is somewhat greater than interest in all-electric …

A New Blueprint For A Green Economy, Edward Barbier, Anil Markandya

Edward B Barbier

No abstract provided.

Remedios, Heather James

Heather James

No abstract provided.

School And Residential Neighborhood Food Environment And Diet Among California Youth., Ruopeng An, Roland Sturm

Roland Sturm

Abstract BACKGROUND: Various hypotheses link neighborhood food environments and diet. Greater exposure to fast-food restaurants and convenience stores is thought to encourage overconsumption; supermarkets and large grocery stores are claimed to encourage healthier diets. For youth, empirical evidence for any particular hypothesis remains limited. PURPOSE: This study examines the relationship between school and residential neighborhood food environment and diet among youth in California. METHODS: Data from 8226 children (aged 5-11 years) and 5236 adolescents (aged 12-17 years) from the 2005 and 2007 California Health Interview Survey were analyzed in 2011. The dependent variables are daily servings of fruits, vegetables, juice, …

Suicide Bombing: How To Prevent Death In Civilians? - Authors’ Reply., M Hicks, H Dardagan, P Bagnall, M Spagat, J Sloboda

Madelyn Hsiao-Rei Hicks

No abstract provided.

The Devil In The Deal: Trade-Embedded Emissions And The Durban Platform, Cindy Isenhour

Cindy Isenhour

No abstract provided.

Journal Of Phi Beta Delta, Honor Society For International Scholars, Vol.2, No.1, Michael Smithee

Michael B. Smithee

No abstract provided.

Corruption, Poverty And Tropical Land Use, Edward Barbier

Edward B Barbier

No abstract provided.

Ontologies Of The Future And Interfaces For All: Archaeological Databases For The 21st Century, Angela Labrador

Angela M Labrador

Archaeological database management systems serve the basic and important functions of ordering, archiving, and disseminating archaeological data. The increased availability of computers and data storage over the past two decades has enabled the exponential growth of archaeological databases and data models. Despite their importance and ubiquity, archaeological database systems are rarely the subject of theoretical analysis within the discipline due to their ‘‘black box’’ nature and the perceived objectivity of computerized systems. Inspired by H. Martin Wobst’s meditations on materiality and disciplinary ethics, in this paper I explore how archaeological database systems structure archaeological interpretation and disciplinary practice. In turn, …

The Uri Multicultural Dialogue Project, Jaqueline Sparks

Jaqueline A. Sparks

No abstract provided.

'A More Perfect Peace:' Jus Post Bellum And The Quest For Stable Peace, Robert Williams

Robert E. Williams Jr.

No abstract provided.

New Approaches To Reducing And Mitigating Harm To Civilians, Greg Mcneal

Greg McNeal

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan highlighted the strategic importance of the U.S. commitment to civilian protection. Both wars were eventually fought as a counterinsurgency (COIN) and both revealed how protecting civilians is a central feature of COIN. This chapter examines the importance of civilian casualty mitigation in U.S. counterinsurgency operations, it describes the theoretical and practical lessons learned regarding civilian casualties and situates them in a broader strategic context. The chapter also describes the U.S. military’s newest doctrinal publication aimed specifically at preventing and mitigating harm to civilians. The chapter concludes noting that protecting the population and winning hearts …

Brushed-Off Testimony, Stanley Brodsky, Dustin Wygant

Dustin B. Wygant

In line with years of tradition, soldiers young and old come together at the local pub or hall to swap war stories of time in the trenches. For the forensic clinician, the trenches represent the hard-fought battles during expert testimony. As it turns out, our pub was a social gathering at the 2012 meeting of the American Psychology Law Society in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The University of Alabama Psychology Law Program hosted a social gathering for its faculty, graduate students, alumni, and friends to come together and share stories and camaraderie. It was in this setting that we launched …

Motivational Factors Related To Female Participation In Collegiate Sports, Francisco Soto Mas

Francisco Soto Mas

Despite the many health benefits, physical activity trends in females have been consistently reported to be lower than that of males. Other demographic variables may also be related to sport participation. The purpose of this study was to explore the factors that motivate college females to participate in sports. This was a cross sectional, causal-comparative survey study. Eight motivational factors were explored: fitness, skill/mastery, enjoyment, affiliation/recognition, team factors, ego/competition, parental support, and external rewards. Female college athletes (N=82) from two post-secondary institutions were surveyed using the 35-item Modified Sports Motivation Survey. Results indicated that all factors were important to participants …

Household Portfolio Choices, Health Status And Health Care Systems: A Cross-Country Analysis Based On Share, Vincenzo Atella, Brunetti Marianna, Nicole Maestas

Nicole Maestas

Health risk is increasingly viewed as an important form of background risk that affects household portfolio decisions. However, its role might be mediated by the presence of a protective full-coverage National Health System that could reduce households’ probability of incurring current and future out-of-pocket medical expenditures. In this paper, we first sketch a theoretical framework in which household portfolio decisions are a function of both individual and systemic characteristics. Then, we test its main implications based on SHARE data, studying the influence of current health status and future health risk on the decision to hold risky assets, across 10 European …

Different Roles And Different Results: How Activity Orientations Correspond To Relationship Quality And Student Outcomes In School-Based Mentoring, Julia Pryce

Julia Pryce

Mentoring Attunement: An Approach To Successful School-Based Mentoring Relationships, Julia Pryce

Julia Pryce

An Investigation Of Volunteer-Student Relationship Trajectories Within School-Based Youth Mentoring Programs, Julia Pryce

Julia Pryce

Tips & Trends: Instruction And Assessment Management, Amanda Izenstark, Jackie Belanger

Amanda Izenstark

Part of the ACRL Instruction Section Instructional Technologies Committee Tips & Trends Series. Provides information on tools and techniques used by instruction librarians for assessing and managing instruction.

Response To Ostp Rfi On Public Access To Digital Data, Denise Troll Covey, Gloriana St. Clair

Denise Troll Covey

Response to Request for Information from the Office of Science and Technology Policy posted in the Federal Register, Vol. 76, No. 214, November 4, 2011.

Utilizing Millennium Batch Processes In A Data-Driven Deselection Project, Patrick Roth

Patrick Roth

Pre- & Post- Retirement Tips For Librarians, Edited By Carol Smallwood. Chicago: American Library Association, 2012. Isbn-13: 978-0838911204no Title, Elizabeth Parang

Elizabeth Parang

Slaves, Cannibals, And Infected Hyper-Whites: The Race And Religion Of Zombies, Elizabeth Mcalister

Elizabeth McAlister

"Patterns Of Discovery" In Participatory Action Research From The Insider's Perspective, Katherine Mccrea

Katherine Tyson McCrea

Paper from the Keynote Address for an International Conference on Participatory Action Research from the Insider's Perspective, sponsored by the Pan-European Centre Européen de Ressources pour la Recherche en Travail Social. Recognizing that relationships are the epistemology within which all social science research occurs, this study focuses on how authenticity of discovery is influenced by the nature of relationships between research participants (including researcher/s).

Ford Foundation, José Villalobos

José D. Villalobos

No abstract provided.

Love American Style And Divorce Toraja Style: Lessons From A Tale Of Mutual Reflexivity In Indonesia, Kathleen Adams

Kathleen M. Adams

The author recounts an episode from her ethnographic research in Tana Toraja, Sulawesi, Indonesia, when she was obliged to shed her comfortably familiar ‘fieldworker’ role and stray from a pre-plotted research agenda into emotionally dangerous terrain. She explores the serendipitous insights that can emerge only when the classic division between the realm of research and one's private life is muddied. By recounting some Toraja responses to the news of her impending divorce, the author examines the unexpected and occasionally destabilising understandings that emerge from these personal exchanges. The unanticipated insights concern both Toraja and American conceptions of marriage and its …

Brain Activation For Language Dual-Tasking: Listening To Two People Speak At The Same Time And A Change In Network Timing, Augusto Buchweitz, Timothy Keller, Ann Meyler, Marcel Just

Marcel Adam Just

No abstract provided.