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Unique At Penn, Arthur Fraas Dec 2011

Unique At Penn, Arthur Fraas

Arthur Mitchell Fraas

Blog highlighting unique items from the collections of the University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

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Doctor Of Business Administration (Dba) Libguide, Mary Wilson Dec 2011

Doctor Of Business Administration (Dba) Libguide, Mary Wilson

Mary Wilson

This guide is created for KSU's DBA students and is useful for research and information. I hope it will be useful for providing help in locating scholarly research. The library has excellent electronic resources, as well as traditional print materials available in the library.

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Sharma Aradhana Citizenship Studies.Pdf, Aradhana Sharma Dec 2011

Sharma Aradhana Citizenship Studies.Pdf, Aradhana Sharma

Aradhana Sharma

This article uses the lens of development discourse to shed light on subaltern politics of
citizenship and rights claims in contemporary India. It argues that battles for
development entitlements allow subaltern subjects to meaningfully inhabit and
simultaneously alter the contours of legal citizenship, which they have been formally
granted by the Indian constitution, but, in effect, denied. Subaltern claims on
citizenship, articulated from a position of subordination and difference, not equality,
and through specific idioms, contest and radically transform the generic and universal
slot of personhood that liberalism provides – one that is rational, secular, sovereign and
individualistic. Their citizenship …

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Study Group On Library Services And Space Report, Paul Mosley, Jim Alderman, Bill Eckert, Michael Kucsak, Hilary Robbeloth Dec 2011

Study Group On Library Services And Space Report, Paul Mosley, Jim Alderman, Bill Eckert, Michael Kucsak, Hilary Robbeloth

Paul Mosley

The Study Group was constituted in March 2012 and charged with examining both library public services and library public spaces with the goals of developing a new service model and adapting existing library space to better serve library clientele’s needs. To those ends, the group has reviewed library use statistics, surveyed articles from the professional literature that review the experiences of other libraries, and made site visits to Florida State University and the University of Central Florida, both of which have recently developed knowledge or learning commons and reexamined their own service models.

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The Impact Of Adolescent Gang Membership In Involvement In Intimate Partner Violence In Adulthood, Sarah J. Greenman, Timothy O. Ireland Dec 2011

The Impact Of Adolescent Gang Membership In Involvement In Intimate Partner Violence In Adulthood, Sarah J. Greenman, Timothy O. Ireland

Sarah Greenman

No abstract provided.

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The Interplay Of Family Formation And Criminal Behavior, Terence P. Thornberry, Marvin D. Krohn, Megan Bears Augustyn, Molly Buchanan, Sarah J. Greenman Dec 2011

The Interplay Of Family Formation And Criminal Behavior, Terence P. Thornberry, Marvin D. Krohn, Megan Bears Augustyn, Molly Buchanan, Sarah J. Greenman

Sarah Greenman

No abstract provided.

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Breaking The Cycle Of Maltreatment: The Role Of Safe, Stable, And Nurturing Relationships, Terence P. Thornberry, Kimberly L. Henry, Carolyn Smith, Timothy O. Ireland, Sarah J. Greenman, Rosalyn D. Lee Dec 2011

Breaking The Cycle Of Maltreatment: The Role Of Safe, Stable, And Nurturing Relationships, Terence P. Thornberry, Kimberly L. Henry, Carolyn Smith, Timothy O. Ireland, Sarah J. Greenman, Rosalyn D. Lee

Sarah Greenman

No abstract provided.

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The Effects Of Rent-Seeking In Dissipating Developmental Efforts: The Ethiopian Experience, Asayehgn Desta Dec 2011

The Effects Of Rent-Seeking In Dissipating Developmental Efforts: The Ethiopian Experience, Asayehgn Desta

Asayehgn Desta

The liberalization measures in Ethiopia for the last seven years have contributed to strong economic growth which has lifted the economic and social well-being of at least some of the more fortunate Ethiopians. The majority of Ethiopians, however, have remained at the margin of this process, failing to share the benefits of economic growth. To tackle the chronic poverty and rampant unemployment that the country is facing, policy makers have attempted more recently to retool the country"s economic structure to mirror the East Asian Developmental State economic model. To rekindle hope for Ethiopia"s economic future, Ethiopia"s Developmental State Model has …

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Individual Case Study And Treatment Plan Guide, 4th Edition, Robin G. Gayle Dec 2011

Individual Case Study And Treatment Plan Guide, 4th Edition, Robin G. Gayle

Robin G. Gayle

Training guide adopted by the Department of Counseling Psychology, Dominican University of California as a guide for interns and trainees.

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Past Work Experience And Earnings Trajectories Of Single Mothers, Fredrik Andersson, Matthew Freedman, Susan Hauan, Julia Lane Dec 2011

Past Work Experience And Earnings Trajectories Of Single Mothers, Fredrik Andersson, Matthew Freedman, Susan Hauan, Julia Lane

Matthew Freedman

The increasing labor supply of single mothers in the US labor market in the 1990s is well documented, but due to data deficiencies it generally has been difficult to track the progress in the labor market of this group. In this study we integrate household characteristics data from the Current Population Survey with administrative longitudinal employment and earnings records from the US Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) program, enabling us to construct employment and earnings histories covering the six years prior to and five years following the survey year (either 1997 or 1998) of each respondent. In contrast to …

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Extending The Income Inequality Hypothesis: Ecological Results From The 2005 And 2009 Argentine National Risk Factor Surveys, Fernando De Maio, Bruno Linetzky, Daniel Ferrante, Nancy L. Fleischer Dec 2011

Extending The Income Inequality Hypothesis: Ecological Results From The 2005 And 2009 Argentine National Risk Factor Surveys, Fernando De Maio, Bruno Linetzky, Daniel Ferrante, Nancy L. Fleischer

Fernando De Maio

A consensus on income inequality as a social determinant of health has yet to be reached. In particular, we know little about the cross-sectional versus lagged effect of inequality, and the robustness of the relationship to indicators that are sensitive to varying parts of the income spectrum. We test these issues with data from Argentina’s 2005 and 2009 National Risk Factor Surveys. Inequality was operationalised at the provincial level with the Gini coefficient and the Generalized Entropy (GE) index. Population health was defined as the age-standardized percentage of adults with poor/fair self-rated health by province. Our cross-sectional results indicate a …

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Risk Of Cardiovascular Events Associated With Positive Serology For Chagas: A Systematic Review, Bruno Linetzky, Jonatan Konfino, Noelia Castellana, Fernando De Maio, Maria Cecilia Bahit, Andres Orlandini, Rafeal Diaz Dec 2011

Risk Of Cardiovascular Events Associated With Positive Serology For Chagas: A Systematic Review, Bruno Linetzky, Jonatan Konfino, Noelia Castellana, Fernando De Maio, Maria Cecilia Bahit, Andres Orlandini, Rafeal Diaz

Fernando De Maio

BACKGROUND: Chagas disease affects mainly poor populations in Latin America. This review assesses the evidence on the independent risk of cardiovascular events associated with positive Chagas serology. METHODS: We searched for studies using the following outcomes: death, stroke, new onset heart failure, heart failure hospitalization or evidence of left ventricular dysfunction. Studies comparing patients with positive serology for Chagas with a control group with a follow-up longer than 1 year were selected. The Medline, Lilacs and Embase databases were searched on 21 January 2011 without restrictions. RESULTS: From 5236 potentially relevant studies, 25 fulfilled the inclusion criteria. Fourteen included patients …

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Understanding The Health Transitions Of Immigrants To Canada: Research Priorities, Fernando De Maio Dec 2011

Understanding The Health Transitions Of Immigrants To Canada: Research Priorities, Fernando De Maio

Fernando De Maio

Understanding changes in the health of immigrants has been an important area of research in Canadian public health. Recent years have seen important developments, with studies moving away from what might be called ‘sick immigrant’ versus ‘healthy immigrant’ debates towards analyzing transitions and how they are influenced by a diverse set of social determinants. The release of data from all three waves of the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada has also spurred new theoretical understandings of why immigrants’ initial health advantage is lost over time, with the experience of discrimination becoming an increasingly important predictor. Three research priorities are …

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Changes In The Social Gradients For Pap Smears And Mammograms In Argentina: Evidence From The 2005 And 2009 National Risk Factor Surveys, Fernando De Maio, Bruno Linetzky, Daniel Ferrante Dec 2011

Changes In The Social Gradients For Pap Smears And Mammograms In Argentina: Evidence From The 2005 And 2009 National Risk Factor Surveys, Fernando De Maio, Bruno Linetzky, Daniel Ferrante

Fernando De Maio

Objectives: To identify changes in the social gradients for Pap smears and mammograms in Argentina. Study Design: Secondary analysis of the 2005 and 2009 Argentine National Risk Factor Surveys. Methods: Logistic regression analysis was used to examine social gradients by income and education, adjusting for age and health insurance. Results: The proportion of women who received a Pap smear in the previous two years increased from 51.6% in 2005 to 60.5% in 2009 (χ2 = 344.8, p < 0.001). A significant increase was also seen in the receipt of a mammogram in the previous two years by women 50 years …

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Ticcih Congress 2012, The International Committee For The Conservation Of The Industrial Heritage Dec 2011

Ticcih Congress 2012, The International Committee For The Conservation Of The Industrial Heritage

The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage

No abstract provided.

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Unearthing St. Augustine's Colonial Heritage: An Interactive Digital Collection For The Nation's Oldest City, Thomas R. Caswell Dec 2011

Unearthing St. Augustine's Colonial Heritage: An Interactive Digital Collection For The Nation's Oldest City, Thomas R. Caswell

Thomas Caswell

This $265,000 grant was awarded  by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The grant, led by project director Thomas Caswell, established a specialized computer digitization lab at the Government House in St. Augustine, Florida to build an online collection of hidden and fragile resources related to colonial St. Augustine. This two-year project created an interactive digital collection consisting of over 19,000 maps, drawings, photographs and documents available freely online. Partnering with the UF Libraries to realize this project were the City of St. Augustine departments of Heritage Tourism and Archaeology Program, the St. Augustine Historical Society, the UF College of Design, …

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The Art Of Mentoring Across Disciplines, Thomas R. Caswell Dec 2011

The Art Of Mentoring Across Disciplines, Thomas R. Caswell

Thomas Caswell

PRE-PRINT. Published as a contributing chapter with the same title, see:
Mentoring in librarianship : essays on working with adults and students to further the profession
Author:
Publisher:
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., Inc., ©2012.

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How Culture Makes Us Human: Primate Social Evolution And The Formation Of Human Societies, Dwight W. Read Dec 2011

How Culture Makes Us Human: Primate Social Evolution And The Formation Of Human Societies, Dwight W. Read

Dwight W Read

Probably one of the most interesting—and challenging—stories in
the evolution of our species is the transition from our shared
ancestry with other primates to human societies as we know them
today. What makes us like other primates and what makes us different?
These are the evolutionary themes worked out during this crucial
transition. These themes help define what distinguishes our species
from other primate species. The odyssey from the Old World monkeys to the great apes and
then to the development of our unique forms of social organization is,
then, the overall theme of this book. The odyssey begins, as …

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Gender Disparities In Sentencing Departures: An Examination Of U.S. Federal Courts, Jill K. Doerner Dec 2011

Gender Disparities In Sentencing Departures: An Examination Of U.S. Federal Courts, Jill K. Doerner

Jill K Doerner

Using data from the United States Sentencing Commission, the present study examines the role of guideline departures in the sentencing of male and female defendants in federal courts. Findings indicate that female defendants continue to have lower odds of incarceration and to receive shorter sentence length terms, even after legal, extralegal, and contextual factors are controlled. The largest gender difference in the odds of incarceration was found for defendants who received substantial assistance departures, while male and female defendants in this same category were given the most similar sentence lengths. When departure status was examined as a dependent variable, it …

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Gender And Sentencing In The Federal Courts: Are Women Treated More Leniently?, Jill K. Doerner, Stephen Demuth Dec 2011

Gender And Sentencing In The Federal Courts: Are Women Treated More Leniently?, Jill K. Doerner, Stephen Demuth

Jill K Doerner

Using data from the United States Sentencing Commission (2001-2003), we examine the role of gender in the sentencing of defendants in federal courts. We address two questions: First, can we explain the gender gap in sentencing by taking into account differences in legal and extralegal factors? And second, do legal and extralegal factors have the same impact for male and female defendants? Overall, we find that female defendants receive more lenient sentence outcomes than their male counterparts. Legal factors account for a large portion of the gender differences, but even after controlling for legal characteristics a substantial gap in sentencing …

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The Passing Of Time And The Collective Memory Of Conflicts, Rafi Nets-Zehngut Dec 2011

The Passing Of Time And The Collective Memory Of Conflicts, Rafi Nets-Zehngut

Dr. Rafi Nets-Zehngut (Israel)

Collective memory is a general category that includes various kinds of memories such as popular, official, autobiographical, cultural, and histori- cal (that produced by scholars). The impact of the passing of time on the collective memory of conflicts, despite its importance, is narrowly addressed in the literature. This article addresses that lack. Empirically, the article is based primarily on a study that examined Israeli collective memory from 1949 to 2004 regarding the causes for the 1948 Palestinian exodus. Methodologically, it is based mostly on content analysis of publi- cations of seven main Israeli–Jewish institutions: the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), the …

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The Collective Self-Healing Process In Intractable Conflicts – The Israeli-Palestinians’ Case, Rafi Nets-Zehngut Dec 2011

The Collective Self-Healing Process In Intractable Conflicts – The Israeli-Palestinians’ Case, Rafi Nets-Zehngut

Dr. Rafi Nets-Zehngut (Israel)

This article proposes the existence of a collective self-healing process, in which parties to intractable conflicts treat their conflicts’ wounds inde- pendent of their opponents. This process is different from the reconcilia- tion process, in which parties heal past offenses collaboratively. Various theoretical aspects of the proposed process are discussed, including the different domains of parties that take part in this process (i.e., the social, economic, political and psychological), the conflict situations in which this process is relevant, and the factors that influence it. The process is exemplified as it has been conducted by the Israeli Palestinians.

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Two Cheers For Instant Runoff Voting, Michael Lewyn Dec 2011

Two Cheers For Instant Runoff Voting, Michael Lewyn

Michael E Lewyn

"Instant runoff voting" (IRV) is a system that allows voters to rank their choices in a multicandidate election. Thus, the second-choice voters of less successful candidates are redistributed to the front-runners. The purpose of this system is to prevent candidates opposed by a majority of voters from winning. For example, if candidates A and B each have 40 percent of the vote and candidate C has 20 percent, the front-runner supported by the majority of C's supporters is the true "majority choice" and will win under IRV. The purpose of this article is to critically examine the arguments for and …

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Stratégies Verbales Et Gestuelles Dans L’Explication Lexical D’Un Verbe D’Action., Marion Tellier, Gale Stam Dec 2011

Stratégies Verbales Et Gestuelles Dans L’Explication Lexical D’Un Verbe D’Action., Marion Tellier, Gale Stam

Gale Stam, Ph.D.

No abstract provided.

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Tag Co-Occurrence Analysis Using The Association Data Mining Rule, Kyunghye Yoon Dec 2011

Tag Co-Occurrence Analysis Using The Association Data Mining Rule, Kyunghye Yoon

Kyunghye (Konhe) Yoon

No abstract provided.

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Conceptual Syntagmatic Associations In User Tagging, Kyunghye Yoon Dec 2011

Conceptual Syntagmatic Associations In User Tagging, Kyunghye Yoon

Kyunghye (Konhe) Yoon

No abstract provided.

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Intersektionella Analyser. Att Begreppsliggöra Ojämlikheter I Och Genom Rätten, Linnéa Wegerstad, Niklas Selberg Dec 2011

Intersektionella Analyser. Att Begreppsliggöra Ojämlikheter I Och Genom Rätten, Linnéa Wegerstad, Niklas Selberg

Niklas Selberg

Inledning till tema intersektionalitet

I inbjudan till detta temanummer skrev den svenska redaktionen att nordisk rättsvetenskaplig forskning under de senaste decennierna allt mer har uppmärksammat olika maktrelationer i förhållande till rätten, men att interaktioner mellan olika maktrelationer inte har analyserats i någon större utsträckning. Däremot har genusvetenskaplig forskning behandlat interaktioner mellan kön, klass, etnicitet, sexualitet, ålder eller funktionshinder inom vad som har kommit att kallas intersektionalitet. I det följande introducerar vi föreliggande nummers intersektionella analyser, och diskuterar det sammanhang de kan placeras i. 1980 hade Retfærd sitt första temanummer om kvinnorätt som fem år senare följdes upp av tema ’kvinderetfærd’. …

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Brief Report: Need For Autonomy And Other Perceived Barriers Relating To Adolescents’ Intentions To Seek Professional Mental Health Care., Coralie J. Wilson, Frank P. Deane Dec 2011

Brief Report: Need For Autonomy And Other Perceived Barriers Relating To Adolescents’ Intentions To Seek Professional Mental Health Care., Coralie J. Wilson, Frank P. Deane

Coralie J Wilson

The current study examined the relationship between belief-based barriers to seeking professional mental health care and help-seeking intentions in a sample of 1037 adolescents. From early adolescence to adulthood, for males and females, the need for autonomy was a strong barrier to seeking professional mental health care. Help-seeking fears were weaker in the older age groups. Having lower perceived need for autonomy and believing that prior mental health care was helpful was significantly associated with higher intentions to seek future professional mental health care. Implications for prevention and overcoming barriers to seeking mental health care are suggested.

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Emigrants And The Body Politic Left Behind: Results From The Latino National Survey, Roger D. Waldinger, Thomas Soehl, Nelson Lim Dec 2011

Emigrants And The Body Politic Left Behind: Results From The Latino National Survey, Roger D. Waldinger, Thomas Soehl, Nelson Lim

Roger D Waldinger

There is a duality at the heart of the migration phenomenon, as the very same people who are immigrants are also emigrants, making a living and possibly setting down roots in the receiving society, but still connected to and oriented toward the home society where their significant others still often reside. While research has shown that home country political conditions and experiences affect immigrant political behaviour in the receiving society, scholarship has yet to ask how those same factors affect the ways in which emigrants relate to the body politic left behind. This paper seeks to fill that lacuna. We …

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A Search-Theoretic Model Of The Retail Market For Illicit Drugs, Manolis Galenianos, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Nicola Persico Dec 2011

A Search-Theoretic Model Of The Retail Market For Illicit Drugs, Manolis Galenianos, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Nicola Persico

Rosalie Liccardo Pacula

A search-theoretic model of the retail market for illegal drugs is developed. Trade occurs in bilateral, potentially long-lived matches between sellers and buyers. Buyers incur search costs when experimenting with a new seller. Moral hazard is present because buyers learn purity only after a trade is made. This model is consistent with some new stylized facts about the drugs market, and it is informative for policy design. The effectiveness of different enforcement strategies is evaluated, including some novel ones which leverage the moral hazard present in the market.

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