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Picture Of Yoani Sanchez, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University Jan 2013

Picture Of Yoani Sanchez, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University

Cuban Research Institute Events

Photo of Cuban Research Institute lecturer Yoani Sanchez

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Where We Go From Here: The Mental Sketch Mapping Method And Its Analytic Components [Post-Print], Jen Jack Gieseking Jan 2013

Where We Go From Here: The Mental Sketch Mapping Method And Its Analytic Components [Post-Print], Jen Jack Gieseking

Faculty Scholarship

The mental mapping method affords a lens into the way people produce and experience space, forms of spatial intelligence, and dynamics of human-environment relations. Mental mapping is the representation of an individual or group’s cognitive map, hand sketched and/or computerassisted, in drafting and labeling a map or adding to and labeling an already existing map. Despite its long-term, rich, and multifaceted use across the social sciences, I found that the method’s development has been uneven and its analytics ad hoc and piecemeal. Drawing upon 32 mental sketch maps and the interviews during which they were drafted, this paper provides an …

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Fp-13-06 Crossover In Median Age At First Marriage And First Birth: Thirty Years Of Change, Julia Arroyo, Krista K. Payne, Susan L. Brown, Wendy D. Manning Jan 2013

Fp-13-06 Crossover In Median Age At First Marriage And First Birth: Thirty Years Of Change, Julia Arroyo, Krista K. Payne, Susan L. Brown, Wendy D. Manning

National Center for Family and Marriage Research Family Profiles

No abstract provided.

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Fp-13-07 Young Adults In The Parental Home And The Great Recession, Krista K. Payne, Jennifer Copp Jan 2013

Fp-13-07 Young Adults In The Parental Home And The Great Recession, Krista K. Payne, Jennifer Copp

National Center for Family and Marriage Research Family Profiles

No abstract provided.

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Fp-13-11 Marriage Rate In The U.S., 2011, Julissa Cruz Jan 2013

Fp-13-11 Marriage Rate In The U.S., 2011, Julissa Cruz

National Center for Family and Marriage Research Family Profiles

No abstract provided.

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Fp-13-14 Divorce Rate In The U.S., 2011, Julissa Cruz Jan 2013

Fp-13-14 Divorce Rate In The U.S., 2011, Julissa Cruz

National Center for Family and Marriage Research Family Profiles

No abstract provided.

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Fp-13-15 Intentions Of Nonmarital First Births And Maternal Age At Birth, 2000-2010, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Krista K. Payne Jan 2013

Fp-13-15 Intentions Of Nonmarital First Births And Maternal Age At Birth, 2000-2010, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Krista K. Payne

National Center for Family and Marriage Research Family Profiles

No abstract provided.

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Fp-13-16 Diverging Destinies: Children's Family Structure Variation By Maternal Education, Bart Stykes, Seth Williams Jan 2013

Fp-13-16 Diverging Destinies: Children's Family Structure Variation By Maternal Education, Bart Stykes, Seth Williams

National Center for Family and Marriage Research Family Profiles

No abstract provided.

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Fp-13-17 Age Variation In The Remarriage Rate, 1990-2011, Susan L. Brown, I-Fen Lin Jan 2013

Fp-13-17 Age Variation In The Remarriage Rate, 1990-2011, Susan L. Brown, I-Fen Lin

National Center for Family and Marriage Research Family Profiles

No abstract provided.

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Fp-13-18 Living Alone In The U.S., 2011, Breana Wilson, Esther Lamidi Jan 2013

Fp-13-18 Living Alone In The U.S., 2011, Breana Wilson, Esther Lamidi

National Center for Family and Marriage Research Family Profiles

No abstract provided.

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Fp-13-19 Children's Family Structure, 2013, Krista K. Payne Jan 2013

Fp-13-19 Children's Family Structure, 2013, Krista K. Payne

National Center for Family and Marriage Research Family Profiles

No abstract provided.

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Fp-13-20 Change In Proportion Of Childless Women, 1995-2010, Esther Lamidi, Krista K. Payne Jan 2013

Fp-13-20 Change In Proportion Of Childless Women, 1995-2010, Esther Lamidi, Krista K. Payne

National Center for Family and Marriage Research Family Profiles

No abstract provided.

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Changes In Neolithic Subsistence Patterns On Flores, Indonesia Inferred By Stable Carbon, Nitrogen, And Oxygen Isotope Analyses Of Sus From Liang Bua, Jordon Munizzi Jan 2013

Changes In Neolithic Subsistence Patterns On Flores, Indonesia Inferred By Stable Carbon, Nitrogen, And Oxygen Isotope Analyses Of Sus From Liang Bua, Jordon Munizzi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Despite an abundance of archaeological material recovered from sites in Island Southeast Asia, the timing and route by which cultigens first arrived in Wallacea remains unclear. Many of the staple crops now grown on these islands were domesticated in mainland Asia, and were deliberately introduced by humans at an unknown point during the Holocene, through several possible routes. In this study, the δ 13C, δ15N and δ18O values of subfossil bones and teeth attributed to Sus celebensis and Sus scrofa are analyzed. These materials, which span the last 5160 years at Liang Bua, Flores, Indonesia are used to determine if …

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Childhood Predictors In The Severity Of Combat Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Veterans With Combat Related Exposure, Michael Bermes Jan 2013

Childhood Predictors In The Severity Of Combat Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Veterans With Combat Related Exposure, Michael Bermes

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Emerging research suggests that childhood adversities may increase both the risk and symptomology of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in our veteran population. Over 40% of our reintegrating military veterans return with significant mental health issues led by combatrelated PTSD. PTSD impacts veterans in numerous areas including unemployment, increased criminal justice involvement, increased treatment costs, divorce, co-morbid mental illness, greater levels of domestic violence, homelessness, high college dropout rates, suicide, and long term health problems. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of childhood adversities (abuse, neglect, and poverty) upon the severity of combat-related PTSD in veteran populations. …

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Fp-13-13 Marriage: More Than A Century Of Change, Julissa Cruz Jan 2013

Fp-13-13 Marriage: More Than A Century Of Change, Julissa Cruz

National Center for Family and Marriage Research Family Profiles

No abstract provided.

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Cri Brochure [English], Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University Jan 2013

Cri Brochure [English], Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University

Cuban Research Institute Events

This brochure provides information about the Cuban Research Institute and Florida International University.

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Fp-13-09 Working Women With Children In The Household, 2011, Larry Gibbs Jan 2013

Fp-13-09 Working Women With Children In The Household, 2011, Larry Gibbs

National Center for Family and Marriage Research Family Profiles

No abstract provided.

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The Republican Primaries In 140 Characters: How The 2012 Candidates Used Twitter To Mobilize Their Supporters, Interact With Them And Frame The Campaign, Ben S. Wasike Jan 2013

The Republican Primaries In 140 Characters: How The 2012 Candidates Used Twitter To Mobilize Their Supporters, Interact With Them And Frame The Campaign, Ben S. Wasike

Communication Faculty Publications and Presentations

This study used content analysis to examine how the 2012 Republican candidates used Twitter to mobilize their supporters, interact with them, frame campaign issues and frame their opponents. The results indicated that Santorum has used Twitter the most. The most popular mobilization tactics were announcing appearances and voter recruitment. However, the candidates minimally used Twitter to frame campaign issues. Overall, the candidates’ use of Twitter was limited. Pertinent implications for the 2012 presidential elections are discussed.

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Towards New Urbanist Student Housing: A Comparative Pro Forma Analysis Of Private Mixed-Use Housing With University Owned Housing, Smita Rakshit Jan 2013

Towards New Urbanist Student Housing: A Comparative Pro Forma Analysis Of Private Mixed-Use Housing With University Owned Housing, Smita Rakshit

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

The study has compared pro forma of privately owned mixed-use housing and university owned campus residence. The study is an endeavor to find out financial benefits of mixed-use campus residence. Modern planners and advocates of New Urbanism are making effort to encourage compact development in order to address the problems of suburban sprawl. Alarmed by the natural disasters and changing climate, planners have realized that sprawl is a major environmental issue that needs to be changed. Universities have also started building mixed-use residence for students to promote sustainability on campus. The study has focused on the financial aspect of mixed-use …

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Family Counts: Education For Family Systems Impacted By Addiction, Tanya Friese Jan 2013

Family Counts: Education For Family Systems Impacted By Addiction, Tanya Friese

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

Educating and empowering families through education. By educating the families of Project Turnabout patients and families will be more able to take care of themselves. When a family members needs are met they will in turn be more able to support their loved ones recovery. The goal of the Capstone is to have 3 to 4 modules of education to share with families over the course of their participation in the Project Turnabout family program.

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Justice League? Depictions Of Justice In Children’S Superhero Cartoons, Lisa A. Kort-Butler Jan 2013

Justice League? Depictions Of Justice In Children’S Superhero Cartoons, Lisa A. Kort-Butler

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

The literature argues that media depictions of criminal justice present messages that conform to and promote the dominant ideology about the crime problem and how to solve it. Research has focused on television news and adult programs, but little research has examined messages about justice present in children’s shows. To fill this gap, an ethnographic content analysis of children’s cartoons was conducted, using a sample of episodes from Batman: The Animated Series, Spider-Man, and Justice League Unlimited. Several themes emerged. First, the justice system is often depicted as ill equipped to handle serious crime. Second, story lines suggested that the …

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Topological And Historical Considerations For Infectious Disease Transmission Among Injecting Drug Users In Bushwick, Brooklyn (Usa), Kirk Dombrowski, Richard Curtis, Samuel Friedman, Bilal Khan Jan 2013

Topological And Historical Considerations For Infectious Disease Transmission Among Injecting Drug Users In Bushwick, Brooklyn (Usa), Kirk Dombrowski, Richard Curtis, Samuel Friedman, Bilal Khan

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Recent interest by physicists in social networks and disease transmission factors has prompted debate over the topology of degree distributions in sexual networks. Social network researchers have been critical of “scale-free” Barabasi-Albert approaches, and largely rejected the preferential attachment, “rich-get-richer” assumptions that underlie that model. Instead, research on sexual networks has pointed to the importance of homophily and local sexual norms in dictating degree distributions, and thus disease transmission thresholds. Injecting Drug User (IDU) network topologies may differ from the emerging models of sexual networks, however. Degree distribution analysis of a Brooklyn, NY, IDU network indicates a different topology than …

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Theories Of Public Opinion, Patricia Moy, Brandon Bosch Jan 2013

Theories Of Public Opinion, Patricia Moy, Brandon Bosch

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

While the issue of citizen competency has vexed scholars throughout history, the modern concepts of a mass public and mass media are relatively new. Beginning with the seminal works of Lippmann and Dewey, we chart the evolving theories of public opinion, from the "hypodermic needle" model of the early twentieth century to the more psychologically oriented approach to media effects of today. We argue that in addition to understanding how audiences process media content, theories of public opinion must account for how media content is constructed and disseminated, which is complicated by the ever-changing nature of our media landscape.

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Correlates Of Bullying Behaviors Among A Sample Of North American Indigenous Adolescents, Lisa A. Melander, Kelley J. Sittner Hartshorn, Les B. Whitbeck Jan 2013

Correlates Of Bullying Behaviors Among A Sample Of North American Indigenous Adolescents, Lisa A. Melander, Kelley J. Sittner Hartshorn, Les B. Whitbeck

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between familial, educational, and psychosocial factors and bullying among 702 North American Indigenous adolescents aged 11–14 years. The study used multinomial logistic regression models to differentiate correlates of bully perpetration and victimization versus being neither and between being a perpetrator versus being a victim. Analyses reveal that being a bully victim had different correlates than being a perpetrator. Perceived discrimination was associated with increased odds of being either a victim or a perpetrator, relative to being neither. Several factors differentiated being a bully perpetrator from being a bully victim: adolescent …

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Online Privacy, Vulnerabilities, And Threats: A Manager’S Perspective, Hy Sockel, Louis K. Falk Jan 2013

Online Privacy, Vulnerabilities, And Threats: A Manager’S Perspective, Hy Sockel, Louis K. Falk

Communication Faculty Publications and Presentations

There are many potential threats that come with conducting business in an online environment. Management must find a way to neutralize or at least reduce these threats if the organization is going to maintain viability. This chapter is designed to give managers an understanding, as well as the vocabulary needed to have a working knowledge of online privacy, vulnerabilities, and threats. The chapter also highlights techniques that are commonly used to impede attacks and protect the privacy of the organization, its customers, and employees. With the advancements in computing technology, any and all conceivable steps should be taken to protect …

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Do Non-Response Follow-Ups Improve Or Reduce Data Quality?: A Review Of The Existing Literature, Kristen Olson Jan 2013

Do Non-Response Follow-Ups Improve Or Reduce Data Quality?: A Review Of The Existing Literature, Kristen Olson

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

The paper systematically reviews existing literature on the relationship between the level of effort to recruit a sampled person and the measurement quality of survey data. Hypotheses proposed for this relationship are reviewed. Empirical findings for the relationship between level of effort as measured by paradata (the number of follow-up attempts, refusal conversion and time in the field) and question-specific item non-response rates, aggregate measures of item non-response rates, response accuracy and various measurement errors on attitudinal questions are examined through a qualitative review.

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Which Way To The Jook Joint?: Historical Archaeology Of A Polk County, Florida Turpentine Camp, Deborah Ziel Jan 2013

Which Way To The Jook Joint?: Historical Archaeology Of A Polk County, Florida Turpentine Camp, Deborah Ziel

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The extraction and distillation of pine sap for the naval stores industry reached its apex of production in the early decades of the twentieth century. Post-emancipation, the industry employed African American labor in the long leaf pine forests of the southeastern United States under a system of debt peonage that replaced the master-slave dynamic with a similar circumscriptive construct. Laborers rented company housing and were paid in scrip, a monetary system that limited their purchase of the basic goods of subsistence to the company commissary at inflated prices, resulting in an endless cycle of debt. Despite the oppressive circumstances of …

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What You Attend To Is What You Remember : Investigating The Unit Of Representation In Visual Working Memory, Amanda Elaine Van Lamsweerde Jan 2013

What You Attend To Is What You Remember : Investigating The Unit Of Representation In Visual Working Memory, Amanda Elaine Van Lamsweerde

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The unit of representation in visual working memory (VWM) is a matter of some debate. The object benefit occurs when more features are remembered when they are combined into fewer objects. This has been used to support the perspective that objects are the unit of representation in VWM. However, the object benefit occurs only for two features from different dimensions (e.g., a blue circle: color and shape) but not two features from the same dimension (e.g., a red-and-blue bi-colored square: two colors). This suggests that both objects and features may be important in determining VWM capacity. The purpose of this …

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Exploring The Third Culture Building Approach For Effective Cross-Cultural Interaction For Black American Professionals In Predominantly White Institutions, Tessa R. Sutton Jan 2013

Exploring The Third Culture Building Approach For Effective Cross-Cultural Interaction For Black American Professionals In Predominantly White Institutions, Tessa R. Sutton

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Professional interactions that are both functional and mutually beneficial are rare. The purpose of this study is to explore an application of a Third Culture Building (TCB) approach, a mutually constructed interpersonal process between two individuals, for Black American professionals (with advanced knowledge acquired from institutions of higher learning), to generate a new space in Predominantly White Institutions (PWis). These institutions include settings where the racial composition is becoming consistently more diverse (through past desegregation efforts). Although the U.S. has moved beyond integration and the monumental Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, racism and intercultural barriers that prevent functional cross-cultural …

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An Examination Of The Interest Rate Sensitivity Of Business Development Company (Bdc) Stock Returns, Timothy Park Jan 2013

An Examination Of The Interest Rate Sensitivity Of Business Development Company (Bdc) Stock Returns, Timothy Park

CMC Senior Theses

This paper examines the interest rate sensitivity of Business Development Companies (BDCs). The results of this study are intended to lend insight to investors about the viability and timing of investments in BDCs during the business cycle. Similar to previous research that has examined interest rate sensitivity of financial companies, this paper employs a two-factor market model to see whether BDCs are responsive to changes in short, medium, and long-term interest rates. My particular interest in BDCs is motivated by their unique asset-liability structure and requirements, as well as their high dividend payouts. Monthly data is drawn from the period …

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