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The 2014 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report (Ahar) To Congress: Part 1 Point In Time Counts, Mehan Henry, Alvaro Cortes, Azim Shivji, Katherine Buck, Jill Khadduri, Dennis P. Culhane

Dennis P. Culhane

香港社会动态追踪(Hkpssd)调查:设计理念与初步发现, Xiaogang Wu

Xiaogang Wu

香港社会动态追踪 (Hong Kong Panel Study of Social Dynamics, 简称 HKPSSD) 旨在建立一个全港具有代表性的、关于家庭与个人资料的长期跟踪调查数据库, 以研究监测社会经济变迁对民生的影响。搜集的信息涵盖家庭住房、经济活动、消费活动等以及家庭成员的教育、婚姻、生育、就业、健康、日常社会活动、心理状态及社会态度等等。第一期调查于2011年完成，成功地访问了3,214个合资格的家庭及其成员。第二期调查于2013年完成，成功追访问到第一期访问的2,165个家庭及其成员，此外还在2014年增加了1,007个家庭的新样本和一些新主题。本文将介绍HKPSSD项目的研究背景、设计理念、特色内容和来自2013和2014年调查的一些初步发现。HKPSSD将为香港社会和民生问题的科学研究和公共政策制定提供一个重要资料库。

Leveraging Libraries For Evaluation Success, Rick A. Stoddart

Rick A Stoddart

Libraries are not just for storytime! Public and academic libraries offer all manner of services and resources that can aid in successful evaluation practice. Libraries and librarians save evaluator's time, provide expertise, and are active adopters of evaluation best practices. Attendees of this session will learn how to best leverage open access materials, article databases, librarian expertise, and data resources to make their evaluation practice more robust and meaningful.

Willingness To Overpay For Insurance And For Consumer Credit: Search And Risk Behavior Under Price Dispersion, Sergey V. Malakhov

Sergey Malakhov

Doğu Afrika Jeopolitiği Ve Türkiye’Nin Somali Politikası, Mehmet Ozkan

Mehmet OZKAN

No abstract provided.

Turkey’S Involvement In Somalia: Assesment Of A State-Building In Progress, Mehmet Ozkan

Mehmet OZKAN

No abstract provided.

Progress Made With Early Warning Systems In Australia Since 2005, Neil Dufty

Neil Dufty

No abstract provided.

If You Build It, They Will Use: Creating And Sharing Open Educational Resources To Advance Information Literacy, Philip Russell

Philip Russell

Since 2010, the library at the Institute of Technology Tallaght (ITT Dublin) in South County Dublin, Republic of Ireland, has been developing a suite of interactive online information literacy tutorials covering research, referencing, plagiarism and core academic skills. These open educational resources (OERs) provide users with a vibrant, challenging learning environment and facilitate flexible, 24/7, independent learning. The learning objects are accessible via multiple delivery platforms and are available for reuse under Creative Commons licence via national and international teaching and learning repositories. This paper outlines the development of these OERs and how the creation of these learning tools has …

A Structural Model For Perceptual Learning Styles, The Ideal L2 Self, Motivated Behavior And English Proficiency, Tae-Young Kim, Yoon-Kyoung Kim

Dr. Tae-Young Kim (김태영, 金兌英)

In order to verify the structural relationship between perceptual learning styles, English learning motivation, and achievement, this study investigated 2682 Korean EFL students' visual, auditory, kinesthetic styles, imagination, ideal L2 self, motivated behavior, and English proficiency. The data collected by means of a questionnaire were explored using a correlation analysis and structural equation modeling. It was found that while visual and auditory styles were positively correlated with motivational variables and English proficiency, kinesthetic style showed negative correlations with them. Furthermore, visual style proved to have the most substantial influence on achieving successful English proficiency, mediated by the ideal L2 self …

Faith Perspectives On Building Strong Volunteer Programs, John Gavin, Curtis J. Vanderwaal Dr., W. Ellis

John Gavin

No abstract provided.

Open Access At Uri: Exciting Opportunities For Faculty, Researchers, And Grad Students, Julia A. Lovett, Andrée Rathemacher

Julia Lovett

Slides from a presentation, "Open Access at URI: Exciting Opportunities for Faculty, Researchers, and Grad Students" offered at the University of Rhode Island Libraries in October 2014. "Open Access provides you with the opportunity to increase your readership and your scholarly impact, and also improves your access to scholarly information. The DigitalCommons@URI is part of an international effort to increase access to scholarly articles, theses, and dissertations. Come learn about the benefits of open access for your research and how to comply with URI's Open Access policies." Part of the University Libraries' Search Savvy Seminar series.

Losing The Message: Some Policy Implications Of Anthropocentric Indirect Arguments For Environmental Protection, Chad J. Mcguire

Chad J McGuire

Cambio Estructural En Las Fluctuaciones Cíclicas Del Producto Industrial. Las Economías Estatales Mexicanas En Relación A La Nacional, Vicente German-Soto

Vicente German-Soto

Prof. Vibhuti Patel On Reservation Of Seats For Women In The Parliament Of India, Professor Vibhuti Patel

Professor Vibhuti Patel

The most crucial concerns of the women's movement are: 1. Pass the Women’s Reservation Bill with 50% reservation for women in all fields. 2. Equal remuneration for equal work to be implemented without any discrimination based on gender. 3. Implement all the laws concerning the security of women and prevention of female foeticide etc with an iron hand. 4. Make sure that equal opportunity of education for women is given priority. Implement Right to Education Act 2012 in all its seriousness. 5. Ensure creation of more vocational training centers for youth and establish block level employment information centers. 6. Create …

Manjari, Professor Vibhuti Patel

Professor Vibhuti Patel

Analysis of trends of womens’ participation to contest elections to the State Legislatures indicate that there is a gender discrimination which is responsible for poor representation of women in India .Women’s role in decision making is one of the most important questions for consideration in the movement for their empowerment. The 73rd and 74th Amendments (1992) to the Indian Constitution have served as a major break through towards ensuring women’s equal access and increased participation in political power structures. This Amendment provided for reservation of one third of seats for women at level of local governance in urban areas. There …

Siting ‘Scientific Spaces’ In The Us: The Push And Pull Of Regional Development Strategies And National Innovation Policies, Jennifer Clark

Jennifer Clark

Teacher Quality At The High-School Level: The Importance Of Accounting For Tracks, C. Kirabo Jackson

C. Kirabo Jackson

Unlike in elementary school, high-school teacher effects may be confounded with both selection to tracks and unobserved track-level treatments. I document sizable confounding track effects, and show that traditional tests for the existence of teacher effects are likely biased. After accounting for these biases, high-school algebra and English teachers have much smaller test-score effects than found in previous studies. Moreover, unlike in elementary school, value-added estimates are weak predictors of teachers’ future performance. Results indicate that either (a) teachers are less influential in high school than in elementary school, or (b) test scores are a poor metric to measure teacher …

Information Intimacy: Getting Our Students To Commit, Dawn Stahura

Dawn Stahura

Mind-Body Integrative Training: Firefighter Personal Protective Equipment (Ppe), Rodger E. Broome Phd, Josh Told, Zachery Lyman

Rodger E. Broome

The purpose of this research is to determine if differences in performance outcomes exist between the use of paramilitary instruction and a method of teaching informed by the Chinese philosophy Tài Chí when learning to don structural fire-fighting clothing or personal protective equipment (PPE). We hypothesize that keeping students in a process focus (i.e., Tài Chí method) rather than a high-pressure outcome focus (traditional paramilitary method) results in increased proficiency in the skill-performance outcomes (Selk, 2009). The assumption is that Tài Chí helps integrates students’ minds and bodies in the learning process and results in a higher quality of motor …

Crosswalking: The Path To Emotional Intelligence, Richard Justin Silvey, Josephine Olson, Rita C. Schellenberg

Richard Justin Silvey

No abstract provided.

Mixed-Case Format And Lexical Decision Performance: Initial Uppercase Is Special, Julia Harvey Azzolina, Lois Rotuno, April Butler Waltonen, Albert Smith

April D Waltonen

Previous research has shown that there are phenomena that may require a route to word identification by means other than through letters. For example, in a lexical decision task, in which an experimental participant is asked to determine if a string of letters is a word or not, responses to items in a MIXed caSE format are slower than to items in PURE UPPERCASE or pure lowercase formats. In this experiment, we investigated the effect of different mixed-case formats on lexical decision performance, focusing on the type and location of the case transition. Twenty-four students participated in a lexical decision …

Mixed-Case Format And Lexical Decision Performance: Initial Uppercase Is Special, Julia C. Harvey Azzolina, Lois M. Rotuno, April D. Butler Waltonen, Albert F. Smith

Julia Harvey Azzolina

Previous research has shown that there are phenomena that may require a route to word identification by means other than through letters. For example, in a lexical decision task, in which an experimental participant is asked to determine if a string of letters is a word or not, responses to items in a MIXed caSE format are slower than to items in PURE UPPERCASE or pure lowercase formats. In this experiment, we investigated the effect of different mixed-case formats on lexical decision performance, focusing on the type and location of the case transition. Twenty-four students participated in a lexical decision …

Lick The Blade: The Implications Of Performance And Narrative Music Videos, Tara Burns, Joni Lewanski, Alex Farmer, Kelly Mccafferty, Jeffery Allen, Matthew Egizii, Rebecca Fowler, Stephen Morgan, Rafeeq Roberts, Jordan Tobin, Kimberly Neuendorf

Rafeeq I Roberts

Since MTV's introduction in 1981, music videos have shaped popular culture in various ways. Transitioning from television/cable to online platforms, thousands of music videos are viewed daily by millions through streaming sites such as YouTube and Vimeo. As a collaborative group, we wrote and produced a music video in collaboration with the metal band Lick the Blade, focusing on their original piece, “Blood Soaked Majesty.” Footage was produced for both a performance video, showing only the band performing their piece, and a narrative video, featuring a story line that parallels the lyrics. An audience will be able to view a …

The Legacy, September 30, 2014, Lindenwood University

The Legacy (2007-2018)

Student Newspaper of Lindenwood University

Helin Consortium Lori Grant Digital Portal Project Survey Final Report, Lyrasis

LORI grant documents

Summarizes the results of the survey of RI Institutions with cultural heritage collections in preparation for building a digital repository and portal for Rhode Island

The Prospector, September 30, 2014, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Got Pot?

Strategic Insights: The Dragon In The Tropics: China's Military Expansion Into The Western Hemisphere, José De Arimatéia Da Cruz

Articles & Editorials

No abstract provided.

Historical Roots Of Canadian Aboriginal And Non-Aboriginal Maple Practices, Ryan Huron

Geography and Environmental Studies Major Research Papers

This research is concerned with developing a historical baseline of Canadian Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal maple practices and the contribution of these activities to the well-being (WB) of communities up to approximately 1950. This research measures WB using two unique frameworks developed for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities associated with maple products and practices. In order to describe WB in historical contexts the research used archival data obtained primarily from Library and Archives Canada (LAC) and Early Canadiana Online (ECO). Results from the research showed that in Aboriginal communities, dynamics related to emotional, physical and mental WB were referenced the most often …

Division Ll Ranking, Cedarville University

Men's Cross Country Statistics

No abstract provided.

Students Preparing For 21st Annual Cardboard Canoe Races, Amy C. Radwanski

News Releases

Students at Cedarville University have been competing in cardboard canoe races for the past 20 years to launch Homecoming Weekend. This year, the competition will be held on Cedar Lake on Friday, Oct. 3 at 3 p.m.

The cardboard canoe tradition started as a class assignment for engineering students but it has evolved to include students from all different majors. Each boat is made from 40 feet of cardboard and 100 meters of packaging tape. The goal is to travel from the northern to the southern part of the lake without sinking. The winning team is the group that successfully …