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The Relationship Between Traumagenic Dynamic Responses Towards Childhood Sexual Abuse, Ethnic Identity, Social Support, Trauma Severity, And Attitudes Towards Interpersonal Relationships In Adolescent Females, Nita J. Makhija

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

This study used the theory of traumagenic dynamics (TD) to examine how symptomatology resulting childhood sexual abuse (CSA) are related to the attitudes adolescent females have towards interpersonal relationships. The ultimate goal being that this understanding can inform the creation and implementation of empirically based clinical interventions that specifically target CSA-related symptoms which are associated with the endorsement of unhealthy attitudes towards romantic relationships. In examining this relationship, family support and ethnic identity were examined as protective factors against the endorsement of unhealthy attitudes towards romantic relationships, and trauma severity and the presence of domestic violence in the home were …

Aboriginal Maple Syrup Values Summary, Annette Chrétien, Brenda Murphy, Charles Restoule, Melanie Smits

Contemporary Studies

This report examines the values associated with maple syrup practices in Aboriginal contexts. It is based on fifteen interviews conducted with Aboriginal people who have knowledge of maple syrup practices in Ontario. The interviewees included both First Nations and Metis people.

Aboriginal Maple Syrup Values Report, Annette Chrétien

Contemporary Studies

This report examines the values associated with maple syrup practices in Aboriginal contexts. It is based on fifteen interviews conducted with Aboriginal people who have knowledge of maple syrup practices in Ontario. The interviewees included both First Nations and Metis people.

Baby Talk Academy Final Report, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Family Study Center., James P. Mchale

USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

La Reforma Político-Judicial De Santos (Ii), Javier Revelo-Rebolledo

Javier E Revelo-Rebolledo

No abstract provided.

Math Circle Program For 5th And 6th Graders, Shannon M. Eighmey

News Releases

Math Circle, a 14-week program designed to strengthen math skills for fifth- and sixth- grade students, will begin Tuesday, Sept. 2 at Cedarville University’s Engineering and Science Center. There is no cost to enroll in the program, but space is limited to 12 students. Classes are from 3:30-5 p.m. each Tuesday.

Working with professors from Cedarville’s department of science and mathematics, students will solve math problems, play math games, and talk about unique math ideas. Rather than a tutoring program, this class is designed to encourage young students and strengthen their math skills.

Capital In The Twenty-First Century: A Review Essay, Alexander J. Field

Economics

In the title of his 1968 review of early research in Cliometrics, Lance Davis opined that “it will never be literature.” One of Thomas Piketty's many achievements in Capital in the Twenty-First Century is to prove Davis wrong. Piketty's book is both an exemplary work in quantitative economic history and economic literature in the finest sense, written with the Cartesian clarity we associate with the French scientific tradition. It is, moreover, quite remarkably, also about literature, about the novels of Jane Austen, Henry James, and Honoré de Balzac, and the nineteenth-century wealth dynamics they brought to life. From the vantage …

The Role Of Diversity In Peer Influences On Students' Academic Engagement, Hyuny Clark-Shim

Dissertations and Theses

Children's classroom engagement is important for their learning and academic achievement. Extending Kindermann's (2007) study of peer influence on adolescents' engagement to an ethnically homogeneous sample, the current study examined how different aspects of diversity affect the peer influence process. Three types of diversity were considered: ethnic diversity existing at the school level, relational diversity at the peer network level, and motivational diversity at the group level. Ethnic diversity was observed in the student body as well as among school teachers and staff. Relational diversity was measured by z-scores resulting from binomial tests reflecting how closely two pair of individuals …

The Impact Of Wiki-Based Collaborative Writing On English L2 Learners' Individual Writing Development, Gina Christina Caruso

Dissertations and Theses

Although the benefits of group and pair work in the second language (L2) classroom have been extensively studied, most documented research has focused on the use of oral tasks and spoken interaction between learners. Recently however, researchers have begun to investigate the advantages of collaboration on written work. More specifically, with the advancements in computer technology and web-based collaborative platforms like wikis, there has been a growing awareness of the educational possibilities of wikis to enhance L2 writing instruction. This study followed a pretest/posttest repeated measures design to investigate the impact and students' perceptions of wiki-based collaborative writing activities on …

Ua12/2/1 Topper Extra - Tops Take Aim At Bgsu, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Special edition of the College Heights Herald featuring football.

• Williams, Kyle. Topper Offense Eyeing Breakout 2014 Season – Football
• Williams, Kyle. Topper Coaches Coupling Youth with Experience – Jeff Brohm
• Pratt, Elliott. He’s Waited, & Jeff Brohm’s Time is Now
• Pratt, Elliott. All for Them – Willie McNeal
• WKU Names to Watch – Jeff Brohm, Brandon Doughty, Cam Thomas, Leon Allen
• Bowling Green State University Names to Watch – Dino Babers, Matt Johnson, Travis Greene, D.J. Lynch, Gabe Martin
• College Heights Herald Sports Staff Predictions – Kyle Williams, Elliott Pratt

A Scientometric Study Of Journal Of Bio-Chemistry And Bio-Physics (Ijbb), Madhu Bala, Mahender Pratap Singh

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract:

Scientometric is branch of Science. Scientometric explain about input and output resources in term of organisational structure. Scientometric is the Science of measuring and analyzing Science. Modern Scientometric is mostly based on the work of Derek J.de Solla Price and Eugene Garfield. This paper critically analyses 316 scholarly communications published in the Indian Journal of Biochemistry & Bio-Physics. Indian Journal of Bio-Chemistry and Bio-Physics, formerly known as IJBB. It is a peer reviewed, open access bio-monthly Journal published by NISCAIR. The analysis cover mainly the number of articles, form of document cited, most cited Journals etc. Study reveals that …

Research Brief: "The Effect Of 21st Century Military Service On Civilian Labor And Educational Outcomes", Institute For Veterans And Military Families At Syracuse University

Institute for Veterans and Military Families

This study aims to understand the effect military service post-9/11 has on veterans, as it found veteran status positively affects minorities and women. In practice, 21st century veterans are as employable and satisfied with their civilian occupation as their non-veteran counterparts, and veterans seeking employment and career opportunities should continue utilizing VetSuccess. In policy, the VA and policymakers might evaluate current services, and focus on employment experiences and reasons veterans seek education post-service. Suggestions for future study include improving the external validity by using larger samples, as well as including datasets with older 21st century veterans to better account for …

The Effect Of Exercise On Cigarette Craving And Withdrawal Symptoms While Using A Nicotine Lozenge, Amelia Tritter

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

It is imperative that smoking cessation aids effectively alleviate cigarette craving and withdrawal symptoms because their intensity has shown to predict relapse. The nicotine lozenge is a pharmacotherapy that has shown to reduce symptoms of craving and withdrawal. Research has also shown that a single session of exercise can provide temporary relief from craving and withdrawal for smokers who are both temporarily abstaining and undergoing a real quit attempt. Applying two efficacious monotherapies concurrently may provide additive benefit and greater symptom relief. Thirty recently quit smokers were randomized to either the experimental (exercise and lozenge) or control (lozenge alone) condition. …

Mediators Of Change In The Stigmatization Of Depression Among Caucasian And Asian Populations, Francois B. Botha

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Public stigma negatively impacts public health by discouraging people with depression from seeking help. In North America, Asians reliably report higher levels of stigma and lower levels of help-seeking than do Caucasians. The reasons for this discrepancy and possible methods of reducing this have, however, rarely been explored. In Study 1, undergraduate students (n = 573) completed several questionnaires related to public stigma, values and ideological beliefs, attitudes and beliefs regarding people with depression and perceived norms. At least one week afterward, participants completed the second part of Study 1, where they were presented with contrived articles highlighting a …

Between A Rock And A Hard Place -- Kazakhstan’S Approach To Foreign Investment Law And Policy, Hina Manzoor

hina manzoor

Similar to other International Investment Agreements, Preferential Trade Agreements and Bilateral Investment Treaties are increasing more rapidly. Despite the increasing number of BITs, there is no such evidence that shows the impact of BITs on FDI of such a developing country as Kazakhstan. The main purpose of this study is provide the impact of Bilateral Investment Treaties on Foreign Direct Investment flows of Kazakhstan. To narrow the gap, I build up BITsel Index based on the methodology raised by Chaisse and Bellak (2011) for 19 BITs for Kazakhstan. The impact is analyzed by two ways; using BITsel Index and by …

Complexity And Simplicity In Law: A Review Essay (Cass R. Sunstein, Simpler: The Future Of Government (2003)), David M. Driesen

David M Driesen

This essay discusses Cass Sunstein’s book, Simpler: The Future of Government, in order to advance our understanding of the concepts of complex and simple law. Many writers identify complexity with uncertainty and high cost. This essay argues that complexity bears no fixed relationship to costs or benefits. It also shows that complexity’s relationship to uncertainty is so ambiguous that it is profitable to treat complexity and uncertainty as separate concepts. It develops useful separate concepts of legal and compliance complexity that will aid efforts to simplify law, like the one Sunstein claims to have embarked upon. It also argues that …

Political Debates Strengthen Our Democracy, Evan Barrett

Highlands College

A Montana Public Radio Commentary by Evan Barrett.

Published newspaper columns written by Evan Barrett on this topic, which vary somewhat in content from this commentary, appeared in the following publications:

Billings Gazette, September 3, 2014

Montana Standard, September 5, 2014

Missoulian, September 5, 2014

Independent Record, September 7, 2014

Lanthorn, Vol. 49, No. 04, August 28, 2014, Grand Valley State University

Volume 49, July 7, 2014 - June 1, 2015

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Experts Discuss “The Poverty Of Nations”, Will Duncan

News Releases

Cedarville University will host a seminar entitled, The Poverty of Nations, on Tuesday, Sept. 2, with special guests Wayne Grudem, Ph.D. and Barry Asmus, Ph.D., co-authors of “The Poverty of Nations: A Sustainable Solution.” The event will be held in the Dixon Ministry Center at 7 p.m. and is open to the public.

Grudem and Asmus are nationally known for their economic and biblical perspectives. Asmus is a senior economist with the National Center for Policy Analysis, and Grudem is a research professor of theology and biblical studies at Phoenix Seminary.

According to their book, Grudem and Asmus …

Cedars, August 2014, Cedarville University

Cedars

No abstract provided.

Students’ Contributions Bless Safe Harbor House Ministry, Kathryn Sill

News Releases

Academics and fun are the typical thoughts on the minds of college students. But there’s more on the minds of the 3,400 students from Cedarville University who donated $18,737 to the Springfield, Ohio-based Safe Harbor House this past week in what its executive director, Amy Willmann, labeled “a great blessing.”

Paternal Incarceration And Children's Food Insecurity: A Consideration Of Variation And Mechanisms, Kristen Turney

University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Discussion Paper Series

Despite growing attention to the unintended consequences of paternal incarceration for children’s wellbeing across the life course, little is known about whether and how paternal incarceration is related to food insecurity among children, an especially acute and severe form of deprivation. In this article, I use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a cohort of children born to mostly unmarried mothers, to examine the relationship between paternal incarceration and three indicators of food insecurity among young children: current food insecurity (at age five), onset of food insecurity (between ages three and five), and exit from food insecurity …

Policy Library- 620, Indiana State University. General Counsel

Policy Library

No abstract provided.

Contemporary Cuban Culture: Notes On Alternative Thinking, Lecture By Madeline Cámara Betancourt, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University

Cuban Research Institute Events

This flyer promotes the event "Contemporary Cuban Culture: Notes on Alternative Thinking Lecture by Madeline Cámara Betancourt ". Credit for image on flyer: Baruj Salinas, Punta Cana VI, 1999.

Cartografía Corporal, Book Presentation By Lillian Guerra, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University

Cuban Research Institute Events

This flyer promotes the event "Cartografía corporal, Book Presentation by Lillian Guerra, comments by Madeline Cámara Betancourt" sponsored by the School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University. The event was held and Books & Books in Coral Gables.

The Antisaccade Task: Visual Distractors Elicit A Location-Independent Planning 'Cost', Jesse C. Desimone

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Prosaccades are rapid eye movements with direct stimulus and response relations and are designed to bring the fovea onto a target or area of interest. In contrast, antisaccades require the inhibition of a prosaccade and the evocation of a saccade to a target’s mirror-symmetrical location. Previous work has shown that a remote (i.e., midline, contralateral) – but not proximal (i.e., ipsilateral) – task-irrelevant distractor relative to a visual target delays prosaccade reaction times (RT) (i.e., remote distractor effect: RDE). To my knowledge, however, no work has examined whether antisaccade RTs are similarly influenced by a RDE. Accordingly, I sought to …

Screening And Diagnostic Validity Of Affinity 2.5, Heather Lynn Stephenson

Theses and Dissertations

Affinity 2.5 is a computer-based instrument designed to assess sexual interest using viewing-time measures. Viewing-time measures of sexual interest have been developed to identify individuals with deviant sexual interest. The purpose of this study is to examine the validity of Affinity 2.5 in screening and diagnosing individuals with sexually deviant interests. This study used viewing time profiles of known sexual offenders compared to norm-referenced profiles of an exclusively heterosexual, non-pedophilic college population. Participants were 155 males and 3 females who had sexually offended against children and 63 male and 84 female non-offender college students. Results show that 43.7% of offenders …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 90, No. 2, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Holloway, Kae. Delta Tau Delta Fraternity Closes
• Mathews, Mackenzie. Casting Call – Theatre & Dance
• Voorhees, Jessica. Students Attend Special Celebration in Downing University Center
• Mudd, Aaron & Trey Crumbie. Student Government Association Officials Prepare for New Year
• Crumbie, Trey. Student Shot in Reported Burglary – Spencer Renfro
• Crumbie, Trey. New Stop Added to Green Line – Parking & Transportation Services
• Editorial Cartoon Campus Toilets 101
• Bathrooms of the Hill: Ranked & Reviewed
• Holloway, Kae. Southern Fashions Show History, Wealth
• An Icy Blast Photos – ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, …

Role Of Search, Human Capital And Learning In Occupational Mobility And Immigrant Assimilation, Masashi Miyairi

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

This thesis contains three studies of job and occupational mobility, and their implications for earnings. The second chapter of the thesis develops and estimates a model of job and occupational search to examine how and how much learning influences young workers' job search and transition patterns. The model incorporates uncertainty regarding the accumulation processes of workers' different skills, and features directed search whereby workers choose search effort intensities for different occupations. The model is estimated using U.S. data, with individuals' occupational affiliations grouped into skilled white-collar, skilled blue-collar, and non-skilled occupations. The estimates show large differences in search frictions, skill …

Digitization And Working With A Mountain West Digital Library Hub, Catherine Mcintyre

Catherine McIntyre

This presentation, which includes a brief video, focuses on some best practices for public libraries or other cultural memory institutions to follow when considering undertaking a digitization project. Given from the perspective of a Mountain West Digital Library digitization hub, Utah Valley University, we offer tips on planning and managing a digitization project and which key questions to ask of the hub, to make sure that each partner knows its responsibilities and expectations. This makes for a successful digitization project!