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Anemia Research In India: A Bibliometric Analysis Of Publications Output During 1993–2013., Jeyshankar -. Ramalingam -, Vellai Chamy A

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study is made an attempt to make the quantitative study of research output on anemia disease. Data of the present study is obtained from Scopus (http:// www.scopus.com) online multidisciplinary database for the period 1993–2013.The study reveals that 5085 papers were published during the period under study. The highest number of papers (739) is published in the year 2013 but it received 178 citations only. The minimum number (47) of papers is published in the year of 1996, but they have received 3245 citations. The study reveals that lowest number (0.56%) of citations received in the year 2013. The study …

Exploring The Association Between Commute To School Duration And Children's Physical Activity Level And Bodyweight Status, Lucie Richard

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

The commute to school is recognized as a daily activity with high potential for influencing children’s health behaviours and outcomes. While the impact of commute mode on children’s health has been extensively researched, the influence of commute duration remains relatively unexplored. This thesis uses binary logistic regression and multiple linear regression analysis of a cross-sectional sample to determine how active and inactive commute to school duration impacts children’s physical activity level and bodyweight status in urban, small town and rural environments in Southwestern Ontario.

It is found here that longer active commute duration is associated with greater average levels of …

A Philosophical Analysis Of Ethics Education In The Canadian National Coaching Certification Program For Rowing, Mark M. Williams

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

This dissertation applies a conception of rationality from the philosophy of science to the coaching education context. The purpose of this dissertation is to present an account of how the exercise of judgment by coaches facing ethical dilemmas can be rational. The discussion in this dissertation begins with a traditional account of rationality that has long been a staple of moral philosophy. Next, the influence of this model in the current Canadian rowing coach education program are highlighted, as are its limitations in providing a complete account of rational ethical-decision making in the coaching context. After establishing these limitations, an …

Online Data Mapping Systems, Melanie Kiper, Michael Pippen

CPAR Presents: A Data and Research Series for Community Impact

This presentation on Target Map discusses: Strengths; Weaknesses; Software Limits And Requirements; Connect and Register; About their “Home Page”; Main Screen Elements; Create A Map; Basics About the Map; The Legend; Map Editor; Map Labels; and Saving.

State And Local Population Trends, Jerry Deichert, David J. Drozd

CPAR Presents: A Data and Research Series for Community Impact

This presentation features: Three Major Demographic Trends; State Population Summary; County Population Summary; Natural Change = Births ‐ Deaths; Net Migration; City and Town Population Summary; Race and Hispanic/Latino Origin; Race and Hispanic/Latino Origin Change 2000-2010; Changing Composition of Nebraska Households; Major Employment Trends; Major Per Capita Income Trends; and Nebraska Vital Statistics.

Data Websites/Tools And Basic Data Mapping, Jerry Deichert

CPAR Presents: A Data and Research Series for Community Impact

Today we are going to look at 3 websites: Census Bureau, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Information For Grant Writers And Data Users, Frank Shimerdla

CPAR Presents: A Data and Research Series for Community Impact

This presentation features what makes a grant proposal "fundable"?; Good data is essential to support all essential proposal elements; Strengthening alignment; Using data to demonstrate need; Visuals highlight key data; Text effects and key data; Strategies for presenting data effectively; Common sources of grant data; Strategies to find the data; When the data do not exist; Surveys; Pre- and post-tests; Be proactive; We can do it... we have before; Restate baselines; Past results instill confidence; and Data is a program management strategy; Five final tips for using data.

Migration Statistics And Brain Drain/Gain, David J. Drozd, Randy Cantrell

CPAR Presents: A Data and Research Series for Community Impact

This presentation discusses: About migration; Often used sources of migration data; How many people move and why: an example of CPS data; Atlas Van Line Data show current level of outbound moves from Nebraska not as high as the late 1990s, but the increasing trend is concerning; Recent migration including by race/ethnicity; Migration differences for Nebraska counties; Breakdown for the <10,000 city size categories; Historical perspective: How do the 2000s changes compare to recent decades; What about the migration of those specifically the college degrees - the brain drain/gain; and Summary.

Poverty Data And The New Supplemental Poverty Measure, David J. Drozd

CPAR Presents: A Data and Research Series for Community Impact

This presentation features: Introduction; The basics: what is poverty; How the Census Bureau measures poverty; Poverty thresholds are a measure of need; 2013 Poverty Thresholds; Not Everyone has a Poverty Calculation!; Income Used to Compute “Official” Poverty; The ratio of income to poverty; The “bible” of current and historical poverty data; Graph from the 2012 report showing poverty trends over time: Note that poverty peaks out at about 15% following major recessions; Some Relevant Current Data from the ACS; High Poverty Counties are Fairly Dispersed but Primarily Rural; Census Bureau June 2014 report on “Changes in Concentrated Poverty” (census tracts …

Library Resources And Understanding The Focus On Stem, Heidi Blackburn

CPAR Presents: A Data and Research Series for Community Impact

This presentation discusses: What the heck is STEM?; Why is it always in the news?; Why should I care about it?; and Where do I find reliable information from the government?

Basic Factfinder Computer Training, Pauline Nunez

CPAR Presents: A Data and Research Series for Community Impact

Basic FactFinder Computer Training session.

Census Data Product Update, Randy Cantrell, Becky Vogt, David J. Drozd, Jerry Deichert

CPAR Presents: A Data and Research Series for Community Impact

This presentation features: Background information; Why a metro and rural poll simultaneously; A Look at the Covers of the Two Polls; Common Methodology; Common Questionnaires and Survey Topics; 2014 Rural Poll Results on Items Asked Annually; 2014 Rural Poll vs. Metro Poll Results on Items Asked Annually; 2014 Rural Poll vs. Metro Poll Results on Safety & Crime; and Overall Summary.

Census Overview: Basics, Acs, And Estimates, David J. Drozd

CPAR Presents: A Data and Research Series for Community Impact

This presentation features: Terminology & Definitions; Census Datafiles; ACS Data are Released Based Upon the Population of the Geographic Unit; Questionnaires & Concepts; How does CPAR typically analyze race/ethnicity?; Geography; FactFinder Address Search Page & Results; Geography vs. Data (A Duel); Relationship between Data/Datafiles and Geography; PUMA geography; The American Community Survey: What is it?; ACS Methodology in Brief; ACS New Subject Areas; Point Estimates, MOE and Confidence Intervals; Multi-year Aggregate Estimates: Advantages; ACS Sample Size Increase Began in 2011 and Continues!!; 2012 ACS Data to be released later in 2014; The 2009 ACS Nebraska “Double Whammy”; Population Estimates Program: …

Intermediate Factfinder Computer Training, Pauline Nunez

CPAR Presents: A Data and Research Series for Community Impact

Intermediate FactFinder Computer Training session.

The Far Reaching Impacts Of Aging, Louis Pol, Scott Strain, Martha Hakenkamp, Connie Benjamin

CPAR Presents: A Data and Research Series for Community Impact

This presentation features the session's panelists and Nebraska population statistics and projections.

Building Socialism From Below: Luxemburg, Sears, And The Case Of Occupy Wall Street, Holly Campbell

Social Justice and Community Engagement

For as long as capitalism has existed, people have struggled against it. However, despite the fact that anti-capitalist social movements have won important battles and at times created change, the global capitalist system remains largely intact, ever growing and expanding. How might waves of resistance help pave the way for a different economic and political system— one based upon the principles of accountability, equity, justice, and production for human need? This paper examines how anti-capitalist theories and writings, as well as a radically democratic social movement, can inform visions of a sustainable future that is productive, just, and built upon …

Environmental Factors Associated With Success Rates Of Australian Stock Herding Dogs, Elizabeth R. Arnott, Jonathan B. Early, Claire M. Wade, Paul D. Mcgreevy

Sport and Working Animal Welfare Collection

This study investigated the current management practices associated with stock herding dogs on Australian farms. A parallel goal was to determine whether these practices and the characteristics of the dog handlers were associated with success rates. Success rate refers to the proportion of dogs acquired by the farmer that were retained as working dogs. Data on a total of 4,027 dogs were obtained through The Farm Dog Survey which gathered information from 812 herding dog owners around Australia. Using logistic regression, significant associations were identified between success rate and seven variables: dog breed, housing method, trial participation, age of the …

Serials Solutions Search Type Report 2013-2014, Andrée J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Statistics on the total number of "Browse Searches," "Titles Searches," and "Other Searches" of Serials Solutions tools at the University of Rhode Island Libraries by month for 2013-2014. Shows how many times the A-Z full text electronic journal list (at http://zu4tq4pb5v.search.serialssolutions.com/) was browsed by alphabet or subject and searched by journal title or ISSN. Also indicates how many Serials Solutions searches originated from OpenURL links ("360 Link") and the number of clicks from the 856 field of Serials Solutions-generated MARC records ("360 MARC Updates").

Attitudes Towards Latino Immigrants Expressed In The Online Media, Jordan Mcclain

Honors Theses

The language used towards Latino immigrants expressed in the online media is a prevalent occurrence that warrants a more detailed analysis. I used a total of fifty-four articles from Fox New, CNN, MSNBC, Southern Poverty Law Center, National Immigration Law Center, Immigration Advocates, Networks Liberty News, Minuteman Project, and American Immigration Control Council. I analyzed the wording used by each source when they referred to Latino immigrants. I analyzed my data further by distinguishing it into five categories: Affirmative language, negative language, avoidance language, the use of linguistic devices, and a category dedicated to the special circumstances around the recent …

Katskiļu Atskaņas #1, Maira Bundza

Maira Bundza

This was the first of three newsletters published during the course of the Latvian Heritage Camp 3x3 in the Catskills at the Latvian Church Camp in Elka Park, NY. Bundza was the editor and wrote some of the articles.

Foundation For An Independent Tomorrow: Treatment Effects Of The Stages Of Employment Job Readiness Program On Program Completion And Employment Outcomes For Ex-Offenders, Michael Hammer, Stephanie Pocchia, Stacy Howell

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Foundation for an Independent Tomorrow (FIT) is a local not for profit organization that seeks to assist residents of Southern Nevada by providing workforce development services (e.g., interviewing skills, job searching techniques, resume assistance) to increase a program participant’s opportunities to obtain and maintain employment. FIT is currently being federally funded through the Department of Labor’s Workforce Investment Act (WIA) grant, with a specific goal of serving the re-entry, or ex-offender, population. This population presents with a very unique set of barriers to obtaining employment, and in order to combat these barriers, FIT created the Stages of Employment job readiness …

Marketing The Ir: Strategies From The Marquette Survey, Rose Fortier

Library Faculty Research and Publications

Marquette University’s institutional repository, e-Publications@Marquette, was established in 2008 for the deposit of faculty publications and research. Despite active participation by some faculty, universal participation remains an elusive goal. During the spring of 2013, faculty participation and needs were assessed via survey and compared to the IR’s capabilities in addressing those needs. Based upon the assessment survey and the IR’s available resources, a marketing plan and promotional strategies were created. The presentation will include analysis of the survey results and how they informed the creation of a marketing plan. Details of the marketing plan will be discussed as well as …

Using Gist Features To Constrain Search In Object Detection, Joanna Browne Solmon

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis investigates the application of GIST features [13] to the problem of object detection in images. Object detection refers to locating instances of a given object category in an image. It is contrasted with object recognition, which simply decides whether an image contains an object, regardless of the object's location in the image.

In much of computer vision literature, object detection uses a "sliding window" approach to finding objects in an image. This requires moving various sizes of windows across an image and running a trained classifier on the visual features of each window. This brute force method can …

Serials Solutions 360 Link Referring Sources Report 2013-2014, Andrée J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Statistics for 2013-2014 on the number of OpenURL requests made to the "Serials Solutions 360 Link" OpenURL link resolver (at http://zu4tq4pb5v.search.serialssolutions.com/) for items held by the University of Rhode Island Libraries.

Information provided includes Referring Source ID, total Number of Requests for the year, and %Total (Number of Requests).

Note: "36520" = EBSCOhost

Serials Solutions Subject Search Report 2013-2014, Andrée J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Statistics on the total number of Serials Solutions subject searches at the University of Rhode Island Libraries by month for 2013-2014. Shows how many times the A-Z full text electronic journal list (at http://zu4tq4pb5v.search.serialssolutions.com/) was browsed by specific subjects.

Robber Barons And Humbuggers: The Rise Of Philanthropic Museums In Nineteenth-Century New York, Meaghan O'Connor

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

New York City's most recognizable museums like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History came to prominence in the second half of the nineteenth century thanks to the support of wealthy benefactors. At the same time, social reformers, mostly Protestant and middle or upper-class, were combating the vice and poverty that they saw in the diversifying city with a moralizing rhetoric of character building. This paper will show that these two movements, the rise of Philanthropic Museums and the Social Reform movement were connected and that the large temple-like museums that thrive to this day …

Serials Solutions Click-Through Statistics By Provider And Database 2013-2014, Andrée J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Statistics on the total number of database and journal-level clicks, by provider and database, of Serials Solutions tools at the University of Rhode Island Libraries by month for 2013-2014. Clicks may have originated from the A-Z full text electronic journal list (at http://zu4tq4pb5v.search.serialssolutions.com/), from OpenURL links ("360 Link"), or the 856 fields of Serials Solutions-generated MARC records ("360 MARC Updates").

Examining The Influence Of Environmental Opportunities And Exposures On Children's Sleep Duration, Leanne B. Mcintosh

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

This research aims to fill a void in knowledge on how certain characteristics of the built and natural environments may impact children’s sleep duration. Data was collected on a sample of 614 children (aged 9-14 years) drawn from 22 elementary schools throughout the City of London, Ontario, Canada. Participants completed the STEAM (Spatial Temporal Environmental Activity Monitoring) protocol which involved completion of a survey, daily activity diary, and tracking the time they spent in different environments with a portable Global Position System. This thesis incorporates an innovative analytical approach which uses two Geographic Information System techniques to examine if and …

What Can Individual Differences Reveal About Face Processing?, Galit Yovel, Jeremy B. Wilmer, Brad Duchaine

Dartmouth Scholarship

Faces are probably the most widely studied visual stimulus. Most research on face processing has used a group-mean approach that averages behavioral or neural responses to faces across individuals and treats variance between individuals as noise. However, individual differences in face processing can provide valuable information that complements and extends findings from group-mean studies. Here we demonstrate that studies employing an individual differences approach—examining associations and dissociations across individuals—can answer fundamental questions about the way face processing operates. In particular these studies allow us to associate and dissociate the mechanisms involved in face processing, tie behavioral face processing mechanisms to …

"We Don’T Need Another Africville”: Historical Imaginings Of Gentrification And Development In Halifax’S North End, Kelly Baker

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

“Renaissance”, “revitalization”, “vibrancy”, and “gentrification” are all terms popularly used to describe the processes currently transforming Halifax’s North End. The longtime neglected, presumed-to-be dangerous, and widely avoided area is now said, by realtors, business owners, and City officials alike, to be a creatively-thriving and socially diverse community, and up-and-coming hotspot for independent business. Home to a large population of Halifax’s “creative class” of artists, musicians, and gays, the historically African Nova Scotian neighbourhood has, over the past decade, undergone a facelift, with some historic homes having been “flipped” three times, and their value sometimes quadrupled. Once-derelict buildings now house luxury …