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The Antelope, University Of Nebraska At Kearney

The Antelope

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A Great And Terrible Beauty, Maggie Mason Smith

Publications

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Who, What And Why: A Statistical And Geospatial Analysis Of The Development Of The Marcellus Shale In West Virginia, Erin Sevatson

Geography and the Environment: Graduate Student Capstones

Over the last decade, the Marcellus Shale in West Virginia has seen a rapid rise in exploitation of resources. The boom is undeniable but the reasons behind the success stories remain debatable. What factors have led to successes for operators in the Marcellus Shale in West Virginia? Statistical and spatial analysis can aid in making that determination. Statistical analysis will focus on correlating leased acreage numbers to drilled and producing well data to demonstrate the correlation between leased acres and number of wells. Spatial Analysis will be used to determine the areas with the highest prevalence of drilled and producing …

Introduction: Turning Pages, Shaun O’Connell

New England Journal of Public Policy

Pages, essays, and books pile up in libraries while pixilated words and paragraphs get packed away on hard disks or float in clouds: permanence versus ephemera. Yet, as underfunded libraries turn into media centers and as digital backup options proliferate, who can tell what pages will last and for how long. These essays have long been stored in volumes of the New England Journal of Public Policy (NEJPP) or made available on the journal’s website. This collection sets them in a fresh context and gives them an opportunity to reach new readers in a format that shows how …

Two Nations: Homeless In A Divided Land (1992), Shaun O’Connell

New England Journal of Public Policy

The works discussed in this article include: Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics, by Thomas Byrne Edsall with Mary D. Edsall; Why Americans Hate Politics, by E. J. Dionne, Jr.; A Far Cry from Home: Life in a Shelter for Homeless Women, by Lisa Ferrill; Scandal: The Culture of Mistrust in American Politics, by Suzanne Garment; Songs from the Alley, by Kathleen Hirsch; Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America, by James Davison Hunter; Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America, by Jonathan Kozol; Parliament of …

New York Revisited (1992), Shaun O’Connell

New England Journal of Public Policy

The works discussed in this article include: City of the World: New York and Its People, by Bernie Bookbinder; New York, New York, by Oliver E. Allen; New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City, from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time, by Thomas Bender; The Heart of the World, by Nik Cohn; The Art of the City: Views and Versions of New York, by Peter Conrad; After Henry, by Joan Didion; Literary New York: A History and Guide, by Susan Edmiston and Linda D. Cirino; Our …

Important Places (2005), Shaun O’Connell

New England Journal of Public Policy

The author talks about his time and associations with the University of Massachusetts Boston. He also describes Ireland and his family's roots there and how it connects with Boston as well as his life in New York.

Reprinted from New England Journal of Public Policy 20, no. 2 (2005), article 10.

Wars Remembered (2003), Shaun O’Connell

New England Journal of Public Policy

O'Connell speaks about his father, among other war veterans, dealing with the effects of the wars they fought in. He explains his father's history from how he enilisted to how he died. He also touches upon other's war experiences and writing about the after effects of them as well.

Reprinted from New England Journal of Public Policy 19, no. 1 (2003), article 3.

Use Of Alternative Financial Services Among Low- And Moderate-Income Households: Findings From A Large-Scale National Household Financial Survey, Mathieu R. Despard, Dana C. Perantie, Lingzi Luo, Jane Oliphant, Michal Grinstein-Weiss

Center for Social Development Research

Use of Alternative Financial Services Among Low- and Moderate-Income Households: Findings From a Large-Scale National Household Financial Survey

Cognitive Failures At Work, Mindfulness, And The Big Five, Karen Klockner, Richard Hicks

Richard Hicks

Cognitive failures at work (or errors in the workplace including blunders and memory lapses), can lead to considerable personal and organisational damage, even damage well beyond national borders in some organisations. Workplace errors may have a personality base; and mindfulness (or mindlessness) also appears to be related to workplace errors generally. Given the importance and cost of errors in the workplace it is of concern that no previous research appears to have addressed the relationships between cognitive failures at work, personality and mindfulness together. We aimed to address this gap. We administered the Cognitive Failures Questionnaire, the Mindful Attention Awareness …

Psychological Well-Being And Its Relationships With Active And Passive Procrastination, Emily Habelrih, Richard Hicks

Richard Hicks

Procrastination affects many people and impacts overall effectiveness of individuals and organisations. While some studies have examined the correlates of procrastination in terms of impacts on well-being (including depression and anxiety) and on performance, few studies have examined procrastination as a dichotomous construct, with most seeing procrastination as unifactorial. One such study defining procrastination as dichotomous was that of Chu and Choi (2005). The current study examines how psychological well-being is related to the concepts of active procrastination and passive (traditional) procrastination. Active and passive procrastination are related insignificantly to each other (we are not dealing with one dimension); but …

The Role Of Fear Avoidance Beliefs In Return To Work Post-Injury, Bruce Watt, Lucas Ford, Rebekah M. Doley, Sabrina Ong, Katarina Fritzon, Richard Hicks, Tony Cacciola

Richard Hicks

BACKGROUND: Fear avoidance beliefs have been demonstrated significant predictors of disability and work status post occupational injury and appear particularly important in explaining the transition from acute to chronic disability. OBJECTIVE: This study examined the relationship between fear avoidance beliefs, health-related quality of life, and their influence on return to work (RTW) outcomes, including durable RTW, post-occupational injury. METHODS: A total of 1179 questionnaires were posted to clients previously receiving vocational rehabilitation services from the Return to Work Assist program in Queensland, Australia. Participants were asked to indicate their current RTW status in addition to completing questionnaires measuring fear avoidance …

The Role Of Fear Avoidance Beliefs In Return To Work Post-Injury, Bruce Watt, Lucas Ford, Rebekah M. Doley, Sabrina Ong, Katarina Fritzon, Richard Hicks, Tony Cacciola

Rebekah Doley

BACKGROUND: Fear avoidance beliefs have been demonstrated significant predictors of disability and work status post occupational injury and appear particularly important in explaining the transition from acute to chronic disability. OBJECTIVE: This study examined the relationship between fear avoidance beliefs, health-related quality of life, and their influence on return to work (RTW) outcomes, including durable RTW, post-occupational injury. METHODS: A total of 1179 questionnaires were posted to clients previously receiving vocational rehabilitation services from the Return to Work Assist program in Queensland, Australia. Participants were asked to indicate their current RTW status in addition to completing questionnaires measuring fear avoidance …

The Role Of Fear Avoidance Beliefs In Return To Work Post-Injury, Bruce Watt, Lucas Ford, Rebekah M. Doley, Sabrina Ong, Katarina Fritzon, Richard Hicks, Tony Cacciola

Bruce Watt

BACKGROUND: Fear avoidance beliefs have been demonstrated significant predictors of disability and work status post occupational injury and appear particularly important in explaining the transition from acute to chronic disability. OBJECTIVE: This study examined the relationship between fear avoidance beliefs, health-related quality of life, and their influence on return to work (RTW) outcomes, including durable RTW, post-occupational injury. METHODS: A total of 1179 questionnaires were posted to clients previously receiving vocational rehabilitation services from the Return to Work Assist program in Queensland, Australia. Participants were asked to indicate their current RTW status in addition to completing questionnaires measuring fear avoidance …

Diabetes And Sleep Disorders: A Synergism That Complicates Neurological Treatment, Pennie Seibert, Michael Mooney, Rachel Aguilar, Elora Williams, Katherine Nissans

Pennie S. Seibert

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Parkinson’S Disease: Comparing Impacts On General Health And Well-Being Experienced By Individuals With Pd And Their Caregivers, Pennie Seibert, Colleen Poulton, Jory Peredes

Pennie S. Seibert

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Emerging From The Project! Evolving Views Of Emory's Library Use System, Susan Bailey, Megan Slemons

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

Beginning in 2014, Emory University’s Robert W. Woodruff Library initiated a project to connect entry card swipe data to demographic data within a locally created system . The system provides data visualizations as well as file export functionality. This project has involved developing a process for collecting and analyzing the data and presenting the results it in a way that can enable data-driven decision making.

Re-Zoning Your Library Through Data-Driven Space Allocations, Robert Fox, Bruce Keisling

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

How can you use assessment data to "re-zone" your library's spaces to meet the shifting needs for collections, users, library personnel, campus partners, and institutional priorities? Learn how one library built an assessment program that has informed past and ongoing space reallocations while also seeking to optimize the human and financial resources that are needed to successfully complete and maintain the projects.

Scapegoating In Group Psychotherapy, J. Kelly Moreno

J. Kelly Moreno

The purpose of this paper is to describe and illuminate the phenomenon of scapegoating in group psychotherapy. Specifically, the role of projective identification - on both individual and group-wide bases - in the evolution of the deviant is delineated. Individual, interpersonal, and whole-group interventions are presented along with the technique of functional subgrouping, a relatively new and particularly potent group intervention. Several case vignettes are detailed for illustration.

Group Therapy For Abused And Neglected Youth: Therapeutic And Child Advocacy Challenges, Janine Wanlass, J. Kelly Moreno, Hannah M. Thomson

J. Kelly Moreno

Although group therapy for abused and neglected youth is a viable and efficacious treatment option, facilitation is challenging. Group leaders must contain intense affect, manage multiple transferences, and advocate for their clients within the larger social welfare system. Using a case study of a group for sexually abused girls, this paper explores some of these issues and discusses ways in which therapists recognize and deal with the dual challenge of advocating for and treating children.

Group Therapy For Eating Disorders: A Retrospective Case Study, Janine Wanlass, J. Kelly Moreno, Hannah M. Thomson

J. Kelly Moreno

An increasing amount of research supports group therapy as an effective treatment option for eating disorders (Moreno, 1994). In an attempt to further delineate therapeutic factors associated with productive group work, this study represents an exploratory, descriptive analysis of client and therapist perspectives on group process and outcome. Specifically, this retrospective study investigated what clients and their therapist considered important, helpful, and problematic in an aftercare group for hospitalized patients with eating disorders. The therapist and client perspectives were considered separately. These data were then classified into four categories: importance, benefits, problems, and critical incidents. A follow-up discussion explores similarities …

Open Access Challenge, Amy Dailey, Janelle Wertzberger

Open Access Week at Gettysburg College

This class activity is designed to help health sciences students understand challenges to accessing public health information in a variety of settings. The exercise was created for students in Prof. Dailey’s Global Health class (HS 322) at Gettysburg College in Fall 2015.

The activity, as well as notes for instructors considering using this exercise, are both shared here.

Abolishing Jailhouse Snitch Testimony, Russell D. Covey

Russell D. Covey

Jailhouse snitch testimony is inherently unreliable. Snitches have powerful incentives to invent incriminating lies about other inmates in often well-founded hopes that such testimony will provide them with material benefits, including in many cases substantial reduction of criminal charges against them or of the time they are required to serve. At the same time, false snitch testimony is difficult, if not altogether impossible, for criminal defendants to impeach. Because such testimony usually pits the word of two individuals against one another, both of whose credibility is suspect, jurors have little ability to accurately or effectively assess or weigh the evidence. …

Getting To Culture: Strategies For Creating A Culture Of Assessment, Maurini Strub, Samantha Mcclellan

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

Crucial to gathering data that supports desired organizational changes is ensuring stakeholder buy-in and the creation of meaningful spaces for feedback. This presentation will focus on mapping strategies used in the corporate world in feedback spaces to create a culture of assessment.

Seeing Is Believing: Conducting Observational Studies To Evaluate Space And Service Design, Joyce Chapman

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

This talk discusses how Duke Libraries staff have integrated observational data assessment into space and service design over the past year using the open-source, mobile, assessment tool Suma to collect and analyze a variety of data sources.

Assessment Data: Building Blocks For Strong Libraries And Successful Accreditation Reports, Kathryn Crowe, Crystal Baird

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

Want to learn how to leverage your assessment program for accreditation and develop effective compliance reports for your library? Join this interactive session from a librarian and institutional effectiveness professional from an accrediting agency and an assessment librarian who authored a library’s accreditation documents.

Baking A Cake With No Recipe: Mixing Methods For Discovery Layer Assessment, Ebony Magnus, Hui Hua Chua

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

In August 2014, Michigan State University Libraries implemented Summon and a team of librarians from various units was assembled to assess the usage and usability of the discovery layer. Bringing unique perspectives and experiences, the team employed a range of methodologies including text analysis, quantitative analysis, usability testing, and web analytics. This presentation will: review the methodologies and tools that were used; consider the importance of examining the results of each method in concert; and also share findings from the first year of data collection and analysis.

Community Efforts To Develop Best Practices In Digital Library Assessment: One Year Of Progress, Joyce Chapman

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

In 2014 the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Assessment Interest Group developed a Digital Library Assessment Framework and began engaging the community in the development of best practices and guidelines around digital library assessment. This presentation will address the progress of the interest group in its first year. We will provide background information on the DLF Assessment Interest Group, outline the collaborative methods used to document common practices and to develop best practices, and solicit audience feedback on the group’s methodology and results to date.

Finding The Missing Piece: Communicating Library Value To Complete The Assessment Puzzle, Amanda B. Albert

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

Library assessment is like putting together a puzzle with many pieces, and some of these pieces can be forgotten or even lost. This presentation provides attendees with the missing puzzle piece they need to begin using their assessment data to actively engage stakeholders through library value conversations. The presenter will establish the importance of communicating assessment findings and library impact to stakeholders, and arm attendees with effective communication tools and strategies for communicating library value at their institution.

Walking Is A Right (Civil And Human), Robert Bullard

Robert D Bullard

PowerPoint opening keynote presented at the National Walking Summit in Washington, DC last month. Here is link to the Summit. http://walkingsummit.org/keynote-speakers . Some of themes include - walking as a right, "outdoor apartheid," "walking while black," and connecting nature walks and health (walking is good for the mind, body, spirit and soul) run through the talk.