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The Respectable Dignity Of Obergefell V. Hodges, Yuvraj Joshi

Yuvraj Joshi

In declaring state laws that restrict same-sex marriage unconstitutional, Justice Kennedy invoked “dignity” nine times—to no one’s surprise. References in Obergefell to “dignity” are in important respects the culmination of Justice Kennedy’s elevation of the concept, dating back to the Supreme Court’s 1992 decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey. In Casey, “dignity” expressed respect for a woman’s freedom to make choices about her pregnancy. Casey laid the foundation for Lawrence v. Texas, which similarly respected the freedom of choice of homosexual persons. Yet, starting in United States v. Windsor and continuing in Obergefell, the narrative began to change. Dignity veered …

We're Gonna Make It After All: Perspectives From Kent State University, Elizabeth A. Richardson, Virginia A. Dressler

Elizabeth A Richardson

White House Office: Staff Secretary, Manuel Gutiérrez, Joshua Acevedo, José D. Villalobos

José D. Villalobos

Copyright Taylor & Francis 2015-2016.

Beyond Google Analytics: Using The ‘Toolkit For The Impact Of Digitised Scholarly Resources’ To Embed Metrics And Gauge Use Of Regional Digital Collections, Virginia A. Dressler, Elizabeth Richardson

Virginia A Dressler

Recently, Kent State University Libraries has been expanding digital collections, in particular highlighting content from the regional library collections. As the digital collections continue to grow, our team wanted to find a way to apply defined metrics to ascertain the use of digital resources through qualitative and quantitative methods, in a more extensive and comprehensive method than Google Analytics. This paper will present the construction of metrics to analyze the use (and reuse) of the digital collections with a number of open-source tools.

Older Adults With Hiv/Aids, Charles A. Emlet, Anne K. Hughes

Charles Emlet

No abstract provided.

App Newsletter 8, Riccardo Pelizzo

Riccardo Pelizzo

Eight Issue of the APP Newsletter devoted to SDG, South Sudan, Tanzanian elections, and the alleged dividends of statelessness in Somalia.

Trouble In Paradise: Problems In Academic Research Co-Authoring, Barry Bozeman, Jan Youtie

Jan Youtie

Scholars and policy-makers have expressed concerns about the crediting of coauthors in research publications. Most such problems fall into one of two categories, excluding deserving contributors or including undeserving ones. But our research shows that there is no consensus on ‘‘deserving’’ or on what type of contribution suffices for co-authorship award. Our study uses qualitative data, including interviews with 60 US academic science or engineering researchers in 14 disciplines in a set of geographically distributed research-intensive universities. We also employ data from 161 website posts provided by 93 study participants, again US academic scientists. We examine a variety of factors …

Mechanisms And Policies Of Global Technology Transfer For Clean-Energy, Kyle S. Herman

Dr. Kyle S. Herman

Bank Solvency And Economic Activity, Lester G. Telser

Lester G Telser

This note explains why bank solvency is extremely important in a modern economy. Although banks provide many services including loans to business and households, these are secondary. Provision of the means of payment is primary. Every transaction in a modern economy involves a means of payment offered by the buyer and acceptable to the seller.

The 2015 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report (Ahar) To Congress, Part 1: Point-In-Time Estimates Of Homelessness, Meghan Henry, Azim Shivji, Tanya De Sousa, Rebecca Cohen, Jill Khadduri, Dennis P. Culhane

Dennis P. Culhane

No Place To Call Home: Late Boomers Face Homelessness, End Of Life Difficulties, Dennis P. Culhane

Dennis P. Culhane

The 2014 Homelessness Assessment Report To Congress Part 2: Estimates Of Homelessness In The United States, Claudia D. Solari, Stephanie Althoff, Korrin Bishop, Zachery Epstein, Sean Morris, Azim Shivji, Jill Khadduri, Dennis P. Culhane

Dennis P. Culhane

Screening For Homelessness In The Veterans Health Administration: Monitoring Housing Stability Through Repeat Screening, Thomas Byrne, Jamison D. Fargo, Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, Christopher B. Roberts, Dennis P. Culhane, Vincent Kane

Dennis P. Culhane

Implications Of Global Warming: Two Eras, Philip E. Graves

PHILIP E GRAVES

The purpose of the present paper is to attempt to gain insights into the implications of global warming that is anticipated in the future. In attempting to think about really long-term regional implications, it seems naïve to look at global warming without thinking about long-standing trends in other variables that would be expected to interact with climate change over time. I envision two quite different “eras,” a first filled with considerable danger of both economic and environmental collapse. But—if humanity survives the first period—a second period of great promise for humanity and the global ecosystem is likely to take place. …

Scholarly Communication Institutions: Transforming Scholarship With History, Shawn Martin

Shawn Martin

Alternatives To Local Content, Abel A. Kinyondo, Ivar Kolstad

Abel Alfred Kinyondo

This paper suggests that an optimal local content policy in the context of flawed institutions is a more minimal one than those typically pursued by developing countries with recently discovered petroleum reserves. We argue that local content requirements need to be seen as a public expenditure question: such requirements increase multinationals’ costs and hence reduce the taxes that can be extracted from these companies. There are thus opportunity costs in imposing local content requirements, since the forgone taxes could be used in other ways to improve development prospects. Such requirements can also exacerbate key problems of patronage and rent-seeking.

How (Not) To Sell A Military Memoir In Britain, Esmeralda Kleinreesink, Neil Jenkings, Rachel Woodward

Esmeralda Kleinreesink

The Informal Sector As A Path To Expanding Opportunities, Colin C. Williams

Colin C Williams

A Household-Level Approach To Staging Wildfire Evacuation Warnings Using Trigger Modeling, Dapeng Li

Dapeng Li

"Whiteness”, Criminality, And The Double-Standards Of Deviance/Social Control, Nancy Heitzeg

Nancy A. Heitzeg

No abstract provided.

Librarians And Esl Instructors Unite For Information Literacy!, Rachael Muszkiewicz

Rachael Muszkiewicz

No abstract provided.

The Impact Of Social Influence, Gender, And Non-Parental Guardianship On Adolescents In Substance Use Recovery, Anne Thompson Heller, Beth S. Russell

Journal of Human Sciences and Extension

This study explored potential barriers to sustaining recovery from substance use disorders (SUD) in adolescence, particularly for youth enrolled in school-based recovery programs, or recovery schools. Participants (N = 28) enrolled full-time in a Massachusetts recovery high school completed a survey of demographic information and scales assessing social desirability, parent and peer influence, and stigma. Results indicated that peers have slightly higher influence than parents, particularly among girls and adolescents with non-parental guardians. Participants living with parents who use substances reported being sober an average of 28.7 months, versus 40.9 months for those living with nonusing parents. Participants with parental …

Longitudinal Study Of A State 4-H Fashion Revue, Kendra Taylor, Jan Scholl, Sandra P. Hall

Journal of Human Sciences and Extension

The 4-H fashion revue contest gives young people the opportunity to create their own garment and present it in front of judges and an audience. To come to the conclusions reported here, the participant entry forms, participant evaluations, and judges’ comments representing seven years (2006-2013) of state fashion revue participation in Pennsylvania were analyzed. No differences were found in cost or time allocation among those who placed as award winners and those who did not place. Data and participant comments indicated that participants gained some life skills. In addition, more than one-third of the youth involved in these contests were …

The Impact Of Visuals On Nutrition And Health Education Materials, Emily Clyatt, Elisa Shackelton, Laura Bellows

Journal of Human Sciences and Extension

No abstract provided.

Growing Pains-From Standard Bibliography To Dynamic Web-Accessible Resource, Creating A Repository Of Popular And Scientific Writing On Roses Using Tei., Julia R. Tryon

Julia R Tryon

Twenty years ago, I started a project that I envisioned would culminate in a printed bibliography of writings on the Rose in English that would be as complete as possible—both books and articles. A bibliography on roses had been published in 1973 which focused on books and in 1984 there was a self-published title from the U.K. citing books and“significant” journal articles but which did not include the voluminous amount of articles in popular journals and newspapers. My goal was to update and expand upon what had been compiled by the earlier bibliographers. Two decades later, I have returned to …

College Students’ Perceptions And Practices Towards Environmentally Friendly Clothing: A Comparison And Exploratory Study, Jinhee Nam, Erika Chatmon

Journal of Human Sciences and Extension

Despite the growing interest of environmentally friendly clothing (EFC), there have been discrepancies among customers in defining EFC. The purposes of this study were to assess the participants’ environmental orientation and environmental knowledge toward EFC, to compare them in terms of college major and gender and identify relationships between orientation and knowledge, and to acquire the current perceptions and practices toward EFC. The revised New Environmental Paradigm scale (NEP) with 15 items, the Environmental Apparel Knowledge scale (EAK) with 11 items, and the developed perception and practice question sets with 12 items were used. A total of 122 undergraduate students …

Extension And Research Faculty Perspectives Of Extension-Research Integration: Opportunities And Challenges, Anil Kumar Chaudhary, Rama Radhakrishna

Journal of Human Sciences and Extension

This study examined the perspectives of Extension and research faculty regarding integration of Extension and research (E-R) activities. Faculty with 50% or greater appointments in Extension or research at a Land-Grant University in the northeastern United States were identified as subjects for the study (N = 59). Study objectives were to determine the current status of E-R integration efforts, understanding of Extension and research faculty roles, barriers to E-R integration, and strategies for strengthening E-R integration activities. An instrument was developed by the researchers and data were collected using SurveyMonkey. Descriptive statistics were used to summarize data. Findings indicated that …

Wright State University Women's Basketball Media Guide 2015-2016, Wright State University Athletics

Athletics Publications

A media guide for Wright State University's 2015-2016 Women's Basketball team. This guide includes photographs, player stats, game results, and records.

An Exploratory Study Of 4th, 5th, And 6th Grade Summer Camp Participants’ Attitudes And Intentions Towards Physical Activity, Melissa Cater, Anne Kean, Diane Sasser

Journal of Human Sciences and Extension

Physical inactivity is a growing problem among children, particularly schoolaged youth. Research suggests children are especially prone to inactivity in the summer months when access to structured school-time and extra-curricular activities is reduced. Community programs like residential summer camps offer an excellent environment for engaging children in enjoyable physical activities while also helping them learn to be more physically active when they return home. Pre-existing attitudes often influence how much change a program inspires in an individual. The purpose of this study was to explore 4th, 5th, and 6th grade summer camp participants’ attitudes towards physical activity. Results of this …

Transformative Learning And The 4-H Camp Counselor Experience In Minnesota, Donna M. Leff, Michael S. Retallick, Nancy K. Franz

Journal of Human Sciences and Extension

While many studies about the 4-H camping experience focus on youth who are campers, few studies examine the outcomes of the experience for counselors. This study examines the extent to which 4-H camp results in transformative learning for 4-H members who serve as camp counselors, examines the perceived changes that occur within counselors, and describes the factors and characteristics of camp that result in personal transformation. The population for this study was 2012 Minnesota 4-H camp counselors. Using the Transformative Learning and the Camp Experience Staff Member Survey, the results indicated that camp counselors experienced transformative learning. Major personal changes …