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Alice-Wright-03.Jpg Dec 2015

Alice-Wright-03.Jpg

Dr. Alice Wright

Dr. Alice Wright, left, and University of Tennessee Ph.D. student Stephen Yerka conduct a magnetic susceptibility survey for the Pinson Environment and Archaeology Regional Landscapes (PEARL) Project in west Tennessee. The data they collected helps to identify sub-surface archaeological deposits and guide excavation.

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Shawn Bergman (2).Jpg, Shawn M. Bergman Dec 2015

Shawn Bergman (2).Jpg, Shawn M. Bergman

Dr. Shawn Bergman

No abstract provided.

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Shawn Bergman.Jpg, Shawn M. Bergman Dec 2015

Shawn Bergman.Jpg, Shawn M. Bergman

Dr. Shawn Bergman

No abstract provided.

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Strait Talk: Youth-Led Civil Society Dialogues Across The Taiwan Strait, Tatsushi Arai Dec 2015

Strait Talk: Youth-Led Civil Society Dialogues Across The Taiwan Strait, Tatsushi Arai

Tatsushi Arai

This article analyzes patterns of inter-group dynamics among young Taiwanese, Mainland Chinese, and American civil society participants in weeklong interactive conflict resolution workshops. The author focuses on dialogues from twelve such workshops on cross-Strait relations that he facilitated between 2005 and 2012 in order to analyze (i) how college-educated Taiwanese and Mainland Chinese young adults understand the history of the conflict across the Taiwan Strait, (ii) the multi-faceted ways these young adults perceive Chinese group identities and sovereignty pertaining to cross-Strait relations, and (iii) their capacity for empathizing with counterparts from the other side of the Strait, even to the …

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Curating Flipboard Magazine International Safe Zone To Support International Lgbt Students, Kyoung Mi Choi, Christel Van Der Boom Dec 2015

Curating Flipboard Magazine International Safe Zone To Support International Lgbt Students, Kyoung Mi Choi, Christel Van Der Boom

Kyoung Choi

No abstract provided.

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Bilingualism And Second Language Acquisition, Andrew Lynch Dec 2015

Bilingualism And Second Language Acquisition, Andrew Lynch

Andrew Lynch

Language researchers have traditionally drawn distinctions between phenomena of “ bilingualism”  and the processes and features of “ second language acquisition” (SLA). Accounts have generally relied upon factors of context, age of acquisition, degree of proficiency or ability, “ nativeness,”  or “ native-likeness,” and social identity. In this chapter, I provide a cursory explanation of the potential relationship between bilingualism and SLA, pointing to the common ground between these two areas of inquiry.

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Migraciones Mediáticas: La Translocación Del Español En Televisoras Hispanas De Estados Unidos, Marelys Valencia, Andrew Lynch Dec 2015

Migraciones Mediáticas: La Translocación Del Español En Televisoras Hispanas De Estados Unidos, Marelys Valencia, Andrew Lynch

Andrew Lynch

This article focuses on the transnational dimension of varieties of Spanish in contact with English, and with each other, in US Spanish-language television programming. It also scrutinizes the concept of a ‘neutral Spanish’ in networks such as Univision and Cisneros Media, in relation to the expansion of the television market. 

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Course Syllabus: Ppol-G 742 Community-Based Operations Research, Michael P. Johnson Jr. Dec 2015

Course Syllabus: Ppol-G 742 Community-Based Operations Research, Michael P. Johnson Jr.

Michael P. Johnson

This elective course in the Public Policy PhD program provides an introduction to a wide range of decision models, methods and applications that help practitioners and researchers better understand how to represent common services and systems, and how to design practical solutions that can help people and organizations do their jobs better. Examples of public sector applications we will address include: emergency and post-disaster planning, human services, energy and natural resources and housing and community development. This course emphasizes special challenges in community-based public-sector decision-making. Communities of interest may be defined by geography, population, or a particular type of service …

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Milk In The Data: Food Security Impacts From A Livestock Field Experiment In Zambia, Margaret Jodlowski, Alex Winter-Nelson, Kathy Baylis, Peter Goldsmith Dec 2015

Milk In The Data: Food Security Impacts From A Livestock Field Experiment In Zambia, Margaret Jodlowski, Alex Winter-Nelson, Kathy Baylis, Peter Goldsmith

Kathy Baylis

Smallholder livestock ownership has potential to enhance food security by raising incomes of the poor and by increasing the availability of nutrient-dense foods. This paper exploits the staggered rollout of livestock distribution by Heifer International in Zambia to identify the effects of livestock using statistically similar treatment and control groups in a balanced panel of households. Results indicate that livestock ownership improves dietary diversity through both direct consumption of animal products produced on farm and through increased consumption expenditures. Further results indicate that expanded livestock ownership alters the local food economy to influence food consumption by households lacking farm animals.

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Farmers' Risk Preferences And Pesticide Use Decisions: Evidence From Field Experiments In China, Kathy Baylis, Yazhen Gong, Robert Kozak, Gary Bull Dec 2015

Farmers' Risk Preferences And Pesticide Use Decisions: Evidence From Field Experiments In China, Kathy Baylis, Yazhen Gong, Robert Kozak, Gary Bull

Kathy Baylis

China faces health and environmental problems resulting from the use of agricultural chemicals, including pesticides. While other authors have found that risk aversion affects pesticide use in China, previous studies have focused primarily on commercial cotton farmers. In this study, we consider the case of smaller, semi-subsistence and subsistence farmers in a poor and landlocked province of China (Yunnan). We use a field experiment to measure risk aversion and collect detailed data on farm production and input use to specifically ask whether risk aversion affects pesticide use, and whether this effect differs for subsistence farmers producing exclusively for home consumption …

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"A Comparative Analysis Of Collective Action Frames In Nosamo And The Tea Party", Shyam Sriram Dec 2015

"A Comparative Analysis Of Collective Action Frames In Nosamo And The Tea Party", Shyam Sriram

Shyam K. Sriram (ssriram@butler.edu)

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"A Tulsi By Any Other Name: Evaluating South Asian American Support For A Hindu Member Of Congress", Shyam Sriram Dec 2015

"A Tulsi By Any Other Name: Evaluating South Asian American Support For A Hindu Member Of Congress", Shyam Sriram

Shyam K. Sriram (ssriram@butler.edu)

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"A Foucauldian Theory Of American Islamophobia", Shyam Sriram Dec 2015

"A Foucauldian Theory Of American Islamophobia", Shyam Sriram

Shyam K. Sriram (ssriram@butler.edu)

No abstract provided.

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Marketing Starts Here: Joining Forces With Advertising Students To Charm Milennial Audiences [Poster Session], Rebecca Tolley Dec 2015

Marketing Starts Here: Joining Forces With Advertising Students To Charm Milennial Audiences [Poster Session], Rebecca Tolley

Rebecca Tolley

No abstract provided.

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Shaping Expectations About Dads As Caregivers: Toward An Ecological Approach, Holning Lau Dec 2015

Shaping Expectations About Dads As Caregivers: Toward An Ecological Approach, Holning Lau

Holning Lau

A growing number of men embrace childcare responsibilities traditionally associated with women. Yet fathers who wish to be caregivers often face impediments. Legal scholars have focused attention on one of these impediments, the lack of workplace paternity leave, by calling on the government to mandate leave for new fathers. In this Essay, I argue that the focus on workplace policies is much too narrow. In light of cultural norms in the United States, there will be difficulty passing national legislation mandating paternity leave. Moreover, men shoulder cultural pressure not to take paternity leave even when it is offered. This Essay …

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Book Review: Phenomenology: An Introduction By Kaufer & Chemero, Rodger E. Broome Phd Dec 2015

Book Review: Phenomenology: An Introduction By Kaufer & Chemero, Rodger E. Broome Phd

Rodger E. Broome

The book reviewed, Phenomenology: An Introduction, was written by Käufer
and Chemero to provide readers with a historical trajectory of what they
regard as “a loosely grouped philosophical tradition” (p. 1). The trajectory
they set out to present begins with Kant’s critique of the emerging scientific psychology
of Wundt to lay the foundations for their presentation of Husserl and
others. They close in the final chapter with an expose on how contemporary
cognitive science has drawn some ideas and concepts from phenomenological
thought to inform their empirical research projects (Käufer & Chemero, 2015).
The reader of this book should not …

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Before The Law, Sharon Sliwinski Dec 2015

Before The Law, Sharon Sliwinski

Sharon Sliwinski

In 2005, a group of photographers stood alongside the people of the small town of Bil’in, in the West Bank, and documented their fight to prevent the Israeli government from building the West Bank Barrier. Inspired by what they had seen in Bil’in, the photographers decided to form Activestills, a collective whose work has become vital in documenting the struggle against Israeli occupation and the attempt to continue with everyday life in extraordinary circumstances. 

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Evocative Objects: A Sexual Violence Primer, Sharon Sliwinski Dec 2015

Evocative Objects: A Sexual Violence Primer, Sharon Sliwinski

Sharon Sliwinski

This commentary on Nina Berman’s series, “Object Lessons,” examines the photographer’s strategy of photographing trial evidence from cases of sexual slavery and human trafficking as a study in object relations.

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Athletes And Motherhood Book Chapter.Pdf, Rebecca Busanich Dec 2015

Athletes And Motherhood Book Chapter.Pdf, Rebecca Busanich

Rebecca Busanich

No abstract provided.

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2016 Ford Dissertation Pdf.Pdf, Kristy Ford Dec 2015

2016 Ford Dissertation Pdf.Pdf, Kristy Ford

Kristy Ford

No abstract provided.

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2016 Garzon Ford Pdf.Pdf, Fernando L. Garzon, Kristy Ford Dec 2015

2016 Garzon Ford Pdf.Pdf, Fernando L. Garzon, Kristy Ford

Kristy Ford

No abstract provided.

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The International Politics Of Climate Engineering: A Review And Prospectus For International Relations, Joshua B. Horton, Jesse L. Reynolds Dec 2015

The International Politics Of Climate Engineering: A Review And Prospectus For International Relations, Joshua B. Horton, Jesse L. Reynolds

Jesse Reynolds

An emerging set of proposed technologies to reduce risks from climate change stands to dramatically alter the international politics of climate change and potentially much more. These large-scale intentional interventions in natural systems, typically called ‘climate engineering’ or ‘geoengineering’, may be able to break through the collective action problem of greenhouse gas emissions cuts and greatly reduce climate risks rapidly and at low cost. At the same time, they pose their own environmental and social risks while potentially turning international climate politics ‘upside down’. Tensions brought about by climate engineering could conceivably lead to international conflict and pose a threat …

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Health Inequality: What Counselors Need To Know To Act, D. Jones, M. Tang Dec 2015

Health Inequality: What Counselors Need To Know To Act, D. Jones, M. Tang

David E. Jones

The United States is known as the land of opportunity. Many have immigrated to the United States hoping to find a better future. Among the developed countries, the United States is ranked 29th for inequality (Bezruchka, 2012). Furthermore, the gap has widened over the past decade (Blank, 2011). An individual’s social position can reveal much about their health trajectory. This social position is associated with an individual’s context—place matters (Subramanian, Jones, & Duncan, 2003). This paper examines the consequences of inequality that bring about persistent poor health outcomes using ecological counseling theory, Pierre Bourdieu’s theory, social determinants of health …

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Patience, Persistence, And Process: Embedding A Campus-Wide Information Literacy Program Across The Curriculum, Glenn Johnson-Grau, Susan [Gardner] Archambault, Elisa Acosta, Lindsey Mclean Dec 2015

Patience, Persistence, And Process: Embedding A Campus-Wide Information Literacy Program Across The Curriculum, Glenn Johnson-Grau, Susan [Gardner] Archambault, Elisa Acosta, Lindsey Mclean

Elisa Slater Acosta


This article discusses strategies for academic libraries to collaborate with faculty to institutionalize important information literacy training. The discussion is framed around a case study of a medium-sized academic institution in the United States that successfully embedded information literacy concepts into course-level learning outcomes for three required courses in a new core curriculum. 

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Review Of Profhacker, Elizabeth Price Dec 2015

Review Of Profhacker, Elizabeth Price

Elizabeth Price

No abstract provided.

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The Anatomy Of The Russian Elite, Peter Rutland Dec 2015

The Anatomy Of The Russian Elite, Peter Rutland

Peter Rutland

This paper uses John Higley’s elite theory to analyze the sources of cohesion and fragmentation in Russia’s post-soviet political and economic elites. Putin has achieved temporary stability but has not succeeded in forging a unified elite.

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Social Structure, Power And Financial Fraud, Elisabeth Brooke Harrington Dec 2015

Social Structure, Power And Financial Fraud, Elisabeth Brooke Harrington

Brooke Harrington

This paper examines financial fraud as a manifestation of power by elites. The perspective is historical, going back to the 18th century, but the emphasis is on the 2008 global financial crisis and its sources.

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Feminist Pedagogy: Reformation Of Power Between Professor And Counseling Student, Kirsten Lamantia, Lynn Bohecker, Holly Wagner, Tarah Crosser, Amanda Bland Dec 2015

Feminist Pedagogy: Reformation Of Power Between Professor And Counseling Student, Kirsten Lamantia, Lynn Bohecker, Holly Wagner, Tarah Crosser, Amanda Bland

Lynn Bohecker

No abstract provided.

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