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Unpacking A Political Icon: ‘Bike Lanes’ And Orders Of Indexicality, Michael Miller Yoder, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

Indexicality, the ability of language to evoke the context in which it usually occurs, is a concept

commonly drawn upon in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. This article applies the

framework of orders of indexicality to political discourse about a controversial topic in Pittsburgh,

United States, the construction of bike lanes. A concordance analysis of the term bike lanes in

news media, blogs and online news comments demonstrates variation in indexical meanings of

bike lanes between those who oppose and those who support them.We argue that the

orders of indexicality approach help explain how groups with different interests can reinforce or …

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Fifty Volumes Of Scholarship On Eating Disorders, Ruth Striegel Weissman

Ruth Striegel Weissman

On the occasion of the 50th volume of the International Journal of Eating Disorder (IJED), it is my privilege to reflect on how far the journal and the field it serves have come in the span of 35 years. After a short description of the journal, I offer a few examples of scientific advances the journal has covered

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Racial/Ethnic Minority Segregation And Low Birth Weight: A Comparative Study Of Chicago And Toronto Community-Level Indicators, Fernando De Maio, Raj C. Shah, Kellie Schipper, Realino Gurdiel, David Ansell

Fernando De Maio

We examined the association between racial/ethnic minority segregation and low birth weight (LBW) in Chicago and Toronto communities. While previous work has documented the importance of contextual effects on LBW, these studies have usually been conducted within a single city. We used Pearson correlation coefficients and OLS regression models to examine potential variability in the association between racial/ethnic minority segregation and LBW in Chicago (N = 77 communities) and Toronto (N = 140 communities). Results indicate that racial/ethnic minority segregation, unemployment, and low educational attainment are not associated with LBW in Toronto, while these indicators have strong and significant associations …

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Technology Disaster Recovery.Docx, D'Andre D. Lampkin

D'Andre Lampkin

This essay explores the ways technology is a challenge to disaster recovering planning. The essay will specifically address the challenges of incorporating technology in disaster recovery planning and how using technology can help or hinder disaster recovery efforts. It is not the intent of this paper to suggest technology should not be used during the recovery disaster recovery process, but its implications to disaster recovery and possible resolutions.

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Beyond Ecological Democracy: Black Feminist Thought And The End Of Man, Eric D. Meyer

Eric Meyer

Wildlife Services is a subbranch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that primarily operates in the Western half of the United States, receiving 100 million dollars of federal funding annually. One of the “services” that the agency provides is the slaughter of 100,000 native carnivores per year (primarily coyotes, wolves, bears, and mountain lions). This killing is accomplished with traps, poison, and, most dramatically, by gunning animals down from planes and helicopters; it takes place on public lands that are set apart, among other purposes, as habitat for just such creatures. The main purpose of the program is to prevent …

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There And Back Again: A Tale Of The Advocacy Coalition Framework, Jonathan J. Pierce, Holly L. Peterson, Michael D. Jones Dr. , Samantha P. Garrard, Theresa Vu

Michael D. Jones

To better understand how the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) is applied, this article catalogues and analyzes 161 applications of the ACF from 2007 to 2014. Building on a previous review of 80 applications of the ACF (1987–2006) conducted by Weible, Sabatier, and McQueen in 2009, this review examines both the breadth and depth of the framework. In terms of breadth, there are over 130 unique first authors from 25 countries, in almost 100 journals applying the framework, including a majority outside of the United States. In terms of depth, a plurality of applications analyzes environment and energy, subsystems at the …

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Ross D. Crosby: Scholar, Teacher, Mentor, And Friend. Introducing A Virtual Issue Honoring The Contributions Of Ross D. Crosby To The Field Of Eating Disorders, Ruth Striegel Weissman

Ruth Striegel Weissman

This virtual issue of publications co-authored by Professor Ross Crosby illustrates Professor Crosby's extensive contributions to the field of eating disorders.

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The Evolution Of A Volunteer Lake Protection Program, Maggie Shannon, Alexa A.E. Junker, Philip J. Nyhus, Cathy R. Bevier, Russell Cole

Philip J. Nyhus

No abstract provided.

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Assessing Lakesmart, A Community-Based Lake Protection Program

Philip J. Nyhus

Anthropogenic impacts, particularly shoreline development and related nutrient runoff, threaten Maine lakes. The LakeSmart program was created in response to these threats to promote the use of lake-friendly landscaping practices. We used 237 surveys and 8 stakeholder interviews to investigate motivations that drive conservation behavior among lakeshore residents, to explore the effectiveness of criteria used for LakeSmart evaluations and to identify potential areas for improvement of its structural design and marketing strategies. LakeSmart participants were more likely than non-participants to recognize the threat of declining water quality, to adopt or enhance existing lake-friendly landscaping best management practices, and to help …

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Epistemology And Ontology: The Lived Experience Of Non-Traditional Adult Students In Online And Study-Abroad Learning Environments, R. Jeffery Maxfield

R. Jeffery Maxfield

This paper examines the lived experiences, perceptions, and attitudes of nontraditional, adult university students enrolled in an online Emergency Services baccalaureate degree program, who were given an opportunity to participate in an engaged, study abroad course. The purpose of the analysis was to identify and describe the various experiences and perceptions, then group these experiences and perceptions into a logically organized description of the lived experience of adult emergency services students.

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Emergency Leadership: The Lived Experience, R. Jeffery Maxfield, Eric Russell

R. Jeffery Maxfield

This qualitative phenomenological study set forth to discover lived experience associated with becoming a leader. The researchers recruited four executive level leaders from multiple emergency and public service organizations to participate in the study. The study emerged from a thorough review of the literature and advances the knowledge of academic leadership theory. The study’s participants willingly took part in audio-recorded interviews using a script developed by the researchers. To discover how different leaders interpreted their lived experience of becoming a leader, the researchers employed a phenomenological design, allowing for a rich understanding of the participants’ experience. The coding and …

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Synthetic Control Estimation Beyond Case Studies: Does The Minimum Wage Reduce Employment?, David Powell

David Powell

Panel data are often used in empirical work to account for fixed additive time and unit effects. The synthetic control estimator relaxes the assumption of additive effects for case studies in which a treated unit adopts a single policy. This paper generalizes the case study synthetic control estimator to estimate treatment effects for multiple discrete or continuous variables, jointly estimating the treatment effects and synthetic controls for each unit. Applying the estimator to study the disemployment effects of the minimum wage for teenagers, I estimate an elasticity of -0.44, substantially larger in magnitude than estimates generated using additive fixed effects.

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Enregistering Dialect, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

No abstract provided.

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Reducing The Burden Of Suffering From Eating Disorders: Unmet Treatment Needs, Cost Of Illness, And The Quest For Cost-Effectiveness, Ruth Striegel Weissman

Ruth Striegel Weissman

Eating disorders are serious mental disorders as reflected in significant impairments in health and psychosocial functioning and excess mortality. Despite the clear evidence of clinical significance and despite availability of evidence-based, effective treatments, research has shown a paradox of elevated health services use and, yet, infrequent treatment specifically targeting the eating disorder (i.e., high unmet treatment need). This review paper summarizes key studies conducted in collaboration with G. Terence Wilson and offers an update of the research literature published since 2011 in three research areas that undergirded our collaborative research project: unmet treatment needs, cost of illness, and cost-effectiveness of …

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2017 Market Urbanism Report Blog Posts, Michael Lewyn

Michael E Lewyn

2017 posts on various urban issues (also available at https://marketurbanismreport.com/author/michael/ )

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Mapping A Continuum Of Adolescent Helping And Bystander Behavior Within The Context Of Dating Violence And Bullying, Erin Casey, Heather Storer, Todd I. Herrenkohl

Erin Casey

Although research has identified factors that support and hinder proactive bystander behaviors among adolescents, less is known about the more specific bystander responses viewed by youth as feasible, or whether these responses are likely to be ultimately helpful in the context of bullying and teen dating violence (TDV). Goals of this exploratory study were to describe specific bystander behaviors that adolescents perceive as possible for addressing bullying and TDV among peers, to assess the potential impact of these behaviors, and to examine similarities and differences in bystander behaviors across these forms of aggression.

In focus groups with 113 14-18 year …

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The Bystander Approach To Sexual Assault Risk Reduction: Effects On Risk Recognition, Perceived Self-Efficacy, And Protective Behavior., Robert S. Bannon, John D. Foubert

John D. Foubert

Several characteristics of sexual assault awareness programs for women are associated with meeting the goals of risk reduction. To date, the literature lacks an exploration of how single-sex programs affect women, particularly when they take a bystander intervention focus using women's risk recognition and avoidance as outcome measures. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of The Women's Program (Foubert, 2011), a sexual assault awareness program geared toward women. Participants consisted of 103 undergraduate women attending a large, public university in the Midwest United States. Women in the treatment group viewed a presentation of The Women's Program, …

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Ponies Proliferate Positive Affect: The Effectiveness Of Equine Therapy On Positive Affect In Adolescents With Serious Emotional Disturbances, Hannah Roberts, Nikki Honzel

Nikki Honzel

Adolescence is an important neurological developmental period that remains sensitive to conditions such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Specifically, trauma can decrease orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) gray matter and abate emotional affect regulation (Thomaeset al., 2010). Previous studies have correlated positive (PA) and negative affect (NA) to prefrontal cortex volume (Davidson, 1998; Thomaeset al., 2010). The current study compared the effectiveness of equine-facilitated psychotherapy (EFP) and traditional group therapy (TGT) on measurements of PA and NA in adolescents with serious emotional disturbances (SED) and high PTSD comorbidity rates. Participants consisting of adolescents admitted in therapeutic youth group home treatment participated in …

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Determinants Of Homeownership Among Immigrants: Changesduring The Great Recession And Beyond, Kusum Mundra, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

No abstract provided.

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Aom Aat Law Symposium Proposal (Final).Pdf, Adam J. Sulkowski, Constance E. Bagley, J.S. Nelson, Waddock S., Paul Shrivastava, Inara K. Scott

J.S. Nelson

Law undergirds the capitalist system and is “at the interface” of business and social relationships

but remains largely walled off from many traditional approaches to management education,

scholarship, and practice. Although a simple definition of law is “enforceable rules between

individuals and individuals and society,” law is also amedium bywhich relationships among and

obligations between management and internal and external stakeholders are negotiated and

formalized. Law can also drive (or impede) innovation by creating new rights (or burdening new

business models with undue regulation) and promote (or prevent) social change by setting the

boundaries for acceptable corporate actions. Legal rules …

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The Openness Of Religious Beliefs To The Influence Of External Information, Darin Freeburg

Darin Freeburg

Religious beliefs have important and wide-reaching impacts on society. They also tend to be viewed as impervious to the influence of information external to a religious setting. Eight focus groups were held with attendees of two United Church of Christ congregations. Participants were asked about their core religious beliefs, and transcripts were qualitatively coded for the interplay of belief and infor- mation. Analysis found that beliefs that were focused on people, processes and events external to the congregation showed the char- acteristics of being more open to external information. Specifically, the breadth of these external beliefs allowed for a wider …

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A Knowledge Lens For Information Literacy: Conceptual Framework And Case Study, Darin Freeburg

Darin Freeburg

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a Knowledge Lens for information literacy. This lens shifts the focus and potential outcomes of information literacy in three ways. First, it promotes self-reflection as a means of integrating information. Second, it promotes creation, emphasizing it as a social process. Third, it promotes the ability and value of working with imprecision and lack of direction.

Design/methodology/approach

The author designed a Community of Practice (CoP) with a loosely structured guidebook to operationalize the Knowledge Lens. The initial stated purpose of the CoP was to provide innovative solutions to issues of race relations …

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Hurwiczcoase2pdf, Ted C. Bergstrom

Ted C Bergstrom

This paper addresses the question of when the Coasian assertion that in the absence of transactions costs, where there are externalities, the outcome will be Pareto optimal and the level of externalities will be independent of the assignment of property rights. We show that this claim is true in an environment, which though restricted, is broader than the class of quasi-lineqr utilities.

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Committee Design With Endogenous Participation, Volker Hahn

Volker Hahn

We analyze different committee designs in a model with the endogenous participation of experts who have private information about their own abilities. Each committee design involves a test of abilities whose accuracy influences experts’ decisions to participate. We derive the following findings. First, higher wages lead to lower quality experts. Second, an increase in transparency improves the quality of experts on the committee. Third, larger committees attract less able experts than smaller ones, unless the committee operates under full transparency. Fourth, we derive the properties of optimal committees. They involve low wages and can be transparent or opaque.

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Digital Commons: Faculty, Students, Lmu Community, And Beyond The Bluff, Jessea Young

Jessea Young

No abstract provided.

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Integration For Unaccompanied Migrant Youth In The United States: A Call For Research, Jodi Berger Cardoso, Kalina Brabeck, Dennis Stinchcomb, Lauren Heidbrink, Olga Acosta Price, Óscar F. Gil-García, Thomas M. Crea, Luis H. Zayas

Óscar F. Gil-García

Between October 2013 and July 2016, over 156,000 children traveling without their guardians were apprehended at the US-Mexico border and transferred to the care of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). During that same period, ORR placed over 123,000 unaccompanied migrant youth—predominantly from Central America—with a parent or other adult sponsor residing in the US. Following placement, local communities are tasked with integrating migrant youth, many of whom experience pre- and in-transit migration traumas, family separation, limited/interrupted schooling, and unauthorized legal status, placing them at heightened risk for psychological distress, academic disengagement, maltreatment, and human trafficking. Nonetheless, fewer than 10% …

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A Sense Of Belonging: Professor Works With Indigenous Migrant Communities In The United States And Mexico, Travis Clines

Óscar F. Gil-García

Feature story in Binghamton University's Confluence Magazine of my research with indigenous migrant communities in the U.S. and Mexico.

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The Relevance Of Emotions In Presidential Public Appeals: Anger’S Conditional Effect On Perceived Risk And Support For Military Interventions, José D. Villalobos, Cigdem V. Sirin

Cigdem V. Sirin

No abstract provided.

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Google Scholar Library Links Instructions.Pdf, Carrie Bishop

Carrie Bishop

No abstract provided.

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The Social And Political Consequences Of Group Empathy, Cigdem V. Sirin, Nicholas A. Valentino, José D. Villalobos

Cigdem V. Sirin

No abstract provided.

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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences

Unpacking A Political Icon: ‘Bike Lanes’ And Orders Of Indexicality, Michael Miller Yoder, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

Fifty Volumes Of Scholarship On Eating Disorders, Ruth Striegel Weissman

Ruth Striegel Weissman

Racial/Ethnic Minority Segregation And Low Birth Weight: A Comparative Study Of Chicago And Toronto Community-Level Indicators, Fernando De Maio, Raj C. Shah, Kellie Schipper, Realino Gurdiel, David Ansell

Fernando De Maio

Technology Disaster Recovery.Docx, D'Andre D. Lampkin

D'Andre Lampkin

Beyond Ecological Democracy: Black Feminist Thought And The End Of Man, Eric D. Meyer

Eric Meyer

There And Back Again: A Tale Of The Advocacy Coalition Framework, Jonathan J. Pierce, Holly L. Peterson, Michael D. Jones Dr. , Samantha P. Garrard, Theresa Vu

Michael D. Jones

Ross D. Crosby: Scholar, Teacher, Mentor, And Friend. Introducing A Virtual Issue Honoring The Contributions Of Ross D. Crosby To The Field Of Eating Disorders, Ruth Striegel Weissman

Ruth Striegel Weissman

The Evolution Of A Volunteer Lake Protection Program, Maggie Shannon, Alexa A.E. Junker, Philip J. Nyhus, Cathy R. Bevier, Russell Cole

Philip J. Nyhus

Assessing Lakesmart, A Community-Based Lake Protection Program

Philip J. Nyhus

Epistemology And Ontology: The Lived Experience Of Non-Traditional Adult Students In Online And Study-Abroad Learning Environments, R. Jeffery Maxfield

R. Jeffery Maxfield

Emergency Leadership: The Lived Experience, R. Jeffery Maxfield, Eric Russell

R. Jeffery Maxfield

Synthetic Control Estimation Beyond Case Studies: Does The Minimum Wage Reduce Employment?, David Powell

David Powell

Enregistering Dialect, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

Reducing The Burden Of Suffering From Eating Disorders: Unmet Treatment Needs, Cost Of Illness, And The Quest For Cost-Effectiveness, Ruth Striegel Weissman

Ruth Striegel Weissman

2017 Market Urbanism Report Blog Posts, Michael Lewyn

Michael E Lewyn

Mapping A Continuum Of Adolescent Helping And Bystander Behavior Within The Context Of Dating Violence And Bullying, Erin Casey, Heather Storer, Todd I. Herrenkohl

Erin Casey

The Bystander Approach To Sexual Assault Risk Reduction: Effects On Risk Recognition, Perceived Self-Efficacy, And Protective Behavior., Robert S. Bannon, John D. Foubert

John D. Foubert

Ponies Proliferate Positive Affect: The Effectiveness Of Equine Therapy On Positive Affect In Adolescents With Serious Emotional Disturbances, Hannah Roberts, Nikki Honzel

Nikki Honzel

Determinants Of Homeownership Among Immigrants: Changesduring The Great Recession And Beyond, Kusum Mundra, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

Aom Aat Law Symposium Proposal (Final).Pdf, Adam J. Sulkowski, Constance E. Bagley, J.S. Nelson, Waddock S., Paul Shrivastava, Inara K. Scott

J.S. Nelson

The Openness Of Religious Beliefs To The Influence Of External Information, Darin Freeburg

Darin Freeburg

A Knowledge Lens For Information Literacy: Conceptual Framework And Case Study, Darin Freeburg

Darin Freeburg

Hurwiczcoase2pdf, Ted C. Bergstrom

Ted C Bergstrom

Committee Design With Endogenous Participation, Volker Hahn

Volker Hahn

Digital Commons: Faculty, Students, Lmu Community, And Beyond The Bluff, Jessea Young

Jessea Young

Integration For Unaccompanied Migrant Youth In The United States: A Call For Research, Jodi Berger Cardoso, Kalina Brabeck, Dennis Stinchcomb, Lauren Heidbrink, Olga Acosta Price, Óscar F. Gil-García, Thomas M. Crea, Luis H. Zayas

Óscar F. Gil-García

A Sense Of Belonging: Professor Works With Indigenous Migrant Communities In The United States And Mexico, Travis Clines

Óscar F. Gil-García

The Relevance Of Emotions In Presidential Public Appeals: Anger’S Conditional Effect On Perceived Risk And Support For Military Interventions, José D. Villalobos, Cigdem V. Sirin

Cigdem V. Sirin

Google Scholar Library Links Instructions.Pdf, Carrie Bishop

Carrie Bishop

The Social And Political Consequences Of Group Empathy, Cigdem V. Sirin, Nicholas A. Valentino, José D. Villalobos

Cigdem V. Sirin