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Chong, Kimberly. Best Practice: Management Consulting And The Ethics Of Financialization In China. Durham And London: Duke University Press, 2018., Jiangnan Li

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

San Juan, Jr., E. Filipinas Everywhere; Essays In Criticism And Cultural Studies From A Filipino Perspective. Manila, Phil./Brighton, Uk: La Salle University Publishing House/Sussex Academic Press, 2017., Kenneth Bauzon Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Liana Chua, Joanna Cook, Nicholas Long And Lee Wilson (Eds.). Southeast Asian Perspectives On Power. London: Routledge, 2017., Olli Suorsa Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Ahmed, Akbar. Journey Into Europe: Islam, Immigration, And Identity. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2018., Raymond Scupin

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Caglar, Ayse And Nina Glick Shiller. Migrants And City-Making: Dispossession, Displacement, And Urban Regeneration. Durham And London: Duke University Press, 2018., Steven Ybarrola Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Rowe, P. S. (Ed.). Routledge Handbook Of Minorities In The Middle East. London And New York: Routledge, 2019., Gennaro Errichiello Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Pace, Michelle & Somdeep Sen (Eds.). Syrian Refugee Children In The Middle East And Europe: Integrating The Young And Exiled. London And New York: Routledge, 2018., Padmini Banerjee Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Erlich, Reese. The Iran Agenda Today: The Real Story Inside Iran And What's Wrong With U.S. Policy. London And New York: Routledge, 2019., Michele F. Fontefrancesco Phd, Afhea

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Middel, Matthias (Ed.). The Routledge Handbook Of Transregional Studies. Abingdon, Uk: Routledge, 2018., Tara Mock Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review

Wolfgang Schneider, Beate Kegler, And Daniela Koß (Eds.) Vital Village: Development Of Rural Areas As A Challenge For Cultural Policy. Bielefeld (Germany): Transcript, 2017., Tarique Niazi Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

The Death Penalty: The Law Lords Alter Course In The Commonwealth Caribbean, Harold A. Young J.D./Llb, Phd

Journal of International and Global Studies

This article is a critical examination of the decisions of the Judicial Council of the Privy Council (JCPC) in death penalty appeals from the Commonwealth Caribbean from 1966 to 2008. It contributes to our understanding of how court rulings may be influenced by specific aspects of the judicial environment, which is shaped by the majority party in parliament, whose prime minister selects judges and which may make substantive changes in the law. In a quantitative examination of death penalty appeals, I find an increased likelihood that the court will set aside the death penalty when the judicial environment changes.

Helff, Sissy & Stefanie Michels (Eds.). Global Photographies: Memory, History, Archives. Transcript Verlag, 2018., Pramod K. Nayar Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Ai Camp, Roderic. Mexico: What Everyone Needs To Know (2nd Ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017., Javier C. Tapia Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Scott Straus & Barry Driscoll. International Studies: Global Forces, Interactions, And Tensions. Los Angeles: Cq Press (Sage Publications, Inc.), 2019., Tarique Niazi Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Radhika Mongia. Indian Migration And Empire: A Colonial Genealogy Of The Modern State. Durham, Nc.: Duke University Press, 2018., Tarique Niazi Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Jini Watson & Gary Wilder (Eds.). The Postcolonial Contemporary: Political Imaginaries For The Global Present. New York: Fordham University Press, 2018., Tarique Niazi Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

The Association Of Handgrip Strength And Mortality: What Does It Tell Us And What Can We Do With It?, Samuel L. Buckner, Scott J. Dankel, Zachary W. Bell, Takashi Abe, Jeremy P. Loenneke

Faculty and Student Publications

© Copyright 2019, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers 2019. The relationship between grip strength and mortality is often used to underscore the importance of resistance exercise in physical activity guidelines. However, grip strength does not appear to appreciably change following traditional resistance training. Thus, grip strength could be considered reflective of strength independent of resistance exercise. If true, grip strength is not necessarily informing us of the importance of resistance exercise as an adult, but potentially highlighting inherent differences between individuals who are stronger at "baseline" compared to their weaker counterpart. The purpose of this article is to discuss: (1) …

Annual Report, 2018-19, University Of Mississippi. School Of Journalism And New Media, Will Norton Jr.

Annual Reports

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Dual-Self Representations Of Ambiguity Preferences, Madhav Chandrasekher, Mira Frick, Ryota Iijima, Yves Le Yaouanq

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

We propose a class of multiple-prior representations of preferences under ambiguity, where the belief the decision-maker (DM) uses to evaluate an uncertain prospect is the outcome of a game played by two conflicting forces, Pessimism and Optimism. The model does not restrict the sign of the DM’s ambiguity attitude, and we show that it provides a unified framework through which to characterize different degrees of ambiguity aversion, and to represent the co-existence of negative and positive ambiguity attitudes within individuals as documented in experiments. We prove that our baseline representation, dual-self expected utility (DSEU), yields a novel representation of the …

Greedy Or Grateful? Asking For More When Thanking Donors, K. Sudhir, Hortense Fong, Subroto Roy

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

Charities often send annual “thank you letters” to express gratitude to donors, but seek to defray these costs by inviting additional donations or engagement. However, the additional asks may backfire if potential donors see the thank you message as “insincere” or “manipulative.” We test this trade-off by conducting a field experiment in cooperation with a leading charity in India. We find that an explicit ask for additional donations or even a request to follow the organization on Facebook reduces giving. However, these effects are not only heterogeneous, but asymmetric by past giving behavior. Recent, frequent, and higher monetary value donors …

Boolean Expected Utility, Mira Frick, Ryota Iijima, Yves Le Yaouanq

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

We propose a multiple-prior model of preferences under ambiguity that provides a unified lens through which to understand different formalizations of ambiguity aversion, as well as context-dependent negative and positive ambiguity attitudes documented in experiments. This model, Boolean expected utility (BEU), represents the belief the decision-maker uses to evaluate any uncertain prospect as the outcome of a game between two conflicting forces, Pessimism and Optimism. We prove, first, that BEU provides a novel representation of the class of invariant biseparable preferences (Ghirardato, Maccheroni, and Marinacci, 2004). Second, BEU accommodates rich patterns of ambiguity attitudes, which we characterize in terms of …

Evaluating Visible Derivative Spectroscopy By Varimax-Rotated, Principal Component Analysis Of Aerial Hyperspectral Images From The Western Basin Of Lake Erie, Joseph D. Ortiz, Dulci M. Avouris, Stephan J. Schiller, Jeffrey C. Luvall, John D. Lekki, Roger P. Tokars, Robert C. Anderson, Robert Shuchman, Michael Sayers, Richard Becker

Michigan Tech Publications

The Kent State University (KSU) spectral decomposition method provides information about the spectral signals present in multispectral and hyperspectral images. Pre-processing steps that enhance signal to noise ratio (SNR) by 7.37–19.04 times, enables extraction of the environmental signals captured by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center's, second generation, Hyperspectral imager (HSI2) into multiple, independent components. We have accomplished this by pre-processing of Level 1 HSI2 data to remove stripes from the scene, followed by a combination of spectral and spatial smoothing to further increase the SNR and remove non-Lambertian features, such as waves. On average, …

Community Based Research/Community Based Participatory Research, Jose A. Munoz

Sociology Faculty Publications

This toolkit on Community Based Research was prepared for the CSUSB Office of Community Engagement's web site and was originally published at https://www.csusb.edu/community-engagement/faculty

Global Value Chains And The Cptpp, Pao-Li Chang, Tran Bao Phuong Nguyen

SMU Economics and Statistics Working Paper Series

The CPTPP, or the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, is an example of a “mega-regional” free trade agreement, whose provisions on the rules of origin and trade facilitation can have potentially large impacts on the CPTPP-wide supply chains. In this paper, we investigate whether the CPTPP members are key upstream and downstream trade partners to each other in the global value chains. We develop formulas of bilateral upstreamness and downstreamness, based on the gross-export decomposition framework of Koopman, Wang and Wei (2014) and Borin and Mancini (2017). We demonstrate how the decomposition of gross exports can be used …

Representational Style And Congressional Elections: New York's 19th District In The 115th Congress, Margaret Mccormick

Honors Theses

The disconnect between members of Congress and the American public is no secret. Of the three branches of government, the legislative branch is intended to be the most representative of the people. However, it consistently faces the lowest approval ratings among the American public. Although the public largely disapproves of Congress as a legislative body, most Americans support their own representative. This phenomenon is reflected in high reelection rates for congressional incumbents. My thesis examines the relationship between congressional representation and elections through an evaluation of the representational style of Congressman John Faso. Faso, who represented New York’s 19th District …

The Regime Of Sex Trafficking Of Women In The United States, Julia Wilson

Honors Theses

Sex trafficking is a vicious crime and has been denoted as a form of modern-day slavery, accumulating nearly 21 million victims worldwide. Women and girls make up 95% of victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation, which reflects the dominance of patriarchy operating in the U.S. and across the globe. When it comes to the sex trafficking of women, it is often seen as a problem that happens elsewhere, never close to us. This hegemonic narrative that exoticizes sex trafficking contributes to keeping the problem in the dark. Yet an estimated 200,000 people are forced into the sex trade in the …

Barriers: An Exploration Of Architectural Structures As An Indication Of Wealth And Socioeconomic Status, Lisa Demoranville

Honors Theses

I decided to explore the barriers and limitations of wealth through an investigation of architectural structures, focusing on popular industries and institutions on which our society commonly depends. I have noticed that places such as hospitals, schools, grocery stores, and restaurants differ dramatically depending on the neighborhoods in which they were located. This topic sparked my interest after living in Lima, Peru for a month, as I was able to observe the developing economy and dramatic division of wealth among the population. Certain questions about the divides and differences within a society and its culture started crossing my mind; not …

Overstimulated - An Immersive, Multimedia Art Installation, Quinn Devlin

Honors Theses

This thesis provides the explanation, inspiration, research and progression of an immersive, multimedia art installation that emulates the idea of a “sexual dystopia.” It explores how our dichotomy of inadequate sex education and hypersexual, gender-based media is resulting in a dystopian sexual reality for women in particular. The work portrays a future world in which sexual and fertility technology is so advanced and accessible that real men and women no longer interact. As a result, women and objects become one in the same.

Female literary icons are over-sexualized to suggest that porn-culture is a by-product of a historical framework that …

The Incidence Of Intra-State Violence: An Empirical Study On Ethnicity And Values, Kevin Fitzpatrick

Honors Theses

FITZPATRICK, KEVIN R. The Incidence of Intrastate Conflict: An Empirical Study on Ethnicity and Values. Department of Economics and Political Science, June 2019.

ADVISORS: Jeeten Giri, Lori Marso

What best explains conflict? Why do societies engage in violence, or better yet, why are some societies more likely to fall victim towards internal instability and civil war? This paper seeks to better understand what factors offer the most explanatory power for intra-state violence. Utilizing Geert Hofstede’s 6-D model of cultural dimensions, I construct a data set incorporating intra-state data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program/Peace Research Institute of Oslo to determine …

Hope For Another Humanitarian Intervention? Rwanda, Kosovo, Libya And The Consequences Of The Responsibility To Protect (R2p) On Myanmar, Victoria Carter

Honors Theses

After the catastrophic failure of the UN and western nations to prevent and halt genocide in Rwanda in 1990, many pledged “never again.” In less than ten years, the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo provided the international community with a chance at redemption. Without waiting for UN approval, NATO forces led a military intervention to stop Milošević’s campaign of violence against the Kosovo Albanians. The humanitarian intervention in Kosovo left many questions for the international community: Who should intervene to stop genocide or ethnic cleansing in a given state? When should the international community intervene? In the early 2000s, there was …