Not All Women Are Mothers: Addressing the Invisibility of Women Under the Control of the Criminal Justice System Who Do Not Have Children - Michalsen, Venezia; Flavin, Jeanne (The Prison Journal, 2014)
Research has consistently shown that most women under the control of the criminal justice system are mothers. The robustness of this finding has been accompanied by a failure to consider the characteristics and needs of women without children. In this study, we examine data on 1,334 formerly incarcerated women. Findings indicate that while mothers and non-mothers share some characteristics, they differ on several others, most notably demographic profile, mental health, and timing of contacts with the criminal justice system. These results suggest a need to recognize the diversity among women offender groups, particularly when developing policies and programs need.
Keywords: dept.soc; peer-reviewed

More than Visiting Hours: Maintaining Ties Between Incarcerated Mothers and Their Children - Michalsen, Venezia; Flavin, Jeanne; Krupat, Tanya (Sociology Compass, 2010)
The majority of people in America’s prisons are the parents of minor children. Incarcerated mothers, in particular, were likely to have been a part of their children’s lives before their imprisonment, and most will soon be returning to the community and to their children. Research has shown that it is in the best interests of the mothers and the children to maintain a relationship across the prison bars. In this article, we use the example of New York State to show how institutional policies and structures can impede or encourage efforts to maintain ties between women and their children and why demonstrating support for family ties must extend well beyond having visiting hours.
Keywords: dept.soc; peer-reviewed

Abolitionist Feminism as Prisons Close: Fighting the Racist and Misogynist Surveillance “Child Welfare” System - Michalsen, Venezia (The Prison Journal, 2019)
The global prison industrial complex was built on Black and brown women’s bodies. This economy will not voluntarily loosen its hold on the bodies that feed it. White carceral feminists traditionally encourage State punishment, while anti-carceral, intersectional feminism recognizes that it empowers an ineffective and racist system. In fact, it is built on the criminalization of women’s survival strategies, creating a “victimization to prison pipeline.” But prisons are not the root of the problem; rather, they are a manifestation of the over-policing of Black women’s bodies, poverty, and motherhood. Such State surveillance will continue unless we disrupt these powerful systems both inside and outside prisons.
Keywords: dept.soc; peer-reviewed

A Cell of One’s Own? Incarceration and Other Turning Points in Women’s Journeys to Desistance - Michalsen, Venezia (International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 2019)
Research has shown the importance of turning points in desistance from criminal behavior. Using qualitative data from a sample of 100 formerly incarcerated mothers interviewed about their criminal behavior, this article explores their descriptions of transition moments and whether and how those moments affected their criminal behavior. The findings indicate that whereas parenting emerges as a turning point, the practical difficulties of reentry may reduce the impact of mothering on women’s desistance. More self-focused turning points, such as those due to incarceration, arrest, and sobriety appeared to be particularly important to the women’s desistance. This article emphasizes the need for research into the subjective and environmental factors that affect women’s desistance behaviors.
Keywords: dept.soc; peer-reviewed

Futurist arte / vita: Benedetta Fictionalized - Larkin, Erin (Volume 8 2018, 2018)
Keywords: dept.wll

Symbolic Violence and Public Displays of Difference - Compan, Magali (Visualizing Violence in Francophone Cultures, 2015)
Visualizing Violence in Francophone Cultures brings together two complex and powerful loci of meaning: violence and the visual. As such, it offers a comprehensive overview from which one can gain a better understanding of the complexity of the visual rhetoric of violence. The visual representations of violence explored in this volume include both fictional works, including, for example, narrative films, graphic novels, and theatre, and non-fictional genres, such as news media and cultural artifacts. This volume’s strength is also grounded in its interdisciplinary approach; by bringing together scholars from a variety of academic fields to examine a broad range of visual artifacts, such as photography, graphic novel, films, paintings, objects, the book offers a substantive corpus focusing on the rhetoric of violence. The essays collected in this volume explore the ways in which visual expressions of violence have infiltrated diverse narrative forms, and, as such, how they both construct and challenge general understandings of contemporary violence. They all chart, with cultural and historical specificity, the way in which images of violence shape the visual imaginary of ethical worlds.
Keywords: History / General; dept.wll

Reading Trends of Youth in Pakistan: A Pilot Study - Soroya, Saira Hanif; Ameen, Kanwal (Pakistan Journal of Information Management and Libraries, 2016)
The present study, a part of researcher's Ph.D. project, aimed at exploring the reading trends of young Pakistani students (i.e., Generation Y: born during the 1980s and early 1990s, also known as internet generation), and the impact of digital media on their reading behavior. It was conducted as a pilot study on final year's master level students of the University of the Punjab. Quantitative research design, based on a survey was used. Convenient sampling technique was used to collect data from 50 students through questionnaire survey. It revealed that the students' reading behavior has been significantly changed during the last five years. Their overall reading time and digital reading time has been increased due to the availability of digital devices and digital reading material. The findings of this study are helpful in identifying the trends of reading behavior as well as in planning and designing library services with regard to the considering of the behavior of the students.
Keywords: dept.ils

Do We Deliver What They Expect? Finding the Gap Between Users' Expected and Currently Received Library Services. - Ara, Mehvish; Soroya, Saira Hanif (Pakistan Library & Information Science Journal, 2018)
This research aims to assess tire service quality of public libraries of Lahore by evaluating the disparities between the users' expectation and currently received services. The survey method based on questionnaire was used. Four of the largest libraries in Lahore, in terms of services, collection and other facilities, were the population of the study. A sample of four hundred library users was selected with one hundred library users for each library based on convenience sampling. A modified LibQUAL+ tool was adopted to collect the data. The findings revealed that users have very high expectations regarding the accessibility of library's electronic resources from home or office, library website, printed material, availability of electronic information resource, modem equipment, tools that allow the users to find the material themselves, and provision of the information in an easy manner. The findings are helpful for public libraries' authorities to redcsign/upgradc the quality of library services, policies and procedures according to users' expectations and requirements.
Keywords: ACCESS control; INTERNET access for library users; LAHORE (Pakistan); LIBRARY public services; LIBRARY records; Libraries; Libraries and Archives; PUBLIC libraries; dept.ils

Communicative relevance: Color references in bilingual and trilingual speakers - Pavlenko, Aneta; Jarvis, Scott; Melnyk, Svitlana; Sorokina, Anastasia (Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2017)
The study examined granularity of lexical partitioning of the blue area in speakers of English, which encodes the term blue; Russian, which encodes two terms, sinij [dark/navy blue] and goluboj [light/sky blue]; and Ukrainian, which encodes the terms synij [dark/navy blue] and blakytnyj and golubyj [light/sky blue]. Five groups of participants took part in the study: (1) 30 L1 speakers of English, (2) 30 L1 speakers of Russian, (3) 30 Russian–English bilinguals, (4) 30 English–Russian bilinguals, and (5) 25 Ukrainian–Russian–English trilinguals. Quantitative and qualitative analyses revealed that L1 Russian speakers referred to different types of blue significantly more frequently than all other groups, while bilinguals patterned with L1 English speakers. These findings suggest that classroom exposure to L2 Russian does not make the distinction between sinij and goluboj communicatively relevant for L1 English speakers and that everyday use of L2 English may trigger attrition of the contrast in L1 Russian.
Keywords: Russian; bilingual lexicon; color; communicative relevance; crosslinguistic influence; dept.wll

Managerial Talent and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): How Do Talented Managers View Corporate Social Responsibility? - Chatjuthamard, Pattanaporn; Jiraporn, Pornsit; Tong, Shenghui; Singh, Manohar (International Review of Finance, 2016)
Motivated by the ongoing debate on the costs and benefits of corporate social responsibility (CSR), we explore how talented managers view CSR investments. Based on nearly 20,000 observations across 17 years, our evidence reveals a nonmonotonic effect of managerial talent on CSR. Exploiting a novel measure of managerial ability, we find that talented managers view CSR investments favorably. However, only those with especially strong talent are in favor of CSR investments. For executives ranked above the 75th percentile in terms of managerial talent, an increase in managerial ability leads to more CSR investments, suggesting that these strongly talented managers perceive CSR as enhancing firm performance. In contrast, for those with weaker talent, CSR investments are negatively associated with managerial ability, implying that these weakly talented managers view CSR as a wasteful deployment of resources. Further evidence shows that our conclusion is unlikely confounded by endogeneity.
Keywords: G30; G32; M14; dept.mrk

Is there an optimally diversified conglomerate? Gleaning answers from capital markets - Nejadmalayeri, Ali; Iyer, Subramanian Rama; Singh, Manohar (Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2017)
Motivated by recent productivity-based theories of diversification, we argue that only conglomerates with an optimal degree of diversification can utilize their comparative advantages across various industries and achieve economies of scope by eliminating redundancies. Evidence from both corporate bond and equity markets suggests that optimally diversified conglomerates consist of either (1) approximately five equally weighted divisions, or (2) one large core business segment that roughly accounts for 75 % sales. Moreover, the relative size of divisions has a critical impact on how diversification affects credit spreads and excess values. Nonparity among divisions correlates with greater costs that increase with the number of divisions.
Keywords: Conglomerates; Credit spreads; Equity discount; G10; G11; G12; Optimal diversification; dept.mrk

Response to a standard behavioral weight loss intervention by age of onset of obesity - Rupp, K.; Taverno Ross, S. E.; Lang, W.; Jakicic, J. M. (Obesity Science & Practice, 2016)
Background The purpose of this study was to examine weight loss, physical activity, fitness and diet changes in response to a standard behavioral weight loss intervention in adults with self-reported juvenile onset (n = 61) or adult onset (n = 116) obesity. Methods Participants (n = 177; 43.0 ± 8.6 years; body mass index [BMI] = 33.0 ± 3.4 kg m−2) engaged in an 18-month standard behavioral weight loss intervention. Participants were randomized into three different intervention groups as part of the larger parent trial. BMI, physical activity, fitness and diet were assessed at baseline, 6, 12 and 18 months. Separate adjusted mixed models were constructed using SAS version 9.4 (SAS Institute, Cary, NC). Results There was significant weight loss, increased physical activity, improved fitness and reduced caloric intake over time (p < 0.001). There were no significant differences in these outcome variables by obesity onset group. However, there was a significant group by time interaction for fitness (p = 0.001), with the adult onset making significantly greater gains in fitness from baseline to 6 months (p < 0.001); however, this difference was no longer present at 12 or 18 months. Conclusions With the exception of fitness at 6 months, weight loss, physical activity and diet did not differ between juvenile onset and adult onset participants, suggesting that those with juvenile onset obesity are equally responsive to a standard behavioral weight loss intervention in adulthood.
Keywords: Obesity; dept.hms; physical activity; weight loss interventions

“I'm Not Good Enough for Anyone”: Legal Status and the Dating Lives of Undocumented Young Adults - Pila, Daniela (Sociological Forum, 2016)
The impact of legal status on romantic relationships has not been adequately explored in the literature. Based on video and phone interviews with 25 undocumented activists from the ages of 18 to 28 years old, this research examines how legal status affects the romantic relationships of undocumented women and men. The hegemony of traditional dating scripts made it difficult for those without legal status to participate. Gender roles were consistent with stereotypical male and female roles in dating, which often attribute more power and responsibility to men. As such, women experienced a slight advantage because traditional notions of courtship did not require them to provide the resources required for dating, such as money or transportation, which in contrast were commonly expected of the men. In contrast, women noted the difficulties of disclosing their legal status and depending on their partners for everyday activities. Additionally, both men and women faced exclusion that inhibited their dating lives, as a direct result of their legal status. This suggests that the impact of legal status may be salient at all stages of family formation and that undocumented young adults are experiencing a distinct phenomenon compared to their documented and native-born peers.
Keywords: citizenship; dating; dept.soc; immigration; legality; undocumented; young adults

Development and preliminary testing of PROGRESS: a Web-based education program for prostate cancer survivors transitioning from active treatment - Miller, Suzanne M.; Hudson, Shawna V.; Hui, Siu-Kuen Azor; Diefenbach, Michael A.; Fleisher, Linda; Raivitch, Stephanie; Belton, Tanisha; Roy, Gem; Njoku, Anuli; Scarpato, John; Viterbo, Rosalia; Buyyounouski, Mark; et al. (Journal of Cancer Survivorship: Research and Practice, 2015)
PURPOSE: This formative research study describes the development and preliminary evaluation of a theory-guided, online multimedia psycho-educational program (PROGRESS) designed to facilitate adaptive coping among prostate cancer patients transitioning from treatment into long-term survivorship. METHODS: Guided by the Cognitive-Social Health Information Processing Model (C-SHIP) and using health communications best practices, we conducted a two-phase, qualitative formative research study with early stage prostate cancer patients (n = 29) to inform the Web program development. Phase 1 included individual (n = 5) and group (n = 12) interviews to help determine intervention content and interface. Phase 2 employed iterative user/usability testing (n = 12) to finalize the intervention. Interview data were independently coded and collectively analyzed to achieve consensus. RESULTS: Survivors expressed interest in action-oriented content on (1) managing treatment side effects, (2) handling body image and comorbidities related to overweight/obesity, (3) coping with emotional and communication issues, (4) tips to reduce disruptions of daily living activities, and (5) health skills training tools. Patients also desired the use of realistic and diverse survivor images. CONCLUSIONS: Incorporation of an established theoretical framework, application of multimedia intervention development best practices, and an evidence-based approach to content and format resulted in a psycho-educational tool that comprehensively addresses survivors' needs in a tailored fashion. IMPLICATIONS FOR CANCER SURVIVORS: The results suggest that an interactive Web-based multimedia program is useful for survivors if it covers the key topics of symptom control, emotional well-being, and coping skills training; this tool has the potential to be disseminated and implemented as an adjunct to routine clinical care.
Keywords: Humans; Internet; Male; Middle Aged; Program Development; Prostatic Neoplasms; Qualitative Research; Survivors; Telemedicine; dept.pch

Developing a Learner-Centered Curriculum for a Rural Public Health Program - Njoku, Anuli; Wakeel, Fathima; Reger, Michael; Jadhav, Emmanuel; Rowan, Julie (International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2017)
Rural communities, compared with their urban counterparts, have higher rates of disease and adverse health conditions, fueling disparities in health outcomes. This encourages the need for effective curricula to engage students and enable them to address such disparate health outcomes as imminent health professionals. Incorporating learner-centered teaching strategies, such as collaboration and power-sharing, into public health (PH) courses can enhance student learning and help faculty enable future health professionals to address needs of rural, underserved populations. Successfully engaging students to explore issues related to rural health disparities in their education, research, and training can thereby advance PH practice. This paper describes the collaborative efforts of five PH faculty, an instructional designer, and administrators to develop a learner-centered curriculum for a newly launched PH program in a rural Midwestern United States (US) university.
Keywords: Audience Response Systems; College Faculty; Course Descriptions; Disadvantaged; Diseases; Health Personnel; Instructional Design; Program Descriptions; Program Development; Public Health; Rural Areas; Student Centered Curriculum; Teacher Collaboration; Teaching Methods; Workshops; dept.pch

Teaching teamwork and collaboration: A task-centered clinical design - Morrill, Deborah (Nurse education today, 2018)
Keywords: dept.nur

Communicating User Experience: Applying Local Strategies Research to Digital Media Design - Milburn, Trudy (2015)
Communicating User Experience illustrates how the use of Local Strategies Research (LSR) methodologies enables designers to understand the cultural implications for user actions and practices in a...
Keywords: dept.aa

Service-Learning as a Mechanism to Prepare School Psychology Graduate Students: A Case Example. - McPherson, Casey; Karahalios, Vicky; Shriberg, David (Trainers' Forum, 2017)
An ongoing challenge in the preparation of school psychologists, particularly in the first year of graduate training, is finding learning experiences that provide students with an opportunity to apply foundational skills, such as consultation and data-based decision-making, in a culturally responsive manner. Service-learning is a well-established teaching mechanism designed to address just this need, yet there is scant scholarship on ways to utilize this methodology in school psychology training. This manuscript describes a service-learning experience at an urban tutoring center in which first-year school psychology Ed.S. and Ph.D. students gathered agency-wide comprehensive academic screening data and provided targeted consultation support in the area of reading comprehension to identified fourth- through sixth-grade students and their tutors. Indicators of the positive impact of this work across stakeholder groups is provided.
Keywords: dept.csp

International adoption of the Second Step program: Moderating variables in treatment effects - Moy, Gregory; Polanin, Joshua R.; McPherson, Casey; Phan, Thuy-Vy (School Psychology International, 2018)
Second Step is a universal social-emotional learning program designed to decrease antisocial behaviors, increase prosocial behaviors, and increase knowledge about content curriculum. Given the international focus of using Second Step to improve social-emotional skills, it is especially important to provide an updated synthesis on the effect of the intervention. A single-program meta-analysis was completed in order to determine effects of participating in Second Step and to explore moderators of program effectiveness on prosocial and antisocial behavior outcomes as well as knowledge of emotions. Five moderators were explored, including (a) program saturation, (b) dependent variable source, (c) grade range, (d) metro area, and (e) geographical location. A combined total of 18,847 participants were included in the analysis of 27 studies. Results of the current study indicate that Second Step’s impact on students’ knowledge and attitudes of violence and violence prevention is much stronger than on increasing prosocial behavior or reducing antisocial behavior.
Keywords: dept.csp

What’s Going on Out There? An exploration of K–12 PE Curricular Models and Content Taught in Public Schools - Hodges, Michael; Laughlin, Michael; Brusseau, Timothy (The Physical Educator, 2018)
Little is known about which curricular models and activity units are being taught in public schools. This exploratory study examined the K–12 physical education (PE) content and curricular models being implemented. Supervisors of PE recruited from one northeastern state participated in a 25-item questionnaire. Descriptive statistics and frequencies were calculated. Sixty-nine of 92 questionnaires were usable and included in the data analysis. Findings suggest that few districts were using a curricular model at the elementary (K–5) level (27%). Another common response of adopted curricular models at the elementary level was Movement Education (17.6%). At the secondary level, No Model (35%) and Fitness Education (25.6%) were common responses. Specific units such as volleyball, basketball, and weight training yielded the highest responses, while field hockey, golf, archery, lacrosse, and tennis yielded the fewest responses. The findings suggest that K–12 PE curricula may not reflect current trends and mandates. The key determinants could be a lack of curricular model use and heavy reliance upon activities known to present challenges toward standards-based education (i.e., softball). Perhaps K–12 PE and PE preparation programs can connect to effectively articulate a curriculum, and adopt and train on curricular approaches aiming to increase teacher effectiveness and reach national standards.Subscribe to TPE
Keywords: Content; Curricular Models; PETE; Units; dept.hms

Induction of Construal-Level Mindset via Experience of Surprise: An Abstract: Proceedings of the 2018 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference | Request PDF - Kulkarni, Atul A.; Vanhamme, Joelle (2018)
Request PDF | Induction of Construal-Level Mindset via Experience of Surprise: An Abstract: Proceedings of the 2018 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference | An experience of surprise is often an outcome of disconfirmation of expectations and can be associated with positive or negative affect depending... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
Keywords: dept.mrk

Construal-level Mindsets Enhance Behavioral Persistence in Response to Incentive Valence - Kulkarni, Atul A.; Yuan, Hong (Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 2017)
In this research, we find that incentive valence and construal-level mindsets can interact to influence behavioral persistence on challenging tasks. An abstract mindset improves persistence in response to positively framed incentives whereas a concrete mindset improves persistence in response to negatively framed incentives. This interaction effect can be observed even when the cues inducing construal-level mindsets are not related to the incentives or the incentivized tasks. Participants in our studies were either positively or negatively incentivized to solve a set of difficult anagrams, and were primed with an abstract or a concrete mindset using spatial (Study 1) and social (Study 2) cues. The participants persisted longer in response to the positively framed incentive when primed with spatially or socially remote cues. In contrast, for the negatively framed incentive, participants persisted longer when primed with spatially or socially proximal cues. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Keywords: construal-level; dept.mrk; incentive valence; mindset; persistence

Development of a Scale Measuring Chinese Preservice Physical Education Teachers’ Beliefs About the Physical Education Profession - Fan, Yao; Keating, Xiaofen D.; Liu, Jingwen; Zhou, Ke; Shangguan, Rulan; Knipe, Robert (The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2018)
This project aimed to develop a valid and reliable scale measuring Chinese preservice physical education teachers’ beliefs about the physical education profession (PPET-BPEP). The domains and items were created from a conceptual analysis of the previous literature and PPETs’ responses to an open-ended survey. Six experts in the field of physical education and educational psychology evaluated the content validity of the scale. The reliability and factorial validity of the scale were examined utilizing a sample of 696 Chinese PPETs. The PPET-BPEP scale with 12 items embedded in two domains revealed acceptable content validity, internal structure validity, and internal consistency. The two domains were labeled as “sense of calling” and “value of physical education profession” based on the shared content of items in each domain. We recommend using PPET-BPEP scale for PPET recruitment and preparation. The scale can also help establish teacher belief scales in other subject matters. Future validation of the scale is needed in different countries and institutions.
Keywords: Future physical education teacher; Professional beliefs; Survey development; Validity and reliability; dept.hms

Internal exposure dynamics drive the Adverse Outcome Pathways of synthetic glucocorticoids in fish - Margiotta-Casaluci, Luigi; Owen, Stewart F.; Huerta, Belinda; Rodríguez-Mozaz, Sara; Kugathas, Subramanian; Barceló, Damià; Rand-Weaver, Mariann; Sumpter, John P. (Scientific Reports, 2016)
The Adverse Outcome Pathway (AOP) framework represents a valuable conceptual tool to systematically integrate existing toxicological knowledge from a mechanistic perspective to facilitate predictions of chemical-induced effects across species. However, its application for decision-making requires the transition from qualitative to quantitative AOP (qAOP). Here we used a fish model and the synthetic glucocorticoid beclomethasone dipropionate (BDP) to investigate the role of chemical-specific properties, pharmacokinetics, and internal exposure dynamics in the development of qAOPs. We generated a qAOP network based on drug plasma concentrations and focused on immunodepression, skin androgenisation, disruption of gluconeogenesis and reproductive performance. We showed that internal exposure dynamics and chemical-specific properties influence the development of qAOPs and their predictive power. Comparing the effects of two different glucocorticoids, we highlight how relatively similar in vitro hazard-based indicators can lead to different in vivo risk. This discrepancy can be predicted by their different uptake potential, pharmacokinetic (PK) and pharmacodynamic (PD) profiles. We recommend that the development phase of qAOPs should include the application of species-specific uptake and physiologically-based PK/PD models. This integration will significantly enhance the predictive power, enabling a more accurate assessment of the risk and the reliable transferability of qAOPs across chemicals.
Keywords: Ecophysiology; Environmental sciences; Physiology; dept.che

Brief Report: Bullying and Anxiety in High-Functioning Adolescents with ASD - van Schalkwyk, Gerrit; Smith, Isaac C.; Silverman, Wendy K.; Volkmar, Fred R. (Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018)
Youth with ASD are more likely to experience bullying than their typically developing peers. This risk has not been studied in youth with ASD transitioning to college. We examined the occurrence of bullying in 35 high functioning youth with ASD who were preparing to attend college. We also examined youth anxiety and ASD symptoms. Fifty-one percent of the sample reported being recent victims of bullying; 31% of parents reported their child was a victim of bullying. Parent report of bullying correlated significantly with ratings of youth social anxiety symptoms. These findings suggest that bullying is an issue of concern for higher functioning, older adolescents with ASD, and that their own reports may be particularly important in identifying its occurrence.
Keywords: Anxiety; Autism spectrum disorder; Bullying; Postsecondary education; dept.sed

Preface: Special Issue—College Experiences for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder - Jackson, Scott L. J.; Hart, Logan; Volkmar, Fred R. (Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018)
Keywords: dept.aa; dept.sed

Educational Professionals’ Decision Making for Professional Growth using a Case of Twitter Adoption - Tucker, Lauren (TechTrends, 2019)
This paper is a report of an examination of educational professionals’ perspectives on their decision processes to use a Twitter personal learning network (PLN). When investigating each of the participants’ decision-making processes to accept or reject the use of a Twitter PLN, the externally supported individualized learning experience was integral to the educational professionals’ active decision to adopt the new tool. The five major findings revealed external stimulus and support is (1) vital to address pre-existing attitudes and beliefs, (2) to target the acquisition of technical and implementation knowledge, and (3) to encourage continued exposure, interaction, and exploration. The final two findings focus on the (4) interaction with a social learning community supports decision making and informal learning, and (5) personal experimentation and exploration of a Twitter PLN allows educational professionals to build their professional network, quickly access high quality information, and read educational material. Educational professionals’ informal learning activities were also revealed while using their PLN. Educational professionals reported sharing information and resources with colleagues as having the most significant impact on professional practice. In addition to interviews, the nature of the Twitter platform provided valuable evidence of informal learning activities. These activities reflected in the educational professionals’ tweets included: reading educational subject matter, reflection and collaboration. Also, a new category: Resource Collection was created to reflect the second most popular activity on educational professionals’ Twitter PLN.
Keywords: Decision Making; Digital Education and Educational Technology; Informal Learning; Personal Learning Network (PLN); Professional Growth; Social Media; Twitter; dept.sed

Food systems in correctional settings: a literature review and case study - Smoyer, Amy B.; Kjær Minke, Linda (World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe, 2015)
Food is a central component of life in correctional institutions and plays a critical role in the physical and mental health of incarcerated people and the construction of prisoners’ identities and relationships. An understanding of the role of food in correctional settings and effective management of food systems may improve outcomes for incarcerated people and help correctional administrators to maximize the health and safety of individuals in these institutions. This report summarizes existing research about food systems in correctional settings and provides examples of food programmes in prison and remand facilities, including a case study of food-related innovation in the Danish correctional system. Specific conclusions are offered for policy-makers, administrators of correctional institutions and prison food services professionals,and ideas for future research are proposed.
Keywords: dept.swk

Seeing Through the Eyes of the Other Using Process Recordings - Schneider, Dana A.; Rodriguez-Keyes, Elizabeth; Keenan, Elizabeth King (Clinical Supervision Activities for Increasing Competence and Self-Awareness, 2014)
This chapter describes a two-step process including videotaping and process-recording activities to facilitate self-awareness and the expression of empathy and acceptance toward other points of view. These activities are designed for beginning student clinicians who are currently completing their coursework and their first clinical internship. The first step of videotaping helps clinicians become more aware of their inner thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and personal values. This first step also helps participating clinicians become more aware of their nonverbal communication with clients, helping them assess how their internal experiences of empathy and acceptance match what is being conveyed nonverbally to their clients. The second step of the activity, process recording, helps clinicians reflect on their ability to use self-awareness to analyze their inner experiences and their outer expressions of empathy and acceptance (both verbal and nonverbal) while still being attuned to their clients' communication.
Keywords: dept.swk; nonverbal communication; process-recording activities; self-awareness; videotaping

Group Work Around the Globe: Creating transformative connections in challenging times - Wilkins, Christine; Doel, Mark; Skolnik, Sari; Genke, John; Gardella, Lorrie Greenhouse (Whiting & Birch Ltd, 2018)
Proceedings of the XXXVIII and XXXIX International Symposium of the International Association for Social Work with Groups, New York City, New York, USA, June 15-18, 2016 and June 7-10 2017
Keywords: dept.swk

Coffee Cup - Gardella, Lorrie Greenhouse (Social Work in 42 Objects (and More), 2017)
Can the story of social work be told through Objects? Might a collection of objects be more illuminating than a formal text book or a dry definition? In this engaging, photographic book, Mark Doel curates a collection of 127 objects contributed by people from around the globe to evoke a sense of social work - past, present and future. Written as a Guide to an Exhibition of Social Work, this is the ideal book to introduce social work to newcomers, and to entertain those with long experience of the profession. The objects are presented by a diverse group of people with different perspectives on social work, but with a common imagination.--From publisher.
Keywords: Political Science / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare; Social Science / Social Work; dept.swk

Introduction to Klaus-Martin Ellerbrock, Theses on Working with Refugees in Germany: Considering the Experiences of Louis Lowy - Gardella, Lorrie Greenhouse (Group Work Around the Globe: Creating transformative connections in challenging times, 2018)
Proceedings of the XXXVIII and XXXIX International Symposium of the International Association for Social Work with Groups, New York City, New York, USA, June 15-18, 2016 and June 7-10 2017
Keywords: dept.swk

Introduction to Olga Derkachova, Children of War: Exploring the Trauma of War through Collective Creative Writing in Literary Workshops - Gardella, Lorrie Greenhouse (Group Work Around the Globe: Creating transformative connections in challenging times, 2018)
Proceedings of the XXXVIII and XXXIX International Symposium of the International Association for Social Work with Groups, New York City, New York, USA, June 15-18, 2016 and June 7-10 2017
Keywords: dept.swk

Migration and HIV among Asian Populations: Social Work interventions - Sen, S; Aguilar, Jemel (Migrant Workers: Social Identity, Occupational Challenges and Health Practices, 2016)
Worldwide labor migration has transformed and reshaped various fields of government policy and professional practices. Labor migration is associated with the non-economic social phenomena that scholars have increasingly paid attention to in both sending and receiving destinations. For practitioners in the field of education, medicine, nursing, social work, mental health, public health, and other professional practices, the human face of labor migration migrant workers and their families daily challenges often reveals the human cost of migration behind the image of economic gain and benefits. Migrant workers and their families are facing vexing challenges ranging from basic needs to psychosocial well-being, despite who they are and where they come from. Traditional ways of thinking and knowing cannot address these challenges adequately; rather, established divisions of professions, systems, disciplines, and/or areas of practice might just be the factor that constrains the ability to clearly articulate compelling problems and adds an additional layer of complexity to problem solving. This book focuses on country policies and practices, and draws on theoretical ideas that provide the intellectual basis. In addition, it offers vivid examples of how migrant workers manage to work, pursue economic security, strive and adjust in new communities, define and negotiate self and identity, and seek health and well-being. While the book illuminates shared challenges and experiences for each group of migrant workers (i.e. low-skilled workers, internal migrants and other types of migrating laborers), it also synthesises the intersectionality across all migrant workers, as they remain committed to bettering the lives of their families and communities in their origin countries as well as new host countries and communities. This volume reflects the efforts of interdisciplinary research and collaboration
Keywords: dept.swk

Turning molehills into mountains: Sleepiness increases workplace interpretive bias - Barber, Larissa K.; Budnick, Christopher J. (Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2015)
Three studies draw from evolutionary theory to assess whether sleepiness increases interpretive biases in workplace social judgments. Study 1 established a relationship between sleepiness and interpretive bias using ambiguous interpersonal scenarios from a measure commonly used in personnel selection (N = 148). Study 2 explored the boundary conditions of the sleepiness–interpretive bias link via an experimental online field survey of U.S. adults (N = 433). Sleepiness increased interpretive bias when social threats were clearly present (unfair workplace) but did not affect bias in the absence of threat (fair workplace). Study 3 replicated and extended findings from the previous two studies using objective measures of sleep loss and a quasi-experimental manipulation of minor sleep loss (N = 175). Negative affect, ego depletion, or personality variables did not influence the observed relationships. Overall, results suggest that a self-protection/evolutionary perspective best explains the effects of sleepiness on workplace interpretive biases. These studies advance the current research on sleep in organizations by adding a cognitive “threat interpretation” bias approach to past work examining the emotional reaction/behavioral side of sleep disruption. Interpretive biases due to sleepiness may have significant implications for employee health and counterproductive behavior. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Keywords: Conditional Reasoning Test of Aggression; dept.psy; fairness; interpretive bias; sleep; work perceptions

Carving a Space for Elite Republicanism: Hierarchy, Deference and Paternalism in American Political Development - O'Hara, Jonathan (Europolis, Journal Of Political Science And Theory, 2010)
The present article is a review of the American Political Development literature dealing with the issue of national administrative politics and development in late nineteenth century American history. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which historical institutionalists discount the importance of elite republican ideology as an explanation of national administrative growth. Attention is also paid to the ways in which sociological institutionalists view republicanism as a viable ideological alternative only for far flung and marginalized social interest groups. The article argues for studying the ideology also in terms of its elitist tradition and the tradition’s application to national administrative politics and development in the American context, emphasizing categories of hierarchy, deference and paternalism. As a review of seminal works related to the research program of American Political Development, this article is of particular use to those studying American development at the turn of the twentieth century.
Keywords: American politics; United States; dept.psc; elitism; ideology; republicanism

Calvin Coolidge - Hopper, Jennifer (Hatred of America's Presidents: Personal Attacks on the White House from Washington to Trump, 2018)
This work examines expressions of personal hostility and animosity toward presidents―even beloved ones―throughout American history and their impact on policymaking, politics, and culture.People involved or simply interested in politics often ask whether today's political environment is more toxic than ever before. Hatred of America's Presidents: Personal Attacks on the White House from Washington to Trump presents an impartial and authoritative history of invective toward the White House so readers can determine the answer for themselves.The book focuses on the most representative and commonplace attacks of a vitriolic and personal nature, detailing who instigated and trafficked in the attacks and how presidents, administrations, and political parties defended themselves. It also illustrates how honest disagreements about policy―such as FDR's New Deal, Ronald Reagan's Central America policies, George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq, and Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act―fueled expressions of hatred and condemnation. Finally, the book includes perspectives from both the right and the left on the legitimacy of these attacks and the victims' defenses as well as their impact on American politics and policy.
Keywords: dept.psc

James Buchanan - Hopper, Jennifer (Hatred of America's Presidents: Personal Attacks on the White House from Washington to Trump, 2018)
This work examines expressions of personal hostility and animosity toward presidents―even beloved ones―throughout American history and their impact on policymaking, politics, and culture.People involved or simply interested in politics often ask whether today's political environment is more toxic than ever before. Hatred of America's Presidents: Personal Attacks on the White House from Washington to Trump presents an impartial and authoritative history of invective toward the White House so readers can determine the answer for themselves.The book focuses on the most representative and commonplace attacks of a vitriolic and personal nature, detailing who instigated and trafficked in the attacks and how presidents, administrations, and political parties defended themselves. It also illustrates how honest disagreements about policy―such as FDR's New Deal, Ronald Reagan's Central America policies, George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq, and Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act―fueled expressions of hatred and condemnation. Finally, the book includes perspectives from both the right and the left on the legitimacy of these attacks and the victims' defenses as well as their impact on American politics and policy.
Keywords: dept.psc

Same-sex Marriage - Hooper, Jennifer (Encyclopedia of the American Presidency, 2017)
The most up-to-date reference of its kind, Encyclopedia of the American Presidency, Third Edition is the definitive guide to the role of the president from the American Revolution through the present day.
Keywords: dept.psc

Campaign Finance - Hooper, Jennifer (Encyclopedia of the American Presidency, 2017)
The most up-to-date reference of its kind, Encyclopedia of the American Presidency, Third Edition is the definitive guide to the role of the president from the American Revolution through the present day.
Keywords: dept.psc

War on Terror - Hooper, Jennifer (Encyclopedia of the American Presidency, 2017)
The most up-to-date reference of its kind, Encyclopedia of the American Presidency, Third Edition is the definitive guide to the role of the president from the American Revolution through the present day.
Keywords: dept.psc

Affordable Care Act - Hooper, Jennifer (Encyclopedia of the American Presidency, 2017)
The most up-to-date reference of its kind, Encyclopedia of the American Presidency, Third Edition is the definitive guide to the role of the president from the American Revolution through the present day.
Keywords: dept.psc

Diplomatic Amateurs or Qualified Professionals? Profiling the American Ambassador - Calin, Costel; Fitzpatrick, Kathy R. (White House Studies, 2013)
Are U.S. ambassadors qualified to lead America’s diplomatic missions abroad? This age-old question—often raised but seldom seriously considered by diplomacy scholars— is the focus of this study, which examined the professional credentials of American ambassadors appointed by former U.S. President George W. Bush. The article explores the relationship between the professional status of U.S. ambassadors and the power status and economic importance of host countries. The results showed that preferred destinations for amateur ambassadors were mostly Western European countries and countries with which the United States has large economic exchanges. Professional ambassadors were mostly appointed to African and Asian countries and to countries that have lower trade with the United States. The vast majority of semiprofessional diplomats were appointed to the most powerful countries.
Keywords: AMERICAN ambassadors; BUSH, George W. (George Walker), 1946-; DIPLOMATIC & consular service; GOVERNMENT missions; INTERNATIONAL relations; PRESIDENTS of the United States; dept.psc

The US PATRIOT Act (2001) - Buterbaugh, Kevin (Government at Work: Policymaking in the Twenty-First-Century Congress, 2016)
This edited volume features academic experts using leading policy frameworks to analyze the prominent U.S. public policy issues of the twenty-first century. Readers will learn about the similariti...
Keywords: dept.psc

Plato on Women’s Natural Ability: Revisiting Republic V and Timaeus 41e3–44d2 and 86b1–92c3 - Harry, Chelsea; Ron, Polansky (Apeiron, 2016)
Abstract Despite the prominent argument for equal educational opportunity for women in Republic V, commentators frequently question Plato’s sincerity, the quality of the case made, or its significance. Undermining confidence in Plato’s advocacy of female equality are derogatory remarks about women in this and other dialogues. Since we take Plato to be sincere in the argument in Republic V, we reconcile his conclusions there about the equal educational opportunity for women with these seemingly problematic remarks by suggesting that the remarks reflect the interlocutors involved in the dialogue and conventional Athenian prejudices of that time rather than ideas that Plato held to be true. We take seriously the observation of Levin 1996, 14, “in none of those passages in which Plato makes derogatory remarks about women does he use phusis to explain why they behave in the ways of which he is critical.” Hence Plato never suggested that women were by nature limited to the position they occupied socially and politically in 5th or 4th century Athens; he understood the difference between the way they were by convention and the way that they could be, in accordance with their nature, were they to develop their natural capacities through education. We examine carefully Plato’s argument for the equal nature of women in Republic V to defend its viability. The provocation is our not finding in the extensive secondary literature a really detailed treatment of the actual argument and appreciation that it is intended as a sound philosophical argument. We then turn to the devolution schemes in Timaeus 41e–44d and 86b–92c, which again touch on the nature of women and appear to counter the position we attribute to Plato, to show that they are really supportive of our account. Both the Republic and Timaeus limit the natural differences between males and females to body-type. Therefore, even relative physical weakness of women’s bodies does not much problematize for Plato that their natural abilities are equal to those of men, where nature in these contexts means suitability to perform certain functions.
Keywords: dept.phi

Market Sensing Today - Prince, Melvin; Priporas, Constantinos-Vasilios (Business Expert Press, 2015)
Today's practicing marketers and scholars are confronted with a wide array of conflicting and imprecise information about best practices by which to search, gather, consolidate and interpret market information. Consequently, the need has never been greater to optimize market sensing to generate managerial actions that efficiently and effectively utilize knowledge of emerging consumer needs and competitive threats. This book addresses these urgent concerns. In essence, Market Sensing Today will cover, in ground-breaking ways, the following marketing managerial areas: * marketing opportunities associated with conventional and progressive bases of segmentation. * trends in market segment size and growth affecting long-range planning. * strategic direction for reaching future goals. * managerial understanding of assumptions competitors make about themselves. * the direction of current market strategies. * adding to the knowledge of a firm's core competencies. * how new market knowledge is best integrated into a firm's market intelligence system. * best ways to ensure the quality of information underlying decisions. * how benchmarking improves with market sensing. * best approaches for translating business issues into projects. * ways that key information may be disseminated within firms. * how proposed strategic changes are promoted by market sensing. * roles customer satisfaction insights play in policy. This book will address these key issues and more, to advance theory, research and practice based on latest developments in this vital field. It will show how to re-formulate traditional models that no longer work.
Keywords: dept.mrk; faculty_collection

The Green Energy Sector - Nodoushani, Omid; Van den Abbeele, Isaline; Stewart, Carol (Competition Forum, 2015)
Thinking "Green" has become a significant economic trend lately. This research paper offers a better understanding of the background facts of the current hype surrounding "Green Energy." First, the problem of global warming is investigated. Europe has taken a lead role in the fight against global warming in order to meet their objective of 20% renewable energy production by 2020. Many possibilities exist to transform raw biomass into bioenergy fuels, which can then be used for specific energy production purposes: electricity production, warming or transport. Biodiesel, bioethanol, biogas and many other fuels can be produced from biomass.
Keywords: Alternative energy; Alternative energy sources; Biomass; Carbon dioxide; Chlorofluorocarbons; Climate change; Energy industry; Environmental impact; Global warming; Greenhouse effect; Greenhouse gases; Nobel prizes; Renewable resources; Studies; Temperature; Trends; dept.mgt

Recycling and Its Effects on the Environment - Nodoushani, Omid; Stewart, Carol; Kaur, Manpreet (Competition Forum, 2016)
Consumers and businesses have an ethical obligation to do their part to reuse or recycle unwanted items. However, while some consumers and businesses do reuse or recycle e-waste, glass, metal, plastic, paper or textiles, more could be done. Even with environmentalists warning of potential chemical hazards these items produce in landfills, an estimated 85 percent of landfills are filled with unwanted waste. The recycling industry along with local government run media campaigns to raise awareness; however, as a result consumers and businesses may be experiencing information overload which may have a negative impact on consumers ' recycling efforts.
Keywords: Communication; Consumers; Consumption; Electronic waste; Electronics; Energy consumption; Environmental impact; Environmental protection; Environmentalists; Greenhouse gases; Information overload; Landfill; Natural resources; Plastics; Raw materials; Recycling; Textiles; dept.mgt

With data, educate yourself and start simple - Gil, Jodie Mozdzer (The Quill, 2015)
The data sets have a variety of content, including farmers market locations, school absentee rates and crime statistics. START SIMPLE The downloadable data can be as simple as a spreadsheet chronicling one data point over time - for example, the amount of money the federal government has spent on school food programs since 1969.
Keywords: Criminal statistics; Databases; Datasets; Digital broadcasting; Journalism; Journalists; Trends; dept.jrn

Choosey journalists choose GIFs - Gil, Jodie Mozdzer (The Quill, 2016)
The still photographs incorporate subtle movement, such as wind blowing grass or eyes blinking, that play on repeat through an animated GIF. [...]don't make your readers seasick with too much movement or too many GIFs on the same page.t
Keywords: Digital broadcasting; Photographs; School districts; Software reviews; Video recordings; dept.jrn

Multimedia Design & HCI in Libraries - Liu, Dr Yan Quan (2016)
The primary purpose of this book is to help students understand the principles of multimedia interface design to develop essential skills. The underlying philosophy of the approach of this text is that concepts are learned and remembered better when learned in a real work environment.
Keywords: dept.ils

Matthew Fontaine Maury: Pathfinder - Smith, Jason W (International Journal of Maritime History, 2016)
Historians have long recognized Matthew Fontaine Maury as an important if controversial figure in the histories of science and of maritime and naval affairs. These assessments, however, rest on scholarship that is by now more than a half-century old. It is therefore appropriate to look at Maury’s significance from fresh perspectives, incorporating recent historiographical trends in the history of science and cartography, environmental history, cultural history and military history. This article focuses on the ways in which Maury’s cartographic work reframed mariners’ understanding of the marine environment away from what he perceived to be a watery wilderness towards an ordered environment safe and favourable to American commerce. Maury was long known as ‘The Pathfinder of the Seas’, but I argue that his significance, in fact, lies in the ways he and his staff at the Naval Observatory organized the sea as a ‘common highway’, tracing paths, but also imposing narratives and constructing new meanings. Maury’s tool was the nautical chart and, particularly, his Wind and Current Charts series that by the 1850s reimagined the ways mariners, navigators and naval officers understood and harnessed the ocean environment. The article briefly considers these charts from three perspectives – method, process and representation – in order to see the ways in which Maury was pushing the boundaries of the cartographic medium to usher in revolutionary ways of envisioning the ocean environment. By quantifying winds, symbolizing whales and infusing the sea with ship tracks, among other things, Maury was imposing potent, if sometimes flawed, new ways of understanding and imagining the sea that were central to American maritime expansion in the antebellum era. In this and other ways, we can see Maury anew, a figure central to the growth of American commercial empire and to new ways of understanding and thinking about the sea.
Keywords: dept.his

Umayyad Caliphate - Judd, Steven C. (The Encyclopedia of Empire, 2016)
The Umayyad Caliphate (661–750) was the first Islamic dynasty. Muʿawiya ibn Abi Sufyan established himself as caliph in Damascus after his victory over ʿAli ibn Abi Talib in the civil war that followed the murder of ʿUthman ibn ʿAffan in Medina. Muʿawiya and his successors expanded the territory under Muslim rule dramatically. At their peak, the Umayyads ruled an empire stretching from Spain to the frontiers of China and India. The Umayyads made significant contributions to the development of the Islamic faith and to the spread of the Arabic language throughout the region. Dynastic crises, revenue shortfalls, and the limitations of an empire based on conquest ultimately led to their demise at the hands of the Abbasids in 750.
Keywords: 6th–10th centuries; Islam; Late Antiquity; Western Asia; dept.his; history; northern Africa; religious history

A Fantasy in Fashion: African American Empowerment in an Era of Opulence - Carter-David, Siobhan; Wu, Ellen (Race and Retail: Consumption across the Color Line, 2015)
Race has long shaped shopping experiences for many Americans. Retail exchanges and establishments have made headlines as flashpoints for conflict not only between blacks and whites, but also between whites, Mexicans, Asian Americans, and a wide variety of other ethnic groups, who have at times found themselves unwelcome at white-owned businesses.  Race and Retail documents the extent to which retail establishments, both past and present, have often catered to specific ethnic and racial groups. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the original essays collected here explore selling and buying practices of nonwhite populations around the world and the barriers that shape these habits, such as racial discrimination, food deserts, and gentrification. The contributors highlight more contemporary issues by raising questions about how race informs business owners’ ideas about consumer demand, resulting in substandard quality and higher prices for minorities than in predominantly white neighborhoods.  In a wide-ranging exploration of the subject, they also address revitalization and gentrification in South Korean and Latino neighborhoods in California, Arab and Turkish coffeehouses and hookah lounges in South Paterson, New Jersey, and tourist capoeira consumption in Brazil.   Race and Retail illuminates the complex play of forces at work in racialized retail markets and the everyday impact of those forces on minority consumers. The essays demonstrate how past practice remains in force in subtle and not-so-subtle ways.
Keywords: dept.his

Leadership: Athletes and Coaches in Sport - Academy, U. S. Sports (The Sport Journal, 2016)
Authors: Dr. Sharon P. Misasi*, Dr. Gary Morin and Lauren Kwasnowski Dr. Sharon P. Misasi is a Professor of Exercise Science at Southern Connecticut State University. Dr. Gary Morin is a Professor of Exercise Science, Assistant Athletic Trainer and Program Director of the Athletic Training Education Program. Lauren Kwasnowski is a Research assistant for this
Keywords: dept.hms

The relationship between heart rate variability and recovery heart rate in women - Latchman, P.; Gates, G.; Axtell, R.; Lunn, W.; Stachenfeld, N.; Meersman, R. De (Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical, 2015)
Keywords: dept.hms

Dyspnea - Kreiger, J.; Niekrash, C.; Fitzgerald, C. (The Encyclopedia of Elder Care: The Comprehensive Resource on Geriatric Health and Social Care, 2017)
Praise for the Third Edition:“The third edition of this outstanding resource reflects the many advances in the care of older people that have occurred since the publication of the second edition…The vast bulk of the content is accessible and relevant to an international audience. The indexing and cross-referencing are excellent... Score: 5/5 stars."-- Margaret Arthur, Nursing Standard"The information [in this book] is amazing. I reviewed topics in which I have expertise and was very satisfied. This is an excellent addition to my library and I will refer to it often, much like a medical dictionary... Score: 90, 4 Stars."--Doody's Medical Reviews“Provides 273 comprehensive, yet succinct, entries on a variety of topics related to elder care. In addition, many of the entries include see also references that help readers easily navigate the book. Recommended."--Choice: Current Reviews for Academic LibrariesThis expanded, one-of-a-kind reference of more than 250 entries provides a comprehensive guide to all of the essential elements of elder care across a breadth of health and social service disciplines. Responding to the needs of providers, directcare workers, family, and other caregivers, the diverse array of entries included in this encyclopedia recognize and address the complex medical, social, and psychological problems associated with geriatric care. In addition to a brief, accessible summary of each topic, entries include several key references, including web links and mobile apps for additional sources of information.This updated edition contains more than 30 new entries written by renowned experts that address a variety of elder care topics.New to the Fourth Edition:New entries addressing Ethics Consultation, Eye Disorders, Pain – Acute and Chronic, and many othersKey Features:Provides succinct descriptions of over 250 key topics for health and social service cliniciansOffers crucial information for elder care providers across all settings and disciplinesDistills current, evidence-based literature sourcesWritten by nationally recognized expert researchers and cliniciansIncludes links to useful websites and mobile apps
Keywords: dept.hms

Cognitive Performance Does not Limit Physical Activity Participation in the Lifestyle Interventions and Independence for Elders Pilot Study (LIFE-P) - Reid, K. F.; Walkup, M. P.; Katula, J. A.; Sink, K. M.; Anton, S.; Axtell, R.; Kerwin, D. R.; King, A. C.; Kramer, A. F.; Miller, M. E.; Myers, V.; Rosano, C.; et al. (The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease, 2017)
We examined whether multiple domains of baseline cognitive performance were associated with prospective physical activity (PA) adherence in the Lifestyle Interventions and Independence for Elders Pilot study (LIFE-P). The LIFE-P study was a ...
Keywords: dept.hms

“The broken schippus he ther fonde”: Shipwrecks and the Human Costs of Investment Capital in Middle English Romance - Richmond, Andrew M. (Neophilologus, 2015)
Featuring prominently in the romance imagination as terrifying obstacles in the hero’s path, shipwrecks are nevertheless often presented from the salvager’s perspective. Romances abound with knights, clerks, and merchants who obsessively observe nearby beaches and cautiously (yet excitedly) examine the contents of wrecked vessels. Washed ashore, such fruits of maritime disaster delineate medieval English conceptions of seashores as dangerous yet profitable spaces, wherein seaside harvests of (un)natural resources help to stimulate local economic networks. Designations of these shipwrecks as “magical” or “fortuitous” cannot, however, completely elide the source of such wealth in others’ suffering—an unavoidable implication that interrogates contemporary means of attaining investment capital. As such, this paper examines how the littoral space of the seashore is cast as a source of perilous and problematic material bounty in many Middle English romances.
Keywords: Emaré; Geoffrey Chaucer; John Gower; Middle English romance; Shipwrecks; Sir Amadace; dept.eng

Affect, Semiotics, Volition: Heteroregulation and Affectivating. - Larocco, Steve (I Activate You To Affect Me, 2018)
The second volume of Annals of Cultural Psychology is dedicated to the affective nature of human social relationships with the environment. The chapters here included explore the historical, theoretical and practical dimensions of the concept of affectivating originally introduced by one of us (Valsiner, 1999), as a potential tool of inquiry into the affective-sensitive dimension of psychological life within a cultural-psychological framework. The concept of affectivating involves two psychological dimensions often undervalued or even obliterated from contemporary cultural psychology, namely the affective involvement and the agentivity of people in their social encounters. Through several examples --‘feeling-at-home’, silence spaces and rituals, memorials, music and poetry, among others-- we show individual’s concrete actions in mundane everyday life aim to give an affective personal sense to the world around. This focuses on the primary affective nature of human meaning construction that guides the person in one’s continuing feeling-into-the-world. At a theoretical level the notion of affectivation challenges contemporary Cultural Psychology to rescue subjectivity, not only symbolism. Affectivation propounds a return to the long, but partially forgotten, organismic tradition, represented in the history by thinkers like Wilhelm Dilthey, Jakob von Uexküll and Kurt Goldstein. Cultural psychology has to bring semiosis back to the vital background of human experience.

Normal: A Chaplain, a Community with HIV/AIDS, and the Eternal Life of Stories - Kerr, Audrey Elisa (Cascade Books, 2018)
This book chronicles the intersection of chaplaincy, autopathography (illness narratives), and stigmatized illness through the observations and stories of a chaplain working at a facility for people with HIV and AIDS. Trained as both an ethnographer and a chaplain, Audrey Elisa Kerr uses memoir to bridge the relationship between caregiver and patient, and allows stories of marginality to frame both her patients’ stories and her own.
Keywords: dept.eng

Dead Narratives: Defining Humanity through Stories - Ellis, Scott (The Apocalypse in Film: Dystopias, Disasters, and Other Visions about the End of the World, 2015)
We live in a world at risk. Dire predictions about our future or the demise of planet earth persist. Even fictional representations depict narratives of decay and the end of a commonly shared social reality. Along with recurring Hollywood blockbusters that imagine the end of the world, there has been a new wave of zombie features as well as independent films that offer various visions of the future. The Apocalypse in Film: Dystopias, Disasters, and Other Visions about the End of the World offers an overview of Armageddon in film from the silent era to the present. This collection of essays discusses how such films reflect social anxieties—ones that are linked to economic, ecological, and cultural factors. Featuring a broad spectrum of international scholars specializing in different historical genres and methodologies, these essays look at a number of films, including the silent classic The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the black comedy Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, the Mayan calendar disaster epic, 2012, and in particular, Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia, the focus of several essays.As some filmmakers translate the anxiety about a changing global climate and geo-political relations into visions of the apocalypse, others articulate worries about the planet’s future by depicting chemical warfare, environmental disasters, or human made destruction. This book analyzes the emergence of apocalyptic and dystopic narratives and explores the political and social situations on which these films are based. Contributing to the dialogue on dystopic culture in war and peace, The Apocalypse in Film will be of interest to scholars in film and media studies, border studies, gender studies, sociology, and political science.

The Problem of Practice Dissertation: Matching Program Goals, Practices, and Outcomes - Belzer, Alisa; Axelrod, Tali; Benedict, Cathleen; Jakubik, Tara; Rosen, Michelle; Yavuz, Olcay (The EdD and the Scholarly Practitioner(HC), 2016)
The purpose of this book is to highlight the efforts of the members of the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED) to prepare Scholarly Practitioners in the field of education leadership. The volume is edited by Jill Alexa Perry, Executive Director of CPED, a consortium of 86 schools of education in the US, Canada and New Zealand. CPED is a collaboration of faculty working together since 2007 to re‐envision professional practice preparation in education. Contributing authors include faculty and graduates from CPED‐influenced programs. Faculty members highlight the need to rethink and strengthen all aspects of doctoral level preparation for practitioners, the expanded and enhanced role of research, inquiry and the dissertation in practice, and discuss the implications these changes have on university schools of education. Students and graduates, who face pressing educational issues in their daily lives, reflect on the impact their EdD program has had on their professional practice.
Keywords: dept.edl

On Becoming a Leader - Gregory, J.L. (Educational Leadership: Perspectives on Preparation and Practice, 2015)
This book identifies core knowledge that educational leaders need to learn in pre-service preparation and throughout in-service professional development. The contributors discuss established pedag...
Keywords: dept.edl

Diversity & Cultural Competence - Labas, G; Gregory, J.L. (Educational Leadership: Perspectives on Preparation and Practice, 2015)
This book identifies core knowledge that educational leaders need to learn in pre-service preparation and throughout in-service professional development. The contributors discuss established pedag...
Keywords: dept.edl

Research and Program Evaluation - Haynes, N.M.; Gregory, J.L.; Diffley, W.J. (Educational Leadership: Perspectives on Preparation and Practice, 2015)
This book identifies core knowledge that educational leaders need to learn in pre-service preparation and throughout in-service professional development. The contributors discuss established pedag...
Keywords: dept.edl

Parental Education Matters for Adolescent Health: The Importance of Parental Education in the US - Yu, Jia (Journal of Studies in Social Sciences, 2015)
Parental Education Matters for Adolescent Health: The Importance of Parental Education in the US
Keywords: dept.eco

The Effect of Advertising and In-Store Promotions on the Demand for Chocolate - Patalinghug, Jason (International Journal of Economics and Finance, 2015)
This paper analyzes the effect of TV advertising and in-store displays on the sales of chocolates. I examine which method is more effective in gaining customers and in increasing total sales. Also, I look at the evidence to see whether the lack of advertising by a firm will hurt the industry as a whole. In this paper, I use a nested logit model on scanner data obtained by the Zwick Center for Food and Resource Policy at the University of Connecticut to examine the effect of TV advertising on chocolate sales. The results show that in-store displays and advertising both help increase the demand for chocolate.
Keywords: dept.eco

Idiosyncratic risks, bailout, and financial crisis: A copula approach - Wang, Daphne; Nguyen, Khoa Huu (Global Business & Finance Review (GBFR), 2015)
EconStor is a publication server for scholarly economic literature, provided as a non-commercial public service by the ZBW.

Does Agglomeration Matter Everywhere?: New Firm Location Decisions in Rural and Urban Markets - Artz, Georgeanne M.; Kim, Younjun; Orazem, Peter F. (Journal of Regional Science, 2016)
We test whether commonly used measures of agglomeration economies encourage new firm entry in both urban and rural markets. Using new firm location decisions in Iowa and North Carolina, we find that measured agglomeration economies increase the probability of new firm entry in both urban and rural areas. Firms are more likely to locate in markets with an existing cluster of firms in the same industry, with greater concentrations of upstream suppliers or downstream customers, and with a larger proportion of college-educated workers in the local labor supply. Firms are less likely to enter markets with no incumbent firms in the sector or where production is concentrated in relatively few sectors. The same factors encourage both stand-alone start-ups and establishments built by multiplant firms. Commuting decisions exhibit the same pattern as new firm entry with workers commuting from low to high agglomeration markets. Because agglomeration economies are important for rural firm entry also, policies encouraging new firm entry should focus on relatively few job centers rather than encouraging new firm entry in every small town.
Keywords: dept.eco

U.S. Macroeconomic News and International Stock Prices: Evidence from Newspaper Coverage - Birz, Gene; Dutta, Sandip (Accounting and Finance Research, 2016)
Existing studies provide mixed evidence that the U.S. macroeconomic news impacts international stock prices. We believe this may be related to the fact that economic surprises may not capture how investors interpret macroeconomic releases in various economic conditions. Consequently, we follow Birz and Lott (2011) and use newspaper coverage of economic releases as a measure of news. We argue that in addition to capturing the surprise component of macroeconomic releases, newspaper coverage provide interpretation of these releases similarly to how investors may interpret them in various economic conditions. Out of 15 examined international stock markets, we find that the U.S. macroeconomic news impacts stock returns of 12 countries.
Keywords: dept.eco

Legal Study of Children with Emotional disturbance and Mental Health Needs and Implication for Practice - Dieterich, Cynthia A.; Snyder, Nicole D.; Villani, Christine J. (Journal of Law & Education, 2016)
Keywords: dept.cur; peer-reviewed

Online Research and Media Skills: An instructional model to support students as they search and shift online informational text - O'Byrne, W. Ian; McVerry, J. Gregory (Using Technology to Enhance Reading: Innovative Approaches to Literacy Instruction, 2015)
Enhance students' reading abilities with technology. Discover how technological resources can improve the effectiveness and breadth of reading instruction to build student knowledge. Read real-world accounts from literacy experts, and learn how their methods can be adapted for your classroom. Explore how to foster improvement in student learning using a variety of tools, including interactive whiteboards, tablets, and social media applications. Benefits:Gain insight into ways to incorporate technology into reading instruction.Obtain guidance on choosing progress-monitoring tools to best address your students' needs. Discover strategies to engage students in vocabulary instruction, and help students interpret informational texts. Learn how to use various tools to spark group discussions about literature. Determine how to continually assess students' connections with the assigned reading material. Contents: Part I: Reading Foundations Chapter 1: Foundational Reading Competencies Supported With Technology: Phonemic Awareness and Word Recognition Chapter 2: Rethinking Foundational Reading Skills: Making Room for the Complexities of Digital Texts Chapter 3: Using Tablets to Teach Foundational Skills: Matching Apps to Student NeedsPart II: Reading Fluency Chapter 4: Podcasts: Adding Power and New Possibilities to the Readers Theater Experience Chapter 5: Student-Produced Movies as Authentic Reading Fluency Instruction Chapter 6: Audio-Assisted Reading Builds Reading FluencyPart III: Reading Vocabulary Chapter 7: Post-Reading Vocabulary Development Through VSSPlus Chapter 8: Bringing Words to Life Through Student-Created Vocabulary Videos Chapter 9: Self-Regulated Vocabulary Learning on the InternetPart IV: Comprehension of Informational Texts Chapter 10: Using the Multimodal Explanatory Composition Strategy to Respond to Informational Texts Chapter 11: Annotation Apps: Supporting Middle School Students' Interpretation of Science Texts Chapter 12: Online Research and Media Skills: An Instructional Model for Online Informational TextsPart V: Comprehension of Literary Texts Chapter 13: Digging Deeper With Reader Response: Using Digital Tools to Support Comprehension of Literary Texts in Online Learning Environments Chapter 14: Coding and Connecting Complex Literature Chapter 15: Linking Through Literature: Exploring Complex Texts Through Hypertext Literary AnalysisPart VI: Reading Across Disciplines Chapter 16: Classroom Blogging to Develop Disciplinary Literacy Chapter 17: Using eReaders to Enhance Literacy Instruction in the Content Areas Chapter 18: Supporting Inquiry With Digital Texts in School DisciplinesPart VII: Motivation for Reading Chapter 19: "I Wanted to Film, So I Read the Book": Filmmaking in the English Classroom Chapter 20: eBooks and eReaders: Removing Obstacles, Improving Motivation Chapter 21: Using Literacy iPad Apps for Reading MotivationPart VIII: Reading Assessment Chapter 22: Literacy Assessments in the Digital Age Chapter 23: Developing and Assessing Fluency Through Web 2.0 Digital Tools Chapter 24: Using Blogs as Formative Assessment of Reading Comprehension
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Implicit Attitudes of International and American Adult Students toward Black and White Teachers - Na, Eunkyung; Tan, Tony X.; Marn, Travis; Ramirez, Rica (Commission for International Adult Education, 2015)
The purpose of this study was to examine hidden prejudice in two groups of adult students, international and American, against black compared to white teachers. Social desirability in the minds of participants may affect the result of a study involving racial bias (Mullins, 1982). For this reason, the researchers created a computer protocol using the standard Implicit Association Test (IAT) to measure the implicit attitudes of participants. The IAT relies on the idea of automatic information process within the mind that is not impacted by social desirability. A clear concern in education is that the racial bias toward minority students will let those implicit biases affect the way they teach those students, creating a self-fulfilling prophesy of poor student performance. But the implicit bias can work both ways and can impact a teacher's effectiveness. Traditional racial prejudice theories usually looked at white's attitudes toward blacks and other groups. This study had a significant directional shift by focusing on the international students' racial attitudes toward black and white teachers. The implicit racial attitudes of international students were also compared to those of American students. The result and evaluation of this study may be a valuable tool to improve student services and teacher professional development in higher education. Suggestions for future research are also provided.[For full proceedings, see ED570489.]
Keywords: Adult Students; African American Teachers; Attitude Measures; College Students; Comparative Analysis; Foreign Students; Gender Differences; Racial Attitudes; Racial Bias; Social Desirability; Statistical Analysis; Student Attitudes; Surveys; Whites; dept.cur

Biracial Place Walkers on Campus: A Trioethnography of Culture, Climate, and Currere - Agosto, Vonzell; Marn, Travis; Ramirez, Rica (International Review of Qualitative Research, 2015)
Send this e-mail to Rica and Travis: Rica and Travis, I wish you could have been at the duoethnography panel. The first presentation had some uneasy conversations. The second, Dr. Colomer's presentation, was cool: A performance with guest actors had some sad moments with death, health issues, and attrition. The next presentation was about miscarriage and grief counseling. I wondered if our paper is frivolous in comparison to the others. I think not. Our episodes of cultural starvation and indifference are there and painful, but our comebacks are so quick (nourishment as resistance), and therefore so is the celebration. Written by Agosto while flying home after presenting at the 2014 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.
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Adoptive Parents’ Suspicion and Coping With the Possibility of Child Abduction for International Adoption in China - Marn, Travis M.; Tan, Tony Xing (The Family Journal, 2015)
In this study, we investigated (1) whether adoptive parents suspected their children might have been victims of abduction for adoption in China and (2) for parents who were uncertain if their own children might be victims of child abduction for adoption, how they coped with the possibility. A total of 342 adoptive parents (representing 529 adopted Chinese children) completed an anonymous online survey on their experiences. Of the 342 parents, 154 (45%) described how they coped with the possibility that their children might be the victims of child abduction for adoption. In terms of suspicion, we found that for about 70% of the children, the parents responded Never; for 18.5% of the children, the parents responded Rarely; for 11.7% of the children, the parents responded Sometimes; and for about 1% of the children, the parents responded that they Always suspected that their children might be victims of abduction for adoption. In terms of coping with the possibility that their children might have been victims of child abduction for adoption, thematic analysis on the 154 parents’ descriptions revealed that parents experienced one or more of seven emotional reactions: sadness, frustration/helplessness, complicity/guilt, anger, fear/worry, hypervigilance, resolve, as well as the belief that they were not affected. Finally, we discussed contributing factors to child abduction for adoption and to adoptive parents’ suspicion of such a practice.
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Purposeful Entanglements: A New Materialist Analysis of Transformative Interviews - Marn, Travis M.; Wolgemuth, Jennifer R. (Qualitative Inquiry, 2017)
In this article, we explore transformative interviewing through the lens of new materialism. Rather than viewing transformation through a humanist perspective that centralizes a transcendent self, we draw upon Barad’s agential realism to reconsider transformation following the ontological turn. Thinking with agential realism, we engaged two interview studies, one on biracialism and one on masculinity, to demonstrate how the materiality of our interviews (e.g., research bodies, computer programs, questionnaires) intra-acted with our participants to both facilitate and hinder our attempts at transformation. We conclude by theorizing transformation as a type of purposeful entanglement that proceeds from the material-discursive intra-actions of our inquiries.
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Work/Think/Play/Birth/Death/Terror/Qualitative/Research - Wolgemuth, Jennifer R.; Rautio, Pauliina; Koro-Ljungberg, Mirka; Marn, Travis M.; Nordstrom, Susan; Clark, Adam (Qualitative Inquiry, 2018)
Inspired by work/think/play in qualitative research, we centered the idea of “play” in a qualitative research project to explore what proceeding from the idea of work/think/play might look like and accomplish. We pursued play in an experimental qualitative inquiry over dinner one night at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Our article centers on one work/think/play inquiry three of us conducted. Through a playful account of how play unfolded in our work/think/play inquiry that evening, we explore research play as generative, deadly, and censored in the context of neoliberalism and other terrors. We reflect on what (good) play does in qualitative research, what our work/think/play/birth/death/terror/qualitative/research accomplished, if anything. Maybe research play is vital, what keeps us fit to do critical qualitative research. Yet research play moves (well) beyond normative rules of much qualitative research. Is it worth the risk? Can we know? Even after?
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Creating a Space for Teacher Candidates Committeed to Urban Settings: Action Research Program on the Urban Education Fellows Program - Bower-Phipps, Laura; Marx, H. A. (Teacher Education Yearbook XXIV: Establishing a Sense of Place for All Learners in 21st Century Classrooms and Schools, 2015)
The Association of Teacher Educators (ATE) Yearbook XXIV offers 16 captivating chapters related to establishing a sense of place or belonging for P-12 students, classroom teachers, teacher candidates, and teacher educators. The chapters include theory, research, concepts, principles, practices, and programs that inform and support as well as question and challenge readers from multiple perspectives. Readers gain insights and inspiration that illustrate ways teachers and learners negotiate meaning in environments where everyone experiences social and cultural connections with personal and academic fulfillment. Collectively, the authors identify, describe, analyze, and advance issues associated with creating both an individual and a shared sense of place among the ever-changing populations in contemporary P-12 schools and classrooms. Like human geographers, teacher educators and educational researchers study environments where children grow up and create bonds with their early environments that continue to influence them throughout their lives based on the ways in which meaning is negotiated in that early space. Candidates, teachers, and teacher educators benefit by investigating the presence and power of these landscapes impacting the teaching, learning, and schooling.
Keywords: Education / Administration / General; Education / Educational Policy & Reform / General; Education / Inclusive Education; Education / Learning Styles; Education / Student Life & Student Affairs; dept.cur

Developing as Teachers and as Researchers: Emerging Professionals' Experiences with Cooperative Inquiry - Bower-Phipps, Laura; Cruz, Maria; Albaladejo, Cristina; Johnson, Arlette; Homa, Thomas (Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research, 2016)
This article details the second cycle of cooperative inquiry undertaken by emerging educators who self-identify as "other" because of gender, language, ethnicity, and/or sexual orientation. The current cycle focuses on the impact participation in cooperative inquiry had on researchers' teaching practices. Data sources include transcripts of group discussions and reflective writing completed six months, eighteen months, and two years after the completion of the first cycle of cooperative inquiry. Findings suggest that as a result of engagement in cooperative inquiry, the teacher/researchers established practices to decrease isolation, build unity, and understand students' backgrounds. Teacher/researchers viewed themselves as advocates for diversity within the classroom, took a collaborative approach to teaching, and came to see research as an essential element of effective teaching.
Keywords: Beginning Teachers; Cooperation; Educational Practices; Elementary School Teachers; Inquiry; Minority Group Teachers; Preservice Teachers; Self Concept; Social Distance; Student Teachers; Teacher Educators; Teacher Researchers; dept.cur

Crashing Waves Activity - Foss, Louisa L (Treating Those with Mental Disorders: A Comprehensive Approach to Case Conceptualization and Treatment, 2014)
Note: This is the bound book only and does not include access to the Enhanced Pearson eText. To order the Enhanced Pearson eText packaged with a bound book, use ISBN 0133834255.Treating Those with Mental Disorders: A Comprehensive Approach to Case Conceptualization and Treatment is the authoritative reference on selecting and applying treatments for use in counseling and treating those with mental disorders. In it, students and new counselors don’t just learn about the clinical issues, the DSM-5 system of diagnosis, and interventions that can be used in counseling and treating those with mental disorders, they see clearly how to proceed in treatment planning and how to implement treatment approaches and interventions. The authors present a conceptual framework model, I CAN START, which consists of case conceptualization components and addresses treatment planning from a strength-based, contextually sensitive perspective. Case studies; creative Clinical Toolboxes; Voices from the Trenches; a comfortable presentation of the material; and a comprehensive, rigorous assimilation of the current treatment literature combine to empower counselors to thoughtfully and deliberately help their clients tackle their complex issues and difficulties. The Enhanced Pearson eText features Case studies, creative Clinical Toolboxes, and Voices from the Trenches which present real-life examples of critical counseling concepts and approaches.Improve mastery and retention with the Enhanced Pearson eText* The Enhanced Pearson eText provides a rich, interactive learning environment designed to improve student mastery of content. The Enhanced Pearson eText is:Engaging. The new interactive, multimedia learning features were developed by the authors and other subject-matter experts to deepen and enrich the learning experience. Convenient. Enjoy instant online access from your computer or download the Pearson eText App to read on or offline on your iPad® and Android® tablet.* Affordable. The Enhanced Pearson eText may be purchased stand-alone or with a loose-leaf version of the text for 40-65% less than a print bound book. *The Enhanced eText features are only available in the Pearson eText format. They are not available in third-party eTexts or downloads.*The Pearson eText App is available on Google Play and in the App Store. It requires Android OS 3.1-4, a 7” or 10” tablet, or iPad iOS 5.0 or later.
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Socioeconomic Status - Foss-Kelly, Louisa; Baycroft, Jessica (The SAGE Encyclopedia of Marriage, Family, and Couples Counseling, 2017)
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Poverty and Family Develoment - Foss-Kelly, Louisa; Rand, Arden G. (The SAGE Encyclopedia of Marriage, Family, and Couples Counseling, 2017)
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Estimating the Parameters of Software Reliability Growth Models Using the Grey Wolf Optimization Algorithm - Sheta, Alaa F.; Abdel-Raouf, Amal (International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA), 2016)
In this age of technology, building quality software is essential to competing in the business market. One of the major principles required for any quality and business software product for value fulfillment is reliability. Estimating software reliability early during the software development life cycle saves time and money as it prevents spending larger sums fixing a defective software product after deployment. The Software Reliability Growth Model (SRGM) can be used to predict the number of failures that may be encountered during the software testing process. In this paper we explore the advantages of the Grey Wolf Optimization (GWO) algorithm in estimating the SRGM’s parameters with the objective of minimizing the difference between the estimated and the actual number of failures of the software system. We evaluated three different software reliability growth models: the Exponential Model (EXPM), the Power Model (POWM) and the Delayed S-Shaped Model (DSSM). In addition, we used three different datasets to conduct an experimental study in order to show the effectiveness of our approach.
Keywords: dept.csc; peer-reviewed

Illuminations in the Manuscripts of Alain Chartier - Serchuk, Camille (A companion to Alain Chartier (c. 1385-1430): father of French eloquence, 2015)
In Alain Chartier: Père de l'éloquence française contributors explore the diverse literary production of this influential late-medieval writer, whose concern with personal and political ethics and renovation of poetic form inspired generations of writers, and still resonate with modern readers.
Keywords: Chartier, Alain, active 15th century; Criticism and interpretation; Eloquence in literature; European; French; French literature; Histoire et critique; History and criticism; Jusqu'à 1500; LITERARY CRITICISM; Literature, Medieval; Littérature française; Littérature médiévale; To 1500; dept.art; Éloquence dans la littérature

Local Government Sustainable Development: A Theoretical Paradigm or a Plan for Action? - Phillips, Janet F.; Strickland, Pamela (Journal of Accounting, Ethics and Public Policy, 2015)
Local governments are a vital component in the national effort to promote sensible methods for community development, growth and social justice. The benefits and challenges of sustainable development have become apparent as more local governments initiate programs to address economic, environmental and social equity issues. This research investigates county and municipal government efforts toward sustainable development using survey information for local governments in the southern United States. Survey responses were analyzed to examine whether local governments “practice what they preach” in terms of actually implementing the sustainable policies proclaimed to be important to their operations. Overall, results suggest local governments do place these policies into action for environmental and social justice issues. In addition, the analysis explores the impact of population size, geographic area and form of government on sustainable development. Measuring the implementation of sustainable policies in terms of dollars, however, proves difficult because there is no consistency among municipalities with regard to reporting the amount of dollars (federal or local) spent in support of sustainability efforts.
Keywords: dept.acc; economic development; environmental protection; local government; peer-reviewed; social equity; sustainability

Accounting Majors Finish First – Results of a Five-Year Study of Performance in Introductory Accounting - Phillips, Janet F. (The Accounting Educators' Journal, 2015)
Delivery of a quality introductory accounting course is essential for schools of business. The first step in revitalization and improvement of the course is to identify factors suggested to be empirically related to succeessful completion. Accounting major status is of particular interest. While it has long been anecdotally observed and logically expected that accounting majors would earn higher grades in introductory accounting, it is rarely addressed in empirical studies. To investigate the impact of accounting major status on performance in introductory accounting, a sample of 398 students exposed to the same professor, text, teaching and examination format over five-years was gathered. Results suggest accounting major status was in fact a significant positive predictor of grades earned in the class controlling for three additional variables (i.e., grade point average, mathematics background and previous experience in the course). These results could be used to support the creation of an honors section(s) of accounting which could include a more rigorous curriculum taught with real life cases. Previous research supported the concept of an honors program from students, faculty and potential employers. In addition, the results suggest requiring a minimum grade point average and the completion of mathematics requirement before taking introductory accounting.
Keywords: dept.acc; peer-reviewed

The GAAP in Tesla’s Earnings Announcements: A Case Study on the Proliferation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures - Aselta, James; Engel, Russell Paul (The Accounting Educators' Journal, 2018)
The reporting of non-Generally Accepted Accounting Principles Measures (non-GAAP) by U.S. publically traded companies is not new but it has recently come under increased scrutiny by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This case presents a specific example of this scrutiny in the form of Tesla, Inc.’s quarterly earnings announcements and Tesla’s subsequent correspondence with the SEC. This case requires students to answer relevant questions about GAAP vs Non GAAP reporting, generally in the form of a research memo, with references to applicable SEC regulations and guidance on the use and reporting of non-GAAP measures.
Keywords: dept.acc; peer-reviewed

Jean Marie Despiau: Unjustly Maligned Physician in the Medical Service of the Nguyen - Thompson, C. Michele (Vietnam and the West, 2010)
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Swarms, Herds, and Peoples: Examinations of Interspecies Dynamics in China - Bello, David A.; Thompson, C. Michele (East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, 2018)
Gale OneFile includes Swarms, Herds, and Peoples: Examinations of Interspecie by David A. Bello and C. Michele Thompson. Click to explore.
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Leisure History and Heritage - Delisle, Lee J. (Dimensions of Leisure for Life: Individuals and Society, 2010)
Keywords: dept.rec

Improving dental visits for individuals with autism spectrum disorders through an understanding of sensory processing - Kuhaneck, Heather Miller; Chisholm, Elizabeth Cipes (Special Care in Dentistry, 2012)
The increasing prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) suggests that dental practices will be seeing patients with this diagnosis more frequently. Although patients with ASD have similar dental needs to other patients, the symptoms of the disorder may influence the ability of dental practitioners to provide necessary care. Dental professionals may be unaware of the difficulties with sensory processing common to patients with ASD. However, awareness of sensory processing issues and knowledge of strategies to improve the sensory experience for individuals with ASD may improve dental visits for these patients and allow for enhanced dental care provision.
Keywords: autism; autism spectrum disorder; dept.rec; peer-reviewed; sensory processing; sensory strategies; special care dentistry

A Preliminary Investigation of the Relationship between Sensory Processing and Social Play in Autism Spectrum Disorder - Kuhaneck, Heather Miller; Britner, Preston A. (OTJR: Occupational Therapy Journal of Research, 2013)
There are well-documented play deficits in autism beginning with infant object and social play. To create effective interventions, the predictors of play deficits in autism must be established. Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) frequently report sensory processing difficulties including poor praxis; however, these are potential predictors of play that have not been well studied. Using a data set of 162 individuals with ASD, this study examined the direct and indirect relationships between sensory processing and social play performance via structural equation modeling. The best fitting model suggested that sensory system functions predict praxis and play in combination, providing preliminary evidence that sensory functions are related to social play in combination with praxis in children with ASD. The findings suggest future avenues for research.
Keywords: dept.rec; peer-reviewed

Etiology of ASD - Kuhaneck, Heather M. (Autism Across the Lifespan: A Comprehensive Occupational Therapy Approach, 2018)
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Applying Principles of Family-Centered Care With Families of Individuals With ASD - Kuhaneck, Heather M.; Luthman, M. (Autism Across the Lifespan: A Comprehensive Occupational Therapy Approach, 2018)
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Applying Intergroup Contact Theory to the Sport Management Classroom - Bruening, Jennifer; Fuller, Rhema D.; Cotrufo, Raymond J.; Madsen, Rachel M.; Evanovich, Justin; Wilson-Hill, Devon E. (Sport Management Education Journal, 2014)
Allport’s (1954) intergroup contact hypothesis states that interactions with members of an out-group, particularly of a different racial and/or ethnic group, are effective in changing attitudes about diversity (Allport, 1954; Pettigrew, 1998). In this study, the intergroup contact hypothesis was applied to the design of a sport management course. The classroom component focused the role of sport in education, health, and leadership development, and the application was structured sport and physical activity programming with school-age children at several urban sites. Data were gathered from 91 college students over 3 years about course-related experiences and how the students’ backgrounds influenced their social identities and understanding of out-group members. Results showed that intergroup contact effectively assisted in developing understanding and cooperation and reducing negative attitudes between groups. The participants received diversity education, via intergroup contact, both inside and outside the classroom, which will potentially equip them to take proactive strategies when managing organizational diversity in the sport industry.
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Intercollegiate Athletes - Cotrufo, Raymond J. (Sports Leadership: A Concise Reference Guide, 2015)

Scott LaFaro - Chevan, David (The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2013)
"The Grove Dictionary of American Music" published on by Oxford University Press.
Keywords: Music; Regional and Area Studies; Social sciences; dept.mus

Red Nichols - Chevan, David (The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2013)
"The Grove Dictionary of American Music" published on by Oxford University Press.
Keywords: Music; Regional and Area Studies; Social sciences; dept.mus

Ray(mond) Brown - Chevan, David (The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2013)
"The Grove Dictionary of American Music" published on by Oxford University Press.
Keywords: Music; Regional and Area Studies; Social sciences; dept.mus

Kid Ory - Chevan, David (The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2013)
"The Grove Dictionary of American Music" published on by Oxford University Press.
Keywords: Music; Regional and Area Studies; Social sciences; dept.mus

Jimmy Blanton - Chevan, David (The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2013)
"The Grove Dictionary of American Music" published on by Oxford University Press.
Keywords: Music; Regional and Area Studies; Social sciences; dept.mus

Doc Cheatham - Chevan, David (The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2013)
"The Grove Dictionary of American Music" published on by Oxford University Press.
Keywords: Music; Regional and Area Studies; Social sciences; dept.mus

Gender differences in the endowment effect: Women pay less, but won’t accept less - Wieland, Alice; Sundali, James; Kemmelmeier, Markus; Sarin, Rakesh (Judgment and Decision Making, 2014)
We explore different contexts and mechanisms that might promote or alleviate the gender effect in risk aversion. Our main result is that we do not find gender differences in risk aversion when the choice is framed as a willingness-to-accept (WTA) task. When the choice is framed as a willingness-to-pay (WTP) task, men are willing to pay more and thus exhibit lower risk aversion. However, when the choice is framed as a willingness to accept task, women will not accept less than men. These findings imply gender differences in the endowment effect. We also find that the effect size of the gender difference in risk aversion is reduced or eliminated as the context changes from tasks framed as gambles to other domains; and that attitudes toward gambling mediate the gender effect in gambling framed tasks.
Keywords: dept.mgt; endowment effect; gambling attitudes; gender; peer-reviewed; risk attitudes; risk aversion; sex differences

Boosting Performance on an Evaluative Math Test: Goal Activation vs Self-Affirmation - Wieland, Alice M.; Burnham, Thomas A. (Psychological Reports, 2016)
This study compared the effectiveness of goal activation versus self-affirmation and a control condition as interventions for increasing performance on an evaluative task (a difficult math test; N = 78; M age = 20.3 yr., SD = 1.9). Although there has been much recent literature on the effects of activating goals, the existing literature does not examine possible spillover effects of activating goals on performance tasks. Results indicated that goal activation resulted in significant performance enhancements over both the self-affirmation and control conditions, while self-affirmation did not improve performance significantly relative to the control condition. Additionally, interest in the task, as a cue for self-regulatory resources, mediated the effect of goal activation on increased performance.
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Designing Entrepreneurship Experiments: A Review, Typology, and Research Agenda - Hsu, Dan K.; Simmons, Sharon A.; Wieland, Alice M. (Organizational Research Methods, 2017)
This article discusses the current and potential application of experimental methods to the study of entrepreneurship phenomena. Drawing on a review of experimental studies in entrepreneurship research, we discuss the advantages and disadvantages of experimental research designs for entrepreneurship research as a primer for those interested but not overly familiar with these methods. To advance research agendas and theory in the field, we introduce a typology of experimental manipulations that highlight alternative design choices based on the nature of their participant impact and realism of context. Finally, we provide an overview of areas of opportunity within the entrepreneurship literature for application of methods best suited to provide greater insight into the causal mechanisms at play.
Keywords: dept.mgt; peer-reviewed

A Chinese–Canadian Cross-Cultural Investigation of Transformational Leadership, Autonomous Motivation, and Collectivistic Value - Wang, Zheni; Gagné, Marylène (Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, 2013)
Synthesizing theories of transformational leadership and self-determination, this research investigated whether transformational leaders (a) promote the autonomous motivation of their subordinates and whether (b) it results in higher autonomous motivation when subordinates hold high collectivistic values. Multilevel data were obtained from work samples in China and Canada. The results showed a positive relation between managers’ transformational leadership and subordinates’ autonomous motivation cross-culturally. Although higher collectivistic values were related to higher autonomous motivation, collectivist values did not significantly moderate the motivational effect of transformational leadership.
Keywords: dept.mgt; peer-reviewed

Cultivating Employees Using Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - Stewart, Carol; Nodoushani, Omid; Stumpf, Jason (Competition Forum, 2018)
Stress caused by climates of fear in the workplace is sapping employee decision-making and causing conflict in the workplace. While hard to quantify, it is easy to understand why intelligent and engaged employees are the ideal: there are fewer mistakes and higher productivity. The primary metric used to frame the reasons for motivation is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. It is also vitally important to understand the power balance between employees and employers. By the very nature of employment, employers have less need for a particular employee unlike the employee who cannot afford to be unemployed.
Keywords: Business And Economics; Compensation; Competition; Corporate culture; Emotions; Employees; Employers; Employment; Employment security; Empowerment; Games; Handbooks; Happiness; Job satisfaction; Personal computers; Physiology; Software; Stress; Success; Work environment; Workers; dept.mgt; peer-reviewed

Linking Leadership Behaviors and Information Exchange to Improve Supply Chain Performance: A Conceptual Model - Birasnav, M.; Mittal, Rakesh; Loughlin, Selene (Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, 2015)
Organizations striving to improve cycle time concentrate on developing long-term relationship with suppliers. In order to support organizational efforts, this study develops a conceptual model that explores the relationships among leadership behaviors, relational commitment and trust, information exchange, and cycle time. Although the supply chain management literature mentions leadership behavior in the context of supply chain, there are no studies that examine the impact of leadership behaviors on cycle time. This study proposes that transformational and transactional leadership behaviors of buyers increase the flow of information to suppliers directly as well as indirectly through relational commitment and trust, and these relationships also influence cycle time. However, it also proposes that the impact of transformational leadership behaviors on relational commitment and trust and information exchange is stronger than the impact of transactional leadership behaviors. Additionally, both uncertain environment and supplier base have potential to play moderation roles in the relationship between transformational leadership and relational commitment and trust and between transformational leadership and information exchange.
Keywords: Cycle time; Information exchange; Relational commitment; Relational trust; Supplier base; Transactional leadership; Transformational leadership; dept.mgt; peer-reviewed

Bankruptcy Law and Practice - J.D, Grace A. Luppino; J.D, Robert A. Smith (Pearson, 2015)
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Leadership, Generations and Small Business - Just, Renee (Scholars' Press, 2013)
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Enhancing Vocabulary Intervention for Kindergarten Students: Strategic Integration of Semantically Related and Embedded Word Review - Zipoli, Richard P.; Coyne, Michael D.; McCoach, D. Betsy (Remedial and Special Education, 2011)
Two approaches to systematic word review were integrated into an 18-week program of extended vocabulary instruction with kindergarten students from three high-need urban schools. Words in the embedded and semantically related review conditions received systematic and distributed review. In the embedded review condition, brief word definitions were integrated into the narratives of multiple storybooks. In the semantically related review condition, in-depth word review with explicit emphasis on semantic features and associations was provided during extension activities. Systematic review resulted in an almost twofold increase in target word learning. Embedded review was effective and time efficient, whereas semantically related review was time intensive but resulted in higher levels of word learning. There was a significant gain in Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test—III standard scores following the intervention.
Keywords: dept.cmd; peer-reviewed

Effects of a Supplemental Vocabulary Intervention on the Word Knowledge of Kindergarten Students at Risk for Language and Literacy Difficulties - Loftus, Susan M.; Coyne, Michael D.; McCoach, D. Betsy; Zipoli, Richard; Pullen, Paige C. (Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2010)
The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of a vocabulary intervention designed to supplement research–based classroom vocabulary instruction, implemented with students who may be at risk for language and learning difficulties. Participants included 43 kindergarten students who received research–based classroom vocabulary instruction. Students with the 20 lowest scores on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test–III administered at pretest received additional small–group supplemental vocabulary intervention. Results of within–subjects comparisons indicated that, overall, at–risk students made greater gains in word knowledge on target words that received the supplemental intervention as compared to words that received only classroom–based instruction. In addition, at–risk students who received the supplemental intervention demonstrated word–learning gains that approached those of their peers who received classroom instruction alone. Implications along with limitations of the current study and directions for future research are discussed.
Keywords: dept.cmd; peer-reviewed

Effective Strategies for Teaching Reading Comprehension. - Coyne, M. D.; Chard, D. J.; Zipoli, R. P.; Ruby, M. F. (Effective Teaching Strategies that Accommodate Diverse Learners, 2010)
Keywords: dept.cmd

Initiating Safe Oral Feeding in Critically Ill Intensive Care and Step-Down Unit Patients Based on Passing a 3-Ounce (90 Milliliters) Water Swallow Challenge - Leder, Steven B.; Suiter, Debra M.; Warner, Heather L.; Kaplan, Lewis J. (Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 2011)
Background: Pulmonary aspiration is a leading cause of nosocomial infection in the intensive care unit (ICU) and step-down unit (SDU). A key goal is to identify patients who exhibit increased aspiration risk before beginning oral alimentation. This study investigated the success of recommending specific oral diets to ICU and SDU patients based on passing a 3-oz water swallow challenge. Methods: A referral-based sample of 401 ICU and 92 SDU patients were prospectively analyzed. Amount of liquid and food ingested at the next day's meal 12 hours to 24 hours after passing a 3-oz challenge and specific diet recommendations were accessed electronically from oral intake information entered on each participant's daily care sheets. Drinking and eating success, clinically evident aspiration events, and accuracy of diet order recommendations were recorded. Care providers were blinded to the purpose of the study. Results: All 401 ICU and 92 SDU patients were successfully drinking thin liquids and eating 12 hours to 24 hours after passing a 3-oz challenge. Mean volume of liquid ingested at the next day's meal was 360 mL ± 181.2 mL for ICU and 356.4 mL ± 173.5 mL for SDU patients. Percent of meal eaten ranged from 10% to 100%. Patient care sheets indicated specific diet recommendations were followed with 100% accuracy. Conclusions: Successfully recommending specific oral diets for ICU and SDU patients based on passing a 3-oz water swallow challenge was supported. Importantly, when a simple bedside 3-oz challenge administered by a trained provider is passed, specific diet recommendations can be made safely and confidently without the need for further objective dysphagia testing.
Keywords: dept.cmd; peer-reviewed

Effect of Presence/Absence of a Nasogastric Tube in the Same Person on Incidence of Aspiration - Fattal, Michael; Suiter, Debra M.; Warner, Heather L.; Leder, Steven B. (Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, 2011)
Objective. To determine what effect, if any, the presence or absence of a nasogastric (NG) tube in the same person had on the incidence of anterograde aspiration. Design. Case series with planned data collection. Setting. Large, urban, tertiary care teaching hospital. Subjects and Methods. Referred sample of 62 consecutively enrolled adult inpatients for fiber-optic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES). Group 1 (n = 21) had either small-bore (n = 13) or large-bore (n = 8) NG tubes already in place and had a FEES first with the NG tube in place and a second FEES after NG tube removal. Group 2 (n = 41) did not have an NG tube and had a FEES first without an NG tube and a second FEES after placement of a small-bore NG tube. Time between FEES was approximately 5 minutes. Patients were tested with thin liquid and puree food consistencies. Occurrence of aspiration for each consistency dependent on the presence or absence of an NG tube was recorded. Results. There were no significant differences (P > .05) in aspiration status for both liquid and puree consistencies in the same person dependent on presence or absence of either a small-bore or large-bore NG tube. Conclusions. Since objective swallowing evaluation (eg, FEES) can be performed with an NG tube in place, it is not necessary to remove an NG tube to evaluate for aspiration. Similarly, there is no contraindication to leaving an NG tube in place to supplement oral alimentation until nutritional requirements are achieved.
Keywords: dept.cmd; peer-reviewed

Deaf-Blind - McCullagh, Jennifer; Weiss, Deborah (Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2013)
Keywords: dept.cmd

Screening Test for Auditory Processing Disorders - McCullagh, Jennifer (Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2013)
Keywords: dept.cmd

Pediatric Speech Intelligibility Test - McCullagh, Jennifer (Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2013)
Keywords: dept.cmd

Otitis Media - McCullagh, Jennifer (Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2013)
Keywords: dept.cmd

Hearing - McCullagh, Jennifer (Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2013)
Keywords: dept.cmd

Dichotic Listening - McCullagh, Jennifer (Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2013)
Keywords: dept.cmd

Deafness - McCullagh, Jennifer (Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2013)
Keywords: dept.cmd

Cochlea - McCullagh, Jennifer (Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2013)
Keywords: dept.cmd

Brainstem Audiometry - McCullagh, Jennifer (Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2013)
Keywords: dept.cmd

Auditory Brainstem Response, ABR - McCullagh, Jennifer (Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2013)
Keywords: dept.cmd

African Americans and the Consequences of Discrimination - Howe, Esther; Hamilton, Julia (Diversity, Oppression, and Social Functioning: Person-In-Environment Assessment and Intervention, 2010)
Keywords: dept.swk

Lookism: Bias Based on Appearance - Howe, Esther (Diversity, Oppression, and Social Functioning: Person-In-Environment Assessment and Intervention, 2010)
Keywords: dept.swk

Effect of online courses on US college students’ knowledge about health disparities - Njoku, Anuli (Health Education Journal, 2019)
Objective: To describe faculty efforts to deliver and evaluate health disparities–related education in US online undergraduate and graduate public health courses. Design: A pre- and post-survey was given to a cohort of 46 US college students in three public health courses taught asynchronously online over an 8-week period in 2017. This study took place at a mid-sized, public, rural, midwestern US university. Method: Faculty received professional development and online training and were assigned to develop courses for a new public health programme. Following the receipt of ethical approval, students completed anonymous, online pre- and post-surveys to assess effect of intentional instructional approaches on their knowledge and attitudes about health disparities. Curricula incorporated various assessment methods and teaching strategies. Descriptive statistics were used to compare pre- and post-survey scores and analyse demographic data. Paired t-tests and one-way analysis of variance were used to analyse pre- and post-survey test scores. Results: At post-survey, students demonstrated a positive change in mean scores for several items, including for ability to discuss the role of theory in understanding health behaviour and disparities in health status (3.20 vs 4.06; p < .001) and ability to discuss strategies health promotion programmes can use to reduce health disparities (3.47 vs 4.40; p < .001). Post-survey response rate was 87%. Conclusion: Results suggest an effective way to increase health disparities knowledge among online college students. Additional research is encouraged to expand upon these findings.
Keywords: dept.pch; peer-reviewed

Infusing Health Disparities Awareness Into Public Health Curricula at a Rural Midwestern University - Njoku, Anuli; Wakeel, Fathima (Pedagogy in Health Promotion, 2019)
Preventable differences in health outcomes between U.S. population subgroups, related to factors such as race or ethnicity, income, and geographic location, are troubling. Geographically, rural American communities experience higher rates of adverse health conditions when compared with urban areas, further widening disparities in health outcomes. Such disparities necessitate the creation of effective curricula to enable students to address the health needs of underserved populations. By intentionally incorporating health disparities awareness content into the curricula, undergraduate and graduate public health programs can play an integral role in developing conscious health practitioners to help close gaps in health outcomes. Moreover, rural health courses may increase students’ interest in rural health careers. This article presents the process and results of faculty efforts to design and deliver health disparities–related education in undergraduate and graduate public health courses at a rural Midwestern U.S. university. Various teaching development programs inspired faculty to use intentional instructional approaches to teach students about health disparities. Consequently, faculty incorporated a variety of assessment methods and teaching styles to infuse health disparities awareness content into public health courses. Results from students’ course evaluations and reflections are discussed along with lessons learned and implications for future pedagogical directions.
Keywords: dept.pch; peer-reviewed

Near-resonance in a System of Sub-Neptunes from TESS - Quinn, Samuel N.; Becker, Juliette C.; Rodriguez, Joseph E.; Hadden, Sam; Huang, Chelsea X.; Morton, Timothy D.; Adams, Fred C.; Armstrong, David; Eastman, Jason D.; Horner, Jonathan; Kane, Stephen R.; Lissauer, Jack J.; et al. (The Astronomical Journal, 2019)
We report the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite detection of a multi-planet system orbiting the V = 10.9 K0 dwarf TOI-125. We find evidence for up to five planets, with varying confidence. Three transit signals with high signal-to-noise ratio correspond to sub-Neptune-sized planets (2.76, 2.79, and 2.94 R⊕), and we statistically validate the planetary nature of the two inner planets (Pb = 4.65 days, Pc = 9.15 days). With only two transits observed, we report the outer object (P.03 = 19.98 days) as a planet candidate with high signal-to-noise ratio. We also detect a candidate transiting super-Earth (1.4 R⊕) with an orbital period of only 12.7 hr and a candidate Neptune-sized planet (4.2 R⊕) with a period of 13.28 days, both at low signal-to-noise ratio. This system is amenable to mass determination via radial velocities and transit-timing variations, and provides an opportunity to study planets of similar size while controlling for age and environment. The ratio of orbital periods between TOI-125 b and c (Pc/Pb = 1.97) is slightly lower than an exact 2:1 commensurability and is atypical of multiple planet systems from Kepler, which show a preference for period ratios just wide of first-order period ratios. A dynamical analysis refines the allowed parameter space through stability arguments and suggests that despite the nearly commensurate periods, the system is unlikely to be in resonance.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Using Visual Mapping to Promote Higher-Level Thinking in Music-Making - Groffman, Joshua; Wolfe, Zora M. (Music Educators Journal, 2019)
What tools are available to foster independent and critical thought in the music classroom? We propose that visual mapping—a method of representing relationships and associations between a main concept and other ideas, subtopics, or examples—is an ideal tool for doing exactly this. After examining the principles and usefulness of mapping in a variety of contexts, we discuss several specific ways in which mapping might be implemented in teaching music. We argue that the central strength of mapping is its ability to encourage users to be explicit and metacognitive about their knowledge. As such, it can be part of a constructivist stance whereby the instructor creates a student-centered classroom in which learners are active, engaged participants in their education.
Keywords: dept.mus; peer-reviewed

Exploring the Gender Gap in Tech Companies: Why Aren't There More Women? - Chaudhry, Haroon; Wall, Alison E.; Wall, Jerry L. (Competition Forum, 2019)
Diversity issues in organizations have long been the subject of organizational studies and cultural examinations. While organizations have made several advancements to balance the presence of female representation in their employees, there remains a paucity of women in certain fields, most notably the tech industry where, despite similar performance in courses, women are alarmingly underrepresented. This paper examines this lack of diversity and proposes some remedies for specifically addressing the lack of women in the tech industry and can be extended to participation in any STEM careers that makes up a significant portion of the tech industry.
Keywords: Bullying; Business And Economics; Careers; Employees; Employment; Females; Gender; High tech industries; Litigation; Multiculturalism & pluralism; Research & development--R&D; STEM education; STEM professions; Social networks; Success; Women; dept.mgt; peer-reviewed

Integration of Social Capital and Organizational Learning Theories to Improve Operational Performance - Birasnav, M.; Chaudhary, Richa; Scillitoe, Joanne (Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, 2019)
This study focuses on integrating the premises of social capital theory and the theory of organizational learning to improve the operational performance of firms nurturing the buyer–supplier relationship. Social capital theory highlights the importance of developing social relationships between firms to create valuable resources and collectively access critical resources. Organizational learning theory highlights that the learning capacity of an organization strongly depends on top-level leaders’ behaviors, organizational structure, culture, and flexibility, and uncertainties in the environment in which the organization functions. Though many studies have focused on the impact of social capital on performance improvements in the buyer–supplier relationship, the interlinkages between social capital and organizational learning have not been given much attention. Based upon these theories, a system-focused perspective, which showcases the antecedents and outcome of the relationship between collaborative communication and learning, has been proposed in this study. A literature review has been carried out to support the linkages in the proposed conceptual model. Findings suggest that transformational buyers support creating cognitive capital with suppliers. This cognitive capital influences the structural capital, which supports improving the understanding of each party’s processes in the buyer–supplier relationship when parties have high long-term orientation. Improved learning capability reshapes organizations into flexible systems capable of responding quickly to customer requirements, and consequently, they realize a higher performance level.
Keywords: Collaborative communication; Information technology competency; Long-term orientation; Organizational learning; Supplier knowledge; Transformational leadership; dept.mgt

Integrating Theories of Strategic Leadership, Social Exchange, and Structural Capital in the Context of Buyer–Supplier Relationship: An Empirical Study - Birasnav, M.; Mittal, Rakesh; Dalpati, Avadhesh (Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, 2019)
This study is aimed at improving the purchasing cycle time in a buyer–supplier relationship by integrating the facets of strategic leadership, social exchange, and social capital theories. We developed and tested a conceptual model that postulated relationships among strategic leadership behavior, relational trust and commitment, structural capital, and purchasing cycle time. Data were collected from purchase managers and their employees working in 105 manufacturing companies and analyzed using structural equation modeling technique. Our findings indicated that strategic leadership behaviors are positively related to trust in the buyer–supplier relationship. In addition, trust enhances relational commitment between buyer and supplier, which in turn positively relates to information sharing and supplier development. Further, increased information sharing in the relationship results in reduced purchasing cycle time. Implications for both theory and practice are discussed in depth, and directions for future research are suggested.
Keywords: Cycle time; Information sharing; Relational commitment; Relational trust-Strategic leadership; Supplier development; dept.mgt; peer-reviewed

Employee Assistance Programs: Balancing Increased Productivity and Engagement Among Employees with Equal Employment and Legal Complience - Smith, Robert A.; Badr, Kauther S.; Wall, Alison E. (Competition Forum, 2019)
Managing the impact of employees' personal and work-related difficulties on workplace productivity is becoming increasingly salient for organizations. Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) are one approach to help improve the quality of life for employees and maximize their productivity. While EAPs have many benefits, potential negative ramifications and legal considerations must also be considered. This article highlights some important cases and the best practices for organizations to utilize in creating clear organizational policies that align with equal employment opportunity and privacy laws in collaboration with legal and human resources professionals and employee assistance providers to reduce or eliminate potential liability.
Keywords: Absenteeism; Affirmative action; Business And Economics; Complaints; Confidentiality; Costs; Employees; Employers; Employment discrimination; Human resource management; Labor law; Performance evaluation; Productivity; Sexual harassment; dept.mgt; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Career Development Interventions for Social Justice: Addressing Needs across the Lifespan in Educational, Community, and Employment Contexts - Jackson, Margo A.; Regis, Allyson K.; Bennett, Kourtney (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019)
Keywords: dept.sa

Rethinking Education from Patients' Perspectives - Harrison, Jill; Frampton, Susan; McNeal, Gloria J.; Todorova, Elena; Wahl, Carol; Kreiger, Joan (ABNF Journal, 2019)
Person-centered care (PCC) is a term used to describe an individualized approach to patient care that engages patients and families as partners in meaningful ways to create a comprehensive, collaborative, and customized plan and experience of care. Although some healthcare fields of study, such as the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) model, have adopted and integrated person-centered care concepts and competencies into their curricula, there remains a critical gap in higher education to systematically integrate person-centered care into the curricula and assessment of interprofessional healthcare fields of study. While the delivery of person-centered care by healthcare professionals requires education and training in PCC concepts, this training has primarily occurred on the job, without a standardized and comprehensive curriculum to systematically teach and assess PCC competencies to students in interprofessional healthcare and medical degree programs. Until recently, the educational foundations for healthcare disciplines were drawn primarily from biomedical, business, and nursing models, not from patients' points of view. In this article, we consider why teaching and evaluating PCC concepts should be the foundation of all interprofessional health education. We first review the perspectives of relevance to our argument and then advocate for a person-centered paradigm shift for interprofessional healthcare and medical education and training. Next, we argue that integrating and evaluating students' understanding and application of PCC concepts in all healthcarerelated disciplines will ensure that graduates receive the most current and relevant preparation for careers in healthcare and that this aligns with the expectations of patients as consumers.
Keywords: Curriculum; Education; Evaluation; GenderWatch; Interprofessional education; Patient; Person-centered care; Teaching method; Y; dept.hms; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

State Physical Education Policy Changes From 2001 to 2016 - Dauenhauer, Brian; Keating, Xiaofen; Stoepker, Peter; Knipe, Robert (Journal of School Health, 2019)
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND State policies influence the quantity and quality of educational programs delivered in schools. This study examined state physical education policy changes from 2001 to 2016 by analyzing data reported in The Shape of the Nation Report . METHODS Policies related to state mandates for physical education, time/credit requirements, assessment and fitness testing requirements, adoption of state standards, and allowance of substitutions were analyzed over 5 editions of the report using repeated measures statistics. RESULTS A majority of state physical education‐related policies have not changed over the past 15 years despite calls by numerous public health agencies for enhanced physical education in schools. There was, however, a significant increase in the number of states adopting teaching standards and requiring assessment and fitness testing in physical education, mirroring a broader shift in education toward standards, assessment, and accountability. CONCLUSIONS Despite improved rigor in physical education through the adoption of standards and assessment practices, physical education continues to be marginalized in schools by a lack of curricular time and inappropriate substitution policies. Stronger policies are needed for physical education to have a substantial impact on school health.
Keywords: dept.hms; peer-reviewed

When I'm done helping with your battles, I've got work to do: Black feminism, white power, and the messy swelling of the margins - Kerr, Audrey E. (Our Voices Our Stories: An Anthology of Writings Advancing, Celebrating, Embracing and Empowering Girls and Women of Color, 2019)
"Our Voices Our Stories" is filled with thought-provoking poems, essays, short stories and other writings advancing, celebrating, embracing and empowering girls, teens and women of color worldwide. The diverse national and international voices represented in this anthology focus on the psychological, emotional, physical and social issues, traumas and challenges experienced by girls, teens and women of color. The writing will encourage society to understand what it means to be a girl, teen and woman of color living in a society that does not always listen to hear their voices or their stories.
Keywords: dept.eng

Behavior Management: Traditional and Expanded Approaches - Haynes, Norris M. (UPA, 2012)
Keywords: dept.eco

Performance of State-Owned Enterprises: A Comparative Analysis of Ethiopian Airlines and Ghana Airways - Andoh, Samuel K.; Gebremariam, Yilma; Thorson, James; Bodo, Peter (American Journal of Management, 2019)
This paper examines the performance of two state-owned airlines: Ethiopian Airlines and Ghana Airways. While Ethiopian Airlines continues to operate successfully, the other airline has gone out of business. In an industry characterized by heavy competition and a high rate of failure, the success of the state- owned Ethiopian Airlines is intriguing. The evidence shows that Ethiopian Airlines outperforms the industry on some important benchmarks. These findings suggest that being a state enterprise is not necessarily a characteristic that leads to failure. Corporate culture and governance appear to be important factors in the success of Ethiopian Airlines.
Keywords: Airlines; Business And Economics--Management; Business metrics; Economic growth; Economic theory; Emerging markets; Failure; Profits; Public enterprise; Stockholders; Success; dept.eco; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

New Literacies of Online Reading Comprehension - Leu, Donald J.; Everett-Cacopardo, Heidi; Zawilinski, Lisa; McVerry, Greg; O'Byrne, W. Ian (The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, 2012)
Literacy has become deictic (Leu, 2000); the meaning of literacy is rapidly changing as new technologies for literacy continually appear and new social practices of literacy quickly emerge.
Keywords: Internet; dept.cur; language in the classroom; literacy; online reading comprehension; reading

Statistical Models for Predicting a Patient’s Respiratory Disturbance Index - Park, Jangwoon; Sheta, Alaa; Surani, Salim (CHEST, 2019)
SESSION TITLE: Clinical Prediction and Diagnosis of OSA
Keywords: dept.csc

Evolving neural networks using bird swarm algorithm for data classification and regression applications - Aljarah, Ibrahim; Faris, Hossam; Mirjalili, Seyedali; Al-Madi, Nailah; Sheta, Alaa; Mafarja, Majdi (Cluster Computing, 2019)
This work proposes a new evolutionary multilayer perceptron neural networks using the recently proposed Bird Swarm Algorithm. The problem of finding the optimal connection weights and neuron biases is first formulated as a minimization problem with mean square error as the objective function. The BSA is then used to estimate the global optimum for this problem. A comprehensive comparative study is conducted using 13 classification datasets, three function approximation datasets, and one real-world case study (Tennessee Eastman chemical reactor problem) to benchmark the performance of the proposed evolutionary neural network. The results are compared with well-regarded conventional and evolutionary trainers and show that the proposed method provides very competitive results. The paper also considers a deep analysis of the results, revealing the flexibility, robustness, and reliability of the proposed trainer when applied to different datasets.
Keywords: Bird Swarm Algorithm; Classification; Multilayer perceptron; Neural networks; Optimization; Regression; dept.csc; peer-reviewed

Diagnosis of Sleep Apnea Using Artificial Neural Network and Binary Particle Swarm Optimization for Feature Selection - Surani, Salim; Sheta, Alaa; Turabieh, Hamza; Park, Jangwoon; Mathur, Sunil; Katangur, Ajay (CHEST, 2019)
SESSION TITLE: Clinical Prediction and Diagnosis of OSA
Keywords: dept.csc

Collision-Free Autonomous Robot Navigation in Unknown Environments Utilizing PSO for Path Planning - Krell, Evan; Sheta, Alaa; Balasubramanian, Arun Prassanth Ramaswamy; King, Scott A. (Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing Research, 2019)
AbstractThe autonomous navigation of robots in unknown environments is a challenge since it needs the integration of a several subsystems to implement different functionality. It needs drawing a map of the environment, robot map localization, motion planning or path following, implementing the path in real-world, and many others; all have to be implemented simultaneously. Thus, the development of autonomous robot navigation (ARN) problem is essential for the growth of the robotics field of research. In this paper, we present a simulation of a swarm intelligence method is known as Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) to develop an ARN system that can navigate in an unknown environment, reaching a pre-defined goal and become collision-free. The proposed system is built such that each subsystem manipulates a specific task which integrated to achieve the robot mission. PSO is used to optimize the robot path by providing several waypoints that minimize the robot traveling distance. The Gazebo simulator was used to test the response of the system under various envirvector representing a solution to the optimization problem.onmental conditions. The proposed ARN system maintained robust navigation and avoided the obstacles in different unknown environments. vector representing a solution to the optimization problem.
Keywords: dept.csc; peer-reviewed

Adaboosting Model for Detecting Osa - Surani, Salim; Sheta, Alaa; Turabieh, Hamza; Subramanian, Shyamsunder (CHEST, 2019)
SESSION TITLE: Clinical Prediction and Diagnosis of OSA
Keywords: dept.csc

Speaking and Reading in Two Languages: On the Identification of Reading and Language Disabilities in Spanish-Speaking English Learners - Francis, David J.; Rojas, Raúl; Gusewski, Svenja; Santi, Kristi L.; Khalaf, Shiva; Hiebert, Lindsey; Bunta, Ferenc (New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2019)
Articles in this issue examine (1) the primary sources of variability in reading and language achievement among Spanish-speaking English learners (ELs) in the United States, (2) the extent to which poor performance at the end of grade 2 is identifiable in developmental trajectories beginning in kindergarten, (3) the relations among core reading constructs of phonological awareness and decoding in both English and Spanish and the factors that affect their relationship, (4) the performance of different approaches to identification and the factors that influence how well they work, as well as (5) the growing literature focused on intervention for reading problems in this population. This article examines the literature on language minority students and disability identification and analyzes a large-scale longitudinal dataset (>4,000 ELs; >15,000 observations) to systematically characterize and describe the oral language and reading development of Spanish-speaking children designated as ELs from kindergarten to second grade, considering a range of factors that may potentially contribute to that characterization and its relation to academic performance. This systematic characterization should facilitate the development of an empirical basis for a theoretically grounded framework of typical development in ELs in order to more precisely identify those children with language and learning disabilities.
Keywords: dept.cmd; peer-reviewed

Moving Forward by Looking Back: Understanding Why Some Spanish-Speaking English Learners Fall Behind - Rojas, Raúl; Hiebert, Lindsey; Gusewski, Svenja; Francis, David J. (New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2019)
This study investigated early indicators of Spanish-speaking English learners (ELs) at risk for reading difficulties at the end of Grade 2 by examining their early bilingual oral language development, taking into account language of academic instruction. Standardized measures of reading and narrative samples were collected in English and Spanish from kindergarten to Grade 2 from 1,243 ELs primarily instructed in English or Spanish. Conditional growth curve models yielded four primary findings of reading and oral language development. First, ELs with low reading achievement at the end of Grade 2 demonstrated early reading difficulties during kindergarten. Second, although ELs demonstrated overall higher reading achievement in their instructed language, this difference decreased over time. Third, ELs with low reading achievement at the end of Grade 2 demonstrated lower oral language skills in each language over time. Fourth, ELs demonstrated overall higher oral language skills in their instructed language, yet these differences varied over time. The study provided a detailed description of the longitudinal relations among the bilingual reading and oral language skills of Spanish-speaking ELs during the early school years. These findings help to inform the processes of early identification and intervention for Spanish-speaking ELs who are likely to demonstrate reading achievement difficulties.
Keywords: dept.cmd; peer-reviewed

CHE 260 Organic Chemistry I Laboratory Manual - Karatjas, Andrew G.; Coca, Adiel (Freeman Custom Publishing, 2013)

Organic Chemistry 261 Lab Manual - Karatjas, Andrew; Coca, Adiel (2012)
Keywords: dept.che

The Chemistry of Organoboron Species: Classification and Basic Properties - Williams, Cory; Luis, Mario; Lopez, Ivan; Coca, Adiel (Patai's Chemistry of Functional Groups, 2019)
Organoboron chemistry began more than 150 years ago when the synthesis and reactivity of triethylborane was described. Organoboron chemistry research has rapidly increased within the past few decades due to the increased usage of organoboron compounds in organic synthesis and biomedical applications. This chapter gives an overview of the general physical and chemical characteristics of select organoboron compounds. Only compounds incorporating a boron–carbon bond are discussed in detail.
Keywords: aminoboranes; boranes; borinic acids; borinic esters; borohydrides; boron; boronic acids; boronic esters; dept.che; diazaboranes; organoboron compounds

Erratum: “The Kepler Follow-up Observation Program. I. A Catalog of Companions to Kepler Stars from High-resolution Imaging” (2017, AJ, 153, 71) - Furlan, E.; Ciardi, D. R.; Everett, M. E.; Saylors, M.; Teske, J. K.; Horch, E. P.; Howell, S. B.; Belle, G. T. van; Hirsch, L. A.; Gautier, T. N.; Adams, E. R.; Barrado, D.; et al. (The Astronomical Journal, 2017)
We have added references to Tables 3 and 8 (last column in each table). Below is a sample of both tables; the full tables are available in machine-readable form.
Keywords: dept.phy

Black Women Speaking From Within - Hope, Kelly (Peter Lang, 2019)
In Black Women Speaking From Within: Essays and Experiences in Higher Education, contributors use intersectional and interdisciplinary lenses to share the ways in which they understand, navigate, resist, and transform student services, learning, teaching, and existing in the academy. This book explores and discusses the following question: How do Black women experience and perceive place and agency in higher education? Black Women Speaking From Within draws upon the influence organizational culture, sense-making, and sisterhood has on praxis and pedagogy and places the Black woman’s stories and experiences at the center of the conversation.
Keywords: dept.eng

“How can you be allergic to peas?” – A qualitative study to explore food handler’s knowledge, attitudes and understanding of food allergens - Allen, David; Mitchell, Graeme; Pascucilla, Michael (Sanitarno inženirstvo International Journal of Sanitary Engineering Research, 2019)
Abstract It is clear that there is an increasing proportion of the United Kingdom (UK) population who are suffering with food allergies and this combined with an increase in the frequency of eating away from home (where there is less control over the content of food) poses a significant risk. In December 2014, the European Union (EU) introduced legislation which aimed to ensure that customers with food allergens could make informed choices and safely consume food, without the risk of a potentially life-threatening reaction. The research used semi-structured interviews with staff from a BCB, located in the North West of the UK, as the aim of the research was to explore food handlers’ knowledge, attitudes and understanding of food allergens. The findings of the semi-structured interviews identified five themes: E-learning training programmes: the staff felt that these were ineffective and did not take into account individual learning styles. Responsibility: there is a lack of clarity as to who is responsible, with staff believing the key responsibility lies with the customer. Communication: similarly, communication, both within the kitchen and within the company was not clear and likely to give rise to confusion. Need to make a profit: the staff felt that the drive for profit meant that customer safety was being compromised, especially when staff numbers were reduced. Staff awareness: the staff felt confident in their own ability to prepare a safe meal but indicated that staff may be dismissive towards claims of allergen sufferers. In conclusion, these themes illustrate that a significant risk exists for allergen suffers, who rely upon the knowledge, attitudes and understanding of BCB staff to ensure their meals are safely prepared.
Keywords: dept.pch; peer-reviewed

Effects of an adapted physical education training package on special education teacher instruction - Laughlin, Michael K.; Murata, Nathan M.; McDougall, Dennis (Behavioral Interventions, 2019)
This study investigated the impact of an adapted physical education training package on functional motor skill instruction of three special education teachers who instructed secondary students with low-incidence disabilities. The training package emphasized teachers' use of systematic prompting and specific reinforcement teaching strategies plus adapted physical education consultation. We used a multiple baseline design and collected data on the three teachers' use of systematic prompting and specific reinforcement plans during videotaped teaching trials. We also collected data on how teachers documented their instructional strategies, and we analyzed personal reflections that teachers wrote in the journals. Results indicated that with each of the three teachers, correctly implemented functional motor skill instructional performance improved after they completed the training package.
Keywords: dept.hms; functional motor skills; peer-reviewed; prompting; reinforcement; severe disabilities; special education

'Abd al-Rahman b. 'Amr al-Awza'i - Judd, Steven C. (Simon and Schuster, 2019)
‘Abd al-Rahman b. ‘Amr al-Awza‘i (c.707–774) was Umayyad Syria’s most influential jurist, part of a generation of scholars who began establishing the first formal structures for the preservation and dissemination of religious knowledge. Following the Abbasid revolution, they provided a point of stability in otherwise unstable times. Despite his close ties to the old regime, al-Awza‘i continued to participate in legal and theological matters in the Abbasid era. Although his immediate impact would prove short-lived, his influence on aspects of Islamic law, particularly the laws of war, endures to this day.
Keywords: Biography & Autobiography / Historical; History / General; History / Middle East / General; Law / Islamic; Religion / History; Religion / Islam / General; Religion / Islam / Theology; Social Science / Islamic Studies; dept.his

The personal is professional: Unpacking cultural sanctions through the identities of mother /educator/lesbians - Bower-Phipps, Laura (Sexual Orientation and Teacher Identity: Professionalism and LGBTQ Politics in Teacher Preparation and Practice, 2019)
Keywords: dept.cur; dept.eng

Facing the Other: Responsibility, Convictions and the Ethics of Attachment - Larocco, Steve (The Ethos of Theorizing: Peer-reviewed, Edited and Selected Proceedings of the Seventeenth Biennial Conference of International Society for Theoretical Psychology, Tokyo, Japan, August 2017, 2019)
Keywords: dept.eng; peer-reviewed

The Use of Census-Based Geographic Automata Systems in Understanding the Spread of Infectious Disease. - Vitale, Joseph (2010)
Keywords: dept.csc; faculty_collection; sabbatical_report

History of Geography as a Science in the Republic of Paraguay. - Yacher, Leon I. (2010)
Keywords: dept.egm; faculty_collection; sabbatical_report

Curriculum Innovation Program Fellowship "Serving the Community Through Service Learning" - Jackson, Shirley A. (2011)
Dr. Jackson worked on her Curriculum Innovation Program fellowship, "Serving the community through service learning," completed write-up for Ethnic Studies Curriculum-Related Activity Grant for "Ethnic Studies Program Development at Southern Connecticut State University," worked on several articles and two book proposals encompassing research of race issues and their representation in contemporary cartoons, as well as attended conferences, both as a presenter and a chair, participated in workshops, and reviewed textbook chapters and an article.
Keywords: SCSU; Sabbatical leave report; dept.soc; faculty_collection; sabbatical_report

Report for Sabbatical Leave, Spring 2011. - Piemontese, Luisa (2011)
Studied contemporary poetry in Spanish by Spanish-speaking authors living in Connecticut. Works of four poets were chosen for a bilingual anthology. Seventy five percent of poems selected for this publication were translated and their analytical study completed. In addition, audio interviews were completed, and multimedia presentation, including photos, biographies, and bilingual readings was compiled and given. Publishing companies were identified for submission of the anthology's proposal.
Keywords: Connecticut; Poets, Spanish American; United States; dept.wll; faculty_collection; sabbatical_report

Sabbatical Leave Fall 2012 Follow-up Report - Sampson, Linda (Distribution: Fall 2012 ; Communication., 2012)
The objective was to collect and analyze some exploratory data for research on "Exploring incivility in interpersonal relationships." The collected data provided material for two papers to be delivered at a national and international conference in 2013.
Keywords: dept.com; faculty_collection; sabbatical_report

Sabbatical leave report: Fall 2013 - Nakamura, Byron (Distribution: Fall 2013 ; History., 2013)
This leave was devoted to research and revision of two conference papers submitted for publication, and to revision of a book chapter on boxing in the antiquity The chapter was submitted and accepted for publication in the Cambridge Companion to Boxing series.
Keywords: dept.his; faculty_collection; sabbatical_report

The Lion and the Lily: Map and Atlas Production in Early Modern England and France. - Petto, Christine Marie (2011)
Dr. Petto completed chapters 2 and 3 and a book proposal for her second manuscript, The lion and the lily: map and atlas production in early modern England and France. Chapter 2 describes local mapping and hydrographic charting initiatives in the 17th and 18th century; chapter 3 focuses on scientific cartography and the efforts of both crowns to map colonial interests in the Americas and Asia. She obtained book contract with Lexington Books, with release date of July 2013.
Keywords: dept.his; faculty_collection; sabbatical_report

Friday Night Fighter: "Indio" Ortega and the Golden Age of Televised Boxing. - Rondinone, Troy (Spring ; History., 2011)
Keywords: dept.his; faculty_collection; sabbatical_report

A History of Smallpox and Preventive Treatments for It in the Lands Bordering the South China Sea - Thompson, C. Michele (2011)
Keywords: dept.his; faculty_collection; sabbatical_report

Sabbatical Leave Report - Hochman, Will (Distribution: fall-spring-15 ; English., 2015)
From the report: "My goal was to develop, reserach and write my next study on J.D. Salinger. With the aid of research and [sic] on Salinger's letters at the Morgan Library and The Firestone Library (Princeton), and several visits to his Cornish home, I was able to finish one manuscript, begin another, and start a Salinger essay designed to attract interest in my manuscript. I am happy to report that I completed my next manuscript, Harvesting Salinger's Rye, because I earned the tremendous good fortune to recieve support from SCSU."
Keywords: dept.eng; faculty_collection; sabbatical_report

Breathing, One Adult. - Troy, Robin (2012)
Completed 200 pages of a book documenting surviving Hodgkins Lymphoma, a family history describing the experiences both of the author and of her mother.
Keywords: dept.eng; faculty_collection; sabbatical_report

Sabbatical Leave Report: Sabbatical Spring, 2015 - Keenan, Elizabeth King (Distribution: Spring ; Social Work., 2015)
From the report: "Project title: Walking the walk or just talking the talk? An exploratory study of the ways social workers understand social work practice." The report describes the research problem, identifies three reserach questions, and discusses the project outcomes and reporting.
Keywords: dept.swk; faculty_collection; sabbatical_report

Critical Companion to J.D. Salinger: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work - Mueller, Bruce F.; Hochman, Will (Facts on File library of American literature, 2011)
Keywords: Handbooks, manuals, etc; Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-2010; dept.eng; faculty_collection

Clinical Case Studies for the Family Nurse Practitioner - Neal-Boylan, Leslie (Case studies in nursing, 2011)
Keywords: Case studies; Case studies; Nurse practitioners; Family nursing; dept.nur; faculty_collection

Clinical Case Studies in Home Health Care - Neal-Boylan, Leslie (Case studies in nursing, 2011)
Keywords: Case studies; Home care services; dept.nur

The Loveless Family: Getting Past Estrangement and Learning How to Love - Bloch, Jon P. (Praeger, 2011)
This scholarly and personal exploration of what it is like to grow up feeling unloved describes personality types and syndromes that often manifest, regardless of whether the family unit was "dysfunctional" or not., This scholarly and personal exploration of what it is like to grow up feeling unloved describes personality types and syndromes that often manifest, regardless of whether the family unit was ""dysfunctional"" or not.
Keywords: Families; Psychological aspects; Parenting; Dysfunctional families; Adult children of dysfunctional families; Love; dept.soc; faculty_collection

That's a Great Answer!: Teaching Literature-Response Strategies to Elementary, Ell, and Struggling Readers - Boyles, Nancy N. (Maupin House, 2012)
Keywords: Reading comprehension; Study and teaching; United States; United States; Motivation in education; dept.rdg

Rethinking Small-Group Instruction in the Intermediate Grades: Differentiation That Makes a Difference - Boyles, Nancy N. (Maupin House Pub., 2010)
Keywords: Reading (Middle school); Guided reading; Group work in education; dept.rdg; faculty_collection

Integrating the Arts Across the Elementary School Curriculum - Gelineau, R. Phyllis (Wadsworth, 2012)
"This book is designed to assist pre-service and in-service classroom teachers in weaving music, visual arts, drama, and movement into the elementary school curriculum--thereby stimulating the learning process, enriching other subject areas, and providing opportunities for creative expression and self-fulfillment. Featuring content informed by the National Standards for the Arts, the book provides the basic tools and activities that teachers need to gain confidence in using the arts in their elementary classrooms. " -- Publisher description.
Keywords: Arts; Curricula; Study and teaching (Elementary); Interdisciplinary approach in education; Education, Elementary; dept.edu; faculty_collection

On Acting: A Handbook for Today's Unique American Actor - Breese, Steven (Focus Publishing, 2013)
Keywords: Acting; Handbooks, manuals, etc; dept.a&s; faculty_collection

Behavior Management: Traditional and Expanded Approaches - Haynes, Norris M. (University Press of America, 2013)
This book serves as a reference guide on the implementation of basic and more advanced behavior management strategies. It covers the principles and application of basic learning theories as well as those that integrate cognitions and emotions in treatment frameworks. It takes the reader through the essential steps in developing behavior management plans, including conducting functional behavior analyses and curriculum-based assessments. The contributors describe and share examples of various behavioral intervention techniques that address behavioral challenges in a variety of settings. These methods include more traditional approaches, such as classical and instrumental learning strategies and cognitive behavior management techniques. They also discuss less traditional and alternative approaches, including social and emotional learning, character development, and yoga. The book is appropriate for professionals in various specialty areas, including classroom teachers, college professors, and undergraduate and graduate students majoring in general education, special education, school psychology, psychology, educational leadership, school counseling, and social work. It is also appropriate for professionals who work with children on the autism spectrum and for board certified behavioral analysts.
Keywords: Education; Human behavior; Teaching; Individualized instruction; Problem children; dept.csp

Clinical Interviewing and Counseling Skill Development: Global Perspectives on Client Change - Nwachuku, Uchenna T. (Linus Publications, 2013)
Keywords: Interviewing in mental health; Interviewing in psychiatry; dept.csp; faculty_collection

Group Dynamics: Basics and Pragmatics for Practitioners - Haynes, Norris M. (University Press of America, 2012)
Keywords: Social groups; Group facilitation; dept.csp; dept.eco; faculty_collection

Breastfeeding Best Practices in Higher Education - Vancour, Michele L.; Griswold, Michele K. (Hale Publishing, 2014)
Keywords: Breastfeeding promotion; College environment; United States; dept.hhs; faculty_collection

A Toolkit for College Professors - Buller, Jeffrey L.; Cipriano, Robert E. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015)
Keywords: College teaching; Handbooks, manuals, etc; Handbooks, manuals, etc; College teachers; Professional relationships; dept.rec; faculty_collection

Facilitating a Collegial Department in Higher Education: Strategies for Success - Cipriano, Robert E. (Jossey-Bass resources for department chairs, 2011)
"Collegiality is a key element that department chairs value when recommending faculty members for tenure. This practical book (written for chairs and deans) offers a reference of "what to do" proactively so that departments function effectively. The book is filled with the most current ideas and research of what has worked to enhance the climate, culture, and collegiality in the department, as well as the university. The book also includes case law relative to collegiality or lack of collegiality in higher education so that readers will get a helpful guide to nurturing a more collegial department--in a way, preventing toxic situations from arising or worsening"--
Keywords: Administration; United States; Universities and colleges; dept.rec; faculty_collection

Indelible Footprints: The ICAN Story - Olutimehin, Kola; Emenyonu, Emmanuel (ICON, 2015)
Keywords: History; History; Accounting; Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria; Nigeria; dept.acc; faculty_collection

Winning by His Grace: The Biography of Felix Ohiwerei - Emenyonu, Emmanuel (The Washington Nigerian Times, 2012)
Keywords: Biography; Christian biography; Biography; Nigerians; Nigeria; Ohiwerei, Felix; Businessmen; dept.acc; faculty_collection

Today's Business Communication: A How-to Guide for the Modern Professional - Snyder, Jason L.; Forbus, Robert (2013 digital library, 2014)
This handy guide to excellent business communications is perfect for both college students and business professionals. Whether preparing for a career, launching a career, or advancing in a career, the savvy professional understands that every organization expects employees to be exceptional business communicators. Today's Business Communication: A How-to Guide for the Modern Professional leads readers through the most frequently encountered business communication situations. Two business partners who are also business school professors share their combined 30 years of marketing and communication experience with readers in this accessible, entertaining, and informative guide. The authors enhance the readers' experience through anecdotes from business professionals from different industries.
Keywords: Business communication; dept.mkt; faculty_collection

An Assessment of the Ecosystem for Social Entrepreneurism in Alabama's Black Belt - Forbus, Robert; Snyder, Jason L. (Alabama State University, Center for Leardership and Public Policy, 2012)
Keywords: Alabama; Alabama; Entrepreneurship; Ecosystem health; dept.mkt; faculty_collection

Assistive Technology in the Classroom: Enhancing the School Experiences of Students with Disabilities - Dell, Amy G.; Newton, Deborah A.; Petroff, Jerry G. (Pearson, 2015)
Keywords: Educational technology; United States; United States; Students with disabilities; dept.sed; faculty_collection

The Power of RTI and Reading Profiles: A Blueprint for Solving Reading Problems - Spear-Swerling, Louise (Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 2015)
"The reading problems addressed in the book move beyond those associated with disabilities such as dyslexia or high-functioning autism. The author addresses experientially based reading difficulties caused by inadequate instruction or limited exposure to academic language/literacy. Unlike other books on response to intervention (RTI), this book presents an argument for using RTI as a method of identification as well as intervention in combination with individual students' reading profiles. The case studies and practical examples cover a broad range of reading problems (not only learning disabilities) to help make research findings applicable to a multidisciplinary audience, especially practitioners"--
Keywords: Reading disability; Reading; Remedial teaching; Response to intervention (Learning disabled children); dept.sed; faculty_collection

Assistive Technology in the Classroom: Enhancing the School Experiences of Students with Disabilities - Dell, Amy G.; Newton, Deborah A.; Petroff, Jerry G. (Pearson, 2012)
Keywords: Educational technology; United States; United States; Students with disabilities; dept.sed; faculty_collection

Surviving Political Campaigns, Politicians, and Politics: Laugh Smile Learn Get Angry Curse - Nowlan, Robert A. (Outskirts Press, 2016)
Keywords: Politics and culture; United States; United States; Political campaigns; dept.mat; faculty_collection

The American Presidents from Polk to Hayes: What They Did, What They Said & What Was Said About Them - Nowlan, Robert A. (Outskirts Press, 2016)
Keywords: 19th century; Biography; United States; Politics and government; Presidents; United States; dept.mat; faculty_collection

Sabbatical leave report: Spring 2014 - Brin, Leon (2014)
Wrote the online, open source numerical analysis textbook "Tea Time Numerical Analysis" hosted at github.com. Report describes the process of writing, publishing the text. Includes information about review process and statement of success towards goals.
Keywords: dept.mat; faculty_collection; sabbatical_report

Sabbatical leave follow-up reports - Hong, Jooyoun (Production: Spring 2014 ; Mathematics., 2014)
The sabbatical leave was spent on research on Hibbert coefficients of ideals and integral closures of ideals, resulting in submission for publication, as co-author, of articles, Specialization and integral closure, to the Journal of the London Mathematical Society, and Hilbert polynomials of j-transforms, to the Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. Two research visits, to Purdue University and to Maiji University in Japan, facilitated work on these publications and laid foundation for new projects, already in progress, on normality of ideals and reduction numbers of ideals.
Keywords: dept.mat; faculty_collection; sabbatical_report

Tea Time Numerical Analysis - Brin, Leon (2013)
Keywords: dept.mat; faculty_collection

A Gentle Introduction to the Art of Mathematics: Version 3.1 - Fields, Joseph (Joseph E. Fields, 2013)
Keywords: Mathematics; Textbooks; dept.mat; faculty_collection

The American presidents, Washington to Tyler: what they did, what they said, what was said about them, with full source notes - Nowlan, Robert A. (McFarland & Co., 2012)
"Through current day, only forty-three men have held the office of the President of the United States, and some have been sanctified and some reviled. This historical work addresses the careers of the first ten presidents, men who made vital contributions not only to the office of the presidency, but to the course of the fledgling nation"--Provided by publisher.
Keywords: 1789-1815; United States; 1815-1861; Biography; United States; Politics and government; Presidents; United States; dept.mat; faculty_collection