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Item A Postmodern Iconography: Vonnegut and the Great American Novel(Cambridge Scholars, 2008-01) Tally, Robert T., Jr.No abstract prepared.Item Academic Libraries and Technology: An Environmental Scan Towards Future Possibility(Nova Publishers, 2018-07) Uzwyshyn, RaymondThis research conducts an environmental scan of current best practices in academic library technology to reflect on future landscapes. The work takes the premise that by projecting out from current leading-edge technology realities, it is possible to better plan for the future. Academic Library learning commons, 3D printing labs, makerspaces, online data research repositories and information literacy are overviewed to reflect on future academic library vistas. Academic needs and library areas are surveyed through themes of: collaborative, networked and emergent technologies, digital and information literacy, open source frameworks, online collections, the scholarly record and artificial intelligence. This research is meant to provoke and spark discussion, surveying present best practice thematic areas through various current sources and the author’s own pragmatic work and research in academic libraries and leading-edge information technologies.Item An American Perspective on 21st Century Expeditionary Mindset and Core Values: A Review of the Literature(Nomos, 2011-01) Shields, Patricia M.This book chapter reviews literature on core values and the expeditionary mindset. The historical context and definitions are developed. Key tenets of the 21st century expeditionary mindset are identified and examined. Soldiers with an expeditionary mindset should first, be mentally prepared to deploy on short notice anywhere in the world; second, have the critical-thinking skills necessary to adapt quickly to a changing operational environment; third, work cooperatively with members of a Joint team; fourth, posses knowledge of the culture in the area of the local populace, and; fifth, the expeditionary force will be using 21st century network centric technology. The expeditionary force may require a reexamination of core values and an organizational transformation. The chapter examines implications and shows how the pragmatism of John Dewey may be able to reconcile possible contradictions.Item Beyond the Flaming Walls of the World: Fantasy, Alterity, and the Postnational Condition(Northwestern University Press, 2015-04) Tally, Robert T., Jr.No abstract prepared.Item Changing Demographics and the Impact on Accession, Trainability, Motivation, Character and Performance(U.S. Army Recruiting Command, 1996-07) Shields, Patricia M.This paper was also presented at an Army Leadership Conference where they grappled with recruitment issues of the future. This paper focused on the demographic trend of children growing up in homes without fathers and how that might effect the future Army.Item Collaborative Innovation: A Case Study of Austin’s Economic Development Department(2014-08) Gonzales, Rodney; Rangarajan, NandhiniThe city of Austin’s multifaceted success in job creation, redevelopment, downtown initiatives, developing tools for small businesses, and growth and diversity in the industry sectors of technology, digital media, film, music, biotechnology, and energy has contributed to its reputation as one of the best cities to live, work and play (Kiplinger, 2010; Badenhausen 2013; Brookings Institute 2013). Austin has been bestowed with awards that recognize it as the most popular city for college graduates and hence one of the biggest brain magnets, most progressive, most digitally savvy, most recession proof and most conducive for small business growth. Such multidimensional success can be attributed in large part to the City of Austin’s Economic Development Policy and the creative efforts of the City of Austin’s Economic Development Department (COA-ED, henceforth). Kwon, Berry & Feiock (2009) imply that a comprehensive approach to economic development involves not only an overall economic development plan but also includes plans for small businesses, retention of current businesses and attraction of new ones. COA-ED has identified innovative ways to do all that by leveraging cultural arts, music, small business development, business recruitment, global commerce, and redevelopment initiatives to sustain the city’s economic, cultural (Scott 2000) and creative vitality (Florida 2002; 2005).Item Controlling Local Government Expenditures(John Wiley & Sons, 1992-08) Shields, Patricia M.This chapter examines privatization as a method of expenditure control. In the first section, its philosophical underpinnings are explored. Subsequent sections introduce and assess techniques of privatization such as load shedding, contracting, franchising, self-help, and volunteers. Contracting receives special attention.Item Determinants and Consequences of Service in the Armed Forces During the Vietnam Era(United States Department of Labor, 1977-03) Kohen, Andrew I.; Shields, Patricia M.Most of the young men under study were undergoing the transition from adolescence to adulthood during the turbulence produced by the Vietnam War. For many, this war intervened directly in the transition process as they became the manpower that staffed the American armed forces. Most of these who survived the conflict the Southeast Asia reentered the civilian population as Vietnam era veterans. In their role as soldiers and veterans, these men were an integral part of the American experience of the 1960's. Any study of male youth during this period (1966-1971) would be incomplete if it ignored the Vietnam era veteran.Item Dynamic Intersection of Military and Society(Springer Nature, 2020-03) Shields, Patricia M.The military and society interact and shape each other every day. This chapter examines the diverse, interdisciplinary field of study that seeks to understand and explain that interaction. It begins by defining and situating the field’s origin story in military sociology and political science. Key scholars and events are highlighted to show how the field evolved as the world moved from the Cold War to the War on Terror and beyond. During that time the scope of the field grew incorporating scholars from around the world and across an array of disciplines. The chapter then narrows to discuss key topics central to the field – civil military relations, public opinion/popular culture, recruitment and retention, minority representation (women, minorities, LGBTQ), military families, and veterans’ studies. The chapter ends with a discussion and examples of the methods scholars use to study established and emerging research questions.Item Engagement Metrics That Matter(Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020-01) Blasingame, Dale C.Mashable, in 2013, declared that engagement is a “big word that means very little” (Hockenson, 2013). That attitude has changed dramatically in the past six years. For many newsrooms, publishers and content creators, engagement plays a key role in publishing, strategy and business decisions. It is now common to see positions like engagement editor, audience development editor and director of audience in journalist biographies. For decades, the thought process behind engagement, even if it was not called that at the time, was to count page views as the main source of information regarding what the audience was doing with content. Thankfully, newsrooms, brands and publishers now have myriad ways to measure, track and use data about audience behavior - and not all of it is based on social media. With that said, what is engagement? Which metrics truly matter? What skills do journalists need to work in this dynamic field? The answers to those questions depend on who is asked.Item Evaluating the Relative Strengths of Biotic Versus Abiotic Controls on Ecosystem Processes(Oxford University Press, 2002-01) Huston, Michael A.; McBride, A. C.There is no doubt that the rates of ecosystem processes and the resulting properties and structure of ecosystems are influenced both by biotic factors, including species properties and interactions among multiple species, and by abiotic factors, such as climate, geology, and soils. The critical issue (and the focus of the debate about diversity and ecosystem function) is the relative contribution of each of these general factors to any particular ecosystem process, under any particular conditions, and at any particular scale. While much remains to be learnt from future experiments, we can nonetheless evaluate the relative effects of biotic and abiotic factors in the results of current experiments, where they presumably result from processes operating in much the same way they operate under natural conditions. The detection of both types of factors in diversity experiments provides some insights into why these experiments have been so controversial. We will first review the patterns in natural systems that seem to contradict many of the experimental results, and then examine some of the experiments in more detail, in order to distinguish between biotic and abiotic effects.Item Fundamentalism(New York University Press, 2002-01) Renold, Leah M.We are at war, declares an article in the "New York Times" published shortly after the attacks on the World Trade Center. The author, Andrew Sullivan, argues that we are in a religious war, a war that threatens our very existence. Not only our lives, but also our souls are at stake. Who is the enemy? It is not Islam. It is a specific form of Islam called fundamentalism. In his essay Sullivan argues that fundamentalism constitutes a large section of Islam. The article explains that fundamentalism has ancient roots and has attracted thousands of adherents for centuries from different religious faiths, including Christianity and Judaism.Item Human Nature and the Environment(African Centre for Technology Studies, 1994-01) Luizzi, Vincent L.; Oruka, H. OderaNo abstract prepared.Item Introduction to the Handbook on Gender and Public Administration(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022-02) Shields, Patricia M.; Elias, Nicole M.This open access chapter introduces the Handbook on Gender and Public Administration. The Handbook is a starting point to better understand and promote gender equity in public administration theory and practice. It begins with an historical overview concentrating on the contributions of the women of the settlement movement and tracing key events after 1939 when PA was a recognized profession. It then moves to discussing the content of the Handbook, which captures the multiple dimensions and evolution of gender and public administration (PA) to show how we got here and clarifying where we are heading. The 27 chapters consider PA and gender through a variety of topics such as housing and farm policy, budgeting, reform in Ethiopia, the rights of people who identify as non-binary, ethics, city government, masculinity and representative bureaucracy. These topics are imbedded in a unique organization containing three sections: Theoretical and Historical Roots, Pillars of Public Administration, and The Contexts of Gender and Public Administration. Our hope is that this Handbook provides a basis for seeing and understanding gender in new ways which establish public administration as a leader in practices that promote gender equity.Item Literacies on the Margins: Border Colonias as Sites for the Study of Language and Literacy(Literacy Research Association, 2012-01) Smith, Patrick H.; Valenzuela, Amabilia V.No abstract prepared.Item Item Modest Contemplations in the Public Sphere of Walking and Eating(Verlag der Technischen Universitat Graz, 2018-05) Awoniyi, Stephen A.; Getzinger, Gunter; Egger, StefanieThe street is one of the key spaces of public and private life. For its central role in making of modern life and contributing to the quality of social and personal life, it is a space worth probing in its multiple spheres of being and usage. We explore a nexus of human experience – where walking, eating, pleasure, social interaction, and more converge. In this particular case, we examine eating and walking and speculate on social facilitation: effect of social interaction on shift of state from noneater to eater while walking in the street. We take parameters from a survey and execute an agent-based model. In the survey, participants had scored ten theoretical factors as instigators of eating while walking in the street. In the current paper, we compare results with an earlier design which employed means of factors to define center of distribution for random-normal assignment of factor scores. In the current iteration, we use multiple regression to estimate a center, reasoning that factors tend to work in consonance with one another. Our model suggests chance of social facilitation. Any aspect of human behavior in the city that is known or understood facilitates programming the context in which the behavior happens. Those who design or manage urban settings either ground or supplement their versatility through encounter with a broad range of insights which inform urban space. Modelling provides one such consequential pathway to apprehension. Using the computer as a modelling tool facilitates managing the problem of anticipation of social action in spaceItem Musical Interactions: Girls Who Like and Use Rap Music for Empowerment(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2016-09) Travis, Raphael; Bowman, Scott; Childs, Joshua; Villanueva, ReneeThis paper builds upon a new era of research seeking to understand variability in how desirable outcomes result from engaging rap music as a health enhancing artifact. More specifically, the study explores the music mediated pathways to individual and community well-being. The study emphasizes female music engagement. Quantitative methods are used to examine listening habits and preferences associated with empowering rap music engagement among a female sample of 202 university students using an a priori established path analysis model. Results echo prior research that suggests the functional value of music in helping to define the self independently and articulate one’s social identity within the context of community (Dixon, Zhang, & Conrad, 2009; Hill, 2009; Travis & Bowman, 2012). Specifically, results suggest that among females in this sample, (a) their appropriation of rap music can be empowering, (b) specific factors play a significant role in determining the difference between females that feel more or less empowered from their interactions with rap music, and (c) female listeners were more likely to appropriate rap music for personal and community growth if it was their favorite music type, if they listened often, and if they tended to listen alone more often than with friends. These research findings offer promising routes for more in depth qualitative analysis to help uncover the nuances of preferred engagement strategies and to help define the subjective lived experiences that lead to feeling empowered by music to act toward positive change for oneself and others. Practical results indicate the possibility for gender-specific education, therapeutic or empowerment-based programs that utilize rap music as a rubric.Item New Balance, Evil, and the Scales of Justice(Rodopi Publishing, 2006-01) Luizzi, Vincent L.No abstract prepared.Item Older Adults' Development, Learning and Education(Elsevier, 2023-02) Baumgartner, Lisa M.The world’s population is aging. Globally, there are “727 million persons aged 65 years or over in 2020” (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, 2020, p. 1). In 2020, 9.3% of the population was over age 65 (p. 1). By 2050, the “number of older persons worldwide is projected to be more than double, reaching over 1.5 billion” (p. 1). Because the older adult population is increasing, and learning is a lifelong endeavor, it is important to understand older learners and their learning. In this chapter, I discuss the definitions of “older adult.” I touch on physical changes, namely differences in sight and hearing because these changes can profoundly affect learning. Additionally, I explore brain changes and the effects of exercise and cognitive training on the brain. Next, I investigate older adults’ informal learning in daily activities and nonformal settings. Last, I conclude with observations about the literature on older adults in these areas. The minimum age used to define an older adult varies. The age of 65 is typically chosen as a minimum age for later adulthood because “In 1889, the German Chancellor Otto von Bismark decided to set this as the age when people could receive social insurance payments” (Whitbourne and Whitbourne, 2014, p. 8). Gerontologists divide older adults into three groups. Individuals ages 65–74 are “young-old,” while those 75–84 are “middle-old” with age 85 and older considered “old-old” (p. 8). Some scholars use ages 50 or 60 as minimum ages to define “older adults.” Most of the information presented in this chapter will concern adults aged 50 or older.