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Item An assessment of the tropical humidity‐temperature covariance using AIRS(American Geophysical Union, 2008-05-29) Gambacorta, A.; Barnet, C.; Soden, B.; Strow, L.We investigate the horizontal and vertical structure of the covariance between water vapor and temperature in the tropical troposphere, using satellite measurements from the Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder (AIRS). Our analysis reveals large spatial gradients in the local covariance between water vapor and temperature. Positive correlations dominate the tropical lower and upper troposphere, while regions of negative correlation are common in the tropical middle troposphere. While regressions of the tropical mean water vapor and temperature profiles reveal slopes of the same order of magnitude of the Clausius‐Clapeyron regime, the regression of local values can be up to an order of magnitude larger than the Clausius‐Clapeyron prediction. Results from the NOAA GFDL global circulation model are also shown for comparison.Item The Challenges of Conducting Research on Supermax Prisons: Results From a Survey of Scholars Who Conduct Supermax Research(Saga, 2018-12-07) Ross, Jeffrey; Tewksbury, Richard; School of Criminal JusticeThis article analyzes the challenges that investigators face when conducting scholarly research on supermax prisons. Drawing on existing literature, as well as results of a survey sent to researchers who have published scholarship on supermax prisons, issues and suggestions for enhancing and growing this specialized body of literature are summarized.Item Deconstructing Correctional Officer Deviance: Toward Typologies of Actions and Controls(Saga, 2016-09-11) Ross, Jeffrey; School of Criminal JusticeThis article reviews the scholarly research that has been conducted on the problem of correctionalofficer (CO) deviance. It then outlines the most dominant kinds of CO deviance and the solutionsthat have been proposed and, in part, implemented. In so doing, the author provides a typology ofthe categories of deviance and the variety of controls. The researcher concludes with severalrecommendations on how these findings might be utilized to further the research on this subject.Item Did COVID Infect Twitter? An analysis of campaign Tweets in 2020Keith, Jacob; Robinson, Carin; Judson, Janis; Tucker-Worgs, Tamelyn; Hood College Political Science; Hood College Departmental HonorsThe study investigated the presence of issue-related statements within tweets on a candidate's Twitter feed (N = 20). The study finds that the coronavirus outbreak had a significant influence on the social media behavior —pushing campaign efforts almost entirely onto the internet. It also took up a significant amount of social media discussion. While there was no significant relationship between social media output regarding the topic and electoral results, it still served a predictive function. The fact that the frequency in which the coronavirus outbreak was mentioned serves as a solid predictor of partisanship speaks to the polarization of this era. Issues rooted in observable phenomena and scientific evidence have become indistinguishable from partisan issues and ideological debate —as it is the norm to run a campaign as a party opposed to the other’s stance rather than a party of stances.Item ERM Ideas & Innovations: Learning to Think Like a Patron: Improving User Experience, E-Resources Management, and Departmental Outcomes Beyond COVID-19(2022-05-02) Dodd, Alexander; Kramer, Amanda; Zumbrun, Emily A.; Lowe, Randall A.Two years after the onset of the COVID-19 health pandemic, electronic resources librarians are assessing how the work in their libraries has changed and determining if certain modifications made to services and workflow processes are, in fact, transformational. The authors detail how service changes and telework during the pandemic affected e-resources workflows and interdepartmental collaboration in two academic libraries, and how these experiences will have an effect in improving their organizational cultures and the patron experience moving forward.Item ERM Ideas & Innovations: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Use of Library-Licensed Electronic Resources: Using Data to Challenge Core Assumptions and Leveraging Disruption to Initiate Meaningful Strategic Change(2022-09-26) Lowe, Randall A.Academic libraries are engaged in the process of assessing the impacts the COVID-19 health pandemic has had on the use of the electronic resources their institutions provide. Trends related to e-resource use prior to and during the pandemic at a small academic library and within its consortium are discussed. The results of this assessment dispel the assumptions behind a hypothesis that licensed online resources would see greater use in supporting instruction and research as institutions pivoted to online-only course delivery in the early months of the pandemic. Some potential underlying factors that may be leveraged to inform strategic collection development, information literacy, and service changes are explored.Item Finding your Bus: Conceptualising Contemporary Quaker Management Education(Liverpool University Press, 2019) Lingelbach, David; School of Criminal JusticeHow can Quaker thought and practice make a significant contribution to contemporary management education? Quaker-affiliated businesses and organisations have played significant roles in both the United Kingdom and the United States. Yet the distinctive business practices underlying these businesses and organisations have had little impact on management education. Moreover, Quaker educational practices—developed over more than 300 years—have not had a meaningful influence on management education. Management education critiques have argued for greater attention to universal values and self-conception, both of which support an enhanced role for Quaker management education.This paper seeks to conceptualise contemporary Quaker management education. It describes key tenets of Quaker management practices and education as they relate to management education. It conceptualises Quaker management education as the nexus between Quaker management and educational practices. Its curriculum should inculcate the distinctive practices that contributed to the past success of Quaker enterprises and educational institutions.Item Groundwater Level Change Management on Control of Land Subsidence Supported by Borehole Extensometer Compaction Measurements in the Houston-Galveston Region, Texas(MDPI, 2019-05-15) Liu, Yi; Li, Jiang; Fang, Zheng; Civil Engineering; NSF program: Identification of Urban Flood Impacts Caused by Land Subsidence and Sea Level Rise for the Houston-Galveston RegionAs much as 3.05 m of land subsidence was observed in 1979 in the Houston-Galveston region as a result primarily of inelastic compaction of aquitards in the Chicot and Evangeline aquifers between 1937 and 1979. The preconsolidation pressure heads for aquitards within these two aquifers were continuously updated in response to lowering groundwater levels, which in turn was caused by continuously increasing groundwater withdrawal rates from 0.57 to 4.28 million m3/day. This land subsidence occurred without any management of changes in groundwater levels. However, the management of recovering groundwater levels from 1979 to 2000 successfully decreased inelastic compaction from ~ about 40 mm/yr in early 1980s to zero in around 2000 through decreasing groundwater withdrawal rates from 4.3 to 3.0 million m3/day. The inelastic consolidation that had existed for about 63 years roughly from 1937 to 2000 caused a land subsidence hazard in this region. Some rebounding of the land surface was achieved from groundwater level recovering management. It is found in this paper that a pseudo-constant secondary consolidation rate of subsidence of 0.08 to 8.49 mm/yr emerged or tended to emerge at the 13 borehole extensometer station locations while the groundwater levels in the two aquifers were being managed. It is considered to remain stable in trend since 2000. This secondary consolidation subsidence is beyond the control of any groundwater level change management schemes because it is caused by geo-historical overburden pressure on the two aquifers. The 13 Borehole extensometers’ compaction measurements since 1971 not only successfully corroborate the need for groundwater level change management in controlling land subsidence but also yield the first empirical findings of the occurrence of secondary consolidation subsidence in the Quaternary and Tertiary aquifer systems in the Houston-Galveston region.Item How American-based Television Commercials Portray Convicts, Correctional Officials, Carceral Institutions, and the Prison Experience(Tayloe & Francis Group, 2017-05-10) Ross, Jeffrey; Sneed, Vickie; School of Criminal JusticeThe manner in which deviant and marginalized groups are portrayedin popular culture shapes public perceptions and policy responses.These messages are communicated through a variety of channels.Over the past decade, scholarly interest in the portrayal of prisoners,correctional officers, and correctional institutions has increased. Oneof the unexplored, important, and relatively contemporary mediums through which inmates, correctional officers, and carceral spaceshave been portrayed is through commercials. These messages appearvia print, television, and the Internet. In an attempt to understand the content and context of these commercials, the following article pre-sents the results of a content analysis of American-based television commercials that feature convicts, correction officials, prison settings,and/or the carceral experience.Item How ‘Bambi’ paved the way for both ‘Fallout 4’ and ‘Angry Birds’(The Conversation, 2017-08-07) Bargteil, AdamItem Instructing and Mentoring Ex-Con University Students in Departments of Criminology and Criminal Justice(Tayloe & Francis Group, 2017-11-02) Ross, Jeffrey; Tewksbury, Richard; School of Criminal Justice; CriminologyRecognizing the growing presence of university students who are also ex-cons, this article discusses the challenges of working with such individuals and offers practical suggestions for ways to enhance such interactions. The effects of institutional socialization, cultural differences, and a range of abilities and motivations presented by ex- con students requires a need to design and implement unique instructional, especially mentoring, approaches that are most likely to be successful.Item Integrating Open Challenges in the Curriculum: Lessons Learned from an Experience with NASA(2022-12-15) Vincenti, GiovanniPreparing students for the workforce is a balancing act that involves theory, practice, and assessment. As students navigate an educational experience that is, however, often distant from real-world needs, it is imperative that academia finds a novel way to bridge the gap. As many organizations utilize open challenges to attract ideas and talent, academia can easily create such bridge, leading to greater engagement, greater student preparation, and a potential employment pipeline. This paper describes the experience of our students and faculty advisors who participated to the NASA SUITS (Spacesuit User Interface Technologies for Students) Design Challenge. In particular, we review the pedagogical value of the solution that they created and the changes that were implemented in the curriculum of an undergraduate degree program in Information Technology. This open-source, multi-year project is also a flexible platform that can be utilized for engagement in K-12 education as well as graduate research projects.Item Net Neutrality: What is it and is it Necessary?(ISSA Journals, 2018-07) Zahadat, Nima; School of Criminal Justice; Computer ScienceThe net neutrality debate's argument revolves around whether high- speed broadband services provided by ISPs such as Verizon to content providers such as Netflix need regulating in order to prevent bias based on price discrimination and preferential treatment based on tier pricing.Item Oedipus and Apollonius(1992) Burns, MargieShakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre was a reworking of the Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri, which dated back to late antiquity. The narrative of Apollonius of Tyre concerned father-daughter incest (assault), and the large corpus of Apollonius material far exceeded the reach and influence of the Oedipus narrative for a millennium in Western culture. Apollonius of Tyre lasted from the fifth century through the eighteenth century and was adapted in multiple genres. Versions appeared in every Western language. Shakespeare's Pericles is the adaptation best known to modern readers. Sigmund Freud knew Shakespeare's play and the Apollonius story but promoted the classical Oedipus Rex instead, promoting the impact and the influence of the Oedipus myth far beyond any it had had previous to the nineteenth century.Item Reframing urban street culture: Towards a dynamic and heuristic process model(Elsevier, 2018-06) Ross, Jeffrey; School of Criminal JusticeThe fields of criminology/criminal justice have periodically used the term and concept of urban street culture to explain selected types of street crime and gang behavior. This article argues that this characterization of street culture is too narrow, and that the concept has wider applicability to urban processes, including urban studies, urban anthropology, and urban geography. In so doing, this article briefly reviews the concept of street culture, including relevant research on this topic, argues that a dynamic process model is necessary, and then proposes one that is heuristic and dynamic in nature. The model consists of five major components that explain street culture, including street capital, competing cultural influences, mass media/cultural industries, social media, and street crime. These elements account for the complexity of street culture, and are assembled in a manner that allows for future hypothesis testing and theory building.Item Taking the time? Explaining effortful participation among low-cost online survey participants(Sage, 2018-07-10) Anson, Ian G.Recent research has shown that Amazon MTurk workers exhibit substantially more effort and attention than respondents in student samples when participating in survey experiments. In this paper, I examine when and why low-cost online survey participants provide effortful responses to survey experiments in political science. I compare novice and veteran MTurk workers to participants in Qualtrics’s qBus, a comparable online omnibus program. The results show that MTurk platform participation is associated with substantially greater effort across a variety of indicators of effort relative to demographically-matched peers. This effect endures even when compensating for the amount of survey experience accumulated by respondents, suggesting that MTurk workers may be especially motivated due to an understudied self-selection mechanism. Together, the findings suggest that novice and veteran MTurk workers alike are preferable to comparable convenience sample participants when performing complex tasks.Item Why didnt the Watchdaogs Bark? Internal Auditing and The Wells Fargo Scandal(Acadmeny of Managment, 2019-08-01) Antonacopolou, Elena; Bento, Regina; White, Lourdes; AccountingHow can we explain the silence of internal auditing amid signs that fraud is arising and spreading within an organization? Internal auditors are supposed to be “watchdogs” (Roussy, 2013), entrusted with the formal responsibility of sounding the alarm about the risk of fraud, corporate misconduct and wrongdoing. However, internal auditing seems to have remained remarkably quiet as the cross-selling fraud at Wells Fargo’s Community Bank Division unfolded and grew over the years, finally blossoming into a massive, wide-open scandal in 2016 that is still reverberating in 2019. Here we build on this example to examine issues that transcend individual responsibility and may impair the “watchdog” function of internal auditing as a profession. We examine internal auditing as an emerging profession where shifting and contested boundaries create tensions that may result in blind spots towards corporate misconduct and wrongdoing. We explore how the application of three classic tenets of accounting -- scope, compliance and materiality – may inadvertently contribute to blind spots, leading even well-meaning and well-trained “watchdogs” to be sidetracked. We conclude with implications for the socialization and practice of internal auditors, emphasizing the need for alertness and practical wisdom in the application of tenets so deeply ingrained in the profession.