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Profitability, diversity, and disability images in advertising in the United States and Great Britain
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The news of inclusive education: a narrative analysis
(Taylor & Francis, 2001-10)This paper investigates a nationally publicized case in the debate over the best method of educating millions of children with severe disabilities. Using Fisher’s narrative paradigm, this paper analyses 4 years of the ... -
John Callahan’s Pelswick cartoon and a new phase of disability humor
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Promoting disability-friendly campuses to prospective students: An analysis of university recruitment materials
(Ohio State University Libraries, 2006)Estimates are that currently about 9 percent of students on college campuses have some form of disability. These students are all are supposed to receive accommodations on those college campuses based on Section 504 of the ... -
Are disability images in advertising becoming bold and daring? An analysis of prominent themes in US and UK campaigns
(Ohio State University Libraries, 2006)Advertisements featuring disabled people have become more noticeable in the United States (USA) and Great Britain/United Kingdom (UK) in the last decade. The focus of this article is to qualitatively analyze a selection ... -
Race, space and place in suburban Durban: an ethnographic assessment of gated community environments and residents
(Springer, 2006)This paper explores gated community culture and development in the suburbs of North Durban in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. Using perspectives from the anthropology of space and place as a theoretical and ... -
Media labeling versus the US disability community identity: a study of shifting cultural language
(Taylor & Francis, 2006-01)This study examines disability terminology to explore how the news media frame cultural representations of the disability community. More specifically, the paper examines the impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act ... -
Introduction
(Modern Language Association, 2007)The articles collected for this issue of Critical Arts provide a number of different entrées into the practice of media anthropology while remaining true to the origins of this particular journal by providing a space where ... -
Divergent and similar experiences of 'gating' in South Africa: Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town
(Springer Nature, 2008)The last 20 years has witnessed an explosion not only in the growth of private residential territories throughout the world, but also in the literature addressing them. The majority of research is centred on experiences ... -
Computer-based recorded speech for word recognition testing
(2008-10-21)Although the importance of using standardized recordings for word recognition testing is well established, many clinicians still routinely use monitored-live voice (MLV). A prototype software program was developed to ... -
Evaluation of high fidelity simulation within a health assessment course
(2008-10-21)The purpose of this quasi-experimental research was to investigate the impact of high fidelity simulation on knowledge and confidence levels among undergraduate baccalaureate nursing students within a Health Assessment ... -
Picturing addition: book review of Righteous dopefiend
(Wiley Blackwell, 2009)Book review for Righteous Dopefiend by Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg, published by University of California Press in 2009. -
Introduction: the stakes of whiteness studies
(Wiley Blackwell, 2009-04)An introduction to a series of essays about racism and whiteness in the U.S. Included are information on anthropology's contribution to critical whiteness studies, the complexity by which whiteness in its various manifestations ... -
Transfers and labor market behavior of the elderly in developing countries: theory and evidence from Vietnam
(Towson University. Department of Economics, 2009-08-28)In this paper we argue that the strategic interaction between the labor supply decision of the elderly and private transfers from their children lowers the opportunity cost of leisure of the elderly. This in turn magnifies ... -
Medical consumption over the life cycle: facts from a U.S. medical expenditure panel survey
(Towson University. Department of Economics, 2010)We investigate the association between age and medical spending in the U.S. using data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS). We estimate a partial linear seminonparametric model and construct “pure” life-cycle ... -
Subjective health expectations
(Towson University. Department of Economics, 2010)Subjective health expectations are derived using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We first use a Bayesian updating mechanism to correct for focal point responses and reporting errors of the original health ... -
The macroeconomics of heath savings accounts
(Towson University. Department of Economics, 2010)We analyze whether the introduction of Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), which is a health insurance reform coupled with a capital tax reform, can reduce health care expenditures in the United States, while simultaneously ... -
Health care financing over the life cycle, universal medical vouchers and welfare
(Towson University. Department of Economics, 2010-01)In this paper we develop a general equilibrium overlapping generations (OLG) model with health shocks to analyze the life-cycle pattern of insurance choice and health care spending. We use data from the Medical Expenditure ... -
Global social interactions with sequential binary decisions: the case of marriage, divorce, and stigma
(Towson University. Department of Economics, 2010-01-23)This paper studies global social interactions in a stylized model of marriage and divorce with complementarities across agents. The key point of departure from traditional models of social interactions is that actions are ... -
Does the availability of parental health insurance affect the college enrollment decision of young Americans?
(Towson University. Department of Economics, 2010-06)The present study examines whether the college enrollment decision of young individuals (student full-time, student part-time, non-student) depends on health insurance coverage via a parent’s family health plan. Our findings ...