Serials Clutter in Online Catalogs

Abstract

Finding and deciphering serials records in online catalogs is a challenge to many library users. To understand and analyze these challenges, the author conducted searches for scientific journal titles in the online catalogs of Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) libraries. The first part of the study measures the difficulty of retrieving serial records from online catalogs comparing one-word versus multiple-word titles. The second part analyzes displays for complexity by measuring the length of the complete record and the length of the holdings statements. These data show the complexity of displays and indicate the potential confusion that these displays may induce in library users.     

Learning Life Skills Through Challenging and Negative Experiences

Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal - Youth who are socially vulnerable are disproportionately confronted with culminating risk factors that impact their everyday lives. Within positive youth...     

“Control frauds” as financial super-predators: How “pathogens” make financial markets inefficient

White-collar criminology scholarship shows that “control frauds” (frauds led by the CEO) use accounting fraud to deceive (or suborn) sophisticated financial market participants. Large control frauds cause greater financial losses than all other forms of property crimes combined. Weak regulation, supervision and ethics produce epidemics of control fraud that cause systemic economic damage. As with the natural world, these financial super-predators act like pathogens that take over a firm and act as a “vector” to cause ever greater damage. Control fraud theory poses a major challenge to the efficient markets hypothesis and the resulting praxis that devalues financial regulation.     

THE MICROECONOMIC FOUNDATIONS OF MEASURING BRACKET CREEP and OTHER TAX CHANGES

We derive a measure of the bracket-creep-induced inflation tax based on an income-compensation function that recognizes that consumers substitute among deductible and nondeductible goods as the incentives to consume the goods change over time. The measure of the inflation tax is decomposed into a convenient function of marginal tax rates and the change in expenditures on tax deductible goods relative to nondeductible goods that are required to maintain a fixed level of utility. Tentative estimates suggest that the inflation tax as a percentage of constant utility income during the 1970s averaged about 1 percent per year.     

Separation-individuation and speech and language development in the psychotherapy of an atypical child

Children with psychiatric disorders often experience speech and language problems, however, the association between the two is not fully understood. The literature lacks explorative case examples to suggest how attention to language and speech difficulties may serve as a vehicle for diagnosis and intervention. A case study is presented to examine psychother-apeutic techniques and activities to improve psychic structuring and attendant communication skills in a child. Speech and language concepts and the affect induced by the child in the therapist serve as major organizers to demonstrate how therapy proceeds within Mahler's stages of separation-individuation.The treatment of the child occurred during a Post-Master's Fellowship Program at the Institute of Living, Dept. of Child Psychiatry under the supervision of Michael Hayes, M.S.W. Ms. Streit is in private practice, but currently on leave in Adelaide, Australia.     

Fielding hot topics in cool settings: The study of corporate ethics

This paper describes the methods used to gain access and conduct research on corporate ethics in two large corporations. To date, only a small number of social scientists have pursued such sensitive and highly intrusive field research because of substantial obstacles to gaining access and completing meaningful investigations. Detailed discussion of how we framed the study and then sold the research to the two sites points to the conclusion that the merging of science and action is both difficult and fruitful. This study highlights the need to establish appropriate balance between scholarly and applied objectives, to build collaborative relations with research participants, and to bring an interdisciplinary approach to contextually based studies of corporate ethics and deviancy.We gratefully acknowledge both the Human Resources Policy Institute at Boston University and the Amsterdam Foundation for providing the funding and encouragement that made this research possible. We are also grateful for the excellent contributions of our research associates in this endeavor: Maria-Paz Avery, Wendy Handler, James Hunt, Kathleen Jordan, Jeanne Liedtka, and Gary Reed. In addition, we are indebted to many colleagues, executives and other professionals who have graciously contributed valuable ideas and feedback at various stages of the work: Chris Argyris, Lloyd Baird, John Braithwaite, Dave Brown, John Fleming, Fred Foulkes, Ken Goodpaster, Tim Hall, Don Hendler, Zeba Hyder, Steve Kerr, Alan Wertheimer, Ralph Kilmann, Harvey Kram, George Labovitz, Mark Leach, Barry Leskin, Steve Levin, Meryl Louis, Murray Melbin, Phil Mirvis, Henry Morgan, Marty Moser, Jim Post, Jim Rosenwald, John Russell, Barbara Toffler, Michael Useem and Jim Waters. We also benefitted from the advice and counsel of several anonymous reviewers. Finally, Yeager owes a debt of gratitude to Harvard University's Program in Ethics and the Professions for providing both the stimulation and the opportunity to more deeply pursue this research.     

Mandates for a changing practice: PSRO and P.L. 94-142.

Federal legislation in the fields of education and health care now requires the development of systems of professional accountability. This accountability to the sponsoring system and to the client is making profound changes in practice. Implications of these changes are reviewed with a challenge to social workers to assume leadership in translating these changes into effective practice models.     

Combining forward and backward mortality estimation

Demographers often form estimates by combining information from two data sources—a challenging problem when one or both data sources are incomplete. A classic example entails the construction of death probabilities, which requires death counts for the subpopulations under study and corresponding base population estimates. Approaches typically entail ‘back projection', as in Wrigley and Schofield's seminal analysis of historical English data, or ‘inverse’ or ‘forward projection’ as used by Lee in his important reanalysis of that work, both published in the 1980s. Our paper shows how forward and backward approaches can be optimally combined, using a generalized method of moments (GMM) framework. We apply the method to the estimation of death probabilities for relatively small subpopulations within the United States (men born 1930–39 by state of birth by birth cohort by race), combining data from vital statistics records and census samples.     

Tracing the legacy of Anita Hill: The Thomas/Hill hearings and media coverage of sexual harassment

Many anecdotal accounts suggest that the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill hearings had an important effect on the politics of sexual harassment allegations. This research examines one part of this phenomenon, reporting the results of content analysis of articles published in major newspapers the month after reports of allegations against Bob packwood and Bill Clinton. Our data analysis provides a preliminary look at the continued significance of the Hill/Thomas case today and how it affects public discourse about sexual harassment, providing strong evidence that Anita Hill has indeed found a place in modern American political history as a symbol for the sexual harassment issue. Clearly, the hearings have significantly impacted the ways in which the media and the public view allegations of sexual harassment brought against political figures. She is currently serving as a 2000–2001 APSA Congressional Fellow.     

Experiencing Stigma and Exclusion: The Influence of Neoliberal Perspectives,Practices, and Policies on Living with Chronic Illness and Disability

Neoliberal perspectives, policies, and practices increasingly affect chronically ill and disabled people's embodied experiences of stigma and exclusion. Neoliberalism emphasizes individual responsibility and self-sufficiency, a limited social safety net, and narrow governmental accountability. Examining pivotal experiences of chronically ill people shows how neoliberalism can frame their alternatives, interactions, and actions. This examination prompts reconsidering Goffman's concept of stigma to include how larger social policies and practices affect experiencing stigma and exclusion and, also, illuminates temporal features of receiving a diagnosis, disclosing illness, and dealing with disabilities and unpredictable bodies. The analysis derives from an ethnographic story and published and unpublished personal accounts from first-hand and library research over the course of my career.