Copyright (c) 2009 Georgia State University All rights reserved. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu Recent documents in Digital Archive @ GSU en-us Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:24:30 PST 3600 http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/political_science_facpub/11 http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/political_science_facpub/11 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:57:39 PDT We know from observation that some democracies intervene deeply in their domestic economies while others adopt a more laissez faire approach. Can we explain these differences solely with ideology, or are other political influences also at work? I argue in this paper that elected leaders sometimes opt for hefty economic regulation purely to generate sources of patronage that can be used to maintain their political positions. Leaders are most tempted to take this approach, I contend, when their political parties are not stably linked to sources of electoral support. Unstably linked governing parties will tend to have very short time horizons, focusing on the immediate objective of avoiding massive vote losses in the next election. As a result, they will be less concerned with the potential future damage that a patronage-based policy may inflict on the national economy. I find support for this argument with a close examination of Indian economic policy under Indira Gandhi. Prime Minister Gandhi, I contend, increased the Indian state's control over trade, industrial production, and credit allocation just as the Congress Party's linkages to the electorate were destabilizing. Charles R. Hankla http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cj_facpub/1 http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cj_facpub/1 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:25:57 PDT In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist atrocities in the United States, a new organizational policy was introduced as "Homeland Security." Both a concept and a governmental department, homeland security became the "in" policy, and as such invented a new organization and a new approach to public safety. As a result, however, the dominant policing policy up to that time -- Community Policing -- was largely sidestepped by homeland security efforts as well as budgets. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that the two public safety policies actually have a great deal in common, and that homeland security is to benefit from integrating principles of community policing in its localized strategies. Robert R. Friedmann http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/math_facpub/3 http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/math_facpub/3 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:03:48 PDT This paper develops empirical likelihood based simultaneous confidence bands for differences and ratios of two distribution functions from independent samples of right-censored survival data. The proposed confidence bands provide a flexible way of comparing treatments in biomedical settings, and bring empirical likelihood methods to bear on important target functions for which only Wald-type confidence bands have been available in the literature. The approach is illustrated with a real data example. Yichuan Zhao http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/math_facpub/2 http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/math_facpub/2 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:55:03 PDT Mean residual life function, or life expectancy, is an important function to characterize distribution of residual life. The proportional mean residual life model by Oakes and Dasu (1990) is a regression tool to study the association between life expectancy and its associated covariates. Although semiparametric inference procedures have been proposed in the literature, the accuracy of such procedures may be low when the censoring proportion is relatively large. In this paper, the semiparametric inference procedures are studied with an empirical likelihood ratio method. An empirical likelihood confidence region is constructed for the regression parameters. The proposed method is further compared with the normal approximation based method through a simulation study. Yichuan Zhao http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/univ_lib_facpub/40 http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/univ_lib_facpub/40 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:14:57 PDT A major challenge facing academic libraries is the need for reference librarians to become knowledge experts in their assigned subject areas. The subject-specialist approach increases the effectiveness of collection development, classroom instruction, and faculty liaison interactions. Simultaneously, this approach creates the need for continuous learning opportunities. Conferences organized around academic disciplines provide a direct connection to subject-specific information as well as opportunities for meeting people who share common interests. With the increase in interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches to teaching and research, the authors argue that attending subject-specific conferences is the best way to keep up with information needs in various fields. This article reviews the benefits of attending academic conferences and discusses five strategies for selecting an appropriate subject conference in any discipline. First-person accounts of conference experiences illustrate these benefits.   Karen I. MacDonald http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/univ_lib_facpub/39 http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/univ_lib_facpub/39 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:09:40 PDT The freshman seminar, GSU 1010, is our campus' response to the national trend to facilitate students' transition from high school to college. Fall semester 2000 was the second year that Georgia State University offered new students the option of registering for a freshman seminar, and the first year that librarians participated as instructors. Our motivations for teaching this course were twofold: to move beyond the traditional "one-shot" library instruction class by teaching the same set of students for the entire semester, and to incorporate information literacy objectives into the three credit semester long course. This paper is a case study of some of our experiences and observations with a class that met once a week for two and one-half hours over the course of fifteen weeks. Tammy Sugarman http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/univ_lib_facpres/18 http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/univ_lib_facpres/18 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:37:55 PDT Panelists discuss several aspects of the electronic book environment: the evolution and current incarnations of e-books, user perceptions, marketing, and how the current access, cost, and use models of e-books affect how libraries develop collections. Presentation includes video clips from interviews with Georgia State University students.Note: File may take a few minutes to download. Within the presentation, click on the blue boxes to view the video clips embedded in the presentation. Bonnie Tijerina http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/univ_lib_facpub/38 http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/univ_lib_facpub/38 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:34:35 PDT Research has shown that educational games can have positive impacts on student learning and motivation. The success of a game played in a library instruction class depends on the type of game selected, the development of learning outcomes, and the flexibility of the librarian during class. This article explains the benefits to students and librarians of using games, discusses the development and use of a Jeopardy-style game, and provides practical tips for librarians interested in developing and incorporating games into one-time library instruction sessions. Tammy Sugarman http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/univ_lib_facpub/37 http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/univ_lib_facpub/37 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:34:34 PDT This article discusses the efforts of two liaison librarians at William Russell Pullen Library, Georgia State University, to build a long-term, sustainable partnership among teaching faculty, graduate students, and librarians in the development and maintenance of a Web-based research guide for world history. The projects' goals are: to provide access to the resources available at Pullen Library; to serve as a gateway to resources available on the Internet; and to showcase student contributions, including bibliographies and annotations of Web sites. The project is an organic endeavor, with the Web site's organization open to periodic review and modification. Continuous discussions and mutual criticisms have marked the progress of the project. The authors see the success of this venture as a way to collaborate with more faculty, and increase the level of student participation on an ongoing basis. Tammy Sugarman http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/univ_lib_stalltimes/19 http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/univ_lib_stalltimes/19 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:55:16 PDT