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The Anchor, Volume 132.14: January 23, 2019
Get PDFThe Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor\u27s history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular
Why You Should Consider Going to Non-Library Conferences
Get PDFI have been an academic librarian for almost 7 years. This summer, I attended my first ALA National Conference. I plan on attending my first ACRL Conference in 2021. Nearly half the conferences I have participated in during my career have been non-library focused. I believe that alternating between library and non-library conferences has made me a better librarian and library advocate. And, as such, this is a path that I encourage other librarians to consider
Graph Pebbling Algorithms and Lemke Graphs
Get PDFGiven a simple, connected graph, a pebbling configuration (or just configuration) is a function from its vertex set to the nonnegative integers. A pebbling move between adjacent vertices removes two pebbles from one vertex and adds one pebble to the other. A vertex r is said to be reachable from a configuration if there exists a sequence of pebbling moves that places at least one pebble on r. A configuration is solvable if every vertex is reachable. The pebbling number π(G) of a graph G is the minimum integer such that every configuration of size π(G) on G is solvable. A graph G is said to satisfy the two-pebbling property if for any configuration with more than 2π(G) -- q pebbles, where q is the number of vertices with pebbles, two pebbles can be moved to any vertex of G. A Lemke graph is a graph that does not satisfy the two-pebbling property. In this paper we present a new algorithm to determine if a vertex is reachable with a given configuration and if a configuration on a graph is solvable. We also discuss straightforward algorithms to compute the pebbling number and to determine whether or not a graph has the two-pebbling property. Finally, we use these algorithms to determine all Lemke graphs on at most 9 vertices, finding many previously unknown Lemke graphs
Fall 2019 Tea at the KAM
Get PDFA poster advertising an afternoon tea at the museum on October 15, 2019. The tea featured the current exhibition, Deities and Devotion in Mongolian Buddhist Art, August 30-December 14, 2019.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/kam_poster/1036/thumbnail.jp
Spring 2019 Tea at the KAM
Get PDFA poster advertising an afternoon tea at the museum on March 14, 2019. The tea featured the current exhibit Once Were Nomads: Textiles and Culture in Baluchistan, January 15-May 11, 2019.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/kam_poster/1035/thumbnail.jp
Notre Dame de Paris – Sacred and Secular
No full textA blog post originally appearing on the Paris Stories WordPress site. The original site was created as a component of a funded pathway of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grand Challenges Initiative of Hope College (Nations, Citizens, and Outsiders: Paris Stories)
Rural Brain Drain
Get PDFThis project focuses on the phenomenon of college graduates migrating to big cities, and thus creating a loss of human capital in small towns. This phenomenon is also known as rural “brain drain.” I expect to find that small towns engage in a variety of activities and development plans in order to create more opportunities and jobs for college graduates, and to gain back human capital. This phenomenon holds great significance as more and more young academics and professionals are moving to big cities and metropolitan areas than ever before
Legalized Abortion: Benefits to Women\u27s Rights and Health
Get PDFThe tension surrounding abortion in the United States has arguably dominated the political sphere for quite some time. The Pro-Choice community expresses its continued support of the ruling and the necessity for legal abortion. In contrast, the Pro-Life community has called for the overturning of the 1973 Supreme Court ruling of Roe v. Wade for reasons based in religion and the right to life; however, legalized abortion has protected the lives of women through safer procedures, legal autonomy over one’s body, and the preservation of mental health
Theory of Planned Behavior: Examining Breastfeeding Intentions and Behaviors
Get PDFBreastfeeding is the gold standard for infant nutrition, providing benefits to both infants and mothers. According to the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), a mother’s breastfeeding intention is directly related to the following antecedents: attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control. The purpose of this descriptive, prospective study was to examine the relationship between antecedents and breastfeeding intentions and behavior at 60 days postpartum utilizing three online questionnaires administered prior to birth and at 10 and 60 days postpartum. The baseline questionnaire measured participants’ attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control toward breastfeeding intentions, while day 10 and day 60 questionnaires measured breastfeeding behaviors. Participants included 52 women residing in West Michigan who were English literate, 21+ years, at least 37 weeks pregnant, and intending to breastfeed. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 21. Participants were a mean age of 31 years, 96% (n=50) married, 80% (n=42) insured privately, and 78% (n=41) multipara. There was a significant positive correlation among maternal attitudes (r(52)=.452, p\u3c.05) and perceived behavioral control (r(52)=.330, p\u3c.05) and maternal intention to exclusively breastfeed at 3 months. Subjective norms and maternal intention to exclusively breastfeed at 3 months were not significantly correlated (r(52)=.242, p=.09). There was no significant association between maternal intention to exclusively breastfeed at 3 months and breastfeeding behavior at day 60 postpartum (x2=2.70, p=.23). Limitations included a small convenience sample of predominantly married, affluent, White women. Nursing interventions should foster positive breastfeeding attitudes and establish supportive measures to promote perceived behavioral control among breastfeeding mothers
The Anchor, Volume 132.13: January 16, 2019
Get PDFThe Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor\u27s history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular