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Unifying Frameworks for Library and Information Science: An Analysis of Three Perspectives
No full textThis article argues that there are emerging new roles for academic librarians and that a more focused discussion on the theoretical foundations of Library and Information Science (LIS) will provide guidance for both the discipline and the profession. The analysis herein examines a possible theoretical foundation or framework for LIS from three perspectives: the philosophy of information, social epistemology, and cybersemiotics. The primary advocates of these three perspectives are L. Floridi, J. Shera, and S. Brier respectively. This analysis addresses three questions: how does each perspective view LIS?, can the perspectives clarify the relationship between librarianship and information science, and can one of these perspectives suggest how the profession of academic librarianship should transform itself to meet the demands of the scholar in the 21st century? The analysis will proceed along four dimensions: a) knowledge and information, b) the focus on society and the individual, c) the meaning and structure of information, and d) how a unifying framework of LIS might deal with the practice of librarianship.Paper submitted for the course Communication, Information, and Media Processes (Professors Mokros, Kantor, and Pavlik), December 13, 2007
Business ethics and accounting information in light of the Financial Crisis of 2008
No full textThis dissertation examines, from an ethical perspective, the vulnerability of the U.S. financial system that was exposed in the financial crisis that began in 2008. Three
essays are presented, each of which examines an aspect of the relationship between business ethics and risks to the financial system. Essay 1 presents an ethical analysis of executive incentive compensation plans that rewarded excessive risk taking by basing cash-based incentive compensation upon
accrual-based net earnings. Essay 2 offers a historical account and ethical analysis of how the post-Depression U.S. financial system allowed, or even encouraged, individual financial institutions to become too-big-to-fail and too-interconnected-to-fail. Essay 3 a
broader theoretical paper, develops a framework for applying ethical analysis to the accounting measures and disclosures communicated by a firm. While each essay is a distinct analysis, the dissertation is also an integrated work that illuminates the complex general relationship between business ethics and the capital
markets, as well as the specific role of accounting information in ethics and the long-term viability of the financial system.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Ronald J. Straus
Lasting impressions: greater Newark's Jewish legacy, an exhibition in the galleries of The Newark Public Library
No full textAn exhibition in the galleries of the Newark Public Library, April 24, 1995 - July 3, 1995, curated by William J. Dane and Charles F. Cumming
INHERITED CANCER SYNDROMES: CURRENT CLINICAL MANAGEMENT
No full textPreface -- 1. Assessing genetic risk of cancer / Ronald T. Acton and Lisle M. Nabell -- 2. Genetic counseling for inherited cancer syndromes / Jill M. Yelland -- 3. Ethical issues in genetic testing for cancer susceptibility / Terrence F. Ackerman -- 4. Genes and the law / Darryl S. Weiman -- 5. Breast cancer genetics / Samuel W. Beenken and Kirby I. Bland -- 6. Polyposis syndromes / C. Neal Ellis, Jr. -- 7. Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer / Elizabeth G. Grubbs, Roberto J. Manson, and Kirk A. Ludwig -- 8. Hereditary ovarian cancer and other gynecologic malignancies / Mack N. Barnes and J. Max Austin -- 9. Genetic aspects of urologic malignancies / Ramsey N. Chichakli and Jeffrey R. Gingrich -- 10. Genetics of multiple endocrine neoplasia / Derrick J. Beech -- Inde
Ellis y el Constructivismo: una perspectiva crítica sobre la Terapia Racional Emotivo Conductual
No full textEl presente artículo de reflexión tuvo como objetivo abordar desde una postura crítica dos aspectos fundamentales de la Terapia Racional Emotivo Conductual (TREC): la postura constructivista asumida por Ellis en sus últimos años y las nociones de irracionalidad según el modelo racionalista tradicional en psicoterapia. Se tomó por lo tanto una posición en contra de las afirmaciones del padre de esta psicoterapia, quien sustentado en las nociones constructivistas radicales que afirman que la realidad es subjetiva e imposible de conocer, y las repercusiones que esto ha tenido en otros autores como Mahoney o Meichenbaum, afirmó que dejaba atrás las posiciones lógico-positivistas iniciales de sus trabajos. El desenlace del problema en discusión se presentó usando las nociones del realismo crítico, una postura en la cual la realidad es objetiva pero se presenta al ser humano de forma distorsionada e imprecisa, debido a las limitaciones del aparato cognitivo y las necesidades adaptativas de supervivencia. Se analizaron las posibilidades de errores epistemológicos en la postura de Ellis, y otras implicaciones del modelo TREC en la labor psicoterapéutica.
The Effects of Air Pollution on Pulmonary Functions in Adolescents
No full textAuthor Institution: Department of Biology, University of AkronMOSTARDI, RICHARD A. AND RONALD MARTELL. The Effects of Air Pollution on Pulmonary Functions in Adolescents. Ohio J. Sci. 75(2): 65, 1975
Ellis y el Constructivismo: una perspectiva crítica sobre la Terapia Racional Emotivo Conductual
No full textEl presente artículo de reflexión tuvo como objetivo abordar desde una postura crítica dos aspectos fundamentales de la Terapia Racional Emotivo Conductual (TREC): la postura constructivista asumida por Ellis en sus últimos años y las nociones de irracionalidad según el modelo racionalista tradicional en psicoterapia. Se tomó por lo tanto una posición en contra de las afirmaciones del padre de esta psicoterapia, quien sustentado en las nociones constructivistas radicales que afirman que la realidad es subjetiva e imposible de conocer, y las repercusiones que esto ha tenido en otros autores como Mahoney o Meichenbaum, afirmó que dejaba atrás las posiciones lógico-positivistas iniciales de sus trabajos. El desenlace del problema en discusión se presentó usando las nociones del realismo crítico, una postura en la cual la realidad es objetiva pero se presenta al ser humano de forma distorsionada e imprecisa, debido a las limitaciones del aparato cognitivo y las necesidades adaptativas de supervivencia. Se analizaron las posibilidades de errores epistemológicos en la postura de Ellis, y otras implicaciones del modelo TREC en la labor psicoterapéutica.
The historical Tualatin River Basin
No full textby Penny L. Cass, Scientific and Technical Communication, J. Ronald Miner, Ph.D., Department of Bioresource Engineering, Oregon State University.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (pages 57-59).Done under a grant from the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
An Architect and His Environment: The Career of George Champlin Mason Jr. and His Generative Role in Architectural Preservation and the American Colonial Revival
No full textRonald J. Onorato explores the significant career of architect and preservationist George Champlin Mason Jr., a Newport native who grew up amidst what the author rightly calls a “rare field museum” of colonial architecture. Onorato not only highlights Mason Jr.’s significant architectural contribution to post-Civil War Newport, and later, Philadelphia, but also highlights Mason’s pioneering role in helping to establish the field of historic preservation and in nurturing the Colonial Revival movement among American architects and builders. Dr. Onorato is Chair of the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Rhode Island
Video Tour of Saint Luke\u27s Episcopal Church -- Jacksonville, Alabama
No full textThis video history was created by St. Luke\u27s Episcopal Church, located in Jacksonville, Alabama. The history is hosted by commentator Ronald J. Caldwell, a former professor of history at Jacksonville State University, and author of the book A History of St. Luke\u27s Episcopal Church, Jacksonville, Alabama, 1844-1994. Run time is approximately 57 minutes.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib_ac_alhist/1016/thumbnail.jp
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