Characteristics of the Research Literature Used by Chemists and Physicists in the United States. Part II

1949 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herman H. Fussler
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Literature

scholarly journals Accounting for Student Success: Academic and Stakeholder Perspectives That Have Shaped the Discourse on Student Success in the United States

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor M. H. Borden ◽  
Gretchen C. Holthaus
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Student Success ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
College Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Time To Degree ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Stakeholder Perspectives

Abstract The meaning of student success differs according to the goals, interests and roles among prospective students, their parents and extended family, educators, scholars, employers, legislators and other stakeholders. Despite this wide variation, accountability for student success has been mostly equated with readily available measures like degree completion rates, time to degree and credit accumulation. Recently, especially in the United States, where the student assumes a large cost burden for attending college, interest has increased regarding the amount of debt incurred and the employment and wages obtained post-graduation to enable students to pay off that debt. There are many from within and outside the academy who criticize these simplistic measures of student success and seek evidence about how a college education develops students intellectually and morally, preparing them to lead lives as productive citizens and members of the 21st Century workforce. In this article, we review the key concepts of student success that have emerged from the U.S. higher education research literature, as well as major U.S. policy initiatives related to improving student success. The purpose of this analysis is to develop an organizing framework that enables scholars and policy makers to place their work within a broader context as related to the discourse on student success in the early 21st Century, especially within the United States, but with increasingly common elements internationally.

Asian and Asian American Suburbs in the United States

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Zarsadiaz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Southern California ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Bay Area

Asians and Asian Americans are the most suburbanized people of color in the United States. While Asians and Asian Americans have been moving to the metropolitan fringe since the 1940s, their settlement accelerated in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. This was partly the result of relaxed US immigration policies following the 1965 Hart-Celler Act. Globalization and burgeoning transnational economies across the so-called Pacific Rim also encouraged outmigration. Whether it is Korean or Indian immigrants in northern New Jersey or Vietnamese refugees in suburban Houston, Asians and Asian Americans have shifted Americans’ understandings of “typical” suburbia. In the late 1980s, academic researchers and policymakers started paying closer attention to this phenomenon, especially in Southern California, where Asians and Asian Americans often clustered together in select suburbs. Sociologists, in particular, observed how greater Los Angeles’s economic, political, and built landscapes changed as immigrants and refugees—predominantly from Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Philippines, South Korea, India, and Vietnam—established roots throughout the region, including Orange County. Since then, other studies of heavily populated Asian and Asian American ethnic suburbs—or “ethnoburbs”—have emerged, including research on New York City, Boston, and Washington, DC. Nonetheless, scholarship remains focused on Southern California, the San Francisco Bay Area, and other hubs of the metropolitan West Coast. Research and scholarship on Asians and Asian Americans living in the suburbs has grown over the last decade. This is partly a response to demographic shifts occurring beyond the coasts. Moreover, geographers, historians, and urban planners have joined the discussion, producing critical studies on race, class, architecture, and political economy. Despite the breadth and depth of recent research, literature on Asian and Asian American suburbanization remains limited. There is thus much room for additional research on this subject, given a majority of Asians and Asian Americans in the United States live outside city limits.

The Ranking Of Terminal And Instrumental Values By Working Professionals In Thailand, Singapore And The United States: What Is Important And How Do They Impact Decision-Making?

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Natcha Limthanakom ◽  
William Lauffer ◽  
Bahaudin G. Mujtaba ◽  
Edward F. Murphy, Jr.
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Individual Values ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Value Differences ◽  
Instrumental Values ◽  
Western Values ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this study is to explore gender and cross-cultural gender differences with respect to individual values. This study will fill a gap in the research literature as few studies have explored male and female value differences in Thailand and few have explored sex differences between eastern values as compared to western values in the United States and another eastern nation, Singapore. An understanding of the attitudes, cultures and values in other countries becomes particularly significant given current globalization trends. Furthermore, researchers also need to understand different demographics to better anticipate the impact of socio-demographic variation in cross-cultural investigations.

scholarly journals The Hegel Myth and Its Method

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Karl Popper ◽  
Important Research ◽  
Open Society ◽  
The Real ◽  
Historical Significance

The work of Kaufman "the Myth of Hegel and the technology of its creation" was first published in 1959 in the United States. Despite the historical significance of Hegel's philosophy, some of his critics do not bother to study the primary sources and fundamentally important research literature. This opens up the possibility not only to misunderstandings, but deliberate speculation and distorted, including politically biased, interpretations, substitute the real views of Hegel myth-making dealing with them a thinker. The work of Kaufman discloses a technique of creation a mythological conception of Hegel's philosophy on the material provided by well-known and influential ideologist of the liberal doctrine of the "open society" of Karl Popper.

Adolescents: Pregnancy

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen A. Rounds ◽  
Traci L. Wike
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Adolescent Pregnancy ◽  
Pregnancy Prevention ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Intervention Programs ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Industrialized Nations ◽  
Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention

Although rates of adolescent pregnancy have exhibited a downward trend since 1991, the United States continues to have a significantly higher rate than other industrialized nations. Adolescent pregnancy, especially in early and middle adolescence, has long-term developmental and economic impact on the teen and her child, in addition to high social costs. This entry describes the current trends in adolescent pregnancy in the United States, and examines factors reported in the research literature as associated with adolescent pregnancy, discusses federal policy directed toward adolescent pregnancy prevention, and identifies various intervention programs.

China’s discourse power: instruments and strategy

2021 ◽  
pp. 173
Author(s):  
Mariia A. Kobzeva
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
The West ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
International Discourse ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Difference

Today China actively participates in shaping the international political agenda, norms, and rules for interaction between states. This activity is a part of the PRC's policy to strengthen its international discourse power. Despite the fact that there are many studies of China's propaganda politics, discourse power remains outside the focus of researchers both in Russian and English-speaking communities. The term has varying interpretations and translations in non-Chinese academic literature. In this regard, the article examines the meaning of this term and answers questions – how, why, and for what purpose does the PRC implement its discourse power. The article analyzes research literature and documents in Russian, English, and Chinese languages regarding the discourse power, the origin, and the development of the term in Chinese discourse, and using it as a political task. The article studies the main departments and organizations responsible for the formation of the discourse power, as well as tools and mechanisms for its implementation. The author identifies “soft” and “hard” variants of China's discourse power, explains the difference in their goals and methods via giving examples from the PRC's foreign policy. The author concludes that the need for discourse power, which combines various methods of China's policy, is due to the acute internal political struggle, and the country's new ambitions in the international arena. The development of discourse power as a political phenomenon is fueled by the ideas of opposition to the “West”. In this regard, discourse power is becoming one of the most important counterweapons in competition between China and the United States.  

Pathological Gambling and the Family: Practice Implications

1995 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 213-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas A. Abbott ◽  
Sheran L. Cramer ◽  
Steven D. Sherrets
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Pathological Gambling ◽  
Family Practice ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Compulsive Gambling ◽  
Family Effects ◽  
The Family

Pathological gambling is a growing problem in the United States. The authors define and describe the problem as well as review the research literature concerning the personal and family effects of compulsive gambling. General recommendations are offered regarding how this addiction can be understood and managed.

scholarly journals Income Inequality Across the Rural-Urban Continuum in the United States, 1970-2016

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian C. Thiede ◽  
Jaclyn L.W. Butler ◽  
David L. Brown ◽  
Leif Jensen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Central Plains ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Metropolitan Counties ◽  
The U.S

Since the 1970s, the U.S. has experienced dramatic increases in income inequality. Although this macro-level trend is well-established in research literature, less is known about subnational patterns of income inequality in the U.S., particularly as they vary between and within rural and urban localities. Using Census and ACS data, this study produces Gini estimates of within-county income inequality and examines these trends across a six-strata urban-rural typology from 1970 to 2016. This study finds the following. Income inequality has remained consistently higher in nonmetropolitan counties than metropolitan counties throughout the study period. However, levels of inequality have converged by 2016, a convergence that has been driven by increases in metropolitan counties. There are notable exceptions to the secular trend of increasing inequality. The central Plains region has experienced decreasing levels of inequality, and inequality in large, peripheral metropolitan counties lags noticeably behind other types of counties. Almost all low-inequality counties in 1970 have shifted to moderate- or high-inequality, such that almost no one lives in low-inequality places by 2016. This increase in exposure to inequality has been particularly dramatic among residents of large, central metropolitan counties. As the only county-level analysis to track income inequality across the rural-urban continuum from 1970 to 2016, this study lays the foundation for more sophisticated analyses that explain spatial variation in income inequality and that account for the demographic and economic diversity of the rural and urban United States.

An International Perspective on Speech-Language Pathology Assistants

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer A. Ostergren ◽  
Sara M. Aguilar
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
World Health ◽  
Policy Statement ◽  
Speech Language Pathology ◽  
The World ◽  
Language Pathology

In 2011, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank highlighted several pressing concerns in the area of service provision to individuals with disabilities, including a global shortage of rehabilitation personnel. The use of mid-level workers was recommended as one strategy for improving human resource capacity in this area. In the United States, speech-language pathology assistants (SLPAs) are one type of mid-level worker that has received recent attention. The American Speech-Language and Hearing Association (ASHA) updated its policy statement on SLPAs in 2013 and also implemented a voluntary affiliation for assistants in 2011. Unfortunately, a paucity of research exists in the United States on this topic. Internationally, however, researchers have reported on the topic of assistants in the field of speech-language pathology. This manuscript serves as an integrative review of the research literature on the topic of assistants in the field of speech-language pathology from an international perspective, including information on the effectiveness of assistants in service provision, important elements related to their training and supervision, opinions from supervisors on this topic, and novel extensions of assistant services to areas such as cross-disciplinary tasks and telerehabilitation.

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