The University Consortium for Catholic Education (UCCE): A Response to Sustain and Strengthen Catholic Education

2007 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paige A Smith
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Education ◽  
The University ◽  
University Consortium

Why they shared: recovering early arguments for sharing social scientific data

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-119
Author(s):  
Emily Hauptmann
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Data Sharing ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Ethical Imperative ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
The University ◽  
University Consortium

ArgumentMost social scientists today think of data sharing as an ethical imperative essential to making social science more transparent, verifiable, and replicable. But what moved the architects of some of the U.S.’s first university-based social scientific research institutions, the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research (ISR), and its spin-off, the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), to share their data? Relying primarily on archived records, unpublished personal papers, and oral histories, I show that Angus Campbell, Warren Miller, Philip Converse, and others understood sharing data not as an ethical imperative intrinsic to social science but as a useful means to the diverse ends of financial stability, scholarly and institutional autonomy, and epistemological reproduction. I conclude that data sharing must be evaluated not only on the basis of the scientific ideals its supporters affirm, but also on the professional objectives it serves.

Women's personal and political identities in selected Middle East countries

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S692-S692
Author(s):  
S.F. Lu
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Social Research ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
Political Identities ◽  
Middle East Countries ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
The University ◽  
University Consortium

IntroductionWomen's personal and political identities are significant in defining their roles and eventual contribution to society in contemporary society both in the private and public spheres.ObjectivesThis research study focuses on the effect of Islam on women's personal and political identities.AimsThis research aims to highlight the existing ideology relating to women's treatment in regards their identities and public roles, and hence to contribute to women's emancipation.MethodsThis study utilizes quantitative and qualitative methods in analysing women in eight Muslim-majority countries, namely, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Yemen, Cyprus and Kuwait, in the Middle East. For the quantitative data, statistical dataset was culled from Inter-university consortium for political and social research of the university of Michigan.ResultsThe overall results show that historical constructions of gender spheres are still palpable in the Islamic landscape. Woman's question is identified as a complex personal and social problem, and cannot be rejected as a valid search for gender sameness or equality. This study also shows the interpolation of Islam with other factors such as patriarchy, modernization, and state formations. Some Muslim scholars argue that Quran's fundamental mooring is geared towards equality between men and women, and women's enhanced status, and it is patriarchy that has confined women to the domestic sphere.ConclusionGender is embedded within culture, and structures of power in families, communities, and states, which have gender in itself, as an organizing principle.Disclosure of interestThe author has not supplied his/her declaration of competing interest.

Women in 1900: Gateway to the Political Economy of the 20th Century. By Christine E. Bose. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 257. $22.95, paper.

2001 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 1146-1147
Author(s):  
Ann Harper Fender
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Population Characteristics ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
The Public ◽  
Temple University ◽  
Feminist Scholar ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
The University ◽  
University Consortium

Economic historians have to respond favorably when sociologist–feminist scholar Christine Bose early in her text writes, “This book is intended to provide a historical perspective on contemporary issues that all too often are analyzed only in terms of the present” (p. 3). She returns frequently to this theme, stressing that female participation in the labor force began long before the late 1960s. Of course, numerous economic historians have noted that such participation began long before 1900 and their work, unsurprisingly, exhibits stronger understanding of historical economic conditions than does Women in 1900. Bose's intent, however, is not to study women throughout U.S. history; rather, she analyzes data on 29,673 women included in the Public Use Sample of the 1900 census to re-estimate female labor-force participation, and determine the effect of gender, race, ethnicity, and class on that participation. Her most valuable contribution comes through matching her sample observations with county economic data obtained through the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan. She uses these data to generate what she calls contextual variables, basically regional and urban or rural location of the sample respondent, and average female manufacturing wage and population characteristics of the respondent's county.

scholarly journals A Comparative Study on Effectiveness of Using Horasan Mortar as a Pure Friction Sliding Interface Material

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-69
Author(s):  
A. A. Kasimzade ◽  
A. Dushimimana ◽  
S. Tuhta ◽  
G. Atmaca ◽  
F. Günday ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Structural Response ◽  
Isolation System ◽  
Sliding Interface ◽  
Numerical Studies ◽  
Experimental Works ◽  
Isolation Systems ◽  
Structural Isolation ◽  
The University ◽  
University Consortium ◽  
Good Agreement

In this study, the possibility to use Horasan mortar as a sliding interface material for pure friction aseismic isolation system is investigated. Both experimental and numerical studies are conducted to examine the effectiveness of using this material in structural isolation systems of buildings with no overturning moment, as it has shown some attractive experiences in time based on the existing related literature. Responses of four storey lightweight building are numerically investigated by finite element modelling in MATLAB; whereas the University Consortium on Instructional Shake Table (UCIST) is used to study the responses of the same building during experimental works. Comparison of both studies is shown to be in a good agreement in terms of resulting structural response accelerations, velocity and displacements. Approximately 28 - 31 % reduction of base floor acceleration is achieved; and the maximum sliding velocity and displacement are found to lie between 0.33-0.45 m/sec and 0.0353-0.0559 m respectively; which fall within the recommended standards’ limits. As a result, these findings demonstrate the effectiveness of using Horasan mortar as friction interface material which has additionally gained experience in more than ten centuries.

scholarly journals An Insider’s Take on Data Curation: Context, Quality, and Efficiency

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Skylar Hawthorne
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Data Quality ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Data Curation ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Recent Case Study ◽  
The University ◽  
University Consortium

This commentary describes how context, quality, and efficiency guide data curation at the University of Michigan's Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). These three principals manifest from necessity. A primary purpose of this work is to facilitate secondary data analysis but in order to so, the context of data must be documented. Since a mistake in this work would render any results published from the data inaccurate, quality is paramount. However, optimizing data quality can be time consuming, so automative curation practices are necessary for efficiency. The implementation of these principles (context, quality, and efficiency) is demonstrated by a recent case study with a high-profile dataset. As the nature of data work changes, these principles will continue to guide the practice of curation and establish valuable skills for future curators to cultivate.

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