Scholarly Commons @ MU
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Student Understanding and Navigation Patterns of Miami University Sexual Violence Webpages
I noticed through conversations within my own peer group that students were not that well versed in sexual violence policies and resources. And, because of that, they did not know the resources that they could refer friends ... -
Andrea Alciato and the Politics of the Printed Image: A Study of the Emblemata’s Origins, Evolution, and Abstraction
Focuses on the historical conditions in Milan during the early sixteenth century that influenced the emblem’s emergence. -
Metaphors We Love By: A cognitive Linguistic Analysis of Conceptual Metaphors of Love in Metropolitan French and American English
What began with intensive background research, has developed into an extensive project which offers a cognitive linguistic analysis of conceptual metaphors of love in both English and French based on corpora linguistic data. -
Nimruz and Agadez: A Comparative Study on People Smuggling on the Route to Europe
Analyzing the Research Process: Comparing People Smuggling Operations in Afghanistan and Niger -
Nitric Oxide Metabolites in Hypoxia Freezing and Hibernation in wood frogs
Nitric oxide (NO) is a gaseous free radical that in diverse organisms performs many signaling and protective functions, such as vasoregulation, inhibition of apoptosis, antioxidation, and metabolic suppression. Increased ... -
Showing Students We Care: Using Empathetic Marketing to Ease Library Anxiety and Reach Distance Students (Presentation)
"3 research papers due next week. Minimum of 25 total sources needed. Feeling overwhelmed? The librarian can help!" Empathetic marketing shows distance students ways that library services and staff can meet their core ... -
Research Artifacts for Machine Learning DSML Baseball Case Study
This entry contains all the artifacts created and data utilized in our research on developing a Machine Learning DSML, models, and software for a Baseball Case Study. -
Persuasion and Pragmatics: An Empirical Test of the Guru Effect Model
Decades of research have investigated the complex role of source credibility in attitude persuasion. Current theories of persuasion predict that when messages are thoughtfully scrutinized, argument strength will tend to ... -
Understanding and Acquiring Usage Statistics
More and more often library staff are being asked to work with metrics and measures to document impact and determine service or resource allocations. If you’re not comfortable with finding and using data, this can be a ... -
Transfer Code of Practice (ER&L 2018)
E-Resources & Libraries 2018 update on the Transfer code of practice. The Transfer Code of Practice is a NISO recommended practice that provides best practices for publishers when journals transfer from one publisher to ... -
The Impact of State Nursing Home Bed Relocation Policy in Ohio
As Ohio’s population aged and shifted across county lines, an imbalance in the supply of nursing home beds to 65+ population has occurred. For example, in 2008 the ratio of nursing home beds to 65+ population varied from ... -
Our Family, Our Way: A Family Communication and Care Coordination Guide for Aging Parents and their Adult Children
This report highlights the development, implementation, and evaluation of a guide designed to facilitate family communication about care and support. The guide provides a structured format for talking about what's needed, ... -
Demystifying the Opaque: Train Faculty and Others to Assess Open Access Resources
Since the invent of the Open Access (OA) publishing model, research has focused on evaluating OA journals with the goal of identifying quality sources for the purposes of publication. However, more research must be completed ... -
Towards the Realization of a DSML for Machine Learning: A Baseball Analytics Use Case
Using machine learning (ML) for big data is challenging, requiring specialized knowledge of the domain, learning algorithms, and software engineering. To demonstrate the viability of model-driven engineering in the ML ... -
Be a Force For Affordable Learning!
In this session the presenters will provide an overview of Affordable Learning (AL) initiatives that can help address student textbook costs, including the use of Open Educational Resources (OER), also known as Freely ... -
Affordable Learning: Tips & Opportunities
Affordable Learning (AL) initiatives allow faculty to identify ways they can reduce or eliminate textbooks costs for students. Session attendees will learn about these initiatives and how they can begin to implement them ... -
Copyright Basics
This introductory session in this series will describe the history and mechanics of copyright law in the United States. Copyright issues are common in library land, but many individuals may be hazy on the details and on ... -
"Can't you just say Yes?" Answering Copyright Questions About Fair Use for Faculty Colleagues
More frequently academic librarians are being sought-out by faculty for assistance in answering copyright questions, and many of these questions are about how the fair use exception found in Section 107 of US copyright law ... -
The 2017 Kraemer Copyright Conference Proceedings: An Introduction
An Editorial introduction to the proceedings from the 2017 Kraemer Copyright Conference.