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Modular Open-Source Software for Item Factor Analysis
(Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2014-10-31)
This article introduces an item factor analysis (IFA) module for OpenMx, a free, open-source, and modular statistical modeling package that runs within the R programming environment on GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft ...
A beer a minute in Texas football: Heavy drinking and the heroizing of the antihero in Friday Night Lights
(International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 2014-06-01)
This article applies a qualitative framing analysis to the first three seasons of the television series Friday Night Lights, focusing particularly on its incorporation of heavy drinking into narrative representations of ...
A Proposed Model of Jazz Theory Knowledge Acquisition
(Journal of Research in Music Education, 2014-10-01)
The purpose of this study was to test a hypothesized model that proposes a causal relationship between motivation and academic achievement on the acquisition of jazz theory knowledge. A reliability analysis of the latent ...
Varieties of Homeland Security: An Assessment of US State-level Definitions
(2014-11)
Homeland Security continues to struggle to define itself as a field of practice and scholarship. The difficulty in defining the field has led to a variety of conflicts over membership, content, and focus. This article ...
The Oklahoma PetaStore: A Business Model for Big Data on a Small Budget
(2014-05-28)
ABSTRACT
In the era of Big Data, research productivity can be highly sensitive to the availability of large scale, long term archival storage. Unfortunately, many mass storage systems are prohibitively expensive at ...
Russia’s Failed Federalization Marches and the Simulation of Regional Politics
(2014-12-05)
Inspired by Russia’s insistence on federalization for Ukraine, activists in Novosibirsk attempted to organize a protest march in August 2014 to call for greater regional autonomy in Siberia. Authorities squelched the march ...
Teaching Students to Attain Annual Transition Goals Using the Take Action Goal Attainment Lessons
(Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 2014-08-01)
This study used the Take Action goal attainment lesson package and assistive technology to teach nine high school students with mild to moderate disabilities to attain annual transition goals. The Take Action lessons ...
The Social Shaping of Cloud Computing: An Ethnography of Infrastructure in East St. Louis, Illinois
(2014-11-04)
This paper presents findings from an ethnographic study of cloud computing in a human services organization in East St. Louis, Illinois. Previous social informatics studies have focused on the impact of computerization on ...
Policy Regarding the Sequential Lineup Is Not Informed by Probative Value but Is Informed by Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis
(Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2014-02-01)
It is important to determine if switching from simultaneous to sequential lineups affects response bias (the inclination to make an identification from a lineup), discriminability (the ability to distinguish between innocent ...
Genomic and Metabolomic Insights into the Natural Product Biosynthetic Diversity of a Feral-Hog-Associated Brevibacillus laterosporus Strain
(2014-03-03)
Bacteria associated with mammals are a rich source of microbial biodiversity; however, little is known concerning the abilities of these microbes to generate secondary metabolites. This report focuses on a bacterium isolated ...