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Porter, John Edward. "United States Senate." Biotechnology Law Report 16, no. 3 (May 1997): 377–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/blr.1997.16.377.

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Miller, Michael T. "The State of Faculty Involvement in Governance in the United States." International Research in Education 8, no. 2 (May 26, 2020): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ire.v8i2.17096.

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The purpose of the study was to profile the state of faculty governance in US higher education. The survey was based the National Data Base on Faculty Involvement in Governance. Using a similar protocol, the study used survey research with a sample of research university faculty senate presidents. Results include a growing use of non-tenure track faculty and faculty with little senate experience being elected to lead senates. The presidents indicated that the skills most necessary to them are problem analysis, judgement, sensitivity, and oral/written communication skills. They perceived their primary task as developing a sense of direction for the senate, and the most critical issue they face is one of determining institutional priorities. The study was limited to only one type of institution (research-centered) in one country (the United States), and with a 38% response rate to the survey. A growing number of non-tenure track faculty have been identified as leading senates and that there is a group of ‘fast-track’ senators with limited experience being elected into leadership positions. This means that there may be significant changes in how shared governance is being socially constructed. The study re-establishes the annual survey of faculty senate leaders, and longitudinal data will be critical in determining the future of faculty senates. Findings have immediacy in helping senate presidents and administrators understand the changing role of senates, how they see themselves, and what they value.

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Jordan, Larry. "Federal Trauma Legislation: The 101st United States Congress." Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 5, no. 3 (September 1990): 255–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x00026923.

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The United States Congress presently is considering comprehensive legislation regarding emergency medical services (EMS) and trauma systems planning. This legislation amends the Public Health Service Act and, if enacted, would represent the federal government's first significant statutory mandate to exercise a leadership role in EMS since the federal EMS program was abolished in the early 1980s. On 14 November 1989, the House passed House Resolution (H.R.) 1602, Trauma Care Systems Planning and Development Act of 1989, authored by Representative Jim Bates. The Senate is considering similar legislation (S. 15) by Senator Alan Cranston, titled the Emergency Medical Services and Trauma Care Improvement Act of 1989. The Senate Bill is awaiting final action by the full Senate. If the Senate approves S. 15, a joint House and Senate conference committee will meet to present its own conference report to each of those bodies for consideration and passage.

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Wright, Gerald C., and Michael B. Berkman. "Candidates and Policy in United States Senate Elections." American Political Science Review 80, no. 2 (June 1986): 567–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1958274.

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This analysis demonstrates that policy issues play an important role in the selection of members of Congress. We differ with the conclusion of much of the existing research on congressional elections, which indicates that policy considerations are of minor importance. We have conducted an analysis of the 1982 U.S. Senate elections, drawing on data from the CBS News/New York Times 1982 congressional poll and from 23 statewide exit polls. We demonstrate that (1) candidates behave as though they believe issues are important to voters; (2) candidates' policy positions systematically influence voters' decisions; and (3) candidates' issue positions and voters' evaluations of the president and the economy interact to provide clear patterns of policy effects on Senate election outcomes. Policy effects are substantial and systematic in Senate elections, and cannot be omitted if we are to appreciate the importance of congressional elections in the national policy-making process.

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Hartigan, J. A. "Bloc Voting in the United States Senate." Journal of Classification 17, no. 1 (January 1, 2000): 29–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s003570000003.

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Volden, Craig, and Alan E. Wiseman. "Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Senate." Journal of Politics 80, no. 2 (April 2018): 731–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/697121.

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Archer, J. Clark, Stanley D. Brunn, Kenneth C. Martis, and Gerald R. Webster. "United States Senate malapportionment: A geographical investigation." Political Geography 113 (August 2024): 103129. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103129.

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Patterson, Samuel C., and Gregory A. Caldeira. "Party Voting in the United States Congress." British Journal of Political Science 18, no. 1 (January 1988): 111–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s000712340000497x.

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By the standard of most European parliaments, levels of party voting in the United States Congress are relatively low. Nevertheless, party voting does occur in the House of Representatives and the Senate. In the American context, a party vote occurs when majorities of the two congressional parties, the Democrats and the Republicans, oppose one another. The authors construct measurements of levels of party voting in Congress in the years after the Second World War. They then develop a model to test the effects of a number of independent variables that influence fluctuations in party voting levels over time. The study models the time series for party voting and demonstrates striking differences between the House and Senate in the correlates of partisan cleavage.

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Ruipérez Alamillo, Javier. "¿Podría suprimirse el senado español mediante la técnica de la reforma constitucional? (Una primera aproximación al problema práctico desde las Ciencias Constitucionales) (I) = Could Spanish Senate be suppressed by the reform process? (an early appr." Teoría y Realidad Constitucional, no. 34 (July 1, 2014): 155. http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/trc.34.2014.14083.

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El presente ensayo estudia, a propósito de las propuestas de eliminación del Senado en España e Italia, la naturaleza jurídica de esta Cámara en los Estados Políticamente Descentralizados, confrontando, en concreto, las tesis de Zorn, Le Fur, Smend y Mouskheli y las de Durand para llegar, finalmente, la conclusión, con La Pergola, de que en Alemania y Estados Unidos el Bundesrath y el Senado son un residuo confederantista, prescindible en los demás Estados.This essay studies, regarding the proposed elimination of the Senate in Spain and Italy, the legal nature of this House in the political decentralized States, confronting the thesis of Zorn, Le Fur, Smend y Mouskheli and that the Durand, to arrive, finally, to a conclusion, with La Pergola, that in Germany and the United States the Bundesrath and the Senate are a waste of their confederal past, dispensable in other States.

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Ruipérez Alamillo, Javier. "Podría suprimirse el senado español mediante la técnica de la reforma constitucional? (una primera aproximación al problema práctico desde las ciencias constitucionales) (II)." Teoría y Realidad Constitucional, no. 36 (July 1, 2015): 131. http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/trc.36.2015.16070.

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El presente ensayo estudia, a propósito de las propuestas de eliminación del Senado en España e Italia, la naturaleza jurídica de esta Cámara en los Estados Políticamente Descentralizados, confrontando, en concreto, las tesis de Zorn, Le Fur, Smend y Mouskheli y las de Durand para llegar, finalmente, la conclusión, con La Pergola, de que en Alemania y Estados Unidos el Bundesrath y el Senado son un residuo confederantista, prescindible en los demás Estados.This essay studies, regarding the proposed elimination of the Senate in Spain and Italy, the legal nature of this House in the political decentralized States, confronting the thesis of Zorn, Le Fur, Smend y Mouskheli and that the Durand, to arrive, finally, to a conclusion, with La Pergola, that in Germany and the United States the Bundesrath and the Senate are a waste of their confederal past, dispensable in other States.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "United States Senate"

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Campbell, Andrea C. "Party government in the United States senate /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC IP addresses, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3064456.

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White, David Richard. "The institutionalization of the United States Senate, 1789-1996." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289137.

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The research presented here fills a gap in the congressional literature by documenting the historical institutionalization of the U.S. Senate. After an extensive review of the institutionalization literature in Chapter Two, Chapters Three through Six qualitatively document the Senate's institutionalization over four chronological time periods: 1789-1860; 1861-1900; 1901-1946; 1947-1996. Using both primary and secondary sources, these chapters provide a comprehensive historical analysis of Senate development, covering key aspects such as committees, leaders, personnel and operations. Chapters Seven and Eight chart the Senate's institutionalization in a more systematic manner. Chapter Seven presents multiple indicators for each of four components of institutionalization: adaptability; autonomy; complexity; and coherence. Chapter Eight then models the process of Senate institutionalization. Using ordinary least squares and weighted least squares regression, it tests the model for each component of institutionalization. Political party opposition in the presidency, federal government activity, the Seventeenth Amendment and continuous majority control of the Senate by one political party all prove significant in one or more components of Senate institutionalization. Chapter Nine summarizes the Senate institutionalization process, and suggests how the Senate's post-World War II "transformation" fits into this larger, historical process.

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Bratcher, Christopher Nicholas. "Negative campaigning in U.S. Senate elections /." Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3008286.

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Zhang, Kan. "The Sino-American Cold War in the US senate a study of the role of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in the making of China policy, 1953-1972 /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2004. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31463381.

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Brown, Jason. "Trends in Recent United States Senate Elections: Incumbency, Finance, Gender and Race." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/243873.

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Though Senate elections are less studied than their House equivalency, there is still significant evidence that explains various trends occurring in the upper chamber of Congress in the past several decades. The Senate, like the House, falls victim to various biases including gender and race. In addition, there is an incumbency advantage in the Senate that proves almost as significant as in House competitions. Despite these similarities, there are noteworthy disparities between House and Senate elections, many of which stem from the differences in term lengths and magnitude of constituencies. However, there are political scientists who believe the electoral outcomes are quite similar, despite these fundamental differences. One of the main contentions is the significance of House and Senate races as a referendum on the president. While it may be more noteworthy in House competitions, it certainly is influential in the Senate. A significant facet of Senate elections studied extensively is the amount of funds needed to win the race. It should be no surprise that a significant majority of winners in the 20 I 0 Senate race far outspent their competitors. There are several elections, however, where this proved false and the candidate with lesser funds defeated his Or her competitor.

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Gershtenson, Joseph Arthur. "The determinants and consequences of U.S. Senate candidates' ideological locations /." Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3008335.

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Dolgin, Anthony Shane. "The expanding role of the United States Senate in Supreme Court confirmation proceedings." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ37201.pdf.

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Willey, Elaine Ann. "Explaining the Vote: Claiming Credit and Managing Blame in the United States Senate." Connect to this title online, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1015617172.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2002.
Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xi, 175 p.). Includes abstract and vita. Advisor: Kathleen M. McGraw, Dept. of Political Science. Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-175).

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Maloney, Christopher John. "Lights, Cameras, Quorum Call: A Legislative History of Senate Television." W&M ScholarWorks, 1990. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625611.

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Beggs, Alvin Dwayne. "Ernest Gruening, Wayne Morse and the Senate Debate Over United States Participation in Vietnam 1965-1969 and Its Affect on United States Foreign Policy." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1124482196.

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Books on the topic "United States Senate"

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Library, United States Congress Senate. United States Senate Library. [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Senate, 1999.

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United States. Congress. Senate. Library. United States Senate Library. [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Senate, 2006.

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United States. Congress. Senate. Library. United States Senate Library. [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Senate, 2001.

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United States. Congress. Senate. Library. United States Senate Library. [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Senate, 2003.

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United States. Congress. Senate. United States Senate Library. [Washington, D.C.?]: U.S. Senate, 2000.

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Senate, United States Congress, ed. Map Directory... United States Senate. [S.l: s.n., 2001.

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1941-, Lott Trent, Mansfield Mike 1903-2001, Baker Howard H. 1925-, Byrd Robert C, and United States Congress Senate, eds. Leading the United States Senate. Washington, DC: [U.S. G.P.O.], 1998.

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United States. Congress. Senate. Historical Office, ed. United States Senate Chamber, 1859-2009. Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Senate, 2009.

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Baker, Richard A. Traditions of the United States Senate. [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Senate, 2007.

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Senate, United States Congress, ed. United States Senate: Map and directory. [Washington, D.C: United States Senate, 2003.

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Book chapters on the topic "United States Senate"

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Cooper, John. "The United States Senate and the Convention." In Raphael Lemkin and the Struggle for the Genocide Convention, 189–208. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230582736_14.

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Brown, H. Lowell. "The Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Presidential Immunity." In Prosecution of the President of the United States, 87–96. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81373-4_5.

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Hay, Harold R. "Letter to the Select Committee On Small Business of the United States Senate 1." In Activism in Architecture, 15–22. New York : Routledge, 2019. | Series: Routledge research in architecture: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315182858-2.

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"United States Senate." In Virginia Secedes, 61–90. University of Tennessee Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/jj.13083314.6.

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Haley, Roger K. "United States Senate Library." In Management of Federally Sponsored Libraries, 9–34. Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780367823894-2.

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Wilson, Woodrow, and Sidney A. Pearson. "The Senate." In Constitutional Government in the United States, 112–41. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315080529-5.

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Lozano, Rosina. "The United States Sees Language." In An American Language. University of California Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520297067.003.0006.

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In 1902, U.S. Senator Albert Beveridge led four senators from the senate committee on the territories into New Mexico, Arizona, and Oklahoma territory. While New Mexico had operated in Spanish in its courts, schools, and politics for decades, Beveridge’s team exposed the rest of the nation to this Spanish language reality in their campaign to portray the territory as unfit for statehood. During the Senate subcommittee hearings, dozens of New Mexicans relayed their connection to both their United States citizenship and their use of the Spanish language. From census takers to court interpreters to principals, Spanish-speaking New Mexicans defended their use of Spanish. While the use of the Spanish language did not definitively delay statehood, the increased national scrutiny in the media of the language did result in a shift in territorial policies related to language that increasingly favored English in order to better conform to the country's expectations.

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Gelman, David, and Max Goplerud. "United States." In The Politics of Legislative Debates, 801–24. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198849063.003.0039.

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This chapter analyzes the trends in speaking behavior in the United States Congress from 1921 to 2010 in the House and Senate. We find that key determinants of political behavior from the existing American and comparative literature (seniority, committee leader, party leadership, ideological extremism, and majority party membership) correspond to more floor speeches by members. Senators deliver more speeches per member than their counterparts in the House, although the determinants of activity are broadly similar. Splitting the results by historical period and examining the relationship by the polarization of the chamber show that the effects of certain variables have changed considerably over time. In the House, in particular, the effects of committee leader, extremism, and majority party status have increased over time while the effect of seniority has noticeably decreased in the post-Gingrich period.

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"Speech in the United States Senate." In Writing New England, 288–96. Harvard University Press, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674335486.c64.

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Freudlsperger, Christian. "United States." In Trade Policy in Multilevel Government, 91–126. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198856122.003.0004.

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The first of the three case studies looks at the United States. It finds that while the states’ opportunities for individual exit have remained unconstrained in the non-coercive field of procurement in which federal pre-emption is not an option, no serious attempts have been made to systematically increase their voice. This is due, firstly, to the mechanics of the US senate-type system of multilevel representation and, secondly, to the lack of an institutionalized procedure of vertical collaboration in a policy environment characterized by ‘coercive federalism’. Persisting barriers in the internal market and a widespread politicization of international procurement liberalization as a threat to state sovereignty have further contributed to constituent units’ high propensity to seek exit from international constraints. Ultimately, the US case highlights the limits of self-rule systems in organizing trade openness across multiple levels of government. Endowing the states with little voice in polity-wide policy-making, the US model shows a marked tendency to breed resistance to internationally driven adaptational pressures among constituent units. As self-rule systems are built on a delineation of central and subcentral spheres of competence, they generally tend to lack the institutional means and ideational underpinnings to effectively organize collaborative power-sharing by establishing patterns of shared rule.

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Conference papers on the topic "United States Senate"

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Esterling, Kevin, David Lazer, and Michael Neblo. "Technology adoption and institutional change in the United States senate." In the 2006 national conference. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1146598.1146714.

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Sahu, Kalyan, and Yoonsuk Choi. "Sentiment Analysis of The United States Senate Twitter Feeds in Election Year 2020." In 2021 IEEE 11th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC). IEEE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ccwc51732.2021.9376152.

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Anglim, Christopher. "Documenting Justice - Archivists and the Fight Against Covert Racism in the Contemporary United States." In 2nd Annual Faculty Senate Research Conference: Higher Education During Pandemics. AIJR Publisher, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.21467/proceedings.135.2.

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Pursuing an archival perspective, this study emphasizes documenting the experiences of activists involved in contemporary social justice movements (such as Black Lives Matter) to develop the historical record more fully, especially the need to include the voices of those from underrepresented groups. This study analyzes how archival practices can help develop and preserve a fuller record of the social justice movements and the ideas of those who fought covert racism both within academic settings and the greater society. To answer our research issues, the study used a literature review and a survey of activists and archival institutions. Our findings establish the value of archival research in academic institutions for students and the community in developing a fuller understanding of historically underrepresented and marginalized groups. Therefore, we conclude archives can play a major contribution to the understanding of contemporary social justice movements and to the issues of concern to these movements.

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Anglim, Christopher Thomas. "COVID-19 in Context: A Pandemic in Its Historical Context." In 3rd Annual Faculty Senate Research Conference. AIJR Publisher, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.21467/proceedings.148.2.

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Mindful of history’s value in providing context for contemporary issues, this essay compares selected issues surrounding the effectiveness of government messaging during COVID-19 with previous pandemics and epidemics on selected public policy choices, specifically addressing the role of disinformation, misinformation, and information suppression in contending with disease outbreaks. During the Spanish Flu of 1918, governments worldwide ignored the crisis and suppressed information on the pandemic, because they were concerned that it would interfere with the ongoing war effort. Similar to the impacts of COVID-19, leaders dismissed science in favor of ideology which occurred in the cold war era for several reasons, and with profound impacts. In the case of the Cold War, anti-Communist hysteria led Dr. Albert Sabin to test his anti-polio vaccine in the Soviet Union as opposed to the United States. In exploring various historical parallels to COVID-19, this essay also explores racism, ethnocentrism, and various forms of othering that have historically characterized the response to pandemics, often assigning blame to various “outside” groups. The essay concludes by arguing for science-based solutions to pandemic emergencies (as opposed to ideological-oriented objectives) and argues for a fair, prudent, and judicious balancing of cherished individual rights and individual autonomy, a collective science-based response to public health emergencies, and with the intent to protect the public health of all Americans in a fair, inclusive and equitable manner.

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Broadnax, Pier A. "African American Nurse’s Hesitancy to Obtain COVID-19 Vaccinations." In 2nd Annual Faculty Senate Research Conference: Higher Education During Pandemics. AIJR Publisher, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.21467/proceedings.135.7.

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It has been over a year since the first laboratory-confirmed case of the Coronavirus -19 disease (COVID-19) was detected in the United States. Since then, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, there have been over 31, 023,000 citizens diagnosed with the disease, resulting in over 560,315 deaths. Although the rate of citizens being diagnosed with the virus as well as the number of deaths has slowed down since the use of the vaccine, there are still concerns regarding sections of communities and various minority groups who are resistant to obtaining the vaccines. Vaccines first became available in November 2020 in response to this pandemic, but distribution issues and problems with compliance soon became evident and demonstrated an extreme gap in health disparities. As of March 31, 2021, the Kaiser Family Foundation reported that in the District of Columbia, African Americans (AA) make up 46% of the population but 45% of the infected cases as compared to whites who make up 31% of the population but only 26% of the infected cases. Anecdotally, it has been reported that AA nurses are hesitant to obtain the COVID-19 vaccine for a variety of reasons, including fear and mistrust of the medical community. The purpose of this pilot study was to survey a small group of AA nurses to refine a tool that will be used to obtain information on factors contributing to their hesitancy to obtain the COVID-19 vaccination. A secondary purpose is to create educational tools that would be effective in developing messages targeting the concerns of African American nurses.

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Van Brunt, Michael, and Brian Bahor. "Potential for Energy-From-Waste Carbon Offsets in North America." In 18th Annual North American Waste-to-Energy Conference. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/nawtec18-3540.

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A carbon offset program is likely to be part of any future federal cap-and-trade program and is included in both the U.S. House of Representatives passed American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 and the Kerry-Boxer Senate draft greenhouse gas legislation. Internationally, Energy-from-Waste (EfW) facilities in emerging economies are eligible for carbon offset credits under the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol. These carbon offset credits can be purchased by developed countries, such as those in Western Europe, to help comply with their obligations under the Kyoto Protocol. Although a similar mandatory market does not yet exist in the United States, there is a growing voluntary market in carbon offsets and a set of standards designed to provide some order to this market. One of the key players in the voluntary market is the Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS). Project types, such as EfW, that are eligible for credits under the Clean Development Mechanism are also eligible to generate voluntary carbon credits under the VCS. This paper reviews the current methodology for calculating offsets from EfW projects. The current methodology is very conservative, severely restricts the accounting for avoided landfill methane, and significantly underestimates greenhouse gas savings relative to life cycle assessments performed on waste management practices. The current methodology for offsets is compared and contrasted with a more realistic methodology more in line with life cycle assessment calculations. A review of the potential for EfW offsets under evolving state and federal programs and precedents for offsets generated based on avoided landfill methane is also completed.

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Billing, Tejinder, Billing Bhagat, Annamária Lammel, Karen Leonard, David Ford, Fran Brew, Jose Rojas-Mendez, et al. "Temporal Orientation and its Relationships with Organizationally Valued Outcomes: Results from a 14 Country Investigation." In International Association of Cross Cultural Psychology Congress. International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.4087/jegs1392.

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In this investigation we were concerned with the cultural covariates of temporal orientation in 14 different national contexts. Data were collected from United States of America (US), Australia, Germany, Poland, Chile, Venezuela, Turkey, United Arab Emirates (UAE), India, Indonesia, Malaysia Japan, South Korea and China. Analyses show that collectivistic cultural orientation tends to be relatively important in the prediction of three facets of temporal orientation (i.e. emphasis on planning and scheduling; sense of time and attitude towards time).

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Eckhoff, Mike. "Contents under Pressure: Using Architecture and Forestry with Fire-Retardant-Treated Wood to Construct Better Connections between the Built and the Natural Environments." In 108th Annual Meeting Proceedings. ACSA Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.108.8.

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The United States is undergoing a national wood revival. This wood revival’s nascent emergence suggests that architects are (again) becoming more familiar and comfortable with the advantages associated with wood-based construction, albeit slowly and in a piecemeal fashion. What appears to be missing from the wood revival, however, is not the sense of aesthetics or utility but rather the sense of urgency. After years spent teaching seminars to practicing architects, engineers, building/fire inspectors and officials (including in the wildland-urban interface or WUI) and teaching forest policy and wood products classes to university students, including about fire-retardant-treated wood (FRTW), class participants seemingly lack awareness of the connections between wood utilization and forest health based on questions they ask of the instructor during class. This paper will strengthen the case for building (stronger) connections between architecture university programs and forestry/wood products academic programs in the United States. First, this paper will review recent data concerning both the current housing crisis as well as the current forest health/wildfire crisis in the United States, suggesting that addressing the forest health/wildfire crisis sustainably could help address the housing crisis simultaneously. Next, this paper will briefly qualitatively review professional architectural and forestry/wood product-focused organization accreditation schemes. Finally, the paper will suggest ways to adopt simple and inexpensive changes in pedagogy to help build those stronger connections in the absence of support from accreditation guidelines, with an emphasis on building with wood in the WUI.

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Özgün, Tevfik Orçun, and Meral Uçmaz. "The Great Game in Asia: Kyrgyzstan." In International Conference on Eurasian Economies. Eurasian Economists Association, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.36880/c02.00333.

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Marked the 19th Century, “The Great Game” which took place between Great Britain and Imperial Russia, has determined the fates of many other nations. In practical sense, the term is expired in the first quarter of the 20th Century. States of Central and Southern Asia, involved in the strategic plans of Great Powers focused their interest to Central Asia in the 20th Century. Especially, after the collapse of the Soviet Union the strategicially important Kyrgyzstan has become an area of struggle between the United States, Russia, and strategically rising China in order to hold economic concessions. This paper tries to handle the strategic games played internationally on Kyrgyzstan addressing the reference frame of “The Great Game”.

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McDevitt, John. "Fire Protection and the Marine Industry." In SNAME Chesapeake Power Boat Symposium. SNAME, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.5957/cpbs-2010-006.

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Widely accepted fire protection safety practices influence how we build, occupy and what we do in our homes, businesses and public places and have been in effect in the United States since the 19th century. These same fire protection practices and guidelines are not afforded to the occupants of a boat. There are a number of basic dimensions to acceptable fire protection practice that I view as shortcomings in the marine industry. Statistics, regulation, construction and common sense sometimes are neglected in the marine industry when compared to fire protection efforts elsewhere.

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Reports on the topic "United States Senate"

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Chierichetti, Maria, Armin Chierichetti, and Fatemeh Davoudi. Design of an Evaluation Plan for Senate Bill 1046. Mineta Transportation Institute, July 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.31979/mti.2021.2209.

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In an effort to understand and decrease alcohol-impaired driving as a primary collision factor In California, the research team designed an evaluation plan for California Senate Bill 1046 and its focus on ignition interlock devices as a sentence for Driving Under Influence offense. This plan will evaluate whether Senate Bill 1046 affected the Driving Under the Influence crash frequency and severity, and whether sociodemographic and geographic factors influence its effectiveness. This report lays the foundation for the evaluation that will be conducted in 2024. The research team conducted a meta-analysis of the last 12 years of literature and research on ignition interlock programs inside and outside the United States. Based on the findings of this analysis, the recommended evaluation plan of the law revolves around three research questions that focus on the changes in the frequency/severity of DUI-related crashes in California, the impact of the law on recidivism and on interlock installation rates. To respond to these questions, the research team recommends a list of data that should be collected, such as the number of injuries and deaths resulting from alcohol-related motor vehicle accidents, installation rates of ignition interlocks compared to the prior five-year period, the number of individuals who were required to have an ignition interlock device installed who were convicted of an alcohol-related violation, as well as number of lockouts while an interlock is installed. The research team proposed several statistical approaches for the analysis of this data, such as descriptive statistics, time series analysis, analysis of variance, and logistic regression.

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Chierichetti, Maria, Armin Chierichetti, and Fatemeh Davoudi. Design of an Evaluation Plan for Senate Bill 1046. Mineta Transportation Institute, July 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.31979/mti.2022.2209.

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In an effort to understand and decrease alcohol-impaired driving as a primary collision factor In California, the research team designed an evaluation plan for California Senate Bill 1046 and its focus on ignition interlock devices as a sentence for Driving Under Influence offense. This plan will evaluate whether Senate Bill 1046 affected the Driving Under the Influence crash frequency and severity, and whether sociodemographic and geographic factors influence its effectiveness. This report lays the foundation for the evaluation that will be conducted in 2024. The research team conducted a meta-analysis of the last 12 years of literature and research on ignition interlock programs inside and outside the United States. Based on the findings of this analysis, the recommended evaluation plan of the law revolves around three research questions that focus on the changes in the frequency/severity of DUI-related crashes in California, the impact of the law on recidivism and on interlock installation rates. To respond to these questions, the research team recommends a list of data that should be collected, such as the number of injuries and deaths resulting from alcohol-related motor vehicle accidents, installation rates of ignition interlocks compared to the prior five-year period, the number of individuals who were required to have an ignition interlock device installed who were convicted of an alcohol-related violation, as well as number of lockouts while an interlock is installed. The research team proposed several statistical approaches for the analysis of this data, such as descriptive statistics, time series analysis, analysis of variance, and logistic regression.

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Lalisse, Matthias. Measuring the Impact of Campaign Finance on Congressional Voting: A Machine Learning Approach. Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series, February 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36687/inetwp178.

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How much does money drive legislative outcomes in the United States? In this article, we use aggregated campaign finance data as well as a Transformer based text embedding model to predict roll call votes for legislation in the US Congress with more than 90% accuracy. In a series of model comparisons in which the input feature sets are varied, we investigate the extent to which campaign finance is predictive of voting behavior in comparison with variables like partisan affiliation. We find that the financial interests backing a legislator’s campaigns are independently predictive in both chambers of Congress, but also uncover a sizable asymmetry between the Senate and the House of Representatives. These findings are cross-referenced with a Representational Similarity Analysis (RSA) linking legislators’ financial and voting records, in which we show that “legislators who vote together get paid together”, again discovering an asymmetry between the House and the Senate in the additional predictive power of campaign finance once party is accounted for. We suggest an explanation of these facts in terms of Thomas Ferguson’s Investment Theory of Party Competition: due to a number of structural differences between the House and Senate, but chiefly the lower amortized cost of obtaining individuated influence with Senators, political investors prefer operating on the House using the party as a proxy.

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Barton, Frederick D. Testimony: Statement of Frederick D. Barton, Senior Fellow and Director, Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project, Center for Strategic and International Studies, before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate on Accelerating Economic Progress in Iraq"". Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, July 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada438876.

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Brownlee, R. L. Complete Statement of Honorable R.L. Brownlee, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works), for the Hearing Before the Committee on Environment and Public Works United States Senate on Water Resources Development Programs Within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, June 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada403669.

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Lazonick, William, and Matt Hopkins. Why the CHIPS Are Down: Stock Buybacks and Subsidies in the U.S. Semiconductor Industry. Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series, September 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36687/inetwp165.

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The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) is promoting the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) for America Act, introduced in Congress in June 2020. An SIA press release describes the bill as “bipartisan legislation that would invest tens of billions of dollars in semiconductor manufacturing incentives and research initiatives over the next 5-10 years to strengthen and sustain American leadership in chip technology, which is essential to our country’s economy and national security.” On June 8, 2021, the Senate approved $52 billion for the CHIPS for America Act, dedicated to supporting the U.S. semiconductor industry over the next decade. As of this writing, the Act awaits approval in the House of Representatives. This paper highlights a curious paradox: Most of the SIA corporate members now lobbying for the CHIPS for America Act have squandered past support that the U.S. semiconductor industry has received from the U.S. government for decades by using their corporate cash to do buybacks to boost their own companies’ stock prices. Among the SIA corporate signatories of the letter to President Biden, the five largest stock repurchasers—Intel, IBM, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Broadcom—did a combined $249 billion in buybacks over the decade 2011-2020, equal to 71 percent of their profits and almost five times the subsidies over the next decade for which the SIA is lobbying. In addition, among the members of the Semiconductors in America Coalition (SIAC), formed specifically in May 2021 to lobby Congress for the passage of the CHIPS for America Act, are Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, and Google. These firms spent a combined $633 billion on buybacks during 2011-2020. That is about 12 times the government subsidies provided under the CHIPS for America Act to support semiconductor fabrication in the United States in the upcoming decade. If the Congress wants to achieve the legislation’s stated purpose of promoting major new investments in semiconductors, it needs to deal with this paradox. It could, for example, require the SIA and SIAC to extract pledges from its member corporations that they will cease doing stock buybacks as open-market repurchases over the next ten years. Such regulation could be a first step in rescinding Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 10b-18, which has since 1982 been a major cause of extreme income inequality and loss of global industrial competitiveness in the United States.

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Hanson, Gordon H. Emigration, Remittances and Labor Force Participation in Mexico. Inter-American Development Bank, February 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0011096.

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This paper, examines emigration, remittances, and labor-force participation in Mexico during the 1990s. It uses two samples of households for the analysis: (a) rural households in Mexico in 2000, which vary according to whether they have sent migrants to the United States or received remittances from the United States, and (b) individuals in Mexico in 1990 and 2000 born in states with either high-exposure or low-exposure to U.S. emigration.

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Rolfe, Jim. Asian Views of the United States and Multilateralism 2004-2005: Mixed Messages Sent, Mixed Messages Received. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, February 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada627482.

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Kelsey, Tom. When Missions Fail: Lessons in ‘High Technology’ From Post-War Britain. Blavatnik School of Government, December 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.35489/bsg-wp_2023/056.

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The idea that national security and economic prosperity stem from being at the technological frontier (‘techno-nationalism’) is once again a dominant feature of global politics. The post-war United States has emerged as the key model in these discussions, with the ‘moonshot’ seen as an outstanding example of how to direct state resources towards technological breakthroughs, while the capacity of the American government is praised more generally for its ability to sponsor ground-breaking technology. This paper, however, suggests that the United States was the exception, not the rule, and that the failures of post-war Britain highlight the limitations of ‘techno-nationalism’ with vivid clarity. During the 1950s and 1960s, the British state took long-term bets on securing a leading role in the world’s technological future, specifically in the areas of supersonic flight via Concorde and nuclear power generation. The result, however, was not export glory but industrial calamity. These long-running programmes were eventually cut back in the 1970s, when it became accepted in Whitehall that Britain should no longer try to be the Science and Tech Superpower, attempting to leapfrog the United States to technological glory. Understanding this trajectory in Britain dislodges the sense that focusing on emerging technology and the long term is a silver bullet in policymaking. We must appreciate that the realities of technological power matter, and grasp that the post-war US was an unrepresentative case: no country today will have the relative level of industrial and technological might that it enjoyed at that time. While my arguments will resonate in other national contexts, my focus is on ensuring that any strategy for ‘high technology’ in the UK today continues to learn the lessons from the errors of the post-war period. It must be wary of expert capture within the state. It must also think about industrial strategy in an integrated way, across national security, economics, and foreign policy, with a policymaking machinery set up to deal with this level of complexity. Moreover, despite the attention afforded to national state funding, the UK should continue to see forging alliances as essential alongside working with international business and be clear-eyed about where it does and does not need to sustain national capabilities.

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Gammana Liyanage, Maneesha. Creating a Sense of Belonging as a Transnational Family: A Qualitative Study of Student Visa-Holding Families in the United States. Ames (Iowa): Iowa State University, January 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31274/cc-20240624-442.

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