FastFact: Human Resources, Edition 29, July 2, 1997

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Board of Examiners. Minutes of Meeting, December 18, 1940

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Comment Letters on Proposed Statements on Auditing Standards—Auditor Reporting: Forming an Opinion and Reporting on Financial Statements, Communicating Key Audit Matters in the Independent Auditor’s Report, Modifications to the Opinion in the Independent Auditor’s Report, Emphasis-of-Matter Paragraphs and Other-Matter Paragraphs in the Independent Auditor’s Report, Proposed Amendments—Addressing Disclosures in the Audit of Financial Statements, November 28, 2017

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Keynote Address - Scratching Out a Living: How the Poultry Industry’s ‘Hispanic Project’ Transformed Mississippi

Angela Stuesse is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Her book, Scratching Out a Living, explores how the Mississippi poultry industry’s cultivation of a precarious labor force has transformed communities and prospects for worker organizing. Her current project, #FreeDany, explores US immigration policy across the twenty-first century through the life story of one Mississippi Dreamer

Growing Up Bilingual in the Greater Memphis Area

Ivan Ortega Santos is a Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Memphis. His research focuses on syntax, educational interpreting and U.S. Spanish. He is the director of the Corpus of Memphis Spanish and the creator of Snakes and Ladders: The Spanish of the U.S., a gamified introduction to U.S. Spanish

Does a Common Threat Unite?: Alliance Formation in East Asia Under Chinese Pressure

The study explores whether a shared geopolitical threat fosters alliance formation among East Asian nations, focusing on Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea in the context of increasing Chinese influence. Integrating insights from international relations theory and social psychology—particularly Realistic Conflict Theory and the out-group unifying effect—the research evaluates whether perceived Chinese aggression corresponds with increased positive sentiment toward the United States. Utilizing data from the Asian Barometer Survey, linear regression analysis is conducted to assess how perceptions of Chinese and U.S. influence, democratic values, and political affiliation shape public attitudes. Results show that while negative views of Chinese and U.S. regional influence significantly affect perceptions of the United States, these dynamics do not consistently support the “enemy of my enemy is my friend” hypothesis at the individual level. In contrast, a qualitative case study of Taiwan’s foreign policy response to Chinese provocations reveals evidence of alliance-building behavior at the state level, particularly in closer ties with Japan and the U.S. The findings suggest that while public opinion may not align with theoretical expectations, alliance formation in East Asia continues to be shaped by strategic calculations and elite-level diplomacy under perceived external threat