The Second Epoch: Liberal Imperialism and Decolonization. 1846-1974.

The costs and benefits of European Imperialism from the conquest of Ceuta, 1415, to the Treaty of Lusaka, 1974.Twelfth International Economic History Congress. Madrid, 1998.Patrick K. O'Brien and Leandro Prados de la Escosura (eds.)Editada en la Fundación Empresa PúblicaPedro Lains. An Account of the Portuguese African Empire, 1885-1975.-- Pedro Fraile and Alvaro Escribano. The Spanish 1898 Disaster: The Drift towards National-Protectionism.-- Pierre Van Der Eng. Exploring Exploitation: The Netherlands and Colonial Indonesia 1870-1940.-- Jean-Pierre Dormois and François Crouzet. The Significance of the French Colonial Empire for French Economic Development (1815-1960).-- Peter Cain. Was it Worth Having? The British Empire 1850-1950.-- Giovanni Federico. Italy's Late Unprofitable Forays into Empire.Publicad

2013 Academic Symposium

Bud Baeslack, Shannon E. French, Yvon Chouinard, Patrick Conway, Michele Hunt, and Chris Laszl

Luncheon, Shamrock-Trimmed...

In searching for the origin of St. Patrick\u27s Day we find that St. Patrick, patron saint of Ireland, was not Irish himself, as many suppose. In the book, Customs of Mankind, by Lilliam Eichler, we find that his birthplace is somewhat obscure. The French claim him, the Scotch and the Welsh claim him, but his true birthplace is not known

Introduction: Patrick Modiano\u27s Dora Bruder

After establishing a reputation as a literary enfant terrible in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Patrick Modiano is now firmly ensconced as a Grand Old Man (perhaps the Grand Old Man) of French letters and arguably as France\u27s greatest living novelist

THE EFFECT OF ACADEMIC ADVISOR TYPE ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT RETENTION

This study was designed to examine the effect of academic advisor type on retention of first-year, full-time, four-year degree-seeking students at a mid-size research university in the western U.S., while controlling for several predictor variables identified in contemporary and seminal literature as having a potential impact on student retention. Predictor variables are: socioeconomic status, first generation in family to attend college, high school grade point average, first semester grade point average, and enrollment in developmental coursework. In the study, a binary logistic regression model was employed to determine whether academic advisor type had a statistically significant effect on the probability of students being retained for their second year of study, controlling for the aforementioned predictor variables. The alternative hypothesis of the study stated that there is a statistically significant effect of advisor type on the retention of first-year, full-time, four-year degree-seeking students at the study\u27s institution (n = 1,117) when controlling for the additional predictor variables, with professional advisors having a more positive effect on student retention than faculty advisors. Results from the logistic regression analysis indicated that academic advisor type was not a statistically significant predictor of the probability of students being retained at the study\u27s institution from the fall 2015 semester to the fall 2016 semester (= 0.88). Thus, the null hypothesis of the study stating that there is no statistically significant effect of advisor type on student retention was not rejected. The odds ratio value in the model for advisor type (OR = 1.03) indicated that students with a professional advisor assigned had 1.03 higher odds or 3% higher likelihood of being retained at the institution for their second year than students with a faculty advisor assigned

Estimating the relative rate of recombination to mutation in bacteria from single-locus variants using composite likelihood methods

A number of studies have suggested using comparisons between DNA sequences of closely related bacterial isolates to estimate the relative rate of recombination to mutation for that bacterial species. We consider such an approach which uses single-locus variants: pairs of isolates whose DNA differ at a single gene locus. One way of deriving point estimates for the relative rate of recombination to mutation from such data is to use composite likelihood methods. We extend recent work in this area so as to be able to construct confidence intervals for our estimates, without needing to resort to computationally-intensive bootstrap procedures, and to develop a test for whether the relative rate varies across loci. Both our test and method for constructing confidence intervals are obtained by modeling the dependence structure in the data, and then applying asymptotic theory regarding the distribution of estimators obtained using a composite likelihood. We applied these methods to multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) data from eight bacteria, finding strong evidence for considerable rate variation in three of these: Bacillus cereus, Enterococcus faecium and Klebsiella pneumoniae.Comment: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/14-AOAS795 in the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org

The Ghost in the Machine: Frances Perkins’ Refusal to Accept Marginalization

Title from PDF of title page, viewed on June 15, 2015Thesis advisor: Dennis MerrillVitaIncludes bibliographic references (pages 29-34)Thesis (M.A.)--Department of History. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2014Frances Perkins was the United States Secretary of Labor from 1933-1945, yet she has received little attention from historians. There are countless works that study President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s years in office, but Perkins’ achievements have yet to enter the mainstream debate of New Deal scholarship. Perkins did not “assist” with the New Deal; she became one of the chief architects of its legislation and a champion of organized labor. Ever mindful of her progressive mentor, Florence Kelley, Perkins stared her reform work at Jane Addams’ Hull House in Chicago. By the end of FDR’s tenure as president, the forty-hour workweek became standard, child labor was abolished, and she was instrumental in the work-relief programs under the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), the popular Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and most notably Section 7a of the National Industrial Recovery Administration that allowed for collective bargaining for organized labor. FDR’s controversial appointment marked the first time a female had attained such a powerful position in government, and she wrestled with cross-sections of class, gender, and ethnicity during her tenure as FDR’s Labor Secretary.Humble beginnings -- Cabinet appointment -- New Deal architecture -- Conclusio

Patrick “Leo” Lagasse, interviewed by Carol Nichols, Part 3

Patrick “Leo” Lagasse, interviewed by Carol Nichols, June 4 or 6, 1993, at his home in Westbrook, Maine. For the Islands and Bridges project. Lagasse talks about his memories of French Island in Old Town; nicknames; French and the French Island school; factory and mill work; Great Depression; dairy farming and milk as part of the daily diet; cutting ice from the Penobscot River; lumberyard on Hildreth Street; polio; Benoit Bouchard and Herbert Gray School; children\u27s and adult\u27s entertainment; grocery stores; Great Depression and WPA work; Old Town airport; Monday wash day; boxing matches; plumbing and the first bathtub on French Island; automobiles; Prohibition, homebrew, and bootleggers; shining shoes at the University of Maine; and WWII. Listen Part 1. mfc_na2770_c1498_01 Part 2. mfc_na2770_c1499_01 Part 3. mfc_na2770_c1499_02https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mf026/1034/thumbnail.jp

Patrick “Leo” Lagasse, interviewed by Carol Nichols, Part 2

Patrick “Leo” Lagasse, interviewed by Carol Nichols, June 4 or 6, 1993, at his home in Westbrook, Maine. For the Islands and Bridges project. Lagasse talks about his memories of French Island in Old Town; nicknames; French and the French Island school; factory and mill work; Great Depression; dairy farming and milk as part of the daily diet; cutting ice from the Penobscot River; lumberyard on Hildreth Street; polio; Benoit Bouchard and Herbert Gray School; children\u27s and adult\u27s entertainment; grocery stores; Great Depression and WPA work; Old Town airport; Monday wash day; boxing matches; plumbing and the first bathtub on French Island; automobiles; Prohibition, homebrew, and bootleggers; shining shoes at the University of Maine; and WWII. Listen Part 1. mfc_na2770_c1498_01 Part 2. mfc_na2770_c1499_01 Part 3. mfc_na2770_c1499_02https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mf026/1033/thumbnail.jp

Patrick “Leo” Lagasse, interviewed by Carol Nichols, Part 1

Patrick “Leo” Lagasse, interviewed by Carol Nichols, June 4 or 6, 1993, at his home in Westbrook, Maine. For the Islands and Bridges project. Lagasse talks about his memories of French Island in Old Town; nicknames; French and the French Island school; factory and mill work; Great Depression; dairy farming and milk as part of the daily diet; cutting ice from the Penobscot River; lumberyard on Hildreth Street; polio; Benoit Bouchard and Herbert Gray School; children\u27s and adult\u27s entertainment; grocery stores; Great Depression and WPA work; Old Town airport; Monday wash day; boxing matches; plumbing and the first bathtub on French Island; automobiles; Prohibition, homebrew, and bootleggers; shining shoes at the University of Maine; and WWII. Listen Part 1. mfc_na2770_c1498_01 Part 2. mfc_na2770_c1499_01 Part 3. mfc_na2770_c1499_02https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mf026/1032/thumbnail.jp