An Exploration of Financial and Accounting Principles and Methods

This collection of case studies and text is a culmination of the twelve case studies assigned by Dr. Victoria Dickinson over the course of the Professional Research and Development Research Program. This program that is unique to Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College accounting students at the University of Mississippi, and it encourages the student to engage with the topic matter of accounting, taking a holistic view of what they are simultaneously learning in other courses. Each case examined a different issue or accounting method that ultimately expanded students’ knowledge and better prepared them for their future careers. The case study process promoted self- discovery while also utilizing teamwork and group collaboration, better preparing students for the future, especially in public accounting. Overall, these case studies expanded students’ accounting breadth and better prepared them for their future in the accounting world

Exploring Gender Differences Between Bipolar Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder in Responses on the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI)

Bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder are two diagnoses that are often difficult to differentiate. Current literature supports this challenge and reveals a high rate of misdiagnosis between the two, as well as a high prevalence of borderline personality disorder diagnoses in women. Diagnostic accuracy remains a vital skill for clinicians to effectively address the needs of clients, and diagnostic assessment tools are often used to aid in this endeavor. The focus in this study was to explore gender discrepancies in responses across the main features of borderline personality disorder (i.e., affective instability, identity problems, negative relationships, and self-harm) and the main features of bipolar disorder (i.e., activity level, grandiosity, and irritability), each corresponding with the specific Personality Assessment Inventory Borderline and Mania subscales. This study used archival data from 102 outpatient individuals who completed the PAI at intake. Results showed men scored significantly higher on the Mania Grandiosity subscale and scored within the high elevation range of the Mania scale at a rate of 3.70 times that of women. No statistical differences were found in the remaining subscale mean scores or in the elevations in the three Mania subscales across gender. Further, no significant results were found in comparing the mean scores or elevations of the Borderline scale or its four subscales. The results of the current study may support the use of the PAI in differentiating between bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder, as well as objectively assessing for borderline personality disorder criteria after controlling for gender bias

A Vision for Kelvin Smith Library\u27s Digitization Program

Through lessons learned over the past 20 years of digitizing materials, it is apparent that we need to (re)structure our digitization program specifically around human action for sustainability. New technology leads to improved imaging techniques, which ultimately drives best practices in the cultural heritage field. These changes pose challenges not just to KSL, but to all institutions who invest their resources to meet current standards, only to have those standards change a few years later. Time and experience has helped us understand that sustaining the digitization and stewardship of digital collections require as much, if not more, infrastructure, staffing, and other various resources as our physical collections do. Given this challenge, we will consider what human actions support the long-term efforts of digitization and describe the value and impact those actions will have on our ability to foster partnerships beyond the university

The Unique Path of A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. - A Voice for Equal Justice through Law

Symposium Honoring Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr

Review of Gender and the Victorian Periodical

\u27We are dominated by Journalism\u27 \u27a really remarkable power\u27, Oscar Wilde observed, not entirely neutrally, in \u27The Soul of Man under Socialism\u27 published in the Fortnightly Review in 1891. Like many of his contemporaries, Wilde recognized not only the power of the press, but also its modernity. In this wide ranging and important study Hilary Fraser, Stephanie Green and Judith Johnston argue that precisely because of its power the periodical press occupied a central position in the construction of gender in Victorian cultural history. Journalism was gendered masculine by those who accorded it a lofty status within the profession of letters, they suggest. It was just as insistently gendered feminine by those who denigrated writing for the press. Hence Matthew Arnold\u27s description of the so-called \u27New Journalism\u27 in 1887 as \u27full of ability, novelty, variety, sensation, sympathy, generous instincts; its one great fault is that it is featherbrained\u27, - all attributes conventionally associated with women. Ironically the increasing number of women who joined the ranks of journalists as the century progressed served to downgrade the periodical press still further, by emphasizing its femininity. But for emerging writers like Marian Evans, Harriet Martineau, Margaret Oliphant and Eliza Lynn Linton earlier in the century the press provided a platform from which their careers were launched. Just as anonymity permitted men \u27never meant for authors\u27 to enter the writing profession, it gave women with literary ambitions an opportunity to write for publication. Fraser and Johnston quote Daniel Brown\u27s comment that the periodical essay became \u27the Trojan horse that allowed women writers to enter the male preserve of professional writing\u27. And their male counterparts were aware of their arrival. G. H. Lewes\u27s article \u27The Condition of Authors in England, Germany and France\u27 (1847) despite its jocular tone, reveals anxiety about the infiltration of the masculine writing profession by \u27speculators\u27 - \u27women, children, and ill-trained troops\u27. A subsequent article in The Leader, \u27A Gentle Hint to Writing Women\u27 (1850), continued the military metaphor, claiming that \u27women have made an invasion of our legitimate domain\u27 - \u27they are ruining our profession\u27 - \u27My idea of a perfect woman\u27, the article concludes, \u27is of one who can write but won\u27t\u27 , an unexpected comment, as the authors observe, by the man who was to become George Eliot\u27s consort

Bridging the gap between theory and practice in climate change vulnerability assessments for remote Indigenous communities in northern Australia

This paper considers the Australian federal government’s approach to climate adaptation policy for remote northern Indigenous communities through the close examination of a seminal Scoping Study. This approach is taken to illustrate the lag between adaptation theory and practice, and to highlight important considerations to enable the development of a just and effective policy. The analysis suggests that policy in this area would benefit from the further consideration of three factors, namely the role of uncertainty in climate policy, the need for meaningful consultation with communities, and the benefit of integrating contextual and bottom-up assessment of vulnerability with decision-making in an iterative manner. The paper concludes by suggesting that the current approach to vulnerability assessment is insufficiently nuanced to allow an adequate appreciation of factors that influence social vulnerability in remote communities, and consequently, policy developed from it is likely to be ineffective

Improving Pathways to Transit for Persons with Disabilities

Persons with disabilities can achieve a greater degree of freedom when they have full access to a variety of transit modes, but this can only be achieved when the pathways to transit – the infrastructure and conditions in the built environment – allow full access to transit stops, stations, and vehicles. Since passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990, many transit agencies and governmental jurisdictions have made significant progress in this area. Policy initiatives, incremental enhancements, modifications, and other measures undertaken by transit agencies and their partners have significantly improved access to transit for persons with disabilities, others who rely on public transportation, and individuals who chose to utilize these services. This research study explores, through case study work, efforts that have been effective in improving pathways to transit. Interviews and site visits were conducted with five transit agencies, along with their partners, that are actively engaged in improving pathways to connect transit consumers – particularly people with disabilities – with transit stations and stops. These agencies are: Broward County Transit (Broward County, FL), Memphis Area Transit Authority (Memphis, TN), NJ TRANSIT (Newark and New Brunswick, NJ), Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (Portland, OR), and Link Transit (Wenatchee, WA). Promising practices and/or lessons were identified through the case study analysis; these should be considered by any transit agency seeking to create improved access to its services for persons with disabilities

Wildflowers and Other Landscapes

Abstract: "Wildflowers and Other Landscapes" explores, issues of difference, gender, the field of vision, the body, the landscape in Australia, and the way we write, mark and imagine the land. what is my relationship with country? The paper is presented as a meditation on these questions, attempting to link and move between associated experiences and ideas. The challenging painting on found tarpaulin, entitled "Wildflower", by Western Australian artist Jo Darbyshire, provides a touchstone for this discussion