Leveraging Citation Networks to Visualize Scholarly Influence Over Time

Assessing the influence of a scholar's work is an important task for funding organizations, academic departments, and researchers. Common methods, such as measures of citation counts, can ignore much of the nuance and multidimensionality of scholarly influence. We present an approach for generating dynamic visualizations of scholars' careers. This approach uses an animated node-link diagram showing the citation network accumulated around the researcher over the course of the career in concert with key indicators, highlighting influence both within and across fields. We developed our design in collaboration with one funding organization---the Pew Biomedical Scholars program---but the methods are generalizable to visualizations of scholarly influence. We applied the design method to the Microsoft Academic Graph, which includes more than 120 million publications. We validate our abstractions throughout the process through collaboration with the Pew Biomedical Scholars program officers and summative evaluations with their scholars

Ability and Abnormality

This thesis addresses questions relating to perceptions of abilities and abnormalities found in everyday life. Abilities in this paper range from a total lack of ability to function in extreme disability to a level of ability expected by society to enhanced and radically enhanced abilities and their place in the realm of abnormality. We begin by establishing the differences between abilities and enhancements. Following this is a discussion regarding the ethical concerns of human enhancement. After this we turn to a discussion of abnormality and the social experience of abnormality. These discussions lead into establishing a basis for how many abilities are considered abnormal. This is then followed by a discussion that specifically addresses whether or not individuals who voluntarily undergo non-therapeutic enhancement may be subject to oppressive measures

Technology Effects on Motivation to Read: A Case Study Through Teacher Candidates

Technology is increasingly affecting literacy engagement of everyone. It is the job of the teacher to bring technology and literacy into the classroom, as this increases motivation and engagement. Using a series of interviews, a survey, and a daily-log, participants were examined in order to collect qualitative data on motivation to read through technology and technology usage in the classroom. It has been determined that 1.) Social networking is a daily involvement, 2.) Readers are motivated through choice, and 3.) Social networking in the classroom is dependent by many factors. More specifically, reading is motivated through social networks by the aspect of choice. However, each participant claimed to interact on social networks daily but also claimed to not use these types of interactions in the classroom

The Everyday Management of a Hard of Hearing Identity

Honors (Bachelor's)SociologyUniversity of Michiganhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/91845/1/jswest.pd

Meet the Duggars: The Reproduction of Gender Privilege in the Popular Construction of Sibling Sexual Abuse

Sibling sexual abuse a nefarious harm that researchers suspect occurs for often than any other form of child sexual abuse, and is very rarely reported to authorities. On May 19th 2015, allegations of sexual abuse by Joshua Duggar against four of his younger sisters and a female babysitter during 2002 and 2003, were made public knowledge by the tabloid InTouch. In response to the public outcry, parents Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar sat for an interview on June 3rd 2015, in their family home with Fox News moderator Megyn Kelly. Statements made by The Duggars about sibling sexual abuse are optimal data to examine, as they are in the public domain and available to analyze systematically. Their hyper-visibility makes their constructions of the abusive behavior and their reactions to the abuse, tools of interpretation that others can rely upon in the event that their family is experiencing this type of abuse. Using a multimodal approach to critical discourse analysis (Machin and Mayr 2012), this thesis analyzes both the linguistic as well as the visual features of interviews with The Duggars, explicating the ways in which the stories they tell signify broader discourses about gender, power and sibling sexual abuse. Informed by criminological theories on harm and the continuation of harm, my findings support the notion that The Duggar interviews do in fact have the potential to perpetuate the myth that sibling sexual abuse is benign, and even more, excuse sibling sexual abuse as normative and exploratory, reinforcing those gender ideologies

What Cooperative Extension Professionals Need to Know About Institutional Review Boards: Working with Youth

University Institutional Review Boards (IRB) carry the responsibility of reviewing and approving all research protocols involving human subjects. As Extension professionals prepare to assess the effectiveness of 4-H and other Extension youth programs, they should be aware of the general requirements imposed by IRBs and particularly of the special requirements for research involving youth. In this article, we outline the IRB requirements often applied to youth research and provide tips for Extension professionals involved in such projects