Do Community College Students Benefit When Transferring with Other Transfers? A Cross-Section Peer Effects Analysis

Using grouped data, Ehrenberg and Smith (2004) found that community college students who transfer to four-year colleges have higher graduation rates when attending four-year campuses with large shares of transfer students. I test this hypothesis with student-level data and control for heterogeneity among transfer students. “Traditional” transfers—transfers who spend two or more years at community college—are the majority of community college transfers, and graduate at higher rates when attending campuses with larger shares of traditional transfer students. However, this effect is not significant when I omit students who have not declared a major at a late point in their academic careers from the estimations, or when I omit one outlier campus with a large number of transfer students with undeclared majors from the estimations. I also find that traditional transfers have significantly lower graduation rates when they declare majors in departments with large shares of traditional transfers. This last finding is robust to multiple specifications

« Répétez après moi » ou Les rituels d’interaction dans Billy Strauss de Lise Vaillancourt (1991)

Qualifiée, par son auteure (Lise Vaillancourt), de « théâtre épique marqué », la pièce Billy Strauss rejette le conflit dramatique et la résolution cathartique de la mimesis aristotélicienne en faveur de mécanismes qui dévoilent les rouages de la représentation théâtrale. Parmi ces mécanismes, se trouve l’amplification, voire l’exacerbation, des rituels de communication. En observant de plus près ces rituels, on est frappé par le primat de trois procédés particuliers : la répétition, l’interview et la conférence. Quelles sont les conséquences de cette pratique sur la construction des personnages et qu’est-ce que cette pratique révèle de la représentation des relations sociales en rapport avec le contexte sociohistorique ? On constatera que l’idiome cérémonial, traditionnellement employé pour renforcer et gérer les connexions sociales, devient ici synonyme d’une violence postmoderne. C’est ainsi que Vaillancourt opère une radiographie de la poussée individualiste et d’un malaise existentiel au féminin qui a pris de l’ampleur à partir des années 1980, et plus particulièrement dans la décennie qui a suivi l’époque du théâtre féministe militant au Québec.The play Billy Strauss has been described by its author, Lise Vaillancourt, as a clear example of epic theatre. It rejects the dramatic conflict and the cathartic resolution typically associated with Aristotelian mimesis in favour of mechanisms that expose the workings of theatrical representation. One of these devices is the exacerbation of communication rituals. A closer observation reveals the primacy of three operating process in particular: repeated speech, interviews and conferences. What effect does this practice have on the construction of the play’s characters and what does it reveal about the representation of social relationships in their social and historical context? One discovers that the ceremonial idiom, traditionally used to reinforce and manage social connections, is used here as a synonym of a type of post-modern violence. It is in this way that Vaillancourt performs an x-ray of the individualist trend and the accompanying existential malaise afflicting women in the 1980s, that is, in the decade following the heyday of a committed feminist theatre in Québec

Daniel

Nancy thought about it often now: the day that Daniel was born. Her water had broken just hours after Bilko, her fourteen-year-old Labrador, had passed away. When the medics arrived, they were distracted by the red herring of his sheet-covered body on the dining room floor. Nancy heard them gasp when they ran to the supposed victim\u27s corpse and saw a flaccid set of hair front paws peeking out, curled under at a death-specific angle of resignation

Global applications of 4R nutrient stewardship

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‘He States That This is the Most Lovely Building He Has Ever Had the Pleasure of Seeing . . . ’ The Travel Writing and Collecting of Frederick Horniman

The travel journal, collecting, and exhibition of objects by museum founder, tea merchant and Member of Parliament Frederick Horniman (1835–1906) in the late nineteenth century demonstrate how material objects exemplify travel writing. Through an examination of objects he collected and later interpreted at the Horniman Free Museum, this article presents a case study of how collecting activities mirror and serve as a form of travel writing. This article presents a new model for understanding, beyond the written word, how travelers can capture the experience of a foreign expedition through the collecting and interpretation of objects

Preferences Toward Leniency under Mandatory Criminal Sentencing Guidelines: Role-in-the-Offense Adjustments for Federal Drug Trafficking Defendants

This paper tests whether judges and/or prosecutors manipulated mandatory federal sentencing guidelines to shorten prison sentences. It finds that, among drug traffickers convicted under the federal guidelines’ former mandatory sentencing system, those who faced harsher underlying charges were found to have played significantly lower-level roles in their conspiracies. This is consistent with guideline manipulation for defendants facing longer sentences. Women received significantly larger role-in-the-offense reductions related to harsher underlying charges than men. Effects were insignificant if defendants were eligible for lower-cost alternative methods of sentence reduction, namely substantial assistance departures and safety-valve reductions from mandatory minimum sentences

2D nanocrystal heterostructures - novel production methods and device applications

This thesis primarily investigates an approach to realise a variety of functional heterostructures based on van der Waals (vdW) nanocrystalline lms produced through the mechanical abrasion of bulk powders. This novel production technique represents the next step in the evolution of scalable production routes which can take advantage of vdW materials and their heterostructures whilst preserving the high electronic and optical quality of the individual crystals. To demonstrate the e cacy of this method, a slew of di erent device architectures are developed, including photovoltaics, triboelectric nanogenerators, strain sensors, capacitive pressure sensors and thermistors. All exhibit either superior or comparable performance to analogous systems within the literature, and show great potential for future optimised vdW heterostructure devices. The secondary focus of this thesis is the incorporation of talc dielectrics as a potentially clean and atomically at alternative substrate to hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) for few-layer transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) eld-e ect transistors (FETs) and for excitonic TMDC monolayers. It is found that talc-based TMDC FETs show small hysteresis which does not strongly depend on back gate sweep rate as well as have negligible leakage current for the dielectric thicknesses studied. Furthermore, it is found that photoluminescent (PL) emission from monolayer TMDC materials using talc as a substrate have narrow linewidths reduced to as little as 10 meV which, in addition to the high intensity PL emission, suggests that talc can be used to preserve the intrinsic excitonic properties of the TMDC. Additionally, the spontaneous doping properties of talc allow for the room-temperature observation of trions in all of the TMDC/talc devices studied