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Silverman Tapped for Inaugural Palmer Professorship
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
Winthrop President Anthony DiGiorgio said he appointed Silverman because he consistently earns the praise of students and colleagues for his teaching skills and scholarly works. The Ellison Capers Palmer Jr. Professorship was...
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Ice Core Chronologies from the Antarctic Peninsula
In this study, we present the age scales for three Antarctic Peninsula (AP) ice cores: Palmer, Rendezvous, and Jurassic. The three cores are all intermediate-depth cores, in the 133–141 m depth range. Non-sea-salt...
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The Accuracy and Validity of the Simplified Pairs Method of Comparative Judgement in Highly Structured Papers
Comparative judgement (CJ) is often said to be more suitable for judging exam questions inviting extended responses, as it is easier for judges to make holistic judgements on a small number of large, extended tasks than...
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Scholarship Announced to Honor History Professor and Lincoln Scholar Jason Silverman
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
The Dr. Jason Silverman Scholarship was announced March 11 at the Palmer Lecture, an event held for Silverman to showcase his latest Lincoln research that he conducted alongside students. Already $20,000 has been raised toward...
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Juana Dib y el mahyar árabe-americano
Marcus S. Palmer
Apr 01, 2020
This paper investigates the thematic and aesthetic links between Juana Dib’s poetry with that of emigrant Mahjar writers. It evidences adaptations of perennial themes in Arabic poetry (nationalism, nostalgia, and memory) in...
Exploring the Validity of Comparative Judgement
L Chambers, E Cunningham
May 11, 2022
When completing a comparative judgment (CJ) exercise, judges are asked to make holistic decisions about the quality of the work they are comparing. A key consideration is the validity of expert judgements. This article...
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Characterizing optimal sampling of binary contingency tables via the configuration model
Jose Blanchet, A Stauffer
Mar 01, 2013
A binary contingency table is an m × n array of binary entries with row sums r = (r1,..., rm) and column sums c = (c1,..., cn). The configuration model generates a contingency table by considering ri tokens of type 1 for each...
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Characterizing optimal sampling of binary contingency tables via the configuration model
Jose Blanchet, A Stauffer
Mar 01, 2013
A binary contingency table is an m × n array of binary entries with row sums r = (r1,..., rm) and column sums c = (c1,..., cn). The configuration model generates a contingency table by considering ri tokens of type 1 for each...
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Juana Dib y el mahyar árabe-americano
Marcus S. Palmer
Apr 01, 2020
This paper investigates the thematic and aesthetic links between Juana Dib’s poetry with that of emigrant Mahjar writers. It evidences adaptations of perennial themes in Arabic poetry (nationalism, nostalgia, and memory) in...
Juana Dib y el mahyar árabe-americano
Marcus S. Palmer
Apr 01, 2020
This paper investigates the thematic and aesthetic links between Juana Dib’s poetry with that of emigrant Mahjar writers. It evidences adaptations of perennial themes in Arabic poetry (nationalism, nostalgia, and memory) in...
Three Winthrop Faculty Members Appointed to Endowed Professorships
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
HIGHLIGHTS English Professor Josephine Koster was selected as the recipient of the Margaret M. Bryant Professorship in English. History Professor Gregory Crider is the recipient of the Ellison Capers Palmer, Jr., Professorship....
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Public Health Emergencies and Human Rights
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented many issues for courts, often requiring immediate consideration and swift delivery of reasons. Nevertheless, experience has taught us that, in times of crisis, heightened vigilance must be...
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School Counsellors’ Perspectives and Practices Regarding Informed Consent
Obtaining informed consent can be challenging when counselling youth in a school setting.  This study explored how school counsellors (n=123) in Newfoundland and Labrador obtained informed consent when counselling youth. Surveys...
Omar Khayyam’s Epicureanism
This translation appears as the following chapter in: Omar Khayyam’s Epicureanism: The Spanish Translations of Rubaiyats (1904-1930). Peripheral Transmodernities: South-to-South Dialogues Between the Luso-Hispanic World and “the...
Visualising the Social Media Conversations of a National Information Technology Professional Association
Stuart Palmer
Jan 01, 2019
Social media systems are important for professional associations (PAs), providing new ways for them to interact with their members and stakeholders. Evaluation of the impact of social media is not straightforward. Here text...
Disciplinary power, the oligopticon and rhizomatic surveillance in elite sports academies
This article aims to apply a post-panoptic view of surveillance within the context of elite sport. Latour’s (2005) ‘oligopticon’ and Deleuze and Guttari’s (2003) ‘rhizomatic’ notion of surveillance networks are adopted to...
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The New Capital of Spanish Language Literature
This translation was originally published as: “The New Capital of Spanish Language Literature: The Best Seller.” New Spain New Literatures, by Maarten Steenmeijer. Eds. Luis Martín Estudillo and Nicholas Spadaccini. Vanderbilt...
Towards a model of the intervention process
This paper explores the challenging circumstances when one part of government decides that the performance of a subsidiary part is unacceptable and arranges some kind of remedial intervention. Following the detailed analysis of...
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School Counsellors’ Perspectives and Practices Regarding Informed Consent
Laura Palmer, Greg Harris
Mar 17, 2017
Obtaining informed consent can be challenging when counselling youth in a school setting.  This study explored how school counsellors (n=123) in Newfoundland and Labrador obtained informed consent when counselling youth. Surveys...

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