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Objects of Immortality: Hairwork and Mourning in Victorian Visual Culture
(2018)Often misunderstood as purely an artifact of mourning, hairwork was exchanged as a living, sentimental token of love and friendship in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Hair was an artifact of affection and a material ... -
OJAC: An Electronic Document Delivery System for British Columbia Post-Secondary Students
(The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1993)Describes the Online Journal Access Citation (OJAC) project developed with the British Columbia Electronic Library Network and Simon Fraser University to demonstrate the feasibility of an electronic document delivery system. ... -
Older Women with Psychoactive Medication Abuse
(University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, 2008)The older population of the United States has dramatically increased over the past few decades; currently, approximately 13% of the nation’s population is categorized as older adults (persons over 65 years old). Moreover, ... -
Online ethnography and vulnerable populations: A pilot test of data collection via a popular Instant Messaging service
(University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, 2009)The internet is rapidly becoming a vibrant topic of study, source of data, and tool for qualitative inquiry in social work (Rybas & Gajjala, 2007). Variously termed virtual, cyber, or online ethnography (Beaulieu, 2004; ... -
Online Gambling Behavior: The Impacts of Cumulative Outcomes, Recent Outcomes, and Prior Use
(Information Systems Research, 6/27/2014)The objective of this work is to examine various psychological forces underlying the behavior of people’s online gambling, an increasingly popular form of entertainment in the gaming industry. Drawing on extant theories, ... -
Online Therapy: Do the Benefits Outweigh the Potential Legal Ramifications?
(University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, 2010)The delivery of psychosocial support though the internet is an area of clinical practice that is becoming increasingly prevalent as clinicians search for innovative ways to reach clients in need of psychosocial support ... -
Onset and progression of with-the-rule astigmatism in children with infantile nystagmus syndrome
(Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 2010-01)Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the onset and progression of with-the-rule (WTR) astigmatism during the first 8 years of life in children with idiopathic infantile nystagmus syndrome (INS) or INS associated ... -
Open Scholarship Workshop
(2018-11-16)Slides from a workshop delivered Nov 16, 2018, in University of Houston Libraries' Digital Research Commons (DRC). This workshop addresses some of the core values and practices of open scholarship, primarily from a humanist ... -
Openness & Latinos’ Attitudes
(2018)The practice of using personality traits to explain mass behavior has become increasingly applied to the political science literature. Openness to experience is known to predict liberal social views among non-Hispanic ... -
Opportunity + Appeal: Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia
(2018)with the spread of people all over the globalizing world, abu dhabi has created a desert oasis and is feverishly trying to attract firms and citizens from all over. -
Opportunity + Appeal: Basel, Switzerland
(2018)Globally fluent cities are "metropolitan areas that are appealing, open, and opportunity-rich which serve as magnets for attracting people and firms from around the world," according to the Brookings Institution. Basel, ... -
Opportunity + Appeal: Brisbane, Australia
(2018)Globally fluent cities are “metropolitan areas that are appealing, open, and opportunity-rich which serve as magnets for attracting people and firms from around the world,” according to The Brookings Institution. Btisbane, ... -
Opportunity + Appeal: Dublin, Ireland
(2018)Globally fluent cities are "metropolitan areas that are appealing, open, and opportunity-rich which serve as magnets for attracting people and firms from around the world," according to the Brookings Institution. Dublin ... -
Opportunity + Appeal: Edinburgh, Scotland
(2018)Globally fluent cities are "metropolitan areas that are appealing, open and opportunity-rich which serve as magnets for attracting people and firms from around the world," according to The Brookings Institution. Edinburgh, ... -
Opportunity + Appeal: London, UK
(2018)Globally fluent cities are “metrapolitan areas that are appealing, open, and opportunity-rich which serve as magnets for attracting people and firms from around the world,” according to The Brookings Institution: Liverpool, ... -
Opportunity + Appeal: Melbourne, Australia
(2018)Globally fluent cities are “metropolitan areas that are appealing, open, and opportunity-rich which serve as magnets for attracting people and firms from around the world,” according to The Brookings Institution. Melbourne ... -
Opportunity + Appeal: Milan, Italy
(2018)Globally fluent cities are “metropolitan areas that are appealing, open, and opportunity-rich which serve as magnets for attracting people and firms from around the world,” according to The Brookings Institution. Milan, ... -
Opportunity + Appeal: Mumbai, India
(2018)According to The Brookings Institution, globally fluent cities are "metropolitan areas that are appealing, open and opportunity-rich which serve as magnets for attracting people and firms from around the world." The Dharavi ... -
Opportunity + Appeal: Paris, France
(2018)Globally fluent cities are "metropolitan areas that are appealing, open, and opportunity-rich which serve as magnets for attracting people and firms from around the world," according to The Brookings Institution. Paris, ... -
Opportunity + Appeal: Sydney, Australia
(2018)Globally fluent cities are " metropolitan areas that are appealing, open, and opportunity-rich which serve as magnets for attracting to the Brookings Institution. sydney, Australia is presented in 3 parts: business climate, ...