University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire

About: University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire is a education organization based out in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Poison control & Population. The organization has 1780 authors who have published 2690 publications receiving 93094 citations. The organization is also known as: UW-Eau Claire & University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

The Changing Face of World Cities: Young Adult Children of Immigrants in Europe and the United States

Abstract: Among its many accomplishments, this book is a model of scholarly cooperation and research design innovation. In 1999, Philip Kasinitz et al. conducted research on the second generation in New York City, and two other research teams built and borrowed from their approach in the early 2000s: Frank Bean et al. in Los Angeles and Maurice Crul et al. in fifteen cities in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. Surveys and face-to-face interviews collected data on about 18,000 children and young adults born to immigrant parents. This massive database is among the definitive sources of information on early twenty-first century immigration and has already produced numerous publications. The Changing Face of World Cities adds to this scholarly output by comparing secondgeneration Turks in six European capitals (Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Paris, Stockholm, and Vienna) with second-generation Dominicans in New York City and Mexicans in Los Angeles. The comparative research design selected these populations for their demographic significance and because they are at the bottom of the socio-economic hierarchy within their respective societies. The book’s goal is to evaluate how social structure shapes upward mobility and social integration. Honest readers will admit that they want to know which places are the best and the worst and whether the United States or Europe treats its second generation better. To their credit, the authors are not shy of invidious comparisons. Berlin is the worst place and Stockholm is the best place to be born to immigrant parents. The U.S. cities are in between. On college attendance, the United States is higher than Germany and Austria but lower than Sweden and France. The United States loses due to poor-quality early schooling and high college costs. Germany and Austria lose due to early vocational tracking. On occupational achievement, the Latino youth fare better than the Turkish youth, but that positive outcome is partly due to U.S. employers who prefer them over native-born blacks. A comparison of neighborhood crime shows New York City and Los Angeles to be the worst. In terms of citizenship, the United States is naturally at 100 percent for U.S.-born youth but by age 18 nearly 90 percent of Turkish youth are citizens of their respective countries. However, many U.S.-born youth have immigrant parents who are undocumented, which causes an enormous disadvantage. That problem is almost nonexistent for Turkish youth. While the invidious comparisons are fascinating, the greatest strength of the book is direct answers to two big-picture questions: (1) Is the immigrant second generation forming an ‘‘ethnic underclass’’ separated socially and economically from the rest of the society? No. Compared with their parents, the youth are experiencing a slow but significant societal integration as a cohort: 50 to 65 percent have achieved upward mobility. Among Latino youth about 25 percent have at least started college or university education with even higher rates for Turkish youth in Amsterdam, Brussels, Stockholm, and especially Paris. The Turkish youth in Germany and Austria come closest to demonstrating the failure of host societies to absorb the children of the immigrant workers recruited during the post-World War II economic expansion. Only 7 percent of second-generation Turks in Berlin have started or completed a university degree while 32 percent have not obtained a lower secondary diploma (the equivalent of ‘‘not completed high school’’ in the United States). Unequal early schooling outcomes is the main reason. (2) Does national social structure shape the process of integration? Definitely. Statistical measures of residential segregation are far higher for Latino youth in the United States than Turkish youth in Europe. But European societies are more sensitive to symbols of ‘‘foreignness.’’ Islam is a particularly difficult stigma to overcome even though the Turkish 46 Reviews

Informed Consent—Uninformed Participants Shortcomings of Online Social Science Consent Forms and Recommendations for Improvement

Abstract: As informed consent forms continue to lengthen, are these lengthening forms helping to create better informed participants? The aim of this research was to determine whether the length of consent forms affected reading frequency and comprehension, and to provide recommendations on how to improve consent forms in the social sciences so they are more likely to be read. A quasi-experiment was conducted using actual consent forms at two liberal arts schools, one requiring a long form (463 words, n = 73) and one requiring a shorter form (236 words, n = 57). Participants exposed to the shorter form reported fully reading, or at least skimming the form more frequently than those exposed to the longer form. Those exposed to the shorter form also comprehended more of the form's information. The majority of participants indicated consent forms need to be shortened if researchers want future participants to be more likely to read these forms' contents. Additional recommendations are discussed.

Structural Effects on Intermolecular Electron Transfer Reactivity

Abstract: Rate constants (kij) measured by stopped flow are reported for 50 additional intermolecular electron transfer reactions between 0 and 1+ oxidation states of various compounds, enlarging our data set to 141 reactions between 45 couples in acetonitrile containing 0.1 M tetrabutylammonium perchlorate at 25 °C. Hydrazines with both saturated and unsaturated substituents, ferrocene derivatives, and heteroatom-substituted aromatic compounds are included in the couples studied. Least-squares fit of all the reactions to simple Marcus cross-reaction theory provides an internally consistent set of best fit intrinsic barriers ΔG‡ii(fit) (for self-electron transfer of each couple) covering a range of over 19 kcal/mol (rate constant range 2 × 1014) that predicts the kij rather accurately. All reactions have ratios of calculated to observed kij in the range 0.3−3.3 and 95% fall in the range 0.5−2.0. These results require that the preexponential factor for a cross reaction is close to the geometric mean of those for the...

Temporary Worker Alienation and Job Performance: The Impact of Rating Source

Abstract: This study extends previous research on alienation of temporary workers, by developing a measure of temporary worker alienation and examining differences in the perceptions of alienation between temporary workers, coworkers, and supervisors. This study found that supervisors’ ratings of temporary worker alienation were significantly lower than the temporary workers’ self-ratings. Moreover, the authors found that alienation was negatively associated with self-ratings of job performance but unrelated to supervisors’ ratings of job performance. This supports the contention, based on literature concerning the treatment of temporary workers, that a gap exists between supervisors and temporary workers with regard to perceived alienation.

IS accreditation in AACSB colleges via ABET

Abstract: The development of ABET/CAC accreditation standards for IS programs presents an excellent opportunity for IS programs in AACSB-accredited business schools to improve their perceived quality and credibility. We argue that neglect by AACSB of IS/IT content has prompted this preemptive move on the part of ABET/CAC. A comparison of AACSB and ABET/CAC accreditation standards finds them to be generally quite compatible. Ironically, our survey of IS program leaders in AACSBaccredited business schools found familiarity with and interest in ABET/CAC standards to be just emerging. Although compliance with the ABET/CAC standards is evidently relatively high among most programs, understanding of potential benefits of accreditation is quite low. Also quite low is understanding of how colleagues might react to accreditation efforts.