Identifying and Adding Institutional Repository Content from and for your Institution’s Affinity Groups

No repository is successful without content to disseminate. We will discuss how IR administrators can go about targeting certain constituencies on their campus with content to share, such as working with subject liaisons in the library to outreach to departments on campus and targeting new incoming faculty and faculty with a research-specific need of the IR, such as a data management plan. We will also consider the impact capstone and research projects from the student body could have on your IR, as well as how to target campus publications struggling to transition to electronic format or faculty who wish to start an e-journal

A View from Melrose

An essay by President Vivian A. Bull: Another Linfield \u27Defining Moment.\u2

Strategies for Sustaining Self Used by Family Caregivers for Older Adults With Dementia

The negative health consequences of caring for an older adult family member with dementia are well documented. However, not all family caregivers experience these negative health consequences. The purposes of this study were to describe strategies family caregivers use to help them continue to provide care for an older family member with dementia despite challenges and describe these family caregivers’ resilience and psychological distress. A mixed methods design was used with a narrative approach dominant and standardized scales for resilience and psychological distress used to enhance the description of the sample. Data were collected through telephone interviews with 18 family caregivers residing in an urban area. The findings indicate that family caregivers used four strategies to sustain the self: drawing on past life experiences, nourishing the self, relying on spirituality, and seeking information about dementia. Understanding strategies used by family caregivers to sustain themselves is essential for providing holistic nursing care and developing effective interventions

Costly Evidence Production and the Limits of Verifiability

This paper explores the limits of "verifiability" induced by the process of costly evidence production in contractual relationships of complete information. I study how the cost of providing evidence (disclosing documents) influences the set of enforceable contracts. I show that evidence cost can be both beneficial and detrimental with regard to enlarging the set of settlement outcomes that can be implemented. Further, I study how what can be considered verifiable is influenced by parties’ incentives to produce evidence and by the particular evidence cost structure. My analysis includes the opportunity for contracting parties to renegotiate (or settle) prior to the enforcement phase. I also study how the availability of redundant documents expands the set of enforceable contracts, and discuss the relevance of my findings to the design of legal institutions.contracts, verifiability

Honest adaptive confidence bands and self-similar functions

Confidence bands are confidence sets for an unknown function f, containing all functions within some sup-norm distance of an estimator. In the density estimation, regression, and white noise models, we consider the problem of constructing adaptive confidence bands, whose width contracts at an optimal rate over a range of H\"older classes. While adaptive estimators exist, in general adaptive confidence bands do not, and to proceed we must place further conditions on f. We discuss previous approaches to this issue, and show it is necessary to restrict f to fundamentally smaller classes of functions. We then consider the self-similar functions, whose H\"older norm is similar at large and small scales. We show that such functions may be considered typical functions of a given H\"older class, and that the assumption of self-similarity is both necessary and sufficient for the construction of adaptive bands. Finally, we show that this assumption allows us to resolve the problem of undersmoothing, creating bands which are honest simultaneously for functions of any H\"older norm