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Title: Tweet Acts: How Constituents Lobby Congress via Twitter
Creator: Hemphill, Libby, Roback, Andrew
Date: 2014, 2014
Description: Twitter is increasingly becoming a medium through which constituents can lobby their elected representatives in...
Show moreTwitter is increasingly becoming a medium through which constituents can lobby their elected representatives in Congress about issues that matter to them. Past research has focused on how citizens communicate with each other or how members of Congress (MOCs) use social media in general; our research examines how citizens communicate with MOCs. We contribute to existing literature through the careful examination of hundreds of citizen-authored tweets and the development of a categorization scheme to describe common strategies of lobbying on Twitter. Our findings show that contrary to past research that assumed citizens used Twitter to merely shout out their opinions on issues, citizens utilize a variety of sophisticated techniques to impact political outcomes.
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Title: 'Ain't No One Here But Us Social Forces' : Constructing the Social Responsibility of Engineers.
Creator: Davis, Michael
Date: 2011-04, 2011-06
Publisher: Springer
Description: There are many ways to avoid responsibility, for example, explaining what happens as the work of the gods, fate,...
Show moreThere are many ways to avoid responsibility, for example, explaining what happens as the work of the gods, fate, society, or the system. For engineers, “technology” or “the organization” will serve this purpose quite well. We may distinguish at least nine (related) senses of “responsibility”, the most important of which are: (a) responsibility-as-causation (the storm is responsible for flooding), (b) responsibility-as-liability (he is the person responsible and will have to pay), (c) responsibility-as-competency (he’s a responsible person, that is, he’s rational), (d) responsibility-as-office (he’s the responsible person, that is, the person in charge), and (e) a responsibility-as-domain-of-tasks (these are her responsibilities, that is, the things she is supposed to do). For all but the causal sense of responsibility, responsibility may be taken (in a relatively straightforward sense)—and generally is. Why then would anyone want to claim that certain technologies make it impossible to attribute responsibility to engineers (or anyone else)? In this paper, I identify seven arguments for that claim and explain why each is fallacious. The most important are: (1) the argument from “many hands”, (2) the argument from individual ignorance, and (3) the argument from blind forces. Each of these arguments makes the same fundamental mistake, the assumption that a certain factual situation, being fixed, settles responsibility, that is, that individuals, either individually or by some group decision, cannot take responsibility. I conclude by pointing out the sort of decisions (and consequences) engineers have explicitly taken responsibility for and why taking responsibility for them is rational, all things considered. There is no technological bar to such responsibility.
Science and Engineering Ethics.
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Title: They Aren't Like Me, They are Bad, and They are to Blame: A Theoretically-Informed Study of Stigma of Hoarding Disorder and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Date: 2018, 2018
Publisher: Elsevier

Title: Transdiagnostic Emotional Vulnerabilities Linking Obsessive-Compulsive and Depressive Symptoms in a Community-Based Sample of Adolescents
Date: 2017, 2017
Publisher: Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Description: Background: Transdiagnostic emotional vulnerabilities are suspected to underlie psychopathologic comorbidity but have received little...
Show moreBackground: Transdiagnostic emotional vulnerabilities are suspected to underlie psychopathologic comorbidity but have received little attention in adolescent emotional pathology literature. We examined distress tolerance, anxiety sensitivity, and anhedonia as concomitant transdiagnostic mechanisms that account for (i.e., statistically mediate) the covariance between adolescent obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and major depressive disorder (MDD) symptoms. Method: Data on MDD, OCD, and the three aforementioned transdiagnostic vulnerabilities were collected from a community-based sample of 3,094 9th graders in a large metropolitan area and analyzed using mixed effects modeling to evaluate mediation effects. Results: Individually and when controlling for each other, all three transdiagnostic vulnerabilities mediated the relation between OCD and MDD symptoms both before and after adjusting for demographics. Conclusions: Distress tolerance, anxiety sensitivity, and anhedonia may be unique mechanisms accounting for comorbidity between OCD and MDD symptoms in youth. Longitudinal evaluation of these candidate transdiagnostic emotional vulnerabilities in adolescent OCD-MDD comorbidity is warranted.
Sponsorship: Grant sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse; Contract grant number: R01?DA033296.
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Title: Machine Learning at the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Date: 2019-11-21,
Description: Vinesh Kannan (CS '19) shares his experiences working as a...
Show moreVinesh Kannan (CS '19) shares his experiences working as a data science fellow at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Vinesh worked on the team that produces occupation and wage data used by policymakers, hiring staff, job seekers, and researchers across the country. He helped improve machine learning systems at the BLS: automatically identifying problematic training data and classifying rare jobs. Vinesh offers advice for students who may be interested in applying for the 2020 Civic Digital Fellowship, a program that recruits university students at all levels to spend a summer working on civic technology projects with various federal agencies.
Sponsorship: College of Science, Department of Computer Science, Department of Applied Mathematics, Machine Learning at IIT
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Title: , From positivism to conventionalism: Comte, Renouvier, and Poincaré
Date: 2019, 2019
Publisher: Elsevier

Title: Examining Partnership-Health Associations Among Lesbian Women and Gay Men Using Population-Level Data
Date: 2019,
Description: Abstract...
Show moreAbstract Purpose: The aim was to provide the first broad assessment of partnership-health associations across partnership statuses among sexual minority individuals. Methods: Using population-level data from the 2016 U.S. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, specifically the 26 states/territories that assessed sexual orientation and gender identity, we ran analyses of covariance and logistic regressions to compare lesbian and gay individuals (N = 2963) of different partnership statuses in general health, physical health and health conditions, mental health, health behaviors, and healthcare access/utilization domains. Results: All omnibus and logistic regression models were significant (p < 0.001). Follow-up pairwise comparisons of mean differences across partnership groups revealed that in at least one variable in the general health, mental health, health behaviors, and healthcare access/utilization domains, married lesbian and gay individuals reported the best health, followed by partnered, single, and then divorced, separated, and widowed lesbian and gay individuals (p < 0.001). Exceptions included variables in the physical health and health conditions domain, the health behaviors of smoking and heavy drinking, and ever having an HIV test. When stratifying by sex, for both gay men and lesbian women being married or partnered related to the best health in at least one variable in each health domain, and in the majority of all outcome variables. Conclusion: This article provides the first evidence for partnership-health associations among gay and lesbian individuals based on a large-scale, multi-domain test of population-level data. Future research could examine temporal links between same-sex marriage legislation and health outcomes among sexual minority individuals.
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Title: Three agendas for changing the public stigma of mental illness.
Date: 2018, 2017
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Description: OBJECTIVE: Antistigma programs may be guided by 3 differing agendas: services (promote treatment engagement),...
Show moreOBJECTIVE: Antistigma programs may be guided by 3 differing agendas: services (promote treatment engagement), rights (help people achieve rightful goals), and self-worth (facilitate self-worth and efficacy). This study examined the construct validity of this perspective by examining the factor structure of importance ratings of the 3 agendas. The study examined how importance might be viewed differently by the population as a whole versus a subsample of people who reported previous experience with mental health services and hence could be directly harmed by stigma. METHODS: 373 individuals recruited using Mechanical Turk completed importance ratings for each of the 3 agendas. Measures of public stigma were completed to examine concurrent validity of importance ratings. Those who reported taking medications for a psychiatric disorder were divided into a separate group and completed a measure of self-stigma. RESULTS: Outcomes seemed to confirm the factor structure of the 3 agendas model thereby offering partial support for the framework. Group analyses showed the services agenda was viewed as more important than rights or self-worth. People with mental health experience viewed the services agenda as more important than the other 2. However, dividing the mental health group into low and high self-stigma revealed that those with low self-stigma rated the rights agenda as more important. Conclusions and Implication for Practice: Participants with lower self-stigma identify the harm brought by stigma and thus endorse rights and self-worth more than those with higher self-stigma. Implications of these findings are discussed to assist to prioritize agendas for public health campaigns.
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Title: Using Peer Navigators to Address the Integrated Healthcare Needs of African Americans with Serious Mental Illness
Date: 2017, 2017
Publisher: American Psychiatric Association
Description: Objective Impact of a peer navigator program (PNP) develop by a community based participatory research team was...
Show moreObjective Impact of a peer navigator program (PNP) develop by a community based participatory research team was examined on African Americans with serious mental illness who were homeless. Methods Research participants were randomized to PNP or a treatment-as-usual control group for one year. Data on physical and mental health, recovery, and quality of life were collected at baseline, 4, 8 and 12 months. Results Findings from group by trial ANOVAs of omnibus measures of the four constructs showed significant impact over the one year for participants in PNP compared to control described by small to moderate effect sizes. These differences emerged even though both groups showed significant improvements in reduced homelessness and insurance coverage. Conclusions Implications for improving in-the-field health care for this population are discussed. Whether these results occurred because navigators were peers per se needs to be examined in future research.
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Title: Influence of Injector Location on Part-Load Performance Characteristics of Natural Gas Direct-Injection in a Spark Ignition Engine
Date: 2016,
Publisher: SAE International

Title: Making the cut: Collaborative Decision Making in Collection Management
Date: 4/2/2019,
Description: Presented at the CARLI Collection Management Forum. Making collaborative collection management decisions making using a decision tree.

Title: Creating partnerships and mapping events
Date: 6/23/2019,
Description: Presentation at ALA Annual 2019.
Collection: ALA Annual 2019 Panel: Stay on Target!: Stellar practices for strategic outreach through collaborations, marketing, and peer leaders

Title: Building accessibility partnerships
Date: 7/23/2018,
Description: Presented at LibUX Chicago From Accessibility to Inclusion. Describes the importance of developing partnerships for supporting diverse user...
Show morePresented at LibUX Chicago From Accessibility to Inclusion. Describes the importance of developing partnerships for supporting diverse user needs, including in the design of accessible learning objects.
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Collection: LibUX Chicago

Title: From in-person to webinar
Date: 6/26/2019,
Description: Slides used at the IIT Libraries 2019 Mini Conference.

Title: Collaborative Collection Development: Increasing Equity in Times of Austerity
Date: 6/24/2018,
Description: Presentation at ALA Annual, 2018. Libraries have long participated in cooperative collection development as a strategic way of spending funds...
Show morePresentation at ALA Annual, 2018. Libraries have long participated in cooperative collection development as a strategic way of spending funds and sharing resources. Using established best practices for collaborative collection development as a foundation, this session will describe updated strategies for initiating and assessing simple but effective cooperative collection development projects that increase the number of unique titles that can be shared among libraries with minimal commitment. The strategies are applicable to any library setting. Co-sponsored by RUSA CODES and the Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT)
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Title: Alumni Memorial Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill.
Date: 1960-1979
Description: Photograph of Alumni Memorial Hall, formerly known as the Navy Building (1946), located at 3201 South Dearborn Street on the Illinois...
Show morePhotograph of Alumni Memorial Hall, formerly known as the Navy Building (1946), located at 3201 South Dearborn Street on the Illinois Institute of Technology campus. The building was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1945-56. Holabird & Root, associated architects; Dahl-Steadman Co., contractor; Mittelbusher & Turtelot, architects; Frank W. Reider & Associates, renovation associated consultants and engineers for renovation. Date of photograph is unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: Alumni Memorial Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill., 1964
Date: 1964
Description: Photograph of Alumni Memorial Hall, formerly known as the Navy Building (1946), located at 3201 South Dearborn Street on the Illinois...
Show morePhotograph of Alumni Memorial Hall, formerly known as the Navy Building (1946), located at 3201 South Dearborn Street on the Illinois Institute of Technology campus. The building was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1945-56. Holabird & Root, associated architects; Dahl-Steadman Co., contractor; Mittelbusher & Turtelot, architects; Frank W. Reider & Associates, renovation associated consultants and engineers for renovation. Photographer unknown.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: Armour Flats, Chicago, Illinois, 1920s
Date: 1920-1929
Description: Photograph of Armour Flats, located at 3322 Armour Avenue (now Federal Street). Designed by the architecture firm Patton & Fisher, and...
Show morePhotograph of Armour Flats, located at 3322 Armour Avenue (now Federal Street). Designed by the architecture firm Patton & Fisher, and constructed in 1886, Armour Flats was a 194-unit apartment building constructed to house Armour meatpacking company employees. It later provided living quarters for Armour Institute faculty. In 1907, six sections of the building were christened Chapin Hall for use by Armour Institute. When the majority of the building was torn down in 1917 and 1919, Chapin Hall remained. Chapin Hall and the Physics Building were demolished in 1968. Date of photograph is unknown. Date range listed is approximate. Photographer unknown.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: Arthur Keating Hall entrance, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill.
Date: 1970-1989
Description: Photograph of the entrance of Arthur Keating Hall, located at 3040 South Wabash Avenue on the Illinois Institute of Technology campus. The...
Show morePhotograph of the entrance of Arthur Keating Hall, located at 3040 South Wabash Avenue on the Illinois Institute of Technology campus. The building was designed by Myron Goldsmith, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and constructed in 1966. The building is also known as Keating Sports Center (circa 1990s to present). Date of photograph is unknown. Date range listed is approximate. Photographer unknown.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: Arthur Keating Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill.
Date: 1970-1989
Description: Photograph of Arthur Keating Hall, located at 3040 South Wabash Avenue on the Illinois Institute of Technology campus. The building was...
Show morePhotograph of Arthur Keating Hall, located at 3040 South Wabash Avenue on the Illinois Institute of Technology campus. The building was designed by Myron Goldsmith, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and constructed in 1966. The building is also known as Keating Sports Center (circa 1990s to present). Date of photograph is unknown. Date range listed is approximate. Photographer unknown.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

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