Latest entry into esoteric paper title contest

Judging female figures: A new methodological approach to male
attractiveness judgments of female waist-to-hip ratio

Biological Psychology Volume 71, Issue 2 , February 2006, Pages 223-229

Website will help with Conference Presentation Graphics

http://junkcharts.typepad.com/

Blog shows great examples of bad charts that distort the data. Instructive comments. See what you think.

Great blog from Columbia Professor on Topics of Research and the Social Sciences

http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/blog/

Pre-Lecture Lunch this Thurs. Jan. 19

Students will be meeting at noon in the Faculty/Staff Dining Room for lunch before Dr. Lauria's lecture at 1:00pm in Colvard 5090.

Those just finishing proficiency exams will eat free as we celebrate their hard work.

We had a great turnout at the first lunch last week. We hope you'll drop by.

Economics Working Paper Archive

ECONOMICS Working Paper Archive
Cool website for econ working papers, organized by JEL classification.

Tools for Keeping Up with Journals

IngentaConnect Home

This link takes you to the ingenta website where you can create a free account and register to be notified by email of the table of contents of a vast selection of journals when their new issues are published.

If you can't find the journal you are searching for, try the similar service of Sage Publications.

If you still can't find a particular journal, go to the journal's webpage and you can most likely sign up for a table of contents alert from it directly.

Any other ways that people would recommend?

Help for Putting Together Your CV

Career Center - PhDs - CV - Overview

We all need to make sure to keep our CV's up to date on the ppol website at http://www.uncc.edu/ppol/students.htm.

If you are at all like me, you may not know exactly what is on a cv, so I've included a helpful link above from Berkeley's Graduate School. Their information is especially designed for Ph.D. students looking to make a few published articles go a long way. Many of you will have your own resources, and you are encouraged to post those that you find especially helpful.

You can also model your cv on some of the ones already posted by the more diligent of us.

A quick survey indicates that we need CV's for the following folks:

Jonathan
Thomas
Huiping
Stephany D.
Jiang
Dustin
Stephanie S.
John
Stephanie P.
Ami
Wendy
Andy
Martha
Marina
Lilly
Norman
Bob
Connie
Larry

If you are not pictured on the website yet, and want to be, you can submit your own digital picture or I'll be happy to take one of you at our lunch on Thurs. Jan. 12 (see the relevant posting).

Send either your picture or your cv to our brilliant webmaster, Olga Smirnova. (She's taking comp exams so give her some time to respond.)

Free Personalized Funding Resource

Community of Science (COS) - Funding resource, expertise database and abstract management system

UNC Charlotte is a member of the Community of Science network and that allows us to use its extensive database of fellowship and dissertation funding. By clicking on the link above, and then clicking on COS Profile, you can create a profile of information--much of it straight from your cv--and tailor customized weekly searches for funding in your area. The site is a great way to keep track of your cv-type accomplishments. It allows you to direct people directly to a site that features all of your cv information as well as a way to create a print cv out of the data you've given it.

If you know of other similar online services, please comment on this post or post your own.

Welcome Lunch Scheduled for Jan. 12

I hope that you'll plan to join a gathering of Public Policy students scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 12 at noon in the Faculty/Staff dining room. We'll welcome the students who are entering the program this semester and celebrate all of those who will have just finished their proficiency and/or comp exams. Feel free to comment on this post if you have questions. Otherwise we'll see you there.

Latest from American Journal of Political Science (Jan. 2006)

1. The Political Economy of Gender: Explaining Cross-National Variation in the Gender Division of Labor and the Gender Voting Gap
Iversen, Torben; Rosenbluth, Frances
American Journal of Political Science (ISSN: 0092-5853); Volume 50, No. 1, pp. 1-19(19); January 2006
Blackwell Publishing, Inc.

2. Does Quality Matter Challengers in State Supreme Court Elections
Hall, Melinda Gann; Bonneau, Chris W.
American Journal of Political Science (ISSN: 0092-5853); Volume 50, No. 1, pp. 20-33(14); January 2006
Blackwell Publishing, Inc.

3. Presidential Coattails and Legislative Fragmentation
Golder, Matt
American Journal of Political Science (ISSN: 0092-5853); Volume 50, No. 1, pp. 34-48(15); January 2006
Blackwell Publishing, Inc.

4. Cultivating Character: John Stuart Mill and the Subject of Rights
Zivi, Karen
American Journal of Political Science (ISSN: 0092-5853); Volume 50, No. 1, pp. 49-61(13); January 2006
Blackwell Publishing, Inc.

5. Parties for Rent Ambition, Ideology, and Party Switching in Brazil's Chamber of Deputies
Desposato, Scott W.
American Journal of Political Science (ISSN: 0092-5853); Volume 50, No. 1, pp. 62-80(19); January 2006
Blackwell Publishing, Inc.

6. Cooptation or Transformation Local Policy Networks and Federal Regulatory Enforcement
Scholz, John T.; Wang, Cheng-Lung
American Journal of Political Science (ISSN: 0092-5853); Volume 50, No. 1, pp. 81-97(17); January 2006
Blackwell Publishing, Inc.

7. Constitutional Review and the Selective Promotion of Case Results
Staton, Jeffrey K.
American Journal of Political Science (ISSN: 0092-5853); Volume 50, No. 1, pp. 98-112(15); January 2006
Blackwell Publishing, Inc.

8. Institutions of the Offensive: Domestic Sources of Dispute Initiation in Authoritarian Regimes, 19501992
Lai, Brian; Slater, Dan
American Journal of Political Science (ISSN: 0092-5853); Volume 50, No. 1, pp. 113-126(14); January 2006
Blackwell Publishing, Inc.

9. Cognitive Heterogeneity and Economic Voting: A Comparative Analysis of Four Democratic Electorates
Gomez, Brad T.; Wilson, J. Matthew
American Journal of Political Science (ISSN: 0092-5853); Volume 50, No. 1, pp. 127-145(19); January 2006
Blackwell Publishing, Inc.

10. Earthquakes and Aftershocks: Race, Direct Democracy, and Partisan Change
Bowler, Shaun; Nicholson, Stephen P.; Segura, Gary M.
American Journal of Political Science (ISSN: 0092-5853); Volume 50, No. 1, pp. 146-159(14); January 2006
Blackwell Publishing, Inc.

11. Democracy and Deceit: Regulating Appearances of Corruption
Warren, Mark E.
American Journal of Political Science (ISSN: 0092-5853); Volume 50, No. 1, pp. 160-174(15); January 2006
Blackwell Publishing, Inc.

12. Bagehot or Bailout An Analysis of Government Responses to Banking Crises
Rosas, Guillermo
American Journal of Political Science (ISSN: 0092-5853); Volume 50, No. 1, pp. 175-191(17); January 2006
Blackwell Publishing, Inc.

13. Selection Bias and Continuous-Time Duration Models: Consequences and a Proposed Solution
Boehmke, Frederick J.; Morey, Daniel S.; Shannon, Megan
American Journal of Political Science (ISSN: 0092-5853); Volume 50, No. 1, pp. 192-207(16); January 2006
Blackwell Publishing, Inc.

14. Centralization of Bargaining and Wage Inequality: A Correction of Wallerstein
Golden, Miriam A.; Londregan, John B.
American Journal of Political Science (ISSN: 0092-5853); Volume 50, No. 1, pp. 208-213(6); January 2006
Blackwell Publishing, Inc.

15. Monotone Comparative Statics for Models of Politics
Ashworth, Scott; Bueno de Mesquita, Ethan
American Journal of Political Science (ISSN: 0092-5853); Volume 50, No. 1, pp. 214-231(18); January 2006
Blackwell Publishing, Inc.

16. Measuring Legislative Accomplishment, 18771994
Clinton, Joshua D.; Lapinski, John S.
American Journal of Political Science (ISSN: 0092-5853); Volume 50, No. 1, pp. 232-249(18); January 2006
Blackwell Publishing, Inc.

Urban Affairs Review -- Table of Contents (January 1 2006, 41 [3])

Urban Affairs Review -- Table of Contents (January 1 2006, 41 [3])

Urban Affairs Review -- Table of Contents Alert

A new issue of Urban Affairs Review
has been made available:


1 January 2006; Vol. 41, No. 3

URL: http://uar.sagepub.com/content/vol41/issue3/?etoc


Making Life Work in Crowded Places
Douglas W. Rae
Urban Affairs Review 2006;41 271-291
http://uar.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/41/3/271?etoc


Citizens, Accountability, and Service Satisfaction: The Influence of
Expectations
Christine H. Roch and Theodore H. Poister
Urban Affairs Review 2006;41 292-308
http://uar.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/41/3/292?etoc


Governing the Design Economy in Montreal, Canada
Deborah Leslie and Norma M. Rantisi
Urban Affairs Review 2006;41 309-337
http://uar.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/41/3/309?etoc


Local Choices for Development Impact Fees
Moon-Gi Jeong
Urban Affairs Review 2006;41 338-357
http://uar.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/41/3/338?etoc


Race, Social Capital, and Trust in the Police
John Macdonald and Robert J. Stokes
Urban Affairs Review 2006;41 358-375
http://uar.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/41/3/358?etoc


The Economics of Conservation Subdivisions: Price Premiums, Improvement
Costs, and Absorption Rates
Rayman Mohamed
Urban Affairs Review 2006;41 376-399
http://uar.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/41/3/376?etoc


Linguistic Profiling: A Continuing Tradition of Discrimination in the Home
Insurance Industry?
Gregory D. Squires and Jan Chadwick
Urban Affairs Review 2006;41 400-415
http://uar.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/41/3/400?etoc


Book Review: New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of
Statehood
Robert A. Beauregard
Urban Affairs Review 2006;41 416-418
http://uar.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/41/3/416?etoc


Book Review: Radical Possibilities: Public Policy, Urban Education, and a
New Social Movement
Ann Marie Ryan
Urban Affairs Review 2006;41 418-420
http://uar.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/41/3/418?etoc


Book Review: Credit to the Community: Community Reinvestment and Fair
Lending Policy in the United States
Guy Stuart
Urban Affairs Review 2006;41 420-423
http://uar.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/41/3/420?etoc

EndNote Support - EndNote 9.0.1 for Windows

EndNote Support - EndNote 9.0.1 for Windows
For those of you using EndNote v. 9 there is a substantial update that has been released at the link above.

Blogger Help : What is BlogThis! ?

Blogger Help : What is BlogThis! ?
You can add BlogThis to your browser's toolbar in order to make a quick post without having to go to blogger.com and logging in. See the link to install it. It takes all of 30 seconds.