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The Resilient Voter: Stressful Polling Places and Voting Behavior provides a new perspective on the role voting barriers play, demonstrating that they not only discourage participation but also affect the quality of votes cast. Offering an interesting and unique approach to the study of voting barriers, Shauna Reilly and Stacy G. Ulbig investigate the possibility that complicated ballot language, provisional voting, and long polling place lines cause some voters to cast ballots in a manner contradictory to their preferences. Building on arguments that stressful polling place conditions subject citizens to stress that can prevent them from casting complete ballots or even choosing to vote at all, the authors ask whether those who endure polling place frustrations and persevere to cast a ballot might become so stressed by their experience that they are unable to mark their ballots in a manner consistent with their standing policy preferences. Using a creative experimental design, the authors examine the ways in which complex ballot language, registration difficulties, and long polling place lines affect voters’ stress levels, and how such anxieties translate into the willingness to cast a complete ballot and the ability to vote in a manner conforming to previously expressed preferences. The authors demonstrate that even though most voters prove remarkably resilient in the face of some potentially stressful polling place barriers, they are not immune to all polling place conditions. Further, they illustrate that some segments of the electorate tend to be more vulnerable to polling place stressors than others and illustrate the ways in which the compound effects of multiple barriers can exert an even wider impact.
The Resilient Voter: Stressful Polling Places and Voting Behavior provides a new perspective on the role voting barriers play, demonstrating that they not only discourage participation but also affect the quality of votes cast. Offering an interesting and unique approach to the study of voting barriers, Shauna Reilly and Stacy G. Ulbig investigate the possibility that complicated ballot language, provisional voting, and long polling place lines cause some voters to cast ballots in a manner contradictory to their preferences. Building on arguments that stressful polling place conditions subject citizens to stress that can prevent them from casting complete ballots or even choosing to vote at all, the authors ask whether those who endure polling place frustrations and persevere to cast a ballot might become so stressed by their experience that they are unable to mark their ballots in a manner consistent with their standing policy preferences. Using a creative experimental design, the authors examine the ways in which complex ballot language, registration difficulties, and long polling place lines affect voters’ stress levels, and how such anxieties translate into the willingness to cast a complete ballot and the ability to vote in a manner conforming to previously expressed preferences. The authors demonstrate that even though most voters prove remarkably resilient in the face of some potentially stressful polling place barriers, they are not immune to all polling place conditions. Further, they illustrate that some segments of the electorate tend to be more vulnerable to polling place stressors than others and illustrate the ways in which the compound effects of multiple barriers can exert an even wider impact.
This book examines the voting restrictions that have been implemented across the United States in the post-2008 recession era. Navigating the literature and conventional wisdom, this book navigates the fiscal, partisan and racial influences on voting rights laws in a post-recession era. Reilly explores the role each of these three influences have had on policy and culminate in a trifecta of effects. This is the first contribution to the literature that explores fiscal impacts with the interaction of race and partisanship.
This book examines the voting restrictions that have been implemented across the United States in the post-2008 recession era. Navigating the literature and conventional wisdom, this book navigates the fiscal, partisan and racial influences on voting rights laws in a post-recession era. Reilly explores the role each of these three influences have had on policy and culminate in a trifecta of effects. This is the first contribution to the literature that explores fiscal impacts with the interaction of race and partisanship.
This book covers random signals and random processes along with estimation of probability density function, estimation of energy spectral density and power spectral density. The properties of random processes and signal modelling are discussed with basic communication theory estimation and detection. MATLAB simulations are included for each concept with output of the program with case studies and project ideas. The chapters progressively introduce and explain the concepts of random signals and cover multiple applications for signal processing.The book is designed to cater to a wide audience starting from the undergraduates (electronics, electrical, instrumentation, computer, and telecommunication engineering) to the researchers working in the pertinent fields.Key Features: • Aimed at random signal processing with parametric signal processing-using appropriate segment size.• Covers speech, image, medical images, EEG and ECG signal processing.• Reviews optimal detection and estimation.• Discusses parametric modeling and signal processing in transform domain.• Includes MATLAB codes and relevant exercises, case studies and solved examples including multiple choice questions
The Leader Within: : Articles on Community Building, Leadership, and Personal Grow
Shauna Aura Knight
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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Ritual Facilitation: Collected Articles on the Art of Leading Rituals
Shauna Aura Knight
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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Only one man's loveWill redeem her past. . .Condemned to a future of shame and regret, Marnie Jones battles to keep going one day at a time. Divested of hope, she's all but given up when a handsome stranger arrives in town. Desperate for the marshal to ride out of Pendleton, Marnie fears he'll rekindle the embers of her broken dreams into a roaring flame before he leaves.Married to his career, US Marshal Lars Thorsen avoids relationships of any kind. Spending his days transporting prisoners, guarding political figures, and chasing down fugitives, he doesn't have room in his life for feelings or emotions. Especially not the tender, protective feelings stirred by the woman who wants him or the two orphans who need him.
"Readers will laugh out loud, cry, and commiserate with her every step of the way....The protagonist is a feisty, mixed-up, phenomenal delight." Kirkus Reviews "Shawna Railey has crafted a funny, sensitive, yet relatable narrative around her title character. Anyone who has experienced loss can understand Blue's attempts to come to terms with it. A strong debut novel that would be an excellent recommendation for any reader looking for books on loss and sibling relationships." Booklist "Railey's debut is a touching and humorous tale of family, loss, grief, and friendship." School Library JournalEleven-year-old "Blue" Warren is cursed with three bothersome brothers, a too-busy father, a recently deceased mother, and she's annoyed. With humor, hijinks, and heart, this debut novel is a touching tale of grief and the healing power of family. Eleven-year-old Beulah "Blue" Warren spends every waking moment surrounded by boys: her three brothers, her father, her best friend, even the family dog, but that's never stopped her from being her usual rambunctious self. Grappling with the loss of her mother, Blue is determined to do what she wants without fear of consequences. When she is sent to the principal's office, she gets out of it like a pro. When the witchy neighbor next door trashes her yard, Blue doesn't just get even, she gets ahead. No clean underwear because she hasn't done the laundry? No worries. That's what her little brother's Superman underwear is for, isn't it? But everything changes on the day she explores the attic and finds her mother's death certificate. Blue will need to muster all the strength she has to deal with the truth, find forgiveness, trust in her father, and grieve for her mother once and for all.
What happens when a farmer who's been wishing for a boy ends up with a girlie-girl?Come along on the humorous and sometimes agonizing adventures from a childhood spent on a farm in the Eastern Oregon desert where one family raised hay, wheat, cattle, and a farm girl.
Secrets From a Headhunter: LinkedIn Secrets for Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology Professionals
Shanna Landolt
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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Shadows & Light-Quarterly Anthology: July 2014 Issue
Shawna Platt
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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In this issue: Cover Photo-Elsa Marie SantoroBlossoms of Blood by Sandy RozanskiIn the Shadows of Power by Tom OlaussonLetter To a Madman by Charlotte HopkinsHere She Sits by Rick PowellCall Me When You're Rich by Tyler TsayThe Dawn by Mary Genevieve FortierA Vacant Yellow House by Patrick FalconiUnraveling by Melissa JuneSurviving Bedlam by Shawna PlattLady in White by Micki HoganAll About the Love by Edwin HofertPossession by Michael R. CollinsAcoustic by Alexandra PlattSerenity Stream by Gianandrea MaoliA Memory of My Mother by LeaAnn LyonPremonitions by Nate MaxsonDin and Disturbances by Karen Boissonneault-GauthierHeaven's Not So Far Away by Diane Ranker-RiesenWhipping Past by Walter RuhlmannBunker Birthday by Dana SteltingDe Underjordiske by Jessica MarquardtOne For the Road by Chad LutzkeThe World Yesterday by Elijah LutzkeRuna by Jynell Hul
Karma II - The Book of Works: The Energy Dynamics of Karmic Evolutionary Progression
Shanna Spalding St Clair
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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In Karma II, The Book of Works: The Energy Dynamics of Karmic Evolutionary Progression, Shanna Spalding St. Clair presents an often mystifying concept: the energy dynamics that form the human karmic experience and create and align karmic progression. Karma II's topics include: relationships of the soul, origin and purpose of human form, karmic tasks, karmic lessons, karmic design, karmic theory of light, simultaneously incarnating souls, myth and karma, the law of similars, healing, teaching, reincarnation, transcendence, and much more. "... Those with whom you learn your most valuable karmic lessons while in an incarnation are there to affirm your existence as a separate form of light energy and to give assistance to your progression, and it is through this choice of interaction with these other seemingly influential forms of light (which you perceive as your soulmates) that you appear to gain your direction and purpose for the current incarnation, because they provide for you the limitations (yes, limitations) to perceive what that direction and purpose can be." "The Principle of Perspective involves how we know or how we perceive or how we choose an incarnation for the potential value that its specific parameters may place on us as soul-form entities in order to promote the viewpoint, the perspective, through which lessons that will promote our karmic progression can be acquired. " "What appears to be in opposition may, on balance, not be in opposition but may be providing occasions for similars to interact... That which appears in opposition is but a further aspect of the thing itself... The key for karmic progression in a human incarnation is to find the point of balance so that the continuum is perceived." "Teaching is the purpose of choosing an incarnation on the earthplane in the first instance... Healing is a form of teaching. Both healing and teaching result in learning and progression. These are inseparable causes and effects." Shanna Spalding St. Clair has been a writer, spiritual educator, and medium for 30 years. Her spiritual writings are inspirational and illuminating. She has presented workshops throughout the U.S. Shanna currently writes and teaches in Florida.