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Perceiving A Corridor With Ctfm Ultrasonic Sensing, S. M. Antoun, Phillip J. Mckerrow
Perceiving A Corridor With Ctfm Ultrasonic Sensing, S. M. Antoun, Phillip J. Mckerrow
Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)
When deprived of sight humans adapt and use other senses for navigation. Most rely on touch (long cane), but some use auditory perception. We have observed a blind teenager echolocating using sounds (clicks) he makes with his mouth. More commonly, an ultrasonic sensor is used as a navigational aid to scan the path and environment. The echoes blind people perceive are interpreted by each individual to form an auditory scene where clear paths and obstacles are identified. With this information, the blind user threads his/her way safely through the space scanned. The work we describe here seeks to mimic a …
Exercise Makes You Feel Good, But Does Feeling Good Make You Exercise?: An Examination Of Obese Dieters, Robert Albert Carels, Carissa Coit, Bonnie Berger
Exercise Makes You Feel Good, But Does Feeling Good Make You Exercise?: An Examination Of Obese Dieters, Robert Albert Carels, Carissa Coit, Bonnie Berger
Robert Albert Carels
Whereas exercise-induced mood enhancement has been well documented, the relationship between mood and exercise participation is less well understood. Mood states influence evaluative judgments that could plausibly influence a decision to exercise. Further, most exercise-mood research is limited to normal weight adults in response to a single exercise session. The current investigation examines the influence of (a) morning mood on exercise, (b) exercise intensity/duration on mood enhancement, and (c) daily change in mood on exercise days compared with nonexercise days in obese behavioral weight loss program (BWLP) participants. Participants (N=36) recorded morning, evening, and pre- and postexercise mood, as well …
The Potential Of Erin Brokovitch To Introduce Organizaitonal Behavior Topics, J. Benjamin Forbes, Jonathan E. Smith
The Potential Of Erin Brokovitch To Introduce Organizaitonal Behavior Topics, J. Benjamin Forbes, Jonathan E. Smith
Organization Management Journal
Real organizational behavior is rich, and messy, and emotional, and at times painful, but at other times immensely rewarding. The movie, Erin Brockovich, captures this richness and provides an exciting means to introduce a variety of individual or micro- organizational behavior concepts (such as perception, personality, and motivation) typically covered at the beginning of the Organizational Behavior course. In this paper, we describe the use of the film, including a takehome viewing assignment, an in-class assignment, a description of clips and comments for in-class use, and suggestions for the types of issues to discuss in relation to the major topics …
The Effects Of Instructor Immediacy In Online Learning Environments, Maria Schutt Edd
The Effects Of Instructor Immediacy In Online Learning Environments, Maria Schutt Edd
Dissertations
The rising number of adult learners interested in online distance education, coupled with the increasing competition between educational institutions have forced universities to identify alternative options for course offerings, such as online or blended learning. Instructor immediacy (the measure of the psychological distance which an instructor puts between himself and his students) received significant attention in the communication literature and several studies reported that instructor verbal and nonverbal immediacy behaviors are associated with learning outcomes, satisfaction, and motivation. However, few researchers have examined instructor immediacy in distance learning settings. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of …
Clear Speech Effects For Vowels Produced By Monolingual And Bilingual Talkers, Teresa Demasi
Clear Speech Effects For Vowels Produced By Monolingual And Bilingual Talkers, Teresa Demasi
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
'Clear speech' is a speaking style that talkers often employ when they know they may have trouble being understood, as when speaking in noise or to a person with a hearing loss. When 'clear speech' produced by native talkers is presented in noise to native listeners, it has been shown to be about 10-15 percentage points more intelligible, on average, than normally produced speech. Recent research has shown that bilingual listeners may experience a smaller intelligibility benefit than monolingual listeners from 'clear speech' produced by monolingual talkers. The present study compares the ability of monolingual and bilingual talkers to produce …
The A-B Signal Detection Theory Model, Ernesto A. Bustamante
The A-B Signal Detection Theory Model, Ernesto A. Bustamante
Psychology Theses & Dissertations
The purpose of this research was threefold: (1) Present the a-b SDT model as an alternative framework to overcome the limitations of the underlying SDT model and the traditional measures of sensitivity and criterion setting, (2) Provide empirical support to validate the adequacy of the a-b SDT model, and (3) Conduct a Monte Carlo Study to compare and contrast the strengths and weaknesses of both the traditional and the a-b SDT models across the full spectrum of response values with the goal of providing researchers and practitioners with recommendations regarding the adequacy of each model. The results from this research …
The Impact Of Variable Data Print On Usability In Design, William Wells
The Impact Of Variable Data Print On Usability In Design, William Wells
Theses
In a world where people see, process and remember information differently, the question arises: Is technology being used in a manner that acknowledges and addresses user differences to the fullest extent? Currently, new print technologies like Variable Data Printing (VDP) are only being used to create customized direct mailing pieces and personalized products for the purpose of marketing, sales and promotion. However, VDP introduces the ability to change data and design elements in printed documents on an individual basis, making it possible to address differences in visual and cognitive abilities, language and culture, and situational considerations. Applying this concept of …
Urban Engagement: Social Interaction Through Urban Spectacle, Philip Gleason
Urban Engagement: Social Interaction Through Urban Spectacle, Philip Gleason
Architecture Thesis Prep
"Cinematic devices are utilized in film to distort and alter perception, layer events and situation, and manipulate the understanding of time. The translation of such ideas through architecture will lead to the development of a Cinema Center that will function as an extension of film into habitable space. The Cinema Center is intended to be a multi media experience capable of interrupting ones sense of time and place while altering emotion, and perception of the urban environment, much like ones reaction to film. The Cinema Center has the potential to energize the newly developed Boston Greenway by creating new connections …
Teachers' Perceptions Of A 360-Degree Feedback Process, Catriona Collins Moran Edd
Teachers' Perceptions Of A 360-Degree Feedback Process, Catriona Collins Moran Edd
Dissertations
In recent years, the 360° feedback process, which originated in the business world in the 1980s, has been increasingly used for the purpose of teacher evaluation. When this is done, feedback from peers, parents and students, as well as teacher self-reflection and student achievement data, are used in addition to more traditional evaluation strategies. Despite its growing popularity, however, there have been very few published studies about the impact of the 360° feedback process in the business world and even fewer in the field of education. The overarching purpose of this qualitative study was to discover teachers' perceptions of a …
Communication And Leadership: Faculty Perceptions Of The Department Chair, Kathleen Czech Edd
Communication And Leadership: Faculty Perceptions Of The Department Chair, Kathleen Czech Edd
Dissertations
With department chairs providing a critical link between faculty and administration, their leadership impacts universities on a broad level. However, chairs often report dissatisfaction with the position and experience rapid turnover. In an effort to help understand the role that communication plays in effective leadership for department chairs, this study provides an empirical test of Gibb's theory of defensive vs. supportive communication. As such, this project investigated the communication and leadership behaviors of university department chairs as evaluated by their faculty members. Specifically, 202 randomly selected faculty members from colleges and universities affiliated with the Council of Independent Colleges, Washington, …
The Impact Of The Inter-American Convention Against Corruption, Giorleny D. Altamirano
The Impact Of The Inter-American Convention Against Corruption, Giorleny D. Altamirano
University of Miami Inter-American Law Review
No abstract provided.
Exploring Counselor's Perceptions When Using Outcome And Session Rating Scales In An Adult Residential Treatment Facility, Peter B. Weiss
Exploring Counselor's Perceptions When Using Outcome And Session Rating Scales In An Adult Residential Treatment Facility, Peter B. Weiss
Peter Weiss
A thesis presented to the Faculty of California State University, Stanislaus in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Social Work. The purpose of this study was to explore counselors’ perceptions of session rating and outcome rating scales after applying these scales in treatment with clients in a residential mental health setting. Historically in the therapeutic field the client has played a familiar role of the helpless individual while the therapist is seen as the expert. This study was conducted under the premise that the client comes to therapy as a person who has the answers, …
Place Assimilation And Phonetic Grounding: A Cross-Linguistic Perceptual Study, Alexei Kochetov, Connie K. So
Place Assimilation And Phonetic Grounding: A Cross-Linguistic Perceptual Study, Alexei Kochetov, Connie K. So
Alexei Kochetov
This paper investigates predictions made by the ‘phonetic knowledge hypothesis’ (Jun 1995, 2004, Hayes & Steriade 2004) about the relation between perceptibility of stops and common patterns of major place assimilation. In two perceptual experiments, stimuli with Russian released and unreleased voiceless stops in clusters were presented for identification of 56 listeners, native speakers of Russian, Canadian English, Korean and Taiwanese Mandarin. Percentages of correct responses and reaction time data were used to determine scales of perceptual salience. Results reveal considerable perceptual differences between places of articulation, consistent across four language groups. Perceptual salience of place of articulation was strongly …
Aesthetics And The Environment: Repatriating Humanity, Nikolaos Gkogkas
Aesthetics And The Environment: Repatriating Humanity, Nikolaos Gkogkas
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
If aesthetics is to claim its place among the fundamental philosophical disciplines, it must adequately deal with the ecological challenge, that is, the need to explain the continuity-relation between human and non-human environments. To that effect, Arnold Berleant's aesthetics of engagement constitutes an attractive proposal. Its critics (Allen Carlson and others) seem to miss its point and attack it on the basis of a particular understanding of Kantian aesthetics (mainly the disinterestedness thesis). But not only can Berleant's aesthetics meet the ecological challenge; it is also possible that it encourages a re-evaluation of traditional aesthetic categories (like disinterestedness) without necessarily …
Voicing Complaints In The Public Arena, Leo Wayne Jeffres, Guowei Jian, David Atkin
Voicing Complaints In The Public Arena, Leo Wayne Jeffres, Guowei Jian, David Atkin
Communication Faculty Publications
This study draws on several literatures--the Tichenor et al. (1980) pluralism model stressing community constraints, the spiral of silence literature stressing the importance of the climate of communication, and the currently popular emphasis on democratic discussion in the "public sphere." In the Tichenor et al. (1980) model, media stress consensus and avoid conflict in more homogeneous communities. Here we extend the issue to question whether community characteristics affect perceptions of the climate of communication and one's comfort in voicing complaints in public. The results present some support for existing theory as well as some contradictions.
Face Processing In Humans And New World Monkeys: The Influence Of Experiential And Ecological Factors. Animal Cognition, Julie J. Neiworth, Janice M. Hassett, Cara J. Sylvester
Face Processing In Humans And New World Monkeys: The Influence Of Experiential And Ecological Factors. Animal Cognition, Julie J. Neiworth, Janice M. Hassett, Cara J. Sylvester
Faculty Work
This study tests whether the face-processing sys- tem of humans and a nonhuman primate species share char- acteristics that would allow for early and quick processing of socially salient stimuli: a sensitivity toward conspecific faces, a sensitivity toward highly practiced face stimuli, and an ability to generalize changes in the face that do not sug- gest a new identity, such as a face differently oriented. The look rates by adult tamarins and humans toward conspecific and other primate faces were examined to determine if these characteristics are shared. A visual paired comparison (VPC) task presented subjects with either a human …
Safety Culture And Hazard Risk Perception Of Australian And New Zealand Maritime Pilots, Rosa M. Darbra, J.F.E. Crawford, C. W. Haley, R. J. Morrison
Safety Culture And Hazard Risk Perception Of Australian And New Zealand Maritime Pilots, Rosa M. Darbra, J.F.E. Crawford, C. W. Haley, R. J. Morrison
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
A survey of the safety culture and hazard risk perception has been carried out involving 77 maritime pilots around Australia and New Zealand, representing more than 20% of the maritime pilots in each country, in proportional geographic districbution.
Artist's Labor, Derek Whitehead
Artist's Labor, Derek Whitehead
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
This essay explores the relations between perception, phenomenology and art practice. The object of my inquiry is the kind of perceptual repertoire available to the artist in relation to his art, which extends beyond the technical means available to art making in its varying forms. I invoke an artist's innate perception as the source and locus of art's creation. This creation of art also has an outward or phenomenological dimension. In this respect, I investigate the ways in which phenomenological perception, via Maurice Merleau-Ponty's hermeneutic insights into artistic activity, might offer to contemporary arts practice a means of reappraising its …
Perceived Influence Of The Portrayal Of Women In Beauty And Fashion Magazines On Body Image, Melissa Shrader
Perceived Influence Of The Portrayal Of Women In Beauty And Fashion Magazines On Body Image, Melissa Shrader
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This investigation examines how women perceive that magazines influence the body image of self and others. Seventeen audio-taped in-depth interviews were conducted with college women who read beauty, fashion, and grooming magazines frequently. These interviews were transcribed, coded, and analyzed and the data developed into topics of importance. The findings indicated that informants perceived other women were influenced more by images of women in the media than they themselves were influenced. However, informants did not advocate behavior changes for others or hold pro-censorship attitudes. Other findings include favorable perceptions of magazines utilizing larger sized fashion models, negative attitudes towards advertising, …
Faculty Perceptions Of Alignment Ofadministrative Practices With A University Missionutilizing A Hospitality Model, Duncan Dickson
Faculty Perceptions Of Alignment Ofadministrative Practices With A University Missionutilizing A Hospitality Model, Duncan Dickson
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions of a university's faculty as to how the strategies, staffing policies, and systems procedures were aligned with the mission statement. Differences in perceptions were examined by college affiliation, rank, primary teaching assignment and gender. Data were analyzed to determine if there were correlations between faculty members' perceptions of alignment of the university's mission statement with administration's actions, policies, and procedures and their level of organizational commitment, job satisfaction, and overall satisfaction with their job and the organization The population for this study was comprised initially of 1363 teaching faculty members …
The Persistence Of Perception-Against The Grain, Glenda M. Alvin
The Persistence Of Perception-Against The Grain, Glenda M. Alvin
Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations
No abstract provided.
The Importance Of The Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service As Perceived By Local Governing Bodies In Louisiana, Peter Charles Cannizzaro
The Importance Of The Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service As Perceived By Local Governing Bodies In Louisiana, Peter Charles Cannizzaro
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The primary purpose of this study was to determine the importance of the Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service (CES) as perceived by members of local governing bodies in Louisiana. The fundamental objective of the CES is the development of people by means of educational programs. Local governing body members (defined as Police Jury/Council Members) throughout the state of Louisiana were surveyed to determine their perceptions of the importance of the Cooperative Extension Service regarding awareness, attendance of programs/events, use of information and if the needs of local residents were being met by the LCES programs and services. Results of the study …
Absence Of The Proapoptotic Bax Protein Extends Fertility And Alleviates Age-Related Health Complications In Female Mice, Gloria I. Perez, Andrea Jurisicova, Lisa Wise, Titiana Lipina, Marijana Kanisek, Allison Bechard, Yasushi Takai, Patricia Hunt, John Roder, Marc Grynpas, Jonathan L. Tilly
Absence Of The Proapoptotic Bax Protein Extends Fertility And Alleviates Age-Related Health Complications In Female Mice, Gloria I. Perez, Andrea Jurisicova, Lisa Wise, Titiana Lipina, Marijana Kanisek, Allison Bechard, Yasushi Takai, Patricia Hunt, John Roder, Marc Grynpas, Jonathan L. Tilly
Psychology
The menopausal transition in human females, which is driven by a loss of cyclic ovarian function, occurs around age 50 and is thought to underlie the emergence of an array of health problems in aging women. Although mice do not undergo a true menopause, female mice exhibit ovarian failure long before death because of chronological age and subsequently develop many of the same age-associated health complications observed in postmenopausal women. Here we show in mice that inactivation of the proapoptotic Sax gene, which sustains ovarian lifespan into advanced age, extends fertile potential and minimizes many age-related health problems, including bone …
Why Learning French First Is Better Than Learning German First, Wendy Baker-Smemoe, Laura Catherine Smith
Why Learning French First Is Better Than Learning German First, Wendy Baker-Smemoe, Laura Catherine Smith
Faculty Publications
This study investigated whether differences in cross-language similarity between English-French and English-German vowels would translate into differences in accurately identifying and discriminating French and German vowels (i.e., Iii, /y/, and /u/). In addition, this study investigated whether these same differences in cross-language perception would also translate into differences in accurately identifying and discriminating vowels in a novel third language. The results suggest that learners exposed to a language with a greater perceived difference with the LI are more able to generalize their perception of their L2 vowels to a novel L3.
Film And Its Influence On The Public Perception Of Motorcycle Culture, Solomon Kamman
Film And Its Influence On The Public Perception Of Motorcycle Culture, Solomon Kamman
Capstone Projects and Master's Theses
My capstone research project deals with the film industry and how it has influenced the public's perception of the motorcycle culture. In my paper I argue that the biker culture has been grossly misunderstood due to films such as "The Wild One," and "Easy Rider." Through exploitation, as well as the use of specific cultural influence, these movies were greatly effective in creating an image of the biker culture that created fear and hatred towards a misunderstood group. In order to show the reality behind the motorcycle culture, I explore the contemporary demographics of the riders.
Small-Hydroelectricity And Landscape Change In The Bitterroot Mountains: Public Perceptions And Attitudes, Chad E. Newman
Small-Hydroelectricity And Landscape Change In The Bitterroot Mountains: Public Perceptions And Attitudes, Chad E. Newman
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Newman, Chad, M.A. December 2007 Geography Small-Hydroelectricity and Landscape Change in the Bitterroot Mountains: Public Perceptions and Attitudes Chairperson: Dr. David D. Shively The development and use of renewable energy resources within America has made significant progress over the last two decades. Many state governments have adopted legislation requiring the development of their local renewable resources for generating electricity. In 2005, Montana’s State Legislature passed Senate Bill 415, The Montana Renewable Power Production and Rural Economic Development Act. This piece of legislation mandates the development and use of renewable energy resources by energy producers and requires that fifteen percent of …
The Role Of Gestural Overlap In Perceptual Place Assimilation: Evidence From Korean, Minjung Son, Alexei Kochetov, Marianne Pouplier
The Role Of Gestural Overlap In Perceptual Place Assimilation: Evidence From Korean, Minjung Son, Alexei Kochetov, Marianne Pouplier
Alexei Kochetov
Opposing views have emerged in phonological and phonetic theory on whether perceptual place assimilation is exclusively attributable to gestural reduction or can be triggered by gestural overlap as well. Specifically, regressive place assimilation in Korean /pk/ clusters has been used as argument for the hypothesis that gestural reduction is uniquely responsible for perceptual place assimilation, yet the empirical evidence for this reduction hypothesis is ambiguous. The present study demonstrates on the basis of articulatory movement data that in these /pk/ clusters the lip gesture for /p/ is either fully present (with varying degrees of overlap) or completely absent. Our data …
Planning To Reach For An Object Changes How The Reacher Perceives It., Peter Vishton, N J. Stephens, L A. Nelson, S E. Morra, Kaitlyn L. Brunick, Jennifer A. Stevens
Planning To Reach For An Object Changes How The Reacher Perceives It., Peter Vishton, N J. Stephens, L A. Nelson, S E. Morra, Kaitlyn L. Brunick, Jennifer A. Stevens
Peter Vishton