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2016 Q4 Private Capital Access Index Report, Craig R. Everett Nov 2016

2016 Q4 Private Capital Access Index Report, Craig R. Everett

Pepperdine Private Capital Access Report

The Pepperdine Private Capital Access Index (PCA) is a quarterly indicator produced by the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University, and with the support of Dun & Bradstreet. The index is designed to measure the demand for, activity, and health of the private capital markets. The purpose of the PCA Index is to gauge the demand of small and medium sized businesses for financing needs, the level of accessibility of private capital, and the transparency and efficiency of private financing markets.


The Real Miss America Campaign, Kristen Causey, Katherine Meringolo, Olivia Okoro, Lisa Yoon, Madison Zeinart Jun 2016

The Real Miss America Campaign, Kristen Causey, Katherine Meringolo, Olivia Okoro, Lisa Yoon, Madison Zeinart

Pepperdine Journal of Communication Research

No abstract provided.


Instagram: What Makes You Post?, Sarah Tyer Jun 2016

Instagram: What Makes You Post?, Sarah Tyer

Pepperdine Journal of Communication Research

No abstract provided.


Gender Differences In Intimacy, Emotional Expressivity, And Relationship Satisfaction, Melissa Ubando Jun 2016

Gender Differences In Intimacy, Emotional Expressivity, And Relationship Satisfaction, Melissa Ubando

Pepperdine Journal of Communication Research

No abstract provided.


The Role Of Media Framing In Crime Reports: How Different Types Of News Frames And Racial Identity Affect Viewers’ Perceptions Of Race, Kelsey Foreman, Cecilia Arteaga, Aushawna Collins Jun 2016

The Role Of Media Framing In Crime Reports: How Different Types Of News Frames And Racial Identity Affect Viewers’ Perceptions Of Race, Kelsey Foreman, Cecilia Arteaga, Aushawna Collins

Pepperdine Journal of Communication Research

No abstract provided.


Table Of Contents And Editor’S Notes, Catherine Dapello Jun 2016

Table Of Contents And Editor’S Notes, Catherine Dapello

Pepperdine Journal of Communication Research

No abstract provided.


Adjudicasaurus Rex, Jeffrey S. Wolfe Jun 2016

Adjudicasaurus Rex, Jeffrey S. Wolfe

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

This article proposes a simple theme. While many issues plague the Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income programs, only reform of the hearings and appeals process can solve the decades-long (and growing) hearings backlog. Only then, can the remaining questions regarding the solvency of the DI trust fund be meaningfully addressed. As it now stands, the ongoing backlog of pending hearings and appeals feeds the twin plagues of rising costs and increasing delay. These are the very issues that drove the federal courts in the passage of the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990 (CJRA). This article provides …


Domestic Violence Victims A Nuisance To Cities, Filomena Gehart Jun 2016

Domestic Violence Victims A Nuisance To Cities, Filomena Gehart

Pepperdine Law Review

Unless municipal nuisance ordinances change, domestic violence victims can face eviction just for calling the police. Nuisance ordinances generally impose fines on a property owner or landlord when the police are called to respond to incidents of crime a certain number of times at the same residence. Many nuisance ordinances also revoke a landlord’s rental license if a property is deemed a nuisance. However, many of these nuisance ordinances do not have an exception for incidents of domestic violence and, consequently, victims are scared to call 911 or request police assistance. This comment surveys the development of nuisance laws and …


Turkish Smes’ Use Of Financial Statements For Decision Making, Howard E. Vanauken, Semra Ascigil, Shawn Carraher May 2016

Turkish Smes’ Use Of Financial Statements For Decision Making, Howard E. Vanauken, Semra Ascigil, Shawn Carraher

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

With a sample of 91 small Turkish firms, this study examines the factors that affect the use of financial statements, and the important information they contain, to make decisions. A principal components analysis identifies three key variables that determine the use of financial statements: experience, confidence, and knowledge. Logit analysis reveals that these three variables are significantly associated with whether Turkish business owners use financial statements to make decisions. These results can help business owners and service providers for these businesses understand what affects their use of financial statements and the process by which financial statements get incorporated into decisions.


God Is Up To Something (On The Other Side Of The Wall), Claire Davidson Frederick Apr 2016

God Is Up To Something (On The Other Side Of The Wall), Claire Davidson Frederick

Leaven

No abstract provided.


James, The Wisdom Tradition, And The Power Of The Tongue, Darryl Tippens Apr 2016

James, The Wisdom Tradition, And The Power Of The Tongue, Darryl Tippens

Leaven

No abstract provided.


The Secret Power Of Lawlessness, Mark S. Krause Apr 2016

The Secret Power Of Lawlessness, Mark S. Krause

Leaven

No abstract provided.


Global Tides International Studies And Languages Panel Discussion, Lauren Margaret Haberstock, Rachel Hews, Pukun Huang Apr 2016

Global Tides International Studies And Languages Panel Discussion, Lauren Margaret Haberstock, Rachel Hews, Pukun Huang

Seaver College Research And Scholarly Achievement Symposium

In this panel discussion, hosted by Global Tides International and Studies Languages, two of the authors, who will be published in Global Tides' next edition, will present their research. Pepperdine Seaver College students Rachel Hews and Pukun Huang will present their works entitled "Trafficking Smuggled Migrants: An Issue of Vulnerability" and "Uniting the HIVAIDS Effort in Bostswana, South Africa, and Swaziland under United Nations Leadership" respectively. Time will be given after each paper presentation for Q&A with the authors.


Faux Feminism: Beyoncé Knowles-Carter And The Objectification Of The Modern Woman, Kristi D. Vazquez Apr 2016

Faux Feminism: Beyoncé Knowles-Carter And The Objectification Of The Modern Woman, Kristi D. Vazquez

Seaver College Research And Scholarly Achievement Symposium

This paper examines the feminist ideologies of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter evidenced in her album, Beyoncé, and their negative impact upon women’s achievement of gender equality. Widely acknowledged as a symbol of the modern, independent woman, Beyoncé flaunts her sexuality thereby encouraging women to engage in sexually aggressive behavior as a means of asserting equality within a patriarchal society. Through unapologetic and overt sexuality expressed in the album, she appears to be advocating “fierce feminism,” a new form of sexual equality achieved through the proud assertion of sexuality, coupled with traditional feminist ideologies of autonomy and independence. However, “fierce feminist” anthems within …


Life, Liberty, And The Lack Of Paid Parental Leave: An Analysis Of Media Framing Of Parental Leave In The United States, Marissa A. Baly Apr 2016

Life, Liberty, And The Lack Of Paid Parental Leave: An Analysis Of Media Framing Of Parental Leave In The United States, Marissa A. Baly

Seaver College Research And Scholarly Achievement Symposium

Because the United States is the only developed country without mandatory paid maternity leave, I felt called to study unpaid maternity leave in the U.S. for my research in the Political Science Honors Program. The study, “Life, Liberty, and the Lack of Paid Parental Leave,” is an analysis of media framing of parental leave in the United States. In the study, I conducted a content analysis of over 200 news articles of the New York Times, and also created an Institutional Review Board-approved survey distributed to introductory political science classes. In the content analysis, I found that maternity leave is …


Positive Attitudes As A Mediator Between Moral Disengagement And Cyberbullying Behaviors, Kailee Kodama, Jennifer Harriger, Elizabeth Mancuso Dr., Cindy Miller-Perrin Apr 2016

Positive Attitudes As A Mediator Between Moral Disengagement And Cyberbullying Behaviors, Kailee Kodama, Jennifer Harriger, Elizabeth Mancuso Dr., Cindy Miller-Perrin

Seaver College Research And Scholarly Achievement Symposium

Objective. The current study examined whether (1) higher moral disengagement scores would be positively correlated with higher frequencies of engaging in cyberbullying, (2) positive attitude scores would be positively correlated with higher frequencies of engaging in cyberbullying, and (3) positive attitudes towards cyberbullying would mediate links between moral disengagement and frequency of engaging in cyberbullying.

Method. Three surveys, the Mechanisms of Moral Disengagement Scale (MMD), Cyberbullying Perpetration Measure (CPM), and Positive Attitudes towards Cyberbullying Questionnaire (PATC) were administered to 114 undergraduate students.

Results. Correlational analysis indicated significant positive correlations between PATC and CPM scores (r = .442, p < .01), CPM and MMD scores (r …


The Reliability Of Crowdsourcing: Latent Trait Modeling With Mechanical Turk, Matt Baucum, Steven Rouse Dr., Cindy Miller-Perrin, Elizabeth Mancuso Dr. Apr 2016

The Reliability Of Crowdsourcing: Latent Trait Modeling With Mechanical Turk, Matt Baucum, Steven Rouse Dr., Cindy Miller-Perrin, Elizabeth Mancuso Dr.

Seaver College Research And Scholarly Achievement Symposium

Mechanical Turk, an online crowdsourcing platform, has recently received increased attention in the social sciences as studies continue to suggest its viability as a source for reliable experimental data. Given the ease with which large samples can be quickly and inexpensively gathered, it is worth examining whether Mechanical Turk can provide accurate experimental data for methodologies requiring such large samples. One such methodology is Item Response Theory, a psychometric paradigm that defines test items by a mathematical relationship between a respondent’s ability and the probability of item endorsement. To test whether Mechanical Turk can serve as a reliable source of …


The Tragedy Of The Waves, Justin Deats, Michael Martinez, Robert Shearer, William Shearer Mar 2016

The Tragedy Of The Waves, Justin Deats, Michael Martinez, Robert Shearer, William Shearer

All Faculty Open Access Publications

The purpose of this paper is to determine the relationship between the number of waves a surfer will catch, the surfer’s characteristics, and the surf conditions; and utilize this relationship to explain wave allocation strategies chosen by surfers. Design/methodology/approach – The study employed a discrete event simulation to model surfers at a well-known surf break in Southern California. Several experimental designs were implemented in the simulation to measure the effect of a surfer’s characteristics and surf conditions on waves caught; and compare different wave allocation strategies. Findings – The number of waves that a surfer will catch is largely dependent …


Economic Growth And The Optimal Level Of Entrepreneurship, James E. Prieger, Catherine Bampoky, Luisa R. Blanco, Aolong Liu Jan 2016

Economic Growth And The Optimal Level Of Entrepreneurship, James E. Prieger, Catherine Bampoky, Luisa R. Blanco, Aolong Liu

All Faculty Open Access Publications

Using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), we examine data from developed and developing countries to estimate the ‘‘growth penalty” over 2003–11 when a country’s entrepreneurship deviates from its optimal level. We account for heterogeneity among countries in the optimal entrepreneurship rate, in the growth penalty from deviating from that optimum, and in other factors affecting growth. Notwithstanding that developing countries have more of their population running nascent small firms than in developed countries, a marginal increase in the entrepreneurship rate in developing countries has a positive effect on growth. On the contrary, in developed countries, there is no …


Life, Liberty, And The Lack Of Paid Parental Leave: Media Framing Of Parental Leave In The United States, Marissa A. Baly Jan 2016

Life, Liberty, And The Lack Of Paid Parental Leave: Media Framing Of Parental Leave In The United States, Marissa A. Baly

Featured Research

In this study, I examine how the media frame parental leave in the United States. To do so, I conducted a content analysis of over 200 news articles from the New York Times, and also created a survey distributed to introductory political science classes. In the content analysis, I find that parental leave is both an episodic and thematic news issue, has less negative coverage than most news issues, and evolved from a merely mentioned issue to an economic issue over time. This research also shows that female and male authors do not frame parental leave differently; in fact, women …


The Development And Validation Of The Comprehensive Intellectual Humility Scale, Elizabeth J. Krumrei-Mancuso, Steven V. Rouse Jan 2016

The Development And Validation Of The Comprehensive Intellectual Humility Scale, Elizabeth J. Krumrei-Mancuso, Steven V. Rouse

All Faculty Open Access Publications

A series of studies was conducted to create the 22-item Comprehensive Intellectual Humility Scale on the basis of theoretical descriptions of intellectual humility, expert reviews, pilot studies, and exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. The scale measures 4 distinct but intercorrelated aspects of intellectual humility, including independence of intellect and ego, openness to revising one's viewpoint, respect for others' viewpoints, and lack of intellectual overconfidence. Internal consistency and test-retest analyses provided reliable scale and subscale scores within numerous independent samples. Validation data were obtained from multiple, independent samples, supporting appropriate levels of convergent, discriminant, and predictive validity. The analyses suggest that …


Hearsay Evidence: Legal Discourse, Circumstantiality, And The Woman In White, Matthew Finley Jan 2016

Hearsay Evidence: Legal Discourse, Circumstantiality, And The Woman In White, Matthew Finley

Global Tides

In Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White, Walter Hartright begins the narrative by stating that, because “the Law is still … the pre-engaged servant of the long purse,” he has arranged the novel to reveal the truth (5). The author, then, puts the law on trial by engaging the interplay between legal questions of witness credibility and testimonial evidence and their impact on social factors such as class and gender. The law’s emphasis on externality leads the system to privilege the snakelike Fosco over the heroic Walter, Laura, and Marian, signaling the courts' capital offence. Although the novel is …


Trafficking Smuggled Migrants: An Issue Of Vulnerability, Rachel A. Hews Jan 2016

Trafficking Smuggled Migrants: An Issue Of Vulnerability, Rachel A. Hews

Global Tides

This paper analyzes why the UN’s efforts against the sex trafficking of smuggled migrants, specifically regarding the Palermo and Smuggling Protocols, have been inadequate in preventing migrant smuggling. It concludes that the crime-based focus on prosecution overshadows prevention of the crime and protection of the victims, and that a human rights approach addressing the vulnerability of smuggled migrants would be more effective in reducing migrant smuggling long-term. Proposed solutions include decreasing both the “push” and “pull” factors of migration by ratifying existing legislation regarding basic human rights, implementing national policies that increase migrant rights in destination countries, and shifting further …


Economic Empowerment: An Avenue To Gender Equality In Afghanistan, Heather C. Odell Jan 2016

Economic Empowerment: An Avenue To Gender Equality In Afghanistan, Heather C. Odell

Global Tides

This paper examines the state of women’s rights in Afghanistan, recommending economic empowerment as the most effective and culturally sensitive tool in achieving gender equality. Women’s rights in Afghanistan came to the forefront of the international community’s attention following the entry of the United States armed forces in 2001. Media outlets highlighted the Taliban’s egregious treatment of women and government agencies and international NGOs poured into the country with aims of liberating women from oppressive circumstances. While significant strides have been made since the Taliban's fall from power, in many ways, women today remain subordinate. Over a decade later, women …


Women In Higher Education In Iran: How The Islamic Revolution Contributed To An Increase In Female Enrollment, Meredith Katherine Winn Jan 2016

Women In Higher Education In Iran: How The Islamic Revolution Contributed To An Increase In Female Enrollment, Meredith Katherine Winn

Global Tides

In the three decades following the Islamic Revolution in Iran, rates of female enrollment in higher education increased despite a return to traditional and conservative gender roles. This paper will provide an in-depth analysis of the role the Islamic Revolution played in the changing roles of women in society, particularly as it pertains to education. It will argue a complex interplay of religious, cultural, and political factors emerged as a result of the Islamic Revolution that facilitated an environment where more young women could attend university. Finally, this paper will conclude that the rise in women’s participation in education has …


The Pitfalls Of The Microfinance Promise, Kelleen R. Mull Jan 2016

The Pitfalls Of The Microfinance Promise, Kelleen R. Mull

Global Tides

The validity of microfinance institutions as poverty alleviation instruments is drawn into question by the structure and practices of the industry, which hinder the efficiency and depth of aid. This paper aims to outline the history and popularity of microfinance, followed by the difficulties of its implementation. Then, it will explain the status of research in the field, microcredit’s role in the empowerment of women, and the perception of microfinance in the West. Finally, it will discuss the monumental shifts within the industry based on ideological opinions and the consequential negative effects on the field.


The Disparity In A Free Appropriate Public Education: Minority Parents And Access Through Advocacy, Melissa E. Moxley Jan 2016

The Disparity In A Free Appropriate Public Education: Minority Parents And Access Through Advocacy, Melissa E. Moxley

Theses and Dissertations

The United States has been providing federally mandated educational access to children with disabilities for more than 35 years. During this relatively short period of time, the quality of education for children with physical, mental, emotional, and genetic challenges has been enhanced exponentially. Through federal legislation and nationwide litigation, formal structures have been created to ensure that the nation's 7.1 million students with special needs receive a free and appropriate public education. Despite these remarkable achievements, special education is impacted by social, cultural, and economic disparities that continue to plague education in the United States. One inherent inequality in special …


Barriers To Career Advancement: Asian Americans In The U.S. Aerospace Industry, Rahul Dixit Jan 2016

Barriers To Career Advancement: Asian Americans In The U.S. Aerospace Industry, Rahul Dixit

Theses and Dissertations

This qualitative study explored the lack of Historically Underrepresented Population (HUP) inclusion in management and leadership roles. Specifically, why Asian Americans (AA) do not reach executive levels in southern California aerospace and defense companies (SCDCs). The AA members of HUP are among the highest educated and display model-behavior characteristics, yet, somehow do not thrive in management assignments. The U.S. defense industry has operated in a single-customer market, and that customer (the U.S. Government) is imposing social change agendas, to establish a leadership that is reflective of the company’s diversity. Exacerbating the underrepresentation of AAs is a shrinking domestic defense appropriations …


Norway Leads The World In Gender Equality And Work-Life Balance: A Qualitative Life Course Study Of Norwegian Women, Lene Karine Martin Jan 2016

Norway Leads The World In Gender Equality And Work-Life Balance: A Qualitative Life Course Study Of Norwegian Women, Lene Karine Martin

Theses and Dissertations

Norway is one of the world's leading countries in gender equality and work-life balance and therefore proves to be an exceptional model for study to improve gender equality and work–life balance around the world (Strømland, 2009). Norway continues to rank top three in the Global Gender Gap Index in addition to being the happiest country, best country to live, leading country in gender equality and work-life balance, best country for motherhood, and one of the top three countries for business (Badenhausen, 2015; Berglund, 2010; Bradford, 2011; Dresser, 2010; Helman, 2011; McNeil, 2010; “Norway tops ‘best country’ list, U.S. ranks 10th,” …


The Major Supporting Mechanisms For Successful Single Working Mothers, Toia Thompson Mengesha Jan 2016

The Major Supporting Mechanisms For Successful Single Working Mothers, Toia Thompson Mengesha

Theses and Dissertations

Single mothers are commonly characterized as low-income welfare recipients. In 2010, close to 30% of single mother households were below the poverty line (U.S. Census Bureau, 2010a) conversely leaving 70% of single mothers above the poverty line. Being a married working mother is challenging and comes with the need of several supports. With the growing divorce rate and the introduction of women choosing to become single mothers, the numbers of single working mothers are growing rapidly. In order to be a successful single mother certain factors need to be accounted for. This study focused on single mothers who are in …