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Conceptualising A Contemporary Marketing Mix For Sustainable Tourism, Alan Pomering, Gary Noble, Lester Johnson

Lester Johnson

This paper outlines how marketing, though traditionally considered an enemy of sustainability, can play a role in implementing sustainable tourism. It notes the redefinition in 2007 by the American Marketing Association of marketing's aims to consider wider societal issues beyond those of clients and customers. It illustrates how the recognition of the importance of sustainable tourism at all scales of tourism activity provides marketing with an opportunity to pursue sustainability outcomes. We review the strategic tourism marketing planning process and conceptually develop a sustainability tourism marketing model that embeds sustainability considerations at each stage of the planning process. Our proposed …

Culturally Competent Nursing Care –Caring For Latino Patients And Families, Erika Metzler Sawin, Dr. Linda Sobel

Erika Metzler Sawin

No abstract provided.

The Relation Of Self-Efficacy And Error-Related Self-Regulation, Jason Themanson, Matthew Pontifex, Charles Hillman, Edward Mcauley

Jason R. Themanson, Ph.D

Relations between a modifiable psychosocial factor, self-efficacy (SE), and behavioral and neural indices of self-regulation, including post-error behavior, the error-related negativity (ERN), and error positivity (Pe) were examined in young adults during a flanker task emphasizing either accuracy or speed. SE was predicted to be associated with larger ERN and Pe amplitudes, as well as greater post-error behavioral performance during task conditions emphasizing accuracy, but not speed. Results showed that higher SE was associated with greater post-error response accuracy during the accuracy condition, but not the speed condition, and higher SE was related with greater ERN amplitudes across instruction conditions. …

Effect Of The Premature Infant Oral Motor Intervention On Feeding Progression And Length Of Stay In Preterm Infants, Brenda Lessen

Brenda S. Lessen

Purpose: Preterm infants frequently experience oral feeding difficulties due to underdeveloped oral motor skills and the lack of coordination of sucking, swallowing, and respiration. The infants’ ability to consume all feedings orally while maintaining physiologic stability and weight gain is necessary for their discharge. Therefore, difficulty with oral feeding leads to longer hospital stays and higher costs. For example, with more than half a million of premature infants born each year, a 3-day decrease in hospital stay would save more than 2 billion dollars annually. There is a need for evidenced-based interventions that facilitate development of oral-motor skills, leading to …

Paramilitaries And Discources Of Culpability In Colombia And Washington, Winifred Tate

Winifred L. Tate

No abstract provided.

Questioning Pedagogical Contested Space: A Chicana Perspective, Dora Ramirez-Dhoore

Dora Ramirez-Dhoore

Dora Ramirez-Dhoore’s presentation “Difference is in the Voice: Listening to the “minor-ity” perspective in Academia” draws on the educational and thus political history of the Chicana/o student in the academy and how it affects their learning and success in the academy. She focuses on two of the texts that have been monitored by AZ House Bill 2281: Rudy Acuña's Occupied America and Paolo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

Mars And Venus: Symbols Of The Chaotic And Conflicted Human Passions And The Reestablishment Of Order In “The Knight’S Tale.”, Olivia Blessing

Olivia L Blessing

During the Middle Ages, Europe experienced a period when philosophers attempted to separate and analyze the passionate and rational elements of the soul. Some supported strict reason as the sole moral basis for living, while others looked to the tempestuous passionate emotions. Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Knight’s Tale” portrays this conflict between reason and the passions through the depicted relationship between Mars and Venus and the uncontrolled passions of Arcite and Palamon.

Determining that a world controlled by passions results in chaos, Chaucer offers three different solutions—negating the passions, subjugating the passions to reason, and a balance between passion and reason. …

Social Semiotics, Originality And Authorship In Copyright Law, H. Brian Holland

H. Brian Holland

No abstract provided.

The Preemptive Effect Of The Judiciary On State Legislation, Elizabeth Stiles, Lauren Bowen

Elizabeth A. Stiles

We examine the interaction between state legislatures and courts of last resort to assess whether and where in the legislative process judicial ideology serves a preemptive function.

False Promise Of Green Energy, Andrew Morriss

Andrew P. Morriss

No abstract provided.

The Inclusion Of Students With Disabilities In The Syrian Arab Republic, D. Jill Williams

D. Jill Williams

No abstract is currently available.

The Lost Arts: Changing Times Bring New Rules, Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

Remote control locomotives bring change to working the yard.

Coastal Wetland Restoration And The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Edward Barbier

Edward B Barbier

No abstract provided.

A Recipe For Memoir, Meredith Doench

Meredith Doench

No abstract provided.

‘Spare The Sympathy, Spoil The Child:’ Sensibility, Selfhood, And The Maturing Reader, 1775-1815, Adrianne Wadewitz

Adrianne Wadewitz

Surveying the archive of late eighteenth-century children's literature, this dissertation argues that children's authors constructed a version of subjectivity based in the passions. Challenging the dominant Lockean model, these writers drew on Rousseau's theory of education and the discourse of sensibility to construct a “sympathetic self.” Children's writers such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Charlotte Smith, and Maria Edgeworth highlighted the role of pain and suffering in the creation of the self; in so doing, they reimagined the discourse of sensibility, promoting a selfhood that was collective, benevolent, and imaginative. Significantly, this “sympathetic self” was available to both sexes …

Vet Leadership: Context, Characteristics And Capabilities, Justin Brown

Justin Brown

No abstract provided.

Polymer Solar Cells With An Inverted Device Structure, Xiong Gong

Xiong Gong

No abstract provided.

Project Reach: Recognizing Extraordinary Accomplishments Of Children, Elizabeth Shaunessy, Linda Evans, Lauri Kirsch

Linda S. Evans

No abstract is currently available.

Dressing Up Dramatic Play: Including Preschoolers With Disabilitie, H. A. Jones

Katherine Zimmer

No abstract is currently available.

Medical Expenditure Measures In The Health And Retirement Study, Dana Goldman, Julie Zissimopoulos, Yang Lu

Yang Lu

This paper reviews out-of-pocket (OOP) medical expenditure measures collected in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Medical expenditures are an important cost of poor health. Medical expenditure measures are important for understanding retirement decisions, financial preparation for retirement, and predicting the consequences of health care reform, particularly Medicare reform. Despite the comprehensiveness of the HRS, there are always limitations to what can be learned from population interviews. To assess the quality of current HRS measures of OOP spending, we compare various measures of OOP spending across survey waves to the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) and Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey …

Modernism Remodeled: Branding The Image Of Modernism In Dwell Magazine, 2000–2010, Lauren Gallow

Lauren L. Gallow

Dwell magazine is not a magazine and it is not about architecture. Often grouped in the shelter magazine category, Dwell describes itself as somewhere between an architecture trade publication and a consumer shelter magazine, pulling successfully from both of these audiences to form its current circulation base of 341,000. In an analysis of the ten-year history of the Dwell brand—which includes the magazine as well as several other branding outlets, including a website, a design show, and even a line of Dwell prefabricated houses—this project examines how the Dwell company has created and insistently promoted a lifestyle based on the …

Nano , Yu Zhu

Yu Zhu

No abstract provided.

"The New Model Library: Building An All-Digital Academic Library", Katherine Marsh, Josh Pluta, Gordon Russell, Ann Long

Katherine Marsh

No abstract provided.

Restorative Justice, Jon Powell

Jon Powell

No abstract provided.

Follow The Evidence: Integrate Risk Assessment Into Sentencing, Steven Chanenson, Jordan Hyatt, Maerk Bergstrom

Steven L. Chanenson

No abstract provided.

Old House Dreams, Mary Ann Cain

Mary Ann Cain

No abstract provided.

The Potential Impact Of The Multimodal Regime Of The Rotterdam Rules On Carriage Of Goods In And Through Europe, Olena Bokareva

Olena Bokareva

No abstract provided.

Generalized Stirling Numbers And Generalized Stirling Functions, Tian-Xiao He

Tian-Xiao He

Here presented is a unified approach to Stirling numbers and their generalizations as well as generalized Stirling functions by using generalized factorial functions, k-Gamma functions, and generalized divided difference. Previous well-known extensions of Stirling numbers due to Riordan, Carlitz, Howard, Charalambides-Koutras, Gould-Hopper, Hsu-Shiue, Tsylova Todorov, Ahuja Enneking, and Stirling functions introduced by Butzer and Hauss, Butzer, Kilbas, and Trujilloet and others are included as particular cases of our generalization. Some basic properties related to our general pattern such as their recursive relations and generating functions are discussed. Three algorithms for calculating the Stirling numbers based on our generalization are also …

High-Speed Friction Measurements Using A Modified Surface Forces Apparatus, Younjin Min

Younjin Min

Methods of measuring friction forces in the surface forces apparatus (SFA) are presented for sliding velocities from <1 nm/s to >10 m/s. A feed-forward control (FFC) system for the piezoelectric bimorph slider attachment is introduced to allow experiments at velocities up to ~4 mm/s. For still higher speeds, a motor-driven rotating mini-disk setup using a pin-on-disk geometry is presented, with modifications to enable sliding velocities in the ranges 1 cm/s–5 m/s and 1–25 m/s. Example data sets demonstrate the applicability of the approach to modeling important tribological systems including hard-disk drives. We find that mechanical system parameters such as the resonant frequencies and …

Asymmetries In Motor Attention During A Cued Bimanual Reaching Task: Left And Right Handers Compared, Gavin Buckingham, Julie Main, David Carey

Gavin Buckingham

Several studies have indicated that right handers have attention biased toward their right hand during bimanual coordination (Buckingham and Carey, 2009; Peters, 1981). To determine if this behavioral asymmetry was linked to cerebral lateralization, we examined this bias in left and right handers by combining a discontinuous double-step reaching task with a Posner-style hand cueing paradigm. Left and right handed participants received a tactile cue (valid on 80% of trials) prior to a bimanual reach to target pairs. Right handers took longer to inhibit their right hand and made more right hand errors, suggesting that their dominant hand was more …