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December 2011 - Digital Minute Issue 14, Brad Matthies
December 2011 - Digital Minute Issue 14, Brad Matthies
Digital Minute
This issue promotes the 2011 Annual Report.
Digital Commons Annual Report, Brad Matthies
Digital Commons Annual Report, Brad Matthies
Digital Collections Reports
The Digital Commons Annual Report is a document that interested parties may use as a means of monitoring the yearly progress of the Butler University Libraries’ institutional repository.
Beliefs About Alcohol And The College Experience, Locus Of Self, And College Undergraduates’ Drinking Patterns, Lizabeth A. Crawford, Katherine B. Novak
Beliefs About Alcohol And The College Experience, Locus Of Self, And College Undergraduates’ Drinking Patterns, Lizabeth A. Crawford, Katherine B. Novak
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
The purpose of this study is to assess the extent to which locus of self (institutional versus impulse), measured using the Twenty Statements Test (TST), moderates the relationship between beliefs about alcohol and the college experience (BACE) and alcohol use among college undergraduates. Although the majority of our respondents listed more idiosyncratic personal characteristics and preferences than consensual social roles in response to the TST, the number of students classified as institutionals was notably higher than what has been reported within the literature. In opposition to our hypothesis that BACE would affect levels of alcohol consumption primarily among these individuals, …
African Elephants Change Gaits When Walking Downhill, Robert H.I. Dale, Robert Warren, Brock Ward, Eric Noble
African Elephants Change Gaits When Walking Downhill, Robert H.I. Dale, Robert Warren, Brock Ward, Eric Noble
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Abstract from the International Elephant and Rhino Conservation and Research Symposium, Rotterdam, NL, October 10-14, 2011.
Assessing Community Progress On The Blueprint To End Homelessness, Kevin Whiteacre, Kenneth Colburn, Cristie Cole, Deanna Hazel, Ryan Mcclarnon, Bradley Vogelsmeier, Monica Williams, Wei Xie
Assessing Community Progress On The Blueprint To End Homelessness, Kevin Whiteacre, Kenneth Colburn, Cristie Cole, Deanna Hazel, Ryan Mcclarnon, Bradley Vogelsmeier, Monica Williams, Wei Xie
Sociology
In 2002, the Indianapolis Housing Task Force published the Blueprint to End Homelessness, an ambitious 10-year strategy to end homelessness in Indianapolis by 2012. The Blueprint called for regular reports and evaluation of progress toward the Blueprint’s goals. The Coalition for Homelessness Intervention and Prevention (CHIP), charged with moving the Blueprint forward, has completed its own annual Community Progress Reports for 2009, 2010, and 2011. This report does not seek to replicate or evaluate these or any of the many previous reports CHIP has facilitated. We take what is presented in the previous reports as accurate and eminently useful. The …
October 2011 - Digital Minute Issue 13, Brad Matthies
October 2011 - Digital Minute Issue 13, Brad Matthies
Digital Minute
This issue introduces Modern Languages, Literatures & Culture and also highlights IR educational resources.
September 2011 - Digital Minute Issue 12, Brad Matthies
September 2011 - Digital Minute Issue 12, Brad Matthies
Digital Minute
This issue discusses SelectedWorks photos and unique repository content.
August 2011 - Digital Minute Issue 11, Brad Matthies
August 2011 - Digital Minute Issue 11, Brad Matthies
Digital Minute
This issue introduces the College of Communication and LinkedIN.
National Library Legislative Day 2011, Julie Miller, Rand Simmons
National Library Legislative Day 2011, Julie Miller, Rand Simmons
Scholarship and Professional Work
Here's a reference question for you: What do the names Cannon, Dirksen, Hart, Longworth, Russell, and Rayburn have in common? If you answered "names of the Congressional office buildings in Washington, DC," you get a gold star! We got to know these names well when we attended the National Library Legislative Day 2011 on May 9-10 as the WLA delegates representing Washington libraries.
The Undefined Middle: Exploring The Role Of The Union Representative In The Modern Teachers Union Structure, Amanda Erin Lee
The Undefined Middle: Exploring The Role Of The Union Representative In The Modern Teachers Union Structure, Amanda Erin Lee
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection
As an integral part of the teachers union, the union representative works to serve the needs of the union on a local level while also maintaining employment as a teacher within the school system. The continuously evolving political climate that surrounds this organization including shifting educational laws and leadership on the federal and state levels, has left the role of the union representative largely undefined in the current teachers union structure. As a necessary aspect of both the school and the union, the union representative must fulfill role requirements in two structures that are frequently at odds with each other, …
How Sweet Is It, Really? The Anomalous Effects Of Glucose At Retrieval, Sarah A. Gillott
How Sweet Is It, Really? The Anomalous Effects Of Glucose At Retrieval, Sarah A. Gillott
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection
151 participants gave free recall and probed response memories for best kisses and The Lion King. Blood-glucose levels were manipulated at retrieval with glucose (50g) or saccharin (35mg) in the form of a lemonade drink. Memories for best kisses were more elaborate than memories for The Lion King. This may be due to the fact that best kiss memories were rated as more arousing than film memories. Regardless, high blood-glucose levels as a result of glucose consumption significantly impaired autobiographical kiss memory, yet enhanced semantic memory for The …
Positive Affect During Goal Adoption : Why Happiness Breeds Success, Katherine Wainwright
Positive Affect During Goal Adoption : Why Happiness Breeds Success, Katherine Wainwright
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection
Prior research has shown that positive affect helps individuals to achieve their goals. typically by energizing individuals' performance during goal pursuit. However, questions remain as to whether other mechanisms might exist by which positive affect could facilitate success. Specifically, researchers have yet to address the role that positive affect might play during the process of goal adoption. In the current study, I examined whether positive affect experienced at the time of goal adoption facilitates goal achievement. Participants were induced into either a positive or neutral affective state by watching a video clip. They were also asked to adopt the goal …
What Do You Expect? : An Investigation Of How Caffeine Expectancies Affect College Students' Cognitive Performances, Katie Alyse Berg
What Do You Expect? : An Investigation Of How Caffeine Expectancies Affect College Students' Cognitive Performances, Katie Alyse Berg
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection
Caffeine use is common, but few studies have examined how the expectancies that people hold about caffeine relate to the effects they experience after consuming it. My study examined how typical caffeine consumption and students' expectancies about how caffeine generally affects them influence their decisions about caffeine use as well as their performance on memory and attention tests. I hypothesized that expectations about how caffeine affects students would interact with their beliefs about how much caffeine they had consumed to impact performance on tests of attention and memory. Undergraduate students were divided into four groups: high consumption and high expectancy, …
Cultural Definitions Of Health Care: A Case Study Of Burmese Refugees, Marielena Rose White
Cultural Definitions Of Health Care: A Case Study Of Burmese Refugees, Marielena Rose White
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection
As a result of ongoing civil war and civil unrest in the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar, every year the United States accepts increasing numbers of refugees from Burma of which there is a population of significance within the greater Indianapolis area. When considering options for health care, Burmese refugees may opt for self care as opposed to care from a health care professional as a result of clashing cultural factors or fears of the unknown.
This study aims to uncover how members of the Chin ethnic group have been challenged or confronted by the social, cultural, and political institutions …
"We'll Make Our History": Israeli And Palestinian Youth As Poetic Agents, Caleb Hamman
"We'll Make Our History": Israeli And Palestinian Youth As Poetic Agents, Caleb Hamman
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection
This paper, in short, analyzes and argue for recognition of a particular form of political action as exercised by a particular type of political agent in the spatial and 3 symbolic context of "Israel-Palestine."
Race In Rhetoric: A Textual Analysis Of Barack Obama's Campaign Discourse Regarding His Race, Andrea Dawn Andrews
Race In Rhetoric: A Textual Analysis Of Barack Obama's Campaign Discourse Regarding His Race, Andrea Dawn Andrews
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection
This study is a textual analysis of Barack Obama's nine most noteworthy speeches from 2004 to 2009 during his rise to prominence and presidential campaign. Because Obama was considered an inspiring speaker and because he was the first African American to win either a major party's presidential nomination or a general • • presidential election, this study examines how Obama's use of language about his race may have contributed to his success. Previous research has shown that use of six rhetorical devices resonates with the American people: abstraction, democratic speech conversational speech, valence messages, conciliatory messages and imagery. The study …
Representaciones Del Otro En El Cine Espanol Y El Resurgimiento De La Ideologia Franquista, Anthony J. Erlandson
Representaciones Del Otro En El Cine Espanol Y El Resurgimiento De La Ideologia Franquista, Anthony J. Erlandson
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection
Abstract not available.
Ending The Cycle Of Child Sex Slavery In Cambodia, Carmen Marie Murphy
Ending The Cycle Of Child Sex Slavery In Cambodia, Carmen Marie Murphy
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection
As I had the chance to visit Cambodia and talk to actual victims, I planned to use ethnographic methodology to incorporate testimonies and personal interaction to supplement the lack of specific research in this field. I believed ethnography would be an effective method as it takes a holistic perspective of all contributing factors, such as history, geography, religion, government, and population. My plan was to conduct an ethnographic case study of Cambodia using current scholarship on these areas, and then contribute my personal experiences. To ensure quality control and unbiased research. I used contextualization by conducting my research in Cambodia, …
The Effects Of A Brief Mindfulness Intervention On Impulsivity In College Students, Myles Elgin Trapp
The Effects Of A Brief Mindfulness Intervention On Impulsivity In College Students, Myles Elgin Trapp
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection
This study investigated the impact of a brief, introductory mindfulness intervention on attention, executive control, and impulsivity. I randomly assigned forty-seven undergraduate students to a treatment group (TG) receiving mindfulness training and a waiting list control group (WLG). Participants completed a battery of self-report questionnaires and standardized neuropsychological tests before and after the intervention. Participants high in trait mindfulness suffered less interference on a Stroop task, were less impulsive on the Balloon Analogue Risk Task, but also evidenced less cognitive flexibility on a dual fluency test at baseline. The TG demonstrated greater improvement than the WLG from baseline to re-test …
Communicating During Crisis: A Case Study Of The 2010 Bp Gulf Oil Spill, Aubrey Nichole Villines
Communicating During Crisis: A Case Study Of The 2010 Bp Gulf Oil Spill, Aubrey Nichole Villines
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection
Crisis communication is an integral aspect of public relations that can have either positive or negative repercussions based upon the action that an organization responds. The manner in which an organization handles a crisis determines financial implications that may ensue, public perception and reputation of the organization, as well as the overall success or failure of the organization in the future. Consequently, Timothy Coombs asserts that the best crisis communication practice is to respond quickly, accurately, and consistently (Coombs, 2010: 28). Other scholars concur and add supplementary techniques which emphasize preparedness and responsibility. The present study was conducted to identify …
The Effect Of Caffeine On Relationship Memory, Elsa Carodenuto
The Effect Of Caffeine On Relationship Memory, Elsa Carodenuto
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection
Recollections of participants’ last failed relationship (first meeting, first kiss, and breakup) were examined as a personal flashbulb memory (FBM). Although FBM is usually caused by arousal at encoding, the effects of arousal at retrieval was investigated by giving participants caffeine to determine its effect on elaboration at recall. 72 Butler students completed a protocol containing narrative and probe sections on each event of their last relationship. Results showed that caffeine enhanced memory of events at retrieval.
April 2011 - Digital Minute Issue 10, Brad Matthies
April 2011 - Digital Minute Issue 10, Brad Matthies
Digital Minute
This issue explains content selection.
The Effect Of Induced Happiness Levels On Academic Performance, Laura Marie Spice
The Effect Of Induced Happiness Levels On Academic Performance, Laura Marie Spice
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection
Past research has shown that people who have high levels of happiness show greater job performance and productivity than those who are less happy (Lyubomirsky, King, & Diener, et al., 2005) and that happiness can be improved in both non-depressed and depressed people (Sin & Lyubomirsky, 2009; Seligman, Steel, Park, & Peterson., 2005). However, little research has been done on the application of positivity interventions in the classroom context. In 4 academic classrooms, positivity and control interventions were applied. I then measured well-being, engagement, and classroom performance. I found that the positivity intervention resulted in higher engagement and classroom performance …
Effects Of Mood On Using Analogies To Solve Problems And Reduce Conflict, Erin Good
Effects Of Mood On Using Analogies To Solve Problems And Reduce Conflict, Erin Good
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection
Past research has shown that analogies and metaphors can be useful tools in problem solving tasks (e.g., Gick & Holyoak, 1980). In addition, mood has been shown to have an effect on a person’s ability to generate solutions to problems (Abele, 1992). The present study was designed to investigate how mood affects analogical problem solving, especially in relation to conflict resolution. I examined whether mood has the same effect on the use of analogies to solve interpersonal conflict problems as it does on the use of analogies to solve cognitive problems. In this experiment, participants began by writing about an …
Taking Stock & Measuring Success, Brad Matthies
Taking Stock & Measuring Success, Brad Matthies
Butler University Events
This presentation featured strategies for assessing the success of your institutional repository.
Publishing Programs For Journals Ii, Jennifer Latherty
Publishing Programs For Journals Ii, Jennifer Latherty
Butler University Events
Discussed were approaches to journal publishing.
Publishing Programs For Journals, Charles Watkinson
Publishing Programs For Journals, Charles Watkinson
Butler University Events
Discussed were approaches to journal publishing.
Staffing The Repository Ii, Mark Newton
Staffing The Repository Ii, Mark Newton
Butler University Events
This presentation featured additional staffing considerations.
Staffing The Repository, Brad Matthies
Staffing The Repository, Brad Matthies
Butler University Events
This presentation provided strategies for staffing the repository.
Introduction To Irs, Dave Stout
Introduction To Irs, Dave Stout
Butler University Events
This presentation featured an introduction to institutional repositories, as well as the Digital Commons service from Bepress. Digital Commons is a set of services designed to help you collect, organize and showcase the intellectual output of your institution. The showcase will help ensure a wider readership of your institution’s output and research and also provide readership statistics for each object uploaded to the showcase.
Digital Commons is also more than just a “repository” or “IR”. With embedded applications that enable individual control over a personal publication space and robust publishing services, Digital Commons provides scholarly communication and publishing services that …