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A Qualitative Assessment Of The International Exposition Center To The Greater Cleveland Area, Claudette Robey, Kyle H. Johnson, Kyle Julien Dec 2012

A Qualitative Assessment Of The International Exposition Center To The Greater Cleveland Area, Claudette Robey, Kyle H. Johnson, Kyle Julien

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

This report describes the outcomes of discussions with IX Center customers and stakeholders as to how the IX Center qualitatively impacts the greater Cleveland area. The results suggest that while the IX Center is perceived to be an asset by customers and stakeholders, it’s likely that the IX Center will need to develop strategies to remain competitive with similar convention centers across the country.


Creating Meaningful Learning Experiences For First Year Students, Ann Marie Smeraldi, Claudia Lilie Nov 2012

Creating Meaningful Learning Experiences For First Year Students, Ann Marie Smeraldi, Claudia Lilie

Ann Marie Smeraldi

With only 55.5% of U.S. college students graduating with a bachelor’s degree within 6 years there is an obvious need for interventions that will help students adjust to college culture and teach learning habits that foster students’ abilities to persist to graduation. This presentation will illuminate the process of weaving together study skills, a common reading book and life on a college campus to design a cohesive first year seminar that facilitates student success.


Creating Meaningful Learning Experiences For First Year Students, Ann Marie Smeraldi, Claudia Lilie Nov 2012

Creating Meaningful Learning Experiences For First Year Students, Ann Marie Smeraldi, Claudia Lilie

Michael Schwartz Library Publications

With only 55.5% of U.S. college students graduating with a bachelor’s degree within 6 years there is an obvious need for interventions that will help students adjust to college culture and teach learning habits that foster students’ abilities to persist to graduation. This presentation will illuminate the process of weaving together study skills, a common reading book and life on a college campus to design a cohesive first year seminar that facilitates student success.


Do Sensory Ad Appeals Influence Brand Attitude?, Sung-Joon Yoon, Ji Eun Park Nov 2012

Do Sensory Ad Appeals Influence Brand Attitude?, Sung-Joon Yoon, Ji Eun Park

Business Faculty Publications

This article presents two studies that investigate whether or not sensory appeal preferences in advertisements affect brand attitude. Study 1 seeks to discover empirically whether self-referencing and positive affect mediate sensory appeals to influence consumers' attitudes toward a brand, and whether such mediation effects differ across various ad formats. Study 2, a case approach, attempts to derive core sensory concepts through qualitative techniques as applied to an established specialty coffee brand. The results indicate that self-referencing and positive affect both have significant mediating effects between sensory appeal preferences and attitudes toward a coffee brand. Moreover, the finding that sensory preferences …


Preparing High School Students For A Bright Future, Ann Marie Smeraldi Oct 2012

Preparing High School Students For A Bright Future, Ann Marie Smeraldi

Ann Marie Smeraldi

Librarians have been lighting the way to college and career readiness for decades. With the implementation of the Common Core Standards on the horizon, school librarians have a fresh opportunity to breathe new life into their library instruction programs and enlighten students’ minds. During this session the presenter will compare the AASL and ACRL information literacy standards and illuminate their presence in the new Common Core. Using all three standards as a framework, the presenter will share lesson plans designed to teach high school students essential information literacy skills that will help them sparkle and shine in college and the …


Preparing High School Students For A Bright Future, Ann Marie Smeraldi Oct 2012

Preparing High School Students For A Bright Future, Ann Marie Smeraldi

Michael Schwartz Library Publications

Librarians have been lighting the way to college and career readiness for decades. With the implementation of the Common Core Standards on the horizon, school librarians have a fresh opportunity to breathe new life into their library instruction programs and enlighten students’ minds. During this session the presenter will compare the AASL and ACRL information literacy standards and illuminate their presence in the new Common Core. Using all three standards as a framework, the presenter will share lesson plans designed to teach high school students essential information literacy skills that will help them sparkle and shine in college and the …


Manufacturing Brief 2012, Candi Clouse Oct 2012

Manufacturing Brief 2012, Candi Clouse

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

No abstract provided.


Are Conscious Perception And Action Guidance Dissociable In Whole-Body Movement?, Laura J. Elias, Jessica Lin Willesch Sep 2012

Are Conscious Perception And Action Guidance Dissociable In Whole-Body Movement?, Laura J. Elias, Jessica Lin Willesch

Undergraduate Research Posters 2012

Conscious recognition of an object (“what”) and guidance of action toward it (“how”) have been identified as two dissociable processes of perception in visual, auditory, and somatosensory systems. The current study investigated whether the two dissociable processes of perception can also be observed in whole-body movements that encompass not only somatosensory (proprioceptive) inputs but also vestibular inputs.


Benefits Of And Limitations To Public Transit In American Cities, Sabina Eva Able-Thomas, Scott Carson Sep 2012

Benefits Of And Limitations To Public Transit In American Cities, Sabina Eva Able-Thomas, Scott Carson

Undergraduate Research Posters 2012

This project examines if public transit generates spillovers on private employment and if population density is a limitation to the viability of public transit in American cities.


A Study On How Creative Geography Affects Spatial Presence :Fr:Ames (Film Research: Advanced Methods For Empirical Study), Jeffrey Allen, Kara Rader, Matt Egizii, Alex Farmer, Seth Kopchu Sep 2012

A Study On How Creative Geography Affects Spatial Presence :Fr:Ames (Film Research: Advanced Methods For Empirical Study), Jeffrey Allen, Kara Rader, Matt Egizii, Alex Farmer, Seth Kopchu

Undergraduate Research Posters 2012

Reality TV viewers expect a naturalistic environment in which relatively ordinary people interact with each other. However, much of reality TV is contrived by producers, and the extent to which they manipulate it can shape viewer responses. Findings will inform scholarship on reality TV, creative geography, and spatial presence.


Your Future Depends On It! Exploring Youth Engagement In Inquiry And Action Toward Educational Change, Jacqueline J. Lamb Sep 2012

Your Future Depends On It! Exploring Youth Engagement In Inquiry And Action Toward Educational Change, Jacqueline J. Lamb

Undergraduate Research Posters 2012

The purpose of our research was to explore how youth involved in participatory action research (PAR) understood PAR and their role in the research. This work promises to offer new insights within education and psychology concerning youth engagement in school change, research methods that are participatory and action oriented, and understanding lived experience in relation to historical and structural conditions.


Characteristics Indicative Of The Likelihood Of Leaving Open-Ended Comments On An Organizational Survey, Astrid Jennifer Hernandez, Michael Horvath Sep 2012

Characteristics Indicative Of The Likelihood Of Leaving Open-Ended Comments On An Organizational Survey, Astrid Jennifer Hernandez, Michael Horvath

Undergraduate Research Posters 2012

It has been suggested that individuals who take surveys solely answer questions to obtain the incentive offered. However, people who answer surveys also tend to do so because they want to give their genuine feedback. Ultimately, the results of Chi-Square and Logistic Regression did not support the hypotheses.


Getting To The Root Of Dengidëk: A Preliminary Investigation Of Fagara Xanthoxyloïdes And Treatment-Seeking Behavior In Dakar, Senegal, Richard T. Powis Iii Sep 2012

Getting To The Root Of Dengidëk: A Preliminary Investigation Of Fagara Xanthoxyloïdes And Treatment-Seeking Behavior In Dakar, Senegal, Richard T. Powis Iii

Undergraduate Research Posters 2012

In Senegal, “traditional medicine” typically refers to the syncretism of Wolof or Serer medicine and Islamic beliefs, and includes not only consumables and procedures that fight off physical or mental ailments, but also spiritual acts to fight off sorcery. This is a preliminary investigation of the local and traditional knowledge that surrounds dengidëk, in particular, while assessing a rudimentary model of treatment-seeking behavior.


Sex Selection And Technology In The United States: Is It Playing God?, Roberta M. Steinbacher, Audrianna V. Rodriguez Sep 2012

Sex Selection And Technology In The United States: Is It Playing God?, Roberta M. Steinbacher, Audrianna V. Rodriguez

Undergraduate Research Posters 2012

Preferences for selecting male firstborn children have been well established through research in countries such as India, China, and the Middle East. The effects of this phenomenon have been devastating to these populations’ sex ratios and have led to a number of violent crimes against women. The number of participants who indicated a willingness to use sex selection technology (8%) was too small to calculate any relationship between potential users and firstborn sex preference.


Spillover Effects Of Metro Academic R&D On Non-Metro Labor Market Conditions, Pedro J. Sarsama, Subhra Baran Saha Sep 2012

Spillover Effects Of Metro Academic R&D On Non-Metro Labor Market Conditions, Pedro J. Sarsama, Subhra Baran Saha

Undergraduate Research Posters 2012

Research regarding spillover effects of academic innovation tends to focus on the effects innovation from metro areas on metro area labor markets. The results suggest that innovation in big cities generates migration to metros from non metros, thereby reducing available labor supply. As a result metro innovation reduces non metro employment but increase earning for people who reside in non metros. We have evidence that higher innovation in metros increase human capital in non metro areas


Defining And Analyzing A Food Desert, Monique N. Russell, Brian Mikelbank Sep 2012

Defining And Analyzing A Food Desert, Monique N. Russell, Brian Mikelbank

Undergraduate Research Posters 2012

The purpose of this project is to evaluate the characteristics and GIS methods used to determine an urban food desert. The intention of this research is to implement an improved methodology for determining a food desert and exhibit the value of additional data sources. This should produce a universal GIS method and criteria for profiling a food desert in an urban setting across the United States.


The Fourteenth Century Meets The Twenty-First: An Engaged Learning Experience In Historical Geography, Monica L. Ward Sep 2012

The Fourteenth Century Meets The Twenty-First: An Engaged Learning Experience In Historical Geography, Monica L. Ward

Undergraduate Research Posters 2012

Our goal was to develop an application that would enable students to use the Map Walk to “walk” through world traveler Ibn Battuta’s itinerary of his trips throughout the Muslim world between 1325 and 1354. On the day of the Map Walk, students will be able to use their smart phones to access the blogs and follow Ibn Battuta on his travels around the world.


The Effects Of Path Crossover On Spatial Orientation, Jayleen A. Meléndez, Naohide Yamamoto Sep 2012

The Effects Of Path Crossover On Spatial Orientation, Jayleen A. Meléndez, Naohide Yamamoto

Undergraduate Research Posters 2012

Prior research has discovered that when an individual’s path has a crossover, there seems to be a significant deterioration in the individual’s spatial orientation.


Task Difficulty And The Spatial Structure Of Movement In Young Adults, Patrick Byrne Sep 2012

Task Difficulty And The Spatial Structure Of Movement In Young Adults, Patrick Byrne

Undergraduate Research Posters 2012

Studies using a variety of experimental tasks have established that when humans repeatedly produce an action, the amount of variability in system output is distributed across a range of time scales or frequencies. A finding of particular interest is that fluctuations in the output of cognitive systems are the highest at the lowest frequencies with fluctuation magnitude (power) systematically declining as frequency increases (e.g., for a review see Gilden, 2001).


Rural Women’S Pathways To Crime: A Grounded Theory Study Of Rural Women And Their Experiences In Jails And Prisons, Angela Mesenburg Sep 2012

Rural Women’S Pathways To Crime: A Grounded Theory Study Of Rural Women And Their Experiences In Jails And Prisons, Angela Mesenburg

Undergraduate Research Posters 2012

In discussing the lack of research on female offenders there is even less research on women incarcerated from rural areas. Our focus is to initiate a discussion that could eventually be a part of a design of programs to provide much needed assistance for the women in these rural areas.


Reconstructing Ohio's Ancient Past One Pot Sherd At A Time, Mack Cline, Caitlin Jones, Anthony Magnone Sep 2012

Reconstructing Ohio's Ancient Past One Pot Sherd At A Time, Mack Cline, Caitlin Jones, Anthony Magnone

Undergraduate Research Posters 2012

The primary focus of our research was to analyze, conserve, and reconstruct ancient prehistoric pottery from the Cramer Village Site, a Fort Ancient-era (AD 900-1200) site located on the west bank of the Scioto River in Union Township, Ross County, Ohio.


The State Of Ohio's Steel Industry, Edward W. Hill, Iryna Lendel, Fran Stewart Sep 2012

The State Of Ohio's Steel Industry, Edward W. Hill, Iryna Lendel, Fran Stewart

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

No abstract provided.


Analysis Of Median Household Income Differences Between Election Day-Vbm And Eip Voters, Mark Salling, Norman Robbins Aug 2012

Analysis Of Median Household Income Differences Between Election Day-Vbm And Eip Voters, Mark Salling, Norman Robbins

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

Analysis of early in-person (EIP) voting in 2008 in Cuyahoga County shows that African-American, white, and Hispanic voters who used EIP voting had significantly lower incomes than members of those same groups who voted on election day or by mail. This result applies to those voting EIP on weekdays, extended weekday hours, weekends, and the three days before election day.


Needs Assessment And Service Strategy, Daila Shimek, Claudette Robey Aug 2012

Needs Assessment And Service Strategy, Daila Shimek, Claudette Robey

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

This report describes the needs identified by member communities and organizations of the Chagrin River Watershed Partners (CRWP) that could be adopted by CRWP as part of its service strategy. The results suggest that members are pleased with the services provided by CRWP. Additional needs fell into one of eight categories: (1) Information, education, and training, (2) Planning, development, redevelopment, and resolutions/ordinances, (3) Funding and grants, (4) Technical assistance, (5) Regulations and requirements, (6) Storm water infrastructure maintenance, (7) Providing a strategic role in helping manage the watershed, and (8) Managing relationships.


The Cleveland Health Tech Corridor: An Analysis Of Economic Trends, 2000-2011, Matthew Hrubey, Ziona Austrian, Joe Andre Aug 2012

The Cleveland Health Tech Corridor: An Analysis Of Economic Trends, 2000-2011, Matthew Hrubey, Ziona Austrian, Joe Andre

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

No abstract provided.


Southington Township Comprehensive Plan: Visions 2060, Southington Township Comprehensive Planning Committee, Kirby Date, Melissa Schneider Jul 2012

Southington Township Comprehensive Plan: Visions 2060, Southington Township Comprehensive Planning Committee, Kirby Date, Melissa Schneider

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

This Comprehensive Plan has been prepared by the residents of Southington Township in partnership with Cleveland State University's Center for Community Planning and Development, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs (CSU). The Plan has a simple goal: Provide a clear vision for the future of Southington, aligned with the desires of our citizens, and based on our past, present, and expected future. Change and growth will come to Southington Township, perhaps more quickly than expected. This will be especially true when public water and sewer infrastructure comes to our Township, expected during the life of this Plan. The only …


Putin May Have Finally Run Out Of Gas, Joshua L. Wilczinski Jul 2012

Putin May Have Finally Run Out Of Gas, Joshua L. Wilczinski

In the Balance

No abstract provided.


2011 Economic Impact Of Jumpstart Inc. Portfolio And Client Companies, Ziona Austrian, Candice Clouse Jun 2012

2011 Economic Impact Of Jumpstart Inc. Portfolio And Client Companies, Ziona Austrian, Candice Clouse

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

No abstract provided.


The Nasa Glenn Research Center: An Economic Impact Study Fiscal Year 2011, Iryna Lendel, Sunjoo Park Jun 2012

The Nasa Glenn Research Center: An Economic Impact Study Fiscal Year 2011, Iryna Lendel, Sunjoo Park

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

No abstract provided.


The Ohio Bioscience Sector, 2000-2010, Matthew Hrubey, Candice Clouse, Ziona Austrian Jun 2012

The Ohio Bioscience Sector, 2000-2010, Matthew Hrubey, Candice Clouse, Ziona Austrian

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

No abstract provided.