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Text Analytics For Semantic Computing - The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, Meenakshi Nagarajan, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

This tutorial was give at the Second IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing Santa Clara, CA, USA - August 4-7, 2008.

Family Communication Patterns: Can They Impact Leadership Styles?, Suthida Prasitthipab

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

A plethora of studies has worked on family communication and leadership separately. Little research has combined these two components although they both relate to personality characteristics and communication styles. Therefore, this thesis investigated correlations between leadership styles and family communication patterns during childhood. Two hypotheses were proposed representing the relationship between conformity orientation and task leadership, and between conversation orientation and relation leadership.

Faculty, non-academic staff, and students in leadership positions from Western Kentucky University were samples of this study. They completed a questionnaire voluntarily. Family communication pattern scale and Leadership Behavior Descriptive Questionnaire were used in the survey. Pearson …

Agreement And Group Attraction In Face-To-Face And Computer-Mediated Group Discussions, Krishnamurti Murniadi

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Topics within small-group communication have been explored in many contexts, such as work group, organizational meeting, or online network. This area of discipline is considered crucial because this type of communication assimilates interpersonal relations within a social setting. Two elements that largely affect small-group communication dynamics are anonymity and social identity. This research invokes previous research in anonymity and social identity within small-group communication pertaining to the level of agreement and the level of group attraction through a series of experiments.

Anonymity in small-group communication context is defined as a condition where the group members are not identifiable. To create …

Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 67, July 31, 2008

Central Florida Future

Declare yourself; Florida voter registration; Med school goes green; UCF clinic assists in stroke therapy; Speech Disorders and language barriers; UCF officer joins narcotics task force; Knightro competes in games.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 68, July 28, 2008

Central Florida Future

Grand theft auto up again on campus; Auto theft prevention tips; Rebuilding hope in Parramore; Grad programs to be revamped; UF grad creates a scholarship series; Diesel engines to run on veggie oil.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 67, July 24, 2008

Central Florida Future

Tailgaters to have full liquor license; Rowing home; $8.75 million given to UCF; UCF project chosen as part of NASA program.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 66, July 21, 2008

Central Florida Future

The ayes have it; Athlete died of sickle cell trait; Former UCF student faces murder charges; Senate honors recent deaths.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 65, July 17, 2008

Central Florida Future

Body of controversy; Garage A litigation almost resolved; Parent warns of drunken drivers; Glow-in-the-dark Knights; Sports radio seeks new station.

Music And The Modern Maya: A Reception Study Of Rock-Maya Music In Guatemala, Malcolm Miguel Botto

Theses and Dissertations

The current global flows of people, capital, technology, images and ideas--a phenomenon described as "mediascapes" by Arjun Appadurai (1996), traverse the most isolated Maya communities in Guatemala. These flows have recently influenced the creation of hybrid media products among the Maya. Among them we find an emerging indigenous musical genre called "Rock-Maya." I use reception analysis methods to document the encoding and decoding of this new indigenous medium of communication. Through qualitative interviews I attempt to show how K'iche'-Maya youth appropriate, what Motti Regev (1997) calls, the rock aesthetic to promote a sense of K'iche'-Maya youth identity in a modern …

Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 64, July 14, 2008

Central Florida Future

Medical amnesty excludes drug use; Medical amnesty policy; Enter at own risk; Prof. to aid the poor in Guayas; Closed for repairs; MommyMixer offers new job opportunities.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 62, July 7, 2008

Central Florida Future

3 UCF students compete in pageant; Amber waves spark liberty and justice for all; UCF to study nursing homes; Rocking the Universe; Veteran of UCF winds down her 40-year career.

Don’T Call Me “Hawaiian-At-Heart”: Self-Determination And Identity Theft, Kelly Rae Kraemer

Peace Studies Faculty Publications

This paper presents a major lesson I learned from my research on the roles of non-natives in the Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) sovereignty movement, one that should prove instructive for activists in other movements: when the federal and state governments, immigrants and settlers, and the Kānaka Maoli people compete to define Hawaiian identity and control access to Hawaiian people, land, and culture, who counts as “Native Hawaiian” matters. Yet, with so much at stake, even when common sense tells nonnatives we know what “native” means and it is not us, many forces collude to encourage nonnative appropriation of Hawaiian identity—identity …

X Is A Journey: Embodied Simulation In Metaphor Interpretation, L. David Ritchie

Communication Faculty Publications and Presentations

This essay compares simulation-based accounts of metaphor processing recently proposed by Gibbs (2006a) and Ritchie (2006), using examples of metaphors based on the metaphor vehicle "journey" from four different texts. From analysis of these different examples, it is concluded that simulation may come into play at different levels, depending on the metaphor and the context in which it is used. Further, it is suggested that the imaginative simulation of the object or action named by a metaphor vehicle, proposed by Gibbs, incorporates a partial subset of detail-level perceptual simulators. This leads to the proposal that the two models describe cognitive …

An Assessment Of Local People’S Opinions Of Community Conservation Initiatives In Relation To Livelihood Strategies In Kenya, Jill Mechtenberg

Department of Environmental Studies: Undergraduate Student Theses

Abstract This paper analyzed the changing livelihood strategies in Kenya, and their cultural impacts via a literature review. I then combined this understanding with the data I collected while in Kenya to examine the opinions local people have of community conservation initiatives, based on their changing livelihood strategies. I expected to find that the following factors would have an affect on the opinions local community members have of community conservation initiatives: livelihood strategy, gender, ethnicity, whether or not they believe the distribution of benefits coming from wildlife conservation is equitable, what issues they would like to see improved within community …

Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 60, June 30, 2008

Central Florida Future

No suspects yet in Ganguzza case; Black & Gold; Game features UCF football; Congressional award gold metal; $33 million University Partnership Center to be built.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 59, June 26, 2008

Central Florida Future

Football player arrested, suspended; Pre-Game change; Current Game Day Regulations; STEP males strides for new students; CAUTION: wet cement.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 59, June 26, 2008

Central Florida Future

Football player arrested, suspended; Pre-Game change; Current Game Day Regulations; STEP males strides for new students; CAUTION: wet cement.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 58, June 23, 2008

Central Florida Future

Student nurses make impact on HIV; Tanker ties up traffic; Fees raising student concern; Hot Air Tour blasts global warming; UCF grad pursues stand-up dreams.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 57, June 19, 2008

Central Florida Future

Missing pieces; Urine luck for a good musical; Women's issues push campaign; Simulator to train potential teachers.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 56, June 16, 2008

Central Florida Future

Healing begins; From gamers to doctors; SGA vote endorses marijuana reform; $2.6 million supercomputer at UCF.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 54, June 9, 2008

Central Florida Future

Cars burglarized in garages G, H; Dragon around; Diverse culture rises on campus; Landing resident released from jail; Group hopes to rock politics.

Agenda: Shifting Baselines And New Meridians: Water, Resources, Landscapes, And The Transformation Of The American West, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Shifting Baselines and New Meridians: Water, Resources, Landscapes, and the Transformation of the American West (Summer Conference, June 4-6)

The Center’s 29th annual conference will focus on the changes in the West resulting from rapid population growth, development, disrupted historical weather patterns and the effects of those changes on land, water, and energy resources. Speakers and panelists will address the adaptability of the legal and political institutions and how the transformation of the West may foreshadow fundamental changes to these institutions.

The agenda includes panel discussions that will address:

• Water for the 21^st Century —the big questions in Western water and rethinking Western water law.
• The Future of Energy —practical and sophisticated solutions to overcome the energy …

The Guardian, June 4, 2008, Wright State University Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

Sixteen page issue of The Guardian, the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. The Guardian has been published regularly since March of 1965.

Free Winona: Prehistoric, Free Winona

Free Winona Newspaper

Free Winona is a newspaper published in Winona, Minnesota in 2008 and 2009. This issue includes:

• Displaced Precolonial People;
• Welcome to the Driftless Area;
• Professor Henry Hull Remembered;
• Thoughts on the Dakota Homecoming;
• Local Wild Edibles & Medicines;
• Backmatter: The Timeless Struggle Against Oppression

A Social Relations Model Of Everyday Talk And Relational Satisfaction In Stepfamilies, Paul Schrodt, Jordan Soliz, Dawn O. Braithwaite

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

This study examined the intrapersonal and interpersonal mechanisms underlying reported frequencies of everyday talk and relational satisfaction in stepfamilies. Participants included a parent, stepparent, and child from 114 stepfamilies (N = 342) from the Midwest and Southwest regions of the United States. Social relations model analyses revealed that everyday talk and relational satisfaction vary across stepfamily relationships as a function primarily of actor and relationship effects. Stepparents’ reports of everyday talk with the parent (i.e., their spouse) varied primarily as a function of actor effects, whereas reports of both children’s and parents’ satisfaction with the stepparent varied primarily as a …

Watching Satan’S Daughters: A Visual Analysis Of Lesbian Pulp Fiction Cover Art, 1950-1969, Carrie Shaver

Masters Theses

This research analyzes the historical social construction of identity through the visual reiteration of the norms of "woman" and "lesbian" as represented on the cover art of lesbian pulp fiction novels from 1950-1969. A subgenre of pulp paperbacks, lesbian pulps were sensationalistic and best-selling, reflecting the public lesbian image in the popular culture of the 1950s and 1960s (Keller, 2005). Their success in large part was due to popular mainstreaming of the fields of sexology, psychology, and psychiatry. The "normality" of female sexual behavior was a subject of great curiosity, especially after Alfred Kinsey's study of female sexuality was released …

Empowering Translational Research Using Semantic Web Technologies, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

No abstract provided.

The Social Reality Of Depression: Dtc Advertising Of Antidepressants And Perceptions Of The Prevalence And Lifetime Risk Of Depression, Jin Seong Park, Jean M. Grow

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

This study is rooted in the research traditions of cultivation theory, construct accessibility, and availability heuristic. Based on a survey with 221 subjects, this study finds that familiarity with direct-to-consumer (DTC) print advertisements for antidepressant brands is associated with inflated perceptions of the prevalence and lifetime risk of depression. The study concludes that DTC advertising potentially has significant effects on perceptions of depression prevalence and risk. Interpersonal experiences with depression coupled with DTC advertising appear to significantly predict individuals' perceived lifetime risk of depression. The study ultimately demonstrates that DTC advertising may play a role in constructing social reality of …

Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 51, May 29, 2008

Central Florida Future

3% tuition increase approved by BOT; Fratting hard for a helping hand; Food sizzles in the student union; Students cheat for peak parking.

Emotional Speech Corpus Construction, Annotation And Distribution, Brian Vaughan, Charlie Cullen, Spyros Kousidis, John Mcauley

Conference papers

This paper details a process of creating an emotional speech corpus by collecting natural emotional speech assets, analysisng and tagging them (for certain acoustic and linguistic features) and annotating them within an on-line database. The definition of specific metadata for use with an emotional speech corpus is crucial, in that poorly (or inaccurately) annotated assets are of little use in analysis. This problem is compounded by the lack of standardisation for speech corpora, particularly in relation to emotion content. The ISLE Metadata Initiative (IMDI) is the only cohesive attempt at corpus metadata standardisation performed thus far. Although not a comprehensive …