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Fighting Traffic Congestion In Metropolitan Phoenix By Making Public Transportation A Success, David Frias

Critical and Creative Thinking Capstones Collection

The past two years in the Critical and Creative Thinking Graduate Program have been a time of learning and life changing experiences. I found the confidence to make a career change and gained the knowledge and tools necessary to study the complex problem of traffic congestion and attempt to solve it by utilizing public transportation. My plan to move to Phoenix, Arizona in 2009 motivated me not only to learn about the area and its attempts to fight urban sprawl and traffic congestion, but also to attempt to find solutions to these problems. I utilized creative thinking and critical thinking …

Individual Transitions Between Organizational Cultures, Gretchen Heath

Critical and Creative Thinking Capstones Collection

When transitioning between organizational cultures, an individual can learn to identify and relate to the new culture by using organizational culture theories, understanding his or her own rate of adoption (the rate at which members of a social system adopt new ideas), and identifying with the behaviors of the employees of the new organization. By identifying the culture and behaviors of the new organization, an individual will know which behaviors are accepted within the new culture and which are not. A successful transition requires the letting go of the old, in collaboration with the accepting of the new. When a …

Fitting Disposition Codes To Mobile Phone Surveys: Experiences From Studies In Finland, Slovenia And The Usa, Mario Callegaro, Charlotte Steeh, Trent D. Buskirk, Vasja Vehovar, Vesa Kuusela, Linda Piekarski

UNL-Gallup Working Papers Series

Using mobile phones to conduct survey interviews has gathered momentum recently. However, using mobile telephones in surveys poses many new challenges. One important challenge involves properly classifying final case dispositions to understand response rates and non-response error and to implement responsive survey designs. Both purposes demand accurate assessments of the outcomes of individual call attempts. By looking at actual practices across three countries, we suggest how the disposition codes of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, which have been developed for telephone surveys, can be modified to fit mobile phones. Adding an international dimension to these standard definitions will …

Volume 44, Number 75: May 30, 2007, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

Expert On Religion And Violence To Speak At Cal Poly June 5, Public Affairs Office

Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Academic Senate - Agenda, 5/29/2007, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.

A Maslovian Approach To The Motivations Of Shakespeare’S Transvestite Heroines In The Two Gentelmen Of Verona, As You Like It, And The Merchant Of Venice, Angela Eward-Mangione

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

"Motivation" is the force that drives an individual to perform a certain action. Abraham Maslow (1908-1970), an American psychologist profoundly influenced by the existential and teleological paradigms, expounded a motivation theory that remains precise and replicable, as well as applicable to other spheres of study, including the humanities. Indeed, psychology experts and non-specialists are by and large familiar with Maslow's Pyramid of Human Needs. Moreover, despite the abundance of literary criticism that utilizes Freudian-based theory to analyze the motivations of literary characters, critics have largely neglected the use of other paradigms, including Maslow's. In this thesis, I use Maslow's texts …

Independent- May 29, 2007, Duncan Macnab

The Independent (1988-present)

No abstract provided.

May 29, 2007, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Globality Studies Journal, No. 07, Stony Brook University. Center For Global History.

Globality Studies Journal

v. : ill. ; 28 cm (original analog pub.)

Ethical Implications Of Design Practices: The Case Of Industrially Manufactured Patient Clothing In Finland, Sonja Iltanen

Nordes Conference Series

In the following article, we describe the actors and practices influencing design of patient clothing in Finland. We also discuss the ethical dimensions and issues that can be identified in this process and in decisions concerning patient clothing. In our data, designing patient clothing is represented as a highly complex net of conflicting needs. According to our findings ethical issues in patient design were associated with ethical principles of efficiency, beneficence, privacy and autonomy.

Abstractness Of Mediating Artifacts As Probes, Young-Ae Hahn, Judith Gregory

Nordes Conference Series

This research investigates mediating artifacts as probes that have been used to explore current and future user needs in knowledge exchange between design researchers and the users of future products and services. Four types of mediating artifacts as probes are reviewed: Design Games, Cultural Probes, Generative Techniques, and Behavioral Prototyping. Design researchers variously found the following methodological advantages of mediating artifacts: (a) eliciting situated user needs, (b) eliciting divergent perspectives and needs, (c) supporting participants’ idea generation that leads to design solution ideas, (d) documenting elicited concrete and abstract types of knowledge, (e) revealing propositional, practical and sensuous knowledge, and …

A Social Language Of Objects And Artifacts: Concepts Of Materiality In Practice-Based Approaches To Knowing In Organization, Connie Svabo

Nordes Conference Series

This article is an inquiry about design. It gives an introductory overview to the vocabulary of ‘materiality’, which is used by a chosen selection of social theories. The article shows a language of artifacts and objects as it is used within practice-based approaches to knowing in organization.

'Architectural Gaits': Architectures As Technologies And Techniques, Katrine Lotz

Nordes Conference Series

Attempts to describe and define ‘the role of the architect’ or the notion of architecture ‘itself’, often inherit a displacement between the interests in processes and the interests in interpretations of, or preceptions for either the results as ‘good quality’ or for the practise as ‘good conduct’. They tend to produce rigid models of the design-process, sociologically reducing explanations or mere ethical judgements. (Lawson, Cuff, Lundequist, Effekt:42) With this blurred and blurring difference as a point of departure, the interest in the competencies and strategies performed in the processes gets difficult conditions. The quests for the essences of either ‘Architecture’ …

Domestication As Design Intervention., Sara Routarinne

Nordes Conference Series

The article reports a study in which design prototypes where domesticated in different households in order to collect responses to them. These responses were then compared to the intentions that were articulated by the designers in a previous study, and embedded in the design of the design prototypes. The results indicate that some of the intentions were found whereas others were not. For example, the scenarios for use presented by the designers were not realized in actual use. Nevertheless, the more abstract intentions articulated for these prototypes were found. On the one hand, the results suggest that design prototypes act …

Participatory Design Of A Cross-Media Community For Societal Action: Lessons From Avatopia, Ylva Gislén, Jonas Löwgren, Ulf Myrestam

Nordes Conference Series

A cross-media platform was designed for a community of young teenagers oriented towards societal change, a task which motivated a deeply sociotechnical participatory design process. The final outcome involved an interactive web forum featuring creative and communicative collaborative tools in a 3D avatar environment, combined with a weekly show in national public-service television. An assessment of our work indicates that a participatory design process, where participants transition into the role of mentors and norm carriers upon deployment, can be a feasible way to support subcultural community building towards »difficult« topics, even though it entails considerable resource demands. This result is …

The Patient As Skilled Practitioner, Jacob Buur, Kyle Kilbourn

Nordes Conference Series

We challenge the limiting view imposed on interaction design by the concept of usability because we hope to bring more awareness of and sensitivity toward skilled practitioners to the forefront of the design process. This article draws upon empirical research examples of patients who ‘do’ home hemodialysis and asks what happens when patients are considered skilled practitioners rather than as victims? In this article we argue for a change of perspective, from users to skilled practitioners in the design of technological devices. We advocate to design tools for enskilment, allowing for a sense of empowerment.

Femalegaze Meets Undressman, Magnus Mörck, Magdalena Petersson

Nordes Conference Series

While Dressmann is a large Norwegian-owned men’s wears chain store, highly visible in Swedish malls, Undressmann only exists in the imagination of the creators of the Hunks of Hisingen Island– a calender of male pin-ups published in Sweden for 2006. Three women recruited the men, took the photographs, designed the calendar discussed in our article, they arranged its printing and distribution, including a catwalk event, where the men were put on live display. Hunks of Hisingen is an example of women designing a commodity and marketing the product, which is the spectacle of young attractive men posing for a female …

13th Annual Governors State University Student Research Conference Proceedings, Shailendra Kumar Ph.D., Editor

Student Research Conference Proceedings

No abstract provided.

On The Green Vol. 37 No. 13 May 25, 2007, Gallaudet University

2001-2010

On the Green is an internal publication of Gallaudet College, which later became Gallaudet University. It notified employees of updates around the campus and in the broader community, including new construction and the establishment of new academic programs. Running until 2010, it was supplanted by various forms of online mass communications across multiple audiences.

Membership In Organizations And Confidence In Institutions: Men’S Social Capital And Its Differentials By Family Structures, Zenaida R. Ravanera, Rajulton Fernando

PSC Discussion Papers Series

Abstract not available

2007 Commencement Program, Whittier College

Commencement Programs

Whittier College's One Hundred Fourth Commencement, May 25, 2007

Commencement Address: The Honorable Antonio Villaraigosa, Mayor of City of Los Angeles

Supplement file includes Spring Honors Convocation, May 8, 2007

Observer, Central Washington University

Student Newspaper

Student newspaper for Central Washington University for May 24, 2007

Faculty Retirement Recognition Dinner 2007, Western Michigan University

Faculty Recognition

Faculty Retirement Recognition Dinner Program

May 24, 2007

Honored Guests:

• Michael B. Atkins
• Robert M. Beam
• Andrew A. Brogowicz
• William M. Cremin
• Ronald W. Davis
• Stuart J. Dybek
• Jorge M. Febles
• M. Arthur Garmon
• Marie F. Gates
• Thomas L. Gossman
• Philip J. Guichelaar
• Arlen R. Gullickson
• John M. Hanley
• Thomas R. Holmes
• Elaine A. Jayne
• Linda L. Law
• Charles Bruce MacQueen
• Bettina S. Meyer
• Daniel P. Mihalko
• Richard O'Hearn
• Paul E. Ponchillia
• Eldor C. Quandt
• Charlene Renner
• Visho Sharma
• Subhash R. Sonnad
• Judith F. Stone
• Charles Stroh
• Daniel L. Stufflebeam
• Paul E. Szarmach
• Larry J. ten Harmsel
• Thomas L. Van …

Tragedies Of Our Own Making, Gil Villagran

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

A recent count of American annual deaths caused by firearms, gangs, domestic violence, child abuse and drugs rate higher than all the victims of all wars fought since the Revolutionary War to the present, also a self-inflicted war of choice in Iraq. In other words, we are a nation killing ourselves by tragedies of our own making. What can you do to avert such tragedy in your family? Destroy (not sell) the firearms you have, seek counseling to resolve anger and violence in your family, cure your substance abuse addictions, and live a healthy life to the fullest with your …

Campus Chronicle (Vol. 9, No. 37), Valparaiso University

Campus Chronicle

No abstract provided.

The Competing Influence Of Secularism And Religion On Science Education In A Secular Society, William W. Cobern

Scientific Literacy and Cultural Studies Project

We live in country where by Constitution there can be no religious test for public office. On the other hand, we have a Bill of Rights that guarantees the free exercise of religion. We call this a secular system of government, and sometimes go so far as to use Jefferson's phrase that there is a wall between church and state. For the most part this secular system of government comports well with the teachings of Christianity based on Jesus’ remark that one should render unto Caesar that which belongs to Caesar, and unto God that which belongs to God.

John …

Interview With David Hopper, James Wallace Professor Of Religious Studies, David Hopper

Religious Studies Department Oral Histories

No abstract provided.

Expert: New Birth Control That Eliminates Periods Is A Bad Idea, Lori Wright

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

Executive Committee - Agenda, 5/22/2007, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.