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Economic And Social Networks;Impacts On Regional Economic Outcomes And Concentrations, Gil-Hwan Park

ETD Archive

The Republic of Korea's efforts to accelerate the development of its economy in the aftermath of an extremely destructive civil war led to the concentration of capital and activity in areas that resemble the growth poles described by Perroux (1950) and Hirschman (1958). These poles led to an extreme centralization of economic activity and people in the Seoul Metropolitan Area (SMA). More than 48 percent of the GDP, 90 percent of the headquarters of major firms, and 48 percent of the population is concentrated in 11.8 percent of the Republic's land (2006 figures). Despite the agglomeration economies, the national government …

Relationship Between Foreign Film Exposure And Ethnocentrism, Lingli Ying

ETD Archive

This study looked at the relationship between foreign film exposure and ethnocentrism by both considering individual differences factors and motives to watch foreign films, based on the uses and gratifications theoretical model. The individual differences factors include cosmopoliteness, access to foreign films and environmental ethnic diversity. The uses and gratifications theory posits that social and psychological factors influence individuals' motives to use media and ultimately lead to different media effects. Accordingly, this research investigated how individual differences related to motives to view foreign films and how foreign film exposure affected people's attitudes to other cultures. A pilot study was conducted …

A Case Study Of Student Engagement In Collaborative Group Learning In A Blended Community Based (Service) Learning Module, John G. Mcgarrigle

Research Theses

Abstract: A participatory action research case study employed mixed methods to examine student collaboration and engagement in a Community Based (Service) learning module. A quasi experimental testing of Coates (2007) typology of student engagement found low agreement between students and lecturers in assigning the terms, passive, intense, independent or collaborative to student postings to discussion fora. Evidence from this case study found greater student collaboration in discussion fora when linked to practical course activity. Qualitative analysis of discussion threads using conversation analysis provided evidence for collaboration in deeper knowledge construction when supported by lecturers’ contributions. Discourse analysis examined interviews with …

Knotting Things, Tim Stott

Books/Book Chapters

No abstract provided.

Reusable, Interactive, Multilingual Online Avatars, Charlie Cullen, Carl Goodman, Paula Mcgloin, Anna Deegan

Conference papers

This paper details a system for delivering reusable, interactive multilingual avatars in online children’s games. The development of these avatars is based on the concept of an intelligent media object that can be repurposed across different productions. The system is both language and character independent, allowing content to be reused in a variety of contexts and locales. In the current implementation, the user is provided with an interactive animated robot character that can be dressed with a range of body parts chosen by the user in real-time. The robot character reacts to each selection of a new part in a …

Irish Marketing Review, Vol. 20, No. 2, 2009, Aidan O'Driscoll

Issues

Special Issue: Finding an Irish Voice: Reflections on Celtic Consumer Society and Social Change, Edited by Alan Bradshaw, Pierre McDonagh and David Marshall

Hollywood Representations Of Irish Journalism: A Case Study Of Veronica Guerin, Pat Brereton

Articles

This paper emanates from an interest in how the journalist profession is represented on film. This discussion is framed, broadly, by an effort to gauge the performative nature of journalists, from ‘hard-boiled’ press hacks to egomaniacal TV reporters, while situating the vocation within conventional media studies, which privileges political and ethical indicators like ‘the Fourth Estate’ or as ‘Public Watchdog’.

"Introduction: John Fiske And Television Culture" In Television Culture, Ron Becker, Aniko Bodroghkozy, Steve Classen, Elana Levine, Jason Mittell, Greg Smith, Pamela Wilson

Faculty Publications - Department of Communication and Cinematic Arts

No abstract provided.

Introduction To Supply Chain Management And Logistics In A Volatile Global Environment, Edward Sweeney

Books/Book chapters

No abstract provided.

Review Of The Indian Split: Fractures Of Consciousness In The Colonial Philippines; Critical Edition And Study Of The Symposia Of The Truth Of Pedro De Quiroga, Maria Marsilli

History

No abstract provided.

Review Of Gerhard Richter, Thought Images: Frankfurt School Writers' Reflections From Damaged Life., Tania Roy

Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature

Gerhard Richter, Thought Images: Frankfurt School Writers' Reflections from Damaged Life. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. 256 pp. ISBN 9780804756174.

Review Of Fredric Jameson, The Modernist Papers., G. S. Sahota

Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature

Fredric Jameson, The Modernist Papers. New York: Verso, 2007. 160 pp. ISBN 9781844670963.

Personality, Emotion And Judgment In Virtual Environments: A Theoretical Framework, Steven A. Murphy, Michael J. Hine, Nathaniel C. Lupton, John M. Zelenski

Faculty Publications

As organizations become increasingly reliant on distributive technologies, the processes that underpin the effective functioning of employees in virtual environments require systematic examination. This article provides a theoretical framework for studying personality, emotion and judgment in virtual environments. The communication media characteristics, social context, and individual traits and states are presented to portray the dynamic nature of judgment formation in a virtual environment. We argue that media characteristics, combined with personality, motivation and emergent social contexts serve to shape emotions and resultant judgments. By integrating the Information Systems (IS) and Organizational Behavior/Psychology literatures, we chart a course for research examining …

The Present Giver And Other Stories On Human Connections, Erin B. Waggoner

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

The Present Giver and Other Stories on Human Connections is a collection of seven short stories dealing with individuals that struggle to connect to another person. However, the stories also explore that these characters still feel the need to connect, stories very indicative of my own struggles with apathy and relationships. The critical analysis takes on a creative non-fiction approach as a way to show my development as a writer and how these stories relate to what I've learned through the years from my love of reading.

Language And Semogenesis In Philosophy: Realizational Patternings Of Ideology In Lexico-Grammar, Joe Fincham

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

This thesis hypothesizes that the semogenetic properties of language belonging to the stratum of social context known in Systemic Functional Linguistics as ‘ideology’ are realized (at least partly) in the lexico-grammatical features of a text relating to non-categorical and grammatically metaphorical use of modality and non-categorical uses of polarity. To test this hypothesis, a section of a text by philosopher A.J. Ayer was selected. It was selected because it presents an argument in favor of a differing philosophical sense-making framework from that commonly held in society, thus making it a text more conducive to study of semogenetic properties of language …

Innovate Magazine / Annual Review 2008-2009, San Jose State University

Innovate Magazine (School of Information)

No abstract provided.

Development And Outcomes Of Investment Treaty Arbitration, Susan D. Franck

Scholarly Articles

The legitimacy of investment treaty arbitration is a matter of heated debate. Asserting that arbitration is unfairly tilted toward the developed world, some countries have withdrawn from World Bank dispute resolution bodies or are taking steps to eliminate arbitration. In order to assess whether investment arbitration is the equivalent of tossing a two-headed coin to resolve investment disputes, this Article explores the role of development status in arbitration outcomes. It first presents descriptive, quantitative research about the developmental background of the presiding arbitrators who exert particular control over the arbitration process. The Article then assesses how (1) the development status …

" Radical Overlap Of Outage" Oppression And Exploitation In Jane Austens's Work, Joris S. Beck

Theses

No abstract provided.

The Relationship Between Language Teaching And Mayan Language Conservation In Guatemala., Rusty Barrett

Linguistics Presentations

Although the Kaqchikel program was the model and inspiration for the K’iche’ program, the two programs differ in a number of ways because of differences in the sociolinguistic contexts in which they operate:

• Approaches to pedagogy and dialectal variation
• Integration with local communities
• Relationship to language documentation

Videoing As A Teaching And Learning Tool In An Undergraduate Nursing Curriculum, Selma Alliex, Karen Clark-Burg, Annie Das

Nursing Conference Papers

This conference addressed a range of critically important themes related to nursing education. It was designed to bring together nursing educators from across the globe, who are proactive in providing innovative educational practice to meet the changing needs of nursing; nursing students and healthcare personnel.

A Center For Academic Achievement: How Innovative Collaborations Between Faculty And Learning Center Administrators Built Model, Credit-Bearing, First-Year Courses With Embedded Support For At-Risk Students, Elaine Bukowiecki, Susan Miskelly, Dorie Aucoin, Heidi Burgiel, Kathryn Evans, Ruth Farrar, Julia Stakhnevich, Steven Viveiros

Elementary and Early Childhood Education Faculty Publications

Establishing a centralized learning assistance program to systematically address the academic challenges of all students was the first priority of the Academic Achievement Center (AAC) at Bridgewater State College when it was formed in 2001. This new, open, bright, comfortable, and inviting place has truly become the heart of the campus, for it is here that abundant human and material resources are available to support all students. In this learning environment, students can access services in advising, testing, disabilities resources, study, research, writing, communication, mathematics, adaptive technology, tutoring, and English as a second language. Primary responsibility for learning assistance lives …

Encuentros, Summer 2009, Sarah A. Blue, Mayra Daniel, Matthew Maletz, John R. Alexander, Michael J. Gonzales

Encuentros

No abstract provided.

Ontologies And Rules, Pascal Hitzler, Bijan Parsia

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

Ontologies and rules are two established paradigms in knowledge modelling, and play an important role for the Semantic Web. In this chapter, we present an introduction to common approaches for combining OWL ontologies and rules. In particular, we cover the Semantic Web Rules Language SWRL and Description Logic Programs DLP, and give pointers to the literature.

A Way Forward For Indigenous Languages, Nola Purdie

Research Developments

Should Aboriginal students be taught in their own languages? Nola Purdie considers strategies for strengthening the quality of Indigenous languages programs in schools.

Research Developments (No. 21) -- Winter 2009

Research Developments

Table of contents for this issue: (a) A way forward for Indigenous languages; (b) Middle schooling: What’s the evidence? (c) Raising standards: A shared challenge. (d) The case against league tables.

The Digest Edition 2009/2 : Talking To Learn: Dialogue In The Classroom, Catherine Scott, Marion Meiers, Pat Knight

Research Digest

This Digest is focused on research studies about using classroom talk for improving learning, and particularly on the use of teaching methods incorporating classroom dialogue. A selection of websites is listed and a full reference list provided. Links to those references for which full-text online access is freely available are also included. Classrooms are full of talk: some commentators have even suggested that schools are ‘saturated’ with it. There are different types of classroom talk for a range of different purposes. An international research study conducted in primary classrooms in five countries (the ‘Five Nations Study’) has demonstrated the powerful …

Supplement

McNair Scholars Journal

No abstract provided.

Believe In A Healthy Community: Greater Manchester Community Needs Assessment 2009, Dorothy Bazos, Community Development Director, Community Health Institute; Hilary Heishman, Manchester Health Department; Anna Thomas, Deputy Public Health Director, Manchester Health Department

Manchester Research Group

Needs assessment providing data and statistics on health related demographics and issues in the Manchester Health Service Area (HAS), as well as four strategic imperatives for health improvement.

Reading Adam Smith: Understanding The Misinterpretations & The Fallacy Of The Adam Smith Problem, Ross J. Witte

Gettysburg Economic Review

This paper investigates Adam Smith’s intricate vision of human motivation and seeks to expose the fallacy of the “Adam Smith Problem”. Through an expansive study of the famed economist’s two most prominent works, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (WN) and The Theory of Moral Sentiments (TMS), I will show that the two are perfect complements of one other and that Adam Smith did not set down in one place his views on the nature of man. Adam Smith saw man for what he truly is, dominated by selfinterest but not without concern for …

The Long-Lasting Effects Of International Study Abroad Programs On College Graduates, Mary Katharine Rousopoulos

Master of Arts in Higher Education (MAHE) Theses

Do the short-term effects of international study abroad programs (ISAPs) during the college undergraduate years continue post college? To determine whether ISAP participants perceive these benefits as long lasting, six college graduates from a small, mid-western, faith-based university were interviewed about their experience studying abroad. With the chance to share perceptions of their changed understanding or actions, the interviews focused on the following areas: career choice, personal values and behavior changes, relationships, spiritual growth, and intellectual knowledge. Results indicate that college graduates do perceive a number of lasting changes related to their time studying abroad.