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An Examination Of Body Dissatisfaction And Media Exposure, Richard H. Kirchmeyer

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The goal of the current study was to examine the relationship between muscle magazine consumption and body dissatisfaction. The study also examined the relationship between muscle magazine consumption and the amount of disparity between ideal and real body shape. Participants (N = 108) were recruited via study board, and also on a volunteer basis, from a mid-Western university with a population of 20,674 students. The first hypothesis stated that men with greater exposure to muscle magazines would indicate that their actual body shape falls further away from their ideal body shape, in terms of both muscularity and fat level, than …

Comparing Perceptions Of The Nursing Profession Among Associate And Baccalaureate Nursing Students And Registered Nurses, Sherry R. Lovan

Nursing Faculty Publications

The inconsistencies between the perception of the profession of nursing and the reality of practice can lead to problems in student attrition or result in disillusionment with a career in nursing after a new graduate enters practice. With the nursing shortage reaching critical levels, it is important to examine possible discrepancies that exist and address strategies to reduce them.

For this study, a quantitative design was selected to explore how the perception of the nursing profession compared among first-semester associate degree nursing students, first-semester baccalaureate nursing students, and registered nurses. A convenience sample N = 238 included 69 ADN students, …

Legally Speaking--Legal Implications Of Reference Books For Publishers And Consumers, Bryan M. Carson

DLPS Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Campus Connection, December 2009, Vol. 11 No. 4, California State University, Monterey Bay

Campus Connection

Campus News': Your Online Link To What's Happening -- Health Center Awaits More Flu Vaccine -- Follow 'Campus News And Events' at MyCSUMB -- Dr. Lou Denti Receives Glenn Award -- Fort Ord Alumni Association Presents Scholarships -- Next Phase Of Recycling Program Begins -- Campus Celebrates Day Of The Dead 2009 -- Meet Bill Musselman -- KAZU's Krista Almanzan Wins Media Industry Award -- Student's Leadership, Service Honored -- Probation Passed -- Bring Holiday Cheer To Families In Need -- Climate Commitment Organizations Get Award -- Real-world Policymaking -- 'Mind Boggling'

Touching The Future : Building Skills For Life And Work, Johanna Wyn

Australian Education Review

AER 55 explores the goals of Australian education and of how schools should prepare young people for work and life. Section 1 provides an overview, discussing the nature of broad social and economic changes over the last 20 years, and their implications for the goals of Australian education systems today and for the future, and for what young people need to learn and why. Section 2 critically explores the assumptions which dominate current educational policies about the alignment of schooling with economic goals and work. Section 3 provides an analysis of the policy for social inclusion: the framing of educational …

That Could Be Me: The New Voices Of Poverty In Idaho, Stephanie Witt, Lisa Wennstrom, Carole Nemnich

Research and Reports

In fall of 2009, Boise State University Radio aired a series of stories highlighting the impacts of the changing economy on ordinary Idahoans. The stories were part of a larger project funded in part by the National Center for Media Engagement. The project culminated in a community roundtable held in September of 2009 at which advocates and policy makers discussed the stories, the larger context of poverty here in Idaho, and made policy recommendations. The Public Policy Center at Boise State University was contracted by Boise State Radio to prepare this short white paper. The paper is divided into three …

Journalism Students, Web 2.0 And The Digital Divide, Mary Elizabeth Green

Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to find out if students were utilizing Web 2.0 applications. Since the applications in question are often employed by the media industry, the study aspired to find out if students majoring in mass communication and journalism utilized the applications more often than other students. The “digital divide” is a term used to describe the difference in skill levels in using computer technology and the Internet. Some of the variables typically associated with the digital divide include gender, age, ethnicity, lack of a broadband connection and previous experience using the technology. This study looks at …

A Month With The Karen: A People's Struggle Told Through The Eyes Of A Missionary, Gordon Griffith

Art and Design

The goal of this project is to effectively document the work of a missionary in order to bring awareness to his or her work as a missionary and as a humanitarian in general. Not only do I want to bring awareness, but I would also like to spark interest of that work in a large audience of viewers. I am interested in capturing the full spectrum of missionary work and being able to convey the work in a coherent way. I will use the photographs of other great humanitarians, photojournalists, and documentary photographers as examples. The photographs that I will …

A Pitch For Microfinance: Using An Animation To Promote An Economic Movement, Yelena Kozlova

Art and Design

Microfinance refers to the idea of providing financial services to low-income clients. The purpose of this project was to create an animation using Adobe Flash that could be published online to inform the public about microfinance and to encourage the viewers to take part in this movement.

Extended Portraits, Matthew W. Schmitz

Art and Design

For my senior project, I wanted to do something photographically diverse and creative with the classmates of my major. I decided the focus of my project would be portraits and interviews documenting the experiences of those classmates; who they were as people and why they picked Cal Poly as their school. I researched various forms of portraiture and gathered those ideas and various questions to help flesh out my concept. My photo shoots experimented in various forms of alternative portraiture, accompanied with an answered questionnaire filled out by each of them. I wanted the finished product to be well laid …

Visually Sound: An Exploration Of Design + Music, Justin Rodriguez

Art and Design

Visually Sound: An Exploration of Design + Music, is a book comprised of a series of works exploring the relationship of design and music. There are four compositions which are inspired by four different songs: “Wake Up” by Arcade Fire, “Chicago Zoo” by The Cool Kids, “Reptilia” by The Strokes, and “Sleepyhead” by Passion Pit. Within the book are the lyrics to each song, and my thoughts on my ideas behind each of the four designs.

This report contains my research, process, results and personal discoveries. My documentation includes visual research in the form of digital mood boards, inspirational work …

Senior Project Artist Book, Adam Wirdak

Art and Design

This paper explains the process of ideation, topics of research, hand building, woodworking, and production, as well as a summary of my project.

My senior project involved the creation of an artist book. My artist book consisted of six maps (roughly 10.5” X 10.5”), two trays of individual words (roughly 520 words in total), six dowels, one string of twine, and a box which holds all elements of the project.

Identity And Business System For Carly Jean Photography, Christine Marin

Art and Design

This report contains all information regarding the research, creation, and refinement of a business system and website for a photographer. The first part of the report explains the background context and ideation of the design problem. The next part goes through the development of each part of the identity system, and how my goals were achieved. The rest of the report is a summary of my process and my experience in doing this project.

Fuji Sukiyaki Business Identity, Adriana Ngau

Art and Design

This paper documents the research and procedures that went into the creation of a business identity that includes a logotype, menu, business card, letterhead, envelope, monthly sales report sheet, gift certificate, drinks list and posters for Fuji Sukiyaki. The paper describes the final outcome and general conclusions about the project, and concludes by offering recommendations for further study that could result from this project.

Raiding The Closet: Spring 09 Look Book, Claudia Abrishami

Art and Design

This is a written report documenting the creation of a fashion “Look Book” for a boutique in downtown San Luis Obispo. This creation includes photographic art direction, styling direction, layout design, and overall theme for design.

Metropolis Afflatus, John Dixon

Art and Design

Metropolis Afflatus is a comprehensive magazine that chronicles the experience of a graphic designer/photographer’s travels to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, New York City and Seattle. Using personal photography in combination with illustration and lyrics, Metropolis Afflatus seeks to inspire the viewer in the same way the city has inspired the traveler.

Ark Ruffians Comic Book, Lily Nishita

Art and Design

This is a written report documenting the research, story, sketch, and drawing phases for the illustration of a comic book.

Scientific Autonomy And The 3rs, Bernard E. Rollin

Experimentation Collection

No abstract provided.

Promoting The Cal Poly Dairy Science Department Through Advertising, Nisa Marie Gallichio

Dairy Science

Promotion and advertising is a key aspect in a successful dairy operation. It allows for elite cows, offspring, and students to be showcased not only locally but nationwide as well and it has potential of allowing other industry professionals to invest in the quality genetics being advertised. This article gives a step by step guide showing how to successfully organize a photo shoot, submit the photo to the Holstein World Collegiate Issue, gather material necessary to creating an ad showcasing the cows at Cal Poly as well as updating the website.

Marketing Plan For Joe Alamo, Joseph Edward Amaral

Dairy Science

No abstract provided.

Inventory & Summary Of Embryo Transfer Work At The Cal Poly Dairy, Melissa M. Lema

Dairy Science

No abstract provided.

Hands On Health Symposium: Student Research And Creative Endeavors, Jessica Lynn Rogers

Kinesiology and Public Health

This paper explains the organization and planning process for the student research section of the first annual Hands on Health Symposium that was held on the Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo campus. The event was to promote and make public awareness of healthy living. I did a write up of the sources I used, and what I did, so that the next student in charge of putting on the student section, will have a guideline.

Cal Poly Magazine, Winter 2009

Cal Poly Magazine

No abstract provided.

Tomographic Analysis And Simulation Of Reactive Flow In Column Experiments, Rong Cai

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

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What Is Biotechnology?: Biotechnology Development And The Dynamic Process Of Constructing Industrial Boundaries, Monique Centrone

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

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Working Report #2: Client And Community Relations (Service Provider Perspectives), Lirondel Hazineh, Gary Cameron

Partnerships for Children and Families Project

This report addresses two important questions: how much emphasis is placed on building positive relationships with families and communities across agency based, integrated service, and community and school based models of service delivery? And, how successful is each model at building relationships, minimizing stigma for families, and improving the image of child welfare in the community?

Educating clients and the community about child welfare services was identified as an important role for workers in some sites and not in others. While families’ fears of child protection services were a concern, some workers also expressed a fear of their clients and …

Sparql Query Re-Writing For Spatial Datasets Using Partonomy Based Transformation Rules, Prateek Jain, Cory Andrew Henson, Amit P. Sheth, Peter Z. Yeh, Kunal Verma

Kno.e.sis Publications

Often the information present in a spatial knowledge base is represented at a different level of granularity and abstraction than the query constraints. For querying ontology’s containing spatial information, the precise relationships between spatial entities has to be specified in the basic graph pattern of SPARQL query which can result in long and complex queries. We present a novel approach to help users intuitively write SPARQL queries to query spatial data, rather than relying on knowledge of the ontology structure. Our framework re-writes queries, using transformation rules to exploit part-whole relations between geographical entities to address the mismatches between query …

A Local Qualitative Approach To Referral And Functional Trust, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Dharan Althuru, Cory Andrew Henson, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

Trust and confidence are becoming key issues in diverse applications such as ecommerce, social networks, semantic sensor web, semantic web information retrieval systems, etc. Both humans and machines use some form of trust to make informed and reliable decisions before acting. In this work, we briefly review existing work on trust networks, pointing out some of its drawbacks. We then propose a local framework to explore two different kinds of trust among agents called referral trust and functional trust, that are modelled using local partial orders, to enable qualitative trust personalization. The proposed approach formalizes reasoning with trust, distinguishing between …

Faculty Notes- John Carroll University, John Carroll University

Faculty Notes - John Carroll University

December 2009, Vol. 2, Issue 2

Architecture Collection Development Policy, Kay Logan-Peters

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Collection Development Policies

The architecture collection supports the teaching, research, and service activities of the entire university community. Its primary audience is the faculty, staff, and students of the College of Architecture. Its primary focus is support for the undergraduate and graduate curricula for architecture, landscape architecture, community and regional planning, and interior design. Research needs of faculty and students are supplemented through Interlibrary Loan. While the collection also benefits other citizens of the state of Nebraska, materials are not purchased with them in mind. The collection focuses on works classified in Library of Congress call numbers NA, but includes many other call …