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An Integrated Framework For Export Competitiveness: Evidence From The Global Alcoholic Beverages Industry, Ilan Alon, Marc Fetscherin, James P. Johnson

Faculty Publications

Participation in international trade is a key indicator of an industry's competitiveness. This study presents a framework for measuring the export competitiveness of an industry across countries that takes into account (a) industry specialisation, measured by the revealed comparative advantage, (b) industry export growth rate and (c) relative industry size. The framework is applied to the alcoholic beverages industry using data from the top 30 exporters of alcoholic beverages over a five-year period (2001?2005). The results indicate that the alcohol beverage export market is dynamic and changing, and that export competitiveness varies by country according to the sub-sector of the …

Social Support And The Reactivity Hypothesis: Conceptual Issues In Examining The Efficacy Of Received Support During Acute Psychological Stress, Wendy C. Birmingham, Bert N. Uchino, Mckenzie Carlisle, Allison A. Vaughn

Faculty Publications

Social support has been reliably related to better physical health outcomes. One influential model suggests that social support is related to lower cardiovascular disease mortality because it reduces the potentially deleterious consequences of cardiovascular reactivity during acute stress. However, received support and perceived support are separable constructs and epidemiological research suggests variability in links between received support and health. This is important because most social support and acute laboratory stress studies are essentially based on the receipt of support. In this paper, we focus on the conceptualization of received support and its implications for understanding links to support laboratory reactivity …

On The Importance Of Knowing Your Partner’S Views: Attitude Familiarity Is Associated With Better Interpersonal Functioning And Lower Ambulatory Blood Pressure In Daily Life, Wendy C. Birmingham, David M. Sanbonmatsu, Bert N. Uchino

Faculty Publications

Background—Relationships have been linked to significant physical health outcomes. However, little is known about the more specific processes that might be responsible for such links. Purpose—The main aim of this study was to examine a previously unexplored and potentially important form of partner knowledge (i.e., attitude familiarity) on relationship processes and cardiovascular function. Methods—In this study, 47 married couples completed an attitude familiarity questionnaire and ambulatory assessments of daily spousal interactions and blood pressure. Results—Attitude familiarity was associated with better interpersonal functioning between spouses in daily life (e.g., greater partner responsiveness). Importantly, attitude familiarity was also related to lower overall …

A Primer On Meta-Analysis In Clinical Psychology, Scott A. Baldwin, William R. Shadish

Faculty Publications

The authors provide a primer on meta-analysis. Topics are covered at an introductory level and references are provided for readers wanting further information. Topics covered include literature search procedures, coding manuals and extracting information from studies, calculating effect sizes, combining effect sizes, fixed and random effects analysis, influence analysis, moderator analysis, multivariate meta-analysis, and publication bias. All analyses are illustrated using k= 18 behavioral marital therapy versus control studies. The authors conclude by considering criticisms of meta-analysis, introducing reporting standards in meta-analysis, and reviewing software options for meta-analysis. An appendix for the paper includes the data and annotated Stata code …

An Ethnographic Examination Of The Hourly Rounding Process, Lynn M. Deitrick Rn, Phd, Kathy Baker Rn, Mph, Hannah D. Paxton Rn, Mph, Michelle D. Flores Rn, Bsn, Deborah Swavely Rn, Msn

Administration & Leadership

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Dashboards Drive Direction, Susan L. Lawrence Ms, Cmac, Krista J. Casey Mba

Administration & Leadership

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“Which Is The Wisest Course?”: Political Power And Prophetic Agency In Nineteenth-Century Mormon Rhetoric, Richard Benjamin Crosby

Faculty Publications

This article enters the conversation about religion and communication at the crossing of two important but under-traveled paths: prophetic rhetoric and Mormonism. Mormon polygamy has a rich and controversial history that includes a series of public arguments and internal debates over how to navigate the historically radical religion through the political landscape of nineteenth-century mainstream America. Wilford Woodruff, president and prophet of the church when the government compelled the Mormons to stop the practice of polygamy, needed to end “plural marriage” without undermining the vitality of the church’s revelatory claims. I argue that Woodruff’s response breaks the limited rules of …

Making Coasean Property More Coasean, Thomas W. Merrill, Henry E. Smith

Faculty Scholarship

In his pioneering work on transaction costs, Ronald Coase presupposed a picture of property as a bundle of government-prescribed use rights. Not only is this picture not essential to Coase’s purpose, but its limitations emerge when we apply Coase’s central insights to analyze the structure of property itself. This leads to the Coase corollary: in a world of zero transaction costs, the nature of property does not matter to allocative efficiency. However, as with the Coase theorem, the real implication is for our world of positive transaction costs: we need to subject the notion of property to a comparative institutional …

God Is Speaking : Are You Listening?, Beverly C. Johnson-Miller

ATS Chapel Services

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The Development Of Psychometrically Equivalent Cantonese Speech Audiometry Materials, Shawn L. Nissen, Richard W. Harris, Ron W. Channell, Brooke Conklin, Misty Kim, Lena Wong

Faculty Publications

Objective: The aim of this study was to develop and psychometrically evaluate speech audiometry materials that can be used to measure word recognition (WR) and speech recognition testing (SRT) in quiet for native speakers of Cantonese. Study Sample: Commonly used bisyllabic and trisyllabic Cantonese words were digitally recorded by native male and female talkers and then evaluated by twenty normal-hearing Cantonese listeners. Design: The recorded bisyllabic words were psychometrically evaluated and arranged into four WR lists and eight half-lists that are relatively homogeneous in audibility. Using logistic regression, SRT materials were developed by selecting 28 trisyllabic words with relatively steep …

Christian Holiness : An Adult Child Recovery Resource, David L. Thompson

ATS Chapel Services

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Bible Study: 1 Peter 4:1-5:14, C. K. Barrett

ATS Chapel Services

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Bible Study: 1 Peter 2:11-17, C. K. Barrett

ATS Chapel Services

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Bible Study: I Peter 2:18-3:7, C. K. Barrett

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The Good Shepherd, John Slater

ATS Chapel Services

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Necessity Of Hippocampal Neurogenesis For The Therapeutic Action Of Antidepressants In Adult Nonhuman Primates, Tarique D. Perera, Andrew J. Dwork, Kathryn A. Keegan, Lakshmi Thirumangalakudi, Cecilia M. Lipira, Niamh Joyce, Christopher Lange, James Dee Higley, Gorazd Rosoklija, Rene Hen, Harold A. Sackeim, Jeremy D. Coplan

Faculty Publications

Background: Rodent studies show that neurogenesis is necessary for mediating the salutary effects of antidepressants. Nonhuman primate (NHP) studies may bridge important rodent findings to the clinical realm since NHP-depression shares significant homology with human depression and kinetics of primate neurogenesis differ from those in rodents. After demonstrating that antidepressants can stimulate neurogenesis in NHPs, our present study examines whether neurogenesis is required for antidepressant efficacy in NHPs. Materials/Methodology: Adult female bonnets were randomized to three social pens (N = 6 each). Pen-1 subjects were exposed to control-conditions for 15 weeks with half receiving the antidepressant fluoxetine and the rest …

2009 Graduation, (2009, May 23 - Part 1), J. Ellsworth Kalas, Scott W. Rasmussen

ATS Chapel Services

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Baccalaureate Service (May 21, 2000), Asbury Theological Seminary

ATS Chapel Services

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Latino Chapel (2000, Feb. 23) Part 2

ATS Chapel Services

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Worship In Testimony, Donald G. K. Ming

ATS Chapel Services

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Asbury Theological Seminary Chapel Service (1999, Nov. 2), Reginald Johnson

ATS Chapel Services

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Asbury Theological Seminary Beeson Pastors Chapel Service (2002, Apr. 9), Asbury Theological Seminary

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The Vulnerability And Joy Of Commitment, Viv Grigg

ATS Chapel Services

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A Web Of Knowledge: A Conceptual-Modeling Perspective, David W. Embley, Stephen W. Liddle, Cui Tao

Faculty Publications

The current web is a web of linked pages. Frustrated users search for facts by guessing which keywords or keyword phrases might lead them to pages where they can find facts. Can we make it possible for users to search directly for facts? Equivalently, can we turn the web into a web of facts (instead of a web of pages containing facts)? Ultimately, can the web be a knowledgebase—a web of knowledge—that can provide direct answers to factual questions and also provide the confidence necessary to make those answers believable? We answer these questions by showing how to superimpose a …

Conceptual-Model Programming: A Manifesto, David W. Embley, Stephen W. Liddle, Óscar Pastor

Faculty Publications

In order to promote conceptual-model programming (CMP), we present these CMP articles. We hold these articles to be the defining principles for model-complete software development.

Essentially, this CMP manifesto asserts that programming activities are to be carried out via conceptual modeling. For applications amenable to conceptual-model designs, software developers should never need to write a line of traditional code. Thus, programming is actually conceptual-model programming.

To accommodate CMP, conceptual-modeling languages must be executable. They must also be capable of completely deploying both databases and user interfaces and conceptually expressing database access and user interaction. To enable CMP, a conceptual-model compiler …

Multilingual Ontologies For Cross-Language Information Extraction And Semantic Search, David W. Embley, Stephen W. Liddle, Deryle W. Lonsdale, Yuri Tijerino

Faculty Publications

Valuable local information is often available on the web, but encoded in a foreign language that non-local users do not understand. Can we create a system to allow a user to query in language L1 for facts in a web page written in language L2? We propose a suite of multilingual extraction ontologies as a solution to this problem. We ground extraction ontologies in each language of interest, and we map both the data and the metadata among the language-specific extraction ontologies. The mappings are through a central, language-agnostic ontology that allows new languages to be added by only having …

Review Of Ingres: Painting Reimagined By Susan L. Siegfried, Heather Belnap Jensen

Faculty Publications

Susan L. Siegfried’s Ingres: Painting Reimagined is a magisterial consideration of one of the most intriguing and elusive artists of the nineteenth century, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. As the summation of a three-decade long engagement with Ingres studies, this ambitious tome sets out to account for the strange and yet beguiling nature of his paintings, c. 1800-1840. In this book, Siegfried argues that the reason Ingres has remained an enigma has much to do with his refusal to produce works that conformed to centuries-old conventions structuring narrative painting. Ingres’s imaginative project, then, was to conceive of innovative strategies for imaging classical tales …

The Special Challenge: Can Theology And Technology Come Together?, Leonard Sweet

ATS Chapel Services

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The Project: A Look At Technologies With The User In Mind, Jeff Groeling, Don Sweigard, Brian Amstutz, Doug Penix, Jay Endicott

ATS Chapel Services

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Holiness Is Power, Acts 1:8, Part 2, Susie Cunninham Stanley

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