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Psychology Colloquium | Daily Positive Experiences And Health Biobehavioral Pathways And Resilience To Stress, Dec. 2, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences Dec 2016

Psychology Colloquium | Daily Positive Experiences And Health Biobehavioral Pathways And Resilience To Stress, Dec. 2, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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A Different Approach To Project Management: The Use Of Soft Skills, Hannah Adams Dec 2016

A Different Approach To Project Management: The Use Of Soft Skills, Hannah Adams

Dissertations and Theses

The term soft skills is traditionally used to describe interpersonal and subjective skills such as leadership, communication, and emotional intelligence. This paper addresses a further explanation of soft skills, their relation to project management, project management education, and the highlighted differences between a transactional leader and a transformational leader. Project management has often been defined as the making of schedules/tasks; but more importantly providing the inspiration, motivation, and facilitator of great minds to produce innovative ideas. Because of the sheer necessity for human interaction within the project management profession, soft skills are of crucial concern. Although mastering soft skills is …

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Spring Awakening (2016), Steven Sater Dec 2016

Spring Awakening (2016), Steven Sater

Season 2016-2017

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Rhetorical Analysis Of Monsanto, Kyle J. Brannon Dec 2016

Rhetorical Analysis Of Monsanto, Kyle J. Brannon

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Rhetoric, and therefore persuasion, can be utilized to impact society in profound ways. These communication devices can also be used for more sinister and nefarious purposes that can leave black marks on any society’s history. For the purpose of this rhetorical analysis, I thoroughly investigated three artifacts used by the Monsanto Corporation. This project attempts to show how Monsanto utilizes rhetoric and persuasion to convince consumers their products are safe to purchase, although there is no scientific consensus regarding that safety to humans and the environment. Through an examination of these artifacts, I was able to examine how Monsanto used …

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Eugenics In Buenos Aires: Discourses, Practices, And Historiography, Diego Armus Dec 2016

Eugenics In Buenos Aires: Discourses, Practices, And Historiography, Diego Armus

History Faculty Works

Since the early 1990s, a series of studies underscored the overwhelming presence of positive eugenics in modern Argentina. These works emphasized the marginal role which discourse on eugenics took on violent methods for selection. In recent years, this point of view has shifted, emphasizing the conceptual viscosity of eugenics as well as the presence of negative eugenic discourses. This paper discusses these historiographic trends, and also dwells on the narratives that those perspectives articulated in relation to the question of sterilization and regulation of marriage of those who had tuberculosis in Buenos Aires during the first half of the twentieth …

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167th Commencement, Fall Dec 2016

167th Commencement, Fall

Commencement Programs

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The Case Against Free Speech, Brian Leiter Dec 2016

The Case Against Free Speech, Brian Leiter

Articles

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Mavroomie: An End-To-End Architecture For Finding Compatible Roommates Based On User Preferences, Vijendra Bhogadi Dec 2016

Mavroomie: An End-To-End Architecture For Finding Compatible Roommates Based On User Preferences, Vijendra Bhogadi

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

Team Formation is widely studied in literature as a method for forming teams or groups under certain constraints. However, very few works address the aspect of collaboration while forming groups under certain constraints. Motivated by the collaborative team formation, we try to extend the problem of team formation to a general problem in the real world scenario of finding compatible roommates to share a place. There are numerous applications like “roommates.com" ,”roomiematch.com" , “Roomi” which try to find roommates based on geographical and cost factors and ignore the important human factors which can play a substantial role in finding a …

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Remote Patient Monitoring Using Health Bands With Activity Level Prescription, Pranay Shirolkar Dec 2016

Remote Patient Monitoring Using Health Bands With Activity Level Prescription, Pranay Shirolkar

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

With the advent of new commercially available consumer grade fitness and health devices, it is now possible and very common for users to obtain, store, share and learn about some of their important physiological metrics such as steps taken, heart rate, quality of sleep and skin temperature. For devices with this wearable technology, it is common to find these sensors embedded in a smart watch, or dedicated wearable wrist bands such that among other functionalities of a wearable device, it is capable of smartly assisting users about their activity levels by leveraging the fact that these devices can be, and …

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Learning Perception To Action Mapping For Functional Imitation, Bhupender Singh Dec 2016

Learning Perception To Action Mapping For Functional Imitation, Bhupender Singh

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

Imitation leaning is the learning of advanced behavior whereby an agent acquires a skill by observing another's behavior while performing the same skill. The main objective of imitation learning is to make robots usable for a variety of tasks without programming them but by simply demonstrating new tasks. The power of this approach arises since end users of such robots will frequently not know how to program the robot, might not understand the dynamics and behavioral capabilities of the system, and might not know how to program these robots to get different/new tasks done. Some challenges in achieving imitation capabilities …

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Improving Memorization And Long Term Recall Of System Assigned Passwords, Jayesh Doolani Dec 2016

Improving Memorization And Long Term Recall Of System Assigned Passwords, Jayesh Doolani

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

Systems assigned password have guaranteed robustness against guessing attacks, but they are hard to memorize. To make system assigned passwords more usable, it is of prime importance that systems that assign random password also assist users with memorization and recall. In this work, we have designed a novel technique that employs rote memorization inform of an engaging game, which is played during the account registration process. Based on prior work on chunking, we break a password into three equal chunks, and then the game helps plant those chunks in memory. We present the findings of 17 participant user-study, where we …

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Towards Artificial Proprioception In The Mandibular Full Arch Fixed Implant Prosthesis, Md Abu Hasan Dec 2016

Towards Artificial Proprioception In The Mandibular Full Arch Fixed Implant Prosthesis, Md Abu Hasan

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dissertations - Archive

Full arch fixed implant prosthesis has been one of the most effective treatment modalities for fully edentulous patients over the last few decades. However, due to lack of proprioception occlusal overload is experienced by the prosthesis and its components causing major biomechanical complications such as screw/abutment fracture, framework fracture, and bone loss. The currently available approaches for the overload management rely on external appliances such as an occlusal splint or bite guard and result in occlusal discomfort and high patient dissatisfaction. In this research, an approach to induce artificial proprioception in the full arch fixed implant prosthesis is proposed. However, …

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Remote Patient Monitoring Using Health Bands With Activity Level Prescription, Pranay Shirolkar Dec 2016

Remote Patient Monitoring Using Health Bands With Activity Level Prescription, Pranay Shirolkar

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses - Archive

With the advent of new commercially available consumer grade fitness and health devices, it is now possible and very common for users to obtain, store, share and learn about some of their important physiological metrics such as steps taken, heart rate, quality of sleep and skin temperature. For devices with this wearable technology, it is common to find these sensors embedded in a smart watch, or dedicated wearable wrist bands such that among other functionalities of a wearable device, it is capable of smartly assisting users about their activity levels by leveraging the fact that these devices can be, and …

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An Exploration Of The Relationship Between Supervision And Job Satisfaction Factors Among Residence Directors And Resident Assistants, Stephen A. Berg Dec 2016

An Exploration Of The Relationship Between Supervision And Job Satisfaction Factors Among Residence Directors And Resident Assistants, Stephen A. Berg

Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Dissertations - Archive

Supervising Resident Assistants (RAs) on college campuses is one of the most critical roles of housing staff members. The RA position is difficult based on the number of responsibilities the job requires; it is filled with multiple stressors, such as role ambiguity and role conflict. Supervision is a critical skill for student affairs professionals to possess yet there remains little research on the supervision of RAs. In this study, the relationship between perceived levels of synergistic supervision, training, and job satisfaction factors was examined among residence directors (RDs) and RAs. The researcher sought to fill this gap the in the …

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Examining The Social Effects Of Community-Based Mentoring On At-Risk Adolescent Girls, Nina L. Price Dec 2016

Examining The Social Effects Of Community-Based Mentoring On At-Risk Adolescent Girls, Nina L. Price

Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Dissertations - Archive

The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study is to examine which strategies of mentoring, if any, have a positive impact on adolescent girls who engage in potentially at-risk social behaviors, which may negatively affect their self-esteem academic performance. The female students who participated in this study attend a large high school in Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, are between the ages of 15 and 18, and are mentored by volunteers of The TurnAround Agenda Outreach Center. The study is informed by two theroretical frameworks which seeks to guide a study of human interactions: social learning theory (Bandura,1997) and attachment theory (Bowlby, 1980). …

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Gender Behavior Types, Teacher-Student Interactions, And Mathematics Performance: An Empirical Analysis Of Texas High School Students, Sheila Gayle Fleming Dec 2016

Gender Behavior Types, Teacher-Student Interactions, And Mathematics Performance: An Empirical Analysis Of Texas High School Students, Sheila Gayle Fleming

Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Dissertations - Archive

The purpose of this study was to explore the gender behavior types for both female and male high school students. Using the gender behavior types as a lens, the study examined the existence of any differences in teacher-student interactions and mathematics performance by gender behavior type, and investigated factors that predict students’ mathematics performance A survey was used to collect data concerning student self-concepts, student perceptions of teacher-student interactions, background characteristics, and course enrollment. The sample was drawn from high school students at a North Texas High School enrolled in Algebra 1, Geometry, and Algebra 2 during Spring 2015. The …

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Origins And Maintenance Of Diversity In A Vertebrate Parthenogen, Alex Scott Hall Dec 2016

Origins And Maintenance Of Diversity In A Vertebrate Parthenogen, Alex Scott Hall

Biology Dissertations - Archive

Clonal lineages are expected to experience a decline in fitness over time due to their inability to decouple deleterious and beneficial alleles. Individually, however, asexual populations pass twice as much of their DNA per generation as sexual lineages. This balancing act between Muller's Ratchet and the lack of the two-fold cost of sex in asexuals brings significant scientific intrigue to instances of asexual populations. Among vertebrates, squamates (and mainly lizards) are uniquely capable of true parthenogenesis whereby females reproduce without males. These lineages are always hybrid, as is the case with parthenogenetic Aspidoscelis lizards (Teiidae). In particular, the checkered whiptail …

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Navigating Women's Cultural Representation Through Video Games In The Obama Era, Mark Stephen Reeder Dec 2016

Navigating Women's Cultural Representation Through Video Games In The Obama Era, Mark Stephen Reeder

English Theses - Archive

While the representations of women in video games have remained disappointingly negative since the 1980s, America’s political shift from the presidencies of George W. Bush to Barack Obama in 2007 had important cultural implications, particularly impacting the representation of women in popular culture. This thesis will examine the cultural depictions of women from 2002-2011, providing a particular focus on the unique cultural factors prevalent during this time period—including the expansion of pornography, a conservative cultural backlash to Obama, and the rapid deterioration of ‘political correctness’—that impacted how images of women in video games were received. Analyzing the cultural atmosphere of …

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The World In The Screen: How The Mobile Device Symbolizes Technogenesis, Joel Mathew Morrow Dec 2016

The World In The Screen: How The Mobile Device Symbolizes Technogenesis, Joel Mathew Morrow

English Theses - Archive

The smart phone, or mobile device, holds a preeminent role in a technologically advanced society. These devices allow for connection, productivity, and distraction, and in doing so create new anxieties and underscore old ones. By tracing the provenance of this artifact, we see how our relationship with mobile devices amplifies our relationship with technology as a whole. This thesis examines the development of the mobile device from the viewpoints of social constructivism and technogenesis to illustrate how our increasing intimacy with these devices is part of a long-standing pattern of co-evolution between humans and the technologies they create.

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Student Voice: Perceptions Of Teacher Expectations Among First And Second Generation Vietnamese And Mexican Students, Sara Gandarilla Dec 2016

Student Voice: Perceptions Of Teacher Expectations Among First And Second Generation Vietnamese And Mexican Students, Sara Gandarilla

Doctor of Education (EdD)

This qualitative research study explored the perceptions first and second generation Vietnamese and Mexican high school students hold on teacher expectations based on their racial identity. Specifically, this study explores the critical concepts of stereotype threat, halo effect, and self-fulfilling prophecy. The primary purpose of this investigation was to enhance the understanding of how the perception students have impacts success or lack of success for two different student groups. This study utilizes interviews with student focus groups to examine student perceptions of teacher expectations among Vietnamese and Mexican students and its impact on student academic performance, the general nature of …

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Studying The Use Of Hidden Markov Models In The Detection And Classification Of Eeg Epileptiform Transients Using Lpc Features, Kartikeya Shrikant Bagalore Dec 2016

Studying The Use Of Hidden Markov Models In The Detection And Classification Of Eeg Epileptiform Transients Using Lpc Features, Kartikeya Shrikant Bagalore

All Theses

The process of identifying the presence of an AEP (Abnormal Epileptiform Paroxysmal) in a subject's EEG, normally done by neurologist experts, is a particularly long one and involves considerable financial expenses. This research aims to pave an automatic method of detecting and classifying streams of EEGs as to whether or not it has any AEPs present in it. This is a two step process, where step 1 is the classification problem and step 2 is the detection problem. There are many different activities on the EEGs, and the classification task helps to identify which of these activities are AEPs. So, …

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Limited Attention, Marital Events And Hedge Funds, Yan Lu, Sugata Ray, Melvyn Teo Dec 2016

Limited Attention, Marital Events And Hedge Funds, Yan Lu, Sugata Ray, Melvyn Teo

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

We explore the impact of limited attention by analyzing the performance of hedge fund managers who are distracted by marital events. We find that marriages and divorces are associated with significantly lower fund alpha, during the six-month period surrounding and the two-year period after the event. Busy managers who manage multiple funds and who are not part of a team are more affected by marital transitions. Inattentive managers place fewer active bets relative to their style peers, load more on index stocks, exhibit higher R-squareds with respect to systematic factors, and are more prone to the disposition effect.

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The Cultural Construction Of Subject Discipline Knowledge: Comparing ‘Abstraction’ In Two International Contexts, Nick Pratt, Peter Kelly Dec 2016

The Cultural Construction Of Subject Discipline Knowledge: Comparing ‘Abstraction’ In Two International Contexts, Nick Pratt, Peter Kelly

Plymouth Institute of Education

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Ordinary? Affects? Swimming With Kathleen Stewart And Others Against The Tide Race Of Representation And The Heresies Of Names, K Gale Dec 2016

Ordinary? Affects? Swimming With Kathleen Stewart And Others Against The Tide Race Of Representation And The Heresies Of Names, K Gale

Plymouth Institute of Education

This essay describes instances in the rhythmic play with affect in the reading of and performances with Kathleen Stewart's Ordinary Affects. It offers an engagement with the work that both troubles and is troubled. It celebrates this engagement and delights in the opportunity to read, read around, and read again and again words that flee from identification and representation and come to life in moments of tears, smiles, and writings living in the temptation and allure of the unknown. This was written with a visit to Edinburgh in mind and Robert Frank's The Americans, alongside Stewart's Ordinary Affects in my …

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Learning To Mock - Challenging The Teaching Establishment, N Gabriel Dec 2016

Learning To Mock - Challenging The Teaching Establishment, N Gabriel

Plymouth Institute of Education

There have been very few studies that apply the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Norbert Elias to understand the underlying learning processes of young children. This article will explore the methodological similarities between Bakhtin’s ideas about the carnivalesque and Norbert Elias’s theory of established-outsider relations to explain how young children can undermine the authoritative discourses of teachers in preschool classrooms. It will focus on the playful mockery that young children display within their peer-groups to challenge teaching authority. I will argue that many of the humorous events produced by young children should be viewed as an attempt to violate their …

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Intra-Generational Education: Imagining A Post-Age Pedagogy, Joanna Haynes, Karin Murris Dec 2016

Intra-Generational Education: Imagining A Post-Age Pedagogy, Joanna Haynes, Karin Murris

Plymouth Institute of Education

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Decisions On Risk And Mental Health Hospital Admissions By Approved Mental Health Professionals, K Stone Dec 2016

Decisions On Risk And Mental Health Hospital Admissions By Approved Mental Health Professionals, K Stone

More Faculty of Health Research

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Nature Of Ngo Volunteers’ And Employees’ Motivation. Implications And Recommendations For Managerial Staff, Joanna Schmidt Dec 2016

Nature Of Ngo Volunteers’ And Employees’ Motivation. Implications And Recommendations For Managerial Staff, Joanna Schmidt

European Management Studies

The analysis presented below indicates different types of motivation of non-governmental organisations’ staff and involves the relationship between the type of motivation and other staff features. This allows not only for looking at the causes and characteristics of involvement in the activities of non-governmental organisations but also for describing the specific motivation of the various groups involved in the activities of the organisation and presenting profiles of these groups. Moreover, the analysis of motivations and characteristics correlated with them allows for drawing conclusions related to motivating rules of these groups, stimulating their commitment and selecting the management style appropriate for …

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Duty, Calling Or Passion? The Meaningfulness Of Work In Narratives Of Public Administration Employees, Agnieszka Wojtczuk-Turek Dec 2016

Duty, Calling Or Passion? The Meaningfulness Of Work In Narratives Of Public Administration Employees, Agnieszka Wojtczuk-Turek

European Management Studies

One of the important aspects related to work is the sense of its significance and meaning. In Hackman and Oldham’s model (Job Characteristics Model – JCM), experienced meaningfulness of work is a function of task identity, subjective perception of task significance and the employees’ engaging a variety of skills. Research shows that persons who practice different professions define their work differently and attribute it different meanings. The cognitive and application-related value of these studies is based on a better understanding of the mechanisms of shaping positive attitudes towards work, whose behavioural consequence is employee’s engagement in work. The aim of …

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Professionalization Of Vocational Roles Of Public Employment Services Employees In Europe Through Competency Profiling, Łukasz Sienkiewicz Dec 2016

Professionalization Of Vocational Roles Of Public Employment Services Employees In Europe Through Competency Profiling, Łukasz Sienkiewicz

European Management Studies

The aim of this article is the development of competence profile for employment counsellors within public employment services, reflecting the recent changes and redefinition of these professional roles. This article aims to analyse the state-of-play in relation to professionalization of vocational roles of PES employees in Europe, on the basis of research conducted by the author in the years 2012–2014 for the European Commission. These studies included literature review, analysis of available research and structured survey conducted among representatives of the Public Employment Services in 22 EU countries, complemented by in-depth interviews and analysis of solutions used in PES. On …

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