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American College Students' Perceptions Of Saudi Arabia As A Travel Destination, Majed Hader

Theses

Destination image is a critical factor for customers making a travel decision. The recent fluctuation in oil prices has forced the Government of Saudi Arabia to focus on tourism to revive its economy. The terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001, affected the image of Saudi Arabia in the minds of people in other countries. The purpose of this study is to investigate American college students’ perceptions of Saudi Arabia as a travel destination and to provide information to help Saudi Arabia’s tourism authority to develop marketing strategies that will attract potential tourists.

Respons Konduktansi Stomata Beberapa Genotipe Tebu Sebagai Parameter Toleransi Terhadap Stress Abiotik, Mochamad Arief Soleh, Ranu Manggala, Yudithia Maxiselly, Mira Ariyanti, Intan Ratna Dewi Anjarsari

Jurnal Kultivasi

Peningkatan produksi tebu saat ini akan terhambat dengan adanya fenomena pemanasan global yang disertai dengan perubahan iklim hingga mempengaruhi sebaran air hujan. Akibatnya musim hujan sering terjadi secara sporadis dan kurang dapat diprediksi. Di sisi lain kondisi lahan kebanjiran akibat genangan air berpotensi menyebabkan stress abiotik pada tanaman tebu yang secara langsung berpengaruh terhadap produktivitas tanaman. Salahsatu sifat fisiologis yang berkaitan erat dengan ketahanan stress abiotik adalah respons konduktansi stomata (gs) sebagai representatif proses metabolisme tanaman berupa fotosintesis. Beberapa varietas tebu ditanam dalam kondisi genangan air memperlihatkan perbedaan nilai gs dari 240 mmol H2O·m-2·s-1 untuk Kidang Kencana (KK) sebagai varietas …

Respon Pertumbuhan Dan Hasil Panen Rebung Periode Pertama Lima Kultivar Asparagus Pada Berbagai Konsentrasi Larutan Garam, Zalora Sanchenia, Tino Mutiarawati Onggo, Wawan Sutari

Jurnal Kultivasi

Rebung asparagus (Asparagus officionalis L.) termasuk salah satu sayuran yang bernilai ekonomi tinggi di dunia juga di Indonesia. Kultivar asparagus yang ditanam di Indonesia umumnya merupakan kultivar introduksi dari daerah subtropis, sehingga pertumbuhan dan produksinya di Indonesia kurang optimal. Indonesia memiliki suhu dan kelembaban yang cukup tinggi sehingga dapat menyebabkan serangan berbagai penyakit pada tanaman asparagus. Aplikasi larutan garam pada media tanam mampu mengendalikan penyakit akar sehingga asparagus akan tumbuh dengan baik. Percobaan bertujuan mengetahui pengaruh konsentrasi larutan garam dan kultivar asparagus yang cocok untuk dataran medium Jatinangor supaya diperoleh pertumbuhan dan hasil rebung asparagus yang baik. Percobaan dilaksanakan di …

Analysing The Sentiment Expressed By Political Audiences On Twitter: The Case Of The 2017 Uk General Election, M Plummer, Ma Palomino, Gl Masala

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

A significant amount of research on the intersection of sentiment analysis and social media platforms has been published in the past few years. While previous studies have focused on methods to identify the polarity of online posts, little has been done in terms of using the impact of such posts to enhance the discovery and description of trends in real time. Here, we present a tool for the retrieval and analysis of microblogging posts in real time. We have gathered a large sample of tweets related to the 2017 UK General Election. We introduce a novel classification of the polarity …

Pixel: Building A Dyslexic Child's Mind, Aparna Natraj

Theses

One in five students, or 15-20% of the population, has a language based learning disability. Dyslexia is the most common of the language based learning disabilities. Dyslexia is mainly a problem with reading accurately and fluently — Accuracy being identified as Letter Recognition and Fluency as Word Recognition.

This thesis looked into various educational applications that help dyslexic children and identified that they rely heavily on intensive instruction in phonetic code and the learning method employed by these applications do not create a lasting impact. The proposed solution integrated the symbol mastery method of learning to create a new digital …

Integration Of Animal-Assisted Therapy Standards In Pediatric Occupational Therapy, Sara J. Shue, Melissa Y. Winkle, M J Mulcahey

People and Animals: The International Journal of Research and Practice

The primary purpose of this study was to describe how the best practice recommendations and standards of practice related to animal-assisted therapy (AAT) are being incorporated into pediatric occupational therapy (OT). The study design was a nonexperimental survey that identified the qualifications of pediatric occupational therapists that are incorporating AAT, the AAT standards of practice that are or are not used in practice, and the barriers and facilitators to being an AAT qualified occupational therapist. There were 21 respondents to the survey. The majority of respondents had a master’s degree, more than 10 years working as an occupational therapist, less …

Geographically Apart, Attitudinally Very Close: A Comparison Of Attitudes Toward Animals Between Romania And Mexico City, Alina Simona Rusu, Denisa Pop, Dennis C. Turner

People and Animals: The International Journal of Research and Practice

Among other regions, Romania and Mexico (particularly Mexico City) are often cited as problematic areas in surveys and reports on the growing population of stray animals in urban areas. The aim of our study was to adapt for Romanian and Spanish languages usage of an instrument that includes significant psychological and social dimensions of the attitudes toward animals (i.e., Attitudes toward Animals questionnaire [ATA]; Fehlbaum, Waiblinger, & Turner, 2010; Turner, 2010) and compare these attitudes between two countries that are confronted with similar situations regarding stray animals (dogs and cats). ATA consists of 27 statements on nature conservation, wild animals, …

The Italian Agreement Between The Government And The Regional Authorities: National Guidelines For Aai And Institutional Context, Martina Simonato, Marta De Santis, Laura Contalbrigo, Daniele Benedetti, Elisabetta Finocchi Mahne, Vincenzo Ugo Santucci, Silvio Borrello, Luca Farina

People and Animals: The International Journal of Research and Practice

Animal-assisted interventions (AAI) have developed considerably in the last half century, prompting various private and public realities dealing with AAI worldwide to work on and establish standards and best practice. However, AAI are still far from being regulated harmoniously. In this context, Italy offers a unique example at world level: here the spread of AAI has set in motion an ethical and legal reflection that led to the creation of the Italian National Reference Centre for AAI (NRC AAI) by ministerial decree in 2009 and the approval of National Guidelines for AAI in 2015. The Italian legislation on AAI is …

A Laboratory Infection Of Alfalfa Weevil, Hypera Postica (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), Larvae With The Fungal Pathogen Zoophthora Phytonomi (Zygomycetes: Entomophthoraceae), S. J. Roberts, J. V. Maddox, E. J. Armbrust

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Larvae of the alfalfa weevil, Hypera postica, were infected by an in vitro colony of Zoophthora phytonomi. Two spore types (infective conidia, and resting spores) were produced from infection trials. The spore type produced may be influenced by the physiological state of the larvae. Trials using field collected larvae which would produce diapausing adults formed both conidia and resting spores. Trials using larvae from a nondiapausing colony, however, formed only resting spores.

Configuring An Application Based On Settings In Similar Applications, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

Generally, the present disclosure is directed to configuring settings in an application, such as an application on a device. In particular, in some implementations, the systems and methods of the present disclosure can include or otherwise leverage one or more machine-learned models to predict a value for a setting in an application based on values of one or more settings in one or more similar applications.

Generating A User-Specific Reduced Content Webpage, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

Generally, the present disclosure is directed to generating a user-specific reduced content webpage that is tailored for a user. In particular, in some implementations, the systems and methods of the present disclosure can include or otherwise leverage one or more machine-learned models to predict content on a webpage that is relevant to and/or irrelevant to a user based on the content of the webpage.

Context-Aware Switching Of Input Systems, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

Generally, the present disclosure is directed to switching between one or more input systems based on a context of a user. In particular, in some implementations, the systems and methods of the present disclosure can include or otherwise leverage one or more machine-learned models to predict one or more input systems to provide to a user based on context data relating to a context in which the one or more input systems are used.

Victory Through Organization: Why The War For Talent Is Failing Your Company And What You Can Do About It By Dave Ulrich, David Kryscynski, Mike Ulrich, Wayne Brockbank, M. Ganesh Sai, M. Ramakrishna Sayee

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

Authors Dave Ulrich, David Kryscynski, Wayne Brockbank and Mike Ulrich’s book released in 2017 — Victory Through Organization: Why the War for Talent is Failing Your Company and What You Can Do About It — offers tools business leaders and HR professionals need to better and more comprehensively respond to emerging opportunities as well as provide expert advice for building HR departments to deliver measurable business value. It helps build organization capabilities, strengthen systems, and empower human capital ― for sustainable success. This text both offers the reader a vast supply of updated ideas and insights on HR and underscores …

“I See You!” – The Zulu Insight To Caring Leadership, Cam Caldwell, Sylivia Atwijuka

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

Although the role of leaders in building relationships with team members has been well-established as a foundation for improved performance (Beer, 2009), the complex challenges in directing the modern organization in a highly competitive global marketplace often mean that leaders of organizations are more focused on tasks rather than people. Nonetheless, a growing body of research about the importance of leader-member relationships confirms that leaders who demonstrate a caring commitment to the welfare of organization members also create organizations that are more profitable, more innovative, and more effective at meeting customer needs (Cameron, 2003; Kouzes & Posner, 2012).

Values-Based Network Leadership In An Interconnected World, Andrew Stricker, Todd Westhauer, Travis Sheets, Toni Hawkins-Scribner, Cynthia Calongne, Barbara Truman

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

This paper describes values-based network leadership conceptually aligned to systems science, principles of networks, moral and ethical development, and connectivism. Values-based network leadership places importance on a leader's repertoire of skills for stewarding a culture of purpose and calling among distributed teams in a globally interconnected world. Values-based network leadership is applicable for any leader needing to align interdependent effort by networks of teams operating across virtual and physical environments to achieve a collective purpose. An open-learning ecosystem is also described to help leaders address the development of strengths associated with building trust and relationships across networks of teams, aligned …

Servant Leadership And Its Impact On Ethical Climate, Regan Dodd, Rebecca M. Achen, Angela Lumpkin

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

Many leaders in intercollegiate athletics are under attack due to an overemphasis on winning and revenue generation. In response, some have recommended a transition to a servant leadership approach because of its focus on the well-being of followers and ethical behaviors (Burton & Welty Peachey, 2013; Welty Peachey, Zhou, Damon, & Burton, 2015). The purpose of this study was to examine athletic directors’ potential demonstration of servant leadership and possible contribution to an ethical climate in NCAA Division III institutions. Participants were 326 athletic staff members from NCAA Division III institutions. Results indicated athletic staff members believed athletic directors displayed …

Transformational Leadership And Knowledge Management: Analysing The Knowledge Management Models, Mostafa Sayyadi Ghasabeh, Michael J. Provitera

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the mutual relationship between transformational leadership and knowledge management as well the potential effects of a transformational leader on his or her followers. In this paper, we review the role of transformational leadership in effective knowledge management and establish the emerging role of transformational leadership, as an ideal leadership style in building knowledge-based companies to achieve a higher degree of competitive advantage. The findings in this article are based upon previous empirical studies that illustrate the formulation of several propositions that contribute to the knowledge management processes. Our findings are based …

Five Reasons Why Crisis Communications Fails, Ross K. Goldberg

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

No abstract provided.

Winter/Spring 2018

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

No abstract provided.

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Intuition: The BYU Undergraduate Journal of Psychology

No abstract provided.

Getting The Internship

Intuition: The BYU Undergraduate Journal of Psychology

Internships can be a great opportunity to explore potential areas of interest, make meaningful connections, and gain experience in the workplace. However, even the market for internships can be competitive. Here we present some relevant questions answered by our community of internship hiring professionals from several organizations. These contributing organizations offer internship experiences in a variety of fields and range in location from on-campus to out-of-state. We’re confident that their insight will be an extremely valuable resource to psychology undergraduates and recent graduates hoping to take advantage of some unique opportunities in the internship world.

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Intuition: The BYU Undergraduate Journal of Psychology

No abstract provided.

Latter-Day Saint Religious Media And Perfectionsim

Intuition: The BYU Undergraduate Journal of Psychology

Links between exposure to religious media and perfectionism were investigated in 121 Latter-day Saint (LDS), Brigham Young University students. Random assignment was given to view an LDS religious video or no video, after which participants filled out a questionnaire assessing the effects of LDS media on perfectionism. The 35- item Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (FMPS) scored students’ perfectionism. Our hypothesis, that viewing an LDS religious video would increase adaptive perfectionism scores and decrease maladaptive scores, was not supported. However, a post-hoc analysis showed a significant interaction effect between gender and video exposure among single participants. Unmarried males had lower perfectionism …

Notetaking And Recall Of Auditory And Visual Information: A Pilot Study

Intuition: The BYU Undergraduate Journal of Psychology

Does notetaking affect performance on recall tests? Past research has generally found that notetaking improves performance, but all of these studies have focused on recall of auditory information. The current study was intended as a pilot study to examine the effect of notetaking method on both immediate and delayed recall, as well as both audio and visual recall. Eighteen undergraduate psychology students in the same psychology class at a major, private university watched a 5-minute video clip and then immediately completed a 29-question test. When tested 48 hours later, participants completed a similar 29-question test. Though no significant statistical results …

Ethical Sensitivity In The Academic Setting, Rebecca Friedman

NERA Conference Proceedings 2017

Character education programming is gaining popularity in America’s schools as one possible way to raise an intelligent and caring generation of students. However, many schools fail to allocate time, money, and resources to such initiatives. The present study examined the impact of an ethical sensitivity intervention in a religiously affiliated independent school. A self-report Likert scale and analytic rubric were used to measure development of different sub-skills of ethical sensitivity in fourth and fifth grade students (N = 25) before and after the intervention over a two-month period. Results suggest that degree of ethical sensitivity increased over the course of …

Location Of Writing Instruments Using Position Sensing Diodes In Stereo Configuration, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure relates to a position determination system and related method for accurately and rapidly capturing the position of an input device (e.g., a stylus). The position determination system can include an input device such as a writing instrument that includes a light emitting diode (LED) that can be detected by two or more position sensing diodes. The position sensing diodes (PSDs) can generate a bias voltage proportional to the position of a point (e.g., a brightest point) of light incident to the surface of the PSDs. As a result, based on the position of the LEDs relative to …

Method For Media Content Selection Based On Historical Presence Duration, Justin Lewis, Richard Rapp

Defensive Publications Series

A method is disclosed for media content selection based on historical presence duration. The method includes running a MapReduce model over ad visibility logs and building a key for each ad impression opportunity. For each key, a model is built that describes the visibility distribution over time. The MapReduce calculates the percentage of impressions that pass the visibility time threshold and stores it in a data store. At ad serving time the advertising service determines the minimum view-through rate time threshold for each candidate advertisement. The method then involves calculating the likelihood that the user will view the advertisement long …

Showcasing Student Art On Campus And In Local Community, Juan Siliezar

Featured News Story

Arts on Campus program provides professional venues for RWU community to exhibit and see creative work.

Commencement Exercises For Undergraduates And Graduates Set For Dec. 16, Winthrop University

Winthrop News 2017

• The speaker at the 11 a.m. ceremony will be Professor of English John Bird, Winthrop's 2017 Distinguished Professor.
• President Dan Mahony will preside at the event, where master’s or specialist degrees will be awarded to around 75 graduate degree candidates and undergraduate degrees to more than 250 candidates.
• Mahony also will present Psychology Professor Cheryl Fortner-Wood with the 2017 James Pinckney Kinard and Lee Wicker Kinard Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Minutes, Diversity Council Meeting, Tuesday, December 13, 2017, Diversity Council

Diversity Council

No abstract provided.