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Call To Claim Your Prize: Perceived Benefits And Risk Drive Intention To Comply In A Mass Marketing Scam., S Wood, P-J Liu, Y Hanoch, Pm Xi, L Klapatch

School of Psychology

Mass marketing scams extract an enormous toll, yet the literature on scams is just emerging. In Experiment 1, 211 adults reviewed a solicitation and rated their intention of contacting an "activation number" for a prize. Scarcity and authority were manipulated. Many (48.82%) indicated some willingness to contact to "activate" the winnings. Intention of responding was inversely related to the perception of risk (b = -.441, p < .001) and positively associated with perception of benefits (b = .554, p < .001), but not with the experimental condition. In Experiment 2, 291 adults were randomly assigned to one of the three conditions (low, medium, or high activation fee), and were asked to report willingness to contact. Activation fees decreased intent to contact, but percentages remained high (25.70%), with higher perception of risk reducing contact rates (b = -.581, p < .001), and benefit perception increasing intent to contact (b = .381, p < .001). Our studies indicate that consumers are responding to perceived risks and benefits in their decision-making, regardless of persuasion elements used by scammers. In summary, our studies find that consumers with lower levels of education and high perception of benefits are at increased risk for mass marketing scams. (PsycINFO Database Record

The Role Of Bilingual Interactional Contexts In Predicting Interindividual Variability In Executive Functions: A Latent Variable Analysis, Andree Hartanto

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

Despite a huge number of studies examining bilingual advantages in executive functions (EFs), the research findings with regards to the relations between bilingualism and EFs are mostly inconsistent and mixed. In order to shed light on these inconsistent findings, the current research aimed to tackle on both conceptual and methodological limitations that are prevalent in previous studies, namely: (a) failure to consider bilingual experiences in assessing bilingual advantages, and (b) task impurity due to substantial influence of non-EFs processes on EFs task performance. Based on Adaptive Control Hypothesis and Control Process Model of Code-switching, a theory-driven multisession study coupled with …

Making The Invisible Visible: Inviting Persons With Disabilities Into The Life Of The Church, Mary E. Carlson

College of Education Faculty Research and Publications

Christianity espouses the dignity of all humanity and professes welcome for all to the communion of saints. Yet people with disabilities, especially those with more severe or profound physical or psychological disabilities, are largely invisible inside our houses of worship. This article examines the meaning of dignity and inclusion through the lenses of Christian anthropology, disabilities liberation theology, and the lived experience of persons with disabilities. It concludes with some suggestions on how to begin inclusion.

Teacher Perceptions On The Use Of Technology With English Language Learners, Holly Harvil

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this transcendental phenomenological study was to understand general education teachers’ perceptions regarding their use of technology with students who qualify for English Language Learner services in an urban Georgia school district. The self-efficacy theory originated by Bandura was used to examine 17 teachers’ experiences of using technology as possible personal preference or as being influenced by environmental factors. The following three research questions were used: (1) How do teachers describe their use of technology in a classroom setting? (2) What are the participants’ understandings of instructional technology in relation to ELL students? (3) How do teachers of …

Missing: Where Are The Migrants In Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Plans?, Kolitha Wickramage, Lawrence O. Gostin, Eric A. Friedman, Phusit Prakongsai, Rapeepong Suphanchaimat, Charles Hui, Patrick Duigan, Eliana Barragan, David R. Harper

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Influenza pandemics are perennial global health security threats, with novel and seasonal influenza affecting a large proportion of the world’s population, causing enormous economic and social destruction. Novel viruses such as influenza A(H7N9) continue to emerge, posing zoonotic and potential pandemic threats. Many countries have developed pandemic influenza preparedness plans (PIPPs) aimed at guiding actions and investments to respond to such outbreak events.

Migrant and mobile population groups—such as migrant workers, cross-border frontier workers, refugees, asylum seekers, and other non-citizen categories residing within national boundaries—may be disproportionately affected in the event of health emergencies, with irregular/undocumented migrants experiencing even greater …

Exploring Christian Song (Book Review), Karen A. De Mol

Pro Rege

Reviewed Title: Exploring Christian Song edited by M. Jennifer Bloxam and Andrew Shenton. Lexington: Lexington Books, 2017. 238 pp. ISBN: 9781498549905.

Looking For Dawn (Book Review), Howard Schaap

Pro Rege

Reviewed Title: Looking for Dawn by James C. Schaap. Alton, Iowa: Floyd River Press, 2017. Amazon Digital Services LLC. ASIN: B078L72CDL. 349 pp.

Perceptions Of Education For Sustainable Development In Egypt: Prospective Changes In Teaching Practices, Hanan Salah Yusuf Abozaied

Theses and Dissertations

This study explores the perceptions of university faculty members about the concept of Sustainable Development (SD) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). It focuses on how their different perceptions influenced their teaching practices while addressing sustainability issues with students. The participants are 18 academics in the English department under the faculty of Arts and Humanities in a private university in Egypt. They teach two academic language courses in the advanced level for undergraduates in different disciplines. The study adopts a sociocultural theoretical framework. It uses a qualitative research design. A preliminary survey was conducted at the beginning of the semester …

Application Of Standardized Project Management Practices In Egyptian Non-Profit Organizations: Two Case Studies, Mostafa Adel

Theses and Dissertations

A standardized project management approach across the entire organization is one of the business models adopted by non-profits that contributes to a more efficient and effective project delivery and achieving the organizations’ goals and objectives. Lack of a standardized project management approach might result in project failure and losing the skills and knowledge gained from previous projects, which significantly harms the organizational efforts to have institutional memory that allows implementing these skills and knowledge in future projects. A project management office is the key to mainstream the standardized project management methodology across non-profits. This research aims at investigating the impacts …

Innovations In Self-Consciousness. Towards Oneness With The World, Soon-Ok Myong, Byong-Soon Chun

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In their article "Innovations in Self-Consciousness. Towards Oneness with the World" Soon-ok Myong and Byong-soon Chun examine the limitations and vulnerabilities of modern civilization. Asia is a multiethnic, multilingual and multicultural territory of over 40 countries and more than 4.4 billion people, that is, almost half of the population of the world. The One Asia community seeks to question a world made up of strong egos that make up businesses, organization and nations, and embrace communal goals, helping Asia and the world to become 'one community.' Thus, the paper suggests ways of self-innovation through forms of transitional consciousness. Although the …

Dayak Lundayeh: A Report From The Border, Luqman Hakim Zainuri

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his paper "Dayak Lundayeh: A Report from the Border" Luqman H. Zainuri explores the vulnerabilities and potential of national disintegration coming from indigenous communities in Indonesia. In particular, the paper focuses on one of the communities which has been largely ignored, the Dayak people, who have played an important role in the border between Indonesia and Malaysia in Borneo Island. The Dayak indigenous people which inhabit this highland plateau are known as the Lun Bawang, on the Malaysian side, and the Lun Dayeh (or Lundayeh) in the Indonesian side. Both groups are linguistically and culturally the same. This paper …

Howwa Wheyya: Performance And Gendered Style In The Egyptian Caricature "The Piece Of Paper", Hasnaa Essam

Theses and Dissertations

This qualitative study explores linguistic styles and mis/communication as they relate to gendered performance in the context of Egyptian caricature. Within this context, seventy-four illustrations from The Piece of Paper by Gawish (2015) are subjected to discourse analysis. This type of caricature, as an example of performed speech, represents the perceptions of a group of Egyptian men, the cartoonist and his team, in depicting gendered daily-life interactions. The study investigates styles to examine the linguistic choices based on social groups such as women and men (Eckert and Rickford 2002: 26), and it explores gendered similarities as well as differences. The …

Exploring Egyptian Efl Teachers’ Perceptions Of Teacher Leadership, Amira Salama

Theses and Dissertations

The current study is an attempt to understand how the Egyptian English as-a-foreign-language (EFL) teachers perceive the concept of teacher leadership, a topic that has not received considerable attention in the educational leadership literature in this context. Teacher leadership is regarded as an important practice for school reform. In Egypt, language teachers struggle to find their own voices and meet the challenges of the job inside and outside the classroom. Attempts at school and education reform often disregard teachers’ understanding and application of new policies. This may result in the failure of these attempts since teachers are well-versed in school …

The Role Of News Media In Framing Anti-Coptic Attacks And Muslim-Coptic Relations In Egypt: A Frame Analysis, Esraa Fayez Mahfouz

Theses and Dissertations

This study aims at examining the different frames used by the governmental newspaper “Al Ahram” and the independent newspaper “Al Masry Elyoum” in covering anti-Coptic attacks in Egypt from 2011 till 2017, under two different ruling regimes. The researcher conducted a content analysis of 553 news stories that were published a week after each attack. The researcher aimed at exploring the different frames used by each newspaper, whether those frames have varied along the different ruling periods, or across different newspaper ownership. The study has also examined the frame context used by newspapers to frame the attacks and the dominant …

Nasser And Park: Development, State Building, And Elite Consolidation, David Wooil Choi

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines the relationship between elites and development and state building. It looks at how elite consolidation does or does not affect development and state building. It does this in the context of the cases of Egypt under Gamal Abdal Nasser and Korea under Park Chunghee. The thesis initially puts forward the argument that Korea's advantages from the colonial era set the basis for later development and state building, and paved the way for elite consolidation into the 1960s. However, the thesis ultimately finds that while Korea may have had some advantages from the colonial era that helped in …

Code-Switching Between Cairene Mothers And Their Children In Public: A Study In Language Attitudes, Gihan Hamdi Hussein

Theses and Dissertations

This study investigates the reasons causing a rising number of Cairene mothers to code-switch into English when they speak to their children in public. Further exploration of the mothers’ attitude towards their children’s nascent bilingualism is pursued along with an attempt to identify the mothers’ perspectives on the phenomenon in question when manifested by other parents in their community. To this end, the researcher implemented a mixed methodological approach for data collection starting with a snowball sampling strategy for distribution of a questionnaire, and culminating with a number of follow-up semi-structured interviews of a selected group from the questionnaire participants. …

Can Social Media Networks Like Facebook And Twitter Influence The Agenda-Setting Of Traditional Media? Two Case Studies From Egypt., Salma Ibrahim Oda

Theses and Dissertations

This research aims to examine if social media content that is widely shared or commented on can influence the agenda of traditional media on women issues namely the sexual harassment and undocumented marriages, to what extent and whether or not the same framing applies when the discussion moves from traditional media to social media. The topics chosen were related to sexual harassment and undocumented marriages which are two crucial, sensitive topics for Egyptian women. Three traditional media outlets were purposefully selected for this study channels. Interviews with the producers of the primetime TV showswere also conducted to assess how and …

Cyber-Feminism And Facebook: A Comparative Study Of Arab Women's Organization Activity In Tunisia, Lebanon, And Egypt, Amira Abdlgalil

Theses and Dissertations

“[The Internet] encourages each of us to communicate and connect—not only with women who seem like us, but with those who are unfamiliar. And, in the process of opening our eyes, minds, and hearts to new horizons, we can help shape a future of understanding, acceptance, and peace” (Queen Rania of Jordan, 2007) (Wheeler, 2008). Displaying women’s current access to social media platforms such as Facebook, the study employs a comparative study on a number of Women’s Rights organizations in diverse Arab countries from the Middle East and North Africa (Egypt, Lebanon, and Tunisia) by identifying, monitoring and focusing on …

Crossing Of English- Speaking Expatriates Into Galician On Facebook And How Their Stance Taking Indexes Their Identity, Patricia Mrozek

Theses and Dissertations

This study examines the use of linguistic resources to take both affective and epistemic stances by English speaking expatriates currently or previously residing in the autonomous community of Galicia. In turn, I consider what those stances index about the identity of the speakers. The historical background outlines how the Galician code came to become stigmatized. As a stigmatized code, one linguistic resource of particular interest to this study is crossing as defined by Rampton (1999, 2009). Crossing and other linguistic resources used such as metalinguistic talk, become to carry indexes through repeated stance-taking moves. Dubois' (2007) stance triangle is the …

The Muslim Wives' Share In The Matrimonial Wealth: Between Theory And Practice, Yomna Amr Shaffei

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis aims at responding to the problem of not monetizing women’s labor in the household through the financial Islamic right of al-Kadd wa al-Se’aya which acknowledges that women are economic partners in the matrimonial wealth in exchange to their labor. The right of al-Kadd wa al-Se’aya has its roots in the Qur’anic in verse 32 in Surat al-Nisaa’ which in one of its interpretations links labor to financial compensation, in the same manner as did Ibn Khaldun, Karl Marx, John Locke and Adam Smith. Furthermore, the thesis attempts to illustrate that the right of al-Kadd wa al-Se’aya was debated …

Teachers' Attitudes Toward Including Children With Special Educational Needs In Private Schools In Egypt, Asar Ismail Youssef

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to explore the attitudes of general education teachers toward educating special needs students in inclusive classrooms in Egyptian private schools. It seeks to investigate the factors that might affect their views and attitudes towards inclusive education. In addition, it suggests some recommendations for having a successful inclusive system in Egypt. The study was conducted in three private schools in Cairo. The participants were ten general education teachers who were chosen based on their involvement in inclusive practices or teaching special needs students in their classrooms. The methodology utilized was the qualitative approach through conducting …

Explicit Corrective Feedback And Gestures In Pronunciation Instruction: Effects On Egyptian Esl Learners' Oral Accuracy, Omnia Fouad El Kholy

Theses and Dissertations

The present study investigated the effectiveness of using explicit corrective feedback (CF) and gestures in pronunciation instruction on the accuracy of both the interdental fricatives (voiced and voiceless) sounds: /θ/ pronounced as /s/, /ð/ pronounced as /z/, and the bilabial stop /p/ pronounced as /b/, which are problematic for Egyptian adult ESL learners. The study investigated the pronunciation of 47 male and female adult non-native speakers of English between the ages of 18 and 35 learning English in the general English program of a private institution affiliated with one of the major universities in Egypt. The students were recruited based …

A Performer’S Guide To Poema De Sete Faces, Song Cycle By Jeffrey Perry, Paulo Henrique Campos Silva

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The American composer Jeffrey Perry composed the song cycle Poema de sete faces (Poem of seven faces), for tenor or soprano and piano, based on the poem of the same name by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, one of the greatest Brazilian modernist poets of the 20th century. Both Drummond’s poem and Perry’s music were written to be open to multiple interpretations. Together, the possibilities for their interpretation are even broader. This dissertation discusses the art that emerges at the intersection of the poem and the music from the perspective of the singer. I present a biography and an overview of …

Confidentiality, Anonymity And Amnesty For Midwives In Distress Seeking Online Support – Ethical?, S Pezaro, W Clyne, C Gerada

Peninsula Medical School

Background: Midwife health is intrinsically linked to the quality of safe patient care. To ensure safe patient care, there is a need to deliver emotional support to midwives. One option that midwives may turn to may be a confidential online intervention, instead of localised, face-to-face support. Research design: Following the Realist And MEta-narrative Evidence Syntheses: Evolving Standards publication standards, this realist synthesis approach explores the ethical considerations in permitting confidentiality, anonymity and amnesty in online interventions to support midwives in work-related psychological distress. An iterative search methodology was used to select nine papers for review. To assimilate information, papers were …

الترجمة في المصطلحات الثقافية المحلية: دراسة تقابلية, توباغوس خيرو نوراما

Al-Arabi: Journal of Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language

هذه الدراسة تحت الموضوع “الترجمة في المصطلحات الثقافية المحلية: دراسة تقابلية.”والغرض من هذه الدراسة هو وصف الطرق والاسالب لترجمة المصطلحات الثقافية المحلية السونداوية الى اللغة العربية وخاصة في الفولكلورات. وللحصول على تحليل دقيق لنتائج هذه الدراسة فهنا ثلاث خطوات. الأولى، الجمع البيانات بالأسلوب الإستماع والرجوع إلى المذكرة. والثانية، تحليل البيانات باستخدام التقنيات التقابلي بالأسلوب الوصفي و المقارن. والنظرية المستخدمة في التحليل هي انتقائية، والجمع بين نظرية الخبراء المتعددة في و جهة نظرة معينة. والثالثة، الطريقة العرضية لنتائج تحليل البيانات من خلال التقنيات والتفسيرات الرسمية وغير الرسمية في الوصف صياغة الكلمات العادية. تناولت هذه الدراسة طرقتين نواعين في الترجمة الثقافية المحلية. …

تعليم اللغة العربية بمعهد دارالسلام كونتور الخامس للبنات على ضوء النظرية التوليدية التحويلية, يحيا كوثر

Al-Arabi: Journal of Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language

أحد المذاهب الأصيل عن اللغة وجدها أحد علماء اللغة من جزيرة أمريكا وهي النظرية التوليدية التحويلية. وأن التعليم لاكتساب اللغة العربية عامة تنفذ بمجرد اعطاء المواد اللغوية، والتكرار، والتفريق بين نظام لغوي بنظام لغوي آخر. أن تشومسكي يقدم تصورات معرفية جديدة تمتاز بنقدها للمنهج السلوكي الذي تأسس على الأفراض الخارجي والسطحي للغة. والنظرية التوليدية التحويلية تقسم المهارة اللغوية إلى قسمين، هما الكفاية والأداء. ويستعمل معهد دارالسلام كونتور الخامس للبنات الطريقة المباشرة عند تنفيذ تعليم اللغة العربية، ولكن في تنفيذها مازال متحيرا في استعمال نظريتين أساسيتين، حتي تختلط النظرية البنيوية والنظرية التوليدية التحويلية. فأراد الباحث أن يوصفها إلى أي مدى استخدام …

مشكلات تعلّم مهارة الكلام والحلول عليها لدى طلبة الفصل الدراسي الثالث بقسم الأدب العربي جامعة مالانج الحكومية: دراسة تحليلية وصفية., رزانيا فطري فيردايانتي, ليلي مزية

Al-Arabi: Journal of Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language

و يهدف هذا البحث إلى وصف مشكلات طلبة الفصل الدراسي الثالث في تعلّم مهارة الكلام بالنظر إلى: (1) العوامل الداخلية والحلول عليها. (2) العوامل الخارجية والحلول عليها. (3) العوامل اللغوية والحلول عليها. و المنهج لهذا البحث المنهج الوصفي الكيفي. نتائج البحث هي أن الطلبة في الفصل الدراسي الثالث لديهم المشكلات في تعلّم مهارة الكلام وكذلك الحلول عليها وهي: بالنظر إلى العوامل الداخلية توجد ثلاث مشكلات والحلول عليها وهي في عوامل الذكاء وعوامل التدريب وعوامل التشجيع، و هناك ثلاث مشكلات والحلول عليها في العوامل الخارجية وهي في عوامل الأسرة أو شؤونها والعوامل الاجتماعية والثقافية و عوامل البيئة الاجتماعية، و توجد مشكلاتان …

Resilience And Complicated Grief, Les Bishop

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

This study surveyed 155 family members or caregivers of patients who had died between twelve and thirty months prior to this study. These patients had been on hospice at the time of their death. The purpose of the study was to assess the prevalence of hospice defined risk factors for complicated grief. Medical records provided patient demographics information and a verbal (telephone) survey was used to measure the following risk factors: lack of social support, lack of expression of faith, lack of adequate coping skills, multiple losses, substance use, and relationship to the person who died. Descriptive statistics were used …

Effects Of Emotional Content On Working Memory Updating: Proactive Interference And Resolution, Maria Guadalupe Corona

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The working memory (WM) system refers to the structures and processes supporting the encoding, maintenance, manipulation, and retrieval of information to be used for goal-directed behavior. Proactive interference (PI) is often experienced when information to be processed shares physical properties with information that is no longer relevant. The working memory system may then process such information less efficiently (i.e., slower processing time) and less accurately, and control processes involved in interference resolution become triggered in order to maintain performance. The current study investigated the effects of emotional content on interference resolution by using a working memory updating paradigm. Specifically, an …

Art And Mental Disturbance, Benjamin, Elliot

Journal of Conscious Evolution

This article presents a perspective on psychology that relates directly to Abraham Maslow’s focus upon studying the highest levels of human functioning, but is geared specifically toward a psychological study of what I refer to as the “successful creative artist” and the relationship between art and mental disturbance. The focus is upon what I consider to be “natural” as opposed to “normal,” i.e. individual self-motivated creative expressions vs. widespread socially approved norms and expectations. Along the lines of Thomas Szasz and R.D. Laing, what is referred to as “mental illness” is viewed from a non-judgmental perspective, but with the distinctive …