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Exploring Predictors Of Women's Political Representation In Sub-Saharan Africa, Brynne Townley

Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies

No abstract provided.

First-Generation Students And Libraries: Beyond The Deficit Narrative, Anne Jumonville Graf

Library Faculty Research

Much has been made of the challenges first-generation (FG) students face as they begin their college experience; graduation and retention rates are lower than for other students,¹ anxiety about the adjustment to college life is higher,² and studies of their experiences and performance in the first year reinforce a narrative of struggle, obstacles, and barriers.^3,4 Colleges and universities have responded to these findings by offering additional support and programming specifically for FG students. These efforts can be read in two ways. On one hand, they suggest that institutions of higher education are increasingly aware of the diverse …

Binary Governance: Lessons From The Gdpr’S Approach To Algorithmic Accountability, Margot E. Kaminski

Publications

Algorithms are now used to make significant decisions about individuals, from credit determinations to hiring and firing. But they are largely unregulated under U.S. law. A quickly growing literature has split on how to address algorithmic decision-making, with individual rights and accountability to nonexpert stakeholders and to the public at the crux of the debate. In this Article, I make the case for why both individual rights and public- and stakeholder-facing accountability are not just goods in and of themselves but crucial components of effective governance. Only individual rights can fully address dignitary and justificatory concerns behind calls for regulating …

Keynote: The Protection Of Lgbt Youth, Craig Konnoth

Publications

This keynote contains three parts. Part I addresses the intersection of two metaphors: medicine and childhood in LGBT Rights. Part II addresses the state regulation of LGBT youth. Part III offers Professor Konnoth's concluding remarks on the protection of LGBT youth.

End Matter

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

No abstract provided.

Market Value Analysis Of Takashi Murakami's Artwork Under Howard Becker's Theory, Liu Yi-Ding

MA Theses

This paper is an analysis about the artist Takashi Murakami. As a representative of the corporate artist, he is favored by the Art business world while being criticized by many people. This paper adopts American sociologist Howard Becker's art world theory as a research tool to observe that the construction of Murakami and his art market is not the growth of genius, but the result of collective cooperation. Based on two decades of data on the art trade, Murakami has made his unique brand of ultra-flat theory and otaku work. These labels, along with internalization and external marketing, eventually gave …

Understanding Racial Inequity In School Discipline Across The Richmond Region, Genevieve Siegel-Hawley, Adai Tefera, David Naff, Ashlee Lester, Jesse Senechal, Rachel Levy, Virginia Palencia, Mitchell Parry, Morgan Debusk-Lane

MERC Publications

This report comes from the MERC Achieving Racial Equity in School Disciplinary Policies and Practices study. Launched in the spring of 2015, the purpose of this mixed- method study was to understand the factors related to disproportionate school discipline outcomes in MERC division schools. The study had two phases. Phase one (quantitative) used primary and secondary data to explore racial disparities in school discipline in the MERC region as well as discipline programs schools use to address them. Phase two (qualitative) explored the implementation of discipline programs in three MERC region schools, as well as educator and student perceptions …

Converting The Saints: A Study Of Religious Rivalry In America By Charles Randall Paul, Ronald E. Bartholomew

BYU Studies

Charles Randall Paul, the founder and president of the Foundation of Religious Diplomacy, has established himself in the academy as an expert in religion and philosophy on engaging differences. Paul’s book Converting the Saints looks at religious conflict by analyzing encounters between early-twentieth-century Protestants and Latter-day Saints. During this time, Protestants served several missions to Utah in an attempt to convert Latter-day Saints back to mainstream Christianity. Paul looks at the conflicts that inevitably arose between the two religious traditions and through his analysis proposes a new theory of conflict engagement that turns destructive conflict into constructive, peaceful engagement. In …

How Dead Cats, Your Siblings, Eighteenth-Century English Clergy, Making Lists, Ted Talks, Evolutionary Biology, Susa Young Gates, And My Mom Can Save The World From Being Utterly Wasted, Amy Harris

BYU Studies

I’m going to tell you two stories today; a short one about dead cats and a long one about dead people.

Effects Of Personal Styling On Constituents’ Perceptions Of Candidates, Cassidy D. Ktsanes

Senior Independent Study Theses

This study aims to measure the extent to which personal styling and gender presentation has on public perceptions of candidates. The hypotheses in this study were that masculine styling leads to more positive trait evaluations which in turn leads to a higher number of votes and more conservative rankings—this all, however, was assumed to be conditional on the sex of candidate. This is due to gendered expectations that derive from the gender binary. The overall findings of this study cannot reject the null hypothesis. This study found that: as masculine styling increases perceptions of competence and compassion significantly decrease, as …

Why We Publish Where We Do: Faculty Publishing Values And Their Relationship To Review, Promotion And Tenure Expectations, Meredith T. Niles, Lesley A. Schimanski, Erin Christy Mckiernan, Juan P. Alperin

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

Using an online survey of academics at 55 randomly selected institutions across the US and Canada, we explore priorities for publishing decisions and their perceived importance within review, promotion, and tenure (RPT). We find that respondents most value journal readership, while they believe their peers most value prestige and related metrics such as impact factor when submitting their work for publication. Respondents indicated that total number of publications, number of publications per year, and journal name recognition were the most valued factors in RPT. Older and tenured respondents (most likely to serve on RPT committees) were less likely to value …

Fractional Authorship & Publication Productivity, Kate Gasson, Rachel Herbert, Alex Ponsford

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

Authors divide their research output across publications, contributing via research collaborations

The trend is for authors to produce more publications per year (increased fractionalization) but for the overall number of publications per author to decrease

We suggest that the effort required to participate in research collaborations is a factor in the decrease in publications per author

Are authors collaborating more in response to the pressure to publish?

Growth in the number of scholarly publications each year has been well documented (e.g., Bornmann & Mutz, 2015, Figure 1). But how has that growth been achieved? Is it purely due to increasing …

The Home And Child-Care: Are Preschoolaged Children Getting Mixed Food-Related Messages?, Noereem Zenaida Mena

Open Access Dissertations

Statement of the Problem: In the United States, nearly 14% of preschool-aged children (ages 2 to 5) are obese. Additionally, disparities persist, with the highest prevalence of obesity among Hispanic preschool-aged children (17% vs. 11% non-Hispanic Black and 3.5% non- Hispanic White preschool-aged children). Establishing healthy eating habits in early childhood is critical and providing children with similar opportunities to practice healthy eating habits independently at home and in child care is thought to reinforce the development of healthy eating habits early in life. However, there is limited information regarding how parents and childcare providers communicate about child-nutrition, including …

Mindfulness In Legal Ethics And Professionalism, Peter H. Huang

Publications

Mindfulness involves paying attention with curiosity in an intentional, open, and compassionate way to life as it unfolds moment to moment. Law students, lawyers, law professors, legal clients, and indeed all people can improve their lives through mindfulness. Mindfulness can lead to individual benefits and personal transformation. Mindfulness can also lead to societal benefits and social change. This invited symposium contribution exemplifies how mindfulness can facilitate the positive personal and professional development of law students by presenting excerpts of law students’ answers discussing mindfulness to questions from the final examination of the course: Legal Ethics and Professionalism. Notably, none of …

The Need For Speed: How Quickly Do Preprints Become Published Articles?, Rachel Herbert, Kate Gasson, Alex Ponsford

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bioRxiv’s option for authors to submit biology preprints directly to journals typically speeds up publication of articles by nearly 2 weeks—an advantage for authors who are keen to get their work published quickly

Authors approach ‘preprinting’ in different ways: while most post a preprint before submitting to a journal, just over a third of preprints were submitted to and accepted by a journal before the preprint appeared on bioRxiv

Biology preprints with just one version are published 2 weeks more quickly than those with multiple versions

Grinnell Science Project: Motivating First Year Students To Persist In Scientific Inquiry, Kevin R. Engel, Rebecca Ciota, Elizabeth Rodrigues

Publications

No abstract provided.

Vocal Emotion Corpus Data, Logan Kowallis

ScholarsArchive Data

This corpus contains over 50 hours of voice acted readings as part of a dissertation project. These recordings represent one of four emotions or the subject's normal speaking voice. The four emotions acted are: anger, fear, happiness, and sadness. These recordings can be useful for building a simple emotion recognition model. Data were collected from BYU students in 2019. Supporting documents designed for people wanting replicate this project are included in Documents.zip. For more information about these files, read the README file.

All audio files are encoded as 44.1 kHz .wav mono audio. Each subject read the 50-word script multiple …

Attributes Of Perceived Values Towards Coffee Shop Industry In Bangkok, Orapin Siprajim

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Coffee shop or café is referred to the place where it offers coffee or drinks and some space for customers to sit and relax. It becomes the most visited place for the modern lifestyles. Coffee shops can be found easily in cities, especially Bangkok, Thailand. There are both local individual coffee houses and chained coffee brands in the market, people can choose to visit either of which or both of them. The rapid growth of coffee industry in Bangkok is affecting how each brand could compete with its rival in the market. Customers are the key driver for the business …

How Does The Marketing Communication Mix Of 7-11 Affect The Customer Purchasing?, Sivakorn Tachasrisukko

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

The present study aims to assess the effect of integrated marketing communication (IMC) of 7-11 in Thailand to Thai customer purchasing, describe what factors consumers take into account in when making decisions when they purchase the 7-11 products and explain how IMC effects to the consumer decision especially sales promotion and personal selling. The lifestyle of people has changed nowadays, some people do not have much time to purchase so the convenience store becomes popular because it is easy to find the products and the service is fast. Due to the fact that 7-11 in Thailand is the most popular …

Does The Credibility Of An Influencer Affect Buying Intention Of Youtube Users And Is There A Difference In Perception Of An Influencer's Credibility And On Their Buying Intention Regarding Gender Characteristics, Anthony Kim Long Hoang

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

YouTube platform has been rising in popularity for the past decade, we have seen the emergence of numerous influencers on the platform. With over 2 billion monthly active users in 2020, according to Statista research institute, YouTube represent an opportunity for brand marketer who would like to promote their products or services to a large audience. First, this study aims to determinate the effect perceived influencer’s credibility of an influencer on YouTube might have on the viewer’s buying intention of the advertised product. Then secondly, to determine which aspect of credibility (attractiveness, expertise, or trustworthiness) has the greater influence on …

Does Social Media Trend Affect People Decision To Eat Out?, Chanonpol Chanuhacha

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

New era of marketing using social media as a promotional platform provides many advantages, for example the ability to communicate between producers and consumers while traditional marketing only promotes directional communication, companies only convey the message they want, without getting feedback and opinions directly from consumers. This research will explore what factors are related to the use of social media as a promotional tool and how far these factors influence dining behavior in restaurants. A quantitative survey was conducted to measure the effect of social media’s advertising, customers’ attitudes, customer experience on the decision to eat out at restaurants among …

Caffe Muanchon Marketing Mix And Consumer's Purchasing Decision, Nisapa Kulnarernatwanich

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Nowadays, the coffee shop business market has consecutively high competition, in terms of consumers that have various coffee brands to consume and also in terms of owners that have more competitors. CPALL is one of the biggest companies in Thailand that demands market value of coffee shops. There are 7 coffee brands under the CPALL including Caffe MuanChon. In consequence, the purpose of this study is to examine the factors that affect consumer’s decision to purchase Caffe MuanChon. First is 7Ps marketing mix especially product and price and second is demographic factors which are gender, age, income (per month), education …

Health-Conscious Working People And 7-11 Ready Meal, Kemika Sricharoenwong

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Thailand’s urbanization and westernization, especially in Bangkok metropolitan has led into an alteration in dietary practices which relies more on convenience. Ready meal boxes from convenience store such as 7-eleven has increasingly gained popularity. Still, a disproportionate nutrition of Ready meal boxes seems to be contradictory with an increasing trend on health such as healthy food. This research paper explores whether health consciousness in terms of diet has an effect on working people’s decision to purchase 7-eleven ready meal boxes or not. Quantitive approach was employed where the data was obtained through online survey from 18 to 25 June, 2020. …

The Roles Of Animals And Plants In Linda Hogan's Solar Storms, Thammika Sawaengsri

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This paper aims to examine the role of animals and plants in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms (1995). It investigates how the lives of animals and plants have been intertwined with the Native Americans in their plight and struggle against the whites’ colonization from the pre-Columbian time to the present. It examines Hogan’s unique characterization of animals and plants. This paper argues that Hogan portrays as sentient agents with mysterious, transgressive, and creative qualities that are incomprehensible to human beings. Furthermore, the paper also discusses the non-humans’ roles in shaping the identity and history of the indigenous characters. In addition, the …

A Study Of Online Self-Regulation On English Proficiency Among Chinese Efl Undergraduate Students, Yong Yang

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This study aimed to 1) explore the online self-regulation used by Chinese EFL students, and 2) investigate the correlation between students’ online self-regulation and their English proficiency. Participants included 101 Chinese undergraduate students enrolled in an English test prep online course at a university in southwestern China. The research instruments consisted of the Online Self-regulated Learning Questionnaire (OSLQ) and National College English Test Band 4 (CET-4). The data were analyzed through descriptive statistics and Pearson correlation coefficient. The results revealed that 1) the participants had a moderate level of using online self-regulatory skills with the highest level for 'Environment Structuring' …

An Analysis Of A Digital Game As Resource Of Autonomous English Language Learning, Panich Wongkhwansane

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

The research aims to analyze an online digital game features and investigate students’ perceptions toward the game; whether or not they think the game is a context where the opportunities of English language learning and practicing could be provided. Five main game features were analyzed based on the games’ characteristics promoting language learning. In addition, in order to investigate the students’ perceptions, three participants were interviewed as a group. The data were collected through the semi-structured and individual follow-up interview, and analyzed using qualitative approach. The findings indicated that, provided int the game, there are five major features which could …

Exploring Critical Reading In The English Textbooks For Thai Students, Mintra Suratha

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

The study aims to explore components of critical reading skills in which support the development of critical reading ability in textbooks used by Thai students. 14 textbooks were gathered and used in this research. The instrument used was core critical reading skills checklist for upper secondary school English textbooks. Content analysis and descriptive statistics were employed to analyze result derived from the checklist. The result showed that textbook sample composed of different degrees of critical reading components. Some skills can be found in almost every textbook, while some skills can hardly be found. Moreover, the order of skills presented in …

The Relationship Between The ‘Banality Of Evil’ And The Nuremberg Trials, Ananya Charoenwong

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Nazi Germany gave the history of human the dark period from their crimes against humanity, the Holocaust, in which 6 million Jews were murdered. To provide justice for victims after Nazi Germany’s defeat in World War II, Nazi officials were brought to the International Courts of Justice (ICJ), such as the Nuremberg Trials, which lasted from 1945 to 1946, and the Eichmann Trial in 1961. The Eichmann trial provided a fertile ground for the concept called the Banality of Evil developed by Hannah Arendt. The concept shows that one’s inability to think and blind obedience to duty can lead to …

The Effect Of Petroleum And Petrochemical Prices On Abnormal Return And Firm Profitability, Chansiri Pruksaphong

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This paper extends the understanding of an impact of oil prices on stock market and financial performance of oil and gas firms over the past decade. Firstly, this paper investigates the impact of crude oil, petroleum and petrochemical prices on accounting measures of firm performance using a sample of refinery and petrochemical firms in Thailand. Secondly, it examines whether these commodity prices are an essential factors in explaining abnormal returns. The findings show that the price of crude oil and petrochemicals positively and significantly affect firm profitability performance as represented by Gross Integrated Margin (GIM), return on equity (ROE), and …

The Flow-Performance Relationship Of Etfs In International Market, Thaweeporn Krailaksanawarapar

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This paper uses sample from 15 countries from different regions around the world to examine how past performance of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) impact on their fund flow in the following period. Piecewise-linear regression following (Sirri & Tufano, 1998) which allow past performance to be non-linear are employed in the model to examine the different sensitivity of past performance ranking to flow. The evidence confirms that past bad-performing ETFs associate with outflow and past good-performing ETFs associate with inflow in the following period. Furthermore, I also find that investors are more sensitive to bad performers than good performers suggesting that there …