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Cultural Influence And The Effective Use Of Security Awareness In Congolese Organizations, Arnold Nzailu, Insu Park

Research & Publications

In today’s global economy, there is a growing need to apply technological advancements as well as training and awareness materials from western countries on information security programs in developing nations. To understand the underlying drivers of employees’ effective use behaviors in relation to security awareness programs in organizations, this study examines the extrinsic and intrinsic motivation factors that influence employees located in developing nations. The results indicate that influencing employees’ attitudes toward security is a better predictor of employees’ effective use of security awareness programs than their intention to comply. Cultural effects has also proven to have an influence on …

Metacognitive Monitoring In Test-Taking Situations: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Of College Students, Mariana V.C. Coutinho, Elena Papanastasiou, Stylianou Agni, John M. Vasko, Justin J. Couchman

All Works

© 2020, Eskisehir Osmangazi University. In this study, we examined monitoring accuracy during in class-exams for Emirati, American and Cypriot college students. In experiment 1, 120 students made local, confidence-ratings for each multiple-choice question in a psychology exam and also estimated their performance at the end of the exam. In experiment 2, to investigate the effect of practice in monitoring accuracy, 69 students made confidence judgments in two consecutive exams. In Experiment 3, to evaluate whether rating one's confidence aids exam performance, 172 students completed the exam either with or without providing confidence judgments. In all three cultures, confidence judgments …

Economic Sanctions & Political Unrest: Cuba And Iran, Bailey Nicole Sellers

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This study observes the relationship between economic sanctions and civil unrest. Through a comparative lens, this paper assesses two case studies: Iran and Cuba and attempts to explain why Iran experiences high frequencies of protests in comparison to Cuba.

Development Of An Integrated Microfluidic System For Cell Sorting And Trapping—Considering Sorting Efficacy And Cell Viability, Thammawit Suwannaphan

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This study is divided into two phases. The first phase is about the investigation of cell viability and damage of white blood cells after sorting in both a spiral microchannel and contraction and expansion array (CEA) at appropriate flow rates for cell separation. Three techniques such as Trypan Blue staining, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Wright-Giemsa staining are employed in the experiments. After flowing the sample through a whole setup of spiral microchannel at 2 ml/min, 85% of cells are viable while 30% of cells are significantly deformed and 2% of cells are seriously damaged in their intracellular structures. In …

การสำรวจปัญหาและแนวทางพัฒนานโยบายเพื่อส่งเสริมคุณภาพชีวิตของแรงงานในอุตสาหกรรมภาพยนตร์ไทย, ณัฐนันท์ เทียมเมฆ

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อ 1) สำรวจปัญหาที่ส่งผลกระทบต่อคุณภาพชีวิตแรงงานในอุตสาหกรรมภาพยนตร์ไทย และ 2) นำเสนอแนวทางพัฒนานโยบายเพื่อส่งเสริมคุณภาพชีวิตของแรงงานในอุตสาหกรรมภาพยนตร์ไทย งานวิจัยนี้เป็นงานวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพ ใช้การวิจัยเอกสาร ร่วมกับการสัมภาษณ์เชิงลึก กลุ่มผู้ผลักดันนโยบายและแรงงานในกองถ่ายทำภาพยนตร์ประเภททีมงานใต้เส้น เป็นเครื่องมือในการเก็บรวบรวมข้อมูล โดยผู้วิจัยได้ประยุกต์ใช้แนวคิดเรื่ององค์ประกอบคุณภาพชีวิต 4 ด้าน มาเป็นกรอบในการศึกษาปัญหา ได้แก่ ร่างกาย จิตใจ ความสัมพันธ์ทางสังคม และสิ่งแวดล้อม ผลการวิจัยพบว่า แรงงานเผชิญกับปัญหาที่ส่งผลกระทบต่อคุณภาพชีวิตทั้ง 4 ด้าน โดยปัญหาที่มีความสำคัญที่สุดคือ ปัญหาสุขภาพและการพักผ่อน ปัญหาอุบัติเหตุในการทำงาน ปัญหาที่เกิดจากสภาวะทางจิตใจและอารมณ์ เป็นต้น โดยผู้วิจัยหยิบยกปัญหาที่มีความสำคัญเหล่านี้มานำเสนอเป็นแนวทางพัฒนานโยบายเพื่อส่งเสริมคุณภาพชีวิตของแรงงานในอุตสาหกรรมภาพยนตร์ไทย ในรูปแบบข้อเสนอแนะต่อ ยุทธศาสตร์การส่งเสริมอุตสาหกรรมภาพยนตร์และวีดิทัศน์ ประกอบไปด้วยแนวทาง ส่งเสริมมาตรฐานความปลอดภัย คุ้มครองชั่วโมงการทำงานที่เป็นธรรม ส่งเสริมการศึกษาด้านภาพยนตร์ให้สอดคล้องกับมาตรฐานวิชาชีพ สนับสนุนการรวมกลุ่มของแรงงาน และ พัฒนาหน่วยงานด้านภาพยนตร์ที่มีบทบาทต่อการกำกับดูแลโดยตรง ซึ่งเป็นข้อมูลสนับสนุนให้การออกแบบแนวทางการแก้ไขปัญหาของภาครัฐมีเหตุผลประกอบการตัดสินใจ และมีหลักเกณฑ์การพิจารณาที่ครอบคลุมในหลากหลายมิติ

Comparative Cognition And Nonhuman Individuality, Catia Correia Caeiro

Animal Sentience

Commentators Washington (2019) and Tiffin (2019) point out that the individual vs. collective dichotomy is much more complex than what is considered in the target article. This commentary will focus on why individuals are more important than collectives. Species differences in cognition and emotional processes and individuals’ feelings and experiences need to be taken into account.

From Open Access To Open Science: The Path From Scientific Reality To Open Scientific Communication, Christian Heise, Joshua M. Pearce

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

Although opening up of research is considered an appropriate and trend-setting model for future scientific communication, it can still be difficult to put open science into practice. How open and transparent can a scientific work be? This article investigates the potential to make all information and the whole work process of a qualification project such as a doctoral thesis comprehensively and freely accessible on the internet with an open free license both in the final form and completely traceable in development. The answer to the initial question, the self-experiment and the associated demand for openness, posed several challenges for a …

มโนอุปลักษณ์เพศชาย เพศหญิง และเพศทางเลือกในวาทกรรมสาธารณะ :กรณีศึกษาบทละครโทรทัศน์และเพลงไทยสากล, ปิยภรณ์ อบแพทย์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

กิบส์ (Gibbs, 1994) และโคเวคเซส (KÖvecses, 2002, 2010) กล่าวไว้ว่า ไม่ใช่เพียงแค่ถ้อยคำอุปลักษณ์ที่ใช้ในการสนทนาในชีวิตประจำวันเท่านั้นที่สะท้อนมโนทัศน์ของผู้ใช้ภาษาได้ ถ้อยคำอุปลักษณ์ที่มีลักษณะสร้างสรรค์จากแหล่งอื่นๆ เช่น นวนิยาย บทกวี ก็สามารถสะท้อนมโนอุปลักษณ์ (conceptual metaphor) ของผู้ใช้ภาษาในสังคมได้เช่นกัน วิทยานิพนธ์นี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อวิเคราะห์มโนอุปลักษณ์เพศชาย เพศหญิง และเพศทางเลือก และวิเคราะห์ทัศนคติเกี่ยวกับเพศชาย เพศหญิง และเพศทางเลือกที่สะท้อนผ่านถ้อยคำอุปลักษณ์ในบทละครโทรทัศน์และเพลงไทยสากล ข้อมูลที่ใช้ในการวิจัยได้แก่ บทละครโทรทัศน์จำนวน 45 เรื่อง และเพลงไทยสากลจำนวน 1,002 เพลงซึ่งเผยแพร่ระหว่างเดือนมกราคม 2558 ถึงเดือนธันวาคม 2560 ผลการวิจัยพบว่า จากจำนวนถ้อยคำอุปลักษณ์ที่พบทั้งสิ้น 5,736 ถ้อยคำ แบ่งเป็นถ้อยคำอุปลักษณ์เพศชาย 2,474 ถ้อยคำ สะท้อนมโนอุปลักษณ์เพศชาย 5 ลำดับแรกที่มีความถี่สูงสุดได้แก่ [เพศชาย คือ สิ่งของในครอบครอง] [เพศชาย คือ สัตว์] [เพศชาย คือ สิ่งสกปรก/ สิ่งปฏิกูล] [เพศชาย คือ สินค้า] [เพศชาย คือ ตัวละคร] ถ้อยคำอุปลักษณ์เพศหญิง 3,078 ถ้อยคำ สะท้อนมโนอุปลักษณ์เพศหญิง 5 ลำดับแรกที่มีความถี่สูงสุดได้แก่ [เพศหญิง คือ สิ่งของในครอบครอง] [เพศหญิง คือ สัตว์] [เพศหญิง คือ สิ่งสกปรก/ สิ่งปฏิกูล] [เพศหญิง คือ อมนุษย์] [เพศหญิง คือ ตัวละคร] และถ้อยคำอุปลักษณ์เพศทางเลือก 184 ถ้อยคำ สะท้อนมโนอุปลักษณ์เพศทางเลือก 5 ลำดับได้แก่ [เพศทางเลือก คือ สัตว์] [เพศทางเลือก คือ สิ่งของในครอบครอง] [เพศทางเลือก คือ อาหาร] [เพศทางเลือก คือ สิ่งสกปรก/ สิ่งปฏิกูล] …

Understanding Epistemic Cognition : Aspects That Emerge When Early Childhood Teachers Consider Materials And Plan Instruction For Literacy Learning, Kit Marie Saiz De La Mora

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

The purpose of this qualitative study was to gain insight into early childhood teachers’ engagement in epistemic cognition in the context of literacy instruction practices. Early literacy instruction was an important context to examine epistemic cognition because of the complexity of the teaching task. Early literacy instruction involves the simultaneous consideration of knowledge about multiple components of language structure in addition to knowledge of pedagogy, child development, and understandings of immediate socio-cultural context.

Teacher educators need to know how teachers think about knowledge in these multiple areas when they are planning early literacy instruction so they can effectively prepare them …

Like Sand From The Pyramids: Using Rare Books And Manuscripts To Facilitate Object-Based Learning In The Law School Classroom, Melissa M. Hyland

Faculty Publications

This article advocates adding object-based learning, utilizing rare legal books and manuscripts, to the legal education toolbox. Object-based learning is an educational methodology that explains the many learning benefits resulting from student engagement with tangible objects of material culture. Studies into the use of this methodology with undergraduate and graduate students are rather new, but research indicates that object-based learning produces measurable positive results across the curriculum.

Part I of this article provides an overview of object-based learning, with subsections addressing its relationship to active learning, its incorporation of multiple learning styles, and its ability to encourage affective learning. Part …

Popular Culture Informing Public Administration: Messages And Prospects For Social Equity, Sean Mccandless, Nicole M. Elias

Publications and Research

In the discipline of public administration, popular culture remains under-examined in scholarship and under-utilized in pedagogy. However, the field would benefit from greater integration of popular culture to expand understandings of governance, especially in that it provides important representations of and messaging about some of today's most pressing social equity issues. To contextualize popular culture in public administration, we use critical discourse analysis as a frame to demonstrate how popular culture can inform public administration, especially regarding social equity. We argue that popular culture should be more extensively covered in public administration, because it offers a lens for better understanding …

The Mainstreaming Of Sex Workers' Rights As Human Rights, Chi Adanna Mgbako

Faculty Scholarship

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Conceptions And Receptions: A Case Study Analysis Of Community Engagement At Four Local Museums, Mary L. Casey

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

The theme of community engagement has been a prevalent topic of debate and discussion among museum professionals across the country, and so this thesis seeks to examine how four local museums connect with their local audiences in meaningful and successful ways. I focus on local museums because they have the unique opportunity to intimately engage their immediate community’s perceptions of identity and heritage, and relate the interpreted past in innovative ways that effectively resonate with the contemporary lives of current residents.The Historical Museum at Fort Missoula, Strawbery Banke Museum, The Tuck Museum of Hampton History, and the James House Museum, …

Hear Me Roar, Abigail R. Seethoff

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Hear Me Roar, a compilation of personal essays interspersed with short forms, grapples with the nuances of compliance versus autonomy in the context of the male gaze, beauty standards, and pop culture. The collection also explores what it means to treasure something—another person, an object—and how to express and deepen that affection.

Native Animals In Muscogee And Seminole Culture: Symbolism, Kinship, And Lessons For Wildlife Conservation In Florida, Skylar Dennis

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2010 - 2019

This project will assess and define a connection between Florida’s native animal populations and their significance to the environment and the cultures of Florida’s Indigenous Peoples. The main Florida indigenous groups referenced are the Muscogee (Creek) and The Seminole Tribe of Florida. The main points of focus are animal symbology, relationships between native animals and group social structure, kinship relationships, and hunting practices. I also consider the adaptation of these practices as cultural diffusion and assimilation occurred between the indigenous groups and early non-indigenous settlers. I include an in-depth discussion about several animals around which the Muscogee Creek created their …

Open University Of Nepal Initiative Lessons Learned From Designing An Institution Of Higher Learning, Pramod Dhakal, Drona P. Rasali, Ambika P. Adhikari, Raju Adhikari

Himalayan Research Papers Archive

A group of Nepali diaspora members, represented by the Non-Resident Nepali Association (NRNA), started a campaign in 2009 to establish the Open University of Nepal (OUN) in partnership with the government of Nepal. Their motivation was to develop a quality university for the masses by mobilizing local, diaspora, and international collaborators for producing and disseminating knowledge in the public domain. The university was subsequently established in 2017 but it drifted away from many of the original objectives. Most critically, it embraced distance education as its central function while setting aside the aspiration of producing and sharing knowledge under the public …

Absurdity In The Statehouse: Burlesque Legislation And The Politics Of Rejection, Calvin Coker

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

This manuscript analyzes the public debate over legislation designed to mock and reject regulations of abortion in the United States. The bills, such as one in Texas requiring men to remain abstinent and avoid seminal discharge outside of narrow circumstances, are intentionally unworkable to critique Targeted Regulation of Abortion Provider (TRAP) laws, and laws regulating access to abortion in the US. I argue the bills are a form of Burkean burlesque, a novel strategy of humor and biting critique in the context of the US abortion debate. As that debate is characterized primarily by Burke’s (1984) tragic frame, with a …

Becoming Transfronterizo Collaborators: A Transdisciplinary Framework For Developing Translingual Pedagogies In Wac/Wid, Marcela Hebbard, Yanina Hernández

Writing and Language Studies Faculty Publications

Given that pedagogical approaches that challenge dominant language ideologies are not yet well represented in WAC/WID scholarship, this chapter outlines a transdisciplinary framework for developing translingual pedagogies. The framework is built around the notion of transfronterizo/ a collaborators because before instructors can engage their students in exploring and challenging their views toward language, instructors must first critically interrogate their own. This interrogation must consider the unique political, social, economic, and linguistic exigencies of where an institution is located. The chapter concludes by showing that a transdisciplinary and translingual collaboration that is mutually transformative changes faculty collaborators in how they perceive …

Folklore: Rescuing Black America From Its Erroneous And Stereotypical Depictions In Literature, Samantha Brooke Shields

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Folklore: Rescuing Black America from Its Erroneous and Stereotypical Depictions in Literature is a Thesis written to reconnect the Black Community's tether to the foundational truths of the Black American story that were systematically severed. Unfortunately, because of slavery, the deliberate erasing of records that would help identify the origins of persons brought to this country, the selling/separating of parents from children, and Jim Crow laws that prevented blacks from reading, writing, or congregating, vast portions of our story remain missing. SaMantha (SaM)Shields employs newly created folklore based on oral histories, interviews, and other first-hand accounts to tell Black America's …

Cosmographical Warfare: Secrecy And Heroism In Juan De Miramontes's Armas Antárticas, Jason Mccloskey

Faculty Journal Articles

This article examines the historical and cultural significance of cosmography in the early modern Spanish Empire, as seen in Juan de Miramontes Zuázola’s seventeenth-century epic poem, Armas antárticas (2006). It takes the description of a pilot in the harbor of Callao, Peru, on the eve of Francis Drake’s arrival at the port as its point of departure. The essay examines the portrayal of cosmography as a “secret science”, to use the words of María M. Portuondo (2009). The poem suggests that Drake’s surprise attack was made possible by cosmographical knowledge. It also depicts cosmography as a countermeasure to combat future …

Enchanted Animism: A Matter Of Care, Jane Merewether

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

© The Author(s) 2020. Jean Piaget, whose work continues to be very influential in early childhood education, associated young children’s animism with their ‘primitive thought’ claiming children remain animists until they reach a more advanced and rational stage of development. This article proposes a rethinking of the Piagetian view of animism, suggesting instead that children’s animism be conceived as a ‘matter of care’ which may then offer possibilities for living more responsively and attentively with non human others. Drawing on two recent research projects involving two-to-eight-year-old children, the article contends that children’s playful and speculative ‘enchanted animism’ can create a …

Traumatic Dances Of The ‘Non-Self’: Bodily Incoherence And The Hysterical Archive, Jonathan Marshall

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

"We seem to be living in hysterical times. A simple Google search reveals the sheer bottomless well of “hysterical” discussions on diverse topics such as the #metoo movement, Trumpianism, border wars, Brexit, transgender liberation, Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, and climate change, to name only a few. Against the backdrop of such recent deployments of hysteria in popular discourse––particularly as they emerge in times of material and hermeneutic crisis––Performing Hysteria re-engages the notion of “hysteria”. Performing Hysteria rigorously mines late 20th- and early 21st-century (primarily visual) culture for signs of hysteria. The various essays in this volume contribute to the multilayered …

Tripping Over The Other: Could Psychedelics Increase Empathy?, Emily Blatchford, Stephen Bright, Liam Engel

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

There is increasing evidence that psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy is effective for a range of psy-chological conditions. There are likely numerous mechanisms of action that contribute to these clinicaleffects. One such mechanism of action might involve psychedelics increasing levels of empathicfunctioning. This paper synthesises research concerning the relationship between psychedelics andempathy, emphasising neuroscientific and clinical contexts. We conclude that neuropsychological andclinical evidence imply psychedelics could lead to increased empathic functioning. The effects of psy-chedelics on the 5-HT system, default mode network, neural connectivity and ego dissolution areimplicated in these changes. Changes in empathic functioning also likely relate to increases in thepersonality trait …

Reconceptualizing College Impact Studies Through A Fractal Assemblage Theory, Laura Elizabeth Smithers

Educational Leadership & Workforce Development Faculty Publications

College impact studies have formed the common sense of understanding institutional relationships to student growth and change for decades. In this time, they have become entangled with the production of the neoliberal university. This paper¹ presents an alternative theorization of student change on campus, a fractal assemblage theory. Assemblage theory is discussed through a single common language of major assemblage theory concepts across four authors. After exploring these concepts in depth, this paper returns to the stakes of assemblage theory: higher education research not to channel student to predetermined outcomes, but to create student futures in excess of our …

Indonesian Migrant Workers In Hong Kong: Smartphone Culture And Activism, Irfan Wahyudi, Panizza Allmark

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

This article focuses on contemporary smartphone culture and activism performed by female Indonesian migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong. There are around 330.000 migrant workers in Hong Kong, and wherein 150.000 originated from Indonesia. Most of the Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong work in the domestic sectors: housemaid, babysitter, and career. They are obliged to live with their employer and start working from five mornings until late at night for six days a week. The smartphone is their primary medium in keeping a connection with friends and families back home and reduces social isolation. Interestingly, Indonesian migrant workers also …

Finding The Familiar In The Strange: Transcultural Learning As Rihla رحلة At An Australian University, T. Dobinson, Maggie Mcalinden, P. Mercieca, T. Bogachenko

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

© 2020, © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Diverse university campuses present an ideal context for fostering transcultural learning. Despite the potential that this diversity presents, universities in Australia have yet to make use of this opportunity. The pilot study described here investigates an informal learning experience created by the hosting of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) funded Arab Film Festival Australia (AFFA) on an Australian university campus. By imagining and exploring new ways in which universities can encourage transcultural learning and bring students and academics together, this …

School Librarians As Literacy Educators Within A Complex Role, Margaret K. Merga

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Librarians in schools are expected to play an important role as literacy educators, and have a positive impact on young people’s literacy learning. However in the context of their diverse workload, relatively little is known about how this aspect of their role sits within its competing demands, and the exact scope of the literacy educator requirements. Using a hybrid approach to content analysis, this article analyses 40 recent job description documents to identify the nature and prevalence of different aspects of the role, and to explore the literacy educator aspect of this profession. Findings suggest that while the literacy educator …

Associations Between Occupational Therapy Students’ Approaches To Studying And Their Academic Grade Results: A Cross-Sectional And Cross-Cultural Study, Tore Bonsaksen, Ted Brown, Hua B. Lim, Kenneth Fong, Milada C. Småstuen

Journal of Occupational Therapy Education

Students’ approaches to studying are generally viewed as essential for their learning outcomes and are often described as being either deep, strategic or surface. However, research on associations between study approaches and academic outcomes among occupational therapy students are rare, as are studies that include cross-cultural comparisons. The objective of this study was to assess the degree to which the deep, strategic, and surface approaches to studying were associated with occupational therapy students’ grade point average, in the total sample and when stratified by country, while controlling for age, gender and time spent on independent study. Seven hundred and twelve …

Homeless With Breast Cancer On Skid Row, Los Angeles: A Review Of Services For Women, Eva Dittrich

Theses and Dissertations

This study reviews the literature on breast cancer in general and narrows to within the context of the homeless population of Skid Row, Los Angeles, positing that the experience of breast cancer while homeless is a compounded traumatic experience with complex and numerous practical challenges. It poses the following question: What services are available to homeless women on Skid Row, Los Angeles, the information about which can be found online? Which and how many services are dedicated to breast cancer screenings and treatment? Are other types of cancer screening and treatment services advertised on the included service organizations' websites? A …

Understanding Pro-Environmental Binning Behaviour Of National Park Visitors: A Cross-Cultural Study, Kourosh Esfandiar

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

The growing importance of people’s pro-environmental behaviours (PEBs) in relation to reducing their negative impacts and/or increasing their positive impacts in natural areas has attracted considerable research interest. Visitor engagement in pro-environmental activities is one of the key elements in maintaining and improving a national park’s ecological and biological resources. These resources are often the main components of tourism products developed in nature-based destinations.

A specific concern for many national park managers is the generation of litter by visitors. A PEB to solve the problem of litter management in national parks is binning i.e. putting litter in a bin. As …