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Forecasting Stock Indices With The Covid-19 Infection Rate As An Exogenous Variable, Mohammad Saha A. Patwary

School of Computing and Informatics

Forecasting stock market indices is challenging because stock prices are usually nonlinear and non- stationary. COVID-19 has had a significant impact on stock market volatility, which makes forecasting more challenging. Since the number of confirmed cases significantly impacted the stock price index; hence, it has been considered a covariate in this analysis. The primary focus of this study is to address the challenge of forecasting volatile stock indices during Covid-19 by employing time series analysis. In particular, the goal is to find the best method to predict future stock price indices in relation to the number of COVID-19 infection rates. …

2023-August-28-Etsu Undergraduate Admissions To Host Tri-Cities College Fair, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

College-bound students and their families are invited to attend this year’s Tri-Cities College Fair, an annual event hosted by East Tennessee State University’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions. The event draws participation from over 60 colleges and universities across the Southeast, and is scheduled to take place on Thursday, Aug. 31, from 6-8 p.m. at Freedom Hall Civic Center, located at 1320 Pactolas Road in Johnson City. 

It is open to all area high school students, prospective transfer students and their families, and is free and open to the public. Representatives from regional two- and four-year institutions will be …

2023-August-28-Second Season Of Broadway Coming To Etsu, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

(August 28, 2023)

Six shows will headline the 2024 Spring Broadway Season at the ETSU Martin Center for the Arts.

“Our inaugural Broadway season earlier this year was a landmark success,” said Jennifer Clements, executive director of the Martin Center at East Tennessee State University. “The season included four shows – all performed to sold-out audiences.  Because of this overwhelming response, and with the tremendous generosity of our sponsors, we are expanding our season to include six shows.

 “We are thrilled to bring Broadway to the Appalachian Highlands again this year and look forward to experiencing the magic of live …

Listing Of Accounting Doctoral Graduates By School And Year, James R. Hasselback

Individual and Corporate Publications

No abstract provided.

2023-08-26 Scholarship & Appeals Committee Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate., Scholarship & Appeals Committee

Faculty Senate Records

Meeting minutes of the Scholarship & Appeals Committee from August 26, 2023.

Ua80/1 Meeting Agenda & Minutes, W Club

University Organizations

Agenda and minutes of the August 2023 W Club Board of Directors meeting.

2023-August-25-Dr. Jessica Burchette Earns Distinguished Faculty Award For Teaching, Bill Gatton College Of Pharmacy, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (August 25, 2023) — Dr. Jessica Burchette, Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice, earned the University’s Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching at Faculty Convocation this morning. It is the highest honor given to an ETSU professor. Each honoree receives a one-of-a-kind hand-blown glass piece and $7,500 provided by the ETSU Foundation. 

Dr. Jessica Burchette, a pharmacist and associate professor at ETSU Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy, received the university’s Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching. 

“Dr. Burchette is a standout faculty member in the Department of Pharmacy Practice at the GCOP,” wrote Burchette’s nominator. “She is a gifted …

2023-August-25-Etsu Presents Distinguished Faculty Awards, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

(August 25, 2023)

Three East Tennessee State University faculty members were presented with the Distinguished Faculty Award in the areas of teaching, research and service.

It is the highest honor given to an ETSU professor. Each honoree receives a one-of-a-kind hand-blown glass piece and $7,500 provided by the ETSU Foundation. 

Dr. Jessica Burchette, a pharmacist and associate professor at ETSU Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy, received the university’s Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching. 

“Dr. Burchette is a standout faculty member in the Department of Pharmacy Practice at the GCOP,” wrote Burchette’s nominator. “She is a gifted teacher, …

Staff Council, Georgia Southern University

Staff Council Meeting Minutes & Agendas

No abstract provided.

2023-August-25-Etsu Program, Aimed At Community Outreach, Wins Major Grant, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

(August 25, 2023)

The Sullivan County native needed considerable help in 2018. 

A single mother with a 4-year-old daughter hampered by health issues, she was laid off each summer as part of a part-time contract. 

Immediately, East Tennessee State University went to work. 

A counseling program assisted the woman and her child with much-needed resources. A career coach worked closely with her, helping her land an opportunity at a local insurance agency. She performed so well that she ultimately became a full-time member of the agency’s team. 

“We’ve been fortunate to witness many successes over the years,” said Amy L. …

How To Attract Low Prosocial Funders In Crowdfunding? Matching Among Funders, Project Descriptions, And Platform Types, Yuanqing Li, Frank Cabano, Pingshu Li

Management and Decision Sciences

The amount of crowdfunding research that investigates funding success factors has been increasing. The existing research shows inconsistent evidence regarding how a prosocial project description affects funding success and largely ignores the issue of alignment/misalignment among different factors in affecting funding success. We suggest that funders’ prosocial motivation can be an important factor for this inconsistent evidence. We integrate the elaboration likelihood model and language expectancy theory and demonstrate distinct decision-making patterns from high and low prosocial motivation funders. Through three experiments, we provide evidence for alignment/misalignment effects among funders’ prosocial motivation, prosocial project descriptions, and platform types (donation-based vs. …

Staff Council Agenda, Georgia Southern University

Staff Council Meeting Minutes & Agendas

No abstract provided.

State Week: Lindenwood Hosts Weeklong Event For Hs Juniors, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

No abstract provided.

A Literary Survey On The U.S. Airline Maintenance Outsourcing: Technology, Economics, And Politics Perspectives, Linfeng Jin, Chien-Ting Lu

Publications

This study examines the U.S. airline maintenance outsourcing- a common business phenomenon in the post-1978 deregulated airline industry. Over the years, there have been several fatal accidents in the U.S. linked to airline maintenance outsourcing, and it has caught the attention of the government and general public. This paper went over the complex airline maintenance outsourcing factors from technology, economics, and political tripartite perspectives. And suggestions for the airlines, the regulators and the legislators are made in the end

2023-08-24 Faculty Welfare & Concerns Committee Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate., Faculty Welfare & Concerns Committee.

Faculty Senate Records

Meeting minutes from the Faculty Welfare & Concerns Committee for August 24, 2023.

2023-08-21 To 2023-09-06 Excellence In Teaching Committee Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate., Excellance In Teaching Committee.

Faculty Senate Records

Excellence in Teaching Committee meeting minutes from August 24, 2023 to September 6, 2023.

Unlocking The Talent Puzzle: Examining The Impact Of Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment, And Career Development On Talent Attraction And Retention, Angela Denise Lamar

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The current competitive organizational market warrants the implementation of talent attraction and retention strategies to aid organizations faced with talent management challenges. To provide organizations with practical strategies and best practices, it is vital first to understand real-world experiences of organizations as well as employees. This dissertation’s objectives are to discover the relationship between job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and career development or advancement in influencing talent attraction and retention strategies. The comprehensive qualitative research study will incorporate interview and survey data from organizational leaders and employees within the Southeastern United States region and the Fintech industry space. The participants will …

Weak Organizational Culture In Higher Education Leads To Unmet Organizational Goals, Jennifer Willard Matthews

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This qualitative case study explores the perception of weak organizational culture at one institution of higher education and the influence of weak culture on attaining organizational goals. The general problem addresses a weak organizational culture where department leaders operate independently of organizational policies and procedures, resulting in the inability to reach organizational goals. The study included fifteen survey responses from faculty and staff, two follow-up interviews, two observations of university-sponsored group activities, and current data from the 2021 Work and Well-Being Survey conducted by the American Psychological Association. Themes emerged from collected data and existing literature allowing the researcher to …

Exploring Factors For Employee Attrition And Retention By Life Stage, Robert Joshua Whitton

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The objective of this study was to evaluate if a relationship exists between factors for push (attrition) and pull (retention) and employee life stage. With job attrition rates increasing almost 10% in the last 10 years and employers paying $2.4 trillion in 2021 because of employee turnover, the need to understand what drives retention and attrition remains very real. A survey, containing a demographics section and items rated on a Thurstone-like scale, was administered to full-time employees in the United States. Four hundred and eighty participants responded to the survey, but after removing responses that were incomplete or were completed …

Biblical Leadership: Combatting Authoritarianism, Katherine M. Inman

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The radio station in Oil City, Pa became a non-existent entity when the owner sold the organization. This caused dissatisfaction among many members of the community, as well as resentment among former employees. Understanding the leadership's impact provides insight into the radio station's potential sustainability or inevitable failure. This phenomenological study allows for a focus on the events surrounding the radio station's sale, which sheds light on the leadership style used by the radio station's most recent owner. Each interviewee offers a unique perspective, including information about the events that led up to the radio station's sale. The study of …

Job Crafting, Sarah Stepanek, Megan Paul

Umbrella Summaries

What is job crafting?

Job crafting is defined as “the physical and cognitive changes individuals make in the task and relational boundaries of their work” (Wrzesniewski & Dutton, 2001, p. 179). Job crafting is a proactive work behavior by which individuals adapt their job or their perceptions of their job in order to change their identity, shape their job tasks to their liking, and alter the meaning of their work (Wrzesniewski & Dutton, 2001).

Job crafting is most often conceptualized along four categories of increasing structural job resources (i.e., expanding one’s autonomy or variety of resources), increasing social job resources …

Job Design, Sarah Stepanek, Megan Paul

Umbrella Summaries

What is job design?

Every job has an inherent design—the collection of duties, responsibilities, required competencies, environment, relationships, and resources involved in the job. This design may be intentional or unintentional. The concept of job design, however, is a more purposeful process of shaping a job’s characteristics with the goal to increase employee motivation, performance, and job satisfaction as well as lower turnover and absenteeism in the workplace (Hackman & Oldham, 1976). According to Job Characteristics Theory, this is done through enhancing the five core job dimensions of skill variety, task identity, task significance, job autonomy, and feedback from the …

2023-August-23-Etsu Health Welcomes Pediatrician To Johnson City Clinic, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

ETSU Health Pediatrics is pleased to announce that Dr. Sarah Tolliver is joining their Johnson City practice.  

Dr. Tolliver has provided care for families at the clinic throughout recent years as a resident physician and chose to stay at the practice upon graduation from the program. 

Dr. Tolliver first began her career as a social worker before attending Quillen College of Medicine to pursue her love of learning, building relationships, and improving the lives of her patients and community. 

She chose to stay with ETSU Health after completing her residency because the people of this region have become like family …

2023-August-23-Student Veteran Jake Berens Receives National Leadership Award, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

(August 23, 2023)

When asked permission to write a feature story about his award, Jake Berens answered in a way that truly represents why he is a 2023 Student Veteran Leadership Award recipient.  

His response came in the form of a request: “As long as the focus stays on the community we’re trying to build and the resources available to veterans and military-affiliated students on campus.” 

After almost 12 years of active duty in the United States Marine Corps, Berens began his journey at ETSU as a health sciences major. Beyond his graduation in 2024, his sights are set on …

2023-August-23-Wets-Fm Announces Fall Fund Drive Sept. 9-15, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

August 30, 2023

For almost 50 years, WETS-FM has been a source of trusted news in the region, informing, educating and empowering the community. This fall, listeners will have an opportunity to partner with the station by participating in the WETS-FM Fall Fund Drive, Sept. 9-15.

WETS-FM is an NPR affiliate that is operated as a partnership between East Tennessee State University and the station’s listeners. Operating 24 hours a day at 89.5 MHz in the Tri-Cities Tennessee/Virginia/North Carolina region, the station is also broadcast online.

“WETS-FM is an important part of the news landscape in the region, and our …

Seeking Tourism In A Social Context: An Examination Of Chinese Rural Migrant Workers’ Travel Motivations And Constraints, Guanghui Qiao, Songshan Huang, Oscar Vorobjovas-Pinta

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

This study examines travel motivations and constraints of rural migrant workers in China as a socially disadvantaged group. Through 20 in-depth interviews, the study identified 21 motivations in three categories: personal seeking, interpersonal seeking and personal escaping. Nine travel constraint factors were also identified. The identified motivations and constraints were interpreted through the Escaping-Seeking tourism motivation framework and the Hierarchical Constraint Model. The study concludes that personal seeking motivations predominate rural migrant workers’ travel motivations, whereas structural constraints are more influential than intrapersonal and interpersonal constraints. Social context was found to be a significant confounding factor in determining travel motivations …

Lillian Nix Receives Geofutures Stl Scholarship, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Exploring Factors That Influence Web Technology Adoption In A Time Of Crisis: A Ukraine Sme Perspective, Olena Kublitska, Róisín Vize Dr, Isobel O'Reilly Dr

Conference papers

This paper aims to investigate factors that influence web technologies adoption among small and medium enterprises in Ukraine and understand how volatile conditions influence managerial decisions about the operation of small retailers' businesses. This research takes a case study approach and uses qualitative semi-structured interviews. This study contributes to the existing literature on web technologies adoption among SMEs in developing countries, improves the understanding of the role of web technologies within SMEs operating in volatile conditions, and explores key-decision makers’ attitudes towards web technologies adoption within SMEs. The proposed framework based on Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) is enriched with individual decision maker …

2023-August-22-Etsu Grad Now Influential Florida Judge, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

When he arrived in the Appalachian Highlands more than 40 years ago, he knew no one.  

Nearly a half century later, J. Frank Porter has lifelong friends from Johnson City – and an impressive professional career. 

Judge Porter made headlines earlier this summer when his colleagues named him the next Chief Judge of the Twentieth Judicial Court in Florida. It’s a prestigious position covering a range of counties in the Sunshine State.  

The training he received at East Tennessee State University provided a sturdy foundation from which he launched a successful legal career.  

“I arrived in Johnson City not knowing …

Ldr 300 Southern Miss Gulf Scholars Program Module, Southern Miss Gulf Scholars Program

Southern Miss Gulf Scholars

LDR 300 Gulf Scholars Program Curriculum

This course works in conjunction to allow the students to understand what it means to be a leader on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The introductory module introduces the Blue Economy to the students, with a goal of setting a foundation of knowledge about what business occurs on the coast. The “Leadership Ethics” module helps students understand the importance ethics and morality plays in leadership. The “Diversity Challenge” forces students to recognize the importance of diversity of thought and how difficult it is to achieve this diversity.