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Gietschier Article On Yogi Berra Appears On Stltoday, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

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Living On Heaven's Doorstep: A Multimedia Project With The Warm Beach Senior Community, Justina Grace Brown

Honors Projects

Having a website is no longer a luxury but a requirement. Nonprofits need to take advantage of the digital age to better reach their constituents yet, overall, they struggle to do this well. Because of lack of resources, their reliance on volunteers, and the inability to keep up with the evolving demands of a website, nonprofits (especially small ones) are not using the web to their full advantage. Taking the research and applying it to a nonprofit retirement community—Warm Beach Senior Community—the challenges are seen first-hand.

Machine Learning With Multi-Class Regression And Neural Networks: Analysis And Visualization Of Crime Data In Seattle, Erkin David George

Honors Projects

This article examines the implications of machine learning algorithms and models, and the significance of their construction when investigating criminal data. It uses machine learning models and tools to store, clean and analyze data that is fed into a machine learning model. This model is then compared to another model to test for accuracy, biases and patterns that are detected in between the experiments. The data was collected from data.seattle.gov and was published by the City of Seattle Data Portal and was accessed on September 17, 2018. This research will be looking into how machine learning models can be used …

2019-06-06 Agenda Book, Morehead State University. Board Of Regents.

Morehead State Board of Regents Agenda Books and Meeting Minutes

Agenda booklet for the Board of Regents for June 6, 2019. Included in the booklet are the meeting minutes from March 29, 2019.

New Title From Annetta Gibson, Hannah Gallant

Andrews Agenda: Campus News

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Of Telegraphs And Blockchains, Michael Gravier

Marketing Department Faculty Journal Articles

The point is that getting blockchain right will generate tremendous rewards and share risks across globally spanning supply chains—getting it wrong may stifle innovation and erode trust.

Comment Letters On Proposed Statement On Standards For Accounting And Review Services, Materiality In A Review Of Financial Statements, Adverse Conclusions, And Special Purpose Frameworks, June 19, 2019, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Accounting And Review Services Committee

Exposure Drafts, Comment Letters, and Statements of Position

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Negotiating The Great Recession: How Teacher Collective Bargaining Outcomes Change In Times Of Financial Duress, Katharine O. Strunk, Bradley D. Marianno

Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education Faculty Research

This article examines how teacher collective bargaining agreements (CBAs), teacher salaries, and class sizes changed during the Great Recession. Using a district-level data set of California teacher CBAs that includes measures of subarea contract strength and salaries from 2005–2006 and 2011–2012 tied to district-level longitudinal data, we estimate difference-in-difference models to examine bargaining outcomes for districts that should have been more or less fiscally constrained. We find that unions and administrators change critical elements of CBAs and district policy during times of fiscal duress. This includes increasing class sizes, reducing instructional time, and lowering base salaries to relieve financial pressures …

2019-June-05-Honors College Dean, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

2019-June-05-Renaissance Child Camps, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

Isscm Newsletter, June 5, 2019, Raj Soin College Of Business, Wright State University

ISSCM Newsletters

A three page newsletter from the Department of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management in the Raj Soin College of Business at Wright State University.

Comment Letters On Proposed Statement On Auditing Standards, Amendments To The Description Of The Concept Of Materiality, June 5, 2019, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board

Exposure Drafts, Comment Letters, and Statements of Position

No abstract provided.

Proposed Statement On Auditing Standards, Amendments To The Description Of The Concept Of Materiality, June 5, 2019, Comments Are Requested By August 5, 2019; Exposure Draft (American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants), 2019, June 5, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board

Exposure Drafts, Comment Letters, and Statements of Position

No abstract provided.

Discount, Coupon, Or Both? An Empirical Data-Based Analysis For Online Garment Retailers' Optimal Promotion Strategies, Yang Liu

Lingnan Theses (MPhil & PhD)

We investigate an online retailer’s optimal strategies for her promotion of the garments that are classified based on their price levels and life cycle stages. Accordingly we consider nine scenarios. For each scenario, the retailer implements a promotion strategy that involves only a discount, only a coupon, or both of them. We develop a three-stage approach, in which we first perform regression analysis to identify the significant variables, then obtain the optimal decisions, and .find the best scenario for the retailer. In general, the promotion with a discount depth is optimal for the garments at the introduction and decline stages, …

Was Television Responsible For A New Generation Of Smokers?, Michael Thomas

Marketing

Consumers’ response to mass media can be difficult to assess because individuals choose for themselves the amount of media they consume, and that choice may be correlated with their other consumption decisions. To avoid this selection problem, this article examines the introduction of television to the US, during which some cities gained access to television years before others. This natural experiment makes it possible to estimate the causal impact of television on the decision to start smoking, a consumer behavior with important public health implications. Difference-in-differences analyses of television’s introduction indicate that (1) television did cause people to start smoking, …

What Athletic Coaches Can Do To Strengthen The Impact Of Utah Girls And Young Women, Susan R. Madsen

Marketing and Strategy Faculty Publications

This idea sheet is based on a 2019 gathering of 25 coaches of girls’ and young women’s sports from around the state of Utah. Sports participation is a widely recognized pathway to leadership, and coaches are in an ideal position to positively influence their athletes. This discussion focused on how coaches can first lead by example and then work to support girls’ personal development and resilience. Attendees also emphasized the importance of building team unity and influencing other stakeholders to strengthen girls and young women in sports.

2019-June-04-Meditations For Chaos, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

2019-June-04-Tennessee Small Business Development Center Workshop, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

2019-June-04-Wyatt Powell, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

2019-June-04-College Of Clinical And Rehabilitative Health Sciences Adding Programs, Students, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

Port Performance From A Policy Perspective – A Systematic Review Of The Literature, Eamonn Oconnor, Natasha Evers Dr., Amaya Vega

Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics

Owing to their diverse functionality, seaports as entities produce a mix of private and public goods that have significant welfare implications for the regions they serve. In effect, performance in seaports can be viewed as multi-dimensional. When forming policy that affects multiple stakeholders it is therefore desirable to measure performance across all relevant dimensions, as they are likely to have differing effects on concerned stakeholders. The objective of this study is to conduct a systematic literature review of published studies on seaport performance measurement to identify, critically evaluate and integrate the various dimensions of seaport performance measurement. A review of …

Big Tech Surveillance Could Damage Democracy, Chase Johnson

University Author Recognition Bibliography: 2019

Data is often called the oil of the 21st century.

The more tech companies know about their users, the more effectively they can direct them to goods and services that they are likely to buy. The more companies know about their users, the more competitive they are in the market.

Custom-tailored capitalism is what has made Google, Facebook, Amazon and others the richest companies in the world. This profit incentive has turned big tech into a competitive field of mass intelligence gathering. The better and more comprehensive the data, the higher profits will be.

But this business model – what …

Ada News - 06/03/2019, American Dental Association, Publishing Division

ADA News

Established in 1970 as the official newspaper of the American Dental Association, the ADA News serves practicing dentists and others allied to the dental profession in the U.S. and internationally. It is the No. 1 source of news and information about the many benefits and services the ADA delivers to members daily as well as timely information on scientific, social, political and economic developments affecting dentistry and health care.

Collectivism And The Costs Of High Leverage, Sadok El Ghoul, Omrane Guedhami, Chuck C.Y. Kwok, Ying Zheng

Finance Department Faculty Journal Articles

Prior literature shows that high leverage is associated with losses in market share due to unfavorable actions by customers and competitors. Building on this literature, we investigate the effect of collectivism on the product market performance of highly leveraged firms. Using a sample of 46 countries over the 1989–2016 period, we find significantly lower costs of high leverage for countries with higher collectivism scores. Moreover, we find that the impact of collectivism on high leverage costs is more pronounced for firms with high product specialization and with financially healthy rivals. In additional analysis, we find that collectivism helps highly leveraged …

Peering Inside The ‘Black Box’: The Impact Of Management-Side Representatives On The Industrial Relations Climate Of Organizations, Shelagh Campbell, Johanna Weststar

Management and Organizational Studies Publications

The labor climate of an organization can have a great impact on productivity and efficiency. Managing this climate is often left to union stewards and management-side labor relations representatives. While there is a large literature on the role of union stewards, little is written about the role that management-side labor relations representatives play in establishing or maintaining positive labor-management relations. Building from a series of interviews with labor relations representatives in Canada and a nationwide pilot study of frontline industrial relations workers, we model the role of the labor relations representatives and their specific job actions in the established model …

2019-June-03-Cybersecurity And Modern Networks, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

Nebraska Innovation Studio, Extension Helping Communities Transform Libraries, Deann Gayman

Nebraska Innovation Studio

Nebraska Innovation Studio, extension helping communities transform libraries.

Back in 2012, Beatrice Public Library leaders and stakeholders had an eye toward the future as they drew up plans for a building renovation. Among the ideas was an area to house a makerspace.

“Some in the public hadn’t heard of this concept, so we ended up not having the full space,” library director Laureen Riedesel said. “We do have a 3-D printer and computers set up there, and our idea is to let it evolve and as people become aware of what we have, they’d ask for machines that we could …

Closing The Loop: The Capacities And Constraints Of Information And Communication Technologies For Development (Ict4d), Phillip Nicholas Turman-Bryant

Dissertations and Theses

As a mechanism for collecting and sharing information, information and communications technologies (ICT) hold immense potential for individuals and institutions in low- and middle-income countries. Currently the distribution and adoption of ICTs--particularly mobile devices--has far outpaced the provision of other household services like clean water, sanitation, hygiene, or energy services. At the same time, the development and deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) devices including cellular- and satellite-connected sensors is facilitating more rapid feedback from remote regions where basic services are most limited. When used in conjunction with economic development or public health interventions, these devices and the feedback they …

2019-June-03-Zahner And Lu Funded To Study Obesity Hormones, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

2019-06-03 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

Staff Congress newsletter for June 3, 2019.