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The Machine As An Extension Of The Body: When Identity, Immersion And Interactive Design Serve As Both Resource And Limitation For The Disabled, Donna Z. Davis, Shelby Stanovsek

Human-Machine Communication

This research explores how the technological affordances of emerging social virtual environments and VR platforms where individuals from an online disability community are represented in avatar form, correspond to these users’ development of embodied identity, ability, and access to work and social communities. The visual attributes of these avatars, which can realistically reflect the user’s physical self or divert from human form entirely, raise interesting questions regarding the role identity plays in the workplace, be it gender, race, age, weight, or visible disability. Additionally, the technology itself becomes fundamental to identity as the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI), motion …

The Use Of Specialized Exercises In The Preparatory Period Of Ice-Hockey Players, Sultanbek Ruzimovich Davletmuratov

Eurasian Journal of Sport Science

Purpose: Increasing the effectiveness of training loads of various orientations at the stages of the preparatory period .

Methods: Controlling training loads is of particular importance. In the process of training, exercises of a specific nature are more effective, due to the increase in complex exercises. This made it possible to increase the effectiveness of physical fitness and technical and tactical actions of hockey players. To solve the set tasks, pedagogical research methods were used: The analysis of literary sources, was the first and one of the main methods in the work, was carried out to formulate research tasks, discuss …

The Curvilinear Relationships Between Top Decision Maker Goal Orientations And Firm Ambidexterity: Moderating Effect Of Role Experience, Christopher Pryor, Susana C. Santos, Jiangpei Xie

Rohrer College of Business Departmental Research

Ambidextrous firms are those that can simultaneously manage exploitative and explorative innovation, which is why ambidexterity is key for firms that desire to pursue strategic entrepreneurship. Researchers have explored many of the reasons why some firms are more ambidextrous than others. However, little attention has been devoted to understanding how attributes of top decision makers can influence their firms' ambidexterity. By drawing on upper echelons theory and goal orientations research, we explain how firms' ambidexterity can be affected by top decision makers' motivations in achievement situations (i.e., goal orientations). Testing our hypotheses on a sample of 274 top decision makers …

The Distribution Trends Of Labor Cost In A Government Organization, Robert Carlos

Public Administration ETDs

This study will research growth in the cost of support personnel in a government organization. It will provide a comprehensive, six-year comparison of costs from Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 to 2020. Furthermore, the study will analyze trends, and provide recommendations for best practices and optimum resource allocation.

Significant management concern has arisen due to the recent trend in rising indirect labor costs. A comparison of indirect and overhead to direct labor costs details a growth trend illustrating the uneven development and inefficiencies in the distribution of labor cost in the directorate.

The cost of labor is rising faster than the …

Economic And Environmental Impacts Of Drone Delivery, Juan Zhang

Dissertations

Motivated by the potentially huge economic and environmental benefits of drone delivery, this dissertation developed mathematical models using the continuous approximation methodology to quantify the cost and emissions savings that drone delivery can provide relative to conventional truck delivery on multi-stop routes for a range of operating characteristics, delivery environments, and carbon intensities of power generation. This research considers two types of drone delivery: drone-only delivery and truck-drone delivery. In drone-only delivery, drones travel out-and-back from a depot to make each delivery. In truck-drone delivery, a truck and drone tandem make deliveries in parallel with the drone being launched and …

Lindenwood Wins Healthy Workplace Award, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

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2021-April-15-Alumni Assembly Appalachian Highlands And Asheville, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (April 15, 2021) – An East Tennessee State University Alumni Assembly with President Dr. Brian Noland will be held for university graduates living in the Appalachian Highlands and Asheville, North Carolina, region on Thursday, April 22.

This virtual town hall event will be held at noon via Zoom.

It is part of a series of assemblies designed to inform, to celebrate, and to engage ETSU alumni. The ETSU National Alumni Association is hosting these events in regions with a high concentration of ETSU alumni, where the university currently has Alumni Clubs, or where the Alumni Association plans to …

Designing A Strategic Plan For The Jefferson Center For Interprofessional Practice And Education (Jcipe), Larry M. Starr, Phd, John Pourdehnad, Phd

School of Continuing and Professional Studies Posters

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Corporate Governance, Market Orientation And Performance Of Iran’S Upscale Hotels, Soheil Kazemian, Hadrian G. Djajadikerta, Jamaliah Said, Saiyidi Mat Roni, Terri Trireksani, Md Mahmudul Alam

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Market orientation has been known as an efficient managerial tool to assist in sustaining the performance of organisations. Market orientation has three dimensions, namely customer orientation, competitor orientation and inter-function coordination. This paper evaluates how corporate governance influences the three dimensions of market orientation within Iran's upscale hotels. The impacts of the three dimensions of market orientation on the hotels' social and financial performance are also examined to determine if market orientation mediates the relationships between corporate governance and performance. Partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) is used to analyse the survey data collected from the executives of four- …

2021-04-15 Ad Hoc Committee On Research, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate., Ad Hoc Committee On Research.

Faculty Senate Records

Update report from the Ad Hoc Committee on Research submitted on April 15, 2021.

2021-04-15 Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate meeting minutes from April 15, 2021.

2021-04-15 Faculty Senate Newsletter, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate newsletter from April 15, 2021.

Assessing South African Government’S Use Of Social Media For Citizen Participation, Ifeoluwapo Fashoro, Lynette Barnard

The African Journal of Information Systems

Social media are commended as e-participation reformation tools; consequently, governments around the world are adopting social media. South Africa is not exempt from this adoption trend; however, the extent to which social media is used for public participation is yet to be understood. This paper presents a qualitative study exploring social media as an e-participation tool through content analysis of social media pages of the South African government. The study found that while all provinces and municipalities have social media accounts, these platforms are used mainly for information broadcasting, viz., as an extension to their websites. There is limited engagement …

Supporting The Child Welfare Workforce During The Coronavirus Pandemic: Provision Of Personal Protective Equipment, Quality Improvement Center For Workforce Development

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At the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic some child welfare jurisdictions required continued, in-person contact with children and families, and workers struggled to obtain appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE), including masks, gloves, gowns, hand sanitizers, to protect themselves (and their families), as well as their clients. In March of 2020, the National Council on Juvenile Crime and Delinquency conducted a survey of juvenile justice and child welfare agencies in 20 states on agency response to COVID-19. Child welfare agency respondents reported that inadequate PPE was the most significant challenge they faced at that point in the pandemic. Survey recommendations included …

Supporting The Child Welfare Workforce During The Coronavirus Pandemic: Addressing Worker Stress And Trauma, Quality Improvement Center For Workforce Development

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Studies and our own assessment of secondary trauma in the eight QIC-WD study sites indicate that up to 75% of child welfare caseworkers, especially those with high caseloads and exposure to traumatized families and children, are at risk of experiencing secondary traumatic stress and PTSD. The Coronavirus pandemic exacerbated an already beleaguered workforce. Data from previous pandemics is alarming. Research from the SARS pandemic indicates that survivors often developed PTSD which could last for many years. Those most affected were health care workers who, similar to child welfare workers, were impacted by the social isolation imposed by authorities to contain …

School Of Education To Join The Consortium For Research-Based And Equitable Assessments, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Lindenwood's Student Investment Fund Thrives, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

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Dr. Melissa Elmes Publishes Edited Collection Of Essays With Routledge Publishing, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

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2021-April-14-Direct Applications Accepted For Roan Program, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (April 14, 2021) – High school seniors throughout the region will have the opportunity to apply directly for the Roan Scholars Leadership Program at East Tennessee State University beginning in fall 2021.

Since the Roan selected its first class 20 years ago, students have been required to be nominated by their high school in order to be considered for the prestigious four-year scholarship program. The Roan has expanded to more than 90 high schools in 27 counties across Northeast Tennessee, Southwest Virginia, and Western North Carolina, but has remained limited to nominees from those schools. A new policy …

A Commonly Forgotten Tool In Retirement Planning: Health Savings Accounts, Austin Duerfeldt

Cornhusker Economics

Many individuals are aware of IRAs, 401(k) plans, 403(b) plans, and others when starting to build their retirement portfolio. These plans all have their benefits and drawbacks that need to be accounted for. What surprises many is there is another tool that you may be qualified for and are underutilizing. A Health Savings Accounts commonly referred to as an HSA, has some interesting possibilities that could be useful. An HSA is a type of savings account that lets you set aside money on a pre-tax basis to pay for qualifying medical expenses. While you cannot generally use this money saved …

Supporting The Child Welfare Workforce During The Coronavirus Pandemic: Technology, Quality Improvement Center For Workforce Development

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The child welfare workforce is responsible for ensuring children’s safety and well-being, delivering treatment, and intervention services to families. Workers must document child and family information, service plans, and visit records in secure data systems, that are often only accessible from an office. When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, many states had to rapidly pivot to remote technology to conduct mandatory visits of children in foster care and engage in supervised visitation between children and their families. They also had to determine how to provide oversight of treatment and intervention services required through case plans even though many provider services had …

Challenger Sports, Veda Mize

Undergraduate Research Conference

No abstract provided.

Becoming A Youtuber, Johanna Bruhn

Undergraduate Research Conference

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Tik Tok University: Rusche College Of Business, Johanna Bruhn

Undergraduate Research Conference

Across the country, universities have incorporated the use of social media platforms to target prospective students, keep current students in the loop, and create a stronger online presence overall In a world where certain platforms may rise to the top and others may just be a fading trend, it is even more important for these universities to determine what social media platforms to utilize and perform well on For the last two years, TikTok has become an increasingly popular social media application, particularly in regard to students Although its popularity seemed to only be temporary, the last year has shown …

Sfa Faculty And Staff's Attitude Towards Greek Life, Autumn Romine, Chelsie Rodriguez

Undergraduate Research Conference

In our project, we will be discussing Stephen F. Austin State University's faculty and staff's attitude towards Greek life organization members. We want to know what SFA’s faculty and staff's opinions are towards Greek life at SFA. SFA’s Student Engagement Greek life officers and SFA Greek life members would benefit from this information.

The Return Of A Judicial Artifact?: How The Supreme Court Could Examine The Question Of The Nondelegation Doctrine’S Place In Future Cases, Dalton Davis, Ben Rathsam

Liberty University Research Week

Undergraduate

Textual or Investigative

Ua12/2/1 Best Of The Hill, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Special edition of the College Heights Herald, includes articles:

• Spainhoward, Emma. Editor’s Letter
• WKU Favorites
• Adjusting to Apartment Life During a Pandemic
• Food & Drink
• Things to Do
• Miscellaneous
• Clothing & Gifts

2021-April-13-Appalachian Places, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (April 13, 2021) – The East Tennessee State University Appalachian Studies program is set to launch an online magazine later this spring. Appalachian Places will continue the program’s long literary tradition of highlighting the people, places, issues and themes relating to the Appalachian region.

The new magazine will help continue that tradition by following the example of its print-version forerunner, Now & Then magazine, which, with the exception of a two-year hiatus in the early 2000s, ran from 1984 until it ceased publication in 2017. 

“For nearly 30 years, the ETSU Appalachian Studies program published a high-quality print …

2021-April-13-Etsu Health Cancels Johnson And Johnson Janssen Vaccine Clinic Set For April 13, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY – Following federal guidance released from the FDA and the CDC this morning, ETSU Health is canceling its Johnson & Johnson Janssen COVID-19 vaccine clinic scheduled for Tuesday, April 13, 2021.

All patients who had appointments today will be notified via text messaging and are encouraged to schedule vaccines at alternative vaccine sites that are offering either the Moderna or Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines.

To learn where you can receive a Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, go to www.vaccinefinder.org. To schedule an appointment to receive a Pfizer vaccine from Ballad, go to https://www.balladhealth.org/medical-services/infectious-disease#schedule. Ballad currently has sites in …

2021-April-13-Etsu Lecture Features Expert On Flint Water Crisis, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (April 13, 2021)  – Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, a pediatrician, scientist, author and activist who was instrumental in uncovering the Flint water crisis and leading recovery efforts in its aftermath, will speak at an East Tennessee State University webinar on Tuesday, April 20, from 6-7 p.m.

The webinar, titled “Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha in Conversation with Drs. Randy Wykoff and Amy Johnson,” is part of the ETSU College of Public Health’s Leading Voices in Public Health lecture series. This lecture is co-sponsored by the ETSU Office of the Provost and the Office of Equity and Inclusion. It is free and …