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Designing A Multiple Submission Policy Supporting Mastery Learning For A Design Thinking Class In A Purely Online Learning Environment, Marianne Kayle Amurao, Joseph Benjamin R. Ilagan

Quantitative Methods and Information Technology Faculty Publications

Mastery learning is defined as an approach where students are equipped with complex skills required in the VUCA world instead of simple skills that only apply to traditional classrooms. One way to encourage mastery learning in the classroom is through repeated assessment, specifically formative ones. In this paper, we describe our experience in designing a multiple submission policy to support mastery learning for a design thinking class taught purely online amidst lockdowns due to COVID. The transition to online learning and today’s context presented an opportunity to target mastery learning instead of traditional learning outcomes, which we achieved in two …

Linkages Between Share Pledging, Stock Price Risk And Profitability: Evidence From The P.R. China, Fengchao Li, Xing Zhang, Jaime Ortiz

International Business and Entrepreneurship Faculty Publications

Share pledging has become popular as a method of loan collateral among Chinese shareholders. Our research used a sample of Chinese listed firms between 2008–2018 and produced two main findings. Firstly, we found a negative association between stock price risk and firm profitability. Our second finding was that the interaction effect of share pledging and stock price risk is greater on firm profitability than the effect of stock price risk itself. We examined the role of share pledging by modeling pooled OLS and fixed effects using share pledging behavior, controlling shareholders’ share pledging and the share pledging ratio to reinforce …

2021-November-01-Calling Aspiring Craft Brewers Etsu Launches New Minor, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. – Wondering just how popular breweries have become? 

In 2020, taprooms alone produced over 1.8 million barrels – that’s more than 55 million gallons – of beer, the Brewer’s Association reported. 

Over the summer, Tennessee Hills Brewing and Distilling opened a new location on West Walnut Street, the site of a $33 million investment project by the City of Johnson City aimed at revitalizing the space that connects downtown with East Tennessee State University. 

And now at ETSU, students have the opportunity to minor in Brewing and Distillation Studies. ETSU and Tennessee Hills officials announced the creation …

2021-November-01-Etsu, Mercer Presidents Celebrate Championship Tradition, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY – The presidents of East Tennessee State University and Mercer University have raised the stakes for Saturday’s regular-season football finale that will decide the champion of the Southern Conference.

Both presidents have signed on to participate in a championship tradition, agreeing to graciously concede one of their state’s most sought-after culinary delicacies if their team loses the Nov. 20 contest that will kick off at 1 p.m. at Greene Stadium in Johnson City, Tenn.
            
If the Bears win, ETSU President Dr. Brian Noland will send Mercer President William D. Underwood a batch of Tennessee BBQ, and if the …

2021-November-01-Meet Kayla Weber, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

For many college graduates, the job search begins after they have completed their final exams and finally received their diploma. 

However, Kayla Weber found out that she landed her dream job a few months before she finished her final semester at East Tennessee State University. After she graduates with her BSN on Dec. 11, 2021, she will begin a full-time job in the main operating room at a local hospital. It was her top pick of positions, and she cannot wait to begin her career. 

“My experience at ETSU has helped prepare me for my career in nursing by helping …

2021-November-01-Meet Cory Whitfield, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

As he approaches the Thanksgiving holiday, graduate student Cory Whitfield remains grateful for a mentor’s powerful impact on his journey at East Tennessee State University.

Whitfield, who will graduate with his Master of Social Work in May 2022, would not have been able to attend ETSU if not for the late Dr. Angela Radford Lewis, an ETSU administrator who served as vice provost and special assistant to the president for strategic initiatives at ETSU before her death in 2019.

Lewis paved the way for Whitfield to pursue his dreams at ETSU, and now, he hopes to pay it forward and …

2021-November-01-Medical Students Hosting Virtual 5k Fun Run:Walk, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

Fun Run/Walk

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Nov. 1, 2021) — The Organization of Student Representatives (OSR) at East Tennessee State University’s Quillen College of Medicine is hosting the 2021 Quillen 5K Fun Run/Walk on Saturday, Nov. 13.

All proceeds will benefit the Willow Unit at Woodridge Hospital, which is a 12-bed unit offering inpatient psychiatric care to children and adolescents in a caring, comfortable environment. The unit serves children and teens ages 6 to 17 (and 18-year-olds meeting criteria who are current high school students).

Registration is $10 and all participants are eligible for prizes, which include gift cards form local …

2021-November-01-Voting Among Etsu Students Up Nearly 20 Percent During 2020, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. – East Tennessee State University recently received a report that reveals student voting increased significantly during last year’s presidential election, rising from 46.8% in 2016 to 64.3% in 2020 for a total 17.5% increase overall. 

The report comes from the Institute for Democracy & Higher Education (IDHE), founders of the National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement, or NSLVE.  

The study’s authors report that nationwide, college communities are seeing record-number voter turnout. Educational institutions across the nation saw a national average of 66% voter turnout during the 2020 presidential election, a notable increase from the 52% …

2021-November-01-Remote Area Medical (Ram) Clinic, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

An interprofessional team of students, faculty and staff from East Tennessee State University’s five health sciences colleges volunteered at the Remote Area Medical (RAM) clinic in Gray Nov. 5-7. 

This was the fifth year that ETSU sent a team to Gray to help deliver free medical, dental and vision services to people of the region. 

The ETSU Health volunteers represented Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy, Quillen College of Medicine, College of Public Health, College of Nursing and College of Clinical and Rehabilitative Health Sciences. 

Throughout the weekend, the students assisted with vision, dental, and medical screenings …

Lindenwood Named Healthiest Employer For 2021, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

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The Hr Connection, Georgia Southern University

Human Resources Newsletter

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• November is American Diabetes Month!

• Recipe of the Month

• Wellness Tip of the Month

• Upcoming USG Well-Being Events

• Virtual Holiday Helper Tree

Application Of Fmea In Solving The Financial Inclusion Issue In India, Chandravadan Shrihari Goritiyal, Shreya Surve

International Review of Business and Economics

Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) is an operational tool which systematically, proactively evaluates the method to spot where the potential failure might occur and identify the potential causes, which would help to reduce the relevant impact of various failures in the process. Financial inclusion generally understood to mean the method of ensuring access to appropriate financial products and services needed by all sections of society including vulnerable groups at an economical cost. It's an immediate impact on the expansion of the economy of the country. This paper analyses the effect of Indian citizen participation in financial inclusion and identifies …

Optimum Commodity Taxation When Employment Matters, P. Nandakumar Warreir

International Review of Business and Economics

Ramsey's inelasticity rule for optimum commodity taxation has been criticized for indicating tax rates for basic necessities which have lower elasticities of demand than luxury consumption items. However, it is noted that skilful marketing techniques tend to lower the demand elasticities of luxury items so that it is not evident that the Ramsey rule is inequitable. In this paper equity concerns from a macroeconomic viewpoint are introduced, modifying the Ramsey rule approach by including total employment in the decision-maker's utility function. Then it is seen that the relative tax rate of the product which is more labour-intensive in production is …

Concentrated Ownership And Firm’S Performance: A Bibliometric Analysis Of The Literature, Ada Guštin Habuš, Janez Prašnikar

Economic and Business Review

The article aims to describe the historical sequence, interrelatedness, and development of dominant and emerging research areas within the concentrated ownership literature. Moreover, it aims to determine the most influential articles, authors, journals, and countries in the field by applying a bibliometric analysis. The latter reveals that the future research concerning concentrated ownership should be more country-based and use consistent and more extended data sets. It should also apply different theoretical frameworks, profound institutional analysis, and look for cross-fertilization of ideas, which could be spread worldwide.

Logistics Outsourcing In Large Manufacturing Companies: The Case Of Slovenia And Lessons From Other Countries, Marko Budler, Marko Jakšič, Teja Vilfan

Economic and Business Review

Logistics outsourcing is a mode of operation for companies in global supply chains that have been increasingly devoting more attention to their core activities. This study examines the state-of-the-art in logistics outsourcing in the Slovenian manufacturing industry. Additionally, the authors benchmark the findings against a similar study from 2013. Finally, this study provides a discussion of logistics-outsourcing specifics in some countries with the use of secondary data. We identify transportation as a top-ranked logistics activity, and a general propensity for higher-level logistics outsourcing (e.g. 4PL). The authors contribute to the supply-chain management society by identifying the drivers of, barriers to, …

The Influence Of Intrinsic Motivational Forces On Consumers’ Product Purchase Intentions, Sumera Syed, Syed R. H. Shah, Fauziah S. Ahmad

Journal of Mediterranean Tourism Research

Food is perceived as the top most surviving need of humans since their existence. With the passage of time, this need has been further revolutionized with added requirements of safety and hygienic factors. Halal food having both of these factors, has gained popularity among both Muslims and non-Muslims consumers. Despite of ever increasing trend of Halal food consumption, the research to uncap this amazingly growing sector is still in its infancy stages. Interestingly, the role of intrinsic motivation in shaping up intention of the consumers for Halal food purchase is still not well explored. This study has addressed this untapped …

Risk Communication In The Tourism Industry, Lindsay E. Usher, Ashley Schroeder

Human Movement Studies & Special Education Faculty Publications

This chapter focuses on risk communication in the tourism sector. Tourism organizations must communicate with a variety of stakeholders when conveying messages about impending severe weather or disasters, which are increasing due climate change and sea level rise. There is also an increased need to distribute information to tourism stakeholders about preparing for, continuing service during, and recovering from, disasters. Stakeholders involved with the tourism industry include business owners, government officials and tourists, all of whom have differing degrees of vulnerability in a destination when a threat occurs. Different messages regarding disaster preparation and recovery must be communicated to the …

The Role Of Expectation–Reality Discrepancy In Service Contracts, Xuying Zhao, Hong Guo, Gangshu (George) Cai

Information Systems and Analytics

Service contracts are common practice in some industries while being eliminated in others. To investigate this phenomenon, we identify expectation–reality discrepancy (ERD) as a key determinant. A provider's ERD is defined as consumers’ ex-ante expected valuation minus their ex-post realized valuation of the provider's service. Our analysis reveals that providers’ contract strategies critically depend on their ERDs rather than the true service valuations. A provider with a higher ERD is more likely to enforce contracts, regardless of whether the true service valuation is higher than that of the competitor. Providers should enforce contracts only when they have positive ERDs. Furthermore, …

Covid-19 And Tourism: Analyzing The Effects Of Covid-19 Statistics And Media Coverage On Attitudes Toward Tourism, Maksim Godovykh, Jorge Ridderstaat, Carissa Baker, Alan Fyall

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

COVID-19 has significantly influenced tourism, including tourists’ and residents’ attitudes toward tourism. At the same time, attitudes and consumer confidence are important for economic recovery in the tourism sector. This study explores the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on people’s attitudes toward tourism by analyzing time-series data on the number of COVID-19 positive cases, vaccinations, news sentiment, a total number of daily mentions of tourism, and the share of voice for positive and negative sentiment toward tourism. The applied data analysis techniques include descriptive analysis, visual representation of data, data decomposition into trend and cycle components, unit root tests, Granger …

Donor Perception And Intention Impacting Nonprofit Organizations, Emily Brohawn

Senior Honors Theses

The perception of a donor and their inevitable intention as it relates to their formed opinion is the framework of consumer-organizational interaction within the world of nonprofits. Realizing the elements that directly influence the perception one forms of an organization allows businesses to discover the best ways to market their message and present themselves in a way they deem most appropriate. Understanding an organization’s influence and ability to manipulate the view of the consumer plays a large part in the nonprofit sector, determining how much a nonprofit will be supported by potential donors. The donor behavior that relays their perception …

Identifying Board Of Director Network Influence For Firm Characteristics, Aparna Gupta, Abena Owusu, Lei Zou

Department of Accounting and Finance Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

We utilize multiplex network analysis to evaluate the relationship between firms’ characteristics and board of director networks. Studying a sample of 384 board members of 20 largest US energy and utility firms, 10 from each sector, the firms are differentiated by a clustering analysis on their firm-level characteristics. The firms’ board member connections are represented in a multiplex network consisting of two layers, one for the board members’ direct connections and another for their indirect connections. Four additional sub-layers are identified for each major layer of the multiplex network to represent corporate, non-profit organization, education and government/military connections between the …

Revisiting Strategy In A Time Of Crisis, Gregory A. Smith

Faculty Publications and Presentations

The season of upheaval brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic is a critical occasion for libraries to revisit their organizational strategies. Strategy includes two complementary dimensions: alignment with the environment and the pursuit of competitive advantage. Rapid changes in the environment call for practicing strategic thinking iteratively rather than engaging in a fixed rhythm of multi-year planning. An effective library strategy displays four key attributes: (1) It responds to the concerns of diverse stakeholders. (2) It is flexible enough to adapt to emerging conditions. (3) It enacts organizational mission but can also help to reshape it. (4) It integrates with …

Computational Simulation Of The Lung Doses Of Air-Borne Fine And Ultrafine Particles Inhaled By Humans At Industrial Workplaces, Mohammed Ali

Technology Faculty Publications and Presentations

This study correlates computational predictions with in-vivo experimental results of inhaled fine and ultrafine particulate matters (PMs) transport, dissemination, and deposition in the human respiratory airways. Epidemiological studies suggest that workplace exposure of anthropogenic pollutant PMs as a risk factor for increased susceptibility to acute broncho-pulmonary infections. However, investigations on detailed human inhalation and PM transport processes are restrictive from time, cost, and ethical perspectives. To overcome this problem, computational simulation of particle deposition based on the Multiple Path Particle Dosimetry (MPPD) model was employed. Here, the physical, mechanical, and electrical properties of PMs of carbon black and nanoparticles from …

Upcoding Medicare: Is Healthcare Fraud And Abuse Increasing?, Alberto Coustasse, Whitney Layton, Laikyn Nelson, Victoria Walker

Management Faculty Research

Medicare fraud has been the cause of up to $60 billion in overpaid claims in 2015 alone. Upcoding occurs when a healthcare provider has submitted codes for more severe conditions than diagnosed for the patient to receive higher reimbursement. The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of Medicare and Medicaid fraud to determine the magnitude of upcoding inpatient and outpatient claims throughout reimbursements.

The methodology for this study utilized a literature review. The literature review analyzed physician upcoding throughout present on admission infections, diagnostic related group upcoding, emergency department, and clinic upcoding. It was found that upcoding …

Institutional Theory In Sport: A Scoping Review, Jonathan Robertson, Mathew Dowling, Marvin Washington, Becca Leopkey, Dana Lee Ellis, Lee Smith

Business Faculty Publications and Presentations

Institutional theory has generated considerable insight into fundamental issues within sport. This study seeks to advance Washington and Patterson’s review by providing an empirical review of institutional theory in sport. We follow Arksey and O’Malley’s scoping review protocol to identify 188 sport-related institutional studies between 1979 and 2019. Our review provides evidence regarding the state of institutional scholarship within sport via an analysis of authorship, year, journal, methodology, method, study population, and use of institutional constructs (legitimacy, isomorphism, change, logics, fields, and work). Rather than a hostile takeover or a joint venture proposed in Washington and Patterson’s review, the relationship …

Investigating The Effects Of Dimension-Specific Sentiments On Product Sales: The Perspective Of Sentiment Preferences, Cuiqing Jiang, Jianfei Wang, Qian Tang, Xiaozhong Lyu

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

While literature has reached a consensus on the awareness effect of online word-of-mouth (eWOM), this paper studies its persuasive effect, specifically, the dimension-specific sentiment effects on product sales. We allow the sentiment information in eWOM along different product dimensions to have different persuasive effects on consumers’ purchase decisions. This occurs because of consumers’ sentiment preference, which is defined as the relative importance consumers place on various dimension-specific sentiments. We use an aspect-level sentiment analysis to derive the dimension-specific sentiments and PVAR (panel vector auto-regression) models to estimate their effects on product sales using a movie panel dataset. The findings show …

Cowgill Family Collection, 1861-1880, Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library

Finding Aids

This collection consists of the personal writings of Mary Alma (Stevens) Cowgill, Paulena (Stevens) Janney, and Lillian (Cowgill) Blair.

Henry Clay Cowgill (1844-1914) was born in Ohio. He married Mary Alma (Stevens) Cowgill (1845-1907) in Ohio on September 19, 1865. They moved to Carthage, Missouri in November 1868. Henry owned milling, banking and mining operations in and around Carthage, including the Cowgill Milling Company. He and Mary Alma had three children: Lillian (Cowgill) Blair (1866-1931), Henry Stevens Cowgill (1877-1946), and Lloyd Cowgill (1881-1930). Mary Alma & her sister Paulena (Stevens) Janney (1840-1873) attended Earlham College in Indiana. Paulena married William …

Simoncic, Anthony, Collection, 1884-1941, Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library

Finding Aids

This collection consists of photocopies of records of mining locations, accidents, maps of southwestern, Kansas, and the memoir “WW-1 Baby” by Anthony Simoncic.

Anthony John Simoncic was born in Weir, Kansas in 1907, and grew up in Ringo, Kansas during the 1920s. As an adult, he worked as a truck driver. Anthony married Rose Ann Oblak (1908 - 1991) and together they had a son in 1939. Simoncic passed away in his home in 1993, unable to complete his memoir. This collection was donated to PSU in 2000 by Linda Knoll.

Memorial Auditorium Collection, 1999-2004, Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library

Finding Aids

This collection consists of Personal correspondence, newspaper photocopies, newsletters, brochures and other miscellaneous materials relating to the Memorial Auditorium & Convention Center of Pittsburg, Kansas.

Pittsburg’s Memorial Auditorium was built as the Mirza Temple (Masonic) for the Pittsburg Chapter. Construction of the building began in 1923 and finished in 1925. In 1945, the temple was purchased by the city of Pittsburg after voters approved the use of bonds in the purchase. The Memorial Auditorium was dedicated to the servicemen of WW1 and WW2, as well as the devoted women and Red Cross nurses who accompanied them. Various influential entertainers have …

The Idaho Human Rights Act Is Long Overdue For A Legislative Update, Susan E. Park, Doug A. Werth

Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

The Idaho Human Rights Act (“IHRA”) needs attention. The Idaho Legislature has not made a meaningful amendment to the Act since 2005, when it expanded protections for persons with disabilities.1 It has neglected to update the IHRA after landmark federal enactments such as the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, the Civil Rights Act of 1991, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, and the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008. The statutory disconnect created by this legislative lapse has magnified the importance of how courts apply federal case law to the IHRA, particularly in light of the …