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2016-3 Bgcop Students Receive Cpnp Scholarships, Bill Gatton College Of Pharmacy, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

CPNP Foundation Announces Student Registration and Travel Grant Recipients Thanks to the generous funds provided by the CPNP Foundation, CPNP Past Presidents, and CPNP members, twenty (20) students are receiving complimentary registrations and a $330 travel grant to be used toward their attendance at CPNP 2016. These twenty students were selected by the CPNP Student Committee based on the merits of their applications.

“These students represent our future and the future of neuropsychiatric pharmacy,” says CPNP Foundation President Matthew Fuller, PharmD, FASHP, BCPS, BCPP. “The CPNP Foundation is pleased to support these student grants providing access to the networking opportunities …

2016-Etsu Pharmacy School Receives Grant To Support First-Generation College Student Outreach, Bill Gatton College Of Pharmacy, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY – East Tennessee State University Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy received one of two diversity grants from the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) Foundation to support the pharmacy school’s commitment to recruiting a diverse student body.

The $15,000 grant will help Gatton College of Pharmacy develop an outreach program aimed at currently enrolled pre-health professional students from the Appalachian region who are the first in their families to attend institutions of higher learning. Nearly half of the pharmacy school’s students are first generation, and over a third of the college’s students are from rural zip codes. …

2016-Etsu Pharmacy Professor Honored For Efforts In Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention, Bill Gatton College Of Pharmacy, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY Dr. Nick Hagemeier was working as a pharmacist at an independent community pharmacy in Lebanon, Indiana, in 2007 when he spotted a masked man coming through the door one morning.

He walked up and said, I want all of your OxyContin, recalls Hagemeier, now an assistant professor at East Tennessee State Universitys Gatton College of Pharmacy. He wasnt joking around. He had a gun and he gave us 20 seconds to get him the drugs.

As the robber counted down from 20, Hagemeier and a pharmacy technician quickly grabbed a few bottles of OxyContin off a shelf, shoved …

2016-Students Participate In Dea Take Back Event, Bill Gatton College Of Pharmacy, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

Our students participated in the annual DEA sanctioned Take Back Event across the region.

Sites:

140 Blountville Bypass, Blountville, Tn (Sevinsky)

801 Anderson Street, Bristol, TN (Dowling)

525 East F Street, Elizabethton, TN (Alexander)

601 East Main St, Johnson City, TN (White)

123 Boone st, Jonesborough, Tn (Collins)

210 South Church Street, City Hall, Mountain City, TN (Gray)

211 N Main Ave, Erwin Tn (Town Hall Terry Roller)

In all, we had seven pharmacists along with 40 student pharmacists volunteer for the community enrichment activity. Mt City also had a DrNP student. The objective is to collect unused or unwanted …

2016-Alumni From 1950s And 1960s Honored At Homecoming Game, University School, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

University School Alumni from the 1950's and 1960's were honored at our recent Homecoming Game. Thank you so much for coming out and sharing your memories with us!  Click to view photos and a video from the event

2016-Hazard Mitigation Plan For The Etsu Campus, Department Of Geosciences, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

ETSU Department of Geosciences faculty Dr. Andrew Joyner received a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) grant to develop the first ever Hazard Mitigation Plan (HMP) for the ETSU campus, beginning in the summer of 2016.  HMPs help to identify long-term, broadly supported strategies for risk reduction and align resources on the greatest risks and vulnerabilities. In conjunction with the grant, a new lab in the Department of Geosciences has been created the Geoinformatics and Disaster Science (GADS) Lab.  We work closely with multiple staff and faculty members across campus to develop a map- …

2016-2016 Understanding Healthcare Professional Routines.Pdf, Department Of Interior Architecture, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

 ETSU Professor, Dr. Emily Flores gave students a detailed tour of ETSU Family Medicine Associates.  Students had the opportunity to view daily routines for healthcare professionals.  Important aspects of acoustics, privacy, efficiency in programming was clarified for patient rooms and common areas.  Students learned how important it is to do research before specifying furniture, fixtures and equipment.  Dos and don’ts in healthcare were emphasized.

2016-2016-May-Intd Graduating Class.Pdf, Department Of Interior Architecture, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

This summer was the inaugural summer of Studio Rome.  Students took four classes and earned a full semester of credits by spending 10 weeks immersed in the culture and designs of Rome, Italy.  They not only saw all the amazing buildings/spaces/art across thousands of years but experienced current design trends, local design professionals, sustainable practices in Rome and Vatican City, and worked on their own designs for two piazzas located in the heart of the city.  We want to thank all the pepole that amde it possible becuase this was a truly life changing experience.  We hope you enjoy just …

Fiduciary Breach, Once Removed, Deborah A. Demott

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Can Sharing Be Taxed?, Shu-Yi Oei, Diane M. Ring

Faculty Scholarship

In the past few years, we have seen the rise of a new model of production and consumption of goods and services, often referred to as the “sharing economy.” Fueled by startups such as Uber and Airbnb, sharing enables individuals to obtain rides, accommodations, and other goods and services from peers via personal computer or mobile application in exchange for payment. The rise of sharing has raised questions about how it should be regulated, including whether existing laws and regulations can and should be enforced in this new sector or whether new ones are needed.

In this Article, we explore …

Understanding The Global In Global Finance And Regulation, Lawrence G. Baxter

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Agency Costs In Law-Firm Selection: Are Companies Under-Spending On Counsel?, Elisabeth De Fontenay

Faculty Scholarship

A growing body of literature examines whether corporate clients derive sufficient value from the law firms that they engage. Yet little attention has been paid to whether clients optimally select among law firms in the first place. One entry-point is to identify discrepancies in the quality of counsel selected by different corporate clients for the very same work. Using a large sample of loans, this Article finds that major U.S. public companies select lower-ranked law firms for their financing transactions than do private equity-owned companies, controlling for various deal characteristics. While some of this discrepancy can be attributed to value-maximizing …

Commercial Crime Insurance For Coverage Of Employee Fraud, Ed Fenton, Siwei Gao

EKU Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Businesses face a myriad of risks from both within and outside the organization. Potential losses may arise from property damage due to weather, flooding, or fire, encompassing buildings, fixtures, and equipment. Liability concerns are present when a third party sustains injury while on the premises, or when another entity believes the business caused some sort of monetary damage to its operations. Additional risks include theft of business assets, whether those assets are in the physical form, such as inventory and equipment, or in the intangible form like proprietary production processes and secret recipes. Insurance coverage may be acquired to mitigate …

A Structural Model Of Managing E-Commerce Transaction Quality And Perceived Online Transaction Value, Qian Xiao

EKU Faculty and Staff Scholarship

A significant amount of online transactions have occurred through the widespread usage of e-commerce portals as intermediaries. These e-commerce portals such as www.ebay.com and www.amazon.com, manage the online exchange network, and facilitate the peer-to-peer business transactions. Researchers have developed different measures of e-commerce platform quality and explored its relationships to the user experience and firm performance. Built on the literature of online transaction quality, this study develops a conceptual framework that illustrates how the e-commerce platform quality and the transaction handling process will shape users’ perceived transaction value and the resulting experience evaluation.

Improvement Of Under-Represented Minority Individuals In The Healthcare Field Of Communication Sciences And Disorders, Allison Webb

Lewis Honors College Capstone Collection

Individuals from under-represented minority backgrounds are scarce within healthcare careers. Former research has suggested that this lack of diversity begins at the undergraduate level. This proposal discusses a potential solution to this problem occurring at the University of Kentucky and other colleges across the United States. Suggested intervention targeted diverse populations, connected students with faculty and staff, and provided shadowing resources for individuals from under-represented minority backgrounds. Based on research and current diversity statistics, populations of individuals from diverse backgrounds are expected to increase within the Communication Sciences and Disorders program. Demographic information for the fall 2016 semester will become …

Characteristics Of United States Seafood Consumers, Suliman Almojel

Theses and Dissertations--Agricultural Economics

In this thesis, I conducted an analysis of the consumption patterns associated with demographic and socio-economic characteristics, using Tobit and double-hurdle models. Data were collected for 11,574 households from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics for the year of 2014. Specific determinants included household size, age, income, gender, education, race, region, marital status, and whether the household lived in a coastal state. The results reveal that seafood expenditures are sequential decisions. Asian racial groups, households headed by married couples, a large number of members in households, higher income households, and households residing in the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts were variables …

Exploring The Role Of Entrepreneurship In The Growth And Development Of The Smaller State., Anthony Paul Buckley

Conference papers

The median sovereign state size in the world has a population of 6.2m with 73 per cent of the states having a population under 20m (World Bank, 2014). Despite this, the mainstream literatures in most academic disciplines have chosen to neglect the unique determinants of smaller state growth and development. The purpose of this exploratory paper is to investigate whether smaller developed states actually perform better than other states and why? More specifically it investigates the role that entrepreneurship plays in this performance. This paper utilises an exploratory ‘cross-case’ analytic approach (Yin, 2014) in attempting to identify cross case patterns …

Trashé Designs: A Social Enterprise, Cara Walden

MA IDS Thesis Projects

During my years in graduate school, my understanding of economic inequality has further expanded. While my experience in the Peace Corps and Nepal allowed me to see it in real life, my time in school has allowed me to ground these experiences in academic literature. By means of an action research project, my goal is to create economic opportunity for the HIV/AIDS community in Chiang Mai, Thailand, through the creation of the social enterprise Trashé Designs. A social enterprise is a way to address a social challenge with a market-based solution. My social enterprise, Trashé Designs, uses recycled materials to …

Organizimi Efektiv Dhe Kontrolli I Aktiviteteve Të Marketingut, Flamur Kadriu

Theses and Dissertations

Në këtë temë diplome trajtohet funksioni i marketingut konkretisht koncepti i marketingut, historiku, rëndësia si dhe roli i menaxhimit dhe aktivitetet e marketingut . Në fillim kemi një shqyrtim të literaturës ku shpjegohet në përgjithësi marketingu, fazat e zhvillimit si dhe organizimi , kontrolli dhe revizioni i aktiviteteve të marketingut . Në punim janë të pasqyruara format e organizmit të aktiviteteve të marketingut sipas funksioneve, produkteve, tregjeve, blerësve dhe formave tjera të kombinuara, njëkohësisht do të shtjellohet edhe kontrolli i marketingut, aktivitet i organizuar krahas së cilit reflektohen sukseset, të metat, kryerja dhe realizimi i detyrave të planifikuara të marketingut …

Analizë E Investime Të Huaja Ne Kosovë, Rron Jolla

Theses and Dissertations

Në këtë temë diplome trajtohet dhe shqyrtohet roli i investimeve në Kosovë se si ndikojnë ato në ekonominë e Kosovës. Në fillim të këtij punimi e kemi shqyrtimin e literaturës në të cilën shpjegohen përkufizimet e investimeve të huaja, klasifikimet e investimeve të huaja si dhe avantazhet dhe disavantazhet e saj. Po ashtu paraqitet se sa ka pas investime në Kosovë, cilat janë problemet e saj si dhe rezultatet e tyre. Gjendja në Kosovë e cila e ka papunesinë shumë të madhe është trajtuar po ashtu në këtë temë se si ajo ndikon në IHD duke i përdorur të dhënat …

Ndikimi I Marketingut Digjital Në Sektorin Privat Të Kosovës, Kastriot Kabashi

Theses and Dissertations

Kohëve tё fundit është rritur ndjeshëm interesimi mbi çështjen e marketingut digjital e sidomos nё sektorin privat nё Kosovё. Me të kuptuar vlerën dhe përfitimet që sjell kjo fushё e re e marketingut shumë kompani i janë nënshtruar këtij sistemi që sjell efekte pozitive brenda një biznesi. Konsiderojë që çdo biznes çfarëdo qoftë ai në kuadër të departamenteve që posedon duhet të përmbajë një degë të posaçme pёr transformimin e marketingut tradicional nё atё digjital. Kjo pikëpamje vjen si pasojë e sukseseve tё ndërmarrjeve private nё aplikimin e sistemeve digjitale tё marketingut pёr shpërndarjen, promovimin dhe reklamimin e produkt/shërbimeve online. …

2016 Nebraska Business

College of Business: Trade Publications

2016 Nebraska Business

Review Of Factors Influencing Employees’ Willingness To Share Knowledge, Paul Mc Manus, Mohamed Ragab, Amr Arisha, Sue Mulhall

Conference papers

Effective management of knowledge is currently recognised as the foundation of any organisation to maximise its abilities and achieve business targets. Organisations strive to leverage knowledge stocks – mostly held in the minds of their individual employees – in order to create value and drive success. For organisations to promote effective knowledge management, they have to develop innovative methods to encourage knowledge sharing practices. Knowledge sharing (KS) is a vital organisational process which empowers individuals to confront challenges of uncertainty and complexity, instils best practices, and enables the transfer of knowledge between different parts of the organisation. Given the fact …

Examining The Factors To Knowledge Sharing Within An Organisational Context, Paul Mc Manus

Conference papers

Abstract

In a global economy, knowledge may be a company’s greatest competitive advantage (Davenport & Prusak 2000). As such, competition for this resource has driven an increased demand for “a conscious strategy [by organisations] of getting the right knowledge to the right people at the right time and helping people share and put information into action in ways that strive to improve organisational performance” (O’Dell et al. 1998). Thus, it is the aim of this paper to provide an investigative look at the factors influencing the willingness of employees to knowledge share (KS) within an organisational context. Separated into two …

Publically–Funded Technology Start-Up Incubators – Evaluating Their Role And Contribution., Anthony Paul Buckley, Stephen Davis

Conference papers

Technology start-up incubators are one of a number of micro-policy interventions with which states attempts to support technology entrepreneurs. This paper outlines the challenges associated with evaluating start-up incubator services and advocates theory-based evaluation (TBE) methodology as a possible solution for effective evaluation in complex research settings such as this. An exploratory case study is used to illustrate the proposed TBE approach.

An Integrated Approach Of Multi-Objective Optimization Model For Evaluating New Supporting Program In Irish Hospitals, Wael Rashwan, Heba Habib, Amr Arisha, Garry Courtney, Sean Kennelly

Conference papers

Hospitals are witnessing an inexorable growth in emergency admissions, which results in overcrowding and a poorer patient experience. The Acute Medicine Program (AMP) is one of the programs developed by the Irish health authority aimed at improving patient experience. To review the AMP intervention, this study applies a model that integrates three analytical approaches: simulation, multivariate factor analysis and multi-objective optimization. The simulation identified 14 different factors affecting five responses that were used to develop a Design of Experiments (DoE). Multivariate factor analysis used the DoE to determine the factors creating ‘bottlenecks’, such as downstream resources. The multi-objective optimization model, …

The Concept Of 'Knowledge Creating': Re-Conceptualising The Problems Of Knowledge Transfer And Creation Processually, Conor Horan

Conference papers

How knowledge is created remains the subject of much debate (Kuhn, 1962). In fields of management, organisation studies and knowledge management, the hegemonic approach to studying the role of knowledge in management, and how it comes into being has predominantly been influenced by a knowledge transfer agenda. Recent attempts to explore a specific theory of knowledge creation (Nonaka, 1994) per se, have continued to rely on assumptions inherited from this knowledge transfer agenda. Here ‘events of transfer’ have been replaced with an emphasis on ‘events of creation’ suggesting that events of organisational knowledge creation require similar solutions to those addressing …

Performance Management In Irish Public And Private Sector Organisations: Moving Towards Multicultural Performance Management Practice, Kevin Paul Corbett

Conference papers

The purpose of this paper is to analyse how performance management (PM) has evolved to its current presence in Ireland as a sophisticated management tool. This paper will focus on intercultural and cross-cultural PM, its communication and training in the process in Ireland. This paper will examine its practice in the Irish private and public sectors and will also analyse a study on low-skilled employment of predominately migrant labour in Dublin. This paper will make a case for the roll out of PM to all sectors of the Irish workforce, including temporary and contract workers.

Youtube Money: The Impact Of Brand Management On Online Video Companies, Samantha Perry

Honors Program Theses

Many YouTube channels today operate not only as miniature media outlets, but as fully functional media companies operating independently through advertising revenue. The top creators of content on YouTube bring in millions of dollars of revenue each year. This thesis seeks to answer the question of how content creators can harness the power of brand management strategy in order to maximize revenue and grow their audiences over time. I overview current trends among content creators industry-wide, and then focus on a group of channels to analyze their brand management habits on- and off-line. I then examine data from brands’ videos …

Influential Factors In Encouraging Or Dissuading Orlando Businesses To Seek Leed Certification, Katrina M. Zdanowicz

Honors Program Theses

Orlando, Florida, is home to 85 building projects that have received a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification and 74 projects that are in the process of seeking certification. Over 90 percent of these 159 buildings have been or are being rated by LEED commercial standards. This paper argues that while LEED has played a valuable role in encouraging environmentally sustainable design in the Orlando commercial sector and will continue to be a significant presence in sustainability discussions, local government legislation can assist the end-goals of LEED by promoting more localized initiatives. The benefits of LEED certification include …