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Nebraska Monthly Economic Indicators: November 24, 2021, Eric Thompson

Leading Economic Indicator Reports

The LEI-N rose by 0.61% during October 2021. The increase in the leading indicator, which is designed to predict economic activity six months in the future, signals moderate economic growth in Nebraska during the spring of 2022. There was an increase in building permits for single-family homes in October and positive business expectations. There also was a decline in initial claims for unemployment insurance. However, several indicator components worsened during October. Airline passenger counts and manufacturing hours worked both declined slightly. There also was a modest uptick in the value of the U.S. dollar. A higher dollar is challenging for …

Behavior Modeling Training, Megan Paul

Umbrella Summaries

What is behavior modeling training?

Behavior modeling training (BMT) involves the following five steps: “(a) describing to trainees a set of well-defined behaviors (skills) to be learned, (b) providing a model or models displaying the effective use of those behaviors, (c) providing opportunities for trainees to practice using those behaviors, (d) providing feedback and social reinforcement to trainees following practice, and (e) taking steps to maximize the transfer of those behaviors to the job” (Taylor et al., 2005, p. 692). BMT can be used to train a variety of skills, from interpersonal skills like conflict management, interviewing, assertive communication, and …

Validation Of The Athletic Identity Measurement Scale In Youth Academy Soccer Players, Tom Mitchell Dr., Fieke Rongen, John Perry, Martin Littlewood, Kevin Till

Journal of Athlete Development and Experience

The Athletic Identity Measurement Scale (AIMS) is a popular measure of Athletic Identity (AI). The purpose of the present study was to investigate the factor structure (7-item single factor and 3 factor model; Social Identity, Exclusivity and Negative Affectivity) of the AIMS within youth academy soccer players. A total of 259 male youth academy soccer players aged 12-18 years completed the AIMS. A series of confirmatory factor analyses, independent cluster modelling indicated support for the 7-item single-factor (AI) and the three-factor models but not within the same analysis. The results support the use of AIMS for the measurement of AI …

Exploring English Youth Academy Footballers’ Experiences Through Role Strain Theory, Rick Hayman, Remco Polman, Erika Borkoles

Journal of Athlete Development and Experience

Throughout adolescence and early adulthood, talented athletes must dedicate increasing personal resources to their sport. Recent empirical research found that applying Role Strain Theory (RST) was useful to contextualise international junior golfers’, acrobats’, gymnasts’ and Australian Rules footballers’ experiences of how they combined and coped with the competing role demands of sport and education. Findings demonstrated how role strain (RS) severity and regularity fluctuated during their youth careers but subsided during the latter teenage years. Surprisingly, limited research exploring how youth academy footballers simultaneously combine sport, education and social demands exists. This study determined the extent to which RS was …

Division I College Athletes’ Self-Perception: Investigating The Impact Of Race And Discrimination, Sean Strehlow, Sayvon Jl Foster, Rhema Fuller, B. David Ridpath, Alison Fridley, Sarah Stokowski

Journal of Athlete Development and Experience

Self-perception is the level of competency at which individuals evaluate themselves in certain areas or domains (Marsh & Shavelson, 1985). An individual’s self-perceptions contribute to their global self-worth and even predicts performance (Cuellar, 2014; Harter & Neemann, 2012). This study measures self-perception scores, as well as experiences with racial discrimination, of 306 NCAA Division I college athletes using the Self-Perception Profile for College Students (Harter & Neemann, 2012). Scores are compared across race. Findings suggest that White college athletes have significantly higher self-perception scores than college athletes of color - with recent discrimination (within the last year) as a significant …

Indicators Of The Physique Of Handball Players, Taking Into Account Their Role In Game, Shuhrat Furkatjanovich Tulaganov

Eurasian Journal of Sport Science

Purpose: improvement of the training system for young handball players, taking into account their role in game.

Methods: analysis of educational and methodological literature, pedagogical testing, pedagogical observation, pedagogical experiment, morphological, physiological research methods, methods of mathematical statistics.

Results: the methodology of a comprehensive assessment of the effectiveness of the activities of handball players of various game functions has been developed, which made it possible to assess the level of preparedness of players, and coaches to carry out purposeful organization and differentiated planning of the training process of handball players of various roles in game.

Conclusion: in a comparative aspect, …

Copycat Mass Killings: How Personality Might Moderate Identification With Antisocial Characters, Emily R. Mazzurco

Kean Quest

Research indicates that certain personality traits are prevalent within mass killers. Aggression, social rejection, narcissism, fame-seeking, low self-esteem, and depression are commonalities with mass killers, specifically mass shooters. Identification or idolizing antisocial fictional characters is also a common behavior within these types of offenders. These types of killers often draw inspiration for their own crimes from past criminals or from film and TV, thus committing what is known as a copycat crime. The purpose of the current study will be to examine the effects of social rejection and instigation on the likelihood of identifying with an antisocial character in young …

Coo2 Bhanga Munda Data, Asli Ascioglu, Padma Kadiyala

Finance Department Faculty Journal Articles

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Influencer Celebrification: How Social Media Influencers Acquire Celebrity Capital, Gillian Brooks, Jenna Drenten Ph.D., Mikolaj Jan Piskorski

School of Business: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The digital age has given rise to new pathways for everyday individuals to accrue media attention, which can be translated into promotional endeavors. Such sociocultural currency is referred to as celebrity capital, which can be exchanged within the field of advertising through celebrity endorsements. Traditional celebrities acquire celebrity capital through institutional intermediaries such as sport, television, music, and movies. Research is needed to understand the unique process by which social media influencers (SMIs) acquire celebrity capital. We draw on interviews with 40 global advertising industry practitioners and influencers to better understand how influencers acquire celebrity capital in a saturated media …

An Investigation Of The Personality Traits That Could Identify Vulnerable Young People Who Will Be Susceptible To Undue Influence By Social Media Influencers (Smis) - 7th Sim (Società Italiana Marketing) Doctoral & Research Colloquium, Charles Alves De Castro, Isobel O'Reilly Dr, Aiden Carthy

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Presentation for the 7th SIM Doctoral & Research Colloquium organised by the Società Italiana Marketing (Italian Marketing Society) and University of Salento in Italy. Experts and research colleagues reviewed my presentation and proposal. I received feedback about many aspects of my research regarding research questions, clarity, focus, methodology and other elements. This is important to enhance the quality of my research and makes it relevant to the scientific field.

Forecasting The Prospects Of Female Judoists Of Youth Age Based On Indicators Of Their Functional State, Umid Abduhamidovich Alimov

Eurasian Journal of Sport Science

Purpose: To justify the prediction by long-term training in women's judo. The article presents a functional analysis of the problem of the prospects for the development of female judoists of 17-18 years of age. The content of the presented work is fundamentally different from most generalizing works. The material of general scientific and special nature is presented, providing an individual approach to forecasting, working capacity and restoration of physical fitness of athletes. The content of the article is based on the research of female judoka in the period of the formation of sportsmanship.

Methods: Harvard step test - to determine …

Critical Pedagogy In The Time Of Covid-19: Lessons Learned, Carol Christine Hordatt Gentles

Journal of Multicultural Affairs

The abrupt closure of universities due to the coronavirus pandemic caused unprecedented challenges for educators. They struggled to transition to online teaching almost overnight. This has raised questions about the readiness of Higher Education for digitalisation and hybridization of learning environments and focused attention on the renewal of teaching and learning models. It is incumbent upon those who practise critical pedagogy to join this conversation; the mandatory transition has raised difficult questions around how to ensure continuity of an agenda to offer students humanistic and democratic learning experiences in the new virtual reality. In this paper I offer a critical …

Book Review: The Death Project: An Anthology For These Times, Ted D. Ayres

Journal of Multicultural Affairs

A book review of The Death Project: An Anthology for These Times.

Ted Ayres, Social Justice And Education Advocate: "Making It Count" With Book Reviews, Kristen P. Erdem

Journal of Multicultural Affairs

This is an interview article with a prolific reviewer of books seen on public television and in print. Ted Ayres had an inspired legal career, and his advocacy continues to this day. The year 2020, like no other year in our recent U.S. history, was a raucous reckoning for an array of social justice issues. As this theme continues in 2021, it is heartwarming getting to know a quiet advocate in our midst. Meet Ted Ayres. Ayres will be a contributor to the journal with book reviews. This is an introduction to the person, Ted Ayres as social justice and …

How The Common School Has Failed Hispanic Children—Witnessing The Severe Regression Of Language English Proficient Learners During A Pandemic: Teaching During Covid-19, Yvonne S. Herrera

Journal of Multicultural Affairs

Personal reflection on the impacts of the common school on Hispanic children during the COVID-19 pandemic, when Hispanic children experienced less opportunities in becoming educated due to lack of accessible technology.

Overview: From The Desk Of The Guest Editor, Tonya Huber

Journal of Multicultural Affairs

Overview from the Guest Editor on this special issue on the impacts of Covid-19 in educational settings. One theme explored in the contents of this issue is the powerlessness many educators felt as the editors set out to hear, comprehend, represent, and amplify their experiences. Other themes include: appreciation and empathy, focusing on what matters, and new ways of teaching with technology.

Means Of Training And Monitoring And Methods Of Endurance Development Of Female Handball Players, Shoislom Kallibaevich Pavlov

Eurasian Journal of Sport Science

Purpose: Development and control of endurance of handball players by studying modern innovative tools and methods of endurance development, as well as improving the effectiveness of endurance training.

Methods: The following techniques are used to train endurance: The technique of evenly performed exercises is used in the training of general endurance. This method is used during training to prepare for maximum continuous training, which is performed regularly with a pulse of no more than 130 beats per minute. In most cases, recovery performed in an evenly executed exercise style can be considered insufficient. Alternating exercise styles are used to improve …

The Practice Of Conducting A High-Intensity Weekly Micro Cycle At The Stage Of Pre-Competitive Training Of Young Gymnasts, Djamshid Khasanovich Umarov

Eurasian Journal of Sport Science

Purpose: In this article, the issues of searching for the rational construction of the educational and training process of young gymnasts and the effective ratio of loads of different directions at the stage of in-depth specialization in the pre-competitive micro cycle are considered. To study the expediency of using high-intensity training loads in the process of training young gymnasts aged 12-16 years.

Methods: Study and analysis of literary sources on the research topic, pedagogical observation, pedagogical testing, pedagogical experiment, static methods of processing results.

Results: The number of combinations for gymnasts of all ages varies within the planned range (see …

Planning The Annual Training Cycle Of Football Students Of Sports Improvement Groups, Timur Shamshetovich Seitmuratov

Eurasian Journal of Sport Science

Purpose: The aim of the study is the substantiation and testing of the methodology of planning the training of football students of sports improvement groups in the one-year cycle.

Methods: The study used the analysis of scientific and methodological literature, questionnaires, testing, pedagogical experiment, methods of mathematical statistics.

Results: The content of general and special physical training of football players of sports improvement groups has been studied, as a result of which the most significant components of physical preparedness have been identified. The planning method of physical training process of football players of sports improvement groups in the annual cycle, …

The Effectiveness Of The Partial Credit Model In Calibrating Multi-Step Paragraphs, Mohammed Al-Zoubi

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This study aimed at assessing the efficiency of the partial Credit Model, in Calibration of polytomous items for the purposes of the study, an achievement test in chemistry for the second secondary class was prepared. The test consisted of 20 polytomous items which differed in the number of steps in each item. The test was administered to a sample of 771 male and female students. Mor specifically, the follwing findings were of particular importance: 1. Item difficulty increased as the number of the item steps increased. 2. There were no statistically significant differences in estimates of a sample of 11 …

Privatization And Its Role In ‎Reducing The Public Sector In The ‎Balance Of Islam, Adnan Smadi

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

Privatization and its role in Shrinking the Government’s Sectors As Judged by Principles of Islam The study aims at explaining the attitude of Islam towards privatization in general, and its influence on ‎shrinking the role of government's sectors in particular.‎ The significance of this study lies in investigation the causes that have called the world, particularly the ‎tird world, to follow the sector, which have raised from the faulty management of the local authorities, ‎and its failure to guide the economy towards development at the estimated rate.‎ The study has come of to the fact that the reason behind this …

The Effect Of Leadership Styles On ‎Resistance To Change With The Workers, Shaker Al-Khashali

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This research attempts to study the relationship between leadership style and employees resistance ‎to change at industrial firms in Jordan. A simple of (191) employees is selected from (3) of the largest ‎industrial firms.‎ Results show an overall “above – average” degree of resistance to change, the same degree of ‎resistance under associated with democratic leadership style.‎ Results, also, show that authoritarian leadership style is positively associated with resistance to ‎change (organizational, subjective, economic, and culture dimension), and democratic leadership ‎style is negatively correlated with organizational dimension of resistance only (and not other ‎dimension). Moreover, results show that classifier leadership …

Difficulties Facing Representatives ‎Selling Insurance Policies In Jordan, Marwan Shamout

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

Difficulties facing salesmen working in Jordanian Insurance Companies. This study aimed to ‎identify the difficulties facing salesman working in Jordanian insurance companies , Further , ‎the study aimed to identify the‏ ‏impact of certain demographic variables identify the impact of ‎certain demo graphic variables upon the difficulties . The population consisted all the salesmen ‎working in Jordanian insurance companies, 188 of them participated in this study. The study ‎instrument, developed by the researcher, consisted of two parts: personal information, which ‎formed the independent variables, and the difficulties questionnaire. Mean, Standard ‎deviations, One way analysis of Variance, and sheffe ' method …

A Proposed Mathematical Model For ‎Allocating Energy Costs And Joint ‎Costs In Industrial Facilities In Light Of ‎Agency Theory, Hasan Zaki

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

Banker and Haghes (1994) demonstrated the economic sufficiency of normal activity - based ‎unit cost for optimal pricing decisions. This paper provides an agency paralle to their analysis by ‎examining how, in the presence of capacity cost, the desirable tradeoff between risk- sharing ‎and incentives can be achieved through modification of the performance measures on which ‎the contract is based. Similar to Banker and Hughes (1994), it was found in this study that the ‎optimal capacity cost allocation is a function only of budgeted volume when capacity can be ‎used to product a single product. Analysis of a joint production …

The Profession And Its Impact ‎On Efficiency In Islamic ‎Marriage Contracts, Muhammad Bani ‎Sale

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

The researcher arrived at the following decisions and recommendations: ‎ ‎1-‎ Taking into account the environmental and living near ness between the couple ( ‎husband and wife ) as well as their families which lead to similarity in traditions which ‎has mostly positive results on the daily social as well as behavior relationships , and ‎other aspects of tranquility and content ‎ ‎2-‎ Taking into account the nearness in profession between the couple or their families ‎which is of great importance since it is common among people. This is corner stone to ‎solve many of the psychological conflicts between the …

Planning Budgets ... And Inflation ‎Effects ... And Treatment, Muhammad Salim

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

يؤدي الارتفاع في المستوى العام للأسعار إلى انخفاض القوة الشرائية للوحدة النقدية ، ويطلق على هذه الظاهرة التضخم ‏والذي يمكن تعريفه " بأنه درجة ( معدل ) التغيير في المستوى العام للأسعار خلال فترة زمنية معينة ‏"‏ ( 1 ) ، وبما أن ‏المباديء المحاسبية المتعارف عليها تفرض استخدام التكلفة الفعلية ( التاريخية ) في السجلات المحاسبية ، مما ينتج ‏عنه خلال فترات التضخم أن يظهر قياس الأداء بشكل مبالغ فيه بسبب الفارق الزمني بين التكاليف والإيرادات كما ‏يؤدي التضخم إلى صعوبة التمييز بين أرباح النشاط الاقتصادي وبين أرباح حيازة موجودات غیر نقدية.‏ وتعتبر الموازنات التخطيطية إحدى الأدوات الرئيسية المستخدمة …

Broken Nest: Deterring China From Invading Taiwan, Jared M. Mckinney, Peter Harris

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

Deterring a Chinese invasion of Taiwan without recklessly threatening a great-power war is both possible and necessary through a tailored deterrence package that goes beyond either fighting over Taiwan or abandoning it. This article joins cutting-edge understandings of deterrence with empirical evidence of Chinese strategic thinking and culture to build such a strategy.

Making Agriculture Carbon Neutral Amid A Changing Climate: The Case Of South-Western Australia, Ross Kingwell

Climate Science Research Articles

Making Australian agriculture carbon neutral by 2050 is a goal espoused by several agricultural organisations in Australia. How costly might it be to attain that goal, especially when adverse climate change projections apply to agriculture in southern Australia? This study uses scenario analysis to examine agricultural emissions and their abatement via reforestation in south-western Australia under projected climate change. Most scenarios include the likelihood of agricultural emissions being reduced in the coming decades. However, the impact of projected adverse climate change on tree growth and tree survival means that the cost of achieving agricultural carbon neutrality via reforestation is forecast …

“For The People: A Collaborative Space Assessment”: A Joyful Interpretation Of Room Design, Anne Holland

Honors Projects

To create a space that matters one must focus on the needs of the people who will use it. It is easy to create a beautiful space, however if that space does not function for those it was built for it has no point. Currently in the basement of Founders Residence Hall on the Bowling Green State University campus there is an old unused cafeteria space. This space has not only the potential but the ability to become something new, something of use. It is an area that could not only be renovated and redone by the Honors College but …

Sherman And His Historians: An End To The Outsized Destroyer Myth?, Mitchell G. Klingenberg

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

For years, scholars have viewed the career of William Tecumseh Sherman in light of an antiquated destroyer myth and neglected his memoirs, which were written as a military textbook. This essay reviews Sherman’s legacy and literature, both of which contributed to the advancement of modern military thought. His experiences may serve as a prescriptive text to servicemembers, providing critical lessons on military warfare and philosophy still relevant today.