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Advertising And The Mortgage Crisis: A Content Analysis, Pamela Morris

School of Communication: Faculty Publications and Other Works

How do advertising messages differ in 2006 when the economy was on its way up, as compared to in 2009, just after a recession had been declared? This research focuses on the differences in newspaper advertising sponsored by financial institutions, from banks to investment companies. A content analysis of over 550 financial ads finds differences, in the number of ads and the content of ads. Findings should be of interest to academics, practitioners, and policymakers.

Advertising Images: Reflections And Temptations, Pamela Morris

School of Communication: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Advertising promotes more than products and services, it also tells us how to look, act, and think. With a unique perspective from both professional and academic experiences, Dr. Morris’ research explores international advertising and how visuals can be read which highlight values found in different countries. Underlying social dimensions, that may otherwise go unnoticed because of their ”naturalness,” can be exposed.

Dr. Morris has more than 18 years of account management experience in the advertising industry and has traveled extensively in pursuit of her research interests in advertising, mass media, world culture, and visual literacy, aspects of which she teaches. …

Measurement Invariance Of The Kidney Disease And Quality Of Life Instrument (Kdqol-Sf) Across Veterans And Non-Veterans, Karen L. Saban, Fred B. Bryant, Dominic J. Reda, Kevin T. Stroupe, Denise M. Hynes

Psychology: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Background

Studies have demonstrated that perceived health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of patients receiving hemodialysis is significantly impaired. Since HRQOL outcome data are often used to compare groups to determine health care effectiveness it is imperative that measures of HRQOL are valid. However, valid HRQOL comparisons between groups can only be made if instrument invariance is demonstrated. The Kidney Disease Quality of Life-Short Form (KDQOL-SF) is a widely used HRQOL measure for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) however, it has not been validated in the Veteran population. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the measurement invariance …

Recognition Within The Limits Of Reason: Remarks On Pippin’S Hegel’S Practical Philosophy, David Ingram

Philosophy: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Since the publication of Charles Taylor’s Multiculturalism and the Politics of Recognition in 1989,[1] the concept of recognition has re-emerged as a central if not dominant category of moral and political philosophy.

[1] C. Taylor, “The Politics of Recognition,” in A. Gutmann (ed.), Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994), pp. 25-73.

Cook County Sheriff's Reentry Council Quarterly Update (Volume 2, Issue 2: October 2010), David E. Olson

Criminal Justice & Criminology: Faculty Publications & Other Works

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

• First Virtual High School class graduates
• Enhanced grant-funding efforts
• In-Service Event success
• Grant money received to improve reentry programming
• Pre-trial detention times relatively long
• Inmate deaths in the national context

A Digital Repository At Loyola University Chicago, Eben English

University Libraries: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Loyola University Libraries propose to develop a suite of services, systems, and online tools for the purpose of collecting, storing, organizing, and providing access to digital assets produced by Loyola University related to research, teaching, and learning. Functioning collectively as a “digital repository,” these initiatives will work in concert to facilitate a wide range of scholarly and archival activities, including content creation, collaboration, resource sharing, author rights management, digitization, preservation, and access by a global academic audience. This open-access repository will provide for increased discoverability, visibility and access to scholarship created at Loyola, and support the management and long-term preservation …

Metadata For Digital Audio Collections, Eben English

University Libraries: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Slides from a webinar presented on October 12, 2010 as part of the "Metadata Matters" educational series sponsored by the Digital Collections Users' Group (DCUG) of the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI).

This session covered how standard metadata schemas such as Dublin Core and METS can be applied to digital audio collections, as well as the embedded metadata fields in digital audio file formats such as WAV, BWF, and MP3. The session also discussed how the unique characteristics of archival audio materials – such as oral histories, lectures, radio broadcasts, and musical performances – can best …

Celebrating Faculty Scholarship: Bibliography - 2009, University Libraries

University Libraries: Faculty Publications and Other Works

A bibliography of faculty publications submitted for inclusion in the second annual 'Celebrating Faculty Scholarship' event sponsored by Loyola University Libraries. The event, which took place on October 21, 2010 in the Richard J. Klarchek Information Commons on the university's Lake Shore Campus, featured articles, books, creative works, and other materials authored by Loyola University Chicago faculty in 2009.

The Forty-Two Gang: The Unpublished Landesco Manuscripts, Robert M. Lombardo

Criminal Justice & Criminology: Faculty Publications & Other Works

This paper examines Chicago's Forty-Two Gang. The Forty-Two Gang is one of the most famous groups in gang history, yet we know very little about the gang. Combining data from published and archival sources, this paper provides a history of the gang and explores its impact on the emergence of the Outfit, the traditional organized crime group in Chicago. The archival sources used in this analysis come from the unpublished John Landesco manuscript collection. The manuscripts not only provide a rich source of information on the Forty-Two Gang, but also a fresh look at the diffusion of delinquency subcultures and …

Is Analogical Reasoning Just Another Measure Of Executive Functioning?, Lindsey E. Richland, Robert G. Morrison

Psychology: Faculty Publications and Other Works

A commentary on: Deficits in analogical reasoning in adolescents with traumatic brain injury.

The Loyola Experience (1993-2009): Optimal Data Analysis In The Department Of Psychology, Fred B. Bryant

Psychology: Faculty Publications and Other Works

This article traces the origins and development of the use of optimal data analysis (ODA) within the Department of Psychology at Loyola University Chicago over the past 17 years. An initial set of ODA-based articles by Loyola faculty laid the groundwork for a sustained upsurge in the use of ODA among graduate students which has lasted for more than a decade and a half. These student projects subsequently fueled an increase in ODA-based publications by other Loyola Psychology faculty, who directly supervised the various student projects. Thus, ODA initially trickled down from faculty to students, but later grew up in …

How To Save The Binary Class Variable And Predicted Probability Of Group Membership From Logistic Regression Analysis To An Ascii Space-Delimited Data File In Spss 17 For Windows, Fred B. Bryant

Psychology: Faculty Publications and Other Works

This note explains the steps involved and provides the SPSS syntax needed to run two-group logistic regression analysis using SPSS 17 for Windows, and output to an ASCII space-delimited data file the binary class variable and predicted probability of group membership (i.e., “Y-hat”) from an SPSS logistic regression analysis.

Junk Science, Test Validity, And The Uniform Guidelines For Personnel Selection Procedures: The Case Of Melendez V. Illinois Bell, Fred B. Bryant, Elaine K.B Siegel

Psychology: Faculty Publications and Other Works

This paper stems from a recent federal court case in which a standardized test of cognitive ability developed by AT&T, the Basic Scholastic Aptitude Test (BSAT), was ruled invalid and discriminatory for use in hiring Latinos. Within the context of the BSAT, we discuss spurious statistical arguments advanced by the defense, exploiting certain language in the current Uniform Guidelines for evaluating the fairness and validity of personnel selection tests. These issues include: (a) how to avoid capitalizing on chance; (b) what constitutes “a measure” of job performance; (c) how to judge the meaningfulness of group differences in performance measures; and …

Tracing Prospective Profiles Of Juvenile Delinquency And Non-Delinquency: An Optimal Classification Tree Analysis, Fred B. Bryant, Hideo Suzuki, John D. Edwards

Psychology: Faculty Publications and Other Works

This study explored multiple variables that influence the development of juvenile delinquency. Two datasets of the National Youth Survey, a longitudinal study of delinquency and drug use among youths from 1976 and 1978, were used: 166 predictors were selected from the 1976 dataset, and later self-reported delinquency was selected from the 1978 dataset. Optimal data analysis was then used to construct a hierarchical classification tree model tracing the causal roots of juvenile delinquency and non-delinquency. Five attributes entered the final model and provided 70.37% overall classification accuracy: prior self-reported delinquency, exposure to peer delinquency, exposure to peer alcohol use, attitudes …

Manual Vs. Automated Cta: Psychosocial Adaptation In Young Adolescents With Spina Bifida, Fred B. Bryant, Rachael Millstein Coakley, Grayson Holmbeck, Paul R. Yarnold

Psychology: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Compared to the manually-derived model, the enumerated CTA model was 20% more parsimonious, 3.6% more accurate and 30% more efficient, and was more consistent with a priori hypotheses.

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Understanding Freshman Attrition Using Person-Environment Fit Theory, Jennifer Howard Smith, Fred B. Bryant, David Njus, Emil J. Posavac

Psychology: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Person-Environment (PE) fit theory was used to explore the relationship between student involvement and freshman retention. Incoming freshmen (N=382) were followed longitudinally in a twowave panel study, the summer before beginning college, and again during the spring of their freshman year. Involvement levels, a variety of summer and spring preferences (Ps), and spring perceptions (Es) regarding specific aspects of their college environment were assessed. Twelve PE fit indicators were derived and compared with respect to their relationship with student involvement and retention. Results indicated that involvement was linked to some PE fit indicators. Traditional parametric statistical analyses were compared with …

Trust And Boundaries In Three Small Group Communities: Urban Knitting Groups And The Construction Of Small Group Exclusivity, Erin N. Tracey

Theses (2 year embargo)

The existing small groups literature most often uses the small group as a way in which to study issues such as race, religion, and education rather than examining the ways in which the study of small groups provides a deeper understanding of larger social structures (Harrington and Fine 2000:314). I used participant observation in three urban knitting groups over approximately eight months and interviews with fifteen group members in total from each of the three groups to determine how entrée is achieved and boundaries are constructed in small group communities. Each group was unique in neighborhood location, the day and …

Banking In The Middle East Revisited Amid Turbulence In Financial Markets: The Case Of Egypt, Mine Cinar, Joseph Poulous

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

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Politics, Foreign Reserves And The Exchange-Rate-Based-Stabilization-Policy: The Lebanese Case, Kassim M. Dakhlallah

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

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On The Dynamics Of The Business Environment, A. Suut Dogruel, Can Karahasan

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

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Determinants Of Consumer Confidence In Emerging Economies: A Panel Cointegration Analysis, Sadullah Celik, Erhan Aslanoglu, Seda Uzun

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

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Changes In Exchange Rates And The Performance Of The Manufacturing Sectors In Turkey, A. Suut Dogruel, Fatma Dogruel, Umit Izmen

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

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Oil, Labor Markets, And Economic Diversification In The Gcc: An Empirical Assessment, Tarek Coury, Chetan Dave

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

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Lobbying And Growth: Explaining Differences Among Oecd Countries, Mehmet Babacan

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

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Formal Versus Informal Labor Market Segmentation In Turkey In The Course Of Market Liberalization, Erdal Aydin, Mehtap Hisarciklilar, Ipek Ilkkaracan

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

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The Causal Relation Between Savings And Economic Growth: Some Evidence From Mena Countries, Bassam Abual-Foul

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

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The Relationship Between Consumer Confidence And Financial Market: Variables In Turkey During The Global Crisis, Sadullah Celik, Erhan Aslanoglu, Seda Uzun

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

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Sustainability Of The Turkish Paygo System's Generosity In People's Eyes, Yigit Aydede

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

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Inquiry Into Income Convergence In Mena Countries: A Neural Network Approach, Majid Sameti

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

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The Economic And Financial Policies To Fight Against Climate Change: The Case Of Maghreb, Nathalie Hilmi, Alain Safa

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

No abstract provided.