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The Guardian, Week Of February 22, 2021, Wright State Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

News articles from The Guardian for the week of February 22, 2021. The Guardian is the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. It has been published regularly since March of 1965.

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The Guardian, Week Of February 15, 2021, Wright State Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

News articles from The Guardian for the week of February 15, 2021. The Guardian is the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. It has been published regularly since March of 1965.

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The Guardian, Week Of February 8, 2021, Wright State Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

News articles from The Guardian for the week of February 8, 2021. The Guardian is the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. It has been published regularly since March of 1965.

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Raj Soin College Of Business Monthly Update - Feburary 2021, Raj Soin College Of Business, Wright State University

RSCob Monthly Update

The RSCoB Monthly Update highlights various happenings within the University community from Student updates, to faculty updates.

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Raj Soin College Of Business Newsletter - February 2021, Raj Soin College Of Business, Wright State University

Raj Soin College of Business Newsletter

A four page newsletter created by the Raj Soin College of Business at Wright State University. This newsletter includes a upcoming events, message from the dean, and more.

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The Guardian, Week Of February 1, 2021, Wright State Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

News articles from The Guardian for the week of February 1, 2021. The Guardian is the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. It has been published regularly since March of 1965.

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The Guardian, Week Of January 25, 2021, Wright State Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

News articles from The Guardian for the week of January 11, 2021. The Guardian is the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. It has been published regularly since March of 1965.

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Provost Announcement- January 19, 2021, Office Of The Provost, Wright State University

Office of the Provost Newsletters and Announcements

An official announcement from Wright State's Office of the Provost regarding establishing attendance and participation in the 2021 Spring Semester classes to be compliant with Federal Title IV regulations.

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The Guardian, Week Of January 18, 2021, Wright State Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

News articles from The Guardian for the week of January 18, 2021. The Guardian is the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. It has been published regularly since March of 1965.

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Provost Announcement- January 15, 2021, Office Of The Provost, Wright State University

Office of the Provost Newsletters and Announcements

An official announcement from Wright State's Office of the Provost reiterating the plan for a phased return to campus for the 2021 Spring Semester.

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The Guardian, Week Of January 11, 2021, Wright State Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

News articles from The Guardian for the week of January 11, 2021. The Guardian is the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. It has been published regularly since March of 1965.

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Provost Announcement- January 6, 2021, Office Of The Provost, Wright State University

Office of the Provost Newsletters and Announcements

An official announcement from Wright State's Office of the Provost regarding the planned phased return to campus due to COVID-19.

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The Guardian, Week Of January 4, 2021, Wright State Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

News articles from The Guardian for the week of January 4, 2021. The Guardian is the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. It has been published regularly since March of 1965.

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Raj Soin College Of Business Monthly Update - January 2021, Raj Soin College Of Business, Wright State University

RSCob Monthly Update

The RSCoB Monthly Update highlights various happenings within the University community from Student updates, to faculty updates.

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Understanding And Improving Coordination Efficiency In The Minimum Effort Game: Counterfactual- And Behavioral-Based Nudging And Cognitive Modeling, Alexander R. Hough

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Individuals often need to coordinate with others to pursue and achieve goals. However, individuals often fail to coordinate on any choice or on efficient (i.e., higher reward) choices. Researchers addressing coordination failure often used invasive methods ranging in complexity and generalizability with minimal success. There are also no clear measures for coordination behaviors. Here, I used a more parsimonious and generalizable method: Using counterfactuals (i.e., hypothetical outcomes had they or other players chosen differently) to nudge (i.e., indirectly guide and allow for free choice) individuals towards choosing options that are more likely to result in efficient coordination. I simulated a …

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Ecological Interface Design For Flexible Manufacturing Systems: An Empirical Assessment Of Direct Perception And Direct Manipulation In The Interface, Dylan G. Cravens

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Four interfaces were developed to factorially apply two principles of ecological interface design (EID; direct perception and direct manipulation) to a flexible manufacturing system (FMS). The theoretical foundation and concepts employed during their development, with findings related to more significant issues regarding interface design for complex socio-technical systems, are discussed. Key aspects of cognitive systems engineering (CSE) and EID are also discussed. An FMS synthetic task environment was developed, and an experiment was conducted to evaluate real-time decision support during supervisory operations. Participants used all four interfaces to supervise and maintain daily part production at systematically varied levels of difficulty …

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Investigating The Relationship Between Ethics Program Components, Individual Attributes, And Perceptions Of Ethical Climate, Aaron Buchanan

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Though research has identified common outcomes of ethical work climates, less is known regarding its antecedents. Situational components such as ethics programs and individual, moral-related variables such as moral identity and moral attentiveness may influence the way employees perceive the ethical climate of their organization. I conducted t-tests and calculated bivariate correlations to determine if there were significant relationships between ethics program components, individual moral-related variables and ethical climate dimensions. My results (N = 422 recruited from Mechanical Turk) revealed that ethics program components and individual, moral-related variables are significantly related to multiple dimensions of ethical climate. Most significant relationships …

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In The Shadow Of Freedom Of Religion And Press, Hee-Young Shin

Economics Faculty Publications

The Korean government’s public health responses to the COVID-19 epidemic have achieveda remarkable outcome in terms of the measured number of infected patients and theoverall mortality rate. Nonetheless, the public health authority’s various mitigationstrategies and vaccination efforts have faced several challenges primarily posed bypolitically motivated Christian fundamentalists and ultraconservative media’s distortednews framing in Korea. This paper examines how these conservative forces – both religiousand political – have undermined the Korean public health authority’s various mitigationefforts and discusses how to address the problems from a public policy point of view. Thepaper argues that a comprehensive legal reform including the introduction of …

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Offensive Cyber Operations: An Examination Of Their Revolutionary Capabilities, Madelyn Wardle

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Since the cyber realm has become a prevalent area in society, states have been developing ways to use this realm to their advantage. Popular literature asserts that cyber attacks are equalizing, frequently-occurring events that make them “revolutionary” tools of warfare; however, this study hypothesizes that cyber operations are not as revolutionary as the literature asserts. This study examines the revolutionary capabilities of offensive cyber operations by studying documented cases of state-sponsored offensive cyber operations from 2005-2019. By utilizing statistical methods, first the paper examines the documented cases and analyzes which states conduct most of these operations. Then, the paper will …

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Meritocracy-Based Stickiness Measure Of Social Mobility, Curtis G. Tenney

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I measure the stickiness of social mobility in terms of meritocratic assumptions through the first-known Meritocracy-Based Stickiness Measure of Mobility (MBSMoM) using mobility transition matrices and assumptions based on Full Meritocracy (FM) and Lack of Meritocracy (LM). I develop the Simple Stickiness Measure of Mobility (SSMoM) and the Weighted Stickiness Measure of Mobility (WSMoM). In addition, I create the MBSMoM which is calculated from mobility transition matrices of intragenerational, intergenerational, and multigenerational correlations using various measures of status including education, occupation, class, consumption, income, and wealth. Utilizing mobility transition matrices employed by plethora of studies, MBSMoMs are calculated as a …

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Raj Soin College Of Business Newsletter - January 2021, Raj Soin College Of Business, Wright State University

Raj Soin College of Business Newsletter

A four page newsletter created by the Raj Soin College of Business at Wright State University. This newsletter includes a upcoming events, message from the dean, and more.

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Navigating The News: Responsible News Consumption Through Media Literacy, Mandy Shannon

University Libraries' Staff Publications

This presentation was prepared by Mandy Shannon for the annual Friends of the Libraries Luncheon. It focuses on seeking to hone skills of information literacy as it has become increasingly important with the prevalence of misinformation in the age of information.

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Developing A Nomological Network To Incorporate Learned Helplessness Into Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Nicholas Kovacs

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Employees are facing personal traumas, higher stress, and work pressures that are likely to result in both short- and long-term impacts. To mitigate these negative impacts, organizations should focus on applying research related to employees’ responses to trauma and stress. Learned helplessness, which is well-established within clinical psychology and less established within the industrial-organizational literature, occurs as a direct response to perceived control over trauma and could thus relate to the ability to overcome trauma. In relation to control-related constructs, industrial-organizational researchers have focused on resilience, hardiness, and work locus of control (LOC). However, each of these constructs account for …

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The Effect Of Careless Responding Warnings On Construct Validity, Mark A. Roebke

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Careless responding is a problem for survey research that poses threats to both the reliability and validity of data collected. Warnings against careless responding have been proposed as a potential solution to reduce this harmful effect. The present study examines how warnings can reduce careless responding as well as examine how those warnings may influence the reliability and validity of data collected. Data was collected in a low stakes online testing format in a way similar to many psychological studies. This study included informant dyad data from people who knew the participants well to provide external criteria for analysis. A …

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Mind Wandering As A Result Of Failed Self-Regulation: An Examination Of Novel Antecedents, Kent Etherton

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The purpose of this study was to examine the role of self-regulatory mechanisms when predicting mind wandering. I collected data from a sample of undergraduate psychology students (N = 168) and full-time workers (N = 660). The hypothesized model did not produce acceptable fit. However, through alternative model testing, I discovered a well-fitting model of self-regulatory predictors of mind wandering. These results contributed to the literature by providing evidence that motivational mechanisms significantly predict mind wandering in both student and work contexts and raise issues relating to 1) the uni- versus multi-dimensionality of approach and avoid-motivational temperaments, 2) distinctions between …

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Understanding Human Decision Making With Automation Using Systems Factorial Technology, Cara M. Kneeland

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While many researchers have investigated the performance consequences of automated recommender systems, little research that has explored how these systems impact the decision making process. The purpose of this dissertation is to examine how people process information from an automated recommender system and raw information from the en- vironment using Systems Factorial Technology (SFT). Participants completed a speeded length judgment task with a reliable but imperfect aid. Experiment 1 focused on whether people process all the available information or are selective in their information search under certain circumstances (e.g., with performance incentives and with more experience with automation failures in …

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Clinging To Power: Authoritarian Leaders And Coercive Effectiveness, Christian J. Wolfe

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This study identifies three tactics authoritarian leaders use to attempt to effectively coerce their citizens without losing power: 1) performance legitimacy, 2) nationalist legitimacy, and 3) institutional legitimacy. To demonstrate these tactics of what I call “coercive effectiveness,” the author employs a most-different-systems analysis on the regimes of Xi Jinping (2012 2015) and Bashar al-Assad (2000-2004). The author finds that coercion is more likely to be effective under the following conditions: 1) when leaders use economic performance and institutionalist strategies rather than nationalist tactics, 2) when an authoritarian leader climbs the ladder to power rather than inheriting leadership and 3) …

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The State And Cannabis : What Is Success? A Comparative Analysis Of Cannabis Policy In The United States Of America, Uruguay, And Canada, Gideon C. Cunningham

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Globally, the policies that states engage in concerning the cultivation, production, distribution, and sale of recreational cannabis in the 21st century is changing rapidly. Three countries have now legalized, regulated, and implemented recreational cannabis frameworks, albeit in starkly different ways. These countries are The United States of America, Uruguay, and Canada. This research identifies the contradictory nature of cannabis policy goals and compares the similarities and differences of each countries’ recreational cannabis framework. It proposes a theory of understanding the contradictory nature of creating cannabis policies post-legalization and presents a framework from which to analyze the success of individual cannabis …

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Exploitation And Domination: A Marxist Analysis Of The Impact Of Class Structure On State Terrorism, Joseph J. Hammons

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This study qualitatively examines the impact of three socio-economic inequalities on state terrorism: (1) income inequality; (2) unequal collective labor rights; and (3) land inequality. It proposes a theory of class structure and state terrorism based on the Marxist theory of exploitation and domination and uses Marxist class analysis in the comparison of two case studies, Brazil (1985-1990) and the Philippines (1986-1992), to determine which of the three socio-economic inequalities is most likely to lead to class struggle that will prompt the state to respond with terrorism. Findings from this study indicate that issues concerning land inequality may be a …

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A Model Of Regime Change: The Impact Of Arab Spring Throughout The Middle East And North Africa, Omar Khalfan Bizuru

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This study examined the catalysts for social movements around the globe; specifically, why and how the Arab Spring uprisings led to regime change in Tunisia, why they transformed into civil war in some countries of the Middle East and North Africa (Syria), and why they did not lead to significant change at all in other places (Bahrain). The overall results of the study confirmed that political and socio-economic grievances caused the Arab uprisings in Tunisia, Bahrain, and Syria. Tunisian protesters succeeded in regime change because of a united and structured social movement leading to an effective transitional democracy in the …

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The Guardian, Week Of February 22, 2021, Wright State Student Body

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The Guardian, Week Of February 15, 2021, Wright State Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

The Guardian, Week Of February 8, 2021, Wright State Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

Raj Soin College Of Business Monthly Update - Feburary 2021, Raj Soin College Of Business, Wright State University

RSCob Monthly Update

Raj Soin College Of Business Newsletter - February 2021, Raj Soin College Of Business, Wright State University

Raj Soin College of Business Newsletter

The Guardian, Week Of February 1, 2021, Wright State Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

The Guardian, Week Of January 25, 2021, Wright State Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

Provost Announcement- January 19, 2021, Office Of The Provost, Wright State University

Office of the Provost Newsletters and Announcements

The Guardian, Week Of January 18, 2021, Wright State Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

Provost Announcement- January 15, 2021, Office Of The Provost, Wright State University

Office of the Provost Newsletters and Announcements

The Guardian, Week Of January 11, 2021, Wright State Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

Provost Announcement- January 6, 2021, Office Of The Provost, Wright State University

Office of the Provost Newsletters and Announcements

The Guardian, Week Of January 4, 2021, Wright State Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

Raj Soin College Of Business Monthly Update - January 2021, Raj Soin College Of Business, Wright State University

RSCob Monthly Update

Understanding And Improving Coordination Efficiency In The Minimum Effort Game: Counterfactual- And Behavioral-Based Nudging And Cognitive Modeling, Alexander R. Hough

Browse all Theses and Dissertations

Ecological Interface Design For Flexible Manufacturing Systems: An Empirical Assessment Of Direct Perception And Direct Manipulation In The Interface, Dylan G. Cravens

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Investigating The Relationship Between Ethics Program Components, Individual Attributes, And Perceptions Of Ethical Climate, Aaron Buchanan

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In The Shadow Of Freedom Of Religion And Press, Hee-Young Shin

Economics Faculty Publications

Offensive Cyber Operations: An Examination Of Their Revolutionary Capabilities, Madelyn Wardle

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Meritocracy-Based Stickiness Measure Of Social Mobility, Curtis G. Tenney

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Raj Soin College Of Business Newsletter - January 2021, Raj Soin College Of Business, Wright State University

Raj Soin College of Business Newsletter

Navigating The News: Responsible News Consumption Through Media Literacy, Mandy Shannon

University Libraries' Staff Publications

Developing A Nomological Network To Incorporate Learned Helplessness Into Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Nicholas Kovacs

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The Effect Of Careless Responding Warnings On Construct Validity, Mark A. Roebke

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Mind Wandering As A Result Of Failed Self-Regulation: An Examination Of Novel Antecedents, Kent Etherton

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Understanding Human Decision Making With Automation Using Systems Factorial Technology, Cara M. Kneeland

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Clinging To Power: Authoritarian Leaders And Coercive Effectiveness, Christian J. Wolfe

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The State And Cannabis : What Is Success? A Comparative Analysis Of Cannabis Policy In The United States Of America, Uruguay, And Canada, Gideon C. Cunningham

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Exploitation And Domination: A Marxist Analysis Of The Impact Of Class Structure On State Terrorism, Joseph J. Hammons

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A Model Of Regime Change: The Impact Of Arab Spring Throughout The Middle East And North Africa, Omar Khalfan Bizuru

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