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The Dimensions Of Social Capital, Richard Webster

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study called into question the rationale and methods used by researchers used to measure levels of social capital, particularly Putnam (1995), Paxton (1999), and Park (2006). A central purpose to this study was to partially replicate and extend the work of Park, who theoretically derived four dimensions of social capital. I develop measures of each dimension and then regress each on the variables of age, sex, race, ethnicity, marital status, education, income, and religiosity. This created four sets of outcomes from which I drew conclusions about the dimensionality of the social capital concept. Based on the low percentage of …

Evaluation Of A Digitally Enhanced Expectancy Challenge Alcohol Literacy Curriculum (Ecalc) For Use With Mandated College Students, Abigail Fried

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Alcohol use has been a longstanding problem on college campuses. Despite the efforts National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the commissioned Task Force on College Drinking (2002), there has been a recent rise in the number of alcohol related arrests and violations on college campuses. Within the high-risk mandated student population, the most successful programs utilize motivational enhancement strategies, such as the Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (BASICS). Likely due to financial constraints, an important issue that has been raised is the limited availability of validated methods for alcohol prevention and intervention on college campuses. …

Same Fight, Different Player: An Insight Into Culture, Information Sharing, And Team Performance, Cecily Mccoy-Fisher

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine the relations among culture, information sharing, and performance among culturally-homogeneous NATO Officer teams. Forty-eight teams participated from five countries, namely, Bulgaria, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and USA. Teams of four participants were randomly assigned to a role and the task was an interdependent computer-based mission using an adapted version of Neverwinter Nights™ (Bioware, 2003), where they had to communicate among teammates and with non-human players to find weapons caches and other mission objectives. Not one individual had all of the information needed to perform the tasks; thus, they needed to share information with …

Incumbent Violence And Insurgent Tactics: The Effects Of Incumbent Violence On Popular Support For Guerrilla Warfare And Terrorism, Jonathan Williams

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Insurgency has two main strategies, guerrilla warfare and terrorism, which should be treated as linked, but distinct, strategies. This thesis examines the role of incumbent violence in leading insurgents to select one, or both, of these strategies. It argues that incumbent violence can create support for insurgency by causing fear and a desire for revenge and reshaping the social structures of a community. It also argues that incumbent violence increases popular support for terrorism in particular by creating outbidding incentives and desires to respond in kind to civilian deaths and as a way of punishing norm violations against attacking civilians …

Eastern Spotted Skunk (Spilogale Putorius) At The Ouachita Mountains Biological Station, Polk County, Arkansas, L. M. Hardy

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

A population of the eastern spotted skunk (Spilogale putorius) has been discovered at the Ouachita Mountains Biological Station in the Ouachita Mountains of Polk County, Arkansas. In 2010 a motion camera recorded a very brief infrared video of an animal that, after much study and conversation with other biologists, was concluded to be an eastern spotted skunk. Since that time the identification has been confirmed with at least 6 still photographs and one additional video that have been obtained from 2 other locations on the station. At least 2 or 3 individuals are present. All were photographed at night in …

A Feedback Inclusive Neuromuscular Training Program Alters Frontal Plane Kinematics, Eric K. Greska, Nelson Cortes, Bonnie L. Van Lunen, James A. Oñate

Rehabilitation Sciences Faculty Publications

-Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) neuromuscular training programs have demonstrated beneficial effects in reducing ACL injuries, yet further evaluation of their effects on biomechanical measures across a sports team season is required to elucidate the specific factors that are modifiable. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of a 10-week off-season neuromuscular training program on lower extremity kinematics. Twelve Division I female soccer players (age: 19.2 ± 0.8 years, height: 1.67 ± 0.1 m, weight: 60.2 ± 6.5 kg) performed unanticipated dynamic trials of a running stop-jump task pretraining and posttraining. Data collection was performed using an 8-camera …

Five "Typical" Years As An Outreach Librarian: And Five Things I Have Learned, Mitch Fontenot

Faculty Publications

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Behavioral Economics And Childhood Health: Applications And Implications, Katie Reynolds

Whittier Scholars Program

The selections of food is affecting the health of Americans and numerous fields are attempting to answer this issue that Americans face. Behavioral economics accounts for human behavior not represented in the theoretical framework of classical economic models. Although behavioral economics was established before 2002 it became popular when Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for connecting psychological research into economic science. After Kaufman won the award, behavioral economics began to grow rapidly in both private and public sector applications and has continued to develop into a larger field. The purpose of this study is to address …

A Multi-Method Study Of The Socioeconomic Status Of People Living On The Kumbon Landfill In Khon Kaen, Thailand, Candace Leflame

Whittier Scholars Program

This project is multidimensional including data from questionnaires, inventories, maps, life stories, focus groups and interviews to create a data analysis on the socioeconomic status of people living on the Kumbon landfill. This students shares history of the landfill and explains how the pile of waste has become both home and work to a population of people. They write, Socioeconomic studies in this community are very limited due to the overwhelming environmental health hazards that are affecting surrounding communities. Governments and individual research faculties have been more interested to the effect to the surrounding villages than to the actual people …

Ego Depletion And The Internet: Can We Study Ego-Depletion Online?, Todd Allmond

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

Exercising self-control depletes a finite resource of energy and reduces the ability to control behavior on subsequent tasks. Baumeister and others refer to the attenuation of self-regulation as ego depletion. Recent research has successfully utilized computer based depletion manipulations and measures. Previous research has focused on depletion tasks and measures in a laboratory setting, but no known research has extended ego depletion research to the online environment. The present study attempted to manipulate and measure ego-depletion through an online medium. We hypothesized that participants in the online experimental condition would perform significantly worse on two measures of depletion than participants …

Perceptions Of Delinquency Among Male Athletes And Non-Athletes: A Qualitative Investigation, Humphrey Nartey

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

It is presumed that the involvement in sports helps to deter delinquency, yet athletes who seemingly have it all engage in destructive delinquent lifestyles (Savini, 2008). Many theorists contend that the "jock identity" or "sport hubris" is largely responsible, as people think they will be treated more favorably if they are athletes (Miller et al., 2006). This perception raises the question of whether athletes know and understand the constructs of delinquency. Thus the purpose of this study was to examine male athletes' and non-athletes' perceptions of the minor and major substrates of delinquency. A semi-structured interview was used to gather …

Conjuring The Close From Afar A Border-Crossing Tale Of Vieques’ Activism And Obama-Empire, Víctor M. Torres-Vélez, Sarah Molinari, Katharine Lawrence

Publications and Research

After more than 60 years of military occupation, 30 of these under violent military practices, a social movement forced the U.S. Navy from the island of Vieques. This victory would not have been possible without the highly effective organization of civil disobedience carried out on the island. But the sum total of the actions that eventually forced out the U.S. Navy, neither happened exclusively within the boundaries of Vieques, nor was carried out by Viequense residents alone. In this article we want to suggest that this amazing victory—a testament of people’s will in the face of globalization—is also a border- …

Actual Malice In The Inter-American Court Of Human Rights, Edward L. Carter

Faculty Publications

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights decided four cases in recent years that represent a positive step for freedom of expression in nations that belong to the Organization of American States. In 2004 and again in 2008, the court stopped short of adopting a standard that would require proof of actual malice in criminal defamation cases brought by public officials. In 2009, however, the court seemed to adopt the actual malice rule without calling it that. The court’s progress toward actual malice is chronicled in this article. The article concludes that the court’s decision not to explicitly use …

Automated Sinkhole Extraction And Morphological Analysis In Northeast Iowa Using High-Resolution Lidar Data, Jonathon Launspach

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Accurate and detailed mapping of sinkholes is necessary to ensure sinkhole monitoring and management. Historically, sinkholes were found and digitized manually by a visual examination of aerial photos or through field surveying. This paper develops a new, multicriteria LiDAR-based sinkhole extraction method and automated processes to detect sinkholes and their boundaries. This technique of extraction is unique as it identifies sinkhole boundaries automatically using remotely sensed data, compared to traditional methods of manually tracing the perimeter. A sinkhole detection module was developed within a GIS environment to determine location and boundaries of the sinkholes. Several small study areas were selected …

Ocena, Rankingowanie I Selekcja Technologii, Krzysztof Klincewicz, Arkadiusz Manikowski

Monografie/Monographs

Autorzy prezentują model O-R-S - zintegrowanego procesu oceny (O), rankingowania (R) i selekcji (S) technologii. Będzie on przydatny dla podmiotów sektora B+R, które wprowadzają na rynek nowe rozwiązania techniczne albo planują ich zakup i wdrożenie. Zestaw 184 szczegółowych kryteriów oceny, podzielonych na 12 grup tematycznych, oraz propozycja zmatematyzowanego algorytmu przeprowadzenia tej oceny mogą przydać się również instytucjom rozpatrującym wnioski o dofinansowanie projektów B+R lub podejmujących decyzje o inwestycjach na rynku technologicznym. Autorzy oferują przegląd stosowanych w innych krajach podejść do oceny technologii, wykorzystywanych kryteriów oraz metod ilościowych, omawiając możliwości oraz ograniczenia ich zastosowania. Autorski model O-R-S może być wykorzystany w …

Zarządzanie Projektami @ Rozwój Systemów Informatycznych Zarządzania, Witold Chmielarz

Monografie/Monographs

Monografia przeznaczona jest zarówno dla nauczycieli akademickich, jak i studentów informatyki ekonomicznej. Powinna ponadto zainteresować profesjonalnych i nieprofesjonalnych odbiorców ze środowisk nieakademickich. Dla specjalistów z praktyki gospodarczej, zaangażowanych w zarządzanie projektami może ona stanowić cenne źródło wiedzy i ideologiczny przewodnik w ich codziennej pracy. Natomiast menedżerom, mającym sporadyczny kontakt z problematyką kształtowania systemów informatycznych wspomagających zarządzanie w organizacji, może dostarczyć wskazówek, jak należy formułować własne wymagania w stosunku do ich wykonawców.

Efektywność Instrumentów Płatniczych W Polsce, Jakub Górka

Monografie/Monographs

Niniejsza monografia wpisuje się w tematykę badań nad społeczeństwem bezgotówkowym. W ostatnich latach podejmowano w Polsce próby stworzenia programu rozwoju obrotu bezgotówkowego, którego właściwe wdrożenie miało przyspieszyć proces zmiany zwyczajów płatniczych w naszym kraju i upowszechnić obrót bezgotówkowy. Idea takiego programu narodziła się w 2007 roku, a obecnie mają miejsce prace nad jego drugą wersją. Będąc uczestnikiem prac nad obiema wersjami autor w pracy dyskontuje zdobytą wiedzę i doświadczenie do wyciągania wniosków o charakterze zarządczym. Publikacja dotyczy przede wszystkim rynku polskiego. Nie oznacza to jednak, że rozważania nie są osadzone w kontekście europejskim, a nawet globalnym. Międzynarodowe trendy wywierają wpływ …

Społeczna Odpowiedzialność Biznesu, Marcin Żemigała

Monografie/Monographs

Społeczna odpowiedzialność biznesu w świetle analiz bibliometrycznych i opinii pracowników na temat równowagi między życiem zawodowym a prywatnym.Społeczna odpowiedzialność biznesu to koncepcja, która w ostatnich latach jest często poruszana zarówno w teorii, jak i w praktyce zarządzania. Widać jednak wyraźnie, że brakuje koncepcyjnego uporządkowania pojawiających się modeli teoretycznych i narzędzi praktycznych. Brakuje także pozycji dotyczących kategoryzacji społecznej odpowiedzialności biznesu, która pozwoliłaby na ukazanie z czym powinna być ona wiązana w najwyższym stopniu, a z jakimi aspektami wiąże się w stopniu mniejszym. Cel niniejszej pracy składa się z dwóch elementów. Pierwszym jest dokonanie eksploracji obszaru społecznej odpowiedzialności biznesu, określenie występujących koncentracji …

Informatyka @ Przyszłości, Witold Chmielarz, Jerzy Kisielnicki, Tomasz Parys

Monografie/Monographs

Monografia bazuje na starannie wybranych referatach, przygotowanych na coroczną konferencję z zakresu informatyki ekonomicznej, organizowaną przez Katedrę Systemów Informacyjnych Zarządzania Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, która - pod tym samym tytułem - odbyła się 15 listopada 2012 r. Poruszana w czterech rozdziałach problematyka związana jest z motywem przewodnim monografii, jakim jest informatyka i jej zastosowanie zarówno dziś, jak i w najbliższej, dającej się przewidzieć przyszłości. Przedstawicielom praktyki niniejsza praca powinna zaoferować nowe wiadomości na temat omawianych zagadnień, natomiast dla świata nauki okazać się motywacją, wskazówką, a być może nawet wstępem do podjęcia nowych badań w zakresie informatyki i jej zastosowania. Dostarczy także potrzebnej …

Trajektorie Rozwoju Obszarów Wiejskich Bawarii I Małopolski, Zofia Sawicka

Monografie/Monographs

Książka prezentuje oryginalne i oczekiwane przez wiele środowisk podejście do problematyki przemian strukturalnych na wsi i w rolnictwie. Jej autorka udowadnia, że dobrym i godnym rozważenia przykładem reform oraz zmian dla wsi i rolnictwa w Małopolsce mogłyby być przemiany, które dokonywały się przed laty w Bawarii. Publikacja stanowi istotną pozycję na skromnym rynku wydawnictw ekonomiczno-rolniczych, w której przedstawiono studium dróg rozwoju obszarów wiejskich i rolnictwa rozdrobnionego agrarnie. Główne rozdziały książki to: badania porównawcze nad rozwojem rolnictwa i obszarów wiejskich w świetle literatury, drogi rozwoju obszarów wiejskich Bawarii (ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem badanych gmin), stan i scenariusze rozwoju obszarów wiejskich Małopolski oraz …

Factors Influencing Collegiate Athletic Department Revenues, Chad D. Mcevoy, Alan L. Morse, Stephen L. Shapiro

Human Movement Studies & Special Education Faculty Publications

One of the primary challenges of Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) collegiate athletic programs is revenue generation, particularly in light of increasing costs and competition. Surprisingly, a limited number of studies have investigated factors related to athletic department-generated revenues. A statistically significant multiple regression model was created, explaining 76.7 percent of the variance in annual generated revenues among FBS programs. Factors such as conference affiliation, success in football and men’s basketball, enrollment, and time were identified as important in predicting revenue generation. The Revenue Theory of Costs was put forth as a framework for better understanding the financial behavior …

Sagebrush Ecosystem Characterization, Monitoring, And Forecasting With Remote Sensing: Quantifying Future Climate And Wildlife Habitat Change, Collin G. Homer

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems constitute the largest single North American shrub ecosystem and provide vital ecological, hydrological, biological, agricultural, and recreational ecosystem services. Disturbances continue to alter this ecosystem, with climate change possibly representing the greatest future disturbance risk. Improved ways to characterize and monitor gradual change in this ecosystem are vital to its future management. A new remote sensing sagebrush characterization approach was developed in Wyoming which integrates three scales of remote sensing to derive four primary continuous field components (bare ground, herbaceousness, litter, and shrub), and four secondary components (sagebrush, big sagebrush, Wyoming sagebrush, and shrub …

Impacts Of Land Cover Changes On Ecosystem Services Delivery In The Black Hills Ecoregion From 1950 To 2010, Suzanne Cotillon

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Environmental degradation generated by land use choices and human activities is the first driver of change in the provision of ecosystem goods and services. One of the challenges in ecosystem services research is to evaluate the contribution of each land cover unit to ecosystem services delivery while considering multiple services. In this thesis, I develop a framework to assess the capacity of many land covers to independently produce ecosystem services (i.e., potential production) and the capacity of the whole landscape to deliver multiple services to the population (i.e., potential supply). In the first part, this methodology is used to report …

Jeffersonian Ideals: Practical In The United States Of The 21st Century?, Charles William Gustafson Ii

Honors Program Theses

Thomas Jefferson was President of the United States, a statesman, lawyer, scientist, author of the Declaration of Independence, and a proponent of education in the United States of America. Understandably, his educational philosophy is inextricably linked to his political philosophy, as Gordon C. Lee puts it, " ... liberty without enlightenment seemed to Jefferson a contradiction in concepts, an anomaly," (Lee 1961, 2-3). Thomas Jefferson emphasized the importance of education in the United States, as Roy J. Honeywell puts it, "His educational plans were a very necessary part of his political and social reforms, and his educational ideas were as …

Cultural Fit Wanted: A Content Analysis Of Human Resource Generalist Job Advertisements, Kelli J. Chromey

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This content analytic study explored organizational anticipatory socialization through job advertisements. Human Resource (HR) Generalist positions (n = 100) listed on the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) website between November 6, 2012, and January 28, 2013 were analyzed through seven quantitative categories (organizational goals, HR job descriptions, job skills and abilities, communication skills, website, mission/values, and word count/reading level). Results indicated that these listings generally included information such as company name and location, but rarely revealed organizational goals, missions and values. The addition or absence of a website, along with readability and word count were also included. Implications included …

Desert In The Springs: Ethnography Of A Food Desert, Margeaux Alana Chavez

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

"Food desert" commonly describes food insecure areas with few fresh food outlets. Though used in a number of sources, the definition of "food desert" remains largely undeveloped and research is often deficit oriented, failing to account for community assets that may exist within food deserts but are underutilized or under-supported. Using an assets-based, ethnographic approach, this study combines GIS and survey methodology with participant observation and qualitative interviews to assess the potential positive effect of urban agriculture on food accessibility in Sulphur Springs, a USDA identified urban food desert in Tampa, Florida.

Ethnographic data suggest that within this neighborhood, residents …

Teaching And Teacher-Child Relationships As Explored Through Narrative Processes: A Mixed-Method Analysis, Margaret Koepke Fox

Psychology Department Dissertations

This body of research presents outcomes of mixed-method examinations of teachers stated mental models (MMs) for best practice, observed practices (i.e., coconstructed narratives), and quality of teacher-child relationships. Overarching aims of the investigation were: 1) to identify the relationship between teachers’ stated mental models of best practice and adherence patterns 2) to examine narratives of teachers and students to determine which elements of discursive praxis would be associated with relational connectedness, and 3) to examine the relationship between teachers’ stated MMs for effective pedagogic practice and observed teacher-child interactions. Overall, the moderating effects of teacher (e.g., interaction style; goals for …

Management And Governance: 21 St Century Implications For Diversity In Public Administration, Brandi Blessett, Mohamed G. Alkadry, Nadia Rubaii

Public Administration Faculty Scholarship

This symposium is designed to examine the implications of diversity management and governance for a 21st century global society. Consequently, what does diversity mean for administrators as employees, managers, policy makers, and implementers? How do these issues impact the collaborative efforts between the citizenry and administrators?

Using Screencasting To Promote Database Trials And Library Resources, Michelle Emanuel

Library Publications

At the University of Mississippi, screencasting was used to promote a database trial to the ARTStor Digital Library. Using Jing, a free product used for recording and posting screencasts, and a Snowball USB microphone, 11 videos averaging 3 minutes in length were posted to an online topic guide. Screencasting was used as a quick, creative, and cost-effective marketing strategy to appeal to multiple stakeholders. The short videos, focused in content and message, were an effective tool to push patrons to the database trial.

School Psychology Programs: Graduate Preparation In Traumatic Brain Injury, Susan C. Davies

Counselor Education and Human Services Faculty Publications

Although traumatic brain injuries are the leading cause of death and disability among children and adolescents, it remains a low incidence category for special education identification. Students with TBI can present with unique educational and psychosocial needs. Using surveys administered to program directors and interns, this study explored how school psychologists are prepared to identify and facilitate appropriate services for students with TBI.