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A Sociological And Statistical Analysis Of Fraternity Men's Attitudes On Rape And Sexual Assault, Cierra Ensign

Social Sciences

Hostility, aggression, and empathy levels of 488 fraternity men were measured using portions of the Burt Rape Myth Acceptance Scale, Malamuth’s Behavioral Intent to Rape Question, Hostility Toward Women Scale, and Survey Measure of Emotional Empathy. Thirteen out of the fifteen Interfraternity Council (IFC) chapters at a west coast public university campus volunteered to participate in the study. The survey consisted of thirty-five questions aimed at finding a correlation between the respondents housing location, year in school, position of office in his fraternity, and number of siblings and hostility, aggression, and empathy. Although no significant findings relating hostility, aggression, and …

Understanding The Increased Prevalence Of Autism In The United States, Jenna Marie Mendes

Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

Political Neutrality In Europe During World War Ii, Gary Gayer

Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

Geographic Information Systems Analysis Of Crime In San Luis Obispo For 2012, Eric Delorme

Social Sciences

The research and final project that I plan to do will be composed of a few different parts. I will be taking crime report data from the city of San Luis Obispo and analyzing it with GIS software. The data will be from the most recent reported calendar year. I will be looking at the data spatially so that I can compare the areas of the city in which crime is most prevalent. I will be creating multiple maps which will be looking individually at different types of crime, such as violent crimes, burglary and theft, assault and battery, sex …

Policies And Implementation Of Global Development, Scott Kjorlien

Social Sciences

International development is a very bulky topic of debate in today’s day in age. People from many different noble professions have extremely varying views of what exactly development is and how it should be executed. This paper is a starting point to understanding the various aspects of modern implementation of development. This paper gives an overview of definitions and measures of development, common paradigms in development theory and practices and implementation of post WWII development.

American Ball Sports: Origins And Evolutions, Kevin Rask

Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

The Future Of Zines, Chloe Parks

Graphic Communication

The purpose of this study was to discover if the creation of handmade zines will continue in the future despite the barrage of digital options for those who desire to self-publish. A case study was conducted by interviewing participants from the zine-making community, who shared their thoughts and insights on the medium. The participants responded to questions about the value of zines to society, their personal zine collections, their digital publishing spaces, and where they thought zines were headed. The results of this study found that zines have historically been proliferated for various reasons, and through this have manifested distinct …

The State Of Book Publishig In A Tablet Based Society, Shannon C. Whitehill

Graphic Communication

The adaption of tablets and e-readers for publication purposes will require a lot of work and changes from a design and production team that is set up for print production. Book design in it’s classic form (a bound book printed with ink on paper) is an art form that has been perfected over many centuries. The sudden entrance of the tablet has shaken the print publishing industry.

Trends And Implications: The Use Of Facebook In The Professional World, Elisa E. Minamide

Graphic Communication

The recent trend of connectivity through the Internet has served as a spark for the social media era, resulting in a number of social websites such as Xanga (social blogging site),MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and many others. Facebook specifically has become an everyday norm in the lives of most young adults. With the societal shift towards a digitally orientated lifestyle, there is an increased interaction between friends, family, and non-acquaintances via social networking sites like Facebook. As a result, the manner in which users portray themselves online becomes influential for new friends viewing their pages. Similarly, professional companies are now …

Barriers To Sustainable Beverage Packaging, Noelle Shoda

Graphic Communication

The purpose of this study was to determine the reasons for why a company would not implement beverage packaging with recycled content and/or bioplastic and whether or not size of a company plays a factor in its ability to implement sustainable beverage packaging. A face-to-face interview was carried out with industry professionals, as well as an email interview with a beverage company in order to gain insight from two perspectives regarding the main barriers to implementation and effect of size. Trends and companies within the beverage packaging industry were researched to discover what kinds of changes have been made, for …

Iphone Games, Jason Hartnell

Graphic Communication

The purpose of this study was to identify the key features of an iPhone game that make it successful. A survey was given to iPhone users who gave responses to determine the most important factors in choosing a game. The participants rated the games based on Name, Color scheme, Sounds, Ability to level up, Competing against other people, Strategy involved, Rewards for success. The results of this study can be used to determine what users value most in iPhone games and help developers choose features to use when creating a new iPhone game.

Social Media In The Tourism Industry: How Social Media And The Self-Congruity Theory Affect Destination Choice, Mckenzie Sixt

Journalism

This study researches how the tourism indsutry is using social media to create a strong destination image and be in constant communication with their customers. Their customers use social media as a research tool in deciding where to book their next vacation and it helps when booking locations have a destination image for them to see. The destination image can be created from marketing-generated content as well as consumer-generated content on social media sites. When consumers find a destination image that they think suits their personality they are more likely to have a satisfying experience and share their experience on …

Realizing The Right To Health Through A Framework Convention On Global Health?, Eric A. Friedman, Jashodhara Dasgupta, Alicia E. Yamin, Lawrence O. Gostin

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

This article introduces a special issue of Health and Human Rights (volume 15, issue 1) that features articles exploring potential elements of and key questions and issues surrounding the Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH). The FCGH is a proposed global health treaty that would be grounded in the right to health, with the aim of closing domestic and global health inequities. It would set standards and ensure financing for health care and public health services, while also addressing social determinants of health. The FCGH would raise the priority of health in other sectors, ensure effective private sector regulation, and …

The Nasa Glenn Research Center: An Economic Impact Study Fiscal Year 2012, Iryna Lendel, Eunkyu Lee

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

No abstract provided.

Social Media And Citation Metrics, Linda M. Galloway, Anne E. Rauh

Librarian Publications

Quantifying scholarly output via traditional citation metrics is the time-honored method to gauge academic success. However, as the tentacles of social media spread into professional personas, scholars are interacting more frequently and more meaningfully with these tools. Measuring the influence and impact of scholarly engagement with online tools and networks is gaining importance in academia today.

Assessing the impact of a scholar’s work can be measured by evaluating several factors including the number of peer-reviewed publications, citations to these publications and the influence of the publications. These metrics take a relatively long time to accumulate, some are available only via …

Mapping Human-Environment Connections On The Olympic Peninsula: An Atlas Of Landscape Values, Rebecca J. Mclain, Lee Cerveny, Diane Besser, David Banis, Alexa Todd, Stephanie Rohdy, Corinna Kimball-Brown

Occasional Papers in Geography

Occasional Papers in Geography Publication No. 7

The advent of computerized mapping has land managers’ ability to map the biophysical services provided by forested ecosystems. However, mapping the cultural services of those systems is more challenging. Human ecology mapping (HEM), which provides spatially-explicit depictions of the complex connections between humans and their environment, is an approach that can be used to improve understandings of the cultural services associated with landscapes. This atlas provides an overview of what HEM is and draws on experiences with a pilot project on the Olympic Peninsula in western Washington to illustrate what HEM data looks …

Prevalence And Patterns Of Sexting Among Ethnic Minority Urban High School Students, Melissa Fleschler Peskin, Christine M Markham, Robert C Addy, Ross Shegog, Melanie Thiel, Susan R Tortolero

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Although sexting among U.S. youth has received much popular media attention, there are only limited data on its prevalence among ethnic minority youth. This study, therefore, specifically examined the prevalence and patterns of sexting (sending and/or receiving a nude or semi-nude picture/video or a sexual text-only message) among a sample of black and Hispanic youth. Data from 1,034 tenth graders from a large, urban school district in southeast Texas were used to calculate the prevalence of sexting by gender-race/ethnicity. Overlap among sexting behaviors was also examined. Electronic surveys were administered via an audio-computer-assisted self-interview on laptop computers. Prevalence estimates were …

نموذج مقترح لتحسين نظام التموين الغذائي في العراق دراسة ميدانية عن البطاقة التموينية, سعود جايد مشكور, محمد حسن رشم, كمال كاظم الحسني

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

تعد برامج التوزيع الغذائي او ما تسمى بنظم التموين من البرامج المهمة التي تلجا اليها دول العالم على اختلاف انظمتها السياسية لتجاوز الشح في امدادات الغذاء اثر الحالات الطارئة كالحروب والكوارث الطبيعية والعقوبات الاقتصادية الاممية , ثم يجري الاستغناء عنها عند زوال الطارئ .وقد طبق العراق منذ فرض العقوبات عليه في اب 1990 نظاما شاملا لتوزيع المواد الغذائية الاساسية عبر ما اصطلح عليه بنظام البطاقة التموينية .وعلى الرغم من ان هذا النظام كان يعمل في مراحل سابقة حالة متميزة في اشد الظروف قسوة ابان الحصار الاقتصادي , إلا انه حاليا لم يحقق غايته في تحقيق الامن الغذائي المطلوب للمواطن , …

تأثير أنموذج إدارة العلاقة مع الزبون في تحسين جودة الأداء التأميني )دراسة استطلاعية في شركة التأمين الوطنية /فرع الديوانية(, إلهام نعمة كاظم

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يهتم البحث بتوضيح مفهوم العلاقة مع الزبون وتأثيرها في تسحين جودة الأداء التأميني . إذ حاولنا من خلال هذا البحث الذي أجري في شركة التامين الوطنية فرع الديوانية . تم تبني ثلاثة متغيرات رئيسية هي الالتزام الاستراتيجي بحاجات الزبون وتوقعاته ، وتعظيم قيمة الزبون وتصميم النشاطات التأمينية بما ينسجم وتلبية الاحتياجات وذلك من خلال استطلاع أراء الأشخاص المختصين بالأداء التأميني باستبانة أعدتها الباحثة وزعت على عينة من المدراء ورؤساء الأقسام والفروع والمختصين في المجال التأميني بشركة التأمين الوطنية وبواقع (40) استمارة وتعد هذه الشركة مصنعاً للمعلومات التأمينية وقد بلغ عدد الاستمارات التي تم استرجاعها (34) استمارة صالحة للتحليل الإحصائي وبذلك …

دور الاقتصاد المعرفي في بناء منظومة تكنولوجيا المعلومات والاتصالات (تجربة مصر أ نموذجاً), عبدالرسول جابر ابراهيم, صباح رحيم مهدي

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يسعى البحث إلى دراسة دور الإقتصاد المعرفي في بناء منظومة تكنولوجيا المعلومات والاتصالات والذي يعد الأساس في تطور المجتمعات ، وخاصة في مجال تطبيقه في الحياة العلمية في تنمية وإعداد الكوادر البشرية المتخصصة والعملية في توفير فرص عمل جديدة للعاطلين عن العمل وتم تطبيق هذه الدراسة على جمهورية مصر العربية كنموذج على ضوء البيانات المتوفرة عن مؤشرات البنية التحتية لتكنولوجيا المعلومات والاتصالات. وما أفرزته تلك الدراسة من انعكاسات ايجابية للاقتصاد المعرفي على مستوى الإقتصاد الكلي للدولة والتي تساهم في عملية التطور والنمو الإقتصادي ، التي تستمد مقومات تحقيقها من مكونات تقانة المعلومات والاتصالات، وخلص البحث إلى تقديم بعض الاستنتاجات والتوصيات

Master’S Thesis Submitted To The Board Of The College Of Business And Economics, Staar Kazem Hashem Al Morshedy

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

تشكل إدارة الموهبة إحدى التطورات الفكرية المعاصرة في الإدارة التي نالت الاهتمام الكبير من قبل بعض المنظمات بسبب تنامي التحديات التي تواجه منظمات الأعمال وشدة المنافسة القائمة , حيث باتت أدارة الموهبة ضرورة ملحة لتدعيم تنافسية المنظمات , وسرعان ما تحولت إلى ممارسة عملية أكثر ملاءمة للتغييرات المتسارعة في عالم الأعمال , وقد زاد الاهتمام بها بعد أن أدرك الكثيرون أن كسب الميزة التنافسية يعتمد أساساً على المواهب والمهارات التي يمتلكها الأفراد مما يعزز من الإبداع الذي هو أحد أسباب بقاء المنظمات وأستمرارها لأطول فترة ممكنة . ومن هنا جاءت الدراسة الحالية لمعرفة الدور ولتوضيح العلاقة وبيان التأثير بين المتغير …

اثر التدفقات النقدية التشغيلية على قيمة الشركة -دراسة تطبيقية في عينة من المصارف العراقية الخاصة المدرجة في سوق العراق للأوراق المالية –, كرار سليم عبد الزهرة حميدي

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يهدف البحث إلى توضيح أهمية استخدام مقاييس التدفقات النقدية المنسوبة إلى بعض بنود القوائم المالية وبيان اثر تلك التدفقات كمتغيرات مستقلة على قيمة الشركة كمتغير تابع . ولتحقيق هدف البحث فقد تم اختيار عينةمن المصارف الخاصة المدرجة في سوق العراق للأوراق المالية للفترة من 2008 إلى 2012 وبمقدار 55 مشاهدة.وقد تم قياس متغير التدفقات النقدية من خلال خمس مقاييس هي:- التدفقات النقدية التشغيلية المنسوبة إلى صافي الدخل,والتدفقات النقدية التشغيلية المنسوبة إلى المبيعات,والتدفقات النقدية التشغيلية المنسوبة إلى مجموع الموجودات,والتدفقات النقدية التشغيلية المنسوبة إلى المطلوبات قصيرة الأجل,والتدفقات النقدية المنسوبة إلى حق الملكية,وتم قياس المتغير التابع (قيمة الشركة) من خلال نسبة القيمة السوقية …

الموازنة الرأسمالية للدولة في ظل توجهات التخطيط الإستراتيجي, نصيف جاسم محمد علي, حيدر جاسم حمزة

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يهدف البحث للتعرف على طبيعة الموازنة الرأسمالية للدولة و أهميتها في تخطيط الوارد المستقبلية للدولة من خلال الاستثمار في مشروعات تحقق ايرادات مستقبلية تساعد في تعزيز إيرادات الموازنة العامة وبالتالي الخروج عن الاقتصاد الاحادي النفطي, كذلك تناول البحث طبيعة المشروعات التي يمكن ان تتضمنها الموازنة الراسمالية التي تعدها الحكومة والتي تنقسم الى مشروعات هادفة للربح وإلى مشروعات وبرامج إجتماعية غير هادفة للربح وهو ما يحتم أستخدام اسس التخطيط الاستراتيجي في تخطيط وإعداد تلك الموازنات.وبهدف أختبار صحة الفرض الذي تبناه البحث في أهمية التخطيط الاستراتيجي في تخطيط وإقرار مشروعات الموازنة الرأسمالية للدولة, بالاستناد إلى دراسات الجدوى الدقيقة للمفاضلة بين البدائل بمايحقق …

Herbert Hoover And Belgian Relief, Albert Winkler

Faculty Publications

Herbert Hoover was an orphan, who retained great empathy for the weak and hungry his entire life. Working without pay, he organized and administered Belgian Relief starting in 1914 to get food to ten million Belgians and Frenchmen behind German lines. His efforts doubtlessly saved hundreds of thousands from starvation. This was only the starting point in his career as the "Great Humanitarian." He got food to Germany at the end of both world wars, aided Russia in their great famine, and reportedly got food to hundreds of millions of people in his lengthy career. No one has ever done …

On The Derivation Of Estimators Of Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (Fgt) Poverty Indices, Oyedeji I. Osowole, Adebayo T. Bamiduro

CBN Journal of Applied Statistics (JAS)

Poverty analysis has relied heavily on data in summarized form and this has created dearth of knowledge on the statistical properties of Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) poverty indices. This study derived estimators of FGT poverty indices from first principles in an attempt to provide an insight into some intrinsic characteristics of FGT indices. The estimators are found to be reasonably unbiased and consistent. The estimates of the indices obtained from the estimators are approximately 53%, 22% and 12% for the head count, poverty gap and square poverty gap indices. From the conventional method, the estimates are approximately 52%, 21% and 11% respectively. …

Measuring Technical Efficiency Of Wireless And Wired Technologies In Nigeria Cyber Cafés, Sule Magaji, Eke I. Chukwuemeka

CBN Journal of Applied Statistics (JAS)

This study examined the technical efficiency (TE) of two different remote internet access methods, wireless and wired in Nigeria using the stochastic frontier production function analysis. Primary data were obtained through the use of a set of questionnaire from four hundred and fifty representative samples of cyber café operators. The results show that in Nigeria, in spite of the acclaimed superiority of wireless technologies internationally, wired technology (within the context of Nigeria’s socio-economic constraints) is (still) more efficient technically with mean technical efficient indices of 0.914 and 0.797 respectively. The analysis also suggests that age and years of education of …

Monetary Policy Rule: A Broad Monetary Conditions Index For Nigeria, Yaaba N. Baba

CBN Journal of Applied Statistics (JAS)

To determine the relative importance of both the domestic and external influences on monetary policy formulation, this paper constructs a broad monetary conditions index for Nigeria. It brings together the three key channels of monetary transmission, namely interest rate, exchange rate and credit channels. The result gives dominance to exchange rate channel, followed by credit channel and interest rate channel. The resultant monetary conditions index traces fairly well the policy direction of the Central Bank of Nigeria for the studied period, hence can serve as an adequate gauge of monetary policy stance of the Bank.

Effect Of Monetary-Fiscal Policies Interaction On Price And Output Growth In Nigeria, Musa Yakubu, Asar K. Barfour, Shehu U. Gulumbe

CBN Journal of Applied Statistics (JAS)

This paper investigates the effectiveness of monetary-fiscal policies interaction on price and output growth in Nigeria. The dynamic correlations of variables have been captured by the analyses of impulse response and variance decomposition. From innovation analyses, the results suggest that the policy variables money supply and government revenue have more positive impact on price and economic growth in Nigeria specifically in the long run, thus some time with lag. Although monetary and fiscal policy variables have a dominant effect on economic activity, it is clear from this study that economic activity is dominated by its own dynamics in most of …

The Relationship Between Domestic Savings And Investment: The Feldstein-Horioka Test Using Nigerian Data, Inuwa Nasiru, Usman M. Haruna

CBN Journal of Applied Statistics (JAS)

This study explores the relationship between savings and investment in Nigeria during the period 1980-2011. Unlike previous studies, this study employed Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Bounds testing approach to test for long run relationship. The short-run dynamics are also captured from error correction model (ECM).The results of the Bounds test suggest that there is a long run relationship between savings and investment. This result is consistent with a number of earlier studies reviewed in the literature that found saving and investment to be cointegrated in the long run. The results also support the Feldstein-Horioka (1980) hypothesis that postulates low capital …

Exchange–Rates Volatility In Nigeria: Application Of Garch Models With Exogenous Break, Bala A. Dahiru, Joseph O. Asemota

CBN Journal of Applied Statistics (JAS)

This paper examines exchange–rate volatility with GARCH models using monthly exchange–rate return series from 1985:1 to 2011:7 for Naira/US dollar return and from 2004:1 to 2011:7 for Naira/British Pounds and Naira/Euro returns. The study compare estimates of variants of GARCH models with break in respect of the US dollar rates with exogenously determined break points. Our results reveal presence of volatility in the three currencies and equally indicate that most of the asymmetric models rejected the existence of a leverage effect except for models with volatility break. Evaluating the models through standard information criteria, volatility persistence and the log likelihood …