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The Reality Of Fiction: A Textual Analysis Of Verisimilitude In The Appeal, Stephanie M. Taft

Communication Studies

This project assesses the verisimilitude and plausibility of John Grisham's novel, The Appeal. While labeled as a fiction work, I argue that his book should resonate with readers and be taken seriously as it mirrors American culture. It speaks back to America's government, judicial and legal systems. I invoke statistics and a prominent law case that show why Grisham's book is not completely fictitious in any regard. The novel is highly applicable to society today, as corporate scandals and corruption seem to always surface. I also discuss how the book is relatable to the real world by discussing some of …

A Quantitative Survey: Are Twitter Advertisements Effective For College Students?, Christia J. Brockman

Communication Studies

Social Media websites are rapidly being overrun by advertisements, but is this blitz of advertising destroying the social media experience? Twitter, one of today’s most popular social media sites, increased its revenues from $45,000,000 in 2010 to $259 million in 2013. This exponential growth is surprising given the large portion of Twitter users who are between the ages of 18 to 25 with lower annual incomes. In analyzing whether advertising on Twitter is effective on college students, statistical results from a survey conducted among college students at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, reveal that Tweeters in this sample …

The Influence Of Mindful Attention On Value Claiming In Distributive Negotiations: Evidence From Four Laboratory Experiments, Jochen Reb, Jayanth Narayanan

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

We examined the effect of mindful attention on negotiation outcomes in distributive negotiations across four experiments. In Studies 1 and 2, participants who performed a short mindful attention exercise prior to the negotiation claimed a larger share of the bargaining zone than the control condition participants they negotiated with. Study 3 replicated this finding using a different manipulation of mindful attention. Study 4 again replicated this result and also found that mindful negotiators were more satisfied with both the outcome and the process of the negotiation. We discuss theoretical and practical implications, limitations, and future directions.

Reading And Note Taking In Monological And Dialogical Classes In The Social Sciences, Manuela Cartolari, Paula Carlino, Laura M. Colombo

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

This qualitative study explores the uses of reading and note-taking in two pre-service teacher training Social Sciences courses. Data analysis of in-depth interviews with professors and students, class observations and course materials suggested two polar teaching styles according to how bibliography was included in the course and the presence or absence of dialogicality. In one course, the professor assumed that students should read texts on their own prerogative. As monological lectures were given, they mostly studied from their class-notes. In the other course, the professor held class discussions based on readings that took place in and outside the classroom. According …

Academic And Career Trajectories Of African American Males In San Bernardino, Lolita Laree Lyles

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

A qualitative grounded theory approach is utilized to study the academic and career trajectories of twenty African American male collegiate students living in San Bernardino, California. There is limited research that explores the positive educational experiences of young adult African American males. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to fill a much needed gap in the literature by providing research on a population of students who are rarely examined from a strengths based approach. Prosocial Development and Achievement Theory explains the major social processes of members of the present study as it relates to their academic and career …

When Boys Hurt: A Pilot Study On Adolescent Males With Nonsuicidal Self-Injury, Danessa Mayo

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The current literature on nonsuicidal self-injury among male adolescents is lacking in amount and level of understanding in comparison to females. The purpose of this study is to determine the gender differences in treatment outcomes for adolescents with nonsuicidal self-injury in a Dialectical Behavior Therapy outpatient program. A total of 65 adolescent males and females from ages 12-18 who successfully graduated from the program were available for this study. Results show that the overall group of male and female patients reported a significant improvement in their levels of distress from baseline to post-treatment. Quantitative analyses conducted between male and female …

Ancillary Revenue And Price Fairness: An Exploratory Study Pre & Post Flight, Blaise P. Waguespack, Tamilla Curtis

Publications

The growing impact of Ancillary Revenue on consumer choice and shopping behavior continues to be a highly debated issue. In the US, the Department of Transportation (DOT) has stepped into the debate and is investigating the possibility of new rules on how airlines must report and display such ancillary offerings. While the DOT collects data, reports on the amount of ancillary revenue earned by the airlines continue to rise. Examining past research on price fairness from the marketing literature and the impact of revenue management on price fairness from the aviation literature, this article joins new research appearing on the …

Welfare Reform And At-Risk Mothers' Labour Supply, Christine Ho

Research Collection School Of Economics

We analyse the impact of the early 1990s welfare waivers and the 1996 TANF reform in the United States on at-risk mothers' labour supply behaviour using the PSID. We find that whereas the welfare waivers had limited impacts on at-risk mothers, the TANF reform played an important role in encouraging those mothers to increase their labour supply at the intensive margin.

Solving Myanmar’S Catch-22, Sim Yee Lau, Kim Song Tan

Research Collection School Of Economics

No abstract provided.

Political Risk And Institutional Quality Difference Across Countries: Impacts On Fdi By Multinational Firms, Pao Li Chang, Chia-Hui Lu

Research Collection School Of Economics

No abstract provided.

We Are The Champions, Nirmalya Kumar, Jan-Benedict E. M. Steenkamp

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

From China Mobile to Coal India, state-supported firms are on the march. The authors map out the route from being a national champion to becoming a global brand.

From Scrapbook To Facebook: A History Of Personal Media Assemblage And Archives, Katie Day Good

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

This study surveys recent research on print-era scrapbooks and contemporary social media to highlight commonalities between the two formats, both in terms of the practices they have historically promoted for users, and the methodological challenges they produce for researchers. It argues that scrapbooks and social media can be conceptualized as sites of personal media assemblage and personal media archives, a designation that highlights the simultaneously social and archival dimensions of each form. After discussing these formal similarities, the author identifies three shared functions: (1) documenting friendship, (2) navigating new media abundance, and (3) communicating taste and building cultural capital. By …

How Does Childbirth Alter Intrahousehold Resource Allocation?: Evidence From Japan, Tomoki Fujii, Ryuichiro Ishikawa

Research Collection School Of Economics

Exploiting unique panel data that include direct measurements of resource allocation within households, we investigated the impact of childbirth on intrahousehold allocation for married Japanese couples. Based on a collective model of the household, we developed reduced-form and structural-form estimation equations that allow us to focus on private goods to track the changes in intrahousehold resource allocation. We found one additional child is associated with a reduction in the wife's private expenditure share by at least two percentage points. This may be because she substitutes more say in decisions on the children for her own private expenditure share.

Cost-Effective Estimation Of The Population Mean Using Prediction Estimators, Tomoki Fujii, Roy Van Der Weide

Research Collection School Of Economics

This paper considers the prediction estimator as an efficient estimator for the population mean. The study may be viewed as an earlier study that proved that the prediction estimator based on the iteratively weighted least squares estimator outperforms the sample mean. The analysis finds that a certain moment condition must hold in general for the prediction estimator based on a Generalized-Method-of-Moment estimator to be at least as efficient as the sample mean. In an application to cost-effective double sampling, the authors show how prediction estimators may be adopted to maximize statistical precision (minimize financial costs) under a budget constraint (statistical …

What Do Americans Think About Federal Tax Options To Support Public Transit, Highways, And Local Streets And Roads? Results From Year Four Of A National Survey, Mti Report 12-07, Asha Weinstein Agrawal, Hilary Nixon

Mineta Transportation Institute

This report summarizes the results of year four of a national random-digit-dial public opinion poll asking 1,501 respondents if they would support various tax options for raising federal transportation revenues, with a special focus on understanding support for increasing revenues for public transit. Eleven specific tax options tested were variations on raising the federal gas tax rate, creating a new mileage tax, and creating a new federal sales tax. Other questions probed various perceptions related to public transit, including knowledge and opinions about federal taxes to support transit. In addition, the survey collected data on standard sociodemographic factors, travel behavior …

2013 June, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Press releases for June of 2013.

Experiences Of Latina First Generation College Students: Exploring Resources Supporting The Balancing Of Academic Pursuits And Family Life, Hercilia B. Corona-Ordoñez

Graduate Doctoral Dissertations

This study used a qualitative interview approach and thematic analysis (Braune and Clark, 2006) to interview first generation college student Latinas, exploring their experiences with higher education, their navigation/negotiation of resources for academic success and for wellness of self and family, and barriers they face as they attempt to both safeguard self and family wellness and reach their academic goals. It also directly explored the potential resources participants would find useful and ways in which colleges/universities might support them in these pursuits.

With this method, this study identified 6 major themes in the lives of first generation college student Latinas: …

Library Organizational Charts

Library Organizational Charts (1995-2018)

No abstract provided.

Latinos In Massachusetts Public Schools: Brockton, Michael Berardino

Gastón Institute Publications

This report provides a snapshot of current educational outcomes of Latino students in the city of Brockton. It is based on publicly available data from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (MADESE) that has been analyzed by the Gastón Institute for the 2013 Latinos in Massachusetts Regional Meeting in New Bedford. This report uses the ethno-racial categories assigned by MADESE. It focuses on the evolving demographic trends and the most recent educational outcomes of Latino students relative to other ethno-racial groups in the school district. The first section illustrates the demographic shift occurring in the Brockton Public …

Latinos In Massachusetts Public Schools: Fall River, Michael Berardino

Gastón Institute Publications

This report provides a snapshot of current educational outcomes of Latino students in the city of Fall River. It is based on publicly available data from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (MADESE) that has been analyzed by the Gastón Institute for the 2013 Latinos in Massachusetts Regional Meeting in New Bedford. This report uses the ethno-racial categories assigned by MADESE. It focuses on the evolving demographic trends and the most recent educational outcomes of Latino students relative to other ethno-racial groups in the school district. The first section illustrates the demographic shift occurring in the Fall …

واقع المحاسبة الجزائرية في ظل بيئة الأعمال الدولية., زوهـري جليلـة

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

من خلال هذا المقال سنحاول إبراز أهم الخصائص التي ميزت بيئة الأعمال الدولية، وذلك من حيث الاختلافات التي أصبحت تميز المجال المحاسبي بين الدول، كما سنوضح بعض المفاهيم الخاصة بكل من التوحيد والتوافق المحاسبي من حيث إظهار الفرق بين هذين المصطلحين، وكذا الأهداف والمبررات والمعوقات التي تواجه تطبيق وتنفيذ هذين الإستراتيجيتين كنموذج دولي يساعد في التقليل من التباينات المحاسبية والمالية بين الدول.وفي هذا الإطار سندرج المحاولة الجزائرية الرامية إلى تحقيق الإصلاح المحاسبي مع تبيان لأهم النقائص التي ميزت المخطط المحاسبي الوطني وأهم ما جاء به النظام المحاسبي المالي الجديد.

قانون ساربينز – اوكسلي وأثره على كفاءة وفاعلية نظام التقدير الذاتي في التحاسب الضريبي, محمد حلو داود الخرسان, جابر حسين علي

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يتوقف نجاح الدولة في اختيار نظامها الضريبي على معرفة كاملة بأوضاع المجتمع الاقتصادية والاجتماعية والسياسية والأهداف التي يسعى إلى تحقيقها، ومن هذا المنطلق تحاول الدراسات الضريبية الارتقاء بالعمل الضريبي على أكمل وجه عن طريق استخدام الأساليب العلمية الحديثة التي تنعكس إيجاباً على عملية التحاسب الضريبي ، وتقديم أفضل الخدمات للمكلفين بدفع الضريبة، ومنها نظام التقدير الذاتي، والذي بموجبه يقوم دافعي الضرائب بإعداد حساباتهم الختامية وتقديمها مع نماذج معينة تعدها الإدارة الضريبية ، ومن ثم تسديد مبلغ الضريبة المترتبة بذمتهم بشكل مباشر وفق الدخل الذي قام بتحديده المكلف. ويقترن هذا الأسلوب وجود نظام تدقيقي فعال يوضع من قبل الإدارة الضريبية يتيح …

العوامل المؤثرة في جودة أعمال التدقيق من وجهة نظر مراقبي الحسابات العراقيين, فراس خضير الزبيدي

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

تهدف هذه الدراسة الى تحديد العوامل المؤثرة في جودة اعمال التدقيق المؤداة في مكاتب مراقبي الحسابات العراقيين وقد تم تحقيق هذا الهدف من خلال استبانة تم تصميمها بالاعتماد على بعض الدراسات السابقة وقد كانت عينة الدراسة مكونة من 60 مراقب حسابات وقد توصلت الدراسة الى جملة من النتائج اهمها. 1-على مراقب الحسابات عند تنفيذه اختبارات الالتزام والاختبارات الجوهرية ان يحصل على ادلة وقرائن كافية ومناسبة تمكنه من الوصول الى نتائج معقولة يعتمد عليها في ابداء راية حول البيانات المالية .2-يجب على مراقب الحسابات ان يوثق ضمن اوراق عملة كافة المواضيع وادلة الاثبات والقرائن التي تؤكد انجاز مهمة التدقيق وفقا للمبادئ …

توظيف القدرات المميزة لتعزيز التسويق الريادي دراسة تحليلية لآراء مدراء مصرف الرافدين, سناء جواد كاظم, رونق كاظم حسين شبر

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

تختبر الدارسة الحالية علاقة الارتباط والتأثير بين القدرات المميزة والتسويق الريادي بأبعاده ( قادة التطوير التسويقي ، أنشطة التسويق الريادي ، العوامل المحددة للمصرف ، العوامل المحددة للريادي) وتحددت الدراسة بفرضية رئيسة مفادها “وجود علاقة ارتباط وتأثير ذات دلالة معنوية بين القدرات المميزة والتسويق الريادي” تنبثق منها أربع فرضيات فرعية، وقد وقع الاختيار على مصرف الرافدين ” الإدارة العامة ” كمجتمع للدراسة لكونه من اكثر المصارف عراقة، وجمعت البيانات عن طريق استمارة أستبيان مكونة من جزءين، الأول يختص بالقدرات المميزة والثاني يختص بالتسويق الريادي، وقد تم توزيع ( 50) أستبانة على مدراء ومعاوني المدراء ورؤساء أقسام المصرف، أعيدت بالكامل وقد …

أثر برامج الخصخصة على مؤشرات التنمية الإقتصادية في دول عالم الجنوب, حيدر اسماعيل صالح

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

بعد مرور ما يقارب من ثلاثة عقود من الزمان لمسيرة برامج الخصخصة عالمياً وتعدد وجهات النظر بين مؤيد ومعارض لتلك السياسات، اختلفت الاثار التي تركتها تلك البرامج من ناحية المكاسب والآثار الاجتماعية من دولة الى اخرى والتي تتوقف على جملة من السياسات التي يجب على الدولة ان تنتهجها ومن ابرزها تعزيز المنافسة ووضع الاطار التنظيمي الخاص بمنع الكيانات الاحتكارية وأساليب بيع المؤسسات العامة التي لابد ان تتسم بالشفافية، بالإضافة الى تصميم البرامج الخاصة بتعويض الخاسرين وفي تهيئة الرأي العام بالشكل الذي يمكنه من تقبل تلك العملية اقتصادياً واجتماعياً بعد عقود طويلة من سيطرة الدولة على النشاط الاقتصادي، كما ان ايجاد …

تحليل التباين للتجارب العاملية المكررة في حالة النماذج (المقيدة ، العشوائية والمختلطة), كاظم يحيى عبد الحسين

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

تم في هذا البحث عمل تحليل التباين للتجارب العاملية المنفذة بتصميم RCBD التي تكرر في أكثر من موقع أي (تحليل التباين المركب لهذه التجارب) ولجميع أنواع النماذج (النموذج الثابت ، النموذج العشوائي والنموذج المختلط) وذلك من خلال بيان الفقرات الآتية :النموذج الرياضي ، تقدير التأثيرات ، التباين المتوقع (EMS) وجدول تحليل التباين (ANOVA).

مقارنة بعض معايير تشخيص انموذج Arx بأستعمال ألمحاكاة بحث مستل من رسالة ألماجستير ألمعنونة “مقارنة بعض معايير تشخيص وطرائق تقدير انموذج Arx مع تطبيق عملي على سعر صرف ألدينار ألعراقي”, فراس أحمد محمد, عبدالرحمن جاسم محمد

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يعد أنموذج ARX من ألنماذج ألمهمة في موضوع تحليل ألسلاسل ألزمنية, وهنالك خطوات عديدة ومتسلسلة لغرض بناء هذا ألانموذج ومن هذه ألخطوات تشخيص رتب ألانموذج. وقد تم في هذا ألبحث مقارنة أربع معايير للتشخيص وهي معيار معلومات أكياكي (AIC), ومعيار بعد ألوصف ألأصغر(MDL), ومعيار Hannan&Quinn(HQIC), والوسيط للمعيارين (MDL) و (HQIC) وسيرمز له MMH)). و تمت ألمقارنة في مجال ألزمن Time Domain بأستعمال ألمحاكاة استنادا الى عدد ألمرات ألتي ينجح فيها كل معيار في أختيار ألرتب ألصحيحة للأنموذجو لأربعة نماذج ARX برتب مختلفة ,(1,1,1),(1,2,1) ,(2,1,1)(2,2,1) وعند حجوم عينات مختلفة. وقد تبين أن ألمعايير MDL, HQIC, MMH كفوءة في اختيار رتب ألأنموذج, …

مبادىء المحاسبة المالية (نظرة معاصرة), Saud Jayed, Ali Naim Jassim, Asaad Munshid Muhammad

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

انــــه يحتوي على فصلا خاصـــا في موضوع حوسبة العمليات المالية , وهذا ما ينسجم مع حالة التطور الالكتروني في تعليم مهنــــة المحاسبــــــــــة .علاوة على ان هذا الكتاب تم اعداده بطريقة علميــــة تتفق مع المستوى العلمي المطلوب لطلبتنا الاعزاء في التعليم الجامعي وينسجم كذلك مع مفردات اللجنــــــــة القطاعيـــــة المحاسبية التي تعنى بإعداد المفردات للمواد الدراسية ضمن اطــــار عمل هذه اللجان في وزارة التعليم العالي والبحث العلمي .ولذلك فان هذا الكتاب يتضمن ثلاثة عشر فصلا تناول الفصل الاول تاريخ ونشأة المحاسبة واهدافها وطبيعة مستخدمي المعلومات المحاسبية ، وعلاقة المحاسبة بالحقول الاخرى بالاضافة الى مستويات الاطار النظري للمحاسبة ، في حين تناول الفصل …

Real Time Event Detection In Twitter, Xun Wang, Feida Zhu, Jing Jiang, Sujian Li

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Event detection has been an important task for a long time. When it comes to Twitter, new problems are presented. Twitter data is a huge temporal data flow with much noise and various kinds of topics. Traditional sophisticated methods with a high computational complexity aren’t designed to handle such data flow efficiently. In this paper, we propose a mixture Gaussian model for bursty word extraction in Twitter and then employ a novel time-dependent HDP model for new topic detection. Our model can grasp new events, the location and the time an event becomes bursty promptly and accurately. Experiments show the …

Collaborative Urban Logistics – Synchronizing The Last Mile, Robert De Souza, Mark Goh, Hoong Chuin Lau, Wee-Siong Ng, Puay-Siew Tan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The synchronized last mile logistics concept seeks to address, through coordinated collaboration, several challenges that hinderreliability, cost efficiency, effective resource planning, scheduling and utilization; and increasingly, sustainability objectives.Subsequently, the meeting of service level and contractual commitments are competitively impacted with any loss of efficiency.These challenges, against a backdrop of Singapore, can essentially be addressed in selected industry sectors through a betterunderstanding of logistics structures; innovative supply chain designs and coordination of services, operations and processescoupled with concerted policies and supply chain strategies.