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Mentoring African-American Women Through Inclusive Male Executive Suite, Tamika Bowser Wright Jul 2015

Mentoring African-American Women Through Inclusive Male Executive Suite, Tamika Bowser Wright

Communication & Leadership Dissertations and Theses

Women in corporate environments often operate under the glass ceiling, but the term ‘glass ceiling’ is limited in its perspective. It does not account for African-American women in corporate environments who operate under a stronger barrier – the concrete wall. In order to maneuver around the barrier, an action-oriented approach must be taken and mentoring is the structured tool that can help African-American women around this barrier. Through the use of the feminist standpoint theory, and methodical interviews to gain further insight about the position of African-American women in today’s work structure, a formal mentoring will be developed and implemented …


Bibliometric Study Of Literature On Leptospirosis For The Period 2006-2013, Kotti Thavamani Jul 2015

Bibliometric Study Of Literature On Leptospirosis For The Period 2006-2013, Kotti Thavamani

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper attempts to assess the literary output in the field of Leptospirosis productivity for the period 2006-2013. Statistical analysis has been carried out using SPSS and other relevant measures. It shows that the year wise distributions of Leptospirosis records are increasing year after year except the years 2008, 2009 and 2011. It shows that 88.76% articles are of English language and followed by Spanish and French languages. It is observed that USA has contributed the highest number of records in the study period. Next major contribution belongs to England, Netherlands and India. India has the 4th position among the …


Evaluating User Interaction With A Web-Based Group Decision Support System: A Comparison Between Two Clustering Methods, Martin Swobodzinski, Piotr Jankowski Jul 2015

Evaluating User Interaction With A Web-Based Group Decision Support System: A Comparison Between Two Clustering Methods, Martin Swobodzinski, Piotr Jankowski

Geography Faculty Publications and Presentations

Task-Technology Fit theory and the Technology Acceptance Model identify system utilization as an important indicator for the performance of complex software systems. Yet, empirical evaluations of user interaction with group decision support systems are scarce and often methodologically underdeveloped. For this study we employed an exploratory evaluation of user interaction in the context of web-based group decision support systems. Specifically, we used information-rich server logs captured through a web-based platform for participatory transportation planning to identify groups of users with similar use patterns. The groups were derived through multiple sequence alignment and hierarchical cluster analysis based on varying user activity …


Where's Your Phone?: If You're Lost Without It, You May Have Nomophobia, Jacob Mccarthy Jul 2015

Where's Your Phone?: If You're Lost Without It, You May Have Nomophobia, Jacob Mccarthy

Colby Magazine

Do you feel anxious when your phone battery is low? Check your messages more often than you'd like? You might be a nomophobe.


Shooting For The Sky: Martin Tengler Is Part Of A Team That Wants To Use Drones To Plant A Billion Trees A Year, Gerry Boyle Jul 2015

Shooting For The Sky: Martin Tengler Is Part Of A Team That Wants To Use Drones To Plant A Billion Trees A Year, Gerry Boyle

Colby Magazine

Martin Tengler '12 can picture a time when aerial drones fan out to map vast reaches of deforested land and then plant thousands of seed pods that will turn wasteland into new forest.


Trust In Scientists On Climate Change And Vaccines, Lawrence C. Hamilton, Joel N. Hartter, Kei Saito Jul 2015

Trust In Scientists On Climate Change And Vaccines, Lawrence C. Hamilton, Joel N. Hartter, Kei Saito

Sociology

On climate change and other topics, conservatives have taken positions at odds with a strong scientific consensus. Claims that this indicates a broad conservative distrust of science have been countered by assertions that while conservatives might oppose the scientific consensus on climate change or evolution, liberals oppose scientists on some other domains such as vaccines. Evidence for disproportionately liberal bias against science on vaccines has been largely anecdotal, however. Here, we test this proposition of opposite biases using 2014 survey data from Oregon and New Hampshire. Across vaccine as well as climate change questions on each of these two surveys, …


Ddasaccident807, Hd-Aid Jul 2015

Ddasaccident807, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

At 10:50am TL announced a regular ten minutes break and deminers took their rest close to the base line of the MF. TS took one of the deminer’s metal detector MineLab F3S and entered 3m deep into uncleared area. He started investigation of subsurface metal signals. TS called TL [Name removed] who was sitting in the safe area in proximity of 15m from TS. When TL took his first step towards TS the explosion occurred. As a result of explosion force, TS’s helmet hit TL’s chest and TL fell down to the ground. When TL stood up he saw the …


Goals Worth Sharing, Erika Simpson Jul 2015

Goals Worth Sharing, Erika Simpson

Political Science Publications

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2015-07-10 Pca Awards Chair Report, Pennsylvania Counseling Association Jul 2015

2015-07-10 Pca Awards Chair Report, Pennsylvania Counseling Association

PCA Board of Directors Meetings

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Comparative Analysis Of Dietary Guidelines In The Spanish-Speaking Caribbean, Melissa Fuster Jul 2015

Comparative Analysis Of Dietary Guidelines In The Spanish-Speaking Caribbean, Melissa Fuster

Publications and Research

Objective: Dietary guidelines are important education and policy tools to address local nutrition concerns. The current paper presents a comparative analysis of nutrition messages from three Spanish-speaking Caribbean countries (Cuba, Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic) to explore how these dietary guidelines address common public health nutrition concerns, contextualized in different changing food environments and food culture similarities.

Design: Qualitative, comparative analysis of current dietary guideline documents and key recommendations.

Results: Key recommendations were categorized into sixteen themes (two dietbased, ten food-based and four ‘other’). Only the Cuban dietary guidelines included diet-based key recommendations. Of the ten food-based …


University & Seminary Respond To Gc Vote: Statement On Women's Ordination Issue, Becky St. Clair Jul 2015

University & Seminary Respond To Gc Vote: Statement On Women's Ordination Issue, Becky St. Clair

Andrews Agenda: Campus News

The Andrews University Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary responded to the General Conference vote against women's ordination.


Analysis Of Information And Communication Technology Roles In Poverty Reduction Among Small And Medium Scale Farmers In Imo State, Nigeria, Jonadab Ubochioma Chikaire Mr Jul 2015

Analysis Of Information And Communication Technology Roles In Poverty Reduction Among Small And Medium Scale Farmers In Imo State, Nigeria, Jonadab Ubochioma Chikaire Mr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

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This study examines the role ICTs play in poverty reduction among small and medium scale (SMS) farmers in Imo State, Nigeria. Data were collected from 170 (SMS) farmers in Imo State using well structured questionnaire. Analysis of data collected was done using percentages and mean presented in tabular forms. It was seen from results that 38.2% of the respondents are within the age bracket of 51-60 years. Majority (43.5%) attended secondary school, 48% have put in 11-20 years in farming, while 71.7% have a farm size 0.25-1.5 hectares. ICT devices used include radio, mobile phones, television, among others. On …


Understanding The Irony: Canadian Gay Men Living With Hiv/Aids, Their Catholic Devotion, And Greater Well-Being, Renato M. Liboro, Richard T.G. Walsh Jul 2015

Understanding The Irony: Canadian Gay Men Living With Hiv/Aids, Their Catholic Devotion, And Greater Well-Being, Renato M. Liboro, Richard T.G. Walsh

Psychology Faculty Research

Nine Canadian Catholic HIV-positive gay men were interviewed to obtain a better understanding of why and how they were able to persevere in their faith despite their religion’s teachings against homosexuality and contributions to the stigmatization of HIV/AIDS. By examining the lived experiences and personal perspectives of the participants, the study aimed to explore and elucidate the significant role of Catholicism and the Catholic Church both as a continued source of marginalization and oppression, as well as strength and support, for Canadian gay men living with HIV/AIDS today.


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Meditation Prayer, Delivered At The Devos, O'Donovan, Kennedy Dinner Party On July 9, 2015, Arend D. Lubbers Jul 2015

Meditation Prayer, Delivered At The Devos, O'Donovan, Kennedy Dinner Party On July 9, 2015, Arend D. Lubbers

Presidential Speeches

Meditation Prayer, delivered at the DeVos, O'Donovan, Kennedy Dinner Party on July 9, 2015 by Arend D. Lubbers, who served as President of Grand Valley from 1969-2001.


Children's Responses To Cooperative And Competitive Games: A Person X Situation Analysis, Thomas David Mulderink Jul 2015

Children's Responses To Cooperative And Competitive Games: A Person X Situation Analysis, Thomas David Mulderink

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation examined the relations between goal structure, task-completion order, time, and individual differences in agreeableness for school-aged children completing a tower building task. The tower building task (Graziano et al., 1997) allows for the study of in-game behavior during competitive and cooperative tasks with a similar structure. Children completed a total of 13-trials (six per goal structure) under two different goal structures in order to observe changes both prosocial and destructive behaviors over time. Results revealed that children engage in more destructive behaviors over time under contrient goal structure conditions after working together relative to groups that completed contrient …