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Ua3/9/5 Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (Crep), Wku President's Office

WKU Administration Documents

Talking points used by WKU president Gary Ransdell regarding WKU's partnering with Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program.

Prospectus, August 17, 2005, Jon Volkman, Aaron Geiger, Nicole Simmons, Angela Corray, Sarah Ramey, Larry V. Gilbert, Joseph Rosenbaum, Erin Koelkebeck

Prospectus 2005

No abstract provided.

Ethical Values In Sport, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

At times, the world of sport offers its fans moral and ethical questions of a formidable nature rivaling the questions pondered by medieval theologians. For example, who is morally more reprehensible: a baseball player who assaults a television cameraman or one who takes steroids after denying under oath that he had never taken steroids. Whose transgression is worse: a football player who fails a drug test or a hockey player who in a premeditated action assaults a fellow player with a sucker punch from behind, drives his head into the ice, and breaks his neck?

And Now A Punch, Kick, And Slap From Our Sponsors: A Content Analysis Of Aggression In Network Television Commercials., Robert C. Carpenter

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

While the violent content of television news and entertainment programs has been widely documented, commercials have been rarely scrutinized for aggressive traits. This study sought to improve on this situation and gather additional data about television commercial violence. Because commercials make up 25 percent of each network hour of programming, the potential for exposure to violent content may be even greater than previously believed. To explore this issue, a content analysis was conducted of 2,162 prime-time television commercials on three major networks: ABC, CBS, and NBC. The sample was coded with a scheme developed by Anu Mustonen and Lea Pulkkinen …

Determinants Of Cable Program Diversity [Slides], Louisa Ha, Lisa Marshall

School of Media and Communication Faculty Publications

Slides from a presentation given at the Media Management and Economics Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Convention, San Antonio, Texas on August 10-12, 2005 by Louisa Ha and Lisa Marshall. Second best faculty paper.

Worldwide Business Models Of Emerging Media: A Comparative Study Of Leading Webcasters In 13 Countries [Slides], Louisa Ha

School of Media and Communication Faculty Publications

Slides from a presentation given at the 2005 AEJMC Convention, San Antonio, Texas, USA, August 10-12 by Louisa Ha.

Ncaa Nickname Proscription, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

The NCAA, in whatever wisdom it may have remaining, has ruled that NCAA institutions who have "offensive and abusive" mascots and logos will not be allowed to host any post-season event nor participate in any post-season event while displaying such a logo or mascot. Eighteen universities have been named in this group. This is a ruling that has been a long time coming and one that represents many of the problems with organizations like the NCAA.

The Summer In Sports, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

It is my position that Rafael Palmeiro became the King of Performance Enhancement Drugs when he first appeared in a Viagra commercial. Nothing has happened in the past few days to change that view.

Patient Care News: August 2005, St. Cloud Hospital

Patient Care News

The Magnet Journey

St. Cloud Hospital Magnet Re-designation Practice Story Form

CentraCare Surpasses Fiscal Year Patient Satisfaction Goal

Adult Blood/Blood Product Infusion Protocol

The African Telecommunications Union: A Pan-African Approach To Telecommunications Reform, Patricia K. Mccormick

Communication Faculty Research Publications

This article examines the organisational structure and strategic plans of the African Telecommunica- tions Union (ATU). Although the ATU has been restructured to include private telecommunications entities as asso- ciate members, it remains essentially an inter-governmental agency. The article assesses the benefits of a regional approach to telecommunications reform and proposes that regional economic organisations replace the nation states as members of the ATU. Although the goals of the ATU, as articulated in its strategic plans are laudable, clearly de- fined benchmarks and specific strategies to achieve them are needed to make the organisation more effective.

Enterprise Applications Of Semantic Web: The Sweet Spot Of Risk And Compliance, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

Semantic Web is in the transition from vision and research to reality. In this early state, it is important to study the technical capabilities in the context of real-world applications, and how applications built using the Semantic Web technology meet the real market needs. Beyond push from research, it is the market pull and the ability of the technology to meet real business needs that is a key to ultimate success of any technology. In this paper, we discuss the market of Risk and Compliance which presents unique market opportunity combined with challenging technical requirements. We discuss how the Semantic …

Dramatism, Feminine Style And Women's Weblogs: Women Speaking In The E-Public, Misty York

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

During the 2004 election cycle, online communication technologies emerged as a legitimate influence on political participation and strategy. Weblogs (blogs) played a pivotal role in the Internet's unprecedented sway. This research combined Burke's (1969) dramatism with Campbell's (1989) feminine style to describe and critique three women's political blogs. The pentad highlighted an argument derived from each blogger's master narrative, while feminine style analysis revealed subtle differences among the women's persuasive tactics.

Wsu Research News, Fall 2005, Office Of Research And Sponsored Programs, Wright State University

WSU Research News

A sixteen page newsletter of the WSU Research News. The WSU Research News was published monthly beginning in June of 1968 and issued by the Office of Research Development. This newsletter was created to provide information to the WSU faculty about the availability of outside funds for research and educational programs, new developments that may affect availability of funds, and general information on research and educational activities at Wright State University.

Ontology Learning As A Use-Case For Neural-Symbolic Integration, Pascal Hitzler, Sebastian Bader, Artur Garcez

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

We argue that the field of neural-symbolic integration is in need of identifying application scenarios for guiding further research. We furthermore argue that ontology learning - as occurring in the context of semantic technologies - provides such an application scenario with potential for success and high impact on neural-symbolic integration.

"Clogging?" "No, I Said, West Virginia Blogging.", Beth Jane Toren

University Libraries Faculty Scholarship

This newsletter article provides an introductory survey of methods of communication can be leveraged by blogs in libraries. Profession-wide and local-level examples are provided along with technical advice for beginners.

Second Servings: Online Publication And Its Impact On Second-Day Leads In Newspapers, Jack Rosenberry

Media and Communication Faculty/Staff Publications

A content analysis comparing contemporary newspaper leads to ones from 15 years earlier, before Internet publication became commonplace, determined that use of “first day” (direct/summary) leads has declined over that time. The findings support an argument that newspapers’ print editions have become a permanent second-day publication concurrent with the rise of the 24-hour news cycle and the phenomenon of newspapers using their online editions to break news.

Integrating First-Order Logic Programs And Connectionist Systems - A Constructive Approach, Sebastian Bader, Andreas Witzel, Pascal Hitzler

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

Significant advances have recently been made concerning the integration of symbolic knowledge representation with artificial neural networks (also called connectionist systems). However, while the integration with propositional paradigms has resulted in applicable systems, the case of first-order knowledge representation has so far hardly proceeded beyond theoretical studies which prove the existence of connectionist systems for approximating first-order logic programs up to any chosen precision. Advances were hindered severely by the lack of concrete algorithms for obtaining the approximating networks which were known to exist: the corresponding proofs are not constructive in that they do not yield concrete methods for building …

Extracting Reduced Logic Programs From Artificial Neural Networks, Jens Lehmann, Sebastian Bader, Pascal Hitzler

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

Artificial neural networks can be trained to perform excellently in many application areas. While they can learn from raw data to solve sophisticated recognition and analysis problems, the acquired knowledge remains hidden within the network architecture and is not readily accessible for analysis or further use: Trained networks are black boxes. Recent research efforts therefore investigate the possibility to extract symbolic knowledge from trained networks, in order to analyze, validate, and reuse the structural insights gained implicitly during the training process. In this paper, we will study how knowledge in form of propositional logic programs can be obtained in such …

A Whole New Ballgame: How Fantasy Sports Has Evolved In The Mass Media, Danny Woodward

Communication Theses - Archive

Fantasy sports, a game that allows players to run their own virtual sports franchise, has been considered a hobby enjoyed outside the cultural mainstream. But recent adoption of fantasy sports-related content in the mass media has increasingly made fantasy sports widely accepted. This exploratory study, uses an inductive, qualitative approach, to examine how fantasy sports has evolved in the mass media in seven categories: awareness, interest, testing, adoption, use, benefits, and future projections. Fantasy sports is shown to be more prevalent in the mass media now than ever before, and different media use fantasy sports in different ways but always …

High-Tech Trial Lawyers And The Court: Responsibilities, Problems, And Opportunities, Fredric I. Lederer

Popular Media

No abstract provided.

Are Advanced Degrees Worth The Time And Effort?, Carla Kimbrough

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Faculty Publications

We’ve read it all before. The more you learn, the more you earn.
High school graduates earn more than those who drop out of school. College grads have higher salaries than those who have only a high school education. Those with graduate degrees often out earn those with a bachelor's degree. Of course, there are exceptions to every rule.
The question of graduate degrees often comes up in our industry. When I've spoken with journalists who are pondering graduate .school, I ask about their motivation. What do you want the outcome to be? What do you think a graduate degree …

Accessing The Spoken Word, Jerry Goldman, Steve Renals, Steven Bird, Franciska De Jong, Marcello Federico, Carl Fleischhauer, Mark Kornbluh, Lori Lamel, Douglas W. Oard, Claire Stewart, Richard Wright

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

Spoken-word audio collections cover many domains, including radio and television broadcasts, oral narratives, governmental proceedings, lectures, and telephone conversations. The collection, access, and preservation of such data is stimulated by political, economic, cultural, and educational needs. This paper outlines the major issues in the field, reviews the current state of technology, examines the rapidly changing policy issues relating to privacy and copyright, and presents issues relating to the collection and preservation of spoken audio content.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 37 No. 37, July 27, 2005

Central Florida Future

Traffic concerns take spotlight again at hearing: Residents given another chance to express support or opposition of on-campus stadium; New film festival enhances Orlando: Seeks to showcase work of local artists independent films; Tough breaks: Late-night car burglaries have students questioning apartment security; Theft main source of crime on campus: Students advised to protect valuables be aware of area.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 37 No. 73, July 20, 2005

Central Florida Future

Age-specific student housing leads some to wonder if so many freshmen can reside in same apartment complex; Death of friends leaves some students to battle grief: Denial and anger part of multitude of emotions faced when loved ones are lost; New dorms feature high-class amenities: Private parking garage retail shops enhance housing; Shark tales: The beaches that line the coast of Florida attract thousands if surfers every year - and sharks; Online facebooks latest student sensation: Addictive MySpace Thefacebook improve social networking friendship between Internet buddies.

Ua19 Focus On Reform: Academic Standards In Athletic Programs, Wku Athletics

WKU Administration Documents

Overview of academic standards in WKU Athletics programs.

Peer-To-Peer Discovery Of Semantic Associations, Matthew Perry, Maciej Janik, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Conrad Ibanez, I. Budak Arpinar, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

The Semantic Web vision promises an extension of the current Web in which all data is annotated with machine understandable metadata. The relationship-centric nature of this data has led to the definition of Semantic Associations, which are complex relationships between resources. Semantic Associations attempt to answer queries of the form “how are resource A and resource B related?” Knowing how two entities are related is a crucial question in knowledge discovery applications. Much the same way humans collaborate and interact to form new knowledge, discovery of Semantic Associations across repositories on a peer-to-peer network can allow peers to share their …

Ua1b2/1/5 Oral History, Paula Trafton, Charles Anderson

WKU Administration Documents

Interview conducted by Paula Trafton with Charles Anderson, retired Vice President for Information Technology.

When The Publisher Is A Politician; A Case Study Of The Idaho Falls Post Register's Coverage Of The 2002 Idaho Gubernatorial Campaign, Kristoffer D. Boyle

Theses and Dissertations

In March 2002, Idaho Falls Post Register owner/publisher Jerry Brady announced his intent to run as the Democratic challenger in the Idaho gubernatorial race. His decision left the newspaper and its editorial staff scrambling for an appropriate way to objectively cover the state's most prominent race involving the man who signed the checks. In an effort to meet this expectation, the newspaper established a detailed plan, which included Brady moving away from the newspaper's operations, both physically and editorially. Additionally, the Post Register brought in an outside media professional to monitor its coverage of the race and hosted several meetings …

Prospectus, July 13, 2005, Jon Volkman, Erin Koelkebeck, Debra Lewis, E. Clarkson, Joseph Rosenbaum, Aaron Geiger, Nicole Simmons, Larry V. Gilbert, Theresa Campagna

Prospectus 2005

No abstract provided.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 37 No. 72, July 13, 2005

Central Florida Future

Late finals cause housing concern: Students face homelessness before exams as leases expire early in local complexes; Greeks and police aim for unity with patrol: New policing effort to reduce fear crime in Greek Park; Dennis spares UCF wrecks Panhandle: Storm never a threat to campus; authorities ready for future storms; Professors weigh in on London bombing: Latest attacks were inevitable says expert; Convocation Center to enhance campus life.