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The Influence Of Patient-Provider Interaction, Self-Concept, And The Socio-Physical Environment On Pelvic Exam Seeking Behavior, Anxiety, And The Health Care Experience, Julie Lasslo

Theses and Dissertations--Education Sciences

Regular gynecological screenings are critical for women in promotion of health and preventing diseases like cervical cancer. Despite the importance of such examinations, many women fail to adhere to recommended screening protocols. As a result, women experience an increased disease risk. The current study examined the relationship between patient-provider communication quality, skill, and empathy on pelvic exam seeking behavior and exam-related anxiety and satisfaction. Additionally, negative self-concept, perceived poor genital self-image, and various elements of the socio-physical clinic environment were explored to better understand their impact on a women’s care seeking behavior.

A total of 350 women 19 through 80 …

Deploying Natural Language Processing To Extract Key Product Features Of Crowdfunding Campaigns: The Case Of 3d Printing Technologies On Kickstarter, Nina Chaichi, Tim R. Anderson

Engineering and Technology Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

In the technology management field, informal source of information such as social media has been used for technology mining, leader user detection, and etc. However, usually unstructured nature of the informal information introduces some challenges. This study is part of an effort to automate key product features extraction from crowdfunding campaign's textual information, in order to analyze the effect of them on the decision-making process of crowdfunding backers. This paper intends to evaluate the performance of UDPipe R package and six keyword extraction techniques on candidate features selection from textual data of 3D printer campaigns on Kickstarter. In the end, …

The Implications Of Science And Technology For Chinese Women: A Cultural Study Of The Chinese Era Of Reforms, Wenjing Liu

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

Abstract

This dissertation addresses the gendered implications of science and technology in the era of reforms. It argues that in this era, which began in 1978 and continues today, science and technology are highly romanticized as nearly omnipotent. This results in its being embedded not only into ordinary Chinese people’s lives, hoping to bring them positive changes, but also into the Chinese government’s political practices, hoping to achieve its political purposes through science and technology. It also points out that in the era of reforms, Chinese women’s lived experiences are full of tensions, struggles, and conflicts, as evidenced by the …

วัจนลีลาในเพลงรำวงมาตรฐาน, ณัฎฐา ระกำพล

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์ (1) ศึกษาวิเคราะห์วัจนลีลาในเพลงรำวงมาตรฐาน (2) สังเคราะห์รูปแบบภาษาวรรณศิลป์ในเพลงรำวงมาตรฐาน (3) ศึกษาการรับรู้และการเข้าใจความหมายในเพลงรำวงมาตรฐานของครูผู้สอนนาฏศิลป์ไทยในระดับการศึกษาขั้นพื้นฐาน โดยใช้ระเบียบวิธีวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพ ด้วยการวิเคราะห์เนื้อหา (Content analysis) จากเพลงรำวงมาตรฐาน 10 เพลง คือ 1. เพลงงามแสงเดือน 2. เพลงชาวไทย 3. เพลงรำซิมารำ 4. เพลงคืนเดือนหงาย 5. เพลงดวงจันทร์วันเพ็ญ 6. เพลงดอกไม้ของชาติ 7. เพลงหญิงไทยใจงาม 8. เพลงดวงจันทร์ขวัญฟ้า 9. เพลงยอดชายใจหาญ และ10. เพลงบูชานักรบ และใช้วิธีการสัมภาษณ์เชิงลึก (In Depth interview) ครูผู้สอนนาฏศิลป์ไทยในระดับการศึกษาขั้นพื้นฐานร่วมกับการวิเคราะห์เอกสาร (Documentary analysis) ที่เกี่ยวข้องกับรำวงมาตรฐาน วัจนลีลา วรรณศิลป์ และหลักภาษาศาสตร์ ผลการวิจัย 1. เพลงรำวงมาตรฐานทั้ง 10 เพลง เป็นระดับภาษาแบบกึ่งทางการ โดยลักษณะเด่นทางภาษา พบว่า มีการใช้การโยกย้ายส่วนของประโยคเพื่อเน้นความหมายในทุกเพลง รองลงมาคือ มีการใช้สรรพนามบุรุษที่1,2 และคำลงท้าย และการละคำ โดยมีการใช้คำถามน้อยที่สุด 2. ภาษาวรรณศิลป์ในเพลงรำวงมาตรฐานในด้านทำเนียบภาษา พบว่าปรากฏทำเนียบภาษาคือศัพท์นาฏศิลป์ และศัพท์สังคีต จำนวน 5 เพลง ได้แก่ เพลงงามแสงเดือน เพลงชาวไทย เพลงรำซิมารำ เพลงคืนเดือนหงาย และเพลงดอกไม้ของชาติ และพบว่า ศัพท์นาฏศิลป์พบในเพลงรำวงมาตรฐานมากกว่าศัพท์สังคีต ได้แก่ งามแสงเดือน รำมาซิมารำ และดอกไม้ของชาติ โดยศัพท์นาฏศิลป์ที่พบมาก ได้แก่ คำว่า “ฟ้อน รำ ฟ้อนรำ ระบำ ร่ายรำ และนาฏศิลป์”สำหรับศัพท์สังคีต คือเพลงชาวไทย และเพลงคืนเดือนหงาย ได้แก่ คำว่า “ เล่น โบก พริ้ว ประและพรม” 3. การรับรู้และการเข้าใจในเพลงรำวงมาตรฐานของครูผู้สอนนาฏศิลป์ไทยในระดับการศึกษาขั้นพื้นฐาน พบว่าครูผู้สอนมีการรับรู้และเข้าใจในเพลงรำวงมาตรฐานเป็นไปในทิศทางเดียวกัน

Gender, Politics, Market Segmentation, And Taste: Adult Contemporary Radio At The End Of The Twentieth Century, Saesha Senger

Theses and Dissertations--Music

This dissertation explores issues of gender politics, market segmentation, and taste through an examination of the contributions of several artists who have achieved Adult Contemporary (AC) chart success. The scope of the project is limited to a period when many artists who figured prominently in both the broader mainstream of American popular music and the more specific Adult Contemporary category were most commercially viable: from the mid-1980s through the 1990s. My contention is that, as gender politics and gendered social norms continued to change in the United States at this time, Adult Contemporary – the chart, the format, and the …

Nidus Idearum. Scilogs, Vii: Superluminal Physics - Second Edition, Florentin Smarandache

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

My lab[oratory] is a virtual facility with non-controlled conditions in which I mostly perform scientific meditation and chats: a nest of ideas (nidus idearum, in Latin). I called the jottings herein scilogs (truncations of the words scientific, and gr. Λόγος – appealing rather to its original meanings "ground", "opinion", "expectation"), combining the welly of both science and informal (via internet) talks (in English, French, and Romanian). * In this seventh book of scilogs collected from my nest of ideas, one may find new and old questions and solutions, referring to different scientific topics – email messages to research colleagues, or …

Henosis Experience In Gaming: A Metric For Adjustments To Global Schema And Appraised Meaning, Evan Robert Watts

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Meaningfulness is a media gratification distinct from enjoyment characterized by feelings of insight, contemplation, and poignancy. Video games, too, can elicit experiences of meaningfulness, but the mechanisms underlying meaningfulness are unclear and in need of further exploration. Adapting work from existential psychology, this research proposes the construct of henosis as one mechanism that might contribute to meaningful video game experiences. Henosis is a response to experiences in which a person’s fundamental schema about the world (global schema) is challenged by an event which contradicts this schema. Henosis describes the process by which this discrepancy is resolved via either reappraising the …

Homeland And Ethnic News Consumption Among Ghanaians In The Washington Metropolitan Area, Kwabena Boateng Bediako

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Among the many applications of the Internet is its use for news. Ghanaian immigrants, like others living away from their country of birth, use the Web to access news from home via ethnic media in their host country or homeland media or both. Employing online surveys and telephone interviews, this study explores the daily use of online media by Ghanaians resident in the Washington metropolitan area to obtain news about their native country. It assesses how factors like demography, length of stay abroad and devices used affect time spent daily on the Internet looking for news as well as the …

Advertising Education At A Crossroad, Sang Y. Lee

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

The changes in the advertising industry are rapid and dizzying. The advertising industry is going through structural change and advertising education faces a daunting challenge in keeping up with the real world. Advertising educators must recognize the urgency of revising the curriculum to address this challenge. If not, while the industry transitions into a different chapter, advertising education will be left behind. This article discusses major changes in the advertising industry, and calls for thought leadership to bridge the gap between academia and the industry and to initiate proactive changes in advertising education.

Identification And Crisis: An Exploration Into The Influence Of Sports Identification On Stakeholder Perceptions Of Sports-Related Crisis, Jennifer L. Harker

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

This research examines sports identification as relational history with sports entities to test its predictive influence on stakeholders’ perceptions regarding sports-related crises. Sports identification was explored as both a social identification with sport (fandom) and as an individual identification with sport (fanship). Results suggest that sports identification is indeed a predictive element to stakeholders’ crisis perceptions; however, findings track in an interesting new direction that extends crisis communication theory in sport and suggests that sports crises are perceived in a similar manner to sports rivalries.

Changing The Story: Implications Of Narrative On Teacher Identity, Geah Pressgrove, Melissa Janoske, Stephanie Madden

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

This study takes a qualitative approach to understanding the connections among narrative, professional identity, and reputation management in public education. Through 15 interviews and five focus groups with high-achieving teachers and administrators, researchers explored the narratives these educators share to understand and improve the story of the teaching profession. Central to the findings are societal, organizational, and community-level factors that have led to a reputation crisis for the profession of teaching and thus contribute to the national teacher shortage. Ultimately, this study points to the notion that a shift in the perception of the value of teaching and teachers can …

Volume 36 - Full Volume

National Forensic Journal

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Is It Prose Or Is It Drama? Distinguishing Events Based On Judging Criteria, Justin J. Rudnick, Anthony Peavy, Balencia Crosby, Alyssa Harter, Cristy Dougherty

National Forensic Journal

Genre distinctions have been a source of confusion and contention in the collegiate forensics community, particularly in terms of distinguishing between appropriate source material for prose and drama. As the most powerful indicators of current forensic performance evaluations, ballots help illustrate the judging paradigms shaping the community. To that end, we conducted a content analysis of preliminary-round prose and drama ballots from the 2014 NFA championship tournament to determine how judges distinguish between prose and drama. Results illustrate substantial similarities in how each event is evaluated by judges. We discuss implications for this distinction in the conclusion of this essay.

How Can Sotl Help Forensic Educators Assess Their Performance?, Leah White

National Forensic Journal

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is a movement among educators which seeks to acknowledge the work we do teaching as its own form of unique scholarship. SoTL argues the work we do as teachers can be peer-reviewed, critiqued and shared with others in our academic communities. The goal of this paper is to outline how forensic educators can use SoTL approaches to help build an argument about their scholarly activity as illustrated in coaching practice. SoTL provides a frame through which we can articulate the significance of this aspect of our scholarly performance.

Character Morality, Enjoyment, And Appreciation: A Replication Of Eden, Daalmans, And Johnson (2017), Koji Yoshimura

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Much research on media entertainment seeks to explain why viewers enjoy and appreciate a variety of media content. Affective disposition theory suggests that media enjoyment results from perceptions of the morality of characters and viewers’ expectations for characters’ narrative outcomes. However, research has struggled to explain how characters with varying morality (i.e., not perfectly good or bad) entertain viewers. This study replicates a previous study conducted by Eden, Daalmans, and Johnson (2017) that investigated different types of morally ambiguous characters, using a typology of character types based on an online, collaboratively sourced typology.

Like the original study, this study found …

Advr 3300: Survey Of Advertising (Syllabus), Andrea Wiley

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

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Advr 3310: Branding And Strategic Media (Syllabus), Joel Nichols

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

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Advr 3324: Creative Strategy (Syllabus), Ruoxu Wang

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

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Advr 4328: Strategic Advertising Campaign (Syllabus), Sandra H. Utt

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

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Jour 3120: Reporting (Syllabus), Pamela Denney

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

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Jour 3120: Reporting (Syllabus), Joe Hayden

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

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Jour 3130: Feature Writing/Reporting (Syllabus), Candy Justice

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

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Jour 3526: Multimedia Storytelling (Syllabus), Michael Robinson

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

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Jour 3526: Multimedia Storytelling (Syllabus), Michael Robinson

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

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Jour 3526: Multimedia Storytelling (Syllabus), Jin Yang

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

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Jour 4150: Sport Writing/Reporting (Syllabus), Robert Byrd

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

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Jour 4170: Business Writing/Reporting (Syllabus), Thomas J. Hrach

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

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Jour 4500: Web Publishing I: Html/Css (Syllabus), Jin Yang

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

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Jour 4500: Web Publishing I: Html/Css (Syllabus), Jin Yang

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

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Jour 4639: Television News Reporting (Syllabus), Joe Hayden

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

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