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President Obama And Counterterrorism Policy: When Campaign Pressures Meet Governing Imperatives, Nancy Kassop, Steven Goldzwig

Steven Goldzwig

No abstract provided.

Review Of The Anti-Intellectual Presidency: The Decline Of Presidential Rhetoric From George Washington To George W. Bush, Steven Goldzwig

Steven Goldzwig

No abstract provided.

Commencing The Rationale For War: George W. Bush’S Address At West Point, June 1, 2002, Steven R. Goldzwig

Steven Goldzwig

No abstract provided.

Contesting The So-Called Postracial Landscape Of Presidential Politics: Obama, African Americans, And A Shifting Electorate, Steven Goldzwig, Patricia Ann Sullivan

Steven Goldzwig

No abstract provided.

Projective Techniques In Us Marketing And Management Research: The Influence Of The Achievement Motive, Lawrence Soley

Lawrence Soley

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the use of projective techniques for published marketing and management research in the USA. The paper emphasizes the influence that McClelland, Atkinson, Clark and Lowell’s study, The Achievement Motive (1953), has had on subsequent research. That work applied quantitative analysis to responses obtained using projective techniques.

Design/methodology/approach – The approaches used in this paper consist of descriptive historical methods and a literature review. The historical analysis was conducted using Kuhn’s 1967 conception of paradigms, showing that the paradigm from which projective techniques emerged – psychoanalysis – failed to gather many adherents outside the …

Sex And Shock Jocks: An Analysis Of The Howard Stern And Bob & Tom Shows, Lawrence Soley

Lawrence Soley

Studies of mass media show that sexual content has increased during the past three decades and is now commonplace. Research studies have examined the sexual content of many media, but not talk radio. A subcategory of talk radio, called “shock jock” radio, has been repeatedly accused of being indecent and sexually explicit. This study fills in this gap in the literature by presenting a short history and an exploratory content analysis of shock jock radio. The content analysis compares the sexual discussions of two radio talk shows: Infinity’s Howard Stern Show and Clear Channel’s Bob & Tom Show.

Censorship Inc.: The Corporate Threat To Free Speech In The United States, Lawrence Soley

Lawrence Soley

The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution is a landmark in the defense of free speech against government interference and suppression. This book shows it also acts as a smokescreen behind which a more dangerous and insidious threat to free speech is at work.

Soley shows how as corporate power has grown and come to influence the issues on which ordinary Americans should be able to speak out, new strategies have developed to restrict free speech on issues in which corporations and property-owners have an interest. From the tobacco industry’s attempts to prevent information about the effects of smoking on …

Advertising Media Selection, Lawrence Soley

Lawrence Soley

Advertising media planning is part of the media planning process. It consists of selecting the appropriate media and vehicles that will carry the campaign advertisements. The decision making involved in media planning is quantitative and qualitative. Quantitative decisions include analyzing the vehicles' delivery to the target market and determining the cost efficiency of particular media and vehicles. Qualitative decisions include looking at the appropriateness of a vehicle's editorial environment for the product being advertised, and the attentiveness of prospects to that vehicle.

The Invisible Gag, Lawrence Soley

Lawrence Soley

Corporations infringe on free speech rights.

The Tricks Of Academe, Lawrence Soley

Lawrence Soley

No abstract provided.

Business-To-Business Media Selection, Kyle Krueger, Lawrence Soley

Lawrence Soley

Business-to-business advertising media selection consists of analyzing and selecting the appropriate media and vehicles for reaching workplace-based prospects. The analysis is based on quantitative factors such as cost efficiency, and qualitative factors such as the appropriateness of the vehicle's editorial environment for the product or service being marketed.

Research And The Bottom Line In Today’S University, Sarah Bonewits Feldner, Lawrence Soley

Lawrence Soley

Citing examples of corporate involvement in university research and decision making, the authors argue that today’s university is characterized by a web of symbiotic relationships which may turn them away from other important priorities, particularly teaching. When universities are scrambling for corporate support, the missions that become most important are conducting research that attracts corporate sponsors, developing marketable products and technologies, maintaining and cultivating ties with the private sector, and fashioning imaginative partnerships with corporate patrons.

Projective Techniques For Advertising And Consumer Research, Lawrence Soley

Lawrence Soley

No abstract provided.

Review Of Michael Sweeney’S Secrets Of Victory: The Office Of Censorship And The American Press And Radio In World War, Lawrence Soley

Lawrence Soley

No abstract provided.

Measuring Responses To Commercials: A Projective-Elicitation Approach, Lawrence Soley

Lawrence Soley

Photoelicitation and projective assessment are research methods derived from visual sociology and psychoanalysis respectively. This study combined the methods by having respondents view a commercial, and then showing them one of two versions of a projective drawing showing a lone or a male-accompanied woman sitting on a couch. Respondents were told that the woman in the drawing had just seen the commercial and were asked about what the woman was thinking. The results show that a paper-and-pencil attitude measure correlated moderately with the visually-primed responses, but the visually-primed responses included psychoanalytically-predicted reactions such as denial and displacement and were dependent …

Volume 105 Issue 25, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

No abstract provided.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council

Staff Council

Minutes of July 9, 2014 meeting.

Eyes On The Rise [Grant Agreement], Robert E. Gutsche Jr.

Sea Level Rise Collection

No abstract provided.

The Impact Of Economic Integration Within The European Union As A Factor In Conflict Transformation And Peace-Building, John Umo Ette

Dissertations and Theses

This study examines economic integration within the European Union (EU) as a factor in conflict transformation and peace-building. European responses to causes of frequent conflicts and wars after the end of WWII focused on the search for peace, economic cooperation and prosperity. This thesis will focus on three elements: economic interdependence, the expansion of the free market, and economic integration. In-depth examination of these factors reveals that economic interdependence or the exchange of goods and services across inter-state and international boundaries only, is not sufficient to bring peace among states. Economic inter-dependence may reduce the impact of war, but cannot …

Development Of A Short Version Of The Modified Yale Preoperative Anxiety Scale, Brooke N. Jenkins, Michelle Fortier, Sherrie H. Kaplan, Linda C. Mayes, Zeev N. Kain

Psychology Faculty Articles and Research

BACKGROUND: The modified Yale Preoperative Anxiety Scale (mYPAS) is the current “criterion standard” for assessing child anxiety during induction of anesthesia and has been used in >100 studies. This observational instrument covers 5 items and is typically administered at 4 perioperative time points. Application of this complex instrument in busy operating room (OR) settings, however, presents a challenge. In this investigation, we examined whether the instrument could be modified and made easier to use in OR settings.

METHODS: This study used qualitative methods, principal component analyses, Cronbach αs, and effect sizes to create the mYPAS-Short Form (mYPAS-SF) and reduce time …

The Echo Chamber Is Getting Louder, Tom Cavanagh

UCF Forum

My ears are starting to hurt. Let me explain.

Book Review: The Origins Of Southern Evangelicalism: Religious Revivalism In The South Carolina Lowcountry, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Review of the book The Origins of Southern Evangelicalism: Religious Revivalism in the South Carolina Lowcountry. By Thomas J. Little. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1-61117-274-4.

Bayesian Models Of Sequential Dependencies In Binary And Multi-Interval Response Tasks, Jeffrey Scott Annis

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

A sequential dependency occurs when the response on the current trial is correlated with responses made on prior trials. Sequential dependencies have been observed in a variety of both perception and memory tasks. Thus, sequential dependencies provide a platform for relating these two cognitive processes. However, there are many issues associated with measuring sequential dependencies and therefore it is necessary to develop measurement models that directly address them. Here, several measurement models of sequential dependencies for both binary and multi-interval response tasks are described. The efficacy of the models is verified by applying them to simulated data sets with known …

Predicting Fear Of Crime Using A Multilevel And Multi-Model Approach: A Study In Hillsborough County, Jonathan Maskaly

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In the 1960s, the government formed the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice to looked at the problem of crime and fear of crime in modern American society. In addition to looking at these issues, the Commission also looked at ways to potentially reduce both crime and fear of crime. One of the primary outcomes of the Commission's report was that policing agencies in the United States needed to fundamentally alter the way they served their communities, notably by transitioning to community-oriented policing (COP). Starting in the 1970s, law enforcement agencies around the nation began to embrace …

2014-07-09; Letter; Bereavement Minnie Bester, Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church

Letters

No abstract provided.

Repeat Sales Methods For Growing Cities And Short Horizons, Karl L. Guntermann, Crocker Liu, Adam D. Nowak

Economics Faculty Working Papers Series

The accurate estimation of real estate indices is important for many purposes. A common method to estimate these indices is to use a repeat‐sales procedure. Although this does not require property attributes, this method discards a large amount of sales. This paper proposes a method that can be used to incorporate a significant percentage of these discarded observations without requiring additional data collection by the researcher. We apply our method to the metropolitan statistical areas of Phoenix and Seattle and find that standard errors are on average two‐thirds the value of standard errors from a repeat‐sales procedure in Seattle and …

Health Information Literacy As A Predictor Of Community Information Service Utilization Among Citizens In Public/National Libraries In South Western Nigeria, Rotimi Adesina Egunjobi, Johnson A. Akerele

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract

Public libraries are primarily established to meet the information needs of citizen at all levels. Obviously, one of such needs is health information. However, information poverty is so rampant in Nigeria consequent upon which people awareness about their health is low. This study therefore investigated health information literacy as a predictor of community information service utilization in public and national libraries in south western Nigeria. The descriptive research design was adopted. Simple random technique was used to distribute questionnaires to 40 respondents in each of 6 public and 4 national libraries in south western Nigeria. The total sample size …

Assessing The Environmental Justice Implications Of Flood Hazards In Miami, Florida, Marilyn Christina Montgomery

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

While environmental justice (EJ) research in the U.S. has traditionally focused on inequities in the distribution of technological hazards, the disproportionate impacts of Hurricane Katrina on racial minorities and socioeconomically disadvantaged households have prompted researchers to investigate the EJ implications of natural hazards such as flooding. Recent EJ research has also emphasized the need to examine social inequities in access to environmental amenities. Unlike technological hazards such as air pollution and toxic waste sites, areas exposed to natural hazards such as hurricanes and floods have indivisible amenities associated with them. Coastal property owners are exposed to flood hazards, but also …

Secondary Teachers' Perceived Role In Suicide Prevention And Intervening With Suicidal Students, Victoria R. Hatton

Theses and Dissertations

Best practices in adolescent suicide prevention include teachers as major participants, because teachers are in a unique and frontline position to support students. Unfortunately, many teachers are unaware of their role in suicide prevention efforts. In addition to confusion about their roles, teachers may feel uncomfortable and/or lack confidence in their abilities to identify warning signs and intervene with suicidal students. This study assessed secondary teachers' (N = 74) perceptions of their role in suicide prevention as well as how they perceive their comfort and confidence levels in identifying and intervening with suicidal students. In addition, this study explored possible …

The Influence Of Cumulative Risk Factors On The Cognitive Abilities Of Low-Income, African- American Preschool Children, Cassandra L. Esposito

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

A large number of children are exposed to multiple risk factors within the first 3 years of life, resulting in poorer child developmental outcomes. Additionally, exposure to multiple risks is especially prevalent in low-income populations. Several studies have found that multiple maternal and biological risks such as maternal depression, physical health or illness, other sociodemographic risks, and low birth weight lead to poor child outcomes, such as lower cognitive achievement at preschool age. The current study investigated the influence of both maternal and infant biological risks in a cumulative risk model on predicting preschool children’s cognitive outcomes. Hierarchical multiple regression …