cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Factors Associated with Feeding Difficulties in Young Children
Creators: name: Mudholkar, Asmita
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 420601
subject: Community child health
classificationCode: 420606
subject: Social determinants of health
classificationCode: 520505
subject: Social psychology

description: Submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.
Search for long-lived charginos based on a disappearing-track signature using 136 fb $$^{-1}$$ - 1 of pp collisions at $$\sqrt{s}$$ s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2023

description: A search for long-lived charginos produced either directly or in the cascade decay of heavy prompt gluino states is presented. The search is based on proton–proton collision data collected at a centre-of-mass energy of $$\sqrt{s}$$ s  = 13 T $$\text {eV}$$ eV between 2015 and 2018 with the ATLAS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 136 fb $$^{-1}$$ - 1 . Long-lived charginos are characterised by a distinct signature of a short and then disappearing track, and are reconstructed using at least four measurements in the ATLAS pixel detector, with no subsequent measurements in the silicon-microstrip tracking volume nor any associated energy deposits in the calorimeter. The final state is complemented by a large missing transverse-momentum requirement for triggering purposes and at least one high-transverse-momentum jet. No excess above the expected backgrounds is observed. Exclusion limits are set at 95% confidence level on the masses of the chargino and gluino for different chargino lifetimes. Chargino masses up to 660 (210) G $$\text {eV}$$ eV are excluded in scenarios where the chargino is a pure wino (higgsino). For charginos produced during the cascade decay of a heavy gluino, gluinos with masses below 2.1 T $$\text {eV}$$ eV are excluded for a chargino mass of 300 G $$\text {eV}$$ eV and a lifetime of 0.2 ns.
Analysis of selected characteristics of geriatric population in the Czech Republic in the international context. XXIth Sympozium on Clinical Pharmacy René Macha 2019, November 22-23; Mikulov, Czech Republic (in Czech)
Creators: name: Kostřiba, J.
name: Lukačišinová, A.
name: Apostoli, P.
name: Brkič, J.
name: Fialová, D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: aged
ageism
social pharmacy
population ageing
healthcare economy

description: This poster presentation summarized issues related to population ageing in the Czech Republic and Central and Eastern Europe and also economic parameters for this European region. It described potetial problems in the future decades in availability of appropriate medications for geriatric population and probably also raising problems related to ageism in medication use also due to economic reasons.
title: การใช้พรีไบโอติกส์ในปลานิล
Creators: name: ชนกันต์ จิตมนัส
Publisher: name: สำนักวิจัยและส่งเสริมวิชาการการเกษตร มหาวิทยาลัยแม่โจ้
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: พรีไบโอติกส์
การเพาะเลี้ยงสัตว์น้ำ
การกระตุ้นภูมิคุ้มกัน
ภูมิคุ้มกันแบบไม่จำเพาะ

description: Journal Of Agricultural Research And Extension, 41, 2, 65-82
Bioreactor reduces atrazine and nitrate in tile drain waters
Creators: name: Krause Camilo, Björn
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Temperatur

description: This study analyzes the potential of organic substrates to retain both nitrate (NO3-) and the herbicide agent atrazine (ATR) at short hydraulic residence times (HRT). The objective is to implement effective and efficient mitigation zones to improve the quality of tile drain waters. Taking the results of a pre-study at laboratory scale into account, the focus is now on retention of the two contaminants under more realistic conditions. In a one and a half year lasting technical scale experiment the performance of a flow through bioreactor (8.0 m long, 2.0 m wide, and 0.4 m high), filled with straw of common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and bark mulch of pine tree (Pinus sp.), was studied at HRT of 0.43 days. The bioreactor was run horizontally and its reaction zone was kept water-saturated throughout most time of the experiment. NO3- (~100 mg L-1) and ATR (~30 ìg L?1) were constantly and continuously dosed into flow. As result NO3? retention varied between 3 g-N m?3 d?1 (8%) at 9 ˚C and 30 g-N m?3 d?1 (82%) at 21 ˚C. ATR retention was observed in the range of 10 mg-ATR m-3 d-1 (15%) at 9 ˚C and 22 mg-ATR m-3 d-1 (48%) at 21 ˚C. ATR- and NO3- retention are positively correlated with temperature. NO3- retention benefits from the labile organic carbon in straw and ATR retention seems to base on high adsorption to bark mulch and formation of bound residues. In conclusion the combined use of straw and bark mulch in mitigation systems has the potential to facilitate effective parallel retention of NO3- and the group of less mobile herbicide agents like ATR, even under the pressure of high flow events as expected in the rainy season.Quelle: http://www.sciencedirect.com
Caregivers’ Perceived Stress and Social Support in Association with Temperament in 3 to 24-Month-Old Infants Born Preterm and Full-term
Creators: name: Löffler, Miriam T.
name: Wagner, Lisa
name: Daum, Moritz M.
name: Peters, Lidia
Publisher: name: PsychArchives
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: prematurity
subject: gestational age
subject: temperament differences
subject: effortful control
subject: negative emotionality
subject: extraversion/surgency
subject: early childhood
subject: caregivers’ perceived stress
subject: caregivers’ perceived social support
subject: 150

description: Risk and protective factors are related to the development of children's temperament, a dimension of social-emotional development. One potential risk factor is perceived caregiver stress, while perceived social support in the context of perinatal infant care practices may act as a protective factor against its negative effects. Preterm (PT) birth poses additional challenges as caregivers often experience increased stress, emphasising the need to explore how these factors interact. Understanding risk and protective factors will help to identify children at risk and provide targeted interventions. This study examines the associations between caregiver perceived stress, perceived social support in the context of perinatal care, and infant temperament dimensions, including positive affectivity/surgency, negative emotionality, and orienting/regulatory capacities. In addition, we will examine the potential moderation of these associations by gestational age or term status (PT or full-term (FT)). Participants will be caregivers of children born PT and FT at the USZ. When the parents are contacted, the children will be between 3 months and 2 years old. We will recruit caregivers online via social media and the database of the Research Unit “Developmental Psychology: Infancy and Childhood” at the University of Zurich. Participants will complete questionnaires online.
title: คุณสมบัติของแบคทีเรียที่คัดแยกได้จากน้ำในบ่อเลี้ยงปลา เพื่อใช้เป็นโพรไบโอติกในการเพาะเลี้ยงสัตว์น้ำ
Creators: name: อรทัย แดงสวัสดิ์
Publisher: name: สำนักวิจัยและส่งเสริมวิชาการการเกษตร มหาวิทยาลัยแม่โจ้
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: ศักยภาพ
น้ำบ่อเลี้ยงปลา
โพรไบโอติก
การเพาะเลี้ยงสัตว์น้ำ

description: Journal Of Agricultural Research And Extension, 41, 2, 83-96
New Teacher Retention
Creators: name: Seach, Lynne M.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors that contribute to the attrition rate of beginning teachers new to the teaching profession. This was determined by conducting a survey of teachers who had been teaching fewer than two years. In order to determine the impact of various support factors that were believed to contribute to teacher retention, a survey was administered to 70 first and second year teachers in the Anne Arundel County Public Schools‟ Right Start program. It was found that there were differences based on gender, residency in the district, level of instruction, type of teacher certificate, and the strength of teacher support within the school that had an impact on the retention of new teachers in the school district.
Research relating to teacher retention and attrition rates should continue with emphasis on specific ways to support new teachers in order to prevent them from leaving the profession.
ENSURING ECONOMIC SECURITY OF TRADE ENTERPRISES IN THE FORMATION OF PRICING POLICY
Creators: name: Bezpartochnyi, Maksym
name: Britchenko, Igor
name: Losonczi, Peter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 140303 Economic Models and Forecasting
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The article considers the problem of ensuring the economic security of trade enterprises by forming an optimal pricing policy. The methodology of formation the minimum and maximum selling prices of trade enterprise, maintenance of margin of economic security, which is based on research of turnover costs and working capital of trade enterprise is offered. Based on statistical data of trade enterprises, the types of prices by product range are determined, which form a stable economic situation and ensure economic security of trade enterprise. The necessity of forming the optimal price policy and selling prices of trade enterprises with the use of Pareto efficiency tools and construction of single-criteria and multi-criteria tasks, indicators of quality of commodity resources of trade enterprises is substantiated. Using the Excel software processor and the «Regression» function, economic-mathematical models of optimal prices for the product range
 of trade enterprises are built. The results testified to the effectiveness of the proposed model of the optimal pricing policy of trade enterprises, as the obtained values are
 within the minimum selling prices, which provides economic security of trade enterprises. The process of forming the pricing policy of trade enterprises to ensure economic
 security is proposed, which is based on the principles of pricing, appropriate methodological tools and monitoring of market environment factors. Organizational, economic,
 legal, social and market (marketing) mechanisms for the formation of effective pricing policy of trade enterprises aimed at ensuring economic security are identified. This study is practically interesting for personnel of trade enterprises, regardless of organizationallegal forms of ownership and activities, and theoretically – for researchers dealing with pricing.
title: การศึกษาเปรียบเทียบกระบวนการสกัดน้ำมันจากเนื้อในเมล็ดมะม่วงดอง
Creators: name: พิชญอร ไหมสุทธิสกุล
Publisher: name: สำนักวิจัยและส่งเสริมวิชาการการเกษตร มหาวิทยาลัยแม่โจ้
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: น้ำมันเมล็ดมะม่วงดอง
สมบัติทางกายภาพ
สมบัติทางเคมี
การต้านอนุมูลอิสระ
กระบวนการสกัด

description: Journal Of Agricultural Research And Extension, 41, 2, 97-109
Gender Images and Power in Magazine Advertisements: The Consciousness Scale Revisited
Creators: name: Bonham, Lorie
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2005

description: This study re-evaluates the Consciousness Scale originally formulated by Pingree et al. in 1976.  The element of assumed power was added to the Consciousness Scale, which was then used to evaluate 516 magazine advertisements from 1999 to determine if the Consciousness Scale still accurately evaluates sexism in media.  A set of advertisements was culled which had contradictory Consciousness Scale and power ratings.  The set was evaluated, revealing common themes, which created difficulty in coding these modern images.  The study revealed that while the Consciousness Scale can still provide a valuable tool in evaluating media images, the change in the social dynamic of women as well as minorities and how advertisers portray them must be taken into account.  The element of power as well as a more nuanced reading of each level of the Consciousness Scale creates a more modern and complex evaluation of gender images in the media.
Preserving the American Community Newspaper in an Age of New Media Convergence and Competition
Creators: name: Wilson, Stephen
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2005

description: The intention of this project is to provide broad based and practical advice for American community newspapers. Print editions of papers have experienced stagnation and decline over the past several decades and today face an increasingly complex media environment, and as a result there is the potential for them to be rendered obsolete. Competition with technology based media, or technomedia, is the primary catalyst for this decline. Through a combination of background research and interviews with industry professionals, this project will attempt to develop tools for print newspapers to remain relevant and even profitable in the American media landscape of the 21st Century.
The Television Portrayals of African Americans and Racial Attitudes
Creators: name: Dubriel, Joni
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: Television often portrays African Americans in unfavorable positions in comparison to Caucasians. Typically these unfavorable depictions reinforce negative stereotypes associated with African Americans. Research indicates that television portrayals can influence people?s attitudes toward one another. A question left unanswered by current research: are mass-mediated images as influential at reversing or counteracting stereotypes as they are at reinforcing them? An experiment with undergraduate students was conducted to investigate the relationship between the positive portrayal of African Americans and subsequent racial attitudes. Participants viewed a video clip with either an African American or Caucasian chairman for the Georgia Division of Public Health. The clip included a still photograph of the chairman and was accompanied by a pre-recorded voice addressing treatments for lung cancer patients. At the beginning of each class, professors showed students the video after which the class lecture proceeded as scheduled. Just before the class ended a researcher entered the class and told students he/she was doing a survey on racial attitudes. Students were then given a questionnaire regarding racial attitudes toward African Americans. Between the time of the video viewing and the completion of the survey, students were not informed that one was related to the other. Subjects also completed an evaluation of the speaker in the video and of the health message.
Hamilton's Principle and Lagrangian Mechanics
Creators: name: Barker, Daniel
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2008
Subjects: Research -- Periodicals.
Humanities -- Research -- Periodicals.
Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals.

description: From the Faculty Nominator: Dan's paper was the result of a 6-week semester project in MA 231 (Differential Equations). The assignment was to investigate a particular model of interest whose mathematical description involved a nonlinear differential equation. A history component and detailed analysis of the model were to be included. I felt that Dan's paper went above and beyond my expectations, and truly exhibited a deep level of understanding of the subject.
description: “Hamilton’s Principle and Lagrangian Mechanics” explores an application of differential equations to classical physics. The paper is an introduction to the formulations of mechanics developed by William Rowan Hamilton and Joseph Louis de Lagrange. In certain situations, these approaches are superior to the ubiquitous Newtonian mechanics. The derivation and philosophical underpinning of both Hamilton’s and Lagrange’s method are also discussed.
description: Mark McKibben
description: http://blogs.goucher.edu/verge/5-2/
title: คุณสมบัติทางเคมีกายภาพ และปริมาณกลูโคแมนแนนของผงบุกจากหัวบุกพันธุ์เนื้อทราย (Amorphophallus muelleri) ที่ใช้วิธีการทำแห้งและวิธีการสกัดแตกต่างกัน
Creators: name: ภัทราภรณ์ ศรีสมรรถการ
Publisher: name: สำนักวิจัยและส่งเสริมวิชาการการเกษตร มหาวิทยาลัยแม่โจ้
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: บุกผง
Amorphophallus muelleri
ผงบุก
กลูโคแมนแนน

description: Journal Of Agricultural Research And Extension, 41, 2, 110-122
A developmental approach to obtaining assent in pediatric research: lessons from a longitudinal study of 0-to-5-year-olds
Creators: name: Howery, Amanda N.
name: Lashley, Olivia J.
name: Nomura, Olivia K.
name: Wright, Hanna R.
name: Wood, Elizabeth K.
name: Nigg, Joel T.
name: Gustafsson, Hanna C.
name: Sullivan, Elinor L.
Publisher: name: Oregon Health and Science University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Informed Consent
subject: Research Subjects
subject: Child
subject: child assent
subject: neurodevelopment
subject: child autonomy
subject: pediatric research practices

description: Obtaining informed consent is a mandated research practice and is necessary for maintaining the health and safety of all research subjects. Pediatric research requires parents to provide consent on behalf of their children. To respect the developing autonomy of the child, researchers also seek to obtain child assent for research procedures. In longitudinal research, the extent to which a child understands research procedures changes as the child develops. Thus, researchers must take a developmental approach to obtaining child assent.This resource also considers the evolving role of the parent at each stage in the child assent process. We discuss this resource in the context of published child consent guidelines for longitudinal studies, while emphasizing that a developmental approach to assent procedures must account for neurodevelopmental differences. This summary and contextualization of our work is an important step toward encouraging positive and respectful research experiences for children.
Chant Down Babylon: the Rastafarian Movement and Its Theodicy for the Suffering
Creators: name: Blatter, Emily
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2008
Subjects: Research -- Periodicals.
Humanities -- Research -- Periodicals.
Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals.

description: I first fell in love with reggae music when I was a sophomore at Goucher. I was initially drawn to reggae for its smooth lullaby beats that resonate in the chest and make it so one cannot help but sway back and forth to the rhythm. Coincidentally, as I delved deeper into reggae, I also began to take Peace Studies classes where I became aware of the dynamics of race and privilege. It was then that I realized that there is more to reggae than its cheerful melodies and simple bass lines may suggest. I was able to persuade my Peace Studies professor Doctor Jennifer Bess to sponsor an independent study on reggae music and the Rastafarian religion. For an entire semester, I devoted myself to researching the topic. I read books and countless academic articles; interviewed a Jamaican Rasta who owns his own restaurant and reggae music venue in Baltimore; and, of course, I listened to reggae constantly while continually searching for new musicians. Through my independent study, I learned that true, Rastafarian-inspired reggae is, at its core, an act of rebellion. Reggae lyrics oppose the status quo in an impoverished country where the descendents of slaves remain shackled by poverty and joblessness and suffer from the violent drug trade that results. Reggae artists offer scathing social critiques and articulate an alternative vision for society while simultaneously encouraging listeners to keep dancing to the soothing rhythms. Indeed, for black Jamaicans, happiness itself is an act of rebellion—a defiant refusal to allow the oppressor to control one's mind. Therein lies the genius of reggae: reggae exposes the existence of racism, poverty and violence to the Jamaican people while simultaneously refusing to allow such social evils to destroy their happiness.
description: Jennifer Bess
description: http://blogs.goucher.edu/verge/5-2/
title: Grid tie converters aided rapid grid voltage fluctuation compensation with power hardware-in-the-loop experimental validation
Creators: name: Lerch, Tomasz
name: Barczentewicz, Szymon
name: Sarhan, Mohammad Abu
name: Feng, Zhiwang
name: Burt, Graeme
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2025

description: The majority of photovoltaic systems, small wind turbines and approximately half of large wind turbines are connected to power grids via electronic converters which regulate both active and reactive power. Such converters are capable of rapid adjustment of reactive power, thereby assisting in the stabilization of grid voltage. This capability is of paramount importance in the context of grids with distributed generation. This article presents a method that employs the reactive power generated by converters to dynamically compensate for voltage fluctuations, eliminating the need for additional costly equipment such as dynamic voltage restorers. By regulating the flow of reactive power, voltage fluctuations can be mitigated in real-time. Simulations in Matlab-Simulink and tests in a laboratory power hardware-in-the-Loop system demonstrated the efficacy of the method, exhibiting rapid compensation with response times of approximately 100 ms. Despite constraints associated with the converter’s power capacity, the approach is promising due to the pervasive availability of converters in power grids.
The Effects of the Program QuickReads on the Oral Reading Fluency of Third-Grade Students
Creators: name: Christian, Lindsey
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this study was to determine if third-grade students would achieve higher oral
reading fluency rates after additional instruction with the program QuickReads. The
measurement tool was the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Literacy Skills (DIBELS). This study
involved use of a pretest/posttest design to measure the data collected from the DIBELS oral
reading fluency assessment. There was not a statistically significant difference between the
treatment group and control group performance on the posttest. Achievement gains were
demonstrated by both groups. Research in this area should continue as there is little information
available regarding the most effective fluency instruction in urban, high-poverty elementary
schools.
Alternative Realities/The Multiverse: A Metaphysical Conundrum
Creators: name: Wynn, Freda
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: Films of every era reflect the concerns and fears of Western society. The acceleration of technology, the loss of a concrete world, the uneasy relationship with humans and ever increasing complex machines are inducing a fear of losing the ability to discern reality. The reality of ideas from science and the world around are woven into the narratives that we use to explain life.The films we watch reflect our hopes and fears and as the fears increase so do films with a shared theme of alternative realities. To know reality and search for the true Self is the job of the hero and the protagonist in recent alternative reality films.
Genotyping-by-Sequencing Based Investigation of Population Structure and Genome Wide Association Studies for Seven Agronomically Important Traits in a Set of 346 Oryza rufipogon Accessions
Creators: name: Malik, Palvi
name: Huang, Mao
name: Neelam, Kumari
name: Bhatia, Dharminder
name: Kaur, Ramanjeet
name: Yadav, Bharat
name: Singh, Jasdeep
name: Sneller, Clay
name: Singh, Kuldeep
Publisher: name: Springer US
Year: 2022

description: Being one of the most important staple dietary constituents globally, genetic enhancement of cultivated rice for yield, agronomically important traits is of substantial importance. Even though the climatic factors and crop management practices impact complex traits like yield immensely, the contribution of variation by underlying genetic factors surpasses them all. Previous studies have highlighted the importance of utilizing exotic germplasm, landraces in enhancing the diversity of gene pool, leading to better selections and thus superior cultivars. Thus, to fully exploit the potential of progenitor of Asian cultivated rice for productivity related traits, genome wide association study (GWAS) for seven agronomically important traits was conducted on a panel of 346 O. rufipogon accessions using a set of 15,083 high-quality single nucleotide polymorphic markers. The phenotypic data analysis indicated large continuous variation for all the traits under study, with a significant negative correlation observed between grain parameters and agronomic parameters like plant height, culm thickness. The presence of 74.28% admixtures in the panel as revealed by investigating population structure indicated the panel to be very poorly genetically differentiated, with rapid LD decay. The genome-wide association analyses revealed a total of 47 strong MTAs with 19 SNPs located in/close to previously reported QTL/genic regions providing a positive analytic proof for our studies. The allelic differences of significant MTAs were found to be statistically significant at 34 genomic regions. A total of 51 O. rufipogon accessions harboured combination of superior alleles and thus serve as potential candidates for accelerating rice breeding programs. The present study identified 27 novel SNPs to be significantly associated with different traits. Allelic differences between cultivated and wild rice at significant MTAs determined superior alleles to be absent at 12 positions implying substantial scope of improvement by their targeted introgression into cultivars. Introgression of novel significant genomic regions into breeder’s pool would broaden the genetic base of cultivated rice, thus making the crop more resilient.
Alice Hamilton: The Making of a Feminist-Pragmatist Rhetor
Creators: name: McCoy, Vicki
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: Dr. Alice Hamilton (1869-1970), the leading American figure in industrial medicine during the early to mid-1900s, left behind a body of rhetoric that is important in the history of American feminist discourse and American public address. Her discourse is the exemplary of feminist-pragmatist rhetoric, a genre of cross-gender communication developed by New Women associated with Hull House and the University of Chicago between 1892 and 1918. Hamilton?s rhetoric illuminates a key event in the history of the American rhetorical tradition?the emergence of the modern woman from her late-Victorian beginnings through her Progressive self-transformation. This study is approached as a rhetorical biography. It tracks Hamilton?s evolution from ?reticent scientist? to outspoken feminist-pragmatist by examining family, educational, peer and social influences on her development; and through critical analysis of her speeches, technical writing, books, and popular and specialty magazine articles over a 36-year period, from 1907 to 1943.
Observations on the News Factory: A Case Study of CNN
Creators: name: Grogan, Andree
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: News provides us with information about our world so we can make decisions about the matters that affect our daily lives?both for our personal and the public good. Television news is a pervasive force in our society, and it is important to study because of the influence it exerts on human action. But news is produced by human beings, and those human beings must make selections and rejections regarding what makes it into a newscast and what doesn?t. In addition, decisions have to be made on how to frame, present, order, word, edit, shape what news items are included. Many forces influence these decisions throughout the complex television news process. Media sociology scholars urge researchers to examine these influences at five levels: the individual, newsroom, organization, extra-organization and societal or cultural levels. This gatekeeping study examined this complex news process at work and revealed the complex set of forces that influence news decisions by news producers at CNN, a global 24-hour news network. By exposing the processes by which the news is made, one can better understand the influences that shape the end product?the news.
Tabloidization in the Modern American Press: A Textual Analysis and Assessment of Newspaper and Tabloid Coverage of the ?Runaway Bride? Case
Creators: name: Harris, Nichola
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: The media have extensive power in that they represent the primary, and often the only, source of information about many important events and topics. Media can define which events are important, as well as how media consumers should understand these events. The current trend towards tabloidization, or sensationalism, in today?s American media, has caused an uproar among media traditionalists, primarily in the fields of news and print media. This study seeks to examine the actual influence of tabloidization in newspaper media. My primary research question is as follows: Do tabloid newspapers in the United States set the agenda for more mainstream newspapers? An ethnographic textual analysis will be done of tabloid and newspaper coverage of a recent nationwide story about an Atlanta-area woman running away from town days before her wedding, the ?Runaway Bride? saga, in order to compare how the story was covered in tabloid and mainstream newspapers.
In Search of Communication Satisfaction at the State Bar of Georgia
Creators: name: Jones, Christopher
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: It has long been established that ?communication is of fundamental importance in the operation of all organizations, and a knowledge of the efficiency of the general communication system is vital to achieve high levels of organizational effectiveness? (Greenbaum, Clampitt, & Willihnganz, 1988, p. 245). With this in mind, over the past forty years many organizations have turned to communication audits to identify strategies to improve their organizations? communication practices. One such organization is the State Bar of Georgia. Using Downs and Hazen?s (1977) Communication Satisfaction Questionnaire, this study assessed the health/effectiveness of the Bar?s formal and informal communication channels, identified problems and made recommendations for improvement. In addition to gaining a better understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the Bar?s existing communication channels, the audit showed how communication practices at the Bar relate to employee job satisfaction.
Supplementary document for Analysis of polarized diffraction images of human red blood cells: a numerical study - 5513181.pdf
Creators: name: Wang, Wenjin
name: Min, Li
name: Tian, Peng
name: Chao, Wu
name: liu, jing
name: Hu, Xin-Hua
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Definitions an Symbols of GLCM Parameters
Gender Role Identity and Audience Perceptions of Music Videos
Creators: name: Legaspi, Melissa
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: The emergence in recent years of strong female musical artists asserting their sexuality as empowerment (Andsager & Roe, 2003; Gauntlett, 2002) has necessitated an evaluation of their depictions in music videos as perceived by contemporary target audiences. This study attempts to determine how viewers? gender role identity, based upon gender schema theory (Bem, 1981; 1993) and measured through Bem Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI), relate to perceptions of female pop and hip hop artists? music videos. It was hypothesized that sex-typed respondents would perceive portrayals as traditional more than other groups, whereas cross-sex typed respondents would perceive empowerment more than others groups. A convenience sample of 177 female undergraduate students was used for this cross-sectional study. Results did not support the hypotheses. Though some of the traditional items were found significant, no other significant differences emerged. Overall, gender role identity was ultimately found to have little relationship to perceptions of music video portrayals.
The Modern Musical: Recent trends and the narrowing gap between Broadway and the West End
Creators: name: Belter, Christina
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2008
Subjects: Research -- Periodicals.
Humanities -- Research -- Periodicals.
Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals.

description: I wrote “The Modern Musical” as my final research paper for Goucher’s three-week intensive course in London called “Dance and Theatre as Cultural Metaphors.” I chose to study musical theater simply because I have always enjoyed it but knew little about it. Besides, what could possibly be a more enjoyable method of doing research than going to see musicals? As I delved into my preliminary research, however, I was a little dismayed to find that the critics didn’t think as highly of The Phantom of the Opera as my friends, family, or I did. Many critics seem to think musicals have recently taken a turn for the worse, or even believe that musical theatre is a dead art form. Mark Grant has dedicated an entire novel to the discussion of The Rise and Fall of the Broadway Musical, which actually proved to be an especially helpful resource for writing this paper. In an effort to see why the critics who grew up in the “golden age of musicals” of the 50s and 60s didn’t appreciate the musicals I grew up with, I gathered information from a wide variety of sources. Novels and review articles from Goucher’s library helped elucidate recent trends. In London, the Victoria and Albert Museum’s theatre collection provided me with piles of programs and newspaper clippings from West End musicals. Personal interviews with Ian Nethersell, an actor and director of small-scale musicals in the London area, and British theatre historian Sarah Woodcock helped give me an insider’s personal perspective. On my own, I attended musicals such as Phantom of the Opera and Mamma Mia on Broadway, and drew my own conclusions. The first production on our London itinerary was Monty Python’s Spamalot. During the post-performance discussion, it became clear that one of our faculty instructors loved it, while the other was appalled. A number of the students had also seen the Broadway version of the same musical, which made for an interesting cross-cultural comparison. In our free time, a smaller group of us went to see Lord of the Rings, the musical, which may have been the most opulent spectacle I have ever seen. For better or for worse, the modern musicals of the past 30 years reflect our culture and our generation. Regardless of what the critics say has happened to modern theatre, I believe the current trend toward audience involvement appeals especially to our generation because television, videogames, and YouTube lack the novelty of a live performance and the possibility of interaction with the performers.
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Framing Hillary Clinton: A Content Analysis of the New York Times News Coverage of the 2000 New York Senate Election
Creators: name: Busher, Amy
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: This study used a combination of qualitative and quantitative content analyses to examine how news articles written by the New York Times portrayed Hillary Clinton during the 2000 New York Senate Election. The study combined research on political elections, gender stereotypes and an inductive analysis of coverage of the election to derive at four dominant frames. These frames, political activity, horserace, gender stereotype and traditional first lady were used to determine how the media responded to Hillary Clinton?s unprecedented decision to run for election. Results show that Hillary Clinton received more coverage based on her political activity than any other frame. In addition, there was no significant difference in the frames used based on the tone of the articles.
Effects of Different Types of Chocolate Milk on Recovery Time in College Swimmers
Creators: name: Alban, Douglas
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this study was to determine what type of milk used to make Nesquik was
best for lowering the recovery time of college level swimmers. Previous research had shown
chocolate milk was better than fluid replacement drinks and carbohydrate replacement drinks in
terms of recovery and preparing for the next workout. Sixteen athletes (nine women and seven
men) were tested using heart rate, breaths per minute, and push-ups per minute as the definition
of recovery. This study took four weeks, one each for no milk, skim milk, 1% milk, and whole
milk. The cardiovascular statistics (heart rate and breaths per minute) were significant yet
muscular statistics (push-ups per minute) were not, though results could be attributable to a
number of intervening factors. Research in the area of post workout nutrition for college
athletics should continue given the desire for bigger, stronger, and faster athletes.
March's Gendered Madness: An Analysis of Print Media Representations of a Female Division I NCAA Women's Basketball Coach - Pat Summitt
Creators: name: Allen, Cindy
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: This study explores the extent to which national newspaper coverage of a successful female coach reflects the broader gender ideology of society. This study looks specifically at the New York Times, The Washington Post and USA Today's coverage of six Women's Division I national basketball tournaments in which Pat Summitt coached the University of Tennessee in the championship game. The years included for this analysis are 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003 and 2004. This rhetorical analysis examines this print coverage to determine if, consistent with previous research on media coverage of the female athlete, Summitt's traditional gender role is privileged over her coaching role. The results suggest that Summitt is characterized in ways that marginalize and trivialize her coaching acomplishments. The findings also suggest that even as women succeed in the male-dominated world of sport, societal pressures require that they be presented as properly gendered heterosexual females.
Uncovering the Range of Intentions and Interpretations Associated with N-Word Usage in American Film
Creators: name: Logan, Nneka
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: Uncovering the Range of Intentions and Interpretations Associated with N-Word Usage in American Film

by

Nneka Logan

Under the Direction of Michael Bruner

ABSTRACT

This thesis is an analysis of contemporary N-word usage. Key points are that there is more than one N-word in circulation, and that ?nigger,? the racial slur, is only one conception of the N-word. A second point is that ?nigga? is a separate word with a separate scope of meaning. I also argue that usage of ?nigga? is a complex communicative phenomenon that cannot be essentialized in terms of race, socioeconomic status and other social factors. I argue that contemporary N-word usage is not an exclusively black cultural endeavor, but in fact a multiracial phenomenon. To support my assertions I employ communication, race and N-word scholarship, and I apply the scholarship to the text of American film. A study of this kind is significant because increasing numbers of people are being exposed to the N-words in a variety of contexts, but many are unaware of their important semantic differences.

INDEX WORDS: Nigger, Nigga, N-word, Race, Interracial Communication, Hip Hop, Pop Culture
The Discourse of Planned Parenthood of the Atlanta Area: 1964 ? 1972
Creators: name: Miller, Melissa
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: Objectives. The purpose of this study is to determine whether or not the mainstream reproductive rights organization Planned Parenthood of the Atlanta Area (PPAA) considered reproductive justice issues typically advocated for by non-traditional reproductive rights organizations.

Methods. This research was a qualitative content analysis of discourse internal to PPAA (meeting minutes) and discourse communicated to the public externally via print media channels.

Results. A total of 105 documents were analyzed as part of this study: 57 meeting minutes and 48 press clippings. The analysis revealed that, internally, PPAA did consider reproductive justice issues but that this was not directly communicated to the public via print media channels. Most noticeably, press characterizations of PPAA were slanted too heavily on the organization?s proliferation of population control as a goal and did not give enough consideration to its consideration of racial diversity.
Additional file 1 of Evaluation of a group-based online informed consent conversation (eConsent) in participants from a low-risk vaccination clinical trial
Creators: name: Tan, Ngoc H.
name: Lafeber, Melvin
name: Sablerolles, Roos S. G.
name: Veerman Roders, Isabelle
name: van de Hoef, Anna
name: van Grafhorst, Karenin
name: Visser, Leo G.
name: Postma, Douwe F.
name: Goorhuis, Abraham
name: Rietdijk, Wim J. R.
name: van der Kuy, P. Hugo M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1: Figure S1. eConsent process in the study. Figure S2. Study recruitment timeline. Appendix 1. Questionnaire in English.
Epithelial-Mesenchymal Plasticity Induced by Discontinuous Exposure to TGFβ1 Promotes Tumour Growth
Creators: name: Santos, Mafalda
name: Ferreira, Marta
name: Oliveira, Patrícia
name: Mendes, Nuno
name: André, Ana
name: Vieira, André F.
name: Nunes, Joana B.
name: Carvalho, Joana
name: Rocha, Sara
name: Azevedo, Mafalda
name: Ferreira, Daniel
name: Reis, Inês
name: Vinagre, João
name: Paredes, Joana
name: Heravi-Moussavi, Alireza
name: Lima, Jorge
name: Máximo, Valdemar
name: Burleigh, Angela
name: Roskelley, Cal
name: Carneiro, Fátima
name: Huntsman, David G.
name: Oliveira, Carla
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2022

description: Transitions between epithelial and mesenchymal cellular states (EMT/MET) contribute to cancer progression. We hypothesize that EMT followed by MET promotes cell population heterogeneity, favouring tumour growth. We developed an EMT model by on and off exposure of epithelial EpH4 cells (E-cells) to TGFβ1 that mimics phenotypic EMT (M-cells) and MET. We aimed at understanding whether phenotypic MET is accompanied by molecular and functional reversion back to epithelia by using RNA sequencing, immunofluorescence (IF), proliferation, wound healing, focus formation and mamosphere formation assays as well as cell xenografts in nude mice. Phenotypic reverted epithelial cells (RE-cells) obtained after MET induction presented epithelial morphologies and proliferation rates resembling E cells. However, the RE transcriptomic profile and IF staining of epithelial and mesenchymal markers revealed a uniquely heterogeneous mixture of cell subpopulations with a high self-renewal ability. RE cell heterogeneity was stably maintained for long periods after TGFβ1 removal both in vitro and in large tumours derived from the nude mice. Overall, we show that phenotypic reverted epithelial cells (RE cells) do not return to the molecular and functional epithelial state and present mesenchymal features related to aggressiveness and cellular heterogeneity that favour tumour growth in vivo. This work strengthens epithelial cell reprogramming and cellular heterogeneity fostered by inflammatory cues as a tumour growth-promoting factor in vivo.
Computer Mediated Communication: Interaction and Interactivity
Creators: name: Agle, Mark
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: This study examines three popular theories of computer-mediated communication (CMC) and how they relate to increased modes of interactivity. The research takes place in a highly interactive virtual world called "There." A total of 18 participants took part in the study. Using participant-observation and in-depth interviews, the study found that all three perspectives manifested themselves in both the reported and observed behavior. The three perspectives examined are the social information processing theory (SIPT), the social identity model of de-individuation effects (SIDE), and the hyperpersonal perspective. The study found that SIPT and the hyperpersonal perspective did the best job at explaining the observed behavior, although many factors of the SIDE model also helped.
A Community of Smarks:  Professional Wrestling and the Changing Relationship between Textual Producers and Consumers
Creators: name: Toepfer, Shane
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: This analysis of the professional wrestling genre attempts to understand the complex reading practices employed by wrestling?s fan community. I argue that wrestling fans consume these texts in the context of both the official narratives of media producers and the meta-narratives that exist independently of the official texts. In addition, I argue that wrestling fans display characteristics normally reserved for traditional media producers, collaborating with those producers over the direction of the official narratives. This process of collaboration is indicative of the blurring of the boundaries between textual producers and consumers and necessitates a theoretical conception of the audience that accounts for these unique fan practices. I have called this audience conception the productive audience model.
Excellence in Incompetence: The Daily Show Creates a Moment of Zen
Creators: name: Hodgkiss, Megan
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: Jon Stewart, the anchor and purveyor of ?fake news,? has catapulted television's The Daily Show into prominence. The show functions as both a source of political humor and a vehicle for political commentary. This thesis explores how the program visually and rhetorically problematizes the hegemonic model of traditional television news, and how it tips the balance between what is considered serious news and what has become clich‚ about the broadcast industry.
The Political Use of "Family Values" Rhetoric
Creators: name: Powell, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: The bipartisan political slogan ?family values,? coupled with discourse surrounding the supposed breakdown of the American family, is a rhetorical move used by political agencies in an effort to excuse the socio-economic failings in America and to reassign responsibility for these failings to the private sphere. This rhetoric tends to promote the idealized nuclear family, while marginalizing the poor and non-traditional family groups.
The Rhetoric of Volunteerism: Strategies to Recruit and Retain Volunteers in Nonprofit Organizations
Creators: name: Woods, Terry
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: This study analyzes the rhetorical strategies of an international public service organization. Drawing upon narrative criticism, volunteer related literatures of the Continental Societies, Inc. were studied in order to gauge their rhetorical efficacy in light of the existing literature on nonprofit organizations and volunteerism. By analyzing the organization?s literatures ? their ?story? ? it was discovered that part of it was missing. In an attempt to fill this void, more effective materials related to volunteer recruitment and retention have been created to exemplify greater narrative fidelity, along with recommended organizational transformations that create a better fit between these ?stories? and the truth of them.