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Chartier, Christopher R. "MEASURING SOCIAL VALUE ORIENTATION: EQUALITY VERSUS COLLECTIVE OUTCOME MAXIMIZATION." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1284576070.
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Helena, Poplock Stephanie. "Assessing worldview orientation in people of nortern rural Maine." Restricted access (UM), 2008. http://libraries.maine.edu/gateway/oroauth.asp?file=orono/etheses/37803141.pdf.
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These (Ph.D.)--Northeastern University, 2008.Title from PDF title page. Available through UMI ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 102-117). Also issued in print.
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Cotter, Seth. "Examining social loafing within virtual teams the moderating influence of a team's collective orientation." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/837.
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Social loafing is a growing concern for modern organizations. With advancement in computer technology, virtual tools are used more frequently to communicate, which may allow social loafing to occur in new and unfamiliar forms. The intent of this thesis is to examine social loafing through the use of virtual tools, and to analyze whether collective orientation has a moderating influence on the relationship between social loafing and virtuality. 30 teams, each containing four participants, were randomly assigned to a condition of virtuality (i.e., instant messaging or videoconferencing). Participants then completed a computer simulation task in which social loafing, collective orientation of the team, and team performance were measured.B.S.
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Aryaksama, Thibault. "Confined cell nematics submitted to an orientation field. Applications to differentiation." Thesis, Université Paris sciences et lettres, 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2021UPSLS039.
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In vivo, les groupes de cellules ont besoin de se déplacer de façon coordonnée pour pouvoir développer des fonctions physiologiques. Certaines cellules sont entourées d’une matrice extracellulaire, un réseau de protéines allant du nanomètre aux centaines de micromètres. Dans un tel environnement, les cellules peuvent se déplacer ensemble,guidées par l’orientation du réseau. Ce comportement a été étudié in vitro dans des systèmes simplifiés utilisant des guides de différentes tailles. Ces études montrent que la taille du guide contrôle le mouvement collectif des cellules.Cependant, ce mouvement collectif et les mécanismes associés sont encore flous dans les systèmes où coexistent des guides de plusieurs tailles.Dans cette thèse, nous avons cultivés des cellules sur des substrats présentant deux échelles de tailles: des microabrasions subcellulaires orientées selon un angle par rapport à des bandes mésoscopiques plus larges. Nous montrons que la largeur de la bande contrôle une transition d’orientation des cellules entre les deux modes de guidage,et ce, pour une largeur critique. Plus précisément, l’angle au centre dans les bandes larges est stabilisé par un effet de“contact guidance” indépendant de l’activité cellulaire, alors même que la migration collective des cellules montre un écoulement de cisaillement aux bords de la bande. Ces observations ont été reliées à un modèle théorique que nous avons développé, basé sur la matière active. De plus, en changeant l’orientation des microabrasions, nous avons mesuré le “flow-alignment parameter” pour la première fois dans de tels systèmes.Ces mécanismes généraux peuvent s’appliquer à d’autres contextes in vivo, en particulier pendant la myogénèse. En cultivant des myoblastes de souris, les cellules C2C12, sur nos substrats multi-échelles, nous avons observé leur auto-organisation en une “corde cellulaire” tridimensionnelle. Grâce à cette structure particulière, la différentiation a été favorisée par rapport aux méthodes classiques de la littérature. Ceci montre un impact réel de la géométrie du substrat sur le processus de différentiation. Nous proposons donc une méthode simple de myogénèse basée seulement sur l’auto-organisation cellulaire. Cette thèse peut avoir des applications dans l’ingénierie tissulaireGroup of cells in vivo need to move together in order to achieve physiological function. In particular, some cells are surrounded by extracellular matrix, a meshwork of proteins displaying sizes ranging from nanometers to hundreds of micrometers. In such environments, cells can move altogether directed by mesh orientation. This behaviour has been studied in vitro for simplified systems using guiding cues of different sizes. These studies show that the size of the cue controlled the cell collective motion. However, cell collective motion and the mechanisms involved in systems displaying a mix of different length scales cues are still unclear.In this thesis, we plated cells on substrates that have been textured at two length scales: subcellular microridges making an angle with a wider mesoscopic stripe. We show that the stripe’s width controls a transition at a critical width for the orientation angle of the cells between the two limiting cases. More precisely, middle angle in wider stripes is stabilized by a simple contact guidance effect independent of cell activity while collective cell migration display shear flows close to the edge of stripes. These observations fit a theoretical model we developed based on active matter framework. More interestingly, changing the microscale field orientation allowed us to measure the so-called flow-alignment parameter for the first time in such systems.Understanding these general mechanisms can be relevant in other several contexts in vivo, in particular during myogenesis. By seeding C2C12 mouse myoblasts cells on our previous multiscale system, we observed the self-organization of a 3D “cell cord” in the center of stripes. Due to their particular structures, differentiation was favored compared to classical patterns of the literature showing a real impact of geometrical conditions on cell differentiation processes. We then managed to provide a simple method of muscle differentiation based on cellular self-organization only. This thesis could have outcomes in the tissue engineering field
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Stout, M. Lisa. "The influence of sexual orientation, and gender on body dissatisfaction, self-esteem, collective self-esteem, and eating disorders symptons /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9998518.
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Alavi, Seyyed Babak Education Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences UNSW. "A multilevel study of collective efficacy, self-mental models, and collective cognition in university student group activities." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Education, 2005. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/33242.
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The main goal of this study was to identify some determinants of collective efficacy in small groups. A multilevel approach was used to posit hypotheses and research questions relating individual and shared beliefs of collective efficacy to collective cognition activities, task interdependence, self-efficacy for group work, and collective orientation. A two-phase longitudinal design was employed. The sample comprised 270 university students, enrolled in seven courses and involved in 86 work groups in both phases of the study. All groups were required to perform interdependent academic tasks. The results of multiple regression analysis of aggregated variables provided some evidence that the more group members perceived themselves to be interdependent in the early stages of group work and assigned their tasks interdependently during group processes, the more likely they developed high collective efficacy in the final stages of group work. Collective efficacy was also related to the group average of self-efficacy for group work when task interdependence was high. Multilevel analysis was also used. These results showed that variation at the individual level was considerable, and there was significant but relatively little variation at the group level, with small effect sizes, for a few variables including collective efficacy. Structural equation modelling was used to confirm the theoretical framework at the individual level after accounting for group level variation. The results suggested that integration and constructive evaluation of ideas during group processes and self-efficacy for group work may have been determinants of collective efficacy at the individual level. Moreover, collective efficacy at the individual level was related to an interdependent perception of self in relation to other group members. The results suggest that helping group members learn how to evaluate and integrate each other???s ideas during group activities, and perceive themselves to be interdependent may enhance group capabilities for performing tasks. In addition, improving students??? self-efficacy for group work was identified as a key factor, as it may enhance a sense of interdependence among group members, improve the extent to which group members participate in integrating and evaluating ideas, and increase the whole group???s capabilities for performing tasks.
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Bousquet, Cathy. "Genre et travail social, un enjeu pour l'intervention collective." Thesis, Paris, CNAM, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018CNAM1203/document.
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A partir d’une analyse des conditions historiques qui ont favorisé l’émergence du travail social laïc, la dominante des femmes dans ce champ professionnel prend un autre sens. Le traitement séparé de la question de la solidarité entre intervention politique d’une part et intervention dans un quotidien de vie d’autre part apparaît et devient une clé de lecture de cette institutionnalisation.Cette scission se comprend en considérant simultanément l’emprise du genre dans la construction de cette action publique, et la mise à l’écart de la vulnérabilité comme condition intrinsèque des vies humaines. De ce fait, la solidarité comme loi organique d’interdépendance est malmenée, l’exercice de la citoyenneté politique occultée et la dimension collective du travail social empêchée.Cette compréhension éclaire les questions contemporaines mises en débat : action collective, développement social, solidarités actives, participation des personnes accompagnées. Elle contribue à enrichir le travail de refondation en cours au-delà des questions dévolues aux temps et espaces de formations des professionnel.le.s concerné.e.s pour impacter toute la chaîne des politiques de solidarité aux différentes échelles de compétencesThrough an analysis of historical conditions that contributed to the emergence of secular social work, the predominance of women in this area of professional activity takes on a different significance. Treating separately the question of solidarity between political intervention on the one hand, and intervention in daily life on the other becomes apparent and provides a key to understanding this institutionalisation. This division can be understood by examining simultaneously the influence of gender in the construction of this public action, and the marginalisation of vulnerability as an intrinsic condition of human life. As a consequence, solidarity as an organisational principle of interrelationship is undermined, exercise of political citizenship is suppressed and the collective dimension of social work is impeded. This understanding clarifies the contemporary issues under debate : collective action, social development, active solidarity, participation of supported individuals. It contributes to enriching and expanding the ongoing reform beyond the questions of times and venues for training the professionals (m/f) concerned, impacting the chain of solidarity policies at the different levels of competence
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Delalande, Brigitte. "Identité professionnelle et structuration identitaire : clinique de la professionnalité au regard de l'emploi empêché." Rennes 2, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000REN20050.
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@Cette thèse de psychologie clinique dégage et modélise, au travers de l'analyse des conceptualisations de DUBAR et SAINSAULIEU sur l'identité professionnelle, et à partir de notre pratique de conseilère à l'emploi auprès de demandeurs d'emploi, ce qui apparaît comme principes sturcturants de la professionnalité. Notre interrogation prend pour objets de départ le travail, analysé dans sa double dimension de peine et de liberté, et interrogé comme objet d'investissement subjectif, et la participation, entendue et développée selon la dialectique de la rétribution et de la contribution. La problématique du lien social, qui pose le travail comme médiateur et comme médiat est ici centrale. Emploi, profession et métier, sont alors repérés comme autant de champs de réinvestissement qui donnent à la situation d'activité professionnelle sa contingence et sa singularité. Notre lecture de la professionnalité trouve à se déployer, au regard des récits d'insertion et des ouvrages traitant de l'intégration professionnelle des salariés, au travers de trois axes qui traitent respectivement du risque (de l'anticipation de la situation à son investissement), du lien (au groupe de pairs et à ce qui détermine la constitution de ce groupe) et de l'autorisation (valeurs que l'individu confère à sa position et usage qu'il fait de la reconnaissance qui lui est attribuée). Ceci nous permet de dégager différents profils qui sont autant de manière d'investir subjectivement sa condition et d'interroger différents types d'outils et de dispositifs qui existent dans le champ de l'insertion et de l'orientation professionnelle@Structuring identity in the world of work. A clinical analysis of professionality : based both on the work of DUBAR and SAINSAULIEU into professional identity and our own experience of counselling the unemployed, this thesis in clinical psychology analyses the principles structuring professionality. The starting points of this thesis are work and participation. The former is seen under its dual guises of chlore and freedom, as well as being a form of subjective investment ; the latter as a dialectical relationship between retribution and contribution ; Central to the analysis are the theories of the social bond which consider work as both a direct and indirect mediator for the individual. In this way, work, profession and trade are seen as areas in which the individual can become fully involved, giving professional activity its contingent and singular nature. Our reading of professionnality brings together individual accounts and academic works on employees' professional integration along the following three lines ; : risk (from anticipation to personal investment) ; social bond (peer groups and how they are formed) ; authorisation (values which the individual attributes to his position and the use s/he makes of professional recognition). This approach allows us to do two things. Firstly, to draw up different individual strategies, showing how the jobseekers and employees take a proactive part in professionality, and secondly, to analyse the various tools and ressources that are available on professional integration and counselling
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Eastburn, Ronald W. "Managing the Unexpected: Detecting, Preventing and Mitigating Surprises in the Banking Industry." Case Western Reserve University Doctor of Management / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=casedm1568627761609807.
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Moreira, Mirna Dorneles. "A ORIENTAÇÃO FONOAUDIOLÓGICA A PAIS E A CAPACITAÇÃO DA LINGUAGEM DE SEUS FILHOS." Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2007. http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/6577.
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This study had as objective to verify the effectiveness of the information about the language and the directed speaking development to a group of parents of children with alterations in these areas. The sample was composed of 23 children who were in the wait list of the Phonoaudiology sector in the City department of Health and Environment from Rosario do Sul-RS , they were between 4 and 8 years old, divided in two groups: a study group composed of 11 children and a control group composed of 12 children. The children were submitted to a speaking evaluation and to a language evaluation. The parents the eleven children from the study group participated of informative meetings that occurred fortnightly, for one hour, totalizing eight meetings, in a period of four months, in other words, from August to November of 2005. During these meetings they received information about how the communication process happens and the factors that influence it, beyond activities of language and speaking stimulation to be done at home with the child. The parents the twelve children from the control group didn't have access to these information. In the end of the meetings, the children from the two groups were again submitted to a speaking evaluation and to a language evaluation using the same instruments from the initial evaluation. For analysis
of the collected data, the results of the initial valuation were compared with the ones from the final evaluation of each group and also the results between the groups, verifying the interaction between evaluation and group. This analysis was made through the Variance Analysis, using the delineation in repeated measures, accomplished through the Proc Mixed of software SAS version 9.1 - Type 3 Tests of Fixed Effects, complemented by the Multiple Comparisons Test of Tukey, to the significance level of 5%. The results showed that only the
language comprehension ability and the total of words evoked during the phonological evaluation didn't present significant interaction between evaluation and group. However, the abilities of conceptualization and expression of language, the joint examination and the phonological evaluation, demonstrated significant interaction between evaluation and group, indicating through the comparison between the initial and final evaluations experienced in the children, that the aspects referring to the language improved significantly in the study group, where the parents received orientations, evidencing that these orientations influenced the results. In the control group, where the parents didn't receive orientations, this improvement was not significant. It was also possible to take care of a bigger number of people, reducing the waiting time for an attendance, controlling the demand.Este estudo teve por objetivo verificar a eficácia da informação sobre desenvolvimento da linguagem e da fala direcionada a um grupo de pais de crianças com alterações nestas áreas. A amostra foi composta por 23 crianças que se encontravam na lista de espera do setor de Fonoaudiologia da Secretaria Municipal de Saúde e Meio Ambiente de Rosário do Sul-RS, com idade entre 4 e 8 anos, divididas em dois grupos: um grupo estudo composto por 11 crianças e um grupo controle composto por 12 crianças. As crianças foram submetidas à avaliação de fala e de linguagem. Os pais das onze crianças do grupo estudo participaram das reuniões informativas que ocorreram de quinze em quinze dias, com duração de uma hora, totalizando oito encontros, num período de quatro meses. Durante essas reuniões, eles receberam informações sobre como se realiza o processo de comunicação e os fatores que o influenciam e sobre atividades de estimulação de linguagem e de fala a serem realizadas em casa com a criança. Os pais das doze crianças do grupo controle não tiveram acesso a estas informações. Ao término dos encontros, as crianças dos dois grupos foram novamente submetidas à avaliação de linguagem e de fala, com utilização dos mesmos instrumentos da avaliação inicial. Para análise dos dados coletados, compararam-se os resultados da avaliação inicial com os da avaliação final de cada grupo e também os resultados entre os grupos, verificando a interação entre avaliação e grupo. Esta análise foi feita através da Análise de Variância, utilizando o delineamento em medidas repetidas, realizado através do Proc Mixed do software SAS versão 9.1 -Type 3 Tests of Fixed Effects, complementada pelo Teste de Comparações Múltiplas de Tukey, ao nível de significância de 5%. Os resultados mostraram que somente a habilidade de compreensão de linguagem e o total de palavras evocadas durante a avaliação fonológica não apresentaram interação significativa entre avaliação e grupo. As habilidades de conceituação e expressão de linguagem, o exame de articulação e a avaliação fonológica demonstraram interação significativa entre avaliação e grupo e indicaram, através da comparação entre as avaliações iniciais e finais realizadas com as crianças, que os aspectos referentes à linguagem, melhoraram significativamente no grupo estudo. No grupo controle esta melhora não foi significativa, o que evidenciou que o recebimento de orientações influenciou os resultados. Pelo procedimento adotado foi possível também atender a maior número de pessoas, reduzir o tempo de espera pelo atendimento e controlar a demanda.
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Sidhu, Gurjeet. "The Application of Western Models of Psychotherapy by Indian Psychotherapists in India: A Grounded Theory." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1506010401854384.
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Cromlish, Suzanne McLeod. "EMPOWERING THE 99%...ONE ESOP AT A TIME!A MIXED METHODS NATIONAL STUDY OF ACQUISITIONS BY EMPLOYEE OWNED COMPANIES (ESOPs)." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1497011950499674.
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Barbulesco, Luc. "La communauté copte d'Egypte 1881-1981 : attitudes collectives et orientations idéologiques." Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990IEPP0018.
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Après une introduction historique et méthodologique, on examine ici un ensemble de phénomènes à portée politique qui ont marqué l'évolution moderne de la communauté chrétienne nationale d'Egypte et contribué à former sa personnalité collective: la rivalité (d'ordre matériel et idéologique à la fois) entre le conseil communautaire et le patriarcat, la participation au jeu parlementaire à travers le parti WAFD, l'apparition d'un mouvement nationaliste radical au début de la période nassérienne, et la recomposition des forces politiques coptes que cela a entrainée, les tentatives, au cours de la décennie 70, d'exclusion violente des coptes du corps politique et même social, la réaffirmation, enfin, à cette même époque, d'une logique communautaire- religieuse, en ses deux aspects: communautaire au sens propre (autour d'une institution patriarcale plus puissante et plus présente) et spirituel (autour de certains centres monastiques). La conclusion cherche à établir une comparaison avec la situation d'autres groupes minoritaires vis-à-vis de l'Etat, à définir les éléments essentiels de la culture politique copte, et à préciser quelles ont été et quelles sont aujourd'hui les stratégies mises en oeuvre en vue d'une meilleure participation politiqueAfter a first setting of the historical background and the methodological approach of this research, some important phenomena of the modern history of the Coptic (i. E. National Christian) community are here examined: the conflict between the communal council and the patriarchate, the participation in parliamentary life through the WAFD party (during the so-called "liberal period"), the birth and growth of a nationalist radical movement in the early 50ies, the attempt, made in the 70ies, of excluding by force the Copts out of the political and even social body, and, last of all, the renewal, in the same period, of a communal-religious logic, by a collective gathering around reevaluated spiritual values. In the conclusion a comparison is established with other minority-groups in their relationship with the State, and a definition is sought of the strategies which the community elaborated and elaborates for a fuller and more satisfying political participation
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Chetaille, Agnès. "Les paradoxes d'une histoire sans transition : entre l'Ouest et la nation, les mobilisations gaies et lesbiennes en Pologne (1980-2010)." Paris, EHESS, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015EHES0144.
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Cette thèse retrace la généalogie des mobilisations gaies et lesbiennes polonaises, depuis leur émergence dans les années 1980 jusqu'à la fin des années 2010. Elle en fait une chronologie inductive, proprement politique, dont les étapes ne sont pas celles de la politique institutionnelle. Cette histoire présente un double paradoxe. En premier lieu, la « transition à la démocratie » de 1989 et ses conséquences ne constituent pas, pour les groupes gais et lesbiens émergents, un contexte favorable au développement d'actions collectives spécifiquement politiques. C'est seulement dix ans plus tard que les conditions seront réunies pour l'émergence d'une deuxième vague de mobilisations, qui porte la cause gaie et lesbienne dans l'espace public au début des années 2000. À ce moment-là, l'imminence de l'adhésion à l'Union européenne engendre le deuxième paradoxe : si ce contexte est porteur d'opportunités importantes pour le mouvement gai et lesbien, il est simultanément propice à la montée de mobilisations nationalistes qui se saisissent de l'homophobie comme d'une ressource politique. Accusé. E. S de n'être pas authentiquement polonais. Es, les militant. E. ; sont confronté. E. S à un dilemme. La thèse démontre que ce n'est pas seulement dans les années 2000, mais en réalité depuis leur émergence dans les années 1980, que ces mobilisations sont prises dans une tension entre dynamiques locales et circulations transnationales Ouest-Est. Les réponses originales élaborées par les mobilisations prennent la forme d'un bricolage politique, entre l'appropriation d'éléments issus de l'Ouest et la récupération d'éléments nationaux, qui peut aller jusqu'à la revendication de patriotismeThis dissertation traces the genealogy of the Polish lesbian and gay movement from its emergence in the 1980s to 2010. It constructs an inductive political chronology, thus departing from the usual narrative of institutional politics. This chronology of gay and lesbian mobilization: involves a double paradox. Firstly, the 1989 "transition to democracy" and its consequences did not create a favorable context for properly political mobilizations on gay and lesbian issues. Only ten years after the "transition" did the conditions for the emergence of a second wave of mobilization appear: it brought the lesbian and gay cause to public space in the beginning of the 2000s. At that time, Poland's immanent accession to the European Union generated a second paradox. While the context offered important opportunities for the gay and lesbian movement, it simultaneously favored the rise of nationalist mobilizations that appeared within and outside the party system, and used homophobia as a political resource. Criticized for not being authentically Polish, the lesbian and gay activists were confronted with a dilemma. The dissertation demonstrates that the entanglement of local dynamics and transnational West-East circulations did not start in the 2000s; rather, it has been unfolding already since the emergence of the movement in the 1980s. The mobilization elaborated original solutions through political bricolage, consisting in the appropriation of Western elements and the political use of national elements, extending as far as patriotic claims
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Chazal, Sébastien. "Dynamiques identitaires liées aux comparaisons sociales intergroupes et intragroupes : quand l'auto-catégorisation explique les perceptions et conduites scolaires." Thesis, Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015CLF20029.
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Fondée sur les Théories de la Comparaison sociale (Festinger, 1954), de l'Identité Sociale (Tajfel, 1970) et de l'Auto-Catégorisation (Turner, 1987), cette Thèse défend l'idée de l'influence du contexte de comparaison dans la construction des perceptions et des conduites scolaires. Particulièrement, et selon le genre, le niveau d'auto-catégorisation (intergroupe vs intragroupe) modifie le concept de soi scolaire, scientifique et littéraire, le rappel de notes mais aussi les choix d'orientation (Article 1). Les filles s'évaluent comme plus douées en lettres que les garçons et les garçons comme plus doués en sciences que les filles dans un contexte intergroupe par rapport à un contexte intragroupe. Avec des mesures plus « objectives », ce pattern de résultats est identique pour les notes et s'inverse pour les choix d'orientation. Ces différences de genre se retrouvent également pour les sois agentique et relationnel dans un contexte collectif et s'estompent là aussi dans un contexte plus individuel (Article 2). Ainsi, pour des élèves en France, les différences de genre ne sont pas amoindries (Eagly & Wood, 1999), mais perdurent lorsqu'une identité collective est induite. L'auto-stéréotypie ou l'adhésion au stéréotype de l'endogroupe explique alors ces différences de genre sur les concepts de soi agentique et relationnel. De plus, dans cette étude réalisée en école d'ingénieur, la position sociale modifie les auto-perceptions des filles sur un soi scientifique dans un contexte collectif, illustrant des effets de contraste par rapport au groupe d'appartenance. Le soi collectif et non le soi individuel est guide des attitudes d'inégalités envers les groupes sociaux, mesurées par la dominance sociale et le sexisme moderne (Article 2). Les liens entre comparaison sociale et buts d'accomplissement sont alors étudiés et précisent qu'une comparaison intergroupe implique plus l'adoption de buts de performance-approche qu'une comparaison intragroupe alors que l'inverse se produit pour des buts de maîtrise (Article 3). Ces résultats seront enfin discutés au regard des questions entourant l'existence de réelles différences de genre liées au contexte, et d'identités multiples influençant différemment les cognitions et attitudesBased on the Social Comparison Theory (Festinger, 1954), the Social Identity Theory (Tajfel, 1970) and the Self-Categorization Theory (Turner, 1987), this Thesis presents the influence of social comparison context on academic perceptions and behaviors. Particularly, the level of self-categorization (intergroup v. intragroup) affects academic selfconcept (scientific v. arts), self-reported marks but also career choices, according to gender (Article 1). Women evaluate themselves as more gifted in French than men and men evaluate themselves as more gifted in science than women in an intergroup context compared to an intragroup context. With more “objective” measures, these results are similar for marks and even become inverted for academic choices. These gender differences are conspicuous for an agentic and a relational self in a group context, and fade too in a more individual context (Article 2). Thus, for French students, gender differences do not decrease (Eagly & Wood, 1999), but persist when a collective identity is induced. Self-stereotyping, or adherence to an ingroup stereotype, explains these gender differences on agentic and relational self-concepts. Furthermore, in this study which was conducted in an engineering school, social position change the scientific self-perceptions of women in a collective context, highlighting contrast effect related to group membership. The collective self but not the individual self guides attitudes toward social inequalities, with certain measures of social dominance and of modern sexism (Article 2). The links between social comparison and achievement goals are then studied and suggest that an intergroup comparison involves the adoption of performance-approach goals more than an intragroup context while the opposite effect occurs for mastery goals (Article 3). These results will finally be discussed according to questions surrounding the existence of real gender differences tied to context and multiple identities influencing differently cognitions and attitudes
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Silva, José Alessandro Alves da. "Questões sobre direitos sexuais e direito ao exercício da orientação sexual no contexto dos direitos difusos e coletivos." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2008. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/8102.
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Previous issue date: 2008-05-20The starting point of this summary report is the main focus that sexuality is an inherent part of the human condition, a fundamental right that accompanies humans throughout their entire existence, being a natural, undeniable and unprescriptible right. There are no human beings that could fulfill their life without having the right to exercise sexual freedom, independently of their personal sexual orientation. There is a direct connection between protecting human beings and their sexual orientation. It is essential to remember that the Federal Constitution not only prohibities illegal invasion of the personal hemisphere, but also establishes a positive promotion to exercise it with freedom. The vanguardism of the diffused and collective rights (the private and collective rights) can not perhaps due to the legal traditionalism, be limited to the issues already "codified", such as, consumer, children and adolescents, environment and more recently the disabled ones. Other matters also being challenged by groups or associations is to have the legal protection declared by the right of the transindividuals. We can point out, among them, main issues related to this present work: a guarantee to exercise sexual orientation and sexual rights. Through a vast doctrinarian and legal search, objectively would like to show the clear connection that exists between the issues related to sexual rights and the exercise of the gender sexual orientation, bringing concepts, historic and legislative perspectives, national and international, establishing a bridge between those matters of sexual orientation and Diffused Rights
O ponto de partida para o presente trabalho foi a premissa de que a sexualidade é parte inerente da condição humana, direito fundamental que acompanha o ser humano por toda sua existência, sendo um direito natural, inalienável e imprescritível. Não há quem possa realizar-se como ser humano sem o exercício livre da sexualidade, independentemente da orientação pessoal. É direta a ligação entre a proteção da dignidade da pessoa humana e a orientação sexual, sendo importante lembrar que a Constituição Federal não somente proíbe as invasões ilegítimas das esferas pessoais, mas também, determina a promoção positiva do exercício da liberdade. O vanguardismo dos direitos difusos e coletivos não pode, talvez pelo vício do tradicionalismo jurídico, ver-se limitado tão somente às questões já codificadas , quais sejam, consumidor, criança e adolescente, meio-ambiente e, mais recentemente, idoso. Outros problemas também enfrentados por grupos ou coletividades devem ter a proteção jurídica consagrada pelos direitos transindividuais. Destacamos, dentre eles, questões relacionadas principalmente ao objeto deste trabalho: a garantia do exercício da orientação sexual e dos direitos sexuais. Através da vasta pesquisa doutrinária e jurisprudencial, objetiva-se demonstrar a clara conexão existente entre as questões relacionadas aos Direitos Sexuais e ao exercício da orientação sexual com as tutelas de direitos coletivos oferecidas por nossa legislação. Para tanto, trata-se de um trabalho que busca aclarar pontos relacionados à orientação sexual gênero e os direitos sexuais, trazendo conceitos, perspectivas história e legislativa, nacional e internacional, traçando por fim uma ponte entre as questões relacionadas à orientação sexual e Direitos Difusos
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Guy, Thomas. "Politique d'apprentissage d'entreprise et différenciation des qualifications au sein des collectifs de travail : analyses à partir de l'expérience de CGEA (1997-2000)." Paris 1, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA010078.
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Le groupe CGEA, spécialisé dans les activités du transport de voyageurs, de la properté urbaine et du nettoyage industriel (106000 personnes dans le monde, 45000 en France) s'est engagé, depuis le début des années 90, dans une politique de formation initiale de ses personnels ouvriers (85% de la structure des emplois). Celle-ci s'appuie d'une part, sur un travail de création en partenariat avec le Ministère de l'éducation nationale, via les branches professionnelles, de diplômes correspondant aux métiers de CGEA et d'autre part, sur un Centre de formation des apprentis dédié au groupe qui accueille chaque année 350 jeunes depuis 1994. À l'issue de la formation, le groupe CGEA s'engage à embaucher ces jeunes en Contrat à durée indéterminée et à temps plein à partir du moment où ils réussissent les examens préparés. Cette thèse en convention CIFRE analyse comment, pour un grand groupe de service, la mise en forme d'une offre de formation adaptée à ses besoins permet, par un travail sur les qualifications, d'améliorer la qualité de service. Pour cerner cette problématique générale, cette thèse cherche à répondre successivement à trois questions : 1) pourquoi un groupe a décidé de créer un dispositif appuyé sur des diplômes nationaux et donc permettant le développement de comportements opportunistes de la part des jeunes en formation ? 2) quelles qont les conséquences de la mise en oeuvre d'un tel appareil de formation sur les jeunes qui traversent ce dispositif au niveau de leurs qualifications mais aussi de leurs identités professionnelles ? 3) comment l'introduction de ces nouvelles qualifications contribue à recomposer les organisations du trvail, la structuration des carrières notamment et la politique de formation continue ?
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Singleton, Charyl Staci. "THE INFLUENCE OF GOAL ORIENTATION ON TRAINEE LEARING STRATEGIES AND OUTCOMES OF A WORK READINESS PROGRAM." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3782.
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Goal orientation is a construct that has been used to explain individuals' focus in achievement situations. Three subcomponents of this construct have been linked to a number of training-related processes and outcomes. Those higher on avoid performance goal orientation withdraw from situations in which they may appear incompetent to others. Those higher on prove performance goal orientation approach situations in which they can demonstrate their competence to others. Finally, those high on learning goal orientation approach situations in which they can continually grow and master new skills. Prior research has consistently found that effective learning strategies and outcomes are positively associated with learning goal orientation and negatively associated with avoid goal orientation. However, the findings with respect to prove goal orientation have been mixed. One possible reason for this is that the effect of prove goal orientation may be dependent on one's concurrent level of learning goal orientation. The present study investigated this notion using participants from an understudied population: unemployed adults. Specifically, data were collected from 188 unemployed females who participated in a training program designed to enhance basic work competencies necessary for most entry-level jobs. Results indicated that those higher on avoid performance goal orientation put forth less effort in voluntary practice activities took longer to complete the training program and learned less than those lower on avoid performance goal orientation. Additionally, prove performance goal orientation interacted with learning goal orientation to predict the amount of time spent practicing and learning. Theoretical and practical implications for training needs analysis, development, and assessment will be discussed.Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Sciences
Psychology PhD
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Schwarz, Colleen. "The extent to which personality traits predict service orientation." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 1999. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/90.
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Business Administration
Management
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Prasad, Prethew. "Effect of Cloud Cover on Optimum Orientations of Fixed Solar Panels for Maximum Yearly Energy Collection." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1622139393220075.
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Anzalone, Patricia. "A COMPARISON OF COMPUTER AND TRADITIONAL FACE-TO-FACE CLASSROOM ORIENTATION FOR BEGINNING CRITICAL CARE NURSES." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2080.
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Purpose: Education of the novice critical care nurse has traditionally been conducted by critical care educators in face-to-face classes in an orientation or internship. A shortage of qualified educators and growth in electronic modes of course delivery has led organizations to explore electronic learning (e-learning) to provide orientation to critical care nursing concepts. Equivalence of e-learning versus traditional critical care orientation has not been studied. The primary aim of this study was to examine the equivalency of knowledge attainment in the cardiovascular module of the Essentials of Critical Care Orientation (ECCO) e-learning program to traditional face-to-face critical care orientation classes covering the same content. Additional aims were to determine if learning style is associated with a preference for type of learning method, and to determine any difference in learning satisfaction between the two modalities. Methods: The study was conducted using a two-group pretest-posttest experimental design. Forty-one practicing volunteer nurses with no current critical care experience living in southwest Florida were randomly assigned to either the ECCO (n=19) or face-to-face (n=22) group. Those in the face-to-face group attended 20 hours of classroom instruction taught by an expert educator. Those in the ECCO group completed the lessons on line and had an optional 2 hour face-to-face discussion component. Pre-test measures included the Basic Knowledge Assessment Test (BKAT-7), modified ECCO Cardiovascular (CV) Examination, and Kolb Learning Style Inventory (LSI). Post-tests included the BKAT-7, modified CV Examination, and Affective Measures Survey. Results: The majority of subjects were female, married, and educated at the associate degree level. Their mean age was 39.5 + 12 years, and they averaged 9.9 + 11.7 years of nursing experience. The diverging learning style was assessed in 37% of subjects. Classroom instruction was preferred by 61% of participants. No statistical differences were noted between groups on any demographic variables or baseline knowledge. Learning outcomes were compared by repeated measures analysis of variance. Mean scores of subjects in both groups increased statistically on both the BKAT-7 and modified CV Examination (p=<.01); however, no significant differences (p> .05) were found between groups. Preference for online versus classroom instruction was not associated with learning style (X2 = 3.39, p = .34). Satisfaction with learning modality was significantly greater for those in the classroom group (t=4.25, p=.000). Discussion/Implications: This is the first study to evaluate the ECCO orientation program and contributes to the growing body of knowledge exploring e-learning versus traditional education. The results of this study provide evidence that the ECCO critical care education produces learning outcomes at least equivalent to traditional classroom instruction, regardless of the learning style of the student. As participant satisfaction was more favorable toward the classroom learning modality, consideration should be given to providing blended learning if using computer-based orientation programs. Replication of this study with a variety of instructors in varied geographic locations, expanded populations, larger samples, and different subject matter is recommended.Ph.D.
School of Nursing
Health and Public Affairs
Nursing PhD
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Trees, Diane. "LEADERSHIP ORIENTATIONS OF SENIOR ADMINISTRATORS AT AMERICAN METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITIES." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2006. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3347.
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Universities in the United States continue to evolve far beyond traditional concepts. While problems of an academic, economic, governmental, and educational nature beset any university, the metropolitan institution must grapple with these issues not as an individual entity but as a partner in a group of many players. Educational leadership for the American metropolitan university necessitates distinct and unique skills. This study sought to explore leadership behaviors of senior administrators at American metropolitan universities as conceptualized by Bolman and Deal's Four-Frame Model of Leadership (1991). Using Bolman and Deal's (1990) Leadership Orientations Survey (Self) instrument with an additional Respondent Information section, 407 surveys were sent to senior administrators at 74 institutions identified as members of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities. Of the 245 who replied, 25 of these individuals declined to participate. Thus, the total number of useable surveys for data input in this study was 220 (54.1%) representing a total of 71 out of 74 institutions in the response data. Descriptive statistics and analysis of variance were used to analyze data. Senior administrators in this study indicated that the human resource frame (76.9%) dominated all other frame choices. The structural frame emerged as second choice (57.2%) with the symbolic frame (55.4%) and the political frame (52.2%) in close proximity. Nearly half of the administrators (49.5%) reported multiple frame usage with the most frequent combination consisting of the human resource, political, and symbolic frames. Two personal characteristics, age and gender, influenced utilization of the frames. Younger administrators showed statistically significant higher mean scores than older administrators for both the structural and political frames. Female administrators showed statistically significant higher mean scores than male administrators for the political and symbolic frames. Job title, years as an administrator, size of campus, and location of campus in proximity to city limits did not influence utilization of frame usage for administrators in this study.Ed.D.
Department of Educational Research, Technology and Leadership
Education
Educational Leadership
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Dodt, Heather. "The role of goal orientation and level of expertise in dance performance before an audience." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1073.
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Sciences
Psychology
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Scielzo, Shannon. "THE EFFECTS OF TRAINING ON GOAL ORIENTATION, MENTORING RELATIONSHIP PROCESSES, AND OUTCOMES." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3728.
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The purpose of the current study was to examine the effectiveness of preparatory training for mentors and protégés with respect to relationship processes and outcomes. Specifically, it was proposed that training provided to mentors and their protégés should foster a high learning goal orientation and a low avoid goal orientation. The former is associated with learning for the sake of continuous improvement and the latter is associated with a willingness to be perceived by others as having failed at a task. It was hypothesized that mentors and protégés who received goal orientation training prior to beginning their formal mentoring sessions would engage in greater feedback-seeking and would be more willing to self-disclose potentially ego-threatening information. Moreover, it was expected that training would also lead participants to expect such behaviors from their partners and as a result respond more positively when the desired behaviors were demonstrated. Eighty (i.e., first and second semester freshmen) were paired with eighty mentors (i.e., college juniors and seniors with a minimum grade point average of 3.0), resulting in a total of 160 study participants. All participants received one hour of preparatory training. A two by two factorial design was employed whereby mentors and protégés each received either goal orientation training or training simply designed to orient them to computer-mediated communication. After training, mentors and protégés met with one another using online chat for four, 30-minute weekly chat sessions. Results indicated that a) protégés in a high state of avoid goal orientation felt they received less psychosocial support the more their mentor disclosed his/her own personal downfalls, b) mentors who received goal orientation training felt they had provided greater career support the more their protégés sought feedback but the reverse was true for mentors who did not receive goal orientation training, c) mentor self-disclosure was more strongly related to their protégé's self-disclosure if the protégé had received goal orientation training, and finally d) mentor and protégé perceptions of the psychosocial and career support that had been provided/received during online sessions were more strongly correlated if the two had received the same type of preparatory training (especially if both received goal orientation training).Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Sciences
Psychology PhD
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Frascati, Joseph William. "Effects of Position, Orientation, and Infiltrating Material on Three Dimensional Printing Models." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2962.
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This research defined and evaluated mechanical properties of prototypes created using a plaster based three-dimensional printing (3DP) system commercialized by Z Corporation. 3DP is one of the fastest growing forms of rapid prototyping. Till date, there is little or no information available on material properties of infiltrants used in 3DP. This research work evaluated and documented some of the useful information for 3DP users by determining the effect of build position, build orientation and infiltration materials on the strength of prototypes. The study was performed in three different phases to limit the processing variables and to arrive at definite conclusions on relationship between materials properties and process variables. All specimens were built on the Z Corporation Spectrum Z510. In Phase 1, effects of build location on specimen strength was studied. Phase 2 evaluated the influence of build orientation on specimen strength. System Three Clear Coat epoxy was used during both Phase 1 and 2 for infiltration. The same infiltrant was in both of these phases to limit variables. Using results of Phase 1 & 2, the effects of infiltrant material on tensile strength of prototypes was calculated in Phase 3. Seven different infiltrating materials were tested during Phase 3. These materials included 2 cyanoacrylates and 5 epoxies. The tensile strength, flexural strength, and density and porosity of the specimens were determined and correlated. In each phase six specimens were built for each test performed. Two consistent methods of infiltration were utilized to infiltrate cyanoacrylates and epoxies into the as-processed specimens. It was found that the orientation of the specimen has more of an impact on strength than position within the build platform. The layering build process of rapid prototyping creates a variance in strength depending on the build orientation. Specimens infiltrated with epoxy achieved much higher strength than the specimens infiltrated with cyanoacrylate. Cyanoacrylates may be a good choice in making color concept models; however they are not good candidate materials where strength requirement is important. The epoxies with lower viscosities demonstrated higher part strength among the materials tested.M.S.
Department of Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering
Engineering and Computer Science
Mechanical Engineering MSME
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Brendecke, William Walter. "THE EFFECT OF COLLECTION AND ESTABLISHMENT SEASON, PLANTING ORIENTATION AND ATTACHED CULMS ON THE SURVIVAL AND GROWTH OF ARUNDINARIA GIGANTEA (WALT.) MUHL. (GIANT CANE) RHIZOME PROPAGULES." OpenSIUC, 2008. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/462.
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Arundinaria gigantea (Walt.) Muhl. (giant cane) is a native North American bamboo. The mass assemblages of giant cane stems (culms) can form monotypic stands called "canebrakes" with historic distribution encompassing floodplains of the southeastern United States. Canebrake ecosystems have served as an important habitat for a variety of mammalian, avian, and reptilian species due in part by the protective nature the dense culms provide. Also, giant cane also can serve as an effective riparian zone buffer for the protection of water quality. Land conversion and altered disturbance regimes have reduced cane to 2% of historical accounts. Consistently, there is great interest in restoring canebrake ecosystems. However, canebrake restoration efforts face difficulties such as infrequent seeding and low viability, limited availability of seedlings or rhizome planting stock, and inefficient establishment and management techniques. To address these problems, two studies were designed to further develop giant cane propagation thereby aiding management efforts intended in restoring canebrake ecosystems. Study 1 (greenhouse) objective was to compare the survivability and growth responses of bare rhizomes and rhizomes with attached and trimmed culms with different planting orientation. Study design was a randomized complete block with approximately 20 rhizomes of each propagule type (bare rhizomes, rhizomes with culms trimmed to 3cm and rhizomes with culms trimmed to 20cm) planted in two orientations (buried flat or angled and partially exposed) in each of 4 benches (N=239). Propagule type and planting orientation were determined randomly. After six months, propagule survival was 86% and was independent of orientation (chi square 1df = 1.56, p=0.212) and propagule type (chi square 2df =3.88, p=3.88). There was an interaction between planting orientation and propagule type for the number of new rhizomes and culms, above ground biomass, but not for newly formed rhizome diameter or cumulative culm and rhizome length. Rhizome propagules with attached trimmed culms produced, on average, one more rhizome and were 71 cm longer than newly formed rhizomes from the bare rhizome propagules. Planting orientation had no effect on any measured character of long culmed propagules, burying the short-culmed or bare rhizomes tended to reduce growth responses. However, among exposed propagules, growth responses tended to be similar. Study 2 (field-scale) objective was to determine if genotype (3 collection sources) and collection season/ planting season (C/P) (fall/fall, fall/spring, spring/spring) affect survival and growth of giant cane. Study design was a randomized complete block design with between 12 and 20 bare rhizomes per each of 3 collection sources (subplots) planted in each of 3 rows (collection season/ planting season main plots) blocked 6 times across 2 sites (N=2086). Location of collection sources within subplots and C/P within plots were randomly chosen. Rhizomes were planted in rows using a tree planter. Mean survival of cane plants after one growing season was similar at each site with a mean of 11.1%. Survival was dependent on collection source and C/P seasons. Survival ranged from a high of 38.3% for the spring/spring planted Upper Cache River source to 0.4% for two of the other 9 treatment combinations. Collecting and planting rhizomes in the spring for two of the three collection sources produced the highest percent survival compared to stock collected in the fall then planted or stored until spring. These results suggest the importance of collection source, collection season, planting season, propagule morphology and orientation on the survival and new growth of giant cane in southern Illinois.
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Chen, Ji. "Design and Usability of a System for the Study of Head Orientation." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2010. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/76465.
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The ability to control head orientation relative to the body is a multi-sensory process that mainly depends on three sensory pathways namely, proprioceptive, vestibular, and visual. A system to study the sensory integration of head orientation was developed and tested. A test seat with five-point harness was assembled to provide the passive postural support. A light-weight head-mount display (HMD) was designed for mounting multi-axis accelerometers and a mini- CCD camera to provide the visual input to virtual reality (VR) goggles with 39° horizontal field of view. A digitally generated sinusoidal signal was delivered to a motor-driven computer-controlled sled on a 6m linear railing system. A data acquisition system was designed to collect acceleration data. A pilot study was conducted to test the system. Four young healthy subjects were seated with their trunks fixed to the seat. Subjects received a sinusoidal anterior-posterior translation with peak acceleration of 0.06g at 0.1Hz and 0.12g at 0.2Hz, 0.5Hz and 1.1Hz. Four sets of visual conditions were randomly presented along with the translation. These conditions included eyes open looking forward, backward, and sideways, and also eyes closed. Linear acceleration data were collected from linear accelerometers placed on the head, trunk and seat and were processed using Matlab. The head motion was analyzed using Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) to derive gain and phase of head pitch acceleration relative to seat linear acceleration. A randomization test for two independent variables was used to test significance of visual and inertial effects on response gain and phase shifts. Results show that the gain was close to one with no significant difference among visual conditions across frequencies. The phase was shown to be dependent on the head strategy each subject used. The ability to control head orientation relative to the body is a multi-sensory process that mainly depends on three sensory pathways namely, proprioceptive, vestibular, and visual. A system to study the sensory integration of head orientation was developed and tested. A test seat with five-point harness was assembled to provide the passive postural support. A light-weight head-mount display (HMD) was designed for mounting multi-axis accelerometers and a mini- CCD camera to provide the visual input to virtual reality (VR) goggles with 39° horizontal field of view. A digitally generated sinusoidal signal was delivered to a motor-driven computer-controlled sled on a 6m linear railing system. A data acquisition system was designed to collect acceleration data. A pilot study was conducted to test the system. Four young healthy subjects were seated with their trunks fixed to the seat. Subjects received a sinusoidal anterior-posterior translation with peak acceleration of 0.06g at 0.1Hz and 0.12g at 0.2Hz, 0.5Hz and 1.1Hz. Four sets of visual conditions were randomly presented along with the translation. These conditions included eyes open looking forward, backward, and sideways, and also eyes closed. Linear acceleration data were collected from linear accelerometers placed on the head, trunk and seat and were processed using Matlab. The head motion was analyzed using Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) to derive gain and phase of head pitch acceleration relative to seat linear acceleration. A randomization test for two independent variables was used to test significance of visual and inertial effects on response gain and phase shifts. Results show that the gain was close to one with no significant difference among visual conditions across frequencies. The phase was shown to be dependent on the head strategy each subject used.
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Oyer, Melissa Heidi. "Investigating Gender Differences in Achievement Goal Orientation in Example-Based Algebra Learning." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/253596.
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This study was designed to compare the effects of the use of worked examples and self-explanation on motivation for male and female students. More specifically, the present study examines whether there are differences between males and females with regards to their achievement goals and if gender plays a role in how students respond to questions about their motivation in the presence of other male or female students. Comparisons of student responses on Achievement Goal Questionnaire-Revised (AGQ-R) and the Patterns of Adaptive Learning Scales (PALS) were also conducted. Participants were 147 seventh-, eighth- and ninth-grade non-honors Algebra I students (82 girls and 65 boys) from three schools and eight classrooms within the same school district on the east cost of the United States of America. Results replicated the finding that females have more mastery goals than males, however no gender differences were found for either performance. In addition, it appears that students respond differently to some questions about their motivation in the presence of other male or female students. Finally, the AGQ-R and the PALS appear to be consistent representations of students' achievement goals.
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Delaney, Rachael Kathryn. "Using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for Collecting Discontinuity Orientation Data for Slope Stability Analysis: Two Case Studies from Virginia." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1555290215872132.
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Evans, Arthur. "LEARNING FOR THE NEXT GENERATION: PREDICTING THE USAGE OF SYNTHETIC LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3356.
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The push to further the use of technology in learning has broadened the attempts of many to find innovated ways to aid the new, technologically savvy generation of learners, in acquiring the knowledge needed for their education and training. A critical component to the success of these initiatives is the proper application of the science of learning (Cannon-Bowers and Bowers, 2009). One technological initiative that can benefit from this application is the use of synthetic learning environments (SLEs). SLEs are instructional systems embedded within virtual worlds. These worlds can be simulations of some task, for instance a simulation that may be completed as part of a military training to mimic specific situations, or they could be in the form of a video game, for example, a game designed to maintain the attention of school children while teaching mathematics. The important components to SLEs are a connection to the underlying task being trained and a set of goals for which to strive toward. SLEs have many unique characteristics which separate them from other forms of education. Two of the most salient characteristics are the instructorless nature of SLEs (most of the learning from SLEs happens without instructor interaction) and the fact that in many cases SLEs are actually fun and engaging, thus motivating the learner to participate more and allowing them to experience a more immersive interaction. Incorporating the latter of these characteristics into a model originally introduced by Davis (1989) and adapted by Yi and Hwang (2003) for use with web applications, an expanded model to predict the effects of enjoyment, goal orientation, ease of use, and several other factors on the overall use of SLEs has been created. Adapting the Davis and Yi and Hwang models for the specific use of SLEs provides a basis understanding how each of the critical input variables effect the use and thus effectiveness of learning tools based on SLEs. In particular, performance goal orientation has been added to the existing models to more accurately reflect the performance characteristics present in games. Results of this study have shown that, in fact, performance goal orientation is a significant factor in the SLE Use and Learning model. However, within the model it is important to distinguish that the two varieties of performance goal orientation (prove and avoid) play different roles. Prove performance goal orientation has been shown to have significant relationships with several other critical factors while avoid performance goal orientation is only accounted for in its significant correlation with prove performance goal orientation. With this understanding, training developers can now have a better understanding of where their resources should be spent to promote more efficient and effective learning. The results of this study allow developers to move forward with confidence in the fact that their new learning environments will be effective in a number of realms, not only limited to classroom, business, or military training.Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Sciences
Psychology PhD
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Wooten, Samuel. "Integrating Computer-Based Games in E-Learning: An Examination of Game Features, Goal Orientation, and Self-Efficacy." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1197.
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Sciences
Psychology
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McArdle, Michele. "LEADERSHIP ORIENTATIONS OFCOMMUNITY COLLEGE PRESIDENTS AND THE ADMINISTRATORS WHO REPORT TO THEM: A FRAME ANALYSIS." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3349.
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Presidents of Community Colleges and the administrators who reported directly to them were the subjects for this study based on the Four Frame Leadership Theory of Bolman and Deal (1990b). The Leadership Orientation (Self) Survey (LOS) was mailed to 169 community college presidents and administrators in the presidents' direct report teams. The final usable response rate of 69.82% to the survey fell within the acceptable range for education as defined by Boser and Green (1997). In addition, the subjects were asked to write about the most difficult challenge they had faced in their current position and how they handled that challenge. The purpose of this study was to determine (a) the usage of leadership frames from both groups; presidents and their administrative teams, (b) if gender or years of experience in their current positions were factors in leadership frame usage in each group, and (c) if there was a relationship between a president's frame usage and the frame usage of the members of the direct report team. The major findings were: 1. The presidents and administrators displayed the highest mean scores for the human resource frame with the mean scores of the three remaining frames (structural, political, and symbolic) clustering as a second unit of responses. In the narrative segment of the survey, the most frequently rated central theme among the presidents and the direct reports was the political frame. 2. The results from statistical analysis of the responses from both groups (presidents and the administrators who directly reported to them) did not show any statistically significant difference among frame use based on gender or number of years of experience in their positions. 3. The correlation coefficients did not indicate that there was a relationship in either direction regarding leadership style between the two groups (presidents and administrators). A phenomenological analysis of the scenario statements from these two groups indicated that presidents who used the political frame as a central theme tended to have administrators who also used the political frame as one or as a pair of central themes. Presidents who used the symbolic frame as a central theme tended to have administrators who used all four frames as central themes in their narratives. 4. A fourth finding was the discrepancy in the ability of the leaders to use multiple frames as demonstrated in the results from the quantitative and qualitative findings. The quantitative data suggested that these leaders were practicing the techniques of multi-framing more than one-half of the time. Contrary to this finding, the qualitative data showed that 5 of 30 scenario statements showed paired frames being used as central frames. 5. One additional finding based on the qualitative statements by presidents and their administrators revealed much thought and intentional practice in the leaders' ability to build teams.Ed.D.
Department of Educational Research, Technology and Leadership
Education
Educational Leadership EdD
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Guimond, Stephen. "Computational fluid dynamics investigation of the orientation of a pediatric left ventricle assist device cannula to reduce stroke events." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/561.
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Ventricle Assist Devices (VADs), which are typically either axial or centrifugal flow pumps implanted on the aortic arch, have been used to support patients who are awaiting cardiac transplantation. Success of the apparatus in the short term has led to long term use. Despite anticoagulation measures, blood clots (thrombi) have been known to form in the device itself or inside of the heart. The Ventricle Assist Devices supply blood flow via a conduit (cannula) implanted on the ascending aorta. Currently, the implantation angle of the VAD cannula is not taken into consideration. Since the VADs supply a significant amount of blood flow to the aorta, the implantation angle can greatly affect the trajectory of the formed thrombi as well as the cardiac flow field inside of the aortic arch. This study aims to vary the implantation angle of a pediatric Left Ventricle Assist Device (LVAD) through a series of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software simulations focusing on the aortic arch and its branching arteries of a 20 kg pediatric patient in order to reduce the occurrence of stroke.B.S.M.E.
Bachelors
Engineering and Computer Science
Mechanical Engineering
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Bai, Jianmei. "Collisional Molecular Orientation Transfer Facilitated Polarization Spectra of the A/b States of the Rb2 and Cs2 Dimers." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2011. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/155795.
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PhysicsPh.D.
The focus of this thesis is the study of the strongly perturbed A/B complex of electronic states of the Rb2 and Cs2 dimers. Using collisional molecular orientation transfer facilitated high resolution V- type optical-optical double-resonance (OODR) polarization spectroscopy, it was possible to observe a much larger number of rovibrational levels in the A/B complex of states than anticipated. In addition to the direct P, R doublets, we have observed probe laser signals from a large number of collisionally populated rotational levels. Angular momentum changes up to delta J = 58 were observed in the recorded 85 Rb2 spectra. Observation of these satellite lines is based on transfer of both population and orientation from the rovibrational levels involved in the pump laser excitation to neighboring levels in a collision of the molecule with atomic perturbers. The Discrete variable representation (DVR) method was used to analyze this data combined with other available data in a global deperturbation analysis of the spin-orbit interaction of the strongly perturbed A/B complex of Rb2 and Cs2 electronic states. The resulting experimentally derived potential energy curves and internuclear distance dependent spin-orbit functions are presented in H. Salami et al., Phys. Rev. A80, 022515 (2009) and Jianmei Bai et al., Phys. Rev. A83, 032514 (2011). In addition, the analysis yields the term values of the rovibrational energy levels and their percentage of singlet and triplet character.
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O'Brien, Lia. "Future Orientation as a Mediating Factor in the Relation Between Family Instability and Adolescent Problem Behavior: A Moderated Mediation Model." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2013. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/216526.
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PsychologyPh.D.
Adolescent delinquency represents a significant threat to the health and future of developing persons. Due to the important implications of adolescent problem behaviors, it is essential that we understand the complex mechanisms in the life and mind of a developing person that may lead to these behavior problems in adolescence. I proposed that early family instability, including residential moves and changes in household composition, would be a primary predictor of adolescent problem behaviors, including risk-taking and externalizing behaviors. This relation was predicted to be mediated by future orientation. When young children are faced with uncertainty, they may develop a shorter-term view of their own life. Therefore, family instability is predicted to influence the developing orientation to the future, which is predicted to be related to problem behaviors in adolescence. Deviant peer association and family routine were predicted to be moderators in the model. The results reveal a significant association between early family instability and adolescent externalizing behavior. This association is significant while controlling for later family instability and other demographic variables, such as socioeconomic status, ethnicity, and child IQ. This indicates that early family instability is directly related to adolescent behavior beyond the effects of continuing instability and other individual factors. Additionally, the level of future orientation was associated with adolescent risk-taking behavior for boys but not for girls. This indicates that for boys, lack of thoughts about one's future is predictive of risky behaviors in adolescence. Early family instability was not significantly related to future orientation, precluding future orientation as a mediator in the relation between early family instability and later problem behaviors. Family routine and peer deviance were not found to be significant moderators in this study. The results of this study indicate the important role family instability plays in adolescent behavior problems. These results demonstrate that experiences in the first five years of a child's life have potentially long-term effects on the individual. Additionally, future orientation appears to be a significant predictor of adolescent risk-taking behavior for boys. As risk-taking behavior may be detrimental to the individual's life and future, it is important to understand factors that predict risk taking. Future studies should examine the development of future orientation and its role in adolescent adjustment.
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Richard, Jean-Pierre Joseph. "Academic Capital, Learner Goals, Achievement Orientations, Perceptions of English, and Effort: A Mixed-Methods Study." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/505506.
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Teaching & LearningEd.D.
This exploratory study investigated variables that have received scant attention in the field of second language acquisition. Four research questions were addressed concerning academic capital, achievement orientations, efforts to learn English, and perceptions of the impact of globalization on English. A fifth research question tested these variables in a model of language learning. The final research question investigated the participants L2-English goal stability over one academic year. The longitudinal study used a mixed-methods, QUAN+qual approach. The primary group of participants (n = 748) were Japanese postsecondary students from 12 institutions. To address the first five research questions, data were gathered with questionnaires and vocabulary tests at three intervals in one academic year. A secondary group of participants, the Goal-Setting group (n = 192), was composed of participants from seven institutions. To address Research Question 6, written responses were collected on three occasions from the Goal-Setting group. Lastly, there were two interview groups, a Student Group (n = 16) and a smaller group, the Worker Group (n = 5), was composed of young Japanese adults who had never attended university. Data from the interviews were used to provide additional insight into several factors in this study. For Research Question 1, the quantitative data results revealed differences on certain components of Academic Capital between participants at different institutions, and no differences on other components. For example, there were large differences found on Family Aspirations and Family Background but no differences found on Study Behaviors. The interview data revealed more striking unequal disparities, in particular on Family Background and School Experiences. Differences in family background likely account for large disparities in educational opportunities, both past and present, and point to potentially uneven futures. For Research Question 2, the results revealed that the four-factor structure of Achievement Orientations at each time interval was similar to previous research; however, rank order and stability of the orientations were different from previous results. In particular, unlike previous research with students in math and psychology classes, Performance-Approach and Performance-Avoidance orientations were generally higher and more stable. These results might need to be considered in light of the important gatekeeping role that language tests play in Japan. For Research Question 3, the results for the Perceptions of the Impact of Globalization on English Survey revealed two factors related to an instrumental, career-related factor and an intrinsic, contact-related factor. These findings connect with contemporary discourses regarding the role of English and with findings from earlier motivational research in Japan. Participants at female-only institutions generally had higher scores than participants at co-educational institutions. This latter finding might be viewed in relation with the way English is marketed in Japan. For Research Question 4, the results revealed that Efforts to Learn English are multidimensional; however, in previous L2-motivational research, the dimensionality of items representing different temporal efforts was not investigated. Participants at female-only institutions generally scored higher on Past Efforts and Present Efforts than participants at co-educational institutions. In all, these findings suggest that greater care needs to be taken when operationalizing Efforts to Learn English. In addition, gender differences need to be explored further. For Research Question 5, the measurement models were generally acceptable; however, the structural equation model testing the paths between the above exogenous variables and vocabulary scores did not perform well. Even though few paths in the final model were found to be significant, the findings add to body of literature in SLA and introduce new concepts to our field. Finally, for Research Question 6, the analyses revealed four goals that were most frequent and stable. These goals relate to using English, English for tests, English for going abroad, and English for career. Learners with the latter instrumental goal had the largest vocabulary sizes, and career goals correlated with many other variables in this study. The strength of career goals should be considered in relation to current motivational theories in SLA.
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Magee, Leanne. "Predicting Acceptance of Cosmetic Surgery: The Effects of Body Image, Appearance Orientation, Social Anxiety, and Fear of Negative Evaluation." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2010. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/62974.
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PsychologyPh.D.
Cosmetic surgery is more widely accepted than ever. Appearance dissatisfaction and increased investment in appearance, or appearance orientation, have been linked to more favorable attitudes towards cosmetic surgery. Cognitive behavioral models of social anxiety were reviewed and integrated with existing theories of body image to provide a theoretical background for the exploration of influences on acceptance of cosmetic surgery. In this investigation, the relationships between subjective evaluations of appearance, appearance orientation (AO), fear of negative evaluation (FNE), and attitudes towards cosmetic surgery using the Acceptance of Cosmetic Surgery Scale (ACSS; Henderson-King & Henderson-King, 2005) were explored in two samples of women. Sample 1 consisted of 327 undergraduate women (M age = 20.50, SD = 4.30); Sample 2 consisted of 102 female volunteers (M age = 34.04, SD = 9.18). In Sample 1, lower overall and feature-specific attractiveness and greater dissatisfaction with appearance were related to increased ACSS, and AO was positively correlated with FNE, which was strongly related to ACSS. In both samples, individuals with lower self-rated attractiveness and appearance satisfaction had higher FNE. In Sample 1, FNE partially mediated the relationship between AO and general attitudes towards surgery, social motivations for surgery, and consideration of future surgery. FNE did not mediate the relationship between AO and acceptance of surgery based on intrapersonal factors, nor was there evidence of mediation by FNE for any of the ACSS factors in Sample 2. Next, a reverse mediation model was tested to examine the initial hypothesized ordering of variables. In Sample 1, AO partially or fully mediated the relationship between FNE and the ACSS total and factor scores, calling into question the hypothesized ordering of predictors in our initial model. There was no evidence of mediation by AO in Sample 2. Lastly, a model in which FNE was hypothesized to strengthen the ability of AO to predict ACSS was tested. No evidence of a moderation effect for any of the factors of ACSS was found in either sample. The results of this investigation suggest that features of social anxiety may be a fruitful area for continued research that may inform a more thorough understanding of body image and its influences on attitudes towards, pursuit of, and satisfaction with cosmetic surgery.
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Sims, Dana Elizabeth. "THE IMPACT OF INTRAORGANIZATIONAL TRUST AND LEARNING ORIENTED CLIMATE ON ERROR REPORTING." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2009. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2247.
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Insight into opportunities for process improvement provides a competitive advantage through increases in organizational effectiveness and innovation As a result, it is important to understand the conditions under which employees are willing to communicate this information. This study examined the relationship between trust and psychological safety on the willingness to report errors in a medical setting. Trust and psychological safety were measured at the team and leader level. In addition, the moderating effect of a learning orientation climate at three levels of the organization (i.e., team members, team leaders, organizational) was examined on the relationship between trust and psychological safety on willingness to report errors. Traditional surveys and social network analysis were employed to test the research hypotheses. Findings indicate that team trust, when examined using traditional surveys, is not significantly associated with informally reporting errors. However, when the social networks within the team were examined, evidence that team trust is associated with informally discussing errors was found. Results also indicate that trust in leadership is associated with informally discussing errors, especially severe errors. These findings were supported and expanded to include a willingness to report all severity of errors when social network data was explored. Psychological safety, whether within the team or fostered by leadership, was not found to be associated with a willingness to informally report errors. Finally, learning orientation was not found to be a moderating variable between trust and psychological safety on a willingness to report errors. Instead, organizational learning orientation was found to have a main effect on formally reporting errors to risk management and documenting errors in patient charts. Theoretical and practical implications of the study are offered.Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Sciences
Psychology PhD
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Ieva, Kara P. "The contribution of professional school counselors' social-cognitive development to their levels of ethical and legal knowledge, and locus-of-control orientation." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4662.
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Professional School Counselors (PSCs) are to serve as advocates for all students and promote systemic change (American School Counselor Association, 2008) while navigating complex work environments. The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the contribution of PSCs' social-cognitive development to their levels of ethical and legal knowledge and locus of control orientation. The three constructs and instruments investigated in this study were: (a) social-cognitive development (ego development; the Washington University Sentence Completion Test (WUSCT); Hy & Loevinger 1996), (b) Ethical and Legal Knowledge (the Ethical and Legal Knowledge in Counseling Questionnaire-Revised (ELICQ-R); Lambie, Ieva, Gill, & Hagedorn, 2010), and (c) Locus of Control (the Adult Nowicki-Strickland Internal External Scale- College (ANSIE-C); Nowicki & Duke, 1974; the Work Locus of Control Scale ; Spector, 1988). The findings from this investigation contribute to the school counseling and counselor education literature. The sample size for this study was 301 certified, practicing school counselors (elementary school, middle school, high school, and multi-level) in five states (Colorado, Florida, Maine, Maryland, and New Mexico) across the country. The participants completed data collection packets including a general demographic questionnaire, the WUSCT (Hy & Loevinger 1996), the ANSIE-C (Nowicki & Duke, 1974), the WLCS (Spector, 1988), and the ELICQ-R (Lambie, et al., 2010).; The statistical procedures used to analyze the data included (a) structural equation modeling (path Analysis), (b) simultaneous multiple regression, (c) Pearson product-moment (2-tailed), and (d) Analysis of variance (ANOVA). The primary research hypothesis was that practicing school counselors' social-cognitive development scores would contribute to their locus of control orientation and their levels of ethical and legal knowledge. The statistical analyses identified several significant findings. First, the path analysis model testing the contribution of school counselors' social-cognitive development to locus of control and ethical and legal knowledge did fit for these data. Specifically, the results indicated that school counselors' social-cognitive development contributed to their ethical and legal knowledge (less than 1% of the variance explained) and to locus of control (14% of the variance explained) in the model fit for these data. In addition, locus of control contributed to school counselors' ethical and legal knowledge (2% of the variance explained). Implications for professional school counseling and counselor education are presented, along with areas for future investigation.ID: 028916565; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Central Florida, 2010.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-249).
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Astwood, Randolph. "Effective Timing of Feedback During Scenario Based Team Training Within a Simulated Environment." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2009. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2943.
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Scenario based training (SBT) allows organizations to train the competencies necessary for effective performance in an environment that replicates critical aspects of the transfer or operational setting. One of the most salient training features that can be delivered during SBT is feedback. Task feedback may be provided to trainees either during a training scenario (immediately following actions) or between training scenarios (after action review). However, little is known regarding the effects of immediate versus delayed feedback given to teams. Prior research on training individuals suggests that immediate feedback improves performance as assessed immediately after training (acquisition performance), however delayed feedback improves performance after time has passed (retention performance). Moreover, several individual training studies have found that trainee goal orientation moderates the influence of instructional features such as goal difficulty and content organization. I hypothesized that team member goal orientation would also moderate the influence of feedback timing on team performance. Three facets of goal orientation were assessed. Learning goal orientation refers to the extent to which individuals strive towards the mastery of skills for the sake of continuous improvement. Prove goal orientation refers to the extent to which individuals strive to demonstrate their own competence to others. Finally, avoid goal orientation refers to the extent to which individuals seek to avoid demonstrating their incompetence to others. Participants were 160 undergraduate psychology students assigned to 80 two-person teams. These teams were trained and tested using a simulated military task called the Forward Observer Personal Computer-based Simulator. Teams received 36 minutes of training prior to performing a skill acquisition test on day one of the experiment. One week later teams returned to perform a skill retention test. Teams were randomly assigned to receive immediate feedback during their team training scenarios or delayed feedback following each training scenario. Results indicated that the timing of feedback had no impact on acquisition performance. As predicted, however, teams that had received delayed feedback outperformed those that had received immediate feedback on the retention test. Moreover, the positive impact of delayed feedback on retention performance was greatest for teams that scored higher on a measure of state learning goal orientation on the day of their training. This interaction was mediated by the team's perception of the instrumentality of the feedback provided to them. Theoretical and practical implications, as well as, limitations and directions for future research are discussed.Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Sciences
Psychology PhD
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Twyman, Alexandra Dawn. "INTEGRATION OF FEATURAL AND GEOMETRIC INFORMATION IN REORIENTATION: EVIDENCE FOR AN ADAPTIVE COMBINATION MODEL." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2011. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/158224.
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PsychologyPh.D.
This paper examines the integration of geometric and feature cues in spatial memory with a modified version of the spatial reorientation task. Proponents of the geometric module position argue that there is an encapsulated reorientation module, and that true reorientation is accomplished only via geometry (Lee & Spelke, 2010). Features can be used in a second and separate step, but only to locate a goal rather than as a reorientation cue. In contrast, proponents of the adaptive combination approach argue that geometry and feature cues are integrated in spatial memory and that both cues can be used to facilitate reorientation (Newcombe & Ratliff, 2007). The present experiment provides support for the adaptive combination position. The first phase of the experiment was a reorientation task in a trapezoid enclosure (unambiguous geometry) with a narrow feature strip (unambiguous feature). During training, participants started facing a set direction, were disoriented, and then were asked to return to the original facing direction using the geometry, the feature, or both. During these training trials, participants were biased in the direction of the feature, indicating that both features and geometry might be integrated in a Bayesian fashion in spatial memory. The test trials provided additional support for integration and the adaptive combination position. There were four conflict test conditions where the feature moved in relation to the geometry present in training. When the feature moved a small distance in the direction of the geometry, when the feature moved to a novel wall, or when the feature moved a small distance away from the geometry of an acute corner angle, participants selected the correct geometric position. In contrast, when the feature moved a small distance away from the geometry of an obtuse corner angle or when the feature moved a moderate distance away from the geometry of either an acute or an obtuse angle, participants integrated their response and selected and area between the training geometry and feature. The modularity position predicts choices exclusively at the geometry position. This was not found. The adaptive combination position predicts that features and geometry will sometimes be used independently and crucially can be integrated. The data support this position. In sum, the present research provides the first evidence for integration of geometric and feature cues in adult spatial memory during reorientation, and supports the adaptive combination position. Additionally, a mini spatial battery was administered to participants. Correlations of individual differences in spatial skills with reorientation in this paradigm are discussed.
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LoBasso, Thomas. "AN EVALUATION OF ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT MODELS OF THE 28 FLORIDA COMMUNITY COLLEGES." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2005. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2503.
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ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which enrollment management models have been successfully implemented within the 28 Florida community colleges. The study also sought to determine when enrollment management structures began and whether expected benefits were achieved. Analysis of the data collected in this study indicated the following five major findings. First, enrollment management concepts and practices have been implemented at some level within the 23 Florida community colleges surveyed. This was evident by the use of the word "enrollment" in the organizational titles as well as in the titles of the individuals who were responsible for the models. Second, enrollment management models reported were determined to be relatively new in comparison to four-year institutions. The literature on enrollment management demonstrated that four-year colleges began enrollment management practices in the early-to-mid 1970s. Much of the existing literature on enrollment management has been based on the experiences at four-year institutions. Third, some enrollment management divisions appeared to have key enrollment offices displaced. The key enrollment offices selected in this study were supported throughout the literature. Those offices represented were as follows: Admissions, Records and Registration, Financial aid, Orientation, and Advising. Fourth, increasing enrollment was the strongest reason for implementing the enrollment structure and subsequently was the strongest benefit realized. The anticipated decline in high school graduates, and the expectation of subsequent declining college enrollments during the 1970s, provided the impetus for the adoption of models of enrollment management. The fifth finding was that moving key enrollment offices such as financial aid into the enrollment management organizations would be an improvement to existing models. As enrollment management concepts are implemented into practice, the realignment of related offices may be necessary to effectively accomplish goals.Ed.D.
Department of Educational Research, Technology and Leadership
Education
Educational Leadership
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McCardle, Michael. "Market Foresight Capability: Determinants and New Product Outcomes." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2005. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3404.
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To achieve and maintain a superior competitive position, firms must develop market sensing capability-the ability to sense events and trends in markets ahead of competitors (Day 1994a). According to Day, in firms with superior market sensing capability, "the processes for gathering, interpreting, and using market information are more systematic, thoughtful, and anticipatory than in other firms" [emphasis added]. Although Day asserted that market orientation captures the essence of a market sensing capability, researchers have suggested that market orientation, by itself, does not provide the requisite ability to develop competitive advantage because of its focus on detecting rather than anticipating market trends. While prior research, most notably pertaining to market orientation, has addressed the detection of current market trends, a gap in our knowledge remains regarding the ability to anticipate future market conditions. This research seeks to address this lacuna by exploring a firm's market foresight capability, defined as the organizational capability that allows the firm to anticipate emerging shifts in the market before they are evident to competitors. Organizations possessing superior market foresight capability derive a multitude of benefits from having greater insight into future market conditions. These benefits include the ability to determine which future market trends warrant further exploration and exploitation, the identification of critical resources that will be needed in the future, and-of primary interest in this dissertation-the ability to develop new products that meet customer needs in the future. This research seeks to better inform managers as to the organizational characteristics that enhance the firm's ability to anticipate future markets by developing and testing a model of the antecedents and new product outcomes of a firm's market foresight capability. The constructs selected as determinants of market foresight capability are supported by dynamic capability theory, which focuses on the organization's information processes, learning culture, and coordination/integration influences that elevate lower-level capabilities of individuals and teams to an organization-level or dynamic capability. The organizational information processes that are hypothesized to positively impact market foresight capability include active scanning, market experimentation, and lead user collaboration. The impact of information processes on market foresight capability is contingent on an organization's learning culture (future orientation and learning orientation) and interdepartmental connectedness, which influence the coordination and integration of information between organizational actors. A firm's potential for long-term competitive advantage lies in using the insights resulting from its market foresight capability to create advantageous resource configurations. To create valuable resource configurations, the firm with superior market foresight capability must capitalize on its ability to anticipate change through the development of new product and service offerings that better serve the needs of customers. It is hypothesized that superior market foresight capability results in heightened new product creativity, faster speed to market, and better market-entry timing. These new product outcomes of market foresight capability are further hypothesized to lead to superior new product financial performance. Of course, firms cannot realize the hypothesized new product benefits unless they are able to capitalize on market opportunities. Therefore, the relationships between market foresight capability and new product outcomes are hypothesized to be contingent on organizational inertia.Ph.D.
Department of Marketing
Business Administration
Business Administration: Ph.D.
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Guittar, Nicholas A. "Out a sociological analysis of coming out." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4910.
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This study uses a constructivist grounded theory approach to investigate the meaning of "coming out" for LGBQ individuals. Analysis of open-ended interviews with 30 LGBQ persons revealed three main themes. First, coming out does not have a universal meaning among LGBQ persons; rather, it varies on the basis of an individual's experiences, social environment, and personal beliefs and values. Coming out is a transformative process, and an important element in identity formation and maintenance. Second, despite being attracted only to members of the same sex, ten interviewees engaged in a queer apologetic, a kind of identity compromise whereby individuals disclose a bisexual identity that they believe satisfies their personal attractions for only members of the same sex and society's expectation that they be attracted to members of the opposite sex. Third, both gender conformity (e.g., female=feminine) and gender non-conformity (e.g., female=masculine) present unique challenges to coming out. Because they are assumed to be straight, gender conformists must make a more concerted effort to come out. Gender non-conformists may experience greater ease coming out broadly because they are "assumed gay," but they also experience greater opposition from family and friends who resist gender non-conformity. This study provides important insight into the meaning of coming out as well the influences of heteronormativity and gender presentation on coming out. Implication and recommendations for future research are included.ID: 030423119; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Central Florida, 2011.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-196).
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Sociology
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Zaragoza, Joseph. "The Impact of Individual Perceptions of the Fairness of Public Affirmative Action Policy Statements on Attitudes toward the Organization." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5588.
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The purpose of this research project was to explore differences in perceptions of organizational justice and related attitudes. Through the use of a 3 x 2 experimental design, participants were randomly assigned to groups in which they were exposed to a fictitious organization's mock recruitment document publicizing different types of affirmative action programs and varying levels of information regarding the mechanics of such programs. Results did not demonstrate statistically significant differences across groups. Project implications, limitations, and suggestions for future research are discussed.M.S.
Masters
Psychology
Sciences
Industrial Organizational Psychology
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Howell, Sharon. "ADAPTIVE SELF-REGULATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL POLITICS: INVESTIGATING THE EFFECTS IN THE ACCOUNTING PROFESSION." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2005. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2457.
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The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate whether or not perceptions of organizational politics mediate the relationships between accountants' personality and interpersonal traits and their perceptions of a superior's leadership ability and performance. An accountant who has a higher degree of confidence in his or her superior's abilities is more likely to be committed to a given project, resulting in a better project outcome. This benefits the client and ultimately society as a whole. This study contributes to the accounting and psychology literatures because extant research views perceptions of leadership ability and performance from the perspective of the individual agent, with little or no recognition that social action and interaction shape and mold both the individual agent's actions and perceptions of those actions. Perceived leadership and perceived performance are important in accounting for several reasons. First, individuals act in part in relation and response to the expectations of others. Thus, the perception of effective leadership and performance is gained by meeting the expectations of others. Secondly, accountants with reputations for effectiveness have been found to be more successful in their careers. Finally, the reputation for effectiveness in performance and leadership ability has been shown to increase those abilities. This study draws on the adaptive self-regulation framework as well as other theoretical models of perceived performance. The study results indicate that certain manageable personality, interpersonal, and contextual variables affect how accountants view the level of organizational politics within the workplace. In turn, the accountant's view of the organizations' politics is shown to very strongly affect how the accountant perceives his or her superiors' performance and leadership ability.Ph.D.
School of Accounting
Business Administration
Business Administration: Ph.D.
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Brendecke, William W. "The effect of collection and establishment season, planting orientation and attached culms on the survival and growth of Arundinaria gigantea (Walt.) Muhl. (giant cane) rhizome propagules /." Available to subscribers only, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1674100541&sid=9&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2008."Department of Forestry." Keywords: Arundinaria, Collection source, Orientation, Propagation, Restoration, Rhizome morphology. Includes bibliographical references (p. 51-55). Also available online.
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Crouthamel, Michelle. "The Rise of Patient Centricity in the Pharmaceutical Industry." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/555805.
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Business Administration/Strategic ManagementD.B.A.
Despite a decade of public and private efforts to promote patient centricity in healthcare, there is still considerable ambiguity and skepticism regarding the concept and its business impact in the pharmaceutical industry. In this research, a novel methodology is developed to quantify firms’ strategic orientation using public 10-K reports. The Strategic Orientation Ratio (SOR) was developed and first validated to examine customer centricity for 9 non-pharmaceutical companies. The SOR is then extended from customer centricity to patient centricity, and it was applied to measure the extent of patient centricity in 10 multinational pharmaceutical firms. The method was successfully validated by identifying the strategic orientation of non-pharma firms such as Walmart, Apple, and Amazon. Next, by the same method, the extent of patient centricity is quantified in 10 big pharmaceutical companies for 2005-2015. This revealed the extent to which patient centricity exists in pharmaceutical companies, and how this has changed over time. The combination of an expressed patient-centric strategic orientation, personalized medicine (measured by oncology products), and patient access (measured by sales) is shown empirically to have a significant positive effect on firm performance. This implies that not only is patient centricity “the right thing to do,” it can also be a viable model for pharmaceutical firm competitiveness.
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Fullick, Julia. "You Scratch My Back and I'll Scratch Yours: Mentor-Perceived Costs and Benefits and the Functions They Provide Their Proteges." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2278.
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Mentoring relationships can have both costs and benefits for mentors and their proteges. The present research examined the degree to which mentors' perceived costs and benefits affect the functional and dysfunctional mentoring they provide to their proteges. Additionally, I investigated whether mentor-perceived costs and benefits were associated with the mentors' own goal orientation and the goal orientation of their proteges. Data were collected from 86 proteges and their current supervisory mentors. Consistent with expectations, when mentors reported greater costs of embarrassment associated with their relationship, the proteges reported receiving greater dysfunctional mentoring. Proteges who reported receiving greater functional mentoring tended to have mentors who perceived greater benefits of mentoring them. Both proteges and mentor goal orientations demonstrated significant correlations with mentor-perceived costs and benefits of their relationships. Implications for training and reinforcing functional mentoring will be discussed.M.S.
Department of Psychology
Sciences
Industrial Org Psychology MS
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Liang, Wenlang. "Imaging long-range orientational order in monolayers of amphiphilic molecules with scanning probe force microscope and liquid crystal optical amplification." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/6231.
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Monolayers of amphiphilic molecules at interface provide a unique system for understanding the thermodynamic and rheological properties of quasi two-dimensional systems. They are also an excellent model accessible for studying cell membranes. The feature of long-range organization of molecular tilt azimuth in monolayers at the air/water interface is one of the most interesting findings over the past two decades, which leads to the formation rich and defined textures. By observing the changes in these textures, the transitions between tilted monolayer phases can be detected. We study the boojum and stripe textures formed in the liquid-condensed phase of pentadecanoic acid (PDA) monolayers at the air/water interface and find that they can be preserved after being transferred to glass substrates at low dipping speeds at a temperature lower than the room temperature. Frictional force
microscopy confirms the long-range tilt order in the transferred boojums and stripes of PDA, implying the interaction of the PDA molecules with the glass surface does not change the tilt order. Polymerized stripe textures of pentacosadiynoic acid (PCA) monolayers can also be transferred onto solid substrates. Atomic force microscopy shows that the PCA stripe textures represent the regular variations of molecular packing densities in PCA monolayers. Furthermore, we find that the molecular orientation and packing density changes in monolayers can induce the local order of nematic liquid crystals. Due to the long-range orientation correlation of nematic liquid crystals, the boojum and stripe textures in monolayers can be observed by an optical microscope after liquid crystal optical amplification.M.S.M.S.E.
Masters
Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering
Engineering and Computer Science