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High-Risk Behavior: Who\u27s Engaging in It?
Get PDFWhy are people engaging in dangerous behaviors, putting themselves and society at risk, despite the detrimental consequences? I propose that with more years of education completed, an individual is less likely to participate in high-risk behaviors; and also, that those who lived in a two-parent household at age 16 are less likely to engage in these behaviors as well. In this research we analyze 345, unmarried respondents, from the 2004 General Social Survey, all whom have answered questions about their educational attainment, strength in religion, familial formation at age 16, employment status and age through an interview process. The data rejects both hypotheses: those with more years of education completed, and who are employed, are likely to visit a bar more often than those with fewer years completed, and there is not any statistically significant relationships to support that those who lived in a two-parent household at age 16 are less likely to participate in high-risk behavior. There is a strong relationship among the drug variables, implying that respondents who are using drugs are typically using more than one. This research shows significant relationships between these variables, but there is a need for future research
Nonverbal Communication -4
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Impact of NFL Players’ Off-field Misconduct on Sponsorship Returns
No full textThis paper studies the impact of NFL players’ off-field misconduct on their personal and stadium sponsors’ stock returns. The data of this study contains all the NFL players’ offfield misconduct incidents from 2000 to 2017, and sponsor stock returns data are from public companies traded in the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ. An event study analysis is performed to quantify the financial impact of NFL players’ off-field misconduct. Also, several OLS regressions are employed to find the determinants of the impact. The event study analysis does not reveal any statistically significant result, while the regression results show that the incident team’s reaction is correlated with the financial impact of the incident on the related stadium sponsors. In addition, my findings provide some evidence of broader reputation risks of athletes’ off-field behaviors
Keep America Great: The Effect of the H-1B Visa on the STEM Sector
Get PDFHow foreign-born workers affect the domestic labor market has been a long-standing debate in the history of the United States. Occupations in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics are a fast-growing segment of the U.S. labor market. The purpose of this thesis is to answer three questions: (1) Do foreign born workers with H-1B visas workers impact native employment within the STEM sectors? (2) Does the prevailing average wage of an H-1B visa worker have an impact on the wages of native born employees? (3) How is international student enrollment affected by employer’s demand for the H-1B visa. After analyzing the available data, my findings suggest that H-1B workers are used as a complement to native workers and there is no significant impact on the wages of native workers, however international enrollment is negatively affected by an increase in demand for the H-1B visa
The Effect of Injuries on Player and Team Performance: An Empirical Analysis of the Production Function in the National Hockey League
Get PDFThis paper analyzes the effect that injuries have on team performance in the National Hockey League (NHL) and on the production of the individual athlete. By using player level statistics and team level performance metrics from the 2013/2014 through the 2016/2017 NHL seasons, my analysis adds to the current production function literature in sports economics by incorporating injury data to put forth a more comprehensive production frontier. My results suggest that there is a statistically significant negative effect on both team performance, and on individual production when players are injured. This paper begins by employing a probit regression model to identify the most significant contributors to injury in professional hockey, followed by an interrogation of individual level performance, and finally a comprehensive team level analysis, which shows that not only do injuries negatively affect a team and individual performance, but there is also a magnified effect when a player is more valuable to an organization. The results suggest shorter seasons, and more evenly distributed playing time as ways to protect players and ensure more success for teams
The Pregnant, Birthing, and Postpartum Body in Modern and Contemporary Art
Get PDFIncluded in my exhibition Birthing Bodies (September 30 – December 30, 2017) at the Tang Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College was Stan Brakhage’s film Window Water Baby Moving (1959) which shows Brakhage’s ex-wife Jane giving birth to their daughter. I placed a small notebook in front of the monitor to gather responses on the film and on the exhibition, and amidst many affirming comments is one revealing and representative one: “very disgusting.” Another time, while walking out of the gallery, I heard a man exiting behind me say to another man walking into the gallery: “Don’t go – fucking terrifying.” These comments represent the cultural attitude towards birth that provided the impetus for Birthing Bodies in the first place: birth, what comes before and after it, and the bodies and subjects that enact it, have been and continue to be constructed as repulsive and fearful. In this climate, portrayals of the pregnant, birthing, and postpartum body are few and far between. Many women wrote in that response book that the film brought them viscerally back to the births of their own children, but that they had never before seen a birth. I created Birthing Bodies because I knew that representing the pregnant and birthing body as a site of power countered a dominant and damaging narrative of birth. To expand beyond the limitations of creating an exhibition within the Tang’s collection, I created a theoretical exhibition and accompanying essay, throughout which I continue to ask why this subject — universal, foundational, necessary for our existence as a species — is untouchable, in art, academia, politics and popular culture. Despite feminist progress in the art world, few artists address the female body’s reproductive capabilities, even fewer address birth. The only other exhibition I have found that addresses birth is an upcoming exhibition at the Catherine G. Murphy Gallery in St. Paul, Minnesota which revisists Judy Chicago\u27s Birth Project (1980-85). Both the exhibition Birthing Bodies and this theoretical exhibition and essay aim to begin filling in the gap in the general public’s visual lexicon,reclaiming the pregnant, birthing, and postpartum body as sites of agency and power, and making visible the structures that have constructed those bodies as faulty, frightful, and offensive
Habitual Wayfinding in Academic Libraries: Evidence from a Liberal Arts College
Get PDFHabitual wayfinding is a revised wayfinding model for academic libraries, where there is a high percentage of repeat users. Using the unique spatial characteristics of a specific academic library, this study explores the wayfinding patterns of repeat users and evaluates the impact of patrons\u27 travel habits on their library space usage. The GIS tool ArcMap is employed to visualize library traffic and detect potential patterns of habitual wayfinding. The impact of habitual wayfinding behaviors on library space usage is analyzed. Findings suggest that travel habits formed through past frequent actions can lead to consistent navigation preferences toward certain function units and significant usage differences even within the same function unit in a library. In addition to proposing this modified wayfinding framework and studying its relevance in explaining library space usage patterns, this study also makes a methodological contribution through a novel approach of detecting potential traffic patterns by visualizing routing data and quantifying its details at the route segment level. The framework, methodology, and findings have important implications for understanding space use in academic libraries and can be valuable to libraries considering conducting space evaluation and space rearrangement projects