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Turning a “blind eye:” A case study of USA gymnastics’ response to the Larry Nassar scandal
No full textThis intrinsic case study examines how USA Gymnastics (USAG) attempted to repair its image following allegations made of abuse within the organization, including allegations accusing Dr. Larry Nassar of sexually abusing gymnasts. This study uses Benoit’s image repair theory as a theoretical framework to analyze USAG’s public-facing communication efforts during the first four months after the allegations were initially made on Aug. 4, 2016, including statements to the public via its website and social media. The research also uses comments and reactions made by active stakeholders on USAG’s social media posts to consider the public’s reaction to USAG’s statements.
Through thematic analysis, findings show that USAG’s initial attempts at image repair were largely ineffective with its active stakeholders on social media. The organization used denial, evasion of responsibility, corrective action, and largely ignored crisis communication best practices. Analysis of stakeholder comments showed two main themes: a) cooling down and b) change. Cooling down accounted for less than one-fourth of the codes, showing that some stakeholders doubted the allegations. The theme change accounted for over three-fourths of the identified codes making it the dominant theme. These comments showed that stakeholders were not placated by the minimal action taken by USAG and called for the organization to take accountability and implement systematic changes.
The findings of this study shows a story of missed opportunities by USAG. The organizations failed to follow crisis communication best practices and implement recommended image repair strategies making their image repair ineffective with the majority of stakeholders. This study shows the importance of following crisis communication best practices and teaches future crisis communicators that there may be more power in being engaged, open, and honest with those who help make brands like USAG sustainable and powerful
Numerical investigation of an energy pile-based solar-assisted ground source heat pump system for space heating and cooling
No full textWhile ground source heat pump systems are a sustainable method to climatize buildings, their long-term performance in cold climates may lead to ground overcooling and, thereby, performance deterioration over time, especially when the loads are significantly imbalanced. Solar-assisted ground source heat pump systems are an alternative to mitigate the ground thermal imbalance by injecting solar thermal energy into the ground to balance energy extraction by the heat pump while also improving the heat pump performance. This study numerically evaluates the performance of a solar-assisted ground source heat pump system for three different climate zones and three modes of operation using a thoroughly validated finite volume-based computational model. A 0.139 m diameter helical steel pile installed to a depth of 18.288 m below the ground was used in this study as the ground heat exchanger. Realistic building load profiles were obtained using OpenStudio for residential applications in Calgary, Toronto, and New York and coupled with a computational fluid dynamics solver to evaluate the overall system performance. The results show that the solar-assisted system shows a significant performance improvement of 16.3% over a non-solar enhanced system for the coldest climatic zone studied. Out of the three system operation modes studied (mode 1: solar loop is turned off at low irradiance, mode 2: solar thermal energy is redirected based on the season, mode 3: solar thermal energy is redirected based on the heat pump operating mode), mode 3 yields the best overall heat pump performance for all the locations (COP: 3.72, 3.74, 4.24 for Calgary, Toronto, and New York, respectively). Interestingly, the results indicate the best-suited system operating mode depends on the degree of dominance of the building’s heating load
“But she was the real owner”: Cherokee women as slaveholders, 1800-1865
No full textThis dissertation works to uncover the experiences and slaveholding practices of Cherokee women between 1800 and 1865. Elite Cherokee women used slaveholding as an avenue of power in the nineteenth century, as the United States and some Cherokee men worked to limit their political and economic power. The Cherokee Nation centralized their political system in the early nineteenth century and modeled their government after the United States, with some differences. This change took political power away from matrilineal clans and Cherokee women and gave it to a small group of elite men in a centralized government. These slaveholding women melded together older Cherokee gender roles alongside aspects of Euro-American gender roles in how they practiced slavery. Building off the scholarship of historians who studied white women and Native American slaveholders, this dissertation further expands the conversation surrounding chattel slavery by adding previously unstudied group of slaveholders. A variety of archival sources are used in this project including governmental sources from both the Cherokee Nation and the United States, court records, and Christian missionary records and letters, and newspapers. Sources from Cherokee women used include letters and diaries. It also uses oral history interviews conducted in the 1930s of Cherokee freedpeople and Cherokee women slaveholders. The interactions between enslaved people and Indigenous people are critical to understanding this period in Cherokee history and are discussed in this project. Grounded in ethnohistory, this dissertation argues that Cherokee women played central roles in the adoption, growth, and maintenance of chattel slavery between 1800 and the end of the Civil War. They found additional sources of economic power through the forced enslavement of Afro-Cherokee people
Economic cost of a bale of hay spreadsheet user’s manual
No full textThe Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service periodically issues revisions to its publications. The most current edition is made available. For access to an earlier edition, if available for this title, please contact the Oklahoma State University Library Archives by email at [email protected] or by phone at 405-744-6311
What can we see? About the role of phenomenology in determining the contents of visual perception
No full textThere is an ongoing debate between Conservatism (Brogaard, 2013; Dretske, 2015; Price, 2009; Prinz, 2013) and Liberalism (Bayne, 2016; Siegel, 2007, 2010; Krueger, 2018; and Zahavi, 2011) regarding the content of visual perception. Conservatism posits that our visual perception represents only low-level features such as color, shape, spatial location, and motion. In contrast, Liberalism argues that we can perceive high-level features such as natural kinds, mental states, and event-causal properties, among others. While Conservatism supports its arguments using Twin-Earth scenarios, Liberalism appeals to phenomenal contrast arguments. This paper aims to make progress in this debate by identifying the methodological assumptions of both Conservatism and Liberalism. Biconditional Intentionalism is required to support Conservatism, while Minimal Intentionalism is required to support Liberalism. Biconditional Intentionalism claims that any difference in the experience's phenomenal character comes with a difference in its representational content and vice versa. In contrast, Minimal Intentionalism claims that if two experiences differ in their phenomenal character, then they differ in representational content. So, it leaves open the possibility that two experiences with different representational content may have the same phenomenology. In this work, I argue that it is not possible to determine which view is correct by relying solely on phenomenology. To address this issue, we need to ask two different questions: (I) “What can we visually perceive?” and (II) “How do we identify the content of visual perception?” By answering these questions, we can expand our comprehension of the debate beyond phenomenological considerations. I suggest that insights from vision science can be a helpful way to overcome the debate between Conservatism and Liberalism regarding the contents of visual perception, as there are internal reasons to consider Minimal and Biconditional Intentionalism to be wrong. This approach has significant implications as it forces us to move beyond the phenomenological considerations that are part of the debate between Conservatism and Liberalism. By relying on vision science, we could gain a different perspective that can help us determine the contents of perception
Searches for new physics using unsupervised machine learning for anomaly detection at the ATLAS detector and the development of particle identification algorithms for the HL-LHC
No full textThis document contains discussions on completed and ongoing projects that have developed over the past few years while working on the ATLAS detector located at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. The first discussion will be on my qualification task for the ATLAS collaboration which is on the development and future plans of the DL1d tagger that is currently used as a base- line tagger for run 4 of the ATLAS detector. After, the discussion will transition to an analysis that applies a novel anomaly detection technique which uses a neural network architecture called the autoencoder. This neural network is then trained on 1% randomly selected events of run 2 data from the ATLAS detector. Once the model and anomalous regions are defined, the model is used to find phase spaces where events that contain physics beyond the standard model may occur. Statistical analysis is then applied to these phase spaces in order to find signatures of new physics. No significant signatures are found. Lastly, I will discuss an ongoing search for a new massive scalar X decaying into a new light scalar Y and the standard model Higgs boson H through the process X→YH→bbbb in the boosted topology
Sustainable power-to-gas system design: Integrating renewable energy storage and environmental responsibility
No full textHigh energy-density sources like hydrocarbons have negative environmental implication due to their emission of greenhouse gasses during combustion. The negative effects of greenhouse gasses are becoming more commonly observed as the global demand for energy increases. Renewable energy sourced from wind or solar farms offer a potential alternative to hydrocarbons in a theoretical capacity, but fluctuating environmental conditions limit the ready availability from renewable energy in large-scale implementations. Limited effective storage techniques for excess energy created by renewables is a key roadblock preventing the widespread use of renewables to meet global energy needs. The objective of this project was to design a methanation reaction process which utilizes green hydrogen and CO₂ sourced from industrial emissions to serve as a means of power-to-gas energy storage while reducing direct emissions. The safety and economics of this potentially revolutionary energy technique was assessed to analyze the potential viability of the project
Look your best
No full textThe Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service periodically issues revisions to its publications. The most current edition is made available. For access to an earlier edition, if available for this title, please contact the Oklahoma State University Library Archives by email at [email protected] or by phone at 405-744-6311
Neighborhood leaders' handbook
No full textThe Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service periodically issues revisions to its publications. The most current edition is made available. For access to an earlier edition, if available for this title, please contact the Oklahoma State University Library Archives by email at [email protected] or by phone at 405-744-6311
Marketing dairy products in Oklahoma
No full textThe Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service periodically issues revisions to its publications. The most current edition is made available. For access to an earlier edition, if available for this title, please contact the Oklahoma State University Library Archives by email at [email protected] or by phone at 405-744-6311