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Young Women’s Sex Talk Online: Roles of Anonymity, Social Closeness, and Cultural Background on Perceived Appropriateness and Behavioral Intention
Get PDFIn this study, we examined the roles of anonymity and social closeness in predicting young women’s perceptions of “sex talk” (i.e., communication about sexual interests, enjoyment, and experiences) and intentions to post such content in cyberspace. We also examined cultural differences among Asian, Latina, and European Americans. A total of 466 undergraduate women from the three cultural groups participated in the online experiment. Participants were randomly assigned to either a low anonymity condition (i.e., Facebook) or a high anonymity condition (i.e., an anonymous online forum) where they were exposed to identical sex talk stimuli. The main findings showed that greater anonymity increased both the level of perceived appropriateness of sex talk posted by other female users and participants’ intentions to post sex talk online themselves. Compared to European American women, Asian and Latina Americans reported greater intentions to post sex talk online and perceived other female users’ sex talk posts as more appropriate. The results of this study prompt educators and practitioners to help young women strategically manage their impressions of sex talk online while being sensitive to women’s cultural backgrounds. They also suggest the need for further support from practitioners, educators, and parents to construct safe spaces for young women to engage open conversations about sexual matters in the digital space
Particular Amenability to Probation and the Trog Factors: Rewarding Wealth and Subservience in Minnesota Criminal Sentencing
Get PDFConfigurations and knot types of random cylindrical knots used to model knotting in extreme confinement (dataset)
No full textThis data set consists of knot configurations (which are designed to model knotting in extreme confinement) and their corresponding knot types. The configurations lie within a cylinder with radius one and height one, with vertices alternating between the top and bottom disks. The vertices are chosen uniformly with respect to area on the endcap disks. Due to this construction, the set of knot types is independent of radius or height in the construction. In particular, given one such configuration, the act of stretching/shrinking the cylinder radius and/or height does not pass edges through each other. Thus, the knot type is fixed. By setting the height to one and decreasing the radius to nearly 0, one obtains configurations that approach being equilateral (with unit length edges) and under extreme confinement. The data set consists of 1,000,000 configurations for six through 30 edges by steps of two and their knot types (both as plain text files). More details about the construction and available files are available in the README.txt file in the zip file. Also, see the corresponding paper: Knotting spectrum of polygonal knots in extreme confinement. Claus Ernst, Eric J. Rawdon, and Uta Ziegler. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. 1418869 and 1720342 to Eric J. Rawdon. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation
Prophethood
Get PDFAllah created Adam and Eve to dwell on the Earth along with their descendants, the human race, and were given dominion over the Earth and all that it contains.
He it is Who created for you all that is in the earth. (I, 29)
But a condition was laid upon them to exercise their authority in accordance with Allah’s laws. If people adhere to the laws, peace and harmony will exist on Earth and Allah will reward the law abiding ones with Paradise in the Hereafter.
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Revisiting the Gelman-Rubin diagnostic
No full textGelman and Rubin’s (Statist. Sci. 7 (1992) 457–472) convergence diagnostic is one of the most popular methods for terminating a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampler. Since the seminal paper, researchers have developed sophisticated methods for estimating variance of Monte Carlo averages. We show that these estimators find immediate use in the Gelman–Rubin statistic, a connection not previously established in the literature. We incorporate these estimators to upgrade both the univariate and multivariate Gelman–Rubin statistics, leading to improved stability in MCMC termination time. An immediate advantage is that our new Gelman–Rubin statistic can be calculated for a single chain. In addition, we establish a one-to-one relationship between the Gelman–Rubin statistic and effective sample size. Leveraging this relationship, we develop a principled termination criterion for the Gelman–Rubin statistic. Finally, we demonstrate the utility of our improved diagnostic via examples
Forming Restorative Justice Practitioners: Learning to Make Meaning of our Trauma Exposure Response
Get PDFWomen in Higher Education: An Ethnographic Case Study of Women Faculty and Administrators’ Experiences in Selected Universities in Uganda
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This study examined the participation and experiences of women faculty and administrators in higher education in Uganda and how the culture of higher education impacted their leadership. I adopted a qualitative methodology and an ethnographic case study approach to explore how women faculty and administrators participated and experienced the culture of higher education in Uganda. I used a purposeful sampling to critically select 20 participants based on their senior leadership positions within five universities. To ensure study triangulation, data collection constituted three fundamental methods namely, in-depth face-to-face interviews, observation, and review of documents pertinent to the study. I adopted post-colonial feminist theory (Ashcroft et al., 1995; Rosser, 2007) and gender and leadership (Northouse, 2019; Eagly & Carli, 2017) to analyze and interpret the results. The findings revealed participants faced disparities during their childhood education resulting from the inherited colonial education system which overlooked women’s education. This has continued to affect how society views women’s status. As a result, women continued to experience subtle and invisible gender-related obstacles not only in their career advancement but also along their trajectory to higher education leadership. Despite all the hurdles women faced, women leaders negotiated and navigated through a leadership labyrinth and attained leadership positions. Using effective leadership, women acted as change agents who exhibited resilience and unwavering commitment to breaking through the stereotypes and biases. Women leaders not only served at the institutional level but also provided leadership in the community as a whole. A campaign to put to an end the gender stereotypes and biasness and obtain an increased number of women in higher education leadership will involve combined efforts of parents, teachers, women leaders, institutions, and the community at large.
Keywords: Higher education, women leadership, culture, gender, labyrinth
Enriching Social Entrepreneurship from the Perspective of Catholic Social Teaching
Get PDFIn this paper, we propose that unreflective use of the term social entrepreneurship may perpetuate the idea that “entrepreneurship” is largely a financial and private reality and that this view of entrepreneurship will eventually trivialize or perhaps undermine the important benefits and the real intentions behind the social entrepreneurship movement. We believe that Catholic Social Teaching can shed important light on this dilemma by emphasizing three specific strategies inherent to entrepreneurship when assessing the moral contribution of the firm. As a result, we argue for the principles of good goods, good work and good wealth as an alternative framework for all good entrepreneurial venture
What is the Organization\u27s Role in Successfully Transitioning New Leaders Hired From the Outside
Get PDFIndividuals make several career transitions within their working lifetime, including transitioning into leadership roles. Citrin and Neff (2005) report that individuals with only ten years of employment experience have worked for at least four organizations, with another six projected in their lifetime. The purpose of this study was to explore, document, and analyze the organization\u27s role in a leadership transition process for individuals that are hired from the outside into senior leadership roles. This study examined participants\u27 transition experiences and how their organizations facilitated the transition process, including the players involved and their roles. Grounded theory was selected for this qualitative study to understand an organization\u27s role in a new leader\u27s transition process. This study conducted interviews with new leader participants that were hired from the outside into senior leadership positions at a director level or higher and one of their colleagues involved in the transition process. The interview transcriptions, memos, and journaling were used to develop emerging themes. The study\u27s findings were used to suggest how organizations can better support new leaders that are hired from the outside
Objective Cultural Distance and Bicultural Identity Integration: A Mediation Analysis
No full textThe present study sought to build upon the body of literature centered on Bicultural Identity Integration (BII), which conceptualizes the process of bicultural identity development as consisting of two independent dimensions: 1) harmony vs conflict and 2) blendedness vs compartmentalization (Benet-Martinez & Haritatos, 2005). Previous research has suggested that there may be a directional relationship between these variables. Specifically, the degree to which an individual’s cultures are objectively different may lead to a sense of conflict between those cultures (low BII harmony), which would then affect the degree to which an individual chooses to integrate or compartmentalize their cultures (BII blendedness vs compartmentalization) (Huynh et al., 2011).
Accordingly, it was hypothesized that BII harmony would mediate the relationship between cultural distance and BII blendedness and that higher levels of objective cultural distance would predict lower overall BII scores. A convenience sample of 159 bicultural participants was gathered via social media and recruitment at a private Midwestern university. The first hypotheses was tested using a mediation analysis. Results of the mediation analysis did not support the hypothesized directional relationship, b = .414, BCa CI [-1.979, .0386]. The second hypothesis was tested using a simple linear regression. Results of the regression analysis did not yield significant results, (F (1,157) = .350, p = .555. Instead, the demographic variables of race and ethnicity emerged as statistically significant predictors of BII harmony and blendedness rather than cultural distance. Overall, these findings have implications for how BII is conceptualized on a theoretical level and how mental health practitioners approach their work with bicultural client