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The Objects of Experience: Transforming Visitor-Object Encounters in Museums
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/facultybooks/12/thumbnail.jpgWhat if museums could harness the emotional and intellectual connections people have to personal and everyday objects to create richer visitor experiences? In this book, Elizabeth Wood and Kiersten Latham present the Object Knowledge Framework, a tool for using objects to connect museum visitors to themselves, to others, and to their world. They discuss the key concepts underpinning our lived experience of objects and how museums can learn from them. Then they walk readers through concrete methods for transforming visitor-object experiences, including exercises and strategies for teams developing exhibit themes, messages, and content, and participatory experiences.</p
Raiment for Liturgy Virtual Tour
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/museumvideo/9/thumbnail.jpgA tour of the exhibition "Raiment for Liturgy" which features liturgical vestments.</p
Brand Personalities across the Big Four: Positioning Leagues for Differentiation
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/node/9965/8857-thumbnail.jpgThe concept of brand personality (BP) has become a popular topic of study among academicians in the sport management field. The current study moves beyond the construct conceptualization and scale development of BP, and begins to investigate existing BP profiles for various professional sports (BPS). Specifically, this research examines the existing BPS dimensions across various Big Four professional leagues. The study utilized the BPS instrument (Braunstein & Ross, 2009) and MANOVA procedures to determine ratings of BP dimensions and any differences between sports. Results indicated that on the BPS factors that were measured (Success, Sophistication, Sincerity, Rugged, Community-Driven, Classic), sports differed on four of the six factors. For the factors that significantly differed by sport (Success, Sincerity, Rugged, and Classic), the majority of the highest mean scores associated with hockey and baseball. Conceptualizations and scale development of BPS will be discussed along with positioning and segmentation strategies for sport marketers. This paper begins to shift the focus from the concept of BPS to its application. As such, it fills an identified need to determine if there are differences in the “personalities” (i.e., characteristics) of leagues and, ultimately, how these elements can factor into sound and targeted marketing practices.</p
Competitive Balance in College Football: Additional Analysis on the Effects of Changes in Conference
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/node/9966/8858-thumbnail.jpgNumerous studies (Perline & Stoldt, 2007; Perline, Stoldt & Vermillion, 2012: Rhoads, 2004) have indicated that changes in college athletic conference membership at the NCAA Division I FBS level result in greater levels of competitive balance in football. The purpose of this study is to determine if member churning in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and the Big East between the years of 1999 and 2011 led to a greater degree of competitive analysis. Three methods of assessing competitive balance were employed. Two—the standard deviation of winning percentages and the Hirfindahl-Hirschman Index—are commonly used in competitive balance studies. The authors included range of winning percentages as an additional method. Results indicate that competitive balance in football improved in both conferences after changes in membership. This aligns the findings of this study with previous research and supports the contention that football is the primary consideration when conferences make changes in their membership (Fort & Quirk, 1999).</p
Incentives on the Starting Grid in Formula One Racing
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/node/9968/8860-thumbnail.jpgStarting a race in first place, pole position, is the goal of every race driver. This is even more pronounced in Formula One (F1) racing as the road courses they race are more difficult to pass on, providing an additional advantage to starting on the pole. However, their unique standing starts also create a bottleneck at the first turn, which often leads to contact between cars. Because F1 cars are not designed to make contact, this contact can greatly impact a driver’s position on the track. We find that there are certain positions on the starting grid that are more likely to make contact with other drivers than other positions. Specifically the starting position with the highest odds to make contact at the first turn is position 10. This creates the incentive for drivers to avoid this position, which means if they are unable to qualify higher than this position, the incentive exists for drivers to intentionally adjust their behavior to avoid these high-risk (of making contact) positions.</p
Ohio History 2013
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/node/10129/OH-v120-thumb.jpgOHIO HISTORY
Contents for Volume 120, 2013
“A Mysterious and Ambiguous Display of Tactics”: The Second Siege of Fort Meigs, July 21–28, 1813
Larry L. Nelson ...... 5
“But What Is Our Duty?” Bishop McIlvaine’s Civil War
Terry A. Barnhart ...... 29
A Dilemma of Civil Liberties: Cincinnati’s Black Community, 1862–1863
K. Luci Petlack ...... 47
A House in Search of a Home: A Contextual History of the Founding of the Cleveland Play House
Jeffrey Ullom ...... 70
“Be Patient and Satisfied with Their Progress Thus Far”: Senator Robert A. Taft’s Opposition to a Permanent Fair Employment Practices Commission, 1944–1950
Clarence E. Wunderlin Jr. ...... 92
Agents of Change: Congregation Brith Emeth and Rabbi Philip Horowitz
Alan T. Levenson ...... 118
Book Reviews ...... 139
On the cover: Plan of Fort Meigs’ and its environs: compricing [sic] the operations of the American forces, under Genl. W.H. Harrison, and the British Army and their allies, under Genl. Proctor and Tecumseh / by an officer of the Kentucky Militia, by William Sebree. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.</p
A Systematic Literature Review Model for Religion
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/acir/2012/Papers/14/thumbnail.jpgTraditional literature reviews (TLR) are found in all disciplines including religion. In TLR a research question is chosen, resources are identified that have information relevant to the question, and one uses information from the resources to address the TLR question. Such reviews give writers and readers background knowledge, help them get up to speed, or help to set the stage for further research. In academia, projects supported by TLR include student papers, theses and dissertations, grants, and articles. In a religious community, sermons and religious instruction might be served by TLR. The information explosion is ongoing, and so TLR clearly have value. In addition, however, in the health and social sciences the "systematic review" (SR) is now widely viewed as an important alternative for those doing and reading literature reviews. Two reasons are frequently given for why the conclusions in SR receive special attention: 1. comprehensive literature searching is used (important for limiting bias), and 2. detailed/transparent reporting of methods are used (making replication and evaluation of methods possible). SR can increase confidence in conclusions of reviews. A part of the first author’s research on SR, philosophy, and religion involves exploring the possibilities of SR for research in religion. A “scoping review” (type of SR) examined the literature on TLR and SR methods in and for religion. Although TLR were found in the religion literature, SR were not. Drawing on significant SR methods literature, a SR model was developed that could provide a more rigorous framework for literature reviews in religion.</p
Chromodomain Helicase Binding Protein 8 (Chd8) Is a Novel A-Kinase Anchoring Protein Expressed during Rat Cardiac Development
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/node/598/87742-thumbnail.jpgA-kinase anchoring proteins (AKAPs) bind the regulatory subunits of protein kinase A (PKA) and localize the holoenzyme to discrete signaling microdomains in multiple subcellular compartments. Despite emerging evidence for a nuclear pool of PKA that rapidly responds to activation of the PKA signaling cascade, only a few AKAPs have been identified that localize to the nucleus. Here we show a PKA-binding domain in the amino terminus of Chd8, and demonstrate subcellular colocalization of Chd8 with RII. RII overlay and immunoprecipitation assays demonstrate binding between Chd8-S and RIIα. Binding is abrogated upon dephosphorylation of RIIα. By immunofluorescence, we identified nuclear and perinuclear pools of Chd8 in HeLa cells and rat neonatal cardiomyocytes. We also show high levels of Chd8 mRNA in RNA extracted from post-natal rat hearts. These data add Chd8 to the short list of known nuclear AKAPs, and implicate a function for Chd8 in post-natal rat cardiac development.</p
Hemingway and French Writers
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/hemingway/11/thumbnail.jpgA collection of essays tracing seven decades of literary interaction between Hemingway and notable French authors
In a 1946 Atlantic Monthly essay, Jean-Paul Sartre writes: “The greatest literary development in France between 1929 and 1939 was the discovery of Faulkner, Dos Passos, Hemingway, Caldwell, and Steinbeck.”
When Ernest Hemingway arrived in Paris in 1922, he was an unknown writer from America. The City of Light was where he learned his craft and gained legitimacy. Although much has been written about Hemingway’s apprentice years in Paris, little has been published about his literary convergences with French writers. In Hemingway and French Writers, Ben Stoltzfus illuminates the connections between Hemingway and the most important French intellectuals, such as Gustave Flaubert, Marcel Proust, André Gide, Jacques Lacan, Jean-Paul Sartre, Henry de Montherlant, André Malraux, and Albert Camus. A distinguished scholar of both French literature and Hemingway studies, Stoltzfus compares Hemingway’s major works in chronological order, fromThe Sun Also Rises to The Old Man and the Sea, with novels by French writers.
While it is widely known that France influenced Hemingway’s writing, Hemingway also had an immense impact on French writers. Over the years, American and French novelists enriched each other’s works with new styles and untried techniques. In this comparative analysis, Stoltzfus discusses the complexities of Hemingway’s craft, the controlled skill, narrative economy, and stylistic clarity that the French, drawn to his emphasis on action, labeled “le style américain.”</p
Civil War Fashion: Foundations
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/museumvideo/3/thumbnail.jpgOn the undergarments worn during the 1860s including corsets, crinolines and drawers.</p