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Recent Empirical Evidence on the Perceived Impact of COVID 19 on Faculty and Students From 391 Faculty From 37 CCCU and CIC Institutions June-September 2021
No full textThe presentation provides very recent data on the impact of COVID 19 from 391 Professors from 37 CCCU or CIC institutions. The data was gathered from June to September 2021- right at the height of COVID impacts. (This add-on set of scales was attached to the dissertation written by Dr. John Langenderfer, DBA, J.D. “The Role of an Academic Institution’s Organizational Culture in Retaining Employees during an Industry Downturn.”) Because of the time of the data gathering from June through September 2021, Dr. Daake saw this as a unique opportunity to study the impact of a BLACK–SWAN event in real-time. Dr. Daake and Dr. Langenderfer created 14 original scale items to measure this impact.
The results of this part of the dissertation are presented, and potential implications are discussed. From the faculty\u27s perspectives, it is clear that this has been a very trying time for their institutions, and they believe it has impacted the quality and effectiveness of the educational process. It also implies significant damage to morale and the culture that needs to be repaired.
Based on these results, Dr. Daake advances several exploratory hypotheses that need to be explored in future research. The analysis includes basic statistics, correlations, t-tests, ANOVA, and basic factor analysis.
Other related issues are explored that are relevant to those seeking to do peer-reviewed or dissertation work
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
The Emerging Field of Positive Psychology Viewed through the Lens of Proverbs
No full textProverbs 23:7. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
Positive psychology, along with related fields such as Psychological Capital, Happiness, and Emotional Intelligence hold great promise for improving lives. This presentation seeks to break some new ground and encourage Christian scholars and students to engage in more research and scholarship in this area and to assimilate more of this integrated perspective into our classrooms. It will also present some preliminary empirical data gathered among ONU students and will end with a brief discussion session
Truth Telling or Truth Suppression: Myths & Realities in the Modern Organization
No full textIn 2009 Daake & Piatt published a Kankakee Daily Journal Column titled “Bad news can be rewarding.” Dr. Daake had been working on the concept since 1986. The thesis of that brief article was that organizations and their managers not only need to be receptive to bad or unpleasant news, but actually reward it. This presentation extends those conceptualizations to a theoretical framework that explores the realities of truth telling or suppression. Many forward-looking organizations have developed mechanisms to make sure the communications channels remain open such as suggestion boxes, anonymous surveys, ombudsman, or town halls. Notably absence in the literature, however, is the role that personal economic factors play in inhibiting or facilitating truthful communication especially from lower levels to higher levels. Employees in high demand positions, while they may not want to change jobs, have the opportunity and may have pending opportunities at 2-3 or more competing organizations. They can afford, to tell the truth, even if it means termination or discipline. Matters of fact, these talented high performing employees often hold the upper hand since their employers cannot afford to lose them. But for a vast percentage of employees, serious financial implications for themselves and their family make it far more likely they will suppress the truth. In many situations the stakes are low and so minimal harm is done, but morale and productivity suffer. On the other hand, situations like the Challenger Explosion, airline crashes, ill-conceived expansion of service or products, and fraud and corruption can be catastrophic e.g. Enron, WorldCom, Anderson Accounting, Exxon Valdez and even the Titanic. This paper will review the literature, provides numerous examples, advances testable hypotheses, and provides implications for practice and research
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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