...Introduction to Cross-Cultural Psychology Paper Yekaterina Tarkovsky PSY/450 Diversity and Cultural Factors in Psychology Stephen Northam / Professor November 23, 2015 The author of this paper would like to share the results of the study performed on the effects of cognitive appraisals of communication competence in conflict interactions. This study involves both Chinese and Western cultures. The researchers were investigating how differently people from both of these cultures perceive competence, appropriateness, and effectiveness of another party’s communication during conflict. At first, there was a pilot study which had thirty employees in Singapore. They were examining appraisals of communication competence in recalled intercultural conflict incidents. The competence of others was judged by western expatriates. They were determining whether the style of communication itself was direct as well as engaged. This was deemed to be judgements of effectiveness. The competence on interactional skills as well as knowledge on culture was judged by host-nationals. This was deemed to be judgments of appropriateness. The quasi-experimental study followed the pilot study. In this study, two parties comprising of university students. One party had one hundred twenty eight Australian students and the other one had on hundred eight Chinese students. The results of this study had showed that students from Australia discriminated between four different types of conflict styles more...
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...Women were not allowed into NASA’s Astronaut Training Program before 1978. For this research paper, I will be discussing the first ten women who have taken trips out of this planet and details about their missions. On June 16, 1963, Valentina V. Tereshkova was the first woman to ever go to space. She was also the youngest woman to go into space at 26 years of age. The former Russian cosmonaut piloted Vostok 6. She completed almost three days in space and orbited the Earth forty-eight times. Tereshkova had no experience at all as a pilot, but she was accepted into the Soviet Space Program because of her 126 parachute jumps. She had 18 months of training along with 4 other women, out of the 5 she was the only one who went into space. The second...
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...Information Systems and Technology Trends Occurring in the Workplace Nancy M. Gonzenbach Southern Illinois University Carbondale Information Systems and Technology Trends Occurring in the Workplace Introduction The advancement of technologies in business is changing the world of work. Businesses find they must incorporate many of the new technological procedures, processes, policies, hardware, and software into their environment to remain competitive. The impact from these technological advances on how work is performed affects the workforce far differently now than what has been seen over the past 25 years. One of the greatest impacts has been on the workers themselves, and the challenge of training and preparing to remain abreast in today’s workforce is tremendous. This challenge, which is facing today’s workers, is something educators cannot afford to ignore. Technology has created a revolution in today’s educational environment, and this change in education makes teaching more rewarding and far more challenging (Bryant, 2001). Review of Literature The field of information systems is constantly changing, and these changes are impacting the way workers think, the processes and procedures used to accomplish wo rk, and the tools used to accomplish goals needed to be competitive in the workforce. In today’s work environment “trends such as the globalization of the economy and the evolution of e-commerce are changing the very nature of work” and “success in the wo rkplace of...
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...Running head: LITERATURE SEARCH TO LOCATE RESEARCH ARTICLE According to the reports published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Injury Centre (2007), falls are the third most common cause of unintentional injury death across all age groups and the first leading cause among people 65 years and older (Tzeng, H., & Yin, C. (2008). A hospital can be a dangerous and erratic place for inpatients because of its unfamiliar physical environment (different from their home settings) and because of changes in patients’ medical conditions as related to their physical and psychological health and sensory systems (Tzeng, H., & Yin, C. (2008). The following research articles focus on the nurses’ role in preventing and managing patient falls in the hospitals. As part of the assignment abstract from the articles are included. Literature Search 1: Nurses’ Solutions to Prevent Inpatient Fall in Hospital Rooms. Abstract Patient fall rates are perceived as the indicator that could be most improved through nurse-led safety strategies or interventions. A safety-driven design with a goal to prevent inpatient fall-related injuries should be a hospital design principle. In this qualitative study, researchers used inductive and deductive methods to understand the clinically accessible solutions to minimize the extrinsic risk factors of inpatient falls. The findings from the nurse interviews were compared with the intervention strategies toward...
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...www.elsevier.com/locate/techsoc The politics of airplane production: The emergence of two technological frames in the competition between Boeing and Airbus Alexander Z. Ibsen* University of Arizona, Department of Sociology, P.O. Box 210027, Tucson, AZ 85721-0027,United States a b s t r a c t Keywords: Airplanes Boeing Airbus Two-party democracy Frames Technological philosophy Economic models of technological innovation, as well as modern sociological approaches to the study of organizations, predict that two-actor markets will eventually evolve into one dominant technological logic. Why is it, then, that the only two global manufacturers of large commercial airplanes have developed diametrically opposed technological philosophies? Based on secondary historical sources, this article employs a theory of twoparty democracies from political science and the theory of sociotechnical frames to explain why Boeing pilots are allowed ultimate command of their aircraft whereas Airbus confers this authority to the flight computer. Ó 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction For anyone who has ever flown on a large airplane owned by an airline based in an affluent country, the chances are almost exactly 50% that the plane will be made by Boeing Commercial Airplanes, and 50% that it will be made by Airbus S.A.S. At the same time, it is 100% certain that it will not be made by anyone else. Most passengers probably cannot tell the difference, nor will they care about the...
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...THE USES OF REASON by Jonah Lehrer The summer of 1949 had been long and dry in Montana; the grassy highlands were like tinder. On the afternoon of August 5—the hottest day ever recorded in the area—a stray bolt of lightning set the ground on fire. A parachute brigade of firefighters, known as smokejumpers, was dispatched to put out the blaze. Wag Dodge, a veteran with nine years of smokejumping experience, was in charge. When the jumpers took off from Missoula in a C-47, a military transport plane left over from World War II, they were told that the fire was small, just a few burning acres in the Mann Gulch river valley. As the plane approached the fire, the jumpers could see the smoke in the distance. The hot wind blew it straight across the sky. Mann Gulch is a place of geological contradiction. It is where the Rocky Mountains meet the Great Plains, pine trees give way to prairie grass, and the steep cliffs drop onto the steppes of the Midwest. The gulch is just over three miles long, but it marks the border between these two different terrains. The fire began on the Rockies’ side, on the western edge of the gulch. By the time the firefighters arrived at the gulch, the blaze had grown out of control. The surrounding hills had all been burned; the landscape was littered with the skeletons of pine trees. Dodge moved his men over to the grassy side of the gulch and told them to head downhill, toward the placid Missouri River. Dodge didn’t trust this blaze. He wanted to be near...
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...NY, 2000-2002) GPA: 3.9 / 4.0 B.S. Business Administration, Middle East Technical University (Ankara, 1996-2000) GPA: 3.7 / 4.0 JOURNAL ARTICLES Eseryel, U. Y., Eseryel, D. (Submitted). Leading by Doing Work: Leadership in Self-Managing Virtual Teams. Crowston, K., Howison, J., Chengetai, M., & Eseryel, U. Y. (2007). A Balancing Act: The role of face-to-face meetings in technology-supported self-organizing distributed teams. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communications, 50(3), 185-203. Crowston, K., Li, Q., Wei, K., Eseryel, U. Y., & Howison, J. (2007). Self-organization of teams in free/libre open source software development. Information and Software Technology Journal, Special Issue on Qualitative Software Engineering Research, 49(6), 564-575. Nicholson, S., Sierra, T., Eseryel, U. Y., Park, J., Barkow, P., Pozo, E., & Ward, J. (2006). How much of it is real? Analysis of paid placement in Web search engine results. Journal for the American Society of Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 57(4). 448-461. (SI factor: 2.1) Eseryel, U. Y., & Wolf, N. (Nov, 2005). Enterprise architecture as a context for ERP implementation. Journal of Enterprise Architecture, 1(2). 7-24. REFEREED BOOK CHAPTERS Eseryel, D., Eseryel, U. Y., & Edmonds, G. S. (2005). Knowledge management and knowledge management...
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..... 4 Recommendations………………………………………………………………………… 10 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………… 11 References………………………………………………………………………………… 12 Introduction The Emirates Airline which is a part of the Emirates Group is presently one of the main airlines in the Middle East. In one week, the airline has close to two thousand two hundred flights traversing across the United Arab Emirates and Dubai. The airline’s head offices and coordination centre is strategically located in Dubai. Other than its supremacy in flight operations in the Middle East, the Emirates Airline is known to serve the longest flights in the entire world. The airline was established after the collapse of Gulf Air in 1985 and is wholly owned and run by the government of Dubai, a constituent country of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) group. Its main activity is offering commercial transportation services which is sub divided into four categories namely: - international which entails providing commercial transportation services amid continents, National which offers transportation services within the United Arab Emirates, Regional which operates within a specified geographical region; usually short haul flights, and Cargo category which involves transportation of goods from one region to another (Porter, 2011). In the recent past, the airline has experienced tremendous growth...
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...Research Paper: The Influence Barbie Dolls Have On Little Girls As a child, many young girls received dolls to play with, and one of the most popular dolls that many mothers give to their child are the Barbie dolls. This Barbie dolls have been made to look like the ideal women with their thin bodies and their perfect faces. Some research has shown that young girls, especially girls from ages five to seven, who play with this Barbie dolls have had body image problems. As Helga Dittmar, Emma Halliwell and Suzanne Ive state in their article " girls from age 5 1/2 to age 6 1/2 years old, that [were exposed to a] Barbie doll [were] significantly depressed [with their] overall body esteem and had discrepancies between [their] actual and ideal body size". In another article, Tara L. Kuther and Erin McDonald wrote that “Barbie dolls are pervasive within [a] girls’ experience and may influence their developing self-concept”. In this following experiment, we’re going to find out if Barbie dolls really do influence the way little girls think of how a women should be. For this experiment we will use twenty little girls from ages five to seven because that's around the age range when little girls start and stop playing with Barbie dolls. These girls would be Americans that come from middle class families who have never played with a Barbie before. We will pick ten random girls to go into a room with the Barbie dolls, the Barbie dolls accessories and the dream house and...
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...management for laboring women, and it is also considered to be a technique that promotes natural childbirth. Hydrotherapy not only provides comfort, but it also promotes physiological childbirth and supports relaxation. Although hydrotherapy is recommended for women, there are eligibility requirements that include the following: healthy pregnant women over 37 weeks of gestation, no complications during pregnancy, a cephalic presentation, and also a single fetus pregnancy (Dykes, Johnson, Frazer, & Hussy, 2017). The following paper will discuss research regarding hydrotherapy, ideal nursing outcomes, and how to promote the use of hydrotherapy in pregnancy. As a vaginal delivery is a painful experience for women, hydrotherapy aims to reduce the pain experienced by women during this special time in their lives. A study completed by Taghavi, Barband, & Khaki (2015), aimed to further explore the use of hydrotherapy on the progress of labor and delivery. One hundred women without any risk factors were utilized as the sample population, and were further divided into fifty...
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...Natarsha Hendricks Professor Slade LIBS 499 5 May 2014 Research Proposal for Senior Research Project Introduction This document details planning and preparation for the Senior Research Project, the capstone requirement in partial fulfillment for the bachelor’s degree in liberal studies at North Carolina A&T State University. Included are an overview of the project, the rationale for choosing this topic, the design of this project, and the methods that will be used to conduct the research. This proposal also includes resources needed to complete this project, and an annotated bibliography that will be used as the core sources for the literature review I will write for the final paper. Overview and Purpose of the Research Project The role of women in combat has changed drastically over the years. Their inclusion in the military has increased followed by their involvement. However, the women are still limited in terms of what roles they are allowed to take. The general stigma against women depicts them as homemakers and their place in combat cannot exceed certain levels such as allowing them in the front line. There are other factors that have been linked to their limitation including their capacity to handle emotions, their need for extended leave when they get pregnant and their overall performance as compared to the men. People are constantly advocating for equal rights in men and women. In a bid to achieve that, women should be encouraged to uptake military positions...
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...Glenn Luther Martin 1886-1955 Joel Alm 9-24-2014 Research Paper-1 AVMA 2211 Glenn Luther Martin was a self-taught pilot, youthful businessman and an inventor whose bombers and flying boats played important roles in WWI, WWII, and for part of the Cold War. Martin was born on January 17, 1886 in Macksburg, Iowa and passed away on December 4, 1955 in Baltimore, Maryland (Encyclopedia). Glenn founded the Glenn L. Martin Company in 1912. In 1916, he merged his company with the original Wright Company, forming the Wright –Martin Aircraft Company. He ended up leaving the Wright-Martin Aircraft Company and founded a second Glenn L. Martin Company in 1917. After his passing, his second company would eventually in 1995 merge with the Lockheed Corporation, forming Lockheed Martin which is a major aerospace and defense contractor still today (Kansas Wesleyan). At the age of two, Martin’s family moved to Kansas so that his father could run a wheat farm (Kansas Wesleyan). Four years later Martin showed a great interest for kites and eventually started designing his own kites. Despite criticism from his friends, people noticed Martin’s kites and would pay him twenty five cents to build one for them. Along with his obsession for kites, Martin would find innovative ways to make everyday activities more interesting. He began using sails for everything: ice skates, wagons, and his bicycle. The Wright Brother’s first flight in 1903 caught Martin’s attention. He was fascinated with their...
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...Julia Child was born in 1912 in Pasadena, California. Her parents were Julia Weston and John McWilliams. She was one of three children. Her parents both attended high learning institutions and definitely were a family of means. Julia’s dad attended Princeton and her maternal grandfather was the “founder of the Weston Paper Company”. (Juliachildfoundation.org, 2016) Julia had the original goal to be a writer for her career, however, that goal did not come to fruition in the way she intended. She did have best-selling books but they were cookbooks rather than the works of fiction she aspired to write in her younger, college years. Julia joined a government agency called the Office of Strategic Services where she started as a typist but later became a research assistant. During her employment with this agency she traveled many places and during her employment she met and fell in love with her husband, Paul Child....
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...University Abstract This paper is an academic critique of an article written by Colella and Gejerman (2013) titled: “Survivorship Health Information Counseling for Patients with Prostate Cancer.” The authors undertook a research study to examine whether specialized discharge education counseling increased prostate cancer patients satisfaction with their care and education related to their chronic health problems after radiation therapy. My examination systematically focuses on specific aspects of the article in terms of process and validity of research methods and results. I have attempted to develop a cohesive and unified explanation which not only expounds the particulars of the research but which also formulates a clear interpretation of that research throughout. I suggest that the lack of communication of the researchers in this article about their methods of sample selecting and data analysis greatly reduces the validity and generalizability of their findings. Critique of Colella & Gejerman’s Study “Survivorship Health Information Counseling for Patients with Prostate Cancer” In their article, “Survivorship Health Information Counseling for Patients with Prostate Cancer,” (Colella & Gejerman, 2013) outline a quasi-experimental research design involving two sample groups (one experimental and one control) of fifty-two males with prostate cancer that had undergone radiation...
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...intro. Nice signposting Discussion I feel the Father, Tony, has determined that some of his children will be given what he feels is a strong supportive and motivating climate to influence them to compete at an elite level in a chosen sport. His reasons for this seem, on the surface, quite selfish. He desires to be the father of an Olympic champion and he thinks if his son becomes a boxing world champion there will be enough money for all of the family to live on. For Venus, that sport is gymnastics where Tony wants Venus to achieve Olympic status. For Romeo, the sport is boxing where Tony wants Romeo to achieve a high profile career leading to a world championship. Yes. Mainly for financial reward it seems. We can draw upon Eccles research concept of...
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