How Participation in Student-run Media Impacts a College Student\u27s Sense of Self-Efficacy: A Transcendental Phenomenological Study

The purpose of this transcendental phenomenological study was to discover and understand college students’ perceptions of the ways their lived experiences while participating in college student-run media have impacted their sense of self-efficacy. The central research question was, what are college student perceptions of how participation in college student-run media impacts their sense of self-efficacy? Bandura’s social cognitive theory of self-regulation, which explains how an individual’s environment, behavior, and personal factors combine and intertwine to produce feelings of self-efficacy, was used as the framework for this study. Purposeful sampling was used to select full-time students that had worked at least one semester on staff in a college, student-run media service, and were still active. The study site was a single, medium-sized college of approximately 7,678 students in the Mid-Atlantic United States. The participants for this study had primary editorial control over the content of the media productions they managed. Data were collected through individual interviews, individual media projects, and observations of related media group activities. The data were then analyzed using both Creswell’s and Moustakas’s procedures to identify the essence of the lived experiences. The central research question served to discover and understand participant perceptions of how college student-run media participation impacted self-efficacy. Subquestions included how participants described the environmental, behavioral, and personal factors related to that lived experience. The resulting data discovered three major themes supporting Bandura’s theory regarding how environmental, behavioral, and personal factors have a strong positive perceived effect on self-efficacy resulting from participation

The women characters in Schiller's dramas

TypescriptM.A. University of Missouri 1907It is the confirmed opinion of the majority of critics that Schiller's genius proclaimed itself in the portrayal of strong, manly, and heroic characters, and that the tenderness, gentleness, and delicateness of his female characters were for him a background for the stronger types of the opposite sex. Be that as it may, their realism and accurate characterization make them equally as important as the more dominant male characters, and worthy of the most careful study. It is my purpose in this paper to prove that Schiller's superior mental ability is also shown in his feminine characters. Although they play minor parts in the greater number of his dramas, they are just as precisely and correctly drawn as his principal characters. They will be a fresh source of interest and instruction for succeeding generations, and a lasting monument to his wonderful genius because of their trueness to life and the intensely human emotions which govern their lives and actions.Includes bibliographical reference

An introduction to the calculus of variations

The development of the theory of the calculus of variations has from the beginning been closely connected with that of the differential and integral calculus. Many of the methods of the latter are applicable to the calculus of variations

A Program Model for Latino Family Support Services at the University of North Carolina Craniofacial Center

Latino patients face many challenges when seeking health care because of sociocultural, financial, and language barriers, which influence the overall level of support for a family within and outside of the health care system. At the University of North Carolina Craniofacial Center (UNC CFC), Latino families have identified a desire to connect with other Latino parents who have children with craniofacial differences and have also requested improvements in the Spanish craniofacial educational materials. The provision of these supports, in theory, will augment the Latino's ability to successfully coordinate and cope with their child's care. This paper designs a program plan and an evaluation plan for social and informational support services for the Latino patient families seen at the UNC CFC. The program includes the implementation of a bimonthly Spanish-speaking support group and the utilization of services through the Family Support Network of North Carolina to increase social support and subsequent volunteering of Latino families. To increase the informational support for the families, the program includes planned viewing times for a Spanish cleft lip and/or palate video as well as provision of Spanish craniofacial booklets manufactured by the Cleft Palate Foundation. An initial assessment of the program will include a qualitative evaluation of the implementation of the program, and will include examination of records of service utilization and Latino parent focus groups. Future evaluations of longer-term outcomes will include pre- and post- intervention surveys of the Latino parents receiving the services, and informal interviews with UNC CFC staff members. If this project successfully creates a supportive social and educational environment for the parents and families of Latino patients, it can serve as a model for culturally appropriate support programs to be implemented within other fields in health care.Master of Public Healt

The SWAG Method

The SWAG Method is an acronym for the Scientific Wild Ass Guess. The notion of a life determined by the SWAG Method appealed greatly. The SWAG Method is a logical way of life. We try to be accurate. We try to be forthright, honest, and good. We try to obey the girl scout laws. To do the best job possible within the realm of human error. But beyond a certain point we must rely on a SWAG. Even science has proven as much. That which was predictable and everlasting proved random . Chaos in a pendulum, randomness in a fixed state. Science relies on proven theories and fixed constants. After a certain point the SWAG method comes into play. The perfection hypothesis is proven unobtainable. But even in Chaos theory this newly proven randomness has a geometric structure of its own. A SWAG within a SWAG.&nbsp; The SWAG Method accurately describes a convenient prescription for everyday existence. The mundane easily replaces the sublime. Social obligations and moral concerns are a farce. The roach crawling across the kitchen floor, the newest edition of the Enquirer, Elvis' transcendence are more important, more intimate then worldly endeavors. The lofty ideal of ART as Savior perishes. Gravity keeps us firmly anchored to the ground. The SWAG Method examines our humanness, the acceptance and tolerance, the celebration and shame of what this culture has created. &nbsp;</p

Factors Influencing Water Heating Energy Use And Peak Demand In A Large Scale Residential Monitoring Study

A load research project by the Florida Power Corporation (FPC) is monitoring 204 residences in Central Florida, collecting detailed end-use load data. The monitoring is being performed to better estimate the impact of FPC\u27s load control program, as well as obtain improved appliance energy consumption indexes and load profiles. A portion of the monitoring measures water heater energy use and demand in each home on a 15-minute basis. The paper summarizes the various impacts identified on water heating energy use and demand