On Cultural Polymathy: How Visual Thinking, Culture, and Community Create a Platform for Progress

Within the last decade, the commingling of art and science has reached a critical mass. Science has long infused the arts with curiosity for natural phenomena and human behavior. New models for producing knowledge have given rise to interaction and collaboration across the globe, along with a renewed Renaissance

Functional Space Management in the Hospitality Industry and Its Future Outlook

In recent years, profit made from ancillary revenues has become more vital to the success of service companies. This phenomenon is very pronounced in the airline industry, but is also beginning to become more relevant to hotels as it is applied to functional space and meetings. Most of these ancillary revenues, including meetings, are typically not considered an important source of revenue for hotels, but rather as tools to draw in primary activities. This thesis seeks to delve into the importance of the meetings industry to the economy and to the hospitality industry by considering underutilized functional space and customer preferences. It explores new technologies, selected industry competitors, risks that hotels face by entering this market. This analysis concludes with the future outlook of the meetings industry and recommendations for hotels participating in or entering the industry

What is the Effect of Social Capital on Community Resiliency Against Social Decay?

This thesis builds off of the work of Robert Putnam and Charles Murray by using a fixed effects regression model and a first difference regression model to see if there is a relationship between the number of community institutions within a county and that county’s resiliency against social decay. Historically, it has been difficult to determine if there is a causal relationship in either direction between these variables because they are endogenous. That is, the underlying factors that determine whether a county will have low levels of social capital also determine whether the same county will have high levels of social decay. For example, income level is strongly correlated with both variables, and even if one controls for income level, it is difficult to control for the advantages that come with being wealthy and lead to higher levels of social capital. Due to this, it is difficult to say whether a higher income level leads to more social capital and increased resiliency against decay simultaneously, or if higher social capital itself causes increased resiliency. This thesis counteracts this endogeneity by introducing an exogeneous factor into the data, the decline in manufacturing employment. Using data primarily from the Census Bureau, Pennsylvania State’s Northeast Center for Rural Development, and the China Shock Project, I find that there is little evidence for any relationship between social capital and resiliency against social decay. The one exception to this is religious organizations, for which a clear, positive effect exists across multiple variables and both regression models. Further research should focus on different approaches to measuring social capital and expand the scope of this thesis by including additional variables, as well as by using survey data about community participation instead of relying on the number of institutions in an area

Forest - Atmosphere Interaction at Howland Forest

The overall goal of the proposed work is to understand the various (and interacting) impacts of a changing climate on carbon cycling at the Howland AmeriFlux site, representative of an important component of the North American boreal forest. Our focus is on quantitatively partitioning respiration into aboveground and belowground processes and into autotrophic and heterotrophic processes to better constrain carbon cycle models. Whole-ecosystem flux measurements generally do a poor job of separating photosynthetic uptake from respiration and cannot constrain (or assign) respiration to the different sources within an ecosystem. This partitioning is difficult, but we will take advantage of new promising technologies. Such partitioning of fluxes into individual processes can provide powerful multiple constraints to carbon cycle models because of the different pool sizes, locations, and time scales for which these processes are important. By participating in data-model comparison activities such as the North American Carbon Program (NACP) site-level syntheses, and by carrying out our own data-model fusion and uncertainty studies, we will insure that data and insights from this work directly contribute to advancing carbon cycle science

La Quita Dail to Mr. Meredith (1 October 1962)

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/mercorr_pro/1367/thumbnail.jp

My CEO has an Instagram? An analysis of Fortune 500 CEO’s personal Instagram accounts

As social media evolves and changes, so does the need to be more active online. This need also applies to CEOs who have a direct pipeline to consumers. What CEOs post can have an impact on their organization and give a greater understanding as to who they are as a person, not just as a business leader. In this quantitative study, Fortune 500 CEO Instagram accounts are analyzed to better understand the overall theme of the content they are posting. It was found that the most popular styles posted on these accounts was personal posts and company/CEO/industry news and events. This information could be used to influence the way other CEOs utilize their Instagram accounts

Ethical image in the rhetoric of Gary Hart

To many voters, the words make the man. Many voters interpret the personality projected by a politician\u27s speech as the candidate\u27s real self. Since the age of Plato, speakers have manipulated this projected personality, called ethical image by rhetoricians, to favorably display good sense, good moral character, and good will towards the audience

A post-positivist study of the experience of parenting from a strengths perspective

In an effort to explore the multi-faceted subject of parenting in a more holistic manner, a post-positivist model of research was utilized for this study of the experience of parenting from a strengths perspective. Twelve parents were interviewed in-depth, exploring their experiences of having been parented and their experiences of parenting their own children