Writing The Literature Review Section: Teaching Undergraduate Psychology Students Scientific Writing

Many undergraduate psychology students write the literature review section of a scientific paper as a list of summaries without direction or coherence. This paper proposes to teach students to write the literature review section as an argument instead of following the traditional hourglass metaphor approach

Service innovation, perceived values, and post-purchase behavior

Abstract. In this conceptual paper, we argue that service innovation can generate positive impacts on post-purchase behavior only when customer’s perceived values of the product/service increases. That is, perceived value is a mediating, necessary condition for service innovation’s consequences in consumer behavior. Theoretical and practical implications are offered. Keywords. Service innovation, Value perception, Repurchase.JEL. M30, M31, M32, L84

Service innovation, experience marketing, and post-purchase behavior: The case of Team working in a direct marketing organization

Abstract. Service innovation has been an emerging and important topic in Management and Marketing research. This paper conceptually and logically discusses the impact that service innovation can make on consumers’ post-purchasing behavior. It is argued that service innovation can influence on customer re-purchasing, indirectly, through experience marketing. Theoretical and practical implications are offeredKeywords. Service innovation, Experience marketing, Value perception, Repurchase.JEL. M30, M31, M32, L84

READERS’ KNOWLEDGE OF FUNCTIONAL DEVICES

Various writing devices are designed to serve specialized purposes or “functions” to aid readers in their processing of a text. For example, an index lists important topics in the book and allows the readers to quickly locate the pages relevant to a particular topic. The purpose of this study was to learn what mature readers know about various functional devices. Two experiments were conducted to learn what readers know about functional devices in texts. Experiment 1 investigated readers’ knowledge about functional writing devices and Experiment 2 examined readers’ beliefs about the relevance of functional writing devices in various reading situations. At the end of the experiments, a list of functional writing devices and their respective usage was created from the results of Experiment 1 & 2. The information obtained could be useful for education purposes and also future studies on the effects of function identifying signals on cognition

EFFECTS OF HEADINGS ON PROCESSING OF AUDIO TEXTS

Text-to-speech devices often do a poor job of translating signals such as headings from visual into audio mode. Previous research studies have attempted to address this problem but these studies have mainly used heading detection tasks. The current study seeks to investigate 1) whether listeners find the presence of audio headings useful in natural learning tasks, and 2) the type of heading rendering that is most useful in natural learning tasks. The three learning tasks in this study include note-taking, cued recall, and knowledge transfer. Results from this study reveal that listeners find audio headings useful in the note-taking task. It is less clear how audio headings affect cued recall and knowledge transfer, but there is some evidence that a rendering strategy which conveys audio contrast plus other types of signaling information seems to facilitate cued recall performance

Quantum dot behavior in graphene nanoconstrictions

Graphene nanoribbons display an imperfectly understood transport gap. We measure transport through nanoribbon devices of several lengths. In nanoribbons of length greater than or equal to 250 nm we observe transport through multiple quantum dots in series, while shorter constrictions of length less than or equal to 60 nm display behavior characteristic of single and double quantum dots. Dot size scales with constriction width. We propose a model where transport occurs through quantum dots that are nucleated by background disorder potentials in the presence of a confinement gap.Comment: published version: 24 pages, 9 figures (includes supplementary information