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The effects of mortality-salience inducing direct-to-consumer prescription drug commercials on viewer attitude toward high and low status brands

The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file.Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on November 13, 2009).Thesis advisor: Dr. Glenn Leshner.M.A. University of Missouri--Columbia 2009.This research sought to understand whether or not direct-to-consumer prescription drug ads (DTC ads) made people think about their own death (referred to as mortality salience) and what effects these thoughts had on people's opinions of brands of varying status. Study 1 used a free-writing questionnaire to collect brands. Study 2 used scales to rate participant attitude toward 12 DTC ads. Study 2 showed the the ads for Cymbalta and Plavix made people the most anxious; the ads for Detrol LA and Crestor made people the least anxious. Study 3 used word completions to measure for mortality salience. Study 3 also provided additional brand ratings. Study 4 used a lexical decision task to measure for mortality salience; results showed that participants who watched the ads for Cymbalta and Plavix responded faster to death words. The status of brand had no effect on how participants rated the brand. Additional signal detection analysis showed participants to be less sensitive to death words after watching the Cymbalta and Plavix ads. Participant criterion bias did not vary across word type or between condition.Includes bibliographical references

American Association of Public Accountants (1908)

As published on pp. 116-124, Twenty-First Anniversary Year-Book, (1908) of the American Association of Public Accountants (AAPA), forerunner of the American Institute of CPAs, these two addresses were presented at the AAPA annual banquet on October 22, 1908 by Thos. Cullen Roberts, Secretary of the Association and by James G. Cannon

Evaluation of the University of Warwick's outreach programme, UniTracks : The Warwick Young Achievers' Programme : Report 5 : The Big Deal Enterprise Challenge, 2017

Executive Summary The Big Deal Enterprise Challenge is a central element of the University of Warwick’s UniTracks programme. The Big Deal offers Y10 school students who are members of UniTracks, and attend one of the partner schools, a ten week programme where school teams create and develop a business or social enterprise idea with the support of a business mentor. The competition is organised by the Warwick Business School (WBS), in conjunction with the educational charity, the Brightside Trust. For the Big Deal 201711 partner schools put forward teams, each of which had a maximum of five UniTracks members. The competition was a ten week programme, starting with a residential Launch Days at the University of Warwick on Friday 13thJanuary-Saturday, 14thJanuary. This was followed by ten weeks of weekly tasks, mentored via an online resource, and an additional face-to-face mentoring session in the schools, before the Big Deal final, held at the University on Monday, 27th March. The evaluation collected data from the participating young people, using questionnaires delivered at the Launch Days in January, and after the end of the competition, in addition to telephone interviews with a sample of the participants. Observations were also made at the Launch Days by an evaluation researcher. Evaluation data was also gathered, using interviews, from business mentors, school staff, and the Brightside Trust. Brightside also provided the evaluation with data collected via the blogs platform, relating to engagement levels and self-assessment completed by the participants. Findings are presented here relating to each data source, and two recommendations are made. The recommendations relate to: The role of schools and school staff. The gender and ethnicity balance of the Big Deal cohort

NLO Cross Sections for the LHC using GOLEM: Status and Prospects

In this talk we review the GOLEM approach to one-loop calculations and present an automated implementation of this technique. This method is based on Feynman diagrams and an advanced reduction of one-loop tensor integrals which avoids numerical instabilities. We have extended our one-loop integral library golem95 with an automated one-loop matrix element generator to compute the virtual corrections of the process $q\bar{q}\to b\bar{b}b\bar{b}$. The implementation of the virtual matrix element has been interfaced with tree-level Monte Carlo programs to provide the full result for the above process.Comment: 8 pages, 1 figure, contribution to the proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Radiative Corrections (RADCOR 2009), October 25-30 2009, Ascona, Switzerlan

Evaluation of the University of Warwick's outreach programme, UniTracks : The Warwick Young Achievers' Programme : Report 7 : E-mentoring, 2016-2017

The first offering of the E-Mentoring programme to Year 12 members of UniTracks was a success. The launch event (‘Meet the Mentors and Mentees’), the Brightside e-mentoring platform, and the process of mentoring were all successful elements of the programme. In addition, there was evidence from the mentee interviews that the process of mentoring had strengthen mentees’ attitudes in respect of their academic work, understanding of university, and ability to make informed choices about degree and university choices

Evaluation of the University of Warwick's outreach programme, UniTracks : The Warwick Young Achievers' Programme : Report 6: 'Shooting the Past', 2017

Shooting the Past 2017 was a successful, well appreciated offering for Year 10 members of UniTracks. After the miscarried attempt to offer Shooting the Past in 2016, changes made to the project enabled it to run alongside the long-established The Big Deal Enterprise Challenge in 2017. The young people involved welcomed having a choice of project in their first year as UniTracks’ members, and Shooting the Past should now be seen as a good alternative to the Big Deal. The young people, responsible school staff, and student ambassadors all reported positively on the experience of the project. Highlights for the young people included the residential Launch Days at the University of Warwick, the visit to a local archive, and the chance to research, write, film, edit, and present a documentary film

The Relationship Between Interleukin-6 in Saliva, Venous and Capillary Plasma, at Rest and in Response to Exercise

IL-6 plays a mechanistic role in conditions such as metabolic syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome and clinical depression and also plays a major role in inflammatory and immune responses to exercise. The purpose of this study was to investigate the levels of resting and post exercise IL-6 when measured in venous plasma, saliva and capillary plasma. Five male and five females completed 2 separate exercise trials, both of which involved standardized exercise sessions on a cycle ergometer. Venous blood and saliva samples were taken immediately before and after Trial A, venous and capillary blood samples were taken immediately before and after Trial B. IL-6 values were obtained using a high-sensitivity enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). In Trial A venous plasma IL-6 increased significantly from 0.4. 0.14. pg/ml to 0.99 0.29. pg/ml (. P<. 0.01) while there was no increase in salivary IL-6. Venous plasma and salivary IL-6 responses were not correlated at rest, post exercise or when expressed as an exercise induced change. In Trial B venous and capillary plasma IL-6 increased significantly (venous: 0.22. ±. 0.18 to 0.74. ±. 0.28. pg/ml; capillary: 0.37. ±. 0.22 to 1.08. ±. 0.30. pg/ml (. P<. 0.01). Venous and capillary plasma responses did not correlate at rest (. r=. 0.59, P=. 0.07) but did correlate post exercise (. r=. 0.79) and when expressed as an exercise induced change (. r=. 0.71, P=. 0.02). Saliva does not appear to reflect systemic IL-6 responses, either at rest or in response to exercise. Conversely, capillary plasma responses are reflective of systemic IL-6 responses to exercise. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd