Random permutations and unique fully supported ergodicity for the Euler adic transformation

There is only one fully supported ergodic invariant probability measure for the adic transformation on the space of infinite paths in the graph that underlies the Eulerian numbers. This result may partially justify a frequent assumption about the equidistribution of random permutations.Comment: 12 pages, 7 figures, to appear Ann. Inst. H. Poincar\'e Prob. and Sta

Advancing the determinants of risky decision behaviour using conjoint and multi-level moderated mediation analysis

Investment decision-making is an everyday activity within society. When these decisions involve innovation and require a willingness to innovate, additional complexities arise concerning uncertainty and decision irreversibility. This thesis investigates to what extent predictions of investment decision-making behaviour may be made based upon how varying levels of uncertainty and irreversibility affect perceptions of risk, how this may affect decision behaviour and how the strength of this effect may vary depending upon decision-maker risk propensity. In doing so, this thesis addresses important gaps found to exist at an intersection of the theory of innovation diffusion, the basic theory of irreversible investment under uncertainty and prospect theory. The research methodology employed for this purpose comprises full-profile conjoint value analysis and multi-level moderated mediation analysis. An online survey comprising ten conjoint tasks enables the conjoint analysis and provides the means to measure both perceptions of risk and risk propensity. The online survey itself relies upon an established case study titled ‘Carter Racing’. The results of this research find that a comprehensive set of relationships exist among the variables in question, from which valid and useful predictions may be made. Where a risk-averse relationship is shown to exist between decision-making behaviour and measures of uncertainty and irreversibility, it can also be shown that these relationships are exerted through and explained by perceptions of risk, with decision-maker risk propensity serving to influence the strength of the effects. In these cases, a significant positive correlation is observed between perceptions of risk and both uncertainty and irreversibility. A significant negative correlation is also observed between perceptions of risk and a willingness to innovate, this being the means through which innovativeness is measured. However, where a risk-seeking relationship is shown to exist, no significant correlations or effects are observed. These findings have important implications for theory and practice

Turbulent Bodies: Disruptive Materiality in American Painting, 1880-1940

This study historicizes the physical processes of painting of the American artists Winslow Homer (1836-1910), Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847-1917), and John Marin (1870-1953). It situates their practices in the context of late-nineteenth and twentieth-century American culture by thinking of painting as a phenomenal experience shaped by beliefs and attitudes towards the material world and the function of painting. More specifically, this study examines what I identify as these artists\u27 struggles, in selected paintings, with the viscous and voluptuous nature of oil painting as a process rooted in the visceral world of the body and base materials. In these works, the artists struggled with paint as a resistant yet seductive substance in ways that disrupted aesthetic practices and threatened fundamental attitudes towards art and physical experience. These material conflicts, in turn, generated metaphysical conflicts inflected by shifting beliefs and anxieties concerning the relationship between the mind, body, and matter in American culture, manifested in developments in philosophy, science, and literature that challenged fundamental attitudes towards the self, nature, and experience

Dissimilarities in Adventist Church Member Belief and Behavior across the Globe.

Do global Adventist church member beliefs and behaviors reflect this strictness across widely varying cultural ecosystems? Using a cultural ecosystem approach, we demonstrate that similarities and differences between Adventist church members in thirteen World Divisions of the General Conferences are influenced by global cultural pattern

Social Support and Fundamentalism: Predictors of Religious Internalization

We analyzed the relationships between religious internalization and social support, religious fundamentalism, and motivation for Divine and human relationships. 306 respondents from a religiously-affiliated university were recruited to completed an online survey. Our results suggested Divine relationships were most related to identification while fundamentalism was most related to introjection

Domestic Violence, Cognition and the Church

Recognizing and building upon the advances the church has made, regarding raising awareness of DV as a problem for our members and our congregations, this session will utilize a cognitive model to inform next steps to inform behavioral change efforts. A multi-step model, building on current change efforts in our churches and communities, will be discussed