Brief Note Growth Analysis for Aging: Female Great Horned Owl

Author Institution: Department of Zoology, Miami Universit

Elazar\u27s Political Culture: Is It Applicable Today?

This thesis examines the utility of Daniel J. Elazar’s political culture, developed in 1%6. Dr. Ira Sharkansky conceptualized Elazar’s political culture in 1969 by applying measures pertaining to participation; size and perquisites of bureaucracy; and scope, magnitude, costs, and innovative character of government programs. He used simple correlation, Pearson’s r, to determine whether political culture had any influence on the 23 dependent variables that he arranged under the three different measures. Then, he tested for partial correlation, using per capita personal income and the percentage of the population living in areas considered “urban” as controlling variables. Finally, he tested the variables which were found significant at the .05 level, along with his scale of political culture, to see if the scale persists across regional demarcations using analysis of covariance. This paper replicated these measures for two years, 1996 and 1997, using data from the Statistical Abstract, and compared it to Sharkansky’s study. The hypothesis was that the Traditionalistic culture Sharkansky was studying had changed over time due to changes in southern political culture as a result of increased urbanism and migration from the North. However, this study proves that certain measures still show negative correlations that are consistent with Sharkansky’s study. Future research should take into consideration a closer examination of the variables used in this study

Innate Principles and the Digital Object: Insights from Core Knowledge Theory

Psychology research reveals that humans possess innate principles that govern how we make sense of objects and object-directed actions. These principles are embedded in interrelated systems of core knowledge that shape behavior. This paper theorizes how the innate principles embedded in two core knowledge systems—the system of object representation and the agent system—play a crucial role in shaping how a technology user conceives of and carries out an object-directed action through a digital object and its embedded features. The theorization is instantiated in the context of IS research through a framework we call the user-object action scene, which comprises four interrelated elements: the user, the goal-object/goal-agent, the object-approach, and the goal environment. We conclude by encouraging IS researchers to revisit established IS theories through the lens of innate principles, and provide guidance on how to use innate principles to reexamine two IS theories: technology acceptance and technostress

Learning and Team Attributes in an Enterprise Systems Simulation

A team-based enterprise systems simulation is used in an MBA class to enhance students’ knowledge of business processes and enterprise systems’ capabilities. Before the simulation begins, and after each distinct phase of the simulation exercise, student perceptions regarding individual learning and team attributes are assessed. The authors then investigate the relationship between team performance, individual knowledge, team attributes, and the simulation phase. All teams showed a similar increase in business process knowledge and enterprise systems skill as the simulation progressed to more advanced phases, while some behavioral attributes – such as team potency and individual satisfaction – appeared relatively constant across simulation phases but differ significantly depending on the team’s performance. Other attributes, such as role clarity and the number of within-team interactions, appeared to change over time more for certain types of teams than for others

On Technostress and Emotion: A Narrative Approach

Emotion in the context of technostress has been treated by IS researchers as highly general and vague. Little is therefore known about how individuals experience specific emotions when undergoing technostress. This paper is a first step towards understanding how to uncover the relationship between technostress (more specifically techno-stressors) and emotion through a narrative approach. Drawing on The Holistic Technostress Model as a theoretical foundation, and guided by research on psychological stress and emotion, the paper advocates for using emotion narratives to create stories about how emotions are experienced during stressful situations involving technology. The paper illustrates how six hypothetical emotion narratives related to technostress: anger, envy, relief, hope, happiness-joy, and pride. The paper also discusses how IS researchers can use emotion narratives in a variety of empirical studies, such as in survey and qualitative research designs and mixed-methods approaches

Phylogenetic Relationships of Reverse Transcriptase and RNase H Sequences and Aspects of Genome Structure in the Gypsy Group of Retrotransposons

The gypsy group of long-terminal-repeat retrotransposons contains elements having the same order of enzyme domains in the pol gene as do retroviruses. Elements in the gypsy group are now known from yeast, filamentous fungi, plants, insects, and echinoids. Reverse transcriptase and RNase H amino acid sequences from elements in the gypsy group--including the recently described SURL elements, TED, Cft1, and Ulysses,--were aligned and analyzed by using parsimony and bootstrapping methods, with plant caulimoviruses and/or retroviruses as outgroups. Clades supported at the 95% level after bootstrapping include (1) 17.6 with 297 and (2) all of the SURL elements together. Other likely relationships supported at lower bootstrap confidence intervals include (1) SURL elements with mag, (2) 17.6 and 297 with TED, and this collective group with 412 and gypsy, (3) Tf1 with Cft1, (4) IFG7 with Del, and (5) all of the retrotransposons in the gypsy group together, to the exclusion of Ty3. In contrast with an earlier analysis, our results place mag within the gypsy group rather than outside of a cluster that contains gypsy group retrotransposons and plant caulimoviruses. Several features of retrotransposon genomes provide further support for some of the aforementioned relationships. The union of SURL elements with mag is supported by the presence of two RNA binding sites in the nucleocapsid protein. Location of the tRNA primer binding site and the presence of a long open reading frame 3' to the pol gene support the 17.6-297-TED-412-gypsy cluster