Showing papers by "Georgia College & State University published in 1997"
TL;DR: In this article, the authors validated the use of such models by showing that both issue-contingent variables and individual characteristics affect two commonly-proposed model components: i.e., moral judgment and moral intent.
Abstract: Despite the existence of a large number of models to explain the ethical decision-making process, rarely have the models been tested. This research validated the use of such models by showing that both issue-contingent variables and individual characteristics affect two commonly-proposed model components: i.e., moral judgment and moral intent. As proposed by Jones' (1991) ethical decision-making model and elaborated on by the author, the main effect of an issue-contingent variable, social consensus, and a closely-related variable, seriousness of consequences, influenced both moral judgment and moral intent. Many ethical decision-making models also argue for the inclusion of individual characteristics in the decision-making process. This study proposed and found that the individual characteristics of rule orientation and denial of responsibility influenced moral judgment and moral intent, respectively. However, contrary to some models, interactions between issue-contingent variables and individual characteristics were insignificant relative to the main effects variables. The relationships found have implications for future model testing, as well as for practising managers.
129 citations
TL;DR: This project began as an attempt to explore calculus students' understanding of the chain rule and its applications and led to an extension of the Action-Process-Object-Schema epistemological framework (APOS) which includes a theory of schema development based on ideas of Piaget and Garcia.
124 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed and tested a model of the identification of accounting firms' alumni with their former accounting firm, and found that accounting firm policies that operate while alumni are still employees affect alumni identification, which affects alumni's inclination to benefit their former firm.
Abstract: This research develops and tests a model of the identification of accounting firms' alumni with their former accounting firm. The model encompasses (1) both organizational and individual factors associated with the alumni's identification with their former firm and, in turn, (2) the effect of alumni identification on the alumni's inclination to benefit their former firm (i.e. send business to the firm). The results provide insights into the organizational processes within accounting firms from a perspective not examined by prior literature, namely the perspective of accounting firm alumni. The paper's results support the view that alumni are an important asset for accounting firms. The results also suggest that accounting firms can manage this asset. Accounting firm policies that operate while alumni are still employees affect alumni identification, which in turn affects alumni's inclination to benefit their former firm. In addition, the effort accounting firms expend maintaining their alumni base is also associated with alumni's inclination to benefit their former firm. Future research that examines factors related to accounting firm success (e.g. socialization, mentoring) should also consider perspectives of accounting firm alumni and the benefits that can accrue to the firm after the employee has departed.
118 citations
TL;DR: This article examined 100 top-grossing motion pictures spanning from the 1940s through the 1980s (20 movies from each decade) and found that older female characters would be more unde"epresented, and more negatively portrayed than their male contemporaries.
Abstract: The present study examined 100 top-grossing motion pictures spanning from the 1940s through the 1980s (20 movies from each decade). Eight hundred and twenty-nine characters were rated on attractiveness, character goodness, intelligence, friendliness, socioeconomic status, romantic activity, and movie outcome. It was hypothesized that ageist and sexist stereotypes would interact such that (a) older female characters would be more unde"epresented, and (b) more negatively portrayed, than their male contemporaries. Both hypotheses were supported. Implications regarding double standards for age, and the media's propagation of beauty-related standards for females were discussed.
111 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, both polarized and unpolarized incident beams were used to measure the cross section and tensor analyzing power for beam energies below 80 keV and the experimental details of these measurements are discussed and the data are analyzed to obtain the amplitudes and phases of the contributing transition-matrix elements.
Abstract: The details of a recent experimental study of the ${}^{2}\mathrm{H}(p\ensuremath{\rightarrow},\ensuremath{\gamma}{)}^{3}$He and the ${}^{1}\mathrm{H}(d\ensuremath{\rightarrow},\ensuremath{\gamma}{)}^{3}$He reactions for beam energies below 80 keV are discussed. In this study, both polarized and unpolarized incident beams were used to measure the cross section $\ensuremath{\sigma}(\ensuremath{\theta},E)$, the astrophysical $S$ factor $S(\ensuremath{\theta},E)$, the vector analyzing power ${A}_{y}(\ensuremath{\theta},E)$, and the tensor analyzing power ${T}_{20}(\ensuremath{\theta})$. In addition, the $\ensuremath{\gamma}$-ray linear polarization ${P}_{\ensuremath{\gamma}}(\ensuremath{\theta})$ was measured for an unpolarized incident beam. The experimental details of these measurements are discussed and the data are analyzed to obtain the amplitudes and phases of the contributing transition-matrix elements. The results of our measurements are compared with recent ab initio three-body theoretical calculations. This comparison reveals the large sensitivity of the polarization observables, especially the vector analyzing power ${(A}_{y})$, to the presence of meson-exchange current effects and indicates the need for further study. The tensor analyzing power data $[{T}_{20}(\ensuremath{\theta})$] are used to extract a value of the asymptotic $D$- to $S$-state ratio, $\ensuremath{\eta}$, for ${}^{3}$He.
75 citations
TL;DR: The results suggest that the sham-operated control, posterior parietal cortex-lesioned rats, and medial septal area-LESioned rats were able to navigate effectively under changing task conditions and the navigational performances of the prefrontal cortex- and hippocampal formation-lesion rats were impaired when task demands changed.
63 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how abstract algebra students might come to understand binary operations, groups, and subgroups, expressed in terms of the Action-Process-Object-Schema epistemological framework.
54 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that there are two-dimensional Laplace-Beltrami operators with an arbitrarily large number of spectral gaps, and that the spectrum of such operators is the union of closed intervals.
41 citations
TL;DR: For example, the ratio of women's 1994 median weekly earnings to men's is 76.4% (Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1995, p. 433) as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Journal of Career DeUelopment, Vol. 23(4), Summer 1997 Women’s work patterns have been changing radically over the past several decades. Historically, women who worked outside the home have been employed in traditionally female work roles. These jobs are typically in the low-paying, low-status, clerical, retail, and service sectors and are often labeled &dquo;women’s jobs.&dquo; In comparison, male-dominated occupations are traditionally higher-paying and higher-status jobs than the female-intensive occupations and often labeled &dquo;men’s jobs.&dquo; Male jobs are more numerous and are typically higher in both status and income than are traditional women’s jobs&dquo; (Bee, 1992, p. 289). Occupational segregation has contributed in large part to limitations being placed on the occupational achievement of women, chiefly causing a pay gap between men’s and women’s wages. The ratio of women’s 1994 median weekly earnings to men’s is 76.4% (Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1995, p. 433). This is simply one measure that even 30 years after the passage of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, much work remains to be done to close the earnings gap between men and women.
37 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the Vidale-Wolfe advertising model is considered and sufficient conditions on a generalized time-varying market are given, for which a solution can be found, and the solution is then verified by using the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation on the parametrized problem.
Abstract: The Vidale-Wolfe advertising model is a singular optimal control problem with a non negative control. Sufficient conditions on a generalized time-varying market, for which a solution can be found, are given. Time is parametrized to describe impulsive optimal trajectories in a conventional manner. The solution is then found and verified by using the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation on the parametrized problem.
34 citations
TL;DR: Experimental results showed that groups generated significantly more unique, quality comments than did face-to-face groups, and that participants were significantly more satisfied with that type of meeting, indicating that groups may be able to meet effectively when distributed geographically.
TL;DR: Investigation of the commonly asserted proposition that long term economic changes have put the family in a financial bind finds evidence indicating that the average 1990‘s two-earner family would prefer to receive the 1980’s real wage package (were it available) instead of the real Wage package it actually faces.
Abstract: This paper investigates the commonly asserted proposition that long term economic changes have put the family in a financial bind. Structural parameters of a family utility model are obtained by estimating simultaneous labor supply functions for a two-earner household. We find evidence indicating that the average 1990‘s two-earner family would prefer to receive the 1980‘s real wage package (were it available) instead of the real wage package it actually faces. The degree to which the 1990‘s family is worse off (in terms of the changes in the real wage package) is roughly equivalent to an hour of leisure per week.
TL;DR: The MMPI-168(L) can serve as an objective instrument in the assessment of thought disturbance and personality in mentally retarded persons.
Abstract: Sixty-three persons residing in an institution and diagnosed with mild or moderate mental retardation were assessed with a modification of the MMPI-168. Fifty-one of the residents also had psychiatric disturbances. The residents were divided into three categories on the bases of pre-existing DSM III-R diagnoses. The categories were “psychotic,” “executive control dysfunction,” and “other-control.” Significant differences were observed between the psychotic group and the other-control group on scales F, K, 6, and 8. Reevaluations were conducted four to 22 months later (MDN = 12 months). Significant test–retest reliability was found with scales L, F, K, 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. The MMPI-168(L) can serve as an objective instrument in the assessment of thought disturbance and personality in mentally retarded persons. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Clin Psychol 53: 485–489, 1997.
TL;DR: The results of the present study suggest that over-all cognitive decline with advancing age is not an eventuality, at least among the highly educated, intellectually active individuals.
Abstract: 52 members of the college community at a small liberal arts university (Ages 25-72) were administered a 60-min. battery of tests measuring different aspects of cognitive performance. Stepwise regression equations detected significant relationships between the predictor variables of age and education and measures of the WAIS-R, the Logical Memory subtests and Trails A. Age predicted performance on Trails A, the Digit Symbol subtest of the WAIS-R, the Logical Memory II component of the Wechsler Memory Scale-R, some measures of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, and Full Scale WAIS-R IQ. Education was a significant predictor of performance on the remaining WAIS-R subtests and the Failure. To Maintain Response Sets measure of the card sorting. However, the results of the present study also suggest that over-all cognitive decline with advancing age is not an eventuality, at least among the highly educated, intellectually active individuals.
TL;DR: Lead by Example And Precept (LEAP) as mentioned in this paper is a leadership development program for social fraternities and sororities to develop lifelong leadership competencies in undergraduate members.
Abstract: Colleges and universities are establishing courses and programs to promote leadership development. In fact, there is evidence that the college experience is associated with increases in leadership skills. Furthermore, there is evidence that being a member of a social fraternity or sorority develops your leadership skills more than a nonmember. Accordingly, a social fraternity is launching a new, comprehensive leadership development program for its members and leaders -- called Lead by Example And Precept (LEAP) - to introduce, develop, and recognize lifelong leadership competencies in undergraduate members to prepare these students to be leaders for the world in which they will live.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the Wolfenstein-Gerstein effect to determine the doublet and quartet fusion rates in the presence of deuterons of 40 keV (80 keV).
Abstract: Data obtained from studies of the $p(d\ensuremath{\rightarrow},\ensuremath{\gamma}{)}^{3}\mathrm{He}$ and the $d(p\ensuremath{\rightarrow},\ensuremath{\gamma}{)}^{3}\mathrm{He}$ reactions have been used to extract the transition amplitudes corresponding to $S=1/2$ (doublet) and $S=3/2$ (quartet) $M1$ radiative capture. Protons (deuterons) of 40 keV (80 keV) were stopped in ${\mathrm{D}}_{2}\mathrm{O}$ $({\mathrm{H}}_{2}\mathrm{O})$ ice targets. Angular distributions of $\ensuremath{\sigma}$, ${A}_{y},$ ${T}_{20},$ ${P}_{\ensuremath{\gamma}}$, and ${\mathrm{iT}}_{11}$ were fit simultaneously in terms of the four possible $E1$ $p$-wave capture amplitudes and the two $(S=1/2$ and $3/2)$ possible $M1$ $s$-wave capture amplitudes. The results obtained at ${E}_{\mathrm{cm}}=23.3$ keV indicate that the $S=1/2$ $M1$ capture cross section is 13.77 $\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}$ 0.66 nb, while the $S=3/2$ $M1$ capture cross section is 6.74 $\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}$ 0.44 nb. These results agree with the predictions of a recent three-body theoretical calculation which includes two-body currents [e.g., meson-exchange currents (MEC's)]. They also agree with the previous experimental determination of the doublet and quartet fusion rates obtained using the Wolfenstein-Gerstein effect to vary the relative population of $S=1/2$ and $3/2$ nuclear spins in the $\ensuremath{\mu}$-$p$-$d$ molecule prior to fusion.
TL;DR: The current investigation explored the effects of piperoxane, an a2 noradrenergic receptor antagonist, on the performance of 18- and 24-month-old rats in the Morris water maze and a step-down passive avoidance task.
Abstract: The noradrenergic system of the locus coeruleus has been implicated in a variety of processes including reinforcement, attention, and acquisition and retention of learned behaviors. Its dense projections, some of which are shared by the cholinergic system, provide an ideal network within which to study the cognitive impairments related to aging. The current investigation explored the effects of piperoxane, an a2 noradrenergic receptor antagonist, on the performance of 18-and 24-month-old rats in the Morris water maze and a step-down passive avoidance task. Piperoxane injections (3 mg/kg, IP) facilitated the performance of the 18-month-old animals to levels comparable to those of the 8-month-old saline controls in constant-start, novel-start, and goal rotation testing variations of the Morris water maze. With the exception of the 24-month-old saline control group, all rats displayed retention on the step-down passive-avoidance task when tested 24 hours after training.
TL;DR: In this article, the validity of the MMPI-168(L) was examined by correlating T scores obtained on the scales of this instrument with the results of an 8-item "Behavioral Survey."
Abstract: Fifty-three persons residing in an institution and diagnosed with mild or moderate mental retardation were assessed with a modification of the MMPI-168. Forty-one of the residents also had psychiatric diagnoses. Construct validity of the MMPI-168(L) was examined by correlating T scores obtained on the scales of this instrument with the results of an 8-item "Behavioral Survey." The survey required unit clinicians to rate the severity of behavioral disturbance in eight categories. Six of the items on the "Behavioral Survey" were found to correlate with one or more MMPI scales. Stepwise multiple regression procedures revealed additional collective relations between elevations on the MMPI and ratings of behavioral disturbance.
TL;DR: A slowly growing lesion of the rostral mandible of a goat was diagnosed to be a septic dentigerous cyst and treated surgically to remove one displaced tooth and debride the cystic cavity.
Abstract: A slowly growing lesion of the rostral mandible of a goat was diagnosed to be a septic dentigerous cyst. The lesion was treated surgically to remove one displaced tooth and debride the cystic cavity, and systemic antibiotic therapy was applied. Thirty-four weeks later the goat was clinically and radiographically improved and the problem had not recurred.
TL;DR: An example of a health care program which exemplifies one such proposal for health care reform is discussed, and findings of a recent research project that is relative to the benefits of such a program are provided.
Abstract: Biting behavior occurs frequently among young children in child care settings Research indicates several possible reasons for biting behavior including developmental as well as emotional issues This study examines procedures that have been established to handle childhood biting by early childhood education child care facilities in a southeastern state of the United States We were interested in whether these child care providers considered biting a normal developmental behavior or an abnormal, dysfunctional behavior Additionally, how did their philosophy about childhood biting relate to their handling of biting incidents in their facilities?
01 Jan 1997
TL;DR: The authors presentó ponencias sobre la obra de Federico Garcia Lorca, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, editado by Cecilia Lee and publicado by the Fundación Universidad Central de Colombia.
Abstract: Ha publicado los siguientes articulos: "El subalterno en Cortazar," en la Revista de Estudios Hispanicos de la U. de Puerto Rico; y "El mundo mitico y magico de Salvador Dali. Con "Ortega y Freud para crear orden del caos," en Literatura, arte, historia y mito en la obra de Carlos Rojas, editado por Cecilia Lee y publicado por la Fundacion Universidad Central de Colombia. Tambien ha presentado ponencias sobre la obra de Federico Garcia Lorca, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso y Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Actualmente esta completando un trabajo sobre el poscolonialismo y la literatura cubana posrrevolucionaria.