Kent State University

About: Kent State University is a education organization based out in Kent, Ohio, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Liquid crystal & Population. The organization has 10897 authors who have published 24607 publications receiving 720309 citations. The organization is also known as: Kent State & KSU.

Soap opera viewing patterns of college students and cultivation

Abstract: This study replicated and extended previous research that investigated the contribution of soap opera viewing motives to cultivation. A survey method was employed to measure soap opera viewing motives, attitudes, behaviors, and cultivation perceptions of 313 college student soap opera viewers. Contrary to the assumptions of the cultivation hypothesis, the limited cultivation effect observed was related to more instrumental soap opera viewing motives, as well as higher soap opera viewing levels, longer viewing duration, and higher levels of affinity and perceived realism.

Chronic loneliness and television use

Abstract: The study examined how chronic loneliness influenced local news and soap opera viewing. We hypothesized that chronic loneliness relates to reduced interpersonal interaction, increased electronic media use, and passive television use. The discriminant analysis distinguished chronic loneliness from nonloneli‐ness by: (a) lesser use of interpersonal channels and greater use of electronic media channels, especially television and movies; and (b) pass time viewing motivation. We discussed the implications of the results and related the findings to the links between personal and mediated communication.

Minijet deformation and charge-independent angular correlations on momentum subspace (eta, phi) in Au-Au collisions at root S-NN=130 GeV

Abstract: Measurements of two-particle correlations on angular difference variables η1 − η2 (pseudorapidity) and φ1 − φ2 (azimuth) are presented for all primary charged hadrons with transverse momentum 0.15 ≤ p_t ≤ 2 GeV/c and |η| ≤ 1.3 from Au-Au collisions at √s_(NN) = 130 GeV. Large-amplitude correlations are observed over a broad range in relative angles where distinct structures appear on the same-side and away-side (i.e., relative azimuth less than π/2 or greater than π/2). The principal correlation structures include that associated with elliptic flow plus a strong, same-side peak. It is hypothesized that the latter results from correlated hadrons associated with semi-hard parton scattering in the early stage of the heavy-ion collision which produces a jet-like correlation peak at small relative angles. The width of the jet-like peak on η1 − η2 increases by a factor 2.3 from peripheral to central collisions, suggesting strong coupling of semi-hard scattered partons to a longitudinally-expanding medium. The new methods of jet analysis introduced here provide access to scattered partons at low transverse momentum well below the kinematic range where perturbative quantum chromodynamics and standard fragmentation models are applicable.