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Kent State University
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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.
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TL;DR: The unique low-angle x-ray diffraction patterns in the nematic phases exhibited by three rigid bent-core mesogens clearly reveal their biaxiality.
Abstract: A biaxial nematic phase had been predicted with ${D}_{2h}$ symmetry, wherein the mesogen's long and short transverse axes are simultaneously aligned along the two orthogonal, primary and secondary directors, $\mathbf{n}$ and $\mathbf{m}$, respectively. The unique low-angle x-ray diffraction patterns in the nematic phases exhibited by three rigid bent-core mesogens clearly reveal their biaxiality. The results of x-ray diffraction can be readily reproduced by ab initio calculations that explicitly include the bent-core shape in the form factor and assume short-range positional correlations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated residents' attitudes towards tourism in a rural village of Bigodi, Uganda and found that residents have consistently positive attitudes toward tourism and that tourists bring random good fortune.
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TL;DR: Workgroup interactions, especially social support received from coworkers, may mean positive effects of social support in the workplace have received only limited attention from sociologists as discussed by the authors, but they have been shown to be beneficial.
Abstract: Beneficial effects of social support in the workplace have received only limited attention from sociologists. Workgroup interactions, especially social support received from coworkers, may signific...
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TL;DR: This article examined social and parasocial interaction from interpersonal attribution perspectives and found that parasocial relationships with favorite soap opera characters were based, to some extent, on reduction of uncertainty and the ability to predict accurately the feelings and attitudes of the persona.
Abstract: This study examined social and parasocial interaction from interpersonal attribution perspectives. Parasocial interaction is a perceived interpersonal relationship on the part of a television viewer with a mass media persona. We proposed that attributional confidence associated with parasocial interaction would mirror that resulting from social interaction and that personal construct theory and uncertainty reduction theory might add to knowledge about the nature of attributional confidence. Soap-opera-viewing college students (N = 105) completed questionnaires. Analysis revealed that, similar to social relationships, parasocial relationships with favorite soap opera characters were based, to some extent, on reduction of uncertainty and the ability to predict accurately the feelings and attitudes of the persona. The discussion focuses on implications of these findings for uncertainty reduction theory and personal construct theory.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared college students' interpersonal interaction online, face-to-face, and on the telephone and found that while the internet was integrated into college students’ social lives, face to face communication remained the dominant mode of interaction, and participants reported using the internet as often as the telephone.
Abstract: Two studies compared college students’ interpersonal interaction online, face-to-face, and on the telephone. A communication diary assessed the relative amount of social interactions college students conducted online compared to face-to-face conversation and telephone calls. Results indicated that while the internet was integrated into college students’ social lives, face-to-face communication remained the dominant mode of interaction. Participants reported using the internet as often as the telephone. A survey compared reported use of the internet within local and long distance social circles to the use of other media within those circles, and examined participants’ most recent significant social interactions conducted across media in terms of purposes, contexts, and quality. Internet interaction was perceived as high in quality, but slightly lower than other media. Results were compared to previous conceptualizations of the roles of internet in one’s social life.
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Russel J. Reiter | 169 | 1646 | 121010 |
Marco Costa | 146 | 1458 | 105096 |
Jong-Sung Yu | 124 | 1051 | 72637 |
Mietek Jaroniec | 123 | 571 | 79561 |
M. Cherney | 118 | 572 | 49933 |
Qiang Xu | 117 | 585 | 50151 |
Lee Stuart Barnby | 116 | 494 | 43490 |
Martin Knapp | 106 | 1067 | 48518 |
Christopher Shaw | 97 | 771 | 52181 |
B. V.K.S. Potukuchi | 96 | 190 | 30763 |
Vahram Haroutunian | 94 | 424 | 38954 |
W. E. Moerner | 92 | 478 | 35121 |
Luciano Rezzolla | 90 | 394 | 26159 |
Bruce A. Roe | 89 | 295 | 76365 |
Susan L. Brantley | 88 | 358 | 25582 |