University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma

About: University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma is a education organization based out in Chickasha, Oklahoma, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Narrative & Polyaniline. The organization has 146 authors who have published 144 publications receiving 2491 citations. The organization is also known as: USAO.

Charisma Is Contagious: The Effect of Leaders’ Charisma on Observers’ Affect1

Abstract: Two studies were conducted to test the hypothesis that charismatic leadership, characterized by nonverbal expressiveness and immediacy, would lead via emotional contagion to the imitation of the leader's nonverbal behavior. In Study I, charismatic leaders were college students whose performance of a simulated campaign speech included more smiles, more intense smiles, and longer and more frequent visual attention to the audience. Observers showed higher levels of all 4 relevant behaviors while watching charismatic leaders. In Study 2, college student participants watched more and less charismatic excerpts selected from President Clinton's and ex-President Bush's responses during their first 1992 televised debate. Comparing the same behaviors, there was a similar pattern to Study I for responses to the Clinton excerpts, and an almost reversed pattern for the Bush excerpts. The overall results support an emotional contagion effect of charismatic leadership when the leader exhibits truly charismatic behavior.

The Relations Between Student Motivational Beliefs and Cognitive Engagement in High School

Abstract: The authors examined relations among student perceptions of classroom achievement goals, self-efficacy, perceived instrumentality of classroom work, and sense of belonging within a classroom Participants were 249 high school students The authors also examined how cognitive engagement was predicted by those variables along with personal achievement goals (mastery and performance approach) The results indicate that the adoption of mastery goals was predicted by perceived instrumentality, self-efficacy, and belonging, whereas cognitive engagement was predicted by belonging and perceived instrumentality Last, the authors found that a classroom promoting a mastery orientation was predictive of a student's sense of belonging They discuss the importance of mastery-oriented classrooms

A model for failure mode and effects analysis based on intuitionistic fuzzy approach

Abstract: Display Omitted This article provides a model for the Failure Mode and Effects Analysis Based on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Approach. Method was used to determine the weight of decision makers.Determining the weight of risk factors using intuitionistic fuzzy linguistic terms and IFWA operator that it used to aggregate weight factor.Failure modes has ranked using the intuitionistic fuzzy TOPSIS technique.Further study can focus on interval valued intuitionistic fuzzy set to evaluation failure modes with FMEA technique or other decision support systems. Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is one of the most powerful methods in the field of risk management and has been widely used for improving process reliability in manufacturing and service sector. High applicability of FMEA has contributed to its applications in many research domains and practical fields pertaining risk assessment and system safety enhancement. However, the method has also been criticized by experts due to several weaknesses and limitations. The current study proposed a novel model for failure mode and effects analysis based on intuitionistic fuzzy approach. This approach offers some advantages over earlier models as it accounts for degrees of uncertainty in relationships among various criteria or options, specifically when relations cannot be expressed in definite numbers. The proposed model provides a tool to evaluate the failure modes, while dealing with vague concepts and insufficient data. The proposed model was tested in a case study examining the failure modes for quality of internet banking services.