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- Examining factors that influence student use of lecture capturing technology.
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- Adrian, Todd Lee
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ABSTRACT: Higher education institutions implement lecture capturing technology (LCT) to provide students access to recorded course lectures. Consequently, institutions can experience barriers implementing LCT related to lack of student use of the technology. This study's purpose was to examine whether performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, and facilitating conditions influence undergraduate nursing students' decisions to use LCT after attending face-to-face lectures at a...
Show moreABSTRACT: Higher education institutions implement lecture capturing technology (LCT) to provide students access to recorded course lectures. Consequently, institutions can experience barriers implementing LCT related to lack of student use of the technology. This study's purpose was to examine whether performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, and facilitating conditions influence undergraduate nursing students' decisions to use LCT after attending face-to-face lectures at a state college in Florida. The unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) served as the theoretical framework. This study incorporated a quantitative correlational design and used a modified UTAUT survey instrument to determine if there are statistically significant relationships among the UTAUT constructs and LCT use. A linear regression was performed, and the results suggested there was a statistically significant relationship between the performance expectancy construct and use of LCT, r(116) = .647, p < .01, two-tailed; the effort expectancy construct and use of LCT, r(116) = .249, p < .01, two tailed; and the social influence construct and student use of LCT, r(116) = .255, p < .01, two tailed. A multiple regression analysis suggested performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, and facilitating conditions statistically significantly predicted student LCT usage, F(4, 113) = 21.32, p < .001. The R2 = .430 with a large effect size (f2 = .754). The results from this study add to the limited body of knowledge on LCT use and provide technology leaders with a better understanding of factors contributing to student use of LCT, which can be used for future research.
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- 2019.
- Identifier
- 1127639386, WFE0000645
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- South Springs.
- Author
- Brehm, Faith Danielle
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When South Springs resident Allison Cooper is found dead at the local dam, it sparks a frenzy in the usually quiet small town as residents speculate on what exactly happened to her the last night of her life. A murder? Accident? Suicide. No one seems to know and the police are out of their depth. South Springs follows the lives of those closest to Allison in the months following her death. As they struggle to come to terms with her loss, they find themselves under the increased scrutiny and...
Show moreWhen South Springs resident Allison Cooper is found dead at the local dam, it sparks a frenzy in the usually quiet small town as residents speculate on what exactly happened to her the last night of her life. A murder? Accident? Suicide. No one seems to know and the police are out of their depth. South Springs follows the lives of those closest to Allison in the months following her death. As they struggle to come to terms with her loss, they find themselves under the increased scrutiny and fascination of the rest of the town. Each manages their grief through different facets as they attempt to reestablish their lives without her
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- 2021
- Identifier
- 1293880388, WFE0000761
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- Document (PDF)
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- Short story collection: fermented summer.
- Author
- Waller, Chaise Jurnee
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Fermented Summer is a collection of three stories: Fermented, Evaporated, and Distilled that explore themes of Southern Gothic American Literature in a modern, short story format in a small fictional Floridian town surrounded by swamp land. The characters experience troubles of southern culture: alcoholism, prejudice, alienation, poverty, transgression, and decayed settings. Each story depicts encounters of a different time in the same place whilst switching between central figures' narration...
Show moreFermented Summer is a collection of three stories: Fermented, Evaporated, and Distilled that explore themes of Southern Gothic American Literature in a modern, short story format in a small fictional Floridian town surrounded by swamp land. The characters experience troubles of southern culture: alcoholism, prejudice, alienation, poverty, transgression, and decayed settings. Each story depicts encounters of a different time in the same place whilst switching between central figures' narration. The expectation of Fermented Summer is to examine the multifaceted relationship of humanity and its ecological surroundings, putting pressure on the already brittle bonds with nature. Its purpose is to explore the degree to which humanity is recognizable without its ancestral and nearly primal synergy with the land and life. The figures of Fermented Summer highlight not the struggles of impoverished southerners, but the degrading relation of humanity to the earth itself. Each character has their own conflicts and challenges, ultimately placing the troubles with Del, the youngest, to sort through the remains of her dying homeland and familial relations.
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- 1296378801, WFE0000778
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- Document (PDF)
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- Arthur Penn and the doors of Avalon.
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- Andrews, Zoe
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Fifteen-year-old Arthur Penn has had a rough week. Not only has her ghostly companion, Merlin, been disappearing and keeping more secrets than before, but the girl Arthur saved over the winter holiday from a dangerous encounter has attempted to take her own life. Unable to ignore her own guilt and sense of responsibility towards the girl, Mel-Rose, Arthur decides to visit her in the hospital, even if Mel-Rose can't respond. Only moments after arriving, a sudden blackout at the hospital is the...
Show moreFifteen-year-old Arthur Penn has had a rough week. Not only has her ghostly companion, Merlin, been disappearing and keeping more secrets than before, but the girl Arthur saved over the winter holiday from a dangerous encounter has attempted to take her own life. Unable to ignore her own guilt and sense of responsibility towards the girl, Mel-Rose, Arthur decides to visit her in the hospital, even if Mel-Rose can't respond. Only moments after arriving, a sudden blackout at the hospital is the perfect cover for a newly awoken Mel-Rose to lead Arthur to the hospital's basement. Arthur follows, only to discover that not only has Merlin possessed MelRose's body, but that something called a breach has opened in the hospital's basement, and Merlin needs Arthur's help fighting off the gremlins and plants which have appeared in order to close it. When all is said and done, Merlin finally explains what is going on to Arthur. Not only is she the reincarnation of the fabled King Arthur, but it is up to her and Merlin to shut the doors of Avalon before more magic spills into the world, polluting and mutating the world as they know it.
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- 2019, 2019
- Identifier
- 1152882631, WFE0000687
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Affordable bankruptcy.
- Author
- Mobley, Michael Adrian
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Affordable Bankruptcy is a collection of short stories, flash fiction, and microfiction that explores familial and personal dilemmas. Largely, the dilemmas that the characters in each piece experience remained unsolved as a means by which to access and explore experience rather than offering simple resolutions. These characters start out complicated, and their experiences only leave them more so. The collection takes the form of two halves: "Compunction" and "Revulsion." Within each section,...
Show moreAffordable Bankruptcy is a collection of short stories, flash fiction, and microfiction that explores familial and personal dilemmas. Largely, the dilemmas that the characters in each piece experience remained unsolved as a means by which to access and explore experience rather than offering simple resolutions. These characters start out complicated, and their experiences only leave them more so. The collection takes the form of two halves: "Compunction" and "Revulsion." Within each section, thematic conversations take place between small works with insular content. "Buck Granderson's Pond" and "Debride" are two such works, and the conversation between these two pieces centers on the things fathers teach their sons, exploring the ways in which sons reject and accept their father's lessons. The rest of the collection places other pieces in similar conversations, offering various viewpoints on thematic material that serves as a throughline for stories with vastly varying subject matters.
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- 1129044594, WFE0000661
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- Document (PDF)
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- Bombardier.
- Author
- Glass, Christopher
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Gian is happy with his future. He will be a stonemason like his father, and he is all but betrothed to his neighbor, Giuliana. But in 1551, a fleet of corsairs and Ottoman Turks invades Gozo. Gian loses track of Giuliana in the chaos and shelters with his family behind the walls of the Citadel, where he joins in the island's desperate defense. Defeated and enslaved, most of the Gozitans are sent to the markets of Libya, but Gian is taken by his new master to Angora. There he is raised in...
Show moreGian is happy with his future. He will be a stonemason like his father, and he is all but betrothed to his neighbor, Giuliana. But in 1551, a fleet of corsairs and Ottoman Turks invades Gozo. Gian loses track of Giuliana in the chaos and shelters with his family behind the walls of the Citadel, where he joins in the island's desperate defense. Defeated and enslaved, most of the Gozitans are sent to the markets of Libya, but Gian is taken by his new master to Angora. There he is raised in Islam as a goatherd until he is conscripted through devshirme. After years of training and indoctrination, Gian, now commander of an Ottoman bombard, travels aboard a galley to the Tunisian island of Djerba, recently captured by Christians from Spain, Venice, Genoa, and Malta. After a decisive victory over the Christian fleet, Gian and his comrades encamp on Djerba and besiege the fort. The siege drags into summer, and an idle Gian is already questioning his allegiance to the Turks when he finds Giuliana. Risking his new future in favor of his past, Gian conspires to free Giuliana and escape Djerba, but Giuliana has an agenda of her own.
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- 1129015059, WFE0000655
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- Document (PDF)
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- Sneaker song.
- Author
- Nelson, Samantha Jo
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Curtis is running from something, running as fast as he can away from a danger that only he can sense. He can't stop, because if he does it will catch up to him. He is starting to remember how he got where he is, and the only way he can find his way back to reality is through those memories. Curtis is not a monster, he knows that face, but his world collides with other people--and in those moments it becomes clear that Curtis is unaware of the world around him. Sneaker Song examines what it...
Show moreCurtis is running from something, running as fast as he can away from a danger that only he can sense. He can't stop, because if he does it will catch up to him. He is starting to remember how he got where he is, and the only way he can find his way back to reality is through those memories. Curtis is not a monster, he knows that face, but his world collides with other people--and in those moments it becomes clear that Curtis is unaware of the world around him. Sneaker Song examines what it means to be Curtis, what it means to run from the things that have shaped you. Using both close third person and first person perspectives, this story follows Curtis and how he came to end up in a dumpster covered in his own blood, running from his father and the past that keeps him separated from reality.
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- 1129598117, WFE0000665
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- Document (PDF)
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- Trend features and additive feature selection methods for churn models under property and casualty insurance business paradigms.
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- Anderson, Jacob Foster
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ABSTRACT: The P&C Small Commercial Insurance industry presents a signiαcant policy retention challenge given the presence of independent intermediaries. Current retention models generally follow traditional relational marketing paradigms and therefore do not account for the complexities introduced by the presence of an independent intermediary. Given an anonymous policy dataset consisting of correlated, high-dimensional, and high-cardinality categorical/numeric data; current data mining...
Show moreABSTRACT: The P&C Small Commercial Insurance industry presents a signiαcant policy retention challenge given the presence of independent intermediaries. Current retention models generally follow traditional relational marketing paradigms and therefore do not account for the complexities introduced by the presence of an independent intermediary. Given an anonymous policy dataset consisting of correlated, high-dimensional, and high-cardinality categorical/numeric data; current data mining methods are used to construct a retention model with practical applications. Additionally, predictive features that capture intermediary-related information are engineered and designated as candidate features. Candidate features are selected for αnal model inclusion using various data mining approaches to feature importance measurement and feature selection.
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- 2018.
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- 1128024057, WFE0000646
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- Document (PDF)
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- Attitudes about menstruation: a qualitative study of implicit and explicit attitudes.
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- Baldwin, Kaitlyn
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Studies have been conducted to understand menstrual stigma, supporting the hypothesis that women internalize stigma and feel required to modify their behaviors to adapt to societal rules surrounding menstruation. Conflicting results have been reported regarding current attitudes toward menstruation, with some reporting that the stigma is still prevalent, while others have found no evidence of stigma. The purpose of the current research is to expand on these studies, further exploring the...
Show moreStudies have been conducted to understand menstrual stigma, supporting the hypothesis that women internalize stigma and feel required to modify their behaviors to adapt to societal rules surrounding menstruation. Conflicting results have been reported regarding current attitudes toward menstruation, with some reporting that the stigma is still prevalent, while others have found no evidence of stigma. The purpose of the current research is to expand on these studies, further exploring the prevalence of and reasons for menstruation stigma and to explore individual perceptions surrounding the discussion of women's menstrual cycles in college women and men. In a pilot study (Study 1) we found that, on a 7-point Likert scale, women and men self-report neutral to slightly positive attitudes toward menstruation, averaging slightly positive. In contrast, 87.7% of women and 76.9% of men have witnessed menstruation related bullying, and 52.3% of women have personally experienced it. These findings expose a discrepancy between experienced menstruation stigma and expected biases. As such, we modified our previous survey with more direct questions to better reveal the true attitudes of college students. The modified survey (Study 2) included questions regarding perceived stigma, internalized stigma, experienced stigma, and menstruation related stereotypes and an Implicit Association Task (IAT) to measure internalized menstruation stigma. We expected that Study 2 would replicate previous results regarding societal perceptions of menstrual stigma and personal attitudes toward menstruation trending positively. In addition, we expect to find that the IAT reveals participants to hold implicit negative associations about menstruation.
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- 2020
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- 1151766549, WFE0000684
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- Document (PDF)
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- Oldenburg, Ray. Photograph.
- Author
- Oldenburg, Ray
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Photograph of Dr. Ray Oldenburg, Emeritus Professor, Department of Sociology/Anthropology. University of West Florida Faculty, 1967-2001.
- Date Issued
- 1998 Spring Alumline, University of West Florida
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- uwfwfhc_m1982_11_oldenburgphoto, uwfwfhcm8211oldenburg
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- Image (JPEG)
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- Oldenburg, Ray. Archives Publication List.
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- Oldenburg, Ray [Oldenburg, Ramon Almich, 1932- ]
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The department maintains an ongoing faculty publications file wherein notes are added to existing bibliographies of new publications and materials produced by a University of West Florida faculty member or staff. These are undated but continually added to. This listing for Dr. Ray Oldenburg comes from these files and includes materials that he made us aware of, even after his retirement. It may be similar to other bibliographies provided.
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- uwfwfhc_m1981_42_oldenburgfacpublist
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- Document (PDF)
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- The violence comes soon after: LGBTQ+ perceptions of safety and its effects on mental health in Pensacola.
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- Harshman, Brenna
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In Pensacola, Florida, there are many conservative residents who object to the presence of LGBTQ+ members in the community despite the long, rich history of relative LGBTQ+ tolerance. Due to the outward display of intolerant behavior, many LGBTQ+ people question their ability to safely express their sexual orientation and gender identity. This paper explores the primary data on main stressors that affect the perception of safety among the LGBTQ+ community in the Pensacola area as well as the...
Show moreIn Pensacola, Florida, there are many conservative residents who object to the presence of LGBTQ+ members in the community despite the long, rich history of relative LGBTQ+ tolerance. Due to the outward display of intolerant behavior, many LGBTQ+ people question their ability to safely express their sexual orientation and gender identity. This paper explores the primary data on main stressors that affect the perception of safety among the LGBTQ+ community in the Pensacola area as well as the mental health consequences linked with the stress of feeling unsafe. Data was gathered through participant observation and semi-structured interviews. I hypothesize that the LGBTQ+ community in Pensacola is more likely to have poor mental health and this inequity is linked to discrimination and feeling unsafe.
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- 1151767416, WFE0000685
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- Document (PDF)