scholarly journals Microbiome: Living Well and Thriving With Your Bacteria

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 739-739
Author(s):  
Meng Wang ◽  
William Ludington
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Baylor College ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Living Well ◽  
University College

Abstract This symposium aims to invite speakers who are the leading experts in the field of microbiome and longevity, and select short talks from abstracts submitted by young investigators, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students. We will discuss new progress in this exciting research area and raise new questions for future studies. Confirmed speakers include Evgeny Nudler from NYU, Will Ludington from Carnegie, Paul O’Toole from University College Cork, Ireland, and Meng Wang from Baylor College of Medicine.

scholarly journals (Dis)Embodied Disclosure in Higher Education: A Co-Constructed Narrative

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie Aubrecht ◽  
Nancy La Monica
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Spatial Processes ◽  
Emotional Labour ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
College Course ◽  
University College ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
College Environments

In this paper we use co-constructed autoethnographic methods to explore the tensions that animate the meaning of “disclosure” in university and college environments. Drawing insight from our embodied experiences as graduate students and university/college course instructors, our collaborative counter-narratives examine the ordinary ways that disclosure is made meaningful and material as a relationship and a form of embodied labour. Our dialogue illustrates the layered nature of disclosure—for example, self-disclosing as a disabled student in order to access academic spaces but not self-disclosing to teach as an instructor. Katie uses phenomenological disability studies to analyze disclosure at the intersection of disability and pregnancy as body-mediated moments (Draper, 2002). Nancy uses Hochschild’s (1983) notion of “emotional labour” to explore how socio-spatial processes of disclosure can be an embodied form of “extra work” (e.g., managing perceptions of stigmatized identities).

scholarly journals Network analysis: emergence, criticism and recent trends

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 533-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Kirschbaum
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Organizational Studies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Recent Trends

Purpose Network analysis is a well consolidated research area in several disciplines. Within management and organizational studies, network scholars consolidated a set of research practices that allowed ease of data collection, high inter case comparability, establishment of nomological laws and commitment to social capital motivation. This paper aims to elicit the criticism it has received and highlight the unsettled lacunae. Design/methodology/approach This paper sheds light on Network Analysis’s breakthroughs, while showing how its scholars innovated by responding to critics, and identifying outstanding debates. Findings The paper identifies and discusses three streams of criticism that are still outstanding: the role of human agency, the meaning of social ties and the treatment of temporality. Originality/value This paper brings to fore current debates within the Network Analysis community, highlighting areas where future studies might contribute.

scholarly journals Use of digital books at academic level: Perceptions, attitudes and preferences of post-graduate students

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 663 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aras Bozkurt ◽  
Muhammet Recep Okur ◽  
Abdulkadir Karadeniz
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Research Area ◽  
State University ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Post Graduate ◽  
Academic Level ◽  
Current State ◽  
Digital Books ◽  
Digital Book ◽  
New Research

<p>Though first appeared in 1971, digital book technology has evolved especially since 2000s and it is relatively a new research area. Therefore, to better understand this phenomenon, a quantitative survey research was conducted in 2015 spring term in a state university in Turkey. The objective of the study is to explain current state of digital books within post-graduate students’ perspectives and to identify post-graduate student’s perceptions, attitudes and preferences related to digital books. In this regard, this research presents results of the survey. A total of 135 post-graduate students responded the questionnaire. The data regarding use of digital books in addition to demographics was collected through an online questionnaire and the findings were analyzed through descriptive statistics. In this sense, post-graduate students’ use of digital books, purposes to use, preferred devices, and most used features of digital books were examined. In addition to these questions, reasons not to use digital books and post-graduate students’ future attitude whether to use digital books or not were further investigated. Additionally, research directions for future implications were provided.</p>

scholarly journals Plant Science Graduate Students: Demographics, Research Areas, and Recruitment Issues

HortScience ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 1138B-1138
Author(s):  
Rebecca Darnell ◽  
Jimmy Cheek
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Graduate Training ◽  
Graduate Programs ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Plant Science ◽  
Student Enrollment ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
Plant Sciences

Graduate student enrollment in the plant sciences has decreased over the past several years, and there is increasing interest in recruitment/retention strategies. Before successful strategies can be implemented, however, the status of current plant science graduate programs needs to be determined. Survey data on graduate student demographics, research area, support levels, current recruitment strategies, and career opportunities were collected from 23 plant science graduate programs. Overall, 55% of graduate students in plant sciences were male and 45% were female; about 60% were domestic and 40% were international. Cellular/molecular biology and breeding/genetics were the two disciplines that had the greatest number of graduate students and the greatest number of job opportunities. Most programs cited financial support as the biggest obstacle to recruitment. However, stipend number, the guarantee of multiple years of support, the funding of tuition waivers, and health insurance costs also impact student numbers. As more of these costs are shifted to faculty, there appears to be an increasing inability and/or reluctance to invest grant funds (which support 60% of the plant science graduate students) in graduate student education. These data suggest that the decline in plant science graduate student enrollment may be due to shifting of more of the total cost of graduate training to faculty, who may be unable/unwilling to bear the cost. There is also a clear shift in the research focus of plant science graduate students, as postdoctoral and career opportunities are weighted toward molecular biology/genetics, leaving the more applied plant science areas particularly vulnerable to low graduate enrollment.

The challenge of building a favourable reputation for social businesses

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Avidar
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Hybrid Identity ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Organisational Identity ◽  
Complex Process

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to better understand the challenge of building and managing a favourable organisational reputation for social businesses in light of the complex relations between organisational identity, paradoxical tensions and organisational reputation.Design/Methodology/Approach: This paper combines deductive and inductive approaches. Deductively, the categorisation of Smith and Lewis (2011) was used to identify various types of paradoxical tensions in social businesses. An inductive bottom-up research strategy was also applied, collecting data from a 90-minute ‘open fishbowl’ with six managers and advisers of Israeli social businesses (and approximately 40 undergraduate and graduate students serving as ‘observers’), and 8 interviews with managers and communication professionals of social businesses.Findings: Managers of social businesses that are hybrid-identity organisations face a challenge when trying to build a consistent hybrid identity, thus managing reputation and paradoxical tensions using holistic and dynamic ‘both-and’ or ‘more-than’ approaches.Limitations: The small sample used in this study (an open fishbowl method consisting of only six participants, in addition to 8 interviews) doesn’t enable generalisability, and therefore should be seen as a benchmark for future studies that are larger and include additional methods. In addition, this study might well be culturally biased, because it takes place in only one country.Implications and Contribution: Referring to the theoretical model of Huang-Horowitz (2015) that stresses the importance of achieving consistency in identity in order for an organisation to succeed and have a favourable reputation, the findings reveal that social businesses experience a more complex process of identity formation when trying to build a consistent hybrid identity, using various holistic and dynamic approaches. From a practical perspective managers of hybrid-identity organisations might find it useful to explore how various holistic and dynamic approaches might help them to overcome internal and external paradoxical tensions and manage organisational reputation.

How to create a profitable boothscape?

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 966-985 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gum Ju Woo ◽  
Jae-Kyoon Jun
Keyword(s):  
Purchase Intention ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Product Variety ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Moderating Effects ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Cognitive Experience

Purpose This study aims to propose an extended framework to design a profitable exhibition booth environment (i.e. boothscape) that fosters attendees’ at-show experience and after-show purchase intention. Design/methodology/approach Survey-based data were collected from attendees who visited one of the five major exhibitions at leading convention and exhibition cities in Korea. Structural equation modeling was used to examine which features of boothscape are more influential in improving attendees’ at-show experience and after-show purchase intention. Findings Empirical results revealed that booth design, product variety and assortment and entertainment exert a significant impact on attendees’ emotional and cognitive experiences at an exhibition. On the other hand, booth personnel exclusively influence attendees’ cognitive experience. A better chance of after-show purchase incident can be obtained by reinforcing both emotional and cognitive experiences. Research limitations/implications Although emotional and cognitive experiences are two of the most compelling types of at-show experience, future studies can consider mediating roles of other experiences to better understand the complex mechanism of attendees’ at-show experience. Moreover, it is worthy to examine the moderating effects of attendees’ characteristics, as Bitner (1992) argued that individuals have different perceptions of the surrounding environment based on personal and situation variables. Originality/value This study provides empirical evidence on the under-explored research area of boothscape. Researchers and exhibitors can learn that both context and content of boothscape should be taken into consideration to create a more holistic at-show experience. In return, attendees can have long-lasting memories of exhibitors and products for future purchase. This new insight can serve as inspiration for researchers and exhibitors to shift paradigms from service- to experience-oriented to improve long-term exhibition performances.

scholarly journals Augmenting Psychological Restorativeness towards Immersive Design of Underwater Ambiance

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 01003
Author(s):  
Nermin Sena Ozger ◽  
Gözde Damla Turhan ◽  
Guzden Varinlioglu
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Experience Design ◽  
User Experience Design ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Underwater Environment ◽  
Designed Environment ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

Discussions of the relationship between humanity and built environment usually focus on the human’s relationships with the earth’s surface. Less attention has been given to underwater environments, a relatively underexplored research area at the intersection of user experience design and psychology. This paper shows the initial findings of experiments on divers, which can guide the design of augmented reality tools for underwater environment. The comparative evaluation process demonstrates an increase in psychological restorativeness of users in relation to ambiance design, indicating a difference between a specifically designed environment and a naturally vacant area for first time divers. Future studies will explore immersive design of underwater ambiance through augmented reality tools, proposed as a product design and framework, in order to improve psychological restorativeness.

scholarly journals Nicolas Coldstream (1927–2008)

2009 ◽  
Vol 104 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Gerald Cadogan
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Classical Archaeology ◽  
British School ◽  
University College ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Sanctuary Of Demeter ◽  
The University ◽  
Of Greece

Nicolas Coldstream, archaeologist of Greece and the Mediterranean in the 9th and 8th centuries bc, was born in India, educated in England, and carried out the research for his first masterpiece Greek Geometric Pottery (1968) while Macmillan Student at the British School at Athens (1957–60). In 1960 he began a long career at the University of London, culminating with the Yates Chair of Classical Archaeology at University College. Renowned as a teacher, he drew many graduate students, especially from Greece and Cyprus. As a prolific scholar, he also wrote Geometric Greece (1977), many articles, several reports on excavations including The Sanctuary of Demeter at Knossos (1973), the Knossos North Cemetery (1996) with Hector Catling, and Kythera (1972) with George Huxley, as well as the revised editions of his two fundamental monographs.O Nicolas Coldstream, αρχανολόγος της Ελλάδας και της Μεσογείου του 9ου και 8ου αιώνα π.Χ., γεννήθηκε στην Ινδία, σπούδασε στην Αγγλία και πραγματοποίησε έρευνα για την πρώτη του εξαιρετική μονογραφία Greek Geometric Pottery (1968) ως Macmillan Student της Βρετανικής Σχολής Αθηνών (1957–1960). Το 1960 ξεκίνησε την πολύχρονη σταδιοδρομία του στο Πανεπιστήμιο του Λονδίνου, αποκορύφωμα της οποίας υπήρξε η εκλογή του στην έδρα Yates της Κλασικής Αρχαιολογίας στο University College. Διάσημος πανεπιστημιακός δάσκαλος, προσέλκυσε πολλούς μεταπτυχνακούς φοιτητές, ιδιαίτερα από την Ελλάδα και την Κύπρο. Επιστήμονας με μεγάλο ερευνητικό και συγγραφικό έργο, δημοσίευσε επίσης τη μονογραφία Geometrie Greece (1977), πλήθος άρθρων και αρκετές ανασκαφικές εκθέσεις μεταξύ των οποίων The Sanctuary of Demeter στην Κνωσό (1973), Knossos North Cemetery (1996) με τον Hector Catling, Kythera (1972) με τον George Huxley, καθώς επίσης και τις ανατεωρημένες εκδόσεις των δύο βασικών μονογραφιών του.

Empirical Research on Domestic Violence in Contemporary China: Continuity and Advances

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (16) ◽  
pp. 4879-4887 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongwei Zhang ◽  
Ruohui Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Important Research Area ◽  
Chinese Scholars

Domestic violence is not uncommon in China. Myths and misconceptions about it do exist, especially in the context of rapid social changes. Compared with its Western counterparts, the study on domestic violence in China is considered rudimentary and of low priority. Empirical studies, especially those measuring the correlates and/or risk factors related to domestic violence, are still lacking. This special issue aims to advance understanding on domestic violence through much-needed empirical research. It also demonstrates joint efforts by local Chinese scholars and their Western counterparts to strengthen collaboration in this important research area. Based on relatively large sample surveys, the articles incorporated in this special issue provide relatively accurate estimates of factors related to domestic violence and responses to it in mainland China and Taiwan. Future studies should give priority to developing indigenous theories and practices in addition to adapting and testing theories and models developed in the West.

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