scholarly journals Business Portuguese in the age of digital instruction

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo Viana da Silva
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
University Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
Needs Analysis ◽  
Business People ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Digital Instruction

This research article provides an overview of the online material available for business Portuguese classes in the United States and it explores the potential for digital instruction. It also shows the results of a needs-analysis survey conducted with 111 participants, including business people and university students in the United States. It also offers a proposal for a business Portuguese class that takes advantage of digital instruction resources already available.

The World of the Bible—Always Strange, Forever New

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 169-182
Author(s):  
Joseph D. Small
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
University Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Productive Author ◽  
The World ◽  
Personal Reflections

Abstract Although Markus Barth was a productive author and is known widely through his published written work, he was also, for many decades, a teacher of formative importance for generations of seminary and university students in both the United States and Switzerland. This essay shares personal reflections on Markus Barth’s profile as a biblical and theological educator and thereby introduces readers to something of his influential personal and theological style.

Robert Sengstacke Abbott, 1868–1940

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myiti Sengstacke Rice
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
Black Business ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Press ◽  
Entrepreneurial Success ◽  
Business People ◽  
American Press ◽  
Successful Business ◽  
Intellectual Leader

From its inception the African American press was a major voice in the African American struggle against violence and discrimination. The unquestioned dean of the black press was Robert Abbott, publisher of the Chicago Defender. This chapter examines two aspects of Abbott’s life. First, it analyzes how Abbott developed and implemented his vision for building a successful business in an environment hostile to black entrepreneurial success. In doing so he helped lay the foundation of the Chicago network of mutually supporting black business people and demonstrated through his actions their role in the community. Second it illustrates how, through the Defender, Abbott and his paper served as an inspirational and intellectual leader in African American’s struggle for rights in Chicago and throughout the United States.

Moral reasoning and anti-immigrant bias: Experimental evidence from university students in Germany and the United States

2021 ◽  
Vol 90 ◽  
pp. 101627
Author(s):  
William J. Wilhelm ◽  
Peter Weber ◽  
Kacey Douglas ◽  
Markus Siepermann ◽  
Ayman Abuhamdieh
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
University Students ◽  
Moral Reasoning ◽  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
The United States

Gender Differences in Millennial Consumers of Latin America Associated with Conspicuous Consumption of New Luxury Goods

2020 ◽  
pp. 097215092090900
Author(s):  
Gustavo Barrera Verdugo ◽  
Héctor R. Ponce
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
Latin America ◽  
University Students ◽  
Conspicuous Consumption ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Luxury Goods ◽  
Luxury Products

Conspicuous consumption has been studied in the millennial generation in the United States and Asia; in Latin America, however, it has scarcely been analysed. The purpose of this study is to examine whether conspicuous motivations in millennial consumers are more prominent in men than in women associated with the consumption of new luxury goods in Latin America. A survey was developed to measure conspicuous motivation, more specifically, bandwagon and snob effects. It was responded by 712 university students located in five different cities in Chile. The findings of the study showed that the bandwagon and snob motivations were higher in men than in women. Men also showed a greater tendency than women to purchase and use new luxury products in social contexts. These results suggest that managers could adjust their marketing strategies to better target millennial consumers of new luxury products.

Factor Structure and Measurement Invariance of the Irrational Beliefs Inventory for University Students in the United States and Iceland

2020 ◽  
pp. 003329412097177
Author(s):  
Gudmundur T. Heimisson ◽  
Robert F. Dedrick
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
University Students ◽  
Measurement Invariance ◽  
Irrational Beliefs ◽  
Measurement Model ◽  
The United States ◽  
Correlated Errors ◽  
Factor Measurement ◽  
Model Misfit ◽  
The U.S

We used multigroup confirmatory factor analysis to evaluate the five-factor measurement model underlying the 50-item Irrational Beliefs Inventory (IBI) in samples of university students in the United States ( n=827) and Iceland ( n=720). Global model fit was marginally acceptable in each sample. Further analyses identified several sources of model misfit that included weak factor loadings, several item pairs with correlated errors, and items with loadings on more than one factor. Cronbach’s alpha reliability estimates for the five factors were similar for the U.S. and Icelandic samples, and comparable to those reported by the developers of the IBI. Measurement invariance testing supported configural (same form) and metric invariance (equal loadings), but identified only 20 items that had invariant item intercepts across the U.S. and Icelandic groups. Given the finding of partial measurement invariance, we offer caution when using the IBI to make group comparisons for U.S. and Icelandic samples. Recommendations are proposed for ongoing psychometric evaluations of the IBI that would identify strengths of the IBI and items that, if revised or deleted, may improve the quality of the measure for research and clinical purposes.

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