Browsing College of Liberal and Fine Arts Faculty Research by Issue Date
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Mystical Body Theodicy
(1/31/2018)In this paper I develop a new theodicy--Mystical Body Theodicy. This theodicy draws on the Christian doctrine of the mystical body of Christ to argue that some evil can be defeated by a set of three goods connected with ... -
The Multiverse and Divine Creation
(11/24/2017)I provide the account of divine creation found in multiverse theorists Donald Turner, Klaas Kraay, and Tim O’Connor. I show that the accounts Kraay and Turner offer are incoherent. God does not survey all possible worlds ... -
Giving Voice to Diversity: An Interactive Approach to Conflict Management and Decision-Making in Culturally Diverse Work Environments
(Journal of Business and Management;8(3), 2002)While there is much evidence to show that diversity of viewpoints and perspectives allows for more creative problem solving and decision-making, there is also a great deal of research to indicate that cultural diversity ... -
The Political Public Relations Battleground: Tactics and Images in the 2000 U.S. Presidential Campaign
(Business Research Yearbook;Volume 9, 2002)This study examines the public relations tools that Governor George W. Bush and Vice-president Al Gore used during the 2000 U.S. Presidential Campaign. It also draws some lessons from mistakes that both candidates committed. -
The Influence of Professional Self-Interests on the Management of a Nonprofit Organization: A Case Study
(Business Research Yearbook;Volume 9, 2002)This case study examines how the structural characteristics of management in a state chapter of a national physician's association influence the decision-making processes and efficacy of the administrative procedures ... -
The Influence of Physicians' Engagement and Openness on Patients' Reports of Health Communication Satisfaction
(Business Research yearbook;Volume 10, 2003)This study analyzed patients' perceptions of their physicians' willingness to engage in interaction and be open, and patients' satisfaction in communication about health with their physicians (N=322). Results indicated ... -
Physician-Patient Communication: The Relationship Between Engagement, Confirmation and Satisfaction
(Business Research Yearbook;Volume 11, 2004)This study analyzed physicians' self-reported measures of engagement, confirmation and relational satisfaction in their communication with their patients (N= 218). Results indicated that communication engagement and ... -
The influence of nurses' engagement and openness on patients' reports of health communication satisfaction
(Business Research Yearbook;Volume 11, 2004)This study analyzed patients’ perceptions of their nurses’ willingness to engage in interaction and patients’ satisfaction in communication about health with their nurses (N = 270). Results indicated that a strong and ... -
Relating college course grades to attendance
(Business Research Yearbook;Volume 12, Issue 1, 2005)This study compared the attendance records of students against their test score averages for students at four institutions across multiple sections of several difference courses over a fourteen year period (N = 1617). ... -
Teaching approaches and self-efficacy outcomes in an undergraduate research methods course
(Business Research Yearbook;Volume 13, 2006)This study investigated the outcomes of teaching objectives and techniques in an undergraduate research methods course. In particular, the study examined student perceptions of their relative comfort level with performing ... -
Attitudes Regarding the Components of Ethical Communication
(Business Research Yearbook;Volume 14, 2007)This study investigated the relationship between components of ethical communication. Based on survey data (N = 319), Principal Components Analysis revealed four positively loaded factors (honesty, integrity, modesty and ... -
Spanish-Speaking Physicians: Satisfaction in the Transactional Relationship with Patients
(Business Research Yearbook;Volume 15, 2008)This study examined self-reports of engagement, confirmation, and satisfaction by Spanish-speaking physicians within the context of the relationship with Spanish-speaking patients. Previous research suggests the interaction ... -
Allies in Action: The Communicative Experiences of People Who Challenge Social Injustice on Behalf of Others
(Communication Quarterly;59(5), 2011-10-14)This study explores the lived experiences of people who act as allies in the interest of social justice. Interviews were conducted to investigate the meaning of the ally identity and the tactics allies use to interrupt ... -
On the use of course evaluations for purposes of faculty personnel decisions
(Business Research Yearbook;Volume 19, Issue 2, 2012)Many universities utilize student teaching evaluations even though their validity is hotly contested in the research. This study examines publicly available data of all sections of courses evaluated in a program at a ... -
Incorporating Research in the Studio: A Case Study of Faculty/Librarian Collaboration
(2012-03)This poster presents a pedagogical case study involving the collaboration of an art faculty member and a librarian subject specialist to incorporate research in a studio art class in order to accomplish specific information ... -
Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence Regarding the Intrusiveness of Recording Devices in Naturalistic Research
(Journal of Social Sciences ResearchVolume 1, 2016)Critics of naturalistic social science research charge that participant awareness of the existence of a recording device alters the behavior of the research participants, known as the “Hawthorne effect.” This study compares ... -
Lexical-Semantic Transfer and Strategies for Teaching and Learning Putonghua Vocabulary for Cantonese-speaking Learners
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 1, 2016-04-26)Language transfer refers to the language that learners apply to the knowledge of one language to the language that they are learning. According to Bransford (2000), �all new learning involves transfer based on previous ... -
Variable production and indexical social meaning: On the potential physiological origin of intervocalic /s/ voicing in Costa Rican Spanish
(Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics;10(1), 2017-05-02)In several dialects of Spanish, men tend to exhibit more intervocalic /s/ voicing than women, e. g., oso ‘bear’ as [ozo], and this difference may have a physiological basis. File-Muriel et al. (2015, Disentangling the ... -
Investigating Site Use through Ethnobotanical Analysis in the Upper Gila River Valley, Arizona
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Cross-linguistic influence in L1 processing of morphosyntactic variation: Evidence from L2 learners
(Applied Psycholinguistics;42(1), 2021-01-14)The current study investigates cross-linguistic influence of second language (L2) learning on native language (L1) processing of morphosyntactic variation in proficient L2 learners immersed in their L1. Despite Spanish ...