Thesis (M.S.) -- Brigham Young University. Dept. of History, 1951.

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Previous research suggested Election 2004 involved many issue regimes and wedge issues (Kaplan, 2004; Drum, 2004; Fagan & Dinan, 2004). Preceding research proposed that the American perception of presidential candidates has been somewhat based on the mass media's increasing priming and agenda setting techniques (Scheufele, 2000; Kiousis & McCombs, 2004). Hence the research addressed two questions: Is there a bias for or against either candidate in the headlines of the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Times? If there is bias, which issues tended to produce the most positive, negative and neutral results? All election headlines, from February to November 2004, pertaining to a specific candidate were recorded and analyzed. The researcher chose to study headlines because they convey the newsworthiness of the story and former research confirms that reader perceptions of a news account can depend on the headline (Pfau, 1995; Tannenbaum, 1953). This study utilized content analysis to assess the word choices and biases of the headlines of the two newspapers. The researcher created definitions for coding, trained two coders, and analyzed and discussed the results. The main findings were the Washington Times contained more headlines that were pro-Bush, while the Los Angeles Times contained more headlines that were pro-Kerry. The key issues that reflected bias included that candidate's campaign, homeland security, and values.

No / This study aimed to determine if response times gathered during perimetry can be exploited within a thresholding algorithm to improve the speed and accuracy of the test. Frequency of seeing (FoS) curves were measured at 24 locations across the central 30° of the visual field of 10 subjects using a Method of Constant Stimuli, with response times recorded for each presentation. Spatial locations were interleaved, and built up over multiple 5-min blocks, in order to mimic the attentional conditions of clinical perimetry. FoS curves were fitted to each participant’s data for each location, and response times derived as a function of distance-from-threshold normalised to the slope of each FoS curve. This data was then used to derive a function for the probability of observing response times given the distance-from-threshold, and to seed simulations of a new test procedure (BURTO) that exploited the probability function for stimulus placement. Test time and error were then simulated for patients with various false response rates. When compared with a ZEST algorithm, simulations revealed that BURTO was about one presentation per location faster than ZEST, on average, while sacrificing less precision and bias in threshold estimates than simply terminating the ZEST earlier. Despite response times varying considerably for a given individual and their thresholds, response times can be exploited to reduce the number of presentations required in a visual field test without loss of accuracy.

<p>The purpose of the essay is to illustrate the differences in understanding and comprehension of time among the characters in the novel Hard Times. These contrasting differences are then argued to compose a crtisism of the industrial society.</p>

The purpose of the essay is to illustrate the differences in understanding and comprehension of time among the characters in the novel Hard Times. These contrasting differences are then argued to compose a crtisism of the industrial society.

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Magister Commercii (Information Management) - MCom(IM) / At public sector health facilities in Cape Town, South Africa, patients experience very high waiting times, with a medium waiting time of 3 hours which prevailed at the study facility being common. So the question arose as to why waiting times are so very high and what could be done to reduce them? While for the facility under investigation the immediate causes of the high waiting times were known, the underlying causes were quite opaque. A concern expressed therefore, was that if the underlying causes were not uncovered then efforts to reduce waiting times might not be successful, as they would just address the immediate causes. The legitimacy of the concern derives from the view that if underlying causes are not addressed, then they will continue to exert an influence on the immediate causes, and therefore perpetuate the environment which creates fertile ground for immediate causes to arise and persist, with resultant persistence of high waiting times. Hence, my interest to undertake research to explore the underlying causes of high waiting times. / 2018-12-14