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Thesis--PlanB (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references.

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The research outlined in this thesis is a comparative investigation of the views and selfdefinitions of small-scale hospitality providers who operate their business concerns in two Scottish urban settings. It deals specifically with owner-occupied businesses. This characteristic serves to define a key focus of the research, in that it is essentially concerned with the small-scale guest house which functions as both a home and a business for its owner. In this thesis, the self-definitions and images of these proprietors are explored through the medium of the in-depth research interview, and consequently analysed from the resulting textual interview data. The nature of the research questions call for a qualitative research enquiry to provide the depth necessary to enable interpretations to be drawn which are emergent and grounded in the data. It adopts a phenomenologically-driven research perspective, using a symbolic interactionist conceptual framework upon which the methodology draws. This research is necessarily context-driven as, in order to understand fully the nature of this group, it is important to consider the context in which these proprietors operate. In this study, the two Scottish urban locations of Inverness and Dundee, as part of the wider Scottish tourism spectrum are taken as the contextual parameters of the research. Background research to this enquiry therefore pays necessary attention to the sociohistorical Scottish tourism setting, with specific focus on these locations. This functions as the contextual background against which the owner-occupiers of these small hospitality businesses must be placed. This also serves to provide an overall framework for the development of the theoretical perspectives and research methodologies which direct the research process.

Thesis (M. Film Making)--Murdoch University, 2007. / Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Creative Technologies and Media. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 136-148).

The primary purpose of this research was to examine institutional characteristics of four-year, public colleges and universities that closed off-site locations between 2012 and 2019 through the lens of resource dependence theory. As institutions attempt to maximize their available resources and make the best use of existing resources, there will inevitably be moments where an off-site location will come into question. Over the eight years of the study, the US Department of Education recorded the closure of 7,508 educational locations across all types of educational institutions. This study examined the closure trends that existed for public colleges and universities across the period and looked for institutional characteristics associated with a heightened risk of closing off-site locations. The results of the study indicate that most of the public closures came from a small number of institutions, with 62% of the closed off-site locations coming from 18 of the 365 institutions in the study. After examining the overall trend, data was analyzed from 365 institutions across ten self-reported variables. These research findings indicate two primary variables that significantly affected the closure of off-site locations and suggest the struggle between the access mission of public universities and prestige-maximizing behavior can drive institutional decision making. The study concludes with recommendations for future research.

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<p dir="ltr">The s<i>patial-musical association of response code</i><i> </i>(SMARC) effect is the name given to a phenomenon for which responses to low and high pitch tones are faster when they correspond with lower and upper response locations, or left and right response locations, respectively, than when they do not. The SMARC effect was observed consistently when responses were located at lower or higher locations on the vertical dimension (the vertical SMARC effect). However, when the responses were located on the left or right to the center of the body on the horizontal dimension, the horizontal SMARC effect was observed among musicians consistently, but for nonmusicians, the horizontal SMARC effect was only observed under certain conditions (e.g., in pitch-height judgment tasks, or in color judgment tasks with a reference tone). Two theories, the direct mapping theory and intermediate mapping theory, can account for the horizontal SMARC effect. These theories indicate that musicians automatically code pitch to horizontal locations based on a direct mapping established through their musical training. In contrast, the horizontal SMARC effect for nonmusicians is based on an indirect mapping, which needs to be established via extra reference cues to associate the pitch height with the horizontal response locations.</p><p dir="ltr">The current study consists of four experiments designed to investigate the differences in conditions where the horizontal SMARC effect occurs for musicians versus nonmusicians, and how to elicit the horizontal SMARC effect among nonmusicians. Experiments 1 and 2 examined two factors that have been previously shown to influence the horizontal SMARC effect, tone laterality and musical experience, when properties of the tones were task irrelevant. It was found that only musicians showed horizontal SMARC effect when tones were presented binaurally, but both musicians and nonmusicians showed horizontal SMARC effect when tones were presented monaurally on all trials. The horizontal SMARC effect was eliminated among nonmusicians by diluting monaural tone’s lateral information by intermixing monaural and binaural trials. However, with monaural cue presentation, the auditory Simon effect was present regardless of whether the binaural trials were intermixed. Experiment 3 examined if the pitch-height was made a relevant stimulus dimension, would it evoke the horizontal SMARC effect among nonmusicians and decrease the differences in SMARC effect sizes between musicians and nonmusicians. No significant horizontal SMARC effect was found among nonmusicians in Experiment 3, which may have been attributed to other spatial congruity effects, such as the Simon effect, being present. Experiment 4 showed that 600 trials of practice with compatible mapping of low pitch to left location and high pitch to right location was sufficient to elicit the horizontal SMARC effect in a transfer session among nonmusicians.</p><p dir="ltr">The results of this study confirmed that musicians are able to associate the pitch height and the left-right locations on the horizontal dimension directly but nonmusicians do not have this ability. For nonmusicians, a horizontal reference frame, provided via tone laterality or extensive training to associate pitch to left-right responses is needed for the horizontal SMARC effect to emerge.</p>

The objective of my research is to provide a better understanding of the relationship between the micro-seismicity, tectonics and crustal structure in southwest Yukon in order to improve seismic hazard assessments in this region. I used a combination of single event and multiple event location techniques to determine earthquake locations and depths. As well, frequency-magnitude statistics were calculated to analyze rates of seismicity and possible changes in the rates of seismicity. The addition of the YUK array in August 2010 has enabled location of smaller events and detection of a systematic northeast trend of earthquakes. Seismicity is concentrated in four main areas: 1) Yaktutat Block-Fairweather Fault, 2) Duke River Fault, 3) Denali Fault, and 4) a NE-trend. There was relatively little seismic activity during this period along the northern Denali Fault segment and only a small amount of activity along the southern portion of the Denali Fault. There is significantly more seismic activity along the Duke River Fault and NE-trend and a clear region of seismicity just west and parallel to the Alaska-Yukon border between the Duke River Fault and northern Denali Fault. Frequency-magnitude statistics and seismic hazard analyses for southwest Yukon were improved by decreasing the minimum magnitude of completeness from M3.0 to M1.0. Between September 2010 and November 2011, event magnitudes ranged from 0.2 to 4.7 and depths from 0 to 35 km. To address how the YUK array has improved single event locations and depths, we use a single-event location technique to monitor seismic activity. Only 37 of the 106 events detected for the Duke River Fault and NE-trend could potentially be located without the YUK array. When the Alaska Earthquake Information Center (AEIC) network was combined with the Canadian National Seismograph Network (CNSN), events within the NE-trend shift on average 6.6 km to the northeast and the depth increased on average 2.6 km. Within the Duke River and NE-trending clusters, there is an average maximum horizontal error of ±0.9 km and an average error in depth of ±3.2 km. Free depths in the Duke River and NE-trending clusters range from 0 to 20 km. These depths are not well-constrained as the closest station is more than 20 km away. Two events within the southern Denali Fault cluster have well-constrained depths of 4.8 km and 8.2 km at distance less than ~8 km from station YUK6, consistent with upper crust (2-10 km) focal depths. A Progressive Multiple Event Location technique (PMEL) was used to identify and better constrain spatial patterns along the Duke River Fault and NE-trend. Results clearly shows that events fall along the Duke River Fault and that the NE-trend events are located on a previously unidentified active fault. To determine rates of seismicity and possible changes in the rates of seismicity, I examine b-values from frequency-magnitude statistics for each cluster of earthquakes before and after the 2002 M7.9 Denali Fault earthquake. b-values increased from 0.81 ± 0.14 to 1.05 ± 0.22 , suggesting higher Coulomb stress and more frequent smaller earthquakes. / Graduate

Thesis (Ph. D.) -- Lincoln University, 2007. / Also issued online.