Dr. Neilson (Ph.D. Queen’s University, Marketing and MIS) is an Assistant Professor at the Sprott School of Business. She taught Information Systems courses in her previous appointment at the University of Guelph, and currently teaches in the Marketing area at the Sprott School. Her research focuses on social and cultural influences on consumption, consumer culture theory, morality in marketpla...

Purpose – This review aims to provide a snapshot of digital library research of the past 11 years (1997-2007) that focuses on organisational and people issues, including those concerning the social/cultural, legal, ethical, and use dimensions. Design/methodology/approach – The review covers articles published in mainstream peer-reviewed library and information science/studies journals. The anal...

Two studies examined the extent to which familiarity and facial image type influenced judgments about personality traits. Faces of strangers were judged more neurotic and less attractive than either the self or a friend. Chimeric images of two left sides of faces received higher ratings for attractiveness, agreeableness, and health. Results are discussed in terms of bilateral neural processing.

Three studies (Ns = 183, 75, 123) examined the utility of the M5 Questionnaire (McCord, 2002), based on the five-factor model of personality (FFM), in assessing psychopathic personality traits in three separate undergraduate college student samples from the same public university in the Southeastern United States. Participants completed the M5 Questionnaire, a 336-item FFM instrument derived fr...

A small base isolation system using a new device that used friction force was developed. In this paper, dynamic characteristics of the system were investigated by an experiment using artificial seismic wave. The bearing combination of three cases, four spherical metal bearings, two spherical metal and two marble plate bearings, four marble plate bearings, was done in the experiment. The peak ac...

Researchers have found that communication quality is a major indicator of how satisfied partners are in a romantic relationship. This study centered on that aspect but added a facet in that it tested individuals’ perceptions of communication and satisfaction within their relationships in separate environments in order to test the theory that certain environments may alter our moods, attitudes, ...

Chaos theory has a manifold variety of applications in science and engineering. There are many systems in nature with several stable states, which are separated by energy barriers. When the system can move along the stable states, its dynamics can become quite complex. A simple mechanical model that depicts some of these complex dynamical features is the famous Duffing double-well oscillator (1...

This study investigated university female students’ (who perceived their stress levels as mild, moderate, or severe) scores on a stress inventory. Two hundred fifty-eight women responded to the Student-life Stress Inventory and reported their age. Instructors provided students’ semester course grades. Significant differences were found among the stress level groups on all inventory category sco...

The present investigation has been undertaken in sweet corn to carry out the combining ability analysis and to estimate heterosis of yield and yield contributing characters. Eight divergent parents were selected and crossed in diallel fashion excluding reciprocals during kharif, 2010. The resulting 28 crosses along with parents and a standard check Sugar 75 and Madhuri were evaluated in Randomi...

Thermal plasma measurements from the Dynamics Explorer 1 spacecraft using an aperture bias in the outer plasmasphere and over the polar cap show the existence of cold plasma (T ~1 eV) which may otherwise be hidden from the particle detector by positive spacecraft potentials. Operations of the retarding ion mass spectrometer instrument with the external aperture plane biased up to -8 V with resp...