The current investigation sought to understand the relationships between college student alienation, academic achievement, and use of WebCT. Fifty-three students enrolled in an undergraduate educational psychology course provided three types of data: 1) self-rating of eight Likert scale alienation items, 2) academic achievement measured with four types of multiple choice questions evaluating ma...

AbstrAct If a caller is placed on hold when they call a business, about half will hang up before the call is answered. Of those that hang up, only half of those will call back (Staino, 1994). Optimizing the on-hold experience has the potential to reduce hang-ups and make being put on hold more palatable to the caller. The current study assessed the influence of the opportunity to make a music c...

A popular issue in the 1980’s and early 1990’s, computer self-efficacy (CSE) remains an important area of research. Educators, industry leaders, and government officials argue that the United States is falling behind other countries in technology innovation. And, most attribute this situation to ineffective education in the areas of math, science, and technology. The current study provides insi...

The current pattern of competition in the Brazilian telecommunications market was defined by a regulatory reform implemented in the second half of the nineties. The telecommunications regulatory reform discussed in the paper promoted the privatization of Telebras System and fostered competition in the Brazilian market under the stricted supervision of the new regulator Anatel. Notwithstanding, ...

The current problems the medical research community is presently confronting has also featured in this issue. As scientific progress continues to achieve accomplishments at a faster face, the moral and ethical questions posed by these new discoveries and technology should prominently mark future ethical discussions. The authors have chosen to speculate on where some of these conversations may l...

The current project examined how changes to task constraints impacted the behavioral dynamics of an interpersonal collision avoidance task previously examined and modeled by Richardson and colleagues (2015). Overall, the results demonstrate that decreasing the cost associated with colliding influences the stability and symmetry of the movement dynamics observed between co-actors in a manner con...

The current study investigated whether children and adults can distinguish between actions they are afforded and those afforded to an actor. Participants judged the maximum height they could reach while jumping and they judged the maximum height that the actor could reach while jumping. They did so with and without a weighted backpack, and they did so with and without walking several laps. Resu...

Scholarly attention to Colossians in the recent past has included attention to the nature of the Colossian heresy,1 the hymn to Christ in Col. 1:15-20,2 and the literary style of Colossians generally.3 Although rhetorical studies of Colossians have appeared, comprehensive rhetorical studies which consider the letter’s invention, arrangement, and style have been few in number.4 The current artic...

Research has shown that listeners accommodate talker differences in speech production by adjusting phonetic boundaries in light of a talker’s unique productions. However, phonetic categories are not marked solely by boundaries, they also have a graded internal structure in that not all members of a category are considered equally good members. The current work examines whether listeners adjust ...

this paper presents a new control method for a three-phase four-wire unified power quality conditioner (upqc) to deal with the problems of power quality under distortional and unbalanced load conditions. the proposed control approach is the combination of instantaneous power theory and synchronous reference frame (srf) theory which is optimized by using a self-tuning filter (stf) and without us...