EDITOR’S COMMENTS
The MIS Quarterly as a Platform for Engagement
By: Arun Rai
Editor-in-Chief, MIS Quarterly
Regents’ Professor of the University System of Georgia
Robinson Chair of IT-Enabled Supply Chains and Process Innovation
Harkins Chair of Information Systems
Robinson College of Business
Georgia State University
[email protected]
In my inaugural editorial, I shared MIS Quarterly’s trifecta vision which is to (1) achieve impact on scholarship and practice as the leading
source of novel and accreted IS knowledge, (2) exhibit range in work published with respect to problem domains and stakeholders addressed
as well as theoretical and methodological approaches used, and (3) execute effective editorial processes in a timely manner (Rai 2016a).
To achieve this vision, we are pursuing a platform strategy with a focus on engagement with different MISQ stakeholders—those involved in
editorial processes, potential authors and reviewers, and scholars and practitioners for whom MISQ articles create value.
To start with, the core of the MISQ platform is its editorial process, which focuses on developing and selecting the very best research for
publication. Through editorials, editorial board meetings, and discussions among senior and associate editors, we continue to share experiences
and best practices and cultivate shared understanding on how best to spot and develop work that is likely to be influential. We have been
promoting SE–AE engagement in prescreening and reviewer selection and in the judicious use of reviewer resources at each stage in the review
process. We have developed mechanisms to provide editors with feedback on their performance—for example, senior and associate editors
now receive reports on their cycle times based on how the paper was processed (e.g., prescreening by SE only, SE–AE prescreening, full round
of review) and the stage of manuscripts in the review process (e.g., initial submission, first revision, etc.). And, the editorial appointment
process is based on a consideration of area of need, expertise, performance in editorial and reviewing roles, and detailed conversations between
the EIC and each potential appointee to assess fit with and commitment to achieving the vision of the journal.
We are also undertaking a series of initiatives that are complementary to the editorial process. These initiatives relate to (1) the development
of the quality of the inputs to the editorial process through author and reviewer development workshops, (2) enhancing the scholarly value of
published work through a team with complementary expertise curating MISQ articles on a topic, (3) enhancing the practical utility of MISQ
articles through non-exclusive partnerships with complementary publication and media outlets that effectively reach practitioner audiences,
and (4) engagement with the IS community and other communities through social media and EIC ambassadorial activities. I use this editorial
to share our progress on ...
Action-Oriented Research Agenda on Library Contributions to Student Learning ...Lynn Connaway
Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, William Harvey, Vanessa Kitzie, and Stephanie Mikitish. 2017. “Action-Oriented Research Agenda on Library Contributions to Student Learning and Success.” Presented at the ALA Midwinter Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January 22.
Action-Oriented Research Agenda on Library Contributions to Student Learning ...OCLC
Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, William Harvey, Vanessa Kitzie, and Stephanie Mikitish. 2017. “Action-Oriented Research Agenda on Library Contributions to Student Learning and Success.” Presented at the ALA Midwinter Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January 22.
Objectives:
1. Discuss why, when, what, where and how to publish.
2. Understand what makes a paper publishable.
3. Explore the journals market.
4. Introduce Library Trends as a source of journal publishing in the library and information field, and describe how it is produced.
Moderators :
Clara M. Chu
• Director and Mortenson Distinguished Professor, Mortenson Center for International Library Programs, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Coeditor-in-Chief of Library Trends and Inaugural Coeditor of the ‘International Insights’ column of College & Research Libraries News
• Expert in developing appropriate solutions to deliver equitable and relevant library services in culturally diverse and dynamic libraries
• Studies the information needs of culturally diverse communities in a globalized and technological society
• Co-developing an institute on Artificial Intelligence and libraries
Jaya Raju
Professor and Head of the Department of Knowledge and Information Stewardship, Humanities Faculty, University of Cape Town
• Specialist researcher and author in library and information science (LIS) education and its epistemological implications for the discipline and for professional practice
• Teaches research methodology and the broader philosophical, ontological and epistemological issues that impact the research process
• Coeditor-in-Chief of Library Trends and Inaugural Coeditor of the ALISE (Association for Library and Information Science Education) Book Series on LIS education and research
• Editor-in-Chief of the South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science from 2012 to 2018
Targeted Audience:
• Staff in any type of library and information center
• Library and information science students, researchers and educators
Action-Oriented Research Agenda on Library Contributions to Student Learning ...Lynn Connaway
Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, William Harvey, Vanessa Kitzie, and Stephanie Mikitish. 2017. “Action-Oriented Research Agenda on Library Contributions to Student Learning and Success.” Presented at the ALA Midwinter Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January 22.
Action-Oriented Research Agenda on Library Contributions to Student Learning ...OCLC
Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, William Harvey, Vanessa Kitzie, and Stephanie Mikitish. 2017. “Action-Oriented Research Agenda on Library Contributions to Student Learning and Success.” Presented at the ALA Midwinter Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January 22.
Objectives:
1. Discuss why, when, what, where and how to publish.
2. Understand what makes a paper publishable.
3. Explore the journals market.
4. Introduce Library Trends as a source of journal publishing in the library and information field, and describe how it is produced.
Moderators :
Clara M. Chu
• Director and Mortenson Distinguished Professor, Mortenson Center for International Library Programs, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Coeditor-in-Chief of Library Trends and Inaugural Coeditor of the ‘International Insights’ column of College & Research Libraries News
• Expert in developing appropriate solutions to deliver equitable and relevant library services in culturally diverse and dynamic libraries
• Studies the information needs of culturally diverse communities in a globalized and technological society
• Co-developing an institute on Artificial Intelligence and libraries
Jaya Raju
Professor and Head of the Department of Knowledge and Information Stewardship, Humanities Faculty, University of Cape Town
• Specialist researcher and author in library and information science (LIS) education and its epistemological implications for the discipline and for professional practice
• Teaches research methodology and the broader philosophical, ontological and epistemological issues that impact the research process
• Coeditor-in-Chief of Library Trends and Inaugural Coeditor of the ALISE (Association for Library and Information Science Education) Book Series on LIS education and research
• Editor-in-Chief of the South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science from 2012 to 2018
Targeted Audience:
• Staff in any type of library and information center
• Library and information science students, researchers and educators
Action Learning Sets: An Innovative Way to Facilitate Writing for Publication Self Employed
Presentation given by Maria J Grant, Research Fellow, University of Salford, UK at the 7th International Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP7) conference, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, 15th-18th July 20013.
www.eblip7.library.usask.ca
State of the Commission for Student Involvement (07/31/2012)csi_acpa
This presentation is a status update on what the Commission of Student Involvement has been up to over the past few months. It also highlights upcoming initiatives, potential changes, and ways to become involved with the commission.
The Commission for Student Involvement is a part of ACPA - College Student Educators International. For more information on CSI and ACPA please refer to ACPA's website, www.myacpa.org.
Increasing visibility and enhancing impact of researchNader Ale Ebrahim
Publication is the beginning of research impact and visibility, thus dissemination of research publications have to be proactive. Researchers can promote their research work in three stages: (1) manuscript preparation and submission; (2) post-publication promoting; and (3) after receiving mentions/citations (monitoring).
Open Source Software Governance Guide: Developing a Matrix of Leading Questio...Javier Canovas
Slides of the presentation for the panel "Applying the principles of knowledge commons governance in practical frameworks for community-driven stewardship of digital resources" at Knowledge Commons Conference 2021
Summaries of Workshops held at IJCAI 2016 at New York in JulyBiplav Srivastava
IJCAI is the premier AI conference. The workshops represent some of the cutting-edge topics related to AI theory and practice. See details at: http://ijcai-16.org/index.php/welcome/view/accepted_workshops
An institutional perspective on analytics that focusses on a particular tool developed using an agile methodology to visualise learner behaviours in MOOCs via Sankey diagrams.
Relationship of Google Scholar Versions and Paper CitationsNader Ale Ebrahim
The number of citations that a paper has received is the most commonly used indicator to measure the quality of research. Researchers, journals, and universities want to receive more citations for their scholarly publications to increase their h-index, impact factor, and ranking respectively. In this paper, we tried to analyses the effect of the number of available Google Scholar versions of a paper on citations count. We analyzed 10,162 papers which are published in Scopus database in year 2010 by Malaysian top five universities. Then we developed a software to collect the number of citations and versions of each paper from Google Scholar automatically. The result of spearman correlation coefficient revealed that there is positive significant association between the number of Google Scholar versions of a paper and the number of times a paper has been cited.
Presentation delivered at the doctoral defence of Monica Lassi, University of Borås, 11th June 2014. There is a full narrative to accompany these slides at http://hazelhall.org/2014/06/12/facilitating-collaboration-a-doctoral-defence-in-sweden/
A cost structure study for French HSS journalsOpenEdition
The editorial contents in SSH are produced by public fundsThe main editorial cost is the salary of the copy editor.Commercial publisher when appears is primarily operating as a printer, and/or a distributor
The most important part of the publishing cost of an article is the salary of the copy editor:
The average time required for copy editing tasks per journal and per year is 10.5 months as for the 50 journals of our sample. The editor’s tasks we are talking about are: managing articles from their selection to their expertise (through peer review), rewrite some of the work, check critical apparatus and add missing references, copy edit, structure files through single source publishing process (with TEI-XML tools for example) and prepare paper and/or digital formats.10.5 months makes an average of 42.000€ a year (salary). We can conclude that the median cost for 1 item (article) produced in SSH is 1.330€ (minimum cost is 500 and maximum 4.000), and the median cost for 1 page is 66€ (minimum cost is 5 and maximum 200).
The share of the cost for the print, broadcast and distribution is not predominant in relation to the salary of the editor:
The response we got from 25 of the journals is that the yearly average cost for printing and distribution is 11.200€
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Discussion 3:
Evaluating Research Questions, Hypotheses, and Quantitative Research Designs
With a clear purpose in place, quantitative researchers have a roadmap for crafting their research questions and hypotheses that will further focus the approach they will take to investigate their topic (i.e., their study’s research design).
The selection of a research design is guided by the study’s purpose and research questions and hypotheses, and the design then links the research questions and hypotheses to the data that will be collected. You should keep in mind, however, that the research process is interactive, not necessarily proceeding in a linear fashion from one component to the next. Rather, the writing of research questions could, for example, necessitate adjustments to the study’s purpose statement.
Nevertheless, when presented together, the various components of a research study should align. As you learned last week, alignment means that a research study possesses clear and logical connections among all of its various components.
In addition to considering alignment, when researchers select a research design, they must also consider the ethical implications of their choice, including, for example, what their design selection means for participant recruitment, procedures, and privacy.
For this Discussion, you will evaluate quantitative research questions and hypotheses in assigned journal articles in your discipline and consider the alignment of theory, problem, purpose, research questions and hypotheses, and design.
You will also identify the type of quantitative research design the authors used and explain how it was implemented. You will also complete online training in the protection of human research participants.
Due 06/27/2017 by 5 pm
References
Spencer, M. S., Rosland, A. M., Kieffer, E. C., Sinco, B. R., Valerio, M., Palmisano, G., . . . & Heisler, M. (2011). Effectiveness of a community health worker intervention among African American and Latino adults with type 2 diabetes: A randomized controlled trial. American Journal of Public Health, 101(12), 2253–2260. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2010.300106
Burkholder, G. J., Cox, K. A., & Crawford, L. M. (2016). The scholar-practitioner’s guide to research design. Baltimore, MD: Laureate Publishing.
· Chapter 4, “Quantitative Research Designs”
Babbie, E. (2017). Basics of social research (7th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.
· Chapter 5, “Conceptualization, Operationalization, and Measurement”
Purpose Statement Checklist Use the following criteria to evaluate an author’s purpose statement.
Look for indications of the following:
• Does the statement begin with signaling words?
• Does the statement identify the research approach (quantitative, qualitative, or mixed)? • Does the statement clearly state the intent of the study?
• Does the statement mention the participants? • Does the statement mention the research site?
• Is the statement framed in a way that is consistent with the id.
Using C#, write a program to find the nearest common parent of any t.docxgidmanmary
Using C#, write a program to find the nearest common parent of any two nodes in a binary tree. Aside from stacks and queues, do not use any data structures that are built into the language. Package an executable to run that visually demonstrates the tree and the common parent. This could be ASCII art or web based.
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Using autoethnography in a qualitative research,consider a resid.docxgidmanmary
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consider a resident of Sedgwick County, Colorado community to be the researcher of this study? Over the past 16 years, only two building permits for new housing construction have been issued in Sedgwick County, Colorado. This is consistent with the depopulation (particularly of younger persons) and economic diminution that is attributed to a declining rainfall since the 1970s. These are quantitative details. It is unclear how much of the depopulation was due to perceived opportunities elsewhere, to copycat or fad behavior, and to perceived change in local economic opportunity.
This is the only situation where the researcher can offer his/her own perspective as data for the study. How does the researcher guard against the limitations of his/her existing bias? How does he/she make sure that the data collected will be informative to a larger audience? [250 words, 2 references, 2 Intext Citations, Original Writings only]
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The editorial contents in SSH are produced by public fundsThe main editorial cost is the salary of the copy editor.Commercial publisher when appears is primarily operating as a printer, and/or a distributor
The most important part of the publishing cost of an article is the salary of the copy editor:
The average time required for copy editing tasks per journal and per year is 10.5 months as for the 50 journals of our sample. The editor’s tasks we are talking about are: managing articles from their selection to their expertise (through peer review), rewrite some of the work, check critical apparatus and add missing references, copy edit, structure files through single source publishing process (with TEI-XML tools for example) and prepare paper and/or digital formats.10.5 months makes an average of 42.000€ a year (salary). We can conclude that the median cost for 1 item (article) produced in SSH is 1.330€ (minimum cost is 500 and maximum 4.000), and the median cost for 1 page is 66€ (minimum cost is 5 and maximum 200).
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The selection of a research design is guided by the study’s purpose and research questions and hypotheses, and the design then links the research questions and hypotheses to the data that will be collected. You should keep in mind, however, that the research process is interactive, not necessarily proceeding in a linear fashion from one component to the next. Rather, the writing of research questions could, for example, necessitate adjustments to the study’s purpose statement.
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2.
ABSTRACT.
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BODY.
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REFERENCE PAGE.
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or Salary
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1
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M
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3
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S
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S = Semimonthly
M = Monthly
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M
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W
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S
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W
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M
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M
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S
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D
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3,215
*Must use percentage method (Jim Singer ONLY)
Damerly Company wants to give a holiday bonus check of $250 to each employee.
Since it wants the check amount to be $250, it will need to gross up the amount of the bonus.
Calculate the withholding
taxes and gross amount of the bonus to be made to John Rolen if his cumulative earnings for the year are $46,910.
Besides, being subject to social security taxes and federal income tax (supplemental rate), a 7% California income tax must be withheld on supplemental payments.
4–6A.
(a)
$250
1 – 0.25 (supplemental federal rate) – 0.062 (OASDI) – 0.0145 (HI) – 0.07 (California tax) = ___________
(b)
$250/(1 – 0.3965) = __________
(c)
Gross bonus amount __________
Federal income tax withheld __________
OASDI tax withheld ____________
HI tax withheld ____________
California income tax withheld ___________
Take-home bonus check __________
George Clausen (age 48) is employed by Kline Company and is paid a salary of $42,640.
He has just decided to join the company’s Simple Retirement Account (IRA form) and has a few questions.
Answer the following:
4–11A.
(a)
Clausen’s maximum contribution _____________
(b)
Kline Company’s contribution (3%) _____________
(c)
Clausen’s take-home pay with the
retirement contribution deducted:
Weekly pay
.............................................................
$
820.00
FICA—OASDI
..............................................................
______
FICA—HI
.....................................................................
______
FIT ($820.00 – $230.77 = $589.23 taxable)
...............
_________*
State income tax ($820.00
×
0.023)
...........................
______
Retirement contribution ($12,000 ÷ 52)
............ ....
_______
Take-home pay
.......................................................
_______
*Married, 2 allowances.
(d)
Clausen’s take-home pay without the
retirement contributi.
Use the textbook andor online sources to locate and capture three w.docxgidmanmary
Use the textbook and/or online sources to locate and capture three works of art.
one from the Early Renaissance (fourteenth century, 1300–1399)
one from the Northern European Renaissance (fifteenth century, 1400–1499)
one from the Italian Renaissance (fifteenth century, 1400–1499)
Your works of art must either be all paintings or all sculptures.
Place these images in a Word document. Then do the following:
For each image identify:
The artist
Title of the work of art
The date(s) it was created
The medium or materials used to create the work of art, such as oil paint, marble, etc.
Where the work is located now.
In a
well-developed
paragraph (4–6 sentences) provide at least two important historical facts about each piece that makes the piece important to the history of art.
In another well-developed paragraph (4–6 sentences) based on your personal observations, describe how the artist had depicted the human figure.
In a 6–10-sentence concluding paragraph(s):
Compare and contrast how the depiction of the human figure has changed.
Be sure to note such things as general appearance of the figures; their body types; whether the figures have been stylized, elongated, or idealized; and whether their clothing, colors, and other visual details have changed.
Based on your reading and what you learned from the historic facts you have for each work of art discuss what may have been influencing factors behind these changes.
Offer a citation of your sources for each image and the information provided as appropriate.
.
Use the Web to conduct research on User Domain Security Policy and A.docxgidmanmary
Use the Web to conduct research on User Domain Security Policy and Access Management. Write a report which describes and differentiates the following:
(1) End-User Access Controls
(2) Administrator Access Controls
(3) Application Developer Access Controls
Your report should be at least 600 words total and APA formatted. Make sure to include your references.
.
Use this Article to create the powerpoint slidesBrown, S. L., No.docxgidmanmary
Use this Article to create the powerpoint slides
Brown, S. L., Nobiling, B. D., Teufel, J., & Birch, D. A. (2011). Are kids too busy? Early adolescents' perceptions of discretionary activities, overscheduling and stress.
Journal of School Health,
81(9), 574-580.
Resource:
Assigned journal article
Create
a 7- to 10-slide presentation with speaker notes examining the differences between descriptive and inferential statistics used in the journal article you were assigned.
Address
the following items as they apply to the article:
Describe the functions of statistics.
Define descriptive and inferential statistics.
Provide at least one example of the relationship between descriptive and inferential statistics.
*******ALL I NEED IS 2 SLIDES WITH NOTES FOR THE INTRODUCTION AND 2 SLIDES WITH NOTES FOR THE CONCLUSION*******
.
use the work sheet format made available but only to give brief, bu.docxgidmanmary
use the work sheet format made available but only to give brief, bullet point advantages and disadvantages for each business form. Then choose the two business forms which would be the most logical to use or are in use for a business that you work for, that you know of, or that you would like to start. Then, in a
maximum of 500 words
, explain to me how the advantages and disadvantages of the two business forms would affect the chosen business's operations. I am asking you to consider the practical effect of a business form selection.
Business Forms Worksheet
There are seven forms of business: sole proprietorship, partnership, limited liability partnership, limited liability company (including the single member LLC), S Corporation, Franchise, and Corporation.
1.
Research and provide
three
advantages and
three
disadvantages for each
business
form
.
2.
Provide a 100
- to
200
-
word summary
in which
you provide an example business that you would start for each form
. W
hat is legally necessary to file in order to form that business
? D
iscuss at least one of the advantages and one of the disadvantages of that form.
Sole Proprietorship
Advantages
1.
2.
3.
Disadvantages
1.
2.
3.
Summary
Partnership
Advantages
1.
2.
3.
Disadvantages
1.
2.
3.
Summary
Limited Liability Partnership
Advantages
1.
2.
3.
Disadvantages
1.
2.
3.
Summary
Limited Liability Company
, (including the single member LLC)
Advantages
1.
2.
3.
Disadvantages
1.
2.
3.
Summary
S Corporation
Advantages
1.
2.
3.
Disadvantages
1.
2.
3.
Summary
Franchise
Advantages
1.
2.
3.
Disadvantages
1.
2.
3.
Summary
Corporation
Advantages
1.
2.
3.
Disadvantages
1.
2.
3.
Summary
Business Forms Worksheet
There are seven forms of business: sole proprietorship, partnership, limited liability partnership, limited liability company (including the single member LLC), S Corporation, Franchise, and Corporation.
1.
Research and provide
three
advantages and
three
disadvantages for each
business
form
.
2.
Provide a 100
- to
200
-
word summary
in which
you provide an example business that you would start for each form
. W
hat is legally necessary to file in order to form that business
? D
iscuss at least one of the advantages and one of the disadvantages of that form.
Sole Proprietorship
Advantages
1.
2.
3.
Disadvantages
1.
2.
3.
Summary
Partnership
Advantages
1.
2.
3.
Disadvantages
1.
2.
3.
Summary
Limited Liabil.
Use these three sources to compose an annotated bibliography on Data.docxgidmanmary
Use these three sources to compose an annotated bibliography on Data Quality
Loshin, D. (2011).
The practitioner's guide to data quality improvement
. Burlington, MA: Morgan Kaufmann.
Khosrow-Pour, M. (2009).
Encyclopedia
of information science and technology
. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference.
Olson, S. (2013).
Sharing clinical research data: Workshop summary
. Washington, D.C: The
National Academies Press
.
Use this outline to crete a four page essay. Guideline included and .docxgidmanmary
Use this outline to crete a four page essay. Guideline included and advertisment.
be focused on analyzing an advertisement, current or vintage, that’s appropriate for a college-level audience;
(Ad is included)
include a thesis statement at the end of the introduction that conveys the overall effectiveness of the chosen ad;
include details to establish the visual description and context of the ad;
identify the various ways rhetorical appeals are used;
be typed and submitted as a Microsoft Word 2010 document (.docx), with 12-point font and APA formatting for margins, title page, running heads, and page numbers
be three to four double-spaced pages, not including the title page; and
.
Use the SPSS software and the data set (2004)GSS.SAV (attached).docxgidmanmary
Use the SPSS software and the data set:
(2004)GSS.SAV (attached)
recode the variable for political party identification (PARTYID) into a NEW variable that uses the following old values to create the following new
categories:
Data set:
2004gssnew-6.sav
binge1-2.sav
1 thru 2 = 1= Democrat
3 thru 5 = 2 = Independent
6 thru 7 = 3 = Republican
8 = 4 = Other
(Answer the following questions; use the (new) recoded variable with a variable premarsx and compare them- crosstab)
Note:
Variable PREMARSX will be a dependent variable (place it in the row), variable NEW PARTID will be an independent variable (place it in the column).
Remember to request column percentages.
Show your work (attach all tables).
1. Of all the respondents who are
Republicans
, what
percentage
believes that premarital sex is always wrong?
________________________________________________
2. Of all the respondents who are
Democrats
, what
percentage
believes that premarital sex in
not
wrong at all?
_________________________________________________
3. Of all the people who are
Independents
, what
percentage
believes that premarital sex is always wrong or almost always wrong?
________________________________________________________
4.
Seven detention centers are surveyed. The current number of inmates in each detention center is 30, 11, 22, 15, 5, 42, and 99. What is the median number of inmates?
Answer: _________________________
5. When do we use a Chi square?
_______________________________________________
6. Participants in a research study have been classified as lower, middle, or upper class in terms of their socioeconomic status. We can say that the variable of social class has been measured at the ____________________ level of measurement.
7. A distribution has 14 scores. Each score is represented only once in the distribution, with two exceptions. The score of 72, appears three times, and the score of 48 appears four times.
What is the mode of the distribution?
8. Assume that the mean of a distribution of test scores is 40 and the standard deviation is 10. You have been told that your test score
is one standard deviation above the mean.
What is your test score?
9. Assume that the mean of a distribution of test scores is 60, with a standard deviation of 20. What would be the value of the score that
falls two standard deviations below the mean?
10. What menu across the top of the SPSS data editor window will let you access the FREQUENCIES command?
(a)
Analyze
(d)
Summarize
(b)
Data
(e)
Window
(c)
Transform
Answer: ___________________________
11. Briefly explain the difference between
percent
and
valid percent
in a frequency table.
12. In a survey instrument, a question asks “In a typical week, how often do you exercise enough to raise your heart rate?”
The response categories are never; 1 time per week; 2 times per w.
Use the Internet to research functional systems that would contain a.docxgidmanmary
Use the Internet to research functional systems that would contain a customer's name and information. Post a functional system that would include a customer's name and explain the purpose of the system and why it would be included.
(Optional)
Select and research a company that uses cross-functional systems. Note any obvious advantages and disadvantages you might find within the company selected. Post your reply to include:
• At least three advantages or disadvantages that you find might exist within the company selected.
• Justification for your selection with each post.
.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Safalta Digital marketing institute in Noida, provide complete applications that encompass a huge range of virtual advertising and marketing additives, which includes search engine optimization, virtual communication advertising, pay-per-click on marketing, content material advertising, internet analytics, and greater. These university courses are designed for students who possess a comprehensive understanding of virtual marketing strategies and attributes.Safalta Digital Marketing Institute in Noida is a first choice for young individuals or students who are looking to start their careers in the field of digital advertising. The institute gives specialized courses designed and certification.
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This slide is special for master students (MIBS & MIFB) in UUM. Also useful for readers who are interested in the topic of contemporary Islamic banking.
A review of the growth of the Israel Genealogy Research Association Database Collection for the last 12 months. Our collection is now passed the 3 million mark and still growing. See which archives have contributed the most. See the different types of records we have, and which years have had records added. You can also see what we have for the future.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
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Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
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EDITOR’S COMMENTSThe MIS Quarterly as a Platform for Engag.docx
1. EDITOR’S COMMENTS
The MIS Quarterly as a Platform for Engagement
By: Arun Rai
Editor-in-Chief, MIS Quarterly
Regents’ Professor of the University System of Georgia
Robinson Chair of IT-Enabled Supply Chains and Process
Innovation
Harkins Chair of Information Systems
Robinson College of Business
Georgia State University
[email protected]
In my inaugural editorial, I shared MIS Quarterly’s trifecta
vision which is to (1) achieve impact on scholarship and
practice as the leading
source of novel and accreted IS knowledge, (2) exhibit range in
work published with respect to problem domains and
stakeholders addressed
as well as theoretical and methodological approaches used, and
(3) execute effective editorial processes in a timely manner (Rai
2016a).
To achieve this vision, we are pursuing a platform strategy with
a focus on engagement with different MISQ stakeholders—those
involved in
editorial processes, potential authors and reviewers, and
scholars and practitioners for whom MISQ articles create value.
To start with, the core of the MISQ platform is its editorial
process, which focuses on developing and selecting the very
best research for
2. publication. Through editorials, editorial board meetings, and
discussions among senior and associate editors, we continue to
share experiences
and best practices and cultivate shared understanding on how
best to spot and develop work that is likely to be influential.
We have been
promoting SE–AE engagement in prescreening and reviewer
selection and in the judicious use of reviewer resources at each
stage in the review
process. We have developed mechanisms to provide editors
with feedback on their performance—for example, senior and
associate editors
now receive reports on their cycle times based on how the paper
was processed (e.g., prescreening by SE only, SE–AE
prescreening, full round
of review) and the stage of manuscripts in the review process
(e.g., initial submission, first revision, etc.). And, the editorial
appointment
process is based on a consideration of area of need, expertise,
performance in editorial and reviewing roles, and detailed
conversations between
the EIC and each potential appointee to assess fit with and
commitment to achieving the vision of the journal.
We are also undertaking a series of initiatives that are
complementary to the editorial process. These initiatives relate
to (1) the development
of the quality of the inputs to the editorial process through
author and reviewer development workshops, (2) enhancing the
scholarly value of
published work through a team with complementary expertise
curating MISQ articles on a topic, (3) enhancing the practical
utility of MISQ
articles through non-exclusive partnerships with complementary
publication and media outlets that effectively reach practitioner
audiences,
3. and (4) engagement with the IS community and other
communities through social media and EIC ambassadorial
activities. I use this editorial
to share our progress on these initiatives.
Author Development Workshops
MISQ is offering workshops to provide authors with (1)
feedback from MISQ senior editors and associate editors on
potential submissions to
MISQ and (2) the opportunity to discuss with editors and other
authors how to develop papers for submission and resubmission
to MISQ.
The workshops include
• Roundtable discussion led by editors on authors’ submissions
to the workshop
• Editors’ panel discussion on developing papers for initial
submission to MISQ
• Editors’ panel discussion on revising papers for MISQ
We have offered Pre-AMCIS MISQ Author Development
Workshops in 2016 and 2017. These workshops have proven to
be a great avenue
for authors, particularly junior colleagues, to learn about
effectively formulating and developing their work for MISQ.
Receiving feedback
from editors and other authors on an initial draft of their paper
provides authors with a perspective on how their work can be
improved and a
forum to discuss issues related to the development of their
research. Authors learn about Type III errors that can occur
during the formulation
MIS Quarterly Vol. 41 No. 3 pp. iii-vii/September 2017 iii
4. Editor’s Comments
of the research problem that compromise the scholarly
contributions of the work and about approaches that can be used
to avoid these errors
(Rai 2017). They also learn how to refine their work prior to
submission and revise their work based on feedback that they
receive on their
submissions from editors and reviewers.
These workshops have not only been a source of value for
authors but have also been very rewarding for participating
editors. Providing
feedback on the value derived from the workshop, two early
stage faculty members who completed their Ph.D. at a leading
university observed
We were talking after the MISQ Author Workshop, and we both
agreed that it was a career-changing afternoon. Thanks
so much for listening to our concerns and providing us with
actionable advice on how to improve! We both left the
workshop with new perspectives about our research, as well as a
better sense of direction on how to achieve our goals.
Reviewer Development Workshops
MIS Quarterly expects virtuous reviewing as I described in my
editorial on “Writing a Virtuous Review” (Rai 2016b). To
promote the
development of reviewers for MISQ and more broadly for the IS
community, MISQ has launched Reviewer Development
Workshops.
5. The objective of these workshops is to coach individuals who
have reviewed, or are interested in reviewing, for MISQ on how
to develop a
virtuous review. The workshop is designed to provide
participants in the workshop with (1) feedback from MISQ
senior editors and associate
editors on a review that the participants develop for the
workshop and (2) the opportunity to discuss with editors and
other participants on how
to develop a virtuous review.
The workshops use a combination of experiential, vicarious, and
discursive approaches for participants to learn about virtuous
reviewing.
Individuals selected for these workshops are assigned a paper to
review based on their research expertise and interests and are
expected to
submit their review prior to the workshop. The assigned paper
is an initial submission to MISQ.
In addition, the workshops include
• Roundtable discussions among reviewers and MISQ editors to
provide feedback on submitted reviews and to discuss the
“actual” review
packet for the initial submission
• Roundtable discussions of subsequent rounds of revisions and
reviews for papers that progressed beyond the first round
• Editors’ panel discussion on characteristics of virtuous
reviewing, structuring reviews, and reviewing revisions
The first reviewer development workshop was held after the
ICIS meeting in Dublin. Providing feedback on the workshop,
one of the
participants commented
6. The access to other reviewers’ comments allowed me to learn
from others. Also, the roundtable discussion allowed me
to get guidance from editors in terms of the strength and
weaknesses of my review. The discussion process provides me
with the golden opportunity to learn as a reviewer, and author
too.
The next workshop will be held after the ICIS meeting in Seoul.
Those interested in participating in these workshops should
apply when the
workshops are announced on AISWorld.
MIS Quarterly Research Curations
In my inaugural editorial, I had shared that we will be launching
an initiative to curate MISQ articles on selected topics of
significant interest
to the Information Systems and other disciplines.
Ashley Bush (Florida State University), Research Curations
Editor, is working closely with me on the development of the
curations. In terms
of process, the Research Curations Editor and the EIC invite a
team of researchers who collectively represent different
perspectives related to
a topic to develop a curation. The team, iteratively refines the
curation based on feedback from the Research Curations Editor
and the EIC.
The curations present a short summary of the work published in
MISQ on the topic and the progression of the work over time,
include an
infographic, and provide the bundle of MISQ articles related to
the topic.
7. iv MIS Quarterly Vol. 41 No. 3/September 2017
Editor’s Comments
We have made great progress with this initiative, having
completed the following curations:
• Securing Digital Assets (Curations team: Kai Lung Hui, Hong
Kong University of Science and Technology; Anthony Vance,
Brigham
Young University; Dmitry Zhdanov, Georgia State University)
• Trust (Curations team: Matthias Söllner, Universities of St.
Gallen and Kassel; Izak Benbasat, University of British
Columbia; David
Gefen, Drexel University; Jan Marco Leimeister, Universities of
St. Gallen and Kassel; Paul A. Pavlou, Temple University)
• Information Privacy (Curations team: Aleš Popovič,
University of Ljubljana; H. Jeff Smith, Miami University;
James Y.L. Thong, Hong
Kong University of Science and Technology; Sunil Wattal,
Temple University)
As living documents, the curations will be updated periodically
as new articles on the topics are published in MISQ.
We are in the process of curating MISQ articles on the
following topics: IS Sourcing, IS Use, and Knowledge
Management. We will announce
the release of these and other curations through AISWorld as
and when they are completed.
The feedback from the community indicates that the curations
8. are serving as a go-to source for authors, reviewers, and editors
and are also being
used in doctoral seminars and workshops.
The curations are accessible from the MISQ web site at
www.misq.org/research-curations/.
Partnerships with Complementary Channels
MISQ has a history of striving to achieve two types of impact:
scholarly and broader impact on practice. In its early years,
MISQ positioned
itself to address dual audiences—IS academics and IS
practitioners—both with very high, and often incompatible,
expectations on what an
article should address, emphasize, and look like. With the
objective to become a widely recognized premier academic
journal, MISQ was
positioned in the early 1990s to meet the expectations of the
academic audience (including college promotion and tenure
committees) by
publishing only the very best academic research. Acting on the
need to promote relevant and executive-focused IS research,
MISQ lent its name
to MISQ Executive, a journal launched in 2001 to appeal to an
executive audience (for details on the evolution of MISQ, see
Rai 2016c).
We are now at a point in the digital revolution where IS is
broadly transforming the functioning of business and society.
MISQ places an
editorial emphasis on motivating work in both scholarly and
practical terms and on articulating the implications of the
findings not only for
theory and future research but also for practice. Although many
MISQ articles have compelling practitioner implications and
9. incorporate a
short discussion on them, practitioners typically do not read
these articles as they are written for an academic audience and
with primacy on
theory, research methods, and scholarly implications.1
To seize the opportunity to effectively reach broader relevant
audiences in practice, MISQ is developing nonexclusive
relationships with leading
complementary publication and media outlets that have highly
visible and broad footprints in the practice community.
MISQ –MIT-SMR Relationship: I am pleased to share that MIS
Quarterly has developed a relationship with MIT-Sloan
Management Review
(MIT-SMR), where selected articles published in MISQ are
developed into articles for publication in MIT-SMR. The value
proposition is a
win-win for MISQ and MIT-SMR, outlets with common
interests in topics related to how information technology is
affecting organizations,
management practices, innovation, and value creation.2 MISQ
will benefit by having its articles reach and impact business
executives who are
MIT-SMR’s primary audience,3 while MIT-SMR will benefit by
having a supply channel with the premier IS scholarly journal.
1There are channels through which the practical utility of IS
research published in MISQ and other outlets is reaching
practitioners (e.g., faculty appropriating
content in their executive teaching, consolidating the
implications of their research programs into books targeted at
practitioners, or developing versions of their
work for practitioner journals).
2The commonality in interests stands out from looking at the
10. editorial objectives of the journals; see http://misq.org/about/
and http://sloanreview.mit.edu/authors/.
3MIT-SMR’s print readership is 45K, with 37% in top
management; its digital audience is 149K average unique
monthly users (MIT-SMR 2017 Media Kit).
MIS Quarterly Vol. 41 No. 3/September 2017 v
Editor’s Comments
In terms of process, the MISQ EIC and MIT-SMR Editor will
appoint a liaison with experience in publishing in MISQ and in
MIT-SMR or other
leading practitioner outlets. I am pleased to share that Gerald
(Jerry) Kane, a Senior Editor at MISQ, is serving as the MISQ–
SMR liaison and
working closely with me on this initiative. The MISQ EIC, in
conjunction with the MISQ–SMR liaison, nominates from an
upcoming MISQ
issue a small number of articles to the MIT-SMR Editor who
decides which of these articles, if any, are suitable to be
developed for publication
consideration in MIT-SMR. The MISQ EIC ascertains the
interest of the authors to develop such an article, and the MIT-
SMR Editor decides
on the publishability of the article that is developed.
The first article from this collaboration appeared in MIT-SMR’s
Spring 2017 issue4 and was based on the article published in
MISQ’s March
2017 issue.5
Social Media
11. We are using multiple social media platforms—Facebook,
Twitter, and WeChat—to share information and promote
conversations about work
published in MISQ. Authors are sharing different types of
content (e.g., Podcast, slide deck with narration, short video,
news media coverage)
for MISQ’s social media platforms. We are also using the
social media channels to share editorials and information
related to MISQ activities
(e.g., author and reviewer workshops, special issues, EIC’s
ambassadorial activities).
We invite you to “Like” MISQ on Facebook
(www.facebook.com/MISQuarterly), “Follow” us on Twitter
@MISQuarterly, and “Follow” us
on WeChat (ID: MISQuarterly)!
We will be expanding our social media initiatives to bridge with
other scholarly and practitioner communities and to implement
strategies to
effectively customize content for different platforms. We will
also establish a library of social media content that corresponds
to the published
work in the journal. In addition, we will be establishing a
resource center for sharing experiences on how authors can
produce social media
content that is effective and in a manner that is not onerous.
Ambassadorial Activities
Through keynotes, panels, and presentations across the three
AIS regions, I have shared with scholars in the IS community
and in other
disciplines the MISQ trifecta vision and related key themes.
These include
12. • MISQ’s big tent approach of welcoming diverse perspectives
and methods, as this diversity is essential to better understand
complex IS
phenomena and problems
• Shifting boundaries of IS phenomena and problems and the
exciting opportunities for impactful work
• How to avoid Type III errors in formulating research
problems, thereby increasing the likelihood of impactful work
• Need to safeguard against the streetlight effect, where easy-to-
access datasets that are used to address piffling or pseudo
problems motivate
a study
• Synergies between big data and theory
• Given the expanding variety in how informing theoretical
perspectives can be combined with empirical research methods,
traditional labels
(e.g., behavioral, design, economics, qualitative) for genres of
research can be misleading or misused in characterizing the
work
• The need to be disciplinary while being interdisciplinary by
placing IS in the foreground in the formulation of the research
and
consequently the value created by it
• Characteristics of virtuous reviewing
4http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/mastering-the-digital-
innovation-challenge/
5 F. Svahn, L. Mathiassen, and R. Lindgren, “Embracing Digital
Innovation in Incumbent Firms: How Volvo Cars Managed
Competing Concerns,” MIS Quarterly
13. (41:1), March 2017, pp. 239-253.
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Editor’s Comments
MISQ 2016 Impact Factors
I am very pleased to share MISQ’s strong performance in the
recently released ISI impact factors: 7.268 (2016) and 12.22 (5-
year). MISQ fares
very well in impact factor rankings across a range of journal
categories including IS; computer science; management; and
business, management
and economics. Based on the 2016 5-Year Impact Factor, MISQ
ranks
• First among AIS Senior Scholars’ Basket of Journals
• Second among the University of Texas at Dallas (UT-Dallas)
list of 24 leading business journals
• First among 85 journals in Information Science and Library
Science
• Second among 146 journals in the IS subcategory of Computer
Science
• Third among 497 journals across subcategories in Computer
Science (Artificial Intelligence, Cybernetics, Hardware and
Software,
Information Systems, Interdisciplinary Applications, Software
Engineering, Theory and Methods)
• Third among 193 journals in Management
• Third among 588 journals in the Business, Economics, and
Management categories
14. Congratulations to the MISQ community of authors, editors,
reviewers, the Publisher, and the staff at the MISQ Editorial
Office on this
achievement!
References
Rai, A. 2016a. “Editor’s Comment: The MISQ Trifecta—
Impact, Range, Speed,” (40:1), pp. iii-x.
Rai, A. 2016b. “Editor’s Comment: Writing a Virtuous
Review,” (40:3), pp. iii-x.
Rai, A. 2016c. “Editor’s Comment: Celebrating 40 Years of
MIS Quarterly: MISQ’s History and Future Through the Lenses
of its Editors-
in-Chief,” (40:4), pp. iii-xv.
Rai, A. 2017. “Editor’s Comment: Avoiding Type III Errors:
Formulating IS Research Problems that Matter,” (41:2), pp. iii-
vii.
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Next-Generation Digital Platforms: Toward Human-AI Hybrids
Article review from the MIS Quarterly
Next-Generation Digital Platforms: Toward Human-AI Hybrids
University of the Cumberland
Challa Chaitanyakeerthi
16. Theory
In present generation, most of the organizations are rapidly
increasing with the use of digital platform. The commercial
business models that facilitate values are generating
communicating between external manufacturers and customers.
Primary digital platforms businesses have influences
generativity in mixture with efficient power, to achieve
affirmative network results, value design and scalability (see
constantinides et al. 2018; Song et al.2018). AI is usually
designed to act as a capability of a system to execute rational
functions that we subordinate with the human brains. There are
examples like problematic resolving, resolution making and
signifying a creative work.
Research Design
Digital workforce platforms are converting how the employers
employ the staff and it is helping how the employees are
pursuing the employment. Digital platforms are delivering setup
for compensation recordkeeping, communication and
examination, opinion and ranking. They are communication
between the employers and the staff. Studies have shown that
that how important matters are closely related to market
effectiveness and governance which comprises hiring
biases(Chan and Wang 2017); opposing choice as labors find it
17. more stimulating to construct a symbol and companies find it
more stimulating to absorb the workers quality if work. The
incorporating of AI into the digital labor platforms are
forecasting to the development of human-AI hybrids. During the
evaluation of digital platforms with the human-AI hybrids, the
creators must assess what the impending biased by such hybrids.
Analysis
The characteristic and competence of human –AI hybrids on
digital employment stages will highly depend on the
information that are used to design and deploy the hybrids.
Given an example such as the recent scandals like the usage of
the social platform Facebook user data by the Cambridge
Analytica with the permission of the user have located the
restrictions of essentially integrated models of data custody by
the owner of the platform in the public discourse and policy
discussion. As the platforms enlarges with the consumptions of
AI, predispositions in training data organized by the developers
must detected and avoided.
Conclusion
The hybrid platform which is known has the next-generation
platform are being developed on a nexus digitization services.
These nexus technologies are being designed and deployment of
large variety of human races-AI hybrids. The occurrence of
human-AI hybrids converting to a digital platform which are
providing excited projections for IS specialists.
Reference
Acemoglu, D., and Restrepo, P. 2018. “Artificial Intelligence,
18. Automation and Work,” NBER Working Paper No. 24196,
National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA.
Agrawal, A., Horton, J., Lacetera, N., and Lyons, E. 2015.
“Digitization and the Contract Labor Market: A Research
Agenda,” in Economic Analysis of the Digital Economy, A.
Goldfarb, S. M. Greenstein, and C. E. Tucker (eds.), Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, pp. 219-250.