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Female Friendship Films: A Post-Feminist Examination of Representations of Women in the Fashion Industry
This thesis focuses on three fashion industry themed female friendship films: Pret-a-Porter/Ready to Wear (1994) by Robert Altman, The Devil Wears Prada (2006) by David Frankel, and The September Issue (2009) by R.J. Cutler. Female interpersonal relationships are complex – women often work to motivate, encourage and transform one another but can just as easily use tactics like intimidation, manipulation, and exploitation in order to save their own jobs and reputations. Through the lens of post-feminist theory, this thesis examines significant female interpersonal relationships in each film to illustrate how femininity is constructed and driven by consumer culture in the fashion industry themed films.
Date:
December 2015
Creator:
Geloğullari, Gülin
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Reexamination of the Dilution of Auditor Misstatement Risk Assessments: An Experimental Study of the Impact of Client Information Type, Workload, and PCAOB Guidance on Dilution
Many external parties such as investors, creditors, and regulatory agencies, use a company’s financial statements in their decision-making. In doing so, they rely on audit opinions on whether financial statements are fairly stated. However, evidence suggests that there are factors in the audit environment that influence auditor judgments. For example, nondiagnostic client information dilutes auditor judgments when compared to judgments based on diagnostic information alone, especially for less experienced auditors (Hackenbrack 1992; Hoffman and Patton 1997; Glover 1994; Shelton 1999). High time pressure conditions mitigate this effect by refocusing auditor attention toward relevant client information, therefore reducing the impact of nondiagnostic information (Glover 1994, 1997). This research study examines other common audit environment factors to determine if they too influence audit judgment results. An online questionnaire of 149 auditors, CPAs and other accounting professionals indicate that the inclusion of nondiagnostic client information results in a significant change in auditor judgments. The direction of this change follows a theorized pattern; risk assessments that were initially high are reduced, while those that were initially low are increased. Significance was not consistently found for a workload and PCAOB effect on auditor judgment. However, a comparison of the absolute value of dilution effect means …
Date:
December 2015
Creator:
Perry, Suzanne M.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Measuring Culture of Innovation: A Validation Study of the Innovation Quotient Instrument
The ability for an organization to innovate has become one of the most important capabilities needed in the new knowledge economy. The research has demonstrated that an organization’s culture of innovation in particular predicts organizational innovativeness across multiple industries. To provide support to these organizations in their abilities to understand the culture of innovation, researchers have developed instruments to measure culture of innovation, and while many of these instruments have been widely used to inform organizational opportunities for improvement, few of these instruments have been validated or replicated beyond their initial use. The current study employs multiple factor analytic methods to validate the factor structure of the Innovation Quotient instrument developed by Rao and Weintraub and assess the extent to which the instrument is reliable for multiple organizational groups. The results of this study, as well as implications for researchers interested in culture of innovation, are presented.
Date:
December 2015
Creator:
Danks, Shelby
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Single Notch Versus Multi Notch Credit Rating Changes and the Business Cycle
Issuers’ credit ratings change by one or more notches when credit rating agencies provide new ratings. Unique to the literature, I study the influences affecting multi notch versus single notch rating upgrades and downgrades. For Standard & Poors data, I show that rating changes with multiple notches provide more information to the market than single notch rating changes. Consistent with prior literature on the business cycle, I show that investors value good news rating changes (upgrades) more in bad times (recession) and that investors value bad news rating changes (downgrades) more in good times (expansion). I model and test probit models using variables capturing the characteristics of the previous issuer’s credit rating, liquidity, solvency, profitability, and growth opportunity to determine the classification of single notch versus multi notch rating changes. The determinants of multi notch versus single notch rating changes for upgrades and downgrades differ. Business cycle influences are evident. Firms that have multi notch rating upgrades and downgrades have significantly different probit variables vis-à -vis firms that have single notch rating upgrades and downgrades. The important characteristics for determining multiple notch upgrades are a firm’s prior rating change, prior rating, cash flow, total assets and market value. The important characteristics …
Date:
December 2015
Creator:
Poudel, Rajeeb
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History of Bonton and Ideal Neighborhoods in Dallas, Texas
The Bonton and Ideal neighborhoods in Dallas Texas, developed in the early 1900s, experienced physical and social decay throughout the 1980s. Neighborhood organizations and resident activism were vital to the rebirth of the community in the 1990s. Current revitalization efforts taking place there have been a source of contention as the neighborhood continues to overcome inequalities created by decades of racialized city planning initiatives. This thesis focuses on how the structuring structure of whiteness has historically affected, and continues to affect, the neighborhoods of Ideal and Bonton, as well as acts to identify how black residents have navigated their landscape and increased their collective capital through neighborhood activism.
Date:
December 2015
Creator:
Payne, Briana
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Modeling the Role of Boundary Spanners-in-Practice in the Nondeterministic Model of Engineering Design Activity
Boundary spanners-in-practice are individuals who inhabit more than one social world and bring overlapping place perspectives to bear on the function(s) performed within and across each world. Different from nominated boundary spanners, they are practitioners responsible for the 'translation' of each small world's perspectives thereby increasing collaboration effectiveness to permit the small worlds to work synergistically. The literature on Knowledge Management (KM) has emphasized the organizational importance of individuals performing boundary spanning roles by resolving cross-cultural and cross-organizational knowledge system conflicts helping teams pursue common goals through creation of "joint fields" - a third dimension that is co-jointly developed between the two fields or dimensions that the boundary spanner works to bridge. The Copeland and O'Connor Nondeterministic Model of Engineering Design Activity was utilized as the foundation to develop models of communication mechanics and dynamics when multiple simultaneous interactions of the single nondeterministic user model, the BSIP and two Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), engage during design activity in the Problem-Solving Space. The Problem-Solving Space defines the path through the volumes of plausible answers or 'solution spaces' that will satisfice the problem presented to the BSIP and SMEs. Further model refinement was performed to represent expertise seeking behaviors and the physical …
Date:
December 2015
Creator:
Linkins, Kathy L.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Social Participation and Depression Among Elderly People in Greece
The researcher had two objectives: first, explore how social involvement changes by age among Greek elderly, and second, examine the relationship between social involvement and depression by age among study participants, controlled for education, marital status, and gender. The researcher used data from the 2004 Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) database subjecting a sample of 2,898 elderly aged 50 or older to analysis in terms of the study questions. Approximately 43% of the participants (n = 1,244) were males and 57% were females (n = 1,654). Study results showed Greek elderly participated more in religious activities and less in non-religious activities with increasing age. The study results showed the level of education did not have an effect on the level of religious or non-religious participation. Marital status could influence Greeks’ tendency to participate in religious activities, however, it did not have an effect on non-religious participation. Women are more likely to participate in religious activities than the men. The gender of the participants did not have an effect on non-religious participation. Older Greek elderly were more likely to be depressed than the younger elderly. Participation in religious activities was not shown to relate to decreasing the …
Date:
December 2015
Creator:
Simmons, Daniela
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Defense of Preservation in the Age of MPLP
This article looks at Mark A. Greene and Dennis Meissner's attitudes towards preservation as revealed in their articles on More Product, Less Process (MPLP), the relationship between access and preservation, and the importance of preservation within archives; it also offers strategies for efficient preservation.
Date:
2015
Creator:
Phillips, Jessica
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 299, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 28, 2015
Daily newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 28, 2015
Creator:
Parks, Scott K.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 296, Ed. 1 Monday, May 25, 2015
Daily newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 25, 2015
Creator:
Parks, Scott K.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 270, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Daily newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
April 29, 2015
Creator:
Parks, Scott K.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 020, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 22, 2015
Daily newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
August 22, 2015
Creator:
Parks, Scott K.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 297, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Daily newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 26, 2015
Creator:
Parks, Scott K.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 006, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 8, 2015
Daily newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
August 8, 2015
Creator:
Parks, Scott K.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 095, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 5, 2015
Daily newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
November 5, 2015
Creator:
Parks, Scott K.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 071, Ed. 1 Monday, October 12, 2015
Daily newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 12, 2015
Creator:
Parks, Scott K.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 330, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 28, 2015
Daily newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
June 28, 2015
Creator:
Parks, Scott K.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 182, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 31, 2015
Daily newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 31, 2015
Creator:
Parks, Scott K.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 346, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Daily newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
July 14, 2015
Creator:
Parks, Scott K.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 061, Ed. 1 Friday, October 2, 2015
Daily newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 2, 2015
Creator:
Parks, Scott K.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 098, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 8, 2015
Daily newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
November 8, 2015
Creator:
Parks, Scott K.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 293, Ed. 1 Friday, May 22, 2015
Daily newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 22, 2015
Creator:
Parks, Scott K.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 207, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Daily newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
February 25, 2015
Creator:
Parks, Scott K.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 152, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 1, 2015
Daily newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 1, 2015
Creator:
Parks, Scott K.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History