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Public Relations: Best Practices and Applications gathers exemplary chapters, readings, excerpts, appendices, and case studies within the discipline to help bridge the gap between students' understanding of public relations and its practical application in the real world. The book is organized into three units. Unit I introduces students to the world of public relations and details a case study about a major PR crisis that involved Southwest Airlines. Unit II focuses on new media and social responsibility. Recognizing that shifts in technology, business, and digital culture require a fresh approach, this unit explores the current best practices that are shaping not what public relations is or accomplishes but how it is practiced. The final unit offers students a plethora of sample campaigns and campaign proposal examples. Enlightening and highly practical, Public Relations is an excellent supplementary textbook for courses and programs in public relations.

Two training squadrons of student naval aviators flying the T-2C Buckeye aircraft during their Intermediate Stage of Strike (Jet) Training were compared to identify any effects attributed to exposure to the T-45 Operational Flight Trainer, a state-of-the-art, visual, dome simulator. Students in VT-23 at Naval Air Station (NAS) Kingsville, Texas were exposed to demonstrations of carrier landings in the T-45 simulator prior to their carrier qualifications. A sister squadron at NAS Meridian, Mississippi (VT-19) did not receive exposure to the simulator. Both squadrons conducted carrier qualifications on the same dates and same aircraft carrier. A comparison of the squadrons considered the four measures of effectiveness (MOE): (1) squadron disqualification rates, (2) LSO trend analysis scores, (3) Aviation Training Form (ATF) CQ-llx performance evaluations, and (4) average grades for individual performance areas listed on ATF CQ-llx. Students in VT-23 had higher CQ-l1x performance evaluations. When the performance evaluations are broken down to individual performance areas, VT-23 also has substantially higher grades in Pattern. Allowing for the importance that a proper flight pattern has on the approach and landing on the aircraft carrier, it is ar ed that exposure to the T-45 visual simulator had a positive effect on the students in VT-23.