Oiling the urban economy: land, labour, capital, and the state in Sekondi-Takoradi, ghana, written byFranklin obeng-odoom - Andoh, Samuel K. (African and Asian Studies, 2015)
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: ISI:000359130800004 tex.eissn: [object Object] tex.unique-id: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.eco; peer-reviewed

Real exchange rates in advanced transition economies - Grubacic, Sanja; Schuster, Julian (Journal of Eastern European and Central Asian Research (JEECAR), 2015)
The recent evidence from Eastern Europe suggests that one of the major obstacles towards the adoption of euro may lie in the impact that the recession of 2008 exerted on the trajectory of real exchange rates in new member countries (European Commission, 2015). This paper aims to establish and explain the relationship between the external shocks derived from the global financial crisis and recession of 2008 and equilibrium real exchange rate in advanced transition economies of Eastern Europe. The interplay between the external and internal balances is explained by developing an inter-temporal optimizing model of the real exchange rate determination in a small open economy with structural distortions. The results of our model suggest that, in the aftermath of recession, if the Eastern European economies attempt to restore and maintain the balance between the consumption, saving, and investment, the equilibrium real exchange rate will tend to reverse its trajectory from appreciation to depreciation over time in order to encourage a greater production in the future. The equilibrium real exchange rate depreciation in the future may obtain either as a result of an increase in the direct subsidies on investment or as a result of reduced subsidies on the "net-of-investment" income. The deprecation of countries’ real exchange rate, however, may continue to act as an effective constraint against the adoption of euro. © 2015, Institute of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. All rights reserved.
1 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/110-417-636-989-275
Keywords: Eastern European countries; Real exchange rates; Recession; Subsidies; Transition; dept.eco

Regulation of transportation network companies: A case study of connecticut - Thorson, James A (NABET 2015 Faculty Conference, 2015)
Citation Key Alias: lens.org/117-101-458-600-362
Keywords: dept.eco; ⛔ No DOI found

Book Review: armenia and azerbaijan through peace and war: black garden: 10 year anniversary edition, written by thomas de waal - Andoh, Samuel K (African and Asian Studies, 2014)
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/018-173-870-520-78X tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: book.review; dept.eco; peer-reviewed

Zimbabwe's land reform: myths and realities (review) - Andoh, Samuel K (Africa Today, 2011)
2 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/079-630-806-214-925 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.eco

Land, power, and custom: controversies generated by south africa's communal land rights act - Andoh, Samuel K (Africa Today, 2010)
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/005-109-900-858-100 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.eco

Small loans, big dreams: how the nobel prize winner muhammad yunus and microfinance are changing the world, edited by alex counts - Gebremariam, Yilma (Eastern Economic Journal, 2010)
3 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/000-516-788-059-988 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.eco

High-precision geochronology links the Ferrar large igneous province with early-Jurassic ocean anoxia and biotic crisis - Burgess, Seth D; Bowring, Samuel A; Fleming, Thomas H; Elliot, David H (Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2015)
Apparent synchrony between eruption/emplacement of large igneous province (LIP) magmas and mass extinction has led to the implication of magmatism as a primary trigger of global scale environmental change. Evaluating the efficacy of magmatism as a driver of global change depends on the relative timing of magmatism and environmental change, and the magma effusion/intrusion rate, both of which can be constrained by high-precision geochronology. Early Jurassic (Pliensbachian-Toarcian) global ocean anoxia and acidification, carbon isotope perturbations, and biotic crisis have been linked to "synchronous" eruption and emplacement of the Karoo and Ferrar LIPs. To better constrain the timing and duration of Ferrar magmatism, we apply the single crystal, chemical abrasion U-Pb ID-TIMS method to zircon crystals isolated from twenty Ferrar LIP sills and lavas, and the Dufek intrusion. Dates suggest that both intrusive and extrusive Ferrar magmatism occurred over an interval of 349. ±. 49 kyr, beginning with intrusive magmatism as early as 182.779. ±. 0.033 Ma. Lava eruption was synchronous with, and in some cases postdates intrusion. When coupled with existing geochronology on the Karoo province, our dates confirm broad synchrony between Karoo and Ferrar magmatism, though Karoo magmatism began demonstrably prior to Ferrar magmatism, starting as early as 183.246. ±. 0.045 Ma. The short-lived magmatic history of the Ferrar LIP makes it a plausible trigger for early-Jurassic environmental change. © 2015.
195 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/120-254-967-130-966 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Anoxic events; Carbon isotopes; Chemical abrasions; Environmental change; Geochronology; Isotopes; Jurassic; Karoo; Large igneous province; Large igneous provinces; Lead; Mass extinction; Ocean anoxic event; Relative timing; Silicate minerals; Single crystals; South Africa; Uranium; Zircon crystals; dept.esc; emplacement; environmental change; geochronology; large igneous province; magmatism; mass extinction; paleoenvironment; peer-reviewed

Links between acceleration, melting, and supraglacial lake drainage of the western greenland ice sheet - Hoffman, Matthew J.; Catania, Ginny A.; Neumann, Thomas; Andrews, Lauren C.; Rumrill, J. A. (Journal of Geophysical Research, 2011)
The impact of increasing summer melt on the dynamics and stability of the Greenland Ice Sheet is not fully understood. Mounting evidence suggests seasonal evolution of subglacial drainage mitigates or counteracts the ability of surface runoff to increase basal sliding. Here, we compare subdaily ice velocity and uplift derived from nine Global Positioning System stations in the upper ablation zone in west Greenland to surface melt and supraglacial lake drainage during summer 2007. Starting around day 173, we observe speedups of 6-41% above spring velocity lasting ∼40 days accompanied by sustained surface uplift at most stations, followed by a late summer slowdown. After initial speedup, we see a spatially uniform velocity response across the ablation zone and strong diurnal velocity variations during periods of melting. Most lake drainages were undetectable in the velocity record, and those that were detected only perturbed velocities for ∼1 day, suggesting preexisting drainage systems could efficiently drain large volumes of water. The dynamic response to melt forcing appears to (1) be driven by changes in subglacial storage of water that is delivered in diurnal and episodic pulses, and (2) decrease over the course of the summer, presumably as the subglacial drainage system evolves to greater efficiency. The relationship between hydrology and ice dynamics observed is similar to that observed on mountain glaciers, suggesting that seasonally large water pressures under the ice sheet largely compensate for the greater ice thickness considered here. Thus, increases in summer melting may not guarantee faster seasonal ice flow. Copyright 2011 by the American Geophysical Union.
120 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: pop00025 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Arctic; GPS; Greenland; Greenland Ice Sheet; ablation; dept.esc; drainage network; flow velocity; glacial hydrology; glacial lake; glacier dynamics; ice flow; ice mechanics; ice thickness; melting; meltwater; runoff; seasonal variation; subglacial deposit; uplift

Developing mentors: an analysis of shared mentoring practices - Bower-Phipps, Laura; Klecka, Cari Van Senus; Sature, Amanda L (The New Educator, 2016)
Understanding how experienced teachers share and articulate effective mentoring practices can guide efforts to prepare quality mentors. This qualitative study focused on mentoring practices within a teacher-designed student-teaching program conceptualized while the mentor teachers within the program were students in a graduate-level mentoring course and implemented upon the mentors’ completion of their graduate studies. Data sources included interviews and field notes from meetings with mentors and student teachers. The results detail specific mentoring practices: explicit instruction through scaffolding, developing the whole teacher, student-teacher-directed learning, fostering student teachers’ individual practice, explicit mentoring of one another, and reflecting on mentoring. These practices were enabled by program structures such as mentor meetings, an online forum, and mentors’ observation of all student teachers in the program. © 2016, © 2016 CCNY and ATE.
2 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/048-875-982-659-553 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.cur; peer-reviewed

Coming home: Continuing intercultural learning during the re-entry semester following a study abroad experience - Marx, Helen; Moss, David M (Journal of International Social Studies, 2016)
Citation Key Alias: lens.org/132-142-332-454-448 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.cur; ⛔ No DOI found

"To have better than what I had”: the transgenerational family pedagogy of an african american family in the south - Powell, Jessica S (Journal of Family Diversity in Education, 2016)
Citation Key Alias: lens.org/197-165-285-700-000
Keywords: dept.cur; ⛔ No DOI found

Valuing stuff materials culture and artifactual literacies in the classroom - Randall, Regine; Mercurio, Mia Lynn (Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2015)
Recent interest in materials culture and artifactual literacies has helped the authors of this article rethink how they teach preservice and inservice teachers and collaborate with K-12 teachers. Each discipline has its own stuff that can help students understand the products and practices of a field beyond what they might be able to glean from text. To that end, every teacher should see their classroom and content area as a "place for my stuff" because objects speak and communicate more messages through form, color, size, and texture than print alone. © 2015 International Literacy Association.
1 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.eissn: 1936-2706 tex.unique-id: ISI:000363658800011 Citation Key Alias: ISI:000363658800007
Keywords: 3-Early adolescence; 4-Adolescence; 5-College/university students; Adolescent/young adult literature; Content analyses; Content literacy; Discussion strategies; Information literacy; Informational text; Instructional strategies; Literary elements; Specific subject areas (math; Strategies; Text types; and materials; art; dept.cur; dept.sed; etc.); methods; teaching strategies; text features

Guiding students as they explore, build, and connect online - McVerry, J. Gregory; Belshaw, Doug; O'Byrne, W. Ian (Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2015)
5 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.eissn: 1936-2706 tex.unique-id: ISI:000353969000003
Keywords: dept.cur

Improving students' academic learning by helping them access text - Ben-Avie, Michael; Randall, Régine; Dunne, Diane Weaver; Kelly, Chris (Recent Advances in Assistive Technologies to Support Children with Developmental Disorders, 2015)
Conventional methods of addressing the needs of students with print disabilities include text-to-speech services. One major drawback of text-to-speech technologies is that computerized speech simply articulates the same words in a text whereas human voice can convey emotions such as excitement, sadness, fear, or joy. Audiobooks have human narration, but are designed for entertainment and not for teaching word identification, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension to students. This chapter focuses on the 3-year pilot of CRISKids; all CRIS recordings feature human narration. The pilot demonstrated that students who feel competent in their reading and class work tend to be more engaged in classroom routines, spend more time on task and demonstrate greater comprehension of written materials. When more demonstrate these behaviors and skills, teachers are better able to provide meaningful instruction, since less time is spent on issues of classroom management and redirection. Thus, CRISKids impacts not only the students with print disabilities, but all of the students in the classroom.
Citation Key Alias: pop00414
Keywords: dept.cur

Multimodal response and writing as poetry experience - Pet, Sue Ringler; Mcverry, J Gregory; Obyrne, W Ian (Exploring Multimodal Composition and Digital Writing, 2014)
What affordances do multimodal and digital information provide to the student and teacher with regard to responding to and writing poetry? This question juxtaposes one of the oldest literary genres in human history (i.e., poetry), with some of the newest technologies available. To enrich the content and effect as students experience poetry, technology may seem like an unwelcome stranger. Research has found, however, that “multimedia texts and multimodal composing may actually shift classroom culture toward a more learner-centered paradigm” (Chandler-Olcott & Mahar, 2003, pp. 381-382). This chapter explores the integration of technology with both response to poetry and authorship of poetic works as a means to enrich English classroom experiences. In the authors’ view, important work in this arena must not use technological tools for the sake of using technology in the classroom, but, rather, for the sake of enriching literary experiences. Ultimately, by connecting response, authorship, and multimodal technologies, the teaching of poetry may be enhanced by the teaching of 21st century literacy skills. Toward these ends, the authors share opportunities for intertwining multimodal text with the teaching of poetry to enrich literacy and literary experience in middle and high school classrooms.
Citation Key Alias: lens.org/010-469-758-942-570
Keywords: dept.cur

Vowel representations in the invented spellings of Spanish-English bilingual kindergartners - Raynolds, Laura B.; Uhry, Joanna K.; Brunner, Jessica (Reading and Writing, 2013)
The study compared the invented spelling of vowels in kindergarten native Spanish speaking children with that of English monolinguals. It examined whether, after receiving phonics instruction for short vowels, the spelling of native Spanish-speaking kindergartners would contain phonological errors that were influenced by their first language. Results showed no differences between the two groups on the number of correct short vowel spellings, even though the sounds for four of the five English short vowels do not exist in Spanish. By contrast, differences were observed in the representation of long vowels with a higher rate of error among ELLs. The students had not received explicit instruction in long vowels. ELLs appeared to be trying to represent the diphthongized nature of some English long vowels by spelling long vowels with more than one vowel. The results support the authors' hypothesis that kindergarten phonics instruction had an impact on the invented spellings of new second language vowel phonemes.
15 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/031-056-476-891-636 tex.unique-id: [object Object]
Keywords: Bilingual; English language instruction; Invented spelling; Spanish language; dept.cur; peer-reviewed

Everyone has a story: A collaborative inquiry project by five teacher candidates of color and one white professor - Bower-Phipps, Laura; Tate, Rachel Watanabe; Mehta, Sejal; Sature, Amanda L (Current Issues in Education, 2013)
Initiatives to increase the number of teachers of color in U.S. public schools must be accompanied by culturally relevant teacher preparation for candidates of color. This study is a cooperative inquiry (Heron, 1996) conceived, conducted, and analyzed by five preservice teachers of color and one of their professors, a white lesbian. The women met biweekly for a year to co-construct meaning from their experiences in a teacher education program. They analyzed data sources together, including meeting transcripts, autobiographical sketches, and reflective writing on themes from the data. Key findings include the complexity of teacher candidates' identities; the importance of support systems for teacher candidates of color, particularly within predominantly white contexts; the connection between teacher candidates' backgrounds and their visions as teachers; and the role others' perceptions, particularly teacher educators, have played in teacher candidates becoming teachers.
Citation Key Alias: lens.org/033-975-273-700-369 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Cooperative inquiry; Diversity; Teacher identity; Teachers of color; dept.cur; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Collaboration cubed: isolated mainstream teachers become ESL experts to school systems - Verplaetse, Lorrie Stoops; Ferraro, Marisa; Anderberg, Ann (TESOL Journal, 2012)
2 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/065-457-498-054-362 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.cur

The new literacies of online reading comprehension: expanding the literacy and learning curriculum - Leu, Donald J.; McVerry, J. Gregory; O'Byrne, W. Ian; Kiili, Carita; Zawilinski, Lisa; Everett-Cacopardo, Heidi; Kennedy, Clint; Forzani, Elena (Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2011)
73 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.orcid-numbers: Kiili, Carita/0000-0001-9189-4094 tex.unique-id: ISI:000295394000002
Keywords: dept.cur

Surpassing normal: preparing teachers for diverse learners - Bower, Laura A; Sature, Amanda L (Action in teacher education, 2011)
Teacher education must prepare teacher candidates for diverse contexts and diverse learners. Such preparation involves teacher candidates unearthing their assumptions about diverse populations and understanding the roles candidates' own backgrounds play in these assumptions. Queer theory can facilitate this process through attention to culturally constructed notions of “normal” and “deviant.” This chapter investigates a strategy intended to identify teachers' cultural expectations through disrupting candidates' perceptions of “normal” students. Data sources include responses to a specific learning activity, interviews, and demographic surveys. Findings indicate that teacher candidates are reluctant to discuss certain demographic descriptors, such as race/ethnicity and sexual orientation, preferring to focus on students' interests and social behaviors. candidates' conceptions of a “normal” student mirror their own experiences. Interview responses suggest that the learning activity disrupted these conceptions. Implications point to the importance of discussing diversity in teacher education courses and the necessity of fieldwork in diverse contexts. © 2011, Copyright Association of Teacher Educators.
2 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/115-625-205-447-042 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.cur

Love thy neighbor: A guide for implementing safe school initiatives for LGBTQ students in nonaffirming religious communities - Ginicola, Misty M; Smith, Cheri; Rhoades, Elizabeth (Journal of LGBT Issues in Counseling, 2016)
Although setting up a safe school is an important task for a school counselor, his or her efforts may be resisted when attempting to develop a safe school initiative in a religious community; for example, one conservative-based website gives parents explicit instructions on how to fight a school's safe schools initiatives. This article provides a review of the issues involved and a specific framework for school counselors who wish to set up a Safe Schools Initiative in the context of a resistant atmosphere, using a social justice framework. © 2016 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
5 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/101-808-473-793-033 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: LGBTQ; dept.csp; religious conflict; safe schools; school counseling; social justice

Psychologically based therapies to improve lung functioning in students with asthma. - Maykel, Cheryl; Bray, Melissa A; Gelbar, Nicholas W; Caterino, Linda C; Avitia, Maria J; Sassu, Kari; Root, Melissa M (International journal of school and educational psychology, 2016)
Asthma is a common, chronic respiratory disease that can be costly to both society and the individual. In addition to increased absenteeism, children with asthma may also be at a greater risk for developing comorbid anxiety and depression. Various complementary psychological treatments have been effective at reducing both asthmatic symptoms and psychological distress. Although the research in the area of mind-body treatments as it pertains specifically to persons with asthma is still developing, this article will describe several promising alternative treatment methods, many of which have already been, or could be easily be applied for use in a school setting. © 2016, © 2016 International School Psychology Association.
3 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/039-833-211-583-544 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: art therapy; asthma; biofeedback; dept.csp; hypnosis; mind-body; mindfulness; music therapy; relaxation and guided imagery; school-based interventions; written emotional expression; yoga

Students with cancer: presenting issues and effective solutions. - Root, Melissa M; Bray, Melissa A; Maykel, Cheryl; Cross, Karen; Shankar, Nilani L; Theodore, Lea A (International Journal of School and Educational Psychology, 2016)
Practitioners working with children diagnosed with cancer in the school environment must consider several facets in order to effectively work with the child and family. The remission rate for children with cancer is relatively high, so one must consider whether the child is anticipating treatment, actively in treatment, or posttreatment when one thinks about the potential stressors and cognitive impacts of cancer on the child's education. This article focuses on facts associated with childhood cancer that are relevant to school-based practitioners, common stressors for children and adolescents with a personal cancer diagnosis in their lives, research-based interventions, and accommodations and modifications to consider. © 2016, © 2016 International School Psychology Association.
3 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/117-223-995-782-603 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: accommodations; adolescent cancer; childhood cancer; dept.csp; evidence-based practices; intervention; modifications; pediatric oncology; school psychologist

Financial health and mental health among clients of a community mental health center: making the connections - Harper, Annie; Clayton, Ashley; Bailey, Margaret; Foss-Kelly, Louisa; Sernyak, Michael J.; Rowe, Michael (Psychiatric Services, 2015)
Objectives: This study evaluated financial challenges, satisfaction with financial-management supports, and interest in additional or alternative supports among clients of a mental health center. Methods: Six focus groups were held with 39 clients of an urban community mental health center who reported having difficulty with their finances. Five focus groups were held with direct-care staff who provided services to the clients. Investigators used an inductive analytical approach to distill themes from notes taken during the focus groups. Results: Clients emphasized the challenges of living in poverty and described using complex strategies to sustain themselves, including negotiating benefits systems, carefully planning purchases, and developing and relying on social relationships. They spoke of having uneven access to tools and services for managing their money, such as advice from direct-care staff, representative payees, and bank accounts, and had varying opinions about their value. Noting concerns similar to those of clients, direct-care staff expressed frustration at the lack of support services for helping clients manage their finances. Both clients and staff expressed the need for more services to help clients with their finances. Conclusions: Findings suggest a need for more services to support people with mental illness to manage their finances, particularly a more flexible and broader range of options than are provided by current representative-payee mechanisms.
17 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.eissn: 1557-9700 tex.unique-id: ISI:000370847300012
Keywords: Article; Community Mental Health Centers; Connecticut; Focus Groups; Humans; Mental Disorders; Mental Health; Patient Advocacy; Patient Satisfaction; Poverty; Social Support; Urban Population; adult; analytic method; clinical article; clinical assessment; clinical evaluation; community mental health center; coping behavior; dept.csp; economics; female; financial management; health care access; health insurance; human; information processing; interpersonal communication; male; managed care; medical staff; mental disease; mental health; mental health service; money; patient advocacy; patient satisfaction; poverty; social interaction; social support; treatment planning; urban population

The added value of the school of the 21st century when combined with a statewide preschool program. - Ginicola, Misty; Finn-Stevenson, Matia; Zigler, Edward (The American journal of orthopsychiatry, 2013)
Although schools have begun to employ multiple programs to reach educational goals, little attention has been paid to the efficacy of combining separate programs. The present study investigates the combination of a school reform model, the School of the 21st Century (21C), and the Arkansas Better Chance (ABC) program, where preschools apply for state funds to provide high quality services to children at risk. To determine if 21C adds anything to the ABC program, the present study compared results from a developmental assessment. The authors compared school-based preschools that had both ABC and 21C services to those programs that offered only ABC services. Results indicated that, at baseline, children within the 21C/ABC programs scored the same or poorer than their ABC-only counterparts. However, at the end of the year, participants at 21C/ABC preschools were significantly ahead of ABC-only programs on all developmental indicators. There were also differences favorable to 21C/ABC preschools between the programs' quality ratings as measured by the Early Childhood Environmental Rating Scale. Copyright © 2013 American Orthopsychiatric Association.
1 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Place: United States Ginicola, Misty. Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA. ginicolam2@southernct.edu
Keywords: *Early Intervention; Educational; *Schools; Arkansas; Arkansas Better Chance program; Child care; Child; Preschool; Early Intervention (Education); Educational Status; Family support; Female; Humans; Male; Poverty; Preschool children; School children; School readiness; Schools; The School of the 21st Century; article; child; dept.csp; education program; female; history; human; male; preschool child; rating scale; school

Counseling through images: using photography to guide the counseling process and achieve treatment goals - Ginicola, Misty M; Smith, Cheri; Trzaska, Jessica (Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, 2012)
Creative approaches to counseling help counselors to meet the needs of diverse populations. The utility of photography in counseling has been demonstrated through several case studies; however, clear implications of how photography relates to the counseling process have not been well delineated. The existing literature on phototherapy is reviewed and connected to specific photo directives within the counseling process and common psychotherapeutic techniques. © 2012 Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
30 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/152-475-270-839-262 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: counseling; creative counseling; dept.csp; photography; phototherapy

The church, the closet, and the couch: the counselor's role in assisting clients to integrate their sexual orientation and religious identity - Ginicola, Misty M; Smith, Cheri (Journal of Lgbt Issues in Counseling, 2011)
In a recent article in The New York Times, therapy using Sexual Orientation Management was highlighted, with the focus on therapists assisting clients to live a heterosexual life because of their religious beliefs.The primary reasons for such an approach are to allow for client choice and respect on an equally important area of diversity, their religious affiliation and values.Although research has been performed on the intersection of religion and sexual orientation, there has not been an extensive analysis or criticism of this management technique.In this article, the authors explore the experience of religious clients struggling with their sexual orientation, discuss the potential counselor responses to sexual orientation religious issues, and the impact of each on the counseling field using ethical principles, existing research, and logical outcomes.© 2011 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.
7 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/028-726-215-838-214 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: LGBQ; counseling; dept.csp; ethics; religion

An interactive web-based tool for teaching computer programming - Abdel-Raouf, Amal (International Conference on Bioinformatics, 2016)
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.type: Proceedings paper
Keywords: dept.csc

Authorship categorization of public domain literature - Boran, Tudor; Voss, John; Hossain, Shafaeat (Ubiquitous Computing, 2016)
We defined a set of quantifiable features for authorship categorization. We performed our experiments on public domain literature - all books analyzed were obtained in plain text format through Project Gutenberg's online repository of classic books. We tested three machine learning algorithms: Artificial Neural Network, Naïve Bayes Classifier, and Support Vector Machine with our features. We found that certain features, such as punctuation and various suffixes result in a higher accuracy. In addition, the Support Vector Machine classifier produces repeatedly higher accuracies than other classifiers and seems to be a far superior method of classification in terms of authorship categorization. © 2016 IEEE.
1 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.type: Proceedings paper
Keywords: Authorship categorization; Bayes Classifier; Classification (of information); Learning algorithms; Learning systems; Mobile telecommunication systems; Neural networks; Online repositories; Plain text; Public domains; Support vector machine classifiers; Support vector machines; Ubiquitous computing; classification; dept.csc; public domain literature; support vector machine

P-codec: parallel compressed file decompression algorithm for hadoop - Hanafi, Idris; Abdel-Raouf, Amal (International Conference on Bioinformatics, 2016)
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.type: Proceedings paper
Keywords: dept.csc

On finding appropriate reject region in serial fusion based biometric verification - Hossain, Shafaeat (IEEE International Multi-Disciplinary Conference on Cognitive Methods in Situation Awareness and Decision Support, 2016)
We give the theoretical foundation for finding a reject region which gives the minimum equal error rate in serial fusion based biometric verification. Given a user-specified tolerance of x percent genuine score reject rate, we prove that there exists a unique reject region inside which the false alarm rate and impostor pass rate curves overlap, and this reject region gives the minimum equal error rate. Our theory leads to new algorithms for finding reject regions, which have two key advantages over the state-of-the-art: (1) the algorithms allow the system administrator to control the proportion of genuine scores that a reject region can erroneously reject and (2) the algorithms determine reject regions directly from the scores, without the need to estimate score distributions. Our proofs do not rely on data belonging to any particular distribution, which makes them applicable to a wide range of biometric modalities including face, finger, iris, speech, gait, and keystrokes. © 2016 IEEE.
3 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.type: Proceedings paper
Keywords: Biometric verification; Biometrics; Decision support systems; Equal error rate; False alarm rate; Genuine scores; Particular distribution; State of the art; System administrators; Theoretical foundations; dept.csc

User authentication and identification on smartphones by incorporating capacitive touchscreen - Rilvan, Mohamed Azard; Lacy, Kolby Isiah; Hossain, Shafaeat; Wang, Bing (International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference, 2016)
Smartphones, while providing users ease of access to sensitive information on the go, also present severe security risks if an attacker is able to gain access to them. To strengthen the user authentication and identification in a smartphone, we develop a biometric authentication and identification system which uses the capacitive touchscreen that is featured in all current smartphones. Our methodology focuses on using the touchscreen as a sensor to capture the image of a user's ear, thumb or four fingers. We extract the capacitive raw data from the touched body part to obtain a capacitive image, and then use it to capture geometric features (e.g., length and width of a finger) and principal components. After that, we experiment with Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Random Forest (RF) classifiers to verify and also identify each user. We achieved the maximum authentication accuracy of 98.84% by four fingers with SVM, and maxinum identification accuracy of 97.61% by four fingers with RF. © 2016 IEEE.
4 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.type: Proceedings paper
Keywords: Authentication; Biometric; Biometric authentication; Biometrics; Decision trees; Geometric feature; Identification (control systems); Identification accuracy; Principal Components; Random forests; Security risks; Sensitive informations; Smartphones; Support vector machines; User authentication; authentication; capacitive touchscreen; dept.csc; identification; smart-phones

Exploring search task difficulty reasons in different task types and user knowledge groups - Liu, Jingjing; Kim, Chang Suk; Creel, Caitlin (Information Processing and Management, 2015)
Search task difficulty has been attracting much research attention in recent years, mostly regarding its relationship with searchers' behaviors and the prediction of task difficulty from search behaviors. However, it remains unknown what makes searchers feel the difficulty. A study consisting of 48 undergraduate students was conducted to explore this question. Each participant was given 4 search tasks that were carefully designed following a task classification scheme. Questionnaires were used to elicit participants' ratings on task difficulty and why they gave those ratings. Based on the collected difficulty reasons, a coding scheme was developed, which covered various aspects of task, user, and user-task interaction. Difficulty reasons were then categorized following this scheme. Results showed that searchers reported some common reasons leading to task difficulty in different tasks, but most of the difficulty reasons varied across tasks. In addition, task difficulty had some common reasons between searchers with low and high levels of topic knowledge, although there were also differences in top task difficulty reasons between high and low knowledge users. These findings further our understanding of search task difficulty, the relationship between task difficulty and task type, and that between task difficulty and knowledge level. The findings can also be helpful with designing tasks for information search experiments, and have implications on search system design both in general and for personalization based on task type and searchers' knowledge. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
21 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/112-166-586-835-305 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Information search; Knowledge level; Personalizations; Search engines; Students; Surveys; Task classification; Task difficulty; Task difficulty reason; Task type; Topic knowledge; Undergraduate students; dept.csc

Asynchronous gossip-based data propagation protocol - Andrew, Priyanka; Antonios, Imad (Digital Information and Communication Technology and Its Applications, 2015)
Data dissemination protocols govern interaction and exchange of data among nodes in a distributed system. An understanding of data transfer protocols provides insight into efficient middleware management. Due to their simplicity, scalability and fault-tolerance, gossip-based protocols are researched widely as an effective communication strategy. The Shuffle protocol presented in [1], is an example of a decentralized, gossip-based data transfer protocol used to spread information in a wireless network via probabilistic exchange of data. This paper presents, an asynchronous variant of the Shuffle protocol and a system model that captures variability in data transmission times. This transmission time variability is inherent in dynamic networks, where such algorithms are typically deployed. A simulation-based analysis of the protocol's performance behavior is presented. Results show the effects of transmission variability, on data replication and its coverage. Also examined is the relationship between available storage and the performance of the protocol, expressed using measures such as propagation time and work. © 2015 IEEE.
1 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.type: Proceedings paper
Keywords: Data communication systems; Data dissemination; Data dissemination protocols; Data propagation protocols; Data transfer; Data transfer protocols; Digital storage; Distributed database systems; Effective communication; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant computer systems; Gossip-based algorithms; Gossip-based protocol; Internet protocols; Middleware; Shuffle protocol; Simulation-based analysis; Wireless networks; asynchronous gossip-based algorithm; data dissemination; data transfer protocol; dept.csc; wireless network

ARM Assembly language programming Using Keil Development Tools Introduction - Elahi, Ata; Arjeski, Trevor (ARM Assembly Language with Hardware Experiments, 2015)
Manufacturers of CPUs publish a document that contains information about the processor that includes: list of registers, function of each register, size of data bus, size of address bus and list of instructions that can be executed by the CPU. Each CPU has a known instruction set that a programmer can use to write assembly language programs. Instruction sets are specific to each type of processor. That being said, Pentium processors use a different instruction set than ARM processors. Using the Instructions a of processor to write a program is called assembly language and function of an assembler is to convert assembly language to machine code (binary) that the CPU can understand.
Citation Key Alias: lens.org/088-348-966-769-812
Keywords: dept.csc

ARM Cortex-M3 Processor and MBED NXP LPC1768 - Elahi, Ata; Arjeski, Trevor (ARM Assembly Language with Hardware Experiments, 2015)
ARM offers variety of the core processor base on their applications and they are: Cortex A series: Cortex A series is a High performance processor for open operating system, the Cortex-A50 is a 64 bit process, application of Cortex-A series are Smart phones, Netbook, Digital TV, and eBook readers
Citation Key Alias: lens.org/031-467-574-875-492
Keywords: dept.csc

ARM Instructions and Part II - Elahi, Ata; Arjeski, Trevor (ARM Assembly Language with Hardware Experiments, 2015)
The data transfer instructions are used to transfer data from memory to registers and from registers to memory and they are Load (LDR) and Store (STR) instructions.
Citation Key Alias: lens.org/013-090-628-194-319
Keywords: dept.csc

ARM Instructions Part I - Elahi, Ata; Arjeski, Trevor (ARM Assembly Language with Hardware Experiments, 2015)
Advanced RISC Machine (ARM) was developed by the Acorn Company. ARM is a leader supplier of microprocessors in the world, ARM develop the core CPU and thousand of suppliers add more functional units to the core. ARM uses two types instruction called Thumb and Thumb-2. Thumb instructions are 16 bits and thumb-2 instructions are 32 bits, currently most ARM processors uses 32 bit instructions.
Citation Key Alias: lens.org/004-692-447-907-924
Keywords: dept.csc

Logic Gates and Introduction to Computer Architecture - Elahi, Ata; Arjeski, Trevor (ARM Assembly Language with Hardware Experiments, 2015)
The basic components of an Integrated Circuit (IC) is logic gates which made of transistors, in digital system there are three basic logic operations and they are called AND, OR and NOT.
Citation Key Alias: lens.org/102-318-987-004-411
Keywords: dept.csc

Number Systems and Data Communication - Elahi, Ata; Arjeski, Trevor (ARM Assembly Language with Hardware Experiments, 2015)
In order to understand network technology it is important to know how information is represented for transmission from one computer to another. Information can be transferred between computers in one of two ways: an analog signal or a digital signal.
Citation Key Alias: lens.org/038-175-763-396-415
Keywords: Analog Signal; Binary Number; Digital Signal; Number System; Transmission Method; dept.csc

Enhancing EDP of multicore processors through DVFS - Hajiamini, Shervin; Shirazi, Behrooz; Rilvan, Mohamed Azard (International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference, 2015)
Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) is a well-known technique to optimize the power dissipation of electronic systems without significantly compromising overall system performance. DVFS exploits the periods of inter-core data exchange (memory-bound operations) to reduce the voltage and frequency (V/F) of the cores in order to reduce the power dissipation during the execution flow of an application running on the CMP. As the lengths of the idle and busy periods of the cores vary depending on the benchmarks, it is crucial for any DVFS technique to maximize the power saving without losing a significant performance. In this work we present two power optimization methodologies that are integrated into a full-system simulator to make online predictions about the voltage and frequency of the cores during the execution time of the benchmarks. We evaluate these methodologies in terms of the V/F predictions vs. the actual utilization of each core periodically. We also compare the overall execution time, energy dissipation, and energy-delay product (EDP) of the power optimization methodologies for various benchmarks. © 2015 IEEE.
1 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.type: Proceedings paper
Keywords: Benchmarking; DVFS; Dynamic frequency scaling; Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling; Electric losses; Electronic data interchange; Electronic systems; Energy delay product; Energy dissipation; Energy efficiency; Forecasting; Full system simulators; Multi core; Multi-core processor; Multicore; Power Optimization; V/F tracking; Voltage scaling; dept.csc; energy efficiency

Free indulgences: Enhanced zero-price effect for hedonic options - Hossain, Mehdi T; Saini, Ritesh (International Journal of Research in Marketing, 2015)
We find that the relative preference of hedonic products is disproportionately enhanced when they are offered at a free price. This “free price bounce” is more subdued for utilitarian products. This is surprising because rational choice theory posits that relative preference amidst two options - say a hedonic and a utilitarian product - remains intact as long as the price difference between them is constant. We propose and demonstrate that this axiom is violated when a hedonic product is offered for free. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
14 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/107-412-613-199-640 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Affective appraisal; Behavioral pricing; Hedonic-utilitarian differences; Sales promotion; Zero price; dept.csc

Analyzing PHP frameworks for use in a project-based software engineering course - Lancor, Lisa; Katha, Samyukta (Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2013)
Given the popularity of PHP frameworks used in developing webbased applications, a comparative study is conducted to determine which framework is best suited for incorporation into the curriculum of an undergraduate software engineering course that uses project-based learning. The top six PHP frameworks (Zend, Yii, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, PRADO, and Symphony) were initially considered and then narrowed down to two (CakePHP and CodeIgniter) based on their alignment with common functionality in previous class projects, framework complexity for those new to frameworks (learning curve), and developer friendliness (availability of documentation and online resources). An in-depth comparative study is conducted by developing a functionally-equivalent web application using each of the two frameworks as well as plain PHP (no framework). This work was motivated by the difficulties that were encountered in an evolving, content-rich software engineering course and discusses the educational changes that were made to align student learning with sound software engineering principles and current software development practices used in the computing industry. Copyright © 2013 ACM.
4 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.type: Proceedings paper
Keywords: Application programs; Curricula; Education computing; Engineering education; PHP frameworks; Project based learning; Project-based learning; Software design; Software design and development; Software development practices; Software engineering; Software engineering course; Software engineering principles; Technical presentations; Undergraduate software engineering; Web-based applications; dept.csc

Why do users perceive search tasks as difficult? Exploring difficulty in different task types - Liu, Jingjing; Kim, Chang Suk (Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval, 2013)
In this paper, we examined why information searchers perceive search tasks as difficult, and what factors/reasons make them perceive tasks as difficult. We also examined if task difficulty reasons vary across different tasks (task types). Data was collected through a controlled laboratory experiment in which tasks were designed following a classification scheme. A total of 32 undergraduate students participated, each was given 4 search tasks, and they were asked in questionnaires both before and after the tasks for task difficulty ratings and why they gave those ratings. We developed a coding scheme based on the difficulty reasons users gave, which covered various aspects of task, user, and user-task interaction. Difficulty reasons were categorized following this scheme. Results showed that searchers had some common reasons for task difficulty in different tasks, but most of the difficulty reasons varied across tasks. For each task, there were also common reasons for task difficulty, although there was some variation here as well. Task difficulty was also found to be negatively correlated with users topic knowledge, previous experience, and topic interest. Our findings help understand search task difficulty, as well as the relationships between task difficulty and task type, knowledge background, etc. These can also be helpful with experiment task design. © 2013 ACM.
5 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.type: Proceedings paper
Keywords: Classification scheme; Coding scheme; Controlled laboratories; Experiments; Human computer interaction; Information retrieval; Search tasks; Students; Surveys; Task difficulty; Task difficulty reason categories; Undergraduate students; dept.csc; task features; topic knowledge

Why do users feel search task difficult - Liu, Jingjing; Kim, Chang Suk; Creel, Caitlin (ASIST '13 Proceedings of the 76th ASIS&T Annual Meeting: Beyond the Cloud: Rethinking Information Boundaries, 2013)
This paper reports on an examination of why information searchers find search tasks difficult and the specific reasons they feel difficult. Data was collected through a controlled laboratory experiment with 32 participants, each working with 4 search tasks. They were asked in questionnaires, both before and after the tasks, for task difficulty ratings and their reasoning for giving those ratings. We developed a coding scheme based on the difficulty reasons users gave, which covered various aspects of task, user, and user-task interaction. This helps us understand search task difficulty, as well as provides a scheme for task difficulty control in experiment task design.
6 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31]
Keywords: Task difficulty reason categories; Task features; Topic knowledge; dept.csc

Software environments for atmospheric lidar remote sensing - Sharma, Nimmi C P; Parikh, Jo Ann (International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2013)
Research and training in atmospheric lidar remote sensing requires highly versatile software environments for both experimentation and analysis. Experimentation and analysis may be conducted either directly on site at the location of the lidar equipment and/or institutional computer center or remotely from a distant location. The requirements for lidar software environments depend not only on type of user access (remote or onsite) but also on the nature of the teaching or research missions they support and the characteristics of the lidar systems for which they are used. The software environments discussed in this paper have been used to support lidar aerosol studies in settings ranging from urban locations to a remote atmospheric baseline station. Experiments and data analysis studies have been conducted for two different ground-based lidar systems, a monostatic Micro Pulse Lidar system and a bistatic imaging lidar system. © 2013 IEEE.
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.type: Proceedings paper
Keywords: aerosols; dept.csc; laser radar; remote sensing software

Embedding video and assessment forms in online documents - Workman, Robert; Kim, Chang Suk (E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, 2013)
Citation Key Alias: lens.org/170-596-480-737-233
Keywords: dept.csc; ⛔ No DOI found

Information seeking tasks: why do searchers feel them difficult? - Liu, Jingjing; Kim, Chang Suk (Proceedings of HCIR 2012, 2012)
Citation Key Alias: lens.org/165-516-185-567-864
Keywords: dept.csc; ⛔ No DOI found

Creating interactive video stories for mobile devices with adobe flash CS5.5: an exploratory mixed methods case study - Workman, Robert; Christ, Thomas W; Yu, Winnie (Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, 2012)
Citation Key Alias: lens.org/142-611-842-162-092
Keywords: dept.csc; ⛔ No DOI found

Developing structured interactive multimedia applications with HTML5 - Workman, Robert; Podnar, Hrvoje (EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology, 2012)
Citation Key Alias: lens.org/098-454-816-935-071
Keywords: dept.csc; ⛔ No DOI found

Core node location problem: heuristic solvability via tabu search - Skorin-Kapov, Darko; Skorin-Kapov, Jadranka; Podnar, Hrvoje (2010)
Citation Key Alias: pop00242
Keywords: dept.csc; ⛔ No DOI found

A performance model of gossip-based update propagation - Antonios, Imad; Dhar, Reetu; Zhang, Feng; Lipsky, Lester (Network Computing and Applications, 2010)
We consider the problem of propagating an update to nodes in a distributed system using two gossiping protocols. The first is an idealized algorithm with static and dynamic knowledge of the system, and the second is a simple randomized algorithm. We construct a theoretical model that allows us to derive work and completion time statistics under varying transmission delay distributions. Numerical results are obtained for both exponential and nonexponential transmission times using linear-algebraic queueing theory techniques. Additionally, we present the results of simulation experiments showing that under node churn assumptions, the randomized algorithm's performance is qualitatively different than in a fault-free system. © 2010 IEEE.
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.type: Proceedings paper
Keywords: Algorithms; Completion time; Distributed systems; Gossiping protocols; Linear-algebraic; Numerical results; Performance Model; Queueing theory; Randomized Algorithms; Simulation experiments; Static and dynamic; Theoretical models; Transmission delays; dept.csc

Consumers' optimism bias and responses to risk disclosures in direct-to-consumer (DTC) prescription drug advertising: the moderating role of subjective health literacy - Ahn, Ho-Young (Anthony); Park, Jin Seong; Haley, Eric (Journal of Consumer Affairs, 2014)
Despite a substantial body of research in direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) for prescription drugs, what is missing from the existing discussion on the risk disclosure in DTCA is a focus on the roles of individual motivation and ability to process risk information. Guided by the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) and the Motivation-Ability-Opportunity framework, the current study examines the roles of the consumer's optimism bias and subjective health literacy in responding to the risk disclosure in DTCA. By analyzing survey data (N = 404), the study reveals that: (1) consumers who show a tendency to believe that they are at less risk of experiencing adverse reactions to prescription drugs than their peers are less likely to pay attention to the risk disclosure or intend to seek further information about the health risks of drugs, (2) the relationship between optimism bias and information-seeking intentions is stronger for consumers with high subjective health literacy than for those with low health literacy. Implications and recommendations are provided.
26 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.eissn: 1745-6606 tex.unique-id: ISI:000333470200008
Keywords: dept.com

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) antidepressant advertising and consumer misperceptions about the chemical imbalance theory of depression: the moderating role of skepticism - Park, Jin Seong; Ahn, Ho-Young (Health Marketing Quarterly, 2013)
Based on a survey with members of an online consumer panel (N= 699), this study revealed that: (a) a substantial percentage of consumers held misperceptions about the chemical imbalance theory of depression; (b) personal and interpersonal experiences with depression positively related to such misperceptions; (c) overall, exposure to direct-to-consumer (DTC) antidepressant advertising did not significantly relate to misperceptions; and (d) DTC exposure magnified misperceptions when consumers were highly trustful of DTC advertising, whereas exposure diluted misperceptions when consumers were highly skeptical. Theoretical and practical implications of the research are discussed, especially in light of the social responsibility of DTC advertising. © 2013 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.
5 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: pop00284 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Advertising as Topic; Antidepressive Agents; Brain Chemistry; Depression; Female; Health Knowledge; Attitudes; Practice; Humans; Male; advertizing; antidepressant agent; attitude to health; brain level; depression; dept.com; direct-to-consumer (DTC) prescription drug advertising; drug effects; female; health beliefs; human; male; procedures; skepticism toward advertising; social responsibility of advertising

Interaction effects of perceived sponsor motives and facebook credibility on willingness to visit social cause facebook page - Lee, Yoon-Joo; Ahn, Ho-Young (Journal of Interactive Advertising, 2013)
19 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: pop00202 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.com

Communication strategies in cosmetic surgery websites: an application of Taylor's six-segment message strategy wheel. - Ahn, Ho-Young Anthony; Wu, Lei; Taylor, Ronald E (Health marketing quarterly, 2013)
Using Taylor's six-segment message strategy wheel as a theoretical framework, this study examines the communication approach (transmission or ritual) and message strategy (ego, social, sensory, routine, acute need, or ration) of cosmetic surgery websites. A content analysis revealed a fairly even division between transmission and ritual approaches. Ration strategy was the exclusive strategy in the websites adopting a transmission approach. No routine or acute need strategies were observed. Websites incorporating the ritual approach used ego, social, and sensory strategies. Human female models and natural objects were incorporated to deliver emotional persuasion. Implications for cosmetic surgery web marketers are discussed.
12 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Place: England Ahn, Ho-Young Anthony. Department of Communication, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, Connecticut 06515, USA. ahnh1@southernct.edu
Keywords: *Communication; *Marketing of Health Services/mt [Methods]; *Surgery; Plastic; Communication; Emotions; Female; Humans; Internet; Marketing of Health Services; Models; Theoretical; Motivation; Surgery; Plastic; Surgery; Plastic/px [Psychology]; Taylor's six-segment message strategy wheel; United States; article; content analysis; cosmetic surgery; dept.com; emotion; female; financial management; human; interpersonal communication; methodology; motivation; physician advertising; plastic surgery; psychological aspect; theoretical model

6: Enhancing Out-of-Class Communication - Farley‐Lucas, Bonnie S.; Sargent, Margaret M. (To Improve the Academy, 2011)
Out-of-class communication between faculty and students is linked to student learning, engagement, and success. As the source for mentoring, advising, and supplemental instruction, out-of-class communication and its barriers require explicit attention. Using a faculty-student collaborative research approach, we interviewed a diverse group of thirty-three undergraduates regarding behaviors, statements, and practices that contributed to or discouraged out-of-class communication. We found that in-class communication sets the stage for whether students approach faculty outside class and that faculty misbehaviors and disconfirming communication in class almost inevitably lead to out-of-class avoidance.
1 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/099-255-442-821-233, pop00355
Keywords: dept.com

Orson welles, harry alan towers, and the many lives of harry lime - Tavares, Frank (Journal of Radio & Audio Media, 2010)
In 1951, prolific radio producer Harry Alan Towers created The Lives of Harry Lime, a 52-episode series starring Orson Welles. It was based on the character Welles made famous in the popular Carol Reed film, The Third Man. Its success was the result of Towers's aptitude for seeing the untapped marketing potential of an existing fictional character, combined with his facility at working through the legal restrictions, and his ability to convince a reluctant Welles to participate. This article traces the genesis, production, and distribution of the only radio series on which Welles played a recurring dramatic role, and examines Welles's limited involvement in his temporary return to radio well after becoming a filmmaker. © 2010 Broadcast Education Association.
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/113-839-001-418-611 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.com

Pediatric feeding in infants with pierre robin sequence following mandibular distraction osteogenesis - Mabry, Kelly (Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2016)
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/052-625-935-224-883 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.cmd; peer-reviewed

Aphasia, alexia, and agraphia - Purdy, Mary (Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology Encyclopedia of Mental Health (Second Edition), 2016)
Aphasia is a general language disorder resulting from brain damage, and alexia and agraphia are specific impairments in reading and writing, respectively. This article describes the symptoms associated with each disorder, the subtypes of each impairment, and the common causes. Assessment and management approaches consistent with the World Health Organization International Classification of Functioning (WHO-ICF) are briefly reviewed. © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
10.1016/B978-0-12-397045-9.00056-2 Citation Key: pop00365 Citation Key Alias: lens.org/160-882-999-453-346
Keywords: Acquired language disorders; Agraphia; Alexia; Aphasia; Assessment; Communication disorder; Dysgraphia; Dyslexia; Dysphasia; Management; WHO-ICF; dept.cmd

Intensive multimodal communication treatment for people with chronic aphasia - Purdy, Mary; Wallace, Sarah E. (Aphasiology, 2016)
Background: Clinicians often teach persons with aphasia (PWA) non-verbal strategies to compensate for reduced verbal communication. The manner in which they teach the strategies may have an impact on how well PWA generalise and use the strategies. Previously, multimodal communication treatment (MCT) taught multiple modalities simultaneously. While participants demonstrated some increase in the flexible use of strategies, many communication breakdowns continued to occur. Recent research suggests that intensive treatment protocols result in the greatest increase in skills.Aims: The purpose of this study was to determine whether intensive (2-3hours/day, 5 days/week, for 2 weeks) multimodality communication training for aphasia resulted in increased successful use of verbal and non-verbal communication modalities as well as increased successful communicative repairs during structured communication tasks.Methods & Procedures: Three participants with chronic aphasia completed four baseline sessions, 10 treatment sessions across two phases (i.e., five sessions per phase), and three post-treatment sessions.Outcomes & Results: Two of the three participants demonstrated gains in the acquisition of non-verbal strategies during training and increased use of strategies on a referential communication task.Conclusions: Although MCT delivered intensely resulted in increased use of non-verbal modalities for two out of three participants, the results were similar to that achieved through the use of a non-intensive treatment protocol. Therefore, future research is needed to examine other potential modifications to maximise the gains people with aphasia receive from multimodal interventions.
9 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/009-825-785-657-129 tex.eissn: [object Object] tex.unique-id: [object Object]
Keywords: Article; Cognitive Linguistic Quick Test; accuracy; adult; aphasia; case report; cognitive function test; communication; dept.cmd; disease severity; hemiparesis; human; intensive treatment; interrater reliability; male; middle aged; multimodality communication training; nonverbal communication; outcome assessment; peer-reviewed; physiotherapy; strategy usage; training

Perception of speech sounds in school-aged children with speech sound disorders - Preston, Jonathan L.; Irwin, Julia R.; Turcios, Jacqueline (Seminars in Speech and Language, 2015)
Children with speech sound disorders may perceive speech differently than children with typical speech development. The nature of these speech differences is reviewed with an emphasis on assessing phoneme-specific perception for speech sounds that are produced in error. Category goodness judgment, or the ability to judge accurate and inaccurate tokens of speech sounds, plays an important role in phonological development. The software Speech Assessment and Interactive Learning System, which has been effectively used to assess preschoolers' ability to perform goodness judgments, is explored for school-aged children with residual speech errors (RSEs). However, data suggest that this particular, task may not be sensitive to perceptual differences in school-aged children. The need for the development of clinical tools for assessment of speech perception in school-aged children with RSE is highlighted, and clinical suggestions are provided.
16 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/110-366-030-100-745 tex.eissn: [object Object] tex.orcid-numbers: [object Object] tex.researcherid-numbers: [object Object] tex.unique-id: [object Object]
Keywords: Child; Female; Humans; Male; Phonetics; Speech; Speech Perception; Speech Sound Disorder; Speech sound disorder; assessment; child; dept.cmd; dept.psy; female; human; male; pathophysiology; phonetics; speech; speech perception; speech sound disorder

Ways of examining speech acts in young african american children: considering inside-out and outside-in approaches. - Dejarnette, Glenda; Rivers, Kenyatta O; Hyter, Yvette D (Topics in Language Disorders, 2015)
To develop a framework for further study of pragmatic behavior in young children from African American English (AAE) speaking backgrounds, one aspect of pragmatic behavior is explored in this article, specifically, speech acts. The aims of this article are to (1) examine examples of how external taxonomies (i.e., an “etic” or “outside-in” approach) have been applied to the speech act behavior of AAE child speakers and to note that etic approaches alone do not identify cultural characteristics that influence the presentation of speech acts in this population; (2) conceptualize a culture-sensitive framework where components of AAE speech act behaviors can be identified as gleaned from existing linguistic research; and (3) explain the utility of analyses of speech act behavior using taxonomies that have emerged from the cultural language style of AAE speakers, that is, an “emic” or “inside-out” approach.
7 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/019-681-907-287-000 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: English speakers; communicative functions; dept.cmd; language behavior; pragmatic behavior; speech acts; young African American

Pragmatic language of african american children and adolescents: A systematic synthesis of the literature. - Hyter, Yvette D; Rivers, Kenyatta O; Dejarnette, Glenda (Topics in Language Disorders, 2015)
Purpose: A systematic review and synthesis was performed on published articles and dissertations produced between 1970 and 2013 that focused on selected pragmatic language behaviors of African American children and adolescents. Methods: Electronic databases and hand searches of articles located in the databases were used to identify the published articles and dissertations. Each article or dissertation was reviewed by at least 2 of the authors to determine whether it met the criteria for inclusion in this study. Selected observations of the documents that met criteria for inclusion were recorded on the Primary Research Appraisal Tool (PRAT; DeJarnette, Hyter, & Rivers, 2012), a data gathering and analysis framework developed by the authors specifically for this systematic synthesis. Results: The literature search resulted in 92 research articles and dissertations, 37 of which were eliminated because they did not meet all of the inclusion criteria. The documents that met our inclusion criteria focused primarily on the structure and/or content of narrative discourse rather than speech acts, other forms of discourse (e.g., conversation, expository), and presupposition/perspective taking skills. Six major themes identified in the major findings are used to summarize studies reviewed for this systematic synthesis. Conclusions: We (a) explain the current state of knowledge about African American pragmatic language behaviors, (b) explain major findings and implications of the extant literature in this topical area and how it may inform speech-language pathology practice, and (c) identify directions for future research on pragmatic language of African American children and adolescents.
8 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/151-173-234-950-684 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: African American; communication functions; dept.cmd; discourse; pragmatic language; presupposition; speech acts; systematic review and synthesis; theory of mind

Phonological complexity in school-aged children who stutter and exhibit a language disorder. - Wolk, Lesley; LaSalle, Lisa R (Journal of fluency disorders, 2015)
PURPOSE: The Index of Phonological Complexity and the Word Complexity Measure are two measures of the phonological complexity of a word. Other phonological measures such as phonological neighborhood density have been used to compare stuttered versus fluent words. It appears that in preschoolers who stutter, the length and complexity of the utterance is more influential than the phonetic features of the stuttered word. The present hypothesis was that in school-age children who stutter, stuttered words would be more phonologically complex than fluent words, when the length and complexity of the utterance containing them is comparable. School-age speakers who stutter were hypothesized to differ from those with a concomitant language disorder., METHODS: Sixteen speakers, six females and ten males (M age=12;3; Range=7;7 to 19;5) available from an online database, were divided into eight who had a concomitant language disorder (S+LD) and eight age- and sex-matched speakers who did not (S-Only)., RESULTS: When all stuttered content words were identified, S+LD speakers produced more repetitions, and S-Only speakers produced more inaudible sound prolongations. When stuttered content words were matched to fluent content words and when talker groups were combined, stuttered words were significantly (p<=0.01) higher in both the Index of Phonological Complexity and the Word Complexity Measure and lower in density ("sparser") than fluent words., CONCLUSIONS: Results corroborate those of previous researchers. Future research directions are suggested, such as cross-sectional designs to evaluate developmental patterns of phonological complexity and stuttering plus language disordered connections., EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES: The reader will be able to: (a) Define and describe phonological complexity; (b) Define phonological neighborhood density and summarize the literature on the topic; (c) Describe the Index of Phonological Complexity (IPC) for a given word; (d) Describe the Word Complexity Measure (WCM) for a given word; (e) Summarize two findings from the current study and describe how each relates to studies of phonological complexity and fluency disorders. Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
12 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Place: United States Wolk, Lesley. Southern Connecticut State University, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, 501 Crescent St, New Haven, CT 06515, United States. Electronic address: Lesleywolk@sbcglobal.net. LaSalle, Lisa R. Communicative Disorders, University of Redlands, 1200 E Colton Ave., Redlands, CA 92373, United States.
Keywords: *Language; *Linguistics; *Phonetics; *Stuttering; Adolescent; Adult; Article; Child; Concomitant disorders; Female; Humans; Language; Language disorders; Linguistics; Male; Phonetics; Phonological complexity; Schools; Speech; Speech Production Measurement; Stuttering; adolescent; adult; child; controlled study; data base; dept.cmd; female; fluency disorder; human; language; language disability; linguistics; male; phoneme; phonetics; school; school child; speech; speech analysis; stuttering

Development of an audiovisual speech perception app for children with autism spectrum disorders - Irwin, Julia; Preston, Jonathan; Brancazio, Lawrence; D'Angelo, Michael; Turcios, Jacqueline (Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2015)
Perception of spoken language requires attention to acoustic as well as visible phonetic information. This article reviews the known differences in audiovisual speech perception in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and specifies the need for interventions that address this construct. Elements of an audiovisual training program are described. This researcher-developed program delivered via an iPad app presents natural speech in the context of increasing noise, but supported with a speaking face. Children are cued to attend to visible articulatory information to assist in perception of the spoken words. Data from four children with ASD ages 8-10 are presented showing that the children improved their performance on an untrained auditory speech-in-noise task.
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Keywords: Attention; Audiovisual Aids; Audiovisual app; Autism spectrum disorder; Child; Child Development Disorders; Pervasive; Comprehension; Humans; Lipreading; Male; Mobile Applications; Pattern Recognition; Visual; Phonetics; Semantics; Speech Perception; Speech perception; attention; audiovisual aid; child; comprehension; dept.cmd; dept.hls; dept.psy; human; lip reading; male; mobile application; pattern recognition; phonetics; psychology; semantics; speech perception

Ultrasound visual feedback treatment and practice variability for residual speech sound errors - Preston, Jonathan L.; McCabe, Patricia; Rivera-Campos, Ahmed; Whittle, Jessica L.; Landry, Erik; Maas, Edwin (Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 2014)
Purpose: The goals were to (a) test the efficacy of a motor-learning-based treatment that includes ultrasound visual feedback for individuals with residual speech sound errors and (b) explore whether the addition of prosodic cueing facilitates speech sound learning. Method: A multiple-baseline, single-subject design was used, replicated across 8 participants. For each participant, 1 sound context was treated with ultrasound plus prosodic cueing for 7 sessions, and another sound context was treated with ultrasound but without prosodic cueing for 7 sessions. Sessions included ultrasound visual feedback as well as non-ultrasound treatment. Word-level probes assessing untreated words were used to evaluate retention and generalization. Results: For most participants, increases in accuracy of target sound contexts at the word level were observed with the treatment program regardless of whether prosodic cueing was included. Generalization between onset singletons and clusters was observed, as was generalization to sentence-level accuracy. There was evidence of retention during posttreatment probes, including at a 2-month follow-up. Conclusion: A motor-based treatment program that includes ultrasound visual feedback can facilitate learning of speech sounds in individuals with residual speech sound errors.
tex.eissn: 1558-9102 tex.orcid-numbers: McCabe, Patricia/0000-0002-5182-1007 Maas, Edwin/0000-0003-4452-2196 Preston, Jonathan/0000-0001-9971-6321 tex.researcherid-numbers: McCabe, Patricia/E-9435-2010 Maas, Edwin/H-5297-2018 Preston, Jonathan/E-9310-2010 tex.unique-id: ISI:000348195300006
Keywords: Child; Cues; Feedback; Sensory; Female; Humans; Male; Phonetics; Speech; Speech Sound Disorder; Speech Therapy; Ultrasonography; Young Adult; association; child; dept.cmd; diagnostic imaging; echography; female; human; male; pathophysiology; phonetics; physiology; procedures; sensory feedback; speech; speech sound disorder; speech therapy; young adult; ⚠️ Invalid DOI

Glutamate and choline levels predict individual differences in reading ability in emergent readers - Pugh, Kenneth R.; Frost, Stephen J.; Rothman, Douglas L.; Hoeft, Fumiko; Tufo, Stephanie N. Del; Mason, Graeme F.; Molfese, Peter J.; Mencl, W. Einar; Grigorenko, Elena L.; Landi, Nicole; Preston, Jonathan L.; Jacobsen, Leslie; et al. (The Journal of Neuroscience, 2014)
Reading disability is a brain-based difficulty in acquiring fluent reading skills that affects significant numbers of children. Although neuroanatomical and neurofunctional networks involved in typical and atypical reading are increasingly well characterized, the underlying neurochemical bases of individual differences in reading development are virtually unknown. The current study is the first to examine neurochemistry in children during the critical period in which the neurocircuits that support skilled reading are still developing. In a longitudinal pediatric sample of emergent readers whose reading indicators range on a continuum from impaired to superior, we examined the relationship between individual differences in reading and reading-related skills and concentrations of neurometabolites measured using magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Both continuous and group analyses revealed that choline and glutamate concentrations were negatively correlated with reading and related linguistic measures in phonology and vocabulary (such that higher concentrations were associated with poorer performance). Correlations with behavioral scores obtained 24 months later reveal stability for the relationship between glutamate and reading performance. Implications for neurodevelopmental models of reading and reading disability are discussed, including possible links of choline and glutamate to white matter anomalies and hyperexcitability. These findings point to new directions for research on gene-brain-behavior pathways in human studies of reading disability. © 2014 the authors.
66 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: pop00048 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: 4 aminobutyric acid; Aspartic Acid; Brain; Child; Choline; Decoding; Dyslexia; Female; Glutamic Acid; Humans; Individual differences; Individuality; Learning; MRS; Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; Male; Phonetics; Phonological processing; Predictive Value of Tests; Reading; Reading disability; Vocabulary; article; behavior; child; choline; decoding; dept.cmd; female; gamma-Aminobutyric Acid; glutamic acid; human; human experiment; individual differences; language ability; linguistics; male; nerve cell differentiation; nerve excitability; normal human; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; phonetics; phonological processing; priority journal; reading; reading disability; school child; speech

Structural brain differences in school-age children with residual speech sound errors. - Preston, Jonathan L; Molfese, Peter J; Mencl, W Einar; Frost, Stephen J; Hoeft, Fumiko; Fulbright, Robert K; Landi, Nicole; Grigorenko, Elena L; Seki, Ayumi; Felsenfeld, Susan; Pugh, Kenneth R (Brain and Language, 2014)
The purpose of the study was to identify structural brain differences in school-age children with residual speech sound errors. Voxel based morphometry was used to compare gray and white matter volumes for 23 children with speech sound errors, ages 8;6-11;11, and 54 typically speaking children matched on age, oral language, and IQ. We hypothesized that regions associated with production and perception of speech sounds would differ between groups. Results indicated greater gray matter volumes for the speech sound error group relative to typically speaking controls in bilateral superior temporal gyrus. There was greater white matter volume in the corpus callosum for the speech sound error group, but less white matter volume in right lateral occipital gyrus. Results may indicate delays in neuronal pruning in critical speech regions or differences in the development of networks for speech perception and production. Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
24 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Place: Netherlands Preston, Jonathan L. Haskins Laboratories, 300 George St, Suite 900, New Haven, CT 06511, United States; Department of Communication Disorders, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT, United States. Electronic address: preston@haskins.yale.edu. Molfese, Peter J. Haskins Laboratories, 300 George St, Suite 900, New Haven, CT 06511, United States. Mencl, W Einar. Haskins Laboratories, 300 George St, Suite 900, New Haven, CT 06511, United States. Frost, Stephen J. Haskins Laboratories, 300 George St, Suite 900, New Haven, CT 06511, United States. Hoeft, Fumiko. Haskins Laboratories, 300 George St, Suite 900, New Haven, CT 06511, United States; Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States. Fulbright, Robert K. Haskins Laboratories, 300 George St, Suite 900, New Haven, CT 06511, United States; Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States. Landi, Nicole. Haskins Laboratories, 300 George St, Suite 900, New Haven, CT 06511, United States; Yale Child Study Center, New Haven, CT, United States. Grigorenko, Elena L. Yale Child Study Center, New Haven, CT, United States. Seki, Ayumi. Haskins Laboratories, 300 George St, Suite 900, New Haven, CT 06511, United States; Tottori University, Tottori, Japan. Felsenfeld, Susan. Haskins Laboratories, 300 George St, Suite 900, New Haven, CT 06511, United States. Pugh, Kenneth R. Haskins Laboratories, 300 George St, Suite 900, New Haven, CT 06511, United States; Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States; University of Connecticut, Department of Psychology, Storrs, CT, United States; Department of Linguistics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States.
Keywords: *Brain/pa [Pathology]; *Language Development Disorders/pa [Pathology]; *Phonetics; *Speech Perception; Brain; Child; Children; Humans; Language Development Disorders; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Phonetics; Speech Perception; Speech sound disorders; Speech sound errors; Structural MRI; article; brain region; brain size; child; clinical article; controlled study; corpus callosum; dept.cmd; female; gray matter; human; male; neuroanatomy; occipital gyrus; school child; speech articulation; speech perception; speech sound disorder; speech sound error; superior temporal gyrus; voxel based morphometry; white matter

Ultrasound visual feedback for acquired apraxia of speech: A case report - Preston, Jonathan L; Leaman, Marion (Aphasiology, 2014)
Background: Individuals with acquired apraxia of speech (AOS) can lose precision of articulatory movements, including the ability to achieve correct production of specific sounds or sound sequences. Novel treatment approaches should be explored to enhance treatment outcomes.Aims: To evaluate the clinical feasibility of ultrasound visual feedback of the tongue for addressing errors on rhotics in a patient with AOS. Ultrasound visual feedback was used to provide knowledge of performance to the participant.Methods & Procedures: A multiple baseline single case report is presented to evaluate a treatment programme that uses visual feedback of the participant's tongue from real-time ultrasound images. A blocked practice schedule was implemented during 12 one-hour therapy sessions; 30 minutes involved ultrasound visual feedback (10 minutes of pre-practice and 20 minutes of practice) and 20 minutes involved non-ultrasound practice. Cues were provided to modify tongue shape to achieve perceptually accurate production of rhotics, along with practice trials with increasing levels of phonetic complexity. The feedback type (verbal knowledge of performance and knowledge of results) and feedback frequency (number of trials with feedback) were structured to adhere to principles of motor learning.Outcomes & Results: The participant demonstrated moderate evidence of acquisition of prevocalic rhotics and strong evidence of acquisition of postvocalic rhotics during treatment. There was evidence of retention and generalisation only for postvocalic rhotics. An untreated context was probed regularly and showed no evidence of improvement.Conclusion: The results provide preliminary support for the feasibility of this treatment approach for improving speech accuracy in adults with acquired AOS. The improvements in stimulability for the treated sound sequences could be used to foster further motor learning. © 2014 © Taylor & Francis Group.
26 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/120-649-995-107-292 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Apraxia; Articulation; Clinical feasibility; Feedback; Feedback frequency; Feedback type; Generalisation; Motor learning; Patient treatment; Speech; Ultrasonics; Ultrasound; Ultrasound images; Visual communication; Visual feedback; adult; aphasia; apraxia of speech; article; association; ataxic aphasia; case report; cerebrovascular accident; dept.cmd; error; female; human; knowledge; learning; middle aged; peer-reviewed; phonetics; speech and language assessment; speech language pathologist; tongue; ultrasound; visual analysis; visual feedback; vocalization

Neurophysiology of speech differences in childhood apraxia of speech - Preston, Jonathan L; Molfese, Peter J; Gumkowski, Nina; Sorcinelli, Andrea; Harwood, Vanessa; Irwin, Julia; Landi, Nicole (Developmental Neuropsychology, 2014)
Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded during a picture naming task of simple and complex words in children with typical speech and with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS). Results reveal reduced amplitude prior to speaking complex (multisyllabic) words relative to simple (monosyllabic) words for the CAS group over the right hemisphere during a time window thought to reflect phonological encoding of word forms. Group differences were also observed prior to production of spoken tokens regardless of word complexity during a time window just prior to speech onset (thought to reflect motor planning/programming). Results suggest differences in pre-speech neurolinguistic processes.
8 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/138-494-990-805-630 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Adolescent; Apraxias; Child; Evoked Potentials; Female; Humans; Linguistics; Male; Neurophysiology; Speech; adolescent; apraxia; article; child; comparative study; dept.cmd; dept.psy; evoked response; female; human; linguistics; male; neurophysiology; pathophysiology; physiology; speech

A multimodal communication program for aphasia during inpatient rehabilitation: A case study. - Wallace, Sarah E; Purdy, Mary; Skidmore, Elizabeth (NeuroRehabilitation, 2014)
BACKGROUND: Communication is essential for successful rehabilitation, yet few aphasia treatments have been investigated during the acute stroke phase. Alternative modality use including gesturing, writing, or drawing has been shown to increase communicative effectiveness in people with chronic aphasia. Instruction in alternative modality use during acute stroke may increase patient communication and participation, therefore resulting in fewer adverse situations and improved rehabilitation outcomes., OBJECTIVE: The study purpose was to explore a multimodal communication program for aphasia (MCPA) implemented during acute stroke rehabilitation. MCPA aims to improve communication modality production, and to facilitate switching among modalities to resolve communication breakdowns., METHODS: Two adults with severe aphasia completed MCPA beginning at 2 and 3 weeks post onset a single left-hemisphere stroke. Probes completed during each session allowed for evaluation of modality production and modality switching accuracy., RESULTS: Participants completed MCPA (10 and 14 treatment sessions respectively) and their performance on probes suggested increased accuracy in the production of various alternate communication modalities. However, increased switching to an alternate modality was noted for only one participant., CONCLUSIONS: Further investigation of multimodal treatment during inpatient rehabilitation is warranted. In particular, comparisons between multimodal and standard treatments would help determine appropriate interventions for this setting.
11 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Place: Netherlands Wallace, Sarah E. Department of Speech-Language Pathology, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Purdy, Mary. Communication Disorders Department, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT, USA. Skidmore, Elizabeth. Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Keywords: *Aphasia/px [Psychology]; *Aphasia/rh [Rehabilitation]; *Communication; *Communication Aids for Disabled; *Communication Disorders/px [Psychology]; *Communication Disorders/rh [Rehabilitation]; Aphasia; Article; Communication; Communication Aids for Disabled; Communication Disorders; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Neuropsychological Tests; Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; Psychomotor Performance; Stroke; Stroke Rehabilitation; Stroke/co [Complications]; Stroke/px [Psychology]; Treatment Outcome; acute rehabilitation; adult; aphasia; case report; cerebrovascular accident; communication aid; complication; dept.cmd; female; hospital patient; human; interpersonal communication; left hemisphere; male; mental performance; middle aged; multimodal treatment; neuropsychological test; psychological rating scale; psychology; psychomotor performance; rehabilitation care; stroke; treatment outcome

Ultrasound biofeedback treatment for persisting childhood apraxia of speech - Preston, Jonathan L.; Brick, Nickole; Landi, Nicole (American Journal of Speech-language Pathology, 2013)
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a treatment program that includes ultrasound biofeedback for children with persisting speech sound errors associated with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS). Method: Six children ages 9-15 years participated in a multiple baseline experiment for 18 treatment sessions during which treatment focused on producing sequences involving lingual sounds. Children were cued to modify their tongue movements using visual feedback from real-time ultrasound images. Probe data were collected before, during, and after treatment to assess word-level accuracy for treated and untreated sound sequences. As participants reached preestablished performance criteria, new sequences were introduced into treatment. Results: All participants met the performance criterion (80% accuracy for 2 consecutive sessions) on at least 2 treated sound sequences. Across the 6 participants, performance criterion was met for 23 of 31 treated sequences in an average of 5 sessions. Some participants showed no improvement in untreated sequences, whereas others showed generalization to untreated sequences that were phonetically similar to the treated sequences. Most gains were maintained 2 months after the end of treatment. The percentage of phonemes correct increased significantly from pretreatment to the 2-month follow-up. Conclusion: A treatment program including ultrasound biofeedback is a viable option for improving speech sound accuracy in children with persisting speech sound errors associated with CAS.
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Keywords: Adolescent; Apraxias; Articulation; Biofeedback; Psychology; Child; Childhood apraxia of speech; Children; Cues; Efficacy; Feedback; Sensory; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Intervention; Male; Phonetics; Speech; Speech Disorders; Speech Therapy; Speech sound disorders; Tongue; Treatment Outcome; Ultrasonic Therapy; adolescent; apraxia; article; articulation; association; child; childhood apraxia of speech; children; clinical trial; dept.cmd; echography; efficacy; follow up; human; intervention; male; methodology; pathophysiology; phonetics; physiology; psychophysiology; sensory feedback; speech; speech disorder; speech sound disorders; speech therapy; tongue; treatment outcome; ultrasound therapy

Toward improved spectral measures of /s/: results from adolescents - Koenig, Laura L.; Shadle, Christine H.; Preston, Jonathan L.; Mooshammer, Christine R. (Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 2013)
Purpose: This article introduces theoretically driven acoustic measures of /s/ that reflect aerodynamic and articulatory conditions. The measures were evaluated by assessing whether they revealed expected changes over time and labiality effects, along with possible gender differences suggested by past work. Method: Productions of /s/ were extracted from various speaking tasks from typically speaking adolescents (6 boys, 6 girls). Measures were made of relative spectral energies in low-(550-3000 Hz), mid-(3000-7000 Hz), and high-frequency regions (7000-11025 Hz); the mid-frequency amplitude peak; and temporal changes in these parameters. Spectral moments were also obtained to permit comparison with existing work. Results: Spectral balance measures in low-mid and mid-high frequency bands varied over the time course of /s/, capturing the development of sibilance at mid-fricative along with showing some effects of gender and labiality. The mid-frequency spectral peak was significantly higher in nonlabial contexts, and in girls. Temporal variation in the mid-frequency peak differentiated +/- labial contexts while normalizing over gender. Conclusions: The measures showed expected patterns, supporting their validity. Comparison of these data with studies of adults suggests some developmental patterns that call for further study. The measures may also serve to differentiate some cases of typical and misarticulated /s/.
42 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.eissn: 1558-9102 tex.orcid-numbers: Preston, Jonathan/0000-0001-9971-6321 tex.researcherid-numbers: Preston, Jonathan/E-9310-2010 tex.unique-id: ISI:000328266600011
Keywords: Acoustics; Adolescent; Adolescents; Development; Female; Humans; Lip; Male; Phonetics; Reference Values; Sex Characteristics; Speech; Speech Acoustics; Speech production; Verbal Behavior; acoustics; adolescent; adolescents; article; comparative study; dept.cmd; development; female; human; lip; male; phonetics; reference value; sexual development; speech; speech production; verbal behavior

Preschool speech error patterns predict articulation and phonological awareness outcomes in children with histories of speech sound disorders. - Preston, Jonathan L; Hull, Margaret; Edwards, Mary Louise (American journal of speech-language pathology, 2013)
Purpose: To determine if speech error patterns in preschoolers with speech sound disorders (SSDs) predict articulation and phonological awareness (PA) outcomes almost 4 years later. Method: Twenty-five children with histories of preschool SSDs (and normal receptive language) were tested at an average age of 4;6 (years;months) and were followed up at age 8;3. The frequency of occurrence of preschool distortion errors, typical substitution and syllable structure errors, and atypical substitution and syllable structure errors was used to predict later speech sound production, PA, and literacy outcomes. Results: Group averages revealed below-average schoolage articulation scores and low-average PA but ageappropriate reading and spelling. Preschool speech error patterns were related to school-age outcomes. Children for whom >10% of their speech sound errors were atypical had lower PA and literacy scores at school age than children who produced <10% atypical errors. Preschoolers who produced more distortion errors were likely to have lower school-age articulation scores than preschoolers who produced fewer distortion errors. Conclusion: Different preschool speech error patterns predict different school-age clinical outcomes. Many atypical speech sound errors in preschoolers may be indicative of weak phonological representations, leading to long-term PA weaknesses. Preschoolers' distortions may be resistant to change over time, leading to persisting speech sound production problems. © American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
74 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Place: United States Preston, Jonathan L. Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT, USA. preston@haskins.yale.edu
Keywords: *Articulation Disorders/di [Diagnosis]; *Language Tests; *Phonetics; *Speech; *Speech Articulation Tests; Awareness; Child; Child Language; Child; Preschool; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Language Disorders/di [Diagnosis]; Literacy; Male; Outcomes; Phonological awareness; Predictive Value of Tests; Psycholinguistics; Reading; Speech Production Measurement; Speech Sound Disorder; Speech production; Speech sound disorders; dept.cmd

The relationship between phonological and auditory processing and brain organization in beginning readers - Pugh, Kenneth R.; Landi, Nicole; Preston, Jonathan L.; Mencl, W. Einar; Austin, Alison C.; Sibley, Daragh; Fulbright, Robert K.; Seidenberg, Mark S.; Grigorenko, Elena L.; Constable, R. Todd; Molfese, Peter; Frost, Stephen J. (Brain and Language, 2013)
We employed brain-behavior analyses to explore the relationship between performance on tasks measuring phonological awareness, pseudoword decoding, and rapid auditory processing (all predictors of reading (dis)ability) and brain organization for print and speech in beginning readers. For print-related activation, we observed a shared set of skill-correlated regions, including left hemisphere temporoparietal and occipitotemporal sites, as well as inferior frontal, visual, visual attention, and subcortical components. For speech-related activation, shared variance among reading skill measures was most prominently correlated with activation in left hemisphere inferior frontal gyrus and precuneus. Implications for brain-based models of literacy acquisition are discussed. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
107 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/079-059-178-769-726 tex.eissn: [object Object] tex.orcid-numbers: [object Object] tex.researcherid-numbers: [object Object] tex.unique-id: [object Object]
Keywords: Awareness; Brain; Brain Mapping; Child; Child; Preschool; Decoding; FMRI; Female; Humans; Individual differences; Male; Phonological awareness; Photic Stimulation; Psychomotor Performance; Rapid auditory processing; Reading; Speech; Speech Perception; Thalamus; Visual Perception; article; attention; child; dept.cmd; female; frontal lobe; hearing; human; human experiment; inferior frontal gyrus; left hemisphere; male; neurophysiology; normal human; occipital lobe; parietal lobe; phonetics; precuneus; preschool child; printing; reading; school child; speech; task performance; temporal lobe; visual cortex; word recognition

Auditory cortical processing in noise in younger and older adults - Mccullagh, Jennifer; Shinn, Jennifer B (Hearing, Balance and Communication, 2013)
Objective: A common clinical complaint among older adults is difficulty hearing in noise, even in those with normal or near-normal peripheral hearing sensitivity. Researchers have demonstrated behavioral hearing in noise deficits in older adults, but to date limited evidence, particularly objective, exists elucidating the effects of age on auditory cortical processing in noise. The purpose of this investigation was to explore age related differences in auditory cortical processing at multiple signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs). Study design: Twenty normal-hearing young adults and 15 normal-hearing older adults participated in the study. Late auditory evoked potential (N1 and P2) latencies and amplitudes were measured in quiet and at three signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) (+ 20, + 10, and 0 SNR). Repeated measures analyses of variance (ANOVA) were utilized to determine if statistically significant differences existed. Results: Significant group by listening condition interactions existed for N1 and P2 amplitudes. P2 latencies were significantly longer for the older adult group compared to the younger adult group. In addition, N1 and P2 amplitudes were significantly smaller for the younger adult group compared to the older adult group. Conclusion: Results suggest a possibly greater reduction in the synchronous neuronal response from quiet to noisy conditions in older adults than in younger adults. © 2013 Informa Healthcare.
9 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/052-825-197-758-547 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Aging; Auditory late potentials; Hearing in noise; N1; P2; dept.cmd; peer-reviewed

Functional brain activation differences in school-age children with speech sound errors: speech and print processing - Preston, Jonathan L.; Felsenfeld, Susan; Frost, Stephen J.; Mencl, W. Einar; Fulbright, Robert K.; Grigorenko, Elena L.; Landi, Nicole; Seki, Ayumi; Pugh, Kenneth R. (Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 2012)
Purpose: To examine neural response to spoken and printed language in children with speech sound errors (SSE). Method: Functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to compare processing of auditorily and visually presented words and pseudowords in 17 children with SSE, ages 8; 6[years; months] through 10; 10, with 17 matched controls. Results: When processing spoken words and pseudowords, the SSE group showed less activation than typically speaking controls in left middle temporal gyrus. They also showed greater activation than controls in several cortical and subcortical regions (e. g., left superior temporal gyrus, globus pallidus, insula, fusiform, and bilateral parietal regions). In response to printed words and pseudowords, children with SSE had greater activation than controls in regions including bilateral fusiform and anterior cingulate. Some differences were found in both speech and print processing that that may be associated with children with SSE failing to show common patterns of task-induced deactivation and/or attentional resource allocation. Conclusion: Compared with controls, children with SSE appear to rely more on several dorsal speech perception regions and less on ventral speech perception regions. When processing print, numerous regions were observed to be activated more for the SSE group than for controls.
23 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/104-726-704-023-213 tex.orcid-numbers: [object Object] tex.researcherid-numbers: [object Object] tex.unique-id: [object Object]
Keywords: Brain; Cerebral Cortex; Child; Female; Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); Globus Pallidus; Gyrus Cinguli; Humans; Language Development Disorders; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Parietal Lobe; Phonetics; Photic Stimulation; Print processing; Reading; Speech; Speech Perception; Speech perception; Speech sound errors; Temporal Lobe; Visual Cortex; article; brain; brain cortex; child; cingulate gyrus; dept.cmd; female; globus pallidus; human; language disability; male; nuclear magnetic resonance imaging; parietal lobe; pathophysiology; phonetics; photostimulation; physiology; reading; speech; speech perception; temporal lobe; visual cortex

Auditory cortical processing in noise in normal-hearing young adults - Mccullagh, Jennifer; Musiek, Frank E; Shinn, Jennifer B (Audiological Medicine, 2012)
Objective: The ability to hear in background noise is related to the processing of the incoming acoustic signal in the peripheral auditory system as well as the central auditory nervous system (CANS). Electrophysiological tests have the ability to demonstrate the underlying neural integrity of the CANS, but to date a lack of literature exists demonstrating the effects of background noise on auditory cortical potentials. Therefore, the purpose of this investigation was to systematically investigate the effects of white noise on tone burst-evoked late auditory evoked potentials (N1, P2, and P3) in normal hearing young adults. Study Design: Twenty young-adult normal-hearing individuals served as subjects. A comparison of the late auditory evoked potentials (N1, P2, and P3) was made at multiple signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) (quiet, + 20, + 10, 0). N1, P2, and P3 were elicited and both amplitude and latency were measured for each of the potentials. A standard oddball paradigm with binaural stimulation was used to evoke the potentials. Repeated Measures Analyses of Variance (ANOVA) were conducted for both the experimental factors of amplitude and latency with within subjects factors of condition (quiet, + 20, + 10, 0). Results: Results indicated no significant differences in N1, P2, or P3 amplitude or latency between the quiet and + 20 SNR condition; however, at poorer SNRs significant N1, P2, and P3 amplitude and/or latency differences were observed. Conclusion: The results indicate a change in higher-order neural function related to the presence of increased noise in the environment. © 2012 Informa Healthcare.
7 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/093-967-856-331-389 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Auditory evoked potentials; Central auditory processing; Hearing in noise; Late auditory evoked potentials; N1; P2; P3; Signal to noise ratio; adult; amplitude modulation; article; auditory nervous system; auditory stimulation; central nervous system; controlled study; dept.cmd; electrophysiology; evoked auditory response; female; hearing; human; human experiment; late auditory evoked potential; male; normal human; priority journal; sensory system electrophysiology; signal noise ratio

Searching for Potocki–Lupski syndrome phenotype: A patient with language impairment and no autism - Ercan-Sencicek, A. Gulhan; Wright, Nicole R. Davis; Frost, Stephen J.; Fulbright, Robert K.; Felsenfeld, Susan; Hart, Lesley; Landi, Nicole; Mencl, W. Einar; Sanders, Stephan J.; Pugh, Kenneth R.; State, Matthew W.; Grigorenko, Elena L. (Brain & Development, 2011)
Potocki-Lupski syndrome (PTLS; OMIM 610883) is a genomic syndrome that arises as a result of a duplication of 17p11.2. Although numerous cases of individuals with PTLS have been presented in the literature, its behavioral characterization is still ambiguous. We present a male child with a de novo dup(17)(p11.2p11.2) and he does not possess any autistic features, but is characterized by severe speech and language impairment. In the context of the analyses of this patient and other cases of PTLS, we argue that the central feature of the syndrome appears to be related to diminished speech and language capacity, rather than the specific social deficits central to autism. © 2011.
10 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: pop00090 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: 17p11.2; Autistic Disorder; Child; Chromosomes; Human; Pair 17; Humans; Inv(8)(q21.3-q24.1); Language Disorders; Language and speech impairment; Male; Phenotype; Potocki Lupski syndrome; Potocki-Lupski syndrome; Smith-Magenis Syndrome; academic achievement; adaptive behavior; article; case report; child; child development; chromosome 17p; chromosome duplication; clinical feature; dept.cmd; functional magnetic resonance imaging; genetic disorder; human; intelligence; language development; language disability; male; malformation syndrome; school child

Does the post-adoption environment significantly improve the verbal performance of young Russian adoptees - Felsenfeld, Susan; Hart, Lesley; Grigorenko, Elena (Behavior Genetics, 2011)
tex.organization: Behav Genet Assoc tex.researcherid-numbers: Grigorenko, Elena/V-2418-2019 tex.unique-id: ISI:000295326600062 41st Annual Meeting of the Behaviour-Genetics-Association, Newport, RI, JUN 06-09, 2011
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Phonetic variability in residual speech sound disorders exploration of subtypes - Preston, Jonathan L.; Koenig, Laura L. (Topics in Language Disorders, 2011)
Purpose: To explore whether subgroups of children with residual speech sound disorders (R-SSDs) can be identified through multiple measures of token-to-token phonetic variability (changes in one spoken production to the next). Method: Children with R-SSDs were recorded during a rapid multisyllabic picture naming task and an oral diadochokinetic task. Transcription-based and acoustic measures of token-to-token variability were derived. Articulation accuracy and general indices of language skills were measured as well. Results: Low correlations were observed between transcription-based and acoustic measures of phonetic variability, and among the acoustic measures themselves. Children who were the most variable on one measure were not necessarily highly variable on other measures. Transcription-based measures of variability were associated with language skills. Conclusions: Measures of phonetic variability did not identify children in the sample as consistently high or low. Data do not support the notion that clear subgroups based on phonetic variability can be reliably identified in children with R-SSDs. The link between highly variable phonetic output (quantified by transcription-based measures) and lower language skills requires further exploration.
18 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.orcid-numbers: Preston, Jonathan/0000-0001-9971-6321 tex.researcherid-numbers: Preston, Jonathan/E-9310-2010 tex.unique-id: ISI:000290432200007
Keywords: acoustic analysis; dept.cmd; phonetic variability; residual speech sound disorders

Identifying residual speech sound disorders in bilingual children: A japanese-english case study - Preston, Jonathan L.; Seki, Ayumi (American Journal of Speech-language Pathology, 2011)
Purpose: To describe (a) the assessment of residual speech sound disorders (SSDs) in bilinguals by distinguishing speech patterns associated with second language acquisition from patterns associated with misarticulations and (b) how assessment of domains such as speech motor control and phonological awareness can provide a more complete understanding of SSDs in bilinguals. Method: A review of Japanese phonology is provided to offer a context for understanding the transfer of Japanese to English productions. A case study of an 11-year-old is presented, demonstrating parallel speech assessments in English and Japanese. Speech motor and phonological awareness tasks were conducted in both languages. Results: Several patterns were observed in the participant's English that could be plausibly explained by the influence of Japanese phonology. However, errors indicating a residual SSD were observed in both Japanese and English. A speech motor assessment suggested possible speech motor control problems, and phonological awareness was judged to be within the typical range of performance in both languages. Conclusion: Understanding the phonological characteristics of the native language can help clinicians recognize speech patterns in the second language associated with transfer. Once these differences are understood, patterns associated with a residual SSD can be identified. Supplementing a relational speech analysis with measures of speech motor control and phonological awareness can provide a more comprehensive understanding of a client's strengths and needs.
13 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/109-148-393-297-363 tex.eissn: [object Object] tex.orcid-numbers: [object Object] tex.researcherid-numbers: [object Object] tex.unique-id: [object Object]
Keywords: Articulation; Assessment; Bilingualism; Residual speech sound disorders; Speech motor control; dept.cmd

Change in pragmatic language in infant-toddlers with autism spectrum disorder: A retrospective study - Buckingham, Mallory; Newman, Diana B (Perspectives on Language Learning and Education, 2011)
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/019-758-469-705-323 tex.type: [object Object]
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Attentional regulation in young twins with probable stuttering, high nonfluency, and typical fluency. - Felsenfeld, Susan; van Beijsterveldt, Catharina Eugenie Maria; Boomsma, Dorret Irene (Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2010)
PURPOSE: Using a sample of 20,445 Dutch twins, this study examined the relationship between speech fluency and attentional regulation in children. A secondary objective was to identify etiological overlap between nonfluency and poor attention using fluency-discordant twin pairs., METHOD: Three fluency groups were created at age 5 using a parent questionnaire: (a) probable stuttering (PS; N=826; 4.0%), highly nonfluent (HNF; N=547; 2.7%), and typically fluent (TF; N=19,072; 93%). Multiple scales assessing attention, primarily self-regulation/inhibition, were obtained from both parents when children were ages 5 and 7 and from teachers when children were age 7., RESULTS: When compared with the TF controls, both the PS and HNF children received higher (i.e., more problematic) scores on parental attention ratings at both ages (p<.002). Effect sizes were moderate for both groups. Teacher and parent ratings were generally comparable. The discordant co-twin analyses suggested that nonfluency and attention were influenced by potentially overlapping genetic and shared environmental factors., CONCLUSIONS: The liability to express both high nonfluency and problems with self-regulation/inhibition may arise from a common set of pathogenic mechanisms. This supports emerging models of stuttering, which propose that poor fluency may be part of a broader network of impaired self-regulatory processes.
Place: United States Felsenfeld, Susan. Department of Communication Disorders, Southern Connecticut State University, 501 Crescent Street, New Haven, CT 06515-1330, USA. felsenfelds1@southernct.edu
Keywords: *Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity/co [Complications]; *Attention/ph [Physiology]; *Executive Function/ph [Physiology]; *Speech/ph [Physiology]; *Stuttering/co [Complications]; Attention; Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity; Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity/px [Psychology]; Case-Control Studies; Child; Child; Preschool; Cohort Studies; Diseases in Twins; Executive Function; Female; Humans; Inhibition (Psychology); Inhibition; Psychological; Longitudinal Studies; Male; Nonfluency; Reference Values; Self Efficacy; Speech; Speech Production Measurement; Stuttering; Stuttering/pp [Physiopathology]; Stuttering/px [Psychology]; Twins; article; attention; attention deficit disorder; case control study; child; cohort analysis; comparative study; dept.cmd; executive function; female; human; inhibition (psychology); longitudinal study; male; pathophysiology; physiology; preschool child; psychological aspect; reference value; self concept; speech; speech analysis; stuttering; twins; ⚠️ Invalid DOI

Impact of chromosome 4p-Syndrome on communication and expressive language skills: A preliminary investigation - Marshall, Althea T (Language, speech, and hearing services in schools, 2010)
PURPOSE: The purpose of this investigation was to examine the impact of Chromosome 4p- syndrome on the communication and expressive language phenotype of a large cross-cultural population of children, adolescents, and adults., METHOD: A large-scale survey study was conducted and a descriptive research design was used to analyze quantitative and qualitative data regarding the communication and expressive language manifestations of 200 children, youth, and adults from 16 countries and Puerto Rico who had been diagnosed with 4p conditions, including Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome (WHS), Pitt-Rogers-Danks syndrome (PRDS), Proximal 4p Deletion syndrome, and complex chromosomal rearrangements associated with 4p-., RESULTS: Individuals with Chromosome 4p- syndrome represent a heterogeneous population with complex phenotypic profiles. The majority of the participants exhibited communication and expressive language skills below the 36-month developmental functioning level. A relatively small cohort of the study population exhibited advanced expressive language skills, a finding not reported in the professional literature., CONCLUSION: Results broaden the spectrum of expressive language skills associated with Chromosome 4p- syndrome and highlight the communication potential of a subset of individuals with 4p abnormalities for development of advanced language structures. It is hypothesized that the largest 4p deletion, which includes the 4p16.3 band and contiguous gene regions, results in the most severely affected expressive language phenotype.
6 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Place: United States Marshall, Althea T. Southern Connecticut State University, Department of Communication Disorders, Davis Hall Room 012 L 501, Crescent Street, New Haven, CT 06515, USA. marshalla1@southernct.edu
Keywords: *Chromosome Disorders/ge [Genetics]; *Chromosome Disorders/px [Psychology]; *Chromosomes; Human; Pair 4; *Communication; *Language; Adolescent; Adult; Child; Child; Preschool; Chromosome Disorders; Chromosome Disorders/co [Complications]; Chromosomes; Human; Pair 4; Cohort Studies; Communication; Communication Disorders; Communication Disorders/co [Complications]; Communication Disorders/ge [Genetics]; Cross-Cultural Comparison; Developmental disabilities; Female; Genetics; Humans; Infant; Language; Male; Middle Aged; Phenotype; Syndrome; Wolf Hirschhorn syndrome; Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome; Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome/co [Complications]; Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome/ge [Genetics]; Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome/px [Psychology]; Young Adult; adolescent; adult; article; child; chromosome 4; chromosome disorder; cohort analysis; communication disorder; complication; cultural factor; dept.cmd; female; genetics; human; infant; interpersonal communication; language; male; middle aged; phenotype; preschool child; psychological aspect; psychology; syndrome; young adult

The handbook of language and speech disorders - delayed language development in preschool children - Weiss, Deborah; Paul, Rhea (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
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Bivariate genetic analyses of stuttering and nonfluency in a large sample of 5-Year-Old twins - Beijsterveldt, Catharina Eugenie Maria Van; Felsenfeld, Susan; Boomsma, Dorret I (Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 2010)
Purpose: Behavioral genetic studies of speech fluency have focused on participants who present with clinical stuttering. Knowledge about genetic influences on the development and regulation of normal speech fluency is limited. The primary aims of this study were to identify the heritability of stuttering and high nonfluency and to assess the relative contribution of genetic and environmental factors to the correlation between these 2 fluency phenotypes. Method: Information on 6 specific speech fluency behaviors was obtained by maternal report for over 10,500 5-year-old Dutch twin pairs. Results: Genetic analyses revealed that both fluency phenotypes were moderately heritable, with heritability estimates of 42% and 45% for probable stuttering and high nonfluency, respectively. Shared environmental factors were also significant, explaining 44% of the individual differences in probable stuttering and 32% in nonfluency. For both phenotypes, the magnitude of the genetic and environmental influences did not differ between boys and girls. The overlap between the 2 traits was substantial (tetrachoric correlation was .72). A bivariate genetic analysis showed that this overlap was due to both overlapping genetic and environmental influences. Conclusions: These findings provide a foundation to justify further studies in normal fluency control, a scientific area that has received little cross-disciplinary attention.
21 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/021-681-506-785-481 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Child Language; Child; Preschool; Cohort Studies; Environment; Female; Heritability; Humans; Male; Models; Genetic; Multivariate Analysis; Netherlands; Nonfluency; Phenotype; Probability; Questionnaires; Sex Factors; Speech Disorders; Stuttering; Twins; Twins; Dizygotic; Twins; Monozygotic; article; biological model; cohort analysis; dept.cmd; dizygotic twins; environment; female; genetics; human; language development; male; monozygotic twins; multivariate analysis; phenotype; preschool child; probability; questionnaire; sex difference; speech disorder; stuttering; twins

Impact and implications of word-finding difficulties in adolescents on listening comprehension assessment - Newman, Diana B (Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2010)
This investigation examined the listening comprehension (LC) performance of two groups of adolescent struggling readers, one group with word-finding difficulties (WFD) and one with no word-finding difficulties (NWFD). Of interest was whether the expressive language difficulties of the WFD group would interfere with their success on a LC assessment that requires oral responses to complete. Findings indicated that whereas the performance of the WFD group was comparable with the NWFD group when LC was measured using a multiple-choice response format, their performance was significantly poorer when LC was measured using an open-ended verbal response format, suggesting that learners' WFD could interfere with their success on such assessments. Practical implications of these findings for the assessment of LC as part of adolescents' reading evaluations are discussed. © 2010 Hammill Institute on Disabilities.
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/074-312-583-533-842 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: adolescent; article; child; comprehension; controlled study; dept.cmd; human; language disability; listening comprehension; mental performance; multiple choice test; priority journal; reading; reading assessments; school child; task performance; word finding difficulty; word recognition; word-finding

Factors influencing AAC usage by individuals with aphasia - Purdy, Mary; Dietz, Aimee (Perspectives on Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2010)
18 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/163-110-119-866-089 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.cmd

Delayed Language Development in Preschool Children - Weiss, Deborah; Paul, Rhea (The Handbook of Language and Speech Disorders, 2010)
Keywords: "delayed language development" (DLD); "specific language impairment" (SLI); Delayed language development in preschool children; Developing language stage; Intervention for children with DLD; Language development and departure from typical acquisition in preschool children; Linguistic Characteristics of Children with DLD; Speech disorders; Language disorders; Communicative disorders; Speech-language pathologist (SLP)-primarily because their speech contains frequent articulation errors; Targets for vocabulary training for preschoolers with DLD; delayed language development in preschool children; dept.cmd; developing language stage; faculty_collection; intervention for children with DLD; language development and departure from typical acquisition in preschool children; speech-language pathologist (SLP) - primarily because their speech contains frequent articulation errors; targets for vocabulary training for preschoolers with DLD; “delayed language development” (DLD); “specific language impairment” (SLI)

Microwave synthesis of 5-Substituted 1H-Tetrazoles catalyzed by bismuth chloride in water - Coca, Adiel; Feinn, Liana; Dudley, Joshua (Synthetic Communications, 2015)
(Chemical Equation Presented). Bismuth chloride was used to catalyze the [2 + 3] cycloaddition between sodium azide with aryl nitriles, aliphatic nitriles, and vinyl nitriles. A number of 5-substituted 1H-tetrazoles were synthesized in water or isopropanol/water mixtures using microwave heating. Good yields were obtained for these reactions when heated for 1 h at 120-160°C in a 3:1 isopropanol/water mixture. A few of the less reactive nitriles required longer reaction times for good yields. © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
11 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/144-480-611-110-32X tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: 2 propanol; 5-substituted 1H-tetrazoles; Article; Bismuth chloride; [2+3] cycloaddition; acidification; bismuth derivative; carbon nuclear magnetic resonance; catalyst; chloride; cycloaddition; dept.che; micro-wave; microwave cooking; microwave radiation; nitrile; proton nuclear magnetic resonance; reaction time; sodium azide; solubility; synthesis; tetrazole derivative; vinyl derivative; water

Preparation of 5-Substituted 1H-Tetrazoles catalyzed by scandium triflate in water - Coca, Adiel; Turek, Evan; Feinn, Liana (Synthetic Communications, 2015)
Several 5-substituted 1H-tetrazoles were prepared in water or isopropanol/water mixtures using microwave heating. Good yields were obtained for the [2 + 3] cycloaddition of sodium azide with aryl nitriles, aliphatic nitriles, and vinyl nitriles when catalyzed by scandium triflate. The reactions were typically heated for 1 h at 160 °C in a 3:1 isopropanol/water mixture to obtain the best yields. © 2015 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
10 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/083-255-404-167-567 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: 2 propanol; 5-substituted 1 H-tetrazoles; Article; [2 + 3] Cycloaddition; carbon nuclear magnetic resonance; catalyst; controlled study; cycloaddition; dept.che; electron; infrared spectroscopy; microwave; microwave radiation; nitrile; proton nuclear magnetic resonance; reaction time; scandium; scandium triflate; sodium azide; substitution reaction; synthesis; temperature; tetrazole derivative; thin layer chromatography; trifluoromethanesulfonic acid; vinyl derivative; water

The role of gender in grade perception in chemistry courses - Karatjas, Andrew; Webb, Jeffrey (Journal of College Science Teaching, 2015)
3 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31]
Keywords: dept.che

Multiple-choice testing using immediate feedback-assessment technique (IF AT®) forms: second-chance guessing vs. second-chance learning? - Merrel, Jeremy D; Cirillo, Pier F; Schwartz, Pauline M; Webb, Jeffrey A (Higher Education Studies, 2015)
6 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/101-043-506-770-099 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.che

Synthesis of 5-substituted 1H-tetrazoles catalyzed by ytterbium triflate hydrate - Coca, Adiel; Turek, Evan (Tetrahedron Letters, 2014)
Various 5-substituted 1H-tetrazoles were synthesized from aryl nitriles, alkyl nitriles, and vinyl nitriles reacting with sodium azide. The tetrazoles were recovered in high yield under mild conditions when the reaction was catalyzed by ytterbium triflate hydrate in dimethylformamide. Other rare-earth and post-transition metal catalysts were also investigated. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
33 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/025-715-615-927-600 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: 5-Substituted 1H-tetrazoles; Article; Lewis acid; Nitriles; Ytterbium triflate; article; catalysis; catalyst; cyclization; cycloaddition; dept.che; drug synthesis; electron; n; n dimethylformamide; nitrile; sodium azide; substitution reaction; tetrazole derivative; transition element; trifluoromethanesulfonic acid; unclassified drug; ytterbium; ytterbium triflate hydrate

Comparing college students' self-assessment of knowledge in organic chemistry to their actual performance - Karatjas, Andrew G. (Journal of Chemical Education, 2013)
Student self-assessment surveys were used to assess student study methods in organic chemistry courses. Surveys were given after examinations in the courses. Students that performed well on exams accurately predicted their exam scores. Students that did poorly were significantly off in their expectations.
12 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.eissn: 1938-1328 tex.unique-id: ISI:000323462900031
Keywords: Chemical Education Research; Learning Theories; Organic Chemistry; Second-Year Undergraduate; Student-Centered Learning; Testing/Assessment; dept.che; peer-reviewed

Biochemical Evidence for a Putative Inositol 1,3,4,5-Tetrakisphosphate Receptor in the Olfactory System of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar). - Pang, Jiongdong; Rhoads, Dennis E (Neuroscience journal, 2013)
Olfactory receptor neurons in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) appear to use a phosphoinositide-directed phospholipase C (PLC) in odorant signal transduction. The consequences of odor-activated PLC depend on its product, inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3). Therefore, a plasma membrane rich (PMR) fraction, previously characterized from salmon olfactory rosettes, was used to study binding sites for IP3 and its phosphorylation product, inositol 1,3,4,5-tetrakisphosphate (IP4). Binding sites for IP3 were present at the lower limit for detection in the PMR fraction but were abundant in a microsomal fraction. Binding sites for IP4 were abundant in the PMR fraction and thus colocalized in the same subcellular fraction with odorant receptors for amino acids and bile acids. Binding of IP4 was saturable and high affinity (K d = 83 nM). The rank order for potency of inhibition of IP4 by other inositol polyphosphates (InsP x ) followed the phosphorylation number with InsP6 > InsP5 > other InsP4 isomers > InsP3 isomers > InsP2 isomers, with the latter showing no activity. The consequences of PLC activity in this system may be dictated in part by a putative receptor for IP4.
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Place: United States Pang, Jiongdong. Chemistry Department, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT 06515, USA ; Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA. Rhoads, Dennis E. Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA ; Department of Biology, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ 07764-1898, USA.
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Interference-corrected explicitly-correlated second-order perturbation theory - Vogiatzis, Konstantinos D.; Barnes, Ericka C.; Klopper, Wim (Chemical Physics Letters, 2011)
In the complete-basis-set (CBS) model chemistries, an interference correction is added to the total energy. It is added because the CBS-type extrapolation to the basis-set limit of second-order Møller–Plesset (MP2) perturbation theory usually overestimates the magnitude of the basis-set truncation error at higher levels of electron-correlation treatment. In this Letter, the question is pursued whether the CBS-type interference correction could also improve the computational results when the MP2 basis set limit is approached by means of explicitly-correlated MP2 theory using Slater-type geminals.
23 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31]
Keywords: dept.che

A research methodology for studying what makes some problems difficult to solve - Gulacar, Ozcan; Fynewever, Herb (International Journal of Science Education, 2010)
We present a quantitative model for predicting the level of difficulty subjects will experience with specific problems. The model explicitly accounts for the number of subproblems a problem can be broken into and the difficultly of each subproblem. Although the model builds on previously published models, it is uniquely suited for blending with qualitative methods for the study of problem-solving processes rather than being limited to examination of final answers only. We illustrate the usefulness of the model by analysing the written solutions and think-aloud protocols of 17 subjects engaged with 25 chemical stoichiometry problems. We find that familiar themes for subject difficulty are revealed, including mapping of surface features, lack of interconnected knowledge hierarchy, and algorithmic operations at the expense of conceptual understanding.
8 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/013-133-842-014-988 tex.article-number: [object Object] tex.eissn: [object Object] tex.orcid-numbers: [object Object] tex.researcherid-numbers: [object Object] tex.unique-id: [object Object]
Keywords: Chemistry education; Qualitative research; Quantitative research; Reasoning; Science education; dept.che

Increased autism incidence: is there a single cause? - Crawford, Sarah (Journal of Child and Adolescent Behavior, 2016)
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/042-014-279-974-057 tex.type: [object Object]
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Rhizosphere microbiome selection by Epichloë endophytes of Festuca arundinacea - Roberts, Elizabeth Lewis; Ferraro, Aileen (Plant and Soil, 2015)
Aims: Loline alkaloids produced by Epichloë spp. are known to deter feeding by insect herbivores while also serving as a significant carbon source for certain epiphytic bacteria on tall fescue leaves. In this study we examined the role of loline alkaloids in attracting certain bacteria to the rhizosphere of tall fescue plants that harbor loline producing fungal endophytes. Methods: Population studies were used to compare the fitness of known loline catabolizing strains to other rhizosphere bacteria. Pyrosequencing of 16S rRNA fragments compared the composition of bacterial communities inhabiting the endophyte infected tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea) rhizosphere to those of endophyte free fescue plants. Results: Rhizosphere population studies demonstrated that loline catabolizing strains Burkholderia ambifaria 7R and Pseudomonas aureofaciens outcompete and suppress the growth of non-loline catabolizing strains. Pyrosequencing of 16S rRNA fragments showed greater percentages of certain plant growth promoting bacteria in rhizosperes seeded with B. ambifaria 7R than non-inoculated soils. Rhizospheres of endophyte infected plants showed higher species richness (Shannon diversity index = 4.03) over endophyte free rhizospheres (Shannon diversity index = 3.08) and a greater percentage of Firmicutes. Conclusions: The differences in microbial community composition between endophyte-infected and endophyte-free rhizospheres suggest that the presence of fungal endophytes influences microbial community structure. Loline alkaloid production may be one proxy by which the fungal endophyte shapes microbial communities, as evidenced by increased fitness of loline catabolizing bacteria in the tall fescue rhizosphere. © 2015, Springer International Publishing Switzerland.
21 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: pop00270 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Bacteria (microorganisms); Burkholderia ambifaria; Endophyte; Epichloë spp; Festuca arundinacea; Firmicutes; Hexapoda; Loline alkaloids; Pseudomonas chlororaphis; Tall fescue; alkaloid; antifeedant; bacterium; community structure; dept.bio; diversity index; endophyte; fitness; fungus; grass; insect; microbial community; microorganism; rhizosphere; species richness

Designing a broad-spectrum integrative approach for cancer prevention and treatment. - Block, Keith I; Gyllenhaal, Charlotte; Lowe, Leroy; Amedei, Amedeo; Amin, A R M Ruhul; Amin, Amr; Aquilano, Katia; Arbiser, Jack; Arreola, Alexandra; Arzumanyan, Alla; Ashraf, S Salman; Azmi, Asfar S; et al. (Seminars in Cancer Biology, 2015)
Targeted therapies and the consequent adoption of "personalized" oncology have achieved notable successes in some cancers; however, significant problems remain with this approach. Many targeted therapies are highly toxic, costs are extremely high, and most patients experience relapse after a few disease-free months. Relapses arise from genetic heterogeneity in tumors, which harbor therapy-resistant immortalized cells that have adopted alternate and compensatory pathways (i.e., pathways that are not reliant upon the same mechanisms as those which have been targeted). To address these limitations, an international task force of 180 scientists was assembled to explore the concept of a low-toxicity "broad-spectrum" therapeutic approach that could simultaneously target many key pathways and mechanisms. Using cancer hallmark phenotypes and the tumor microenvironment to account for the various aspects of relevant cancer biology, interdisciplinary teams reviewed each hallmark area and nominated a wide range of high-priority targets (74 in total) that could be modified to improve patient outcomes. For these targets, corresponding low-toxicity therapeutic approaches were then suggested, many of which were phytochemicals. Proposed actions on each target and all of the approaches were further reviewed for known effects on other hallmark areas and the tumor microenvironment. Potential contrary or procarcinogenic effects were found for 3.9% of the relationships between targets and hallmarks, and mixed evidence of complementary and contrary relationships was found for 7.1%. Approximately 67% of the relationships revealed potentially complementary effects, and the remainder had no known relationship. Among the approaches, 1.1% had contrary, 2.8% had mixed and 62.1% had complementary relationships. These results suggest that a broad-spectrum approach should be feasible from a safety standpoint. This novel approach has potential to be relatively inexpensive, it should help us address stages and types of cancer that lack conventional treatment, and it may reduce relapse risks. A proposed agenda for future research is offered. Copyright © 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.
196 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Place: England Block, Keith I. Block Center for Integrative Cancer Treatment, Skokie, IL, United States. Electronic address: drblock@blockmedical.com. Gyllenhaal, Charlotte. Block Center for Integrative Cancer Treatment, Skokie, IL, United States. Lowe, Leroy. Getting to Know Cancer, Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada; Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Bailrigg, Lancaster, United Kingdom. Electronic address: Leroy.lowe@gettingtoknowcancer.org. Amedei, Amedeo. Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy. Amin, A R M Ruhul. Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States. Amin, Amr. Department of Biology, College of Science, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates. Aquilano, Katia. Department of Biology, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy. Arbiser, Jack. Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States; Atlanta Veterans Administration Medical Center, Atlanta, GA, United States; Department of Dermatology, Emory University School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States. Arreola, Alexandra. Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States. Arzumanyan, Alla. Department of Biology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States. Ashraf, S Salman. Department of Chemistry, College of Science, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates. Azmi, Asfar S. Department of Oncology, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States. Benencia, Fabian. Department of Biomedical Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, OH, United States. Bhakta, Dipita. School of Chemical and Bio Technology, SASTRA University, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India. Bilsland, Alan. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom. 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Keywords: *Genetic Heterogeneity; *Molecular Targeted Therapy; *Neoplasms/th [Therapy]; *Precision Medicine; Antineoplastic Agents; Phytogenic; Antineoplastic Agents; Phytogenic/tu [Therapeutic Use]; Cancer hallmarks; Drug Resistance; Neoplasm; Drug Resistance; Neoplasm/ge [Genetics]; Genetic Heterogeneity; Humans; Integrative medicine; Molecular Targeted Therapy; Multi-targeted; Neoplasms; Neoplasms/ge [Genetics]; Neoplasms/pa [Pathology]; Neoplasms/pc [Prevention & Control]; Phytochemicals; Precision Medicine; Review; Signal Transduction; Targeted therapy; Tumor Microenvironment; Tumor Microenvironment/ge [Genetics]; anthocyanin; antineoplastic activity; antineoplastic agent; apoptosis; belinostat; berberine; breast cancer; cancer prevention; cancer therapy; cell immortalization; colorectal cancer; curcumin; deguelin; dept.bio; dietary intake; dinaciclib; drug cost; drug efficacy; drug resistance; drug safety; drug targeting; enterolactone; epigallocatechin gallate; gamma linolenic acid; genetic heterogeneity; genetics; genistein; genomic instability; gossypol; human; icosapentaenoic acid; imetelstat; inflammation; integrative medicine; interdisciplinary communication; kaempferol; luteolin; lycopene; melatonin; metastasis; metastasis inhibition; molecularly targeted therapy; naringenin; natural product; nonhuman; palbociclib; patent; pathology; perillyl alcohol; personalized medicine; phenotype; phytochemistry; recurrence risk; resveratrol; risk reduction; romidepsin; selinexor; signal transduction; silibinin; soybean; triptolide; tumor escape; tumor invasion; tumor microenvironment; tumor vascularization; unindexed drug; vorinostat; withaferin A; zerumbone

Cancer prevention and therapy through the modulation of the tumor microenvironment. - Casey, Stephanie C; Amedei, Amedeo; Aquilano, Katia; Azmi, Asfar S; Benencia, Fabian; Bhakta, Dipita; Bilsland, Alan E; Boosani, Chandra S; Chen, Sophie; Ciriolo, Maria Rosa; Crawford, Sarah; Fujii, Hiromasa; et al. (Seminars in Cancer Biology, 2015)
Cancer arises in the context of an in vivo tumor microenvironment. This microenvironment is both a cause and consequence of tumorigenesis. Tumor and host cells co-evolve dynamically through indirect and direct cellular interactions, eliciting multiscale effects on many biological programs, including cellular proliferation, growth, and metabolism, as well as angiogenesis and hypoxia and innate and adaptive immunity. Here we highlight specific biological processes that could be exploited as targets for the prevention and therapy of cancer. Specifically, we describe how inhibition of targets such as cholesterol synthesis and metabolites, reactive oxygen species and hypoxia, macrophage activation and conversion, indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase regulation of dendritic cells, vascular endothelial growth factor regulation of angiogenesis, fibrosis inhibition, endoglin, and Janus kinase signaling emerge as examples of important potential nexuses in the regulation of tumorigenesis and the tumor microenvironment that can be targeted. We have also identified therapeutic agents as approaches, in particular natural products such as berberine, resveratrol, onionin A, epigallocatechin gallate, genistein, curcumin, naringenin, desoxyrhapontigenin, piperine, and zerumbone, that may warrant further investigation to target the tumor microenvironment for the treatment and/or prevention of cancer. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Keywords: *Carcinogenesis/de [Drug Effects]; *Neoplasms/dt [Drug Therapy]; *Neovascularization; Pathologic/dt [Drug Therapy]; *Tumor Microenvironment/ge [Genetics]; 5 chloro n2 [1 (5 fluoro 2 pyrimidinyl)ethyl] n4 (5 methyl 1h pyrazol 3 yl) 2; 4 pyrimidinediamine; Antineoplastic Agents; Antineoplastic Agents/tu [Therapeutic Use]; Cancer biology; Cancer prevention; Cancer therapy; Carcinogenesis; Carcinogenesis/ge [Genetics]; Cell Proliferation; Cell Proliferation/de [Drug Effects]; Humans; Janus kinase; Molecular Targeted Therapy; Neoplasms; Neoplasms/ge [Genetics]; Neoplasms/pc [Prevention & Control]; Neovascularization; Pathologic; Neovascularization; Pathologic/ge [Genetics]; Neovascularization; Pathologic/pc [Prevention & Control]; Review; Signal Transduction; Tumor Microenvironment; Tumor Microenvironment/de [Drug Effects]; Tumor microenvironment; antiinflammatory activity; antineoplastic agent; antioxidant activity; antiproliferative activity; apoptosis; bacterial infection; berberine; bevacizumab; cancer prevention; cancer therapy; candidiasis; carcinogenesis; cell proliferation; cholesterol synthesis; cisplatin; colorectal cancer; curcumin; cytokine production; dendritic cell; dept.bio; desoxyrhapontigenin; drug cytotoxicity; drug effects; drug potentiation; drug structure; drug targeting; endoglin; epigallocatechin gallate; fatty liver; fibrosis; genetics; genistein; genomic instability; glioblastoma; human; hydroxymethylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase inhibitor; hypercholesterolemia; hyperlipidemia; hypoxia; indoleamine 2; 3 dioxygenase; interleukin 6; kidney cancer; liver cancer; liver cell carcinoma; lung cancer; lung metastasis; macrophage activation; metastasis inhibition; molecularly targeted therapy; mycosis; naringenin; natural product; non insulin dependent diabetes mellitus; nonhuman; obesity; oncogene; onionin A; paclitaxel; pancreas tumor; parasitosis; piperine; reactive oxygen metabolite; resveratrol; signal transduction; sorafenib; stomach cancer

On the origins of autism: The Quantitative Threshold Exposure hypothesis. - Crawford, S (Medical hypotheses, 2015)
The Quantitative Threshold Exposure (QTE) hypothesis is a multifactorial threshold model that accounts for the cumulative effects of risk factor exposure in both the causation of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and its dramatic increase over the past 30 years. The QTE hypothesis proposes that ASD is triggered by the cumulative effects of high-level exposure to endogenous and environmental factors that act as antigens to impair normal immune system (IS) and associated central nervous system (CNS) functions during critical developmental stages. The quantitative threshold parameters that comprise a cumulative risk for the development of ASD are identified by the assessment of documented epidemiological factors that, in sum, determine the likelihood that ASD will occur as a result of their effects on critically integrated IS and CNS pathways active during prenatal, neo-natal and early childhood brain maturation. The model proposes an explanation for the relationship between critical developmental stages of brain/immune system development in conjunction with the quantitative effects of genetic and environmental risk factors that may interface with these critical developmental windows. This model may be useful even when the individual contributions of specific risk factors cannot be quantified, as it proposes that the combined quantitative level of exposure to risk factors for ASD rather than exposure to any one risk factor per se defines threshold occurrence rates. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
10 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Place: United States Crawford, S. Department of Biology, Southern Connecticut State University, 501 Crescent Street, New Haven, CT 06515, United States. Electronic address: crawfords2@southernct.edu.
Keywords: *Autistic Disorder/ep [Epidemiology]; *Environmental Exposure/sn [Statistics & Numerical Data]; *Epidemiologic Methods; *Risk Assessment/mt [Methods]; *Threshold Limit Values; 5 HTT gene; 5 hydroxytryptophan; Article; Autistic Disorder; Causality; DNA polymorphism; Environmental Exposure; Epidemiologic Methods; Evidence-Based Medicine; Humans; Incidence; RLN gene; Risk Assessment; Threshold Limit Values; autism; autoimmune disease; brain dysfunction; brain maturation; cannabinoid 1 receptor; cannabinoid 2 receptor; cannabis use; central nervous system function; childhood disease; childhood feeding; copy number variation; dept.bio; developmental stage; disease association; disease severity; environmental exposure; environmental factor; epidemiological data; evidence based medicine; feeding; feeding behavior; genetic association; genetic predisposition; genetic risk; high risk population; human; hypothesis; immunoreactivity; incidence; infant feeding; intrauterine infection; n acetylgalactosaminidase; nervous system development; nonbiological model; nonhuman; pediatric infectious disease; perinatal period; prevalence; procedures; quantitative threshold exposure hypothesis; reelin; risk assessment; risk factor; statistics and numerical data; tetrahydrocannabinol; threshold limit value; threshold model; unclassified drug; unclassified enzyme; vitamin D deficiency

Physiological responses related to increased grain yield under drought in the first biotechnology‐derived drought‐tolerant maize - Nemali, Krishna S; Bonin, Christopher P; Dohleman, Frank G; Stephens, Mike; Reeves, William; Nelson, Donald E; Castiglioni, Paolo; Whitsel, Joy; Sammons, Bernard; Silady, Rebecca A; Anstrom, Donald; Sharp, Robert E; et al. (Plant Cell and Environment, 2015)
Maize (Zea mays ssp. mays L.) is highly susceptible to drought stress. This work focused on whole-plant physiological mechanisms by which a biotechnology-derived maize event expressing bacterial cold shock protein B (CspB), MON 87460, increased grain yield under drought. Plants of MON 87460 and a conventional control (hereafter 'control') were tested in the field under well-watered (WW) and water-limited (WL) treatments imposed during mid-vegetative to mid-reproductive stages during 2009-2011. Across years, average grain yield increased by 6% in MON 87460 compared with control under WL conditions. This was associated with higher soil water content at 0.5 m depth during the treatment phase, increased ear growth, decreased leaf area, leaf dry weight and sap flow rate during silking, increased kernel number and harvest index in MON 87460 than the control. No consistent differences were observed under WW conditions. This indicates that MON 87460 acclimated better under WL conditions than the control by lowering leaf growth which decreased water use during silking, thereby eliciting lower stress under WL conditions. These physiological responses in MON 87460 under WL conditions resulted in increased ear growth during silking, which subsequently increased the kernel number, harvest index and grain yield compared to the control. Copyright © 2014 The Authors. Plant, Cell & Environment published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
80 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/043-772-605-388-897 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: *Biotechnology/mt [Methods]; *Droughts; *Zea mays/ph [Physiology]; Bacteria (microorganisms); Bacterial Proteins; Bacterial Proteins/ge [Genetics]; Biotechnology; CspB; Droughts; Ear; Edible Grain; Harvest index; Leaf area; Plant Leaves; Plant Leaves/ph [Physiology]; Plants; Genetically Modified; Plants; Genetically Modified/ph [Physiology]; Sap flow; Soil; Soil water content; Soil/ch [Chemistry]; Water use; Yield; Zea mays; acclimation; adaptation; bacterial protein; biotechnology; chemistry; cold-shock protein CspB; Bacteria; crop yield; dept.bio; drought; drought stress; food grain; genetics; index method; leaf area; maize; physiological response; physiology; plant leaf; procedures; protein; sap flow; soil; soil water; tolerance; transgenic plant; water use efficiency

Anti-inflammatory/antioxidant use in long-term maintenance cancer therapy: a new therapeutic approach to disease progression and recurrence. - Crawford, Sarah (Therapeutic advances in medical oncology, 2014)
The chronic, progressive clinical characteristics of many adult solid tumor malignancies suggest that a more effective therapeutic approach to cancer management may require long-term intervention using nontoxic systemic agents that block critical components of abnormal tumor physiology. Two highly promising systemic targets common to the development, progression and recurrence of many common cancers are dysregulated inflammatory and oxidation/reduction (redox) pathways. Compelling clinical data support the use of anti-inflammatory and antioxidant agents as a therapeutic modality for long-term use in patients diagnosed with several common cancers, including colon cancer and breast cancer. The therapeutic paradigm presented in this paper is the product of a synthesis of what is currently understood about the biological effects of inflammation and oxidative stress that contribute to tumorigenesis, disease progression and recurrence as well as results obtained from research on the use of prophylactics with anti-inflammatory or antioxidant properties in cancer prevention and treatment.
51 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Place: England Crawford, Sarah. Cancer Biology Research Laboratory, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT 06515, USA.
Keywords: anti-inflammatory agents; antiinflammatory agent; antioxidant; antioxidants; axitinib; bevacizumab; bosutinib; breast cancer; cabozantinib; cancer epidemiology; cancer growth; cancer recurrence; cancer therapy; cetuximab; chemoprophylaxis; chemotherapy; colon cancer; crizotinib; dasatinib; dept.bio; erlotinib; everolimus; gefitinib; human; imatinib; inflammation; ipilimumab; lapatinib; long term care; long-term maintenance cancer therapy; meta analysis (topic); nilotinib; nonhuman; oxidative stress; panitumumab; pazopanib; ponatinib; priority journal; randomized controlled trial (topic); reactive oxygen metabolite; regorafenib; review; ruxolitinib; sorafenib; sunitinib; systematic review (topic); temsirolimus; tofacitinib; trastuzumab; trastuzumab emtansine; unindexed drug; vandetanib; vemurafenib

Cluster M mycobacteriophages Bongo, PegLeg, and Rey with unusually large repertoires of tRNA isotypes - Pope, Welkin H; Anders, Kirk R; Baird, Madison A; Bowman, Charles A; Boyle, Michelle M; Broussard, Gregory W; Chow, Tiffany W; Clase, Kari; Cooper, Shannon D; Cornely, Kathleen; Dejong, Randall J; Delesalle, Veronique A; et al. (Journal of Virology, 2014)
Genomic analysis of a large set of phages infecting the common host Mycobacterium smegmatis mc2155 shows that they span considerable genetic diversity. There are more than 20 distinct types that lack nucleotide similarity with each other, and there is considerable diversity within most of the groups. Three newly isolated temperate mycobacteriophages, Bongo, PegLeg, and Rey, constitute a new group (cluster M), with the closely related phages Bongo and PegLeg forming subcluster M1 and the more distantly related Rey forming subcluster M2. The clusterMmycobacteriophages have siphoviral morphologies with unusually long tails, are homoimmune, and have larger than average genomes (80.2 to 83.7 kbp). They exhibit a variety of features not previously described in other mycobacteriophages, including noncanonical genome architectures and several unusual sets of conserved repeated sequences suggesting novel regulatory systems for both transcription and translation. In addition to containing transfer-messenger RNA and RtcB-like RNA ligase genes, their genomes encode 21 to 24 tRNA genes encompassing complete or nearly complete sets of isotypes. We predict that these tRNAs are used in late lytic growth, likely compensating for the degradation or inadequacy of host tRNAs. They may represent a complete set of tRNAs necessary for late lytic growth, especially when taken together with the apparent lack of codons in the same late genes that correspond to tRNAs that the genomes of the phages do not obviously encode. © 2014, American Society for Microbiology.
40 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/014-261-678-659-153 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Base Composition; Base Sequence; Codon; Conserved Sequence; DNA binding motif; DNA sequence; Gene Order; Genome Size; Genome; Viral; Inverted Repeat Sequences; Lysogeny; Multigene Family; Mycobacteriophages; Mycobacterium smegmatis; Open Reading Frames; Phylogeny; RNA cleavage; RNA degradation; RNA translation; RNA; Transfer; RNA; Viral; Repetitive Sequences; Nucleic Acid; Sequence Alignment; Virion; Virus Assembly; article; controlled study; dept.bio; gene cassette; gene control; gene structure; genetic analysis; genetic transcription; genetic variability; membrane protein; mycobacteriophage; mycobacteriophage Bongo; mycobacteriophage M; mycobacteriophage Pegleg; mycobacteriophage Rey; nonhuman; nucleotide sequence; priority journal; protein gp19; protein gp23; protein gp24; protein gp26; protein gp30; protein gp31; protein gp39; single stranded DNA binding protein; tmp gene; transfer RNA; unclassified drug; viral genetics; virus assembly; virus classification; virus immunity; virus morphology

Poster session 1. Target identification & validation - Crawford, S.; Malvy, C. P.; Vauthier, Christine; Bertrand, J. R.; Ramon, A. L.; Winkler, J.; Burgess, L.; Laird, Ellen R.; Weaver, D.; Chantry, David; Hernandez, J. C.; Guerrero, C. A.; et al. (Annals of Oncology, 2013)
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: pop00264 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.bio

P01.01 a new paradigm for cancer therapy: a targeted systemic preventive/therapeutic approach - Crawford, S (Annals of Oncology, 2013)
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/009-902-514-078-914 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.bio

Postcranial skeleton of Postosuchus kirkpatricki (Archosauria: Paracrocodylomorpha), from the upper Triassic of the United States - Weinbaum, Jonathan C (Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 2013)
Postosuchus kirkpatricki is a Late Triassic (Norian) 'rauisuchid' archosaur from North America. The initial description of the Postosuchus type material included elements from two poposaurids. This confusion has prevented adequate description of the material. Recent examination of the type material and other specimens of Postosuchus, and of related taxa, has helped clarify the osteology of Postosuchus. The type specimens represent c. 75% of the skeleton. Together with other referred material, Postosuchus remains one of the most completely known rauisuchids. The paratype skeleton, which is relatively complete, would have been c. 3.5-4 m in length, and the holotype would have been closer to 5-6 m. Analysis of the postcranial skeleton of Postosuchus suggests that it may have been an obligate biped (based in part on limb proportions, which are similar to some theropod dinosaurs, the size of the manus (30% of the size of the pes) and the highly reduced nature of the digits and vertebral measurements). Possible postcranial autapomorphies of Postosuchus include a large, rugose triangular supra-acetabular buttress confluent with the dorsal margin of the iliac blade, and a symmetrical pes with digits two and three being roughly equal in length. © The Geological Society of London 2013.
35 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/148-386-820-858-734 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Triassic; United States; dept.bio; osteology; peer-reviewed; reptile; skeleton; taxonomy; type specimen

A taxonomic and biostratigraphic re-evaluation of the Post Quarry vertebrate assemblage from the Cooper Canyon Formation (Dockum Group, Upper Triassic) of southern Garza County, western Texas - Martz, Jeffrey W.; Mueller, Bill D.; Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Stocker, Michelle R.; Parker, William G.; Atanassov, Momchil N.; Fraser, Nicholas C.; Weinbaum, Johnathan; Lehane, James R. (Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2012)
The Post Quarry, within the lower part of the type section of the Upper Triassic Cooper Canyon Formation in southern Garza County, western Texas, contains a remarkably diverse vertebrate assemblage. The Post Quarry has produced: the small temnospondyl Rileymillerus cosgriffi; the metoposaurid Apachesaurus gregorii; possible dicynodonts and eucynodonts; a clevosaurid sphenodontian; non-archosauriform archosauromorphs (Trilophosaurus dornorum, simiosaurians, and possibly Malerisaurus); the phytosaur Leptosuchus; several aetosaurs (Calyptosuchus wellesi, Typothorax coccinarum, Paratypothorax, and Desmatosuchus smalli); the poposauroid Shuvosaurus inexpectatus (Chatterjeea elegans); the rauisuchid Postosuchus kirkpatricki; an early crocodylomorph; several dinosauromorphs (the lagerpetid Dromomeron gregorii, the silesaurid Technosaurus smalli, a herrerasaurid, and an early neotheropod); and several enigmatic small diapsids. Revised lithostratigraphic correlations of the lower Cooper Canyon Formation with the Tecovas Formation, the occurrence of Leptosuchus, and the overall composition of the assemblage indicate that the Post Quarry falls within the Adamanian biozone, and not the Revueltian biozone. Stratigraphic subdivision of the Adamanian biozone may be possible, and the Post Quarry may be correlative with the upper part of the Adamanian biozone in Arizona. The age of the Post Quarry assemblage is possibly late Lacian or earliest Alaunian (late early Norian or earliest middle Norian), between 220 and 215 Ma. © 2013 The Royal Society of Edinburgh.
28 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: pop00103 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Adamanian biozone; Dinosauromorpha; Garza County; Leptosuchus; Pseudosuchia; Texas; Triassic; United States; biostratigraphy; biozonation; dept.bio; faunal diversity; fossil assemblage; land vertebrate faunachrons; stratigraphic correlation; taxonomy; type locality; vertebrate; vertebrate locality

A survey of skeletal elements in the orbit of Pseudosuchia and the origin of the crocodylian palpebral - Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Turner, Alan H.; Weinbaum, Jonathan C. (Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2012)
14 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: pop00106 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Aetosaurus ferratus; Archosauria; Crocodylomorpha; Postosuchus kirkpatricki; Saurosuchus galilei; crocodilian; dept.bio; evolution; extinction; fossil assemblage; novelty; skeletal remains; supraorbital; taxonomy

The long journey of stem cell therapeutics. - Crawford, Sarah (Genome Medicine, 2012)
A report on the Euroepistem 2011 meeting 'Epigenomic Programming and Stem Cells for Drug Discovery', Paris, France, 21-22 November 2011.
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Place: England Crawford, Sarah. Cancer Biology Research Laboratory, Southern Connecticut State University, 501 Crescent Street, New Haven, CT 06515, USA. crawfords2@southernct.edu.
Keywords: Article; dept.bio; embryonic stem cell; epigenetics; gene; gene silencing; human; induced pluripotent stem cell; nonhuman; priority journal; stem cell transplantation; transcription regulation

A new species of Acentrella Bengtsson (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae) from New York and New England (USA), redescription of the nymph of A. parvula (McDunnough), and key to known adult males of Nearctic Acentrella - Burian, Steven K; Myers, Luke W (Aquatic Insects, 2011)
A new species Acentrella rallatoma (type locality: Connetquot River, Oakdale, NY, USA) is described from nymphs and reared adults. Additional specimens were studied from southeastern New York, southeastern New Hampshire, coastal Connecticut, and Martha's Vineyard, MA, USA. Nymphs can be separated from those of other Nearctic species by: scraper-like outer incisors of mandibles, cerci alternately banded from bases to tips, and row of robust bristle-like setae (with modified tips) on dorsal edge of femora. Male imagos can be separated from those that lack hind wings by: distinctive colour pattern of abdominal terga, and genitalia with pigmented sclerotised penes cover. Comparative analysis of A. rallatoma with other Nearctic species revealed a lack of comparative data on nymphs of its presumptive sister species A. parvula. To facilitate future studies of this group, the nymph of A. parvula is redescribed and regional differences are discussed. Abdominal colour patterns of A. parvula that vary over its range from Florida, USA to Labrador, Canada are illustrated. Problems concerning genus-level diagnostic characters for Acentrella nymphs and adults are discussed to facilitate placement of future taxa. To complement existing keys to Nearctic nymphs of Acentrella a provisional key to the known adult males is given. © 2011 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.
1 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/062-428-772-783-321 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: A. parvula; Acentrella; Acentrella parvula; Baetidae; Ephemeroptera; dept.bio; new species

Effect of increased extracellular Ca++ on microvesicle production and tumor spheroid formation - Crawford, Sarah; Diamond, Deanna; Brustolon, Laura; Penarreta, Rafaela (Cancer microenvironment : official journal of the International Cancer Microenvironment Society, 2011)
Research on the composition of the tumor micro-environment has demonstrated that membrane delimited microvesicles are shed from many types of malignant tumors, in the peripheral blood of cancer patients as well as in culture media of tumor cells propagated in vitro (Ginestra et al. Anticancer Res 18:3433-3437, 1998). Their documented effects involve the activation of signal transduction pathways by cellular cross-talk that are associated with epigenetic mechanisms that may be important in tumor progression, metastasis, and the activation of angiogenesis (Distler et al. Arthritis Rheum 52:3337-3348, 2005). Live cell imaging microscopic studies conducted in our laboratory of the formation of solid tumor spheroids in vitro show that the shedding of microvesicular structures from tumor cells occurs during this process. The observed properties of the tumor microvesicles suggest a role in solid tumor formation and intercellular communication. The tumor associated microvesicles were shown to be non-apoptotic based on the absence of fluorescent nuclear staining by acridine orange/ethidium bromide staining. Increased concentration of extracellular Ca(++) [5-20 mM] resulted in an increase in the production of tumor-derived microvesicles and also to result in the formation of tumor spheroids whose size was considerably smaller than controls. Increased extracellular [Ca(++)] was also observed to induce the rapid dissociation of solid tumor spheroids to smaller cell aggregates in the absence of significant apoptosis.
19 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Place: Netherlands Crawford, Sarah. Cancer Biology Research Laboratory, Biology Department, Southern Connecticut State University, Jennings Hall 219, 501 Crescent Street, New Haven, CT 06515 USA.
Keywords: Extracellular Ca++; Live cell imaging; Multicellular tumor spheroid; Tumor associated microvesicle; acridine orange; angiogenesis; apoptosis; article; breast carcinoma; calcium ion; cancer cell culture; cell aggregation; cell nucleus; concentration (parameters); controlled study; cytochemistry; dept.bio; epigenetics; ethidium bromide; extracellular calcium; glioblastoma; human; human cell; in vitro study; membrane vesicle; metastasis potential; microscopy; molecular interaction; osteosarcoma; priority journal; signal transduction; tumor growth; tumor microenvironment; tumor spheroid; tumor vascularization

Technological variation in the earliest Oldowan from Gona, Afar, Ethiopia - Stout, Dietrich; Semaw, Sileshi; Rogers, Michael J.; Cauche, Dominique (Journal of Human Evolution, 2010)
Inter-site technological variation in the archaeological record is one of the richest potential sources of information about Plio-Pleistocene hominid behavior and evolution. However, appropriate methods for describing and comparing Oldowan assemblages have yet to be agreed upon, and interpretation of the early record remains highly controversial. Particularly salient is disagreement over whether the Oldowan is a single technological phenomenon or is more accurately divided into multiple regional and/or chronological traditions, perhaps including a less developed Pre-Oldowan phase in the late Pliocene. Some of this disagreement reflects theoretical and methodological differences between research traditions and some is more directly evidential. Here we present a framework for describing and interpreting Oldowan variation and apply it to three Pliocene assemblages (EG-10, EG-12, and OGS-7) from Gona, all dated to c. 2.6 million years (Ma). Results indicate proficient knapping and a full range of Oldowan reduction strategies in these earliest known occurrences, consistent with the idea of an Oldowan “technological stasis” from 2.6–1.6Ma. Patterns of variation in raw material selection and predominant reduction strategy at each site clearly indicate the importance of cultural transmission in the Oldowan, but confounding ecological and economic variation continue to render interpretation in terms of multiple tool making traditions or species inappropriate. We propose that cultural transmission and ecological adaptation should be recognized as complementary, rather than mutually exclusive, mechanisms in future attempts to explain Oldowan technological variation.
157 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.ids: ISI:000279276600002, Rogers2010, lens.org/048-194-199-785-52X tex.orcid-numbers: [object Object] tex.researcherid-numbers: [object Object] tex.unique-id: [object Object]
Keywords: Animals; Archaeology; Chaîne opératoire; Chi-Square Distribution; Cultural Evolution; Early Stone Age; Environment; Ethiopia; Fossils; Gona; Hominidae; Humans; Lithic technology; Paleolithic; Paleontology; Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary; Pre-Oldowan; Stone Age; Tool Use Behavior; animal; archaeological evidence; archeology; chi square distribution; cultural anthropology; cultural geography; dept.ant; dept.bio; environment; evolution; fossil; geochronology; hominid; human; paleontology; peer-reviewed; spatial variation; technological development; technology adoption; tool use

Abstract 776: Anticancer properties of phytochemical extracts from native New England species of ferns in breast cancers of diverse genetic backgrounds - Crawford, Sarah; Diamond, Deanna; Penarreta, Rafaela; Brustolon, Laura; Wang, Hua; Hanks, Judith Garrison; Barbieri, Zachary (Cancer Research, 2010)
1 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/140-690-896-932-65X tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.bio

The ratio of gametophytes to tetrasporophytes of intertidal chondrus crispus (gigartinaceae) across a salinity gradient - Guidone, Michele; Grace, Sean (Rhodora, 2010)
6 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/031-225-776-360-25X tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Chondrus; Chondrus crispus; Gigartinaceae; dept.bio

Reproductive behavior in horseshoe crabs: Does density matter? - Mattei, Jennifer; Beekey, Mark A; Rudman, Adam; Woronik, Alyssa (Current Zoology, 2010)
While the four species of horseshoe crabs share many common reproductive traits with respect to their reproductive systems, they do differ with respect to their mating behavior (monogamy vs. polygynandry). Past research has attributed these differences to a number of factors including: spawning densities, operational sex ratios (OSR's), male condition (or age), environmental and/or genetic factors, or a combination thereof. Mating behaviors in the three Asian horseshoe crab species (Tachypleus gigas, T. tridentatus, and Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda) with low spawning densities and 1:1 operational sex ratios are typically monogamous. In Limulus polyphemus, mating behavior is more variable ranging from monogamy to polygynandry. Here we provide evidence, through a long term behavioral study, that variation in mating behavior is influenced by population density in L. polyphemus. Our study population on two beaches in Connecticut (Long Island Sound) have a spawning density 400 times less than that found in Delaware Bay (0.002 females/m2 vs. 0.8 females/m2) but similar operational sex ratios. Between 90%-95% of all spawning females in CT were paired with only one male, thus exhibiting monogamous behavior. In contrast, between 30 and 60% of spawning females in Delaware Bay have more than one mate and produce clutches of eggs with multiple paternities. Male condition played no role in mating behavior in CT populations. We also observed that on average 18% of the females on the spawning beaches are single. These results suggest that population density is an important condition that determines mating behavior. Also, low population density may lead to decreased mate finding ability and lost opportunities for spawning [Current Zoology 56 (5): 634-642, 2010]. © 2010 Current Zoology.
32 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/090-298-586-515-449 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda; Limulus; Limulus polyphemus; Mating behavior; Merostomata; Monogamy; Polygynandry; Population density; Tachypleus gigas; dept.bio

Biotechnological potential of aquatic plant-microbe interactions. - Stout, L; Nusslein, K (Current opinion in biotechnology, 2010)
The rhizosphere in terrestrial systems is the region of soil surrounding plant roots where there is increased microbial activity; in aquatic plants, this definition may be less clear because of diffusion of nutrients in water, but there is still a zone of influence by plant roots in this environment [1]. Within that zone chemical conditions differ from those of the surrounding environment as a consequence of a range of processes that were induced either directly by the activity of plant roots or by the activity of rhizosphere microflora. Recently, there are a number of new studies related to rhizospheres of aquatic plants and specifically their increased potential for remediation of contaminants, especially remediation of metals through aquatic plant-microbial interaction. Copyright 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
44 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Place: England Stout, L. Department of Biology, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT 06515, United States. stoutl1@southernct.edu
Keywords: *Biotechnology/mt [Methods]; *Plants/mi [Microbiology]; 1 aminocyclopropanecarboxylic acid; Aquaculture; Aquatic plants; Biodegradation; Environmental; Biotechnology; Chemical conditions; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; Microbial activities; Microbial interactions; Microflora; New study; Plant Roots; Plant Roots/mi [Microbiology]; Plant roots; Plants; Pollution; Rhizobium leguminosarum; Soils; Surrounding environment; Terrestrial systems; Zone of influences; adenosine triphosphatase; aquatic environment; aquatic flora; bacterial strain; biofilm; biofiltration; biotechnological procedures; biotechnology; cadmium; chromium; cobalt; copper; dept.bio; environmental exposure; heavy metal removal; homeostasis; metallothionein; microorganism; nickel; nonhuman; pH; phytochelatin; phytoremediation; plant growth; plant microorganism interaction; priority journal; process technology; protein binding; protein synthesis; review; rhizofiltration; rhizosphere; siderophore; transgene; volatilization; zinc

Departments in Crisis: What to do when the Department is Threatened - Hlavac, Craig (Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings, 2016)
Citation Key Alias: lens.org/100-683-570-154-652
Keywords: dept.a&s; dept.mus; ⛔ No DOI found

The world for a king: pierre desceliers’ map of 1550. by chet van duzer - Serchuk, Camille (Imago Mundi, 2016)
1 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/133-136-133-366-651 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.art

The Dutch Encounter with Italy - Levine, David A. (The Ashgate Research Companion to Dutch Art of the Seventeenth Century, 2016)
Keywords: dept.art

Discussion board assignments and their impact on creating engaged learning environments in art history online courses - Ter-Stepanian, Anahit (Handbook of Research on Didactic Strategies and Technologies for Education: Incorporating Advancements, 2013)
The adaptation of traditional, face-to-face courses to the online format presents both challenges and opportunities. Many pedagogical practices need to be rethought when designing online courses. A successful online course needs to be intellectually stimulating and engaging. The chapter demonstrates how to create an engaging learning environment without any additional budget. The author describes approaches that she has developed, experimented with, and found to be effective in asynchronous online art history courses, as well as learner engagement strategies she has implemented in the eLearning environment. Advantages of scenario-based discussions board assignments and the effects of role playing in discussion forums are discussed. The author shares examples of personalized discussion board assignments aimed to motivate online learners, create a collaborative learning environment, improve peer-to-peer interaction, and prevent plagiarism.
Keywords: dept.art

Parody, Proverb, and Paradox in Two Late Works by Pieter Bruegel the Elder - Levine, David A. (Parody and Festivity in Early Modern Art, 2012)
Keywords: dept.art

Frans Hals and the Vernacular - Levine, David A. (The Transformation of Vernacular Expression in Early Modern Arts, 2011)
"Frans Hals and the Vernacular" published on 01 Jan 2012 by Brill.
Keywords: dept.art

Medieval Renaissance Baroque: A Cat's Cradle in Honor of Marilyn Aronberg Lavin - Levine, David A.; Freiberg, Jack (Italica Press, Inc., 2010)
"Medieval renaissance Baroque" celebrates Marilyn Aronberg Lavin's breakthrough achievements in both the print and digital realms of art and cultural history. Fifteen friends and colleagues present tributes and essays that reflect every facet of this renowned scholar's brilliant career. Tribute presenters include Ellen Burstyn, Langdon Hammer, Phyllis Lambert, and James Marrow. Contributors include Kirk Alexander, Horst Bredekamp, Nicola Courtright, David Freedberg, Jack Freiberg, Marc Fumaroli, David A. Levine, Daniel T. Michaels, Elizabeth Pilliod, Debra Pincus, and Gary Schwartz. 79 illustrations, bibliography of Marilyn Lavin's works, index.
Keywords: dept.art

“Urbs Aeterna” and Dutch Painting of Roman Ruins - Levine, David A. (Medieval Renaissance Baroque: a cat's cradle for Marilyn Aronberg Lavin, 2010)
"Reflects Marilyn Aronberg Lavin's innovative work in art and cultural history in both the print and digital realms. Contributors: Kirk Alexander, Horst Bredekamp, Nicola Courtright, David Freedberg, Jack Freiberg, Marc Fumaroli, David A. Levine, Daniel T. Michaels, Elizabeth Pilliod, Debra Pincus, Gary Schwartz. Seventy-seven illustrations, bibliography of Lavin's works, index"–Provided by publisher.
OCLC: 423389186
Keywords: dept.art

Late Miocene hominin teeth from the Gona Paleoanthropological Research Project area, Afar, Ethiopia. - Simpson, Scott W; Kleinsasser, Lynnette; Quade, Jay; Levin, Naomi E; McIntosh, William C; Dunbar, Nelia; Semaw, Sileshi; Rogers, Michael J (Journal of Human Evolution, 2015)
Since 2000, significant collections of Latest Miocene hominin fossils have been recovered from Chad, Kenya, and Ethiopia. These fossils have provided a better understanding of earliest hominin biology and context. Here, we describe five hominin teeth from two periods (ca. 5.4 Million-years-ago and ca. 6.3 Ma) that were recovered from the Adu-Asa Formation in the Gona Paleoanthropological Research Project area in the Afar, Ethiopia that we assign to either Hominina, gen. et sp. indet. or Ardipithecus kadabba. These specimens are compared with extant African ape and other Latest Miocene and Early Pliocene hominin teeth. The derived morphology of the large, non-sectorial maxillary canine and mandibular third premolar links them with later hominins and they are phenetically distinguishable and thus phyletically distinct from extant apes. Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
22 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Place: England Simpson, Scott W. Department of Anatomy, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106-4930, USA; Institute for the Science of Origins, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA; Laboratory of Physical Anthropology, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA. Electronic address: sws3@cwru.edu. Kleinsasser, Lynnette. Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA; Barrick Cortez, HC 66 Box 1250, Crescent Valley, NV 89821 USA. Electronic address: lkleinsasser@barrick.com. Quade, Jay. Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA. Electronic address: quadej@email.arizona.edu. Levin, Naomi E. Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA. Electronic address: nlevin3@jhu.edu. McIntosh, William C. New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources & Department of Environmental Science, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM 87801, USA. Electronic address: mcintosh@nmt.edu. Dunbar, Nelia. Department of Environmental Science, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM 87801, USA. Electronic address: nelia@nmt.edu. Semaw, Sileshi. Centro Nacional de Investigacion sobre la Evolucion Humana (CENIEH), Paseo Sierro de Atapuerca 3, Burgos 09002, Spain; The Stone Age Institute, 1392 West Dittemore Road, Gosport, IN 47433, USA; CRAFT, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA. Electronic address: Sileshi.semaw@cenieh.es. Rogers, Michael J. Department of Anthropology, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT 06515, USA. Electronic address: rogersm1@southernct.edu.
Keywords: *Fossils/ah [Anatomy & Histology]; *Hominidae/ah [Anatomy & Histology]; *Tooth/ah [Anatomy & Histology]; Afar; Animals; Ardipithecus; Ardipithecus kadabba; Ardipithecus ramidus; Biological Evolution; Ethiopia; Fossils; Hominidae; Hominina; Late miocene; Miocene; Orrorin; Tooth; Western ethiopian escarpment; anatomy and histology; animal; anthropology; canid; dept.ant; evolution; fossil; hominid; morphology; peer-reviewed; tooth

The light of knowledge: literacy activism and the politics of writing in south india francis cody (ithaca, NY: cornell university press, 2013) - Mcgill, Kenneth (PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 2015)
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/072-789-468-107-907
Keywords: dept.ant

Informe de las posibles capacochas del asentamiento arqueológico de Choquepujio, Cusco, Perú - Oviedo, Arminda M Gibaja; Mcewan, Gordon F; Chatfield, Melissa; Andrushko, Valerie A (Ñawpa Pacha, 2014)
7 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/050-175-337-467-713
Keywords: dept.ant; peer-reviewed

Political economy and language: A review of some recent literature - McGill, Kenneth (Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 2013)
32 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/091-080-285-933-203 tex.eissn: [object Object] tex.unique-id: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.ant

The African Acheulean - Sahnouni, Mohamed; Semaw, Sileshi; Rogers, Michael (The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology, 2013)
This article argues that the Acheulean is perhaps the longest lasting cultural–technological tradition in human history, dating from around 1.7 to 0.3 Mya and roughly corresponding to the time during which H. Erectus and H. Heidelbergensis lived in Africa. Unlike earlier Oldowan technology, Acheulean cores — handaxes, cleavers, and picks — were standardised, of predetermined shape and made on large cobbles and flakes. The extensive Acheulean archaeological record throughout Africa over 1.4 million years described is testimony to the success of this technology’s makers in different habitats, altitudes, and settings, but also to its apparent conservative cultural nature: a learned tradition passed on through thousands of generations of highly mobile hominin groups with small population sizes. Although there are differences between Early and Late Acheulean technology, the makers of these tools may have undergone more significant changes with respect to the use of other technologies, strategic land use, and social life.
Citation Key Alias: lens.org/025-853-927-978-71X, sahnouniAfricanAcheulean2013
Keywords: dept.ant

Discourse, organization, and the welfare state in the former east berlin - McGill, Kenneth (PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 2013)
In this article, I examine the statements and actions of two key informants, both of whom direct welfare programs in a district of the former East Berlin. I argue that this evidence points to a particular modality of political rationalization, which I dub organizational discourse. The entanglement of organizational discourse and governmentality are explored, as is the place of organizational discourse within both the liberal welfare state and the bygone state socialist regime.
1 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/013-067-566-045-696 tex.unique-id: [object Object]
Keywords: Discourse; Germany; Organization; Power; Welfare state; dept.ant

No magic tricks: commodity, empowerment, and the sale of StreetWise in chicago - McGill, Kenneth (Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 2013)
Use-value and exchange-value are pragmatic features of commodity exchange which are apparent from the careful study of specific interactions, as well as from the viewpoint of economic processes at large. While Marx's well-known attempt to describe this pair of concepts in Capital (2001) takes the latter tack, I attempt here to take the formeri.e., to approach the composition of the commodity from the point of view of the pragmatics of interaction. In doing so, I offer a semiotic model of the valuation of commodities which differs from accounts given by Kockelman (2006) and Agha (2011). The ethnographic object at stake in this essay is StreetWise, a Chicago street newspaper said to have empowering effects on its vendors.
1 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/092-038-908-888-267 tex.unique-id: [object Object]
Keywords: Commodity; Empowerment; Street newspapers; United States; Value; dept.ant

Patterns of interpersonal violence and warfare in the prehistoric San Francisco Bay Area, California - Bellifemine, Viviana I.; Bartelink, Eric J.; Andrushko, Valerie A.; Nechayev, Irina; Jurmain, Robert (American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2012)
tex.organization: Amer Assoc Phys Anthropol tex.unique-id: ISI:000300498700068 81st Annual Meeting of the American-Association-of-Physical-Anthropologists, Portland, OR, 2012
Keywords: dept.ant; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Social bioarchaeology - partnerships, pitfalls, and ethical concerns in international bioarchaeology - Turner, Bethany L.; Andrushko, Valerie A. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)
Keywords: dept.ant

Investigating a child sacrifice event from the Inca heartland - Andrushko, Valerie A.; Buzon, Michele R.; Gibaja, Arminda M.; McEwan, Gordon F.; Simonetti, Antonio; Creaser, Robert A. (Journal of Archaeological Science, 2011)
Human sacrifice in the Inca Empire at times took the form of the capacocha, a sacrificial rite involving the most beautiful children in the empire. In this study, we investigate a possible capacocha at the pre-Columbian site of Choquepukio in the Cuzco Valley of Peru. During excavations at Choquepukio in 2004, seven children (aged 3-12 years) were discovered buried together; accompanying them was an elaborate assemblage of high status artifacts similar to those from other recent archaeological finds that are believed to be capacocha sacrifices. Since colonial documents indicate that capacocha children were selected from diverse regions of the empire, we initiated a radiogenic strontium isotope analysis to determine the origins of the children found at Choquepukio. Our analysis showed that, indeed, two children in the assemblage had non-local origins. When considered together, the osteological, archaeological, and isotopic evidence suggest that a capacocha event occurred at Choquepukio, representing the only lower-elevation capacocha to have been found in the Cuzco region. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
41 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/092-741-186-183-170 tex.orcid-numbers: [object Object] tex.researcherid-numbers: [object Object] tex.unique-id: [object Object]
Keywords: Andes; Bioarchaeology; Capacocha; Cuzco; Strontium isotope analysis; archaeological evidence; archaeology; artifact; dept.ant; isotopic analysis; strontium isotope

The pathological consequences of cranial vault modification: an analysis of human skeletal remains from Cuzco, Peru - Andrushko, Valerie A.; Messer, Diana Lynn (American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2011)
tex.organization: Amer Assoc Phys Anthropol tex.unique-id: ISI:000288034000021 80th Annual Meeting of the American-Association-of-Physical-Anthropologists, Minneapolis, MN, APR 11-16, 2011
Keywords: dept.ant; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Skeletal evidence for Inca warfare from the Cuzco region of Peru - Andrushko, Valerie A; Torres, Elva C (American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2011)
This article addresses the bioarchaeological evidence for Inca warfare through an analysis of 454 adult skeletons from 11 sites in the Inca capital region of Cuzco, Peru. These 11 sites span almost 1000 years (AD 600-1532), which allows for a comparison of the evidence for warfare before the Inca came to power (Middle Horizon AD 600-1000), during the time of Inca ascendency in the Late Intermediate Period (AD 1000-1400), and after the Inca came to power and expanded throughout the Cuzco region and beyond (Inca Imperial Period, AD 1400-1532). The results indicate that 100 of 454 adults (22.0%) showed evidence of cranial trauma. Of these, 23 individuals had major cranial injuries suggestive of warfare, consisting of large, complete, and/or perimortem fractures. There was scant evidence for major injuries during the Middle Horizon (2.8%, 1/36) and Late Intermediate Period (2.5%, 5/199), suggesting that warfare was not prevalent in the Cuzco region before and during the Inca rise to power. Only in the Inca Imperial Period was there a significant rise in major injuries suggestive of warfare (7.8%, 17/219). Despite the significant increase in Inca times, the evidence for major cranial injuries was only sporadically distributed at Cuzco periphery sites and was entirely absent at Cuzco core sites. These findings suggest that while the Inca used warfare as a mechanism for expansion in the Cuzco region, it was only one part of a complex expansion strategy that included economic, political, and ideological means to gain and maintain control. Copyright © 2011 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
28 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/021-622-043-872-043 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: *Archaeology; *Skull/in [Injuries]; *Warfare; Adolescent; Adult; Archaeology; Female; History; 15th Century; History; Medieval; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Peru; Skull; War; Weapons; adult; archeology; article; battle injury; bioarchaeology; bone injury; conflict; dept.ant; history; human; imperialism; major clinical study; peer-reviewed; politics; skeletal injury; skeleton; skull injury; trauma; war; weapon

Partnerships, pitfalls, and ethical concerns in international bioarchaeology - Turner, Bethany L; Andrushko, Valerie A (Social Bioarchaeology, 2011)
Keywords: Culturally affiliated descent communities and bioarchaeologists - connections to human remains; Ethical issues; studying human remains - training students in bioarchaeology in united states; Ethical practice; central to bioarchaeology in united states - component of training in the field; Ethics and bioarchaeology in united states - issues of ethical practice in excavation; Human remains analyses - valuable bridges; between past and present; Language barriers and convoluted online submission processes - and additional obstacles; Non-destructive analyses - toward ethical practice in peruvian bioarchaeology; Partnerships; pitfalls and ethical concerns - in international bioarchaeology; Passage of NAGPRA - the native american graves protection and repatriation act of 1990; Practice of bioarchaeology in peru - influenced by cultural and political economic processes; dept.ant

Trophy-taking and dismemberment as warfare strategies in prehistoric central California. - Andrushko, Valerie A; Schwitalla, Al W; Walker, Phillip L (American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2010)
We document evidence for trophy-taking and dismemberment with a new bioarchaeological database featuring 13,453 individuals from prehistoric central California sites. Our study reveals 76 individuals with perimortem removal of body parts consistent with trophy-taking or dismemberment; nine of these individuals display multiple types of trophy-taking and dismemberment for a total of 87 cases. Cases span almost 5,000 years, from the Early Period (3000-500 BC) to the Late Period (AD 900-1700). Collectively, these individuals share traits that distinguish them from the rest of the population: a high frequency of young adult males, an increased frequency of associated trauma, and a tendency towards multiple burials and haphazard burial positions. Eight examples of human bone artifacts were also found that appear related to trophy-taking. These characteristics suggest that trophy-taking and dismemberment were an important part of the warfare practices of central Californian tribes. Temporally, the two practices soared in the Early/Middle Transition Period (500-200 BC), which may have reflected a more complex sociopolitical system that encouraged the use of trophies for status acquisition, as well as the migration of outside groups that resulted in intensified conflict. Overall, trophy-taking and dismemberment appear to have been the product of the social geography of prehistoric central California, where culturally differentiated tribes lived in close proximity to their enemies.
8 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Place: United States Andrushko, Valerie A. Department of Anthropology, Southern Connecticut State University, CT, USA. andrushkov1@southernct.edu
Keywords: *Corpse Dismemberment/hi [History]; *Fossils; *Social Behavior; Bioarchaeology; California; Corpse Dismemberment; Cutmarks; Fossils; History; Ancient; Humans; Male; Native American; Social Behavior; Trauma; United States; Violence; War; Warfare; article; artifact; autopsy; dept.ant; ethnic group; ethnicity; female; geography; human; injury; major clinical study; male; migration; peer-reviewed; physical anthropology; posthumous care

Colorings, cliques and relaxations of planarity - Pinciu, Val (Matemática Contemporânea, 2019)
A conjecture by Albertson states that if χ(G) ≥ n then cr(G) ≥ cr(Kn), where χ(G) is the chromatic number of G and cr(G) is the crossing number of G. This conjecture is true for positive integers n ≤ 16, but it is still open for n ≥ 17. In this paper we consider the statements corresponding to this conjecture where the crossing number of G is replaced with the skewness µ(G) (the minimum number of edges whose removal makes G planar), the genus γ(G) (the minimum genus of the orientable surface on which G is embeddable), and the thickness θ(G) (the minimum number of planar subgraphs of G whose union is G.) We show that the corresponding statements are true for all positive integers n when cr(G) is replaced with µ(G) or γ(G). We also show that the corresponding statement is true for inﬁnitely many values of n, but not for all n, when cr(G) is replaced with θ(G).
Keywords: dept.mat; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Genus, skewness, thickness and coloring theorems - Pinciu, Valeriu (Fiftieth Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing (SEICCGTC), 2019)
Keywords: dept.mat; ⛔ No DOI found

On the minimum skewness of certain classes of graphs - Pinciu, Valeriu (Proceedings of the Bordeaux Graph Workshop, 2019)
Keywords: dept.mat; ⛔ No DOI found

Skewness, minimum degree and chromatic number - Pinciu, Valeriu (Congressus Numerantium, 2017)
Keywords: dept.mat; ⛔ No DOI found

The Folklore of Deinstitutionalization: Popular Film and the Death of the Asylum, 1973–1979 - Rondinone, Troy (Journal of American Studies, 2019)
The demise of America's state mental hospital system, or “deinstitutionalization,” has received much attention from sociologists and historians of medicine. Less understood is the manner in which the public experienced and came to terms with it. Using elements of folklore and horror studies, I will examine how popular films accommodated audiences to institutional decline and confirmed popular antistatist pessimism. The Exorcist (1973), One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Halloween (1978), and When a Stranger Calls (1979) helped weave a tapestry of distrust. By endorsing popular conceptions of institutional failure and presenting mythical narratives of individualist triumph, these films helped pave a path towards the conservative Reagan era to come.
1 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31]
Keywords: dept.his; peer-reviewed

Lovecraft Meets the Mummy: Orientalism, Race, and Monstrous Egypt in “Imprisoned with the haraohs” and “Out of the Aeons” - Rondinone, Troy (Lovecraftian Proceedings No. 3., 2019)
OCLC: 1112383993
Keywords: dept.his; faculty_collection

Evaluation of Biofouling Communities on Wind Turbine Foundations at the Block Island Wind Farm, Rhode Island - Grace, Sean P.; LaFrance-Bartley, M.; English, P.; King, J. W.; Kahn, A. A. (U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Office of Renewable Energy Programs, 2019)
Keywords: dept.bio

Can color-coded word-families flashcards facilitate word recognition in kindergarteners? - Durwin, Cheryl C.; Moore, Dina (Reading Improvement, 2019)
Three novel experiments investigated the effectiveness of color-coded word-families flashcards for facilitating kindergarteners' word recognition skills. Flashcards were constructed with the rime of the word family (vowel and remaining consonant sounds) printed in black ink, indicating that words with this spelling pattern sound the same, and the onsets (initial consonant sounds) shown in different colors, indicating the sound changes from word to word. All experiments involved preand post-testing on word recognition and phonological awareness and random assignment to intervention or control conditions. The length of intervention and type of control condition differed among experiments. Results suggested that word-families may facilitate word recognition skill development and that factors such as amount of practice, phonological awareness, and socioeconomic status impact the efficacy of the intervention.
tex.ids: durwinCanColorcodedWordfamilies2020
Keywords: dept.psy; early literacy; elementary schools; peer-reviewed; phonological awareness; reading instructors; reading intervention; ⛔ No DOI found

The genocidal legacy of Radovan Karadžić - Pettigrew, David (Etnické komunity: hrdinové, šibalové a antagonisté Balkánu, 2017)
OCLC: 1078425988 tex.ids: bittnerovaGenocidalLegacyRadovan2017
Keywords: dept.phi

The Lamb's New Song: Apocalypse in Early British Hymnody - Rosso, G. A. (Religion & Literature, 2021)
"The Lamb's New Song" argues that the Book of Revelation is the primary model for the Christ-centered liturgy of early Dissenting hymnbooks. In particular, the depiction of heavenly worship in Revelation, in which the slain Lamb is exalted to the throne of God and then sung a new song, is fundamental to the theology and symbolic vocabulary of the early British hymn. Dissenting writers in the 1690s drew on the Apocalypse to challenge the hegemony of the psalter in congregational worship, replacing the recital of scriptural psalms with the creation of new hymns to Christ. The essay features the work of Richard Davis, a controversial Independent minister whose Hymns Composed on Various Subjects (1694) anticipates Watts ground-breaking volume Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1707). Both writers foreground the christological drama at the heart of Revelation, in which the crucified and enthroned Lamb brings access to God, whose presence is made real during the public enactment of the hymn. The essay also challenges the influential theory of Stephen Marini, whose "Hymnody as History" (2002) posits an unbridgeable spiritual distance between the divine and human realms as a defining feature of eighteenth-century Anglophone hymns, a claim that fails to account for their central apocalyptic features. Putting early British hymnography in dialogue with New Testament studies can help show that British hymnists engaged with scriptural texts not simply as sources of doctrine and devotion but as fonts of inspiration and creativity.
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31]
Keywords: dept.eng; peer-reviewed

Interpreting blake’s the magdalene at the sepulchre - Rosso, GA (Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly, 2020)
tex.ids: rossoNowMyEyeinpress
Keywords: dept.eng; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Milton - Rosso, G. A. (William Blake in Context, 2019)
Keywords: dept.eng; faculty_collection

Tick-borne illness - Borgognone, Kristen (School nurse resource manual: A guide to practice, 2020)
.SCHOOL NURSE RESOURCE MANUAL NINTH EDITION EVIDENCED-BASED POLICIES and PROCEDURES for SAFE STUDENT CARE. The School Nurse Resource Manual was created for school nurses as a quick reference on the many issues they encounter in their practice, and to assist them, their administrators and consulting physicians to develop consistent evidenced-based policies and procedures for safe student care. This ninth edition contains clinical guidelines that have been completely updated, expanded and revised to reflect current clinical guidelines for safe student care. ALL GUIDELINES ARE RESEARCHED, REFERENCED AND PEER REVIEWED.
Keywords: dept.nur

Tracheostomy care - Borgognone, Kristen (School nurse resource manual: A guide to practice, 2020)
.SCHOOL NURSE RESOURCE MANUAL NINTH EDITION EVIDENCED-BASED POLICIES and PROCEDURES for SAFE STUDENT CARE. The School Nurse Resource Manual was created for school nurses as a quick reference on the many issues they encounter in their practice, and to assist them, their administrators and consulting physicians to develop consistent evidenced-based policies and procedures for safe student care. This ninth edition contains clinical guidelines that have been completely updated, expanded and revised to reflect current clinical guidelines for safe student care. ALL GUIDELINES ARE RESEARCHED, REFERENCED AND PEER REVIEWED.
Keywords: dept.nur

Trauma informed care - Borgognone, Kristen (School nurse resource manual: A guide to practice, 2020)
.SCHOOL NURSE RESOURCE MANUAL NINTH EDITION EVIDENCED-BASED POLICIES and PROCEDURES for SAFE STUDENT CARE. The School Nurse Resource Manual was created for school nurses as a quick reference on the many issues they encounter in their practice, and to assist them, their administrators and consulting physicians to develop consistent evidenced-based policies and procedures for safe student care. This ninth edition contains clinical guidelines that have been completely updated, expanded and revised to reflect current clinical guidelines for safe student care. ALL GUIDELINES ARE RESEARCHED, REFERENCED AND PEER REVIEWED.
Keywords: dept.nur

Varicella - Borgognone, Kristen (School nurse resource manual: A guide to practice, 2020)
SCHOOL NURSE RESOURCE MANUAL NINTH EDITION EVIDENCED-BASED POLICIES and PROCEDURES for SAFE STUDENT CARE. The School Nurse Resource Manual was created for school nurses as a quick reference on the many issues they encounter in their practice, and to assist them, their administrators and consulting physicians to develop consistent evidenced-based policies and procedures for safe student care. This ninth edition contains clinical guidelines that have been completely updated, expanded and revised to reflect current clinical guidelines for safe student care. ALL GUIDELINES ARE RESEARCHED, REFERENCED AND PEER REVIEWED.
Keywords: dept.nur

Uncertainty in transitions of African American caregivers - Unson, Christine; Flynn, Deborah; Chukwurah, Queendalene; Glendon, Maryann; Testut, Tammy (Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2020)
The purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of the ambiguities and uncertainties experienced by a diverse group of African-American caregivers. The study applied Schlossberg's transition theory (TT) and Mishel’s revised uncertainty theory to narratives of self-identified African-American caregivers who provided care at least 5 h a week. The men (6) and women (8) were mostly unmarried, mostly caring for a parent or grandparent. The caregivers’ average age was 52 (SD = 19; ages ranged from 24 to 82 years); and the care recipients’ average age was 84 (SD = 9). Six care recipients had dementia and the remainder had multiple disease diagnoses. Narratives were obtained by in-depth interviews or focus group discussions. These were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim professionally and analyzed independently by trained coders. Schlossberg’s TT contextualized whereas Mishel’s RUIT illuminated the characteristics of the transition, its associated uncertainty, and their relationship to the development of caregiver stress. Situational factors such as difficulties with illness symptoms of the care recipient, conflict between previous experience and current expectations and the adjustments to the new caregiving role, burdened younger caregivers more than older caregivers. Self-factors related to lack of knowledge about the illness and feelings of lack of control. Social support was predominantly provided by family members, and its absence resulted in conflict among siblings and caregiver stress. The most common coping strategies include religiosity, expectations of reciprocity, and coming to terms with the uncertainty. Understanding the feelings, perceptions and needs of caregivers in transition is tantamount to providing nursing care.
4 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31]
Keywords: Adaptation; Psychological; Adult; African American; African Americans; Aged; Aged; 80 and over; Caregivers; Female; Grandparents; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Narration; Parents; Social Support; Stress; Psychological; Uncertainty; Young Adult; adult; aged; caregiver; child parent relation; coping behavior; dept.nur; dept.pch; female; grandparent; human; male; mental stress; middle aged; peer-reviewed; psychology; social support; uncertainty; verbal communication; very elderly; young adult

Attention on adolescent mental disorders: the long-term effects on labor market outcomes - Yu, Jia (International Journal of Applied Economics, 2019)
According to a presidential task force about national college health in 2005, 14.9% of college students have been diagnosed with depression or anxiety disorders. Almost 75% of them experienced mental health problems during their early childhood or adolescence. Specifically, this paper examines the longitudinal effects of learning disability and attention disorder, and behavior disorder, of children born in 1980 – 1984, on their labor market outcomes as young adults. This study applies data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97), which documents the transition from school to work, and from adolescence to adulthood. By applying a family fixed effects model with Heckman selection procedure and multinomial logistic regression, the research results show that experiencing mental health illness during childhood is associated with a decreased risk of employment, an increased risk of unemployment, and decreased weekly paid working hours. This effect is strong and significant for males, and barely discernible for females. Hence, childhood mental disorder is an important determinant of individual’s labor market outcomes. Targeting the improvement for boys’ mental illness situation might be beneficial for improving their labor market participation.
Keywords: dept.eco; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Voices from the desks: exploring student experiences in counselor education - Foss-Kelly, Louisa L.; Protivnak, Jake J. (The Journal of Counselor Preparation and Supervision, 2017)
The purpose of the qualitative study was to explore the themes that counselor education master’s students perceived as impacting their experience within a counseling program. Counselor education master’s students provided their perceptions of what they attributed to helping or hindering their progress. Themes identified as impacting their experiences were academic environment, finances, job preparation, self-care, life role balance, support, mentoring and advising, and personal growth. Recommendations are provided for counselor educators to consider when structuring programs and interacting with master’s students.
5 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31]
Keywords: dept.csp

Timing Prediction for Dynamic Application Migration on Multi-core Embedded Systems - Li, Zheng; Wu, Hao; He, Shuibing (2018 IEEE 4th International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity), IEEE International Conference on High Performance and Smart Computing, (HPSC) and IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Data and Security (IDS), 2018)
To accommodate execution mode change and hardware malfunction, dynamic system reconfiguration, which invokes application migration across different processing cores, needs to be supported on multi-core embedded systems. Different application migration strategies will impact system's timing behaviors in different manners, it is important to select an appropriate one such that the system's timing performance after the migration process is still acceptable. The focus of our research is to predict the system's timing change of possible migration strategies and upon which to choose the optimal one. Extensive experiments have been set up by running multiple benchmarks and experimental results validate the effectiveness of our proposed approach.
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31]
Keywords: Application Migration; Application migrations; Big data; Dynamic applications; Dynamic system reconfigurations; Embedded systems; Forecasting; Kernel; Migration process; Migration strategy; Multi Core; Multi core; Multi-core embedded systems; Multicore processing; Network security; Predictive models; Timing; Timing Prediction; Timing circuits; Timing performance; Training; Training data; dept.csc; dynamic application migration; dynamic system reconfiguration; embedded systems; execution mode; hardware malfunction; multicore embedded systems; multiprocessing systems; systems timing behaviors; timing prediction

Optimizing System Quality of Service through Rejuvenation for Long-Running Applications with Real-Time Constraints - Guo, Chunhui; Wu, Hao; Hua, Xiayu; Ren, Shangping; Nogiec, Jerzy (arXiv:1811.08047 [cs], 2018)
Reliability, longevity, availability, and deadline guarantees are the four most important metrics to measure the QoS of long-running safety-critical real-time applications. Software aging is one of the major factors that impact the safety of long-running real-time applications as the degraded performance and increased failure rate caused by software aging can lead to deadline missing and catastrophic consequences. Software rejuvenation is one of the most commonly used approaches to handle issues caused by software aging. In this paper, we study the optimal time when software rejuvenation shall take place so that the system's reliability, longevity, and availability are maximized, and application delays caused by software rejuvenation is minimized. In particular, we formally analyze the relationships between software rejuvenation frequency and system reliability, longevity, and availability. Based on the theoretic analysis, we develop approaches to maximizing system reliability, longevity, and availability, and use simulation to evaluate the developed approaches. In addition, we design the MIN-DELAY semi-priority-driven scheduling algorithm to minimize application delays caused by rejuvenation processes. The simulation experiments show that the developed semi-priority-driven scheduling algorithm reduces application delays by 9.01% and 14.24% over the earliest deadline first (EDF) and least release time (LRT) scheduling algorithms, respectively.
arXiv: 1811.08047
Keywords: Computer Science - Distributed; Computer Science - Distributed; Parallel; and Cluster Computing; Computer Science - Performance; Computer Science - Software Engineering; Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Systems and Control; Parallel; and Cluster Computing; dept.csc; ⛔ No DOI found

Schedulability Analysis for Real-Time Task Set on Resource with Performance Degradation and Dual-Level Periodic Rejuvenations - Hua, Xiayu; Guo, Chunhui; Wu, Hao; Lautner, Douglas; Ren, Shangping (IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2017)
Researches in real-time scheduling often assume that the performance of a computing resource does not change overtime. However, as system softwares and system architectures become increasingly complex, resource performance degradation over time becomes more evident. In this paper, we study the schedulability of a hard real-time task set on a resource which has performance degradation over time with a known pattern and use both cold and warm periodic rejuvenations as countermeasures. Such resource model is referred to as P2D-resource model for performance degradation and periodic rejuvenation with dual-levels. In this paper, we study (1) the formal specification of the P2D-resource model, (2) P2D-resource supply analysis, and (3) task set utilization bounds of a P2D-resource under Earliest Deadline First (EDF) and Rate Monotonic (RM) scheduling policies.
10 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31]
Keywords: Aging; Analytical models; Computational modeling; Degradation; EDF; P2D-resource model; P2D-resource supply analysis; RM scheduling policies; Real-time system; Real-time systems; Software; System performance; dept.csc; dual-level periodic rejuvenations; earliest deadline first; formal specification; periodic resource; program diagnostics; rate monotonic scheduling policies; real-time scheduling; real-time systems; real-time task set; resource performance degradation; schedulability analysis; scheduling; software aging; software architecture; software maintenance; software performance evaluation; software rejuvenation; system architectures; system softwares; task set utilization bounds

The association between sympatho-vagal balance and central blood pressures - Latchman, P. L.; Gates, G.; Pereira, J.; Axtell, R. R.; Gardner, K.; Schlie, J.; Yang, Q.; Yue, T.; Morin-Viall, A.; Demeersman, R. (Physiology International, 2020)
Purpose: High central blood pressure is more predictive of cardiovascular disease (CVD) versus high peripheral blood pressure. Measures of central pressures (CPs) include, central systolic blood pressure (CSBP) and central diastolic blood pressure. Measures of central pressures augmentation (CPsA) include augmentation pressure (AP) and the augmentation index @ 75 beats$min-1 (AIx@75). Increased sympathetic tone (ST) is also associated with CVD. The low to high frequency ratio (LF/HF) is often used to determine sympatho-vagal balance. Given the association between ST, CPs, CPsA and CVD there is a need to understand the association between these predictors of CVD. The aims of this study were to examine the association between the LF/HF ratio, CPs, and CPsA in men and women collectively and based on gender. Methods: We measured the LF/HF ratio, CSBP, AP, and AIx@75 in 102 participants (41F/61M). The LF/ HF ratio was determined via power spectral density analysis. CSBP, AP, and AIx@75 were determined via applanation tonometry. Results: The LF/HF ratio was inversely associated with AP (r 5 -0.26) and AIx @75 (r 5 -0.29) in the combined group of men and women. The LF/HF ratio was inversely associated with CSBP (r 5 -0.27), AP (r 5 -0.28), and AIx@75 (r 5 -0.32) in men, but not in women. Conclusion: There is an inverse association between the LF/HF ratio, AP, and AIx@75 in men and women combined. The association between the LF/HF ratio, CSBP, AP, and AIx@75, differs based on gender. © 2020 Akademiai Kiado, Budapest.
1 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] WOS:000530051200014
Keywords: Adult; Arterial Pressure; Article; Augmentation index; Augmentation pressure; Blood Pressure; Cardiovascular System; Central diastolic blood pressure; Central systolic blood pressure; Electrocardiography; Female; Heart Rate; Humans; Male; Sex Characteristics; Sympathetic Nervous System; Sympatho-vagal balance; Vagus Nerve; Young Adult; adrenergic system; adult; arterial pressure; augmentation index; augmentation pressure; blood pressure; blood pressure measurement; cardiovascular disease; cardiovascular parameters; cardiovascular system; central pressures augmentation; dept.hms; diagnostic imaging; diastolic blood pressure; electrocardiography; female; gender; heart rate; human; low to high frequency ratio; major clinical study; male; pathophysiology; peer-reviewed; physiology; power spectrum; procedures; sexual characteristics; spectroscopy; sphygmomanometry; sympathetic tone; sympatho vagal balance; systolic blood pressure; tonometry; vagus nerve; young adult

Using technology to prompt good questions about distributions in statistics - Nabbout-Cheiban, Marie; Fisher, Forest; Edwards, Michael Todd (The Mathematics Teacher, 2017)
Revisions of a textbook problem enhance the underlying tasks and foster conceptual understanding.
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31]
Keywords: dept.edu; peer-reviewed

Intuitive thinking and misconceptions of independent events: a case study of us and french pre-service teachers - Nabbout-Cheiban, Marie (International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, 2016)
In this article we study the conceptions of an American and a French group of undergraduate pre-service teachers regarding the concept of independent events. Specifically, we study the role that intuition plays in their answers, ascertain the presence of probabilistic biases, and compare the findings with previous results collected on a different population. Participants were asked to provide essay-type answers to a three-part questionnaire that asked them to solve problems, react to hypothetical students’ answers, and answer direct questions. The concept of independent events was problematic for most participants as was the distinction between mutually exclusive and independent events. In addition, representativeness bias and the Falk Phenomenon were observed among several participants.
5 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31]
Keywords: dept.edu

Child and Adolescent Development: A Social Justice Approach - Anthis, Kristine (Cognella, 2021)
Child and Adolescent Development: A Social Justice Approach features portraits of development at each stage interwoven with the findings of developmental science research on how inequitable resources and opportunities, which are influenced by social, economic, and political factors, can impact development. The text also presents findings on how such data can be used to reduce inequities for children and their families, thereby optimizing development and allowing individuals to reach their full potential no matter who they are. The text begins with a chapter that briefly describes the stages, domains, and patterns of child and adolescent development, as well as traditional and contemporary theories. Subsequent chapters provide insight into the research methods of developmental science and explain how epigenetic influences affect development. The book then progresses chronologically, discussing the physical, cognitive, and emotional changes that occur within each stage, guiding readers through a tapestry of development from conception through adolescence. Throughout, Pan & Zoom sections supply both big-picture and microscopic understandings of development, Tech & Media asides highlight the influences that technology and media can have on child and adolescent development, and Mentor Minutes provide readers with practical wisdom through interviews with diverse professionals working in the field. Featuring a timely and much-needed perspective on development, Child and Adolescent Development is an ideal resource for courses in psychology, education, counseling, human services, and social work.
SCSU Faculty Scholar Award
Keywords: Child development; Youth development; SCSU Faculty Scholar Award; award_winner; dept.psy

Dimensions of burn survivor distress and its impact on hospital length of stay: A national institute on disability, independent living, and rehabilitation research burn model system study. - O'Brien, Kyle H (Burns : journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries, 2020)
OBJECTIVE: Guided by the Transactional Model of Stress and Coping, this study seeks to (1) examine the independent relationships between the level of distress among burn survivors, pre-morbid psychiatric history, and burn severity on length of hospital stay, and (2) to examine the relationship between having a premorbid psychiatric history and level of distress following a burn injury., METHODS: Data collected by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, Rehabilitation Research funded Burn Model System (N = 846) was used to theoretically link psychological distress with the length of hospital stay for survivors of burn injuries. Structural Equation Modeling was used to evaluate the aims of this study., RESULTS: Although counterintuitive, and while significant, burn severity was found to have a rather modest association with a burn survivor's level of distress, indicating that one's ability to cope may be a better predictor of distress rather than burn severity alone. Premorbid psychiatric history was significantly associated with increased levels of distress. While burn severity was associated with length of stay, level of distress did not act as a partial mediator. Length of stay was, however, significantly related to having a premorbid-psychiatric history. Of notable interest, a significant racial, ethnic, and gender difference exists in level of distress. Women and people of color experience higher levels of distress holding constant burn severity and psychiatric history., CONCLUSION: A need exists to assess for and address premorbid and current mental health challenges of burn survivors, specifically the ability to cope, especially among people of color and women, regardless of the burn size or severity. Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Ltd and ISBI. All rights reserved.
1 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Place: Netherlands O'Brien, Kyle H. Southern Connecticut State University, School of Health and Human Services, Department of Social Work, Department of Health and Movement Sciences, 101 Farnham Avenue New Haven, CT 06515, United States. Electronic address: obrienk9@southernct.edu.
Keywords: *Adaptation; Psychological; *Burns/px [Psychology]; *Length of Stay/sn [Statistics & Numerical Data]; *Mental Disorders/px [Psychology]; *Psychological Distress; *Stress; Psychological/px [Psychology]; Adaptation; Psychological; Adolescent; Adult; African American; African Americans; African Americans/px [Psychology]; African Americans/sn [Statistics & Numerical Data]; Aged; Aged; 80 and over; Article; Body Surface Area; Burn survivors; Burns; Burns/ep [Epidemiology]; Burns/pa [Pathology]; Burns/pp [Physiopathology]; Caucasian; Distress; Ethnic Groups; European Continental Ancestry Group; European Continental Ancestry Group/px [Psychology]; European Continental Ancestry Group/sn [Statistics & Numerical Data]; Female; Hispanic; Hispanic Americans; Hispanic Americans/px [Psychology]; Hispanic Americans/sn [Statistics & Numerical Data]; Humans; Integrated care; Latent Class Analysis; Length of Stay; Length of stay; Male; Mental Disorders; Mental Disorders/ep [Epidemiology]; Mental health; Middle Aged; Models; Psychological; Psychological Distress; Psychosomatic; Sex Factors; Stress; Psychological; Stress; Psychological/eh [Ethnology]; Stress; Psychological/ep [Epidemiology]; Survivors; Young Adult; adolescent; adult; aged; body surface; burn; burn survivor; coping behavior; dept.hls; dept.hms; dept.rec; distress syndrome; electric burn; ethnic group; ethnology; female; hospital discharge; hospitalization; human; latent class analysis; length of stay; major clinical study; male; mental disease; mental stress; middle aged; outcome assessment; pain severity; pathology; pathophysiology; peer-reviewed; personal experience; psychiatric treatment; psychological aspect; psychological model; psychology; scald; secondary analysis; sex factor; structural equation modeling; survivor

Management and Leadership in Social Work: A Competency Based Approach - Rofuth, Todd W.; Piepenbring, Julie M. (Springer Publishing Company, LLC, Springer Publishing Company, 2019)
The authors have had many years of leadership and management experience in a variety of settings and have discovered that there are few books that cover the majority of topics related to leadership and management specifically for social work education and practice. This book covers all the main areas of expertise required in a typical social work leadership and management experience. It incorporates all 21 competencies and 126 practice behaviors from the Network on Social Work Management (NSWM) and nine competencies and 29 practice behaviors espoused by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) and can serve as a textbook for social work programs at the graduate level. The book has many unique features. It provides a comprehensive list of leadership and management competencies from the NSWM and the CSWE along with a list of competencies and practice behaviors. The book presents leadership and management competencies and practice behaviors each chapter along with cases, examples, and activities of how to use them in practice situations. It discusses in detail the differences between management and leadership along with best management and leadership practices. The book provides examples of how to motive and successfully work with different age cohorts. It presents effective communication and marketing strategies. The book discusses in detail how to effectively work with groups and give examples of how to make meetings productive. It exhibits specific problem-solving and decision-making strategies along with examples. The book summarizes how to manage a range of organizational functions. It discusses the importance of collaborating with community groups and other stakeholders to succeed in making a difference. The book contains five parts that replicate the <abbrev>NSWM</abbrev>’s four domains of leadership: executive leadership in social work; resources management practices; strategic management and administrative skills for organizational growth and success; community collaboration; and supplemental materials.
Keywords: Leadership; Vocational qualifications; Social Work; dept.swk; faculty_collection; methods; Efficiency; Organizational; organization & administration; Leadership; Professional Competence; Personnel Management

Approximation of the time alignment error for measurements in electricity grids - Antonios, I.; Schwefel, H.-P.; Lipsky, L. (Proc. - Eur. Dependable Comput. Conf., EDCC, 2019)
Measurements of parameters in electricity grids are frequently captured as average values over some time interval. In scenarios of distributed measurements such as in distribution grids, offsets of local clocks can result in misaligned averaging intervals. This paper investigates the properties of the so-called time alignment error of such measurands that is caused by shifts of the averaging interval. We extend a previously derived Markov-modulated model and provide an approximation of the variance of the time alignment error. The model accounts for slow-decaying correlation structure found in actual traces of electrical measures. We compare results of three electrical measures for 20 traces with numerical results and simulations from the the fitted Markov model. © 2019 IEEE.
2 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Journal Abbreviation: Proc. - Eur. Dependable Comput. Conf., EDCC
Keywords: Alignment; Clock Synchronization; Clock synchronization; Clocks; Decaying correlations; Distributed measurements; Distribution grid; Electric power transmission networks; Electric variables measurement; Electrical distribution; Electrical distribution grids; Electricity grids; Errors; Markov processes; Measurement errors; Modulated model; Numerical results; dept.csc

Correlates and Predictors of Depression and Anxiety Disorders in Graduate Students - Barton, Barbara A.; Bulmer, Sandra M. (Health Educator, 2017)
Depression and anxiety are increasingly prevalent on college campuses; however, few studies have explored these disorders among graduate students. Purpose of this study was to examine prevalence, correlates and predictors of depression and anxiety among graduate students. This cross-sectional study used secondary data (N=4477) collected as part of the Healthy Minds Study. The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) was used as the screening instrument. Multiple logistic regression examined the effect of demographic and social variables on the outcome of screening positive. Results showed 14.0% screened positive for depression, 9.5% for anxiety, 19.1% for either, and 4.4% for both. Depression correlates included: race/ethnicity, nationality, living situation, relationship status and finances growing up. Anxiety correlates included: sex, nationality, sexual orientation, and current finances. Validated predictors for depression were relationship status and finances growing up. Validated predictor for anxiety was identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ), while being male and international status were protective. These findings suggest depression and anxiety are as prevalent among graduates as undergraduates and provide insight into the social and demographic influences of screening positive. Health educators can use these findings to inform policy and programming for graduate students that will provide an appropriate combination of services.
Keywords: Anxiety Disorders; Case Studies; Correlation; Depression (Psychology); Ethnicity; Family Income; Foreign Students; Gender Differences; Graduate Students; Health Education; Health Services; Interpersonal Relationship; Minority Groups; Money Management; Place of Residence; Predictor Variables; Race; Sexual Identity; Sexual Orientation; dept.hhs; ⛔ No DOI found

Using Kolb’s Experiential Learning to Educate Nursing Students About Providing Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Care - Krol, Maria; Adimando, Andrea (Nursing Education Perspectives, 2021)
Over the past decade, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and The Joint Commission have identified that communication problems are a root cause of most serious adverse events and that patients with limited English proficiency are more likely than others to suffer physical harm when such errors occur. It is essential to educate nursing students on the challenges of patients with limited English proficiency and empower them with tools, such as the National Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services standards, to minimize this phenomenon in their future nursing practice. We describe an educational intervention designed to accomplish this using Kolb’s experiential learning theory as a foundation for implementation.
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31]
Keywords: Humans; Nursing; Problem-Based Learning; Students; article; dept.nur; experiential learning; human; limited English proficiency; nursing student; peer-reviewed; problem based learning; transcultural care

School Counseling Programs Identifying Academic Development Needs - Parzych, Jennifer L.; Generali, Margaret; Yavuz, Olcay (Journal of Education, 2021)
This study examined student, parent, and faculty perceptions of academic development needs and related comprehensive school counseling program services from four urban middle and high schools. Participants (n = 1,032) completed a survey designed to assist schools in planning and evaluating their career and college readiness programs, and exploring perceived student support needs. Statistically significant differences were observed in stakeholder perceptions among 12 identified interventions that support improved academic development, through factorial analysis of variance (ANOVA) and pairwise comparisons analysis. Findings provide valuable information about prioritizing student academic counseling services strategically and effectively, to meet program needs of students in high-poverty schools.
1 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31]
Keywords: academic development; college readiness; dept.csp; dept.edl; peer-reviewed; poverty; school counselors

Build the social justice bridge: participatory photography with the international group work community - Gardella, L.G.; Prinsloo, R. (Social Work with Groups, 2021)
“Build the Social Justice Bridge” was a participatory photography project that engaged international group workers in an assessment of group work as a social justice profession. Inspired by principles of photovoice research, the project invited social work students, educators, and practitioners from around the world to contribute photographs and brief narratives that represented the relationship between group work and social justice. The photographs were exhibited during the opening session of the 2018 Symposium of the International Association for Social Work with Groups (IASWG) in South Africa, where more than 200 participants from ten countries reflected on the meaning of the photos for the group work community. In viewing the photos, symposium participants identified a common vision of social justice as well as culturally-specific approaches to group work. Implications are drawn for the internationalization of professional knowledge. © 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
1 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.author_keywords: Group work; international social work; participatory photography; photovoice; social action; social justice; social work; social work with groups tex.document_type: Article tex.source: Scopus
Keywords: South Africa; adult; article; dept.swk; female; human; human experiment; major clinical study; male; narrative; peer-reviewed; photography; physician; professional knowledge; social justice; social work student; vision; worker

The knowledge framework for building teacher awareness of language in content instruction - Gleason, Jesse; Schmitt, Elena (Social practices in higher education - A knowledge framework approach to linguistic research and teaching, 2021)
Keywords: dept.wll; faculty_collection

School Leadership for Learning: Learning Theory to Improve Professional Practice - Gregory, Jess L.; Ben-Avie, Michael; Billups, Felice; Grassetti, Mary; Hesser, Tiffany; Lawlor, Jennifer Lynne; Martone, Drey; Maykel, Cheryl; Minkos, Marlena L.; Paslov, Linda; Trombly, Christopher; Tucker, Lauren; et al. (Jess L. Gregory, 2021)
Keywords: Educational leadership; School administrators; Handbooks; manuals; etc; In-service training; School administrators; In-service training; Teachers; dept.edl; dept.sed; faculty_collection

Executive functions: Theory, assessment, and treatment - Purdy, Mary H. (Cognitive communication disorders, 2021)
Keywords: dept.cmd

The effect of relationship banking on firm efficiency and default risk - Yildirim, Alev (Journal of Corporate Finance, 2020)
Does relationship bank oversight reduce firm default risk and improve firm operational efficiency? I find that a new loan from a relationship bank reduces the default probability and increases the efficiency of a borrowing firm, benefiting both banks and borrowers. Moreover, inefficient and less creditworthy firms experience the highest reductions in their default risks and improvements in their efficiencies in the years following new relationship bank loans. Further, these benefits are disrupted when the relationship bank is acquired.
21 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] WOS:000602840200032
Keywords: Data envelopment analysis; Default risk; Firm efficiency; Relationship banking; Stochastic frontier analysis; Total factor productivity; dept.fin; peer-reviewed

Opening the Educational Leadership Door: Promoting the Collaboration of OBM and Education - Starling, Natalie R.; Vissicchio, Carly; Grottke, Katharine (Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 2020)
What is the future of the relationship between Organizational Behavior Management (OBM) and education? This article presents a discussion of some current issues in education as opportunities for the integration of OBM frameworks and practices. Opportunities are examined in the context of systems-level supports and leadership in education. We hypothesize that an integration of OBM principles and applications has the potential to help educators address multiple critical issues in the field of education, specifically: (a) educator needs at the individual-level, such as educator burnout, engagement, and performance; (b) implementation fidelity of system-wide initiatives and evidence-based interventions; and (c) educator needs at the leadership-level, particularly the training of educational leaders. Recommendations for how OBM researchers and practitioners can expand engagement with educational settings are explored. Given the impact of organizational leadership, we emphasize the future collaboration between OBM and educational leadership, specifically the inclusion of OBM principles and applications in pre-professional curricula and professional continuing education training.
1 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] WOS:000588522000001
Keywords: Education; cross-discipline; dept.csp; educational leadership; educator needs; peer-reviewed

Autistic spectrum disorders - Adimando, Andrea (School nurse resource manual: A guide to practice, 2020)
.SCHOOL NURSE RESOURCE MANUAL NINTH EDITIONEVIDENCED-BASED POLICIES and PROCEDURES for SAFE STUDENT CARE. The School Nurse Resource Manual was created for school nurses as a quick reference on the many issues they encounter in their practice, and to assist them, their administrators and consulting physicians to develop consistent evidenced-based policies and procedures for safe student care. This ninth edition contains clinical guidelines that have been completely updated, expanded and revised to reflect current clinical guidelines for safe student care. ALL GUIDELINES ARE RESEARCHED, REFERENCED AND PEER REVIEWED.
Keywords: dept.nur

Mental health - Adimando, Andrea (School nurse resource manual: A guide to practice, 2020)
.SCHOOL NURSE RESOURCE MANUAL NINTH EDITIONEVIDENCED-BASED POLICIES and PROCEDURES for SAFE STUDENT CARE. The School Nurse Resource Manual was created for school nurses as a quick reference on the many issues they encounter in their practice, and to assist them, their administrators and consulting physicians to develop consistent evidenced-based policies and procedures for safe student care. This ninth edition contains clinical guidelines that have been completely updated, expanded and revised to reflect current clinical guidelines for safe student care. ALL GUIDELINES ARE RESEARCHED, REFERENCED AND PEER REVIEWED.
Keywords: dept.nur

Suicide - Adimando, Andrea (School nurse resource manual: A guide to practice, 2020)
.SCHOOL NURSE RESOURCE MANUAL NINTH EDITIONEVIDENCED-BASED POLICIES and PROCEDURES for SAFE STUDENT CARE. The School Nurse Resource Manual was created for school nurses as a quick reference on the many issues they encounter in their practice, and to assist them, their administrators and consulting physicians to develop consistent evidenced-based policies and procedures for safe student care. This ninth edition contains clinical guidelines that have been completely updated, expanded and revised to reflect current clinical guidelines for safe student care. ALL GUIDELINES ARE RESEARCHED, REFERENCED AND PEER REVIEWED.
Keywords: dept.nur

Private life, public diplomacy: Tibor Hirsch and documentary filmmaking for the cold war USIA - Real, Brian (Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 2020)
The United States Information Agency acted as a significant patron of American independent and nontheatrical filmmakers during the 1960s, commissioning short documentaries to carry positive messages about America to foreign audiences. While much of the existing scholarship on the USIA’s motion picture output focuses on works that address major policy issues such as the civil rights movement or that were made by directors who went on to have well-known careers, many of its films and directors have been forgotten. One such filmmaker is Tibor Hirsch, whose past as a refugee from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution influenced his films Transportation USA (1966) and Six Who Fled (1972). Hirsch’s earlier career as a photojournalist informed his work for the USIA, while the style he developed through making government films led directly into his later career as a highly successful television commercial director.
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.ids: realPrivateLifePublic2019, realPrivateLifePublic2020a tex.citation: https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85073924504 type: Article
Keywords: dept.ils; peer-reviewed

Gender, genre, and lesbian identity in four modernist Jewish texts - Blackmer, Corinne E. (Teaching Options in Jewish American Literature, 2020)
Keywords: dept.eng

Sustainable development: Structural transformation and the consumer demand - López, Ramón E.; Yoon, Sang W. (Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2020)
This paper examines the feasibility of environmentally sustainable growth in a competitive market economy assuming various types of technological changes affecting pollution emissions and ultimately climate change. We consider two final outputs and two factors of production, accounting for both pollution flow and stock effects. If the initial level of pollution emissions satisfies certain boundary conditions, a Pigouvian pollution tax may assure sustainable growth without any further government intervention. This is true even if exogenous technological change is assumed to benefit exclusively the pollution-intensive industries (the “dirty” sector). A consumers’ composition effect (often neglected in the literature), driven by an endogenous change in the relative prices between clean and dirty final goods under an optimal pollution tax, plays a critical role in the structural transformation process to achieve long-run sustainable economic growth.
6 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.ids: lopezSustainableDevelopmentStructural2020a tex.citation: https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85073530001 type: Article
Keywords: Consumption flexibility; Optimal pollution tax; Sustainable development; Technological change; boundary condition; dept.eco; economic growth; emission; environmental economics; pollution tax; sustainable development; technological change

Sexual Identity Development and Heteronormativity - Harvey, Rebecca; Stone-Fish, Linda; Levatino, Paul (The Handbook of Systemic Family Therapy, 2020)
Sexual identity development has traditionally been theorized about from within heteronormative societies founded on patriarchal notions with links to misogyny, racism, and classism, among others. These forms of domination have constrained the way sexual identity has been conceived of, researched and written about within the mental health fields and limited the efficacy of clinical work with all people but especially sexual minorities and those who are gender non-binary. In this chapter the authors will deconstruct heteronormativity, examine the deleterious effect of it on mental health, and locate the influence of intersections of oppression on the field of SFT theory and in clinical work. An LGBTQI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, intersex) affirmative clinical framework developed from systems theory and queer theory will be outlined, and then a case study using the framework will be described.
Section: 22 _eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/9781119788393.ch22
Keywords: LGBTQI; dept.mft; dept.swk; family therapy; heteronormativity; marriage and family therapy; sexual identity; systemic family therapy

The bioarchaeology of Wari collapse in Cuzco, Peru: A study of health and trauma from the Middle Horizon-Late Intermediate Period transition at Cotocotuyoc - Andrushko, Valerie (The Wari Civilization and Their Descendants: Imperial Transformation in Pre-Inca Cuzco, 2020)
Drawing on research conducted in Cuzco, Peru, The Wari Civilization and Their Descendants: Imperial Transformation in Pre-Inca Cuzco, Peru analyzes the political and social transformations that led to the downfall of the Wari civilization in the Andean Middle Horizon period (AD 500–1000) and resulted in the rise of the Inca state. The contributors to this collection present evidence of the Wari civilization’s robust, imperialistic occupation of Cuzco, and argue that this presence laid the groundwork for later regional polities that can be traced to the Late Horizon Inca period (AD 1476–1532). This collection fills a gap in scholarly literature on Cuzco prehistory, the provincial southern highlands of the Wari civilization, and early imperialism in the Andes.
Keywords: dept.ant

ICT and transport infrastructure development: an empirical analysis of complementarity - Na, Kyoung Y.; Kim, Dong H.; Park, Byoung G.; Yoon, Sang W.; Yoon, Chang-Ho (Applied Economics, 2020)
This paper provides an empirical framework to assess the nonlinear complementary linkage effects that arise from the interaction between motorway capital and information and communications technology (ICT) capital in developed economies. Using panel data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries and controlling for endogeneity, the paper finds that there exists a critical mass for ICT capital such that if the capital grows beyond the critical mass, the marginal contribution of motorway capital to productivity growth increases as the motorway is extended. This empirical result explains variations in the productivity contributions of transport infrastructure across countries that differ in their ICT infrastructure and has implications for setting the investment priorities of key components of infrastructure. © 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
5 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.ids: lens.org/028-397-707-052-838, naICTTransportInfrastructure2019, naICTTransportInfrastructure2020a, pop00195 tex.citation: https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85075544122 tex.type: [object Object] type: Article
Keywords: ICT capital; OECD; complementarity; dept.eco; empirical analysis; information and communication technology; infrastructural development; infrastructure development; motorway; panel data; peer-reviewed; productivity; productivity growth; transportation infrastructure

Babysitter training guide for families with individuals with ASD - Bean, K; Neers, K; Cook, Barbara; Eren, R (Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2020)
The Second Edition of this major reference work expands its coverage and continues to break new ground as an electronic resource for students, educators, researchers, and professionals. Comprehensive in breath and textbook in depth, the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders serves as a reference repository of knowledge in the field as well as a regularly updated conduit of new knowledge long before such information trickles down from research to standard textbooks. The Second Edition of the Encyclopedia digests and presents new and updated information for readers who need to stay current with the latest research and clinical practices, including advances in neurobiology and genetics, diagnostic instruments and assessment tests, pharmaceutical treatments, and behavioral, speech and language, and other rehabilitative therapies. The Second Edition of the Encyclopedia covers topics across the following major conceptual areas of ASD and PDDs, including: Research trends and findings Behavior/speech Communication TreatmentsEducation Taking advantage of the techniques offered by the electronic medium, the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders offers an extensive cross-referencing system facilitating search and retrieval of information. This unique, comprehensive Second Edition of the Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders is an essential reference for advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers, professors, clinicians, and other practitioners across such related disciplines as developmental psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, social work, child and school psychology, behavioral therapy, and sociology of education.
Keywords: dept.cmd

Mentoring, sponsorship, and gender - Burke, Karen P.; Ciccomascolo, Lori E. (Social Justice and Putting Theory Into Practice in Schools and Communities, 2020)
The lack of women in leadership roles is a systemic problem in the United States and is not unique to the field of education; however, it is important to continue to challenge the status quo and provide a path for women to achieve equality and equity in the workplace. The following chapter will identify and discuss the importance of mentoring and sponsorship so that women pursuing education careers, novice women teachers, and women college, and university faculty and staff can actively and better position themselves to move into leadership positions and/or ensure a “seat at the table” in situations where decisions are made that affect their personal and professional lives.
tex.ids: pop00383
Keywords: dept.com

A regional Kronecker product and multiple-pair latin squares - Carrigan, Braxton; Hammer, James; Lorch, John (Discrete Mathematics, 2020)
We introduce a variant of the Kronecker product, called the regional Kronecker product, that can be used to build new, larger multiple-pair latin squares from existing multiple-pair latin squares. We present applications to the existence and orthogonality of multiple-pair latin squares. © 2019 Elsevier B.V.
2 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.ids: carriganRegionalKroneckerProduct2020a tex.citation: https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85076148310 type: Article
Keywords: Factor pair latin squares; Multiple pair latin squares; Sudoku pair latin squares; dept.mat; peer-reviewed

Grief, loss and bereavement: An integrated perspective - Counselman-Carpenter, Elisabeth (Clinical social work practice, 2020)
Keywords: dept.swk

Uncovering Relations Between Leadership Perceptions and Motivation Under Different Organizational Contexts: a Multilevel Cross-lagged Analysis - Gagné, Marylène; Morin, Alexandre J. S.; Schabram, Kira; Wang, Zhe Ni; Chemolli, Emanuela; Briand, Mélanie (Journal of Business and Psychology, 2020)
Surprisingly scant research has adequately examined directional influences between different perceptions of managerial leadership behaviors and different types of work motivation, and even fewer studies have examined contextual moderators of these influences. The present study investigated longitudinal and multilevel autoregressive cross-lagged relations between perceptions of transformational, transactional, and passive-avoidant leadership with autonomous motivation, controlled motivation, and amotivation. Multilevel longitudinal models were estimated on data from 788 employees, nested under 108 distinct supervisors, from six Canadian organizations. Results revealed that perceptions of leadership behaviors predicted changes in motivation mostly at the collective level and that some of these relations changed as a function of whether organizations had recently faced a crisis. Collective perceptions of transformational leadership were related to increased collective autonomous and controlled motivation, while individual controlled motivation was related to increased individual perceptions of transactional leadership. In organizations facing a crisis, individual perceptions of transactional leadership were related to decreased individual controlled motivation, while collective perceptions of transactional leadership were related to increased collective autonomous motivation and decreased collective amotivation. In organizations not facing a crisis, collective perceptions of transactional leadership were related to decreased collective autonomous motivation. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.
11 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.ids: gagneUncoveringRelationsLeadership2020, lens.org/066-744-892-590-102, pop00060 tex.citation: https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85071718155 tex.type: [object Object] type: Article
Keywords: Autonomous motivation; Multilevel modeling; Transactional leadership; Transformational leadership; dept.mgt; peer-reviewed

Written emotional expression in schools: Processing psychological and emotional stress through narrative writing. - Sassu, Kari A.; Bray, Melissa A.; Gelbar, Nicholas; Kerzner, Tiffany P. (Promoting mind–body health in schools: Interventions for mental health professionals., 2020)
tex.ids: sassuWrittenEmotionalExpression2020a
Keywords: dept.csp

Nature-inspired metaheuristics search algorithms for solving the economic load dispatch problem of power system: A comparison study - Sheta, Alaa; Faris, Hossam; Braik, Malik; Mirjalili, Seyedali (Applied Nature-Inspired Computing: Algorithms and Case Studies, 2020)
This work proposes a new approach in addressing Economic Load Dispatch (ELD) optimization problem in power unit systems using nature-inspired metaheuristics search algorithms. Solving such a problem requires a degree of maximization of the economic pact of a power network system, where this is possible with some existing population-based metaheuristic search algorithms. The key issue to be handled here is how to maximize the economic benevolence of a power network under a variety of operational constraints, taking into account the reduction in the generated fuel cost as well as the aggregate power loss in the transmission power network system. Some nature-inspired metaheuristics will be explored. Meanwhile, we shall focus our attention on a newly developed nature-inspired search algorithm, referred to as the Crow Search Algorithm or CSA for short, as well as the Differential Evolution (DE) that is commonly known as a metaheuristic. The CSA emerged to light by simulating the intelligent flocking behavior of crows. The practicability of the proposed approach-based CSA was conducted to common types of power generators, including three and six buses (nodes) in addition to the IEEE 30-bus standard system. The results of the presented approaches were compared to other results developed using existing nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms like particle swarm optimization and genetic algorithms and also compared to traditional approaches such as quadratic programming method. The results reported here support that CSA has achieved an outstanding performance in solving the problem of ELD in power systems, demonstrating their good optimization capabilities through arriving at a combination of power loads that consummate the constraints of the ELD problem while simultaneously lessening the entire fuel cost. The experimental results also showed that the CSA solutions were capable of maximizing the reliability of the power supplied to the customers, and also reducing both the generated power cost and the loss of power in the transmission power systems.
Citation Key Alias: lens.org/053-057-671-070-617
Keywords: 3-units power system; 6-units power system; Crow search algorithm; Differential evolution; Economic load dispatch; IEEE 30-bus standard system; Nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms; dept.csc

Diagnosis of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Using Logistic Regression and Artificial Neural Networks Models - Sheta, Alaa; Turabieh, Hamza; Braik, Malik; Surani, Salim R. (Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2019, 2020)
Regrettably, a large proportion of likely patients with sleep apnea are underdiagnosed. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is one of the main causes of hypertension, type II diabetes, stroke, coronary artery disease, and heart failure. OSA affects not only adults but also children where it forms one of the sources of learning disabilities for children. This study aims to provide a classification model for one of the well-known sleep disorders known as OSA, which causes a serious malady that affects both men and women. OSA affects both genders with different scope. Men versus women diagnosed with OSA are about 8:1. In this research, logistic regression (LR) and artificial neural networks were applied successfully in several classification applications with promising results, particularly in the bio-statistics area. LR was used to derive a membership probability for a potential OSA system from a range of anthropometric features including weight, height, body mass index (BMI), hip, waist, age, neck circumference, modified Friedman, snoring, Epworth sleepiness scale (ESS), sex, and daytime sleepiness. We developed two models to predict OSA, one for men and one for women. The proposed sleep apnea diagnosis model has yielded accurate classification results and possibly a prototype software module that can be used at home. These findings shall reduce the patient’s need to spend a night at a laboratory and make the study of sleep apnea to implement at home.
2 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.ids: pop00118, shetaDiagnosisObstructiveSleep2020a tex.citation: https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85075663726 tex.type: [object Object] type: Conference paper
Keywords: Artificial neural networks; Classification; Classification (of information); Classification results; Computer aided diagnosis; Coronary artery disease; Diseases; Epworth sleepiness scale; Features selection; Logistic regression; Logistic regressions; Membership probability; Neural networks; Obstructive sleep apnea; Regression analysis; Scales (weighing instruments); Sleep apnea; Sleep research; Software prototyping; dept.csc

Teaching note—Taking social work undergraduates inside: the inside-out prison exchange program - Smoyer, Amy B. (Journal of Social Work Education, 2020)
The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program is an experiential learning program that involves teaching college courses inside correctional facilitates to classes that include incarcerated and nonincarcerated students. This teaching note describes the program and argues that its congruence with social work values makes it a valuable tool for preparing students to take on social justice work. The impact of the program’s pedagogy and structure on students’ and faculty’s capacity for critical thinking and self-reflection is described. Logistical issues to consider in developing programs are discussed.
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.ids: smoyerTeachingNoteTaking2020 tex.citation: https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85071417485 type: Article
Keywords: article; critical thinking; dept.swk; human; human experiment; pedagogics; peer-reviewed; prison; program impact; social work; teaching