Dementia and Caregiver Stress: An Application of the Reconceptualized Uncertainty in Illness Theory. - Unson, Christine; Flynn, Deborah; Glendon, Mary Ann; Haymes, Elayne; Sancho, Diane (Issues in mental health nursing, 2015)
The Reconceptualized Uncertainty in Illness Theory (RUIT) was used to investigate antecedents to, appraisals of, and ways of coping with stressful caregiving. Four focus groups with caregivers (8 males and 16 females) of relatives with dementia were conducted; 15 cared for their parents and the remainder cared for their spouses. They were recruited from an adult care center and other community settings in a metropolitan area in New England. The discussions were audiotaped and transcribed verbatim. Two researchers independently coded the transcripts. Thematic analysis was structured according to the RUIT. The study is unique in its application to caregivers as opposed to patients and to all of the elements of the RUIT. Caregivers experience uncertainty in similar ways to patients with life-altering illness. Symptom severity–lack of personal boundaries, repetitive and aggressive behaviors, and the need for constant care–was the most frequent source of stress. The appraisals were mostly negative and included feelings of resentment, a lack of support from family members, financial strains, and loss of freedom. Self-improvement and self-care were important aspects of coping. Spirituality and humor were other coping skills that respondents used. Not all respondents said they were coping and some also reported that support from health care providers was not always helpful. Nurses can help improve coping by explaining the factors that contribute to caregiver strain and uncertainty, and by assisting caregivers to anticipate the effects of the caregiving role.
16 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Place: England Unson, Christine. Southern Connecticut State University, Department of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Keywords: *Adaptation; Psychological; *Caregivers/px [Psychology]; *Dementia/px [Psychology]; *Stress; Psychological/pc [Prevention & Control]; *Uncertainty; Adaptation; Psychological; Adult; Aged; Aged; 80 and over; Caregivers; Dementia; Dementia/th [Therapy]; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Models; Psychological; Narration; Stress; Psychological; Stress; Psychological/et [Etiology]; Uncertainty; adaptive behavior; adult; aged; caregiver; dementia; dept.nur; dept.pch; etiology; female; human; male; mental stress; middle aged; peer-reviewed; prevention and control; psychological model; psychology; uncertainty; verbal communication; very elderly

Coverage-based lossy node localization for wireless sensor networks - Bao, Forrest Sheng; Pang, Yulei; Zhou, Wujun; Jiang, Wu; Yang, Yinfei; Liu, Yang; Qian, Chen (IEEE Sensors Journal, 2016)
To ensure the function of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), nodes that fail to forward packets must be localized efficiently and then fixed or replaced promptly. The state-of-the-art work frames lossy node localization in WSNs as an optimal sequential testing problem guided by end-to-end data. It combines both the active and passive measurements to minimize the testing cost and the number of iterations. However, this hybrid approach has many limitations. Inspired by the success of coverage-based software debugging, and the similarity between software debugging and lossy node localization, we propose a coverage-based lossy node detection for WSNs. Supported by established statistic theories, this approach greatly boosts the performance. Experiments on randomly generated networks and deployed networks show that the proposed algorithm can significantly reduce testing cost and number of iterations, which are the two optimization goals of previous work. We expect to use this approach for other diagnostic problems in WSNs. © 2001-2012 IEEE.
6 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/134-218-639-443-699 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Chi-square test; Chi-square tests; Diagnostic problem; Lossy node localization; Lossy nodes; Network diagnosis; Number of iterations; Optimal sequential; Passive measurements; Program debugging; Sensor nodes; Statistical tests; Wireless sensor network (WSNs); Wireless sensor networks; dept.mat; network diagnosis; wireless sensor network

On nontriangulable polyhedra - Bezdek, Andras; Carrigan, Braxton (Beiträge zur Algebra und Geometrie / Contributions to Algebra and Geometry, 2016)
Triangulations of 3-dimensional polyhedron are partitions of the polyhedron with tetrahedra in a face-to-face fashion without introducing new vertices. Schönhardt (Math. Ann. 89:309–312, 1927), Bagemihl (Amer. Math. Mon. 55:411–413, 1948), Kuperberg (Personal communication 2011) and others constructed special polyhedra in such a way that clever one line geometric reasons imply nontriangulability. Rambau (Comb. Comput. Geom. 52:501–516, 2005) proved that twisted prisms over n-gons are nontriangulable. Our approach for proving polyhedra are nontriangulable is to show that partitions with tetrahedra, which we call tilings, do not exist even if the face-to-face-restriction is relaxed. First we construct a polyhedron which is tileable but is not triangulable. Then we revisit Rambau type twisted prisms. In fact we consider a slightly different class of polyhedra, and prove that these new twisted prisms are nontileable, thus are nontriangulable. We also show that one can twist the regular dodecahedron so that it becomes nontileable, which is abstracted to a new family of nontileable polyhedra, called nonconvex twisted pentaprisms. © 2015, The Managing Editors.
5 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/034-394-349-158-328
Keywords: Polyhedron; Tiling; Triangulation; dept.mat

Hilbert polynomials of j-transforms - Goto, Shiro; Hong, Jooyoun; Vasconcelos, Wolmer V (Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2016)
We study transformations of finite modules over Noetherian local rings that attach to a module M a graded module H(x)(M) defined via partial systems of parameters x of M. Despite the generality of the process, which are called j-transforms, in numerous cases they have interesting cohomological properties. We focus on deriving the Hilbert functions of j-transforms and studying the significance of the vanishing of some of its coefficients. Copyright © 2016 Cambridge Philosophical Society.
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/002-211-924-856-101
Keywords: dept.mat

Characterization and comparison of injuries caused by accidental and non-accidental blunt force trauma in dogs and cats - Intarapanich, Nida P; Mccobb, Emily; Reisman, Robert W; Rozanski, Elizabeth A; Intarapanich, Pichai P (Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2016)
Motor vehicle accidents (MVA) are often difficult to distinguish from non-accidental injury (NAI). This retrospective case–control study compared animals with known MVA trauma against those with known NAI. Medical records of 426 dogs and cats treated after MVA and 50 after NAI were evaluated. Injuries significantly associated with MVA were pelvic fractures, pneumothorax, pulmonary contusion, abrasions, and degloving wounds. Injuries associated with NAI were fractures of the skull, teeth, vertebrae, and ribs, scleral hemorrhage, damage to claws, and evidence of older fractures. Odds ratios are reported for these injuries. MVA rib fractures were found to occur in clusters on one side of the body, with cranial ribs more likely to fracture, while NAI rib fractures were found to occur bilaterally with no cranial–caudal pattern. Establishing evidence-based patterns of injury may help clinicians differentiate causes of trauma and may aid in the documentation and prosecution of animal abuse. © 2016 American Academy of Forensic Sciences
33 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/001-209-501-358-961 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: animal; blunt force trauma; dept.mat; dog; forensic science; injury; motor vehicle accident; non-accidental injury; veterinary

How to guard orthogonal polygons: diagonal graphs and vertex covers - Michael, T S; Pinciu, Val (Discrete and Computational Geometry, 2016)
We extend and unify most known results about guarding orthogonal polygons by introducing the same-sign diagonal graphs of a convex quadrangulation and applying results about vertex covers for graphs. Our approach also yields new theorems and often guarantees two disjoint vertex guard sets of relatively small cardinality. For instance, an orthogonal polygon on n vertices has two disjoint vertex guard sets of cardinality at most (Formula presented.). We give new proofs of Aggarwal’s one-hole theorem and the orthogonal fortress theorem. We prove that an orthogonal polygon with n vertices and any number of holes can be protected by at most (Formula presented.) vertex guards, improving the best known bound of (Formula presented.). Also, an orthogonal polygon with n vertices and h holes can be protected by (Formula presented.) guarded guards, which is best possible when (Formula presented.). Moreover, for orthogonal fortresses with n vertices, (Formula presented.) guarded guards are always sufficient and sometimes necessary. © 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York (outside the USA).
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/044-855-289-331-994 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Art gallery theorem; Orthogonal polygon; Vertex cover; Visibility; dept.mat

The orthogonal art gallery theorem with constrained guards - Michael, T S; Pinciu, Val (Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics, 2016)
Let P be an orthogonal polygon with n vertices, and let V⁎ and E⁎ be specified sets of vertices and edges of P. We prove that P has a guard set of cardinality at most ⌊(n+3|V⁎|+2|E⁎|)/4⌋ that includes each vertex in V⁎ and at least one point of each edge in E⁎. Our bound is sharp and reduces to the orthogonal art gallery theorem of Kahn, Klawe and Kleitman when V⁎ and E⁎ are empty. © 2016 Elsevier B.V.
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/018-020-908-114-676 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: art gallery theorem; dept.mat; graph coloring; orthogonal polygon; polygon visibility

Early identification of vulnerable software components via ensemble learning - Pang, Yulei; Xue, Xiaozhen; Namin, Akbar Siami (International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, 2016)
Software components, which are vulnerable to being exploited, need to be identified and patched. Employing any prevention techniques designed for the purpose of detecting vulnerable software components in early stages can reduce the expenses associated with the software testing process significantly and thus help building a more reliable and robust software system. Although previous studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of adapting prediction techniques in vulnerability detection, the feasibility of those techniques is limited mainly because of insufficient training data sets. This paper proposes a prediction technique targeting at early identification of potentially vulnerable software components. In the proposed scheme, the potentially vulnerable components are viewed as mislabeled data that may contain true but not yet observed vulnerabilities. The proposed hybrid technique combines the supports vector machine algorithm and ensemble learning strategy to better identify potential vulnerable components. The proposed vulnerability detection scheme is evaluated using some Java Android applications. The results demonstrated that the proposed hybrid technique could identify potentially vulnerable classes with high precision and relatively acceptable accuracy and recall.
7 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.type: Proceedings paper
Keywords: Android applications; Artificial intelligence; Ensemble learning; Learning systems; Machine components; Mislabeled data; Prediction techniques; Prevention techniques; Software component; Software testing; Support vector machine; Support vector machines; Vulnerability; Vulnerability detection; dept.mat

The chern numbers and euler characteristics of modules - Ghezzi, Laura; Goto, Shiro; Hong, Jooyoun; Ozeki, Kazuho; Phuong, Tran Thi; Vasconcelos, Wolmer V (Acta Mathematica Vietnamica, 2015)
The set of the first Hilbert coefficients of parameter ideals relative to a module—its Chern coefficients—over a local Noetherian ring codes for considerable information about its structure–noteworthy properties such as that of Cohen-Macaulayness, Buchsbaumness, and of having finitely generated local cohomology. The authors have previously studied the ring case. By developing a robust setting to treat these coefficients for unmixed rings and modules, the case of modules is analyzed in a more transparent manner. Another series of integers arise from partial Euler characteristics and are shown to carry similar properties of the module. The technology of homological degree theory is also introduced in order to derive bounds for these two sets of numbers. © 2014, Institute of Mathematics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) and Springer Science+Business Media Singapore.
4 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/029-408-859-697-122
Keywords: Buchsbaum module; Cohen-Macaulay module; Euler characteristic; Generalized Cohen-Macaulay module; Hilbert coefficient; Hilbert function; Local cohomology; Parameter ideal; Vasconcelos module; dept.mat

Ideals generated by quadrics - Hong, Jooyoun; Simis, Aron; Vasconcelos, Wolmer V (Journal of Algebra, 2015)
Our purpose is to study the cohomological properties of the Rees algebras of a class of ideals generated by quadrics. For all such ideals I⊂. R=. K[. x, y, z] we give the precise value of depth. R[. It] and decide whether the corresponding rational maps are birational. In the case of dimension d≥. 3, when K=R, we give structure theorems for all ideals of codimension d minimally generated by (d+12)-1 quadrics. For arbitrary fields K, we prove a polarized version. © 2014 Elsevier Inc.
4 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/170-755-992-597-815 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Associated graded ring; Castelnuovo regularity; Hilbert coefficients; Primary; Rees algebra; Relation type; Secondary; dept.mat; peer-reviewed

Diversity and anxiety: A case study on collaborative testing - Pang, Yulei; Mugno, Raymond; Xue, Xiaozhen (Frontiers in Education Conference, 2015)
In order to reduce students' test anxiety, collaborative testing was suggested as an evaluation strategy. However, few studies have focused on testing group construction, especially when an important factor, i.e., group diversity is taken into consideration. In this paper we conducted a case study to assess the association between group diversity and test anxiety in collaborative testing. The results observed may indicate that: 1) around 20% of students suffered from test anxiety to some extent in either an individual test or a collaborative test; 2) collaborative testing could alleviate test anxiety, whereas the effect is not statistically significant; 3) there exists a moderate positive correlation between group diversity and test anxiety in collaborative testing. The results of the study may suggest limiting group diversity in collaborative testing in order to alleviate test anxiety. © 2015 IEEE.
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.type: Proceedings paper
Keywords: Collaborative testing; Evaluation strategies; Group diversity; Positive correlations; Students; Testing; collaborative testing; dept.mat; group diversity; test anxiety

Constructing collaborative learning groups with maximum diversity requirements - Pang, Yulei; Mugno, Raymond; Xue, Xiaozhen; Wang, Huaying (International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, 2015)
Due to the considerable advantages of collaborative learning, group work is widely used in tertiary institutions. Previous studies demonstrated that group diversity had positive influence on group work achievement. Therefore, an interesting question that arises is how to achieve maximum group diversity effectively and automatically, especially when the features to be considered are numerous and the number of students is large. In this paper we apply a multi-start algorithm composed by a greedy constructive and strategic oscillation improvement to group students. We evaluated the technique based on a small-scale case study. The results observed indicate that the multi-start algorithm-based grouping model is feasible. It improved the overall and average students diversity within group significantly, and it also enhanced students' collaborative learning outcomes compared to random grouping model. However, we did not find any evidence on monotonic positive relationship between diversity and students' learning outcomes. © 2015 IEEE.
3 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.type: Proceedings paper
Keywords: Collaborative learning; Education; Engineering education; Group diversity; Grouping model; Learning outcome; Multi-start algorithm; Multistart; Random grouping; Strategic oscillations; Students; Tertiary institutions; dept.mat

Predicting vulnerable software components through n-gram analysis and statistical feature selection - Pang, Yulei; Xue, Xiaozhen; Namin, Akbar Siami (International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, 2015)
Vulnerabilities need to be detected and removed from software. Although previous studies demonstrated the usefulness of employing prediction techniques in deciding about vulnerabilities of software components, the accuracy and improvement of effectiveness of these prediction techniques is still a grand challenging research question. This paper proposes a hybrid technique based on combining N-gram analysis and feature selection algorithms for predicting vulnerable software components where features are defined as continuous sequences of token in source code files, i.e., Java class file. Machine learning-based feature selection algorithms are then employed to reduce the feature and search space. We evaluated the proposed technique based on some Java Android applications, and the results demonstrated that the proposed technique could predict vulnerable classes, i.e., software components, with high precision, accuracy and recall. © 2015 IEEE.
36 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.type: Proceedings paper
Keywords: Android applications; Application programs; Artificial intelligence; Computer software; Continuous sequences; Feature extraction; Feature selection; Feature selection algorithm; Forecasting; Java programming language; Learning systems; N-gram; N-grams; Prediction techniques; Research questions; Statistical features; Vulnerability prediction; Wilcoxon test; dept.mat

Guarding polyominoes, polycubes and polyhypercubes - Pinciu, Val (Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics, 2015)
We consider variations of the original art gallery problem where the domain is a polyomino, a polycube, or a polyhypercube. An m-polyomino is the connected union of m unit squares called pixels, an m-polycube is the connected union of m unit cubes called voxels, and an m-polyhypercube is the connected union of m unit hypercubes in a d dimensional Euclidean space. In this paper we generalize and unify the known results about guarding polyominoes and polycubes and obtain simpler proofs. We also obtain new art gallery theorems for guarding polyhypercubes. © 2015 Elsevier B.V.
2 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/069-553-586-251-759 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Art gallery theorem; Polycube; Polyhypercube; Polyomino; dept.mat

A predator–prey interaction from micro to macro perspectives - Wang, Huaying; Pang, Yulei; Zhang, Luona; Martin, Clyde F (Nonlinear Dynamics, 2015)
This paper deals with predator–prey dynamics in individual and population perspectives. First, we build a discrete Markov model on predator–prey interactions in individual perspective. By shortening the time gap, from discrete time to continuous time, and increasing the number of individuals to infinity, a continuity equation on the predator–prey interactions is derived in a large population regime. Then, with the leading items of the continuity equation, that is the mean-field equation, following the approximate model, which entails qualitative analysis, we can obtain an asymptotically stable closed orbit or simply put, the parameter conditions where equilibrium point exists. These qualitative conclusions are the performance of individual microscopic interactions on macro-level groups, or can be treated as one component of microscopic models of various random statistical average results.This paper explored the accuracy and operability of the model constructed on individual level, which differs from traditional method, constructing population model directly via differential equations and difference equations. Therefore, by operating variables and data from individual behavior, it is probable for us to construct more accurate models for population dynamic. © 2014, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht (outside the USA).
1 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/041-431-988-565-054 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Asymptotically stable; Continuity equation; Continuity equations; Continuous time systems; Difference equations; Differential equations; Discrete Markov model; Individual interaction; Macro-level groups; Markov processes; Microscopic interaction; Parameter conditions; Population statistics; Predator prey systems; Qualitative analysis; Stable limit cycle; dept.mat

On the link between particle size and deviations from the Beer–Lambert–Bouguer law for direct transmission - Larsen, Michael L; Clark, Aaron S (Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer, 2014)
Ballistic photon models of radiative transfer in discrete absorbing random media have demonstrated deviations from the Beer-Lambert-Bouguer law of exponential attenuation. A number of theoretical constructs to quantify the deviation from the Beer-Lambert-Bouguer law have appeared in the literature, several of which rely principally on a statistical measure related to the statistics of the absorber spatial positions alone. Here, we utilize a simple computational model to explore the interplay between the geometric size of the absorbing obstacles and the statistics governing the placement of the absorbers in the volume. We find that a description of the volume that depends on particle size and the spatial statistics of absorbers is not sufficient to fully characterize deviations from the Beer-Lambert-Bouguer law. Implications for future further theoretical and computational explorations of the problem are explored. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
27 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/106-914-218-360-135 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Beer; Beer-Lambert-Bouguer law; Light transmission; Non-exponential transmission laws; Optical depth; Particle size; Poisson process; Poisson ratio; Stochastic media; Transmission law; dept.mat; numerical model; optical depth; particle size; radiative transfer; stochasticity

A clustering-based grouping model for enhancing collaborative learning - Pang, Yulei; Xiao, Feiya; Wang, Huaying; Xue, Xiaozhen (International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, 2014)
Group work is widely used in tertiary institutions due to the considerable advantages of collaborative learning. Previous studies indicated that the group diversity had positive influence on the group work achievement. Therefore, how to achieve diversity within a group effectively and automatically is an interesting question. In this paper we propose a novel clustering-based grouping model. The proposed technique first employs balanced K-means algorithm to divide the students into several size-balanced clusters, such that the students within the same cluster are more similar (in some sense) to each other than to those in other clusters, then adopts one-sample-each-cluster strategy to construct the groups. We evaluated the proposed technique based on two small-scale case studies. The result observed may indicate that the clustering-based grouping model is feasible and effective. © 2014 IEEE.
9 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.type: Proceedings paper
Keywords: Artificial intelligence; Case-studies; Collaborative learning; Group diversity; Grouping model; K-means; Learning systems; Novel clustering; Tertiary institutions; balanced K-means; collaborative learning; dept.mat; group diversity; k-Means algorithm

Feature selections for effectively localizing faulty events in GUI applications - Xue, Xiaozhen; Pang, Yulei; Namin, Akbar Siami (International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, 2014)
Due to the complex causality of failure and the special characteristics of test cases, the faults in GUI (Graphic User Interface) applications are difficult to localize. This paper adapts feature selection algorithms to localize GUI-related faults in a given program. Features are defined as the subsequences of events executed. By employing statistical feature ranking techniques, the events can be ranked by the suspiciousness of events being responsible to exhibit faulty behavior. The features defined in a given source code implementing (event handle) the underlying event are then ranked in suspiciousness order. The evaluation of the proposed technique based on some open source Java projects verified the effectiveness of this feature selection based fault localization technique for GUI applications. © 2014 IEEE.
10 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.type: Proceedings paper
Keywords: Artificial intelligence; Fault localization; Feature extraction; Feature selection algorithm; GUI; GUI applications; Graphic user interface; Graphical user interfaces; Java programming language; Learning systems; Open source software; Open sources; Source codes; Statistical features; Test case; User interfaces; dept.mat; faults localization; feature selection

Variation of hilbert coefficients - Ghezzi, Laura; Goto, Shiro; Hong, Jooyoun; Vasconcelos, Wolmer V (Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 2013)
For a Noetherian local ring (R, m), the first two Hilbert coefficients, e0 and e1, of the I-adic filtration of an m-primary ideal I are known to code for properties of R, of the blowup of Spec(R) along V (I), and even of their normalizations. We give estimations for these coefficients when I is enlarged (in the case of e1 in the same integral closure class) for general Noetherian local rings. © American Mathematical Society.
3 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/035-873-690-231-781
Keywords: dept.mat

Variation of the first hilbert coefficients of parameters with a common integral closure - Ghezzi, Laura; Goto, Shiro; Hong, Jooyoun; Ozeki, Kazuho; Phuong, Tran Thi; Vasconcelos, Wolmer V (Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, 2012)
A problem posed by Vasconcelos [33] on the variation of the first Hilbert coefficients of parameter ideals with a common integral closure in a local ring is studied. Affirmative answers are given and counterexamples are explored as well. © 2011 Elsevier B.V.
2 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/054-357-014-729-224 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Primary; Secondary; dept.mat

The homology of parameter ideals - Goto, Shiro; Hong, Jooyoun; Vasconcelos, Wolmer V (Journal of Algebra, 2012)
For a Noetherian local ring, we analyze conjectural relationships between the first Hilbert coefficient of a parameter ideal and the first partial Euler characteristic of its Koszul complex. Given their similar role as predictors of the Cohen-Macaulay property, we consider a direct comparison between them. For parameter ideals generated by d-sequences these numbers are related in an explicit formula. We then turn to study of families of parameter ideals that have the same Hilbert function. © 2012 Elsevier Inc.
7 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/105-439-048-396-373 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Cohen-Macaulay ring; D-sequence; Euler characteristic; Hilbert coefficient; Hilbert function; dept.mat; peer-reviewed

The equations of almost complete intersections - Hong, Jooyoun; Simis, Aron; Vasconcelos, Wolmer V (Bulletin of the Brazilian Mathematical Society, New Series, 2012)
In this paper we inject four Hilbert functions in the determination of the defining equations of the Rees algebra of almost complete intersections of finite co-length. Because three of the corresponding modules are Artinian, some of these relationships are very effective, with the novel approach opening up tracks to the determination of the equations and also to processes of going from homologically defined sets of equations to higher degrees ones. While not specifically directed towards the extraction of elimination equations, it will show how some of these arise naturally. © 2012 Sociedade Brasileira de Matemática.
16 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/001-835-914-392-47X
Keywords: Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity; Hilbert function; Rees algebra; associated graded ring; balanced ideal; birational mapping; dept.mat; relation type; secondary elimination degree

Efficient constant-velocity reconfiguration of crystalline robots** - Aloupis, Greg; Collette, S bastien; Damian, Mirela; Demaine, Erik D.; Flatland, Robin; Langerman, Stefan; O'Rourke, Joseph; Pinciu, Val; Ramaswami, Suneeta; Sacrist, Vera; Wuhrer, Stefanie (Robotica, 2011)
In this paper, we propose novel algorithms for reconfiguring modular robots that are composed of n atoms. Each atom has the shape of a unit cube and can expand/contract each face by half a unit, as well as attach to or detach from faces of neighboring atoms. For universal reconfiguration, atoms must be arranged in 2 × 2 × 2 modules. We respect certain physical constraints: each atom reaches at most constant velocity and can displace at most a constant number of other atoms. We assume that one of the atoms has access to the coordinates of atoms in the target configuration. Our algorithms involve a total of O(n2) atom operations, which are performed in O(n) parallel steps. This improves on previous reconfiguration algorithms, which either use O(n2) parallel steps or do not respect the constraints mentioned above. In fact, in the settings considered, our algorithms are optimal. A further advantage of our algorithms is that reconfiguration can take place within the union of the source and target configuration space, and only requires local communication. © 2011 Cambridge University Press.
7 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: pop00108 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Algorithms; Atoms; Constant velocities; Control of robotic systems; Local communications; Mobile robots; Modular robots; Motion planning; Novel algorithm; Path planning; Physical constraints; Reconfiguration algorithm; Robot programming; Robotic systems; Robotics; Target configurations; dept.mat

A group with deep pockets for all finite generating sets - Warshall, Andrew D (Israel Journal of Mathematics, 2011)
We show that the discrete Heisenberg group has unbounded dead-end depth with respect to every finite generating set. We also show that, in contrast, it has bounded retreat depth. © 2011 Hebrew University Magnes Press.
3 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/053-176-358-639-67X tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.mat

Cohen–Macaulayness versus the vanishing of the first Hilbert coefficient of parameter ideals - Ghezzi, Laura; Goto, Shiro; Hong, Jooyoun; Ozeki, Kazuho; Phuong, Tran Thi; Vasconcelos, Wolmer V (Journal of The London Mathematical Society-second Series, 2010)
The conjecture of Wolmer Vasconcelos on the vanishing of the first Hilbert coefficient e1(Q) is solved affirmatively, where Q is a parameter ideal in a Noetherian local ring. Basic properties of the rings for which e 1(Q) vanishes are derived. The invariance of e1(Q) for parameter ideals Q and its relationship to Buchsbaum rings are studied. © 2010 London Mathematical Society.
26 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/176-080-348-377-227 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.mat

The positivity of the first coefficients of normal Hilbert polynomials - Goto, Shiro; Hong, Jooyoun; Mandal, Mousumi (Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 2010)
Let R be an analytically unramified local ring with maximal ideal m and d = dimR > 0. If R is unmixed, then e1I (R) = 0 for every m-primary ideal I in R, where e1I (R) denotes the first coefficient of the normal Hilbert polynomial of R with respect to I. Thus the positivity conjecture on e1I(R) posed by Wolmer V. Vasconcelos is settled affirmatively. © 2010 American Mathematical Society.
3 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/045-772-863-857-214
Keywords: Associated graded ring; Normal Hilbert polynomial; Normal ideal; Rees algebra; dept.mat

Academic freedom and tenure: Clark atlanta university - Williams, Rebecca J; Betsey, Charles L; Gasman, Marybeth; Grant, Kerry; Rabban, David M (Academe, 2010)
Citation Key Alias: lens.org/095-837-567-108-858
Keywords: dept.mat; ⛔ No DOI found

Trends in alcohol consumption among undergraduate students at a northeastern public university, 2002-2008. - Bulmer, Sandra Minor; Irfan, Syed; Mugno, Raymond; Barton, Barbara; Ackerman, Louise (Journal of American college health : J of ACH, 2010)
OBJECTIVE: This study examined alcohol consumption patterns and trends at a public university in the Northeast from 2002 to 2008., PARTICIPANTS: Stratified random sampling was used to select undergraduate students enrolled in courses during spring semesters in 2002, 2004, 2006, and 2008., METHODS: Data were collected during regularly scheduled classes for 4 measures of alcohol consumption and 5 demographic categories using the Core Alcohol and Drug Survey., RESULTS: Four groups showed significant increases in both frequency and volume of alcohol consumption-students who were female, over 21 years of age or over, living off-campus, or performing well academically. There were no decreasing trends for any demographic group. These results differ from national college health surveys, which have shown alcohol use remaining steady during this period., CONCLUSIONS: Campus-specific trend data can provide unique perspectives and guide programming efforts. These trends suggest a need for new intervention strategies on this campus.
7 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Place: United States Bulmer, Sandra Minor. Department of Public Health, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, Connecticut 06515, USA. bulmers1@southernct.edu
Keywords: *Alcohol Drinking/ep [Epidemiology]; *Public Sector/sn [Statistics & Numerical Data]; *Students/sn [Statistics & Numerical Data]; *Universities/sn [Statistics & Numerical Data]; Alcohol Drinking; Alcohol consumption; College; Connecticut; Data Collection; Drinking; Female; Humans; Male; Public Sector; Risk-Taking; Statistics; Nonparametric; Students; Trends; United States; Universities; Young Adult; adult; article; dept.mat; dept.pch; drinking behavior; female; high risk behavior; human; information processing; male; nonparametric test; organization and management; peer-reviewed; statistics; student; university

Here, There and Everywhere: The Polycentric Consumer - Cleveland, Mark; Prince, Melvin (Marketing Challenges in a Turbulent Business Environment, 2016)
Identity is recognized as a powerful antecedent of behavior. Social identity denotes the incorporation of culture into a person’s self-concept. A strong correspondence exists between identity with a given social unit and commitment to group values/norms, and thus, how much influence the social unit exerts on the person’s attitudes and behaviors. As a psychological construct, social identity research requires probing how individuals subjectively interpret their own affiliation with one or several collectivities. Cultures are increasingly emancipated from geography in the global era. Because contemporary consumers are continuously exposed to a variety of cultural influences, they may develop polycentric identities. As companies and markets integrate, a key international market segmentation topic relates to consumers’ mindsets about home and extraneous countries/cultures, and subsequently, the products connected with these entities. To date, no research has simultaneously examined the interrelationships of consumer ethnocentrism (bias towards products from one’s national culture), consumer xenocentrism (i.e., preference or orientation towards products from a culture other than one’s own), and cosmopolitanism (i.e., a yearning for and adeptness at mastering cultural diversity) in a single study. Employing an online survey, and drawing from a representative sample (n = 269) of American consumers drawn from all 50 states (plus D.C.), this research also examines the correspondence of these identity-relevant constructs within a nomological net of pertinent concepts (all of which are established in the marketing literature): materialism, consciousness-of-kind, external orientation (cultural open-mindedness and consumption of foreign media), global consumption orientation, and natural environment concern. The survey contained a total of 60 scales corresponding to the 8 constructs, along with a series of key demographic measures. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were applied to the construct measures. Various analytical techniques were employed (tests for convergent/discriminant validity, bivariate correlations, t-tests, MANOVA, two-step clustering, as well as path analyses using structural equation modelling) to test the 19 proposed theoretical hypotheses. Most hypotheses were supported, in terms of statistical significance and magnitude, as well as directional valence. Associative network memory theory and signaling theory implicate how consumers decide from a constellation of local, foreign, and global product options. Upon activation of a brand node by way of retrieval cues (product categories, brand names, and so forth), linkages such product attributes and semantic associations (e.g., ingroups/outgroups and corresponding levels of felt identification) become salient. Firms can manipulate signals, including associations towards or away from countries/cultures, to position products and persuade consumers. Vertical segmentation, the conventional approach to adapting marketing strategies, entails developing marketing mixes for each country, from the near limitless combination of demographic, economic and psychographic variables. Due to the globalization of media and the widespread movement of products and peoples across borders a growing number of researchers instead advocate horizontal segmentation, whereby similar groups of consumers are targeted with an essentially uniform marketing strategy, irrespective of where they might live. Individuals’ inward and outward dispositions—towards their own and different countries, cultures, and products—are sound candidate constructs for designing horizontal strategies.
1 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: clevelandHereThereEverywhere2016a, lens.org/002-903-745-679-063
Keywords: Consumer Ethnocentrism; External Orientation; Foreign Medium; Semantic Association; Social Unit; dept.mkt

Here, there and everywhere: a study of consumer centrism - Prince, Melvin; Davies, Mark; Cleveland, Mark; Palihawadana, Dayananda (International Marketing Review, 2016)
Purpose - A first objective is to add insight into how constructs of ethnocentrism, xenocentrism and cosmopolitanism relate to each other. Knowledge of how these constructs overlap or work together in affecting consumer preferences will offer global marketers insights for designing appropriate marketing strategies. The second objective is to extend this knowledge by examining the correspondence of these three constructs to a nomological network of dispositional concepts pertinent for product positioning and market segmentation. The third objective is to empirically examine the extent to which the measures, construct structure and associative relationships are robust in different national research settings. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach - Surveying British and American consumers, this study examines and analyzes the correspondence of these identity-relevant constructs within a nomological net of pertinent concepts: consciousness-of-kind, global consumption orientation, materialism and natural environment concern. Findings - The hypothesized negative links between CET-XEN and CET-COS, and the predicted positive connection between XEN-COS were all confirmed on the latent factor results for the combined data set. The negative correlation between CET-XEN was of a considerably lower magnitude than that for CET-COS. Originality/value - To date, no research has used an identity theory framework and simultaneously examined in a cross-cultural context the interrelationships of consumer ethnocentrism consumer xenocentrism and cosmopolitanism - and their differentiating linkages to a multiplicity of consumer dispositions.
43 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/102-838-974-401-396 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Cross-cultural studies; Ethnocentrism; Global marketing; Green issues; Market segmentation; Marketing; dept.mkt; peer-reviewed

An integrative framework of buyer-supplier negative relationship quality and dysfunctional interfirm conflict - Prince, Melvin; Palihawadana, Dayananda; Davies, Mark A. P.; Winsor, Robert D. (Journal of Business-to-business Marketing, 2016)
Purpose: Problems of relationship quality and interfirm conflict in business-to-business settings are serious concerns that need to be addressed. Thus, the authors have engaged in an extensive review to promote an understanding of these complex issues. This article develops an integrated framework for analyzing wide-ranging relations between individual representatives and patterns of interfirm incompatibility for managerial control.Methodology/approach: The review involves numerous sources that include articles and monographs. A theoretical framework is constructed to integrate fragmented empirical data. In particular, social identity and commitment-trust theories are mobilized for this framework.Findings: The review of studies has a substantial consistency with the theoretical framework. The article outlines a causal chain from interpersonal agent dissimilarities to dysfunctional buyer-supplier relations, culminating in interfirm pathological conflict. Moderating factors in the causal chain are: agent identity differentiation (for interpersonal dissimilarity), supplier relations mismanagement (for buyer-supplier relationship quality), and interfirm opportunism (for interfirm pathological conflict). Buyer-supplier interfirm incompatibility mediates the causal link between interpersonal dissimilarity and buyer-supplier relationship quality. Identity differentiation, the validation of one's self-image, is introduced as a process that determines buyer-supplier agent interpersonal dissimilarity judgments. This framework uses a contextual perspective. It describes interactions between observations of micro-level phenomena of interpersonal dissimilarities and macro-level models of interfirm fit. From a managerial perspective, interpersonal relations between individual buyer and supplier agents may be further strengthened by such strategies as expanding the scope of the interpersonal relationship, relaxation of role responsibilities, and volunteering business-related contact referrals.Originality/value: A new theoretical framework has been devised to predict and explain relationship quality and interfirm pathological conflict in the business-to-business context. The framework contributes to the value of the knowledge base by serving as a means for building new diagnostic tools for assessment of interfirm behavioral issues affecting exchanges. New concepts are introduced to enhance current literature on business-to-business marketing. The framework provides concreteindicators that operationally define ideas and enable or improve measurement for empirical modeling.
11 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/039-679-568-636-829 tex.eissn: [object Object] tex.orcid-numbers: [object Object] tex.researcherid-numbers: [object Object] tex.unique-id: [object Object]
Keywords: business marketing; dept.mkt; industrial marketing; relationship quality; similarity; supplier compatibility

Knowledge and skills transfer between MBA and workplace - Prince, Melvin; Burns, David J; Lu, Xinyi; Winsor, Robert D (Journal of Workplace Learning, 2015)
Purpose-This paper aims to use goal-setting theory to explain the transfer of knowledge and skills between master of business administration (MBA) and the workplace. Design/methodology/approach-Data were obtained by an online survey of MBA students enrolled in at four US graduate business schools. These were a public and private institution in the Northeast region, a private sectarian institution in the Midwest region and a private institution in the Pacific region. All students worked while attending the university. The sampling frame consisted of each school’s MBA enrollees. Questionnaires were distributed to a random cross-section of part-time students at each graduate school of business representative of returned by 144 students. The profiles of responders were consistent with parameters for the entire MBA student population. Findings-The research shows that multiple goals of reciprocal knowledge and skills transfer may be in harmony and mutually reinforcing. In principle, each goal is more likely to be attained with greater economy of effort than might be surmised. Additionally, the same forces may act similarly to facilitate attainment of two well-integrated goals, in this case transfer betweenMBAstudies and work, as well as between work and MBA studies. Research limitations/implications-The present study involved participants from part-time public and private MBA granting institutions in the USA. The study tested and extended goal-setting theory and introduced the innovative concept of reciprocal transfer. Future studies should seek to generalize the findings to a broader population of part-time MBA students, especially from other nations. Despite its strengths, the findings of this study need to be interpreted in the perspective of some limitations. The current study did not measure transfer climates in either the organization or university settings. Transfer climates undoubtedly have an important bearing on transfer outcomes. Practical implications-Review of the present study suggests that a positive MBA environment is needed to influence motivation to learn and perceptions of the MBA program’s utility, thereby promoting transfer of knowledge and skills to MBA studies from the workplace. A supportive work-to-MBA-studies transfer climate will lead to more active learning of course content that has greater relevance for achieving career goals. Potentially generalizable from the organizational transfer climate literature (Rouiller and Goldstein 1990; Rouiller and Goldstein 1993), positive transfer from work to MBA studies will occur when appropriate situational cues and consequences are present in the program. Social implications-A constructive implication suggested by the findings of this study would be the intervention and transfer management by educators to structure and strengthen the university transfer climate of their part-time MBA programs. Traditionally, the concept of transfer climate has been primarily applied to employee workplace training activity and job performance. The university culture of the MBA student might emphasize and reward continuous learning from workplace experiences. Opportunities at the university should be provided for the exercise of newly acquired workplace skills that reinforce MBA learning experiences. Originality/value-This is the first study that shows how learning goals and performance goals are integrated in the context of a new concept, i.e. reciprocal transfer of knowledge and skills betweenMBA and workplace settings. It also demonstrates, for the first time, the impact of learning and motivation for MBAstudies and perceived utility ofMBAprogram on the extent of transfer of learning and skills from the workplace to the university setting. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
13 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/131-480-418-077-781 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Knowledge transfer; Learning orientation; Management education; Performance; dept.mkt

The effects of part-time MBA programs on students: the relationships between students and their employers - Prince, Melvin; Burns, David J; Manolis, Chris (The Journal of Education for Business, 2014)
The authors explore how the relationship between part-time master of business administration (MBA) students and their employers changes as students proceed through their MBA program by examining the degree to which students are integrated into their employer organizations. Significant positive relationships observed between students’ progress through their MBA program and the integration factors of coworker support and future prospects with their employers suggest that an MBA education can have a positive effect on employee–employer integration levels. Consequently, in addition to increasing business knowledge and skills, an MBA degree appears to assist with integrating employees and employers. © 2014, Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
6 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/087-299-392-333-109 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: MBA education; coworker support; dept.mkt; graduate education; part-time MBA students; training

Use of comforting to enhance social marketing success A case study - Forbus, Robert; Snyder, Jason L (Social Marketing Quarterly, 2013)
Successful behavioral change is the Holy Grail for social marketers. Meta-analysis demonstrates that effect sizes of behavioral change in social marketing campaigns is typically low. The present case study uses 4 years of survey data from an Alabama weight loss and behavioral change campaign to develop an explanation for why some people are more successful in lifestyle change efforts than others. Comforting, a communicative form of prosocial behavior, produced the greatest magnitude of change when tested as an independent variable on dependent variables, including pounds lost, amount of dairy products and water consumed, and physical activities undertaken. The case study concludes by discussing implications for social marketing academics and practitioners. © The Author(s) 2013.
4 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/161-086-418-163-965 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Behavioral change; Comforting; Social marketing campaigns; Social support; Weight loss; dept.mkt

Attendance policies, student attendance, and instructor verbal aggressiveness - Snyder, Jason L; Forbus, Robert; Cistulli, Mark D (The Journal of Education for Business, 2012)
The authors utilized an experimental design across six sections of a managerial communications course (N = 173) to test the impact of instructor verbal aggressiveness and class attendance policies on student class attendance. The experimental group received a policy based on the principle of social proof (R. B. Cialdini, 2001), which indicated that for similar students, class attendance was linked to high academic performance. Students also assessed their instructor's level of verbal aggressiveness (D. A. Infante, 1979). Results suggest that instructor verbal aggressiveness did not influence class attendance. However, social proof did positively influence class attendance rates under certain circumstances. The authors discuss the study implications. © 2012, Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
8 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/079-116-818-454-801 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: attendance; dept.mkt; policy; social proof; verbal aggressiveness

A model of trust and compliance in franchise relationships - Davies, Mark A. P.; Lassar, Walfried; Manolis, Chris; Prince, Melvin; Winsor, Robert D. (Journal of Business Venturing, 2011)
Despite the danger of franchisee non-compliance as a severe impediment to overall franchise operation and performance, there is currently minimal understanding of the key factors that lead to these behaviors. Using a foundation of relational exchange theory, we construct and test a model that demonstrates how two distinct forms of trust, based upon perceptions of franchisor integrity and franchisor competence, are critical to explaining the roles that relational conflict and satisfaction play in influencing franchisee compliance. Implications of these findings are then demonstrated to have compelling relevance to the effective management of franchise systems. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
161 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/047-297-800-195-412 tex.orcid-numbers: [object Object] tex.unique-id: [object Object]
Keywords: Compliance; Conflict; Franchising; Reciprocity; Satisfaction; Trust; dept.mkt

Switching costs and ad agency-client relationship longevity: an exploratory study - Davies, Mark; Prince, Melvin (Services Marketing Quarterly, 2011)
A model of switching costs is applied to ad agency-client relationships using agency theory. Switching costs are comprised of set-up costs that create barriers to switching to new agencies and exit costs that are barriers to severing relationships with current agencies. Switching cost theory offers insights into why large clients can maintain agency relationships. A survey of American clients shows how client size is associated with set-up and exit costs. These relationships are explained through diversity and scope of services, the creative risk associated with major brands, and the need for more sophisticated monitoring, each acting as switching barriers, extending longevity. © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
7 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/000-432-635-158-979 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Account longevity; Client size; Switching costs; dept.mkt

Social Interaction and Employee Health - Forbus, Robert; Snyder, Jason (Journal of Business Management and Change, 2011)
With social interaction, quantity does not equal quality. Persons may have frequent negative social interactions with other persons, such that the interactions are socially undermining, rather than socially supportive. Rook (1984) used regression analysis to demonstrate how negative social interactions impact upon well-being outcomes more powerfully and more consistently than do positive social interactions. Building upon Rook’s work, the present research examines a workplace weight loss intervention and demonstrates the power of socially supportive communication in measures of weight loss and healthy lifestyle changes. Management implications are discussed.
Citation Key Alias: lens.org/134-861-849-119-937
Keywords: Social interaction; dept.mkt; employee health; weight-loss interventions; ⛔ No DOI found

Virtual identities from virtual environments - Prince, Melvin (Handbook of Research on Digital Media and Advertising: User Generated Content Consumption, 2011)
The creation of identities in immersive online digital environments has become commonplace in consumer behavior. Consumers frequently enter into socially networked, computer mediated environments (CME’s) as avatars. A user can design his or her avatar by choosing typologies of facial features, body types and clothing styles. The chapter concerns Avatar analysis as a system for generating and analyzing consumer information of practical value to marketers. Avatar analysis enhances understanding of brand perceptions and meanings, discovers new ways of positioning and differentiating brands, and provides insights for improving the effectiveness of brand communications. Using websites such as Second Life to draw avatars, consumer identity projections are elicited based on consumers’ perceptions and interpretations of their own digital figure drawings i.e., virtual social identities of consumers and brands. These identity projections disclose their real and ideal selves, brand-as-a-person, and imagery of a typical brand user.
Citation Key Alias: lens.org/013-773-118-538-567
Keywords: dept.mkt

Advertising agency compensation, client evaluation and switching costs: an extension of agency theory - Davies, Mark; Prince, Melvin (Journal of Current Issues and Research in Advertising, 2010)
We develop a theory of advertising agency compensation, client evaluation and switching costs, with extensions to agency theory. When clients are exposed to high switching costs, they become more vulnerable to the risk of agency costs. In response, clients can select compensation and evaluation decisions that convey fairness, signal their commitment, and invite agency reciprocity. With high switching costs, outcome-based compensation and formal evaluation procedures are likely. High switching costs are associated with signifi'cant relationship investments, mature relationships, large clients, formal evaluation, and with clients that use their agencies as strategic partners. Clients surveyed in North America support the theory. © 2010 Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.
16 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/011-534-427-868-948 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.mkt

A study of marketing standardization and performance of australian, japanese, and U.S. firms - Kustin, Richard Alan (Journal of Asia-pacific Business, 2010)
Given the continued importance of the globalization era, there is an ever-increasing interest in the correlation between marketing mix standardization and the firm's market performance. This issue focuses on the firm's pursuit of global markets in an environment conditional to internal and external market factors. The research examines factors on multinational firm's marketing mix (program and process marketing) from Australia, Japan, and the United States and the impact on market performance. The results are mixed providing some support for marketing standardization and profit performance. © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/098-111-043-197-155 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Australia; Global Marketing; Japan; Marketing Mix; Profit Performance; Standardization; Strategic Marketing; United States; corporate strategy; dept.mkt; globalization; marketing; multinational enterprise; standardization

Performance and standardization of Australian, Japanese and US firms - Kustin, Richard Alan (Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, 2010)
Purpose – Globalization has fostered greater interest in all aspects of standardization theory including the 4Ps of the marketing mix or program and process marketing. The purpose of this paper is to probe the question: “Is there a benefit to the firm's strategy of marketing standardization that correlates positively to the firm's profit?”. Design/methodology/approach – Multinational firms from Australia, Japan and the USA operating in a global environment were studied in order to correlate marketing standardization to profit performance. Several methods of analysis were used including regression and analysis of variance measures. Findings – The results indicate there is increasing support for a strategy of standardizing marketing mix components and contributing to a firm's profit performance. Originality/value – The paper adds to the current literature by providing further empirical research correlating marketing mix standardization to profit. © 2010, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
5 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/019-893-871-479-303 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Australia; Globalization; Japan; Marketing strategy; Standardization; United States of America; dept.mkt

The earth is flat, almost: measuring marketing standardization and profit performance of japanese and U.S. firms - Kustin, Richard Alan (Journal of Global Marketing, 2010)
Globalization has fostered greater interest in all aspects of standardization theory, including the four Ps (product, price, place [distribution], and promotion) of the marketing mix. The study researches the firm's strategy of marketing standardization as it correlates to the firm's profit. Multinational firms from Japan and the United States operating in a global environment were studied in order to correlate marketing standardization to profit performance. The results indicate there is increasing support for a strategy of standardizing marketing mix components and contributing to a firm's profit performance. © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
7 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/014-307-214-787-887 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Global marketing; Global strategy; Globalization; Marketing standardization; Profit performance; dept.mkt

Theory into research practice: reflections and recommendations on collaborative feminist research - Harvey, Rebecca G.; Brown, Kristina S.; Miller, Bobbi J.; Williams-Reade, Jacqueline; Tyndall, Lisa; Murphy, Megan J. (Journal of Feminist Family Therapy, 2016)
Six women faculty came together to research their peers asking other women in COAMFTE-accredited programs about their personal and professional identities. The goal of this research was to develop recommendations for the field of Couple/Marriage and Family Therapy to support the engagement and advancement of women faculty. The research collaboration itself became a heuristic, feminist praxis, a co-creation of insight, support network, and professional relationships which had liberating results for the collaborators. We intended to create a research project that would be collaborative, empowering, and transformative for participants; in the process, the collaboration became empowering and transformative for ourselves. This article will reflect on our experiences and provide recommendations for future feminist research teams. Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
6 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: pop00155 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: clinical article; collaboration; dept.mft; family therapy; female; feminism; feminist research; gender; human; insider/outsider; marriage; university

Queer youth in family therapy - Harvey, Rebecca G.; Fish, Linda Stone (Family Process, 2015)
Trends in popular belief about same-sex relationships have undergone noteworthy change in the United States over the last decade. Yet this change has been marked by stark polarizations and has occurred at varying rates depending upon regional, community, racial, religious, and individual family context. For queer youth and their families, this cultural transformation has broadened opportunities and created a new set of risks and vulnerabilities. At the same time, youth's increasingly open and playful gender fluidity and sexual identity is complicated by unique intersections of class, race, religion, and immigration. Effective family therapy with queer youth requires practitioner's and treatment models that are sensitive to those who bear the burden of multiple oppressions and the hidden resilience embedded in their layered identities. We present case examples of our model of family therapy which addresses refuge, supports difficult dialogs, and nurtures queerness by looking for hidden resilience in the unique intersections of queer youths' lives. These intersections provide transformational potential for youth, their families and even for family therapists as we are all nurtured and challenged to think more complexly about intersectionality, sexuality, and gender. Las tendencias en la creencia popular acerca de las relaciones entre personas del mismo sexo han sufrido un cambio considerable en Estados Unidos durante la ultima decada. Sin embargo, este cambio se ha producido a ritmos diferentes segun las comunidades locales y regionales, y el contexto familiar individual. En el caso de los jovenes queer y sus familias, esta transformacion cultural ha ampliado oportunidades y creado un nuevo conjunto de riesgos y vulnerabilidades. Los jovenes queer y sus familias, al intentar desarrollarse en numerosos contextos, estan marcados por divergencias crueles en actitudes y creencias. Al mismo tiempo, la fluidez del genero y la identidad sexual cada vez mas abiertas y ludicas de los jovenes estan complicadas por intersecciones unicas de clase, raza, religion e inmigracion. Una terapia familiar eficaz con jovenes queer exige modelos de tratamiento y profesionales que sean sensibles a aquellas personas que cargan sobre sus espaldas numerosas opresiones y una resiliencia oculta incorporada en sus identidades multiples. Presentamos ejemplos de casos de nuestro modelo de terapia familiar que aborda el refugio, respalda los dialogos dificiles y apoya la sexualidad alternativa buscando la resiliencia oculta en las intersecciones unicas de las vidas de los jovenes queer. Estas intersecciones ofrecen posibilidades transformacionales para los jovenes, sus familias e incluso los terapeutas familiares mientras nos estimulan y nos desafian a todos a pensar de forma mas compleja acerca de la interseccionalidad, la sexualidad y el genero.
22 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/008-905-145-849-804 tex.eissn: [object Object] tex.unique-id: [object Object]
Keywords: Adolescent; Family Relations; Family Therapy; Family therapy; Female; Gay; Gender Identity; Homosexuality; Homosexuality; Female; Homosexuality; Male; Humans; Interpersonal Relations; Lesbian; Male; Resilience; Social Identification; Social Isolation; Transgender Persons; Transgendered youth; United States; Vulnerable Populations; Young Adult; adolescent; dept.mft; family relation; family therapy; female; gender identity; homosexuality; human; human relation; lesbianism; male; male homosexuality; procedures; psychology; social behavior; social isolation; statistics and numerical data; transgender; vulnerable population; young adult

Mindfulness meditation and art appreciation as meaning-making practices - Yang, Charlie (Academy of Management Proceedings, 2016)
Mindfulness has recently gained significant attention and momentum in academia and popular culture. There is, however, a paucity of literature on how students make sense of contemplative practices. This paper proposes that mindfulness meditation is not merely a useful tool for stress reduction, but also a metacognitive meaning-making practice.
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/021-315-407-614-417
Keywords: Art appreciations; Contemplative practice; Meaning makings; Metacognitives; Popular cultures; Stress reduction; dept.mgt

Gossip in organizations: from an evolutionary psychological perspective - Yang, Chulguen; Minjock, Robert; Voss, Bernard Edward; Colarelli, Stephen M (Academy of Management Proceedings, 2014)
Gossip is often portrayed as a trivial and even destructive behavior at work. This paper integrates previous studies on gossip using a multilevel evolutionary framework and proposes a few empirical propositions to develop a more balanced view on gossip as a medium of informal communication in organizations.
1 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/079-776-281-946-710
Keywords: Evolutionary framework; Informal communication; dept.mgt

Telling tales at work: an evolutionary explanation - Yang, Chulguen (Business Communication Quarterly, 2013)
This article explores the adaptive functions of storytelling in the workplace from an evolutionary perspective. Based on the analysis of ethnographic studies on hunter-gatherer and modern work organizations, this article claims that storytelling, as an adapted cognitive device, was selectively retained by natural and sexual selection, because of its survival and reproductive payoff. The narrative production through storytelling is a natural coping mechanism and has been functional in both old and new ways of working life under different ecological conditions. This article also highlights underlying adapted psychological mechanisms of storytelling and discusses some evolutionarily informed practical implications and pedagogical applications. © 2013 by the Association for Business Communication.
9 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/047-449-660-219-354 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.mgt; narrative; oral presentations; organizational communication

Start-up and hiring practices of immigrant entrepreneurs: An empirical study from an evolutionary psychological perspective - Yang, Chulguen; Colarelli, Stephen M; Han, Kyunghee; Page, Robert A (International Business Review, 2011)
Strong social ties embedded in ethnic communities of immigrant populations have been considered key assets for immigrant entrepreneurs. However, little research has been done on how biological kinship and the biological theories of altruism influence the behavior of ethnic entrepreneurs. In this study, we have applied a neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory of kinship to examine adaptive functions of kin and ethnic altruism in business start-up and hiring practices of Korean immigrant entrepreneurs in the United States. We confirmed that the patterns of help received by Korean entrepreneurs for business start-ups were congruent with an evolutionary perspective on altruism. However, the results for hiring patterns suggested that customer ethnicity trumped kin and co-ethic interests. We close by offering suggestions for future research. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
23 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/092-753-567-946-985 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Ethnic nepotism; Evolutionary psychology; Immigrant entrepreneurship; Inclusive fitness theory; Kin altruism; dept.mgt

Tools of academic library assessment: the user survey - Liebst, Anne; Feinmark, David (Journal of Library Administration, 2016)
Academic libraries are taking a closer look at how well they are serving the needs of their users. As a result assessment activities become more important. In this column, the authors will focus on and describe one major tool of assessment—the user survey. © 2016, Published with license by Taylor & Francis.
11 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/003-442-307-245-879 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: academic libraries; assessment; dept.lib; libraries—evaluation; library administration; library planning; user surveys

The breath of my life: constructing the self in chen ran’s A private life - Hardenberg, Wendeline A (Women's Studies, 2014)
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/005-702-343-801-36X tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.lib

Building blocks for personal brands - Thomas, Lisa Carlucci (Journal of Web Librarianship, 2011)
2 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/087-002-113-520-877 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.lib

Design for double rainbow - Thomas, Lisa Carlucci (Journal of Web Librarianship, 2011)
4 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/124-582-046-811-968 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.lib

Google+ and the commodification of cool - Thomas, Lisa Carlucci (Journal of Web Librarianship, 2011)
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/165-170-969-515-573 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.lib

Gone mobile? - Thomas, Lisa Carlucci (Library Journal, 2010)
tex.unique-id: ISI:000283457000013
Keywords: dept.lib; ⛔ No DOI found

Library intranets: trends and enhancements - Thomas, Lisa Carlucci (Journal of Web Librarianship, 2010)
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/190-515-926-757-166 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.lib

Service standards for the Mobile/Social library - Thomas, Lisa Carlucci (Journal of Web Librarianship, 2010)
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/125-177-835-426-699 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.lib

Is Daniel 11:1-19 based on a ptolemaic narrative? - Scolnic, Benjamin (Journal for The Study of Judaism, 2014)
Daniel 11 is considered an exceptional Biblical text because of its interest in and accuracy about historical and political events in the Hellenistic world. A recent theory suggests that the author was a former Seleucid scribe; another theory posits the use of a Ptolemaic propaganda document. The approach here will be inductive, reading out from the text to adduce evidence that the author of Daniel 11 either used or reflected the attitudes of Ptolemaic narrative, not necessarily because he was pro-Ptolemaic but because it suited his anti-Antiochene purpose. © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands.
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/035-586-778-649-478 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Bible; Daniel; Maccabean; Source criticism; dept.jst

Antiochus IV as the scorned prince in dan 11:21 - Scolnic, Benjamin (Vetus Testamentum, 2012)
While most English translations render nbzh in Dan 11:21 as "contemptible, vile, despicable," closer examination will demonstrate that this Biblical Hebrew word should be translated as "spurned, scorned, rejected." Once one understands Dan 11:21 accordingly, other ancient sources can be brought to show that this verse states, in its own thinly-veiled code, that before his rise to power, Antiochus IV, son of the late king Antiochus III and brother of the current king Seleucus IV, had been scorned and had not been given appropriate royal honors. This verse should be seen as another element in the evaluation of Dan 11 as an accurate and important historical source for the events surrounding the rise and rule of Antiochus IV. © 2012 by Koninklijke Brill N.V., Leiden, The Netherlands.
1 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/003-577-169-045-737 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Daniel; Hebrew Bible; Old Testament; dept.jst; translation

Current market demand for core competencies of librarianship-a text mining study of american library association's advertisements from 2009 through 2014 - Yang, Qinghong; Zhang, Xingzhi; Du, Xiaoping; Bielefield, Arlene; Liu, Yan Quan (Applied Sciences-Basel, 2016)
As librarianship evolves, it is important to examine the changes that have taken place in professional requirements. To provide an understanding of the current market demand for core competencies of librarianship, this article conducts a semi-automatic methodology to analyze job advertisements (ads) posted on the American Library Association (ALA) Joblist from 2009 through 2014. There is evidence that the ability to solve unexpected complex problems and to provide superior customer service gained increasing importance for librarians during those years. The authors contend that the findings in this report question the status quo of core competencies of librarianship in the US job market.
23 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.article-number: 48 tex.unique-id: ISI:000371827200001
Keywords: Competency; Job advertisement; Librarianship; Text mining; dept.ils; peer-reviewed

A library in the palm of your hand: mobile services in top 100 university libraries - Liu, Yan Quan; Briggs, Sarah (Information Technology and Libraries, 2015)
What is the current state of mobile services among academic libraries of the country's top 100 universities, and what are the best practices for librarians implementing mobile services at the university level? Through in-depth website visits and survey questionnaires, the authors studied each of the top 100 universities' libraries' experiences with mobile services. Results showed that all of these libraries offered at least one mobile service, and the majority offered multiple services. The most common mobile services offered were mobile sites, text messaging services, e-books, and mobile access to databases and the catalog. In addition, chat/IM services, social media accounts and apps were very popular. Survey responses also indicated a trend towards responsive design for websites so that patrons can access the library's full site on any mobile device. Respondents recommend that libraries considering offering mobile services begin as soon as possible as patron demand for these services is expected to increase.
22 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/012-328-507-257-353 tex.eissn: [object Object] tex.unique-id: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.ils; peer-reviewed

Web 2.0 applications' usage and trends in top US academic libraries - Boateng, Frank; Liu, Yan Quan (Library Hi Tech, 2014)
Purpose - This paper aims to explore Web 2.0 technologies usage and trends in the top 100 US academic libraries as exemplified through the academic library websites. Design/methodology/approach - The top 100 universities were selected from the US News & World Report's (USNWR) 2013 ranked list's top 100 of the best colleges in the USA. Content analysis was used in terms of quantitative approach. A checklist was developed as the main research instrument based on other checklists and questionnaires. Each of the selected university library websites was visited within a period of two weeks to explore implementation and usage of web tools, including SNS, blog, RSS, wikis, podcast/vodcast, and social bookmarking/tagging. Findings - All 100 academic libraries had a social media presence on Facebook and Twitter, making SNS the most widely applied Web 2.0 tool. The wild was the least applied Web 2.0 technology, with a 34 percent participation rate. Blog was the second most popular tool with a 99 percent participation rate, followed by RSS and IM/Chat with 97 percent and 91 percent respectively. The vodcast and podcast had 47 percent and 46 percent participation rates respectively, while social bookmarking/tagging were also used by 39 percent of the academic libraries. Research limitations/implications - This study is completely based on publicly available data regarding usage of Web 2.0 applications. Web 2.0 tools used on library intranets were not analyzed for this study. Outcomes suggest that academic libraries are increasingly using Web 2.0 applications to promote themselves, enhance library services, and highlight resources to patrons. Originality/value - This is the first research that draws an overall picture of the usage and trends of Web 2.0 applications in the top 100 US academic libraries. This study demonstrates some noticeable patterns regarding usage, trends, and adoption which are relevant to how Web 2.0 applications are perceived and used within academic libraries. The study provides academic libraries with helpful information to better meet their user needs by effectively applying Web 2.0. Additionally, library managers, librarians and other libraries may also find this research beneficial as they plan to deploy Web 2.0.
54 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/000-270-484-139-930 tex.unique-id: [object Object]
Keywords: Academic libraries; Library services; Technology usage; Web 2.0; dept.ils; peer-reviewed

From siloed data to linked data: Developing a social metadata repository - Choi, Yunseon (Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2014)
Although social data has been investigated and discussed regarding its impact on indexing and retrieval performance on the web, there has been little research conducted on storing or linking social data and identifying bibliographic relationships among social data for further use of social data. In this paper, we discuss our work in progress that aims to develop a social metadata repository which would be an important implication for making social data more valuable and reusable for searching and retrieval. We describe FRBR (Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Records) conceptual model's Entity-Relationship (ER) view on bibliographic relationships and demonstrate how social metadata are encoded in RDA (Resource Description and Access) and how the implicit bibliographic relationships of social data are explicitly represented as RDF (Resource Description Framework) triples (Subject - Predicates - Objects) with links to external sources. We believe that the shareable and linked metadata repository of social data is remarkably significant, not only because it supports the accessibility to related documents, but also because it is clarifying the implicit semantic relationships among social data.
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31]
Keywords: FRBR; Linked Data; Metadata; RDA; RDF; Social data; Social tags; dept.ils

Using dwell time as an implicit measure of usefulness in different task types - Liu, Chang; Liu, Jingjing; Belkin, Nicholas J; Cole, Michael J; Gwizdka, Jacek (Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2011)
In this study, we attempted to use dwell time on content pages as a predictor of document usefulness, and evaluated the prediction performance in different types of tasks. A user study was conducted to address this research problem. A total of 32 participants conducted searches associated with 4 different tasks, varying along several task type dimensions. In the study, participants were asked to save documents that were useful for the tasks during the searches. Participants' information-seeking activities were recorded. Using the logged dataset, we used the recursive partitioning method to identify the best threshold (cutoff point) of dwell time to predict which pages would be useful, i.e., be saved by the users. We examined the differences in the threshold and compared the prediction performance for each type of task. Our results indicate that the threshold should be developed according to the type of task users are working on. While the prediction performance using dwell time as the only indicator of document usefulness is acceptable for Factual tasks, it is not good for Intellectual tasks. Our results have implications on IR system design.
5 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31]
Keywords: Dwell time; Personalization; Task type; Usefulness prediction; dept.ils

Search task difficulty: the expected vs. the reflected - Liu, Jingjing; Belkin, Nicholas J (International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2011)
We report findings on how the user's perception of task difficulty changes before and after searching for information to solve tasks. We found that while in one type of task, the dependent task, this did not change, in another, the parallel task, it did. The findings have implications on designing systems that can provide assistance to users with their search and task solving strategies.
1 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.type: Proceedings paper
Keywords: Dependent tasks; Designing systems; Predicted difficulty; Reflected difficulty; Searching for informations; Task difficulty; Task type; User's perceptions; dept.ils

Understanding searchers' perception of task difficulty: Relationships with task type - Liu, Jingjing; Liu, Chang; Yuan, Xiaojun; Belkin, Nicholas J (Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2011)
We report findings that help us better understand the difficulty of tasks which involve information seeking, retrieving, gathering, and use. We examined the data gathered from two interactive information retrieval user studies on how users' perception of task difficulty changes before and after searching for information to solve tasks, and how the difficulty of tasks relates with users' background, previous experience with the tasks, and knowledge of the task topics, etc. The two studies employed carefully designed tasks with different types along several dimensions: task structure (subtasks being dependent upon or parallel with each other), task goal in quality (being specific or amorphous), and naming (being named or unnamed). It was found that while in some types of tasks, users' perceptions of task difficulty did not change before and after working on the tasks, in others, this did, either increasing or decreasing. Specifically, in the dependent-structured task, this did not change. In the parallel-structured or specific/named task, it decreased. In the amorphous/unnamed task, it increased. We also found that users' background factors do not normally correlate with their perceived task difficulty, or perceived difficulty change. In addition to helping understand the dynamic and complex nature of task difficulty, our findings have implications for system design that can provide assistance to users with their search and task solving strategies.
6 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31]
Keywords: Expected difficulty; Reflected difficulty; Task difficulty; Task type; dept.ils

Web 2.0 applications in top Chinese university libraries - Han, Zhiping; Liu, Yan Quan (Library Hi Tech, 2010)
Purpose - This paper aims to explore the status and construction pattern of Web 2.0 technologies employed in top Chinese university libraries, their functionalities and features. Design/methodology/approach - A combination of online survey and content analysis methodology is applied to a sample of 38 top Chinese university libraries' web sites. The Web 2.0 tools are categorized by generally accepted standards with some adjustment for library practices. Data were collected by accessing these university library web sites on two separate occasions during the period of February 10-20, 2009 by utilizing a checklist of 52 questions. Findings - More than two-thirds of the 38 top Chinese university libraries apply one or more kinds of Web 2.0 tools through the basic functions of their web sites. Among six types of tools, Catalog 2.0 and RSS are the most common, while IM, Blog, SNS and Wiki are less frequent. Research limitations/implications - Internal applications that are not publicly accessible contain hidden information that may not be gathered through content analysis since these links usually cannot be found on library web sites. It is difficult to get exact information as to the applications of Web 2.0 in these libraries without an interview method in combination to observation. Originality/value - This study provides an overall picture of Web 2.0 tools developed in top Chinese university libraries, allowing for future evaluation and planning. The implementation of Web 2.0 applications and their constructing pattern is not only indicative of the development of the Chinese digital libraries, but also to their development of digital libraries in the world at large.
48 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/148-213-665-014-156 tex.unique-id: [object Object]
Keywords: China; Digital libraries; University libraries; Worldwide web; dept.ils; peer-reviewed

Technical service outreach strategies for academic libraries - Toce, Jacqueline; Schofield, Cindy (Technical Services Quarterly, 2011)
The model of a library staff divided into technical and informational service divisions remains common-especially among academic libraries. The authors argue that in many ways it is now the technical services division that is best positioned to provide outreach services to a community-whether at the university or municipal level. Maintaining bibliographic access amid the changing information landscape hinges on a clear understanding of systems, metadata, and traditional organizational skills, all home grown in the back rooms of conventional libraries. The authors cite examples of library outreach that emanated from technical service departments and conclude that the sequestered staffs of the past must make themselves indispensible today by sharing their knowledge and talents, offering services to their communities that require their technical expertise, and advance the mission of the library organization. © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
3 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/135-473-790-983-166 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Academic libraries; Catalogers; Cooperative; Outreach; Service; Southern connecticut state university; Technical services; dept.ils; dept.lib

Captured on the gold coast: “Illegal” enslavement, freedom and the pursuit of justice in dutch courts, 1746–1750 - de Kok, Gerhard; Feinberg, Harvey M. (Journal of Global Slavery, 2016)
In May of 1746, slaving captain Christiaan Hagerop illegally captured ten Gold Coast canoe paddlers, seven of whom were free Africans from Elmina and Fante. Hagerop subsequently sailed to Suriname, where he sold the paddlers into slavery. To appease the relatives of the captured men and to safeguard its reputation among local Africans, the Dutch West India Company (WIC) launched a search for the kidnapped paddlers. Six of the men were eventually located in Suriname in 1749, the seventh having died in slavery. While the Africans were transported back to the Gold Coast via Amsterdam, the WIC tried to have Hagerop extradited to its Gold Coast possessions to receive punishment for his crime. A legal battle over jurisdictional competence ensued in the Dutch Republic, the outcome of which was that the captain was made to stand trial in Amsterdam, but in the end he received very little punishment. © 2016 Copyright 2016 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands.
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31]
Keywords: Africa; Gold Coast; Slave Trade; Suriname; dept.his; wic

The World of Eastern Orthodoxy - Chrissidis, Nikolaos A. (The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750, 2015)
The chapter traces the development of Orthodoxy by focusing on the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Russian Orthodox Church in the early modern period. It is based on the premise that in both cases Orthodoxy faced three main challenges: imperial/political, intellectual, and financial. In both the Ottoman and the Russian empires, the Orthodox Church played important roles in the political, administrative, cultural, economic, ideological, and social lives of the Orthodox believers. Orthodoxy usually provided legitimizing ideological support to state authority, was forced to reckon with Western cultural and theological trends, and also proactively defended its economic interests. For most of the period, the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Russian Orthodox Church maintained constant contacts, even in the face of mutual suspicions of each other’s motives. The chapter argues that early modern Orthodoxy proved adaptive, developed over time, and withstood the challenges it faced, ultimately keeping its symbolic capital largely intact.
Citation Key Alias: lens.org/025-896-017-121-207
Keywords: dept.his

The early qadariyya - Judd, Steven C. (The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology, 2014)
This article discusses the briefly significant Qadariyya movement during the Umayyad period, with an emphasis on how the movement and its adherents were treated in later sources. The article examines the doctrine of human free will advocated by the Qadariyya, exploring the impetus behind their theological viewpoints and the doctrinal complications that accompanied human free will. It also addresses the debate about the origins of both the doctrine and the movement, and the significance of accusations of Christian roots. The article discusses the views ascribed to prominent Qadari leaders, including Maʿbad al-Juhanī and Ghaylān al-Dimashqī, as well as the systematic persecution of the Qadariyya, led by al-Awzāʿī. It also examines the politicization of the Qadariyya and their entanglement with Yazīd (III) b. al-Walīd’s rebellion during the third fitna. Finally, the article addresses the eclipse of the Qadariyya by the Muʿtazilites.
Keywords: dept.his

Religious Scholars and the Umayyads: Piety-Minded Supporters of the Marwānid Caliphate - Judd, Steven C. (Routledge, 2014)
SCSU Faculty Scholar Award
Keywords: Doctrines; History; Judges (Islamic law); History; Muslim scholars; Islamic law; SCSU Faculty Scholar Award; Umayyad dynasty; Islam; award_winner; dept.his; faculty_collection

Muslim Persecution of Heretics during the Marwānid Period (64–132/684–750) - Judd, Steven (Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean, 2011)
This article traces the emergence of a systematic approach to combating heresy during the Umayyad period. It argues that the Umayyads sought to silence religious dissent by labelling it as heresy and that the doctrinal boundaries of orthodoxy narrowed as the Umayyad period progressed. The article also asserts that Umayyad efforts to impose their vision of orthodoxy were an important precedent for the mihna under the Abbasids. © 2011 Society for the Medieval Mediterranean.
1 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/146-546-256-080-649 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Abd al-Malik; Ghaylan al-Dimashqi; Heretic; Hisham; Islam - heresy; Islamic scholar; Mabad al-Juhani; Qadariyya; Theological movement; Ummayad caliph; Ummayad caliphate; dept.his

The persistence of republicanism: class war talk, american style - Cassano, Graham; Rondinone, Troy (Labor Studies Journal, 2010)
The authors argue that there have been moments in American history when a class analysis entered into popular discourse. What has been "exceptional" about American history is the manner in which that class analysis emerged. When Americans speak the language of "class" and "class warfare," it is often clothed in the rhetoric of labor republicanism. That is, rather than offering a systemic analysis of capitalist processes, American labor republicanism offers a class analysis that sets a small set of bad acting "elites" and their dependents against the mass of American workers. The authors trace this discourse from Franklin Roosevelt's 1936 description of "economic royalists" to Lou Dobbs's nativist attack on "corporate elites" and undocumented workers. As the United States enters a new period of "class awareness" and economic crisis, this republicanism returns to haunt public discourse. © 2010 UALE.
3 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/092-482-651-700-468 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Franklin D. Roosevelt; Lou Dobbs; Marxian analysis; class warfare; dept.his; labor republicanism

Sinification as Limitation: Minh Mạng’s Prohibition on Use of Nôm and the Resulting Marginalization of Nôm Medical Texts - Thompson, C. Michele (Looking at it from Asia: the Processes that Shaped the Sources of History of Science, 2010)
For Vietnamese scholars in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries reading and writing ability in both Chinese and Nôm (an ideographic writing system used to write Vietnamese) was considered an essential tool of scholarship and literary expression.
Citation Key Alias: lens.org/016-294-392-174-12X
Keywords: Chinese Character; Imperial Examination System; Medical Text; Royal Court; Vietnamese Language; dept.his

Actigraphy features for predicting mobility disability in older adults - Kheirkhahan, Matin; Tudor-Locke, Catrine; Axtell, Robert; Buman, Matthew P.; Fielding, Roger A.; Glynn, Nancy W.; Guralnik, Jack M.; King, Abby C.; White, Daniel K.; Miller, Michael E.; Siddique, Juned; Brubaker, Peter; et al. (Physiological Measurement, 2016)
Actigraphy has attracted much attention for assessing physical activity in the past decade. Many algorithms have been developed to automate the analysis process, but none has targeted a general model to discover related features for detecting or predicting mobility function, or more specifically, mobility impairment and major mobility disability (MMD). Men (N = 357) and women (N = 778) aged 70-89 years wore a tri-axial accelerometer (Actigraph GT3X) on the right hip during free-living conditions for 8.4 +/- 3.0 d. One-second epoch data were summarized into 67 features. Several machine learning techniques were used to select features from the free-living condition to predict mobility impairment, defined as 400 m walking speed ¡0.80 m s(-1). Selected features were also included in a model to predict the first occurrence of MMD-defined as the loss in the ability to walk 400 m. Each method yielded a similar estimate of 400 m walking speed with a root mean square error of similar to 0.07 m s(-1) and an R-squared values ranging from 0.37-0.41. Sensitivity and specificity of identifying slow walkers was approximately 70% and 80% for all methods, respectively. The top five features, which were related to movement pace and amount (activity counts and steps), length in activity engagement (bout length), accumulation patterns of activity, and movement variability significantly improved the prediction of MMD beyond that found with common covariates (age, diseases, anthropometry, etc). This study identified a subset of actigraphy features collected in free-living conditions that are moderately accurate in identifying persons with clinically-assessed mobility impaired and significantly improve the prediction of MMD. These findings suggest that the combination of features as opposed to a specific feature is important to consider when choosing features and/or combinations of features for prediction of mobility phenotypes in older adults.
Citation Key Alias: lens.org/144-715-377-748-547 tex.eissn: [object Object] tex.orcid-numbers: [object Object] tex.unique-id: [object Object]
Keywords: Accelerometers; Actigraphy; Analysis process; Artificial intelligence; Data mining; Disability; Feature extraction; Forecasting; Free livings; General model; Learning systems; Living conditions; Mean square error; Older adults; Patient monitoring; Physical activity; Sedentary; Walking aids; Walking speed; aging; data mining; dept.hms; disability; machine learning; physical activity; sedentary; ⚠️ Invalid DOI

Great games that disappeared - Rauschenbach, James; Swartz, Daniel R (Strategies: a journal for physical and sport educators, 2016)
Sometimes through a single person's efforts, a new and innovative game is developed and promoted locally. Occasionally, circumstances cause these games to remain on a local level without being adopted by mainstream physical educators and physical activity professionals. Unfortunately, some educators tend to stick to what they know and teach traditional games and sports. This practice has left little room for unique and innovative games such as tchoukball and hocker to contribute to physical education curriculum. This article describes the history of how each of these games was developed and promoted. Rules, equipment and game-play strategies are provided. ©, Copyright Taylor & Francis.
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/100-180-565-266-823 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.hms

Psychoanalysis, artistic obsession, and artistic motivation: the study of pathography. - Kemler, David S (Perceptual and Motor Skills, 2014)
A modern assessment of Freud's conceptualization of the creative process focusing on drives, ego psychology, and object relation theory is presented. 40 artists and musicians were interviewed employing 13 open-ended questions to provoke responses historically associated with the theoretical conceptualizations of Freud and post-Freudian theory related to the creative process. Creative process was defined as internal object relations that motivate the external connection between artist and the creative work. Measured responses concerning purpose and understanding; motivation before, during, and after performance; obstacles in performance; and needs through the creative process were assessed. Cluster analysis segregated the participants into high, medium, and low agreement groups based on similarity of responses. A multivariate stepwise regression revealed four questions (enlightenment, drives, obstacles, and ought self discrepancies) accounted for 83.9% of the variance. A post hoc discriminant function analysis identified 82.5% of the population to their correct groups. The findings support Spitz's (2005) suggestion that we regard “drives, ego psychology, and object relation theory not as separate approaches but as parts of a whole with varying stresses or accents” (p. 503).
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/012-434-150-540-250 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Adult; Art; Cluster Analysis; Creativity; Drive; Female; Freudian Theory; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Motivation; Multivariate Analysis; Music; Object Attachment; Obsessive Behavior; Psychoanalytic Theory; Regression Analysis; adult; art; article; cluster analysis; creativity; dept.hms; drive; female; human; male; middle aged; motivation; multivariate analysis; music; object relation; obsession; psychoanalytic theory; psychological aspect; regression analysis

Spontaneous baroreflex sensitivity in young normotensive African-American women - Latchman, Peter; Gates, Gregory J; Axtell, Robert S; Pereira, Jason; Bartels, Matthew N; Meersman, Ronald Edmond De (Clinical Autonomic Research, 2013)
6 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/109-712-863-816-776 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: African American; European American; adult; article; body mass; breathing rate; clinical article; controlled study; dept.hms; diastolic blood pressure; family history; female; human; hypertension; physical activity; pressoreceptor reflex; race difference; systolic blood pressure

Make your own fitness: the suspension training project - Rauschenbach, Jim; Morrell, Katie; Ridley, Ben; Walsh, Brittany (Strategies: a journal for physical and sport educators, 2013)
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/041-506-613-515-206 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.hms

Promoting physical activity for elders with compromised function: the Lifestyle Interventions and Independence for Elders (LIFE) Study physical activity intervention - Rejeski, W. Jack; Axtell, Robert; Fielding, Roger; Katula, Jeffrey; King, Abby C.; Manini, Todd M.; Marsh, Anthony P.; Pahor, Marco; Rego, Alvito; Tudor-Locke, Catrine; Newman, Mark; Walkup, Michael P.; et al. (Clinical Interventions in Aging, 2013)
The Lifestyle Interventions and Independence for Elders (LIFE) Study is a Phase III randomized controlled clinical trial (Clinicaltrials.gov identifier: NCT01072500) that will provide definitive evidence regarding the effect of physical activity (PA) on major mobility disability in older adults (70-89 years old) who have compromised physical function. This paper describes the methods employed in the delivery of the LIFE Study PA intervention, providing insight into how we promoted adherence and monitored the fidelity of treatment. Data are presented on participants' motives and self-perceptions at the onset of the trial along with accelerometry data on patterns of PA during exercise training. Prior to the onset of training, 31.4% of participants noted slight conflict with being able to meet the demands of the program and 6.4% indicated that the degree of conflict would be moderate. Accelerometry data collected during PA training revealed that the average intensity - 1,555 counts/minute for men and 1,237 counts/minute for women - was well below the cutoff point used to classify exercise as being of moderate intensity or higher for adults. Also, a sizable subgroup required one or more rest stops. These data illustrate that it is not feasible to have a single exercise prescription for older adults with compromised function. Moreover, the concept of what constitutes “moderate” exercise or an appropriate volume of work is dictated by the physical capacities of each individual and the level of comfort/stability in actually executing a specific prescription.
36 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.orcid-numbers: Buford, Thomas W/0000-0002-9541-4358 Handberg, Eileen/0000-0002-7805-9577 Newman, Mark/0000-0002-0444-8246 tex.researcherid-numbers: Buford, Thomas W/B-1111-2011 Katula, Jeffrey/K-5905-2013 tex.unique-id: ISI:000324170300001
Keywords: Accelerometry; Aged; Aged; 80 and over; Aging; Compromised physical function; Exercise; Female; Health Promotion; Humans; Independent Living; Male; Mobility Limitation; Older adults; Physical disability; Qualitative Research; Risk Reduction Behavior; Sex Distribution; accelerometry; aged; aging; article; autoregulation; body mass; compromised physical function; computer interface; computer program; conceptual framework; controlled study; dept.hms; education; elderly care; ethnicity; exercise intensity; female; health education; human; human experiment; lifestyle; male; motor performance; normal human; older adults; phase 3 clinical trial; physical activity; physical capacity; physical disability; quality of life; randomized controlled trial; semi structured interview; sex difference; social behavior; social environment

“The greatest game ever”: swatball - Swartz, Daniel R; Rauschenbach, Jim (Strategies: a journal for physical and sport educators, 2013)
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/011-715-466-336-656 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.hms

Physical activity strategies for improved cognition: the mind/body connection - Fede, Marybeth H (Strategies: a journal for physical and sport educators, 2012)
1 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/139-494-321-951-178 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.hms

Potential impact of a 500-mL water bolus and body mass on plasma osmolality dilution - Sollanek, Kurt J.; Kenefick, Robert W.; Cheuvront, Samuel N.; Axtell, Robert S. (European Journal of Applied Physiology, 2011)
A methodological discrepancy exists in the hydration assessment literature regarding the establishment of euhydration, as some investigations utilize a prehydration technique, while others do not (overnight fluid/food fast). However, the degree that plasma osmolality (Posm) dilutes when using the pre-hydration method and how body mass/composition might influence the results is not known. Thirty subjects (22 M, 8 F; 20 ± 2 years (mean ± SD); 1.8 ± 0.1 m; 75.8 ± 13.5 kg) had P osm measured after an 8-h food and fluid fast (overnight fast) and 90 min after a 500-mL (4-9 mL/kg) water bolus (prehydration). From pre- to post-bolus, participants' P osm declined from 297 ± 3.5 to 295 ± 3.8 mmol/kg (p<0.05; Δ -1.7 ± 3.5 mmol/kg). One-third of the sample diluted to more than -3 mmol/kg. The effect of body mass on P osm dilution was investigated by comparing dilution in the ten lightest (62.8 ± 3.4 kg) and heaviest (92.0 ± 9.8 kg) participants; however, the change between the light (Δ -1.9 ± 3.8 mmol/kg) versus heavy groups (Δ -1.1 ± 3.0 mmol/kg) was not different (p>0.05). The correlation between body mass or total body water and change in P osm was weak (p>0.05), as was the correlation between relative fluid intake based on mass and change in P osm (p>0.05). The two methodologies appear to produce similar P osm values when measured in most individuals. However, the potential for significant dilution (>3 mmol/kg) should be considered when choosing the pre-hydration methodology. © Springer-Verlag (outside the USA) 2011.
17 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: pop00120 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Adolescent; Adult; Blood; Blood Chemical Analysis; Body Weight; Dehydration; Drinking; Female; Fluid intake; Humans; Hydration assessment; Hypohydration; Male; Osmolar Concentration; SCSU-student; Total body water; Water; Water-Electrolyte Balance; Young Adult; adolescent; adult; article; blood; blood analysis; body weight; clinical trial; dehydration; dept.hms; drinking; drug effect; electrolyte balance; female; human; male; metabolism; osmolarity; physiology; water

Impaired autonomic function in normotensive obese children - Latchman, Peter L; Mathur, Madhu; Bartels, Matthew N; Axtell, Robert S; Meersman, Ronald E De (Clinical Autonomic Research, 2011)
Purpose To evaluate baroreflex sensitivity and autonomic control in a cohort of normotensive obese (OB) children. Method A cross-sectional investigation, in which, baroreflex sensitivity and autonomic control were evaluated using transfer function and power spectral density analysis (PSDA) of the electrocardiogram and beat-to-beat blood pressures in normotensive OB children and normal weight normotensive controls. All methods used were noninvasive and data were captured while seated and at rest. Results The OB and control subjects non-obese (NO) were of similar age (OB 9.1 ± 1.9 years vs.NO9.2 ± 1.4 years). The OB group was classified as having a BMI greater than the 95th percentile adjusted for age and gender, and a NO group with a BMI at or less than the 95th percentile (BMI percentile OB. 97.5 ± 1.3 vs. NO 58.5 ± 24.1). Both groups had similar normotensive blood pressures. T tests revealed that baroreflex sensitivity and HFRR were significantly reduced in the OB 9.2 ± 2.7 vs. 15.2 ± 4.7 (ms/mmHg) and 6.7 ± 1.1 vs. 8.2 ± 1.1 ms 2, respectively, while LF SBP and LF/HF ratio were significantly increased in the OB 11.9 ± 5.6 vs. 8.2 ± 4.7 mmHg 2 and 1.2 ± 0.7 vs. 0.54 ± 0.3, respectively. Conclusions Normotensive OB children exhibited significantly reduced baroreflex sensitivity, parasympathetic control as well as increased sympathetic control when compared with healthy, NO controls. Findings in this investigation raise the awareness that autonomic dysfunction is present in young OB normotensive children. © Springer-Verlag 2011.
29 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/000-898-861-083-084 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Autonomic Nervous System; Autonomic modulation; Baroreflex sensitivity; Blood Pressure; Child; Cross-Sectional Studies; Female; Humans; Male; Normotensive; Obese children; Obesity; article; autonomic dysfunction; blood pressure; blood pressure measurement; body mass; body weight; child; clinical article; controlled study; dept.hms; electrocardiogram; female; human; male; obesity; pressoreceptor reflex; school child; sensitivity analysis

Seeing to hear? Patterns of gaze to speaking faces in children with autism spectrum disorders. - Irwin, Julia R; Brancazio, Lawrence (Frontiers in Psychology, 2014)
Using eye-tracking methodology, gaze to a speaking face was compared in a group of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and a group with typical development (TD). Patterns of gaze were observed under three conditions: audiovisual (AV) speech in auditory noise, visual only speech and an AV non-face, non-speech control. Children with ASD looked less to the face of the speaker and fixated less on the speakers' mouth than TD controls. No differences in gaze were reported for the non-face, non-speech control task. Since the mouth holds much of the articulatory information available on the face, these findings suggest that children with ASD may have reduced access to critical linguistic information. This reduced access to visible articulatory information could be a contributor to the communication and language problems exhibited by children with ASD.
23 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Place: Switzerland Irwin, Julia R. Haskins Laboratories New Haven, CT, USA ; Department of Psychology, Southern Connecticut State University New Haven, CT, USA. Brancazio, Lawrence. Haskins Laboratories New Haven, CT, USA ; Department of Psychology, Southern Connecticut State University New Haven, CT, USA.
Keywords: Audiovisual speech perception; Autism spectrum disorders; Communication development; Eyetracking; Lipreading; Speech in noise; dept.hls; dept.hms; dept.psy; peer-reviewed

Do adult medicaid enrollees prefer going to their primary care provider's clinic rather than emergency department (ED) for low acuity conditions? - Capp, Roberta; Camp-Binford, Meredith; Sobolewski, Sarah; Bulmer, Sandra; Kelley, Lauren (Medical Care, 2015)
Background: The rates of annual visits for adult Medicaid enrollees to the emergency department (ED) are increasing. Many programs throughout the country are focused on engaging patients in the use of their primary care providers (PCP) rather than the ED for low acuity conditions. It is unclear, however, the proportion of patients who are willing to use primary care services rather than the ED if they are given the choice. Methods: Cross-sectional study of adult Medicaid enrollees (18 y and older) presenting to a large, urban, academic ED from June to August 2012 with a low acuity condition was performed. We excluded patients who did not have a PCP or active Medicaid insurance. Our primary goal was to determine the proportion of patients who prefer to use the ED, rather than their PCP clinic, if an appointment was immediately available. Our second goal was to understand why patients would prefer ED over PCP care. Results: A total of 150 patients agreed to complete the survey, and 95 (63.3%) met our inclusion criteria. Forty-three patients (45.3%) stated preferring to use their PCPs rather than the ED if an appointment was available at that time. Thirteen (48.1%) cited that the ED had more technology or specialty care services available when compared with their PCP's clinic, 8 (15.4%) were in significant pain, and 6 (11.5%) felt the care they received in the ED was better than what they would receive in their PCP clinic. Conclusions: Our study shows that a little less than half of adult Medicaid enrollees presenting to the ED with low acuity conditions would have preferred to use their PCP rather than the ED, if an appointment had been immediately available.
11 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.eissn: 1537-1948 tex.unique-id: ISI:000354726500010
Keywords: Academic Medical Centers; Adult; Article; Continental Population Groups; Cross-Sectional Studies; Emergency Service; Hospital; Female; Health Services Accessibility; Humans; Male; Medicaid; Middle Aged; Patient Preference; Patient Satisfaction; Primary Health Care; United States; Urban Population; adult; ancestry group; cross-sectional study; dept.hhs; emergency department; emergency health service; emergency ward; female; health care availability; health care delivery; health service; health survey; human; major clinical study; male; medicaid; middle aged; pain; patient preference; patient satisfaction; primary care clinic; primary health care; primary medical care; priority journal; statistics and numerical data; technology; university hospital; urban population

A research update on correlates of heavy episodic drinking among undergraduate college students. - Montauti, Sara; Bulmer, Sandra Minor (American Journal of Health Education, 2014)
Despite prevention efforts of colleges and universities across the nation, there have been no substantial decreases in heavy episodic drinking among undergraduates over the past 2 decades.This study provides an update on correlates of heavy episodic drinking for a recent cohort of undergraduate college students.A cross-sectional survey design was utilized. Participants were randomly selected undergraduate students from a public 4-year university located in the Northeast.Heavy episodic drinking was associated with male gender, white race, having a family history of drug or alcohol abuse, smoking cigarettes, and using marijuana. Age, athlete status, completion of an alcohol education program, condom use, depression, anxiety, and financial stress were not associated. After controlling for gender and race, marijuana use and smoking cigarettes were found to increase predictability of heavy episodic drinking.Rates of heavy episodic drinking remain high but correlates may be shifting for this cohort of college students. Opportunities to address heavy episodic drinking concurrently with cigarette smoking and marijuana use should be explored.Qualitative research methods are needed to gain insight into reasons for heavy episodic drinking; information that could inform the creation of more effective programming. © 2014 Copyright © SHAPE America.
12 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/027-307-320-726-457 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.hhs

Women's perceived benefits of exercise during and after breast cancer treatment. - Bulmer, Sandra Minor; Howell, Jeremy; Ackerman, Louise; Fedric, Regan (Women & Health, 2012)
Empirical data support the benefits of physical activity for women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer. However, the experience of exercising during or after breast cancer treatment has not been fully documented. The purpose of the researchers in this study was to provide an in-depth description of women's experiences with exercising during or after their breast cancer treatments, specifically, their perceptions of the benefits they experienced as a result of participation in an individualized exercise program that included cardiovascular and resistance activities. Forty-five women who had been diagnosed with breast cancer within the previous two years were recruited from two oncology practices after electing to enroll in an exercise program. Data were collected between September 2006 and August 2007 through in-depth interviews at various stages in the exercise program and analyzed simultaneously using thematic analysis methods. Whether in treatment or post-treatment, women attributed psychological, physical, and social benefits to their participation in the exercise program. Participants credited the program with helping them to feel better, regain control over their bodies and their lives, manage their emotions, and prepare them to live healthfully going forward. These results provide insight into the specific ways women experience exercise during and after their breast cancer treatments.
24 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Place: United States Bulmer, Sandra Minor. Department of Public Health, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT 06515, USA. bulmers1@southernct.edu
Keywords: *Adaptation; Psychological; *Breast Neoplasms/px [Psychology]; *Exercise Therapy/px [Psychology]; *Resistance Training; Adaptation; Psychological; Adult; Breast Neoplasms; Breast Neoplasms/di [Diagnosis]; Breast Neoplasms/rh [Rehabilitation]; Breast Neoplasms/th [Therapy]; Exercise Therapy; Female; Health Care Surveys; Health Services Accessibility; Humans; Interviews as Topic; Middle Aged; Perception; Physical Fitness; Qualitative Research; Questionnaires; Resistance Training; San Francisco; Social Support; Stress; Psychological; Stress; Psychological/px [Psychology]; Surveys and Questionnaires; United States; adaptive behavior; adult; article; breast cancer; breast tumor; dept.hhs; exercise; female; fitness; health care delivery; health care survey; human; interview; kinesiotherapy; mental stress; middle aged; perception; psychological aspect; psychosocial; qualitative research; questionnaire; resistance training; social support; women's health

Young women's experiences living with polycystic ovary syndrome - Weiss, Theresa R.; Bulmer, Sandra Minor (JOGNN - Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing, 2011)
Objective: To explore the psychosocial effects of living with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) through the experiences of young women diagnosed with this endocrine disorder. Design: A qualitative, phenomenological methodology was used. Data were obtained through personal, semistructured interviews. Setting: College campuses in New England. Participants: A purposive sample of 12 young women with PCOS age 18 to 23 years. Results: The following themes emerged from analysis of participants' responses: concerns for older self, feeling physically inferior, coping with symptoms, patient-provider relationship, seeking useable information and support, and coming to terms with a chronic condition. Conclusions: Participants in this study faced numerous physical, social, and emotional challenges on a daily basis. As these young women gathered information relevant to their needs, sought and received social support, and maintained their daily routines to improve their health and appearance, they came to terms with this chronic condition. Based on participants' relayed experiences, it became evident that a need exists for health care practitioners to include psychosocial support in a comprehensive holistic plan for the treatment of PCOS in adolescents and young women in their early twenties. JOGNN, 40, 709-718; 2011. DOI: 10.1111/j.1552-6909.2011.01299.x
35 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] tex.eissn: 1552-6909 tex.unique-id: ISI:000297575300007
Keywords: Adaptation; Physiological; Adaptation; Psychological; Adolescent; Adolescents; Age Factors; Attitude to Health; Cross-Sectional Studies; Female; Humans; Interpersonal Relations; Interviews as Topic; Lived experience; New England; PCOS; Polycystic Ovary Syndrome; Polycystic ovary syndrome; Psychosocial; Qualitative; Quality of Life; Quality of life; Risk Assessment; Self Concept; Severity of Illness Index; Social Support; United States; Urban Population; Young Adult; Young women; adaptation; adaptive behavior; adolescent; adult; age; article; attitude to health; comparative study; cross-sectional study; dept.hhs; female; hospitalization; human; human relation; interview; ovary polycystic disease; psychological aspect; quality of life; risk assessment; self concept; social support; urban population

The impact of caloric information on college student's fast food purchasing intentions - Zigmont, Victoria A; Bulmer, Sandra Minor (American journal of health education, 2015)
Background: Fast food establishments are available on many college campuses and, as a result, many students consume foods that are high in calories and contribute to unhealthy weight gain. Purpose: This study measured college students' knowledge of the calorie content for fast food items and whether the provision of calorie information for those foods influenced their future purchasing intentions. Method: Randomly selected undergraduate college students (N = 201) completed an online survey that measured baseline knowledge of calorie content for a fast food item and intention to purchase that item in the future. After provision of accurate calorie information, students were posttested for intention to purchase that item in the future. Results: The majority of students underestimated calorie content for fast food items. After receiving accurate calorie information, those who initially underestimated calorie content were significantly more likely to change their intention to purchase that food item in the future. Discussion: Many college students are interested in avoiding high-calorie fast food items but are uninformed about calorie content. Translation to Health Education Practice: Colleges should provide calorie information for fast food items at the point of purchase so that students can make informed decisions that will promote their health. © 2015, Copyright © SHAPE America.
3 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/080-184-250-213-713 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.hhs; dept.pch

Using CBPR methods in college health research exploring excessive alcohol consumption - Bulmer, Sandra Minor; Barton, Barbara A; Liefeld, Julie; Montauti, Sara; Santos, Stephanie; Richard, Melissa; Hnath, Laura; Pelletier, Kara; Lalanne, Jude (Journal of Adolescent Research, 2016)
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is a collaborative methodology that uniquely involves stakeholders in all stages of the research process. CBPR has been widely utilized in the field of public health, but not widely employed with college populations. This study utilized CBPR methods within a college community to gain insight into excessive alcohol consumption. Six student researchers planned and carried out a rigorous qualitative study at a public university in the Northeast region of the United States. A total of 48 undergraduate participants were recruited for focus groups that were facilitated by two student researchers, and transcribed and analyzed using thematic analysis methods. Students' reasons for drinking alcohol were focused within the themes of inclusion, habitual default, and the student development process. Social media, strict policy/enforcement, and student's desire to avoid responsibility led to increased risk and consequences related to drinking. Students recommended late night transportation and a Good Samaritan policy as strategies to improve student safety. This study led to student advocacy and policy change directed at improving student's health and safety and demonstrated that CBPR methods show promise for engaging students and producing meaningful data.
7 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/015-321-517-465-575 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: college issues; dept.hhs; dept.mft; emerging adulthood; health; qualitative methods; substance use

The Andersen–Newman Behavioral Model of Health Service Use as a conceptual basis for understanding patient behavior within the patient–physician dyad: The influence of trust on adherence to statins in older people living with HIV and cardiovascular disease - Petrovic, Kimberly; Blank, Thomas O (Cogent psychology, 2015)
The observation that “(d)rugs don’t work in patients who don’t take them” seems obvious; however, for older people living with HIV and cardiovascular disease (CVD), the potential for taking large numbers of medications on a regular basis may present as an overwhelming task, particularly as HIV and CVD progress and worsen over time. The extent to which older people living with HIV and CVD follow medication schedules for the treatment of these chronic health conditions is not understood well, and myriad questions exist with regard to medication adherence and older people living with HIV and CVD. For instance, do older people living with HIV and CVD take all medications as prescribed? Does this group prioritize which medications to take, perhaps demonstrating a preference for taking antiretroviral medications for the treatment of HIV as opposed to statins for the treatment of CVD? In the process of answering these and other questions, recognizing the individual and his or her attitudes and behaviors within the context of the dyadic relationship shared between patient and physician is paramount. Developing a more thorough understanding of this dyadic relationship allows for a better grasp of the context within which medication adherence occurs for older people living with HIV and CVD. That said, because of the ability to lend itself to an understanding of human behavior, human development, and psychology, the Andersen and Newman Behavioral Model of Health Service Use provides a worthwhile conceptual basis for beginning to answer these questions. © 2015 The Author(s). This open access article is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.
14 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/062-858-047-849-05X tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: CVD; HIV and AIDS; adherence; dept.fye; dyadic relationship; older adults; trust

Are we overestimating REIT idiosyncratic risk? Analysis of pricing effects and persistence - Abugri, Benjamin A.; Dutta, Sandip (International Review of Economics & Finance, 2014)
This study uses a multifactor REIT-specific model to estimate and compare REIT idiosyncratic volatility vis-A-vis the same from the Fama-French three-factor model. Estimates of conditional idiosyncratic volatility and conditional betas obtained from a multifactor REIT-returns model and a bivariate EGARCH model respectively are found to be positively and significantly related with REIT returns. Consistent with Merton's (1987) predictions, we observe that larger REITs post higher average returns when idiosyncratic risk is introduced in cross-sectional regressions. Persistence of past market-risk does not appear to be short-lived and seems to have a lasting impact on future idiosyncratic volatility. We also observe mild evidence of persistence of past idiosyncratic risk, albeit short-lived, thereby suggesting that past idiosyncratic risk has a short-term impact on future idiosyncratic risk. Published by Elsevier Inc.
6 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/007-590-504-886-587 tex.eissn: [object Object] tex.unique-id: [object Object]
Keywords: Conditional betas; Idiosyncratic risk; REITs; dept.fin

Testing trade-off and pecking order models of capital structure: does legal system matter? - Cotei, Carmen; Farhat, Joseph B; Abugri, Benjamin A (Managerial Finance, 2011)
Purpose – This paper aims to examine the link between financing patterns, information asymmetry and legal traditions in 37 countries during the 1990-2004 period. Design/methodology/approach – The analysis is based on three theories: the trade-off theory, pecking order hypothesis and market timing hypothesis. The authors test the predictions of these theories/hypotheses using regression analysis. The econometric method used is panel data with firm and country fixed effects. The authors develop a modified pecking order model which controls for short- and long-term debt level changes and simultaneously test the predictions of all theories. Findings – Consistent with studies for US firms, the results show that firms across all countries adjust toward the target leverage, but with significantly different rate. The long-term debt contribution in the rate of adjustment is 64 percent in common law countries and 51 percent in civil law countries. The ability of the model to explain changes in leverage ratios is higher in common law countries. The authors find support for market timing hypothesis but no support for pecking order of financing. These results support their conjecture that stronger investor protection, higher transparency and well-developed financial markets in common law countries reduce the cost of recapitalization. Research limitations/implications – The limitation of this study comes from lack of data availability to measure contract enforcement, transparency, and corporate governance variables. Future research can incorporate these variables to explain the differences in capital structure decisions across countries with different legal systems. Practical implications – The findings show that firms' capital structure decisions are not only a function of their own characteristics but also the result of legal and financial market development in which they operate. Originality/value – This is the first study that sheds light about rate of adjustment to optimal capital structure and pecking order of financing in 37 countries with different legal traditions and financial market developments. The authors are not aware of any other study that uses a modified pecking order model in an international context. © 2011, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
12 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/097-009-195-862-68X tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Capital; Financial development; International capital structure; Legal systems; Pecking order theory; Trade-off theory; dept.fin; peer-reviewed

The role of magnetic agents in shaping post-disaster land use - Zavar, Elyse (Land Use Policy, 2016)
Three neighborhoods in Lexington, Kentucky, share a common flood history, including property acquisitions, as a means to mitigate against flooding; yet, the interactions of residents with the buyout landscapes vary significantly among the neighborhoods. Although the same institutions and structural controls implemented flood buyout programs in all three neighborhoods, semi-structured interviews illustrate that differing perspectives, personalities, and neighborhood politics shaped unique identities and land uses for the acquired properties in each neighborhood. Varying levels of resident engagement with the buyout landscape resulted in a range of attitudes towards hazard preparation, management, and mitigation, thus leaving some neighborhoods more resilient to future flooding than others. This study explores key residents, termed magnetic agents, who drove neighborhood civic action and land uses on the open space created through floodplain property acquisition. This research indicates magnetic agents can serve as important partners for local governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in building community-based projects aimed at reducing vulnerability to flood events and instituting high utility land uses on floodplain buyout open space.(C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
9 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/031-794-376-727-198 tex.eissn: [object Object] tex.orcid-numbers: [object Object] tex.unique-id: [object Object]
Keywords: Agency; Floodplain buyout; Kentucky; Land management; Lexington; Resiliency; United States; dept.egm; flooding; floodplain; hazard management; land management; land use planning; neighborhood; open space

The Modifiable Conceptual Unit Problem demonstrated using pollen and seed dispersal - Miller, Matthew D (Global Ecology and Conservation, 2016)
The Modifiable Areal Unit Problem (MAUP) is a famous issue in spatial analysis that states the output of a spatial analysis is influenced by the spatial extent of the units used in the analysis. This study demonstrates that the MAUP is accompanied with another intractable spatial issue in spatial modeling; the Modifiable Conceptual Unit Problem (MCUP). The MCUP states that the conceptualization of spatial processes impacts the output of spatial analysis and occurs when a model with one spatial dimension is applied to a spatial model with more than one spatial dimension. This study demonstrates the MCUP by developing three conceptual models of dispersal and showing how they produce different results even when given the same initial dispersal curves and areal units. Three conceptual models of dispersal (sum of curve points model, area of distance range model, and the volume of distance range model) are described and applied to a grid landscape with a single point of dispersal and a grid landscape with multiple points of dispersal. A Geographic Information System (GIS) is used to evaluate how the models differ in their distribution of pollen or seeds across the landscapes. The three models of dispersal are each valid conceptualizations of the dispersal process, but when given the same dispersal curve parameters, they produce different distributions of dispersed items across grid landscapes. The sum of curve points model is the least complicated model because it only uses a few points from the defined dispersal curve. The area of distance range model uses the entire dispersal curve, but is based on a single dimension of space and thus conceptually abstracted from the grid landscape. The volume of distance range model uses the two spatial dimensions present in the grid landscape and thus is the most conceptually sound model of the three. The underlying conceptualization of the dispersal process can impact the results of dispersal models. Applying dispersal curves with one spatial dimension to grids with two spatial dimensions makes inherent assumptions about the conceptualization of dispersal. This study highlights the necessity of researchers to declare their conceptual models of dispersal when applying modeled dispersal curves to grid landscapes. © 2016 The Author.
4 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/009-510-462-186-063 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Conceptual; Dispersal; Grid; MAUP; Pollen; Spatial; dept.egm

Land use change on US floodplain buyout sites, 1990-2000 - Zavar, Elyse; Hagelman, III, Ronald R. (Disaster Prevention and Management, 2016)
Purpose - The Federal Emergency Management Agency provides guidelines for the management of open space created through property acquisition (buyouts); however, land use decisions are primarily left to local governments manifesting in a variety of uses. The purpose of this paper is to provide a land use assessment of buyout sites, to describe the changes in those uses that have occurred during a ten-year period from 1990 to 2000, and to offer an assessment of management approaches employed across these sites. Design/methodology/approach - Using a mixed-methods approach consisting of a land use classification survey and a semi-structured questionnaire of floodplain managers, this study explores the land use trends at buyout sites, diverse approaches local governments take in managing the open spaces created through floodplain buyout programs, and the successes and challenges communities face in open space management. Findings - Results indicate strong support from floodplain managers for property acquisition and several cases emerged where communities put their newly acquired public land to creative uses. However, the opportunity to leverage these properties for greater public values is largely being missed, primarily because of limited funding. Practical implications - The analysis indicates strong support among floodplain managers for the buyout approach; however, additional resource-sharing and funding opportunities are needed to increase the utility of buyout properties. Originality/value - By evaluating the long-term management strategies floodplain managers utilize on buyout sites, this study adds to an underrepresented area of scholarship and is of value to practitioners, government officials, and academics.
44 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/088-423-912-140-83X tex.eissn: [object Object] tex.orcid-numbers: [object Object] tex.unique-id: [object Object]
Keywords: Buyout; Disaster mitigation; Floodplain management; Land use; dept.egm

Rainwater Harvesting as an Effective Climate Change Adaptation Strategy in Rural and Urban Settings - Ferrand, Ezgi Akpinar (Managing Water Resources under Climate Uncertainty: Examples from Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Australia, 2015)
Human societies are known for their resilience and ability to adapt to short- and long-term environmental change. Despite their pragmatism and adaptability, humans could be forced to move and/or seek better conditions for survival, especially when climate change and water availability are at issue. This chapter provides case studies on easy-to-adopt rainwater harvesting applications as effective climate change adaptation strategies in rural and urban settings to increase human resiliency.
Citation Key Alias: lens.org/158-085-691-782-246
Keywords: Climate Change Adaptation; Climate change adaptation; Rainwater Harvesting; Rainwater harvesting; Urban and Rural Settings; Urban and rural settings; dept.egm

Two new Peruvian species of Jaltomata (Solanaceae, Solaneae) with red floral nectar - Mione, Thomas; González, Segundo Leiva; Yacher, Leon (Brittonia, 2014)
Two new Jaltomata species (Solanaceae) of Peru that produce red floral nectar are described. Jaltomata neei of Department Cajamarca has 1–4 flowers per inflorescence, the campanulate corolla is green and then changes to blue, corolla lobes (5) and lobules (5) are equally prominent, a corona is lacking, five radial staminal-corolla thickenings create nectar troughs between, and the stigma is capitate. Jaltomata quipuscoae of Department Arequipa has solitary flowers, a purple, broadly crateriform, 5-lobed corolla, a corona on which nectar pools, a punctiform stigma, lacks corolla thickenings, and the mature fruit is whitish. Photographs, illustrations and tables are included that allow comparison with closely related species. © 2014, The New York Botanical Garden.
10 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: pop00141 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Arequipa; Cajamarca; Jaltomata neei; Jaltomata quipuscoae; Peru; corolla color change; corona; dept.egm; lomas; protogyny; red nectar

Metals, Organic Compounds, and Nutrients in Long Island Sound: Sources, Magnitudes, Trends, and Impacts - Varekamp, Johan C.; McElroy, Anne E.; Mullaney, John R.; Breslin, Vincent T. (Long Island Sound: Prospects for the Urban Sea, 2014)
Long Island Sound (LIS) is a relatively shallow estuary with a mean depth of 20 m (maximum depth 49 m) and a unique hydrology and history of pollutant loading. These factors have contributed to a wide variety of contamination problems in its muddy sediments, aquatic life, and water column. The LIS sediments are contaminated with toxic compounds and elements related to past and present wastewater discharges and runoff. These include nonpoint and stormwater runoff and groundwater discharges, whose character has changed over the years along with the evolution of its watershed and industrial history. Major impacts have resulted from the copious amounts of nutrients discharged into LIS through atmospheric deposition, domestic and industrial waste water flows, fertilizer releases, and urban runoff. All these sources and their effects are in essence the result of human presence and activities in the watershed, and the severity of pollutant loading and their impacts generally scales with total population in the watersheds surrounding LIS. Environmental legislation passed since the mid-to-late 1900s (e.g., Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act) has had a beneficial effect, however, and contaminant loadings for many toxic organic and inorganic chemicals and nutrients have diminished over the last few decades (O’Shea and Brosnan 2000; Trench et al. 2012; O’Connor and Lauenstein 2006; USEPA 2007). Major strides have been made in reducing the inflow of nutrients into LIS, but cultural eutrophication is still an ongoing problem and nutrient control efforts will need to continue. Nonetheless, LIS is still a heavily human impacted estuary (an “Urban Estuary,” as described for San Francisco Bay by Conomos 1979), and severe changes in water quality and sediment toxicity as well as ecosystem shifts have occurred since the European colonization in the early 1600s (Koppelman et al., 1976). The Sound has seen the most severe environmental changes over the last 400 years during its 10,000 year history (Lewis, this volume), suggesting that human impacts have overwhelmed the natural forces at play.
Citation Key Alias: lens.org/113-875-687-538-455
Keywords: Boston Harbor; Coastal Embayment; Marine Organic Matter; Striped Bass; White Perch; dept.egm

Forest cover change in the northeastern U.S.: A spatial assessment in the context of an environmental kuznets curve - Bentley, George C; Cromley, Robert G; Hanink, Dean M; Heidkamp, C Patrick (International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research, 2013)
An analysis of the association of forest cover, treated as an environmental good, and income at the county scale in the Northeastern United States was conducted for 2006. Global analysis using a spatial error regression model indicates an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) type of relationship, with total forest cover, percent forest cover, and forest cover per capita is better associated with per capita income and is better specified as a polynomial rather than in linear terms. Local analysis, using geographically weighted regression, indicates that sub-regional effects are pronounced, and that conformity to an EKC varies spatially and by forest cover measure. The findings should be interpreted strictly within their context of a cross-sectional analysis and within certain statistical limitations, primarily engendered by multicollinearity of the explanatory variables in the regression models. Copyright © 2013, IGI Global.
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/013-145-892-110-132 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Environmental Kuznets Curve; Forest Cover; Geographically Weighted Regression; Northeastern United States; Spatial Error Regression Model; dept.egm

Tax lien sales as local neoliberal governance strategy: The case of Waterbury, Connecticut - Botein, Hilary; Heidkamp, C Patrick (Local Economy, 2013)
This article examines bulk sales of municipal property tax liens in the formerly industrial city of Waterbury, Connecticut, USA, in the 1990s, in order to explore the limits and contradictions of neoliberal local governance strategies. In the USA, cities and states create property tax liens by reducing delinquent real estate taxes to a judgment that creates a legal claim against the property at issue. We argue that Waterbury's efforts to resolve its fiscal stress by enhancing short-term revenues ultimately further constrained its revenue base, the tax lien sales reflected a spatial selectivity that created barriers to revitalization when neither the city nor tax lien purchasers had incentives to foreclose on distressed properties in struggling neighborhoods, and the tax lien sales' failure to resolve the city's budget crisis set in motion new efforts at tax base enhancement through real estate-led development in the central business district that also were unsuccessful. © The Author(s) 2013 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav.
4 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/002-820-978-161-106 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.egm; housing; local government; neighbourhood decline; neoliberalism; real estate taxes; tax liens; urban governance

Use of aguadas as water management sources in two southern maya lowland sites - Ferrand, Ezgi Akpinar; Dunning, Nicholas P; Lentz, David L; Jones, John G (Ancient Mesoamerica, 2012)
Aguadas, either natural or human-made ponds, were significant sources of water for the ancient Maya. Aguadas are common features in the Maya Lowlands and make valuable locations for collecting archaeological and paleoenvironmental data. This article discusses research conducted at four aguadas around two adjacent Maya sites, San Bartolo and Xultun in Peten, Guatemala. Both San Bartolo and Xultun were established during the Preclassic period. However, the fates of the two sites differed, as Xultun continued to prosper while the city of San Bartolo was abandoned near the close of the Late Preclassic period. We argue that aguadas provide important clues for understanding the fate of these two ancient communities and many others in the Maya Lowlands. Copyright © 2012 Cambridge University Press.
35 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/063-122-134-377-577 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Guatemala [Central America]; Maya Lowlands; Peten; San Bartolo; archaeological evidence; dept.egm; paleoenvironment; planning history; urban planning; water management; water resource; water use

Where to begin? Getting started teaching GIS&T - West, Eric (Teaching Geographic Information Science and Technology in Higher Education, 2012)
tex.type: Proceedings paper
Keywords: Coordinating lectures; Exercise style; Faculty teaching GIS&T; Global positioning system; Global positioning systems (GPS); Goals; for courses; Inquiry instruction; Learning objective; in BoK; Learning objectives; Teaching; Teaching GIS&T; dept.egm

‘Food desertification’: The loss of a major supermarket in New Haven, Connecticut - Russell, Scott E; Heidkamp, C Patrick (Applied Geography, 2011)
In March of 2010, the only full-service supermarket centrally located in New Haven, Connecticut closed, stranding many of the city's residents in a food desert. A food desert is an urban or rural area with significantly limited access to retail sources of healthy and affordable food, due to a combination of socioeconomic disadvantages and physical distance. This article considers the pivotal and causative role of the business model of supermarkets in the creation of new or exacerbation of current urban food deserts, as well as in the impact the loss of one market has on the resilience of the community's food system. Using the events of New Haven as a case study, the form and severity of the food desert in New Haven is analyzed by mapping 1/4 mile, 1/2 mile, and 1 mile road network service areas of the major supermarkets and grocery stores of the area. These are compared against Census block group data of the New Haven population's median household income, poverty level, and access to a personal vehicle. The results show certain parts of the city with low income, high poverty, and low vehicle access to exist in hardship outside the service areas of nearby stores. GIS methodology aids in illustrating the conclusion that the loss of just one supermarket has had significantly detrimental effects on the geographical food access of the city's residents. The ongoing lack of a full-service supermarket in the city not only raises concerns about the value of a new supermarket coming in, but also creates possibilities for seeking alternative food system solutions. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
80 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: ISI:000292537700002, lens.org/010-795-278-274-239 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Connecticut; Food deserts; Food security; GIS; Geographic information systems (GIS); New Haven; Supermarkets; United States; Urban food systems; consumption behavior; dept.egm; food consumption; mapping method; retailing; spatial analysis

Astana, Kazakhstan: Megadream, Megacity, Megadestiny? - Yacher, Leon (Engineering Earth: The Impacts of Megaengineering Projects, 2011)
Astana, Kazakhstan’s new capital city is being built to fit the future vision of the country’s leaders. Unique architectural styles, combined with creative morphological patterns give the city a distinctive look. It is being constructed to impress. It also represents a break from the past. As such, Astana embodies the meaning of a ‘Forward city.’ Forward cities are created for a variety of reasons; political, geopolitical, religious, economic or a combination of these. By relocating a capital city elsewhere, a country seeks to construct a fresh urban site that reflects a change from the traditional center of governmental activities to a new location that reveals a new direction for the country and its people. This chapter provides a brief background of the political context and conditions existing in the region, followed by an overview of the city’s geographic base, and scrutinize the unique methods of finance used to construct Astana. Also, the planning and design of the city will be examined, paying special attention to the ways in which architecture has been utilized to construct a futuristic vision of a public project for domestic and international consumption.
Citation Key Alias: lens.org/000-386-017-547-147
Keywords: Capital City; Kyrgyz Republic; Presidential Decree; Soviet Republic; Special Economic Zone; dept.egm

Mobility, farmworkers, and Connecticut's tobacco valley, 1900–1950 - Harrison, Blake (Journal of Historical Geography, 2010)
By the early decades of the twentieth century, southern New England's Connecticut Valley had become a center of shade tobacco production and a destination for seasonal farmworkers drawn from sources inside and outside of New England. This paper explores the history of three groups of seasonal workers-children from area cities and towns; white southern high school students: and young African American men from southern high schools and black colleges-with an eye to assessing the impact of their presence on the form and meaning of the Connecticut Valley. My first goal is to add depth to the historiography of twentieth-century New England farming by drawing attention to the largely overlooked story of non-rural and extra-regional seasonal farmworkers. My second goal is to frame the case of Connecticut tobacco labor according to the study of mobility and its relationship to landscape. The mobility of workers into and within the region, I suggest, made possible the success of the shade tobacco economy while at the same time posing challenges to popularized cultural conventions about regional identity. For this reason, I argue, the history of Connecticut's shade tobacco landscape was informed by the efforts of shade tobacco growers to direct and control a confluence of environmental conditions, group and place-based identities, and the mechanics and meanings of mobility among seasonal workers. By hiring non-local, seasonal workers and by attempting to control their mobility, large-scale, corporate growers and their spokespeople ultimately sought to maintain control over the development and identity of the valley's rural landscape. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
2 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/074-295-443-843-273 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Agriculture; Connecticut; Connecticut Valley; Labor; Mobility; New England; Nicotiana tabacum; Tobacco; United States; agricultural production; dept.egm; environmental conditions; mobility; rural landscape; tobacco; twentieth century

Photojournal: distant beats: tradition and change in senegal - Yacher, Leon (Focus on Geography, 2010)
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/010-871-272-049-905 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Senegal; cultural change; cultural geography; cultural influence; cultural landscape; cultural tradition; dept.egm; music

‘The Author Makes the Reader Acquainted with His Abode’: Hawthorne as Transatlantic Tour Guide in The Marble Faun and ‘The Old Manse’ - Baraw, Charles (Transatlantic Literature and Author Love in the Nineteenth Century, 2016)
Here the volume continues its reflections on Hawthorne’s career but turns to his place in the literature of ‘homes and haunts’, taking up the question of how literary geography and its localization of authors helped construct an authorial presence for Americans and a tangible transatlantic literary canon. (It turns out that having a home on the literary itinerary was crucial to nineteenth-century reception.) Baraw demonstrates that the poetics of literary tourism provided Hawthorne with both a means of self-canonization as a tourist attraction and a tool for cultivating the ideal ‘English’ reader for his books. This essay begins a strand of chapters related to literary tourism and the construction of international heritage landscapes.
Citation Key Alias: lens.org/027-169-429-746-184
Keywords: American Author; Authorial Persona; Direct Address; Tour Guide; Tourist Attraction; dept.eng

Pain as semiosomatic force: The disarticulation and rearticulation of subjectivity - Larocco, Steve (Subjectivity, 2016)
Scarry's (The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World, Oxford, New York, 1985) broke crucial ground in examining the antagonisms between pain, embodiment and language, and the isolating effects of pain as experience. This paper submits Scarry's claim that extreme pain destroys language, evades mediation, and isolates the subject to critical scrutiny, arguing instead that pain is a semiosomatic force, a form of feeling generated by imperative information about embodiment (real or imaginary) that works to disarticulate and move the subject and the social environment. Pain is not predominantly antagonistic to language; rather, pain insists on signifying, with language being only one of its performative media. What pain resists is representation, not the informational force exerted through language and other semiotic forms. Rather than unmaking language, pain disarticulates and rearticulates subjectivity, refashioning interrelations between the body, subjectivity, others, and culture in ongoing processes of largely aversive impingement, embroiling subjectivity with the imperative directives of embodied vulnerability. © 2016 Macmillan Publishers Ltd.
3 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/031-246-870-419-636 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.eng; embodiment; pain; performativity; semiotics; subjectivity

Invisible debility: attitudes toward the underrepresented in library workplaces - Brown, Mary E (Public Library Quarterly, 2015)
The American Library Association is committed to recruiting persons of color and those with disabilities to the profession, yet these groups are underrepresented among librarians. While intentional discrimination was the impetus for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, empirical studies in the workplace have exposed continued discrimination through unconscious bias. Extending such research to the library profession raises the question: How do librarians perceive the underrepresented as potential fellow library staff? In my recently conducted study of public library staff and future librarians, participants agreed that library staff should represent the diversity of the communities served; there was little support, however, for actively attempting to advance proportional representation through education or hiring. © , Published with license by Taylor & Francis.
1 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/040-376-541-767-199 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.eng; employment discrimination; hiring bias; peer-reviewed; underrepresentation of minorities in library employment

Is Personality a System? Stability, Process and Plasticity. - Larocco, Steven (Integrative psychological & behavioral science, 2015)
The nomothetic thrust of personality research has been the subject of some significant recent criticism. One major problem is the failure in much personality research to sufficiently scrutinize its methods and its background beliefs. This produces conceptual schematizations of personality that do not sufficiently take into account the disunity and plasticity that affects what is construed as personality; it also underplays the necessity of more fully theorizing the network of infrapsychic and transpersonal systems, processes, structures, templates, interfaces, flows of stimuli, qualities of embodiment and contingencies that dynamically manifest as personality. It is through unfolding the complexity inherent in this network that personality theorization can move forward in new ways. This paper provides a provisional, beginning taxonomy of this network in order to start a research dialogue about personality that doesn't begin with the operative background beliefs of nomothetic methodology, that doesn't tacitly or overtly construe the individual to be a self-regulating, homeostatic system, and that resists presupposing personality as a cohesive, stable quality of personhood.
1 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Place: United States Larocco, Steven. Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT, USA. laroccos1@southernct.edu.
Keywords: *Personality; *Psychological Theory; Contingency; Embodiment; Five-factor model; Humans; Personality; Personality/cl [Classification]; Plasticity; Plasticizer; Psychological Theory; Stabilizer; classification; dept.eng; human; personality; psychological theory

Ideology, affect, semiotics: towards a non-personal theory of personality. - Larocco, Steve (Integrative psychological & behavioral science, 2014)
Personality theories, as Giordano (2014) argues, often treat Western versions of the self as having universal import. Eastern notions of self, however, offer a dramatically different basis for thinking about what personality might be. This paper, nonetheless, seeks to offer a general framework for theorizing about the epiphenomenon of personality in any culture, asserting that it is an effect of specific histories of ideological practices, semiotic networks and systems, and affect, which engage each other in dialogic and dialectical ways. The interactions of these factors, guided by ideology, regularize behavior and affective dynamics, largely in non-personal ways. Subjects are produced and reproduced from these complex interactions, which are situationally specific and simultaneously transpersonal. The subjects formed through these interactions are the basis for the folk psychology of personality, which treats the transient, varying effects of these interactions as more or less reified qualities that form a basis for the construction of selfhood, however conceived.
3 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Place: United States Larocco, Steve. Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT, USA, laroccos1@southernct.edu.
Keywords: *Affect; *Culture; *Personality; *Psychological Theory; Affect; Culture; Five-Factor Model; Humans; Ideology; Personality; Psychological Theory; Semiotics; affect; cultural anthropology; dept.eng; human; personality; psychological theory

Experiencing a social network in an organizational context the facebook internship - Mceachern, Robert W (Business Communication Quarterly, 2011)
As Facebook becomes increasingly more popular as a communication tool for businesses and organizations, it is important that our students learn to transfer personal Facebook skills to professional settings. This article focuses on the lessons learned by two students who used Facebook as part of a social media internship, as well as what the author learned about its use through research and teaching a course on social media and professional writing. © 2011 Association for Business Communication.
12 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/101-977-826-729-780 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Facebook; dept.eng; internships; social media

Guenevere: the abbess of amesbury and the mark of reparation - Holbrook, Sue Ellen (Arthuriana, 2010)
Malory elevates Guenevere to abbess ofAmesbury where she heals her soul through a penitential process clarified by Cassian's teachings on attitude and supplication and by the cloister context and devotional formulas of her speech on salvation. (SEH).
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/102-712-156-403-804 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.eng

Exploring the impacts of school reforms on underrepresented urban students’ college persistence - Yavuz, Olcay (Educational Research and Evaluation, 2016)
This longitudinal quantitative study investigates how participation in the Comprehensive College Readiness Access and Success Program (CCRASP) affects underrepresented urban students’ college persistence. Results revealed that CCRASP participation was associated with higher percentages of students enrolling in both 2- and 4-year colleges as sophomore students. As school leaders and policy makers seek to make all urban students college and career ready, these findings further solidify current urgencies to re-visit K–12 student academic and counselling services. It also provides school leaders and educators with practical information and reform ideas to improve underprivileged students’ persistence and success. © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
3 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: pop00196 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Research-supported school reforms; at-risk students; college persistence; dept.edl; programme evaluation

Curriculum mapping in higher education: a case study and proposed content scope and sequence mapping tool - Arafeh, Sousan (Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2016)
Best practice in curriculum development and implementation requires that discipline-based standards or requirements embody both curricular and programme scopes and sequences. Ensuring these are present and aligned in course/programme content, activities and assessments to support student success requires formalised and systematised review and development processes. These processes are not always in play in higher education, however. Using a descriptive qualitative case study strategy, this article shares how policy outcomes within intermediate and superintendent certification, sixth-year and Ed.D. doctoral courses and programmes at a state university were reviewed, mapped and assessed using an evidence-based curriculum analysis model and tool that mapped standards and outcomes from course syllabus data. Strengths and weaknesses of this approach are discussed and it is suggested that the field might benefit from a curriculum mapping and analysis method that also considers content coverage. A Course-Level Content Scope and Sequence Mapping Tool, developed to map content scope and sequence alongside standards or outcomes mapping, is presented for consideration and testing. The ability to assess and improve curriculum is only as good as the conceptual frameworks, methods and tools available. This critical case study is one effort to advance the field by drawing attention to the importance of curricular content mapping. The study should be of interest to higher education staff, researchers and accreditors concerned with postsecondary programmes and their curricular scope and sequence coherence, quality and improvement. © 2015 UCU.
22 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/115-122-192-888-441 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Curriculum; content; content mapping; curricular content; curricular scope and sequence; curriculum mapping; curriculum mapping tool; dept.edl; educational leadership; higher education; policy; programme coherence

Provoking perspectives of creativity and innovation in leadership: innovation, accountability, and the human side of change - Gregory, Jess L (Journal of Leadership Studies, 2016)
1 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/056-562-317-960-189 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.edl; peer-reviewed

Building Social Capital from the Inside Out: Leveraging Intrapower (Personal Capital) - Haynes, Norris M. (Social Capital and Community Well-Being : The Serve Here Initiative, 2016)
In this writer’s view, the building of social capital starts with the development of personal individual capital. The author posits that an individual may not be optimally effective in building meaningful social relationships and networks, or in influencing results in one’s community that serve the individual and others well, unless the individual has the prerequisite personal attributes and skillsets to do so. Therefore, in this chapter, the author identifies four key personal capital attributes that he sees as foundational to the building of social capital from the inside out. The dynamic synergistic interface among these four core attributes (Control, Empathy, Awareness, and Resolve), is referred to in this chapter as “Intrapower that is seen as a potent facilitative force in the effective building of social capital.
Citation Key Alias: lens.org/047-450-620-848-381
Keywords: Achievement motivation; Civic engagement; Mindfulness; Resilience; Self-awareness; Self-control; Self-regulation; Social & emotional; Youth development; dept.edl

The balanced curriculum model: Description and results - Squires, David (SAGE Open, 2013)
The Balanced Curriculum is a web-based tool that school districts use to create, align, assess, and manage their curriculum development and implementation. The courses are divided into time-bound units with significant tasks (or assured activities) that local district teachers develop and promise to teach. The significant tasks are aligned to standards and assessment specifications. District curriculum authors also develop assessments for all to use when implementing the curriculum. Results of more than 15 years of implementation show that all districts that have developed curriculum using this model, and ensured implementation, have had significant improvement on their test scores. Implications for teachers, principals, and central office staff are given at the end of the article. © The Author(s) 2013.
0 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/057-464-358-258-828 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Curriculum; Student achievement results; dept.edl

Culturally responsive leadership: best practice in integrating immigrant students - Magno, Cathyrn S; Schiff, Margo (Intercultural Education, 2010)
8 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/013-598-856-404-821 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.edl

Exploring how teacher-related factors relate to student achievement in learning advanced algebra in technology-enhanced classrooms. - Hegedus, Stephen; Tapper, John; Dalton, Sara (Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2016)
In this study, we examine the relationship between contextual variables related to teachers and student performance in Advanced Algebra classrooms in the USA. The data were gathered from a cluster-randomized study on the effects of SimCalc MathWorlds®, a curricular and technological intervention as a replacement for Algebra 2 curriculum, on student learning of Algebra 2 content. Conditional measures (teacher background characteristics) and instructional measures (self-reported instructional preferences, stances, and classroom practices) were subjected to a variety of empirical analyses to discern their relationship to student learning. Researchers examined both the overall effect of teacher contextual variables on student learning and the specific effect of SimCalc on both teacher instructional measures and student performance. There is evidence to support that teachers who use the SimCalc curriculum value classroom communication, deep understanding of math concepts, and support for both routine and non-routine problems. © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014.
6 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/037-412-463-374-521 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Algebra; Connectivity; Dynamic representations; Student achievement; Teacher contextual variables; dept.edu

The impact of technology-enhanced curriculum on learning advanced algebra in US high school classrooms - Hegedus, Stephen J.; Dalton, Sara; Tapper, John R. (Educational Technology Research and Development, 2015)
We report on two large studies conducted in advanced algebra classrooms in the US, which evaluated the effect of replacing traditional algebra 2 curriculum with an integrated suite of dynamic interactive software, wireless networks and technology-enhanced curriculum on student learning. The first study was a cluster randomized trial and the second was a quasi-experimental replication study using a subset of the original treatment teachers. Both studies demonstrated significant impact on student learning of core algebra concepts including both procedural and conceptual problems. Various variables were modeled to understand the impact of such an intervention including demographic factors and class level. We found that being in an honors class significantly predicts learning gains but being in a non-honors SimCalc class significantly predicts learning gains versus all other groups. We also found significant effects of treatment on difference scores for problems which demanded simple procedural approaches and those that demanded complex conceptual understanding.
16 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/107-090-856-415-345 tex.eissn: [object Object] tex.unique-id: [object Object]
Keywords: Advanced algebra; Classroom connectivity; HLM; Randomized trial; SimCalc; Simulations; dept.edu

Investigating why teachers reported continued use and sharing of an educational innovation after the research has ended - Hegedus, Stephen J.; Dalton, Sara; Roschelle, Jeremy; Penuel, William; Dickey-Kurdziolek, Margaret; Tatar, Deborah (Mathematical Thinking and Learning, 2014)
We investigated prospects for reported sustainable adoption and sharing of an educational innovation through survey research including online questionnaires and telephone interviews. This investigation is part of the Scaling-Up SimCalc experimental program, which combines dynamic representational algebra software (SimCalc MathWorlds) with integrated curriculum and small professional development workshops focused on how to use the software and how to integrate this intervention into the larger year-long curriculum. Teachers who (1) perceived the usefulness of the SimCalc professional development as being consistent with personal aims and (2) perceived specific affordances of the software/curriculum to be valuable were more likely to report continued use of the innovation after the research had ended and that they had shared it with colleagues over time.
2 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/054-625-976-984-638 tex.eissn: [object Object] tex.orcid-numbers: [object Object] tex.unique-id: [object Object]
Keywords: dept.edu

MADness in the method: On the volatility and irregularity of technology diffusion - Bodo, Peter (Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2016)
The paper investigates how some drivers of technology diffusion shape the volatility and irregularity of the diffusion process. It presents an agent-based simulation model of technology diffusion that includes variables to control technology generations, social pressures, market size, and network randomness. Several variable combinations are defined, technology diffusions are simulated, and the volatility and irregularity of the process are measured. The paper explores scenarios with unusually high volatility and/or irregularity in more detail. It shows that technology generations mostly affect volatility, social pressures impact irregularity, while network randomness and market size amplify the other two factors' effects. Also, the paper argues that market structure changes generated by the factor combinations in question indirectly affect diffusion volatility and irregularity and these indirect effects may explain very high levels of, and unexpected changes in the volatility and irregularity of the technology diffusion process. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc All.rights reserved.
4 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/066-992-710-626-913 tex.eissn: [object Object] tex.unique-id: [object Object]
Keywords: Agent-based model; Agent-based models; Agent-based simulation models; Autonomous agents; Brand and product category competition; Commerce; Computational methods; Control technologies; Diffusion; Diffusion process; Economic and social effects; Market structures; Network randomness; Product categories; Random processes; Several variables; Technology diffusion; Technology generations; competition (economics); dept.eco; network analysis; numerical model; technology diffusion

Ownership structure, non-interest income and bank risk in ghana - Abugri, Benjamin A; Osah, Theophilus Teye; Andoh, Samuel (Banking and Finance Review, 2016)
This study investigates the relationship between bank ownership structure, non-interest income and risk in an emerging market setting. Our analysis shows that the relationship between product diversification and bank risk is significantly influenced by asset size and ownership structure. In contrast to large banks, small banks are exposed to higher risk when the income share of non-traditional banking activities rise. We also find strong evidence of differences in risk exposure of banks to non-interest income after controlling for ownership structure. Private domestic and private foreign banks experience lower risk with higher non-interest income while the converse is true for public domestic banks. Furthermore, we show that the speed with which risk adjust to non-income activities is faster for domestic private banks than for foreign banks. These results could provide useful information to investors and regulators of banking institutions as they seek to reconcile the important issues of bank ownership structure, income diversification and size on the one hand with the level of risk exposure on the other hand. © 2016, Banking and Finance Review.
Citation Key Alias: lens.org/145-753-875-477-19X
Keywords: Bank risk; Ghana; Non-interest income; Ownership structure; dept.eco; dept.fin; ⛔ No DOI found

Sustainable growth with irreversible stock effects of renewable resources - Lopez, Ramon; Yoon, Sang Won (Economics Letters, 2016)
This paper examines sustainability conditions when the stock effects of renewable resources prevail, and characterizes the maximal critical level of initial pollution emissions such that Pigovian tax alone ensures sustainable growth. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
4 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/081-651-810-246-326 tex.type: [object Object]
Keywords: Optimal pollution tax; Renewable resources; Stock effects; Sustainable growth; dept.eco

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.
16 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/022-073-168-350-692 tex.eissn: [object Object] tex.orcid-numbers: [object Object] tex.researcherid-numbers: [object Object] tex.unique-id: [object Object]
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

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.
82 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key Alias: lens.org/001-315-816-076-394 tex.eissn: [object Object] tex.orcid-numbers: [object Object] tex.researcherid-numbers: [object Object] tex.unique-id: [object Object]
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

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

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

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.
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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

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.
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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.
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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

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.
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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