The Roles of Vasopressin and Oxytocin in Memory Processing - McEwen, Barbara B. (Advances in pharmacology ; v. 50, 2004)
Keywords: Physiological aspects; Research; Memory; Research; Neuropeptides; Research; Oxytocin; Vasopressin; dept.psy; faculty_collection

Emergence of Uncertainty: A Microgenetic Study of the Preschool Period, Sabbatical Leave Report - Kahlbaugh, Patricia (2003)
Keywords: dept.psy; faculty_collection; sabbatical_report

When to Forgive - Affinito, Mona Gustafson (New Harbinger Publications, 1999)
Keywords: Forgiveness; dept.psy; faculty_collection

Helping with Forgiveness Decisions: A Brief Guide for Counselors - Affinito, Mona Gustafson (Manisses Communications Group, Inc., 1998)
Keywords: Forgiveness; dept.psy; faculty_collection

The Nature of Visual Illusion - Fineman, Mark B. (Dover Publications, 1996)
Keywords: Problems, exercises, etc; Visual perception; Visual perception; dept.psy; faculty_collection

Learning and Behavior - Mazur, James E. (Prentice Hall, 1994)
Keywords: Learning, Psychology of; Conditioned response; Behavior modification; Psychology, Comparative; dept.psy; faculty_collection

Behavior Modification - Sherman, William M. (Harper & Row, 1990)
Keywords: Behavior modification; dept.psy; faculty_collection

The Copts Since the Arab Invasion: Strangers in Their Land - Karas, Shawky F. (American, Canadian, and Australian C. Coptic Associations, 1985)
Keywords: 1952-1970; Copts; Egypt; Ethnic relations; Egypt; Politics and government; dept.psy

The Inquisitive Eye - Fineman, Mark B. (Oxford University Press, 1981)
Keywords: Problems, exercises, etc; Visual perception; Visual perception; dept.psy; faculty_collection

Parent Conferences in the Schools: Procedures for Developing Effective Partnership - Losen, Stuart M.; Diament, Bert; Losen, Joyce Garskof (Allyn and Bacon, 1978)
Keywords: Parent-teacher conferences; dept.psy; faculty_collection

Psychoanalysis and Repetition: Why Do We Keep Making the Same Mistakes? - Nasio, Juan-David (SUNY series in contemporary French thought, 2019)
In Psychoanalysis and Repetition, Juan-David Nasio, one of the leading contemporary Lacanian psychoanalysts in France, argues that unconcious repetition represents the core of psychoanalysis as well as no less than the fundamental constitution of the human being--back cover.
Keywords: Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981; Psychoanalysis; Repetition (Philosophy); dept.phi; faculty_collection

Chronos in Aristotle's Physics: On the Nature of Time - Harry, Chelsea C. (SpringerBriefs in philosophy, 2015)
Keywords: Aristotle. Physics; Time; Philosophy; Philosophy of nature; Philosophy; Physics; dept.phi; faculty_collection

Sabbatical leave report: sabbatical Fall 2013 - Volkman, Richard (2013)
This sabbatical leave was devoted to revising and editing material for a book project with the working title, Meditations on Heroic Individualism. The principle objective was to have a finished manuscript, ready for submission to publishers. Additionally, a proposal was developed to add Special Topics course, Ethical Individualism, as a permanent course.
Keywords: dept.phi; faculty_collection; sabbatical_report

The "Backwards, Forwards and Sideways" Changes of Ict: Ethicomp 2010: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference - International Conference on the Social and Ethical Impacts of Information and Communication Technologies (11th : Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona; Arias-Olive, Mario; Bynum, Terrell Ward; Rogerson, Simon; Torres-Coronas, Teresa; Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2010)
"The purpose of this series is to provide an inclusive European forum for discussing the ethical and social issues associated with the development and application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The conferences are held every 18 months."--Introduction.
Keywords: Congresses; Congresses; Information technology; Information technology; Moral and ethical aspects; Professional ethics; dept.phi; faculty_collection

Oedipus: The Most Crucial Concept in Psychoanalysis - Nasio, Juan-David (SUNY series in contemporary French thought, 2010)
In this work, the author argues that the Oedipus complex represents the core of psychoanalysis as well as the fundamental constitution of the human being.--(Source of description unspecified.)
Keywords: Oedipus complex; Psychoanalysis; Oedipus Complex; Psychoanalytic Therapy; dept.phi; faculty_collection

Writing Two Major Chapters of a Book on Flourishing Ethics: Sabbatical Spring 2009 - Bynum, Terrell Ward (2009)
The chapter on the information ethics of Oxford scholar, Luciano Floridi, was completed and is scheduled for publication in Floridi's anthology. The keynote address, Philosophy and the Information Revolution, presented at the Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry 2009 conference in Corfu, Greece, is also scheduled for publication in the journal Ethics and Information Technology. The ideas from both articles have been included in the curriculum for the Computer Ethics class at SCSU.
Keywords: dept.phi; faculty_collection

French Interpretations of Heidegger: An Exceptional Reception - Pettigrew, David; Raffoul, François (SUNY series in contemporary French thought, 2008)
"French Interpretations of Heidegger undertakes a philosophical engagement with the work of the most significant and creative figures involved in the reception of Heidegger in France. The essays address those thinkers who have been influenced by Heidegger's thought and have interpreted it in remarkable ways, including Levinas, Beaufret, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, Irigaray, Zarader, Greisch, and Dastur. The volume explores the extraordinary impact that Heidegger's thought has had on contemporary French philosophy, including such movements as existentialism, deconstruction, feminist theory, post-structuralism, and hermeneutics, and illustrates its impact on the American continental scene as well."--Jacket.
Keywords: Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976; Philosophy, French; dept.phi; faculty_collection

Genocide's Aftermath: Responsibility and Repair - Card, Claudia; Marsoobian, Armen (Metaphilosophy series in philosophy, 2007)
Keywords: Genocide; Government policy; Genocide; History; Genocide; Moral and ethical aspects; Genocide; Prevention; dept.phi; faculty_collection

The Creation of the World, or, Globalization - Nancy, Jean-Luc (SUNY series in contemporary French thought, 2007)
"Appearing in English for the first time, Jean-Luc Nancy's 2002 book reflects on globalization and its impact on our being-in-the-world. Developing a contrast in the French language between two terms that are usually synonymous, or that are used interchangeably, namely globalisation (globalization) and mondialisation (world-forming), Nancy undertakes a rethinking of what "world-forming" might mean. At stake in this distinction is for him nothing less than two possible destinies of our humanity, and of our time. This book is an important contribution by Nancy to a philosophical reflection on the phenomenon of globalization and a further development on his earlier works on our being-in-common, justice, and a-theological existence."--Jacket.
Keywords: Globalization; Philosophy; Political science; Philosophy; Teleology; dept.phi; faculty_collection

The Philosophical Challenge of September 11 - Rockmore, Tom; Margolis, Joseph; Marsoobian, Armen (Metaphilosophy series in philosophy, 2005)
Keywords: Philosophy; Philosophy; Political science; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; Terrorism; United States; Terrorism; dept.phi; faculty_collection

Computer Ethics and Professional Responsibility - Bynum, Terrell Ward; Rogerson, Simon (Blackwell Pub., 2004)
Keywords: Electronic data processing; Moral and ethical aspects; dept.phi; faculty_collection

The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy - Marsoobian, Armen; Ryder, John (Blackwell philosophy guides, 2004)
Keywords: Philosophy, American; dept.phi; faculty_collection

The Book of Love and Pain: Thinking at the Limit with Freud and Lacan - Nasio, Juan-David (SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture, 2004)
"In The Book of Love and Pain, Juan-David Nasio offers the first exclusive treatment of psychic pain in Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalytic literature. Using insights gained from more than three decades as a practicing psychoanalyst, Nasio addresses the limits faced by the analyst in attempting to think and treat pain psychoanalytically. He suggests that while pain is about separation and loss, psychic pain is intensified by paradoxical overinvestment in the lost loved one. Included are discussions of the pain of mourning, the pain of jouissance, unconscious pain, pain as an object of the drive, pain as a form of sexuality, pain and the scream, and the pain of silence. In offering a phenomenological description of psychic pain, The Book of Love and Pain fills a gaping void in psychoanalytic research and will play an important role in our understanding of the human psyche. Book jacket."--Jacket.
Keywords: Pain; Psychological aspects; Psychoanalysis; Stress, Psychological; dept.phi; faculty_collection; methods; psychology; Psychoanalytic Theory; Psychoanalytic Therapy; therapy; Bereavement; Pain

Cyberphilosophy: The Intersection of Philosophy and Computing - Moor, James H.; Bynum, Terrell Ward (Blackwell, 2002)
Keywords: Data processing; Philosophy; dept.phi; faculty_collection

The Digital Phoenix: How Computers Are Changing Philosophy - Bynum, Terrell Ward; Moor, James H.; American Philosophical Association Committee on Philosophy and Computers (Blackwell Publishers, 1998)
Keywords: Data processing; Data processing; Philosophy; Philosophy; Study and teaching; dept.phi; faculty_collection

Heidegger and the Subject - Raffoul, François (Contemporary studies in philosophy and the human sciences, 1998)
Keywords: Contributions in concept of subject; Subject (Philosophy); Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976; dept.phi; faculty_collection

Heidegger and the Question of Time - Dastur, Françoise (Contemporary studies in philosophy and the human sciences, 1997)
Keywords: 20th century; Contributions in philosophy of time; Time; Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976; History; award_winner; dept.phi; faculty_collection

Disseminating Lacan - Pettigrew, David; Raffoul, François (SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy, 1996)
Keywords: Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981; Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981; Psychoanalytic Theory; Psychoanalytic Interpretation; dept.phi; faculty_collection

Radical Philosophy of Law: Contemporary Challenges to Mainstream Legal Theory and Practice - Caudill, David Stanley; Gold, Steven Jay (Humanity Books, 1995)
Keywords: Philosophy; Radicalism; Sociological jurisprudence; Law; dept.phi; faculty_collection

Moral Controversies: Race, Class, and Gender in Applied Ethics - Gold, Steven Jay (Wadsworth Pub. Co., 1993)
Keywords: Moral conditions; Social ethics; United States; Social problems; Sociological jurisprudence; Applied ethics; United States; dept.phi; faculty_collection

Nature's Perspectives: Prospects for Ordinal Metaphysics - Marsoobian, Armen; Wallace, Kathleen; Corrington, Robert S. (State University of New York Press, 1991)
Keywords: Buchler, Justus, 1914-1991; Metaphysics; Order (Philosophy); Naturalism; dept.phi; faculty_collection

Applying Philosophy - Bynum, Terrell Ward; Vitek, William (Metaphilosophy monograph, 1988)
Keywords: Philosophy; dept.phi; faculty_collection

Computers & Ethics. - Bynum, Terrell Ward (1985)
Keywords: Ethics; Computers; Moral and ethical aspects; dept.phi; faculty_collection

Claude Lévi-Strauss: Social Psychotherapy and the Collective Unconscious - Shalvey, Thomas (University of Massachusetts Press, 1979)
Keywords: Lévi-Strauss, Claude; Ľvi-Strauss, Claude; Subconsciousness; Anthropology, Cultural; Philosophy; Psychology, Social; award_winner; dept.phi; faculty_collection

Gandhi's Idea of Non-Violence. - Mohan, Pandiri Krishna (Thesis Ph. D.--Southern Illinois University, Dept. of Philosophy, April., 1972)
Keywords: Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948; India; Politics and government; dept.phi; faculty_collection

The Common Philosophy, - Peterson, Forrest H. (Philosophical Library, 1972)
Keywords: Philosophy; Naturalism; Existentialism; Human beings; dept.phi; faculty_collection

Philosophic Anthology from Plato to Nietzsche. - Rethis, Michael (Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co, 1971)
Keywords: Philosophy; dept.phi; faculty_collection

A Philosophy of Man and Society - Peterson, Forrest H. (Philosophical Library, 1970)
Keywords: Human beings; Sociology; History; Philosophy; Philosophy; Education; dept.phi; faculty_collection

A Philosophical Perspective of Education - Peterson, Forrest H. (Wm. C. Brown, 1964)
Keywords: Education; Philosophy; dept.phi; faculty_collection

Reimagining a Lost Armenian Home: The Dildilian Photography Collection - Marsoobian, Armen (I.B. Tauris, 2017)
For nearly a century members of the Dildilian family practiced the art of photography in Ottoman Turkey, Greece and the United States. This book contains over 200 photographs, primarily from the Ottoman era, beginning with the creation of the family business by Tsolag Dildilian in Sivas in central Turkey in 1882 and concluding in 1922 in Samsun, when the family was forced into exile in Greece. The photographs and the stories that unfold around them capture a defining period in the nearly three thousand year history of the Armenians in Anatolia and the Armenian Highlands. The early-twentieth century witnessed the violent erasure of the Armenians from their historic homeland, with catastrophic effects for the Dildilian family and their community. Yet this was also a period of unprecedented educational, cultural and commercial development for the Armenians. The Dildilian family was intimately involved in the triumphs and tragedies of these years and this book, through its rich pictorial history, sheds unprecedented light on the real-life experiences of Armenians in the devastating years of the Armenian Genocide and beyond. It is an unusual and original contribution to the social history of the Near East.
Keywords: Dildilian family; Armenians; Pictorial works; Portraits; Armenia; dept.phi; faculty_collection

Heidegger in France - Janicaud, Dominique (Studies in Continental thought, 2015)
Dominique Janicaud claimed that every French intellectual movement--from existentialism to psychoanalysis--was influenced by Martin Heidegger. This translation of Janicaud's landmark work, Heidegger en France, details Heidegger's reception in philosophy and other humanistic and social science disciplines. Interviews with key French thinkers such as Françoise Dastur, Jacques Derrida, Éliane Escoubas, Jean Greisch, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Jean-Luc Marion, and Jean-Luc Nancy are included and provide further reflection on Heidegger's relationship to French philosophy. An intellectual undertaking of authoritative scope, this work furnishes a thorough history of the French reception of Heidegger's thought.--Publisher website.
Keywords: 20th century; Philosophers; France; Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976; Philosophy, French; Interviews; dept.phi; faculty_collection

Fragments of a Lost Homeland: Remembering Armenia - Marsoobian, Armen (I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 2015)
Keywords: 1801-1900; Dildilian family; Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923; History; Personal narratives, Armenian; Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923; Armenia; SCSU Faculty Scholar Award; award_winner; dept.phi; faculty_collection

Factors influencing the adoption of digital health apps: an extended technology acceptance model (TAM) - Mouloudj, Kamel; Bouarar, Ahmed Chemseddine; Asanza, Dachel Martínez; Saadaoui, Linda; Mouloudj, Smail; Njoku, Anuli U.; Evans, Marian A.; Bouarar, Achouak (Integrating Digital Health Strategies for Effective Administration, 2023)
Mobile health apps have been widely considered in the healthcare sector as innovative channels to reach patients and their families. Accordingly, the aim of the chapter was to investigate factors that influence the customers' adoption of digital health apps in Algeria. The authors adopted an extende...
Keywords: dept.pch

Increasing outcomes: principles of practice to increase writing outcomes for deaf/hard of hearing students with additional disabilities - Weir, Joan; Dostal, Hannah M. (Strategies for Promoting Independence and Literacy for Deaf Learners With Disabilities, 2023)
The ability to write clearly and effectively is an important communication skill that is necessary for school and employment, as it is often the best way to disseminate information and ideas. Both unrecorded sign and speech are ephemeral, but writing allows the author to share an experience or idea...
Keywords: dept.sed

Where on the face do we look during phonemic restoration: An eye-tracking study - Baron, Alisa; Harwood, Vanessa; Kleinman, Daniel; Campanelli, Luca; Molski, Joseph; Landi, Nicole; Irwin, Julia (Frontiers in Psychology, 2023)
Face to face communication typically involves audio and visual components to the speech signal. To examine the effect of task demands on gaze patterns in response to a speaking face, adults participated in two eye-tracking experiments with an audiovisual (articulatory information from the mouth was visible) and a pixelated condition (articulatory information was not visible). Further, task demands were manipulated by having listeners respond in a passive (no response) or an active (button press response) context. The active experiment required participants to discriminate between speech stimuli and was designed to mimic environmental situations which require one to use visual information to disambiguate the speaker’s message, simulating different listening conditions in real-world settings. Stimuli included a clear exemplar of the syllable /ba/ and a second exemplar in which the formant initial consonant was reduced creating an /a/−like consonant. Consistent with our hypothesis, results revealed that the greatest fixations to the mouth were present in the audiovisual active experiment and visual articulatory information led to a phonemic restoration effect for the /a/ speech token. In the pixelated condition, participants fixated on the eyes, and discrimination of the deviant token within the active experiment was significantly greater than the audiovisual condition. These results suggest that when required to disambiguate changes in speech, adults may look to the mouth for additional cues to support processing when it is available.
Keywords: dept.psy; peer-reviewed

Understanding health behaviors, weight perceptions, and body appreciation of young adult women engaged in the body positivity movement - Rupp, Kristie; McCoy, Stephanie M. (Women's Health Issues, 2023)
Background The body positivity movement on social media is thought to foster body appreciation, but pervasive societal concern persists about the body positivity movement and the body image, health behaviors, and “normalization of obesity” of young adult women. Purpose This study explored the relationship between engagement in the body positivity movement on social media and weight status, body appreciation, body dissatisfaction, and the health behaviors of intuitive eating and physical activity in young adult women (18–35 years). Methods Participants (N = 521; ∼64% engaged in body positivity content on social media) were recruited using Qualtrics online panels for this cross-sectional survey during February 2021. Outcomes included weight status, weight consideration, weight perception, body appreciation, body dissatisfaction, physical activity, and intuitive eating. Logistic and linear regression models adjusted for age, race, ethnicity, education level, and household income were used to assess the association between engagement in the body positivity movement and specified outcomes. Results Engagement in body positivity content was associated with greater body dissatisfaction (β = 2.33, t(519) = 2.90 p = .017), body appreciation (β = 0.26, t(519) = 2.90 p = .004), and greater likelihood of reporting high amounts of physical activity (odds ratio = 2.28; p < .05) relative to nonengaged peers; these associations remained significant after further adjustment for weight status. Body positivity was not associated with weight status, weight perception, or intuitive eating. Conclusions Engagement in the body positivity movement is associated with higher body dissatisfaction and body appreciation in young adult women, which suggests they may be drawn to and engage in the body positivity movement as a protective or coping mechanism for body dissatisfaction.
Keywords: dept.hms; peer-reviewed

Measurements of dielectron production in Au + Au collisions at √ s N N = 27 , 39, and 62.4 GeV from the STAR experiment - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review C, 2023)
We report systematic measurements of dielectron (e+e−) invariant-mass Mee spectra at midrapidity in Au+Au collisions at √sNN = 27, 39, and 62.4 GeV taken with the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. For all energies studied, a significant excess yield of dielectrons is observed in the low-mass region (0.40<Mee<0.75 MeV/c2) compared to hadronic cocktail simulations at freeze-out. Models that include an in-medium broadening of the ρ-meson spectral function consistently describe the observed excess. In addition, we report acceptance-corrected dielectron-excess spectra for Au+Au collisions at midrapidity (|yee|< 1) in the 0–80% centrality bin for each collision energy. The integrated excess yields for 0.4<Mee<0.75GeV/c2, normalized by the charged particle multiplicity at midrapidity, are compared with previously published measurements for Au+Au at √sNN1 = 19.6 and 200 GeV. Models that include an in-medium broadening of the ρ-meson spectral function consistently describe the observed excess. The normalized excess yields in the low-mass region show no significant collision energy dependence. The data, however, are consistent with model calculations that demonstrate a modest energy dependence.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

A cross-sectional investigation of disfluencies in typically developing Spanish-English bilingual children - Rojas, Raúl; Irani, Farzan; Gusewski, Svenja; Camacho, Natalia (Journal of Fluency Disorders, 2023)
Purpose This study examined the language skills and the type and frequency of disfluencies in the spoken narrative production of typically developing Spanish-English bilingual children. Method A cross-sectional sample of 106 bilingual children (50 boys; 56 girls) enrolled in kindergarten through Grade 4, produced a total of 212 narrative retell language samples in English and Spanish. A specialized fluency coding system was implemented to index the percentage of total (%TD) and stuttering-like disfluencies (%SLD) in each language. Large-scale reference databases were used to classify children’s dual language proficiency profiles (balanced, English dominant, Spanish dominant) based on language sample analysis measures of morphosyntax and lexical diversity. Results The bilingual Spanish-English children in this study did not demonstrate significant cross-linguistic differences for mean %TD or %SLD. However, the mean %TD and %SLD in both languages exceeded the risk threshold based on monolingual English-speaking norms. English dominant bilingual children demonstrated significantly lower %TD in English than Spanish. Spanish dominant children demonstrated significantly lower %SLD in Spanish than English. Conclusions This study included the largest sample size of bilingual Spanish-English children investigated to date from a fluency perspective. The frequency of disfluencies was found to be variable across participants and change dynamically as a function of grade and dual language proficiency profiles, indicating the need for studies that employ larger sample sizes and longitudinal designs.
Keywords: Bilingual children; Disfluencies; Language sample analysis; Narratives; Stuttering; dept.cmd; peer-reviewed

Sabbatical leave report: Fall 2014 - Cardone, Resha (2014)
Cardone wrote chapters of a book manuscript and submitted two related articles to peer reviewed journals. She also transcribed and edited a scholarly interview, presented portions of book project at conference and traveled to site of book topic for on-ground research. Accomplishments are different than outlined in original proposal. The report describes project issues and results. Book title is "Unbound and underground: Chile's Ergo Sun Project from the dictatorship to the digital era."
Keywords: dept.wll; faculty_collection; sabbatical_report

Heidegger and Practical Philosophy - Raffoul, François; Pettigrew, David (SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy, 2002)
Investigating the extent to which Heidegger's thought can be read as a crucial resource for practical philosophy and the articulation of an ethos for our time, leading scholars offer a sustained and intensive focus on Heidegger's thought of praxis.--(Source of description unspecified.)
Keywords: Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976; Ethics; Political science; Philosophy; Practice (Philosophy); dept.phi; faculty_collection

Alternative Careers for Ph.D.'s in the Humanities: A Selected Bibliography - Donaldson, Christine F.; Flynn, Elizabeth A. (Modern Language Association of American, 1982)
Keywords: dept.eng

Urban legacy: the story of America's cities - Klebanow, Diana (Mentor book ; ME1586, 1977)
Keywords: Cities and towns; History; United States; dept.his; faculty_collection

Have a ball - Stone, A. Harris; Siegel, Bertram M. (Prentice-Hall, 1969)
Keywords: dept.che; dept.csc

Beam energy dependence of triton production and yield ratio ( N t × N p / N 2 d ) in Au + Au Collisions at RHI - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review Letters, 2023)
We report the triton (t) production in midrapidity (|y|<0.5) Au+Au collisions at √sNN=7.7–200 GeV measured by the STAR experiment from the first phase of the beam energy scan at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. The nuclear compound yield ratio (Nt×Np/N2d), which is predicted to be sensitive to the fluctuation of local neutron density, is observed to decrease monotonically with increasing charged-particle multiplicity (dNch/dη) and follows a scaling behavior. The dNch/dη dependence of the yield ratio is compared to calculations from coalescence and thermal models. Enhancements in the yield ratios relative to the coalescence baseline are observed in the 0%-10% most central collisions at 19.6 and 27 GeV, with a significance of 2.3σ and 3.4σ, respectively, giving a combined significance of 4.1σ. The enhancements are not observed in peripheral collisions or model calculations without critical fluctuation, and decreases with a smaller pT acceptance. The physics implications of these results on the QCD phase structure and the production mechanism of light nuclei in heavy-ion collisions are discussed.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Motivation states to move, be physically active and sedentary vary like circadian rhythms and are associated with affect and arousal - Budnick, Christopher J.; Stults-Kolehmainen, Matthew; Dadina, Cyrus; Bartholomew, John B.; Boullosa, Daniel; Ash, Garret I.; Sinha, Rajita; Blacutt, Miguel; Haughton, Adrian; Lu, Tom (Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2023)
IntroductionMotivation to be physically active and sedentary is a transient state that varies in response to previous behavior. It is not known: (a) if motivational states vary from morning to evening, (b) if they are related to feeling states (arousal/hedonic tone), and (c) whether they predict current behavior and intentions. The primary purpose of this study was to determine if motivation states vary across the day and in what pattern. Thirty adults from the United States were recruited from Amazon MTurk.MethodsParticipants completed 6 identical online surveys each day for 8 days beginning after waking and every 2–3 h thereafter until bedtime. Participants completed: (a) the CRAVE scale (Right now version) to measure motivation states for Move and Rest, (b) Feeling Scale, (c) Felt Arousal Scale, and (d) surveys about current movement behavior (e.g., currently sitting, standing, laying down) and intentions for exercise and sleep. Of these, 21 participants (mean age 37.7 y; 52.4% female) had complete and valid data.ResultsVisual inspection of data determined that: a) motivation states varied widely across the day, and b) most participants had a single wave cycle each day. Hierarchical linear modelling revealed that there were significant linear and quadratic time trends for both Move and Rest. Move peaked near 1500 h when Rest was at its nadir. Cosinor analysis determined that the functional waveform was circadian for Move for 81% of participants and 62% for Rest. Pleasure/displeasure and arousal independently predicted motivation states (all p's < .001), but arousal had an association twice as large. Eating, exercise and sleep behaviors, especially those over 2 h before assessment, predicted current motivation states. Move-motivation predicted current body position (e.g., laying down, sitting, walking) and intentions for exercise and sleep more consistently than rest, with the strongest prediction of behaviors planned for the next 30 min.DiscussionWhile these data must be replicated with a larger sample, results suggest that motivation states to be active or sedentary have a circadian waveform for most people and influence future behavioral intentions. These novel results highlight the need to rethink the traditional approaches typically utilized to increase physical activity levels.
Keywords: dept.psy; peer-reviewed

King Zedekiah’s release of slaves for the strategic harmony of a besieged Jerusalem (Jer 34) - Scolnic, Benjamin E. (Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 2023)
King Zedekiah of Judah’s covenant to release Hebrew slaves during the siege of Jerusalem by the Babylonians in 588/587 and Jeremiah’s idealistic denunciation of the reclaiming of those slaves in Jer 34 has been the subject of interesting scholarly debate. For all the proposed foreign and intra-Biblical parallels, the policy was purely pragmatic and can be understood as a recognizable strategy from ancient texts that recommend procedures during a siege. Therefore when the siege is temporarily lifted, the policy is reversed.
Keywords: Jeremiah; Jerusalem; Sieges; Slavery; Warfare; dept.jst

Integration of the Registered Nurse Care Coordinator Role in a Federally Qualified Health Center - Alicea-Planas, Jessica; Burger, Susan (The Journal of Ambulatory Care Management, 2023)
The purpose of this 1-group, retrospective case study was to analyze the expanded role of registered nurse care coordination (RNCC) on health outcomes in a primary care setting in its real-life context. The convenience sample consisted of 244 adults diagnosed with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus and/or hypertension. Secondary data entered into the electronic health record by the health care team during patient visits pre- and post-implementation of the RNCC program were analyzed. Clinical findings suggest that RNCC may provide a valuable service. Additionally, financial analysis demonstrated that the cost of the RNCC position was both self-sustaining and revenue producing.
Keywords: dept.nur; peer-reviewed

Are You a Student Here? Helping Information Seekers from Across the World Through LibChat - Hellyar, Diana; Fruehan, Parker (Connecticut Information Literacy Conference, 2021)
Keywords: dept.lib

The Fun-Sized Framework: Mini IL Lessons for When You Want to Do More Than Just Demos - Hellyar, Diana (ACRL New England/NELIG Joint Conference, 2023)
Keywords: dept.lib

Rising tensions: heritage-tourism development and the commodification of “Authentic” culture among the Cham community of Vietnam - Quang, Tuyen D.; Noseworthy, William B.; Paulson, Dave (Cogent Social Sciences, 2022)
This study examines the complexities of cultural-heritage management in Vietnam and the various tensions that arise within initiatives promoting “authentic” versions of cultural practice. In particular, this research investigates local perceptions concerning the commodification of the Cham New Year (Rija Nâgar) at temple-tower complexes, and explores the implications of sacred religious holidays (ngày lễ) that are organized as festival (lễ hội) events. Arranged by local Vietnamese officials, the implementation of these events for tourists contradicts important Cham worldviews, leading to negative perceptions of tourism among community members, and fears that such practices pose irrevocable damage for Cham spirituality and the future of their ancestral heritage. This research underscores the importance of community involvement with respect to decision making in cultural-heritage management, and that heritage tourism in Vietnam, and Southeast Asia more generally, may be dramatically improved with guidance from indigenous voices and local spiritual leaders.
Keywords: Cham; Heritage tourism; Vietnam; cultural commodification; dept.ant; indigenous participation; peer-reviewed; sacred space

Star-image Centering with Deep Learning: HST/WFPC2 Images - Casetti-Dinescu, Dana I.; Girard, Terrence M.; Baena-Gallé, Roberto; Martone, Max; Schwendemann, Kate (Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2023)
A deep learning (DL) algorithm is built and tested for its ability to determine centers of star images in HST/WFPC2 exposures, in filters F555W and F814W. These archival observations hold great potential for proper-motion studies, but the undersampling in the camera’s detectors presents challenges for conventional centering algorithms. Two exquisite data sets of over 600 exposures of the cluster NGC 104 in these filters are used as a testbed for training and evaluating the DL code. Results indicate a single-measurement standard error from 8.5 to 11 mpix, depending on the detector and filter. This compares favorably to the ∼20 mpix achieved with the customary “effective point spread function (PSF)” centering procedure for WFPC2 images. Importantly, the pixel-phase error is largely eliminated when using the DL method. The current tests are limited to the central portion of each detector; in future studies, the DL code will be modified to allow for the known variation of the PSF across the detectors.
Keywords: dept.phy

Exploring What Influences Heterosexual College Men and the Practice of Safe Sex: The Power of Stigma and Community - Breny, J.M.; Joseph, M.; Robledo, D.; Rondeau, D.; D’Haity, W.; Mucha, J.; Zapata, P. (Journal of Community Health, 2023)
The college student population is among the highest risk group for contracting sexually transmitted infections (STIs) such as gonorrhea, chlamydia, and HIV. Safe sex practices, which are intended to mitigate risks associated with sexually transmitted infections, are often negated in the population of heterosexual college students. Historically, research on safe sex practices has shown that the burden of behavior change and the focus on educational efforts historically fall onto the female population. There is little published on how safe sex education for males impacts attitudes and behaviors towards safe sex practices. This community-based participatory research (CBPR) project explored heterosexual college male attitudes and behaviors about safe sex responsibilities with the goal of creating effective health promotion messages to increase safer sex. The research team comprised almost entirely of undergraduate male students, which strengthened the design and translation of results to practice. A mixed methods design was employed utilizing both focus groups and surveys as data collection (n=121). Results showed that young men are still prioritizing pregnancy prevention over disease contraction and/or testing, and relying on female partners to initiate safe sex. Implications for health promotion practice efforts on college campuses include: male-led peer education programming and support and messaging around screening and prevention of STIs. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
Keywords: CBPR; College health promotion; Condom use; HIV prevention; Peer education programs; STI prevention; dept.pch; peer-reviewed

A cost-effective Wi-Fi-based indoor positioning system for mobile phones - Wandell, R.; Hossain, M.S.; Hussain, I. (Wireless Networks, 2023)
Fingerprinting-based indoor positioning systems require a significant amount of time to set up due to the need for prior, offline signal map creation. We propose a mobile phone-based indoor positioning system that can be set up in a short amount of time in any environment with existing Wi-Fi infrastructure. We introduce interpolation into a fingerprinting-based system to reduce the number of reference points needed, leading to a reduction in signal map creation time. The proposed interpolation method is used in conjunction with a particle filter algorithm to provide an accuracy level comparable to the state-of-the-art. We created signal maps at three separate locations using a 100%, 50%, 20%, and 10% scan coverage in order to evaluate the effectiveness of our interpolation on the localization error on a lower scan percentage. We evaluated our signal maps before and after interpolation using 16 tests which included both motion and stationary tests, as well as tests taken 2 and 3 weeks after the initial data gathering. We show that our interpolation method is able to reduce the effects of a dimensional mismatch between signal map reference point vectors and a test sample vector, as well as reduce the effects of signal map aging. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
Keywords: Fingerprinting; Indoor positioning system; Interpolation; Mobile phones; Wi-Fi; dept.csc; peer-reviewed

Evolutionary design of a PSO-tuned multigene symbolic regression genetic programming model for river flow forecasting - Sheta, A.; Abdel-Raouf, A.; Fraihat, K.M.; Baareh, A. (International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 2023)
The earth’s population is growing at a rapid rate, while the availability of water resources remains limited. Water is required for various purposes, including drinking, agriculture, industry, recreation, and development. Accurate forecasting of river flows can have a significant economic impact, particularly in agricultural water management and planning during water resource scarcity. Developing precise river flow forecasting models can greatly improve the management of water resources in many countries. In this study, we propose a two-phase model for predicting the flow of the Blackwater river located in the South Central United States. In the first phase, we use Multigene Symbolic Regression Genetic Programming (MG-GP) to develop a mathematical model. In the second phase, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is employed to fine-tune the model parameters. Fine-tuning the MG-GP parameters improves the prediction accuracy of the model. The newly fine-tuned model exhibits 96% and 94% accuracy in training and testing cases, respectively © 2023, International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications.All Rights Reserved.
Keywords: River flow; dept.csc; evolutionary computation; forecasting; genetic programming; particle swarm optimization; peer-reviewed

Negotiating toilet access: a qualitative exploration of women's incarceration - Smoyer, Amy B.; Schwarz, Paige; Camenga, Deepa; Rickey, Leslie (The Prison Journal, 2023)
Norms and behaviors about toileting in prison can expand understanding of women's lived experience of incarceration. Knowledge about this subject is significant because access to clean, safe toilets is a human rights issue, and toilet habits can impact social, mental, and physical outcomes. Three focus groups were conducted with 15 incarcerated women about their quotidian prison toilet experiences. While the toilet was physically available, institutional regulations, social norms, and women's individual psychologies limited their access and utilization. The ways in which toilet use was negotiated with self, peers, and are described, and the implications of these findings are discussed.
Keywords: dept.swk; peer-reviewed

TFAW survey II: Six newly validated planets and 13 planet candidates from K2 - Del Ser, D.; Fors, O.; Del Alcázar, M.; Dyachenko, V.; Horch, E.P.; Tokovinin, A.; Ziegler, C.; Van Belle, G.T.; Clark, C.A.; Hartman, Z.D. (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2023)
Searching for Earth-sized planets in data from Kepler's extended mission (K2) is a niche that still remains to be fully exploited. The TFAW survey is an ongoing project that aims to re-analyse all light curves in K2 C1-C8 and C12-C18 campaigns with a wavelet-based detrending and denoising method, and the period search algorithm TLS to search for new transit candidates not detected in previous works. We have analysed a first subset of 24 candidate planetary systems around relatively faint host stars (10.9 < Kp < 15.4) to allow for follow-up speckle imaging observations. Using vespa and TRICERATOPS, we statistically validate six candidates orbiting four unique host stars by obtaining false-positive probabilities smaller than 1 per cent with both methods. We also present 13 vetted planet candidates that might benefit from other, more precise follow-up observations. All of these planets are sub-Neptune-sized with two validated planets and three candidates with sub-Earth sizes, and have orbital periods between 0.81 and 23.98 d. Some interesting systems include two ultra-short-period planets, three multiplanetary systems, three sub-Neptunes that appear to be within the small planet Radius Gap, and two validated and one candidate sub-Earths (EPIC 210706310.01, K2-411 b, and K2-413 b) orbiting metal-poor stars. © 2022 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society.
Keywords: dept.phy; instrumentation: high angular resolution; methods: data analysis; peer-reviewed; planets and satellites: general; planets and satellites: terrestrial planets; techniques: photometric

Teaching tip GetVirtual: A universal service-based learning framework - Toskin, K.; Pisano, M.A.; Corey, T. (Journal of Information Systems Education, 2023)
This paper introduces a universal framework for service-based learning which provides information systems students with opportunities to gain invaluable hands-on experience. More specifically, through this framework, students can develop hard, soft, and interdisciplinary skills in preparation for their first professional careers upon graduation. In addition to introducing the framework, we provide student testimonials and feedback as well as lessons learned from our experience in efforts to prepare and help other schools interested in offering similar growth opportunities to their students to have a smooth and successful implementation. © 2023, Journal of Information Systems Education. All Rights Reserved.
Keywords: Experiential learning & education; Framework; GetVirtual; Service-learning; Teaching tip; dept.bis; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Unlocking Opportunities for Migrant Workers in China: Analyzing the Impact of Health Insurance on Hukou Switching Intentions - Chen, Hong; Yu, Jia; Qin, Mingshuai; Wang, Yangyang; Qin, Lijian (Sustainability, 2023)
The Chinese urban–rural binary health insurance structure has contributed to a significant urban–rural segmentation and regional fragmentation, which will affect labor mobilization and urbanization. The purpose of this research is to study whether and how urban–rural binary health insurance impacts the intentions of migrant workers to switch between rural and urban hukou. Pooled data were drawn from China Migrants Dynamic Survey, collected by the National Health Commission of China. The study applied the instrument variable model due to the existence of the endogeneity; and the IVprobit model to conduct the empirical analysis. Our findings are as follows: (1) the urban–rural binary health insurance affects migrant workers’ intentions to switch to urban hukou significantly. (2) The negative impact of originally rural health insurance on migrant workers’ intention of switching to urban hukou is relatively large for low-education-level migrant workers. (3) Compared with new generation of migrant workers, old migrant workers have higher health insurance dependency levels. Finally, our research suggested several policy implications, such as accelerating the establishment of a unified urban–rural health insurance system, increasing the urban health insurance participation rate of migrant workers in their working cities, and including migrant workers in the scope of equal access to urban public services, etc. All the policy suggestions are essential in order to accelerate the citizenization of migrant workers, improve the quality of urbanization, and promote the construction of a unified national labor market.
Keywords: dept.eco; intention of switching to urban hukou; migrant workers; peer-reviewed; urban–rural binary health insurance

Fluvial response to Quaternary hydroclimate in eastern Africa: Evidence from Gona, Afar, Ethiopia - Stinchcomb, Gary E.; Quade, Jay; Levin, Naomi E.; Iverson, Nels; Dunbar, Nelia; McIntosh, William; Arnold, Lee J.; Demuro, Martina; Duval, Mathieu; Grün, Rainer; Zhao, Jian-xin; White, Marie; et al. (Quaternary Science Reviews, 2023)
The Busidima Formation in the Afar region, Ethiopia, spans the Quaternary and records the cultural evolution of the genus Homo. Yet, the Middle Pleistocene to Holocene fluvial environments in which early humans lived are undersampled in eastern Africa. This paper examines the stratigraphy, geochronology and paleoenvironments of the newly designated Odele Member of the uppermost Busidima Formation (<152 thousand years ago (ka)), which has received little attention despite representing a critical period in the evolution of early Homo sapiens and its migration out of Africa. The Odele Member is 40–50 m thick and is dated using tephrochronology, radiometric, luminescence, and electron spin resonance techniques. The member spans 151 to 7 ka, defined at the base by the widespread Waidedo Vitric Tuff (WAVT, 151 ± 16 ka modeled age and 95.4% credible interval - C.I.). There are two prominent erosional unconformities in the Odele Member, a lower one after the WAVT deposition with a modeled 95.4% C.I. range of 124–97 ka; and an upper one involving widespread alluvial fan incision commencing between 21.7 and 12.9 ka. The uppermost Odele Member also contains black, organic-rich mats, redox features, reed casts, and freshwater gastropods marking wetter conditions during the terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene. A black, fine-grained relict soil coeval with the Halalalee paleosol bounds the top of the Odele Member and has mollic and vertic properties, weathering since ∼12 ka. These incision events and prominent paleosol development near/at the top of the Busidima Formation document Middle to Late Pleistocene Awash River incision to its present-day course. Paleo-rainfall estimates suggest that the Early Holocene-age Halalalee paleosol weathered under a climate with mean annual rainfall 10–15% higher than today. A compilation of radiocarbon ages from aquatic gastropods, carbonized wood and charcoal from the upper Odele Member shows wetter and possibly more vegetated conditions during late marine isotope stage (MIS) 3 and the African Humid Period (AHP) that are tightly coupled with precession-driven summer insolation maxima. These key findings suggest that periods of incision, aggregation, and landscape stability in the Odele Member have an orbital precession pacing. The Odele Member revises upward the age of the Busidima Formation to 7 ka, showing that it spans into the Holocene and now includes Middle and Later Stone Age archaeological traditions.
Keywords: Electron spin resonance; Ethiopian rift; Fluvial aggradation; Fluvial incision; Paleosol; Radiocarbon; Tephrochronology; U-series; dept.ant; pIR-IRSL; peer-reviewed

Predicting COVID-19 mortalities for patients with special health conditions using an agent-based model - Mazurkiewicz, Erika; Seesi, Sahar Al; Abdel Raouf, Amal (2023 20th Learning and Technology Conference (L&T), 2023)
The spread of COVID-19 has thrown the world into a panic. We are constantly learning more about the virus every day, from how it spreads to who is more susceptible to becoming infected by different variants. Those with underlying respiratory conditions and other immunocompromised individuals need to be extra cautious regarding the virus. Many researchers have created COVID-19 trackers to detect the spread of COVID-19 around the world and show hot spots where COVID-19 cases are more prevalent. Previous work lacks the consideration of comorbidity as a factor of death rate. This work aims to create an agent-based model to predict comorbidity death rate caused by a health condition in addition to COVID-19. The model is evaluated using the symmetric mean absolute percentage error metric and proved to be very efficient.
Keywords: Agent-Based Model; COVID-19; Infectious diseases; Limiting; Measurement; Metaverse; Pandemics; Predictive models; comorbidity; dept.csc

GeNeo: A Bioinformatics Toolbox for Genomics-Guided Neoepitope Prediction - Al Seesi, S.; Al-Okaily, A.; Shcheglova, T.V.; Sherafat, E.; Alqahtani, F.H.; Hagymasi, A.T.; Kaur, A.; Srivastava, P.K.; Mǎndoiu, I.I. (Journal of Computational Biology, 2023)
High-Throughput DNA and RNA sequencing are revolutionizing precision oncology, enabling personalized therapies such as cancer vaccines designed to target tumor-specific neoepitopes generated by somatic mutations expressed in cancer cells. Identification of these neoepitopes from next-generation sequencing data of clinical samples remains challenging and requires the use of complex bioinformatics pipelines. In this paper, we present GeNeo, a bioinformatics toolbox for genomics-guided neoepitope prediction. GeNeo includes a comprehensive set of tools for somatic variant calling and filtering, variant validation, and neoepitope prediction and filtering. For ease of use, GeNeo tools can be accessed via web-based interfaces deployed on a Galaxy portal publicly accessible at https://neo.engr.uconn.edu/. A virtual machine image for running GeNeo locally is also available to academic users upon request. © Copyright 2023, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers 2023.
Keywords: bioinformatics tools; cancer immunotherapy; dept.csc; neoepitope prediction; peer-reviewed; somatic variant calling

Reassessing a glacial landscape developed during terminal glaciation of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age in Uruguay - Isbell, John L.; Fedorchuk, Nicholas D.; Rosa, Eduardo L. M.; Goso, César; Alonso-Muruaga, Pablo J. (Sedimentary Geology, 2023)
Whalebacks, roche moutonnées, and S-forms carved on Ediacaran granitoids near Cerro de las Cuentas, Uruguay, along with overlying diamictites, siltstones, and sandstones displaying soft-sediment grooved and striated surfaces in the Pennsylvanian San Gregorio Formation, record the glacial to post-glacial transition in the linked Norte, southern Paraná and Chaco-Paraná basins of Uruguay, Brazil, and Argentina respectively. Early authors reported these features resulted from subglacial abrasion and deposition as lodgement tills and glaciotectonites. Our re-examination reveals a nuanced setting with changing ice thicknesses, subglacial kinematics, and ice proximal glaciomarine dynamics associated with advance and retreat of an ice stream, or multiple advances of the Uruguayan Ice lobe, during glaciation of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age (LPIA) in these basins. The preserved landforms indicate temperate glacial conditions. Whalebacks formed under 1.6 to 2.5 km-thick ice and likely formed when the lobe extended across the Uruguayan and Rio Grande do Sul shields into the adjacent Paraná Basin. Previously unidentified m-scale roches moutonnées cut into one whaleback developed under thinner ice where reduced basal pressure allowed for the opening of air and water-filled cavities, thus facilitating quarrying on the lee side of basement bumps. S-forms provide additional evidence for the occurrence of subglacial waters, indicating that the basal ice was at or above its pressure melting point. The lower meter of the overlying strata consists of interstratified trace fossil-bearing, laminated siltstones; thin-bedded diamictites; and current-rippled sandstones. Trace fossils belonging to the Mermia ichnofacies within the basal siltstones, as well as acritarchs in the overlying siltstones, suggest that these sediments were deposited in ice-proximal subaqueous settings with contributions from meltwater discharge. Graded siltstone laminae suggest settling from suspension likely from meltwater plumes, while thin-bedded diamictites were deposited either as debris flows or as two-component sedimentation with fines settling from suspension and coarser particles introduce as iceberg-rafted dropstones. Current-rippled sandstones indicate the occurrence of underflow currents. Soft-sediment troughs, grooves, and striations cutting these sediments display curved and sinuous paths with some features oriented perpendicular, and one oriented opposite to the overall trend. They contain marginal and terminal berms typical of iceberg scour marks suggesting transit across the area by icebergs calving from a tidewater ice front located to the SE.
Keywords: Iceberg keel marks; Late Paleozoic Ice Age; Roche moutonnées; San Gregorio Fm; Uruguayan Ice Lobe; Whalebacks; dept.esc

Blue Economy - Germond-Duret, Celine; Garland, Michaela; Heidkamp, C. Patrick; Morrissey, John (International Encyclopedia of Geography, 2016)
Geography has engaged in insightful discussions on how to understand, analyze, criticize, and implement the blue economy. United Nations agencies, Small Island Developing States, and increased academic interest in oceans have played important roles in the global adoption of the blue economy idea, that is, the sustainable exploitation of marine and coastal resources. Geographical research on the blue economy has addressed key themes such as economic and political discourse, relational thinking and assemblage, sustainability and just transitions, and blue economy risks.
Keywords: coastal and marine geography; dept.egm; economic development; environmental management; sustainable development

Ἀντίπατρος ἀδελφιδοῦς: Was Antipatros son of Epigonos of Telmessos the “Nephew” of Antiochos III? - Scolnic, B. (Dialogues d'Histoire Ancienne, 2022)
Keywords: dept.jst; peer-reviewed

Ayres Sensory Integration® for Addressing Play in Autistic Children: A Multiple-Baseline Examination - Kuhaneck, Heather M.; Watling, Renee; Glennon, Tara J. (The American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2023)
Importance: Play is an area of difficulty for autistic children, and occupational therapy practitioners need evidence to guide interventions to improve play for this population. Ayres Sensory Integration® (ASI) intervention has not yet been studied for its impact on play outcomes.Objective: To examine the impact of ASI intervention on play types in autistic children.Design: Nonconcurrent, multiple-baseline design across subjects.Setting: Outpatient occupational therapy clinic in New England.Participants: Three autistic children, ages 5, 6, and 6 yr.Intervention: Twenty-four ASI sessions.Outcomes and Measures: Frequency of play type was coded using partial interval coding. Progress monitoring used Goal Attainment Scaling.Results: All three participants demonstrated changes in the frequency of specific types of play, but changes varied among them.Conclusions and Relevance: Findings suggest that ASI intervention may alter a child’s patterns of play.What This Article Adds: This study is the first to examine the impact of ASI on play and the third that documents the feasibility of single-subject research for studying ASI. If confirmed in future studies, ASI could become an evidence-based intervention for improving play, an important outcome for autistic children and the profession of occupational therapy.Positionality Statement: This article uses the identity-first language autistic people. This nonableist language describes their strengths and abilities and is a conscious decision. This language is favored by autistic communities and self-advocates and has been adopted by health care professionals and researchers (Bottema-Beutel et al., 2021; Kenny et al., 2016).
Keywords: dept.rec; peer-reviewed

A telemedicine standardized patient experience: enhancing the virtual classroom and preparing for alternative modalities of care - Maynard, Kristi; Knickerbocker, Joshua (Nursing Education Perspectives, 2023)
This pilot study explored the use of standardized patients in the virtual classroom in efforts to increase family nurse practitioner preparedness to engage in telemedicine care delivery. Using a mixed-methods approach, we determined this innovation significantly increased students' confidence in their ability to perform a telemedicine visit while also improving their satisfaction with the virtual classroom.
Keywords: Delivery of Health Care; Humans; Personal Satisfaction; Pilot Projects; Students; Telemedicine; dept.nur; peer-reviewed

Addressing America's Mental Health Crisis in Public Education - Albee, Laura Jane (Perspectives and Considerations on Navigating the Mental Healthcare System, 2023)
Nearly eight million American youth between the ages of 3 - 17 live with a psychiatric or behavioral health disorder. Many in grades K-12 are being unfavorably impacted in the classroom because of socioeconomic and environmental factors that include poverty, addiction, incarceration, trauma, domesti...
Keywords: dept.swk; peer-reviewed

Saciar el hambre y la retina: alimentos, identidad y ambivalencia nacional en López Velarde - Hernandez, Rafael (Tema y Variaciones de Literatura, 2021)
Keywords: dept.wll; ⛔ No DOI found

Melodrama y mitología: imágenes de la migración en Guten Tag, Ramón y Señales que precederán al fin del mundo” - Hernandez, Rafael (Hispanos en el mundo. Emociones y desplazamientos históricos, viajes y migraciones, 2021)
Keywords: dept.wll

The Dark Night of Mexico: Picaresque, Sexuality, and Violence in El vampiro de la colonia Roma and Las púberes canéforas - Hernandez, Rafael (Growing Up in Latin America. Child and Youth Agency in Contemporary Popular Culture., 2022)
Keywords: dept.wll

Hospitality and Power: Pontano’s Book Virtues - Palma, Pina (Early Modern Cultures of Hospitality, 2021)
Keywords: dept.wll

Of Cranes, Dinners, and Desire: Decameron VI, 4 - Palma, Pina (Italica, 2021)
Through the analysis of a hosted dinner, crane-meat, its preparation, and a lover's ultimatum the article shows that in Chichibio's novella (Decameron VI,4) there is more at play than just the lies, wit, and cunning that a Venetian cook relies on as survival mode. In fact, the roasted crane-leg stolen by the cook for his lover upends the established social and cultural order that Currado Gianfigliazzi exemplifies. Pruning away at established norms while depicting a servant who projects self-confidence, shrewdness, and the ability to adjust to contingencies, Boccaccio's tale demonstrates that Chichibio's (and his lover's) personal fulfillment rests neither on prides nor privileges, but on their ability to envision and seize what lies beyond the norms.
Keywords: Boccaccio; Bouchard, Norma; Congregational churches; Currado Chichibio; Dialects; Epilepsy; Hunting; crane; dept.wll; food; hunting; kitchen; master; power and powerlessness; servant; ⛔ No DOI found

For His Wife and Lover: Pontano's De amore coniugali - Palma, Pina (Idealizing Women in the Italian Renaissance, 2022)
Keywords: dept.wll

Trade and the Environment - Buterbaugh, K. (Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, & Conflict: Volume 1-4, Third Edition, 2022)
This article focuses on the complex interaction between trade and the environment. The first section reviews the debate among scholars on the environmental effects of trade. Next the article examines the role of the World Trade Organization and how its decisions have impacted the environment. This is followed by a discussion of climate change and its connection to trade. Finally, the article examines multilateral efforts to govern trade and control its environmental consequences as well as to encourage sustainable development. © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Carbon leakage; Climate change; Comparative advantage; Environmental Kuznets curve; Externality; Free rider problem; Multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs); Nontariff barriers to trade; Pollution haven hypothesis; Prisoner's dilemma; The general agreement on tariffs and trade; World trade organization; dept.psc

Physical activity used as punishment: advocating for better practices - Paulson, Lisa; Knipe, Robert (Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2023)
SHAPE America (2021) contends the use of physical activity used as punishment and/or behavior management as an inappropriate practice. The position statement acknowledges both the administration and withholding of physical activity as punishment, however, this paper focuses on the use of exercise as punishment (EAP) in physical education settings. While deemed inappropriate, the use of EAP is still happening today (Barney et al., 2016). The purpose of this viewpoint paper is to encourage appropriate pedagogies and practices while increasing awareness of national recommendations. Strategies for advocacy efforts are discussed.
Keywords: dept.hms; peer-reviewed

Secondary Risk in COVID-19 Vaccination Intentions: A Theoretical Contribution to the Protection Motivation Paradigm - Prince, Melvin; Kim, Young (Journal of Applied Social Science, 2023)
This study presents an original model that features the emotion of fear of COVID-19 as a direct effect on vaccination intentions. A central research question addressed in the study is what roles do the emotion of fear of contracting COVID-19 and the threat posed by uptake of the COVID-19 vaccination play in levels of vaccination intention? The study used a structural equation model (SEM) and applied the SmartPLS 3.2.6 data analysis tool for model estimation and multivariate analysis variables. A key finding is that vaccination resistance is strongest when fear of COVID-19 is lower, and vaccination threat higher. Vaccination threat appraisal and vaccination intention were found to have a negative relationship. Response costs at higher levels lessen motivation for COVID-19 vaccination. Research implications include research-based targeting of differing segments by their primary fear, either fear of COVID-19 or of the preventative vaccine.
Keywords: dept.mkt; peer-reviewed

Creating a Narrative for Change: Health Promotion Students’ Perspectives on the Power of Photovoice Research - De Leon, Breanna; Mahama, Fatawu; Raymond, Ashley; Palmer, Cheryl A; Breny, Jean M. (Health Promotion Practice, 2023)
The use of Critical Race Theory, Photovoice, and Community-Based Participatory Research has helped uncover the root causes of issues such as systemic racism in the fields of public health and health promotion. Often, we see studies using traditional research methods to investigate potential causal factors of disparities in minoritized communities report only quantitative data. While these data are imperative for understanding the severity of disparities, quantitative-only approaches cannot address nor can they improve the critical root causes of these disparities. As a team of BIPOC graduate students in public health, we conducted a community-based participatory research project using Photovoice methodology to explore inequities in Black and Brown communities exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. The participatory nature of this research revealed cumulative challenges across the social determinants of health in New Haven and Bridgeport, Connecticut. It allowed us to engage in local-level advocacy to promote health equity as our findings illuminated the need for community-led and community-engaged action. Health and racial inequities cannot be effectively addressed if public health research and programming do not collaborate with the community to build community capacity, empowerment, and trust. We describe our experiences doing community-based participatory research to investigate inequities and provide reflections on their value for public health students. As responses to health inequities and disparities become more politically polarized in the United States, it is critical for public health and health education students to use research methodologies that elevate communities that have been historically marginalized and neglected. Together, we can catalyze equitable change.
Keywords: dept.pch; peer-reviewed

Correction: MSLP: mRNA subcellular localization predictor based on machine learning techniques - Musleh, Saleh; Islam, Mohammad Tariqul; Qureshi, Rizwan; Alajez, Nehad M.; Alam, Tanvir (BMC Bioinformatics, 2023)
Keywords: dept.csc; peer-reviewed

Residual intersections and core of modules - Costantini, Alessandra; Fouli, Louiza; Hong, Jooyoun (Journal of Algebra, 2023)
We introduce the notion of residual intersections of modules and prove their existence. We show that projective dimension one modules have Cohen-Macaulay residual intersections, namely they satisfy the relevant Artin-Nagata property. We then establish a formula for the core of orientable modules satisfying certain homological conditions, extending previous results of Corso, Polini, and Ulrich on the core of projective one modules. Finally, we provide examples of classes of modules that satisfy our assumptions.
Keywords: Core; Reductions; Residual intersections; dept.mat; peer-reviewed

Why Controlling the Historical Narrative Matters: A Jamesian Response - Marsoobian, A.T. (Pragmatism Today, 2022)
An examination of the lessons learned from William James’s oration on the dedication of the Civil War Monument memorialization Colonel Robert Shaw and the Fifty-Fourth Regiment Massachusetts Infantry, an all-Black unit. The role of monuments in making visible the values of a society is explored in the context of promoting a nation’s historical narrative, in particular in their propagation of the South’s Lost Cause narrative. The genocidal violence against Armenians in the Caucasus by the Azerbaijani regime serves as the second illustration of the abuse of historical narratives. © 2022 Central European Pragmatist Forum. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Armenians; Azerbaijan; Civil War monuments; William James; civic courage; dept.phi; genocidal violence; historical narratives; peer-reviewed; the Lost Cause; ⛔ No DOI found

Ethical marketing AI? A structured literature review of the ethical challenges posed by artificial intelligence in the domains of marketing and consumer behavior - Su, Y.; Wang, E.; Berthon, P. (Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2023)
With the increasing use of AI in marketing, ethical repercussions are beginning to emerge. From privacy issues, through discrimination of marginalized groups, to emergent systemic social distortions, AI is changing the marketing ethical landscape. In this paper we conduct a structured literature review of the emerging ethical issues posed by AI in the domains of marketing and consumer behavior. We identify three clusters of ethical issues (algorithm, society and existential) and map these to the marketing domains of systems, brands, and consumers. We conclude that the field of ethical marketing AI is still very much in its infancy, but such is the rate of development ethical marketing AI is likely to become an important field for academics and practitioners alike. © 2023 IEEE Computer Society. All rights reserved.
Keywords: AI; Consumer Behavior; Ethics; Marketing; dept.mkt

Social Justice Case Studies: Interdisciplinary and Non-Traditional Interdisciplinary Approaches - Green, Cheryl (Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023)
Keywords: dept.nur

Father–child playfulness: a secondary analysis of a multiple-baseline single-subject study of three children with autism spectrum disorder - Waldman-Levi, Amiya; Kuhaneck, Heather (The American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2023)
Importance: Ayres Sensory Integration® (ASI) is commonly used with children on the autism spectrum to promote sensory processing and improved occupational performance, including play. To date, there has been no explicit effort to examine improvements in playfulness through ASI.Objective: To explore whether ASI, coupled with parent training, improves child playfulness and fathers’ support of child playfulness.Design: Single-subject A–B–BC design secondary analysis of a nonconcurrent multiple-baseline study.Setting: Occupational therapy clinic.Participants: Three father–child dyads; children were ages 3 to 6 yr, with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and documented sensory processing concerns.Intervention: After a baseline phase, each child received at least 24 sessions of ASI, and fathers received parent training focusing on sensory processing issues and play via an online presentation.Outcomes and Measures: The Parent/Caregiver’s Support of Children’s Playfulness and the Test of Playfulness.Results: Visual analysis of the baseline phase, ASI phase, and ASI with parent training phase shows that all 3 fathers demonstrated an increase in the way they supported their child’s playfulness; however, this change was not maintained. Children’s playfulness fluctuated, reaching a peak after fathers received training, but none of the children maintained that change.Conclusions and Relevance: Additional support by the therapist is required for fathers to learn and use new strategies to promote consistent change in child playfulness during play. Pilot data can be used to inform future studies.What This Article Adds: Occupation- and family-centered frameworks may be useful in guiding practice when working with families of children with ASD.
Keywords: dept.rec; peer-reviewed

K * 0 production in Au + Au collisions at √ s N N = 7.7 , 11.5, 14.5, 19.6, 27, and 39 GeV from the RHIC beam energy scan - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review C, 2023)
We report the measurement of K*0 meson at midrapidity (|y|< 1.0) in Au+Au collisions at √sNN=7.7, 11.5, 14.5, 19.6, 27, and 39 GeV collected by the STAR experiment during the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) beam energy scan program. The transverse momentum spectra, yield, and average transverse momentum of K*0 are presented as functions of collision centrality and beam energy. The K*0/K yield ratios are presented for different collision centrality intervals and beam energies. The K*0/K ratio in heavy-ion collisions are observed to be smaller than that in small-system collisions (e+e and p+p). The K*0/K ratio follows a similar centrality dependence to that observed in previous RHIC and Large Hadron Collider measurements. The data favor the scenario of the dominance of hadronic rescattering over regeneration for K*0 production in the hadronic phase of the medium.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Gathered from the Vine: A Survey of Seven Grapevine Viruses Within New England Vineyards - Dumas, Madeleine; Borges, Darlan Ferreira; Priesing, Stephanie; Tippett, Ethan; Ambrosio, Márcia Michelle de Queiroz; Luís da Silva, Washington (Plant Disease, 2023)
Vineyards in the Southeastern New England American Viticultural Area were surveyed for the incidence of seven major viruses: grapevine leafroll-associated viruses (GLRaV-1, GLRaV-2, GLRaV-3, and GLRaV-4), grapevine fanleaf virus (GFLV), tomato ringspot virus (ToRSV), and tobacco ringspot virus (TRSV). Viruses were detected by DAS-ELISA and confirmed by RT-PCR and Sanger sequencing. Multiple viruses were present in 19 out of the 25 vineyards surveyed between 2018 and 2020. GLRaV-3 (27.59%) was the most prevalent virus followed by GLRaV-4 (14.90%), GLRaV-1 (13.52%), GLRaV-2 (11.03%), ToRSV (6.34%), GFLV (5.24%), and TRSV (2.62%). Furthermore, phylogenetic analyses of the viral partial genome sequences acquired in this study revealed that the grapevine viruses present in this area are diverse, indicating that they may have been introduced from different sources. Our findings stress the need for improving the sanitary status of planting materials to avoid the introduction and dissemination of viruses to vineyards in this important wine-producing region of New England.
Keywords: New England; dept.bio; grapevine fanleaf virus; grapevine leafroll-associated virus; grapevine viruses; peer-reviewed; survey; tobacco ringspot virus; tomato ringspot virus

Qualitative and quantitative evidence of motivation states for physical activity, exercise and being sedentary from university student focus groups - Stults-Kolehmainen, Matthew A.; Gilson, Todd A.; SantaBarbara, Nicholas; McKee, Paul C.; Sinha, Rajita; Bartholomew, John B.; Boullosa, Daniel; Budnick, Christopher J.; Bueno, Fabio Amador; Haughton, Adrian; Barker, Jessica L.; Ash, Garrett I. (Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2023)
Motivation for physical activity and sedentary behaviors (e.g., desires, urges, wants, cravings) varies from moment to moment. According to the WANT model, these motivation states may be affectively-charged (e.g., felt as tension), particularly after periods of maximal exercise or extended rest. The purpose of this study was to examine postulates of the WANT model utilizing a mixed-methods approach. We hypothesized that: (1) qualitative evidence would emerge from interviews to support this model, and (2) motivation states would quantitatively change over the course of an interview period. Seventeen undergraduate students (mean age = 18.6y, 13 women) engaged in focus groups where 12 structured questions were presented. Participants completed the “right now” version of the CRAVE scale before and after interviews. Qualitative data were analyzed with content analysis. A total of 410 unique lower-order themes were classified and grouped into 43 higher order themes (HOTs). From HOTs, six super higher order themes (SHOTs) were designated: (1) wants and aversions, (2) change and stability, (3) autonomy and automaticity, (4) objectives and impulses, (5) restraining and propelling forces, and (6) stress and boredom. Participants stated that they experienced desires to move and rest, including during the interview, but these states changed rapidly and varied both randomly as well as systematically across periods of minutes to months. Some also described a total absence of desire or even aversion to move and rest. Of note, strong urges and cravings for movement, typically from conditions of deprivation (e.g., sudden withdrawal from exercise training) were associated with physical and mental manifestations, such as fidgeting and feeling restless. Urges were often consummated with behavior (e.g., exercise sessions, naps), which commonly resulted in satiation and subsequent drop in desire. Importantly, stress was frequently described as both an inhibitor and instigator of motivation states. CRAVE-Move increased pre-to-post interviews (p < .01). CRAVE-Rest demonstrated a trend to decline (p = .057). Overall, qualitative and quantitative data largely corroborated postulates of the WANT model, demonstrating that people experience wants and cravings to move and rest, and that these states appear to fluctuate significantly, especially in the context of stress, boredom, satiety, and deprivation.
Keywords: dept.psy; peer-reviewed

Measurement of Sequential Υ Suppression in Au + Au Collisions at √ s N N = 200 GeV with the STAR Experiment - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review Letters, 2023)
We report on measurements of sequential Υ suppression in Au+Au collisions at √sNN=200 GeV with the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) through both the dielectron and dimuon decay channels. In the 0%–60% centrality class, the nuclear modification factors (RAA), which quantify the level of yield suppression in heavy-ion collisions compared to p+p collisions, for Υ(1S) and Υ(2S) are 0.40±0.03(stat)±0.03(sys)±0.09(norm) and 0.26±0.08(stat)±0.02(sys)±0.06(norm), respectively, while the upper limit of the Υ(3S) RAA is 0.17 at a 95% confidence level. This provides experimental evidence that the Υ(3S) is significantly more suppressed than the Υ(1S) at RHIC. The level of suppression for Υ(1S) is comparable to that observed at the much higher collision energy at the Large Hadron Collider. These results point to the creation of a medium at RHIC whose temperature is sufficiently high to strongly suppress excited Υ states.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

The implementation of a nutrition intervention in food pantries: the spirit of SWAP - Morales, Sofia I.; Vicente, Genesis; LaMonaca, Katherine; Rios, Jasmine; Cunningham, Shayna D.; Higginbottom, Jackson; Mathios, Erin; Werlin, Steve; Cramer, James; Santilli, Alycia; O’Connor Duffany, Kathleen (Health Promotion Practice, 2023)
Background. Food insecurity, affecting approximately 10% of the U.S. population, with up to 40% or higher in some communities, is associated with higher rates of chronic conditions and inversely associated with diet quality. Nutrition interventions implemented at food pantries are an effective strategy to increase healthy food choices and improve health outcomes for people experiencing food and nutrition insecurity. Supporting Wellness at Pantries (SWAP), a stoplight nutrition ranking system, can facilitate healthy food procurement and distribution at pantries. Purpose. Guided by the RE-AIM Framework, this study assesses the implementation and outcomes of SWAP as nutritional guidance and institutional policy intervention, to increase procurement and distribution of healthy foods in pantries. Method. Mixed-methods evaluation included observations, process forms, and in-depth interviews. Food inventory assessments were conducted at baseline and 2-year follow-up. Results. Two large pantries in New Haven, Connecticut, collectively reaching more than 12,200 individuals yearly, implemented SWAP in 2019. Implementation was consistent prepandemic at both pantries. Due to COVID-mandated distribution changes, pantries adapted SWAP implementation during the pandemic while still maintaining the ?spirit of SWAP.? One pantry increased the percentage of Green foods offered. Challenges to healthy food distribution are considered. Discussion. This study has implications for policy, systems, and environmental changes. It shows the potential for SWAP adoption at pantries, which can serve as a guide for continued healthy food procurement and advocacy. Maintaining the ?spirit of SWAP? shows promising results for food pantries looking to implement nutrition interventions when standard practice may not be possible.
Keywords: dept.hhs; peer-reviewed

Development and validation of the peer assessment motivation scale (PAMS) in higher education - Guo, Xiuyan; Liu, Jin; Tang, Hengtao; Gao, Ruiqin; Chen, Qu; Wolfer, Terry; Haynes, Aisha (Studies in Higher Education, 2023)
Measurement of students’ peer assessment motivation is critical to understand how they participate in such activities in higher education. The current study was conducted to develop and validate a brief scale that measures student peer assessment motivation in higher education using the Expectancy-Value Theory (EVT). Initial items were developed, revised, and administered to 369 students. Exploratory factor analyses suggested a three-factor model structure (ability belief, expectancy, and task value) aligning with EVT. Confirmatory factor analyses (n = 399) supported a higher-order factor structure with the three first-order factors (i.e. ability belief, expectancy, and task value) with a decent model fit. The 20-items Peer Assessment Motivation Scale (PAMS) had decent internal reliability, test-retest reliability, convergent validity, and discriminant validity, suggesting that it is a high-quality measure. This scale is beneficial for instructors and researchers who are interested in investigating peer assessment motivation in higher education.
Keywords: Peer assessment motivation; dept.csp; higher education; instrument; peer-reviewed; reliability; validity

The influence of side-lying position on oropharyngeal swallow function in at-risk infants: an exploratory study - Smith, Julian B.; Kamarunas, Erin; O’Donoghue, Cynthia (Clinical Pediatrics, 2023)
This investigation assessed the effect of side-lying position on infant oropharyngeal swallow physiology. Infant modified barium swallow studies (MBS) recordings were retrospectively examined in matched-pairs comparing at-risk infants swallowing in both an upright/cradled position and a side-lying position. Swallow parameters were measured independently and through a consensus coding approach. Infants fed in side-lying position showed a decrease in airway invasion severity as compared with when those same infants were fed in an upright/cradled position (P = .009). Bolus location at the time of swallow initiation was higher when infants were fed in side-lying position as compared with cradle position (P = .024), representing decreased risk of airway invasion. Infants fed in side-lying position demonstrated fewer swallows per breaths (P = .032). This pilot study validates the need for additional research to further define the mechanisms related to this improvement, and to determine how diagnosis and medical stability moderate these findings.
Keywords: dept.cmd; peer-reviewed

Academic pursuits and involvement in decision-making: study on the formation of U.S. university think tanks - Lyu, Qing; Bielefield, Arlene; Liu, Yan Quan (Administrative Sciences, 2023)
This paper analyzes the concept of think tanks and concludes that think tanks have three basic characteristics. Firstly, they are based on academic research, relatively independent operation, and aim to serve scientific decision-making. Taking Ivy League think tanks as an example, this paper provides a preliminary discussion of ways for think tanks to maintain the scientific nature of their research, maintain the independence of their operations, and disseminate research results to enhance their influence. It covers institutional mission, research team construction, institutional governance, fundraising, achievements and activities, and alumni networks. This paper proposes a framework of university think tank generation paths associated with the essential characteristics of think tanks. The paper points out that, as a research consulting organization grown out of universities, university think tanks must maintain the scientific nature and independence of research while providing support and services for decision-making. Only in this way can they truly serve scientific and democratic decision-making, gain the trust of the public and have a real lasting influence.
Keywords: American university affiliated think tank; characteristics of think tank; decision-making; dept.ils; peer-reviewed; the ivy league university; think tank operation mechanism

Ai moral enhancement: upgrading the socio-technical system of moral engagement - Volkman, Richard; Gabriels, Katleen (Science and Engineering Ethics, 2023)
Several proposals for moral enhancement would use AI to augment (auxiliary enhancement) or even supplant (exhaustive enhancement) human moral reasoning or judgment. Exhaustive enhancement proposals conceive AI as some self-contained oracle whose superiority to our own moral abilities is manifest in its ability to reliably deliver the ‘right’ answers to all our moral problems. We think this is a mistaken way to frame the project, as it presumes that we already know many things that we are still in the process of working out, and reflecting on this fact reveals challenges even for auxiliary proposals that eschew the oracular approach. We argue there is nonetheless a substantial role that ‘AI mentors’ could play in our moral education and training. Expanding on the idea of an AI Socratic Interlocutor, we propose a modular system of multiple AI interlocutors with their own distinct points of view reflecting their training in a diversity of concrete wisdom traditions. This approach minimizes any risk of moral disengagement, while the existence of multiple modules from a diversity of traditions ensures pluralism is preserved. We conclude with reflections on how all this relates to the broader notion of moral transcendence implicated in the project of AI moral enhancement, contending it is precisely the whole concrete socio-technical system of moral engagement that we need to model if we are to pursue moral enhancement.
Keywords: AI socratic interlocutor; Artificial intelligence; Artificial moral agent; Moral enhancement; dept.phi; peer-reviewed

MSLP: mRNA subcellular localization predictor based on machine learning techniques - Musleh, Saleh; Islam, Mohammad Tariqul; Qureshi, Rizwan; Alajez, Nihad; Alam, Tanvir (BMC Bioinformatics, 2023)
Subcellular localization of messenger RNA (mRNAs) plays a pivotal role in the regulation of gene expression, cell migration as well as in cellular adaptation. Experiment techniques for pinpointing the subcellular localization of mRNAs are laborious, time-consuming and expensive. Therefore, in silico approaches for this purpose are attaining great attention in the RNA community.
Keywords: Localization prediction; Machine learning; RNA; Sequence analysis; Subcellular localization; dept.csc; mRNA; peer-reviewed

Amyloid beta and tau protein metabolic changes detected by visible resonance Raman scattering microscopy in Alzheimer's disease mouse model - Shi, Lingyan; Zhou, Yan; Wu, Binlin; Zhu, Ke; Zhang, Shengjia; Boydston-White, Susie; Zhang, Lin; Pei, Zhe; Nguyen, Thien An; Liu, Cheng-Hui; Alfano, Robert R. (Optical Biopsy XXI: Toward Real-Time Spectroscopic Imaging and Diagnosis, 2023)
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathogenesis is widely believed to be associated with the production and deposition of the β-amyloid peptide (Aβ) and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) which are composed of a highly-phosphorylated form of the microtubule-associated protein tau. Based on the above hypothesis, there are currently no sufficiently effective technologies and drugs for early detection and treatment of AD. Even the most promising new drug Lecanemab that is based on an anti-amyloid monoclonal antibody therapy, has only partially slowed down the cognitive performance of patients with mild impairment caused by Alzheimer's disease. The main symptoms of AD brain tissue lesions in patients are the deposition of β-amyloid peptide and the hyperphosphorylation of tau protein, which aggregates the microtubule structure of neurons. Therefore, Aβ deposition and hyperphosphorylation of Tau are important pathological biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease. Therefore, the main targets of research for AD prevention, detection and pharmaceuticals are still Aβ and Tau protein. The aim of this study was to detect the changes of Aβ and Tau proteins in the mouse brain tissue with AD and control samples using Visible Resonance Raman (VRR) spectroscopic technology. An attempt was made to develop criteria for the detection of early AD lesions by optical spectroscopy technology. The VRR spectra of AD, the control mouse brain tissues, and Aβ and Tau proteins were recorded and analyzed. The AD and the control mouse brain tissue samples were selected from the thalamus, frontal lobe cortex and hippocampus brain areas. VRR technology with high spatial resolution and the resonance-enhanced features of certain protein molecules is first used in this study to detect and characterize the changes of Aβ and Tau proteins in AD mouse brain model. The optical spectroscopy biomarkers of AD and Control brain tissue were identified in fingerprint and the high-wavenumber regions. The Raman spectra of the secondary structure of protein in amide (I-II-III-B-A) are detected and analyzed. The results indicate that the intensity of Amide I decreased at the 1666 cm-1 corresponding to the β-sheet structure, and the intensity of the amide III bands (1220- 1320 cm-1) increased in all AD brain tissues. It was also observed that the Raman peaks of 1448 and 980 cm-1 related to the abundance of proline, serine, and threonine at tau phosphorylation sites were significantly enhanced in the frontal lobe cortex and hippocampus of AD brain tissues. The intensity ratio biomarker of high phosphorylation in the high wavenumber range from 2898 to 2932 cm-1 increased in all AD brain tissues. Changes of protein secondary conformation and abnormally phosphorylated tau or tauopathies were observed. In summary, VRR is a sensitive tool for characterizing protein structural changes and monitoring the tau phosphorylation. It may potentially be used for early detection of AD.
Keywords: dept.phy

Evaluation of chemotherapeutic retinoic acid effects on malignant cells using fluorescence spectroscopy with selective excitation wavelengths and machine learning - Wu, Binlin; Tang, Guichen; Pu, Yang; Alfano, Robert (Optical Biopsy XXI: Toward Real-Time Spectroscopic Imaging and Diagnosis, 2023)
Native fluorescence spectra of retinoic acid (RA)-treated and untreated human breast cancer cells were measured using selective wavelengths of 300 nm and 340 nm for excitation. The spectral data of the two types of cells were analyzed using machine learning algorithms for linear unmixing and classification which yielded high accuracy. The results show that the concentrations of the native fluorophores such as tryptophan, NADH and flavins in the human malignant breast cells change when they are treated with RA. The study shows the dual-wavelength fluorescence spectroscopy aided by machine learning has potential clinical applications in drug development and chemotherapeutic studies.
Keywords: dept.phy

A handheld visible resonance raman analyzer used in intraoperative detection of human glioma - Zhang, Liang; Zhou, Yan; Wu, Binlin; Zhang, Shengjia; Zhu, Ke; Liu, Cheng-Hui; Yu, Xinguang; Alfano, Robert R. (Cancers, 2023)
There is still a lack of reliable intraoperative tools for glioma diagnosis and to guide the maximal safe resection of glioma. We report continuing work on the optical biopsy method to detect glioma grades and assess glioma boundaries intraoperatively using the VRR-LRRTM Raman analyzer, which is based on the visible resonance Raman spectroscopy (VRR) technique. A total of 2220 VRR spectra were collected during surgeries from 63 unprocessed fresh glioma tissues using the VRR-LRRTM Raman analyzer. After the VRR spectral analysis, we found differences in the native molecules in the fingerprint region and in the high-wavenumber region, and differences between normal (control) and different grades of glioma tissues. A principal component analysis–support vector machine (PCA-SVM) machine learning method was used to distinguish glioma tissues from normal tissues and different glioma grades. The accuracy in identifying glioma from normal tissue was over 80%, compared with the gold standard of histopathology reports of glioma. The VRR-LRRTM Raman analyzer may be a new label-free, real-time optical molecular pathology tool aiding in the intraoperative detection of glioma and identification of tumor boundaries, thus helping to guide maximal safe glioma removal and adjacent healthy tissue preservation.
Keywords: dept.phy; glioma; human brain; intraoperative; optical biopsy; optical molecular pathology; peer-reviewed; portable optical-fiber-probe Raman analyzer; visible resonance Raman (VRR)

Higher-order cumulants and correlation functions of proton multiplicity distributions in √ s N N = 3 GeV Au + Au collisions at the RHIC STAR experiment - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review C, 2023)
We report a measurement of cumulants and correlation functions of event-by-event proton multiplicity distributions from fixed-target Au+Au collisions at √sNN = 3 GeV measured by the STAR experiment. Protons are identified within the rapidity (y) and transverse momentum (pT) region −0.9<y<0 and 0.4<pT<2.0 GeV/c in the center-of-mass frame. A systematic analysis of the proton cumulants and correlation functions up to sixth order as well as the corresponding ratios as a function of the collision centrality, pT, and y are presented. The effect of pileup and initial volume fluctuations on these observables and the respective corrections are discussed in detail. The results are compared to calculations from the hadronic transport UrQMD model as well as a hydrodynamic model. In the most central 5% collisions, the value of proton cumulant ratio C4/C2 is negative, drastically different from the values observed in Au+Au collisions at higher energies. Compared to model calculations including lattice QCD, a hadronic transport model, and a hydrodynamic model, the strong suppression in the ratio of C4/C2 at 3 GeV Au+Au collisions indicates an energy regime dominated by hadronic interactions.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Capstone Handbook - Rofuth, Todd W.; Piepenbring, Julie (2022)
Capstone Handbook has been produced as a practical guide for students in the final year of their MSW program. It is intentionally designed to provide brief overviews of the lock-step approach to completing a capstone or thesis project and includes activities to help partialize the steps that will culminate in the completion of the capstone. It contains 30 chapters spanning two semesters with each chapter providing chapter objectives, an introduction, chapter content, a summary of the chapter, end of chapter exercises, references and ancillary material. An overview of all key concepts required in a typical capstone provides students with a practical resource to guide them through the process of creating capstone proposals and final products. Lastly, the eBook’s intent is to afford students with some structure for getting starting by providing a number of templates.
Keywords: dept.swk

Services to mobile users: the best practice from the top-visited public libraries in the US - Liu, Yan Quan; Lewis, Sarah (Information Technology and Libraries, 2023)
Libraries are adapting to the changing times by providing mobile services. One hundred fifty-one libraries were chosen based on circulation, with at least one library or library system from each state, to explore the diverse services provided to mobile users across the United States. According to the data, mobile apps, mobile reference services, mobile library catalogs, and mobile printing are among public libraries’ most-frequently offered services, as determined by mobile visits, content analysis, and librarian survey responses. Every library examined had at least one mobile website, mobile catalog, mobile app, or webpage adapted for a mobile device. Following the COVID-19 outbreak, services such as mobile renewal, subscriber database access, mobile reservations, and the ability to interact with a librarian were expanded to allow better communication with customers—all from the comfort and safety of their own homes. Libraries are continually looking for innovative methods to assist their mobile customers as the world changes.
Keywords: Mobile Apps; Mobile services; Public Libraries; SCSU-student; Survey study; dept.ils; peer-reviewed

Demanding Sustainability: Pillars to (Re-)Build a Shared Prosperity - Morrissey, John; Heidkamp, C. Patrick (Springer International Publishing, 2022)
Keywords: Climate Crisis; Covid; Covid-19; decarbonized economy; dept.egm; ecological prosperity; global economy; just resilience; resilience; social justice; sustainable governance; sustainable prosperity

Conceptual understanding of provider responses to the complexity of healthcare delivery - Arnold, Tracey; Polifroni, E. C. (Mental health and wellness in healthcare workers: Identifying risks, prevention, and treatment: Identifying risks, prevention, and treatment, 2022)
Keywords: dept.nur

Diabetes Distal Peripheral Neuropathy: Subtypes and Diagnostic and Screening Technologies - Newlin Lew, Kelley; Arnold, Tracey; Cantelmo, Catherine; Jacque, Francky; Posada-Quintero, Hugo; Luthra, Pooja; Chon, Ki H. (Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology, 2022)
Diabetes distal symmetrical peripheral neuropathy (DSPN) is the most prevalent form of neuropathy in industrialized countries, substantially increasing risk for morbidity and pre-mature mortality. DSPN may manifest with small-fiber disease, large-fiber disease, or a combination of both. This review summarizes: (1) DSPN subtypes (small- and large-fiber disease) with attention to clinical signs and patient symptoms; and (2) technological diagnosis and screening for large- and small-fiber disease with inclusion of a comprehensive literature review of published studies from 2015-present (N = 66). Review findings, informed by the most up-to-date research, advance critical understanding of DSPN large- and small-fiber screening technologies, including those designed for point-of-care use in primary care and endocrinology practices.
Keywords: dept.nur; peer-reviewed

Moral distress in emergency and critical care nurses: A metaethnography - Arnold, Tracey C (Nursing Ethics, 2020)
Background:Moral distress has detrimental effects on nurses which impacts the entire healthcare cycle. Described as a crescendo effect, resolved situations of moral distress leave residue on the nurse with three potential outcomes: moral numbing, conscious objection to the situation, and burnout.Objective:This metaethnography strives to achieve a fuller understanding of moral distress by interpreting the body of qualitative work of moral distress in emergency and critical care nurses.Method:This study used the Noblit and Hare?s approach of interpretative synthesis. Ten studies met the criteria and were used in this synthesis.Ethical considerations:Ethical issues were minimal since no human subjects were involved. Ethical requirements were respected in all study phases.Results:The synthesis of qualitative research on moral distress resulted in one central theme, ?the battle within,? and five subthemes.Conclusions:The unique nature of this nursing specialty resulted in a lasting inner conflict for nurses that is consistent with the previously described crescendo effect. The effects are complex and long lasting and may potentially affect the nurses? future patient care.
Keywords: dept.nur; peer-reviewed

An evolutionary concept analysis of secondary traumatic stress in nurses - Arnold, Tracey (Nursing Forum, 2020)
Purpose The purpose of this article is to provide conceptual clarification of secondary traumatic stress (STS) in nurses. Background As an empathetic helping profession, nurses are at increased risk for STS. Interchangeable usage of related terms among multidisciplinary literature has resulted in lack of conceptual clarity resulting in conflation of terms. Conceptual clarity is necessary for a foundation for further research on treatment. Methods Rodgers' evolutionary model of concept analysis. Results Nurses are predisposed to STS due to exposure, empathy, bonding, and personal factors. Essential attributes were found to be posttraumatic stress disorder-like symptoms, biological symptoms, social symptoms, and psychological symptoms. Resultant consequences included an altered worldview, interpersonal difficulties, and decreased occupational commitment. Conclusion This concept analysis, the first focusing on STS, provides conceptual clarity and a concept map of STS within the nursing population.
Keywords: Rodgers' evolutionary model; concept analysis; concept map; dept.nur; peer-reviewed; secondary traumatic stress

Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) at a Political Crossroads - Wharton, Jonathan (The Earth & I, 2021)
Keywords: dept.psc; peer-reviewed

Developing a short, faculty-led, international field study course in Special Education - Faraclas, Kara (The Journal of the International Association of Special Education, 2021)
Keywords: dept.sed; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

全球视野中的海外华人和中华文化 [Chinese Diasporas and Traditional Culture in the Global Context] - Weng, Miaowei (《中国与拉美》 [China and Latin America], 2022)
Keywords: dept.wll; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

美洲华人简史. [Diásporas chinas a las Américas] - Chang-Rodríguez, Eugenio (新世界出版社[New World Press],, 2021)
Keywords: dept.wll

儿童与战争: 童年回忆和西班牙内战研究 = Children and the war - Weng, Miaowei (中国社会科学出版社, 2020)
本书将儿童,童年回忆和西班牙内战联系在一起,提出了"佛朗哥儿童"这个新概念.在童年研究和历史回忆研究的二元框架下,作者分析了"佛朗哥儿童"在西班牙20世纪后半叶至今的代表性文学影视作品,以此揭示出儿童在西班牙政治中的重要性,并呈现了西班牙近几十年来的历史和文化走向
Keywords: Wen xue yan jiu Xibanya; dept.wll

Introduction to Business Law and Ethics - Badr, Kauther S.; Smith Jr, Robert A. (Kendall Hunt, 2022)
Keywords: dept.mgt

Gentrification: The New Colonialism in the Modern Era - Wharton, Jonathan L. (Journal of the Oxford University Round Table: Forum on Public Policy, 2009)
Keywords: dept.psc; ⛔ No DOI found

Abatement Addiction: A Case Study on Jersey City's Municipal Tax Abatements, Urban Gentrification and the Politics of Rights - Wharton, Jonathan (American Political Science Association, Social Science Research Network, 2011)
As New Jersey’s second largest city, Jersey City has experienced a surge in urban redevelopment and new development, particularly its downtown wards closest to New York City. Situated on the Hudson River directly across from downtown New York City, Jersey City is an ideal location for New Jersey developers and realtors to redevelop in order to attract New York City’s financial sector employees and individuals desiring more living space at lower rental or mortgage costs. In other words, downtown Jersey City exemplifies urban gentrification. In the last twenty years, several public policies helped spur waterfront development to attract potentially wealthier residents. In an effort to lure developers and investors, Jersey City officials relied heavily on municipal tax abatements to offset increasingly high property taxes. So after two decades, has Jersey City demonstrated that Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT), tax abatements and other tax policy incentives are in fact feasible in terms of the following questions: What have been the implications of these policies? Who benefited from and who was marginalized from these policies? This paper examines the rising concerns surrounding tax abatements and other pro-development tax policies. By examining a medium sized city like Jersey City, this case study is especially useful in understanding the significant issues and shortcomings with urban redevelopment tax incentives. Too often these incentives benefit a political and financial elite at the economic expense and loss of political rights of long-term residents and renters.
Keywords: New Jersey; dept.psc; gentrification; tax abatements; urban development; urban politics; ⛔ No DOI found

Political Erosion in 'The Land of Steady Habits': Party Politics in Connecticut's 2018 Gubernatorial Election - Wharton, Jonathan L. (New England Journal of Political Science, 2019)
Keywords: dept.psc; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Pandemic Politics: Connecticut’s General Assembly and Gubernatorial Policymaking in 2020 - Wharton, Jonathan L. (New England Journal of Political Science, 2020)
Keywords: dept.psc; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Open Budgetary Meetings Amid a Pandemic: Assessing Connecticut's Various Pathways to Public Engagement During COVID-19 - Gil, Jodie M.; Wharton, Jonathan L. (The Journal of Civic Information, 2020)
Keywords: dept.jrn; dept.psc; peer-reviewed

Researching SCSU's Hilton C. Buley Library's New Haven Mayoral Archives - Wharton, Jonathan L.; Gil, Jodie (Connecticut History Review, 2021)
The mayoral archive includes both official and personal documents that can be used for research on various aspects of New Haven's history. Much of the DeStefano collection, for example, has various reports and studies on economic development and school construction projects, which were key to his administration.The Hilton C. Buley Library hosts a growing collection of mayoral papers from four New Haven mayors: Biagio “Ben” DiLieto (1980–90), John Daniels (1990–94), John DeStefano Jr. (1994–2014) and Toni Harp (2014–20). The materials are available to the public by appointment. Many items—including the full DeStefano papers—are available in a digital archive through the Buley Library website or the Connecticut Digital Archive portal. Jackie Toce, librarian and head of technical services at Buley Library, has spent the last seven years leading the digitization efforts for the archive, one of the reasons DeStefano donated the materials to Southern.4 Buley Library will host an exhibition and formal unveiling of the archive in late October 2021, which will run through the end of the year.
Keywords: dept.jrn; dept.psc; peer-reviewed

A Post-Racial Change Is Gonna Come: Newark, Cory Booker, and the Transformation of Urban America - Wharton, J. (Springer, 2013)
This work offers a political and historical analysis of Newark's modern politics since 1950, culminating with Mayor Cory Booker's rise to power and prominence both in the city and in American political consciousness. Newark's recent political history offers an interesting case study in mayoral elections, community development, and coalition building politics. While Newark is the quintessential post-industrial city, Booker has received critical attention for his post-racial politics since he frequently bypasses racial and traditional urban politics. At the same time, relations between the mayor, the municipal council, and Newark's diverse communities were often so fractious that sustainable coalition building proved to be an elusive goal to resolve longstanding crime, education, and other social problems. Based on original interviews with Cory Booker, city council members, and other prominent Newark politicians, A Post Racial Change is Gonna Come is a powerful history of how Newark became the focal point for transformative politics in urban America.
Keywords: Political Science / General; Political Science / History & Theory; Political Science / Political Economy; Political Science / Public Affairs & Administration; Political Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development; Political Science / Public Policy / General; Political Science / World / European; Science / Earth Sciences / Geography; Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General; dept.psc

The Pitch for Baseball: Washington's Plans for Nationals' Stadium - Wharton, Jonathan L. (Washington, DC's Challenges, 2005)
This is the fourth in a series of books dealing with Washington, DC. Like the first three, this also is the outgrowth of special seminars conducted in the Department of Political Science at Howard University. We examine Washington, DC's challenges, because it is vital to know the conditions under which the residents of the most powerful city in the world continue to live, based on sound empirical evidence.
Keywords: dept.psc

Unique Policymaking in Action: The District Council and the Legislative Process - Wharton, Jonathan L. (Law, Politics, and African Americans in Washington, DC, 2010)
Law, Politics, and African Americans in Washington, DC explores the legal challenges and triumphs of African Americans and law and politics in Washington, DC, a city whose majority population comprises African Americans. It examines the interconnection between law and politics in Washington, DC, because it is vital to know the legal conditions under which the African American residents of the most powerful city in the world live, based on sound empirical evidence. Law, Politics, and African Americans in Washington, DC addresses two major questions: - Why study African Americans in terms of law and politics? - Why examine law and politics at the local level, in this case Washington, DC?
Keywords: dept.pch

Coping with a language loss: A case of linguistic and cultural re-encoding of memories in language attriters - Sorokina, Anastasia (International Journal of Bilingualism, 2023)
Aims and objectives:This study investigates the effects of language loss on bilingual autobiographical memory. More specifically, the study focuses on whether severe language loss would lead to any linguistic changes and/or interfere with how memories are recalled and shared.Methodology:Autobiographical memories were elicited with the help of a cued-recall technique and memory questionnaire from two groups of immigrants?attriters (who experienced significant language loss) and bilinguals (who retained their first language proficiency).Data and analysis:The data set consisted of pre-immigration memories that were originally encoded in the first language, Russian. The frequency of recall (i.e., sharing memories with others as well as reminiscing) and linguistic components (i.e., words) of memories elicited from the attriters and bilinguals were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively.Findings and conclusion:Overall, attriters were able to recall memories that were originally encoded in the forgotten language. They also reported reminiscing about their pre-immigration memories and sharing their memories with others. However, attriters revealed that the pre-immigration memories came to them with words in the second language, English, which was not the case with bilinguals. Attriters also reframed memories for several Russian culture-specific items and events. This finding is indicative of memory re-encoding?a phenomenon when memories are updated, stored, and subsequently retrieved with added information. While this finding points to the bilingual mind?s ability to adapt to language loss, it may also suggest linguistic and cultural assimilation under the influence of the new language and culture.Originality:This is the first investigation of autobiographical memory in bilinguals with severe language loss that highlights the malleability and adaptability of the bilingual mind as well as the importance of language maintenance.
Keywords: dept.wll; peer-reviewed

Exertional heat illness: adoption of policies and influencing contextual factors as reported by athletic administrators - Scarneo-Miller, Samantha E.; Adams, William M.; Coleman, Kelly A.; Lopez, Rebecca M. (Sports Health, 2023)
Background:Little is known about the adoption by athletic administrators (AAs) of exertional heat illness (EHI) policies, and the corresponding facilitators and barriers of such policies within high school athletics. This study describes the adoption of comprehensive EHI policies by high school AAs and explores factors influencing EHI policy adoption.Hypothesis:We hypothesized that <50% of AAs would report adoption of an EHI policy, and that the most common facilitator would be access to an athletic trainer (AT), whereas the most common barrier would be financial limitations.Study Design:Cross-sectional.Level of Evidence:Level 4.Methods:A total of 466 AAs (82.4% male; age, 48 ± 9 years) completed a validated online survey to assess EHI prevention and treatment policy adoption (11 components), as well as facilitators and barriers to policy implementation. Access to athletic training services was ascertained by matching the participants? zip codes with the Athletic Training Locations and Services Project. Policy adoption, facilitators, and barriers data are presented as summary statistics (proportions, interquartile range (IQR)). A Welch t test evaluated the association between access to athletic training services and EHI policy adoption.Results:Of the AAs surveyed, 77.9% (n = 363) reported adopting a written EHI policy. The median of EHI policy components adopted was 5 (IQR = 1,7), with only 5.6% (n = 26) of AAs reporting adoption of all policy components. AAs who had access to an AT (P = 0.04) were more likely to adopt a greater number of EHI-related policies, compared with those without access to an AT. An AT employed at the school was the most frequently reported facilitator (36.9%).Conclusion:Most AAs reported having written EHI policy components, and access to an AT resulted in a more comprehensive policy.Clinical Relevance:Employment of an AT within high school athletics may serve as a vital component in facilitating the adoption of comprehensive EHI policies.
Keywords: dept.hms; peer-reviewed

Azimuthal anisotropy measurement of (multi)strange hadrons in Au+Au collisions at sNN =54.4 GeV - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review C, 2023)
Azimuthal anisotropy of produced particles is one of the most important observables used to access the collective properties of the expanding medium created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. In this paper, we present second (v2) and third (v3) order azimuthal anisotropies of KS0, φ, Λ, Ξ, and ω at midrapidity (|y|<1) in Au+Au collisions at sNN=54.4 GeV measured by the STAR detector. The v2 and v3 are measured as a function of transverse momentum and centrality. Their energy dependence is also studied. v3 is found to be more sensitive to the change in the center-of-mass energy than v2. Scaling by constituent quark number is found to hold for v2 within 10%. This observation could be evidence for the development of partonic collectivity in 54.4 GeV Au+Au collisions. Differences in v2 and v3 between baryons and antibaryons are presented, and ratios of v3/v23/2 are studied and motivated by hydrodynamical calculations. The ratio of v2 of φ mesons to that of antiprotons [v2(φ)/v2(p¯)] shows centrality dependence at low transverse momentum, presumably resulting from the larger effects from hadronic interactions on antiproton v2. © 2023 American Physical Society.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Pion, kaon, and (anti)proton production in U+U collisions at sNN =193 GeV measured with the STAR detector - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review C, 2023)
We present the first measurements of transverse momentum spectra of π±, K±, p(p¯) at midrapidity (|y|<0.1) in U+U collisions at sNN= 193 GeV with the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The centrality dependence of particle yields, average transverse momenta, particle ratios and kinetic freeze-out parameters are discussed. The results are compared with the published results from Au+Au collisions at sNN= 200 GeV in STAR. The results are also compared to those from A Multi-Phase Transport (ampt) model. © 2023 American Physical Society.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Beam energy dependence of fifth- and sixth-order net-proton number fluctuations in Au+Au collisions at RHIC - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review Letters, 2023)
We report the beam energy and collision centrality dependence of fifth and sixth order cumulants (C5, C6) and factorial cumulants (κ5, κ6) of net-proton and proton number distributions, from center-of-mass energy (sNN) 3 GeV to 200 GeV Au+Au collisions at RHIC. Cumulant ratios of net-proton (taken as proxy for net-baryon) distributions generally follow the hierarchy expected from QCD thermodynamics, except for the case of collisions at 3 GeV. The measured values of C6/C2 for 0%-40% centrality collisions show progressively negative trend with decreasing energy, while it is positive for the lowest energy studied. These observed negative signs are consistent with QCD calculations (for baryon chemical potential, μB≤110 MeV) which contains the crossover transition range. In addition, for energies above 7.7 GeV, the measured proton κn, within uncertainties, does not support the two-component (Poisson+binomial) shape of proton number distributions that would be expected from a first-order phase transition. Taken in combination, the hyperorder proton number fluctuations suggest that the structure of QCD matter at high baryon density, μB∼750 MeV at sNN=3 GeV is starkly different from those at vanishing μB∼24 MeV at sNN=200 GeV and higher collision energies. © 2023 American Physical Society.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

An 8-week peer health coaching intervention among college students: a pilot randomized study - Yan, Zi; Peacock, Jessica; Cohen, Juliana F. W.; Kurdziel, Laura; Benes, Sarah; Oh, Seungbin; Bowling, April (Nutrients, 2023)
This study explored the effects of an 8-week peer coaching program on physical activity (PA), diet, sleep, social isolation, and mental health among college students in the United States. A total of 52 college students were recruited and randomized to the coaching (n = 28) or the control group (n = 24). The coaching group met with a trained peer health coach once a week for 8 weeks focusing on self-selected wellness domains. Coaching techniques included reflective listening, motivational interviews, and goal setting. The control group received a wellness handbook. PA, self-efficacy for eating healthy foods, quality of sleep, social isolation, positive affect and well-being, anxiety, and cognitive function were measured. No interaction effects between time and group were significant for the overall intervention group (all p > 0.05), while the main effects of group difference on moderate PA and total PA were significant (p < 0.05). Goal-specific analysis showed that, compared to the control group, those who had a PA goal significantly increased vigorous PA Metabolic Equivalent of Task (METs) (p < 0.05). The vigorous METs for the PA goal group increased from 1013.33 (SD = 1055.12) to 1578.67 (SD = 1354.09); the control group decreased from 1012.94 (SD = 1322.943) to 682.11 (SD = 754.89); having a stress goal significantly predicted a higher post-coaching positive affect and well-being, controlling the pre-score and other demographic factors: B = 0.37 and p < 0.05. Peer coaching showed a promising effect on improving PA and positive affect and well-being among college students.
Keywords: dept.hms; diet; mental health; peer-reviewed; physical activity; positive affect; sleep; stress

Humans peeing: Justice-involved women’s access to toilets in public spaces - Smoyer, Amy B.; Pittman, Adam; Borzillo, Peter (PLOS ONE, 2023)
Justice-involved women face myriad challenges as they negotiate the terms of community supervision and manage the long-term implications and stigma of living with a criminal record. Major tasks that women juggle include securing safe, affordable housing, finding and retaining employment, accessing physical and mental health care (including substance use treatment), and handling relationships with family, friends, children, and intimate partners. In addition to these responsibilities, women must meet their basic physiological needs to eat, sleep, and use the toilet. Women’s ability to safely meet their personal care needs may impact their capacity to manage their criminal-legal challenges. This study uses qualitative methods to understand justice-involved women’s lived experiences related to urination. Specifically, the study reports on a thematic analysis of 8 focus groups conducted with justice-involved women (n = 58) and the results of a toilet audit conducted in the downtown areas of the small city in the United States where the focus group participants were living. Findings suggest that women had limited access to restrooms and reported urinating outside. Lack of restroom access impacted their engagement with social services support and employment and their ability to travel through public spaces. Women perceived their public toilet options as unsafe, increasing their sense of vulnerability and reinforcing the idea that they did not have full access to citizenship in the community because of their criminal-legal involvement. The exclusion and denial of women’s humanity that is perpetuated by a lack of public toilet access impacts women’s psychosocial outcomes. City governments, social service agencies, and employers are encouraged to consider how lack of toilet access may impact their public safety and criminal-legal objectives and expand opportunities for people to access safe restroom facilities.
Keywords: Bladder; Employment; Jobs; Mental health and psychiatry; Prisons; Sexual and gender issues; Urban areas; Urination; dept.swk; peer-reviewed

Search for the chiral magnetic effect in Au+Au collisions at sNN=27 GeV with the STAR forward event plane detectors - STAR Collaboration (Physics Letters B, 2023)
A decisive experimental test of the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) is considered one of the major scientific goals at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) towards understanding the nontrivial topological fluctuations of the Quantum Chromodynamics vacuum. In heavy-ion collisions, the CME is expected to result in a charge separation phenomenon across the reaction plane, whose strength could be strongly energy dependent. The previous CME searches have been focused on top RHIC energy collisions. In this Letter, we present a low energy search for the CME in Au+Au collisions at sNN=27 GeV. We measure elliptic flow scaled charge-dependent correlators relative to the event planes that are defined at both mid-rapidity |η|<1.0 and at forward rapidity 2.1<|η|<5.1. We compare the results based on the directed flow plane (Ψ1) at forward rapidity and the elliptic flow plane (Ψ2) at both central and forward rapidity. The CME scenario is expected to result in a larger correlation relative to Ψ1 than to Ψ2, while a flow driven background scenario would lead to a consistent result for both event planes. In 10-50% centrality, results using three different event planes are found to be consistent within experimental uncertainties, suggesting a flow driven background scenario dominating the measurement. We obtain an upper limit on the deviation from a flow driven background scenario at the 95% confidence level. This work opens up a possible road map towards future CME search with the high statistics data from the RHIC Beam Energy Scan Phase-II.
Keywords: Beam energy scan; Chiral magnetic effect; Heavy-ion collisions; dept.phy; peer-reviewed

The endocast from Dana Aoule North (DAN5/P1): A 1.5 million year-old human braincase from Gona, Afar, Ethiopia - Bruner, Emiliano; Holloway, Ralph; Baab, Karen L.; Rogers, Michael J.; Semaw, Sileshi (American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 2023)
The nearly complete cranium DAN5/P1 was found at Gona (Afar, Ethiopia), dated to 1.5–1.6 Ma, and assigned to the species Homo erectus. Its size is, nonetheless, particularly small for the known range of variation of this taxon, and the cranial capacity has been estimated as 598 cc. In this study, we analyzed a reconstruction of its endocranial cast, to investigate its paleoneurological features. The main anatomical traits of the endocast were described, and its morphology was compared with other fossil and modern human samples. The endocast shows most of the traits associated with less encephalized human taxa, like narrow frontal lobes and a simple meningeal vascular network with posterior parietal branches. The parietal region is relatively tall and rounded, although not especially large. Based on our set of measures, the general endocranial proportions are within the range of fossils included in the species Homo habilis or in the genus Australopithecus. Similarities with the genus Homo include a more posterior position of the frontal lobe relative to the cranial bones, and the general endocranial length and width when size is taken into account. This new specimen extends the known brain size variability of Homo ergaster/erectus, while suggesting that differences in gross brain proportions among early human species, or even between early humans and australopiths, were absent or subtle.
Keywords: Homo erectus; Homo ergaster; Lower Pleistocene; brain evolution; dept.ant; human evolution; paleoneurology; peer-reviewed

Humanizing substance abuse: a theory-based educational intervention for undergraduate nursing students - Roncallo, Hannah R.; Aronson, Barbara (Journal of Addictions Nursing, 2023)
Background Healthcare providers, as well as healthcare students, have been found to harbor negative attitudes toward individuals with substance abuse disorders, impacting the care they give and subsequently creating poor patient outcomes. Purpose This study seeks to determine the effectiveness of an educational intervention, grounded in theory, toward changing nursing student attitudes regarding patients with a substance abuse disorder. Methods Nursing students participated in a teaching intervention, developed using the experiential learning theory, that utilizes modalities for each kind of learner aimed at reducing bias toward this population. The Medical Condition Regard Scale was used pre/post intervention to determine regard toward patients with the diagnosis of substance abuse. Results Student nurses maintained the least favorable attitudes toward individuals who abuse substances in comparison with patients with the diagnoses of pneumonia or gastroesophageal reflux disease; there were significant differences in attitudes toward patients who abused substances before and after participation in the educational intervention, with postparticipation attitudes being significantly more positive than attitudes before participation. Students found the educational intervention and debriefing highly satisfactory. Implications This educational intervention can provide a cost-effective, easy-to-replicate, time-efficient learning activity that could be added to undergraduate nursing curriculum.
Keywords: dept.nur; peer-reviewed

Does polarizing personality matter in influencer marketing? Evidence from Instagram - Koorank Beheshti, Mohammadali; Gopinath, Mahesh; Ashouri, Sama; Zal, Saeed (Journal of Business Research, 2023)
Social media platforms have become more polarizing with the emergence of polarizing influencers. This research investigates how polarizing influencers can improve the effectiveness of brand-posts with the help of three experiments and field-data from Instagram. The results of the first experiment suggest that the polarizing nature of the communication source triggers defensive motivated reasoning among fans, even when the message being communicated is non-polarizing. This, in turn, has downstream consequences on post engagement and purchase intention. Analysis of 779 brandposts of Instagram influencers suggests that the polarization effect on post engagement is stronger for mega (vs. macro) influencers. By exploring the role of motivated reasoning, this research expands our understanding of the factors that drive consumers to engage with brand content on social media. The findings suggest that marketers can take advantage of the existing polarization among online users regarding polarizing influencers to enhance the effectiveness of their brand communication.
Keywords: Defensive motivated reasoning; Group polarization; Influencer marketing; Source characteristics; dept.mkt; peer-reviewed

Swipe gestures for user authentication in smartphones - Chao, Jedrik; Hossain, Md Shafaeat; Lancor, Lisa (Journal of Information Security and Applications, 2023)
As more people rely on smartphones to store sensitive information, the need for robust security measures is all the more pressing. Because traditional one shot authentication methods like PINs and passwords are vulnerable to various attacks, we present a behavioral biometrics based smartphone authentication system using swipes. While previous research focused on a single kind of swipe, our data set features swipes using different fingers and directions collected from 36 users across three sessions. In our system, we experimented with support vector machine (SVM) and random forest (RF) classifiers. We investigated which finger, direction, and classifier provided the best individual swipe authentication results. Then, we analyzed whether fusion of different fingers and directions improved results. The best unimodal result came from a rightward swipe with right thumb using SVM, which resulted in an area under ROC curve (AUC) of 0.936 and an equal error rate (EER) of 0.135. We found that swipes using thumbs offered better performance. Fusion improves results for the most part, and our best result was the combination of a leftward swipe with right thumb and a leftward swipe with left thumb. This combination gave an AUC of 0.969 and EER of 0.081 with the SVM classifier.
Keywords: Authentication; Biometrics; Smartphone security; Swipe gesture; Touchscreen; dept.csc; peer-reviewed

Western Science in Indochina, 1800-1998 - Thompson, C Michele (The Cambridge History of Science Vol. 8, Modern Science in National and International Context, 2020)
Keywords: dept.his

Standards and instructional leadership - Trombly, Christopher E. (Learning Theory for School Leadership, 2019)
Keywords: dept.edl

Learning theory-informed educator supervision - Trombly, Christopher E. (Learning Theory for School Leadership, 2019)
Keywords: dept.edl

Preparing principals for leadership beyond the schoolhouse - Trombly, Christopher E.; Griffith, D (Advocacy in Education: Research-Based Strategies for Teachers, Administrators, Parents, and the Community, 2020)
Keywords: dept.edl

What’s COVID-19 Got to Do With It? Implementing the 2020 Connecticut Comprehensive School Counseling Framework - Trombly, Christopher E.; Parzych, Jennifer L.; Generali, Margaret M.; Yavuz, Olcay (Professional School Counseling, 2022)
The Connecticut Comprehensive School Counseling Framework was released in November 2020?8 months into the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to explore the progress made by principals and school counselors in implementing the new framework, and to understand the impact of the pandemic on their efforts to do so. We found significant overlap between the perceptions and priorities expressed by participating principals and school counselors. Particularly noteworthy was the fact that both groups described increased collaboration within their schools.
Keywords: dept.csp; dept.edl; peer-reviewed

“You Are on Your Own”: Magnifying Co-Cultural LGB/TQ Microaggressions in the Workplace - Baker, Sara; McKenna-Buchanan, Tim (Contemporary studies of sexuality and communication, 2022)
Although organizations are becoming more attuned to the needs of their lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans (transgender), and queer (LGB/TQ) employees, workplace policies and practices can still discriminate against someone based on their sexuality. In
Keywords: dept.com

Should we teach students how to bullshit? - McEachern, Peter J.; McEachern, Robert W. (Writing and Pedagogy, 2022)
Bullshit, as defined by Frankfurt (2005, p. 10), is language that is “disconnected from a concern for the truth.” Much scholarship shows that bullshit is a prominent feature in organizations that is difficult, if not impossible, to get rid of (e.g., McCarthy et al., 2020; Penny, 2010). Bullshit, by definition and by cultural practice, seems antithetical to business writing orthodoxy. As Thill and Bovée (2020) suggest in a representative textbook, communication should be clear and ethical. However, Spicer (2020) codifies bullshit as a social practice whose outcomes are not always dire. Well-crafted bullshit benefits its users, allowing them to “fit into a speech community, get things done in day-to-day interaction and bolster their image and identity” (Spicer, 2020, p. 20). Contrasting with business writing’s abstinence-only bullshit stance, this suggests that successful writers must adapt to their organization’s speech act practices. In this article, we argue that students must be taught about bullshit. After describing bullshit and its role in organizations, we show how business writing could incorporate a critically informed approach to bullshit in undergraduate courses, internship preparation courses, and other curricular instances in which students work directly with organizations. While bullshitting should not be outright encouraged, continued ignorance will do nothing to solve its associated problems. Promoting bullshit literacy, however, could both minimize bullshit’s harms and maximize its benefits. We close by describing how this approach could foster critical thinking skills, promote more seamless adaptation to organizational cultures and communication practices, and perhaps even improve mental health outcomes.
Keywords: Bullshit; Bullshitology; Business Writing; dept.eng; peer-reviewed

External vs. In-House Advising Service: Evidence from the Financial Industry Acquisitions - Huang, Jian; Yu, Han; Zhang, Zhen (Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 2023)
This study analyzes the wealth impact on M&A deals when the acquirers in the financial industry utilize external versus in-house advising services. A quasi-natural observatory setting is applied to investigate the costs and benefits of retaining a financial advisor. Based on agency theory, information asymmetry and conflict of interest both exist in the setting of M&A deals when acquirers use advisory services. We first find that almost 40% of financial acquirers are more likely to use in-house advising services, the frequency of which is significantly higher than that of non-financial acquisitions previously documented. Further, we find that in certain complex deals of greater information asymmetry, the frequency of retaining advisory services in-house is even higher. This finding suggests that for financial acquirers who possess expertise in the M&A market, the concern of conflict of interests (i.e., misaligned incentives) between the acquirers and their advisors are more salient than the concern of information asymmetry. More importantly, using the two-stage regressions method controlling the endogeneity of the choice between in-house versus external advisory services, this study finds that the three-day abnormal returns around the acquisition announcements are 4.5% higher for the acquirers retaining in-house advisory services, 18.7% higher for the corresponding target, and the combined merger gains are 2.2% higher. Overall, our findings provide direct evidence of the agency cost when an external advisor is hired and document the incremental values that the financial acquirers’ in-house advisory services may create.
Keywords: agency costs; dept.fin; external advisors; financial industry; in-house advisors; information asymmetry; peer-reviewed

Beam energy dependence of the linear and mode-coupled flow harmonics in Au+Au collisions - STAR Collaboration (Physics Letters B, 2023)
The linear and mode-coupled contributions to higher-order anisotropic flow are presented for Au+Au collisions at sNN = 27, 39, 54.4, and 200 GeV and compared to similar measurements for Pb+Pb collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The coefficients and the flow harmonics' correlations, which characterize the linear and mode-coupled response to the lower-order anisotropies, indicate a beam energy dependence consistent with an influence from the specific shear viscosity (η/s). In contrast, the dimensionless coefficients, mode-coupled response coefficients, and normalized symmetric cumulants are approximately beam-energy independent, consistent with a significant role from initial-state effects. These measurements could provide unique supplemental constraints to (i) distinguish between different initial-state models and (ii) delineate the temperature (T) and baryon chemical potential (μB) dependence of the specific shear viscosity ηs(T,μB).
Keywords: Collectivity; Correlation; Shear viscosity; dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Application of Time Series Analysis Methods to Assess the impact of COVID-19 on Carbon Dioxide Emission Reduction in Connecticut - Kiernan, Katherine A.; Wu, Hao; Mugno, Ray; Pang, Yulei (2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), 2022)
The primary goals of this study are to determine if the datasets of positive COVID-19 test cases and CO2 emissions from Connecticut over the span of March 24th, 2020-October 31, 2021 are in any ways correlated. With climate change a prominent issue facing the entire world today, it is important to explore methods of providing records of past patterns of greenhouse gas emissions in order to inform decision making that could reduce future ones. Autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) modeling is also implemented in this paper to provide forecasting based on CO2 emissions in CT starting from 2019. The most significant results from this paper are as follows: the CO2 emission data of transportation sectors including ground transportation, domestics aviation, and international aviation and weekly COVID-19 positive test cases data has a strong relationship during the first 28 weeks of the pandemic with a correlation of -86.34%. The CO2 emissions experienced on average a -22.96% change of pre-pandemic vs during initial quarantine conditions and at most a - 44.48% change when comparing the pre-pandemic mean to the during initial quarantine minimum value. Lastly, the ARIMA model found to have the lowest Akaike information criterion (AIC) was ARIMA (4,0,4). In conclusion, in the event of a collective global pandemic and lockdown conditions, less traveling resulting in a correlated decrease of CO2 emissions. This means that perhaps concentrated efforts on reducing unnecessary travel could help mitigate the levels of carbon dioxide emissions as a more long-term solution to climate change opposed to the pandemic’s short-term example.
Keywords: ARIMA; CO2 emission; COVID-19; Carbon dioxide; Change points detection; Climate change; Correlation coefficient; Decision making; Greenhouse effect; Pandemics; Time series analysis; dept.csc; dept.mat

Listen to the whispers before they become screams: addressing black maternal morbidity and mortality in the united states - Njoku, Anuli; Evans, Marian; Nimo-Sefah, Lillian; Bailey, Jonell (Healthcare, 2023)
Black women in the United States (U.S.) disproportionately experience adverse pregnancy outcomes, including maternal mortality, compared to women of other racial and ethnic groups. Historical legacies of institutionalized racism and bias in medicine compound this problem. The disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities of color may further worsen existing racial disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality. This paper discusses structural and social determinants of racial disparities with a focus on the Black maternal mortality crisis in the United States. We explore how structural racism contributes to a greater risk of adverse obstetric outcomes among Black women in the U.S. We also propose public health, healthcare systems, and community-engaged approaches to decrease racial disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality.
Keywords: COVID-19; black maternal mortality; dept.pch; health disparities; intersectionality; morbidity; peer-reviewed; pregnancy; race/ethnicity; racism; social determinants of health; weathering framework

Stokes shift spectroscopy and machine learning for label-free human prostate cancer detection - Pu, Y.; Wu, B.; Mo, H.; Alfano, R.R. (Optics Letters, 2023)
The Stokes shift spectra (S3) of human cancerous and normal prostate tissues were collected label free at a selected wavelength interval of 40 nm to investigate the efficacy of the approach based on three key molecules—tryptophan, collagen, and reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH)—as cancer biomarkers. S3 combines both fluorescence and absorption spectra in one scan. The S3 spectra were analyzed using machine learning (ML) algorithms, including principal component analysis (PCA), nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF), and support vector machines (SVMs). The components retrieved from the S3 spectra were considered principal biomarkers. The differences in the weights of the components between the two types of tissues were found to be significant. Sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy were calculated to evaluate the performance of SVM classification. This research demonstrates that S3 spectroscopy is effective for detecting the changes in the relative concentrations of the endogenous fluorophores in tissues due to the development of cancer label free. © 2023 Optica Publishing Group.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Perception of moderate-intensity physical activity by onset of obesity: A randomized crossover trial - Rupp, Kristie; Stewart, Andrea L.; Friel, Ciarán P. (Clinical Obesity, 2022)
Moderate-intensity physical activity is recommended for inactive adults with overweight/obesity (OW/OB). The objective of this study is to determine if differences exist in the selection of moderate intensity between inactive adults with juvenile-onset (JO) and adult-onset (AO) OW/OB. Participants (JO = 18, AO = 20) were stratified by onset and completed two separate 20-minute moderate-intensity exercise sessions on a treadmill and cycle ergometer (randomized order). Multiple linear regression was used to determine whether exercise intensity (average METS, % age-predicted HRmax), self-reported pleasure or exertion differed by onset, controlling for age and gender. On the treadmill, JO and AO participants selected an average intensity of (mean [SD]) 3.5 (0.9) and 3.7 (0.9) METS, and 64.0 (7.7) and 64.9 (7.5) % of age-predicted HRmax, respectively. On the cycle, JO and AO participants selected an average intensity of 3.3 (0.9) and 3.3 (1.0) METS, and 65.2 (8.8) and 60.7 (7.2) % of age-predicted HRmax. After adjustment, participant intensity selection did not significantly differ by obesity onset when walking or cycling. There were no significant differences in pleasure or perceived exertion by onset, however, perception of exertion was on the high-end of moderate for both the cycle (13.0, 12.5) and treadmill (12.0, 12.1), in JO and AO participants, respectively. Perception of moderate intensity did not differ by obesity onset. Self-selected intensity was at the low end of moderate for walking and cycling.
Keywords: dept.hms; exercise enjoyment; overweight; peer-reviewed; perceived exertion; self-selected intensity; weight loss

Comparing Machine Learning Models for Intron Classification - Kohnert, C.; Yu, N.; Rosenberg, P.; Torgerson, M.; Sobky, A.E.; Elkharboutly, R.; Seesi, S.A. (Proceedings - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2022, 2022)
This work explores using Probabilistic Context Free Grammars and Artificial Neural Networks as possible machine learning models for classifying introns into major and minor introns. It presents an intron classification framework that combines probabilistic context free grammars and support vector machines. It also assesses the computational prediction power of these two models in comparison to the Position Weight Matrices technique, which is currently the exclusively used model for intron classification. The comparison is done through experimental analysis, and it shows promising results for Probabilistic Context Free Grammars and Artificial Neural Networks. © 2022 IEEE.
Keywords: Artificial Neural Network; Position Weight Matrices; Probabilistic Context Free Grammars; U12 introns; U2 introns; dept.csc; intron classification; major introns; minor introns

Pattern of global spin alignment of ϕ and K*0 mesons in heavy-ion collisions - STAR Collaboration (Nature, 2023)
Notwithstanding decades of progress since Yukawa first developed a description of the force between nucleons in terms of meson exchange1, a full understanding of the strong interaction remains a considerable challenge in modern science. One remaining difficulty arises from the non-perturbative nature of the strong force, which leads to the phenomenon of quark confinement at distances on the order of the size of the proton. Here we show that, in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, in which quarks and gluons are set free over an extended volume, two species of produced vector (spin-1) mesons, namely ϕ and K*0, emerge with a surprising pattern of global spin alignment. In particular, the global spin alignment for ϕ is unexpectedly large, whereas that for K*0 is consistent with zero. The observed spin-alignment pattern and magnitude for ϕ cannot be explained by conventional mechanisms, whereas a model with a connection to strong force fields2–6, that is, an effective proxy description within the standard model and quantum chromodynamics, accommodates the current data. This connection, if fully established, will open a potential new avenue for studying the behaviour of strong force fields. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Getting back to human touch: habit and change decisions during mobile device intermediations at events - Sisson, A.; Whalen, E. (Consumer Behavior in Tourism and Hospitality, 2023)
Purpose: As mobile device use in the events industry increases worldwide, an essential component for successful events is creating a unique experience. One way to enhance entertainer and attendee experience is by offering a phone-free space to enjoy an event. This study aims to examine mobile device habits and attendee willingness to adopt a mobile locking mechanism product at events and festivals. Design/methodology/approach: Analysis of variance and regression analyses were used to test the research questions using data collected from 299 attendees recruited through an online research company. Findings: Results reveal that mobile device habits are significantly related to the adoption of the phone locking product at events. Practical implications: This study provides contributions to event planners to offer distraction-free settings that provide an overall escapist experience for attendees. Originality/value: To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is among the first to empirically examine the role of mobile device habits and willingness to adopt a phone-locking device with event attendees. © 2022, Emerald Publishing Limited.
Keywords: Decision-making; Events and festivals; Habit; Mobile device use; dept.rec; peer-reviewed

A Qualitative Examination on the Preparation of Preservice Physical Education Teachers for Assessment in Secondary Teaching Methods Courses in the Us - Hodges, Mike; Liu, Xiaolu; D. Hamilton, Xiaofen; Doherty, Brooke; Phelps, Ashley; Colburn, Jeffrey; Knipe, Robert (Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2022)
Purpose: This study aimed to examine the ways in which physical education teacher education (PETE) prepares preservice physical education teachers (PPETs) to select and implement appropriate assessments.Methods: PPETs (N = 14) enrolled in the secondary teaching methods course at two US universities participated in the study. Semi-structured interviews were completed to collect data concerning how assessment knowledge and skills were taught and learned. Constant content comparison method was used to analyze the data.Results: Two major themes with varying sub-themes emerged from the data: ‘Scratching the surface of assessment with unclear learning objectives’, and ‘Perceiving the importance of assessment, but still not integrate it into instruction’ Overall, assessment was not found to conjunctionally taught with instruction. School-based field experiences pertaining to assessment content and pedagogical knowledge were also weak.Conclusions: Minimum assessment knowledge and skills were taught in secondary methods courses with little field experience pertaining to assessment. Future research is needed on examining PETE program content and pedagogy courses to highlight the need for assessment instruction and transform our approaches to preparing PPETs.
Keywords: Evaluation; assessment preparation; dept.hms; peer-reviewed; physical education students; teaching methods courses

Overconfidence and Public Intoxication Arrest: Evidence from a University Town Police Log - Hoffman, Elizabeth; Kim, Younjun (The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2022)
We show that overconfident individuals are likely to be arrested for public intoxication by using arrest records from a university town police log. This relationship is robust to various control variables such as risk aversion, time discounting, present bias, self-control, selfishness, loss aversion, and socializing with peers arrested for public intoxication. However, this relationship is no longer significant using only self-reported arrest data. We hypothesize that overconfident individuals are likely to underreport their arrests. This result has important implications for the use of self-reported data on public intoxication arrests rather than actual arrest records.
Keywords: arrest; dept.eco; overconfidence; public intoxication

Culturally responsive and high-leverage practices: Facilitating effective instruction for English learners with learning disabilities - Wei, Yan; Hovey, Katrina A.; Gerzel-Short, Lydia; Hsiao, Yun-Ju; Miller, Rhonda D.; Kelly, Jerae H. (TESOL Journal)
Research suggests that English learners (ELs) with learning disabilities (LD) may benefit from culturally responsive evidence-based instructional approaches. ELs with LD often present with learning challenges that influence language acquisition and literacy development. One way to address the distinctive proclivities of these students is to consider the importance of culturally responsive evidence-based instruction that can elevate student understanding and academic achievement. This article explores the integration of two theoretical frameworks: culturally responsive practices and high-leverage practices. It then outlines the importance of teacher introspection as an instructional foundation and identifies several strategies for ELs with LD by centering instruction around linguistic assets and cultural values in combination with effective instructional practices. The article concludes with a call to action for teachers to tailor instruction based on students' cultural and language assets, in combination with effective instructional practices to enhance student learning.
Keywords: dept.sed; peer-reviewed

Collaborating with transgender youth to educate healthcare trainees and professionals: randomized controlled trial of a didactic enhanced by brief videos - Martin, Andrés; Celentano, Jillian; Olezeski, Christy; Halloran, Justin; Penque, Brent; Aguilar, Jemel; Amsalem, Doron (BMC Public Health, 2022)
In collaboration with members of the transgender and gender diverse (TGD) community, we created a didactic resource about the unique needs of TGD youth.
Keywords: Adolescents; Gender-diverse; Health; Health education; Mental health; Transgender; dept.mft; dept.swk; peer-reviewed

A Longitudinal Investigation of the Changes in Work Motivation and Employees’ Psychological Health - Wang, Zheni; Panaccio, Alexandra (Administrative Sciences, 2022)
Organizations strive to motivate employees to thrive at work. However, employees’ motivation is likely to vary over a short period (e.g., a few months) to cope with the routine dynamics of organizations’ activities. These motivation dynamics covary with employees’ affective, cognitive, and behavioral outcomes in the workplace. Moreover, employees’ psychological health, a multidimensional concept focused on the individual’s well/ill-being simultaneously, changes over time. Using the integrated theoretical frameworks of self-determination theory (SDT) and the hierarchical model of self-determined motivation (H-SDT), this research sought to examine the motivational changes following the dual-path model. In particular, this work sought to unpack the temporal dynamics in employees’ subjective well/ill-beings predicted by the changes in basic needs satisfaction/frustration through autonomous/controlled motivation, while considering the characteristics of people’s general causality orientations (trait-level motivation). Over four months, longitudinal field data were collected from the employees in several private small businesses in the consumer product retail industry. Latent growth modeling (LGM) results supported the positive dual relations between the changes in employees’ psychological health and basic psychological needs satisfaction/frustration, but neither the changes of autonomous/controlled work motivation nor the indirect change paths via autonomous/controlled work motivation were significant. Finally, we discussed the theoretical and practical implications of the findings. Limitations and possible future research directions to further this line of research on the dynamic of work motivation were also summarized.
Keywords: change in motivation; dept.mgt; longitudinal study; peer-reviewed; psychological health

Ch. 1 - Blue Economy: People and Regions in Transitions - Heidkamp, C.P.; Morrissey, J.; Germond-Duret, C.; Rourke, M. (Blue Economy: People and Regions in Transitions, 2022)
Keywords: dept.egm

Exploring the Use of Common Strict Search Criteria in Nursing Literature Searches - Truex, Eleanor Shanklin; Spinner, Emily; Hillyer, Jean; Ettien, A'Llyn; Wade, Sarah; Calhoun, Courtney; Wolf, Grace; Hedreen, Rebecca; Heimlich, Layla; Nickum, Annie; Vonderheid, Susan C. (Nurse Educator, 2023)
Background: Health sciences librarians and nursing journal contributors have expressed concern about the impact of using strict parameters when searching the literature. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the use of strict search criteria (eg, 5-year rule, “nurse as author”) by direct care nurses and nursing students. Methods: Fourteen online focus groups were conducted with 54 participants: direct care nurses, health sciences librarians, nursing faculty, and nursing students. Nursing faculty and health sciences librarians were included as participants to add perspective to the origins and effects of the use of stringent search criteria. Results: The majority of the nurses viewed the 5-year rule and nurse as author search limits favorably, while noting that a strict date range may hamper successful searching. Librarians viewed these search criteria more unfavorably but recognized the value of topic-appropriate search limits. Conclusion: Reliance on strict limits can be detrimental to pertinent results; however, appropriate use is essential for relevant results. Pedagogy focused on searching the nursing literature needs to emphasize that limits are tools to be used judiciously.
Keywords: dept.lib; peer-reviewed

Interdisciplinary considerations for diagnosing aphasia in the schizoaffective patient: A case report - Warner, Heather; Cometz, Alexa (International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023)
Background Patients with schizophrenia present with both cognitive impairment as well as language difficulties. There are similarities in the language output of patients with schizophrenia and patients with aphasia, thus a differential diagnosis of patients who present with a question of dual diagnoses can be a clinical challenge. This case report highlights the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to a patient with schizophrenia who benefitted from intervention from both psychiatry and speech–language pathology services due to the patient's unique verbal output. Aims The primary aim of this case report is to highlight the critical importance of interdisciplinary collaboration in this patient population. The secondary aim is to disseminate an interesting and unique clinical phenomenon whereby the patient demonstrated an awareness of two distinct speech patterns and the unique ability to ‘code switch’ between them, something not commonly appreciated in this clinical population. Methods & Procedures This case report describes a patient seen as part of routine clinical care. Information shared was solely observational and involved dissemination of information regarding case history, assessment and treatment plan. No interventions were implemented as a part of this study. Outcomes & Results Interprofessional communication was critical in order to diagnose a patient with schizophrenia with an atypical speech pattern. The patient's language output did not manifest as a true aphasia but rather as two distinct language patterns that the patient could use at will. This ability to ‘code switch’ between languages is a unique clinical profile that is atypical of patients with schizophrenia. WHAT THIS PAPER ADDS What is already known on this subject Contemporary literature discusses the similarities between the language patterns of patients with aphasia and those with schizophrenia. There has been debate about how to classify and identify the mechanism of schizophrenic language. It is unclear whether the tangential press of speech in schizophrenia is a consequence of a formal thought disorder, or whether it constitutes an actual disorder or expressive language. Additionally, the mechanism for this speech pattern is not well defined in the literature as there is no consensus on whether it is a breakdown in linguistic processing or simply a patient's disordered thoughts being put into words. A less robust literature exists that suggests that there is a cognitive mechanism responsible for these speech patterns, as tangential speech has been linked to poor goal maintenance in other types of cognitive tasks. What this paper adds to existing knowledge This study adds an important discussion about the critical importance of interprofessional collaboration when differentially diagnosing this complex patient population. It highlights the importance of the clinical exchange of information between the two disciplines of psychiatry and speech–language pathology about a patient population where clinical information is intertwined in the way described above. Regardless of the cause of the disordered output, what is lacking in the literature is evidence of how to address the complexities of the output of these patients and how to best manage the care of the patient. This study adds a practical clinical approach to collaborating on the assessment and management of this complex patient population. Importantly, it adds a description of a clinical manifestation of the language output of a patient with schizophrenia that we do not believe to have been previously published in the literature. What are the potential or actual clinical implications of this work? Implications of this study include a much-needed shift in the field in two regards. First, to include this patient population in the groups of patients that can benefit from interprofessional collaboration for differential diagnosis and consideration for speech and language therapy. Second, it offers a practical clinical approach to inter-professional management in this patient population, something the literature is currently lacking. Additionally, publication of this unique clinical manifestation provides foundational knowledge for other clinicians appreciating similar clinical patterns of language output. To our knowledge, this is the first published case in which a patient could volitionally inhibit certain speech characteristics and thus this case study may assist in future differential diagnosis of patients with schizophrenia.
Keywords: aphasia; dept.cmd; interprofessional practice; language disorders; peer-reviewed; schizoaffective disorder

Collision-System and Beam-Energy Dependence of Anisotropic Flow Fluctuations - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review Letters, 2022)
Elliptic flow measurements from two-, four-, and six-particle correlations are used to investigate flow fluctuations in collisions of U+U at √sNN=193 GeV, Cu+Au at √sNN=200 GeV and Au+Au spanning the range √sNN=11.5–200 GeV. The measurements show a strong dependence of the flow fluctuations on collision centrality, a modest dependence on system size, and very little if any, dependence on particle species and beam energy. The results, when compared to similar LHC measurements, viscous hydrodynamic calculations, and trento model eccentricities, indicate that initial-state-driven fluctuations predominate the flow fluctuations generated in the collisions studied.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Waste Citrus reticulata Assisted Preparation of Cobalt Oxide Nanoparticles for Supercapacitors - Srivastava, Rishabh; Bhardwaj, Shiva; Kumar, Anuj; Singhal, Rahul; Scanley, Jules; Broadbridge, Christine C.; Gupta, Ram K. (Nanomaterials, 2022)
The green, sustainable, and inexpensive creation of novel materials, primarily nanoparticles, with effective energy-storing properties, is key to addressing both the rising demand for energy storage and the mounting environmental concerns throughout the world. Here, an orange peel extract is used to make cobalt oxide nanoparticles from cobalt nitrate hexahydrate. The orange peel extract has Citrus reticulata, which is a key biological component that acts as a ligand and a reducing agent during the formation of nanoparticles. Additionally, the same nanoparticles were also obtained from various precursors for phase and electrochemical behavior comparisons. The prepared Co-nanoparticles were also sulfurized and phosphorized to enhance the electrochemical properties. The synthesized samples were characterized using scanning electron microscopic and X-ray diffraction techniques. The cobalt oxide nanoparticle showed a specific capacitance of 90 F/g at 1 A/g, whereas the cobalt sulfide and phosphide samples delivered an improved specific capacitance of 98 F/g and 185 F/g at 1 A/g. The phosphide-based nanoparticles offer more than 85% capacitance retention after 5000 cycles. This study offers a green strategy to prepare nanostructured materials for energy applications.
Keywords: Citrus reticulata; Co3O4 nanoparticles; characterization; charge storage; dept.phy; peer-reviewed; supercapacitors

Effective Stakeholder Engagement in Coastal Rransitions: Floating away from the DAD Approach towards the MOM Method - Kelly, Miriah; Axon, Stephen (Blue Economy: People and Regions in Transitions, 2022)
Emerging literature on coastal transitions in the face of the climate crisis establishes a need for identifying appropriate stakeholder engagement processes for
Keywords: dept.egm

Strengthening Industry and Academic Links Through Transdisciplinary Action Research: An Introspective Reflection of a Collaborative Water Quality, Biodiversity, and Aquaculture Initiative - Brideau, Lauren; Cross, Emma L.; Govindarajan, Annette F.; Martino, Dan; Martino, Greg; Holland, Miranda; Triay, Gabriela; Heidkamp, C. Patrick (Blue Economy: People and Regions in Transitions, 2022)
As anthropogenic impacts such as climate change ensue, coastal regions become increasingly threatened. Transdisciplinary action research (TAR) emerged as a
Keywords: SCSU-student; dept.egm

Community Acceptance of Blue Energy: Identifying Future Research Trajectories for Understanding “Place-Technology-Fit” Perceptions - Axon, Stephen (Blue Economy: People and Regions in Transitions, 2022)
Offshore renewable, or Blue Energy, installations are a crucial component of many countries’ energy policies and pathways towards a sustainable low-carbon
Keywords: dept.egm

Blue Economy: People and Regions in Transitions - Heidkamp, C. Patrick; Morrissey, John Edward; Duret, Celine Germond (Routledge, 2022)
This book presents state-of-the-art perspectives on the Blue Economy. It applies important geographical and sustainability transitions perspectives and
Keywords: dept.egm

The Evolution of Blue Carbon: Exploring the Burgeoning Role of Macroalgae in Carbon and Nitrogen Sequestration - Krak, Louie; Heidkamp, C. Patrick (Blue Economy: People and Regions in Transitions, 2022)
The recent attention on Blue Carbon (BC) signals its importance in the burgeoning Blue Economy discourse. BC has traditionally referred to carbon that is
Keywords: dept.egm

A norm functor for quadratic algebras - Biesel, Owen (Beiträge zur Algebra und Geometrie / Contributions to Algebra and Geometry, 2022)
Given commutative, unital rings $$\mathcal {A}$$and $$\mathcal {B}$$with a ring homomorphism $$\mathcal {A}\rightarrow \mathcal {B}$$making $$\mathcal {B}$$free of finite rank as an $$\mathcal {A}$$-module, we can ask for a “trace” or “norm” homomorphism taking algebraic data over $$\mathcal {B}$$to algebraic data over $$\mathcal {A}$$. In this paper we we construct a norm functor for the data of a quadratic algebra: given a locally-free rank-2 $$\mathcal {B}$$-algebra $$\mathcal {D}$$, we produce a locally-free rank-2 $$\mathcal {A}$$-algebra $$\textrm{Nm}_{\mathcal {B}/\mathcal {A}}(\mathcal {D})$$in a way that is compatible with other norm functors and which extends a known construction for étale quadratic algebras. We also conjecture a relationship between discriminant algebras and this new norm functor.
Keywords: 11R11; 13B02; 13B40; 13C10; 14B25; Algebra of finite rank; Norm functor; Quadratic algebra; Ring extension; dept.mat; Étale algebra

Undergraduate food insecurity, mental health, and substance use behaviors - Neal, Latasha; Zigmont, Victoria A. (Nutrition and Health, 2022)
Objective: Recent epidemiological research has found food insecurity to be a growing public health concern among college students. This study investigated food insecurity, mental health, and substance use behaviors among state university undergraduate students. Study Design: Cross-sectional survey. Methods: This was a secondary data analysis of the Student Health Survey. Undergraduate participants ( n = 589) completed the paper-based survey, which had an 84% response rate overall. Results: Approximately 38.5% of students were considered food insecure, 24.8% experiencing low food security, and 13.8% experiencing very low food security. Having a diagnosis of depression, experience of depressive symptoms, and marijuana use in the past 30 days were associated with food insecurity. Conclusion and Implications: Food insecurity is a serious health concern for college students. The results of this study indicate collocating food security and counseling services may enhance existing student resources to better support students facing food and nutrition insecurity, substance use, and depression.
Keywords: SCSU-student; dept.pch; dept.psy

Bad dream frequency predicts mental health needs during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic - Simmons, Claire; McKee, Paul; Antonios, Imad; Smith, Anna; Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter (Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, 2022)
Keywords: dept.csc; peer-reviewed

Differences in Neonatal Outcomes Among Premature Infants Exposed to Mother's Own Milk Versus Donor Human Milk - Cartagena, Diana; Penny, Frances; McGrath, Jacqueline M.; Reyna, Barbara; Parker, Leslie A.; McInnis, Joleen (Advances in Neonatal Care: Official Journal of the National Association of Neonatal Nurses, 2022)
BACKGROUND: Growing evidence supports the superior benefits of exposure to mother's own milk (MOM) in reducing prematurity-related comorbidities. Neonatal exposure to donor human Milk (DHM) is a suitable alternative when MOM is insufficient or unavailable. However, the same protective composition and bioactivity in MOM are not present in DHM. Additional evidence is needed to justify and inform evidence-based practices increasing MOM provision while optimizing adequate use of DHM for premature infants. PURPOSE: A systematic review of the literature was conducted to determine differences in neonatal outcomes among premature infants exposed to predominately MOM versus DHM. METHODS/SEARCH STRATEGY: Databases including PubMed, CINAHL and Cochrane were searched (2020-2021) using the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analysis) guidelines. Evidence was classified using the John Hopkins evidence-based practice levels and quality of evidence. RESULTS: Eleven studies met inclusion criteria. Studied neonatal outcomes included ( a ) growth parameters (n = 8), ( b ) neonatal morbidities (n = 6), and ( c ) gut microbiome (n = 4). Overall, evidence suggests DHM exposure is beneficial but not equivalent to MOM feeding. Compared with DHM, greater doses of MOM are ideal to enhance protection primarily related to infant growth, as well as gut microbiome diversity and richness. IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: Standardized and evidence-based practices are needed to clearly delineate optimal use of DHM without undermining maternal and neonatal staff efforts to support and promote provision of MOM. IMPLICATIONS FOR RESEARCH: Additional evidence from high-quality studies should further examine differences in neonatal outcomes among infants exposed to predominately MOM or DHM in settings using standardized and evidence-based feeding practices.
Keywords: Breast Feeding; Female; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Infant, Premature; Infant, Very Low Birth Weight; Intensive Care Units, Neonatal; Milk, Human; Mothers; dept.nur; peer-reviewed

Teachers’ Attitudes Towards Inclusive Education: a Cross-National Exploration - Charitaki, G.; Kourti, I.; Gregory, J.L.; Ozturk, M.; Ismail, Z.; Alevriadou, A.; Soulis, S.-G.; Sakici, Ş.; Demirel, C. (Trends in Psychology, 2022)
The study aims to suggest a model for attitudes towards inclusive education that will yield a good fit across different countries. Moreover, we aim to explore the effect of years of teaching experience, educational work level of teachers, and the highest degree completed by teachers on teachers’ attitudes towards inclusion across different countries. A demographic scale and the ATTAS-mm were applied to 908 teachers employed in schools of general education or who offered parallel support and/or resources in five different countries (Greece, the UK, the USA, Malaysia, and Turkey). CFA suggested a 4-factor solution, which included the cognitive, affective, and behavioral factors that have been previously introduced by Gregory and Noto (2012), and a fourth factor, labeled overall attitudes towards teaching all students. In the cognitive factor, the UK had the most positive attitudes. TU, MA, and GR enrolled in the same cluster, and the USA had the least positive attitudes. In the affective factor, GR had the most positive attitude. MA and the USA enrolled in the same cluster and TU and the UK had the least positive attitudes. A similar pattern is observed for the behavioral factor with GR having the most positive attitude. TU and MA enrolled in the same cluster, and the USA and the UK had the least positive attitudes. Finally, years of teaching experience, educational work level, and the highest degree completed have a significant effect on teachers’ attitudes towards inclusion in all countries. Providing feedback for future research is the focal point of the discussion part. © 2022, Associação Brasileira de Psicologia.
Keywords: Affective; Attitudes; Behavioral; Cognitive; Inclusive education; Teachers; dept.edl; peer-reviewed

Cultivating Language and Identity through Multimodal Literacies: Back to the StoryBoard - Ferraro, Marisa; Mendoza, Kristin Bengtson (Multimodal Literacies in Young Emergent Bilinguals: Beyond Print-Centric Practices, 2022)
Keywords: dept.cur

On error reduction by the symmetric rejection method in multi-stage biometric verification systems - Hossain, M.S.; Chen, J.; Rahman, K. (Pattern Analysis and Applications, 2022)
A multi-stage biometric verification system serially activates its verifiers and improves performance-cost trade-off by allowing users to submit a subset of the available biometrics. In the heart of a verifier in multi-stage systems lies the concept of ‘reject option’ where a reject region is used to identify a bad quality test sample. If the match-score falls inside the reject region, no binary (genuine/impostor) decision is made in the current stage and the verifier in the next stage is activated. Recent studies have demonstrated a significant promise of the ‘symmetric rejection method’ in choosing a suitable reject region for multi-stage verification systems. In this paper, we delve into the symmetric rejection method to gain more insights into its error reduction capabilities. Specifically, we develop a theory which mathematically proves that the symmetric rejection method reduces the false accept rate and false reject rate. Then, we empirically validate our theory. Results show that the symmetric rejection method significantly reduces the error rates, both the false accept rate and false reject rate. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature.
Keywords: Authentication; Biometrics; Multi-stage system; Serial fusion; Symmetric rejection method; dept.csc; peer-reviewed

Origins of social group work: local stories from around the world - Gardella, Lorrie Greenhouse (Social Work With Groups, 2023)
Keywords: dept.swk; peer-reviewed

Projections of two-particle correlations onto transverse rapidity in Au + Au collisions at √ s N N = 200 GeV at STAR - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review C, 2022)
Two-particle correlation measurements projected onto two-dimensional, transverse rapidity coordinates (yT1,yT2) provide an independent, orthogonal view of the multidimensional correlation distribution that is most often studied via angular projections. As such, these independent transverse projections allow access to manifestations of dynamical fluctuations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions that angular-correlation measurements may not be sensitive to. We report nonidentified charged-particle correlations for Au+Au minimum-bias collisions at √sNN=200 GeV taken by the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC). Correlations are presented as two-dimensional functions of transverse rapidity for like-sign, unlike-sign, and all charged-particle pairs, as well as for particle pairs whose relative azimuthal angles lie on the near-side, the away-side, or at all relative azimuth. The correlations are constructed using charged particles with transverse momentum pT≥0.15 GeV/c, pseudorapidity from −1 to 1, and azimuthal angles from −π to π. The significant correlation structures that are observed evolve smoothly with collision centrality. The major correlation features include a saddle shape plus a broad peak with maximum near yT≈3, corresponding to pT≈1.5 GeV/c. The broad peak is observed in both like- and unlike-sign charge combinations and in near- and away-side relative azimuthal angles. The all-charge, all-azimuth correlation measurements are compared with the predictions of hijing and epos to provide theoretical context for these new measurements. The results indicate that the correlations for peripheral to mid-central collisions can be approximately described as a superposition of nucleon + nucleon collisions with minimal effects from the quantum chromodynamics medium. Strong medium effects are indicated in mid- to most-central collisions.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Azimuthal transverse single-spin asymmetries of inclusive jets and identified hadrons within jets from polarized p p collisions at √ s = 200 GeV - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review D, 2022)
The STAR Collaboration reports measurements of the transverse single-spin asymmetries, AN, for inclusive jets and identified “hadrons within jets” production at midrapidity from transversely polarized pp collisions at √s=200 GeV, based on data recorded in 2012 and 2015. The inclusive jet asymmetry measurements include AN for inclusive jets and AN for jets containing a charged pion carrying a momentum fraction z>0.3 of the jet momentum. The identified hadron within jet asymmetry measurements include the Collins effect for charged pions, kaons, and protons, and the Collins-like effect for charged pions. The measured asymmetries are determined for several distinct kinematic regions characterized by the jet transverse momentum pT and pseudorapidity η, as well as the hadron momentum fraction z and momentum transverse to the jet axis jT. These results probe higher momentum scales (Q2 up to ∼900 GeV2) than current, semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering measurements, and they provide new constraints on quark transversity in the proton and enable tests of evolution, universality, and factorization breaking in the transverse-momentum-dependent formalism.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

The effect of sentence length on question comprehension in children with cochlear implants - DeLuca, Zara Waldman; Schwartz, Richard G.; Marton, Klara; Houston, Derek M.; Ying, Elizabeth; Steinman, Susan; Drakopoulou, Georgia (Cochlear Implants International, 2022)
Objectives The present study investigated the comprehension of subject and object who and which questions in children with cochlear implants (CI).Methods Growth Curve Analysis (GCA) was used to compare eye gaze fixations and gaze patterns to the appropriate subject or object nouns within a four-picture array between 16 children with CI and 31 children with typical hearing (aged 7;0-12;0) on wh-questions with and without added adjectives to increase length. Offline accuracy was also compared.Results Findings indicated children with typical hearing exhibited more fixations to the target noun across all conditions, supporting higher comprehension accuracy. Both groups of children demonstrated more fixations to the target noun in object questions and questions without added length. Patterns of eye movement were significantly different between groups, suggesting different patterns of eye gaze across the array before fixation on the target noun. Children with CI exhibited fewer fixations, slower speed to fixation, and differences in gaze patterns that may imply the presence of processing limitations. Error analyses also suggested that children with CI frequently fixated on a picture similar to the target noun.Conclusions Results indicate children with CI comprehend questions more slowly than their hearing peers, which may be related to limitations in working memory.
Keywords: Cochlear implants; Eye tracking; Language acquisition; Language processing; dept.cmd; peer-reviewed

(In)justice and the blue economy - Germond-Duret, Celine; Heidkamp, C. Patrick; Morrissey, John (The Geographical Journal, 2022)
While the ocean space has long been ignored by social sciences, the past 15 years have witnessed an increased interest in the marine environment by scholars in Human Geography. The academic literature on the blue economy, almost non-existent a few years ago, is now burgeoning. The academic debate has offered some critical assessment of blue economy initiatives, but more needs to be done to address the true place of environmental protection within a blue economy, and to put people at the centre of concerns and analyses. Of particular concern, is the ambiguity of the blue economy concept and the confusion over its social and environmental sustainability, which can ultimately result in harmful practices. An important question is then how should social scientists in general and geographers, specifically, engage with these debates, and in particular how should the potential human and social costs of the blue economy be investigated and addressed while assuring justice and fairness? The papers presented here share the vision that environmental sustainability, justice and equality should be at the heart of the blue economy; not just conceptually, but practically too. The papers pursue efforts to identify blue economy risks and the mechanisms through which they occur; assess the place of inclusion and participation in a sustainable blue economy; define what blue economy policies should include to drive just and sustainable practices; and identify where the dominant understandings of the blue economy and its priorities are coming from. In other words, they put considerations of justice and broader cultural structures at the centre of their concerns and analysis. They also highlight the need to bypass geographical boundaries and gain insights from other disciplines and methodologies to grasp such an encompassing concept, and foster not just a blue economy with social justice, but a blue economy for social justice.
Keywords: blue economy; communities; dept.egm; justice; peer-reviewed; sustainability

College students’ perceptions on safety measures and campus engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic - Risisky, Deb; Duff, Erin; Espinet, Jacqulynn (Journal of American College Health, 2022)
Objective: We examined students’ perceptions and opinions regarding others’ COVID-19 mitigation behaviors and how these behaviors impacted feelings of safety and desire for on-campus engagement. Participants: Undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at a midsize regional state university during the Spring 2021 semester (n = 893). Methods: A cross-sectional survey design was utilized with an online and anonymous questionnaire. Scale means were calculated followed by ANOVAs to determine significance. Results: Two independent variables impacted students’ feelings of safety for on-ground courses and activities: living situation (on campus, with roommates) and school year (freshman/sophomores). Underclassmen were more likely to desire in-person campus engagement. Conclusions: Students showed a willingness to return to campus, but also concern over peer behaviors and remaining safe. Returning to a pre-pandemic social environment is critical for students’ mental health, and making students feel safe on campus is an important first step to return campuses to vibrant educational and social communities.
Keywords: COVID-19; campus engagement; college students; dept.pch; mental health; peer-reviewed

Consumer choices with variations in item price, delay, and opportunity cost - McKerchar, Todd L.; Mazur, James E. (Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior)
Tversky and Kahneman (1981) told participants to imagine they were at a store about to purchase an item. They were asked if they would be willing to drive 20 min to another store to receive a $5 discount on the item's price. Most participants were willing, but only when the original price of the item was small ($15); when the original price was relatively large ($125), most said they would not drive 20 min for a $5 discount. We examined this framing effect in 296 participants, but instead used a psychophysical-adjustment procedure to obtain quantitative estimates of the discount required with different (a) item prices, (b) delays until the item's receipt, and (c) opportunity costs (in “driving” vs. “delivery” tasks). We systematically replicated Tversky and Kahneman's results, but also extended them by showing a substantial influence of opportunity costs on the consumer discounts required. A behavioral model of delay discounting—additive-utility theory—accounted for 97% of the variance in these consumer discounts.
Keywords: additive-utility theory; consumer choice; dept.psy; discounting; humans; opportunity cost; peer-reviewed

If Anti-Racism Is the Goal, Then Anti-Oppression Is How We Get There - Smith, Carmela Fusciello; Aguilar, Jemel P.; Kozu, Shuei; D'Angelo, Karen A.; Keenan, Elizabeth King; Tomczak, Stephen Monroe (Advances in Social Work, 2022)
Many schools of social work around the United States of America wrote anti-racism statements because of the recent murders of Black and Brown people. In this contribution, the authors describe a challenging and tense discussion of racism and anti-racism leading to a group process about oppression and anti-oppression in the social work profession. For some, the urgency to address racism led to tactics and strategies that got in the way of social workers engaging in anti-oppressive practices. While the structure of higher education often reinforces traditional hierarchies of power, the profession of social work calls us to promote our core values of social justice, integrity, and the importance of human relationships as we strive for an anti-oppressive future. Consequently, social work faculty may experience role conflict as we navigate these tensions. We believe it is important to harness and process such discomfort as we critically examine the power dynamics within our own department, and our own profession. This voluntary, ad hoc group, composed of a diverse group of faculty members, provides space for ongoing mutual aid, consciousness raising, appropriate discomfort, and accountability. If anti-racism is the goal, then anti-oppression is how we get there.
Keywords: White supremacy; dept.swk; peer-reviewed

Plasma metabolomic profiles reveal sex- and maturation-dependent metabolic strategies in sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) - Tamrakar, Sonam; Huerta, Belinda; Chung-Davidson, Yu-Wen; Li, Weiming (Metabolomics: Official Journal of the Metabolomic Society, 2022)
INTRODUCTION: Adult sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) cease feeding and migrate to spawning streams where males build nests, undergo final sexual maturation, and subsequently produce and release large quantities of bile acid pheromones that attract mature females. These animals are predicted to rearrange their metabolic pathways drastically to support their reproductive strategies, presenting advantageous opportunities to examine how sex and the maturation processes affect metabolism. OBJECTIVES: The objective is to investigate the metabolic differences between sexes and maturation states in sea lamprey that support changes in physiological functions. METHODS: We compared plasma metabolomes of spawning and prespawning sea lamprey in both sexes using both non-targeted and targeted metabolomics approaches using UPLC/MS-MS with electrospray ionization in both positive and negative modes. The data were processed using Progenesis QI, Compound Discoverer and XCMS softwares for alignment, peak picking, and deconvolution of the peaks. Principle component analyses (PCA) and partial least squares discriminant analyses (PLS-DA) were performed using SIMCA and Metaboanalyst softwares to identify discriminating features, followed by fragmentation matching with extensive database search and pathway mapping. RESULTS: The pheromonal bile acid biosynthesis was upregulated significantly in males compared to females. Spermiating males further upregulated bile acid biosynthesis by altering amino acid metabolisms, upregulating cofactors and nucleotide metabolisms, but downregulating carbohydrate and energy metabolisms. CONCLUSION: Plasma metabolomes are sex- and maturation-dependent and reflect the special metabolic demands at each life stage and reproductive strategy.
Keywords: Animals; Bile Acids and Salts; Bile acid biosynthesis; Female; Male; Metabolic pathways; Metabolomics; Petromyzon; Petromyzon marinus; Sexual Maturation; Sexual selection; Tandem Mass Spectrometry; Targeted analyses; Untargeted analyses; dept.che; peer-reviewed

Review of Application of Machine Learning as a Screening Tool for Diagnosis of Obstructive Sleep Apnea - Aiyer, Ishan; Shaik, Likhita; Sheta, Alaa; Surani, Salim (Medicina, 2022)
Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is a pervasive disorder with an incidence estimated at 5–14 percent among adults aged 30–70 years. It carries significant morbidity and mortality risk from cardiovascular disease, including ischemic heart disease, atrial fibrillation, and cerebrovascular disease, and risks related to excessive daytime sleepiness. The gold standard for diagnosis of OSAS is the polysomnography (PSG) test which requires overnight evaluation in a sleep laboratory and expensive infrastructure, which renders it unsuitable for mass screening and diagnosis. Alternatives such as home sleep testing need patients to wear diagnostic instruments overnight, but accuracy continues to be suboptimal while access continues to be a barrier for many. Hence, there is a continued significant underdiagnosis and under-recognition of sleep apnea in the community, with at least one study suggesting that 80–90% of middle-aged adults with moderate to severe sleep apnea remain undiagnosed. Recently, we have seen a surge in applications of artificial intelligence and neural networks in healthcare diagnostics. Several studies have attempted to examine its application in the diagnosis of OSAS. Signals included in data analytics include Electrocardiogram (ECG), photo-pletysmography (PPG), peripheral oxygen saturation (SpO2), and audio signals. A different approach is to study the application of machine learning to use demographic and standard clinical variables and physical findings to try and synthesize predictive models with high accuracy in assisting in the triage of high-risk patients for sleep testing. The current paper will review this latter approach and identify knowledge gaps that may serve as potential avenues for future research.
Keywords: ML; artificial intelligence; dept.csc; peer-reviewed; screening; sleep apnea

Incarcerated People Living with HIV: A Qualitative Exploration of Stigma - Smoyer, Amy B; Ferris, Shannon; Earnshaw, Valerie A (Health & Social Work, 2022)
Thousands of people living with HIV are incarcerated in the United States. Research about this vulnerable community has focused on access and adherence to medical care, including the impact of stigma on these treatment outcomes. This study presents qualitative data collected from 18 incarcerated and formerly incarcerated men and women living with HIV to expand knowledge about how HIV stigma shapes the lived experience of incarceration. The HIV Stigma Framework, including theory about enacted, anticipated, and internalized stigma, was used to analyze participants’ narratives. Findings demonstrate an ongoing struggle with all three of these stigma mechanisms. Most participants deliberately concealed their HIV status and, therefore, experienced little enacted stigma. However, their narratives do describe anticipated stigma and, to a lesser extent, internalized stigma. There were gender differences in HIV disclosure and symbolic stigma and intersectionality are used to understand this variation. These findings illustrate the persistence of HIV stigma in correctional institutions and underscore the importance of fighting HIV stigma and homophobia within social work practice.
Keywords: dept.swk

Understanding and Responding to Affectional and Transgender Prejudice and Victimization - Viehl, C.; Ginicola, M.M.; Ellis, A.; Charette, R.J. (Trauma Counseling Theories and Interventions for Managing Trauma, Stress, Crisis, and Disaster: Second Edition, 2022)
In addition to traumas that heterosexual and cisgender people experience, queer and transgender people face a heterosexist and cissexist culture, in which marginalization and trauma against them is normalized or minimized. In this chapter, the experience of hate crimes and violence, relational and interpersonal trauma, religious based-trauma, and sociocultural and political-based trauma are covered in relation to how it impacts Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Queer (LGBTQ) people. Clinical and counseling implications are discussed. The increase in mental health challenges is explained via the minority stress model. Implications for diagnosis and trauma-informed practices for queer and transgender people are discussed. Additionally, the role of the mental health professional as a social justice advocate is explored, including how social justice frameworks can be incorporated in the counseling environment. © 2023 Springer Publishing Company, LLC and 2012. All rights reserved.
Keywords: dept.csp

Discriminative ability of lower limb strength and power measures in lacrosse athletes - Talpey, Scott W.; Axtell, Robert; Gardner, Elizabeth; Maloney, Maggie; Newman, Thomas; Cordone, Jason; O’Grady, Mathew (International Journal of Sports Medicine, 2023)
The objective of this investigation was to compare isokinetic strength, countermovement jump and drop jump variables between high-contributors and low-contributors within NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s lacrosse athletes. Men’s (N=36) and Women’s (N=30) NCAA Division I lacrosse athletes completed strength testing of the quadriceps and hamstring across three speeds (60°·s−1, 180°·s−1, 300°·s−1), countermovement and drop jumps. To determine the discriminative ability of select lower-limb strength and power characteristics participants were categorized as high-contributors (Males N=18, age=20.3±0.4 yrs, height=183.9±5.5 cm, mass=90.8±5.8 kg; Females N=15, age=20.8±0.8 yrs, height=169.3±6.7 cm, mass=64.1±7.2 kg) or low-contributors (Males N=18, age=19.5±0.2 yrs, height=184.1±5.6 cm; mass=87.9±8.1 kg; Females N=15, age=19.7±0.2 yrs, height=169.8±7.0 cm, mass=62.9±7.7 kg ) based upon the number of games the participants competed in during the regular season. Within the male cohort, moderate significant (p−1 (d=0.69) and peak power in countermovement jump (d=0.68). Within the women’s cohort a large (d=0.87) significant difference (p−1. Hamstring strength and lower-limb power are important strength measures for lacrosse performance and should be prioritized in training prescription for lacrosse athletes.
Keywords: Key words countermovement jump; dept.hms; drop jump; female athlete; peer-reviewed; performance

Pair invariant mass to isolate background in the search for the chiral magnetic effect in Au + Au collisions at √ s NN = 200 GeV - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review C, 2022)
Quark interactions with topological gluon configurations can induce local chirality imbalance and parity violation in quantum chromodynamics, which can lead to the chiral magnetic effect (CME)—an electric charge separation along the strong magnetic field in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The CME-sensitive azimuthal correlator observable (Δγ) is contaminated by background arising, in part, from resonance decays coupled with elliptic anisotropy (v2). We report here differential measurements of the correlator as a function of the pair invariant mass (minv) in 20–50% centrality Au+Au collisions at √sNN=200 GeV by the STAR experiment at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Strong resonance background contributions to Δγ are observed. At large minv where this background is significantly reduced, the Δγ value is found to be significantly smaller. An event-shape-engineering technique is deployed to determine the v2 background shape as a function of minv. We extract a v2-independent and minv-averaged signal Δγsig=(0.03±0.06±0.08)×10−4, or (2±4±5)% of the inclusive Δγ(minv>0.4 GeV/c2)=(1.58±0.02±0.02)×10−4, within pion pT=0.2–0.8 GeV/c and averaged over pseudorapidity ranges of −1<η<−0.05 and 0.05<η<1. This represents an upper limit of 0.23×10−4, or 15% of the inclusive result, at 95% confidence level for the minv-integrated CME contribution.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Breaking Blue: Establishing comprehensive policy for a just and inclusive transition for the Blue Economy - Axon, Stephen; Collier, Sammy (Marine Policy, 2023)
At a time of substantial interest in the Blue Economy, it is surprising that sustainability dilemmas and justice components are not well integrated within its academic discourse or policy arena. Reviewing a number of existing U.S. coastal and marine policies, we identify that justice and equity components are essentially missing and advocate for a comprehensive policy framework for a just and inclusive transition for the Blue Economy. Looking forward, we review and critique the policy proposal of Elizabeth Warren’s Blue New Deal. While the current state of the Blue New Deal remains uncertain, we indicate that such a policy framework would integrate justice, equity and inclusivity as part of operationalising the Blue Economy. Given the proposal for a Blue New Deal is relatively new, we propose a research agenda to explore how comprehensive policy frameworks may seek to place justice and inclusivity at the centre of the Blue Economy.
Keywords: Blue Economy; Blue Justice; Blue New Deal; Governance; Sustainability; dept.egm; peer-reviewed

Chapter 15 - Tryptophan fluorescence and machine learning to study the aggressiveness of prostate cancer cell lines: A pilot study - Xue, Jianpeng; Mo, Haiding; Tian, Yuke; Tang, Rui; Wu, Binlin (Biophotonics, Tryptophan and Disease, 2022)
We report on the use of label-free, native fluorescence (NFL) spectroscopy and machine learning (ML) algorithms to study the correlation of relative tryptophan levels with prostate cancer aggressiveness. Three extensively studied prostate cancer cell lines were used; PC3, an aggressive, androgen-resistant line, with a high tendency to metastasize in vivo, DU-145, a less aggressive cancer cell line, also androgen-resistant, and LNCaP, an androgen sensitive line, which has a low tendency to metastasize. Using an excitation of 300nm, differences in the NFL spectral profiles from these cell lines were found to correlate with changes in the relative concentrations of tryptophan and reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH). The use of ML may present a powerful tool for the assessment of the likelihood of a cancer to metastasize. This technique could aid in the decision whether to use highly aggressive adjuvant chemotherapy or radiation therapy after surgical resection of a prostate cancer.
Keywords: Fluorescence spectroscopy; Machine learning; Metastatic cancer; Native fluorescence; Prostate cancer; Support vector machine; Tryptophan; dept.phy

Book Review: Ah, Wilderness! - Garvey, Sheila Hickey (The Eugene O'Neill Review, 2022)
Connecticut’s Tony Award–winning Hartford Stage reopening with Eugene O’Neill’s only comedy, Ah, Wilderness!, was a historic event. It marked Melia Bensussen’s debut as a director at Hartford Stage. Bensussen had already been in place as its first woman artistic director in October 2019, but began her tenure overseeing other directors’ work. The theater’s forced closing in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic delayed her joining the theater’s directing pool. Ah, Wilderness! had already been cast and was ready to begin rehearsals when the shutdown occurred.The fall 2021 opening for Bensussen’s directorial debut might have been guided by fate, as October 16 is Eugene O’Neill’s birthday. O’Neill had a fascination with fate and destiny stemming from his deep and tangled roots in Connecticut. Ah, Wilderness! is the comedic and fantastical version of the playwright’s youthful days in the Nutmeg State, while Long Day’s Journey Into Night is the tragic and more accurate version. What unites the two plays is that they both take place in the waterfront Monte Cristo Cottage, a historic landmark in New London.The choice to reopen Hartford Stage with Ah, Wilderness! was also historic because to attend the performance one had to present proof of a COVID vaccination or a recent negative test and wear protective facial masking—something that became a common practice nationally and internationally when COVID protocols were established. Once cleared, the audience was permitted to enter the auditorium, where they were treated to a more recognizable theatrical experience. Visible on the theater’s spacious thrust stage were portions of an abstract set designed by James Noone, hidden, for the most part, behind a white sheet-like curtain. On the stage’s foreground were furnishings draped with individual sheets. The abandoned and ghostly look was ably enhanced by lighting designer Wen-Ling Liao’s stark lighting, which signaled a death or an abandonment on the stage and in the entire theater facility itself.Also symbolic was the initial music selected to mark Hartford Stage’s reawakening. As the house lights were raised, individual singers could be heard repeatedly singing, two words and notes, a cappella. The words were “I am.” The unique arresting declaration was quickly followed by the proud entrance of the remaining cast and some crewmembers, joyfully marching though the auditorium. They headed toward the stage’s thrust, also singing “I am” until they all broke into a full rendition of the famous Americana song “Yankee Doodle Dandy” —an apt choice, the play occurs on the Fourth of July. But the melody and words “I am” signified even more because the music and lyrics were written by the iconic stage Irishman George M. Cohan, who portrayed Nat Miller in the original production of Ah, Wilderness!, which premiered on Broadway on October 2, 1933.As the actors entered, the white drop curtain rose to reveal a super-size—and not entirely historically accurate—skeletal set that served as a universal environment. Its main purpose was to represent the Miller family home, and its secondary purpose was to eventually represent the act 4, scene 2 lakeside woods where Richard Miller, the play’s central young lead (Michael Boatman), and his teenage love interest, Muriel McComber (Brittany Anikka Liu), meet under full moonlight to confess their undying love. The cast continued singing while they removed the white coverings from the furniture. Their actions were a reminder that the Monte Cristo Cottage was the O’Neill family’s summer home. In this way, the Miller family’s initial actions echoed the O’Neills’ annual return. Once the 1906 period furniture pieces were fully visible and lit with warm stage lighting, the delightful summertime period costumes designed by Olivera Gajic could be appreciated in their proper context.Throughout the production’s exposition and early conflicts, the audience was introduced to an American family and a New London community compatible with racial norms of the twenty-first century. Unlike the original Broadway production and many productions since, the cast was multiracial, an appropriate reflection of contemporary times. As Nat Miller, Boatman maintained a demeanor of gentle but firm moral force when addressing challenges to his integrity as a newspaper editor, familial rebellions against his patriarchal authority, and the antics of the none-too-skilled maid, Norah (Annie Jean Buckley). As the play unfolds, it becomes apparent that Nat and his devoted wife Essie (Antoinette LaVecchia) are raising four children: Arthur (Antonio Jose Jeffries), Richard (Jaevon Williams), Tommy (Miles Lowe), and Mildred (Katerina McCrimmon). Nat has also assumed the responsibility of caring for several relatives including his single sister, Lily (Natascia Diaz), and his wife’s hopelessly alcoholic brother, Sid Davis (McCaleb Burnett). Boatman wisely and lovingly guided his family and his rebellious teenage son, Richard, with a loving, measured pace. The actor shouldered his character’s purpose, leading to the climactic moments when O’Neill’s goal becomes apparent. As a playwright aiming to bring classical stature to American playwrighting, O’Neill intended to write a comedy of substance. He did not want to write his only comedy by ending it with a happy and sentimental resolution. Instead, O’Neill concludes Ah, Wilderness! with philosophical reflections on the importance of familial loyalty and everlasting love.A clear choice of director Bensussen was to craft her production as an ensemble piece rather than as a star vehicle for a leading role, as it has often been: Cohan (1933), Jason Robards (1988), Geraldine Fitzgerald (1969 and 1973), and Colleen Dewhurst (1988). As a result, there were numerous memorable performances by actors with secondary speaking roles: Tanner Jones as Wint Selby, Stuart Rider as the protective Bartender, Joseph Adams as Macomber and the Salesman, and Liu, doubling as Belle, all made brief but standout appearances at unexpected moments. Diaz in the principal role of spinster Lily Miller imbued her character with a poignant dignity, a feat made more impressive by the fact that, in some productions, this character can arc toward the melodramatic and comically belittling.An informative post-show talk-back took place on November 6, with Bensussen, Beth Wynstra, and Steven Bloom, the latter two representing the Eugene O’Neill Society’s board of directors. During the conversation, Bensussen noted pitfalls she found in the writing of Miller family matriarch Essie Miller and acknowledged cutting some of the character’s dialogue to make her seem less scatterbrained. The result was a less dominant but more mature rendering of the character.In choosing to direct Ah, Wilderness!, Bensussen demonstrated her prowess as a stage director and her appreciation for the home-grown legacy of America’s only Nobel Prize–winning playwright. She also lovingly reawakened the dormant Hartford Stage.
Keywords: dept.thr

The HPP Podcast: People, Places, Possibilities—Living & Reimagining Beyond the Page - Mata, Holly J.; Castle, Arden; Johnson, Chloe; Latz, Isabel; Castro, Justine Karla; Roe, Kathleen (Health Promotion Practice, 2022)
Keywords: dept.pch; peer-reviewed

College student Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) and maladaptive behavior: Traditional statistical modeling and predictive analysis using machine learning - McKee, Paul C.; Budnick, Christopher J.; Walters, Kenneth S.; Antonios, Imad (PLOS ONE, 2022)
This paper reports a two-part study examining the relationship between fear of missing out (FoMO) and maladaptive behaviors in college students. This project used a cross-sectional study to examine whether college student FoMO predicts maladaptive behaviors across a range of domains (e.g., alcohol and drug use, academic misconduct, illegal behavior). Participants (N = 472) completed hard copy questionnaire packets assessing trait FoMO levels and questions pertaining to unethical and illegal behavior while in college. Part 1 utilized traditional statistical analyses (i.e., hierarchical regression modeling) to identify any relationships between FoMO, demographic variables (socioeconomic status, living situation, and gender) and the behavioral outcomes of interest. Part 2 looked to quantify the predictive power of FoMO, and demographic variables used in Part 1 through the convergent approach of supervised machine learning. Results from Part 1 indicate that college student FoMO is indeed related to many diverse maladaptive behaviors spanning the legal and illegal spectrum. Part 2, using various techniques such as recursive feature elimination (RFE) and principal component analysis (PCA) and models such as logistic regression, random forest, and Support Vector Machine (SVM), showcased the predictive power of implementing machine learning. Class membership for these behaviors (offender vs. non-offender) was predicted at rates well above baseline (e.g., 50% at baseline vs 87% accuracy for academic misconduct with just three input variables). This study demonstrated FoMO’s relationships with these behaviors as well as how machine learning can provide additional predictive insights that would not be possible through inferential statistical modeling approaches typically employed in psychology, and more broadly, the social sciences. Research in the social sciences stands to gain from regularly utilizing the more traditional statistical approaches in tandem with machine learning.
Keywords: Alcohol consumption; Behavior; Cannabis; Drug interactions; Forecasting; Machine learning; Machine learning algorithms; Principal component analysis; dept.csc; dept.psy; peer-reviewed

Well-Being and Prosperity: Multidirectional Disciplinary Interactions with Religion - Morais, M.; Karakunnel, J.J.; Perumbilly, S.; Yeon, G.; Rassendren, G. (Journal of Dharma, 2022)
Despite significant advancements in science and technology, religion continues to influence human lives. The twentieth-century perspectives from social sciences, influenced by the secular hypothesis, mainly highlight the negative influence of religion on human progress and practically ignore its influential and positive impact on various fields of knowledge/disciplines. In this paper, we have examined literature from politics, economics, and psychology to understand religion’s impact on these disciplines and vice versa. We find that religion’s contribution to human society in the 20th and 21st centuries has been mostly positive, especially in education, healthcare, social justice, economic growth, ethics, and initiatives for eradicating inequality and injustice. For instance, religion provides effective coping measures and strategies when humans face uncertainties and catastrophes and facilitate comfort, confidence, and emotional wellness. Further, we realised that (i) the contemporary research literature in social sciences generally highlights the interaction between religion and various fields of knowledge in a unidirectional way —i.e., religion influencing disciplines and not how disciplines influence religion, and (ii) that it fails to reveal a more complex multidirectional and circular relationship between religion and social sciences. This paper proposes ways to bring together social scientists and religious scholars to facilitate the much-needed discussion on the multidirectional relationship between religion and social sciences, thereby paving the way toward the well-being of individuals and social transformation. © 2022 Journal of Dharma: Dharmaram Journal of Religions and Philosophies (DVK, Bangalore),.
Keywords: and well-being; charitable giving; circularity; dept.mft; linearity; peer-reviewed; political participation; religion; sustainable development; ⛔ No DOI found

The dinosaurian femoral head experienced a morphogenetic shift from torsion to growth along the avian stem - Egawa, Shiro; Griffin, Christopher T.; Bishop, Peter J.; Pintore, Romain; Tsai, Henry P.; Botelho, João F.; Smith-Paredes, Daniel; Kuratani, Shigeru; Norell, Mark A.; Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Hutchinson, John R.; Bhullar, Bhart-Anjan S. (Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2022)
Significant evolutionary shifts in locomotor behaviour often involve comparatively subtle anatomical transitions. For dinosaurian and avian evolution, medial overhang of the proximal femur has been central to discussions. However, there is an apparent conflict with regard to the evolutionary origin of the dinosaurian femoral head, with neontological and palaeontological data suggesting seemingly incongruent hypotheses. To reconcile this, we reconstructed the evolutionary history of morphogenesis of the proximal end of the femur from early archosaurs to crown birds. Embryological comparison of living archosaurs (crocodylians and birds) suggests the acquisition of the greater overhang of the femoral head in dinosaurs results from additional growth of the proximal end in the medial-ward direction. On the other hand, the fossil record suggests that this overhang was acquired by torsion of the proximal end, which projected in a more rostral direction ancestrally. We reconcile this apparent conflict by inferring that the medial overhang of the dinosaur femoral head was initially acquired by torsion, which was then superseded by mediad growth. Details of anatomical shifts in fossil forms support this hypothesis, and their biomechanical implications are congruent with the general consensus regarding broader morpho-functional evolution on the avian stem.
Keywords: dept.bio; developmental evolution; developmental system drift; dinosaur; homology; locomotor apparatus; morphogenesis; peer-reviewed