Review: Depressive symptoms and fatigue as mediators of relationship between poor sleep factors and medication adherence in HIV-positive women. - Petrovic, Kimberly (Journal of Research in Nursing, 2015)
Keywords: dept.nur

Self-Transcendence and Medication Adherence in Older Adults With Hypertension. - Thomas, Nezbile; Dunn, Karen (Journal of Holistic Nursing, 2014)
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between self-transcendence and medication adherence among older adults prescribed antihypertensive medication., Design: Descriptive, correlational research design., Method: Forty-six older adults who were prescribed antihypertensive medications from an independent living facility participated in this study. Participants were given a survey that included a demographic questionnaire, the Morisky Medication Adherence Scale, and Reed's Self-Transcendence Scale., Findings: No significant relationship was found between medication adherence and self-transcendence (r = -.20, p = .18). Ninety percent of the participants however, admitted to cutting back or stopping their medication without notifying their providers., Conclusion: Continued investigation is needed to identify reasons why older adults fail to adhere to taking prescribed hypertension medications in order to improve health outcomes in this population., (C)2014Sage Publications
Keywords: dept.nur; hypertension older adults; medication adherence; peer-reviewed; self-transcendence

The same frequency of planets inside and outside open clusters of stars. - Meibom, Soren; Torres, Guillermo; Fressin, Francois; Latham, David; Rowe, Jason; Ciardi, David; Bryson, Steven; Rogers, Leslie; Henze, Christopher; Janes, Kenneth; Barnes, Sydney; Marcy, Geoffrey; et al. (Nature, 2013)
: Most stars and their planets form in open clusters. Over 95 per cent of such clusters have stellar densities too low (less than a hundred stars per cubic parsec) to withstand internal and external dynamical stresses and fall apart within a few hundred million years 1. Older open clusters have survived by virtue of being richer and denser in stars (1,000 to 10,000 per cubic parsec) when they formed. Such clusters represent a stellar environment very different from the birthplace of the Sun and other planet-hosting field stars. So far more than 800 planets have been found around Sun-like stars in the field 2. The field planets are usually the size of Neptune or smaller 3,4,5. In contrast, only four planets have been found orbiting stars in open clusters 6,7,8, all with masses similar to or greater than that of Jupiter. Here we report observations of the transits of two Sun-like stars by planets smaller than Neptune in the billion-year-old open cluster NGC6811. This demonstrates that small planets can form and survive in a dense cluster environment, and implies that the frequency and properties of planets in open clusters are consistent with those of planets around field stars in the Galaxy., (C) 2013 Nature Publishing Group
Keywords: Jupiter; Neptune; article; astronomy; cluster analysis; dept.phy; environment; frequency analysis; planet; priority journal; simulation; sun; velocity

Identification of Conductive Hearing Loss in Young Infants Using Tympanometry and Wideband Reflectance. - Prieve, Beth; Vander Werff, Kathy; Preston, Jonathan; Georgantas, Lea (Ear and Hearing, 2013)
Objective: The goal of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of tympanometry and wideband reflectance (WBR) in detecting conductive hearing loss (CHL) in young infants., Methods: Type of hearing loss was determined using auditory brainstem response using air- and bone-conducted tone bursts in 84 ears from 70 infants (median age = 10 weeks). Of these 84 ears, 60 are included in the current analysis: 43 with normal hearing (NH) and 17 with CHL. Tympanometry was measured using probe tone frequencies of 226, 678, and 1000 Hz. Tympanograms were evaluated in two ways: (1) Acoustic middle ear admittance (Ya, in millimhos); and (2) two-category classification (normal/abnormal), as described by Baldwin (2006). Measures of Ya were evaluated in two ways: by admittance-magnitude tympanograms and calculated admittance magnitude from subcomponents (conductance and susceptance). WBR was measured in response to a chirp stimulus after probe calibration. WBR was analyzed into thirteen 1/3 octave bands. Tests for statistical differences for two-category classification were analyzed using Chi-squared and Ya, and WBR were analyzed using repeated-measures analyses of variances. Cohen's d and likelihood ratios were computed for comparison with statistically significant differences., Results: Ya measured with 678- and 1000 Hz probe tones was significantly different between ears with CHL and NH. Two-category classification of tympanograms using a 1000 Hz probe tone was significantly different between ears with CHL and NH. Neither two-category classification nor Ya was significantly different between ears identified with CHL and NH using a 226 Hz probe tone. WBR was significantly higher in the frequency bands 800 to 2500 Hz and in the frequency band centered at 6300 Hz in infants with CHL. Effect sizes (Cohen's d) were greater than 2 for several WBR frequency bands and Ya measured with 1000 Hz probe tones. The results were similar for calculations of Ya from admittance-magnitude and subcomponent tympanograms. Positive likelihood ratios for WBR ranged between 8.1 and 38, and those for Ya using 1000 Hz ranged between 12.5 and 32., Conclusions: CHL in young infants can be detected well with WBR or tympanometry using probe frequencies of 678 and 1000 Hz., (C) 2013 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Keywords: Acoustic Impedance Tests; Acoustic Stimulation; Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem; Female; Hearing Loss, Conductive; Hearing Tests; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Likelihood Functions; Male; Sensitivity and Specificity; acoustic impedance; article; auditory stimulation; conduction deafness; dept.cmd; evoked brain stem auditory response; female; hearing test; human; infant; male; methodology; newborn; sensitivity and specificity; statistical model

Tell Me What You See: An Arts-Based Health Education Program for Youth. - Edmondson, Bonnie (Health Promotion Practice, 2021)
A cross-sector collaboration among a community-based organization, a prison arts program, and state departments of Public Health, Education, and Correction was established to address critical health education prevention efforts for at-risk high school-aged youth. The Tell Me What You See initiative utilizes artwork and poetry created by incarcerated youth to promote sexually transmitted disease (STD), HIV, and hepatitis prevention with students in public high schools and juvenile justice facilities. This innovative intervention integrates functional health knowledge and skills-based education through an art-based interdisciplinary approach reaching various populations of youth in multiple settings across a state. Evaluation results indicated that the materials effectively engage youth and open up a critical dialogue among peers and adults by addressing the role personal behavior can have in the prevention of STDs, hepatitis, and HIV. Lessons learned and recommendations are provided., (C)2021Sage Publications
Keywords: Adolescent; Adult; Child; Educational Status; HIV/AIDS; Health Education; Health Promotion; Humans; STDs; Schools; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; adolescent; adolescent health; adult; arts; arts in public health; arts-based education; behavior change; child; community organization; creative arts; dept.hms; educational status; health education; health promotion; hepatitis; human; incarcerated youth; juvenile justice; partnerships; peer-reviewed; public health; school; school health; sexually transmitted disease

Physical activity participation, flourishing and academic engagement in adolescents with obesity. - McCoy, Stephanie; Rupp, Kristie (Pediatric Obesity, 2021)
Background: Adolescents with obesity are less likely to flourish and be academically engaged in comparison to their healthy weight peers. However, it is unknown how participation in physical activity influences flourishing and academic engagement in adolescents with obesity. The current study examined engagement in varying levels of physical activity and the likelihood of flourishing and academic engagement in adolescents with obesity. Methods: Analyses included 26 764 adolescents, ages 10–17 years, from the parent-reported, combined 2016–2017 National Survey of Children's Health. Participants were grouped by physical activity levels (none, low, moderate, daily). Outcome variables included flourishing (finishing tasks, staying calm when faced with a challenge and showing interest in new things) and academic engagement (completing all required homework and caring about doing well in school). Logistic regression models, adjusted for age, sex, race, household income, highest level of education in the household, behavioural conduct problems and depression assessed the likelihood of each outcome comparing physical activity levels among adolescents with obesity. Results: Adolescents with obesity who participated in any amount of physical activity (low, moderate and daily) or sports had significantly greater likelihood of flourishing and academic engagement compared those that did not engage in any physical activity (p's ¡ 0.05). Conclusions: Participation in even low amounts of physical activity or participation in sports increases the likelihood of flourishing and academic engagement in adolescents with obesity, which expands on previous findings that adolescents with obesity are less likely to flourish and be academically engaged in comparison to their healthy weight peers. © 2021 World Obesity Federation
Keywords: Adolescent; Child; Exercise; Health Status; Humans; Pediatric Obesity; Schools; adolescence; adolescent; child; childhood obesity; dept.hms; exercise; flourishing; health status; human; obesity; peer-reviewed; physical activity; school

Homogenization and miniaturization of habitat structure in temperate marine forests. - Pessarrodona, Albert; Filbee-Dexter, Karen; Alcoverro, Teresa; Boada, Jordi; Feehan, Colette; Fredriksen, Stein; Grace, Sean; Nakamura, Yohei; Narvaez, Carla; Norderhaug, Kjell; Wernberg, Thomas (Global Change Biology, 2021)
Humans are rapidly transforming the structural configuration of the planet's ecosystems, but these changes and their ecological consequences remain poorly quantified in underwater habitats. Here, we show that the loss of forest-forming seaweeds and the rise of ground-covering 'turfs' across four continents consistently resulted in the miniaturization of underwater habitat structure, with seascapes converging towards flattened habitats with smaller habitable spaces. Globally, turf seascapes occupied a smaller architectural trait space and were structurally more similar across regions than marine forests, evidencing habitat homogenization. Surprisingly, such habitat convergence occurred despite turf seascapes consisting of vastly different species richness and with different taxa providing habitat architecture, as well as across disparate drivers of marine forest decline. Turf seascapes contained high sediment loads, with the miniaturization of habitat across 100s of km in mid-Western Australia resulting in reefs retaining an additional ~242 million tons of sediment (four orders of magnitude more than the sediments delivered fluvially annually). Together, this work demonstrates that the replacement of marine forests by turfs is a generalizable phenomenon that has profound consequences for the ecology of temperate reefs., (C) 2021 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Keywords: Australia; Ecosystem; Forests; Humans; Miniaturization; Seaweed; Western Australia; algal turf; climate change; dept.bio; ecological impact; ecosystem; epilithic algal matrix; forest; foundation species; habitat change; habitat structure; human; kelp forest; kelp forests; miniaturization; peer-reviewed; regime shift; seaweed; sediment pollution; species richness; temperate forest

Do managerial efficiency and social responsibility drive long-term financial performance of not-for-profit hospitals before acquisition?. - Phillips, J F (Journal of health care finance, 1999)
Due to steep declines in charitable support and reduced demand for traditional hospital services, economic goals are increasingly important to not-for-profit hospitals. Effects of efficient management and effective pursuit of not-for-profit status (for example, levels of Medicare, indigent patients, and unprofitable services) on financial viability are explored. While previous research compared hospitals of different ownership status, not-for-profit hospital operations before acquisition by for-profit hospital chains are investigated--"neutral ground" relative to ownership. Results suggest minor links between efficiency and long-term profitability despite effectiveness in pursuit of non taxable status.
Keywords: *Efficiency, Organizational; *Financial Management, Hospital; *Hospitals, Voluntary/og [Organization & Administration]; *Social Responsibility; Bed Occupancy; Case mix index; Diagnosis-Related Groups; Efficiency, Organizational; Financial Management, Hospital; Free cash flow accounting valuation; Health Facility Merger; Health Facility Merger/sn [Statistics & Numerical Data]; Hospitals, Voluntary; Hospitals, Voluntary/st [Standards]; Humans; Investor-owned hospital corporations; Least-Squares Analysis; Length of Stay; Length of stay; Managerial efficiency; Median household income; Medicare; Medicare patients; Medicare/sn [Statistics & Numerical Data]; Not-for-profit hospital acquisitions; Occupancy rate; Social Responsibility; Social responsibility; United States; article; dept.acc; financial management; hospital finance; hospital management; hospitalization; length of stay; medicare; profit; social behavior; ⛔ No DOI found

For-profit chains seek to acquire successful not-for-profit hospitals. - Phillips, J F (Healthcare financial management : journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association, 1999)
Over the last decade, investor-owned hospital corporations have grown primarily by acquiring other for-profit hospital chains or stand-alone for-profit institutions. Between 1990 and 1995, however, these corporations also acquired nearly 50 not-for-profit hospitals and converted them to for-profit status. An examination of the long-term financial condition of 39 not-for-profit hospitals acquired by various investor-owned hospital corporations between 1992 and 1996 was conducted using free-cash-flow accounting valuation. The results suggest that, initially, only not-for-profit hospitals in dire financial straits were candidates for acquisition and conversion to for-profit status. More recent acquisitions increasingly have involved more successful not-for-profit hospitals.
Keywords: *Financial Management, Hospital/td [Trends]; *Health Facility Merger; *Hospitals, Proprietary/ec [Economics]; *Hospitals, Voluntary/ec [Economics]; *Multi-Institutional Systems/ec [Economics]; Accounts Payable and Receivable; Financial Audit; Hospitals, Proprietary/og [Organization & Administration]; Longitudinal Studies; United States; dept.acc; ⛔ No DOI found

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Assessment and management update. - Wallace, M. (Journal of gerontological nursing, 1999)
Keywords: *Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome/nu [Nursing]; Aged; Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome; Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome/cl [Classification]; Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome/pp [Physiopathology]; Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome/px [Psychology]; Humans; MLCS; MLOWN; Male; Middle Aged; Nursing Assessment; Nursing Assessment/mt [Methods]; Patient Care Planning; Prognosis; Risk Factors; aged; case report; classification; dept.nur; human; male; methodology; middle aged; nursing; nursing assessment; pathophysiology; patient care planning; prognosis; psychological aspect; review; risk factor

Meeting the learning needs of diverse students in BSN programs. - Thompson, C (Nurse educator, 1998)
Keywords: *Cultural Diversity; *Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate/mt [Methods]; *Students, Nursing; Cultural Diversity; Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; Humans; Learning; MLCS; MLOWN; Students, Nursing; article; cultural anthropology; dept.nur; human; learning; methodology; nursing education; nursing student

Internet based data collection and analysis - Workman, R.; Beatty, E.; Workman, D. (IOS Press, 1998)
This paper will discuss Internet based data collection and analysis utilizing a Windows 95 and a UNIX hosted system. Forms on the World Wide Web (WWW) that illustrate the use of this technology in medical research, conference registration, and. patient care will be highlighted. Some of the details involved with creating data collection forms will be presented. The paper concludes with the recommendation that the Health Telematics curricula should include a unit on creating Internet based data collection forms.
Keywords: *Computer Communication Networks; *Data Collection/mt [Methods]; Computer Communication Networks; Data Collection; Data Collection/is [Instrumentation]; Data acquisition; Data collection; Health; Humans; Internet based; Medical Informatics; Medical Informatics/og [Organization & Administration]; Medical research; Patient care; Telematics; Wireless telecommunication systems; World wide webs (WWW); article; computer network; dept.csc; human; information processing; instrumentation; medical informatics; methodology; organization and management; ⛔ No DOI found

Chaos in nursing: make it work for you. - Vicenzi, A E; White, K R; Begun, J W (The American journal of nursing, 1997)
Keywords: *Health Facility Environment; *Nurses/px [Psychology]; *Nursing; Adaptation, Psychological; Humans; Interprofessional Relations; Organizational Innovation; dept.nur; ❓ Multiple DOI

"Putting things in context": Literal and discourse approaches to comprehension assessment - Paul, R. (Seminars in Speech and Language, 2000)
Research on receptive language development in typical children, especially as explicated in a classic paper by Robin Chapman, is reviewed. These findings raise three challenges for clinicians assessing comprehension in children with language disorders: (1) contrary to popular wisdom, comprehension does not always precede production in a simple step-by-step way; (2) comprehension is a private event; indicators of comprehension must be used to assess it, and these indicators can be misleading; and (3) children with subtle comprehension deficits may do well on standardized tests that are not sensitive to their difficulties with real-time discourse. Some strategies for addressing these challenges, as well as a framework for assessing comprehension, are offered.
Keywords: *Child Language; *Cognition; *Language Tests; *Verbal Behavior; Child Language; Child, Preschool; Cognition; Comprehension assessment; Comprehension deficits; Comprehension stages; Discourse comprehension; Humans; Language Tests; Verbal Behavior; article; cognition; dept.cmd; human; language development; language test; preschool child; verbal behavior

Promoting collaboration and cultural competence for physician assistant and physical therapist students: A cross-cultural decentralized interprofessional education (IPE) model. - De Oliveira, Kathleen; North, Sara; Beck, Barbra; Hopp, Jane (Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions, 2015)
PURPOSE: As the United States health care model progresses towards medical teams and the country's population continues to diversify, the need for health professional education programs to develop and implement culturally specific interprofessional education (IPE) becomes increasingly imperative. A wide range of models exists for delivering and implementing IPE in health education, but none have included the cultural components that are vital in educating the health professional., METHODS: A cross-cultural decentralized IPE model for physician assistant (PA) and physical therapy (PT) students was developed. This three-part IPE series was created using an established cultural curricular model and began with the exploration of self, continued with the examination of various dimensions of culture, and concluded with the exploration of the intersection between health and culture. We assessed student satisfaction of the IPE experiences and students' engagement and attitudes towards IPE using a three-item open-ended questionnaire administered after each cross-cultural activity and the Interprofessional Education Series Survey (IESS) upon the completion of the series., RESULTS: IESS responses showed that PA and PT students reported benefits in interprofessional collaboration and cultural awareness and expressed overall satisfaction with the series. Qualitative analysis revealed growth in student response depth consistent with the scaffolded focus of each IPE module in the series., CONCLUSION: The trends in this three-part series suggest that institutions looking to develop culturally inclusive IPE educational initiatives may have success through a decentralized model mirroring the effective cultural progression focused on addressing exploration of self, examination of various dimensions of culture, and exploration of the intersection between health and culture.
Keywords: dept.aa

Fluctuation-driven selection at criticality in a frustrated magnetic system: the case of multiple-k partial order on the pyrochlore lattice. - Javanparast, Behnam; Hao, Zhihao; Enjalran, Matthew; Gingras, Michel J P (Physical review letters, 2015)
We study the problem of partially ordered phases with periodically arranged disordered (paramagnetic) sites on the pyrochlore lattice, a network of corner-sharing tetrahedra. The periodicity of these phases is characterized by one or more wave vectors k={1/21/21/2}. Starting from a general microscopic Hamiltonian including anisotropic nearest-neighbor exchange, long-range dipolar interactions, and second- and third-nearest neighbor exchange, we use standard mean-field theory (SMFT) to identify an extended range of interaction parameters that support partially ordered phases. We demonstrate that thermal fluctuations ignored in SMFT are responsible for the selection of one particular partially ordered phase, e.g., the "4-k" phase over the "1-k" phase. We suggest that the transition into the 4-k phase is continuous with its critical properties controlled by the cubic fixed point of a Ginzburg-Landau theory with a four-component vector order parameter. By combining an extension of the Thouless-Anderson-Palmer method originally used to study fluctuations in spin glasses with parallel-tempering Monte Carlo simulations, we establish the phase diagram for different types of partially ordered phases. Our results elucidate the long-standing puzzle concerning the origin of the 4-k partially ordered phase observed in the Gd2Ti2O7 dipolar pyrochlore antiferromagnet below its paramagnetic phase transition temperature.
Keywords: Corner-sharing tetrahedra; Crystal lattices; Ginzburg Landau theory; Hamiltonians; Intelligent systems; Interaction parameters; Mean field theory; Microscopic hamiltonians; Monte Carlo methods; Parallel tempering Monte Carlo simulations; Paramagnetic phase transitions; Paramagnetism; Phase diagrams; Spin fluctuations; Thermal fluctuations; Vector order parameter; dept.phy

An efficient extrapolation to the (T)/CBS limit. - Ranasinghe, Duminda S; Barnes, Ericka C (The Journal of chemical physics, 2014)
We extrapolate to the perturbative triples (T)/complete basis set (CBS) limit using double zeta basis sets without polarization functions (Wesleyan-1-Triples-2zeta or "Wes1T-2Z") and triple zeta basis sets with a single level of polarization functions (Wesleyan-1-Triples-3zeta or "Wes1T-3Z"). These basis sets were optimized for 102 species representing the first two rows of the Periodic Table. The species include the entire set of neutral atoms, positive and negative atomic ions, as well as several homonuclear diatomic molecules, hydrides, rare gas dimers, polar molecules, such as oxides and fluorides, and a few transition states. The extrapolated Wes1T-(2,3)Z triples energies agree with (T)/CBS benchmarks to within +/-0.65 mEh, while the rms deviations of comparable model chemistries W1, CBS-APNO, and CBS-QB3 for the same test set are +/-0.23 mEh, +/-2.37 mEh, and +/-5.80 mEh, respectively. The Wes1T-(2,3)Z triples calculation time for the largest hydrocarbon in the G2/97 test set, C6H5Me(+), is reduced by a factor of 25 when compared to W1. The cost-effectiveness of the Wes1T-(2,3)Z extrapolation validates the usefulness of the Wes1T-2Z and Wes1T-3Z basis sets which are now available for a more efficient extrapolation of the (T) component of any composite model chemistry.
Keywords: Calculation time; Composite modeling; Dimers; Electric circuit breakers; Extrapolation; Homonuclear diatomic molecules; Model chemistry; Molecules; Periodic table; Polar molecules; Polarization; Polarization functions; Transition state; dept.che

Is it time for a new paradigm for systemic cancer treatment? Lessons from a century of cancer chemotherapy. - Crawford, Sarah (Frontiers in pharmacology, 2013)
U.S. SEER (Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results) data for age-adjusted mortality rates for all cancers combined for all races show only a modest overall 13% decline over the past 35 years. Moreover, the greatest contributor to cancer mortality is treatment-resistant metastatic disease. The accepted therapeutic paradigm for the past half-century for the treatment of advanced cancers has involved the use of systemic chemotherapy drugs cytotoxic for cycling cells (both normal and malignant) during DNA synthesis and/or mitosis. The failure of this therapeutic modality to achieve high-level, consistent rates of disease-free survival for some of the most common cancers, including tumors of the lung, colon breast, brain, melanoma, and others is the focus of this paper. A retrospective assessment of critical milestones in cancer chemotherapy indicates that most successful therapeutic regimens use cytotoxic cell cycle inhibitors in combined, maximum tolerated, dose-dense acute treatment regimens originally developed to treat acute lymphoblastic leukemia and some lymphomas. Early clinical successes in this area led to their wholesale application to the treatment of solid tumor malignancies that, unfortunately, has not produced consistent, long-term high cure rates for many common cancers. Important differences in therapeutic sensitivity of leukemias/lymphomas versus solid tumors can be explained by key biological differences that define the treatment-resistant solid tumor phenotype. A review of these clinical outcome data in the context of recent developments in our understanding of drug resistance mechanisms characteristic of solid tumors suggests the need for a new paradigm for the treatment of chemotherapy-resistant cancers. In contrast to reductionist approaches, the systemic approach targets both microenvironmental and systemic factors that drive and sustain tumor progression. These systemic factors include dysregulated inflammatory and oxidation pathways shown to be directly implicated in the development and maintenance of the cancer phenotype. The paradigm stresses the importance of a combined preventive/therapeutic approach involving adjuvant chemotherapies that incorporate anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant therapeutics.
Keywords: Adjuvant; Anti-inflammatory; Anti-oxidant; Chemotherapy; Drug resistance; Neoplasm; Tumor microenvironment; Vinca alkaloid; acute lymphoblastic leukemia; adjuvant therapy; advanced cancer; aminopterin; antibiotic agent; antineoplastic activity; antineoplastic agent; antioxidant; article; bladder cancer; bleomycin; brain cancer; breast cancer; cancer cell; cancer chemotherapy; cancer growth; cancer mortality; cancer recurrence; cancer regression; cancer resistance; cancer survival; carboplatin; carmustine; chemosensitivity; childhood leukemia; chlorambucil; chlormethine; choriocarcinoma; cisplatin; colon cancer; cyclophosphamide; dept.bio; disease activity; disease free survival; doxorubicin; drug intermittent therapy; drug megadose; drug tolerability; drug treatment failure; elastin; etoposide; fludarabine; fluorouracil; gemcitabine; head and neck cancer; human; hydroxyurea; infection; inflammation; leukemia; lung cancer; lymphoma; malignant neoplastic disease; maximum tolerated dose; melanoma; mercaptopurine; metastasis; methotrexate; mitoxantrone; multiple cycle treatment; multiple myeloma; nonhodgkin lymphoma; nonhuman; ovary cancer; ovary carcinoma; paclitaxel; pancreas cancer; phenotype; platinum complex; prednisone; procarbazine; solid tumor; systemic therapy; testis cancer; topotecan; tumor microenvironment; unindexed drug; vinblastine; vinblastine sulfate; vincristine

Does the risk of sperm competition help explain cooperation between reproductive competitors? A study in the ocellated wrasse (Symphodus ocellatus). - Stiver, Kelly A; Alonzo, Suzanne H (The American naturalist, 2013)
Although cooperating individuals may gain benefits, they risk being cheated by their allies. Therefore, to understand the persistence of cooperation by mutual benefits, it is important to document both the potential benefits of cooperation and the risks of cheating. We experimentally examined evidence of cooperation in the ocellated wrasse (Symphodus ocellatus), a fish species with males that exercise three reproductive strategies: satellite and sneaker males attempt to parasitically spawn in the nests of nesting males. Nesting males have been hypothesized to tolerate satellites as a result of satellite aid in defense against sneaker males and help in courting females. Here, we provide evidence that cooperation between reproductive competitors may arise in response to sperm competition from other males. After we experimentally removed satellites, nesting males had more sneakers at their nest and experienced a higher rate of sneaking when they spawned (increased sperm competition risk). When we experimentally distracted nesting males to prevent their acting aggressively toward satellites, satellites spawned with females and ate eggs in the nest. Our results suggest that nesting males and satellites gain fitness benefits of reduced direct reproductive and sperm competition through cooperation. However, nesting males risk losing paternity, while satellites experience increased aggression and must invest in aggression themselves (i.e., they act aggressively toward sneakers).
Keywords: *Competitive Behavior/ph [Physiology]; *Cooperative Behavior; *Perciformes/ph [Physiology]; *Sexual Behavior, Animal/ph [Physiology]; *Spermatozoa/ph [Physiology]; Aggression; Alternative male tactics; Analysis of Variance; Animals; Competition; Competitive Behavior; Cooperation; Cooperative Behavior; Female; Fertility; Fertility/ph [Physiology]; Male; Models, Biological; Nesting Behavior; Nesting Behavior/ph [Physiology]; Perciformes; Sexual Behavior, Animal; Sneak-fertilization; Sperm competition; Spermatozoa; aggression; analysis of variance; animal; article; biological model; competitive behavior; cooperation; cooperative breeding; dept.psy; female; fertility; male; nesting; peer-reviewed; perciform; persistence; physiology; reproductive strategy; sexual behavior; sneak copulation; sperm competition; spermatozoon

Chocolate milk and endurance exercise recovery: protein balance, glycogen, and performance. - Lunn, William R; Pasiakos, Stefan M; Colletto, Megan R; Karfonta, Kirstin E; Carbone, John W; Anderson, Jeffrey M; Rodriguez, Nancy R (Medicine and science in sports and exercise, 2012)
Purpose: This study examined effects of fat-free chocolate milk (MILK) consumption on kinetic and cellular markers of protein turnover, muscle glycogen, and performance during recovery from endurance exercise. Methods: Male runners participated in two trials separated by 1 wk and consumed either MILK or a nonnitrogenous isocaloric carbohydrate (CHO) control beverage (CON) after a 45-min run at 65% of V̇O 2peak. Postexercise muscle protein fractional synthetic rate (FSR) and whole-body protein turnover were determined during 3 h of recovery using muscle biopsies and primed constant infusions of L-[ring-H5]phenylalanine and L-[1-C]leucine, respectively. Phosphorylation of translational signaling proteins and activity of proteolytic molecules were determined using Western blotting and enzymatic activity assays. Muscle glycogen was quantified, and treadmill time to exhaustion was determined after the recovery period. Results: Consuming MILK after exercise resulted in higher mixed muscle FSR with lower whole-body proteolysis and synthesis compared with CON (P ≤ 0.05). Phosphorylation of eIF4E-BP1 and FOXO3a was higher for MILK (P < 0.01), whereas Akt phosphorylation was lower during recovery regardless of dietary treatment (P < 0.05). Enzymatic activity assays indicated lower caspase-3 activity during recovery for MILK (P < 0.01) and higher 26S proteasome activity for CON (P < 0.01). Muscle glycogen was not affected by either dietary treatment; however, time to exhaustion was greater for MILK than for CON (P < 0.05). Conclusions: The effects of consumption of MILK after endurance exercise on FSR, signaling molecules of skeletal muscle protein turnover, leucine kinetics, and performance measures suggest unique benefits of milk compared with a CHO-only beverage. © 2012 by the American College of Sports Medicine.
Keywords: *Athletic Performance/ph [Physiology]; *Cacao/me [Metabolism]; *Milk/me [Metabolism]; *Muscle Proteins/bi [Biosynthesis]; *Physical Endurance/ph [Physiology]; ATP dependent 26S protease; Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing; Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/me [Metabolism]; Adult; Animals; Athletic Performance; Cacao; Cell Cycle Proteins; Dietary Carbohydrates; Dietary Carbohydrates/me [Metabolism]; EIF4EBP1 protein, human; FOXO3 protein, human; Forkhead Box Protein O3; Forkhead Transcription Factors; Forkhead Transcription Factors/me [Metabolism]; Glycogen; Glycogen/an [Analysis]; Heart Rate; Heart Rate/ph [Physiology]; Humans; Male; Milk; Muscle Proteins; Muscle, Skeletal; Muscle, Skeletal/ch [Chemistry]; Muscle, Skeletal/me [Metabolism]; Muscle, Skeletal/ph [Physiology]; Oxygen Consumption; Oxygen Consumption/ph [Physiology]; Phosphoproteins; Phosphoproteins/me [Metabolism]; Phosphorylation; Physical Endurance; Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex; Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex/an [Analysis]; Protein synthesis; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt/me [Metabolism]; Young Adult; adult; animal; article; athletic performance; biosynthesis; cacao; carbohydrate diet; chemistry; dept.hms; endurance; forkhead transcription factor; glycogen; heart rate; human; intracellular signaling; leucine kinetics; male; metabolism; milk; muscle glycogen; muscle protein; oxygen consumption; peer-reviewed; phosphoprotein; phosphorylation; physiology; proteasome; protein kinase B; proteolysis; signal transducing adaptor protein; skeletal muscle; time to exhaustion

Global [LAMBDA] hyperon polarization in nuclear collisions. - STAR Collaboration (Nature, 2017)
: The measurement of an alignment between the angular momentum of a non-central collision between heavy ions and the spin of emitted particles reveals that the fluid produced in the collision is extremely vortical., The extreme energy densities generated by ultra-relativistic collisions between heavy atomic nuclei produce a state of matter that behaves surprisingly like a fluid, with exceptionally high temperature and low viscosity 1. Non-central collisions have angular momenta of the order of 1,000h, and the resulting fluid may have a strong vortical structure 2,3,4 that must be understood to describe the fluid properly. The vortical structure is also of particular interest because the restoration of fundamental symmetries of quantum chromodynamics is expected to produce novel physical effects in the presence of strong vorticity 5. However, no experimental indications of fluid vorticity in heavy ion collisions have yet been found. Since vorticity represents a local rotational structure of the fluid, spin-orbit coupling can lead to preferential orientation of particle spins along the direction of rotation. Here we present measurements of an alignment between the global angular momentum of a non-central collision and the spin of emitted particles (in this case the collision occurs between gold nuclei and produces [LAMBDA] baryons), revealing that the fluid produced in heavy ion collisions is the most vortical system so far observed. (At high energies, this fluid is a quark-gluon plasma.) We find that [LAMBDA] and Symbol hyperons show a positive polarization of the order of a few per cent, consistent with some hydrodynamic predictions 6. (A hyperon is a particle composed of three quarks, at least one of which is a strange quark; the remainder are up and down quarks, found in protons and neutrons.) A previous measurement 7 that reported a null result, that is, zero polarization, at higher collision energies is seen to be consistent with the trend of our observations, though with larger statistical uncertainties. These data provide experimental access to the vortical structure of the nearly ideal liquid 8 created in a heavy ion collision and should prove valuable in the development of hydrodynamic models that quantitatively connect observations to the theory of the strong force., (C) 2017 Nature Publishing Group
Keywords: dept.phy

A Prediction Of Vo2peak: Least Intrusive Model In Males 18-35 Years: 2325: Board #202 June 2 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM. - Crandall, Ian; Finn, Joan; Latchman, Peter; Thiel, Robert; Mugno, Raymond; Zenoni, Maria; Sollanek, Kurt; Axtell, Robert (Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 2011)
Keywords: dept.hms; dept.mat

Targeting Advanced Practice Nursing Interventions to Patient Problems in Ovarian Cancer: 2-2. - O'Sullivan, C; Ercolano, E; McCorkle, R (Psycho-oncol., 2011)
Keywords: dept.nur; ⛔ No DOI found

Gradual vs. Maximal Acceleration: Their Influence on the Prescription of Maximal Speed Sprinting in Team Sport Athletes. - Young, Warren B; Duthie, Grant M; James, Lachlan P; Talpey, Scott W; Benton, Dean T; Kilfoyle, Anthony (Sports, 2018)
The primary purpose of this study was to determine if a difference existed between peak speed attained when performing a sprint with maximal acceleration versus from a gradual build-up. Additionally, this investigation sought to compare the actual peak speed achieved when instructed to reach 75% and 90% of maximum speed. Field sport athletes (n = 21) performed sprints over 60 m under the experimental conditions, and the peak speed was assessed with a radar gun. The gradual build-up to maximum speed (8.30 +/- 0.40 m.s-1) produced the greater peak speed (effect size = 0.3, small) than the maximum acceleration run (8.18 +/- 0.40 m.s-1), and the majority of participants (62%) followed this pattern. For the sub-maximum runs, the actual mean percentage of maximum speed reached was 78 +/- 6% for the 75% prescribed run and 89 +/- 5% for the 90% prescription. The errors in attaining the prescribed peak speeds were large (~15%) for certain individuals, especially for the 75% trial. Sprint training for maximum speed should be performed with a gradual build-up of speed rather than a maximum acceleration. For sub-maximum interval training, the ability to attain the prescribed target peak speed can be challenging for field sport athletes, and therefore where possible, feedback on peak speeds reached should be provided after each repetition.
Keywords: Acceleration; Conditioning; Programming; Team sport; dept.hms; peer-reviewed

DELTA9-tetrahydrocannabinol attenuates oxycodone self-administration under extended access conditions. - Nguyen, Jacques D; Grant, Yanabel; Creehan, Kevin M; Hwang, Candy S; Vandewater, Sophia A; Janda, Kim D; Cole, Maury; Taffe, Michael A (Neuropharmacology, 2019)
Growing nonmedical use of prescription opioids is a global problem, motivating research on ways to reduce use and combat addiction. Medical cannabis ("medical marijuana") legalization has been associated epidemiologically with reduced opioid harms and cannabinoids have been shown to modulate effects of opioids in animal models. This study was conducted to determine if DELTA9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) enhances the behavioral effects of oxycodone. Male rats were trained to intravenously self-administer (IVSA) oxycodone (0.15mg/kg/infusion) during 1h, 4h or 8h sessions. Following acquisition rats were exposed to THC by vapor inhalation (1h and 8h groups) or injection (0-10mg/kg, i.p.; all groups) prior to IVSA sessions. Fewer oxycodone infusions were obtained by rats following vaporized or injected THC compared with vehicle treatment prior to the session. Follow-up studies demonstrated parallel dose-dependent effects of THC, i.p., on self-administration of different per-infusion doses of oxycodone and a preserved loading dose early in the session. These patterns are inconsistent with behavioral suppression. Additional groups of male and female Wistar rats were assessed for nociception following inhalation of vaporized THC (50mg/mL), oxycodone (100mg/mL) or the combination. Tail withdrawal latency was increased more by the THC/oxycodone combination compared to either drug alone. Similar additive antinociceptive effects were produced by injection of THC (5.0mg/kg, i.p.) and oxycodone (2.0mg/kg, s.c.). Together these data demonstrate additive effects of THC and oxycodone and suggest the potential use of THC to enhance therapeutic efficacy, and to reduce the abuse, of opioids. Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keywords: *Analgesics, Opioid/ad [Administration & Dosage]; *Cannabinoids/pd [Pharmacology]; *Dronabinol/pd [Pharmacology]; *Nociception/de [Drug Effects]; *Oxycodone/ad [Administration & Dosage]; Animals; Cannabinoid; Female; Male; Nociception; Pain Threshold/de [Drug Effects]; Rats; Rats, Wistar; Self Administration; Self-administration; dept.che; e-cigarette; peer-reviewed

Encoding human serine phosphopeptides in bacteria for proteome-wide identification of phosphorylation-dependent interactions. - Barber, Karl W; Muir, Paul; Szeligowski, Richard V; Rogulina, Svetlana; Gerstein, Mark; Sampson, Jeffrey R; Isaacs, Farren J; Rinehart, Jesse (Nature biotechnology, 2018)
Post-translational phosphorylation is essential to human cellular processes, but the transient, heterogeneous nature of this modification complicates its study in native systems. We developed an approach to interrogate phosphorylation and its role in protein-protein interactions on a proteome-wide scale. We genetically encoded phosphoserine in recoded E. coli and generated a peptide-based heterologous representation of the human serine phosphoproteome. We designed a single-plasmid library encoding >100,000 human phosphopeptides and confirmed the site-specific incorporation of phosphoserine in >36,000 of these peptides. We then integrated our phosphopeptide library into an approach known as Hi-P to enable proteome-level screens for serine-phosphorylation-dependent human protein interactions. Using Hi-P, we found hundreds of known and potentially new phosphoserine-dependent interactors with 14-3-3 proteins and WW domains. These phosphosites retained important binding characteristics of the native human phosphoproteome, as determined by motif analysis and pull-downs using full-length phosphoproteins. This technology can be used to interrogate user-defined phosphoproteomes in any organism, tissue, or disease of interest.
Keywords: *Peptides/ge [Genetics]; *Protein Interaction Maps/ge [Genetics]; *Proteome/ge [Genetics]; *Serine Proteases/ge [Genetics]; 14-3-3 Proteins; 14-3-3 Proteins/ch [Chemistry]; 14-3-3 Proteins/ge [Genetics]; 14-3-3 proteins; Amino Acid Motifs; Amino Acid Motifs/ge [Genetics]; Amino acids; Article; Binding characteristics; Cellular process; DNA library; Encoding (symbols); Enzyme activity; Escherichia coli; Escherichia coli/ge [Genetics]; Gene Library; Human proteins; Humans; Motif analysis; Peptides; Peptides/ch [Chemistry]; Phosphopeptides; Phosphoproteomes; Phosphorylation; Phosphoserine; Phosphoserine/ch [Chemistry]; Plasmids; Plasmids/ge [Genetics]; Protein Interaction Maps; Protein-protein interactions; Proteome; Serine Proteases; Serine Proteases/ch [Chemistry]; Signal encoding; WW Domains; WW Domains/ge [Genetics]; WW domain; amino terminal sequence; assay; carboxy terminal sequence; cell lysate; chemistry; controlled study; dept.bio; fluorescence activated cell sorting; fusion protein; gene library; genetics; high throughput sequencing; human; immunoblotting; immunoprecipitation; in vitro study; ligand binding; mass spectrometry; nonhuman; peer-reviewed; peptide; peptide library; phosphopeptide; phosphorylation; phosphoserine; plasmid; priority journal; protein 14 3 3; protein analysis; protein degradation; protein motif; protein phosphorylation; protein protein interaction; proteome; proteomics; pull down assay; serine; serine proteinase; transcription factor FKHRL1; transfer RNA

The Relationship between Carotid and Femoral Artery Intima-Media Thickness and Histopathologic Grade of Atherosclerosis in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease. - Nezami, Nariman; Ghabili, Kamyar; Shokouhi-Gogani, Behrooz; Mirchi, Mohammad; Ghojazadeh, Morteza; Safa, Javid; Zomorrodi, Afshar; Gharadaghi, Abasad; Mojadidi, Mohammad Khalid; Tarzamni, Mohammad Kazem; Khajir, Ghazal; Ghorashi, Sona; et al. (Nephron, 2018)
BACKGROUND/AIMS: Variability in the grade of atherosclerosis among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) could affect the ultrasound measurements of intima media thickness (IMT). We sought to investigate IMTs of carotid (cIMT) and femoral (fIMT) arteries in CKD patients and assess the degree of their correlation with histopathological atherosclerosis., METHODS: Eighty-nine out of 99 enrolled subjects completed this study. The subjects were divided into 3 groups: 34 patients with CKD (Case group), 31 with coronary artery disease undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG, positive control group), and 24 healthy kidney donors (negative control group). For histopathological assessment of atherosclerosis, arterial tissue samples were obtained from the patients in each study group. The cIMT and fIMTs were measured by ultrasonography., RESULTS: Histopathological atherosclerosis was present in 82.3, 100, and 20.8% of CKD, CABG, and donor groups respectively (p < 0.001). CKD patients had higher values of cIMT and fIMT than the donor group (p = 0.01 and 0.004, respectively). cIMT was positively correlated with the grade of atherosclerosis in the CKD group only (p < 0.001), while fIMT was correlated with the grade of atherosclerosis in both CKD and donor groups (p < 0.001 and p = 0.009 respectively). In CKD patients, cIMT >0.65 mm and femoral values >0.57 mm predicted the presence of histopathological atherosclerosis with sensitivities of 96 and 92% respectively., CONCLUSION: Higher values of cIMT and fIMT in CKD patients are associated with higher rates and degrees of histopathological atherosclerosis. Additionally, when compared to fIMT, cIMT has a higher sensitivity for detecting atherosclerosis in CKD patients. Copyright © 2018 S. Karger AG, Basel.
Keywords: *Atherosclerosis/pa [Pathology]; *Carotid Arteries/pa [Pathology]; *Carotid Intima-Media Thickness; *Femoral Artery/pa [Pathology]; *Renal Insufficiency, Chronic/pa [Pathology]; Adult; Article; Atherosclerosis; Atherosclerosis/co [Complications]; Carotid Arteries; Carotid Intima-Media Thickness; Chronic kidney disease; Common carotid artery; Female; Femoral Artery; Femoral artery; Histopathology; Humans; Intima media thickness; Male; Middle Aged; Prospective Studies; Renal Insufficiency, Chronic; Renal Insufficiency, Chronic/co [Complications]; adult; arterial tissue; arterial wall thickness; atherosclerosis; carotid artery; chronic kidney failure; clinical trial; complication; controlled study; coronary artery bypass graft; coronary artery disease; dept.che; disease severity; echography; female; femoral artery; histopathology; human; human tissue; logistic regression analysis; major clinical study; male; middle aged; multicenter study; pathology; peer-reviewed; priority journal; prospective study; sensitivity analysis

DeepCNPP: Deep Learning Architecture to Distinguish the Promoter of Human Long Non-Coding RNA Genes and Protein-Coding Genes. - Alam, Tanvir; Islam, Mohammad Tariqul; Househ, Mowafa; Belhaouari, Samir Brahim; Kawsar, Ferdaus Ahmed (Studies in health technology and informatics, 2019)
Promoter region of protein-coding genes are gradually being well understood, yet no comparable studies exist for the promoter of long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) genes which has emerged as a global potential regulator in multiple cellular process and different diseases for human. To understand the difference in the transcriptional regulation pattern of these genes, previously, we proposed a machine learning based model to classify the promoter of protein-coding genes and lncRNA genes. In this study, we are presenting DeepCNPP (deep coding non-coding promoter predictor), an improved model based on deep learning (DL) framework to classify the promoter of lncRNA genes and protein-coding genes. We used convolution neural network (CNN) based deep network to classify the promoter of these two broad categories of human genes. Our computational model, built upon the sequence information only, was able to classify these two groups of promoters from human at a rate of 83.34% accuracy and outperformed the existing model. Further analysis and interpretation of the output from DeepCNPP architecture will enable us to understand the difference in transcription regulatory pattern for these two groups of genes.
Keywords: *Deep Learning; *Promoter Regions, Genetic; *RNA, Long Noncoding; Classification (of information); Codes (symbols); Computational Biology; Convolution; Convolution neural network; Deep Learning; Deep learning; Deep neural networks; Humans; Learning architectures; Long non-coding RNA; Machine Learning; Medical informatics; Models, Theoretical; Multiple cellular process; Network architecture; Non-coding RNAs; Promoter; Promoter Regions, Genetic; Protein-coding genes; Proteins; RNA; RNA, Long Noncoding; Sequence informations; Transcription; Transcriptional regulation; biology; dept.csc; human; long untranslated RNA; machine learning; peer-reviewed; promoter region; theoretical model

DeepDSSR: Deep Learning Structure for Human Donor Splice Sites Recognition. - Alam, Tanvir; Islam, Mohammad Tariqul; Househ, Mowafa; Bouzerdoum, Abdesselam; Kawsar, Ferdaus Ahmed (Studies in health technology and informatics, 2019)
Human genes often, through alternative splicing of pre-messenger RNAs, produce multiple mRNAs and protein isoforms that may have similar or completely different functions. Identification of splice sites is, therefore, crucial to understand the gene structure and variants of mRNA and protein isoforms produced by the primary RNA transcripts. Although many computational methods have been developed to detect the splice sites in humans, this is still substantially a challenging problem and further improvement of the computational model is still foreseeable. Accordingly, we developed DeepDSSR (deep donor splice site recognizer), a novel deep learning based architecture, for predicting human donor splice sites. The proposed method, built upon publicly available and highly imbalanced benchmark dataset, is comparable with the leading deep learning based methods for detecting human donor splice sites. Performance evaluation metrics show that DeepDSSR outperformed the existing deep learning based methods. Future work will improve the predictive capabilities of our model, and we will build a model for the prediction of acceptor splice sites.
Keywords: *Deep Learning; *RNA Splice Sites; Alternative splicing; Bidirectional long short-term memory; Computational methods; Computational model; Convolution neural network; Deep Learning; Deep learning; Deep neural networks; Donor splice sites; Genes; Humans; Learning structure; Learning-based methods; Medical informatics; Nucleic acids; Performance evaluation metrics; Predictive capabilities; Proteins; RNA Splice Sites; RNA splice site; RNA, Messenger; Splice site; adult; conference paper; deep learning; dept.csc; female; human; human experiment; male; messenger RNA; molecular recognition; peer-reviewed; prediction; short term memory

The effects of sprint training and the Nordic hamstring exercise on eccentric hamstring strength and sprint performance in adolescent athletes. - Freeman, Brock W; Young, Warren B; Talpey, Scott W; Smyth, Andrew M; Pane, Calvin L; Carlon, Todd A (Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness, 2019)
BACKGROUND: Hamstring strain injuries (HSI) are among the most common injuries in field-based team sports with a high-speed running component. The implementation of the Nordic hamstring exercise (NHE) is a well-documented method of improving eccentric hamstring strength to mitigate the risk of HSI occurrence. Sprint training is specific to the injury mechanism and is thought to activate the hamstrings through maximal eccentric contractions. The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of sprint training and the NHE on eccentric hamstring strength and sprint performance., METHODS: Twenty-eight participants (mean+/-SD age=16.21+/-1.34 years; height=1.75m+/-0.10m; body mass=68.5kg+/-12.1kg) completed an eccentric hamstring strength assessment and 40m sprint to assess acceleration and maximum speed. Participants were randomly allocated to either a NHE training or sprint training group. Two sessions per week for four-weeks of training was performed with baseline testing procedures repeated in the week following the intervention. Perceptions of soreness were recorded following the warm-up in each training session., RESULTS: Both the NHE (effect size=0.39, P<0.05) and sprint training (effect size=0.29, P<0.05) groups displayed significant gains in eccentric hamstring strength. The NHE group reported trivial improvements in sprint performance, whilst the sprint training group experienced a moderate improvement, specifically in maximum speed (ES=0.83 Moderate). Sprint training also produced greater perceptions of soreness than the NHE following a four-week training intervention, specifically before the start of the last session (P<0.05)., CONCLUSIONS: These findings indicate that sprint training had a beneficial effect for both eccentric hamstring strength and sprint performance, whilst also producing greater soreness than the NHE following the final training session. It was concluded that a four-week block of maximum speed training may have both an injury prevention and performance enhancement benefit.
Keywords: *Hamstring Muscles/ph [Physiology]; *Muscle Strength/ph [Physiology]; *Running/ph [Physiology]; Adolescent; Athletic performance; Exercise; Exercise Test; Exercise Test/mt [Methods]; Exercise/ph [Physiology]; Female; Hamstring Muscles; Hamstring muscles; Humans; Male; Muscle Strength; Resistance training; Risk Factors; Running; Soft Tissue Injuries; Soft Tissue Injuries/et [Etiology]; Soft Tissue Injuries/pc [Prevention & Control]; Sports medicine; acceleration; accident prevention; adolescent; article; athlete; athletic performance; clinical article; controlled study; dept.hhs; eccentric muscle contraction; effect size; exercise; exercise test; female; hamstring muscle; human; male; muscle strength; peer-reviewed; perception; physiology; procedures; randomized controlled trial; resistance training; risk factor; running; soft tissue injury; sports medicine; warm up

Social determinants of health: the how, who, and where screenings are occurring; a systematic review. - O'Brien, Kyle H (Social work in health care, 2019)
Screening for social determinants of health allows health care teams to assess and address social factors that influence one's health, mental health, and access to care. These social factors include poverty, health literacy, social support, exposure to trauma, food insecurity, and housing instability. The objective of this study was to examine what screening tools for social determinants of health are being used, in what contexts, and with what populations. Findings suggest that health literacy is the most commonly screened for, followed by trauma history, social support, food insecurity and housing across diverse contexts and populations. Results from this study can be used to inform providers of available screening tools and resources that can be readily utilized in practice.
Keywords: *Food Supply/sn [Statistics & Numerical Data]; *Health Literacy/sn [Statistics & Numerical Data]; *Health Services Accessibility/sn [Statistics & Numerical Data]; *Health Status Indicators; *Housing/sn [Statistics & Numerical Data]; *Poverty/sn [Statistics & Numerical Data]; *Social Determinants of Health/sn [Statistics & Numerical Data]; Humans; dept.hms; peer-reviewed

Group Well-Child Care and Health Services Utilization: A Bilingual Qualitative Analysis of Parents' Perspectives. - Oldfield, Benjamin J; Nogelo, Patricia F; Vazquez, Marietta; Ona Ayala, Kimberly; Fenick, Ada M; Rosenthal, Marjorie S (Maternal and child health journal, 2019)
Objective Alternative primary care structures such as group well-child care (GWCC) may enhance care for families, particularly those subject to structural vulnerabilities such as poverty or restrictive immigration policies. The purpose of this study was to characterize how group dynamics in GWCC impact the perceptions of low-income, immigrant, and/or Spanish-speaking parents of health services. Methods Using Spanish and English interview guides that were conceptually identical, we conducted semi-structured interviews with parents who elected to participate in GWCC at an urban academic center. We drew from directed content analysis, grounded theoretically in the Andersen model of health services utilization. Modeling a bilingual, multicultural analytic strategy, we preserved the narrative of participants in the source language through all stages of analysis. Results From March through August 2017, we interviewed 22 caregivers in their preferred language. Most (82%) were mothers and half spoke Spanish only. Three themes emerged: participants perceived that (1) GWCC facilitates their and their peers' discovery of inherent expertise, which moderates parents' use of health services, (2) GWCC encourages rearrangements of hierarchies of knowledge, professional roles and genders; and (3) in the context of structural vulnerabilities, relationships formed in GWCC facilitate collective efficacy. Conclusions for Practice By considering the self and peer as sources of health-related expertise, GWCC may extend current theoretical models of health services utilization. GWCC provides opportunities to impact health services utilization among families subject to structural vulnerabilities.
Keywords: *Child Health Services/sn [Statistics & Numerical Data]; *Child Welfare; *Parents/px [Psychology]; *Patient Acceptance of Health Care/sn [Statistics & Numerical Data]; Adolescent; Adult; Child Health Services; Child Welfare; Child, Preschool; Cultural diversity; Female; Humans; Interviews as Topic; Interviews as Topic/mt [Methods]; Male; Multilingualism; Parents; Patient Acceptance of Health Care; Patient Acceptance of Health Care/px [Psychology]; Primary health care; Qualitative Research; Qualitative research; Vulnerable populations; adolescent; adult; article; caregiver; case report; child; child care; child health care; child parent relation; child welfare; clinical article; content analysis; cultural diversity; dept.swk; drug efficacy; female; gender; group dynamics; health care utilization; human; human experiment; immigrant; interview; language; lowest income group; male; mother; multilingualism; narrative; patient attitude; peer-reviewed; perception; preschool child; primary health care; procedures; professional standard; psychology; qualitative analysis; qualitative research; semi structured interview; speech; vulnerable population

Combinatorial Strategies for Synthesis and Characterization of Alloy Microstructures over Large Compositional Ranges. - Li, Yanglin; Jensen, Katharine E; Liu, Yanhui; Liu, Jingbei; Gong, Pan; Scanley, B Ellen; Broadbridge, Christine C; Schroers, Jan (ACS combinatorial science, 2016)
The exploration of new alloys with desirable properties has been a long-standing challenge in materials science because of the complex relationship between composition and microstructure. In this Research Article, we demonstrate a combinatorial strategy for the exploration of composition dependence of microstructure. This strategy is comprised of alloy library synthesis followed by high-throughput microstructure characterization. As an example, we synthesized a ternary Au-Cu-Si composition library containing over 1000 individual alloys using combinatorial sputtering. We subsequently melted and resolidified the entire library at controlled cooling rates. We used scanning optical microscopy and X-ray diffraction mapping to explore trends in phase formation and microstructural length scale with composition across the library. The integration of combinatorial synthesis with parallelizable analysis methods provides a efficient method for examining vast compositional ranges. The availability of microstructures from this vast composition space not only facilitates design of new alloys by controlling effects of composition on phase selection, phase sequence, length scale, and overall morphology, but also will be instrumental in understanding the complex process of microstructure formation in alloys.
Keywords: *Alloys/ch [Chemistry]; *Combinatorial Chemistry Techniques/mt [Methods]; *Copper/ch [Chemistry]; *Gold/ch [Chemistry]; *Silicon/ch [Chemistry]; Alloys; Combinatorial Chemistry Techniques; Copper; Gold; High-Throughput Screening Assays; Materials Testing; Physical Phenomena; Silicon; alloy; alloy microstructure; chemistry; combinatorial chemistry; combinatorial materials science; copper; dept.phy; gold; high throughput screening; high-throughput; materials testing; phase mapping; physical phenomena; procedures; silicon

Charge-Dependent Directed Flow in Cu+Au Collisions at sNN =200 GeV - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review Letters, 2017)
We present the first measurement of charge-dependent directed flow in Cu+Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV. The results are presented as a function of the particle transverse momentum and pseudorapidity for different centralities. A finite difference between the directed flow of positive and negative charged particles is observed that qualitatively agrees with the expectations from the effects of the initial strong electric field between two colliding ions with different nuclear charges. The measured difference in directed flow is much smaller than that obtained from the parton-hadron-string-dynamics model, which suggests that most of the electric charges, i.e., quarks and antiquarks, have not yet been created during the lifetime of the strong electric field, which is of the order of, or less than, 1 fm/c. © 2017 American Physical Society.
Keywords: Antiquarks; Charged particles; Colliding beam accelerators; Directed flow; Dynamics modeling; Electric fields; Nuclear charges; Pseudorapidities; Strong electric fields; Transverse momenta; dept.phy

Dijet imbalance measurements in Au+Au and pp collisions at sNN =200 GeV at STAR - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review Letters, 2017)
We report the first dijet transverse momentum asymmetry measurements from Au+Au and pp collisions at RHIC. The two highest-energy back-to-back jets reconstructed from fragments with transverse momenta above 2 GeV/c display a significantly higher momentum imbalance in heavy-ion collisions than in the pp reference. When reexamined with correlated soft particles included, we observe that these dijets then exhibit a unique new feature - momentum balance is restored to that observed in pp for a jet resolution parameter of R=0.4, while rebalancing is not attained with a smaller value of R=0.2. © 2017 American Physical Society.
Keywords: Asymmetry measurements; Colliding beam accelerators; Germanium compounds; Gold compounds; Heavy ion collision; Heavy ions; Momentum; Momentum balances; Pp collisions; Rebalancing; Resolution parameters; Soft particles; Transverse momenta; dept.phy

Beam-Energy Dependence of Directed Flow of Λ, Λ , K±, Ks0, and φ in Au+Au Collisions - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review Letters, 2018)
Rapidity-odd directed-flow measurements at midrapidity are presented for Λ, Λ, K±, Ks0, and φ at sNN=7.7, 11.5, 14.5, 19.6, 27, 39, 62.4, and 200 GeV in Au+Au collisions recorded by the Solenoidal Tracker detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. These measurements greatly expand the scope of data available to constrain models with differing prescriptions for the equation of state of quantum chromodynamics. Results show good sensitivity for testing a picture where flow is assumed to be imposed before hadron formation and the observed particles are assumed to form via coalescence of constituent quarks. The pattern of departure from a coalescence-inspired sum rule can be a valuable new tool for probing the collision dynamics. © 2018 authors. Published by the American Physical Society.
Keywords: Au+Au collisions; Beam energies; Colliding beam accelerators; Collision dynamics; Directed flow; Elementary particles; Equation of state; Equations of state; Germanium compounds; Gold compounds; Heavy ions; High energy physics; Quantum chromodynamics; Quantum theory; Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider; Tracker detector; dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Polarization of Λ (Λ ̄) Hyperons along the Beam Direction in Au+Au Collisions at sNN =200 GeV - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review Letters, 2019)
The Λ (Λ̄) hyperon polarization along the beam direction has been measured in Au+Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV, for the first time in heavy-ion collisions. The polarization dependence on the hyperons' emission angle relative to the elliptic flow plane exhibits a second harmonic sine modulation, indicating a quadrupole pattern of the vorticity component along the beam direction, expected due to elliptic flow. The polarization is found to increase in more peripheral collisions, and shows no strong transverse momentum (pT) dependence at pT greater than 1 GeV/c. The magnitude of the signal is about 5 times smaller than those predicted by hydrodynamic and multiphase transport models; the observed phase of the emission angle dependence is also opposite to these model predictions. In contrast, the kinematic vorticity calculations in the blast-wave model tuned to reproduce particle spectra, elliptic flow, and the azimuthal dependence of the Gaussian source radii measured with the Hanbury Brown-Twiss intensity interferometry technique reproduce well the modulation phase measured in the data and capture the centrality and transverse momentum dependence of the polarization signal. © 2019 American Physical Society.
Keywords: Azimuthal dependence; Colliding beam accelerators; Emission angle dependence; Gaussian beams; Heavy ion collision; Heavy ions; Hyperon polarization; Interferometry; Interferometry technique; Modulation; Multiphase transport; Polarization; Polarization dependence; Polarization signals; Vorticity; dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Low- p T e + e − Pair Production in Au + Au Collisions at √ s N N = 200 GeV and U + U Collisions at √ s N N = 193 GeV at STAR - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review Letters, 2018)
We report first measurements of e^{+}e^{-} pair production in the mass region 0.4
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

First Observation of the Directed Flow of D0 and D0 ̄ in Au+Au Collisions at sNN =200 GeV - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review Letters, 2019)
We report the first measurement of rapidity-odd directed flow (v1) for D0 and D0̄ mesons at midrapidity (|y|<0.8) in Au+Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV using the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. In 10-80% Au+Au collisions, the slope of the v1 rapidity dependence (dv1/dy), averaged over D0 and D0̄ mesons, is -0.080±0.017(stat)±0.016(syst) for transverse momentum pT above 1.5 GeV/c. The absolute value of D0 meson dv1/dy is about 25 times larger than that for charged kaons, with 3.4σ significance. These data give a unique insight into the initial tilt of the produced matter, and offer constraints on the geometric and transport parameters of the hot QCD medium created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. © 2019 American Physical Society.
Keywords: Absolute values; Au+Au collisions; Bosons; Colliding beam accelerators; Directed flow; Germanium compounds; Gold compounds; Hadrons; Heavy ions; Mid-rapidity; Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider; Relativistic heavy ion collision; Transport parameters; Transverse momenta; dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Observation of Excess J /ψ Yield at Very Low Transverse Momenta in Au+Au Collisions at sNN =200 GeV and U+ U Collisions at sNN =193 GeV - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review Letters, 2019)
We report on the first measurements of J/ψ production at very low transverse momentum (pT<0.2 GeV/c) in hadronic Au+Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV and U+U collisions at sNN=193 GeV. Remarkably, the inferred nuclear modification factor of J/ψ at midrapidity in Au+Au (U+U) collisions reaches about 24 (52) for pT<0.05 GeV/c in the 60%-80% collision centrality class. This noteworthy enhancement cannot be explained by hadronic production accompanied by cold and hot medium effects. In addition, the dN/dt distribution of J/ψ for the very low pT range is presented for the first time. The distribution is consistent with that expected from the Au nucleus and shows a hint of interference. Comparison of the measurements to theoretical calculations of coherent production shows that the excess yield can be described reasonably well and reveals a partial disruption of coherent production in semicentral collisions, perhaps due to the violent hadronic interactions. Incorporating theoretical calculations, the results strongly suggest that the dramatic enhancement of J/ψ yield observed at extremely low pT originates from coherent photon-nucleus interactions. In particular, coherently produced J/ψ's in violent hadronic collisions may provide a novel probe of the quark-gluon plasma. © 2019 authors. Published by the American Physical Society.
Keywords: Au+Au collisions; Colliding beam accelerators; Germanium compounds; Gold compounds; Hadronic collisions; Hadronic interactions; Isomers; Nitrogen compounds; Nuclear modification factors; Quark-gluon plasma; Semicentral collisions; Theoretical calculations; Transverse momenta; dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Foliar Application of Copper Oxide Nanoparticles Suppresses Fusarium Wilt Development on Chrysanthemum. - Elmer, Wade H; Zuverza-Mena, Nubia; Triplett, Lindsay R; Roberts, Elizabeth L; Silady, Rebecca A; White, Jason C (Environmental science & technology, 2021)
Micronutrients applied as nanoparticles of metal oxides have shown efficacy in vegetable and other crops for improving yield and reducing Fusarium diseases, but their role in ornamental crop management has not been investigated. In 2017, 2018, and 2020, nanoparticles of CuO, Mn2O3, or ZnO were foliarly applied at 500 mug/mL (0.6 mg/plant) to chrysanthemum transplants and planted in potting soil noninfested or infested with Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. chrysanthemi. An untreated control and a commercial fungicide, Fludioxonil, was also included. Chrysanthemums treated with nanoscale CuO had a 55, 30, and 32% reduction in disease severity ratings compared to untreated plants in 2017, 2018, and 2020, respectively. Specifically, the average dry biomass for the three years was reduced 22% by disease, but treatment with nanoscale CuO led to a 23% increase when compared to controls. Similar trends with plant height were observed. Horticultural quality was improved 28% with nano CuO and was equal to the fungicide. Nanoscale Mn2O3 and the fungicide did not consistently reduce disease ratings or increase dry biomass each year. Nanoscale ZnO was ineffective. Nanoscale CuO-treated plants had 24 to 48% more Cu/g tissue than controls (P < 0.001). These findings agree with past reports on food crops where single applications of nanoscale CuO improved plant health, growth, and yield and could offer significant impacts for managing plant diseases on ornamentals.
Keywords: *Chrysanthemum; *Fusarium; *Metal Nanoparticles; *Nanoparticles; Article; Chrysanthemum; Copper; Copper oxide nanoparticles; Copper oxides; Crops; Disease ratings; Disease severity; Foliar application; Fungi; Fungicides; Fusarium; Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. chrysanthemi; Fusarium oxysporums; Fusarium wilt; II-VI semiconductors; Manganese oxide; Metal Nanoparticles; Metal nanoparticles; Nanoparticles; Nanoscale ZnO; Ornamental crops; Oxide minerals; Oxides; Soils; Untreated control; Zinc oxide; biomass; comparative study; controlled study; copper; copper oxide nanoparticle; crop protection; dept.bio; disease severity; elemental analysis; filamentous alga; foliage; food crop; gene; growing season; horticultural species; horticulture; hydrodynamics; metal nanoparticle; nanoparticle; nonhuman; oxide; peer-reviewed; plant disease; plant growth; plant height; plant tissue; trace element; wilt

Barriers and Motivators to Opioid Treatment Among Suburban Women Who Are Pregnant and Mothers in Caregiver Roles. - Boeri, Miriam; Lamonica, Aukje K; Turner, Jeffrey M; Parker, Amanda; Murphy, Grace; Boccone, Carly (Frontiers in psychology, 2021)
Women of childbearing age who misuse opioids are a particularly vulnerable population, and their barriers to treatment are unique because of their caregiver roles. Research on treatment for opioid use generally draws from urban and rural areas. This study fills a gap in research that focuses on barriers and motivators to opioid treatment in suburban areas. The aim of this study was to give voice to suburban pregnant women and mothers caring for children while using opioids. Ethnographic methods were used for recruitment, and 58 in-depth interviews were analyzed using a modified grounded theory approach. Barriers to medication-assisted treatment (MAT) included stigma, staff attitudes, and perceptions the women had about MAT treatment. Barriers associated with all types of treatment included structural factors and access difficulties. Relationships with partners, friends, family, and providers could be barriers as well as motivators, depending on the social context of the women's situation. Our findings suggest increasing treatment-seeking motivators for mothers and pregnant women by identifying lack of resources, more empathetic consideration of social environments, and implementing structural changes to overcome barriers. Findings provide a contemporary understanding of how suburban landscapes affect mothers' treatment-seeking for opioid dependence and suggest the need for more focus on emotional and structural resources rather than strict surveillance of women with opioid dependence who are pregnant or caring for children. Copyright © 2021 Boeri, Lamonica, Turner, Parker, Murphy and Boccone.
Keywords: dept.pch; peer-reviewed

Global polarization of ξ and ω hyperons in au+au collisions at sNN =200 GeV - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review Letters, 2021)
Global polarization of Ξ and ω hyperons has been measured for the first time in Au+Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV. The measurements of the Ξ- and Ξ¯+ hyperon polarization have been performed by two independent methods, via analysis of the angular distribution of the daughter particles in the parity violating weak decay Ξ→Λ+π, as well as by measuring the polarization of the daughter Λ hyperon, polarized via polarization transfer from its parent. The polarization, obtained by combining the results from the two methods and averaged over Ξ- and Ξ¯+, is measured to be ⟨PΞ ©=0.47±0.10(stat)±0.23(syst)% for the collision centrality 20%-80%. The ⟨PΞ. © 2021 American Physical Society. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Angular distribution; Au+Au collisions; Colliding beam accelerators; Global polarizations; Hyperon polarization; Measurements of; Polarization; Polarization transfer; dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Measurement of e+e- momentum and angular distributions from linearly polarized photon collisions - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review Letters, 2021)
The Breit-Wheeler process which produces matter and antimatter from photon collisions is experimentally investigated through the observation of 6085 exclusive electron-positron pairs in ultraperipheral Au+Au collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=200 GeV. The measurements reveal a large fourth-order angular modulation of cos4DELTAphi=(16.8+/-2.5)% and smooth invariant mass distribution absent of vector mesons (phi, omega, and rho) at the experimental limit of <=0.2% of the observed yields. The differential cross section as a function of e^{+}e^{-} pair transverse momentum P_{} peaks at low value with sqrt[ ]=38.1+/-0.9 MeV and displays a significant centrality dependence. These features are consistent with QED calculations for the collision of linearly polarized photons quantized from the extremely strong electromagnetic fields generated by the highly charged Au nuclei at ultrarelativistic speed. The experimental results have implications for vacuum birefringence and for mapping the magnetic field which is important for emergent QCD phenomena.
Keywords: Angular distribution; Angular-modulation; Au+Au collisions; Colliding beam accelerators; Differential cross section; Electron-positron pairs; Invariant mass distribution; Linearly polarized; Matter and antimatters; Photons; Transverse momenta; dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Observation of Ds± /D0 enhancement in au+au collisions at sNN =200 GeV - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review Letters, 2021)
We report on the first measurement of charm-strange meson Ds± production at midrapidity in Au+Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV from the STAR experiment. The yield ratio between strange (Ds±) and nonstrange (D0) open-charm mesons is presented and compared to model calculations. A significant enhancement, relative to a pythia simulation of p+p collisions, is observed in the Ds±/D0 yield ratio in Au+Au collisions over a large range of collision centralities. Model calculations incorporating abundant strange-quark production in the quark-gluon plasma and coalescence hadronization qualitatively reproduce the data. The transverse-momentum integrated yield ratio of Ds±/D0 at midrapidity is consistent with a prediction from a statistical hadronization model with the parameters constrained by the yields of light and strange hadrons measured at the same collision energy. These results suggest that the coalescence of charm quarks with strange quarks in the quark-gluon plasma plays an important role in Ds±-meson production in heavy-ion collisions. © 2021 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Funded by SCOAP3.
Keywords: Au+Au collisions; Bosons; Coalescence; Colliding beam accelerators; Collision energies; Collisional plasmas; Germanium compounds; Gold compounds; Hadrons; Heavy ion collision; Heavy ions; Meson production; Model calculations; Quantum theory; Quark production; Quark-gluon plasma; Transverse momenta; dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Expanding and Improving Our Library’s Virtual Chat Service: Discovering Best Practices When Demand Increases - Fruehan, Parker; Hellyar, Diana (Information Technology and Libraries, 2021)
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing shutdown of the library building for several months, there was a sudden need to adjust how the Hilton C. Buley Library at Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) delivered its services. Overnight, the library’s virtual chat service went from a convenient way to reach a librarian to the primary method by which library patrons contacted the library for help. In this article, the authors will discuss what was learned during this time and how the service has been adjusted to meet user needs. Best practices and future improvements will be discussed.
Keywords: dept.lib; peer-reviewed

Dark Ecology in One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera (Chapter 20) - Flores, William (The Oxford Handbook of Gabriel García Márquez, 2021)
From the epic saga of the Buendía family in One Hundred Years of Solitude to the enduring passion of Love in the Time of Cholera to the exploration of tyranny in The Autumn of the Patriarch, Gabriel García Márquez has built a literary world that continues to captivate millions of readers across the world. His writings entrance modern audiences with their dreamlike yet trenchant insights into universal issues of the human condition such as love, revenge, old age, death, fate, power, and justice. A Nobel Laureate in 1982, he contributed to the global popularity of the Latin American Boom during the second half of the 20th century and had a profound impact on writers worldwide, including Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, and Haruki Murakami. The Oxford Handbook of Gabriel García Márquez brings together world experts on the Colombian writer to present a comprehensive English-language examination of his life, oeuvre, and legacy--the first such work since his death in 2014. Edited by Latin American literature authorities Gene H. Bell-Villada and Ignacio López-Calvo, the volume paints a rich and nuanced portrait of "Gabo." It incorporates ongoing critical approaches such as feminism, ecocriticism, Marxism, and ethnic studies, while elucidating key aspects of his work, such as his Caribbean-Colombian background; his use of magical realism, myth, and folklore; and his left-wing political views. Thirty-two wide-ranging chapters cover the bulk of the author's writings-both major and minor, early and late, long and short-as well as his involvement with film. They also discuss his unique prose style, highlighting how music shaped his literary art. The Handbook gives unprecedented attention to the global influence of García Márquez-on established canons, on the Global South, on imaginative writing in South Asia, China, Japan, and throughout Africa and the Arab world. This is the first book that places the Colombian writer within that wider context, celebrating his importance both as a Latin American author and as a global phenomenon.
Keywords: dept.wll

Meeting the Dire Wolf – Dana Sonnenschein - Sonnenschein, Dana (panoply, a literary zine, 2021)
Not just heavy bones. The huge skull fleshed, broad across the brow and muzzle, 3” canines, thick neck and body — the wolf of your nightmares and not just one.  Thirty. A pack drawn to the sce…
Keywords: dept.eng

Growing a faculty bibliography: considerations for harvesting data from repositories - Hedreen, Rebecca C.; Hellyar, Diana; Jackson, Scott (ACRL Science & technology section poster sessions, 2021)
Keywords: dept.aa; dept.lib

Winter's Orphan - Sonnenschein, Dana (O:JA&L (Open: Journal of Arts & Letters), 2021)
Keywords: dept.eng; ⛔ No DOI found

Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa - Andoh, Samuel K. (African and Asian Studies, 2020)
Keywords: book.review; dept.eco

The roman catholic church in poland after the fall of communism - Gorniak-Kocikowska, Krystyna (Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe, 2020)
Keywords: dept.phi; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Cine Politico en Mexico (1968-2017) - Hernandez Rodriguez, Rafael (Latin Americanist, 2020)
Keywords: dept.wll; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Unexpectedly Large Electron Correlation Measured in Auger Spectra of Ferromagnetic Iron Thin Films: Orbital-Selected Coulomb and Exchange Contributions - Gotter, R.; Verna, A.; Sbroscia, M.; Moroni, R.; Bisio, F.; Iacobucci, S.; Offi, F.; Vaidya, S. R.; Ruocco, A.; Stefani, G. (Physical Review Letters, 2020)
Keywords: dept.phy

Before-School Physical Activity Program's Impact on Social and Emotional Learning - Goh, Tan Leng; Fede, Marybeth H.; Ciotto, Carol; Fede, Jacquelyn (Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2020)
Keywords: dept.hms; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Beam-energy dependence of identified two-particle angular correlations ins root s(NN)=7.7-200 GeV Au + Au collisions - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review C, 2020)
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Replication data for Do Monetary Incentives Undermine Performance on Intrinsically Enjoyable Tasks? A Field Test - Esteves-Sorenson, Constanca; Broce, Robert (Harvard Dataverse, 2020)
Keywords: dept.swk

Nature, Ethics and Gender in German Romanticism and Idealism - Harry, Chelsea C. (Idealistic Studies, 2020)
Keywords: dept.phi; peer-reviewed

Development on purpose: Faith and human behavior in the social environment - Howe, Esther (Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Social Work, 2020)
Keywords: dept.swk; peer-reviewed

Measurements of W and Z /γ∗ cross sections and their ratios in p+p collisions at RHIC - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review D, 2021)
We report on the W and Z/γ∗ differential and total cross sections as well as the W+/W− and (W++W−)/(Z/γ∗) cross section ratios measured by the STAR experiment at RHIC in p+p collisions at √s=500 GeV and 510 GeV. The cross sections and their ratios are sensitive to quark and antiquark parton distribution functions. In particular, at leading order, the W cross section ratio is sensitive to the ¯d/¯u ratio. These measurements were taken at high Q2∼M2W,M2Z and can serve as input into global analyses to provide constraints on the sea quark distributions. The results presented here combine three STAR datasets from 2011, 2012, and 2013, accumulating an integrated luminosity of 350 pb−1. We also assess the expected impact that our W+/W− cross section ratios will have on various quark distributions, and find sensitivity to the ¯u−¯d and ¯d/¯u distributions.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Nonmonotonic energy dependence of net-proton number fluctuations - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review Letters, 2021)
Nonmonotonic variation with collision energy (sNN) of the moments of the net-baryon number distribution in heavy-ion collisions, related to the correlation length and the susceptibilities of the system, is suggested as a signature for the quantum chromodynamics critical point. We report the first evidence of a nonmonotonic variation in the kurtosis times variance of the net-proton number (proxy for net-baryon number) distribution as a function of sNN with 3.1 σ significance for head-on (central) gold-on-gold (Au+Au) collisions measured solenoidal tracker at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Data in noncentral Au+Au collisions and models of heavy-ion collisions without a critical point show a monotonic variation as a function of sNN. © 2021 American Physical Society.
Keywords: Colliding beam accelerators; Collision energies; Correlation lengths; Gold; Hadrons; Heavy ion collision; Heavy ions; Ion sources; Monotonic variations; Non-monotonic variation; Number fluctuations; Quantum chromodynamics; Quantum theory; Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider; dept.phy; peer-reviewed

The Vocabulary of Desolation: Intertextual Allusions in Daniel 9.25-27 and the Meaning of Harus? - Scolnic, Benjamin (Bible Translator, 2020)
Keywords: dept.jst; peer-reviewed

Storm of the Sea: Indians & Empires in the Atlantic's Age of Sail - Smith, Jason W. (Journal of American Studies, 2020)
Keywords: dept.his; peer-reviewed

Preserving Maritime America: A Cultural History of the Nation's Great Maritime Museums - Smith, Jason W. (New England Quarterly-a Historical Review of New England Life and Letters, 2020)
Keywords: dept.his

COVID-19 and Youth in Detention - Rowe, William (Child & Youth Services, 2020)
Keywords: dept.swk; peer-reviewed

Varying Postprandial, Postexercise Nutrient Timing: Effects On Substrate Oxidation And Protein Retention In Resistance-trained Men - Mangone, Laura A.; Lunn, William R. (Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 2020)
Keywords: dept.hms; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Physical Activity And Bullying In Adolescents With Overweight And Obesity - McCoy, Stephanie M.; Rupp, Kristie (Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 2020)
Keywords: dept.hms; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Perception Of Moderate Intensity Physical Activity By Onset Of Obesity: A Randomized Crossover Trial: 2347 Board# 266 May 28 2: 00 PM-3: 30 PM - Rupp, Kristie; Friel, Ciaran P. (2020)
Keywords: dept.hms; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Breast feeding Mother's Use of a Supplemental Feeding Tube Device - Penny, Frances; Brownell, Elizabeth; Judge, Michell; McGrath, Jacqueline; Marshall-Crib, Mary (Nursing Research, 2020)
Keywords: dept.nur; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Guatemala's Catholic Revolution: A History of Religious and Social Reform, 1920-1968. - Kordick, Carmen (Americas, 2020)
Keywords: dept.his; peer-reviewed

Autonomic Dysfunction in Women with Androgen Excess PCOS - Stone, Tori; Leone, Cheryl; Ayers, Thomas; Stachenfeld, Nina (Faseb Journal, 2020)
Keywords: dept.hms; peer-reviewed

Paleoenvironments of Gona, Ethiopia, between 3-1 Mya: Evidence from faunal analysis - Leiss, Amanda C.; Rogers, Michael J.; Semaw, Sileshi (American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2020)
Keywords: dept.ant; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

They're going to kill me there. Culture, violence and the Cold War in Costa Rica (1979-1990) - Kordick, Carmen (Americas, 2020)
Keywords: dept.his; peer-reviewed

Exploring the optimized social advertising strategy that can generate consumer engagement with green messages on social media - Kyu Kim, Young; Yim, Mark Yi-Cheon; Kim, Eunjin; Reeves, William (Journal of Research in Interactive Marketing, 2020)
Purpose: Given that many consumers are skeptical about environmentally based advertising campaigns, the purpose of this study is to propose an optimized message strategy to facilitate consumer engagement with green messages in social media contexts. Design/methodology/approach: Four empirical studies are conducted using self-report questionnaires to test proposed hypotheses with a focus on the interplay between claim specificity and benefit appeals in green advertising on social media. Findings: The current study examines the interaction effects of claim specificity and benefit appeals on consumer engagement in social media. Specifically, the results reveal that when the message claim is abstract, using other-benefit appeals produces more positive consumer engagement than using self-benefit appeals. Moreover, the results illustrate that self-enhancement motivates consumers to engage with green product advertising messages when the advertising appeal is abstract and the advertising message is associated with benefits for others. Finally, it is found that consumers’ self-construal level moderates the interaction effect of claim specificity and benefit appeals type on consumer engagement on social media. Practical implications: This paper has practical implications to both social media managers and advertisers in the green product industry: a match with advertising claim specificity and construal level (i.e. social distance: self-benefit vs other-benefit) should be ensured to increase consumer engagement on social media. In addition, self-enhancement and self-construal should be considered for a better message strategy in social media contexts. Originality/value: The findings make important contributions to the literature in that we extend the applications of construal level theory to social media contexts as a valid theoretical tool to identify optimized green message strategies. As such, it provides future researchers and practitioners in the domain of green campaigns with useful guidelines to boost more consumption of green products. © 2020, Emerald Publishing Limited.
Keywords: Online consumer behavior; Social media advertising; dept.mkt; peer-reviewed

The Promise of Automated Home-Cage Monitoring in Improving Translational Utility of Psychiatric Research in Rodents. - Mingrone, Alfred; Kaffman, Ayal; Kaffman, Arie (Frontiers in neuroscience, 2020)
Large number of promising preclinical psychiatric studies in rodents later fail in clinical trials, raising concerns about the efficacy of this approach to generate novel pharmacological interventions. In this mini-review we argue that over-reliance on behavioral tests that are brief and highly sensitive to external factors play a critical role in this failure and propose that automated home-cage monitoring offers several advantages that will increase the translational utility of preclinical psychiatric research in rodents. We describe three of the most commonly used approaches for automated home cage monitoring in rodents [e.g., operant wall systems (OWS), computerized visual systems (CVS), and automatic motion sensors (AMS)] and review several commercially available systems that integrate the different approaches. Specific examples that demonstrate the advantages of automated home-cage monitoring over traditional tests of anxiety, depression, cognition, and addiction-like behaviors are highlighted. We conclude with recommendations on how to further expand this promising line of preclinical research. Copyright © 2020 Mingrone, Kaffman and Kaffman.
Keywords: Actual-HCA; Chora feeder; Intellicage system; PhenoTyper; Review; addiction; anxiety disorder; automated home cage monitoring; automation; behavioral science; cognition; depression; dept.psy; monitoring; nonhuman; peer-reviewed; preclinical study; psychiatry; rodent; rodents; translational research

Making Meetings Productive and Working with Groups for Social Workers - Rofuth, Todd W.; Piepenbring, Julie M. (Management and Leadership in Social Work: A Competency-Based Approach, 2020)
Keywords: dept.swk

Preface - Rofuth, Todd W.; Piepenbring, Julie M. (Management and Leadership in Social Work a Competency-Based Approach, 2020)
Keywords: dept.swk

Foreword - Rowe, William (Management and Leadership in Social Work: A Competency-Based Approach, 2020)
Keywords: dept.swk; ⛔ No DOI found

Indochina - Thompson, C. Michele (Cambridge History of Science, Vol 8: Modern Science in National, Transnational, and Global Context, 2020)
Keywords: dept.his

In-house deals: Agency and information asymmetry perspectives - Chen, Fang; Huang, Jian; Ma, Minghui; Yu, Han (Corporate Ownership and Control, 2021)
Keywords: dept.fin; peer-reviewed

Assessing the resiliency of salt marshes under increasing nitrogen loading - Crosby, Sarah C.; Spiller, Nicole C.; Healy, Devan S.; Brideau, Lauren; Stewart, Luke M.; Vaudrey, Jamie M.P.; Tietz, Kasey E.; Fraboni, Peter J. (Estuaries and Coasts, 2021)
Understanding the threat to ecosystems from excess nitrogen in coastal waters is a priority issue in scientific research and natural resource management. Previous field studies have demonstrated that high nitrogen loading can decrease the health and resiliency of salt marshes through shifting biomass allocation, increasing decomposition, and causing creek bank instability, all of which can lead to increased marsh loss with sea-level rise. However, other studies have shown relatively little impact of increasing nitrogen on the structure and function of these systems. Due to the long history of eutrophication in Long Island Sound, aggressive nitrogen reduction strategies have been enacted in this region, but detrimental nutrient inputs persist at variable levels throughout the watershed. Here, the extent of nitrogen-linked salt marsh change under varying levels of nutrient stress was measured, testing the hypothesis that salt marsh resilience (as measured by Spartina alterniflora belowground biomass and marsh edge stability) decreases with increasing nitrogen loading. S. alterniflora growth (stem height, stem density, and biomass) and within-marsh creek area were quantified in 10 salt marshes along a nitrogen-loading gradient. Increasing nitrogen loading showed a significant negative relationship with dead belowground biomass in S. alterniflora; the loss of this belowground biomass in higher nitrogen systems may decrease salt marshes’ ability to keep pace with sea-level rise. Neither shifts in live biomass allocation nor a positive relationship between aboveground biomass or stem height and increasing nitrogen was observed that might promote additional sediment capture, but higher stem density could play a role in promoting sedimentation on the marsh surface in more sediment-rich systems. Aerial photography analysis revealed marsh creek expansion since 1934 at 90% of the marshes studied, but unlike findings from prior experimental enrichment studies, the rate of marsh loss did not increase with increasing nitrogen loading. Given the importance of these ecosystems and the potential of nitrogen to decrease their resiliency, understanding the impacts of eutrophication on salt marshes is critical. However, these results show that the relative importance of nitrogen in driving salt marsh loss in Long Island Sound may be less than studies from other regions have suggested. © 2021, Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation.
Keywords: Spartina alterniflora; dept.egm; peer-reviewed

A PEP grant’s influence on change in a school district: One year post funding - Egan, Cate A.; Abel-Berei, Catherine P.; Karp, Grace Goc (Evaluation and program planning, 2021)
This study examined teachers' and administrators' perceptions of the institutionalization phase of the Carol M. White Physical Education for Progress (PEP) grant. A qualitative exploratory single case study (Yin, 2014) was utilized to examine the elements of the PEP grant that sustained or did not sustain after its conclusion, along with elements that were institutionalized and influences on this process. The findings were represented in the following three themes: (a) positive shifts, (b) backsliding, and (c) new directions, each with their own subthemes. Positive shifts includes sub-themes: (a) philosophy, (b) instruction, assessment and curriculum, (c) collaboration, and (d) respect. Backsliding includes sub-themes: (a) wellness team functioning, (b) the loss of PD and collaboration time, and (c) reduced data collection. New directions includes sub-themes: (a) mastery learning, (b) during school physical activity, (c) stress, and (d) administrative support. The factors that were institutionalized were quality physical education leadership roles, change in teachers' philosophies that influenced their instruction and assessment, and garnered administrative support. These elements were embedded into the physical education program and the school so much so that principals now expect the same type of programming from any new hire. Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keywords: administration; administrative personnel; article; curriculum; dept.hms; funding; health education; human; human experiment; institutional framework; institutionalization; leadership; learning; peer-reviewed; perception; philosophy; physical activity; physical education; physiological stress; primary education; single-case study; student; teacher; teaching

Current activities centered on healthy living and recommendations for the future: A position statement from the HL-PIVOT network - Arena, Ross; Myers, Jonathan; Kaminsky, Leonard A.; Williams, Mark A.; Sabbahi, Ahmad; Popovic, Dejana; Axtell, Robert S.; Faghy, Mark A.; Hills, Andrew P.; Olivares, Silvia Lizett Olivares; Lopez, Mildred; Pronk, Nicolaas P.; et al. (Current Problems in Cardiology, 2021)
We continue to increase our cognizance and recognition of the importance of healthy living (HL) behaviors and HL medicine (HLM) to prevent and treat chronic disease. The continually unfolding events precipitated by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have further highlighted the importance of HL behaviors, as indicated by the characteristics of those who have been hospitalized and died from this viral infection. There has already been recognition that leading a healthy lifestyle, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, may have a substantial protective effect in those who become infected with the virus. Now more than ever, HL behaviors and HLM are essential and must be promoted with a renewed vigor across the globe. In response to the rapidly evolving world since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the clear need to change lifestyle behaviors to promote human resilience and quality of life, the HL for Pandemic Event Protection (HL-PIVOT) network was established. The 4 major areas of focus for the network are: (1) knowledge discovery and dissemination; (2) education; (3) policy; (4) implementation. This HL-PIVOT network position statement provides a current synopsis of the major focus areas of the network, including leading research in the field of HL behaviors and HLM, examples of best practices in education, policy, and implementation, and recommendations for the future. © 2021 Elsevier Inc.
Keywords: Biomedical Research; COVID-19; Cardiorespiratory Fitness; Chronic Disease; Diabetes Mellitus; Diet; Exercise; Health Education; Health Policy; Healthy; Healthy Lifestyle; Humans; Implementation Science; Information Dissemination; Obesity; Patient Education as Topic; Quality of Life; Review; Risk Reduction Behavior; SARS-CoV-2; Sedentary Behavior; Smoking Cessation; Type 2; body mass; cardiorespiratory fitness; chronic disease; coronavirus disease 2019; dept.hms; education; epidemiology; exercise; health; health behavior; health care personnel; health care planning; health care policy; health education; health promotion; healthy diet; healthy lifestyle; healthy living medicine; human; information dissemination; knowledge; knowledge discovery; law; lifestyle; medical research; medicine; non insulin dependent diabetes mellitus; nutrition; obesity; pandemic; patient education; peer-reviewed; physical activity; psychological resilience; quality of life; risk reduction; sedentary lifestyle; sleep; smoking cessation; syndemic; unhealthy lifestyle behavior

Stakeholders’ perspectives on the effects of a PEP grant on a district-wide CSPAP - Abel-Berei, Catherine P.; Karp, Grace Goc; Fennell, Marcis; Drake, Elisa M.; Olsen, Simon (Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2021)
A Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program (CSPAP) can help children be physically active for 60 min/day. Physical Education for Progress grants provided opportunities to improve physical education and physical activity programming. Purpose: This study explored stakeholders' perspectives on the effects of a Physical Education for Progress grant on a district-wide CSPAP. Method: Stakeholders included physical educators (n = 10; K-12), administrators (n = 6), and one superintendent. Individual, semistructured interviews were used to examine how the grant affected stakeholders' perspectives of the CSPAP. Results: The grant affected the CSPAP by providing (a) opportunities for professional development, (b) opportunities to establish a K-12 curriculum map, and (c) access to equipment and resources. Discussion: Framed in social ecological theory, intrapersonal, interpersonal, institutional, and community levels were influenced by the grant. Interactions between levels enabled changes in all CSPAP components, especially quality PE. Conclusion: A Physical Education for Progress grant is a successful mechanism to enhance a district-wide CSPAP. © 2021 Human Kinetics, Inc.
Keywords: dept.hms; peer-reviewed

Health in the Inca heartland: A paleopathological analysis of burials from the Cuzco region of Peru - Andrushko, Valerie A. (International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 2021)
While much is known about the rise and expansion of the Inca Empire (AD 1438–1532) throughout the Andean region of South America, the health effects of the empire in its capital region remain unclear. The present study addresses the Inca Empire's impact on health in the Cuzco region of Peru through an analysis of four conditions (dental enamel hypoplasias, cribra orbitalia, porotic hyperostosis and periosteal lesions) in 929 pre-Inca and Inca burials. The study results show little change in health from the Late Intermediate Period (AD 1000–1438) to the Inca Imperial Period (AD 1438–1532). When the location of the Inca burial sites was analysed, individuals from sites closest to the centre of the empire's capital showed lower frequencies in pathological conditions compared with individuals from sites in the countryside. These results suggest that individuals centred in the Inca imperial sphere benefited from their position and experienced better health. A similar finding was also seen with the previous Wari occupation of Cuzco in the Middle Horizon (AD 600–1000), as burials within the Wari imperial sphere exhibited fewer non-specific stress indicators than those outside of it. Overall, the frequencies of pathological conditions in the Cuzco region, which ranged from 4.6% for porotic hyperostosis to 18.8% for periosteal lesions, were lower than frequencies from many coastal Peruvian sites. These differences may relate to a diverse diet provided by the Cuzco region ecosystem, as well as the absence of ecological challenges that affected coastal populations. © 2021 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Keywords: dept.ant; peer-reviewed

Hybrid methods for locating and excavating early historical conflict-related domestic sites - Farley, William A.; McBride, Kevin A.; Willison, Megan K. (Historical Archaeology, 2021)
Since 2012, the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center in Mashantucket, Connecticut, in collaboration with the University of Connecticut, has carried out a research program to survey and document the battlefields of the Pequot War (1636–1637). The unique nature of the project has required the refinement of the long-standing field methods of battlefield archaeology. In this article, we argue that these techniques, while originally developed to explore sites of conflict, can be operationalized to locate 17th-century indigenous domestic sites. We describe this modified method and provide a site-specific case study to present its efficacy. © 2021, Society for Historical Archaeology.
Keywords: dept.ant; peer-reviewed

Ferrar large igneous province: petrology - Elliot, David H.; Fleming, Thomas H. (Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 2021)
The Lower Jurassic Ferrar Large Igneous Province consists predominantly of intrusive rocks, which crop out over a distance of 3500 km. In comparison, extrusive rocks are more restricted geographically. Geochemically, the province is divided into the Mount Fazio Chemical Type, forming more than 99% of the exposed province, and the Scarab Peak Chemical Type, which in the Ross Sea sector is restricted to the uppermost lava. The former exhibits a range of compositions (SiO2 = 52–59%; MgO = 9.2–2.6%; Zr = 60–175 ppm; Sri = 0.7081– 0.7138; εNd = −6.0 to −3.8), whereas the latter has a restricted composition (SiO2 = c. 58%; MgO = c. 2.3%; Zr = c. 230 ppm; Sri = 0.7090–0.7097; εNd = −4.4 to −4.1). Both chemical types are characterized by enriched initial isotope compositions of neodymium and strontium, low abundances of high field strength elements, and crust-like trace element patterns. The most basic rocks, olivine-bearing dolerites, indicate that these geochemical characteristics were inherited from a mantle source modified by subduction processes, possibly the incorporation of sediment. In one model, magmas were derived from a linear source having multiple sites of generation each of which evolved to yield, in sum, the province-wide coherent geochemistry. The preferred interpretation is that the remarkably coherent geochemistry and short duration of emplacement demonstrate derivation from a single source inferred to have been located in the proto-Weddell Sea region. The spatial variation in geochemical characteristics of the lavas suggests distinct magma batches erupted at the surface, whereas no clear geographical pattern is evident for intrusive rocks. © 2021. The Author(s).
Keywords: dept.esc; peer-reviewed

Ferrar large igneous province: volcanology - Elliot, David H.; White, James D. L.; Fleming, Thomas H. (Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 2021)
Preserved rocks in the Jurassic Ferrar Large Igneous Province consist mainly of intrusions, and extrusive rocks, the topic of this chapter, comprise the remaining small component. They crop out in a limited number of areas in the Transantarctic Mountains and southeastern Australia. They consist of thick sequences of lavas and sporadic occurrences of volcaniclastic rocks. The latter occur mainly beneath the lavas and represent the initial eruptive activity, but also are present within the lava sequence. The majority are basaltic phreatomagmatic deposits and in at least two locations form immense phreatocauldrons filled with structureless tuff breccias and lapilli tuffs with thicknesses of as much as 400 m. Stratified sequences of tuff breccias, lapilli tuffs and tuffs are up to 200 m thick. Thin tuff beds are sparsely distributed in the lava sequences. Lava successions are mainly 400–500 m thick, and comprise individual lavas ranging from 1 to 230 m thick, although most are in the range of 10–100 m. Well-defined colonnade and entablature are seldom displayed. Lava sequences were confined topographically and locally ponded. Water played a prominent role in eruptive activity, as exhibited by phreatomagmatism, hyaloclastites, pillow lava and quenching of lavas. Vents for lavas have yet to be identified. © 2021. The Author(s).
Keywords: dept.esc; peer-reviewed

Investigating prospective teachers’ TPACK and their use of mathematical action technologies as they create screencast video lessons on iPads - Bonafini, Fernanda Cesar; Lee, Younhee (TechTrends : for leaders in education & training, 2021)
The increasing number of technological devices available in schools, aligned with curriculum guidance, set an expectation for mathematics teachers to incorporate these devices into their teaching. This qualitative study investigated prospective teachers’ use of TPACK and mathematical action technologies as they created screencast video lessons using iPads. Results showed prospective teachers’ effective use of pedagogical techniques and the screencast app as an amplifier tool, according to the amplifier-reorganizer metaphor. Half of the participants used mathematics technology to confirm and expand the results they had found without technology. The other half had mathematics technology integrated into their solution exercising the balance among TPACK components. For some, their use of the mathematical tool had the potential of expanding the mathematical repertoire of virtual students. We conclude by making recommendations for teacher educators to implement cycles of learning for pre-service teachers to design, enact, and reflect upon the creation of screencast video lessons. © 2021, Association for Educational Communications & Technology.
Keywords: dept.mat; peer-reviewed

Plagiarism as a social contract, a new way to approach plagiarism - Gregory, Jess L. (Journal of Academic Ethics, 2021)
Most cases of plagiarism involve a power differential where not every person has the same ability to enter into a social contract. A social contract requires that each party understands the expectations or norms of the contract, has a voice in setting or changing the norms and has the ability to exit the contract. If those with less power want to gain power then they have to engage in activities bound by norms set by others with little or no ability to exit and no voice. Even if one determines that it is an option to choose a role that requires academic writing, even at the earliest grades, then the social contract demands a shared norm of what constitutes correct behavior. This study reviewed the abstracts of articles indexed in Google Scholar from 1999–2019 through the lens of integrative social contract theory (ISCT) and found, in the case of plagiarism, an existing consensus of correct behavior does not exist. Recommendations for establishing a social contract conclude the article.
Keywords: dept.edl; peer-reviewed

Multimodal person detection system - Barello, Philip; Hossain, Shafaeat (Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2021)
Person detection is often critical for personal safety, property protection, and national security. Most person detection technologies implement unimodal classification, making predictions based on a single sensor data modality, which is most often vision. There are many ways to defeat unimodal person detectors, and many more reasons to ensure technologies responsible for detecting the presence of a person are accurate and precise. In this paper, we design and implement a multimodal person detection system which can acquire data from multiple sensors and detect persons based on a variety of unimodal classifications and multimodal fusions. We present two methods of generating system-level predictions: (1) device perspectives which makes a final decision based on multiple device-level predictions and (2) system perspectives which combines data samples from multiple devices into a single data sample and then makes a decision. Our experimental results show that system-level predictions from system perspectives are generally more accurate than system-level predictions from device perspectives. We achieve an accuracy of 100%, zero false positive rate and zero false negative rate with fusion of system perspectives motion and distance data. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC part of Springer Nature.
Keywords: Design and implements; False negative rate; False positive rates; Forecasting; Generating system; Multi-modal fusion; Multiple devices; National security; Person detection; Property protection; dept.csc; peer-reviewed

Risk factors and comorbidities associated to cardiovascular disease in qatar: A machine learning based case-control study - Al-Absi, Hamada R. H.; Refaee, Mahmoud Ahmed; Rehman, Atiq ur; Islam, Mohammad Tariqul; Belhaouari, Samir Brahim; Alam, Tanvir (IEEE access : practical innovations, open solutions, 2021)
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is reported to be the leading cause of mortality in the middle eastern countries, including Qatar. But no comprehensive study has been conducted on the Qatar specific CVD risk factors identification. The objective of this case-control study was to develop machine learning (ML) model distinguishing healthy individuals from people having CVD, which could ultimately reveal the list of potential risk factors associated to CVD in Qatar. To the best of our knowledge, this study considered the largest collection of biomedical measurements representing the anthropometric measurements, clinical biomarkers, bioimpedance, spirometry, VICORDER readings, and behavioral factors of the CVD group from Qatar Biobank (QBB). CatBoost model achieved 93% accuracy, thereby outperforming the existing model for the same purpose. Interestingly, combining multimodal datasets into the proposed ML model outperformed the ML model built upon currently known risk factors for CVD, emphasizing the importance of incorporating other clinical biomarkers into consideration for CVD diagnosis plan. The ablation study on the multimodal dataset from QBB revealed that physio-clinical and bioimpedance measurements have the most distinguishing power to classify these two groups irrespective of gender and age of the participants. Multiple feature subset selection techniques confirmed known CVD risk factors (blood pressure, lipid profile, smoking, sedentary life, and diabetes), and identified potential novel risk factors linked to CVD-related comorbidities such as renal disorder (e.g., creatinine, uric acid, homocysteine, albumin), atherosclerosis (intima media thickness), hypercoagulable state (fibrinogen), and liver function (e.g., alkaline phosphate, gamma-glutamyl transferase). Moreover, the inclusion of the proposed novel factors into the ML model provides better performance than the model with traditional known risk factors for CVD. The association of the proposed risk factors and comorbidities are required to be investigated in clinical setup to understand their role in CVD better. © 2013 IEEE.
Keywords: Anthropometric measurement; Anthropometry; Bioimpedance measurement; Biomarkers; Biomedical measurements; Blood pressure; Cardiology; Cardiovascular disease; Classification (of information); Diagnosis; Disease control; Diseases; Healthy individuals; Intima-media thickness; Machine learning; Multi-modal dataset; Multimodal datasets; Turing machines; dept.csc; peer-reviewed

Open code biometric tap pad for smartphones - Haberfeld, Carl; Hossain, Shafaeat; Lancor, Lisa (Journal of Information Security and Applications, 2021)
Poor security practices among smartphone users, such as the use of simple, easily guessed passcodes for logins, are a result of the effort required to memorize stronger ones. In this paper, we devise a concept of “open code” biometric tap pad to authenticate smartphone users, which eliminates the need of memorizing secret codes. A biometric tap pad consists of a grid of buttons each labeled with a unique digit. The user attempting to log into the phone will tap these buttons in a given sequence. He/she will not memorize this tap sequence. Instead, the sequence will be displayed on the screen. The focus here is how the user types the sequence. This typing behavior is used for authentication. An open code biometric tap pad has several advantages, such as (1) users do not need to memorize passcodes, (2) manufacturers do not need to include extra sensors, and (3) onlookers have no chance to practice shoulder-surfing. We designed three tap pads and incorporated them into an Android app. We evaluated the performance of these tap pads by experimenting with three sequence styles and five different fingers: two thumbs, two index fingers, and the “usual” finger. We collected data from 33 participants over two weeks. We tested three machine learning algorithms: Support Vector Machine, Artificial Neural Network, and Random Forest. Experimental results show significant promise of open code biometric tap pads as a solution to the problem of weak smartphone security practices used by a large segment of the population.
Keywords: Authentication; Biometrics; Decision trees; Extra sensors; Fasteners; Index finger; Learning algorithms; Mobile security; Neural networks; Open codes; Secret code; Security Practice; Security systems; Shoulder surfing; Smartphone securities; Smartphones; Support vector machines; Typing behaviors; dept.csc; peer-reviewed

Correction to: Abnormalities of aspiration and swallowing function in survivors of acute respiratory failure - Langmore, Susan E.; Krisciunas, Gintas P.; Warner, Heather L.; White, S. David; Dvorkin, Daniel; Fink, Daniel S.; McNally, Edel; Scheel, Rebecca; Higgins, Carrie; Levitt, Joseph E.; McKeehan, Jeffrey; Deane, Sandra; et al. (Dysphagia, 2021)
Due to the errors occurred in the originally published version, this article is being reprinted in its entirety as Correction. All errors have been corrected. It is the correct version. © 2021, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
Keywords: dept.cmd; erratum; peer-reviewed

Empirical insights into college students’ academic reading comprehension in the united states - Kalbfleisch, Elizabeth; Schmitt, Elena; Zipoli, Richard P. (Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2021)
This article reports on a collaborative research project involving faculty in writing studies, communication disorders, and applied linguistics that sought to empirically describe the reading skills of students (N = 910) in freshman composition classes at one college and two universities in the northeast United States. The research team developed and administered a questionnaire that evaluated students’ reading abilities according to six categories: inferential ability, background knowledge, general comprehension, vocabulary, figurative language/jargon, and morphosyntactic structures (grammar/syntax). Our statistically significant results showed that students scored best in the categories of background knowledge and general comprehension, which are well researched in a college population. However, students struggled in categories such as figurative language/jargon and morpho-syntactic structures, which are not well researched in a college population. Further, comprehension seemed generally discrete (understanding specific points of an essay) rather than holistic (indicated by an ability synthesize those points into a general statement about the author’s thesis). These findings suggest that further empirical research in this area will help describe the reading skills of college students and consequently will inform the development of pedagogical approaches that more effectively address students’ current needs. © 2021 College Reading and Learning Association.
Keywords: dept.cmd; dept.eng; dept.wll; peer-reviewed

A continuum of genetic mixing for conservation management along the (mal)adaptation spectrum: A comment on Hoffmann et al. - Crispo, Erika; Derry, Alison M.; Brady, Steven P. (Evolutionary Applications, 2021)
When restoring gene flow for conservation management, genetic variation should be viewed along a continuum of genetic divergence between donor and recipient populations. On the one hand, maintaining local adaptation (low divergence between donors and recipients) can enhance conservation success in the short term. On the other hand, reducing local adaptation in the short term by increasing genetic diversity (high divergence between some donors and recipients) might have better long-term success in the face of changing environmental conditions. Both Hoffman et al. (2020) and a paper we previously published in a Special Issue on Maladaptation in Applied Conservation (Derry et al., 2019) provide frameworks and syntheses for how best to apply conservation strategies in light of genetic variation and adaptation. A key difference between these two studies was that whereas Derry et al. (2019) performed a quantitative meta-analysis, Hoffman et al. (2020) relied on case studies and theoretical considerations, yielding slightly different conclusions. We here provide a summary of the two studies and contrast of the main similarities and differences between them, while highlighting terminology used to describe and explain main concepts. © 2021 The Authors. Evolutionary Applications published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Keywords: dept.bio; peer-reviewed

Impact of risk aversion, reactance proneness and risk appraisal on travel destination risk perception: - Prince, Melvin; Kim, Young Kyu (Journal of Vacation Marketing, 2021)
The aim of the study is to investigate the motivational effects of tourist traits and risk appraisal on tourist destination risk perception. Risk appraisal involves subjective estimates of vulnerability to a threat and the threat’s consequential severity. Fear levels influence both of these elements of risk appraisal. Individual differences in reactance proneness and risk aversion are introduced into the study model to more fully account for differences in travel destination risk perceptions. The study design involves US adults, who have used their passports for international travel in the past 5 years. Travel risk assessments were studied for four destination sites: London, Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur and Istanbul. A general structural model is developed to test hypotheses about antecedents and consequents of risk appraisal and destination risk perception. © The Author(s) 2021.
Keywords: dept.mkt; peer-reviewed

Toward early literacy as a site of belonging - Souto-Manning, Mariana; Ghim, Hyeyoung; Madu, Nicole K. (Reading Teacher, 2021)
Drawing connections between traditional notions of academic language and literacy and long‐standing systems of marginalization and exclusion, in this article, we invite you to (re)read and (re)story early literacy in the pursuit of linguistic justice.
Keywords: dept.cur; peer-reviewed

Audiovisual speech perception in children with autism spectrum disorders: Evidence from visual phonemic restoration. - Irwin, Julia; Avery, Trey; Kleinman, Daniel; Landi, Nicole (Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2021)
Children with autism spectrum disorders have been reported to be less influenced by a speaker’s face during speech perception than those with typically development. To more closely examine these reported differences, a novel visual phonemic restoration paradigm was used to assess neural signatures (event-related potentials [ERPs]) of audiovisual processing in typically developing children and in children with autism spectrum disorder. Video of a speaker saying the syllable /ba/ was paired with (1) a synthesized /ba/ or (2) a synthesized syllable derived from /ba/ in which auditory cues for the consonant were substantially weakened, thereby sounding more like /a/. The auditory stimuli are easily discriminable; however, in the context of a visual /ba/, the auditory /a/ is typically perceived as /ba/, producing a visual phonemic restoration. Only children with ASD showed a large /ba/-/a/ discrimination response in the presence of a speaker producing /ba/, suggesting reduced influence of visual speech. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC part of Springer Nature.
Keywords: Auditory Perception; Autism Spectrum Disorder; Child; Cues; Evoked Potentials; Humans; Speech; Speech Perception; Visual Perception; association; autism; child; dept.psy; evoked response; hearing; human; peer-reviewed; speech; speech perception; vision

The offspring of alcohol-exposed sires exhibit heightened ethanol intake and behavioral alterations in the elevated plus maze. - Koabel, Jennifer; McNivens, Meghan; McKee, Paul; Pautassi, Ricardo; Bordner, Kelly; Nizhnikov, Michael (Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.), 2021)
Research suggests that addictive traits are indeed heritable, but very few preclinical studies have explored transgenerational effects of paternal alcohol exposure. The present study addressed this gap in knowledge. We explored whether offspring of ethanol-exposed sires would be more likely to accept ethanol than descendants of water-exposed and control sires. We also investigated whether the second generation of ethanol-exposed descendants would accept ethanol more than controls and were more or less likely to experience anxiety-like behavior in behavioral assessments. We exposed male rats to repeated binge doses of alcohol (4 g/kg/day across 8 days), water, or left them untreated and mated them with untreated females. We then bred the offspring of these rats to test transgenerational effects of paternal alcohol exposure. We tested 14-day-old offspring from the first and second filial generation for their acceptance of ethanol and water, and measured anxiety-like behavior in 38-day-old, second-generation offspring using an elevated plus maze. The results indicate that offspring of ethanol-exposed sires increase ethanol acceptance in the first generation compared to untreated controls, whereas in the second-generation increased ethanol acceptance vs. these controls is seen in descendants of both ethanol- and vehicle-treated sires. At adolescence, the second generation of rats derived from alcohol-exposed sires exhibited significantly more time spent in the open arms and significantly more arm entries than any other group. The present study suggests that parental ethanol exposure is associated with lingering effects in the infant and adolescent offspring. The second filial generation was also found to be affected, albeit similarly by grandparental ethanol exposure or by the stress of the vehicle administration. Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Addictive; Alcohol Drinking; Animals; Anxiety; Article; Behavior; Elevated Plus Maze Test; Ethanol; Male; Maze Learning; Rats; Sprague Dawley rat; addiction; adolescence; adolescent; adult; alcohol; alcohol consumption; animal; animal experiment; animal model; anxiety; behavior disorder; binge drinking; breeding; concentration (parameter); controlled study; dept.psy; drinking behavior; elevated plus maze test; experience; exposure; female; grandparent; inhibitory control; male; maze test; newborn; nonhuman; paternal exposure; peer-reviewed; progeny; rat; sire; vertical transmission; water

Measurement of Motivation States for Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior: Development and Validation of the CRAVE Scale. - Stults-Kolehmainen, Matthew A; Blacutt, Miguel; Fogelman, Nia; Gilson, Todd A; Stanforth, Philip R; Divin, Amanda L; Bartholomew, John B; Filgueiras, Alberto; McKee, Paul C; Ash, Garrett I; Ciccolo, Joseph T; Brotnow Decker, Line; et al. (Frontiers in psychology, 2021)
Physical activity, and likely the motivation for it, varies throughout the day. The aim of this investigation was to create a short assessment (CRAVE: Cravings for Rest and Volitional Energy Expenditure) to measure motivation states (wants, desires, urges) for physical activity and sedentary behaviors. Five studies were conducted to develop and evaluate the construct validity and reliability of the scale, with 1,035 participants completing the scale a total of 1,697 times. In Study 1, 402 university students completed a questionnaire inquiring about the want or desire to perform behaviors "at the present moment (right now). " Items related to physical activity (e.g., "move my body") and sedentary behaviors (e.g., "do nothing active"). An exploratory structural equation model (ESEM) revealed that 10 items should be retained, loading onto two factors (5 each for Move and Rest). In Study 2, an independent sample (n = 444) confirmed these results and found that Move and Rest desires were associated with stage-of-change for exercise behavior. In Study 3, 127 community-residing participants completed the CRAVE at 6-month intervals over two years- two times each session. Across-session interclass correlations (ICC) for Move (ICC = 0.72-0.95) and Rest (ICC = 0.69-0.88) were higher than when they were measured across 24-months (Move: ICC = 0.53; Rest: ICC = 0.49), indicating wants/desires have state-like qualities. In Study 4, a maximal treadmill test was completed by 21 university students. The CRAVE was completed immediately pre and post. Move desires decreased 26% and Rest increased 74%. Changes in Move and Rest desires were moderately associated with changes in perceived physical fatigue and energy. In Study 5, 41 university students sat quietly during a 50-min lecture. They completed the CRAVE at 3 time points. Move increased 19.6% and Rest decreased 16.7%. Small correlations were detected between move and both perceived energy and tiredness, but not calmness or tension. In conclusion, the CRAVE scale has good psychometric properties. These data also support tenets of the WANT model of motivation states for movement and rest (Stults-Kolehmainen et al., 2020a). Future studies need to explore how desires to move/rest relate to dynamic changes in physical activity and sedentarism. Copyright © 2021 Stults-Kolehmainen, Blacutt, Fogelman, Gilson, Stanforth, Divin, Bartholomew, Filgueiras, McKee, Ash, Ciccolo, Brotnow Decker, Williamson and Sinha.
Keywords: dept.psy; peer-reviewed

Defense against outside competition is linked to cooperation in male-male partnerships - Hellmann, Jennifer K.; Stiver, Kelly A.; Marsh-Rollo, Susan; Alonzo, Suzanne H. (Behavioral Ecology, 2020)
Male–male competition is a well-known driver of reproductive success and sexually selected traits in many species. However, in some species, males work together to court females or defend territories against male competitors. Dominant (nesting) males sire most offspring, but subordinate (satellite) males are better able to obtain fertilizations relative to unpartnered males. Because satellites only gain reproductive success by sneaking, there has been much interest in identifying the mechanisms enforcing satellite cooperation (defense) and reducing satellite sneaking. One such potential mechanism is outside competition: unpartnered satellites can destabilize established male partnerships and may force partnered satellites to restrain from cheating to prevent the dominant male from replacing them with an unpartnered satellite. Here, we manipulated perceived competition in the Mediterranean fish Symphodus ocellatus by presenting an “intruding” satellite male to established nesting and satellite male pairs. Focal satellite aggression to the intruder was higher when focal satellites were less cooperative, suggesting that satellites increase aggression to outside competitors when their social position is less stable. In contrast, nesting male aggression to the intruder satellite increased as spawning activity increased, suggesting that nesting males increase their defense toward outside competitors when their current relationship is productive. We found no evidence of altered spawning activity or nesting/satellite male interactions before and after the presentation. These results collectively suggest that response to outside competition is directly linked to behavioral dynamics between unrelated male partners and may be linked to conflict and cooperation in ways that are similar to group-living species.
Keywords: Satellites; Symphodus ocellatus; alternative reproductive tactics; biological market theory; cooperation; cooperative behavior; defense mechanism; dept.psy; interspecific competition; intraspecific interaction; outside options; peer-reviewed; satellite male; sneak

The Diagnosis of Autism: From Kanner to DSM-III to DSM-5 and Beyond - Rosen, Nicole E.; Lord, Catherine; Volkmar, Fred R. (Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2021)
In this paper we review the impact of DSM-III and its successors on the field of autism—both in terms of clinical work and research. We summarize the events leading up to the inclusion of autism as a “new” official diagnostic category in DSM-III, the subsequent revisions of the DSM, and the impact of the official recognition of autism on research. We discuss the uses of categorical vs. dimensional approaches and the continuing tensions around broad vs. narrow views of autism. We also note some areas of current controversy and directions for the future.
Keywords: Article; Asperger syndrome; Autism; Autism Spectrum Disorder; Autistic Disorder; Categorical; DSM; DSM-5; DSM-III; DSM-IV; Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; Dimensional; History; Humans; ICD-10; ICD-11; Psychology; Recognition; autism; clinical feature; clinical research; cognition; cultural factor; dept.sed; dept.swk; developing country; echolalia; ethnic group; human; language ability; medical history; peer-reviewed; pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified; psychiatric diagnosis; psychological aspect; race; sex difference; social class; symptom; tension

The past and future of social group work in Germany: contributions of Louis Lowy - Gardella, Lorrie Greenhouse (Social Work with Groups, 2021)
Louis Lowy (1920 to 1991), the international social work educator, remembered surviving the Holocaust as a formative professional experience. After joining the faculty of Boston University School of Social Work, Lowy returned to Germany every summer for 20 years to help restore social work education. This SPARC project, “The Past and Future of Social Group Work in Germany: Contributions of Louis Lowy,” was proposed in collaboration with Klaus-Martin Ellerbrock and the German Chapter of IASWG at the height of the 2015 global refugee crisis, when Germany admitted more than one million refugees. The purposes of the project were to encourage ongoing international scholarship on the implications of Lowy’s teachings for social work with groups; to facilitate research and writing from an international perspective on group work with migrants and other disenfranchised populations; and to foster international collaborations among group workers in the spirit of Louis Lowy. © 2021 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
Keywords: dept.swk; peer-reviewed

Masculine embodiment among sexual minorities in a women’s prison - Smoyer, Amy B.; Divita, David; Perrault, Allison (Australian Social Work, 2021)
Sexual minority women are disproportionately incarcerated and more likely to experience structural and interpersonal violence while incarcerated than heterosexual cisgender women. To build knowledge about this population and inform social work practice, theories of embodiment were used to conduct thematic analysis of five interviews with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer masculine-identified people who had been incarcerated in a women’s prison. This analysis explicates how participants used bodily practices to construct gender and communicate identity to themselves and others. Uniforms, prison regulations, and physical manifestations of female embodiment complicated these efforts. Participants described the ways in which they monitored and evaluated their own bodies while also managing the constant surveillance of their bodies by others. Taken together, these findings explicate the ways in which participants’ bodies were produced both through their actions and the external gaze of others. Implications for social work include exploration of language and masculinity in practice settings and suggestions for correctional policies. Findings encourage inclusion of non-binary frameworks and increased attention to the embodied self in order to expand understandings of human behaviour in the social environment. IMPLICATIONS Interpret with caution any information about gender identity surmised from intake forms and observation of clients’ bodily practices. Ask clients to describe their gender identity. Prioritise correctional policies that promote the health and safety of incarcerated people and staff over policies that enforce social norms related to gender and have no implications on security. Encourage re-entry service providers to collaborate with LGBTIQA+ organisations that provide social support to clients who identify as sexual minorities. © 2021 Australian Association of Social Workers.
Keywords: LGBTQIA+ people; adult; article; attention; correctional facility; dept.swk; female; gaze; gender identity; human; interview; language; male; masculinity; organization; peer-reviewed; security; social environment; social norm; social support; social work practice; thematic analysis

‘Suppression on top of oppression’: A symbolic interactionist perspective on the affective experience of incarceration - Umamaheswar, Janani (The British Journal of Criminology, 2021)
Penological research has extensively documented how incarcerated men's identities are shaped by the prison setting, highlighting how these men cope with and adapt to the 'pains of imprisonment' through careful emotion management. Significantly less research has focused explicitly on the role of emotion in incarcerated men's constructions of their selves. In this article, I draw on 24 in-depth interviews with incarcerated men to reveal how the prison setting generates negative emotions (such as sadness, shame, humiliation, and anger) that in turn perpetuate the isolation that these men face. Emotions thus constitute an overlooked source of these men's social marginalization. Additionally, I draw on theoretical literature derived from symbolic interactionism (and identity theory in particular) to explore how participants cope with, and make efforts to overcome, their negative emotions by engaging in active emotion and identity work centred on constructing morality narratives of pride, self-worth, and superiority. © 2021 The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (ISTD). All rights reserved.
Keywords: dept.swk; peer-reviewed

“On the street, the only person you gotta bow down to is yourself”: Masculinity, homelessness, and incarceration - Umamaheswar, Janani (Justice Quarterly, 2021)
Despite the well-established link between homelessness and incarceration, very little qualitative research has focused on the social processes that underlie this nexus. In this article, I draw on 19 in-depth interviews with incarcerated men who reported pre-prison housing instability, supplemented with 5 interviews with formerly-incarcerated men experiencing homelessness, to explore the gendered nature of the homelessness-incarceration nexus. I propose the concept of “liberative instability”—defined as an unfettered lifestyle characterized by double-edged freedom and independence—to explore the changing meaning of homelessness in men’s narratives of their life course. Additionally, I explore how themes of masculinity and liberative instability are embedded in men’s narratives of freedom and confinement as they reflect on their experiences with homelessness and incarceration. These findings animate existing quantitative research by highlighting that the homelessness-incarceration nexus cannot be understood fully or disrupted without considering the significance of age-graded cultural scripts regarding masculinity. © 2021 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.
Keywords: Homelessness; dept.soc; incarceration; masculinity; peer-reviewed; the life course

Correlates of Strength and Balance Training Exercises in Older African American Adults. - Jiakponnah, Nwanyieze; Ngozi MD, MPH; Unson, Christine; Chukwurah, Queendaleen; Chinenye MD, MPH (Gerontologist, 2021)
Background and Objectives: This study investigated the behavioral and psychological correlates of strength and balance training (SBT) participation among older African Americans. Research Design and Methods: A cross-sectional survey of 90 older African Americans (M = 66.7 ± 8.7 years; 70% female) was conducted to assess correlates of intention to undertake SBT exercises and the number of days that they currently engage in SBT. The Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and the threat appraisal of the Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) were used as frameworks for the analyses. Results: The intention to do SBT exercises was positively associated with favorable attitudes and subjective norm, knowledge about the benefits of SBT, and hours worked per week. The frequency of SBT participation was significantly correlated with behavioral intention, high fear of falling, and a low score on the kinesiophobia scale. Discussion and Implications: This study demonstrated the utility of the TPB and PMT's threat appraisal construct in modeling intention and number of days of SBT participation among African American older adults. The study affirmed the link between intention and behavior and between knowledge of the benefits of SBT and intention. Fear of falling's positive association with days of SBT suggests that respondents' saw SBT's efficacy in reducing falls. The unique contributions of this study are the inclusions of kinesiophobia as a correlate and multiple threat appraisals in the PMT. Health promotion interventions should consider the interrelationship among these constructs. © 2021 The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Accidental Falls; African American; African Americans; Aged; Attitude; Cross-Sectional Studies; Exercise; Fear; Fear of falling; Female; Humans; Intention; Kinesiophobia; Male; Psychological Theory; Subjective norm; Surveys and Questionnaires; Theory of Planned Behavior; adult; aged; article; behavior; controlled study; cross-sectional study; dept.pch; exercise; falling; fear; fear of falling; female; health promotion; human; male; motivation; peer-reviewed; prevention and control; psychological theory; questionnaire; theoretical study

The Socialization of Unpaid Family Caregivers: A Scoping Review. - McAllum, Kirstie; Simpson, Mary; Unson, Christine; Fox, Stephanie; Kilpatrick, Kelley (Res Aging, 2021)
As unpaid family caregiving of older adults becomes increasingly prevalent, it is imperative to understand how family caregivers are socialized and how they understand the caregiving role. This PRISMA-ScR-based scoping review examines the published literature between 1995-2019 on the socialization of potential and current unpaid family caregivers of older adults. Of 4,599 publications identified, 47 were included. Three perspectives of socialization were identified: (1) role acculturation; (2) role negotiation and identification; and (3) specialized role learning. The findings show how socialization involves different contexts (e.g., cultures), imperatives for action (e.g., circumstances), socialization agents (e.g., family), processes (e.g., modeling), and internal (e.g., normalization) and external (e.g., identification) consequences for caregivers. Future research could fruitfully explore how caregivers manage key turning points within the socialization process, disengage from the caregiving role, and negotiate the socialization and individualization processes within diverse cultural and funding contexts., (C)2021Sage Publications
Keywords: Aged; Caregivers; Family; Humans; Socialization; aged; care behavior; caregiver; caregiving; cultural factor; dept.pch; elder care; family; funding; human; individualization; intergenerational support; learning; negotiation; peer-reviewed; review; socialization

A data-based approach to identifying regional typologies and exemplars across the urban–rural gradient in Europe using affinity propagation - Fiaschetti, Maurizio; Graziano, Marcello; Heumann, Benjamin W. (Regional Studies, 2021)
We apply recent developments in data-mining and statistics, using affinity propagation (AP) to identify regional typologies in the European Union (EU) and characterize major factors between rural–rural and rural–urban regional differences, without predetermined thresholds. We identify a representative ‘exemplar’ within each cluster using the drivers of Copus enriched with climate and land-cover/land-use variables to provide geographical context and pinpoint differences driven by natural and human–natural landscapes. Building upon the works of Dijkstra and the Eudora Project, we expand the dimensions of regional differences, introducing a threshold-less, data-driven model able to identify exemplars, and the main characteristics of each cluster or regional typology. © 2021 Regional Studies Association.
Keywords: Europe; European Union; data mining; dept.mgt; economic development; peer-reviewed; regional development; urban-rural migration

Literacy development at camp: Leveraging language models - Dostal, Hannah M.; Scott, Jessica A.; Weir, Joan; Kang, Ki Y.; Amadi-Ihebuzor, Chidinma; Bernard, Teri-Ann (Reading Teacher, 2021)
There is little research on effective educational experiences for deaf and hard-of-hearing (d/hh) children in Jamaica. Using a formative and design experiment framework, in this project we explored the potential efficacy of an intensive literacy camp that provided professional development for d/hh adults working in classrooms with d/hh children, and provided literacy instruction for elementary-age campers. We found that the children improved in all tested areas, and observations of d/hh adults provided evidence that with minimal training they were able to implement important facets of literacy instruction with the campers. Further research on these types of experiences and their potential for lasting impact after the camp is necessary. © 2021 International Literacy Association
Keywords: dept.sed; peer-reviewed

Student perception on the impact of the Livescribe smartpen as an accommodation - Tucker, Lauren; Zamfir, Bogdan (Universal Access in the Information Society, 2021)
The goal of this exploratory qualitative study was to determine how students with disabilities in higher education are using the Livescribe smartpen in their note-taking process and the perceived impact on their academic tasks. Based on participant interviews, many are using the Livescribe smartpen for recording class lectures while taking notes and for engaging with the content outside of the class session. All but one participant reported a perceived positive impact from the use of the Livescribe pen. The positive impacts included improved focus, higher academic outcomes, independence, and capturing complete notes. One unexpected trend that was revealed is that the majority of the participants adjusted their use of the Livescribe smartpen accommodation based on the professor’s teaching style and course structure. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
Keywords: Course structure; Higher education; Information science; Information systems; Note taking; Qualitative study; Software engineering; Student perceptions; Teaching styles; dept.sed; peer-reviewed

Seeing the forest and the trees: Disentangling autism phenotypes in the age of DSM-5 - Volkmar, Fred R.; Woodbury-Smith, Marc; Øien, Roald A. (Development and Psychopathology, 2021)
This paper, written in honor of Professor Ed Zigler, focuses on some of the themes in developmental disabilities research that were so central to his work. It has now been nearly 80 years since Leo Kanner first identified the prototypic form – early infantile autism – of what is now autism spectrum disorder. In this article we summarize the development of the concept and the important accumulation of knowledge over time that has now led us to the recognition of a broader autism phenotype just as, at the same time, the current official diagnostic system in the USA has narrowed the concept. We also address current controversies regarding autism as the diagnosis is impacted by age and developmental factors, gender, and cultural issues. In parallel to the work on intellectual deficiency and development pioneered by Zigler and his colleagues, we summarize some of the challenges for the years ahead.
Keywords: Autism Spectrum Disorder; Autistic Disorder; Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; Humans; Phenotype; Psychology; Recognition; autism; dept.sed; human; peer-reviewed; phenotype

Complexity science, nursing, and COVID-19 - White, Kenneth R.; Begun, James W.; Vicenzi, Angela E (The American journal of nursing, 2021)
Understanding a bewildering crisis like a pandemic as 'normal' may be empowering. Copyright © 2021 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.
Keywords: COVID-19; Health Policy; Humans; Nurse's Role; Systems Analysis; dept.nur; epidemiology; health care policy; human; nurse attitude; peer-reviewed; system analysis; therapy

Human brain meningioma tumor detection using visible resonance Raman spectroscopy - Zhang, Liang; Zhou, Yan; Zhang, Shengjia; Wu, Binlin; Zhu, Ke; Liu, Cheng-hui; Yu, Xinguang; Alfano, Robert R. (SPIE, 2021)
Keywords: Brain; Brain neoplasms; Detection and diagnosis; Diagnosis; Healthy tissues; Margin status; Remote control; Resonance Raman; Resonance Raman spectroscopy; Surgery; Tumor boundary; Tumor detection; Tumors; dept.phy

Analysis of Stokes shift spectra for distinguishing human prostate cancerous and normal tissues using machine learning methods - Mo, Haiding; Wang, Eric; Tian, Yuke; Pu, Yang; Wu, Binlin; Alfano, Robert R. (SPIE, 2021)
Early detection of prostate cancer is critical for the success of cancer therapy. It is believed that the biochemical changes that cause the optical spectra changes would appear earlier than the histological aberration. The aim of this ex vivo study was to evaluate the ability of Stokes Shift Spectra (S3) to identify human prostate cancerous tissues from the normal. Fifteen (15) pairs of with pathologically confirmed human prostate cancerous and normal tissues underwent Stokes Shift Spectra measurements with selective wavelength interval of 40 nm. The spectra were then analyzed using machine learning (ML) algorithms to classify the two types of tissues. The ML algorithms including principal component analysis (PCA) and nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) were used for dimension reduction and feature detection. The characteristic component spectra were used to identify the key fluorophores related to carcinogenesis. The results show that these key fluorophores within tissue, e.g., tryptophan, collagen, and NADH, have different relative concentrations between cancerous and normal tissues. A multi-class classification was performed using support vector machines (SVMs). A leave-one-out cross validation was used to evaluate the performance of the classification with the gold standard histopathological results as the ground truth. The results with high sensitivity and specificity indicate that the S3 method is effective for detecting changes of fluorophore composition in human prostate tissues due to the development of cancer. © 2021 SPIE.
Keywords: Amino acids; Diagnosis; Dimension reduction; Diseases; Factorization; Fluorophores; Histology; Learning systems; Leave-one-out cross validations; Machine learning methods; Matrix algebra; Multi-class classification; Nonnegative matrix factorization; Relative concentration; Spectra measurements; Statistical methods; Support vector machine (SVMs); Support vector machines; Tissue; Tissue engineering; Urology; dept.phy

Human blood biomarkers for glioma and meningioma detection by a portable visible resonance Raman analyzer - Zhang, Liang; Zhou, Yan; Zhang, Shengjia; Wu, Binlin; Zhu, Ke; Zhang, Chunyuan; Liu, Cheng-hui; Yu, Xinguang; Alfano, Robert R. (SPIE, 2021)
Recent reports pointed out that the application of optical spectroscopy in the field of liquid biopsy has aroused great interest among researchers and demonstrated the potential of its clinical application. We report a preliminary investigation on the visible resonance Raman (VRR) spectra of human brain blood liquid collected from the scalp and around the meningeal tumor during surgery and a set of venous blood samples from healthy people and glioma grade III patients using a portable VRR-LRRTM, HR800, HR-Evolution and WITec300 Raman systems in vivo and ex vivo. The biochemical fingerprints and molecular biomarkers were found. These findings indicate that if VRR spectroscopy technology is combined with polymerase chain reaction (PCR) or genetic molecular biomarker methods (VRR-PCR), it will greatly increase the possibility for its clinical application. © 2021 SPIE.
Keywords: Biomarkers; Biopsy; Blood; Clinical application; Healthy people; Molecular biomarker; Optical spectroscopy; Polymerase chain reaction; Raman systems; Resonance Raman; Spectroscopy; Spectroscopy technology; Tumors; Venous bloods; dept.phy

Identifying metastatic ability of prostate cancer cell lines using native fluorescence spectroscopy and machine learning methods - Xue, Jianpeng; Pu, Yang; Smith, Jason T.; Gao, Xin; Wang, Chun; Wu, Binlin (Scientific Reports, 2021)
Metastasis is the leading cause of mortalities in cancer patients due to the spreading of cancer cells to various organs. Detecting cancer and identifying its metastatic potential at the early stage is important. This may be achieved based on the quantification of the key biomolecular components within tissues and cells using recent optical spectroscopic techniques. The aim of this study was to develop a noninvasive label-free optical biopsy technique to retrieve the characteristic molecular information for detecting different metastatic potentials of prostate cancer cells. Herein we report using native fluorescence (NFL) spectroscopy along with machine learning (ML) to differentiate prostate cancer cells with different metastatic abilities. The ML algorithms including principal component analysis (PCA) and nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) were used for dimension reduction and feature detection. The characteristic component spectra were used to identify the key biomolecules that are correlated with metastatic potentials. The relative concentrations of the molecular spectral components were retrieved and used to classify the cancer cells with different metastatic potentials. A multi-class classification was performed using support vector machines (SVMs). The NFL spectral data were collected from three prostate cancer cell lines with different levels of metastatic potentials. The key biomolecules in the prostate cancer cells were identified to be tryptophan, reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) and hypothetically lactate as well. The cancer cells with different metastatic potentials were classified with high accuracy using the relative concentrations of the key molecular components. The results suggest that the changes in the relative concentrations of these key fluorophores retrieved from NFL spectra may present potential criteria for detecting prostate cancer cells of different metastatic abilities.
Keywords: Cell Line; Fluorescence; Humans; Lactic Acid; Machine Learning; Male; NAD; Neoplasm Metastasis; Principal Component Analysis; Prostatic Neoplasms; ROC Curve; Reproducibility of Results; Spectrometry; Support Vector Machine; Tryptophan; Tumor; dept.phy; diagnostic imaging; human; lactic acid; machine learning; male; metabolism; metastasis; nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide; pathology; principal component analysis; prostate tumor; receiver operating characteristic; reproducibility; spectrofluorometry; support vector machine; tryptophan; tumor cell line

Speckle imaging characterization of radial velocity exoplanet systems - Dalba, Paul A.; Kane, Stephen R.; Howell, Steve B; Horch, Elliott P; Li, Zhexing; Hirsch, Lea A.; Burt, Jennifer; Brandt, Timothy D.; Močnik, Teo; Henry, Gregory W. (Astronomical Journal, 2021)
We conducted speckle imaging observations of 53 stellar systems that were members of long-term radial velocity (RV) monitoring campaigns and exhibited substantial accelerations indicative of planetary or stellar companions in wide orbits. Our observations were made with blue and red filters using the Differential Speckle Survey Instrument at Gemini-South and the NN-Explore Exoplanet Stellar Speckle Imager at the WIYN telescope. The speckle imaging identifies eight luminous companions within 2" of the primary stars. In three of these systems-HD 1388, HD 87359, and HD 104304-the properties of the imaged companion are consistent with the RV measurements, suggesting that these companions may be associated with the primary and the cause of the RV variation. For all 53 stellar systems, we derive differential magnitude limits (i.e., contrast curves) from the imaging. We extend this analysis to include upper limits on companion mass in systems without imaging detections. In 25 systems, we rule out companions with masses greater than 0.2 M⊙, suggesting that the observed RV signals are caused by late-M dwarfs or substellar (potentially planetary) objects. On the other hand, the joint RV and imaging analysis almost entirely rules out planetary explanations of the RV signal for HD 19522 and suggests that the companion must have an angular separation below a few tenths of an arcsecond. This work highlights the importance of combined RV and imaging observations for characterizing the outer regions of nearby planetary systems. © 2021 Institute of Physics Publishing. All rights reserved.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Speckle observations of TESS exoplanet host stars: Understanding the binary exoplanet host star orbital period distribution - Howell, Steve B; Matson, Rachel A.; Ciardi, David R; Everett, Mark E; Livingston, John H.; Scott, Nicholas J; Horch, Elliott P; Winn, Joshua N (Astronomical Journal, 2021)
We present high-resolution speckle interferometric imaging observations of TESS exoplanet host stars using the NN-EXPLORE Exoplanet and Stellar Speckle Imager instrument at the 3.5 m WIYN telescope. Eight TESS objects of interest that were originally discovered by Kepler were previously observed using the Differential Speckle Survey Instrument. Speckle observations of 186 TESS stars were carried out, and 45 (24%) likely bound companions were detected. This is approximately the number of companions we would expect to observe given the established 46% binarity rate in exoplanet host stars. For the detected binaries, the distribution of stellar mass ratio is consistent with that of the standard Raghavan distribution and may show a decrease in high-q systems as the binary separation increases. The distribution of binary orbital periods, however, is not consistent with the standard Ragahavan model, and our observations support the premise that exoplanet-hosting stars with binary companions have, in general, wider orbital separations than field binaries. We find that exoplanet-hosting binary star systems show a distribution peaking near 100 au, higher than the 40–50 au peak that is observed for field binaries. This fact led to earlier suggestions that planet formation is suppressed in close binaries.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Helps my family survive hard times: An innovative summertime food relief program in new haven, connecticut - Zigmont, V.A.; Tomczak, S.M.; Bromage, B.; Vignola, A.; Gallup, P (Journal of Poverty, 2021)
To achieve healthy communities, addressing food insecurity (FI) is critical. This study describes a unique food distribution program combining a mobile Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) for children with a mobile pantry for adults. A survey (n = 153) of participants at six locations in New Haven Connecticut revealed that 36% reported FI and 76% were first-time pantry users. Three- quarters participated in SNAP, WIC, or both, and two-thirds had children who were fed by SFSP. Major federal programs do not eliminate FI, therefore local voluntary organizations are essential partners to address the food crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Keywords: dept.pch; dept.swk; peer-reviewed

Between You and Me: Transitional Comics - Councilor, K. C. (Drawbridge Press, 2019)
"Between You and Me: Transitional Comics is a collection of comics that reflects two transitions--from a person who doesn't draw to a cartoonist and from a butch lesbian to a transgender dude. I stopped drawing when I was a kid and didn't start drawing again until I was 33 years old and brave enough to take a course with Lynda Barry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In the four years since, I have continued working closely with her, and in that time, I have quite literally drawn myself into being. It was through the experience of drawing myself in the world on the page that allowed me to draw myself out into the world, to realize that I am transgender and that I wanted to transition--something I had been thinking about for nearly a decade but kept private and suppressed. The comics in Between You and Me reflect the experiences of a transgender and transitioning person navigating the profundities and mundanities of daily life and observing the world around him. Also present in the book is my transition from non-drawer to someone who identifies as a cartoonist. Though not linearly, readers will note a shift in the confidence of the line as my fluency as an artist increased. The book includes a back section that includes a letter to the reader, early sketchbook pages and commentary on being self-conscious, encouraging people to reclaim drawing as a form of self-expression and a way of looking at the world. The book concludes with a dialogue between me and Lynda Barry, a conversation between student and teacher about gender and drawing and discovery and identity and growing up and everything in between (and then some)! The book includes reflections that expand beyond my own life and experiences to address social issues. This comes from my grappling with the sincere belief that it is possible for people to fundamentally change--I don't think people actually want to be "haters"--while at the same time witnessing the violences of racist oppression, patriarchy, and homophobia. The book is entirely nonfiction, but it's not wholly a memoir, and certainly doesn't aim to represent any kind of authoritative version of trans experience. The specifics of my experiences of walking down the street, going to the bathroom, going through airport security or to the doctor, of coming out and not coming out are at once particular to my experience and resonate with the sticking points where many trans and gender-fluid people experience confusion, frustration, fear, and delight"--Author's website.
Keywords: Biography; Biography; Comic books, strips, etc; Biography; Female-to-male transsexuals; Biography; Female-to-male transsexuals; Female-to-male transsexuals; Cartoonists; Comic books, strips, etc; Comic books, strips, etc; Cartoonists; Comic books, strips, etc; Female-to-male transsexuals; United States; Medicine; dept.com; faculty_collection

Application of the Weathering Framework: Intersection of Racism, Stigma, and COVID-19 as a Stressful Life Event among African Americans - Wakeel, Fathima; Njoku, Anuli (Healthcare, 2021)
The disproportionate impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on African American communities necessitates an increased focus on the intersectional roles of racism, stigma, and other social determinants of health in influencing disease and mortality risk. The Weathering Framework is applied to demonstrate the dynamic interrelationships between these factors and to conceptualize COVID-19 as a stressful life event that will have profound health implications over the life course for African Americans. Recommendations for population health research, interventions and policies aimed at reducing COVID-19 incidence and mortality, and mitigation of the long-term impacts of the pandemic on communities of color are discussed.
Keywords: Blacks/African Americans; COVID-19/coronavirus; dept.pch; health disparities; peer-reviewed; race/ethnicity; racism; social determinants of health; stigma; systemic racism

DiaNet: A deep learning based architecture to diagnose diabetes using retinal images only - Islam, Mohammad Tariqul; Al-Absi, Hamada R. H.; Ruagh, Essam A.; Alam, Tanvir (IEEE Access, 2021)
Diabetes is one of the leading fatal diseases globally, putting a huge burden on the global healthcare system. Early diagnosis of diabetes is hence, of utmost importance and could save many lives. However, current techniques to determine whether a person has diabetes or has the risk of developing diabetes are primarily reliant upon clinical biomarkers. In this article, we propose a novel deep learning architecture to predict if a person has diabetes or not from a photograph of his/her retina. Using a relatively small-sized dataset, we develop a multi-stage convolutional neural network (CNN)-based model DiaNet that can reach an accuracy level of over 84% on this task, and in doing so, successfully identifies the regions on the retina images that contribute to its decision-making process, as corroborated by the medical experts in the field. This is the first study that highlights the distinguishing capability of the retinal images for diabetes patients in the Qatari population to the best of our knowledge. Comparing the performance of DiaNet against the existing clinical data-based machine learning models, we conclude that the retinal images contain sufficient information to distinguish the Qatari diabetes cohort from the control group. In addition, our study reveals that retinal images may contain prognosis markers for diabetes and other comorbidities like hypertension and ischemic heart disease. The results led us to believe that the inclusion of retinal images into the clinical setup for the diagnosis of diabetes is warranted in the near future.
Keywords: Clinical biomarkers; Convolutional neural network; Convolutional neural networks; Decision making; Decision making process; Deep learning; Diabetes; Diabetes patients; Diagnosis; Feature extraction; Health-care system; Ischemic heart disease; Learning architectures; Licenses; Machine learning models; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical experts; Medical imaging; Network architecture; Ophthalmology; Qatar; Qatar Biobank (QBB); Retina; Retinopathy; Task analysis; deep learning; dept.csc; diabetes; machine learning; retina

Public library events: Who, what, where, when, and why? - Kukiolczynski, Katie Teresa; Liu, Yan Quan (Public Library Quarterly, 2021)
An explorative survey pertaining to organization and execution of programs and events offered in public libraries across Connecticut revealed that library programs have been steadily increasing in recent years, with most libraries providing one hundred or more programs a year. The types of programs that are most popular vary throughout the library’s open hours. Children’s programming appears to be more popular during the day while adult programming is more popular in the evening. Program popularity is based on grouping and continuous support from external partners. While this study confirmed that both library space and library staff sizes are adequate for programming, a further investigation would assert that this is the case within nationwide library programming.
Keywords: Connecticut; Public libraries; dept.ils; library events; library programs; peer-reviewed

Science Next Door: Finding local resources for STEM assignments - Hellyar, Diana; Hedreen, Rebecca (Learning Revolution, 2020)
Keywords: dept.lib

Creation of a gamefish occurrence dataset from public-focused informational newsletters - Hedreen, Rebecca; Grace, Sean (2019 NEAFWA Conference, 2019)
Fish and wildlife agencies produce a bounty of information aimed at the public. Under the right circumstances, that information can be compiled into scientifically useful data to complement full scientific studies. This poster describes some preliminary results from a project to compile mentions of gamefish species, locations, and sizes throughout the Long Island Sound and surrounding waters from the Weekly Fishing Report (2006, 2008-2018) and the Trophy Fish Report (2009-2017), both produced by the Connecticut Dept. of Energy and Environmental Protection. The dataset consists of more than 20,000 entries from the reports collected weekly by DEEP employees from tackle shops and charter companies. The current portion of the analysis is to determine the characteristics of the dataset, such as entry types, species counts, and some general trends. Presented at the 2019 NEAFWA Conference in Groton, CT and the 2019 CSCU Faculty Research Conference at SCSU in New Haven, CT.
Keywords: Coastal fisheries; Connecticut; Data collections; Estuarine fisheries; Fish catch statistics; Game fish; Geographical coordinates; Geographical distribution; Life Sciences; Long Island Sound; Marine Biology; Sport fishing statistics; dept.bio; dept.lib

Mistress of Snow - Sonnenschein, Dana (Gingerbread House Literary Magazine, 2021)
Hinges creak, and she swirls in the door, puts her finger to blue lips. Cold takes the old woodcutter, eyes open, breath frozen in his beard.  But crystals melt in your lashes as you gaze on her gl…
Keywords: dept.eng

Satire, ecocentrism, and luddite discourse in One Hundred Years of Solitude: regional approaches for a global environmental crisis - Flores, William (Gabriel García Márquez in Retrospect: A Collection, 2016)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Retrospect gathers fifteen essays by noted scholars in the fields of Latin American literature, politics, and theater. The volume offers broad overviews of the Colombian author’s total body of work, along with closer looks at some of his acknowledged masterpieces. The Nobel laureate’s cultural contexts and influences, his variety of themes, and his formidable legacy (Hispanic, U.S., world-wide) all come up for consideration. New readings of One Hundred Years of Solitude are further complemented by fresh, stimulating, highly detailed examinations of his later novels (Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The General in His Labyrinth, Of Love and Other Demons) and stories (Strange Pilgrims). Further attention is focused on “Gabo’s” labors as journalist and as memoirist (Living to Tell the Tale), and to his sometime relationships with the cinema and the stage. Reactions to his enormous stature on the part of younger writers, including recent signs of backlash, are also given thoughtful scrutiny. Feminist and ecocritical interpretations, plus lively discussions of Gabo’s artful use of humor, character’s names, and even cuisine, are to be found here as well. In the wake of García Márquez’s passing away in 2014, this collection of essays serves as a fitting tribute to one of the world’s greatest literary figures of the twentieth century.
Keywords: Literary Criticism / Caribbean & Latin American; Literary Criticism / General; Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century; dept.wll

Ecocrítica Poscolonial Y Literatura Moderna Latinoamericana - Flores, William (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Fondo Editorial, 2015)
Keywords: 21st century; History and criticism; Ecocriticism; Latin America; Ecocriticism in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Environmentalism in literature; Ecology in literature; Latin American fiction; dept.wll; faculty_collection

Photovoice for Social Justice: Visual Representation in Action - Breny, Jean M. (Qualitative research methods ; v. 59, 2021)
"Photovoice for Social Justice, the latest volume in Sage's Qualitative Research Methods Series, helps readers in the health and social sciences learn the foundations and applications of this exciting qualitative method. Authors Jean M. Breny and Shannon L. McMorrow approach photovoice as not only a community-based participatory research method, but as a method for social justice, centering community participants, organizations, and policy makers at the heart of this research method. Special topics relating to social justice include a focus on ethics and working with marginalized communities, sensitive concerns during data collection, and presenting the work to communities and policymakers, as well as academics. Written for students and researchers new to photovoice, this brief text takes readers from the process of conceptualizing and implementing a photovoice study to analyzing data and finally presenting the results of the study. The book concludes with suggestions for future iterations of photovoice, including web based resources and digital storytelling. The authors take into account the realities of photovoice as a method by providing practical, applied tools including sample consent forms, presentations, recruitment flyers, and photo-taking tips. Using Photovoice for Social Justice, new and experienced researchers can design, implement, and analyze their photovoice projects" --
Keywords: Methodology; Medicine; Methodology; Photography in the social sciences; Participant observation; Action research; Research; Social aspects; Social service; dept.pch; faculty_collection

Book Review: Superpredators: The Demonization of Our Children by the Law, by Peter Elikann, Perseus Publishing, 1999. - Kenty, Jessica L. (Bimonthly Review of Law Books, 2000)
Keywords: book.review; dept.soc; ⛔ No DOI found

Connecticut - Kenty-Drane, Jessica L.; Prince-Stewart, Jamilah (Sociology of Education: An A-to-Z Guide, 2013)
The sociology of education is a rich interdisciplinary field that studies schools as their own social world as well as their place within the larger society. The field draws contributions from education, sociology, human development, family studies, economics, politics and public policy. Sociology of Education: An A-to-Z Guide introduces students to the social constructions of our educational systems and their many players, including students and their peers, teachers, parents, the broader community, politicians and policy makers. The roles of schools, the social processes governing schooling, and impacts on society are all critically explored. Despite an abundance of textbooks and specialized monographs, there are few up-to-date reference works in this area. Features & Benefits: 335 signed entries fill 2 volumes in print and electronic formats, providing the most comprehensive reference resource available on this topic. Cross-References and Suggestions for Further Reading guide readers to additional resources. A thematic "Reader's Guide" groups related articles by broad topic areas as one handy search feature on the e-Reference platform, which also includes a comprehensive index of search terms, facilitating ease of use by both on-campus students and distance learners. A Chronology provides students with historical perspective on the sociology of education.
Keywords: dept.soc

Wealth and education - Kenty-Drane, Jessica L. (Sociology of Education: An A-to-Z Guide, 2013)
The sociology of education is a rich interdisciplinary field that studies schools as their own social world as well as their place within the larger society. The field draws contributions from education, sociology, human development, family studies, economics, politics and public policy. Sociology of Education: An A-to-Z Guide introduces students to the social constructions of our educational systems and their many players, including students and their peers, teachers, parents, the broader community, politicians and policy makers. The roles of schools, the social processes governing schooling, and impacts on society are all critically explored. Despite an abundance of textbooks and specialized monographs, there are few up-to-date reference works in this area. Features & Benefits: 335 signed entries fill 2 volumes in print and electronic formats, providing the most comprehensive reference resource available on this topic. Cross-References and Suggestions for Further Reading guide readers to additional resources. A thematic "Reader's Guide" groups related articles by broad topic areas as one handy search feature on the e-Reference platform, which also includes a comprehensive index of search terms, facilitating ease of use by both on-campus students and distance learners. A Chronology provides students with historical perspective on the sociology of education.
Keywords: dept.soc

Early Isolation: Racial and Economic Segregation in U.S. Public Elementary Schools - Kenty-Drane, Jessica L. (Race, Gender & Class, 2009)
The literature shows that racially and economically segregated schools diminish educational outcomes for students in non white schools with impoverished peers (Frankenberg & Lee, 2002; Mayer, 2000). To reveal which children are apt to begin their education in high minority and poor schools, this study drew on nationally representative data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study. Evidence documents variations in school racial and economic contexts according to children's race and social class backgrounds. Over half of Black and Hispanic first-graders attend segregated minority and poor schools while very few White first-graders do so. Additional analyses reveal that while social class is a useful predictor of educational segregation, it is less predictive for Black and Asian students than for White and Hispanic students.
Keywords: dept.soc; ⛔ No DOI found

The racial wealth gap - Shapiro, Thomas M.; Kenty-Drane, Jessica L. (African Americans in the U.S. Economy, 2005)
Over the last several decades, academic discourse on racial inequality has focused primarily on political and social issues with significantly less attention on the complex interplay between race and economics. African Americans in the U.S. Economy represents a contribution to recent scholarship that seeks to lessen this imbalance. This book builds upon, and significantly extends, the principles, terminology, and methods of standard economics and black political economy. Influenced by path-breaking studies presented in several scholarly economic journals, this volume is designed to provide a political-economic analysis of the past and present economic status of African Americans. The chapters in this volume represent the work of some of the nation's most distinguished scholars on the various topics presented. The individual chapters cover several well-defined areas, including black employment and unemployment, labor market discrimination, black entrepreneurship, racial economic inequality, urban revitalization, and black economic development. The book is written in a style free of the technical jargon that characterizes most economics textbooks. While the book is methodologically sophisticated, it is accessible to a wide range of students and the general public and will appeal to academicians and practitioners alike.
Keywords: Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies; dept.soc

Juvenile delinquency - Kenty-Drane, Jessica L. (Men and masculinities: a social, cultural, and historical encyclopedia, 2004)
This reference analyzes, summarizes, and explains the complexities of men's lives and the idea of modern manhood. It looks at literature, art, and music from a gender perspective, and covers intimacy, sexual violence, pornography, sexism and rituals.
Keywords: dept.soc

Plenty of barbarians, but no bird's milk: The depiction of Russia in German school books, 1890-1914 - Paddock, Troy R. E. (Internationale Schulbuchforschung, 1998)
This article examines the description of Russia in German history and geography textbooks. Nineteenth-century German pedagogical theory linked the natural sciences and the human sciences; the connection supplies further evidence of the perceived organic nature of the nation-state. Although regional and confessional differences among the German states affected the description of German history, the depiction of Russia was consistent. Russia was depicted as a barbaric, backward, and Asiatic empire. The implicit, and often explicit, comparison in the texts was between Russia and Germany. The description of a foreign power served to reinforce German national identity. Moreover, an examination of German geography and history textbooks reveals striking similarities between the perception of Russia in Germany and the Anglo-French depiction of the Near East. Dieser Aufsatz befaßt sich mit dem Rußlandbild in deutschen Schulbüchern für Geschichte und Geographie. Deutsche Pädagogik im 19. Jahrhundert verband die Naturwissenschaft mit der Geisteswissenschaft; diese Verbindung ist noch ein Beweis für die Auf- fassung des Nationalstaats als organisches Wesen. Obwohl regionale und konfessionelle Unterschiede unter den deutschen Ländern die Darstellung von deutscher Geschichte beeinflußten, war die Schilderung von Rußland übereinstimmend. Rußland wurde als ein barbarisches, rückständiges, asiatisches Reich gezeichnet. Der unausgesprochene, und manchmal doch ausgesprochene Vergleich in den Büchern galt Deutschland und Rußland. Die Darstellung der fremden Macht verstärkte die deutsche Nationalidentität. Außerdem enthüllt eine Untersuchung der Schulbücher überraschende Ähnlichkeiten zwischen der deutschen Beschreibung von Rußland und den englischen und französischen Darstellungen des Nahen Osten. L'auteur de cet article analyse l'image de la Russie dans les manuels scolaires allemands d'histoire et de géographie. La pédagogie allemande du 19ème siècle faisait le lien entre les sciences naturelles et les sciences humaines; cette association fournit une preuve supplémentaire du fait que l'Etat-nation était perçu comme un organisme vivant. Alors que les différences régionales et confessionnelles existant entre les différents Etats allemands influençaient la présentation de l'histoire allemande, la description de la Russie était concordante. La Russie était dépeinte comme un empire barbare, arriéré et asiatique. La comparaison implicite, et souvent explicite des textes scolaires concernait la Russie et l'Allemagne. La représentation d'une puissance étrangère servait à renforcer l'identité allemande. En outre, l'analyse de ces manuels révèle des ressemblances étonnantes entre la perception de la Russie et les portraits français et anglais du Proche-Orient.
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Dobra ruska miza, slaba ruska miza - Thomas Mann in nemški orientalizem - Paddock, Troy R. E. (Borec, 2004)
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Rethinking Friedrich Meinecke's historicism - Paddock, Troy R. E. (Rethinking History, 2006)
This essay revisits the work of the German historian Friedrich Meinecke and offers new interpretation of his major works, Weltbürgertum und Nationalstaat (1907), Die Ideen der Staatsräson in der neuen Geschichte (1924), and Die Entstehung des Historismus (1936). The standard interpretation of Meinecke's work maintains that World War I caused a break in his thinking and caused him to rethink the role of power in the state. By stressing the first half of Weltbürgertum rather than the second, this article delineates a continuity of Meinecke's thought and points to the limitations of historicism as a historical narrative. It offers a possible explanation for how the conservative implications in the thought of an individual, who personally and politically was a Vernuftrepublikaner, could escape the author himself. This article also discusses what could be called the classical liberal critique of Meinecke's historicism, points to some of its limitations, and offers a more measured criticism of Meinecke that examines him on his own terms—and finds him wanting.
Keywords: Classical liberalism; Historicism; Historiography; Meinecke; Natural law; State; dept.his

Bridges: Technology and the Social - Paddock, Troy R. E. (Environment, Space, Place, 2010)
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Teaching the Great War through Peace - Shortell, Catherine K.; Paddock, Troy R. E. (The History Teacher, 2011)
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“No Man’s Land”: Forbidden and Subversive Space in War - Paddock, Troy R. E. (Environment, Space, Place, 2013)
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Building within space: thoughts towards an environmental ethics - Paddock, Troy (Ethics in Progress, 2014)
The need for constructing an environmental ethics that keeps sustainability in mind is the result of a collision of the realization that the natural environment is neither limitless nor impervious to actions with a view of nature that has been fundamentally instrumentalist and anthropocentric. This paper will borrow from architectural theory in an effort to do two things: First, it will point to some of the limitations of an anthropocentric view of nature and how it impacts efforts to influence environmental policy; second, it will suggest that ideas from Aristotle and Actor Network Theory can help to provide a paradigm within which we can think about nature in a way that offers an alternative framing of questions about the environment.
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Performing Politics - Paddock, Troy R. E. (Contemporary Aesthetics, 2015)
Walter Benjamin’s observation that fascism turns politics into aesthetics is, by now, a well-worn idea. This article argues that Benjamin’s critique of politics can apply just as much to the modern democratic politics of the United States. Borrowing from Benjamin, Jürgen Habermas, and Carl Schmitt, this article suggests that modern political discourse in the United States does not follow the classical liberal ideal of rational discourse in the marketplace of ideas within the public sphere. Instead, contemporary politics has become spectacle where images and slogans replace thought and debate in a 24/7 news cycle and political infotainment programs. The result is that progressives and conservatives have their own political “ecospheres” which enable them to have their own perspective reinforced, and debate is replaced by straw man arguments and personal attacks.
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Spatial relations and the struggle for space: Friedrich Ratzel’s impact on German education from the Wilhelmine Empire to the Third Reich - Paddock, Troy (Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society, 2016)
This article examines the influence of Friedrich Ratzel’s idea of the struggle for space and its impact on cultural and national development depicted in German geography and history textbooks from the Wilhelmine era to the Third Reich. Ratzel’s concept of bio-geography conceived the state as a living organism that is the product of humanity’s interaction with the land and also facilitates humanity’s spread across the earth. German textbooks promoted a similar concept of the state in their portrayal of geography and history, the implications of which were appropriated by the National Socialists to support their geopolitical goals.
Keywords: Education; Friedrich ratzel; Geography instruction; History instruction; National identity; State; Textbooks; dept.his

Historiker als Politiker - Paddock, Troy R. E. (Russen und Russland aus deutscher Sicht: 19./20. Jahrhundert: Von der Bismarckzeit bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg, 2000)
Reprinted in Zauber und Abwehr. Aur Kultutgeschichte der deutsch-russiachen Beziehungen, Dagmar Hermann and Mechthild Keller, eds. (Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2003)
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Land makes the man: topography and national character in german school books - Paddock, Troy R. E. (Lived topographies and their mediational forces, 2005)
"This collection explores the various forms of narrative, semiotic, and technological mediation that shape the experience of place. From the East End of London to Navajo lands to Ground Zero, Lived Topographies examines the great effect of language, mass media, surveillance, and other incursions of the contemporary world on topographical experience and description. Gary Backhaus and John Murungi have assembled a wide array of scholars to provide an interdisciplinary approach to this subject, giving this collection a unique perspective on the phenomenology of place."--Jacket.
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Chronoscapes/chronos escapes: a meditation on historical time - Paddock, Troy R. E. (Ecoscapes: geographical patternings of relations, 2006)
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Is one world enough for all of us?: Thoughts on globalization - Paddock, Troy R. E. (Dangers in the incommensurability of globalization: socio-political volatilities, 2008)
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A Call to Arms: Propaganda, Public Opinion, and Newspapers in the Great War - Paddock, Troy R. E. (Perspectives on the twentieth century, 2004)
World War I highlighted the influence of newspapers in rousing and maintaining public support for the war effort. Discussions of the role of the press in the Great War have, to date, largely focused on atrocity stories. This book offers the first comparative analysis of how newspapers in Great Britain, France, Russia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary attempted to define war, its objectives, and the enemy. Presented country-by-country, expert essays examine, through use of translated articles from the contemporary press, how newspapers of different nations defined the war for their readership and t., World War I highlighted the influence of newspapers in rousing and maintaining public support for the war effort. Discussions of the role of the press in the Great War have, to date, largely focused on atrocity stories. This book offers the first comparative analysis of how newspapers in Great Britain, France, Russia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary attempted to define war, its objectives, and the enemy. Presented country-by-country, expert essays examine, through use of translated articles from the contemporary press, how newspapers of different nations defined the war for their readership and t
Keywords: Press coverage; Propaganda; World War, 1914-1918; Public opinion; Press and propaganda; War; World War, 1914-1918; dept.his; faculty_collection

Creating the Russian Peril: Education, the Public Sphere, and National Identity in Imperial Germany, 1890-1914 - Paddock, Troy R. E. (Camden House, 2010)
German attitudes toward and stereotypes of Russia before the First World War and how they were inculcated in the public.
Keywords: 1871-1918; 19th century; Education; 19th century; Nationalism; 20th century; Germany; 20th century; Nationalism; Foreign public opinion, German; Russia; Germany; Germany; Germany; Germany; Russia; History; History; Education; Political aspects; Press coverage; Public opinion; Relations; Russia; Russia; SCSU Faculty Scholar Award; award_winner; dept.his; faculty_collection

World War I and Propaganda - Paddock, Troy R. E. (History of warfare, 2014)
World War I and Propaganda offers a new look at a familiar subject. The contributions to this volume demonstrate that the traditional view of propaganda as top-down manipulation is no longer plausible. Drawing from a variety of sources, scholars examine the complex negotiations involved in propaganda within the British Empire, in occupied territories, in neutral nations, and how war should be conducted. Propaganda was tailored to meet local circumstances and integrated into a larger narrative in which the war was not always the most important issue. Issues centering on local politics, national identity, preservation of tradition, or hopes of a brighter future all played a role in different forms of propaganda. Contributors are Christopher Barthel, Donata Blobaum, Robert Blobaum, Mourad Djebabla, Christopher Fischer, Andrew T. Jarboe, Elli Lemonidou, David Monger, Javier Pounce,Catriona Pennell, Anne Samson, Richard Smith, Kenneth Andrew Steuer, María Inés Tato, and Lisa Todd.
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Notes on the state of Virginia: an annotated edition - Jefferson, Thomas; Forbes, Robert Pierce (Yale University Press, 2021)
Keywords: Description and travel; Early works to 1800; Early works to 1800; Virginia; History; Virginia; dept.his; faculty_collection

Abolition and Antislavery: United States - Forbes, Robert P. (A Historical Guide to World Slavery, 1998)
Eminent scholars provide an overview of what we now know about slavery as an institution and way of life in cultures around the globe from ancient times to the present day. Drawing on the virtual explosion of empirical research and theoretical discussion on the subject over the past thirty years, many of the articles overturn conventional wisdom and illuminate little-known aspects of the subject, with essays on topics such as concubinage, eunuchs, and occupational mobility.
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Slavery and the Evangelical Enlightenment - Forbes, Robert Pierce (Religion and the Antebellum Debate Over Slavery, 1998)
Keywords: 19th century; 19th century; Slavery; History; History / United States / 19th Century; Slavery and the church; Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies; Social Science / Sociology of Religion; United States; dept.his; faculty_collection

Francis Kernan: The Life and Times of a 19th Century, Citizen-Politician of Upstate New York - Kernan, Karen Clemens; Kernan, John Devereux; Forbes, Robert P. (Oneida County Historical Society, 1999)
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"Foreword," special issue on "New Perspectives on the Transatlanic Slave Trade - Forbes, Robert P.; Davis, David Brion (William & Mary Quarterly, 2005)
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'Truth Systematised’: The Changing Debate over Slavery and Abolition - Forbes, Robert P. (Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism, 2006)
The first collection of original contributions on American abolitionism to appear in a generation.The campaign to abolish slavery in the United States was the most powerful and effective social movement of the nineteenth century and has served as a recurring source of inspiration for every subsequent struggle against injustice. But the abolitionist story has traditionally focused on the evangelical impulses of white, male, middle-class reformers, obscuring the contributions of many African Americans, women, and others.Prophets of Protest, the first collection of writings on abolitionism in more than a generation, draws on an immense new body of research in African American studies, literature, art history, film, law, women's studies, and other disciplines. The book incorporates new thinking on such topics as the role of early black newspapers, anti-slavery poetry, and abolitionists in film and provides new perspectives on familiar figures such as Sojourner Truth, Louisa May Alcott, Frederick Douglass, and John Brown.With contributions from the leading scholars in the field, Prophets of Protest is a long overdue update of one of the central reform movements in America's history.
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The Missouri Compromise and Its Aftermath: Slavery and the Meaning of America - Forbes, Robert P. (University of North Carolina Press, 2007)
Robert Pierce Forbes goes behind the scenes of the crucial Missouri Compromise, the most important sectional crisis before the Civil War, to reveal the high-level deal-making, diplomacy, and deception that defused the crisis, including the central, unexpected role of President James Monroe. Although Missouri was allowed to join the union with slavery, the compromise in fact closed off nearly all remaining federal territories to slavery.When Congressman James Tallmadge of New York proposed barring slavery from the new state of Missouri, he sparked the most candid discussion of slavery ever held in Congress. The southern response quenched the surge of nationalism and confidence following the War of 1812 and inaugurated a new politics of racism and reaction. The South's rigidity on slavery made it an alluring electoral target for master political strategist Martin Van Buren, who emerged as the key architect of a new Democratic Party explicitly designed to mobilize southern unity and neutralize antislavery sentiment. Forbes's analysis reveals a surprising national consensus against slavery a generation before the Civil War, which was fractured by the controversy over Missouri.
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The Missouri Controversy and Sectionalism - Forbes, Robert P. (Congress and the Emergence of Sectionalism: From the Missouri Compromise to the Age of Jackson, 2008)
In 1815 the United States was a proud and confident nation. Its second war with England had come to a successful conclusion, and Americans seemed united as never before. The collapse of the Federalist party left the Jeffersonian Republicans in control of virtually all important governmental offices. This period of harmony—what historians once called the Era of Good Feeling—was not illusory, but it was far from stable. One-party government could not persist for long in a vibrant democracy full of ambitious politicians, and sectional harmony was possible only as long as no one addressed the hard issues: slavery, race, western expansion, and economic development.Congress and the Emergence of Sectionalism: From the Missouri Compromise to the Age of Jackson inaugurates a new series for the United States Capitol Historical Society, one that will focus on issues that led to the secession crisis and the Civil War. This first volume examines controversies surrounding sectionalism and the rise of Jacksonian Democracy, placing these sources of conflict in the context of congressional action in the 1820s and 1830s. The essays in this volume consider the plight of American Indians, sectional strife over banking and commerce, emerging issues involving slavery, and the very nature of American democracy.“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes…. There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing. In the act before me there seems to be a wide and unnecessary departure from these just principles.”—Andrew Jackson, Veto Message Regarding the Bank of the United States, July 10, 1832“I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.”—Andrew Jackson, Proclamation Regarding Nullification to the People of South Carolina, December 10, 1832
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Trust and Violence in Atlantic History: The Economic Worlds of Venture Smith - Forbes, Robert P.; Richardson, David; Chandler, B. Saint (Venture Smith and the Business of Slavery and Freedom, 2010)
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Eliade, Joyce, and the Terror of History - Forbes, Robert P. (CrossCurrents, 1986)
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Connecticut Connections: African American Sites in Connecticut: A Laboratory for the History of Slavery and Human Rights - Forbes, Robert P. (Connecticut History Review, 2005)
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“The Cause of This Blackness”: The Early American Republic and the Construction of Race - Forbes, Robert Pierce (American Nineteenth Century History, 2012)
Race is routinely defined as “socially constructed,” from which it follows that there was a time before its construction. What that time looked like, and how Africans were then viewed by white Americans, is difficult to perceive from a vantage point within the paradigm of race. This essay considers important but neglected cultural referents to argue that a binary distinction between black and white did not emerge on theoretical grounds until the 1780s, when Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia shrewdly redirected growing challenges to slavery into quasi-metaphysical reflections on the gulf between whites and blacks.
Keywords: Thomas Jefferson; dept.his; race

"Grating the Nutmeg: Slavery, Race and Sectionalism in Connecticut from the Colonial Era to the Civil War" - Forbes, Robert Pierce (Connecticut History, 2013)
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’We Here Highly Resolve’: The End of Compromise and the Return of Revolutionary Time - Forbes, Robert Pierce (Conceived in Liberty: Perspectives on Lincoln at Gettysburg, 2015)
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Feelings Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Le Hénand, Alice (Twirl Books, 2019)
It’s never too early to encourage children to talk about how they feel. This newest title in the Pull and …
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Who Lives Where? Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Babin, Stephanie (Twirl Books, 2019)
Sliding panels of animals near and far make for a delightful and satisfying format for matching game fun! Each of …
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Construction Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Babin, Stephanie (Twirl Books, 2019)
Bumpy roads, rough wood beams, and smooth concrete—there’s so much to discover in this Touch and ExploreTM book that’s all …
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Super Mazes in Space! Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Méhée, Loïc (Twirl Books, 2019)
Ten incredible mazes combine with a space adventure to provide a stellar game book for every puzzle-solving kid! Comics artist …
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Cars Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Krasinski, Geraldine (Twirl Books, 2019)
Turn a wheel to see cars of yesteryear, slide a new car onto a car carrier, pull a tab to …
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Yoga Together! Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Jouanne, Elisabeth (Twirl Books, 2019)
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Body Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Babin, Stephanie (Twirl Books, 2019)
Big, sturdy tabs to push and pull make for great learning fun in this brand-new nonfiction series. Preschool children learn …
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Baby Animals Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Babin, Stephanie (Twirl Books, 2019)
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Pirates Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Adams, Ines (Twirl Books, 2019)
Heave ho! Set sail on a high-seas adventure with swashbuckling pirates in search of treasure in this new Magnetology™ title. …
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Savanna Animals Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Dussaussois, Sophie (Twirl Books, 2019)
Take a trek into the wild . . . • Hunting for food • Building homes • Keeping cool • …
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Astronauts Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Dussaussois, Sophie (Twirl Books, 2019)
Count down to an incredible voyage! • Learning to pilot a spacecraft • Getting used to being weightless • Going …
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Jungle Animals Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Mazas, Marie (Twirl Books, 2019)
The shaggy fur of a sloth, the scaly skin of an iguana, and the rough hide of a tapir—there’s so …
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Bathtime Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Le Hénand, Alice (Twirl Books, 2019)
Little Crocodile, Little Monkey, and all their friends can think of a lot more things they’d rather do than take …
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Ultimate Book of Planet Earth Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Baumann, Anne-Sophie (Twirl Books, 2019)
The internationally successful Ultimate Book series expands its scope to embrace-very appropriately-the whole world! The Ultimate Book of Planet Earth …
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Badadoom Badabump! Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Baou, Bartélémi (Twirl Books, 2019)
Inspiring imagination and encouraging hours of creative play, Badaboom Badabump! is an innovative play set that not only includes a …
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Mealtime Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Le Hénand, Alice (Twirl Books, 2020)
Little Crocodile, Little Monkey, and all their friends may not like to try new foods or know what to do …
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Whose Baby is This? Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Babin, Stephanie (Twirl Books, 2020)
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Brothers and Sisters Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Le Hénand, Alice (Twirl Books, 2020)
Little Crocodile, Little Monkey, and all their friends have siblings—siblings who take their things, make a mess, or just get …
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Mr. Lion Dresses Up! Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Teckentrup, Britta (Twirl Books, 2020)
How exciting! Mr. Lion has been invited to a party! But what will he wear? A handsome suit . . …
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Trains Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Prénat, Sophie (Twirl Books, 2020)
All aboard! Chock-full of fascinating facts, Ultimate SpotlightTM Trains offers young readers a closer look into the marvelous world of …
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Animals at Night Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Hedelin, Pascale (Twirl Books, 2020)
The fluffy feathers of an owl, the bumpy skin of a toad, and the thick fur of a river otter—there’s …
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Miki Takes a Bath Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Babin, Stephanie (Twirl Books, 2020)
Splish-splash! Miki’s taking a bath! Bathtime couldn’t be more fun with Miki showing how it’s done in this delightful pop-up …
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The Ultimate Book of Horses Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Laboucarie, Sandra (Twirl Books, 2020)
Horses are amazing creatures! The Ultimate Book of Horses provides hours of hands-on discovery and includes age-appropriate information on the …
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Magnetology: Vehicles Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Baumann, Anne-Sophie (Twirl Books, 2020)
Take a ride—whether it’s on a boat, plane, or on a rocket ship! Kids can use the 45 magnetic pieces included to fill 5 oversized scenes in this Magnetology™ title. The all-in-one play set features fascinating information, just right for its audience, about all types of vehicles: those that travel on the road, on a farm
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Who Does What? Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Babin, Stephanie (Twirl Books, 2020)
Who gathers honey? Who designs clothes? Who makes lunch for students?  So many jobs can be found in this delightful and satisfying sliding panel format for preschoolers. The 36 panels feature jobs in various settings: in the orchestra, at the market, at school, and more! Each new spread offers clues to the right respon
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Mr. Bear's Birthday Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Aracil, Virginie (Twirl Books, 2020)
Mr. Bear is having a birthday party, and everyone is welcome! It doesn’t matter if you’re big, small, don’t have teeth, or are afraid of the dark . . . you’re invited! In this wonderfully illustrated oversize book that celebrates inclusion as well as a special day, Mr. Bear’s Birthday also includes lots of gifts—with f
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Patience Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Le Hénand, Alice (Twirl Books, 2020)
Waiting is not easy, whether it’s waiting to play with a toy or to eat a snack. And Little Kangaroo, Little Cat, and their friends are just not sure that they can be patient. But as their grown-ups show them, being patient doesn’t have to be boring or unbearable. There are many fun things they can do while they wait! C
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City Mazes Around the World Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Babin, Stephanie (Twirl Books, 2020)
From New York City to Tokyo and Berlin to Sydney, the streets of the 15 cities included in this book are filled with a fascinating showcase of local landmarks and awesome attractions. How will you get from the Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park in New York City? Or find your way to Topkapi Palace in Istanbul? Each spread
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[Three Poems] Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Bancquart, Marie-Claire (Ezra: An Online Journal of Translations, 2009)
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[Two Poems] Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Bancquart, Marie-Claire (Ozone Park Journal, 2010)
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Max Ernst Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Bancquart, Marie-Claire (Qarrtsiluni Online Literary Magazine, 2011)
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[Seven Poems] Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Bancquart, Marie-Claire (The Dirty Goat, 2011)
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[Five Poems] Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Bancquart, Marie-Claire (TWO LINES Online, 2012)
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