Equalizing opportunities to learn: A collaborative approach to language and literacy development in preschool - Raynolds, Laura B.; Gillis, Margie B; Matos, Cristina; Carpini, Kate Delli (Young Children, 2019)
Keywords: dept.cur; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

The lower limb of Ardipithecus ramidus - Simpson, Scott W.; Levin, Naomi E.; Quade, Jay; Rogers, Michael; Semaw, Sileshi (American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2019)
Keywords: dept.ant; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

The proton–Ω correlation function in Au + Au collisions at sNN=200GeV - STAR Collaboration (Physics Letters B, 2019)
We present the first measurement of the proton correlation function in heavy-ion collisions for the central (0–40%) and peripheral (40–80%) Au + Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV by the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC). Predictions for the ratio of peripheral collisions to central collisions for the proton correlation function are sensitive to the presence of a nucleon bound state. These predictions are based on the proton interaction extracted from (2+1)-flavor lattice QCD calculations at the physical point. The measured ratio of the proton correlation function between the peripheral (small system) and central (large system) collisions is less than unity for relative momentum smaller than 40 MeV/c. Comparison of our measured correlation ratio with theoretical calculation slightly favors a proton bound system with a binding energy of ∼ 27 MeV.
Keywords: Correlations; Femtoscopy; NΩ dibaryon; dept.phy; peer-reviewed

The potential of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for autism spectrum disorder: A consensus statement - Cole, Eleanor J.; Enticott, Peter G.; Oberman, Lindsay M.; Gwynette, M. Frampton; Casanova, Manuel F.; Jackson, Scott L. J.; Jannati, Ali; McPartland, James C.; Naples, Adam J.; Puts, Nicolaas A. J.; Albein-Urios, Natalia; Barnett, Carol; et al. (Biological Psychiatry, 2019)
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affects approximately 1 in 59 children, but there are currently no biomedical treatments available that target the core symptoms (1). Preliminary evidence suggests that repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) may have the potential to alleviate difficulties experienced by individuals with ASD (2). The evidence supporting the use of rTMS for ASD has led researchers in the field to form a consensus group that has met annually since 2014. Here we summarize discussions from the most recent meeting in May 2017, including recommendations for future research directions.
Keywords: dept.aa; peer-reviewed

Louis Lowy - Sozialarbeit unter extremen Bedingungen: Lehren aus dem Holocaust - Gardella, Lorrie Greenhouse (Lambertus-Verlag, 2019)
Keywords: dept.swk

Re-imaging student learning through arts and literacy - Shaw, Louise J.; Valerie, Lynda M. (Journal for Learning through the Arts: A Research Journal on Arts Integration in Schools and Communities, 2019)
Keywords: dept.cur; peer-reviewed

Book Review: Viet Nam: A history from earliest times to the present. - Thompson, C. Michele (Journal of Asian Studies, 2019)
Keywords: book.review; dept.his

Effect of hospitalizations on physical activity patterns in mobility-limited older adults - Wanigatunga, Amal A.; Gill, Thomas M.; Marsh, Anthony P.; Hsu, Fang-Chi; Yaghjyan, Lusine; Woods, Adam J.; Glynn, Nancy W.; King, Abby C.; Newton, Jr., Robert L.; Fielding, Roger A.; Pahor, Marco; Manini, Todd M.; et al. (Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2019)
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the effect of hospitalizations on patterns of sedentary and physical activity time in mobility-limited older adults randomized to structured physical activity or health education. DESIGN: Secondary analysis of investigator-blinded, parallel-group, randomized trial conducted at 8 U.S. centers between February 2010 and December 2013. PARTICIPANTS: Sedentary men and women aged 70 to 89 at baseline who wore a hip-fitted accelerometer 7 consecutive days at baseline and 6, 12, and 24 months after randomization (N=1,341). MEASUREMENTS: Participants were randomized to a physical activity (PA; n = 669) intervention that included aerobic, resistance, and flexibility training or to a health education (HE; n = 672) intervention that consisted of workshops on older adult health and light upper-extremity stretching. Accelerometer patterns were characterized as bouts of sedentary (¡100 counts/min; ¿= 1, ¿= 10, ¿= 30, ¿= 60 minute lengths) and activity (¿= 100 counts/min; ¿= 1, ¿= 2, ¿= 5, ¿= 10 minute lengths) time. Each participant was categorized as having 0, 1 to 3, or 4 or more cumulative hospital days before each accelerometer assessment. RESULTS: Hospitalization increased sedentary time similarly in both intervention groups (8 min/d for 1-3 cumulative hospital days and 16 min/d for ¿= 4 cumulative hospital days). Hospitalization was also associated with less physical activity time across all bouts of less than 10 minutes (¿= 1: -7 min/d for 1-3 cumulative hospital days, -16 min/d for ¿= 4 cumulative hospital days; ¿= 2: -5 min/d for 1-3 cumulative hospital days, -11 min/d for ¿= 4 cumulative hospital days; ¿= 5: -3 min/d for 1-3 cumulative hospital days, -4 min/d for ¿= 4 cumulative hospital days). There was no evidence of recovery to prehospitalization levels (time effect p ¿ .41). PA participants had less sedentary time in bouts of less than 30 minutes than HE participants (-8 to -10 min/d) and more total activity (+3 to +6 min/d), although hospital-related changes were similar between the intervention groups (interaction effect p ¿ .26). CONCLUSION: Participating in a PA intervention before hospitalization had expected benefits, but participants remained susceptible to hospitalization's detrimental effects on their daily activity levels. There was no evidence of better activity recovery after hospitalization.
Keywords: accelerometer; clinical trial; dept.hms; exercise; hospital; peer-reviewed; sedentary behavior

Boxing in the ancient world - Nakamura, Byron J. (The Cambridge Companion to Boxing, 2019)
Keywords: dept.his

A pilot study for distinguishing basal cell carcinoma from normal human skin tissues using visible resonance Raman spectroscopy - Liu, Cheng-hui; Wu, Binlin; Sordillo, Laura A.; Boydston-White, Susie; Sriramoju, Vidyasagar; Zhang, Chunyuan; Beckman, Hugh; Zhang, Lin; Pei, Zhe; Shi, Lingyan; Alfano, Robert R. (Journal of Cancer Metastasis and Treatment, 2019)
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Orbits of 14 binaries based on 2018 SOAR speckle observations - Docobo, José A; Gomez, Jorge; Campo, Pedro P; Andrade, Manuel; Horch, Elliott P; Costa, Edgardo; Mendez, Rene A (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2019)
New data obtained during the 2018 March-April speckle run at the 4.1 m Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) telescope located at Cerro Pachón (Chile) allowed us to recalculate the orbits of the following visual binaries: WDS 06478+0020 (STT 157),WDS 07003-2207 (FIN 334Aa,Ab), WDS 07013-0906 (A 671), WDS 10174-5354 (CVN 16Aa,Ab), WDS 12155-3106 (RST 1658),WDS 12572+0818 (FIN 380),WDS 13044-1316 (HU 642),WDS 14243-3838 (RST 1785), WDS 16094-3103 (I 557), WDS 17115-1630 (HU 169), WDS 17119-0151 (LPM 629),WDS 17563 + 0259 (A 2189),WDS 18464-2755 (RST 2073), and WDS 19035-6845 (FIN 357). All but three of them are Southern stars. The recently published Gaia parallaxes were used to calculate the total mass of each of these systems, despite the fact that, in a few cases, only Hipparcos parallaxes were available. For two binaries, A 671 and RST 2073, there are no parallax data. However, in these cases, the masses deduced from the dynamical parallaxes provided relevant information. In addition, we also present the first orbit for each of three systems: HU 642, RST 1785, and RST 2073, using speckle measurements. Finally, using the dynamical parallaxes given by these orbits, we have been able to calculate the luminosity of these systems. Said luminosities allow us to indicate an approximate age for each of the components of the system, situating them within the HR diagram. © 2018 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Keywords: Techniques: high angular resolution - astrometry - binaries; Visual - stars: fundamental parameters; dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Repair the world: Group work in the Deggendorf Displaced Persons Center, 1945-1946 - Gardella, Lorrie Greenhouse (Groupwork, 2019)
This paper explores the formation of a transitory community in the UNRRA Displaced Persons Center in Deggendorf, Germany, where Jewish Holocaust survivors used social group work to preserve their past, to restore humane values, and to prepare for new lives.  Social activism through task groups and activity groups affirmed individual and community self-determination while promoting recovery from trauma.  The experience of the She’erith Hapleitah or “surviving remnant,” as they called themselves, though historically specific, has implications for group work with migrants today.
Keywords: Citizenship; Groupwork; Holocaust survivors; Hope; Migrants; Recovery; Refugees; dept.swk; peer-reviewed

Observations of binary stars with the Differential Speckle Survey Instrument. VIII. Measures of metal-poor and triple stars from 2015 to 2018 - Horch, Elliott P.; Tokovinin, Andrei; Weiss, Samuel A.; Löbb, János; Casetti-Dinescu, Dana I.; Granucci, Nicole M.; Hess, Nicole M.; Everett, Mark E.; van Belle, Gerard T.; Winters, Jennifer G.; Nusdeo, Daniel A.; Henry, Todd J.; et al. (The Astronomical Journal, 2019)
We present 248 speckle observations of 43 binary and 19 trinary star systems chosen to make progress in two main areas of investigation: the fundamental properties of metal-poor stars and star formation mechanisms. The observations were taken at the Gemini North and South telescopes during the period 2015 July to 2018 April, mainly with the Differential Speckle Survey Instrument but also with a few early results from the new 'Alopeke speckle camera at Gemini North. We find that the astrometry and photometry of these observations as a whole are consistent with previous work at Gemini. We present five new visual orbits for systems important in understanding metal-poor stars, three of which have orbital periods of less than 4 yr, and we indicate the degree to which these and future observations can impact our knowledge of stellar properties and star formation. In particular, we find a decrease in mass at fixed spectral type for metal-poor stars versus their solar-metallicity analogs that is consistent with predictions that are made from current stellar models. © 2019. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved..
Keywords: binaries: visual; dept.phy; peer-reviewed; stars: individual; techniques: high angular resolution; techniques: interferometric; techniques: photometric

Does the market know? Going concern opinion release and firm fundamentals - Huang, Jian; Yu, Han (International Journal of Accounting and Financial Reporting, 2019)
Using a significant auditing event-the going concern audit opinion-we investigate the market’s forecasting ability and the importance of firm fundamentals in predicting the going concern event. First, we find that the equity market signals the upcoming going concern announcement as early as 30 days in advance. Specifically, during the window of [-30, -1] leading up to the announcement, the excess returns to going concern firms are 9.98% worse than the matched distressed firms. Moreover, short sellers, a group of sophisticated investors, significantly increase their shorting activities during days before the release of the going concern opinions. Furthermore, we find that firm fundamentals, which are observable to the market, are significantly predictive to the issuances of going concern. These variables include a firm’s operating performance (return on assets and operating cash flows), equity market liquidity, stock momentum, and filing delay. Overall, our evidence supports the perception that the market can forecast the going concern opinion release and points out its possible channel as well.
Keywords: dept.fin; peer-reviewed

The GAAP in Tesla’s earnings announcements: A case study on the proliferation of Non-GAAP financial measures - Aselta, James; Engel, Russell Paul (The Accounting Educators' Journal, 2019)
The reporting of non-Generally Accepted Accounting Principles Measures (non-GAAP) by U.S. publically traded companies is not new but it has recently come under increased scrutiny by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This case presents a specific example of this scrutiny in the form of Tesla, Inc.’s quarterly earnings announcements and Tesla’s subsequent correspondence with the SEC. This case requires students to answer relevant questions about GAAP vs Non GAAP reporting, generally in the form of a research memo, with references to applicable SEC regulations and guidance on the use and reporting of non-GAAP measures.
Keywords: dept.acc; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Social anxiety and employment interviews: does nonverbal feedback differentially predict cortisol and performance? - Budnick, Christopher J.; Anderson, Eden M.; Santuzzi, Alecia M.; Grippo, Angela J.; Matuszewich, Leslie (Anxiety Stress and Coping, 2019)
Background & Objectives: Interviewers often provide positive nonverbal feedback to reduce interviewees' anxiety. Socially anxious individuals typically harbor negative self-views discrepant with positive feedback. We examined whether nonverbal feedback and social anxiety jointly influence cortisol responses to, and performance during, interviews. Design: An experimental between-subjects design randomly assigned participants to feedback condition. Methods: Undergraduate students (N = 130) provided saliva and completed social anxiety, interview anxiety, and affective measures before a simulated interview. Following a standardized script, a confederate interviewer provided positive, ambiguous, or negative nonverbal feedback. Participants then provided saliva and completed self-focused attention and self-awareness measures. Confederate interviewers and an external rater evaluated participants' anxiety displays, assertive behavior, and performance. Results: Positive feedback decreased cortisol and improved performance for low social anxiety participants. Socially anxious participants exhibited higher cortisol but did not exhibit significant differences in performance after positive compared to negative feedback. Conclusions: Consistent with previous findings, positive feedback did not benefit socially anxious interviewees. Positive feedback increased physiological arousal relative to negative feedback but did not hinder performance among people high in social anxiety. These results provide novel information about the interactive influence of social anxiety and nonverbal interviewer feedback on arousal, self-focus, and interview performance.
Keywords: Anxiety; Arousal; Attention; Feedback; Female; Humans; Hydrocortisone; Interviews as Topic; Job Application; Male; Saliva; Social anxiety; anxiety; arousal; attention; chemistry; controlled study; cortisol; dept.psy; feedback system; female; human; hydrocortisone; interview; interview anxiety; interviews; job finding; male; pathophysiology; peer-reviewed; psychology; randomized controlled trial; saliva; self-verification

The impact of fluid attraction and fluid identity on mental health - Redcay, Alex; Counselman-Carpenter, Elisabeth; Proctor, Curtis (Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health, 2019)
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study examined the impact of sexuality factors and satisfaction with partner on stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms. Multiple regression was used to evaluate the impact of predictors such as sexuality factors and relationship satisfaction on the dependent variables: stress, anxiety, and depression. Three main results were discovered. First, sexual minority females who have lower levels of education and are dissatisfied with their relationship experience significantly higher stress, while sexual minority males do not differ from heterosexual males in terms of relationship satisfaction or stress. Second, sexual minority females who have lower levels of education and who are dissatisfied with their relationship experience significantly higher anxiety, while sexual minority males do not differ from heterosexual males in terms of relationship satisfaction or anxiety. Finally, female sexual minorities who have lower levels of education reported fluid attraction, fluid identity, dissatisfaction with their relationship, and have significantly higher depression when compared to male sexual minorities or heterosexuals. Further research should examine gender and fluidity in greater detail. © 2018, © 2018 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
Keywords: Anxiety; depression; dept.swk; fluid attraction; fluid identity; peer-reviewed; satisfaction with partner; sexual orientation; stress

Examining the impact of psychological factors on hospital length of stay for burn survivors: A systematic review - O’Brien, Kyle H; Lushin, Victor (Journal of Burn Care & Research, 2019)
Recovery of burn patients may be impeded by mental health problems. By gaining a better understanding of the impact that psychological factors may have on hospital length of stay, providers may be better informed to address the complex needs of burn survivors through effective and efficient practices. This systematic review summarizes existing data on the adverse psychological factors for the length of burn patients' hospitalization, and assesses the methodological quality of the extant literature on mental health conditions of burn survivors. A literature search was conducted in four electronic databases: PubMed, PsychINFO, Science Direct, and the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature. Results yielded reports published between 1980 and 2016. Methodological quality was assessed by using an 11-item methodological quality score system. Seventy-four studies were identified by search; 19 articles were eligible for analysis. Findings demonstrate paucity of evidence in the area. Reports indicate longer hospital stay among burn patients with mental health problems. Substance use was the most consistent mental-health predictor of longer hospital stay. Heterogeneity in data on mental health conditions rendered impossible estimation of effect sizes of individual psychological factors on length of hospitalization. Many studies over-relied on retrospective designs, and crude indicators of psychological factors. Findings indicate that mental health problems do have an impact on the trajectory of burn recovery by increasing the length of hospital stay for burn survivors. Inpatient mental health services for burn patients are critically needed. Prospective designs, and more sensitive psychological indicators are needed for future studies.
Keywords: Article; Burns; Hospitalization; Humans; Length of Stay; Survivors; burn; burn patient; burn survivor; dept.hls; dept.rec; dept.swk; distress syndrome; hospitalization; human; length of stay; mental disease; mental health; peer-reviewed; psychological aspect; psychology; substance use; survivor; systematic review

Visible resonance raman spectroscopy in human brain tissues - Zhou, Yan; Liu, Cheng-hui; Zhu, Ke; Wu, Binlin; Yu, Xinguang; Alfano, Robert R. (Neurophotonics and Biomedical Spectroscopy, 2019)
This chapter first reviews the research and applications of nonresonance and resonance Raman spectroscopy for analysis of human brain normal and abnormal tissues. Next, special emphasis is made on our recent achievements of visible resonance Raman (VRR) technique in primary human brain tumor disease investigation and diagnosis. Visible resonance Raman (VRR) spectroscopy technique uses excitation of visible light (532 nm) to evaluate the resonant and nonresonant molecular vibrational modes in biological tissues. The VRR signal intensities are enhanced by two to three orders of magnitude for faster use in medical applications in quasi real time. VRR opens up a new stainless “molecular optics based histopathology” diagnosis approach. © 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Brain cancer margin assessment; Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM); Glioblastoma multiforme (gbm); Gliomas; Meninges; Optical biopsy; Visible resonance Raman (VRR) spectroscopy; Visible resonance raman (vrr) spectroscopy; Wavelength 532 nm; Wavelength 532nm; dept.phy

Changes in Lower Body Muscular Performance Following a Season of NCAA Division I Men’s Lacrosse - Talpey, Scott W.; Axtell, Robert; Gardner, Elizabeth; James, Lachlan (Sports, 2019)
The tactical and technical components of training become a primary emphasis, leaving less time for targeted development of physical qualities that underpin performance during the competition phase of a training program. A deemphasis on physical preparation during the in-season training phase may make athletes more susceptible to injury and decrease performance on the field. Two weeks prior to the start and one week following the conclusion of the 16-week collegiate lacrosse season, lower body force production was assessed in eight National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Men’s Lacrosse athletes. Lower body force production capabilities were determined via the performance of countermovement jumps (CMJ) and drop jumps (DJ) performed on a force plate and isokinetic strength testing of the quadriceps and hamstring muscle groups across three velocities. Isokinetic strength of the hamstrings and the hamstring to quadriceps strength ratio were maintained or increased over the course of the competition phase of training. Relative peak force obtained from the CMJ and the reactive strength index from the DJ decreased significantly over the season. The maintenance of isokinetic strength and the decrease in CMJ and DJ performance may indicate the presence of neuromuscular fatigue that accumulated over the course of the season.
Keywords: Isokinetic; Power; Reactive strength; Strength; dept.hms; isokinetic; peer-reviewed; power; reactive strength; strength

Relationship Between Laryngeal Sensation, Length of Intubation, and Aspiration in Patients with Acute Respiratory Failure. - Borders, James C; Fink, Daniel; Levitt, Joseph E; McKeehan, Jeffrey; McNally, Edel; Rubio, Alix; Scheel, Rebecca; Siner, Jonathan M; Taborda, Stephanie Gomez; Vojnik, Rosemary; Warner, Heather; White, S David; et al. (Dysphagia, 2019)
Dysphagia is common in hospitalized patients post-extubation and associated with poor outcomes. Laryngeal sensation is critical for airway protection and safe swallowing. However, current understanding of the relationship between laryngeal sensation and aspiration in post-extubation populations is limited. Acute respiratory failure patients requiring intensive care unit admission and mechanical ventilation received a Flexible Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing (FEES) within 72 h of extubation. Univariate and multivariable analyses were performed to examine the relationship between laryngeal sensation, length of intubation, and aspiration. Secondary outcomes included pharyngolaryngeal secretions, pneumonia, and diet recommendations. One-hundred and three patients met inclusion criteria. Fifty-one patients demonstrated an absent laryngeal adductor reflex (LAR). Altered laryngeal sensation correlated with the presence of secretions (p = 0.004). There was a significant interaction between the LAR, aspiration, and duration of mechanical ventilation. Altered laryngeal sensation was significantly associated with aspiration on FEES only in patients with a shorter length of intubation (p = 0.008). Patients with altered laryngeal sensation were prescribed significantly more restricted liquid (p = 0.03) and solid (p = 0.001) diets. No relationship was found between laryngeal sensation and pneumonia. There is a high prevalence of laryngeal sensory deficits in mechanically ventilated patients post-extubation. Altered laryngeal sensation was associated with secretions, aspiration, and modified diet recommendations especially in those patients with a shorter length of mechanical ventilation. These results demonstrate that laryngeal sensory abnormalities impact the development of post-extubation dysphagia.
Keywords: *Intubation, Intratracheal/ae [Adverse Effects]; *Laryngeal Diseases/et [Etiology]; *Pneumonia, Aspiration/et [Etiology]; *Sensation Disorders/et [Etiology]; Acute Disease; Acute respiratory failure; Article; Critical illness; Deglutition; Deglutition disorders; FEES; Female; Flexible Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing; Humans; Intubation, Intratracheal; Laryngeal Diseases; Laryngeal Diseases/pp [Physiopathology]; Laryngeal sensation; Larynx; Larynx/pp [Physiopathology]; Male; Middle Aged; Pneumonia, Aspiration; Prospective Studies; Respiratory Insufficiency; Sensation Disorders; Sensation Disorders/pp [Physiopathology]; Time Factors; absent laryngeal adductor reflex; acute disease; acute respiratory failure; adult; adverse event; artificial ventilation; aspiration; aspiration pneumonia; bodily secretions; clinical outcome; clinical trial; cohort analysis; controlled study; critical illness; dept.cmd; dietary intake; disease association; dysphagia; endotracheal intubation; extubation; female; hospital admission; human; intensive care; larynx; larynx disorder; lung aspiration; major clinical study; male; middle aged; multicenter study; nutritional requirement; outcome assessment; pathophysiology; peer-reviewed; pharyngolaryngeal secretions; pneumonia; prescription; prevalence; priority journal; prospective study; reflex disorder; respiratory failure; sensory dysfunction; time factor

A quantitative dwelling-scale approach to the social implications of maize horticulture in New England - Farley, William A.; Fox, Amy N.; Hrynick, M. Gabriel (American Antiquity, 2019)
We compare domestic architectural features in New England and the Maritime Peninsula to investigate the relationship between the adoption of horticulture and its relationship to social and settlement change during the Woodland Period. Horticulture was not practiced on the Maritime Peninsula until after European contact, despite cultural and environmental similarity to New England. In New England, horticulture has been implicated in profound social and settlement changes. However, aggregated villages, a unit typically investigated for evidence of social change, have proven elusive in the archaeological record. We compiled and analyzed a dataset of dwelling features instead of relying on identifiable villages. This novel quantitative approach uses dwelling feature shape and size as a proxy for social and settlement change, considering these changes at the scale of the house. We find that, during the Woodland Period, dwelling size was overall slightly larger in New England than on the Maritime Peninsula, but ranges heavily overlapped. After the introduction of horticulture, however, dwellings in New England grew in size overall and assumed bimodally distinct larger and smaller forms, which likely necessitated a restructuring of social and economic behavior. This pattern correlates maize horticulture with changes in social and economic lifestyle in Late Woodland New England. , Nous comparons des structures d'habitation domestiques de sites archéologiques de la Nouvelle-Angleterre et de la péninsule maritime afin d'explorer les conséquences de l'adoption généralisée de l'horticulture en termes de changements sociaux et de transformation des modes d’établissement en Nouvelle-Angleterre à la période Sylvicole. L'horticulture ne fut pas pratiquée dans la péninsule maritime avant la période du contact européen, malgré de fortes similarités culturelles et environnementales avec la Nouvelle-Angleterre. En Nouvelle-Angleterre, l'horticulture est présentée comme ayant été la source de changements sociaux profonds et d'une transformation des modes d’établissement. Au niveau archéologique cependant les sites de village font défaut, alors qu'ils constituent habituellement un repère pour l'identification et l’étude des changements sociaux; cette situation a provoqué des débats sur l'impact socio-économique de l'horticulture. Nous analysons ici un ensemble de données concernant des structures d'habitation individuelles en faisant fi de l'idée selon laquelle l’étude d'un village bien défini est nécessaire. Cette approche quantitative novatrice nous permet d'aborder la question des changements sociaux et de l’évolution des modes d’établissement à l’échelle de l'habitation, par l'intermédiaire de la forme et des dimensions des structures. Nous observons que durant la période sylvicole la taille des structures d'habitation était en général légèrement plus grande en Nouvelle-Angleterre que dans la péninsule maritime, malgré une fourchette de dimensions comparable pour les deux régions. Les habitations de la Nouvelle-Angleterre voient toutefois leur taille augmenter après l'introduction de l'horticulture, alors que se développe une division bimodale entre de grandes et de petites structures, changements rendus possibles par une probable réorganisation des comportements économiques et sociaux. Cette tendance met en corrélation la culture du maïs avec une transformation des modes de vie économiques et sociaux en Nouvelle-Angleterre durant le sylvicole supérieur.
Keywords: Maritime Peninsula; Native American; New England; Woodland; architecture; dept.ant; horticulture; maize; nonparametric analysis; peer-reviewed; sedentism; village

Carboniferous glaciotectonized sediments in the southernmost Paraná Basin, Brazil: Ice marginal dynamics and paleoclimate indicators - Fedorchuk, N.D.; Isbell, J.L.; Griffis, N.P.; Vesely, F.F.; Rosa, E.L.M.; Montãnez, I.P.; Mundil, R.; Yin, Q.-Z.; Iannuzzi, R.; Roesler, G.; Pauls, K.N. (Sedimentary Geology, 2019)
Keywords: dept.esc; peer-reviewed

Restraint stress exacerbates cell degeneration induced by acute binge ethanol in the adolescent, but not in the adult or middle-aged, brain - Fernandez, Macarena Soledad; de Olmos, Soledad; Nizhnikov, Michael E; Pautassi, Ricardo Marcos (Behavioural brain research, 2019)
Restraint stress (RS) induces neurotoxicity in the hippocampus, yet most of the studies have employed protracted RS (i.e., = 21 days). Binge ethanol can induce brain toxicity, an effect affected by age. It could be postulated that RS may facilitate ethanol-induced neurotoxicity, perhaps to a greater extent in adolescent vs. older subjects. We analyzed whether adolescent, adult or middle-aged male rats exposed to five episodes of RS followed, 72h later, by binge ethanol (i.e., two administrations of 2.5 g/kg ethanol) exhibited hippocampal neurotoxicity. Adolescents, but not adult or middle-aged rats, exhibited sensitivity to the neurotoxic effects of ethanol at dorsal CA2, ventral CA3 and ventral DG, and a neurotoxic effect of stress at dorsal CA1. Moreover, the combination of ethanol and stress exerted a synergistic effect upon cell degeneration at ventral CA1 and CA2, which was restricted to adolescents. Ethanol also increased cell degeneration, irrespective of age or stress, in dorsal CA3 and in dorsal DG; and ethanol and stress had, across all ages, a synergistic effect upon cell degeneration at the dorsal CA1. The greater neurotoxic response of adolescents to ethanol, stress, or ethanol+stress can put them at risk for the development of alcohol problems. Copyright © 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Keywords: *Age Factors; *Binge Drinking/pp [Physiopathology]; *Ethanol/ae [Adverse Effects]; Adolescent; Adult rats; Age Factors; Animals; Article; Binge Drinking; Binge Drinking/me [Metabolism]; Brain; Brain/de [Drug Effects]; Dentate Gyrus; Dentate Gyrus/de [Drug Effects]; Ethanol; Ethanol/pd [Pharmacology]; Hippocampus; Hippocampus/de [Drug Effects]; Male; Middle-Aged rats; Neurotoxicity; Rats; Rats, Wistar; Restraint, Physical; Wistar rat; adolescent; adult; adult animal; age; alcohol; animal; animal behavior; animal cell; animal experiment; animal model; animal tissue; binge drinking; brain; controlled study; dentate gyrus; dept.psy; dorsal hippocampus; drinking behavior; drug effect; exercise; hippocampal CA1 region; hippocampal CA2 region; hippocampal CA3 region; hippocampus; immobilization stress; male; metabolism; middle aged; nerve cell degeneration; neurotoxicity; nonhuman; pathophysiology; peer-reviewed; priority journal; rat; sensitivity analysis; underage drinking; ventral dentate gyrus; ventral hippocampus

Offspring of male rats exposed to binge alcohol exhibit heightened ethanol intake at infancy and alterations in T-maze performance. - Hollander, Jessica; McNivens, Megan; Pautassi, Ricardo M; Nizhnikov, Michael E (Alcohol, 2019)
Alcohol use is associated with a variety of negative consequences, including heightened likelihood of cognitive impairment, proclivity to alcohol use disorders (AUD), and alterations in the drinker's offspring. Children and rodents exposed to alcohol during pregnancy, or those whose fathers consumed alcohol prior to mating, often exhibit neurodevelopmental, physiological, and behavioral deficits. The present study assessed cognitive function and alcohol intake in male and female rats that were offspring of alcohol-exposed fathers. Adult male rats were exposed to alcohol or vehicle (0.0 or 2.0 g/kg, respectively; twice daily for 2 days followed by a rest day, for a total of eight alcohol or vehicle exposure days), or were left untreated and then mated with non-manipulated females. The offspring were assessed for alcohol intake, via intraoral infusion, followed by cognitive assessment via an alternating T-maze task. The results indicated that paternal ethanol exposure, prior to breeding, resulted in offspring that consumed significantly more ethanol than vehicle or untreated controls. Furthermore, the offspring of alcohol-exposed fathers exhibited a significant failure to initiate and complete the T-maze performance tests. Although, when they did engage in the tests they performed at the level of controls (i.e., 80% correct). The present results add to a growing body of literature suggesting that paternal pre-conception alcohol exposure can have deleterious effects on the offspring. Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Keywords: *Alcohol Drinking/px [Psychology]; *Binge Drinking/px [Psychology]; *Fathers/px [Psychology]; *Maze Learning/de [Drug Effects]; *Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects/px [Psychology]; Alcohol Drinking; Alcohol intake; Animals; Article; Binge Drinking; Fathers; Female; Male; Maze Learning; Paternal alcohol exposure; Pregnancy; Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects; Rats; T-maze; T-maze test; adult; alcohol; alcohol consumption; animal; animal experiment; binge drinking; cognition; controlled study; dept.psy; drinking behavior; drug effect; father; female; male; maze test; nonhuman; paternal exposure; peer-reviewed; pregnancy; prenatal exposure; psychology; rat

Political economy of farm loan waivers in India - Jha, Srirang; Mohapatra, Amiya Kumar; Lodha, Shyam S. (FIIB Business Review, 2019)
Political leadership of various states in India is under tremendous pressure to provide instant relief to the farmers reeling under debt trap, resulting in suicides in several cases. Often, suicides by peasants are widely covered in the media which in turn sway the people’s perception about apparent indifference of the government towards the farming communities of the country. This certainly brings in concerns related to political economy revolving around judicious distribution of wealth and national income of the country. State governments of India are generally reluctant to waive off the farm loans as a matter of routine due to concomitant burden on exchequer that might adversely affect their fiscal balances. However, political parties tend to use farm loan waiver as tactics to come to power in spite of the fact that such populist measures are not good for the economy, nor do they offer a long-term solution to the age-old problem of higher degree of incidence of indebtedness among the farming communities. This article explores the antecedents and consequences of farm loan waivers and the way forward. Besides, it also reconnoitres whether the state takes such decisions as farm loan waiver purely on the basis of economics or any hidden political agenda.
Keywords: dept.mkt; peer-reviewed

Realizing the potential for leadership in social work - Keenan, Elizabeth King; Sandoval, Silvia; Limone, Christine (Journal of Social Work, 2019)
Ongoing racism, structural inequity, dehumanizing institutional bureaucracies, unresponsive service delivery systems, and gaps in services for emerging needs are just some of the pervasive challenges in need of social work leadership. The multidisciplinary nature of social work practice also requires value-based leadership processes on multiple ecological levels to address the challenges inherent within social delivery systems. Social work encourages all social workers to lead these change efforts, but research on front-line social work leadership is lacking. Constructionist conceptualizations of leadership as social influence processes provide a unit of analysis to examine front-line leadership. A secondary analysis of qualitative data examining social work practice that promotes well-being and social justice revealed leadership processes in multiple social work practice settings. Findings Front-line social workers demonstrate three overarching leadership processes in their practice: challenging injustice and changing mindsets, conduit for change, and organizing resources and relationships. Applications Conceptualizing leadership as social influence processes identifies and acknowledges the leadership of front-line social workers, expanding the profession's capacity to collectively articulate and initiate change with a range of social problems and systemic challenges in organizations and communities.
Keywords: Social work; article; dept.swk; health care delivery; human; leadership; occupation; peer-reviewed; qualitative research; racism; secondary analysis; social constructionism; social justice; social work; social work practice; wellbeing

Are urban public libraries websites accessible to Americans with Disabilities? - Liu, Yan Quan; Bielefield, Arlene; McKay, Peter (Universal Access in the Information Society, 2019)
This paper examines to what extent the 129 members of the Urban Public Libraries Council meet the Section 508 standards for accessibility under the Rehabilitation Act, the minimum acceptable standard for accessibility under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Using an HTML evaluation tool, WAVE, the HTML coding of the libraries’ homepages was evaluated according to the Section 508 criteria for accessibility. After one-to-one deep examination to determine the accessibility of the library websites, the results tended to mirror other studies showing that most library websites have some coding deficiencies that limit the accessibility of the websites. Notably, only 7 of the 122 libraries that were surveyed had no Section 508 errors present with their homepages.
Keywords: ADA; Accessibility; Assistive technology; Compliance; Disability; HTML; Impairment; Libraries; Policy; Public libraries; Public library; Public policy; Section 508; Section508; Section 508; Universal usability; Urban libraries; Websites; dept.ils; peer-reviewed

Mood Disorders in High-Functioning Autism: The Importance of Alexithymia and Emotional Regulation. - Morie, Kristen P; Jackson, Scott; Zhai, Zu Wei; Potenza, Marc N; Dritschel, Barbara (Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2019)
Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often have co-morbid anxiety and depression. Alexithymia and emotion regulation difficulties are commonly seen in individuals with ASD and in mood disorders. We hypothesized that alexithymia and emotional regulation would mediate the relationship between autistic features and anxiety/depression symptom severity. We collected data about emotional regulation, alexithymia, autistic symptoms and depression/anxiety in a sample of 64 young adults with ASD. We constructed two serial multiple mediator models, using autistic features as the independent variable and anxiety/depression symptoms as outcome variables. The serial relationship between alexithymia and emotional regulation mediated associations between autistic features and depression and anxiety, separately. The findings suggest that targeting alexithymia may benefit therapies designed to alleviate mood disorders in ASD.
Keywords: *Affective Symptoms/px [Psychology]; *Autism Spectrum Disorder/px [Psychology]; *Emotions; *Mood Disorders/px [Psychology]; ASD; Adolescent; Adult; Affective Symptoms; Affective Symptoms/ep [Epidemiology]; Aged; Alexithymia; Anxiety; Anxiety Disorders; Article; Asperger Syndrome; Asperger syndrome; Autism; Autism Spectrum Disorder; Comorbidity; Depression; Emotional regulation; Emotions; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Mood Disorders; Mood disorders; Self Report; Surveys and Questionnaires; Toronto Alexithymia scale; Young Adult; adolescent; adult; aged; alexithymia; anxiety; anxiety disorder; autism; comorbidity; controlled study; depression; dept.aa; dept.adm; emotion; emotional disorder; emotionality; female; human; major clinical study; male; mental health; middle aged; mood disorder; peer-reviewed; priority journal; psychology; questionnaire; self report; young adult

A chemically contiguous hapten approach for a heroin-fentanyl vaccine. - Natori, Yoshihiro; Hwang, Candy S; Lin, Lucy; Smith, Lauren C; Zhou, Bin; Janda, Kim D (Beilstein journal of organic chemistry, 2019)
Background: Increased death due to the opioid epidemic in the United States has necessitated the development of new strategies to treat addiction. Monoclonal antibodies and antidrug vaccines provide a tool that both aids addiction management and reduces the potential for overdose. Dual drug vaccines formulated by successive conjugation or by mixture have certain drawbacks. The current study examines an approach for combatting the dangers of fentanyl-laced heroin, by using a hapten with one epitope that has domains for both fentanyl and heroin. Results: We evaluated a series of nine vaccines developed from chemically contiguous haptens composed of both heroin- and fentanyl-like domains. Analysis of the results obtained by SPR and ELISA revealed trends in antibody affinity and titers for heroin and fentanyl based on epitope size and linker location. In antinociception studies, the best performing vaccines offered comparable protection against heroin as our benchmark heroin vaccine, but exhibited attenuated protection against fentanyl compared to our fentanyl vaccine. Conclusion: After thorough investigation of this strategy, we have identified key considerations for the development of a chemically contiguous heroin-fentanyl vaccine. Importantly, this is the first report of such a strategy in the opioid-drug-vaccine field.
Keywords: Antinociception; Fentanyl; Hapten; Heroin; Vaccine; dept.che; peer-reviewed

The Diogenes Effect in retail buyer information processing - Prince, Melvin; Kwak, Lynn; Priporas, Constantinos Vasilios (Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2019)
The search for an ethical vendor who is honest and trustworthy in the exchange process is conceptualized as the Diogenes Effect, an innovative concept. In the light of this effect, the theoretical framework of the current study's model involved retail buyer responses to vendor persuasive communications. The model was tested by having a sample of retailer buyers complete a survey of information processing in the search for a product and vendor. This study innovatively links vendor communication effects to retailer buyer decision-making and evaluations by incorporating and integrating elements of Elaboration Likelihood Theory. Contributing to theory-building, it was found that when retailer buyers searched for a vendor with an ethical orientation, the result was intensified central processing of information and decreased peripheral information processing. This was especially salient when retailer buyers had greater longevity of professional experience. The next stage, information processing, led to feedback that enabled assessment of vendor trustworthiness. Finally, the research measured the level of fulfillment in the post-purchase phase. In the end, typical outcomes included the generation of favorable expectations of vendor performance, as well as the positive impact of those heightened favorable expectations on greater satisfaction with the value ultimately received from the vendor.
Keywords: Diogenes; Diogenes effect; Elaboration likelihood model; Expectations; Information processing; Retailer buying decision; Satisfaction; decision making; dept.mkt; information processing; modeling; peer-reviewed; retailing

Constraining the timing, kinematics and cyclicity of Mississippian-Early Pennsylvanian glaciations in the Paraná Basin, Brazil - Rosa, Eduardo L.M.; Vesely, Fernando F.; Isbell, John L.; Kipper, Felipe; Fedorchuk, Nicholas D.; Souza, Paulo A. (Sedimentary Geology, 2019)
Keywords: dept.esc; peer-reviewed

Bullying perpetration and victimization among adolescents with overweight and obesity in a nationally representative sample - Rupp, Kristie; McCoy, Stephanie M. (Childhood Obesity, 2019)
Keywords: dept.hms; peer-reviewed

The Positive Assessment: A Model for Integrating Well-Being and Strengths-Based Approaches into the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinical Evaluation. - Schlechter, Alan Daniel; O'Brien, Kyle H; Stewart, Colin (Child and adolescent psychiatric clinics of North America, 2019)
In traditional medical practice, the diagnostic interview is focused on symptom collection, diagnosis, and treatment. The psychiatric interview is based on the medical model, but mental health clinicians lack the tests found in general medicine. Rapport is the most essential tool for the psychiatrist to uncover symptoms and develop a diagnosis and treatment plan. This article brings a scientific lens to the psychiatric interview. Under this microscope the value of eliciting the patient's well-being at the outset of the interview becomes clear. Using positive psychology, an evidenced-based rationale for the positive assessment is outlined and methodology and practice of the assessment reviewed. Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Keywords: *Adolescent Psychiatry; *Child Psychiatry; *Child Welfare; *Mental Disorders/di [Diagnosis]; Adolescent; Adolescent Psychiatry; Assessment; Caregivers; Child; Child Psychiatry; Child Welfare; Common factors theory; Diagnostic interview; Humans; Mental Disorders; Neurosciences; Positive emotions; Positive psychology; Psychiatry; Psychiatry interview; Rapport; Review; Well-being; achievement; adolescent; caregiver; child; child psychiatry; child welfare; clinical evaluation; dept.hls; dept.swk; doctor patient relationship; emotion; human; mental capacity; mental disease; mental health; motivational interviewing; neuroscience; patient assessment; peer-reviewed; priority journal; psychiatry; psychological interview; psychological well-being; reward; social life

Understanding the potential of state-based public health genomics programs to mitigate disparities in access to clinical genetic services - Senier, Laura; Tan, Catherine; Smollin, Leandra; Lee, Rachael (Genetics in Medicine, 2019)
Keywords: dept.soc; peer-reviewed

An Archaeology of Days - Shipley, Vivian (Negative Capability Press, 2019)
An Archaelogy of Days contains new poetry from Vivian Shipley. Connecticut State University Distinguished Professor, Vivian Shipley teachesat Southern Connecticut State University where she was named FacultyScholar in 2000, 2005 and 2008. Her eleventh book, Perennial, was publishedin 2015 by Negative Capability Press and was nominated for the PulitzerPrize and named the Paterson Poetry Prize Finalist. The Poet, her tenth book,was published in 2015 by Louisiana Literature Press, Southeastern LouisianaUniversity. All of Your Messages Have Been Erased (Louisiana Literature Press,SLU, 2010) was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, won the Sheila MottonBook Prize from the New England Poetry Club, the Paterson Award forSustained Literary Achievement and the CT Press Club Award for BestCreative Writing. Her sixth chapbook is Greatest Hits: 1974-2010 (PuddingHouse Press, Youngstown, Ohio, 2010). She has received the Library ofCongress’s Connecticut Lifetime Achievement Award for Service to theLiterary Community and a Connecticut Book Award for Poetry two times.Most recently, she won the 2017-18 Steve Kowit Prize for Poetry for “Cargo”from San Diego Arts & Entertainment Guild. In 2015, she won the HackneyLiterary Award for Poetry for “Foxfire.”
Keywords: 21st century; American poetry; dept.eng; faculty_collection

Ardipithecus ramidus postcrania from the Gona Project area, Afar Regional State, Ethiopia. - Simpson, Scott W; Levin, Naomi E; Quade, Jay; Rogers, Michael J; Semaw, Sileshi (Journal of human evolution, 2019)
Functional analyses of the 4.4 Ma hominin Ardipithecus ramidus postcrania revealed a previously unknown and unpredicted locomotor pattern combining arboreal clambering and a form of terrestrial bipedality. To date, all of the fossil evidence of Ar. ramidus locomotion has been collected from the Aramis area of the Middle Awash Research Project in Ethiopia. Here, we present the results of an analysis of additional early Pliocene Ar. ramidus fossils from the Gona Project study area, Ethiopia, that includes a fragmentary but informative partial skeleton (GWM67/P2) and additional isolated manual remains. While we reinforce the original functional interpretations of Ar. ramidus of having a mixed locomotor adaptation of terrestrial bipedality and arboreal clambering, we broaden our understanding of the nature of its locomotor pattern by documenting better the function of the hip, ankle, and foot. The newly recovered fossils document a greater adaptation to bipedality in the Ar. ramidus ankle and hallux than previously recognized. In addition, a newly discovered scaphoid bone with a fusing os centrale provides further evidence about the nature of hominin hand evolution. Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keywords: *Fossils/ah [Anatomy & Histology]; *Hominidae/ah [Anatomy & Histology]; *Hominidae/ph [Physiology]; *Locomotion; Adaptation, Biological; Afar; Animals; Ardipithecus ramidus; Biological Evolution; Bipedality; Ethiopia; Fossils; Gona; Hominidae; Hominin; Locomotion; Pliocene; Postcrania; Skeleton; Skeleton/ah [Anatomy & Histology]; adaptation; anatomy and histology; animal; bipedalism; bone; cranium; dept.ant; evolution; fossil; hominid; locomotion; paleontology; peer-reviewed; physiology; skeleton

Archaeology and the origins of human cumulative culture: a case study from the earliest Oldowan at Gona, Ethiopia - Stout, Dietrich; Rogers, Michael J.; Jaeggi, Adrian V.; Semaw, Sileshi (Current Anthropology, 2019)
The capacity of Homo sapiens for the intergenerational accumulation of complex technologies, practices, and beliefs is central to contemporary accounts of human distinctiveness. However, the actual antiquity and evolutionary origins of cumulative culture are not known. Here we propose and exemplify a research program for studying the origins of cumulative culture using archaeological evidence. Our stepwise approach disentangles assessment of the observed fidelity of behavior reproduction from inferences regarding required learning mechanisms (e.g., teaching, imitation) and the explanation of larger-scale patterns of change. It is empirically grounded in technological analysis of artifact assemblages using well-validated experimental models. We demonstrate with a case study using a toolmaking replication experiment to assess evidence of behavior copying across three 2.6 Ma Oldowan sites from Gona, Ethiopia. Results fail to reveal any effects of raw material size, shape, quality, or reduction intensity that could explain the observed details of intersite technological variation in terms of individual learning across different local conditions. This supports the view that relatively detailed copying of toolmaking methods was already a feature of Oldowan technological reproduction at ca. 2.6 Ma. We conclude with a discussion of prospects and implications for further research on the evolution of human cumulative culture.
Keywords: dept.ant; peer-reviewed

A systematic approach to exploring college and career readiness program needs within high-poverty urban public schools - Yavuz, Olcay; Parzych, Jennifer; Generali, Margaret (Education and Urban Society, 2019)
This quantitative correlational study was designed to investigate whether the core and enrichment college readiness program needs within high-poverty urban schools significantly varied with respect to grade level and stakeholder perceptions. Statistically significant differences were discovered in parent, student, and faculty perceptions in core and enrichment programs related to high-poverty urban school needs. The findings provide valuable information about how to design student academic and counseling services strategically and effectively to increase college and career readiness for low-income, urban students. Findings also provide effective strategies for school leaders, educators, and counselors regarding urban school college and career readiness program needs so that resources can be intentionally distributed in areas of greatest importance.
Keywords: accountability; change; dept.csp; dept.edl; peer-reviewed; school improvement; school reform; urban education

The Origins of Young Stars in the Direction of the Leading Arm of the Magellanic Stream: Abundances, Kinematics, and Orbits. - Zhang, Lan; Casetti-Dinescu, Dana I; Bidin, Christian Moni; Mendez, Rene A; Girard, Terrence M; Vieira, Katherine; Korchagin, Vladimir I; van Altena, William F; Zhao, Gang (The Astrophysical journal, 2019)
We explore the origins of the young B-type stars found by Casetti-Dinescu et al. (2014) at the outskirts of the Milky-Way disk in the sky region of Leading Arm of the Magellanic Stream. High-resolution spectroscopic observations made with the MIKE instrument on the Magellan Clay 6.5m telescope for nine stars are added to the previous sample analyzed by Zhang et al. (2017). We compile a sample of fifteen young stars with well-determined stellar types, ages, abundances and kinematics. With proper motions from Gaia DR2 we also derive orbits in a realistic Milky-Way potential. We find that our previous radial-velocity selected LA candidates have substantial orbital angular momentum. The substantial amount of rotational component for these stars is in contrast with the near-polar Magellanic orbit, thus rendering these stars unlikely members of the LA. There are four large orbital-energy stars in our sample. The highest orbital-energy one has an age shorter than the time to disk crossing, with a birthplace z = 2.5 kpc and R GC ~ 28 kpc. Therefore, the origin of this star is uncertain. The remaining three stars have disk runaway origin with birthplaces between 12 and 25 kpc from the Galactic center. Also, the most energetic stars are more metal poor ([Mg/H] =-0.50 +/- 0.07) and with larger He scatter (sigma [He/H] = 0.72) than the inner disk ones ([Mg/H] = 0.12 +/- 0.36, sigma [He/H] = 0.15). While the former group's abundance is compatible with that of the Large Magellanic Cloud, it could also reflect the metallicity gradient of the MW disk and their runaway status via different runaway mechanisms.
Keywords: dept.phy; stars: abundances; stars: early-type; stars: kinematics and dynamics

Combined spatial frequency spectroscopy analysis with visible resonance Raman for optical biopsy of human brain metastases of lung cancers - Zhou, Yan; Liu, Cheng-Hui; Pu, Yang; Wu, Binlin; Nguyen, Thien An; Cheng, Gangge; Zhou, Lixin; Zhu, Ke; Chen, Jun; Li, Qingbo; Alfano, Robert R. (Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2019)
The purpose of this study is to examine optical spatial frequency spectroscopy analysis (SFSA) combined with visible resonance Raman (VRR) spectroscopic method, for the first time, to discriminate human brain metastases of lung cancers adenocarcinoma (ADC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) from normal tissues. A total of 31 label-free micrographic images of three types of brain tissues were obtained using a confocal micro-Raman spectroscopic system. VRR spectra of the corresponding samples were synchronously collected using excitation wavelength of 532[Formula: see text]nm from the same sites of the tissues. Using SFSA method, the difference in the randomness of spatial frequency structures in the micrograph images was analyzed using Gaussian function fitting. The standard deviations, [Formula: see text] calculated from the spatial frequencies of the micrograph images were then analyzed using support vector machine (SVM) classifier. The key VRR biomolecular fingerprints of carotenoids, tryptophan, amide II, lipids and proteins (methylene/methyl groups) were also analyzed using SVM classifier. All three types of brain tissues were identified with high accuracy in the two approaches with high correlation. The results show that SFSA–VRR can potentially be a dual-modal method to provide new criteria for identifying the three types of human brain tissues, which are on-site, real-time and label-free and may improve the accuracy of brain biopsy.
Keywords: Amides; Amino acids; Article; Biopsy; Brain; Diseases; Histology; Human brain; Image analysis; Metastatic lung cancer; Pathology; Raman spectrometry; Resonance; Resonance Raman; Spatial frequency; Spatial frequency spectroscopy analysis (SFSA); Spatial variables measurement; Spectroscopic analysis; Spectrum analysis; Support vector machines; Tissue; accuracy; amide; brain metastasis; brain tissue; cancer classification; carbene; carotenoid; controlled study; dept.phy; diagnostic test accuracy study; excitation; fatty acid; high density lipoprotein; histopathology; human; human brain; human tissue; lipid; low density lipoprotein; lung adenocarcinoma; metastatic lung cancer; methyl group; molecular imaging; peer-reviewed; photomicrograph image; sensitivity and specificity; spatial frequency spectroscopy analysis; spectroscopy; squamous cell lung carcinoma; support vector machine; support vector machine (SVM); tryptophan; visible resonance Raman (VRR); visible resonance Raman spectroscopy

The bi-canonical degree of a Cohen–Macaulay ring - Ghezzi, Laura; Goto, Shiro; Hong, Jooyoun; Hutson, H. L.; Vasconcelos, Wolmer V. (Journal of Algebra, 2021)
This paper is a sequel to [8] where we introduced an invariant, called canonical degree, of Cohen–Macaulay local rings that admit a canonical ideal. Here to each such ring R with a canonical ideal, we attach a different invariant, called bi-canonical degree, which in dimension 1 appears also in [12] as the residue of R. The minimal values of these functions characterize specific classes of Cohen–Macaulay rings. We give a uniform presentation of such degrees and discuss some computational opportunities offered by the bi-canonical degree. © 2019 Elsevier Inc.
Keywords: dept.mat; peer-reviewed

The fear of missing out at work: Examining costs and benefits to employee health and motivation - Budnick, Christopher J.; Rogers, Arielle P.; Barber, Larissa K. (Computers in Human Behavior, 2020)
The popular business media argues that the “fear of missing out” (FoMO) on work-related opportunities harms employees’ health and performance. Yet, these claims rely on the study of FoMO in college students in non-work contexts. Therefore, we explored workplace FoMO among employees across three studies. We first developed a measure and provided validation evidence for workplace FoMO among diverse employees (N = 324; Study 1) and MBA students (N = 223; Study 2). Using a third large employee sample (N = 300; Study 3), we tested whether workplace FoMO predicted health (i.e., work burnout and work well-being) and motivational outcomes (i.e., message-checking behaviors and work engagement). We also examined whether family-supportive organizational perceptions (FSOP) moderated these relationships. Results indicated that workplace FoMO is a distinct construct from other measures, including general FoMO. Workplace FoMO also predicted work burnout and message checking behavior, but not work well-being. Lower levels of FSOP strengthened the positive relationship between workplace FoMO and message checking behavior, but also produced a positive relationship between workplace FoMO and work well-being. Overall, FoMO appears to be relevant to the work context and predicts both employee well-being and behavior outcomes. © 2019 Elsevier Ltd
Keywords: Behavioral research; College students; Costs and benefits; Employee health; Fear of missing out; Health; Job satisfaction; Motivation; Students; Technology use; Technology use at work; Well being; Work engagements; Work-related; article; burnout; controlled study; dept.psy; fear of missing out; human; major clinical study; motivation; peer-reviewed; perception; wellbeing; work engagement

The intra-industry effects of proxy contests - Chen, Fang; Huang, Jian; Yu, Han (Journal of Economics and Finance, 2020)
In this study, we examine the intra-industry effect of proxy contests. Proxy contests convey the information of common industrial risks or expected competitive relationship change. We find significant negative abnormal returns in the group of competitors of target firms with negative abnormal returns, and such negative abnormal returns become larger for similar-size competitors. In contrast, there are no significant abnormal returns for competitors of target firms with positive abnormal returns. These findings are consistent with the information-based theory but not the competitive theory. © 2019, Academy of Economics and Finance.
Keywords: Competitive effect; Information-based effect; Intra-industry effect; Proxy contest; dept.eco; dept.fin; peer-reviewed

Teaching accelerated nursing students’ self‐care: A pilot project - Green, Cheryl (Nursing Open, 2020)
Aim A benchmark of 4 has been determined for the reduction of self-reported stress by nursing students’ status post 5 weeks of holistic educational activities and interventions provided by a nurse educator. Design Provision 5 in the American Nurses Association Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements emphasizes the duty of the nurse to not only promote the health and safety of others, but to self as well (ANA, 2015, Code of ethics with interpretive statements, Nursebooks.org). A self-care for nurses’ pilot project was trialled with 25 accelerated nursing students over the course of 5 weeks. Holistic education programmes were facilitated by a nurse educator uninvolved in providing clinical or classroom education to the students. Methods The Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence (SQUIRE) guidelines are used in this pilot project as a framework to explore standardization of education of nursing students about self-care in nursing programmes and to promote positive health behaviours and student nurses’ insight into how nurses’ self-care can have an impact on patient outcomes. The self-care pilot project introduced the importance of self-care for the pre-licensure nursing student by teaching healthy eating, physical exercise, the value of sleep, use of positive affirmations and aromatherapy to a cohort of accelerated nursing students over the course of 5 weeks. The Star Model of Knowledge Transformation was the theoretical framework for the pilot study. Two questionnaires were used by the principal investigator to obtain participant data, the Project Participant Questionnaire and the Final-Year Group Questionnaire. Results On completion of the self-care for nurses’ pilot, the nursing students reported a reduction in stress and an increased ability to cope with stress after exposure to different holistic stress reduction strategies. An average benchmark of 4.36 was achieved indicating that the nursing students’ self-care had improved status post the interactive teaching intervention. Self-care taught to pre-licensure nursing students by nurse educators can enhance their self-awareness of the importance of stress reduction and care of themselves while enduring the academic rigour and simultaneous clinical practicum experiences in nursing programmes. Applying self-care behaviours to reduction of stress for nursing students may be of benefit to of students as they transition from the pre-licensure to graduate nurse roles. Hence, teaching health behaviours that are self-protective and contribute to maintaining safe clinical environments for nurses and the patients in their care.
Keywords: dept.nur; nurse educators; nursing students; peer-reviewed; self-care; stress reduction

Students’ perceptions of career counselling: an examination of a graduate curriculum in the United States - Lindo, Natalya A; Ceballos, Peggy L; Blalock, Sarah; Conner, Charmaine; Edwards, Josh; Spellings, Maria; Webster, Lindsay; Opiola, Kristie (British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2020)
Despite its importance as a core counselling competency, less attention is given to career counselling than to other counselling specialties and it is often dismissed as a non-essential category in the counselling field. Because students’ perceptions of career counselling are affected by peer and faculty attitudes it is important to examine the training needs and experiences of graduate counselling students. Therefore, in the current study we utilised a phenomenological approach to examine students’ perceptions of a career counselling curriculum, and its impact on overall views of career counselling. Analysis of in-depth interviews yielded five major themes: View of Career Counselling, Course Delivery, Theory, Application of Knowledge, and Connection between Career Counselling and Personal Counselling. © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Keywords: Career counselling; career theory; counselling theory; counsellor education; dept.csp; peer-reviewed; personal counselling

Mindful consumption: Three consumer segment views - Milne, George R.; Ordenes, Francisco Villarroel; Kaplan, Begum (Australasian Marketing Journal, 2020)
As consumers are moving away from mindless consumerism, a mindful consumption literature has emerged that is based on Buddhist and psychological perspectives of mindfulness. While the idea of mindful consumption has great potential, there is little empirical research to date that comprehensively examines the consumer perspective on the role of mindfulness on consumption. To provide a grounded consumer perspective, the authors segment mindful consumption views from open-end text using a mixed method of clustering and text mining. By analyzing the segmentation structure, the authors discover various consumer views of mindful consumption, such as careful economic based consumption, monitoring activities of firms, and being informed about the impact of consumption choices. The authors compare the empirical results with the academic literature to provide directions for future research. © 2019 Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy
Keywords: Mindful consumption; Mindfulness; Segmentation; Sustainability; Text mining; dept.mkt; peer-reviewed

Unsettling transcription through “event memory”: problem and possibility in exploring the phenomenological question - Sinclair, Meredith N. (Qualitative Inquiry, 2020)
This article works to unsettle the use of transcription in qualitative inquiry by troubling the truth claims of transcribed text. Building on the hermeneutic phenomenology of Van Manen, it explores the way the researcher might “write through” transcribed text to return to the two-dimensional text space a more honest reading of lived experience. It also draws on Deleuze and Guattari’s rhizomatic thinking to explore the “gruesome multiplicities” present in reality—and the ways we might honor that multiplicity in research texts. Excerpts from an inquiry into the phenomenon of “reading as not a reader” are used to illustrate.
Keywords: dept.eng; hermeneutic phenomenology; methodologies; methods of inquiry; peer-reviewed; qualitative research; qualitative research and education; transcription; writing as method of inquiry

CEO characteristics, firm performance, and corporate political contributions - Subrahmanyam, Vijaya; Singh, Manohar; Pennathur, Anita K. (Review of Financial Economics, 2020)
We investigate if CEO characteristics determine the choice of Political Action Committee (PAC) contributions by firms and if such participation leads to better firm performance. Using a unique, hand-collected database, we also focus on the identity of the politicians receiving PAC contributions to examine the impact of the value-relevance of such contributions. Examining data on corporate contributions made to candidates seeking federal office during the 2002, 2004, and 2006 election cycles, we find that CEO dominance and interest alignment influence strategic choices of firms with regards to establishing PACs. Our analysis of value-relevant contributions shows that firms prefer to donate to politicians representing the state of a firm's headquarters, validating the truth to the adage that all politics is local. However, these targeted political contributions do not have a discernible impact on firm performance.
Keywords: CEO characteristics; CEO dominance; agency theory; corporate political contributions; dept.fin; dept.grad; firm performance; peer-reviewed

Applying SERVQUAL: Using service quality perceptions to improve student satisfaction and program image - Gregory, Jess L. (Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2019)
Purpose: Austerity approaches in higher education require choosing the highest leverage strategies of increasing student satisfaction. Attending to student perceptions of program/service quality (SERVQUAL) is a means to identify areas that have the greatest return on investment. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach: This study explores how a program has applied the SERVQUAL model and survey to identify areas for growth. Findings: The survey of 57 students in a cohort-based doctoral program demonstrated the smallest gaps (highest satisfaction) with the domains of empathy (1.33) and responsiveness (1.30) and the lowest with reliability (2.03), tangibles (1.97) and assurance (1.90). Practical implications: While not all of the five dimensions are within the purview of a program to address (some may require funding that is determined at a college or university level), many of the gaps can be addressed by adopting procedures and policies that increase transparency so that students can moderate their expectations and faculty and staff can provide reliable information. Additionally, the use of the SERVQUAL model provided this program with specific, actionable information that could be used to improve the program. Originality/value: The study includes a review of studies that have applied the SERVQUAL model in higher education. The application of SERVQUAL to a cohort-based doctoral program to identify program improvements and steward program image fits into a gap in the extant literature. © 2019, Emerald Publishing Limited.
Keywords: Market-driven forces in education; SERVQUAL; Service quality; Student satisfaction; dept.edl; peer-reviewed

Heat shock proteins: A dual carrier-adjuvant for an anti-drug vaccine against heroin - Hwang, Candy S.; Ellis, Beverly; Zhou, Bin; Janda, Kim D. (Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 2019)
Heroin is a highly abused opioid that has reached epidemic status within the United States. Yet, existing therapies to treat addiction are inadequate and frequently result into rates of high recidivism. Vaccination against heroin offers a promising alternative therapeutic option but requires further development to enhance the vaccine’s performance. Hsp70 is a conserved protein with known immunomodulatory properties and is considered an excellent immunodominant antigen. Within an antidrug vaccine context, we envisioned Hsp70 as a potential dual carrier-adjuvant, wherein immunogenicity would be increased by co-localization of adjuvant and antigenic drug hapten. Recombinant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Hsp70 was appended with heroin haptens and the resulting immunoconjugate granted anti-heroin antibody production and blunted heroin-induced antinociception. Moreover, Hsp70 as a carrier protein surpassed our benchmark Her-KLH cocktail through antibody-mediated blockade of 6-acetylmorphine, the main mediator of heroin’s psychoactivity. The work presents a new avenue for exploration in the use of hapten-Hsp70 conjugates to elicit anti-drug immune responses.
Keywords: Adjuvant; Carrier protein; Heat shock protein; Heroin; Immunotherapy; Opioids; Vaccines; dept.che; peer-reviewed

The real anticommunism. Politics, gender and Cold War in Costa Rica (1948-1973) - Coury Kordick, Carmen (Americas, 2019)
Keywords: book.review; dept.his; peer-reviewed

Language choice matters: when profanity affects how people are judged - DeFrank, Melanie; Kahlbaugh, Patricia E (Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 2019)
Swearing is prevalent in our society, but the influence of such language choices on judgments of others is not well understood. This study examines how the composition of conversational dyads, speaker's gender, and use of profanity influence impressions. Participants (N = 138) were randomly assigned to read two conversations and rate target speakers (one male, one female). The conversations had neither, one, or both speakers using profanity and consisted of same- or mixed-gender dyads. The result is a 2 (target speaker, male/female) x 2 (dyad composition) x 3 (profanity) mixed design with speaker gender as the repeated measure. Speakers using profanity had poorer impression ratings on several variables, including overall impression, intelligence, and trustworthiness. Speakers swearing in mixed-gender dyads were rated as less sociable, and males swearing in mixed-gender dyads were rated as more offensive. Language choices matter, and more research is needed to understand the unconscious biases held against those who use profanity.
Keywords: adult; article; controlled study; conversation; dept.psy; ego development; female; gender; human; human experiment; impression formation; intelligence; language; major clinical study; male; peer-reviewed; profanity; randomized controlled trial

Workplace incivility: Nurse leaders as change agents - Green, Cheryl Ann (Nursing Management, 2019)
An abstract is unavailable.
Keywords: Humans; Interprofessional Relations; Leadership; Nursing Staff; Organizational Innovation; Workplace; dept.nur; human; leadership; nursing staff; organization; peer-reviewed; public relations; workplace

A biography of a map in motion: Augustine Herrman's Chesapeake. - Petto, Christine M. (Journal of British Studies, 2019)
Keywords: book.review; dept.his

Editorial: Educational leadership and social justice - Arafeh, Sousan (Journal of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, 2019)
Keywords: dept.edl; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Is cash still trapped? - Aselta, James; Engel, Russell Paul; Lyons, Bridget; Pannese, Danny (Strategic Finance, 2019)
Keywords: dept.acc; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Ten-year trends and differences in alcohol consumption among black and white female undergraduates - Barton, Barbara A; Bulmer, Sandra Minor; Mugno, Raymond; Misencik, Leann (Journal of Substance Use, 2019)
Background: Few studies have explored changing patterns of alcohol consumption among young females and differences based on race/ethnicity. Objective: This study examined differences in alcohol consumption between black and white undergraduate females and compared trends in three different measures of alcohol consumption over a 10-year period from 2004 to 2014. Methods: The CORE Alcohol and Drug Survey was used to collect data from female undergraduates attending a public university in the northeastern USA. Classes were randomly selected into the sample; class acceptance was 68% and student participation was 96%. The chi-square test examined differences between groups and the Cochrane Armitage Test for Trend assessed changes over time. Results: In 2014, for every measure of alcohol consumption examined, a significantly larger percentage of white females engaged in the behavior compared to black females. Trend analysis from 2004 to 2014 demonstrated a narrowing of this gap. Controlling for age, any alcohol use in past 30 days and binge drinking in the past 2 weeks increased significantly for black females 21 years or older. Any alcohol use in the past 30 days decreased significantly for white females under 21 years. Conclusion: These findings introduce many questions which should be explored through additional research.
Keywords: Alcohol; Article; Black person; Caucasian; United States; adult; alcohol; alcohol consumption; binge drinking; college females; dept.hhs; dept.mat; dept.pch; drinking trends; female; human; major clinical study; peer-reviewed; priority journal; race difference; undergraduate student

Pinkwashing - Blackmer, Corinne E. (Israel Studies, 2019)
Keywords: dept.eng; peer-reviewed

Causes of maladaptation. - Brady, Steven P; Bolnick, Daniel I; Angert, Amy L; Gonzalez, Andrew; Barrett, Rowan D H; Crispo, Erika; Derry, Alison M; Eckert, Christopher G; Fraser, Dylan J; Fussmann, Gregor F; Guichard, Frederic; Lamy, Thomas; et al. (Evolutionary applications, 2019)
Evolutionary biologists tend to approach the study of the natural world within a framework of adaptation, inspired perhaps by the power of natural selection to produce fitness advantages that drive population persistence and biological diversity. In contrast, evolution has rarely been studied through the lens of adaptation's complement, maladaptation. This contrast is surprising because maladaptation is a prevalent feature of evolution: population trait values are rarely distributed optimally; local populations often have lower fitness than imported ones; populations decline; and local and global extinctions are common. Yet we lack a general framework for understanding maladaptation; for instance in terms of distribution, severity, and dynamics. Similar uncertainties apply to the causes of maladaptation. We suggest that incorporating maladaptation-based perspectives into evolutionary biology would facilitate better understanding of the natural world. Approaches within a maladaptation framework might be especially profitable in applied evolution contexts - where reductions in fitness are common. Toward advancing a more balanced study of evolution, here we present a conceptual framework describing causes of maladaptation. As the introductory article for a Special Feature on maladaptation, we also summarize the studies in this Issue, highlighting the causes of maladaptation in each study. We hope that our framework and the papers in this Special Issue will help catalyze the study of maladaptation in applied evolution, supporting greater understanding of evolutionary dynamics in our rapidly changing world.
Keywords: adaptation; dept.bio; fitness; global change; maladaptation; peer-reviewed

Fundamental and applied pursuits in evolutionary toxicology are mutually beneficial: A reply to Hahn (2018). - Brady, Steven P; Monosson, Emily; Matson, Cole; Bickham, John W (Evolutionary applications, 2019)
Keywords: Evolutionary toxicology; contemporary evolution; dept.bio; ecotoxicology; peer-reviewed

Fitter frogs from polluted ponds: The complex impacts of human-altered environments - Brady, Steven P.; Zamora‐Camacho, Francisco J.; Eriksson, Fredrik A. A.; Goedert, Debora; Comas, Mar; Calsbeek, Ryan (Evolutionary Applications, 2019)
Human-modified habitats rarely yield outcomes that are aligned with conservation ideals. Landscapes that are subdivided by roads are no exception, precipitating negative impacts on populations due to fragmentation, pollution, and road kill. Although many populations in human-modified habitats show evidence for local adaptation, rarely does environmental change yield outright benefits for populations of conservation interest. Contrary to expectations, we report surprising benefits experienced by amphibian populations breeding and dwelling in proximity to roads. We show that roadside populations of the wood frog, Rana sylvatica, exhibit better locomotor performance and higher measures of traits related to fitness compared with frogs from less disturbed environments located further away from roads. These results contrast previous evidence for maladaptation in roadside populations of wood frogs studied elsewhere. Our results indicate that altered habitats might not be unequivocally detrimental and at times might contribute to metapopulation success. While the frequency of such beneficial outcomes remains unknown, their occurrence underscores the complexity of inferring consequences of environmental change.
Keywords: amphibian; dept.bio; human-modified habitats; maladaptation; peer-reviewed; road salt; roads

Every manuscript is special: A tribute to the journal founding editor-in-chief Stephen F. Gambescia - Breny, Jean M.; Auld, E (Pedagogy of Health Promotion, 2019)
Keywords: dept.pch; peer-reviewed

Immunofluorescence and image analysis pipeline for Drosophila motor neurons - Brown, Jeremy R; Brown, Jeremy R; Phongthachit, Chanpasith; Sulkowski, Mikolaj J (Biology Methods and Protocols, 2019)
The neuromuscular junction (NMJ) of larval Drosophila is widely used as a genetic model for basic neuroscience research. The presynaptic side of the NMJ is formed by axon terminals of motor neurons, the soma of which reside in the ventral ganglion of the central nervous system (CNS). Here we describe a streamlined protocol for dissection and immunostaining of the Drosophila CNS and NMJ that allows processing of multiple genotypes within a single staining tube. We also present a computer script called Automated Image Analysis with Background Subtraction which facilitates identification of motor nuclei, quantification of pixel intensity, and background subtraction. Together, these techniques provide a pipeline for neuroscientists to compare levels of different biomolecules in motor nuclei. We conclude that these methods should be adaptable to a variety of different cell and tissue types for the improvement of efficiency, reproducibility, and throughput during data quantification. © 2019 The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press.
Keywords: dept.bio; peer-reviewed

Fossil subduction zone origin for magmas in the Ferrar Large Igneous Province, Antarctica: Evidence from PGE and Os isotope systematics in the Basement Sill of the McMurdo Dry Valleys - Choi, Sung Hi; Mukasa, Samuel B.; Ravizza, Greg; Fleming, Thomas H.; Marsh, Bruce D.; Bédard, Jean H.J. (Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2019)
Mantle plumes provide an attractive mechanism for generating short-duration, voluminous magmas in large igneous provinces (LIPs) while at the same time providing an explanation for the frequently associated break-up of supercontinents. This model has also been invoked for the Ferrar large igneous province (FLIP) in Antarctica, which zircon and baddeleyite U–Pb dating shows was emplaced over a short duration at 182.7 ± 0.5 Ma, contemporaneously with fragmentation of the supercontinent Gondwanaland. Here, we present platinum-group-element (PGE) and Os-isotopic data for the Basement Sill in the McMurdo Dry Valleys – a part of the FLIP – that challenge the plume interpretation. The Basement Sill samples studied are cumulate-textured gabbro to norite, and pyroxenite with minor ferro- or leuco-lithofacies with MgO ranging from 2 to 19 wt%. The 187Os/188Os values range from 0.1609 ± 0.003 (2σ) to 8.100 ± 1.600 (2σ); the minimum value overlaps with a previously published estimated initial 187Os/188Os ratio for Ferrar magmas of 0.145 ± 0.049 (2σ). The PGE abundance patterns for the Basement Sill define positive, convex-shaped slopes between the IPGE (Os, Ir and Ru) and PPGE (Pt, Pd and Rh). The most significant feature of the entire data set is the extreme sub-chondritic Os/Ir ratios (<0.33), values which are atypical of plume-derived magmas. These low Os/Ir ratios are more consistent with the alternative view that FLIP resulted from the decompression melting of mantle with a fossil subduction zone signature along the proto-Pacific margin of Gondwanaland, disaggregated by rifting related to plate rearrangements during supercontinent break-up. We propose that hydrated fossil subduction zones elsewhere on Earth might account for other short-lived voluminous magmatic events that form LIPs. The remarkably short duration of these events may be due to rapid decompression of hydrated mantle allowing instantaneous large-volume melting which then peters out quickly (<1 Myr) as H2O is expelled from the source rocks and into the melt. © 2018 Elsevier B.V.
Keywords: Antarctica; Basement Sill; Buildings; Decompression melting; East Antarctica; Ferrar LIP; Hydration; Isotopes; Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs); Large igneous provinces; Magnesia; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Melting; PGE; Platinum group elements; Silicate minerals; Subduction zones; Zircon; basement rock; dept.esc; fossil; fossil subduction zone; isotopic analysis; large igneous province; magma; mantle plume; osmium isotope; peer-reviewed; platinum group element; sill; subduction zone

Standing on the shoulders of Stonewall - Councilor, KC (QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, 2019)
Keywords: dept.com; peer-reviewed

Self care - Counselman-Carpenter, Elisabeth (Working with grief & traumatic loss: Theory, practice, personal reflection and self-care for clinicians, 2019)
Keywords: dept.swk

Is it time to begin prenatal/neonatal screening for autism risk? - Crawford, Sarah Adelaide (Global Journal of Pediatrics & Neonatal Care, 2019)
Keywords: dept.bio; peer-reviewed

Racial identity: Choices, context, and consequences - Csizmadia, Annamaria; White, Susan (Biracial families: Crossing boundaries, blending cultures, and challenging racial ideologies, 2019)
Greater public visibility, growing social acceptance, and institutional recognition have opened up the opportunity for many contemporary biracial individuals to choose from a variety of racial identity options. Although macro-level (e.g., legal) barriers have all but disappeared, microlevel challenges (e.g., multiracial microaggressions) still persist for some in the growing biracial population. Thus, it is important to understand how racial identity options are exercised differently within and across particular social contexts, and how these options in turn affect biracial individuals’ development. In this chapter, first we discuss theory and research on racial identity and identification among contemporary biracial people, followed by a brief review of work on the contextual factors that influence racial identity formation in this population. Next, we explore extant research on the association of racial identity to a host of developmental outcomes (e.g., depression, self-esteem, psychological well-being, life satisfaction). In recognition of the heterogeneous nature of the biracial population, we review, where available, research for specific biracial subgroups (e.g., Black-White, Latino-White, and Asian-White). Drawing on relevant theory and empirical findings, we will then make specific recommendations on how to support biracial children’s racial identity formation and social-emotional development and on how to enhance biracial adults’ functioning. Finally, we summarize important gaps in current research and identify needed directions for future research.
Keywords: Academic adjustment; Contextual influences; Developmental diversity; Health behaviors; Psychosocial adjustment; Racial identity; Social context; dept.csp

A comparison of different investigative interviewing techniques in generating differential recall enhancement and detecting deception - De Rosa, Jacob; Hiscockanisman, Cheryl; Blythe, Adam; Bogaard, Glynis; Hally, Ashley; Colwell, Kevin (Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 2019)
This study compared the Stepwise Interview, Cognitive Interview, and Reality Interview in detecting deception with inmates. The dependent measures were the amount of unique details provided during the free narrative and mnemonics and the number of words provided during the free narrative and mnemonics of each interview. The Stepwise Interview generated 58.3% accuracy, the Cognitive Interview generated 70.0% accuracy, and the Reality Interview generated 93.3% accuracy. The different tasks of these interviews increased the differences between honest and deceptive statements and therefore, increased the accuracy in detection of deception. Differential recall enhancement is used to explain the findings.
Keywords: credibility assessment; dept.psy; detecting deception; investigative interviewing; peer-reviewed

Bereavement care to minimize bereaved parents' suffering in their lifelong journey towards healing - Denhup, Christine (Applied Nursing Research, 2019)
This article presents select findings from an interpretive phenomenological study which aimed to describe the lived experience of parental bereavement. Six parents, each of whom experienced the death of a child due to cancer at least one year prior, participated in conversational interviews to share what it has been like for them since their child's death. Heideggerian (1962) phenomenology provided the philosophical underpinnings of the study, while van Manen's (1997) phenomenological method guided data collection and analysis. From this methodological approach, a structure of the meaning of parental bereavement experience was revealed. Profound suffering emerged as one essential theme. Pertinent findings related to this theme are discussed. Parents share ways others might minimize their suffering and provide support in their lifelong journey towards healing. Findings will enhance nurses' practice of providing bereavement care, which is an expectation of quality palliative care. Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Keywords: *Adaptation, Psychological; *Bereavement; *Neoplasms/mo [Mortality]; *Nurse's Role/px [Psychology]; *Nursing Staff, Hospital/px [Psychology]; *Parents/px [Psychology]; *Stress, Psychological/px [Psychology]; Adaptation, Psychological; Adult; Attitude to Death; Bereavement; Child death; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Neoplasms; Nurse's Role; Nursing Staff, Hospital; Palliative care; Parental bereavement; Parents; Stress, Psychological; Suffering; adult; attitude to death; bereavement; child parent relation; coping behavior; dept.nur; female; human; male; mental stress; middle aged; mortality; neoplasm; nurse attitude; nursing staff; peer-reviewed; psychology

Conservation through the lens of (mal)adaptation: Concepts and meta-analysis - Derry, Alison Margaret; Fraser, Dylan J.; Brady, Steven P.; Astorg, Louis; Lawrence, Elizabeth R.; Martin, Gillian K.; Matte, Jean-Michel; Dastis, Jorge Octavio Negrín; Paccard, Antoine; Barrett, Rowan D. H.; Chapman, Lauren J.; Lane, Jeffrey E.; et al. (Evolutionary Applications, 2019)
Evolutionary approaches are gaining popularity in conservation science, with diverse strategies applied in efforts to support adaptive population outcomes. Yet conservation strategies differ in the type of adaptive outcomes they promote as conservation goals. For instance, strategies based on genetic or demographic rescue implicitly target adaptive population states whereas strategies utilizing transgenerational plasticity or evolutionary rescue implicitly target adaptive processes. These two goals are somewhat polar: adaptive state strategies optimize current population fitness, which should reduce phenotypic and/or genetic variance, reducing adaptability in changing or uncertain environments; adaptive process strategies increase genetic variance, causing maladaptation in the short term, but increase adaptability over the long term. Maladaptation refers to suboptimal population fitness, adaptation refers to optimal population fitness, and (mal)adaptation refers to the continuum of fitness variation from maladaptation to adaptation. Here, we present a conceptual classification for conservation that implicitly considers (mal)adaptation in the short-term and long-term outcomes of conservation strategies. We describe cases of how (mal)adaptation is implicated in traditional conservation strategies, as well as strategies that have potential as a conservation tool but are relatively underutilized. We use a meta-analysis of a small number of available studies to evaluate whether the different conservation strategies employed are better suited toward increasing population fitness across multiple generations. We found weakly increasing adaptation over time for transgenerational plasticity, genetic rescue, and evolutionary rescue. Demographic rescue was generally maladaptive, both immediately after conservation intervention and after several generations. Interspecific hybridization was adaptive only in the F1 generation, but then rapidly leads to maladaptation. Management decisions that are made to support the process of adaptation must adequately account for (mal)adaptation as a potential outcome and even as a tool to bolster adaptive capacity to changing conditions.
Keywords: adaptation; demographic rescue; dept.bio; evolutionary rescue; gene flow; genetic rescue; hybridization; peer-reviewed; transgenerational plasticity; translocation

Development of an ecoregional floristic quality assessment method for the northeastern united states - Faberlangendoen, Don; Cameron, Don; Gilman, Arthur V; Metzler, Kenneth J; Ring, Richard M; Sneddon, Lesley (Northeastern Naturalist, 2019)
Floristic quality assessments (FQA) are widely used to assess ecological condition, based on plant species' coefficients of conservatism, or C values, but these values are typically assigned at the state level, limiting their regional consistency. We developed ecoregional C values (eC) using standard expert-based team review, partly informed by preexisting state C values for the 5 EPA ecoregions that cover New England and part of New York. We evaluated a total of 3686 taxa, with separate eC values for each ecoregion in which they occurred. We compared the performance of the C and eC values using the response of FQA metrics (mean C, cover-weighted mean C) to a disturbance gradient, based on readily available datasets in Maine and Vermont. The eC values typically performed moderately better than state values and provide a region-wide tool for assessment methods. All eC values are available on the Universal FQA website. © 2019 Humboldt Field Research Institute. All rights reserved.
Keywords: dept.egm; peer-reviewed

A case for promoting movement medicine: preventing disability in the LIFE randomized controlled trial - Fanning, Jason; Rejeski, W Jack; Chen, Shyhhuei; Nicklas, Barbara J; Walkup, Michael P; Axtell, Robert S; Fielding, Roger A; Glynn, Nancy W; King, Abby C; Manini, Todd M; Mcdermott, Mary Mcgrae; Newman, Anne B; et al. (Journals of Gerontology Series A-biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 2019)
Background: The movement profile of older adults with compromised function is unknown, as is the relationship between these profiles and the development of major mobility disability (MMD)-a critical clinical outcome. We first describe the dimensions of movement in older adults with compromised function and then examine whether these dimensions predict the onset of MMD. Methods: Older adults at risk for MMD (N = 1,022, mean age = 78.7 years) were randomized to receive a structured physical activity intervention or health education control. We assessed MMD in 6-month intervals (average follow-up of 2.2 years until incident MMD), with activity assessed at baseline, 6-, 12- and 24-month follow-up via accelerometry. Results: A principal components analysis of 11 accelerometer-derived metrics yielded three components representing lifestyle movement (LM), extended bouts of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), and stationary body posture. LM accounted for the greatest proportion of variance in movement (53%). Within health education, both baseline LM (HR = 0.74; 95% CI 0.62 to 0.88) and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (HR = 0.69; 95% CI 0.54 to 0.87) were associated with MMD, whereas only LM was associated with MMD within physical activity (HR = 0.74; 95% CI 0.61 to 0.89). There were similar nonlinear relationships present for LM in both physical activity and health education (p ¡ .04), whereby risk for MMD was lower among individuals with higher levels of LM. Conclusions: Both LM and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity should be central in treatment regimens for older adults at risk for MMD.
Keywords: Acceleration; Accelerometry; Age Factors; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Aging; Confidence Intervals; Disability; Disability Evaluation; Exercise; Female; Geriatric Assessment; Humans; Linear Models; Male; Mobility Limitation; Physical Fitness; Physical activity; Prognosis; Sedentary; Sex Factors; Single-Blind Method; Walking Speed; acceleration; age; aged; aging; clinical trial; confidence interval; controlled study; dept.hms; disability; female; fitness; geriatric assessment; human; male; multicenter study; peer-reviewed; physiology; procedures; prognosis; randomized controlled trial; sex factor; single blind procedure; statistical model; very elderly; walking difficulty; walking speed

Ecological feedbacks stabilize a turf-dominated ecosystem at the southern extent of kelp forests in the Northwest Atlantic. - Feehan, Colette J; Grace, Sean P; Narvaez, Carla A (Scientific reports, 2019)
Temperate marine ecosystems globally are undergoing regime shifts from dominance by habitat-forming kelps to dominance by opportunistic algal turfs. While the environmental drivers of shifts to turf are generally well-documented, the feedback mechanisms that stabilize novel turf-dominated ecosystems remain poorly resolved. Here, we document a decline of kelp Saccharina latissima between 1980 and 2018 at sites at the southernmost extent of kelp forests in the Northwest Atlantic and their replacement by algal turf. We examined the drivers of a shift to turf and feedback mechanisms that stabilize turf reefs. Kelp replacement by turf was linked to a significant multi-decadal increase in sea temperature above an upper thermal threshold for kelp survival. In the turf-dominated ecosystem, 45% of S. latissima were attached to algal turf rather than rocky substrate due to preemption of space. Turf-attached kelp required significantly (2 to 4 times) less force to detach from the substrate, with an attendant pattern of lower survival following 2 major wave events as compared to rock-attached kelp. Turf-attached kelp allocated a significantly greater percentage of their biomass to the anchoring structure (holdfast), with a consequent energetic trade-off of slower growth. The results indicate a shift in community dominance from kelp to turf driven by thermal stress and stabilized by ecological feedbacks of lower survival and slower growth of kelp recruited to turf.
Keywords: *Forests; *Kelp/ph [Physiology]; *Marine Biology/mt [Methods]; *Seawater; Atlantic Ocean; Bays; Biomass; Climate Change; Forests; Kelp; Kelp/gd [Growth & Development]; Marine Biology; Rhode Island; Seasons; Seawater; Temperature; article; bay; biomass; climate change; dept.bio; driver; feedback system; forest; growth, development and aging; human; kelp; marine biology; physiology; procedures; sea water; season; temperature; temperature stress

“Queer Reverence”: Aubrey Beardsley’s Venus and Tannhäuser - Fluhr, Nicole (Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens, 2019)
Keywords: dept.eng; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Does eyewitness and interviewer gender influence children’s reports? An experimental analysis of eyewitness and interviewer gender on children’s testimony - Foster, Ida; Wyman, Joshua; Tong, Donia; Colwell, Kevin; Talwar, Victoria (Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 2019)
This study examines how children's age, gender and interviewer gender affected children's testimony after witnessing a theft. Children (N=127, age = 6-11 years) witnessed an experimenter (E1) find money, which he/she may/may not have taken. E1 then asked the children to falsely deny that the theft occurred, falsely accuse E1 of taking the money, or tell the truth when interviewed by a second experimenter. Falsely denying or falsely accusing influenced children's forthcomingness and quality of their testimony. When accusing, boys were significantly more willing than girls to disclose about the theft earlier and without being asked directly. When truthfully accusing, children gave lengthier testimony to same-gendered adults. When denying, children were significantly more willing to disclose the theft earlier to male interviewers than to females. As children aged, they were significantly less likely to lie, more likely to disclose earlier when accusing, and give lengthier and more consistent testimony.
Keywords: adult; article; child; children; dept.psy; disclosures; false accusations; false denials; female; gender; girl; human; interviewer gender; lying; major clinical study; male; money; peer-reviewed; preschool child; theft; witness

Soft skill development in a total enterprise simulation - Frank, Ellen J (Business Education Innovation Journal, 2019)
Keywords: dept.mgt; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Remembering Jim Garland: Loneliness in the group - Gardella, Lorrie Greenhouse (Group work: Creating space for all voices, 2019)
Keywords: dept.swk

Using the knowledge framework and genre pedagogy for technology-enhanced form-function project-based language learning - Gleason, Jesse; Link, Stephanie (Global perspectives on project-based language learning, teaching, and assessment: Key approaches, technology tools, and frameworks, 2019)
Keywords: dept.wll

Identification of patients' spiritual needs using a spiritual health assessment tool - Green, Cheryl Ann (Creating Healthy Work Environments, 2019)
Keywords: dept.nur; ⛔ No DOI found

An Analytical Study of Recommendation Systems in Chinese City Libraries / 城市图书馆馆藏资源推荐系统调查分析 - Guo, Q; Liu, Yan Quan; Wang, Y (Research on Library Science, 2019)
Keywords: dept.ils; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Book Review: Farnsworth, Stephen J. 'Presidential communication and character: White House news management from Clinton and cable to twitter and Trump' - Hopper, Jennifer (Congress & the Presidency, 2019)
Keywords: book.review; dept.psc

The challenges of recruiting and retaining dual language teachers - Howard, Elizabeth; López-Velásquez, Angela M. (Dual language education: teaching and leading in two languages, 2019)
Across the United States, the popularity of dual language education (DLE) has grown considerably over the past several decades, but finding qualified bilingual teachers to staff these programs is an ongoing issue for administrators. Using the Guiding Principles for Dual Language Education as a framework, this chapter addresses this urgent issue by exploring dual language teacher recruitment and retention through the experiences and recommendations of teachers and administrators in Connecticut. Findings address participants’ perceptions of teacher recruitment and retention, staff selection, workplace climate, and staff evaluation. Cross-cutting themes include the value of shared responsibility and shared decision-making in addressing this complex issue, the need for creativity and flexibility to increase pathways to certification for dual language teachers, and the importance of positive working conditions.
Keywords: Alternative routes to certification; Bilingual teachers; Dual language; School climate; School-university partnerships; Teacher certification; Teacher recruitment; Teacher retention; Teacher shortage; dept.sed

Audiovisual speech perception in children with autism spectrum disorders - Irwin, Julia R.; Avery, T; Kleinman, D; Landi, N (ICA 2019 Aachen, 2019)
In face-to-face conversation, when a speaker talks, the outcome of their speech can both be heard (audio) and seen (visual). We employed a novel visual phonemic restoration paradigm to assess neural signatures (event related potentials [ERPs]) of audiovisual processing in typically developing children and in children with ASD. During EEG recording, two types of auditory stimuli were alternately presented with video of a speaker saying the consonant-vowel syllable /ba/: 1) a synthesized consonant-vowel syllable /ba/ or 2) a synthesized syllable derived from /ba/ in which auditory cues for the consonant are substantially weakened, such that it sounds 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. In an ERP context, we have shown that this restoration leads to an attenuated phoneme discrimination response in an active task in typical adults and children. To explore the hypothesis that children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have atypical AV speech integration under pre-attentive processing conditions, we tested whether children with ASD would show a reduction in this restoration effect under passive listening conditions. Indeed, in this task, children with ASD showed a large /ba/-/a/ discrimination response, even in the presence of a speaker producing /ba/, suggesting reduced influence of visual speech. © 2019 Proceedings of the International Congress on Acoustics. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Audiovisual; Autism; Phonemic Restoration; Speech; dept.psy

High performance logic and circuits for high-speed electronic systems - Jain, F; Broadbridge, C; Gherasimova, M; Tang, H (Selected Topics in Electronics and Systems, 2019)
In this volume, we have put together papers spanning a broad range from the area of modeling of strain and misfit dislocation densities, microwave absorption characteristics of nanocomposites, to X-ray diffraction studies. Specific topics in this volume include: Modeling of strain relaxation and defect dynamics in buffer layers for semiconductor devices fabricated on lattice-mismatched substrates, which enables technology for advanced computer chips, multi-junction solar cells, detectors, and microwave transistors. Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are probabilistic circuit primitives that extract randomness from the physical characteristics of devices. One of the papers outlines PUF design based on resistor and capacitor variations for low pass filters (LoPUF). Spatial wavefunction switching (SWS) FETs, which can process 2-bits per FET using CMOS-SWS logic, thus enabling multivalued logic (MVL) and compact DRAMs. Perimeter gated single-photon avalanche diode (PGSPAD). The applied voltage at the gate terminal modulates the electric field, making it uniform throughout the junction. This gating technique is an efficient method to prevent premature edge breakdown, one of the major problems in operating avalanche photodiodes implemented in CMOS process. In summary, papers selected in this volume cover various aspects of high performance logic and circuits for high-speed electronic systems. © 2019 by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keywords: dept.phy

The yoke of childhood - Misgivings about children's relationship to technology in contemporary science fiction - Kenty-Drane, Jessica L. (Child and youth agency in science fiction: travel, technology, time, 2019)
Keywords: dept.soc; faculty_collection

Beyond borders: Jean Gerson’s conciliarism in fifteenth-century Spain - Kern, Darcy (Renaissance and Reformation, 2019)
In recent years there has been renewed interest in conciliarism, the belief that the authority of the universal church resides in an ecumenical council, not the pope, though the perception remains that conciliarism had a negligible impact in Iberia. One way to better understand the evolution of conciliar thought in the Spanish kingdoms is by looking at the circulation of the works and ideas of the French conciliarist Jean Gerson (1363–1429). Though a complete reconstruction of Gerson’s circulation is impossible, one can offer an initial overview of his impact in the Spanish kingdoms not simply by counting manuscripts or incunabula, as valuable as that is, but by thinking broadly about networks of exchange and dissemination. Gerson’s works came to Spain through the church councils, trans-Pyrenees Carthusian networks, monastic reformers, printers and printing houses, mendicant reformers, and the library of the University of Salamanca. © 2019, (publisher Name). All Rights Reserved.
Keywords: dept.his; peer-reviewed

Diverse children’s poetry in the university classroom: exploring voice, culture, and identity - Knezek, Suzanne N; Gardner, Roberta Price; Shaw, Louise J. (Journal of Children’s Literature, 2019)
Keywords: dept.cur; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Phase selection motifs in High Entropy Alloys revealed through combinatorial methods: Large atomic size difference favors BCC over FCC - Kube, Sebastian A; Sohn, Sungwoo; Uhl, David; Datye, Amit; Mehta, Apurva; Schroers, Jan (Acta Materialia, 2019)
High Entropy Alloys are inherently complex and span a vast composition space, making their research and discovery challenging. Developing quantitative predictions of their phase selection requires a large quantity of consistently determined experimental data. Here, we use combinatorial methods to fabricate and characterize 2478 quinary alloys based on Al and transition metals. All data are publicly available at http://materialsatlasproject.org/. Phase selection can be predicted for considered alloys when combining the content of FCC/BCC elements and the constituents’ atomic size difference. Mining our data reveals that High Entropy Alloys with increasing atomic size difference prefer BCC structure over FCC. This preference is typically overshadowed by other selection motifs, which dominate during close-to-equilibrium processing. Not suggested by the Hume-Rothery rules, this preference originates from the ability of the BCC structure to accommodate a large atomic size difference with lower strain energy penalty which can be practically only realized in High Entropy Alloys. © 2019 Acta Materialia Inc.
Keywords: Aluminum alloys; Atomic size difference; Atomic sizes; Atoms; Combinatorial method; Combinatorial sputtering; Composition space; Crystal structure; Entropy; High entropy alloys; Hume-Rothery rules; Phase selection; Quantitative prediction; Strain energy; Transition metals; dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Spontaneous baroreflex sensitivity in normotensive African-American men - Latchman, Peter L.; Gates, Gregory J.; Thiel, Robert; Axtell, Robert S.; Zhu, Weili; Morin-Viall, Ally; Yue, Tianhong; Yang, Qin; Gardner, Kenneth; Meersman, Ronald E. De (Open Journal of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, 2019)
Keywords: dept.hms; peer-reviewed

Evaluation of Swallow Function Post-Extubation: Is It Necessary to Wait 24 Hours?. - Leder, Steven B; Warner, Heather L; Suiter, Debra M; Young, Nwanmegha O; Bhattacharya, Bishwajit; Siner, Jonathan M; Davis, Kimberly A; Maerz, Linda L; Rosenbaum, Stanley H; Marshall, Peter S; Pisani, Margaret A; Siegel, Mark D; et al. (The Annals of otology, rhinology, and laryngology, 2019)
BACKGROUND: Post-extubation dysphagia is associated with an increased incidence of nosocomial pneumonias, longer hospitalizations, and higher re-intubation rates. The purpose of this study was to determine if it is necessary to delay swallow evaluation for 24 hours post-extubation., METHODS: A prospective investigation of swallowing was conducted at 1, 4, and 24 hours post-extubation to determine if it is necessary to delay swallow evaluation following intubation. Participants were 202 adults from 5 different intensive care units (ICU)., RESULTS: A total of 166 of 202 (82.2%) passed the Yale Swallow Protocol at 1 hour post-extubation, with an additional 11 (177/202; 87.6%) at 4 hours, and 8 more (185/202; 91.6%) at 24 hours. Only intubation duration >=4 days was significantly associated with nonfunctional swallowing., CONCLUSIONS: We found it is not necessary to delay assessment of swallowing in individuals who are post-extubation. Specifically, the majority of patients in our study (82.2%) passed a swallow screening at 1 hour post-extubation.
Keywords: *Airway Extubation; *Deglutition Disorders/di [Diagnosis]; *Speech-Language Pathology/mt [Methods]; Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Airway Extubation; Article; Deglutition Disorders; Female; Humans; Intensive Care Units; Male; Middle Aged; Prospective Studies; Respiration, Artificial; Respiratory Insufficiency; Respiratory Insufficiency/th [Therapy]; Speech-Language Pathology; Time Factors; Young Adult; adult; aged; artificial ventilation; clinical assessment; clinical evaluation; clinical practice; controlled study; deglutition; deglutition disorders; dept.cmd; dysphagia; endotracheal intubation; extubation; female; hospitalization; human; intensive care unit; major clinical study; male; mental health; middle aged; oral alimentation; peer-reviewed; priority journal; procedures; prospective study; respiratory failure; speech disorder; speech language pathologist; swallowing; swallowing assessment; therapy delay; time factor; treatment duration; very elderly; young adult

Finding the volume and surface area in the gut - Lim, Woong; Lee, Younhee; Lee, Ji-Eun (Australian Mathematics Educational Journal, 2019)
Keywords: dept.mat; ⛔ No DOI found

Online teacher training using the knowledge framework and teaching-learning cycle for literacy development - Link, S; Gleason, Jesse (Social Practices in Higher Education: A Knowledge Framework Approach to Linguistic Research and Teaching, 2019)
Keywords: dept.wll; faculty_collection

Differences, Complementarity and Convergence of University Library Mobile Service Platforms / 高校图书馆移动服务平台的差异、互补与融合 - Liu, Yan Quan; Zhao, F (Journal of the National Library of China, 2019)
Keywords: dept.ils; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Participant carelessness: Is it a substantial issue in survey research? - Marasi, S.; Wall, A.; Brewer, K. (Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods, 2019)
Keywords: dept.mgt; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

US-China trade conflict: On a misty path - Mor, Surender; Lodha, Shyam S. (Interdisciplinary Journal of Economics and Business Law, 2019)
Keywords: dept.mkt; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Rolf Brandt and a conservative literary journalism - Paddock, Troy RE (Literary Journalism Studies, 2019)
Rolf Brandt (1886-1953) was a German journalist, author, and political commentator. His first work was as a war reporter on the Eastern Front during the opening months of the Great War (World War I). His reports appeared in several important German newspapers (Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung and Frankfurter Zeitung) and were compiled and published in 1915 as Fünf Monate an der Ostfront: Kriegsberichte (Five months on the Eastern Front: War reports). Brandt's reports were more than just army-approved press releases. He wrote in a way that constructed a bridge between the home front and the front lines. In the process he employed techniques now associated with literary journalism. With a clear point of view, he told his story through a sequence of scenes, instead of a simple historical narrative, and included genuine dialogue and status details. While scholars of German literary journalism point to Egon Erwin Kisch as the originator of German literary journalism, this study suggests Brandt should be considered an early practitioner of literary journalism in the German language. More interestingly, Brandt's particular brand of literary journalism had an unmistakably conservative nationalist perspective, thus suggesting that it is possible to have a conservative form of literary journalism. © 2019 Literary Journalism Studies. All Rights Reserved.
Keywords: Conservative literary journalism; Germany; Propaganda; Rolf Brandt; Russia; World War I; dept.his; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Braiding teacher practice and class-wide dialogue: An historical inquiry across three sociocultural interventions - Palincsar, Annemarie Sullivan; Marcum, Meredith Baker; Fitzgerald, Miranda; Sherwood, Carrie-Anne (International Journal of Educational Research, 2019)
Keywords: dept.cur; peer-reviewed

Automated translation preference with a bilingual chatbot - Park, Mina; Aiken, Milam (International Journal of Computers & Technology, 2019)
Free, online language translation services are being used by people around to the world to facilitate communication. However, it takes time and effort for a person to load the Web page in a browser, copy and paste text into the site, and translate words. The process quickly becomes tiresome. Instead, some computer programs are providing automated translation. However, no studies have been conducted to determine the efficiency or effectiveness of such an approach. In this study, we compare how students used an English-based chatbot with and without German automatic translation. Results show that students took nearly 1.5 times longer than their stated upper time limit to manually translate. In contrast, the automated translation was at least 30 times faster. In addition, the students were significantly more satisfied with the automated than the manual system.
Keywords: Chatbots; Google Translate; Tutor Mike; artificial conversation; dept.bis; dept.mgt; machine translation; peer-reviewed

The Model and Challenges of Volunteer Service Mechanism in American Urban Libraries / 美国城市图书馆志愿者服务机制模式及面临的挑战 - Ren, X; Liu, Yan Quan (Library & Information, 2019)
Keywords: dept.ils; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Promoting pro-social skills to reduce violence among urban middle school youth - Risisky, Deb; MacGregor, J; Smith, D. A.; Abraham, J; Archambault, M (Journal of Youth Development, 2019)
Adolescent violence is a significant public health problem. The goal of this evaluation was to determine whether communication skills, relationships with adults, and relationships with peers were enhanced through participating in an after-school program aimed at reducing violence-related behaviors among urban middle school youth. Elements that helped to foster success among our population were providing a program that enabled consistent choice in recreational activities in a safe place, and also providing busing home to increase safety. A non-experimental study was conducted with 115 students who participated in the program. Bivariate, ANOVA analysis, and Kruskal–Wallis tests were carried out. Results indicated that participating in the program significantly impacted student relationships with adults and their peers as well as positively impacted their communication skills. The program was designed with purposeful activities that would address pro-social behaviors, enhance youth interest, and increase attendance. The program specifically used recreation to help foster relationships with their peers and the adults in the program, with the intention of reducing conflict, and therefore violence among the students.
Keywords: After-school program; Recreation programs; Youth violence; dept.pch; dept.rec; peer-reviewed

Fitness attributes of bacterial and fungal seed endophytes of tall fescue - Roberts, Elizabeth Lewis; Mormile, Brendan; Adamchek, Christopher (Seed Endophytes: Biology and Biotechnology, 2019)
Increased fitness in tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea) is attributed to infection by Epichloë coenophiala. However, plant growth-promoting (PGP) bacteria also increase the fitness of many host plants, and PGP bacteria have been shown to dominate the phyllosphere and rhizosphere microbiome of E. coenophiala-infected (E+) tall fescue. Because E. coenophialum lives endophytically in tall fescue seeds, we hypothesized that PGP bacteria also live within the seeds and could provide fitness advantages to the host. Endophyte-infected (E+) and endophyte-free (E−) Kentucky-31 tall fescue seeds were surface sterilized to remove epiphytic bacteria. Surface sterilized and non-surface sterilized control plants of each type were cultivated for 6 weeks before withholding water to simulate drought. Normal watering was resumed after 4 days. Plant recovery of each group was measured by assigning a numerical value to tillers based on the state of decline. Surface-sterilized E+ plants were unable to recover as efficiently as E+ controls but outperformed both E− groups. Additionally, total 16S amplified DNA extracted from each seed type was analyzed with Illumina sequencing to assess the internal microbial communities from E+ and E− seeds as well as the seed coat microbiome. E+ seeds have lower diversity of endophytic bacterial species and are dominated by Pseudomonadaceae. Further, several of the seed endophytes are PGP bacterial strains.
Keywords: Clavicipitaceae; Epichloë coenophialum; Epichloë spp.; Plant growth promotion; Plant growth-promoting bacteria; Plant growthpromoting bacteria; Stress tolerance; Tall fescue; dept.bio

Louise Rosenblatt: The reader, democracy, and the ethics of reading - Sinclair, Meredith N. (Reading as Democracy in Crisis: Interpretation, Theory, History, 2019)
Reading as Democracy in Crisis: Interpretation, Theory, History explores the dialectic between historical conditions and the reading strategies that arise from them. It explores the relationship...
Keywords: dept.eng

Study of MnO2-Graphene Oxide nanocomposites for supercapacitor applications - Singhal, Rahul; Fagnoni, Justin; Thorne, David; LeMaire, Peter K.; Martinez, Xavier; Zhao, Chen; Gupta, Ram K.; Uhl, David; Scanley, Ellen; Broadbridge, Christine C.; Manivannan, Mani; Pandey, Rishikesh (MRS Advances, 2019)
Graphene oxide (GO)/MnO2 nanocomposites were synthesized by adding KMnO4 in a solution of water and ethanol (3:1), containing 10 mg of GO. Brown precipitates were obtained after a continuous stirring for 1 hr. The precipitates were then washed with deionized water (DI) water and dried to obtain the MnO2-GO nanocomposites. Pure MnO2 was also synthesized using the same method without GO for the comparison. X-ray diffraction pattern confirm δ-MnO2 type of MnO2 with birnessite type MnO2 structure. The TEM images show the average diameter of MnO2 nanorods as 15 nm. Electrochemical characterizations were carried out in an aqueous solution of 3M KOH. Charge-discharge studies were carried out between 1A/g to 20 A/g current range. The MnO2-GO nanocomposites showed improved electrochemical performances. The capacitance of MnO2 and MnO2-GO electrodes was found to be as 300 F/g, and 350 F/g, respectively at a current of 0.5 A/g. © 2019 Materials Research Society.
Keywords: Average diameter; Charge-discharge; Continuous stirrings; Current range; Deionized water; Electric discharges; Electrochemical characterizations; Electrochemical performance; Energy storage; Graphene; Graphene oxide nanocomposites; Manganese oxide; Nanocomposites; Nanorods; Potassium hydroxide; Raman spectroscopy; Supercapacitor; Supercapacitor application; X ray diffraction; dept.phy; energy storage; graphene; peer-reviewed; x-ray diffraction (XRD)

Orientation Learning Needs of Adjunct Clinical Faculty in the United States - Sousa, Monica P.; Resha, Cheryl A. (Nursing Education Perspectives, 2019)
Aim: The aim of the study was to examine the orientation learning needs of adjunct clinical faculty as they transition from expert clinicians to novice educators. Background: Schools of nursing are increasingly using adjunct clinical faculty because of the nurse faculty shortage. Retention is a concern. Method: This descriptive quantitative study used the Needs Assessment Survey for Topic Inclusion in a Guide to Orientation. Adjunct clinical faculty rated the level of importance of orientation topics and if they received needed information. Results: The majority of topics were found to be rated very important or important. Several items deemed very important or important were either not discussed or not sufficiently discussed in orientation. Conclusion: The information obtained demonstrates the vast amount of information that adjunct clinical faculty want and need in an orientation. © 2019 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Keywords: Adjunct Clinical Faculty; Clinical Nurse Faculty; Clinical Teaching; Faculty Orientation; Faculty, Nursing; Humans; Needs Assessment; Nurses; Transition Into Academia; United States; article; clinical education; clinician; dept.nur; human; learning; needs assessment; nurse; nursing education; peer-reviewed; quantitative analysis

Book Review: Home, nature, and the feminine ideal: Geographies of the interior and of empire, Elaine Stratford, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD (2019), 323 pages, US150.00 hardcover - Thompson, Carolyn (Journal of Historical Geography, 2019)
Keywords: book.review; dept.egm

Speckle observations and orbits of multiple stars. - Tokovinin, Andrei; Everett, Mark E; Horch, Elliott P; Torres, Guillermo; Latham, David W (Astronomical Journal, 2019)
We report results of speckle-interferometric monitoring of visual hierarchical systems using the newly commissioned instrument NN-EXPLORE Exoplanet and Stellar Speckle Imager at the 3.5 m WIYN telescope. During one year, 390 measurements of 129 resolved subsystems were made, while some targets were unresolved. Using our astrometry and archival data, we computed 36 orbits (27 for the first time). Spectro-interferometric orbits of seven pairs are determined by combining positional measurements with radial velocities measured, mostly, with the Center for Astrophysics digital speedometers. For the hierarchical systems HIP 65026 (periods 49 and 1.23 yr) and HIP 85209 (periods 34 and 1.23 yr) we determined both the inner and the outer orbits using astrometry and radial velocities and measured the mutual orbit inclinations of 11.°3 ± 1.°0 and 12.°0 ± 3.°0, respectively. Four bright stars are resolved for the first time; two of those are triple systems. Several visual subsystems announced in the literature are shown to be spurious. We note that subsystems in compact hierarchies with outer separations less than 100 au tend to have less eccentric orbits compared to wider hierarchies. © 2019. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved..
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

A study of construing the experience of rage in english and vietnamese novels from functional grammar perspective - Trinh, Nguyen Thi Tu (VNU Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2019)
Keywords: dept.eng; peer-reviewed; ⚠️ Invalid DOI

Colonization of the tsetse fly midgut with commensal Kosakonia cowanii Zambiae inhibits trypanosome infection establishment. - Weiss, Brian L; Maltz, Michele A; Vigneron, Aurelien; Wu, Yineng; Walter, Katharine S; O'Neill, Michelle B; Wang, Jingwen; Aksoy, Serap (PLOS Pathogens, 2019)
Tsetse flies (Glossina spp.) vector pathogenic trypanosomes (Trypanosoma spp.) in sub-Saharan Africa. These parasites cause human and animal African trypanosomiases, which are debilitating diseases that inflict an enormous socio-economic burden on inhabitants of endemic regions. Current disease control strategies rely primarily on treating infected animals and reducing tsetse population densities. However, relevant programs are costly, labor intensive and difficult to sustain. As such, novel strategies aimed at reducing tsetse vector competence require development. Herein we investigated whether Kosakonia cowanii Zambiae (Kco_Z), which confers Anopheles gambiae with resistance to Plasmodium, is able to colonize tsetse and induce a trypanosome refractory phenotype in the fly. Kco_Z established stable infections in tsetse's gut and exhibited no adverse effect on the fly's survival. Flies with established Kco_Z infections in their gut were significantly more refractory to infection with two distinct trypanosome species (T. congolense, 6% infection; T. brucei, 32% infection) than were age-matched flies that did not house the exogenous bacterium (T. congolense, 36% infected; T. brucei, 70% infected). Additionally, 52% of Kco_Z colonized tsetse survived infection with entomopathogenic Serratia marcescens, compared with only 9% of their wild-type counterparts. These parasite and pathogen refractory phenotypes result from the fact that Kco_Z acidifies tsetse's midgut environment, which inhibits trypanosome and Serratia growth and thus infection establishment. Finally, we determined that Kco_Z infection does not impact the fecundity of male or female tsetse, nor the ability of male flies to compete with their wild-type counterparts for mates. We propose that Kco_Z could be used as one component of an integrated strategy aimed at reducing the ability of tsetse to transmit pathogenic trypanosomes.
Keywords: *Trypanosoma brucei brucei/py [Pathogenicity]; *Trypanosoma congolense/py [Pathogenicity]; *Trypanosomiasis, African/pc [Prevention & Control]; *Tsetse Flies/mi [Microbiology]; *Tsetse Flies/ps [Parasitology]; Adult; Africa South of the Sahara; Africa south of the Sahara; African trypanosomiasis; Animals; Anopheles; Anopheles gambiae; Anopheles/mi [Microbiology]; Article; Drosophila; Enterobacteriaceae; Female; Glossinidae; Humans; Male; Mosquito Vectors; Mosquito Vectors/mi [Microbiology]; Mosquito Vectors/ps [Parasitology]; Plasmodium; Serratia infection; Symbiosis; Trypanosoma brucei brucei; Trypanosoma congolense; Trypanosomiasis, African; Trypanosomiasis, African/me [Metabolism]; Trypanosomiasis, African/mi [Microbiology]; Trypanosomiasis, African/ps [Parasitology]; Tsetse Flies; adult; animal; animal experiment; animal model; animal tissue; antibacterial activity; ascorbic acid; bacterial load; blood flow; cell proliferation assay; clinical effectiveness; colony forming unit; controlled study; cysteine; dept.bio; disease predisposition; economics; female; fitness; fluorescence; genotype phenotype correlation; health program; human; immune system; male; metabolism; microbial colonization; microbiology; microscopy; mosquito vector; nonhuman; pH; parasitology; pathogenicity; peer-reviewed; peptidoglycan recognition protein; population; probability; semen analysis; survival analysis; symbiosis; trypanosomiasis

Exploring aspiring school leaders’ perception of preparedness on four leadership domains - Yavuz, Olcay; Robinson, Quintin L. (Education Reform Journal, 2018)
Keywords: dept.edl; peer-reviewed

Focus introduction: Swarms, herds, and peoples—examinations of interspecies dynamics in China - Bello, David A.; Thompson, C. Michele (East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, 2018)
As its title suggests, this Focus draws our attention to the shift in perspective brought about by environmental history, compared to the more traditional approaches of history of science. Here human knowledge of and interaction with animals are understood as part of a historically variable system that encompasses both the human realm and its environment, a system in which the various components interact and shape each other dynamically.
Keywords: dept.his; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

“My sister is the one that made me stay above water”: How social supports are maintained and strained when survivors of intimate partner violence reside in emergency shelter programs - Stylianou, Amanda M.; Counselman-Carpenter, Elisabeth; Redcay, Alex (Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2018)
While social support is critical in helping intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors heal and build hope, social isolation is a frequent experience for survivors. For survivors residing in domestic violence (DV) emergency shelters, the isolation from social supports is often exacerbated by shelter rules and policies. This study uses a 20th century feminist framework to understand the ways in which social support networks are maintained and/or strained when survivors reside in DV emergency shelters. Among this sample of 76 survivors, 40 participants identified family members as their support system, with siblings and mothers most frequently identified, and 14 participants identified friends as their social support. Prior to entering the DV shelter, survivors reported that their support networks provided encouragement and motivation along with emotional support, financial and material support, and support with children. Participants spoke about the process of informing their support systems of the transition into a DV shelter, the positive and negative impacts of the transition on their support system, and the roles that frequent telephone calls and texts played in maintaining their support networks. Participants reported positive impacts of residing in a DV shelter including improved emotional and physical health, strengthened emotional relationships, and improved physical and emotional resource provision. For those participants reporting negative experiences, they frequently identified logistical barriers, including the inability to receive visitors at the shelter, the distance between them and their friends and family, and strict rules around curfew and child care. Our findings invite researchers and practitioners to consider further examination of best practices around programming that supports survivors in maintaining social supports while residing in shelter programs
Keywords: dept.swk; peer-reviewed

Welcome the stranger: Group work and hospitality in a fearful era - Gardella, Lorrie Greenhouse (Group work around the globe: Creating transformative connections in challenging times, 2018)
Proceedings of the XXXVIII and XXXIX International Symposium of the International Association for Social Work with Groups, New York City, New York, USA, June 15-18, 2016 and June 7-10 2017
Keywords: dept.swk

Uniting theory and empirical research: market sensing and marketing research - Prince, Melvin; Gabay, G; Priporas, Constantinos; Moskowitz, H (Quantitative research methods in consumer psychology: contemporary and data driven approaches, 2018)
Quantitative consumer research has long been the backbone of consumer psychology producing insights with peerless validity and reliability. This new book addresses a broad range of approaches to consumer psychology research along with developments in quantitative consumer research. Experts in their respective fields offer a perspective into this rapidly changing discipline of quantitative consumer research. The book focuses on new techniques as well as adaptations of traditional approaches and addresses ethics that relate to contemporary research approaches. The text is appropriate for use with university students at all academic levels. Each chapter provides both a theoretical grounding in its topic area and offers applied examples of the use of the approach in consumer settings. Exercises are provided at the end of each chapter to test student learning. Topics covered are quantitative research techniques, measurement theory and psychological scaling, mapping sentences for planning and managing research, using qualitative research to elucidate quantitative research findings, big data and its visualization, extracting insights from online data, modeling the consumer, social media and digital market analysis, connectionist modeling of consumer choice, market sensing and marketing research, preparing data for analysis;, and ethics. The book may be used on its own as a textbook and may also be used as a supplementary text in quantitative research courses.
Keywords: dept.mkt

Preventing and alleviating compassion fatigue through self-care: An educational workshop for nurses - Adimando, Andrea (Journal of Holistic Nursing, 2018)
Though various authors have refined and described the concept of compassion fatigue (CF), the overarching features, predisposing factors, and potential consequences remain relatively consistent. Available literature demonstrates that caregivers caring for patients who are chronically ill and/or traumatized are at highest risk for developing CF. Potential consequences for unmitigated CF include physical, emotional, and work-related consequences, all of which can have negative effects on the quality and safety of care and degree of engagement with one’s employer. CF is further exacerbated by exposure to cumulative, unresolved stress and neglect of one’s own emotional needs over time. Caregivers must be knowledgeable on CF’s risk factors, symptoms, and management strategies to decrease its incidence and negative impacts. This article details the creation, execution, and evaluation of an evidence-based practice change project implemented with the goal of increasing knowledge needed to prevent, identify, and alleviate CF in high-risk nurses. The project involved a series of educational workshops containing information on CF’s risk factors, symptoms, and consequences, with a strong emphasis on self-awareness, self-care, and stress management. Pre- and postknowledge tests showed a significant increase in knowledge was achieved via the workshops, and qualitative surveys indicated a high level of participant satisfaction with the program contents, format, and impact.
Keywords: Adult; Burnout, Professional; Compassion Fatigue; Female; Holistic Nursing; Humans; Inservice Training; Male; Middle Aged; Nurses; Quality of Life; Self Care; Surveys and Questionnaires; adult; burnout; caring; compassion fatigue; dept.nur; educators; female; grief/loss/suffering; health and wellness coaching; holistic nursing; human; in service training; male; meditation/mindfulness; middle aged; nurse; nurses; peer-reviewed; prevention and control; psychology; quality of life; questionnaire; self care; stress and coping; stress management/relaxation; trauma/posttrauma

We beat the cops in GTA: Po(ludic)al activism in the age of video games - Demirbag-Kaplan, Melike; Kaplan-Oz, Begum (Convergence, 2018)
This article explores how individuals reflect on their digital experiences of actualizing fantasies to make sense of their everyday actions, particularly in the context of video gaming. Our study takes a qualitative approach to understanding the context of materializing consumer fantasies, as initially experienced and actualized in video games, and how these fantasies are transformed into material reality, through an investigation of an illustrative case of mass street protests, the 2013 Gezi Protests in Turkey. The findings suggest that digital virtual experiences in video games have obvious manifestations in the material world, as consumers travel on the borders of reality, moving back and forth into the liminoid terrain of the digital virtual, and provide a deeper understanding of how the blurred boundaries between the virtual and material are established in practice.
Keywords: Digital virtual consumption; Gezi Protests; dept.mkt; liminoid; peer-reviewed; political activism; social movements; video games

Personality and political preferences: the 2016 U.S. presidential election - Abe, Jo Ann A (Journal of Research in Personality, 2018)
This study examined whether personality variables would account for political preferences during the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election using a demographically diverse sample of participants (N = 897). Study A revealed participants' ratings of their own personality and emotions were weakly associated with political preferences, but their ratings of candidates' personality showed robust associations, and were far more predictive of voting intention than all of the demographic variables, political affiliation, and racial attitudes combined. In Study B, linguistic analysis of narratives revealed words reflective of liberal values were correlated with positive evaluations of Clinton's personality, whereas words reflective of conservative values and “populist” sentiment were correlated with positive evaluations of Trump's personality, suggesting appraisals of candidates may be associated with values. (C) 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Five Factor Model of Personality (FFM); Liberal and conservative values; Linguistic analysis; Political preferences; dept.psy; peer-reviewed; “Populist” sentiment

The Other, Shame, and Politics: Levinas, Justice, and Feeling Responsible - Larocco, Steve (Religions, 2018)
Adi Ophir has suggested that the political realm is an order of evils, producing and managing regular forms of suffering and violence rather than eliminating them. Thus, the political is always to some extent a corrupted order of justice. Emmanuel Levinas’ work presents in its focus on the face-to-face relationship a means of rethinking how to make the political more open to compassionate justice. Though Levinas himself doesn’t sufficiently take on this question, I argue that his work facilitates a way of thinking about commiserative shame that provides a means to connect the face-to-face to its potential effects in the political sphere. If such shame isn’t ignored or bypassed, it produces an unsettling relation to the other that in its adversity motivates a kind of responsibility and care for the other that can alter the public sphere.
Keywords: Commiseration; Evil; Guilt; Law; Levinas; Other; Politics; Responsibility; Shame; Sympathy; commiseration; dept.eng; evil; guilt; law; other; peer-reviewed; politics; responsibility; shame; sympathy

The successful pairing of deliberate practice with reciprocal peer teaching - Maynard, Kristi (Nurse Educator, 2018)
Keywords: dept.nur; peer-reviewed

Movement pattern based authentication for smart mobile devices - Rahman, Khandaker Abir; Tubbs, Dustyn J.; Hossain, Md Shafaeat (2018 17th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), 2018)
We outline a novel method of user authentication for smart mobile devices, such as smartphones or tablets and propose movement pattern based authentication as an alternate to current methods that relies on a pin or drawn-pattern. While the current methods are vulnerable against common attacks (e.g., smudge attacks, shoulder surfing), our method, in contrast, is more resilient against the attacks of these kinds because it utilizes sensory data given off by the device during a preset movement for authentication. In our experiment, we recorded the values given off by four physical observational sensors: (1) accelerometer, (2) linear accelerometer, (3) gyroscope and (4) tilt sensor, which each had three axes, over a set of movements. We experimented with 10 arbitrary movement-patterns and gathered 12 samples of each (net 120 samples) to test with. We developed our own method of authentication, through which we performed 35,650 authentication attempts and found a 20.36% Equal Error Rate.
Keywords: Accelerometers; Authentication; Equal error rate; Gyroscopes; Linear accelerometers; Machine learning; Mobile computing; Mobile device; Movement pattern; Screen unlock; Sensory data; Shoulder surfing; Smart phones; Three axes; Tilt sensor; Training; User authentication; accelerometers; authentication; authorisation; dept.csc; gyroscope; gyroscopes; linear accelerometer; message authentication; mobile computing; mobile device; movement pattern; movement pattern based authentication; movement pattern, authentication, screen unlock, mobile device; physical observational sensors; preset movement; screen unlock; smart mobile devices; smart phones; smudge attacks; tilt sensor; user authentication

Effect of different areal precipitation estimation methods on the accuracy of a reservoir runoff inflow forecast model - Zhong, Wei; Li, Ruirui; Liu, Yan Quan; Xu, Jin (Institute of Physics Publishing, 2018)
Areal precipitation estimation directly affects the accuracy of reservoir runoff inflow forecasts and flood dispatching decision-making. Because of the heterogeneous spatial and temporal precipitation distributions in large basins, inadequate precipitation stations normally have a negative impact on forecast accuracy. Using the Panjia-kou reservoir runoff inflow forecast as the research subject, this paper adopts the Thiessen polygon block, square grid computing, and DEM (digital elevation model) methods to estimate average regional areal precipitation. Based on the estimation, a model for the Panjia-kou reservoir runoff forecast is developed. The results indicate that different areal precipitation estimation methods have significantly different effects on the accuracy of the reservoir runoff inflow forecast. When the average regional precipitation estimation from the DEM method is used as an input to the model, the simulation results are accurate and are much better than those from the other two average regional precipitation estimation methods.
Keywords: Air pollution; Areal precipitation; Decision making; Different effects; Digital elevation model; Forecast accuracy; Forecasting; Grid computing; Precipitation distribution; Precipitation estimation; Research subjects; Reservoirs (water); Runoff; Runoff forecast; Surveying; dept.ils

Robust quantification of fish early life CO2 sensitivities via serial experimentation - Baumann, Hannes; Cross, Emma L.; Murray, Chris S. (Biology Letters, 2018)
Keywords: dept.egm; peer-reviewed

Flourishing and academic engagement among adolescents with overweight and obesity - Rupp, Kristie; McCoy, Stephanie M. (International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health, 2018)
Abstract Background Overweight and obesity in adolescence are associated with several negative health indicators; the association with flourishing, an indicator of overall well-being, is less clear. Objectives To examine associations between weight status and indicators of flourishing and academic engagement in adolescents. Subjects Analyses included 22,078 adolescents (10–17 years) from the 2016 National Survey of Children’s Health. Methods Adolescents were grouped according to body mass index (BMI) classification; outcomes included indicators of flourishing and academic engagement. Logistic regression models assessed the odds of each outcome comparing adolescents with overweight and adolescents with obesity to healthy weight adolescents. Results For flourishing, adolescents with overweight and adolescents with obesity were less likely to stay calm during a challenge (17% and 30%, respectively; p < 0.01); adolescents with obesity were 30% less likely to finish a task they started (p < 0.001), and 34% less likely to show interest in new things (p < 0.001) in comparison to healthy weight peers. Adolescents with obesity were 26% less likely to care about doing well in school (p < 0.001), and adolescents with overweight and adolescents with obesity were significantly less likely to complete all required homework (19% and 34%, respectively) (p < 0.001), in comparison to healthy weight peers. Conclusions A comprehensive approach to addressing overweight and obesity in adolescence should target improving academic engagement and flourishing to promote overall well-being.
Keywords: academics; adolescence; dept.hms; dept.pch; flourishing; obesity; peer-reviewed

Peaches and crocs: A story of gratitude for nurses - Resha, Cheryl Ann (American Nurse Today: Insights, 2018)
My story began when I was 49 years young and told I had Stage IV colorectal cancer. That was almost 12 years ago, and today I am one of the fortunate ones—not only has it been almost 12 more years of living, but my oncologist has used the word “cured”. Like most cancer patients and …
Keywords: dept.nur; ⛔ No DOI found

Welcoming ruin: The Civil Rights Act of 1875 - Friedlander, Alan; Gerber, Richard Allan (Brill, 2018)
Keywords: dept.his

Edification through the memory of sins - Chrissidis, Nikolaos A. (Canadian-american Slavic Studies, 2018)
The article explores the practical uses of Eastern Orthodox indulgences as certificates of absolution with a dual function (as mnemonic tools and as public certificates of good standing with the church) in the early modern period. © KONINKLIJKE BRILL NV, LEIDEN, 2018
Keywords: Eastern Orthodox indulgences; Eastern Orthodox penitential practices; Mese katastasis ton psychon; Patriarch Dositheos of Jerusalem; Purgatory; Synchorochartia; dept.his; peer-reviewed

Start here, or here, no here: introductions to rethinking education policy and methodology in a post-truth era - Wolgemuth, Jennifer R.; Koro-Ljungberg, Mirka; Marn, Travis M.; Onwuegbuzie, Anthony J.; Dougherty, Shaun M. (Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2018)
This special issue takes up urgent questions about how we education scholars might think and do policy and methodology in what has come to be known as the post-truth era. The authors in this special issue grapple with questions about the roles and responsibilities of educational researchers in an era in which research and policy have lost their moorings in T/truth. Collectively they reconceptualize educational research and policy in light of post-truths, anti-science sentiment, and the global rise of right-wing populism. At the same time we editors wonder whether post-truth is given a bad rap. Could post-truth have something productive to offer? What does post-truth open up for educational research and policy? Or, is the real issue of this special issue a collective despair of our own insignificance and obsolescence in the wake of post-truth. Whatever we editors and authors aimed to do, this special issue will not be heard by post-truth adherents and partisans. Perhaps its only contribution is encouragement to stay with the troubles of a post-truth era, even as we despair the consequences of our research and policy creations. © 2018, Arizona State University. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Education policy; Fake news; Methodology; Post-truth; dept.cur; peer-reviewed

The Power of Adapted Sports, Changing Attitudes in Higher Education: An Exploratory Study - Archambault, MaryJo; Searcy, Yan Dominic (Palaestra, 2018)
A wheelchair basketball showcase was hosted at a state university in New England. Student surveys revealed that the event had a positive effect on students’ views of both individuals with disabilities and adapted sports. Using Allport’s (1954) contact theory as a lens, the author demonstrates how the event met the four positive features that Allport believed should be present in order to reduce negative feelings toward another group: (a) equal status between the groups, (b) common goals, (c) intergroup cooperation and (d) the support of authorities. This exploratory study argues that adapted sports can be an effective method to positively impact stereotypical views of people with disabilities.Subscribe to PALAESTRA
Keywords: Adaptive sports; changing attitudes; contact theory; dept.hhs; dept.rec; higher education; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

An analysis of urban school leaders' role in community support and involvement - Boudreaux, Mary (School Leadership Review, 2018)
Keywords: dept.edl; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Auditory p300 in noise in younger and older adults - McCullagh, Jennifer; Shinn, Jennifer B. (Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 2018)
Background: Older adults often report difficulty hearing in background noise which is not completely attributable to peripheral hearing loss. Although age-related declines in cognition and hearing in back-ground noise occur, the underlying age-related changes in processing of auditory stimuli in background noise has yet to be fully understood. The auditory P300 has the potential to elucidate the effects of age on auditory and cognitive processing of stimuli in background noise, but additional research is warranted. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate age-related differences in cognitive processing of auditory stimuli by evoking the auditory P300 at multiple signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs). Research Design: A two-group, repeated measures study design was used. Study Sample: A convenience sample of 35 participants, 15 older adults (mean age of 66.4 yr) and 20 younger adults (mean age of 21.1 yr), participated in the study. All participants had negative otologic and neurological histories. Data Collection and Analysis: The auditory P300 was evoked using an oddball paradigm with 500 (frequent) and 1000 Hz (target) tonal stimuli in quiet and in the presence of background noise at +20, +10, and 0 SNRs. P300 amplitudes and latencies were measured in each condition for every participant. Repeated measures analyses of variance were conducted for the amplitude and latency measures of the P300 for each group. Results: Results from this study demonstrated P300 latencies were significantly longer in older adults in noise at the most challenging condition (0 SNR) compared with the quiet condition and between the +10 SNR and 0 SNR conditions. Although older adults had significantly longer P300 latencies compared with younger adults, no significant group by listening condition interaction existed. No significant P300 amplitude differences were found for group, noise, or group x listening condition interactions. Conclusions: Results provide evidence that auditory cortical processing, regardless of age, is poorer at more difficult SNRs. However, results also demonstrate that older adults perform significantly poorer than younger adults. This supports the notion that some degree of age-related decline in synchronous firing and rate of transmission of the auditory cortical neurons contributing to the auditory P300 exists. Studies are needed to further understand the impact of noise on auditory cortical processing across populations.
Keywords: Acoustic Stimulation; Aged; Aging; Auditory Cortex; Auditory Perception; Auditory Threshold; Cognition; Conference Paper; Evoked Potentials, Auditory; Female; Hearing in noise; Humans; Male; P300; Reference Values; Young Adult; adult; aged; auditory cortex; auditory evoked potential; auditory stimulation; auditory threshold; brain cell; clinical article; cognition; comparative study; convenience sample; dept.cmd; female; hearing; hearing acuity; hearing impairment; human; latent period; male; medical history; mental deterioration; noise; otoscopy; outcome assessment; peer-reviewed; physiology; priority journal; procedures; pure tone audiometry; reference value; signal noise ratio; white noise; working memory; young adult

On enhancing serial fusion based multi-biometric verification system - Hossain, Md; Chen, Jundong; Rahman, Khandaker (Applied Intelligence, 2018)
Design of a serial fusion based multi-biometric verification system requires fixing several parameters, such as reject thresholds at each stage of the architecture and the order in which each individual verifier is placed within the multi-stage system. Selecting the order of verifier is a crucial parameter to fix because of its high impact on verification errors. A wrong choice of verifier order might lead to tremendous user inconvenience by denying a large number of genuine users and might cause severe security breach by accepting impostors frequently. Unfortunately, this design issue has been poorly investigated in multi-biometric literature. In this paper, we address this design issue by performing experiments using three different serial fusion based multi-biometric verification schemes. We did our experiments on publicly available NIST multi-modal dataset. We tested 24 orders—all possible orders originated from four individual verifiers—on a four-stage biometric verification system. Our experimental results show that the verifier order “best-to-worst”, where the best performing individual verifier is placed in the first stage, the next best performing individual verifier is placed in the second stage, and so on, is the top performing order. In addition, we have proposed a modification to the traditional architecture of serial fusion based multi-biometric verification systems. With rigorous experiments on the NIST multi-modal dataset and using three serial fusion based multi-biometric verification schemes, we demonstrated that our proposed architecture significantly improves the performance of serial fusion based multi-biometric verification systems.
Keywords: Architecture; Biometric verification; Biometrics; Multi biometrics; Multi-biometric verification; Multi-modal dataset; Proposed architectures; Reject option; Serial fusion; Traditional architecture; Verifier order; dept.csc; peer-reviewed

“Notorious abuse,” “traditious ignorance,” and “ambitious incroachment” in seventeenth-century Dutch, English, and French maps of North America - Petto, Christine M. (Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization, 2018)
In consideration of Richard Daniel’s alarmed discourse found in the text accompanying his map of the English empire in America (1679), one must investigate the supposedly offending French, English, and Dutch maps of the second half of the seventeenth century for North America and, in particular, the region of the Atlantic coastline and the rhetorical devices of possession found on or in these geographical works. In addition to looking at territorial boundaries, one should also make note of armorial bearings, ships with naval ensigns, toponyms and their placement on the territory, dedicatory cartouches, legends with geographical or historical information, native scenes, and symbols for settlement. In addition to attention to possible constraints on or from the map trade, one must consider the correspondence between colonial officials and their respective governments regarding boundaries, encroachment, sovereignty, or the need for maps with a particular focus on the North American coastline. This correspondence reflects the state’s point of view, which in turn was often manifested on maps and in geographical works. Interestingly intertwined with this outspoken sense of rightful possession were the contemporary claims from some quarters that the cartographic enterprise of the late seventeenth century now embraced an empirical approach, as well as the seemingly opposing thread of the economic realities of the print trade, which often used old copper plates with little to no cartographic revision, so that long after political, economic, or military actions resulted in an “adjustment” in possession, printed maps, atlases, and other geographical works still reflected earlier circumstances. © University of Toronto Press
Keywords: Cartography; Colonies; England; France; History; Netherlands; New England; New Netherland; North America; Seventeenth-century maps; The Netherlands; United Kingdom; colonialism; dept.his; economic history; empirical analysis; historical cartography; human settlement; peer-reviewed; seventeenth century; territorial dispute

Coteaching in content area classrooms: Lessons and guiding questions for administrators - Sinclair, Anne C.; Bray, Laura E.; Wei, Yan; Clancy, Erin E.; Wexler, Jade; Kearns, Devin M.; Lemons, Christopher J. (NASSP Bulletin, 2018)
Secondary school administrators increasingly include students with disabilities in general education classrooms with coteaching models. Theoretically, coteaching enables two educators to attend to the learning needs of students with disabilities while exposing them to grade-level content area instruction. However, our study on teachers’ perceptions of coteaching found that teachers often viewed their schools’ leadership decisions as adversely affecting their ability coteach effectively. The purpose of this article is to provide administrators with an overview of common coteaching models, summarize findings from our study on teachers’ perceptions of how their schools’ leadership influenced their coteaching practices, and provide a set of guiding questions to consider when seeking to support coteaching. © 2018 SAGE Publications.
Keywords: coteaching; dept.rdg; dept.sed; inclusion; instructional leadership; peer-reviewed; professional development

Invited Article: Molecular biomarkers characterization for human brain glioma grading using visible resonance Raman spectroscopy - Zhou, Yan; Liu, Cheng-hui; Wu, Binlin; Zhang, Chunyuan; Yu, Xinguang; Cheng, Gangge; Chen, Hong; Li, Shenglin; Liang, Qijun; Zhang, Mingqian; Zhu, Ke; Shi, Lingyan; et al. (APL Photonics, 2018)
The accurate identification of the human brain tumor boundary and the complete resection of the tumor are two essential factors for the removal of the glioma tumor in brain surgery. We present a visible resonance Raman (VRR) spectroscopy technique for differentiating the brain tumor margin and glioma grading. Eighty-seven VRR spectra from twenty-one human brain specimens of four types of brain tissues, including the control, glioma grade II, III, and IV tissues, were observed. This study focuses on observing the characteristics of new biomarkers and their changes in the four types of brain tissue. We found that two new RR peaks at 1129 cm-1 and 1338 cm-1 associated with molecular vibrational bonds in four types of brain tissues are significantly different in peak intensities of VRR spectra. These two resonance enhanced peaks may arise from lactic acid/phosphatidic acid and adenosine triphosphate (ATP)/nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, respectively. We found that lactic acid and ATP concentrations vary with glioma gratings. The higher the grade of malignancy, the more the increase in lactic acid and ATP concentrations. These two RR peaks may be considered as new molecular biomarkers and used to evaluate glioma grades and identify the margin of gliomas from the control tissues. The metabolic process of lactic acid and ATP in glioma cells based on the VRR spectral changes may reveal the Warburg hypothesis. © 2018 Author(s).
Keywords: Adenosinetriphosphate; Biomarkers; Brain; Control tissues; Grading; Histology; Human brain tumors; Lactic acid; Metabolic process; Molecular biomarker; Resonance; Resonance Raman; Resonance Raman spectroscopy; Resonance enhanced; Spectral change; Tumors; dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Cup Feeding as a Supplemental, Alternative Feeding Method for Preterm Breastfed Infants: An Integrative Review. - Penny, Frances; Judge, Michelle; Brownell, Elizabeth; McGrath, Jacqueline M (Maternal and child health journal, 2018)
Background The benefits of human milk for the preterm infant are well established. Preterm infants have lower breastfeeding rates and often face breastfeeding challenges. It is important that feeding practices for preterm infants optimize their chances of breastfeeding. Objective The purpose of this integrated review is to synthesize and critically analyze research related to the safety and efficacy of cup feeding as an alternative, supplemental feeding method for breastfed infants. Data Sources The electronic data bases of PubMed, CINAHL and were used to identify studies published in English from 1998- 2017. Design Using inclusion and exclusion criteria, 27 articles were initially assessed. After further screening 19 articles were included in the full review and of these 5 more were excluded. Lastly, an in-depth review of these 14 studies resulted in 2 more exclusions, for a total of 12 studies that met full inclusion and exclusion criteria. Review Methods Studies were examined for information on safety and efficacy of cup feeding as an alternative, supplemental feeding method for preterm breastfed infants. Studies were grouped into categories of outcomes that included (a) safety and physiologic properties; (b) breastfeeding outcomes. Results Use of cup feeding resulted in more stable heart rate and oxygen saturation than bottle feeding with similar weight gain. Additionally, breastfeeding rates were higher at discharge with continued higher rates at 3 and 6 months post-discharge for cup fed infants. Conclusions Premature infants face more breastfeeding obstacles than term infants. The potential for cup feeding as an alternative to bottle-feeding for breast fed preterm infants is positively supported by these results It is fundamentally important for NICU professionals to establish a protocol, education and training for the potential use of this feeding method for this vulnerable population.
Keywords: *Bottle Feeding; *Breast Feeding/mt [Methods]; *Cooking and Eating Utensils; *Enteral Nutrition/mt [Methods]; *Feeding Methods; *Infant, Premature/ph [Physiology]; Alternative feeding; Bottle Feeding; Breast Feeding; Breastfeeding; Cooking and Eating Utensils; Cup feeding; Enteral Nutrition; Enteral Nutrition/is [Instrumentation]; Feeding Methods; Female; Humans; Infant, Newborn; Infant, Premature; Infants; Male; Preterm; bottle feeding; breast feeding; dept.nur; devices; enteric feeding; female; food intake; human; kitchen; male; newborn; peer-reviewed; physiology; prematurity; procedures

J/ψ production cross section and its dependence on charged-particle multiplicity in p + p collisions at √s=200 GeV - STAR Collaboration (Physics Letters B, 2018)
We present a measurement of inclusive J/ψ production at mid-rapidity (|y|¡1) in p+p collisions at a center-of-mass energy of s=200 GeV with the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The differential production cross section for J/ψ as a function of transverse momentum (pT) for 0¡pT¡14 GeV/c and the total cross section are reported and compared to calculations from the color evaporation model and the non-relativistic Quantum Chromodynamics model. The dependence of J/ψ relative yields in three pT intervals on charged-particle multiplicity at mid-rapidity is measured for the first time in p+p collisions at s=200 GeV and compared with that measured at s=7 TeV, PYTHIA8 and EPOS3 Monte Carlo generators, and the Percolation model prediction.
Keywords: Charged-particle multiplicity; Multiple parton interactions; Quarkonium; collisions; dept.phy; p+p collisions; peer-reviewed

Facilitators and barriers in treatment seeking for substance use disorders: indian clinical perspectives - Perumbilly, Sebastian A.; Melendez-Rhodes, Tatiana; Anderson, Stephen A. (Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, 2018)
Despite great advances that have been made in the understanding and treatment of substance use disorders (SUDs), fewer than 11% of eligible patients seek treatment. Few studies have explored the roles of facilitators and barriers in treatment seeking from the perspectives of addiction-focused clinicians working in developing countries. This descriptive study used a mixed-methods research design with concurrent strategies. Research participants were addiction-focused clinicians (N = 112) working in India. Primary research questions examined (1) key facilitators that motivate patients to seek treatment, (2) major barriers in treatment seeking, and (3) critical strategies for enhancing treatment seeking with the support of family, friends, and community. Key facilitators of treatment seeking included informed and caring family members, friends, and community. The most common barriers were patients’ denial of the problem of SUDs, shame in admitting the problem, and belief and confidence that they can quit using substances by themselves anytime. A systemically focused public awareness creation strategy, implemented simultaneously at various key sectors in society, was recommended for facilitating treatment seeking and removing barriers. Implications for clinicians, patients, public health personnel, community leaders, and regional, national, and global policy makers are reviewed. © 2018, © 2018 Taylor & Francis.
Keywords: Addiction treatment; Article; India; adult; aged; awareness; barriers to treatment; clinician; community; dept.mft; drug dependence; facilitators of treatment; female; help seeking behavior; human; male; peer-reviewed; social stigma; substance use disorders; treatment seeking

Retooling the health care workforce in the era of the Affordable Care Act: An evaluation of an advanced certificate program in integrated primary and behavioral health care - O’Brien, Kyle H.; Acri, Mary C.; Campanelli, Peter C.; Cerniglia, Joseph A.; McKay, Mary M. (Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2018)
The Affordable Care Act aims to increase affordable coverage, reduce overall costs, and improve health outcomes. To achieve these aims, new knowledge and skills must be built within the existing workforce. The purpose of this article is to examine the behavioral and organizational changes brought about by an educational program that aimed to retool the healthcare workforce for the implementation of integrated primary and behavioral healthcare models, with an added emphasis on prevention. Sixty-three participants of an Advanced Certificate Program completed 1 or more evidence-informed learning modules centered on integrated primary and behavioral health care. The vast majority of students who completed each of the 5 modules of the program reported acquiring new knowledge and skills. Student satisfaction of the program met or exceeded overall expectations. In addition, program participation has resulted in not only students’ intentions to change workplace practices but also actual implementation of workplace changes related to integrated care models. The Advanced Certificate Program appears to be a promising platform for service providers to align their knowledge and skills with the premises of current healthcare reform. © 2018, © 2018 Taylor & Francis.
Keywords: Affordable Care Act; Integrated primary and behavioral health care; certificate programs; dept.rec; dept.swk; integrated care; peer-reviewed; workforce training

A life-course perspective on incarcerated women’s views on adulthood - Umamaheswar, Janani (Women & Criminal Justice, 2018)
Keywords: dept.soc; peer-reviewed

The Three-dimensional orbit, orbital parallax, and individual masses of the double-lined spectroscopic binaries HD 183255, HD 114882, and HD 30712 - Docobo, J. A.; Campo, P. P; Gomez, J.; Horch, Elliott P. (The Astronomical Journal, 2018)
Recent speckle observations performed at the Discovery Channel Telescope, the Gemini North Telescope, and the Special Astrophysical Observatory 6 m Telescope have permitted us to calculate the visual orbit of SB2 HD 114882 for the first time and to improve the visual orbits of two other SB2 systems, HD 30712 and HD 183255, using algorithms published by the authors of this research. Recently, new high-quality spectroscopic orbits have been obtained for these binaries by other authors. We determine their 3D orbits, individual masses, and orbital parallaxes, and present them in this paper. The parallaxes are compared with those available from the Gaia mission, and a comparison between the values confirms the precision of the results obtained here. © 2018. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
Keywords: astrometry; binaries: spectroscopic; binaries: visual; dept.phy; peer-reviewed; stars: fundamental parameters; techniques: interferometric

Drawing the body in: A comic essay on trans mobility and materiality - Councilor, KC (Women's Studies in Communication, 2018)
This comic essay engages trans embodiment and temporality, representation and identity, passing, and drawing as a form of thinking. Although uncommon, comics have been established in academia as a genre worthy of literary study as well as scholarly inquiry in the broader humanities, social sciences, and the arts (Bukatman, 2012; Chute, 2010; Howard & Jackson, 2013; Cox, 2016). Recently, scholars have also studied the use of comics making as an analytical tool in qualitative research (Katz, 2013; Sousanis, 2015; Weaver-Hightower, 2013; Flowers, 2017; Henningsen, 2017; Johnson, 2018). This comic essay invites communication scholars to consider transgender embodiment and mobility through a visual medium that can illustrate complex problems of precarity, passing, and the crossing of both material and symbolic borders and boundaries. As a genre, comics allow for dense and layered information to be conveyed very quickly, and its affordances lend themselves well to portraying the tensions in and between trans and gender-nonconforming experiences. The speech bubble and the thought bubble, for example, can juxtapose in a single panel what two characters are saying to one another and what they are thinking and feeling as well as how they are interacting and communicating non-verbally. This graphic scholarship demonstrates why the unique genre of comics is particularly apt in rendering instances of microagression or passing. I argue that comics as a form enable a shift from abstract concepts back into the body, the materiality of which can get lost in academic discourse.
Keywords: Comic essay; dept.com; embodiment; mobility; transgender

An Examination of the Relationship between Maternal Depression and Barriers to Child Mental Health Services - Acri, Mary C.; Bornheimer, Lindsay; Hamovitch, Emily; Lambert, Kate (Children and Youth Services Review, 2018)
Objective: Maternal depression is a common, chronic set of disorders associated with significant burden to caregivers, children and families. Some evidence suggests that depression is associated with perceptions of barriers to child mental health treatment and premature termination from services. However, this relationship has not yet been examined among a predominantly low-income sample, which is at disproportionately high risk of depression, child mental health problems, and treatment drop out. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is to examine the relationships between caregiver depression and perceived barriers to treatment. Methods: Three hundred twenty (n=320) children between the ages of 7 to 11 and their caregivers were assigned to either the 4 Rs and 2Ss for Strengthening Families, which is a multiple family group intervention, or services as usual (SAU) consisting of typical outpatient mental health services. Caregiver depression was measured by the Center for Epidemiologic Depression Scale; perceived barriers to treatment were assessed via the Kazdin Barriers to Treatment Scale. Results: Clinically significant levels of depressive symptoms at baseline were significantly associated with greater scores in all four barriers to treatment subscales (stressors and obstacles competing with treatment, treatment demands and issues, perceived relevance, relationship with therapist) at post-test. Conclusions: Addressing maternal mental health, and attending to stressors that impede poverty-impacted families from child services is critical for the health and functioning of caregivers, and to ensure that children with mental health problems receive treatment.
Keywords: dept.swk; peer-reviewed

Incivility among nursing professionals in clinical and academic environments: emerging research and opportunities - Green, Cheryl (IGI Global, 2018)
Traditionally, nursing is acknowledged as a caring profession and is associated with advocating for others. However, incivility is increasingly occurring amongst nurses, both in the clinical and academic environments, and is causing affected nurses both psychological and physical harm. Incivility Among Nursing Professionals in Clinical and Academic Environments: Emerging Research and Opportunities provides emerging views and consequences surrounding workplace bullying in the healthcare profession including recognizing the signs and symptoms of incivility in the workplace, identifying ways in which affected nurses can seek help, and examining healthy methods of coping with the incivility. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as human resources, therapy, and clinical nursing, this book is ideally designed for nurses, managers, healthcare workers and consumers, hospital and clinical staff, researchers, students, and policymakers.
Keywords: dept.nur

How cognitive style influences the mental accounting system: role of analytic versus holistic thinking - Hossain, Mehdi Tanzeeb (Journal of Consumer Research, 2018)
This research examines how people's mental accounting is influenced by their thinking style (analytic vs. holistic). Mental accounting literature shows that people mentally allocate their resources into certain accounts and track expenses against them. The current research, however, finds that while analytic thinkers show such “mental labeling effect,” the holistic thinkers' mental accounting system is flexible. Specifically, analytic thinkers limit their expenses of rebate money to similar category purchases, whereas holistic thinkers show preference for both similar and dissimilar category items (studies 1 and 2). Study 3 shows the mental accounting divergence across analytic- and holistic-thinking groups by examining how they use mental accounting rules in spending gift cards (vs. cash). Study 4 exhibits the underlying psychological process in showing that this effect is attributed to differences in categorization flexibility between the analytic-and holistic-thinking groups. In addition, the above effects are moderated by product type. The divergence in mental accounting between analytic and holistic thinkers is mostly evident in utilitarian (vs. hedonic) consumption instances. Study 5 provides further insights into the moderation effect. The implications of these findings include divergence in cross-category effects of price promotions, and the effect of cross-market discounts between analytic and holistic thinkers.
Keywords: dept.mkt; peer-reviewed

Collision energy dependence of moments of net-kaon multiplicity distributions at RHIC - STAR Collaboration (Physics Letters B, 2018)
Fluctuations of conserved quantities such as baryon number, charge, and strangeness are sensitive to the correlation length of the hot and dense matter created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions and can be used to search for the QCD critical point. We report the first measurements of the moments of net-kaon multiplicity distributions in Au+Au collisions at sNN=7.7, 11.5, 14.5, 19.6, 27, 39, 62.4, and 200 GeV. The collision centrality and energy dependence of the mean (M), variance (σ2), skewness (S), and kurtosis (κ) for net-kaon multiplicity distributions as well as the ratio σ2/M and the products Sσ and κσ2 are presented. Comparisons are made with Poisson and negative binomial baseline calculations as well as with UrQMD, a transport model (UrQMD) that does not include effects from the QCD critical point. Within current uncertainties, the net-kaon cumulant ratios appear to be monotonic as a function of collision energy.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Improved admixture vaccine of fentanyl and heroin hapten immunoconjugates: Antinociceptive evaluation of fentanyl-contaminated heroin - Hwang, Candy S.; Smith, Lauren C.; Natori, Yoshihiro; Ellis, Beverly; Zhou, Bin; Janda, Kim D. (ACS Omega, 2018)
Fentanyl and its derivatives have become pervasive contaminants in the U.S. heroin supply. Previously, we reported a proof-of-concept vaccine designed to combat against heroin contaminated with fentanyl. Herein, we optimized the admixture vaccine and found that it surpassed the individual vaccines in every antinociceptive test, including a 10% fentanyl to heroin formulation. It is anticipated that other co-occurring drug abuse disorders may also be examined with admixture vaccines. © 2018 American Chemical Society.
Keywords: dept.che; peer-reviewed

Data and policy scale mismatch in coastal systems : The potential of μUAS as new tools for monitoring coastal resilience - Graves, Scott M. (Towards Coastal Resilience and Sustainability, 2018)
An important challenge in monitoring, planning and evaluating coastal saltmarsh resources in the face of predicted sea level rise (SLR) using numerical
Keywords: 3D modeling; Antennas; Coastal systems; Flight planning; Model results; Numerical models; Remotely sensed data; Scale mismatches; Sea level; Sea level rise; Structure from motion; Unmanned aerial systems; Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV); Wetlands; dept.egm

Conclusion: Outlook for coastal transitions - Heidkamp, C. Patrick; Morrissey, John; Morrissey, John (Towards Coastal Resilience and Sustainability, 2018)
Globally, rapid demographic change of coastal urban agglomerations, the speed of urbanisation over time, the overall impact of coastal space occupation as well
Keywords: Climate change; Coastal ecosystems; Coastal zones; Demographic changes; Economics; Ecosystem services; Ecosystems; Energy availability; Flood control; Impervious surface; Long term process; Sea level; Topography; Urban agglomerations; Urban development; Urban growth; dept.egm

Harmonic decomposition of three-particle azimuthal correlations at energies available at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review C, 2018)
We present measurements of three-particle correlations for various harmonics in Au+Au collisions at energies ranging from sNN=7.7√sNN=7.7 to 200 GeV using the STAR detector. The quantity 〈cos(mϕ1+nϕ2−(m+n)ϕ3)〉⟨cos(mϕ1+nϕ2−(m+n)ϕ3)⟩, with ϕϕ being the azimuthal angles of the particles is evaluated as a function of sNN√sNN, collision centrality, transverse momentum, pTpT, pseudorapidity difference, ΔηΔη, and harmonics (mm and nn). These data provide detailed information on global event properties such as the three-dimensional structure of the initial overlap region, the expansion dynamics of the matter produced in the collisions, and the transport properties of the medium. A strong dependence on ΔηΔη is observed for most harmonic combinations, which is consistent with breaking of longitudinal boost invariance. An interesting energy dependence is observed when one of the harmonics m,n,m,n, or m+nm+n is equal to two, for which the correlators are dominated by the two-particle correlations relative to the second-harmonic event plane. These measurements can be used to constrain models of heavy-ion collisions over a wide range of temperature and baryon chemical potential.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Studying homeless and incarcerated persons: A comparative account of doing field research with hard-to-reach populations - Umamaheswar, Janani (Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung, 2018)
In this article, I discuss the process of conducting research with two vulnerable and hard-to-reach populations (homeless and incarcerated men) in three research locations characterized by varying levels of gatekeeping: a prison, public streets in an urban city, and a residential facility for homeless men. I argue that, despite the obstacles to independent research that gatekeepers (officials who can grant or deny researchers access to participants) pose, research with vulnerable, hard-to-reach populations in different field sites reveals some of the benefits of using field sites characterized by gatekeeping and strict rules to which researchers must adhere. Many of these benefits, however, go unacknowledged in discussions of access in qualitative studies—especially in the penological literature. I conclude that, instead of shying away from qualitative prison studies, researchers should take advantage of the benefits that prisons offer as field sites.
Keywords: Access; Feldforschung; Field research; Gatekeeping; Gefängnis; Gefängnisforschung; Grounded theory methodology; Grounded-Theory-Methodologie; Homelessness; Interviewing; Interviews; Obdachlosigkeit; Prison; Prison research; Zugang; access; dept.soc; field research; gatekeeping; grounded theory methodology; homelessness; interviewing; peer-reviewed; prison; prison research

Harnessing place attachment for local climate mitigation? Hypothesising connections between broadening representations of place and readiness for change - Upham, Paul; Johansen, Katinka; Bögel, Paula Maria; Axon, Stephen; Garard, Jennifer; Carney, Sebastian (Local Environment, 2018)
Keywords: dept.egm; peer-reviewed

Mining for Posttraumatic Growth (PTG) in Sexual Minority Women Who Survive Intimate Partner Violence: A Conceptual Perspective. - Counselman-Carpenter, Elisabeth; Redcay, Alex (Behavioral Sciences, 2018)
This theoretical paper explores the need to use posttraumatic growth (PTG) as a framework when studying sexual minority women (SMW) who are survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) to examine the relationship between risk factors such as stress, anxiety and alcohol use and to understand the role of protective factors through mining for the presence of posttraumatic growth (PTG). Despite a call for continued research in this highly vulnerable population, representative studies of SMW and PTG remain extremely limited. Research that examines the relationship between IPV, behavioral health issues, and posttraumatic growth would provide the opportunity to develop tailored intervention models and opportunities for program development to decrease isolation and increase factors of posttraumatic growth. In particular, the impact of how interpersonal relationships as potential mediators and/or outcomes of posttraumatic growth (PTG) needs to be explored more thoroughly. PTG is a valuable framework for vulnerable populations such as sexual minority women because it focuses on how transformative change may result from traumatic experiences such as surviving IPV.
Keywords: Intimate partner violence; Post-traumatic growth; Sexual minority women; dept.swk; intimate partner violence; peer-reviewed; sexual minority women

Beam energy dependence of rapidity-even dipolar flow in Au+Au collisions - STAR Collaboration (Physics Letters B, 2018)
New measurements of directed flow for charged hadrons, characterized by the Fourier coefficient v1, are presented for transverse momenta pT, and centrality intervals in Au+Au collisions recorded by the STAR experiment for the center-of-mass energy range sNN=7.7–200 GeV. The measurements underscore the importance of momentum conservation, and the characteristic dependencies on sNN, centrality and pT are consistent with the expectations of geometric fluctuations generated in the initial stages of the collision, acting in concert with a hydrodynamic-like expansion. The centrality and pT dependencies of v1even, as well as an observed similarity between its excitation function and that for v3, could serve as constraints for initial-state models. The v1even excitation function could also provide an important supplement to the flow measurements employed for precision extraction of the temperature dependence of the specific shear viscosity.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Antibacterial Assessment of Heteroaryl, Vinyl, Benzyl, and Alkyl Tetrazole Compounds. - Dudley, Joshua; Feinn, Liana; DeFrancesco, Heather; Lindsay, Erica; Coca, Adiel; Roberts, Elizabeth Lewis (Medicinal Chemistry, 2018)
Background: In previous reports, the antibacterial properties of certain tetrazole derivatives have been described. We have previously reported the antibac...
Keywords: *Anti-Bacterial Agents/pd [Pharmacology]; *Tetrazoles/pd [Pharmacology]; 1 (1h tetrazol 5 yl)isoquinoline; 1,2 di(1h tetrazol 5 yl)ethene; 2 (1h tetrazol 5 yl)pyrazine; 4 (1h tetrazol 5 yl)pyridine; 5 (1h pyrrol 2 yl) 1h tetrazole; 5 (2 methoxybenzyl) 1h tetrazole; 5 (furan 2 yl) 1h tetrazole; 5 (naphthalen 2 ylmethyl) 1h tetrazole; 5 (pyrrol 2 yl) 1h tetrazole; 5 (thiophen 3 yl) 1h tetrazole; 5 styryl 1h tetrazole; 5-substituted 1H-tetrazoles, (3 + 2) cycloaddition; Amoxicillin; Amoxicillin/pd [Pharmacology]; Anti-Bacterial Agents; Anti-Bacterial Agents/cs [Chemical Synthesis]; Antibacterial activity; Antimicrobial activity; Article; Cerium(III) chloride heptahydrate; Escherichia coli; Escherichia coli/de [Drug Effects]; Heterocycles; Microbial Sensitivity Tests; Microwave; Molecular Structure; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Pseudomonas aeruginosa/de [Drug Effects]; Staphylococcus aureus; Staphylococcus aureus/de [Drug Effects]; Sulfamethoxazole; Sulfamethoxazole/pd [Pharmacology]; Tetrazoles; Tetrazoles/cs [Chemical Synthesis]; Trimethoprim; Trimethoprim/pd [Pharmacology]; amoxicillin; antibacterial activity; antibiotic agent; antiinfective agent; benzilic acid derivative; carbon nuclear magnetic resonance; chemical structure; controlled study; cotrimoxazole; dept.bio; dept.che; drug effect; heating; incubation time; microbial sensitivity test; minimum inhibitory concentration; nonhuman; peer-reviewed; phenyl(1h tetrazol 5 yl)methanol; priority journal; substitution reaction; sulfamethoxazole; synthesis; tetrazole derivative; trimethoprim; unclassified drug; vinyl derivative

The effects of a carbon fiber shoe insole on athletic performance in collegiate athletes - Gregory, Robert W.; Axtell, Robert S.; Robertson, Marc I.; Lunn, William R. (Journal of Sports Science, 2018)
Keywords: dept.hms; peer-reviewed

Longitudinal double-spin asymmetries for π0 s in the forward direction for 510 GeV polarized pp collisions - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review D, 2018)
The STAR Collaboration reports measurements of the longitudinal double-spin asymmetry, ALL, for neutral pions produced at forward directions in polarized proton-proton collisions, at a center-of-mass energy of 510 GeV. Results are given for transverse momenta in the range 2<pT<10 GeV/c within two regions of pseudorapidity that span 2.65<η<3.9. These results are sensitive to the polarized gluon parton distribution function, Δg(x), down to the region of Bjorken x∼10−3. The asymmetries observed are less than ±5×10−3 in magnitude and will help constrain the contribution to the spin of the proton from polarized gluons at low x, when combined with other measurements as part of a global analysis.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Promoting social justice with CALL - Gleason, Jesse; Suvorov, Ruslan (CALICO Journal, 2018)
Keywords: dept.wll; peer-reviewed

Longitudinal double-spin asymmetries for dijet production at intermediate pseudorapidity in polarized pp collisions at √ s = 200 GeV - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review D, 2018)
We present the first measurements of the longitudinal double-spin asymmetry ALL for dijets with at least one jet reconstructed within the pseudorapidity range 0.8<η<1.8. The dijets were measured in polarized pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy s=200 GeV. Values for ALL are determined for several distinct event topologies, defined by the jet pseudorapidities, and span a range of parton momentum fraction x down to x∼0.01. The measured asymmetries are found to be consistent with the predictions of global analyses that incorporate the results of previous RHIC measurements. They will provide new constraints on Δg(x) in this poorly constrained region when included in future global analyses. © 2018 authors. Published by the American Physical Society.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Handbook on household hazardous waste - Cabaniss, Amy (Bernan, 2018)
Household hazardous waste (HHW) is a topic that affects every individual and community given the nearly universal use, storage, and disposal of chemical consumer products. Yet many communities lack the basic information, guidance, and planning support for HHW collection and management so that struggles (e.g., to gain politicians’ and residents’ support, host a collection, build a facility, affect behavior change, and encourage extended producer responsibility) continue on a regular basis. This book is for professionals, students, government officials and others interested in HHW and accommodating the increasing societal demand for this disposal option. In the evolving field of HHW collection and management, this book: provides an unparalleled, comprehensive look at household hazardous wasteis a must-have for anyone interested in the solid waste management field, whether novice or experienced, because of the valuable overview and specifics it provides for addressing the ubiquitous issue of HHWoffers perspectives based on many collective years of experts’ accrued insightthe chapters are written by leading practitioners and visionariesis packed with useful information on many aspects of HHW including its definition, mechanisms for collection and creative collection options, tools for behavior change, and product stewardshipoffers an extensive resource list for more information. Much has changed in 10 years since the first edition appeared, and each chapter in the Handbook on Household Hazardous Waste, Second Edition, is updated to reflect changes and advances in the field of HHW collection and management. This includes updated appendices and the extensive resource list.
Keywords: dept.mgt

Teaching race, gender, and narrative form in Gertrude Stein’s “Melanctha.’ - Blackmer, Corinne E. (Approaches to Teaching the Works of Gertrude Stein, 2018)
A trailblazing modernist, Gertrude Stein studied psychology at Radcliffe with William James and went on to train as a medical doctor before coming out as a lesbian and moving to Paris, where she collected contemporary art and wrote poetry, novels, and libretti. Known as a writers writer, she has influenced every generation of American writers since her death in 1946 and remains avant-garde.Part 1 of this volume, Materials, provides information and resources that will help teachers and students begin and pursue their study of Stein. The essays of part 2, Approaches, introduce major topics to be covered in the classroomrace, gender, feminism, sexuality, narrative form, identity, and Steins experimentation with genrein a wide range of contexts, including literary analysis, art history, first-year composition, and cultural studies.
Keywords: dept.eng

The divine sublime: Educating spiritual teachers in Emerson’s divinity school address - Blackmer, Corinne E. (Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 2018)
A leader of the transcendentalist movement and one of the country's first public intellectuals, Ralph Waldo Emerson has been a long-standing presence in American literature courses. Today he is remembered for his essays, but in the nineteenth century he was also known as a poet and orator who engaged with issues such as religion, nature, education, and abolition.This volume presents strategies for placing Emerson in the context of his time, for illuminating his rhetorical techniques, and for tracing his influence into the present day and around the world. Part 1, "Materials," offers guidance for selecting classroom editions and information on Emerson's life, contexts, and reception. Part 2, "Approaches," provides suggestions for teaching Emerson's works in a variety of courses, not only literature but also creative writing, religion, digital humanities, media studies, and environmental studies. The essays in this section address Emerson's most frequently anthologized works, such as Nature and "Self-Reliance," along with other texts including sermons, lectures, journals, and poems.
Keywords: Language Arts & Disciplines / Study & Teaching; Literary Criticism / American / General; Literary Criticism / Modern / 19th Century; dept.eng

Coffee with co-workers: role of caffeine on evaluations of the self and others in group settings - Unnava, Vasu; Singh, Amit Surendra; Unnava, H Rao (Journal of Psychopharmacology, 2018)
This research explores the effect of consuming a moderate amount of commercially available caffeinated coffee on an individual’s self-evaluated participation in a group activity and subsequent evaluations of the experience. Across two studies, results show that consuming a moderate amount of caffeinated coffee prior to indulging in a group activity enhances an individual’s task-relevant participation in the group activity. In addition, subjective evaluations of the participation of other group members and oneself are also positively influenced. Finally, the positive impact of consuming a moderate amount of caffeinated coffee on the evaluation of participation of other group members and oneself is moderated by a sense of an increased level of alertness.
Keywords: Caffeine; coffee; dept.mkt; group discussion; peer-reviewed

Book Review: Kvetching and shpritzing: Jewish humor in American popular culture - Saltman, Joyce M. (Humor-International Journal of Humor Research, 2018)
Keywords: book.review; dept.sed

Correlation measurements between flow harmonics in Au+Au collisions at RHIC - STAR Collaboration (Physics Letters B, 2018)
Flow harmonics (vn) in the Fourier expansion of the azimuthal distribution of particles are widely used to quantify the anisotropy in particle emission in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. The symmetric cumulants, SC(m,n), are used to measure the correlations between different orders of flow harmonics. These correlations are used to constrain the initial conditions and the transport properties of the medium in theoretical models. In this Letter, we present the first measurements of the four-particle symmetric cumulants in Au+Au collisions at sNN=39 and 200 GeV from data collected by the STAR experiment at RHIC. We observe that v2 and v3 are anti-correlated in all centrality intervals with similar correlation strengths from 39 GeV Au+Au to 2.76 TeV Pb+Pb (measured by the ALICE experiment). The v2–v4 correlation seems to be stronger at 39 GeV than at higher collision energies. The initial-stage anti-correlations between second and third order eccentricities are sufficient to describe the measured correlations between v2 and v3. The best description of v2–v4 correlations at sNN=200GeV is obtained with inclusion of the system's nonlinear response to initial eccentricities accompanied by the viscous effect with η/s¿0.08. Theoretical calculations using different initial conditions, equations of state and viscous coefficients need to be further explored to extract η/s of the medium created at RHIC.
Keywords: Collectivity; Correlation; Shear viscosity; dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Exchanging IRL for VR: experience machines and opportunity costs - Volkman, Richard (ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society, 2018)
Virtual Reality (VR) experiences have arrived for a wide audience, and some worry that VR experience entices us to abandon experience In Real Life (IRL). While such worries cannot be dismissed out of hand, they are liable to be imprecise and distorted without careful analysis of the opportunity costs of VR experience. Generally, we are not liable to abandon real experience for its virtual analogue. Even a perfect VR experience is generally not a perfect substitute for a like experience IRL. Instead, the success of VR will depend on its ability to produce experiences valued for what they actually are.
Keywords: dept.phi; experience machine; value theory; virtual reality

Preparing perform and impact ready school leaders for improving urban school success - Yavuz, Olcay; Gülmez, Gülçin (Research in Educational Administration & Leadership, 2018)
In an effort to develop and support high quality urban school leaders, this study examined what factors affect pre-service urban school leaders’ perception of preparedness for performing instructional leadership activities. The findings revealed that participating in a leadership training program is the only significant factor that predicts urban educators’ scores on instructional leadership readiness measures. By examining perception of preparedness of aspiring urban school leaders the findings contribute to our understanding about some perspectives to prepare and develop urban school leaders solve large and complex problems related to the curriculum, instruction and assessment. Implications for preparing performance ready school leaders in high need urban schools are further discussed. © Official Publication of EARDA-Turkish Educational Administration Research and Development Association.
Keywords: Leadership training; Perception of preparedness; Urban leadership; dept.edl; peer-reviewed

Beam energy dependence of jet-quenching effects in Au+Au collisions at √(sNN)= 7.7, 11.5, 14.5, 19.6, 27, 39, and 62.4 GeV - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review Letters, 2018)
We report measurements of the nuclear modification factor RCP for charged hadrons as well as identified π+(−), K+(−), and p(¯p) for Au+Au collision energies of √sNN=7.7, 11.5, 14.5, 19.6, 27, 39, and 62.4 GeV. We observe a clear high-pT net suppression in central collisions at 62.4 GeV for charged hadrons which evolves smoothly to a large net enhancement at lower energies. This trend is driven by the evolution of the pion spectra but is also very similar for the kaon spectra. While the magnitude of the proton RCP at high pT does depend on the collision energy, neither the proton nor the antiproton RCP at high pT exhibit net suppression at any energy. A study of how the binary collision-scaled high-pT yield evolves with centrality reveals a nonmonotonic shape that is consistent with the idea that jet quenching is increasing faster than the combined phenomena that lead to enhancement.
Keywords: Au+Au collisions; Beam energies; Binary collisions; Charged hadrons; Colliding beam accelerators; Collision energies; Fighter aircraft; Germanium compounds; Hadrons; Lower energies; Measurements of; Nuclear modification factors; Quenching; dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Wide-field speckle techniques for small, urban telescopes - Granucci, Nicole M.; Horch, Elliott P. (Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging VI, 2018)
Recent work with the NESSI speckle camera at Kitt Peak and the 'Alopeke speckle camera at Gemini-North indicates that speckle data reduction techniques can be successfully modified to produce high-resolution images over fields that are at least tens of arc seconds across. While these wide-field speckle image reconstructions are not diffraction-limited, the improvement in resolution over the seeing-limited case can be substantial. In this paper, we explore the application of these techniques to data taken with a small (0.6-m) telescope in an urban environment. Many telescopes located in urban communities, such as New Haven, Connecticut, where Southern Connecticut State University resides, have limited use scientifically due to substantial light pollution, poor seeing, poor telescope tracking, and other issues. We will present initial data using our set-up and discuss the potential for this approach for improving the imaging capabilities of small telescopes on our campus and beyond.
Keywords: Cameras; Diffraction limited; High resolution image; Image enhancement; Image reconstruction; Imaging capabilities; Interferometry; Pollution; Reduction techniques; Shift-and-add; Speckle; Speckle imaging; Telescopes; Unsharp masking; Urban environments; dept.phy; shift-and-add techniques; unsharp masking

Prospects for wireless optical intensity interferometry with the Southern Connecticut stellar interferometer - Horch, Elliott P.; Weiss, Samuel A.; Rupert, Justin D.; LaRue, Ryan; Peronio, Pietro; Rech, Ivan; Gulinatti, Angelo (Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging VI, 2018)
The Southern Connecticut Stellar Interferometer (SCSI) is a two-telescope astronomical intensity interferometer that was completed in June 2016 and has been taking photon correlation data since that time. It uses single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) detectors at the telescope focal plane and a central timing module, which records the signals from both telescopes simultaneously. In the observations taken to date, single-pixel SPADs have been connected to signal cables that stretch from each telescope to the timing module. However, we are now in the process of making the instrument “wireless” by using a separate timing module at each telescope and synchronizing the signals recorded using GPS timing cards. We have also upgraded one of the two stations with an 8-pixel SPAD device, which allows us to achieve higher count rates in a variety of observing conditions. In this paper, we report on the current state of the instrument, including engineering tests made in preparation for wireless operation, and we discuss the expected capabilities in that mode.
Keywords: Avalanche diodes; Engineering tests; Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect; Intensity interferometry; Interferometers; Interferometry; Particle beams; Photon correlation; Photons; Single photon avalanche diode; Stars; Stellar interferometers; Telescopes; Timing module; Wireless operation; Wireless-optical; dept.phy; single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) detectors; timing correlation

Stellar photon correlation detection with the Southern Connecticut stellar interferometer - Weiss, Samuel A.; Rupert, Justin D.; Horch, Elliott P. (Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging VI, 2018)
The Southern Connecticut Stellar Interferometer (SCSI) is a portable optical intensity interferometer located on the campus of Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, Connecticut. Since its completion in 2016, the instrument has been used to take engineering data of bright stars. This paper will discuss the data collection and analysis methods, as well as the progress toward reliably measuring a significant stellar photon correlation. Vega has been the main star chosen for test observations to date because its diameter is well known by other methods, and it is not an extended source for the baselines used. The correlation peak in the processed data is compared to theoretical expectations. Given our expected sensitivity, a significant correlation peak is expected for small baselines (~2 m) to appear after a few hours of observation. So far, the observations indicate that the correlation peak is at the expected time delay, and the signal-to-noise ratio roughly scales as predicted.
Keywords: Avalanche diodes; Correlation peaks; Engineering data; Extended sources; Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect; Intensity interferometry; Interferometers; Interferometry; Optical intensities; Particle beams; Photon correlation; Photons; Quantum optics; Signal to noise ratio; Single photon avalanche diode; Stars; Stellar interferometers; dept.phy; single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) detectors; timing correlation

Zodiacal Exoplanets in Time (ZEIT). VII. A temperate candidate Super-Earth in the Hyades Cluster - Vanderburg, Andrew; Mann, Andrew W.; Rizzuto, Aaron; Bieryla, Allyson; Kraus, Adam L.; Berlind, Perry; Calkins, Michael L.; Curtis, Jason L.; Douglas, Stephanie T.; Esquerdo, Gilbert A.; Everett, Mark E.; Horch, Elliott P.; et al. (The Astronomical Journal, 2018)
Transiting exoplanets in young open clusters present opportunities to study how exoplanets evolve over their lifetimes. Recently, significant progress detecting transiting planets in young open clusters has been made with the K2 mission, but so far all of these transiting cluster planets orbit close to their host stars, so planet evolution can only be studied in a high-irradiation regime. Here, we report the discovery of a long-period planet candidate, called HD 283869 b, orbiting a member of the Hyades cluster. Using data from the K2 mission, we detected a single transit of a super-Earth-sized (1.96 0.12 R ⊕) planet candidate orbiting the K-dwarf HD 283869 with a period longer than 72 days. As we only detected a single-transit event, we cannot validate HD 283869 b with high confidence, but our analysis of the K2 images, archival data, and follow-up observations suggests that the source of the event is indeed a transiting planet. We estimated the candidate's orbital parameters and find that if real, it has a period P ≈ 100 days and receives approximately Earth-like incident flux, giving the candidate a 71% chance of falling within the circumstellar habitable zone. If confirmed, HD 283869 b would have the longest orbital period, lowest incident flux, and brightest host star of any known transiting planet in an open cluster, making it uniquely important to future studies of how stellar irradiation affects planetary evolution. © 2018. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved..
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed; planetary systems; planets and satellites: detection; stars: individual (HD 283869)

Recurrent emplacement of non-glacial diamictite during the late Paleozoic ice age - Vesely, F. F.; Rodrigues, M. C. N. L.; Rosa, E. L. M. da; Amato, J. A.; Trzaskos, B.; Isbell, J. L.; Fedorchuk, N. D. (Geology, 2018)
Keywords: dept.esc; peer-reviewed

Using case study methodology to explore the role of discrimination in workplace incivility - Green, Cheryl (Journal of National Black Nurses' Association: JNBNA, 2018)
Exclusionary behaviors can be detrimental to the health and well-being of faculty in the workplace. When colleagues are judged by their peers because of the color of their skin, the language they speak, their gender, or who they choose to love (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, asexual, or questioning), affected faculty are left emotionally and physically vulnerable. Institutions of higher learning must set standards of zero tolerance for faculty-to-faculty incivility. With standards taken from each faculty discipline, codes of conduct can be implemented not only at a departmental level, but also throughout the educational system.
Keywords: Discrimination; Exclusionary; Faculty; Humans; Incivility; Interprofessional Relations; Prejudice; dept.nur; peer-reviewed

Stellar companions of exoplanet host stars in K2 - Matson, Rachel A.; Howell, Steve B.; Horch, Elliott P.; Everett, Mark E. (The Astronomical Journal, 2018)
It is well established that roughly half of all nearby solar-type stars have at least one companion. Stellar companions can have significant implications for the detection and characterization of exoplanets, including triggering false positives and masking the true radii of planets. Determining the fraction of exoplanet host stars that are also binaries allows us to better determine planetary characteristics as well as establish the relationship between binarity and planet formation. Using high angular resolution speckle imaging, we detect stellar companions within ∼1 arcsec of K2 planet-candidate host stars. Comparing our detected companion rate to TRILEGAL star count simulations and known detection limits of speckle imaging, we estimate the binary fraction of K2 planet host stars to be 40%-50%, similar to that of Kepler exoplanet hosts and field stars. © 2018. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
Keywords: binaries: general; binaries: visual; dept.phy; peer-reviewed; planetary systems; techniques: high angular resolution

The gene book: Explorations in the code of life - Crawford, Sarah Adelaide (Cognella Academic Publishing, 2018)
The Gene Book: Explorations in the Code of Life is designed to introduce undergraduate college students to foundational concepts in genetics. The text provides in-depth coverage of the essential principles of genetics, from Mendel to molecular gene therapy, and reads like a story, guiding readers through each of these areas in an interesting, engaging, and enlightening way.  Milestone scientific discoveries introduce conceptual topics in each of the 10 chapters. The significance of each genetics paradigm is reinforced by the meaningful research context in which it is placed, whether the focus is single gene inheritance of disorders such as PKU and cystic fibrosis, or more complex genetic phenomena. Chromosomes, cell division, and cytogenetic disorders, including Down Syndrome and leukemia, are presented in a riveting historical context. In addition, the principles of molecular genetics are a major focus of this book. Students learn about the double helix, DNA replication, gene expression, mutation, natural selection, genomics, and the tools of molecular DNA analysis.  Approachable and effective, The Gene Book is a highly readable comprehensive text on genetics principles designed to highlight essential concepts that make up their very core. The text is well suited to undergraduate genetics courses and can also be used as a primer for more advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in medial or molecular genetics.Sarah Adelaide Crawford is professor of genetics at Southern Connecticut State University. Dr. Crawford received a Ph.D. from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, an M.S. degree in biochemistry from Princeton University, and a B.S. degree from Marymount Manhattan College. She is director of the Cancer Biology Research Laboratory and the recently opened the Autism Research Laboratory at the Southern Connecticut State University.
Keywords: dept.bio

Reading curriculum in the age of spectacle: Reclaiming experience and dialogue in reading - Sinclair, Meredith N. (Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 2018)
Using Fahrenheit 451 as a model for reading in the age of spectacle, this paper offers a critique of reading curriculum driven by Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects (CCSS-ELA), which divorces reading from dialogue and lived experience.  Drawing on Debord’s (1967/1983) notion of spectacle, the author considers how our current cultural moment may be shaping and shaped by an alienated and alienating curriculum of reading.  By embracing the political implications of reading curriculum, we can reclaim reading as a dialogic activity grounded in the world.
Keywords: dept.eng; literacy; peer-reviewed; reading; ⛔ No DOI found

The provision of mobile services in US urban libraries - Guo, Ya Jun; Liu, Yan Quan; Bielefield, Arlene (Information Technology and Libraries, 2018)
To determine the present situation regarding services provided to mobile users in US urban libraries, the authors surveyed 138 Urban Libraries Council members utilizing a combination of mobile visits, content analysis, and librarian interviews. The results show that nearly 95% of these libraries have at least one mobile website, mobile catalog, or mobile app. The libraries actively applied new approaches to meet each local community’s remote-access needs via new technologies, including app download links, mobile reference services, scan ISBN, location navigation, and mobile printing. Mobile services that libraries provide today are timely, convenient, and universally applicable.
Keywords: dept.ils; human; mobile application; peer-reviewed; printing; publication; review

Andrew Jackson - Marchant-Shapiro, Theresa (Hatred of America's Presidents: Personal Attacks on the White House from Washington to Trump, 2018)
This work examines expressions of personal hostility and animosity toward presidents―even beloved ones―throughout American history and their impact on policymaking, politics, and culture.• Investigates a unique form of expressions of hatred toward American presidents, focusing on the personal rather than the political• Covers every president from Washington to Trump• Includes coverage of personal attacks on First Families• Details how presidents and allies responded to these attacks
Keywords: dept.psc

School leadership training: Are we preparing future talent managers? - Yavuz, Olcay; Madonia, Peter; Abolafia, Victoria M. (Uluslararası Liderlik Eğitimi Dergisi, 2018)
Effective leadrship talent management practices are important components of successful organizations. This correlational quantitative study is designed to inform educational leadership training programs in their work to revise their curricula and to utilize the candidates’ perception data to ensure successful program delivery and outcomes. Particularly, the findings of this study aim to inform educational leadership preparation practices on developing talent managers who can recruit, hire, retain, and support the most talented and high qualified teachers, as well as support staff available in the education job market. Results indicate that after completing the first year of educational leadership training only around half of the aspiring school leaders felt performance or impact ready to serve as talent managers, in order to select and develop highly qualified educators to increase the success of all students. The findings also suggest the importance of understanding how various factors predict an individual’s perception of preparedness to perform talent management leadership activities. Therefore, the study results may serve to enrich conversations of educational leadership training programs, guide program evaluation efforts, and help ensure candidates in educational leadership programs are exposed to talent management and strategies in their coursework. This may help future school leaders clearly and purposefully apply their knowledge and skills.
Keywords: dept.edl; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Efficacy of Mindfulness in the Classroom - DeLuca, Suzanne; Gregory, Jess; Day, Danette (European Journal of Applied Positive Psychology, 2018)
This article contextualizes mindfulness and examines a portion of the literature on mindfulness based interventions in the classroom. Mindfulness or the result of intentional, moment-tomoment awareness in a kind and discerning way can be cultivated with practice. There are many different mindfulness practices which can be utilized in a classroom environment. Some of the popular mindfulness practices are grounded in Kabat-Zinn’s Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program which incorporates sitting meditation, mindful yoga, mindful eating and the body scan. Mindfulness practices can be modified to fit the classroom setting and the grade level of students. With a growth in the number of studies involving mindfulness in the classroom this article explores the question of its efficacy with children and seeks to answer the question: is mindfulness in the classroom effective and what are the studies reporting?
Keywords: dept.edl; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Personality, Well-Being, and Cognitive-Affective Styles: A Cross-Sectional Study of Adult Third Culture Kids - Abe, Jo Ann A. (Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2018)
Third Culture Kids (TCKs) and their adult counterparts (ATCKs) refer to individuals who spent part of their developmental years abroad and are an important demographic to study in this rapidly globalizing world. To date, the bulk of the research on (A)TCKs has been descriptive and little is known about their developmental trajectories in adulthood. The major objective of this study was to examine the personality traits, dimensions of well-being, and cognitive-affective styles of ATCKs across the adult life span using well-validated psychological measures. A subsidiary goal was to develop a new multidimensional international experiences scale to assess levels of multicultural engagement in ATCKs. The participants in this study (N = 700+; age = 18-80+) were recruited from the Alumni Office of an international school in Japan. Somewhat contrary to how they are often depicted in the news media and in qualitative studies, the ATCKs showed normative changes in personality and well-being in the direction of greater maturity and adjustment during adulthood, with those reporting higher levels of multicultural engagement generally exhibiting a more resilient personality profile, higher levels of well-being, and more adaptive cognitive and affective styles.
Keywords: adult third culture kids; dept.psy; five-factor model of personality; need for closure; peer-reviewed; well-being

Complimentary Care: When Our Patients Request to Pray. - Green, Cheryl Ann (Journal of Religion and Health, 2018)
Prayer is viewed in modern medicine as a complimentary alternative treatment. However, to many patients, it is a source of hope and comfort. Patients, when facing illness, advanced disease, disability or death, can benefit from prayer. For healthcare providers, comfort with praying with patients can be deemed as unprofessional conduct or blurred therapeutic boundaries, particularly, when prayer is offered to patients' unsolicited by the patient or their family member(s). Therefore, it is imperative that healthcare providers await the request of prayer by the patient before prayer is initiated.
Keywords: *Attitude of Health Personnel; *Delivery of Health Care; *Faith Healing; *Pastoral Care/mt [Methods]; *Religion; *Spirituality; Attitude of Health Personnel; Delivery of Health Care; Faith Healing; Family; Healthcare providers; Humans; Nurse's Role; Nurses; Pastoral Care; Patients; Prayer; Religion; Religion and Medicine; Spirituality; dept.nur; family; health care delivery; health personnel attitude; human; nurse attitude; pastoral care; peer-reviewed; procedures; religion; spiritual healing

Kinship ties and employee theft perceptions in family-owned businesses - O'Brien, Kimberly E; Minjock, Robert; Colarelli, Stephen M; Yang, Chulguen (European Management Journal, 2018)
Family business research typically views family firms using the frameworks developed for non-family businesses (e.g., agency theory, institutional theory). Thus, using an evolutionary perspective on family may help address gaps in the family business literature, particularly regarding deviance. In the current study, we use kin selection theory to predict that family members receive preferential treatment and this history of privileges can create entitlement and lead genetically-related employees to misuse company resources. Using an experimental vignette methodology and data from 161 people recruited from an online panel, we found that the participants' purported genetic relatedness to the owner of a business increased their theft intentions and decreased their expected severity of sanctions and likelihood of being reported. Biological sex moderated the relationships between genetic relatedness and theft intentions, as well as between expectations of punishment and theft intentions. Specifically, when females expected higher severity of sanctions or likelihood of whistleblowing, they were less likely to report theft intentions, compared to males. The results of this study suggest that family business owners should protect against theft by all employees, including genetic relatives. Future research using field samples would help provide context for these findings. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Counterproductive behaviors; Evolutionary theory; Family business; Kinship; Lab experiment; Nepotism; Theft; dept.mgt; peer-reviewed

Book Review: Labor under fire: A history of the AFL-CIO since 1979 - Rondinone, Troy (The Journal of American History, 2018)
Keywords: book.review; dept.his

Barriers and facilitators to mental health screening efforts for families in pediatric primary care - Acri, Mary; Zhang, Shirley; Chomanczuk, Aminda H.; O’Brien, Kyle H; De Zitella, Maria L. Mini; Scrofani, Paige R.; Velez, Laura; Garay, Elene; Sezer, Sara; Little, Virna; Cleek, Andrew; McKay, Mary M (Journal of Family Social Work, 2018)
The purpose of this commentary was to describe the barriers and facilitators to mental health screening efforts for children between age 5 and 18 years within three primary care clinics in poverty-impacted communities as part of an integrated care model. Three screeners, two women and one male, participated in a screening effort between September and December 2015. Screeners were interviewed about their perceptions of barriers and facilitators to screening. Organizational, family, and screener-level factors were found to influence delivery of screenings to children. Given the benefits of screening in primary care settings, identifying barriers to these initiatives and ways to address them pre-emptively could potentially alter the developmental trajectory and outcomes of children at risk for serious mental health conditions. © 2018, © 2018 Taylor & Francis.
Keywords: Screening and detection efforts; article; case report; child; child mental health; clinical article; dept.rec; dept.swk; female; human; human experiment; integrated care; male; mental health; outcome assessment; peer-reviewed; perception; poverty; primary medical care

A spectroscopic survey of field red horizontal-branch stars - Afşar, Melike; Bozkurt, Zeynep; Topcu, Gamze Böcek; Casetti-Dinescu, Dana I.; Sneden, Christopher; Şehitog̅lu, Gizem (The Astronomical Journal, 2018)
A metallicity, chemical composition, and kinematic survey has been conducted for a sample of 340 candidate field red horizontal-branch (RHB) stars. Spectra with high resolution and high signal-to-noise ratio were gathered with the McDonald Observatory 2.7 m Tull and the Hobby-Eberly Telescope echelle spectrographs, and were used to determine effective temperatures, surface gravities, microturbulent velocities, [Fe/H] metallicities, and abundance ratios [X/Fe] for seven α and Fe-group species. The derived temperatures and gravities confirm that at least half of the candidates are true RHB stars, with (average) parameters T eff ∼ 5000 K and log g ∼ 2.5. From the α abundances alone, the thin and thick Galactic populations are apparent in our sample. Space motions for 90% of the program stars were computed from Hipparcos and Gaia parallaxes and proper motions. Correlations between chemical compositions and Galactic kinematics clearly indicate the existence of both thin-disk and thick-disk RHB stars. © 2018. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved..
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed; stars: abundances; stars: atmospheres; stars: evolution; stars: horizontal-branch

Speckle interferometry at SOAR in 2016 and 2017 - Tokovinin, Andrei; Mason, Brian D.; Hartkopf, William I.; Mendez, Rene A.; Horch, Elliott P. (The Astronomical Journal, 2018)
The results of speckle interferometric observations at the 4.1 m Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope in 2016 and 2017 are given, totaling 2483 measurements of 1570 resolved pairs and 609 non-resolutions. We describe briefly recent changes in the instrument and observing method and quantify the accuracy of the pixel scale and position angle calibration. Comments are given on 44 pairs resolved here for the first time. The orbital motion of the newly resolved subsystem BU 83 Aa,Ab roughly agrees with its 36-year astrometric orbit proposed by J. Dommanget. Most Tycho binaries examined here turned out to be spurious. © 2018. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved..
Keywords: binaries: visual; dept.phy; peer-reviewed

A new stratigraphic framework built on U-Pb single-zircon TIMS ages and implications for the timing of the penultimate icehouse (Paraná Basin, Brazil) - Griffis, Neil Patrick; Mundil, Roland; Montañez, Isabel Patricia; Isbell, John; Fedorchuk, Nicholas; Vesely, Fernando; Iannuzzi, Roberto; Yin, Qing-Zhu (GSA Bulletin, 2018)
Keywords: dept.esc; peer-reviewed

Book Review: 'Connecting in college: How friendship networks matter for academic and social success' by J. M. McCabe - Kenty-Drane, Jessica L. (American Journal of Sociology, 2018)
Keywords: book.review; dept.soc; peer-reviewed

Microplastic abundances in a mussel bed and ingestion by the ribbed marsh mussel Geukensia demissa. - Khan, Matthew B; Prezant, Robert S (Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2018)
Human activities have generated large quantities of microplastics that can be consumed by filter-feeding organisms as potential food sources. As a result, organisms may experience marked reductions in growth and/or health. To date there has been no investigations connecting microplastics (MPs) with the critically important ribbed mussel Geukensia demissa. Here we examined MP abundances within a bed of G. demissa in New Jersey. Results indicate that MP densities ranged between 11,000-50,000pieces/m2. The abundance of larger MPs (5mm>=1mm) did not vary among sampling sites while the smaller MPs (<1mm) abundances did vary between sampling sites. These smaller MPs also accounted for 79% of MPs recovered from these sites. Based on the higher abundance of smaller MPs, we also investigated MP ingestion/rejection in a laboratory setting. These results confirmed that ribbed mussels can ingest MPs with negative consequences for the buoyancy of plastics rejected in feces and pseudofeces. Copyright © 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.
Keywords: *Bivalvia; *Plastics/an [Analysis]; *Waste Products/an [Analysis]; *Water Pollutants, Chemical/an [Analysis]; Animals; Article; Bivalvia; Contamination; Eating; Filter-feeding organisms; Geukensia demissa; Human activities; Humans; Ingestion; Ingestion (engines); Marine pollution; Microplastic; Microplastics; Molluscs; Mussel bed; New Jersey; Plastics; Sampling site; United States; Waste Products; Water Pollutants, Chemical; abundance; analysis; animal; animal experiment; animal tissue; bivalve; body fluids and secretions; controlled study; dept.aa; eating; feces; filter feeder; growth; human; human activities; ingestion; ingestion rate; marine pollution; marsh; microplastic; mussel; nonhuman; peer-reviewed; plastic; pseudofeces; sampling; unclassified drug; waste; water pollutant

The NN-explore exoplanet stellar speckle imager: Instrument description and preliminary results - Scott, Nicholas J.; Howell, Steve B.; Horch, Elliott P.; Everett, Mark E. (Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2018)
A new speckle and wide-field imaging instrument for the WIYN telescope called NN-EXPLORE Exoplanet Stellar Speckle Imager (NESSI) is described. NESSI offers simultaneous two-color diffraction-limited imaging and wide-field traditional imaging for validation and characterization of transit and precision RV exoplanet studies. Many exoplanet targets will come from the NASA K2 and Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) missions. NESSI is capable of resolving close binaries at sub-arcsecond separations down to the diffraction limit and >6 mag contrast difference in the visible band on targets as faint as 14th mag. Preliminary results from the instrument commissioning at WIYN and demonstrations of the instrument’s capabilities are presented. © 2018. The Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Printed in the U.S.A.
Keywords: Binaries (including multiple): close; Instrumentation: high angular resolution; Instrumentation: interferometers; Techniques: interferometric; Techniques: photometric; dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Transverse spin-dependent azimuthal correlations of charged pion pairs measured in p↑ + p collisions at √s=500 GeV - STAR Collaboration (Physics Letters B, 2018)
The transversity distribution, which describes transversely polarized quarks in transversely polarized nucleons, is a fundamental component of the spin structure of the nucleon, and is only loosely constrained by global fits to existing semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering (SIDIS) data. In transversely polarized p↑+p collisions it can be accessed using transverse polarization dependent fragmentation functions which give rise to azimuthal correlations between the polarization of the struck parton and the final state scalar mesons. This letter reports on spin dependent di-hadron correlations measured by the STAR experiment. The new dataset corresponds to 25 pb−1 integrated luminosity of p↑+p collisions at s=500 GeV, an increase of more than a factor of ten compared to our previous measurement at s=200 GeV. Non-zero asymmetries sensitive to transversity are observed at a Q2 of several hundred GeV and are found to be consistent with the former measurement and a model calculation. We expect that these data will enable an extraction of transversity with comparable precision to current SIDIS datasets but at much higher momentum transfers where subleading effects are suppressed. © 2018 The Author(s)
Keywords: Di-hadron correlations; Interference fragmentation function; Transversity; dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Brief article of gratitude to Paul McGhee - Saltman, Joyce (Humor-International Journal of Humor Research, 2018)
Keywords: dept.sed; peer-reviewed

Measurement of the ³H lifetime in Au+Au collisions at the BNL relativistic heavy ion collider - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review C, 2018)
An improved measurement of the HΛ3 lifetime is presented. In this paper, the mesonic decay modes HΛ3→He3 + π- and HΛ3→d+p+π- are used to reconstruct the HΛ3 from Au+Au collision data collected by the STAR collaboration at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). A minimum χ2 estimation is used to determine the lifetime of τ=142-21+24(stat.)±29(syst.) ps. This lifetime is about 50% shorter than the lifetime τ=263±2 ps of a free Λ, indicating strong hyperon-nucleon interaction in the hypernucleus system. The branching ratios of the mesonic decay channels are also determined to satisfy B.R.(He3+π-)/(B.R.(He3+π-)+B.R.(d+p+π-))=0.32±0.05(stat.)±0.08(syst.). Our ratio result favors the assignment J(HΛ3)=12 over J(HΛ3)=32. These measurements will help to constrain models of hyperon-baryon interactions. © 2018 American Physical Society.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Criticism and compassion: the ethics and politics of Claudia Card - Dillon, Robin S.; Marsoobian, Armen T. (Wiley, 2018)
Criticism and Compassion: The Ethics and Politics of Claudia Card offers a unique perspective on the range of issues explored by Card during her distinguished career in philosophy. Investigates her work as an early leader in the development of feminist philosophy, challenging many preconceptions about the society’s norms regarding gender, marriage, and motherhood Crossing many disciplinary boundaries, her concept of social death has come to play a significant role in multidisciplinary field of genocide studies This volume combines many of Claudia Card’s important essays with recently commissioned essays by leading philosophers whose work has been influenced by Card The full scope of Card’s philosophy is presented here - both in her own words and those of her critics and interpreters
Keywords: dept.phi

From Values to Passion to Enlivened Practice: A Palette of Possibilities - Keenan, Elizabeth (Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping, 2018)
This narrative offers a palette of possibilities for linking micro and macro practices that arose from interviews with social workers who were viewed as addressing the profession’s dual purpose of individual well-being and social justice in their practice. I begin with my own experiences and desires to link micro and macro together as a clinical social worker and community organizer. An interlude describing the way the social workers stretched my thinking comes in between the themes. I conclude with a final reflection on the impact of their stories and implications for future research and practice.
Keywords: Macro Practice; Micro Practice; Social Justice; Well-Being; dept.swk; macro practice; peer-reviewed; social justice; social work methods; social work practice; values; ⛔ No DOI found

Fluid boundaries in 'The Awntyrs off Arthure' and 'Sir Isumbras' - Richmond, Andrew (Open Library of Humanities, 2018)
Encounters with water shape the Middle English romances of The Awntyrs off Arthure and Sir Isumbras. In the latter, rivers and the 'Greek Sea' serve to distinguish separate sections of the narrative: the river marks the point at which the titular hero's family unit begins to break down, while the beach of the sea marks the lowest point of his social power. Yet his later traversal of the Greek Sea itself allows him to reassemble his family and reclaim his aristocratic power. In Awntyrs, the Tarn Wathelene (or Wadling) ties the actions of the romance's first episode onto a specific spot in the real-world English landscape, while connecting the text to a number of other Arthurian romances that also mention or take place near the tarn. This article, then, argues that the waterscapes in these two texts illustrate a late-medieval understanding of tarns, rivers, and seas as explicitly alien, yet intimately physical embodiments of divine power in the natural world. Taken together, these poems-one a metrical romance, the other alliterative-show how interests in waterscapes crossed boundaries within the muddy genre of romance itself, and reveal that water upsets such human categories as family and property. Tarns, rivers, and seas turn human bodies, instead, into their possessions; the disturbing experience of that dehumanizing process should, these texts imply, wear the world, its history, and its bonds away, until even the greatest knights or ladies are left alone with watery forms beyond the pale of human understanding. © 2018 The Author(s).
Keywords: dept.eng; peer-reviewed

Visible resonance Raman spectroscopy detect key molecular biomarker vibrations to characterize for human brain gliomas - Zhou, Yan; Liu, Cheng-hui; Wu, Binlin; Yu, Xinguang; Gangge Cheng; Zhang, Chunyuan; Chen, Hong; Li, Shenglin; Zong, Rui; Liang, Qijun; Zhang, Ce; Zhang, Mingqian; et al. (Biomedical Imaging and Sensing Conference, 2018)
Visible resonant Raman (VRR) spectroscopy provides an effective way to enhance Raman signal from particular bonds associated with key molecules due to changes on molecular level. This paper reports on the VRR use for detection of human brain the control and gliomas of three grades. From the RR spectra additional two molecular vibrational biomarkers at 1129cm-1 and 1338cm-1, for the four types of brain tissues are significantly different in intensity. The new RR spectral peaks can be used as molecular biomarkers to evaluate glioma grades and identify the margin of gliomas from the controls. The metabolic process of glioma cells based on the RR spectral changes may reveal the Warburg hypothesis.
Keywords: 532nm; Biomarkers; Brain; Human brain tumors; Medical imaging; Raman probe; Raman spectroscopy; Resonance Raman; Tumors; Visible resonance Raman (VRR); confical Raman probe; dept.phy; gliomas; human brain tumor

Perceptions of social emotional learning needs in high poverty schools - Generali, Margaret M.; Yavuz, Olcay; Parzych, Jennifer (Journal of Contemporary Administrative Science, 2018)
This paper explores the perceived social emotional learning needs of students in high poverty schools. Social emotional learning (SEL)is recognized within the literature as critical to success in school and in life. Emergingwork supports the acquisition of a SEL skillset within grades kindergarten through twelve ( K-12) schools. This survey examines the perceptions of social emotional needs as reported by students, parents and school faculty members across four different high poverty schools in the USA. Findings provide effective strategies and valuable data for school leaders, educators, and counselors in addressing the social emotional needs of urban students.
Keywords: dept.csp; dept.edl; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found