Taking Time - Harry, C.C. (SpringerBrief. Philos., 2015)
Despite the language we saw in the previous chapter, which allowed for time apprehension by perception and marking, in Physics iv 14, Aristotle famously argues that time is dependent on nous. © 2015, The Author(s).
Keywords: Human Child; Nonhuman Animal; Pure Actuality; Sense Perception; Time Perception; dept.phi

Foundations for the future: The potential of multimodal technologies for learning mathematics - Hegedus, S.J.; Tall, D.O. (Handbook of International Research in Mathematics Education: Third Edition, 2015)
Keywords: dept.edu

The psychology of the bullying phenomenon in three jamaican public primary schools: A need for a public health trust - Hudson-Davis, A.; Bourne, P.A.; Sharpe-Pryce, C.; Francis, C.; Solan, I.; Lewis, D.; Watson-Coleman, O.; Blake, J.-A.; Donegon, C. (International Journal of Emergency Mental Health, 2015)
Background: The bullying phenomenon, an aspect of aggression, has gained attention in many countries thus making it a very important issue in schools. Many studies have been done on this issue resulting in deeper analysis and review on the matter because the matter covers physical, verbal or psychological acts of aggression that may be intentional, and, which may occur once or repeated over time. Objectives: This study seeks to examine the following research questions: 1) How is bullying manifested in grades 4-6 in primary schools identified for this study?; 2) What are the specific bullying behaviours exhibited by class bullies in grades 4-6?; 3) How does the behavior of bullies affect the conduct of classes?; 4) What are the characteristics of the students who are targeted by in-class bullies?, and 5) What strategies are currently used by the teachers to deal with bullying in class? Materials and Methods: Two hundred students were conveniently identified (n = 200) for the study in the three schools of which 153 participated in the survey (i.e., response rate of 76.5%). The sample comprises of pupils in grades 4, 5 and 6, which 67 pupils in grades 4 and 5, and 66 in the 6th grade. Likewise 50 students ages 9, 10, 11 and 12 years were recruited for participation, with the least respondents being ages 9 years (46%) and the most being 11 years old (94%). Results: The principals and guidance counselor reported that the bullying phenomenon is a daily occurrence at their schools and that on a daily basis they are called upon to address at least 3 cases and a maximum of 10 cases of bullying. All the parents in this study noted that the bullying phenomenon is widespread in primary schools in St. Thomas and that schools are now considered an unsafe environment. Of the 26 surveyed parents in this research, 92.3% indicated that ‘schools are no longer fun for children to be anymore because of the bullying phenomenon. Conclusion: Now there is empirical evidence that the bullying phenomenon is creating psychological issues that extend beyond the aggressor to those around him/her. The psychology of the bullying phenomenon is far-reaching more than a social issue and as such clearly the psychology of the matter is crying out for public health efforts and/or intervention in Jamaica. © 2015, Chevron Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Bullying; Children in schools; Jamaica; Psychology of bullying; article; behavior; bullying; child; counselor; crying; dept.pch; female; human; human experiment; major clinical study; male; primary school; public health; school child; student; teacher; trust; ⛔ No DOI found

When enough is enough: African american women reclaiming themselves - Jackson, S.A. (Letting Go: Feminist and Social Justice Insight and Activism, 2015)
Keywords: dept.soc

Preface - Jain, F.; Broadbridge, C.; Tang, H. (International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems, 2015)
Keywords: dept.phy

The emergence of stem - Koehler, C.; Binns, I.C.; Bloom, M.A. (STEM Road Map: A Framework for Integrated STEM Education, 2015)
Keywords: dept.egm

The stem road map for grades k-2 - Koehler, C.; Bloom, M.A.; Milner, A.R. (STEM Road Map: A Framework for Integrated STEM Education, 2015)
Keywords: dept.egm

Lower Wingate Test Power Outcomes from "all-Out" Pretest Pedaling Cadence Compared with Moderate Cadence - Lunn, W.R.; Zenoni, M.A.; Crandall, I.H.; Dress, A.E.; Berglund, M.L. (Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 2015)
The aim of the present study was to determine the effect of different pretest pedaling cadences on power outcomes obtained during the Wingate Anaerobic Test (WAnT). Vigorously exercising adult men (n 14, 24.9 ± 1.2 years) and women (n 14, 20.4 ± 0.6 years) participated in a randomized crossover study during which they performed the 30-second WAnT on a mechanically braked cycle ergometer (0.075 kg·kg-1 body weight) under 2 conditions. Participants pedaled maximally with an unloaded flywheel during 5 seconds before resistance was applied and the test began (FAST). In another trial, participants maintained a moderate cadence (80 revolutions per minute [rpm]) during 5 seconds before the test began (MOD). All other components of the WAnT were identical. Peak power (PP), mean power (MP), minimum power (MinP), fatigue index (%FAT), and maximum cadence during test were recorded. Comparisons were made using a 2 × 2 factorial repeated-measures analysis of variance. Regardless of gender, the FAST condition resulted in 22.2% lower PP (612.6 ± 33.0 W vs. 788.3 ± 43.5 W), 13.3% lower MP (448.4 ± 22.2 W vs. 517.2 ± 26.4 W), 11.7% lower MinP (280.9 ± 14.8 W vs. 318.3 ± 17.2 W), and 9.0% lower %FAT (53.5 ± 1.3% vs. 58.8 ± 1.5%) than MOD condition (p < 0.01; mean ± SD). Similar outcomes were observed within gender. The authors conclude that practitioners of the WAnT should instruct participants to maintain a moderate pedal cadence (∼80 rpm) during 5 seconds before the test commences to avoid bias from software sampling and peripheral fatigue. Standardizing the pretest pedal cadence will be important to exercise testing professionals who compare data with norms or generate norms for specific populations. © 2015 National Strength and Conditioning Association.
Keywords: Adult; Bicycling; Cross-Over Studies; Exercise; Exercise Test; Fatigue; Female; Humans; Male; Young Adult; adult; anaerobic; controlled study; crossover procedure; cycling; dept.hms; ergometry; exercise; exercise test; fatigue; female; human; male; muscle; pathophysiology; peer-reviewed; physiology; procedures; randomized controlled trial; young adult

The Pink and Black Experience: Lies That Make Us Suffer in Silence and Cost Us Our Lives - Madlock Gatison, A. (Women's Studies in Communication, 2015)
Keywords: dept.com; peer-reviewed

The Armenian Genocide of 1915: Armen T. Marsoobian explores the complex history of one of the 20th-century's worst and most neglected crimes against humanity - Marsoobian, A.T. (History Today, 2015)
Keywords: dept.phi; ⛔ No DOI found

Presidential nominations in a Polarized Party System: The Republican primaries of 2012 - Paulson, A.C. (Winning the Presidency 2012, 2015)
Keywords: dept.psc

Modernism in South Asian art music - Scott, S. (The Modernist World, 2015)
Keywords: dept.mus

Military Families: Case - Smith, C. (Critical Incidents in Integrating Spirituality into Counseling, 2015)
This chapter discusses the case of Kelly, a 43-year-old white woman married to an Air Force pilot, came to counseling because she was struggling with several issues. Watching the news about and receiving updates from her husband's command exacerbated Kelly's sense of being overwhelmed and powerless. The author first tried to identify the supports Kelly needed to have in place as she went through her lumpectomy. Second, the counselors explored how to secure resources for James's school issues. According to the author, family counseling sessions should be conducted once Kelly begins to make some minor adjustments and feels more in control. Other possible approaches include solution-focused interventions for short-term results, cognitive-behavioral therapy with Kelly and the children, and family systems theory. As religion is important to Kelly and her husband, the counselor could explore ways to incorporate interventions appropriate to her religious beliefs and values. © 2015 by the American Counseling Association. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Cognitive-behavioral therapy; Family counseling sessions; Family systems theory; Military families; Religious interventions; Spiritual resources; dept.csp

Challenges in creating a culture of workplace dignity for LGBT employees - Baker, S.; Lucas, K. (Stretching Boundaries: Cases in Organ. and Manag. Commun., 2016)
Keywords: dept.com

Hawthorne's Two Bodies: Politics and Aesthetics in Our Old Home - Baraw, C. (Literary Imagination, 2016)
Keywords: dept.eng

Three-dimensional interaction force and tunneling current spectroscopy of point defects on rutile TiO2(110) - Baykara, M.Z.; Mönig, H.; Schwendemann, T.C.; Ünverdi, Ö.; Altman, E.I.; Schwarz, U.D. (Applied Physics Letters, 2016)
The extent to which point defects affect the local chemical reactivity and electronic properties of an oxide surface was evaluated with picometer resolution in all three spatial dimensions using simultaneous atomic force/scanning tunneling microscopy measurements performed on the (110) face of rutile TiO2. Oxygen atoms were imaged as protrusions in both data channels, corresponding to a rarely observed imaging mode for this prototypical metal oxide surface. Three-dimensional spectroscopy of interaction forces and tunneling currents was performed on individual surface and subsurface defects as a function of tip-sample distance. An interstitial defect assigned to a subsurface hydrogen atom is found to have a distinct effect on the local density of electronic states on the surface, but no detectable influence on the tip-sample interaction force. Meanwhile, spectroscopic data acquired on an oxygen vacancy highlight the role of the probe tip in chemical reactivity measurements. © 2016 AIP Publishing LLC.
Keywords: Atoms; Defect density; Electron tunneling; Electronic properties; Interstitial defects; Local density of electronic state; Metals; Oxide minerals; Oxygen vacancies; Picometer resolution; Point defects; Prototypical metal oxide surfaces; Reactivity measurements; Subsurface hydrogens; Surface defects; Three-dimensional interaction; Tip-sample interaction; Titanium dioxide; dept.phy

HIV medication adherence programs: The importance of social support - Breny Bontempi, J.M.; Burleson, L.; Lopez, M.H. (A Cross Section of Nursing Research: Journal Articles for Discussion and Evaluation, 2016)
Since the advent of medical treatments for HIV, the promotion of adherence to these difficult treatment regimens has proven critical to disease management. Three Connecticut state-funded HIV medication adherence programs were evaluated. The purpose of this process evaluation was to explore and compare the goals and modality of each adherence program, assess client and staff satisfaction, and provide recommendations for the improvement of these programs. Focus group interviews with clients and individual interviews with staff were conducted at each of the programs. Interviews were transcribed, coded, and analyzed with a code-and-retrieve method of theme identification. Focus group themes included the importance of social support on medication adherence and the “lifesaving” effect the program has had. The staff expressed that although complete adherence should be the long-term objective, more intermediate objectives should be considered (e.g., behavioral changes to increase clients’ ability, selfesteem, and self-efficacy to take medications). © 2014, 2011, 2008, 2005, 2003, 2001 by Taylor & Francis.
Keywords: dept.pch

Challenging evaluation: The complexity of grading writing in hybrid MOOCs - McEachern, R.W. (Handb. of Res. on Writ. and Compos. in the Age of MOOCs, 2017)
When MOOCs exploded into the public consciousness in 2012, many supporters touted their potential to disrupt higher education. In a short time, MOOCs have evolved, and that role as radical change agents seems to have faded. However, the use of Hybrid MOOCs, in which onground courses use MOOCs for some or all of their content, does have the potential to be disruptive, albeit on a smaller scale. This article will describe one Hybrid MOOC and the ways it could be used to disrupt individual pedagogy, and perhaps affect larger change as a result. © 2017 by IGI Global. All rights reserved.
Keywords: dept.eng

Soul sister journey: Essence magazine and travel columns during the “me” decad - Carter-David, S. (Women's Magazines in Print and New Media, 2016)
Keywords: dept.his

A cry in the dark: The howls of wolves in horror and heavy metal music - Digioia, A. (Horror Studies, 2016)
Deranged howling is a hallmark of wolves, horror texts and heavy metal music artists. This article discusses how wolves, heavy metal music artists and horror text directors use diegetic sound to interact with listeners. Wolves use howls in real life to communicate their location and identity to their pack-mates. Howling in heavy metal music is used either as a literal sound or as a metaphor, to unite their audiences as one cohesive pack, or as a reunion call. The sound of a wolf in horror films indicates something wicked coming along, often in the form of a werewolf or other nefarious monsters. This article shows how a cry in the dark in horror texts, heavy metal music, and in the wilderness is a means of communicating an emotion or identity to a mass human or lupine audience. © 2016 Intellect Ltd Article.
Keywords: Diegetic sound; Heavy metal music; Horror; Howls; Wolves; dept.wgs

Lechery, lycanthropy and little red riding hood in type o negative’s ‘wolf moon (Including Zoanthropic Paranoia)’ - Digioia, A. (Metal Music Studies, 2016)
Type O Negative’s ‘Wolf Moon (including Zoanthropic Paranoia)’ seems to be a melodic ode to lascivious werewolves or to sexual intercourse during menstruation, which is transformative, allowing participation to channel animalistic instincts. Subject to more critical examination, ‘Wolf Moon (including Zoanthropic Paranoia)’ can also be presented as a contemporary incarnation of the ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ myth. Both contain the same themes: the stigmatization of eroticism, reclamation of agency, along with the nuances of gender identity and representation. Any Women’s Studies programme student is attuned to how storytelling and imagery of those within the story influence gender roles and their perceptions. Real-life themes are undoubtedly found within fairy tales as well, with a special emphasis on how women who do not remain in their proper place are punished because of it. In ‘Wolf Moon (including Zoanthropic Paranoia)’, the woman is rewarded for those experiences, by being permitted to indulge in her darkest desires. Meeting (or meating) a wolf that is hungry for you is nothing to fear in Type O Negative’s version of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’. Instead, it is the hallmark of a ‘great day’, and is something that should be celebrated. As ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ traverses onward throughout the western society’s cultural consciousness, one can only hope for further metal music acts interpretations of this infamous fairy tale. Representation matters, and the nuances of how the female gender has been portrayed throughout the centuries as reflected in the re-telling of a fairy tale is a subject that warrants a closer look through metal music and gender. © 2016 Intellect Ltd Article.
Keywords: Feminism; Gender; Little Red Riding Hood; Menstruation; Sexuality; Type O Negative; Wolves; dept.wgs

Swinburne: Criticism as perversion - Fluhr, N. (Nineteenth Century Prose, 2016)
Keywords: dept.eng; ⛔ No DOI found

Were the umayyad-era qadarites Kāfirs? - Judd, S. (Islam. Hist. Civiliz., 2016)
Keywords: dept.his

The role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as intermediaries of the European union decision to adopt international accounting standards: 1973-2002 - Kaya, D.; Kirsch, R.J.; Henselmann, K. (Accounting Historians Journal, 2016)
This paper analyzes the role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as intermediaries in encouraging the European Union (EU) to adopt International Accounting Standards (IAS). Our analysis begins with the 1973 founding of the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC), and ends with 2002 when the binding EU regulation was approved. We document the many pathways of interaction between European supranational, governmental bodies and the IASC/IASB, as well as important regional NGOs, such as the Union Européenne des Experts Comptables, Économiques et Financiers (UEC), the Groupe d’Etudes des Experts Comptables de la Communauté Économique Européenne (Groupe d’Etudes), and their successor, the Fédération des Experts Comptables Européens (FEE). This study investigates, through personal interviews of key individuals involved in making the history of the organizations studied, and an extensive set of primary sources, how NGOs filled key roles in the process of harmonization of international accounting standards. © 2016, American Accounting Association. All rights reserved.
Keywords: dept.acc

Platonic words: Paolo sarpi and roberto bellarmino as translators in the venetian interdict crisis - Kern, D. (Philological Quarterly, 2016)
Keywords: dept.his; ⛔ No DOI found

Multifunctional in vivo imaging of pancreatic islets during diabetes development - Li, G.; Wu, B.; Ward, M.G.; Chong, C.N.; Mukherjee, S.; Chen, S.; Hao, M. (Journal of Cell Science, 2016)
Pancreatic islet dysfunction leading to insufficient glucose-stimulated insulin secretion triggers the clinical onset of diabetes. How islet dysfunction develops is not well understood at the cellular level, partly owing to the lack of approaches to study single islets longitudinally in vivo. Here, we present a noninvasive, high-resolution system to quantitatively image real-time glucose metabolism from single islets in vivo, currently not available with any other method. In addition, this multifunctional system simultaneously reports islet function, proliferation, vasculature and macrophage infiltration in vivo from the same set of images. Applying our method to a longitudinal high-fat diet study revealed changes in islet function as well as alternations in islet microenvironment. More importantly, this label-free system enabled us to image real-time glucose metabolism directly from single human islets in vivo for the first time, opening the door to noninvasive longitudinal in vivo studies of healthy and diabetic human islets. © 2016. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd.
Keywords: Animals; Anterior Chamber; Article; Cell Proliferation; Collagen; Computer Systems; Diabetes; Diabetes Mellitus; Diet, High-Fat; Disease Models, Animal; Fluorescence; Glucose; Glucose metabolism; Humans; Imaging, Three-Dimensional; In vivo imaging; Injections, Intraperitoneal; Islets of Langerhans; Macrophages; Male; Mice; Multiphoton microscopy; NAD(P)H; Pancreatic islets; animal; animal cell; animal experiment; anterior eye chamber; autofluorescence imaging; autofluorescence imaging system; cell function; cell infiltration; cell proliferation; collagen; computer system; dept.phy; diabetes mellitus; disease course; disease model; drug effects; fluorescence; glucose; glucose metabolism; human; imaging system; in vivo study; intraperitoneal drug administration; lipid diet; macrophage; male; metabolism; microenvironment; mouse; nonhuman; pancreas islet; pathology; priority journal; three dimensional imaging; vascularization

The art gallery theorem, revisited - Michael, T.S.; Pinciu, V. (American Mathematical Monthly, 2016)
The art gallery theorem asserts that any polygon with n vertices can be protected by at most [n/3] stationary guards. The original proof by Chvátal uses a nonroutine and nonintuitive induction. We give a simple inductive proof of a new, more general result, the constrained art gallery theorem: If V∗and E∗are specified sets of vertices and edges that must contain guards, then the polygon can be protected by at most [(n + 2|V∗| + |E∗|) /3] guards. Our result reduces to Chvátal's art gallery theorem when V∗and E∗are empty. We give a second short proof of this generalization in the spirit of Fisk's proof of the art gallery theorem using graph colorings. © THE MATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA.
Keywords: dept.mat; ⚠️ Invalid DOI

The task of justice - Pettigrew, D. (Pathways to Reconciliation: Between Theory and Practice, 2016)
Contemporary discourse about human rights makes pragmatic use of the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration on Human Rights, as the Declaration presents a set of guidelines that are based on assumptions about the nature of human beings: Their thoughts, ideas, freedom of expression and freedom of association.1 Article 1 of the Declaration states, for example, that ‘All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.’ The document engages the idea of the human being as having rights, regardless of ethnicity or gender. Such rights include life, protection from harm, and access to the latest in scientific technology.2 © Philipa Rothfield, Cleo Fleming and Paul A. Komesaroff 2008.
Keywords: dept.phi

To know the distance: Wayfinding and roadmaps of early modern England and France - Petto, C.M. (Cartographica, 2016)
In 1675, John Ogilby produced his road atlas with strip maps which not only arrived with fanfare, but spawned several more publications that aimed to be user-friendly. As with many maps and atlases from the London printing trade, the objectives were to serve consumers, acquire a piece of the market, and have an outlet for a new edition. Across the Channel, however, the road network of France, as with other public works, was not only state-directed but a tool of state power. Not until nearly one hundred years later did Claude-Sidoine Michel and Louis-Charles Desnos produce L'Indicateur Fidele, which provided strip maps for merchants, navigators, and travelers. This publication emerged out of the French national mapping project directed by the Cassini family. In the interim, while French map makers produced maps with an appeal to serving the state, they, like their London contemporaries, also hoped to maintain a thriving business and attract an audience, often through the traditional French social institution of patronage. The purpose of this comparative study of (post) road maps and atlases of England and France is to investigate the role of the government and the publishing trade in the production of these works. © 2016 University of Toronto Press.
Keywords: Consumers; England; France; London [England]; Map trade; Patronage; Post roads; Strip maps; United Kingdom; cartography; dept.his; mapping

Evolving from an illusionary and self destructive quest for power to a state of empowerment: The curative potential yoga may hold as a vehicle to reclaiming bodily empowerment for women with anorexia - Pizzanello, H.C. (Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 2016)
Eating disorders disproportionately afflict women and they are one of the most lethal mental health conditions that practitioners in the field of social work and related mental health fields encounter. Equally alarming is the fact that Anorexia Nervosa is the deadliest of all eating disorders, yet, we are struggling to find an efficacious means of successfully intervening in the treatment and recovery maintenance of anorexia. Drawing from past empirical and theoretical literature, this study explored the potential that the mind body practice of yoga might hold as a complementary therapeutic tool for women struggling to recover from anorexia. The findings that emerged from the analysis of this study’s data indicate that yoga can play a curative role with this population. The findings also revealed that yoga’s primary efficacy resides in its potential to facilitate an experience of connected acceptance and feelings of empowerment in this population of women. © 2016, Western Michigan University. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Anorexia; Feminism; Therapeutic intervention; Yoga; dept.swk; ⛔ No DOI found

Heliodorus and the Assassination of Seleucus IV according to Dan 11:20 and 2 Macc 3 - Scolnic, B. (Journal of Ancient Judaism, 2016)
The impetus for the assassination of Seleucus IV in 175 B. C. E. is commonly associated with his robbing the temples and oppressing the peoples of the Seleucid kingdom in order to pay tribute to Rome according to the Treaty of Apamea. Reconsideration of the relevant evidence – especially Dan 11:20 and 2 Macc 3, with attention to a passage from Appian, inscriptions from Delos, the Heliodorus stele and the Ptolemaios dossier – suggests another explanation for these events. If Seleucus robbed the temples to finance his “royal splendor,” it is possible that Heliodorus and others tasked with taxing the kingdom may have objected to his controversial policies and taken action against him because of them. © 2016 [2017] Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen
Keywords: dept.jst

Thou uncracked keel: The many voyages of the Whaleship Charles W. Morgan and the presence of the American Maritime past - Smith, J.W. (New England Quarterly-A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters, 2016)
The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned from Crete had thirty oars, and was preserved by the Athenians down even to the time of Demetrius Phalereus, for they took away the old planks as they decayed, putting in new and stronger timber in their place, in so much that this ship became a standing example among the philosophers, for the logical question of things that grow; one side holding that the ship remained the same, and the other contending that it was not the same. © 2016 by The New England Quarterly. All rights reserved.
Keywords: dept.his

Nursing Students' Use of Electronic and Social Media: Law, Ethics, and E-Professionalism - Westrick, S.J. (Nursing Education Perspectives, 2016)
AIM This article discusses the promotion of professionalism in nursing students with regard to the use of electronic and social media. BACKGROUND Misuse of social media can lead to disciplinary actions and program dismissal for students and to legal actions and lawsuits for nursing programs. Programs are concerned about breaches of patient confidentiality and release of private or inappropriate information that jeopardizes clinical placements and relationships. METHOD The American Nurses Association Code of Ethics and National Council of State Boards of Nursing social media guidelines provide a foundation for promoting e-professionalism in students. Recent law cases involving students who were dismissed from nursing programs due to social media misuse are analyzed. CONCLUSION Schools need policies that clearly establish expectations and the consequences of misuse of social media platforms. Lessons learned from the legal cases presented provide further guidance for both nursing students and nursing programs. © 2016 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Keywords: Attitude to Computers; Confidentiality; Guidelines as Topic; Humans; Legal and Ethical Issues; Nursing Education; Nursing Students; Professionalism; Social Media; Social Media Policy; Students, Nursing; United States; attitude to computers; confidentiality; dept.nur; ethics; expectation; human; human experiment; law suit; legislation and jurisprudence; nursing education; nursing organization; nursing student; peer-reviewed; practice guideline; professionalism; psychology; social media; standards

The Kyrgyz Republic,1 central Asia, and daily life engagement - Yacher, L. (Arab World Geographer, 2016)
Keywords: Central Asia; Kyrgyzstan; dept.egm; geographical thought; life satisfaction; perception; ⛔ No DOI found

Virtues, vices, and situations: What warrants the ascription of character traits - Yang, X. (Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 2016)
In recent years, situationism in psychology has caught the attention of philosophers. Some have defended it. Some have argued against it. The situationist has challenged the traditional view shared by personality psychology and virtue ethics that people differ in terms of character or character traits and that we can explain and predict people's behavior by character traits people have. Previous responses to situationism try to show that experiments from social psychology do not undermine the traditional view. I agree and will further argue that the fact that experiments do not undermine the traditional view is not sufficient to warrant the attribution of character traits, and that some philosophical arguments are needed given that not enough empirical data that show a high degree of behavioral consistencies are available. I first offer an account of the ordinary attribution of character traits according to which having character traits is a matter of degree, and argue that the ordinary attribution account comes from the Aristotelian moral psychology and is consistent with a long-standing tradition, the trait paradigm, in personality psychology. Second, I argue that although situational factors play some role in explaining and predicting behavior, the attribution of character traits plays a primary and indispensable role. Third, I argue that ordinary attribution of character traits has important functions in our moral life, which cannot be fulfilled by the attribution of local traits suggested by the situationist. I also argue that the ethical management of situations recommended by the situationist can help in getting things right, but is not sufficient to be the adequate foundation for our normative discourse. © 2016 American Psychological Association.
Keywords: Attribution of character traits; Crosssituational consistency and variation; Local traits; Situationism; Virtues; dept.phi

Urban food production limits and the viability of community gardens: The case of hartford, connecticut - Heidkamp, C.P.; Russell, S.E.; Sloan, M. (Local Food Systems in Old Industrial Regions: Concepts, Spatial Context, and Local Practices, 2012)
Hartford, the state capital of Connecticut, is a typical example of a former manufacturing oriented1 industrial city and, like much of the urban northeastern United States, has gone through a period of economic deindustrialization and consequent urban decay. Since the departure of the manufacturing base, Hartford has refocused its economic development on the service economy, and first and foremost, the insurance industry. The city even proclaims itself the “insurance capital of the world.” Yet, even though the insurance industry as well as other service oriented development strategies (a new convention center, science museum, and retail developments) have been quite successful in fostering economic activity and attracting employees (mostly residents of the surrounding suburbs commuting into white collar jobs), the spatial manifestations of deindustrialization are still visible and persistent in the physical as well as the social fabric of the city. © 2012 Neil Reid, Jay D. Gatrell and Paula S. Ross All rights reserved.
Keywords: dept.egm

Counseling Transgender Clients - Brammer, R.; Ginicola, M.M. (Affirmative Counseling With LGBTQI+ People, 2017)
The issues surrounding working with clients who experience a disconnect between their gender identity and their designated sex at birth are discussed. Gender and gender identity terminology are thoroughly discussed, including terminology that should be avoided. The complex issues surrounding terminology, gender, and changing terms are explored. The cultural history of third gender people, as well as the impacts of colonization, are discussed. Authors also present the prevalence and identity development of transgender persons. Transgender persons face a significant risk of experiencing bias incidents, indicating a significant increase in minority-based stress. Focusing specifically on transgender persons who wish to transition, the authors explore physical and mental health challenges that clients may face. Special considerations with the DSM and use of the Gender Dysphoria diagnosis, are explained. Affirmative counseling strategies, including preparation and counseling practices, with transgender persons are examined. Special attention is given to intersectional issues, such as age and ethnicity. © 2017 by the American Counseling Association. All rights reserved.
Keywords: ALGBTIC competencies; Affirmative counseling; Gender identity; Identity development; Intersectionality; LGBT; Mental health; Minority stress; Physical health; Third gender; Transgender; dept.csp

The lands of orthodoxy in the seventeenth century circa 1590-1720 - Bushkovitch, P.; Chrissidis, N.A.; Pǎun, R.G. (Cahiers du Monde Russe, 2017)
Keywords: dept.his

Association of accelerometry-measured physical activity and cardiovascular events in mobility-limited older adults: The LIFE (Lifestyle Interventions and Independence for Elders) study - Cochrane, S.K.; Chen, S.-H.; Fitzgerald, J.D.; Dodson, J.A.; Fielding, R.A.; King, A.C.; McDermott, M.M.; Manini, T.M.; Marsh, A.P.; Newman, A.B.; Pahor, M.; Tudor-Locke, C.; et al. (Journal of the American Heart Association, 2017)
Background--Data are sparse regarding the value of physical activity (PA) surveillance among older adults-particularly among those with mobility limitations. The objective of this study was to examine longitudinal associations between objectively measured daily PA and the incidence of cardiovascular events among older adults in the LIFE (Lifestyle Interventions and Independence for Elders) study. Methods and Results--Cardiovascular events were adjudicated based on medical records review, and cardiovascular risk factors were controlled for in the analysis. Home-based activity data were collected by hip-worn accelerometers at baseline and at 6, 12, and 24 months postrandomization to either a physical activity or health education intervention. LIFE study participants (n=1590; age 78.9±5.2 [SD] years; 67.2% women) at baseline had an 11% lower incidence of experiencing a subsequent cardiovascular event per 500 steps taken per day based on activity data (hazard ratio, 0.89; 95% confidence interval, 0.84-0.96; P=0.001). At baseline, every 30 minutes spent performing activities ≥500 counts per minute (hazard ratio, 0.75; confidence interval, 0.65-0.89 [P=0.001]) were also associated with a lower incidence of cardiovascular events. Throughout follow-up (6, 12, and 24 months), both the number of steps per day (per 500 steps; hazard ratio, 0.90, confidence interval, 0.85-0.96 [P=0.001]) and duration of activity ≥500 counts per minute (per 30 minutes; hazard ratio, 0.76; confidence interval, 0.63-0.90 [P=0.002]) were significantly associated with lower cardiovascular event rates. Conclusions--Objective measurements of physical activity via accelerometry were associated with cardiovascular events among older adults with limited mobility (summary score > 10 on the Short Physical Performance Battery) both using baseline and longitudinal data. © 2017 The Authors.
Keywords: Accelerometry; Actigraphy; Age Factors; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Aging; Article; Cardiovascular; Cardiovascular Diseases; Exercise; Exercise Therapy; Female; Fitness Trackers; Geriatric Assessment; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Humans; Incidence; Male; Mobility Limitation; Patient Education as Topic; Physical activity; Predictive Value of Tests; Prognosis; Protective Factors; Risk Factors; Risk Reduction Behavior; Time Factors; United States; accelerometry; actimetry; activity tracker; age; aged; aging; attitude to health; cardiovascular disease; cardiovascular risk; clinical study; clinical trial; confidence interval; controlled study; dept.hms; devices; exercise; female; follow up; geriatric assessment; hazard ratio; health education; human; incidence; kinesiotherapy; lifestyle; major clinical study; male; medical record review; morbidity; multicenter study; patient education; phase 3 clinical trial; physical activity; physical mobility; predictive value; priority journal; prognosis; protection; randomized controlled trial; risk factor; risk reduction; time factor; very elderly; walking difficulty

Organizational practice with LGBT people - Colon, E. (Social Work Practice with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People, 2017)
Keywords: dept.swk

Hot bats go cold: Heterothermy in neotropical bats - Czenze, Z.J.; Dunbar, M.B. (Canadian Journal of Zoology, 2017)
Torpor is common in bats, but has historically been viewed as an energy-saving technique reserved for temperate and subarctic climates; however, torpor use is common across several tropical bat families. Central America hosts a great diversity of bats with approximately 150 species, yet data from this area are lacking compared with tropical Africa and Australia. We investigated thermoregulatory responses of bats from neotropical Belize and captured adult bats in the tropical forests of Lamanai Archeological Reserve, Belize. After a 12 h acclimation period, we recorded rectal temperature prior to and after exposing bats to an ambient temperature (Ta) of 7 °C forupto 2 h in anenvironmental chamber. All 11 species across four families expressed torpor to some degree upon exposure to cool temperatures. Individuals from Vespertilionidae defended the lowest resting body temperature (Tb) and showed the greatest decrease in Tb after acute exposure to low Ta. Our data help to establish a new spectrum of physiological ability for this group of mammals and shed light on the evolution of torpor and heterothermy. Weshow that energy conservation is important even in warm and energetically stable environmental conditions. Understanding how and why torpor is used in warm climates will help to better define paradigms in physiological ecology. © 2017, Canadian Science Publishing. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Africa; Australia; Bats; Belize; Belize [Central America]; Central America; Heterothermy; Lamanai; Mammalia; Neotropical Region; Orange Walk; Torpor; Tropics; Vespertilionidae; acclimation; bat; body temperature; dept.bio; ecophysiology; energy conservation; environmental conditions; physiological response; thermoregulation; torpor; tropical forest; tropical region

Waorani marriage - Erickson, P.I.; Beckerman, S.; Yost, J.; Diaz, R. (The Anthropology of Marriage in Lowland South America: Bending and Breaking the Rules, 2017)
Keywords: dept.ant

Counseling an LGBTQI+ Person of Color - Filmore, J.M.; Ginicola, M.M. (Affirmative Counseling With LGBTQI+ People, 2017)
The intersectionality of ethnicity and affectional orientation is discussed within this chapter, with special attention given to specific challenges faced by queer people of color (QPOC). Four elements of African American culture that may negatively impact queer-identified persons are: heterosexism, masculinity, issues surrounding HIV, and the role of the Black Church. In Latin Americans, concepts of machismo and marianismo, Catholicism, familismo, and respeto, are discussed in terms of their impact on LGBTQI+ persons. Authors also discuss elements of Asian culture that will impact queer-identified Asians: stigma, complementarity, collectivism and conformity, and shame. The importance of culture specific counseling is underscored. © 2017 by the American Counseling Association. All rights reserved.
Keywords: African American; Asian American; Hispanic; Intersectionality; LGBT; Latin American; Queer person of color; dept.csp

Signum meum apposui: Notaries and their signs in medieval languedoc - Friedlander, A. (The Experience of Power in Medieval Europe, 950-1350, 2017)
Keywords: dept.his

Counseling Intersex Clients - Ginicola, M.M. (Affirmative Counseling With LGBTQI+ People, 2017)
Persons who are born with ambiguous or a combination of both male and female genitalia are referred to as intersex. The biological nature of intersex conditions, or disorders/differences of sex development, are reviewed in this chapter. Issues of bias for people who are intersex are discussed, as children are often made to feel abnormal and required to keep their difference a secret. Parents and families may also experience mental health symptoms, such as traumatic reactions, at their child's birth, when a gender cannot readily be assigned to their child. Although, doctors have (and some still continue) to recommend genital surgery without the child's consent, this is considered unethical by many advocacy organizations for intersex people. Physical issues and the standard of care recommended by advocacy organization and ALGBTIC are discussed. The role of a counselor working with a family with an intersex infant is discussed, as are specific counseling techniques for working with intersex clients of all ages. © 2017 by the American Counseling Association. All rights reserved.
Keywords: ALGBTIC competencies; Affirmative counseling; Difference of sex development; Disorders of sex development; Intersex; LGBT; dept.csp

Counseling Two-Spirit Clients - Ginicola, M.M. (Affirmative Counseling With LGBTQI+ People, 2017)
The term two-spirit refers to persons who identify as indigenous to the Americas and as having a gender and/or affectional variance. Historically recognized by most Native tribes, two-spirit persons were seen as a blessing to their tribe, having high social and spiritual value. Native spirituality and the history of two-spirit persons are explored within this chapter. Because of colonization, much of these traditional beliefs have been lost or distorted, leaving LGBTQI+ people within Native communities experiencing high levels of bias and abuse. Increased physical and mental health challenges due to these significant minority stressors are discussed. Specific counseling skills and techniques for working with this population are explored. © 2017 by the American Counseling Association. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Affirmative counseling; LGBT; Native american; Queer person of color; Two-spirit; dept.csp

The Science of Gender and Affectional Orientation - Ginicola, M.M. (Affirmative Counseling With LGBTQI+ People, 2017)
Sex, gender, and affectional orientation are complex issues; scientific research has long investigated the etiology of gender variance and affectional orientation. Although some interpret this research as contributing to a viewpoint of LGBTQI+ as abnormal, biological research can also be viewed as a confirmation of the natural human variance and adaptability that different gender identities and affectional orientation serves. Research supporting a biological basis for sexual attraction, gender identity, and affectional orientation is presented. © 2017 by the American Counseling Association. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Affectional orientation; Etiology; Gender identity; Gender variance; LGBT; Science; dept.csp

Physical and Mental Health Challenges Found in the LGBTQI+ Population - Ginicola, M.M.; Filmore, J.M.; Smith, C.; Abdullah, J. (Affirmative Counseling With LGBTQI+ People, 2017)
LGBTQI+ people face significant increased stress and marginalization surrounding their gender and/or affectional identities. The minority stress model (Meyer, 2003) serves as a helpful framework when understanding negative coping behaviors, and poor physical and mental health. Microaggressions, marginalization, discrimination, abuse, harassment, and experience of bias incidents all add to the LGBTQI+ person's stress. Intersectional identities may exponentially increase this stress, as is the case for queer persons of color. Authors consider general physical health and mental health risks for lesbian, gay male, bisexual, and transgender clients. Barriers to quality health care and protective factors are also covered. © 2017 by the American Counseling Association. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Intersectionality; LGBT; Mental health; Minority stress; Physical health; dept.csp

Working With LGBTQI+ Clients Who Have Experienced Religious and Spiritual Abuse Using a Trauma-Informed Approach - Ginicola, M.M.; Filmore, J.M.; Stokes, M. (Affirmative Counseling With LGBTQI+ People, 2017)
Many LGBTQI+ clients have been explicitly harmed by religious leaders and those using religious doctrine. This experience can go beyond discrimination and oppression; a person may have experienced serious emotional and spiritual abuse at the hands of faith practitioner attempting to condemn affectional orientation and/or gender identity variance in order to comply with religious doctrine. The current religious conflict with LGBTQI+ issues is briefly reviewed. Authors define and explore spiritual abuse, as well as the experience of spiritual abuse as experienced by a LGBTQI+ person. Counseling challenges and strategies are described. Specifically, the use of a trauma informed counseling approach as applied to clients who have experienced spiritual abuse is explored. © 2017 by the American Counseling Association. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Affirmative counseling; Counseling techniques; LGBT; Religion; Religious trauma; Spiritual abuse; Spirituality; Trauma informed approach; dept.csp

The Role of Religion and Spirituality in Counseling the LGBTQI+ Client - Ginicola, M.M.; Furth, B.H.; Smith, C. (Affirmative Counseling With LGBTQI+ People, 2017)
When religion or spirituality is present, it likely impacts the needs a LGBTQI+ person may bring to counseling. First, the LGBTQI+ person's identity development is likely altered in significant ways, either positively or negatively. Research on this topic is reviewed and the FAITH model for working with LGBTQI+ clients struggling with their faith is presented. Ethical issues arising between disaffirming religious beliefs and counseling LGBTQI+ clients are also reviewed. Authors review affirming and semi-affirming religious organizations within the United States. Additional counseling issues are also explored. © 2017 by the American Counseling Association. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Affirmative counseling; Affirming religions; Counseling; Ethics; LGBT; Religion; Spirituality; dept.csp

Counseling Asexual Clients - Ginicola, M.M.; Ruggiero, A. (Affirmative Counseling With LGBTQI+ People, 2017)
Asexual persons experience little to no sexual attraction to others, although they may still experience romantic attraction and a desire to bond with others. Asexual people often experience bias and marginalization from allosexuals (persons who experience sexual attraction) within heterosexual and queer communities. Asexuals may also face bias from well-intentioned therapists who assume their lack of sexual attraction is due to trauma or a disorder. Although little research has been performed on counseling asexual persons, the authors review appropriate diagnostic counseling criteria for arousal and sexual disorders versus an asexual identity, and affirmative and strength-based techniques appropriate for work with this population. © 2017 by the American Counseling Association. All rights reserved.
Keywords: ALGBTIC competencies; Affirmative counseling; Asexual; LGBT; dept.csp

Coherent diffractive photoproduction of ρ0 mesons on gold nuclei at 200 GeV/nucleon-pair at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review C, 2017)
The STAR Collaboration reports on the photoproduction of π+π- pairs in gold-gold collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 200 GeV/nucleon-pair. These pion pairs are produced when a nearly real photon emitted by one ion scatters from the other ion. We fit the π+π- invariant-mass spectrum with a combination of ρ0 and ω resonances and a direct π+π- continuum. This is the first observation of the ω in ultraperipheral collisions, and the first measurement of ρ-ω interference at energies where photoproduction is dominated by Pomeron exchange. The ω amplitude is consistent with the measured γp→ωp cross section, a classical Glauber calculation, and the ω→π+π- branching ratio. The ω phase angle is similar to that observed at much lower energies, showing that the ρ-ω phase difference does not depend significantly on photon energy. The ρ0 differential cross section dσ/dt exhibits a clear diffraction pattern, compatible with scattering from a gold nucleus, with two minima visible. The positions of the diffractive minima agree better with the predictions of a quantum Glauber calculation that does not include nuclear shadowing than with a calculation that does include shadowing. © 2017 American Physical Society.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Elliptic flow of electrons from heavy-flavor hadron decays in Au + Au collisions at √sNN =200, 62.4, and 39 GeV - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review C, 2017)
We present measurements of elliptic flow (v2) of electrons from the decays of heavy-flavor hadrons (eHF) by the STAR experiment. For Au+Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV we report v2, for transverse momentum (pT) between 0.2 and 7 GeV/c, using three methods: the event plane method (v2EP), two-particle correlations (v2{2}), and four-particle correlations (v2{4}). For Au+Au collisions at sNN=62.4 and 39 GeV we report v2{2} for pT<2GeV/c. v2{2} and v2{4} are nonzero at low and intermediate pT at 200 GeV, and v2{2} is consistent with zero at low pT at other energies. The v2{2} at the two lower beam energies is systematically lower than at sNN=200 GeV for pT<1GeV/c. This difference may suggest that charm quarks interact less strongly with the surrounding nuclear matter at those two lower energies compared to sNN=200 GeV. © 2017 American Physical Society.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Measurement of the cross section and longitudinal double-spin asymmetry for dijet production in polarized pp collisions at s =200 GeV - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review D, 2017)
We report the first measurement of the longitudinal double-spin asymmetry ALL for midrapidity dijet production in polarized pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of s=200 GeV. The dijet cross section was measured and is shown to be consistent with next-to-leading order (NLO) perturbative QCD predictions. ALL results are presented for two distinct topologies, defined by the jet pseudorapidities, and are compared to predictions from several recent NLO global analyses. The measured asymmetries, the first such correlation measurements, support those analyses that find positive gluon polarization at the level of roughly 0.2 over the region of Bjorken-x>0.05. © 2017 American Physical Society.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Measurements of jet quenching with semi-inclusive hadron+jet distributions in Au+Au collisions at sNN =200 GeV - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review C, 2017)
The STAR Collaboration reports the measurement of semi-inclusive distributions of charged-particle jets recoiling from a high transverse momentum hadron trigger, in central and peripheral Au+Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV. Charged jets are reconstructed with the anti-kT algorithm for jet radii R between 0.2 and 0.5 and with low infrared cutoff of track constituents (pT>0.2 GeV/c). A novel mixed-event technique is used to correct the large uncorrelated background present in heavy ion collisions. Corrected recoil jet distributions are reported at midrapidity, for charged-jet transverse momentum pT,jetch<30 GeV/c. Comparison is made to similar measurements for Pb+Pb collisions at s=2.76 TeV, to calculations for p+p collisions at s=200 GeV based on the pythia Monte Carlo generator and on a next-to-leading order perturbative QCD approach, and to theoretical calculations incorporating jet quenching. The recoil jet yield is suppressed in central relative to peripheral collisions, with the magnitude of the suppression corresponding to medium-induced charged energy transport out of the jet cone of 2.8±0.2(stat)±1.5(sys) GeV/c, for 10<pT,jetch<20 GeV/c and R=0.5. No medium-induced change in jet shape is observed for R<0.5. The azimuthal distribution of low-pT,jetch recoil jets may be enhanced at large azimuthal angles to the trigger axis, due to scattering off quasiparticles in the hot QCD medium. Measurement of this distribution gives a 90% statistical confidence upper limit to the yield enhancement at large deflection angles in central Au+Au collisions of 50±30(sys)% of the large-angle yield in p+p collisions predicted by pythia. © 2017 American Physical Society.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Counseling Gay Male Clients - Ginicola, M.M.; Sanabria, S.; Filmore, J.M.; DeVoll, M. (Affirmative Counseling With LGBTQI+ People, 2017)
The issues surrounding working with gay men in counseling are reviewed within this chapter. Prevalence, identity development, and relationships are explored. Gay males experience a significant amount of bias and discrimination; they are the largest single target of hate crimes within the LGBTQI+ population reported to the FBI every year. This risk is greater when intersectional minority identities are also present; more gay males are targets for hate crimes when they present as gender non-conforming, are men of color, as well as live in a rural area of the country. Authors explore physical and mental health issues related uniquely to gay male clients, as a result of the heightened minority stress. Affirmative counseling techniques for working with gay male clients is reviewed, with special attention given to developing counselor self-awareness, developmental counseling, and empowerment strategies. © 2017 by the American Counseling Association. All rights reserved.
Keywords: ALGBTIC competencies; Affirmative counseling; Counseling techniques; Gay male; Identity development; Intersectionality; LGBT; Mental health; Minority stress; Physical health; dept.csp

Developing Competence in Working With LGBTQI+ Communities: Awareness, Knowledge, Skills, and Action - Ginicola, M.M.; Smith, C.; Filmore, J.M. (Affirmative Counseling With LGBTQI+ People, 2017)
When providing counseling to a LGBTQI+ client, counselors must understand their ethical obligations, as well as attend to the multiple sets of counseling competencies. Using a multicultural and social justice counseling framework, counselors can situate their learning into very specific areas for LGBTQI+ clients: self-awareness of attitudes and beliefs, knowledge of issues faced by LGBTQI+ people, counseling skills, and action. Understanding common terminology, the history of the LGBTQI+ population, and modern issues faced by these communities can help lay the foundation for counselors working with LGBTQI+ persons. © 2017 by the American Counseling Association. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Affirmative counseling; LGBT; LGBTQI+ clients; Multicultural counseling; Social justice; dept.csp

Preface - Ginicola, M.M.; Smith, C.; Filmore, J.M. (Affirmative Counseling With LGBTQI+ People, 2017)
Keywords: dept.csp

Evidence-Based Practice for Counseling the LGBTQI+ Population - Goodrich, K.M.; Ginicola, M.M. (Affirmative Counseling With LGBTQI+ People, 2017)
Authors review the current state of Evidence Based Practice (EBP) for counseling LGBTQI+ clients. Although there is an identified need for more research in this area, the research supports a general affirmative approach. Strategies for building rapport, assessment, and interventions are reviewed. Specific attention is given to the importance of cultural accommodations and adaptations of EBPs that have not been tested directly on the LGBTQI+ population. Authors also explore how integrative and creative therapies may hold helpful strategies for work with these communities. © 2017 by the American Counseling Association. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Affirmative counseling; EBP; Empirically based practice; Evidence based practice; LGBT; dept.csp

Identity Development, Coming Out, and Family Adjustment - Goodrich, K.M.; Ginicola, M.M. (Affirmative Counseling With LGBTQI+ People, 2017)
LGBTQI+ youth face an identity struggle that is dissimilar to their heterosexual and/or cisgender peers. While family and community acceptance impacts the process of understanding one's own affectional orientation and/or gender identity, all LGBTQI+ persons typically engage in a process of understanding and eventually accepting their affectional and/or gender variance. The authors review LGBTQI+ Identity Formation Models, as well as the influence of intersectionality on identity. The benefits and challenges of coming out are explored, as counselors need to understand this delicate process and how to support clients who are considering coming out. Counselor work with families is also reviewed. © 2017 by the American Counseling Association. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Coming out; Family; Identity development; Intersectionality; LGBT; LGBT youth; dept.csp

The computer revolution and the problem of global ethics - Gorniak-Kocikowska, K. (Computer Ethics, 2017)
The author agrees with James Moor that computer technology, because it is 'logically malleable', is bringing about a genuine social revolution. Moor compares the computer reVolution to the 'industrial revolution' of the late 18th and the 19th centuries; but it is argued here that a better comparison is with the 'printing press revolution' that occurred two centuries before that. Just as the major ethical theories of Bentham and Kant were developed in response to the printing press revolution, so a new ethical theory is likely to emerge from computer ethics in response to the computer revolution. The newly emerging field of information ethics, therefore, is much more important than even its founders and advocates believe. © John Weckert 2007. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Computer ethics; Computer revolution; Global ethics; Industrial revolution; Printing revolution; Professional ethics; dept.phi

Counseling Bisexual/Pansexual/Polysexual Clients - Harper, A.J.; Ginicola, M.M. (Affirmative Counseling With LGBTQI+ People, 2017)
The issues surrounding working with clients who are predisposed to share affection with people from more than one gender. Terminology, as well as prevalence are discussed. Bisexual identity development and relationships are explored. Experiences of bias, including bisexual erasure, biphobia, and bisexual invisibility are discussed. Bisexuals may encounter monosexism and marginalization in both heterosexual and queer communities, among people who do not identify with non-binary identities. Intersectional identities can be subject to increased oppression. Authors explore how minority stress contributes to greater physical and mental health issues in bisexual clients. Although there has been little research on affirmative counseling techniques for bisexual clients, a general strength-based approach with feminist and social justice techniques is recommended. © 2017 by the American Counseling Association. All rights reserved.
Keywords: ALGBTIC competencies; Affirmative counseling; Bisexual; Identity development; Intersectionality; LGBT; Mental health; Minority stress; Pansexual; Physical health; Polysexual; dept.csp

Characterization and comparison of injuries caused by spontaneous versus organized dogfighting - Intarapanich, N.P.; Touroo, R.M.; Rozanski, E.A.; Reisman, R.W.; Intarapanich, P.P.; McCobb, E.C. (Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 2017)
OBJECTIVE To characterize and compare injuries found in dogs involved in spontaneously occurring dogfights with those of dogs used in illegal organized dogfighting. DESIGN Retrospective case-control study. ANIMALS 36 medium-sized dogs evaluated following spontaneous fights with a dog of the same sex and similar weight (medium dog–medium dog [MDMD] fights), 160 small dogs examined following spontaneous fights with a larger dog (big dog–little dog [BDLD] fights), and 62 dogs evaluated after being seized in connection with dogfighting law enforcement raids. PROCEDURES Demographic characteristics and injuries were recorded from medical records. Prevalence of soft tissue injuries in predetermined body surface zones, as well as dental or skeletal injuries, was determined for dogs grouped by involvement in BDLD, MDMD, and organized dogfights. The extent of injuries in each location was scored and compared among groups by 1-factor ANOVA. Patterns of injuries commonly incurred by each group were determined by use of prevalence data. RESULTS Mean extent of injury scores differed significantly among groups for all body surface zones except the eye and periorbital region. Mean scores for dental injuries and rib fractures also differed significantly among groups. Organized fighting dogs more commonly had multiple injuries, particularly of the thoracic limbs, dorsal and lateral aspects of the head and muzzle or oral mucosa, dorsal and lateral aspects of the neck, and ventral neck and thoracic region. CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE To the authors’ knowledge, this was the first study to compare injuries incurred during spontaneous and organized dogfighting. Establishing evidence-based patterns of injury will help clinicians identify dogs injured by organized dogfighting and aid in the prosecution of this crime. © 2017, American Veterinary Medical Association. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Animals; Article; Athletic Injuries; Behavior, Animal; Bites and Stings; Case-Control Studies; Dogs; Female; Injury Severity Score; Male; Retrospective Studies; Violence; age; animal; animal behavior; bite wound; bites and stings; body surface; case control study; comparative study; dept.mat; dog; dog bite; dog breed; female; fighting; injuries; injury; injury scale; male; nonhuman; pathophysiology; prevalence; retrospective study; rib fracture; scoring system; soft tissue injury; sport injury; tooth injury; veterinary; violence

Preface - Jain, F.; Broadbridge, C.; Tang, H. (International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems, 2017)
Keywords: dept.phy

Factors affecting the acquisition of energy-efficient durable goods - Kuusela, H.; Spence, M.T. (Greener Marketing: A Global Perspective on Greening Marketing Practice, 2017)
Keywords: dept.mat

Characterization and discrimination of basal cell carcinoma and normal human skin tissues using resonance Raman spectroscopy - Liu, C.-H.; Wu, B.; Boydston-White, S.; Beckman, H.; Sriramoju, V.; Sordillo, L.; Zhang, C.; Smith, J.; Zhang, L.; Shi, L.; Alfano, R.R. (OSA - The Optical Society, 2017)
Resonance Raman spectroscopy is used for rapid detection of skin BCC cancer. The cross-validated classification accuracy is achieved to be as high as 98% using nonnegative matrix factorization along with support vector machine statistical method. © OSA 2017.
Keywords: Basal cell carcinoma; Classification accuracy; Factorization; Human skin; Matrix algebra; Nonnegative matrix factorization; Raman spectroscopy; Rapid detection; Resonance Raman spectroscopy; dept.phy

Performing pediatric eye exams in primary care - Martin, E.F. (Nurse Practitioner, 2017)
Early vision care is critical for all children. If undetected, eye disorders such as amblyopia and strabismus may result in permanent vision loss. Vision exams should include a careful history and physical including fix and follow, red reflex, and cover/uncover testing. Photo screening and visual acuity exams should be administered whenever possible. © 2017 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Adolescent; Child; Child, Preschool; Eye Diseases; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Physical Examination; Primary Health Care; Vision Screening; adolescent; amblyopia; child; children; dept.nur; eye disease; eye exam; human; infant; newborn; nursing; pediatric patients; peer-reviewed; physical examination; preschool child; primary health care; strabismus; vision exam; vision test; well-child exam

Peer Emotional Support, Perceived Self-Efficacy, and Mental Health Morbidities Among Student-Veterans at a Public University - Mastrocola, S.S.; Flynn, D.P. (Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2017)
In the current U.S. military operational environment, it has been estimated that up to 700,000 troop years (cumulative years of service including multiple tours of duty) have been logged over the past decade since offensive campaigns began, following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks (Smith, Benight, & Cieslak, 2013). With this influx of eligible beneficiaries, the utilization of Veterans Administration (VA) education benefits more than doubled between 2001 and 2012 (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 2013). This study examined the relationship between peer emotional support and perceived self-efficacy and their implications for, or relationship to, mental health morbidities in a postsecondary educational setting. The study included 39 matriculated student-veterans at an accredited postsecondary institution in New England. Participants answered 32 questions related to three constructs: perceived self-efficacy, peer emotional support, and mental health morbidity. It was found that a moderate, but significant, positive correlation exists between perceived self-efficacy and peer emotional support in student-veterans. A moderate but significant negative correlation was uncovered between perceived self-efficacy and mental health morbidity. In addition, this study found that first-year students report significantly lower peer emotional support than seniors and graduate students. It was also found that those veterans with only one deployment reported significantly greater self-efficacy than those who had deployed twice. This study serves as a conduit into future research on the multifaceted issues facing student-veterans. Copyright © 2017, Association for Continuing Higher Education.
Keywords: PTSD; VA; deployment; dept.pch; mental health; peer emotional support; perceived self-efficacy; veterans

LGBTQI+ Persons in Adulthood - Moore-Ramirez, A.; Kautzman-East, M.; Ginicola, M.M. (Affirmative Counseling With LGBTQI+ People, 2017)
Due to their stigmatizing and marginalized experiences, as adults, LGBTQI+ people have variant developmental experiences for identity and intimacy. Their collegiate and occupational experiences may also be impacted by these negative experiences surrounding their LGBTQI+ identity. Experiences within the military are also covered within this chapter. The authors also discuss mid-life experiences for those within the LGBTQI+ population, including relationships, marriage, family planning and raising children. Issues facing the LGBTQI+ elderly population are also covered. © 2017 by the American Counseling Association. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Adulthood; Career; College; Development; Elderly; LGBT; dept.csp

Make America wait again - Petrovic, K. (Journal of International Women's Studies, 2017)
As a means of redirecting my own personal grief that stemmed from Hillary Rodham Clinton's loss to Donald J. Trump in the most recent presidential election, I penned the following prose during the early morning hours of November 9, 2016 as Trump gave his victory speech. Like many Americans who voted in the 2016 Presidential Election, I support the right to vote for one's choice of presidential candidate; however, I am not alone in my concerns about the current presidential administration. Not only are Trump's attempts to silence the media and the right to freedom of speech cause for alarm, but his ideas on healthcare, human rights and international political relationships arguably contribute to apprehension and unease for any number of people. No presidency is without its issues, but the verse penned here may speak to others as the Trump presidency continues to unfold. © 2017 Journal of International Women's Studies.
Keywords: Donald trump; Hillary rodham clinton; United States of America; Woman president; dept.nur; ⛔ No DOI found

The benefits of taekwondo training for undergraduate students: A phenomenological study - Petrovic, K. (Societies, 2017)
The purpose of this phenomenological research was to discover whether training in the Korean martial art of Taekwondo may benefit undergraduate (UG) students in handling stress. The goal of this innovative approach to learning and stress management was to allow UG students from across disciplines at a metropolitan university achieve an increased sense of emotional balance, inner peace, and overall well-being in body, mind, and spirit. No such study has been conducted before now. This research was multidisciplinary in its inclusion of insights from the tenets of higher education, human development and psychology, nursing and sociology, as well as the art, philosophy, and sport of Taekwondo. Ten UG student participants were sought for this research study, though a total of eight students agreed to participate. The study was open to all of the UG students at this university. Phenomenology was used to identify themes that emerged regarding student participant’s experience with stress. Consequently, new ideas were established about the ways in which UG students learned to use Taekwondo training to overcome stress, thereby improving upon and maintaining health and well-being in body, mind, and spirit. © 2017 by the author; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
Keywords: Higher education; Holistic health; Human development; Stress; Taekwondo; Undergraduate students; dept.nur

Sports Injury Prevention: The Role of the Strength and Conditioning Coach - Talpey, S.W.; Siesmaa, E.J. (Strength and Conditioning Journal, 2017)
Prevention of sports injuries is a priority for sport stakeholders across the spectrum of training and competition. Achieving this objective requires a multidisciplinary approach with strength and conditioning coaches playing an important role in the process. When considering sports injury prevention strategies, the role of the strength and conditioning coach can extend beyond observing exercise technique and prescribing training to develop a robust and resilient athlete. This paper provides strength and conditioning coaches with a broad overview of the sports injury prevention process and outlines examples of how strength and conditioning coaches can work to promote and improve athlete safety. © 2017 National Strength and Conditioning Association.
Keywords: Coaching; Sport safety; Sports medicine; dept.hms

Erratum to: Determination of critical cooling rates in metallic glass forming alloy libraries through laser spike annealing (Scientific Reports, (2017), 7, 1, (7155), 10.1038/s41598-017-07719-2) - Bordeenithikasem, P.; Liu, J.; Kube, S.A.; Li, Y.; Ma, T.; Scanley, B.E.; Broadbridge, C.C.; Vlassak, J.J.; Singer, J.P.; Schroers, J. (Scientific Reports, 2018)
A correction to this article has been published and is linked from the HTML and PDF versions of this paper. The error has not been fixed in the paper. © 2018, The Author(s).
Keywords: dept.phy; erratum; error

Learning character from characters - Boyles, N. (Educational Leadership, 2018)
Keywords: Challenged; Engaged; Language arts; Literacy: reading; School climate and culture; Social-emotional learning; Student behavior and discipline; dept.rdg; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Speckle imaging through a coherent fiber bundle - Davidson, J.W., Jr.; Horch, E.P.; Majewski, S.R. (SPIE, 2018)
Speckle imaging is a well known method to achieve diffraction-limited (DL) imaging from ground-based telescopes. The traditional observing method for speckle has been to observe a single, unresolved, source per telescope pointing over a relatively small field of view (FOV). The need for large DL surveys of targets with high sky density motivates a desire for simultaneous speckle imaging over large FOVs, however it is currently impractical to attain this by covering the entire focal plane with fast readout detectors. An alternative approach is to connect a relatively small number of detector pixels to multiple interesting targets spanning a large FOV through the use of optical fibers, a technique employed in spectroscopy for decades. However, for imaging we require the use of coherent fiber bundles (CFBs). We discuss various design considerations for coherent fiber speckle imaging with an eye toward a multiplexed system using numerous configurable CFBs, and we test its viability with a prototype instrument that uses a single CFB to transport speckle images from the telescope focal plane to a traditionally designed, fast readout speckle camera. Using this device on University of Virginia's Fan Mountain Observatory 40-inch telescope we have for the first time successfully demonstrated speckle imaging through a CFB, using both optical and NIR detectors. Results are presented of DL speckle imaging of well-known close (including subarcsecond) binary stars resolved with this fiber-fed speckle system and compared to both literature results and traditional speckle imaging taken with the same camera directly, with no intervening CFB. © 2018 SPIE.
Keywords: Binary star; Cameras; Coherent fiber bundles; Exo-planets; Fiber optics; Focusing; High-resolution imaging; Interferometry; Optical fibers; Speckle; Speckle imaging; Stars; Telescopes; binary stars; coherent fiber bundles; dept.phy; exo-planets; fiber optics; high resolution imaging

Justice for the Poor: A Study of Criminal Defence Work - Emmelman, D.S. (Justice for the Poor: A Study of Criminal Defence Work, 2018)
This title was first published in 2003. In this study, the author examines the behavior of one group of court-appointed defence attorneys and reaches the conclusion that although, in contrast to popular opinion, these attorneys maintain an adversarial stance against the prosecutors and behave in a legally ethical (or "procedurally just") manner, case outcomes are unduly shaped by social class and are therefore substantively unjust. This occurs because poor defendants typically lack cultural rhetoric that favourably influences those who construct and operate the criminal court system. Ironically, this indicates that, in many cases, the process of plea bargaining may be more substantively just than trials. A major contribution of the study is the detailed analysis of the manner by which oppression and substantive injustice occur in the adjudication of many cases and how the cultural practices of the powerful can frequently misconstrue, exclude and mute the voices of the poor. © Debra S. Emmelman 2003.
Keywords: dept.soc

A professional development training model for improving co-teaching performance - Faraclas, K.L. (International Journal of Special Education, 2018)
Co-teaching is a promising practice for educating students with disabilities in regular education classes. However, teachers often report being given co-teaching assignments without requisite training. Without adequate preparation, many teachers have difficulty conceptualizing coteaching as a model and working collaboratively as teaching partners, often creating a division of labor that relegates special educators to a "helper" role in the classroom. This experimental study utilized a randomized pretest-posttest control group design to study the effects of a professional development training package on the collaborative teaching performance of regular and special education teachers. Analysis of covariance showed that teachers who participated in professional development training on co-teaching had significantly higher posttest scores on a co-teaching performance assessment than those who did not participate in training. © 2019, International Journal of Special Education. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Co-teaching; Collaboration; Effective teaching; Inclusion; Professional development; Research; Special education; Students with disabilities; Teacher education; Teacher training; dept.sed; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Two-color speckle imaging of M-dwarfs with the Discovery Channel telescope - Hahne, F.W.; Horch, E.P.; Van Belle, G.T.; Clark, C.; Winters, J.G.; Henry, T.J. (SPIE, 2018)
Lowell Observatory and Southern Connecticut State University are currently involved in a joint project to determine the stellar multiplicity rates and the fundamental stellar parameters of M dwarf stars using the Differential Speckle Survey Instrument (DSSI) at Lowell's Discovery Channel Telescope (DCT). DSSI observes speckle patterns simultaneously at two separate wavelengths, allowing color measurements of the components of a binary system to be made in a single observation. This paper will describe the initial data gathering process, which began in 2016. Since then, over 1000 stars have been observed. We summarize the analysis on these objects so far, and discuss the relevance of these observations for existing and future space missions such as TESS, JWST, and Gaia. © 2018 SPIE.
Keywords: Color measurements; Discovery channel telescopes; Image reconstruction; Interferometry; Multiplicity rate; Optical properties; Speckle; Speckle imaging; Speckle patterns; Stars; Stellar parameters; Survey instruments; Telescopes; dept.phy; image reconstruction; stellar properties

Azimuthal anisotropy in Cu+Au collisions at s NN =200 GeV - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review C, 2018)
The azimuthal anisotropic flow of identified and unidentified charged particles has been systematically studied in Cu+Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV for harmonics n=1-4 in the pseudorapidity range |η|<1. The directed flow in Cu+Au collisions is compared with the rapidity-odd and, for the first time, the rapidity-even components of charged particle directed flow in Au+Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV. The slope of the directed flow pseudorapidity dependence in Cu+Au collisions is found to be similar to that in Au+Au collisions, with the intercept shifted toward positive pseudorapidity values, i.e., the Cu-going direction. The mean transverse momentum projected onto the spectator plane (px) in Cu+Au collision also exhibits approximately linear dependence on pseudorapidity with the intercept at about η≈-0.4 (shifted from zero in the Au-going direction), closer to the rapidity of the Cu+Au system center of mass. The observed dependencies find a natural explanation in a picture of the directed flow originating partly due the "tilted source" and partly due to the asymmetry in the initial density distribution. A charge dependence of (px) was also observed in Cu+Au collisions, consistent with an effect of the initial electric field created by charge difference of the spectator protons in two colliding nuclei. The rapidity-even component of directed flow in Au+Au collisions is close to that in Pb+Pb collisions at sNN=2.76 TeV, indicating a similar magnitude of dipolelike fluctuations in the initial-state density distribution. Higher harmonic flow in Cu+Au collisions exhibits similar trends to those observed in Au+Au and Pb+Pb collisions and is qualitatively reproduced by a viscous hydrodynamic model and a multiphase transport model. For all harmonics with n≥2 we observe an approximate scaling of vn with the number of constituent quarks; this scaling works as well in Cu+Au collisions as it does in Au+Au collisions. © 2018 American Physical Society.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Global polarization of Λ hyperons in Au + Au collisions at sNN =200 GeV - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review C, 2018)
Global polarization of Λ hyperons has been measured to be of the order of a few tenths of a percentage in Au+Au collisions at sNN = 200 GeV, with no significant difference between Λ and Λ. These new results reveal the collision energy dependence of the global polarization together with the results previously observed at sNN = 7.7-62.4 GeV and indicate noticeable vorticity of the medium created in noncentral heavy-ion collisions at the highest Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider collision energy. The signal is in rough quantitative agreement with the theoretical predictions from a hydrodynamic model and from a multi-phase transport model. The polarization is larger in more peripheral collisions, and depends weakly on the hyperon's transverse momentum and pseudorapidity ηH within |ηH|<1. An indication of the polarization dependence on the event-by-event charge asymmetry is observed at the 2σ level, suggesting a possible contribution to the polarization from the axial current induced by the initial magnetic field. © 2018 American Physical Society.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Improved measurement of the longitudinal spin transfer to Λ and Λ hyperons in polarized proton-proton collisions at s =200 GeV - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review D, 2018)
The longitudinal spin transfer DLL to Λ and Λ hyperons produced in high-energy polarized proton-proton collisions is expected to be sensitive to the helicity distribution functions of strange quarks and antiquarks of the proton, and to longitudinally polarized fragmentation functions. We report an improved measurement of DLL from data obtained at a center-of-mass energy of s=200 GeV with the STAR detector at RHIC. The data have an approximately twelve times larger figure of merit than prior results and cover |η|<1.2 in pseudorapidity with transverse momenta pT up to 6 GeV/c. In the forward scattering hemisphere at largest pT, the longitudinal spin transfer is found to be DLL=-0.036±0.048(stat)±0.013(sys) for Λ hyperons and DLL=0.032±0.043(stat)±0.013(sys) for Λ antihyperons. The dependences on η and pT are presented and compared with model evaluations. © 2018 authors. Published by the American Physical Society.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Low- pT e+e- Pair Production in Au +Au Collisions at sNN =200 GeV and U + U Collisions at sNN =193 GeV at STAR - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review Letters, 2018)
We report first measurements of e+e- pair production in the mass region 0.4<Mee<2.6 GeV/c2 at low transverse momentum (pT<0.15 GeV/c) in noncentral Au+Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV and U+U collisions at sNN=193 GeV. Significant enhancement factors, expressed as ratios of data over known hadronic contributions, are observed in the 40%-80% centrality of these collisions. The excess yields peak distinctly at low pT with a width (âpT2â ©) between 40 and 60 MeV/c. The absolute cross section of the excess depends weakly on centrality, while those from a theoretical model calculation incorporating an in-medium broadened ρ spectral function and radiation from a quark gluon plasma or hadronic cocktail contributions increase dramatically with an increasing number of participant nucleons. Model calculations of photon-photon interactions generated by the initial projectile and target nuclei describe the observed excess yields but fail to reproduce the pT2 distributions. © 2018 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the »https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/» Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3.
Keywords: Au+Au collisions; Colliding beam accelerators; Enhancement factor; Germanium compounds; Gold; Mass regions; Measurements of; Pair production; Photons; Transverse momenta; dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Transverse spin transfer to Λ and Λ hyperons in polarized proton-proton collisions at s =200 GeV - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review D, 2018)
The transverse spin transfer from polarized protons to Λ and Λ hyperons is expected to provide sensitivity to the transversity distribution of the nucleon and to the transversely polarized fragmentation functions. We report the first measurement of the transverse spin transfer to Λ and Λ along the polarization direction of the fragmenting quark, DTT, in transversely polarized proton-proton collisions at s=200 GeV with the STAR detector at RHIC. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 18 pb-1 and cover the pseudorapidity range |η|<1.2 and transverse momenta pT up to 8 GeV/c. The dependence on pT and η are presented. The DTT results are found to be comparable with a model prediction and are also consistent with zero within uncertainties. © 2018 authors. Published by the American Physical Society.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Introduction: Sustainability in the coastal zone - Heidkamp, C.P.; Morrissey, J. (Towards Coast. Resil. and Sustainability, 2018)
Coastal areas provide many co-benefits associated with their natural infrastructure, facilitating activities such as fishing, industry, tourism and transportation, for instance (Barragán & de Andrés, 2015; Sutton-Grier, Wowk & Bamford, 2015). Despite occupying a relatively small percentage of the Earth's land surface, the value of the ecosystems’ services of coastal areas is more than one-third of the total for the globe (Barbier et al., 2011; Barragán & de Andrés, 2015). However, while the goods and services provided by coastal ecosystems are essential for economic and social well-being (Mavrommati, Bithas & Panayiotidis, 2013), coastal ecosystems are increasingly at risk. As a direct result of intensive resource use and of concentrations of population, coastal ecosystems increasingly demonstrate direct and adverse impacts of human activities (Swaney et al., 2012). Increasing population growth, movement of populations towards the coast and the increase in coastal development have led to an increase in pressure on, and degradation of, coastal ecosystems (Duxbury & Dickinson, 2007). For large coastal cities, interactions between human activities and coastal systems are intensified due to population density effects and associated economic activities (Mavrommati et al., 2013). In many parts of the world, coastal natural habitats are declining and overexploited coastal resources are dwindling, with associated impacts on ecosystems and on the livelihoods dependent on these (Mee, 2012). © 2019 selection and editorial matter, C. Patrick Heidkamp and John Morrissey.
Keywords: Coastal development; Coastal ecosystems; Coastal resources; Coastal zones; Economic activities; Economics; Ecosystems; Increase in pressure; Population densities; Population growth; Population statistics; Social well-being; dept.egm

Speckle imaging of KOI binary stars with the WIYN telescope - Hess, N.M.; Thayer, P.R.; Horch, E.P.; Davidson, J.W., Jr.; Baptista, B.J.; Everett, M.E.; Howell, S.B. (SPIE, 2018)
Binary star systems where one of the stars is an exoplanet host appear to be more common than expected prior to the Kepler mission. The Kepler mission and subsequent ground-based follow-up work have revealed a number of Kepler Objects of Interest (KOIs) that have nearby stellar companions (within ∼1 arcsec). KOIs with stellar companions and at least one suspected exoplanet were selected for this work. Recent work on these stars has mainly focused on placing the companions on the H-R diagram and inferring if they are likely to be gravitationally bound based on whether their locations are consistent with a common isochrone. However, we have been observing these KOI double stars with speckle imaging over several years and are now in a position to assess whether these systems have components with a common proper motion, and can be seen as physically associated on that basis. We will give sample results of KOI double stars that are in fact common proper motion pairs. We compare our results with estimates of the multiplicity rate of exoplanet hosts from other methods and comment on the use of our data for constraining orbital parameters at this point, particularly the inclination angle. For transit observations, the inclination of the planetary orbit is already known, and the relationship between planetary and stellar orbital planes could have implications for star and planet formation. © 2018 SPIE.
Keywords: Binary star; Binary star system; Extrasolar planets; Host-stars; Inclination angles; Interferometry; Multiplicity rate; Orbital parameters; Orbits; Speckle; Speckle imaging; Stars; astrometry; binary stars; dept.phy; exoplanet host stars

Preface - Jain, F.; Broadbridge, C.; Gherasimova, M.; Tang, H. (International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems, 2018)
Keywords: dept.phy

Preface - Jain, F.; Broadbridge, C.; Tang, H.; Gherasimova, M. (International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems, 2018)
Keywords: dept.phy

Preface - Jain, F.C.; Broadbridge, C.; Tang, H.; Gherasimova, M. (High Performance Materials and Devices for High-Speed Electronic Systems, 2018)
Keywords: Materials; dept.phy

Examining changes to statewide NP practice in Connecticut - Kazer, M.W.; O'Sullivan, C.K.; Leonard, M. (Nurse Practitioner, 2018)
In 2014, Connecticut legislators eliminated the need for advanced practice registered nurses with 2,000 practice hours to obtain collaborative practice agreements with physicians. This study examined resulting practice changes, barriers, and suggestions for improved implementation of independent practice. Thirteen NPs participated in focus groups to share their experiences and recommendations. © 2018 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.
Keywords: APRNs; Advanced practice registered nurses; Collaborative practice agreements; Connecticut; Female; Focus Groups; Full-practice authority; Humans; Independent practice; Male; Middle Aged; Nurse Practitioners; Practice Patterns, Nurses'; article; dept.nur; female; human; information processing; legislation and jurisprudence; male; middle aged; nurse practitioner; nursing practice; peer-reviewed; psychology; registered nurse

Analyzing HTTP-Based Information Exfiltration of Malicious Android Applications - Kelkar, S.; Kraus, T.; Morgan, D.; Zhang, J.; Dai, R. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018)
Exfiltrating sensitive information from smartphones has become one of the most significant security threats. We have built a system to identify HTTP-based information exfiltration of malicious Android applications. In this paper, we discuss the method to track the propagation of sensitive information in Android applications using static taint analysis. We have studied the leaked information, destinations to which information is exfiltrated, and their correlations with types of sensitive information. The analysis results based on 578 malicious Android applications have revealed that a significant portion of these applications are interested in identity-related sensitive information. The vast majority of malicious applications leak multiple types of sensitive information. We have also identified servers associated with three country codes including CN, US, and SG are most active in collecting sensitive information. The analysis results have also demonstrated that a wide range of non-default ports are used by suspicious URLs. © 2018 IEEE.
Keywords: Android (operating system); Android Applications; Android applications; Big data; Data privacy; Exfiltration; HTTP; HTTP Based; Information Exfiltration; Malicious android applications; Security threats; Sensitive informations; dept.csc

Editors' Introduction - Lindert, J.; Marsoobian, A.T. (Multidiscipl. Perspect. on Genocide and Memory, 2018)
Keywords: dept.phi

Urticaria multiforme: A case study - Maynard, K. (Journal of the Dermatology Nurses' Association, 2018)
Urticaria multiforme is a rare, hypersensitivity reaction that occurs in infants and small children. Because of its rare occurrence, many providers are unable to accurately identify the rash and associated symptoms to unnecessary laboratory and histological testing or misdiagnosis. This article highlights the case of an 11-month-old female infant with urticaria multiforme. It explores the identification, diagnosis, and current treatment recommendations. © 2018 Dermatology Nurses' Association.
Keywords: Article; Hypersensitivity Reaction; Pediatric Rash; Urticaria Multiforme; amoxicillin; amoxicillin plus clavulanic acid; anamnesis; antibiotic therapy; case report; cefdinir; cetirizine; clinical article; dept.nur; diphenhydramine; face edema; female; foot edema; hand edema; human; infant; otitis media; papule; peer-reviewed; physical examination; priority journal; pruritus; rash; urticaria multiforme

Rupture - Mickens, A. (Equity and Excellence in Education, 2018)
Keywords: dept.art; peer-reviewed

Book Review: Joseph Dorinson: Kvetching and Shpritzing: Jewish Humor in American Popular Culture : view - Saltman, J.M. (Humor, 2018)
Keywords: book.review; dept.sed

Can we get there from here? Learning disabilities and future edueation poliey - Spear-Swerling, L. (Perspectives on Learning Disabilities: Biological, Cognitive, Contextual, 2018)
Contemporary educational policies for identifying learning disabilities (LD) have been widely criticized. I would like to begin this chapter with a story that illustrates some of the conundrums in these policies. © 1999 Taylor & Francis.
Keywords: dept.sed

Perspectives on learning disabilities: Biological, cognitive, contextual - Sternberg, R.J.; Spear-Swerling, L. (Perspectives on Learning Disabilities: Biological, Cognitive, Contextual, 2018)
This book discusses biological, cognitive, educational, sociological, and interactive to discuss the nature of learning disabilities, its origins, its diagnosis, and effective remediation. It emphasizes the development of ideas as the motor forces behind the economic policies. © 1999 Taylor & Francis.
Keywords: dept.sed

Preface - Sternberg, R.J.; Spear-Swerling, L. (Perspectives on Learning Disabilities: Biological, Cognitive, Contextual, 2018)
Keywords: dept.sed; ⛔ No DOI found

Nonperturbative strange-quark sea from lattice QCD, light-front holography, and meson-baryon fluctuation models - Sufian, R.S.; Liu, T.; De Téramond, G.F.; Dosch, H.G.; Brodsky, S.J.; Deur, A.; Islam, M.T.; Ma, B.-Q.; HLFHS Collaboration (Physical Review D, 2018)
We demonstrate that a nonzero strangeness contribution to the spacelike electromagnetic form factor of the nucleon is evidence for a strange-antistrange asymmetry in the nucleon's light-front wave function, thus implying different nonperturbative contributions to the strange and antistrange quark distribution functions. A recent lattice QCD calculation of the nucleon strange quark form factor predicts that the strange quark distribution is more centralized in coordinate space than the antistrange quark distribution, and thus the strange quark distribution is more spread out in light-front momentum space. We show that the lattice prediction implies that the difference between the strange and antistrange parton distribution functions, s(x)-s(x), is negative at small-x and positive at large-x. We also evaluate the strange quark form factor and s(x)-s(x) using a baryon-meson fluctuation model and a novel nonperturbative model based on light-front holographic QCD. This procedure leads to a Veneziano-like expression of the form factor, which depends exclusively on the twist of the hadron and the properties of the Regge trajectory of the vector meson which couples to the quark current in the hadron. The holographic structure of the model allows us to introduce unambiguously quark masses in the form factors and quark distributions preserving the hard scattering counting rule at large-Q2 and the inclusive counting rule at large-x. Quark masses modify the Regge intercept which governs the small-x behavior of quark distributions, therefore modifying their small-x singular behavior. Both nonperturbative approaches provide descriptions of the strange-antistrange asymmetry and intrinsic strangeness in the nucleon consistent with the lattice QCD result. © 2018 authors. Published by the American Physical Society.
Keywords: dept.csc; peer-reviewed

O-Regioselective Synthesis with the Silver Salt Method - Wang, Y.-G.; Barnes, E.C. (ACS Omega, 2018)
The excellent O-regioselectivity of the glycosidation of the ambident 2-O-substituted 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) via the silver salt method is computationally investigated at the MP2/6-311++G(2d,p):DZP//B3LYP/6-31+G(d):DZP level of theory. The reactions studied are those between 1-bromo-1-deoxy-2,3,4,6-tetra-O-acetyl-α-d-glucopyranose and the silver salts of 5-FU, 2-O-butyl-5-FU, and 2-O-benzyl-5-FU. Two pathways are considered as follows: (A) one where the silver and bromide ion do not interact, and (B) another where the silver and bromide ion interact in the transition states. Because the O-reaction barriers are much lower (by 13.3-22.2 kcal/mol) than N-reaction barriers in both pathways, the O-regioselectivity of the silver salt method can be satisfactorily explained by either path A or path B. Furthermore, path B, where Ag and Br interact consistently, has lower activation barriers than the corresponding path A (by 6.8-17.4 kcal/mol) in both N- and O-reactions. This computational result can be attributed to the following reasons: (1) the speeding-up effect in Koenigs-Knorr reactions due to the addition of silver carbonate into the reaction mixture; (2) the halogens being pulled away by silver ions from halides, as proposed by Kornblum and co-workers; and (3) the oxocarbenium ion involvement in the glycosidation reactions. The large energy difference between N- and O-transition states originates from the association between Ag and N-(O-) of the ambident unit (-N3-C4=O4) that shows significant covalent character so that the O-reaction transition states of the silver salt method benefit from favorable ionic interaction (C+···O-) and favorable covalent interaction (Ag···N). These two favorable interactions are in agreement with the hard and soft acids and bases principle; the former is a hard-hard interaction and the latter is a soft-soft interaction. © 2018 American Chemical Society.
Keywords: dept.che; peer-reviewed

Machine learning based analysis of human prostate cancer cell lines at different metastatic ability using native fluorescence spectroscopy with selective excitation wavelength - Xue, J.; Pu, Y.; Smith, J.; Gao, X.; Wu, B. (SPIE, 2018)
Native fluorescence spectra play important roles in cancer detection. It is widely acknowledged that the emission spectrum of a tissue is a superposition of spectra of various salient fluorophores. However, component quantification is essentially an ill-posed problem. To address this problem, the native fluorescence spectra of normal human very low (LNCap), moderately metastatic (DU-145), and advanced metastatic (PC-3) cell lines were studied by the selected wavelength of 300 nm to investigate the key fluorescent molecules such as tryptophan, collagen and NADH. The native fluorescence spectra of cancer cell lines at different risk levels were analyzed using various machine learning algorithms for feature detection and develop criteria to separate the three types of cells. Principal component analysis (PCA), nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF), and partial least squares fitting were used separately to reduce dimension, extract features and detect biomolecular alterations reflected in the spectra. The scores corresponding to the basis spectra were used for classification. A linear support vector machine (SVM) was used to classify the spectra of the cells with different metastatic ability. In detection of signals coming from tryptophan and NADH with observed data corrupted by noise and inference, a sufficient statistic can be obtained based on the basis spectra retrieved using nonnegative matrix factorization. This work shows changes of relative contents of tryptophan and NADH obtained from native fluorescence spectroscopy may present potential criteria for detecting cancer cell lines of different metastatic ability. © 2018 SPIE.
Keywords: Amino acids; Artificial intelligence; Cell culture; Cells; Diseases; Emission spectroscopy; Factorization; Feature extraction; Fluorescence; Fluorescence spectroscopy; Image retrieval; Learning algorithms; Least squares approximations; Matrix algebra; NADH; Native fluorescence; Native fluorescence (NFL) spectra; Nonnegative matrix factorization; Photonics; Principal component analysis; Spectrum analysis; Support vector machines; advanced metastatic (PC-3); dept.phy; low metastatic (LNCap); moderately metastatic (DU-145); nonnegative matrix factorization; principal component analysis; support vector machine (SVM) classifier; tryptophan

Postmodernism and the politics of “culture” - Katz, A. (Postmodernism and the Politics of "Culture", 2000)
Postmodernism and the Politics of ‘Culture’ is a comparative critical analysis of the political and intellectual ambitions of postmodernist critical theory and the academic discipline of cultural studies. Katz’s polemical aim is to show that cultural studies comes up short in both areas, because its practitioners focus on too-narrow issues-primarily, celebrating the folkways of micro-communities-while denying the very possibility of studying, understanding, and changing society in any comprehensive way and to any universally beneficial purpose. He argues that scholars and activists alike would do well to make use of the analytical tools of postmodernist critical theory, whose practitioners acknowledge the political significance of the differences between social groups, but do not consider them to be unbridgeable, and so seek to develop a set of practices for creating a truly inclusive, truly democratic public sphere. © 2000 Taylor & Francis. All rights reserved.
Keywords: dept.eng

Authorship identification on limited samplings - Boran, T.; Martinaj, M.; Hossain, M.S. (Computers and Security, 2020)
The internet has changed the way that many people access written works. Books and articles, of various lengths, in several formats can be bought and accessed online, both legally and illegally. Texts in even shorter form are originating through forums, SMS, blogs, emails, and social media. Automating the process of determining the authorship of posted texts would help combat online piracy of copyrighted text and plagiarism. In addition, authorship identification could help detect fraudulent email messages from dangerous sources and combat cyberattacks by identifying authentic sources. We experiment with several machine learning algorithms on a limited set of public domain literature to identify the most efficient method of authorship identification using the least amount of samples. Different sized data sets are created by 5 predefined rounds of random sampling of 1500 word blocks on a total of 28 text books from a corpus of 7 authors. Traditional methods of authorship identification, such as Naive Bayes, Artificial Neural Network, and Support Vector Machine are implemented in addition to using a modern Deep Learning Neural Network for classification. Thirteen stylometric features are extracted ranging from character based, word based, and syntactic features. Our model consistently showed that Support Vector Machine out performs other classification methods. © 2020
Keywords: Authorship identification; Classification methods; Dangerous sources; Deep learning; Electronic mail; Email messages; Learning algorithms; Learning neural networks; Learning systems; Neural networks; Phishing attacks; Plagiarism; Random sampling; Stylometric features; Support vector machines; Syntactic features; dept.csc; peer-reviewed

The optomechanical design of the Quad-camera Wavefront-sensing Six-channel Speckle Interferometer (QWSSI) - Clark, C.A.; Van Belle, G.T.; Horch, E.P.; Trilling, D.E.; Hartman, Z.D.; Collins, M.; Von Braun, K.; Gehring, J. (SPIE, 2020)
The Quad-camera Wavefront-sensing Six-channel Speckle Interferometer (QWSSI) is a new speckle imaging instrument available on the 4.3-m Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT). QWSSI is built to efficiently make use of collected photons and available detector area. The instrument images on a single Electron Multiplying CCD (EMCCD) at four wavelengths in the optical (577, 658, 808, and 880nm) with 40nm bandpasses. Longward of 1μm, two imaging wavelengths in the NIR are collected at 1150 and 1570nm on two InGaAs cameras with 50nm bandpasses. All remaining non-imaging visible light is then sent into a wavefront EMCCD. All cameras are operated synchronously via concurrent triggering from a timing module. With the simultaneous wavefront sensing, QWSSI characterizes atmospheric aberrations in the wavefront for each speckle frame. This results in additional data that can be utilized during post-processing, enabling advanced techniques such as Multi-Frame Blind Deconvolution. The design philosophy was optimized for an inexpensive, rapid build; virtually all parts were commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS), and custom parts were fabricated or 3D printed on-site. QWSSI's unique build and capabilities represent a new frontier in civilian high-resolution speckle imaging. © COPYRIGHT SPIE. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
Keywords: 3D printers; Aberrations; Additional datum; Atmospheric aberration; Cameras; Commercial off-the-shelf; Convolution; Design philosophy; Diffraction-limited imaging; Gallium alloys; Gallium compounds; Indium alloys; Instrument design; Interferometers; Interferometry; Light; Multi-frame blind deconvolution; Opto-mechanical design; Optomechanics; Semiconducting indium gallium arsenide; Semiconductor alloys; Speckle; Speckle imaging; Speckle interferometer; Stellar proper- ties; Wave-front sensing; Wavefront-sensing; Wavefronts; dept.phy

The emotional effects of literacy: Vietnamese women negotiating the shift to a market economy - Crawford, I.W. (Women and Lit.: Local and Glob. Inq. for a New Century, 2020)
Keywords: dept.aa

A user-centered design of a major and minor intron annotation database (MMIAD) - ElKharboutly, R.; Gorman, K.; Eccles, W.; Seesi, S.A. (IADIS, 2020)
Biologists and bioinformaticians heavily rely on data portals and repositories accessible through web application. While they mostly agree that the data is valuable, they find the interfaces hard to use and non-intuitive. In this paper we present a user-centered design of a database for classification and annotation for major and minor introns in various species. Our design is based on surveying and interviewing minor intron researchers and comparing the features of existing databases. In addition to its ease of use, the proposed database, Major and Minor Intron Annotation Database (MMIAD) offers high flexibility in querying and downloading subsets of information that interest the user in multiple commonly used file formats. © Proceedings of the 14th IADIS International Conference Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction 2020, IHCI 2020 and Proceedings of the 13th IADIS International Conference Game and Entertainment Technologies 2020, GET 2020 - Part of the 14th Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, MCCSIS 2020. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Bioinformaticians; Bioinformatics; Classification (of information); Computer games; Data portal; Database systems; Ease-of-use; Entertainment; File formats; High flexibility; Human computer interaction; Information systems; Information use; Introns; Query processing; User centered design; User-Centered Development; WEB application; dept.csc

Axes of support: Explicit to implicit and practical to epistemic - Fick, S.J.; Arias, A.M.; Vo, T.; Sherwood, C.-A.; Benedict-Chambers, A.; Lo, A.S. (International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS), 2020)
Drawing from analyses of teaching and learning, we posit a theoretical framework of axes, practical to epistemic and explicit to implicit, which frame four quadrants of support needed to know how and why to use the crosscutting concepts in sensemaking. This work has implications for the design of learning environments that use the crosscutting concepts in scientific sensemaking. © ISLS.
Keywords: Computer aided instruction; Four quadrant; Learning environments; Sensemaking; Teaching and learning; Technology transfer; Theoretical framework; dept.cur

The Effect of Higher Education on Youth Unemployment in European Regions During a Period of Economic Instability - Hermannsson, K.; Scandurra, R.; Graziano, M. (Journal of Education Finance, 2020)
This paper examines the impact of higher education on youth unemployment. Following the 2008 financial crisis, youth unemployment returned to the fore as a serious concern among policy makers in Europe. A crucial difference from previous recessions is that this time around supply of higher education opportunities was much higher than in the 1980s, and indeed higher education participation rates grew rapidly in many regions during this period. Drawing on previous work on youth unemployment and the economic impacts of education we identify a variety of channels through which higher education is likely to influence youth unemployment. We examine this issue using a macro-panel of European regions for the period 2002-2012. This decade was characterized by variation in economic activity and higher education rates. Our results suggest that expansion of higher education during this period had a mitigating effect on youth unemployment and not recognizing this external benefit of education risks underestimating the effects of macroeconomic shocks on young people. © 2020, University of Illinois Press. All rights reserved.
Keywords: dept.mgt; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Touch behavior based age estimation toward enhancing child safety - Hossain, M.S.; Haberfeld, C. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2020)
Adult content on the Internet may be accessed by children with only a few keystrokes. While separate child-safe accounts may be established, a better approach could be incorporating automatic age estimation capability into the browser. We envision a safer browsing experience by implementing child-safe browsers combined with Internet content rating similar to the film industry. Before such a browser is created it was necessary to test the age estimation module to see whether acceptable error rates are possible. We created an Android application for collecting biometric touch data, specifically tapping data. We arranged with an elementary school, a middle school, a high school, and a university and collected samples from 262 user sessions (ages 5 to 61). From the tapping data, feature vectors were constructed, which were used to train and test 14 regressors and classifiers. Results for regression show the best mean absolute errors of 3.451 and 3.027 years, respectively, for phones and tablets. Results for classification show the best accuracies of 73.63% and 82.28%, respectively, for phones and tablets. These results demonstrate that age estimation, and hence, a child-safe browser, is feasible, and is a worthwhile objective. © 2020 IEEE.
Keywords: Age estimation; Android applications; Behavior-based; Biometrics; Elementary schools; Entertainment industry; Feature vectors; Internet content; Mean absolute error; Telephone sets; User sessions; dept.csc

Continuous authentication using creative writing - Hossain, M.S.; Haberfeld, C.; Yuan, K.; Chen, J.; Rahman, K.A.; Hussain, I. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2020)
Traditional keyboards remain the input device of choice for typing-heavy environments. When attached to sensitive data, security is a major concern. To continuously authenticate users in these environments, use of keystroke dynamics can be a preferred choice. An integral part of user enrollment in a keystroke based continuous authentication system is the writing instruction (prompt) given to the users, to use as a basis for their improvised writing. There are many prompts possible, and they directly impact the performance of authentication systems. Hence, prompts should be designed carefully, and with purpose. In this paper, we bridge the gap between cognitive psychology and computer science and attempt to influence the mental state of the users to acquire a better authentication performance. We compare two kinds of writing prompts, creative and factual, for generating reference samples. In addition, we perform two robustness tests: robustness to dissimilar writing style (e.g., creative reference and factual test) and robustness to surface (e.g., hard surface reference and soft surface test). We collect data from thirty participants in four weekly sessions. We experiment with three features: key interval, key press, and key hold latencies. We use Relative (R) measure to generate the match score between the reference and test samples. Results show that creative writing consistently performs better than the factual one. Both writing prompts perform well with dissimilar style in testing, i.e., continuous authentication is found robust to writing style. Also, we find that the surface (hard or soft) used in testing need not match that used for the reference, thus continuous authentication is also surface robust. © 2020 IEEE.
Keywords: Authentication; Authentication systems; Cognitive psychology; Computer networks; Continuous authentication; Continuous authentications; Creative writing; Creative writings; Data privacy; Free text; Keystroke dynamics; Relative measure; Robustness tests; Sensitive datas; Surface testing; Well testing; Writing instruction; dept.csc

First records for spawning of caribbean acropora species in Colombian MPAs - Hudson, D.M.; Christie, B.L.; Gómez-Lemos, L.A.; Valcarcel, C.; Duque, D.; Arévalo, J.C.Z.; Rojas, J.; Reyes, O.; Marrugo, M.; Rosa, M.; Caicedo Torrado, I.A.; Tarazona, D.; et al. (Gulf and Caribbean Research, 2020)
Keywords: Acropora cervicornis; Acropora palmata; Coral restoration; Endangered coral; Sexual reproduction; dept.bio; peer-reviewed

Preface - Jain, F.; Broadbridge, C.; Gherasimova, M.; Tang, H. (International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems, 2020)
Keywords: dept.phy

Toward an imaging capability with the Southern Connecticut Stellar Interferometer - Klaucke, P.M.; Pellegrino, R.A.; Weiss, S.A.; Horch, E.P. (SPIE, 2020)
The Southern Connecticut Stellar Interferometer (SCSI) is an intensity interferometer that is designed to use correlated photon arrival times to determine the geometry of stars. Originally a low-cost, two-telescope instrument that used a 1-pixel single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) detector at the focal plane of each telescope to record photon events, it is now being upgraded to include a third telescope. This will allow for the simultaneous detection of the photon correlation at three baselines, and thus the ability to map out the two-dimensional geometry of the source much more efficiently than with the two-telescope arrangement. Recent papers in the literature suggest that it may be possible to derive phase information in the Fourier domain from such triple correlations for the brightest stars, potentially giving SCSI an imaging capability. Prior to investigating this possibility, steps must be taken to maximize the observing efficiency of the SCSI. We present here our latest efforts in achieving better pointing, tracking, and collimation with our telescopes, and we discuss our first modeling results of the three-telescope situation in order to understand under what conditions the upgraded SCSI could retrieve imaging information. © COPYRIGHT SPIE. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
Keywords: Avalanche diodes; Correlation interferometry; Hanbury Brown and Twiss Effect; Image reconstruction; Imaging capabilities; Imaging information; Interferometers; Interferometry; Observing efficiency; Optical intensity interferometry; Particle beams; Phase recovery; Photons; Simultaneous detection; Single photon avalanche diode; Stars; Stellar interferometers; Telescope instruments; Telescopes; Two-dimensional geometry; dept.phy

The social self and social death: Rethinking reparations for genocide and crimes against humanity - Marsoobian, A.T. (Pragmatism Today, 2020)
Based on a pragmatist inspired conception of the social self, the concept of reparations for the harms of genocide is reexamined. Both Raphael Lemkin, the person who invented the term “genocide,” and Claudia Card, a philosopher who examined the evil of genocide, hold similarly expansive notions of the harms inflicted by genocidal violence. Both argued that biological death is not necessarily central to genocide. For Lemkin cultural destruction of the targeted group is just as essential as the actual killing itself. Genocide is a group crime that aims to destroy the group and all the social aspects of group identity. Card similarly sees the target of genocidal violence as the social vitality of the self. This vitality is sustained by group relations. Reparations thus need to be reconceptualize in terms of the restoration of social life of the victim group and not solely on the basis of economic losses. Examples are given for the reparation of the social vitality of communities that have suffered genocide. © 2020 Central European Pragmatist Forum. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Claudia Card; Genocide; Raphael Lemkin; Reparations; Social death; Social self; dept.phi; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Smartwatch dynamics: A novel modality and solution to attacks on cyber-behavioral biometrics for continuous verification? - Rahman, K.A.; Alam, N.; Musarrat, J.; Madarapu, A.; Hossain, M.S. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2020)
The cyber-behavioral biometric modalities such as keystroke dynamics, mouse dynamics, and touch screen dynamics have come under attacks of different forms in recent days. To address these attacks and other security issues, we present a novel concept of using smartwatch sensor data to continuously verify users in cyberspace and show its potential to be a new standalone cyber-behavioral biometric modality. For our experiments, smartwatch gyroscope and accelerometer data collected from 49 subjects while typing in desktop computer have been considered. We implemented six pattern matching classifiers to compare each verification attempt against the user profile. Experimental results comprising of 282, 240 classification attempts show significantly high True Positive (TP) rates and extremely low False Positive (FP) rates with the highest achieved TP rate of 87.2% and lowest FP rate of 0.2%. With this level of accuracy and natural resiliency to attacks comes with physical biometric property as such in hand movement, we opine that smartwatch movement dynamics, besides being a new biometric trait, can be a solution to the security loopholes in existing cyber-behavioral biometric modalities for continuous verification. © 2020 IEEE.
Keywords: Accelerometer; Accelerometer data; Behavioral biometrics; Biometric traits; Biometrics; Computer networks; Continuous verification; Dynamics; False positive; Gyroscope; Keystroke dynamics; Mammals; Mouse dynamics; Pattern matching; Personal computers; Security issues; Smartwatch dynamics; Touch screens; True positive rates; Wearable computers; dept.csc

DeePEL: Deep learning architecture to recognize p-lncRNA and e-lncRNA promoters - Alam, T.; Islam, M.T.; Schmeier, S.; Househ, M.; Al-Thani, D.A. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019)
Promoter regions of long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) genes are crucial to understand their transcriptional regulatory pattern. LncRNA genes, being more cryptic than protein-coding genes in terms of their functionality and biogenesis divergence, are lacking in number of existing studies to elucidate the roles of their promoters compared to their counterparts. Based on the overlap between epigenetic marks and transcription start sites, human lncRNAs were categorized into two broad categories: enhancer-originated lncRNAs (e-lncRNAs) and promoter-originated lncRNAs (p-lncRNAs) and hence these two groups are subject to distinct transcriptional regulatory programs. To understand the difference in the transcriptional regulatory mechanisms that governs p- and e-lncRNAs, we studied the promoter sequences of these two groups of lncRNAs including distinct transcription factor (TF) proteins that favor p-over e-lncRNA (and vice versa). In addition, we developed a convolution neural network (CNN) based deep learning (DL) framework DeePEL (deep p-, e-lncRNA promoter recognizer), to classify the promoter of p- and e-lncRNAs. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to classify these two groups of lncRNA promoters, using sequence and TF information, based on DL framework. We report several sequence specific signatures in the promoter regions as well as several distinct TFs specific to groups of lncRNAs that will help in understanding the promoter-proximal transcriptional regulation of p-lncRNAs and e-lncRNAs. © 2019 IEEE.
Keywords: Bioinformatics; Classification (of information); Convolution neural network; Deep learning; FANTOM; Learning architectures; Promoter sequences; Protein-coding genes; Proteins; Regulatory mechanism; Regulatory patterns; Transcription; Transcription start site; Transcriptional regulation; convolution neural network; deep learning; dept.csc; long non-coding RNA; promoter

Deep learning based plant disease detection for smart agriculture - Ale, L.; Sheta, A.; Li, L.; Wang, Y.; Zhang, N. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019)
Deep learning is a promising approach for fine- grained disease severity classification for smart agriculture, as it avoids the labor-intensive feature engineering and segmentation-based threshold. In this work, we first propose a Densely Connected Convolutional Networks (DenseNet) based transfer learning method to detect the plant diseases, which expects to run on edge servers with augmented computing resources. Then, we propose a lightweight Deep Neural Networks (DNN) approach that can run on Internet of Things (IoT) devices with constrained resources. To reduce the size and computation cost of the model, we further simplify the DNN model and reduce the size of input sizes. The proposed models are trained with different image sizes to find the appropriate size of the input images. Experiment results are provided to evaluate the performance of the proposed models based on real- world dataset, which demonstrate the proposed models can accurately detect plant disease using low computational resources. © 2019 IEEE.
Keywords: Agriculture; Classification; Classification (of information); Computational resources; Computing resource; Constrained resources; Convolution; Convolutional Neural Network; Convolutional networks; Convolutional neural networks; Corp Disease; Deep learning; Deep neural networks; Detection; Digital Epidemiology; Error detection; Feature engineerings; Internet of Things (IOT); Internet of things; Learning systems; Plants Disease; Smart agricultures; Transfer learning; Transfer learning methods; dept.csc

Build, bond, or break: Sisterhood in the midst of individual transformations - Blackwell, L.M. (Black Women Speak. From Within: Essays and Exp. in High. Educ., 2019)
Keywords: dept.fye

Testate amoebae of peru: Filling the gap in the Neotropics - Bobrov, A.; Mazei, Y.; Buyvolova, A.; Yacher, L. (Revista de Biologia Tropical, 2019)
Testate amoebae diversity from 28 surface (0-3 cm depth) soil samples found near Cuzco (6 samples), in Machu Piсchu (17 samples), in Aguas Calientes (5 samples), and one bottom sediment sample from the Lake Titicaca near Puno were collected during March of 2016 were analyzed. The 144 testate amoebae species and infra-specific taxa belonging to 27 genera were identified. Nineteen amoebae have not been identified to species level and likely represent new taxa. Species richness varied from one to 54 taxa per sample. The highest diversity was found in rainforests followed by those in meadows and agave habitats. The only bottom sample from Lake Titicaca has yielded two hydrobiont species from the genus Difflugia. In the course of the study, several rare species with limited geographical distribution were observed, namely Centropyxis castaneus, C. compressa, C. deflandriana, C. latideflandriana, C. cf. ohridensis, C. cf. ovoides, C. cf. pannosus, C. stenodeflandriana, Cyclopyxis plana, C. profundistoma, Apodera vas, Argynnia retorta, A. spicata, Certesella certesi, Trachelcorythion pulchellum. Our study fills a geographical gap in the distribution of some flagship species with restricted geographic distribution, e.g. Apodera vas and Certesella certesi in Peru. The results illustrate the continuity of expansion species along the Pacific coast. © 2019 by Revista de Biologia Tropical. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Biodiversity; Biogeography; Mountain rainforest; Peru; Protista; dept.egm; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Screening for reading disability in university students with phonological processing and working memory tasks - Broggi, M., Jr.; Ready, R.E.; Moore, D.L. (Dyslexia, 2019)
Many students in higher education have undiagnosed reading disabilities (RDs), but there are few measures to screen for RD in this population. The aim of this study was to determine the ability of tasks that are sensitive to RDs—such as measures of phonemic awareness and working memory—to differentiate university students previously diagnosed with RDs from controls. Participants were university students with an RD (n = 26), a clinical control group diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (n = 24), and neurotypical controls (n = 44). Participants completed brief phonological processing and working memory tasks. The RD group scored significantly lower on all tasks than both control groups. The phonological processing tasks alone—without the working memory task—discriminated participants with RDs from controls with excellent sensitivity and specificity. A brief battery of phonemic tasks could be an effective screening instrument for persons with RDs on university campuses. © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Keywords: Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity; Awareness; Dyslexia; Female; Humans; Learning Disorders; Male; Memory, Short-Term; Phonetics; Reading; Students; Task Performance and Analysis; Universities; Young Adult; attention deficit disorder; awareness; dept.psy; dyslexia; female; human; learning disorder; male; peer-reviewed; phonetics; phonological processing; psychology; reading; reading disability; screening test; short term memory; student; task performance; university; university students; working memory; young adult

On Decomposing the Complete Symmetric Digraph into Orientations of K4-e - Bunge, R.C.; Darrow, B.D.; Dubczuk, T.M.; El-Zanati, S.I.; Hao, H.H.; Keller, G.L.; Newkirk, G.A.; Roberts, D.P. (Discussiones Mathematicae - Graph Theory, 2019)
Let D be any of the 10 digraphs obtained by orienting the edges of K4 - e. We establish necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a (K∗ n,D)-design for 8 of these digraphs. Partial results as well as some nonexistence results are established for the remaining 2 digraphs. © 2019 Ryan C. Bunge et al., published by Sciendo 2019.
Keywords: dept.mat; digraph decompositions; orientations of K4-e; peer-reviewed

Application of electrical capacitance tomography for imaging conductive materials in industrial processes - Deabes, W.; Sheta, A.; Bouazza, K.E.; Abdelrahman, M. (Journal of Sensors, 2019)
This paper presents highly robust, novel approaches to solving the forward and inverse problems of an Electrical Capacitance Tomography (ECT) system for imaging conductive materials. ECT is one of the standard tomography techniques for industrial imaging. An ECT technique is nonintrusive and rapid and requires a low burden cost. However, the ECT system still suffers from a soft-field problem which adversely affects the quality of the reconstructed images. Although many image reconstruction algorithms have been developed, still the generated images are inaccurate and poor. In this work, the Capacitance Artificial Neural Network (CANN) system is presented as a solver for the forward problem to calculate the estimated capacitance measurements. Moreover, the Metal Filled Fuzzy System (MFFS) is proposed as a solver for the inverse problem to construct the metal images. To assess the proposed approaches, we conducted extensive experiments on image metal distributions in the lost foam casting (LFC) process to light the reliability of the system and its efficiency. The experimental results showed that the system is sensible and superior. © 2019 Wael Deabes et al.
Keywords: Capacitance; Capacitance measurement; Conductive materials; Electric impedance tomography; Electrical Capacitance Tomography; Electrical capacitance tomography systems; Image reconstruction; Image reconstruction algorithm; Industrial processs; Inverse problems; Its efficiencies; Lost foam castings; Metal distributions; Neural networks; Reconstructed image; dept.csc; peer-reviewed

Characterization of iron doped zinc oxide nanoparticles using fluorescence spectroscopy - Fernando, M.; Singhal, R.; LeMaire, P.K.; Wu, B. (Optical Society of America (OSA), 2019)
ZnO and Fe-doped ZnO nanoparticles were analyzed in ethanol solution and dry powder form using fluorescence spectroscopy. Near-band-edge emission (NBE) and defect emission (DE) peaks were studied. A blue-shift was observed with the NBE emission peak. © OSA 2019. The Author(s).
Keywords: Blue shift; Defect emission; Dry powders; Emission peaks; Ethanol solutions; Fe-doped; Fluorescence; Fluorescence spectroscopy; II-VI semiconductors; Iron oxides; Iron-doped; Nanoparticles; Near band edge emissions; Oxide minerals; Zinc oxide; ZnO nanoparticles; dept.phy

To the editors - Forbes, R.P.; Mintz, S.; Stauffer, J. (American Historical Review, 2019)
Keywords: dept.his; ⛔ No DOI found

Thin Film Deposition and Carbon Nanotube Synthesis - Frey, J.; Schwendemann, T.C. (International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems, 2019)
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are a viable product for many different markets. One specific area of promise is the use of CNTs in supercapacitors. The CNT synthesis is a two-step process with the first being the formation of a thin film layer. The thin film substrate is created by means of the Thermal Evaporation Physical Vapor Deposition (TPVD) process. After the thin film substrate is deposited, the CNTs are grown in a Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) growth chamber. Analysis of the thin film substrate and CNTs is performed primarily using Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). The results show the inclusion of ultrapure water in the CVD process contributed to the success of CNT growth. Multiple prong CNT grow is seen for CVDs trails of silver thin film layer deposited on silicon substrates. The silver nanoparticle had a large diameter with an acute contact angle. The single prong growth indicates the iron nanoparticles formed an obtuse contact angle due to the amorphic surface of alumina substrate. The focus of this project is to explore and investigate different materials and conditions for optimal CNT synthesis in the hopes of creating a uniform forest of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes. © 2019 World Scientific Publishing Company.
Keywords: Alumina; Alumina substrates; Aluminum oxide; Carbon nanotube synthesis; Carbon nanotubes; Chemical vapor deposition; Chemical vapor depositions (CVD); Contact angle; Iron nanoparticles; Nanoparticles; Physical vapor deposition; Scanning electron microscopy; Silicon substrates; Silver nanoparticles; Substrates; Thermal evaporation; Thin film substrate; Thin films; Thin-film depositions; Vertically aligned carbon nanotube; dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Breast cancer diagnosis using fluorescence spectroscopy with dualwavelength excitation and machine learning - Gaoa, X.; Wu, B. (SPIE, 2019)
Intrinsic fluorescence spectra of fresh normal and cancerous human breast tissues were measured using two selective excitation wavelengths including 290nm and 340nm. Dual-wavelength excitation may reveal more molecular information than single-wavelength excitation. In the meantime, it is significantly faster than the acquisition of excitation-emission (EEM) matrix. Unsupervised machine learning algorithms principal component analysis (PCA) and non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) were used to reduce the dimensionality of the spectral data. The relative concentrations of the basis spectra retrieved by PCA and NMF were considered features of the samples and used to distinguish normal and malignant tissues. The performances of classification using support vector machine (SVM) based on PCA and NMF features were compared. The classification using spectral data with dual-wavelength excitation was compared with single-wavelength excitation. Classification based on NMF-retrieved components from spectral data with dual-wavelength excitation yielded the best performance. © 2019 SPIE.
Keywords: Biopsy; Breast Cancer; Breast cancer; Cancer diagnosis; Classification (of information); Diseases; Dual wavelength; Dual-wavelength excitation; Factorization; Fluorescence; Fluorescence spectroscopy; Histology; Learning algorithms; Machine learning; Matrix algebra; Nonnegative matrix factorization; Optical biopsies; Optical biopsy; Principal component analysis; Support vector machine; Support vector machines; Tissue; dept.phy

Centrality and transverse momentum dependence of D0 -meson production at mid-rapidity in Au + Au collisions at s NN =200 GeV - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review C, 2019)
We report a new measurement of D0-meson production at mid-rapidity (|y|<1) in Au + Au collisions at sNN=200GeV utilizing the heavy flavor tracker, a high resolution silicon detector at the STAR experiment. Invariant yields of D0 mesons with transverse momentum pT9GeV/c are reported in various centrality bins (0-10%, 10-20%, 20-40%, 40-60%, and 60-80%). Blast-wave thermal models are used to fit the D0-meson pT spectra to study D0 hadron kinetic freeze-out properties. The average radial flow velocity extracted from the fit is considerably smaller than that of light hadrons (π,K, and p), but comparable to that of hadrons containing multiple strange quarks (φ,Ξ-), indicating that D0 mesons kinetically decouple from the system earlier than light hadrons. The calculated D0 nuclear modification factors reaffirm that charm quarks suffer a large amount of energy loss in the medium, similar to those of light quarks for pT>4GeV/c in central 0-10% Au + Au collisions. At low pT, the nuclear modification factors show a characteristic structure qualitatively consistent with the expectation from model predictions that charm quarks gain sizable collective motion during the medium evolution. The improved measurements are expected to offer new constraints to model calculations and help gain further insights into the hot and dense medium created in these collisions. © 2019 American Physical Society.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Longitudinal double-spin asymmetry for inclusive jet and dijet production in pp collisions at s =510 GeV - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review D, 2019)
We report the first measurement of the inclusive jet and the dijet longitudinal double-spin asymmetries, ALL, at midrapidity in polarized pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy s=510 GeV. The inclusive jet ALL measurement is sensitive to the gluon helicity distribution down to a gluon momentum fraction of x≈0.015, while the dijet measurements, separated into four jet-pair topologies, provide constraints on the x dependence of the gluon polarization. Both results are consistent with previous measurements made at s=200 GeV in the overlapping kinematic region, x>0.05, and show good agreement with predictions from recent next-to-leading order global analyses. © 2019 authors. Published by the American Physical Society.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Measurement of inclusive J/ψ suppression in Au+Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV through the dimuon channel at STAR - STAR Collaboration (Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, 2019)
J/ψ suppression has long been considered a sensitive signature of the formation of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. In this letter, we present the first measurement of inclusive J/ψ production at mid-rapidity through the dimuon decay channel in Au+Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV with the STAR experiment. These measurements became possible after the installation of the Muon Telescope Detector was completed in 2014. The J/ψ yields are measured in a wide transverse momentum (pT) range of 0.15 GeV/c to 12 GeV/c from central to peripheral collisions. They extend the kinematic reach of previous measurements at RHIC with improved precision. In the 0-10% most central collisions, the J/ψ yield is suppressed by a factor of approximately 3 for pT>5 GeV/c relative to that in p+p collisions scaled by the number of binary nucleon-nucleon collisions. The J/ψ nuclear modification factor displays little dependence on pT in all centrality bins. Model calculations can qualitatively describe the data, providing further evidence for the color-screening effect experienced by J/ψ mesons in the QGP. © 2019 The Author(s)
Keywords: Color-screening; J/ψ suppression; Quark-gluon plasma; dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Measurement of the longitudinal spin asymmetries for weak boson production in proton-proton collisions at s =510 GeV - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review D, 2019)
We report new STAR measurements of the single-spin asymmetries AL for W+ and W- bosons produced in polarized proton-proton collisions at s=510 GeV as a function of the decay-positron and decay-electron pseudorapidity. The data were obtained in 2013 and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 250 pb-1. The results are combined with previous results obtained with 86 pb-1. A comparison with theoretical expectations based on polarized lepton-nucleon deep-inelastic scattering and prior polarized proton-proton data suggests a difference between the ū and d quark helicity distributions for 0.05<x<0.25. In addition, we report new results for the double-spin asymmetries ALL for W±, as well as AL for Z/γ∗ production and subsequent decay into electron-positron pairs. © 2019 authors. Published by the American Physical Society.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Measurements of the transverse-momentum-dependent cross sections of J /ψ production at mid-rapidity in proton+proton collisions at s =510 and 500 GeV with the STAR detector - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review D, 2019)
We present measurements of the differential cross sections of inclusive J/ψ meson production as a function of transverse momentum (pTJ/ψ) using the μ+μ- and e+e- decay channels in proton+proton collisions at center-of-mass energies of 510 and 500 GeV, respectively, recorded by the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. The measurement from the μ+μ- channel is for 0<pTJ/ψ<9 GeV/c and rapidity range |yJ/ψ|<0.4, and that from the e+e- channel is for 4<pTJ/ψ<20 GeV/c and |yJ/ψ|<1.0. The ψ(2S) to J/ψ ratio is also measured for 4<pTmeson<12 GeV/c through the e+e- decay channel. Model calculations, which incorporate different approaches toward the J/ψ production mechanism, are compared with experimental results and show reasonable agreement within uncertainties. © 2019 authors. Published by the American Physical Society.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

STAR Collaboration - STAR Collaboration (Nuclear Physics A, 2019)
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

First record of introduction of metacarcinus magister dana, 1852 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Cancridae) and range extension of Eriocheir sinensis Milne-Edwards, 1853 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Varunidae) in the long Island sound - Hudson, D.M.; Schaefer-Padgett, S.; Christie, B.L.; Harris, R. (BioInvasions Records, 2019)
Invasive crustacean species have been present in the Long Island Sound, northwestern Atlantic Ocean, for over two centuries. Three new records of introduction are recorded here from collections by local fishermen. Two records are for male Dungeness crabs, Metacarcinus magister (Dana, 1852), collected in the Western Long Island Sound (2017) and Cape Cod Bay (2018). The other record is that of a range extension documented by a single male Chinese mitten crab, Eriocheir sinensis (Milne-Edwards, 1853), found in New Haven Harbor, Connecticut. Both species could potentially harbor nonnative epibionts and endoparasites. Additionally, E. sinensis may be more likely to establish, as it has in numerous locations in the region and worldwide. © Hudson et al.
Keywords: Brachyura; Chinese mitten crab; Connecticut; Dungeness crab; Introduced species; Invasive species; Massachusetts; dept.bio; peer-reviewed

Preface - Jain, F.; Broadbridge, C.; Gherasimova, M.; Tang, H. (International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems, 2019)
Keywords: dept.phy

Preface - Jain, F.; Broadbridge, C.; Gherasimova, M.; Tang, H. (High Performance Logic and Circuits for High-Speed Electronic Systems, 2019)
Keywords: dept.phy

Intellectuals and “democratic elements”: A distrusted underclass - Lee, T.-L. (Hum. Rights in the People's Repub. of China, 2019)
As the targets of numerous campaigns, intellectuals have sustained mental torment and physical suffering on a large scale. Like the deprivation of human rights for biological and genetic reasons in other lands or other ages, Chinese intellectuals were destined to suffer abridgement of their human rights in the People’s Republic of China for political and ideological reasons. The term “intellectuals” refers to all those who have had a middle school/higher education and those with similar educational levels. Included in the ranks of intellectuals were members of the so-called democratic parties. These people, never large in number, were mostly well educated and well known in intellectual circles. The Cultural Revolution will be long remembered by intellectuals not only as a period of continued mental torment from the earlier days, but more particularly as a period of the most cruel physical abuses in human history. Intellectuals, deprived of their most precious human rights, continue to exist in mainland China as an underclass. © 1988 by Taylor & Francis. All rights reserved.
Keywords: dept.his

Red guards and political dissidents (I): Tools of violence and power struggle - Lee, T.-L. (Hum. Rights in the People's Repub. of China, 2019)
In 1966, Mao Zedong launched the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in a last attempt to remake China in his image. He believed that the country was led by a party infested from the top on down with “capitalist-roaders” who had betrayed the proletarian goals of true socialism by following the bourgeois line. Denied support in the power structure, Mao sought help from the outside, mobilizing millions of high school and college students as the “Red Guards” to strike down his enemy in an unprecedented campaign that left the nation nearly paralyzed. Red Guard organizations of confusing ideological persuasions soon proliferated throughout the country, and the whole movement quickly got out of control and degenerated into total chaos. That the Red Guards were used by Mao as a tool in the ideologically based power struggle within the party is not only the consensus of most observers but also has been freely admitted by many former Red Guards. © 1988 by Taylor & Francis. All rights reserved.
Keywords: dept.his

Red guards and political dissidents (II): Victims beyond a generation - Lee, T.-L. (Hum. Rights in the People's Repub. of China, 2019)
Many former Red Guards who through the Cultural Revolution were encouraged to participate in unrestrained violence, saw the seamy side of the regime as a result and were themselves eventually suppressed and reached the conclusion that the system was corrupt and had to be changed. Former Red Guards who turned political activists varied greatly in their often vaguely defined outlooks and their intensity of commitment and activity. Wei Jingsheng, China’s most celebrated Red Guard-turned dissident, related a similar experience in an unfinished autobiographical account written before his arrest and smuggled out of the country in 1980. Many former Red Guards understandably see a silver lining in the destructive rampage they committed during the height of the Cultural Revolution. The Red Guard movement has come full circle. The human rights tragedy of the movement is threefold. In the first stage, the Red Guards were Mao’s “little generals” trampling on the human rights of their victims. © 1988 by Taylor & Francis. All rights reserved.
Keywords: dept.his

Belarus at the United Nations: An analysis of Belarus's global policy alignment following the Maidan revolution in Ukraine - Lennon, O.; Becker, A. (Demokratizatsiya, 2019)
Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Belarus has been the slowest of the countries in Eastern Europe to shake off its authoritarian past and ties with Russia. However, the Maidan revolution in Ukraine and Russia's subsequent annexation of Crimea and occupation of parts of Eastern Ukraine in 2014 might have forced Belarus's president, Aleksander Lukashenka, to start questioning the terms of this relationship. Russia's violation of Ukraine's sovereignty created a much more real possibility-and fear-that, if push came to shove, Russia would not hesitate to act similarly toward Belarus. Belarus's political choices are hard to predict: will it remain a dictatorship in Russia's shadow or will it embrace democracy and the rule of law and seek closer integration with the West? This study examines Belarus's global policy alignment from 2007 to 2017 by analyzing its voting patterns on contested issues-those on which Russia's and the U.S.'s votes diverged-at the United Nations General Assembly. While Belarus seems to have been disassociating itself from Russia on some global issues, as evidenced by its voting record at the UN General Assembly, and its democracy level increased from 2014-2016, there is insufficient evidence to believe that Belarus might in fact be aligning more with the West and moving away from Russia. While Belarus's diplomatic pendulum has increasingly swung toward the US, it has inevitably bounced back to its "home base"-Russia. © 2019 Heldref Publications. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Belarus; Crimea; Russian Federation; Ukraine; United Nations; authoritarianism; democracy; dept.soc; diplomatic relations; international relations; peer-reviewed; policy approach; sovereignty; voting behavior; ⛔ No DOI found

Multiple Waypoint Mobile Robot Path Planning Using Neighborhood Search Genetic Algorithms - Maddi, D.R.; Sheta, A.; Mahdy, A.; Turabieh, H. (Association for Computing Machinery, 2019)
In this paper, we present a Neighborhood Search Genetic Algorithms (NSGAs) for mobile robot path planning. GAs have been used successfully in a variety of path planning problem because they can search the space of all possible paths and provide the optimal one. The convergence process of GAs might be lengthy compared to traditional search techniques that depend on local search methods. We propose a hybrid approach that allows GAs to combine both the advantages of GAs and local search algorithms. GAs will create a multiple waypoint path allowing a mobile robot to navigate through static obstacles and finding the optimal path in order to approach the target location without collision. The proposed NSGAs has been examined over four different path planning case studies with varying complexity. The performance of the enhanced GA has been compared with A-star algorithm (A∗) standard GA, particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm. The obtained results show that the proposed approach is able to get good results compared to other algorithms. © 2019 ACM.
Keywords: Air navigation; Convergence process; Gases; Genetic Algorithm; Genetic algorithms; Local search (optimization); Local search algorithm; Local search method; Mobile robots; Neighborhood Search; Neighborhood search; Particle swarm optimization (PSO); Particle swarm optimization algorithm; Path Planning; Path planning problems; Robot path-planning; Robot programming; Robotics; Search technique; dept.csc

Participant carelessness: Is it a substantial problem with survey data? - Marasi, S.; Wall, A.; Brewer, K. (Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods, 2019)
For decades, participant carelessness has been considered a problem in collecting data using surveys. Although participant carelessness cannot be disputed to exist, the impact it has on data quality or the level of influence or bias it produces in results is questionable. The main purpose of this paper is to determine whether participant carelessness is a substantial problem that significantly influences or biases the results of statistical analyses. This is accomplished by analyzing established management relationships through a comparison of the full, careful, and careless samples to determine the impact participant carelessness has on data results regarding correlations, t-tests, and simple linear regressions. Four detection approaches were used to identify careless participants individually, in pairs, and in three method combinations. The second purpose of this paper is to use the resampled individual reliability (RIR) approach to detect careless participants and compare it to the individual reliability approach to determine whether the two approaches are fundamentally similar. Data were collected using Mechanical Turk (N = 678). Based on the findings, participant carelessness does not appear to be a substantial problem or demonstrate levels of bias in the results in this study. There are two significant differences between the full and careful samples with the t-tests and the regression comparisons of fit statistics demonstrate the careful samples to have a weak improvement over the full sample however, none indicate bias. The findings also suggest that the individual reliability and the RIR approaches are not entirely fundamentally similar. © ACPIL.
Keywords: Careless responding; Insufficient effort responding; Participant carelessness; Random responding; dept.mgt; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

A comparative tale of two methods: how thematic and narrative analyses author the data story differently - McAllum, K.; Fox, S.; Simpson, M.; Unson, C. (Communication Research and Practice, 2019)
An interpretive qualitative approach insists on the plural and negotiated nature of the meanings that humans attach to their social realities. Thus, the qualitative researcher must navigate multiple and sometimes conflicting commitments to method, data, oneself, participants, and one’s reader. This can lead us to obscure the messiness of data analysis in final research reports and to downplay how methodological choices can make our participants ‘say things.’ In this article, we compare two interpretive methods, thematic and narrative analysis, including their shared epistemological and ontological premises, and offer a pedagogical demonstration of their application to the same data excerpt. However, our broader goal is to use the divergent results to critically examine how our choice of analytic method in interpretive research influences how we (researcher + method) ‘author’ data stories. Ultimately, researcher reflexivity must go beyond acknowledging how one’s position may influence the data analysis or the participant. © 2019, © 2019 Australian and New Zealand Communication Association.
Keywords: Interpretive research; dept.pch; narrative analysis; peer-reviewed; qualitative research; researcher commitments; thematic analysis

Medical Data Classification Using Binary Brain Storm Optimization Algorithm - Ogwo, O.; Turabieh, H.; Sheta, A.; King, S. (Association for Computing Machinery, 2019)
With the growing access to technology in the medical domain, an increased volume of medical data is recorded. The size and complexity of these data make the process of analysis of meaningful discoveries of beneficial patterns more challenging. This problem has attracted numerous researchers around the world. Statistical methods have been employed to handle medical data for diagnosis purposes. Unfortunately, these methods were less capable of dealing with these massive and complex datasets. To solve this problem, we suggest a process to classify medical data which includes feature selection and classification using a number of supervised learning techniques. Binary Brain Storm Optimization (BBSO) is used for feature selection, which is a population search approach that simulates the process of electing the best idea (solution), among others. We simulated six different classifiers: Naive-Bayes, K-Nearest Neighbor, Support Vector Machine, Linear Discriminant Analysis, Decision Tree and Random Forest. Five datasets adopted from the UCI Machine Learning Repository, (Breast Cancer, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Chronic Kidney, and SPECT), are employed as a benchmark test data. The performance of BBSO is evaluated using accuracy on the datasets using the various classifiers. Experimental results show that the proposed approach improves the classification performance for better medical diagnosis. © 2019 ACM.
Keywords: Benchmarking; Classification performance; Complex datasets; Computer aided diagnosis; Decision trees; Discriminant analysis; Diseases; Feature extraction; Feature selection and classification; K-nearest neighbors; Learning systems; Linear discriminant analysis; Medical domains; Nearest neighbor search; Optimization algorithms; Robotics; Storms; Support vector machines; UCI machine learning repository; classification; dept.csc; feature selection; medical diagnosis

Web user authentication using chosen word keystroke dynamics - Rahman, K.A.; Neupane, D.; Zaiter, A.; Hossain, M.S. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019)
Keystroke dynamics has been used as a form of one-time user authentication and continuous verification especially when it comes to securing the cyberspace. In this paper, we present the idea of using keystroke dynamics as a form of second layer authentication in web applications. We showed that this method can authenticate a user with high accuracy and can be used as an alternate to CAPTCHA tests, security questions and image selections that are being used today. We have developed a working web-based platform in a browser environment that enforces the proposed second-layer security. We performed penetration test experiments by launching a total of 598,500 impostor and genuine authentication attempts and found the Equal Error Rate (EER) as 10.5%. © 2019 IEEE.
Keywords: Authentication; CAPTCHA; CAPTCHAs; Cyber security; Cybersecurity; Dynamics; Electronic mail filters; Equal error rate; Keystroke dynamics; Machine learning; Network security; Penetration test; User authentication; WEB application; Web based platform; Websites; dept.csc

Sleep and social behavior in organizations: Implications for job performance - Rogers, A.P.; Budnick, C.J.; Barber, L.K. (Sleep, Personality, and Soc. Behavior, 2019)
Keywords: dept.ant

Comparison of Support Vector Machine and Gradient Boosting Regression Tree for Predicting Spatially Explicit Life Cycle Global Warming and Eutrophication Impacts: A case study in corn production - Romeiko, X.X.; Guo, Z.; Pang, Y. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019)
Agriculture ranks one of the top contributors to global warming and nutrient pollution. Quantifying life cycle environmental impacts from agricultural production serves as scientific foundation for forming effective remediation strategies. However, the methods capable of accurately and efficiently calculating spatially explicit life cycle global warming and eutrophication impacts at a fine spatial scale over a geographic region are lacking. The objective of this study was to compare two regression models for estimating spatially explicit life cycle global warming and eutrophication, with corn production in the Midwest region as a demonstrating example. The results indicated that the gradient boosting regression tree model built with monthly weather features yielded higher predictive accuracy for life cycle global warming impact and life cycle EU. Moreover, predictive accuracy was improved at the cost of simulation time. The gradient boosting regression tree model required longer training time. Additionally, all machine learning models were million times faster than the traditional process-based model and were suitable for use in computationally-intensive applications like optimization and predication. © 2019 IEEE.
Keywords: Agricultural productions; Agriculture; Big data; Environmental impact; Eutrophication; Forestry; Global warming; Learning systems; Life Cycle Assessment (LCA); Life cycle; Life cycle assessment; Life-cycle environmental impact; Machine learning; Machine learning models; Process-based modeling; Remediation strategies; Scientific foundations; Spatial assessment; Support vector machines; Support vector regression; dept.mat

Prime (and crime) time: Boxing in the 1950s - Rondinone, T. (The Camb. Companion to Box., 2019)
Keywords: dept.his

Implementing post-discharge 48-hour scripted call for patients with heart failure: An evidence-based practice quality improvement project - Ruggiri, J.C.; Milner, K.A.; Buonocore, D. (MEDSURG Nursing, 2019)
Post-discharge call programs are a simple and effective way to identify and intervene for patient care issues that may occur after discharge. Nurses play a key role in these programs and can lead quality improvement projects on their units to improve patient care during the transition from hospital to home. © 2019, Anthony J. Jannetti Publications, Inc.. All rights reserved.
Keywords: dept.nur; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Developing a financial literacy program with survivors of intimate partner violence: The voices of survivors - Stylianou, A.M.; Counselman-Carpenter, E.; Redcay, A. (Social Work (United States), 2019)
As the social work field increasingly recognizes economic abuse within intimate partner relationships, the field has developed financial empowerment programs to empower survivors for their financial future. Although research has demonstrated the effectiveness of financial literacy programs, there are barriers to their implementation in the field. Studies have explored, from the perspective of advocates, best practices in incorporating financial literacy into services; however, no studies have explored implementation approaches from the perspective of survivors. This study explores, from the perspective of 34 survivors, approaches for implementing financial literacy programming. Participants described their understanding of financial empowerment as being in charge of finances, having financial power, and not having to endure the struggle. To counter financial disempowerment, participants identified the need for financial confidence, knowledge, and tools. Participants shared their strategies for saving money, though many participants reported barriers to using banks as savings tools. Almost all participants stressed the importance of financial literacy services for survivors, especially around banking, credit, and debt. Finally, participants shared recommendations for job readiness and training programming. Findings have implications for domestic violence and broader social work organizations implementing financial empowerment services. Social workers can support financial empowerment efforts through program development and research efforts. © 2019 National Association of Social Workers.
Keywords: Adult; Crisis and trauma; Female; Financing, Personal; Humans; Intimate Partner Violence; Literacy; Male; Power, Psychological; Program Evaluation; Qualitative methods; Service delivery; Social Work; Social work practice; Survivors; adult; dept.swk; female; financial management; human; literacy; male; partner violence; peer-reviewed; procedures; program evaluation; psychology; social work; survivor

Cascaded layered recurrent neural network for indoor localization in wireless sensor networks - Turabieh, H.; Sheta, A. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019)
The growth in using various smart wireless devices in the last few decades has given rise to indoor localization service (ILS). Indoor localization is defined as the process of locating a user location in an indoor environment. Indoor device localization has been widely studied due to its popular applications in public settlement planning, health care zones, disaster management, the implementation of location-based services (LBS) and the Internet of Things (IoT). The ILS problem can be formulated as a learning problem utilizing Wi-Fi technology. The measured Wi-Fi signal strength can be used as an indication of the distribution of users in a various indoor location. Developing a classification model with high accuracy can be achieved using a machine learning approach. Artificial Neural Network is one of the most successful trends in machine learning. In this article, we provide our initial idea of using Cascaded Layered Recurrent Neural Network (L-RNN) for the classification of user localization in an indoor environment. Several neural network models were trained, with the best performance attainment is reported. The experimental results marked that the presented L-RNN model is highly accurate for indoor localization and can be utilized for many applications. © 2019 IEEE.
Keywords: Classification models; Disaster management; Disaster prevention; Disasters; Forecasting; Indoor Environment; Indoor environment; Indoor localization; Indoor positioning systems; Internet of thing (IOT); Internet of things; Layered Recurrent Neural Network; Location; Location based services; Machine learning; Machine learning approaches; Multilayer neural networks; Network layers; Neural network model; Prediction; Recurrent neural networks; Telecommunication services; User Localization; User localization; Wireless local area networks (WLAN); Wireless sensor networks; dept.csc

The Reactivity of Ambident Nucleophiles: Marcus Theory or Hard and Soft Acids and Bases Principle? - Wang, Y.-G.; Barnes, E.C.; Kaya, S.; Sharma, V. (Journal of Computational Chemistry, 2019)
The model reactions CH3X + (NH—CH=O)M ➔ CH3—NH—NH═O or NH═CH—O—CH3 + MX (M = none, Li, Na, K, Ag, Cu; X = F, Cl, Br) are investigated to demonstrate the feasibility of Marcus theory and the hard and soft acids and bases (HSAB) principle in predicting the reactivity of ambident nucleophiles. The delocalization indices (DI) are defined in the framework of the quantum theory of atoms in molecules (QT-AIM), and are used as the scale of softness in the HSAB principle. To react with the ambident nucleophile NH═CH—O−, the carbocation H3C+ from CH3X (F, Cl, Br) is actually a borderline acid according to the DI values of the forming C…N and C…O bonds in the transition states (between 0.25 and 0.49), while the counter ions are divided into three groups according to the DI values of weak interactions involving M (M…X, M…N, and M…O): group I (M = none, and Me4N) basically show zero DI values; group II species (M = Li, Na, and K) have noticeable DI values but the magnitudes are usually less than 0.15; and group III species (M = Ag and Cu(I)) have significant DI values (0.30–0.61). On a relative basis, H3C+ is a soft acid with respect to group I and group II counter ions, and a hard acid with respect to group III counter ions. Therefore, N-regioselectivity is found in the presence of group I and group II counter ions (M = Me4N, Li, Na, K), while O-regioselectivity is observed in the presence of the group III counter ions (M = Ag, and Cu(I)). The hardness of atoms, groups, and molecules is also calculated with new functions that depend on ionization potential (I) and electron affinity (A) and use the atomic charges obtained from localization indices (LI), so that the regioselectivity is explained by the atomic hardness of reactive nitrogen atoms in the transition states according to the maximum hardness principle (MHP). The exact Marcus equation is derived from the simple harmonic potential energy parabola, so that the concepts of activation free energy, intrinsic activation barrier, and reaction energy are completely connected. The required intrinsic activation barriers can be either estimated from ab initio calculations on reactant, transition state, and product of the model reactions, or calculated from identity reactions. The counter ions stabilize the reactant through bridging N- and O-site of reactant of identity reactions, so that the intrinsic barriers for the salts are higher than those for free ambident anions, which is explained by the increased reorganization parameter Δr. The proper application of Marcus theory should quantitatively consider all three terms of Marcus equation, and reliably represent the results with potential energy parabolas for reactants and all products. For the model reactions, both Marcus theory and HSAB principle/MHP principle predict the N-regioselectivity when M = none, Me4N, Li, Na, K, and the O-regioselectivity when M = Ag and Cu(I). © 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. © 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Keywords: Activation energy; Atoms; Calculations; Copper compounds; Delocalization indexes; Electron affinity; Free energy; Hardness; Ionization potential; Ions; Lithium compounds; Localization index; Marcus theory; Maximum hardness principle; Molecules; Nucleophiles; Potential energy; Quantum theory; Regioselectivity; Silver; Sodium compounds; ambident reactivity; atom and molecule hardness; conceptual DFT; delocalization index; dept.chem; electron affinity; hard and soft acids and bases (HSAB) principle; ionization potential; localization index; maximum hardness principle (MHP); peer-reviewed

Three Red Suns in the Sky: A Transiting, Terrestrial Planet in a Triple M-dwarf System at 6.9 pc - Winters, J.G.; Medina, A.A.; Irwin, J.M.; Charbonneau, D.; Astudillo-Defru, N.; Horch, E.P.; Eastman, J.D.; Vrijmoet, E.H.; Henry, T.J.; Diamond-Lowe, H.; Winston, E.; Barclay, T.; et al. (Astronomical Journal, 2019)
We present the discovery from Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) data of LTT 1445Ab. At a distance of 6.9 pc, it is the second nearest transiting exoplanet system found to date, and the closest one known for which the primary is an M dwarf. The host stellar system consists of three mid-to-late M dwarfs in a hierarchical configuration, which are blended in one TESS pixel. We use MEarth data and results from the Science Processing Operations Center data validation report to determine that the planet transits the primary star in the system. The planet has a radius of, an orbital period of days, and an equilibrium temperature of K. With radial velocities from the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, we place a 3σ upper mass limit of 8.4 on the planet. LTT 1445Ab provides one of the best opportunities to date for the spectroscopic study of the atmosphere of a terrestrial world. We also present a detailed characterization of the host stellar system. We use high-resolution spectroscopy and imaging to rule out the presence of any other close stellar or brown dwarf companions. Nineteen years of photometric monitoring of A and BC indicate a moderate amount of variability, in agreement with that observed in the TESS light-curve data. We derive a preliminary astrometric orbit for the BC pair that reveals an edge-on and eccentric configuration. The presence of a transiting planet in this system hints that the entire system may be co-planar, implying that the system may have formed from the early fragmentation of an individual protostellar core. © 2019. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved..
Keywords: binaries: close; dept.phy; peer-reviewed; planets and satellites: detection; stars: individual (LTT 1445); stars: low-mass

Human rights in the people’s republic of China - Wu, Y.-L.; Michael, F.; Copper, J.F.; Lee, T.-L.; Chang, M.H.; Gregor, A.J. (Human Rights in the People's Republic of China, 2019)
This book examines the effects that political institutions, the legal system, and economic policies have had on the human rights record in the PRC since 1949. The authors first address the problems of assessing political liberties in a nation that emphasizes economic over civil rights and that has traditionally valued collective rights over individ. © 1988 by Taylor & Francis. All rights reserved.
Keywords: dept.his

Human brain glioma grading using label free laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy - Zhou, Y.; Liu, C.-H.; Zhu, K.; Wu, B.; Yu, X.; Cheng, G.; Zhao, M.; Zong, R.; Zhang, C.; Chen, H.; Li, S.; Liang, Q.; et al. (SPIE, 2019)
Laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) technique was used to generate spectral signatures of endogenous fluorophores relevant to the tissue molecular composition changes in human brain glioma tumors. The goal is to study the changes of fluorescence emission spectra from endogenous fluorophores in human brain glioma of different grades, and to find new biomarkers for prognostic optical molecular pathological diagnosis. Two hundred and thirty-seven (237) native fluorescence spectra from 61 subjects were measured using LabRAM HR Evolution micro photoluminescence (PL) system for four grades of glioma tumors in ex-vivo. The differences of four grades of glioma tumors were identified by the characteristic fluorophores fingerprints under the excitation laser wavelength at UV 325nm. To our best knowledge, this is the first report for human brain study using this technique. The fluorescence peaks of biomarkers with major contribution were found, including tryptophan, collagen, elastin, reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH), flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) and phospholipids that play important roles in the cellular energy metabolism and glycolysis pathway. The ratios of peak intensities and the peak positions in fluorescence spectra of may be used to diagnose human brain diseases or to guide biopsy during surgical resection. © 2019 SPIE.
Keywords: Amino acids; Biomarkers; Biopsy; Brain; Cellular energy; Cellular energy metabolism; Emission spectroscopy; FAD; Fluorescence; Fluorescence microscopy; Fluorescence spectroscopy; Fluorophores; Grading; Human brain; Human brain glioma tissues; Laser excitation; Laser induced fluorescence spectroscopy; Laser optics; Laser produced plasmas; Metabolism; NADH; Native fluorescence; Native laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy; Native-fluorescence; Nucleotides; Optical molecular pathology; Pathology; Phospholipids; Tryptophan; Tumors; dept.phy

A portable visible resonance Raman analyzer with a handheld optical fiber probe for in vivo diagnosis of brain glioblastoma multiforme in an animal model - Zhou, Y.; Zhang, S.; Wu, B.; Yu, X.; Cheng, G.; Zhu, K.; Zhao, M.; Zheng, J.; Zhang, M.; Liang, Q.; Liu, C.-H.; Alfano, R.R. (Optical Society of America (OSA), 2019)
A VRR-LRR analyzer with handheld fiber‐optic probe is reported for the first time for diagnosis of brain GBM in vivo. The sensitivity for identification is 80% compared with histopathology examination. © OSA 2019. The Author(s).
Keywords: Animal model; Fiberoptic probes; Glioblastoma multiforme; Handhelds; In-vivo; Optical fiber probe; Optical fibers; Probes; Resonance Raman; dept.phy

The development of a program of science education in thailand - Heiss, E.D. (Science Education, 1959)
Keywords: dept.nhstc

Science in the training schools - Kuslan, L.I. (Science Education, 1959)
Keywords: dept.nhstc

The Cold Summer of 1816 - Hoyt, J.B. (Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 1958)
Keywords: Connecticut; Farm life; History; History; Cold waves (Meteorology); History; Summer; History; Weather; dept.egm; dept.nhstc; faculty_collection

Letter to the editor [1] - Kuslan, L.I. (Journal of Chemical Education, 1958)
Keywords: dept.nhstc

A comparison of certain aspects of student leadership and non-leadership: Significant differences on four psychometric tests - Hartshorn, E. (Journal of Educational Research, 1956)
Keywords: dept.nhstc

Science in the 19th Century Normal School (Journal Article) - Kuslan, L.I. (Science Education, 1956)
Keywords: dept.nhstc

The ability to recognize and apply scientific principles in new situations: An experimental investigation in high school biology and chemistry - Owens, J.H. (Science Education, 1951)
Keywords: dept.nhstc

The organization of a veterans' physical education program - Bucher, C.A. (Research Quarterly of the American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation, 1947)
Keywords: Physical Education and Training; Veterans; dept.nhstc; physical education; veteran

A Study of Double Grades in New Haven City Schools - Knight, E.E. (Journal of Experimental Education, 1938)
Keywords: dept.nhstc

A History of Lace; The Great Chain of Being - Sonnenschein, Dana (Feminist Studies, 2020)
Keywords: dept.eng; peer-reviewed

Evaluating and improving accessibility of web applications: Zulip chat case study - Barde, R.; Raouf, A.A. (2021)
Web applications are built to be accessible to everyone. Unfortunately, many web applications are inaccessible to people with special needs or disabilities. In this work, we show a methodology used to make web applications more accessible to a diverse group of people. The process includes two phases: evaluation and improvement. In the first phase, the Web Accessibility Barrier (WAB) score metric together with the Accessibility Failure Rate (AFR) metric are used to evaluate web applications. In the second phase changes suggested by accessibility checker tool are implemented in the software to enhance the metrics values and reach the target level of accessibility. The open-source chat application, Zulip, is used as a case study to show the effectiveness of this approach. © 2021 IEEE.
Keywords: Case-studies; Failure rate; Open source software; Special needs; Two phase; WEB application; Web accessibility; Web accessibility barrier score; Web accessibility barriers; Web accessibility standard; Web applications; Websites; dept.csc

Beyond the Pain - Green, C. (Research Anthology on Nursing Education and Overcoming Challenges in the Workplace, 2021)
Healthy workplaces promote inclusionary behaviors. When nurses experience exclusionary behaviors such as bullying and incivility, there may also be hidden issues with acceptance of diversity in the workplace environment. Educating nursing staff on the importance of variations in age, culture, gender, sex, race, ethnicity, and religion in the workplace can help facilitate communication among staff. For example, organizations can use educational forums to discuss how different cultures vary in the addressing of conflict within the workplace; some cultures may prefer to reach consensus rather than be confrontational. Chapter 5 discusses strategies that nurses and organizations can implement, such as Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (TeamSTEPPS). TeamSTEPPS is a curriculum that can be used to improve teamwork skills, communication, and build team collaboration. © 2021, IGI Global.
Keywords: dept.nur

Global Λ-hyperon polarization in Au+Au collisions at √sNN = 3 GeV - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review C, 2021)
Global hyperon polarization, P¯H, in Au+Au collisions over a large range of collision energy, sNN, was recently measured and successfully reproduced by hydrodynamic and transport models with intense fluid vorticity of the quark-gluon plasma. While naïve extrapolation of data trends suggests a large P¯H as the collision energy is reduced, the behavior of P¯H at small sNN¡7.7 GeV is unknown. Operating the STAR experiment in fixed-target mode, we measured the polarization of Λ hyperons along the direction of global angular momentum in Au+Au collisions at sNN=3 GeV. The observation of substantial polarization of 4.91±0.81(stat.)±0.15(syst.)% in these collisions may require a reexamination of the viscosity of any fluid created in the collision, of the thermalization timescale of rotational modes, and of hadronic mechanisms to produce global polarization. © 2021 American Physical Society.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Measurement of the sixth-order cumulant of net-proton multiplicity distributions in au+au collisions at s NN =27, 54.4, and 200 GeV at RHIC - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review Letters, 2021)
According to first-principle lattice QCD calculations, the transition from quark-gluon plasma to hadronic matter is a smooth crossover in the region μB≤Tc. In this range the ratio, C6/C2, of net-baryon distributions are predicted to be negative. In this Letter, we report the first measurement of the midrapidity net-proton C6/C2 from 27, 54.4, and 200 GeV Au+Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The dependence on collision centrality and kinematic acceptance in (pT, y) are analyzed. While for 27 and 54.4 GeV collisions the C6/C2 values are close to zero within uncertainties, it is observed that for 200 GeV collisions, the C6/C2 ratio becomes progressively negative from peripheral to central collisions. Transport model calculations without critical dynamics predict mostly positive values except for the most central collisions within uncertainties. These observations seem to favor a smooth crossover in the high-energy nuclear collisions at top RHIC energy. © 2021 American Physical Society.
Keywords: Au+Au collisions; Colliding beam accelerators; Cumulants; First principles; Germanium alloys; Germanium compounds; Gold compounds; Hadronic matters; Heavy ions; Lattice QCD calculations; Measurements of; Mid-rapidity; Multiplicity distributions; Quantum theory; Quark-gluon plasma; Uncertainty; dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Global ethics for the digital age – flourishing ethics - Kantar, N.; Bynum, T.W. (Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 2021)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore an emerging ethical theory for the Digital Age – Flourishing Ethics – which will likely be applicable in many different cultures worldwide, addressing not only human concerns but also activities, decisions and consequences of robots, cyborgs, artificially intelligent agents and other new digital technologies. Design/methodology/approach: In the past, a number of influential ethical theories in Western philosophy have focused upon choice and autonomy, or pleasure and pain or fairness and justice. These are important ethical concepts, but we consider “flourishing” to be a broader “umbrella concept” under which all of the above ideas can be included, plus additional ethical ideas from cultures in other regions of the world (for example, Buddhist, Muslim, Confucianist cultures and others). Before explaining the applied approach, this study discusses relevant ideas of four example thinkers who emphasize flourishing in their ethics writings: Aristotle, Norbert Wiener, James Moor and Simon Rogerson. Findings: Flourishing Ethics is not a single ethical theory. It is “an approach,” a “family” of similar ethical theories which can be successfully applied to humans in many different cultures, as well as to non-human agents arising from new digital technologies. Originality/value: This appears to be the first extended analysis of the emerging flourishing ethics “family” of theories. © 2021, Emerald Publishing Limited.
Keywords: dept.phi; peer-reviewed

Platform for comparative study of focus and retention in virtual reality and online learning - Macesker, M.; Morrow, R.; Too, G.W.; Artan, N.S.; Dong, Z.; Gu, H. (2021)
Our research objective is to compare the effectiveness of standard online learning methods versus the utilization of virtual reality in education in terms of student focus and information retention. Our proposed platform will have identical lesson plans in virtual reality as our online learning methods. Eye gaze tracking and a recall test will be used on both platforms to measure focus on the screen and retention, respectively. The ultimate goal of the project is to use this data to evaluate the effectiveness of VR as a digital learning environment. © 2021 IEEE.
Keywords: Comparatives studies; Computer aided instruction; E-learning; Eye tracking; Information retention; Learning systems; On-line learning methods; Online learning; Online learning tools; Reality learning; Research objectives; Retention; Standard online learning tool; Student engagement; Students; Virtual reality; dept.csc

Applied qualitative data analysis after the ontological turn - Marn, T.M.; Wolgemuth, J.R. (Qualitative Report, 2021)
In this article we demonstrate the use and usefulness of new materialism as an analytic lens in applied qualitative inquiry. Intended as a possible entry point to applied inquiry after the ontological turn, we draw on Barad's agential realism to analyze three existing transcripts of focus groups conducted with healthcare workers, traditional birth attendants, and mothers to explore the postnatal care referral behavior of traditional birth attendants in Nigeria. We describe elements of our data analysis process including deep reading, summoning of the inquiry, delaying the inquiry, attuning to glowing data, and writing. We explore how the research phenomenon enacted agential cuts that distinguished participants (healthcare workers, traditional birth attendants, and mothers) and relayed their participation in the focus group. We show how the inclusion of the mothers' babies and the transcripts themselves made available some understandings at the possible exclusion of others. Our Baradian, new materialist analysis shows the inextricability of interview materials (things) and language (discourse) and demonstrates that all applied research is bounded and affected by its material conditions. As a point of entry, we hope our illustration sensitizes applied qualitative researchers to how research decisions, research materials, and research cultures produce what can be known and lived within and beyond the research encounter. © 2021 Nova Southeastern University. All rights reserved.
Keywords: dept.cur; peer-reviewed

LNCRI: Long non-coding RNA identifier in multiple species - Musleh, S.; Islam, M.T.; Alam, T. (IEEE access : practical innovations, open solutions, 2021)
The pervasive nature of long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) transcription in the mammalian genomes has changed our protein-centric view of genomes. But the identification of lncRNAs is an important task to discover their functional role in species. The rapid development of next-generation sequencing technology leveraged the opportunity to discover many lncRNA transcripts. However, the cost and time-consuming nature of transcriptomics verification techniques barred the research community from focusing on lncRNA identification. To overcome these challenges we developed LNCRI (Long Non-Coding RNA Identifier), a novel machine learning (ML)-based tool for the identification of lncRNA transcripts. We leveraged weighted k-mer, pseudo nucleotide composition, hexamer usage bias, Fickett score, information of open reading frame, UTR regions, and HMMER score as a feature set to develop LNCRI. LNCRI outperformed other existing models in the task of distinguishing lncRNA transcripts from protein-coding mRNA transcripts with high accuracy in human and mouse. LNCRI also outperformed the existing tools for cross-species prediction on chimpanzee, monkey, gorilla, orangutan, cow, pig, frog and zebrafish. We applied the SHAP algorithm to demonstrate the importance of most dominating features that were leveraged in the model. We believe our tool will support the research community to identify the lncRNA transcripts in a highly accurate manner. The benchmark datasets and source code are available in GitHub: http://github.com/smusleh/LNCRI. © 2013 IEEE.
Keywords: Artificial intelligence; Bioinformatics; Codes (symbols); Genes; Learning systems; Long non-coding RNA; MRNA; Mammalian genomes; Mammals; Multiple species; Next-generation sequencing; Proteins; RNA; RNA transcription; Research communities; Sequence analysis; Transcriptomics; Verification techniques; dept.csc; peer-reviewed

The life and times of chinua achebe - Ogbaa, K. (2021)
The Life and Times of Chinua Achebe introduces readers to the life, literary works, and times of arguably the most widely-read African novelist of recent times, an icon, both in continental Africa and abroad. The book weaves together the story of Chinua Achebe, a young Igboman whose novel Things Fall Apart opened the eyes of the world to a more realistic image of Africa that was warped by generations of European travelers, colonists, and writers. Whilst continuing to write further influential novels and essays, Achebe also taught other African writers to use their skills to help their national leaders to fight for their freedoms in the post-colonial era, as internal warfare compounded the damage caused by European powers during the colonial era. In this book Kalu Ogbaa, an esteemed expert on Achebe and his works, draws on extensive research and personal interviews with the great man and his colleagues and friends, to tell the story of Achebe and his work. This intimate and powerful new biography will be essential reading for students and scholars of Chinua Achebe, and to anyone with an interest in the literature and post-colonial politics of Africa. © 2022 Kalu Ogbaa.
Keywords: dept.eng

Metaphor elicitation: A new way to assess organizational culture - Prince, M.; Forr, J. (Psychologist-Manager Journal, 2021)
The purpose of this paper is to advance breakthrough research that further extends, as well as enrichens, our understanding of organizations. This is a companion article to “CEO Archetype Identity Drives Organization Culture” previously published in this journal. Archetypes are merely a special case of metaphors. In this paper, we generalize the concept of leadership archetypes to organization metaphors, adding original dimensions to existing concepts and theories of organizational diagnosis. Thus, the present research brings a new enlightening perspective to this field. Data from the past organization studies featured in this article involve the Zaltman Metaphorical Elicitation Technique (ZMET) embedded in qualitative in-depth personal interviews. These studies explore the impact of management styles on organization structure and functions. In each study metaphors were elicited from leaders and followers, and generated insights and action-oriented strategies to meet organizational challenges © 2021. American Psychological Association
Keywords: dept.mkt; peer-reviewed

Understanding reentrance in frustrated magnets: The case of the Er2Sn2 O7 pyrochlore - Yahne, D.R.; Pereira, D.; Jaubert, L.D.C.; Sanjeewa, L.D.; Powell, M.; Kolis, J.W.; Xu, G.; Enjalran, M.; Gingras, M.J.P.; Ross, K.A. (Physical Review Letters, 2021)
Reentrance, the return of a system from an ordered phase to a previously encountered less-ordered one as a controlled parameter is continuously varied, is a recurring theme found in disparate physical systems, yet its microscopic cause is often not investigated thoroughly. Here, through detailed characterization and theoretical modeling, we uncover the microscopic mechanism behind reentrance in the strongly frustrated pyrochlore antiferromagnet Er2Sn2O7. We use single crystal heat capacity measurements to expose that Er2Sn2O7 exhibits multiple instances of reentrance in its magnetic field B vs temperature T phase diagram for magnetic fields along three cubic high symmetry directions. Through classical Monte Carlo simulations, mean field theory, and classical linear spin-wave expansions, we argue that the origins of the multiple occurrences of reentrance observed in Er2Sn2O7 are linked to soft modes. These soft modes arise from phase competition and enhance thermal fluctuations that entropically stabilize a specific ordered phase, resulting in an increased transition temperature for certain field values and thus the reentrant behavior. Our work represents a detailed examination into the mechanisms responsible for reentrance in a frustrated magnet and may serve as a template for the interpretation of reentrant phenomena in other physical systems. © 2021 American Physical Society.
Keywords: Antiferromagnets; Binary alloys; Controlled parameter; Crystal symmetry; Frustrated magnet; Intelligent systems; Magnetic fields; Magnetic-field; Magnetization; Magnets; Mean field theory; Microscopic mechanisms; Monte Carlo methods; Ordered phasis; Physical systems; Pyrochlores; Single crystals; Soft modes; Specific heat; Spin waves; Theoretical modeling; dept.phy

Effect of a brief social contact video on transphobia and depression-related stigma among adolescents: A randomized clinical trial - Amsalem, D.; Halloran, J.; Penque, B.; Celentano, J.; Martin, A. (JAMA Network Open, 2022)
Importance: Transphobia and stigma remain barriers to seeking mental health care for gender-diverse adolescents. Objective: To examine the utility of brief social contact-based video interventions of transgender protagonists with depression to reduce transphobia and depression-related stigma and increase treatment-seeking intentions among adolescents in the general population. Design, Setting, and Participants: During August 2021, a total of 1437 participants were recruited and randomly assigned to 1 of 4 video-based conditions in a 2:2:1:1 ratio: (1) transgender adolescent girls, (2) transgender adolescent boys, (3) cisgender adolescent girls, or (4) cisgender adolescent boys. Interventions: In each of the approximately 110-second videos, an empowered presenter shared their personal story about coping with depression and reaching out for help. Main Outcomes and Measures: The primary outcome was the score on the Attitudes Toward Transgender Men and Women (ATTMW) scale. Secondary outcomes were (1) a "gender thermometer" rating for warmth in transgender perception, (2) the Depression Stigma Scale (DSS) score, and (3) the General Health-Seeking Questionnaire (GHSQ) score. Results: Of the 1437 randomized participants, 1098 (76%) completed the postintervention assessment and passed all the validity tests (mean [SD] age, 16.9 [1.2] years; 481 [44%] male; 640 [58%] White). A significant change in attitudes toward transgender youth was found within the intervention group only (mean [SD] ATTMW scores: intervention group, 34.6 [23.1] at baseline to 32.8 [24.2] after intervention; P ¡.001; control group, 33.5 [23.4] at baseline to 32.4 [24.1] after intervention; P =.01). The mean (SD) total DSS scores decreased significantly across study groups (intervention: 1.3 [3.3]; control: 1.7 [3.3]; P ¡.001). A significant increase in intention to seek help from a parent was found in the intervention (mean [SD] GHSQ score, 0.2 [1.1]) and control (mean [SD] GHSQ score, 0.3 [1.2]) groups (P ¡.001), as was a decrease in those not wanting to seek help from anyone (mean [SD] GHSQ score: intervention, 0.2 [1.6], P =.009; control, 0.3 [1.2], P ¡.001) Secondary analyses revealed significant differences in baseline ATTMW scores and intervention effects between transgender and gender-diverse and cisgender participants and between lesbian, gay, bisexual, or queer (LGBQ) and straight participants (F = 36.7, P ¡.001) and heterosexual participants (F = 37.0, P ¡.001). A significant difference was also found in mean (SD) transgender warmth scores from baseline to after intervention between groups (2.6° [13.1°] in the intervention group vs 0.4° [8.3°] in the control group; P ¡.001). Conclusions and Relevance: In this randomized clinical trial, brief social contact-based videos proved efficacious in reducing transphobia and depression-related stigma and in increasing treatment-seeking intentions among adolescents in the general population. By personifying, individualizing, and providing face and voice to the experience of transgender youth, other adolescents, especially those who are cisgender and/or of a heterosexual orientation, can gain empathetic insights into the lives of their often marginalized and stigmatized fellow youth. Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04969003. © 2022 Collabra: Psychology. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Adolescent; Depression; Female; Humans; Male; Patient Acceptance of Health Care; Prejudice; Social Stigma; Transgender Persons; Video Recording; adolescent; controlled study; depression; dept.mft; dept.swk; female; human; male; patient attitude; peer-reviewed; prejudice; psychology; randomized controlled trial; social stigma; transgender; videorecording

The US Blue New Deal: What does it mean for just transitions, sustainability, and resilience of the blue economy? - Axon, S.; Bertana, A.; Graziano, M.; Cross, E.; Smith, A.; Axon, K.; Wakefield, A. (Geographical Journal, 2022)
The ocean and coasts are largely absent from the “Green New Deal” proposal. In response to the limited attention paid to the sustainability and equitable governance approaches of the blue economy, a US “Blue New Deal” has been proposed aiming to protect the health of the ocean and support coastal communities' adaptation to climate change. The Blue New Deal emerged as a central policy proposal from 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren to enhance the role of the blue economy while simultaneously addressing the climate crisis. Through a just transitions analysis, this article evaluates the proposal for a US Blue New Deal — as designed by Senator Elizabeth Warren — that would be applied towards enhancing socioeconomic resiliency, environmental justice, and addressing social inequities. As part of a critical policy analysis evaluating the areas of focus Warren's Blue New Deal presents, environmental justice and sustainability are central to the success of managing, and enhancing the role of, the blue economy. The challenges facing the Blue New Deal reflect a “one size fits all” federal approach that has implications for addressing multifaceted obstacles in key sectors of the blue economy, its governance, and tackling interconnected crises that exacerbate socioeconomic inequities and vulnerabilities of marginalised coastal communities. This article proposes a blue justice framework for the Blue New Deal that seeks to address the tensions and contradictions that exist in its current form and indicates how a comprehensive policy framework can enhance the sustainability and equitable involvement of the blue economy. The information, practices and views in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). © 2022 Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers).
Keywords: dept.egm; dept.mgt; dept.soc; peer-reviewed

Memory based hybrid crow search algorithm for solving numerical and constrained global optimization problems - Braik, M.; Al-Zoubi, H.; Ryalat, M.; Sheta, A.; Alzubi, O. (Artificial Intelligence Review, 2022)
Crow Search Algorithm (CSA) is a promising meta-heuristic method developed based on the intelligent conduct of crows in nature. This algorithm lacks a good representation of its individuals’ memory, and as with many other meta-heuristics it faces a problem in efficiently balancing exploration and exploitation. These defects may lead to early convergence to local optima. To cope with such issues, we proposed a Memory based Hybrid CSA (MHCSA) with the use of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm. This hybridization approach was proposed to reinforce the diversity ability of CSA and balance its search abilities for promising solutions to achieve robust search performance. The memory element of MHCSA was initialized with the best solution (pbest) of PSO to exploit the most promising search areas. The best positions of the CSA’s individuals are improved using the best solution found so far (gbest) and (pbest) of PSO. Another flaw of CSA is the use of fixed flight length and awareness probability for crows to control exploration and exploitation features, respectively. This issue was circumvented here by replacing these constants with adaptive functions in order to provide a better balance between exploration and exploitation over the course of iterations. The competence of MHCSA was revealed by testing it on seventy-three standard and computationally complex benchmark functions. Its applicability was substantiated by solving seven engineering design problems. The results showed that the problem of early convergence was eliminated by MHCSA and that the balance of exploration and exploitation was further improved. Further, MHCSA ranked first among CSA, PSO, robust variants of CSA and other strong competing methods in terms of accuracy and stability. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V.
Keywords: Algorithm for solving; Balancing; Constrained global optimization; Constrained optimization; Crow search algorithm; Early convergence; Exploration and exploitation; Global optimization; Global optimization problems; Heuristic methods; Learning algorithms; Meta-heuristic methods; Metaheuristic; Optimization techniques; Particle swarm optimization (PSO); Search Algorithms; dept.csc; peer-reviewed

Enhanced cuckoo search algorithm for industrial winding process modeling - Braik, M.; Sheta, A.; Al-Hiary, H.; Aljahdali, S. (Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 2022)
Modeling of nonlinear industrial systems embraces two key stages: selection of a model structure with a compact parameter list, and selection of an algorithm to estimate the parameter list values. Thus, there is a need to develop a sufficiently adequate model to characterize the behavior of industrial systems to represent experimental data sets. The data collected for many industrial systems may be subject to the existence of high non-linearity and multiple constraints. Meanwhile, creating a thoroughgoing model for an industrial process is essential for model-based control systems. In this work, we explore the use of a proposed Enhanced version of the Cuckoo Search (ECS) algorithm to address a parameter estimation problem for both linear and nonlinear model structures of a real winding process. The performance of the developed models was compared with other mainstream meta-heuristics when they were targeted to model the same process. Moreover, these models were compared with other models developed based on some conventional modeling methods. Several evaluation tests were performed to judge the efficiency of the developed models based on ECS, which showed superior performance in both training and testing cases over that achieved by other modeling methods. © 2022, This is a U.S. government work and not under copyright protection in the U.S.; foreign copyright protection may apply.
Keywords: Cuckoo search algorithms; Developed model; Industrial systems; Industrial winding process; Learning algorithms; Linear modeling; Model method; Model structures; Non-linear modelling; Nonlinear systems; Optimization; Parameter estimation; Performance; Process-models; Winding; Winding process; dept.csc; peer-reviewed

Research engagement in a virtual world: Strategies for maintaining the power and impact of photovoice research online - Breny, J.M.; McMorrow, S.L. (Health promotion practice, 2022)
When our photovoice research intersected with the COVID-19 pandemic, we were thrust into a new world of adapting the method in the virtual environment. Between both authors, we had over two decades of experience implementing photovoice. However, that involved tried and true methods of working face to face and side by side with people in community-based settings. This article describes lessons learned from two virtual photovoice projects. One involved pivoting from a project already well underway in person to online and the other was designed for virtual implementation since that was the only option available. Key considerations discussed are navigating our institutional review boards, adapting project management, building community online, and sharing results and advocacy for social change. Dilemmas and key decisions in each of these areas are described for practitioners and community-based researchers who need or seek to transition their photovoice research to the virtual environment. Practical tips and strategies for implementation are described and offered to photovoice researchers.
Keywords: dept.pch; peer-reviewed

A new absolute proper motion determination of leo i using HST/WFPC2 images and gaia EDR3 - Casetti-Dinescu, D.I.; Hansen, C.K.; Girard, T.M.; Kozhurina-Platais, V.; Platais, I.; Horch, E.P. (Astronomical Journal, 2022)
We measure the absolute proper motion of Leo I using a WFPC2/HST data set that spans up to 10 yr to date the longest time baseline utilized for this satellite. The measurement relies on ∼2300 Leo I stars located near the center of light of the galaxy; the correction to absolute proper motion is based on 174 Gaia EDR3 stars and 10 galaxies. Having generated highly precise, relative proper motions for all Gaia EDR3 stars in our WFPC2 field of study, our correction to the absolute EDR3 system does not rely on these Gaia stars being Leo I members. This new determination also benefits from a recently improved astrometric calibration of WFPC2. The resulting proper-motion value, (μ α , μ δ ) = (-0.007 0.035, - 0.119 0.026) mas yr-1 is in agreement with recent, large-area, Gaia EDR3-based determinations. We discuss all the recent measurements of Leo I's proper motion and adopt a combined, multistudy average of (μ α 3 meas,μ δ 3 meas)=(-0.036±0.016,-0.130±0.010) mas yr-1. This value of absolute proper motion for Leo I indicates its orbital pole is well aligned with that of the vast polar structure, defined by the majority of the brightest dwarf spheroidal satellites of the Milky Way. © 2021. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Exploring the influence of cultural and health beliefs on intentions to adopt COVID-19 prevention measures - Dam, L.; Basaran, A.-M.B.; Lin, C.A.; Rogers, D. (Atlantic Journal of Communication, 2022)
This study explores how individuals react to COVID-19 prevention measures in relation to their national cultural values and health belief factors. Specifically, guided by the most relevant Hofstede’s cultural dimensions and the health belief model (HBM), this study tested a conceptual framework through conducting a survey of the U.S. adult population. The study results did not support Hofstede’s classification of the U.S. to be among the most individualistic culture with the lowest level of uncertainty avoidance in the world. Demographic factors such as ethnicity, gender, age, and education were found to be significantly related to collectivistic tendency and/or uncertainty avoidance. Findings also demonstrated that the tendency for collectivism and uncertainty avoidance were both relevant to people’s intention to adopt COVID-19 prevention measures. Results of testing the HBM variables revealed that perceived barriers, perceived self-efficacy, and cues to action were significantly related to preventive behavioral intentions. This study highlights the importance of considering subculture factors when promoting COVID-19 preventive measures in a multicultural society. © 2022 Atlantic Journal of Communication.
Keywords: dept.com; peer-reviewed

We are family: Effects of a relationship-strengthening prevention intervention on parenting behaviors among black and latino adolescent couples - Diaz, V.R.; Albritton, T.; Katague, M.; Dancy, V.; Breny, J.M.; Kershaw, T. (Journal of Family Issues, 2022)
Relationship strain or dissolution between new parents can affect the co-parenting relationship and parenting engagement. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of a relationship-strengthening intervention on parenting behaviors among adolescent couples. Data from a pilot randomized control trial conducted with predominantly Black and Latino couples were analyzed using repeated measures analysis of variance. Observed intervention * time effects and intervention * time * gender effects were not statistically significant, but had small to moderate effect sizes. Intervention couples demonstrated increased parenting sense of competence compared to control couples. Gender differences in intervention effects were observed for both parenting experiences and parenting engagement. Given the pilot nature of the study, these findings provide preliminary evidence of the effectiveness of this couple-based intervention for improving parenting outcomes. Future research should assess the intervention in a larger sample and leverage technology-based approaches as methods for content delivery. © The Author(s) 2022.
Keywords: dept.pch; peer-reviewed

Validation of 13 hot and potentially terrestrial TESS planets - Giacalone, S.; Dressing, C.D.; Hedges, C.; Kostov, V.B.; Collins, K.A.; Jensen, E.L.N.; Yahalomi, D.A.; Bieryla, A.; Ciardi, D.R.; Howell, S.B.; Lillo-Box, J.; Barkaoui, K.; et al. (Astronomical Journal, 2022)
The James Webb Space Telescope will be able to probe the atmospheres and surface properties of hot, terrestrial planets via emission spectroscopy. We identify 18 potentially terrestrial planet candidates detected by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) that would make ideal targets for these observations. These planet candidates cover a broad range of planet radii (R p ∼0.6-2.0R ) and orbit stars of various magnitudes (K s = 5.78-10.78, V = 8.4-15.69) and effective temperatures (T eff ∼3000-6000 K). We use ground-based observations collected through the TESS Follow-up Observing Program (TFOP) and two vetting tools - DAVE and TRICERATOPS - to assess the reliabilities of these candidates as planets. We validate 13 planets: TOI-206 b, TOI-500 b, TOI-544 b, TOI-833 b, TOI-1075 b, TOI-1411 b, TOI-1442 b, TOI-1693 b, TOI-1860 b, TOI-2260 b, TOI-2411 b, TOI-2427 b, and TOI-2445 b. Seven of these planets (TOI-206 b, TOI-500 b, TOI-1075 b, TOI-1442 b, TOI-2260 b, TOI-2411 b, and TOI-2445 b) are ultra-short-period planets. TOI-1860 is the youngest (133 ± 26 Myr) solar twin with a known planet to date. TOI-2260 is a young (321 ± 96 Myr) G dwarf that is among the most metal-rich ([Fe/H] = 0.22 ± 0.06 dex) stars to host an ultra-short-period planet. With an estimated equilibrium temperature of 1/42600 K, TOI-2260 b is also the fourth hottest known planet with R p ¡ 2 R . © 2022. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Before-school physical activity program's impact on social and emotional learning - Goh, T.L.; Leong, C.H.; Fede, M.; Ciotto, C. (Journal of School Health, 2022)
BACKGROUND: Despite the positive impact of social and emotional learning (SEL) on the emotional well-being of children, literature on physical activity engagement and SEL among this population has been limited. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine whether school students' SEL would improve after participation in a before-school physical activity program. METHODS: A total of 138 fourth and sixth grade students from 1 elementary school and 1 middle school participated in this study. Seventy-five students participated in the before-school physical activity program, while 63 students were in the control group. The physical education teachers implemented the program 3 days per week, for 3 weeks. The participants completed a 10-question adapted Devereux Student Strengths Assessment-Mini before and after the program. Repeated measures ANOVA was run to determine the effects of the program on SEL competence. RESULTS: The fourth and sixth grade students who participated in the program reported a 7 and 10% improvement in pre- versus post-intervention SEL competence, respectively. Students in the control group reported no change in their SEL competence. CONCLUSION: Considering the benefits of a before-school physical activity program on students' SEL, stakeholders should consider including more physical activity programming within school policies. © 2022 American School Health Association.
Keywords: dept.hms; peer-reviewed

And sometimes, we say good night - Green, C. (International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences, 2022)
The evolution of life is that one day after we are born, we must say good night, and fall asleep and breath no more. The trepidation of death is more than the ceasing of lung, cardiac, and brain function; for the nurse who loses a nurse colleague, it is a farewell of a collegial relationship that developed in the process of healing others. The death of a nurse colleague is sacred. © 2022
Keywords: article; bereavement; brain function; breathing; dept.nur; grief; heart function; human; lung function; night; nurse; peer-reviewed; terminal care

Applying the nightingale pledge in reducing health disparities: A hospital-acquired pressure injury case study - Green, C. (Advances in skin & wound care, 2022)
ABSTRACT: Professional nurses, by virtue of their training, pledge to care for individuals who are sick or infirm. This commitment is confirmed via the Nightingale Pledge, which focuses on public health and equity and deems the nurse to be a missioner of health. Health disparities exist in direct conflict with the nursing responsibility of caritas, or love. Accordingly, it is imperative that nurse educators create learning environments that are conducive to comfortably discussing differences in physical assessments performed on diverse populations as part of their work to eliminate health disparities and in accordance with the Nightingale Pledge. Copyright © 2022 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Hospitals; Humans; dept.nur; hospital; human; peer-reviewed

Instructional models for course-based research experience (CRE) teaching - Hanauer, D.I.; Graham, M.J.; Arnold, R.J.; Ayuk, M.A.; Balish, M.F.; Beyer, A.R.; Butela, K.A.; Byrum, C.A.; Chia, C.P.; Chung, H.-M.; Clase, K.L.; Conant, S.; et al. (CBE life sciences education, 2022)
The course-based research experience (CRE) with its documented educational benefits is increasingly being implemented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. This article reports on a study that was done over a period of 3 years to explicate the instructional processes involved in teaching an undergraduate CRE. One hundred and two instructors from the established and large multi-institutional SEA-PHAGES program were surveyed for their understanding of the aims and practices of CRE teaching. This was followed by large-scale feedback sessions with the cohort of instructors at the annual SEA Faculty Meeting and subsequently with a small focus group of expert CRE instructors. Using a qualitative content analysis approach, the survey data were analyzed for the aims of inquiry instruction and pedagogical practices used to achieve these goals. The results characterize CRE inquiry teaching as involving three instructional models: 1) being a scientist and generating data; 2) teaching procedural knowledge; and 3) fostering project ownership. Each of these models is explicated and visualized in terms of the specific pedagogical practices and their relationships. The models present a complex picture of the ways in which CRE instruction is conducted on a daily basis and can inform instructors and institutions new to CRE teaching.
Keywords: Educational; Engineering; Faculty; Humans; Mathematics; Models; Students; Teaching; dept.bio; educational model; engineering; human; mathematics; peer-reviewed; student; teaching; university

Observations with the Southern Connecticut Stellar Interferometer. I. Instrument Description and First Results - Horch, E.P.; Weiss, S.A.; Klaucke, P.M.; Pellegrino, R.A.; Rupert, J.D. (Astronomical Journal, 2022)
We discuss the design, construction, and operation of a new intensity interferometer, based on the campus of Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, Connecticut. While this paper will focus on observations taken with an original two-telescope configuration, the current instrumentation consists of three portable 0.6 m Dobsonian telescopes with single-photon avalanche diode detectors located at the Newtonian focus of each telescope. Photons detected at each station are time stamped and read out with timing correlators that can give cross-correlations in timing to a precision of 48 ps. We detail our observations to date with the system, which has now been successfully used at our university in 16 nights of observing. Components of the instrument were also deployed on one occasion at Lowell Observatory, where the Perkins and Hall telescopes were made to function as an intensity interferometer. We characterize the performance of the instrument in detail. In total, the observations indicate the detection of a correlation peak at the level of 6.76σ when observing unresolved stars, and consistency with partial or no detection when observing at a baseline sufficient to resolve the star. Using these measurements, we conclude that the angular diameter of Arcturus is larger than 15 mas and that of Vega is between 0.8 and 17 mas. While the uncertainties are large at this point, both results are consistent with measures from amplitude-based long baseline optical interferometers. © 2022. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Heart rate recovery, central systolic pressure, and augmentation index in young healthy individuals - Latchman, P.L.; Yang, Q.; Kong, L.; Zhang, H.; Sebagisha, J.; De Meersman, R.E. (Vascular Health and Risk Management, 2022)
Purpose: Measuring heart rate recovery (HRR) holds valuable cardiovascular information and requires minimal technical skill and cost. Understanding the associations between HRR and more robust cardiovascular indicators, such as central systolic blood pressure (CSBP), can provide valuable cardiovascular information with less involvement. CSBP is a strong predictor of certain cardiovascular diseases. The study aims to examine the association between measures of HRR and CSBP and the augmentation index (AIx) in a group of young, healthy individuals and based on sex. Participants and Methods: One-hundred and seven participants (men – 55, women – 52) were measured for HRR at one minute (HRR1) and two minutes (HRR2) after maximum oxygen consumption (VO2max) testing, CSBP, and the AIx at a heart rate of 75 beats∙min−1 (AIx@75). Results: The Pearson correlation indicated no association between HRR1, HRR2, and CSBP in men and women combined: r = 0.06, P = 0.53; r = 0.05, P = 0.59, respectively, or based on sex: men = r = 0.01, P = 0.95; r = 0.04, P = 0.79, respectively, and women = r = −0.05, P = 0.75; r = −0.09, P = 0.52, respectively. However, there were associations between HRR1 and AIx@75 in men and women combined: r = −0.37, P < 0.001, and based on sex: men = r = −0.31, P = 0.02, and women = r = −0.38, P < 0.01. Conclusion: Measures of HRR were not associated with CSBP in a combined group of young men and women or based on sex. Most measures of HRR, especially those established by parasympathetic nervous activity, were associated with lower AIx@75. Though measures of HRR might be good indicators of cardiovascular disease, they might not be good indicators of CSBP in young, healthy individuals. © 2022 Latchman et al.
Keywords: Article; Blood Pressure; Cardiovascular Diseases; Cardiovascular System; Female; Heart Rate; Humans; Male; adult; augmentation index; blood pressure; cardiovascular disease; cardiovascular parameters; cardiovascular system; central systolic pressure; cholinergic system; controlled study; dept.hms; diastolic blood pressure; female; heart rate; heart rate recovery; heart rate variability; human; human experiment; male; maximal oxygen uptake; normal human; peer-reviewed; predictive value; sex difference; systolic blood pressure; young adult

Language and economic value: A multimodal approach - McGill, K. (Language Sciences, 2022)
This article presents an approach to economic value based on the paradigm of multimodal analysis. I argue that economic value is constituted within its own interactional mode, that economic laws are constituted as semiotic resources, and that markets can ultimately be understood as the “habituation in mode” (Kress) of these resources. The article is organized as a set of problems and possible solutions for the multimodal analysis of language and value. © 2022 Elsevier Ltd
Keywords: dept.ant; peer-reviewed

ALLD: Acute lymphoblastic leukemia detector - Musleh, S.; Islam, M.T.; Alam, M.T.; Househ, M.; Shah, Z.; Alam, T. (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 2022)
Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) is a life-threatening type of cancer wherein mortality rate is unquestionably high. Early detection of ALL can reduce both the rate of fatality as well as improve the diagnosis plan for patients. In this study, we developed the ALL Detector (ALLD), which is a deep learning-based network to distinguish ALL patients from healthy individuals based on blast cell microscopic images. We evaluated multiple DL-based models and the ResNet-based model performed the best with 98% accuracy in the classification task. We also compared the performance of ALLD against state-of-the-art tools utilized for the same purpose, and ALLD outperformed them all. We believe that ALLD will support pathologists to explicitly diagnose ALL in the early stages and reduce the burden on clinical practice overall. © 2022 The authors and IOS Press.
Keywords: Acute lymphoblastic leukaemias; Classification tasks; Computer; Computer aided diagnose; Computer aided diagnosis; Computer aided instruction; Deep Learning; Deep learning; Diseases; Healthy individuals; Humans; Individual-based; Medical informatics; Microscopic image; Mortality rate; Neural Networks; Performance; Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma; State of the art; acute lymphoblastic leukemia; dept.csc; human; peer-reviewed

Black women faculty and administrators navigating COVID-19, social unrest, and academia: Challenges and strategies - Njoku, A.; Evans, M. (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022)
Black women faculty and administrators in the United States are tackling a force of socioeconomic and racial disparities, emotional tolls and invisible burdens within academia, political turmoil, social unrest, and public health crises. COVID-19 has added an additional layer related to work responsibilities, the overall well-being of Black women faculty and administrators and the diverse students they encounter, and management of work and home responsibilities. This paper discusses perspectives and evidence-based strategies regarding Black women faculty and administrators who navigate academia and teach during times of COVID-19 and social unrest. We also outline strategies for university leaders to mitigate cultural and racial gaps in the classroom or workplace and foster diversity and inclusion in academia. © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
Keywords: African American; African Americans; Article; COVID-19; Faculty; Female; Humans; Racism; SARS-CoV-2; United States; coronavirus disease 2019; dept.pch; epidemiology; evidence based practice; female; health care planning; health disparity; human; peer-reviewed; racism; social determinants of health; tertiary education; university

Summarizing consumer reviews - Peal, M.; Hossain, M.S.; Chen, J. (Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 2022)
E-commerce giants like Amazon rely on consumer reviews to allow buyers to inform other potential buyers about a product’s pros and cons. While these reviews can be useful, they are less so when the number of reviews is large; no consumer can be expected to read hundreds or thousands of reviews in order to gain better understanding about a product. In an effort to provide an aggregate representation of reviews, Amazon offers an average user rating represented by a 1- to 5-star score. This score only represents how reviewers feel about a product without providing insight into why they feel that way. In this work, we propose an AI technique that generates an easy-to-read, concise summary of a product based on its reviews. It provides an overview of the different aspects reviewers emphasize in their reviews and, crucially, how they feel about those aspects. Our methodology generates a list of the topics most-mentioned by reviewers, conveys reviewer sentiment for each topic and calculates an overall summary score that reflects reviewers’ overall sentiment about the product. These sentiment scores adapt the same 1- to 5-star scoring scale in order to remain familiar to Amazon users. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
Keywords: AI techniques; Affective Computing; Amazon consumer review; Aspect-based sentiment analyse; Consumer reviews; Language summarization; Potential buyers; Sentiment analysis; Topic extraction; User rating; dept.csc; peer-reviewed

A longitudinal reliability study of a consumer disidentification model - Prince, M.; Kwak, L. (Journal of Empirical Generalisations in Marketing Science, 2022)
Josiassen (2011) in a single cross-sectional survey investigated causal relations between consumer disidentification and domestic product judgments. The primary purpose of this replication paper is to evaluate the reliabilities of construct levels, as well as the significance, direction and magnitude of causal effects advanced in the original published structural model. The study measures relations between consumer disidentification (CDI) and domestic product judgments of American products over an extended 16 months period among second generation immigrants. In the present research the original CDI model fit was found to be longitudinally consistent and stable. Serendipitously, findings of the present study disclosed that over time baseline levels of consumer disidentification vary and actually declined significantly. Additionally, the negative effect of consumer disidentification on American product judgments significantly weakened over the course of the study. As an additional test of consumer predisposition reliability over time, the model in this study incorporated consumer xenocentrism (XEN) as a second predictor variable of domestic product judgments. Findings of this analysis were consistent with those found for CDI. These new phenomena have important theoretical and managerial implications. © 2022, University of South Australia. All rights reserved.
Keywords: dept.mkt; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

The linkage between bone densitometry and cardiovascular disease - Refaee, M.A.; Al-Absi, H.R.H.; Islam, M.T.; Househ, M.; Shah, Z.; Rahman, M.S.; Alam, T. (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 2022)
Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) has been traditionally used to assess body composition covering bone, fat and muscle content. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) has deleterious effects on bone health and fat composition. Therefore, early detection of bone health, fat and muscle composition would help to anticipate a proper diagnosis and treatment plan for CVD patients. In this study, we leveraged machine learning (ML)-based models to predict CVD using DXA, demonstrating that it can be considered an innovative approach for early detection of CVD. We leveraged state-of-the-art ML models to classify the CVD group from non-CVD group. The proposed logistic regression-based model achieved nearly 80% accuracy. Overall, the bone mineral density, fat content, muscle mass and bone surface area measurements were elevated in the CVD group compared to non-CVD group. Ablation study revealed a more successful discriminatory power of fat content and bone mineral density than muscle mass and bone areas. To the best of our knowledge, this work is the first ML model to reveal the association between DXA measurements and CVD in the Qatari population. We believe this study will open new avenues of introducing DXA in creating the diagnosis and treatment plan of cardiovascular diseases. © 2022 The authors and IOS Press.
Keywords: Absorptiometry; Adipose Tissue; Biobanks; Biochemistry; Body Composition; Bone Density; Bone densitometry; Bone mineral density; Cardiology; Cardiovascular Diseases; Cardiovascular disease; Diagnosis; Diseases; Dual-energy X-ray; Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry; Humans; Light absorption; Machine learning models; Muscle; Patient treatment; Photon; Qatar biobank; Treatment plans; X-ray absorptiometry; adipose tissue; body composition; bone density; cardiovascular disease; dept.csc; diagnostic imaging; human; peer-reviewed; photon absorptiometry

Disappearance of partonic collectivity in sNN=3 GeV au+au collisions at RHIC - STAR Collaboration (Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, 2022)
We report on the measurements of directed flow v1 and elliptic flow v2 for hadrons (π±, K±, KS0, p, ϕ, Λ and Ξ−) from Au+Au collisions at sNN=3 GeV and v2 for (π±, K±, p and p‾) at 27 and 54.4 GeV with the STAR experiment. While at the two higher energy midcentral collisions the number-of-constituent-quark (NCQ) scaling holds, at 3 GeV the v2 at midrapidity is negative for all hadrons and the NCQ scaling is absent. In addition, the v1 slopes at midrapidity for almost all observed hadrons are found to be positive, implying dominant repulsive baryonic interactions. The features of negative v2 and positive v1 slope at 3 GeV can be reproduced with a baryonic mean-field in transport model calculations. These results imply that the medium in such collisions is likely characterized by baryonic interactions. © 2022 The Author(s)
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Light nuclei collectivity from sNN=3 GeV au+au collisions at RHIC - STAR Collaboration (Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, 2022)
In high-energy heavy-ion collisions, partonic collectivity is evidenced by the constituent quark number scaling of elliptic flow anisotropy for identified hadrons. A breaking of this scaling and dominance of baryonic interactions is found for identified hadron collective flow measurements in sNN = 3 GeV Au+Au collisions. In this paper, we report measurements of the first- and second-order azimuthal anisotropic parameters, v1 and v2, of light nuclei (d, t, 3He, 4He) produced in sNN = 3 GeV Au+Au collisions at the STAR experiment. An atomic mass number scaling is found in the measured v1 slopes of light nuclei at mid-rapidity. For the measured v2 magnitude, a strong rapidity dependence is observed. Unlike v2 at higher collision energies, the v2 values at mid-rapidity for all light nuclei are negative and no scaling is observed with the atomic mass number. Calculations by the Jet AA Microscopic Transport Model (JAM), with baryonic mean-field plus nucleon coalescence, are in good agreement with our observations, implying baryonic interactions dominate the collective dynamics in 3 GeV Au+Au collisions at RHIC. © 2022 The Author
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Measurement of cold nuclear matter effects for inclusive J/ψ in p+Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV - STAR Collaboration (Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, 2022)
Measurement by the STAR experiment at RHIC of the cold nuclear matter (CNM) effects experienced by inclusive J/ψ at mid-rapidity in 0-100% p+Au collisions at sNN = 200 GeV is presented. Such effects are quantified utilizing the nuclear modification factor, RpAu, obtained by taking a ratio of J/ψ yield in p+Au collisions to that in p+p collisions scaled by the number of binary nucleon-nucleon collisions. The differential J/ψ yield in both p+p and p+Au collisions is measured through the dimuon decay channel, taking advantage of the trigger capability provided by the Muon Telescope Detector in the RHIC 2015 run. Consequently, the J/ψ RpAu is derived within the transverse momentum (pT) range of 0 to 10 GeV/c. A suppression of approximately 30% is observed for pT<2 GeV/c, while J/ψ RpAu becomes compatible with unity for pT greater than 3 GeV/c, indicating the J/ψ yield is minimally affected by the CNM effects at high pT. Comparison to a similar measurement from 0-20% central Au+Au collisions reveals that the observed strong J/ψ suppression above 3 GeV/c is mostly due to the hot medium effects, providing strong evidence for the formation of the quark-gluon plasma in these collisions. Several model calculations show qualitative agreement with the measured J/ψ RpAu, while their agreement with the J/ψ yields in p+p and p+Au collisions is worse. © 2022 The Author(s)
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Measurement of inclusive electrons from open heavy-flavor hadron decays in p+p collisions at s =200 GeV with the STAR detector - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review D, 2022)
We report a new measurement of the production cross section for inclusive electrons from open heavy-flavor hadron decays as a function of transverse momentum (pT) at midrapidity (|y|¡0.7) in p+p collisions at s=200 GeV. The result is presented for 2.5¡pT¡10 GeV/c with an improved precision above 6 GeV/c with respect to the previous measurements, providing more constraints on perturbative QCD calculations. Moreover, this measurement also provides a high-precision reference for measurements of nuclear modification factors for inclusive electrons from open-charm and -bottom hadron decays in heavy-ion collisions. © 2022 American Physical Society.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed