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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Evaluating accelerometry thresholds for detecting changes in levels of moderate physical activity and resulting major mobility disability - Rejeski, W. Jack; Walkup, Michael P.; Fielding, Roger A.; King, Abby C.; Manini, Todd M.; Marsh, Anthony P.; McDermott, Mary McGrae; Miller, Emily Y; Newman, Anne B.; Tudor-Locke, Catrine; Axtell, Robert S.; Miller, Michael E. (Journals of Gerontology Series A-biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 2018)
Background: An important decision with accelerometry is the threshold in counts per minute (CPM) used to define moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA). We explore the ability of different thresholds to track changes in MVPA due to a physical activity (PA) intervention among older adults with compromised function: 760 CPM, 1,041 CPM, and an individualized threshold. We also evaluate the ability of change in accelerometry and self-reported PA to attenuate treatment effects on major mobility disability (MMD). Methods: Data from a week of hip worn accelerometers and self-reported PA data (30-day recall) were examined from baseline, 6-, 12-, and 24-months of follow-up on 1,528 older adults. Participants were randomized to either PA or Health Education (HE). MMD was objectively defined by loss of ability to walk 400 m during the follow-up. Results: The three thresholds yielded similar and higher levels of MVPA for PA than HE (p ¡ .001), however, this difference was significantly attenuated in participants with lower levels of physical function. Self-reported PA that captured both walking and strength training totally attenuated the intervention effect for MMD, an 18% reduction to a 3% increase. Accelerometer CPMs showed less attenuation of the intervention effect. Conclusions: Accelerometry assessment within the LIFE study was not sensitive to change in level in physical activity for older adults with very low levels of physical function. A combination of self-report and objective measures are recommended for use in physical activity intervention studies of the elderly; limitations of accelerometry deserve closer attention.
Keywords: Accelerometry; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Female; Geriatric Assessment; Humans; LIFE-study; Male; Mobility Disability; Mobility Limitation; Motor Activity; Older Adults; Thresholds; Walking; accelerometry; aged; clinical trial; controlled study; dept.hms; female; geriatric assessment; human; male; motor activity; multicenter study; peer-reviewed; physiology; procedures; randomized controlled trial; very elderly; walking; walking difficulty

Making sense of mindfulness in management education - Yang, Charlie (Developing a Sustainability Mindset in Management Education, 2018)
Keywords: dept.mgt

Not my responsibility: The Impact of separate special education systems on educators' attitudes toward inclusion - Gregory, Jess (Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2018)
Framed in terms of global policy pressures, this study explored differences in educator attitudes towards the inclusion of children with mild to moderate disabilities in the general education setting in Australia, Barbados, Romania, Turkey, and the United States. The purpose of this study was to investigate how educator attitudes towards the inclusion vary between nations that have disparate forms of special education systems. A sample of 1679 educators was analysed using the Attitudes Towards Teaching All Students (ATTAS-mm) and a triadic model of attitudes. Significant differences were found between nations. In addition to a statistically significant difference in the overall attitude scale, the three subscales: cognitive, affective and behavioural also demonstrated statistically significant differences with moderate effect sizes. These results support the differentiation of professional development for educators dependent on the setting and admonish against policy makers exporting educational policies as best practices regardless of context. (18) Not my responsibility: The Impact of separate special education systems on educators' attitudes toward inclusion. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324545240_Not_my_responsibility_The_Impact_of_separate_special_education_systems_on_educators%27_attitudes_toward_inclusion [accessed Apr 24 2018].
Keywords: dept.edl; peer-reviewed

Pay openness movement: Is it merited? Does it influence more desirable employee outcomes than pay secrecy? - Marasi, Shelly; Wall, Alison; Bennett, Rebecca J. (Organization Management Journal, 2018)
Organizations are currently moving toward increased pay openness in the workplace; thus, it is important to determine the influence pay communication practices (pay secrecy and pay openness) have on employee outcomes and whether the increase in pay openness is merited and more beneficial for organizations. The purpose of this article is to analyze pay communication’s influence on workplace deviance and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs). Specifically, pay secrecy practices are hypothesized to influence employees to engage in less OCBs and more workplace deviance. Informational justice and distributive justice perceptions are included as mediators. Pay secrecy leads to greater workplace deviance as well as less OCBs and justice perceptions and thus, inferring the pay openness movement is merited. A Pay Communication scale was developed and validated for this study. Practical implications, limitations, and future research directions are provided. © 2018 Eastern Academy of Management.
Keywords: dept.mgt; distributive justice; informational justice; organizational citizenship behaviors; pay communication; pay openness; pay secrecy; peer-reviewed; workplace deviance

Intersectional experiences of discrimination in a low-resource urban community: An exploratory latent class analysis - Earnshaw, Valerie A.; Rosenthal, Lisa; Gilstad-Hayden, Kathryn; Carroll-Scott, Amy; Kershaw, Trace S.; Santilli, Alycia; Ickovics, Jeannette R. (Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 2018)
There have been increasing calls for the application of an intersectionality framework to understand and address discrimination and health inequities among diverse communities. Yet there have been theoretical debates regarding to whom intersectionality applies and how intersectional experiences of discrimination are associated with health outcomes. The current study aimed to contribute to these theoretical debates and inform practical applications to reduce health inequities. Data were drawn from a community health survey in New Haven, CT (N=1,293 adults) and analysed using latent class analysis. Results yielded 4 classes. Members of the 4 classes were similar sociodemographically. Three classes of participants reported experiencing discrimination, and members of these classes had greater stress, higher rates of smoking and sleep disruption, and worse overall health than members of the class reporting no discrimination. Members of 2 classes made multiple, or intersectional, attributions for discrimination, and members of these classes reported the most frequent discrimination. Findings suggest that community members who are sociodemographically similar may have diverse discrimination experiences. Multilevel interventions that address multiple forms of discrimination (e.g., racism and sexism) may hold promise for reducing discrimination and, ultimately, health inequities within low-resource urban community settings.
Keywords: adult; article; dept.pch; discrimination; female; health inequities; human; human experiment; intersectionality; latent class analysis; major clinical study; male; peer-reviewed; public health; racism; sexism; sleep; smoking; stress; theoretical study; urban population

The Effects of Length of Residence and Exposure to Violence on Perceptions of Neighborhood Safety in an Urban Sample. - Guo, Monica; O'Connor Duffany, Kathleen; Shebl, Fatma M; Santilli, Alycia; Keene, Danya E (Journal of Urban Health, 2018)
Perceptions of neighborhood safety shape the well-being of individuals and communities, affecting neighborhood walkability, associated physical activity behaviors, and health conditions. However, less is known about the factors that determine perceptions of safety. One factor that may affect perceptions of neighborhood safety is the length of time someone has lived in their neighborhood. We use a representative, adult sample of urban low-income residents from the 2015 New Haven Health Survey (n = 1189) to investigate the associations between length of residence (new residents of < 1 year in neighborhood versus longer-term residents of 1 or more years in neighborhood) and perceptions of neighborhood safety (whether feeling unsafe to walk at night). We then examine the potential moderating effect of exposure to neighborhood violence on these associations. We find that the association between length of residence and perceived safety differs by exposure to neighborhood violence. Among those unexposed to neighborhood violence, longer-term neighborhood residents were more likely to feel unsafe compared to new residents (OR = 2.03, 95% CI 1.19, 3.45). Additionally, the effect of exposure to violence on feelings of safety was larger for new residents (OR = 9.10, 95% CI 2.72, 30.44) compared to longer-term residents (OR = 1.88, 95% CI 1.28, 2.77). Our findings suggest that length of residence may have implications for feelings of safety, and that experiences of violence may uniquely contribute to feelings of unsafety among new residents. These findings hold implications for interventions and policy efforts aimed at neighborhood safety improvements through community development, housing, or city urban planning initiatives, particularly for new neighborhood residents or those who experience neighborhood violence.
Keywords: *Exposure to Violence/px [Psychology]; *Exposure to Violence/sn [Statistics & Numerical Data]; *Poverty/px [Psychology]; *Poverty/sn [Statistics & Numerical Data]; *Residence Characteristics/sn [Statistics & Numerical Data]; *Safety/sn [Statistics & Numerical Data]; *Urban Population/sn [Statistics & Numerical Data]; Adult; Age Factors; Aged; Exposure to Violence; Exposure to violence; Female; Humans; Length of residence; Male; Middle Aged; Neighborhood; Perceptions of safety; Poverty; Residence Characteristics; Residential stability; Safety; Urban Population; Violence; Young Adult; adult; age; aged; demography; dept.pch; exposure to violence; female; human; male; middle aged; peer-reviewed; poverty; psychology; safety; urban population; young adult

Postcranial fossils of Ardipithecus ramidus from Gona, Ethiopia - Simpson, Scott W.; Levin, Naomi E.; Quade, Jay; Rogers, Michael J.; Semaw, Sileshi (American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2018)
Keywords: dept.ant; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

A traumatic professorial education: Anti-Zionism and homophobia in a serial campus hate crime - Blackmer, Corinne E. (Anti-Zionism on Campus: The University, Free Speech, and BDS, 2018)
Keywords: dept.eng

Rating of perceived exertion is a stable and appropriate measure of workload in judo. - Bromley, Sally J; Drew, Michael K; McIntosh, Andrew; Talpey, Scott (Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 2018)
OBJECTIVES: Heart rate (HR), blood lactate concentration [La] and/or rating of perceived exertion (RPE) have been utilised to monitor judo training load in technical and randori (competition training) sessions, but are yet to be investigated in mixed sessions containing both elements. Therefore the purpose of this study was to: (1) determine the stability of these variables, and (2) to assess the efficacy of RPE as a load variable for mixed judo sessions., DESIGN: Cross-sectional study., METHODS: Twenty-nine athletes attended two mixed training sessions at an international training camp. Bout and session characteristics, including RPE, physical and mental effort, heart rate (HR) and post-session [La] were recorded. A two-way random-effects intra-class correlation assessed variable stability. Multilevel mixed-effects ordered logistic regression investigated relationships between RPE and other variables for bouts and sessions., RESULTS: Average and minimum HR across sessions correlated highly (ICC=0.95 and 0.94, respectively). Good correlations existed between [La], session-RPE and mental effort, and fair correlation of max HR and physical effort. No relationships existed between [La]/HR and session-RPE. A unit increase in bout-RPE resulted in a 2.09 unit increase in physical, or a 1.36 unit increase in mental, effort holding all other bout variables constant. Gender and competitive level did not influence statistical models., CONCLUSIONS: Results provide further evidence that RPE can be used across a range of competitive levels and genders to monitor workload of mixed sessions and individual randori in judo. Physical effort may play a larger role than mental effort when athletes reflect on exertion during training. Copyright © 2018. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Keywords: *Martial Arts/ph [Physiology]; *Physical Exertion; *Workload; Adolescent; Adult; Athletes; Athletic performance; Combat sport; Cross-Sectional Studies; Epidemiological monitoring; Female; Heart Rate; Humans; Judo; Lactic Acid; Lactic Acid/bl [Blood]; Male; Martial Arts; Martial arts; Physical Exertion; Training load; Workload; Young Adult; adolescent; adult; article; athlete; athletic performance; blood; comparative effectiveness; cross-sectional study; dept.hms; drug efficacy; epidemiological monitoring; exercise; female; gender; heart rate; human; human experiment; human tissue; judo; lactic acid; male; martial art; peer-reviewed; physiology; workload; young adult

Undergraduate organic experiment: Tetrazole formation by microwave heated (3 + 2) cycloaddition in aqueous solution - DeFrancesco, Heather; Dudley, Joshua; Coca, Adiel (Journal of Chemical Education, 2018)
An undergraduate experiment for the organic laboratory is described that utilizes microwave heating to prepare 5-substituted 1H-tetrazole derivatives through a (3 + 2) cycloaddition between aryl nitriles and sodium azide. The reaction mixture is analyzed by thin layer chromatography. The products are purified through an acid–base extraction and recrystallization. Characterization is accomplished using melting point, infrared, 1H NMR, and 13C NMR spectroscopy. Students are tasked with determining and confirming the structure of their product based on their assigned nitrile and characterization data.
Keywords: Acids/Bases; Addition Reactions; Catalysis; Green Chemistry; Hands-On Learning/Manipulatives; Heterocycles; Inquiry-Based/Discovery Learning; Laboratory Instruction; Organic Chemistry; Second-Year Undergraduate; dept.che; peer-reviewed

The human factor: Classification of European community-based behaviour change initiatives - Axon, Stephen; Morrissey, John; Aiesha, Rosita; Hillman, Joanne; Revez, Alexandra; Lennon, Breffní; Salel, Mathieu; Dunphy, Niall; Boo, Eva (Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018)
Behaviour, practices and culture constitute a powerful human factor in the energy system; in particular the interactions between technologies, practices and norms lock individuals in to certain patterns of (often inefficient) energy use. Consequently, behaviour change has gained traction amongst policy makers as a key area of intervention given the impact energy-related behaviours have on climate change. Given the increasing emphasis within policy perspectives in the European Union, it is surprising that a gap in understanding of the success factors of behaviour change initiatives remains. This paper addresses this gap by identifying and characterising behaviour change initiatives across five European countries (the UK, Ireland, France, Italy, and Spain). The paper provides insights into the success factors and commonly encountered barriers to behaviour change initiatives. Initiatives are classified into 6 broad categories (community-based interventions; information and awareness based interventions; eco-districts; show-case events; energy switching; and smart-technology focused interventions). The results suggest that there are significant knowledge gaps between what is known to work to engage individuals in behavioural change and what is currently being applied in practice. An over-reliance on education and awareness-raising projects is evident, illustrating that such projects do not sufficiently aim for sustained behavioural changes. A dearth of projects incorporating fiscal measures, regulations or legislation to drive behaviour change reflects reluctance on behalf of decision-makers to engage widely with diverse approaches to foster lifestyle change. This paper contributes understandings of the different models and delivery tools employed to change energy-related behaviours; insights into the critical success factors that underpin best practice and the barriers to action; and a `what works in practice' overview of the meaningful approaches to change behaviour. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Behaviour change; Behaviour changes; Binary alloys; Climate change; Decision making; Energy; Europe; Human engineering; Interventions; Laws and legislation; Potassium alloys; Practices; Sustainability; Sustainable development; Uranium alloys; dept.egm; peer-reviewed

In-situ Star Formation in the Outskirts of the Large Magellanic Cloud: Gaia DR2 Confirmation. - Casetti-Dinescu, Dana I; Girard, Terrence M; Bidin, Christian Moni; Zhang, Lan; Mendez, Rene A; Vieira, Katherine; Korchagin, Vladimir I; van Altena, William F (The Astrophysical journal, 2018)
We explore the Gaia data release 2 (DR2) proper motions of six young, main-sequence stars, members of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) reported by Moni Bidin et al. These stars are located in the outskirts of the disk, between 7degree and 13degree from the LMC's center where there is very low H I content. Gaia DR2 proper motions confirm that four stars formed locally, in situ, while two are consistent with being expelled via dynamical interactions from inner, more gas-rich regions of the LMC. This finding establishes that recent star formation occurred in the periphery of the LMC, where thus far only old populations were known.
Keywords: Magellanic Clouds; dept.phy; stars: early-type; stars: kinematics and dynamics

A 120-year record of resilience to environmental change in brachiopods - Cross, Emma L.; Harper, Elizabeth M.; Peck, Lloyd S. (Global Change Biology, 2018)
Keywords: dept.egm; peer-reviewed

The first technical sequences in human evolution from East Gona, Afar region, Ethiopia - de Lumley, Henry; Barsky, Deborah; Moncel, Marie Hélène; Carbonell, Eudald; Cauche, Dominique; Celiberti, Vincenzo; Notter, Olivier; Pleurdeau, David; Hong, Mi-Young; Rogers, Michael J.; Semaw, Sileshi (Antiquity, 2018)
Gona in the Afar region of Ethiopia has yielded the earliest Oldowan stone tools in the world. Artefacts from the East Gona (EG) 10 site date back 2.6 million years. Analysis of the lithic assemblage from EG 10 reveals the earliest-known evidence for refitting and conjoining stone artefacts. This new information supplements data from other Oldowan sites in East Africa, and provides an important insight into the technological capacities and evolutionary development of hominins during this period.
Keywords: East Gona; Ethiopia; Oldowan; dept.ant; knapping; peer-reviewed; refitting

A high school replication of targeted professional development for classroom management - Freeman, Jennifer; Kowitt, Jennifer; Simonsen, Brandi; Wei, Yan; Dooley, Kate; Gordon, Lola; Maddock, Eleanor (Remedial and Special Education, 2018)
In areas of emerging research, such as supporting teachers' classroom management, replication of research is critical to ensuring that recommendations for the field are based on sound science and appropriate for the contexts to which they are being applied. This article describes a replication of research on efficient professional development supports for teachers' classroom managements in a new context: high school classrooms. Data did not support a functional relation between teachers' use of specific praise and the targeted professional development and self-management in the high school setting. Results of this study highlight the critical importance of replication in education research. Based on our findings and our experience conducting this study, we suggest several possible adaptations may be necessary for successful replication at the high school level.
Keywords: behavior; dept.rdg; dept.sed; inservice training; management; peer-reviewed; personnel preparation; research methodology; secondary; single-subject; staff development/inservice

Multiple family group service delivery model for children with disruptive behavior disorders: Impact on caregiver stress and depressive symptoms - Gopalan, Geetha; Bornheimer, Lindsay A.; Acri, Mary; Winters, Andrew; O’Brien, Kyle H.; Chacko, Anil (Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2018)
Disproportionately high rates of caregiver stress and depression are found among poverty-impacted communities, with high levels of caregiver stress and depression putting youth at heightened risk for the onset and perpetuation of disruptive behavior disorders. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a behavioral parent training program called the 4Rs and 2Ss for Strengthening Families Program (4R2S) on caregiver stress and depressive symptoms among 320 youth aged 7 to 11 and their families assigned to either the 4R2S or services as usual (SAU) condition. Among caregivers with clinically significant (CS) scores at baseline, 4R2S participants manifested significantly reduced scores on the stress and depressive symptom scores to SAU participants at 6-month follow-up. Findings suggest that 4R2S may reduce caregiver stress and depressive symptoms among those caregivers initially manifesting CS levels of stress or depressive symptoms.
Keywords: dept.rec; dept.swk; peer-reviewed

Contemporary issues: The pre-licensure nursing student and medication errors. - Green, Cheryl (Nurse Education Today, 2018)
In Modern health care, the creation of cultures of safety for patients is of the upmost importance. Impacting the institutional stabilization of health care facilities safety initiatives, is the preparation of pre-licensure nursing students to safely administer medications to patients. Therefore, preparation of the pre-licensure nursing student must be evidence-based practice focused and incorporate innovative ways to reduce the potential for medication errors. Copyright © 2018. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Keywords: *Clinical Competence; *Medication Errors/nu [Nursing]; *Students, Nursing; Clinical Competence; Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; Humans; Licensure, Nursing; Medication Errors; Medication Errors/pc [Prevention & Control]; Medication errors; Pre-licensure nursing students; Prevention; Students, Nursing; adult; clinical competence; dept.nur; drug safety; editorial; evidence based practice center; health care facility; human; licensing; medication error; nursing; nursing education; nursing student; peer-reviewed; prevention and control

Using instrumentation in psychiatric nursing to assess documentation of the nursing process for emergent non-psychiatric patient events. - Green, Cheryl (Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 2018)
Ongoing education of experienced psychiatric nurses is imperative given the historically complex health presentations of psychiatric patients. Psychiatric patients tend to have medical co-morbidities and often do not have the financial resources for preventative health care. The hospitalization for acute psychiatric stabilization, is an opportunity for psychiatric nurses to teach and advocate for patients' physiological and psychological health. Documentation of patients' changes in condition and overall clinical presentation, is necessary to ensure patients' health care needs are met. Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Keywords: *Documentation/st [Standards]; *Inservice Training/mt [Methods]; *Nursing Process; *Psychiatric Nursing; Documentation; Educational Measurement; Educational Measurement/sn [Statistics & Numerical Data]; Hospitalization; Humans; Inservice Training; Nurses; Nursing Process; Nursing process; Patients; Psychiatric Nursing; Psychiatry; Surveys and Questionnaires; adult; article; comorbidity; dept.nur; documentation; education; health care need; hospitalization; human; in service training; mental patient; nurse; nursing process; peer-reviewed; procedures; psychiatric nursing; psychological well-being; questionnaire; standards; statistics and numerical data

Social enterprise as a potential niche innovation breakout for low carbon transition - Hillman, Joanne; Axon, Stephen; Morrissey, John (Energy Policy, 2018)
While there is growing consensus that human behaviours need to change to a more sustainable paradigm, community driven approaches, such as social enterprise, have yet to be explored as serious instruments of sustainability transition. Social enterprises sit within the third sector of the economy, typically where market or governmental failures exist in the provision of social welfare, and have increasingly become a key driver of social progress. The autonomous nature of the social-economic model applied by such organisations can represent a viable means to reduce state social welfare dependence, and is a proven model for social change. The capability of social enterprises to create both social and economic value is considered a `win-win'. Yet there are clear potentials for social enterprise models to be more extensively applied to address contemporary ecological challenges of neo-liberal market economies, moving towards `win-win-win' outcomes across social, economic and ecological domains. This paper investigates the value of social enterprises as drivers of low-carbon transition at the community level, with an emphasis on the energy sector. Evidence from seven organisations in the UK is presented and a socio-technical transitions conceptual framework is applied to analyse these social enterprise operations as a form of social innovation.
Keywords: Behavioral research; Carbon; Commerce; Conceptual frameworks; Ecology; Energy; Innovation; Low-carbon transitions; Social Enterprise; Social enterprise; Social innovations; Socio-technical regimes; Socio-technical transitions; Sustainability Transitions; Sustainability transition; Sustainable development; United Kingdom; carbon; carbon emission; dept.egm; emission control; environmental economics; innovation; sustainability; welfare provision

High-resolution speckle imaging - Howell, Steve B.; Horch, Elliott P. (Physics Today, 2018)
Keywords: dept.phy

The Rise of Silas Lapham: Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism - Howells, William Dean (Norton critical edition, 2018)
Keywords: Fiction; Fiction; Domestic fiction; Psychological fiction; Boston (Mass.); Fiction; Rich people; Fiction; Socialites; Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920. Rise of Silas Lapham; Businessmen; dept.eng

Influence of prenatal pre-exposure to an odor on intake behavior of an aversive solution in newborn rats. - Kamenetzky, Giselle V; Suarez, Andrea B; Ifran, Maria Celeste; Nizhnikov, Michael E; Pautassi, Ricardo M (Neuroscience letters, 2018)
Early pre- or postnatal sensory experiences significantly influence flavor preference and food intake, and can induce liking for innately unpalatable flavors. Previous work found that newborn rats stimulated with an odor experienced shortly after birth exhibited heightened intake and seeking towards an artificial nipple containing quinine. This result suggests that odors made familiar trough early postnatal pre-exposure can shift the motivational value of unconditional stimuli. The objective of the current study was to assess the effect of an odor (lemon) experienced in-utero on the first intake responses towards an artificial nipple supplying quinine. The hypothesis, which was corroborated, was that stimulation with the olfactory stimulus experienced in-utero would increase the newborn's intake and grasp responses to the artificial nipple containing quinine. Exposure to the odor that had been pre-exposed in utero increased quinine intake and seeking (i.e., latency to grasp and total time in contact with the nipple, as well as number of and mean duration of nipple grasps) in 3-h-old pups. These results replicate those previously found with postnatal odor pre-exposure, and extend the phase for pre-exposure to the prenatal stage. Copyright © 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Keywords: *Eating; *Feeding Behavior; *Odorants; *Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects; *Quinine/ad [Administration & Dosage]; Animals; Animals, Newborn; Animals, Suckling; Article; Eating; Feeding Behavior; Female; Male; Neonate rat; Odor pre-exposure; Odorants; Pregnancy; Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects; Prenatal exposure; Quinine; Rats, Sprague-Dawley; Smell; Sprague Dawley rat; animal; animal experiment; aversive agent; controlled study; dept.psy; eating; feeding behavior; female; food intake; fragrance; learning; male; newborn; nipple; nonhuman; odor; peer-reviewed; pregnancy; prenatal exposure; priority journal; quinine; rat; smelling; stimulation; suckling animal

Stigma, housing and identity after prison. - Keene, Danya E; Smoyer, Amy B; Blankenship, Kim M (The Sociological review, 2018)
Existing research suggests that individuals who are released from prison face considerable challenges in obtaining access to safe, stable, and affordable places to live and call home. This article draws on repeated qualitative interviews (conducted every 6 months over a period of 3 years) with 44 formerly incarcerated individuals, to understand how these individuals experience the search for a home after their prison release. The interviews show that the quest for a home is central to participants' reintegration projects as they seek to establish themselves as 'decent' and economically self-sufficient citizens, and shed stigmatized identities associated with incarceration, poverty, homelessness, and place. Interviews also suggest that their quest for a home is an arduous one as they encounter numerous barriers to housing arising from both structural and interpersonal forms of incarceration stigma. Somewhat paradoxically, the challenges that they face in accessing housing seem to hinder their ability to shed the stigmatized identities associated with their incarceration. Ultimately, the narratives presented here show how stigma can restrict access to a valuable material and symbolic resource (housing), resulting in ongoing stigmatization, and contributing to the enduring and discrediting mark of incarceration. In this way, the study illustrates how stigma that is enacted by both individuals and the state, that is embodied in place, and that is internalized and managed by stigmatized individuals themselves, can work to reproduce power and serve as justification for inequality.
Keywords: Housing; Incarceration; Spatial stigma; dept.swk; peer-reviewed

When nostalgia marketing backfires: Gender differences in the impact of nostalgia on youthfulness for older consumers - Kim, Young Kyu; Yim, Mark Yi-Cheon (Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2018)
Two studies are conducted to test how consumers respond differently in feeling nostalgic depending on age and gender. Study 1 uses narrative writing tasks to empirically test the effect of nostalgic versus nonnostalgic feelings on youthfulness by age and gender. To increase the external validity of our findings in Study 1, Study 2 replicates it using print ads. The results across the two studies consistently reveal a significant effect of nostalgia on feelings of youthfulness that differs by age and gender. Specifically, older women tend to feel less youthful than older men when nostalgic feelings are induced in both studies, whereas younger adults experience no gender difference. Results also show that these differences are explained by self-discontinuity between current and ideal body image. Furthermore, we identify that nostalgic feelings in advertising are effective because they generate positive feelings of youthfulness that in turn result in positive attitudes toward the ad.
Keywords: adult; advertising; age; article; body image; consumer; dept.mkt; female; gender; human; human experiment; male; marketing; nostalgia; peer-reviewed; self-discontinuity; sex difference; youthfulness

Pre-play learning and the preference reversal phenomenon - Kim, Younjun; Hoffman, Elizabeth (Southern Economic Journal, 2018)
Elicited preference rankings for two lotteries are typically inconsistent across choice and pricing tasks. We test whether pre-play learning makes preference rankings consistent. Pre-play learning denotes ex-ante lottery learning, where subjects observe playing lotteries before making decisions. We find that pre-play learning makes the average selling prices for the p-bet, of subjects who choose the p-bet, higher than their average selling prices for the $-bet. However, pre-play learning is not strong enough to equalize the rates of standard and non-standard reversals, although pre-play learning reduces the rate of standard reversals.
Keywords: C91; D12; D81; dept.eco; peer-reviewed

Farewell to Naples: Ferrante’s 'Story of a New Name' - Palma, Pina (Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies, 2018)
In Ferrante’s Story of a New Name, the protagonist’s journey to self-knowledge and self-realization is mapped through a farewell trip to Naples before she begins her studies in Pisa. As the centerpiece and background around and against which Elena’s accomplishments, failures, and societal pressures revolve, Naples emerges as a mosaic of energy and lethargy, unbreakable traditions and negligible innovations. While these elements mirror the protagonist’s powerlessness in changing the “norms” to which she is expected to adhere, they also function as her spur to a steady shift toward self-understanding. In this article, I analyze the ways in which Ferrante’s use of the beauty and lure, corrosiveness and lethality of Naples parallel her discourse on the protagonist’s search for self-understanding, a process that will ultimately enable Elena, the protagonist, to find self-realization. © 2018, The Author(s) 2018.
Keywords: authorship; dept.wll; labyrinth; memory; peer-reviewed; reading; self-fulfillment; self-knowledge; urban space

Using intuitive awakening for business students to enhance strategic thinking skills - Prince, Melvin; Priporas, Constantinos (Australasian Marketing Journal (AMJ), 2018)
Keywords: dept.mkt; peer-reviewed

Impact of time interval alignment on data quality in electricity grids - Schwefel, Hans-Peter; Antonios, Imad; Lipsky, Lester (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018)
Measurements of parameters in electricity grids are frequently average values over some time interval. In scenarios of distributed measurements such as in distribution grids, offsets of local clocks can result in the averaging interval being misaligned. This paper investigates the properties of the so-called time alignment error of such measurands that is caused by shifts of the averaging interval. A Markov model is derived that allows for numerically calculating the expected value and other distribution properties of this error. Actual consumption measurements of an office building are used to study the behavior of this time alignment error, and to compare the results from the trace with numerical results and simulations from a fitted Markov model. For increasing averaging interval offset, the time alignment error approaches a normal distribution, whose parameters can be calculated or approximated from the Markov model.
Keywords: Alignment; Clocks; Consumption measurement; Data Quality; Data quality; Distributed measurements; Distribution Grid Measurements; Distribution grid; Distribution property; Electric power transmission networks; Errors; Markov Models; Markov model; Markov processes; Mathematical model; Measurement uncertainty; Normal distribution; Numerical models; Numerical results; Office buildings; Power measurement; Smart power grids; Time Alignment Error; Time alignment; actual consumption measurements; averaging interval offset; data quality; dept.csc; distributed measurements; distribution grids; distribution properties; electricity grids; fitted Markov model; normal distribution; parameter measurement; power grids; power supply quality; power system measurement; time alignment error; time interval alignment

Navigating the evidentiary turn in public health: Sensemaking strategies to integrate genomics into state-level chronic disease prevention programs - Senier, Laura; Smollin, Leandra; Lee, Rachael; Nicoll, Lauren; Shields, Michael; Tan, Catherine (Social Science & Medicine, 2018)
Keywords: dept.soc; peer-reviewed

Intentional multiple mating by females in a species where sneak fertilization circumvents female choice for parental males - Stiver, Kelly A.; Kindsvater, Holly K.; Tamburello, Natascia; Heckman, Kellie L.; Klein, Joanne; Alonzo, Suzanne H. (Journal of Fish Biology, 2018)
This paper describes how individual female ocellated wrasse Symphodus ocellatus distribute their spawning among males and nests in space and time. It is based on previously collected genetic data of larvae from ten different nests (used to reconstruct half and full-sibling groupings both within and among nests on multiple days) and behavioural data of marked females across the reproductive season. Both the genetic analyses and behavioural observations confirm that female S. ocellatus intentionally engage in multiple mating, by repeatedly spawning at the same nest on different days and at several different nests (up to 12 spawning events over 3 weeks), leading to mixed paternity among her young. The main benefit of such high and intentional multiple mating is probably insurance against brood failure due to nest predation, desertion or poor paternal care by the male. These findings reveal that even in systems where females attempt to avoid male-controlled mixed paternity, they may still engage in intentional multiple mating due to these potential benefits. © 2018 The Fisheries Society of the British Isles
Keywords: Animals; Female; Fertilization; Male; Mating Preference, Animal; Paternity; Perciformes; Reproduction; Sexual Behavior, Animal; Symphodus ocellatus; animal; behaviour; dept.psy; female; fertilization; male; mate choice; mating systems; paternity; peer-reviewed; reproduction; sexual behavior; sexual conflict; sexual selection; trade-offs

Reading comprehension and co-teaching practices in middle school English language arts classrooms - Wexler, Jade; Kearns, Devin M.; Lemons, Christopher J.; Mitchell, Marisa; Clancy, Erin; Davidson, Kimberly A.; Sinclair, Anne C.; Wei, Yan (Exceptional Children, 2018)
This study reports practices implemented in over 2,000 minutes by 16 middle school special education and general education co-teaching pairs in English language arts classes. We report the extent to which teachers integrated literacy activities that support reading comprehension, the co-teaching models used, and the frequency with which each teacher led instruction. We also report the types of grouping structures teachers used and the extent to which teachers interacted with students with disabilities. Finally, we report the types of text used. Observations revealed that more than half of time spent on literacy activities involved reading aloud or silently with no co-occurring literacy instruction that supports reading comprehension. Students with disabilities spent a majority of their time in whole-class instruction or working independently with little teacher interaction. Special education teachers spent most of their time supporting whole-class instruction led by the content-area teacher. Implications and directions for future research are provided.
Keywords: dept.rdg; dept.sed; peer-reviewed

A Rapid Method Based on Fluorescence Spectroscopy for Meat Spoilage Detection - Wu, Binlin; Dahlberg, Kevin; Gao, Xin; Smith, Jason; Bailin, Jacob (International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems, 2018)
Food spoilage is mainly caused by microorganisms, such as bacteria. In this study, we measure the autofluorescence in meat samples longitudinally over a week in an attempt to develop a method to rapidly detect meat spoilage using fluorescence spectroscopy. Meat food is a biological tissue, which contains intrinsic fluorophores, such as tryptophan, collagen, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) and flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) etc. As meat spoils, it undergoes various morphological and chemical changes. The concentrations of the native fluorophores present in a sample may change. In particular, the changes in NADH and FAD are associated with microbial metabolism, which is the most important process of the bacteria in food spoilage. Such changes may be revealed by fluorescence spectroscopy and used to indicate the status of meat spoilage. Therefore, such native fluorophores may be unique, reliable and non-subjective indicators for detection of spoiled meat. The results of the study show that the relative concentrations of all above fluorophores change as the meat samples kept in room temperature (~19°C) spoil. The changes become more rapidly after about two days. For the meat samples kept in a freezer (~ -12°C), the changes are much less or even unnoticeable over a-week-long storage.
Keywords: Amino acids; Autofluorescence; Bacteria; Biological tissues; Collagen; Flavin adenine dinucleotide; Fluorescence; Fluorescence spectroscopy; Fluorophores; Food microbiology; Meats; Metabolism; Microbial metabolism; NADH; Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotides; Nucleotides; Relative concentration; Spoilage; bacteria; collagen; dept.phy; fluorescence spectroscopy; meat food; microbial metabolism; peer-reviewed; tryptophan

Optical biopsy for prostate cancer diagnosis using fluorescence spectroscopy - Wu, Binlin; Gao, Xin; Smith, Jason (International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems, 2018)
Native fluorescence spectra are acquired from fresh normal and cancerous human prostate tissues. The fluorescence data are analyzed using an unsupervised machine learning algorithm such as non-negative matrix factorization. The nonnegative spectral components are retrieved and attributed to the native fluorophores such as collagen, reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH), and flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) in tissue. The retrieved scores of the components are used to estimate the relative concentrations of the native fluorophores such as NADH and FAD and the redox ratio. A supervised machine learning algorithm such as support vector machine (SVM) is used to classify normal and cancerous tissue samples based on either the relative concentrations of NADH and FAD or the redox ratio alone. Various statistical measures such as sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy, along with the area under receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve are used to show the classification performance. A cross validation method such as leave-one-out is used to further evaluate the predictive performance of the SVM classifier to avoid bias due to overfitting, and the accuracy was found to be 93.3%.
Keywords: Biopsy; Diseases; FAD; Factorization; Fluorescence; Fluorescence spectroscopy; Fluorophores; Learning algorithms; Learning systems; Machine learning; Matrix algebra; NADH; Nonnegative matrix factorization; Nucleotides; Optical biopsies; Optical emission spectroscopy; Prostate cancer; Prostate cancers; Redox ratio; Supervised learning; Support vector machines; Tissue; Urology; dept.phy; fluorescence spectroscopy; intrinsic tissue emission; machine learning; nonnegative matrix factorization; optical biopsy; peer-reviewed; redox ratio; support vector machine

Emission tax and market power - Yoon, Sang Won (Atlantic Economic Journal, 2018)
Keywords: L13; Q00; dept.eco; peer-reviewed

An Evaluation of Reach for a Work Site Implementation of the National Diabetes Prevention Program Focusing on Diet and Exercise. - Zigmont, Victoria A; Shoben, Abigail B; Kaye, Gail L; Snow, Richard J; Clinton, Steven K; Harris, Randall E; Olivo-Marston, Susan E (American journal of health promotion : AJHP, 2018)
PURPOSE: Our objective is to evaluate the "reach" component of the Reach Effectiveness Adoption Implementation Maintenance (RE-AIM) framework by comparing prediabetics who were and were not interested in enrolling in a free work site diabetes prevention program (DPP) during the first year of the program. Reach is defined as the proportion of eligible participants who enroll in a health program., DESIGN: A cross-sectional study design was used., SETTING: The setting was a large health system in the Midwest., PARTICIPANTS: Prediabetic health plan enrollees and spouses (N = 2158)., MEASURES: An online health survey, annual voluntary biometric screenings delivered by a trained health-care professional using standardized protocols via point-of-care testing, and records from the DPP office were the sources of data for this study., ANALYSIS: Health behaviors and biometric screening results were simultaneously compared using multivariable logistic regression., RESULTS: The study population was 63% female, 79% white, and 16% black, and the mean age was 50.2 years (SD = 10.2). The reach of this program was 10%. Prediabetics were more likely to express interest in the DPP, if they were female (adjusted odds ratio [AOR]: 2.4; 95% confidence interval [95% CI]: 1.55-3.72; P < .001), black (AOR = 2.23; 95% CI: 1.43-3.47; P < .001), older in age (AOR: 1.08; 95% CI: 0.99-1.17; P = .05), or had a high-risk waist circumference (AOR = 1.44; 95% CI: 0.98-2.13; P = .07), lower self-efficacy to make healthy changes (AOR = 0.48; 95% CI: 0.26-0.91; P = .03), and 5 or more doctor visits in the last year (AOR = 2.13; 95% CI: 0.99-4.57; P = .05), after controlling for other covariates., CONCLUSION: Current recruitment and implementation strategies are reaching only a small group of individuals who are not representative of the larger prediabetic population. These findings inform future engagement strategies, and we recommend that public health practitioners evaluate reach to ensure that health promotion programs are of high value.
Keywords: *Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/pc [Prevention & Control]; *Diet/px [Psychology]; *Exercise/px [Psychology]; *Health Promotion/mt [Methods]; *Healthy Lifestyle; *Occupational Health; *Workplace/px [Psychology]; Adult; Cross-Sectional Studies; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2; Diet; Exercise; Female; Health Promotion; Healthy Lifestyle; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Midwestern United States; Occupational Health; Program Evaluation; RE-AIM framework; United States; Workplace; adult; cross-sectional study; dept.pch; diabetes prevention program; diet; evaluation study; exercise; female; health promotion; healthy lifestyle; human; male; middle aged; non insulin dependent diabetes mellitus; occupational health; peer-reviewed; prediabetes; procedures; program evaluation; psychology; work site health promotion; workplace

Lateral Flow Assessment and Unanticipated Toxicity of Kratom - Smith, L.C.; Lin, L.; Hwang, C.S.; Zhou, B.; Kubitz, D.M.; Wang, H.; Janda, K.D. (Chemical Research in Toxicology, 2019)
The leaves of the Mitragynine speciosia tree (also known as Kratom) have long been chewed, smoked, or brewed into a tea by people in Southeastern Asian countries, such as Malaysia and Thailand. Just this past year, the plant Kratom gained popularity in the United States as a "legal opioid" and scheduling it as a drug of abuse is currently pending. The primary alkaloid found in Kratom is a μ-opioid receptor agonist, mitragynine, whose structure contains a promising scaffold for immunopharmacological use. Although Kratom is regarded as a safe opioid alternative, here we report the LD 50 values determined for its two main psychoactive alkaloids, mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine, as comparable to heroin in mice when administered intravenously. Given Kratom's recent emergence in the U.S., there is currently no diagnostic test available for law enforcement or health professionals, so we sought to design such an assay. Mitragynine was used as a starting point for hapten design, resulting in a hapten with an ether linker extending from the C9 position of the alkaloid. Bacterial flagellin (FliC) was chosen as a carrier protein for active immunization in mice, yielding 32 potential monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) for assay development. Antimitragynine mAbs in the range of micro- to nanomolar affinities were uncovered and their utility in producing a convenient lateral flow detection assay of human fluid samples was examined. Antibodies were screened for binding to mitragynine, 7-hydroxymitragynine, and performance in lateral flow assays. Two monoclonal antibodies were subcloned and further purified with 93 and 362 nM affinity to mitragynine. Test strip assays were optimized with a detection cut off of 0.5 μg/mL for mitragynine in buffer and urine (reflecting projected clinically relevant levels of drug in urine), which could be beneficial to law enforcement agencies and health professionals as the opioid epidemic in America continues to evolve. © 2018 American Chemical Society.
Keywords: 7-hydroxymitragynine; Animals; Antibodies, Monoclonal; Article; Injections, Intravenous; Mice; Mitragyna; Mitragynine specsa; Molecular Conformation; Plant Extracts; Plant Leaves; Rauwolfia alkaloid; Secologanin Tryptamine Alkaloids; Surface Plasmon Resonance; active immunization; animal; animal experiment; animal model; biosynthesis; chemistry; conformation; controlled study; dept.che; female; flagellin; flow measurement; hapten; intravenous drug administration; mitragynine; monoclonal antibody; mouse; nonhuman; peer-reviewed; plant; plant extract; plant leaf; surface plasmon resonance

A Study on Cloud Computing Adoption Within Small and Mid-Size Businesses (smbs) - Richardson, Anthony; Mate, Geoffrey (International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research, 2018)
A growing number of organizations have difficulty scaling-up their IT infrastructure to handle their growing needs and increased resource demands. Digital Technology Platforms (DTPs) have been identified by Gartner, Inc. as one of the top 10 strategic technology trends of 2017. While DTPs may be mainstream and easily adopted by large enterprise-sized organizations, there is an opportunity for such platforms within Small and Mid-Size Businesses (SMBs). The bottom line is that computing and server hardware is expensive for SMBs. Furthermore, it may be difficult for SMBs to assess and price the labor and resources needed for a company to have acceptable performance while controlling costs. The purpose of this paper is to examine how cloud computing technologies are adopted by SMBs and the respective drivers associated with costs and capability that may reduce costs for an organization. This paper explores how four variables – Robust Capability, Limited Capability, Cost Constraint, and Resource Abundance interact to impact the adoption of DTPs within SMBs. Adopters of DTPs are classified as Efficient, Proactive, Resistive, and Reactive. With respect to adoption efficacy, a model is proposed for assessing the capability and resource readiness as correlated to SMB adoption of DTPs. A study of 12 SMBs and the implementations of DTPs is presented and posited with the proposed adoption model. Due to the extensive investments required in procuring infrastructure services –adoption enablement is imperative for SMB-sized organizations to realize a return on investment. Implications are discussed.
Keywords: dept.bis; dept.mgt; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Bullying in the library workplace - Kim, Hak Joon; Geary, Carol Anne; Bielefield, Arlene (Library Leadership & Management, 2018)
The primary purposes of the study were to investigate how often bullying occurs in libraries and whether bullying policies exist in libraries. The first survey questionnaire was sent to library personnel in the six New England states through statewide email distribution lists. Altogether 571 library staff members completed the survey. The second survey questionnaire was sent to large public and academic libraries in New England to see if they have anti-bullying policies in the workplace. The results of the study clearly showed there were significant reports of workplace bullying in all kinds of libraries. Nonetheless, not many libraries have policies that deal with this workplace challenge.
Keywords: bullying; bullying polices; dept.ils; library policies; workplace bullying

Science and technology in Hawthorne’s short fiction - Ellis, Scott (Nathaniel Hawthorne in the College Classroom: Contexts, Materials, and Approaches, 2018)
This new work is currently the only book devoted to the teaching of one of the most canonical and frequently taught American authors.In addition to a Preface by the noted Hawthorne scholar Larry J. Reynolds [University Distinguished Professor and Thomas Franklin Mayo Professor of Liberal Arts Department of English Texas A&M University] the contributors include well-known and rising teacher-scholars who offer theoretical and pedagogical approaches to Hawthorne's four published novels and a wide range of his short stories.The specially commissioned essays are designed to help teachers meet students at points of genuine interest and need. They incorporate biographical, literary, historical, and multidisciplinary scholarship. The studies are further grounded in specific contexts such as literature surveys, interdisciplinary humanities courses, upper division literature seminars, and study abroad courses.Special emphasis is given to the issues of gender, science, and visual culture (including film adaptations). Offering both theoretical and practical classroom resources, this anthology confirms the continued vitality of Hawthorne's work - his critiques of religious and moral authority are more relevant than ever in today's global political environment - even as it showcases how today's "Hawthorne" is more of a diverse amalgam of texts and perspectives than ever before. Given its diversity of approaches and authors (including essayists from Germany, Israel, and Sweden), Nathaniel Hawthorne in the College Classroom charts new paths for reading and teaching Hawthorne in the 21st century.
Keywords: dept.eng

275 candidates and 149 validated planets orbiting bright stars in K 2 campaigns 0–10 - Mayo, Andrew W.; Vanderburg, Andrew; Latham, David W.; Bieryla, Allyson; Morton, Timothy D.; Buchhave, Lars A.; Dressing, Courtney D.; Beichman, Charles; Berlind, Perry; Calkins, Michael L.; Ciardi, David R.; Crossfield, Ian J. M.; et al. (The Astronomical Journal, 2018)
Since 2014, NASA's K2 mission has observed large portions of the ecliptic plane in search of transiting planets and has detected hundreds of planet candidates. With observations planned until at least early 2018, K2 will continue to identify more planet candidates. We present here 275 planet candidates observed during Campaigns 0-10 of the K2 mission that are orbiting stars brighter than 13 mag (in Kepler band) and for which we have obtained high-resolution spectra (R = 44,000). These candidates are analyzed using the vespa package in order to calculate their false-positive probabilities (FPP). We find that 149 candidates are validated with an FPP lower than 0.1%, 39 of which were previously only candidates and 56 of which were previously undetected. The processes of data reduction, candidate identification, and statistical validation are described, and the demographics of the candidates and newly validated planets are explored. We show tentative evidence of a gap in the planet radius distribution of our candidate sample. Comparing our sample to the Kepler candidate sample investigated by Fulton et al., we conclude that more planets are required to quantitatively confirm the gap with K2 candidates or validated planets. This work, in addition to increasing the population of validated K2 planets by nearly 50% and providing new targets for follow-up observations, will also serve as a framework for validating candidates from upcoming K2 campaigns and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, expected to launch in 2018. © 2018. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
Keywords: dept.phy; methods: data analysis; peer-reviewed; planets and satellites: detection; techniques: photometric

Substance use, anxiety, and depressive symptoms among college students - Walters, Kenneth S.; Bulmer, Sandra Minor; Troiano, Peter F.; Obiaka, Uzoma; Bonhomme, Rebecca (Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2018)
Research on college substance use and mental illness is limited and inconsistent. Measures of substance use, and anxiety and depressive symptoms, were completed by 1,316 undergraduates within a major drug transportation corridor. Hierarchical linear regressions were used to test associations between anxious and depressive symptoms and substance use (i.e., alcohol, cannabis, tobacco, cocaine, other amphetamines, sedatives, hallucinogens, and designer drugs). Depressive symptoms were associated with use of cannabis, tobacco, amphetamines, cocaine, sedatives, and hallucinogens. Anxiety symptoms were unrelated to substance use. These findings support the need for education and prevention at universities, emphasizing tobacco, cannabis, and certain “harder” drugs.
Keywords: anxiety; college students; depression; dept.hhs; dept.psy; mental health; peer-reviewed; substance use

Review of 'Ecological crisis and cultural representation in Latin America: Ecocritical perspectives on art, film and literature' - Flores, William (Hispania-a Journal Devoted to the Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese, 2018)
Keywords: dept.wll; peer-reviewed

Higher education and disability: A systematic review of assessment instruments designed for students, faculty, and staff - Lombardi, Allison; Gelbar, Nicholas; Dukes, III, Lyman L.; Kowitt, Jennifer; Wei, Yan; Madaus, Joseph; Lalor, Adam R.; Faggella-Luby, Michael (Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2018)
In this study, the literature in disability and higher education was examined, with a specific focus on assessment instruments. Published articles (n = 203) on development of new or refinement of existing instruments were reviewed for traits measured and psychometric rigor reported. Findings showed instruments are intended for professionals and students, and of the student instruments, broad categories are academic, nonacademic, and specific to a disability diagnosis. Not all instruments are limited to students with disabilities; many of the reviewed instruments can be utilized in higher-education settings on all students, faculty, and staff, regardless of disability. The implications of the findings undergird the urgency to prioritize disability as a facet of diversity within higher-education scholarship, and furthermore aid this prioritization by providing a catalogue of robust instruments to researchers and practitioners.
Keywords: Disability; assessment; campus climate; dept.rdg; dept.sed; peer-reviewed; program evaluation

Chemical abundances in the leading arm of the Magellanic stream - Fox, Andrew J.; Barger, Kathleen A.; Wakker, Bart P.; Richter, Philipp; Antwi-Danso, Jacqueline; Casetti-Dinescu, Dana I.; Howk, J. Christopher; Lehner, Nicolas; D’Onghia, Elena; Crowther, Paul A.; Lockman, Felix J. (The Astrophysical Journal, 2018)
The Leading Arm (LA) of the Magellanic Stream is a vast debris field of H i clouds connecting the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds. It represents an example of active gas accretion onto the Galaxy. Previously, only one chemical abundance measurement had been made in the LA. Here we present chemical abundance measurements using Hubble Space Telescope/Cosmic Origins Spectrograph and Green Bank Telescope spectra of four AGN sightlines passing through the LA and three nearby sightlines that may trace outer fragments of the LA. We find low oxygen abundances, ranging from 4.0-2.0+2.0% solar to 12.6-4.16.0% solar, in the confirmed LA directions, with the lowest values found in the region known as LA III, farthest from the LMC. These abundances are substantially lower than the single previous measurement, S/H =35 ±7% solar, but are in agreement with those reported in the SMC filament of the trailing Stream, supporting a common origin in the SMC (not the LMC) for the majority of the LA and trailing Stream. This provides important constraints for models of the formation of the Magellanic System. Finally, two of the three nearby sightlines show high-velocity clouds with H i columns, kinematics, and oxygen abundances consistent with LA membership. This suggests that the LA is larger than traditionally thought, extending at least 20° further to the Galactic northwest. © 2018. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Galaxy: evolution; Galaxy: halo; ISM: abundances; Magellanic Clouds; dept.phy; quasars: absorption lines

War and Environment - Smith, Jason W. (The Routledge History of Global War and Society, 2018)
Scholars have offered at least four distinct but interrelated conceptual frameworks for examining the relationship between militaries and the natural world.
Keywords: dept.his

Resonance raman imaging for detecting and monitoring molecular pathological changes in human brain tumors related to Warburg effect - Zhou, Yan; Liu, Cheng-hui; Zhu, Ke; Zhang, Chunyuan; Yang, Yang; Yu, Xinguang; Hu, Hailong; Cheng, Gangge; Wu, Binlin; Shi, Lingyan; Alfano, Robert R. (Optical Biopsy XVI: Toward Real-Time Spectroscopic Imaging and Diagnosis, 2018)
The goal of the research is to determine the prognostic molecular pathological changes in components and composition, for human brain glioma gradings in comparison with normal tissues in three-dimensional Raman imaging profiles by visible Resonance Raman (VRR) imaging. VRR images from twenty-five specimens including three healthy tissues, one normal control, and twenty-one glioma tissues of grades II, II-III and III-IV with histology examination were measured and investigated using WITec300R confocal micro Raman imaging system with laser excitation of 532nm. Two-dimensional RR spectral mappings performed in 20μm x 20μm generated 400 images which integrated the intensity of the specific biochemical bonds as the third dimension. The three-dimension (3D) map demonstrated the spatial distributions of three selected sets of RR spectra of molecular biomarkers, and revealed significant differences in the spectra between normal and glioma tissues of different grades due to the composition changes in key molimageecules. These RR molecular spectral fingerprints have displayed: a clear enhancement of RR vibrational modes at 1129-1131cm-1 and 2934cm-1 which are supposed to be arising from lipoproteins; evident decreased RR vibrational modes at 1442cm-1 and 2854cm-1 which are from saturated fatty acids bonds in all-grades of glioma brain tissues compared with normal tissues; and the enhanced RR spectral modes of 1129 cm-1 and 2938cm-1 which suggest contribution from lactate. These findings may provide a novel proof for anaerobic glycolysis metabolic process in brain glioma cancer tissues that has been explained by Warburg effects.
Keywords: 2-d imaging; 2D imaging; Biopsy; Brain; Gliomas; Histology; Human Brain Tissues; Human brain; Laser excitation; Molecular imaging; Resonance; Resonance Raman; Saturated fatty acids; Tumors; Visible resonance Raman (VRR); Warburg effect; Warburg effects; dept.phy

Statistical analysis and machine learning algorithms for optical biopsy - Wu, Binlin; Liu, Cheng-hui; Boydston-White, Susie; Beckman, Hugh; Sriramoju, Vidyasagar; Sordillo, Laura; Zhang, Chunyuan; Zhang, Lin; Shi, Lingyan; Smith, Jason; Bailin, Jacob; Alfano, Robert R. (Optical Biopsy XVI: Toward Real-Time Spectroscopic Imaging and Diagnosis, 2018)
Analyzing spectral or imaging data collected with various optical biopsy methods is often times difficult due to the complexity of the biological basis. Robust methods that can utilize the spectral or imaging data and detect the characteristic spectral or spatial signatures for different types of tissue is challenging but highly desired. In this study, we used various machine learning algorithms to analyze a spectral dataset acquired from human skin normal and cancerous tissue samples using resonance Raman spectroscopy with 532nm excitation. The algorithms including principal component analysis, nonnegative matrix factorization, and autoencoder artificial neural network are used to reduce dimension of the dataset and detect features. A support vector machine with a linear kernel is used to classify the normal tissue and cancerous tissue samples. The efficacies of the methods are compared.
Keywords: Artificial neural network; Biological basis; Biopsy; Cancer diagnosis; Cancerous tissues; Factorization; Learning algorithms; Learning systems; Least squares approximations; Machine learning; Matrix algebra; Neural networks; Nonnegative matrix factorization; Optical biopsies; Optical biopsy; Partial least square (PLS); Partial least squares; Principal component analysis; Resonance Raman spectroscopy; Spatial signature; Support vector machine; Support vector machines; Tissue; Tissue engineering; dept.phy

Characterization and discrimination of human breast cancer and normal breast tissues using resonance Raman spectroscopy - Wu, Binlin; Smith, Jason; Zhang, Lin; Gao, Xin; Alfano, Robert R. (Optical Biopsy XVI: Toward Real-Time Spectroscopic Imaging and Diagnosis, 2018)
Worldwide breast cancer incidence has increased by more than twenty percent in the past decade. It is also known that in that time, mortality due to the affliction has increased by fourteen percent. Using optical-based diagnostic techniques, such as Raman spectroscopy, has been explored in order to increase diagnostic accuracy in a more objective way along with significantly decreasing diagnostic wait-times. In this study, Raman spectroscopy with 532-nm excitation was used in order to incite resonance effects to enhance Stokes Raman scattering from unique biomolecular vibrational modes. Seventy-two Raman spectra (41 cancerous, 31 normal) were collected from nine breast tissue samples by performing a ten-spectra average using a 500-ms acquisition time at each acquisition location. The raw spectral data was subsequently prepared for analysis with background correction and normalization. The spectral data in the Raman Shift range of 750- 2000 cm-1 was used for analysis since the detector has highest sensitivity around in this range. The matrix decomposition technique nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) was then performed on this processed data. The resulting leave-oneout cross-validation using two selective feature components resulted in sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of 92.6%, 100% and 96.0% respectively. The performance of NMF was also compared to that using principal component analysis (PCA), and NMF was shown be to be superior to PCA in this study. This study shows that coupling the resonance Raman spectroscopy technique with subsequent NMF decomposition method shows potential for high characterization accuracy in breast cancer detection.
Keywords: Background correction; Biopsy; Breast Cancer; Breast cancer; Breast cancer detection; Cancer diagnosis; Couplings; Decomposition methods; Diagnostic techniques; Diseases; Factorization; Learning systems; Machine learning; Matrix algebra; Molecular optical pathology; Nonnegative matrix factorization; Principal component analysis; Principal component analysis (PCA); Raman scattering; Raman spectroscopy; Resonance; Resonance Raman spectroscopy; Spectrum analysis; Support vector machine; Support vector machines; Tissue; dept.phy

Firm risk and proxy fights: Evidence from SOX - Chen, Fang; Huang, Jian; Yu, Han (Accounting and Finance Research, 2018)
The Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) is documented to curb executive risk-taking and firm risk. Utilizing SOX as an exogenous shock on firm risk, we find that proxy fight threats are positively related to a firm’s total risk and idiosyncratic risk. Specifically, although firm risk generally decreases post-SOX, high proxy fight threats mitigate this change in firm risk. We also find that although firms adopt more conservative policies such as decreasing their leverage and payout post-SOX, these changes are mitigated by proxy fight threats. In sum, our findings indicate that proxy fights act as an external disciplinary mechanism, encourage executive risk-taking, and increase firm risk.
Keywords: dept.eco; dept.fin; peer-reviewed

Muscle strength assessment - Axtell, Robert S. (ACSM's Exercise Testing and Prescription, 2018)
ACSM’S Exercise Testing and Prescription adapts and expands upon the assessment and exercise prescription-related content from ACSM’s Resource Manual for Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription, 7th Edition, to create a true classroom resource. Fully aligned with the latest edition of ACSM’s flagship title, ACSM’s Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription , this practical resource walks students through the process of selecting and administering fitness assessments, using Guidelines to interpret results, and drafting an exercise prescription that is in line with Guidelines parameters .Designed for today’s learners, the text is written in a clear, concise style, and enriched by visuals that promote student engagement. As an American College of Sports Medicine publication, the book offers the unsurpassed quality and excellence that has become synonymous with titles by the leading exercise science organization in the world.The nuances of fitness assessment and the particulars of crafting exercise prescriptions are explored in expansive sections throughout the book.A full section devoted to Special Populations prepares students to meet the needs of the full range of both typically healthy and special needs clients they’ll see in practice.Comprehensive case studies written by experts to reinforce practical applications of concepts.A wide range of online resources includes laboratory materials and activities that provide opportunities for hands-on learning, and a library of journal articles that helps students connect research to practice.100% alignment with the most up-to-date version of the ACSM’s Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription enhances the learning experience, making it easy to go back and forth between Guidelines and the text.eBook available. Fast, smart, and convenient, today’s eBooks can transform learning. These interactive, fully searchable tools offer 24/7 access on multiple devices, the ability to highlight and share notes, and much more.
Keywords: dept.hms

Special considerations for the lifespan: Elderly population - Robertson, M.I.; Axtell, Robert (ACSM's Exercise Testing and Prescription, 2018)
ACSM’S Exercise Testing and Prescription adapts and expands upon the assessment and exercise prescription-related content from ACSM’s Resource Manual for Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription, 7th Edition, to create a true classroom resource. Fully aligned with the latest edition of ACSM’s flagship title, ACSM’s Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription , this practical resource walks students through the process of selecting and administering fitness assessments, using Guidelines to interpret results, and drafting an exercise prescription that is in line with Guidelines parameters .Designed for today’s learners, the text is written in a clear, concise style, and enriched by visuals that promote student engagement. As an American College of Sports Medicine publication, the book offers the unsurpassed quality and excellence that has become synonymous with titles by the leading exercise science organization in the world.The nuances of fitness assessment and the particulars of crafting exercise prescriptions are explored in expansive sections throughout the book.A full section devoted to Special Populations prepares students to meet the needs of the full range of both typically healthy and special needs clients they’ll see in practice.Comprehensive case studies written by experts to reinforce practical applications of concepts.A wide range of online resources includes laboratory materials and activities that provide opportunities for hands-on learning, and a library of journal articles that helps students connect research to practice.100% alignment with the most up-to-date version of the ACSM’s Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription enhances the learning experience, making it easy to go back and forth between Guidelines and the text.eBook available. Fast, smart, and convenient, today’s eBooks can transform learning. These interactive, fully searchable tools offer 24/7 access on multiple devices, the ability to highlight and share notes, and much more.
Keywords: dept.hms

Boron reagents in synthesis - Coca, Adiel (ACS Symposium Series, 2018)
Boron compounds have been used extensively in organic synthesis for more than sixty years. Some of the best known reactions in synthesis, such as the Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling and the hydroboration reaction, involve boron compounds. Several natural products containing boron have been isolated in the last fifty years, including ionophoric macrodiolide antibiotics boromycin, borophycin, aplasmomycins A, B, and C, and tartrolons B, C, and E, as well as autoinducer-2. The study of compounds containing boronic acids for application in pharmaceuticals and materials science has grown tremendously over the last few decades. These include bortezomib, ixazomib, and tavaborole. Several more boron-based drugs are currently in clinical trials. Boron neutron capture therapy has the potential to provide a treatment for various cancers. In addition, materials bearing boronic acids are been studied as potential sensors for biological molecules, such as saccharides and glycoproteins that possess cis-1,2- or cis-1,3-diols.
Keywords: dept.che

Azimuthal transverse single-spin asymmetries of inclusive jets and charged pions within jets from polarized-proton collisions at √s = 500 GeV - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review D, 2018)
We report the first measurements of transverse single-spin asymmetries for inclusive jet and jet+π± production at midrapidity from transversely polarized proton-proton collisions at √s=500 GeV. The data were collected in 2011 with the STAR detector sampled from 23 pb−1 integrated luminosity with an average beam polarization of 53%. Asymmetries are reported for jets with transverse momenta 6<pT<55 GeV/c and pseudorapidity |η|<1. Presented are measurements of the inclusive-jet azimuthal transverse single-spin asymmetry, sensitive to twist-3 initial-state quark-gluon correlators; the Collins asymmetry, sensitive to quark transversity coupled to the polarized Collins fragmentation function; and the first measurement of the “Collins-like” asymmetry, sensitive to linearly polarized gluons. Within the present statistical precision, inclusive-jet and Collins-like asymmetries are small, with the latter allowing the first experimental constraints on gluon linear polarization in a polarized proton. At higher values of jet transverse momenta, we observe the first nonzero Collins asymmetries in polarized-proton collisions, with a statistical significance of greater than 5σ. The results span a range of x similar to results from semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering but at much higher Q2. The Collins results enable tests of universality and factorization breaking in the transverse momentum-dependent formulation of perturbative quantum chromodynamics.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Urban tween talk about using mobile phones for learning - Arafeh, Sousan; Kuszpa, M; Weller, M; Mitchell, T (Mobile Learning: Perspectives on Practice and Policy, 2018)
There can be no doubt that mobile technologies are here to stay. Global mobile traffic grew 74 percent in 2015 alone, with 563 million devices and connections added -- most of them tablets and Smartphones. This growth has been 4000-fold in the past 10 years and 400 million-fold in the past 15 years (Cisco, 2016). Mobile technologies permeate the lives of 21st century citizens as mainstays of organizational and institutional day-to-day operations, commerce, and communication and as tools used to support individuals' personal, social, and career responsibilities. In both the corporate and educational worlds, e- and m-learning and marketing with mobile technologies are moving forward at breakneck speed with, in many cases, a blurring of traditional sector boundaries. As neither the technology nor the uses are static, exploring practices and policies that underpin this quickly shifting mobile technology context is crucial for ensuring its intelligent, purposeful, and equitable use. This edited book provides a venue for researchers to share their work on mobile learning with a focus on uses for mobiles in informal settings and PK-20 classrooms, language learning, mobile gaming, leadership and policy issues, and what mobile learning in the future may be. It assists researchers and educators to consider and answer questions such as: What is "mobilelearning" today How can mobiles be used to enable learning How is mobile learning crossing or connecting economic, social, and/or cultural sectors How do specific cultural practices with media influence mobile learning (e.g
Keywords: dept.edl

New nursing faculty and incivility: applying mindfulness-based strategies - Green, Cheryl (Holistic Nursing Practice, 2018)
Workplace incivility remains a problem within the nursing profession. As nurse leaders, we must recognize and not ignore the complexity of cultures that have adapted incivility into the work environment. Nursing education is a discipline that requires collaborative team work, independent drive, and commitment. New nursing faculty experiencing incivility can use mindfulness-based meditation approaches to cope with uncivil behaviors experienced within the workplace. Nurse educators applying the concepts of mindfulness can learn how to provide themselves self-care by reducing stress, as enhanced daily awareness of peace and calm are incorporated into their lifestyle. Mindfulness provides a realization that control can only be given to other persons when an individual allows or accepts another's negative behaviors. Awareness of the value and importance of oneself can assist the nurse educator experiencing incivility to maintain his or her emotional, physical, and spiritual health despite the volatility of the work environment.
Keywords: Attitude of Health Personnel; Bullying; Faculty, Nursing; Humans; Incivility; Interprofessional Relations; Mindfulness; Stress, Psychological; Universities; Workplace; academia; adult; awareness; bullying; complication; dept.nur; etiology; female; health personnel attitude; human; human experiment; incivility; leadership; lifestyle; male; meditation; mental stress; mindfulness; nursing education; nursing faculty; occupation; organization and management; peer-reviewed; psychology; public relations; self care; standards; stress; teamwork; trends; university; work environment; workplace

Relational communication and illusionary loyalty: Moderating role of self-construal - Hossain, Mehdi T; Chonko, Lawrence B (Industrial Marketing Management, 2018)
In this research we demonstrate how various facets of communication influence customer loyalty in a B2B selling environment. Palmatier, Scheer, and Steenkamp (2007) show that salesperson owned loyalty (customers' loyalty specific to the salesperson) can be differentiated from customers' overall loyalty to the firm. We demonstrate how various facets of communication differentially influence salesperson owned loyalty and loyalty to the firm. We find that greater bidirectional flow of communication enhances both salesperson owned loyalty and customers' loyalty to firm. However, greater frequency of communication enhances only salesperson owned loyalty. Formality in communication negatively influences salesperson owned loyalty and positively influence customers' loyalty to firm. In addition, we find an interesting moderation effect of these relationships by customers' self-construal. Theoretical and practical implications of our findings are discussed.
Keywords: Communication facets; Loyalty to firm; Relationship marketing; Salesperson owned loyalty; Self construal; dept.mkt; peer-reviewed

What is the evidence for use of a supplemental feeding tube device as an alternative supplemental feeding method for breastfed infants? - Penny, Frances; Judge, Michelle; Brownell, Elizabeth; McGrath, Jacqueline M. (Advances in Neonatal Care, 2018)
Background: According to the Healthy People 2020 goals, the sustainability of breastfeeding duration rates within the United States has not been achieved. To increase these rates, it is important that women with breastfeeding difficulties receive the support needed to continue breastfeeding. When supplementation occurs, it is essential that the breastfeeding relationship be preserved. Various methods of supplementation are often recommended including use of the supplemental feeding tube device (SFTD). Purpose: The question guiding this brief is “What evidence exists to support the use of an SFTD as a method of supplementation for breastfed infants?” Search Strategy: The PubMed and CINAHL databases were queried for original research published in English from 1990 through July 2016. Search terms included “supplemental feeding tube,” “breastfeeding,” “term infants,” “premature infants,” “Supplemental Nursing System,” “Lact-aid,” and “supply line.” Findings: Very limited research exists on the use of SFTDs as a method of supplementation for breastfed infants; however, existing research suggests that an SFTD may be useful as a supplementation method for breastfed infants. High-quality research is needed to evaluate the efficacy of using an SFTD for supporting exclusive and all breastfeeding rates. Implications for Practice: Nurses and providers need to be educated and trained in the use of SFTDs as well as all supplemental feeding methods. Information on efficacy and SFTD use should also be included in policies related to breastfeeding and human milk use. Implications for Research: Further research should determine best methods of supplementation for breastfed infants and should examine differences in breastfeeding rates when using the SFTD for supplementation.
Keywords: Breast Feeding; Breastfeeding; Dietary Supplements; Enteral Nutrition; Humans; Infant, Newborn; Nursing Care; Treatment Outcome; breast feeding; breastfeeding support; breastmilk; dept.nur; dietary supplement; enteric feeding; human; human milk; newborn; newborn intensive care; nursing care; peer-reviewed; preterm infant; procedures; supplemental feeding; supplemental feeding device; treatment outcome

Implementing the developmental school counseling core curriculum in the classroom - Perusse, R.; Parzych, Jennifer L.; Erford, Bradley T. (Transforming the School Counseling Profession, 2018)
Transforming the way thousands of professional school counselors approach their work with students Transforming the School Counseling Profession demonstrates how to effectively implement systemic, data-driven school counseling programs.This clearly written text presents the profession in easy-to-understand language, and is illustrated with numerous applied examples, case studies, and vignettes. The 5th Edition has been updated to include all of the latest CACREP, ASCA, and ACA standards. It also now includes the DSM-5. Coverage of cultural competence has been expanded throughout the book. Also available with MyLab Counseling MyLab is the teaching and learning platform that empowers you to reach every student. By combining trusted author content with digital tools and a flexible platform, MyLab personalizes the learning experience and improves results for each student. MyLab Counseling organizes all assignments around essential learning outcomes and the CACREP standards–enabling easy course alignment and reporting. Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyLab Counseling does not come packaged with this content. Students, if interested in purchasing this title with MyLab Counseling, ask your instructor to confirm the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyLab Counseling, search for: 0134669843 / 9780134669847 Transforming the School Counseling Profession plus MyLab Counseling with Enhanced Pearson eText -- Access Card Package Package consists of:       0134610598 / 9780134610597 Transforming the School Counseling Profession 0134642651 / 9780134642659 MyLab Counseling with Enhanced Pearson eText -- Access Card -- for Transforming the School Counseling Profession
Keywords: dept.csp

Proper motion of the Sextans dwarf galaxy from Subaru Suprime-Cam data - Casetti-Dinescu, Dana I.; Girard, Terrence M.; Schriefer, Michael (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2018)
We have measured the absolute proper motion of the Sextans dwarf spheroidal galaxy using Subaru Suprime-Cam images taken at three epochs, with a time baseline of ~10 yr. We astrometrically calibrate each epoch by constructing distortion-correction 'maps' from the best available Subaru Suprime-Cam dithered data sets and from Gaia Data Release 1 positions. The magnitude limit of the proper motion study is V ~ 24. The area covered is 26.7 × 23.3 arcmin2, which is still within the core radius of Sextans. The derived proper motion is (μα, μδ) = (-0.409 ± 0.050, -0.047 ± 0.058) mas yr-1. The direction of motion is perpendicular to the major axis of the galaxy. Our measurement, combined with radial velocity and distance from the literature, implies a low eccentricity orbit, with a moderate inclination to the Galactic plane, and a period of 3 Gyr. Sextans is now some 0.4 Gyr away from its pericentre (rperi ~ 75 kpc), moving towards its apocentre (rapo ~ 132 kpc). Its orbit is inconsistent with membership to the vast polar structure of Galactic satellites. © 2018 The Author(s).
Keywords: Astrometry; Galaxies: dwarf; Galaxies: individual: Sextans; Proper motions; dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Traveling in networks with blinking nodes - Carrigan, Braxton; Hammer, James (Theory and Applications of Graphs, 2018)
Keywords: dept.mat; peer-reviewed

Communication and cognition - LaPointe, Leonard L.; Stierwalt, Julie; Purdy, Mary H. (Aphasia and related neurogenic language disorders, 2018)
Rapid advances in neural imaging, particularly in regard to neural plasticity and brain changes, have resulted in an evolving neurorehabilitation paradigm for aphasia and related language disorders. Aphasia and Related Neurogenic Language Disorders has been adopted worldwide as a text for aphasia courses. This new 5th edition by Leonard LaPointe and Julie Stierwalt encompasses state-of-the-art concepts and approaches from an impressive cadre of experts who work in research labs, classrooms, clinics, and hospitals-including the world-renowned Mayo Clinic.As in previous editions, this book embraces a humanistic approach to treatment, addressing multicultural and multilinguistic considerations and social model interventions. The text encompasses a full continuum of cognitive-language disorder management-from everyday practicalities, assessment, and treatment to disorder-specific cases with evidence-based data. Additions to the 5th edition include chapters on pragmatics and discourse, telepractice, digital and electronic advances, funding and reimbursement, and comprehension, syntax, and linguistic based disorders.Key Features:A new chapter on neuroanatomical basics features exquisite illustrationsAn in-depth look at neurogenic communication disorders from Mayo Clinic provides firsthand insights on treating patients in an acute care hospital settingDiscussion and test questions, case studies, and clinical pearls offer invaluable didactic guidanceA chapter on expanded traumatic brain injury covers blast injuries and multisystem injuriesThis is the most comprehensive yet concise resource on aphasia and related disorders available today. New legions of speech language pathology students, residents, course directors, and practitioners will discover a remarkable guide on the treatment of communication disorders.
Keywords: dept.cmd

Social work and hospitality: An oral history of Edith Stolzenberg - Gardella, Lorrie Greenhouse (Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work: Social Thought, 2018)
Edith Richman Stolzenberg (1913–2004) was the first woman to be hired as a social worker in Hartford Public High School in Hartford, Connecticut. In a career that spanned 60 years and much of 20th-century social welfare history, she was motivated by the social justice tradition of her Jewish upbringing and the religious value of hospitality to advocate for children and families. As we enter a harsh new era for social services, this oral history explores the radical possibilities for integrating social work goals and religious values.
Keywords: adolescents; children; community; dept.swk; ethics; hospitality; oral history; religion; social work practice

Book Review: Three roads to Magdalena: coming of age in a southwest borderland, 1880–1990 - Amerman, Stephen Kent (Ethnohistory, 2018)
Keywords: book.review; dept.his

Reaping something new: African American transformations of Victorian literature. - Baraw, Charles (Journal of British Studies, 2018)
Keywords: dept.eng; peer-reviewed

Understanding the complexities of the effects of incivility on the victim and using mindfulness to heal - Green, Cheryl Ann (International Journal of Health, Wellness & Society, 2018)
The complexity of the human body is such that any disturbances to its homeostatic state, unreversed, can lead to the development of illness or disease. When one considers the terminology of incivility as a concept, one does not automatically equate this concept with disease or illness. However, incivility left to persist in work environments can prove mentally and physically damaging to the victim. Mindfulness can be used as a means to help nurses experiencing workplace incivility, to begin the process of emotional and physical healing.
Keywords: EMOTIONS (Psychology); HOMEOSTASIS; Illness; Incivility; MINDFULNESS; Mindfulness; NURSES; Nurses; WORK environment; Work Environment; dept.nur; peer-reviewed

Examining historical land management and current urban forest health - Massa, Amanda; Zavar, Elyse; Lavy, Brendan L.; Graves, Scott M. (Northeastern Geographer, 2018)
Urban forests can serve as valuable oases for birds and other wildlife in densely-populated urban and suburban areas with proper management. This study analyzes forest health and habitat availability of a publically-owned urban forest in West Haven, Connecticut. During the first half of the twentieth-century, this urban forest was privately-owned and primarily managed as an orchard and meadow for grazing horses. By the mid-twentieth-century, farming dwindled on the land and vegetation overtook the property. Today, this closed-canopy forest, with access to both freshwater streams and marshlands, provides habitat to a variety of native and invasive plant and animal species. By identifying the forest species and characteristics of the six hectare Cove River Historic Site (CRHS) urban forest, this study serves as the first forest inventory and provides a baseline dataset to help manage an ecologically important urban forest. Additionally, we identified bird habitat opportunities and bird species at the property. This study considers both the historic land management practices of this site in tandem with present-day forest health and animal activity to understand how this fragmented forest contributes to local biodiversity. The results indicate that this property, located within the urban environment of the central Connecticut coastline, offers varied habitats and food sources for many resident and migratory bird species, as well as wildlife including foxes.
Keywords: BIRD habitats; FOREST health; LAND management; MIGRATORY birds; URBAN forestry; bird habitat; conservation; dept.egm; invasive species; land management; peer-reviewed; urban forestry; ⛔ No DOI found

Bullying in the workplace: The great balancing act of victim rights and organizational policies - Wall, Alison E.; Smith, Robert A.; Nodoushani, Omid (Journal of Competitiveness Studies, 2018)
Bullying in the workplace is considered a growing epidemic and organizations are struggling to ensure appropriate responses and protocol as there is currently no individual statutory remedy. This paper provides a synthesis of current research regarding workplace bullying, legal policies, efforts to promote remedial legislation and organizational responsibility and outcomes. Workplace bullying is addressed from several perspectives including organizational consequences, characteristics of both victims and perpetrators, the current state of legislation and best practices for organizational policy. The paper also provides a discussion of developing issues related to increased technology and social media usage.
Keywords: BULLYING in the workplace; CYBERBULLYING; VICTIMS of bullying; VIOLENCE in the workplace; WORK environment; dept.mgt; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

An Examination of Peer-Delivered Parenting Skills Programs Across New York State - Acri, Mary C.; Craig, Nancy; Adler, Josh (Community Mental Health Journal, 2018)
Peers are an important adjunct to the public mental health service system, and are being increasingly utilized across the country as a cost-effective solution to workforce shortages. Despite the tremendous growth of peer-delivered support over the past two decades, it has only been within the past few years that peer programs have been the subject of empirical inquiry. The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence and characteristics of peer-delivered parenting programs across the New York State public mental health service system. We surveyed 46 family peer organizations across New York State regarding their delivery of structured peer-delivered parenting programs. Thirty-four (76%) completed the questionnaire, and of them, 18 (53%) delivered a parenting program. Subsequent interviews with seven of the 18 organizations revealed peer organizations had been delivering eight unique parenting programs for upwards of two decades. Additionally, organizations offered multiple supports to families to participate. Training, supervision, and issues around fidelity are discussed, as well as the implications of this study for states utilizing a peer workforce.
Keywords: Adolescent; Behavior parent training programs; Child; Child, Preschool; Education, Nonprofessional; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Mental Health Services; New York; Parents; Peer Group; Peer support services; Peer-delivered family support; Surveys and Questionnaires; dept.swk; peer-reviewed

Reexamining the Nineteenth-Century presidency and partisan press: The Case of President Grant and the Whiskey Ring Scandal - Hopper, Jennifer Rose (Social Science History, 2018)
Studies of the institutional development of the presidency and popular leadership by presidents over time lead us to contrary expectations as to how a nineteenth-century president would react to a major political scandal. Scholarship on newspapers of the late 1800s is also unclear on how a quasipartisan media, with some outlets moving toward independence, would cover a White House scandal. I find that a close analysis of the case of President Ulysses S. Grant and the Whiskey Ring scandal forces us to reconsider what we assume to be firmly modern developments in both presidential studies and media history. Though a supposedly “premodern” president, Grant still mounted a concerted effort to mitigate the damage of the scandal. Further, although the president could get his version of events across in prominent newspapers, Republican newspaper coverage was hardly reliable. Newspapers also connected politicians’ character and psychology to mistakes made in office and made presidential strategies to shape public perception clear to their audiences—emphases on political gamesmanship considered hallmarks of the modern media environment.
Keywords: dept.psc; peer-reviewed

An enhanced architecture for serial fusion based multi-biometric verification system - Hossain, Shafaeat; Chen, Jundong; Rahman, Khandaker Abir (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018)
The traditional architecture of serial fusion based multi-biometric verification systems places an average performing or the worst performing individual verifier in the final stage. Because the final stage gives the verification decision using a single threshold and takes on the most confusing samples which are rejected by all previous stages, an average or the worst performing individual verifier may incur high verification errors in the final stage, which may negatively impact the performance of the whole system. Unfortunately, it is not possible to place a strong individual verifier in the final stage of a traditional architecture because if we place a strong individual verifier in the final stage, we will have to place a weak individual verifier in an earlier stage. Studies show that placing a weak individual verifier in an earlier stage worsens the performance of the whole system by giving more wrong decision earlier. Hence, the challenge is-how can we place the best performing individual verifier in the first stage and at the same time not place an average or the worst performing individual verifier in the final stage? In this paper, we address this challenge. We have come up with a very simple but effective solution. We have proposed a modification to the traditional architecture of serial fusion based multi-biometric verification systems. With rigorous experiments on the NIST multi-modal dataset and using three serial fusion based multi-biometric verification schemes, we demonstrated that our proposed architecture significantly improves the performance of serial fusion based multi-biometric verification systems. © 2018 IEEE.
Keywords: Architecture; Biometrics; Effective solution; Multi biometrics; Multi-modal dataset; Network architecture; Proposed architectures; Serial fusion; Traditional architecture; dept.csc

Social Pragmatic Communication and Literacy in African American English Speakers - Hyter, Yvette D.; DeJarnette, Glenda; Rivers, Kenyatta O. (Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2018)
Keywords: dept.cmd; peer-reviewed

Assassination and judicial misconduct in cold war Greece: the Polk/Staktopoulos case in retrospect - Iatrides, John O (Journal of Cold War Studies, 2018)
Keywords: dept.psc; peer-reviewed

Electrophysiological Indices of Audiovisual Speech Perception: Beyond the McGurk Effect and Speech in Noise. - Irwin, Julia; Avery, Trey; Brancazio, Lawrence; Turcios, Jacqueline; Ryherd, Kayleigh; Landi, Nicole (Multisensory research, 2018)
Visual information on a talker's face can influence what a listener hears. Commonly used approaches to study this include mismatched audiovisual stimuli (e.g., McGurk type stimuli) or visual speech in auditory noise. In this paper we discuss potential limitations of these approaches and introduce a novel visual phonemic restoration method. This method always presents the same visual stimulus (e.g., /ba/) dubbed with a matched auditory stimulus (/ba/) or one that has weakened consonantal information and sounds more /a/-like). When this reduced auditory stimulus (or /a/) is dubbed with the visual /ba/, a visual influence will result in effectively 'restoring' the weakened auditory cues so that the stimulus is perceived as a /ba/. An oddball design in which participants are asked to detect the /a/ among a stream of more frequently occurring /ba/s while either a speaking face or face with no visual speech was used. In addition, the same paradigm was presented for a second contrast in which participants detected /pa/ among /ba/s, a contrast which should be unaltered by the presence of visual speech. Behavioral and some ERP findings reflect the expected phonemic restoration for the /ba/ vs. /a/ contrast; specifically, we observed reduced accuracy and P300 response in the presence of visual speech. Further, we report an unexpected finding of reduced accuracy and P300 response for both speech contrasts in the presence of visual speech, suggesting overall modulation of the auditory signal in the presence of visual speech. Consistent with this, we observed a mismatch negativity (MMN) effect for the /ba/ vs. /pa/ contrast only that was larger in absence of visual speech. We discuss the potential utility for this paradigm for listeners who cannot respond actively, such as infants and individuals with developmental disabilities.
Keywords: Audio-visual speech; Audio-visual stimulus; Audiovisual; Audiovisual speech perception; Auditory stimuli; Developmental disability; ERP; Electrophysiology; Enterprise resource planning; Mismatch negativity; Phonemic restoration; Potential utility; Restoration; Speech; Speech recognition; Visual information; dept.psy; peer-reviewed; phonemic restoration

Brief report: Self-reported academic, social, and mental health experiences of post-secondary students with autism spectrum disorder - Jackson, Scott L. J.; Hart, Logan; Brown, Jane Thierfeld; Volkmar, Fred R. (Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018)
Keywords: dept.aa; dept.sed

High performance materials and devices for high-speed electronic systems - Jain, F; Broadbridge, C; Tang, H; Gherasimova, M (Selected Topics in Electronics and Systems, 2018)
In this review volume, the editors have included the state-of-the-art research and development in nano composites, and optical electronics written by experts in the field. In addition, it also covers applications for emerging technologies in High-Speed Electronics. In summary, topics covered in this volume includes various aspects of high performance materials and devices for implementing High-Speed Electronic systems. © 2019 by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Emerging technologies; High performance material; High-speed electronics; Materials; Nanocomposites; Optical electronics; State of the art; dept.phy

Exploring multiphoton microscopy as a novel tool to differentiate chromophobe renal cell carcinoma from oncocytoma in fixed tissue sections - Jain, Manu; Robinson, Brian D.; Wu, Binlin; Khani, Francesca; Mukherjee, Sushmita (Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, 2018)
Context.-Distinguishing chromophobe renal cell carcinoma (chRCC), especially in the presence of eosinophilic cytoplasm, from oncocytoma on hematoxylin-eosin can be difficult and often requires time-consuming ancillary procedures that ultimately may not be informative. Objective.-To explore the potential of multiphoton microscopy (MPM) as an alternative and rapid diagnostic tool in differentiating oncocytoma from chRCC at subcellular resolution without tissue processing. Design.-Unstained, deparaffinized tissue sections from 27 tumors (oncocytoma [n = 12], chRCC [n = 12], eosinophilic variant of chRCC [n = 1], and atypical oncocytic renal neoplasm [n = 2]) were imaged with MPM. Morphologic evaluation and automated quantitative morphometric analysis were conducted to distinguish between chRCC and oncocytoma. Results.-The typical cases of oncocytomas (12 of 12) and chRCC (12 of 12) could be readily differentiated on MPM based on the morphologic features similar to hematoxylin-eosin. The most striking MPM signature of both of the tumors was the presence of autofluorescent intracytoplasmic granules, which are not seen on hematoxylin-eosin-stained slides. Although we saw these granules in both types of tumors, they appeared distinct, based on their size, shape, cytoplasmic distribution, and autofluorescence wavelengths, and were valuable in arriving at a definitive diagnosis. For oncocytomas and chRCC, high diagnostic accuracies of 100% and 83.3% were achieved on blinded MPM and morphometric analysis, respectively. Conclusions.-To the best of our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of MPM to distinguish chRCC from oncocytoma in fixed tissues. Our study was limited by small sample size and only a few variants of oncocytic tumors. Prospective studies are warranted to assess the utility of MPM as a diagnostic aid in oncocytic renal tumors. © Copyright 2018 College of American Pathologists.
Keywords: Adenoma, Oxyphilic; Carcinoma, Renal Cell; Diagnosis, Differential; Humans; Kidney Neoplasms; Microscopy, Fluorescence, Multiphoton; Tissue Fixation; dept.phy; differential diagnosis; human; kidney tumor; multiphoton microscopy; oncocytoma; pathology; peer-reviewed; procedures; renal cell carcinoma; tissue fixation

Expanding quantification of arsenic in water to 0 μg L −1 with a field test kit: substituting 0.4% M/V silver nitrate as the colorimetric reagent; employing digital image analysis - Kearns, James K; Edson, Cody B (Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, 2018)
This study confronts the questionable reliability and accuracy of field test kits distributed globally to determine arsenic in drinking water. Because kits are the primary method of arsenic analysis in the areas most affected, an alternate, nontoxic formulation is needed to provide accurate results. Hypothesizing that introducing silver nitrate as the reagent in test kits could successfully substitute for restricted mercuric bromide, the study found that the reformulated kits provided reliable, precise, and accurate results over a broader range of contamination. Digital image analysis was used to examine the blue color value produced when arsine reacts with silver nitrate impregnated test strips. An optimal concentration of AgNO3 exhibiting the greatest linearity was determined by graphical comparison and the color intensity of the strips observed to be inversely proportional to the concentration of As (III). Adapted field test kits were then constructed to examine water samples ranging in arsenic contamination from 0 to 50 μg L−1. A series of reactions was completed to demonstrate reproducibility and test for the accuracy of the procedure. Statistical examination of colorimetrically quantified results confirmed the hypothesis that silver nitrate can reliably and precisely expand the kit’s range of detection while maintaining its low cost, quick assessment, and uncomplicated technique. This new method, using 0.4% m/v AgNO3 as a reagent for the Gutzeit reaction, was able to distinguish between concentrations of 0, 5, 10, 15, and 50 μg L−1 at the 95% confidence level. © 2018, Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature.
Keywords: Arsenic; Arsenic contamination; Arsenic in drinking waters; Article; Chemical reactions; Color; Colorimetric analysis; Colorimetric reagents; Colorimetry; Digital image analysis; Drinking water; Field test; Field test kit; Graphical comparison; Image analysis; Nitrates; Nitrogen compounds; Optimal concentration; Potable water; Reproducibilities; Silver; Silver compounds; Testing; Water; accuracy assessment; arsenic; chemical reaction; color; colorimetry; dept.che; digital image; digital imaging; drinking water; field test kit; image analysis; measurement accuracy; nitrate; quantitative analysis; reliability analysis; reproducibility; silver; silver nitrate; water analysis; water contamination; water pollution; water sampling

A maker--breaker game on the boolean hypercube with subcubes as winning sets - Kruczek, Klay; Sundberg, Eric (Integers: The Electronic Journal of Combinatorial Number Theory, 2018)
Keywords: dept.mat; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Comparing simultaneous clinical swallow evaluations and fiberoptic endoscopic evaluations of swallowing: Changing practice patterns - Leder, Steven B.; Warner, Heather L. (Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2018)
Keywords: dept.cmd; peer-reviewed