Response to Frisina's response - Yang, X. (Dao, 2009)
Keywords: dept.phi; peer-reviewed

The Tragedy of Child Care in America - Zigler, Edward; Marsland, Katherine W.; Lord, Heather (Yale University Press, 2009)
Why the United States has failed to establish a comprehensive high-quality child care program is the question at the center of this book. Edward Zigler has been intimately involved in this issue since the 1970s, and here he presents a firsthand history of the policy making and politics surrounding this important debate. Good-quality child care supports cognitive, social, and emotional development, school readiness, and academic achievement. This book examines the history of child care policy since 1969, including the inside story of America's one great attempt to create a comprehensive system of child care, its failure, and the lack of subsequent progress. Identifying specific issues that persist today, Zigler and his coauthors conclude with an agenda designed to lead us successfully toward quality care for America's children. © 2009 by Yale University. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Child care; Government policy; Services for; United States; United States; Child welfare; United States; Children; dept.psy; faculty_collection

A Double k-clustering approach for restructuring Distributed Object-Oriented software - Hamad, S.H.; Fergany, T.; Ammar, R.A.; El-Raouf, A.A.A. (2008)
There have been a large number of projects based on the Distributed Object Oriented (DOO) approach for solving complex problems in various scientific fields. The Mismatch problem is one of the most important problems facing the DOO system, where the initial design of the DOO application does not give the best class distribution. In such a case, the DOO software may need to be restructured. In this paper, we propose a methodology for efficiently restructuring the DOO software classes to be mapped on a distributed system consisting of a set of nodes. The proposed methodology consists of two phases. The first phase introduces a recursive graph clustering technique to partition the OO system into subsystems with low coupling. The second phase is concerned with mapping the generated partitions to the set of available machines in the target distributed architecture. A simulation evaluation was carried out for a set of randomly generated DOO software designs. Then the results were compared with those of the K-Partitioning algorithm in terms of the overall inter-class communication cost. © 2008 IEEE.
Keywords: Class distributions; Clustering approaches; Communication costs; Complex problems; Computer software; Distributed architectures; Distributed objects; Distributed systems; Flow of solids; Graph clustering; Initial designs; Low couplings; Mismatch problems; Object oriented programming; Oo systems; Partitioning algorithms; Problem solving; Scientific fields; Simulation evaluations; Software design; Sub systems; Two phases; dept.csc

Citation searching: Search smarter & find more - Hammond, C.C.; Brown, S.W. (Computers in Libraries, 2008)
All in all, citation searching is a wonderful way to build a comprehensive body of knowledge. The databases allow you to follow a trail of cited references that weaves a web of information across the boundaries of time and subject limitations. It eliminates your need to know appropriate synonyms or subject-specific lingo in order to perform effective searches that yield inclusive results. Citation searching saves time while also increasing the likelihood that your search results will be appropriate for your needs. Citation searching is not just useful for librarians but for other searchers as well. If you need a comprehensive literature review - whether you're a librarian, faculty member, student, or scientist - you would benefit greatly from the capabilities of citation searching databases. The training program for citation searching at the University of Connecticut taught graduate students all these tricks and more. Students who attended our sessions now know how to do broad, interdisciplinary searches after they have searched their primary subject database. They also understand how to "chain" from the original article to the "backward" citations in that article and to the "forward" articles that cited the original. Finally, they see how they can use citation databases to find information about who's citing their articles, which they can use for job searching and grant proposals, promotion, and tenure. Try it yourself - you're sure to find something new!
Keywords: dept.ils; ⛔ No DOI found

Resistance training for persons with osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis - Ronai, P.; Sorace, P.; LaFontaine, T. (Strength and Conditioning Journal, 2008)
Arthritic conditions affect more than 40 million americans and are a major cause of physical disability. Resistance training has been found to improve muscular performance in persons with osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. This column discusses the benefits of resistance training in persons with osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis and provides general suggestions for developing safe, effective resistance training programs. © National Strength and Conditioning Association.
Keywords: dept.hms

In defense of vom "affect" zur "action" - Russell, T. (Dance Chronicle, 2008)
Keywords: dept.mus

Carelink: Partners in a caring Model: A cardiac management program for home care - Shellman, J.; Lacey, K.; Clemmens, D. (Home Healthcare Nurse, 2008)
As a model of care, CARELINK promotes self-care and self-management of chronic illnesses for homebound older adults no longer eligible for skilled nursing services. A case-study method is used to highlight the key constructs and outcomes related to the model. The benefits of applying the CARELINK model as a cardiac management program for home care are discussed.
Keywords: Aged; Chronic Disease; Education, Nursing; Empathy; Geriatric Nursing; Heart Diseases; Home Care Services; Humans; Male; Models, Nursing; Self Care; aged; article; chronic disease; dept.nur; education; empathy; geriatric nursing; heart disease; home care; human; male; methodology; model; nursing; nursing education; organization and management; self care

The use of hi fidelity simulation to enhance nursing students' therapeutic communication skills - Sleeper, J.A.; Thompson, C. (International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship, 2008)
Nursing students entering psychiatric settings for clinical practice need a solid foundation of therapeutic communication skills. This article presents an innovative strategy for nursing students to practice therapeutic communication skills with psychiatric patients by using hi fidelity simulation with Laerdal SimMan. Using the SimMan vocal function enabled nurse educators to develop communication algorithms that allowed students to interact with SimMan as they would with psychiatric patients. The SimMan algorithms can be designed to mimic many scenarios typically found in psychiatric settings. Nursing students can use this technology to take the therapeutic communication skills they have learned in the classroom and practice them in a safe laboratory environment before entering actual psychiatric settings. The ability of students to practice communication skills prior to entering psychiatric settings can promote effective therapeutic communication skills and decrease student anxiety. Copyright ©2008 The Berkeley Electronic Press. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Communication; Psychiatric patients; SimMan; Teaching strategies; dept.aa

Reconstructing meaning in Deuteronomy 22:5: Gender, society, and transvestitism in Israel and the ancient Near East - Vedeler, H.T. (Journal of Biblical Literature, 2008)
Keywords: dept.his

Foreword - Paul, R. (Single-Word Reading: Behavioral and Biological Perspectives, 2007)
Keywords: dept.cmd

Familiar voices and the need for reform - Connors, K.E. (Real-World Readings in Art Education: Things Your Professor Never Told You, 2000)
Keywords: dept.art

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

Inside Advertiser and Agency Relationships: A Hands-On Guide for Practitioners - Prince, Melvin; Davies, Mark (Lulu. com, 2006)
Keywords: dept.mkt

Strategies for enhancing student learning by managing ambiguities in clinical settings. - Taylor, P.A. (Nurse educator, 2000)
Have you ever watched as care providers, be they student nurses or staff nurses, display behaviors that seem to indicate that they are becoming overwhelmed by situations in the acute care setting? Have you also observed other providers who seem to thrive on the "challenges" presented by these same situations? The same situation stimulates responses that reflect opposite ends of a continuum, the continuum of tolerance of ambiguity. The nurse educator needs to develop a greater understanding of the elements in the clinical situation (the ambiguities) that have stimulated the behavioral responses, and how an individual's level of tolerance of ambiguity influences reactions to the ambiguous situations. These understandings provide the nurse educator with the foundation for developing teaching strategies to facilitate effective management of ambiguous situations in clinical settings.
Keywords: *Burnout, Professional/pc [Prevention & Control]; *Education, Nursing/mt [Methods]; *Nurses/px [Psychology]; *Teaching/mt [Methods]; Burnout, Professional; Education, Nursing; Humans; Nurses; Nursing Process; Teaching; article; burnout; dept.nur; human; methodology; nurse; nursing education; nursing process; psychological aspect; teaching

Care of the adult patient with cystic fibrosis. - Aronson, Barbara S; Marquis, Melissa (Medsurg nursing : official journal of the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses, 2004)
Recently published consensus statements and conference proceedings from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation provide new direction with regard to the etiology, diagnosis, and treatment of the adult patient with cystic fibrosis (CF). Survival has improved through early diagnosis and improved treatment, and aggressive management of complications. The current state of knowledge, the most recent evidence-based treatment options, and essentials of nursing care for the adult patient with CF are outlined.
Keywords: *Cystic Fibrosis/th [Therapy]; Adult; Age Factors; Cystic Fibrosis; Cystic Fibrosis/di [Diagnosis]; Cystic Fibrosis/ep [Epidemiology]; Cystic Fibrosis/et [Etiology]; Diabetes Mellitus; Diabetes Mellitus/et [Etiology]; Diabetes Mellitus/pc [Prevention & Control]; Female; Gastrointestinal Diseases; Gastrointestinal Diseases/et [Etiology]; Gastrointestinal Diseases/pc [Prevention & Control]; Genetic Predisposition to Disease; Genetic Predisposition to Disease/ge [Genetics]; Humans; Infection Control; Infection Control/mt [Methods]; Longevity; Nurse's Role; Phenotype; Reproductive Medicine; Reproductive Medicine/mt [Methods]; Respiratory Therapy; Respiratory Therapy/mt [Methods]; Respiratory Tract Infections; Respiratory Tract Infections/et [Etiology]; Respiratory Tract Infections/pc [Prevention & Control]; Terminal Care; Terminal Care/mt [Methods]; adult; age; artificial ventilation; case report; cystic fibrosis; dept.nur; diabetes mellitus; female; gastrointestinal disease; genetic predisposition; genetics; human; infection control; longevity; methodology; nurse attitude; phenotype; reproduction; respiratory tract infection; review; terminal care; ⛔ No DOI found

HIV medication adherence programs: the importance of social support. - Bontempi, Jean M Breny; Burleson, Laura; Lopez, Melissa Hofilena (Journal of community health nursing, 2004)
Since the advent of medical treatments for HIV, the promotion of adherence to these difficult treatment regimens has proven critical to disease management. Three Connecticut state-funded HIV medication adherence programs were evaluated.1 The purpose of this process evaluation was to explore and compare the goals and modality of each adherence program, assess client and staff satisfaction, and provide recommendations for the improvement of these programs. Focus group interviews with clients and individual interviews with staff were conducted at each of the programs. Interviews were transcribed, coded and analyzed with a code and retrieve method of theme identification. Focus group themes included the importance of social support on medication adherence and the "lifesaving" effect the program has had. The staff expressed that although complete adherence should be the long-term objective, more intermediate objectives should be considered (e.g., behavioral changes to increase clients' ability, self-esteem, and self-efficacy to take medications).
Keywords: *Anti-HIV Agents/tu [Therapeutic Use]; *HIV Infections; *Health Promotion/og [Organization & Administration]; *Patient Compliance/px [Psychology]; *Social Support; Anti-HIV Agents; Attitude of Health Personnel; CD4 antigen; Connecticut; Female; Focus Groups; HIV Infections; HIV Infections/dt [Drug Therapy]; HIV Infections/px [Psychology]; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Health Promotion; Human immunodeficiency virus infection; Humans; Male; Needs Assessment; Nursing Methodology Research; Organizational Objectives; Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care); Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; Patient Compliance; Patient Education; Patient Education as Topic/og [Organization & Administration]; Program Evaluation; Questionnaires; Self Efficacy; Social Support; Surveys and Questionnaires; United States; antiretrovirus agent; article; attitude; behavior therapy; clinical article; controlled study; dept.pch; drug dose regimen; emotion; evaluation; female; health program; health promotion; human; interview; job satisfaction; male; outcomes research; patient compliance; patient education; professional practice; self concept; self esteem; self medication; social support; staff

Contributions of Sahgal and colleagues: the "vasopression central arousal theory". - McEwen, Barbara B (Advances in pharmacology (San Diego, Calif.), 2004)
Keywords: *Arousal/ph [Physiology]; *Central Nervous System/ph [Physiology]; *Vasopressins/ph [Physiology]; Animals; Learning/de [Drug Effects]; Learning/ph [Physiology]; Memory/de [Drug Effects]; Memory/ph [Physiology]; Rats; Vasopressins/pd [Pharmacology]; dept.psy; ⛔ No DOI found

De Wied and colleagues I: evidence for a VP and an OT influence on MP: launching the "VP/OT central memory theory". - McEwen, Barbara B (Advances in pharmacology (San Diego, Calif.), 2004)
Keywords: *Memory/ph [Physiology]; *Oxytocin/ph [Physiology]; *Vasopressins/ph [Physiology]; Amnesia/pp [Physiopathology]; Animals; Avoidance Learning/ph [Physiology]; Humans; Learning/ph [Physiology]; dept.psy

De Wied and colleagues II: further clarification of the roles of vasopressin and oxytocin in memory processing. - McEwen, Barbara B (Advances in pharmacology (San Diego, Calif.), 2004)
Keywords: *Memory/ph [Physiology]; *Oxytocin/ph [Physiology]; *Vasopressins/ph [Physiology]; Animals; Arousal/ph [Physiology]; Pituitary Gland, Posterior/ph [Physiology]; Rats; Rats, Brattleboro; dept.psy

De Wied and colleagues III: brain sites and transmitter systems involved in the vasopressin and oxytocin influence on memory processing. - McEwen, Barbara B (Advances in pharmacology (San Diego, Calif.), 2004)
Keywords: *Brain/ph [Physiology]; *Memory/ph [Physiology]; *Neurotransmitter Agents/ph [Physiology]; *Oxytocin/ph [Physiology]; *Vasopressins/ph [Physiology]; Animals; Brain Chemistry/ph [Physiology]; Catecholamines/ph [Physiology]; Humans; dept.psy

De Wied and colleagues IV: research into mechanisms of action by which vasopressin and oxytocin influence memory processing. - McEwen, Barbara B (Advances in pharmacology (San Diego, Calif.), 2004)
Keywords: *Memory/ph [Physiology]; *Oxytocin/ph [Physiology]; *Vasopressins/ph [Physiology]; Animals; Brain/ph [Physiology]; Hippocampus/ph [Physiology]; Humans; Receptors, Oxytocin/ph [Physiology]; Receptors, Vasopressin/ph [Physiology]; dept.psy

General introduction to vasopressin and oxytocin: structure/metabolism, evolutionary aspects, neural pathway/receptor distribution, and functional aspects relevant to memory processing. - McEwen, Barbara B (Advances in pharmacology (San Diego, Calif.), 2004)
Keywords: *Biological Evolution; *Memory/ph [Physiology]; *Neural Pathways/ph [Physiology]; *Oxytocin/ph [Physiology]; *Receptors, Oxytocin/ph [Physiology]; *Receptors, Vasopressin/ph [Physiology]; *Vasopressins/ph [Physiology]; Adrenal Medulla/pp [Physiopathology]; Animals; Glucose/ph [Physiology]; Humans; Oxytocin/ch [Chemistry]; Oxytocin/me [Metabolism]; Pituitary Gland, Anterior/pp [Physiopathology]; Stress, Psychological/pp [Physiopathology]; Vasopressins/ch [Chemistry]; Vasopressins/me [Metabolism]; dept.psy

Research studies of Koob and colleagues: the "vasopressin dual action theory". - McEwen, Barbara B (Advances in pharmacology (San Diego, Calif.), 2004)
Keywords: *Memory/ph [Physiology]; *Vasopressins/ph [Physiology]; Animals; Avoidance Learning/de [Drug Effects]; Avoidance Learning/ph [Physiology]; Humans; Maze Learning/de [Drug Effects]; Maze Learning/ph [Physiology]; Memory/de [Drug Effects]; Vasopressins/pd [Pharmacology]; dept.psy

The effects of a 10-week, periodized, off-season resistance-training program and creatine supplementation among collegiate football players. - Wilder, Nathan; Gilders, Roger; Hagerman, Frederick; Deivert, Richard G (Journal of strength and conditioning research, 2002)
The periodized resistance-training model has not been well documented in the literature. Further research is needed to determine if periodized resistance training in conjunction with creatine supplementation can cause changes in strength, performance, total body weight, girth, and lean muscle mass. Therefore, the purpose of this investigation was to determine the effects of periodized resistance training in conjunction with low-dose (LD) and high-dose (HD) creatine supplementation on strength, body composition, and anaerobic muscular endurance. Subjects were divided into 3 groups: LD, HD, and placebo (P). Testing took place pre-, mid-, and postsupplementation for the following: weight, body composition (fat-free mass and fat mass), 1 repetition maximum squat, and anaerobic muscular endurance testing. Results revealed no significant differences in either creatine group when compared with the P group. However, significant differences were noted over time. These data suggest that 10 weeks of periodized resistance training was effective for causing changes in strength, body composition, and anaerobic muscular endurance.
Keywords: *Creatine/ad [Administration & Dosage]; *Dietary Supplements; *Exercise/ph [Physiology]; *Football; Adolescent; Adult; Anaerobiosis; Anthropometry; Body Composition; Body Weight; Creatine; Dietary Supplements; Exercise; Football; Humans; Male; Muscle, Skeletal; Muscle, Skeletal/ph [Physiology]; Periodization; Physical Endurance; Resistance training; Single-Blind Method; Supplementation; adolescence; adult; anaerobic growth; anthropometry; article; athlete; body composition; body weight; controlled study; creatine; dept.hms; diet supplementation; exercise; football; human; male; muscle exercise; muscle mass; muscle strength; normal human; peer-reviewed; performance; physical stress; physiology; single blind procedure; skeletal muscle; supplementation; training; ❓ Multiple DOI

Maximum length sequences-auditory brainstem responses from children with auditory processing disorders - Jirsa, R.E. (Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 2001)
This study was designed to evaluate maximum length sequences-auditory brainstem responses (MLS-ABR) in children with auditory processing disorders and to compare these results with a normal control group matched for age, intelligence, and gender. Although each waveform was analyzed for the presence of waves I, III, and V, the primary focus was wave V. Although absolute latency measures for wave V were obtained from all subjects, waves I and III were not always identified. Although the results showed latency increases for all waveforms in both groups, the only significant difference noted was an increase in wave V latency for both the left and right ears in the clinical group. These results suggest that the MLS-ABR may be useful in the assessment of auditory processing disorders. Implications for the potential use of the MLS-ABR in management programs are discussed.
Keywords: *Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem/ph [Physiology]; *Hearing Disorders/di [Diagnosis]; Adolescent; Auditory brainstem response; Auditory evoked potentials; Auditory processing disorders; Child; Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem; Female; Hearing Disorders; Hearing Disorders/ep [Epidemiology]; Hearing Tests; Humans; Male; Maximum length sequences; Random Allocation; Speech Perception; Speech Perception/ph [Physiology]; Time Factors; adolescent; age; article; child; clinical article; comparative study; controlled study; dept.cmd; evoked brain stem auditory response; female; gender; hearing impairment; human; intelligence; latent period; male; medical assessment; peer-reviewed; priority journal; sensory system electrophysiology; waveform

Estrogen dependent growth inhibitory effects of tamoxifen but not genistein in solid tumors derived from estrogen receptor positive (ER+) primary breast carcinoma MCF7: single agent and novel combined treatment approaches. - Nobert, Gayle S; Kraak, Martha M; Crawford, Sarah (Bulletin du cancer, 2006)
While many studies have documented tamoxifen's benefits as an adjuvant therapy in the treatment and prevention of recurrent breast cancer in estrogen receptor positive (ER+) breast carcinoma, this beneficial effect may decrease with long-term tamoxifen use. This experimental study was designed to compare the cytotoxic responses of ER+ primary breast cancer solid tumors derived from the MCF7 cell line to experimental therapeutics, including genistein, tamoxifen, all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) and parthenolide in the presence and absence of exogenous beta-estradiol. The results of this study suggest that the growth inhibitory effects of tamoxifen, were dependent on beta-estradiol levels. In contrast, the cytotoxic effects of the isoflavone soy derivative, genistein, were observed to be independent of exogenous estrogen. Moreover, combined therapy using tamoxifen and genistein produced enhanced cytotoxic effects also independent of beta-estradiol levels. Additional studies involving the use of the novel agents all trans retinoic acid (ATRA) and parthenolide produced notable tumor responses and combined effects that were also estrogen-independent. Overall, these preclinical research findings suggest possible clinical applications suggesting that genistein might be a useful clinical adjuvant, particularly in post-menopausal women in whom breast cancer occurs more frequently. Moreover, this research suggests that combined treatment approaches involving the use of tamoxifen in conjunction with agents that inhibit NFkappaB pathway signaling, such as parthenolide and genistein, warrant further study.
Keywords: *Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols/tu [Therapeutic Use]; *Breast Neoplasms/dt [Drug Therapy]; *Genistein/tu [Therapeutic Use]; *Neoplasms, Hormone-Dependent/dt [Drug Therapy]; *Tamoxifen/tu [Therapeutic Use]; Anticarcinogenic Agents; Anticarcinogenic Agents/tu [Therapeutic Use]; Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal; Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal/tu [Therapeutic Use]; Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols; Breast Neoplasms; Breast Neoplasms/ch [Chemistry]; Cell Line, Tumor; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Drug Resistance, Neoplasm; Drug Resistance, Neoplasm/de [Drug Effects]; Estradiol; Estradiol/pd [Pharmacology]; Female; Genistein; Humans; Neoplasms, Hormone-Dependent; Neoplasms, Hormone-Dependent/ch [Chemistry]; Receptors, Estrogen; Sesquiterpenes; Sesquiterpenes/tu [Therapeutic Use]; Spheroids, Cellular; Spheroids, Cellular/de [Drug Effects]; Tamoxifen; Tretinoin; Tretinoin/tu [Therapeutic Use]; antineoplastic agent; antineoplastic hormone agonists and antagonists; article; breast tumor; chemistry; dept.bio; dose response; drug effect; drug resistance; estradiol; estrogen receptor; female; genistein; human; multicellular spheroid; neoplasm; parthenolide; retinoic acid; sesquiterpene; tamoxifen; tumor cell line; ⛔ No DOI found

Brain-fluid barriers: relevance for theoretical controversies regarding vasopressin and oxytocin memory research. - McEwen, Barbara B (Advances in pharmacology (San Diego, Calif.), 2004)
Keywords: *Blood-Brain Barrier/ph [Physiology]; *Memory/ph [Physiology]; *Oxytocin/ph [Physiology]; *Vasopressins/ph [Physiology]; Animals; Arginine Vasopressin/pd [Pharmacology]; Humans; Oxytocin/cf [Cerebrospinal Fluid]; Oxytocin/pd [Pharmacology]; Vasopressins/cf [Cerebrospinal Fluid]; Vasopressins/pd [Pharmacology]; dept.psy

Closing remarks: review and commentary on selected aspects of the roles of vasopressin and oxytocin in memory processing. - McEwen, Barbara B (Advances in pharmacology (San Diego, Calif.), 2004)
Keywords: *Memory/ph [Physiology]; *Oxytocin/ph [Physiology]; *Vasopressins/ph [Physiology]; Animals; Cognition/de [Drug Effects]; Cognition/ph [Physiology]; Humans; Learning/de [Drug Effects]; Learning/ph [Physiology]; Memory/de [Drug Effects]; Mice; Oxytocin/pd [Pharmacology]; Social Behavior; Vasopressins/pd [Pharmacology]; dept.psy

Expansion of olfactory-based social recognition memory research: the roles of vasopressin and oxytocin in social recognition memory. - McEwen, Barbara B (Advances in pharmacology (San Diego, Calif.), 2004)
Keywords: *Memory/ph [Physiology]; *Oxytocin/ph [Physiology]; *Smell/ph [Physiology]; *Social Behavior; *Vasopressins/ph [Physiology]; Animals; Behavior, Animal/de [Drug Effects]; Female; Humans; Male; Memory/de [Drug Effects]; Oxytocin/pd [Pharmacology]; Sex Characteristics; Vasopressins/pd [Pharmacology]; dept.psy

Expansion of vasopressin/oxytocin memory research I: peripheral administration. - McEwen, Barbara B (Advances in pharmacology (San Diego, Calif.), 2004)
Keywords: *Memory/de [Drug Effects]; *Oxytocin/pd [Pharmacology]; *Vasopressins/pd [Pharmacology]; Animals; Appetitive Behavior/de [Drug Effects]; Avoidance Learning/de [Drug Effects]; Discrimination Learning/de [Drug Effects]; Humans; Maze Learning/de [Drug Effects]; Oxytocin/ad [Administration & Dosage]; Vasopressins/ad [Administration & Dosage]; dept.psy

Expansion of vasopressin/oxytocin memory research II: brain structures and transmitter systems involved in the influence of vasopressin and oxytocin on memory processing. - McEwen, Barbara B (Advances in pharmacology (San Diego, Calif.), 2004)
Keywords: *Brain/ph [Physiology]; *Memory/ph [Physiology]; *Neurotransmitter Agents/ph [Physiology]; *Oxytocin/ph [Physiology]; *Vasopressins/ph [Physiology]; Animals; Humans; dept.psy

Expansion of vasopressin/oxytocin memory research III: research summary and commentary on theoretical and methodological issues. - McEwen, Barbara B (Advances in pharmacology (San Diego, Calif.), 2004)
Keywords: *Memory/ph [Physiology]; *Oxytocin/ph [Physiology]; *Vasopressins/ph [Physiology]; Animals; Humans; dept.psy

Research contributions of Dantzer, Bluthe, and colleagues to the study of the role of vasopressin in olfactory-based social recognition memory. - McEwen, Barbara B (Advances in pharmacology (San Diego, Calif.), 2004)
Keywords: *Memory/ph [Physiology]; *Smell/ph [Physiology]; *Social Behavior; *Vasopressins/ph [Physiology]; Animals; Brain/ph [Physiology]; Humans; dept.psy

Role of attentional processing in mediating the influence of vasopressin on memory processing. - McEwen, Barbara B (Advances in pharmacology (San Diego, Calif.), 2004)
Keywords: *Attention/ph [Physiology]; *Memory/ph [Physiology]; *Vasopressins/ph [Physiology]; Animals; Humans; Rats; dept.psy

Effects of sprint interval training and body weight reduction on power to weight ratio in experienced cyclists. - Lunn, William R; Finn, Joan A; Axtell, Robert S (Journal of strength and conditioning research, 2009)
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of supramaximal sprint interval training (SIT), body weight reduction, and a combination of both treatments on peak and average anaerobic power to weight ratio (PPOan:Wt, APOan:Wt) by manipulating peak and average anaerobic power output (PPOan, APOan) and body weight (BW) in experienced cyclists. Participants (N = 34, age = 38.0 +/- 7.1 years) were assigned to 4 groups for a 10-week study. One group performed twice-weekly SIT sessions on a cycle ergometer while maintaining body weight (SIT). A second group did not perform SIT but intentionally reduced body weight (WR). A third group simultaneously performed SIT sessions and reduced body weight (SIT+WR). A control group cycled in their normal routine and maintained body weight (CON). The 30-second Wingate Test assessed pretest and posttest POan:Wt scores. There was a significant mean increase (p < 0.05) from pretest to posttest in PPOan:Wt and APOan:Wt (W x kg(-1)) scores in both SIT (10.82 +/- 1.71 to 11.92 +/- 1.77 and 8.05 +/- 0.64 to 8.77 +/- 0.64, respectively) and WR (10.33 +/- 2.91 to 11.29 +/- 2.80 and 7.04 +/- 1.45 to 7.62 +/- 1.24, respectively). PPOan and APOan (W) increased significantly only in SIT (753.7 +/- 121.0 to 834.3 +/- 150.1 and 561.3 +/- 62.5 to 612.7 +/- 69.0, respectively). Body weight (kg) decreased significantly in WR and SIT + WR (80.3 +/- 13.7 to 75.3 +/- 11.9 and 78.9 +/- 10.8 to 73.4 +/- 10.8, respectively). The results demonstrate that cyclists can use SIT sessions and body weight reduction as singular training interventions to effect significant increases in anaerobic power to weight ratio, which has been correlated to enhanced aerobic cycling performance. However, the treatments were not effective as combined interventions, as there was no significant change in either PPOan:Wt or APOan:Wt in SIT + WR.
Keywords: *Bicycling/ph [Physiology]; *Physical Education and Training/mt [Methods]; *Weight Loss; Adult; Analysis of Variance; Bicycling; Body Composition; Body Mass Index; Body Weight; Female; Humans; Male; Physical Education and Training; Physical Endurance; Physical Endurance/ph [Physiology]; Reproducibility of Results; Weight Loss; Wingate test; adult; analysis of variance; article; bicycle; body composition; body mass; body weight; dept.hms; endurance; female; human; male; methodology; peer-reviewed; physical education; physiology; reproducibility; weight reduction

Reflections: neurology and the humanities. You had the choice, Martha. - Shipley, Vivian (Neurology, 2009)
Keywords: *Abortion, Induced/es [Ethics]; *Abortion, Induced/px [Psychology]; *Caregivers/px [Psychology]; *Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome/ge [Genetics]; *Maternal Behavior/px [Psychology]; *Neurology/es [Ethics]; Abortion, Induced; Adult; Caregivers; Choice Behavior; Choice Behavior/es [Ethics]; Female; Humans; Infant; Lesch Nyhan syndrome; Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome; Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome/pp [Physiopathology]; Male; Maternal Behavior; Muscle Weakness; Muscle Weakness/ge [Genetics]; Neurology; Poetry as Topic; Self-Injurious Behavior; Self-Injurious Behavior/ge [Genetics]; Self-Injurious Behavior/pc [Prevention & Control]; adult; article; automutilation; caregiver; decision making; dept.eng; ethics; female; genetics; human; induced abortion; infant; literature; male; maternal behavior; muscle weakness; neurology; pathophysiology; psychological aspect

The performance-level model of hospital decontamination preparedness. - Phelps, Scot; Doering, Garrett (American journal of disaster medicine, 2008)
OBJECTIVE: Describe a multilevel model of decontamination capacity for hospitals., DESIGN: Descriptive model., SETTING: Acute care hospitals with decontamination responsibilities., PATIENTS, PARTICIPANTS: None., INTERVENTIONS: None., MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): None., RESULTS: This multilevel model of defining decontamination capacity would allow more realistic assessment of current capacity, allow for fluctuating service levels depending on time of day, incorporate realistic ramp-up and ramp-down of decontamination services, allow for a defined fall-back decontamination model should decontamination processes fail, allow hospitals to define long-term decontamination service level goals, and allow better understanding of when and why to focus on low-risk/low-resource patients rather than high-risk/high-resource patients., CONCLUSIONS: This multiple-level model would allow for more realistic and effective hospital-based decontamination service models and should become part of the national decontamination paradigm.
Keywords: *Decontamination/st [Standards]; *Disaster Planning/st [Standards]; *Emergency Service, Hospital/og [Organization & Administration]; *Hospital Administration/st [Standards]; *Models, Organizational; Decontamination; Disaster Planning; Emergency Service, Hospital; Hospital Administration; Hospitals; Hospitals/st [Standards]; Humans; MLCS; MLOWN; Models, Organizational; Terrorism; article; dept.hms; disaster planning; emergency health service; hospital; hospital management; human; nonbiological model; organization and management; standard; terrorism; waste management

Too toxic - Saccomano, Scott; Deluca, Deborah A (Nursing management, 2008)
Firm up on the facts and considerations associated with acetaminophen toxicity.
Keywords: *Acetaminophen/po [Poisoning]; *Analgesics, Non-Narcotic/po [Poisoning]; *Liver Failure, Acute/ci [Chemically Induced]; Acetaminophen; Acetaminophen/pk [Pharmacokinetics]; Analgesics, Non-Narcotic; Analgesics, Non-Narcotic/pk [Pharmacokinetics]; Antidotes; Drug Overdose/nu [Nursing]; Drug Overdose/pp [Physiopathology]; Drug Overdose/th [Therapy]; Humans; Liver Failure, Acute; Liver Failure, Acute/nu [Nursing]; Liver Failure, Acute/pp [Physiopathology]; Liver Failure, Acute/th [Therapy]; Overdose; Patient Education as Topic; Sorption Detoxification; Sorption Detoxification/mt [Methods]; analgesic agent; antidote; chemically induced disorder; dept.nur; detoxification; human; intoxication; liver failure; methodology; nursing; paracetamol; pathophysiology; patient education; peer-reviewed; review

Enhancing evidence bases for interventions in a baccalaureate program. - Aronson, Barbara S; Rebeschi, Lisa M; Killion, Susan Westrick (Nursing education perspectives, 2007)
Modifying the sequence, objectives, and research-based content for a nursing interventions course in a baccalaureate curriculum resulted in improved outcomes including enhancement of the evidence bases for nursing interventions. A mixed methods research study demonstrated better student preparation for clinical experiences and improved satisfaction with course content, consistency, and sequencing. Faculty reported improved integration of theory, research, and practice. Although grades were slightly lower in the new course, the positive outcomes greatly outweighed this expected finding. A foundation for improving the evidence bases for future nursing practice is guided by the curricular modifications described in this article.
Keywords: *Attitude of Health Personnel; *Curriculum; *Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate/og [Organization & Administration]; *Evidence-Based Medicine/ed [Education]; *Nursing Research/ed [Education]; *Students, Nursing/px [Psychology]; Attitude of Health Personnel; Clinical Competence; Connecticut; Curricular and course development; Curriculum; Curriculum/st [Standards]; Diffusion of Innovation; Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; Evidence-Based Medicine; Evidence-based interventions; Faculty, Nursing; Focus Groups; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Health Services Needs and Demand; Humans; Nursing Education Research; Nursing Methodology Research; Nursing Research; Organizational Objectives; Program Evaluation; Qualitative Research; Questionnaires; Skills laboratory; Student learning outcomes; Students, Nursing; Surveys and Questionnaires; United States; article; attitude to health; clinical competence; curriculum; dept.nur; education; evaluation; evidence based medicine; health care quality; health personnel attitude; health service; human; information processing; mass communication; nursing education; nursing methodology research; nursing research; nursing student; organization; organization and management; peer-reviewed; psychological aspect; qualitative research; questionnaire; standard; ⛔ No DOI found

Registered nurses and delegation. - Saccomano, Scott J (The Pennsylvania nurse, 2007)
Keywords: *Delegation, Professional/og [Organization & Administration]; *Nursing Assistants/og [Organization & Administration]; *Nursing Staff/og [Organization & Administration]; *Nursing, Supervisory/og [Organization & Administration]; American Nurses' Association; Clinical Competence; Delegation, Professional; Humans; Licensure, Nursing; Nurse's Role; Nurses' Aides; Nursing Assistants/ed [Education]; Nursing Staff; Nursing, Supervisory; Practice Guidelines; Practice Guidelines as Topic; Professional Autonomy; United States; clinical competence; dept.nur; education; human; licensing; medical society; nurse attitude; nursing; nursing assistant; nursing staff; organization and management; practice guideline; professional delegation; professional practice; review; ⛔ No DOI found

Using an ounce of prevention: does it reduce health care expenditures and reap pounds of profits? A study of the financial impact of wellness and health risk screening programs. - Phillips, Janet F (Journal of health care finance, 2009)
As we are all well aware, health care expenditures in the United States are out of control and growing at epic proportions. Since private industry shoulders a significant burden of paying these rising health care costs, the huge and ever increasing sum paid by these corporations continues to impact the US economy translating into higher prices of services and manufactured goods and reduced job opportunities when companies outsource jobs or locate manufacturing facilities to avoid paying health care benefits for workers. As a result, health care expenditures have become a centerpiece of an enormous public policy debate as Congress is currently working on several versions of a bill to completely revise health care from the ground up. This research project was accomplished to examine the effectiveness of one approach to control rising health care costs and contain corporate financial responsibility--the establishment of wellness and health risk screening programs to improve the health of employees. Total health care cost per insured individual was gathered through an online survey directly from health care benefit administrators. The survey also asked information about wellness and health risk screening programs and the related responses were used to determine if there were a relationship between health care costs and health prevention programs. While statistical analysis was hampered in the current study because of the small sample size, some valid conclusions were reached. The study was successful in identifying a benchmark of Average Total Health Care Cost per Individual from $5,100 to $5,800 for 2005 through 2007. This is especially interesting in light of the fact that an average of $7,026 was spent on health care per person in 2006 in the United States. The study was also able to contribute an estimate of the increase realized in these expenditures of 6 percent in 2007 over 2006, and 4 percent in 2006 over 2005, which were in fact similar to the national average. The final contribution of the study is to suggest an explanation for the costs which appear to be holding their own in terms of the national average. While this cannot be statistically verified, it does seem that the active participation of these companies in wellness programs could be a factor. Wellness programs were very popular in this sample of companies as 82 percent of the respondents answered "YES" when asked if the company funds their own employee wellness program. This is an impressive number of companies that have recognized wellness programs as a potential means to reduce employee health care costs. In regards to specific programs, at least 50 percent of respondents answered that they have smoking cessation, employee fitness, counseling, health risk screening, and bio-metric screening programs. The existence of health screening variables show an impressive 73 percent of respondents do practice some sort of health care screening, 50 percent offer biometric screening while 18 percent have onsite clinics and 23 percent run annual employee fairs.
Keywords: *Health Care Costs/td [Trends]; *Health Expenditures; *Health Promotion/ec [Economics]; *Occupational Health Services/ec [Economics]; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Health Care Costs; Health Expenditures; Health Promotion; Health risk screening program; Humans; Mass Screening; Mass Screening/ec [Economics]; Occupational Health Services; Preventative health programs; Risk Assessment; Risk Assessment/ec [Economics]; United States; Wellness program; article; biometry; dept.acc; employee; financial management; fitness; funding; government; health care cost; health care financing; health care industry; health care policy; health hazard; occupational health service; patient counseling; preventive health service; profit; responsibility; risk assessment; smoking cessation; wellbeing; ⛔ No DOI found

Assessment of nursing student's learning outcomes and employment choice after the implementation of a senior capstone course. - Rebeschi, Lisa; Aronson, Barbara (International journal of nursing education scholarship, 2009)
Many undergraduate baccalaureate nursing programs incorporate clinical emersion courses at the end of the program. Nursing capstone courses have become increasingly important in facilitating student transition into practice. However, little is known regarding the overall effectiveness of this teaching model for students, nursing programs, and clinical agencies. Previous studies revealed conflicting results about the benefits of a senior level precepted clinical experience. In this multi-method study, the authors examined student learning outcomes, perceptions, employment choice and retention following implementation of a new capstone nursing course. Results of this study indicated that a capstone course does not necessarily significantly improve scores on achievement exams or NCLEX RN first time pass rates. Nevertheless, qualitative content analysis revealed the following themes: integration, autonomy, confidence, authority, and advocacy consistent with a perceived enhanced competence in the nursing role. Data indicated that graduates often seek employment and remain at their capstone site or within their capstone specialty.
Keywords: *Attitude of Health Personnel; *Choice Behavior; *Clinical Competence; *Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate/og [Organization & Administration]; *Employment/px [Psychology]; *Students, Nursing/px [Psychology]; Adult; Attitude of Health Personnel; Capstone; Choice Behavior; Clinical Competence; Clinical Competence/st [Standards]; Clinical teaching; Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; Employment; Female; Humans; Licensure, Nursing; Male; Middle Aged; Models, Educational; Models, Nursing; New England; Nurse's Role; Nurse's Role/px [Psychology]; Nursing Education Research; Nursing Methodology Research; Nursing education; Personnel Turnover; Personnel Turnover/sn [Statistics & Numerical Data]; Preceptorship; Preceptorship/og [Organization & Administration]; Professional Autonomy; Program Development; Program Evaluation; Qualitative Research; Self Efficacy; Students, Nursing; United States; Use of preceptors; adult; article; clinical competence; decision making; dept.nur; education; educational model; employment; evaluation; female; health care quality; health personnel attitude; human; licensing; male; middle aged; model; nurse attitude; nursing education; nursing methodology research; nursing student; organization and management; personnel management; professional practice; program development; psychological aspect; qualitative research; self concept; standard; statistics

Guest Editor's introduction. - Bynum, Terrell (Ethics and Information Technology, 2001)
Keywords: dept.phi; ❓ Multiple DOI

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

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

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

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

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

Dobra ruska miza, slaba ruska miza - Thomas Mann in nemški orientalizem - Paddock, Troy R. E. (Borec, 2004)
Keywords: dept.his; ⛔ No DOI found

Rethinking Friedrich Meinecke's historicism - Paddock, Troy R. E. (Rethinking History, 2006)
This essay revisits the work of the German historian Friedrich Meinecke and offers new interpretation of his major works, Weltbürgertum und Nationalstaat (1907), Die Ideen der Staatsräson in der neuen Geschichte (1924), and Die Entstehung des Historismus (1936). The standard interpretation of Meinecke's work maintains that World War I caused a break in his thinking and caused him to rethink the role of power in the state. By stressing the first half of Weltbürgertum rather than the second, this article delineates a continuity of Meinecke's thought and points to the limitations of historicism as a historical narrative. It offers a possible explanation for how the conservative implications in the thought of an individual, who personally and politically was a Vernuftrepublikaner, could escape the author himself. This article also discusses what could be called the classical liberal critique of Meinecke's historicism, points to some of its limitations, and offers a more measured criticism of Meinecke that examines him on his own terms—and finds him wanting.
Keywords: Classical liberalism; Historicism; Historiography; Meinecke; Natural law; State; dept.his

Historiker als Politiker - Paddock, Troy R. E. (Russen und Russland aus deutscher Sicht: 19./20. Jahrhundert: Von der Bismarckzeit bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg, 2000)
Reprinted in Zauber und Abwehr. Aur Kultutgeschichte der deutsch-russiachen Beziehungen, Dagmar Hermann and Mechthild Keller, eds. (Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2003)
Keywords: dept.his

Land makes the man: topography and national character in german school books - Paddock, Troy R. E. (Lived topographies and their mediational forces, 2005)
"This collection explores the various forms of narrative, semiotic, and technological mediation that shape the experience of place. From the East End of London to Navajo lands to Ground Zero, Lived Topographies examines the great effect of language, mass media, surveillance, and other incursions of the contemporary world on topographical experience and description. Gary Backhaus and John Murungi have assembled a wide array of scholars to provide an interdisciplinary approach to this subject, giving this collection a unique perspective on the phenomenology of place."--Jacket.
Keywords: dept.his

Chronoscapes/chronos escapes: a meditation on historical time - Paddock, Troy R. E. (Ecoscapes: geographical patternings of relations, 2006)
Keywords: dept.his

Is one world enough for all of us?: Thoughts on globalization - Paddock, Troy R. E. (Dangers in the incommensurability of globalization: socio-political volatilities, 2008)
Keywords: dept.his

A Call to Arms: Propaganda, Public Opinion, and Newspapers in the Great War - Paddock, Troy R. E. (Perspectives on the twentieth century, 2004)
World War I highlighted the influence of newspapers in rousing and maintaining public support for the war effort. Discussions of the role of the press in the Great War have, to date, largely focused on atrocity stories. This book offers the first comparative analysis of how newspapers in Great Britain, France, Russia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary attempted to define war, its objectives, and the enemy. Presented country-by-country, expert essays examine, through use of translated articles from the contemporary press, how newspapers of different nations defined the war for their readership and t., World War I highlighted the influence of newspapers in rousing and maintaining public support for the war effort. Discussions of the role of the press in the Great War have, to date, largely focused on atrocity stories. This book offers the first comparative analysis of how newspapers in Great Britain, France, Russia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary attempted to define war, its objectives, and the enemy. Presented country-by-country, expert essays examine, through use of translated articles from the contemporary press, how newspapers of different nations defined the war for their readership and t
Keywords: Press coverage; Propaganda; World War, 1914-1918; Public opinion; Press and propaganda; War; World War, 1914-1918; dept.his; faculty_collection

"Foreword," special issue on "New Perspectives on the Transatlanic Slave Trade - Forbes, Robert P.; Davis, David Brion (William & Mary Quarterly, 2005)
Keywords: dept.his; ⛔ No DOI found

'Truth Systematised’: The Changing Debate over Slavery and Abolition - Forbes, Robert P. (Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism, 2006)
The first collection of original contributions on American abolitionism to appear in a generation.The campaign to abolish slavery in the United States was the most powerful and effective social movement of the nineteenth century and has served as a recurring source of inspiration for every subsequent struggle against injustice. But the abolitionist story has traditionally focused on the evangelical impulses of white, male, middle-class reformers, obscuring the contributions of many African Americans, women, and others.Prophets of Protest, the first collection of writings on abolitionism in more than a generation, draws on an immense new body of research in African American studies, literature, art history, film, law, women's studies, and other disciplines. The book incorporates new thinking on such topics as the role of early black newspapers, anti-slavery poetry, and abolitionists in film and provides new perspectives on familiar figures such as Sojourner Truth, Louisa May Alcott, Frederick Douglass, and John Brown.With contributions from the leading scholars in the field, Prophets of Protest is a long overdue update of one of the central reform movements in America's history.
Keywords: dept.his

The Missouri Compromise and Its Aftermath: Slavery and the Meaning of America - Forbes, Robert P. (University of North Carolina Press, 2007)
Robert Pierce Forbes goes behind the scenes of the crucial Missouri Compromise, the most important sectional crisis before the Civil War, to reveal the high-level deal-making, diplomacy, and deception that defused the crisis, including the central, unexpected role of President James Monroe. Although Missouri was allowed to join the union with slavery, the compromise in fact closed off nearly all remaining federal territories to slavery.When Congressman James Tallmadge of New York proposed barring slavery from the new state of Missouri, he sparked the most candid discussion of slavery ever held in Congress. The southern response quenched the surge of nationalism and confidence following the War of 1812 and inaugurated a new politics of racism and reaction. The South's rigidity on slavery made it an alluring electoral target for master political strategist Martin Van Buren, who emerged as the key architect of a new Democratic Party explicitly designed to mobilize southern unity and neutralize antislavery sentiment. Forbes's analysis reveals a surprising national consensus against slavery a generation before the Civil War, which was fractured by the controversy over Missouri.
Keywords: dept.his

The Missouri Controversy and Sectionalism - Forbes, Robert P. (Congress and the Emergence of Sectionalism: From the Missouri Compromise to the Age of Jackson, 2008)
In 1815 the United States was a proud and confident nation. Its second war with England had come to a successful conclusion, and Americans seemed united as never before. The collapse of the Federalist party left the Jeffersonian Republicans in control of virtually all important governmental offices. This period of harmony—what historians once called the Era of Good Feeling—was not illusory, but it was far from stable. One-party government could not persist for long in a vibrant democracy full of ambitious politicians, and sectional harmony was possible only as long as no one addressed the hard issues: slavery, race, western expansion, and economic development.Congress and the Emergence of Sectionalism: From the Missouri Compromise to the Age of Jackson inaugurates a new series for the United States Capitol Historical Society, one that will focus on issues that led to the secession crisis and the Civil War. This first volume examines controversies surrounding sectionalism and the rise of Jacksonian Democracy, placing these sources of conflict in the context of congressional action in the 1820s and 1830s. The essays in this volume consider the plight of American Indians, sectional strife over banking and commerce, emerging issues involving slavery, and the very nature of American democracy.“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes…. There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing. In the act before me there seems to be a wide and unnecessary departure from these just principles.”—Andrew Jackson, Veto Message Regarding the Bank of the United States, July 10, 1832“I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.”—Andrew Jackson, Proclamation Regarding Nullification to the People of South Carolina, December 10, 1832
Keywords: dept.his

Connecticut Connections: African American Sites in Connecticut: A Laboratory for the History of Slavery and Human Rights - Forbes, Robert P. (Connecticut History Review, 2005)
Keywords: dept.his; ⛔ No DOI found

[Three Poems] Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Bancquart, Marie-Claire (Ezra: An Online Journal of Translations, 2009)
Keywords: dept.lib; ⛔ No DOI found

The Emotional Effects of Literacy: Vietnamese Women Negotiating the Shift to a Market Economy - Crawford, I.W. (WOMEN and LITERACY, 2007)
Vietnam's 1986 doi moi reforms are transforming Vietnam from a socialist economy to a socialist market economy. In addition to liberalized laws allowing
Keywords: dept.eng

The joint effect of Relevant/Irrelevant information and expertise on the formation of market segments: do experts group in fewer, tighter clusters? - Stevens, Laurie A; Spence, Mark T (Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference, 2005)
Keywords: dept.mkt; ⛔ No DOI found

Are we ashamed of our children? - Schumacher, NC (Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2004)
Keywords: dept.art; ⛔ No DOI found

The venomous course of southwestern opium: Qing prohibition in Yunnan, Sichuan, and Guizhou in the early nineteenth century - Bello, David (The Journal of Asian Studies, 2003)
Keywords: dept.his

Concept mapping as a tool to engage a community in health disparity identification. - Risisky, Debra; Hogan, Vijaya K; Kane, Mary; Burt, Beneta; Dove, Cassandra; Payton, Marinelle (Ethnicity & disease, 2008)
Objectives: To engage a community to critically examine local health disparities. Design: Concept mapping is a tool used to rapidly assess the variations in thinking of large stakeholder groups' about a particular topic. Setting: Jackson, Mississippi. Participants: Community members. Methods: Dialog groups and community meetings were held, and participants were asked to respond to the statement, "A specific thing that causes African Americans to get sicker and die sooner is⋯" Aggregate responses were rated for importance and feasibility and then sorted into related groups. Aggregate sorts and ratings were then processed by using multidimensional scaling and hierarchical cluster analysis. Results: There were 132 (unduplicated) reported contributors to health disparities. These responses fell into eight general clusters: economic issues, government, contextual factors, cultural factors, HIV, stress, environment, and motivation. Factors respondents felt were the most important contributors to disparities (economic factors, contextual factors, stress) did not correlate with those that they thought were most likely to be changed in society (contextual factors, government, motivation). Conclusions: Concept mapping provided a mechanism for rapidly documenting community thinking about health disparities. This mechanism stimulated community dialog and was used as a first step toward the long-term goal of creating equal community, academic, and medical partnerships for addressing disparities. The concept mapping process stimulated critical thinking about contributors to health inequities and uncovered contextual factors previously unknown to researchers and public health planners. The process allowed for active engagement and exchange of knowledge between the community and researchers and allowed a mechanism for identifying and rectifying disconnects in knowledge within and between stakeholder groups.
Keywords: *Community Participation; *Concept Formation; *Health Status Disparities; Adult; African American; African Americans; Aged; Community dialog; Concept Formation; Concept mapping; Consumer Participation; Female; Health Status Disparities; Health disparities; Humans; Jackson; Male; Middle Aged; Mississippi; United States; adult; aged; article; cluster analysis; concept formation; concept mapping; consumer; critical thinking; cultural factor; dept.pch; economics; feasibility study; female; goal attainment; government; health care planning; health status; human; male; medical research; middle aged; motivation; professional practice; public health; scale up; stress; ⛔ No DOI found

Book review: lettere di roberto bracco a sabatino lopez E dario NiccodemiGiovanelliPaola daniela, a cura di. lettere di roberto bracco a sabatino lopez e dario Niccodemi.Marano di napoli: centro studi sul teatro napoletano meridionale ed europeo. quaderni / 2, 2002. pp. 79. - Vena, Michael (Forum Italicum, 2004)
Keywords: dept.wll

The evolving door: providing technology access for post-secondary students in a constantly changing technology-based culture - Hecht, Janice; Zamfir, Bogdan (Springer Verlag, 2002)
The Center for Adaptive Technology at Southern Connecticut State University was established in 1988 to provide access to computers for students with disabilities. The challenge of keeping current with both standard and adaptive technology has caused our service to evolve from a focused, centralized model to an integrated model providing technology access to students regardless of their location on campus. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002.
Keywords: Adaptive technology; Artificial intelligence; Centralized models; Computer science; Computers; Integrated modeling; Students; Technology-based; dept.wll

Language diversity and education - Verplaetse, LS (American Journal of Psychology, 2002)
Keywords: dept.wll

Fifty Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners.: Adrienne L. Herrell - Reynolds, Kate Mastruserio (TESOL Quarterly, 2001)
Keywords: dept.wll

Book Review: The big book of humorous training games. - Saltman, JM (Humor-International Journal of Humor Research, 2005)
Keywords: book.review; dept.sed; ⛔ No DOI found

Teachers’ literacy-related knowledge and self-perceptions in relation to preparation and experience - Spear-Swerling, Louise; Brucker, Pamela Owen; Alfano, Michael P (Annals of Dyslexia, 2005)
After rating their own literacy-related knowledge in three areas (knowledge about reading/reading development, phonemic awareness/phonics, and morpheme awareness/structural analysis), graduate teacher-education students completed five tasks intended to measure their actual disciplinary knowledge in these areas. Teachers with high levels of prior background (i.e., course preparation and experience) rated themselves as significantly more knowledgeable than did low-background teachers in all areas; high-background participants also significantly outperformed low-background participants on all tasks. However, even high-background teachers scored well below ceiling on the tasks. Regression analyses indicated that teachers' self-perceptions and knowledge were positively influenced by both level of preparation and teaching experience, although the influences on teachers' knowledge differed by task. Teachers had some accurate perceptions of their own knowledge, especially in the area of phonics. Results suggest that differentiating levels of preparation may be useful in studying teacher knowledge, and also support the notion of a substantial gap between research on reading and teacher preparation in reading.
Keywords: *Faculty; *Phonetics; *Professional Competence; *Reading; *Self Concept; Adult; Certification; Child; Credentialing; Education, Graduate; Education, Special; Educational Measurement; Faculty; Female; Humans; Literacy; Male; Phonetics; Professional Competence; Professional development; Reading; Self Concept; Semantics; Teacher education; Teacher knowledge; Teacher perceptions; Teacher preparation; United States; Vocabulary; academic achievement; accreditation; adult; article; certification; child; dept.sed; education; female; human; linguistics; male; phonetics; professional competence; reading; self concept; semantics; university

Fourth graders' performance on a state-mandated assessment involving two different measures of reading comprehension - Spear-Swerling, Louise (Reading Psychology, 2004)
This study examined fourth graders' performance on two reading comprehension measures, involving a question-answering format and a cloze format, which were part of a state-mandated assessment. Word-level reading skills and oral language comprehension were important to success on both formats, but word accuracy had a stronger relationship to the cloze than to the question-answering measure. Language comprehension related strongly to both formats. The cognitive profiles associated with poor reading comprehension varied, but most often involved a specific difficulty in accuracy of pseudoword decoding. The results suggest that test format should be considered in interpreting reading comprehension performance and underscore the need to assess specific component abilities in reading.
Keywords: dept.sed

Preparing novice teachers to develop basic reading and spelling skills in children. - Spear-Swerling, Louise; Brucker, Pamela Owen (Annals of Dyslexia, 2004)
This study examined the word-structure knowledge of novice teachers and the progress of children tutored by a subgroup of the teachers. Teachers' word-structure knowledge was assessed using three tasks: graphophonemic segmentation, classification of pseudowords by syllable type, and classification of real words as phonetically regular or irregular. Tutored children were assessed on several measures of basic reading and spelling skills. Novice teachers who received word-structure instruction outperformed a comparison group of teachers in word-structure knowledge at post-test. Tutored children improved significantly from pre-test to post-test on all assessments. Teachers' post-test knowledge on the graphophonemic segmentation and irregular words tasks correlated significantly with tutored children's progress in decoding phonetically regular words; error analyses indicated links between teachers' patterns of word-structure knowledge and children's patterns of decoding progress. The study suggests that word-structure knowledge is important to effective teaching of word decoding and underscores the need to include this information in teacher preparation.
Keywords: *Dyslexia/th [Therapy]; *Education/td [Trends]; *Reading; Adult; Articulation Disorders; Articulation Disorders/rh [Rehabilitation]; Child; Dyslexia; Education; Faculty; Female; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Humans; Male; Reading; adult; article; attitude to health; child; dept.sed; dyslexia; education; evaluation; female; human; male; reading; speech disorder; university

Teachers’ acquisition of knowledge about English word structure - Spear-Swerling, Louise; Brucker, Pamela Owen (Annals of Dyslexia, 2003)
Previous research suggests that teachers' knowledge about English word structure (e.g., the phonological structure of words and common orthographic patterns in English) may be limited, although this knowledge is important for effective teaching of word decoding. This study examined teacher education students' knowledge about word structure, and improvements in their knowledge as a result of instruction, using three tasks: graphophonemic segmentation, classification of pseudowords by syllable type, and classification of real words as phonetically regular or irregular. Participants came from a special education certification program and included both preservice and inservice teachers. Results indicated that prior preparation to teach reading influenced participants' initial performance on two of the three word-structure tasks (all but graphophonemic segmentation); however, prior experience in teaching reading did not influence word-structure knowledge. A subset of participants who received specific instruction about word structure improved their knowledge relative to a comparison group of teacher education students who did not receive word-structure instruction. Prior preparation did not influence participants' responsiveness to instruction. Conclusions support the viewpoint that teacher education must include information about English word structure for educators who will teach reading and suggest that sufficiently intensive instruction may be important in developing word-structure knowledge.
Keywords: dept.sed

What science offers teachers of reading - Spear-Swerling, Louise; Sternberg, Robert J (Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 2001)
Keywords: dept.sed

Stylistic sabotage and Thorstein Veblen's scientific irony - Cassano, G. (Journal of Economic Issues, 2005)
Keywords: dept.soc

Book Review: corrections: A comprehensive view - Ryan, Michael (Criminal Justice Review, 2005)
Keywords: book.review; dept.soc

A case for developing the emotional capacities of social workers: A commentary on “Promoting self-awareness: Infant observation training as a model” - Bliss, S (Smith College Studies in Social Work, 2005)
Keywords: dept.swk; ⚠️ Invalid DOI

Mass trauma and violence: Helping families and children cope. - Dripchak, VL (Clinical Social Work Journal, 2005)
Keywords: dept.swk

Introduction to the book reviews - Vol. 33 Iss. 1 - Keenan, EK (Clinical Social Work Journal, 2005)
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Introduction to the book reviews - Vol. 33 Iss. 2 - Keenan, EK (Clinical Social Work Journal, 2005)
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Introduction to the book reviews - Vol. 33 Iss. 3 - Keenan, EK (Clinical Social Work Journal, 2005)
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Introduction to the book reviews - Vol. 33 Iss. 4 - Keenan, EK (Clinical Social Work Journal, 2005)
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Parallel processes in community- based research - Keenan, Elizabeth King (Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping (Click on Current or Archives; Registration Optional), 2005)
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Micro ruptures and repairs in the beginning phase of cross-cultural psychotherapy - Keenan, Elizabeth; Tsang, A.; Bogo, Marion; George, Usha (Clinical Social Work Journal, 2005)
The article discusses misunderstandings and misattunements that occur in the beginning phase of cross-cultural psychotherapy. Sources of micro ruptures are outlined, including client maladaptive patterns, therapist misunderstandings, cross-cultural misunderstandings due to cultural variations, and asymmetrical power relations involving the impact of prior experiences or current therapy practices. Multiple clinical vignettes illustrate the rupture/repair process, drawing on Safran and Muran's (2000) list of direct and indirect techniques., (C)2005 Kluwer Academic Publishers
Keywords: Beginning phase of psychotherapy; Cross-cultural psychotherapy; Rupture and repair; Therapeutic relationship; beginning phase of psychotherapy; cross-cultural psychotherapy; dept.swk; rupture and repair; therapeutic relationship

Do social workers integrate sociocultural issues in mental health session dialogue?: an exploratory study of cross-cultural practice - Keenan, Elizabeth King; Tsang, A. Ka Tat; Bogo, Marion; George, Usha (Social Work in Mental Health, 2004)
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From sociocultural categories to socially located relations: Using critical theory in social work practice - Keenan, EK (Families in Society-the Journal of Contemporary Human Services, 2004)
This article applies concepts from critical social theories to shift the profession's discourse from the center-margin relations of generalist-multicultural practice to a model of socially located cross-cultural client-worker relationships. Critical theories examine patterns and meanings enacted within and between people in specific social locations at specific points in history that express particular relations of culture, power, and identity. This framework can help social workers listen, explore, conceptualize, and intervene in a more complex and effective manner. The article summarizes key themes in critical theories, redefines how social workers can use knowledge for practice, and concludes with discussion of a case illustration.
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Cacophony, polyphony or fugue: Exploring sociocultural concepts with social work students - Keenan, Elizabeth King; Miehls, Dennis; Moffatt, Kenneth; Orwat, John; White, Joyce (Smith College Studies in Social Work, 2004)
This paper documents some dialogue among the authors that emerged as each taught Master of Social Work students a course in sociocultural concepts. The instructors taught this required course from a common syllabus and the discussion reflects the authors' experiences in the delivery of the course material. At the time these dialogues took place, the instructors had recently changed the course format. Rather than teaching sociocultural concepts in isolation (eg. a class on sexism, a class on ageism, etc.), the instructors crafted the course content around central themes. Postmodern theories underscore much of the course content, and are synthesized both in this course and across the curriculum with feminist, psychodynamic, and cross-cultural practice theories. The paper begins by summarizing key post-modern theories that frame the course. Then, the authors respond to formulated questions that address multiple forms of identity development, ambiguity, and competing student ideologies that are manifest in classroom dynamics. Finally, the authors discuss their respective pedagogical and theoretical views and discuss their classroom experiences.
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Culture and psychoanalytic theory - Introduction to the book reviews - Keenan, EK (Clinical Social Work Journal, 2004)
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Introduction to the book reviews - Vol. 32 Iss. 1 - Keenan, EK (Clinical Social Work Journal, 2004)
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Introduction to the book reviews - Vol. 32 Iss. 2 - Keenan, EK (Clinical Social Work Journal, 2004)
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Working models: A tool for synthesizing psychology, culture, and power in everyday experiences and internal representations - Keenan, Elizabeth King (Smith College Studies in Social Work, 2003)
As social beings, we experience ourselves through interactions with others in daily routines that participate in the cultural practices and power relations of broader social structures. Social workers, and social scientists in general, however, have had difficulty conceptualizing and synthesizing this way of being in the world. This paper attempts to respond to that gap by discussing how clinical social workers can use the concept of working models as a tool for listening and understanding in psychotherapy. Utilizing a case example, the paper will discuss three working models, the enactment of power relations, cultural practices, and psychological processes, which provide an integrative framework to inform clinical work.
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Whole-school violence prevention program: A university-public school collaboration - Haymes, Elayne; Howe, Esther; Peck, Lynne (Children & Schools, 2003)
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Introduction to the book reviews - Vol. 31 Iss. 2 - Keenan, EK (Clinical Social Work Journal, 2003)
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Introduction to the book reviews - Vol. 31 Iss. 3 - Keenan, EK (Clinical Social Work Journal, 2003)
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Introduction to the book reviews - Vol. 31 Iss. 4 - Keenan, EK (Clinical Social Work Journal, 2003)
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Book Review: object relations theory and self psychology in social work practice. eda g. goldstein. new york: the free press, 2001, 303 pp., 35.00 - Keenan, Elizabeth King (Clinical Social Work Journal, 2002)
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Ethnographic study of gay and bisexual working-class men in the united states - Appleby, George Alan (Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services, 2001)
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An ethnographic study of six latino gay and bisexual men - Colon, Edgar (Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services, 2001)
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Distance learning in gerontological education: results and implications of a national survey - Tompkins, Catherine J.; Siegel, Elbert (Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2001)
This article reports data collected from a national survey of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education’s (AGHE) member institutions conducted in 1998. The purpose was to explore current usage of distance learning in gerontological education. The findings suggest that distance learning is being implemented within various programs throughout the country with many others showing an interest. The strengths and limitations of using distance learning in gerontological education are discussed. [Article copies available for a fee from The Haworth Document Delivery Service: 1-800-342-9678. E-mail address: <getinfo@haworthpressinc.com> Website: <http://www.HaworthPress.com>]. © 2001 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Ethnographic study of twenty-six gay and bisexual working-class men in australia and new zealand - Appleby, George Alan (Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services, 2001)
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Implications for clinical and policy practice - Appleby, George Alan (Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services, 2001)
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Interviewing working-class gay men over the internet - Appleby, George Alan (Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services, 2001)
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Practice and theoretical knowledge-based theory for clinical and policy practice - Appleby, George Alan (Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services, 2001)
SUMMARY: Practice with working-class gay and bisexual men draws upon an ecological framework with a strengths perspective, which emphasizes the roles of culture, values, social class, social identity development, social categorization, social comparison, oppression and power, diversity, and stigma. This practice is based upon a process of developing an assessment and selecting a range of human service interventions. Ethnographic studies were conducted throughout the United States and Canada using a broad-based sample of working-class men to enhance our understanding of their needs and effective ways of helping. © 2001, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
Keywords: And intervention; Assessment; Culture; Diversity; Ecology; Individual and group identity; Oppression and power; Social class; Stigma; Strengths; Values; dept.swk

"It was just realizing... that life isn't one big horror": A qualitative study of supported socialization - Davidson, L.; Haglund, K.E.; Stayner, D.A.; Rakfeldt, J.; Chinman, M.J.; Tebes, J.K. (Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 2001)
This report describes the qualitative component of a large-scale study of supported socialization. Paralleling the recent advances made through supported housing, supported employment, and supported education, this approach seeks to increase the involvement of individuals with psychiatric disabilities in naturally occurring social and recreational activities in community settings of their choice. After a review of social relationships and psychiatric disability, we describe the Partnership Project and present findings from a series of qualitative interviews conducted with a subsample of participants. We then discuss the implications of these findings for the community integration of individuals with psychiatric disabilities.
Keywords: adult; article; clinical article; dept.swk; education; employment; female; health program; housing; human; human relation; integration; life; male; mental disease; questionnaire; recreation; socialization; support group; therapeutic community

Preparing students to make a difference: community asset mapping as a vehicle for involving students in community action - Smith, Deborah (Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2003)
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The role of readability in today's classrooms - Gunning, TG (Topics in Language Disorders, 2003)
“The Role of Readability in Today's Classrooms” emphasizes the importance of providing students with materials on the appropriate level of challenge. Major readability formulas and leveling systems that might be used to assess the difficulty level of materials are reviewed. Because formulas are restricted to objective factors and leveling systems rely too heavily on subjective judgment, this article recommends using both objective and subjective factors when estimating readability levels. This article also recommends using readability/leveling systems as a way of noting textual difficulties that might need instructional intervention.
Keywords: Leveling; Readability; Readability formulas; Reading; Reading materials; dept.rdg

Using cognitive mapping to explore women caregivers' experiences - Valentino, Carmela Cassisi; Bulmer, Sandra Minor (American Journal of Alzheimers Disease and Other Dementias, 2005)
Women are often faced with the primary role of providing care for individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD). This study explored women caregiver's perceptions of caregiving through the use of Cognitive Mapping (CM), a qualitative research method. Volunteers were recruited from caregiver support groups to construct maps of their experience of "caregiving for someone with AD." Maps were analyzed for commonly identified concepts and relationships. Twelve participants identified 280 concepts, 206 of which were unduplicated. Concepts were collapsed into 17 categories; the largest concepts being "friends and family," "sad," "frustration," and "time." The maps produced by the sample in this study were unique, providing evidence that the experience of AD caregiving varies significantly among caregivers. CM appears to be effective for identifying caregiver stressors and needed support services.
Keywords: Alzheimer disease; Alzheimer's disease; Caregivers; Cognitive mapping; Experience; Women; adult; article; brain function; caregiver; cognition; cognitive mapping; concept analysis; dept.pch; experience; family; female; friend; frustration; human; human experiment; loneliness; normal human; patient care; qualitative analysis; social support; stress; time

The same but different: clinician-patient communication with gay and lesbian patients - Bonvicini, Kathleen A; Perlin, Michael J (Patient Education and Counseling, 2003)
Surveys estimate that 3-6% of the patients seen by physicians are gay or lesbian. There are unique health risks of gays and lesbians that are important to the clinician in determining an accurate diagnosis, providing patient education, and arriving at an appropriate treatment plan. One of the most significant medical risks of these populations includes avoidance of routine health care and dissatisfaction with healthcare. Many of these healthcare risks are not addressed because of lack of communication based on a number of common assumptions including the assumption that the patient is heterosexual. This article includes a summary of the medical literature through computerized searches to March 2002 in MEDLINE, PsychInfo, HEALTHSTAR, and bibliographies in articles on health care with gay and lesbian patients. The search strategy included health care of gays and lesbians and clinician-patient communication, partner and family issues. Secondly, it will examine common communication barriers and provide strategies for enhancing communication with patients in a gender-neutral, non-judgmental manner including suggestions for enlisting the inclusion of patients' families. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Clinician-patient communication; Family; Gay; Healthcare; Lesbian; MEDLINE; clinical practice; dept.pch; doctor patient relation; family; female; health care; health hazard; heterosexuality; homosexuality; human; interpersonal communication; male; patient education; patient satisfaction; priority journal; review; treatment planning

Book Review: process evaluation for public health interventions and research - Bontempi, Jean M Breny (Inquiry, 2003)
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Process evaluation for public health interventions and research. - Bontempi, JMB (Inquiry-the Journal of Health Care Organization Provision and Financing, 2003)
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Policies for an aging society. - Gallup, PA (Inquiry-the Journal of Health Care Organization Provision and Financing, 2003)
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Book Review: policies for an aging society - Gallup, Peggy (Inquiry, 2003)
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Secret pills: HIV-positive patients' experiences taking antiretroviral therapy in North Carolina - Golin, C.; Isasi, F.; Bontempi, J.B.; Eng, E. (AIDS Education and Prevention, 2002)
Understanding the barriers to antiretroviral adherence is a critical step in improving the effectiveness of HIV treatment and saving lives. We sought to assess, qualitatively, the experiences of HIV-positive persons taking antiretroviral therapy (ART) in North Carolina. Twenty-four people participated in one of six focus groups. A structured interview script included three questions (two open-ended) and eight probes. Each discussion was taped, transcribed, and content-analyzed. Three distinct themes emerged. First, many participants believed that taking ART was lifesaving but missed doses because they feared that taking them in public would reveal their HIV status. Second, as a result, participants often found it difficult to integrate their regimens into the most basic daily activities. Finally, participants stressed the importance of having open, ongoing dialogues about their treatment plans and privacy needs with a wide range of health care workers. Multidimensional, tailored interventions may help persons living with HIV overcome the stigma and other complex barriers they face in taking antiretroviral therapy.
Keywords: Adult; Antiretroviral Therapy, Highly Active; Attitude to Health; Female; Focus Groups; HIV Infections; Human immunodeficiency virus infection; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; North Carolina; Patient Compliance; United States; adult; antiretrovirus agent; article; attitude to health; clinical article; dept.pch; female; health care personnel; highly active antiretroviral therapy; human; information processing; male; middle aged; patient compliance; patient counseling; privacy; psychological aspect; virus infection

Sexual activity, orgasm and tampon use are associated with a decreased risk for endometriosis. - Meaddough, Erika L; Olive, David L; Gallup, Peggy; Perlin, Michael; Kliman, Harvey J (Gynecologic and obstetric investigation, 2002)
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the study was to determine if sexual behaviors, orgasm, tampon use, and douching during menstruation modify the risk of endometriosis., METHODS: A case-control study was conducted. Subjects (n = 2,012) consisted of members of the Endometriosis Association and friends not affiliated with the organization who completed mailed surveys. Data were analyzed using chi(2), Fisher's exact test, t test, and regression analyses., RESULTS: There was no difference between study groups concerning douching practices. However, cases were less likely than controls to report sometimes or often engaging in sexual behaviors during menstruation (p = 0.002, OR = 1.5), and sexual behaviors during menstruation that included orgasm (p = 0.001, OR = 1.5). Cases were also less likely than controls to report using only tampons (p < 0.0001, OR = 2.6)., CONCLUSION: Sexual activity, orgasm, and tampon use during menstruation may confer protection against endometriosis. Copyright 2002 S. Karger AG, Basel
Keywords: *Endometriosis/et [Etiology]; *Menstrual Hygiene Products/sn [Statistics & Numerical Data]; *Menstruation; *Orgasm; *Sexual Behavior; Adult; Case-Control Studies; Endometriosis; Female; Humans; Irrigation; Menstrual Hygiene Products; Menstruation; Orgasm; Orgasm/ph [Physiology]; Retrospective Studies; Sexual Behavior; Tampons; Therapeutic Irrigation; adult; article; controlled study; data analysis; dept.pch; endometriosis; female; human; hygiene; major clinical study; menstruation; orgasm; priority journal; regression analysis; sexual behavior; tampon

Can health professionals learn qualitative evaluation methods on the World Wide Web? A case example - Steckler, A; Farel, A; Bontempi, JB; Umble, K; Polhamus, B; Trester, A (Health Education Research, 2001)
The Enhancing Data Utilization Skills through Information Technology (EDUSIT) project trained Maternal and Child Health professionals to collect, analyze and interpret data via a year-long web-based course. The overall goal of the project was to strengthen the technology and analytic skills of the public health workforce. This article describes and analyzes a web-based module for training public health professionals to use qualitative research and evaluation methods that was one of six offered within the EDUSIT project. The qualitative module consisted of six units: overview of qualitative methods, planning qualitative studies, conducting field observations, qualitative interviewing, analyzing qualitative data and presenting qualitative findings. Evaluation results found no statistically significant changes in specific knowledge or beliefs about qualitative methods. However, the change in participants' self-efficacy was statistically significant. Participants' self-reports also showed significant changes in perceived skill levels in `collecting qualitative data through an interview' and `analyzing and interpreting qualitative data'. Most participants rated each lesson within the qualitative methods module as valuable, and most found the teaching methods used satisfactory, emphasizing the value of both the didactic teaching and the practical exercises and team project. The most common difficulty reported was finding the time to complete the module requirements while also working full-time. Implications of these findings for web-based teaching of public health professionals are discussed.
Keywords: Adult; Competency-Based Education; Data Collection; Education, Distance; Education, Graduate; Educational Measurement; Evaluation Studies; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Health Personnel; Humans; Internet; Job Satisfaction; Middle Aged; Self Efficacy; Southeastern United States; Teaching; adult; article; data analysis; dept.pch; education; health care personnel; human; human experiment; information processing; priority journal; public health; scoring system; self report; statistical analysis; teaching

College students' perceptions of substance use and sexual behaviors - Luquis, RR; Garcia, E; Ashford, D (Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2001)
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Sexual satisfaction among married women age 50 and older - Young, M; Denny, G; Young, T; Luquis, R (Psychological Reports, 2000)
Correlates of sexual satisfaction were identified in a sample of older married women. A 70-item questionnaire was mailed to an age-stratified sample of 5,000 married persons, including 1,000 married women over the age of 50. Usable questionnaires were received from 148 participants (14.8% return rate). Hierarchical multiple regression analysis, using sexual satisfaction as the dependent variable, yield ed five predictor variables that accounted for a significant portion of the variation in sexual satisfaction (Cumulative R-2 = .73). These results serve as a reminder that sexual interactions cannot be compartmentalized but must be considered within the context of the overall marriage relationship. Given the low return rate, interpretations should be limited until replication with an adequate sample has been completed.
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Occupational segregation on the playing field: The case of major league baseball - Sack, AL; Singh, P; Thiel, R (Journal of Sport Management, 2005)
Occupational segregation by race and gender, though less common now than in the past, continues to be the norm rather than the exception in the sport industry. The purpose of this study was twofold. First, occupational segregation on the baseball playing field, often referred to as stacking, was discussed in light of human capital and social closure theories. Second, an attempt was made to replicate and extend a multivariate analysis of stacking by Margolis and Piliavin (1999) that challenges the dominant social science paradigm for explaining stacking. The present study uses more recent data than the Margolis and Piliavin study, as well as multinomial logistic regression analysis. The results reveal that stacking persists in Major League Baseball. They also reveal that the effect of race/ethnicity on assignments to playing positions is reduced when one controls for skills and physical characteristics such as speed and power hitting. The implications of this finding for sport management are examined.
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The predictive validity of the Five-Factor Model of personality with preschool age children: A nine year follow-up study☆ - Abe, Jo Ann A (Journal of Research in Personality, 2005)
This study examined whether maternal ratings of the Five-Factor Model (FFM) obtained when children were 3.5 years would show theoretically coherent patterns of relations with a variety of behavioral referents in the laboratory at 5 years as well as with maternal and self-ratings of psychological functioning in adolescence. As expected, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness were associated with measures of self-regulation at both ages as well as with an internal locus of control, but only Conscientiousness was associated with high academic performance. By contrast, Neuroticism was associated with measures of anxiety and Extraversion was associated with difficulty inhibiting behaviors at both ages. Openness to Experience was associated with sophisticated play behavior at 5 years and self-confidence in adolescence. Overall, this study yielded strong support for the predictive validity of the FFM with preschool age children and provided further evidence that there are striking continuities in personality from early childhood to adolescence. (c) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Keywords: dept.psy; peer-reviewed

Use of visual information in speech perception: evidence for a visual rate effect both with and without a McGurk effect. - Brancazio, Lawrence; Miller, Joanne L (Perception & psychophysics, 2005)
The McGurk effect, where an incongruent visual syllable influences identification of an auditory syllable, does not always occur, suggesting that perceivers sometimes fail to use relevant visual phonetic information. We tested whether another visual phonetic effect, which involves the influence of visual speaking rate on perceived voicing (Green & Miller, 1985), would occur in instances when the McGurk effect does not. In Experiment 1, we established this visual rate effect using auditory and visual stimuli matching in place of articulation, finding a shift in the voicing boundary along an auditory voice-onset-time continuum with fast versus slow visual speech tokens. In Experiment 2, we used auditory and visual stimuli differing in place of articulation and found a shift in the voicing boundary due to visual rate when the McGurk effect occurred and, more critically, when it did not. The latter finding indicates that phonetically relevant visual information is used in speech perception even when the McGurk effect does not occur, suggesting that the incidence of the McGurk effect underestimates the extent of audio-visual integration.
Keywords: *Speech Perception; *Visual Perception; Adolescent; Adult; Auditory Perception; Cues; Humans; Middle Aged; dept.psy

Effects of reinforcer probability, delay, and response requirements on the choices of rats and pigeons: Possible species differences - Mazur, James E (Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2005)
In Experiment 1 with rats, a left lever press led to a 5-s delay and then a possible reinforcer. A right lever press led to an adjusting delay and then a certain reinforcer. This delay was adjusted over trials to estimate an indifference point, or a delay at which the two alternatives were chosen about equally often. Indifference points increased as the probability of reinforcement for the left lever decreased. In some conditions with a 20% chance of food, a light above the left lever was lit during the 5-s delay on all trials, but in other conditions, the light was only lit on those trials that ended with food. Unlike previous results with pigeons, the presence or absence of the delay light on no-food trials had no effect on the rats' indifference points. In other conditions, the rats showed less preference for the 20% alternative when the time between trials was longer. In Experiment 2 with rats, fixed-interval schedules were used instead of simple delays, and the presence or absence of the fixed-interval requirement on no-food trials had no effect on the indifference points. In Experiment 3 with rats and Experiment 4 with pigeons, the animals chose between a fixed-ratio 8 schedule that led to food on 33% of the trials and an adjusting-ratio schedule with food on 100% of the trials. Surprisingly, the rats showed less preference for the 33% alternative in conditions in which the ratio requirement was omitted on no-food trials. For the pigeons, the presence or absence of the ratio requirement on no-food trials had little effect. The results suggest that there may be differences between rats and pigeons in how they respond in choice situations involving delayed and probabilistic reinforcers.
Keywords: *Behavior, Animal/ph [Physiology]; *Choice Behavior; *Reaction Time; *Reinforcement, Psychology; Animals; Behavior, Animal; Choice; Choice Behavior; Columbidae; Delay; Fixed interval; Fixed ratio; Key peck; Lever press; Male; Pigeons; Probability; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley; Reaction Time; Reinforcement (Psychology); Species Specificity; Sprague Dawley rat; animal; animal behavior; decision making; dept.psy; male; peer-reviewed; physiology; pigeons and doves; probability; rat; reaction time; reinforcement; review; species difference

Exploring a concurrent-chains paradox: decreasing preference as an initial link is shortened. - Mazur, James E (Journal of experimental psychology. Animal behavior processes, 2005)
Experiments with pigeons and rats on concurrent-chains schedules examined a paradoxical effect reported by R. A. Preston and E. Fantino (1991). One schedule in the concurrent chain had a variable-interval (VI) 60-s initial link, and its terminal link was a 10-s delay to food. The other schedule had an initial link that ranged from VI 60 s to VI 2 s, and its terminal link was a 20-s delay to food. The paradoxical effect--a decrease in preference for the 20-s delay as its initial link was shortened--was found in some conditions but not in others. An analysis of response-reinforcer delays suggested that the paradoxical effect occurred in conditions in which responding on the short VI schedule almost always led to the 20-s delay, eliminating the possibility of switching to the alternative with the shorter delay. Copyright 2005 APA.
Keywords: *Choice Behavior; *Motivation; *Reinforcement Schedule; Animals; Association Learning; Choice Behavior; Color Perception; Columba; Columbidae; Discrimination Learning; Models, Psychological; Motivation; Psychomotor Performance; Reaction Time; Reinforcement Schedule; animal; article; color vision; decision making; dept.psy; discrimination learning; learning; motivation; pigeons and doves; psychological model; psychomotor performance; reaction time; reinforcement

From Freud to Erikson to Marcia: Concept maps in personality psychology courses - Anthis, K (Teaching of Psychology, 2005)
This study examined concept maps produced by personality psychology students as a function of different types of concept map instruction. The results indicated the number of quantitative items in the students' concept maps significantly increased from the pretest to the posttest, as would be expected over the course of an academic semester. More importantly, the type of instructions the students received at the pretest played a significant role in the number of cross links depicted in the maps at the posttest. I discuss the results in term of the utility of instruction type when using concept maps in social science courses.
Keywords: dept.psy; ⛔ No DOI found

Heuristics and general principles of learning. - Mazur, James E (Behavioural Processes, 2005)
This research on decision-making heuristics is similar to research on animal learning in at least two ways. First, optimality modeling has not proven to be very useful for either research area. Second, both of these research areas seek to find general principles (or heuristics) that are applicable to different species in different settings. However, the basic principles of classical and operant conditioning seem to be more uniform across species and situations, whereas decision-making heuristics can vary for different species and different situations, even for tasks with very similar characteristics.
Keywords: *Algorithms; *Decision Making; *Learning; *Models, Psychological; Animalia; Animals; Decision-making; Heuristics; Humans; Optimality modeling; behavioral research; conditioned reflex; conference paper; decision making; dept.psy; heuristics; human; instrumental conditioning; learning; mental task; nonhuman

Varying initial-link and terminal-link durations in concurrent-chains schedules: a comparison of three models. - Mazur, James E (Behavioural Processes, 2004)
In Experiment 1, pigeons responded on concurrent-chains schedules with equal variable-interval schedules as initial links and fixed delays to food as terminal links. One terminal-link delay was always three times as long as the other. As terminal-link delays increased, response percentages on the key with the shorter terminal link increased according to a curvilinear function. This result supported the predictions of the hyperbolic value-added model and the contextual-choice theory but not delay-reduction theory. In Experiment 2, the terminal links were always delays of 2 s and 12 s, followed by food, and the durations of the initial links varied across conditions. As initial-link durations increased, pigeons' response percentages on the key with the shorter terminal link decreased, but toward an asymptote greater than 50%, indicating a continued preference for the shorter terminal link with very long initial links. This result was more consistent with the predictions of the hyperbolic-value added model than with those of the contextual-choice model or of delay-reduction theory. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Keywords: *Behavior, Animal; *Reinforcement, Psychology; Animals; Behavior, Animal; Columba; Columbidae; Concurrent-chains schedule; Initial links; Key peck; Pigeons; Reinforcement (Psychology); Terminal links; Time Factors; animal experiment; behavioral response; bird; conference paper; controlled study; decision making; dept.psy; experiment; food; intermethod comparison; model; modeling; nonhuman; pigeon; prediction; reinforcement; response time; temporal analysis; theory

Self-esteem, perception of relationships, and emotional distress: A cross-cultural study - Abe, Jo Ann A (Personal Relationships, 2004)
This study examined the relative importance of self-esteem, family cohesion, and support from friends in predicting depressed mood and anxiety in Japanese and American college students. Contrary to expectations, self-esteem was the strongest predictor of emotional distress in both groups of students. Nevertheless, consistent with predictions derived from Markus and Kitayama's theory of self-construals, family cohesion accounted for a significantly larger percentage of the variance in predicting emotional distress in Japan than in the United States. In both countries, the relations between support from friends and the measures of emotional distress were entirely mediated by self-esteem. However, among Japanese students, family cohesion accounted for additional significant variance in predicting the measures of emotional distress, even after controlling for self-esteem.
Keywords: dept.psy

Lexical influences in audiovisual speech perception - Brancazio, Lawrence (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2004)
Phoneme identification with audiovisually discrepant stimuli is influenced by information in the visual signal (the McGurk effect). Additionally, lexical status affects identification of auditorily presented phonemes. The present study tested for lexical influences on the McGurk effect. Participants identified phonemes in audiovisually discrepant stimuli in which lexical status of the auditory component and of a visually influenced percept was independently varied. Visually influenced (McGurk) responses were more frequent when they formed a word and when the auditory signal was a nonword (Experiment 1). Lexical effects were larger for slow than for fast responses (Experiment 2), as with auditory speech, and were replicated with stimuli matched on physical properties (Experiment 3). These results are consistent with models in which lexical processing of speech is modality independent.
Keywords: *Lipreading; *Speech Perception; *Visual Perception; *Vocabulary; Adolescent; Adult; Female; Humans; Lipreading; Male; Phonetics; Reaction Time; Speech Perception; Visual Perception; Vocabulary; adolescent; adult; article; clinical trial; controlled clinical trial; controlled study; dept.psy; female; human; linguistics; lip reading; male; phonetics; randomized controlled trial; reaction time; speech perception; vision

Shame, guilt, and personality judgment - Abe, Jo Ann A (Journal of Research in Personality, 2004)
The purpose of this study was to shed further light on the intrapersonal and interpersonal correlates of shame- and guilt-proneness by examining their relations with self- and peer-ratings of the five-factor model (FFM) of personality. Shame- and guilt-proneness were assessed using a scenario-based and a checklist measure. Consistent with findings from previous research, the self-rating data yielded support for the view that shame-proneness may be associated with more maladaptive patterns than guilt-proneness. However, peer-ratings of personality failed to corroborate these findings. Both scenario-based and checklist measures of shame-proneness were associated with a tendency to underestimate one's Agreeableness relative to peer-ratings. Several possible interpretations of these findings are discussed in light of the extant research on personality judgment. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved.
Keywords: dept.psy; peer-reviewed

Gender and identity status differences in late adolescents’ possible selves - Anthis, Kristine; Dunkel, Curt S; Anderson, Brian (Journal of Adolescence, 2004)
The current study examined gender and identity status differences in late adolescents' possible selves. The intent of the study was to clarify conflicts between theory and research on gender differences in identity by investigating the content of participants' possible selves. Participants completed measures of identity and possible selves. The results indicated that there was a relationship between gender and the mean number of both feared and balanced interpersonally themed possible selves. The pattern of results is discussed in terms of prior findings regarding gender differences in both identity and possible selves. Suggestions for future research are also provided. (C) 2003 The Association for Professionals in Services for Adolescents. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keywords: *Sex Factors; *Social Identification; Adolescent; Adult; Female; Humans; Male; Surveys and Questionnaires; United States; adolescent; adult; article; child behavior; controlled study; coping behavior; dept.psy; ego identity; ethnology; fear; female; gender identity; human; male; personality; race difference; sex difference; social status

A new psychology of women: Gender, culture, and ethnicity, 2(nd) edition. - Anthis, K (Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2004)
Keywords: dept.psy; ⚠️ Invalid DOI

The phenomenological experience of global women's issues - Anthis, Kristine (Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2004)
Keywords: dept.psy

Developmental changes in facial expressions of emotions in the strange situation during the second year of life - Izard, Carroll E; Abe, Jo Ann A (Emotion, 2004)
Infants' expressions of discrete emotions were coded during the more stressful episodes (4 through 8) of the Strange Situation at 13 and 18 months. The data showed a significant decrease in full-face expressions (more complex configurations of movements) and a significant increase in component expressions (simpler and more constrained patterns of movements). The authors interpreted this trend as a developmental change toward more regulated and less intense emotions. Consistent with this view, the aggregate index of infants' full-face negative emotion expressions, interpreted as reflecting relatively unregulated intense emotions, correlated significantly with maternal ratings of difficult temperament. The authors discuss alternative interpretations of the findings in terms of changes in reactivity/arousability and the emerging capacity for self-regulation.
Keywords: Adult; Affect; Arousal; Facial Expression; Female; Humans; Infant; Social Control, Informal; Temperament; adult; anger; arousal; article; body movement; body posture; child behavior; child development; child parent relation; dept.psy; emotion; face; facial expression; happiness; human; infant; longitudinal study; mother child relation; rating scale; temperament

Therapist variables that predict symptom change in psychotherapy with chronically depressed outpatients. - Vocisano, Carina; Klein, Daniel N; Arnow, Bruce A; Rivera, Caridad; Blalock, Janice A; Rothbaum, Barbara O; Vivian, Dina; Markowitz, John C; Kocsis, James H; Manber, Rachel; Castonguay, Louis G; Rush, A John; et al. (Psychotherapy, 2004)
The present study examines the contribution of psychotherapist variables to change in depressive symptoms in a large clinical trial comparing the efficacy of the cognitive-behavioral analysis system of psychotherapy, the antidepressant nefazodone, and the combination of both in the treatment of chronic depression. Greater change on the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRSD) was associated with greater emphasis on the therapeutic relationship, lower overall psychotherapy caseload, therapist psychodynamic orientation, and supervisory status. There was no relationship between HRSD change and therapist sex, age, or years of experience.
Keywords: Hamilton scale; adult; age; article; behavior therapy; clinical practice; clinical trial; cognitive therapy; controlled clinical trial; controlled study; depression; dept.psy; doctor patient relation; drug efficacy; female; gender; human; major clinical study; male; multicenter study; nefazodone; normal human; outpatient; patient care; patient guidance; physician attitude; prediction; psychodynamics; psychopharmacotherapy; psychotherapist; psychotherapy; randomized controlled trial; symptomatology; workload

Book Review: midlife and aging in gay america. d. c. kimmel & d. l. martin, harrington park press, binghamton, NY; 2001. 116 pp. 19.95 - Anthis, Kristine (Sex Roles, 2003)
Keywords: book.review; dept.psy

Visual influences on the internal structure of phonetic categories - Brancazio, L; Miller, JL; Pare, MA (Perception & Psychophysics, 2003)
Previous work has demonstrated that the graded internal structure of phonetic categories is sensitive to a variety of contextual factors. One such factor is place of articulation: The best exemplars of voiceless stop consonants along auditory bilabial and velar voice onset time (VOT) continua occur over different ranges of VOT! (Volaitis & Miller, 1992). In the present study, we exploited the McGurk effect to examine whether-visual information for place of articulation also shifts the best-exemplar range for voiceless consonants, following Green and Kuhl's (1989) demonstration of effects of visual place of articulation on the location of voicing boundaries. In Experiment 1, we established that /p/ and /t/ have different best-exemplar ranges along auditory bilabial and alveolar VOT continua. We then found, in Experiment 2, a-similar shift in the best-exemplar range for /t/ relative to that for /p/ when there was a change in visual place of articulation, with auditory place of articulation held constant. These findings indicate-that the perceptual mechanisms that determine internal phonetic category structure-are sensitive to visual, as well as to Auditory, information.
Keywords: Adolescent; Adult; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Phonetics; Random Allocation; Speech Perception; Time Factors; Visual Perception; Voice; adolescent; adult; article; dept.psy; female; human; male; middle aged; phonetics; randomization; speech perception; time; vision; voice

Effects of free-food deliveries and delays on choice under concurrent-chains schedules. - Mazur, James E (Behavioural Processes, 2003)
Pigeons responded on a concurrent-chains schedule with two equal variable-interval (VI) schedules as initial links and delays to food of 3 and 12 s as the two terminal links. In even-numbered sessions, no other reinforcement schedule was present, and all pigeons showed a strong preference for the response key that had the shorter, 3-s terminal-link delay. In odd-numbered sessions, the initial links were interrupted at random times by one of three different types of events. When the interruptions were immediate food deliveries, the response percentages increased on the key that had the 3-s delay. When the interruptions were 30-s delays followed by food, the response percentages remained approximately unchanged. When the interruptions were 30-s delays with no food, the response percentages decreased. The results were used to compare the predictions of different mathematical models of concurrent-chains performance. The results favored models that assume that preference is determined by the relative amount of advantage that is gained when a terminal link is entered. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Choice; Columba; Concurrent chains; Free food; Key peck; Pigeons; Reinforcer delay; animal behavior; animal experiment; article; controlled study; decision making; dept.psy; food; food deprivation; mathematical model; nonhuman; pigeon; prediction; preference behavior; reinforcement; stimulus response

The role of sexist discrimination in adult women's identity development - Anthis, Kristine (Sex Roles, 2002)
The purpose of the current study was to examine the relationship between sexist discrimination and identity development in a sample of adult women. Participants completed a scale to indicate the extent to which sexist events had occurred in their lives and a measure of identity at 2 different data collection periods that spanned approximately 5 months. The results indicated that sexist events reported to occur within the last year at the first data collection period significantly predicted identity scores at the second data collection period. These findings are discussed in terms of how sexist discrimination may play a role in adult women's identity development and in terms of the additional psychometric data that supports the validity of the measure of sexist discrimination.
Keywords: dept.psy; identity; sexist discrimination; women

Winning friends and influencing peers: Strategies of peer influence in late childhood - Hawley, Patricia H; Little, Todd D; Pasupathi, Monisha (International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2002)
We divided children (N = 719, grades 3-6) into five control types based on the degree to which they reported employing prosocial (indirect, cooperative) and coercive (direct, hostile) strategies of control (prosocial controllers, coercive controllers, bistrategic controllers, noncontrollers, and typicals). We tested for differences across the five types on personal characteristics, friendship motivations, wellbeing, and social integration, expecting specific patterns according to whether control is wielded, and whether coercive or prosocial behaviour (or both) is employed. Prosocial controllers revealed positive characteristics (e. g., social skills, agreeableness), intrinsic friendship motivations, and positive wellbeing. In contrast, coercive controllers revealed negative characteristics (e. g., hostility), extrinsic friendship motivations, and ill-being. Bistrategic controllers, as expected, reported the highest control, and revealed characteristics associated with both prosocial and coercive orientations. Noncontrollers, in contrast, did not report having these characteristics and felt the least effective in the peer group. Our evolutionary perspective offers unique predictions of how prosocial and coercive children are similar in terms of their instrumental goals and the consequences of using both strategies or neither.
Keywords: childhood; controlled study; cooperation; dept.psy; female; hostility; human; male; motivation; perception; personality test; persuasive communication; prediction; review; school child; social adaptation; social control; social interaction; sociology; wellbeing

George perkins marsh: prophet of conservation. - Martin, GJ (Professional Geographer, 2002)
Keywords: dept.psy; ⛔ No DOI found

Evidence against a constant-difference effect in concurrent-chains schedules - Mazur, James E (Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2002)
Savastano and Fantino (1996) reported that in concurrent-chains schedules, initial-link choice proportions remained constant as terminal-link durations increased as long as the subtractive difference between the two terminal-link schedules remained constant. Two experiments with pigeons were conducted to examine this constant-difference effect. Both experiments used equal variable-interval schedules as initial links. The terminal links were fixed delays to reinforcement in Experiment 1 and variable delays to reinforcement in Experiment 2. The durations of the terminal links were varied across conditions, but the difference between pairs of terminal links was always 10 s. In both experiments, preference for the shorter terminal link became less extreme as terminal-link, durations increased, so a constant-difference effect was not found, It is argued, however, that this choice situation does not provide clear evidence for or against delay-reduction theory versus other theories of choice.
Keywords: *Choice Behavior; *Motivation; *Reinforcement Schedule; Animals; Appetitive Behavior; Choice Behavior; Color Perception; Columbidae; Concurrent-chains schedules; Delay-reduction theory; Fixed delays; Key peck; Mental Recall; Motivation; Pigeons; Reinforcement Schedule; Variable delays; animal; appetite; article; color vision; comparative study; decision making; dept.psy; motivation; peer-reviewed; pigeons and doves; recall; reinforcement

Learning and behavior, 5th ed. - Mazur, James E. (2002)
Keywords: dept.psy

On the calamity theory of growth: the relationship between stressful life events and changes in identity over time - Anthis, Kristine (Identity, 2002)
Keywords: dept.psy

Social dominance and prosocial and coercive strategies of resource control in preschoolers - Hawley, P.H. (International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2002)
This study was designed to investigate the predictors of social dominance, the strategies children use to control resources (prosocial and coercive), and the associations between these strategies and measures of personality, social skills, and peer regard. A total of 30 preschoolers (ages 3-6) were rated by their teachers on social dominance. Based on these ratings, dominant children were paired with multiple subordinate children (i.e., block design; Kenny, 1990) and observed in a play situation designed to elicit resource control behaviour. As hypothesised, age and the surgency facet of extraversion predicted social dominance (but openness to experience did not). Furthermore, also as expected, both prosocial behaviour and coercive behaviour were related to resource control in the play situation. Last, both resource control strategies were associated with parent-rated social competence, but only coercive control was associated with positive peer regard (i.e., Likeability). Factors of personality (e.g. agreeableness, hostility) were not associated with either of the strategies. The utility of an evolutionary perspective to resource control and social competence is discussed.
Keywords: article; controlled study; dept.psy; female; group psychology; hostility; human; hypothesis; male; parent; personality; persuasive communication; play; prediction; preschool child; social adaptation; social behavior; social dominance; sociology; teacher

Concurrent-chain performance in transition: effects of terminal-link duration and individual reinforcers. - Mazur, James E (Animal learning & behavior, 2002)
Pigeons responded on concurrent-chain schedules with variable-interval initial links and equal delays as terminal links. The terminal-link delays were 1 sec in some conditions and 20 sec in other conditions. The percentages of reinforcers delivered for responses on the left key were 10%, 30%, 70%, or 90%, and this percentage was switched every five to nine sessions. The rate of change in the pigeons' response percentages after a switch was the same whether the terminal-link delays were 1 sec or 20 sec. Analysis of the effects of individual reinforcers showed that after a response on one key had been reinforced, response percentages on that key were higher for at least the next 100 responses. Small effects of individual reinforcers were evident after eight or nine additional reinforcers had been delivered. The effects of individual reinforcers were about equally large during times of transition and during periods in which overall response percentages were relatively stable.
Keywords: *Behavior, Animal; *Reinforcement, Psychology; Animalia; Animals; Columba; Columbidae; Random Allocation; Reaction Time; Reinforcement Schedule; animal experiment; article; conditioned reflex; conditioning; decision making; dept.psy; nonhuman; pigeon; reinforcement; task performance

Transitional choice behavior in concurrent-chain schedules - Mazur, James E; Blake, Nancy; Mcmanus, Courtney (Behavioural Processes, 2001)
The choice responses of four pigeons were examined in 20 periods of transition in a concurrent-chain procedure with variable-interval schedules as initial links and fixed delays to reinforcement as terminal links. In some conditions, the delays to reinforcement were different for the two terminal links, and changes in preference were recorded after the delays for the two response keys were switched. In other conditions, the reinforcer delays were equal for the two keys, but which key delivered 80% of the reinforcers was periodically switched. Choice proportions changed more quickly after a switch in reinforcement percentages chan after a switch in the delays, thereby contradicting the hypothesis that faster changes would occur when the switch in conditions was easier to discriminate. Analyses of response sequences showed that the effects: of individual reinforcers were larger and lasted longer in conditions with changing reinforcement percentages than in conditions with changing terminal-link delays. Rates of change in choice behavior do not appear to be limited by the unpredictability of variable reinforcement schedules, because the changes in behavior were slow and gradual even when there was a large and sudden change in reinforcer delays. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights: reserved.
Keywords: Columba; Concurrent-chain schedules; Transitional choice behavior; animal experiment; article; behavior; controlled study; decision making; dept.psy; instrumental conditioning; nonhuman; pigeon; reinforcement; stimulus response

Hyperbolic value addition and general models of animal choice - Mazur, James E. (Psychological Review, 2001)
Three mathematical models of choice-the contextual-choice model (R. Grace, 1994), delay-reduction theory (N. Squires & E. Fantino, 1971). and a new model called the hyperbolic value-added model-were compared in their ability to predict the results from a wide variety of experiments with animal subjects. When supplied with 2 or 3 free parameters, all 3 models made fairly accurate predictions for a large set of experiments that used concurrent-chain procedures. One advantage of the hyperbolic value-added model is that it is derived from a simpler model that makes accurate predictions for many experiments using discrete-trial adjusting-delay procedures. Some results favor the hyperbolic value-added model and delay-reduction theory over the contextual-choice model, but more data are needed from choice situations For which the models make distinctly different predictions.
Keywords: *Behavior, Animal; *Choice Behavior; *Models, Psychological; Animals; Behavior, Animal; Choice Behavior; Columbidae; Conditioning (Psychology); Conditioning, Psychological; Models, Psychological; Reinforcement (Psychology); Reinforcement Schedule; Reinforcement, Psychology; animal; animal behavior; comparative study; conditioning; decision making; dept.psy; pigeons and doves; psychological model; reinforcement; review; ⚠️ Invalid DOI

Two- versus three-alternative concurrent-chain schedules: a test of three models. - Mazur, James E (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 2000)
Two experiments with pigeons used concurrent-chain procedures with variable-interval schedules as initial links and different delays to food as terminal links. Two schedules were present in all sessions. but a 3rd schedule was alternately present and absent in successive sessions. When the 3rd schedule delivered food with no terminal-link delay, the presence of this schedule led to an increase in preference for the schedule with the shorter terminal link of the 2 unchanged schedules. When the terminal-link delay for the 3rd schedule was 30 s, the presence of this schedule led to a decrease in preference for the schedule with the shorter terminal link of the 2 unchanged schedules. These results are inconsistent with the predictions of R. Grace's (1994) contextual-choice model, but they are consistent with 2 other mathematical models-delay-reduction theory and the hyperbolic value-added model.
Keywords: *Choice Behavior; *Columbidae; *Conditioning, Operant; Analysis of Variance; Animals; Choice Behavior; Columbidae; Conditioning, Operant; Models, Psychological; analysis of variance; animal; article; decision making; dept.psy; instrumental conditioning; pigeons and doves; psychological model

Tradeoffs among delay, rate, and amount of reinforcement - Mazur, James E (Behavioural Processes, 2000)
In Experiment I, an adjusting-delay procedure was used to measure pigeons' choices between a single delayed reinforcer and a range of different variable-time schedules. Indifference points showed an inverse relation between rate of reinforcement and delay that was well described by a hyperbolic equation. An adjusting-amount procedure was used in Experiment 2, in which pigeons chose between an adjusting amount of food delivered after a 0.5-s delay and 3 s of food delivered after a range of different delays, and the effects of delay were similar to those found in Experiment 1. The results from both experiments indicated that, for pigeons, the strength of a reinforcer decreased rapidly with increasing delay. Estimates of a decay rate parameter in the hyperbolic equation were similar to those found in other studies with pigeons, but the rates of temporal discounting were three or four times faster than those found in studies with rats, suggesting a possible species difference. (C) 2000 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Adjusting procedure; Amount of reinforcement; Delay; Discounting; Key peck; Pigeons; Rate of reinforcement; animal experiment; article; behavior; controlled study; dept.psy; dose time effect relation; nonhuman; pigeon; reinforcement; technique; variance

Contextual choice and other models of preference - Mazur, JE (Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2000)
Grace's contextual-choice model can account for the results from many studies on choice under concurrent-chain schedules. However, other models, including one that I call the “hyperbolic value-added model” can also account for these results. Preference and resistance to change may indeed be related, but the best model of preference remains to be determined.
Keywords: dept.psy

Early and chronic stress and their relation to breast cancer - Jacobs, John R; Bovasso, Gregory B (Psychological Medicine, 2000)
Background. The study examined the role of parental death and chronic depression with severe episodes in affecting risk of breast cancer. This avenue of research is in accord with oncology findings, which suggests that causative factors of breast cancer occur and develop over a period of 20 years or longer. Methods. Participants consisted of 1213 women in the Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area study surveyed in 1980 and followed through 1994-1995. They were assessed for depressive and anxious disorders, paternal death in childhood and relatively recent adverse life events prior to cancer hospitalization. Results. In the course of the study, 29 women were hospitalized for breast cancer and 10 died of breast cancer. The psychosocial variables that predicted increased risk of breast cancer were maternal death in childhood (OR = 2.56, P ¡ 0.001) and chronic depression with severe episodes (OR = 14.0, P ¡ 0.001). Neither relatively recent life events nor other depressive and anxiety disorders were associated with increased risk. Maternal death and chronic depression with severe episodes were reported to have occurred at least 20 years prior to breast cancer hospitalization. Conclusions. Maternal death and chronic and severe depression occurred at least 20 years prior to breast cancer hospitalization and could have been involved in the causation or facilitation of cancer development. The authors suggest that meta-analysis of other prospective studies are needed to create larger groups of individuals with these stresses to confidently establish these variables as risk factors.
Keywords: *Breast Neoplasms/et [Etiology]; *Death; *Depressive Disorder/co [Complications]; *Stress, Psychological; Adult; Breast Neoplasms; Breast Neoplasms/px [Psychology]; Death; Depressive Disorder; Epidemiologic Studies; Female; Humans; Life Change Events; Middle Aged; Mother-Child Relations; Risk Factors; Stress, Psychological; adult; anxiety neurosis; article; breast cancer; cancer risk; depression; dept.psy; female; health survey; hospitalization; human; life event; major clinical study; medical psychology; mental stress; parental deprivation

George F. Kennan and the birth of containment - The Greek test case - Iatrides, JO (World Policy Journal, 2005)
Keywords: dept.psc

Revolution or Self-Defense? Communist goals, strategy, and tactics in the greek civil war - Iatrides, John O (Journal of Cold War Studies, 2005)
Keywords: dept.psc; peer-reviewed

In the wake of terror: Medicine and morality in a time of crisis - Critzer, JW (Health Risk & Society, 2004)
Keywords: dept.psc; ⛔ No DOI found

Understanding poverty - Critzer, JW (Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2004)
Keywords: dept.psc; ⛔ No DOI found

Rebordering of North America: Integration and exclusion in a new security context. - Olney, P (Latin American Politics and Society, 2004)
Keywords: dept.psc

Senior citizenship? Retirement, migration, and welfare in the European Union - Critzer, JW (Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2003)
Keywords: dept.psc; ⛔ No DOI found

The wall around the west: State borders and immigration controls in North America and Europe - Critzer, JW (Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2003)
Keywords: dept.psc; ⛔ No DOI found

Book Review: Manfred berg and michael h. geyer (eds), two cultures of rights: the quest for inclusion and participation in modern america and germany. cambridge: cambridge university press, 2002. 294 pp. £35.00 (hbk). - Critzer, John W (Nations and Nationalism, 2003)
Keywords: book.review; dept.psc

Book Review: Unions, immigration, and internationalization: new challenges and changing coalitions in the united states and france . by leah a. haus. new york: palgrave, 2002. 219p. 55.00 - Critzer, John W (Perspectives on Politics, 2003)
Keywords: book.review; dept.psc

Locked in the poorhouse: Cities, race, and poverty in the United States - Critzer, JW (Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2000)
Keywords: dept.psc; ⛔ No DOI found

Conclusion: The Aegean — Life-line and Battle-line - Chircop, Aldo; Gerolymatos, André; Iatrides, John O. (The Aegean Sea after the Cold War: Security and Law of the Sea Issues, 2000)
From the dawn of the Bronze Age and Homer’s immortal epics to the latest confrontation in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf, the Aegean Sea has been critically important to countless armies of merchants, warriors, and crusaders. As a geographic entity, it is a narrow body of water dotted with islands, islets, and rocks. However, the Aegean is both a link and barrier between the Mediterranean and Black Seas, and the maritime causeway between the land masses of Europe, Asia, the Near East, and Africa. In effect, this maritime highway has been one of history’s more productive crucibles for human accomplishment, as well as an arena of conflict and destruction.
Keywords: Geographic Entity; Greek Settlement; Narrow Body; Productive Crucible; Turkish Strait; dept.psc

The international dimension of the greek civil war - Iatrides, JO; Rizopoulos, NX (World Policy Journal, 2000)
Keywords: dept.psc

Growth of AlGaN nanowires by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition - Su, J.; Gherasimova, M.; Cui, G.; Tsukamoto, Hironori; Han, J.; Onuma, T.; Kurimoto, M.; Chichibu, Shigefusa F.; Broadbridge, Christine; He, Y.; Nurmikko, Arto V. (Applied Physics Letters, 2005)
Growth of ternary AlGaN nanowires using metalorganic chemical vapor deposition is investigated. Structural, chemical, and optical characterization at nanoscopic scale is carried out by high resolution transmission electron microscopy, x-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy, and spatially resolved cathodoluminescence. Spontaneous formation of Al (Ga) NGaN coaxial nanowires with distinct emission at 370 nm is observed. It is identified that the interplay between surface kinetics and thermodynamics facilitates the catalytic growth of GaN core while a limited surface diffusion of Al adatoms leads to nonselective, vapor-solid growth of Al(Ga)N sheath. The observation points to a fundamental difference in nanosynthesis using near-equilibrium and nonequilibrium techniques. © 2005 American Institute of Physics.
Keywords: Aluminum compounds; Cathodoluminescence; Coaxial nanowires; Energy dispersive spectroscopy; Metallorganic chemical vapor deposition; Nanoscopic scale; Nanostructured materials; Optical properties; Reaction kinetics; Surface kinetics; Synthesis (chemical); Transmission electron microscopy; X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy; dept.phy

Comparison of extended x-ray absorption fine structure and Scherrer analysis of x-ray diffraction as methods for determining mean sizes of polydisperse nanoparticles - Calvin, Scott; Luo, Shuixiang; Caragianisbroadbridge, C; Mcguinness, J K; Anderson, Eric; Lehman, A; Wee, K H; Morrison, Shannon A; Kurihara, L K (Applied Physics Letters, 2005)
Curve fitting of extended x-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) spectra, transmission electron microscopy (TEM) imaging, and Scherrer analysis of x-ray diffraction (XRD) are compared as methods for determining the mean crystallite size in polydisperse samples of platinum nanoparticles. By applying the techniques to mixtures of pure samples, it is found that EXAFS correctly determines the relative mean sizes of these polydisperse samples, while XRD tends to be weighted more toward the largest crystallites in the sample. Results for TEM are not clear cut, due to polycrystallinity and aggregation, but are consistent with the other results. © 2005 American Institute of Physics.
Keywords: Curve fitting; Diffraction; EXAFS; Imaging techniques; Nanostructured materials; Platinum; Platinum nanoparticles; Polydisperse samples; Transmission electron microscopy; X ray diffraction; dept.phy

Conceptual Underpinnings of Students’ Ability to Understand Reflections from a Plane Mirror - Cummings, Karen (2004 PHYSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH CONFERENCE, 2005)
In this paper we explore students' pre-instruction knowledge of several conceptual and procedural pieces of knowledge that we believe are prerequisite to one's ability to generate correct light ray diagrams and understand image formation by a plane mirror. The research population is an algebra-based, introductory physics class of about 50 students at a medium-sized, urban, public university. Both individual interviews and written free response questions were used to gather data. © 2005 American Institute of Physics.
Keywords: dept.phy

An exploration of microscopy for educational applications in the high school classroom - Fitzsimmons, Ryan; Koekkoek, Robert; Caragianis-Broadbridge, Christine; Lehman, Ann; Cummings, Karen (2005)
This project was initiated with an undergraduate student's exploration of two advanced research tools: the scanning electron microscope (SEM) and the atomic force microscope (AFM). A research project was developed to study the application of microscopy to introductory physics instruction, Nine modules covering various aspects of introductory physics were created. Module components included discussions, laboratory experiments and assessments. Four of the nine modules were implemented in various high school classes. Assessments were used to compare student learning with the modules versus standard textbook/lecture techniques, Preliminary results of this study are presented along with recently developed methods created to facilitate implementation of these modules within the high school classroom. © 2006 Materials Research Society.
Keywords: Atomic force microscopy; Education; Project management; Scanning electron microscopy; School buildings; School classroom; Student learning; dept.phy

A preliminary investigation of the efficacy of oral motor exercises for children with mild articulation disorders - Guisti Braislin, M.A.; Cascella, P.W. (International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 2005)
Although oral motor therapy is sometimes used to treat articulation disorders in school-age children, several reports question its efficacy. In this case study, four first-grade students, two boys and two girls, received 15 half-hour sessions of oral motor treatment based on Easy Does it for Articulation: An Oral Motor Approach (). Pre- and post-test measures of the children's articulation indicated no real differences in speech production. These results question the efficacy of general and discrete oral motor exercises because they did not enhance the children's speech production. © 2005 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Keywords: *Articulation Disorders/th [Therapy]; *Exercise Therapy/mt [Methods]; *Mouth; Articulation; Articulation Disorders; Articulation disorders; Child; Efficacy; Exercise Therapy; Exercise equipment; Female; Humans; Male; Mouth; Oral motor exercises; Patient monitoring; Patient rehabilitation; Speech; Speech production; Treatment Outcome; article; case report; child; consonant; dept.phy; efficacy; female; human; interrater reliability; kinesiotherapy; male; methodology; mouth; oral motor exercises; preschool child; priority journal; speech articulation; speech disorder; speech therapy; standardization; treatment indication; treatment outcome

Catalytic growth of group III-nitride nanowires and nanostructures by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition - Su, J; Cui, G; Gherasimova, M; Tsukamoto, Hironori; Han, J; Ciuparu, Dragos; Lim, Sangyun; Pfefferle, Lisa D; He, Y; Nurmikko, A V; Broadbridge, Christine; Lehman, Ann Hein (Applied Physics Letters, 2005)
We report flexible synthesis of group III-nitride nanowires and nanostructures by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) via a catalytic vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) growth mechanism. Supersaturation and surface stoichiometry strongly influence the stability of liquid droplets and growth selectivity. To facilitate and sustain the VLS growth, indium catalyst is introduced based on thermodynamic consideration. The employment of mesoporous molecular sieves (MCM-41) helps to prevent the coalescence of catalyst droplets and to promote nucleation statistics. Both GaN and AlN nanowires have been synthesized using MOCVD. Three-dimensional AlNGaN trunk-branch nanostructures are reported to illustrate the versatility of incorporating the VLS mechanism into MOCVD process. © 2005 American Institute of Physics.
Keywords: Catalysis; Catalysts; Growth kinetics; Indium; Metallorganic chemical vapor deposition; Molecular sieves; Nanostructured materials; Nanowires; Nitrides; Nucleation; Scanning electron microscopy; Stoichiometry; Supersaturation; Synthesis (chemical); Thermodynamics; Transmission electron microscopy; Trimethyl-gallium (TMGa); Trimethylaluminum (TMAl); Vapor-solid-liquid (VLS) growth mechanism; dept.phy

A hybrid epitaxy method for InAs on GaP - Chen, A; Yulius, Aristo; Woodall, J M; Broadbridge, Christine (Applied Physics Letters, 2004)
The interface formation mechanism during the molecular-beam epitaxy (MBE) of InAs/GaP has been studied with the aid of the In-Ga-P phase diagram. It is discovered that an initial dissolution and crystallization process similar to liquid phase epitaxy (LPE) may happen at sufficiently high temperature, resulting in a graded composition at the interface. Consequently, "parasitic LPE/MBE" is the name for this hybrid form of MBE. High-resolution TEM images confirm the existence of the interfacial layer in the sample grown at high temperature. The graded interface smears out the band offset and leads to a nonrectifying heterojunction. Low-temperature (LT) MBE growth can turn off the LPE component, enabling the growth of an abrupt interface. Based on this "LPE/MBE" model, a LT MBE technique is developed to grow an abrupt InAs/InGaP interface for heterojunction power Schottky rectifiers. The LT InAs/InGaP heterojunction demonstrates nearly ideal Schottky rectifier characteristics, while the sample grown at high temperature shows resistive ohmic characteristics. The LT InAs/InGaP Schottky diode also demonstrates good stability with respect to anneal temperature, similar to the InAs/GaP heterojunctions. © 2004 American Institute of Physics.
Keywords: Baliga figure of merit (BFOM); Current voltage characteristics; Liquid phase epitaxy; Metal-semiconductor (MS) diodes; Molecular beam epitaxy; Phase diagrams; Rapid thermal annealer (RTA); Rapid thermal annealing; Schottkey rectifiers; Schottky barrier diodes; Semiconducting gallium compounds; Semiconducting indium compounds; Transmission electron microscopy; dept.phy

Attitudes Toward Problem Solving as Predictors of Student Success - Cummings, Karen (2003 PHYSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH CONFERENCE: 2003 Physics Education Conference, 2004)
Keywords: dept.phy

Vapor-liquid-solid growth of III-Nitride nanowires and heterostructures by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition - Su, J; Gherasimova, M; Cui, G; Han, J; Lim, Sangyun; Ciuparu, Dragos; Pfefferle, Lisa D; He, Y; Nurmikko, A V; Broadbridge, Christine; Lehman, Ann Hein; Onuma, T; et al. (2004)
We report flexible synthesis of III-Nitride nanowires and heterostructures by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) via a catalytic vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) growth mechanism. Indium is used as an in-situ catalyst to facilitate and sustain the stability of liquid phase droplet for VLS growth based on thermodynamic consideration. The employment of mesoporous molecular sieves (MCM-41) helps to prevent the coalescence of catalyst droplets and to promote nucleation statistics. Cathodoluminescence (CL) of GaN nanowires shows near band-edge emission at 370nm, and strong E 2 phonon peak is observed at room temperature in Raman scattering spectra. Both binary GaN and AlN nanowires have been synthesized by MOCVD. Three-dimensional AlN/GaN trunk-branch nanostructures are reported to illustrate the versatility of incorporating the VLS mechanism into MOCVD process. © 2005 Materials Research Society.
Keywords: Catalysis; Heterojunctions; Metallorganic chemical vapor deposition; Molecular beam epitaxy; Nanoelectronics; Nanostructured materials; Nanowires; Nucleation; Optical characterization; Synthesis (chemical); Thermodynamics; Vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) growth; dept.phy

Understanding paramagnetic spin correlations in the spin-liquid pyrochlore Tb 2 Ti 2 O 7 - Kao, Ying-Jer; Enjalran, Matthew; Maestro, Adrian Del; Molavian, Hamid R.; Gingras, Michel J. P. (Physical Review B, 2003)
Recent elastic and inelastic neutron scattering studies of the highly frustrated pyrochlore antiferromagnet Tb2Ti2O7 have shown some very intriguing features that cannot be modeled by the local 〈111〉 classical Ising model, naively expected to describe this system at low temperatures. By including single-ion excitations from the ground state doublet to higher crystal field levels, we successfully describe the elastic neutron scattering pattern and dispersion relations in Tb2Ti2O7, quantitatively consistent with experimental observations. © 2003 The American Physical Society.
Keywords: article; complex formation; correlation analysis; dept.phy; low temperature; molecular model; neutron scattering; oxygen; quantitative analysis; terbium; titanium

Thin film thickness and grain structure determination of ferroelectric SrBi2Ta2O9 with cross-sectional atomic force microscopy - Pechkis, Daniel L.; Caragianis-Broadbridge, Christine; Lehman, Ann Hein; Klein, Kate; Han, Jin-ping; Ma, Tso-Ping (Microscopy and Microanalysis, 2002)
Keywords: dept.phy

Alloy formation in nanostructured silicon - Gao, Bo; Sinha, Saion K.; Fleming, Les; Zhou, Otto (Advanced Materials, 2001)
Keywords: dept.phy

Microstructure and physical properties of ferroelectric-gate memory capacitors with various buffer layers - Caragianis-Broadbridge, Christine; Han, J; Ma, T P; Lehman, Ann Hein; Zhu, Wenjuan; Luo, Zhijiong; Pechkis, Daniel; Laube, Bruce L (MRS Proceedings, 2001)
This paper reports the microstructure and physical properties of ferroelectric capacitors formed from SrBi2Ta2O9 (SBT) layers on Si with various buffer layers including jet-vapor deposited silicon nitride, zirconium oxide, hafnium oxide and thermally grown silicon oxide. Results from cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy (X-TEM), energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), X-Ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and non-contact atomic force microscopy (nc-AFM) data coupled with capacitance-voltage (C-V) and current-voltage (I-V) data indicate that both the microstructure and physical properties of SBT films deposited on silicon are dependent on the buffer layer material employed.
Keywords: Atomic force microscopy; Buffer layers; Capacitance; Capacitors; Electric currents; Electric potential; Energy dispersive spectroscopy; Ferroelectric devices; Ferroelectric-gate memory capacitors; Gates (transistor); Microstructure; Silica; Silicon nitride; Thin films; Transmission electron microscopy; X ray diffraction analysis; X ray photoelectron spectroscopy; dept.phy

Synthesis of silicon nano-dendrites - Sinha, Saion K; Gao, Bo; Zhou, Otto (Materials Research Society, 2001)
A new branched silicon nanostructure called Silicon Nano-Dendrite (SiND) was prepared by Laser ablation. During the Laser ablation process, the Argon flow was switched on and off very fast and simultaneously decreasing the flow rate, to create a non-steady-state flow. The resulting structure will open up new avenues in molecular electronics as the FeSi2 nano-particle at the end can be used to grow nanotube-nanowire junctions.
Keywords: Carbon nanotubes; Electron diffraction; Fullerenes; Laser ablation; Molecular electronic applications; Nanostructured materials; Semiconducting silicon; Semiconductor quantum dots; Silicon nano-dendrites; Synthesis (chemical); Transmission electron microscopy; dept.phy

Ethical challenges to citizens of ‘The automatic Age’: Norbert Wiener on the information society - Bynum, Terrell Ward (Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 2004)
This article discusses the foresight of philosopher/mathematician Norbert Wiener who, in the 1940s, founded Information Ethics as a research discipline. Wiener envisioned the coming of an “automatic age” in which information technology would have profound social and ethical impacts upon the world. He predicted, for example, machines that will learn, reason and play games; “automatic factories” that will replace assembly-line workers and middle managers with computerized devices; workers who will perform their jobs over great distances with the aid of new communication technologies; and people who will gain remarkable powers by adding computerized “prostheses” to their bodies. To analyze the ethical implications of such developments, Wiener presented some principles of justice and employed a powerful practical method of ethical analysis. © 2004, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Keywords: Human purposes; Information ethics; Justice; dept.phi; peer-reviewed

Privacy as life, liberty, property - Volkman, Richard (Ethics and Information Technology, 2003)
The cluster of concerns usually identified as matters of privacy can be adequately accounted for by unpacking our natural rights to life, liberty, and property. Privacy as derived from fundamental natural rights to life, liberty, and property encompasses the advantages of the control and restricted access theories without their attendant difficulties., (C)2003 Kluwer Academic Publishers
Keywords: Access control; Data privacy; Information technology; Judith Thomson; Natural rights; Privacy; Right to privacies; Right to privacy; Social sciences; Thomson; dept.phi; natural rights; privacy; right to privacy

Introduction to cyberphilosophy - Moor, James H.; Bynum, Terrell Ward (Metaphilosophy, 2002)
Keywords: dept.phi

Computer ethics: Its birth and its future - Bynum, Terrell Ward (Ethics and Information Technology, 2001)
This article discusses some "historical milestones" in computer ethics, as well as two alternative visions of the future of computer ethics. Topics include the impressive foundation for computer ethics laid down by Norbert Wiener in the 1940s and early 1950s; the pioneering efforts of Donn Parker, Joseph Weizenbaum and Walter Maner in the 1970s; Krystyna Gorniak's hypothesis that computer ethics will evolve into "global ethics"; and Deborah Johnson's speculation that computer ethics may someday "disappear"., (C)2001 Kluwer Academic Publishers
Keywords: Applied ethics; Computer ethics; Cybernetics; Global ethics; Information ethics; Information technology; Philosophical aspects; Professional responsibilities; Professional responsibility; Social sciences; applied ethics; computer ethics; cybernetics; dept.phi; global ethics; information ethics; professional responsibility; ❓ Multiple DOI

The challenge of applying ethics. - Bynum, Terrell Ward (Science and Engineering Ethics, 2001)
Keywords: *Computers; *Ethics; Computers; Ethics; Humans; article; computer; dept.phi; ethics; human

Revolution and the library - Gorniak-Kocikowska, K (Library Trends, 2001)
The focus of this article is primarily on the impact that the computer revolution has on college/university libraries, although many of the issues discussed here are relevant to other types of libraries as well. The university library in its present form is a product of the printing press revolution. In all likelihood, the computer revolution will have an even more profound impact on the library than did the printing press revolution.
Keywords: dept.phi; ⛔ No DOI found

Special section on computer ethics - Bynum, Terrell Ward (Science and Engineering Ethics, 2000)
Keywords: dept.phi

The foundation of computer ethics - Bynum, Terrell Ward (ACM Sigcas Computers and Society, 2000)
Keywords: dept.phi

Family rituals that provide meaning for single-parent families: - Moriarty, Patricia Hale; Wagner, Linda D (Journal of Family Nursing, 2004)
The number of single-parent families has increased dramatically in the United States. The purpose of this study was to explore the types of family rituals present in single-parent families and their meaning within the family context. Little is known about family rituals in single-parent families, and therefore grounded theory was the qualitative research method used for this study. Unstructured face-to-face interviews were used to obtain data from a theoretical sample of seven single parents. Data analysis appropriate to the grounded theory method was utilized to identify a core variable and an emerging theory. Six types of rituals: connection, spiritual, love, recreation, celebration, and evolving were found to be used by these single-parent families as a way to facilitate family cohesion and instill family values. Applicability of the findings of this study are beneficial for nurses working with clients with diverse, changing, and complex social situations such as the single-parent family. © 2004 Sage Publications.
Keywords: Family health; Qualitative research; Rituals; Single-parent family; dept.nur

Adaptive urn designs for estimating several percentiles of a dose–response curve - Mugno, Raymond; Zhus, Wei; Rosenberger, William F (Statistics in Medicine, 2004)
Dose-response experiments are crucial in biomedical studies. There are usually multiple objectives in such experiments and among the goals is the estimation of several percentiles on the dose-response curve. Here we present the first non-parametric adaptive design approach to estimate several percentiles simultaneously via generalized Pó lya urns. Theoretical properties of these designs are investigated and their performance is gaged by the locally compound optimal designs. As an example, we re-investigated a psychophysical experiment where one of the goals was to estimate the three quartiles. We show that these multiple-objective adaptive designs are more efficient than the original single-objective adaptive design targeting the median only. We also show that urn designs which target the optimal designs are slightly more efficient than those which target the desired percentiles directly. Guidelines are given as to when to use which type of design. Overall we are pleased with the efficiency results and hope compound adaptive designs proposed in this work or their variants may prove to be a viable non-parametric alternative in multiple-objective dose-response studies. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Keywords: *Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Adaptive design; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Dose-response experiment; Generalized Pólya urn; Guidelines; Guidelines as Topic; Likelihood Functions; Monte Carlo method; Non-parametric design; Psychophysics; United States; article; biostatistics; c-optimal design; cerebrovascular accident; clinical trial; dept.mat; dose response; experimental design; human; kinesthesia; maximum likelihood method; neurologic disease; nonparametric test; process optimization; psychophysics; sensory stimulation; statistical analysis; theoretical study; validation process

Dominating Sets for Outerplanar Graphs - Pinciu, Val (International Conference on Applied Mathematics, 2004)
Abstract:- We provide lower and upper bounds for the domination numbers and the connected domination numbers for outerplanar graphs. We also provide a recursive algorithm that finds a connected domination set for an outerplanar graph. Finally, we show that for outerplanar graphs where all bounded faces are 3-cycles, the problem of determining the connected domination number is equivalent to an art gallery problem, which is known to be NP-hard. Key-Words:- dominating sets, star forests, outerplanar graphs, art gallery 1
Keywords: dept.mat; ⛔ No DOI found

A coloring algorithm for finding connected guards in art galleries - Pinciu, Val (Springer Verlag, 2003)
In this paper we consider a variation of the Art Gallery Problem. A set of points script G sign in a polygon Pn is a connected guard set for Pn provided that is a guard set and the visibility graph of the set of guards script G sign in Pn is connected. We use a coloring argument to prove that the minimum number of connected guards which are necessary to watch any polygon with n sides is ⌊(n - 2)/2⌋. This result was originally established by induction by Hernández-Peńalver [3]. From this result it easily follows that if the art gallery is orthogonal (each interior angle is 90° or 270°), then the minimum number of connected guards is n/2 - 2. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003.
Keywords: Algorithms; Art gallery; Artificial intelligence; Coloring algorithms; Computer science; Computers; Visibility graphs; dept.mat

Connected guards in orthogonal art galleries - Pinciu, Val (Springer Verlag, 2003)
In this paper we consider a variation of the Art Gallery Problem for orthogonal polygons. A set of points in a polygon Pn is a connected guard set for Pn provided that is a guard set and the visibility graph of the set of guards in Pn is connected. The polygon P n is orthogonal provided each interior angle is 90° or 270°. First we use a coloring argument to prove that the minimum number of connected guards which are necessary to watch any orthogonal polygon with n sides is n/2-2. This result was originally established by induction by Hernández-Peñalver. Then we prove a new result for art galleries with holes: we show that n/2-h connected guards are always sufficient to watch an orthogonal art gallery with n walls and h holes. This result is sharp when n = 4h + 4. We also construct galleries that require at least n/2-h-1 connected guards, for all n and h. © Springer-Verlag 2003.
Keywords: Art gallery; Art gallery problem; Geometry; New results; Visibility graphs; Watches; dept.mat

Computer-generated fractals using iterated function systems - Stiegler, Cynthia Joy Gayda (2003)
Keywords: dept.mat

College and university academic and professional appointments - Nelson, C; Conklin, CL; Galloway, R; Grant, KE; Halpern, J; Humphreys, RM; Kalman, L; Matthews, TE; Moore, RK; Smith, LD; Wood, DD (Academe-Bulletin of the Aaup, 2002)
Keywords: dept.mat

Numerical testing of the stability of viscous shock waves - Brin, Leon Q (Mathematics of Computation, 2001)
A new theoretical Evans function condition is used as the basis of a numerical test of viscous shock wave stability. Accuracy of the method is demonstrated through comparison against exact solutions, a convergence study, and evaluation of approximate error equations. Robustness is demonstrated by applying the method to waves for which no current analytic results apply (highly nonlinear waves from the cubic model and strong shocks from gas dynamics). An interesting aspect of the analysis is the need to incorporate features from the analytic Evans function theory for purposes of numerical stability. For example, we find it necessary, for numerical accuracy, to solve ODEs on the space of wedge products.
Keywords: dept.mat

Multiply guarded guards in orthogonal art galleries - Michael, T S; Pinciu, Val (Springer Verlag, 2001)
We prove a new theorem for orthogonal art galleries in which the guards must guard one another in addition to guarding the polygonal gallery. A set of points G in a polygon Pn is a k-guarded guard set for Pn provided that (i) for every point x in Pn there exists a point w in G such that x is visible from w; and (ii) every point in G is visible from at least k other points in G: The polygon Pn is orthogonal provided each interior angle is 90° or 270°. We prove that for k ≥ 1 and n ≥ 6 every orthogonal polygon with n sides has a k-guarded guard set of cardinality (Formula Presented.) this bound is best possible. This result extends our recent theorem that treats the case k = 1. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001.
Keywords: Art gallery; Cardinalities; Computation theory; Geometry; dept.mat

Essential skills in family therapy: From the first interview to termination - Lynch, BJ (American Journal of Family Therapy, 2000)
Keywords: dept.mft; ⛔ No DOI found

Dynamics of trust between clients and their advertising agencies: advances in performance theory - Davies, Mark; Prince, Melvin (Academy of Marketing Science Review, 2005)
Keywords: dept.mkt; ⛔ No DOI found

Marketing mix standardization: a cross cultural study of four countries - Kustin, Richard Alan (International Business Review, 2004)
The study researched the possibility of standardizing the marketing mix by investigating the cross-cultural responses from the United States, Brazil, France and India. The study tested the premise of standardization by determining if respondents perceived specific attributes of a common non-durable consumer product the same or differently. The results indicate the opportunity for dynamic marketing standardization remains limited but applicable within specific cultural country markets. Several attribute perceptions between US and foreign respondents are found to be more similar than dissimilar suggesting advantages may exist for a limited implementation of marketing mix standardization as part of a global marketing strategy. © 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Consumer product; Cross-culture; Globalization; Hofstede; International marketing; Marketing mix; Standardization; dept.mkt

The animal within - Prince, Melvin; Davies, Mark (Business Strategy Review, 2004)
Keywords: dept.mkt

Consumer Income and Beliefs Affecting Happiness - Prince, Mel; Manolis, Chris (Advances in Quality-of-Life Theory and Research, 2003)
Recent syntheses of empirical studies have clearly demonstrated a consistently positive relationship between income and happiness. Research is needed to reduce uncertainty and disentangle such relationships, which have been found to be quite modest, but significant in the aggregate. The present study contributes to this end, in that it investigates the moderating effect of income on the relationship between beliefs that serve as internal buffers and happiness. We go beyond simple associations of income and happiness to examine relationships between income and self-esteem and between income and optimism. Finally, causal modeling is employed to demonstrate that, under varying income levels, these beliefs affect happiness by the same process — with distinct yet predictable outcomes.
Keywords: beliefs; causal model; dept.mkt; happiness; income; money