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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Leading Edge Marketing Research: 21st-Century Tools and Practices - Kaden, Robert J.; Linda, Gerald; Prince, Melvin (SAGE Publications, 2012)
This book explores new and leading edge marketing research approaches as successfully practiced by visionaries of academia and the research industry. Ideal as either a supplementary text for students or as a guidebook for practitioners, this book showcases the excitement of a field where discoveries abound and researchers are valued for solving weighty problems and minimizing risks. The authors offer rich new tools to measure and analyze consumer attitudes, combined with existing databases, online bulletin boards, social media, neuroscience, radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, behavioral economics, and more. The reader will profit from the numerous contemporary case studies that demonstrate the key role of marketing research in corporate decision-making.
Keywords: Business & Economics / Marketing / Research; Marketing research; dept.mkt; faculty_collection

Consumer Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Globalization - Prince, Melvin (Consumer behavior collection, 2012)
Cosmopolitans are individuals with a distinctive kind of extended national and international orientation, a global vision, and sense of belonging to the world. These people are sophisticated and importantly engaged in the cultures outside of local geographical boundaries. But what do we know about them as consumers—their origins, values, media usage, and buyer behavior? This unique book details much about this group, and fills a knowledge gap that has long been overlooked largely because other related marketing areas have overshadowed and overlooked the notion of cosmopolitan consumers. Until this book, in fact, there has been no single authoritative source that directly and comprehensively covers the field of consumer cosmopolitanism. This book also includes original essays by an all-star cast of contributors, giving you an introduction to a powerful new approach to marketing, eclectically packed with novel ideas and insights that noticeably advance the marketing field and bring it more fully into the age of globalization.
Keywords: Business & Economics / Consumer Behavior; Consumer behavior; dept.mkt; faculty_collection

Continuties in Market Sensing - Prince, Melvin; Priporas, Constantinos-Vasilios (Market Sensing Today, 2015)
The concept and framework of market sensing was introduced by George Day more than 20 years ago into the strategic marketing literature and especially the philosophy of the market-driven organization. Market sensing can be considered an expression of a company's capabilities to scan the external environment. It does this by using real time data and intelligence to understand business or uncertain changes, to meet the current and future needs of the market, increase customer value, and outperform competitors. Market sensing enables managers to resist complacency, as well as to exploit opportunities and to design appropriate competitive strategies in order to remain successful in today's uncertain, rapidly changing, and hypercompetitive market. The present volume, Market Sensing Today, is essential reading in the marketing discipline, given the rapidly escalating innovative developments in market sensing techniques. This book of essays by acknowledged experts in the field fills an important knowledge gap and provides a realistic basis for strategy. It is replete with real-life examples of market sensing that illustrate actionable ideas for immediate impact that will improve organizational learning and accelerate growth. This book of contemporary tested and comprehensive concepts and methods grounded in diverse and rich experience is intended to stimulate creativity and insightful approaches for educators offering courses in strategy as well as for practitioners involved in crucial strategic decision making.
Keywords: Business & Economics / Marketing / General; Marketing research; dept.mkt; faculty_collection

Consumer centrism : an integrative review: BAM 25th Annual Conference, Building and Sustaining High Performance Organisations in a Challenging Environment - Davies, Mark Alexander; Manolis, C; Prince, Melvin; Windsor, R D (2011)
Keywords: dept.mkt; ⛔ No DOI found

Industry Applications of Market Sensing Foreword to the Special Issue of Journal of Marketing and Management - Prince, Melvin; Priporas, Constantinos-Vasilios (Journal of Marketing and Management, 2014)
Keywords: Business And Economics--Management; Business And Economics--Marketing And Purchasing; Competition; Competitive advantage; Consumers; Knowledge management; Marketing; Product development; Product lines; Research; SWOT analysis; dept.mkt; ⛔ No DOI found

A comparison between parametric and non-parametric soft computing approaches to model the temperature of a metal cutting tool - Faris, Hossam; Sheta, Alaa F. (International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 2015)
Keywords: dept.csc; ⛔ No DOI found

Modeling the Tennessee Eastman chemical process reactor using bio-inspired feedforward neural network (BI-FF-NN) - Sheta, Alaa; Braik, Malik; Al-Hiary, Heba (The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 2019)
Keywords: dept.csc; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Rich Feature Hierarchies for Accurate Object Detection and Semantic Segmentation - Girshick, Ross B.; Donahue, Jeff; Darrell, Trevor; Malik, J. (2014 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2014)
Object detection performance, as measured on the canonical PASCAL VOC dataset, has plateaued in the last few years. The best-performing methods are complex ensemble systems that typically combine multiple low-level image features with high-level context. In this paper, we propose a simple and scalable detection algorithm that improves mean average precision (mAP) by more than 30% relative to the previous best result on VOC 2012 – achieving a mAP of 53.3%. Our approach combines two key insights: (1) one can apply high-capacity convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to bottom-up region proposals in order to localize and segment objects and (2) when labeled training data is scarce, supervised pre-training for an auxiliary task, followed by domain-specific fine-tuning, yields a significant performance boost. Since we combine region proposals with CNNs, we call our method R-CNN: Regions with CNN features. We also present experiments that provide insight into what the network learns, revealing a rich hierarchy of image features. Source code for the complete system is available at http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/ rbg/rcnn.

Narratives of melancholy: a humanities approach to depression. - Flynn, Deborah (Medical humanities, 2010)
This paper explores narrative literature as a means of inquiry into the sense of self in depression. Described as a disease, an identity and a way of life, depression is influenced by both internal and external factors. Although brain research has provided new insight into the relationship between neurotransmitter function and depression, the symptoms are experienced by individuals whose lives are intertwined with historical and sociocultural interpretations of illness and its manifestations. At the intersection of science and the humanities, narratives aid in the interpretation of lived experiences, provide a window to that experience, and a public medium that engages writers and readers as they interpret the world. Engaging narratives to interpret both experience and medical jargon may reveal for both those experiencing depression and those engaged in their care, a way of mediating that experience. Narratives can help dissect and thus illuminate the official language of medicine and psychiatry and the personal language of depression. Such a window can enhance the opportunities for empathy and care.
Keywords: *Depressive Disorder/hi [History]; *Humanities; *Narration; Depression; Depression/hi [History]; Depressive Disorder; Female; History, 18th Century; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century; Humanities; Humans; Literature and medicine; Male; Narration; Self Concept; article; depression; dept.pch; female; history; human; humanities; male; narrative medicine; patient narrative; psychiatry; self concept; verbal communication

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bridges: Technology and the Social - Paddock, Troy R. E. (Environment, Space, Place, 2010)
Keywords: dept.his

Teaching the Great War through Peace - Shortell, Catherine K.; Paddock, Troy R. E. (The History Teacher, 2011)
Keywords: dept.his; ⛔ No DOI found

“No Man’s Land”: Forbidden and Subversive Space in War - Paddock, Troy R. E. (Environment, Space, Place, 2013)
Keywords: dept.his

Building within space: thoughts towards an environmental ethics - Paddock, Troy (Ethics in Progress, 2014)
The need for constructing an environmental ethics that keeps sustainability in mind is the result of a collision of the realization that the natural environment is neither limitless nor impervious to actions with a view of nature that has been fundamentally instrumentalist and anthropocentric. This paper will borrow from architectural theory in an effort to do two things: First, it will point to some of the limitations of an anthropocentric view of nature and how it impacts efforts to influence environmental policy; second, it will suggest that ideas from Aristotle and Actor Network Theory can help to provide a paradigm within which we can think about nature in a way that offers an alternative framing of questions about the environment.
Keywords: dept.his

Performing Politics - Paddock, Troy R. E. (Contemporary Aesthetics, 2015)
Walter Benjamin’s observation that fascism turns politics into aesthetics is, by now, a well-worn idea. This article argues that Benjamin’s critique of politics can apply just as much to the modern democratic politics of the United States. Borrowing from Benjamin, Jürgen Habermas, and Carl Schmitt, this article suggests that modern political discourse in the United States does not follow the classical liberal ideal of rational discourse in the marketplace of ideas within the public sphere. Instead, contemporary politics has become spectacle where images and slogans replace thought and debate in a 24/7 news cycle and political infotainment programs. The result is that progressives and conservatives have their own political “ecospheres” which enable them to have their own perspective reinforced, and debate is replaced by straw man arguments and personal attacks.
Keywords: dept.his; ⛔ No DOI found

Spatial relations and the struggle for space: Friedrich Ratzel’s impact on German education from the Wilhelmine Empire to the Third Reich - Paddock, Troy (Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society, 2016)
This article examines the influence of Friedrich Ratzel’s idea of the struggle for space and its impact on cultural and national development depicted in German geography and history textbooks from the Wilhelmine era to the Third Reich. Ratzel’s concept of bio-geography conceived the state as a living organism that is the product of humanity’s interaction with the land and also facilitates humanity’s spread across the earth. German textbooks promoted a similar concept of the state in their portrayal of geography and history, the implications of which were appropriated by the National Socialists to support their geopolitical goals.
Keywords: Education; Friedrich ratzel; Geography instruction; History instruction; National identity; State; Textbooks; dept.his

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

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

Trust and Violence in Atlantic History: The Economic Worlds of Venture Smith - Forbes, Robert P.; Richardson, David; Chandler, B. Saint (Venture Smith and the Business of Slavery and Freedom, 2010)
Keywords: dept.his

“The Cause of This Blackness”: The Early American Republic and the Construction of Race - Forbes, Robert Pierce (American Nineteenth Century History, 2012)
Race is routinely defined as “socially constructed,” from which it follows that there was a time before its construction. What that time looked like, and how Africans were then viewed by white Americans, is difficult to perceive from a vantage point within the paradigm of race. This essay considers important but neglected cultural referents to argue that a binary distinction between black and white did not emerge on theoretical grounds until the 1780s, when Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia shrewdly redirected growing challenges to slavery into quasi-metaphysical reflections on the gulf between whites and blacks.
Keywords: Thomas Jefferson; dept.his; race

"Grating the Nutmeg: Slavery, Race and Sectionalism in Connecticut from the Colonial Era to the Civil War" - Forbes, Robert Pierce (Connecticut History, 2013)
Keywords: dept.his; ⛔ No DOI found

’We Here Highly Resolve’: The End of Compromise and the Return of Revolutionary Time - Forbes, Robert Pierce (Conceived in Liberty: Perspectives on Lincoln at Gettysburg, 2015)
Keywords: dept.his

Feelings Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Le Hénand, Alice (Twirl Books, 2019)
It’s never too early to encourage children to talk about how they feel. This newest title in the Pull and …
Keywords: dept.lib

Who Lives Where? Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Babin, Stephanie (Twirl Books, 2019)
Sliding panels of animals near and far make for a delightful and satisfying format for matching game fun! Each of …
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Construction Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Babin, Stephanie (Twirl Books, 2019)
Bumpy roads, rough wood beams, and smooth concrete—there’s so much to discover in this Touch and ExploreTM book that’s all …
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Super Mazes in Space! Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Méhée, Loïc (Twirl Books, 2019)
Ten incredible mazes combine with a space adventure to provide a stellar game book for every puzzle-solving kid! Comics artist …
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Cars Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Krasinski, Geraldine (Twirl Books, 2019)
Turn a wheel to see cars of yesteryear, slide a new car onto a car carrier, pull a tab to …
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Yoga Together! Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Jouanne, Elisabeth (Twirl Books, 2019)
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Body Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Babin, Stephanie (Twirl Books, 2019)
Big, sturdy tabs to push and pull make for great learning fun in this brand-new nonfiction series. Preschool children learn …
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Baby Animals Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Babin, Stephanie (Twirl Books, 2019)
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Pirates Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Adams, Ines (Twirl Books, 2019)
Heave ho! Set sail on a high-seas adventure with swashbuckling pirates in search of treasure in this new Magnetology™ title. …
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Savanna Animals Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Dussaussois, Sophie (Twirl Books, 2019)
Take a trek into the wild . . . • Hunting for food • Building homes • Keeping cool • …
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Astronauts Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Dussaussois, Sophie (Twirl Books, 2019)
Count down to an incredible voyage! • Learning to pilot a spacecraft • Getting used to being weightless • Going …
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Jungle Animals Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Mazas, Marie (Twirl Books, 2019)
The shaggy fur of a sloth, the scaly skin of an iguana, and the rough hide of a tapir—there’s so …
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Bathtime Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Le Hénand, Alice (Twirl Books, 2019)
Little Crocodile, Little Monkey, and all their friends can think of a lot more things they’d rather do than take …
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Ultimate Book of Planet Earth Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Baumann, Anne-Sophie (Twirl Books, 2019)
The internationally successful Ultimate Book series expands its scope to embrace-very appropriately-the whole world! The Ultimate Book of Planet Earth …
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Badadoom Badabump! Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Baou, Bartélémi (Twirl Books, 2019)
Inspiring imagination and encouraging hours of creative play, Badaboom Badabump! is an innovative play set that not only includes a …
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[Two Poems] Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Bancquart, Marie-Claire (Ozone Park Journal, 2010)
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Max Ernst Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Bancquart, Marie-Claire (Qarrtsiluni Online Literary Magazine, 2011)
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[Seven Poems] Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Bancquart, Marie-Claire (The Dirty Goat, 2011)
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[Five Poems] Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Bancquart, Marie-Claire (TWO LINES Online, 2012)
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[Three Poems] Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Bancquart, Marie-Claire (Asymptote, 2012)
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[Two Poems] Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Bancquart, Marie-Claire (Absinthe: New European Writing, 2018)
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[Six Poems] Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Bancquart, Marie-Claire (Metamorphoses: Journal of the Five-College Seminars on Literary Translation, 2013)
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"Words" Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Bancquart, Marie-Claire (One Sentence Poems, 2018)
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Heart Collector Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Vandroux, Jacques (Amazon Crossing, 2015)
Finding murderers is just a day on the job for police captain Nadia Barka. But when a mutilated corpse is discovered in an old baptistery, she’s faced with some difficult questions: Who left a young woman’s body in a high-security museum in the middle of the night? And where is the victim’s heart?Barka has no leads, until several days later when unassuming computer technician Julien Lombard comes forward, claiming to have had a premonition of the woman’s abduction and murder. The ensuing investigation turns up nothing, however, and Julien is just as skeptical about his intel as the police are. But, after another woman goes missing, Barka decides to take a chance and trust in Julien’s gift. Does Julien hold the key to preventing another gruesome crime? Working together, can they find the murderer before he steals another heart?
Keywords: dept.lib; faculty_collection

Out of Sorts Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Valognes, Aurélie (Amazon Crossing, 2016)
Ferdinand Brun hasn’t always been a grumpy old man. Many years ago, he was a grumpy young man. Now he’d much rather spend time with his canine companion, Daisy, than any of his nosy neighbors. But as his behavior becomes increasingly peculiar, his daughter grows concerned and begins to consider moving him into a retirement home.In order to maintain his freedom, Ferdinand must submit to an apartment inspection by his longtime enemy, the iron-fisted concierge, Mrs. Suarez. Unfortunately, he’s never tidied up a day in his life. His neighbors, precocious ten-year-old Juliette and vivacious ninety-two-year-old Beatrice, come to the rescue. And once he lets these two into his life, things will never be the same. After an eighty-three-year reign of grouchiness, Ferdinand may finally learn that it’s never too late to start living.
Keywords: Aging; Fiction; Fiction; Families; Fiction; France; Fiction; Man-woman relationships; dept.lib; faculty_collection

Project Anastasis Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Vandroux, Jacques (Amazon Crossing, 2016)
As a former soldier, private investigator Jean Legarec is used to high stakes and sharpshooters. But he doesn’t realize what he’s getting into when he agrees to investigate the disappearance of six-year-old Alexandre, the grandson of a highly influential French politician.For a million euros, Legarec launches a dangerous search that will dig deep into some of the darkest corners of European history. With the help of the boy’s beautiful aunt, Béatrice, he uncovers evidence of a modern-day terrorist plot rooted in a long-buried enterprise of the Third Reich. From Paris to Malta to the Vosges forest, a cast of witnesses—including a death camp survivor and former mercenaries—help Legarec piece together a terrifying truth.Yet even then, the PI worries that his own dark past and his undeniable attraction to Béatrice might be clouding the investigation. Can he put the personal aside in order to do his job? And can he free an innocent child from a web of absolute evil?
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The Matrix and the Machine Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Ravalec, Vincent (Asymptote, 2018)
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Persephone 2014 Translated by Wendeline Hardenberg - Aubry, Gwenaëlle (Asymptote, 2019)
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Contemporary Art is Internationally Appealing by Vincent Ravalec, translated by Wendeline A. Hardenberg - Gaffey, Marlee (Tupelo Quarterly, 2018)
The challenge was to make appealing something that was not. To transform this godforsaken city, populated by people as indifferent to art as tourists are to the idea of visiting the only historic building—a vague ruin of a castle—in a glamorous destination. After all, what the Guggenheim did for Bilbao could be reproduced […]
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Chatbots for Multilingual Conversations - Vanjani, Mahesh; Aiken, Milam; Park, Mina (Journal of Management Science and Business Intelligence, 2019)
Chatbots emulate human dialogue to provide a more intuitive user interface to applications or simply provide entertainment. Chatbots rely on technology to function and new and emerging technologies such as NLP (Natural Language Processing) and AI (Artificial Intelligence) can be used to increase the ability of chatbots to emulate a more natural and free flowing conversation. As more and more mobile device users transition to increased use of texts and messaging chatbots can be used to provide consumers with multilingual support and services. While some chatbots have been developed in other languages, currently most converse only in English, and only a few can communicate in multiple languages. If configured correctly multilingual chatbots have the potential of providing a digital communication option that transcends language barriers. For our research we focused on the use of a chatbot that links the English-speaking Tutor Mike system with Google Translate, thus providing conversational capability in 103 languages, which is more than any other artificial multilingual agent is currently capable of. Two humans communicated with the system using German, Spanish, and Korean, and a group of undergraduate students reviewed the English translations of the chatbot’s replies. Results show that the responses from German and Spanish were cogent and natural, but those from Korean were less understandable. As a caveat, Asian languages lack much of the linguistic nuances of European languages. For example, there may be no plural form or gender in the Asian language. Unlike German where nouns and adjectives constantly change endings depending on what they are doing in a sentence and, unlike Spanish, which have numerous verb conjugations, Asian languages require no such changes. This might impact the translation ability and quality of a multilingual chatbot. Additional research and enhancements can improve chatbots used for European to Asian language translations and vice-versa. Regardless, our research shows promising results in the future use of multilingual chatbots to allow communication across the globe with business potential in the use of such chatbots to provide customer service and online live interaction with customers across the world.
Keywords: Chatbot, Multilingual, Communication, Machine Translation; dept.bis; dept.mgt; peer-reviewed