The impact of terrorism, terror and trauma on children: Implications for treatment - Marvasti, J.A.; Dripchak, V.L. (American Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, 2004)
Keywords: alcohol; antidepressant agent; article; battle injury; behavior therapy; beta adrenergic receptor blocking agent; case report; child; child behavior; cognitive therapy; cultural factor; cyproheptadine; dept.swk; family violence; fear; female; fluoxetine; human; imipramine; immune system; male; nightmare; paroxetine; play therapy; posttraumatic stress disorder; propranolol; psychotrauma; self medication; serotonin uptake inhibitor; sertraline; sexual abuse; street drug; terrorism; tricyclic antidepressant agent; ⛔ No DOI found

Jaltomata andersonii (Solanaceae): A new species of Peru - Mione, T.; Leiva G., S.; Yacher, L. (Rhodora, 2004)
Jaltomata andersonii (Solanaceae), here named, is distributed on the western slope of the Andes, in the Departments of Ancash and Lima, Peru, from 2300 to 3400 m of elevation. This species differs from others of the genus by having an unarticulated axis connecting the flower to the plant where all others have both a peduncle and a pedicel. The following combination of features also characterize this species: the hairs of leaves and axes are gland-tipped; the petiole is no longer than 1 cm; the flowers are solitary; the corolla is broadly crateriform-rotate, purple, and up to 3.7 cm in diameter; and the filaments are extremely villous at their bases.
Keywords: Andes; Corolla; Flora of Peru; Jaltomata; Jaltomata andersonii; Magnoliophyta; Solanaceae; dept.egm; ⛔ No DOI found

In defense of homology and history: A response to Allen - Paddock, T. (Philosophy and Geography, 2004)
Keywords: dept.his

Of courtesans, knights, cooks and writers: Food in the renaissance - Palma, P. (MLN - Modern Language Notes, 2004)
Keywords: dept.wll

Multiple Independent Identification Decisions: A Method of Calibrating Eyewitness Identifications - Pryke, S.; Lindsay, R.C.L.; Dysart, J.E.; Dupuis, P. (Journal of Applied Psychology, 2004)
Two experiments (N = 147 and N = 90) explored the use of multiple independent lineups to identify a target seen live. In Experiment 1, simultaneous face, body, and sequential voice lineups were used. In Experiment 2, sequential face, body, voice, and clothing lineups were used. Both studies demonstrated that multiple identifications (by the same witness) from independent lineups of different features are highly diagnostic of suspect guilt (G. L. Wells & R. C. L. Lindsay, 1980). The number of suspect and foil selections from multiple independent lineups provides a powerful method of calibrating the accuracy of eyewitness identification. Implications for use of current methods are discussed.
Keywords: Decision Making; Humans; Recognition (Psychology); Visual Perception; article; decision making; dept.psy; human; recognition; vision

Probability and Tempered Modal Eliminativism - Shaffer, M.J. (History and Philosophy of Logic, 2004)
In this paper the strategy for the eliminative reduction of the alethic modalities suggested by John Venn is outlined and it is shown to anticipate certain related contemporary empiricistic and nominalistic projects. Venn attempted to reduce the alethic modalities to probabilities, and thus suggested a promising solution to the nagging issue of the inclusion of modal statements in empiricistic philosophical systems. However, despite the promise that this suggestion held for laying the ‘ghost of modality’ to rest, this general approach, tempered modal eliminativism, is shown to be inadequate for that task. © 2004 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
Keywords: dept.phi

Recent brachiopods from the southern Brazilian shelf: Palaeontological and biogeographical implications - Simoes, M.G.; Kowalewski, M.; Mello, L.H.C.; Rodland, D.L.; Carroll, M. (Palaeontology, 2004)
Until recently, the rhynchonelliform (articulated) brachiopod fauna from the Brazilian continental shelf (western South Atlantic) was represented only by the endemic species Bouchardia rosea (Mawe), reported from coastal waters of the states of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The present study, based on samples from coastal (<30m), shelf, and continental slope waters (99-485 m), documents the South Atlantic brachiopod fauna and shows that this fauna is more widespread, diverse, and cosmopolitan than previously thought. Based on a total of 16,177 specimens, the following brachiopods have been identified: Bouchardia rosea (Family Bouchardiidae), Platidia anomioides (Family Platidiidae), Argyrotheca cf. cuneata (Family Megathyrididae), and Terebratulina sp. (Family Cancellothyrididae). In coastal settings, the fauna is overwhelmingly dominated by Bouchardia rosea. Rare juvenile (<2 mm) specimens of Argyrotheca cf. cuneata were also found at two shallow-water sites. In shelf settings (100-200 m), the fauna is more diverse and includes Bouchardia rosea, Terebratulina sp., Argyrotheca cf. cuneata, and Platidia anomioides. Notably, Bouchardia rosea was found in waters as deep as 485 m, extending the known bathymetric range of this genus. Also, the record of this brachiopod in waters of the state of Paraná is the southernmost known occurrence of this species. The genera Platidia and Terebratulina are documented here for the first time for the western South Atlantic. The Brazilian brachiopod fauna shares similarities with those from the Atlantic and Indian shelves of southern Africa, and from the Antarctic, Caribbean and Mediterranean waters. The present-day brachiopods of the western South Atlantic are much more cosmopolitan than previously thought and their Cenozoic palaeobiogeographic history has to be reconsidered from that perspective. © The Paleontological Association.
Keywords: Argyrotheca; Argyrotheca cuneata; Atlantic Ocean; Bouchardia; Bouchardia rosea; Brachiopoda; Brazilian Shelf; Cancellothyrididae; Megathyrididae; Platidia; Platidia anomioides; Platidiidae; Recent; South-East Brazilian Bight; Terebratulida; Terebratulina; dept.esc; paleobiogeography

"I should not be wearing a pilgrim hat": Making an Indian place in urban schools, 1945-75 - Amerman, S. (American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2007)
Keywords: dept.his

Reviewers reviewed: John Davis and the early American leterary field - Ellis, S. (Early American Literature, 2007)
Keywords: dept.eng

Electrical properties of mismatched interface between InP and GaP - Li, G.-H.; Sun, Y.-N.; Yulius, A.; Broadbridge, C.C.; Woodall, J.M. (Rengong Jingti Xuebao/Journal of Synthetic Crystals, 2007)
The electrical properties of the mismatched interface between InP and GaP have been investigatedted. High resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) image shows the presence of strain relieving, 90° misfit dislocations at the InP/GaP interface. Electrochemical capacitance voltage (ECV) profiling indicates the presence of a high-density sheet of carriers at the interface. AFM image shows a pretty good InP epitaxial layer with surface roughness of 2.48 nm has been obtained. A model based on Fermi-level pinning in InP at the interface by misfit dislocations is proposed to account for the observed electrical behavior.
Keywords: Dislocations; InP/GaP interface; Lattice mismatch; dept.phy; ⛔ No DOI found

Normalized change - Marx, J.D.; Cummings, K. (American Journal of Physics, 2007)
Discussions of diagnostic tools that gauge students' conceptual understanding permeate the literature. Many instructors report their class' normalized gain to characterize the change in scores from pre-test to post-test. We describe a new procedure for characterizing these changes. This procedure, which we call the normalized change, c, involves the ratio of the gain to the maximum possible gain or the loss to the maximum possible loss. We also advocate reporting the average of a class' normalized changes and utilizing a particular statistical and graphical approach for comparing average c values. © 2007 American Association of Physics Teachers.
Keywords: dept.phy

Natural environment disaster survival experiences: Narrative research from two communities - Prince, M.; Davies, M.A.P. (Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies, 2007)
We develop a model of sequential responses of disaster survivors as they experience natural disaster stages. The disaster response model is based on the confluence of psychological processes with temporal environmental states that are markers of disaster periods. The study analyzes journalistic narratives taken from informants experiencing natural disasters in two culturally diverse communities. Recorded short-term vivid memory traces of survivors are assumed to accurately project their interpretations of events and experiences, reflected in their narratives. Whilst survivors share many similarities in their profiles of natural disaster response, some cultural differences in response are observed between communities, such as religiosity. Copyright © 2007 Massey University.
Keywords: Culture; Disaster survivors; Flood; Narrative research; Tsunami; dept.mkt; ⛔ No DOI found

Ethnobotany and the loss of traditional knowledge in the 21st century - Ramirez, C.R. (Ethnobotany Research and Applications, 2007)
Keywords: dept.bio

Etnobotánica y la pérdida de conocimiento tradicional en el siglo 21 - Ramirez, C.R. (Ethnobotany Research and Applications, 2007)
Keywords: dept.bio

Opinion: Ethos interrupted: Diffusing "star" pedagogy in creative writing programs - Ritter, K. (College English, 2007)
Keywords: dept.eng; ⛔ No DOI found

The stellar mass spectrum of the open cluster NGC 3293 - Slawson, R.W.; Ninkov, Z.; Horch, E.P. (Astrophysics and Space Science, 2007)
We have obtained and analyzed UBVRI CCD frames of the young, 4-10 Myr, open cluster NGC 3293 and the surrounding field in order to study its stellar content and determine the cluster's IMF. We found significantly fewer lower mass stars, M≤2.5M ⊙, than expected. This is particularly so if a single age for the cluster of 4.6 Myr is adopted as derived from fitting evolutionary models to the upper main sequence. Some intermediate-mass stars near the main sequence in the HR diagram imply an age for the cluster of about 10 Myr. When compared with the Scalo (The stellar initial mass function. ASP conference series, vol. 24, p. 201, 1998) IMF scaled to the cluster IMF in the intermediate mass range, 2.5≤M/M ⊙≤8.0 where there is good agreement, the high mass stars have a distinctly flatter IMF, indicating an over abundance of these stars, and there is a sharp turnover in the distribution at lower masses. The radial density distribution of cluster stars in the massive and intermediate mass regimes indicate that these stars are more concentrated to the cluster core whereas the lower-mass stars show little concentration. We suggest that this is evidence supporting the formation of massive stars through accretion and/or coagulation processes in denser cluster cores at the expense of the lower mass proto-stars. © 2007 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
Keywords: Mass function; Open clusters and associations: individual (NGC 3292); Stars: luminosity function; dept.phy

Photojournal: Venezuela - Yacher, L. (Focus on Geography, 2007)
Keywords: South America; Venezuela; dept.egm; imagery

Managing school discipline and implications for school social workers: A review of the literature - Cameron, M. (Children and Schools, 2006)
School disciplinary policies and practices are essential features of life in U.S. schools. Conventional approaches to school discipline - including conduct codes and security methods, suspension, corporal punishment, and teachers' methods of managing student behaviors - rely primarily on deterrence, control, and punishment to maintain order. However, approximately 40 years of research, chiefly in education and psychology, has demonstrated that these policies and practices are often associated with and can contribute to increased disorder in schools and behavioral and academic problems among students. Furthermore, school discipline is sometimes administered prejudicially to those students who may be the most vulnerable. School social workers and all social workers working with children and youths can help schools adopt effective and nonpunitive disciplinary approaches. Key professional actions include advocacy for schoolchildren subject to unfair and overly punitive discipline; educating teachers and administrators about the potential harm associated with conventional disciplinary practices; educating school personnel about effective, nonpunitive approaches; and creating a public campaign to generate popular support for the reform of iatrogenic school disciplinary practices. © 2006 National Association of Social Workers.
Keywords: Children; Discipline; Punishment; School social work; Schools; dept.swk

School discipline and social work practice: Application of research and theory to intervention - Cameron, M.; Sheppard, S.M. (Children and Schools, 2006)
Research has identified a relationship between school disciplinary actions and poor academic and psychosocial functioning of students subjected to them. The ways in which school discipline is a direct contributor to students' academic and psychosocial difficulty needs to be further established empirically. Several theories, based in existing research and theory in sociology of education and educational psychology, have been proposed to explain the school discipline - student dysfunction relationship. They generally suggest three pathways: disciplinary actions may contribute to students' psychological problems; student misbehavior may be encouraged through ineffective and unintentionally paradoxical learning experiences; and disciplinary practices may damage students' relationship with school. School social workers and others working with children who have been disciplined at school can use these research findings and theories as an assessment framework to guide their interventions.The awareness of the iatrogenic potential of school discipline and informed assessment can support a range of evidence-based alternatives to school discipline. © 2006 National Association of Social Workers.
Keywords: Assessment; Children; Discipline; School social work; Schools; dept.swk

Immigrant act - Crawford, I. (JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory, 2006)
Keywords: dept.aa; ⛔ No DOI found

Daniel Dennett and the computational turn - Dorbolo, J.; Barnette, R.; Bynum, T.; Cavalier, R.; Moor, J.; Rosenthal, D.M.; Uzgalis, B. (Minds and Machines, 2006)
Keywords: dept.phi

Empathy and identity in Vernon Lee's Hauntings - Fluhr, N. (Victorian Studies, 2006)
Keywords: dept.eng

Social bookmarking for organization, discovery, and publication - Hedreen, R.C. (Journal of Library and Information Services in Distance Learning, 2006)
Keywords: dept.lib; ⛔ No DOI found

Educational services for students with mental retardation in Kenya - Klarie, M.W. (International Journal of Special Education, 2006)
Research pertaining to issues on educational services for individuals with disabilities in developing countries is scarce. The purpose of this article is to two fold: first, to contribute to the already existing literature, and, secondly, and perhaps more importantly, to provide a foundation for prospective readers to better understand literature regarding educational services for students with mental retardation. This article guides the reader to understand the perspectives towards students with mental retardation, discusses the definition and causes of this condition, and discusses issues pertaining to the identification, assessment and evaluation of these students in Kenya. The core of the article contains a discussion of the various placement options available for this population along with the curriculum in operation in the various settings. Existing barriers to effectively serving this population in Kenya and in other developing countries is also discussed.
Keywords: dept.sed; peer-reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

The discursive malleability of an identity: A dialogic approach to language "medium" schooling in North India - LaDousa, C. (Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 2006)
This article employs a dialogic approach, in the parlance of Bakhtin, to explore the ways in which a school's "medium," its primary language of instruction, has become a major category of identity in North India. Many people describe themselves and others by invoking attendance at either a Hindi- or English-medium school. The first task of this article is to account for what Bakhtin calls "centripetal forces" that enable people at different positions in terms of class or school experience to use a common duality of Hindiversus English-medium and its attendant social resonances. The second task is to account for the abilities of a teacher to question the inevitability of the medium divide and to radically reframe what is important about schooling. Her abilities derive, in part, from her experiences with schools, attesting to Bakhtin's insight that centripetal forces in language are never total, and that centrifugal forces arise from complex engagements with institutions. © 2006 by the American Anthropological Association. All rights reserved.
Keywords: dept.ant

We better get this party started! - Lavoie, L.; Markiewicz, J. (College and Undergraduate Libraries, 2006)
Each fall, the Tunxis Library hosts a party. Usually thematic, sometimes didactic, and always cerebral, the library uses the party to communicate our “party line” to the entire campus community: we are here to make your life easier. It's particularly effective when delivered at the start of the semester, before the unrelenting rhythm of classes, committee work, and meetings has begun. Showing the campus community that the library is here to support them is our core theme, wrapped in a party context. Our goal is to create a party that jump-starts the fall semester for everyone. In this article, we describe our most recent parties, focusing how we develop, plan, and execute these promotional initiatives, with little money, but plenty of creativity and teamwork. © 2005 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Community colleges; Library marketing; Library promotion; Parties; Teams; dept.ils

Father-daughter lust: Psychiatric aspects of abusive incest - Marvasti, J.A.; Dripchak, V.L. (American Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, 2006)
Sexual violation of children has been a long standing problem that has a wide range of impact upon the victim, her/his family, the community where the family lives and our society as a whole. Traumatic incest, in particular, is an abuse of power, a challenge to the child's sense of trust in people and a thief of childhood. This article will explore the intricate issues surrounding the incest relationship between fathers and their child daughters and provide a discussion of current therapeutic interventions. Copyright 2006 American Journal of Forensic Psychiatry.
Keywords: behavior therapy; child sexual abuse; cognitive therapy; daughter; dept.swk; father child relation; human; incest; play therapy; review; sexual behavior; sexual crime; trust; ⛔ No DOI found

Picturing France in the fifteenth century: The map in BNF MS Fr. 4991 - Serchuk, C. (Imago Mundi, 2006)
A map of France is included in a manuscript, dated to around 1460, entitled A tous nobles, which contains a historical account and genealogy of the French kings. The map was produced in the wake of the Hundred Years War, when conflict with the English challenged both French identity and territory. The map, however, smooths over a century of war to reveal a nation both strong and independent. Through the mapmaker's selection of places, and his use of fluvial boundaries to define the area concerned, he has created an image of France shaped by ideology and history that is wholly in keeping with its location in the manuscript, where the renaming of Gaul as France is described. The map reveals the territory of France to be a critical link between the mythical past and the political present. This connection between history and territory, also reiterated in the text itself, is presented in a graphic format that may be related to contemporary practice of using maps along with legal documents in the resolution of territorial disputes. Seen in the light of the king's claim to the lands ruled by his ancestors, the map thus constitutes a rare medieval example of French national identity expressed in relation to French territory. © 2006 Imago Mundi Ltd.
Keywords: A tous nobles; Aquitaine; Bibliothèque nationale de France MS Fr. 4991; Burgundy; Catherine de Medici; Charles IV; Charles VII; Edward III; Eurasia; Europe; France; Genealogy; Hundred Years War; Jean Boutillier; Litigation; Manuscript illumination; Map signs; Map structure; Marcomir; National identity; Nicolas de Nicolay; Philip VI; Propaganda; Western Europe; dept.art; historical cartography; ideology; map; map graphics

Photojournal: Turkmenistan - Yacher, L. (Focus on Geography, 2006)
Keywords: Asia; Eurasia; Turkmenistan; West Asia; dept.egm; geographical research

Spin hamiltonian, competing small energy scales, and incommensurate long-range order in the highly frustrated Gd3Ga5O12 garnet antiferromagnet - Yavors'kii, T.; Enjalran, M.; Gingras, M.J.P. (Physical Review Letters, 2006)
Despite the availability of a spin Hamiltonian for the Gd3Ga5O12 garnet (GGG) for over 25 years, there has so far been little theoretical insight regarding the many unusual low temperature properties of GGG. Here we investigate GGG in zero magnetic field using mean-field theory. We reproduce the spin liquid-like correlations and, most importantly, explain the positions of the sharp peaks seen in powder neutron diffraction experiments. We show that it is crucial to treat accurately the long-range nature of the magnetic dipolar interactions to allow for a determination of the small exchange energy scales involved in the selection of the experimental ordering wave vector. Our results show that the incommensurate order in GGG is classical in nature, intrinsic to the microscopic spin Hamiltonian and not caused by weak disorder. © 2006 The American Physical Society.
Keywords: Antiferromagnetic materials; Electron energy levels; Garnet antiferromagnets; Hamiltonians; Magnetic dipolar interactions; Magnetic fields; Mean field theory; Neutron diffraction; Ordering wave vectors; Quantum theory; dept.phy

Evaluation of federated searching options for the school library - Abercrombie, S.E. (School Library Media Research, 2008)
Three hosted federated search tools, Follett One Search, Gale PowerSearch Plus, and WebFeat Express, were configured and implemented in a school library. Databases from five vendors and the OPAC were systematically searched. Federated search results were compared with each other and to the results of the same searches in the database's native interface to disclose differences in handling query syntax, searching, retrieval, browsing results, etc. Each product was easily configured, but none were capable of searching every database desired. Simpler Boolean queries are the most successful queries because of the underlying structure and differences of the databases, and the capabilities of certain products. Federated search products succeed in simplifying access to multiple database resources at school, but searching remains different from the familiar Web search engines in many ways. To become more Google-like, federated searching must be done against indexes built in advance instead of the current real-time searching method.
Keywords: dept.ils; ⛔ No DOI found

The test of malingered incompetence (TOMI): A forced-choice instrument for assessing cognitive malingering in competence to stand trial evaluations - Colwell, K.; Colwell, L.H.; Perry, A.T.; Wasieleski, D.; Billings, T. (American Journal of Forensic Psychology, 2008)
The TOMI consists of two 25-item, two-alternative, forced-choice scales - General Knowledge (TOMI-G) and Legal Knowledge (TOMI- L) - designed to detect malingered cognitive impairment in CST evaluations. The TOMI was derived and validated with a university sample (N = 242), with a cut score of < 21 providing maximum classification accuracy of hon est and dishonest respondents. Subsequently, the TOMI was administered to forensic inpatient residents (N = 30) and was compared to existing, well- established tests of malingering (the Rey-FIT and the TOMM). Results indi cated strong correlations and predictive agreement for both scales, and dis tinction between honest and probable dishonest respondents for the TOMI-L. A third study provided additional validation for the TOMI in distinguishing honest from dishonest student respondents (N = 120) and examined the ef fects of motivation on response style. For dishonest responders, those in the high motivation group scored significantly lower than those in the low moti vation group, further betraying their dishonesty. The utility of the TOMI as a useful, novel tool for forensic practitioners is discussed. Copyright 2008 American Journal of Forensic Psychology.
Keywords: adult; article; clinical evaluation; cognitive defect; controlled study; dept.psy; diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders; female; forced choice method; human; major clinical study; male; malingering; mental disease; mental performance; mental test; psychologic assessment; ⛔ No DOI found

Strontium isotope evidence for prehistoric migration at Chokepukio, Valley of Cuzco, Peru - Andrushko, V.A.; Buzon, M.R.; Simonetti, A.; Creaser, R.A. (Latin American Antiquity, 2009)
Although Spanish chroniclers referred frequently to coerced migration in the Inca Empire, these migrations have been difficult to document archaeologically. One approach to migration studies, strontium isotope (87Sr/86Sr) analysis, has emerged as an effective technique. Until now, however, this method has not been applied to the Inca heartland region of Cuzco, Peru. In this study, we use strontium isotope analysis to examine patterns of prehistoric migration in the Cuzco Valley. Human dental enamel samples from the Cuzco Valley site of Chokepukio are analyzed and compared to the local 87Sr/86Sr signature established through faunal specimens. Though tentative due to a small sample size, the isotope results do not provide evidence for migration at this site from the time periods preceding the rise of the Inca Empire (200 B.C. to A.D. 1400). In contrast, there is substantial evidence for migration during the time of Inca imperialism (A.D. 1400-1532). Among these migrants, variation in 87Sr/86Sr values suggests that individuals emigrated from geologically diverse locations, while sex differences in the migrant group include a higher percentage of females and a greater diversity in female 87Sr/86Sr values. These data, along with ethnohistoric evidence, reveal how Inca labor policies reconfigured the composition of populations in the imperial heartland. Copyright ©2009 by the Society for American Archaeology.
Keywords: dept.ant

A photometric analysis of seventeen binary stars using speckle imaging - Davidson Jr., J.W.; Baptista, B.J.; Horch, E.P.; Franz, O.; Van Altena, W.F. (Astronomical Journal, 2009)
Magnitude differences obtained from speckle imaging are used in combination with other data in the literature to place the components of binary star systems on the H-R diagram. Isochrones are compared with the positions obtained, and a best-fit isochrone is determined for each system, yielding both masses of the components as well as an age range consistent with the system parameters. Seventeen systems are studied, 12 of which were observed with the 0.6 m Lowell-Tololo Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory and six of which were observed with the WIYN 3.5 m Telescope (The WIYN Observatory is a joint facility of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Indiana University, Yale University, and the National Optical Astronomy Observatories) at Kitt Peak. One system was observed from both sites. In comparing photometric masses to mass information from orbit determinations, we find that the photometric masses agree very well with the dynamical masses, and are generally more precise. For three systems, no dynamical masses exist at present, and therefore the photometrically determined values are the first mass estimates derived for these components. © 2009 The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Binaries: visual techniques; High angular resolution techniques; Interferometric techniques; Photometric; dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Assisted reproductive technology: Ethical challenges for business and medicine - Flynn, D. (International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 2009)
Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) is a modern technological tool that provides otherwise infertile individuals and couples an opportunity to conceive. As a multimillion dollar business, ART faces challenges common to other highly profitable enterprises, such as how and when to measure success. This poses ethical challenges as well, though these are unlike the ethical challenges faced by businesses which trade in consumer goods. ART makes babies. Individuals and couples seeking ART may be both vulnerable and fragile, thus ART providers must gently balance smart business practices with ethical care delivery. Applying Laura Nash's integrated approach to business ethics may offer ART providers a suitable model that combines ethically sound care with economically sound business practice. Key to Nash's approach are value creation, economic and social benefit, and relationship building. Not a short-term approach to quick business decisions, Nash's approach requires a long-term commitment as a way of doing business. © Common Ground, Deborah Flynn, All Rights Reserved.
Keywords: Assisted Reproductive Technology; Business Ethics; Infertility; Laura Nash; dept.pch

Full ideals - Hong, J.; Lee, H.; Noh, S.; Rush, D.E. (Communications in Algebra, 2009)
Contractedness of m-primary integrally closed ideals played a central role in the development of Zariski's theory of integrally closed ideals in two-dimensional regular local rings (R, m). In such rings, the contracted m-primary ideals are known to be characterized by the property that I: m = I: x for some x ∈ m\m2. We call the ideals with this property full ideals and compare this class of ideals with the classes of m-full ideals, basically full ideals, and contracted ideals in higher dimensional regular local rings. The m-full ideals are easily seen to be full. In this article, we find a sufficient condition for a full ideal to be m-full. We also show the equivalence of the properties full, m-full, contracted, integrally closed, and normal, for the class of parameter ideals. We then find a sufficient condition for a basically full parameter ideal to be full. © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
Keywords: Basically full ideal; Contracted ideal; Full ideal; Ideal with Rees property; Integrally closed ideal; dept.mat; m-Full ideal

Undergraduates and intercultural communication competence: Creating a plan for performance - Madlock, A. (International Journal of Learning, 2009)
Some studies indicate that students develop intercultural communication competence through interaction in multicultural classrooms. However, what happens when classrooms are predominately homogenous and student exposure to other cultures is limited to media representations? It is not uncommon to find this situation still existing on some college campuses in the United States of America, where students have never come in contact with individuals different from themselves, beyond service industry workers, if any contact is made at all. The idea of establishing a significant relationship with someone culturally different is not given any thought. As an instructor of color how does one get students to move beyond their comfort zone and take action to meet individuals that are culturally different outside of the classroom? This paper describes the results of a textual analysis using grounded theory of student writing as they reflect on how to develop and implement effective communication strategies with individuals culturally and ethnically different from themselves outside of the classroom. The results of which might also be used to transform thinking about the diverse community surrounding the university and influence future decision-making on issues of social justice and human equality. © Common Ground, Annette Madlock.
Keywords: Grounded theory; Intercultural communication Competence; Multicultural classroom; Textual analysis; Undergraduates; dept.com; ⛔ No DOI found

Playing the feminine card: Women of the early modern map trade - Petto, C.M. (Cartographica, 2009)
Images of allegorical women have often appeared on maps or in atlas frontispieces as objects in need of security provided by male protectors or as the counterpoint, objects to be dominated by male possessors. Exploring the role of women in the early modern map trade initially reveals not only a similar male dominance but also similar calls for protection. Nearly 10 years ago, Alice Hudson and Mary McMichael Ritzlin produced a checklist of about 300 pre-twentieth-century women in cartography. The present work contributes to the further investigation of some of these women in the early modern map trade and studies in the allied field of book printing, and more general works on women in commercial trade provide the framework for this piece. Women in the map trade were quite cognizant of the challenges of their gender and used a feminine discourse-that is, they played the feminine card-when it served their interests. All of these women, however, participated in the male discourse of the corporate community, which entailed not only making contracts and partnerships and advertising and producing new works but also making use of the social network within the trade, as well as exploiting the patronage connections cultivated by their husbands before them.
Keywords: Angleterre; England; France; commerce de l'impression des cartes; dept.his; engravers; femmes; graveurs; image; map publishers; map-printing trade; women; éditeurs cartographiques

Microbial diversity of boron-rich volcanic hot springs of St. Lucia, Lesser Antilles - Stout, L.M.; Blake, R.E.; Greenwood, J.P.; Martini, A.M.; Rose, E.C. (FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 2009)
The volcanic Sulphur Springs, St. Lucia, present an extreme environment due to high temperatures, low pH values, and high concentrations of sulfate and boron. St. Lucia offers some unique geochemical characteristics that may shape the microbial communities within the Sulphur Springs area. We chose six pools representing a range of geochemical characteristics for detailed microbial community analyses. Chemical concentrations varied greatly between sites. Microbial diversity was analyzed using 16S rRNA gene clone library analyses. With the exception of one pool with relatively low concentrations of dissolved ions, microbial diversity was very low, with Aquificales sequences dominating bacterial communities at most pools. The archaeal component of all pools was almost exclusively Acidianus spp. and did not vary between sites with different chemical characteristics. In the pool with the highest boron and sulfate concentrations, only archaeal sequences were detected. Compared with other sulfur springs such as those at Yellowstone, the microbial diversity at St. Lucia is very different, but it is similar to that at the nearby Lesser Antilles island of Montserrat. While high elemental concentrations seem to be related to differences in bacterial diversity here, similarities with other Lesser Antilles sites suggest that there may be a biogeographical component as well. © 2009 Federation of European Microbiological Societies. Published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Acidianus; Aquificales; Archaea; Archean; Atlantic Ocean; Atlantic islands; Bacteria; Bacteria (microorganisms); Biodiversity; Boron; Caribbean Islands; DNA, Archaeal; DNA, Bacterial; Extreme environments; Geochemistry; Hot Springs; Lesser Antilles; Microbial communities; Phylogeny; RNA, Ribosomal, 16S; Saint Lucia; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Sulfur springs; Windward Islands [Lesser Antilles]; article; bacterium detection; boron; concentration (parameters); controlled study; dept.bio; geochemistry; high temperature; microbial community; microbial diversity; molecular analysis; molecular cloning; nonhuman; nucleic acid analysis; nucleotide sequence; pH; priority journal; ribosome RNA; sulfate; thermal spring; volcanic landform

Invisibility of Blackness: Visual Responses of Kerry James Marshall - Whitehead, J.L. (Art Education, 2009)
Keywords: dept.art; peer-reviewed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Foreword - Bynum, T.W. (Ethical Issues and Social Dilemmas in Knowledge Management: Organizational Innovation, 2010)
Keywords: dept.phi

Freud as new woman writer: Maternal ambivalence in Studies on Hysteria - Fluhr, N. (English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, 2010)
Keywords: dept.eng; ⛔ No DOI found

Interface-induced polarization and inhibition of ferroelectricity in epitaxial SrTiO3/Si - Kolpak, A.M.; Walker, F.J.; Reiner, J.W.; Segal, Y.; Su, D.; Sawicki, M.S.; Broadbridge, C.C.; Zhang, Z.; Zhu, Y.; Ahn, C.H.; Ismail-Beigi, S. (Physical Review Letters, 2010)
We use SrTiO3/Si as a model system to elucidate the effect of the interface on ferroelectric behavior in epitaxial oxide films on silicon. Using both first-principles computations and synchrotron x-ray diffraction measurements, we show that structurally imposed boundary conditions at the interface stabilize a fixed (pinned) polarization in the film but inhibit ferroelectric switching. We demonstrate that the interface chemistry responsible for these phenomena is general to epitaxial silicon-oxide interfaces, impacting on the design of silicon-based functional oxide devices. © 2010 The American Physical Society.
Keywords: Epitaxial films; Epitaxial silicon; Ferroelectric behavior; Ferroelectric films; Ferroelectric switching; Ferroelectricity; First-principles; Functional oxides; Induced polarization; Interface chemistry; Mathematical models; Model system; Oxide films; Polarization; Semiconducting silicon compounds; Silicon oxides; Silicon-based; SrTiO; Strontium alloys; Synchrotron x ray diffraction; X ray diffraction; dept.phy

Why did the monkey kill the giant? Another look at Margutte's death - Palma, P. (Quaderni d'Italianistica, 2010)
In the Morgante through Margutte's death-by-laughter Pulci voices a caustic critique of Ficino's philosophical theories while obliquely denouncing Lorenzo de Medici's acceptance of them. The spectacle of the monkey wearing and taking off Margutte's boots follows Aristotle's definition of the ridiculous that ignites hilarity. It also retrieves Bergson's idea of a society that can be derided because of its attempts to disguise its true self. Most importantly, it reintroduces Petrarch's concepts of similitudo and identitas. Through the depiction of the giant's death Pulci reveals the dignity of a poet remaining true to his poetic discourse even while coming to terms with the negative turn his career has taken.
Keywords: dept.wll

Peripheral arterial disease: Exercise is medicineTM - Sorace, P.; Ronai, P.; Churilla, J.R. (ACSM's Health and Fitness Journal, 2010)
Learning objective: Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) significantly affects quality of life, particularly when doing activities such as walking and climbing stairs. In addition, persons with PAD have an increased risk for heart disease, stroke, and limb amputations. This article will summarize PAD, address exercise benefits specific to the disease, and discuss exercise training for those with PAD in both the clinical and the health and fitness setting. © 2010 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Keywords: Claudication; Functional Ability; Resistance Training; Stair Climbing; Walking; dept.hms

Academic support and college success for postsecondary students with learning disabilities - Troiano, P.F.; Liefeld, J.A.; Trachtenberg, J.V. (Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2010)
The relationship between degree of academic support center use and college success was examined in a population of 262 college students with learning disabilities. Five years of attendance data and graduation rates were examined and submitted to discriminant function analysis to evaluate the predictive influence of academic support center use on college student outcomes. Results indicated that students who had higher levels of attendance in an academic support center had higher overall grade point averages and higher rates of graduation. That is to say, students with learning disabilities who attended learning support centers regularly were more likely to have higher grades and graduate college than those who did not. © 2010, College Reading and Learning Association.
Keywords: dept.sa; peer-reviewed

Change in suspect's memory as a result of deception - Colwell, K.; Hiscock-Anisman, C.; Corbett, L.; Memon, A.; Hauselt, W.J.; Bonilla, Y. (American Journal of Forensic Psychology, 2011)
One hundred and eight participants either stole or replaced a stolen exam key from a professor's office. Half of the participants were instructed to respond honestly and to help with an investigation; the other half were instructed to distort their statement so they were not implicated. Participants did not know whether they would be asked to lie or report honestly during their time in the professor's office. After completing the task, participants again met with a research assistant, who instructed them whether to lie or respond honestly at a one-week follow-up. After the interview, participants completed a Likert-type post-event questionnaire. Deceivers reported significantly more anxiety and motivation not to get caught while in the office, even though there were no differences in the instructions given to the two groups until after participants left the office. Therefore, the act of deception changed their memory for their time in the office. This is important theoretically because it suggests that forming a lie script could be akin to other memories for counterfactual thinking. Practically, it is important to note that a deceptive perpetrator or detainee may never be able to actually provide an accurate account. Copyright 2011 American Journal of Forensic Psychology.
Keywords: anxiety; article; deception; dept.psy; female; follow up; honesty; human; human experiment; male; memory; motivation; normal human; offender; questionnaire; task performance; theft; thinking; ⛔ No DOI found

"Telling what's o'er": Remaking the sonnet cycle in Augusta Webster's Mother and Daughter - Fluhr, N. (Victorian Poetry, 2011)
Keywords: dept.eng

Counseling people living in poverty: The CARE model - Foss, L.L.; Generali, M.M.; Kress, V.E. (Journal of Humanistic Counseling, 2011)
Counselors frequently counsel clients who live in poverty. The authors describe the new CARE model that addresses the influence of multiple systems on poor clients' experiences. A social justice, humanistic intervention, the CARE model emphasizes cultivating a positive counseling relationship with poor clients, empathizing with their unique realities, and working to remove barriers to future success and well-being by building on their strengths. © 2011 by the American Counseling Association.
Keywords: dept.csp

Handheld libraries 101 using mobile technologies in the academic library - Kosturski, K.; Skornia, F (Computers in Libraries, 2011)
Keywords: dept.lib; ⛔ No DOI found

Helmet use in connecticut motorcycle crashes: A state without a universal helmet law - Landman, A.B.; Phipps, M.S.; Jawin, K.; Bolton, L.; Van Gelder, C.M.; Kamin, R.; Teel, B.; Vaca, F.E. (Connecticut Medicine, 2011)
Objectives: Assess the association of helmet use with motorcycle crash mortality and identify characteristics of riders who do not wear helmets in Connecticut crashes. Methods: Police crash data for Connecticut motorcycle crashes 2001-2007 were analyzed. Bivariate analysis and multivariable logistic regressions were performed including age, gender, seating position, road type, season, time of day, and recklessness. Results: Of the 9,214 crashes with helmet use data available, helmets were worn in 4,072 (44.2%). Non-helmeted riders, age > 18, riding interstate or state roads, in the evening or at night, and whowereridingrecklesslywere associated withhigher odds of fatality. Predictors of nonhelmet use included males, passengers, age <18 or 30 to 59, and riding in the summer, evening or at night, and on US, state, and local roads. Conclusion: Current crash data affirm that helmets reduce fatal crashes in Connecticut. A set of factors help predictnon helmeted riders to whom safety training could be targeted.
Keywords: Accidents, Traffic; Adolescent; Adult; Age Factors; Connecticut; Craniocerebral Trauma; Female; Head Protective Devices; Humans; Logistic Models; Male; Middle Aged; Motorcycles; Risk Factors; Risk-Taking; Sex Factors; United States; adolescent; adult; age; article; dept.pch; female; head injury; helmet; high risk behavior; human; legal aspect; male; middle aged; mortality; motorcycle; risk factor; sex difference; statistical model; statistics; traffic accident; utilization review; ⛔ No DOI found

Multimodal communication training in aphasia: A pilot study - Purdy, M.; Van Dyke, J.A. (Journal of Medical Speech-Language Pathology, 2011)
Management of patients with aphasia often focuses on training nonverbal augmentative communication strategies; however, these strategies frequently do not generalize to natural situations. The limited success may be because training was not sufficient to produce an integrated multimodal semantic representation. The purpose of this study was to examine whether simultaneous training of stimuli in both verbal and nonverbal modalities would solidify the links within the semantic network and improve switching among modalities as needed in conversation. Two individuals with severe aphasia participated in 6 to 8 hours of Multimodal Communication Training (MCT), during which they conveyed a concept by verbalizing, gesturing, writing, and drawing. After practice with all modalities for a single concept, a new concept was introduced. Results showed that one participant increased conveyance of concepts on the functional communication task using a variety of modalities. Although some improvement was seen with the second participant, his overall performance remained poor, likely because of a greater impairment in semantic knowledge. After a brief period of semantic training, the second participant demonstrated additional gains. Thus, MCT may serve to increase switching among verbal and nonverbal modalities in individuals with intact semantic representations, thereby increasing the likelihood that individuals will use an alternative method to communicate. Copyright © 2011 Delmar Cengage Learning.
Keywords: AAC; Aphasia; Cognition; Multimodality; Treatment; adult; aged; article; ataxic aphasia; case report; communication skill; concept formation; cortical sensory aphasia; dept.cmd; disease severity; drawing; gesture; human; male; multimodal communication training; priority journal; semantic memory; task performance; verbalization; writing; ⛔ No DOI found

Manufacturing Mohism in the Mencius - Radice, T. (Asian Philosophy, 2011)
The Mencius contains several negative remarks about the Mohists and their doctrine of 'universal love' (jian'ai). However, little attention has been paid to whether Mencius' descriptions of Mohism were accurate. Fortunately, there is a surviving record of the beliefs of Mozi in the text that bears his name. In this essay, I analyze this text and descriptions of Mohism from other early Chinese texts, and compare them to the criticisms of Mohism in the Mencius. Ultimately, I show that the image of the Mohists as ones who promoted a doctrine that contradicted filial piety was inaccurate, and obscured the complexities of filial piety in the Warring States period. © 2011 Taylor and Francis.
Keywords: dept.his; peer-reviewed

Variation in seed dormancy quantitative Trait Loci in arabidopsis thaliana originating from one site - Silady, R.A.; Effgen, S.; Koornneef, M.; Reymond, M. (PLoS ONE, 2011)
A Quantitative Trait Locus (QTL) analysis was performed using two novel Recombinant Inbred Line (RIL) populations, derived from the progeny between two Arabidopsis thaliana genotypes collected at the same site in Kyoto (Japan) crossed with the reference laboratory strain Landsberg erecta (Ler). We used these two RIL populations to determine the genetic basis of seed dormancy and flowering time, which are assumed to be the main traits controlling life history variation in Arabidopsis. The analysis revealed quantitative variation for seed dormancy that is associated with allelic variation at the seed dormancy QTL DOG1 (for Delay Of Germination 1) in one population and at DOG6 in both. These DOG QTL have been previously identified using mapping populations derived from accessions collected at different sites around the world. Genetic variation within a population may enhance its ability to respond accurately to variation within and between seasons. In contrast, variation for flowering time, which also segregated within each mapping population, is mainly governed by the same QTL. © 2011 Silady et al.
Keywords: Arabidopsis; Arabidopsis Proteins; Arabidopsis protein; Arabidopsis thaliana; DOG1 protein, Arabidopsis; Delay Of Germination 1 gene; Delay Of Germination 6 gene; Japan; Plants, Genetically Modified; Quantitative Trait Loci; Seed Dormancy; article; controlled study; dept.bio; flowering; gene mapping; genetic variability; genetics; genotype; nonhuman; peer-reviewed; physiology; plant chromosome; plant gene; quantitative trait locus; recombinant inbred strain; seed dormancy; transgenic plant

Trendspotting 2011 - Thomas, L.C. (Journal of Web Librarianship, 2011)
Keywords: dept.lib

Do Differences in Grammatical Form between Languages Explain Differences in Ontology between Different Philosophical Traditions?: A Critique of the Mass-Noun Hypothesis - Yang, X. (Dao, 2011)
It is an assumed view in Chinese philosophy that the grammatical differences between English or Indo-European languages and classical Chinese explain some of the differences between the Western and Chinese philosophical discourses. Although some philosophers have expressed doubts about the general link between classical Chinese philosophy and syntactic form of classical Chinese, I discuss a specific hypothesis, i. e., the mass-noun hypothesis, in this essay. The mass-noun hypothesis assumes that a linguistic distinction such as between the singular terms and the predicates is sufficient to justify or necessarily leads to a specific ontological distinction such as the distinction between the particular and the universal. I argue that one cannot read off semantic properties simply from syntactic ones and hence the syntactic differences do not automatically translate into the semantic differences between languages, that the syntactic features of Chinese nouns do not have explanatory significance in explaining why the particular-universal problem does not arise in the classical period of Chinese philosophy, and that the part-whole ontology allegedly informed by the mass-noun-like semantics does not provide a natural or intuitive picture of the language-world relation. © Springer Science+Business Media B.V.2011.
Keywords: Mass noun and count noun; Ontology; Syntactic and semantic distinction; dept.phi; peer-reviewed

Probing three-dimensional surface force fields with atomic resolution: Measurement strategies, limitations, and artifact reduction - Baykara, M.Z.; Dagdeviren, O.E.; Schwendemann, T.C.; Mönig, H.; Altman, E.I.; Schwarz, U.D. (Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, 2012)
Noncontact atomic force microscopy (NC-AFM) is being increasingly used to measure the interaction force between an atomically sharp probe tip and surfaces of interest, as a function of the three spatial dimensions, with picometer and piconewton accuracy. Since the results of such measurements may be affected by piezo nonlinearities, thermal and electronic drift, tip asymmetries, and elastic deformation of the tip apex, these effects need to be considered during image interpretation. In this paper, we analyze their impact on the acquired data, compare different methods to record atomic-resolution surface force fields, and determine the approaches that suffer the least from the associated artifacts. The related discussion underscores the idea that since force fields recorded by using NC-AFM always reflect the properties of both the sample and the probe tip, efforts to reduce unwanted effects of the tip on recorded data are indispensable for the extraction of detailed information about the atomicscale properties of the surface. © 2012 Baykara et al.
Keywords: Artifact reduction; Atomic force microscopy; Atomic scale; Atomic-resolution; Elasticity; Electronic drift; Force fields; Force spectroscopy; Image interpretation; Interaction forces; Measurement strategies; NC-AFM; Noncontact atomic force microscopy; Probe tips; Spatial dimension; Surface forces; Three dimensional; Three-dimensional atomic force microscopy; Three-dimensional surface; Tip apex; Tip asymmetry; Tip elasticity; dept.phy

Emerging market hedge funds: Analysis of security selection and market timing - Dutta, S. (Banking and Finance Review, 2012)
Recent studies have documented that it is only very recently that the Emerging Market Hedge Funds (EMHFs) have started mimicking the performance pattern of regular Hedge Funds. These findings therefore motivate us to analyze the market timing and security selection skills of EMHF managers. Rolling regression technique is employed to analyze the above mentioned issues on a time-varying dimension. The rolling market timing regression results suggest that the EMHF managers do not exhibit consistently superior security selection or market timing skills even in an up-market scenario. The static market timing models however, indicate significant outperformance due to superior security selection and significant underperformance due to perverse market timing for the EMHFs in general. Multifactor asset class regressions, using fund-level data, reaffirm the notion that the EMHFs mimic the performance pattern reported for mutual funds in the mutual fund literature. © 2012, Banking and Finance Review.
Keywords: Emerging market; Hedge Funds; Security selection; dept.fin; ⛔ No DOI found

Affective awareness in parenting of fathers with co-occurring substance abuse and intimate partner violence - Gilchrist, G.; Smith Stover, C.; Spink, A. (Advances in Dual Diagnosis, 2012)
Few studies have examined the parenting of fathers with cooccurring substance abuse (SA) and intimate partner violence (IPV) problems. None have specifically interviewed men with these cooccurring issues using qualitative methods about their reflective functioning in relation to their children. This paper aims to provide evidence of the reflective capacity of fathers with cooccurring SA and IPV. To assess this, men were asked to describe examples of negative emotions they experienced as parents and how they perceived their children responded to those emotions. In total, 40 fathers with cooccurring SA and IPV were interviewed using the Revised Parent Development Interview. Interviews were coded for reflective functioning and for themes that emerged related to angry and guilty feelings these fathers experienced as parents. Overall, fathers in the sample had a very limited capacity to think about the thoughts and feelings of their children. The desire to spend more time with their child and an inability to provide financially were two common themes. Anger toward the child's mother for not providing adequate care and a focus on shielding the child from his anger were also reported frequently. Fathers did not report feelings of guilt related to their substance use or aggression in their relationships. This paper is one of the first to explore reflective functioning of fathers with cooccurring IPV and SA. These findings are discussed in relation to their implications for intervention with fathers with cooccurring SA and IPV issues. © 2012, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Keywords: Domestic violence; Drug addiction; Fathers; Intimate partner violence; Men; Parenting; Substance abuse; United States of America; dept.psy

Two self-critiques in Heidegger's critique of metaphysics - Gilliland, R. (Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2012)
This article traces shifts in Heidegger's stance toward metaphysics after fundamental ontology and argues that these shifts reflect changes in his conceptions of ontological difference and temporality that pave the way for his mature thought. Copyright © 2012 The Pennsylvania State University.
Keywords: dept.phi; ⚠️ Invalid DOI

Is data curation education at library and information science schools in North America adequate? - Harris-Pierce, R.L.; Liu, Y.Q. (New Library World, 2012)
Purpose: This study aims to present the results of a survey of library and information science (LIS) schools' websites used to determine if the number of data curation courses offered is adequate to address the needs of the so-called "data deluge". Many authors have identified a gap in the education of LIS students for data curation. Design/methodology/approach: This study surveyed the websites of LIS schools in North America to identify data curation courses. It reviewed and analyzed course descriptions, objectives and syllabi (when available) as well as compared course objectives, requirements, topics, assignments, and projects of the identified courses. Findings: Of the 52 LIS schools in North America's websites examined in this study, 16 institutions offered courses on data curation. The increase in the number of schools offering courses in data curation showed that LIS schools are responding to the demand for data curation professionals. More LIS schools need to add data curation to their curriculum. LIS schools currently offering data curation courses should continue to work together to determine the optimal course objectives and learning outcomes. Originality/value: Although there are several papers focused on particular data curation programs at a few universities, there are no papers that provide an overall view of the status of data curation education in higher education institutions today. This research will be of value and interest to LIS educators and professionals to determine if there is adequate education in place and to identify and evaluate the current state of data curation education. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
Keywords: Digital curation; Digital curation education; Digital librarianship; Digital libraries; Education of information and library science; Information and library school; Information management; dept.ils

Speckle camera imaging of the planet Pluto - Howell, S.B.; Horch, E.P.; Everett, M.E.; Ciardi, D.R. (Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2012)
We have obtained optical wavelength (692 nm and 880 nm) speckle imaging of the planet Pluto and its largest moon Charon. Using our DSSI speckle camera attached to the Gemini North 8 m telescope, we collected high resolution imaging with an angular resolution of ~20 mas, a value at the Gemini-N telescope diffraction limit. We have produced for this binary system the first speckle reconstructed images, from which we can measure not only the orbital separation and position angle for Charon, but also the diameters of the two bodies. Our measurements of these parameters agree, within the uncertainties, with the current best values for Pluto and Charon. The Gemini-N speckle observations of Pluto are presented to illustrate the capabilities of our instrument and the robust production of high accuracy, high spatial resolution reconstructed images. We hope our results will suggest additional applications of high resolution speckle imaging for other objects within our solar system and beyond. © 2012. The Astronomical Society of the Pacific. All rights reserved.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

The evolution of the relationship between the us financial accounting standards board and the international accounting standard setters: 1973-2008 - Kirsch, R.J. (Accounting Historians Journal, 2012)
Utilizing archival materials as well as personal interviews and correspondence with personnel of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and International Accounting Standards Committee /Board (IASC/B), including former Board chairmen and staff members, this paper examines the development of the working relationships between the FASB and the IASC/B from their earliest interactions in 1973 through the transformation of the IASC into the IASB and the Convergence Program rooted in the 2002 Norwalk Agreement up to 2008. © 2012, Academy of Accounting Historians. All rights reserved.
Keywords: dept.acc

Parsing pragmatics - Rivers, K.O.; Hyter, Y.D.; DeJarnette, G. (ASHA Leader, 2012)
Keywords: dept.cmd

Core node location problem: Heuristic solvability via tabu search - Skorin-Kapov, J.; Skorin-Kapov, D.; Podnar, H. (International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management, 2012)
We consider combinatorial problems arising in the design of Metro Core optical networks, dealing with the placement of specially equipped nodes capable of efficiently re-distributing the traffic. Two optimality criteria are considered: minimization of the maximal distance between two adjacent nodes, and minimization of the maximal path length. The paths are selected subject to the Quality of Service constraint implemented as the maximal hop length, and subject to survivability implemented as the request for having two edge disjoint paths. Integer programming formulations and a heuristic strategy based on tabu search are presented and solved either optimally using CPLEX 11.0 optimizer, or sub-optimally using a heuristic approach.
Keywords: Integer programming formulations; Meta-heuristic approach; Optical networks; Tabu search; dept.csc; ⛔ No DOI found

Online or face to face?: Instructional strategies for improving learning outcomes in e-learning - Ter-Stepanian, A. (International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society, 2012)
The author argues that the online environment lends opportunities for development of critical thinking and creation of a collaborative learning environment not available in the face-to-face classroom. The author compares student participation, test results, the quality of writing assignments in art history survey courses she taught online and face to face at the same university. Not only can critical thinking be encouraged and facilitated by introducing challenging and intriguing topics in group discussions and blogs, but the specific nature of online communication provides a unique and positive atmosphere for discussion: anonymity fosters participation among students who are less fond of public speaking, schedule flexibility means students can do research before posting to discussion boards, a lack of time constraints means discussions do not have to "end" when "class" is over, visibility of discussion postings to the entire class means that students can and do learn from their peers, and the variety of available tools means students can incorporate images, audio/video clips and graphics into their analytical reflections. This paper summarizes the most effective approaches taken to establishing group discussions in asynchronous online courses, discusses learner engagement strategies in the e-learning environment, describes best practices for the optimal use of discussion boards, analyzes learning outcomes of discussion board assignments compared to in-class essays and writing assignments. Copyright © 2012, Common Ground.
Keywords: Art History; Discussion Forums; Online Instructional Design; dept.art

Atom-specific forces and defect identification on surface-oxidized Cu(100) with combined 3D-AFM and STM measurements - Baykara, M.Z.; Todorović, M.; Mönig, H.; Schwendemann, T.C.; Ünverdi, O.; Rodrigo, L.; Altman, E.I.; Pérez, R.; Schwarz, U.D. (Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 2013)
The influence of defects on the local structural, electronic, and chemical properties of a surface oxide on Cu(100) were investigated using atomic resolution three-dimensional force mapping combined with tunneling current measurements and ab initio density functional theory. Results reveal that the maximum attractive force between tip and sample occurs above the oxygen atoms; theory indicates that the tip, in this case, terminates in a Cu atom. Meanwhile, simultaneously acquired tunneling current images emphasize the positions of Cu atoms, thereby, providing species-selective contrast in the two complementary data channels. One immediate outcome is that defects due to the displacement of surface copper are exposed in the current maps, even though force maps only reflect a well-ordered oxygen sublattice. The exact nature of the defects is confirmed by the simulations, which also reveal that the arrangement of the oxygen atoms is not disrupted by the copper displacement. In addition, the experimental force maps uncover a position-dependent modulation of the attractive forces between the surface oxygen and the copper-terminated tips, which is found to reflect the surface's inhomogeneous chemical and structural environment. As a consequence, the demonstrated method has the potential to directly probe how defects affect surface chemical interactions. © 2013 American Physical Society.
Keywords: dept.phy

Refashioning the book in Pinochet's Chile: The feminist literary project. Ergo Sum - Cardone, R. (Confluencia, 2013)
Keywords: dept.wll; ⛔ No DOI found

Railroad audits: Some arrived ahead of schedule - Feeney, K. (Accounting Historians Journal, 2013)
Through 1975, the shareholder annual reports of publicly-owned U.S. railroads were exempt from the Securities and Exchange Commission’s accounting regulations, audit and disclosure rules because railroads were common carriers subject to the rules and regulations of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC). Pub-liclyowned Class railroads voluntary began to away from ICC-type towards GAAP-type accounting and disclosures in their shareholder reports just after World War II.1 This paper reviews early industry practices with respect to internal and external audits. Using a sample of major Class I railroads from 1946 to 1975, the paper shows: the extent to which certain railroads voluntarily presented audited finan-cial statements before being required, the extent to which particular CPA firms were involved with the railroad industry, and the types of audit reports that issued to these railroads during this period. © 2016, Academy of Accounting Historians. All rights reserved.
Keywords: dept.acc

Academic Freedom and Tenure: National Louis University (Illinois) - Grant, K.E.; Simpson, P.A.; Zannoni, D.C. (Academe, 2013)
Keywords: dept.mat; ⛔ No DOI found

Hands-On Professional Development: Middle School teachers' Experiences with a Curriculum Intervention Research Project: This Study Explores the Benefits of a University-School Partnership That Impacted 26 Middle School Teachers in Four Urban Schools - Green, J.D.; Gonzalez, E.M.; López-Velásquez, A.M.; Howard, E.R. (Middle School Journal, 2013)
Keywords: dept.sed

To the well: Malory's Sir Palomides on ideals of chivalric reputation, male friendship, romantic love, religious conversion-and loyalty - Holbrook, S.E. (Arthuriana, 2013)
Although Palomides in Malory's Morte Darthur and his counterpart in the French Tristan en Prose are usually discussed by their roles, my study selects five scenes linked by woodland settings, wells, and complaints. Accordingly, it demonstrates what each scene shows about the values of reputation, friendship, love, religious conviction, and-in the aftermath of the rupture between Lancelot and Arthur-the capacity for loyalty to Lancelot shown by Palomides and his brother Saphir. © 2013 Project MUSE.
Keywords: dept.eng

Extremal rees Algebras - Hong, J.; Simis, A.; Vasconcelos, W.V. (Journal of Commutative Algebra, 2013)
We study almost complete intersection ideals whose Rees algebras are extremal in the sense that some of their fundamental metrics depth or relation type have maximal or minimal values in the class. The focus is on those ideals that lead to almost Cohen-Macaulay algebras, and our treatment is wholly concentrated on the nonlinear relations of the algebras. Several classes of such algebras are presented, some of a combinatorial origin. We offer a different prism to look at these questions with accompanying techniques. The main results are effective methods to calculate the invariants of these algebras. © 2013 Rocky Mountain Mathematics Consortium.
Keywords: Almost Cohen-Macaulay algebra; Almost complete intersection; Birational mapping; Castelnuovo regularity; Extremal Rees algebra; Hilbert function; Module of nonlinear relations; Rees algebra; Relation type; Sally module; dept.mat

How shopping satisfaction contributes to internationaltourism satisfaction and tourism expenditures by gender: Analysis of U.S. tourists in South Korea - Middaugh, J.; Kwak, L.E.; Meng, F. (International Journal of Business Research, 2013)
The purpose of the study was to examine how international tourists' shopping satisfaction related to their overall satisfaction as tourists and the tourists' expenditure differences by gender. A survey was conducted among U.S. citizens of who were traveling to South Korea (n = 422). The survey took place at transport hubs of the major international airports and seaports in South Korea prior to tourists' departure. The findings of this research concluded that tourist shopping satisfaction was significantly correlated with overall tourist satisfaction. In addition, different shopping patterns were reported among men and women tourists. The results of this study confirm that a positive retail shopping experience is an important aspect of overall international tourism.
Keywords: Gender; Shopping satisfaction; United States tourists; dept.mkt; peer-reviewed

Understanding scanning tunneling microscopy contrast mechanisms on metal oxides: A case study - Mönig, H.; Todorović, M.; Baykara, M.Z.; Schwendemann, T.C.; Rodrigo, L.; Altman, E.I.; Pérez, R.; Schwarz, U.D. (ACS Nano, 2013)
A comprehensive analysis of contrast formation mechanisms in scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) experiments on a metal oxide surface is presented with the oxygen-induced (2√2×√2)R45 missing row reconstruction of the Cu(100) surface as a model system. Density functional theory and electronic transport calculations were combined to simulate the STM imaging behavior of pure and oxygen-contaminated metal tips with structurally and chemically different apexes while systematically varying bias voltage and tip-sample distance. The resulting multiparameter database of computed images was used to conduct an extensive comparison with experimental data. Excellent agreement was attained for a large number of cases, suggesting that the assumed model tips reproduce most of the commonly encountered contrast-determining effects. Specifically, we find that depending on the bias voltage polarity, copper-terminated tips allow selective imaging of two structurally distinct surface Cu sites, while oxygen-terminated tips show complex contrasts with pronounced asymmetry and tip-sample distance dependence. Considering the structural and chemical stability of the tips reveals that the copper-terminated apexes tend to react with surface oxygen at small tip-sample distances. In contrast, oxygen-terminated tips are considerably more stable, allowing exclusive surface oxygen imaging at small tip-sample distances. Our results provide a conclusive understanding of fundamental STM imaging mechanisms, thereby providing guidelines for experimentalists to achieve chemically selective imaging by properly selecting imaging parameters. © 2013 American Chemical Society.
Keywords: Bias voltage; Copper; Copper compounds; DFT simulation; Metal oxides; Metallic compounds; Oxygen; STM contrast; Scanning tunneling microscopy; Tip chemistry; dept.phy; metal oxide; tip asymmetry; tip chemistry; tip oxidation

Using acid to improve credibility assessments with written and audio statements - Montalvo, L.; Hallinan, C.; Hiscock-Anisman, C.; Morrissey, D.; Bonilla, Y.; Colwell, K. (American Journal of Forensic Psychology, 2013)
Investigators are continually faced with the task of detecting deception. Assessment Criteria Indicative of Deception (ACID) is a system of interviewing and credibility assessment that maximizes verbal cues to detect deception, and teaches content analysis that highlights attempts to withhold, distort, or manipulate information. The ACID technique has been successful in discriminating honest from deceptive statements when credibility determinations are made either by statistical methods or trained raters. Unfortunately, the training has required several hours and application has required the time-consuming process of transcription. The current study demonstrates the utility of ACID following a brief training, and compares the credibility ratings made from analysis of transcripts to the credibility ratings made from the analysis of audio recordings. Twenty-nine university undergraduate and graduate students read or listened to a series of eight transcripts. Raters were provided with accounts before training and 4 accounts after training. Prior to training, raters performed at 55% accuracy. Following training, raters performed at 71% accuracy. Additionally, there was an untrained control group that performed at 53% accuracy. Of note, the post-training performance was identical for accounts presented in written and audio formats. In sum, the ACID technique was reliable, valid, easy to train, and showed that accurate decisions can be made from simple audio recordings. Copyright 2013 American Journal of Forensic Psychology,.
Keywords: accuracy; adult; article; assessment criteria indicative of deception; audiology; clinical assessment tool; clinical decision making; clinical education; content analysis; controlled study; deception; dept.psy; human; human experiment; meaningful use criteria; reliability; statistical analysis; validity; written language; ⛔ No DOI found

Technology in Action - Newton, D.A.; Eren, R.; Ben-Avie, M. (Journal of Special Education Technology, 2013)
Keywords: dept.sed

Take charge: Understand control charts and know the difference in variation to better manage your people - Stepanovich, P.L.; Hopkins, P.J. (Quality Progress, 2013)
Keywords: dept.mgt; ⛔ No DOI found

Physical mistreatment in persons with Alzheimer's disease - Vandeweerd, C.; Paveza, G.J.; Walsh, M.; Corvin, J. (Journal of Aging Research, 2013)
Physical mistreatment has been estimated to affect 2 million older persons each year and dramatically affects health outcomes. While researchers have attempted to examine risk factors for specific forms of abuse, many have been able to focus on only victim or perpetrator characteristics, or a limited number of psychosocial variables at any one time. Additionally, data on risk factors for subgroups such as persons with Alzheimer's disease who may have heightened and/or unique risk profiles has also been limited. This paper examines risk for physical violence in caregiver/patient dyads who participated in the Aggression and Violence in Community-Based Alzheimer's Families Grant. Data were collected via in-person interview and mailed survey and included demographics as well as measures of violence, physical and emotional health, and health behaviors. Logistic regression analysis indicated that caregivers providing care to elders with high levels of functional impairment or dementia symptoms, or who had alcohol problems, were more likely to use violence as a conflict resolution strategy, as were caregivers who were providing care to elders who used violence against them. By contrast, caregivers with high self-esteem were less likely to use violence as a conflict resolution strategy. Significant interaction effects were also noted. © 2013 Carla VandeWeerd et al.
Keywords: African American; Alzheimer disease; Caucasian; Conflict Tactic Scale; Hispanic; adult; aged; alcoholism; article; caregiver; caregiver burden; conflict management; dementia; demography; depression; dept.hhs; emotion; female; functional disease; health behavior; human; interview; logistic regression analysis; major clinical study; male; mini mental state examination; named inventories, questionnaires and rating scales; patient abuse; physical capacity; priority journal; religion; risk factor; secondary analysis; self esteem; self report; social status; violence

More than words - Wallace, S.; Purdy, M. (ASHA Leader, 2013)
Keywords: dept.cmd

Change theory: Towards a better understanding of software maintenance - Abdel-Raouf, A.; Hanafi, M. (WSEAS Transactions on Computers, 2014)
A successful Software maintenance process depends on three factors: the maintenance goals, the technical properties of the system and the people performing the software maintenance. Most of the current work to investigate software maintenance only considers the first two factors, ignoring the third factor, which limits the scope and accuracy of these approaches. In this paper, we use change theory to introduce a deeper understanding of the software maintenance process. We utilize three change theories: Lewin's, Prochaska and DiClemente's, and Lippit's theories to introduce three different software maintenance models. These models consider the three success factors and incorporate contextual information to help maintainers better understand the software maintenance task to bring about an effective change.
Keywords: Change stages; Change theory; Computer software maintenance; Computer software selection and evaluation; Contextual information; Software Quality; Software engineering; Software maintenance; Software maintenance process; Software properties; Software quality; Software-maintenance tasks; Success factors; Technical properties; dept.csc; ⛔ No DOI found

NLN's simulation leaders give SIRC bibliography site a Makeover - Alfes, C.M.; Aronson, B.; Bethards, M.L.; Chesney, T.; De Luna, R.; Newton, R.; Weaver, A. (Nursing Education Perspectives, 2014)
Keywords: Databases, Bibliographic; Health Information Management; Humans; Internet; Models, Educational; Patient Simulation; Societies, Nursing; United States; article; bibliographic database; dept.nur; educational model; human; medical information system; nursing organization; organization and management; peer-reviewed; teaching

Does marriage explain murders in a society? In what way is divorce a public health concern? - Bourne, P.A.; Hudson-Davis, A.; Sharpe-Pryce, C.; Clarke, J.; Solan, I.; Rhule, J.; Francis, C.; Watson-Coleman, O.; Sharma, A.; Campbell-Smith, J.; Allen, T. (International Journal of Emergency Mental Health, 2014)
Introduction: Like medicine, public health practitioners seek to understand causes of mortality, practices of humans and issues that can change population conditions, in order to preserve and care for life. The murder pandemic has been such in Jamaica that the World Bank sponsored a qualitative study on crime in urban areas in Jamaica in the late 1990s to provide a platform to guide policy intervention and programmes. As a result this study will fill the gap in the literature by providing the evidence to support that divorce and marriage are public health concerns from the perspective of murders. Objective: To evaluate the role of divorce and marital relationships on murders. Materials and methods: The data for this study are taken from various Jamaica Government Publications. The period for this work is from 1950 through 2013. Data were recorded, stored and retrieved using the Statistical Packages for the Social Sciences (SPSS) for Windows, Version 21.0. The level of significance that is used to determine statistical significance is less than 5% (0.05). Ordinary least square (OLS) regression analyses and curve estimations were used to determine models and best fitted models. Results: On average, annually, 523 Jamaicans are murdered (± 484), with there being 9,531 marriages (±22,747) and 904 divorces (±468). Logged marriage rate and divorce rate are factors of murder rate, with both independent factors accounting for 82.2% of the variability in the murder rate. Both factors are positively correlated with the murder rate, with the divorce rate accounting for most of the variance in the murder rate (R2 = 79.2%). Conclusion: Death can be extremely devasting to families, however, murder among married couples can severely disrupt the lives of both families along with any children from such relationship. © 2014, Chevron Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Adult; Deaths; Divorce; Female; Homicide; Homicides; Humans; Jamaica; Jamaican; Male; Marital relationship; Marriage; Mortality; Murder; Partner-homicides; Public Health; Public health; Sexual relationship; adult; child; clinical study; death; dept.pch; divorce; epidemiology; family; female; genetic polymorphism; government; homicide; human; least square analysis; male; marriage; married person; mortality; public health; sociology; statistical significance; statistics and numerical data

Recruitment and retention of healthy and high-risk older adults for a multiyear influenza vaccination study - Dill, J.; Unson, C.; Kenyon-Pesce, L.; Kuchel, G.A.; McElhaney, J. (Connecticut Medicine, 2014)
Purpose: Evaluate five different recruitment strategies for their capacity to enroll and retain both healthy and vulnerable older adults as part of a multiyear influenza vaccination study. Methods: We analyzed recruitment methods and other characteristics of individuals who participated in or were considered for five sequential one-year studies. Results: Of 940 screened individuals, 820 met eligibility criteria with 795 enrolled over the five-year study (307 primary participants). Among these enrollees, 63.4% were female and 95.5% were white, with mean ages of 75.3 (older group) and 30.6 (younger group). More than a half (56.7%) of the participants enrolled more than once, participating an average of 2.56 (SD=1.6) times. The majority (81.9%) of individuals recruited each year were return participants identified during earlier recruitments. Physician referrals resulted in only 5.3% recruitments. Conclusions: Recruitment and retention of study subjects, especially older adults, was facilitated by the existence of a database listing past participants.
Keywords: Adult; Advertising as Topic; Aged; Databases as Topic; Electronic Mail; Female; Humans; Influenza Vaccines; Influenza, Human; Male; Middle Aged; Patient Selection; Postal Service; Referral and Consultation; Vaccination; adult; advertizing; aged; article; data base; dept.pch; e-mail; female; human; influenza; influenza vaccine; male; middle aged; patient referral; patient selection; postal mail; vaccination; ⛔ No DOI found

Truck versus human: Mathematics under pressure - Field, E.; Ivison, R.; Reyher, A.; Warner, S. (College Mathematics Journal, 2014)
If you are ever faced with an oncoming truck, this paper could save your life. We investigate the optimal path that you should take from the middle of the road to the curb in order to avoid being hit by an oncoming truck. Although your instincts may tell you to run directly toward the curb, it turns out that this path, although the shortest, is not generally the safest.
Keywords: dept.mat

New counselors' experiences of community health centers - Freadling, A.H.; Foss-Kelly, L.L. (Counselor Education and Supervision, 2014)
This phenomenological study explored 6 new counselors' experiences working in community mental health centers and their experiences of the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs-accredited training received in preparation for such work. Three themes from the interviews were identified to provide implications for counselor preparation: contextual descriptions, essential graduate training components, and supportive factors. © 2014 by the American Counseling Association. All rights reserved.
Keywords: community mental health; counselor education; dept.csp

The knowledge patients impart - Green, C.A. (Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, 2014)
Keywords: Death; Humans; Knowledge; Nurse-Patient Relations; Patients; dept.nur; human; knowledge; nurse patient relationship; patient

Changes During the 110 Years of the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships - Grossfeld, A. (Science of Gymnastics Journal, 2014)
This article presents changes, along with historical perspectives, in the World Gymnastics Championships during the last 110 years - 1903 to 2013. Changes include: the events contested, team and individual achievements and dominance, debut of skills, difficulty expansion, judges, scoring, competition format, Finals qualification system, expansion of FIG affiliation, frequency cycle of the WC, number of teams and gymnasts per competition, age requirement of gymnasts, team size, venues, apparatus, devices for learning, education and certification courses, disseminating information, and expanded media coverage.
Keywords: Gymnasts; History; Judges; Rules; dept.ath; ⛔ No DOI found

MOST sub-arcsecond companions of Kepler exoplanet candidate host stars are gravitationally bound - Horch, E.P.; Howell, S.B.; Everett, M.E.; Ciardi, D.R. (Astrophysical Journal, 2014)
Using the known detection limits for high-resolution imaging observations and the statistical properties of true binary and line-of-sight companions, we estimate the binary fraction of Kepler exoplanet host stars. Our speckle imaging programs at the WIYN 3.5 m and Gemini North 8.1 m telescopes have observed over 600 Kepler objects of interest and detected 49 stellar companions within 1 arcsec. Assuming binary stars follow a log-normal period distribution for an effective temperature range of 3000-10,000 K, then the model predicts that the vast majority of detected sub-arcsecond companions are long period (P > 50 yr), gravitationally bound companions. In comparing the model predictions to the number of real detections in both observational programs, we conclude that the overall binary fraction of host stars is similar to the 40%-50% rate observed for field stars. © 2014. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved..
Keywords: Binaries: visual; Planetary systems; Stars: solar-type; Techniques: high angular resolution; Techniques: interferometric; Techniques: photometric; dept.phy

Preface - Jain, F.; Broadbridge, C.; Tang, H. (International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems, 2014)
Keywords: dept.phy

Use of iSpartan in teaching organic spectroscopy - Karatjas, A.G. (Journal of Chemical Education, 2014)
Spectroscopy is often one of the most difficult subjects in an organic chemistry course for students to master. One difficulty comes from relating peaks in a spectrum with structural features. For example, when teaching infrared spectroscopy, it is often difficult to connect the theory between bending and stretching vibrations to the actual peaks. iSpartan for the iOS platform allows this to be done easily without the high cost of the full Spartan software. © 2014 The American Chemical Society and Division of Chemical Education, Inc.
Keywords: Computer-Based Learning; Organic Chemistry; Second-Year Undergraduate; Spectroscopy; dept.che; peer-reviewed

An uncommon case: Cleft palate, respiratory compromise, and klippel-feil anomaly - Langevin, K.M.; Mabry, K.; Castiglione, C. (Plastic Surgical Nursing, 2014)
Keywords: Cervical Vertebrae; Cleft Palate; Female; Humans; Infant, Newborn; Klippel-Feil Syndrome; Spinal Fusion; cervical vertebra; cleft palate; complication; dept.cmd; female; genetics; human; newborn; procedures; spine fusion

Similarity and Diversity in the Prehistoric Colonization of Islands and Coasts by Food-Producing Communities - Leppard, T.P. (Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 2014)
The colonization of the Pacific, Caribbean, and Mediterranean by food-producing communities in prehistory has rarely been considered in an explicitly comparative perspective. This article suggests that, despite evident human and environmental diversity, these insular colonization episodes have certain formal and processual similarities, especially in terms of the rate and dynamics of the colonization episodes. Specifically, in all three cases, colonizing populations seem to have rapidly crossed very great distances to find new niches, only for these events to be followed by generations of colonizing inactivity. It is proposed that such patterning may be a feature which is somehow common to episodes of coastal and insular colonization by food-producing, pre-state communities. Reasons as to why this might be-including ecological and demographic factors-are considered. This study indicates the utility of a comparative approach, and contributes to the ongoing debate centered on the extent to which insularity conditions human behavior. © 2014 Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
Keywords: Caribbean; Mediterranean; Pacific; Pacific Ocean; coast; colonization; dept.ant; human behavior; island; islands; prehistoric

When did the future Antiochos iv arrive in Athens? - Scolnic, B. (Hesperia, 2014)
The mention of an Antiochos in an Athenian inscription, I 7453, which dates to 178/7 b.c., has led scholars to accept that the future Antiochos IV lived in Athens from 178 to 175, and was not just present in the city in 175, as a statement by Appian seems to indicate. A reevaluation of the evidence calls into question both this extended sojourn and the identification of the Antiochos in the inscription, inviting us to reconsider the circumstances and the chronology of events surrounding the accession of Antiochos IV. © The American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
Keywords: dept.jst

Simultaneous measurement of multiple independent atomic-scale interactions using scanning probe microscopy: Data interpretation and the effect of cross-talk - Baykara, M.Z.; Todorović, M.; Mönig, H.; Schwendemann, T.C.; Rodrigo, L.; Altman, E.I.; Pérez, R.; Schwarz, U.D. (Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2015)
In high-resolution scanning probe microscopy, it is becoming increasingly common to simultaneously record multiple channels representing different tip-sample interactions to collect complementary information about the sample surface. A popular choice involves simultaneous scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and noncontact atomic force microscopy (NC-AFM) measurements, which are thought to reflect the chemical and electronic properties of the sample surface. With surface-oxidized Cu(100) as an example, we investigate whether atomic-scale information on chemical interactions can be reliably extracted from frequency shift maps obtained while using the tunneling current as the feedback parameter. Ab initio calculations of interaction forces between specific tip apexes and the surface are utilized to compare experiments with theoretical expectations. The examination reveals that constant-current operation may induce a noticeable influence of topography-feedback-induced cross-talk on the frequency shift data, resulting in misleading interpretations of local chemical interactions on the surface. Consequently, the need to apply methods such as 3D-AFM is emphasized when accurate conclusions about both the local charge density near the Fermi level, as provided by the STM channel, and the site-specific strength of tip-sample interactions (NC-AFM channel) are desired. We conclude by generalizing to the case where multiple atomic-scale interactions are being probed while only one of them is kept constant. © 2015 American Chemical Society.
Keywords: Ab initio calculations; Atomic force microscopy; Atomic-scale interaction; Calculations; Chemical interactions; Constant current operations; Crosstalk; Electronic properties; High resolution scanning; Hydrophobicity; Noncontact atomic force microscopy; Scanning tunneling microscopy; Simultaneous measurement; Tip-sample interaction; Topography; dept.phy

Multifaceted NOS instruction: Contextualizing nature of science with documentary films - Bloom, M.; Binns, I.C.; Koehler, C. (International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2015)
This research focuses on inservice science teachers’ conceptions of nature of science (NOS) before and after a two-week intensive summer professional development (PD). The PD combined traditional explicit NOS instruction, numerous interactive interventions that highlighted NOS aspects, along with documentary films that portrayed NOS in context of authentic scientific discovery. Reflective dialogue was used throughout the professional development to encourage constructivist learning. The PD addressed seven commonly held NOS tenets that are deemed significant to K-12 science teachers. Finally, qualitative methodologies were used to analyze the Views of Nature of Science Questionnaire (VNOS-D) and the associated interview data to explore subtleties within each NOS tenet and to gain a richer understanding of how the teachers’ NOS understanding differed before and after the PD. © 2015 by iSER, International Society of Educational Research.
Keywords: Contextualized instruction; Nature of science; Professional development; dept.egm; ⚠️ Invalid DOI

The psychology of the Grade Six Achievement Test (G.S.A.T) in Jamaica - Bourne, P.A.; Baxter, D.; Pryce, C.S.; Francis, C.; Davis, A.H.; Solan, I.; Coleman, O.W.; Irving, R.; Brown, O.E.; Nelson, S.; Quarrie, V. (African Journal of Psychiatry (South Africa), 2015)
Introduction: The educational system of Jamaica is designed whereby performance is assessed based on formal evaluation (or test). This test culture places immense pressure on students at the primary level to successful complete some examinations in order for placement into select schools. Objectives: The present study seeks to evaluate psychological stress among students who take the G.S.A.T examination in the Corporate Area schools in Jamaica and assess whether psychological stressors influence academic performance. Methods: For this research, mixed methodology was employed to investigate the phenomenon of stressors among students who took the 2013 G.S.A.T examination. For the survey instrument (questionnaire), the large volume of data were stored, retrieved and analyzed using the Statistical Packages for the Social Sciences (S.P.S.S) for Windows version 21.0 (SPSS Inc; Chicago, IL, USA). Findings: The overall academic performance of the surveyed respondents was high (75.8 ± 19.4; 95% CI: 72.4- 79.2), with students in the preparatory school (92.4 ± 4.1) outperformed those in the primary school (71.0 ± 19.4)- t-test =10280, P < 0.0001. The level of stress experienced by those in the public school was greater (29.9 ± 6.0; 95% CI: 28.9 - 30.1) than those in the private school (26.0 ± 3.9; 95% CI: 24.5- 27.4- t-test=-3.300, P=0.001). Five factors determine overall academic performance: 1) stress level, 2) parental involvement, 3) school type, 4) nervous on taking the first G.S.A.T examination and 5) school choice (traditional or non-traditional high school). The five factors accounted for 35.8 percentage points of the variance in overall academic performance (Adjusted R2). Conclusion: Parental involvement is crucial in academic performance among students who took the 2013 G.S.A.T examination and students experienced moderately high stress, which offers some insight in the examination and the information can be used to better guide policy formulation. © 2015 Bourne PD, et al.
Keywords: Academic performance; Article; G.S.A.T; Jamaica; Parental involvement; Psychological stressors; achievement test; child; controlled study; dept.pch; female; human; male; mental stress; nervousness; parental attitude; primary school; questionnaire; school child; school stress; student

Women promiscuity and reproductive health matters: Findings and policy implications - Bourne, P.A.; Sharpe-Pryce, C.; Francis, C.; Hudson-Davis, A.; Solan, I.; Lewis, D.; Watson-Coleman, O.; Blake, J.-A. (International Journal of Emergency Mental Health, 2015)
Background: For millennia, women with multiple sexual partners have been labeled and stigmatized as whores, prostitutes, promiscuous and commercial sex workers. However, there is little literature comprehensively addressing factors related to reproductive health in this group. Aim: The aim of the current study is to elucidate the reproductive health matters of women who have multiple sexual partners. Setting and design: The data use for this research is taken from the Jamaica Reproductive Health Survey, 2007. Stratified random sampling is used to design the sampling frame. Materials and Methods: The current study extracts a sample of 225 respondents (from 7,168 women ages 15-49 years) who indicate having had multiple sex partners. Statistical analysis used: Data are analyzed using the Statistical Packages for the Social Sciences for Windows, Version 21.0. Multiple logistic regressions were used to analyze factors that explained current method of contraception. Results: Women with multiple sex partners on average are involved with men at least 9.5 years their senior, and 72% of them have become pregnant. Currently, contraception use can be explained by social class (middle class, Odds ratio (OR) = 0.08, 95% CI= 0.01 – 0.59); age at first sexual intercourse (OR = 0.90, 95% CI = 0.68 – 1.21); employment status (employed, OR = 5.07, 95% CI = 1.06 – 24.36); and marital status (married or common-law, OR = 0.09, 95% CI = 0.02 – 0.38). Conclusion: The early sexual initiation among young women is a public health problem because of the increased incidence of teenage pregnancy and increased incidence of sexually transmitted diseases, which must be addressed with the same intensity and resource allocation used to fight against Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS). © 2015, Chevron Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Contraceptive methods; Jamaica; Reproductive health matters; Women with multiple sex partners; dept.pch; ⛔ No DOI found

Weightlifting movements from full extension: The snatch and clean - DiSanto, M.; Valentine, G.; Boutagy, N. (Strength and Conditioning Journal, 2015)
Weightlifting movements require sufficient body speed to squat down and catch the barbell. Body speed can only be maximized if the correct positions are reached before the turnover and catch phases. The snatch from full extension (SFFE) and the clean from full extension (CFFE) allow the athlete to transition from the full extension position to a quick squat underneath the barbell. The SFFE and CFFE can be included into the warm-up or cooldown periods of a training session, focusing on the respective lifts. Correct body positions and speed, as opposed to barbell load, should be emphasized.
Keywords: Body speed; Clean; Full extension; Snatch; Weightlifting; dept.hms

Associations Between Ankle-Brachial Index and Cognitive Function: Results From the Lifestyle Interventions and Independence for Elders Trial - Espeland, M.A.; Newman, A.B.; Sink, K.; Gill, T.M.; King, A.C.; Miller, M.E.; Guralnik, J.; Katula, J.; Church, T.; Manini, T.; Reid, K.F.; McDermott, M.M.; et al. (Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 2015)
Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between ankle-brachial index (ABI) and indicators of cognitive function. Design: Randomized clinical trial (Lifestyle Interventions and Independence for Elders Trial). Setting: Eight US academic centers. Participants: A total of 1601 adults ages 70-89 years, sedentary, without dementia, and with functional limitations. Measurements: Baseline ABI and interviewer- and computer-administered cognitive function assessments were obtained. These assessments were used to compare a physical activity intervention with a health education control. Cognitive function was reassessed 24 months later (interviewer-administered) and 18 or 30 months later (computer-administered) and central adjudication was used to classify individuals as having mild cognitive impairment, probable dementia, or neither. Results: Lower ABI had a modest independent association with poorer cognitive functioning at baseline (partial r= 0.09; P < .001). Although lower baseline ABI was not associated with overall changes in cognitive function test scores, it was associated with higher odds for 2-year progression to a composite of either mild cognitive impairment or probable dementia (odds ratio 2.60 per unit lower ABI; 95% confidence interval 1.06-6.37). Across 2 years, changes in ABI were not associated with changes in cognitive function. Conclusion: In an older cohort sedentary individuals with dementia and with functional limitations, lower baseline ABI was independently correlated with cognitive function and associated with greater 2-year risk for progression to mild cognitive impairment or probable dementia. © 2015 AMDA - The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine.
Keywords: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Ankle Brachial Index; Ankle-brachial index; Article; Cognition; Cognitive function; Cross-Sectional Studies; Dementia; Disability Evaluation; Exercise; Female; Geriatric Assessment; Health Education; Humans; Male; Mini Mental State Examination; Peripheral artery disease; Sedentary Lifestyle; United States; aged; ankle brachial index; clinical trial; cognition; controlled study; cross-sectional study; dementia; dept.hms; disability; episodic memory; executive function; exercise; female; follow up; geriatric assessment; health education; human; human experiment; learning; longitudinal study; male; mild cognitive impairment; multicenter study; normal human; physical activity; physical performance; randomized controlled trial; recall; sedentary lifestyle; spatial orientation; very elderly; working memory

In defense of the critical philosophy: On Schelling's departure from Kant and Fichte in Abhandlungen zur Erläuterung des Idealismus der Wissenschaftslehre (1796/1797) - Harry, C.C. (Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2015)
This article considers the second treatise of Schelling's Abhandlungen zur Erläuterung des Idealismus der Wissenschaftslehre (Treatises Explaining the Idealism of the Science of Knowledge, 1796/97), a lesser-known work from the early Schelling. Here, Schelling proposes to defend the critical position insofar as it purports to be a system based on human reason, but instead he issues a backhanded critique of the assumption on behalf of the critical philosophers to try and limit the bounds of pure reason by means of their own use of reason. Schelling then offers an alternative way to think about the relationship of mind (Geist) and matter in nature. This article argues that Schelling's actual explanation of the critical philosophy as a position founded by reasonable minds ultimately belies his promise to defend it, thus calling into question that Schelling's thought prior to 1800 was a mere reiteration of Kantian/Fichtean transcendentalism. Copyright © 2015 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
Keywords: Critical philosophy; Fichte; Kant; Naturphilosophie; Shelling; dept.phi

On the fundamental dissimilarity of aristotelian and Kantian time concepts - Harry, C.C. (Idealistic Studies, 2015)
In Aristotle's Physics iv 10-14, Aristotle argues for a time concept derived with, on a weak version, sense perception, and, on a strong version, from sense perception along with intellection (nous), from change in nature. On both accounts, actualized time for Aristotle requires cognitive faculties. Aristotle's time concept has thus been linked with Kant's treatment of time in the Transcendental Aesthetic of his First Critique. More importantly, the conclusion that time is "unreal" for Aristotle elicits charges of adulterating Aristotle's conclusions by reading Aristotle's Physics with a Kantian lens. In this paper, I examine the context of Kant's conclusions about time and, by way of a contrast between the Aristotelian and Kantian projects, argue for a fundamental dissimilarity of their accounts. And yet, I reserve the possibility that one both ascent to this fundamental dissimilarity and hold that Aristotle was not a temporal realist. © 2015. Idealistic Studies.
Keywords: dept.phi; peer-reviewed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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