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Information: A Historical Companion Book Review, Lena Hernandez Jun 2022

Information: A Historical Companion Book Review, Lena Hernandez

School of Information Student Research Journal

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Cultural Competence In Research, Michele A. L. Villagran Jun 2022

Cultural Competence In Research, Michele A. L. Villagran

School of Information Student Research Journal

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The Past, Present, And Future Of Information, Tierra Holmes Jun 2022

The Past, Present, And Future Of Information, Tierra Holmes

School of Information Student Research Journal

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Ischool Student Research Journal, Vol.12, Iss.1, Student Reseach Journal Jun 2022

Ischool Student Research Journal, Vol.12, Iss.1, Student Reseach Journal

School of Information Student Research Journal

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Assessing Public Health Benefits Of Replacing Freight Trucks With Cargo Cycles In Last Leg Delivery Trips In Urban Centers, Jennifer C. Hartle, Ossama (Sam) A. Elrahman, Cara Wang, Daniel A. Rodriguez, Yue Ding, Matt Mcgahan Jun 2022

Assessing Public Health Benefits Of Replacing Freight Trucks With Cargo Cycles In Last Leg Delivery Trips In Urban Centers, Jennifer C. Hartle, Ossama (Sam) A. Elrahman, Cara Wang, Daniel A. Rodriguez, Yue Ding, Matt Mcgahan

Mineta Transportation Institute

Increased urbanization, population growth, and demand for time-sensitive deliveries means increased freight movement in cities, which contributes to emissions, noise, and safety concerns. One innovative mode gaining widespread attention for urban deliveries is cargo cycles—bicycles adapted for freight delivery. Despite the recognized potential and possible success of transporting at least 25% of freight via cycle, research remains limited. This research investigates the potential of cargo cycle delivery for last mile freight in Oakland, California, with a focus on the West Oakland neighborhood. The data collection included interviews, focus groups, vehicle field observation and counts, and traffic simulation modeling. The traffic …


Evaluation Of Sustainability Determinants To Develop A Sustainability Rating System For California Infrastructure Construction Projects, Joseph Kim, Patricia Mccarthy Jun 2022

Evaluation Of Sustainability Determinants To Develop A Sustainability Rating System For California Infrastructure Construction Projects, Joseph Kim, Patricia Mccarthy

Mineta Transportation Institute

This study evaluates the important sustainability determinants that affect factors’ success in meeting their sustainability goals when conducting infrastructure construction projects in California. The study implemented the online survey method to evaluate the sustainability characteristics that infrastructure industry professionals currently are aware of under the current situation in California. A data set of 25 validated survey responses is used for statistical data analysis using analysis of variables, Kruskal-Wallis tests, and two sample t-tests. The analysis results showed that the median response values for the six major sustainability categories do not show any significant difference. The results also showed that no …


Transportation Utility Fee To Fund Transit In California, Shishir Mathur, Ralph Robinson Jun 2022

Transportation Utility Fee To Fund Transit In California, Shishir Mathur, Ralph Robinson

Mineta Transportation Institute

Public transit is a key tool to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to combat climate change; improve safety for pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers; and expand accessibility and mobility for all. However, we can only realize this potential by making sufficient investments to provide transit service levels that attract and retain greater ridership. To help with this needed investment, a handful of local governments have turned to transportation utility fees (TUFs), primarily collected as a monthly charge on customers' utility bills or property tax bills. While more widely used to support street maintenance, this study identifies six case studies where TUF …


Modeling And Predicting Geospatial Teen Crash Frequency, Sonu Mathew, Srinivas S. Pulugurtha, Sarvani Duvvuri Jun 2022

Modeling And Predicting Geospatial Teen Crash Frequency, Sonu Mathew, Srinivas S. Pulugurtha, Sarvani Duvvuri

Mineta Transportation Institute

This research project 1) evaluates the effect of road network, demographic, and land use characteristics on road crashes involving teen drivers, and, 2) develops and compares the predictability of local and global regression models in estimating teen crash frequency. The team considered data for 201 spatially distributed road segments in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA for the evaluation and obtained data related to teen crashes from the Highway Safety Information System (HSIS) database. The team extracted demographic and land use characteristics using two different buffer widths (0.25 miles and 0.5 miles) at each selected road segment, with the number of …


Influence Of Level 1 And Level 2 Automated Vehicles On Fatal Crashes And Fatal Crash Occurrence, Hardik Gajera, Srinivas S. Pulugurtha, Sonu Mathew Jun 2022

Influence Of Level 1 And Level 2 Automated Vehicles On Fatal Crashes And Fatal Crash Occurrence, Hardik Gajera, Srinivas S. Pulugurtha, Sonu Mathew

Mineta Transportation Institute

Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) are expected to improve safety by gradually reducing human decisions while driving. However, there are still questions on their effectiveness as we transition from almost 0% CAVs to 100% CAVs with different levels of vehicle autonomy. This research focuses on synthesizing literature and identifying risk factors influencing fatal crashes involving level 1 and level 2 CAVs in the United States. Fatal crashes involving level 0 vehicles—ones that are not connected and automated—were compared to minimize unobserved heterogeneity and randomness associated with the influencing risk factors. The research team used the fatal crash data for the …


New Efficient Approach To Solve Big Data Systems Using Parallel Gauss–Seidel Algorithms, Shih Yu Chang, Hsiao Chun Wu, Yifan Wang Jun 2022

New Efficient Approach To Solve Big Data Systems Using Parallel Gauss–Seidel Algorithms, Shih Yu Chang, Hsiao Chun Wu, Yifan Wang

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

In order to perform big-data analytics, regression involving large matrices is often necessary. In particular, large scale regression problems are encountered when one wishes to extract semantic patterns for knowledge discovery and data mining. When a large matrix can be processed in its factorized form, advantages arise in terms of computation, implementation, and data-compression. In this work, we propose two new parallel iterative algorithms as extensions of the Gauss–Seidel algorithm (GSA) to solve regression problems involving many variables. The convergence study in terms of error-bounds of the proposed iterative algorithms is also performed, and the required computation resources, namely time-and …


Getting Fit In A Sustainable Way: Design And Optimization Of A Low-Cost Regenerative Exercise Bicycle, Huy Pham, Aseesh Paul Bandaru, Pranav Bellannagari, Sohail Zaidi, Vimal Viswanathan Jun 2022

Getting Fit In A Sustainable Way: Design And Optimization Of A Low-Cost Regenerative Exercise Bicycle, Huy Pham, Aseesh Paul Bandaru, Pranav Bellannagari, Sohail Zaidi, Vimal Viswanathan

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With the increase in demand for more sustainable energy sources, recent researchers have been looking into harvesting energy spent by humans for various purposes. One of the available sources of such energy is exercise equipment. While a few products are available in the market to harvest the power expended during an exercise session, these products are costly, and the cost may prohibit a day-to-day user from purchasing those. Motivated by this challenge, this paper describes a long-running research project that uses a static exercise bicycle to sustainably harvest human energy. A regenerative spin bike that uses the friction between a …


Differences In Covid-19 Vaccine Concerns Among Asian Americans And Pacific Islanders: The Compass Survey, Van Ta Park, Marcelle Dougan, Oanh Meyer, Bora Nam, Marian Tzuang, Linda Park, Quyen Vuong, Janice Tsoh Jun 2022

Differences In Covid-19 Vaccine Concerns Among Asian Americans And Pacific Islanders: The Compass Survey, Van Ta Park, Marcelle Dougan, Oanh Meyer, Bora Nam, Marian Tzuang, Linda Park, Quyen Vuong, Janice Tsoh

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Background: Understanding concerns for receiving COVID-19 vaccines is key to ensuring appropriately tailored health communications to increase vaccine uptake. However, limited data exists about vaccine concerns among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI). Methods: Data from the COVID-19 Effects on the Mental and Physical Health of AAPI Survey Study (COMPASS), a cross-sectional, national survey for AAPI adults in the U.S. were used (N=1,646). Descriptive statistics were used to assess sample characteristics including proportions of AAPI with various COVID-19 vaccine concerns, categorized as none, side-effects only, unsafe only, and multiple reasons, and differences in vaccine concerns by socio-demographics. Ordinary multivariable logistic …


Carbohydrate Knowledge Observed To Be Low In Vietnamese Women With Gestational Diabetes Mellitus, Lily Phan, Jamie Kubota, Giselle Adriana Pereira Pignotti Jun 2022

Carbohydrate Knowledge Observed To Be Low In Vietnamese Women With Gestational Diabetes Mellitus, Lily Phan, Jamie Kubota, Giselle Adriana Pereira Pignotti

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Objective: To assess carbohydrate knowledge of Vietnamese women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and explore factors associated with carbohydrate knowledge. Methods: Vietnamese women (n = 100) with GDM completed an online questionnaire about self-efficacy in managing blood glucose, the habit of regularly self-monitoring blood glucose activities at home, and an adapted culturally tailored carbohydrate quiz for the target population. Results: Participants (30 ± 4 years) answered on average 51% of the carbohydrate knowledge questions correctly, showing most difficulty in identifying honey, milk, and orange juice as carbohydrate sources. Only 46% of participants correctly identified carbohydrate content on nutrition labels, and …


Learning To Argue Through Dialogue: A Review Of Instructional Approaches, Chrysi Rapanta, Mark K. Felton Jun 2022

Learning To Argue Through Dialogue: A Review Of Instructional Approaches, Chrysi Rapanta, Mark K. Felton

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Over the past 20 years, a broad and diverse research literature has emerged to address how students learn to argue through dialogue in educational contexts. However, the variety of approaches used to study this phenomenon makes it challenging to find coherence in what may otherwise seem to be disparate fields of study. In this integrative review, we propose looking at how learning to argue (LTA) has been operationalized thus far in educational research, focusing on how different scholars have framed and fostered argumentative dialogue, assessed its gains, and applied it in different learning contexts. In total, 143 studies from the …


Early Starts And Late Finishes Both Reduce Alertness And Performance Among Short-Haul Airline Pilots, Lucia Arsintescu, Sean Pradhan, Ravi G. Chachad, Kevin B. Gregory, Jeffrey B. Mulligan, Erin E. Flynn-Evans Jun 2022

Early Starts And Late Finishes Both Reduce Alertness And Performance Among Short-Haul Airline Pilots, Lucia Arsintescu, Sean Pradhan, Ravi G. Chachad, Kevin B. Gregory, Jeffrey B. Mulligan, Erin E. Flynn-Evans

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Flight crews are frequently required to work irregular schedules and, as a result, can experience sleep deficiency and fatigue. This study was conducted to determine whether perceived fatigue levels and objective performance varied by time of day, time awake, and prior night's sleep duration. Ninety-five pilots (86 male, 9 female) aged 33 years (±8) volunteered for the study. Participants completed a daily sleep diary, Samn-Perelli fatigue scale, and psychomotor vigilance task that were completed before and after each flight duty period and at the top-of-descent for each flight. Pilots experienced higher self-reported fatigue (EMM = 3.92, SE = 0.09, p < 0.001) and worse performance (Response speed: EMM = 4.27, SE = 0.08, p = 0.004) for late-finishing duties compared with early-starting duties (Samn-Perelli: EMM = 3.74, SE = 0.08; Response speed: EMM = 4.37, SE = 0.08), but had shorter sleep before early-starting duties (early: EMM = 6.94, SE = 0.10; late: EMM = 8.47, SE = 0.14, p < 0.001). However, pre-duty Samn-Perelli and response speed were worse (z = 4.18, p < 0.001; z = 3.05, p = 0.03; respectively) for early starts compared with late finishes (EMM = 2.74, SE = 0.19), while post-duty Samn-Perelli was worse for late finishes (EMM = 4.74, SE = 0.19) compared with early starts (EMM = 4.05, SE = 0.12). The results confirm that duty time has a strong influence on self-reported fatigue and performance. Thus, all flights that encroach on a biological night are targets for fatigue risk management oversight.


Convenient Tail Bounds For Sums Of Random Tensors, Shih Yu Chang, Wen Wei Lin Jun 2022

Convenient Tail Bounds For Sums Of Random Tensors, Shih Yu Chang, Wen Wei Lin

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

This work prepares new probability bounds for sums of random, inde-pendent, Hermitian tensors. These probability bounds characterize large-deviation behavior of the extreme eigenvalue of the sums of random tensors. We extend Laplace transform method and Lieb’s concavity theorem from matrices to tensors, and apply these tools to generalize the classical bounds associated with the names Chernoff, Ben-nett, and Bernstein from the scalar to the tensor setting. Tail bounds for the norm of a sum of random rectangular tensors are also derived from corollaries of random Hermitian tensors cases. The proof mechanism can also be applied to tensor-valued martingales and tensor-based …


Does Judicial Foreclosure Procedure Help Delinquent Subprime Mortgage Borrowers?, Aidong Adam Ding, Shaonan Tian, Yan Yu, Xinlei Zhao Jun 2022

Does Judicial Foreclosure Procedure Help Delinquent Subprime Mortgage Borrowers?, Aidong Adam Ding, Shaonan Tian, Yan Yu, Xinlei Zhao

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We conduct comprehensive analyses on whether and how the judicial foreclosure procedure helps subprime mortgage borrowers to reinstate their delinquent loans outside foreclosure liquidation. Even though the transition rates of various exit types are all higher in non-judicial states, we argue such higher rates can be mechanically driven by the faster shrinking pool of delinquent mortgages in non-judicial states over time. Based on the cumulative proportions of various exit types during a period of up to 5 years post the mortgage first become 90 days past due, we find that judicial states offer more opportunities for delinquent borrowers to reinstate …


Evaluation Of Mpa Designs That Protect Highly Mobile Megafauna Now And Under Climate Change Scenarios, M. E. Gilmour, J. Adams, B. A. Block, J. E. Caselle, A. M. Friedlander, E. T. Game, E. L. Hazen, N. D. Holmes, K. D. Lafferty, S. M. Maxwell, D. J. Mccauley, E. M. Oleson, K. Pollock, S. A. Shaffer, N. H. Wolff, A. Wegmann Jun 2022

Evaluation Of Mpa Designs That Protect Highly Mobile Megafauna Now And Under Climate Change Scenarios, M. E. Gilmour, J. Adams, B. A. Block, J. E. Caselle, A. M. Friedlander, E. T. Game, E. L. Hazen, N. D. Holmes, K. D. Lafferty, S. M. Maxwell, D. J. Mccauley, E. M. Oleson, K. Pollock, S. A. Shaffer, N. H. Wolff, A. Wegmann

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Marine protected area (MPA) designs, including large-scale MPAs (LSMPAs; >150,000 km2), mobile MPAs (fluid spatiotemporal boundaries), and MPA networks, may offer different benefits to species and could enhance protection by encompassing spatiotemporal scales of animal movement. We sought to understand how well LSMPAs could benefit nine highly-mobile marine species in the tropics now and into the future by: 1) evaluating current range overlap within a LSMPA; 2) evaluating range overlap under climate change projections; and 3) evaluating how well theoretical MPA designs benefit these nine species. We focused on Palmyra Atoll and Kingman Reef, a 2000 km2 area within the …


Environmental Pollution Analysis And Impact Study-A Case Study For The Salton Sea In California, Jerry Gao, Jia Liu, Rui Xu, Samiksha Pandey, Venkata Sai Kusuma Sindhoora Vankayala Siva, Dian Yu Jun 2022

Environmental Pollution Analysis And Impact Study-A Case Study For The Salton Sea In California, Jerry Gao, Jia Liu, Rui Xu, Samiksha Pandey, Venkata Sai Kusuma Sindhoora Vankayala Siva, Dian Yu

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A natural experiment conducted on the shrinking Salton Sea, a saline lake in California, showed that each one foot drop in lake elevation resulted in a 2.6% average increase in PM2.5 concentrations. The shrinking has caused the asthma rate continues to increase among children, with one in five children being sent to the emergency department, which is related to asthma. In this paper, several data-driven machine learning (ML) models are developed for forecasting air quality and dust emission to study, evaluate and predict the impacts on human health due to the shrinkage of the sea, such as the Salton Sea. …


A Comparison Of Univariate And Multivariate Forecasting Models Predicting Emergency Department Patient Arrivals During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Egbe Etu Etu, Leslie Monplaisir, Sara Masoud, Suzan Arslanturk, Joshua Emakhu, Imokhai Tenebe, Joseph B. Miller, Tom Hagerman, Daniel Jourdan, Seth Krupp Jun 2022

A Comparison Of Univariate And Multivariate Forecasting Models Predicting Emergency Department Patient Arrivals During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Egbe Etu Etu, Leslie Monplaisir, Sara Masoud, Suzan Arslanturk, Joshua Emakhu, Imokhai Tenebe, Joseph B. Miller, Tom Hagerman, Daniel Jourdan, Seth Krupp

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened the existing concern about the uncertainty surrounding patient arrival and the overutilization of resources in emergency departments (EDs). The prediction of variations in patient arrivals is vital for managing limited healthcare resources and facilitating data-driven resource planning. The objective of this study was to forecast ED patient arrivals during a pandemic over different time horizons. A secondary objective was to compare the performance of different forecasting models in predicting ED patient arrivals. We included all ED patient encounters at an urban teaching hospital between January 2019 and December 2020. We divided the data into training …


"You Are Not Alone": Family-Based Hiv Risk And Protective Factors For Hispanic/Latino Men Who Have Sex With Men In San Juan, Pr, Moctezuma Garcia Jun 2022

"You Are Not Alone": Family-Based Hiv Risk And Protective Factors For Hispanic/Latino Men Who Have Sex With Men In San Juan, Pr, Moctezuma Garcia

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Hispanic/Latino men who have sex with men (MSM) have the second largest HIV infection rate in the United States and Puerto Rico (PR) has ranked number five with the greatest number of Hispanics living with HIV. This study aims to understand how family affects HIV risk and protective factors for young adults. PR MSM ages 21 through 30 in San Juan, PR completed semi-structured interviews exploring the influence interpersonal family relationships have on HIV risk and protective factors. PR MSM (N = 15) completed a semi-structured in-depth individual interview. NVivo was used for administering a thematic analysis based on the …


Is Active Voice Enough? Community Discussions On Passive Voice, Mmiwg2s, And Violence Against Urban Indigenous Women In San José, California, Soma De Bourbon, Ketzal Gomez, Beatriz San Juan Jun 2022

Is Active Voice Enough? Community Discussions On Passive Voice, Mmiwg2s, And Violence Against Urban Indigenous Women In San José, California, Soma De Bourbon, Ketzal Gomez, Beatriz San Juan

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Men commit violence against Native American women at higher rates than other racial or ethnic groups. When violence against Indigenous women is discussed and written about, it is often in passive voice. Several scholars note the problem of using passive voice to talk about violence against women, but there is little research on how women themselves understand passive voice as connected to the violence perpetrated against them, and we found no literature on how Native women understand passive voice. This research asks how urban Native and Indigenous women understand passive language in relationship to violence. The authors, who are all …


Molecular Determinants Of Mechanosensation In The Muscle Spindle, Katherine A. Wilkinson Jun 2022

Molecular Determinants Of Mechanosensation In The Muscle Spindle, Katherine A. Wilkinson

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The muscle spindle (MS) provides essential sensory information for motor control and proprioception. The Group Ia and II MS afferents are low threshold slowly-adapting mechanoreceptors and report both static muscle length and dynamic muscle movement information. The exact molecular mechanism by which MS afferents transduce muscle movement into action potentials is incompletely understood. This short review will discuss recent evidence suggesting that PIEZO2 is an essential mechanically sensitive ion channel in MS afferents and that vesicle-released glutamate contributes to maintaining afferent excitability during the static phase of stretch. Other mechanically gated ion channels, voltage-gated sodium channels, other ion channels, regulatory …


Effect Of Raster Angle On Mechanical Properties Of 3d Printed Short Carbon Fiber Reinforced Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene, Skhandesh Srinivasan Ganesh Iyer, Ozgur Keles Jun 2022

Effect Of Raster Angle On Mechanical Properties Of 3d Printed Short Carbon Fiber Reinforced Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene, Skhandesh Srinivasan Ganesh Iyer, Ozgur Keles

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The most common additive manufacturing technique fused filament fabrication (FFF) suffers from inter-bead porosity that reduces mechanical properties. Inter-bead pores follow the raster angle, which causes anisotropic mechanical properties. Yet, the effects of raster angle on the mechanical behavior of short-carbon-fiber-reinforced (SCFR) thermoplastics are unclear. In this study, we performed tensile, flexural, and fracture toughness tests on SCFR acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS). Raster angles of 0°, 15°, 30°, 45°, 60°, 75°, and 90° were investigated. Tensile strength and elastic modulus decreased by 22–35% for a change from 0° to 15°. Flexural strength and modulus were less sensitive to raster angle. …


Broadcast Dimension Of Graphs, Jesse Geneson, Eunjeong Yi Jun 2022

Broadcast Dimension Of Graphs, Jesse Geneson, Eunjeong Yi

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In this paper we initiate the study of broadcast dimension, a variant of metric dimension. Let G be a graph with vertex set V (G), and let d(u, w) denote the length of a u − w geodesic in G. For k ≥ 1, let dk (x, y) = min{d(x, y), k +1}. A function f: V (G) → Z+ ∪{0} is called a resolving broadcast of G if, for any distinct x, y ∈ V (G), there exists a vertex [Formula Presented]. The broadcast dimension, bdim(G), of G is the minimum of [Formula Presented] over all resolving broadcasts of …


Expected Propagation Time For Probabilistic Zero Forcing, Jesse Geneson, Leslie Hogben Jun 2022

Expected Propagation Time For Probabilistic Zero Forcing, Jesse Geneson, Leslie Hogben

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Zero forcing is a coloring process on a graph that was introduced more than fifteen years ago in several different applications. The goal is to color all the vertices blue by repeated use of a (deterministic) color change rule. Probabilistic zero forcing was introduced by Kang and Yi in [Bull. Inst. Combin. Appl. 67 (2013), 9–16] and yields a discrete dynamical system, which is a better model for some applications. Since in a connected graph any one vertex can eventually color the entire graph blue using probabilistic zero forcing, the expected time to do this is a natural parameter to …


Associations Among Romantic And Sexual Partner History And Muscle Dysmorphia Symptoms, Disordered Eating, And Appearance- And Performance-Enhancing Drugs And Supplement Use Among Cisgender Gay Men, Jason M. Nagata, Anthony M. Debenedetto, Tiffany A. Brown, Jason M. Lavender, Stuart B. Murray, Matthew R. Capriotti, Annesa Flentje, Micah E. Lubensky, Chloe J. Cattle, Juno Obedin-Maliver, Mitchell R. Lunn Jun 2022

Associations Among Romantic And Sexual Partner History And Muscle Dysmorphia Symptoms, Disordered Eating, And Appearance- And Performance-Enhancing Drugs And Supplement Use Among Cisgender Gay Men, Jason M. Nagata, Anthony M. Debenedetto, Tiffany A. Brown, Jason M. Lavender, Stuart B. Murray, Matthew R. Capriotti, Annesa Flentje, Micah E. Lubensky, Chloe J. Cattle, Juno Obedin-Maliver, Mitchell R. Lunn

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This study examined relationship status (e.g., single versus not single) and number of sexual partners in relation to muscularity- and disordered eating-related attitudes and behaviors among 1090 cisgender gay men enrolled in The PRIDE Study in 2018. Participants completed measures assessing muscle dysmorphia (MD) symptoms, disordered eating attitudes and behaviors, and appearance- and performance-enhancing drug or supplement (APEDS) use. In linear regression models adjusting for theoretically relevant covariates, neither relationship status nor number of past-month sexual partners was associated with disordered eating attitudes. In terms of MD symptoms, single (versus not single) relationship status was associated with greater appearance intolerance, …


Water Sharing Is A Distressing Form Of Reciprocity: Shame, Upset, Anger, And Conflict Over Water In Twenty Cross-Cultural Sites, Amber Wutich, Asher Rosinger, Alexandra Brewis, Melissa Beresford, Sera Young Jun 2022

Water Sharing Is A Distressing Form Of Reciprocity: Shame, Upset, Anger, And Conflict Over Water In Twenty Cross-Cultural Sites, Amber Wutich, Asher Rosinger, Alexandra Brewis, Melissa Beresford, Sera Young

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Anthropological theories of reciprocity suggest it enhances prestige, social solidarity, and material security. Yet, some ethnographic cases suggest that water sharing—a form of reciprocity newly gaining scholarly attention—might work in the opposite way, increasing conflict and emotional distress. Using cross-cultural survey data from twenty global sites (n = 4,267), we test how household water reciprocity (giving and receiving) is associated with negative emotional and social outcomes. Participation in water sharing as both givers and receivers is consistently associated with greater odds of reporting shame, upset, and conflict over water. Water sharing experiences in a large, diverse sample confirm a lack …


Minority Stress, Structural Stigma, And Physical Health Among Sexual And Gender Minority Individuals: Examining The Relative Strength Of The Relationships, Annesa Flentje, Kristen D. Clark, Ethan Cicero, Matthew R. Capriotti, Micah E. Lubensky, John Sauceda, Torsten B. Neilands, Mitchell R. Lunn, Juno Obedin-Maliver Jun 2022

Minority Stress, Structural Stigma, And Physical Health Among Sexual And Gender Minority Individuals: Examining The Relative Strength Of The Relationships, Annesa Flentje, Kristen D. Clark, Ethan Cicero, Matthew R. Capriotti, Micah E. Lubensky, John Sauceda, Torsten B. Neilands, Mitchell R. Lunn, Juno Obedin-Maliver

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Background: Sexual and gender minority (SGM; i.e., non-heterosexual and transgender or gender-expansive, respectively) people experience physical health disparities attributed to greater exposure to minority stress (experiences of discrimination or victimization, anticipation of discrimination or victimization, concealment of SGM status, and internalization of stigma) and structural stigma. Purpose: To examine which components of minority stress and structural stigma have the strongest relationships with physical health among SGM people. Methods: Participants (5,299 SGM people, 1,902 gender minority individuals) were from The Population Research in Identity and Disparities for Equality (PRIDE) Study. Dominance analyses estimated effect sizes showing how important each component of …


Future Changes In Extreme Precipitation Over The San Francisco Bay Area: Dependence On Atmospheric River And Extratropical Cyclone Events, Christina M. Patricola, Michael F. Wehner, Emily Bercos-Hickey, Flor Vanessa Maciel, Christine May, Michael Mak, Olivia Yip, Anna M. Roche, Susan Leal Jun 2022

Future Changes In Extreme Precipitation Over The San Francisco Bay Area: Dependence On Atmospheric River And Extratropical Cyclone Events, Christina M. Patricola, Michael F. Wehner, Emily Bercos-Hickey, Flor Vanessa Maciel, Christine May, Michael Mak, Olivia Yip, Anna M. Roche, Susan Leal

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Extreme precipitation poses a major challenge for local governments, including the City and County of San Francisco, California, as flooding can damage and destroy infrastructure and property. As the climate continues to warm, reliable future precipitation projections are needed to provide the best possible information to decision makers. However, future changes in the magnitude of extreme precipitation are uncertain, as current state-of-the-art global climate models are typically run at relatively coarse horizontal resolutions that require the use of convective parameterization and have difficulty simulating observed extreme rainfall rates. Here, we performed ensembles of convection-permitting regional climate model simulations to investigate …