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Do Social Conditions Affect Capuchin Monkeys' (Cebus Apella) Choices In A Quantity Judgment Task?, Michael J. Beran, Bonnie M. Perdue, Audrey E. Parrish, Theodore A. Evans

Language Research Center

Beran et al. (2012) reported that capuchin monkeys closely matched the performance of humans in a quantity judgment test in which information was incomplete but a judgment still had to be made. In each test session, subjects first made quantity judgments between two known options. Then, they made choices where only one option was visible. Both humans and capuchin monkeys were guided by past outcomes, as they shifted from select- ing a known option to selecting an unknown option at the point at which the known option went from being more than the average rate of return to less than …

“Planning Atlanta” Shows Past Illustrations Of Future Redevelopment!, Joseph Hurley

Selections from the University Library Blog

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Health & Sciences Librarians Newsletter, Brenna Helmstutler, Sharon Leslie, Lesley Mackie, Ida Martinez, Todd Prusin, Jackie Werner

University Library Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Fall Semester 2012, Stall Times

University Library Stall Times

No abstract provided.

Did You Ever Hear The One About The Horse That Could Count?, Michael J. Beran

Language Research Center

No abstract provided.

Acrl In Anaheim Acrl Programs At The Ala Annual Conference – Learning Styles: Fiction, Nonfiction, Or Mystery?, Mandy J. Swygart-Hobaugh M.L.S., Ph.D.

University Library Faculty Publications

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Taking The Perspective That A Depressive State Reflects Inflammation: Implications For The Use Of Antidepressants, Jill Littrell

SW Publications

This paper reviews both the evidence that supports the characterization of depression as an inflammatory disorder and the different biochemical mechanisms that have been postulated for the connection between inflammation and depression. This association offers credible explanation for the short term efficacy of antidepressants, which have short term anti-inflammatory effects. Evidence for those anti-inflammatory effects is discussed. Evidence of the contrary long-term effects of antidepressants, which increase rather than decrease inflammation, is also reviewed. It is argued that this increase in inflammation would predict an increase in chronicity among depressed patients that have been treated with antidepressants drugs, which has …

District Court: Final Order (2012), Orinda Evans

Georgia State University Copyright Lawsuit

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Library Technical Services: Key Ingredients In The Recipe For A Successful Institutional Repository, Tammy Sugarman

University Library Faculty Presentations

For several years, academic institutions have been establishing and maintaining institutional repositories (IRs) to collect, make accessible, preserve and showcase the institution’s research and scholarly output. At a majority of institutions, the library is the entity that takes on the responsibility of organizing and maintaining the repository. As the nature and purpose of IRs has evolved over time, the opportunities and challenges for units within the library have also shifted. What has been the impact of IRs on academic libraries and specifically, on technical services functions within the library? What are some of the contributions technical services units can make …

Subtypes Of Attentional Bias Within Social Anxiety Disorder: Evaluating Changes Following Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Martha R. Calamaras, Erin Tone, Page L. Anderson

Psychology Faculty Publications

Prominent theories of social anxiety disorder (SAD) describe the role of attentional bias in the disorder's etiology and maintenance; some models implicate bias toward social threats (e.g., Rapee

& Heimberg, 1997) and others implicate bias to avoid them (e.g., Clark & Wells, 1995). The present

investigation examined: 1) whether a clinical sample of individuals with SAD comprises two distinct groups based on attention bias for social threat (vigilant, avoidant), and 2) group-specific changes in attention bias following cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for SAD. Consistent with predictions, results yielded evidence of two pre-treatment groups (vigilant and avoidant). After eight weeks of …

Summer Semester 2012, Stall Times

University Library Stall Times

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District Court: Cambridge Univ. Press V. Becker - Ruling (2012), Orinda Evans

Georgia State University Copyright Lawsuit

Ruling from the District Court

Cambridge Univ. Press v. Becker, 863 F. Supp. 2d 1190 (N.D. Ga. 2012)

Road Dust Lead (Pb) In Two Neighborhoods Of Urban Atlanta, (Ga, Usa), Daniel Deocampo Ph.D, Phillip Jack Reed, Alexander P. Kalenuik

Geosciences Faculty Publications

Road dust continues to be a major potential reservoir of Pb in the urban environment, and an important potential component of child Pb exposure. This study presents ICP-AES analyses of metals in 72 samples of road dust (<250 μm) collected in the urban core of Atlanta, Georgia. In the Downtown area, median Pb concentrations are ~63 mg/kg Pb, with high values of 278 mg/kg. For comparison, median Pb values in a nearby residential neighborhood (also in the urban core) were ~93 mg/kg, with a high of 972 mg/kg. Geospatial variability is high, with significant variation observed over tens to hundreds of meters. Spearman Rank Correlation tests suggest that Pb and other metals (Cu, Ni, V, Zn) are associated with iron and manganese oxide phases in the residential area, as reported in other cities. However, Pb in the Downtown area is not correlated with the others, suggesting a difference in source or transport history. Given these complexities and the expected differences between road dust and soil Pb, future efforts to assess exposure risk should therefore be based on spatially distributed sampling at very high spatial resolution.

Mandate For Deposit Of Etds: University Policy 2.10.16 Electronic Master's Theses And Doctoral Dissertations, Georgia State University, University Library

ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University Documents and Forms

Policy Summary:

The University requires all students who produce a master´s thesis or doctoral dissertation in fulfillment of his/her degree to upload the final version of these documents to the institutional repository as a condition of the award of the degree.

The Briefing, Spring-Summer 2012, Andrew Young School Of Policy Studies

The Briefing at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

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Racial Disparity In The Diagnosis Of Conduct Disorder, Cortney R. Vanhook

Undergraduate Research Awards

African American youth are exposed to considerably more risk factors than their Caucasian counterparts, yet they are being diagnosed at comparably lower rates for Conduct Disorder (CD) in epidemiological studies. Empirical data supports the claim that African Americans are at greater risk of developing CD. However, the internal dysfunction benchmark of the Diagnostic Statistic Manual (DSM) discourages clinicians from diagnosing youth who display environmentally caused CD. The racial disparity in the diagnosis of CD is problematic for two reasons. First, African American youth who display antisocial personality are more likely to be referred to the justice system than to therapeutic …

Spring Semester 2012, Stall Times

University Library Stall Times

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Sub-National Revenue Mobilization In Peru, Gustavo J. Canavire-Bacarreza, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, Cristian Sepulveda

ECON Publications

This paper analyzes the problem of sub-national revenue mobilization in Peru and proposes several policy reforms to improve collection performance while maintaining a sound revenue structure. In particular, the paper analyzes the current revenues of regional and municipal governments and identifies the main priorities for reform. Among the most important problems are the acute inequalities and inefficiencies associated with revenue sharing from extractive industries. These revenues represent a significant share of sub-national budgets and currently they are distributed without consideration of the relative expenditure needs or fiscal capacity of sub-national units. In order to address this problem, the paper proposes …

Laboratory Office Hours As Outreach In The Health Sciences: Better Research Skills For Better Careers, Todd Prusin

University Library Faculty Publications

Medical librarianship is changing in healthcare environments. Since 1996, by which time the standards that determine how hospitals acquire accreditation changed, many hospitals are acquiring accreditation without a qualified medical librarian on site. For that reason, it has become even more important that healthcare professionals, doctors, nurses and other clinicians, learn to access and evaluate quality information as an integral part of their academic training. Because of this, medical clinicians must begin their careers with strong research skills. These skills must be attained during their academic matriculation and studies in the field of librarianship have shown that departmental outreach hours …

Government Fiscal Policies And Redistribution In Asian Countries, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, Iris Claus, Violeta Vulovic

ECON Publications

This paper assesses the impact of government fiscal policies on income inequality in Asia. It discusses the role and effectiveness of redistributive fiscal policies and quantifies the effects of taxation and government expenditure on income distributions. Panel estimation for 150 countries with data between 1970 and 2009 confirms international empirical findings for Asia. Tax systems tend to be progressive but government expenditures are a more effective tool for redistributing income. Moreover, the results suggest some distinctive differential distributive effect for government expenditure on social protection in Asia. Social protection spending appears to increase income inequality, whereas it reduces it in …

Did You Ever Hear The One About The Horse That Could Count?, Michael J. Beran

Language Research Center

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How Is Chimpanzee Self-Control Influenced By Social Setting?, Theodore A. Evans, Bonnie M. Perdue, Audrey E. Parrish, Emilie C. Menzel, Sarah F. Brosnan, Michael J. Beran

Language Research Center

Self-control is often required in natural situations involving interactions with other individuals, and personal self-control can be compromised if other individuals act impulsively. In this study, we tested self-control in pairs of chimpanzees in a variety of settings where at least one chimpanzee of each pair performed an established test for self-control in which candies accumulated one at time as long as the chimpanzee did not eat any of them. When tested alone, some chimpanzees exhibited greater self-control as compared to when tested alongside a chimpanzee that independently performed the same type of test. However, when the nonfocal animal freely …

Do Social Conditions Affect Capuchin Monkeys’ (Cebus Apella) Choices In A Quantity Judgment Task?, Michael J. Beran, Bonnie M. Perdue, Audrey E. Parrish, Theodore A. Evans

Language Research Center

Beran et al. (2012) reported that capuchin monkeys closely matched the performance of humans in a quantity judgment test in which information was incomplete but a judgment still had to be made. In each test session, subjects first made quantity judgments between two known options. Then, they made choices where only one option was visible. Both humans and capuchin monkeyswere guided by past outcomes, as they shifted from selecting a known option to selecting an unknown option at the point at which the known option went from being more than the average rate of return to less than the average …

Uncertainty Monitoring By Young Children In A Computerized Task, Michael J. Beran, Scott Decker, Allison Schwartz, J. David Smith

Language Research Center

Adult humans show sophisticated metacognitive abilities, including the ability to monitor uncertainty. Unfortunately, most measures of uncertainty monitoring are limited to use with adults due to their general complexity and dependence on explicit verbalization. However, recent research with nonhuman animals has successfully developed measures of uncertainty monitoring that are simple and do not require explicit verbalization. The purpose of this study was to investigate metacognition in young children using uncertainty monitoring tests developed for nonhumans. Children judged whether stimuli were more pink or blue—stimuli nearest the pink-blue midpoint were the most uncertain and the most difficult to classify. Children also …

Promotion & Tenure Outreach: An Emerging Librarian-Faculty Partnership, Brenna Helmstutler

University Library Faculty Presentations

Current shifts in the process and awarding of tenure suggest greater competition and greater expectations, therefore creating a need to show more comprehensive evidence of scholarly impact beyond citation counts. To meet this need, bibliometric tools within online subscription databases, search engines, and software applications offer indices, graphs, and other exciting data that can make a strong case for tenure across the disciplines. Because libraries offer access to these resources and librarians have the expertise in usage, these tools can be effectively shared with faculty via workshops, online research guides, and individual assistance.

Promotion and tenure outreach offers major benefits …

Institutional Capacity To Respond To The Ethical Challenges Of Patient Sexual Expression In State Psychiatric Hospitals In The United States, Eric R. Wright, Heather A. Mccabe, Harold E. Koorman

Sociology Faculty Publications

Patient sexual expression in psychiatric institutions is a major clinical and administrative challenge. For this study, hospital facility directors were surveyed and asked about the existence and nature of formal policies regarding patient sexuality-related needs and staff preparedness to handle various forms of patient sexual expression. Consistent with prior studies, the survey fi ndings show formal policies tend to enforce a punitive response to sexual behavior. More important, the results also reveal a workforce poorly prepared to negotiate the complex ethical issues that arise in addressing patient sexual expression in state psychiatric institutions in the U.S.

Race And Socioeconomic Status Differences In Study Abroad Participation: The Role Of Habitus, Social Networks, And Cultural Capital, Jennifer Renee Simon, James W. Ainsworth

Sociology Faculty Publications

This study examines how race and socioeconomic status contribute to disparities in study abroad participation. Our mixed methods approach provides a broad overview of the selection process into study abroad using national data. It also provides a nuanced understanding of the mechanisms that perpetuate inequality among Black and lower class students. Both quantitative and qualitative results show that students’ habits, social networks, and cultural capital shape their study abroad experiences. We find that students with a positive predisposition toward internationalization (having foreign-born parents and/or experiencing different cultures overseas) were more likely to study abroad.Whites and high socioeconomic status students were …

Book Review - Multimedia Encyclopedia Of Women In Today’S World, (M.Z. Stange, C.K. Oyster, & J. Sloan (Eds.), Thousand Oaks, Ca: Sage, 2011), Mandy J. Swygart-Hobaugh M.L.S., Ph.D.

University Library Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Open Source Software And Librarian Values, Jason Puckett

University Library Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Developing School Counseling Students’ Social Justice Orientation Through Service Learning, Melissa Ockerman, Erin Mason

Counseling and Psychological Services Faculty Publications

Counselor educators must examine the quality and intentionality of coursework and field experiences offered to their students as the role of school counselors continues to transform. The emphasis in the field on school counselors as social justice agents and advocates should be reflected in school counselor training programs. The authors present a two-course sequence using pre-practicum service learning as a valuable program component for assisting school counseling students to develop a social justice orientation.