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Scene-Independent Motion Pattern Segmentation In Crowded Video Scenes Using Spatio-Angular Density-Based Clustering, Abhilash K. Pai, A. Kotegar Karunakar, U. Raghavendra Jan 2020

Scene-Independent Motion Pattern Segmentation In Crowded Video Scenes Using Spatio-Angular Density-Based Clustering, Abhilash K. Pai, A. Kotegar Karunakar, U. Raghavendra

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Motion pattern segmentation for crowded video scenes is an open problem because of the inability of existing approaches to tackle unpredictable crowd behaviour across varied scenes. To address this problem, we propose a Spatio-Angular Density-based Clustering (SADC) approach, which performs motion pattern segmentation by clustering the spatial and angular information obtained from the input trajectories. The k-nearest neighbours of each trajectory and the angular deviation between trajectories constitute the spatial and angular information, respectively. Effective integration of the spatio-angular information with an improvised density-based clustering algorithm makes this approach scene-independent. The performance of most clustering algorithms in the literature is …

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Alchemy In Russian Literature, Hamlet Isakhanli Jan 2020

Alchemy In Russian Literature, Hamlet Isakhanli

Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

Along with sciences, alchemical activity heavily influenced literature and art, and the images of alchemists were widely reflected in the works of poets, writers, artists, philosophers and scientists. In Eastern and Western literature of ancient, medieval, and modern times, alchemy, together with the intriguing images of alchemists, was used also as a source of vivid metaphors. This article is devoted to the subject of alchemy in Russian literature, investigating which writers were interested in it and how it was developed in Russia. Prominent Russian authors’ poetic and prosaic writings have been perused throughout the research paper and it is believed …

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New And Interesting Aerial Diatom Assemblages From Southwestern Iceland, Paula C. Furey, Kalina M. Manoylov, Rex L. Lowe Jan 2020

New And Interesting Aerial Diatom Assemblages From Southwestern Iceland, Paula C. Furey, Kalina M. Manoylov, Rex L. Lowe

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Examination of algal assemblages from aerial environments around the globe, especially those from pseudoaerial habitats found on moistened rocks underneath waterfalls or around springs and seeps, reveals the presence of unique diatom floras. Yet, diatom assemblages from northern regions like Iceland remain understudied, especially those from the volcanic rock outcrops and boulders that create euaerial habitats where biota receive moisture from the atmosphere or the rock itself. During the summers of 2013 and 2015, we examined the biodiversity of mostly euaerial, but also pseudoaerial, diatom assemblages collected from volcanic rock outcrops or large boulders on the landscape from southwestern Iceland. …

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Advances In Understanding High-Mass X-Ray Binaries With Integral And Future Directions, Peter Kretschmar, Felix Fürst, Lara Sidoli, Enrico Bozzo, Julia Alfonso-Garzón, Arash Bodaghee, Sylvain Chaty, Masha Chernyakova, Carlo Ferrigno, Antonios Manousakis, Ignacio Negueruela, Konstantin Postnov, Adamantia Paizis, Pablo Reig, José Joaquín Rodes-Roca, Sergey Tsygankov, Antony J. Bird, Matthias Bissinger Né Kühnel, Pere Blay, Isabel Caballero Jan 2020

Advances In Understanding High-Mass X-Ray Binaries With Integral And Future Directions, Peter Kretschmar, Felix Fürst, Lara Sidoli, Enrico Bozzo, Julia Alfonso-Garzón, Arash Bodaghee, Sylvain Chaty, Masha Chernyakova, Carlo Ferrigno, Antonios Manousakis, Ignacio Negueruela, Konstantin Postnov, Adamantia Paizis, Pablo Reig, José Joaquín Rodes-Roca, Sergey Tsygankov, Antony J. Bird, Matthias Bissinger Né Kühnel, Pere Blay, Isabel Caballero

Faculty and Staff Works

High mass X-ray binaries are among the brightest X-ray sources in the Milky Way, as well as in nearby Galaxies. Thanks to their highly variable emissions and complex phenomenology, they have attracted the interest of the high energy astrophysical community since the dawn of X-ray Astronomy. In more recent years, they have challenged our comprehension of physical processes in many more energy bands, ranging from the infrared to very high energies. In this review, we provide a broad but concise summary of the physical processes dominating the emission from high mass X-ray binaries across virtually the whole electromagnetic spectrum. These …

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Amphibians And Squamates From The Late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) Clark Quarry Of Coastal Georgia, Dennis Parmley, Joshua L. Clark, Alfred J. Mead Jan 2020

Amphibians And Squamates From The Late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) Clark Quarry Of Coastal Georgia, Dennis Parmley, Joshua L. Clark, Alfred J. Mead

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Leibniz Algebras With Absolute Maximal Lie Subalgebras, G. R. Biyogmam, Calvin Tcheka Jan 2020

Leibniz Algebras With Absolute Maximal Lie Subalgebras, G. R. Biyogmam, Calvin Tcheka

Faculty and Staff Works

A Lie subalgebra of a given Leibniz algebra is said to be an absolute maximal Lie subalgebra if it has codimension one. In this paper, we study some properties of non-Lie Leibniz algebras containing absolute maximal Lie subalgebras. When the dimension and codimension of their Lie-center are greater than two, we refer to these Leibniz algebras as s-Leibniz algebras (strong Leibniz algebras). We provide a classification of nilpotent Leibniz s-algebras of dimension up to five.

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Book Cover Design For Aseroë, Peter Selgin Jan 2020

Book Cover Design For Aseroë, Peter Selgin

Faculty and Staff Works

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Book Cover Design For Cesare: A Novel Of War-Torn Berlin, Peter Selgin Jan 2020

Book Cover Design For Cesare: A Novel Of War-Torn Berlin, Peter Selgin

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Transformative Learning Experiences Through Short-Term Study Abroad Programs, Tsu Ming Chiang, Jenq Foung Yao Jan 2020

Transformative Learning Experiences Through Short-Term Study Abroad Programs, Tsu Ming Chiang, Jenq Foung Yao

Faculty and Staff Works

As the world becomes increasingly interconnected in the 21st century, it is crucial to teach college students how to acquire cultural competence as global citizens. Learning through study abroad involves total immersion and active engagement in understanding other cultures and people. It challenges individuals’ ethnocentric beliefs and habitual frames of reference to foster inclusive and global perspectives as transformative learners (Mezirow, 1997). Furthermore, even in short-term study abroad programs, through intentional planning, faculty may embed multiple high impact educational learning experiences in their courses. Collaboration with a foreign university can further enhance students’ cultural knowledge by creating peer interactions in …

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Teaching Jazz Style Through Guided Listening, Andrew J. Allen Jan 2020

Teaching Jazz Style Through Guided Listening, Andrew J. Allen

Faculty and Staff Works

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Trax On The Trail Podcast, Dana Gorzelany-Mostak Jan 2020

Trax On The Trail Podcast, Dana Gorzelany-Mostak

Faculty and Staff Works

In each episode of the Trax on the Trail podcast, hosts Dana Gorzelany-Mostak and Naomi Graber breakdown the music candidates play at rallies and in campaign ads and how voters manipulate and remix sound to signal support or disdain for the politics and politicians of our times. The Trax on the Trail podcast is the aural alternative to the Trax on the Trail research project that will catalogue and critique the soundscape of the 2020 presidential election. You can follow along at traxonthetrail.com.

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Oral Histories Interview Questions With Student Athletes Regarding Covid, Hussayn Abdul-Qawi, Riley Filler, Hakim Williams Jan 2020

Oral Histories Interview Questions With Student Athletes Regarding Covid, Hussayn Abdul-Qawi, Riley Filler, Hakim Williams

COVID-19 @ Whittier (full list of items)

Whittier College has undoubtedly felt the ramifications of the global pandemic, Covid 19. Like many schools across the nation, the pandemic has halted, altered, and dramatically changed the lives of students and people worldwide. In order to gain an accurate representation of those whose experience may not be highlighted, these interviews are geared toward highlighting how the pandemic has impacted the experience of student athletes at Whittier college. Their experience is entirely unique, and is essential to understanding how truly totalizing this pandemic has been on the lives of student athletes at Whittier college.

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Baccalaureate Education System Trust (Best) Fund Financial Statement 2019, Tennessee. Department Of The Treasury. Jan 2020

Baccalaureate Education System Trust (Best) Fund Financial Statement 2019, Tennessee. Department Of The Treasury.

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Gender Is A Drag: A Study Of How Drag Performance Affects Awareness The Communication Of Gender, Kaylee "Artie" Peters Jan 2020

Gender Is A Drag: A Study Of How Drag Performance Affects Awareness The Communication Of Gender, Kaylee "Artie" Peters

Undergraduate Theses, Professional Papers, and Capstone Artifacts

After conducting an online open-ended ethnographic survey through Qualtrics in order to assess the relationship between drag performers and gender as a form of communication, an analysis was prepared based on 19 open-ended surveys with an age range of 20-55. The RQ was to find out to what extent drag changes a performers’ awareness of the communicative properties of gender. The study failed to reject the null hypothesis. The findings concluded that performers consistently acknowledged gender and drag as communicative acts, but inconsistently saw their own gender as a communicative act. One limitation is the low response rate resulting in …

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On Angels’ Wings: Idolatry In Viktoria Tokareva’S “Five Figures On A Pedestal” And Lyudmila Ulitskaya’S “Angel”, Courtney E. Bentz Jan 2020

On Angels’ Wings: Idolatry In Viktoria Tokareva’S “Five Figures On A Pedestal” And Lyudmila Ulitskaya’S “Angel”, Courtney E. Bentz

Undergraduate Theses, Professional Papers, and Capstone Artifacts

In his essays on Greek deities, Ralph Waldo Emerson declared: “Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.” While the idea of gods taking a corporeal form or angels walking among humans is a common literary trope, seldom do mortal characters find themselves compared to the divine without negative repercussions. Select post-Soviet women writers, however, flip this trope to explore the opposite. They instead embrace the human as holy, restrained by little consequence, as a means to highlight its destructive qualities in the context of an intimate relationship. These contemporary authors, Viktoria Tokareva and Lyudmila Ulitskaya, …

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Figure 2, Data, Pavel Inchin, Jonathan B. Snively, Amy Williamson, Diego Melgar, Jamie Aguilar Guerrero, Matthew D. Zettergren Jan 2020

Figure 2, Data, Pavel Inchin, Jonathan B. Snively, Amy Williamson, Diego Melgar, Jamie Aguilar Guerrero, Matthew D. Zettergren

Mesopause Airglow Disturbances Driven by Nonlinear Infrasonic Acoustic Waves Generated by Large Earthquakes

Simulation outputs of 3D volumes of OH(3,1) and O(1S) volume emission rates and used geographic grid matrix. The archive contains *.mat files and a script for data reading and plotting.

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4. Data 1, Three-Dimensional Volume Data, P. A. Inchin, C. J. Heale, J. B. Snively, M. D. Zettergren Jan 2020

4. Data 1, Three-Dimensional Volume Data, P. A. Inchin, C. J. Heale, J. B. Snively, M. D. Zettergren

The dynamics of nonlinear atmospheric acoustic-gravity waves generated by tsunamis over realistic bathymetry

Outputs of 3D volume of absolute temperature perturbations and used geographic grid matrix for Tohoku-Oki simulation. The archive contains *.mat file and a script for data reading and plotting.

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Knowledge Of, And Beliefs About, Access To Screening Facilities And Cervical Cancer Screening Behaviors Among Low-Income Women In New Jersey, Stephanie A.Navarro Silvera, Elisa V. Bandera, Beth A. Jones, Alejandra M. Kaplan, Kitaw Demisse Jan 2020

Knowledge Of, And Beliefs About, Access To Screening Facilities And Cervical Cancer Screening Behaviors Among Low-Income Women In New Jersey, Stephanie A.Navarro Silvera, Elisa V. Bandera, Beth A. Jones, Alejandra M. Kaplan, Kitaw Demisse

Department of Public Health Scholarship and Creative Works

Racial/ethnic disparities in cancer outcomes have been well documented. Access to Pap testing may account for some of the variation in the racial and socioeconomic differences in cervical cancer outcomes. Literature exploring perceived access to care as it relates to women of color and low-income women is lacking. The goal of the study was to evaluate and characterize the relationship between what respondents believe about access to free/low-cost screening facilities and screening behaviors among low-income women in New Jersey. We used multivariate logistic regression to investigate belief about access to affordable screening on cancer screening behaviors using data from a …

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Biomechanics In The 4haie Study: Air Pollution And Musculoskeletal Health - An Update, Daniel Jandacka, Jaroslav Uchityil, David Zahradník, Roman Farana, Dominik Villimek, Jiri Skypala, Jan Urbaczka, Jan Plesek, Adam Motyka, Denisa Blaschova, Gabriela Beinhauerova, Marketa Rygelová, Pavel Brtva, Zuzana Golembiovska, Klara Balazova, Jan Malus, Veronika Horka, Julia F. Silvernail, Gareth Irwin, Miika T. Nieminen, Victor Casula, Vlado Juras, Milos Golian, Steriani Elavsky, Lenka Knapova, Radim Sram, Joseph Hamill Jan 2020

Biomechanics In The 4haie Study: Air Pollution And Musculoskeletal Health - An Update, Daniel Jandacka, Jaroslav Uchityil, David Zahradník, Roman Farana, Dominik Villimek, Jiri Skypala, Jan Urbaczka, Jan Plesek, Adam Motyka, Denisa Blaschova, Gabriela Beinhauerova, Marketa Rygelová, Pavel Brtva, Zuzana Golembiovska, Klara Balazova, Jan Malus, Veronika Horka, Julia F. Silvernail, Gareth Irwin, Miika T. Nieminen, Victor Casula, Vlado Juras, Milos Golian, Steriani Elavsky, Lenka Knapova, Radim Sram, Joseph Hamill

Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences Faculty Research

The overall purpose of the 4HAIE study was to assess the influence of the interaction between air pollution and biomechanical, physiological and psychosocial factors on the incidence of injuries, health and well-being. A total of 1,500 active runners and inactive controls aged 18-65 will be recruited. Herein, we describe the biomechanical study design with data examples to investigate musculoskeletal and neuro-mechanics health in different air quality regions.

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Footfall Pattern During Running In Preschool Children According To Age And Footwear, Jan Plesek, Julia F. Silvernail, Joseph Hamill, Daniel Jandacka Jan 2020

Footfall Pattern During Running In Preschool Children According To Age And Footwear, Jan Plesek, Julia F. Silvernail, Joseph Hamill, Daniel Jandacka

Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences Faculty Research

The aim of this study was to compare the footfall pattern (FP) in different age groups of preschool children while they ran in standard running shoes (SRS) and barefoot. Forty-eight children aged 3-6 years participated in the study and were split into 4 age groups (n=12). All children performed a simple running game (based on the shuffle run) in SRS and barefoot. The length of the runway was adjusted for each age group. Kinematic and kinetic data were collected using 3-D motion capture system. We analyzed strike index (SI) and sagittal plane ankle angle (AA) at initial contact (IC) from …

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Footstrike Patterns Of High And Mid-Mileage Non-Rearfoot Runners During An Exhaustive Run, Jan Urbaczka, Julia F. Silvernail, Daniel Jandacka Jan 2020

Footstrike Patterns Of High And Mid-Mileage Non-Rearfoot Runners During An Exhaustive Run, Jan Urbaczka, Julia F. Silvernail, Daniel Jandacka

Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences Faculty Research

The purpose of this study was to identify the effect of fatigue on footstrike patterns in two groups of habitually non-rearfoot runners. Twenty-eight runners participating in this study were divided into two groups by their weekly mileage. Participants completed a VO2max test to determine the velocity for the fatiguing run. Kinematic, physiological and biochemical data from the beginning and the remaining 3 minutes of fatiguing treadmill run were obtained. The overall time for fatiguing run exceeded 40 minutes (t = 48,1 ± 3,6 min.). The foot angle at the instant of initial contact significantly changed in both groups following fatigue. …

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Unlv Special Collections And Archives 2019 Archival Processing Metrics Survey Dataset, Cyndi Shein, Sarah R. Jones, Tammi Kim, Karla Irwin Jan 2020

Unlv Special Collections And Archives 2019 Archival Processing Metrics Survey Dataset, Cyndi Shein, Sarah R. Jones, Tammi Kim, Karla Irwin

Library Faculty Datasets

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Libraries Special Collections and Archives is studying how archival processing metrics (including the hours of labor required to process each linear/cubic foot) are gathered and used by our colleagues. UNLV Special Collections and Archives conducted a survey with the objective to gather informal opinions and realities about processing metrics in an effort to understand the broader use of such metrics, to learn what data points are most essential, and to understand why more archival programs are not collecting and assessing processing metrics. The survey utilized the web-based tool Google Forms to gather responses …

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Ambassador Of Cajun Music: Jimmy C. Newman, 1927-2014, Michael Green Jan 2020

Ambassador Of Cajun Music: Jimmy C. Newman, 1927-2014, Michael Green

History Faculty Research

In February 1765, the first boat with French-speaking refugees from Acadia in Nova Scotia arrived in the present-day state of Louisiana, where their description of themselves as Acadians changed, just as regional dialects change, into Cajuns. Their departure was part of what one historian of Cajun culture calls an “ethnic cleansing.” The British had acquired French Canada two years before and deported the Catholic Acadians to other colonies; a group of them chose instead to head for what they thought was French territory. It turned out that the Treaty of Paris of 1763, which had conveyed French Canada from France …

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Gamers Who Gamble: Examining The Relationship Between Esports Spectatorship And Event Wagering, Brett Abarbanel, Joseph Macey, Juho Hamari, Rolando R. Corley Melton Jan 2020

Gamers Who Gamble: Examining The Relationship Between Esports Spectatorship And Event Wagering, Brett Abarbanel, Joseph Macey, Juho Hamari, Rolando R. Corley Melton

International Gaming Institute Faculty Research

During recent years, while electronic sports (esports) has increasingly become a positive mainstream cultural phenomenon, it also may have several socio-economic implications, such as the growth of esports betting. Much like betting in sport, betting on esports has become a prominent form of gambling. However, there is still a paucity of knowledge on the demographic characteristics of this gambling cohort, particularly in regard to its relationship to video game play and spectatorship. In the present study, past-year video gamers (N = 1368) completed an online survey. Survey questions inquired about their esports event spectating, video game play, and esports betting …

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Pitiless Cruelty: Cynicism, Capitalism, And Gambling In The Writing Of Mario Puzo, David Schwartz Jan 2020

Pitiless Cruelty: Cynicism, Capitalism, And Gambling In The Writing Of Mario Puzo, David Schwartz

Executive Vice President & Provost Faculty Research

The Godfather made him a wealthy man, but Mario Puzo’s long years as a struggling writer and childhood in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen conditioned him to treat money—and those who made a great deal of it—with suspicion. This paper explores how Puzo’s cynical views of capitalism were buttressed by his experiences as a self-described “mildly degenerate” gambling, and how they are expressed in both his fiction and non-fiction.

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Smorgasbord Of Research, Kimberly Barchard Jan 2020

Smorgasbord Of Research, Kimberly Barchard

Psychology Faculty Research

The oft-quoted advice to “Follow your passion” is little help to people who have no particular interests or too many. However, if you want to do research, you need to pick one or more specific topics to study. I myself am interested in many research topics and have a tendency to take on too many projects and feel overwhelmed. I’ve met several students who have the same issue. I’ve also met students who weren’t sure where their interests lay and who waited for inspiration to strike rather than diving in.

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Leveraging Data To Reduce Gun Violence: The Cincinnati Experience, Matthew G. Hammer, Tamara D. Herold Jan 2020

Leveraging Data To Reduce Gun Violence: The Cincinnati Experience, Matthew G. Hammer, Tamara D. Herold

Criminal Justice Faculty Research

The year 2020 has amplified demands for more equitable policing, more efficient government, and greater transparency. As police leaders around the world attempt to maintain order and safety during a period of large-scale civil unrest, they must also address criticisms that existing law enforcement practices include biased interventions and reinforce systemic racism. Many law enforcement agencies are also responding to increasing numbers of serious crimes that disproportionately affect society’s most vulnerable communities, while simultaneously facing calls to “defund the police” fueled by accusations that challenge the legitimacy of their policing tactics. The strategies used by agencies to manage protests and …

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Marielle Franco, Rhaissa Sanches Jan 2020

Marielle Franco, Rhaissa Sanches

Faculty Curated Undergraduate Works

Marielle Franco was a Black, Brazilian activist (1979-2018) who rose from the favelas (poor areas) of Rio de Janeiro to be elected as a councilwoman in Rio's election of 2016. Franco was known for exposing the violence waged in the favelas by Brazil's military and police under the "pretense of maintaining law and order," as well as how the militia wields power over those who live in the favelas. In addition to detailing Franco's life, activism and death, this paper also explains the history and development of the favelas in Rio de Janeiro, as well as the negative attitudes held …

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Zeran V. Aol Ebook (Epub), Eric Goldman, Jeff Kosseff Jan 2020

Zeran V. Aol Ebook (Epub), Eric Goldman, Jeff Kosseff

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

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Negative Punishment During Alternative Reinforcement Does Not Reduce Subsequent Resurgence, Alexander Houchins, Catherine L. Williams, Claire C. St. Peter Jan 2020

Negative Punishment During Alternative Reinforcement Does Not Reduce Subsequent Resurgence, Alexander Houchins, Catherine L. Williams, Claire C. St. Peter

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

Resurgence of previously suppressed behavior can occur when differential reinforcement is discontinued. Recent research has investigated strategies to mitigate resurgence, such as punishing the target response during alternative reinforcement. Loss of reinforcers contingent on the target response (response cost) does not appear to attenuate resurgence, but these effects had not been replicated with other negative-punishment procedures, such as timeout. This study investigated effects of timeout on subsequent resurgence when adults responded to earn points during a computer task. Timeout did not affect subsequent resurgence. These findings, in combination with previous research, suggest that negative punishment may not reduce the likelihood …

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