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Using Giant African Pouched Rats (Cricetomys Gambianus) To Detect Landmines, Alan Poling, Bart J. Weetjens, Christophe Cox, Negussie W. Beyene, Andrew Sully

The Psychological Record

Within the past decade, giant pouched rats have been used successfully to detect landmines. This manuscript summarizes how these rats are trained and used operationally. The information provided is intended to be of practical value toward strengthening best practices in using Cricetomys for humanitarian purposes while simultaneously ensuring the well-being of those animals.

The Effect Of Network Structure On The Provision Of Security, Annelies Z. Kamran

Working Papers

The term “security” has many more dimensions in the post-9/11 world than it had during the Cold War.  Threats may come from different sources, at different speeds, and have different targets.  All the actors involved in the provision of security from a specific type of threat create a network—not just states or states in intergovernmental organizations, but all the actors in the “ecosystem." If we look at the relationships among these actors using network analysis, we should be able to map the structure of the entire network. Contrary to the assumptions in most International Relations literature, networks can be centralized …

The Daily Egyptian, October 14, 2010, Daily Egyptian Staff

October 2010

No abstract provided.

The Daily Egyptian, October 12, 2010, Daily Egyptian Staff

October 2010

No abstract provided.

The Daily Egyptian, October 08, 2010, Daily Egyptian Staff

October 2010

No abstract provided.

Immediate Feedback Assessment Technique Promotes Learning And Corrects Inaccurate First Responses, Michael L. Epstein, Amber D. Lazarus, Tammy B. Calvano, Kelly A. Matthews, Rachel A. Hendel, Beth B. Epstein, Gary M. Brosvic

The Psychological Record

Multiple-choice testing procedures that do not provide corrective feedback facilitate neither learning nor retention. In Studies 1 and 2, the performance of participants evaluated with the Immediate Feedback Assessment Technique (IF AT), a testing method providing immediate feedback and enabling participants to answer until correct, was compared to that of participants responding to identical tests with Scantron answer sheets. Performance on initial tests did not differ, but when retested after delays of 1 day or 1 week, participants evaluated with the IF AT demonstrated higher scores and correctly answered more questions that had been initially answered incorrectly than did participants …

A New Religion., Paul Carus

The Open Court

No abstract provided.

Adolf Bastian., W. H. Carruth

The Open Court

No abstract provided.

Empirically Understanding Understanding Can Make Problems Go Away: The Case Of The Chinese Room, Geir Overskeid

The Psychological Record

The many authors debating whether computers can understand often fail to clarify what understanding is, and no agreement exists on this important issue. In his Chinese room argument, Searle (1980) claims that computers running formal programs can never understand. I discuss Searle's claim based on a definition of understanding that is empirical, in the sense of being a theoretical statement leading to several testable hypotheses. I argue that an empirical definition with experimental support has a more solid footing than other definitions, and go on to discuss three hypotheses of particular relevance to the question of machine understanding, which turn …

Mapping The Literature Of Health Education: 2006–2008, Amber T. Burtis, Mary K. Taylor

Articles

Objectives:

The study updates Schloman's 1997 study, “Mapping the Literature of Health Education.” The authors identify an updated list of core health education journals and determine the coverage of these journals by electronic indexes.

Methods:

Citations from four source journals for the years 2006 to 2008 were analyzed using the established methodology of the “Mapping the Literature of Allied Health Project.” The cited journals were divided into three zones of productivity by using Bradford's Law of Scattering.

Results:

There were 19,907 citations in 602 source articles. Journal articles were the most commonly cited format type. Of the 1,896 journal titles …

Schizophrenia Across Cultures: Significant Interactions Of Biology And Environment, Kimberly L. Wilbanks

Research Papers

Is schizophrenia caused and ultimately guided by biology or do environmental factors such as culture and interaction style impact the course and even the onset of this disease? In this paper, the biological mechanisms of schizophrenia and the environmental influences on its behavioral and biological symptomology will be explored. Evidence will be provided that supports both the biological etiology of this mental illness as well as the strong influence of environmental factors, such as culture, on the severity, onset, and relapse rate of schizophrenia. It will be shown that even the structure and function of the schizophrenic brain is influenced …

Social Network Analysis In The Study Of Terrorism And Political Violence, Arie Perliger, Ami Pedahzur

Working Papers

No abstract provided.

With Eyes Upside Down, Can We Still Read?, Walter C. Metz

Publications

An analysis extending the tradition range of American avant-garde cinema, with particular focus on Stan Brakhage's Reflections on Black (1955), toward the 1960s films of Robert Frank and Benh Zeitlin's Egg (2005).

Book Reviews And Notes., Paul Carus

The Open Court

No abstract provided.

Religion In France., Dr. Paul Topinard

The Open Court

No abstract provided.

Japansese Songs And Folk-Lore., James Irving Crabbe

The Open Court

No abstract provided.

The Daily Egyptian, September 29, 2010, Daily Egyptian Staff

September 2010

No abstract provided.

The Common Factors, Empirically Validated Treatments, And Recovery Models Of Therapeutic Change, Andrew D. Reisner

The Psychological Record

I review the Common Factors Model, the Empirically Validated Therapy Model, and the Recovery Model of therapeutic change and effectiveness. In general, psychotherapy appears to be effective and common factors account for more of the variance than do specific techniques. However, in some areas, particularly in the treatment of anxiety disorders, behavioral and cognitive behavioral therapies may be more effective than other treatments. The Recovery Model is an overarching model of change which can incorporate empirically validated therapies and which makes use of common factors. This model is consistent with empirically supported concepts concerning improvement of mental health but needs …

The Nature And Value Of Scientific System Building: The Case Of Interbehaviorism, Michael C. Clayton, Linda C. Hayes, Mark A. Swain

The Psychological Record

J. R. Kantor (1888-1984) developed and promoted an often underappreciated psychological system he called interbehaviorism that attempted to organize scientific values into a coherent system of psychology. Kantor insisted that in all scientific behavior the scientist needed to differentiate between constructs and events. If we were to develop constructs it would be only after careful observation of the actual events in context. He felt that his mission of forging naturalistic constructs for psychological events could be achieved only through scientific system building, and this was the activity that consumed his entire career. The present paper focuses on scientific system construction …

The Lost Millennium: Psychology During The Middle Ages, Tracy B. Henley, B Michael Thorne

The Psychological Record

The medieval period-roughly the 1,000 years from the classical Greco-Roman age to the Renaissance and modern erahas long been neglected in the history of psychology. Various reasons have been offered for why this period is treated so lightly, for example, that it was a Dark Age, or that it was dominated by antiintellectual Christian thought. This essay challenges such reason ing and, in conjunction with critiquing these obstacles to inquiry, provides a cursory sketch of some of the more interesting figures of this millennium to stimulate psychologists to reconsider this era.

Suggestions On Effective Corporate New Employee Orientation Program For Human Resource Specialists, Xin Chen

Online Journal for Workforce Education and Development

The purpose of this study was to suggest strategies for preparing new employee orientation programs for private section organizations. More specifically, the study addressed challenges and approaches for effective orientation programs. The paper discusses two curriculum and instruction models. A model designed by Finch and Crunkilton was adapted for a general and department orientation development. The Mager and Beach’s model was suggested to use for job orientation development.

An Informal Analysis Of Career And Technical Student Organization Competitive Event Competencies Via Kolb’S Experiential Learning Theory, Mark D. Threeton, John C. Ewing, Robert W. Clark

Online Journal for Workforce Education and Development

In an effort to provide Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO) advisors with additional insight on enhancing the educational experience for students, this paper examined the national contest competencies of the Health Occupations Society of America (HOSA) Veterinary Assisting Career Development Event, the national FFA Organization Floriculture Career Development Event and the SkillsUSA Automotive Service Technology Career Development Event to determine if potential exists for a holistic approach to competition preparation via the alignment with the four modes of Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle. The results indicated that preparation for competitive events in each of the respective CTSOs lend themselves to …

College Student Generational Status: Similarities, Differences, And Factors In College Adjustment, James B. Hertel

The Psychological Record

This study explored similarities and differences between 130 first-year college students classified as first or second generation. Multiple regression analyses and between-group t tests were performed to analyze the data. The study found that firstgeneration students reported significantly less parental income and social adjustment. On-campus friend support predicted overall adjustment better for second-generation students whereas intellectualism predicted better for first-generation students. Selfesteem and on-campus support consistently predicted adjustment for the entire sample. Implications are suggested.

Who Wrote Shakespeare?, Paul Carus

The Open Court

No abstract provided.

Using Cluster Analysis To Examine Husband-Wife Decision Making, Jennifer M. Bonds-Raacke

The Psychological Record

Cluster analysis has a rich history in many disciplines and although cluster analysis has been used in clinical psychology to identify types of disorders, its use in other areas of psychology has been less popular. The purpose of the current experiments was to use cluster analysis to investigate husband-wife decision making. Cluster analysis was selected to illustrate the point that it can be a beneficial multivariate technique when researching husband-wife decision making by examining similar decision-making strategies used by couples and comparing joint decisions to individual decisions. For the current experiments, participants (26 couples) watched 6 movie trailers and viewed …

Book Reviews And Notes.

The Open Court

No abstract provided.

Stone-Worship., Paul Carus

The Open Court

No abstract provided.

Herbert Spencer., Paul Carus

The Open Court

No abstract provided.

Preference Reversal: A New Look At An Old Problem, Shu Li

The Psychological Record

A generalized weak dominance approach is used to test the documented preference reversal (PR) phenomenon. This approach simply models risky choice behavior in PR as a choice between the best possible outcomes or a choice between the worst possible outcomes by equating smaller paired outcome difference between bets. The preference reversals are therefore seen as a consequence of the fact that gamble parameters are designed to encourage individuals to differentiate the difference between the worst possible outcomes of the two bets (i.e., to avoid the worse possible outcome of $ bet) rather than to differentiate the difference between the best …

The Daily Egyptian, September 20, 2010, Daily Egyptian Staff

September 2010

No abstract provided.