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February 18, 2019, The Daily Mississippian Feb 2019

February 18, 2019, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.


New Center For Research Evaluation Director Approaches Job With Zeal, Shea Stewart Feb 2019

New Center For Research Evaluation Director Approaches Job With Zeal, Shea Stewart

University of Mississippi News

Sarah Mason joins UM with 15 years of experience


Issue 320: February 7-21, 2019, The Local Voice Feb 2019

Issue 320: February 7-21, 2019, The Local Voice

The Local Voice

No abstract provided.


Applied Sciences Welcomes New Social Work Department Chair, Staff Report Feb 2019

Applied Sciences Welcomes New Social Work Department Chair, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

Steven Soifer brings 38 years of teaching, research to UM


Physical Activity, Muscle-Strengthening Activities, And Systemic Inflammation Among Retinopathy Patients, Emily Frith, Paul D. Loprinzi Feb 2019

Physical Activity, Muscle-Strengthening Activities, And Systemic Inflammation Among Retinopathy Patients, Emily Frith, Paul D. Loprinzi

Faculty and Student Publications

© 2018 by the American Diabetes Association. Objective. We evaluated the specific association between muscle-strengthening activity (MSA) and accelerometer-assessed physical activity on systemic inflammation among retinopathy patients in the United States. Methods. Data from the 2005–2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) were used to identify 157 retinopathy patients between 40 and 85 years of age with complete data on select study variables. MSA was assessed via self-report. Participation in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) was determined from objective accelerometer data. Systemic inflammation was assessed using C-reactive protein (CRP), which was quantified using latex-enhanced nephelometry. Nonproliferative retinopathy was determined using …


Association Between Perceived Physical Activity And Cognitive Function In Older Adults, Paul D. Loprinzi, Emily Frith Feb 2019

Association Between Perceived Physical Activity And Cognitive Function In Older Adults, Paul D. Loprinzi, Emily Frith

Faculty and Student Publications

© The Author(s) 2018. There is irrefutable evidence that regular participation in physical activity is favorably associated with numerous positive health outcomes, including cognitive function. Emerging work suggests that perceived physical activity, independent of actual physical activity behavior, is inversely associated with mortality risk. In this study, we evaluate whether perceived physical activity, independent of actual physical activity, is associated with cognitive function, a robust indicator of mortality risk. Data from the cross-sectional 1999–2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey were employed (N = 2352; 60+ years of age). Actual physical activity was assessed via a validated survey. Perceived physical …


Shame Of The Southland: Violence And The Selling Of The Visceral South, Sarah E. Gardner Jan 2019

Shame Of The Southland: Violence And The Selling Of The Visceral South, Sarah E. Gardner

Study the South

The story of Violence—a novel that failed—tells us as much about the literary marketplace as the stories of those more familiar novels that came to dominate the national discourse about the problem South during the late-1920s and 1930s. It tells us about a crusading writing team -- socialist Emanuel Haldeman-Julius, son of Russian-Jewish émigrés, and his wife, Marcet, the niece of social reformer Jane Addams and herself a feminist -- that imagined it could reform the South through print; it tells us about a publisher’s fantasies of a region that had been exoticized for much of its history; and …


January 25, 2019, The Daily Mississippian Jan 2019

January 25, 2019, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.


January 23, 2019, The Daily Mississippian Jan 2019

January 23, 2019, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.


Students Spend Mlk Day Serving In New Albany, Edwin B. Smith Jan 2019

Students Spend Mlk Day Serving In New Albany, Edwin B. Smith

University of Mississippi News

Fifty volunteers traveled to Union County to work in three areas


Annette Kluck Named New Dean Of Graduate School, Shea Stewart Jan 2019

Annette Kluck Named New Dean Of Graduate School, Shea Stewart

University of Mississippi News

Auburn University assistant provost to oversee university's graduate programs


Qep Committee Members, University Of Mississippi. Qep Committee Jan 2019

Qep Committee Members, University Of Mississippi. Qep Committee

About ThinkForward

A list of faculty, staff, and students who helped in the planning of the University of Mississippi's Quality Enhancement Plan on Critical Thinking from the topic selection, to the implementation and development.


Think Forward Quality Enhancement Plan, University Of Mississippi. Qep Committee Jan 2019

Think Forward Quality Enhancement Plan, University Of Mississippi. Qep Committee

About ThinkForward

This document records and represents an extensive process by the University of Mississippi (UM) to develop a meaningful and ambitious plan to improve student learning and student success by focusing on the development of critical thinking skills. As such, it speaks to our campus culture, our values, and our role in our community. In addition to narrating our journey and articulating our values, this document also fulfills the more pragmatic function of describing our QEP to both internal and external audiences. Document includes: executive summary, outline of the topic selection process, literature review and best practices, desired goals and outcomes, …


The Effects Of Acute Exercise On Episodic Memory Function Among Young University Students: Moderation Considerations By Biological Sex, Lauren Johnson, Paul D. Loprinzi Jan 2019

The Effects Of Acute Exercise On Episodic Memory Function Among Young University Students: Moderation Considerations By Biological Sex, Lauren Johnson, Paul D. Loprinzi

Faculty and Student Publications

© 2019 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License Background: The objective of this study was to evaluate potential sex-specific differences on episodic memory function and determine whether sex moderates the effects of acute exercise on episodic memory. Methods: A randomized controlled intervention was employed. This experiment was conducted among young University students (mean age = 21 years). Both males (n=20) and females (n=20) completed two counterbalanced laboratory visits, with one visit involving a 15-minute bout of moderate-intensity exercise prior to the memory task. The control visit engaged in …


2019 Women's Tennis Fact Book, Ole Miss Athletics. Women's Tennis Jan 2019

2019 Women's Tennis Fact Book, Ole Miss Athletics. Women's Tennis

Women's Tennis

No abstract provided.


The Counteracting Effects Of Exercise On High-Fat Diet-Induced Memory Impairment: A Systematic Review, Paul D. Loprinzi, Pamela Ponce, Liye Zou, Hong Li Jan 2019

The Counteracting Effects Of Exercise On High-Fat Diet-Induced Memory Impairment: A Systematic Review, Paul D. Loprinzi, Pamela Ponce, Liye Zou, Hong Li

Faculty and Student Publications

© 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. The objective of the present review was to evaluate whether exercise can counteract a potential high-fat diet-induced memory impairment effect. The evaluated databases included: Google Scholar, Sports Discus, Embase/PubMed, Web of Science, and PsychInfo. Studies were included if: (1) an experimental/intervention study was conducted, (2) the experiment/intervention included both a high-fat diet and exercise group, and evaluated whether exercise could counteract the negative effects of a high-fat diet on memory, and (3) evaluated memory function (any type) as the outcome measure. In total, 17 articles met the inclusionary criteria. All 17 …


The Effects Of Acute Exercise Intensity On Episodic And False Memory Among Young Adult College Students, Emma K. Dilley, Liye Zou, Paul D. Loprinzi Jan 2019

The Effects Of Acute Exercise Intensity On Episodic And False Memory Among Young Adult College Students, Emma K. Dilley, Liye Zou, Paul D. Loprinzi

Faculty and Student Publications

© 2019 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License Background: Previous experimental work demonstrates that acute exercise may enhance episodic memory performance. However, limited research has examined the extent to which acute exercise influences false episodic memory production, and no studies, to date, have examined whether there is an intensity-specific effect of acute exercise on both true episodic and false episodic memories. Thus, the present experiment evaluated the effects of intensity-specific acute exercise on episodic memory and false episodic memory. Methods: A three-arm, parallel, between-group randomized controlled trial was …


Investigating Early Childhood Teachers’ Perceptions Of A Preschool Yoga Program, Kenya Wolff, Alicia Stapp Jan 2019

Investigating Early Childhood Teachers’ Perceptions Of A Preschool Yoga Program, Kenya Wolff, Alicia Stapp

Faculty and Student Publications

© The Author(s) 2019. Yoga for young children has become a growing area of interest in early childhood settings across the United States. Evidence suggests that yoga has the ability to improve young children’s physical development, executive functioning, self-regulation, and can aid in decreasing stress and anxiety. While the scope of research on yoga for young children has primarily focused on the experiences and outcomes of the children who participate, far less is known about the experiences and perceptions of teachers who have engaged in such programs with their students. This study utilized a qualitative case study to investigate teachers’ …


Pituitary Gland Functional Connectivity And Bmi, Paige Rucker, Toshikazu Ikuta Jan 2019

Pituitary Gland Functional Connectivity And Bmi, Paige Rucker, Toshikazu Ikuta

Faculty and Student Publications

The pituitary gland (PG) influences body weight through hormonal releases; however, the relation between body weight and PG’s co-activities with other brain regions remains unclear. Here, we aimed to identify (1) the functional connectivity of the PG and (2) PG functional connectivity associated with body mass index by examining resting state functional magnetic imaging (rsfMRI) data. Using enhanced Nathan Kline Institute-Rockland Sample, PG functional connectivity of 494 individuals was analyzed to assess in voxel-wise fashion. A negative association was found between BMI and PG functional connectivity with the orbitofrontal cortex, hippocampus, putamen and temporal lobe. Our results show PG dysconnectivity …


Framing Hate: Moral Foundations, Party Cues, And (In)Tolerance Of Offensive Speech, Grant M. Armstrong, Julie Wronski Jan 2019

Framing Hate: Moral Foundations, Party Cues, And (In)Tolerance Of Offensive Speech, Grant M. Armstrong, Julie Wronski

Faculty and Student Publications

© 2017, PsychOpen. All rights reserved. One of the most controversial elements of political tolerance concerns support for hate speech. We argue that there are two factors that can reduce tolerance for hate speech: 1) moral foundations and 2) party cues. U.S. citizens’ tolerance of hate speech will be reduced when it is framed as a violation of a specific moral foundation, opposed by a political party, or when the morality violation is utilized by party elites. Using two survey experiments, we manipulated the target of hate speech (i.e. Muslims or the American flag), whether the speech violated a moral …


Regulation During The Second Year: Executive Function And Emotion Regulation Links To Joint Attention, Temperament, And Social Vulnerability In A Latin American Sample, Lucas G. Gago Galvagno, María C. De Grandis, Gonzalo D. Clerici, Alba E. Mustaca, Stephanie E. Miller, Angel M. Elgier Jan 2019

Regulation During The Second Year: Executive Function And Emotion Regulation Links To Joint Attention, Temperament, And Social Vulnerability In A Latin American Sample, Lucas G. Gago Galvagno, María C. De Grandis, Gonzalo D. Clerici, Alba E. Mustaca, Stephanie E. Miller, Angel M. Elgier

Faculty and Student Publications

© 2019 Gago Galvagno, De Grandis, Clerici, Mustaca, Miller and Elgier. Although a growing body of work has established developing regulatory abilities during the second year of life, more work is needed to better understand factors that influence this emerging control. The purpose of the present study was to examine regulation capacities in executive functions (i.e., EF or cognitive control) and emotion regulation (i.e., ER or control focused on modulating negative and sustaining positive emotions) in a Latin American sample, with a focus on how joint attention, social vulnerability, and temperament contribute to performance. Sixty Latin American dyads of mothers …


The View From Ventress - 2019, University Of Mississippi. College Of Liberal Arts Jan 2019

The View From Ventress - 2019, University Of Mississippi. College Of Liberal Arts

Liberal Arts Newsletters

Cover Story: Arabic Language Flagship. "Here in Oxford, at the University of Mississippi, is one of the best Arabic programs in the country." - John Chappell, Rhodes Scholar finalist and Arabic Flagship graduate


Basketball Officials' Training And Development: Links To Retention, Nathan Ferdinand Jan 2019

Basketball Officials' Training And Development: Links To Retention, Nathan Ferdinand

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The sharp decline in retention from year-to-year among sport officials is considered a “crisis” among the officiating community and research has attempted to explore the issue by identifying factors that impact retention (Warner et al. 2013). The seven-factor “Referee Retention Scale” (RRS) seeks to predict the likelihood of retention for officials one factor being officials’ ratings of their continuing education (Ridinger et al. 2017). However there is a lack of study for examining the relationships among methods and outcomes of training continuing education and referee retention across sporting contexts. A cross-sectional design was created using an online survey which combined …


Increasing Teacher Retention: An Applied Research Study On The Effects Of Mentoring And Culture In The Abc County School District, Jimmy Holland Weeks Jan 2019

Increasing Teacher Retention: An Applied Research Study On The Effects Of Mentoring And Culture In The Abc County School District, Jimmy Holland Weeks

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Cognitive Influences On Preschoolers’ And Adults’ Eyewitness Memory In Response To Misleading Questions, Tonya M. Vandenbrink Jan 2019

Cognitive Influences On Preschoolers’ And Adults’ Eyewitness Memory In Response To Misleading Questions, Tonya M. Vandenbrink

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The present study investigated cognitive influences on the malleability of memory for an eyewitness event, specifically focusing on age, executive function, and divided attention. Preschoolers (3- to 5-year-olds) and adults completed an executive function (EF) battery, witnessed an event either under divided attention (DA) or full attention (FA), following this, participants were asked a series of questions, the majority of which were misleading from the Video Suggestibility Scale for Children. This study supports previous findings that children are more suggestible than adults to misleading questions. However, there was no influence of EF on suggestibility in either children or adults. Lastly, …


Institutional Factors That Affect Transfer Student Sucess At A University In The Mid-South Region Of The U.S., Patricia Ann Coats Jan 2019

Institutional Factors That Affect Transfer Student Sucess At A University In The Mid-South Region Of The U.S., Patricia Ann Coats

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

At a four-year university located in the Mid-South region of the United States, students who transfer do so with the likelihood of spending more time and money completing a baccalaureate degree than non-transfer students. This is what research scholar Kevin Dougherty (1992) entitled the Baccalaureate Attainment Gap or the transfer gap. In this companion dissertation, using a multi-method approach, we use the quantitative data of transfer student graduation and retention rates along with qualitative data from interviews conducted with administrative staff about transfer student success. We consider these selected outcomes and administrative staff interviews to be institutional factors that help …


Food Insecurity And Health Of International Students, Jamie Nichole Benefield Jan 2019

Food Insecurity And Health Of International Students, Jamie Nichole Benefield

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

International college students may be at risk for suffering from food insecurity and poor health. The purposes of this study were to: 1) determine if the household adult food security status (HAFSS) differs between undergraduate and graduate international students (INSTUD) attending the University of Mississippi (UM); 2) establish if a statistically significant relationship exists between health (physical functioning (PF) , role limitations due to physical health (RLPH), role limitations due to emotional problems (RLEP), energy/fatigue (EF), emotional well-being (EWB), social functioning (SF), pain (P), and general health (GH) and HAFSS; 3) assess if health differs between INSTUD living in food …


The Carolina Gay Association, The Southeastern Gay Conferences, And Gay Liberation In The 1970s South, David Hooper Schultz Jan 2019

The Carolina Gay Association, The Southeastern Gay Conferences, And Gay Liberation In The 1970s South, David Hooper Schultz

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This project explores how the successes and failures of local organizing networks in the South shaped national conversations on the rights of queer Americans. Its starting point is 1970 with the Triangle Gay Alliance’s formation in Raleigh, and it ends in 1978 with the third annual Southeastern Gay Conference and repeal of Miami-Dade County’s nondiscrimination ordinance. Paying close attention to the founding of the Carolina Gay Association in 1975 and the subsequent Southeastern Gay Conferences (SEGCs), the thesis connects the attendance at conferences to locally-organized activist groups from North Carolina to Florida to show that rather than being “lonely hunters” …


Identifying Transcription Co-Regulators Of Gcm/Repo In The Development Of Glia In Drosophila Melanogaster, Glendin Kostantinos Pano Jan 2019

Identifying Transcription Co-Regulators Of Gcm/Repo In The Development Of Glia In Drosophila Melanogaster, Glendin Kostantinos Pano

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The molecular mechanism mediating the differentiation of neural progenitors to either glia or neurons is guided by the gene glial cells missing (gcm), a master regulator of glial cell differentiation. Knockout of this transcription factor (TF) and its homolog gcm2 in the fruit fly Drosophila Melanogaster results in embryos that develop neurons in place of lateral glia. Conversely, overexpression of gcm in those neural progenitors results in embryos that have substantially fewer neurons and excess glia(Jones, et.al, 1995; Hosoya, et.al, 1995; and Vincent, et.al, 1996). Additionally, gcm has also been shown to be involved in the differentiation of blood …


Relationship Of Expected Family Contribution To Student Success At Belhaven University, Kevin Alexander Russell Jan 2019

Relationship Of Expected Family Contribution To Student Success At Belhaven University, Kevin Alexander Russell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study examines the relationship of expected family contribution (EFC) with student success for 427 freshmen students enrolled at Belhaven University in the Fall of 2016 and 2017. Success is measured by grade point average (GPA) and credit hours completed during the student’s freshman year. These two critical factors are used to determine a student’s satisfactory academic process (SAP). While measuring SAP is important, the contradiction between the university SAP and the SAP required by the state of Mississippi to remain eligible to receive funding are often in conflict.