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The Daily Gamecock, Wednesday, June 10, 2009, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

June

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The Daily Gamecock, Wednesday, June 3, 2009, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

June

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Primary & (And) Secondary Education Recent Decisions

The Journal of Law and Education

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Employed Parents' Satisfaction With Food Choice Coping Strategies: Influence Of Gender And Structure, Christine E. Blake, Carol M. Devine, Elaine Wethington, Margaret M. Jastran, Tracy J. Farrell, Carole A. Bisogni

Faculty Publications

This study aimed to understand parents' evaluations of the way they integrated work-family demands to manage food and eating. Employed, low/moderate-income, urban, U.S., Black, White, and Latino mothers (35) and fathers (34) participated in qualitative interviews exploring work and family conditions and spillover, food roles, and food-choice coping and family-adaptive strategies. Parents expressed a range of evaluations from overall satisfaction to overall dissatisfaction as well as dissatisfaction limited to work, family life, or daily schedule. Evaluation criteria differed by gender. Mothers evaluated satisfaction on their ability to balance work and family demands through flexible home and work conditions, while striving …

April 28, 2009 General Faculty Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

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April 28, 2009 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

The Daily Gamecock, Monday, April 27, 2009, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

April

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The Daily Gamecock, Thursday, April 23, 2009, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

April

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The Daily Gamecock, Tuesday, April 14, 2009, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

April

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The Daily Gamecock, Friday, April 10, 2009, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

April

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The Daily Gamecock, Tuesday, April 7, 2009, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

April

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Universities &(And) Other Institutions Of Higher Learning - Recent Decisions

The Journal of Law and Education

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Language Characteristics Of Individuals With Down Syndrome, Gary E. Martin, Jessica Klusek, Bruno Estigarribia, Joanne E. Roberts

Faculty Publications

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Quantifying The Effectiveness Of Interactive Tutorials In Medical Library Instruction, Rozalynd P. Anderson, Steven P. Wilson

Faculty Publications

The goal of this study was to determine whether a passive or an interactive tutorial design improves understanding of key concepts, as measured by pre- and post-test data. The authors also collected data regarding the participants’ preference for taking an interactive versus a passive tutorial. The interactive tutorial group improved statistically significantly from pre-test to post-test for all three learning questions. While the passive tutorial group improved from pre-test to post-test on all three questions, the improvement was statistically significant for just two of the three questions. The majority of the participants preferred interactive tutorials (78%) to passive tutorials (22%).

April 1, 2009 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

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Interdisciplinary, Translational, And Community-Based Participatory Research: Finding A Common Language To Improve Cancer Research, James R. Hébert, Heather M. Brandt, Cheryl A. Armstead, Swann Arp Adams, Susan E. Steck

Faculty Publications

Preventing cancer, downstaging disease at diagnosis, and reducing mortality require that relevant research findings be translated across scientific disciplines and into clinical and public health practice. Interdisciplinary research focuses on using the languages of different scientific disciplines to share techniques and philosophical perspectives to enhance discovery and development of innovations; (i.e., from the “left end” of the research continuum). Community-based participatory research (CBPR), whose relevance often is relegated to the “right end” (i.e., delivery and dissemination) of the research continuum, represents an important means for understanding how many cancers are caused as well as for ensuring that basic science research …

Institutional Responses To Self-Injurious Behavior Among Inmates, Dana D. Dehart, Hayden P. Smith, Robert J. Kaminski

Faculty and Staff Publications

To date, little research has systematically investigated perceptions of mental health professionals regarding perceived motivations for self-injury among prison inmates. To help fill this gap, descriptive techniques were used to examine self-injurious behavior among inmates from the perspective of correctional mental health professionals. A quantitative survey was used to assess perceptions of mental health staff regarding etiology, motivations, and manifestations of self-injury. A qualitative interview component was used to explicate responses from the survey. Findings indicate that inmate cutting, scratching, opening old wounds, and inserting objects were the most commonly witnessed behaviors. There were indications that self-injury occurred regularly and …

The Dynamics Of Income And Neighborhood Context For Population Health: Do Long Term Measures Of Socioeconomic Status Explain More Of The Black/White Health Disparity Than Single-Point-In-Time Measures?, D. Phuong Do

Faculty Publications

Socioeconomic status, though a robust and strong predictor of health, has generally been unable to fully explain the health gap between blacks and whites in the Untied States. However, at both the individual and neighborhood levels, socioeconomic status is often treated as a static factor with only single-point-in-time measurements. These cross-sectional measures fail to account for possible heterogeneous histories within groups who may share similar characteristics at a given point in time. As such, ignoring the dynamic nature of socioeconomic status may lead to the underestimation of its importance in explaining health and racial health disparities.

In this study, I …

The Daily Gamecock, Wednesday, March 25, 2009, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

March

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The Daily Gamecock, Monday, March 23, 2009, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

March

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March 4, 2009 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

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The Daily Gamecock, Tuesday, March 3, 2009, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

March

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Ethnic Differences In Trajectories Of Depressive Symptoms: Disadvantage In Family Background, High School Experiences, And Adult Characteristics, Katrina M. Walsemann, Gilbert C. Gee, Arline T. Geronimus

Faculty Publications

Although research investigating ethnic differences in mental health has increased in recent years, we know relatively little about how mental health trajectories vary across ethnic groups. Do these differences occur at certain ages, but not others? We investigate variations in trajectories of depressive symptoms, and examine the extent to which disadvantages in family background, high school experiences, and adult characteristics explain these differences. Employing random-coefficient modeling using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we find that blacks and Hispanics experience higher symptom levels in early adulthood in comparison to whites, but equivalent levels by middle-age. Ethnic differences remained in early …

The Unanimous Decisions Of The Supreme Court Of Canada As A Test Of The Attitudinal Model, Donald R. Songer, Julia Siripurapu

Faculty Publications

Most of the empirical work on the decision making of justices on the Supreme Court of Canada has taken as its exclusive focus the divided decisions of the Court. In contrast to this extensive body of research on divided decision, the much more limited knowledge of unanimous decisions is troubling because such decisions constitute nearly three-quarters of all of the formal decisions of the Court. The analysis reported below provides a first step towards understanding the neglected nature of unanimous decisions. This investigation of the nature and causes of unanimity in the Supreme Court of Canada explores two competing explanations: …

Argument Structure Effects In Action Verb Naming In Static And Dynamic Conditions, Dirk B. Den Ouden, Steve Fix, Todd B. Parrish, Cynthia K. Thompson

Faculty Publications

Argument structure, as in the participant roles entailed within the lexical representation of verbs, affects verb processing. Recent neuroimaging studies show that when verbs are heard or read, the posterior temporoparietal region shows increased activation for verbs with greater versus lesser argument structure complexity, usually bilaterally. In addition, patients with agrammatic aphasia show verb production deficits, graded based on argument structure complexity. In the present study, we used fMRI to examine the neural correlates of verb production in overt action naming conditions. In addition, we tested the differential effects of naming when verbs were presented dynamically in video segments versus …

The Daily Gamecock, Friday, February 27, 2009, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

February

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The Daily Gamecock, Wednesday, February 25, 2009, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

February

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The Daily Gamecock, Tuesday, February 24, 2009, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

February

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The Daily Gamecock, Friday, February 20, 2009, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

February

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The Daily Gamecock, Thursday, February 19, 2009, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

February

No abstract provided.