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Data Sonification From The Desktop: Should Sound Be Part Of Standard Data Analysis Software?, John H. Flowers, Dion C. Buhman, Kimberly D. Turnage

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

The design of auditory formats for data display is presently focused on applications for blind or visually impaired users, specialized displays for use when visual attention must be devoted to other tasks, and some innovative work in revealing properties of complex data that may not be effectively rendered by traditional visual means. With the availability of high-quality and flexible sound production hardware in standard desktop computers, the potential exists for using sound to represent characteristics of typical “small and simple” samples of data in routine data inspection and analysis. Our research has shown that basic properties of simple functions, distribution …

Substance Abuse Disorders Among Homeless And Runaway Adolescents, Kurt D. Johnson, Les B. Whitbeck, Dan R. Hoyt

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

This paper presents lifetime and 12-month prevalence rates and comorbidity data for substance abuse disorders among homeless and runaway adolescents. Data are from baseline interviews of a longitudinal diagnostic study of 428 (187 males and 241 females) homeless and runaway adolescents aged 16 to 19 years (mean age = 17.4 years, SD = 1.05). The data were collected by full-time interviewers on the streets and in shelters in eight Midwestern cities of various populations. About two thirds (60.5%) of the runaways met lifetime criteria for at least one of three substance disorders (alcohol abuse, alcohol dependence, drug abuse), and nearly …

Encuentro En El Ambiente De Lateorıa: Latina Lesbians And Ruthann Robson's Lesbian Legal Theory, Elvia R. Arriola

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

For The Sake Of All Children: Opponents And Supporters Of Same-Sex Marriage Both Miss The Mark, Nancy D. Polikoff

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

Department-Integrated Information Literacy: A Middle Ground, William Joseph Thomas

The Southeastern Librarian

Much of the current literature on information literacy on college and university campuses encourages instructional services librarians and departments to pursue one of two options: either integrate information literacy into the curriculum as a campus-wide initiative, or establish a forcredit information literacy course taught by librarians. For a variety of reasons, instructional programs may not be able to accomplish either of these goals immediately. Perhaps the library does not have the institutional influence to mount a campus-wide program, or maybe the library lacks the needed resources in terms of personnel or instructional facilities. Tackling the planning required for a program …

Steans Center Newsletter, Steans Center

Steans Center Newsletters, Press Releases and News Items

No abstract provided.

Education Chronicle Issue 3 Number 1, Touro College School Of Education And Psychology - Graduate Division

Yearbooks and Newsletters

Fall/Winter 2005/2006 Issue

Chironian Fall/Winter 2005, New York Medical College

The Chironian

No abstract provided.

Best In Class: Self-Determined College Students With Learning Disabilities, Tina M. Anctil Peterman, Michele E. Ishikawa, Amy L. Tao, Susan Schaeffer

Counselor Education Faculty Publications and Presentations

This presentations asks the following questions:

• What are the factors that supported the development of self-determination during secondary education?
• What are the factors that supported the transition from high school to college?

The Road To Damascus, Evan Fales

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

John J. Davenport And Anthony Rudd, Kierkegaard After Macintyre: Essays On Freedom, Narrative, And Virtue, John Lippitt

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

Avoid Cold: A Brief Look At Tibetan Medical Practice And Ideals Compared To Modern Allopathic Medical Treatment Through A Study And Analysis Of The Essential Tremor, Graham Brant-Zawadzki

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

For hundreds of years, western science understood the material world as a set of individual objects assembled into an impossibly large and complex machine. This mechanistic ideology, dubbed reductionism, finds its roots in the mathematical theories of Newton, the philosophy of Descartes, and the methodological approaches proposed by Francis Bacon. The culmination of these ideologies lead to the belief that all complex systems could be understood and ultimately mastered by reducing them to their basic elements. Some texts, including Fritjof Capra's The Turning Point argue that once classical physicists established this type of thought, the other sciences, including medicine, simply …

“Apparently, I Am A Pedophile:” Living And Coping As A Child-Lover In The Netherlands, Andrew Extein

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

The term “pedophile” is among the most loaded and controversial in Western culture. In my study I seek to gain a better understanding of the men that would fall into the category of “pedophile,” a phrase that is more often than not misused and misrepresented by our society. To gain this insight I have interviewed six self-identified child-lovers or pedophiles about their life experiences with these feelings, how they came to realize their feelings, how they came to terms with their feelings, how they express their feelings, and how they cope with their feelings. The paper discusses and defines certain …

Gender Based Violence In Jordan: Domestic Violence And Honor Crimes, Danielle M. Becknell

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

This paper analyzes the social, psychological, religious, and legal interactions of gender-based violence that manifest themselves within the Jordanian society in various ways. Honor crimes are the ultimate manifestation of this phenomenon in this culture, and as such cannot be separated from the society, gender-relations, or violence against women. Interviews with specialist within the field allow for a more in depth exploration of the topic.

News From The South Carolina Library Association V.3 N.4 10/2005

South Carolina Libraries

News from the South Carolina Library Association v.3 n.4 10/2005

Dynamic Modeling Of Crew Performance For Long-Duration Space Missions, Sara Goudarzi, A. J. Both, Jim Cavazzoni, Alexander Kusnecov

Journal of Human Performance in Extreme Environments

Crew time is one of the most valuable and limited resources during long-duration space missions. Crew time requirements fluctuate depending on variations in crew performance. The limited number of crewmembers, resources, and the myriad of tasks to be performed leave a tight schedule for crewmembers during long-duration space missions. This schedule needs to account for potential interventions (stress events) that may alter predicted performance and thus scheduling. A dynamic crew model using a stochastic Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) model of interrupted time series was developed to account for the effects of potential stress events on crew performance. This …

Psychological And Psychophysiological Effects Of A High-Mountain Expedition To Tibet, Marcus Stück, Hans-Ullrich Balzer, Karl Hecht, Harry Schröder

Journal of Human Performance in Extreme Environments

In March 1999 a team of 8 mountaineers (6 men and 2 women) climbed up the 6th highest mountain of the world: The Cho Oyo (8201 m), located in the high mountains of Tibet. During the expedition, we investigated the effects of high mountaineering on various psychological variables (e.g., anxiety) and psychophysiological variables (e.g. blood pressure, pulse, skin-resistance) as well as the ability to relax at different points of time (2 premeasures before, three measures during, and one post-measure immediate after the Expedition). Due to a long-term monitoring of the skin resistance, we can summarize that three different adaptation levels …

Effects Of Thermal Stress On Dual Task Performance And Attention Allocation, Bradley Chase, Waldemar Karwowski, Michael E. Benedict, Peter M. Queseda

Journal of Human Performance in Extreme Environments

A visual-visual dual task was designed to test the effect of the thermal environment on dual task performance and attention allocation. The temperatures selected for testing were 20 and 35°C Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) in experiment 1 and 25, 30 and 35°C Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) in experiment 2. In experiment 1, 34 volunteers were randomly assigned to one of the two temperature conditions. A variable representing accuracy on both tasks was coded such that a correct response was assigned only if the participant answered correctly on both tasks. In experiment 2, 42 volunteers were randomly assigned to …

Fact Sheet - Sacred Heart University - Fall 2005, Office Of Institutional Research

News, Magazines and Reports

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews

East Texas Historical Journal

No abstract provided.

Children’S Play In Cross-Cultural Perspective: A New Look At The Six Cultures Study , Carolyn P. Edwards

Department of Child, Youth, and Family Studies: Faculty Publications

A qualitative and quantitative reanalysis of the Six Cultures data on children’s play, collected in the 1950s, was performed to revisit worlds of childhood during a time when sample communities were more isolated from mass markets and media than they are today. A count was performed of children aged 3 to 10 in each community sample scored as engaging in creative-constructive play, fantasy play, role play, and games with rules. Children from Nyansongo and Khalapur scored lowest overall, those from Tarong and Juxtlahuaca scored intermediate, and those from Taira and Orchard Town scored highest. Cultural norms and opportunities determined how …

Ethj Vol-43 No-2

East Texas Historical Journal

No abstract provided.

More Than Bricks And Mortar: Preserving Historic Courthouses In East Texas, Dan K. Utley, Bob Brinkman

East Texas Historical Journal

No abstract provided.

Placelessness And The Rationale For Historic Preservation: National Contexts And East Texas Examples, Jeffry A. Owens

East Texas Historical Journal

No abstract provided.

Leadership In Darkness And Light: Gender Considerations, Susanne Dumbleton Ph.D.

Vincentian Studies

When certain leadership styles are assigned by gender, both men and women are stifled and shortchanged. Susanne Dumbleton examines the pitfalls of the traditional characteristics and types of actions that have been prescribed for each gender, especially for women. She defines politics as “the use and abuse of power,” and when women try to ignore politics, “passive complicity, irresponsible withdrawal, sacrifice [of their] destiny, and active complicity” can result. Each is explained in detail. Effective servant leaders of any gender must have a realistic view of human nature and maintain their faith in it despite its many negative aspects. They …

Translating Vincent De Paul For The 21st Century: A Case Study Of Vincentian Mission Effectiveness Efforts At Depaul University, Edward R. Udovic C.M., Ph.D.

Vincentian Studies

Edward Udovic believes that the success that DePaul University enjoys today depends on its translation of the Vincentian mission and values into modern terms to meet modern needs. Like Vincent de Paul himself, the university is “values-driven, connected to the community, supportive of diversity . . . risk-tak[ing], innovative, and pragmatic.” The state of the Congregation is such that its members may lack a “physical presence, canonical sponsorship role, or governance role” at DePaul by 2023. However, it is already passing on its values to the lay members of the university, ensuring that its Vincentian character will continue even without …

Yoga And The Gita: Isvara-Pranidhana And Bhakti, Christopher Key Chapple

Theological Studies Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Multifractal Structure In Nonrepresentational Art, Jonas R. Mureika, C. C. Dyer, G. C. Cupchik

Physics Faculty Works

Multifractal analysis techniques are applied to patterns in several abstract expressionist artworks, painted by various artists. The analysis is carried out on two distinct types of structures: the physical patterns formed by a specific color (“blobs”) and patterns formed by the luminance gradient between adjacent colors (“edges”). It is found that the multifractal analysis method applied to “blobs” cannot distinguish between artists of the same movement, yielding a multifractal spectrum of dimensions between about 1.5 and 1.8. The method can distinguish between different types of images, however, as demonstrated by studying a radically different type of art. The data suggest …

Editors’ Commentary, Alicia Partnoy, Karen Mary Davalos

Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Boys Will Be Boys: A Social Control Approach To Assessment Of Gender-Based Sentencing Disparity In Norfolk Circuit Court Cases, Fay F. Spence

Sociology & Criminal Justice Theses & Dissertations

This study evaluated the relationship between gender and sentencing severity for defendants convicted of violent crimes, victimless crimes, and theft crimes in Norfolk Circuit Court during 2001 and 2002. Based upon social control theories, the author hypothesized that women receive harsher penalties than men for violent crimes and victimless crimes, but that men receive harsher penalties for theft crimes. To test these hypotheses, the author relied, in part, upon data collected by the Norfolk Commonwealth Attorney's office on 3368 criminal cases filed in 2001 and concluded by May 22, 2002. After eliminating cases not pertinent to the study, the data …