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Exploring Facets Of Mindfulness In Experienced Meditators, Emily Lauren Brown Lykins Jan 2006

Exploring Facets Of Mindfulness In Experienced Meditators, Emily Lauren Brown Lykins

University of Kentucky Master's Theses

Mindfulness is increasingly recognized as an important phenomenon in both clinical and empirical domains, though debate regarding the exact definition of mindfulness continues. Selfreport mindfulness measures have begun to appear, which is important as each measure represents an independent attempt to conceptualize mindfulness. Baer, Smith, Hopkins, Krietemeyer, and Toney (2006) recently identified five facets of mindfulness (observing, describing, acting with awareness, nonjudging, and nonreactivity) and developed the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) to assess them. They also provided preliminary evidence that the five facets were aspects of an overall mindfulness construct, demonstrated support for the convergent and discriminant validity of …

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Contrasting Models Of Genetic Co-Morbidity For Cannabis And Other Illicit Drugs In Adult Australian Twins, A. Agrawal, M. T. Lynskey, K. K. Bucholz, N. G. Martin, P. A F Madden, A. C. Heath Jan 2006

Contrasting Models Of Genetic Co-Morbidity For Cannabis And Other Illicit Drugs In Adult Australian Twins, A. Agrawal, M. T. Lynskey, K. K. Bucholz, N. G. Martin, P. A F Madden, A. C. Heath

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Genetic Analyses Of Dsm-Iv Nicotine Withdrawal In Adult Twins, Michele L. Pergadia, Andrew C. Heath, Nicholas G. Martin, Pamela A F Madden Jan 2006

Genetic Analyses Of Dsm-Iv Nicotine Withdrawal In Adult Twins, Michele L. Pergadia, Andrew C. Heath, Nicholas G. Martin, Pamela A F Madden

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Long-Term Memory Deficits In Pavlovian Fear Conditioning In Ca2+/Calmodulin Kinase Kinase Α-Deficient Mice, Frank Blaeser, Matthew J. Sanders, Nga Truong, Shanelle Ko, Long Jun Wu, David F. Wozniak, Michael S. Fanselow, Min Zhuo, Talal A. Chatila Jan 2006

Long-Term Memory Deficits In Pavlovian Fear Conditioning In Ca2+/Calmodulin Kinase Kinase Α-Deficient Mice, Frank Blaeser, Matthew J. Sanders, Nga Truong, Shanelle Ko, Long Jun Wu, David F. Wozniak, Michael S. Fanselow, Min Zhuo, Talal A. Chatila

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Risperidone In Preschool Children With Autistic Spectrum Disorders: An Investigation Of Safety And Efficacy, Joan Luby, Christine Mrakotsky, Melissa Meade Stalets, Andy Belden, Amy Heffelfinger, Meghan Williams, Edward Spitznagel Jan 2006

Risperidone In Preschool Children With Autistic Spectrum Disorders: An Investigation Of Safety And Efficacy, Joan Luby, Christine Mrakotsky, Melissa Meade Stalets, Andy Belden, Amy Heffelfinger, Meghan Williams, Edward Spitznagel

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Developmental Changes In Attention And Comprehension Among Children With Adhd And Comparison Children, Ursula Louise Bailey Jan 2006

Developmental Changes In Attention And Comprehension Among Children With Adhd And Comparison Children, Ursula Louise Bailey

University of Kentucky Master's Theses

Children with ADHD have significant attentional problems that affect their academic performance. Because many of the typical symptoms of ADHD manifest themselves in classrooms, these attentional problems may have an impact on comprehension and its course of development. This is a significant area of interest because the academic success of a child requires being able to recall and comprehend information. Effective comprehension requires being able to understand both causal (why?) and factual (what?) questions. The purposes of this study are use the television viewing methodology and 1) to employ a longitudinal investigation and compare patterns of developmental change among children …

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The Effects Of Thematic Importance On Recall Of Children With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder And Comparison Children, Rebecca Alycson Flake Jan 2006

The Effects Of Thematic Importance On Recall Of Children With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder And Comparison Children, Rebecca Alycson Flake

University of Kentucky Master's Theses

This study examined the recall of televised stories for younger (4-6 years) and older (7-9 years) children with and without ADHD under two different viewing conditions (toys present/toys absent). Each child watched two Rugrats television programs, once with toys present and once with toys absent. Immediately after viewing a program, the child completed a free recall of the observed story. Nonreferred childrens recall increased more than ADHD childrens as importance level increased, and older nonreferred children recalled more information overall than older children with ADHD. For the toys condition, children with ADHD had smaller correlations between the story units recalled …

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Investigating Age-Related Inhibitory Deficits In Spatial Working Memory, Joann Lianekhammy Jan 2006

Investigating Age-Related Inhibitory Deficits In Spatial Working Memory, Joann Lianekhammy

University of Kentucky Master's Theses

Age-related inhibitory effects were investigated during spatial memory performance. In Experiment 1, 15 young (M = 20 years) and 16 old adults (M = 70 years) completed two spatial tasks (i.e., Block Suppression Test, Corsi Block Tapping Test) that differed in need for inhibitory processing. Accuracy differences within each task revealed age-related differences in spatial working memory and between task differences revealed that older adults had difficulty ignoring irrelevant items. Experiment 2 (10 young, 10 old adults) examined whether the distractibility of irrelevant items in the inhibition task (i.e. BST) accounted for the age-related inhibitory effects. Findings were largely consistent …

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Validation Of The Miller Forensic Assessment Of Symptoms Test (M-Fast) In A Civil Forensic Population, Jessica A. Clark Jan 2006

Validation Of The Miller Forensic Assessment Of Symptoms Test (M-Fast) In A Civil Forensic Population, Jessica A. Clark

University of Kentucky Master's Theses

The Miller Forensic Assessment of Symptoms Test (M-FAST) is a relatively new measure shown to be a valid and effective tool for screening psychiatric malingering in criminal forensic and psychiatric inpatient settings. The present study attempts to cross-validate the M-FAST in civil forensic and neurologic samples. Three-hundred-eight civil forensic patients referred by their attorneys for neuropsychological testing were studied. Assessment batteries administered included tests of both psychiatric and neurocognitive feigning. Based on these gold standards, 4 sets of contrasts were formed in order to examine how the M-FAST performs in identifying psychiatric malingering, neurocognitive malingering, any malingering (including either or …

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The Development Of Expert Face Processing: Are Infants Sensitive To Normal Differences In Second-Order Relational Information?, Angela Hayden Jan 2006

The Development Of Expert Face Processing: Are Infants Sensitive To Normal Differences In Second-Order Relational Information?, Angela Hayden

University of Kentucky Master's Theses

Diamond and Carey (1986) identify sensitivity to second-order relational information (i.e., spatial relations among features such as the distance between eyes) as a vital part of achieving expertise with face processing. Previous research suggests that 5-month-olds are sensitive to second-order relational information when shown line drawings of faces in which this information has been manipulated to an exaggerated degree. The present series of experiments explored infants sensitivity to second-order relational information using photographs of real faces and with second-order manipulations that were within the normal range of human variability. A discrimination study conducted with adults provided additional evidence that the …

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Designing Information Systems Doctoral Programs: Issues And Challenges, Omar F. El-Gayar Jan 2006

Designing Information Systems Doctoral Programs: Issues And Challenges, Omar F. El-Gayar

Research & Publications

Doctoral programs aim at preparing students for stewardship in their discipline with particular emphasis on training for research. While doctoral programs have been conventionally offered by research institutions, market demands, changing needs, and other factors are driving traditionally teaching institutions to explore opportunities for implementing information systems (IS) doctoral programs. In this paper we present some of the issues and challenges involved in designing and implementing IS doctoral programs. The emphasis is on traditionally teaching institutions. The paper concludes with a set of recommendations and directions for future research on doctoral programs in information systems.

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Role Stressors, Service Worker Job Resourcefulness, And Job Outcomes: An Empirical Analysis, Eric G. Harris, Andrew B. Artis, Jack H. Walters, Jane W. Licata Jan 2006

Role Stressors, Service Worker Job Resourcefulness, And Job Outcomes: An Empirical Analysis, Eric G. Harris, Andrew B. Artis, Jack H. Walters, Jane W. Licata

Research & Publications

This article expands upon previous research on the job resourcefulness construct by examining the influence of role stressors (i.e., role ambiguity and conflict) on job resourcefulness and by examining the influence of job resourcefulness on job satisfaction and intentions to leave the firm. Given the current focus of businesses to ‘‘do more with less’’, the research highlights the importance of role stressors in improving overall organizational efficiency and work outcomes. Drawing from previous work in both hierarchical personality and fit theories, the authors propose that situational determinants play an important role in overall job resourcefulness. An empirical study which utilized …

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Using Self-Efficacy Precepts To Evaluate The Instructional Effectiveness Of The Use Of Tablet Pc Systems In The Classroom, Richard T. Christoph, Richard D. Puetz, Jack H. Walters Jan 2006

Using Self-Efficacy Precepts To Evaluate The Instructional Effectiveness Of The Use Of Tablet Pc Systems In The Classroom, Richard T. Christoph, Richard D. Puetz, Jack H. Walters

Research & Publications

This paper provides initial results of a study administered to students enrolled in traditional classroombased courses at a small public university in the Midwest. This university has a technology mission and requires the use of Tablet PCs by all incoming students seeking bachelor’s degrees. The purpose of this study is first, to measure student reactions to components of Tablet PC-based instruction as suggested by self-efficacy precepts, and second, to measure the differences between student groups with regard to perceptions of academic performance when using Tablet PC systems in traditional classroom settings. Initial findings show strong student enthusiasm to the adoption …

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Where Should The Action Be - Inside The Classroom Or Outside The Classroom? A Comparison Of The Action-Learning Outcomes In Singapore, China, Korea, New Zealand And Australia, Jens Mueller, Wee Liang Tan, Hanjun Hu, John Thornton Jan 2006

Where Should The Action Be - Inside The Classroom Or Outside The Classroom? A Comparison Of The Action-Learning Outcomes In Singapore, China, Korea, New Zealand And Australia, Jens Mueller, Wee Liang Tan, Hanjun Hu, John Thornton

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

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Supersize Pay, Incentive Compatibility, And The Volatile Shareholder Interest, William Wilson Bratton Jan 2006

Supersize Pay, Incentive Compatibility, And The Volatile Shareholder Interest, William Wilson Bratton

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Friendship & The Law, Ethan J. Leib Jan 2006

Friendship & The Law, Ethan J. Leib

Faculty Scholarship

This Article's central argument is that the law needs to do a better job of recognizing, protecting, respecting, and promoting friendships. The law gives pride of place to other statuses--family and special professional relationships are obvious ones--but the status of the friend is rarely relevant to legal decisionmaking and public policymaking in a consistent way. After defining the concept of the friend, I offer a normative argument for why the law should promote a public policy of friendship facilitation and for why the law ignores friendships only at its peril. I highlight how the law already finds friendship relevant in …

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Analysis Of Ift74 As A Candidate Gene For Chromosome 9p-Linked Als-Ftd, Parastoo Momeni, Jennifer Schymick, Shushant Jain, Mark R. Cookson, Nigel J. Cairns, Elisa Greggio, Matthew J. Greenway, Stephen Berger, Stuart Pickering-Brown, Adriano Chiò, Hon Chung Fung, David M. Holtzman, Edward D. Huey, Eric M. Wassermann, Jennifer Adamson, Michael L. Hutton, Ekaterina Rogaeva, Peter St George-Hyslop, Jeffrey D. Rothstein, Orla Hardiman, Jordan Grafman, Andrew Singleton, John Hardy, Bryan J. Traynor Jan 2006

Analysis Of Ift74 As A Candidate Gene For Chromosome 9p-Linked Als-Ftd, Parastoo Momeni, Jennifer Schymick, Shushant Jain, Mark R. Cookson, Nigel J. Cairns, Elisa Greggio, Matthew J. Greenway, Stephen Berger, Stuart Pickering-Brown, Adriano Chiò, Hon Chung Fung, David M. Holtzman, Edward D. Huey, Eric M. Wassermann, Jennifer Adamson, Michael L. Hutton, Ekaterina Rogaeva, Peter St George-Hyslop, Jeffrey D. Rothstein, Orla Hardiman, Jordan Grafman, Andrew Singleton, John Hardy, Bryan J. Traynor

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Human Sensory-Evoked Responses Differ Coincident With Either "Fusion-Memory" Or "Flash-Memory", As Shown By Stimulus Repetition-Rate Effects, Don L. Jewett, Toryalai Hart, Linda J. Larson-Prior, Bill Baird, Marram Olson, Michael Trumpis, Katherine Makayed, Payam Bavafa Jan 2006

Human Sensory-Evoked Responses Differ Coincident With Either "Fusion-Memory" Or "Flash-Memory", As Shown By Stimulus Repetition-Rate Effects, Don L. Jewett, Toryalai Hart, Linda J. Larson-Prior, Bill Baird, Marram Olson, Michael Trumpis, Katherine Makayed, Payam Bavafa

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The Systematic Nature Of Serendipity In Opportunity Discovery: Implications For The Theory Of Entrepreneurship, Reddi Kotha, Dimo Dimov, Gerard George Jan 2006

The Systematic Nature Of Serendipity In Opportunity Discovery: Implications For The Theory Of Entrepreneurship, Reddi Kotha, Dimo Dimov, Gerard George

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

This paper endeavors to disentangle search from serendipity in discoveries of new opportunities. Whereas economic models focus on active search and the tradeoff between its costs and benefits, the Austrian economic tradition posits that individuals do not search for opportunities; it is their alertness that helps them to profit from arbitrage opportunities from the imperfect decisions of others. Further, their alertness reflects their unique prior experience. Yet, despite the intuitive soundness of these ideas, some recent experimental empirical work to test them has highlighted the need for stronger theoretical precision. Are serendipitous solutions better than active search solutions? Can serendipitous …

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2006-2007 Undergraduate Bulletin, Rochester Institute Of Technology Jan 2006

2006-2007 Undergraduate Bulletin, Rochester Institute Of Technology

RIT Digital Archives

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2006-2007 Undergraduate Course Descriptions, Rochester Institute Of Technology Jan 2006

2006-2007 Undergraduate Course Descriptions, Rochester Institute Of Technology

RIT Digital Archives

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Regulating Directors' Duties With Civil Penalties: Taking A Leaf From Australia's Book, Pey Woan Lee Jan 2006

Regulating Directors' Duties With Civil Penalties: Taking A Leaf From Australia's Book, Pey Woan Lee

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

This article examines whether the use of the criminal penalty as a 'default' sanction for regulating directors' core duties in Singapore is excessive, and if so, whether civil pecuniary penalties ought to be introduced in the reform of the existing sanctions regime. These questions are addressed principally by reference to the Australian experience.

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Your Pace Or Mine: Culture, Time And Negotiation, Ian Macduff Jan 2006

Your Pace Or Mine: Culture, Time And Negotiation, Ian Macduff

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

This article explores the impact that different perceptions of time may have on cross-cultural negotiations. Beyond obvious issues of punctuality and timekeeping, differences may occur in the value placed on the uses of time and the priorities given to past, present, or future orientations. The role of time in negotiations involves two key dimensions: differing perceptions and values of time, and the management of time. Both dimensions, the author suggests, need to be on the negotiation table.

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Normalizing The Abnormal: Disability In Music And Music Theory, Joseph N. Straus Jan 2006

Normalizing The Abnormal: Disability In Music And Music Theory, Joseph N. Straus

Publications and Research

The emerging interdisciplinary field of disability studies takes as its subject matter the historical, social, and cultural construction of disability. After a brief introduction to disability studies, this article explores the interconnected histories of disability and music as they are manifested in three theoretical approaches to late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Western art music (the musical Formenlehre and the tonal theories of Schoenberg and Schenker) and in three works by Beethoven and Schubert. Around the turn of the nineteenth century in Western Europe, disability began to be understood not as something natural and permanent but rather as a deviation from …

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Spanish In Brazil: Language Policy, Business, And Cultural Propaganda, José Del Valle Jan 2006

Spanish In Brazil: Language Policy, Business, And Cultural Propaganda, José Del Valle

Publications and Research

The purpose of this article is to describe and analyze the language policies designed and implemented since the early nineties by Spanish government agencies in order to promote Spanish as a valuable international language. In particular, we focus on its promotion in Brazil and on the strategies used to legitimize not only the presence of the language in various domains (e.g. the educational system) but also the active participation of Spanish institutions in its spread. Through a detailed analysis of a corpus of relevant texts, (a) we critically examine the cultural, economic, and political roots of these policies, as well …

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What Makes And What Does Not Make A Real Option? A Study Of International Joint Ventures, Ilya Cuypers, Xavier Martin Jan 2006

What Makes And What Does Not Make A Real Option? A Study Of International Joint Ventures, Ilya Cuypers, Xavier Martin

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

This paper examines the boundaries of real options logic, with an application to joint ventures (JVs). We distinguish between forms of uncertainty that are resolved endogenously and those that are resolved exogenously, and theorize that only exogenous uncertainty will have the impact predicted by real options theory on a foreign investor's choice of how large an equity share to take in a JV. We theorize that macroeconomic and institutional variables generate exogenous uncertainty whereas, by contrast, cultural distance and choices pertaining to corporate scope and product or process development activities involve endogenous sources of uncertainty that investors can both assess …

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Guo Xiang, Alan Kam Leung Chan Jan 2006

Guo Xiang, Alan Kam Leung Chan

Research Collection College of Integrative Studies

A champion of the Learning of the Mysterious (Xuanxue) or neo-Daoism that gained prominence in third-century China, Guo Xiang (c. 252–312 CE) is best known for his commentary to the Zhuangzi, which offers to reconcile orthodox teachings (mingjiao) with Daoist naturalness (ziran).

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Clinical Legal Education And The Reform Of The Higher Legal Education System In China, Mao Ling Jan 2006

Clinical Legal Education And The Reform Of The Higher Legal Education System In China, Mao Ling

Fordham International Law Journal

This Article presents an overview of the higher legal education system in China: its structure, purposes, teaching methods, and problems. The Article suggests ways to reform China's higher legal education system, including clinical legal education, one of the new practical teaching methods that has been used by many law schools in China with promising results.

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Don't Forget The Family: A Proposal For Expanding Immediate Protection To Families Of Human Trafficking Survivors, Katrina Lynne Baker Jan 2006

Don't Forget The Family: A Proposal For Expanding Immediate Protection To Families Of Human Trafficking Survivors, Katrina Lynne Baker

Fordham International Law Journal

In Part I, this Note will discuss the current epidemic of human trafficking, the various ways the United Nations and the United States have attempted to combat trafficking, and highlight the importance of U.S. prosecutorial duties of witness protection that are especially implicated in human trafficking cases. Part II will present criticisms of efforts by the United Nations and the United States to protect victims of trafficking and their family members. This part will also focus on current U.S. protections afforded to families of human trafficking survivors and programs such as the Witness Security Program, from which U.S. lawmakers may …

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The Abuse Of Girls In U.S. Juvenile Detention Facilities: Why The United States Should Ratify The Convention On The Rights Of The Child And Establish A National Ombudsman For Children's Rights, Christina Okereke Jan 2006

The Abuse Of Girls In U.S. Juvenile Detention Facilities: Why The United States Should Ratify The Convention On The Rights Of The Child And Establish A National Ombudsman For Children's Rights, Christina Okereke

Fordham International Law Journal

This Note argues that, to address the abuse of detained girls, the United States should ratify the CRC. This Note further argues that establishing a national independent office or ombudsman to monitor children's conditions of confinement in the United States is a superior proposal to creating a U.N.-appointed special representative on violence against children. This Note concludes that, upon ratifying the CRC, the United States should establish a national ombudsman for children's rights. Part I of this Note presents the problem of physical and sexual abuse of detained girls in the United States and reviews the applicable international human rights …

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