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Neural Substrates Of Sound–Touch Synesthesia After A Thalamic Lesion, Michael S. Beauchamp, Tony Ro

Publications and Research

Neural plasticity induced by stroke can mediate positive outcomes, such as recovery of function, but can also result in the formation of abnormal connections with negative consequences for perception and cognition. In three experiments using blood-oxygen level dependent (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance imaging, we examined the neural substrates of acquired auditory-tactile synesthesia, in which certain sounds can produce an intense somatosensory tingling sensation in a patient with a thalamic lesion. Compared with nine normal controls, the first experiment showed that the patient had a threefold greater BOLD response to sounds in the parietal operculum, the location of secondary somatosensory cortex. …

“Catch ‘Em Being Good:” An Extension Service And State School System Team Up To Promote Positive Outcomes For Youth, Kerri Wade, Allison Nichols

Journal of Youth Development

This feature article describes a collaboration between the West Virginia University Extension Service and the West Virginia Department of Education to implement the “Responsible Students through School Wide Positive Behavior Supports” program (RS-SWPBS) throughout the state. A case study of Grandview Elementary School in Kanawha County illustrates the benefits that the collaboration brought to local youth. West Virginia Department of Education established the program and brought local schools onboard, while educators from the West Virginia University Extension Service became coaches and led the effort to collect and analyze data. Results included the development of positive behaviors, a decrease in negative …

Emotional Disturbance As An Educational Disability: Implications For Social Workers, Jean Michele Rippey

Open Access Dissertations

This qualitative study addressed an intersection in which the application of the medical model to educational disabilities and its implications for educational labeling of students interacted with the professional enculturation of clinical social workers. Employed as clinicians in programs administered in a large south eastern school district in the United States, five social workers served elementary students labeled Emotionally/Behaviorally Disabled (EBD) through federally authorized provisions for special education related services. This study used grounded theory methods to discover and analyze the social workers' underlying assumptions, values, and patterns of practice with regard to ethical and guild issues, roles and responsibilities, …

12-09-2008 Over 100 From Swosu Attend Oklahoma Research Day, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2008

Seventy-seven students and 12 faculty from Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford recently participated in the 10th annual Oklahoma Research Day in Broken Arrow.

Clustering Neural Spike Trains With Transient Responses, John D. Hunter, Jianhong Wu, John Milton

WM Keck Science Faculty Papers

The detection of transient responses, i.e. nonstationarities, that arise in a varying and small fraction of the total number of neural spike trains recorded from chronically implanted multielectrode grids becomes increasingly difficult as the number of electrodes grows. This paper presents a novel application of an unsupervised neural network for clustering neural spike trains with transient responses. This network is constructed by incorporating projective clustering into an adaptive resonance type neural network (ART) architecture resulting in a PART neural network. Since comparisons are made between inputs and learned patterns using only a subset of the total number of available dimensions, …

Spartan Daily, December 9, 2008, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 131, Issue 52

Brownawell V. Comm Social Security

2008 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

The Boom Of Money Transfers Subject To Conditions. How Are These Social Programs Beneficial To The Boys And Girls Of Latin America?, A Minujín, A Davidziuk, E Delamónica

English

Objectives: To analyze the money transfer social programs subject to conditions of school attendance and/or health in Latin America.

How Doctors Are Inserted Into The Medical Process: The Case Of The Basic Clinics Of Belo Horizonte, M Gariglio, A Radicchi

English

Objectives: To describe and analyze the insertion of doctors in public health services.

Seifert V. Comm Of Pa Human

2008 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Rhetorical And Semantic Tensions In Research Ethics, M Kottow

English

Objectives: To identify some instances in literature of efforts or semantic distortions that have inspired bioethics research unrelated to the interests of the Third World.

Minutes, Finance Committee Meeting, Juvenile Welfare Board, December 9, 2008, Penny Delacqueseaux

Juvenile Welfare Board Agendas, Minutes, and Historical Audits

Minutes for the December 9, 2008, meeting of the Finance Committee of the Juvenile Welfare Board. Attached as supplemental files are an agenda, previous meeting minutes, and reports to review before the meeting.

The Current Volume 19 : Issue 14, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Flyer News, Vol. 56, No. 20 (Dec. 9, 2008), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton.

2009 Events Presented By The Alys Robinson Stephens Performing Arts Center, Staff

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

L1 Recombination-Associated Deletions Generate Human Genomic Variation, Kyudong Han, Jungnam Lee, Thomas J. Meyer, Paul Remedios, Lindsey Goodwin, Mark A. Batzer

Faculty Publications

Mobile elements have created structural variation in the human genome through their de novo insertions and post-insertional genomic rearrangements. L1 elements are a type of long interspersed element (LINE) that is dispersed at high copy numbers within most mammalian genomes. To determine the magnitude of L1 recombination-associated deletions (L1RADs), we computationally extracted L1RAD candidates by comparing the human and chimpanzee genomes and verified each of the L1RAD events by using wet-bench analyses. Through these analyses, we identified 73 human-specific L1RAD events that occurred subsequent to the divergence of the human and chimpanzee lineages. Despite their low frequency, the L1RAD events …

Daily Eastern News: December 09, 2008, Eastern Illinois University

December

No abstract provided.

Florida Sentinel Bulletin, December 9, 2008, Gwen Hayes

Florida Sentinel Bulletin Collection

The December 9, 2008, issue of the Florida Sentinel Bulletin.

Social Medicine, Sexuality And Health, C Granados

English

Objective: Setting up a theoretical proposal derived from the socio-medical field for the study of cultural determination and the relationship between sexuality and health.

Naturalizing The Female Body: Social Control Through Reproduction, T Costa, E Navarro, D Grynszpan, M C. Souza

English

Objective: To discuss alternatives to understand how the medical sciences have reduced the female body conceptually to its biological dimension as the foundation for its social control.

The Impact Of Repeated Rounds Of Mass Drug Administration With Diethylcarbamazine Plus Albendazole On Bancroftian Filariasis In Papua New Guinea, Gary J. Weil, Will Kastens, Melinda Susapu, Sandra J. Laney, Steven A. Williams, Christopher L. King, James W. Kazura, Moses J. Bockarie

Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

Background: This study employed various monitoring methods to assess the impact of repeated rounds of mass drug administration (MDA) on bancroftian filariasis in Papua New Guinea, which has the largest filariasis problem in the Pacific region.

Methodology/Principal Findings: Residents of rural villages near Madang were studied prior to and one year after each of three rounds of MDA with diethylcarbamazine plus albendazole administered per World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines. The mean MDA compliance rate was 72.9%. Three rounds of MDA decreased microfilaremia rates (Mf, 1 ml night blood by filter) from 18.6% pre-MDA to 1.3% after the third MDA (a …

Give The Gift Of Lifelong Learning, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.

Race And Epidemeology: The Strategy For The Construcción Of Bological Differences, J Laguardia

English

Objectives: To highlight the ideological character of causal assumptions and epidemiological strategies which establish and strengthen racial differences in epidemiological studies.

Development Of An Inexpensive, Haptic Graphical Display Device, David Burch

Theses and Dissertations

A finger-worn haptic device capable of rendering 2-D graphics through vibrotactile feedback is presented. The device development is presented from its initial stages of being a stylus design using a photo-interrupter optical sensor and pager-motor actuator to a small case worn on the finger using a RGB color sensor and a piezoelectric actuator. Testing of the latest prototype design shows that it has a spatial sensitivity (<2mm) comparable to natural touch (~1mm) and can be used to output a variety of vibrotactile textures. The design can be expanded for a multiple finger, independent device, while remaining affordable (<$100) and highly portable (<500g).

Defining Value Based Information Security Governance Objectives, Sushma Mishra

Theses and Dissertations

This research argues that the information security governance objectives should be grounded in the values of organizational members. Research literature in decision sciences suggest that individual values play an important role in developing decision objectives. Information security governance objectives, based on values of the stakeholders, are essential for a comprehensive security control program. The study uses Value Theory as a theoretical basis and value focused thinking as a methodology to develop 23 objectives for information security governance. A case study was conducted to reexamine and interpret the significance of the proposed objectives in an organizational context. The results suggest three …

The Bg News December 9, 2008, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. December 9, 2008. Volume 99-Issue 69.

A Qualitative Examination Of Youth Voice In The Decision-Making Process Within The 4-H Youth Development Program: Promoting Promising Practices In Overcoming Barriers, Janet Fox, Todd Tarifa, Krisanna Machtmes

Journal of Youth Development

This paper discusses a national study designed to identify and describe obstacles to youth voice in the decision-making process in the 4-H youth development program from the perception of three distinct populations - State 4-H Program Leaders, 4-H State Youth Development Specialists, and 4-H Youth Agents/Educators. When examining these professionals’ views on the barriers affecting youth voice in the decision-making process, time and scheduling seem to consistently present the largest barrier to youth voice. Involvement in the decision-making process provides a wide range of hurdles including the opportunity structures, involvement procedures, representation and dynamics within the process. Adult power and …

The Gendered Meanings Of Assets For Divorce, Jeffrey P. Dew

Faculty Publications

Scholars identified a negative relationship between assets and divorce decades ago, but the mechanisms behind this relationship remain unknown. Using data from the National Survey of Families and Households (N = 4,721 couples), this study compared three mechanisms that might link assets and divorce. Non-proportional Cox hazard models indicated that two of the three mechanisms explained the relationship between assets and divorce. Wives’ marital satisfaction and their perceptions of their hypothetical post-divorce standard of living completely mediated the relationship between assets and divorce. The relationship between assets and divorce was not related to husbands’ characteristics.

The Ticker, December 8, 2008

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

Lanthorn, Vol. 43, No. 31, December 8, 2008, Grand Valley State University

Volume 43, July 10, 2008 - June 7, 2009

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.