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A Quantitative Analysis Of The Reward-Enhancing Effects Of Nicotine Using Reinforcer Demand, Scott T. Barrett, Rick A. Bevins

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Reward enhancement by nicotine has been suggested as an important phenomenon contributing toward tobacco abuse and dependence. Reinforcement value is a multifaceted construct not fully represented by any single measure of response strength. The present study evaluated the changes in the reinforcement value of a visual stimulus in 16 male Sprague–Dawley rats using the reinforcer demand technique proposed by Hursh and Silberberg. The different parameters of the model have been shown to represent differing facets of reinforcement value, including intensity, perseverance, and sensitivity to changes in response cost. Rats lever-pressed for 1-min presentations of a compound visual stimulus over blocks …

2012 Dairy Digest, South Dakota State University Dairy Club

Dairy Digest

No abstract provided.

A Cross-Sectional Study Of Us Rural Adults’ Consumption Of Fruits And Vegetables: Do They Consume At Least Five Servings Daily?, M. Nawal Lutfiyya, Linda F. Chang, Martin S. Lipsky

Community Health Faculty Publications and Presentations

Background: Rural residents are increasingly identified as being at greater risk for health disparities. These inequities may be related to health behaviors such as adequate fruits and vegetable consumption. There is little national-level population-based research about the prevalence of fruit and vegetable consumption by US rural population adults. The objective of this study was to examine the prevalence differences between US rural and non-rural adults in consuming at least five daily servings of combined fruits and vegetables.

Methods: Cross-sectional analysis of weighted 2009 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (BRFSS) data using bivariate and multivariate techniques. 52,259,789 US adults were identified …

Lessons In Leadership: Ulysses S. Grant, Sheila Cappel

Master of Liberal Studies Theses

Leadership is not a definitive topic, in that great leadership is based on subjective determinants. What makes great leadership is a source of both fascination and extensive study. Are great leaders born, and destined to excel in circumstances they create for themselves; or do dramatic events create the need for great leaders? What can the life and Civil War experiences of Union General Ulysses S. Grant teach us about the answer to these questions? This paper provides a chronology of his life up to the onset of the Civil War, his military career during the war, and concludes with his …

Predicting Speech Intelligibility, Andrew Hines [Thesis]

Other resources

Hearing impairment, and specifically sensorineural hearing loss, is an increasingly prevalent condition, especially amongst the ageing population. It occurs primarily as a result of damage to hair cells that act as sound receptors in the inner ear and causes a variety of hearing perception problems, most notably a reduction in speech intelligibility. Accurate diagnosis of hearing impairments is a time consuming process and is complicated by the reliance on indirect measurements based on patient feedback due to the inaccessible nature of the inner ear. The challenges of designing hearing aids to counteract sensorineural hearing losses are further compounded by the …

Zamora Discusses Secrets Of Graphic Designers, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Using A Narrative Lens To Understand Empathy And How It Matters In Judging, Andrea Mcardle

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Changes In Seed Reserve Composition During Germination And Initial Seedling Development Of Safflower (Carthamus Tinctorius L.), Muhammet Tonguç, Ruzi̇ye Elkoyunu, Sabri̇ Erbaş, Yaşar Karakurt

Turkish Journal of Biology

The present study was carried out to determine the changes in some reserve molecules of safflower seeds during germination and early seedling growth. The seeds of 2 safflower cultivars were used as plant material (Dinçer 5-118 and Montola 2000). Seeds were germinated for 72 h and observations were taken every 12 h throughout the study. Changes in total oil content (%), total protein content (%), total soluble sugar contents (TSS, mg g^{-1}), and reducing sugar contents (RS, mg g^{-1}) were determined for each cultivar during germination and seedling growth. The oil content of the cultivars decreased from 54.7% and 57.4% …

Revisiting The Ecological Status Of The Cheat Mountain Salamander (Plethodon Nettingi) After 32 Years, Whitney A. Kroschel

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

The Cheat Mountain Salamander (Plethodon nettingi) is endemic to the high elevations of the Allegheny Mountains in West Virginia and is listed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as a threatened species. In 1978-79 and in 2011 the vertical distribution of P. nettingi was measured at four sites to determine their range of occupancy in relation to elevation. During both time periods, a transect was established at each site that ran from high to low elevation. Along each transect, quadrats were placed at regular, 12.2 m elevation intervals. Quadrats were searched twice for presence/absence (i.e., occupancy) and abundance of …

Dirt Theory And Material Ecocriticism, Heather I. Sullivan

Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research

This essay speaks for dirty aesthetics. Although aesthetic landscapes readily inspire environmental thinking, a case can be made for grappling with the truly local dirty matter right at hand. Dirt, soil, earth, and dust surround us at all scales: we find them on our shoes, bodies, and computer screens, in fields and forests, and floating in the air. They are the stuff of geological structures, of the rocky Earth itself, and are mobile like our bodies.

Uplb Perspective, Vol. 39, No. 2, Mark Ian Billante

UPLB Perspective

No abstract provided.

Uplb Perspective, Vol. 39, No. 1, Mark Ian Billante

UPLB Perspective

No abstract provided.

Annual Reports Of The Town Officers & Inventory Of Ratable Property Of Surry, New Hampshire For The Year Ending December 31, 2011 & School District Officers For The Year Ending June 30, 2012., Surry Town Representatives

Surry, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Philosophy Of Intellect In The Long Commentary On The De Anima Of Averroes, John Shannon Hendrix

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

In the Long Commentary on the De anima, Averroes posits three separate intelligences in the anima rationalis or the rational soul: agent intellect or intellectus agens, material or passible intellect, intellectus possibilis or intellectus passibilis, and speculative intellect, intellectus speculativus, or actualized or acquired intellect, intellectus adeptus. In the De anima 3.1.5, “there are three parts of the intellect in the soul; the first is the receptive intellect, the second, the active intellect, and the third is actual intellection…,” that is, speculative or actualized, agent, and material. While material intellect is “partly generable and corruptible, …

Intellect And The Structuring Of Reality In Plotinus And Averroes, John Shannon Hendrix

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

Though Averroes is not generally considered to be sympathetic to Neoplatonic thinking, there are definite parallels between the philosophies of intellect of Averroes and Plotinus. Both can be considered to be “Idealists” in that intelligible form precedes sensible form in perception, and that the material intellect of Averroes or Reason Principle of Plotinus, nous hylikos or pathetikos, depends in its functioning on the agent intellect of Averroes or Intellectual Principle of Plotinus, nous poietikos. The formation of the image in the oculus mentis is coincident with the formation of a thought, and the sensible form is a transient …

Supplemental Schedules For The Year Ended June 30, 2011, Clemson University

Annual Comprehensive Financial Report

No abstract provided.

Comprehensive Annual Financial Report For The Year Ended June 30, 2011, Clemson University

Annual Comprehensive Financial Report

No abstract provided.

Respiratory Evaporative Water Loss During Hovering And Forward Flight In Hummingbirds, Donald R. Powers, Philip W. Getsinger, Bret W. Tobalske, Susan M. Wethington, Sean D. Powers, Douglas R. Warrick

Faculty Publications - Department of Biological & Molecular Science

Hummingbirds represent an end point for small body size and water flux in vertebrates. We explored the role evaporative water loss (EWL) plays in management of their large water pool and its use in dissipating metabolic heat. We measured respiratory evaporative water loss (REWL) in hovering hummingbirds in the field (6 species) and over a range of speeds in a wind tunnel (1 species) using an open-circuit mask respirometry system. Hovering REWL during the active period was positively correlated with operative temperature (Te) likely due to some combination of an increase in the vapor-pressure deficit, increase in lung ventilation rate, …

Using Informed Consent To Reduce Preventable Medical Errors, Evelyn M. Tenenbaum

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

No abstract provided.

Further Support For Mental Health Parity Law And Mandatory Mental Health And Substance Use Disorder Benefits, Stacey A. Tovino

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

No abstract provided.

Case Study: Ethical And Legal Issues In Human Machine Mergers (Or The Cyborgs Cometh), Linda Macdonald Glenn

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

No abstract provided.

Advancing Health Law & Social Justice In The Clinic, The Classroom And The Community, Emily A. Benfer, John Ammann, Lisa Bliss, Sylvia Caley, Elizabeth Tobin Tyler, Robert Pettignano

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

No abstract provided.

Research On The Use Of Learning And Degree Contracts Within University And Other Settings In Italy And The Usa, John Henschke

Adult Education Faculty Works

This paper presents some of the benefits of using learning contracts by some in the USA who have used them for many years, and others in Italy who had never used them, but were beginning to experiment with using them. Illustrations of results were provided by colleagues from both countries, comparisons were made between the two, and lessons learned from the experience were shared. There is a very different perspective between using them over a long period of time and just beginning to use them. However, the keenest insight is that they are beneficial at each stage along the way, …

St. Mary's University School Of Law Sarita Kenedy East Law Library: A Progress Report 2005-2012, St. Mary's University Law Library

Rare Books and Special Collections

No abstract provided.

Response 2012, Seattle Pacific University

Seattle Pacific Alumni Magazines

No abstract provided.

Outline Of Podcasts And Reference, Evangelical Advocacy: A Response To Global Poverty

Papers, PDF Files, and Presentations

No abstract provided.

Zephyrus, Western Kentucky University

Student Creative Writing

The fine arts magazine of Western Kentucky University at Bowling Green.

Treatment Of Burns With Burns & Wounds (B & W) Ointment And Leaf Therapy, Maria E. Main, Deborah Williams, M. Susan Jones

Nursing Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Understanding The Motivational Consequences Of Extreme School Violence Through The Lens Of Mortality Salience: The Case Of Academic Self-Stereotyping In Math, Aaron Wichman

Psychological Sciences Faculty Publications

We conducted an investigation into a determinant of academic motivation that has implications for how we respond to school violence and tragedy. We conducted two studies to examine whether exposure to messages related to the salience of one’s own mortality cause people to align their own academic beliefs more closely with stereotypical beliefs about their social groups. When exposed to graffiti images that contained messages such as R.I.P. (i.e., rest in peace), males and females in Study 1 expressed math attitudes that resembled the American stereotype of male superiority and female inferiority in this domain. In Study 2, writing about …

Hillbillies, Rednecks, Crackers And White Trash, Anthony Harkins

History Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.