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Cardiovascular Reactivity In Friendships: Length Of Relationship And Frequency Of Contact As Potential Moderators, Benjamin D. Clark Nov 2012

Cardiovascular Reactivity In Friendships: Length Of Relationship And Frequency Of Contact As Potential Moderators, Benjamin D. Clark

Theses and Dissertations

Social support has been linked to positive health outcomes. Specifically, having available support from a friend may act as a buffer to the negative effects of stress on cardiovascular reactivity. Relationship quality is an important moderator of this effect. The purpose of this study was to examine how cardiovascular reactivity is affected by relationship quality within friendships and whether the length of relationship and frequency of contact may moderate the effect. 134 healthy male and female adults (and their same-sex friend) were recruited to participate. Results revealed no significant difference between subjects interacting with supportive friends compared to interacting with …


Daily Eastern News: November 26, 2012, Eastern Illinois University Nov 2012

Daily Eastern News: November 26, 2012, Eastern Illinois University

November

No abstract provided.


The Doomed Union: Thomas Hardy's Pessimism Toward Marriage, Anglicanism, And Society, Christine Mays Nov 2012

The Doomed Union: Thomas Hardy's Pessimism Toward Marriage, Anglicanism, And Society, Christine Mays

Senior Honors Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate Thomas Hardy’s pessimism by examining his life and to display how three of his novels, Far from the Madding Crowd, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, and Jude the Obscure reflect actual events, relationships, and social issues in Hardy’s life. Hardy’s fatalism began to manifest itself in his early childhood, as he was the result of an unplanned pregnancy, and then later in his youth, when his family could not afford to fund a full education. As he grew into adulthood, Hardy began to feel acutely the line drawn between him and those of …


Junior Recital, Kendall Demavivas, Jae Ahn-Benton, Jeremy Russo Nov 2012

Junior Recital, Kendall Demavivas, Jae Ahn-Benton, Jeremy Russo

Junior Recitals

List of performers and performances.


A Cps-Like Transformation Of Continuation Marks, Kimball Richard Germane Nov 2012

A Cps-Like Transformation Of Continuation Marks, Kimball Richard Germane

Theses and Dissertations

Continuation marks are a programming language feature which generalize stack inspection. Despite its usefulness, this feature has not been adopted by languages which rely on stack inspection, e.g., for dynamic security checks. One reason for this neglect may be that continuation marks do not yet enjoy a transformation to the plain λ-calculus which would allow higher-order languages to provide continuation marks at little cost. We present a CPS-like transformation from the call-by-value λ-calculus augmented with continuation marks to the pure call-by-value λ-calculus. We discuss how this transformation simplifies the construction of compilers which treat continuation marks correctly. We document an …


Emu Today, November 26, 2012, Eastern Michigan University Nov 2012

Emu Today, November 26, 2012, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Today

No abstract provided.


Crow's Nest, November 26, 2012, Crow's Nest Staff Nov 2012

Crow's Nest, November 26, 2012, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The November 26, 2012, issue of the Crow's Nest.


Uwspółcześnienie: The Contemporization Of Polish Education, Politics, And Society In The Enlightenment Period, Holly Dzwilefsky Nov 2012

Uwspółcześnienie: The Contemporization Of Polish Education, Politics, And Society In The Enlightenment Period, Holly Dzwilefsky

Theses and Dissertations

UWSPÓŁCZEŚNIENIE: THE CONTEMPORIZATION OF POLISH EDUCATION, POLITICS, AND SOCIETY IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT PERIOD examines the contemporization of educational, governmental, and societal structures that occurred in eighteenth-century Poland. Italian educational models and English governmental models influenced the development of Poland’s structures since the fourteenth century. The introduction and pervasiveness of Sarmatism in szlachta culture during the fifteenth century created the foundation for the szlachta democracy. Continued interference from neighboring rulers coupled with the erosion of educational standards inside Poland contributed to the szlachta’s susceptibility to corruption, which resulted in non-functioning government. Following the Partition of 1772, the Poles employed the assistance …


The Collegian (2012-11-26), Joe Molina Nov 2012

The Collegian (2012-11-26), Joe Molina

UTB/TSC Archives - The Collegian [Newspaper]

Vol. 65, No. 13


Oxford Family Makes Gift To Endow Um Scholarship For Nutrition And Hospitality Management Department, Deborah A. Purnell Nov 2012

Oxford Family Makes Gift To Endow Um Scholarship For Nutrition And Hospitality Management Department, Deborah A. Purnell

University of Mississippi News

Vasilyevs support first endowed fund for fast-growing department


Algorithmically Flexible Style Composition Through Multi-Objective Fitness Functions, Skyler James Murray Nov 2012

Algorithmically Flexible Style Composition Through Multi-Objective Fitness Functions, Skyler James Murray

Theses and Dissertations

Creating a fitness function for music is largely subjective and dependent on a programmer's personal tastes or goals. Previous attempts to create musical fitness functions for use in genetic algorithms lack scope or are prejudiced to a certain genre of music. They also suffer the limitation of producing music only in the strict style determined by the programmer. We show in this paper that musical feature extractors that avoid the challenges of qualitative judgment enable creation of a multi-objective function for direct music production. Multi-objective fitness functions enable creation of music with varying identifiable styles. With this system we produced …


Microfabrication, Characterization, And Application Of Carbon Nanotube Templated Thin Layer Chromatography Plates, And Functionalization Of Porous Graphitic Carbon, David S. Jensen Nov 2012

Microfabrication, Characterization, And Application Of Carbon Nanotube Templated Thin Layer Chromatography Plates, And Functionalization Of Porous Graphitic Carbon, David S. Jensen

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation contains the following sections. Chapter 1 contains a detailed description of the theory of thin layer chromatography (TLC). Chapter 2 describes the benefits and practical considerations of elevated temperatures in liquid chromatography (LC). The porous graphitic carbon (PGC) I modified as part of my work is often used in elevated temperature LC. Chapter 3 shows a thermodynamic analysis of chromatographic retention at elevated temperature, and Chapter 4 contains a closer look at the van 't Hoff equation in LC and how it can be used in retention modeling. In Chapter 5, I describe a new procedure for microfabricating …


November 26, 2012, The Daily Mississippian Nov 2012

November 26, 2012, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.


Infrared Optical Path Adjustment Method For Common-Path Optical Coherence Tomography, Yanjun Li, Zhongdong Liu, Yinan Zhang, Hai Xiao Nov 2012

Infrared Optical Path Adjustment Method For Common-Path Optical Coherence Tomography, Yanjun Li, Zhongdong Liu, Yinan Zhang, Hai Xiao

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

A new, common-path, in-axis concentric beam-splitting Michelson interferometer is demonstrated for optical coherence tomography (OCT), which can be used to perform high resolution cross-sectional in vivo and in situ imaging of biological tissues. a piece of glass tube with its inner diameter smaller than the beamwidth of the collimated light is used to split the light into a reference and sample beam. in order to obtain the optimal spectral interferogram of this OCT system, an infrared optical path adjustment method was introduced in this paper. © (2012) Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland.


Assembled Singlemode And Graded Index Fibers Simulating Collimator For All Fiber Common-Path Optical Coherence Tomography, Yanjun Li, Jigui Zhu, Zhongdong Liu, Hai Xiao Nov 2012

Assembled Singlemode And Graded Index Fibers Simulating Collimator For All Fiber Common-Path Optical Coherence Tomography, Yanjun Li, Jigui Zhu, Zhongdong Liu, Hai Xiao

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

A single mode fiber assembled with a specified length graded index multimode fiber as a collimator, which is used in common-path optical coherence tomography (CPOCT) is described in this paper. Compared with conventional collimator lens, this assembled fiber's structure possesses the advantages of small volume, easy to be fused or connected with other part of the CPOCT system. Furthermore, with this assembled structure and all fiber CPOCT system is constructed which has the potential to detect the internal bodily organs and tissues of human being. Numerical simulation and experiments are implemented to verify the effectiveness of this method. © (2012) …


Interviews With Mothers Of Young Children In The Seed For Oklahoma Kids College Savings Experiment, Karen Gray, Margaret Clancy, Margaret S. Sherraden, Kristen Wagner, Julie Miller-Cribbs Nov 2012

Interviews With Mothers Of Young Children In The Seed For Oklahoma Kids College Savings Experiment, Karen Gray, Margaret Clancy, Margaret S. Sherraden, Kristen Wagner, Julie Miller-Cribbs

Center for Social Development Research

Interviews With Mothers of Young Children in the SEED for Oklahoma Kids College Savings Experiment


Assets And Education Research Symposium Report–Linking Savings And Educational Outcomes: Charting A Course For Scholarship And Policy, William Elliott Iii Nov 2012

Assets And Education Research Symposium Report–Linking Savings And Educational Outcomes: Charting A Course For Scholarship And Policy, William Elliott Iii

Center for Social Development Research

Assets and Education Research Symposium Report–Linking Savings and Educational Outcomes: Charting a Course for Scholarship and Policy


The Serotonin Transporter Gene Linked Polymorphic Region Is Associated With The Behavioral Response To Repeated Stress Exposure In Infant Rhesus Macaques, Simona Spinelli, Melanie L. Schwandt, Stephen G. Lindell, Markus Heilig, Stephen J. Suomi, James Dee Higley, David Goldman, Christina S. Barr Nov 2012

The Serotonin Transporter Gene Linked Polymorphic Region Is Associated With The Behavioral Response To Repeated Stress Exposure In Infant Rhesus Macaques, Simona Spinelli, Melanie L. Schwandt, Stephen G. Lindell, Markus Heilig, Stephen J. Suomi, James Dee Higley, David Goldman, Christina S. Barr

Faculty Publications

The short allele of the serotonin transporter linked polymorphic region (5-HTTLPR) moderates the effects of stress on vulnerability to mood and anxiety disorders. The mechanism by which this occurs may relate to differential sensitivity to stressful life events. Here we explored whether 5- HTTLPR and sex affected behavioral responses to repeated maternal separation in infant rhesus macaques. Behaviors were collected during the acute (Day 1) and the chronic (Days 2–4) phases of the separation, and the effects of duration of separation (acute vs. chronic), genotype (long/long vs. short allele), and sex (male vs. female) on behavioral responses were analyzed across …


President's Weekly Perspective, 11/26/2012, Robert G. Frank Nov 2012

President's Weekly Perspective, 11/26/2012, Robert G. Frank

President Frank's Administration

No abstract provided.


Exposing England For Famine Wrongs, Ian Kilroy Nov 2012

Exposing England For Famine Wrongs, Ian Kilroy

Articles

A critical review of The Famine Plot by Tim Pat Coogan. Coogan blames English government policy for the Irish Famline.


Deafdigest: Gold Edition, November 25, 2012, Barry Strassler Nov 2012

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, November 25, 2012, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2012

No abstract provided.


Deafdigest: Blue Edition, November 25, 2012, Barry Strassler Nov 2012

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, November 25, 2012, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2012

No abstract provided.


Newsletter, Word For The Herd, November 25 - December 1, 2012, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Division Of Student Affairs Nov 2012

Newsletter, Word For The Herd, November 25 - December 1, 2012, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Division Of Student Affairs

Student Life Engagement

Newsletter with information on what's happening the week of November 25 - December 1, 2012, at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg.


Vocation: What Does It Mean To Be Called Or Led Into A Profession, Career, Or Life Project?, Jeff Rasley Nov 2012

Vocation: What Does It Mean To Be Called Or Led Into A Profession, Career, Or Life Project?, Jeff Rasley

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Article for UChicago Alumni News about alumni programming held in Fall 2012.


Perceptions And Experiences Of Adolescent Students With Disabilities Regarding "Flextime" In A Response To Intervention Model, Julie G. Daye Nov 2012

Perceptions And Experiences Of Adolescent Students With Disabilities Regarding "Flextime" In A Response To Intervention Model, Julie G. Daye

Theses and Dissertations

Attitudes of Adolescent Students with Disabilities Regarding "Flextime" in a Response to Intervention Model Julie Daye Department of Counseling Psychology and Special Education, BYU Educational Specialist in School Psychology One of the stumbling blocks to implementing Response to Intervention (RTI) in a secondary school is finding time for students to receive second level instruction. Evidence of effective implementation of RTI in elementary schools is more prevalent than in secondary schools. There is limited information on how to restructure school time and other resources in order to successfully implement RTI in secondary schools. Evidence is also limited regarding the impact of …


Musings In Returning Home, Moniqa Beatty Nov 2012

Musings In Returning Home, Moniqa Beatty

2012-13 Postcards

Postcard from Moniqa Beatty, during the Linfield College Semester Abroad Program at Kanto Gakuin University in Yokohama, Japan


Effects Of Motivation On Reward And Attentional Networks: An Fmri Study, Iliyan Ivanov, Xun Liu, Suzanne Clerkin, Kurt Schulz, Karl Friston, Jeffrey H. Newcorn, Jin Fan Nov 2012

Effects Of Motivation On Reward And Attentional Networks: An Fmri Study, Iliyan Ivanov, Xun Liu, Suzanne Clerkin, Kurt Schulz, Karl Friston, Jeffrey H. Newcorn, Jin Fan

Publications and Research

Existing evidence suggests that reward and attentional networks function in concert and that activation in one system influences the other in a reciprocal fashion; however, the nature of these influences remains poorly understood. We therefore developed a three-component task to assess the interaction effects of reward anticipation and conflict resolution on the behavioral performance and the activation of brain reward and attentional systems. Sixteen healthy adult volunteers aged 21–45 years were scanned with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while performing the task. A two-way repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) with cue (reward vs. non-reward) and target (congruent vs. incongruent) …


Florida Sentinel Bulletin, November 23, 2012, Gwen Hayes Nov 2012

Florida Sentinel Bulletin, November 23, 2012, Gwen Hayes

Florida Sentinel Bulletin Collection

The November 23, 2012, issue of the Florida Sentinel Bulletin. Included are articles on President Barack Obama's approval rating and fundraising totals from the 2012 campaign cycle.


Mps Asks Constitutional Court To Review Bad Bank Referendum Motion, Slovene Press Agency (Sta) Nov 2012

Mps Asks Constitutional Court To Review Bad Bank Referendum Motion, Slovene Press Agency (Sta)

Documents

No abstract provided.


Murray Ledger And Times, November 23, 2012, Murray Ledger And Times Nov 2012

Murray Ledger And Times, November 23, 2012, Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.