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Decentering Anthropocentrisms: A Functional Approach To Animal Minds, Matthew C. Altman

Between the Species

Anthropocentric biases manifest themselves in two different ways in research on animal cognition. Some researchers claim that only humans have the capacity for reasoning, beliefs, and interests; and others attribute mental concepts to nonhuman animals on the basis of behavioral evidence, and they conceive of animal cognition in more or less human terms. Both approaches overlook the fact that language-use deeply informs mental states, such that comparing human mental states to the mental states of nonlinguistic animals is misguided. In order to avoid both pitfalls -- assuming that animals have mental lives just like we do, or assuming that they …

Ndls Update 11/12/2013, Notre Dame Law School

NDLS Update

No abstract provided.

The Prospector, November 12, 2013, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: We Haven't Forgotten About You: Three Wars, One Story

Assessment And Revision Of Clinical Pharmacy Practice Internet Websites, Krystal L. Edwards, Marissa C. Salvo, Kristina E. Ward, Russell T. Attridge, Katie Kiser, Nathan A. Pinner, Patrick J. Gallegos, Lori Lynn Kesteloot, Ann Hylton, P. Brandon Bookstaver

Pharmacy Practice and Clinical Research Faculty Publications

Background:

Health care professionals, trainees, and patients use the Internet extensively. Editable Web sites may contain inaccurate, incomplete, and/or outdated information that may mislead the public’s perception of the topic.

Objective:

To evaluate the editable, online descriptions of clinical pharmacy and pharmacist and attempt to improve their accuracy.

Methods:

The authors identified key areas within clinical pharmacy to evaluate for accuracy and appropriateness on the Internet. Current descriptions that were reviewed on public domain Web sites included: (1) clinical pharmacy and the clinical pharmacist, (2) pharmacy education, (3) clinical pharmacy and development and provision for reimbursement, (4) clinical pharmacists and …

The Daily Gamecock, Tuesday, November 12, 2013, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

November

No abstract provided.

The Gazette November 12, 2013, Langston University

LU Gazette, 2010-2019

The student newspaper for Langston University

Mentoring As It Relates To Persistence In Associate Degree Nursing Students, Caroline M. Peltz

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

Students who are preparing to become registered nurses are more likely to attend community colleges due to the unequal distribution of financial resources to educational systems that have evolved from the impact of globalization. The purpose of this descriptive cross-sectional study was to increase the understanding of mentoring as it relates to the perceived ability to persist among nontraditional students enrolled in associate degree nursing programs at community colleges. This investigation presented a discussion of how student involvement in a mentoring relationship and the domains of mentoring differed by student background characteristics. Additionally, the domains of mentoring and student involvement …

A Unique Support For Sexual-Minority Identity Development: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis Of A Long-Term Formal Mentoring Relationship Between An Adult And A Youth From The Gay Community, Christian L. Rummell

Dissertations and Theses

An important need exists to build a baseline understanding of the phenomenon of formal mentoring relationships involving adults and youth from the gay community. During the formative years when gay adolescents navigate through the process of understanding, defining, accepting, and sharing their identity as a sexual minority, they are often faced with high levels of environmental risks, including victimization, stress, and negative social sanctions by others. Formal mentoring has been recommended as a potential strategy to offer unique one-to-one support to gay youth that can help to foster resilience and a range of positive outcomes, including strengthening processes involved in …

The Impacts Of Change In Governance On Faculty And Staff At Higher Education Institutions: A Case Study Of Ohsu, Dana L. Director

Dissertations and Theses

In the early 1990s, Oregon Health and Science University leadership examined the political and economic landscape and determined it needed a new operational model to survive and thrive. In 1995 OHSU separated from the state higher education system and became a public corporation, with goals of increased efficiency, customer-focus, ability to attract world-class researchers and physicians, and salaries commensurate with an urban academic health center.

This research examines the internal impacts when universities undergo significant change, using OHSU's governance change as a case study. Central is the question: what effect(s) did OHSU's decision to become a unique public corporation have …

The Bg News November 12, 2013, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. November 12, 2013. Volume 93-Issue 34.

The Daily Egyptian, November 12, 2013, Daily Egyptian Staff

November 2013

No abstract provided.

Crow's Nest, November 12, 2013, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The November 12, 2013, issue of the Crow's Nest.

Identifying Authors By Phonoprints In Their Characters’ Names: An Exploratory Study, Bruce L. Brown, Brad Wilcox, Wendy Baker Smemoe, Sharon Black, Justin Bray

Faculty Publications

If authors put words together in ways that can be recognized as wordprints (Hilton, 1990; Morton, 1979; Archer et al., 1997), do they put sounds together in identifiable ways when they invent names? Could they have unique sound prints (phonoprints) as well? This exploratory study compared phonemic patterns of fictional names in the poorly written Manuscript Story by Spalding and the extremely well-written Lord of the Rings and related works by J. R. R. Tolkein with names from an authentic public record, the nineteenth-century US Census. Phonotactic probabilities were determined using a calculator (Vitevitch and Luce, 2004) available on the …

Dixon V. State Appellant's Brief Dckt. 39745

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

Influences On Consumers' Recycling Intentions Of Compact Fluorescent Lamps—Mercury As A Factor, David M. K. Treumann, Jonna Holland

Marketing & Entrepreneurship Faculty Publications

The purpose of the current study is to understand consumers’ behavioral intentions in situations involving both positive and negative potential impacts on the environment. The case of energy efficient Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs) with their potential for mercury pollution is an example of this type of trade-off. Past studies have confirmed the usefulness of the Theory of Reasoned Action for identifying the antecedents influencing recycling rates, however, none have looked at situations where conflicting environmental trade-offs were involved. Stepwise regression analysis was used to develop a core model which explains R2=.561 of the intention to recycle. Significant antecedents include the …

The Composite Effect For Inverted Faces Is Reliable At Large Sample Sizes And Requires The Basic Face Configuration, Tirta Susilo, Constantin Rezlescu, Bradley Duchaine

Dartmouth Scholarship

Abstract The absence of the face composite effect (FCE) for inverted faces is often considered evidence that holistic processing operates only on upright faces. However, such absence might be explained by power issues: Most studies that have failed to find the inverted FCE tested 24 participants or less. Here we find that the inverted FCE exists reliably when we tested at least 60 participants. The inverted FCE was ∼ 18% the size of the upright FCE, and it was unaffected by testing order: It did not matter whether participants did the upright condition first (Experiment 1, n = 64) or …

Spartan Daily, November 12, 2013, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 141, Issue 32

Why Scalia Should Have Voted To Overturn Doma, Andrew Koppelman

NULR Online

No abstract provided.

Religious Values And Reading Attitudes Of Intermediate Grade Catholic School Students, Sister Mary Anne Zuberbueler O.P.

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This study investigated the relationship between religious values and attitudes toward reading religious content among intermediate grade students in Catholic schools. Students' attitudes toward academic and recreational reading were also considered. Four hundred thirty-six fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students from Catholic schools responded to a 26-item questionnaire regarding their attitudes toward recreational, academic, and religious content reading as well as their level of agreement with seven statements of religious values. Multiple regression analyses revealed a statistically significant relationship between students' religious values and their attitudes toward reading religious content. In addition, a statistically significant relationship was found for religious …

Picture Imperfect: Mug Shot Disclosures And The Freedom Of Information Act, Lisa Chinai

Seton Hall Circuit Review

No abstract provided.

Ensuring Fairness And Justice Through Consistency: Application Of The Rule 403 Balancing Test To Determine Admissibility Of Evidence Of A Criminal Defendant’S Prior Sexual Misconduct Under The Federal Rules, Jeffrey A. Palumbo

Seton Hall Circuit Review

No abstract provided.

Gsu View, 2013-11-11, Office Of Marketing And Communications

GSU View

Newsletter published by Governors State University 2007-current.

What I'Ve Learned To Expect, Natalie S. Sherif

SURGE

“Hey bitch!” someone yelled.

“Biiitttch!” I heard again from the car.

Music blared from inside. I pretended not to notice. Don’t give them the satisfaction, I thought. Don’t do something you’ll regret. So I stood there until the cars stopped whizzing past, pretending to ignore a car of boys yelling insults.

When the light changed, I hurried across Carlisle Street, got into my room, and lost it.

I was furious. Being reduced to an insult while walking home from a movie for class is infuriating. But, what really got under my skin was that incidents like this seem commonplace. While …

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (November 11, 2013), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

No abstract provided.

Sensitivity Of Health Related Indices Is A Non-Decreasing Function Of Their Partitions, Fragiskos Bersimis, Demosthenes Panagiotakos, Malvina Vamvakari

Journal of Statistics Applications & Probability

This work aims to theoretically evaluate whether the number k of partitions of a discrete variable X affects the sensitivity Se(X) of a binary health outcome Y. The distribution of variable X was either unknown or the uniform. Thus, two discrete random variables Xk and Xk+1 with k and k+1 partitions, respectively, were considered. In addition, a random variable Y that indicates the actual health status of an individual was also considered. The case of the composite index Tkm which is formed by the sum of m variables Xk j , j = 1,2, . . . ,m either when …

Commonwealth Times 2013-11-11

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

No abstract provided.

The Collegian (2013-11-11), Cleiri Quezada

UTB/TSC Archives - The Collegian [Newspaper]

Vol. 66, No. 12

Bjc Today

BJC Today

No abstract provided.

Pkmζ Differentially Utilized Between Sexes For Remote Long-Term Spatial Memory, Veronica Sebastian, Tatyana Vergel, Raheela Baig, Lisa M. Schrott, Peter A. Serrano

Publications and Research

It is well established that male rats have an advantage in acquiring place-learning strategies, allowing them to learn spatial tasks more readily than female rats. However many of these differences have been examined solely during acquisition or in 24h memory retention. Here, we investigated whether sex differences exist in remote long-term memory, lasting 30d after training, and whether there are differences in the expression pattern of molecular markers associated with long-term memory maintenance. Specifically, we analyzed the expression of protein kinase M zeta (PKMζ) and the α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA) receptor subunit GluA2. To adequately evaluate memory retention, we used a …

Lanthorn, Vol. 48, No. 24, November 11, 2013, Grand Valley State University

Volume 48, July 1, 2013 - June 2, 2014

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