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Persuading Others To Avoid Persuasion: Inoculation Theory And Resistant Health Attitudes, Josh Compton, Ben Jackson, James A. Dimmock

Dartmouth Scholarship

Inoculation theory, a theory of conferring resistance to persuasive influence, has established efficacy as a messaging strategy in the health domain. In fact, the earliest research on the theory in the 1960s involved health issues to build empirical support for tenets in the inoculation framework. Over the ensuing decades, scholars have further examined the effectiveness of inoculation-based messages at creating robust positive health attitudes. We overview these efforts, highlight the structure of typical inoculation-based health messages, and describe the similarities and differences between this method of counter-persuasion and other preparatory techniques commonly employed by health researchers and practitioners. Finally, we …

Opinion: Why Protect Nature? Rethinking Values And The Environment, Kai M. A. Chan, Patricia Balvanera, Karina Benessaiah, Mollie Chapman, Sandra Díaz, Erik Gómez-Baggethun, Rachelle Gould, Neil Hannahs, Kurt Jax, Sarah Klain, Gary W. Luck, Berta Martin-Lopez, Barbara Muraca, Bryan Norton, Konrad Ott, Et Al.

Environment and Society Faculty Publications

A cornerstone of environmental policy is the debate over protecting nature for humans’ sake (instrumental values) or for nature’s (intrinsic values) (1). We propose that focusing only on instrumental or intrinsic values may fail to resonate with views on personal and collective well-being, or “what is right,” with regard to nature and the environment. Without complementary attention to other ways that value is expressed and realized by people, such a focus may inadvertently promote worldviews at odds with fair and desirable futures. It is time to engage seriously with a third class of values, one with diverse roots and current …

Kim Kardashian’S Morning Sickness: How The Fda Regulates Consumer Advertising On Social Media, Dinora Smith

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal (AELJ) Blog

In early August 2015, the Queen of the Internet, Miss Kim Kardashian West, caught the eyes of the Food and Drug Administration via her Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts. The reality TV star was then pregnant with her second child, and wrote this message to her followers promoting the morning sickness drug Diclegis.

This post was originally published on the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal website on February 9, 2016. The original post can be accessed via the Archived Link button above.

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

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Promoting The 3rs To Enhance The Oecd Fish Toxicity Testing Framework., Th Hutchinson, Jr Wheeler, A Gourmelon, N Burden

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Fish toxicity testing has been conducted since the 1860's in order to help define safe levels of chemical contaminants in lakes, rivers and coastal waters. The historical emphasis on acute lethality testing of chemicals has more recently focussed on long term sublethal effects of chemicals on fish and their prey species. Fish toxicity testing is now embedded in much environment legislation on chemical safety while it is recognized that animal use should be Replaced, Reduced and Refined (the 3Rs) where possible. The OECD Fish Toxicity Testing Framework provides a useful structure with which to address the needs of environmental safety …

The Parthenon, February 9, 2016, Megan Osborne

The Parthenon

The Parthenon, Marshall University’s student newspaper, was published by students Monday through Friday during the regular semester and weekly on Thursdays during the summer. Due to budgetary constraints, beginning with the 2015 Fall semester, the newspaper is only published four days a week. There is no issue on Mondays, physical issues are printed on Tuesdays and Fridays, and online issues only are published on Wednesdays and Thursdays. The editorial staff is responsible for the news and the editorial content.

A Pharmaceutical Park Place: Why The Supreme Court Should Modify The Scope Of The Patent Test For Reverse Payment Deals, David Ernest Balajthy

Journal of Intellectual Property Law

No abstract provided.

The American Invents Act And The Best Mode Requirement: Where Do We Go From Here?, Andrew Thomas Robinson

Journal of Intellectual Property Law

No abstract provided.

Urban Ecology & Conservation Symposium 2016: 14th Annual (Abstracts), Urban Ecosystem Research Consortium Of Portland/Vancouver

Urban Ecosystem Research Consortium of Portland/Vancouver

The UERC is a consortium of people from various universities and colleges, state and federal agencies, local governments, non-profit organizations and independent professionals interested in supporting urban ecosystem research and creating an information-sharing network of people that collect and use ecological data in the Portland/Vancouver area.

UERC Mission Statement:

To advance the state of the science of urban ecosystems and improve our understanding of them, with a focus on the Portland/Vancouver metropolitan region, by fostering communication and collaboration among researchers, managers and citizens at academic institutions, public agencies, local governments, non-profit organizations, and other interested groups.

The principal organizers span …

Religion, Local Produce And Sustainability At Religious Sites In Hungary, Alan Clarke, Ágnes Raffay

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

There is a growing awareness of sustainable practices at religious tourism sites and we have observed this in Hungary, with the focus shifting from one aspect of sustainability to incorporating all three major aspects, the environmental, the economic and the socio-cultural (Rees and Wackernagel, 1996). Although the economic aspect used to be predominant (Shackley, 2001; Mangeloja, 2003) now we can find more examples of practices that aim to promote socio-cultural sustainability, while taking the natural environment also into account (Tanguay et al, 2010).

Several religious tourism sites have started to offer local produce in their souvenir shops and to incorporate …

Continuous Measurements Of Dissolved Ne, Ar, Kr, And Xe Ratios With A Field-Deployable Gas Equilibration Mass Spectrometer, Cara C. Manning, Rachel H.R. Stanley, Dempsey E. Lott Iii

Faculty Research and Scholarship

Noble gases dissolved in natural waters are useful tracers for quantifying physical processes. Here, we describe a field-deployable gas equilibration mass spectrometer (GEMS) that provides continuous, real-time measurements of Ne, Ar, Kr, and Xe mole ratios in natural waters. Gas is equilibrated with a membrane contactor cartridge and measured with a quadrupole mass spectrometer, after in-line purification with reactive metal alloy getters. We use an electron energy of 35 V for Ne to eliminate isobaric interferences, and a higher electron energy for the other gases to improve sensitivity. The precision is 0.7% or better and 1.0% or better for all …

The Tiger Vol. 110 Issue 9 2016-02-08, Clemson University

Tiger Newspapers 2016

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Dissolved Organic Carbon From The Upper Rio Negro Protects Zebrafish (Danio Rerio) Against Ionoregulatory Disturbances Caused By Low Ph Exposure, Rafael M. Duarte, D. Scott Smith, Adalberto L. Val, Chris M. Wood

Chemistry Faculty Publications

The so-called “blackwaters” of the Amazonian Rio Negro are rich in highly coloured dissolved organic carbon (DOC), but ion-poor and very acidic, conditions that would cause fatal ionoregulatory failure in most fish. However these blackwaters support 8% of the world’s ichthyofauna. We tested the hypothesis that native DOC provides protection against ionoregulatory dysfunction in this extreme environment. DOCs were isolated by reverse-osmosis from two Rio Negro sites. Physico-chemical characterization clearly indicated a terrigenous origin, with a high proportion of hydroxyl and phenolic sites, high chemical reactivity to protons, and unusual proteinaceous fluorescence. When tested using zebrafish (a model organism), Rio …

Communiqué, February 8, 2016, Lindenwood University

Communiqué

The Communiqué was the faculty/staff newsletter for Lindenwood University/College from 1982 to 2016.

The Statesman, V. 59, I.17, Stony Brook University

Stony Brook Statesman-Sucolian

v. 59;i. 17

Current, February 08, 2016, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

Current (2010s)

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Lost Your Lightsaber Find Your Force And Prepare For The Fair, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

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The Rider (2016-02-08), Jesus Sanchez

The Rider Archives

Vol.1 No.18

College Voice Vol. 99 No. 7, Connecticut College

2015-2016

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Constrained Total Energy Expenditure And Metabolic Adaptation To Physical Activity In Adult Humans, Herman Pontzer, Ramon Durazo-Arvizu, Lara R. Dugas, Jacob Plange-Rhule, Pascal Bovet, Terrence E. Forrester, Estelle V. Lambert, Richard S. Cooper, Dale A. Schoeller, Amy Luke

Faculty Publications

Current obesity prevention strategies recommend increasing daily physical activity, assuming that increased activity will lead to corresponding increases in total energy expenditure and prevent or reverse energy imbalance and weight gain [1-3]. Such Additive total energy expenditure models are supported by exercise intervention and accelerometry studies reporting positive correlations between physical activity and total energy expenditure [4] but are challenged by ecological studies in humans and other species showing that more active populations do not have higher total energy expenditure [5-8]. Here we tested a Constrained total energy expenditure model, in which total energy expenditure increases with physical activity at …

Art Influences Hiv Persistence In The Female Reproductive Tract And Cervicovaginal Secretions, Rikke Olesen, Michael D. Swanson, Martina Kovarova, Tomonori Nochi, Morgan Chateau, Jenna B. Honeycutt, Julie M. Long, Paul W. Denton, Michael G. Hudgens, Amy Richardson, Martin Tolstrup, Lars Østergaard, Angela Wahl, J. Victor Garcia

Biology Faculty Publications

The recently completed HIV prevention trials network study 052 is a landmark collaboration demonstrating that HIV transmission in discordant couples can be dramatically reduced by treating the infected individual with antiretroviral therapy (ART). However, the cellular and virological events that occur in the female reproductive tract (FRT) during ART that result in such a drastic decrease in transmission were not studied and remain unknown. Here, we implemented an in vivo model of ART in BM/liver/thymus (BLT) humanized mice in order to better understand the ability of ART to prevent secondary HIV transmission. We demonstrated that the entire FRT of BLT …

Daily Eastern News: Feburary 08, 2016, Eastern Illinois University

February

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Curriculum Minutes 02/08/2016, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Minutes

In these minutes: Course Approvals, Request for Gen Ed Designator on Directed Study, Continued General Education Discussion, and Sustainability Leaders of the Future Program: Possible Implications for the Curriculum

The New Hampshire, Vol. 105 [106], No. 27 (Feb. 8, 2016), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 105, but it is the 106th volume in the series.

Week Of February 8, 2016, New York Medical College

InTouch

• Prominent Yale Scientist Will Address the 28th Annual Graduate Student Research Forum
• AOA History of Medicine Visiting Professor Lecture Kicks Off Black History Month

Meet The Researcher: Jeffrey Foster, Lori Tyler Gula

UNH Today Archive

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Mechanical Evidence That Australopithecus Sediba Was Limited In Its Ability To Eat Hard Foods, Justin A. Ledogar, Amanda L. Smith, Stefano Benazzi, Gerhard W. Weber, Mark A. Spencer, Keely B. Carlson, Kieran P. Mcnulty, Paul C. Dechow, Ian R. Grosse, Callum F. Ross, Brian G. Richmond, Barth Wright, Qian Wang, Craig Byron, Kristian J. Carlson, Darryl J. De Ruiter, Lee R. Berger, Kelli Tamvada, Leslie C. Pryor, Michael A. Berthaume, David S. Strait

Faculty and Staff Publications

Australopithecus sediba has been hypothesized to be a close relative of the genus Homo. Here we show that MH1, the type specimen of A. sediba, was not optimized to produce high molar bite force and appears to have been limited in its ability to consume foods that were mechanically challenging to eat. Dental microwear data have previously been interpreted as indicating that A. sediba consumed hard foods, so our findings illustrate that mechanical data are essential if one aims to reconstruct a relatively complete picture of feeding adaptations in extinct hominins. An implication of our study is that the key …

The Free Press Vol. 47, Issue No. 14, 02-08-2016, Krysteana Scribner

Free Press, The

Arbitrator rules faculty layoffs justified at USM -- Rent prices at all time high while USM explores new options -- What is Enlightenment? Kant’s essay 230 years later -- Maine is one of 13 states that has a caucus, here’s how it works -- Students gather to discuss culture’s role in advising

Modeling Lotic Organism Populations With Partial Differential Equations, Chase Viss, Tom Clark, Eric Eager

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

We present in this paper a mathematical model for a population of caddisfly larvae in the Upper Mississippi River, which can either live in the current of the water or fix themselves to large wood debris submerged throughout the river. The model consists of a system of partial differential equations which captures these coupled dynamics. After introducing the model, we give a qualitative analysis of the dynamics, which includes a steady state solution followed by a numerical solution to the system using a finite difference scheme implemented in R. Finally, we extend the model to a competitive system with the …

Medical School Watercooler Newsletter - February 7, 2016, Lindsey Lyle

Watercooler Newsletter

This is the February 7, 2016 edition of the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine's newsletter - Watercooler.

Contents Include:

• Dr. John Howell Named Medical Director for University Physicians Group
• Feb. 16 DSS to Feature Dr. Peter Strick
• February Med School Café - 'Preparing for Race Day'
• Pediatrics Hosting Grand Rounds Next Week