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The Positive Effects Of Fathering And The Negative Effects Of A Father’S Absence In The Lives Of Children From Infancy To Early Adulthood: A Review Of The Literature

Intuition: The BYU Undergraduate Journal of Psychology

Paternal involvement is a crucial variable in the development of a child’s internalizing and externalizing behaviors. The negative effects of a father’s absence present many risk factors for children. This review of the literature seeks to combine the research surrounding the positive effects that paternal involvement yields in the lives of children, the negative effects of a father’s absence, the various variables that impede paternal involvement, and the possible interventions or replacements for fathers in the lives of children. Although many impeding factors have been identified, little research has been done to find a possible intervention. According to the research …

An Overview Of The Nature–Nurture Debate And A Proposed New Paradigm

Intuition: The BYU Undergraduate Journal of Psychology

The roots of the nature-nurture debate within psychology are briefly reviewed. Nature (that is, genetic influence) and nurture (social-environmental influence) offer two distinct perspectives on human personality and behavior. However, despite their differences, the two perspectives are philosophically identical in that both, when carried to the extreme, result in the disintegration of personal accountability and agency. The arguments for nature and for nurture imply an outward locus of control: either one’s genes or one’s history of social influences may be considered to adequately account for how a person behaves. Neither of these arguments gives an individual control over one’s course …

Self-Esteem

Intuition: The BYU Undergraduate Journal of Psychology

Although self-esteem is a well-researched topic, there are some aspects of self-esteem that have been left out of the research. The I’ve Got Self-Esteem Questionnaire (IGSEQ), a 10-item measure, seeks to balance the existing research focusing on mother-figure support and inborn aspects of appearance by conversely evaluating self-esteem through the domains of father-figure support and controllable aspects of appearance, such as personal hygiene and grooming. Using a 4-point Likert scale, the IGSEQ was administered to a convenience sample of 101 college-age students (64 female and 37 male). The IGSEQ demonstrated acceptable internal consistency (α = .73) and had acceptable content …

Latter-Day Saint Religious Media And Perfectionsim

Intuition: The BYU Undergraduate Journal of Psychology

Links between exposure to religious media and perfectionism were investigated in 121 Latter-day Saint (LDS), Brigham Young University students. Random assignment was given to view an LDS religious video or no video, after which participants filled out a questionnaire assessing the effects of LDS media on perfectionism. The 35- item Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (FMPS) scored students’ perfectionism. Our hypothesis, that viewing an LDS religious video would increase adaptive perfectionism scores and decrease maladaptive scores, was not supported. However, a post-hoc analysis showed a significant interaction effect between gender and video exposure among single participants. Unmarried males had lower perfectionism …

Notetaking And Recall Of Auditory And Visual Information: A Pilot Study

Intuition: The BYU Undergraduate Journal of Psychology

Does notetaking affect performance on recall tests? Past research has generally found that notetaking improves performance, but all of these studies have focused on recall of auditory information. The current study was intended as a pilot study to examine the effect of notetaking method on both immediate and delayed recall, as well as both audio and visual recall. Eighteen undergraduate psychology students in the same psychology class at a major, private university watched a 5-minute video clip and then immediately completed a 29-question test. When tested 48 hours later, participants completed a similar 29-question test. Though no significant statistical results …

The Rise Of Single-Child Families: Psychologically Harming The Child?

Intuition: The BYU Undergraduate Journal of Psychology

The number of single-child families continues to increase yearly due to financial burdens, social contexts, and even governmental restraints (Wong, 2005). While having only one child might be easier financially (Griffin, 2002), what are the psychological costs of single-child families in relation to an only-child? This literature review explains how despite only-children typically being more creative and intellectual, many problems surface due to having no siblings. It is generally found that only-children lack social and emotional ability because of not having siblings with which to interact. Only-children also tend to experience increased parental pressure. These problems typically last throughout an …

Interview With Current Graduate Students

Intuition: The BYU Undergraduate Journal of Psychology

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Reviews

Differentia: Review of Italian Thought

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Drone-Enabled Remote Sensing For Transportation Infrastructure Assessment, Colin Brooks

INSPIRE Archived Webinars

Unmanned aerial systems (UAS or “drones”) are a rapidly developing technology that can help meet the needs of transportation agencies for reliable, repeatable data that can save money and increase safety for the data collection process. By taking advantage of flexible platforms that can deploy a variety of sensors, transportation agencies and their information suppliers can help meet these data needs for operations, asset management, and other areas. Location-specific data on infrastructure condition and distresses can help with improved management of assets.

In this presentation, recent applied research led by a Michigan Technological University team is reviewed, with a focus …

Changing Watch Style And Functionality To Match Fashion Products, Matthew Tait

Defensive Publications Series

The disclosed techniques enable automatic configuration of a wearable computing device, e.g., a smartwatch, to match style and/or functionality to fashion product or accessories. With user permission, the smartwatch obtains information about the fashion product via short-range communication technology, e.g., by reading a near field communication (NFC) tag in fashion products, e.g., jackets, handbags, shoes, etc. Information from the tag is used to identify characteristics of the fashion product such as function, brand, color, style, etc. The smartwatch is automatically configured to update style and/or function to match the identified characteristics.

Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center: History Of Innovation 1960-2015, Advocate Aurora Health

Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center Books, Documents, and Pamphlets

Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center: This timeline presents milestones in cardiac care at Aurora St Luke's Medical Center from 1960 to 2015.

The History Of St. Luke’S Heart Care, 1956-2002, Advocate Aurora Health

Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center Books, Documents, and Pamphlets

Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center: This timeline presents many of the "firsts" in heart care achieved by Aurora St Luke's Medical Center from 1956 to 2002. These are first in Wisconsin, the Midwest, or the United States. The firsts in Wisconsin include the first heart pump, cardiac catheterization program, and coronary artery stent.

Ethical Sensitivity In The Academic Setting, Rebecca Friedman

NERA Conference Proceedings 2017

Character education programming is gaining popularity in America’s schools as one possible way to raise an intelligent and caring generation of students. However, many schools fail to allocate time, money, and resources to such initiatives. The present study examined the impact of an ethical sensitivity intervention in a religiously affiliated independent school. A self-report Likert scale and analytic rubric were used to measure development of different sub-skills of ethical sensitivity in fourth and fifth grade students (N = 25) before and after the intervention over a two-month period. Results suggest that degree of ethical sensitivity increased over the course of …

Location Of Writing Instruments Using Position Sensing Diodes In Stereo Configuration, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure relates to a position determination system and related method for accurately and rapidly capturing the position of an input device (e.g., a stylus). The position determination system can include an input device such as a writing instrument that includes a light emitting diode (LED) that can be detected by two or more position sensing diodes. The position sensing diodes (PSDs) can generate a bias voltage proportional to the position of a point (e.g., a brightest point) of light incident to the surface of the PSDs. As a result, based on the position of the LEDs relative to …

Automatic Context-Based Alerts For Content Sharing, Matthew Sharifi, Jakob Foerster

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes techniques for automatic detection of unintentional sharing of content. A user attempt to share content, e.g., from a clipboard via a paste operation, is detected. With user permission, the clipboard contents and the context in which the content is being shared are analyzed to determine suitability of the content to the context. An alert is provided to the user upon detection that sharing the content is likely unintentional.

Ranking And Automatic Selection Of Machine Learning Models Abstract, Sandro Feuz, Victor Carbune

Defensive Publications Series

Generally, the present disclosure is directed to an API for ranking and automatic selection from competing machine learning models that can perform a particular task. In particular, in some implementations, the systems and methods of the present disclosure can include or otherwise leverage one or more machine-learned models to provide to a software application one or more machine learning models from different providers. The trained models are suited to a task or data type specified by the developer. The one or more models are selected from a registry of machine learning models, their task specialties, cost, and performance, such that …

Visual Search Using Automatically Annotated Images, Alexander Haubold

Defensive Publications Series

Users interested in obtaining content related to certain concepts sometimes struggle with identifying suitable textual search terms. Users may be unable to formulate a query due to limitations of vocabulary, lack of language skills, lack of knowledge of the specific topic, etc. This disclosure describes techniques to enable a user to conduct a visual search and exploration using images with textual annotations that correspond to objects and concepts in the images. The textual annotations are analogous to hyperlinks, and are used by a search engine to obtain and display search results to the user. The search results can be text …

Automatic Generation Of Affiliate Links, Abhijit Chandgadkar, Eugenio Marchiori

Defensive Publications Series

Online publishers that create new content are dissatisfied with currently available advertising formats, e.g., due to a belief that some current advertising formats spoil customer experience or drive customers away from their websites. This disclosure uses a single script within an online publisher website to automatically insert affiliate links within the publisher’s content. Upon execution, these script sends a request an online advertising provider. Page content is analyzed using machine learning techniques to identify entities that refer to products. The identified products are matched with products available for sale from an online vendor and corresponding links are provided to the …

Method For Media Content Selection Based On Historical Presence Duration, Justin Lewis, Richard Rapp

Defensive Publications Series

A method is disclosed for media content selection based on historical presence duration. The method includes running a MapReduce model over ad visibility logs and building a key for each ad impression opportunity. For each key, a model is built that describes the visibility distribution over time. The MapReduce calculates the percentage of impressions that pass the visibility time threshold and stores it in a data store. At ad serving time the advertising service determines the minimum view-through rate time threshold for each candidate advertisement. The method then involves calculating the likelihood that the user will view the advertisement long …

Selective Provision Of Notifications To Devices That Are Offline, Victor Cărbune, Sandro Feuz

Defensive Publications Series

Client mobile devices that are offline are unable to receive notifications via the internet. This disclosure describes techniques to selectively transmit important notifications via alternate channels such as phone calls, SMS, etc. to client mobile devices that are offline. A machine learning model is trained to predict importance scores for incoming notifications, based on training data that includes human-provided ground truth scores. The trained machine learning model ranks the importance of various notifications. The techniques ensure that important notifications are delivered even when a client mobile device is disconnected from the internet.

Volumetric Rotational Control, Michael Alger

Defensive Publications Series

Techniques are described that utilize a volumetric rotational control that can be activated and controlled in an intuitive manner using natural movements. To use the volumetric rotational control, the user operates a virtual reality (VR) controller to virtually touch a VR object that represents a selectable control that includes a collider. A collider is a physics object that can be added to a virtual object to give the virtual object “physical” properties and cause the virtual object to be subject to the “physics” of the VR environment. The user activates the volumetric rotational control by causing the VR controller to …

Cyclical Data Presentation With A Helical Display, Michael Alger

Defensive Publications Series

Techniques are described that enable cyclical data presentation with a helical display. A helix, which is a particular form of a spiral, is generally not used for conventional data presentations because it can be difficult to understand in two-dimensional (2D) presentations. In a three-dimensional (3D) presentation, however, such as in a VR environment, helices, curls, and spirals are well-known forms and can be used for data presentation. In particular, cyclical information can be presented in embedded helices in which the helical shape is used to display cycles within cycles continuing in one or more directions. For example, a 3D helical …

Adjustable Conical Laser, Michael Alger

Defensive Publications Series

Techniques are described that enable a virtual laser pointer with an adjustable conical laser. The adjustable conical laser includes a main ray, like a conventional virtual laser pointer, but also provides a conical laser that expands the user’s target area. When the user misses the intended target with the main ray, the VR system can use the cone to determine the likely target. If the cone intersects a single object, the VR system selects that object. If the cone does not intersect any objects, the VR system can expand the cone and determine if any objects intersect the expanded cone. …

Text Field With Volumetric Input, Michael Alger

Defensive Publications Series

Techniques are described that utilize a text field with volumetric input that can accept text or a virtual reality (VR) object that represents text. To use the text field with volumetric input, the user selects a virtual object that represents the environment that the user wants to be immersed in and puts the virtual object in the text field. For example, the user may speak, gesture, or use a controller (e.g., a VR controller such as a laser pointer) to select a virtual object that represents a game.

The Evolution Of The Krüppel-Like Factor Gene Family And Their Function During Embryonic Development In The Ctenophore Mnemiopsis Leidyi, Jason Scott Presnell

Open Access Dissertations

How modifications during development influence large-scale evolutionary changes is a major emphasis in the field of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo). Comparing the underlying cellular and molecular basis of development in diverse organisms can provide insight into how alterations of these processes contribute to morphological diversity. Ctenophores, or comb jellies, are a phylum of marine invertebrates and, due to their unique phylogenetic position as one of the earliest branching lineages of extant animals, are an ideal system for investigating the origin and evolution of metazoan character traits. For example, the animal through-gut is thought to have originated in the metazoan stem …

On The Interaction Between Superabsorbent Hydrogels And Cementitious Materials, Khashayar Farzanian

Open Access Dissertations

Autogenous shrinkage induced cracking is a major concern in high performance concretes (HPC), which are produced with low water to cement ratios. Internal curing to maintain high relative humidity in HPC with the use of an internal water reservoir has proven effective in mitigating autogenous shrinkage in HPC. Superabsorbent polymers (SAP) or hydrogels have received increasing attention as an internal curing agent in recent years. A key advantage of SAP is its versatility in size distribution and absorption/desorption characteristics, which allow it to be adapted to specific mix designs. Understanding the behavior of superabsorbent hydrogels in cementitious materials is critical …

Year In Review: Stories Of Who We Are, Jill Rodrigues

Featured News Story

A look back at the stories from 2017 that celebrate who we are and what we do at RWU.

Showcasing Student Art On Campus And In Local Community, Juan Siliezar

Featured News Story

Arts on Campus program provides professional venues for RWU community to exhibit and see creative work.

Rwu School Of Continuing Studies Partnering With Westerly Education Center, Edward Fitzpatrick

Featured News Story

University will offer four courses in Westerly during semester starting Jan. 24.

2017 December 13 -- Agenda And Attachments

Agendas and Minutes

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