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Temporal Expectations In Delay Of Gratification, Jeremy M. Haynes, Mariah E. Willis-Moore, D. Perez, Devanio J. Cousins, Amy L. Odum

Psychology Faculty Publications

We examined how temporal expectations influence preference reversals in a delay of gratification task for rats based on a hypothesis of Rachlin (2000), who suggested that preference for a larger-later reward may shift in favor of a smaller-immediate reward as a result of changes in when that larger reward is expected. To explore Rachlin’s hypothesis, we pre-exposed two groups of rats to the delays associated with a larger-later reinforcer from a delay of gratification task. One group experienced the delays as a function of their choices in an intertemporal choice task and the other group experienced delays yoked from the …

Memorandum – Final Revised - Recommended Qualification For Select Dust Cassette Data, Lester J. Dupes, Rock J. Vitale

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Random Forest Modeling Approach To Predict Streamflow Intermittence Of Tennessee Headwaters Using Flow Conditioned Parameter Grids, Berkay Tok

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Water quality impairment in small tributaries due to soil erosion and stream degradation of West Tennessee is an ongoing problem. A method to model streamflow permanence can assist stream restoration work by supplementing ground monitoring and providing better targeting of conservation attempts in the most vulnerable areas. This project applied a random forest model by incorporating climatic and landcover data as predictors to create streamflow permanence data for the West Tennessee tributaries (Lower Mississippi-Hatchie Hydrologic Unit, HUC 4-801). Specifically, the applicability of the Flow Conditioned Parameter Grids (FCPG) process is tested to study if the process improves prediction results compared …

Sourcing The Sacred: Application Of Reflectance Spectroscopy And Linear Morphometrics To Hopewell Mortuary Chert Discs, Brian Rowe

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

ABSTRACT: Despite being one of the most intensively-studied culture phenomena of precontact North America, Hopewell peoples and their communities remain largely enigmatic outside of ceremonial earthwork sites. This research aims to examine Ohio Hopewell community by proxy of the large cache of chert bifaces disinterred from Mound 2, located at the Hopewell Mound Group (33RO27) in Ross County, Ohio. Numbering approximately 8,600 bifaces, these artifacts exhibit broadly similar macroscopic traits, and have been attributed in past archaeological literature as coming from a single source in Indiana. This research hypothesizes that this attribution is erroneous, and that the interaction of geographically …

Question Modifiers In Vqa: Evaluating Model Sensitivity, William Johnstone Britton

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a challenge problem that can advance AI by integrating several important sub-disciplines including natural language understanding and computer vision. Large VQA datasets that are publicly available for training and evaluation have driven the growth of VQA models that have obtained increasingly larger accuracy scores. However, it is also important to understand how much a model understands the details that are provided in a question. For example, studies in psychology have shown that syntactic complexity places a larger cognitive load on humans. Analogously, we want to understand if models have the perceptual capability to handle modifications …

Evaluating Executive Functions In A Proposed Animal Model Of Adhd: Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats, Joshua Lee Potter

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Evaluating animal models of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is crucial for expanding the breadth of knowledge of the disorder. Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRs) have been used for several years as an animal model of ADHD, and routinely provide new information about aspects of the disorder that contribute to behavioral and pharmaceutical treatment interventions. Twelve male and 12 female SHRs as well as 12 male and 12 female Wistar-Kyoto rats (i.e., control strain for the SHR) were acquired and tested on a series of operant tests starting postnatal day (PND) 70. These tests consisted of measures of motor and executive function …

Dispossession Of Identity And Land: Assimilation At Carlisle Indian Industrial School 1879-1884, Morgan Lane Ingram Bentley

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

In 1879, the Carlisle Barracks were placed under the care of Richard Henry Pratt in order to establish a federally funded institution for the assimilation of American Indian youth. This institution, Carlisle Indian Industrial School, would become the flagship for the experiment of American Indian education. Led by Pratt, the institution was to transform students’ understanding of their race and cultural identity. American Indian students from across the United States would attend Carlisle and be forced to assimilate by speaking English, cutting their hair, changing their names, and removing themselves from the culture of their past. Yet students did not …

Lindenwood Digest, December 7, 2022, Lindenwood University

Lindenwood Digest

The Lindenwood Digest has been a digital employee newsletter since 2009.

A Brief Review Of Dns, Root Servers, Vulnerabilities And Decentralization, Mallory Runyan

Cybersecurity Undergraduate Research Showcase

Since the 1980’s and creation of the World Wide Web, Internet utilization is a common and arguably, necessary, part of daily life. The internet is young and still relatively new, but as of 2016, 3.4 billion people were online, and that number has since grown [1]. This is a significant number, but as such a common part of daily life, how elements of the internet or its infrastructure work is complex. The world would very likely be thrown into dark ages if DNS or any other significant aspect of the internet's infrastructure were to succumb to an attack. The Colonial …

Approval Letter For The Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit (Bpsou) Annual Quality Assurance Project Plan For Butte Reduction Works (Brw) Smelter Area Mine Waste Remediation And Contaminated Groundwater Hydraulic Control Site; Phase Iii Brw Quality Assurance Project Plan (Dated November 29, 2022), Nikia Greene

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Final 2022 Residential Metals Abatement Program (Rmap) Cherokee Park Soil Remedial Action Work Plan (Rawp), Pioneer Technical Services, Inc.

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Final 2022 Residential Metals Abatement Program (Rmap) Koprivica Park Soil Remedial Action Work Plan (Rawp), Pioneer Technical Services, Inc.

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Confederate Statues In University Opinion Newspaper Articles: An Analysis Of Themes And Attachment, Jamie Nicole Knopf

Dissertations and Theses

Many have asked for Confederate monuments' removal while others argue that they should remain or be recontextualized. Knopf analyzed themes found in Southern university student newspapers on the monument issue and how the statues related to community attachment. Using thematic analysis, Knopf identified six themes across the articles, and found that both removal and recontextualization arguments refer to the ideology behind the statues and the impacts this can have on students. Instances of attachment were used in both removal and recontextualization articles.

2022-12-07 Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate., Undergraduate Curriculum Committee.

Faculty Senate Records

Undergraduate Curriculum Committee meeting minutes for December 7, 2022.

The Little Boy Who Became A Cow, Haemi Mimi Hong

Theses

The Little Boy Who Became a Cow is a retelling of an age-old Korean folktale. My adaptation tells the story of a stubbornly selfish boy who lacks respect for his mother. One morning his mother breaks a jar of milk after she is unable to open the lid. They argue after he overtly ignores his mother’s request for help cleaning up the mess. She forces him to head to the nearby farm to get some fresh milk where his selfish ways lead him to steal a magical mask that turns him into a cow. He, in his bovine form, is …

How Do Digital Lives Affect Resident Mental Health In The Digital Era? Empirical Evidence Based On Chinese General Social Survey, Yan Chen, Mengyang Wei, Jaime Ortiz

International Business and Entrepreneurship Faculty Publications

Having good mental health means we are better able to connect, function, cope and thrive. The widespread application of digital technology in daily life provides new ways and promising tools for residents to maintain their mental health. Given the importance of mental health for everyone, and the fact that mental health problems are prevalent worldwide, this study discusses how digital lives affects the mental health of residents. The results suggest that digital lives are significantly and positively associated with mental health. Mechanisms analysis identifies personal perceptions (self-rated physical exercise and subjective wellbeing) as the important paths for digital lives to …

Resilience Monitoring For Multi-Filter All-Source Navigation Framework With Assurance, Jonathon S. Gipson, Robert C. Leishman

Faculty Publications

The Autonomous and Resilient Management of All-source Sensors (ARMAS) framework monitors residual-space test statistics across unique sensor-exclusion banks of filters (known as subfilters) to provide a resilient, fault-resistant all-source navigation architecture with assurance. A critical assumption of this architecture, demonstrated in this paper, is fully overlapping state observability across all subfilters. All-source sensors, particularly those that only provide partial state information (altimeters, TDoA, AOB, etc.), do not intrinsically meet this requirement. This paper presents a novel method to monitor real-time overlapping position state observability and introduces an observability bank within the ARMAS framework, known as stable observability monitoring (SOM). SOM …

Genetic Diversity Fuels Gene Discovery For Tobacco And Alcohol Use, Gretchen R. B. Saunders, Xingyan Wang, Fang Chen, Seon-Kyeong Jang, Mengzhen Liu, Chen Wang, Shuang Gao, John Blangero, Joanne E. Curran, Ravindranath Duggirala

School of Medicine Publications

Tobacco and alcohol use are heritable behaviours associated with 15% and 5.3% of worldwide deaths, respectively, due largely to broad increased risk for disease and injury1,2,3,4. These substances are used across the globe, yet genome-wide association studies have focused largely on individuals of European ancestries5. Here we leveraged global genetic diversity across 3.4 million individuals from four major clines of global ancestry (approximately 21% non-European) to power the discovery and fine-mapping of genomic loci associated with tobacco and alcohol use, to inform function of these loci via ancestry-aware transcriptome-wide association …

Pre-Testing Effects Are Target-Specific And Are Not Driven By A Generalised State Of Curiosity, Timothy J. Hollins, Tina Seabrooke, Angus Inkster, Andy Wills, Chris J. Mitchell

School of Psychology

Guessing an answer to an unfamiliar question prior to seeing the answer leads to better memory than studying alone (the pre-testing effect), which some theories attribute to increased curiosity. A similar effect occurs in general knowledge learning: people are more likely to recall information that they were initially curious to learn. Gruber and Ranganath [(2019). How curiosity enhances hippocampus-dependent memory: The prediction, appraisal, curiosity, and exploration (PACE) framework. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 23(12), 1014–1025] argued that unanswered questions can cause a state of curiosity during which encoding is enhanced for the missing answer, but also for incidental information presented at …

Teleporting Into Walls? The Irrelevance Of The Physical World In Embodied Perspective-Taking, Sarah Salo, Steven Samuel

School of Psychology

No abstract provided.

Real-Time Hybrid Testing Of A Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Using A Surrogate-Based Aerodynamic Emulator, Edward Ransley, Scott Brown, Emma Edwards, Tom Tosdevin, Kieran Monk, Alastair Reynolds, Deborah Greaves, Martyn Hann

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

Abstract Physical modelling of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) is challenging due to the complexities associated with simultaneous application of two different scaling laws, governing the hydrodynamic and aerodynamic loading on the structure. To avoid these issues, this paper presents a real-time hybrid testing strategy in which a feedback-loop, consisting of an on-board fan, and control algorithm, is utilised to emulate the aerodynamic forces acting on the FOWT system. Here, we apply this strategy to a 70th-scale IEA Wind 15MW reference wind turbine mounted on a version of the VolturnUS-S platform. Unlike other similar methods, which directly simulate the aerodynamic …

Genetic Diversity Fuels Gene Discovery For Tobacco And Alcohol Use, Gretchen R B Saunders, Charles C Gu, John P Rice, Nancy L Saccone, Laura J Bierut, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Tobacco and alcohol use are heritable behaviours associated with 15% and 5.3% of worldwide deaths, respectively, due largely to broad increased risk for disease and injury

Protocols For Postpartum Hemorrhage, Jackleen Chambers

Symposium of Student Scholars

The occurrence of postpartum hemorrhages (PH) within the healthcare system are on the rise. The detrimental effects that can occur are extremely serious and require an intervention of education and proper training. Labor and delivery units experience traumatic PHs due to lack of proper training regarding early warning signs and correct technical interventions needed for a quick turnaround. This project will use research from scholarly articles to take a closer look at statistical evidence based on the outcomes of being prepared versus underprepared. The project will discuss various methods on how to better prepare nurses to care for hemorrhagic situations. …

Training In The Use Of Interpretive Services For Patients With Limited English Proficiency, Kristina Wooten

Symposium of Student Scholars

In clinical settings, there is a disconnect between health care professionals (HCPs) and patients with limited English proficiency (LEP). HCPs rely on ad hoc interpreters to communicate with patients with LEP (e.g. nurses using untrained friends and family or nursing students to interpret care information). Refusing to use or misusing professional interpreters and other interpretive services may lead patients with LEP to avoid seeking necessary care, misunderstand their diagnoses and treatment regimens, and fail to return for follow-up care. This increases the already existing health care disparity between patients who speak English and patients with LEP. Studies show that if …

Interventions To Combat Burnout In Intensive Care Unit Nurses, Emily C. Randall, Amber T. Mcclarty, Omotoyosi Ogedengbe

Symposium of Student Scholars

Background: This literature review summarizes the knowledge, causative factors, associations/relationships, and interventions of burnout, positive work environments, and sleep quality in intensive care unit (ICU) nurses.

Objectives: To answer the question, how effective is a positive work environment compared to psychological interventions, specifically improved sleep habits, in reducing burnout in ICU nurses?

Methods: A literature search was conducted using combined keywords in 4 databases of 10 peer reviewed publications from 2016 to 2022. Information related to burnout, positive work environments, and sleep quality in intensive care unit (ICU) nurses was compared and summarized.

Results: There is sufficient evidence that positive …

Educating Parents On Infant Safe Sleep To Reduce Sleep-Related Deaths, Marleni Cervantes

Symposium of Student Scholars

During my pediatric clinical rotation, I saw parents practicing unsafe sleeping practices with their infants. Infants would sleep with their pillows, blankets and in non-supine positions. There are around 3000 sleep related infant deaths annually in the United States (Patrick et al., 2021). To combat this issue a safe sleep education program should be implemented in labor and delivery and NICU units to ensure parents are getting the proper training before discharge. Parents will attend an education program before discharging from the hospital. The program will be completed in 2 days to ensure the parents are able to ask questions …

Motor Imagery Detection Toward Non-Invasive Brainwave Based Typing, Abm. Adnan Azmee, Manohar Murikipudi, Cesar Lucena, Ibrahima Gueye, Bryce Wishart, Yuliana Pacheco, Md Abdullah Al Hafiz Khan

Symposium of Student Scholars

Electroencephalography (EEG) signals can be captured non-invasively with the help of Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI). These EEG signals contain many essential information that can serve a great purpose when used correctly. By the appropriate interpretation of this EEG signal, we can provide people with limited ability to perform certain actions which they are unable to do due to their current condition. Paralyzed and semi-paralyzed people who are often found struggling to express themselves due to their medical condition can greatly benefit from the application of EEG. Typing or writing a letter requires functional motor movement. If we can detect the motor …

Does Triage Education Reduce Classification Errors In The Ed?, Rachel Abukhdeir

Symposium of Student Scholars

IN A METRO ATLANTA LEVEL TWO EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT, DOES THE APPLICATION OF TRIAGE EDUCATION REDUCE TRIAGE CLASSIFICATION ERRORS?

Abstract

Incorrect triage of patients leads to excessive wait times, an increase in length of stay, and escalating medical conditions. One of the most common triage systems in the United States is the Emergency Severity Index (ESI), a five-level triage system that focuses on prioritizing patient care based on the urgency of the patient’s illness. An assessment is performed by nurses to determine patients’ level of acuity. This method is subjective to the nurse performing triage. Currently, nurses have no or minimal …

The Efficacy Of Self-Management Of Type 1 Diabetes In The Inpatient Setting., Bryan Chappell

Symposium of Student Scholars

Type one diabetes is a chronic illness that affects millions of adults in the United States alone. It is a disease that requires constant self-management and monitoring. Through the recent inventions and refinements of diabetes technology, diabetes care has never been easier or more accessible. While self-management and care in the outpatient setting has been shown to have positive social, and sometimes other positive healthcare outcomes, such research in the inpatient setting is lacking. Despite general treatment guidelines for diabetes informing inpatient caregivers and providers to allow self-management of diabetes in the inpatient setting where clinically appropriate, few institutions seem …

Comparison Of Non-Pharmacologic Pain Interventions For Nicu Infants, Mira Cothran

Symposium of Student Scholars

Infants in the NICU unfortunately have to endure repeated procedures that cause pain. Over time, these painful experiences can compound into larger issues. Infants receiving repeated procedures with uncontrolled pain can develop neurological issues in the future. Because infants have no way of verbally expressing the pain that they experience, their pain can often be overlooked. Premature infants have underdeveloped kidneys and livers leaving them at risk for adverse outcomes to some pharmacological interventions, especially opioids if not given at the correct dose. This highlights the importance of non-pharmacologic interventions to reduce pain.

This proposed project would help to determine …