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Indeterminate Sample Sequencing In Virtual Reality, Chase Mitchusson

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The VR Sequencer is a tool for composing and performing music which takes advantage of spatial configuration of 3-D objects to generate looping sequences. This project combines dice-rolling with omnidirectional playheads and variable terrain to make a sequencer with indeterminate features in Virtual Reality (VR). A comparison of mapping systems for music games and digital instruments demonstrates a middle ground for interactive music making which the VR Sequencer applies. An inspection of current VR works exhibits a disconnect be- tween VR gamers and experimental musicians. In an attempt to give the gaming community access to experimental music making, the VR …

A Wilderness Of Dragons: Essays In Honor Of Verlyn Flieger (2018), Edited By John D. Rateliff, Deidre A. Dawson

Journal of Tolkien Research

Book review, by Deidre A. Dawson, of A Wilderness of Dragons: Essays in Honor of Verlyn Flieger (2018), edited by John D. Rateliff

Preparation (Mis)Perception: Effects Of Involvement On Food Attributes And Desirability, Sarah Lefebvre, Marissa Orlowski

Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to assess the effect of involvement in food preparation on estimated calorie content, perception of portion size, and desirability of the food item.

Design/Methodology/Approach: To test the hypotheses, three between-subjects experiments (one online, two in a laboratory setting) were conducted. Across the three experiments, participants were presented with a food item either ready for consumption (low involvement) or with the individual ingredients in need of assembly prior to consumption (high involvement).

Findings: Results showed that when a consumer is involved in the preparation of their food, they perceive the food to be lower …

Assessment Centers, Tara Myers, Megan Paul

Umbrella Summaries

What are assessment centers?

Assessment centers measure knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics by assessing participants’ responses to job-related simulations. Assessment centers can be used for hiring, placement, and career and skill development (Gaugler, Rosenthal, Thornton, and Bentson, 1987). Typically, participants complete a combination of in-basket, leaderless group discussion, role play, case analysis, and oral presentation exercises (Hoffman, Kennedy, LoPilato, Monahan, and Lance, 2015). Within each exercise, participants review job-relevant information and complete tasks. For the in-basket, participants are presented with documents (e.g., emails, memos, reports, requests—things that might be in an inbox) to which they provide responses and about …

Commonwealth Times 2020-10-28

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

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Spartan Daily, October 28, 2020, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2020

Volume 155, Issue 29

Developing And Evaluating An Asynchronous Online Library Microcredential: A Case-Study, Rebeca Peacock, Heather Grevatt, Ellie Dworak, Lindsay Marsh, Shelly Doty

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Purpose

This paper describes the evolution of an academic library’s approach to first-year student information literacy instruction from face-to-face instruction to a fully integrated online microcredential. The design considerations, motivation theory, and evaluation methods used to create and evaluate the course are also discussed, with implications for future library microcredential design, integration, and research in campus first-year seminar courses.

Design/methodology

In this paper, a multi-method approach is used to evaluate an undergraduate asynchronous online information literacy microcredential embedded in a first-year seminar. Two methods (Likert scale survey and coded reflection essays) were used in order to evaluate whether one method …

The Bates Student - Volume 151 Number 02 - October 28, 2020, Bates College

The Bates Student

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Committee On Special Programs, Centers & Partnerships Meeting - Packet 10/28/2020, Uc Hastings Board Of Directors

2020 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

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Committee On Special Programs, Centers & Partnerships Meeting - Packet 10/28/2020, Uc Hastings Board Of Directors

2020 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

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Developing A Computer-Controlled Treat Dispenser For Canine Operant Conditioning, Walker Arce, Jeffrey R. Stevens

Center for Brain, Biology, and Behavior: Faculty Publications

When performing canine operant conditioning studies, the delivery of the reward can be a limiting factor of the study. While there are a few commercially available options for automatically delivering rewards, they generally require manual input, such as using a remote control, in accordance with the experiment script. This means that human reaction times and transmission distances can cause interruptions to the flow of the experiment. The potential for development of non-supervised conditioning studies is limited by this same factor. To remedy this, we retrofitted an off-the-shelf treat dispenser with new electronics that allow it to be remotely controllable as …

An Experimental Investigation Into Promoting Mental Health Service Use On Social Media: Effects Of Source And Comments, Zhaomeng Niu, Lun Hu, David C. Jeong, Jared Brickman, Jerod L. Stapleton

Health, Behavior & Society Faculty Publications

Mental health is an increasingly prevalent topic of public interest, but remains a complex area requiring focused research that must account for negative perceptions surrounding mental health issues. The current work explores the roles of social media information source credibility and valence of social media comments on health outcomes in such a mental health context. We used a 2 (message source: professional vs. layperson) × 3 (valence of comments: positive vs. negative vs. mixed) online experiment to examine the effects of source and valence of comments on trust, attitudes and intentions related to mental health information and services among 422 …

Daily Eastern News: October 28, 2020, Eastern Illinois University

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An Exploratory Pilot Study With Plasma Protein Signatures Associated With Response Of Patients With Depression To Antidepressant Treatment For 10 Weeks., Eun Young Kim, Hee-Sung Ahn, Min Young Lee, Jiyoung Yu, Jeonghun Yeom, Hwangkyo Jeong, Hophil Min, Hyun Jeong Lee, Kyunggon Kim, Yong Min Ahn

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a leading cause of global disability with a chronic and recurrent course. Recognition of biological markers that could predict and monitor response to drug treatment could personalize clinical decision-making, minimize unnecessary drug exposure, and achieve better outcomes. Four longitudinal plasma samples were collected from each of ten patients with MDD treated with antidepressants for 10 weeks. Plasma proteins were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively with a nanoflow LC-MS/MS technique. Of 1153 proteins identified in the 40 longitudinal plasma samples, 37 proteins were significantly associated with response/time and clustered into six according to time and response by …

From Being To Doing: Anti-Racism As Action At Work, Ione T. Damasco

Roesch Library Faculty Presentations

Over the past few years, the conversation around equity in libraries has focused on thinking of the word ally as a verb, rather than as an identity. With recent events highlighting specific issues around race, the conversation has now shifted to many people wanting to be anti-racist. In this session, we will focus on anti-racism as action, rather than using the word anti-racist as identity. In particular, we will examine our notions of professionalism in libraries. Can changing how we define professionalism in library workplaces be an example of anti-racist action?

We will take a critical look at how certain …

Adversity In Childhood Is Linked To Mental And Physical Health Throughout Life, Charles A. Nelson, Richard David Scott, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Nadine Burke Harri, Andrea Danes, Muthanna Samara

Woman and Child Health

The prevalence of “toxic stress” and huge downstream consequences in disease, suffering, and financial costs make prevention and early intervention crucial, say Charles A Nelson and colleagues.

Critères De Stabilité Des Échelles Et Des Escabeaux, Bertrand Galy

Rapports de recherche scientifique

Les chutes de hauteur sont encore aujourd’hui une des principales causes d’accident au Québec, et la deuxième cause en termes de coûts sur la période 2010 – 2012, avec une moyenne de 397 millions de dollars par année. Selon la CNESST, les statistiques de lésions impliquant les échelles, que ce soit en construction ou en établissement, montrent une augmentation au fil des ans (période de 2007 à 2012) et sur la période 2009 à 2013, 20 % des lésions dues à une chute de hauteur ont été causées par une chute à partir d’une échelle.

Un des principaux critères affectant …

Gwu Honors Students Clean Up Trails At Broad River Greenway, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

Unable to take their annual trip to clean up the New River in West Jefferson, N.C., Honors students from Gardner-Webb University worked on the trails at the Broad River Greenway near Boiling Springs. A group of 29 students and Dr. Tom Jones, associate dean of the Honors Program, removed kudzu, honeysuckle, and large poison ivy vines and cleared overhangs on trails. The students also spruced up the Greenway’s Phifer Cabin.

Daily Eastern News: October 28, 2020, Eastern Illinois University

October

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The Antelope, University Of Nebraska At Kearney

The Antelope

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The Transition Is Already Happening (And It’S Going Fine So Far), Michael Herz, Katherine A. Shaw

Online Publications

Even if Trump were resolved to thwart a smooth transition, much of the process lies entirely outside his control.

Sometime in early to mid-November, if October polling holds and the infrastructure of our democracy basically functions, Joe Biden is likely to be declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election. At that point, he will have just more than two months to prepare to take over the leadership of a country still in the grips of a once-in-a-century pandemic, with more than 12 million Americans unemployed, tens of millions of children out of school, and COVID-19 deaths barreling toward 300,000. …

Past, Present And Future Of The Research On The Pro-Environmental Behaviour In Tourism: A Bibliometric Analysis, Iana Bilynets, Ljubica Knežević Cvelbar

Economic and Business Review

Environmental sustainability is one of the key challenges humanity is facing today. Tourism is an invasive industry in terms of the damage it causes to the environment. An effective way to mitigate the negative environmental impacts of tourism is to shift tourist behaviour towards environmentally friendly behaviour. While there is a growing number of publications on tourist pro-environmental behaviour (PEB), this paper aims to overview the existing research in this area by applying a bibliometric analysis. Co-citations, keyword co-occurrences and bibliographic coupling are used to analyse the tourism PEB research and provide guidelines for the future.

Social Media Rumination: The Impact Of Materialistic Value Orientation, Keeley Hynes

Theses and Dissertations

Previous research demonstrates that ruminating on social media content is associated with greater mental distress (Yang, Holden, Carter, & Webb, 2018). However, it is unclear what factors are associated with rumination. Using Self-Determination Theory (SDT) as a theoretical framework, this study examined how materialistic value orientation (MVO) predicted social media rumination in a sample of racially and socioeconomically diverse high school students at two waves of time. Those who are more materialistic value the means by which to gain possessions, and extrinsic life-goals associated with MVO are aimed at garnering external reinforcers such as money and social status (Richins & …

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Unh Faculty Embed Social Venture Innovation Challenge In Record Numbers, Sustainability Institute

Sustainability Institute Blog

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Can You Give Your Customer Too Much Love?, Dave Moore

UNH Today Archive

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State V. Anderson Respondent's Brief Dckt. 47655

Not Reported

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Improving Healthcare Quality In The United States Healthcare System: A Scientific Management Approach, Soumya Upadhyay, William Opoku-Agyeman

School of Public Health Faculty Research

The US healthcare system has been facing pressures from stakeholders to reduce costs and improve quality. The purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual model to illustrate the approaches used in healthcare quality management (Continuous Quality Improvement/Total Quality Management, Lean, and Six Sigma) weaved into the underlying framework of scientific management theory. This paper employs scientific management theory to explain the healthcare quality tenets that influence the quality of care in our healthcare organizations. The father of scientific management, Frederick Taylor, and other key contributors collectively created scientific management principles, which are widely used for quality improvement purposes …

Quels Sont Les Déterminants Du Retour Au Travail Durable Des Travailleurs Seniors Ayant Subi Une Lésion Psychologique Ou Physique?, Alessia Negrini, Marc Corbière, Jessica Dubé, Andrea Gragnano, Marc-Antoine Busque, Martin Lebeau, Margherita Brondino, Samantha Vila Masse

Rapports de recherche scientifique

Le vieillissement de la population est un thème complexe et sensible qui concerne plusieurs acteurs et sphères de la société (emploi, santé, finances). Cette étude porte sur le retour au travail durable[1] après une lésion de nature psychologique (LÉS_PSY; p. ex. : dépression) ou physique (LÉS_PHY; p. ex. : troubles musculosquelettiques) chez les travailleurs « seniors » âgés de 45 ans et plus. Au Québec, l’analyse des données de la Commission des normes, de l'équité, de la santé et de la sécurité du travail (CNESST) de 2013 à 2015 a permis de constater que le groupe de travailleurs âgés …

The Cost Of A Single Concussion In American High School Football: A Retrospective Cohort Study, Aaron M. Yengo-Kahn, Patrick D. Kelly, David C. Liles, Lydia J. Mckeithan, Candace J. Grisham, Muhammad Saad Khan, Timothy Lee, Andrew M. Kuhn, Christopher M. Bonfield, Scott L. Zuckerman

Open Access Publications

Aim: The potential financial burden of American football-related concussions (FRC) is unknown. Our objective was to describe the healthcare costs associated with an FRC and determine factors associated with increased costs.

Methodology/results: A retrospective cohort study of concussed high school football players presenting between November 2017 and March 2020 was undertaken; 144 male high school football players were included. Total costs were about $115,000, for an average direct healthcare cost of $800.10/concussion. Visiting the emergency department (β = 502.29, 95% CI: 105.79-898.61; p = 0.01), the initial post-concussion symptom scale score (β = 0.39, 95% CI: 0.11-0.66; p = 0.01) …