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Use Of Demographic Weights To Automate The Selection Of Public Involvement Strategy Tools, Jennifer Fu, Dan Mcgillicuddy
Use Of Demographic Weights To Automate The Selection Of Public Involvement Strategy Tools, Jennifer Fu, Dan Mcgillicuddy
GIS Center
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Operation Pedro Pan: 50 Years Later, Rita M. Cauce
Operation Pedro Pan: 50 Years Later, Rita M. Cauce
Works of the FIU Libraries
This article was written to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Operation Pedro Pan and the subsequent Florida International University Libraries’ exhibition. It chronicles the events in Cuba and in Miami leading to Operation Pedro Pan, the largest exodus of unaccompanied children in the Western hemisphere. A total of 14,048 children arrived in the United States through Operation Pedro Pan between December 1960 and October 1962. Approximately half of the children did not have family in the United States and were taken under the care of Miami child welfare agencies. The impact of this large influx on an unprepared Miami, …
A Network Model Of Observation And Imitation Of Speech, Nira Mashal, Ana Solodkin, Anthony Steven Dick, E. Elinor Chen, Steven L. Small
A Network Model Of Observation And Imitation Of Speech, Nira Mashal, Ana Solodkin, Anthony Steven Dick, E. Elinor Chen, Steven L. Small
Department of Psychology
Much evidence has now accumulated demonstrating and quantifying the extent of shared regional brain activation for observation and execution of speech. However, the nature of the actual networks that implement these functions, i.e., both the brain regions and the connections among them, and the similarities and differences across these networks has not been elucidated. The current study aims to characterize formally a network for observation and imitation of syllables in the healthy adult brain and to compare their structure and effective connectivity. Eleven healthy participants observed or imitated audiovisual syllables spoken by a human actor. We constructed four structural equation …
Quality Of Experience Evaluation Of Voice Communication: An Affect-Based Approach, Abhishek Bhattacharya, Wanmin Wu, Zhenya Wang
Quality Of Experience Evaluation Of Voice Communication: An Affect-Based Approach, Abhishek Bhattacharya, Wanmin Wu, Zhenya Wang
School of Computing and Information Sciences
Voice communication systems such as Voice-over IP (VoIP), Public Switched Telephone Networks, and Mobile Telephone Networks, are an integral means of human tele-interaction. These systems pose distinctive challenges due to their unique characteristics such as low volume, burstiness and stringent delay/loss requirements across heterogeneous underlying network technologies. Effective quality evaluation methodologies are important for system development and refinement, particularly by adopting user feedback based measurement. Presently, most of the evaluation models are system-centric (Quality of Service or QoS-based), which questioned us to explore a user-centric (Quality of Experience or QoE-based) approach as a step towards the human-centric paradigm of system …
Measuring Empathizing And Systemizing With A Large Us Sample, Daniel B. Wright, Elin M. Skagerberg
Measuring Empathizing And Systemizing With A Large Us Sample, Daniel B. Wright, Elin M. Skagerberg
Department of Psychology
A large number of people completed one of two versions of the empathizing quotient (EQ) and systemizing quotient (SQ). One version had the negatively phrased items all re-worded. These re-worded items were answered more rapidly than the original items, and for the SQ produced a more reliable scale. Subjects gave self-assessments of empathizing and systemizing, and these were moderately correlated, r≈.6, with their respective quotients. Females had on average higher empathizing scores and males had on average higher systemizing scores. If a female-male pair was chosen at random, the female would have the higher empathizing score about two-thirds of …
Are Marginalized Women Being Left Behind? A Population Based Study Of Institutional Births In Rural India, Paul Adamson, Karl Krupp, Bhavana Niranjankumar, Alexandra H. Freeman, Mudassir Khan, Purnima Madhivanan
Are Marginalized Women Being Left Behind? A Population Based Study Of Institutional Births In Rural India, Paul Adamson, Karl Krupp, Bhavana Niranjankumar, Alexandra H. Freeman, Mudassir Khan, Purnima Madhivanan
Department of Epidemiology
Background
While India has made significant progress in reducing maternal mortality, attaining further declines will require increased skilled birth attendance and institutional delivery among marginalized and difficult to reach populations.
Methods
A population-based survey was carried out among 16 randomly selected rural villages in rural Mysore District in Karnataka, India between August and September 2008. All households in selected villages were enumerated and women with children 6 years of age or younger underwent an interviewer-administered questionnaire on antenatal care and institutional delivery.
Results
Institutional deliveries in rural areas of Mysore District increased from 51% to 70% between 2002 and 2008. …
Male Sexual Dysfunction And Infertility Associated With Neurological Disorders, Mikkel Fode, Sheila Krogh-Jespersen, Nancy L. Beckett, Dana A. Ohl, Charles M. Lynn, Jens Sønksen
Male Sexual Dysfunction And Infertility Associated With Neurological Disorders, Mikkel Fode, Sheila Krogh-Jespersen, Nancy L. Beckett, Dana A. Ohl, Charles M. Lynn, Jens Sønksen
Department of Psychology
Normal sexual and reproductive functions depend largely on neurological mechanisms. Neurological defects in men can cause infertility through erectile dysfunction, ejaculatory dysfunction and semen abnormalities. Among the major conditions contributing to these symptoms are pelvic and retroperitoneal surgery, diabetes, congenital spinal abnormalities, multiple sclerosis and spinal cord injury. Erectile dysfunction can be managed by an increasingly invasive range of treatments including medications, injection therapy and the surgical insertion of a penile implant. Retrograde ejaculation is managed by medications to reverse the condition in mild cases and in bladder harvest of semen after ejaculation in more severe cases. Anejaculation might also …
Fiu Digital Commons Annual Report, Fy 2011-2012, Jill V. Krefft
Fiu Digital Commons Annual Report, Fy 2011-2012, Jill V. Krefft
FIU Digital Collections Center Annual Reports
The Digital Commons Annual Report is a document that interested parties may use as a means of monitoring the yearly progress of Florida International University Libraries’ institutional repository. The report includes download and page hit statistics for all collections held in FIU Digital Commons.