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Predictive Power of Positive Psychological Factors on Weight Change Among Treatment-Seeking Obese Adults
(2018-12-01)
Behavioral weight loss interventions are considered to be the gold standard treatment in helping overweight and obese individuals achieve clinically significant weight loss. Although standard behavioral interventions produce ...
Physiological approach to understand the mechanisms of hydrogen sulfide tolerance using a fish study system
(2018-05)
Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is well known as a toxic gas produced by the decomposition of organic matter and geothermal sources and also produced endogenously by cysteine catabolism. Exposure to H2S drives hormetic effects ...
Can the Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) theory differentiate student performance on a computation intervention for students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)?
(2018-05)
Students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often have difficulties in school related to behavior and academics. Math achievement continues to be a major concern, with approximately five to eight percent ...
Plasma Flow Control for Distortion Tolerant Fans with Aircraft Boundary Layer Ingestion
(2018-05-01)
Recent efforts to reduce commercial transport aircraft drag include embedding an aft-mounted engine into the airframe in order to fill the vehicle wake with engine exhaust, consequently reducing fuel consumption. Embedded ...
Chisum's Pilgrimage II: Melvin Jackson Chisum, Sr., Louis Harlan's "Spy" Unravelled in Biography 1873-1945
(2018-12-01)
No man's life and work should be based on the ethics and morality of his employer, especially when the employer was the controversial leader of American Blacks in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Booker ...
Exploring the relationship of resources on families that have a child with a disability: A latent transition analysis
(2018-07)
Families that have a child with a disability are at tremendous risk for increased stress and negative outcomes compared to families that have a typically developing child. These effects can compound during times of transition. ...
Infant social evaluations in response to antisocial behaviors of unequal resource distribution
(2018-05)
At the most basic level, a prosocial behavior is any voluntary behavior of which the main purpose is to benefit another individual (Eisenberg & Fabes, 1998; Krebs, 2015), but does not provide benefit to the acting individual. ...
Practical Syntheses of Iridium Complexes for Photocatalysis and the Development of Methodology to Access Functionalized Amino Acids
(2018-12-01)
Incorporation of fluorine into molecules can result in enhanced properties of functional molecules in a variety of fields. As such, there is great interest to synthesize organofluorines. The objective of current research ...
Prenyl Praxis: A Method for Direct Photocatalytic Defluoroprenylation
(2018-12-01)
The prenyl fragment represents the most basic building block in terpenoids, a family of numerous and structurally diverse natural products that are known to possess interesting biological properties. In contrast, ...
Using technology with pre-k and kindergarten students to increase early numeracy skills
(2018-05)
Building a strong foundation in the early numeracy gateway skills in pre-k and kindergarten has strong implications for future success in mathematics. Currently, very few research-based early numeracy interventions are ...