Search
Now showing items 21-30 of 61
Metapopulation Dynamics Enable Persistence of Influenza A, Including A/H5N1, in Poultry
(PLos One, 2013-12-02)
Highly pathogenic influenza A/H5N1 has persistently but sporadically caused human illness and death since 1997. Yet it is still unclear how this pathogen is able to persist globally. While wild birds seem to be a genetic ...
Identifying Nonacademic Behaviors Associated With Post-School Employment and Education
(Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 2013-12-01)
We conducted an analysis of the secondary transition qualitative and quantitative research literature to build comprehensive constructs and lists of student nonacademic behaviors associated with post–high school employment ...
A Process Evaluation of a Social Cognitive Theory–Based Childhood Obesity Prevention Intervention: The Comics for Health Program
(Health Promotion Practice, 2013-03-01)
Process evaluations are an often overlooked yet essential component of health promotion interventions. This study reports the results of a comprehensive process evaluation for the “Comics for Health” program, a childhood ...
Understanding the Differences Between Vendor Types in Local Governance
(The American Review of Public Administration, 2013-11-01)
It is commonly posited that for-profit, nonprofit, and other government vendors have fundamental differences, which make one or the other the superior choice depending on the circumstances of service delivery. Past research, ...
Motivated Misperception? Party, Education, Partisan News, and Belief in “Death Panels”
(Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 2013-03-01)
This study drew on the literature in motivated reasoning and 2009 Pew survey data to examine the roles of partisanship, education, news exposure, and their interactions in the misperception that health care reform would ...
The Role of Identification in Giving Sense to Unethical Organizational Behavior: Defending the Organization
(Management Communication Quarterly, 2013-05-01)
This language production experiment investigates communication’s role in defending, and therefore giving sense to, organizational wrongdoing. The study suggests identification may possibly reduce organizations’ moral ...
X-plore, X-pand, & X-ceed with the new Library Service Platforms
(2013-11-15)
Today’s information and knowledge management systems in libraries are undergoing revolutionary change. In this talk Carl looks specifically at the major challenges being faced by libraries today and offers insight into how ...
Historical geography II: Digital imaginations
(Progress in Human Geography, 2013-08-01)
In my second report discussing the state of historical geography, I review some of the ways historical geographers have made use of digital technologies and digital media. I also highlight how digital data, research, and ...
Prefrontal Control of the Amygdala during Real-Time fMRI Neurofeedback Training of Emotion Regulation
(PLos One, 2013-11-06)
We observed in a previous study (PLoS ONE 6:e24522) that the self-regulation of amygdala activity via real-time fMRI neurofeedback (rtfMRI-nf) with positive emotion induction was associated, in healthy participants, with ...
Causal Powers, Hume’s Early German Critics, and Kant’s Response to Hume
(2013)
Eric Watkins has argued on philosophical, textual, and historical grounds that Kant’s account of causation in the first Critique should not be read as an attempt to refute Hume’s account of causation. In this paper, I ...