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Creator as audience: mixtape albums as an expression of life and memory
Get PDFMusic is a foundation of our popular culture. With music’s distribution far and wide, songs, lyrics, and melodies can be familiar to people from all backgrounds, connecting us through a shared cultural experience. Songs can also be deeply personal and take on sentimental meaning, taking us back to specific moments, feelings, or times in our own lives. Since the 1940s, when album art was invented, graphic design and music have been inseparable, informing individuals’ personal and cultural identity. In recent decades, digital technology has disembodied the human experience, including our consumption of music and design. In response to this dematerialization, my research explores how analog technology, specifically the cassette tape and the vinyl album, can trigger nostalgia and sentimentality in an audience. My audio-visual installation is centered around a series of mixtapes, compiled from songs that carry sentimental value to 15 people. Since each mixtape is a collage of memories from many different walks of life, the tapes invite listeners to imagine a different mode of coherence – one that doesn’t rely on genre or style but on memory and life itself as a unifying element. These tapes are encased in custom, handcrafted album cases, each with its own thematic imagery and poster. With their distinct novelty, materiality, and intimacy, the albums give form to individuals’ stories and invite us to consider how we are participants in a collective human experience
A small stem assay using hypovirulent Cryphonectria parasitica to screen Castanea dentata backcross F2 families may set the stage for long-term survival
Get PDFBy combining the results of blight resistance breeding and the application of hypovirulence as a biocontrol, populations of resistant hybrid trees could be deployed together with a less pathogenic strain of Cryphonectria parasitica (Murr.) Barr. I used a small stem assay to screen seedlings in thirteen half-sibling backcross F2 families with an attenuated strain of C. parasitica containing the Cryphonectria parasitica hypovirus-1 (CHV-1) Euro7 virus. The experiment was set up as a randomized complete block design in 2-gallon containers. Measurements of canker length and morphology were gathered at 90 days post-inoculation. Although statistically significant differences were seen between canker lengths in C. dentata and C. mollissima control groups, no statistically significant differences were seen between any of the hybrid families as shown by Duncan’s multiple range test. Phenotypes elucidated using the SSA should not be used to make artificial selections within families, but the SSA can verify that parental selections were accurate. All surviving trees will be planted in an experimental orchard in middle Tennessee to create a potentially long-lasting population of disease resistant trees
The role of shame in the relationships among childhood maltreatment, fears of evaluation, and associated submissive behaviors
Get PDFRisk for excessive fears of evaluation in adulthood may increase with severity of exposure across five sub-domains of childhood maltreatment. Childhood exposure to childhood maltreatment may increase risk for behaviors associated with fear of negative evaluation (FNE) and fear of positive evaluation (FPE), such as submissive behavior displays (e.g., eye gaze avoidance). Additionally, previous literature (while limited) suggests that negative affect, especially shame, may play an influential role in the relationship between overall childhood maltreatment history severity and fears of evaluation in adulthood. Shame has the potential to increase FNE and FPE along with associated behaviors (i.e., gaze avoidance). The goal of this study was to further establish the relationships among retrospective reports of childhood maltreatment severity, trait fears of evaluation in adulthood, trait shame and state shame following negative or positive evaluative feedback in an audio-visual computerized paradigm, and associated submissive behavior (i.e., eye gaze avoidance)
Evaluating New York Times data set: coded for credibility reasoning
No full textDataset affiliated with article : Evaluating the New York Times: Content Analysis of Student Responses to Open-Ended Tutorial Question
Towards Prediction of Prosthetics Hand Orientation for Different Grasps Using Machine Learning Algorithm
Get PDFProsthetic hands have become increasingly prevalent in recent years, providing individuals with missing or impaired limbs the ability to perform various daily tasks. However, the lack of proper sensory feedback in these devices can make it difficult for users to control the movement of the prosthetic hand. To address this issue, researchers have explored using inertial measurement unit (IMU) data to predict the grasping of the prosthetic hand. The ultimate goal of our work is to develop an optimized system that can accurately and seamlessly convert IMU data into visual prosthetic hand movements. In this study, we used the machine learning technique based on IMU data to distinguish two different prosthetic hand grasps named cylindrical and hook. In order to recognize grasps, we proposed a Deep ANN and achieved a high level of accuracy
Examining the role of high school spiritual practice and ways of coping in levels of anxiety among college-aged women
Get PDFUtilizing an online survey, this study aimed to examine the extent to which the encouragement of spiritual practice in high school, current endorsement of daily spiritual experience, and ways of coping, predict anxiety levels among college-aged women (N = 140). Participants were recruited through the use of snowball sampling via email and flyers posted around campus. Data was collected via a demographic questionnaire and self-report measures assessing ways of coping, religiosity, and levels of anxiety among the sample. Results of a multiple regression analysis showed that focusing on and venting of emotions, behavioral disengagement, mental disengagement, and the encouragement of spiritual practices in high school, significantly predicted anxiety levels among the sample (p \u3c.05). These findings suggest that undergraduates may need targeted interventions to bolster adaptive ways of coping and that the encouragement of spiritual practice prior to college may serve as a buffer against poor mental health outcomes among undergraduates. Implications for research and practice are discussed
The functional role of context in action perception and understanding social situations
Get PDFThis study investigated the influence of understanding the perception of action congruency in animated video actors. The study employed a 2 x 2 pre-post design with the type of training (relevant, irrelevant) as a between-subjects design. The present study aimed to address whether the presence (versus absence) of contextual information affected an individual’s ability to make sense of social interactions, and if relevant contextual cues aided an individual’s perspective of social situations. Participants consisted of 80 undergraduate students at the University of British Columbia. Action congruency is the level of social coordination between two figures. Perceptions of action congruency was initially tested in two groups, prior to training half of the participants on social origins of animations (relevant) and the other half on their non-social features (irrelevant). Half of the animations depicted socially collaborative actions and the rest depicted non-collaborative actions. Participants were later tested on the task. Results indicated participants were able to discriminate between congruent and incongruent actions before the training. Results indicated that relevant training increased participant’s sensitivity to action congruency. A repeated measures ANOVA revealed a significant three-way interaction of Stimulus x Session x Training F (1, 69) = 3.16, p = \u3c .001. Findings reveal that although context is not strictly required for the perception of action congruency, context training facilitates these perceptions. Thus, by making participants more aware of incongruent social actions
Dyadic Aerobic Exercise as Treatment for Social Anxiety: A Randomized Control Trial
Get PDFThis study examines the effects of aerobic exercise, especially dyadic aerobic exercise, on levels of social anxiety. Investigated, also, is the extent to which dimensional moderators of social anxiety play an intermediary role in levels of social anxiety. The present study follows a between subjects, repeated measures, randomized control trial design. All experimental data was derived from self-report measures conducted prior to, during, and at the conclusion of a two-week aerobic exercise regimen. Data analysis was conducted via means comparisons, within subjects and between groups, on various metrics. Our results suggest a greater efficacy of dyadic aerobic exercise over both solitary aerobic exercise and a control condition for reducing levels of social anxiety. However, our study finds no significant data regarding dimensional moderators. Limitations and future implications of the study are further discussed
Questioning the Legitimacy of the Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Construct
Get PDFThis literature review examines 45 journal articles from a variety of disciplines, including genetics, neuropsychology, child and school psychology, evolutionary psychology, clinical psychology, and psychopharmacology. The review features a popular article published in the New York Times; though not a peer-reviewed journal article, it provides evidence of the pervasive social impact of the Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) debate. This review covers articles published between the years 1971 to 2021, with a greater emphasis on articles published after 2013 (over 50% of the review, given that the ADHD construct was reconceptualized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM-5). Overall, this literature review found that ADHD is a dimensional disorder with uncertain etiology. There is evidence to suggest ADHD is over diagnosed and this overdiagnosis is gendered. This review suggests the medicalization of ADHD may be harmful and inaccurate and ADHD may not be an example of a disordered behavior
Harry Potter Works Mental Health Magic
Get PDFThe Harry Potter (HP) novels have been proposed as a mental health (MH) tool. This study aims to map existing literature about HP-based MH interventions to examine the evidence available, and inform subsequent use of HP in bibliotherapy. Methods for this literature review included searching for research on HP-based MH interventions, selecting studies, extracting data, and synthesizing the data into an informed analysis. The literature available supports use of HP as a MH tool, finding positive correlations between HP bibliotherapy and improved sense of self, emotional processing ability, and connectivity. Creating educational tools that describe how to use HP as a MH intervention could aid in implementation of this intervention; such educational tools should be specific for different populations