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Agriculture technologies on production, processing and consumption: its impact on households in Bangladesh.
No full textThis presentation was made as part of a specialized training course, and it covers the technology innovations the Nutrition Innovation Lab has undertaken as part of our efforts in Bangladesh
Valuing nuclear energy risk: Evidence from the impact of the Fukushima crisis on U.S. house prices.
No full textBehavioral economics suggests that individuals overweight recent unexpected and/or rare events when updating beliefs. This study investigates the effect of such an event, the Fukushima nuclear crisis in 2011, on the learning process of a local environmental risk by evaluating how perceptions of the risk of a nuclear accident are capitalized into house prices near nuclear power plants (NPPs) in the U.S. Our results provide new evidence on the dynamics of the effect - spatially, the impact was concentrated in a 4-km radius around NPPs, and temporally, it peaked a half year later and dissipated one year after the crisis
Funding Agencies - Development of a Compelling Protocol.
No full textThis presentation was given at First National Workshop in Nepal
Specifying an Intervention.
No full textThis presentation was given at First National Workshop in Nepal
Examination of long-term visual memorization capacity in the Clark's nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana).
No full textClark's nutcrackers exhibit remarkable cache recovery behavior, remembering thousands of seed locations over the winter. No direct laboratory test of their visual memory capacity, however, has yet been performed. Here, two nutcrackers were tested in an operant procedure used to measure different species' visual memory capacities. The nutcrackers were incrementally tested with an ever-expanding pool of pictorial stimuli in a two-alternative discrimination task. Each picture was randomly assigned to either a right or a left choice response, forcing the nutcrackers to memorize each picture-response association. The nutcrackers' visual memorization capacity was estimated at a little over 500 pictures, and the testing suggested effects of primacy, recency, and memory decay over time. The size of this long-term visual memory was less than the approximately 800-picture capacity established for pigeons. These results support the hypothesis that nutcrackers' spatial memory is a specialized adaptation tied to their natural history of food-caching and recovery, and not to a larger long-term, general memory capacity. Furthermore, despite millennia of separate and divergent evolution, the mechanisms of visual information retention seem to reflect common memory systems of differing capacities across the different species tested in this design. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-018-1439-
Unpacking How Students Listen to Group Mates: Secondary Listening, Secondary Sourcing, and Attending to Framing.
No full textA qualifying paper submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Education. Abstract: Previous research has illustrated that student discourse affects the output and learning outcomes of student groups. We build on this literature by presenting a different focus; while many studies have made progress looking at the literal meaning of a student’s words to another student (e.g. type of response to peer’s proposed idea), we look for evidence of student listening. We propose that listening happens along multiple dimensions, and that collaborative groups are doing a lot of work to understand not only the explicit content of utterances, but also the implicit messages from their peers.This paper presents data from a project to infuse computing into a high school statistics course. We analyze three episodes of video data to illuminate the different types of listening students are doing, and to refine methods for identifying them. Using these methods, future work can identify the work students are doing to listen to their peers, even in situations where groups do not seem to be communicating effectively. Once developed, this body of literature on how students are working together in groups will help inform how to support students’ development of effective group work practices
Local and International Responses to Attacks on Healthcare in Conflict Zones: A Case Study of Syria.
No full textSubmitted in partial fulfillment of the degree Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Abstract: This thesis analyzes the increase in attacks on healthcare facilities, healthcare workers and aid workers, particularly in the MENA region. Focusing on Syria, the thesis seeks to understand the reasons for the rise in attacks, and explores local and international responses to attacks on healthcare. First hand data, as collected through interviews with healthcare workers in the field, informs the conclusions and recommendations for the international community
Prostitution, Brothel-Keeping, and Celebrity: Examining the Agency of an 18th-Century Dublin Madam.
No full textThis thesis examines the amount of agency an 18th-century Dublin Madam had at different stages of her life. The main primary sources used are her own memoirs written at the end of her life
Torturing the Artist: Celebrity and Trope in Media Representations of the Abstract Expressionists.
No full textThis thesis explores the means and effects of the media’s use of the Tortured Artist trope in building Celebrity. In particular, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko are used as case studies in understanding this ongoing process of “celebritization.” The topic is examined through analyzing significant representations of the artists in the media published during their lifetimes and today - the latter being Ed Harris’ feature film Pollock (2000) and John Logan’s play Red (2009), both award-winners in their respective fields. Their contents aim to demonstrate how postwar American values determined the art-historical worth of two of the country’s most important modern artists, while their formal qualities demonstrate the same for today’s society. In addition, a theatrical production of Red, directed by the thesis author, was completed on March 8, 9, and 10, 2018, and the thesis concludes with a first-person account of its pedagogy and staging