136 research outputs found
Comic, Yet Tragic: NIkolai Gogol\u27s Life and Works
No full textAn introductory presentation and appreciation piece of the late Russoukrainian author, Nikolai Vasilievich Gogo
Proposed New Legislation to Improve Animal Living Conditions
No full textEnacting California’s proposition 2 in every state.Fall 2012 PMAccompanied by video fil
SMS or SOS
No full textHow reliable is the Rutgers emergency alert system? The Division of Administration and Public Safety has employees working around the clock to monitor the different campuses to be sure the student body can be contacted immediately in the event of an emergency. The advances in technology over the past decade have allowed institutions to notify the public via computers, cell phones, etc. enabling them to take the necessary precautions for the situation at hand. The Office of Emergency Management is responsible for notifying students during emergencies and runs the Rutgers Emergency Notification System (ENS). For many of the events, notifications are sent out via email, but would students prefer text message alerts today? Many of the emergencies are time sensitive and a text message would allow the public to be informed more quickly, or even a phone app. This would eliminate error within the system for students who fail to receive the text and allow for students to receive the alert fasterSpring 2012Accompanied by video fil
Dispelling the Myth Surrounding Bats
No full textSaving bats from the emergence of white-nose syndromeSpring 2012Accompanied by video fil
Weather Modification: Not a Solution to the Global Water Crisis
No full textWeather modification, specifically cloud seeding, is a controversial topic amongst climate scientists. The goal of cloud seeding is to drop ice nuclei into clouds in order to produce precipitation on targeted areas. Although multiple research experiments have been done on the viability of cloud seeding, scientists still have not reached a conclusion on the effectiveness of artificially seeding clouds. The risks of cloud seeding are legitimate and include not only potential negative environmental impacts but also financial and political risks. Instead of modifying the weather to create precipitation, a better solution would be water conservation. The public needs to be aware of the risks of cloud seeding as well as methods of conserving water. A pamphlet on basic information on weather modification and was handed out to the public on Rutgers Day April 30, 2016.Spring 2016A brochure to accompany the report, Weather on Demand
Weather on Demand
No full textPast Cases and Future Risks of Cloud Seeding Efforts as a Solution to the Global Water CrisisSpring 2016Accompanied by video fil
Production Farming Issues
No full textThe goal was to discuss production farming issues and to develop a business plan for a safe and humane factory farm.Fall 201
When does grit predict job performance?
No full textThe researchers analyze grit as a good predictor for job performance
Socio-emotional and clinical profile of bullied youth in a clinic setting: assessing bullying-related functional impairment
No full textCommunity and school research has identified bullying as a pervasive and significant problem for school-age youth. Less emphasis has been placed on bullying-related impairment in clinic settings, but treatment-seeking youth with a history of bullying may have specific needs that deserve attention. Limited information regarding the clinical profile and socio-emotional functioning of bullied youth leave clinicians with little information to guide treatment planning and services. The present study completed retrospective interviews with youth and young adults who had previously sought treatment for anxiety and/or depression at a university-based outpatient clinic. Participants (N=85; youth = 60; adults = 25) completed diagnostic and symptom assessment at the original point of clinic contact and completed bullying-specific interview procedures nine months to eight years after clinic contact (M = 4.23 years). The majority of participants (51.7%) endorsed being bullied at least once or twice in the year prior to seeking mental health services. However, bullied and non-bullied youth did not differ on most measures of anxiety and depression symptoms, according to youth, father, and mother reports. This study also examined the psychometric properties of the Multidimensional Bullying Impairment Scale (MBIS), a self-report scale designed to assess functional impairment related to bullying. Results suggested the MBIS and its a priori subscales had strong internal reliability. Exploratory factor analysis supported a five-factor model, but further analysis suggested that a single total score might represent the construct best. Correlations amongst functional impairment and anxiety and depression symptoms highlighted interesting patterns. Functional impairment was found to be strongly related to depression and moderately correlated with anxiety symptoms. As predicted, bullying related impairment was not found to be positively correlated with externalizing symptoms. Together, results suggest the MBIS may be a promising tool to evaluate bullying-related functional impairment that has concurrent and discriminative validity. Overall, these findings confirm that bullying is a pervasive problem among service-users and provide broad implications in the assessment and treatment of anxious and depressed youth. Implications of these findings for clinical practice and future research are discussed.Psy.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Alyssa John
Adult-born neurons inhibit developmentally-born neurons during spatial learning
No full textOngoing neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus (DG) subregion of the hippocampus results in a heterogenous population of neurons. Immature adult-born neurons (ABNs) have physiological and anatomical properties that may give them a unique role in learning. For example, compared to older granule neurons, they have greater somatic excitability, which could facilitate their recruitment into memory traces. However, recruitment is also likely to depend on interactions with other DG neurons through processes such as lateral inhibition. Immature ABNs target inhibitory interneurons and, compared to older neurons, they receive less GABAergic inhibition. Thus, they may induce lateral inhibition of mature DG neurons while being less susceptible to inhibition themselves. To test this we used a chemogenetic approach to silence immature ABNs as rats learned a spatial water maze task, and measured activity (Fos expression) in ABNs and developmentally-born neurons (DBNs). A retrovirus expressing the inhibitory DREADD receptor, hM4Di, was injected into the dorsal DG of male rats at 6w to infect neurons born in adulthood. Animals were also injected with BrdU to label DBNs or ABNs. DBNs were significantly more active than immature 4-week-old ABNs. Silencing 4-week-old ABNs did not alter learning but it increased activity in DBNs. However, silencing ABNs did not affect activation in other ABNs within the DG. Silencing ABNs also did not alter Fos expression in parvalbumin- and somatostatin-expressing interneurons. Collectively, these results suggest that ABNs may directly inhibit DBN activity during hippocampal-dependent learning, which may be relevant for maintaining sparse hippocampal representations of experienced events
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