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Early Risk, Attention, and Brain Activation in Adolescents Born Preterm
No full textThe relations among early cumulative medical risk, cumulative environmental risk, attentional control, and brain activation were assessed in 15 – 16-year-old adolescents who were born preterm. Functional magnetic resonance imaging found frontal, temporal, and parietal cortex activation during an attention task with greater activation of the left superior-temporal and left supramarginal gyri associated with better performance. Individual differences in early cumulative risk are related to patterns of brain activation such that medical risk is related to left parietal cortex activation and environmental risk is related to temporal lobe activation. The findings suggest that early risk is related to less mature patterns of brain activation, including reduced efficiency of processing and responding to stimuli.This is the accepted version of the following article: Carmody, D. P., Bendersky, M., Dunn, S. M., DeMarco, J. K., Hegyi, T., Hiatt, M. and Lewis, M. (2006), Early Risk, Attention, and Brain Activation in Adolescents Born Preterm. Child Development, 77: 384–394, which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00877.x/abstract.Peer reviewe
Portrait of Senator Dennis Chavez.
No full textHandwritten inscription: \u27To my good friend Felton M. Johnston, Highest personal regards and good wishes, Dennis Chavez, New Mexico\u27https://egrove.olemiss.edu/fmjohnston/1088/thumbnail.jp
Maine Debtor-Creditor Law by Dennis M. Patterson
No full textDennis M. Patterson, Esquire, has written a brief, practical guide to selected areas of collection practice entitled Maine Debtor-Creditor Law. Two immediate observations come to mind: first, that I plan to keep a copy of the book in my office library for future reference; second, that I am disappointed that the author omitted reference to several challenging issues that confront the attorney having a regular collection or foreclosure practice. This latter observation is both an indication of the usefulness of the book\u27s treatment of the areas covered and a hopeful invitation to the author to expand on his subject matter in future writings
Maine Debtor-Creditor Law by Dennis M. Patterson
No full textDennis M. Patterson, Esquire, has written a brief, practical guide to selected areas of collection practice entitled Maine Debtor-Creditor Law. Two immediate observations come to mind: first, that I plan to keep a copy of the book in my office library for future reference; second, that I am disappointed that the author omitted reference to several challenging issues that confront the attorney having a regular collection or foreclosure practice. This latter observation is both an indication of the usefulness of the book\u27s treatment of the areas covered and a hopeful invitation to the author to expand on his subject matter in future writings
Fear the Machine?
No full textHealthCareHow do the technological changes caused by increased automation and A.I. affect workers�������� wages and jobs? This article summarizes PERC working paper 1801, PERC��������s Director Dennis W. Jansen and co-author Michael D. Bradley study the effects of automation and artificial intelligence on employment and labor income over multiple gen-erations
Inter-Jurisdiction Migration and the Fiscal Policies of Local Governments
No full textHealthCare|PublicFinanceThe relationship between migration and the economy is of great interest to researchers, especially where migration and local government fiscal policy intersect. In order to attract immigrants or retain current residents, how do local governments choose to spend, and how do they choose to finance their spending? This article summarizes PERC working paper 1901, where Dennis W. Jansen, PERC��������s director, and PERC Research Scientist Liqun Liu, along with co-author Darong Dai analyze the effects of non-tax/debt-driven migration on the fiscal policies of local governments using a two-period model of two identical local governments that are connected by mutual migration
Mentor In Residence Program Kick-off at U of M Crookston Features Author Dennis Weidemann on Wednesday, February 10, 2010; Presentation and Slide show and book signing at Evergreen Hall beginning at 7
No full textTollefson, Elizabeth. (2010). Mentor In Residence Program Kick-off at U of M Crookston Features Author Dennis Weidemann on Wednesday, February 10, 2010; Presentation and Slide show and book signing at Evergreen Hall beginning at 7. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/222398
Daily Reflections (Meditations) on the Scriptures from the Roman Catholic Lectionary.
No full textIn his humanity, Jesus was not literally a priest; that is, as a member of the tribe of Judah, he was not of the line of Levi and did not serve in the Jerusalem temple as one of its priests. Yet the author of the Letter to the Hebrews famously calls him "high priest," and "of the order of Melchizedech." What does this mean? The author is using a powerful metaphor, borrowed from Psalm 110:4, to capture the reality that, like the high priest performing the ritual of the Day of Atonement, Jesus functioned as a mediator between God and the people of God, facilitating reconciliation through a sacrifice, in Jesus' case through self-sacrifice.|Notice how the incarnation plays an integrating role here; as both divine and human, Jesus is uniquely qualified to function as a mediator, since he participates in both the divine and human reality. He can be said to "learn" obedience because, as human, he did indeed learn what human obedience of God is by undergoing the human experience of obeying the will of the Father. Similarly, the author can also say that Jesus is "made perfect," for through his experience of human suffering he becomes more perfect in his role as mediator. By suffering, he grows in solidarity with human beings. In that way he also enables human persons to be saved by their obedience to Jesus.|And what does it mean to be "of the order of Melchizedech"? As the author states later about Melchizedech, in chapter seven, "Without father, mother, or ancestry, without beginning of days or end of life, thus made to resemble the Son of God, he remains a priest forever" (7:3). That is the author's way of saying that Melchizedech is an anticipation of Jesus who has those qualities in a transcendent way, now that he is risen Lord.|This exotic (to us) use of metaphor is a very Jewish way of reminding us Christian readers that Jesus really did become one of us, to help up connect with the divinity that he also embodies as incarnate Son, now risen. We participate in that growing union every time we celebrate the Eucharist, when we participate in Jesus' self-offering to the Father in union with the Holy Spirit
The U.S. culture of intelligence: British origins and enduring challenges
No full textThere have been numerous recent studies on the way culture impacts national approaches to war. Many of these conflate war with national security, failing to address issues such as diplomacy, economic aid, or intelligence. This paper argues that the U.S. has a unique culture of intelligence, distinct from its culture of war. It explores the origins of this culture in the influence of British partnerships constructed prior to and during World War II. It examines the development of a specific intelligence culture throughout the war and its structural foundation in the National Security Act of 1947. It then defines the elements of this culture and concludes that efforts to reform intelligence have repeatedly fallen short because they have failed to recognize or address the underlying culture, preferring bureaucratic reforms and ad hoc arrangements.M.A.L.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Dennis M. Danielu
Adolescent risk-taking as a function of prenatal cocaine exposure and biological sex
No full textObjective: To examine the effects of prenatal cocaine exposure and biological sex on adolescent risk-taking while controlling for early environmental risk. Methods: Adolescents (n. = 114, mean age. = 16) were grouped according to high and low risk-taking propensity as measured by the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART). Prenatal cocaine exposure was assessed at birth, while environmental risk was assessed at three points during early childhood. Results: A binary regression analysis indicated that males were 3.5 times more likely than females to be high risk-takers. Biological sex and prenatal cocaine exposure interacted such that exposed males were most likely to be high risk-takers while exposed females were the least likely to be high risk-takers. This pattern held after controlling for prenatal alcohol exposure and early environmental risk. Early environmental risk did not predict adolescent risk-taking. Conclusions: These findings complement and extend earlier research demonstrating that prenatal cocaine exposure interacts with biological sex in domains related to inhibitory control, emotion regulation, antisocial behavior, and health risk behaviors during preadolescence
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