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Sources and definitions in the Judeo-Spanish lexical card index of Cynthia M. Crews
No full textEn este trabajo se aborda el estudio y análisis del fichero léxico del judeoespañol de la
investigadora británica Cynthia M. Crews, con el objeto de examinar las fuentes documentales
que lo conformaron y determinar los criterios de definición y presentación lexicográfica que
la investigadora puso en práctica en las fichas, así como precisar la influencia que ejercieron
algunas de estas fuentes consultadas a la hora de establecer dichos criterios.
Así pues, el artículo consta de las siguientes partes: (I) un primer apartado, a modo de
introducción, donde se presenta la figura de Cynthia Crews, autora del fichero léxico; (II)
un segundo epígrafe, en el que se detalla la configuración del fichero; (III) una tercera
sección, donde se precisan las fuentes que lo componen; (IV) el cuarto apartado se destina
al análisis de los tipos de definición y los mecanismos de presentación de la información; y,
finalmente, (V) las conclusiones.This research aims the study and analysis of the lexical card index in Judeo-Spanish language
of the British researcher Cynthia M. Crews, in order to examine the documentary sources
which formed it, and to determine the criteria of definition and lexicographical presentation
that the researcher implement in the card index, as well as to specify the influence exercised
by some of these sources consulted when establishing these criteria. Therefore, this paper consists of the following parts: (I) a first section or introduction, where
the figure of Cynthia Crews, the author of the lexical card index, is introduced; (II) a second
section, in which the configuration of the Judeo-Spanish index is detailed; (III) a third one,
where its sources are specified; (IV) the fourth section analyses of the definition’s types and
the mechanisms for presenting the information; and, finally, (V) the conclusions.Ministerio de Ciencia, Proyecto de Investigación del Plan Nacional ref. FFI2016-74864-
NATURE AND NURTURE: THE COMPLEX INTERPLAY OF GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND DEVELOPMENT
No full textForeword / Steven E. Hyman -- Preface -- Introduction: Nature and nurture in human behavior and development: a view of the issues / Cynthia García Call, Elaine L. Bearer and Richard M. Lerner -- Ch 1. Genes and the promotion of positive human development: hereditarian versus developmental systems perspectives / Richard M. Lerner -- Ch. 2. How gene-environment interactions influence emotional development in Rhesus Monkeys / Stephen J. Suomi -- Ch. 3. Nature, nurture, and the question of "how?": a phenomenological variant of ecological systems theory / Margaret Beale Spencer and Vinay Harpalani -- Ch. 4. Commentary / Anne Fausto-Sterling -- Ch. 5. Normally occurring environmental and behavioral influences on gene activity: from central dogma to probabilistic epigenesis / Gilbert Gottlieb -- Ch. 6. Beyond heritability: biological process in social context / Richard Rende -- Ch. 7. Uniqueness, diversity, similarity, repeatability, and heritability / Jerry Hirsch -- Ch. 8. Commentary / Lundy Braun -- Ch. 9. Instinct and choice: a framework for analysis / William I. Dickens and Jessica L. Cohen -- Ch. 10. Behavior as influence and result of the genetic program: non-kin rejection, ethnic conflict, and issues in global health care / Elaine L. Bearer -- Ch. 11. Embodied development: ending the nativism-empiricism debate / Willis F. Overton -- Ch. 12. Conclusions: beyond nature versus nurture to more complex, relational, and dynamic developmental systems / Cynthia García Call, Elaine L. Bearer and Richard M. Lerner -- Author index -- Subject inde
Morgantina, Sicily: the worked bone and ivory objects 459 B.C. to the first century A.D.
No full textThe purpose of this dissertation is to prepare a publishable catalog of more than six hundred unpublished worked bone and ivory artifacts unearthed in successive archeological excavations of the second city of Morgantina, Sicily, beginning in 1955 and continuing until the present time. To accomplish this, it was necessary to examine all these bone and ivory objects, to assess them in terms of relationship to the larger Greek koine of the Mediterranean basin, to categorize and describe them in detail, and to photograph them. Morgantina, an inland Greek colony dating from the second quarter of the sixth century B.C., flowered after destruction by fire in 459 B.C. at the hands of an indigenous leader, Ducetius, and continued to flourish during the Hellenistic era. The city was captured in 211 B.C., during the Roman invasion and conquest of Syracuse. The city survived in diminished form from 211 B.C. to the mid-first century A.D. Most of the bone and ivory objects cannot be dated more closely than the period 459 B.C., the date of the destruction by fire, to the first century A.D., when the city disappeared. The Morgantina artifacts which are the subject to of this dissertation consist largely of items for daily use, such as utensils for personal grooming and jewelry for personal adornment, implements for writing, tools for a variety of purposes, handles, hinges and other structural and decorative components for furniture, game pieces, and miscellaneous pieces of uncertain application. From study of these objects, one can conclude that all conform substantially to similar worked bone and ivory objects found throughout the wide geographical area constituting the Greek world prior to the first century A.D. The Morgantina objects evidence strong connections to that Greek world, even with locales which could be considered far-flung geographically and temporally. They do not, however, demonstrate the cultural flowering which other categories of artifacts from the city reflect.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Cynthia M. Jaco
EFFECT OF CONSERVATION-ORIENTED MANAGEMENT ON CARABID (COLEOPTERA : CARABIDAE) COMMUNITIES IN AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES
No full textThesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University. Entomology - Doctor of Philosophy, 2025Agricultural landscapes in the last century have expanded to meet the global demands of food, fuel, and fiber necessary to support growing populations. Although the innovation of equipment, technology, and intensified agricultural practices have contributed to world food production, it has come at the cost of habitat loss through pollution or fragmentation, and a decline in global biodiversity, in particular, the decline of insect populations. Highly simplified agricultural landscapes have low habitat diversity, habitat amount, and simplified configuration that limits the dispersal of insects and their provision of ecosystem services that sustain crop yield via pollination, pest suppression, and nutrient-rich soils. As agriculture is a primary global land use, the threat of insect loss amid the uncertainty of changing climates will have lasting effects on global food security for generations to come. As such, it is necessary to shift from intensive systems dependent on high-input of pesticides, tillage, or monocultures, to agricultural landscapes that are multifunctional and support both human and ecosystem health and resiliency.Perennial prairie strips or prairie plantings are a conservation tool to enhance ecosystem service provision in simplified landscapes and provide alternative habitat and food resources for wildlife. Insects contribute to agriculture through necessary ecosystem services and may benefit from the establishment of non-crop prairie plantings in agroecosystems. This dissertation focused on ground beetles, or carabids (Coleoptera: Carabidae) as beneficial predators of insect pests and weed seeds. Carabids are useful indicators for ground-dwelling arthropod diversity as they are sensitive to changes in agricultural management both above- and belowground, and benefit from the addition of native non-crop habitat within agricultural landscapes. In 2019, prairie strips were planted in two conservation-oriented treatments at the Kellogg Biological Station (KBS) Long-term Ecological Research (LTER) Main Cropping Systems Experiment (MSCE) in southwest Michigan. The two treatments include Reduced Input, using one-third the conventional application of pesticides, and Biologically Based, using no synthetic inputs. In this dissertation, I investigated a) the effects of long-term management and cropping treatment, before the addition of prairie strips, on carabid diversity and activity-density; b) how establishment of perennial prairie strips influenced carabid community composition in both the strip and adjacent row crop; and c) the spillover of predation services from the prairie strip into the row crop. In Chapter One, I broadly reviewed the literature on agricultural landscape simplification and agricultural intensification, including the current global biodiversity crisis. I further described historic and current conservation interventions to reduce biodiversity loss and augment ecosystem services within agriculture. The majority of the literature review focused on carabids as beneficial providers of pest and weed seed management, and the impact of various agricultural practices on the diversity and abundance of carabids within agroecosystems. In Chapter Two, I addressed questions raised in the literature review of the long-term impacts of agricultural management on carabids by comparing the 2019 carabid community at the KBS-LTER to a similar study conducted in 1994-95. I found a severe decline in carabid abundance and a turnover in carabid species from the previously dominant community. Although we did not determine a singular reason for the decline, innovation in pest and weed management over the last three decades, including the widespread application of pesticides, likely reduced prey abundance and compounded the effects of landscape simplification on resource availability. In Chapter Three I investigated the effects of prairie strip establishment on carabid community composition, including the spillover effects from the prairie strip into the adjacent row crop. Carabid activity-density doubled one year after seeding the prairie strip, and the response to prairie strips varied by cropping treatment. I also found that after four years, prairie strips contributed to increased biodiversity both within the strip and within the center of the row crop. Given the evidence for spillover of carabid community biodiversity from prairie strips, I further studied the potential for pest suppression services in Chapter Four. Using sentinel insect pests commonly found in Midwest, US agriculture and exclosures to limit predation to arthropods, I found relatively high pest suppression across treatments and a preference for prairie strips during early- and late-season when resources are scarce in agricultural landscapes. I conclude my findings in Chapter Five and discuss the broader implications of my dissertation research on conservation interventions for the prevention of biodiversity loss and ecosystem service provision, including key limitations or challenges of current sampling methods or experimental designs, and opportunities for future research in this field. Agriculture is not a closed system and neither is scientific research; in Appendix One I describe my community-engaged research project on prairie strip adoption. By conducting focus groups and partnering with Conservation Districts, I review farmer perspectives on challenges to the future of agriculture, and best practices for prairie strip establishment and maintenance in Michigan. By supporting ecosystem health in agricultural landscapes, we can also support the health and productivity of farming communities.Description based on online resource. Title from PDF t.p. (Michigan State University Fedora Repository, viewed ).Includes bibliographical references
Erratum: Medication Adherence Reminder System for Virtual Home Assistants: Mixed Methods Evaluation Study (Jmir Form Res (2021)5:7 (E27327) Doi: 10.2196/27327)
No full textIn “Medication Adherence Reminder System for Virtual Home Assistants: Mixed Methods Evaluation Study” (JMIR Form Res 2021;5(7):e27327), three errors were noted. Due to a system error, the name of one author, Cynthia F Corbett, was replaced with the name of another author on the paper, Elizabeth M Combs. In the originally published paper, the order of authors was listed as follows: Elizabeth M Combs, Elizabeth M Combs, Peyton S Chandarana, Isabel Stringfellow, Karen Worthy, Thien Nguyen, Pamela J Wright, Jason M O\u27Kane This has been corrected to: Cynthia F Corbett, Elizabeth M Combs, Peyton S Chandarana, Isabel Stringfellow, Karen Worthy, Thien Nguyen, Pamela J Wright, Jason M O\u27Kane In the originally published paper, the ORCID of author Cynthia F Corbett was incorrectly published as follows: 0000-0002-2254-6958 This has been corrected to: 0000-0003-2706-2116 In the originally published paper, the email of the Corresponding Author was incorrectly published as follows: [email protected] This has been corrected to: [email protected] The correction will appear in the online version of the paper on the JMIR Publications website on January 27, 2022, together with the publication of this correction notice. Because this was made after submission to PubMed, PubMed Central, and other full-text repositories, the corrected article has also been resubmitted to those repositories
The effectiveness of referrals in the social work treatment of pregnant women, 1993
No full textThe purpose of this study was to determine if the skills employed by the social worker during the referral process had an impact on the clients pattern and frequency of substance abuse and frequency of pre-natal visits to a doctor. The instrument utilized in this study is an original questionnaire developed by the author. The questionnaire has eighteen items related to social worker skills, techniques, and methods that were identified by the Client-System Interaction Approach as being important to social work practice. The questionnaire had eleven items related to the clients substance abuse and pre-natal medical care. The results of this study demonstrated that during the referral process a social worker should assume the roles of Educator, Mediator and Consultant and utilize the skills of confrontation, a demand for work, the utilization of contracts, to be firm in dealing with authority issues, to employ focused listening in understanding a clients' chemical substance pattern, and to make the actual referral. This study demonstrated that the social workers utilization of these skills will decrease the frequency of the clients substance abuse and increase the frequency of the clients visits to the referral agency
“Transfer of Institutional and Political Identity through TV News Reporting for the Italian Deaf”.
No full textSpecialized language, of political and institutional nature, abounds in television news broadcasts and is firstly, transferred directly from the news reporter to listener aurally and secondly, is enhanced by additional visual/aural semiotic input. Identity traits, embedded within the discourse, are thus transmitted and perceived. The author attempts to compare television news broadcasts for Italian hearing adults perceived through sound and images, with those received by members of the Italian Deaf community through images alone, mainly in the form of Italian Sign Language (LIS)
Scalar soliton quantization with generic moduli
No full textThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in
any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credArticle funded by SCOAP3. CP is
a Royal Society Research Fellow and partly supported by the U.S. Department of Energy
under grants DOE-SC0010008, DOE-ARRA-SC0003883 and DOE-DE-SC0007897. ABR
is supported by the Mitchell Family Foundation. We would like to thank the Mitchell
Institute at Texas A&M and the NHETC at Rutgers University respectively for hospitality
during the course of this work. We would also like to acknowledge the Aspen Center
for Physics and NSF grant 1066293 for a stimulating research environment which led to
questions addressed in this paper
Computational thinking: the developing definition
No full textSince Jeanette Wing’s use of the term computational thinking in 2006, various discussions have arisen seeking a robust definition of the phrase. With no consensus having been found in the intervening years, there are even suggestions that a definition is not important. Perhaps focus should be on how computational thinking is taught and how its acquisition might be observed. However, in order to facilitate consistent curriculum design and appropriate assessment, it is argued that a definition should still be sought. In order to contribute to the discussions surrounding a definition of computational thinking, this review of literature spans the years since 2006. The most frequently occurring terms, descriptions, and meanings are identified. Consideration is given to the motivation for inclusion or exclusion of a term by each individual author. Where possible, if a description has been given, an associated term is supplied.Criteria are developed for the objectives of a computational thinking definition, in accordance with the needs identified in the literature. Using the criteria as a guide and the collected terms as the vocabulary, a definition of computational thinking is proposed. <br/
The DSM diagnostic criteria for Female Sexual Arousal Disorder
No full textThis article reviews and critiques the DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria for Female Sexual Arousal Disorder (FSAD). An overview of how the diagnostic criteria for FSAD have evolved over previous editions of the DSM is presented and research on prevalence and etiology of FSAD is briefly reviewed. Problems with the essential feature of the DSM-IV-TR diagnosis — “an inability to attain, or to maintain…an adequate lubrication-swelling response of sexual excitement” — are identified. The significant overlap between “arousal” and “desire” disorders is highlighted. Finally, specific recommendations for revision of the criteria for DSM-V are made, including use of a polythetic approach to the diagnosis and the addition of duration and severity criteria
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