759 research outputs found
Losing Our Humanity: The Self-Dehumanizing Consequences of Social Ostracism
No full textBastian B, Jetten J, Radke HRM, Harding JF, Fasoli F. Losing our humanity: The self-dehumanizing consequences of social ostracism. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 2013;39(2)(2):156-169
Dr. Edwin Wright Collection: Jessica B. Watson (nee Segers)
No full textNotes - Mrs. Jessica B. Watson writes about her family life in Athabasca. Her father, Captain F. S. Segers, worked for the Hudson's Bay Company and was "in charge of all of the boat transportation up and down the river." Mrs. Watson speaks of travelling, pets, entertainment, and daily life in Athabasca, where she arrived ,via stagecoach and buckboard, when she was 16 years old, in 1891 (1 page
A Randomized Depression Prevention Trial Comparing Interpersonal Psychotherapy--Adolescent Skills Training to Group Counseling in Schools
No full textGiven the rise in depression disorders in adolescence, it is important to develop and study depression prevention programs for this age group. The current study examined the efficacy of Interpersonal Psychotherapy-Adolescent Skills Training (IPT-AST), a group prevention program for adolescent depression, in comparison to group programs that are typically delivered in school settings. In this indicated prevention trial, 186 adolescents with elevated depression symptoms were randomized to receive IPT-AST delivered by research staff or group counseling (GC) delivered by school counselors. Hierarchical linear modeling examined differences in rates of change in depressive symptoms and overall functioning from baseline to the 6-month follow-up assessment. Cox regression compared rates of depression diagnoses. Adolescents in IPT-AST showed significantly greater improvements in self-reported depressive symptoms and evaluator-rated overall functioning than GC adolescents from baseline to the 6-month follow-up. However, there were no significant differences between the two conditions in onset of depression diagnoses. Although both intervention conditions demonstrated significant improvements in depressive symptoms and overall functioning, results indicate that IPT-AST has modest benefits over groups run by school counselors which were matched on frequency and duration of sessions. In particular, IPT-AST outperformed GC in reduction of depressive symptoms and improvements in overall functioning. These findings point to the clinical utility of this depression prevention program, at least in the short-term. Additional follow-up is needed to determine the long-term effects of IPT-AST, relative to GC, particularly in preventing depression onset.The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11121-015-0620-5Peer reviewe
Stories of encounters with famous people in Maine, including actor Sarah Jessica
No full textStories of encounters with famous people in Maine, including actor Sarah Jessica Parker, artist and musician Yoko Ono, actor Tippi Hedren, author Toni Morrison, actor Alec Baldwin, Red Sox player Jacoby Ellsbury, actor Willem Dafoe, actor Kelly Preston, actor Eva Marie Saint, and attorney F. Lee Bailey, who gives an interview
Student (F) - From Outside the Camp to Within the Kingdom : Taking Christ\u27s Salvation to the World
No full textBefore and After the Copyright Wars
No full textJessica Litman, the John F. Nickoll Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, delivered the 2018 David L. Lange Lecture in Intellectual Property, Before and After the Copyright Wars. Prof. Litman is the author of Digital Copyright, which traces the history of lobbying that led to the passage in 1998 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. She is also the co-author, with Jane Ginsburg and Mary Lou Kevlin, of the casebook Trademarks and Unfair Competition Law: Cases and Materials. Before rejoining the Michigan faculty in 2006, she was a professor of law at Wayne State University in Detroit, a visiting professor at New York University School of Law and at American University Washington College of Law, as well as a professor at Michigan Law from 1984 to 1990
Exploration and analysis of free-text comments from the 2013 Wales Cancer Patient Experience Survey (WCPES)
No full textNext-generation prognosis framework for pediatric spinal deformities using bio-informed deep learning networks
No full textPredicting pediatric spinal deformity (PSD) from X-ray images collected on the patient’s initial visit is a challenging task. This work builds on our previous method and provides a novel bio-informed framework based on a mechanistic machine learning technique with dynamic patient-specific parameters to predict PSD. We provide a geometry-based bone growth model that can be utilized in a range of applications to enhance the bio-informed mechanistic machine learning framework. The proposed technique is utilized to examine and predict spine curvature in PSD cases such as adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. The best fit of a segmented 3D volumetric geometry of the human spine acquired from 2D X-ray images is employed. Using an active contour model based on gradient vector flow snakes, the anteroposterior and lateral views of the X-ray images are segmented to derive the 2D contours surrounding each vertebra. Using minimal user input, the snake parameters are calibrated and automatically computed over the dataset, resulting in fast image segmentation and data collection. The 2D segmented outlines of each vertebra are transformed into a 3D image segmentation result. The Iterative Closest Point mesh registration technique is then used to establish a mesh morphing approach and creates a 3D atlas spine model. Using the comprehensive 3D volumetric model, one can automatically extract spinal geometry data as inputs to the mechanistic machine learning network. Moreover, the proposed bio-informed deep learning network with the modified bone growth model achieves competitive or even superior performance against other state-of-the-art learning-based methods.Please check and confirm if the author names and initials are correct for “Yongjie Jessica Zhang” and “Wing Kam Liu”.We confirm they are correct.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Emerging MaterialsApplied Ergonomics and Desig
The vulnerability of ecosystem trophic dynamics to anthropogenically induced environmental change: A comparative approach
No full textThe chapter, "The vulnerability of ecosystem trophic dynamics to anthropogenically induced environmental change: A comparative approach" was written by the listed authors including Jessica L. Clasen (Douglas College Faculty).
The Ecological Dissertations in the Aquatic Sciences (Eco-DAS) symposia bring together 35-40 recent PhD recipients for one week in alternate years. Eco-DAS VIII was held in 2008. Eco-DAS is sponsored by the Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (C-MORE), the University of Hawai`i School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) and its Department of Oceanography, and the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO). The Proceedings of Eco-DAS VIII includes nine chapters published in open access.
We employed a comparative approach to review the vulnerability of the trophic interactions within aquatic systems to global threats associated with anthropogenic activities. The goal of this chapter was to identify and characterize mechanisms by which human-mediated environmental threats may modulate trophic dynamics across aquatic ecosystems. Trophic dynamics include some of the most obvious and pervasive factors influencing ecosystems and were used as a metric because of their importance and commonality across all aquatic environments. Our use of trophic dynamics proved to be insightful, illustrating that the flow of energy through aquatic food webs will be (or already has been) altered by invasive species, land-use change, nutrient loading, exposure to ultraviolet radiation, overharvesting, acidification, and increasing global temperatures. The response of trophic dynamics to these threats was often similar across oceans, estuaries, lakes, and rivers. This similarity proved to be interesting given the differences in both the level of concern expressed by scientists and the predicted variability in environment-specific responses. As the trophic interactions of an ecosystem are at the root of its function and structure, examining trophic dynamics could be an informative method for evaluating the response of aquatic environments to global threats. If future analyses validate the use of trophic dynamics as a metric, it is our hope that trophic dynamics can be used by scientists and politicians to mitigate the effects of human actions.book chapterPublished
Diversity and temporal dynamics of Southern California coastal marine cyanophage isolates
No full text. Funding for
this research was provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore
Foundation, the National Science Foundation (OCE-
1005388 and OCE-1031783), and a NOAA NERRS Graduate
Research Fellowship (Estuarine Reserves Division, Office
of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) to C.A.H
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