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Genealogies of affect among a young veterinarian's public letter : an exploratory study of hidden curricula in a college of veterinary medicine

Contemporary research in veterinary medical education indicates alarming rates of depression and anxiety among veterinary students. Yet, the focus of this scholarship is primarily on mental illness as effects of a social and relational process, rather than interrogating the affectual nature of the process. Medical education has a long history of interrogating various facets of socialization as largely embedded in the hidden curricula—the tacit culture of a social entity, and repository for values and norms of conduct. Unfortunately, scant scholarship explores the hidden curricula of veterinary medicine. Recently, an anonymous letter signed Young Veterinarian was published on a public website, and opened an electronic dialogue regarding the nature of affects imbedded in professional socialization. Many themes of the letter referred to issues imbedded in the literature. This study followed this online dialogue, and initiated one in a College of Veterinary Medicine. Centering this letter, object-focused interviews were conducted to explore how members of this community are affected by the anonymous letter. Analytical insights suggest three broad areas of affects related to the hidden curricula: Onto-epistemic tensions; affective neutrality; and freedom, debt, and hopelessness. Implications for research and professional practice/curricula are discussed and deliberated. CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION Not long ago, an Open letter from a disillusioned veterinary graduate (henceforth The Letter) was published on a public website, dvm360.com (dvm360.com staff, 2017). The Letter reads: Recently I had an interesting conversation with a technician at work. She's bright, motivated, diligent and interested. She wanted to be a veterinarian when she was younger, but those dreams went by the wayside due to life circumstances and finances. Her father asked her if, since she's now working in a veterinary hospital, her old desires have been rekindled. Did she still want to be a vet? "I think you would make a good veterinarian," I told her. "But I don't think you should go to vet school. " The other recent grad and the fourth-year extern standing nearby immediately echoed my sentiments. Why did we offer this advice? And why are veterinary students so unhappy? Why do they suffer from anxiety and depression at alarming rates? It's a multifaceted problem, but everything boils down to incredible anger about our experience in vet school. Anger because we worked hard with little reward. Anger because we had to sacrifice our hobbies, social lives and emotional wellbeing to study, do grunt work and write volumes of paperwork no one would ever read. Anger because we were at times mistreated, yelled at and punished for things we didn't do.
An investigation of the dark side of information technology use: three essays on IT addiction

Despite the overwhelming number of studies on Information Technology (IT) use and adoption, there is a growing concern among researchers in psychology, health, and IS that problematic IT usage can create serious challenges for individuals, organizations, and even society. Hence, there is a need to devote additional research efforts to better understand the dark side of IT use and to identify undesired forms of IT use, especially in regard to excessive and compulsive use behaviors. From this perspective, this dissertation adopts a multi-method, multi-essay approach to investigate issues related to IT addiction. Accordingly, the first essay investigates users' liability to IT addiction and looks at its variations among IT users. Based on data collected from in-depth interviews and exploratory open-ended surveys from smartphone users, the results allow the identification of five main types of user liability with unique usage behaviors: Addict, Fanatic, Highly Engaged, Regular, and Thoughtful. The second essay proposes a process model to explain the development of IT addiction. Using qualitative data collected from both smartphones and social network users and following a grounded theory approach, we propose a three-phase model to explain how IT addiction develops through interactions between users, technology, and environment (using technology affordances). Finally, the third essay focuses on technology craving. More precisely, we aim at explaining technology craving by discussing users' motivations and the needs that are being fulfilled by technology use. From a review of the literature, we develop a conceptual model that highlights the role of key users' needs in relation to craving in the context of social networks and the interactions between the structural features of technology and users' needs as a way to predict social network craving. %%%%Malgre le nombre impressionnant d'etudes sur l'utilisation et l'adoption des technologies de l'information (TI), il y a une preoccupation croissante pour les chercheurs en psychologie, en sante et en SI sur le fait que l'utilisation des TIs peut apporter des problemes graves pour les individus, les organisations et meme la societe. Par consequent, il est necessaire de faire des efforts de recherche supplementaire pour mieux comprendre le cote obscur de l'utilisation de TI et d'identifier les formes indesirables de cette utilisation, en particulier en ce qui concerne les comportements excessifs et compulsifs qui y sont lies. Dans cette perspective, cette these adopte une approche multi-methode et multi-article pour etudier les questions liees a la dependance aux TIs. Le premier article presente une etude sur la susceptibilite des utilisateurs a la dependance aux TIs. L'etude permet d'identifier les variations de ce potentiel chez les utilisateurs de telephones intelligents. Base sur des donnees recueillies lors d'entretiens et des resultats d'une enquete exploratoire avec questions ouvertes aupres d'utilisateurs de telephones intelligents, cette etude a permis d'identifier les…
Relationship between Managerial Coaching and Employee Role Behaviors: Moderating Role of South Asian Culture

This research aims to explore the association among managerial coaching and employees‘ workplace in-role behaviors and extra-role behaviors. This study also attempts to analyze the role of power distance as a moderator between managerial coaching and employee role behaviors. The data were collected by using self-designed questionnaire the sales representatives working in three different pharmaceutical companies in Pakistan. The results indicated that managerial coaching positively influenced employee in-role behaviors and extra-role behaviors. The results also indicated that association of managerial coaching with role behaviors was moderated by power distance. Limitation, future directions, and practical implications of this research are also discussed.
Reading is disrupted by intelligible background speech : Evidence from eye-tracking

It is not well understood whether background speech affects the initial processing of words during reading or only the later processes of sentence integration. Additionally, it is not clear how eye-movements support text comprehension in the face of distraction by background speech and noise. In the present research, participants read single sentences (Experiment 1) and short paragraphs (Experiments 2-3) in four sound conditions: silence, speech-spectrum Gaussian noise, English speech (intelligible to participants), and Mandarin speech (unintelligible to participants). Intelligible speech did not affect the lexical access of words and had a limited effect on the first-pass fixations of words. However, it led to more regressions and more re-reading fixations compared to both unintelligible speech and silence. The results suggested that the distraction is mostly semantic in nature, and there was only limited evidence for a contribution of phonology. Finally, intelligible speech disrupted comprehension only when participants were prevented from re-reading previous words. These findings suggest that the semantic properties of irrelevant speech can disrupt the ongoing reading process, but that this disruption occurs in the post-lexical stages of reading when participants need to integrate words to form the sentence context and to construct a coherent discourse of the text.
Investigating the Role of School-Based Extracurricular Activity Participation in Adolescents’ Learning Outcomes: A Propensity Score Method

The purpose of this study was to apply a propensity score method that could control for selection bias at both the student-level and school-level in an investigation of the causal effect linking participation in school-based extracurricular activity (SBEA) to adolescents’ learning outcomes. The data for this study were drawn from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS: 2002) data set. The final sample comprised 12,247 10th graders; 6,026 (49.20%) were males. A propensity score method incorporating marginal mean weighting through stratification was implemented to analyze the data. Results showed that 10th graders who had proper intensity of participation in SBEA (6–15 hours a week) slightly outperformed peers who did not participate in SBEA on the performance of mathematics achievement in 12th grade. Regarding the link between SBEA participation and adolescents’ long-term learning outcomes, results indicated 10th graders in 2002 with low to moderate levels of intensity (i.e., 1–15 hours) were more likely to achieve higher education credentials by the year 2012 when compared to non-participating peers.
Patterns of Association between Early Childhood Teachers' Emotion Socialization Styles, Emotion Beliefs and Mind-Mindedness

ABSTRACT Research findings: This study advances our understanding of early childhood teachers’ emotion socialization styles by innovatively exploring how these relate to teachers’ beliefs about emotions and levels of mind-mindedness, while controlling for age, level of education, teaching experience, and training in emotion education. Sixty female teachers (Mean age = 40.24 years; SD = 11.65 years) took part in the study. They completed two self-report questionnaires assessing their beliefs about emotion and their use of emotion-coaching versus emotion-dismissing socialization styles, respectively. We evaluated their mind-mindedness via a mind-minded description task. There were significant associations among the investigated variables. We also tested the hypothesis that a linear discriminant function including lower beliefs in instructing and modeling emotions, higher beliefs in protecting children from negative emotions, and lower level of MM predicted teachers’ membership in the high emotion-dismissing group. Practice or policy: Our findings suggest the need for including in teachers’ preservice education and continuing professional development more attention to teachers’ awareness of their ideas about and representation of children’s inner world, with a view to fostering an educational approach to emotion that relies more on an emotion-coaching style and less on an emotion-dismissing one.
Fiction reading in a practice where L1 and L2 learners are taught together

ABSTRACT This article deals with an educational practice that involved mainstreaming students taking Swedish as a second language and others taking Swedish as a first language. It explores the fiction-reading teaching practice in this mainstreaming framework, a matter of which has been intensely debated internationally. Three upper secondary classes and four teachers were involved and the empirical data consists of interviews and classroom observations. The analysis is built on the theory of practice architecture and captures a set of three arrangements; cultural-discursive, material-economic and social-political, and seeks to illuminate the associated opportunities and obstacles. The teachers’ balanced approaches were found to be enabling while constraining aspects emerged in relation to, among other things, unclear policy documents. The theory not only helped identifying the complexity of implementing a mainstreamed classroom, but also the benefits arising from teachers who took a praxis approach.
Barriers and facilitators to research translation into health care decision making: A scoping review

Background: To provide useful insights into the design of strategies to better put into practice health research outcomes in the case of cancer, heart disease and sexuallty transmitted infections, we designed a study to identify barriers and facilitators to implement clinical or public health guidelines recommendations. Methods: A literature review protocol was designed and studies were retrieved from the MedLine database for the period 2009-2011. Studies were classified as high, moderate or poor quality according to a specific protocol for each type of study (quantitative, qualitative, review). Results: A total of 164 barriers or facilitators affecting implementation of evidence were identified from 63 studies, although 36.5% were rated as being of poor methodological quality. Excluding the poor methodological quality studies, we saw that aspects related to patients and health professionals have been studied most (although they are analyzed separately rather than at a relational level), while there is a lack of studies focusing on guidelines. Conclusions: The identified barriers and facilitators can be used in subsequent qualitative studies to explore in more depth what makes guidelines difficult or easy to implement. More studies have to be conducted focusing on relational aspects, that is, how patients and professionals interact mutually, and how they interact with environment or organization.
Intimate Partner Violence against Women: Practice and Attitude in South Wollo and East Gojjam Zones of Amhara National Regional State

Intimate partner violence against women (IPV) is a critical social problem in developing countries like Ethiopia. However, little research has been done to investigate the extent of the problem and the society’s attitude in South Wollo and East Gojjam Zones of Amhara Region. This study investigates women’s decision making participation in household matters, physical and sexual abuse, and attitude towards wife beating using both quantitative and qualitative methods. The findings show that women are deprived of their decision making rights, physical and sexual abuse of women are highly prevalent and are considered as ‘normal’ part of marital relationship. Majority of participants (66 %) support wife beating and statistically significant higher proportion of women support wife beating than their male counterparts. The findings indicate that women are experiencing high levels of intimate partner violence in the domestic sphere. Therefore, this issue should be a critical concern for social workers, other professionals and policy makers.
Gay and lesbian couples’ relationship quality: Italian validation of the Gay and Lesbian Relationship Satisfaction Scale (GLRSS)

Abstract This study examines the psychometric properties of the Italian Gay and Lesbian Relationship Satisfaction Scale (GLRSS) in a sample of 305 Italian lesbians (48.2%) and gay men (51.8%), aged 19–72 yrs (M = 36.4, SD = 11.9). Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis showed the expected bi-factorial structure and a close correlation between factors and scale. Internal consistency was satisfactory. Correlations with the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS) and with the Measure for Internalized Sexual Stigma for Lesbians and Gay men (MISS-LG) were consistent with theoretical relationships within construct and between constructs. Lesbians, younger people, and participants in civil unions showed higher levels of relationship satisfaction, while participants in long-term relationships, as well as in civil unions, showed higher levels of perceived social support.
Evaluation of Preparedness Towards Total Quality Management at Tertiary Hospital from Health Workers Perception: A Case Study

Background: Total quality management (TQM) in any organization is a major determinant of efficient management of resources. In this era where hospitals provide the same type of services, it is only hospitals that have embraced TQM techniques that will survive. The study assessed the management preparedness to the implementation of TQM at University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH) Ituku/ Ozalla from the Health workers perceptive. Methods: This study was a cross sectional descriptive study. Structured questionnaire was used to collect information on the demographic characteristics of the randomly selected staff of the UNTH and their assessment of UNTH under five major domains: organizational, interpersonal, facilities, environmental and economic. Focus group discussion was also used conducted among selected staff. Results: On influence of educational factors on level of response, the study showed it has no influence on staff awareness (p= 0.264) but it influenced quality of personnel (0.049), sufficient supervision (p = 0.039), feedback mechanism (p = 0.005) and record department being computerized (p = 0.04). Number of years on the job has influence on the availability of adequate resources (p = 0.027), quality of services (0.040) and record department being computerized (p = 0.041). On the influence of cadre, it showed that level of awareness was affected but quality of personnel (p = 0.014), quality of services (p = 0.019) and availability of functional diagnostic equipment (p = 0.027) was influenced. Conclusions: TQM have been shown to have improved the efficient management of resources with attendant maximization of output. It is important that management demonstrates commitment and provide enabling environment for its sustainability. Specifically, management should institute periodic performance measurement system and strengthen the training program in the hospital. There is a need to raise the awareness on the concept and develop methods and procedures in updating existing TQM guidelines.
Rethinking Non-major Circuits Pedagogy for Improved Motivation

Steven graduated with a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Oklahoma Christian University in 2011, and is completing his PhD in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. His technical work is at the intersection of image processing, heterogeneous computing, and tools for embedded systems – specifically, building an FPGA-based camera to enable high-performance imaging applications. He’s also been heavily involved in undergraduate teaching, aiding and leading several innovations in Stanford’s introductory circuits class. He will be joining the faculty of Tufts University in Fall 2018 as a lecturer in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department.
Unique and interactive relations among posttraumatic stress, distress tolerance, and anger responding to traumatic event cues

Experimental and clinical studies have demonstrated an association between posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) and anger. Expanding upon past research, the current study examined the interactive associations among PTSS, distress tolerance (DT), and anger responding among a sample of 95 trauma-exposed adults. This study used a personalized script-driven imagery procedure to gauge emotional responses. Results from a hierarchical linear regression demonstrated a main effect of PTSS and an interaction between PTSS and DT. Simple slope analyses indicated that PTSS level was unrelated to anger responding among traumatic event-exposed people relatively low in DT, while anger responses were positively correlated with levels of PTSS among those relatively higher in DT. These findings highlight the need for future research to consider DT as well as other emotional vulnerability factors in assessing posttraumatic stress disorder-related anger.
Instructor’s Self-Assessment of Content Design in Online Courses

There are only a handful of studies focused on assessing online teaching. Yet, the uniqueness of online course environment provides instructors more opportunities to conduct self-assessment of their own teaching than the traditional face-to-face classroom. In this paper, we demonstrate two types of self-assessment through two cases that online course instructors can use to evaluate the course content during their regular online instructional procedures. An end-of-semester oral examination was used in Case One whereas the weekly discussion posts were used in Case Two. The instructors performed selfassessment, based on which they redesigned the course contents and activities. Nonparametric analyses were used to examine students’ learning outcomes. Results indicate that, in both cases, student learning improved with the redesigned contents and activities.
High test-retest reliability of a neural index of rapid automatic discrimination of unfamiliar individual faces

ABSTRACT An important aspect of human individual face recognition is the ability to discriminate unfamiliar individual. Since many general processes contribute to explicit behavioural performance in individual face discrimination tasks, isolating a measure of unfamiliar individual face discrimination ability in humans is challenging. In recent years, a fast periodic visual stimulation approach (FPVS) has provided objective (frequency-locked) implicit electrophysiological indices of individual face discrimination that are highly sensitive at the individual level within a few minutes of testing. Here we evaluate the test-retest reliability of this response across scalp electroencephalographic (EEG) recording sessions separated by more than two months, in the same 30 individuals. We found no test-retest difference overall across sessions in terms of amplitude and spatial distribution of the EEG individual face discrimination response. Moreover, with only 4 stimulation sequences corresponding to 4 min of recordings per session, the individual face discrimination response was highly reliable in terms of amplitude, spatial distribution, and shape. Together with previous observations, these results strengthen the diagnostic value of FPVS-EEG as an objective and rapid flag for specific difficulties at individual face recognition in the human population.