cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Hippocampal Volume and its Association with Verbal Memory in Adult Survivors of Pediatric Brain Tumor
Creators: name: Jayakar, Reema
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: Verbal memory (VM) has been shown to be impacted in brain tumor (BT) survivors, but the nature of VM problems and underlying neuropathology are poorly understood and a long-term outlook is lacking. Our study examined hippocampus volume (HV) and VM in adult survivors of pediatric BT (n=32) and controls (n=48). Results indicate that disruption to a maturing brain in childhood is detectable 17 years (mean) after diagnosis, as HV is significantly lower in survivors compared to controls. Analysis of the VM scores shows that survivors have significantly lower overall immediate recall compared to controls, but learning slope, retention, and recognition are not different across the groups. Survivors? memory profile indicates that auditory attention and retrieval difficulties could be contributing to their lower immediate recall. For survivors, HV is significantly correlated with delayed free recall but not with other VM indices. Implications of these findings are discussed.
Responses to Caregiver Violations of Communication in Typically Developing Children, Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Children with Down Syndrome
Creators: name: Grossniklaus, Ann
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: Examining responses to violations of communication may provide insight into children?s communicative competencies not apparent during reciprocal interactions. In this study, the caregivers of 18-month-old typically developing children, 30-month-old children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and 30-month-old children with Down syndrome followed our suggestion to playfully violate communication with their children in two contexts: requesting and social interacting. Caregivers of children with ASD made fewer bids and violations, which their children accepted less often than typically developing children; they also used instrumental behaviors more often when responding. Children with Down syndrome responded to their caregivers similarly to typically developing children, and used more high-level communicative behaviors in the requesting, versus social interacting, context.  This study highlights the bidirectional nature of parent-child interactions, and suggests that violations of communication may serve as a ?press? to elicit child behaviors not present during reciprocal communication.
Sex Specific Behavioral Profiles in Toddlers At Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)
Creators: name: Ludwig, Natasha
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: The Positive Predictive Value (PPV) of the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (M-CHAT), a parent report autism screening tool, is higher for males than for females (Ludwig et al., IMFAR 2011). Given the long waitlists and high costs for ASD evaluations, there is a need to reduce the number of false positive females on the M-CHAT. The current study examined the sex specific clinical profiles of toddlers who received an ASD evaluation based on M-CHAT screen positive status in order to explore potential differences that may contribute to the differential PPV of the M-CHAT in boys and girls. The sample included 250 males and 106 females (mean age=25.3 months, SD=4.6) who were evaluated based on screen positive status on the M-CHAT. Although children with ASD demonstrated greater ASD symptoms, lower IQ and weaker language and motor skills, minimal sex differences were discovered.
Pathways To Antigay Aggression: The Influence Of Male Role Norms Via Sexual Prejudice And Right-Wing Authoritarianism
Creators: name: Goodnight, Bradley
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: The present study explores several predictors of antigay aggression: right-wing authoritarianism, sexual prejudice, and the three dimensions of male role norms, status, toughness and anti-femininity. Status-oriented and anti-feminine men engage in authoritarian thinking (Wilkinson, 2004), and use prejudice and aggression to express group norms (Herek, 1986). Results showed a significant indirect effect of status (B=.09, SE=.04, p=.02) and anti-femininity (B=.08, SE=.04, p=.04) on aggression via authoritarianism. An exploratory model with authoritarianism moderating the effect of prejudice on aggression showed that prejudice significantly influences aggression for low levels of right-wing authoritarianism. These findings indicate that authoritarians will aggress regardless of their sexual prejudice. This is consistent with the characterization of authoritarians as ?equal opportunity bigots? (Altemeyer, 2006, p. 24)" that will aggress toward any out-group.
The Application of A Risk-Resilience Model in Pediatric Chronic Pain
Creators: name: Cousins, Laura
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: Children with chronic pain are vulnerable to adverse outcomes, such as impaired quality of life and poor functioning. Recent risk and resilience models for adult chronic pain have aimed to conceptualize the complexity of pain, which may prove useful for pediatric populations. The purpose of this study was to examine the unique predictive value of prominent pain-related risk factors, investigate optimism?s role as a resilience factor, and explore protective mechanisms through which optimism exerts its benefits. Participants included 58 8-17 year-old children and adolescents with chronic pain. Pain intensity remained the best predictor of disability, but pain-related fear and optimism were unique predictors of well-being. Optimism contributed to adaptation by reducing pain-related fear and catastrophizing. Findings suggest that the predictive value of related risk factors is inconsistent across functioning outcomes, and optimism is an applicable resilience factor in pediatric pain through its minimization of pain-related risk factors.
Cool Girls, Inc. and Psychological Need Satisfaction in Female Pre and Early Adolescents
Creators: name: Felmet, Kandi
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: This study sought to better understand the process of how youth development programs work by examining psychological need satisfaction among youth that participated in a weekly after school program, Cool Girls, Inc. The sample included 216 pre and early adolescent females participating in Cool Girls Club at sites in Atlanta, GA. It was hypothesized that Cool Girls participants would experience support for the basic psychological needs of autonomy, competence and relatedness, and such need satisfaction would be associated with youth well-being. Engagement emerged as an important component of participation associated with perceived need satisfaction such that participants that reported being highly engaged experienced perceived need satisfaction. However, perceived need satisfaction was not associated with outcomes of well-being. Implications for future research are discussed.
The Effects of an Experimenter on the Response to Inequity in Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella)
Creators: name: Price, Sara
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: Extensive evidence compiled over the past decade demonstrates that many species of animals respond negatively to inequity across several different contexts. One context that remains unexplored is whether inequity responses are influenced by the experimenter. Experimenter effects remain an enduring concern within animal research. I investigated whether the presence of the experimenter influences responses to inequity in a nonhuman primate species, the capuchin monkey (Cebus apella). In the presence or absence of an experimenter, monkeys worked in pairs to complete a computerized task, following which individuals received rewards that were either equal or unequal in comparison to the partner?s rewards. Monkeys had difficulty learning the task, but after learning, rates of refusals were influenced by the individual reward received rather than the social comparison or the actions of the experimenter. I consider reasons for their frustration with the task and their subsequent lack of an inequity response in this context.
Children's Imitation of the Majority in a Goal-Directed Task:  Examining Number of Demonstrators and Demonstration Modality
Creators: name: Gonsiorowski, Anna
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: Children's imitation is not random, but depends on the context of the demonstration and imitation opportunity. For example, children are more likely to copy acts modeled by multiple people versus a single individual. In this study, I investigate the mechanisms underlying this phenomenon by manipulating the number of demonstrators and mode of presentation for a goal-directed task. Children saw either one or two adults demonstrate unnecessary target acts while opening boxes to retrieve toys, and demonstrations were presented either live or on video. Children imitated the target acts at equal rates across conditions. This may reflect children?s heightened attention to reproducing the salient goal (i.e., opening the box to retrieve a toy) as opposed to copying the acts used to achieve the goal. Future studies should manipulate children?s prior experiences, goal salience, and the majority influence to determine the relative importance of each of these factors in guiding social learning.
Dante e i lettori argentini: l'interpretazione politica della Commedia
Creators: name: Fernández Speier, Claudia
Publisher: name: eum
Year: 2014

description: Il rapporto tra Dante e i lettori argentini risale alla prima metà dell’Ottocento. In consonanza con l’interpretazione romantica che caratterizzava la sua lettura in Italia, essi videro nella Commedia, soprattutto, i valori della libertà politica e dell’unità nazionale. Concepito come un’opera universale, privato dei suoi tratti più italiani e medievali, da allora in poi il poema dantesco è stato letto in Argentina come un libro universale e atemporale, in grado di accogliere ogni contingenza storica. In questo lavoro si intende rintracciare il processo di appropriazione politica di cui la Commedia è stata oggetto nell’arco di due secoli di lettura: ci si sofferma sulle caratteristiche della sua circolazione in ogni periodo, e si individuano i valori ideologici ed estetici che essa ha veicolato nel campo letterario argentino, in rapporto con i diversi aspetti della realtà locale ad essa collegati.
The relationship between Dante and Argentinian readers dates back to the first half of the 19th century. In agreement with the romantic interpretation that caracterised its reading in Italy, they saw in the Divine Comedy, above all, the values of political freedom and national unity. Conceived as a universal work, deprived of its more Italian and medieval traits, from then on the poem was read in Argentina as a universal and timeless book, capable of recieving every historical context. This work attempts to retrace the process of political appropriation underwent by Dante’s Comedy through two centuries. We concentrate on the characteristics of its circulation in each period, and we identify the ideological and aesthetic values it has trasmitted in the Argentinian literary field, in relation with the different aspects of the local reality connected with the poem.
description: IL CAPITALE CULTURALE. Studies on the Value of Cultural Heritage, Supplementi (2/2015): Patrimonio culturale e cittadinanza/Patrimonio cultural y ciudadanía: Italia/Argentina
Huellas del patrimonio cultural italiano en las letras argentinas
Creators: name: Capano, Daniel Alejandro
Publisher: name: eum
Year: 2014

description: La investigación se propone relevar las huellas culturales (lingüísticas, literarias, folclórica) dejadas por el intenso flujo inmigratorio italiano recibido en la Argentina. Tales huellas del patrimonio cultural están presentes en escritores actuales como Raschella, Gambaro y Barrella, cuyas obras son estudiadas. Tras haber formulado una estructura teórica a partir de la cual son revisados los conceptos de “memoria”, “cultura”, “multiculturalismo”, “exilio”, “identidad” y “pertenencia”, e incorporado la noción de meme, que sirven como instrumentos para formular hipótesis, se observan sus funcionamientos en los textos de los autores citados. En el cierre del trabajo son puestos en contacto esos haces sémicos para elaborar conclusiones. El corpus analizado revela una literatura testimonial que indica el vigor de un sustrato cultural alimentado por las vivencias de los inmigrantes italianos en la Argentina.
This research seeks to release the cultural traces (linguistic, literary, folk) left by the intense Italian immigration flow to the country in contemporary Argentine writers such as Raschella, Gambaro and Barrella. The theoretical framework includes re-examination of concepts like “memory”, “culture”, “multiculturalism”, “exile”, “identity”, “sense of belonging”, and the incorporation of the meme notion, before properly tackling the texts of the aforementioned authors. Such semiotic bunches will eventually confirm hypotheses and lead to the conclusions. The corpus will account for a testimonial literature which shows the active status of a cultural stratum fed by the epic lived by the Italian immigrants in Argentine.
description: IL CAPITALE CULTURALE. Studies on the Value of Cultural Heritage, Supplementi (2/2015): Patrimonio culturale e cittadinanza/Patrimonio cultural y ciudadanía: Italia/Argentina
German Indianthusiasm and Settler Colonialism: Pernicious Continuities
Creators: name: Fisher, Judy L
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 459999
subject: Other Indigenous studies not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 430313
subject: History of empires, imperialism and colonialism
classificationCode: 440509
subject: Women's studies (incl. girls' studies)

description: The figure of the “Indian” upholds and perpetuates U.S. settler colonialism in ways not confined within U.S. borders. Instead, fascination with “Indians” has been a global phenomenon that can help us better understand the movement of settler colonial ideologies. Regarding the specific relationship between the “Indian” and Germany, scholars have argued that the fascination and love for all things “Indian”, or German Indianthusiasm, allows Germans to situate themselves alongside the victims of history rather than perpetrators specifically in regard to the Holocaust (Hartmut Lutz 2006). However, little attention has been given to how German Indianthusiasm connects with German settler colonialism in German South West Africa (DSWA). “German Indianthusiasm and Settler Colonialism: Pernicious Continuities” situates U.S. settler colonialism and German settler colonialism in DSWA as constitutive of a transnational settler colonial project, rather than distinct nationalist endeavors. Whereas representations of “Indians” in Wild West shows, Völkerschauen, and colonial exhibitions enabled Germany to position itself as a colonial power alongside other European nations during the German colonial period, contemporary iterations of Indianthusiasm allow German audiences to ignore their history of settler colonialism in DSWA and deflect responsibility for addressing this history. Exposing the simultaneity of “Indian” and “African” displays with the German colonial project in DSWA, and contemporary Wild West spaces juxtaposed by efforts to address Germany’s colonial legacy, this project tracks the pernicious continuities of colonial logics across geographic space and time. I suggest that Indianthusiasm allows a guilt-free realm to talk about decolonization, solidarity, and cross-cultural sharing with “Indians” without foundationally challenging the settler colonial ideologies inherent in the figure. For Germans to truly address their colonial heritage, and to make concerted efforts to address the representation of “Indians” in Germany, there must be an acknowledgement of how such ideologies are connected and persist over time.
Enforcing Traffic Safety: A Deep Learning Approach for Detecting Motorcyclists’ Helmet Violations Using YOLOv8 and Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network-Generated Images
Creators: name: Shoman, Maged
name: Ghoul, Tarek
name: Lanzaro, Gabriel
name: Alsharif, Tala
name: Gargoum, Suliman
name: Sayed, Tarek, 1965-
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2024

description: In this study, we introduce an innovative methodology for the detection of helmet usage violations among motorcyclists, integrating the YOLOv8 object detection algorithm with deep convolutional generative adversarial networks (DCGANs). The objective of this research is to enhance the precision of existing helmet violation detection techniques, which are typically reliant on manual inspection and susceptible to inaccuracies. The proposed methodology involves model training on an extensive dataset comprising both authentic and synthetic images, and demonstrates high accuracy in identifying helmet violations, including scenarios with multiple riders. Data augmentation, in conjunction with synthetic images produced by DCGANs, is utilized to expand the training data volume, particularly focusing on imbalanced classes, thereby facilitating superior model generalization to real-world circumstances. The stand-alone YOLOv8 model exhibited an F1 score of 0.91 for all classes at a confidence level of 0.617, whereas the DCGANs + YOLOv8 model demonstrated an F1 score of 0.96 for all classes at a reduced confidence level of 0.334. These findings highlight the potential of DCGANs in enhancing the accuracy of helmet rule violation detection, thus fostering safer motorcycling practices.
Riflessioni sulla formazione in servizio degli insegnanti nelle scuole italo-argentine della città e provincia di Córdoba
Creators: name: Zollo, Luciana
Publisher: name: eum
Year: 2014

description: Il bilinguismo e l’intercultura delle scuole italiane in Argentina costituiscono potenzialità innovative per l’educazione alla cittadinanza nell’attuale contesto latino-americano. La letteratura italiana, intesa sia come espressione di aspetti storico-sociali comuni alle culture argentina e italiana, sia come veicolo di educazione letteraria e di promozione della lettura, può proporsi come contributo significativo per la valorizzazione del patrimonio immateriale italiano. Viene preso in considerazione il ruolo della letteratura italiana all’interno dei curricoli, delle proposte e dei progetti educativi e, in particolare, delle attività di formazione degli insegnanti. Il curricolo bilingue e biculturale delle scuole di Córdoba e provincia, sorte in seno a comunità fortemente caratterizzate dalla storia delle migrazioni degli italiani in Argentina, costituisce un punto di partenza per una riflessione sulla didattica, sul profilo degli insegnanti e sui loro compiti, nonché sulla loro formazione in servizio. La complessità linguistica e socioculturale del “fare scuola italiana” in Argentina offre molteplici spunti per una consapevolezza sia individuale che sociale del riconoscimento, della fruizione e della rielaborazione della cultura italiana di ogni tempo.
The bilingual and intercultural condition of Italian schools in Argentina represents a potential to the education of an active citizenship in today’s Latin American context. Italian literature, either as a way of expressing the social and historical aspects which strongly connect Argentine culture to the Italian one, or as a means towards literature education and the endorsement of the reading habit, can be proposed as a significant contribution to the validation of Italian intangible heritage. The role of Italian literature within the curricula is taken into consideration, as well as the educational proposals and projects and, particularly, the teachers’ training activities. The bilingual and bicultural curriculum of the schools in Córdoba City and Province, originated within communities strongly characterized by the history of Italian migrations in Argentina, constitutes the starting point for a reflection on didactics, the teachers’ profile and their entrusted tasks, the goals and methods of their inservice training. The complexity of the linguistic and socio-cultural identity of those who are protagonists in the experience of “making the Italian school” in Argentina offers multiple ideas with the purpose of arising both individual and social awareness of an Italian culture to be recognized, appreciated and reworked.
description: IL CAPITALE CULTURALE. Studies on the Value of Cultural Heritage, Supplementi (2/2015): Patrimonio culturale e cittadinanza/Patrimonio cultural y ciudadanía: Italia/Argentina
Parent-Child Behavioral Interactions During Pediatric Immunizations in a Latino Sample
Creators: name: Mougianis, Ifigenia
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: Pediatric procedural distress has been linked to a number of short- and long-term negative outcomes for the patient. A body of literature has found that one of the strongest predictors of children's medical distress or coping is parents' behavior. The majority of this research has been conducted on predominately Caucasian samples. The purpose of this study was to explore the types and frequencies of parent and child behavior, as well as the associations between parent behavior and child distress and coping in a sample of Spanish-speaking Latino parent-child dyads. The findings suggest that there may be differences in Latino parent and child behavior when compared to the extant literature. This study is a first step in exploring parent and child behaviors in this vastly growing and understudied population. Additional studies with larger sample sizes are warranted in order to further explore if existing interventions are culturally appropriate for this population.
Physical Activity and Psychological Stress Resilience: Considering Anxiety Vulnerability
Creators: name: Wilner, Nicole
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: Human literature documenting that PA may confer protective effects on mental health by influencing the stress response offer inconsistent evidence, which may be due to the lack of consideration of whether PA?s protective effects vary according to individual differences in anxiety. Undergraduate student participants (N = 128) completed online measures of PA level, trait anxiety, and self-perceived stress resilience. The interaction between PA and trait anxiety was assessed using multiple hierarchical linear regression analyses. Among individuals with high anxiety vulnerability, there was a significant positive relation between recreational PA and self-perceived stress; however, there was no significant relation between recreational PA and self-perceived stress resilience, among individuals with low and moderate trait anxiety. In conclusion, individuals with high anxiety vulnerability, which may be a risk factor for developing mental health problems, may preferentially benefit from the protective effects of PA on mental health through the stress response.
The Effect of Stereotype Confirmation Concerns on Fear of Negative Evaluation and Avoidance for Those with Social Anxiety Disorder
Creators: name: Johnson, Suzanne
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between stereotype confirmation concerns (SCC) and fear of negative evaluation (FNE). It is hypothesized that SCC will predict FNE, and that this effect will be moderated by race, such that SCC and FNE will be stronger among African Americans than among European Americans. A sample of 53 Caucasians and 41 African Americans were diagnosed with social anxiety. A hierarchical multiple regression was run to predict FNE with SCC, race, and the product of the two. The final model explained 27.9% of the variance in participants? FNE. Race significantly moderated the effects of SCC on FNE; SCC had a stronger effect on FNE for Caucasian (b = .380, p < .01) than for African Americans (b = .140, p < .05). This study shows that it may be helpful in treatment of social anxiety to address stereotype confirmation concerns and to discuss social situations during which negative stereotypes become salient.
Gaetano Moretti y el aporte italiano al Palacio Legislativo de Montevideo
Creators: name: Tosoni, Luis Eduardo
Publisher: name: eum
Year: 2014

description: En el proyecto y construcción del Palacio Legislativo de Montevideo fue decisiva la participación de profesionales italianos. El concurso internacional convocado en 1904 fue ganado por el piamontés Vittorio Meano que en ese momento estaba dirigiendo la construcción del Teatro Colón y el Congreso Nacional en Buenos Aires. La muerte de Meano determinó por un lado el cambio de ubicación del edificio y por otro la ampliación de los planos originales por los arquitectos uruguayos Jacobo Vázquez Varela y Antonio Banchini. Frente al deseo del presidente de la República José Batlle y Ordóñez de revestir el edificio con mármoles y de monumentalizarlo la Comisión del Palacio contrató al arquitecto lombardo Gaetano Moretti quien continuaría con las obras hasta la inauguración del edificio en 1925. Moretti no solo se ocupó del edificio sino también de proponer un plan regulador de la plaza y de las calles adyacentes.
The project and construction of the Legislative Palace of Montevideo was significantly marked by the participation of Italian professionals. The international bid held in 1904 was awarded to the Piedmontese architect Vittorio Meano who, at the time, was directing the construction of the Colón Theater and the National Congress building in Buenos Aires. Meano’s death determined, on the one hand, a change in the location of the building and, on the other, an enlargement of the original plans by the Uruguayan architects Jacobo Vázquez Varela and Antonio Banchini. In order to satisfy the wish of the then President of Uruguay José Batlle y Ordóñez in terms of monumentalizing the building and facing it with marble, the Palace Committee engaged the services of architect Gaetano Moretti of Lombardy who carried on with the works up until the inauguration of the building in 1925. Moretti not only directed the construction work but also proposed a regulatory plan for the plaza and the surrounding streets.
description: IL CAPITALE CULTURALE. Studies on the Value of Cultural Heritage, Supplementi (2/2015): Patrimonio culturale e cittadinanza/Patrimonio cultural y ciudadanía: Italia/Argentina
Evaluating Conditions in Which Negatively-biased Interpretations of Facial  Expressions Emerge in Sub-clinical Social Anxiety
Creators: name: Schmidt, Sara
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: This study aimed to clarify information processing conditions in which negatively-biased interpretations of faces manifest among individuals varying in self-reported, sub-clinical social anxiety. Existing findings are mixed, with conflicting research variously suggesting the presence (e.g., Bell et al., 2011; Yoon & Zinbarg, 2008) or the absence (e.g., Philippot & Douilliez, 2005; Schofield, Coles, and Gibb, 2011) of a negative interpretation bias for faces. Likely contributing to these equivocal findings is considerable methodological variability across studies that appear to tap two different levels of information processing (automatic and controlled). In this study, experimental conditions designed to elicit automatic versus controlled processing were compared in a single adapted learning paradigm (Yoon & Zinbarg, 2008). Hierarchical regression results did not support hypotheses that social anxiety would predict a negative interpretation bias in either condition. Further analysis of the learning paradigm revealed unexpected patterns of learning that varied according to face emotion.
Paesaggio identitario: Carlo Emilio Gadda a bordo del “Conte Rosso”
Creators: name: Carmello, Marco
Publisher: name: eum
Year: 2014

description: L’articolo intende analizzare la relazione fra paesaggio e letteratura come meccanismo di scrittura. Si discute in particolare la seconda parte del Castello di Udine di Carlo Emilio Gadda, Crociera Mediterranea, come esempio ottimale di questa relazione. Lo scopo è quello di individuare e discutere da un punto di vista semiologico e culturale il legame che si istituisce fra letteratura e paesaggio successivamente alla Prima Guerra Mondiale.
The aim of this article is to analyze the relation between landscape and literature in literary writing. We choose the second section of Carlo Emilio Gadda Il Castello di Udine, titled Crociera Mediterranea, because of her exemplarity in showing the relation under discussion. Our purpose is to discuss from a semeiotic and cultural point of view the connection between literature and landscape after the First World War.
description: IL CAPITALE CULTURALE. Studies on the Value of Cultural Heritage, Supplementi (2/2015): Patrimonio culturale e cittadinanza/Patrimonio cultural y ciudadanía: Italia/Argentina
Supplementary document for Attenuation coefficients of selected organic and inorganic solvents in mid-infrared spectral domain - 5683372.pdf
Creators: name: Junaid, Saher
name: Huang, Wenqin
name: Scheibinger, Ramona
name: Schaarschmidt, Kay
name: Schneidewind, Henrik
name: Paradis, Pascal
name: Bernier, Martin
name: Vallee, Real
name: Stanca, Sarmiza
name: Zieger, Gabriel
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy

description: Attenuation measurement of inorganic solvents in mid-infrared spectral domain: Supplemental document
Antonio Mollari, un problema di comunicazione
Creators: name: Berchiesi, Gianfranco
Publisher: name: eum
Year: 2015

description: La riscoperta della figura di Antonio Mollari, in seguito al ritrovamento presso il Comune di Petriolo di cinque sue tavole acquerellate, ebbe inizio con la mostra del 2006, nella quale l’esposizione di alcune delle più interessanti tavole conservate a Trieste, Foligno e Macerata e una conferenza del Prof. Cruciani Fabozzi, seguita dalla storia della famiglia Mollari ad opera dell’Ing. Carratù, delinearono un primo “ritratto” della personalità di Antonio Mollari. Da quella data è poi maturata l’idea di indagare in maniera più adeguata la sua attività, giungendo al Convegno tenuto all’Abbadia di Fiastra nel 2013. L’autore mette in evidenza come la figura di Antonio Mollari, al di là del giudizio tecnico che possono esprimere i relatori che si sono succeduti nel Convegno, ha un problema legato alla comunicazione. Chi era Mollari e come potrebbe essere adeguatamente presentato in una riunione di persone non addette ai lavori? Era architetto, ingegnere, tecnico? Oppure, alla bisogna, era l’una o l’altra di queste figure?

In this report it is narrated that in 2006 the figure of Antonio Mollari was reproposed, after the discovery of five watercolor maps at the municipality of Petriolo, by means of a small exhibition to which Prof. Cruciani Fabozzi gave the right approach. From that date an interest in the idea of a more appropriate and extensive discussion on Antonio Mollari is later gained, reaching the Conference held in the Abbey of Fiastra in 2013. The author highlights how the figure of Antonio Mollari has a problem with the communication, beyond the technical opinion, expressed by the speakers that have taken place in the conference. Who was Mollari and how could he be adequately presented at a meeting of persons not qualified in this matter? It was Architect or Engineer? Or, as needed, was the one or the other of these figures?
description: IL CAPITALE CULTURALE. Studies on the Value of Cultural Heritage, Supplementi (1/2014): Antonio Mollari (1768-1843). Un architetto e ingegnere marchigiano. Atti del convegno nazionale
Leucanopsis potamia
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Leucanopsis
Leucanopsis potamia

description: Leucanopsis potamia (Schaus, 1941)
Halisidota potamia Schaus, 1941: 510.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Brazil, Antioquia, Mesopatamia.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Holotype male no. 34 782 (USNM).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 368, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
The Contribution of Temperament and Depressive Symptoms as Pathways to Informant Discrepancies on Parenting Practices
Creators: name: Shishido, Yuri
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: Despite low/moderate convergent correlations, assessment of youth typically relies on multi-informants for information across a range of domains including parenting practices. Although parent-youth informant discrepancies have been found to predict adverse youth outcomes, few studies have examined contributing factors to the explanation of informant disagreements on parenting. The current study represents the first investigation to test the fit of hypothesized path models in which mother and son?s self-reported affective dimensions of temperament and depression were concurrently examined as critical pathways to informant discrepancies on parenting. Within a community sample of 174 mother-son dyads, results suggest that whereas the effects of mothers? temperament on discrepancies for parenting evidenced a full mediation through depression, the effect of sons? temperament only partially depended on depression in explaining discrepancies on parenting. Results broadly confirmed the importance of considering multi-informant?s self-reported affective dimensions of temperament and depression in the explanation of discrepancies on parenting practices.
Test Performance: the Influence of Cognitive Load on Reading Comprehension
Creators: name: Clevinger, Amanda
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: Scores from high-stakes tests such as the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) are commonly used as criteria for college admission decisions.  So, it is of implied importance to identify factors that contribute to susceptibility to failure on these tests.  One potential factor addressed in the current study was whether emotional cognitive load differentially impacts those with low working memory capacity or trait anxiety.  Individual differences in subjective arousal were also tested as a mechanism contributing to this effect.  In Experiment 1, a reading comprehension task revealed that type of cognitive load affected accuracy.  In Experiment 2, state anxiety was induced using methods from previous research.  The results revealed that, again, only type of cognitive load affected comprehension accuracy.  Together, results suggest that arousal induced via disturbing words negatively influence reading performance regardless of superior working memory capacity.  These findings are not based on cognitive load in general, but the semantic value of the words processed, in particular, that led to comprehension difficulty.  Results are discussed in terms of theoretical and practical implications.
Perceived Threats, the Black Sheep Effect, and Sexual Prejudice Against Gay Men
Creators: name: Daboin, Irene
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: Recently theorists have argued that in-group members might respond more harshly to deviant members of their own group in comparison to deviant members of the out-group. Previous research has provided extensive support for this ?black sheep effect?; however, no prior studies have examined how it affects individuals? attitudes towards sexual minorities, or those perceived as deviating from the heterosexual norm. Numerous factors have been found to be linked to negative attitudes towards sexual minorities, including religious fundamentalism and the traditional male role norm of anti-femininity, and several studies have suggested that intergroup threat theory may serve as a possible explanation for sexual prejudice. The present study examines the association between several known correlates of sexual prejudice and intergroup threat theory, and examines the possible mediating effect of sexual prejudice on the association between anti-femininity, religious fundamentalism, and the ?black sheep effect?.
African American Parents' Socialization Around Racism in the Education System
Creators: name: Zuckerman, Allana
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: African American youth experience individual and institutional level discrimination (e.g., Berkel et al., 2009; Jones, 1997). These experiences negatively impact their overall well-being (e.g., Harris-Britt et al., 2007; Wang & Huguley, 2012). African American parents use racial socialization to teach their children strategies to cope with racial discrimination (e.g., McAdoo, 2002; Peters, 1997). Given the positive impact of racial socialization on the negative outcomes associated with discrimination (e.g., Bynum et al., 2007), more work is needed to understand how contextual factors influence this process. The current study used qualitative methods to examine racial socialization in response to two levels of school-based discrimination. Directed content analysis was used on transcripts from ten focus groups of African American parents (N= 73). Results indicated that parents provided similar cultural socialization messages in response to both levels of discrimination whereas preparation for bias messages differed. Implications for preparing youth for school-based discrimination are discussed.
Antonio Mollari, ingegnere in capo di Acque e Strade: disegni tecnici e progetti (1818-1819)
Creators: name: Verdi, Orietta
Publisher: name: eum
Year: 2015

description: Nei fondi conservati all’Archivio di Stato di Roma sono stati rintracciati più di 20 disegni di opere stradali e idrauliche di Antonio Mollari, oltre al suo curriculum vitae alla data del 1817, quando egli produsse i suoi titoli per partecipare alla selezione dei candidati per i posti di ingegnere pontificio, presso la Direzione Generale di Acque e Strade. Dai disegni firmati da Antonio Mollari e dalla documentazione conservata nel fondo del Consiglio d’Arte, organo consultivo della Direzione Generale, si può tentare di ricostruire brani sconosciuti della sua attività di perito di parte nelle controversie tra confinanti e soprattutto è possibile individuare le opere da lui progettate ed eseguite nella sua breve e intermittente carriera (1818-1819) di ingegnere in capo di Acque e Strade nella delegazione di Urbino e Pesaro e successivamente come ingegnere camerale nella legazione di Ravenna.

In the funds retained in the State Archive of Rome, more than 20 designs of roads and hydraulic works by Antonio Mollari were discovered in addition to his curriculum vitae, dated 1817, where he lists his credentials to take part in the selection for the position of papal engineer at the General Directorate of Water and Roads. The drawings, signed by Antonio Mollari, and the records kept in the Found of the Council of Art, advisory body of the General Directorate, allow us to reconstruct his activities as expert witness in disputes between neighbours and especially to identify the works he designed and carried out in his short career (1818-1819) as engineer-in-chief of Water and Roads in the delegation of Urbino and Pesaro and later as an engineer chamber in the legation of Ravenna.
description: IL CAPITALE CULTURALE. Studies on the Value of Cultural Heritage, Supplementi (1/2014): Antonio Mollari (1768-1843). Un architetto e ingegnere marchigiano. Atti del convegno nazionale
Children's Imitation of a Weight Sorting Rule
Creators: name: Wang, Zhidan
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: The preschool years are an important time in the development of understanding the property of weight. This experiment investigates whether social learning, specifically imitation, will promote preschoolers? use of this property. Children were randomly assigned to one of three groups. Those in the experimental group saw an adult sort four objects based on their weights. Children were then presented with the objects. Whether children sorted these objects based on their weights was scored, as was their sorting of a novel set of objects (to assess generalization) and their imitation of the hefting gestures used by the adult. Comparisons to control groups indicated that 4-year-olds, but not 3-year-olds, benefitted from the modeling and sorted by weight. These results suggest that social learning is an effective way to promote children?s use of this invisible property.
The Examination of White Matter Microstructure, Autism Traits, and Social Cognitive Abilities in Neurotypical Adults
Creators: name: Bradstreet, Lauren
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among mentalizing abilities, self-reported autism traits, and two white matter tracts, uncinate fasciculus (UF) and inferior longitudinal fasciculus (ILF), in neurotypical adults. UF and ILF were hypothesized to connect brain regions implicated in a neuroanatomical model of mentalizing. Data were available for 24 neurotypical adults (mean age = 21.92 (4.72) years; 15 women). Tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS) was used to conduct voxelwise cross-participant comparisons of fractional anisotropy (FA) values in UF and ILF as predicted by mentalizing abilities and self-reported autism traits. Self-reported autism traits were positively related to FA values in left ILF. Results suggest that microstructural differences in left ILF are specifically involved in the expression of subclinical autism traits in neurotypical individuals.
Parenting and Youth Sexual Risk in South Africa: The Role of Contextual Factors
Creators: name: Goodrum, Nada
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: Black South African youth are disproportionately affected by the HIV epidemic, and risky sexual behaviors increase youths? vulnerability to HIV infection. U.S.-based research has highlighted several contextual factors that impact sexual risk, but these processes have not been examined in a South African context. In a sample of Black South African parent-youth dyads, this study examined relations among parenting, neighborhood quality, maternal social support, coparenting, and youth sexual risk. Hypotheses were evaluated using structural equation modeling. Results revealed that better neighborhood quality predicted less youth sexual risk via higher levels of positive parenting. Social support was positively related to parenting quality but did not interact with neighborhood quality to impact parenting. Coparenting did not moderate the relation between parenting and sexual risk. Results highlight the importance of family- and community-level processes for youth sexual risk in an understudied and high-risk sample. HIV prevention-interventions should be informed by these contextual factors.
Chronic and Latent Viral Infections and Leukocyte Telomere Length across the Lifespan of Female and Male Individuals Living with or without HIV
Creators: name: Yang, Nancy Yi
name: Hsieh, Anthony Y. Y.
name: Chen, Zhuo
name: Campbell, Amber R.
name: Gadawska, Izabella
name: Kakkar, Fatima
name: Sauvé, Laura
name: Bitnun, Ari
name: Brophy, Jason
name: Murray, Melanie C. M.
name: Pick, Neora
name: Krajden, Mel
name: Côté, Hélène C. F.
name: CIHR Team On Cellular Aging And HIV Comorbidities In Women And Children (CARMA)
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2024

description: Background: Chronic/latent viral infections may accelerate immunological aging, particularly among people living with HIV (PLWH). We characterized chronic/latent virus infections across their lifespan and investigated their associations with leukocyte telomere length (LTL). Methods: Participants enrolled in the CARMA cohort study were randomly selected to include n = 15 for each decade of age between 0 and >60 y, for each sex, and each HIV status. Cytomegalovirus (CMV), Epstein–Barr virus (EBV), human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8), herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1), and HSV-2 infection were determined serologically; HIV, hepatitis C (HCV), and hepatitis B (HBV) were self-reported. LTLs were measured using monochrome multiplex qPCR. Associations between the number of viruses, LTL, and sociodemographic factors were assessed using ordinal logistic and linear regression modeling. Results: The study included 187 PLWH (105 female/82 male) and 190 HIV-negative participants (105 female/84 male), ranging in age from 0.7 to 76.1 years. Living with HIV, being older, and being female were associated with harbouring a greater number of chronic/latent non-HIV viruses. Having more infections was in turn bivariately associated with a shorter LTL. In multivariable analyses, older age, living with HIV, and the female sex remained independently associated with having more infections, while having 3–4 viruses (vs. 0–2) was associated with a shorter LTL. Conclusions: Our results suggest that persistent viral infections are more prevalent in PLWH and females, and that these may contribute to immunological aging. Whether this is associated with comorbidities later in life remains an important question.
Metaxanthia atribasis Rothschild 1913
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Metaxanthia
Metaxanthia atribasis

description: Metaxanthia atribasis Rothschild, 1913
Metaxanthia atribasis Rothschild, 1913b: 591.
Metaxanthia aureiventris Rothschild, 1913b: 591. — Type locality: [Colombia], Cundinamarca, Cananche. — Type specimens: Undisclosed number of female syntypes (BMNH; one of the syntypes labeled TYPE).
TYPE LOCALITY. — Ecuador, [Imbabura], Paramba.
TYPE SPECIMENS. — Undisclosed number of female syntypes (BMNH; one of the syntypes labeled TYPE).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 369, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Parenting Stress and its Relationship to Adaptive Behavior and Child Behavior Observed During Language Interventions
Creators: name: Fisher, Evelyn
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: The purpose of this study was to examine parenting stress over time and its relationship to adaptive behavior and observed child behavior during language interventions in a sample of 113 toddlers with significant developmental delays. The data included are from two longitudinal studies of language outcomes following augmented or spoken language interventions (Romski et al., In preparation; Romski et al., 2010). We found that parenting stress was elevated relative to the normative sample, however, there was no relationship between parenting stress and observed child behavior. Lower child adaptive behavior was associated with both higher parenting stress and more observed child challenging behaviors. Our results suggest a complex picture of the relationships between parenting stress, child challenging behavior, and child adaptive behavior, in which child adaptive behavior has a stronger influence on parenting stress among parents of toddlers.