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Audiovisual Lexical Retrieval Deficits Following Left Hemisphere Stroke
(MDPI, 2018-11-28)Binding sensory features of multiple modalities of what we hear and see allows formation of a coherent percept to access semantics. Previous work on object naming has focused on visual confrontation naming with limited ... -
Hezbollah and Hamas deterrence equation
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Deterrence Theory: Success or Failure in Arab-Israeli Wars
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Shifting Sands: Contemporary trends in powder animation
Backlit animation capitalizes on the purity of light pouring directly into the camera and no technique maximizes the nuances of that light better than sand animation. This paper will discuss the historical variations on ... -
Education, lifelong learning and self-rated health in later life in the USA
(SAGE journals, 2018-11-04)Objective: This study examined the mediating effects of lifelong learning on the association between self-rated health and educational attainment among a nationally representative sample of US residents aged 50 years and ... -
Bahama Oriole Project team awarded NSF grant to offer more UMBC undergrads International Research Experiences
(UMBC, 2018-11-06)UMBC is recognized as a national leader in undergraduate teaching, in part because the university connects so many students with meaningful research opportunities. Now, a new $300,000 NSF International Research Experiences ... -
Association between sleep, childhood trauma and psychosis-like experiences
(Elsevier B.V, 2018-03-09)Psychosis-like experiences (PLEs), or attenuated positive symptoms of psychosis, present along a severity continuum and have been associated with distressing thoughts and impairments in functioning. Although knowledge of ... -
The association between sleep dysfunction and psychosis-like experiences among college students
(Elsevier B.V, 2017-02)Sleep problems are prominent and pervasive clinical issues experienced by many people with psychotic disorders, often causing distress and functional impairment. Sleep problems are also related to psychosis-like experiences ... -
Validity of a two-item screen for early psychosis
(Elsevier B.V., 2018-12)Well-validated screening tools have been developed to identify people at high risk for psychosis, but these are rarely used outside of specialty clinics or research settings. The development of extremely brief and simple ... -
Everyday Discrimination Prospectively Predicts Inflammation across 7‐Years in Racially Diverse Midlife Women: Study of Women's Health across the Nation
(The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, 2014-06-11)Self-reported discrimination has emerged as a predictor of negative psychological and physical health outcomes across racial/ethnic groups. The goals of this study were to determine whether C-reactive protein (CRP), a ... -
Higher Dispositional Optimism Predicts Lower Pain Reduction During Conditioned Pain Modulation
(Elsevier B.V., 2018-09-13)Optimism is associated with lower pain sensitivity, positive adjustment to chronic pain, and greater reduction of pain thresholds in a conditioned pain modulation (CPM) paradigm. We hypothesized that participants with ... -
Media Anthropology: Meaning, Embodiment, Infrastructure, and Activism
Media is a word that can be used to describe a set of technologies that connect multiple people at one time to shared content. Media anthropologists study mass communication (broadcast radio and television) and digital ... -
Mapping pine plantations in the southeastern U.S. using structural, spectral, and temporal remote sensing data
(Elsevier Inc., 2018-10)The southeastern U.S. produces the most industrial roundwood in the U.S. each year, largely from commercial pine plantations. The extent of plantation forests and management dynamics can be difficult to ascertain from ... -
RECENT SPECIATION IN THE ORCHARD ORIOLE GROUP: DIVERGENCE OF ICTERUS SPURIUS SPURIUS AND ICTERUS SPURIUS FUERTESI
(The American Ornithologists' Union, 2003-04-22)New World orioles (Icterus) include several closely related species and subspecies pairs that provide excellent opportunities for studying recent speciation. We examined a subspecies pair in the Orchard Oriole group: Orchard ... -
Literacy, Numeracy, and Health Information Seeking Among Middle- Aged and Older Adults in the United States
(SAGE journals, 2018-09-27)Objectives: Health literacy is often viewed as an essential skill set for successfully seeking health information to make health-related decisions. However, this general understanding has yet to be established with the use ... -
Trauma’s Influence on Relationships: Clients’ Perspectives at an Intimate Partner Violence Intervention Program
(Springer Nature Switzerland AG., 2018-10-01)Although individuals who engage in intimate partner violence (IPV) report high rates of trauma exposure, it is unclear whether they perceive a link between trauma exposures and relationship problems, which traumas are seen ... -
Confirmatory factor analyses of the Parent Attributions Questionnaire among Asian immigrant mothers
(SAGE journals, 2018-09-18)The present study examined the factor structure of maternal attributions regarding their caregiving experiences, measured by the Parent Attributions Questionnaire, among Asian immigrant mothers. Chinese and Korean immigrant ... -
Asian American and European American emerging adults’ perceived parenting styles and self-regulation ability
(APA PsysNET, 2018-06)Self-regulation refers to one’s ability to manage one’s emotions and behaviors in response to situational demands and is an important ability during emerging adulthood. Parenting styles play a significant role in children’s ... -
COMSOL Modeling of Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport in Two-Dimensional Geometries With Heterogeneities
(2011)The Delmarva Peninsula is located on the East Coast of the United States, between the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean. Industrial farming in the Delmarva Peninsula leads to levels of nutrients, in particular nitrogen, ... -
Predicting Fish Growth Potential and Identifying Water Quality Constraints: A Spatially-Explicit Bioenergetics Approach
(Springer Science,Business Media, 2011-07-17)Anthropogenic impairment of water bodies represents a global environmental concern, yet few attempts have successfully linked fish performance to thermal habitat suitability and fewer have distinguished co-varying water ...
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