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3 Kinds of Nouns: Counting is Not Always the Issue
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A Healthy Slice
(Originally published by: Urbanite Magazine, 2009-11-01) -
Academic Socialization in the Homes of Black and Latino Preschool Children: Research Findings and Future Directions
(Springer International Publishing, 2018)This chapter provides an overview of what is known about how Black and Latino families prepare their young children for school and what remains to be understood. It provides a synthesis of research presented in this volume, ... -
Adjective Clauses: Do They Define or Tell Us More Information?
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Adverb Clauses: Don’t Use Future Tense
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Aging in Place Changing Socio-ecology and the Power of Kinship on Smith Island, Maryland
(University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019)This article examines how the people known as Smith Islanders interact with their environment over the life-course. The purpose of the study is to contribute to a better understanding of aging in a small, rural, coastal ... -
Algorithmic Pollution: Artists Working with Dataveillance and Societies of Control
(Media-N: The Journal of the New Media Causus, 2017)In 2013, interactive artist and Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica winner, David Rokeby, coined the phrase Algorithmic Pollution to describe a phenomena where data collection alters human public behavior. The purpose of this ... -
An alternative view of ecological community thresholds and appropriate analyses for their detection: comment
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Annual variation in long-distance dispersal driven by breeding and non-breeding season climatic conditions in a migratory bird
(Nordic Society Oikos, 2014-11-25)Long‐distance dispersal is a fundamental process in ecology and evolution but the factors that influence these movements remain poorly understood in most species. We used stable hydrogen isotopes to quantify the rate and ... -
Anthracite and the Irish : extricating the Irish immigrant mining community from the Molly Maguire myth, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1850-1879
(1996)The Molly Maguires were a reputed secret society of Irish immigrant mine workers who allegedly terrorized the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania from the Civil War until twenty men convicted as Molly Maguires were ... -
Are Public Sector Workers in Developing Countries Overpaid? Evidence from a New Global Data Set
(Elsevier Inc., 2019-02-25)This paper examines the public sector wage premium using nationally representative household surveys from 91 countries. The public sector generally pays a wage premium compared to all private sector salaried employees, but ... -
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 ... -
Assessing validity of retrospective recall of physical activity in individuals with psychosis-like experiences
(Elsevier B.V., 2019-03)Psychosis-like experiences are present in the general population and may indicate risk for more severe forms of psychosis. They are associated with cognitive impairments, potentially impacting ability to accurately complete ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Automated Functional and Behavioral Health Assessment of Older Adults with Dementia
(IEEE, 2016-08-18)Dementia is a clinical syndrome of cognitive deficits that involves both memory and functional impairments. While disruptions in cognition is a striking feature of dementia, it is also closely coupled with changes in ... -
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 ...