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Keep it simple: streamlining book illustrations improves attention and comprehension in beginning readers
This study used eye-tracking to examine whether extraneous illustration details—a common design in beginning reader storybooks—promote attentional competition and hinder learning. The study used a within-subject design ... -
The Knife and the Pumpkin
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Latina mothers’ engagement in children’s math learning in the early school years: Conceptions of math and socialization practices
(Elsevier, 2019-01)This study addressed the important role that the home plays just prior to or at the start of formal schooling, in facilitating children’s math learning. Although research on home influences is a burgeoning area, there has ... -
Longitudinal effects of maternal love withdrawal and guilt induction on Chinese American preschoolers’ bullying aggressive behavior
(Cambridge University Press, 2019-01-10)Bullying has been understudied among preschool children, especially those from Chinese American families. Previous research has also neglected the dimensional effects of psychological control on child bullying development. ... -
Looking Around
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Mand compliance as a contingency controlling problem behavior: A systematic review
(Wiley Online Library, 2020-09-02)Bowman et al. (1997) described a dynamic contingency in which severe problem behavior was evoked by adult noncompliance with a variety of child mands, which occurred at high rates, and was reinforced by adult compliance ... -
Manipulating Establishing Operations to Verify and Establish Stimulus Control during Mand Training
(Wiley Online Library, 2007-12)Acquisition of verbal behavior is a major goal of interventions for children with developmental disabilities. We evaluated the effectiveness of manipulation of an establishing operation for functional discriminated mands. ... -
Marijuana use and health behaviors in a US clinic sample of patients with sickle cell disease
(PLOS, 2020-07-14)Abstract Introduction As marijuana use becomes more common, it is essential clinicians understand the relationship between marijuana use and health behaviors. Methods Using a retrospective cohort of adolescents and ... -
The Measure of Sickle Cell Stigma: Initial findings from the Improving Patient Outcomes through Respect and Trust study
(SAGE, 2014-07-04)Research about the influence of stigma on health outcomes in sickle cell disease is limited. We administered the recently developed Measure of Sickle Cell Stigma to 262 patients in the United States. The Measure of Sickle ... -
A Mingled Yarn
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Modeling Space Radiation Induced Cognitive Dysfunction Using Targeted And Non-Targeted Effects
(2020-12-01)Radiation-induced cognitive dysfunction is increasingly recognized as an important risk for human exploration of distant planets. Mechanistically-motivated mathematical modeling helps to interpret and quantify this phenomenon. ... -
Momentary Blessings
(Otter Bay Books, 2019) -
Mother Goose in the NICU: Support for the Neediest Infants and Their Families
Of the 76,510 babies born during an average week in the United States, 7,361—or about 10 percent—are born prematurely.1 Preterm babies, born before the thirty-seventh week of gestation, can be born with underdeveloped organ ... -
Multiple Levels of Suffering: Discrimination in Health-Care Settings Is Associated With Enhanced Laboratory Pain Sensitivity in Sickle Cell Disease
(Wolters Kluwer, 2016-04-01)Objective: People living with sickle cell disease (SCD) experience severe episodic and chronic pain and frequently report poor interpersonal treatment within health-care settings. In this particularly relevant context, ... -
Mysteries, Visible and Invisible
(Otter Bay Books, 2018) -
Neighborhood crime is differentially associated with cardiovascular risk factors as a function of race and sex
(PAGEPress Publications, 2019-12-05)Background: Neighborhood crime may be an important factor contributing to cardiovascular health disparities, and these relations may vary by race and sex. The present investigation evaluated (a) potential differential ... -
Neuropathology of Suicide A Review and an Approach
(Wiley Online Library, 2006-12-17)Neuropathology is one approach to the effort to elucidate the pathophysiology of suicide. Initial neurochemical studies focusing on the roles of serotonin (5‐HT) and noradrenaline (NE) abnormalities in brains of suicide ... -
The Noblest Pleasure
(Otter Bay Books, 2017) -
Non-homogeneous stereological properties of the rat hippocampus from high-resolution 3D serial reconstruction of thin histological sections
(Elsevier, 2012-01-04)Integrating hippocampal anatomy from neuronal dendrites to whole-system may help elucidate its relation to function. Towards this aim, we digitally traced the cytoarchitectonic boundaries of the dentate gyrus (DG) and areas ... -
On the Tightrope
(Otter Bay Books, 2016)