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Writing About One's Best Possible Self To Influence Task Persistence, Stephanie G. Holmes, Heather M. Mccarren

Modern Psychological Studies

Previous research has identified a correlation between optimism and increased persistence. Existing research also suggests that optimism can be manipulated to induce a mindset of positive outcome expectancies. Writing about and imagining one’s best possible self (BPS) has resulted in an increase in an individual’s positive outcome expectancies, but the effect of BPS on related constructs has yet to be examined. Thirty university students participated in a study to investigate whether participants primed with optimism using BPS would persist longer on an impossible anagram task. A t-test revealed that participants primed with BPS spent significantly longer on the anagrams than …

Digital Resources For Pain Management: Psychologists' Perspectives And Suggestions, Kate Mckinlay, Anna Chur-Hansen

Modern Psychological Studies

Chronic pain has high prevalence, complexity, psychosocial and economic impact. There is a growing interest in the development and use of digital resources accessed through electronic devices for pain management. Qualitative interviews with eight registered psychologists explored their perspectives of and suggestions regarding digital resources for pain management. Six overarching themes were identified, indicating that digital resources are perceived as useful. Difficulties were identified pertaining to digital social support and client-decision making, plus perceived barriers and facilitators for digital resource use. Participants offered suggestions about what an ideal digital resource would incorporate. These findings may inform the modification of existing …

Youth, Interrupted: Encouraging A Holistic Approach To Juvenile Incarceration Policy, Ashley Tisdale

Modern Psychological Studies

Scientific research into the experience of juveniles in detention has recently had an impact on court rulings. In the cases of Roper v Simmons (2005), Graham v Florida (2010) and Miller v. Alabama (2012) judges used research in juvenile cognitive development to inform their rulings. Though current research covers different aspects of juvenile experience in the criminal justice system, few studies approach the subject holistically or examine the inherent symbiotic relationship between juvenile detention policy and juvenile incarceration. This literature review seeks to present information on and encourage further examination of this relationship. For the purposes of the review, the …

Parental Perceptions Of Children With And Without Learning Disabilities, Leah I. Janikowski, Jill M. Norvilitis

Modern Psychological Studies

The present study examined differences in how parents of children with and without learning disabilities perceive their children academically. Of 235 participants, all recruited through Amazon’s MTurk platform, 124 (52%) had a child with a learning disability. Compared to parents of children without learning disabilities, parents who had children with learning disabilities reported that their children were less motivated and that their children cared less about getting good grades. Parents of children with a disability reported lower parental satisfaction compared to parents of children without learning disabilities. Among parents of children with learning disabilities, greater perception of stigma was negatively …

Review Of Developing And Maintaining Practical Archives: A How-To-Do-It Manual, Katie Ferrante

Journal of Western Archives

Review of Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives: A How-To-Do-It Manual (third edition).

Discriminating Global Orientation Of Two Element Sets, Aytaç Karabay, Daniel D. Kurylo

Publications and Research

Perceived global organization of visual patterns is based upon the aggregate contribution of constituent components. Patterns constructed from multiple sources cooperate or compete for global organization. An investigation was made here of interactions between two interspersed element sets on global orientation. It was hypothesized that each set would operate as an integrated unit, and contribute independently to global orientation. Participants viewed a 10 x 10 array of Gabor patches, and indicated the predominant orientation of the array. In Experiment 1 all elements were rotated. Rotation up to 23° had little effect, whereas greater rotation produced a progressive shift on global …

Cultural Conversations October 2020, Central Washington University, Ana Tonseth

Brooks Library Events

Cultural storytelling event sponsored by Ellensburg Public Library, Brooks Library, and Office of Interational Studies and Programs. Held in the Hal Holmes Community Center. The speaker for this event is Ana Tonseth.

Age-Related Losses In Cardiac Autonomic Activity During A Daytime Nap, Pin-Chun Chen, Negin Sattari, Lauren N. Whitehurst, Sara C. Mednick

Psychology Faculty Publications

In healthy, young individuals, a reduction in cardiovascular output and a shift from sympathetic to parasympathetic (vagal) dominance is observed from wake into stages of nocturnal and daytime sleep. This cardiac autonomic profile, measured by heart rate variability (HRV), has been associated with significant benefits for cardiovascular health. Aging is associated with decreased nighttime sleep quality and lower parasympathetic activity during both sleep and resting. However, it is not known whether age-related dampening of HRV extends to daytime sleep, diminishing the cardiovascular benefits of naps in the elderly. Here, we investigated this question by comparing the autonomic activity profile between …

Depaul Professor And Environmental Scientist Shares How To Build An Antiracist Lab, University Marketing And Communications, Bala Chaudhary

DePaul Download

Racial and ethnic diversity within the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields remains low, and many scientists and researchers are seeking solutions to help address racism in their workplaces. To help, assistant professor and environmental scientist in the Department of Environmental Science and Studies for DePaul’s College of Science and Health, Dr. Bala Chaudhary, collaborated with another researcher of color to create the “Ten Simple Rules for Building an Antiracist Lab.”

‘The Considerable Number Of Students’: A Response To W.E.B. Du Bois, Heidi Gauder, Caroline Waldron

Roesch Library Faculty Publications

The letter is brief, dated June 13, 1930, and clearly a reply to an inquiry. It is a total of four numbered paragraphs. What makes it interesting is the letter’s recipient and its explanation about the number of African American students at the University of Dayton in 1930.

In replying to W.E.B. Du Bois, editor of The Crisis, Brother Joseph Muench, S.M., notes that Jessie V. Hathcock is the only African American student at the University of Dayton, that she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in education less than a week prior, and that her academic record was “very …

Perceptions On Aboutness Of Documentary Films: Comparing Fast Headings To User-Created Imdb "Plot Keywords", Christopher S. Dieckman

OLAC Conferences

Many popular websites allow users to assign descriptive metadata to individual resources. Previous studies have analyzed user-created metadata with several comparing it to metadata created by information professionals. This study analyzed Faceted Application of Subject Terminology (FAST) headings and IMDb “plot keywords” for the same documentary films in order to determine how much of the aboutness identified by the former was covered by the latter. A randomized list of documentary films held at the Iowa State University Library, a large academic research library, was created. Records for titles without IMDb headings were excluded from analysis. The FAST headings were compared …

Step Up Your Game With Genre Terms For Tabletop Games, Diane Robson, Catherine Sassen, Kevin Yanowski

OLAC Conferences

We created a controlled vocabulary of genre terms to enhance user access to a large college of tabletop games.

Clearing Out Backlogs From Home: Remote Cataloging Of Posters, Nicole Smeltekop

OLAC Conferences

In 2019, the Libraries purchased a collection of about 500 leftist political posters. These posters mostly originated from Europe, but the collection has an international scope. We set up a workflow that started with the Conservation department unrolling and flattening the posters, me cataloging them, and lastly, the digitization team creating images for our digital repository. As the only graphics cataloger, the original plan was for me to catalog these by myself and have batches of posters scanned by our digital imaging team as I completed cataloging. However, COVID-related work-from-home orders changed how this could be done.

Can I Show This Video?: Making Public Performance Rights Visible To Patrons, Lynn E. Gates

OLAC Conferences

The Problem

Faculty & students ask Research Assistance Desk (RAD) staff about showing videos in class or in group settings. Faculty also asked how to search for videos that had public performance rights. Since this information is in order records and/or buried in licenses RAD staff had to ask acquisitions staff if a specific video had PPR.

The Goals

• Make PPR information readily available
• Make streaming videos with PPR searchable

Objects, Realia, And Virtual Reality For Libraries As Specialized Method For Teaching And Learning, Cyrus Ford Zarganj

OLAC Conferences

No abstract provided.

Oklahoma Progress Update - A Revised Employee Selection Process: Virtual & Paperless, Quality Improvement Center For Workforce Development

Other QIC-WD Products

“I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day, you bet on people, not on strategies.” – Lawrence Bossidy, former CEO of Honeywell International Inc. This quote is especially true for child welfare workers. Child welfare work is difficult and demanding; it requires compassion and attention to detail. Oklahoma Human Services (OKDHS), in partnership with the Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Development (QIC-WD), worked throughout 2018 and 2019 to create a competencybased employee selection process for Child Welfare Services (CWS) workers. Competencies are the knowledge, skills, abilities, behaviors, …

Spartan Daily, October 13, 2020, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2020

Volume 155, Issue 22

Kunstler, Jane, Collection, 1961-1971, Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library

Finding Aids

A collection of magazines and newspapers regarding John and Robert Kennedy, their lives, political careers, and assassinations. John F. Kennedy, a Massachusetts senator (democrat), was elected the 35^th President of the United States in 1960. The Kennedy Administration’s domestic policy pushed for action among the people, notably in civil rights. As for foreign policy, the administration heavily focused on the Cold War and communism. Robert Kennedy acted as Attorney General under President Kennedy. He oversaw the CIA during the failed Cuban Bay of Pigs Invasion, and developing a strategy to blockade Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. …

Cuthbertson Family Diaries, 1874-1981, Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library

Finding Aids

The Cuthbertson Family Diaries contain personal diaries of a long-time Girard, Kansas family with Scottish roots.

There are diaries from three individuals from the Cuthbertson Family: Mary Kirkwood; Jessie Smith Cuthbertson; and William C. Cuthbertson.

Mary Kirkwood (1858-1945) was born in Illinois in 1858 to native Scots, Matthew J. Kirkwood and his wife, Janet Craig Kirkwood. At an unknown date, the family moved to Girard, Kansas in southeast Kansas. Mary Kirkwood married Andrew W. Smith, and their daughter, Jessie Smith, was born in 1889 in Kansas. In 1924, Jessie Smith married Charles A. Cuthbertson, and their son, William C. Cuthbertson, …

The Guardian, Week Of October 13, 2020, Wright State Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

News articles from The Guardian for the week of October 20, 2020. The Guardian is the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. It has been published regularly since March of 1965.

Objects, Realia, And Virtual Reality For Libraries As Specialized Method For Teaching And Learning, Cyrus Ford Zarganj

Library Faculty Presentations

Cataloging Three-Dimensional Artifacts and Realia Highlights:

• Cataloger’s judgement is essential
• The Bibliographic Format is “Visual Materials”
• Usually title is the main entry and most of the time cataloger supplies a title
• For a piece of art, main entry could be the creator
• For Type (Type of record) field we usually use “r” for three-dimensional artifact or naturally occurring object and “o” for kits
• For TMat (Type of material) field we usually use “r” for realia, “g” games, “w” toys, “a” art original, “c” art reproduction, “d” diorama, “p” microscope slide, “q” model, and “b’’ for kits
• Cataloging guidelines: OLAC Best …

Exposing Institutional Content: Preserving Legacies And Breaking Rules, Michelle Hahn

OLAC Conferences

Indiana University recently engaged in an initiative to digitize and preserve hundreds of thousands of recording from all over the University. A significant percentage of those are recordings of performances produced by the now Jacobs School of Music. These performances feature some big names in music and the initiative spurred from 20 years of efforts to digitize and preserve recordings in volatile formats for music collections at Indiana University. My poster focuses on our efforts to make those performance recordings more discoverable in both their physical and digital surrogate formats and get all the necessary metadata to all the right …

Virtual Family Math Night At Cedar Cliff Elementary, Mark D. Weinstein

News Releases

Cedarville University students will meet with Cedar Cliff Elementary School children and their parents for the third annual Family Math Night on Tuesday, Oct. 20, from 5-9 p.m.

Adoption Of Koha Open Source Integrated Library Management System: A Review Of Literature, Salma M S Salma M S Salma M S, Dr, B Mini Devi Dr. B Mini Devi Dr, B Mini Devi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Most of the libraries and library professionals have a positive perception towards adoption of Koha. Koha also has Web 2.0facilities like tagging, comment, social sharing and RSS feeds.Koha software is gaining popularity because of its web based architecture, Unicode compatibility, user friendliness and extensive customization possibilities. This situation demands the need for workshops, seminars and technical supports to library professionals for successful implementation of Koha. This article provided a strong theoretical base for the present study.

Types And Risk Factors Of Violence Experienced By People Living With Hiv, Pakistan: A Cross-Sectional Study, Safia Awan, Nukhba Zia, Fatima Sharif, Sharaf Ali Shah, Bushra Jamil

Department of Medicine

Background: In Pakistan, data are lacking on the violence experienced by people living with HIV.
Aims: This study determined the prevalence and risk factors of violence (physical, psychological and sexual) in people living with HIV in Karachi, Pakistan.
Methods: This was a cross-sectional study in 2016 of people living with HIV attending clinics of Bridge Consultants Foundation, a community-based care provider. Date were collected using an interview-based questionnaire. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was done to assess the risk factors for violence with adjusted odds ratios (aOR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) presented.
Results: The sample included 250 people living with …

Lindenwood Digest, October 13, 2020, Lindenwood University

Lindenwood Digest

The Lindenwood Digest has been a digital employee newsletter since 2009.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 96, No. 8, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Lowe, Julianna. A Look Inside – Jamison Moorehead, Quarantine
• Burris, Lily. Day in the Life – Sharon Hunter
• Collins, Michael & Lauren Deppen. Need to Know – COVID-19
• Frazier, Keilen. Homecoming in Barnes-Campbell Hall – Quarantine
• Lowe, Julianna. Survey to Student – Dining Services, Quarantine
• Collins, Michael. Kentucky Universities’ Records on COVID-19
• Burris, Lily. Voices on the Inside – Sam Padgett, Chris Willis, Parker Randall, River Carter, Iyanla Shackelford
• Hargrove, Matthew. Herd Tramples WKU – Football
• Gaylord, Kaden. Travis Hudson is the Greatest of All …

Policing In A Democratic Constitution, Michael Wasco

Indiana Journal of Constitutional Design

Most constitutions contain provisions relating to or impacting policing. Separate from the armed forces and intelligence services, the police are the state’s internal security apparatus, and codifying issues related to policing within a constitution can ensure efficient service delivery and human rights protections.

Originating from the Libyan constitution making process, this paper provides a taxonomy of options for constitution drafters and scholars. More so than other issues, such as separation of powers or human rights protections generally, policing sections are very country specific. While not advocating for specific best practices, the work gives ample justifications for certain policing principles and …

Will The Last Archivist In Seattle Please Turn Out The Lights: Value And The National Archives, Megan E. Llewellyn, Sarah A. Buchanan

Journal of Western Archives

With the abrupt announcement in late January 2020 that the National Archives at Seattle–placed on 10 acres in the Sand Point neighborhood since 1963–would be "eventually" closed and the records moved to facilities in Riverside, California and Kansas City, Missouri, the surprised dismay from state archivists, researchers, and Native American tribal leaders and Alaska Natives who see their ancestors and heritage directly depicted in the records was quick and loud. The facility holds one million cubic feet of federal records which are accessed by over 700 people visiting its research rooms, and which grow by about 1300 cubic feet annually. …

The Research Landscape Of Current Vietnamese Skilled Migration, Chi Hong Nguyen

Essays in Education

Although research on labour migration from Vietnam seems to be solid, that on skilled migration is paid scant attention to. Aiming to contribute further understandings to this gap, this article outlines basic streams of research on Vietnam’s migration and points out weaknesses in current research on Vietnamese skilled migration. In addressing this deficit, this paper identifies six limitations: (1) a discrete nationalism outlook, (2) a limited use of relevant conceptual frameworks, (3) a lack of empirical evidence on migrants’ transnational practices, (4) the absence of migrants’ voices, (5) the inclusion of Vietnamese migrants in Asian migrant groups, and (6) a …