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Flow of Investigators Across the NIH Funding Landscape - 20180720
20180720 Draft of figures for examining the flow of investigators across the NIH funding landscape. -
Integrative Leadership and Cross-Sector Reforms: High School Career Academy Implementation in an Urban District
Purpose: This study analyzed leadership structures, processes, and practices that have enabled and constrained an ambitious career and college readiness reform within an urban school district. It was designed to discern ... -
Motivated by us But Not by Them: Group Membership Influences the Impact of Counterfactual Thinking on Behavioral Intentions Read More: https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/soco.2016.34.4.3
Counterfactual thoughts about “what might have been” allow individuals to improve future outcomes based on insights from past events. Previous research has examined how counterfactuals about the self facilitate future ... -
Linguistic Differences in the Production of Narratives by Adolescents with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder
Adolescents with (n=20) and without (n=20) autism spectrum disorder (ASD), matched for age, intelligence, and language, produced narratives during the Trier Social Stress Test that were analyzed for pronoun use, mental ... -
How Might a Psychology Professor Teach Critical Thinking?
Teaching critical thinking is addressed from the perspective of a psychology professor and a librarian. Methods used to improve student understanding of validity and reliability of sources are examined from the perspective ... -
Cleveland and Fort Lauderdale AgeWell Pilots Formative Evaluation Report: January 1, 2017-February 28, 2018
The AgeWell program trains and employs able older adults to provide companionship to chronically ill older adults in the community. It aims to improve health and well-being outcomes by reducing isolation and identifying ... -
Inspiring and implementing bottom-up change: The omnivore’s advantage
In this commentary, first I join with numerous educators who have argued for or produced evidence supporting bottom-up, professionally-driven educational change. However, I then argue that to fully realize the potential ... -
Student Understanding and Navigation Patterns of Miami University Sexual Violence Webpages
I noticed through conversations within my own peer group that students were not that well versed in sexual violence policies and resources. And, because of that, they did not know the resources that they could refer friends ... -
Andrea Alciato and the Politics of the Printed Image: A Study of the Emblemata’s Origins, Evolution, and Abstraction
Focuses on the historical conditions in Milan during the early sixteenth century that influenced the emblem’s emergence. -
Metaphors We Love By: A cognitive Linguistic Analysis of Conceptual Metaphors of Love in Metropolitan French and American English
What began with intensive background research, has developed into an extensive project which offers a cognitive linguistic analysis of conceptual metaphors of love in both English and French based on corpora linguistic data. -
Nimruz and Agadez: A Comparative Study on People Smuggling on the Route to Europe
Analyzing the Research Process: Comparing People Smuggling Operations in Afghanistan and Niger -
Nitric Oxide Metabolites in Hypoxia Freezing and Hibernation in wood frogs
Nitric oxide (NO) is a gaseous free radical that in diverse organisms performs many signaling and protective functions, such as vasoregulation, inhibition of apoptosis, antioxidation, and metabolic suppression. Increased ... -
Showing Students We Care: Using Empathetic Marketing to Ease Library Anxiety and Reach Distance Students (Presentation)
"3 research papers due next week. Minimum of 25 total sources needed. Feeling overwhelmed? The librarian can help!" Empathetic marketing shows distance students ways that library services and staff can meet their core ... -
Research Artifacts for Machine Learning DSML Baseball Case Study
This entry contains all the artifacts created and data utilized in our research on developing a Machine Learning DSML, models, and software for a Baseball Case Study. -
Persuasion and Pragmatics: An Empirical Test of the Guru Effect Model
Decades of research have investigated the complex role of source credibility in attitude persuasion. Current theories of persuasion predict that when messages are thoughtfully scrutinized, argument strength will tend to ... -
Understanding and Acquiring Usage Statistics
More and more often library staff are being asked to work with metrics and measures to document impact and determine service or resource allocations. If you’re not comfortable with finding and using data, this can be a ... -
Transfer Code of Practice (ER&L 2018)
E-Resources & Libraries 2018 update on the Transfer code of practice. The Transfer Code of Practice is a NISO recommended practice that provides best practices for publishers when journals transfer from one publisher to ...