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Positive Consequences of Drinking on Social Connection
Alcohol may stimulate social bonding, increase the amount of time people spend talking to one another, and reduces displays of negative emotions (Sayette 2012). Individual and group interactions were assessed using the ... -
Postfreeze reduction of locomotor endurance in the freeze-tolerant wood frog, Rana sylvatica.
Considerable study has focused on the physiological adaptations for freeze tolerance in the wood frog, Rana sylvatica, a northern species that overwinters within the frost zone, but little attention has been paid to the ... -
Post–Breast Cancer Lymphedema and the Family: A Qualitative Investigation of Families Coping With Chronic Illness
(2011-06-07)The number of women who experience breast cancer is increasing. Meanwhile there have been improvements in technologies used for detection and intervention. As a result, more women are living as breast cancer survivors who ... -
A Powerful Partnership: Incorporating TRiO Student Support Services into the Library's Space to Impact Student Success
This session will discuss the logistics of incorporating the TRiO Student Support Services (SSS) program into the library's space. When our institution was awarded a five-year, $1.2 million dollar grant from the U.S. ... -
A Pragmatist Revisioning of Resistance Theory
Resistance theorists in education urge educators to evaluate the moral and political potential of opposition in schools. The scholarship of resistance calls us to examine oppositional acts of students in school settings ... -
Pragmatist Thinking for a Populist Moment: Democratic Contingency and Racial Re-Valuing in Education Governance
We examine school governance in populist era, using contemporary readings of pragmatist philosophy. We are in a “populist moment,” a time of uprisings and movements of the demos making political claims (Mouffe, 2018). ... -
Praise for regret: people value regret above other negative emotions
(2011-02-07)What do people think about the emotion of regret? Recent demonstrations of the psychological benefits of regret have been framed against an assumption that most people find regret to be aversive, both when experienced ... -
The Prejudices and Antipathies of Art: Teaching Students about Bias in the Library of Congress Fine Arts Classification During One-Shot Instruction
From recent controversies surrounding the pejorative subject term “illegal aliens” to the former use of insulting terms like “yellow peril,” it is clear that the Library of Congress Classification System and its subject ... -
Preliminary Arthropod Survey: Rosenthal Islands
The Rosenthal Islands lie along the western edge the Antarctic Peninsula. They are largely inaccessible and the few research projects in the area have focused on the penguin colonies on the islands, thus, nothing is known ... -
Preparing the Aging Network for Choice for Independence : Title VI Survey Results
(2010-09-22)With a grant from the Administration on Aging, the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging(n4a) partnered with the Scripps Gerontology Center to conduet the 2007 Aging Network Survey of Title VI Native American ... -
Preservation Outreach Through Non-Traditional Instruction and Engagement
This poster will present outreach initiatives undertaken by the library’s preservation department to promote library preservation among students and patrons. In collaboration with special collections, the preservation ... -
Prevalence of COVID-19 in Ohio Nursing Homes
This study examines the Prevalence of COVID 19 cases in Ohio nursing homes in the context of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) 5-star quality ratings. Data come from the June 3, 2020 Ohio Department of ... -
The Prevalence of Irregular Conjugations as Regular in Spanish Second Language Learners
A study of the interaction between Spanish experience (based on course level) and the conjugation of irregular verbs as regular. -
Preventing burnout in hospice: Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for family caregivers
The presence of "caregiver burnout" for family caregivers of terminally ill patients has been defined as a pathological condition, but little is known about its long term effects or prevention. This study explores the use ... -
Privacy and Sharing: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
(2013-08-01)Increasingly, our digital lives have moved off hard drives and into the cloud. What are the privacy implications of cloud-based services such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter? Who is watching us, and – more importantly – ... -
A Probabilistic Solution Generator of Good Enough Designs for Simulation
(1999-12-01)We build a probabilistic solution generator using the learning automata theory, which can generate a small set of "good enough" designs with a predetermined high probability. The main goal of our work is to reduce a large ... -
The Probate Courts, Guardianship, and Guardians: Findings from a Survey of Adult Guardianship in Ohio
This brief report highlights findings from a 2014 statewide survey on adult guardianship practices (see Reece & Roberts, 2017 for the full report). Our focus is on the approaches used by counties to manage their guardianship ... -
Problem-Based Approach to Assessment
(2012-05-25)Peggy Maki, Peggy Maki Associates. Respondent: Robert DiDonato, Director, Global Initiative; Interim Chair, Spanish & Portuguese Department, Miami University -
Productive and Social Engagement following Driving Cessation: A Couple-Based Analysis
Drawing on interdependence theory, this study examined the cross-spouse impact of driving cessation on productive (work, formal volunteering, and informal volunteering) and social engagement of older couples age 65+ using ...