(2006). Examining the Influence of Telepresence on Spectator and Player Processing of Real and Fictitious Brands in a Computer Game. Journal of Advertising: Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 87-99.

Examining the influence of telepresence on spectator and player processing of real and fictitious brands in a computer game

A dynamic systems (DS) approach was used to study changes in the structure of family interactions during the early adolescent transition period. Longitudinal observational data were collected in 5 waves prior to, during, and after the transition. Boys (n = 149 families) were videotaped problem solving with their parents at 9-10 years old and every 2 years thereafter until they were 18 years old. State space grids (a new DS method) were constructed for all families across all waves. Two variables indexing the variability of the family interactions were derived from the grids. As hypothesized, the DS variables revealed a significant quadratic effect related to a peak in variability at 13-14 years of age.

Longitudinal Analysis of Flexibility and Reorganization in Early Adolescence: A Dynamic Systems Study of Family Interactions

Enantioselective biodegradation of fluoxetine by the bacterial strain Labrys portucalensis F11

Countrywide PV hosting capacity and energy storage requirements for distribution networks: The case of Switzerland

Climate change poses serious threats to agriculture. As a primary staple crop and major contributor to agriculturally derived greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, rice systems are of particular significance to building climate resilience. We report on a participatory assessment of climate resilience in organic and conventional rice systems located in four neighboring villages in Negros Occidental, Philippines. The Philippines is one of the foremost countries impacted by climate change, with an increasing incidence of climate-related disturbances and extensive coastlines, high population density and heavy dependence on agriculture. Using the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's Self-evaluation and Holistic Assessment of climate Resilience of farmers and Pastoralists (SHARP) tool, we measured 13 agroecosystem indicators of climate resilience, and assessed the degree to which household, farm, and community mechanisms and outcomes impact adaptation capacity, mitigation potential and vulnerability. We used a participatory approach to situate these indicators in their socio-ecological context, and identify targeted interventions for enhancing climate resilience based on local farmer experiences and socio-ecological conditions. Comparison of climate resilience indicators across organic and conventional rice systems in this region indicated that organic rice systems are more climate resilient than their conventional counterparts. As such, increased policy support for the development of organic rice systems are critically important as an adaptive mechanism to augment food security, mitigate GHG emissions and improve climate resilience in the Philippines.

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Cultivating climate resilience: a participatory assessment of organic and conventional rice systems in the Philippines

THREE years ago this spring the first activities took place that led to the formation of the Student Health Organizations. At the University of Southern California, a group of students dissatisfied with the scope and direction of their curriculum initiated a lecture series and a student action program designed to expose medical students to the biosocial problems of our society. Their early efforts corresponded with similar stirrings of other health science campuses across the country, and in the summer of 1965, a number of medical and nursing students served as community organizers using health issues as their primary focus in the back country of Mississippi and in the Central Valley of southern California. These students were not as yet part of a formal national student movement. But they were in their own ways responding to issues and movements which were not being dealt with in their formal schooling. This crucial

Fitzhugh Mullan

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