Albion College

About: Albion College is a education organization based out in Albion, Michigan, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Higher education. The organization has 485 authors who have published 754 publications receiving 20907 citations.

Field-dependence and form discrimination in males

Abstract: Forty-two males were divided into field-independent, medium, and field-dependent groups and administered a form discrimination task. Field-independent Ss made fewer combined errors than field-dependent Ss. This finding was consistent with active and passive touch as well. When the present study was compared with previous work using females, a clear-cut sex difference emerged.

The devil and the details: psychoanalysis in the Third Reich.

Abstract: Freud once observed that there was no such thing as an accident, and on many other occasions he pointed out that human motives and actions were “overdetermined.” In this he was surely right, for history—the story of human lives writ large and small—is the constant convergence of conditions known and unknown, acted upon and not acted upon. Even the contingent— the “accidental”—in history has its specific reasons for being, even if its appearance at a specific time and place is not foreseeable. Structural, institutional, and ideological forces and constraints combine with events and human agency to produce history (Marwick, 1998). The similarities between psychoanalysis and history are themselves not accidental, for Freud’s discovery qua invention was and is the most—or perhaps the only—historical discipline of the sciences of the mind. It is no surprise, therefore, that historians were among the first to apply psychoanalytic theory to their discipline. Psychoanalysis has likewise long been the subject of historical investigation, beginning with the accounts by its defenders and its critics and then, by the end of the Second World War and beyond, by historians, who have attempted to place it in its various contexts of time and place. No other era in the history of psychoanalysis has been more—subsequently or alternately—repressed, investigated, and debated than the history of psychoanalysis in Germany under Hitler. The subject itself once seemed to be an impossible one. Of course there was no psychoanalysis in Nazi Germany. Everybody knew this. The Nazis banned psychoanalysis as another “Jewish science.” Freud’s books were burned by brownshirts in the quadrangles of German universities. Psychoanalysts were

In Situ Geochronology for the Next Decade: Mission Designs for the Moon, Mars, and Vesta

Abstract: Geochronology, or determination of absolute ages for geologic events, underpins many inquiries into the formation and evolution of planets and our Solar System. Absolute ages of ancient and recent magmatic products provide strong constraints on the dynamics of magma oceans and crustal formation, as well as the longevity and evolution of interior heat engines and distinct mantle/crustal source regions. Absolute dating also relates habitability markers to the timescale of evolution of life on Earth. However, the number of geochronologically-significant terrains across the inner Solar System far exceeds our ability to conduct sample return from all of them. In preparation for the upcoming Decadal Survey, our team formulated a set of medium-class (New Frontiers) mission concepts to three different locations (the Moon, Mars, and Vesta) where sites that record Solar System bombardment, magmatism, and/or habitability are uniquely preserved and accessible. We developed a notional payload to directly date planetary surfaces, consisting of two instruments capable of measuring radiometric ages in situ, an imaging spectrometer, optical cameras to provide site geologic context and sample characterization, a trace element analyzer to augment sample contextualization, and a sample acquisition and handling system. Landers carrying this payload to the Moon, Mars, and Vesta would likely fit into the New Frontiers cost cap in our study (~$1B). A mission of this type would provide crucial constraints on planetary history while also enabling a broad suite of investigations such as basic geologic characterization, geomorphologic analysis, ground truth for remote sensing analyses, analyses of major, minor, trace, and volatile elements, atmospheric and other long-lived monitoring, organic molecule analyses, and soil and geotechnical properties.

A low cost neutron capture prompt gamma-ray analysis facility at a research reactor

Abstract: A low cost neutron capture prompt gamma activation analysis facility has been constructed at The University of Michigan's Pheonix Memorial Laboratory. Although the neutron beam used has a fairly large epithermal component (Cd ratio 7.1), background levels are low enough to result in satisfactory measurement of over 16 different elements. For the elements of greatest sensitivity (samarium, boron, gadolinium, and cadmium) minimum detectable levels of 3.6·10−5 to 1.4·10−5 gram for a one hour measurement are possible. The fast neutrons incident to the detector were found to be minimal. Estimates of up to 3 years of continuous operation before measurable damage is expected.

Calycogonium bairdianum (Melastomataceae: Miconieae), a new species from the Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic

Abstract: Calycogonium bairdianum, a new species, is here described from the Cordillera Central of the Dominican Republic. It is compared to C. impressum, to which it is likely related. Although Calycogonium is not monophyletic, C. bairdianum and C. impressum may be related to other species in the genus that exhibit acarodomatia formed by hairs at the two major vein junctions on the leaf abaxial surface, a likely synapomorphy. Calycogonium bairdianum is distinguished from C. impressum by its relatively glabrous (vs. pubescent) and larger leaves (i.e., usually [2.9–]4.5–8.1 cm vs. 2.1–3.7 cm long) with veins that are plane to only slightly impressed adaxially (vs. more strongly impressed).