Augustana College (Illinois)

About: Augustana College (Illinois) is a education organization based out in Rock Island, Illinois, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Higher education & Population. The organization has 491 authors who have published 763 publications receiving 14274 citations. The organization is also known as: Augustana College and Theological Seminary.

Race as an Open Field: Exploring Identity beyond Fixed Choices:

Abstract: This paper uses new, nationally representative data to examine how Americans describe their own racial and ethnic identities when they are not constrained by conventional fixed categories. Recent w...

Associations between caregiving, social support, and well-being among parents of children with childhood apraxia of speech.

Abstract: This study tested a path model that examined the impact of contextual caregiving variables (i.e., severity of child's symptoms, caregiving demands, and perceived caregiving) and different forms of received romantic partner social support (i.e., emotional, esteem, network, tangible, and information) on depressive and somatic symptoms among parents with a child diagnosed with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS), a severe childhood speech disorder. In total, 169 parents of a child with CAS participated in this study. Results provide some support for one stress process model of caregiving, which further highlights the need to look at relational variables as mediators between contextual stressors and health outcomes in caregiving contexts.

Developmental changes in male Siberian hamsters (Phodopus sungorus) exposed to different gestational and postnatal photoperiods

Abstract: In Siberian hamsters, juvenile somatic and reproductive development is influenced by the photoperiods experienced both during gestation and after birth. On the day of parturition, parents and young were transferred from either 16L (16 hr of light and 8 hr of darkness/day) or 10L to one of the three photoperiods (14L, 12L, and 10L), and on postnatal day 27 male juveniles were either pinealectomized or sham-operated. At various intervals from postnatal days 27-330, the following parameters were determined: body weight, testis size, pelage type, serum concentrations of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and prolactin (PRL). A postnatal photoperiod <14L was required to initiate delayed pubertal development followed by an eventual 'spontaneous' achievement of body weight, testis size, pelage, and serum FSH and PRL levels characteristic of adult, long-day males. The data suggest that serum FSH 'surges' in the pineal-intact hamsters are associated with spontaneous testicular development regardless of gestation photoperiod. The results also indicate that gestational photoperiod affects the timing of the molt to winter-type pelage and its eventual spontaneous development in pineal-intact hamsters that are exposed to short photoperiod following birth. Finally, our observations suggest that the interval timer that operates during prolonged short-day exposure to ultimately trigger a transition to the summer-type physiology may begin to function before birth in the offspring of females exposed to short photoperiod during gestation.

Neutron-unbound states in (25,26)F

Abstract: Neutron-unbound states in ${}^{25}$F and ${}^{26}$F were populated via the reactions ${}^{9}$Be(${}^{26}$Ne,${}^{24}$F + n) and ${}^{9}$Be(${}^{26}$Ne,${}^{25}$F + n), respectively. A resonance close to the neutron separation energy in ${}^{25}$F was identified with a decay energy of $28\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}4$ keV. This resonance corresponds to an excited state in ${}^{25}$F at $4249\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}116$ keV assuming it decays to the ground state of ${}^{24}$F. Guided by shell-model calculations, a spin and parity of 1/2${}^{\ensuremath{-}}$ can be assigned to this state. In the spectrum of ${}^{26}$F, which was produced in a nucleon-exchange reaction, there are indications for an excited state with a decay energy of $\ensuremath{\sim}$270 keV.