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Georgia College & State University
Education•Milledgeville, Georgia, United States•
About: Georgia College & State University is a education organization based out in Milledgeville, Georgia, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Context (language use). The organization has 950 authors who have published 1591 publications receiving 37027 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, students from three southern colleges read vignettes and sentenced a murder defendant and an automobile theft defendant to a term of imprisonment and found that more exposure to college from the freshman to the senior years will be associated with less severe sentences.
Abstract: More police agencies require incoming personnel to have a college education background. The hope is that collegeeducated officers will be more rounded thinkers and exhibit a greater humanistic bent. This study attempts to evaluate the efficacy of that line of reasoning. Students from three southern colleges read vignettes and sentenced a murder defendant and an automobile theft defendant to a term of imprisonment. Three hypotheses are tested. First, it is expected that policeoriented criminal justice majors will not issue more severe sentences. Second, it is anticipated that greater exposure to college from the freshman to the senior years will be accompanied by less severe sentences. Third, sentencing will be independent of social characteristics. The results provide little evidence supporting a more authoritarian and more punitive stereotype of criminal justice majors interested in pursuing police careers.
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TL;DR: This research analyzes possible implications of consumers incorrectly inferring that food products with the USDA-organic certification label are healthier than food products without that certification.
Abstract: Back in 2002, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) implemented the final national standards and began certifying foods as having met the criterion in the production, handling, and processing of organically grown agricultural products. Consumers began seeing the USDA seal displayed as well as, the word “certified” and various levels of organic content on the front display panel of the product. The USDA stresses that the organic standard and label requirements do not imply organic foods are healthier. This research analyzes possible implications of consumers incorrectly inferring that food products with the USDA-organic certification label are healthier than food products without that certification.
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TL;DR: Mindfulness might enhance smoking cessation among African American smokers by operating on mechanisms posited by prominent models of addiction, including lower negative affect, lower expectancies to regulate affect via smoking, and higher perceived social support.
Abstract: Although mindfulness has been hypothesized to promote health behaviors, no research has examined how dispositional mindfulness might influence the process of smoking cessation. The current study investigated dispositional mindfulness, smoking abstinence, and recovery from a lapse among African American smokers. Participants were 399 African Americans seeking smoking cessation treatment (treatments did not include any components related to mindfulness). Dispositional mindfulness and other psychosocial measures were obtained pre-quit; smoking abstinence was assessed 3, 31 days, and 26 weeks post-quit. Individuals higher in dispositional mindfulness were more likely to quit smoking both initially and over time. Moreover, among individuals who had lapsed at day 3, those higher in mindfulness were more likely to recover abstinence by the later time points. The mindfulness-early abstinence association was mediated by lower negative affect, lower expectancies to regulate affect via smoking, and higher perceived social support. Results suggest that mindfulness might enhance smoking cessation among African American smokers by operating on mechanisms posited by prominent models of addiction.
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TL;DR: Rats with either posterior parietal (PPC) or dorsal hippocampal (HIP) lesions were tested for open-field activity, acquisition of a multiple T water maze habit, and presence of a 'cognitive map' of the water maze arena.
Abstract: Rats with either posterior parietal (PPC) or dorsal hippocampal (HIP) lesions were tested for open-field activity, acquisition of a multiple T water maze habit, and presence of a 'cognitive map' of the water maze arena. The performances of control and PPC-lesioned rats were similar on all behavioral measures. However, the HIP-damaged rats demonstrated higher levels of general activity, severe deficits in both working and reference memory in the multiple T water maze task, and failed to develop a cognitive map of the water maze arena.
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University of Delaware1, University of Texas at Austin2, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina3, Ames Research Center4, Delaware County Community College5, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill6, Georgia College & State University7, Southwestern University8, University of Vienna9, Florida Institute of Technology10, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul11, Missouri State University12, Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network13, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute14, Victoria University of Wellington15, National Central University16, Vilnius University17, Physical Research Laboratory18, Pedagogical University19, Jagiellonian University20, Hungarian Academy of Sciences21, University of the Western Cape22, University of Toulouse23
TL;DR: In this paper, the Fourier transform of the light curve contains 19 independent frequencies and numerous combination frequencies, and the dominant peaks are 1633.907, 1887.404, and 2504.897 Hz.
Abstract: We report on an analysis of 308.3?hr of high-speed photometry targeting the pulsating DA white dwarf EC14012-1446. The data were acquired with the Whole Earth Telescope during the 2008 international observing run XCOV26. The Fourier transform of the light curve contains 19 independent frequencies and numerous combination frequencies. The dominant peaks are 1633.907, 1887.404, and 2504.897 ?Hz. Our analysis of the combination amplitudes reveals that the parent frequencies are consistent with modes of spherical degree l = 1. The combination amplitudes also provide m identifications for the largest amplitude parent frequencies. Our seismology analysis, which includes 2004-2007 archival data, confirms these identifications, provides constraints on additional frequencies, and finds an average period spacing of 41?s. Building on this foundation, we present nonlinear fits to high signal-to-noise light curves from the SOAR 4.1?m, McDonald 2.1?m, and KPNO 2?m telescopes. The fits indicate a time-averaged convective response timescale of ?0 = 99.4 ? 17?s, a temperature exponent N = 85 ? 6.2, and an inclination angle of ? i = 329 ? 32. We present our current empirical map of the convective response timescale across the DA instability strip.
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Gene H. Brody | 93 | 418 | 27515 |
Mark D. Hunter | 56 | 173 | 10921 |
James E. Payne | 52 | 201 | 12824 |
Arash Bodaghee | 30 | 122 | 2729 |
Derek H. Alderman | 29 | 121 | 3281 |
Christian Kuehn | 25 | 206 | 3233 |
Ashok N. Hegde | 25 | 48 | 2907 |
Stephen Olejnik | 25 | 67 | 4677 |
Timothy A. Brusseau | 23 | 139 | 1734 |
Arne Dietrich | 21 | 44 | 3510 |
Douglas M. Walker | 21 | 76 | 2389 |
Agnès Bischoff-Kim | 21 | 46 | 885 |
Uma M. Singh | 20 | 40 | 1829 |
David Weese | 20 | 46 | 1920 |
Angeline G. Close | 20 | 35 | 1718 |