Showing papers by "Saint Anselm College published in 2019"
University of Vigo1, Russian Academy of Sciences2, Spanish National Research Council3, Missouri State University4, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences5, Northern (Arctic) Federal University6, Tribhuvan University7, Mayo Clinic8, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research9, National Scientific and Technical Research Council10, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology11, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague12, University of Porto13, United States Geological Survey14, Murdoch University15, Australian Museum16, Kasetsart University17, University of Zagreb18, Trinity College, Dublin19, Gifu University20, Ishikawa Prefectural University21, Hokkaido University22, University of Santiago de Compostela23, University of Paris24, IRSA25, University of Latvia26, Griffith University27, University of Minho28, Institute of Ecosystem Studies29, University of Michigan30, University of Jyväskylä31, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign32, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro33, Saint Petersburg State University34, Saint Anselm College35, Polish Academy of Sciences36
TL;DR: In this article, a portfolio of priority research topics for freshwater mussel conservation assessment is developed, which can guide conservation status assessments prior to the establishment of priority species and implementation of conservation management actions.
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TL;DR: This article examined the role of perceived organizational support (POS) in individual change readiness and tested the notion that POS is linked to readine change readiness, using social exchange theory, and found that perceived support is correlated with readine readine readiness.
Abstract: This paper examines the role of perceived organizational support (POS) in individual change readiness. Drawing upon social exchange theory, this study tests the notion that POS is linked to readine...
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TL;DR: The findings of this study are significant to education as nursing schools struggle to develop curriculum to prepare students for safe medication practice in today's fast-paced and demanding healthcare environment.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider quantum clocks constructed from the internal degrees of relativistic particles that move through curved spacetime and derive the probability that one clock reads a given proper time conditioned on another clock reading a different proper time.
Abstract: At the intersection of quantum theory and relativity lies the possibility of a clock experiencing a superposition of proper times We consider quantum clocks constructed from the internal degrees of relativistic particles that move through curved spacetime The probability that one clock reads a given proper time conditioned on another clock reading a different proper time is derived From this conditional probability distribution, it is shown that when the center-of-mass of these clocks move in localized momentum wave packets they observe classical time dilation We then illustrate a quantum correction to the time dilation observed by a clock moving in a superposition of localized momentum wave packets that has the potential to be observed in experiment The Helstrom-Holevo lower bound is used to derive a proper time-energy/mass uncertainty relation
23 citations
TL;DR: The negative effects of the sexual abuse on participants were expressed across six domains of self-identity: total self, psychological self, relational self, gendered self, aspirational self, and spiritual self.
Abstract: Clergy-perpetrated sexual abuse (CPSA) during childhood represents a tragic betrayal of trust that inflicts damage on the survivor, the family, and the parish community. Survivors often report CPSA has a disturbing impact on their self-identity. Despite intense media coverage of clergy abuse globally in the Catholic Church (and other faith communities) over several decades, relatively few empirical studies have been conducted with survivors. Beyond clinical observations and advocacy group reports, very little is known about survivors' perceptions of how the abuse impacted their long-term self-identity. Using data collected during the 2010 Health and Well-Being Survey, this qualitative analysis represents one of the first large-scale studies with a non-clinical sample of adult male survivors of CPSA from childhood (N = 205). The negative effects of the sexual abuse on participants were expressed across six domains of self-identity: (a) total self, (b) psychological self, (c) relational self, (d) gendered self, (e) aspirational self, and (f) spiritual self. These findings highlight the range and depth of self-suffering inflicted by this pernicious form of sexual violence. The findings are useful for developing clinical services for survivors, shaping public and institutional policies to address clergy-perpetrated sexual abuse, and guiding future research with this population.
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TL;DR: The interventions were perceived as being helpful but did not significantly reduce depressive symptoms or parenting stress, and better nurse-sensitive outcome measures are needed to adequately assess effectiveness.
Abstract: Aim To determine if an electronic nursing intervention during the first 6 months postpartum was effective in improving mood and decreasing stress. Background Unmet needs postpartum can have a negative impact on mood and parenting stress. Technology-assisted nursing care may provide needed support and reduce risk. Design Randomized controlled trial (RCT) with three conditions. Methods Enrollment began on 11 May 2017. Participants were randomized into one of three groups after completion of the baseline survey. Intervention I participants received standardized electronic messages four times/week for 6 months postpartum. Intervention II participants additionally received the option for nurse contact. Depression and parenting stress as measured using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) and Parenting Stress Index-Short form (PSI-SF) was obtained at 3 weeks, 3 months and 6 months postpartum and results compared with a usual care group. Patient satisfaction and nursing factors were measured. Results Significantly higher satisfaction scores were found in both intervention groups as compared with control, but there were no significant changes in EPDS or PSI-SF. Conclusion The interventions were perceived as helpful and not burdensome. Better nurse-sensitive outcome measures are needed to adequately assess effectiveness. Impact Postpartum women report unmet needs for support and education. The interventions were perceived as being helpful but did not significantly reduce depressive symptoms or parenting stress. Nurses can use this research to inform development of innovative approaches to support postpartum women. Trial registration number ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02843022.
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TL;DR: The Sbriglia Belt as mentioned in this paper is a belt that anchors and confines the breath while also empowering the voice, allowing baritones such as Jean de Reszke to push their voices upward, into the heroic tenor domain.
Abstract: Common perceptions of Wagnerian singing center on its sheer volume, its muscular and heroic tone. This article examines how the last century of Wagnerian singing has been shaped by a school of singing defined not by theories of resonance and phonation, but by the disciplining of the breathing body. I argue that certain ideas of singing technique adapted to and then defined this Wagnerian ideal. My point of departure is an invention known as a “Sbriglia Belt,” a device created by Giovanni Sbriglia, a late nineteenth-century tenor-pedagogue. Sbriglia used the belt in his teaching to help singers press their torsos outward as they sang, thereby achieving greater air pressure and greater volume, a technique that anchors and confines the breath while also empowering the voice, allowing baritones such as Jean de Reszke to push their voices upward, into the heroic tenor domain. A German pedagogue, George Armin, extended this breathing technique further and defined a new school of singing by introducing the idea of “breath damming” in his Das Stauprinzip (1909), a method of breath retention that focuses on increased sub-glottal muscular pressure. This technique became a trademark of the twentieth-century Helden sound. In addition to exploring how breathing affects singing more generally, the essay demonstrates the importance of locating singing in the material, physical body, building on the work of Carolyn Abbate, Karen Henson, and Emily Wilbourne. The essay also adds to the conversation on voice recently brought to the fore by Martha Feldman and Nina Sun Eidsheim. However, instead of focusing on how the voice is either disembodied or located primarily in the laryngeal region, I argue for a recasting of the singer as an entire body fully engaged in creating sound from breath, in a sense re-attaching the body to the voice. In so doing, the essay upsets the conventional notion that singers are defined by and as their voices. As one of the first musicological studies to approach singing as practice from the perspective of breath, I hope to demonstrate that the “work” of the operatic singer involves much more than having “a voice.”
6 citations
TL;DR: This model demonstrates the robust emergence of a fractional Langevin equation with a power-law decaying memory kernel and the specific value of the fractional exponent depend only on the asymptotic low-frequency spectral properties of the slow part of the bath.
Abstract: We consider the stochastic dynamics of a system linearly coupled to a hierarchical thermal bath with two well-separated inherent timescales: one slow, and one fast. The slow part of the bath is modeled as a set of harmonic oscillators and taken into account explicitly, while the effects of the fast part of the bath are simulated by dissipative and stochastic Langevin forces, uncorrelated in space and time, acting on oscillators of the slow part of the bath. We demonstrate for this model the robust emergence of a fractional Langevin equation with a power-law decaying memory kernel. The conditions of such an emergence and the specific value of the fractional exponent depend only on the asymptotic low-frequency spectral properties of the slow part of the bath.
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6 citations
TL;DR: Both species showed a slight increase in heat tolerance but a notable upward shift in intrinsic tolerance when emerged, suggesting media-dependent thermal niche adjustment is a unique, and thus far undescribed physiological adaptation that in combination with behavioral responses, allow mudskippers to thrive in some of the most austere thermal environments experienced by any fish.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the incidence of deadly foreign terrorism is increased by limiting the attention countries receive from the foreign press, but by only a small amount, and not by how much.
Abstract: Limiting the attention countries receive from the foreign press is thought to reduce the incidence of deadly foreign attacks, but by how much? We show that the incidence of deadly foreign terrorism...
TL;DR: This paper examined the timing of first alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana use as a function of paternal death or parental divorce during childhood, using data drawn from a large ethnically diverse sampler.
Abstract: We examined timing of first alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana use as a function of paternal death or parental divorce during childhood. Data were drawn from a large ethnically diverse sampl...
TL;DR: In this article, a pricing model for space weather derivatives with payout depending on solar activity is proposed, which is based on measuring the disturbance of the Earth's magnetosphere, and it is possible to price space-weather derivatives which trigger a payoff if a certain level of energization is reached.
Abstract: This article proposes a pricing model for space weather derivatives with payout depending on solar activity. By measuring the disturbance of the Earth’s magnetosphere, it is possible to price space weather derivatives which trigger a payoff if a certain level of energization is reached. Since energetic particles emitted by the Sun are a non-tradeable quantity, unique prices of contracts in an incomplete market are obtained using inverse transformation sampling as well as the market price of risk. We find a step-wise decline of option prices with increasing barriers of Kp-index values, a dependence of the option prices on the sunspot cycle, as well as reduced sensitivity of longer-dated maturities for higher Kp-index values.
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TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that Wigner and his friend are on the same side of the horizon and that proving that they are both in inertial frames requires unambiguously proving the existence of Unruh radiation.
Abstract: In the famous thought experiment known as Wigner's friend, Wigner assigns an entangled state to the composite quantum system consisting of his friend and her observed system. In the context of this thought experiment, Brukner recently derived a no-go theorem for observer-independent facts, i.e. those facts that would be common to both Wigner and his friend, and initial experimental tests have given it strong support. In this article, we demonstrate a loophole in the theorem that manifests in the presence of a horizon even if Wigner and his friend are on the same side of the horizon. The loophole requires that Wigner and his friend both unambiguously demonstrate that they are in inertial frames. We then argue that unambiguously proving that they are both in inertial frames requires unambiguously proving the existence of Unruh radiation. However, we also argue that if they cannot prove this, then there are still limitations on observer-independent facts that require that some of those facts remain unknowable. As such, observer-independent facts remain illusory.
TL;DR: In this paper, a case study illuminates the effectiveness of collaboration between a librarian and psychology faculty as they use the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education and the Guidelines for Guidelines for Instructional Programming.
Abstract: This case study illuminates the effectiveness of collaboration between a librarian and psychology faculty as they use the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education and the Guidelines ...
TL;DR: The data suggest that nicotine can function as an interoceptive context that hierarchically can enter into concurrently opposing modulatory relations in Pavlovian and operant drug discrimination procedures.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the question of whether a universe can be a (nonlocal) beable and what that implies about the fundamental nature of that universe and conclude that a universe that is a beable within the framework of some theory, cannot also be fundamental.
Abstract: From its earliest days nearly a century ago, quantum mechanics has proven itself to be a tremendously accurate yet intellectually unsatisfying theory to many. Not the least of its problems is that it is a theory about the results of measurements. As John Bell once said in introducing the concept of ‘beables’, it should be possible to say what is rather than merely what is observed. In this essay I consider the question of whether a universe can be a (nonlocal) beable and what that implies about the fundamental nature of that universe. I conclude that a universe that is a beable within the framework of some theory, cannot also be fundamental.
TL;DR: In this article, an international psychologist-delivered consulting effort focused on social services improvement in postcrisis communities is described. And the experience of a Fulbright-supported research program to provide trauma-informed addiction-service capacity-building through a consulting-psychology approach in Cyprus is reviewed.
Abstract: This article examines an international psychologist-delivered consulting effort focused on social-services improvement in postcrisis communities. It reviews the experience of a Fulbright-supported research program to provide trauma-informed addiction-service capacity-building through a consulting-psychology approach in Cyprus. In evaluating the experience, the author shares important lessons that may serve as a call to action and primer for psychologists who aim to have an impact on their local and global communities in ways that can enrich the capacity to recover from crisis, extend the reach of the discipline, and expand the professional identity of psychologists.
TL;DR: Preliminary evidence that extractive activity and local community pollution are positively related is provided, indicating that increases in extractive industry activity are associated with net increases in county-level total, cancer, and infant mortality in the long run.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine whether there are disparities in environmental enforcement in the US by examining if the political representation of Latinos influences levels of environmental enforcement, and they find that there is a correlation between political representation and environmental enforcement.
Abstract: This paper examines whether there are disparities in environmental enforcement. It contributes to the extant literature by examining if the political representation of Latinos influences levels of ...
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TL;DR: This paper used historical accounts and newly-collected county coal mining production, average value, and employment data, spanning the entire United States from 1900 to 1976, to analyze how fluctuations in prices and technology impacted the production decisions of the coal mining industry at the county level in the United States.
Abstract: This article contributes to the literature regarding non-renewable resource extraction and production by using historical accounts and newly-collected county coal mining production, average value, and employment data, spanning the entire United States from 1900 to 1976, to analyze how fluctuations in prices and technology impacted the production decisions of the coal mining industry at the county level in the United States. It provides a description of how coal production, technology, and average prices changed throughout the twentieth century. It also provides evidence that coal producers responded in a significant way to variation in national and local coal prices, and that coal producers were aware, and responded at the local level, to the behavior of past coal prices.
TL;DR: Rate constants and product ions were determined for a series of anions reacting with singlet molecular oxygen O2 (a 1Δg) at thermal energy using an electrospray ionization-selected ion flow tube to elucidate the reactivity of the sulfur-containing functional groups.
Abstract: Rate constants and product ions were determined for a series of anions reacting with singlet molecular oxygen O2 (a 1Δg) at thermal energy using an electrospray ionization-selected ion flow tube. The 20 naturally occurring amino acids were used to produce corresponding deprotonated anions; only [Cys-H]− and [Pro-H]− were found to be reactive with O2 (a 1Δg), generating OSCH2CH(NH2)CO2– + HO and C5H6NO2– + H2O2, respectively. The reaction of O2 (a 1Δg) with [Cys-H]− has a rate constant more than ten times larger than the reaction of O2 (a 1Δg) with [Pro-H]−. Furthermore, reactions of O2 (a 1Δg) with carboxylic acid and thiol anions were carried out to elucidate the reactivity of the sulfur-containing functional groups. Potential energy surfaces and overall reaction exothermicities were calculated for representative reactions using density functional theory. Reactions in which attack occurs at the sulfur produce HCSO– as an ionic product. Reactions of several carboxylic acid anions likely proceed through a ...
01 Dec 2019
TL;DR: The paper introduces the use of a programmable parallel accelerator able to perform efficient vector and matrix operations avoiding the limitations of the current systems designed using "of-theshelf" solutions.
Abstract: Many Big Data problems, Markov Model related included, are solved using heterogenous systems: host + parallel programmable accelerator. The current solutions for the accelerator part - for example, GPU used as GPGPU - provide limited accelerations due to some architectural constraints. The paper introduces the use of a programmable parallel accelerator able to perform efficient vector and matrix operations avoiding the limitations of the current systems designed using "of-theshelf" solutions. Our main result is an architecture whose actual performance is a much higher percentage from its peak performance than those of the consecrated accelerators. The performance improvements we offer come from the following two features: the addition of a reduction network at the output of a linear array of cells and an appropriate use of a serial register distributed along the same linear array of cells. Thus, for a n-state Markov Model, instead of a solution with the size in O(n2) and an acceleration in O(n2=logn), we offer an accelerator with the size in O(n) and the acceleration in O(n).
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the possible effects of a global Special Drawing Rights implementation by the International Monetary Fund in case of a collapse of one of the major currencies, and the question addressed is if a distressed fiat currency can be bailed out effectively by triggering the designation mechanism to the member countries.
Abstract: Special Drawing Rights are reserve assets which ought to provide liquidity in times of a country’s financial distress. It is a potential claim on freely usable currencies of International Monetary Fund member countries. This article examines the possible effects of a global Special Drawing Rights implementation by the International Monetary Fund in case of a collapse of one of the major currencies. The question addressed is if a distressed fiat currency can be bailed out effectively by triggering the designation mechanism to the International Monetary Fund member countries The results indicate that the liquidity benefit per created Special Drawing Rights unit would proportionally increase with the rate of money supply.
TL;DR: The results suggest that different drug sequences of ethanol followed or preceded by nicotine established reliable discriminative stimulus control over operant responding, potentially because of characteristic differences in the overlapping pharmacokinetic profiles of the NE compound.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the time-varying high-frequency price-volume relationship from two perspectives and showed that the time varying conditional correlation between price and volume changes exhibits distinct excitational spike regimes.
Abstract: This article investigates the time-varying high-frequency price-volume relationship from two perspectives. At the high-frequency time scale, we show that the time varying conditional correlation between price and volume changes exhibits distinct excitational spike regimes that provide a rich set of patterns unexplored before. Impulse response analysis based on a high-frequency Vector-autoregressive specification show that volume has greater impact on price than vice versa. Our results therefore suggests that volume can be seen as a proxy for information flows. Due to market micro-structure contamination, we show that smoothing and pre-averaging is necessary to uncover the high-frequency relationship between price and volume.
01 Oct 2019
TL;DR: The functional aspects and the structural requirements for the emerging intelligent world – the world dominated by technologically assisted consensual decisions and selfenforced regulations are presented.
Abstract: Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain are among the most demanding technologies requesting tremendously powerful computation engines capable to deliver fast, cheap and energy aware solutions. These technologies provide the safe computational environment for making intelligent decisions related to complex issues. Are presented the functional aspects and the structural requirements for the emerging intelligent world – the world dominated by technologically assisted consensual decisions and selfenforced regulations. Finally, are asserted the improvements required from the emerging nano-technologies.