Saint Anselm College

About: Saint Anselm College is a education organization based out in Manchester, New Hampshire, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Nurse education & Extinction (psychology). The organization has 255 authors who have published 522 publications receiving 7222 citations.

Men and Women Lobbyists in the American States

Abstract: This paper compares men and women lobbyists who work in the American states. Both in 1995 and 2005, systematic random samples were selected from official lists of lobbyists in each of the fifty states. Two USPS mailings each year produced sample sizes of 1,559 in 1995 (return rate of 51.4%) and 1,545 (return rate of 49.6%). In 1995, the breakdown of men versus women state lobbyists was 73.2% male and 26.8% female; in 2005, 71.3% and 28.7%. Using appropriate data analysis techniques (regression, crosstabs, analysis of variance) men and women are contrasted across three dimensions. First, the tracks to lobbying are examined, such as prior political office and years of experience lobbying. Second, differences between tactics employed (grassroots, campaign contributions, etc.) by men and women are investigated. Finally, the paper draws a distinction between the attitudes of men and women lobbyists toward lobbying, as well as one social psychological variable, Machiavellianism. Differences between men and women within the three dimensions are found in both sets of data, with changes over time in some instances.

Female belly colour and bobbing behaviour advertise sexual receptivity in a pelagic-spawning coral reef fish

Abstract: Female nuptial signals (FNSs) advertise reproductive state, individual quality, and are used in intrasexual competition. I explored whether pelagic-spawning pink-belly wrasse (Halichoeres margaritaceus) used red belly colouration and a unique bobbing behaviour as FNSs to advertise spawning readiness. I examined (i) if there was a temporal pattern in belly colour and incidence of bobbing, as each related to spawning; (ii) response of female belly colouration during male courtship behaviours; and (iii) pink belly area as it related to body area and bobbing rate. Temporal patterns were detected, females displayed ephemeral red belly colour and bobbing behaviour prior to spawning; females displaying red belly colouration elicited more courtship behaviour from males than females with white or pink belly colouration, and larger females displayed larger red belly areas. Benefits to advertising spawning readiness in pink-belly wrasse are discussed, including a reduction in mate-searching costs and potential for increased reproductive success through sex-change.

Ground Based Operational Testing Of Holographic Scanning Lidars : The HOLO Experiments

Abstract: Two aerosol backscatter lidar measurement campaigns were conducted using two holographic scanning lidars and one zenith staring lidar for the purposes of reliability testing under field conditions three new lidar systems and to develop new scanning measurement techniques and applications. The first campaign took place near the campus of Utah State University in Logan Utah in March of 1999 and is called HOLO-1. HOLO-2 was conducted in June of 1999 on the campus of Saint Anselm College, near the city of Manchester, New Hampshire. Each campaign covered a period of approximately one week of nearly continuous observation of cloud and aerosol backscatter in the visible and near infrared by lidar, and wide field visible sky images by video camera in the daytime. The scanning capability coupled with a high rep-rate, high average power laser enables both high spatial and high temporal resolution observations that Particularly intriguing is the possibility of deriving atmospheric wind profiles from temporal analysis of aerosol backscatter spatial structure obtained by conical scan without the use of Doppler techniques.

Emotions, identity, and commitment among early leavers in the United States of America

Abstract: High teacher attrition rates hinder schools in their ability to provide quality instruction. While studies have identified factors related to attrition (e.g., salary, administrative support) and th...

Early and recent primitive brain forms.

Abstract: The quest for a primitive vertebrate brain-one in which fundamental neuronal pathways can be studied relatively unobscured by the multiplicity of complex circuits present in the mammalian organ-has led comparative zoologists and clinical neurologists t o explore the nervous system of fishes. It was among these animals, logic suggested, that brains might exist that would offer a clue t o the early steps in vertebrate encephalization. The literature supports the supposition t o a degree: it contains a considerable amount of descriptive material, much of it traceable t o the interest in vertebrate structure generated by the Darwinian controversy. However, those hoping for insight into the nature of the primitive brain and its further evolution soon recognize from the variety of the brains classed as piscine that finding a simple, primary vertebrate brain will not be easily done. Under the heading of fishes, research workers provincial in their terrestriality have lumped animals that differ widely from one another, belong t o lines that have been genetically separate from each other for hundreds of millions of years, and possess brains that are visibly dissimilar. Furthermore, these lower vertebrates are not all primitive. They lack the structures that make subaerial life possible, but they have evolved along several divergent paths far from the state that characterized the first members of the vertebrate assemblage. Comparative neurologists who are curious about a particular type of fish brain may study it for its own sake, but investigators seeking information applicable in some way t o the brains of higher terrestrial forms are obliged to acquaint themselves with the vertebrates’ family tree. The jawless, limbless hagfishes and lampreys, for instance, which are often labeled the most primitive living vertebrates, are not truly surviving representatives of the first vertebrates in anything like their original state. Hagfishes and lampreys may display some traits that are primitive; but they have also specialized, unique characters and some apparently simple structures that have evolved through retrogressive change. Their connection with the basal vertebrate stock may be indirect, through descent from an extinct assemblage of armored forms called ostracoderms, which were already diversified and specialized when they appeared in the fossil record nearly 500,000,000 years ago. To suggest that any aspect of the brain unique t o one of these creatures foreshadows the appearance of an apparently similar modification of the higher vertebrate brain is t o misinterpret the evidence. Even the earliest fishes with jaws and paired fins-the extinct acanthodians and placoderms-do not supply brains acceptable as primitive. These fishes too had evoked adaptively , developing certain peculiar traits in the process. Rather than looking for primitive brains, the investigator must discern those characteristics in the brains of lower vertebrates which may be primitive-that is, structural and functional patterns that seem t o have been carried, conservatively, in several piscine lines, while other, more labile traits were molded in highly special ways. The same kind of discrimination is called for o n the part of the investigator