University of Hartford

About: University of Hartford is a education organization based out in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Context (language use). The organization has 1244 authors who have published 2481 publications receiving 48973 citations. The organization is also known as: UHart.

Respecialization as a School Psychologist: Education, Training, and Supervision for School Practice.

Abstract: Professional psychology is facing a looming crisis. On one hand, there is an oversupply of clinical psychologists—a group generally facing decreasing salaries and growing competition. On the other hand, there is a shortage of school psychologists—a group experiencing increasing salaries and expanded role opportunities. Unfortunately, though, educators and practitioners have not fully addressed the issue of respecialization. In a basic way, just as a physician who changes specialties pursues rigorous, 3-year residency training, so psychologists interested in changing specialties should complete appropriate respecialization. This article explores the issues, controversies, and dynamics involved with respecialization. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Psychol Schs 41: 473–480, 2004.

Toward a Pedagogy of the Enthymeme: The Roles of Dialogue, Intention, and Function in Shaping Argument.

Abstract: "I teach composition using an enthymematic approach." Or I might say, "I teach composition from the enthymeme" or "with the enthymeme." Unfortunately, the word enthymeme is more likely to alienate composition teachers than to attract their interest and attention, despite a growing body of scholarship that positions the enthymeme at the very heart of the composing process. According to the viewpoint that emerges from this scholarship, enthymematic reasoning is fundamental to cognition and discourse, and hence to writing. If so, then talking about the enthymeme ought to be an essential and powerful way of talking about the composing process, and of teaching it (Grimaldi, Gage, Green, Walker, Porter, Hood, Emmel, among others). Part of the difficulty of explaining what is meant by "teaching enthymematically" resides in the word enthymeme itself, which, unlike more familiar composition terminology (thesis, evidence, conclusion), lacks a common and shared meaning, even recognition, for both students and teachers alike. As one of my students complained, "I couldn't even find it in the dictionary!" Other students have been perturbed when their other teachers do not recognize the word. As a means of understanding and discussing composition, the term enthymeme is still in the process of gaining definition and application-that is, of becoming grounded in composition theory, apart from the realms of formal logic and classical rhetorical theory. The age-old tendency to reduce the enthymeme to "a truncated syllogism," or to a mere figure of speech with little rhetorical potential beyond the moment of utterance, robs it of the fullness from which its pedagogical potential derives (see, for example, Conley's and Poster's surveys of ancient and modem interpretations of the enthymeme). Yet the enthymeme is not just a logical paradigm ("statement 1 is true because statement 2 is true") but also a conceptualization of a rich set of relationships with the potential of being expressed in a multitude of ways, of which the enthymematic and syllogistic paradigms are only the most schematic and thesis-like. A successful essay is no less enthymematic for not being

Linear and angular control of circular walking in healthy older adults and subjects with cerebellar ataxia

Abstract: Linear and angular control of trunk and leg motion during curvilinear navigation was investigated in subjects with cerebellar ataxia and age-matched control subjects. Subjects walked with eyes open around a 1.2-m circle. The relationship of linear to angular motion was quantified by determining the ratios of trunk linear velocity to trunk angular velocity and foot linear position to foot angular position. Errors in walking radius (the ratio of linear to angular motion) also were quantified continuously during the circular walk. Relative variability of linear and angular measures was compared using coefficients of variation (CoV). Patterns of variability were compared using power spectral analysis for the trunk and auto-covariance analysis for the feet. Errors in radius were significantly increased in patients with cerebellar damage as compared to controls. Cerebellar subjects had significantly larger CoV of feet and trunk in angular, but not linear, motion. Control subjects also showed larger CoV in angular compared to linear motion of the feet and trunk. Angular and linear components of stepping differed in that angular, but not linear, foot placement had a negative correlation from one stride to the next. Thus, walking in a circle was associated with more, and a different type of, variability in angular compared to linear motion. Results are consistent with increased difficulty of, and role of the cerebellum in, control of angular trunk and foot motion for curvilinear locomotion.

Environmental Justice and Health Effects of Urban Air Pollution

Abstract: Purpose Minority communities often bear the burden of “hosting” pollution sources. This report assesses whether there are any health effects from living near such pollution sources and whether health effects of pollution vary by sex, ethnicity, or income. Methods The air pollution emissions from Hartford area, point sources are modeled and exposures are estimated for the residents who participated in a geographically-based health survey. The pollution intensities and other individual and neighborhood characteristics are used to predict an individual’s reported respiratory problems. Results The results indicate that respiratory problems are correlated significantly with pollution levels, especially sulfur dioxide from the local trash-to-energy incinerator—the fifth largest one in the U.S. The effects of a given pollution level tend to be more serious for specific subgroups based upon sex, ethnicity, poverty, and age. Conclusion Even when controlling for other factors, air pollution levels are significantly correlated with health problems, especially for Hispanics. This air pollution may contribute to health disparities