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About: University of Massachusetts Boston is a education organization based out in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Health care. The organization has 6541 authors who have published 12918 publications receiving 411731 citations. The organization is also known as: UMass Boston.
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TL;DR: The need to better understand the linkages and interdependencies of socio-economic and coastal environmental dynamics has taken on a more deliberate role in the development and assessment of Integrated Coastal Management world-wide as discussed by the authors.
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TL;DR: Parents of children with versus without elevated SOR in school-age reported higher frequencies of early and co-occurring internalizing, externalizing, and dysregulation problems, and lower levels of concurrent adaptive social behaviors.
Abstract: Sensory over-responsivity (SOR) towards tactile and auditory input can impact children's participation in academic and social activities; however the prevalence of SOR behaviors and their relation to social-emotional problems and competence has not been rigorously studied. This study investigated SOR in a representative sample of elementary school-aged children (n=925, 50% boys, ages 7-11 years) who were followed from infancy. Sixteen percent of parents reported that at least four tactile or auditory sensations bothered their children. Being bothered by certain sensations was common while others were relatively rare. Parents of children with versus without elevated SOR in school-age reported higher frequencies of early and co-occurring internalizing, externalizing, and dysregulation problems, and lower levels of concurrent adaptive social behaviors. Early identification of elevated SOR and assessment of concurrent social-emotional status are important to minimize their impact on social adaptive behaviors at school age.
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TL;DR: Mentoring is one of the most popular social interventions in American society, with an estimated three million youth in formal one-to-one relationships as mentioned in this paper, and studies have revealed significant associations between youth involvement in mentoring relationships and positive developmental outcomes.
Abstract: Mentoring is one of the most popular social interventions in American society, with an estimated three million youth in formal one-to-one relationships. Studies have revealed significant associations between youth involvement in mentoring relationships and positive developmental outcomes. These associations are modest, however, and depend on several intervening processes. Centrally important is the formation of close, enduring connectionsbetweenmentorsandyouththatfosterpositive developmental change. Effects of mentoring programs likewise typically have been small in magnitude, but they increase systematically with the use of program practices likely to support relationship development. Gaps between research and practice are evident both in the indiscrimi- nate use of the term mentoring in the prevention field and in a focus on the growth and efficiency of mentoring pro- grams at the expense of quality. Continued expansion of effective mentoring will require a better alignment of research and practice.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of biodiversity change on selected ecosystem services are evaluated and the authors suggest ways to further understand the links between biodiversity change and ecosystem services, including forage, timber, fisheries, climate regulation, agricultural pest control, and water quality.
Abstract: Understanding when biodiversity conservation and ecosystem-service maintenance are compatible is needed within the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). Here, we evaluate current understanding and uncertainties of the effects of biodiversity change on selected ecosystem services and suggest ways to further understand the links between biodiversity change and ecosystem services. We reviewed experiments, observations, and syntheses on the effects of species richness on six ecosystem services: forage, timber, fisheries, climate regulation, agricultural pest control, and water quality. Establishing a direct link from biodiversity to ecosystem-service provision has often been precluded by limited data (i.e., the amount, consistency, or generality of the data) and a mismatch between the variables measured and the final ecosystem service that is relevant to stakeholders. We suggest that encompassing syntheses and a network of interdisciplinary experiments under realistic conditions could fill these gaps and could inform the outcomes of alternative management and policy scenarios within IPBES.
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TL;DR: The Vegetation Adjusted NTL Urban Index (VANUI) as mentioned in this paper is a spectral index that combines MODIS NDVI with NTL to achieve three key goals: first, the index reduces the effects of NTL saturation.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Derek R. Lovley | 168 | 582 | 95315 |
Wei Li | 158 | 1855 | 124748 |
Susan E. Hankinson | 151 | 789 | 88297 |
Roger J. Davis | 147 | 498 | 103478 |
Thomas P. Russell | 141 | 1012 | 80055 |
George Alverson | 140 | 1653 | 105074 |
Robert H. Brown | 136 | 1174 | 79247 |
C. Dallapiccola | 136 | 1717 | 101947 |
Paul T. Costa | 133 | 406 | 88454 |
Robert R. McCrae | 132 | 313 | 90960 |
David Julian McClements | 131 | 1137 | 71123 |
Mauro Giavalisco | 128 | 412 | 69967 |
Benjamin Brau | 128 | 971 | 72704 |
Douglas T. Golenbock | 123 | 317 | 61267 |
Zhifeng Ren | 122 | 695 | 71212 |