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The sequential pathway between trauma-related symptom severity and cognitive-based smoking processes through perceived stress and negative affect reduction expectancies among trauma exposed smokers
(American Journal on Addictions, 10/01/16)Background and Objectives: Smoking rates are markedly higher among trauma-exposed individuals relative to non-trauma exposed individuals. Extant work suggests that both perceived stress and negative affect reduction smoking ... -
Cultural differences and shame in an expressive writing alcohol intervention
(Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 10/07/16)The present study evaluates the relationships between shame, culture, and drinking behavior in predicting drinking intentions in the context of an expressive writing intervention. Theory and empirical findings have generally ... -
Pioneering the Psychiatric Nurse Role in Foster Care
(Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 10/11/13)Older youth served in the foster care system have elevated rates of mental health disorders and are high users of mental health services, yet concerns have been raised about the quality of this care. This paper describes ... -
Contextualizing Practice in Cambodia: A Hidden Living Place with Practice Insight
(Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping, 10/12/17)This article is not a first-person narrative but rather a cultural reflection after a study-abroad program in Cambodia that aimed to provide an approach for promoting a deeper appreciation of international social work ... -
Microbiomes of the dust particles collected from the International Space Station and Spacecraft Assembly Facilities
(Microbiome, 10/27/2015)Background: The International Space Station (ISS) is a unique built environment due to the effects of microgravity, space radiation, elevated carbon dioxide levels, and especially continuous human habitation. Understanding ... -
Knowledge of and Attitudes toward Behavioral Health Services among Older Youth in the Foster Care System
(Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 11/06/10)This study examined knowledge of and attitudes toward services among 268 17-year olds with psychiatric diagnoses preparing to exit foster care. A structured interview assessed knowledge of services with vignette scenarios ... -
Exploring Contextual Factors of Youth Homelessness and Sexual Risk Behaviors: A Qualitative Study
(Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 11/17/15)CONTEXT: HIV disproportionately affects homeless youth, and interventions to date have had minimal success in reducing sexual risk behaviors in this population. Few qualitative studies have been conducted to provide insight ... -
Exploration of a Holey Version of an NK Fitness Landscape
(12.2018)Evolution is an incredibly complex process that has been the subject of scientific study for well over a century. The complexity of evolution has made discovery by empirical studies alone challenging, as they often offer ... -
Pain-related Anxiety and Smoking Outcomes: The Explanatory Role of Dysphoria
(12.2018)Scientific evidence suggests that pain-related anxiety may contribute to the maintenance of tobacco addiction among smokers with varying levels of pain. Yet, no work has investigated the relation between pain-related anxiety ... -
Consequences of Tenure-Clock Extensions for Parents in Academia
(12.2018)This thesis seeks to examine the potential consequences of tenure-clock extensions for parents in academia. I first propose that tenure-clock extensions will be associated with a longer period of time taken for faculty ... -
PUBLIC PERCEPTION, APPROVAL OF AND BLAME ATTRIBUTION IN USING MILITARY DRONES: A GATEWAY INTO PUBLIC OPINION ON AUTONOMOUS WEAPON SYSTEMS
(12.2018)Within the past two decades, technological advances and a growing public policy priority to reduce human casualty in the battlefield have pushed militaries around the world to develop increasingly automated capabilities ... -
SHORELINE STABILIZATION POTENTIAL OF RESTORED OYSTER REEFS IN GALVESTON BAY, TEXAS
(12.2018)Coastal wetlands provide many services for the areas that surround them including structured habitat, water filtration through the sediment, and dissipation of storm effects. Increasing rates of wetland loss are cause for ... -
THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL MEDIA AND DATING APPLICATIONS ON SEXUAL BEHAVIORS
(12.2018)Greater engagement with social media sites such as Facebook has been found to increase college students' perceptions of sexual norms by exposing them to content suggesting greater approval of risky sexual behavior than ... -
THE UNEXPECTED 1870s/1880s RESPONSE TO THE MID-CENOMANIAN EVENT: AN INVESTIGATION IN THE IONA-1 CORE
(12.2018)The emplacement of either the Caribbean Large Igneous Province (CLIP) or High Arctic Large Igneous Province (HALIP) is implicated in the triggering of the CenomanianTuronian Ocean Anoxic Event 2 (OAE-2; ca 94 - 95 Ma). ... -
Lifetime Predictions of Actuation Fatigue for Shape Memory Alloy Notched Members
(12.2018)Shape Memory Alloy (SMA)-based solid state actuators are an attractive alternative to conventional actuators when a small volume and/or large force and stroke are required. These alloys have the unique characteristic of ... -
Using Competition Assays to Assess Dormancy: Effects of Gene Knockouts on Growth in Micrococcus luteus
(12.2018)Dormancy is a survival growth state some bacteria enter under stressful environmental conditions, such as nutrient deprivation. Dormancy is characterized by a severe decrease in metabolic activity where bacteria become ... -
Tricks of the Trade: Selected Li-ion Battery Modeling Techniques
(12.2018)Li-ion cells are used in countless applications today, and their use will only increase in the future. It is crucial for researchers to be able to model Li-ion behavior in order to protect consumers, manufacturers, and ... -
Characterizing Agent Behavior Under Meta Reinforcement Learning With Gridworld
(12.2018)The capabilities of meta reinforcement learning agents tend to be heavily depend on the complexity and scope of the meta task over which they perform requiring different models, learning algorithms, and strategies to perform ... -
ASIAN-AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTICIPATION: THE CONSEQUENCES OF SOCIAL INVISIBILITY AND POLITICAL ALIENATION
(12.2018)Contemporary political scientists have found that Asians do not follow the traditional socioeconomic model that is often used to predict an individual's likelihood to participate in the United States political process. As ... -
Macroeconomic Effects of Consumption versus Income Taxes
(12.2018)This paper adds to the empirical literature on the effects of tax structure on investment with a panel data analysis of up to 120 countries from 1980 to 2015. Specifically, this paper uses the relative percentage between ...