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A mixed-methods approach to mapping caregiver-reported paths of service delivery following early ASD concerns
Families with early concerns about autism spectrum disorder (ASD) for their children often experience a delay between first concerns and diagnosis (2 years on average; Sansosti et al., 2012), and many caregivers describe ... -
A Network Approach to PTSD: Comparing Interview and Self-Report Networks
PTSD may be characterized by networks of causal interactions among symptoms, and network analyses can identify central symptoms and processes that may be targeted for precise treatment. In this emerging area, few studies ... -
A neurophysiological explanation for biases in visual localization
Observers show small but systematic deviations from equal weighting of all elements when asked to localize the center of an array of dots. Counter-intuitively, with small numbers of dots drawn from a Gaussian distribution, ... -
A Novel Naturalistic Paradigm to Study Aerial Predator-Induced Fear
Whether an animal is carnivorous or herbivorous, the need to exploit any foraging advantage while mitigating all risks is a major evolutionary pressure. The rat, although a small prey animal, has been able to employ these ... -
A Qualitative Study of Mental Health Problems Among Children Living in New Delhi Slums
Children living in urban slums in India are exposed to chronic stressors that increase their risk of developing mental disorders, but remain a neglected group. Effective mental health interventions are needed; however, it ... -
A Role for the Lateral Habenula in a Delay Based Decision Making Test
The lateral habenula (LHb) is thought to provide an aversive or anti-reward signal in the mammalian brain under Pavlovian conditions. However, recent evidence suggests that the LHb also controls more complex decision-making ... -
Acculturation, Family Context, and Mexican Origin Youth Substance Use Risk Across Time
Latino youth, and Mexican-origin youth in particular risk, may be at higher risk for early substance use initiation. Given that early initiation is related to greater likelihood of later substance use problems, understanding ... -
Acculturation, Peer Influence, Alcohol Protective Behavioral Strategies, and Alcohol Use and Related Problems among Asian and Pacific Islander College Students
Despite popular perceptions, rates of alcohol use have gradually increased in Asian and Pacific Islander American (APIA) college students. Both acculturation and peer influence have been identified as factors contributing ... -
The active and passive voice are equally comprehensible in scientific writing
(1997)The passive voice is typically thought to be wordy, impersonal, and difficult to read. Although early studies examining the passive voice appeared to show that passive voice sentences are harder to process and less preferred ... -
Acute Alcohol Intoxication & Sexual Risk Likelihood: Exploring Cultural Factors
(2014-02-24)Acute Alcohol Intoxication & Sexual Risk Likelihood: Exploring Cultural Factors Danielle R. Eakins Chair of the Supervisory Committee: William H. George, Ph.D. Psychology Factors affecting women's engagement in risky sexual ... -
Adaptive selection of personality items to inform a neural network predicting job performance
(2005)Connectionist or "neural" networks, developed as a model of cognition, are also a general statistical model with practical applications. Adaptive testing, traditionally based on item response theory, is a way to improve ... -
The adaptive significance of multiple mating in female mink (Mustela vison) and its effects on the mating system \ by Melissa Anne Fleming
(1996)Female multiple mating is common in mammals, but studies of its advantages are often constrained by our limited understanding of the reproductive physiology underlying it. The reproductive physiology underlying female ... -
Adults' Attributions of Psychological Agency, Credit, and Fairness to a Humanoid Social Robot
People frequently collaborate with one another - they work on intellectual, artistic, or other pursuits to generate ideas or products that are different, and ideally better, than an individual alone could create. In our ... -
Age-related differences in diet and foraging behavior of the critically endangered Mariana Crow (<italic>Corvus kubaryi</italic>)
The Mariana Crow (<italic>Corvus kubaryi</italic>) is a critically endangered, island-endemic corvid whose single remaining population is on the island of Rota, CNMI. Quantitative information on the Mariana Crow's diet is ... -
Age-related hearing loss and behavioral measures of hearing sensitivity in adult zebrafish (Danio rerio)
Many teleost fish species have been used in hearing studies to investigate the ontogenetic changes of auditory structures and functions. Zebrafish (Danio rerio), a freshwater species with special hearing adaptations, has ... -
Alcohol Interventions for Mandated Students (Project AIMS)
(2013-11-14)College student drinking continues to be a significant problem, with consequences directly impacting students, institutions, and communities. While research with volunteer participants generally supports the use of cognitive ... -
Alcohol myopia and sexual abdication: Examining the moderating effect of child sexual abuse
(2013-11-14)HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are a major public health concern for women, and women who engage in risky sexual behaviors are at greater risk of contracting STIs. Risky sexual behaviors may include ... -
Alcohol-involved Rape Disclosure among Asian American College Women
(2013-04-17)Using a multi-study mixed-methods approach, this dissertation investigates disclosure of alcohol-involved rape for Asian American college women. Qualitative interviews first examined the cultural context of alcohol-involved ... -
Alcohol-Involved Sexual Assault and Mental Health Outcomes: The Role of Alcohol Use Characteristics
College is a period of heightened risk for alcohol-involved sexual assault (AIA). The overarching aims of this project were to describe and evaluate variations among alcohol use characteristics (AUCs) during AIAs and how ... -
Alterations in Inhibition Underlying Treatment Effects and Recovery in PTSD
(2013-04-17)Inhibitory deficits expressed as difficulty ignoring irrelevant stimuli in the pursuit of goal-directed behavior may be crucial in our understanding of information processing in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and may ...