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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 ... -
An Event-Level Examination of Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration: Effects of Alcohol, Instigation, and Regulatory Mechanisms
Intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration, including psychological, physical, and sexual aggression by an intimate partner, is a significant public health concern. Despite efforts to mitigate this crisis, rates of IPV ... -
An Examination of Coping with Physical Health Symptoms as a Motive for Cannabis Use among Young Adults
Existing measures assessing ‘coping’ as a motive for cannabis use typically include coping withmental health (MH) but not physical health (PH) symptoms, despite coping with PH symptoms being described in the literature. ... -
An Experimental Investigation of Factors that Influence Clinicians’ Decisions to Hospitalize Suicidal Patients
Psychiatric inpatient hospitalization and suicide risk share a strong empirical relationship such that frequent users of hospitalization display high rates of post-discharge suicidal behavior. Although research seeking to ... -
An Exploration of Workplace-Based Supervision Styles and their Relation to Clinician EBT Delivery
In community mental health settings, clinical supervision is nearly ubiquitous, yet workplace-based supervision is understudied in the context of evidence-based treatment (EBT) implementation. Recent research has characterized ... -
Analytic limitations of unconscious language processing
(1997)Cognitive theorists have traditionally assumed that, due to analytic limitations, unconscious cognitive systems play only a minor role in language comprehension relative to conscious systems. The following research sought ... -
Anatomical and Functional Organization of the Visual Cortex, and the Effect of Visual Deprivation in Animal Models
Despite the fact that the visual system has been the most well-studied of all sensory systems, many questions remain in regard to its structure and function in both human and animal models. While a basic blueprint of the ... -
Applications of Item-Response Theory in Health Outcomes Assessment and Pain Measurement
A key finding of the Institute of Medicine's 2011 report Relieving Pain in America: A Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Care, Education, and Research is the need for improved pain assessment. The following chapters ... -
Applying the Confluence Model of Sexual Aggression in the Context of Acute Intoxication and State Emotion Regulation
Sexual aggression perpetration is a pervasive public health problem and identifying who is at greatest risk is essential for the development of targeted, evidence-based prevention. The current study evaluates the effects ...