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Self-Care, Coping Self-Efficacy and Stress Among Graduate Students in the Helping Professions
Self-care has grown in popularity over the decades and has been seen as a successful means in mitigating the effects of stress, particularly among trainees in the helping professions. However, a paucity of research exists examining the relationship among self-care and related variables. The aim of the present study was to further explore the impact of self-care and coping self-efficacy on stress among counseling psychology and clinical psychology graduate trainees. Specifically, this study examined the relationship between self-care utilization, coping self-efficacy, and perceived stress, as well as self-care utilization by years in training program, self-care utilization by participation in a mentoring program, and unique impact of self-care utilization and coping self-efficacy on perceived stress. The current study surveyed 168 students enrolled in graduate training programs in counseling and clinical psychology. The primary variables of interest (i.e., self-care utilization, coping self-efficacy, and perceived stress) demonstrated significant relationships confirming the first three hypotheses. Participants who reported higher levels of self-care utilization reported significantly lower levels of perceived stress r = - .40, participants who reported higher levels of coping self-efficacy reported significantly lower levels of perceived stress r = -.49, and a significant positive relationship was found between self-care utilization and coping self-efficacy r = .63. Individuals reporting high levels of self-care utilization also reported high levels of coping self-efficacy. No relationship was found between length in program and the primary variables of interest (i.e., self-care, coping self-efficacy and perceived stress). There was also no relationship found between participation in mentoring programs and the primary variables of interest (i.e., self-care, coping self-efficacy, and stress). Findings of the current study suggests coping self-efficacy has a larger unique effect than self-care utilization on perceived stress
Partisan Cheating & Competing: The Effect of Partisan Competition on Tolerance of Election Cheating
Poster Division: Social and Behavioral Sciences: 3rd Place (The Ohio State University Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum)American government takes the approach that highly competitive practices, such as elections, are the best way to represent the will of voters. However, in an era of hyper-partisanship and high negative out-party affect, it is worth examining the negative effects that salient partisan competition has on people's attitudes. Specifically, I find that when partisans perceive elections to be "neck and neck" (i.e., partisan competition is salient), they tolerate co-partisan electoral cheating while harshly enforcing rules when their opposing political party engages in the same election cheating.
Using an original survey experiment, I investigate the effects of salient partisan competition on people's tolerance of election cheating and endorsement of political norms and values of fairness. After manipulating salience of partisan competition, I measured participants' tolerance of election cheating that fosters an electoral advantage to either (randomly assigned) their in-party or out-party as well as measuring participants' endorsement of democratic values of fairness. Although partisans selectively tolerate election cheating depending on which party benefits when partisan competition is not salient, I find that greater salience of partisan competition increases participants' tolerance of election cheating when their their in-party stands to benefit and decreases participants' tolerance of election cheating when their their out-party stands to benefit. Conversely, I do not find that salience of partisan competition affects people's endorsement of political values of fairness despite this differing effect of tolerance of cheating by party benefit.
I discuss these findings in the context of democratic government and the connection to modern partisan animus. These results have important implications regarding democratic health as partisans are not willing to apply democratic norms of fairness under competitive circumstances. Last, I conclude with a discussion of democratic governmental structure and how changes representative democracies could reduce partisan conflict and double standards.No embarg
Singing Nature, Dancing Buddha: Zen, Language, and the Groundlessness of Silence
This thesis presents Zen experience as aesthetic in nature. This is done through an analysis of language, a central concern for Zen Buddhism. The thesis develops two modes of language at work in Zen: representational and indexical. What these modes of language entail, the kind of relations that are developed through their use, are explored with recourse to a variety of Zen platforms: poetry, the koan, zazen, music, and suizen. In doing so, a primacy of listening is found in Zen - a listening without a listener. Given this primacy of listening, silence comes to the forefront of the investigation. An analysis of John Cage's 4'33" provides this thesis with justification of the groundlessness of silence, and the groundlessness of subjectivity. Listening allows for the abyssal subject to emerges, which in tum allows for reality to present itself outside of the constitutive function of language
Instruments and Methods: Direct measurement of sliding at the glacier bed
Sliding at the base of Trapridge Glacier, Yukon Territory, Canada, was measured using a âdrag spoolâ. We describe this simple and inexpensive instrument as well as its installation and operation. From 1990 to 1992 seven sites were instrumented with drag spools. At six of the sites basal sliding, during the period of observation, accounted for 50-70% of the total flow observed at the glacier surface. The contribution from ice creep is known to be small, so most of the remaining surface motion must be attributed to subglacial sediment deformation. For the seventh site the observed sliding rate was ~ 90% of the total flow, an indication that the sliding contribution varies spatially across the bed. Diurnal variations in the response of one of our instruments appear to be correlated to subglacial water-pressure fluctuations and are interpreted in terms of changes in sliding velocity rather than the opening and closing of basal cavities
The Role of Responsive Library Makerspaces in Supporting Informal Learning in the Digital Humanities
Makerspaces make a unique contribution to the partnership between academic libraries and digital humanities by providing a creative, informal space for learning skills and new knowledge, sharing materials and equipment, and exploring and experimenting through an problem-solving, inquiry-based learning approach. The concept of the makerspace as a "liminal" space, containing inherent contradictions and tensions between formal and informal learning, structure and agency, forms a basis for understanding the role the makerspace plays in shaping, and being shaped by, a digital humanities community of practice. This chapter discusses particular experiences that demonstrate some of the ways in which the Curtin Library Makerspace in Western Australia has been involved in digital humanities since it was established in 2015. It has nurtured a creative environment for informal learning through facilitating maker activities; fostered collaborations with teaching academics to support the curriculum; and supported the development of longer-term research projects. We discuss the issues particular to each of these experiences, as the Makerspace negotiated the challenge of retaining the informality of the makerspace, while at the same time recognizing the need for infrastructural support to enable it to participate as an equal partner in digital humanities research projects
Linking genes to diseases with a SNPedia-Gene Wiki mashup
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>A variety of topic-focused wikis are used in the biomedical sciences to enable the mass-collaborative synthesis and distribution of diverse bodies of knowledge. To address complex problems such as defining the relationships between genes and disease, it is important to bring the knowledge from many different domains together. Here we show how advances in wiki technology and natural language processing can be used to automatically assemble âmeta-wikisâ that present integrated views over the data collaboratively created in multiple source wikis.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>We produced a semantic meta-wiki called the Gene Wiki+ that automatically mirrors and integrates data from the Gene Wiki and SNPedia. The Gene Wiki+, available at (<url>http://genewikiplus.org/</url>), captures 8,047 distinct gene-disease relationships. SNPedia accounts for 4,149 of the gene-disease pairs, the Gene Wiki provides 4,377 and only 479 appear independently in both sources. All of this content is available to query and browse and is provided as linked open data.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>Wikis contain increasing amounts of diverse, biological information useful for elucidating the connections between genes and disease. The Gene Wiki+ shows how wiki technology can be used in concert with natural language processing to provide integrated views over diverse underlying data sources.</p
X-ray Observations of the Compact Source in CTA 1
The point source RX J0007.0+7302, at the center of supernova remnant CTA 1,
was studied using the X-Ray Multi-mirror Mission. The X-ray spectrum of the
source is consistent with a neutron star interpretation, and is well described
by a power law with the addition of a soft thermal component that may
correspond to emission from hot polar cap regions or to cooling emission from a
light element atmosphere over the entire star. There is evidence of extended
emission on small spatial scales which may correspond to structure in the
underlying synchrotron nebula. No pulsations are observed. Extrapolation of the
nonthermal spectrum of RX J0007.0+7302 to gamma-ray energies yields a flux
consistent with that of EGRET source 3EG J0010+7309, supporting the proposition
that there is a gamma-ray emitting pulsar at the center of CTA 1. Observations
of the outer regions of CTA 1 with the Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and
Astrophysics confirm earlier detections of thermal emission from the remnant
and show that the synchrotron nebula extends to the outermost reaches of the
SNR.Comment: 5 pages, including 4 postscript figs.LaTex. Accepted for publication
by Ap
Learning Occupational Task-Shares Dynamics for the Future of Work
The recent wave of AI and automation has been argued to differ from previous
General Purpose Technologies (GPTs), in that it may lead to rapid change in
occupations' underlying task requirements and persistent technological
unemployment. In this paper, we apply a novel methodology of dynamic task
shares to a large dataset of online job postings to explore how exactly
occupational task demands have changed over the past decade of AI innovation,
especially across high, mid and low wage occupations. Notably, big data and AI
have risen significantly among high wage occupations since 2012 and 2016,
respectively. We built an ARIMA model to predict future occupational task
demands and showcase several relevant examples in Healthcare, Administration,
and IT. Such task demands predictions across occupations will play a pivotal
role in retraining the workforce of the future.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures, 6 tables, Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference
on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES), 202
Decoupled execution of synchronous coordination models via behavioural automata
Synchronous coordination systems allow the exchange of data by logically
indivisible actions involving all coordinated entities. This paper introduces
behavioural automata, a logically synchronous coordination model based on the
Reo coordination language, which focuses on relevant aspects for the
concurrent evolution of these systems. We show how our automata model encodes
the Reo and Linda coordination models and how it introduces an explicit
predicate that captures the concurrent evolution, distinguishing local from
global actions, and lifting the need of most synchronous models to involve all
entities at each coordination step, paving the way to more scalable
implementations
Galaxy Cluster Pressure Profiles as Determined by Sunyaev Zel'dovich Effect Observations with MUSTANG and Bolocam I: Joint Analysis Technique
We present a technique to constrain galaxy cluster pressure profiles by
jointly fitting Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZE) data obtained with MUSTANG and
Bolocam for the clusters Abell 1835 and MACS0647. Bolocam and MUSTANG probe
different angular scales and are thus highly complementary. We find that the
addition of the high resolution MUSTANG data can improve constraints on
pressure profile parameters relative to those derived solely from Bolocam. In
Abell 1835 and MACS0647, we find gNFW inner slopes of and , respectively when
and are constrained to 0.86 and 4.67 respectively. The fitted
SZE pressure profiles are in good agreement with X-ray derived pressure
profiles.Comment: 12 pages, 12 figures. Submitted to Ap
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