A Comparison of Three Thought Constraint Treatment Analogues: Process Constraint, Reality Constraint, and Combined Process and Reality Constraint

Several studies have explored the application of self-generated attitude change model to the reduction of phobic affect. Three treatment analogues of constrained thought, previously demonstrated to attenuate polarized affect, were compared to determine the relative efficacy of process constraint, reality constraint, and combined constraint. The effects of treatment were assessed with-measures of behavioral approach, physiological arousal, subjective fear report, self-appraised performance, and subject predictions of ability to cope in extra laboratory situations. It was predicted that the combined condition would provide the most powerful treatment analogue but this was not demonstrated. Subjects in all conditions improved across all measures, except physiological arousal, but not differentially. Several possible explanations, alternative theories, and remaining research issues are discussed

Library Orientation Tours As A Teaching and Learning Activity

TU Dublin Library Services offered Library orientation worksheets across all five of our campus locations this past academic term (Autumn 2024). The worksheets serve as a self-paced learning tool that encourages autonomous and peer-to-peer learning. The student-focused worksheets familiarise users with the physical and digital resources that the library provides, while encouraging engagement with library staff as an approachable source of help. This presentation will discuss the collaborative design, development, and delivery process between the Teaching and Learning team and academic faculty across the university. It will highlight future plans to further include: adapting to the new Academic Hub space; partnering with more faculty members across our five campuses and creating different kinds of worksheets for various groups (ie. research students, prospective students etc.); and creating more multimodal worksheet content in collaboration with our colleagues in Digital Services. By doing so Library Services hopes to continue to align with UDL principles and TU Dublin\u27s 2024 University Education Model

Women\u27s Innate Experiences with Pain: Pregnancy and Childbirth

The history of women’s experience during pregnancy and childbirth is important in understanding the current conditions women face when receiving reproductive healthcare. There have been many studies and reports on the history of obstetrics, as well as on the social implications of past obstetrics practices and beliefs. Despite the medical advances that have been made to make childbirth much safer and less painful, there are still large disparities in care among marginalized women. These women are also more likely to face abuses during their pregnancies and childbirth. This report investigates the history of abuses towards women during pregnancy and childbirth and compares this history to the current status of obstetrics care in order to identify the disparities that still exist, and their causes. This report using historical records, retrospective medical studies, and modern medical journals to compare and contrast obstetrics practices and the experience of pregnant women. These findings will help women and healthcare providers understand how biases and structural inequalities still impact natal care, so as to help avoid these abuses and make care safe and comfortable for all women

Schoenberg’s \u3ci\u3eMoses und Aron\u3c/i\u3e and Modernism’s Bilderverbot

In Moses und Aron, Arnold Schoenberg re-imagined the Exodus story as a fundamental struggle between the idea of God and its subsequent representation, as personified respectively in the characters of Moses and Aron. My research explores the opera’s basis in Schoenberg’s propaganda play Der biblische Weg and the composer’s grand attempts to save world Jewry in the years before World War II. In addition, I focus on his relationship to the modernists Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Kraus. I contend that their philosophies influenced Schoenberg’s strict negative monotheism, which, above all else, stressed the ban on images

AN ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF SIX DAIRY HERD EXPANSION ALTERNATIVES

This study investigates the economic implications of various problems encountered in a dairy farm expansion. Six expansion alternatives for a typical Minnesota dairy farm doubling its herd size from 40 to 80 cows are economically simulated and compare