S8E5: How do athletics help universities fulfill their missions?

University of Maine Athletics, the state’s only Division I athletics program, is undergoing some major changes. A new director, Jude Killy, stepped up to bat in January, and several facilities are undergoing extensive upgrades as part of a $110 million master plan, funded primarily by the Harold Alfond Foundation as part of the UMS TRANSFORMS initiative. In this week’s episode of “The Maine Question,” Killy, who previously worked for the Division I schools Miami University and University of Pittsburgh, discusses the facility renovations and other updates to Black Bear sports, the evolving landscape of college athletics and how they help higher education institutions fulfill their missions

EAFIT desarrolla nanopartículas para fabricar prendas inteligentes

​La nanotecnología se aplicó en la Universidad en nanofibras y se validó con fibras textiles comerciales en Fabricato. Esta tecnología, que se busca aplicar a una mayor escala industrial, sirve para crear telas autolimpiantes y antibacteriales, y está sometida a concesión de patente ante la Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio

Klassiõpetajate arusaam õuesõppest, selle rakendamist takistavatest teguritest ning erinevustest traditsioonilise õppega klassiruumis

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El conocimiento geológico del noroeste de Suramérica se actualiza

Geology and Tectonics of Northwestern South America is the written work published by the renowned publisher Springer and presented on September 6, 2018 on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the geology program of EAFIT University.​Geology and tectonics of Northwestern South America es la obra escrita publicada por la reconocida editorial Springer y presentada el 6 de septiembre de 2018 con motivo del aniversario 35 del programa de Geología de la Universidad EAFIT. &nbsp

Emotion recognition of faces and music in asperger syndrome: A crossmodal priming study

Although autistic individuals are said by the general public to have impairments with emotion perception in social interactions, recent findings do not fully support this claim (Erbas et al., 2013). A study by Charbonneau et al. (2013) has shown that discrimination between two types of affective vocalizations and facial expressions, presented in isolation or in combination, was impaired in autistic individuals. However, controls and autistic individuals benefited from a bimodal presentation of the stimuli. Research on musical emotions has indicated that autistic individuals are not impaired in decoding musical emotions (e.g., Heaton, Hermelin, & Pring, 1999; Quintin et al., 2011). Furthermore, musical emotions have been shown to influence affective face processing in healthy individuals (Logeswaran & Bhattacharya, 2009; Marin et al., in prep). Motivated by the results of Charbonneau et al. (2013), we thus aim to systematically investigate the possible influence of musical emotions on emotion decoding of facial expressions in a crossmodal priming paradigm. Our sample comprises 15 high- functioning autistic individuals and 15 healthy controls matched for age, gender and IQ. Primes are excerpts of four types of musical emotions (happy, neutral, sad and scary). Targets are pictures of facial expressions (happy, neutral, sad and scary) taken from the Radboud Faces Database (Langner et al., 2010). In a two- alternative forced choice task, primes and targets of two types of emotions are paired in six combinations (happy-sad, sad-scary, happy-scary, neutral scary, neutral-sad and neutral- happy), and are either congruent or incongruent in terms of valence and/or arousal. This experimental design enables us to disentangle arousal from valence effects (Marin et al., 2012). The same discrimination task, collecting reaction time and accuracy data, will be performed for all stimuli in isolation in a separate session. We hypothesize that healthy controls will outperform autistic individuals on all tasks except for the musical emotion task. We hope to be able to demonstrate a crossmodal priming effect in healthy controls, but more importantly, also the presence of a reduced priming effect in autistic individuals. Our results may lead to further intervention studies in which listening to music may help to train autistic individuals to discriminate between facial expressions of emotion.ReferencesCharbonneau, G., Bertone, A., Lepore, F., Nassim, M., Lassonde, M., Mottron, L. & Collignon, O. (2013). Multilevel alterations in processing of audo-visual emotion expressions in autism spectrum disorders. Neuropsychologia, 51, 1002-1010.Erbas, Y., Ceulemans, E., Boonen, J., Noens, I. & Kuppens, P. (2013). Emotion differentation in autism spectrum disorder. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorder 7, 1221-1227.Heaton, P., Hermelin, B., Pring, L. (1999). Can children with autistic spectrum disorders perceive affect in music? An experimental investigation. Psychological Medicine, 29, 1405-1410.Langner, O., Dotsch, R., Bijlstra, G., Wigboldus, D. H., Hawk, S. T., & van Knippenberg, A. (2010). Presentation and validation of the Radboud Faces Database. Cognition and Emotion, 24(8), 1377-1388.Logeswaran, N., & Bhattacharya, J. (2009). Crossmodal transfer of emotion by music.Neuroscience letters, 455(2), 129-133.Marin, M. M., Gingras, B., & Bhattacharya, J. (2012). Crossmodal transfer of arousal, but not pleasantness, from the musical to the visual domain. Emotion, 12(3), 618.Quintin, E.-M., Bhatara, A., Poissant, H., Fombonne, E. & Levitin, D. J. (2011). Emotion perception in music in high-functioning adolescents with autism apectrum disorders. Journal of Autism Development Disorders, 41, 1240-1255

Coaching to enhance the mental toughness of people learning kickboxing

This pilot study investigated whether combining Positive Psychology Coaching (PPC) and kickboxing would progress the development of mental toughness compared to kickboxing alone. The data were derived from 28 participants who voluntarily took a four-week kickboxing course and completed the Mental Toughness Questionnaire (MTQ48) a week before the course commenced and after its completion. Using stratified randomisation for age and gender, 14 participants received a one-hour individual face-to-face coaching session while the other 14 only engaged in kickboxing. The results suggest that PPC may have a role in developing mental toughness when it is combined with vigorous physical exercise

Potencia térmica en un quemador experimental utilizando cáscaras de nuez Pecan como biocombustible

Son presentados en este documento los resultados de la investigación de la potencia térmica de un quemador experimental utilizando como combustible cáscaras de nuez Pecán, residuo que la agroindustria produce.

(EIN)FACH? : Komplexität, Wissen, Fortschritt und die Grenzen der Germanistik

Spätestens seit den gesellschaftlichen Modernisierungsschüben in den sechziger Jahren identifiziert auch die Germanistik Erkenntnis- und Wissenszuwachs, ja allgemeiner den "Fortschritt" ihres Fachs, mit Komplexitätserhöhung. Vor diesem Hintergrund erscheint es mir wenig plausibel, die seitdem erfolgten inneren Ausdifferenzierungen und interdisziplinären Grenzüberschreitungen als durch Identitätsverlust, Zerstreuung und Desintegration gekennzeichnete Niedergangsszenarien zu beschreiben. Die Veränderungen gehorchen der immanenten Logik germanistischer Forschung, einer "disziplinierten", auf Leistung ausgerichteten, an kooperativen Großforschungsvorhaben partizipierenden Wissensproduktion