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Professor, Researcher, Author

As an associate professor of Home Economics Research, Dr. Gordon Bivens teaches home management courses Consumers in the Market and Food Economics for cross credit with the Economics and Sociology Department. (A cross-credited course is a course offered for credit in more than one department. The student may receive credit in more than one department. The student may receive credit for it in the department he chooses.) Dr. Bivens, together with Dr. Margaret Liston, head of the Home Management Department, also teaches experimental courses in Time and Human Resource Management and Social Problems of Family Housing

Sexual Experiences and GPA among First Time College Freshmen

The college experience presents newfound freedom to explore risky behaviors, such as drinking, drug use, or unprotected sexual activity. Previous research reveals that risky sexual behaviors can lead to multiple sex partners, STIs, and unwanted pregnancies. Few studies examine how college students’ sexual experiences relate to their academic performance. This study tested if sexual activity and the number of sexual partners were associated with GPA. 111 first-year students reported whether they had ever had vaginal intercourse and their number of sexual partners in the last six months. Regression models revealed that freshmen who reported ever having sex had a lower GPA compared to students who never had sex. Furthermore, students who had two or more sexual partners in the past six months had a lower GPA than students with zero sexual partners. We discuss these findings in the context of cultural sexual scripts at a predominantly Hispanic university

How science information reaches the public : a content analysis of elite newspapers to compare coverage of the news values for two science conferences

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Locus of control influences on youth decisions and community participation

This study focused on locus of control in relation to decision-making and community participation. The objectives were to determine the control that youth think they have over their lives; assess youth\u27s perception of their input into making decisions and being involved in the community; analyze the relationships of selected factors to locus of control; establish implications for agricultural and extension education programs to meet youth needs;The 1990 Iowa Youth Poll of 162 questions used a random sample of Iowa youth ages 13 to 18. The 545 telephone interviews averaged 18.5 minutes and documented their feelings, concerns, and perceptions about societal problems and solutions. The data from 25 items were analyzed statistically for this study using SPSS-X (1988);About 90 percent of the sample had positive locus of control scores. Means of the locus of control score were very similar for males and females. Younger respondents had lower locus of control mean scores than did older respondents. Residence had little affect on the locus of control score;Respondents reported that they had too little input to community decisions and were disappointed in the community\u27s interest in youth. Responses indicated that teens were willing to be more involved in planning programs against drinking and drug use, but their interest seemed to exceed the opportunities they perceived for such involvement;Iowa teens perceived that drinking was more of a problem than drug use for people their ages in their communities. More farm teens in this study than expected, perceived drug use to be a problem for young people;Being female was a major factor in perceptions about involvement in community problems that affect them and their peers. More females in this study than was expected felt drinking and drug use were problems in their communities. Females were more dissatisfied with their community\u27s interest in youth than males. Their willingness to be involved exceeded expectations. More females than would be expected, perceived opportunities to do so;Seventh graders were significantly different in their perceptions then expected. They perceived drinking and drug use to be problems at a rate greater than one might expect. They saw fewer opportunities for involvement in planning programs than would be expected

A Watershed Classification System Based on Headwater Catchments in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee-North Carolina

Headwater areas in the southeastern U.S., as well as elsewhere, have received little attention from researchers, even though headwater catchments comprise over 70% of the land area in the southeastern highlands. The small, low-order streams that drain these catchments are greatly affected by hillslope processes within their watersheds. As such, there exists a strong link between upland landscape history and a headwater stream’s condition, including its channel morphology, habitat, and water quality. I employ this tight connection between landscape-scale attributes and reach-scale morphology in order to develop a headwater catchment classification system for Great Smoky Mountains National Park that describes the variation in stream channel morphology explicitly as a function of catchment characteristics. When developing a classification system, I test two separate classification techniques. First, I assess whether a ‘top-down’ statistical clustering approach, based exclusively on landscape-scale attributes, will distinguish groups of catchments that have significantly distinct types of stream channel morphology. In the second approach, the ‘bottom-up’ technique, I test whether catchments grouped by their respective distinct types of stream channels show any significant relationships between stream channel morphology and landscape-scale attributes. For the top-down technique, I use a geographic information system (GIS) and a digital elevation model (DEM) to delineate 862 headwater catchments in the study area; I then use a two-step clustering procedure to create six groups based on catchment area, circularity, resultant aspect, mean elevation, mean slope, and the percentages of burned area, pristine area, small-scale logging, extensive logging, settled areas, weak rocks, medium-strength rocks, strong rocks, and very strong rocks. Based on a stratified random sample, I use these groups to select 51 catchments for the collection of channel morphology information, which includes bankfull width, depth, and cross-sectional area, reach slope, median particle size, and the stored sediment in a riffle. These data are used to test the efficacy of the top-down technique in creating catchment groups with different types of stream channels based on an analysis of variance (ANOVA) procedure. For the bottom-up classification, I use the stream channel morphology data in a principal components analysis (PCA) and a two-step cluster procedure to create five groups of catchments based on the similarity of stream channel morphology information. I then use a multinomial logistic regression analysis to test how well the bottom-up classified catchment group membership is predicted when using the landscape-scale attributes as independent variables. Finally, I test if either headwater classification technique creates catchment groups with significantly different stream water chemistry. The top-down classification creates groups of catchments with different combinations of landscape-scale attributes, but these groups do not have significantly different types of stream channels. This is largely because the top-down approach is not a purely process-driven model; rather, it mathematically clusters groups according to a few dominant and shared landscape-scale attributes. As a result, some catchments have one or more statistically important but trivial attributes that offset the geomorphic influence of the dominant attribute on stream channel morphology. The top-down approach also does not account for convergence, where different combinations of attributes produce similar channel morphology. In contrast, the bottom-up approach is driven by geomorphic process; specifically, the catchment groups represent transitional states in the expected response to anthropogenic hillslope disturbances (logging intensity and settlement) of stream channels that are either aggrading, degrading, or in dynamic equilibrium. Bottom-up catchment group membership is predicted with better than 80% accuracy using the relationship between stream type and landscape-scale attributes. This occurs even though several bottom-up catchment groups share a few important landscape-scale attributes. Thus, various types of stream channels can form in similar catchments that differ only in disturbance intensity. Stream water chemistry does not differ between the top-down classified groups. However, with respect to the bottom-up classification, a significant difference exists between catchment groups regarding total nitrogen; catchment groups with high percentages of pristine forest have correspondingly high total nitrogen values as a result of nitrogen saturation in those areas. Landscape sensitivity, the degree of change in discharge and sediment flux following disturbance, is also possibly captured by the bottom-up watershed classification technique. As such, this more process-driven watershed classification serves as a metric in identifying the landscape-scale attributes that are most important in maintaining a particular type of stream channel morphology. Therefore, this classification allows researchers and land managers to anticipate possible changes in stream channel habitat as a function of proposed land use changes. It can also be used to identify areas that are particularly vulnerable to landscape change, as well as areas that might be somewhat resilient to various hillslope disturbance processes

The ADL of Sexuality: A Guide for Occupational Therapists for Elderly Clients

Purpose: The purpose of this scholarly project was to develop a guide that would address the assessments, treatment/interventions, and discharge planning process regarding sexual health/sexuality with an elderly client. Through the use of the guide and accompanying resources it is assumed that occupational therapists will have an increased level of comfort, knowledge, and competence. This is important as Couloumbis and Miller (1994) study indicated that occupational therapists that received formal education (academically or clinical practice) addressed sexuality in the elderly 27.8% more than occupational therapists who did not have any educational experience. Methodology: An in depth literature review was conducted using scholarly texts, scholarly search engines (SCOPUS, PubMed, CINAHL, Medline Plus, PsychInfo, Google), the American Occupational Therapy Association website, as well as AOTA\u27s publications such as the American Journal of Occupational Therapy, OT Practice, the Occupational Therapy Code of Ethics, Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process. Additional items, which were not available through the previously listed sources, were obtained through Interlibrary Loan at the Harley French Library of Health Sciences. Efforts were made to locate the original source of essential information in order to limit the use of secondary sources in this project. The project itself was guided by using the Model of Human Occupation, Malcolm Knowle\u27s Theory of Andragogy, and the BETTER model©. Results: The result of this scholarly project is the development of The ADL of Sexuality: A Guide for Occupational Therapists for Elderly Clients, which illustrates many aspects of the therapeutic process to address the ADL of sexuality with the elderly client using one source. The completed Guide will be made available at the Harley French Library of Health Sciences for educational use, including faculty and upcoming health professionals. It is also suggested this Guide be made available to practicing occupational therapists to serve as a resource regarding sexual health/sexuality in the elderly. Conclusions: The ADL of Sexuality: A Guide for Occupational Therapists for Elderly Clients provides many benefits to the occupational therapy profession. These benefits include methods to increase the comfort level and understanding of addressing sexuality as an important ADL. It provides an opportunity for occupational therapists to learn how to address sexuality in an elderly client using a holistic, client-centered approach. It is hoped that this Guide will increase the frequency of addressing sexual health/sexuality in the elderly, as well as enhancing their satisfaction with occupational therapy services

Grain Cart Compaction Impact

• Soil compaction poses a large threat in potential yield reduction in row crop operations across the globe. • The tractor and grain cart is the heaviest piece of machinery pulled through a field, making it the most likely to leave highest level of compaction

Engaging Students with Objects: Preliminary Experiments in Reviving a Dormant Fashion Research Collection

Study collections of dress offer students, faculty and visiting researchers the opportunity to engage with actual garments and accessories, offering physical specimens for design inspiration and material culture studies. Students can feel the weight of the fabric in hand, examine the details of cut, construction and embellishment, consider the relationship of the garment to the body or search for evidence of how the garment was worn, used or altered over time