Renee Ryan

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Renee Ryan is a Caucasian female born on February 15th, 1957. Ryan grew up with her parents and her four siblings. Ryan’s dad worked at the post office. Her mother was a stay-at-home mom until she was 13. Ryan was raised Methodist. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Ryan tells the story of her extended family roots. She shares her little brother’s sledding accident. Then she shares stories of her best friend growing up. Ryan talks about religion and how it is a part of her and who she is today. She talks about attending church, youth groups, and Sunday school. Ryan goes on to talk about her diverse neighborhood and the communal spirit of the neighborhood. Ryan talks about the values instilled to her by her parents, grandparents, other relatives, and neighbors. She talks about where she gets her work ethic from and shares stories of how her parents imparted moral lessons. Ryan talks about the activities she did outside growing up. She talked about how she bonded with her dad over sports. Ryan reflects on her experience with schooling, talking about her love of school and overcoming some teasing and issues she experienced early on. Lastly, Ryan talks about the local and global issues that affected her. She talks about wearing a bracelet with a P.O.W’s name on it until they were released, and the impact that it had on her. She talks about the bomb drills they had and how frightening it was to her. She reflects on how the political assassinations affected her and her interest in politics.https://digitalcommons.csp.edu/tc-ohp_interviews_stp/1049/thumbnail.jp

Keep your distance: People sit farther away from a man with schizophrenia versus diabetes

Although concrete behavior—such as avoidance, discrimination, rejection—is foundational to most definitions of stigma, knowledge of psychiatric stigma has been constructed mostly on the basis of measurement of self-reported attitudes, beliefs, and feelings. To help fill this gap, the current study examined avoidance behavior in psychiatric stigma. That is, we predicted that people would seek more physical distance from a man with a psychiatric problem than a man with a medical problem. One hundred fourteen undergraduates expected to meet a man with either Type II diabetes or schizophrenia. After completing several measures of self-reported stigma, participants eventually moved to an adjacent room and sat in one of several seats that systematically varied in their proximity to a seat ostensibly occupied by the target man. Results indicated that the expectation of meeting a man with schizophrenia, compared with diabetes, led to greater desired social distance, greater self-reported fear, and higher appraisals of the man’s dangerousness and unpredictability. More importantly, participants elected to sit farther away from the ostensible man with schizophrenia. This pattern of findings offers behavioral evidence of the psychiatric stigma phenomenon that has mostly been documented via measurement of self-reported attitudes and impressions. We hope that these results stimulate renewed interest in measuring stigma-relevant behavior in the laboratory setting. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved

Silicon, endophytes and secondary metabolites as grass defenses against mammalian herbivores

Article Accepted Date: 30 August 2014 Acknowledgments This study was supported by the Academy of Finland (grant no. 133495 to Otso Huitu; grants no. 137909 and 110658 to Kari Saikkonen) and by the NERC (grant no. NE/F003994/1 to Xavier Lambin). We thank Dr. Stefan Reidinger and Dr. James Stockdale for help with the silicon analyses. Technician Sinikka Sorsa conducted the phenolic extractions. Stephen Ryan and Anaïs Zimmer assisted with field work.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Ψ=We±Φ\rm \Psi= W e^{\pm \Phi} quantum cosmological solutions for Class A Bianchi Models

We find solutions for quantum Class A Bianchi models of the form $\rm \Psi=W e^{\pm \Phi}$ generalizing the results obtained by Moncrief and Ryan in standard quantum cosmology. For the II and IX Bianchi models there are other solutions $\rm \tilde\Phi_2$, $\rm \tilde\Phi_9$ to the Hamilton-Jacobi equation for which $\rm \Psi$ is necessarely zero, in contrast with solutions found in supersymmetric quantum cosmology.Comment: 15 pages, Late

An Integrative Neurological Model for Basic Observable Human Behavior

The scientific method uncovers information from the natural world in small increments. This spurs the design of models to explain how the pieces fit together and to identify future targets of research. This is especially the case in psychology, where visualizing concepts is an advantageous practice. One all too common criticism of cognitive and behavioral models in psychology is the lack of a biological basis. This paper aims to alleviate part of this issue by integrating currently understood biological and neurological mechanisms that drive psychological phenomena into a predictive and descriptive model for basic human behavior. To accomplish this task, this paper explores numerous scientific reviews and studies regarding sensory perception, emotion, learning, and memory. This paper also features original research about decision making. Creating this model is a necessary first step for targeting possible future research and clinical practices related to human behavior

Re-Thinking James Buchanan

On Saturday, September 19th, local citizens, historians, Civil War enthusiasts, and the rare college student alike converged at the LancasterHistory.org Campus of History for the second day of the President James Buchanan National Symposium. The theme for the symposium was The Worlds of Thaddeus Stevens and James Buchanan: Race, Gender, and Politics in the Civil War Era, thus it featured the lives of two of Lancaster, Pennsylvania’s most prominent historical residents and two of the most colorful characters of the Civil War era [excerpt

Francis J. Ryan, 1916-1963

Obituary - Francis J. Ryan - by David M. Banne

Joshua Chamberlain on Mars: Chambermania and Beyond!

You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to observe one fact about Mars: it has a lot of rocks. While each is typically given a name based on protocols of scientific classification, many are known by informal, often humorous names like Grandma and Space Ghost. And now on Mars, there’s a rock for fans of Civil War history— Chamberlain, named of course for Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the hero of Little Round Top [excerpt]