Life history traits of the mirror shiner, Notropis spectrunculus, in western North Carolina

I investigated the life history of Notropis spectrunculus (Mirror Shiner) using seven monthly collections at each of four locations in the Tennessee River drainage in western North Carolina (Hominy Creek, Pigeon River, and two sites on the Tuckasegee River). Specimens were collected by seining and examined to identify age, growth, reproductive patterns, and feeding habits. The largest Notropis spectrunculus male collected was 71 mm standard length (SL) and 2.39 g weight. The largest female collected was 77 mm SL and 2.96 g weight. Sexual maturity occurred at approximately one year of age. The oldest specimens collected were age three, and both males and females were collected of this age. Spawning occurred in late spring and early summer with 13-331 mature oocytes (mean = 115.53, SD = 75.36) and male breeding coloration was present in specimens collected in May, June, and July. Gut contents consisted mainly of insect fragments, primarily Coleoptera and Diptera. Fish were found to be inhabiting water 0.5 to 0.75 m deep with sandy substrate, directly below flow-disrupting stream objects

Indonesian art song: an exploration of Indonesian vocal heritage, phonetics, and song lyrics

Indonesian Art Song is a rarely explored category of vocal music for American students and teachers of singing. This is in large part to the relatively unpublished nature of Indonesian vocal music; however, a movement to collect Indonesian art song is taking place in 21st century Indonesia. Classically trained vocalist Aning Katamsi, a performer and vocal teacher well-known throughout the capitol of Indonesia, Jakarta, compiled a collection of Indonesian art songs in 2008 titled Klasik Indonesia: Komposisi Untuk Vokal Dan Piano (Indonesian Classical Compositions for Voice and Piano). The Jakarta Arts Council, a governmental organization dedicated to the preservation of Indonesian culture, published a collection of Indonesian art song in 2013 titled Antologi Musik Klasik Indonesia (Anthology of Indonesian Classical Music). These two publications offer vocalists a new avenue for accessing Indonesian art song and both are accessible online via digital download. Indonesian art song is an attractive area of vocal study given its approachable pronunciation. Indonesian is accessible for native English speakers with highly phonetic pronunciations, use of roman letters, eight vowel sounds, three diphthongs, and syllabic stress that occurs evenly. These simple linguistic characteristics make Indonesian a straightforward choice for vocal students searching for an opportunity to explore a lesser-known repertoire. This study introduces the reader to various song texts, background information, and a pronunciation guide

English shepherds' carols and the medieval arts

The English Shepherds' Carols are herein viewed through illumination by the other arts of the medieval age. Links exist between the visual arts, the performing arts, and the literature of the Middle Ages through a common nourishing soil: the Catholic Church and the rich medieval courts. Subjects, themes, techniques, and aims of each art overlap one another, with artists and poets borrowing from and giving to, influencing and spurring on their fellow craftsmen. Emphasis upon the medieval perspective on religion, shepherds, and carols, and a delving into the background of the craftsmen and the history of their arts creates a firm foundation upon which can be built a theory of the interlacing of the medieval arts. Textual analysis of the carols further strengthens the base so that the actual links to the visual arts and to the performing arts are properly viewed. The group of figures interspersed in Chapter V, drawn from the illuminated manuscripts, stained glass windows, frescoes, and sculpted panels of the age, are illustrative of the carols1 links to the visual arts. An Appendix containing copies of the Shepherds' Carols also proves helpful in the study of the songs and their relationship with the other arts, especially drama

Visual design for Murray Schisgal's Luv

Murray Schisgal's Luv was a good choice for this M. F. A. thesis production because of the great possibilities in setting, lighting, properties, costumes, and sound which it offers a designer. Though seemingly simple, the technical aspects of the show are, in production, challenging and offer unlimited opportunity for artistic expression. Part One of this thesis is the pre-production analysis and is divided into two topics: the play background and the visual design. The latter of these is further divided into discussion of: the setting and its function and mood, the costumes and character analysis, and the lighting and its problems. Part Two is in the form of a production record which illustrates and delineates all the technical aspects of the production. Included in this part are the floor plan, set rendering, photographs of the setting, backdrop elevation, working drawings, and properties plot. Also included are costume renderings, costume plot, light plan, instrument schedule, switchboard set-up chart, light plot, sound plot, and poster design. Part Three is the designer's post-production analysis. This is a critical evaluation of the setting, costumes, lighting, and sound, with regard to their success and failure in the overall production concept and goal

A cognitive-mediated model of child social anxiety and depression: examining children's relationships with parents and teachers.

Social relationships are posited to contribute to child social anxiety (e.g., Rapee & Spence, 2004) and depression (e.g., Kaufman, 1991). What social relationships are important and in what ways do they affect specific child outcomes? Research suggests that parents and teachers influence children in many ways, but the specific relations of parental behaviors and teacher-child relationships to child social anxiety and depression have not been examined thoroughly. The current study, therefore, used structural equation modeling to test a cognitive-mediated model that investigates the contributions of parental warmth, parental control, and teacher-child relationships to both child social anxiety and depression. A multi-rater (parent, child, teacher) multi-method (interview, questionnaire, observation) design was used with 76 4th graders who are part of an ongoing longitudinal study (Gazelle, 2006). Participants also included each child’s teacher and parent. The final model included pathways indicating that maternal overcontrol directly predicts child social anxiety, and maternal rejection and the closeness of teacher-child relationships directly predict child depression. In contrast, the associations of maternal rejection and teacher-child closeness to child social anxiety were mediated by children’s interpretations. This overall model demonstrates good fit to the data. These results support the “affectionless control theory” (Parker, 1984) and suggest that maternal overcontrol and rejection are both related to child social anxiety. These results also add greatly to the literature by suggesting that teacher-child relationships are important for children’s internalizing disorders even when including parental relationships in the model, and this association may be similar to the relationships between child internalizing and parental behaviors. Overall, this model represents an extension of the literature on parental behaviors and a novel contribution to our understanding of teacher-child relationships

Positive emissions: local musicians’ contribution to defeating the largest proposed coal export in U.S. history at Cherry Point, WA

When big business puts the bottom line above the environment, musical eco-activists can work to unite and protect the community. On the shores of the Salish Sea in the Pacific Northwest, singer-songwriter Harlan James, the folk band BandZandt, The Lummi Youth Canoe Family and Dana Lyons, drove a movement which created empathy and resilience throughout the region. Through performing participatory songs at public forums, on street corners and in every town along the proposed train route, their formidable presence and persistence invited others to join the movement. The Lummi Nation led the fight, as the export would have wreaked havoc in sacred First Nations’ fishing waters. These local musicians stood in solidarity with the tribe by making music as an act of resistance from the proposal’s onset in 2011 until its defeat in 2016. As the coal export was backed by business conglomerates worth over one trillion dollars in assets, this victory was truly monumental. The defeat of the export marked one of the first times that the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers yielded to First Nation treaty rights. This triumph elicits noteworthy questions. What can be learned about the role of music and musicians in situations of environmental activism? What can be learned about how a group of musicians can create enough solidarity within a community that big business is halted? How can we as musicians, educators, and students, build consistent bridges that take us out of the classrooms and off stages into the community? The local musicians offer one example as to how such questions can be addressed and their contributions at Cherry Point are a testimony to the power of the amalgamated voice

Measuring campus sexual misconduct and its context: The administrator-researcher campus climate consortium (ARC3) survey

Objective: In response to The White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault’s recommendations, the Administrator-Researcher Campus Climate Collaborative (ARC3) has curated an empirically sound, no-cost campus climate survey for U.S. institutions of higher education. The ARC3 survey contains 19 modules that assess a range of Title IX violations, including sexual harassment, dating violence, and sexual misconduct victimization and perpetration; sexual misconduct prevention efforts, resources, and responses; and key predictors and possible outcomes of sexual misconduct. This article describes the ARC3 survey development and pilot test psychometric data. Method: A total of 909 students attending one of three U.S. universities responded to the survey; 85% of students who began the survey completed it. Students completed the ARC3 survey in slightly less than 30 min, on average. Results: The majority of measures produced evidence for at least acceptable internal consistency levels (a > .70), with only two short item sets having marginal reliability (a = .65–.70). Correlations among scales matched expectations set by the research literature. Students generally did not find the survey distressing; in fact, students viewed the climate assessment as important and personally meaningful. Conclusion: The survey performed sufficiently well in pilot testing to recommend its use with U.S. college populations

Response Of Brook Trout (Salvelinus Fontinalis) Populations To Habitat Conditions And Competition In Southern Appalachian Streams

Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) were largely extirpated from the southeastern Appalachian Mountains in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Following this collapse, non-native S. fontinalis from northern hatcheries were stocked along with Rainbow (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and Brown Trout (Salmo trutta). I conducted a study comparing the growth and age-class structures of 13 Brook Trout populations across western North Carolina in the presence or absence of non-native salmonids along with environmental co-variates such as pH and elevation. The average size and age of Brook Trout was higher in sympatric streams compared to populations in allopatric streams, but sympatric populations exhibited increased variability. The average size and age of Brook Trout in both allopatric and sympatric populations appeared to increase with elevation. Habitat variables (PCA scores) were used in Generalized Linear and Generalized Linear Mixed models to examine their effects on mean age and length, as well as age-class structure of sympatric and allopatric Brook Trout populations. AIC and AICc scores revealed that no models were more informative than the null. Despite the lack of significant results, this study suggests that environmental factors including elevation and water chemistry may be more important to Brook Trout growth than competition with non-native salmonids

Risk for Traumatic Brain Injury in Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence

Research Objectives: The purpose of this study was to assist in identifying risk factors for traumatic brain injury (TBI) in a population of individuals who experienced intimate partner violence (IPV)

Practice Update: What Professionals Who Are Not Brain Injury Specialists Need to Know About Intimate Partner Violence–Related Traumatic Brain Injury

There is growing recognition of the risk for traumatic brain injury (TBI) among victims and survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV). A wide range of physically abusive behaviors may lead to injuries to the head or neck and place an individual at risk for a TBI. The purpose of this article is to consolidate current research and present practical guidelines for professionals, who are not brain injury specialists, but work with clients who may have sustained a TBI in the context of IPV. Recommendations are provided for TBI risk screening, making appropriate referrals, and providing services in light of a potential TBI