I Want to Take You Higher : Popular Music Museums as Social Fields for Legitimizing Popular Music Memories

This paper is an ethnographic and interview-based study of popular music museums in the United States. I observed that curatorial practices in pop music museums aligned with two major goals -- education and entertainment. These curatorial practices worked within the goals of the social field of museums as well as responded to the legacy of cultural hierarchy. I ultimately find that popular music museums are sites for legitimizing Americans\u27 memories of and taste for popular music, rather than merely sites of music history education or entertainment

Utilizing Telehealth to Improve Hearing Aid Skills and Knowledge: A Student–Clinician Perspective

The purpose of the original research study was two-fold: to analyze the effectiveness of remote care provided to adult hearing aid patients and to explore the responsiveness of the HASKI to intervention. After reviewing the preliminary quantitative data, it was evident that the qualitative elements of the HASKI required examination. Therefore, this portion of the research study focuses on the student-clinician perspective including evaluating data trends, considering possible rationales for results, and critiquing the HASKI based on the collected data. Overall, this study demonstrates that the HASKI may help clinicians target areas of need for patients, but can be improved for use in a teleaudiology format. Initially, the participants were contacted via email or phone to recruit them to participate in the research study; the consenting participants were then sent a HASKI to complete electronically. The HASKI was converted into a computer and mobile friendly form (Figure 1). The results of this survey served as HASKI 1 scores. After completion of the HASKI, the participants were scheduled for a tele-aural rehabilitation session, where each participant met with the audiologist and graduate student clinicians for at least one session that lasted for 60 minutes (Figure 2). Fourteen days following the tele-aural rehabilitation session, the participants received a request to complete the HASKI again. The results of this survey served as HASKI 2 scores

The Relationship Between Cognition and Visual Statistical Learning

Visual statistical learning (VSL) allows humans to detect patterns from input and is a critical skill for information processing. Yet, the mechanisms behind VSL remain unclear. This pilot study (N=21) evaluated the relationship between VSL and cognitive-linguistic skills. All participants completed a brief assessment measuring their nonverbal and language abilities, and a VSL experiment. The experiment consisted of an exposure phase where 12 creatures were presented one at a time. A subset of creatures always occurred in temporal order while others never occurred in temporal order. After exposure, participants had to decide which creatures did (base triplets) or did not (impossible triplets) occur in order. The participants were above chanceat detecting the difference between base and impossible triplets demonstrating learning of the statistical regularities. There was also a significant positive correlation between accuracy on the VSL experiment and nonlinguistic abilities but not language abilities. Implications for these findings will be discussed

Abortion delivered? : the impact of telemedicine abortion services on abortion access and care in the rural United States

Telemedicine abortion has been lauded as a ‘game changer’ for women and pregnant people who live far away from an abortion clinic. By remotely prescribing and dispensing the ‘abortion pills’ (mifepristone and misoprostol), telemedicine abortion promises to eliminate travel distance as a barrier to abortion care by making the pills travel to the patient. However, this idea has not been sufficiently interrogated in the context of the United States where ‘direct-to-patient’ telemedicine abortion services were not available until 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This research therefore asks, to what extent does telemedicine abortion reduce, eliminate, or help to reimagine geographic barriers to abortion care in the US? I focus on a case study of one of the first fully telemedicine abortion providers in the US: Just The Pill (JTP). Drawing on spatial analysis using GIS and semi-structured interviews with patients, staff, and partners of JTP, I explore geographic barriers to abortion care for rural women and consider how telemedicine abortion addresses them, in terms of abortion access and experience. I find that distance was not the primary barrier to abortion care nor the only barrier that was considered geographical. Rather, rural women imagined and encountered multiple practical, socio-cultural, and economic barriers which led them to choose telemedicine abortion. In practice, telemedicine abortion did not preclude travel; depending on state of residence and restrictions on telemedicine abortion, patients travelled by car and plane to other states to have their remote consultation and pick up the pills. Nevertheless, rural women considered it more convenient than going to an abortion clinic. Moreover, telemedicine abortion facilitated participants’ control over the timing of the abortion, the space in which it took place, and the people who accompanied them during the process, which enabled more privacy, comfort, and ease. I ultimately conclude that telemedicine abortion is not a panacea for abortion access for rural women and pregnant people, because patients are still travelling across state lines— what I call ‘cross-border telemedicine’. Nevertheless, telemedicine abortion advances access to and shapes new experiences of abortion care because it displaces care away from clinical spaces which participants saw as expensive, inconvenient, and potentially stigmatising

Investigating Provenance and Post-colonial Perspectives in the George and Louise Patten Collection of Salem Hyde Cultural Artifacts

Chelsey Paige has worked with the UTC Special Collections department to lead an exhibit with Pre-columbian artifacts investigating provenance and material culture within the George and Louise Patten Collection of Salem Hyde Cultural Artifacts. With additional help from UTC student Mallory Crook a collaborative effort was made to create a curriculum for elementary students engaging with the cultural artifacts and provenance of the collection. Their mentors Carolyn Runyon and Dr. Olivia Wolf have supported this research by questioning what role this collection serves at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and unpacking the provenance. Through a pedagogical approach, they have researched the history of these artifacts and the collection by interviewing experts, participating in ceramics courses, and inquiring about these artifacts. While the collection is of great importance to the University and a terrific teacher of ancient cultures, the George and Louise Patten Collection of Salem Hyde Cultural Artifacts provides opportunity for critical analysis regarding provenance and material culture, bringing forth conversations surrounding ownership and cultural appropriation. Images from Hyde’s travels throughout Latin America and compelling interviews with scholars make sense of the artifacts appropriated by Hyde in 1969, and help us interpret their significance from a post-colonial perspective that seeks to acknowledge, respect, and credit the original creators

Social Aggregation in Pea Aphids: Experiment and Random Walk Modeling

From bird flocks to fish schools and ungulate herds to insect swarms, social biological aggregations are found across the natural world. An ongoing challenge in the mathematical modeling of aggregations is to strengthen the connection between models and biological data by quantifying the rules that individuals follow. We model aggregation of the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum. Specifically, we conduct experiments to track the motion of aphids walking in a featureless circular arena in order to deduce individual-level rules. We observe that each aphid transitions stochastically between a moving and a stationary state. Moving aphids follow a correlated random walk. The probabilities of motion state transitions, as well as the random walk parameters, depend strongly on distance to an aphid\u27s nearest neighbor. For large nearest neighbor distances, when an aphid is essentially isolated, its motion is ballistic with aphids moving faster, turning less, and being less likely to stop. In contrast, for short nearest neighbor distances, aphids move more slowly, turn more, and are more likely to become stationary; this behavior constitutes an aggregation mechanism. From the experimental data, we estimate the state transition probabilities and correlated random walk parameters as a function of nearest neighbor distance. With the individual-level model established, we assess whether it reproduces the macroscopic patterns of movement at the group level. To do so, we consider three distributions, namely distance to nearest neighbor, angle to nearest neighbor, and percentage of population moving at any given time. For each of these three distributions, we compare our experimental data to the output of numerical simulations of our nearest neighbor model, and of a control model in which aphids do not interact socially. Our stochastic, social nearest neighbor model reproduces salient features of the experimental data that are not captured by the control

The Gallery \u2714

This is a digital copy of the print book produced by the Gallery 2014 team. Contents: Preface p. 4, Core Studios p. 8, Graphic Design p. 20, Illustration p. 32, Painting p. 44, Photography p. 56, Printmaking p. 68, Ceramics p. 80, Metals & Jewelry p. 92, Sculpture p. 104, Credits p. 116, Artist Index p. 118. Files for individual sections may be viewed on the detailed metadata page by clicking on the book title.https://rdw.rowan.edu/the_gallery/1002/thumbnail.jp

The Lantern, 2017-2018

On Dissociation • Untouchable • After Rocket Man • The Science Fair • Cardinal Rule at Stephen J. Memorial • Quentin & Sylvie • Cabello • The Get Out • Painting Day • Black, White and Grey • Family Pruning • How to Remove a Stain • Becoming Ourselves • Wonderbread U • Overture • Pescadero • Gross • Stage Fright • Lucky Daddy • Sarah • Rumble • Silvermine • The Green Iguana • A Poem for Ghost Children • A Poem for Lost Boys • Mother • Drop of Grease • Don\u27t Wanna be White • I • Amelia Earhart Disappeared Into My Vagina: An Ode to Cunts, Menstrual Cups and All Things Woman • Suburban Summer • Nightmares and Dreams Induced by My Mother • Teacups, Skins, etc. • Three Thoughts About My Bedroom • Dear Siri • 2 Queens (Beyonce in Reference to Sonia Sanchez) • Voyeurs • In Front of the Bathroom Mirror • To a Rose • Howl • Mice • Mirror • Language Accordion Volcano Mouth • Lucky Woman • Butterscotch • To Persephone • Wolf • Notes Never Passed • Topple • Bust • Kyoto • Identity • Sunflower • Tornabuoni Bubbles • Olympia • Decayed Hall • Perspectivehttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/lantern/1186/thumbnail.jp

Climate drives the geography of marine consumption by changing predator communities

Este artículo contiene 7 páginas, 3 figuras, 1 tabla.The global distribution of primary production and consumption by humans (fisheries) is well-documented, but we have no map linking the central ecological process of consumption within food webs to temperature and other ecological drivers. Using standardized assays that span 105° of latitude on four continents, we show that rates of bait consumption by generalist predators in shallow marine ecosystems are tightly linked to both temperature and the composition of consumer assemblages. Unexpectedly, rates of consumption peaked at midlatitudes (25 to 35°) in both Northern and Southern Hemispheres across both seagrass and unvegetated sediment habitats. This pattern contrasts with terrestrial systems, where biotic interactions reportedly weaken away from the equator, but it parallels an emerging pattern of a subtropical peak in marine biodiversity. The higher consumption at midlatitudes was closely related to the type of consumers present, which explained rates of consumption better than consumer density, biomass, species diversity, or habitat. Indeed, the apparent effect of temperature on consumption was mostly driven by temperature-associated turnover in consumer community composition. Our findings reinforce the key influence of climate warming on altered species composition and highlight its implications for the functioning of Earth’s ecosystems.We acknowledge funding from the Smithsonian Institution and the Tula Foundation.Peer reviewe

Why Has Personality Psychology Played an Outsized Role in the Credibility Revolution?

21 pages. Published at PsychOpen: 10.5964/ps.6001Personality is not the most popular subfield of psychology. But, in one way or another, personality psychologists have played an outsized role in the ongoing “credibility revolution” in psychology. Not only have individual personality psychologists taken on visible roles in the movement, but our field’s practices and norms have now become models for other fields to emulate (or, for those who share Baumeister’s (2016, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2016.02.003) skeptical view of the consequences of increasing rigor, a model for what to avoid). In this article we discuss some unique features of our field that may have placed us in an ideal position to be leaders in this movement. We do so from a subjective perspective, describing our impressions and opinions about possible explanations for personality psychology’s disproportionate role in the credibility revolution. We also discuss some ways in which personality psychology remains less-than-optimal, and how we can address these flaws