What Can Children Learn from a Screen?

With children media and children’s television viewing constantly increasing, people often ask what children are actually learning from the screen. This study looked at two and a half to three year old children, to see how they form generalizations depending on how they were shown and taught novel objects and labels. The project consisted of two different groups; one group was trained on the novel labels through a computer screen without objects in front of them whereas the other group was taught in a live face-to-face interaction with the objects in front of them. Children were immediately tested and tested about a week later to study the generalizations that were made and to see if they retained both the novel labels and the generalizations

Keynote: A Vision for Decentralized Data Preservation Across a Network of Libraries and Trusted Institutions

Danielle Robinson is an open science advocate and enthusiast who believes in the power of inclusive open communities. Danielle received her PhD in Neuroscience from Oregon Health and Science University in 2017, and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in 2012. She was a 2016-2017 Mozilla Fellow for Science, and her fellowship was mentored by Robin Champieux at the OHSU Library. During this fellowship, Danielle was able to focus on some of the complex issues being tackled by libraries today, like Data Rescue (including attending the LIbraries+Network meeting in DC). In collaboration with OHSU library, she continues to develop the open science community at OHSU, in the Portland region, and beyond through library-sponsored projects and events like Open Insight, Science Hack Day PDX, DataRescue PDX, Working Open Workshop Portland, Radian Data, and the BioData Club. Danielle is the Co-Executive Director at Code for Science & Society where she works to support open source software projects including the Dat project, Stencila, and ScienceFair. She is passionate about applying the philosophy of open source software development to scientific research to improve efficiency and research reproducibility, and working for an inclusive future for science and scholarship. She is also a founding member of Women in Science Portland where she currently serves as the Communications Chair. She is active in the OpenCon, Mozilla Open Leadership, DataRescue, and Science Hack Day communities and always interested in talking about improving public access to research and data. Please save the date - the OHSU Library will present OpenCon Cascadia on March 23-24 2018 in PDX! Danielle and the rest of the organizing team are planning a program around exploring the relationships between open scholarship, diversity, and inclusion in critical and meaningful ways

What is tourism for? Growth, sustainability and regeneration in Canadian tourism policy

A better understanding of how tourism’s purpose is conceptualized and operationalized in tourism policy is urgently needed to support critical conversations, policy actions and business development that reorients post-Covid 19 tourism culture towards positive social, economic and environmental contributions. This longitudinal analysis of tourism policy examines how language and linguistic devices are deployed to maintain and transform understandings of tourism’s purpose and as reflections of the cultural values which shape tourism policy. Federal level Canadian tourism policy documents from the 2011 and 2019 are examined using Corpus Linguistics computer-aided text analysis to quantify the frequency, dispersion, clusters, and collocates of the terms growth, sustainable/sustainability and regeneration as well as Critical Discourse Analysis to interpret and contextualize the discursive practices. Both tourism policy documents analysed reflect similar linguistic patterns grounded in economic discourse and a marked absence of ecological discourses including the complete absence of the term regenerative

Predictors of Condom Use Among High School Students in North Carolina

Sexually transmitted diseases are one of the major public health issues among adolescents in North Carolina. The purpose of this quantitative study was to evaluate the predictors of condom use. The socioecological model theoretical framework was applied to understand the knowledge of sexually transmitted diseases and school-based and parent or other adult sex education. Results showed that sexually active males used condoms more than females and there was no relationship between condom use, knowledge of sexually transmitted diseases, and school-based sex education. Findings indicated that family and community relationships should be engaged to improve sexual health and education among adolescents. Recommended Citation Robinson, D. C. (2020, October 1-2). Predictors of condom use among high school students in North Carolina [Poster presentation]. Walden University Research Conference 2020 (online). https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/researchconference/2020/posters/5

Cross-country typologies and development strategies to end hunger in Africa

The key motivation behind this study is to explore the many patterns of interactions between economic and non-economic factors in sub-Saharan Africa (hereafter referred to as Africa) in order to map out a typology of different types of country situations and thus, corresponding future options to develop strategies to end hunger and poverty in the region. The study builds on the earlier work of Irma Adelman and Cynthia Morris who argued that economic development is a dynamic, multi-faceted, nonlinear, and malleable process, a process explained by the many complex interactions between social, economic, political and institutional changes. As in Adelman and Morris, we use factor analysis to reduce a large number of variables into a manageable set of key factors. Next, using the newly developed classification and regression tree technique (CART), we link the outcome variables, such as per capital GDP and the prevalence of child malnutrition, with this smaller set of factors. This overcomes the limitations of Adelman and Morris. work that mixed the outcome and explanatory variables in their analysis. The analysis helps identify the most important factors for each outcome indicator, which provides guidance for defining the development of a typology and exploring future strategy options associated with each country type.

Seismic anisotropy beneath the southern Puna Plateau

The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file.Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on December 30, 2009).Thesis advisor: Dr. Eric Sandvol.Includes bibliographical references.M.S. University of Missouri--Columbia 2009.Dissertations, Academic -- University of Missouri--Columbia -- Geological sciences.The central Andean plateau is a prime region to study mantle flow above an active plateau margin, where it has been suggested that a link exists between plateau uplift and removal of the lower crust and lithospheric mantle. This study analyzed shear-wave splitting measurements of the southern Puna plateau (25°S to 28°S) caused by anisotropic layers of the mantle in an effort to infer asthenospheric flow patterns. Using 30 teleseismic and 88 local splitting events for vertical constraint, results imply that trench-parallel subslab splitting occurs from retrograde slab motion and shifts to trench-perpendicular as the angle of slab subduction transitions to shallow. The behavior of slab flattening also seems to affect the mantle wedge as splitting above the slab shifts from trench-perpendicular in accordance with absolute plate motion to trench-parallel towards the trench. A toroidal rotation pattern of mantle wedge splitting is also observed around the Cerro Galan ignimbrite region, suggesting a flow obstruction. As a primary source of ignimbrite flare-ups, a delamination event is a likely cause of the detected pattern

Documenting Sociopolitical Development via Participatory Action Research (PAR) With Women of Color Student Activists in the Neoliberal University

Political activism attests to the sociopolitical development and agency of young people. Yet the literature sparingly engages the intersectional subjectivities that inform the sociopolitical development of young people, especially women of color. Important questions remain in the theorizing of sociopolitical development among youth engaged in political activism within higher education settings. Thus, we focus on the following question: What experiences informed or catalyzed the sociopolitical development of women of color student activists within a racialized neoliberal university in the United States? In addressing this question we demonstrate how student-led participatory action research (PAR) within the neoliberal university can facilitate and support sociopolitical development. Of most value, this paper demonstrates how PAR can be used as a tool to support the intersectional sociopolitical development of student activists organizing within racialized neoliberal settings of higher education that threaten the academic thriving and overall wellbeing of students of color, specifically women of color. Sociopolitical development theorizing must engage elements of relational healing as a dimension of wellbeing. Therefore, our work contributes to these conversations by centering the experiences of women of color student activists

El compromiso con la innovación entre los refugiados y los desplazados internos

Los actores humanitarios tradicionales deben desarrollar mecanismos para apoyar las innovaciones que desarrollan las personas desplazadas. Dos casos de innovación tecnológica desarrollada por refugiados sirios ilustran el punto