Use of a Variable Compensation Item Response Model to Assess the Effect of Working-Memory Load On Noncompensatory Processing in an Inductive Reasoning Task

"A study of the relationship between noncompensatory processing and the working memory load of matrix completion items was conducted. Data were taken from the British Cohort Study of 1970, First Follow-up (N=14,875). To assess compensation, the GMIRT Rasch model (Spray & Ackerman, 1986), variable compensation model, was used with MCMC estimation via WINBUGS. In support of these analyses, a simulation study assessing parameter recovery for the GMIRT model was conducted. Sample size, item pool size, and interability correlation were manipulated. Adequate parameter recovery was observed when difficulty parameters were constrained equal across dimensions. In the application study, there was some evidence to support the relationship between working memory load and compensation "--Abstract from author supplied metadata

The Iowa Homemaker vol.21, no.5

Candles Spread Christmas Cheer, Mary Ellen Sullivan, page 2 Milk Strengthens Defense, Betty Ann Iverson, page 3 American Wares Set Nation’s Tables, Ann Koebel, page 4 New World Harbours Refugees, Dorothy Ann Klein, page 5 Sally Anticipates a Gala Season, Mary Lou Springer, page 6 Applied Art Highlights, Lila Williamson, page 8 Bookmarks, Julie Wendel, page 9 What’s New in Home Economics, Dorothy Olson, page 10 For Holiday Shoppers, Betty Roth, page 12 Residence Halls Honor Women Leaders, Dorothy Gross, page 13 Express Ingenuity in Greetings, Doris Plagge, page 14 Alums in the News, Bette Simpson, page 15 Fruit Cakes for Holidays, Margaret Anne Clark, page 16 Across Alumnae Desks, Marjorie Thomas, page 18 Journalistic Spindles, Florence Byrnes, page 2

The Iowa Homemaker vol.22, no.2

Keeping Up With Today, Barbara Sgarlata, page 4 Women Score Dating, Julie Wendel, page 5 The Union Feeds the Navy, Betty Ann Iverson, page 6 Glass in Uniform, Dorothy Walker, page 7 Sugar Problem – A Challenge, Anne Koebel, page 8 Enter: Variety in Army Menus, Mary Schmidt, page 10 “Is It All Wool?”, Margaret Anne Clark, page 11 America Conserves Equpment, Bette Simpson, page 12 Morale on a Budget, Pat Hayes, page 14 What’s New in Home Economics, Ruth Vogel, page 16 Bookmarks, Eileen Dudgeon, page 18 Isabelle Bevier - Pioneer, Dorothy Ann Olson, page 20 Alums in the News, Harriet Zook, page 22 Our Part in the War, Virginia Bates, page 23 Iowa Goes “All Out”, Catherine Tidemanson, page 24 Tim Must S-t-r-e-t-c-h, Doris Plagge, page 26 Vanilla Joins Shortage Ranks, Grace Brown, page 28 Her Champion Pie, Pat Galligan, page 29 Across Alumnae Desks, Mary Ellen Sullivan, page 30 Speaking of Veishea, Trymby Calhoun, page 3

Neurological status of low-risk Vietnamese newborns: a comparison with a British newborn cohort.

A shortened version of the Dubowitz newborn neurological examination, recently reassessed in rural Thailand, was applied to a group of 58 Vietnamese newborns. The aim was to establish the neurological status of newborns in this population for use in further studies and to compare with groups previously studied. Compared to the original British cohort, the Vietnamese newborns showed significantly lower scores in 10 of 25 items, including several related to truncal tone. Evidence was sought of thiamine and long-chain fatty acid deficiency as a possible cause for these findings, but no correlation was found between the neurological status and the maternal or infant blood levels of these nutritional indicators. The findings suggest that the neurological status of low-risk Vietnamese newborns appears to lie between that of British newborns and those ethnic minority Karen newborns in refugee camps on the Thai-Burmese border tested previously. Although no specific nutritional cause has been identified in the study, the findings may still reflect sub-optimal intake of some important nutrients

The Iowa Homemaker vol.21, no.8

We Want to Be Likeable, Mary Ellen Sullivan, page 2 Cotton hose Enlist Glamour, Elizabeth Ann Murfield, page 3 Memorial Union Plans Food for a Year, Pat Garberson, page 4 Government Drafts Textiles, Patricia Hayes, page 5 Gay Clothes Boost Sally’s Morale, Virginia Brainard, page 7 War Revamps Textile World, Betty Roth, page 8 Dehydrated Foods Gain New Victories, Janet Wilson, page 9 What’s New in Home Economics, Dorothy Olson, page 10 Departmental Highlights, Lila Williamson, page 12 War Rations British Homemaking, Marabeth Paddock, page 13 Across Alumnae Desks, Marjorie Thomas, page 14 Bookmarks, Julie Wendel, page 15 File That Information, Barbara Burbank, page 17 Alums in the News, Bette Simpson, page 18 For Victory, Margaret Ann Kirchner, page 20 Spindles, Trymby Calhoun, page 2

Neurological Status of Low-risk Vietnamese Newborns: A Comparison with a British Newborn Cohort

A shortened version of the Dubowitz newborn neurological examination, recently re-assessed in rural Thailand, was applied to a group of 58 Vietnamese newborns. The aim was to establish the neurological status of newborns in this population for use in further studies and to compare with groups previously studied. Compared to the original British cohort, the Vietnamese newborns showed significantly lower scores in 10 of 25 items, including several related to truncal tone. Evidence was sought of thiamine and long-chain fatty acid deficiency as a possible cause for these findings, but no correlation was found between the neurological status and the maternal or infant blood levels of these nutritional indicators. The findings suggest that the neurological status of low-risk Vietnamese newborns appears to lie between that of British newborns and those ethnic minority Karen newborns in refugee camps on the Thai-Burmese border tested previously. Although no specific nutritional cause has been identified in the study, the findings may still reflect sub-optimal intake of some important nutrients

Undoing violent masculinity: Lynne Ramsay’s You were never really here (2018)

Reviewers described Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here (2018) as a “Taxi Driver for a new century.” Certainly, its narrative of an inarticulate killer who is also the would-be saviour of a lost and damaged “little white girl” recalls that of Scorsese’s 1976 film., and the two films share a fragmented, hallucinatory quality. Yet what such comparisons miss is both the devastating critique of this culturally powerful narrative to be found in Ramsay’s film, and the connections it makes between this paradigmatic story of a failed and violent but ultimately sympathetic white masculinity and another: that of the traumatising mother who is responsible for the violence of her psychotic son. In this article, I explore the nature of Ramsay’s critique, arguing that her film both refuses and interrogates both of these readings of gender. Ramsay’s protagonist, like Scorsese’s, is a traumatised war veteran, but his identification is not with a fantasised and recuperative ideal masculinity but with its feminised victims: girl and mother. His tragedy is not that he fails in his rescue attempt, or that he is in thrall to the “death mother”, but that he believes that the means of this rescue might be masculinity

The Marine Microbial Eukaryote Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP): illuminating the functional diversity of eukaryotic life in the oceans through transcriptome sequencing

International audienceCurrent sampling of genomic sequence data from eukaryotes is relatively poor, biased, and inadequate to address important questions about their biology, evolution, and ecology; this Community Page describes a resource of 700 transcriptomes from marine microbial eukaryotes to help understand their role in the world's oceans

Rare germline copy number variants (CNVs) and breast cancer risk.

Funder: CIHRGermline copy number variants (CNVs) are pervasive in the human genome but potential disease associations with rare CNVs have not been comprehensively assessed in large datasets. We analysed rare CNVs in genes and non-coding regions for 86,788 breast cancer cases and 76,122 controls of European ancestry with genome-wide array data. Gene burden tests detected the strongest association for deletions in BRCA1 (P = 3.7E-18). Nine other genes were associated with a p-value < 0.01 including known susceptibility genes CHEK2 (P = 0.0008), ATM (P = 0.002) and BRCA2 (P = 0.008). Outside the known genes we detected associations with p-values < 0.001 for either overall or subtype-specific breast cancer at nine deletion regions and four duplication regions. Three of the deletion regions were in established common susceptibility loci. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first genome-wide analysis of rare CNVs in a large breast cancer case-control dataset. We detected associations with exonic deletions in established breast cancer susceptibility genes. We also detected suggestive associations with non-coding CNVs in known and novel loci with large effects sizes. Larger sample sizes will be required to reach robust levels of statistical significance