4% of Online Americans Use Location-Based Services

Presents survey findings on the use of "geosocial," or location-based, services that allow users to share their location with friends, find others nearby, and leave comments by gender, race/ethnicity, age, wireless use, Internet activities, and location

Supporting learning beyond the classroom: developing the Northumbria Learner Support Model

Academic Libraries traditionally offered support for a variety of information related queries. As the storage and delivery of information changed, libraries increasingly became involved in supporting students to use the new technologies and the widening focus of Higher Education to encompass the development of skills for life, added another new dimension. It was no longer enough simply to provide students with an answer but rather to support them to develop the skills to enable them to find answers themselves. The impact of the widening participation agenda meant that different levels and methods of support were required as standard and often over a 24x7 period. The deficit support model began to give way to a more holistic, collaborative view of student support within libraries and learning styles/ help seeking behaviours began to be taken into account (Weaver 2008). The ‘Learner Support Model’ was introduced by Library and Learning Services in 2004/5 as part of an overall strategy to enhance student learning, retention, performance and achievement. All students do not automatically have effective research, IT or study skills but those who do develop those skills will make increased use of high quality information sources, are liable to return better academic performances and are therefore more likely to complete their programmes. The generic nature of the support model ensures that students can access support wherever they are; in whatever discipline area they are working and at whatever time they need it. In the four years since the model was implemented it has moved from a theoretical ideal to a well subscribed support service handling around 90,000 enquiries per year. The Learner Support Model has been showcased at conferences, evaluated through feedback and now developed to a position where it can be extended to other services and student facing academic support areas of Northumbria University and beyond

28% of American Adults Use Mobile and Social Location-Based Services

Presents survey findings about uses of mobile or social location-based services to get directions or recommendations, check in to geosocial services, or use location-tagging on posts, by type of phone, gender, age, race/ethnicity, income, and education

Digital Differences

Examines 2000-11 trends in Internet use, high-speed broadband access, methods of accessing the Internet, and online and mobile activities by gender, race/ethnicity, age, income, education, and disability status, as well as reasons for not going online

Latino Destinations and Environmental Inequality: Estimated Cancer Risk from Air Toxics in Latino Traditional and New Destinations

Since the 1990s, Latino migration patterns have shifted from traditional destinations to new destinations away from the Mexico border. Scholars note disparities between destinations in housing, crime, and health care, yet no study has examined environmental inequalities. In this article we employ theories of spatial assimilation and environmental inequality to evaluate health risks across Latino destinations by asking the question, is there a difference in estimated cancer risk from air toxics among established, new, and nondestination locations? Using county-level data with spatial lag regression analyses, we find that early new destinations (i.e., counties with significant Latino growth from 1990 to 2000) and recent new destinations (i.e., counties with significant Latino growth from 1990 to 2010) have higher estimated cancer risk from air toxics than established destinations (i.e., counties at or greater than the national average of Latinos in 1990) and nondestinations. The effect remains significant when controlling for various economic indicators

Impact of Mesh Tracks and Low-Ground-Pressure Vehicle Use on Blanket Peat Hydrology

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A NASA-wide approach toward cost-effective, high-quality software through reuse

NASA Langley Research Center sponsored the second Workshop on NASA Research in Software Reuse on May 5-6, 1992 at the Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. The workshop was hosted by the Research Triangle Institute. Participants came from the three NASA centers, four NASA contractor companies, two research institutes and the Air Force's Rome Laboratory. The purpose of the workshop was to exchange information on software reuse tool development, particularly with respect to tool needs, requirements, and effectiveness. The participants presented the software reuse activities and tools being developed and used by their individual centers and programs. These programs address a wide range of reuse issues. The group also developed a mission and goals for software reuse within NASA. This publication summarizes the presentations and the issues discussed during the workshop

Consistent left gaze bias in processing different facial cues

While viewing faces, humans often demonstrate a natural gaze bias towards the left visual field, that is, the right side of the viewee’s face is often inspected first and for longer periods. Previous studies have suggested that this gaze asymmetry is part of the gaze pattern associated with face exploration, but its relation with perceptual processing of facial cues is unclear. In this study we recorded participants’ saccadic eye movements while exploring face images under different task instructions (free-viewing, judging familiarity and judging facial expression). We observed a consistent left gaze bias in face viewing irrespective of task demands. The probability of the first fixation and the proportion of overall fixations directed at the left hemiface were indistinguishable across different task instructions or across different facial expressions. It seems that the left gaze bias is an automatic reflection of hemispheric lateralisation in face processing, and is not necessarily correlated with the perceptual processing of a specific type of facial information

Hey! That’s My Valor: The Stolen Valor Act and Government Regulation of False Speech Under the First Amendment

The Stolen Valor Act criminalizes lies about receiving military decorations. Through the Stolen Valor Act, the government seeks to protect the honor associated with receiving a military decoration from people who falsely claim to have received one. Some courts have held that the false statements proscribed by the Stolen Valor Act fall outside of First Amendment protection. Other courts, most notably the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in the 2010 decision United States v. Alvarez, held that lies about military decorations are protected speech and that the Stolen Valor Act is unconstitutional because it does not meet strict scrutiny. This Note argues that the First Amendment protects false statements. Section 704(b) of the Stolen Valor Act does not fall into any category of unprotected speech, does not meet the strict scrutiny test for government regulation of protected speech, and therefore is an unconstitutional restriction of protected speech

Pain Symptoms and Self-Reported Physical Function in Older, Overweight, and Obese Knee Osteoarthritis Patients

Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the leading causes of chronic pain, functional limitation, and physical disability among older adults. Being overweight or obese may exacerbate pain symptoms and the risk of functional decline among knee OA patients (5, 7, 14). However, it has yet to be determined if risk of functional decline and inactivity differs as a function of weight status among older, knee OA patients. PURPOSE: The purpose of this investigation was to examine differences in self-reported pain symptoms and physical function among overweight, obese, and morbidly obese older adults with knee OA. METHODS: Seventy-one (58 women and 13 men; M age = 63 years) knee OA patients classified as overweight (n=21), obese (n=36) or morbidly obese (n=14) completed assessments of the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities (WOMAC) Osteoarthritis scale. RESULTS: Results of univariate ANCOVA analyses controlling for age revealed that morbidly obese participants reported worse pain (p < 0.01) and greater functional disability (p < 0.01) when compared with overweight and obese counterparts. No significant differences were observed for pain or functional disability, between participants classified as obese or overweight. CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest that pain and risk for physical disability increases as a function of weight status among older knee OA patients. Morbidly obese patients demonstrated the least favorable pain outcomes and greatest functional disability. Collectively, the present findings indicate the benefits of lower weight for both mobility self-efficacy and objective functional performance among older adults with knee OA. Supported by NIH/NIAMS Grant R21 AR054595Supported by NIH/NIAMS Grant R21 AR054595No embarg