An investigation of the protective factors present among low-income preschool children

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Birth Fathers: Unequal Power and Myth in the Terry Achance Case

In the Terry Achane case, a birth father who was in the military was not notified when his child's birth mother put up their child for adoption. Birth fathers are often stereotyped as uninvolved and irresponsible, especially when they are not married to the birth mother. Terry Achane was married. The adoption agency made little effort to contact him, raising ethical issues about the roles played by the race, economic status, and perhaps religious beliefs of the adopting parents

Social conflict : towards a methodological and theoretical position

This study rests on the assumption that the methods of science embodied in the general canons of the scientific enterprise (particularly in relation to theory formulation and validation) constitute the realm of theoretical practice from which to develop a methodological and theoretical position relevant to the phenomenon of social conflict

Social conflict : towards a methodological and theoretical position

This study rests on the assumption that the methods of science embodied in the general canons of the scientific enterprise (particularly in relation to theory formulation and validation) constitute the realm of theoretical practice from which to develop a methodological and theoretical position relevant to the phenomenon of social conflict

Show Me How to Do Like You: Co-mentoring as Feminist Pedagogy

Three professors reflect on the experience of creating a learning community of 22 students by linking courses in Literature and Ethics. The project demonstrates practical strategies for incorporating feminist scholarship and pedagogy into the core curriculum and for integrating core courses from diverse disciplines

A new look at the Bezold–Brücke hue shift in the peripheral retina

AbstractExperiments were conducted with a bipartite field to better understand the Bezold–Brücke hue shift in the peripheral retina. The first experiment measured hue shift in the fovea and at 1° and 8° along the horizontal meridian of the nasal retina for nominal test wavelengths of 430, 450, 490, 520 and 610 nm. Peripheral measurements were obtained under two adaptation conditions: after 30 min dark adaptation and following a rod-bleach. Results indicated that foveal hue shifts differed from those obtained after a rod-bleach. Data from the rod-bleach and no-bleach conditions in the periphery were similar, indicating that rods could not account for the differences between the foveal data and the rod-bleach peripheral data. Hue shifts obtained for the 520 nm test stimulus, and to a smaller extent other test wavelengths, at 8° nasal retinal eccentricity revealed that the wavelength of the matching stimulus depended upon the lateral position of the matching and test fields, and this effect was greater in the no-bleach condition than the rod-bleach condition. Several factors were investigated in experiments 2 and 3 to explain the results with the 520 nm test field. It appears that differential rod density under the two half fields and the compression of photoreceptors by the optic disk may partially, but not fully, account for the 520 nm effect

A new argument from interpersonal variation to subjectivism about color: a response to Gómez-Torrente

I describe a new, comparative, version of the argument from interpersonal variation to subjectivism about color. The comparative version undermines a recent objectivist response to standard versions of that argument (Gómez-Torrente 2014)

Empirical evidence for unique hues?

Red, green, blue, yellow, and white have been distinguished from other hues as unique. We present results from two experiments that undermine existing behavioral evidence to separate the unique hues from other colors. In Experiment 1 we used hue scaling, which has often been used to support the existence of unique hues, but has never been attempted with a set of non-unique primaries. Subjects were assigned to one of two experimental conditions. In the "unique" condition, they rated the proportions of red, yellow, blue, and green that they perceived in each of a series of test stimuli. In the "intermediate" condition, they rated the proportions of teal, purple, orange, and lime. We found, surprisingly, that results from the two conditions were largely equivalent. In Experiment 2, we investigated the effect of instruction on subjects' settings of unique hues. We found that altering the color terms given in the instructions to include intermediate hues led to significant shifts in the hue that subjects identified as unique. The results of both experiments question subjects' abilities to identify certain hues as unique