317 research outputs found
Book Reviews
Scott A. and Freeman-Moir J. (Eds), (2000). Tomorrow\u27s Teachers : International and Critical Perspectives on Teacher Education, Christchurch, Canterbury University Press.
Peter Benton & Tim O’Brien (Eds.), (2000). Special Needs and the Beginning Teacher London: Continuum (ISBN 0 8264 4889 5)
Bailey,R. & Macfadyen,T. (Eds.) (2000) Teaching Physical Education 5-11. London: Continuum. (ISBN 0 8264 4842
Correlates of Continued Alcohol Consumption During Pregnancy: Implications for Health Promotion
Purpose: Too many women continue to drink alcohol during recognized pregnancy. This purpose of this study was to explore factors related to alcohol use during pregnancy. Design: Data came from reviews of charts from women that called the California Teratogen Information Service (CTIS) at some point during the time period from 1981 and 2006 and enrolled in a pregnancy outcome study. Subjects: Approximately 40% of the 181 women in the study sample were 25 years of age and younger, and most women had not previously given birth (61.3%). Measures: Chart extraction data included whether or not women discontinued alcohol consumption at anytime during pregnancy, at what point in their pregnancy they first contacted CTIS, and other demographic information. Results: Approximately 20% of women continued to drink alcohol throughout pregnancy and 37.6% contacted CTIS after the first trimester. Initiating contact with CTIS after the first trimester (p < .01) and being older than 25 years of age (p < .05) were both associated with continued drinking throughout pregnancy. Conclusion: Older women, still of reproductive age, may benefit most from health promotion interventions that focus on alcohol consumption during pregnancy
The First High Redshift Quasar from Pan-STARRS
We present the discovery of the first high redshift (z > 5.7) quasar from the
Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System 1 (Pan-STARRS1 or PS1).
This quasar was initially detected as an i dropoutout in PS1, confirmed
photometrically with the SAO Widefield InfraRed Camera (SWIRC) at Arizona's
Multiple Mirror Telescope (MMT) and the Gamma-Ray Burst Optical/Near-Infrared
Detector (GROND) at the MPG 2.2 m telescope in La Silla. The quasar was
verified spectroscopically with the the MMT Spectrograph, Red Channel and the
Cassegrain Twin Spectrograph (TWIN) at the Calar Alto 3.5 m telescope. It has a
redshift of 5.73, an AB z magnitude of 19.4, a luminosity of 3.8 x 10^47 erg/s
and a black hole mass of 6.9 x 10^9 solar masses. It is a Broad Absorption Line
quasar with a prominent Ly-beta peak and a very blue continuum spectrum. This
quasar is the first result from the PS1 high redshift quasar search that is
projected to discover more than a hundred i dropout quasars, and could
potentially find more than 10 z dropout (z > 6.8) quasars.Comment: 8 pages, 7 figure
The APOGEE-2 Survey of the Orion Star Forming Complex: I. Target Selection and Validation with early observations
The Orion Star Forming Complex (OSFC) is a central target for the APOGEE-2
Young Cluster Survey. Existing membership catalogs span limited portions of the
OSFC, reflecting the difficulty of selecting targets homogeneously across this
extended, highly structured region. We have used data from wide field
photometric surveys to produce a less biased parent sample of young stellar
objects (YSOs) with infrared (IR) excesses indicative of warm circumstellar
material or photometric variability at optical wavelengths across the full 420
square degrees extent of the OSFC. When restricted to YSO candidates with H <
12.4, to ensure S/N ~100 for a six visit source, this uniformly selected sample
includes 1307 IR excess sources selected using criteria vetted by Koenig &
Liesawitz and 990 optical variables identified in the Pan-STARRS1 3
survey: 319 sources exhibit both optical variability and evidence of
circumstellar disks through IR excess. Objects from this uniformly selected
sample received the highest priority for targeting, but required fewer than
half of the fibers on each APOGEE-2 plate. We fill the remaining fibers with
previously confirmed and new color-magnitude selected candidate OSFC members.
Radial velocity measurements from APOGEE-1 and new APOGEE-2 observations taken
in the survey's first year indicate that ~90% of the uniformly selected targets
have radial velocities consistent with Orion membership.The APOGEE-2 Orion
survey will include >1100 bona fide YSOs whose uniform selection function will
provide a robust sample for comparative analyses of the stellar populations and
properties across all sub-regions of Orion.Comment: Accepted for publication in ApJ
Efficacy and safety of oral methazolamide in patients with type 2 diabetes: A 24-week, placebo-controlled, double-blind study
OBJECTIVE To evaluate the safety and efficacy of methazolamide as a potential therapy for type 2 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS This double-blind, placebo-controlled study randomized 76 patients to oral methazolamide (40 mg b.i.d.) or placebo for 24 weeks. The primary efficacy end point for methazolamide treatment was a placebo-corrected reduction in HbA1c from baseline after 24 weeks (ΔHbA1c). RESULTS Mean ± SD baseline HbA1c was 7.1 ± 0.7% (54 ± 5 mmol/mol; n = 37) and 7.4 ± 0.6% (57 ± 5 mmol/mol; n = 39) in the methazolamide and placebo groups, respectively. Methazolamide treatment was associated with a ΔHbA1c of –0.39% (95% CI –0.82, 0.04; P < 0.05) (–4.3 mmol/mol [–9.0, 0.4]), an increase in the proportion of patients achieving HbA1c ≤6.5% (48 mmol/mol) from 8 to 33%, a rapid reduction in alanine aminotransferase (∼10 units/L), and weight loss (2%) in metformin-cotreated patients. CONCLUSIONS Methazolamide is the archetype for a new intervention in type 2 diabetes with clinical benefits beyond glucose control
The early childhood generalized trust belief scale
The study was designed to develop and evaluate the Early Childhood Generalized Trust Belief Scale (ECGTBS) as a method of assessing 5-to-8-year-olds’ generalized trust. Two hundred and eleven (103 male and 108 female) children (mean age 6 years and 2 months at Time 1) completed the ECGTBS twice over a year. A subsample of participants completed the ECGTBS after two weeks to assess the scale’s test-retest reliability. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses confirmed that the ECGTBS assessed the expected three factors: reliability, emotional trust, and honesty with item-pairs loading most strongly on their corresponding factor. However, the ECGTBS demonstrated low to modest internal consistency and test-retest reliability which indicates a need for further development of this instrument. As evidence for the convergent validity of the ECGTBS, the reliability and emotional trust items were associated with the children’s trust in classmates at Time 2. Concurrent asymmetric quadratic relationships indicated the importance of midrange generalized trust. Specifically, children with very high generalized trust experienced greater loneliness and children with very low generalized trust had fewer friendships than children with midrange trust
Young children's interpersonal trust consistency as a predictor of future school adjustment
Young children’s interpersonal trust consistency was examined as a predictor of future school adjustment. One hundred and ninety two (95 male and 97 female, M age = 6 years 2 months, SD age = 6 months) children from school years 1 and 2 in the United Kingdom were tested twice over one-year. Children completed measures of peer trust and school adjustment and teachers completed the Short-Form Teacher Rating Scale of School Adjustment. Longitudinal quadratic relationships emerged between consistency of children’s peer trust beliefs and peer-reported trustworthiness and school adjustment and these varied according to social group, facet of trust, and indictor of school adjustment. The findings support the conclusion that interpersonal trust consistency, especially for secret-keeping, predicts aspects of young children’s school adjustment
Discovery of a new Local Group Dwarf Galaxy Candidate in UNIONS: Bo\"otes V
We present the discovery of Bo\"otes V, a new ultra-faint dwarf galaxy
candidate. This satellite is detected as a resolved overdensity of stars during
an ongoing search for new Local Group dwarf galaxy candidates in the UNIONS
photometric dataset. It has a physical half-light radius of
26.9 pc, a -band magnitude of 4.5 0.4 mag, and
resides at a heliocentric distance of approximately 100 kpc. We use Gaia DR3
astrometry to identify member stars, characterize the systemic proper motion,
and confirm the reality of this faint stellar system. The brightest star in
this system was followed up using Gemini GMOS-N long-slit spectroscopy and is
measured to have a metallicity of [Fe/H] 2.85 0.10 dex and a
heliocentric radial velocity of = 5.1 13.4 km s. Bo\"otes V
is larger (in terms of scale radius), more distant, and more metal-poor than
the vast majority of globular clusters. It is likely that Bo\"otes V is an
ultra-faint dwarf galaxy, though future spectroscopic studies will be necessary
to definitively classify this object.Comment: 13 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables. Accepted for publication in the AAS
Journals. Please note that this paper was submitted in coordination with the
work of William Cerny et al. 2022. These authors independently discovered
this same satellite so our two research groups have coordinated the
submission of these discovery paper
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