021— Difficult Family Dialogues

The purpose of this study is to understand what topics are difficult for emerging adults to discuss with family members and how they communicatively manage them. Specific research questions were (a) What topics are difficult for emerging adults to discuss with family members? (b) How do emerging adults attempt to manage these conversations? and (c) What strategies are effective and ineffective when it comes to managing these conversations? Qualitative data were collected from 60 emerging adults using an online survey. Findings revealed that the most difficult topics for emerging adults to discuss with their families include relationships, identities, education, the future, health and wellbeing, finances, and politics. Participants reported using intrapersonal communication, interpersonal communication, openness, third-party support, and avoidance to manage these topics. The effectiveness of each strategy differed by the individual and the strategy used. The study provides new insight about what makes these topics difficult and what does or does not work when trying to have a conversation

Alien Registration- Lloyd, Emily (Caribou, Aroostook County)

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The Impact of Past Experience with Tornadoes on Future Decisions

Tornadoes are a dangerous threat to public safety. The National Weather Service (NWS), therefore, advises the public to go to an interior room on the lowest level of their houses when a tornado warning is issued for their area. As the NWS Central Region Service Assessment of the Joplin, Missouri Tornado published in July 2011 reveals, however, this is often not the first action taken after learning that there is danger of being hit by a tornado. Rather, people need to seek confirmation from more than one source before following the recommended action. The goal of this research project is to determine how the number of sources residents use vary with respect to characteristics such as the gravity of their past experiences. A total of 20 residents from two small Nebraskan towns, Pilger and Saint Helena, were interviewed. Residents were first asked to share their current sources of weather information and how they would respond to a given situation at the present time. Next, they were questioned about how they responded during past experiences with tornadoes. Results indicate the residents with a more recent, more personal, and graver experience are less likely to require information from as many sources as those with a more distant and less grave experience. Thus, it is concluded from these findings that past experiences play an important role in future decision-making

Young Adults’ Perceptions of Non-Gender Conformity Across Occupations

The study examined young adults’ perceptions of a man, varying his appearance and labeling him with different occupations. Participants were 116 adults with a mean age of 19.90 (SD = 5.20). The majority were women (76%), Caucasian (53%), and heterosexual (71%). Participants were randomly assigned to one of four conditions: a picture of a man labeled as either a doctor or barista and the same man wearing make-up labeled as a doctor or barista. Participants rated how accurately a list of masculine and feminine traits matched the picture, and responded to scales to assess their need to belong, self-esteem, and attitudes toward transgender individuals. Need to belong, self-esteem, race, and gender did not predict perceptions of the pictures. Conformity and occupation did not interact. The stated occupation was minimally influential in driving perceptions; the doctor was viewed as having more feminine behavior, which might reflect the fact that doctors help people, which is considered stereotypically feminine. The appearance of gender non-conformity drove perceptions more than did the race, gender, self-esteem, and social needs of the viewer. The non-gender conforming individual was seen as having masculine and feminine behaviors, which matched his appearance. Adults also viewed the gender-discordant individual as more capable at his job, regardless of his occupation. Adults may have seen the flexibility in appearance as a sign that he would be a flexible colleague, or perhaps our participants, who were generally positive toward transgender individuals, were showing support for a person they believed to be transgender

Impact of Past Experiences with Tornadoes on Future Decisions in Nebraska

The National Weather Service (NWS) advises the public to go to an interior room on the lowest level of their houses when a tornado warning is issued for their area. As the NWS Central Region Service Assessment of the Joplin, Missouri Tornado published in July 2011 reveals, however, this is often not the first action taken after learning that there is danger of being hit by a tornado. Rather, people need to seek confirmation from more than one source before following the recommended action. The goal of this research project is to determine how the number of sources and what sources residents use vary with respect to characteristics such as the intensity of their past experiences. A total of 20 residents from two small Nebraskan towns were interviewed. The town of Pilger was hit by an EF4 tornado on June 16, 2014. St. Helena was hit by a weak tornado in the late 1960s. Residents were first asked to share how they would respond to a given situation. Next, they were questioned about how they responded during past experiences with tornadoes. Analysis of these interviews is ongoing, and results will be presented at the conference

Universal binding-energy relation for crystals that accounts for surface relaxation

We present a universal relation for crack surface cohesion including surface relaxation. Specifically, we analyze how N atomic planes respond to an opening displacement at its boundary, producing structurally relaxed surfaces. Via density-functional theory, we verify universality for metals (Al), ceramics (α−Al_2O_3), and semiconductors (Si). When the energy and opening displacement are scaled appropriately with respect to N, the uniaxial elastic constant, the relaxed surface energy, and the equilibrium interlayer spacing, all energy-displacement curves collapse onto a single universal curve

A Policy Brief: Massachusetts (T)AFDC Case Closings, October 1993-August 1997

When a DTA (Department of Transitional Assistance) worker assesses whether a family\u27s (T)AFDC (Temporary Aid to Families with Dependent Children) case will be closed, s/he decides which one of 67 different codes best describes the reason cash benefits for the household will be stopped. To carry out the analyses, we sorted all of the 67 codes into clusters of codes that logically grouped together: Cluster I, Increased Income; Cluster H, Sanctions; Cluster III, Eligible Persons Moved; Cluster IV, Fraud; Cluster V, Client Request; Cluster VI, No Longer Eligible; Cluster VII, Other or Multiple Meanings. The Appendix displays a description of the case closing codes in each cluster that provided a basis for our analyses. We used SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) to calculate the trends in the number and percentages of case closings from October, 1995 to August, 1997 for each of the clusters mentioned above, and from October, 1993 to August, 1997 for the category of Earned Income only (a sub-set of Cluster I, Increased Income). We used four time periods for our analysis of earned income case closings, reflecting the progression of events surrounding the passage and full implementation of Massachusetts\u27 welfare reform measures. These time periods are: October 1993 to September 1994, former AFDC phase; October 1994 to September 1995, legislative deliberation and passage phase; October 1995 to September 1996, initial implementation phase; and October 1996 to August 1997, the most recent implementation phase