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Read the full article (CAP Action) Rep. Donald Payne (D-NJ) introduced a commonsense resolution yesterday recognizing that strong labor unions help build a healthy middle class. The resolution would not change the law at all but would simply highlight the fact that unions provide important benefits to the 99 percent of Americans that need to […]
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The Religion Wars
Published: March 2, 2000
In 1960, having assured Southern Protestants that he would not take his orders from the Church of Rome, John F. Kennedy became the country's first Catholic president, and for the next 20 years Americans comfortably assumed that sectarianism had been taken off the political table. In the 1976 campaign, Jimmy Carter added ''born again'' to the political lexicon. But it was not until Ronald Reagan allied himself with the Christian right in 1980 that religious leaders began to assert a larger role in American politics in general and the Republican Party in particular.
Senator John McCain has now chosen to attack some of those leaders as ideological despots. Although he has withdrawn an earlier characterization of them as ''evil,'' he continues to insist that they are exerting an unhealthy influence on the G.O.P. Gov. George W. Bush has fought back, and the result is that religious skirmishing has assumed a prominence that many voters find disturbing.
As most people now know, the origins of the fight lie in Mr. Bush's visit to Bob Jones University, a reactionary South Carolina institution that espouses anti-Catholic views and opposes interracial dating. In the Michigan primary, Mr. McCain's campaign forces used the visit to suggest that Mr. Bush was anti-Catholic. When Mr. McCain then delivered his broadside in Virginia against the religious right, Mr. Bush responded that Mr. McCain was pitting one religion against another.
All of which makes it important to keep one's eye on the essential point -- namely, that Mr. McCain is trying to deliver a message about the religious right that cannot be dismissed, as Mr. Bush is trying to do, as intolerance on Mr. McCain's part. The essence of that message is that the Christian right wing is as much a political force as a religious movement, and that its leaders have exercised a bullying influence within the Republican Party. They also use bloc voting and substantial financial resources to single out politicians in both parties who do not share their religion-based views on abortion and school prayer.
In labeling Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell ''agents of intolerance,'' Mr. McCain is accusing them of using their religious following as a weapon of political intimidation. And he is saying, in effect, that he is sick of it. He has seen his party and its platform held hostage to the religious right in two successive elections, and he has seen it go down to defeat both times.
So far, this bold argument and the harshness of his language have hurt Mr. McCain among the more conservative Republican voters. He is hoping that it will help him among independents and in the New York primary. But even if it does not, he will have made a point to his fellow party members that badly needed making. The emergence of the religious right as the enforcers of the G.O.P. has skewed the party's nomination process and its issues base and eroded the spirit of tolerance that Americans rightly celebrated after the 1960 election.


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Neuroligin-3-deficient mice: Model of a monogenic heritable form of autism with an olfactory deficit
Division of Clinical Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany.Genes Brain and Behavior (Impact Factor: 3.66). 03/2009; 8(4):416-425. DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2009.00487.x
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a frequent neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by variable clinical severity. Core symptoms are qualitatively impaired communication and social behavior, highly restricted interests and repetitive behaviors. Although recent work on genetic mutations in ASD has shed light on the pathophysiology of the disease, classifying it essentially as a synaptopathy, no treatments are available to date. To develop and test novel ASD treatment approaches, validated and informative animal models are required. Of particular interest, in this context are loss-of-function mutations in the postsynaptic cell adhesion protein neuroligin-4 and point mutations in its homologue neuroligin-3 (NL-3) that were found to cause certain forms of monogenic heritable ASD in humans. Here, we show that NL-3-deficient mice display a behavioral phenotype reminiscent of the lead symptoms of ASD: reduced ultrasound vocalization and a lack of social novelty preference. The latter may be related to an olfactory deficiency observed in the NL-3 mutants. Interestingly, such olfactory phenotype is also present in a subgroup of human ASD patients. Tests for learning and memory showed no gross abnormalities in NL-3 mutants. Also, no alterations were found in time spent in social interaction, prepulse inhibition, seizure propensity and sucrose preference. As often seen in adult ASD patients, total brain volume of NL-3 mutant mice was slightly reduced as assessed by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Our findings show that the NL-3 knockout mouse represents a useful animal model for understanding pathophysiological events in monogenic heritable ASD and for developing novel treatment strategies in this devastating human disorder.
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- "Chadman et al. (2008)found no differences in sociability across several different paradigms in Nlgn3 (R451C) mice, while Karvat and Kimchi (2012) also found no difference in social interaction or stereotyped behaviors. Nlgn3 knockout mice have shown phenotypes relevant to ASD, including impaired social memory and olfaction, hyperactivity in an open field and reduced fear memory (Radyushkin et al. 2009). "
ABSTRACT: Autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) is a common, chronic psychiatric disorder for which the current generation of therapeutics are limited in their success at alleviating the neurobehaviors. While it is well established that both genetic and environmental factors contribute to the disorder, there is a lack of understanding about how ASD alters multiple domains of brain function. Identifying genes that are associated with ASD, and then relating how these genetic alterations affect brain structure and function is important to furthering our ability to design treatment and prevention strategies. Recent genome screening using copy number variant (CNV) analysis has identified deletions and duplications within the neurexin and neuroligin genes in patients with ASDs, highlighting their potential importance in ASD research. Neurexins and neuroligins are synaptic cell adhesion molecules and are found at the presynapse and postsynapse, respectively, of both excitatory and inhibitory cells. Neuroligins and leucine-rich repeat transmembranes bind to neurexins and convey a role in synaptic function and maintenance. However, little is known about how alterations within the genes encoding these proteins disrupt biological processes. Here we discuss the functional role of neurexins and neuroligins, the genetic evidence for their involvement in ASD and studies with transgenic mice to elucidate the consequences of these mutations.The Molecular Basis of Autism, Edited by S. Hossein Fatemi, 03/2015: chapter The Role of Neurexins and Neuroligins in Autism: pages 361-381; Springer New York., ISBN: 978-1-4939-2189-8
- "For instance, neuroligin-3 knockout mice show abnormalities in social memory that may be linked to an olfactory deficiency [Radyushkin et al., 2009]. As female mate preference requires social interaction and sensory perception , it may not be surprising that neuroligin-3 expression showed a much higher number of brain regions with correlated expressions relative to neuroserpin. "
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ABSTRACT: Choosing mates is a commonly shared behavior across many organisms, with important fitness consequences. Variations in female preferences can be due in part to differences in neural and cellular activity during mate selection. Initial studies have begun to identify putative brain regions involved in mate preference, yet the understanding of the neural processes regulating these behaviors is still nascent. In this study, we characterized the expression of a gene involved in synaptogenesis and plasticity (neuroligin-3) and one that codes for the rate-limiting enzyme in dopamine biosynthesis (tyrosine hydroxylase; TH1) in the female Xiphophorus nigrensis (northern swordtail) brain as related to mate preference behavior. We exposed females to a range of different mate choice contexts including two large courting males (LL), two small coercive males (SS), and a context that paired a large courting male with a small coercive male (LS). Neuroligin-3 expression in a mate preference context (LS) showed significant correlations with female preference in two telencephalic areas (Dm and Dl), a hypothalamic nucleus (HV), and two regions associated with sexual and social behavior (POA and Vv). We did not observe any context- or behavior-specific changes in tyrosine hydroxylase mRNA expression concomitant with female preference in any of the brain regions examined. Analysis of TH and neuroligin-3 expression across different brain regions showed that expression patterns varied with the male social environment only for neuroligin-3, where the density of correlated expression between brain regions was positively associated with mate choice contexts that involved a greater number of courting male phenotypes (LS and LL). This study identified regions showing presumed high levels of synaptic plasticity using neuroligin-3, implicating and supporting their roles in female mate preference, but we did not detect any relationship between tyrosine hydroxylase and mate preference with 30 min of stimulus presentation in X. nigrensis. These data suggest that information about potential mates is processed in select forebrain regions and the entire brain shows different degrees of correlated expression depending on the mate preference context. © 2014 S. Karger AG, Basel.Brain Behavior and Evolution 05/2014; 83(3):231-243. DOI:10.1159/000360071 · 2.01 Impact Factor
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- "To our knowledge however, social behaviors, including play, have not been assessed in juvenile Fmr1 KO mice. Normal direct social interactions were observed in adult Nlgn3 KO mice (Radyuskin et al., 2009), and in adult and juvenile mice carrying a missense R451C NLGN3 knockdown mutation (Tabuchi et al., 2007; Chadman et al., 2008). Play behaviors have not been assessed in Nlgn3 KO or missense mutation mouse models. "
ABSTRACT: Animal models are critical for gaining insights into autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Despite their apparent advantages to mice for neural studies, rats have not been widely used for disorders of the human CNS, such as ASD, for the lack of convenient genome manipulation tools. Here we describe two of the first transgenic rat models for ASD, developed using zinc-finger nuclease (ZFN) methodologies, and their initial behavioral assessment using a rapid juvenile test battery. A syndromic and nonsyndromic rat model for ASD were created as two separate knockout rat lines with heritable disruptions in the genes encoding Fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP) and Neuroligin3 (NLGN3). FMRP, a protein with numerous proposed functions including regulation of mRNA and synaptic protein synthesis, and NLGN3, a member of the neuroligin synaptic cell-adhesion protein family, have been implicated in human ASD. Juvenile subjects from both knockout rat lines exhibited abnormalities in ASD-relevant phenotypes including juvenile play, perseverative behaviors, and sensorimotor gating. These data provide important first evidence regarding the utility of rats as genetic models for investigating ASD-relevant genes. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).Behavioral Neuroscience 04/2014; 128(2):103-9. DOI:10.1037/a0035988 · 2.73 Impact Factor


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Producers on Monday confirmed Jackman's exit from the long-gestating musical, to which he has been officially attached since the start of 2012 and informally since news of the show first began emerging a few years earlier.
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"I have greatly enjoyed the collaborative process on Houdini," said Jackman in a statement. "Ultimately, though, I wasn't able to commit to the time this role will require. I have tremendous respect and admiration for the creative team and I wish everyone the best. I know they're well on their way to making something extraordinary."
"Hugh has been terrific to have on this part of the journey," added lead producer Scott Sanders. "We will continue to move forward with our remarkable creative team, as they craft this ambitious new musical."
Jackman's exit follows the withdrawal in January of Aaron Sorkin, who had been attached to write the book for the show but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts. David Ives (Venus in Fur) stepped in to replace Sorkin.
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I cant say enough good things about this tour. Our tourguide Misha was unbelievable! Really knowledgeable and nice thoughtful for everyone's comfort throughout. Really great way to get to see all of Versaille not just the palace itself. Weather was great! Loved it!
The tour was the highlight of my trip in Paris. The weather was the best!!! and so was everybody else that day. The bicycle tour idea is just awesome. The guided was very nice, but I sometimes feel like he didn't really master his subject sometimes. But great tour. Thanks.
Excellent guide Valentino, works hard and always some humour. Excellent shoe repairer of blown out Jogger. Would highly recommend. ( get on Valentino's group )
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The trip was excellent. Daniele did a great job ad a toyr guide. The chateau eas over crowded and next time i would skip that part.
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This day tour was an excellent way to see Versailles. Josephine, our guide was fantastic. An easy and beautiful ride through the town, into the farmers market45min to shop, a bit too long in my opinion then on to the actual chateau grounds. I would have liked to picnic longer. Marie Antoinette's petit Trinon and little village was right out of a fairytale. Breath taking gardens, Spring was in full bloom.
This is well worth a full day out of Paris and you cannot beat the value.
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Our tour guide was great! The tour was beyond explaining......glorious! Fat bike tours does it right...we had Dan as a guide and he was the best! Skip the line...awesome......Intown shopping for lunch....a special treat!
Great way to see Versailles. Tour guide was very good and looked after us all well. Lots of fun.
I would highly recommend this tour. It was fun with beautiful scenery.
We had a great time - even in the pouring rain! Alexandra was a great guide.
This was a great tour and was made even more memorable by our guide Daniele. He was confident and knowledgeable and had lots of anecdotes and facts to make the tour interesting. We actually enjoyed the bike part of the tour more than the tour of the palace as it was very crowded inside. A not to be missed experience when in Paris!
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A wonderful day trip from Paris. The bike ride is fun, the local market had great selection of items and the palace although very crowded was breath taking.
Very fun way to enjoy Versailles and see much more of it than most visitors do. Plus get a little exercise to boot but not too strenuous. We shopped the Versailles street market for lunch provisions and enjoyed a wonderful picnic along the canal. The guide was fun and informative.
Bicycle tour was a great way to see the grounds of Versailles. Easy, slow paced ride through area. First stop was to shop at the local open market to buy food for our picnic lunch. Wonderful selection of all kinds of food. Our guide, Paddy was fantastic. Very informative and enjoyable to be with!
The bike tour was fun. We enjoyed the market place and then eating our lunch. The guide loved his history and explained the French Revolution better than we learned in school.
Fantastic experience! Definitely recommend this tour!!!
All of us loved this tour. It was an easy bike ride around the beautiful gardens of Versailles. Our tour guide, Claudia was the best tour guide we had in our 3 week adventure and the Versailles bike trip was certainly one of the many if not the top highlight of the trip. Once at the market she instructed us on her favorite vendors bread, cheese, wine, sausage so we could purchase items our picnic lunch, then lead us around the gardens sharing with us the history of Versailles, then to a lovely view point along the grand canal to sit and enjoying our picnic - the view was awesome. However, the palace tour that followed was not so enjoyable as there were too many people. We could have skipped the palace tour and still been very happy with this tour.
This tour was amazing!
Fabulous your. The best part was the bike
Ride through the gardens if Versailles and the village of Marie Antoinette. Our tour guide Drew was great, friendly, knowledgable and fun. The palace itself
Was ok. The day trip to the gardens etc was the highlight .
This is a tour of a lifetime! I have never seen such a beautiful place. Mischa was so good at describing the history of Versailles that I feel the need to share this experience. Definitely recommend this tour
This tour was amazing!
My favorite tour! We saw so much, had a picnic lunch where we relaxed on the lawn and just enjoyed being in this magnificent place. No rush, just so much fun!
My favorite day during our trip to Paris!
After the hustle and bustle of the city riding our bikes on the huge palace grounds was heavenly.
Everything was very well planned out, easy bike riding no hills. You can cover so much more ground on a bike, I feel like we saw more than most people.
Stopping at the market for picnic food was fun and eating the picnic by the canal was even more fun!
Touring the actual Palace is the very last thing of the tour, after dropping bikes off, so you can stay as long as you want and take the train back to Paris on your own. Simple to get to the train station without a guide, no worries.
It was a fun day and we loved it - even got back to Paris in time to go out for dinner.
Our guide, Drew, was terrific - full of energy and made sure we all had what we needed and had a good time.
Was excellent and our guide mat was very knowledgeable on the monarchy of France and the French Revolution which really interests me.
Excellent! Tour guide was engaging and informative. A beautiful day filled with history, fun activity and great food and wine from the markets in Versailles.


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The Homeland Security Department is allowing about 364,000 foreign visitors from visa waiver countries to travel into the United States each year without obtaining all the proper authorizations, a Government Accountability Office told a Senate subcommittee on March 27.
Currently, there are 36 countries that have signed agreements to jointly waive visas for travel to and from the United States.
About 98 percent of visitors from those countries are complying with DHS' Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA), but the department has not assessed the security risks posed by the 2 percent of travelers who are not compliant, Rebecca Gambler, director of homeland security and justice issues for the GAO, said in her testimony.
Under the electronic system, travelers must submit biographical information and provide answers to eligibility questions prior to travel. Approval is good for two years.
In 2010, airlines complied with the requirement to verify approvals with the electronic system for almost 98 percent of visa waiver program passengers prior to boarding.
"The remaining 2 percent—about 364,000 travelers—traveled under the program without verified ESTA approval," the GAO said in its report.
The GAO reported on the problem a year ago, but DHS has not completed a review to date. DHS officials told the watchdog agency they would begin quarterly risk reviews.
In addition, DHS has reported that only about half of the 36 countries that have agreed to visa waivers are fully compliant with the signed agreements. "Many of the signed agreements have not been implemented," GAO said in the report.
DHS said it has established a compliance schedule to make the agreements final by June 2012.
The hearing was held by the Senate Judiciary's Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security.
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The intersection of social networks in a public service model: A case study.
Date: December 2007
Creator: Schultz-Jones, Barbara Ann
Description: Examining human interaction networks contributes to an understanding of factors that improve and constrain collaboration. This study examined multiple network levels of information exchanges within a public service model designed to strengthen community partnerships by connecting city services to the neighborhoods. The research setting was the Neighbourhood Integrated Service Teams (NIST) program in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. A literature review related information dimensions to the municipal structure, including social network theory, social network analysis, social capital, transactive memory theory, public goods theory, and the information environment of the public administration setting. The research method involved multiple instruments and included surveys of two bounded populations. First, the membership of the NIST program received a survey asking for identification of up to 20 people they contact for NIST-related work. Second, a network component of the NIST program, 23 community centre coordinators in the Parks and Recreation Department, completed a survey designed to identify their information exchanges relating to regular work responsibilities and the infusion of NIST issues. Additionally, 25 semi-structured interviews with the coordinators and other program members, collection of organization documents, field observation, and feedback sessions provided valuable insight into the complexity of the model. This research contributes to the application of ...
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Interspecific Competition between Hygrophila polysperma and Ludwigia repens, Two Species of Importance in the Comal River, Texas
Date: May 1999
Creator: Francis, Matthew D.
Description: Hygrophila polysperma is a plant native to Asia that has been introduced into the Comal River, TX and is thriving while Ludwigia repens, a species native to the river appears to be declining. Both plants have similar morphologies and occupy similar habitats in the river. Two plant competition experiments were conducted to examine the competitive interactions between the two species. First, an experimental design was developed in which established Ludwigia plants were 'invaded' by sprigs of Hygrophila to determine if established Ludwigia populations would be negatively impacted by invasion. The second experiment focused on establishment and growth of sprigs of each species under three competition scenarios. Results show that the continued growth of well-established Ludwigia plants was significantly depressed by the invasion of Hygrophila in comparison with those that had not been invaded. Furthermore, the growth of Hygrophila sprigs was uninhibited by the presence of Ludwigia, but the presence of Hygrophila negatively impacted the growth of Ludwigia sprigs. There was no difference in the growth of Hygrophila sprigs whether planted alone, with Ludwigia sprigs or even if planted into stands of established Ludwigia.
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Interspecimen Study of Bone to Relate Macromechanical, Nanomechanical and Compositional Changes Across the Femoral Cortex of Bone
Date: May 2013
Creator: Nar, Mangesh
Description: Mechanics of bone is widely studied and researched, mainly for the study of fracture. This has been done mostly on a macro scale. In this work hierarchical nature of bone has been explored to investigate bone mechanics in more detail. Flexural test were done to classify the bones according to their strength and deflection. Raman spectroscopy analysis was done to map the mineralization, collagen crosslinking changes across the thickness of the bone. Nanoindentation was done to map indentation hardness and indentation modulus across femoral cortex of the bone. The results indicate that the composition of the bone changes across the thickness of the femoral cortex. The hypothesis is confirmed as increase in mineralization, carbonate to phosphate ratio and collagen crosslinking shows the effect as increased indentation hardness and modulus and decreased deflection.
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Intertextualization: An historical and contextual study of the battle villancico, El más augusto campeón.
Date: December 2009
Creator: Farris, Daniel
Description: This document addresses the cultural and significance of the battle villancico, El más augusto campeón, and its historical, social, and musical contexts within the villancico genre of the Latin American Baroque. This study focuses on the villancico, El más augusto campeón, and explores the possible origins of the text and its relevance to the political and social structure of Cuzco's San Antonio Abad Seminary. Other areas of investigation are the musical analysis of the score and performance practice issues that surface when making choices as a conductor. Considering the seminal position villancicos held in the catechization of the Incans, in part due to their popular nature, the study of a representative example of this significant genre lends further insight into how important the villancico was to the ordinary and feast services of Peruvian (and, by association, Latin American) churches. While within the villancico's textual and musical structure one reads the obvious reflection of peninsular Spanish Catholic culture, its application to the criollo subculture carries an even more striking relevance.
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Interweaving History: The Texas Textile Mill and McKinney, Texas, 1903-1968.
Date: August 2009
Creator: Kilgore, Deborah Katheryn
Description: Texas textile mills comprise an untold part of the modern South. The bulk of Texas mills were built between 1890 and 1925, a compressed period of expansion in contrast to the longer developmental pattern of mills in the rest of the United States. This compression meant that Texas mill owners benefited from knowledge gained from mill expansion elsewhere, and owners ran their mills along the same lines as the dominant southeastern model. Owners veered from the established pattern when conditions warranted. This case study focuses on three mills in Texas that operated both independently and as a corporation for a total of sixty years. One mill in McKinney dominated the economy of a small town and serves as the primary focus of this paper. A second mill in Waco served a diversified economy in the center of the state; and the third mill, built in Dallas was concentrated in a major city in a highly competitive job market. All three of these mills will illuminate the single greatest difference between Texas mills and mills elsewhere, the composition of the labor force. Women did not dominate the mill labor force in Texas nor did children, except in limited cases, make-up a ...
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The Intimacy of Death: Mahler's Dramatic Narration in Kindertotenlieder
Date: May 2014
Creator: Strange, AnnaGrace
Description: There has been relatively little scholarship to date on Mahler's Kindertotenlieder. The writings about this song cycle that do exist primarily focus on the disparate nature of the poems and justify Kindertotenlieder as a cycle by highlighting various musical connections between the songs, such as keys and motivic continuity. Mahler, however, has unified the cycle in a much more complex and sophisticated way. His familiarity with Wagner's music and methods, and his mastery of the human voice and orchestral voices allowed him to weave a dramatic grief-laden narrative.
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Intimate Partner Homicide Rates in Chicago, 1988 to 1992: a Modified General Strain Theory Approach
Date: August 2013
Creator: Johnson, Natalie Jo
Description: Using data from the Chicago Homicide Dataset for years 1988-1992 and the Chicago Community Area Demographics, multiple regression and mediation analysis are used to examine various community level factors' impact on Intimate Partner Homicide (IPH) rates per Chicago community area. The relationship between the percentage of non-white and IPH rate per Chicago community area is significant and positive, but disappears once economic strain is taken into account, as well as when family disruption is included in the model. There is a weak, but positive relationship between population density and IPH rates, but neither economic strain nor family disruption mediates the relationship between population density and IPH rates. Economic deprivation is positively related to IPH rates, but economic strain and family disruption partially mediate the relationship between economic deprivation and IPH rates. Finally, the relationship between the percentage of males aged 30-59 and IPH rates per community area in Chicago is moderately negative, but this relationship disappears once economic strain is accounted for in the model. However, family disruption does not mediate the relationship between the percentage of males aged 30-59 and IPH rates. These results indicate that some structural covariates impact IPH rates and that some relationships are mediated by ...
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Intimate Partner Violence Among Female Undergraduates: The Role of Language in the Development of Posttraumatic Stress
Date: August 2011
Creator: Larson, Christina Mary
Description: Research findings across a variety of samples (e.g., clinical, shelter, hospital) estimate that 31% to 84% of women who have experienced intimate partner violence (IPV) exhibit symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The current study sought to further investigate the abuse-trauma link by examining the relationship between lifetime trauma exposure, type of abuse (i.e., physical, psychological), and perspective-taking abilities (i.e., here-there, now-then). The role of experiential avoidance in the development of PTSD symptoms was also examined. Results indicated that lifetime trauma exposure (β = .31) and psychological abuse (β = .34) were significant predictors of PTSD symptomatology. Additionally, analyses revealed that experiential avoidance (β = .65) was a significant predictor of PTSD symptoms that partially mediated the relationship between IPV and PTSD symptomatology. Implications of findings are discussed as well as future suggestions for research examining type of IPV and PTSD.
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Intimate Relationships of Adult Children of Alcoholics
Date: August 1988
Creator: Settle, Karen R.
Description: None
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Into the Canyons
Date: May 2014
Creator: Hoekzema, Abbey
Description: Into the Canyons is a documentary short that provides an intimate portrait of two volunteer Wilderness Rangers working and living in Zion National Park in Utah for a summer. Sarah dreams of being a Park Ranger for the National Park Service, but must wait till she earns US citizenship. Working in an office, Allen wants a change in lifestyle. Together they explore the Wilderness and learn what it means to be a Park Ranger.
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