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A measure of implicit sexual motives—the implicit AMORE—was constructed employing the Affect Misattribution Procedure (Payne, Cheng, Govorun, u26 Stewart, 2005). Subscales paralleled the 8 dimensions identified previously by the self-report measure of sexual motives, the explicit AMORE (Hill u26 Preston, 1996). Confirmatory factor analyses supported the proposed 8-factor model in slightly revised form, which was confirmed based on a second independent set of participants. Consistent with hypotheses, the implicit scales correlated with nonconscious erotica-viewing behavior for women in a laboratory setting. In contrast to explicit scales, implicit scales were unrelated to self-report ratings of likely sexual behavior. Finally, self-reports of aspects of sexual behavior were generally associated with the measures of implicit motives independently of corresponding explicit motives for both women and men. The results support the conception of implicit sexual motivesas related, but distinct from explicit sexual motives

Communicationu27s Civic Callings is this yearu27s theme. What an ideal opportunity for peacebuilders and educators. According to the description, u22The notion of u22civic callingsu22 encompasses overlapping layers of communication in action, including our many roles as members of educational communities; our interactions with local and national governments; our commitments to NGOs and other organizations; our collaborations with colleagues from across the globe; and, increasingly, our involvements with issues that transcend nation-states…. the notion of u22civic callingsu22 invites scholars to imagine our teaching, departmental structures, research, and public lives as political, as important aspects of the collective fabric of our communities.u22 As teachers, researchers, and scholars primarily involved in the teaching of communication, how do we bring this content of peace and conflict to our students? Where does it fit within our curriculum? What dominant theories underlie this work, and how do we use this content to help transform approaches to peace and conflict? What pedagogical approaches work best? How to we build learning environments or provide internships to develop our students capacity for working on Peace and Conflict studies. Besides the facilitators, this panel features 19 panelists all from different colleges and universities, and all working on teaching peace in various ways

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I am Seth Carpenter-Nichols. I became a History major two years ago after I switched from being a Theatre major for two years. In each history class, I look forward to expanding my expertise and sharing my knowledge on a given subject. Since I was in elementary school, I had a deep passion about history. When I was 9 years old, I could remember and name all the presidents. As I grew older, my knowledge grew on world leaders, dictators, political parties, presidential facts, and what each president had to go through during their time in office. My specialty is World War II and the Cold War that followed. I decided to write about the Cuban Missile Crisis because it was one of the most exciting, stressful, and even the most dangerous episodes of the Cold War. Our country was on the brink of nuclear war, but President Kennedy prevented that from happening. He stood up to the Soviet Union and his war-mongering military staff to keep our country and the world safe. The aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis also changed the tide of the Cold War due to President Kennedy compromising and communicating peacefully with Nikita Khrushchev. In his excellent leadership, Kennedy changed the policy of aggression to peacekeeping

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Aaron Ostermeyer is a History major, who has served as a Student Success Coach in the Mastodon Advising Center in Kettler Hall since the school year began. In this position he helps fellow students with varying issues such as test anxiety, social support, and consulting probation students. He also helps students with finding the resources they may need across campus. He has served as an extern with the Allen County Superior Court and shadowed Judge Wendy Davis. During Summer 2015, he was part of the IPFW Student Life’s Orientation Assistant Team where he assisted incoming students and their families in becoming more familiar with our campus

The recently suggested Generalized Prefix–Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (GP–OFDM) uses an optimal non-zero guard interval (GI). A GI consisting of all zeros is also known, and the technique is referred to as Zero Padding (ZP–OFDM). ZP–OFDM performs very well, but suffers from a complexity problem. This paper provides two improved and low-complexity receiver designs for ZP–OFDM, which make the convolutions between the transmitted signal and the channel skew-cyclic. The channel matrix becomes ϕ-circulant. Both designs require a one-dimensional optimization. The first new design requires the result of the optimization to be available at the transmitter. The second new design eliminates completely the feedback to the transmitter. Simulation results indicate that proposed ZP–OFDM receivers have significant performance advantages compared with existing ZP–OFDM receivers such as ZP–OFDM–OLA and ZP–OFDM–FAST. The performance advantages are maintained in the presence of channel estimation errors and error-correction coding

Robert Barr occupied an enviable position in 1890s literary London. Together with Jerome K. Jerome, Barr owned and edited the popular monthly magazine the Idler. On his own, Barr wrote short stories and novels which earned him a lucrative income. As a literary and club man, he enjoyed a large acquaintance with the leading authors of the day, including Stephen Crane, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Rudyard Kipling. Yet despite his prominent place in the late-Victorian literary marketplace, little to nothing has been written about Barr’s life or works as compared to those of his contemporaries. The following four letters written to Maud Russell Lorraine Sharpe (née Hammer) between 1892 and 1896 shed light on Barr’s literary activities, including the running of the Idler, the composition of his own works, and the life of a late nineteenth-century man of letters

This study examines the effectiveness of mirror cling reminder cues in increasing tooth brushing for preschool children enrolled in local Head Start programs. Although a lot of social marketing programs use stickers and mirror clings as reminder cues, there is very little research that tests their effectiveness over the long term. This study consisted of a 6-week program where parents were sent a mirror cling of Roger the Red Robot, and asked to place it on their bathroom mirror where their child brushes their teeth. Through responsive text messages periodically over a 6-week period, parents were asked to report the number of times they brushed their child’s teeth, and whether they or their child suggested the tooth brushing. They also responded to a follow up question three months later asking whether their mirror cling was still up, and how often they were currently brushing their child’s teeth. Although results indicate that parents liked the mirror cling, there is no evidence that it increased the frequency of tooth brushing for the duration of the study. When it came to the perception of the mirror cling, however, parents reported that they felt the mirror cling helped to remind both themselves and their child to brush twice a day.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2016/1018/thumbnail.jp

Following exposure to long-wavelength ultraviolet radiation (UVA), some cyanobacteria produce the indole-alkaloid sunscreen scytonemin. The genomic region associated with scytonemin biosynthesis in the cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme includes 18 adjacent co-transcribed genes. A two-component regulatory system (Npun_F1277 and Npun_F1278) directly upstream from the biosynthetic gene cluster was identified through comparative genomic analysis and is likely involved in scytonemin regulation. In this study, the response regulator Npun_F1278 was evaluated for its ability to regulate scytonemin biosynthesis using a mutant strain of N. punctiforme deficient in this gene, hereafter strain Δ1278. Following UVA radiation, the typical stimulus to initiate scytonemin biosynthesis, Δ1278 was incapable of producing scytonemin. A phenotypic characterization of Δ1278 suggests that, aside from the ability to produce scytonemin, the deletion of Npun_F1278 does not affect the cell morphology, cellular differentiation capability, or lipid-soluble pigment complement of Δ1278 compared to the wild type. The mutant, however, had a slower specific growth rate and the amount of phycocyanin yielded by Δ1278 differed from the wild type. Given the inability of Δ1278 to produce scytonemin, this study demonstrates that the response regulator Npun_F1278 in N. punctiforme is essential for scytonemin biosynthesis. While most of the evaluated effects of this gene appear to be specific for scytonemin, this regulator may also influence the overall health of the cell and specifically, phycobiliprotein synthesis. This is the first study to identify a regulatory gene involved in the biosynthesis of the sunscreen scytonemin and understanding the transcriptional regulation of scytonemin biosynthesis may allow for mass production in future applications.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2016/1001/thumbnail.jp

Healthcare and health insurance are an important safety net for all individuals living in the United States to have. Because there is no universal health care offered to everyone residing within the United States, it comes down to who in the family needs health care and health insurance the most. Even though it may be assumed that the elderly need health care the most, this study focuses on the importance of health care for children and whether they are insured based on their family’s overall income. This paper hypothesizes that families with lower income are more likely to insure their younger children as compared to older kids in their teenage years; families with higher incomes are more likely to have healthcare for all children in the family. The reason is that it is easier for younger kids to get sick because they have a weaker immune system and it is more detrimental for them to get sick compared to all older individuals. This paper will use the national data on health care coverage in the United States to test the hypothesis. Health care and insurance plans for children provide care for physical exams, prevention care, health education, observations and screenings, immunization, and sick care (Centers 2016). In the past twenty years, children of all ages without healthcare decreased from 14% in 1993 to 7% in 2013 (Centers 2016). A major factor presented in previous studies show that whether a child is insured greatly depends on their age. Children between ages of 6 to 11 have 6% less health care compared to children between ages 0 to 5 (Centers 2016). It has been shown that older children are 2% more likely to not have healthcare/health insurance compared to children between ages of 0 to 5 (Centers 2016). For children in age groups between 5 and 11, 82.9% were found to be in extremely or very good health. Looking at the same age group from a different way, however, studies show that 2.8% of individuals missed 11+ days of school in a twelve-month period. Age groups don’t only explain whether a child is insured or not, it also depicts the type of insurance: public or private. Even though this study is not concerned with the type of health care provided to a child specifically, the type of insurance could be a confounding factor that contributes to a child’s overall health. Children ages 5 and younger were found to more likely have private insurance, whereas children between ages 6 to 11 were more likely to have public health insuranc

Soybean vein necrosis virus (SVNV) is an emerging viral disease affecting soybean, first discovered in Tennessee in 2008. SVNV has been identified as being a new virus in the genus Tospovirus, which are typically vectored by thrips. So far, only soybean thrips have been confirmed to transmit SVNV. However, other thrips species are found in soybean fields, including eastern flower thrips and tobacco thrips. The objectives of this study were to 1) Determine vector competence in three thrips species including soybean, eastern flower and tobacco thrips, and 2) Determine the effect of SVNV on host plant preference and life history of the thrips vector. Vector competence assays showed that eastern flower thrips and tobacco thrips were able to acquire the virus after being exposed to SVNV-infected leaf tissues for 48 hours. Both species were also able to successfully transmit SVNV to healthy plants, but at a lower efficiency (less than 10% of the plants were infected by eastern flower thrips and 36% by tobacco thrips) than soybean thrips (71% infection). SVNV infection did not influence host preference of soybean thrips that is both SVNV-infected and SVNV-uninfected soybean thrips aggregated on healthy plants compared to SVNV-infected plants. SVNV-infected soybean thrips had significantly higher fecundity compared to uninfected thrips. Taken together, these results contribute to a better understanding of virus-vector interaction, which is crucial for control of SVNV, as well as control of soybean thrips.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2016/1012/thumbnail.jp

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This paper investigates the impact of the global spread of English in a Japanese context, and specifically, it examines how Japanese university students learn diversity involving various cultures and languages through their English language learning and how they view the role of English learning/teaching within a multicultural and multilingual context of Japan. The rise of newcomers from both English-speaking and non-English-speaking countries increasingly create ethnic and linguistic diversity in many areas of Japan. If the promotion of English learning continues, Japan’s English learning/teaching needs to be resituated within multicultural and multilingual contexts. Due to the diversification of English uses and users, intercultural communication via English becomes critical. To effectively and appropriately engage in English-speaking intercultural communications, English learners need to pay attention to social contexts in which they use English. To raise an awareness of social aspects of language practice and cultivate a sensitivity about language use, this paper emphasizes the importance of teaching the concept of language awareness (e.g. Fairclough, 1992, 1999; Hawkins, 1984). From an analysis of the interviews with Japanese university students, this paper suggests that teaching language awareness should be integrated in Japan’s English as a Foreign Language (EFL) education curricula in order to develop EFL students’ and teachers’ positive attitudes toward intercultural relationships and interactions. Because social change (e.g. the widespread of English) affects both global and local contexts, EFL learners and teachers are required to pay attention to local diversity which is made of acknowledge varieties of English or Englishes in order to fully acknowledge those in a global context

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