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In this study, we examined the links between Internet addiction, engagement in online erotica (including pornography usage and usage of sex-based Internet chat sites), and engagement in risky online sexual behaviors, in this case, sending sexually-explicit pictures to those known only online (i.e., sexting) and expecting to engage in offline sex with those known only online. In our sample of 276 U.S. adults, men engaged in most of these online sexual activities significantly more than women, but women were just as likely as men to send sexually-explicit pictures to online chat partners, and they were also just as likely as men to demonstrate signs of internet addiction. More importantly, using pornography and sex site usage were sequential mediators in the relationship between Internet addiction and engagement in risky online sexual activities. Moreover, whereas pornography viewing alone was not a predictor of risky online sexual activities, when the behavior escalated to engaging in Internet sex chat sites it did predict engagement in sexting or expectations of offline sex with those known only online. Based on these findings, we suggest that although these behaviors might be considered under one umbrella of online sexual activity, it might be useful from an intervention and treatment standpoint to target specific online sexual activities (e.g., sex site usage)

Exploration of a novel environment involves the establishment of a u22home baseu22 which serves as a reference point for movements. Home base establishment and exploratory movements were disrupted in otoconia-deficient mice in darkness, but not in light. Otolith signals thus contribute to the organization of exploratory movements in non-visual environments

Ebenezer Scrooge is a prosperous curmudgeon who believes personal wealth is far more valuable than the happiness and comfort of others. With an infuriated u22Bah! Humbug!u22 Scrooge expresses his feelings on Christmas tidings and charity, but heu27s soon forced to face his selfish ways. On Christmas Eve three ghosts lead him through his Past, Present and Future. Thanks to their guidance, Scrooge recognizes his faults and greets Christmas morning with a cheerful u22Happy Christmas!u22 before spending the day reconnecting and sharing love with those that mean the most to him.Scrooge and his ghostly encounters come to life in this lavish and thrilling Broadway adaptation. Broadway heavy hitters Alan Menken (Disneyu27s Beauty And The Beast, Disneyu27s The Little Mermaid, Little Shop Of Horrors) and Lynn Ahrens (Ragtime, Seussical, Once On This Island) breathe fantastic new life into this classic tale

This presentation will give a brief overview of the profession of Music Therapy and will describe how music is beneficial in healing. Requirements to becoming a board-certified music therapist will be discussed and where music therapists work will be examined. Participants will be invited to participate in music experiences

We examined how conformity pressures influence judgments of moral dilemmas using an Asch-like paradigm with two accomplices. We found significant conformity effects in response to ambiguous and unambiguous moral dilemmas. These effects were moderated by confidence in personal judgments and perceived difficulty of the dilemmas

Early Italian music played on period instruments

What does the contemporary craft of character design (by human authors), which is beyond the reach of foreseeable AI, and which isnu27t powered by any stunning, speculative, AI-infused technology (immersive or otherwise), but is instead aided by tried-and-true “AI-less” software tools and immemorial techniques that are still routinely taught today, imply with respect to todayu27s computational cognitive architectures? This chapter narrows the scope of this large question, and argues that at present, perhaps only the cognitive architecture CLARION can represent and reason over knowledge at a level of logical expressivity sufficient to capture such characters, along with the robust modeling implied by contemporary story and character design

This article explores the connection between critical reading and Jurgen Habermas’s theory of communicative action. It proposes that Habermas’s criteria used for evaluating validity claims in communicative action can be applied in reading texts critically. Analyses of different types of texts are presented to show how critical reading is done in a Habermasian way. This article ends with a discussion of the application of Habermas’s theory in addressing educational issues

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This presentation will discuss the life-long efforts of artist-activist Dr. Margaret Burroughs to counter brutal and dehumanizing images of African Americans through anti-racist art and community activism on Chicago’s South Side, including her home in the Bronzeville neighborhood. Her legacy offers particular lessons at a time in which the South Side of Chicago is currently viewed as the most murder-prone location in the country, a far cry from the promised land of the Great Migration of Burroughs’ generation

Rural hospitals have been closing their doors at record rates. This fact is distressing because small town hospitals serve 51 million Americans. Often small hospitals are the only major point of care and triage for communities they serve. When rural hospitals close, they force emergency patients to be served at larger hospitals that are located at a much greater distance. This paper focuses on the redesign, through Collective SystemDesign (CSD), of the Operating Room scheduling system in rural hospitals to increase efficiency and to reduce rework in patient care

Nutrient loss from soil, especially phosphorous (P) from farmlands to natural water bodies via surface runoff or infiltration, have caused significant eutrophication problems. This is because dissolved orthophosphates are usually the limiting nutrient for algal blooms. Currently, available techniques to control eutrophication are surprisingly scarce. Calcium sulfate or gypsum is a common soil amendment and has a strong complexation to orthophosphates. The results showed that calcium sulfate reduced the amount of water extractable P (WEP) through soil incubation tests, suggesting less P loss from farmlands. A greater decrease in WEP occurred with a greater dosage of calcium sulfate. Compared to conventional coarse calcium sulfate, nano calcium sulfate further reduced WEP by providing a much greater specific surface area, higher solubility, better contact with the fertilizer and the soil particles, and superior dispersibility. The enhancement of the nano calcium sulfate for WEP reduction is more apparent for a pellet- than a powdered- fertilizer. At the dosage of Ca/P weight ratio of 2.8, the WEP decreased by 31. ±. 5% with the nano calcium sulfate compared to 20. ±. 5% decrease with the coarse calcium sulfate when the pellet fertilizer was used. Computation of the chemical equilibrium speciation shows that calcium hydroxyapatite has the lowest solubility. However, other mineral phases such as hydroxydicalcium phosphate, dicalcium phosphate dihydrate, octacalcium phosphate, and tricalcium phosphate might form preceding to calcium hydroxyapatite. Since calcium sulfate is the major product of the flue gas desulfurization (FGD) process, this study demonstrates a potential beneficial reuse and reduction of the solid FGD waste

Cody Fuelling is in his third year at IPFW, with majors in history and secondary education, furthermore pursuing an Honors Certificate and Certificate in International Studies. Presently employed by the Honors Center, Cody also works as an Assistant Book Review Editor for Enterprise and Society, a business history journal published by Cambridge University Press. He also sits as a student representative on the COAS Student Affairs Committee

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Long-wavelength ultraviolet radiation (UVA) can damage cells through photo-oxidative stress, leading to harmful photosensitized proteins and pigments in cyanobacteria. To mitigate damage, some cyanobacteria secrete the UVA-absorbing pigment scytonemin into their extracellular sheath. Comparative genomic analyses suggest scytonemin biosynthesis is regulated by the two-component regulatory system (TCRS) proteins encoded by Npun_F1277 and Npun_F1278 in the cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme ATCC 29133. To understand the dynamics of these genes, their expression was measured following exposure to UVA, UVB, high visible (VIS) irradiance, and oxidative stress for 20, 40, and 60 min. Overall, both genes had statistically similar patterns of expression for all four conditions and were generally up-regulated, except for those exposed to UVB by 60 min and for the cells under oxidative stress. The greatest UVA response was an up-regulation by 20 min, while the response to UVB was the most dramatic and persisted through 40 min. High VIS irradiance resulted in a modest up-regulation, while oxidative stress caused a slight down-regulation. Both genes were also found to occur on the same transcript. These results demonstrate that these genes are positively responding to several light-associated conditions, which suggests that this TCRS may regulate more than just scytonemin biosynthesis under UVA stress

Adolfo Coronado, assistant professor of information systems, received a technical assistance agreement grant from McCoy Bolt Works, Inc. This project will help McCoy Bolt in improving their relationship with customers by redesigning the current business processes of extracting, transforming and loading data from their electronic data interchange (EDI) for decision making. Because the agreement has an experiential learning component, a student will be allowed to assist on the project as well.http://opus.ipfw.edu/grants/1000/thumbnail.jp

The death of Joe “Sudharman” Fenton sparked competing narratives leaving some members of the family wondering who Joe Fenton was, the man who died as Sudharman. During the night of July 4, 2010, Sudharman was murdered as he slept in his yoga studio in Union County, Pennsylvania. This piece examines his death in order to examine how communication was used to describe Joe Fenton. We used autoethnographic and ethnographic methods to collect the media coverage of his death, the funeral remembrances, and the blog posts, as well as completed two in-depth interviews with family members in order to find out who Joe Fenton was. We analyzed how others described Fenton through the frames of dark and bright communication behaviors. Our analysis determined that Fenton was seen in a spiritual/religious light, as he was described as god-like, a shining beacon and memorable. Dark communication described Fenton as being manipulative, deceitful, and, at times, emotionally abusive

The world of work is a political arena. Managers, employees and organizational groups vie for power and influence within organizations in both formal and informal settings for personal and organizational benefit (Ferris et al., 1989; Drory and Vigoda-Gadot, 2010; Vigoda-Gadot and Drory, 2006). A significant body of work has looked into how to understand how organizational politics processes take place and how they impact organizations. While we have learned much about how organizational politics unfold in organizations, to date little attention has been given to the impact of changing technologies on the organizational political process, with the exception of work on influence tactics in virtual teams (Elron and Vigoda-Gadot, 2006; Steizel and Rimbau-Gilabert, 2013). Technology has transformed not just how people engage in job behaviors, but also how individuals communicate and connect. One particularly important communication technology is social media

There has long been a need for a simulation environment rich enough to support the development of an AI system sufficiently knowledgeable about physical causality to pass certain tests of Psychometric Artificial Intelligence (PAI) and Psychometric Artificial General Intelligence (PAGI). In this article, we present a simulation environment, PAGI World, which is: cross-platform (as it can be run on all major operating systems); open-source (and thus completely free of charge to use); able to work with AI systems written in almost any programming language; as agnostic as possible regarding which AI approach is used; and easy to set up and get started with. It is our hope that PAGI World will give rise to AI systems that develop truly rich knowledge and representation about how to interact with the world, and will allow AI researchers to test their already-developed systems without the additional overhead of developing a simulation environment of their own. After clarifying both PAI and PAGI, we summarize arguments that there is great need for a simulation environment like PAGI World. We present multiple examples of already-available PAI and PAGI tasks in PAGI World, covering a wide range of research areas of interest to the general-purpose AI community

We examined how person memories are influenced by ethnic group membership and strength of ethnic identity. As expected, participants remembered more positive and less negative traits about an ethnic ingroup member compared to an ethnic outgroup member, and this relationship was moderated by strength of ethnic identity

Participants who work with adolescents and adults that have had little to no formal Orff experience will find this session stimulating: an Orff-based process for creating appropriate songs and theme based sessions for those music therapists intrigued with the Orff process or instruments — even if their clinical work is hampered by limited availability of musical instruments. Participants will enjoy a discovery learning process that can be effectively adapted to music therapy work

This chapter presents the concepts of green supply chain network, green supply chain management, and green logistics . Increasing environmental concerns requires companies to become more responsive to products that either has been returned or that are at the end of their useful lives. Organization’s responsiveness and their reactions toward life cycles of products are critical to achieve sustained success once fluctuations are recurrent and the business environments are turbulent. Life cycles are getting shorter, and effective managing can save large amounts of cash as many materials can be extracted, reused, and redistributed. Alongside this context, this chapter focuses on a general overview toward closed-loop supply chains and offers a generalized optimization model . In addition, incentive approaches for an optimal recovery plan in a closed-loop supply chain are discussed in this chapter