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Previous studies have shown that the worldu27s largest reptile - the leatherback turtle Dermochelys coriacea - conducts flexible foraging migrations that can cover thousands of kilometres between nesting sites and distant foraging areas. The vast distances that may be travelled by migrating leatherback turtles have greatly complicated conservation efforts for this species worldwide. However, we demonstrate, using a combination of satellite telemetry and stable isotope analysis, that approximately half of the nesting leatherbacks from an important rookery in South Africa do not migrate to distant foraging areas, but rather, forage in the coastal waters of the nearby Mozambique Channel. Moreover, this coastal cohort appears to remain resident year-round in shallow waters (u3c50 m depth) in a relatively fixed area. Stable isotope analyses further indicate that the Mozambique Channel also hosts large numbers of loggerhead turtles Caretta caretta. The rare presence of a resident coastal aggregation of leatherback turtles not only presents a unique opportunity for conservation, but alongside the presence of loggerhead turtles and other endangered marine megafauna in the Mozambique Channel, highlights the importance of this area as a marine biodiversity hotspot

We examined the role of sexting coercion as a component of the intimate partner abuse (IPA) construct among young adults to determine whether sexting coercion would emerge alongside other forms of partner aggression as a cumulative risk factor for psychological, sexual, and attachment problems. In a sample of 885 undergraduates (301 men and 584 women), 40% had experienced some type of coercion. Although there was some overlap between sexual coercion and sexting coercion (21% of participants had experienced both), some individuals had experienced only sexting coercion (8%) and some only sexual coercion (11%). Women were more likely than men to be coerced into sexting. Both sexting coercion and sexual coercion were significantly and independently related to negative mental health symptoms, sexual problems, and attachment dysfunction, and, notably, sexting coercion was found to be a cumulative risk factor for nearly all of these negative effects. These data support the idea that digital sexual victimization is a new component of IPA polyvictimization, potentially increasing the negative effects experienced by victims of multiple forms of partner aggression

Attitudes and behaviors regarding five types of public posts were examined among 361 undergraduates. Men rated four types of posts (Gross, Sexual, Crude/Crass, Personal/Political Rants) as more appropriate and enjoyable than did women. Oversharing (or u22TMIu22) on social media may be relevant for emerging adultsu27 social and identity development

Many of the agricultural drainage ditches that border farm fields of the Midwestern United States are channelized headwater streams. Despite their degraded state, these ditches support a surprising variety of fish and macroinvertebrate species including crayfish. Crayfish have long been used as model organisms for laboratory studies of aggression, but little is known about their aggressive interactions in the wild. Even less is known about their behavior in channelized headwater streams. Crayfish need different substrates and habitat types at different life stages, and they can be sensitive to the presence of toxic chemicals in the water. In this study eight sites on channelized headwater streams feeding Cedar Creek in Northeastern Indiana, nine sites feeding Upper Big Walnut Creek in Central Ohio, and one site on the East Branch of the Saint Joseph River in Southeastern Michigan were monitored over two years for evidence of crayfish aggression. Crayfish were collected by a combination of electrofishing and seine netting techniques. Individuals were identified to species, sexed, measured, and any damaged appendages were noted as injuries. Data on instream habitat quality were also collected. Concentrations of nutrients and pesticides at all study sites were provided by scientists at the National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory. The mean count of injuries per individual, proportion of injured individuals, mean number of claw injuries per individual, proportion of individuals with multiple injuries, and crayfish density within the sites were calculated. A habitat diversity index and a water toxicity index were developed to assess site quality. A mixed model multiple regression analysis was used to correlate site quality index values with crayfish injury response variables. We found crayfish density to be the major predictor of all the injury response variables, and that habitat and water quality had no significant correlation with crayfish injury or density. Crayfish may not need high quality habitat as defined for other species, beyond what a typical channelized headwater stream can provide. Also, observed concentrations of agrichemicals in the sites were often well below established chronic effect benchmarks. Crayfish are well adapted to life in ditches due to their flexibility in habitat utilization and tolerance of agrichemicals. However, further research is needed to identify factors that determine crayfish community densities.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2016/1024/thumbnail.jp

Despite the fact that 30,000 French troops invaded Mexico in the 1860s and installed Maximilian in power and created the Second Mexican Empire, Mexican liberals put up a sustained guerilla military resistance. But this paper examines a different significant battle, the one that took place on the political front. Both Maximilian and the liberal resistance that opposed him led by Juárez sought diplomatic support and recognition. At the time, not only was Mexico divided, but also the U.S. since the country was in the middle of the Civil War. This paper examines the attempts Maximilian and Juárez made to gain recognition and support during this complicated period during which the Union had to weigh the impact that its action in Mexico might have on France’s attitudes about the American Civil War.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2016/1003/thumbnail.jp

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A collection of surveys taken over the past several decades indicates that trust in government has been declining. One of the surveys is the General Social Survey (GSS). The GSS collects information from the general public on a wide variety of subjects, including attitudes toward government, politics, and policy issues. The 2014 GSS finds that only 11 percent of Americans have a great deal of confidence in the executive branch. Political trust is a crucial element of representative governance. With the upcoming Presidential election, it is critical to understand what explains public confidence in the executive branch of the federal government. To see government succeed, there needs to be a foundation of trust among all citizens. To address this research question, data from the 2014 General Social Survey are analyzed using ordered logistic regression. The main findings of this study include the following: Government employees are more likely to express confidence in executive branch leaders. In other words, government employees support the very institutions they work for. Also, Democrats are more likely to express confidence in executive branch leaders given that the White House was controlled by the Democratic Party in 2014. This study shows that executive leaders are seen as partisan leaders who have strong influence on forming attitudes toward government. Keywords: confidence in government, public/private differences, and political ideology.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2016/1026/thumbnail.jp

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In this paper, I analyze how Spenser leads his reader to make moral judgments by using the unique characteristics of allegory—that is, the fact that readers transfer not only meanings but also emotional reactions and moral judgments from the source domain to the target domain. I build upon enactivist literary theories as well as other cognitive theories of allegory to analyze two episodes in Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene, the Castle of Alma episode, in which a body is figured as a place, and the Belge episode, in which a place is figured as a body. The Castle of Alma, although it explicitly allegorizes human emotions, is a strangely affectless place, conveying a stoic version of temperance that the reader experiences by imaginatively identifying with the fictional bodies of Guyon and Arthur who travel through this body-place. The focus on the body as material, including the personifications of both emotional states and mental faculties, intellectualizes the experience of having a body in ways that discourage the reader from engaging emotionally with this episode. In contrast, the Belge episode, by making a place into a suffering maternal body, works to prompt both intellectual and emotional responses by inviting the reader to identify with the suffering of the Low Countries by identifying with the experiences of Belge’s body. A key instance occurs in 5.10.25, when the ambiguity of whether the pronoun “her” refers to Belge herself or to one of her cities leads by stanza’s end to the jarring image of a castle built in Belge’s neck. In both cases, the emotional reaction and its associated moral intuition derive from the literal level, not the allegorical projection. Spenserian allegory does not transfer only “meaning”; that is, the full package of what the reader projects from the source-domain of the literal level of the text is not just propositional information. Before the reader even makes that projection from source-domain to target-domain she or he has already had an emotional reaction and an intuitive moral response. Through control of this process, Spenser hopes to influence the moral intuitions of his readers

This paper proposes a systematic approach to model human–machine interactions (HMIs) in supervisory control of machining operations; it characterises the coexistence of machines and humans for an enterprise to balance the goals of automation/productivity and flexibility/agility. In the proposed HMI model, an operator is associated with a set of behavioural roles as a supervisor for multiple, semi-automated manufacturing processes. The model is innovative in the sense that (1) it represents an HMI based on its functions for process control but provides the flexibility for ongoing improvements in the execution of manufacturing processes; (2) it provides a computational tool to define functional requirements for an operator in HMIs. The proposed model can be used to design production systems at different levels of an enterprise architecture, particularly at the machine level in a production system where operators interact with semi-automation to accomplish the goal of ‘autonomation’ – automation that augments the capabilities of human beings

Clustering of long-term recording electrocardiography (ECG) signals in the healthcare systems is the most common source in detecting cardiovascular diseases as well as treating heart disorders. Currently used clustering algorithms do have their share of drawbacks: (1) Clustering and classification cannot be done in real time; (2) Implementing existing algorithms would lead to higher computational costs. These drawbacks motivated us in developing novel optimized clustering algorithm which could easily scan large ECG datasets for characteristic biomarkers. In this paper, we present an advanced K-means clustering algorithm based on compressed sensing theory in combination with the K-singular value decomposition method. We validate the proposed algorithm’s performance with principal component analysis and linear correlation coefficient dimensionality reduction methods followed by sorting the data using the K-nearest neighbors and probabilistic neural network classifiers. The proposed algorithm outperforms existing algorithms by achieving a classification accuracy of 99.98 % (increasing 11 % classification accuracy compared to the existing algorithm). This ability allows reducing 15 % of average classification error, 10 % of training error, and 20 % of root- mean-square error. The proposed algorithm also reduces 13 % clustering energy consumption compared to the existing clusteringalgorithm by increasing the classification performance

An alarming number of cases of Snake Fungal Disease (SFD), a condition frequently resulting in morbidity and mortality in snakes, have been documented in numerous species across much of the eastern US. We sampled a skin lesion on the face of a free-ranging Lampropeltis triangulum (Eastern Milksnake) from the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan. The lesion tested positive for Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola, the causative agent of SFD. Our results document the second species from Michigan known to be infected with SFD. This case adds to the growing body of literature detailing the distribution of snake species affected, and further indicates that this pathogen is widespread in the eastern US. We stress the continued need for increased, systematic sampling efforts to determine the species affected by SFD and the potentially deleterious impacts it has on snake populations

The epistemology of dualism has informed the construction of dichotomies and differences in cultural discourses for a long time. Interestingly, such construction is often, though not always, indicated by the preposition “between” that signifies separation. In their writings about Ireland, Joyce and Beckett seek to deconstruct dualism by illustrating the pitfalls of radical provincialism on the one hand and by envisioning global humanities often indicated by the conjunction “and” that signifies addition, rather than separation, on the other. Drawing on the concept of universal identity developed by Levi-Strauss, Gunn, Hassan, and Jung, we offer a new reading of both authors’ representation of “global citizen” in such figures as Wellsley, Conroy, and Shuah

This article explores a series of short films that delve into various issues that exist for elite female athletes, from extreme wage disparity to blatant sexualization, and offers engaging ways to analyze them with students

This chapter reviews patterns of violence in New Orleans and discusses it in terms of the Chain of Violence principle described in Iadicola and Shupeu27s Violence, Inequality and Human Freedom. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the current strategies of intervention outlined by the city of New Orleans in the NOLA FOR LIFE: A Comprehensive Murder Reduction Strategy and the limitations of the strategy based on the insights of the theoretical model outlined by Iadicola and Shupe

Many students who are in the mild or moderate special education program are not able to transition into the adult world smoothly when they exit high school. These students need a formal transition planning process to assist them. Some important decisions that need to be made are whether students will go to college or receive a type of job training, and where they will live. The research study investigated what special education teachers know about resources for the transition of students who have a mild or moderate disability from high school to adult life. Results show that teachers who teach special education, differ in their procedures about when a vocational rehabilitation agency representative should come to the Annual Case Review. Teachers do agree that the level of cognitive disability depends on how much assistance is needed from the rehabilitation agency

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Of interest to all engineering disciplines, well-designed formative feedback has the potential to enhance both instructor teaching and student learning. Delivering fundamental courses year after year can ultimately lead faculty to use stale notes or slides from past years. This approach may save time but does not meet the shifting needs of our students who have high expectations from their instructors. One simple method to improve teaching is to employ muddiest point reflections. Muddiest point reflections involve simply asking students to anonymously reflect on what was u22muddyu22, i.e. confusing, during class and to rank their level of confusion which not only addresses students falling behind, but also shows students a commitment to their education especially when the instructor puts direct student quotes on the screen. Initially, developing a formative feedback process takes some effort, but once established, using a formative feedback process requires little effort. The formative feedback process includes four steps: 1) acquiring data from student reflections; 2) assessing and characterizing student responses in order to diagnose the learning issues that can impede students from achieving their learning goals; 3) designing and synthesizing the type and mode of formative feedback that best addresses the learning issues; and 4) selecting a formative feedback delivery method that quickly communicates to students the information and/or resources that they can use to enhance progress toward their learning goals. This paper presents and discusses the nuts and bolts of implementing the feedback process when using end-of-class u22Muddiest Pointu22 (MP) student reflections. These are collected following a class topic and are collected for the purpose of identifying - and quickly correcting - points of confusion that students individually report (their muddiest point). In addition, we report on several instructor perceptions of their teaching that result from using u22muddiest pointsu22 for the first time. These instructors deployed MP in a systematic way in fall 2015 in several different materials science courses across the country. Finally, we share strategic examples from each instructor of how using muddiest points in fall 2015 caught a misconception or point of confusion in their teaching that probably would not have been otherwise known

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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is when organizations take actions that are perceived to further the good of society that go beyond just company self-interest and legal requirements. CSR involves companies engaging in behaviors that benefit humanity in the more general sense. CSR is often organizations looking to accomplish a triple bottom line that includes the economic interests of the firm, social good, and environmental well-being. Such actions can vary widely but include charity donations, supporting local communities, using eco-friendly materials, volunteering organizational time and resources to social causes, and even safeguarding human rights in areas with unstable governments. Corporate Social Responsibility can be focused on the needs of local communities but for multinational organizations spread across many different countries CSR is inherently international in nature. Organizations can be doing CSR actions in countries spread across the globe. Leaders can play a crucial role in how and even whether an organization engages in CSR, with leadership CSR behaviors effected by a leader’s personality and individual characteristics. CSR can also be controversial in nature as people with different perspectives or values may not agree on what corporate behaviors are indeed responsible and there are prominent examples of organizations that have engaged in what has been termed “greenwashing,” doing corporate actions that look environmentally responsible to the public but in fact have little positive impact, being little more than public relations stunts. CSR is a major concept in international business and an area almost all organizational leaders need to engage with

Sherrie Steiner, assistant professor of sociology, along with several undergraduate students, presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the North Central Sociological Association in Chicago, Illinois. Steiner, Sierra Marsh (sophomore, sociology), Isaac Puffs (junior, sociology and psychology), and Jacob Wegner (junior, general studies with a sociology minor) prepared a presentation entitled “Risk Perception in Light of the Disruption of the Quotidian.” The presentation focused on how the perceived order of everyday life creates a sense of control and diminishes perceived risk