Purpose This study aims to identify a meta-narrative that depicts a big picture of the consumer journey with access-based consumption (ABC). Specifically, this research reveals the points of engagement and disengagement with ABC, as well as the transitions between them. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative research methodology is applied wherein online reviews and blogs pertaining to Rent the Runway (RTR), an access-based fashion company that enables consumers to rent designer dresses and accessories, are analyzed. Specifically, individual textual narratives of users’ experiences with RTR are analyzed, and a meta-narrative is identified that depicts an overarching story of the consumer ABC journey. Findings A dominant meta-narrative is unearthed that not only captures the points of engagement (initiation, experimentation, alternation, devotion) and disengagement (rejection, renunciation, recantation, reversion) with ABC, but also represents the moments of transition between engagement and disengagement points. Practical implications This research would enable marketers in the ABC domain to identify consumer challenges at different points of their journey and devise corrective acquisition and retention strategies. The paths of transition between OBC and ABC could provide guidance for marketing managers to align their strategies (e.g. service recovery, advertising and resource management) with the engagement and disengagement points in the consumer journey. Originality/value This research extends previous work on ownership-based consumption and ABC by providing a nuanced understanding of not only the ideal journey where engagement is maintained, but also those moments of disengagement where consumers break off from ABC.

ABSTRACT This study evaluated the impact of a multitiered behavior support model on preservice special education teachers’ implementation of behavior-specific praise (BSP) during a field-based practicum. Given the increasing prevalence of challenging behaviors in schools and documented gaps in classroom management training, innovative interventions are needed to better prepare educators. Employing a concurrent multiple baseline design across three participants, tiered behavior support was implemented. Tier 1 consisted of a universal training on BSP for all participants. In Tier 2, participants engaged in individualized goal setting and received daily brief prompts via text message. Tier 3 added visual performance feedback – presented as line graphs comparing actual BSP delivery rates with individualized goals. Data were collected through frequency recording during 10-minute observation sessions, and visual analysis revealed a functional relation between the tiered intervention and increased BSP use. Social validity measures indicated that the intervention was rated as highly acceptable, feasible, and understandable. These findings suggest that tiered behavior support, particularly when enhanced with technology-based visual performance feedback, may offer a practical and sustainable method for improving evidence-based classroom management practices. Although this study focused on preservice special education teachers in a graduate program, the implications extend to a variety of coaching and consultation settings involving both preservice and in-service educators, as well as other service providers.

Schizophrenia (SZ) is a severe mental disorder associated with an array of symptoms characterized as positive, negative and cognitive dysfunctions. While SZ is a multifaceted disorder affecting several regions of the brain, altered thalamocortical systems have emerged as a leading contributor to SZ. Specifically, it has been shown that: (1) the thalamus is functionally disconnected from the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in SZ; (2) neural activity and blood flow to the PFC are greatly diminished in SZ (hypofrontality); and (3) delta oscillations are abnormally present in the PFC during the waking state in SZ. We suggest that the abnormal delta oscillations drive the other PFC signs of SZ. Specifically, decreases in energy required to maintain delta, would initiate the reduced PFC perfusion of SZ (hypofrontality), and contribute to the 'mismatched' thalamic and PFC activity of SZ. As SZ involves glutamate (NMDAR) hypofunction and dopamine hyperfunction, both NMDAR antagonists and dopamine agonists produce marked increases in delta oscillations in nucleus reuniens (RE) of the thalamus and its target structures, including the PFC. This would suggest that RE is a primary source for the elicitation of PFC delta activity, and the presence of delta during waking (together with associated signs) would indicate that the prefrontal cortex is disabled (or non-functional) in schizophrenia.

The ADHD Rating Scale is widely used to assess ADHD in the United States, and psychometrically sound. However, when assessments are translated into other languages, it is necessary to re-examine psychometrics. This study aimed to analyze the factor structure, test measurement invariance, and provide normative data for an adaptation of the ADHD Rating Scale in Saudi Arabia using parent ratings of 3,127 youth and teacher ratings of 2,595 students. Outcomes corroborate the validity of the two-factor correlated model for both parent and teacher ratings, and the measurement invariance among age and gender groups. The adapted ADHD Rating Scale is suitable for assessing the ADHD symptomology of youth in Saudi Arabia using the normative standards developed in this study.

ABSTRACT The Go/No-Go task measures inhibitory control, a cognitive process that plays an important role in a range of adaptive contexts. Adults with childhood maltreatment (CM) history have been found to be vulnerable to mental health difficulties, emotional dysregulation, and college adaptation problems. We examined whether maltreatment history and trauma symptoms, both independently and jointly, predict Go/No-Go performance in a task manipulated across three blocks to include emotional content. College students (N = 165) completed surveys on maltreatment history and current trauma symptoms and performed a Go/No-Go task with stimuli varying across three blocks: Color, Neutral-Face, and Emotion-Face (Anger-Face and Fear-Face). CM history and current trauma systems correlated only with the No-Go trials in the Emotion-Face condition. CTQ scores for Emotional Abuse, Sexual Abuse, and Total Maltreatment scores, and several trauma symptoms, including TSC-40 Depression and Anxiety, were negatively correlated with Fear-Face No-Go accuracy. Depression moderated the pathway between Emotional Abuse and Fear-Face No-Go accuracy, such that participants with emotional-abuse history and current depression experienced the greatest Go/No-Go performance difficulty. These findings suggest that college students with both maltreatment history and current depression may experience inhibitory control difficulties, particularly in emotionally charged real-world situations.

Precision medicine is an emerging approach to medical diagnostics, prognostics, and intervention that takes an individual's genetic, environmental, and lifestyle-related profile into account to improve outcomes in medical conditions such as diabetes and cancer. Here, we explore how principles of precision medicine can be leveraged in the field of speech-language pathology. We reviewed the literature and report the following: (a) brief introduction to precision medicine, (b) review of a prophylactic intervention for infants at a genetic risk for speech/language disorders, (c) potential approaches to leveraging endophenotypes for individualized interventions in dyslexia, and (d) identified barriers and opportunities for incorporating precision medicine more broadly into the field of communication sciences and disorders. An established example of a prophylactic intervention based on known genotype-phenotype associations is Babble Boot Camp (BBC), a novel personalized and proactive intervention designed to foster precursor and early communication skills of infants at a predictable genetic risk. We describe a successful clinical trial of BBC for infants at a genetic risk due to classic galactosemia and pilot trials for infants with Down syndrome. An experimental example of personalization is addressing the information processing mode shared by some individuals with dyslexia, namely, diminished sensory gating. To implement principles of precision medicine in disorders of spoken and written communication more broadly, novel ways of identifying young children at risk are needed. As more genotype-phenotype discoveries and gene therapies come online, training in genetics can equip clinicians to recognize signs of a genetic disorder, make appropriate referrals, and personalize therapeutic approaches.

ABSTRACTBackground and AimsCancer cachexia is a metabolic and wasting disease that occurs in up to 80% of cancer patients. Currently, there are no clear diagnostic criteria, its effects are irreversible, and it cannot be treated. Most patients progress undetected to late stages of cancer cachexia, stop responding to traditional treatment, and die without an effective intervention. While the literature has begun to characterize late (refractory) cachexia muscle metabolic changes, less is known about early changes that may precede obvious muscle dysfunction and wasting. Therefore, this investigation aimed to characterize early phase heart and skeletal muscle metabolic changes in a preclinical model of colorectal cancer.MethodsThe Apc(min/+) mouse spontaneously forms tumors along the intestinal tract and is a well‐accepted preclinical colorectal cancer model. To identify early changes in muscle metabolism during colorectal cancer development, heart and gastrocnemius tissues from 15‐week‐old male Apc(min/+) and litter‐matched non‐carrier mice (wildtype) were analyzed by untargeted GC/MS metabolomics.ResultsIn the heart, metabolic pathways related to taurine/hypotaurine metabolism; biosynthesis of unsaturated fatty acids; alanine, glutamate, and aspartate; arginine and proline; and arginine biosynthesis were affected by colorectal cancer. In skeletal muscle, metabolic pathways involving arginine biosynthesis; alanine, glutamate, aspartate, and proline metabolism were affected by cancer cachexia. Taken together, these data demonstrate altered arginine metabolism and proline metabolism in hearts and skeletal muscle of cachectic mice. Interestingly, cardiac muscle showed a non‐preferential fuel switch towards less energetically favorable glycolysis (vs. fatty acid metabolism) that coincided with cardiac dysfunction, while skeletal muscle exhibited glucose dysregulation and possible insulin resistance.ConclusionThese data characterize early cardiac and skeletal muscle metabolic derangements that lead to muscle dysfunction and atrophy during colorectal cancer. Such data could help identify patients in early phases of cachexia or identification of cardiac and skeletal muscle specific therapeutic targets aimed at early intervention.

ABSTRACT This study aimed to explore the formal technology-related professional development opportunities available for physical education teacher education (PETE) faculty. The study involved a series of sequential steps: 1) conference identification, 2) session identification, 3) Teacher Educator Technology Competencies (TETCs) mapping, and 4) TETCs frequency counts. Between 2018 and 2021, a total of 135 technology-related sessions were delivered across 14 conferences hosted by four organizations. The most frequently addressed competency was TETC #3, which focuses on developing knowledge, skills, and attitudes related to teaching with technology, appearing 131 times. Although the extent to which PETE faculty attend the sessions found in this study is still unknown, it is crucial to ensure these types of sessions are offered so PETE faculty have the opportunity to enhance their own TETCs and, therefore, the professional digital competence of their teacher candidates and soon-to-be in-service teachers.

ABSTRACT The virulence of the reactions to Phil Ewell’s resistant reading of Schenkerian analysis has been extreme. Editor Timothy Jackson’s decision to devote a volume of the Journal of Schenker Studies to excoriating (and, significantly, non-peer-reviewed) reactions to Ewell’s work moved graduate students at the University of North Texas, where the journal is based, to demand his dismissal. Nonetheless, one writer implored Ewell to “renounce the calls for the ruination of Dr. Timothy Jackson’s career, as demanded in the [University of North Texas] graduate student and [Society for Music Theory] open letters”—Ewell had had nothing to do with either—and ended with an imperative: “You must call them off.” Another resorted to schoolyard bluster: “First, let me say what an idiot I think you are … talk to me about counterpoint, harmony, linear analysis; you are inept at all of those.” How could Ewell—a music theorist prosecuting a careful critique of the work of a central figure in his discipline—provoke such choler? Ewell’s attention to the race theory underlying Schenker’s analytical system, and his repeated statement that the latter followed from the former, made contemporary Schenkerians cry “Cancel Culture!” Schenkerian analysis has long occupied a privileged disciplinary position, though; any threat to it represents an existential threat to its practitioners—hence the contradictory nature and chaotic intensity of the backlash. The merits of Ewell’s measured critique may well result in a wholesale realignment of the contemporary music theory curriculum. 1 1 Because of the nature of some of the comments used here, certain sources will not be identified. I am interested in the general tenor of the responses to Prof. Ewell’s thinking, and the identities of certain individuals are, for the present purpose, less important than the general outrage of the reaction. Some may be easily identified by reading Ewell’s book, On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming to Everyone (University of Michigan Press, 2023); their identities are not secret but to invite further ridicule is not my goal. Others may be personal friends and/or colleagues of mine who made a remark or two that illustrated a typical attitude but for whom there would be no purpose in exposure to scholarly scrutiny.