Finding Your Research Articles

Wagner's "Finding Your Spiritual Gifts: The easy-to-use, self-guided questionnaire" (book review)

Wagner's "Finding Your Spiritual Gifts: The easy-to-use, self-guided questionnaire" (book review)

I Know the Way to San Jose

Each time Display Week comes back to San Jose, I can’t help recalling the Dionne Warwick song (written by Burt Bacharach) “Do You Know the Way to San Jose,” about losing your dreams in LA and finding your way back home. It’s a bit of a metaphor for us because SID was originally founded in LA, and for a couple of decades that area was rich with display work. More recently, the Bay Area has been the home of many key display-related milestones and feels like the center of the industry, at least in North America. Display Week was last held in San Jose in 2015, and one of the biggest topics that year was OLED devices, materials, and displays. Quantum dots, microLEDs, and touch technology also claimed a lot of space in the program. Now, as we return in 2019, there continues to be much interest in OLED and microLEDs, but by far the biggest buzz is around augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) display systems. It’s a field of research that seems to have exploded in the last few years, spurring all kinds of innovations and breathing new life into older topics, such as near-to-eye (NTE) displays. Just as you probably need to be a certain age to actually remember the San Jose song, you probably need to have some history in this business to remember that NTE displays were a focal point of research back in the early 2000s. The displays were good then, but not good enough. In the intervening years, a lot of supporting tech such as micro-processors and software have evolved to enable a new generation of devices that now have a compelling application named AR/VR to pull them into the marketplace. To get a handle on all that is coming this year at Display Week, please read “A First Look at Display Week 2019” (page 26) and start making your travel plans. This month, we also have the distinct privilege of announcing the winners of the 2019 SID Honors and Awards, which recognize professionals whose contributions or technical achievements have helped to advance the field of displays. This year’s honorees include a cross-section of great innovators whose contributions are like fingerprints that can be seen in many places and in many products today. Their stories are chronicled in “SID Salutes Industry Standouts” (page 21). Our issue theme is Applied Vision, and our guest editor Yi-Pai Huang, Ph.D., director of the Display Center at National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) in Taiwan, found us a great lineup of Frontline Technology features. It begins with “Temporal Requirements for VR Displays to Create a More Comfortable and Immersive Visual Experience,” an important discussion of the issues around temporal artifacts in head-mounted displays and opportunities to improve their performance, from Google researchers David M. Hoffman, Ph.D., and Grace Lee, Ph.D. Yi-Pai also brought us an in-depth story on the nature of color breakup assessment for field sequential color (FSC) displays by his NCTU colleagues Zong Qin, et al. FSC may be an emerging solution for high-performance NTE displays and, along with temporal artifacts, is a critical aspect of the user experience with AR and VR systems. We extend our heartfelt thanks to Yi-Pai for his hard work on this package, and don’t forget to read his guest editorial and introduction to these topics. Color and the science of color spaces are topics that regularly prompt questions and confusion from even deeply experienced display engineers. We were very pleased when Abhay Sharma, Ph.D., a professor at Ryerson University in Toronto, volunteered to do a series on this subject for our readers. His first installment, “Understanding RGB Color Spaces for Monitors, Projectors, and Televisions,” covers some very important ground, including color spaces for HDR displays. Abhay put in a lot of valuable hours on this article, pulling data from many sources and answering endless editorial questions from us along the way. We are very grateful for his time and I think you will benefit greatly from his efforts. There are many more wonderful elements to our issue this month and I hope you find them all enjoyable. Up next is our Display Week show issue in May, and with that I hope to see you all in San Jose.

FYTing with Science: Ideological Differences on the Nature and Origin of Truth

Many people seem to embrace the idea of “Finding Your Truth” (FYT), wherein individualism has been extended to what is true and false, and the scientific method is just one way of seeing reality. In three pre-registered studies, we developed a multi-dimensional scale to measure FYT, and political liberals and conservatives evaluated disagreeing scientific (in the form of a researcher) and non-scientific (in the form of a professional or online commenter) perspectives on apolitical topics. Conservatives, compared to liberals, were more welcoming to non-scientific perspectives, an effect mediated by a stronger belief that intuitions are a valid source of truth (one dimension of FYT). However, conservatives and liberals have an equivalent tendency to see reality as subjective (another dimension of FYT), which also predicts endorsement of a science rejecter. The roots and implications of FYT thinking are discussed, including the idea that differences in science acceptance are not due only differences in reasoning ability, but also differences in belief about the nature of truth.

Interventions

InterventionsAn Interview with Zoraida Córdova Zoraida Córdova and Frederick Luis Aldama (bio) Zoraida Córdova has blasted wide the YA Fantasy fiction world. Before her arrival, this was largely a narrative space that excluded authors of color—and their culturally rich characters and complexly built storyworlds. Zoraida's journey has crisscrossed great waters, lands, and cultures. Born in Guayaquil, Ecuador in 1987 and raised in Queens New York by a single mom and where her abuelita's words were law, Zoraida found her way quickly to the writer's life, reading voraciously as a child and writing up a storm as a young teen. Zoraida would later continue to enrich her imagination and hone her craft as a student at Hunter College then at the University of Montana, Missoula. In college, however, she met with some closed doors. She was told by a professor that her narratives were too fanciful. This only encouraged her more. She set herself on the path of writing fantasy narratives that would grow from her Latinx cultural experiences. She knew, too, that while she wanted her Ecuadorian, Puerto Rican, and mainstream US cultures and traditions to inform her work, she also wanted to make them new. As one enters into her many fantasy fictional spaces, we might find certain bruja healing practices or children-devouring monsters like el cucuy (Mexico) or Cuco (Ecuador), but they appear only through layers of newly created mythical figures: sharp-clawed Maloscuros, hybrid mermen, casimuerto teens, and vampires. Likewise, we might recognize our quinceañera rituals in a Deathday coming into magic ritual, but it's entirely of Zoraida's making. We might read her fantasy narratives as allegories of the brutal conquest and colonization of the Americas, but in ways that make new our experience of this past—and that clear a space for our indigenous, African, and mestizo ancestry to breathe anew. Zoraida is the award-winning author of numerous titles, including The Vicious Deep (2012), The Savage Blue (2013), The Vast and Brutal Sea (2014), Labyrinth Lost (2016 and optioned by Paramount Pictures), and Bruja Born (2018). And, Zoraida's fantasy storyworlds will be keeping us more than busy in the following months and years. She has forthcoming, A Crash of Fate (Disney-Lucasfilm Press), the co-edited YA fantasy anthology, Vampires Never Get Old (Macmillan), and The Way to Fairyland (Scholastic), and Incendiary (Disney Hyperion)—the first novel in her Hollow Crown series. In a publishing world that has traditionally only seen Latinx authors as capable of creating the next Horatio-Alger-styled bildungsroman or magical realist extravaganza, Zoraida's near single-handed transformation of the publishing field shouts from rooftops that all readers deserve masterfully spun Latinx-informed fantasy narratives. Frederick Luis Aldama: How does one create during a time when there's so much hostility toward and economic uncertainty for Latinxs today? Zoraida Córdova: It's important to distinguish that some Latinx have more privilege than others. Of course as a group, Latinx people are being targeted. But who are the people that are being racially profiled on the streets, at work, and in their own neighborhoods? It's not always white-passing and affluent Latinxs. We have a rich history of storytelling. The majority of contemporary novels in the young adult space about Latinx people include immigrant and poverty narratives. It's important to create in spite of these things. FLA: Can you share your journey to finding your voice in fiction (short stories and novels)—as opposed to other forms of expression such as poetry, comics, films, and nonfiction? ZC: I did take several poetry classes when I was in school. I think like with anything, you know what you want to do. Not all artistic forms are the same. I knew I wanted to write novels since I was thirteen years old. That doesn't mean that I wouldn't want to see my work translated into films or comics, but it's a different form of storytelling. FLA: Why fantasy as your main genre? ZC: Fantasy and speculative fiction ask the question "What if?" I find that has infinite possibilities. That, and I've always found...

예수님의 스토리텔링과 기독교교육 : 예수님의 발 앞에서 제자(Talmidim)가 되고 친구(Haverim)를 찾아서

예수님의 가르침과 스토리텔링은 불가분의 관계를 가진다. 왜냐하면 예수님께서 비유라는 형식으로 말씀을 전달하실 때 소통의 기술적 형식으로 채택하신 것이 바로 스토리텔링이었기 때문이다. 제자들에 의해 예수님의 말씀과 행적이 기록되고 기억될 때에도 스토리텔링은 가장 중요한 보존과 공유의 수단이 되었다. 그렇다면 예수님과 스토리텔링 사이에는 어떠한 교육적 함의가 내포되어 있는가? 이 질문에 답을 찾기 위해 본 연구는 예수님 당시의 스토리텔링의 형성 환경을 살펴보고, 예수님의 스토리텔링이 어떠한 특징과 효과를 갖는지를 파악하며, 예수님의 스토리텔링의 실천 방안을 제시해 보았다. 본 연구를 통해 예수님의 스토리텔링이 가르침을 주면서 자신을 내어주고, 보고 배우고 묻고 배우며, 인격적 만남과 상호적 탐구를 하게 하고, 제자가 되고 친구가 되어 예수님을 배우고 닮아가게 한다는 것을 발견했다. 이는 예수님도 공유하셨던 랍비전통의 표현에서 드러나듯 “예수님의 발 앞에서 제자가 되고”(Becoming talmidim at the feet of Jesus), “자신의 친구를 찾으며”(Finding our own haverim) 하나님의 말씀을 배우고 실천하는 것을 뜻한다. 그러므로 예수님의 말씀은 단지 지적이해와 의식적 응답의 대상이 아니라, 행위와 실행의 가시적 준거로 받아들이고 타인과 공동체의 맥락속에서 실천해야 할 은혜의 과제인 것이다.

Sjávarútvegur, karllæg atvinnugrein „þeir hefðu ekki gúdderað einhverja stelpugálu – nema af því að ég var tengd“

Mikið hefur verið ritað um stöðu kvenna í atvinnulífinu og um jafnrétti kynjanna í mismunandi atvinnugreinum. Afar fáar rannsóknir eru þó til á stöðu kvenna í stjórnum fyrirtækja í sjávarútvegi, sem er ein af undirstöðuatvinnugreinum þjóðarinnar. Þessi grein byggir á niðurstöðum rannsóknar á upplifun kvenna sem sitja í stjórnum íslenskra sjávarútvegsfyrirtækja en þær eru ekki margar og nokkrar sitja í fleiri en einni stjórn. Meginniðurstöður sýna að þær sem þó sitja í stjórnum sjávarútvegsfyrirtækja eru almennt ánægðar með stöðu sína innan greinarinnar, þrátt fyrir að sjávarútvegur sé talinn vera afar karllægur heimur. Viðtöl voru tekin við níu konur sem sitja í stjórnum sjávarútvegsfyrirtækja og leitast við að varpa ljósi á hlutskipti þeirra og hvernig upplifun þeirra er af atvinnugreininni og hvað mætti betur fara. Notast var við eigindlega aðferðafræði og voru viðtölin afrituð og greind niður í þemu og kóða. Niðurstöðurnar styðja vissar hugmyndir sem höfundar höfðu í upphafi og sýna þær að sjávarútvegurinn á sér sterka sögu og hefðir sem ef til vill er erfitt að breyta, en alls ekki ómögulegt. Konur eru að ryðja sér til rúms innan greinarinnar en kynjabundnar staðalímyndir eru afar sterkar í sjávarútvegi og störf karla innan atvinnugreinarinnar hafa almennt notið mun meiri virðingar en störf kvenna. Þó skynja viðmælendur ekki neinar neikvæðar raddir frá hinu kyninu þó að það hafi tekið einhvern tíma að koma sér inn í atvinnugreinina og þær finna ekki annað en að á þær sé hlustað og að rödd þeirra hafi hljómgrunn til jafns á við karlana.

Challenging Physical Impossibility: Finding Your Way to Change Using Your Body and Spirit

Obesity prevalence is rapidly increasing worldwide requiring a collaborative, innovative, new energy, new ideas, and a new passion. Every person worldwide should be given equal opportunity to be healthy and well and learn the dimensions of their own physical power of resiliency. In building stamina, strength, dynamism, and enthusiasm for a new sense of self.

Making the leap and finding your feet: A qualitative study of disclosure and social support in university students with type 1 diabetes.

University poses unique challenges surrounding disclosure for students living with type 1 diabetes, with implications for social support and self-management. Semi-structured interviews with students and peer interviewers living with type 1 diabetes explored university experiences of disclosure and social support. Thematic analysis identified three major themes: disclosure as a measured process, the need for lived experience for true understanding and personal growth and self-awareness. Findings emphasize the need to scaffold the university transition for individuals with type 1 diabetes as disclosure can elicit effective social support. In addition, the importance of lived experience suggests support from students with type 1 diabetes could considerably impact diabetes management.

Researcher, Analyze Thyself

This article attempts to answer the phenomenological question, “What does it mean to be a qualitative researcher?” and an ancillary question, “What does ‘making meaning’ mean?” The author, in collaboration with selected participants at the 2018 The Qualitative Report and the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology’s Qualitative Research Methods conferences, proposes that research is devotion. Three major categories or components of devotion are purpose (personal and professional validation), belonging (communal grounding), and meaning (an enriched life). Ten subcategories or “elements of style” as qualitative researchers include meticulous vigilance of details, unyielding resiliency, visionary reinvention, social savvy, humble vulnerability, representational responsibility, finding your methodological tribes, emotional immersion, gifting your ideas, and knowing and understanding yourself.

Researcher, Analyze Thyself

This article attempts to answer the phenomenological question, “What does it mean to be a qualitative researcher?” and an ancillary question, “What does ‘making meaning’ mean?” The author, in collaboration with selected participants at the 2018 The Qualitative Report and the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology’s Qualitative Research Methods conferences, proposes that research is devotion. Three major categories or components of devotion are purpose (personal and professional validation), belonging (communal grounding), and meaning (an enriched life). Ten subcategories or “elements of style” as qualitative researchers include: meticulous vigilance of details, unyielding resiliency, visionary reinvention, social savvy, humble vulnerability, representational responsibility, finding your methodological tribes, emotional immersion, gifting your ideas, and knowing and understanding yourself.

How to start a research lab.

As September approaches, a new cohort of junior faculty members are taking up their first positions as research group leaders. I was there 3 years ago, making career-shaping decisions—sometimes without much mentoring or support. I learned a lot in my first years—how to write a grant, manage rejection, and supervise students, to name just a few—and it was all trial by fire. Though I made it through and had some successes along the way, I certainly could have used advice about how to set up and run my lab. I've learned that my experience is the norm, which inspired me and a group of other early-career principal investigators to interview leaders in our fields about how they built successful research groups. Here are some of the lessons they shared. ![Figure][1] ILLUSTRATION: ROBERT NEUBECKER FIND YOUR NICHE. Before you even begin to interview for a faculty job, you need to decide what your lab's focus will be. You must be a pioneer, “carving out a niche for yourself that is unique, and where you'll be at the top of the heap,” says Margaret McFall-Ngai, a professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa who was among the first to study squid-bacteria interactions. Identify how your skills intersect with the science that excites you, in the most promising uncharted territory. Plan big while identifying key publication checkpoints along the way. Your tenure case depends on it. FIND YOUR PEOPLE. Good science is done by talented people. “If you have an excellent person who wants to work with you, try to hire them at all costs, even if you have to spend the last of your money,” says Gregor Weihs, a professor of photonics at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. On the flip side, hiring the wrong people can be a real drain on the group. “Never hire just because you can,” Weihs says. Get to know prospective lab members by teaching graduate classes and taking on undergraduates for smaller projects, and use your network to find promising graduate students at other institutions. IT PAYS TO WORK TOGETHER. To secure major funding, “it's better to try and see if you can chase it together rather than all competing for the same buck,” says Melvyn Goodale, a professor of neuroscience at Western University in London, Canada, who helped form an 11-institution research consortium, the Canadian Action and Perception Network. If your goals are aligned with those of other labs, then it makes sense to work together on a joint application rather than against each other. Writing grant applications as a group can help spark new ideas, and many minds working together can increase your chance of success. Even if you don't get funded, writing a group grant can deepen your collaborative relationships for years to come. BUILD A NETWORK. To make connections when you're just starting out, you need to be your own marketing department. “It's not just doing the research; it's making it known,” says Yoshua Bengio, a professor at the University of Montreal in Canada who works on artificial intelligence. These days, a lot of networking is done online. Get on Twitter and follow your 10 favorite research labs. Look at who they follow to find more connections. Tweet about the work you publish and interesting papers you read to help people identify your niche and get to know your research brand. Finally, don't be afraid to reach out to senior faculty members to seek out mentoring, share your work, and ask for input on grant applications. Their feedback will be invaluable, and some day you will pay it forward to a new cohort of junior faculty members. There is knowledge and experience all around. You may be surprised at people's willingness to share it. [1]: pending:yes

“Finding Your Way When Lost”: Class and the American Girl

I analyze contemporary fictions of young white women that challenge ideas of normative American girlhood in late capitalism, showing how these texts take up issues of sexual oppression and pathology, maternal failure, and consumerism that often normalize economic oppression.

So you want to be an elite hacker? finding your career in cyber operations

So you want to be an elite hacker? finding your career in cyber operations

Book review: R. Paul Stevens, Aging Matters: Finding Your Calling for the Rest of Your Life

Book review: R. Paul Stevens, <i>Aging Matters: Finding Your Calling for the Rest of Your Life</i>

FYNN—Support Program for Patients Who Have Completed Head and Neck Cancer Treatment

Treatment for head and neck (H&N) cancer can induce significant emotional and physical stress. Upon completion of treatment, patients are at risk for isolation, depression, and anxiety. Moreover, they cope with treatment side effects that have not resolved or are permanent, that is, a part of their “new normal”. Support groups and peer mentoring can benefit those with significant oncologic issues. However, strategies for the unique population of H&N cancer patients are not well documented. Our team designed a group seminar series to address their needs in the posttreatment setting. The program is modelled after the Finding Your New Normal (FYNN) series developed for cancer survivors at our facility. It is offered twice yearly and consists of a 5-week series, meeting once a week in the evening. Enrollment is open to patients and their caregivers who have completed treatment and limited to 16 attendees to facilitate an intimate atmosphere for sharing. Guest lecturers scheduled for specific sessions include a nurse practitioner survivorship specialist, radiation oncologist, dietician, speech language pathologist, physical therapist and psychologist. Representatives from a local YMCA and college attend and discuss, respectively, the Livestrong and Trail to Recovery programs offered by their institutions. A break-out session for patients and caregivers is included to allow them to meet in separate groups. In these safe environments, they reflect upon their respective experiences with peers. Sessions are co-facilitated by a licensed clinical social worker and the H&N oncology nurse navigator. Clinician presentations are brief to allow time for questions and round table discussions. Attendees fill out surveys following each of the 5 sessions to provide feedback and a final program evaluation. Since the initiation of H&N FYNN in 2016, 3 programs have been held with an average enrollment of 13 attendees. Survey results indicated the following rates of “strongly agree” for the four outcomes that were evaluated: Learned new information to deal with cancer experience: 83%; Better able to cope with cancer experience: 79%; Have an outlet to better handle stress: 76%; Feel that experience with H&N FYNN helps to live a better quality of life: 76%. Recurring themes of learning from each other, giving and receiving support, and an overall feeling of connection to the other participants were expressed in the comments. Addressing emotional stressors, as well as treatment-related toxicities, is a key aspect of survivorship for H&N cancer patients. Our FYNN series is rated highly by patients for improving their ability to cope posttreatment. It serves as a model for H&N cancer patients and can be customized for patients with other malignancies.

Environmental decisions and the work/life environment: a story of how the edge brought prioritisation to the fore

Finding your feet in the world of work/life balance is challenging. There are so many things to consider. Sometimes it feels like a disaster on all fronts. In reality we have to make trade-offs and prioritise between work and life but unfortunately doing this is not just common sense. Making good decisions hinges on a way of problem-solving steeped in decades of research in the fields of economics, applied mathematics, philosophy and psychology – known as decision analysis – an approach famously described as a formalisation of common sense for decision problems which are too complex for informal use of common sense. Examining environmental decisions through the lens of this approach is the focus of my groups’ research. In this reflective piece I share my struggle with the complex and dynamic trade-offs between work and family life, and outline the steps of decision analysis in this context drawing on parallels with my research in environmental decision-making.

Leaving the Bench and Finding Your Foundation

Scientists who leave the laboratory bench to work for biomedical foundations mobilize and focus resources on the most promising research behind a foundation's mission. They acquire a broad view of a field, interact closely with research scientists at meetings and laboratory visits, and often manage proposal review boards and monitor grant progress. Increasingly, scientists at foundations also have a more active role in catalyzing research: They are involved in organizing targeted workshops, setting research priorities, and directly creating and managing resources for a scientific community. They often work closely with patient advocacy groups, contract research organizations, government funders and regulators, and biotech and pharmaceutical companies.Job opportunities in foundations are highly varied, reflecting the diversity of foundations and missions. For example, some foundations have general missions to support broad basic scientific research, whereas others focus specifically on a particular disease and may require different skills. Most scientific positions at foundations require a PhD or MD and often some postdoctoral or other experience, although not all do. Foundations often lack the clear career path that an academic position offers (various levels of professorship, tenure, etc.), although there is often significant potential for growth in responsibilities in terms of managing science, people, and budgets. Jobs in foundations can be challenging yet extremely rewarding, especially for those with broad interests and goal-oriented personalities. Many at foundations feel that they have the potential to have an even greater impact than if they had stayed at the bench.

You + MAA = Finding Your Dream Job

"You + MAA = Finding Your Dream Job." Math Horizons, 25(2), p. 34 Additional informationNotes on contributorsAlexandra BranscombeAlexandra Branscombe is an MAA staff member.

Student life - Don’t get too worried about finding your first job

Not everyone is offered a job at the end of placement, but don’t give up

Reviews

Beth Ashmore reviews The Purpose-Based Library: Finding Your Path to Survival, Success and Growth; Scott Johnson reviews Metaliteracy in Practice; Catherine Johnson reviews Teaching Information Literacy Reframed: 50+ Framework-Based Exercises for Creating Information-Literate Learners; Adolfo G. Prieto reviews Dynamic Research Support for Academic Libraries.