Graduate Research Assistant Research Articles

Long-term effects of trauma: Psychosocial functioning of the second and third generation of Holocaust survivors

The long-term effects of extreme war-related trauma on the second and the third generation of Holocaust survivors (HS) were examined in 88 middle-class families. Differences in functioning between adult offspring of HS (HSO) and a comparison group, as well as the psychosocial functioning of adolescent grandchildren of HS, were studied. Degree of presence of Holocaust in the family was examined in families in which both parents were HSO, either mother or father was HSO, and neither parent was HSO. Mothers' Holocaust background was associated with higher levels of psychological distress and less positive parenting representations. In line with synergic (multiplicative) models of risk, adolescents in families where both parents were HSO perceived their mothers as less accepting and less encouraging independence, and reported less positive self-perceptions than their counterparts. They also perceived their fathers as less accepting and less encouraging independence, showed higher levels of ambivalent attachment style, and according to their peers, demonstrated poorer adjustment during military basic training than their fellow recruits from the one-parent HSO group. Parents and adolescents in the one-parent HSO group functioned similarly to others with no Holocaust background. Parenting variables mediated the association across generations between degree of Holocaust experience in the family of origin of the parents and ambivalent attachment style and self-perception of the adolescents. It is recommended that researchers and clinicians develop awareness of the possible traces of trauma in the second and the third generation despite their sound functioning in their daily lives.

Atanarjuat, the Fast Runner and Its Audiences

606 I’d like to thank my graduate research assistant, Jaime Warburton, for all sorts of help with this essay. 1. Although there are manymore differences than similarities between the work of the early years of the Native American Renaissance (1968 is the publication date of N. ScottMomaday’s novel,House Made of Dawn [New York, 1968], and 1969 is the year it won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction) and the efflorescence of Native American literatures since then, the phraseNative American Renaissance, first used by Kenneth Lincoln in hisNative American Renaissance (Berkeley, 1983), has become a commonplace. Atanarjuat, the Fast Runner and Its Audiences

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JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources AssociationVolume 42, Issue 3 p. 807-807 Free Access ERRATUM1 “ArcGIS-SWAT: A Geodata Model and GIS Interface for SWAP”2 Francisco Olivera, Francisco OliveraSearch for more papers by this authorMilver Valenzuela, Milver ValenzuelaSearch for more papers by this authorR. Srinivasan, R. SrinivasanSearch for more papers by this authorJanghwoan Choi, Janghwoan ChoiSearch for more papers by this authorHuidae Cho, Huidae ChoSearch for more papers by this authorSrikanth Koka, Srikanth KokaSearch for more papers by this authorAshish Agrawal, Ashish Agrawal Respectively, (Olivera) Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, (Valenzuela, Choi, Cho, Koka, Agrawal) Graduate Research Assistants, Texas A&M University, 3136 TAMU, College Station, Texas 77843; (Srinivasan) Associate Professor of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1500 Research Parkway, Suite 221E, College Station, Texas 77845 (E-Mail/Olivera: folivera@civil.tamu.edu).Search for more papers by this author Francisco Olivera, Francisco OliveraSearch for more papers by this authorMilver Valenzuela, Milver ValenzuelaSearch for more papers by this authorR. Srinivasan, R. SrinivasanSearch for more papers by this authorJanghwoan Choi, Janghwoan ChoiSearch for more papers by this authorHuidae Cho, Huidae ChoSearch for more papers by this authorSrikanth Koka, Srikanth KokaSearch for more papers by this authorAshish Agrawal, Ashish Agrawal Respectively, (Olivera) Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, (Valenzuela, Choi, Cho, Koka, Agrawal) Graduate Research Assistants, Texas A&M University, 3136 TAMU, College Station, Texas 77843; (Srinivasan) Associate Professor of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1500 Research Parkway, Suite 221E, College Station, Texas 77845 (E-Mail/Olivera: folivera@civil.tamu.edu).Search for more papers by this author First published: 08 June 2007 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-1688.2006.tb04496.xCitations: 1 1 Erratum No. 04087ER of the Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 2 Paper No. 04087 of the Journal of the American Water Resources Association 42(2):295–309. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article.Citing Literature Volume42, Issue3June 2006Pages 807-807 RelatedInformation

Fertilizer Concentration Affects Growth Response and Leaf Color of Tradescantia virginiana L.

ABSTRACT Little information is available on greenhouse or nursery production of the herbaceous perennial Tradescantia virginiana. Three cultivars of T. virginiana were grown with four nitrogen (N) rates of 15N-6.9P-14.1K (15-16-17) in an effort to find the range of nutrition for acceptable growth and flowering. Treatments were applied in 350 mL (11.8 oz.) aliquots when plants and pots weighed 70% to 80% of saturated weight. Nitrogen rates between 100 and 200 mg L− 1 resulted in marketable plants. ‘Blue Stone’ was the largest cultivar, in both height (cm) and dry weight (g). Nitrogen levels of 300 mg L− 1 stunted the growth of ‘Blue Stone,’ while ‘Red Cloud’ and ‘Angel Eyes’ were similar in size and the highest fertilizer rate did not reduce height. Foliage of ‘Angel Eyes’ had more green coloration, while the foliage colors of ‘Red Cloud’ and ‘Blue Stone’ were lower in hue angle (hue°) and thus had more yellowish-green coloration; ‘Angel Eyes’ also had the highest chroma at the experiment's end and the most attractive foliage. *Currently graduate research assistant in the Biological Sciences Department, Clemson University, Clemson, SC.

Integrating Undergraduate Research into Engineering: A Communications Approach to Holistic Education

AbstractThis paper describes the Research Communications Studio (RCS), a structured approach for teaching undergraduate researchers to do authentic written, oral, and graphical communications tasks while they are learning to do research. In the RCS, small groups of undergraduate researchers meet weekly with a communications faculty member, an engineering graduate student mentor, and a communications graduate research assistant. The project is built upon social constructivist theory that recognizes the interdependence between communication, cognitive development, and metacognition. It investigates knowledge construction within a small‐group context of distributed cognition, the concept that each group member's expertise is available to other group members. Data from surveys indicate that engineering faculty members, graduate student mentors, and undergraduate participants were very positive about the progress participants made in cognitive development and communications abilities. Analysis of participants' reflective writings shows the development of metacognitive abilities necessary for self‐directed, life‐long learning.

POSTHARVEST QUALITY AND SENSORY EVALUATION OF UV-TREATED TOMATO FRUIT

Pre-storage UV treatment has potential to control diseases in post-harvest crops. The objective of this work was to evaluate the quality of UV-treated tomato. Mature green tomato fruit (cv. Trust) were treated with a hormic dose of UV and stored at 13°C for 21 days. Sensory quality parameters such as sugar content, total soluble solids, titratable acidity and pH were assessed at regular intervals. At the end of the storage period, on day 21, a random sample of fruit was kept at 20°C for 72 hours simulating domestic handling. The latter fruit were used for sensory evaluation performed by a panel of graduate students and research assistants. Fruit of the same cultivar from a local market were used as reference. Over the storage period at 13°C no significant difference was observed between UV-treated fruit compared with the control for total soluble solids. A similar trend was observed for sugar content except on day 21 where UV-treated fruit displayed a significant decrease. The titratable acidity, expressed as citric acid, of UV-treated fruit tended to be lower than the control fruit, with a significant difference observed only on day 7 after treatment; whereas there was a significant increase in pH of UV treated fruit from day 4 until the end of the storage period. Sensory evaluation indicated that the UV-treated fruit had a moderately better texture and taste than control fruit, although the general appearance and color were rated significantly poorer than those of the control fruit.

A University-Based Model for Evaluating Inventions

There is a need for programmes that provide independent inventors with balanced, data-based evaluations of their early-stage ideas. These inventors do not have access to the evaluation processes used in many companies to assess whether or not an idea warrants further investment of time and resources. In addition, invention promotion services that focus on independent inventors are often costly; and some of these have been accused of fraud. The business school at the University of the Pacific (UOP) launched a pilot invention evaluation service (IES) in autumn 1999. The process used in the IES is based on new product development models used in companies, and addresses basic market, technical and financial potential. The programme benefits not only the community of inventors: because IES staff members are graduate research assistants, it also provides a unique experiential learning opportunity for students. This article details the design of the service and the manner in which it has been implemented at UOP. Data from surveys of the inventors who have been served over the past three years is presented, which indicates that they have found the IES to be very effective in improving their decision making. Other universities may benefit from establishing a similar programme.

A Coupled Approach to Developing Damage Prognosis Solutions

Funding for the Los Alamos Damage Prognosis Initiative is being provided by the Department of Energy through Laboratory Directed Research Development. In addition to the authors, the Damage Prognosis research team includes Los Alamos staff members Matt Bement, Irene Beyerlein, Norm Hunter, Cheng Liu, Brett Nadler, and Jeni Wait. Los Alamos graduate research assistants Tim Fasel, Jan Goethals and Trevor Tippetts, and. Professor Dan Inman and graduate student David Allen at Virginia Tech.

Traumatic Brain Injury

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Cross-linguistic perspectives on the development of text-production abilities

The studies reported in this volume of WL&L (5: 1–2, 2002) all derive from a joint project entitled “Developing literacy in different contexts and in different languages”, funded by the Spencer Foundation, Chicago. The study encompasses seven languages — Dutch, English, French, Hebrew, Icelandic, Spanish, and Swedish — for which data were collected in Europe, Israel, and the US by graduate research assistants in education, linguistics, and psychology, under the supervision of a project director in each country — each of whom is listed as a first or “lead” author in the articles which follow the introduction to this collection.

Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Classroom

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsPatrick T. TerenziniPatrick T. Terenzini is professor and senior scientist; Alberto F. Cabrera is associate professor and senior research associate; Carol L. Colbeck is assistant professor and research associate; Stefani A. Bjorklund is a graduate research assistant; and John M. Parente is a graduate research assistant. Center for the Study of Higher Education, The Pennsylvania State University.Alberto F. CabreraPatrick T. Terenzini is professor and senior scientist; Alberto F. Cabrera is associate professor and senior research associate; Carol L. Colbeck is assistant professor and research associate; Stefani A. Bjorklund is a graduate research assistant; and John M. Parente is a graduate research assistant. Center for the Study of Higher Education, The Pennsylvania State University.Carol L. ColbeckPatrick T. Terenzini is professor and senior scientist; Alberto F. Cabrera is associate professor and senior research associate; Carol L. Colbeck is assistant professor and research associate; Stefani A. Bjorklund is a graduate research assistant; and John M. Parente is a graduate research assistant. Center for the Study of Higher Education, The Pennsylvania State University.Stefani A. BjorklundPatrick T. Terenzini is professor and senior scientist; Alberto F. Cabrera is associate professor and senior research associate; Carol L. Colbeck is assistant professor and research associate; Stefani A. Bjorklund is a graduate research assistant; and John M. Parente is a graduate research assistant. Center for the Study of Higher Education, The Pennsylvania State University.John M. ParentePatrick T. Terenzini is professor and senior scientist; Alberto F. Cabrera is associate professor and senior research associate; Carol L. Colbeck is assistant professor and research associate; Stefani A. Bjorklund is a graduate research assistant; and John M. Parente is a graduate research assistant. Center for the Study of Higher Education, The Pennsylvania State University.

Solomon Carter Fuller, M.D. (1872-1953): American Pioneer in Alzheimer’s Disease Research

The appointment of Alois Alzheimer to Emil Kraepelin’s clinic and laboratory at the Royal Psychiatric Hospital, University of Munich in 1903 offered new opportunities for clinical and pathological studies of the brain. At the opening of the facility in 1904, Alzheimer selected five foreign visiting students as his graduate research assistants, among whom was an American, Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller. A glimpse of Fuller’s background as an African-American (born in Liberia) at the turn of the century, his continuing research after leaving Germany in 1906, and his critical view of the Alzheimer dementia entity are recounted. He was held in high esteem as a practicing neuropsychiatrist and teacher in the Boston area.

Ruling Allows Unions at Private Colleges

The National Labor Relations Board last week gave a nod to the first graduate students' union at a private university. The board's ruling that graduate teaching and research assistants at New York University qualify as "employees" potentially puts them on equal footing with colleagues at publicly funded campuses in more than 20 states. University administrators deplored the ruling, which thrilled labor organizers.

Particulates Generated from Combustion of Polymers (Plastics)

ABSTRACT Yiannis A. Levendis is a professor in the Department of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering at Northeastern University. He holds a B.S. and an M.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in environmental engineering from the California Institute of Technology. Brooke Shemwell is a graduate research assistant in the Department of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering at Northeastern University. This is an experimental study on the characterization of particulate (soot) emissions from burning polymers. Emissions of polystyrene (PS), polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastics were studied. Combustion took place in a laboratory-scale, electrically heated, drop-tube furnace at temperatures of 1300 and 1500 K, in air. The nominal bulk (global) equivalence ratio, φ, was varied in the range of 0.5-1.5, and the gas residence time in the nearly isothermal radiation zone of the furnace was ≈ 1 sec. The particulate emissions were size-classified at the exit of the furnace, using a multi-stage inertial particle impactor. Results showed that both the yields and the size distributions of the emitted soot were remarkably different for the five plastics burned. Soot yields increased with an increasing bulk equivalence ratio. Combustion of PS yielded the highest amounts of soot (most highly agglomerated), several times more than the rest of the polymers. More soot was emitted from PS at 1500 than at 1300 K. Substantial amounts of soot agglomerates were larger than 9 μm. At 1500 and 1300 K, 35 and 29% of the soot mass, respectively, was PM2 (2 μm or smaller). Emissions from PE and PP were remarkably similar to each other. These polymers produced very low emissions at f< 0.5, but emissions increased drastically with f, and most of the soot was very fine (70-97% of the mass was PM2, depending on f). Emissions from the combustion of PMMA were comparatively low and were the least influenced by the bulk f, and 79–95% of the emissions were PM2. Combustion of PVC yielded the lowest amounts of soot; moreover, only 13–34% of the mass was PM2. On a comparative basis, at 1500 K, the following ranges of particulate yields were PM2: 19–75 mg/g of PS, 8–36 mg/g of PE, 1.5–47 mg/g of PP, 11–20 mg/g of PMMA, and 2–8 mg/g of PVC, depending on f. These comparative results demonstrate that PS produces the highest amounts of fine particulates, followed by PP, PE, and PMMA, and then PVC. Burning these materials with excess oxygen drastically reduces the par-ticulate emissions of PE and PP, substantially reduces those of PS, and mildly reduces those of PMMA and PVC.

Green process uses ionic liquid and C0

Recovering nonvolatile organic compounds from a room-temperature ionic liquid without using organic solvents has been a major technical hurdle to the use of these environmentally benign liquids in chemical manufacturing. Now chemical engineers have solved the problem by using another environmentally benign solvent—supercritical carbon dioxide— to carry out such separations. The process was developed by Joan F. Brennecke, professor of chemical engineering, and Lynnette A. Blanchard, graduate research assistant, at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind., along with Eric J. Beckman, professor of chemical and petroleum engineering, and Dan Hancu, graduate research assistant, at the University of Pittsburgh [ Nature , 399, 28, (1999)]. Even though it has been shown that many chemical reactions can be carried out in ionic liquids, methods to recover the reaction products remain a challenge, Brennecke says. Water can be used to extract hydrophilic compounds. Distillation removes volatile compounds but ...

Memory Piece: Editing ESC, 1985–1989

MemoryTiece: •Editing ESC,1985-1989 ROWLAND MCMASTER University ofAlberta G o r d o n M o y les a n d I t o o k o v e r the editing of English Studies in Canada in 1985, but our experience with it stretched back to its beginnings. We had been in on the creation. By the time we became Secretary-Treasurer and President of ACCUTE, which was then known as ACUTE, in 1972, much groundwork for the journal had already been laid. Commit­ tees chaired by Professors Gerald McCaughey and Paul Fleck had examined all practical matters to do with a journal and prepared a brief to the Canada Council (these were the days before SSHRCC) showing the need for such a journal, its objec­ tives, and what it would cost. It was our business, then, to see that the Association’s wishes were carried out. The names of an Editor and of members ofan Editorial Board had to be sub­ mitted to the Canada Council by 1 October 1973. Paul Fleck’s committee worked expeditiously to come up with suggestions and prepare the application to the Council. And in a room at the Park Plaza Hotel in Toronto, the Executive held a lively meeting to discuss the results. From my office in Edmonton, I subsequently called Lauriat Lane Jr. at the University of New Brunswick to ask if he would take on the task of being Editor. And to our great good fortune, he agreed. He then put together a first-rate editorial team with James Woodfield as Managing Editor. At the 1974 Annual General Meeting, we were able to report to the membership ofACCUTE that the Canada Council had given a full grant to the Association’s new journal, which was to be called English Studies in Canada. Lauriat Lane was an admirable editor. He managed the journal with talent and aplomb, and I personally had good rea­ son to appreciate both the management and the talent. The ESC 25 (1999): 131-35 ESC 25, 1999 ACCUTE Executive occasionallyhonouredscholarswhohad made outstanding contributions to the profession, and someone had the good idea that it would be appropriate to accompany the honour with a biographical essay in ESC. I was asked to write the piece on F.E.L. Priestley. I did it as well as I could, and I submitted it to Laxry Lane. A short while later he phoned me and said, in effect, “it’s a pretty good essay but what would you say to moving the section on such a page to the end.” He was dead right. The essay now ended with personality and style. There was a good editor at work. When, after two terms in which the journal solidly estab­ lished itself as the major Canadian journal in English studies, the New Brunswick team was ready to hand over to someone else, the Chairman of my Department, David Jackel, called me one evening to say ACCUTE was looking for a new Editor. I allowed as how I knew that. He then said, “Why don’t you apply?” I said that I would think it over. My first move was to call Gordon Moyles with whom I had worked so well in the past to see if he would join me in this venture. We had tri­ umphed over difficulties before. I knew I could rely on Gordon, and our general outlooks blended happily. A pair of obsessivecompulsives , weboth liked to arrive at airports early—my wife, on the other hand, always chooses to board a train, a bus, or a plane with insouciance just as the doors are closing. She does have other virtues innumerable. But I digress. Gordon agreed to be Managing Editor if ACCUTE accepted our proposal. We then negotiated with the Chairofthe Department, whocame up trumps, as he very helpfully provided such essentials as space, a degree of secretarial help, and a number of graduate research assistants. The University’s administration also contributed a small but welcome amount of money. With these things as­ sured, and a potential Editorial team assembled, we then made our application to the ACCUTE Executive, and eventually the Executive approved. We took...

Recruitment of Primary Healthcare Physicians in Rural Areas

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsC. William RoeAnne Perch intends to work in healthcare administration. RamMohan R. Yallapragada is an associate professor in the Department of Accounting Betty Birkenmeier is a graduate student and research assistant in the Department of Management; Joel P. Authement is the Celeron Professor of Management; and C. William Roe is the associate dean and MBA director, all at the University of Southwestern Louisiana.

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:Learning Through Interaction: Technology and Children with Multiple Disabilities. Edited by Nick Bozic and Heather Murdoch.Psychology Discourse Practice: From Regulation to Resistance. By Erica Burman, Gill Aitken, Pam Alldred, Robin Allwood, Tom Billington, Brenda Goldberg, Angel Gordo López, Colleen Heenan, Deb Marks and Sam Warner.Mathematics Education: Models and Processes. By Lyn D. English and Graeme S. Halford.Actualizing Talent. A Lifelong Challenge. Edited by Joan Freeman, Pieter Span and Harald Wagner.Teaching our Children to Read: The Role of Skills in a Comprehensive Reading Program. By Bill Honig.The Psychology Research Handbook: A Guide for Graduate Students and Research Assistants in Psychology. By Frederick T. L. Leong and James T. Austin.Sage Publications/SRM Database of Social Research Methodology on CD‐ROM.The Balance Model of Dyslexia: Theoretical and Clinical Progress. Edited by R. Licht and G. Spyer.School for Women. By Jane Miller.Understanding Changes in Time: The Development of Diachronic Thinking in 7 to 12 Year‐old Children. By Jacques Montangero.Stress and Emotion: Anxiety, Anger and Curiosity. Volume 17. Edited by Charles D. Spielberger and Irwin G. Sarason.Autism: An Inside‐Out Approach. By Donna Williams.

Review of The Psychology Research Handbook: A Guide for Graduate Students and Research Assistants.

Review of The Psychology Research Handbook: A Guide for Graduate Students and Research Assistants.

Graduate assistant usage in Oklahoma graduate computer science programs

This paper is the result of a survey sent to the graduate teaching and research assistants at three computer science departments in the State of Oklahoma. The survey was designed to determine how the students were utilized by their departments, what the students felt about their experiences as a teaching or research assistant, and how their positions have impacted their educational experience. This paper presents and discusses the results of the survey.