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Geriatric Anxiety Scale: Development and Preliminary Validation of a Long-Term Care Anxiety Assessment Measure
Introduction: Anxiety symptoms and disorders are common in later-life but they often go undetected and untreated in long-term care settings. This may be linked to the lack of a go-to reliable anxiety screener validated for ... -
EFFICIENT MACHINE LEARNING INFERENCE FOR EMBEDDED SYSTEMS WITH INTEGER BASED RESTRICTED BOLTZMANN MACHINES CLASSIFIERS
Nowadays, there exist many emerging applications for embedded systems, such as computer vision and speech recognition, which heavily rely on machine learning classification. The typical approach to carry out machine learning ... -
Sharing Culture: Volunteer Cultural Mentorship of Refugees
Refugees resettled in the United States are entitled to services related to health, employment and education assistance organized at the federal level, and offered cultural mentorship from volunteers organized at the local ... -
Investigating The Reasons Women Wear Choker Necklaces
Choker necklaces have been around for centuries, carrying with them different cultural and societal connotations. However, little to no research investigates the reasons why women continue to wear choker necklaces today. ... -
ROBIN’S ADOLESCENT IDENTITY EXAMINED THROUGH CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
This research examines the social identity roles that are typically attributed to the popular Batman sidekick, Robin. This study looks at how each iteration of the character differs within the historical context of the ... -
Improved Equivalent-Circuit Models of Lithium-Ion-Iron-Phosphate Cells
Abstract Lithium-ion batteries allow energy storage with high power and energy density and are widely used for many energy-storage applications. Electric vehicles are one of the most common uses of lithium-ion battery packs ... -
ANXIETY BUFFER DISRUPTION: INTERPLAY BETWEEN NEUROCOGNITIVE FUNCTIONING AND WORLDVIEW DEFENSE IN POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
According to anxiety buffer disruption theory, traumatic experiences can disrupt one’s ability to manage anxiety. There are several studies finding that after reminders of death, individuals high in trauma symptoms respond ... -
Expression of a Heterologous Protein in Magnetospirillum magneticum, The
A protein foreign to Magnetospirillum magneticum AMB-1 magnetic bacterial cells was successfully expressed and showed normal function. Magnetococcus marinus were recently utilized to introduce chemotherapy drugs in covalently ... -
Relationships Among Normal and Abnormal Personality and Interpersonal Problems on Anxiety in Later Life
Introduction: Anxiety is a prevalent problem that has been found to be associated with multiple other clinical disorders. Personality traits and disorders, as well as interpersonal problems may play a significant role in ... -
Analysis of Sugars and Amino Acids in Aphid Honeydew by Hydrophilic Interaction Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry
The impact of phenology to herbivore abundance was studied on the subalpine plant Ligusticum porteri and the aphid herbivore Aphis asclepiadis to assess some of the impact of climate change on this herbivore-plant system. ... -
Age Differences in Caregiver Burden: The Role of Social Support, Preparation, and Social Contexts
Despite over a quarter of informal caregivers in the United States being young adults, a majority of caregiving research focuses on middle-aged and older adults. The limited literature on young adult caregivers indicates ... -
CasP: REALIZING CLIENT ASSISTED POLICY FOR SCALABLE LOAD BALANCING
Load balancer improves the distribution of the workload across multiple servers. Also, it aims to optimize the resources used, minimize the throughput, and the response time. In this thesis, we developed a realizing ... -
Is the Genetic Influence on Trauma-Related Symptoms Evident in Children? A Classical Twin Study
Twin studies and other behavior genetics methods have shown that heritable factors contribute to trauma-related (TR) symptoms in adults. The current investigation is the first to examine the heritability of TR symptoms in ... -
Validating the Reliable Change Index with Tensor-Based Morphometry
The Reliable Change Index (RCI) is a commonly used method for interpreting change in neuropsychological test scores over time. However, the RCI is a psychometric phenomenon that, to date, has not been validated by ... -
Comparing BMS Algorithm Implementations Based on Equivalent-Circuit and Physics-Based Models
As hybrid and electric vehicles gain popularity and increase in production, the demand to improve lithium-ion battery performance is continuously increasing. Traditionally, the performance of these batteries has been ... -
VALIDATION OF THE STATISTICAL ANXIETY SCALE AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS IN THE UNITED STATES
With the expansion of statistics education in colleges, students are faced with a subject that creates anxiety and fear among many. Statistics anxiety is a growing concern that has the potential to affect performance on ... -
Transnational Mexican Foodscapes in Colorado Springs
Migration appears to be a straightforward act of people moving to a new geographic location, but upon further exploration, it is a complex performance with multiple actors across space. Transnationalism is an aspect of ... -
Guilty by Association: Examining the Effects of Defendant Race and Prior Record Knowledge on Jury Decision-Making
Jurors, like all members of society, possess certain implicit biases that they cannot simply abandon once they have entered the court room, and a wealth of current research explores factors that influence jury decision ... -
Dementia-related Anxiety and Advance Care Planning
One of the reasons people may worry about being diagnosed with dementia is the lack of control associated with these diagnoses. If dementia-related anxiety (DRA) develops because of the associated declines in independence ... -
Face-Name Learning In Older Adults: Does Participant Awareness Change The Hyper-Binding Effect?
Aging has been associated with a decreased ability to remember face-name associations. Recent work by Weeks, Biss, Murphy, and Hasher (2016) provides evidence for a beneficial effect of hyper-binding on older adults’ name ...
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