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Maternal Neural and Parasympathetic Regulation and Parenting Stress
We examined the relation between maternal neural (delta-beta coupling [coupling]) and autonomic (respiratory sinus arrhythmia [RSA]) regulatory processes and mothers’ parenting stress longitudinally. It was expected that ... -
Undergraduate Student Motivation for Social Science Research Methods
The purpose of this study is to understand the relationship between the students’ reasons for taking an undergraduate research methods course (USRMC) and their course motivation regarding whether they are an applied social ... -
Seeking Sustainable Urban Renewal: an anthropological study of neighborhood change
Urban restructuring in Cincinnati has primarily been enacted as corporate-led gentrification, widening socio-economic disparities and displacing lower-income populations. One Cincinnati community is challenging this process ... -
The Effect of Drop-Set Training on Muscle Activation and Muscle Fatigue
Muscle Fatigue is the inability of a muscle to generate force or power to maintain the quality of movement. Muscle fatigue can significantly limit physical performance in daily activities of living, during physical ... -
Influence of Early Life Stress on a Mouse Model of Binge Alcohol Drinking
The current study examined whether exposure to an early life stressor in mice increases compulsive alcohol drinking in adulthood. -
The Effects of Practice Start Times on Athlete Drinking Behavior
Student-athletes represent a high-risk sub-population on college campuses for alcohol misuse. In contrast to their non-athlete peers, student-athletes have a number restrictions placed on their time. The drinking culture ... -
Seeing the Complex Person Within: Changing Caregiver Perceptions of Memory Care Residents
I spent 42 hours as a volunteer visitor with memory care assisted living at The Lutheran Home in Wauwatosa, WI. I took detailed notes on my observations and interactions with caregivers and staff. This led me to the ... -
High Mobility Low Cost Polarimeter
Knowing the polarization of a light beam is essential for BEC optical mechanics and fiber coupling. To entrap the atoms in a MOT six beams of equal strength and polarization are required. With polarity maintaining fibers ... -
Positive Consequences of Drinking on Social Connection
Alcohol may stimulate social bonding, increase the amount of time people spend talking to one another, and reduces displays of negative emotions (Sayette 2012). Individual and group interactions were assessed using the ... -
Because You Can, You Should: A Beauvoirian Ethics of Food
The freedom to act in humans and the inability to act in nature imposes the moral responsibility on humans to return to nature that which they have used or ruined and improve upon it for future generations and the preservation ... -
Preventing burnout in hospice: Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for family caregivers
The presence of "caregiver burnout" for family caregivers of terminally ill patients has been defined as a pathological condition, but little is known about its long term effects or prevention. This study explores the use ... -
ASIS Stress Reaction in Female Basketball Player
Background: A 19 year-old NCAA Division I female basketball player (188cm, 61kg) reported proximal Quadriceps femoris (Quad) and hip discomfort for several days in her right leg whilst running 300 meters. Initially, the ... -
Effects of Sex on Resistance to Punished Alcohol-Seeking
To further study the relationship between sex differences in relation to alcohol consumption and resistance to punishment, an operant conditioning paradigm was used. -
Stereotype Threat and Task Stereotype Threat and Task Performance: How Calvin Klein Models Affect the Average Joe
13 male-identified individuals of all ages participated in the study. In quantitative analysis, no significant changes were found between experimental groups. Interviews were coded qualitatively by three categories: ideal ... -
The Impact of Perceived Self-Efficacy on Regret
The purpose of this study was to shed light on the relationship between perceived self-efficacy and regret. I measured regret by its two subcomponents, cognitive regret and affective regret . I hypothesized first that as ... -
Effects of taste aversion on alcohol seeking behavior in mice
This study explores the sex differences in aversion-resistant drinking. Mice were used in an operant conditioning setting in order to study these differences. We found that female mice exhibited aversion-resistance behavior ... -
Linguistic Differences in the Production of Narratives by Adolescents with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder
Adolescents with (n=20) and without (n=20) autism spectrum disorder (ASD), matched for age, intelligence, and language, produced narratives during the Trier Social Stress Test that were analyzed for pronoun use, mental ...