Textbooks, Cell Phones, and Diapers: Being a Dad in Adolescent Fathers’ Own Words

In Their Own Words

The author reviews three books written during the 1990s which rely on oral history to explore the lives of Japanese picture brides, refugees, and female Native elders. This article reveals how these three works succeed in using oral history to give voice to the individuals from these non-hegemonic groups that had been neglected by scholars in the past. It also explores some of the pitfalls that...

Sound Change and Hierarchical Inference. What Is Being Inferred? Effects of Words, Phones and Frequency

Articulatorily-motivated sound change is modeled as the outcome of two processes: 1) automatization of word production, which occurs in every instance of word use, and thus affects highfrequency words most, and 2) hierarchical inference during learning, in which words and phones (defining word groups) are assigned blame/credit for experienced pronunciations. I show that, unless we assume that l...

In My Own Words: A Final Portfolio

In Their Own Words: Rural Adolescent Stressors and Relationship to Depressive Symptoms.

This study evaluated qualitative reports of stressful life events from young rural adolescents and examined the relationship between stressor themes and depressive symptoms. A phenomenological approach guided content analysis of qualitative data. Number of themes within each response was tabulated, and association with depressive symptoms was then examined. Stressors were categorized into four ...

P-45: Cell Phones and Male Infertility

Background: Cell phones have become a vital part of everyday life. However, the health risks associated with their usage are often overlooked. Materials and Methods: MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane Library and CINAHLPUBMED were searched for relevant trials published from respective database inception dates to Jun 2011. Results: Recently, evidence from several studies supports a growing claim that cel...