OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of age on the efficacy of the computerized, infant simulator doll Baby Think It Over (BTIO) for increasing middle school girls' knowledge about the responsibilities of parenthood and discouraging plans for teen childbearing. We hypothesized: 1) 8th grade students would be less apt than 6th grade students to equate BTIO care with mothering because they would rat...

*Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, USA. E-mail: [email protected] **Department of Public Administration, University of North Texas, 204N Chilton Hall, 410 Avenue C, Denton, TX 76201, USA. E-mail: [email protected] ***Department of Sociology, University of California – Irvine, SSPA 2145, Irvine, CA 92697, USA. E-mail: bu...

BACKGROUND/CONTEXT Across the United States, secondary school curricula are intensifying as a growing proportion of students enroll in high-level academic math courses. In many districts, this intensification process occurs as early as eighth grade, where schools are effectively constraining their mathematics curricula by restricting course offerings and placing more students into Algebra I. Th...

We examined developmental and individual differences in 6th and 8th graders' fraction arithmetic and overall mathematics achievement and related them to differences in understanding of fraction magnitudes, whole number division, executive functioning, and metacognitive judgments within a cross-sectional design. Results indicated that the difference between low achieving and higher achieving chi...

Abstracts of the 45th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology Stress and the Brain: From Fertility to Senility John McIntyre Conference Centre, Edinburgh, 8th 10th September 2015 Disciplines Medicine and Health Sciences | Social and Behavioral Sciences Publication Details Larkin, T. & Thomas, S. (2015). The relative predictive validity of oxytocin and cortisol as...

We propose a convolution model for the blocking artifacts in compressed images and videos, and a cepstral filtering algorithm for reducing the artifacts. Since each of the horizontal or vertical line of the compressed image has abrupt changes at almost every 8th samples, it can be modeled as a convolution of the original sequence with an excitation signal of periodicity 8. Comparison of the cep...

Normal aging is accompanied by renal functional and morphological deterioration and dietetic manipulation has been used to delay this age-related decline. We examined the effects of chronic administration of diets containing 5% lipid-enriched diet (LD, w/w) on renal function of rats at different ages. Three types of LD were tested: canola oil, fish oil and butter. Mean systemic tail-cuff blood ...

Grounded in stage-environment fit theory, this study adopts a longitudinal design to examine the contribution of autonomy support from teachers to reducing adolescent anxiety and depression. A total of 236 Chinese adolescents (57.38% females, Mage = 14.34) completed questionnaires on teacher autonomy support, basic psychological needs satisfaction, school engagement, anxiety, and depression in ...

Abstract of a presentation at the 45th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology Stress and the Brain: From Fertility to Senility John McIntyre Conference Centre, Edinburgh, 8th 10th September 2015. Disciplines Medicine and Health Sciences | Social and Behavioral Sciences Publication Details Thomas, S., Larkin, T. & Leeson, P. (2015). The role of biological factors...