The Female Condom Attitudes Scale is an instrument comprising five correlated factors derived from 15 Likert-scale survey items that measure women's attitudes toward the female condom. This scale originated from the 30-item scale of Choi, Gregorich, Anderson, Grinstead, and Gómez (2001; manuscript under review). Exploratory factor analysis of this scale extracted eight correlated factors. Relia...

This paper presents a methodology of mapping population-centric social, infrastructural, and environmental metrics at neighborhood scale. This methodology extends traditional survey analysis methods to create cartographic products useful in agent-based modeling and geographic information analysis. It utilizes and synthesizes survey microdata, sub-upazila attributes, land use information, and gr...

Conserving and restoring submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) are keymanagement goals for estuaries worldwide because SAV integrates many aspects of water quality and provides a wide range of ecosystem services. Management strategies are typically focused on aggregated abundance of several SAV species, because species cannot be easily distinguished in remotely sensed data. Human land use and shor...

Aerial survey data from 198 1 to 1997 of an increasing harbor seal (Phoca vitulina concolor) population in Penobscot and Blue Hill bays, Maine, were used to evaluate spatial and temporal patterns of use of pupping sites by mother-pup pairs. Pupping sites refer to haul-out sites where pups were observed during surveys, and are assumed to be used consistently from birth to weaning. Sites with pup...

Issues related to the scale of ecological phenomena are of fundamental importance to their study. The causes and consequences of environmental change can, of course, be measured at different levels and along multiple scales. While the natural sciences have long understood the importance of scale, research regarding scale in the social sciences has been less explicit, less precise, and more vari...

this study aimed to determine the effectiveness of schema therapy in the treatment of social anxiety disorder. method: the research method was a single-case experimental design with multiple baselines. five clients were selected by purposive sampling method. they were received 20 individual sessions based on young's schema therapy model. the social phobia inventory (spin), liebowitz social anxi...

[1] In aerial surveys conducted during the Tropical Ocean–Global Atmosphere Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment and the low-wind component of the Coupled Boundary Layer Air-Sea Transfer (CBLAST-Low) oceanographic field programs, sea surface temperature (SST) variability at relatively short spatial scales (O(50 m) to O(1 km)) was observed to increase with decreasing wind speed. A unique...

14 Housing development beyond the urban fringe (i.e. exurban development) is one of the fastest 15 growing forms of land-use change in the United States. Exurban development’s attraction to 16 natural and recreational amenities has raised concerns for conservation and represents a potential 17 threat to wildlife. Although forest-dependent species have been found particularly sensitive to 18 low...

This study aims to suggest a method to choose what items can be removed from a survey instrument, thereby lessening survey participants’ burden. We used the Taiwanese Patient Safety Culture (TPSC) survey as an example—in particular, the emotional exhaustion (EE) and work–life balance (WLB) domains. A traditional factor analysis approach, whereby a Likert scale is treated as a linear variable, w...

Methods MIL was implemented in a low income, urban neighborhood with 3rd grade students (n=41) in a school under academic emergency with many behavior problems. A pre to post test single group design with a 2 month follow up measure was used to investigate the behavioral changes in the children. The MIL program utilized a standardized protocol consisting of mindfulness meditation, yoga movement...