• PA student assessment of body mass index in children using visual cues 

  Berg, Gina M.; Casper, Paul; Ohlman, Evan; Schulte, Justin; Ahlers-Schmidt, Carolyn R.; Nyberg, Sue M.; Ekengren, Francie (Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc., 2017-10)

  Objective: Pediatric weight or body mass index often is underestimated by providers when relying solely upon visual cues. This study sought to determine physician assistant (PA) students' and recent graduates' ability to ...

• The social convoys of affordable senior housing residents: Fellow residents and ''Time Left'' 

  Drum, Jessica L.; Medvene, Louis J. (Taylor & Francis, 2017)

  Living in an affordable senior housing site is a viable option for older adults who want to age in a community setting. Affordable senior housing is subsidized housing provided in the United States by the federal government's ...

• Shifts in maximum audiovisual integration with age 

  Jansen, Samantha D.; Keebler, Joseph R.; Chaparro, Alex (Brill Academic Publishers, 2018)

  Listeners attempting to understand speech in noisy environments rely on visual and auditory processes, typically referred to as audiovisual processing. Noise corrupts the auditory speech signal and listeners naturally ...

• Usability comparison of conventional direct control versus pattern recognition control of transradial prostheses 

  White, Melissa Mae; Zhang, Wenjuan; Winslow, Anna T.; Zahabi, Maryam; Zhang, Fan; Huang, He; Kaber, David B. (IEEE, 2017-12)

  The goal of this study was to compare the usability of two control schemes for a transradial myoelectric prosthesis, including conventional direct control (DC) and pattern recognition (PR) control, when used by able-bodied ...

• Perceptions of community, social capital, and how they affect self-reported health: a multilevel analysis 

  Dziadkowiec, Oliwier; Meissen, Gregory J.; Merkle, Edgar C. (Elsevier, 2017-11)

  Objectives: The link between social capital and self-reported health has been widely explored. On the other hand, we know less about the relationship between social capital, community socioeconomic characteristics, and ...

• Detection of driver drowsiness using wearable devices: A feasibility study of the proximity sensor 

  He, Jibo; Choi, William; Yang, Yan; Lu, Junshi; Wu, Xiaohui; Peng, Kaiping (Elsevier Ltd., 2017-11)

  Background: Drowsiness is one of the major factors that cause crashes in the transportation industry. Drowsiness detection systems can alert drowsy operators and potentially reduce the risk of crashes. In this study, a ...

• The Empowering Schools Project: identifying the classroom and school characteristics that lead to student empowerment 

  Kirk, Chris Michael; Lewis, Rhonda K.; Brown, Kyrah K.; Karibo, Brittany; Scott, Angela; Park, Elle (SAGE Publications, 2017)

  In an education system marred by inequity, urban schools in the United States are faced with the challenge of helping students from marginalized groups succeed. While many strategies have been tried, most are built on ...

• The effects of gender, flow and video game experience on combat identification training 

  Plummer, John P.; Schuster, David; Keebler, Joseph R. (Taylor & Francis, 2017)

  The present study examined the effects of gender, video game experience (VGE), and flow state on multiple indices of combat identification (CID) performance. Individuals were trained on six combat vehicles in a simulation, ...

• Relationship between event type and mental health outcomes: Event centrality as mediator 

  Reiland, Sarah A.; Clark, Charles B. (Elsevier Ltd., 2017-08-01)

  Although stressful life events can trigger adverse mental health outcomes, many people will not develop symptoms of depression or Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), leading researchers to seek out factors that influence ...

• A behavioral economic assessment of individualizing versus binding moral foundations 

  Clark, Charles B.; Swails, Jeffrey A.; Pontinen, Heidi M.; Bowerman, Shannon E.; Kriz, Kenneth A.; Hendricks, Peter S. (Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved., 2017-07-01)

  The goal of the study was to determine if people's endorsement of different moral foundations influences their degree of prosocial behavior in a set of economic exchange games. Moral Foundations Theory has proven to be a ...

• The development of in vivo measures to assess the impact of sex-drive reducing medications in an offender with an intellectual disability 

  Rea, Jerry A.; Dixon, Michael R.; Zettle, Robert D.; Wright, Kasey L. (Springer International Publishing, 2017-04)

  The ability to adequately evaluate medications in the treatment of paraphilias has been limited by reliance upon self-report as a measure of effectiveness over periods of time that may be too short to detect reoffending. ...

• An integrated temporal model of belief and attitude change: an empirical test with the iPad 

  Xu, David Jingjun; Abdinnour, Sue; Chaparro, Barbara S. (Association for Information Systems, 2017-02)

  Bhattacherjee and Premkumar (2004) propose a temporal model of belief and attitude change to understand fluctuating patterns of information technology (IT) usage. However, they overlook the role of perceived enjoyment in ...

• Text input on a smartwatch QWERTY keyboard: tap vs. trace 

  Turner, Colton; Chaparro, Barbara S.; He, Jibo (Taylor & Francis LTD, 2017)

  This study examines text input performance on a smartwatch using tap and trace input methods on a standard QWERTY keyboard (Swype(TM)). Participants were either experts or novices to the tracing technique on their smartphone. ...

• Family dysfunction and suicide: Risk in a community corrections sample 

  Clark, Charles B.; Li, Ye; Cropsey, Karen L. (Hogrefe Publishing, 2016-11)

  Background: When comparted with the general population, the suicide rate in correctional populations is elevated. While predictors of suicide are well researched in jail and prison populations, much less work has been done ...

• Object relations predicts borderline personality disorder symptoms beyond emotional dysregulation, negative affect, and impulsivity 

  Huprich, Steven K.; Nelson, Sharon M.; Paggeot, Amy V.; Lengu, Ketrin J.; Albright, Jeremy J. (American Psychological Association, 2017-01)

  Many studies have determined that the traits of emotional dysregulation, negative affect, and impulsivity are the strongest predictors of borderline personality disorder (BPD). Although psychodynamic, empirically supported ...

• Randomized trial of parent training to prevent adolescent problem behaviors during the high school transition 

  Mason, W. Alex; Fleming, Charles B.; Gross, Thomas J.; Thompson, Ronald W.; Parra, Gilbert R.; Haggerty, Kevin P.; Snyder, James J. (American Psychological Association, 2016-12)

  This randomized controlled trial tested a widely used general parent training program, Common Sense Parenting (CSP), with low-income 8th graders and their families to support a positive transition to high school. The program ...

• Searching for information on the web: Impact of cognitive aging, prior domain knowledge and complexity of the search problems 

  Sanchiz, M.; Chin, J.; Chevalier, A.; Fu, W. T.; Amadieu, F.; He, Jibo (Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved., 2017-01)

  This study focuses on the impact of age, prior domain knowledge and cognitive abilities on performance, query production and navigation strategies during information searching. Twenty older adults and nineteen young adults ...

• Predictors of medication adherence and smoking cessation among smokers under community corrections supervision 

  Cropsey, Karen L.; Clark, Charles B.; Stevens, Erin N.; Schiavon, Samantha; Lahti, Adrienne C.; Hendricks, Peter S. (Elsevier B.V., 2017-02)

  Introduction: Individuals in the U.S. criminal justice system now represent over 12% of all current U.S. smokers. With smoking banned in most U.S. jails and prisons, the cessation focus for this population has shifted to ...

• The Experiential Approach Scale: development and preliminary psychometric properties 

  Swails, Jeffrey A.; Zettle, Robert D.; Burdsal, Charles A.; Snyder, James J. (Springer International Publishing, 2016-12)

  Several measures of experiential avoidance have been developed in investigating how efforts to control unwanted private events may contribute to psychopathology. We sought to extend research on experiential control by ...

• Meta-analyses of the effects of standardized handoff protocols on patient, provider, and organizational outcomes 

  Keebler, Joseph R.; Lazzara, Elizabeth H.; Patzer, Brady S.; Palmer, Evan M.; Plummer, John P.; Smith, Dustin C.; Lew, Victoria; Fouquet, Sarah; Chan, Y. Raymond; Riss, Robert (SAGE Publications Ltd., 2016-12)

  Objective: The overall purpose was to understand the effects of handoff protocols using meta-analytic approaches. Background: Standardized protocols have been required by the Joint Commission, but meta-analytic integration ...

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