The academy is generationally diversifying as Baby Boomer faculty members continue to move into retirement and younger faculty enter the workforce. People are dispositionally inclined to explain differences they perceive in...
Subject:
Universities and colleges -- Faculty -- Job satisfaction -- Age factors, College teachers -- Job satisfaction -- Age factors, and College teachers -- United States -- Attitudes
As urban development continues to dominate landscapes across the United States, wildlife species are changing their behavior in many ways. Urban animals are often bolder, or less fearful of new stimuli, than rural animals....
Keyword:
Behavior, Boldness, FID, Rural, Song sparrow, and Urbanization
Subject:
Birds -- Flight, Song sparrow, Birds -- Behavior, and Urban development
In forests of the southern Appalachians, myrmecochory, or ant-mediated seed dispersal, is a diffuse mutualism between more than 42 species of plants and ants of the genus Aphaenogaster. Myrmecochores produce lipid-rich...
Keyword:
Aphaenogaster, Elaiosome, Herb Diversity, Myrmecochory, Rich Cove Forests, and Southern Appalachians
Subject:
Ants -- Behavior -- Environmental aspects -- North Carolina, Western, Seed dispersal by ants -- North Carolina, Western, and Mutualism (Biology) -- North Carolina, Western
The effects of parental care on reproductive success is well studied. Nest building is an important aspect of parental care in birds, but it is not well understood how variation in nest building behavior impacts their...
Grandparental investment in grandchildren is a topic of interest within the field of evolutionary psychology. Studies have shown a consistent pattern of differences when it comes to each grandparent’s investment levels...
Keyword:
Altruism, Grandchildren, Grandparent, Investment, Preferential, and Relatedness
Subject:
Grandparents, Grandparent and child, Families, and Evolutionary psychology
Though much is known about the addictive properties of nicotine, much remains to be learned about its effects on various cognitive processes, especially as they might differ between adolescents and adults. The purpose of this...
Keyword:
Cognition and Nicotine
Subject:
Cognition -- Effect of drugs on and Nicotine -- Physiological effect
Individuals who have had a traumatic experience are more likely to report psychological maladjustment, such as posttraumatic stress (Marx & Sloan, 2003). However, not everyone who experiences a traumatic event will develop...
Keyword:
coping self-efficacy, perceived social support, symptoms, and trauma
Subject:
Psychic trauma, Post-traumatic stress disorder, and Social networks
This study explores the influence of surface charge on the adsorption mechanism of Cu(II) onto ground peanut hulls at different pH values. Ground hulls can be separated into two types based on their density. For both types of...
Keyword:
adsorption, biosorption, copper, peanut hulls, pH, and surface charge
Subject:
Adsorption, Copper, Hydrogen-ion concentration, and Peanuts
Mental training is an important part of preparation for many high achieving athletes (Orlick & Partington, 1988). The aim of the present study was to build upon previous research suggesting that mental skills need to be...
Keyword:
golf, mental skills training, self-talk, sport psychology, and visualization
Rhododendron or great laurel is a common evergreen shrub found throughout eastern North America. Although native, rhododendron has been increasing in the Southern Appalachian Mountains landscape due to fire suppression,...
Keyword:
Population Density, Rhododendron, and Salamanders
Subject:
Salamanders -- Ecology -- Appalachian Region, Southern, Salamanders -- Ecology -- North Carolina, Western, Rhododendrons -- Ecology -- Appalachian Region, Southern, and Rhododendrons -- Ecology -- North Carolina, Western
