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Item AMS :: ATX August 2011 Blog Archive(2011-08) Department of American StudiesAMS :: ATX is a blog dedicated to representing the many activities and interests of the department of American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Together with the department’s Twitter feed, this blog exists to serve the AMS and Austin communities by acting as a hub for up-to-date information on events and opportunities at UT and beyond. This archive includes the following blog posts: AMS :: ATX is here! (August 29, 2011); 6 TV Shows American Studies Scholars Should Watch (August 29, 2011); Read This: Brain Pickings (August 29, 2011); Grad Research: Deep in the Wonder Book of Knowledge (August 31, 2011).Item AMS :: ATX December 2011 Blog Archive(2011-12) Department of American StudiesAMS :: ATX is a blog dedicated to representing the many activities and interests of the department of American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Together with the department’s Twitter feed, this blog exists to serve the AMS and Austin communities by acting as a hub for up-to-date information on events and opportunities at UT and beyond. This archive includes the following blog posts: Grad Research: The Archive of Childhood (December 1, 2011); Grad Research: The End of Austin, a Collaborative Documentary Project (December 5, 2011); List: 7 Films from 2011 that American Studies Scholars Should See (December 12, 2011).Item AMS :: ATX September 2011 Blog Archive(2011-09) Department of American StudiesAMS :: ATX is a blog dedicated to representing the many activities and interests of the department of American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Together with the department’s Twitter feed, this blog exists to serve the AMS and Austin communities by acting as a hub for up-to-date information on events and opportunities at UT and beyond. This archive includes the following blog posts: 12 Twitterers American Studies Folks Should Follow (September 1, 2011); Faculty Research: Radical Children's Literature Now! (September 7, 2011); 5 Questions with Department Chair Steven Hoelscher (September 8, 2011); 5 Maps for the Visually Inclined (September 14, 2011); Watch This: Bodega Down Bronx (September 16, 2011); AMS Events this Week (September 20, 2011); 5 Questions wiht Dr. Randy Lewis (September 21, 2011); Grad Research: War Documentaries and [Un]realism (September 27, 2011).Item Avondale LHouse(Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, 1980) Smith, Bert Kruger; Culler III, Ralph E.Item Business Sustainability Practices through Media Based Stakeholder Engagement: Maximizing Positive Social Impacts Via Locally Produced Educational Media for Young Citizens(2021) Lazo-Herencia, Sandra Estefanía; Keating, Elizabeth; Spinuzzi, ClayIn the present shifting role of business, especially post Covid-19, companies operating in developing countries can maximize the impacts of their social investment strategies in communities by addressing early-childhood capabilities development. Research shows that early childhood intervention can determine the reaching of full developmental potential by children, and as thus can have major impacts on the overall development of a nation. For this reason, it is recommendable to invest in programs that support the learning and development of the youngest stakeholders in a project area, children—especially of early childhood age, defined as a child’s first few years of life. Based off my experience working in education / outreach over many years, I have come to understand that messaging can be strengthened and broadened through supplementary educational materials such as locally-produced short-form video format because it is easily shareable, economically sound, and effective. Furthermore, incorporating local talent for the development and production of creative media can help secure adults’ collaboration and engagement, as well as assure the materials are culturally contextualized and appropriate for the age group. Through this investment in creative educational media production, both children and adults can engage, learn, and benefit from socially and culturally meaningful messages, in form and content. After a literature review to provide background and evidence for the problem and solution, I use an auto-ethnography and case study as evidence for solutions. I also include practical reflections on how to proceed in stakeholder engagement in countries where companies operate, in beneficial combination for all parties involved. The practical proposal is the use of locally produced short-form educational videos, which have an impactful and cost-efficient way to bolster stakeholder learning, especially where access to physical infrastructure and trained teachers may fall short. My personal field-work experience in a water quality research project in Peru, and recent field-work to develop stakeholder engagement materials in a liquified natural gas (LNG) development project in northern Mozambique, provide evidence to the value of investing in locally produced educational media. I, further, reflect on the importance of remembering to provide sufficient care and attention to an often-overlooked stakeholder-group, children. I urge that to maximize educational investments, a focus on early childhood is required for social and economic impacts on society as a whole. This paper’s front-end brackets and contextualizes both field experiences, to later contextualize policy, theory, finance, and sustainability frameworks, the SDGs, and how it all relates. Its second part focuses on soft-infrastructure and human-capabilities investment opportunities, child development, value of investing in education, and the power of video media as a learning tool. It concludes with ways to create locally produced successful learning media and reasons to invest in local artistic production of educational tools. As a final part of the paper, I have included appendices which focus on practical field-based take-aways. In Appendix A, I further describe the two projects I conducted, and some takeaways from those individual projects. Appendix B, contains methodological recommendations for producing educational vided, and finally, Appendix C is a photo-journal of the narrated experiences.Item Carta con resultados preliminares del muestreo suelos(2006) Martínez, Dr. Fernando Díaz-BarrigaItem Children growing up in socioeconomically disadvantaged families and from marginalized racial/ethnic groups tend to have epigenetic profiles associated with a faster pace of biological aging(University of Texas at Austin Population Research Center, 2023) Raffington, Laurel; Tanksley, Peter T.; Sabhlok, Aditi; Vinnik, Liza; Mallard, Travis; King, Lucy S.; Goosby, Bridget; Harden, Kathryn P.; Tucker-Drob, Elliot M.Item A Conversation with Martin Manosevitz: On Stepfamilies(Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, 1998) Hogg Foundation for Mental HealthItem A Conversation with Patricia H. Berne and Louis M. Savary: Caring: Building Children's Self-esteem(Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, 1985) Hogg Foundation for Mental HealthItem A Conversation with Urie Bronfenbrenner: To Nurture Children(Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, 1977) Hogg Foundation for Mental HealthItem Early Elementary Years and the Social World Around Them(2019) Dyer, KelliItem En Abra Pampa la mayoria de los chicos tiene plomo en la sangre(2007-09-02) Camps, Sibila; ClarínItem Estudio Epidemiologico(2000) Barberis, SaraItem Estudio sobre Contaminacion Ambiental por Plomo en Niños de la localidad de Abra…(2006) Barberis, Sara; Piñeiro, Adriana; López, Clara MagdalenaItem Executive Functions In Children With ADHD Or Internalizing Symptoms(2018-05) Barnes, EmilyChildren with disorders such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), anxiety, or depression often struggle academically and face poorer life outcomes. Impaired cognition in children with disorders could be the result of deficits in executive functions (EFs). EFs are attentional processes that coordinate and control other cognitive processes, and support goal directed behaviors. Large behavioral studies have reported four main factors of EF: inhibitory control, switching, working memory, and updating. Literature is mixed as to whether ADHD and internalizing disorders such as anxiety or depression are related to consistent EF difficulties. The strongest evidence is that ADHD may be linked with inhibitory control and working memory deficits, while anxiety and depression may be linked with switching and working memory deficits. This study examined the relationships between three tests of EF ability and symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity/impulsivity, and internalizing problems in children, using continuous measures of symptom burdens and EF abilities. Response times on the switching task related most strongly to disorder symptom burdens, with faster responses correlated with lower parent rated ADHD symptom burdens and higher self-rated internalizing symptom burdens. However, these scores were not significantly different based on presence or absence of a diagnosis. Our results indicate that continuous measures of symptom burdens across a large sample of children were more sensitive than diagnostic information in identifying relationships between EF abilities and symptoms of ADHD and internalizing disorders. Results are discussed in the context of diagnosis, EF variability, and child-parent scoring consistency.Item Experimenting with Cigarettes and Physical Activity Among Mexican Origin Youth: A Cross Sectional Analysis of the Interdependent Associations Among Sensation Seeking, Acculturation, and Gender(2012-05) Wilkinson, Anna V.; Okeke, Nnenna L.; Springer, Andrew E.; Stigler, Melissa H.; Gabriel, Kelley P.; Bondy, Melissa L.; Prokhorov, Alexander V.; Spitz, Margaret R.; Wilkinson, Anna V.; Okeke, Nnenna L.; Springer, Andrew E.; Stigler, Melissa H.; Gabriel, Kelley P.Sensation seeking tendencies tend to manifest during adolescence and are associated with both health-compromising behaviors and health-enhancing behaviors. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the relationship between sensation seeking and physical activity, a health-enhancing behavior, and between sensation seeking and experimenting with cigarettes, a health compromising-behavior, among a cohort of Mexican origin adolescents residing in the United States with different levels of acculturation. Methods: In 2009, 1,154 Mexican origin youth (50.5% girls, mean age 14.3 years (SD = 1.04)) provided data on smoking behavior, physical activity, linguistic acculturation, and sensation seeking. We conducted Pearson's chi(2) tests to examine the associations between categorical demographic characteristics (i.e. gender, age, country of birth and parental educational attainment) and both cigarette experimentation and physical activity and Student's t-tests to examine mean differences on the continuous variables (i.e. sensation seeking subscale) by the behaviors. We examined mean differences in the demographic characteristics, acculturation, and both behaviors for each of the sensation seeking subscales using analysis of variance (ANOVA). To examine relationships between the sensation seeking subscales, gender, and both behaviors, at different levels of acculturation we completed unconditional logistic regression analyses stratified by level of acculturation. Results: Overall, 23.3% had experimented with cigarettes and 29.0% reported being physically active for at least 60 minutes/day on at least 5 days/week. Experimenting with cigarettes and being physically active were more prevalent among boys than girls. Among girls, higher levels of sensation seeking tendencies were associated with higher levels of acculturation and experimentation with cigarettes, but not with physical activity. Among boys, higher levels of sensation seeking tendencies were associated with higher levels of acculturation, experimenting with cigarettes and being physically active. Conclusions: Our results suggest that interventions designed to prevent smoking among Mexican origin youth may need to address social aspects associated with acculturation, paying close attention to gendered manifestations of sensation seeking.Item Hogg Foundation News, 1989, No. 3(Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, 1989) Hogg Foundation for Mental HealthItem Home is Where the Hope Is(Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, 1996) Coleman, Marion TolbertItem How Much Household Instability Do Children Experience While Growing Up?(University of Texas at Austin Population Research Center, 2019-12) Raley, R. Kelly; Weiss, Inbar; Reynolds, Robert; Cavanagh, Shannon E.Item How to Conduct a Baby Health Conference, Department of Extension(University of Texas at Austin, 1916-01-15) The University of Texas at Austin
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