LAURELS: 'One of the greatest zoologists of our time'
Journal describing Schoener as “one of the greatest zoologists of our time.”Schoener, a professor of evolution and ecology, and the department’s first chair, was one of the youngest scientists ever elected to the National Academy of Sciences. He has conducted research in the West Indies, Australia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Malaysia, Fiji, New Zealand and the United States.
“His contributions to theoretical ecology and evolutionary biology are immense … and he early on defined the ‘fundamental questions’ most ecologists ask of their organisms,” Copeia declared in an article about Schoener’s receiving the Fitch award for excellence in herpetology.
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John Dewey, distinguished professor emeritus of geology, has been named a fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences. In addition, he is due to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Rennes, France.
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The Association for Psychological Science plans ahead, announcing recently that it will present a 2012 James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award to UC Davis’ Gail Goodman, recognizing her for a lifetime of outstanding contributions to applied psychological research. Goodman is a distinguished professor of psychology.
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The American Ceramic Society has selected Zuhair Munir, a professor emeritus in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, to receive the 2011 W. David Kingery Award, recognizing career achievement in ceramic science.
The society comprises more than 9,500 scientists, engineers, researchers, manufacturers and others involved in ceramic components — often hidden but nevertheless critical in nearly everything that makes modern life possible, from computers, cell phones, jet engines and armor, to skis, tennis rackets and hip replacements, according to the society.
Munir joined the UC Davis faculty in 1972. He served as associate dean of Graduate Studies in the College of Engineering from 1980 to 2000, and as dean from 2000 to 2002.
He received the Faculty Research Lecture Award in 2006, and Dateline UC Davis reported at the time: “The current running through Munir's career is how electric fields can influence materials processing. He is interested in ways to make new kinds of materials with unique mechanical, optical or electrical properties.
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Bakerjian received the latter: the John A. Hartford Foundation Regional Geriatric Nursing Research Award for a New Researcher. It recognizes her use of interprofessional models to enhance the quality, safety and cost-effectiveness of care-delivery
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has acquired BNI, a database for nursing and midwifery in the UK. BNI – shortened from British Nursing Index - has been compiled through a partnership of the libraries at Bournemouth
Dr. Martin and two colleagues presented findings from their research on nursing home resident autonomy in the areas of smoking, dysphagia treatments, sexuality, and antipsychotic drugs at the annual conference of the American Society on Aging.
The forum, which is free and open to the public, is from 10 am to 12:30 pm in the Avaya Auditorium of the Applied Computational Engineering and Sciences Building, 24th Street and Speedway. A Cedar Park man was sentenced Wednesday to five years in
gym, sports science laboratory, dance, drama, music and video production studios, library and meeting rooms; new student accommodation in High Wycombe; and a new base for nursing students and applied healthcare research in Uxbridge, West London.
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Videotaping is used frequently in nursing research. A threat to the validity of videotaping is participant reactivity, that is, being recorded by a camera may influence the behavior of interest. This paper's purpose is to report how youth ages 10 to 14 years old and their parent viewed participation in a videotaped conflict-management task. Five dyads, who were part of a randomized clinical trial testing an intervention to promote parent-child communication, participated in a structured interview. All parents were mothers. Youth were eighth graders. Three were boys and two were girls. Findings indicated that (a) dyads felt that the videotaped interaction had a progression of feeling unnatural in the beginning to feeling natural toward the end, (b) dyads found it relatively easy to choose a topic of discussion, and (c) dyads felt that the discussions were meaningful. Based on these data, recommendations for researchers to reduce participant reactivity are provided.
3.3. ProcedureUpon approval by the University’s Institutional Review Board, five dyads who were scheduled for a sixth in-home data collection visit agreed to respond to questions about their experience with the videotaped conflict-management task. After the interview of the fifth dyad, no new ideas emerged. Data collection took place during a five-month period between January and May of 2009.
The parent and youth separately responded to the interview questions in order to prevent influencing one another. Each interview took approximately 15 minutes. The interview was audiotaped and transcribed. Each parent and each youth received a $25 US gift certificate to a local bookstore as a token of gratitude for sharing their experiences.
We conducted a conceptual content analysis, examining the interviews for words and phrases that described the videotaping experience [ 19 ]. The transcriptions were read at least twice by a research team of faculty and graduate and undergraduate students. The first reading was to gain an overall idea of the interview content. The second reading was to analyze the content for themes, commonalities, and differences. A summary table of the ideas conveyed was assembled with representative quotations supporting the ideas.
4. ResultsYouth and parents were diligent about their participation in the videotaped tasks, taking the task of trying to resolve a conflict while being videotaped more seriously as their participation in the study progressed. Dyads were consistent in their responses. The major ideas expressed by the dyads were that the interaction during the videotaping sessions became more natural with each occurrence; choosing a topic to discuss was not difficult; and the relationship between parent and youth was not perceived to have been affected or changed, despite the discussion being meaningful.
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