Nurse practitioners (NPs) are beholden to the scholarly works of others. From the time as a student with formal course papers through the time of practice and into the time of authorship, the knowledge gained from those before us has shaped our thinking and decision making and has directly influenced our work. As professionals, NPs are expected to be effective stewards of the profession by cont...

With the embedding of EEG (electro-encephalography) sensors in wireless headsets and other consumer electronics, authenticating users based on their brainwave signals has become a realistic possibility. We undertake an experimental study of the usability and performance of user authentication using consumer-grade EEG sensor technology. By choosing custom tasks and custom acceptance thresholds f...

We annotate individual posts following the approach in [1], [2]. Tweets are grouped by topic based on included topic hashtags. For example, tweets relating to the topic of president Barack Obama contain the hashtag #obama within them. The topic-related tweets often contain other hashtags which we assign a preliminary sentiment probability (positive and negative) using the Multinomial Naive Baye...

Building on intergroup emotion research, we test the idea that intergroup emotion influences self-categorization. We report two studies using minimal (Study 1) and natural (Study 2) groups in which we measured participants' emotional reactions to a group-relevant event before manipulating the emotional reactions of other ingroup members and outgroup members (anger vs. happiness in Study 1; ange...

The urbanization of landscapes filters bird communities to favor particular species traits, driven in part by the changes that homeowners make amount and quality habitat yards. We suggest an ultimate driver these proximate mechanisms underlying community change with respect is likeability traits urban residents. hypothesize likeability, modulated influences degree which alter availability on th...