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Rickettsial pathogens and arthropod vectors of medical and veterinary significance on Kwajalein Atoll and Wake Island [PDF]

Micronesica, 2012
Modern surveys of ectoparasites and potential vector-borne pathogens in the Republic of the Marshall Islands and Wake Island are poorly documented. We report on field surveys of ectoparasites from 2010 with collections from dogs, cats, and rats.
Durden, L., Utter, C.M., Reeves, W.K.
doaj  

A Mixed Methods Study Exploring Nurse–Patient Interactions in Acute Hospital Settings When Electronic Health Record Systems Are Used

Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To describe the quality of nurse–patient interactions when nurses use Electronic Health Record systems in four acute hospital wards. Design An explanatory sequential mixed methods study. Methods Sixteen researcher observations were conducted using a published Quality of Interactions Schedule tool to evaluate the duration and quality of ...
Carol Forde‐Johnston, Dan Butcher, Ginny Mounce, Helen Aveyard   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evidence Gathering Under Competitive and Noncompetitive Rewards

Journal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reward schemes may affect not only agents' effort but also their incentives to gather information in order to reduce the riskiness of the productive activity. In a laboratory experiment using a novel task, we find that the relationship between incentives and evidence gathering depends critically on the availability of information about peers ...
Philip Brookins, Jennifer Brown, Dmitry Ryvkin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mutual fund director compensation

Journal of Financial Research, EarlyView.
Abstract We examine director compensation using a large sample of hand‐compiled U.S. mutual fund data. We find that director compensation is positively correlated with observable productive characteristics—workload, experience, and demographics—that capture the benefits from the directors’ monitoring effort.
John Adams, Sattar Mansi, Takeshi Nishikawa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Robust CDF‐Filtering of a Location Parameter

Journal of Time Series Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper introduces a novel framework for designing robust filters associated with signal plus noise models having symmetric observation density. The filters are obtained by a recursion where the innovation term is a transform of the cumulative distribution function of the residuals.
Leopoldo Catania, Andrew C. Harvey, Alessandra Luati   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Latent Profile Analysis of Generic Conspiracy Beliefs‐ Differences in Science Acceptance, Analytical and Intuitive Thinking

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The aims of the present study were to (i) identify profiles of belief in conspiracy theories, and to (ii) test whether the obtained profiles differed in analytical (rational ability, rational engagement, Cognitive Reflection Test) and intuitive thinking (experiential ability, experiential engagement), and science denial (vaccine, climate ...
Peter Karlsson, Torbjörn Josefsson, Sara Svensson, Linus Andersson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Anxiety is Associated With Biases in Task Generalization

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Adaptive behavior depends on generalizing learned task structures to novel situations. While anxiety is known to distort stimulus‐based threat generalization, its effects on task generalization—the transfer of learned action−outcome structures to new planning contexts—remain poorly understood.
Hadas Schiff, Paul B. Sharp
wiley   +1 more source

Infection with the Neorickettsial Organism Stellantchasmus falcatus Agent in an Arctic Fox (Vulpes lagopus)

Veterinary Clinical Pathology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A 1‐year‐old female‐intact arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus) presented for diarrhea, lethargy, severe thrombocytopenia, and hyperbilirubinemia. Blood film evaluation revealed intracytoplasmic coccoid bacteria within moderate numbers of leukocytes consistent with infection by a rickettsial organism.
Jeremy P. Bessett, Alexis G. Davidson, Alyssa M. Scagnelli, Kristen R. Friedrichs   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of audio versus audiovisual stimuli with or without face masking on judgements about different varieties of Asian English

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores ways in which multilingual English listeners react to and rate three varieties of Asian English in three presentational modes: audio only, audiovisual and audiovisual with a face mask. Using a speech intelligibility framework, the study examines the extent to which presentational mode affects intelligibility and listener ...
Jette G. Hansen Edwards, Mary L. Zampini
wiley   +1 more source

Birth of a scapegoat: An actor‐affect‐affordance model of symbolic attribution in the digital age

Political Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 4, August 2026.
Abstract How do scapegoating narratives emerge, diffuse, and solidify within digital media ecosystems? This paper introduces an actor‐affect‐affordance (3A) model to explain how complex social problems become symbolically attributed to marginalized groups.
Jack Gabriel Risien Wippell
wiley   +1 more source