In this body of research, reproductive and adrenal hormones and behavior were used to evaluate individual and group responses to physiological, social, and environmental changes in zoo-housed Asian elephants, considering factors of sex, age, and life stage. Animals experience ph…
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Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have difficulty learning social, behavior, and communication skills. These difficulties may manifest in various ways and, in some circumstances, lead to problematic sexual behavior (PSB). PSB are behaviors that occur at an inapprop…
Cultural transmission has long been a key organizing principle within anthropology, but the effort to formalize cultural transmission models and fit them to archaeological data is more recent, stimulated by work by Robert Dunnell in the 1970's. Since then, the use of cultural tr…
Risky sexual behavior (RSB) is a major public health concern due to health outcomes, such as HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections, and unwanted pregnancies. RSB has been identified as 1 of the main components contributing to the high HIV incidence rate in sub-Saharan Africa…
Despite the high prevalence of co-occurring anxiety in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), little is known about parental preferences for treatment in addressing these anxiety concerns. Understanding parents’ preferences for treatment is an important factor to consider…
Functional communication training (FCT) has long been empirically supported as a best-practice approach for treating problem behavior and teaching alternative more appropriate forms of communication. However, the modality that is selected for the functional communication respons…
This dissertation describes the forces that shape the perceptions and practices in Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WaSH) services in the community of Sulphur Springs, Tampa, Florida. It also explores how these forces, perceptions, and practices produce adverse experiences and in…
Background: Contemporary research findings affirm that young adults aged 18 to 24 years have high prevalence of new HIV infections. Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) medication is the latest strategy in HIV prevention. Rates of PrEP uptake or use have been negligible among univers…
Noncontingent reinforcement (NCR) is an antecedent manipulation used to decrease problem behaviors. NCR is often used as an intervention for severe problem behaviors that are too dangerous to risk the possibility of extinction-induced side effects. During an NCR procedure, reinf…
Stigmatization, labelling, and stereotyping have been recognized through historical literature as categories that classify recovering counselors with the status of a second-class citizen. One of the subtle impacts of stigmatization on recovering counselors has been the reluctanc…
Hypothesis: Social class will have an impact on the ways women perceive and experience prescription opioids. Experiences will vary depending on women’s different access to cultural, social, and material capitals.
Research on the ecology and evolution of rattlesnakes has been sporadic over the past 80 years, but has seen recent expansion into the diverse fields of physiology, physiological ecology, life history, behavioral ecology, ethology, reproductive biology, chemical ecology, venom b…
The Mudpuppy (Necturus maculosus) is a rarely seen and poorly understood permanently aquatic salamander of the eastern United States. Little has been published on its habits within extensive portions of its range, especially within the Missouri and Arkansas river drainages, wher…
The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) has been shown to activate when situations are in conflict, when determining the relevance of stimuli, and error processing. Dopaminergic projections to the ACC are hypothesized to facilitate the integration of incoming stimuli with error sign…
This study describes the diet of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) stranded in Virginia via stomach content analysis and considers factors such as proportion of numerical abundance and reconstructed mass, frequency of occurrence, average reconstructed prey size, prey dive…
Family health history (FHH) is an underutilized tool with the potential to influence health behavior within the family context. Family health communication channels within Black families may be an existing pathway to influence health behaviors related to diseases with a strong g…
Despite the extensive research done on publication of scholarly articles among various genders, there is a gap in the literature regarding how the intersectional experiences of racism, sexism, ageism and institutional type affect the academic freedom of black women in institutio…
The long and short term effects of brief handling of laboratory rats between birth and weaning have so far been shown to be mainly physiological in nature. Recent evidence indicates, however, that investigatory behaviour in adult animals may also be affected. The area of explora…
Electroencephalography -- 2 Magnetoelectroencephalography -- 3 Evoked potentials -- 4 Cognitive potentials -- 5 Sleep and migraine -- 6 Brain oscillations and migraine -- 7 Brainstem reflexes -- 8 Spinal reflexes in migraine -- 9 Sensorimotor integration in migraine -- 10 Pain-r…