New Scholarship from UNCW Faculty

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Which eResources are included?eResources currently included in these search results are: Web of Science, PubMed, ScienceDirect, PsycInfo, EconLit, BIOSIS Previews, Film & Television Literature Index, Communication and Mass Media Complete, Historical Abstract, SPORTDiscus, Zoological Record, and the Library Catalog. How is this list created?It is created from an aggregation of search result RSS feeds from research databases to which Randall Library subscribes.

These search results were crafted by librarians to search for author affiliation information.

The end product is a "master" feed that represents a large percentage of the scholarly output of UNCW faculty. Is this list comprehensive?No, it is not everything published by UNCW faculty.

It relies on the research being indexed by one of the included eResources, as well as some type of author affiliation to UNCW being provided in the citation indexing.

You may also notice duplicate titles, as some journals are indexed in more than one eResource.

The Potential of Social Science Theory for the Evaluation and Improvement of Drug Courts.

Journal of Drug Issues; 10/01/2012
(AN 87687114)
SPORTDiscus with Full Text

Those Girls: Single Women in Sixties and Seventies Popular Culture.

Journal of Popular Culture; 12/01/2012
(AN 84484446)
SPORTDiscus with Full Text

Experimentally Manipulated Somatic Information and Somatization Tendencies and their Impact on Physical Symptom Reporting and Performance in a Physically Strenuous Task.

International Journal of Exercise Science; 01/01/2012
(AN 82313402)
SPORTDiscus with Full Text

Successful Completion: An Examination of Factors Influencing Drug Court Completion for White and Non-White Male Participants.

Substance Use & Misuse; 07/01/2012
(AN 77401317)
SPORTDiscus with Full Text

HIV Sex-Risk Behaviors among In- versus Out-of-Treatment Heroin-Addicted Adults.

American Journal of Drug & Alcohol Abuse; 07/01/2012
(AN 76460714)
SPORTDiscus with Full Text

Us and Them: U.S. Ambivalence Toward the World Cup and American Nationalism.

Journal of Sport & Social Issues; 05/01/2012
(AN 74469217)
SPORTDiscus with Full Text

NBA Gambling Inefficiencies: A Second Look.

Sport Journal; 01/01/2012
(AN 74313883)
SPORTDiscus with Full Text

Sponge communities on Caribbean coral reefs are structured by factors that are top-down, not bottom-up.

Sponge communities on Caribbean coral reefs are structured by factors that are top-down, not bottom-up.

PLoS One. 2013;8(5):e62573

Authors: Pawlik JR, Loh TL, McMurray SE, Finelli CM

Abstract
Caribbean coral reefs have been transformed in the past few decades with the demise of reef-building corals, and sponges are now the dominant habitat-forming organisms on most reefs. Competing hypotheses propose that sponge communities are controlled primarily by predatory fishes (top-down) or by the availability of picoplankton to suspension-feeding sponges (bottom-up). We tested these hypotheses on Conch Reef, off Key Largo, Florida, by placing sponges inside and outside predator-excluding cages at sites with less and more planktonic food availability (15 m vs. 30 m depth). There was no evidence of a bottom-up effect on the growth of any of 5 sponge species, and 2 of 5 species grew more when caged at the shallow site with lower food abundance. There was, however, a strong effect of predation by fishes on sponge species that lacked chemical defenses. Sponges with chemical defenses grew slower than undefended species, demonstrating a resource trade-off between growth and the production of secondary metabolites. Surveys of the benthic community on Conch Reef similarly did not support a bottom-up effect, with higher sponge cover at the shallower depth. We conclude that the structure of sponge communities on Caribbean coral reefs is primarily top-down, and predict that removal of sponge predators by overfishing will shift communities toward faster-growing, undefended species that better compete for space with threatened reef-building corals.

PMID: 23667492 [PubMed - in process]

Assessing resident performance and training of colonoscopy in a general surgery training program

Title: Assessing resident performance and training of colonoscopy in a general surgery training program
Author(s): Hope, William W.; Hooks, W. Borden, III; Kilbourne, S. Nicole; et al.
Source: SURGICAL ENDOSCOPY AND OTHER INTERVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES, 27 (5): 1706-1710 MAY 2013
Document Type: Article

Neuropsychological test performance of Spanish speakers: Is performance different across different Spanish-speaking subgroups?

Title: Neuropsychological test performance of Spanish speakers: Is performance different across different Spanish-speaking subgroups?
Author(s): Bure-Reyes, Annelly; Hidalgo-Ruzzante, Natalia; Vilar-Lopez, Raquel; et al.
Source: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY, 35 (4): 404-412 APR 1 2013
Document Type: Article

Predicting verdicts, adherence to judge's instructions, and assumptions about the disposition of the defendant in a case involving the insanity defense.

Psychology, Crime & Law; 10/01/2012
(AN 2012-25413-003)
PsycINFO

Evaluating the effectiveness of an intervention for children exposed to domestic violence: A preliminary program evaluation.

Child & Adolescent Social Work Journal; 10/01/2012
(AN 2012-25723-001)
PsycINFO

Participation in formal and informal volunteering: Implications for volunteer recruitment.

Nonprofit Management and Leadership; 12/01/2012
(AN 2012-33252-002)
PsycINFO

Perception of global climate change as a mediator of the effects of major and religious affiliation on college students’ environmentally responsible behavior.

Environmental Education Research; 12/01/2012
(AN 2012-30408-006)
PsycINFO