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- Title
- FEARING FORGETTING? DEVELOPMENT OF A SCALE TO ASSESS ATTITUDES ABOUT DEMENTIA IN THE LAY POPULATION
- Creator
- Ogu, Precious N
- Date
- 2020
- Description
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Individuals with dementia show a progressive decline in cognitive functioning which results in an inability to complete activities of daily...
Show moreIndividuals with dementia show a progressive decline in cognitive functioning which results in an inability to complete activities of daily living (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Early diagnosis of dementia is a positive prognostic indicator (World Alzheimer Report, 2011) and is widely regarded as an important pre-condition for improving dementia care (Kim et al., 2015; Vernooij-Dassen et al., 2005). However, negative attitudes and stigma towards dementia could possibly interfere with an individual’s willingness to recognize or accept the idea of themselves having the disease through label avoidance. The goal of the present study was to contribute to understanding the perception of dementia by developing a quantitatively derived and psychometrically validated measure that encompasses the positive and negative attitudes towards dementia held by people without dementia. This study also explored the potential association between negative attitudes about dementia and lack of familiarity with dementia as familiarity with individuals with mental illness is related to stigmatizing attitudes towards mental illness. These goals were achieved by a principal components analysis (PCA) of 56 modified items from extant and well-validated mental illness attitude scales (Community Attitudes to Mental Illness, CAMI, Taylor & Dear, 1981; Social Distance Scale, SDS, Link, 1986; Depression Stigma Scale, DSS, Griffiths et al., 2004). Convergent validity was assessed by examining the relationship between the final derived measure and a construct associated with negative attitudes about mental illness (Mental Retardation Attitude Inventory-Revised, MRAI-R). Discriminant validity was assessed by examining the relationship between the final measure and a construct that should be unrelated to negative attitudes about mental illness (Belief in a Just World Scale, BJW). Finally, exploratory analyses were conducted to assess if attitudes measured by the newly created scale are related to participants’ familiarity with dementia (Level of Familiarity Scale, LoFS, Corrigan et al., 2001). 400 adults with no history of dementia were recruited through Amazon’s MTurk. Participants were compensated by a credit to their Amazon account upon completion of the survey. The PCA supported 2 conceptually different (not method variance) latent components titled Negative Attitudes and Positive Attitudes. These 2 components comprise the Attitudes to Dementia Inventory (ADI). Construct validity was partially supported for each component of the ADI. Degree of familiarity with dementia was not associated with negative or positive attitudes about dementia. Overall, this study is an important contribution to dementia attitudes research. Given the identification of Negative Attitudes and Positive Attitudes have been identified as distinct dimensions of dementia attitudes, the ADI can be used to further investigate how negative reactions towards dementia might cause delays in initiating medical intervention and treatment, and also to examine whether positive attitudes provide any protections against the probable effects of negative attitudes on stigma and help-seeking behaviors. Since the early recognition and diagnosis of dementia is widely regarded as an important condition for improving dementia care (Kim et al., 2015; Vernooij-Dassen, et al., 2005), the ADI can be used to inform stigma-prevention, which hopefully translates into improved help-seeking behaviors.
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- Title
- Ink drawing, 1975
- Creator
- Henry, Mary Dill, 1913-2009
- Date
- 1975-07-07
- Description
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Untitled drawing by Mary Henry, accompanied by mathematical calculations.
- Collection
- Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021
- Title
- Pencil Drawing on Tissue, undated
- Creator
- Henry, Mary Dill, 1913-2009
- Description
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Untitled pencil drawing on tissue paper by Mary Henry, date unknown.
- Collection
- Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021
- Title
- Ink and Colored Pencil Drawings, undated
- Creator
- Henry, Mary Dill, 1913-2009
- Description
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Untitled drawings by Mary Henry, date unknown.
- Collection
- Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021
- Title
- Ink and pencil sketches, undated
- Creator
- Henry, Mary Dill, 1913-2009
- Description
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Untitled ink and pencil sketches by Mary Henry, date unknown.
- Collection
- Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021
- Title
- Ink and Colored Pencil Drawings, undated
- Creator
- Henry, Mary Dill, 1913-2009
- Description
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Untitled drawings by Mary Henry, date unknown.
- Collection
- Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021
- Title
- Pencil Drawing on Tissue, undated
- Creator
- Henry, Mary Dill, 1913-2009
- Description
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Untitled pencil drawing on tissue paper by Mary Henry, date unknown.
- Collection
- Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021
- Title
- Ink Drawings, undated
- Creator
- Henry, Mary Dill, 1913-2009
- Description
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Untitled drawings by Mary Henry, date unknown.
- Collection
- Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021
- Title
- Colored Pencil Drawings, undated
- Creator
- Henry, Mary Dill, 1913-2009
- Description
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Untitled colored pencil drawings by Mary Henry, date unknown. Inscription on verso: "William Winter Comments, PO Box 817, Sausalito"
- Collection
- Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021
- Title
- Colored Pencil Drawings, undated
- Creator
- Henry, Mary Dill, 1913-2009
- Description
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Untitled colored pencil drawings by Mary Henry, date unknown. Inscription on verso: "William Winter Comments, PO Box 817, Sausalito"
- Collection
- Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021
- Title
- Colored pencil drawing, undated
- Creator
- Henry, Mary Dill, 1913-2009
- Description
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Untitled colored pencil drawing by Mary Henry, date unknown.
- Collection
- Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021
- Title
- Pencil drawing, undated
- Creator
- Henry, Mary Dill, 1913-2009
- Description
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Untitled drawing by Mary Henry, date unknown.
- Collection
- Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021
- Title
- Ink drawing, undated
- Creator
- Henry, Mary Dill, 1913-2009
- Description
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Untitled drawing by Mary Henry, date unknown.
- Collection
- Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021
- Title
- Ink drawing, undated
- Creator
- Henry, Mary Dill, 1913-2009
- Description
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Untitled drawing by Mary Henry, date unknown.
- Collection
- Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021
- Title
- Photograph of the Aaron Galleries booth at the Art 20 art fair, including Mary Henry's The Chelsea Way, New York, New York, 2006
- Date
- 2006
- Description
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Photograph of the Aaron Galleries Booth at the Art 20 exhibition, at Park Place Armory in 2006, including Mary Henry's painting The Chelsea...
Show morePhotograph of the Aaron Galleries Booth at the Art 20 exhibition, at Park Place Armory in 2006, including Mary Henry's painting The Chelsea Way visible at center. Inscription on verso: "Art 20 - Park Ave. Armory 2006 Mary Henry 'The Chelsea Way' on the aisle Aaron Galleries Booth."
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- Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021
- Title
- Photograph of the Aaron Galleries booth at the Art 20 art fair, including Mary Henry's The Chelsea Way, New York, New York, 2006
- Date
- 2006
- Description
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Photograph of the Aaron Galleries Booth at the Art 20 exhibition, at Park Place Armory in 2006, including Mary Henry's painting The Chelsea...
Show morePhotograph of the Aaron Galleries Booth at the Art 20 exhibition, at Park Place Armory in 2006, including Mary Henry's painting The Chelsea Way visible at center right. Inscription on verso: "Art 20 - Park Ave. Armory 2006 Mary Henry 'The Chelsea Way' on the aisle Aaron Galleries Booth."
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- Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021
- Title
- Photograph of the Aaron Galleries booth at the Art 20 art fair, including Mary Henry's The Chelsea Way, New York, New York, 2006
- Date
- 2006
- Description
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Photograph of the Aaron Galleries Booth at the Art 20 exhibition, at Park Place Armory in 2006, including Mary Henry's painting The Chelsea...
Show morePhotograph of the Aaron Galleries Booth at the Art 20 exhibition, at Park Place Armory in 2006, including Mary Henry's painting The Chelsea Way visible at right. Inscription on verso: "Art 20 - Park Ave. Armory 2006 Mary Henry 'The Chelsea Way' on the aisle Aaron Galleries Booth."
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- Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021
- Title
- Pencil drawings, 1977
- Creator
- Henry, Mary Dill, 1913-2009
- Date
- 1977
- Description
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Untitled drawings by Mary Henry, accompanied by mathematical calculations.
- Collection
- Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021
- Title
- Efficient and Practical Cluster Scheduling for High Performance Computing
- Creator
- Li, Boyang
- Date
- 2023
- Description
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Cluster scheduling plays a crucial role in the high-performance computing (HPC) area. It is responsible for allocating resources and...
Show moreCluster scheduling plays a crucial role in the high-performance computing (HPC) area. It is responsible for allocating resources and determining the order in which jobs are executed. Existing HPC job schedulers typically leverage simpleheuristics to schedule jobs, but such scheduling policies struggle to keep pace with modern changes and technology trends. The study of this dissertation is motivated by two new trends in HPC community: the rapid growth of heterogeneous system infrastructure and the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. First, existing scheduling policies are solely CPU-centric. In contrast, systems become more complex and heterogeneous, and emerging workloads have diverse resource requirements, such as CPU, burst buffer, power, network bandwidth, and so on. Second, previous heuristic scheduling approaches are manually designed. Such a manual design process prevents adaptive and informative scheduling decisions. A recent trend in HPC is to intertwine AI to better leverage the investment of supercomputers. This embrace of AI provides opportunities to design more intelligent scheduling methods. In this dissertation, we propose an efficient and practical cluster scheduling framework for HPC systems. Our framework leverages AI technologies and considers system heterogeneity. The framework comprises four major components. First, shared network systems such as dragonfly-based systems are vulnerable to performance variability due to network sharing. To mitigate workload interference on these shared network systems, we explore a dedicated scheduling policy. Next, emerging workloads in HPC have diverse resource requirements instead of being CPU-centric. To cater to this, we design an intelligent scheduling agent for multi-resource scheduling in HPC leveraging the advanced multi-objective reinforcement learning (MORL) algorithm. Subsequently, we address the issues with existing state encoding approaches in RL-driven scheduling, which either lack critical scheduling information or suffer from poor scalability. To this end, we present an efficient and scalable encoding model. Lastly, the lack of interpretability of RL methods poses a significant challenge to deploying RL-driven scheduling in production systems. In response, we provide a simple, deterministic, and easily understandable model for interpreting RL-driven scheduling. The proposed models and algorithms are evaluated with real job traces from production supercomputers. Experimental results show our schemes can effectively improve job scheduling in terms of both user satisfaction and system utilization.
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- Title
- Testing actor and partner mediation effects of the mindfulness-relationship satisfaction association in long-distance relationships
- Creator
- Manser, Kelly A.
- Date
- 2023
- Description
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Long-distance romantic relationships (LDR) have become increasingly common as technology and sociocultural norms have evolved. Individuals in...
Show moreLong-distance romantic relationships (LDR) have become increasingly common as technology and sociocultural norms have evolved. Individuals in LDR, many of whom are post-secondary students, report LDR-specific experiences and stressors. Nonetheless, romantic relationship satisfaction (RS) nonetheless appears comparable between LDR and non-LDR relationships, although the underlying mechanisms are not well-understood. Mindfulness, which relates positively to RS and negatively to stress, is minimally studied in LDR. Moreover, despite empirical and theoretical support, few studies have tested stress as a mediator of associations between mindfulness and RS at the within-person level (termed actor effects) or between-person level (partner effects). This study tested a theoretically-grounded, empirically-supported Actor-Partner Interdependence Mediation Model (APIMeM) in a sample (N = 150; 75 dyads) of post-secondary students and their LDR romantic partners. As hypothesized, an partner-actor indirect effect emerged of T1 actor mindfulness on T2 partner RS through decreased T2 partner stress. Unexpectedly, no direct, total, or indirect effects of T1 actor mindfulness on T2 actor stress or T2 actor RS emerged. Findings suggest that within- and between-person associations between mindfulness, stress, and RS may present uniquely in LDR, with implications for research, clinical practice, and policy.
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