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Applying ecological theory to advance the science and practice of school-based prejudice reduction interventions

Science interventions

McKown C.
GSID: RjMKBdpmqjAJ
C McKown - Educational Psychologist, 2005 - Taylor & Francis

… for interventions. The second goal of this article is to articulate a means for advancing the science and practice of school-based prejudice-reduction interventions. … Social cognitive interventions target individuals. Cooperative learning practices target the structure of interpersonal …

Exploring racism in the undergraduate and graduate school choices of scientists and engineers: counterspaces for Black men

Graduate training programs stem

McGowan B, Watkins S.
GSID: oXRN-0JXFQ8J
S Watkins, B McGowan - … Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 2023 - Taylor & Francis

… A Black women doctoral scientist and other gatekeepers including a staff member from Prism-D Scholars, a program focused on training Black students to pursue careers in STEM …

Developmental antecedents and social and academic consequences of stereotype‐consciousness in middle childhood

stereotype threat

McKown C, Strambler MJ.
GSID: E_YFMry1dBAJ
C McKown, MJ Strambler - Child Development, 2009 - Wiley Online Library

… In addition, among African American and Latino children who knew about broadly held stereotypes, diagnostic testing conditions led to stereotype threat effects on a standardized …

" Meta-analysis of writing instruction for students in elementary grades": Correction to Graham et al.(2012)

quasi-experiments

Graham S, McKeown D, Kiuhara S, Harris KR.
GSID: RVeB4aSu38UJ
S Graham, D McKeown, S Kiuhara, KR Harris - 2012 - psycnet.apa.org

… In an effort to identify effective instructional practices for teaching writing to elementary grade students, we conducted a meta-analysis of the writing intervention literature, focusing our efforts on true and quasi-experiments. We located 115 documents that included the...

Age and ethnic variation in children's thinking about the nature of racism

Science interventions

McKown C.
GSID: DxhmViwYNM8J
C McKown - Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2004 - Elsevier

A content analysis of interviews with an ethnically diverse group of 202 children aged 6 to 10 describes what children think racism is, and examines associations between age, ethnicity …

The GLP-1 agonist, liraglutide, as a pharmacotherapy for obesity.

Therapeutic advances in chronic disease

Crane J, McGowan B.
PMID: 26977279
Ther Adv Chronic Dis. 2016 Mar;7(2):92-107. doi: 10.1177/2040622315620180. Epub 2015 Dec 16.

There is a global obesity epidemic that will continue to be a financial burden on healthcare systems around the world. Tackling obesity through diet and exercise should always be the first intervention, but this has not proved to be...

How to build effective teams in healthcare.

Nursing times

Craig M, McKeown D.
PMID: 26182585
Nurs Times. 2015 Apr 1-7;111(14):16-8.

In healthcare, good team building is where all team members understand, believe in and work towards the shared purpose of caring and working for patients. This sense of common purpose should never be assumed. Team leaders should talk about...

Athletic ability assessment: a movement assessment protocol for athletes.

International journal of sports physical therapy

McKeown I, Taylor-McKeown K, Woods C, Ball N.
PMID: 25540702
Int J Sports Phys Ther. 2014 Dec;9(7):862-73.

BACKGROUND/PURPOSE: Movement ability is an often-overlooked component of sports science and sports medicine research and needs to be considered alongside the appraisal of physical fitness and performance characteristics. To achieve this, a standardised assessment tool is required. The purpose...

Detection of social group instability among captive rhesus macaques using joint network modeling.

Current zoology

Beisner BA, Jin J, Fushing H, Mccowan B.
PMID: 26052339
Curr Zool. 2015 Feb;61(1):70-84. doi: 10.1093/czoolo/61.1.70.

Social stability in group-living animals is an emergent property which arises from the interaction amongst multiple behavioral networks. However, pinpointing when a social group is at risk of collapse is difficult. We used a joint network modeling approach to...

Biodiversity inventories in high gear: DNA barcoding facilitates a rapid biotic survey of a temperate nature reserve.

Biodiversity data journal

Telfer AC, Young MR, Quinn J, Perez K, Sobel CN, Sones JE, Levesque-Beaudin V, Derbyshire R, Fernandez-Triana J, Rougerie R, Thevanayagam A, Boskovic A, Borisenko AV, Cadel A, Brown A, Pages A, Castillo AH, Nicolai A, Glenn Mockford BM, Bukowski B, Wilson B, Trojahn B, Lacroix CA, Brimblecombe C, Hay C, Ho C, Steinke C, Warne CP, Garrido Cortes C, Engelking D, Wright D, Lijtmaer DA, Gascoigne D, Hernandez Martich D, Morningstar D, Neumann D, Steinke D, Marco DeBruin DD, Dobias D, Sears E, Richard E, Damstra E, Zakharov EV, Laberge F, Collins GE, Blagoev GA, Grainge G, Ansell G, Meredith G, Hogg I, McKeown J, Topan J, Bracey J, Guenther J, Sills-Gilligan J, Addesi J, Persi J, Layton KK, D'Souza K, Dorji K, Grundy K, Nghidinwa K, Ronnenberg K, Lee KM, Xie L, Lu L, Penev L, Gonzalez M, Rosati ME, Kekkonen M, Kuzmina M, Iskandar M, Mutanen M, Fatahi M, Pentinsaari M, Bauman M, Nikolova N, Ivanova NV, Jones N, Weerasuriya N, Monkhouse N, Lavinia PD, Jannetta P, Hanisch PE, McMullin RT, Ojeda Flores R, Mouttet R, Vender R, Labbee RN, Forsyth R, Lauder R, Dickson R, Kroft R, Miller SE, MacDonald S, Panthi S, Pedersen S, Sobek-Swant S, Naik S, Lipinskaya T, Eagalle T, Decaëns T, Kosuth T, Braukmann T, Woodcock T, Roslin T, Zammit T, Campbell V, Dinca V, Peneva V, Hebert PD, deWaard JR.
PMID: 26379469
Biodivers Data J. 2015 Aug 30;(3):e6313. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.3.e6313. eCollection 2015.

BACKGROUND: Comprehensive biotic surveys, or 'all taxon biodiversity inventories' (ATBI), have traditionally been limited in scale or scope due to the complications surrounding specimen sorting and species identification. To circumvent these issues, several ATBI projects have successfully integrated DNA...

Recovery of plants from leaf protoplasts of hybrid-poplar and aspen clones.

Plant cell reports

Russell JA, McCown BH.
PMID: 24241417
Plant Cell Rep. 1988 Jan;7(1):59-62. doi: 10.1007/BF00272979.

Leaf protoplasts were isolated from shoot cultures of two hybrid poplar clones (Populus alba × P. grandidentata 'Crandon', NC-5339 and P. nigra 'Betulifolia' × P. trichocarpa, NC-5331) and the Upright European Aspen (P. tremula 'Erecta') and were cultured in...

The impact of poverty on the current and future health status of children.

Paediatrics & child health

Gupta RP, de Wit ML, McKeown D.
PMID: 19030444
Paediatr Child Health. 2007 Oct;12(8):667-72. doi: 10.1093/pch/12.8.667.

Child poverty in Canada is a significant public health concern. Because child development during the early years lays the foundation for later health and development, children must be given the best possible start in life. Family income is a...

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