{"title":"Tracing the Impact of First-Year Writing: Identity, Process, and Transfer at a Public University","authors":"Laura Wilder","doi":"10.7330/9781646426584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7330/9781646426584","url":null,"abstract":"Presents the results of a large-scale, five-year longitudinal study of college writers that offers important contributions to longitudinal research on college writers in rhetoric and composition related to comparisons of students who did and did not take first year writing.","PeriodicalId":51470,"journal":{"name":"Merrill-Palmer Quarterly-Journal of Developmental Psychology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147892191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Czenilriene J Santander, Sharon Y Lee, Gloria Peters, Carmen J Marsit, Laura R Stroud
{"title":"Prenatal Stress and Socioeconomic Status as Predictors of Placental Methylation in Pregnant People.","authors":"Czenilriene J Santander, Sharon Y Lee, Gloria Peters, Carmen J Marsit, Laura R Stroud","doi":"10.1353/mpq.2024.a958889","DOIUrl":"10.1353/mpq.2024.a958889","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite growing interest in placental epigenetics, the combined impact of prenatal stress and socioeconomic status (SES) on placental methylation is still largely understudied. We conducted a study to examine the associations of prenatal stress and socioeconomic factors (household income, Hollingshead socioeconomic index) with placental methylation. Pregnant people (<i>n</i> = 143; <i>M</i> <sub><i>age</i></sub> = 25.66) in their second or third trimester (<i>M</i> <sub><i>gestational age</i></sub> = 23.11 weeks) completed self-report questionnaires including demographic and socioeconomic information and ratings of perceived stress in the past month. Placenta tissue samples were collected after birth, from which placental genomic DNA was extracted to assess methylation levels at the NR3C1 promoter region. Multiple regression analyses were conducted with prenatal stress, household income, and Hollingshead index predicting methylation at the different CpG glucocorticoid receptor sites, controlling for maternal age, smoking status, gestational age at delivery, and infant sex. Prenatal stress predicted <i>NR3C1</i> methylation at the CpG8 and CpG9 glucocorticoid receptor sites. Household income was a significant predictor of methylation at the CpG9 site. Hollingshead index was not associated with methylation at any site. The independent effects of prenatal stress and SES demonstrate the need for healthcare providers to recognize the psychological and socioeconomic influences on maternal-fetal health.</p>","PeriodicalId":51470,"journal":{"name":"Merrill-Palmer Quarterly-Journal of Developmental Psychology","volume":"70 3","pages":"477-497"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12302960/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144735229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conclusion: Isfahan as an Early Modern City","authors":"Farshid Emami","doi":"10.1515/9780271096124-014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271096124-014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51470,"journal":{"name":"Merrill-Palmer Quarterly-Journal of Developmental Psychology","volume":"1 1","pages":"209-212"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147899507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"China Pop!: Pop Culture, Propaganda, Pacific Pop-Ups","authors":"Sheng-mei Ma","doi":"10.26818/9780814215760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26818/9780814215760","url":null,"abstract":"The art of propaganda : some TV series circa the Chinese Communist Party Centennial -- Triangulating TV series of melodramatic dialectic \"with Chinese characteristics\" : gamblin' professionals in cities; Goth and Darwin in the Wild West -- The ghost of Guimi from imperial to millennial China -- Six million Jews and how many Chinese : \"Ten-Year Holocaust\" of the Cultural Revolution -- The subtitle wagging the screen : the untranslated and One Second -- Laosanjie peers back at the Red Sun : Zhang Yimou of the \"chain gang\" -- Brechtian AlienAsian : socialist ex machina from The good woman of Setzuan and David Hare's Fanshen -- Love in a falling city : David Hare's Saigon and the musical Miss Saigon -- Eastern witch from the West : Xianniang in Niki Caro's Mulan -- Chinatown comedy unto itself -- Southern woe, minority lens : ride with Woodrell-Schamus-Ang Lee -- Bipolar America : the anti-Asian versus Minari -- Coda: Refugees with guns, Laobing with phallus : ghost of Taiwan circa 1949.","PeriodicalId":51470,"journal":{"name":"Merrill-Palmer Quarterly-Journal of Developmental Psychology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147909157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Speculum Lapidum","authors":"Camillo Leonardi","doi":"10.1515/9780271096360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271096360","url":null,"abstract":"In early modern Europe precious and semiprecious stones were valued not only for their beauty and rarity but also for their medical and magical properties. Lorenzo de’ Medici, Philip II of Spain, and Popes Leo X and Clement VII were all treated with expensive potions incorporating ground gems such as rubies, diamonds, and emeralds. Medical and magical/astrological lapidaries, texts describing the stones’ occult and medical qualities as well as their abilities to ward off demons and incantations, were essential resources for their use. First published in Venice in 1502, Camillo Leonardi’s Speculum Lapidum is an encyclopedic summary of all classical and medieval sources of lithotherapy. In describing the natural, manifest, and occult properties of precious and semiprecious stones as well as their graven images and applications, the Speculum Lapidum provides tremendous insight into the role that medical astrology and astral magic played in the life of an Italian court in the early modern period. Liliana Leopardi’s English translation, complete with critical apparatuses, gives unprecedented access to this key text within the magical lapidary genre. A vital addition to the existing canon of lapidaria in translation, Leopardi’s work will be of special importance for students and scholars of the history of magic, medicine, religion, and Renaissance humanism, and it will fascinate anyone interested in the occult properties of precious and semiprecious stones.","PeriodicalId":51470,"journal":{"name":"Merrill-Palmer Quarterly-Journal of Developmental Psychology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147914232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chapter 5 Dating and Interpreting Hard Stone Beads from Tell el- Hesi: A Case Study in Residuality","authors":"Geoffrey E. Ludvik","doi":"10.1515/9781646022588-008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781646022588-008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51470,"journal":{"name":"Merrill-Palmer Quarterly-Journal of Developmental Psychology","volume":"1 1","pages":"112-140"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147921170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}