Southern Connecticut State University

We don’t talk about it (Except when we do): Elite Barbadian adolescent athletes’ conversations on performance-enhancement and doping

Introduction Doping prevention increasingly emphasizes early intervention with education directed toward youth, parents, and coaches. Although adolescent athletes are a central focus of prevention efforts, little is known about how they learn about performance-enhancing drugs (PE...

A Mathematical Model of Opinion Dynamics with Application to Vaccine Denial

Public health outcomes can be heavily influenced by the landscape of public opinion; hence, it is important to understand how that landscape changes over time. For one, opinions on public health issues are responsive to official pronouncements, whether from the governmental or pr...

Tracking the baryon number with nuclear collisions

Baryon quantum number is found to be conserved since baryogenesis in the early Universe. Conventionally, each fractionally charged valence quark is understood to carry one-third of a baryon number. An alternative hypothesis posits that baryon number is instead carried by a baryon...

The Perceived Experiences of Supervision and Evaluation: A National Survey of School-Based Speech-Language Pathologists

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to understand the supervision and evaluation practices experienced by school speech-language pathologists (SLPs) across the United States with a focus on evaluator background, evaluation tools, observed tasks, and professional development op...