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Janine Certo (Michigan State University), Kathleen Moxley (Central Michigan University), Kelly Reffitt (Mercer University), and Jeffrey A. Miller (Duquesne University) recently used HyperRESEARCH to better understand children's perceptions of literature circles in their article "I Learned How to Talk About a Book: Children's Perceptions of Literature Circles Across Grade and Ability Levels" published in Literacy Research and Instruction, Vol 49. Issue 3, July 2010 pp 243-263.

In Volume 51, Number 3, pp 279-296, May/June 2010 issue of the Journal of College Student Development, J. Michael Wilkerson, Ann K. Brooks, and Michael W. Ross present "Sociosexual Identity Development and Sexual Risk Taking of Acculturating Collegiate Gay and Bisexual Men."  The authors explore how the way collegiate gay and bisexual men acquire a sociosexual identity appears to affect their sexual health. Analysis, using HyperRESEARCH from Researchware, of interview data from 25 self-identified collegiate gay or bisexual men resulted in the development of a collective sexual script for men acquiring a sociosexual identity.

The authors observed that "changes in an individual’s acting out of a cultural scenario seemed to occur when resolving intrapsychic conflict arising from new sexual experiences. Persons working with young collegiate gay and bisexual men may find this sexual script helpful when developing sex education programs."

The full article can be found here.

J. Michael Wilkerson's dissertation on the same subject is available in .pdf form here.

In the Digital Archives of the University of Jyväskylä, Kaarina Marjanen's 2009 dissertation presents an interesting qualitative study entitled "The belly-button chord : connections of pre- and postnatal music education with early mother-child interaction."

Through the use of HyperRESEARCH for the qualitative portions of this research, Kaarina show that "a very clear mother-child bond was created as a result of the shared prenatel musical experiences."

Information about the dissertation can be found in the online archives here and the full PDF can be downloaded by clicking here.

In the journal of Global Environmental Change, Shannon Hagerman, Hadi Dowlatabadi, Terre Satterfield, and Tim McDaniels explore environmental and conservation policy in their article, "Expert views on biodiversity conservation in an era of climate change."

In the abstract of the article, they state "Adapting conservation policy to the impacts of climate change has emerged as a central and unresolved challenge. In this paper, we report on the results of 21 in-depth interviews with biodiversity and climate change adaptation experts on their views of the implications of climate change for conservation policy. We find a diversity of views across a set of topics that included: changing conservation objectives, conservation triage and its criteria, increased management interventions in protected areas, the role of uncertainty in decision-making, and evolving standards of conservation success. Notably, our findings reveal active consideration among experts with some more controversial elements of policy adaptation (including the role of disturbance in facilitating species transitions, and changing standards of conservation success), despite a comparative silence on these topics in the published literature. Implications of these findings are discussed with respect to: (a) identifying future research and integration needs and (b) providing insight into the process of policy adaptation in the context of biodiversity conservation."

This quatitative study on this critical issue was conducted using HyperRESEARCH. The article can be found here.