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Articles by Gillian Kiley
$5 million gift to fuel new ideas, welcome new leadership at Brown’s Pembroke Center
As director, Gandhi will oversee a wide-ranging slate of Pembroke Center programs, initiatives, courses and research projects.
Opinion/Kiley: Act on Climate is doable, affordable and necessary
Gillian Kiley is a Cranston resident, parent and a volunteer with Climate Action Rhode Island. The Act on Climate bill that awaits Gov. Dan McKee’s signature is a practical bill that addresses residents’ concerns about climate change while providing economic and health benefits to Rhode Islanders.
Hands Off!: Monetization plan for Providence water will hurt RI residents and imperil crucial resource
To safeguard the clean and affordable water that the Providence Water Supply Board (PWSB) delivers to more than 60% of Rhode Islanders, our legislators should reject two bills that enable Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza to monetize the public water utility. Treating water as an asset for profit places its cleanliness, affordability and accessibility at risk and endangers lives.
Music Lifts Well-being For People In Palliative Care
Hospice and palliative care patients who listen to live music in their rooms as part of their treatment report feeling better both emotionally and physically, a new study reports. They also request fewer opioid-based medications, according to the study.
Music Lifts Well-being For People In Palliative Care
Hospice and palliative care patients who listen to live music in their rooms as part of their treatment report feeling better both emotionally and physically, a new study reports. They also request fewer opioid-based medications, according to the study.
Music in palliative care improves patient well-being, study finds
At Kent Hospital and Women and Infants Hospital in Rhode Island, doctors working with seriously ill patients offered them the option to have a flutist play music in their rooms as part of their palliative care, which focuses on improving quality of life and relieving symptoms for patients with serious illnesses. The idea was that music might help hospice and palliative care patients contend with symptoms like pain and stress and improve their moods, according to the researchers.
Linguistic expertise key to improving Deaf health research
The collaboration, led by Melissa L. Anderson, assistant professor of psychiatry at the UMass Medical School, integrates Riker's cultural and linguistic expertise with the expertise of clinicians and researchers. A group of Deaf community advisors—laypersons from the Deaf community who advise on how best to meet the needs of their peers—rounds out the research team.
Visual perceptual skills are updated by process similar to memory reconsolidation, study finds
Published in Nature Human Behavior, the study led by Brown University researchers tested whether memory reconsolidation, observed in animals, occurs in humans and whether it impacts skill learning. In animals, when a new memory is formed, that memory is fragile until time passes and the memory is consolidated. When memories are recalled or reactivated, they become temporarily unstable and vulnerable to change until they become stable again, shortly afterward.
This Quality Makes People Better At Working Well With Others
People who are tolerant of ambiguity—a kind of uncertainty in which the odds of an outcome are unknown—are more likely to cooperate with and trust other people, according to new research. Tolerance of ambiguity is distinct from tolerance of risk. With risk, the probability of each future outcome is known, says Oriel FeldmanHall, author of the study and an assistant professor of cognitive, linguistic, and psychological sciences at Brown University.
Rare collection of Jewish texts finds home at Brown's library
The Dr. Steven Ungerleider Collection of Haggadot—given to Brown by Ungerleider in honor of his father, Brown Class of 1939 graduate Samuel Ungerleider Jr.—includes Haggadot, the plural form of Haggadah. Each Haggadah functions as a guide that sets forth the order of rituals, blessings and customs of the first two nights of the Passover Seder, which commemorates the Israelites' exodus from Egypt.
This Is The Quality Makes People Better At Working Well With Others
People who are tolerant of ambiguity—a kind of uncertainty in which the odds of an outcome are unknown—are more likely to cooperate with and trust other people, according to new research. “…we try to predict other people without ever having full access to their ‘hidden’ states.” Tolerance of ambiguity is distinct from tolerance of risk.
This Is The Quality Makes People Better At Working Well With Others
People who are tolerant of ambiguity—a kind of uncertainty in which the odds of an outcome are unknown—are more likely to cooperate with and trust other people, according to new research. “…we try to predict other people without ever having full access to their ‘hidden’ states.” Tolerance of ambiguity is distinct from tolerance of risk.
People more likely to trust, cooperate if they can tolerate ambiguity, study finds
New research published in Nature Communications indicates that individuals who are tolerant of ambiguity—a kind of uncertainty in which the odds of an outcome are unknown—are more likely to cooperate with and trust other people. Tolerance of ambiguity is distinct from tolerance of risk. With risk, the probability of each future outcome is known, said Oriel FeldmanHall, author of the study and an assistant professor of cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences at Brown University.
Mayor Elorza presses his case for monetizing Providence Water in Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza is still trying to “monetize” the Providence Water Supply, including Scituate Reservoir.
Privatizing Providence Water will hurt Rhode Island ratepayers, imperil crucial resource
To protect ratepayers, safeguard a critical public resource and maintain public accountability, the Rhode Island General Assembly should reject two related bills that would allow the City of Providence to sell or lease the Providence Water Supply Board (PWSB) in order to infuse cash into the city’s pension fund. The bills, House bill H8123 and Senate bill S2838, are moving through the General Assembly.
Early-life obesity impacts children's learning and memory, study suggests
Obesity, which can dysregulate hormones that act in multiple brain regions, is associated with lower cognition in adults, the researchers said. But until now, despite the increasing prevalence of childhood obesity, there has been scant research on whether weight status impacts how children learn, remember information and manage attention and impulses.
Effects of climate change can complicate the politics of military bases, study finds
Now, melting ice in a changing Arctic has remobilized some toxic waste at one Project Iceworm site and threatens to do the same at other project sites. The consequences, a new study finds, could extend far beyond those to the environment—creating unexpected cleanup costs or costs for compensating local inhabitants affected by environmental problems as well as political and diplomatic conflict between the U.S. and countries hosting the bases.
‘Beyond Snowden’ Book Argues For U.S. Surveillance Reform
A new book describes reform efforts within America’s growing surveillance state—and advocates for further change to protect citizens’ privacy while maintaining security. Before serving as an intelligence official in the Bush and Obama administrations, Timothy H. Edgar—a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University—defended privacy rights as an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer.
Post-9/11 U.S. War Costs Will Soon Top $5.6 Trillion
By the end of fiscal year 2018, the cost to the United States of all post-9/11 wars will exceed $5.6 trillion, a new report finds. The average American taxpayer has spent $23,386 on these wars since 2001, the report finds.
Post-9/11 U.S. War Costs Will Soon Top $5.6 trillion
Post-9/11 U.S. War Costs Will Soon Top $5.6 trillion The average American taxpayer has spent $23,386 on wars since 2001, report researchers. Read the original post here.
Even after reforms, few ineffective teachers are identified as ineffective, study finds
"Districts and states have invested considerable time and resources to reform teacher evaluation systems," said co-author Matthew Kraft, an assistant professor of education at Brown University. "These reforms have placed conversations about core instructional practice at the center of the evaluation process—a welcome change.
Can We Blame The Internet For Polarized Politics?
Political polarization is largest for demographic groups in which individuals are least likely to use the internet and social media, new research shows. The finding suggests the internet is not the most significant driver of rising polarization, despite the popular narrative that the web is to blame. “Our findings don’t rule out that the internet has played some role in the recent rise in polarization,” says Jesse M.
6 Ways To Pay For Climate Catastrophes
Gillian Kiley, Brown University Read Time: 6 mins Climate-related catastrophes are expensive, whether they come on suddenly, like the thousand-year flood in Louisiana in August 2016, or move slowly and inexorably, like desertification in Turkey.
Does Lead Exposure Explain Gap In Test Scores?
A decrease in the average level of lead in a preschooler’s blood reduces the probability of that child being substantially below proficient in reading by the third grade, report researchers. And because poor and minority children are more likely to be exposed to lead, the working paper suggests that lead poisoning may be one of the causes of continuing gaps in test scores between children from different socioeconomic groups.
There Are A Mix Of Factors That Link Aggression And Hawkish Views
Individual tendencies toward physical aggression may lead someone to support aggressive foreign policy interventions, new research suggests.
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