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The role of proximal and distal influences on relationship termination adjustment in college students

The purpose of the present study was to investigate gender and age differences in dealing with a romantic relationship breakup, as well as to investigate the role that distal (childhood events and childhood attachment) and proximal (personality, perceived stress, coping, and adult attachment) influence one's adjustment to an ended romantic relationship. Participants for this study included 252 (160 women and 92 men) college students, with age ranges from 18 to 39. Two (Age) X Two (Gender) analyses of covariance were computed to assess mean differences for all variables. Women reported higher Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Agreeableness scores than men, whereas men displayed higher levels of Openness to Experience than did women. Regarding coping, women utilized (on average) more instrumental support than did men. Men experienced significantly more life events during the period from sixth to eighth grade than did women. In addition, regarding total life events, older female students had the fewest childhood life events whereas older male students had the highest numbers of childhood life events. Multiple regression analyses were then used to determine the influence of eight covariates on relationship termination adjustment (RTA). One covariate, commitment to the former relationship, was a significant predictor of the three measures of RTA (grief, disentanglement, and self-worth). Finally, structural equation modeling was used. Five structural models (each utilizing one of the five traits (Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness) measured by the NEO-FFI were compared regarding the respective model's ability to most comprehensively explain and predict RTA. Of these five models, the Neuroticism structural model of RTA had a good fit (CFI = .98) to the data and provided the most significant pathways relevant to the developmental outcome (RTA) of all the models computed. Based on this model, multiple
Value of magnification endoscopy in current clinical practice

Ongoing technological developments in endoscopy have led to an ever improving evaluation and management of digestive diseases. The recent development of a new range of high-power magnification, or zoom, endoscopes has boosted interest in this technique, which has become increasingly available to the modern gastroenterologist. Magnification is often used in conjunction with chromoendoscopy in order to improve the detection and diagnosis of neoplastic tissue. Currently, the main clinical indications are the diagnosis of Barrett oesophagus, the colonoscopic surveillance of colonic polyps and the assessment of disease severity or the presence of dysplasia in inflammatory bowel disease. In this article we present an overview of the clinical implementations of magnification endoscopy in current and future gastroenterological practice.
Singular coverings and non‐uniform notions of closed set computability

The empty set of course contains no computable point. On the other hand, surprising results due to Zaslavskiĭ, Tseĭtin, Kreisel, and Lacombe have asserted the existence of non‐empty co‐r. e. closed sets devoid of computable points: sets which are even “large” in the sense of positive Lebesgue measure.
The Talar Body Prosthesis: Results at Ten to Thirty-six Years of Follow-up.

BACKGROUND Satisfactory results of implantation of the talar body prosthesis were reported in 1997, although some complications associated with the initial design were noted. The present study evaluated outcomes of treatment with a modified talar body prosthesis. METHODS Of the thirty-six talar body prostheses implanted with use of a transmalleolar surgical approach from 1974 to 2011, thirty-three were available for follow-up at ten to thirty-six years or had failed prior to that time. The indication for implantation had been osteonecrosis in twenty-three patients, a comminuted talar fracture in eight, and a talar body tumor in two. RESULTS Twenty-eight of the thirty-three prostheses were still in place at the time of final follow-up and five had failed prior to five years. The duration of follow-up was ten to twenty years in eight patients, twenty to thirty years in eleven, and thirty to thirty-six years in nine. The AOFAS (American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society) ankle-hindfoot score did not differ significantly among these three groups. Patients over sixty-five years of age with underlying disease that impeded walking ability had lower AOFAS scores. Early prosthesis failure occurred as a result of size mismatch in two patients, tumor recurrence in one, infection in one, and osteonecrosis of the talar head and neck in one. These failures, which occurred at eight to fifty-seven months, were treated with tibiotalar arthrodesis in three patients, prosthesis revision in one, and below-the-knee amputation in one. CONCLUSIONS Although early prosthesis failure may occur, survival of the talar body prosthesis can provide satisfactory ankle and foot function. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE Therapeutic Level IV. See Instructions for Authors for a complete description of levels of evidence.
The measurement of personality traits by scales and inventories

When writing can change your life, when writing can enrich you by offering much money, why don't you try it? Are you still very confused of where getting the ideas? Do you still have no idea with what you are going to write? Now, you will need reading. A good writer is a good reader at once. You can define how you write depending on what books to read. This the measurement of personality traits by scales and inventories can help you to solve the problem. It can be one of the right sources to develop your writing skill.
Antioxidant Activity of Hispidin Oligomers from Medicinal Fungi: A DFT Study

Hispidin oligomers are styrylpyrone pigments isolated from the medicinal fungi Inonotus xeranticus and Phellinus linteus. They exhibit diverse biological activities and strong free radical scavenging activity. To rationalize the antioxidant activity of a series of four hispidin oligomers and determine the favored mechanism involved in free radical scavenging, DFT calculations were carried out at the B3P86/6-31+G (d, p) level of theory in gas and solvent. The results showed that bond dissociation enthalpies of OH groups of hispidin oligomers (ArOH) and spin density delocalization of related radicals (ArO•) are the appropriate parameters to clarify the differences between the observed antioxidant activities for the four oligomers. The effect of the number of hydroxyl groups and presence of a catechol moiety conjugated to a double bond on the antioxidant activity were determined. Thermodynamic and kinetic studies showed that the PC-ET mechanism is the main mechanism involved in free radical scavenging. The spin density distribution over phenoxyl radicals allows a better understanding of the hispidin oligomers formation.
Rates of Cognitive Development among Bilingual Latino Children.

If, as research suggests, exposing children to two languages and two cultures provides a cognitive advantage, it could be assumed that a child exposed to two languages may be accelerated in a more advanced cognitive stage (as defined by Piaget) than a child exposed to only one language. This study sought to determine when Hispanic children from low socioeconomic backgrounds who received education in a maintenance bilingual program reached the concrete stage of development. Four groups of children (ages 6, 8, 9, and 10 years) completed three Piagetian tasks related to classification, conservation of mass, and conservation of area. Within the four groups there were 15 girls and 15 boys. The study found that the four groups possessed no cognitive advantage over monolingual students as indicated by their mean scores on the three tasks. (Contains 61 references.) (MDM) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * * from the original document. *********************************************************************** U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Utica of Educalionai Research and improvornont EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) This documont has boon reproduced as recowod from the person or organization originating it. 0 Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy RATES OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT AMONG BILINGUAL LATINO CHILDREN Noriko Saito-Horgan, Ph.D. California State University, Los Angeles "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY N Oct) Saki()
Learning, continuity and change in adult life

This report presents results from extensive fieldwork carried out by the Wider Benefits of Learning research team. It presents an original analytical framework developed specifically for this study, combined with empirical results from 140 in-depth biographical interviews in three different areas of England. The interviews explore the way learning affects people’s health and well-being; their family lives; and their engagement in civic activity. The report addresses these effects at both an individual and collective level. It concludes with a set of significant policy implications.
The impact of informal social support on individual morale, distress, and satisfaction

[Abstract]: This study assessed the impact of informal social support on job satisfaction, morale, and distress. A 41-item measure of informal team processes as well as a 50-item measure of organisational climate was administered to 38 participants from two organisations. These data were used to test whether informal social support could add to the prediction of the three outcomes. Using hierarchical multiple regression, social support was found to uniquely predict 13% of the variation in morale, after controlling for organisational climate. The proportion of variance accounted in distress and job satisfaction was negligible.
Regulation of the Development of Mesencephalic Dopaminergic Systems by the Selective Expression of Glial Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor in Their Targets

Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) has been shown to protect and restore dopamine (DA) neurons in injury models and is being evaluated for the treatment of Parkinson's disease. Nevertheless, little is known of its physiological role. We have shown that GDNF suppresses apoptosis in DA neurons of the substantia nigra (SN) postnatally both in vitro and during their first phase of natural cell death in vivo. Furthermore, intrastriatal injection of neutralizing antibodies augments cell death, suggesting that endogenous GDNF plays a role as a target-derived factor. Such a role would predict that overexpression of GDNF in striatum would increase the surviving number of SN DA neurons. To test this hypothesis, we used the tetracycline-dependent transcription activator (tTA)/tTA-responsive promoter system to create mice that overexpress GDNF selectively in the striatum, cortex, and hippocampus. These mice demonstrate an increased number of SN DA neurons after the first phase of natural cell death. However, this increase does not persist into adulthood. As adults, these mice also do not have increased dopaminergic innervation of the striatum. They do, however, demonstrate increased numbers of ventral tegmental area (VTA) neurons and increased innervation of the cortex. This morphologic phenotype is associated with an increased locomotor response to amphetamine. We conclude that striatal GDNF is necessary and sufficient to regulate the number of SN DA neurons surviving the first phase of natural cell death, but it is not sufficient to increase their final adult number. GDNF in VTA targets, however, is sufficient to regulate the adult number of DA neurons.
Wearing an Extension Constraint Knee Brace Changes in Landing Mechanics in Patients Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction When

http://sph.sagepub. com/content/early/2014/02/26/1941738114524910 The online version of this article can be found at: DOI: 10.1177/1941738114524910 published online 26 February 2014 Sports Health: A Multidisciplinary Approach Robert J. Butler, Boyi Dai, William E. Garrett and Robin M. Queen Wearing an Extension Constraint Knee Brace Changes in Landing Mechanics in Patients Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction When
MHD simulations of the response of high‐latitude potential patterns and polar cap Boundaries to sudden southward turnings of the interplanetary magnetic field

3‐D MHD simulations were used to investigate the behavior of the high‐latitude convection and the polar cap variations during two events characterized by sudden southward IMF turnings. In agreement with recent observations the simulation results indicate that the convection pattern across the entire polar cap begins to change a few minutes after the arrival of the southward IMF. In contrast, the onset of the equatorward motion of the open closed field‐line boundary depends on the local time, with equatorward motion of the midnight boundary delayed by about 20 minutes relative to the the onset of the boundary motion at noon. We interpret this delay as the time required to convect newly merged flux from the dayside to the nightside. We belive that these two different responses can reconcile apparent contradictions in studies of ionospheric reconfigurations in response to changes in the IMF.
Short- and Long-Term Mortality Rates of Elderly Acute Kidney Injury Patients Who Underwent Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy

Background The world’s population is aging faster and the incidence of acute kidney injury (AKI) needing continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) is increasing in elderly population. The outcome of AKI needing CRRT in elderly patients is known to be poor. However, the definitions of elderly used in the previous literatures were diverse and, there were few data that compared the long-term mortality rates of these patients with middle aged patients. This study was aimed to evaluate this issue. Methods This study was a single-center, retrospective cohort study of patients who underwent CRRT from January 2013 to December 2015. The patients were divided into the following four age cohorts: middle-aged (55–64), young-old (65–74), middle-old (75–84), and old-old (≥85). The short- and long-term mortality rates for each age cohort were compared. Results A total of 562 patients met the inclusion criteria. The short-term mortality rate was 57.3% in the entire cohort. Compared with the middle-aged cohort, the middle-old cohort (HR 1.48 (1.09–2.02), p = 0.012) and the old-old cohort (HR 2.33 (1.30–4.19), p = 0.005) showed an increased short-term mortality rate along with an increased SOFA score, acidemia and a prolonged prothrombin time. When we analyzed the long-term mortality rate of the 238 survived patients, the middle-old cohort (HR 3.76 (1.84–7.68), p<0.001), the old-old cohort (HR 4.40(1.20–16.10), p = 0.025), a lower BMI, the presence of liver cirrhosis, the presence of congestive heart failure and a history of sepsis were independent risk factors for the prediction of long-term mortality. Conclusion Compared with the middle-aged cohort, the middle-old and the old-old cohort showed an increased short-term and long-term mortality rate. However, in the young-old cohort, neither the short-term nor the long-term mortality rate was increased.
Party Rags?

As the penny press was getting started in cities such as Boston, New York City, and Philadelphia, a thousand miles to the west Chicago's early newspapers followed a different path. The party papers of Chicago in the years from the city's founding in 1833 to the Great Fire in 1871 grew to incorporate elements more typically associated with the penny press even as penny papers that started there during the period failed. Chicago's party press by the 1850s and 1860s had begun to shed its formal ties to political patrons as journalists served larger and more diverse audiences, both earlier than has been thought and in more sophisticated ways than has previously been described. Also briefly examined in the article is the possible development in this period of the “scoop” by Chicago's post-Civil War journalists.
Using Peer-Mediated Fluency Instruction to Address the Needs of Adolescent Struggling Readers

USING PEER-MEDIATED FLUENCY INSTRUCTION TO ADDRESS THE NEEDS OF ADOLESCENT STRUGGLING READERS by Nikki L. Josephs Teaching oral reading fluency is an important aspect of effective literacy instruction. Researchers have investigated a number of strategies shown to be effective with beginning readers; however, less empirical evidence is available for older, struggling readers. The secondary curriculum presents adolescent struggling readers with different challenges, including successful completion of higher level comprehension skill activities, high-stakes assessments, and limited classroom time with practice with oral reading fluency exercises. These conditions may lead to academic failure or school dropout for students who have limited reading ability. An alternating conditions design (Kazdin, 1982) was used to examine the influence of peer-mediated fluency instruction (repeated reading and continuous reading) on the oral reading fluency and comprehension skills of five high school-aged struggling readers from an urban alternative high school setting. The three dependent variables measured were (a) words correct per minute, (b) number of errors, and (c) number of comprehension questions answered correctly. Results of the alternating treatments design indicate that all students increased their correct words per minute with implementation of peer-mediated repeated reading fluency instruction as compared to the peer-mediated continuous reading instruction. However, mixed results were found regarding accuracy of comprehension questions. Limitations were noted with regard to working within an alternative high school setting, variability in student outcomes, and the use of narrative text. Future research suggestions for using peer-mediated oral reading fluency instruction with students with and without disabilities in alternative high school settings are provided. USING PEER-MEDIATED FLUENCY INSTRUCTION OF ADOLESCENT STRUGGLING READERS by Nikki L. Josephs A Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment of Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Education of Students With Exceptionalities in the Department of Educational Psychology and Special Education in the College of Education Georgia State University
Constrained finite receding horizon linear quadratic control

Issues of feasibility, stability and performance are considered for a finite horizon formulation of receding horizon control for linear systems under mixed linear state and control constraints. It is shown that for a sufficiently long horizon, a receding horizon policy will remain feasible and result in stability, even when no end constraint is imposed. In addition, an efficient off-line computational scheme is presented which provides not only a stabilizing horizon length, but guaranteed performance bounds for the receding horizon policy. These calculations are demonstrated on both an open-loop stable and an open-loop unstable example.
Food-web constraints on biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships

The consequences of biodiversity loss for ecosystem functioning and ecosystem services have aroused considerable interest during the past decade. Recent work has focused mainly on the impact of species diversity within single trophic levels, both experimentally and theoretically. Experiments have usually showed increased plant biomass and productivity with increasing plant diversity. Changes in biodiversity, however, may affect ecosystem processes through trophic interactions among species as well. An important current challenge is to understand how these trophic interactions affect the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Here we present a mechanistic model of an ecosystem with multiple trophic levels in which plants compete for a limiting soil nutrient. In contrast to previous studies that focused on single trophic levels, we show that plant biomass does not always increase with plant diversity and that changes in biodiversity can lead to complex if predictable changes in ecosystem processes. Our analysis demonstrates that food-web structure can profoundly influence ecosystem properties.
DEMETER observations of the ionospheric trough over HAARP in relation to HF heating experiments

[1] Plasma density variations observed aboard the DEMETER satellite in the topside ionospheric F layer are analyzed in relation to high-frequency transmitter operations. The main interest is the high-latitude region. One hundred cases with operating and nonoperating High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program HF transmitter during day and night are examined. It is found that most large-scale variations can be attributed to the presence of the main ionospheric trough and that such natural variations complicate the detection of HF transmitter effects on a case-by-case basis. From statistics, no correlation between the HF transmissions and the presence of the irregularities has been established. A comparison of our observations with two recent works on electron density ducts created by HF transmitters and detected by DEMETER shows that in those works the main ionospheric trough is the major factor in density variations, and it is not clear how to distinguish density variations created by the HF heater from natural variations in such cases. Finally, possible experimental techniques for duct formation by HF heaters are discussed.
Training Future Schoolteachers to Teach Patriotism to Students

Quite a lot has been done in the past few years to provide scientific methodological support for processes of upbringing, including the shaping of students’ civic and patriotic consciousness. Many state and civic leaders, scientists, and members of the clergy have stated, quite rightly, that education and upbringing in the spirit of Russian patriotism and friendship of peoples is a basic idea that is capable of bringing Russian society together and strengthening the unity and wholeness of the federative state. Of great moral and political importance, and that includes for the purpose of training future schoolteachers, is the state program “The Patriotic Education of Citizens of the Russian Federation in 2001–5,” in which the stated purpose is to develop the kind of system of patriotic education for citizens that will be able to accomplish the tasks of consolidating society, maintaining civic and economic stability, and strengthening the unity and friendship of peoples of the Russian Federation. The implementation of this program, including the organization of upbringing work with young people, requires taking account of the complex conditions that have taken shape in the country
Are Men Who Father Children with Young, Unwed Women ‘Marriageable’?: Implications for the Healthy Marriage Initiative

While a considerable amount of research has explored the nature and consequences of childbearing by unmarried young women, little is known about the men who father children with these women. This study uses new data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to describe the economic and social/behavioral capacities of men who have children with unwed, young mothers (ages 18 through 21), comparing them to men who have children with older and/or married women. Given that men and women tend to partner with those of a similar age, race/ethnicity, and education level, we examine whether these factors can account for differences in capacities across groups. We find that men who father children with unmarried, young women have decidedly worse characteristics compared to men who father children with women in any other marital status/age category. These findings suggest caution in promoting marriage among teenage mothers.