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The Relationship Between Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors and Romantic Relationship Quality

This investigation examined the relationship between selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) use and romantic relationship quality. The research sample consisted of participants in the attachment phase of their romantic relationship who had been in the same, current romantic relationship for a minimum of two years. Participants were recruited via professional listservs, electronic social networking, and prior relationships with the principal investigator. A total of 165 individuals participated in the main analysis. Results revealed no significant differences on romantic relationship quality scores by SSRI use after controlling for interest in sexual activity, sexual relationship satisfaction, depression, anxiety, paranoid, dependent, schizoid, sexual activity per month, time spent with one’s partner, and dates per month. Correlational analysis revealed a significant positive relationship between SSRI use and interest in sexual activity, depressive symptoms, and dependent, paranoid, and passive-aggressive personality patterns. Results from independent T-tests found higher means on each of these variables with those using a SSRI. Higher scores on the scales that measured depressive symptoms and the personality patterns indicate the presence of more symptoms. However, higher scores on the interest in sexual activity variable indicate less interest in sexual activity. Correlational analysis revealed a significant negative relationship between partner’s antidepressant status and the overall score on the Dyadic Adjustment Scale, dyadic satisfaction, dyadic cohesion, sexual activity per month, and sexual relationship satisfaction. Results from a MANOVA analysis revealed differences in mean scores on sexual relationship satisfaction by partner’s antidepressant status. No The Relationship Between Selective iv significant differences in mean scores were found between scores on the dyadic consensus, dyadic adjustment, and dyadic satisfaction by partner’s antidepressant status. The Relationship Between Selective v
The 2MASS Wide-Field T Dwarf Search. II. Discovery of Three T Dwarfs in the Southern Hemisphere

We present the discovery of three new southern hemisphere T dwarfs identified in the Two Micron All Sky Survey. These objects, 2MASS 0348-6022, 2MASS 0516-0445, and 2MASS 2228-4310, have classifications T7, T5.5, and T6.5, respectively. Using linear absolute magnitude/spectral type relations derived from T dwarfs with measured parallaxes, we estimate spectrophotometric distances for these discoveries; the closest, 2MASS 0348-6022, is likely within 10 pc of the Sun. Proper motions and estimated tangential velocities are consistent with membership in the Galactic disk population. We also list southern hemisphere T dwarf candidates that were either not found in subsequent near-infrared imaging observations and are most likely uncataloged minor planets, or have near-infrared spectra consistent with background stars.
A PPROPRIATION : A N EXPERIMENT ON THE IMPACT OF JUDGMENTAL AND PRESENTATIONAL PRIMING Completed Research Paper

This paper extends individual-based theories of adaptive structuration by exploring the role of cognitive biases in shaping the individual sensemaking of a new technology (i.e., an online product configurator). We question whether cognitive biases intervene in the sensemaking process to influence the ensuing appropriation of the technology. We experimentally trigger cognitive biases by priming participants (N=645) with positive/negative judgments about the technology and with textual/visual instructions about its features. As outcome variables, we measure subjective and objective faithfulness of appropriation (FOA), and satisfaction with the technology. Results indicate that negative judgment lowers users’ satisfaction, but at the same time increases their objective FOA. Compared to textual priming, visual priming leads to higher satisfaction, and triggers an illusion of having appropriated the technology faithfully – although without influencing objective FOA. We conclude by showing implications for IS scholars and practitioners.
Red wine polyphenols inhibit proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells and downregulate expression of cyclin A gene.

BACKGROUND Red wine polyphenols have been shown to contribute to the "French paradox" phenomenon, which consists of lower morbidity and mortality from coronary heart disease in the French population. Although vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) proliferation plays an important role in the progression of atherosclerotic lesions, the effects of red wine polyphenols on VSMC proliferation have not been elucidated. METHODS AND RESULTS We extracted the total polyphenolic fraction from red wine (RW-PF) by column chromatography. Treatment with RW-PF showed a potent inhibitory effect on the proliferation and DNA synthesis of cultured rat aortic smooth muscle cells (RASMCs). In contrast, the inhibitory effect of RW-PF on the proliferation of bovine carotid endothelial cells was observed only at much higher concentrations. To elucidate the molecular mechanisms of this antiproliferative effect of RW-PF on RASMCs, we investigated the effects of RW-PF on cell cycle regulation. RW-PF downregulated the expression of cyclin A mRNA and cyclin A promoter activity. In addition, RW-PF decreased the binding of nuclear proteins to the activating transcription factor (ATF) site in the cyclin A promoter and downregulated the mRNA levels of transcription factors, cAMP-responsive element-binding protein (CREB), and ATF-1. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that the downregulation of cyclin A gene expression may contribute to the antiproliferative effect of red wine polyphenols on RASMCs through the inhibition of transcription factor expression.
On Learning High Dimensional Structured Single Index Models

Single Index Models (SIMs) are simple yet flexible semi-parametric models for machine learning, where the response variable is modeled as a monotonic function of a linear combination of features. Estimation in this context requires learning both the feature weights and the nonlinear function that relates features to observations. While methods have been described to learn SIMs in the low dimensional regime, a method that can efficiently learn SIMs in high dimensions, and under general structural assumptions, has not been forthcoming. In this paper, we propose computationally efficient algorithms for SIM inference in high dimensions with structural constraints. Our general approach specializes to sparsity, group sparsity, and low-rank assumptions among others. Experiments show that the proposed method enjoys superior predictive performance when compared to generalized linear models, and achieves results comparable to or better than single layer feedforward neural networks with significantly less computational cost.
Diurnal and nocturnal prey luring of a colorful predator

SUMMARY While animal color signaling has been studied for decades, we have little knowledge of the role conspicuous body coloration plays in the nocturnal context. In this study we explored animal color signaling in both diurnal and nocturnal contexts to arrive at a more comprehensive understanding of its function. We quantified how the brightly colored giant wood spiders Nephila pilipes are viewed by nocturnal insects, and performed field manipulations to assess the function of a spider's coloration in both diurnal and nocturnal conditions. Seen through the eyes of moths, the conspicuous body parts of spiders are quite distinctive from the vegetation background. The presence of N. pilipes significantly increased the diurnal as well as the nocturnal prey interception rates of their webs, but these rates were significantly reduced when the conspicuous color signals of N. pilipes were altered by black paint. A comparison of the diurnal and nocturnal hunting performances of spiders showed that their conspicuous coloration had a higher luring effect under dim light conditions. These results demonstrate that the conspicuous body coloration of N. pilipes functions as a visual lure to attract both diurnal and nocturnal prey. It seems that nocturnal insects are the major target of this colorful sit-and-wait predator. We suggest that the selection pressure to effectively exploit the color vision of nocturnal prey could be one of the major forces driving the evolution of spider coloration.
L1 Use in L2 Academic Essays: A Study of L1 Arabic Writers’ Views

Research findings indicate conflicting views as to interference from L1 rhetorical patterns in the essays written by students whose first language is not English. Essays are still considered important for required assignments and exams in institutions of higher learning, but the challenge for L1 Arabic students is to express their ideas clearly. Although there have been studies of the use of L1 in L2 writing, there are very few rigorous ones done on L1 Arabic texts in Lebanon and specifically from the students’ viewpoint. This study aims to evaluate, holistically and analytically, according to language, organization and content, the expository academic essays written by first year university L1 Arabic students and to examine any significant correlation between these scores and the quality of these essays through content analysis. In addition, students’ perceptions of any problems they have in writing the academic essay are surveyed through a questionnaire. Results indicate a significant positive correlation between students’ essay scores and the content analysis. However, findings from the student questionnaire revealed that they do not view any significant interference from L1 nor any significant problems in writing the academic essays which are contrary to the essay scores and content analysis results. Recommendations are made for L2 contexts and future research.
Array Optimization for MIMO Radar by Genetic Algorithms

In this paper, technique for the array optimization of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar is investigated. The primacy focus of this study is improved two-way pattern performance of MIMO radar. Genetic algorithms (GA) is applied to the array optimization in order to reduce the peaks of side lobes (PSL) by acting on the elements positions. By using the property that the two-way pattern of MIMO radar equals to the product of the transmitting and receiving beam patterns, the computational complexity of algorithms in this paper is significantly decreased. For MIMO radar system with separate transmitting and receiving arrays, and both of them are composed of 25-element with an overall aperture of 50λ (λ being the wavelength), the two-way pattern obtained in this paper with PSL do not exceed -28.65dB, which meets the requirement of project applications.
How Culturally Engaging Campus Environments Influence Sense of Belonging in College: An Examination of Differences Between White Students and Students of Color

Low persistence and degree completion rates continue to plague higher education, and students of color persist at even lower rates than their White peers. Research has linked greater sense of belonging in college to increased intentions to persist to graduation. However, research on how culturally relevant and responsive campus environments facilitate or hinder belonging and subsequent graduation among racially diverse college student populations is sparse. Using linear regression techniques, the authors use survey data from 870 students at an urban public research university to examine the relationship between culturally engaging campus environments and sense of belonging among White students and students of color. Results show that culturally engaging environments explain a significant portion of the variance in the belonging outcome for both White students and students of color. Implications for research and practice are discussed.
Animating Hair with Loosely Connected Particles

This paper presents a practical approach to the animation of hair at an interactive frame rate. In our approach,we model the hair as a set of particles that serve as sampling points for the volume of the hair, which covers thewhole region where hair is present. The dynamics of the hair, including hair‐hair interactions, is simulated usingthe interacting particles. The novelty of this approach is that, as opposed to the traditional way of modeling hair,we release the particles from tight structures that are usually used to represent hair strands or clusters. Therefore,by making the connections between the particles loose while maintaining their overall stiffness, the hair can bedynamically split and merged during lateral motion without losing its lengthwise coherence.
Ketimpangan Pendapatan Propinsi Jawa Timur dan Faktor-faktor yang Mempengaruhinya

Ketimpangan pendapatan merupakan masalah yang sering terjadi akibat akselerasi pembangunan, di satu sisi, daerah kengan kapasitas dan sumberdaya ekonomi mapan akan dengan mudah mencatat pertumbuhan, disisi lain daerah yang minim sumber ekonomi bahkan sulit untuk mencatat pertmbuhan positif. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan kondisi ketimpangan pendapatan Provinsi Jawa Timur serta menganalisis faktor-faktor yang mepengaruhinya pada tahun 2011-2015 dengan menggunakan empat variabel independen yaitu IPM, pertumbuhan ekonomi, tenaga kerja dan jumlah penduduk. Dengan data tersebut kemudian dianalisis berdasarkan prosedur metode regresi data panel. Hasil yang diperoleh dari analisis regresi data panel yaitu bahwa Random Effect Model (REM) adalah pendekatan yang paling tepat untuk menjelaskan pengaruh variable terikat dengan variable bebas dalam penelitian ini. Berdasarkan uji validitas pengaruh atau uji t, diketahui bahwa variabel yang berpengaruh signifikan terhadap ketimpangan pendapatan di provinsi Jawa Timur pada tahun 2011-2015 adalah variabel IPM dengan arah koefisien positif
THE INFLUENCE OF FAMILY COMPOSITION ON ADOLESCENT PROBLEM BEHAVIOR: THE MODERATING ROLES OF GENDER AND ADULT SUPPORT

THE INFLUENCE OF FAMILY COMPOSITION ON ADOLESCENT PROBLEM BEHAVIOR: THE MODERATING ROLES OF GENDER AND ADULT SUPPORT By Jasmine N. Coleman, B.A. A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia Commonwealth University, 2017 Major Director: Albert D. Farrell, Ph.D., Commonwealth Professor, Department of Psychology There is convincing support for the link between family composition and adolescents’ problem behaviors. What is less clear is the extent to which these relations exist for AfricanAmerican adolescents. Previous studies have demonstrated that this relation varies by gender. However, there is limited evidence to suggest the potential moderating influence of adult support. The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of family composition on adolescents’ physical aggression, delinquency, and substance use. The study comes from secondary analyses of a larger study that evaluated the effectiveness of a violence prevention program. The current study included 1,116 African-American middle school students from an urban setting who endorsed living with their biological mother and considered her to be their parent. Results indicated that among adolescents who identified their nonresidential biological father as their parent, those in stepfather families reported lower levels of delinquency than those in single-mother families. Support was not found for similar differences in self-report of delinquency and substance use, and teacher-report of adolescents’ physical aggression. No other differences in family composition were found for adolescent problem behavior. Support was also not found for the moderating roles of gender or adult support. However, self-report of delinquency and substance use, and teacher-report of physical aggression were negatively related to adult support. This was not the case for self-report of physical aggression. These findings suggest that interventions may need to provide additional resources that would help both parents and adolescents within single-parent families.
Circulating Angiopoietin-1 Is Not a Biomarker of Disease Severity or Prognosis in Pulmonary Hypertension

Background Circulating angiopoietin-1 (Ang-1) has been linked to pulmonary hypertension (PH) in experimental studies. However, the clinical relevance of Ang-1 as a biomarker in PH remains unknown. We aimed to investigate the prognostic and clinical significance of Ang-1 in PH using data from the prospectively recruiting Giessen PH Registry. Methods Patients with suspected PH (without previous specific pulmonary arterial hypertension [PAH] therapy) who underwent initial right heart catheterization (RHC) in our national referral center between July 2003 and May 2012 and who agreed to optional biomarker analysis were included if they were diagnosed with idiopathic PAH, connective tissue disease-associated PAH (CTD-PAH), PH due to left heart disease (PH-LHD), or chronic thromboembolic PH (CTEPH), or if PH was excluded by RHC (non-PH controls). The association of Ang-1 levels with disease severity (6-minute walk distance and pulmonary hemodynamics) was assessed using linear regression, and the impact of Ang-1 levels on transplant-free survival (primary endpoint) and clinical worsening was assessed using Kaplan—Meier curves, receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analyses, and Cox regression. Results 151 patients (39, 39, 32, and 41 with idiopathic PAH, CTD-PAH, PH-LHD, and CTEPH, respectively) and 41 non-PH controls were included. Ang-1 levels showed no significant difference between groups (p = 0.8), and no significant associations with disease severity in PH subgroups (p ≥ 0.07). In Kaplan—Meier analyses, Ang-1 levels (stratified by quartile) had no significant impact on transplant-free survival (p ≥ 0.27) or clinical worsening (p ≥ 0.51) in PH subgroups. Regression models found no significant association between Ang-1 levels and outcomes (p ≥ 0.31). ROC analyses found no significant cut-off that would maximize sensitivity and specificity. Conclusions Despite a strong pathophysiological association in experimental studies, this first comprehensive analysis of Ang-1 in PH subgroups suggests that Ang-1 is not a predictive and clinically relevant biomarker in PH.
Efficient Delaunay‐based localized routing for wireless sensor networks

Consider a wireless sensor network consisting of n wireless sensors randomly distributed in a two‐dimensional plane. In this paper, we show that with high probability we can locally find a path for any pair of sensors such that the length of the path is no more than a constant factor of the minimum. By assuming each sensor knows its position, our new routing method decides where to forward the message purely based on the position of current node, its neighbours, and the positions of the source and the target. Our method is based on a novel structure called localized Delaunay triangulation and a geometric routing method that guarantees that the distance travelled by the packets is no more than a small constant factor of the minimum when the Delaunay triangulation of sensor nodes are known. Our experiments show that the delivery rates of existing localized routing protocols are increased when localized Delaunay triangulation is used instead of several previously proposed topologies, and our localized routing protocol based on Delaunay triangulation works well in practice. We also conducted extensive simulations of another localized routing protocol, face routing. The path found by this protocol is also reasonably good compared with previous one although it cannot guarantee a constant approximation on the length of the path travelled theoretically. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
The Project Portfolio Management Problem

We consider the Project Portfolio Management Problem (PPMP) in which a limited resource must be allocated among a set of candidate projects over time so as to maximize expected net present value. We formulate this problem as a dynamic program but conclude that this approach is too computationally complex to be of value in supporting real-world project management. So, we investigate the structural properties of the optimal solution to the PPMP and demonstrate that the solution reduces to a simple form under certain environmental conditions. This simplified policy, which we term the index policy, sequences projects according to a simple ratio and then allocates resource up to each project’s practical limit in the order given by this sequence. Through numerical tests we demonstrate that this policy performs robustly well on the general PPMP. Hence, we conclude that the index policy is a practical way to incorporate economic and timing issues into a multi-dimensional scoring model for addressing real-world project portfolio management situations.
Crying on YouTube

In this article, we challenge dominant perceptions of social media as an archive of endlessly positive self-documentation by examining two subgenres of YouTube vlogging predicated on the expression of negative affect. Through analysis of the crying and anxiety vlogs of YouTubers ZoeSugg, Trisha Paytas and Nicole Klein, we recognize the productivity of negative affect, charting the translation of the mediated tears, sobs and struggles of these young female vloggers into affirmations of authenticity, (self-)therapy and strengthened ties of intimacy with followers. While these negative affect vlogs work outside of YouTube’s consumer economy, their popularity points to a booming economy of affective labour, where the exchange of tears for sympathetic ears is in consistently high demand.
Meanings of Marriage to Young People in Vietnam

ABSTRACT Vietnam’s deepening sociocultural exchanges with foreign countries over recent decades have influenced the thoughts, lifestyles, and marital expectations of young people, who grew up in a rapidly changing social context. The opening of Vietnam’s borders, both economically and culturally, has given rise to concerns that the sanctity of the institution of marriage in Vietnam as well as the longevity of individual marriages may be weakened as a result of the detraditionalization and/or modernization of marriage in Vietnam. This article investigates the meaning of marriage to young people in Vietnam, by drawing on in-depth interviews conducted with 60 married people aged not over 30. It addresses the questions: What do young people in Vietnam think about marriage? Is it important to them? If so, why and in what ways? The findings reflect two main facets in the young people’s thinking about marriage. The first identifies marriage as an essential institution, one that is supported by social norms of family and marriage in Vietnam. The second emphasizes the rewards that marriage potentially provides to individuals. While there was general consensus regarding these two claims, there were nevertheless some differences of opinion between men and women, and across rural and urban contexts.
Statistics and parametric correlations of Coulomb blockade peak fluctuations in quantum dots.

We report measurements of mesoscopic fluctuations of Coulomb blockade peaks in a shapedeformable GaAs quantum dot. Distributions of peak heights agree with predicted universal functions for both zero and nonzero magnetic fields. Parametric fluctuations of peak height and position, measured using a two-dimensional sweep over gate voltage and magnetic field, yield autocorrelations of height fluctuations consistent with a predicted Lorentzian-squared form for the unitary ensemble. We discuss the dependence of the correlation field on temperature and coupling to the leads as the dot is opened.