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Magnetostratigraphyof theNeogeneChakabasinand its implications formountainbuildingprocesses in the north-easternTibetan Plateau

Magnetostratigraphy of sedimentary rock deposited in the Chaka basin (north-easternTibetan Plateau) indicates a lateMiocene onset of basin formation and subsequent development of the adjacent Qinghai Nan Shan. Sedimentation in the basin initiated at 11Ma. In the lower part of the basin ¢ll, a coarsening-upward sequence starting at 9Ma, as well as rapid sedimentation rates, and northward paleocurrents, are consistent with continued growth of the Ela Shan to the south. In the upper section, several lines of evidence suggest that thrust faulting and topographic development of the Qinghai Nan Shan began at 6.1Ma. Paleocurrent indicators, preserved in the basin in the proximal footwall of theQinghaiNan Shan, show a change from northward to southward £ow between 6.5 and 3.8Ma. At the same location, sediment derived from the Qinghai Nan Shan appears at 6.1Ma. Finally, the initiation of progressively shallowing dips observed in deformed basin strata and a change to pebbly, £uvial deposits at 6.1Ma provide a minimum age for the onset of slip on the thrust fault that dips north-east beneath the Qinghai Nan Shan.We interpret a decrease in sediment accumulation rates since 6Ma to indicate a reduction in Chaka basin accommodation space due to active faulting and folding along theQinghaiNanShan and incorporation of the basin into the wedge-top depozone. Declination anomalies indicate the beginning of counter-clockwise rotation since 6.1Ma, whichwe associatewith local deformation, not regional block rotation.The emergence of theQinghaiNanShan near the end of theMiocene Epoch partitioned the once contiguous Chaka-Gonghe and Qinghai basin complex. In a regional framework, our study adds to a growing body of evidence that points to widespread initiation and/or reactivation of fault networks during the lateMiocene across the northeasternTibetan Plateau.
Biofeedback-Assisted Relaxation Training in the Elementary Classroom.

Like adults, children today have to deal with the realities of a rapidly moving, high pressure world. Eisen (1979) estimated that 20% of the children in the free world are negatively affected by biological (e.g., chronic disease) and psychological stressors (e.g., parental divorce). Additionally, many social, economic, or cultural factors (e.g., disadvantaged families, high pressure schools) have an impact on youth. These facts support the opinion that counselors must find ways to help young people deal with pressures early in their lives so that they will not experience stress-related disorders as adults.
The Effect of Residents’ Attitude toward Tourism on their Pro-Tourism Behaviour: A Case Study of Hua-Hin Prachubkirikhan

Abstract This study focused on the impact of attitude toward tourism on pro-tourism behaviour. The social exchange theory and theory of reasoned action were used to support this model. This study constructed a model for testing the relationship among welcome tourists behaviour, perceived local economy, personal benefit, attitude toward tourism, and pro-tourism behaviour. Empirical testing was used for observing the effect of the model. The sample comprised 408 people from Hua-hin Prachubkirikhan, who were selected by convenience sampling. The research instrument was a questionnaire that was divided into the following 4 parts: general data, perceived tourism impact (welcome tourists behaviour, perceived local economy, and personal benefit), attitude toward tourism, and pro-tourism behaviour. Statistical analysis methods included frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and structural equation modelling. All the hypotheses were supported, indicating a significant positive effect of attitude toward tourism on pro-tourism behavior.
Recent progress in understanding and facilitating marital communication

Newfindingsfrom research, leading to new insights, have in the past ten years revealed that effective couple communication is a vital key to effective marital interaction. Some of these insights are listed and described, and the new concepts which have emerged-such as awareness, self-disclosure, esteem-building, and symmetry in husband-wife input-are discussed. In conclusion, the reader is urged not to regard training in communication as a panacea.
Promoción de la actividad física en adolescentes: rol de la motivación y autoestima

El objetivo de esta investigacion fue examinar la relacion entre la satisfaccion de las necesidades psicologicas basicas, la motivacion intrinseca, la autoestima y la intencion futura de ser fisicamente activo. Una muestra conformada por 788 estudiantes de educacion fisica de Buenos Aires (Argentina) con edades comprendidas entre 12 y 19 anos de edad completaron escalas previamente validadas. El modelo de ecuaciones estructurales resultante revelo que la satisfaccion de las necesidades psicologicas basicas predecia la motivacion intrinseca. La autoestima fue predicha directamente tanto por dicha motivacion intrinseca como por la satisfaccion de competencia y predijo positivamente la intencion de ser fisicamente activo en el futuro. Los resultados senalan el rol mediador de la autoestima entre la motivacion intrinseca y la intencion de realizar actividad fisica, cobrando en el modelo una especial importancia la satisfaccion de competencia tal y como apuntaban estudios anteriores. Se sugiere que las intervenciones que, en un contexto de educacion fisica, mejoren la percepcion de competencia del alumnado, pueden mejorar su autoestima y favorecer su intencion de realizar actividad fisico-deportiva.
Retrotransposons that maintain chromosome ends

Reverse transcriptases have shaped genomes in many ways. A remarkable example of this shaping is found on telomeres of the genus Drosophila, where retrotransposons have a vital role in chromosome structure. Drosophila lacks telomerase; instead, three telomere-specific retrotransposons maintain chromosome ends. Repeated transpositions to chromosome ends produce long head to tail arrays of these elements. In both form and function, these arrays are analogous to the arrays of repeats added by telomerase to chromosomes in other organisms. Distantly related Drosophila exhibit this variant mechanism of telomere maintenance, which was established before the separation of extant Drosophila species. Nevertheless, the telomere-specific elements still have the hallmarks that characterize non-long terminal repeat (non-LTR) retrotransposons; they have also acquired characteristics associated with their roles at telomeres. These telomeric retrotransposons have shaped the Drosophila genome, but they have also been shaped by the genome. Here, we discuss ways in which these three telomere-specific retrotransposons have been modified for their roles in Drosophila chromosomes.
Chapter 2 Ecogenomics of Deep-Ocean Microbial Bathytypes

The deep ocean is one of the largest and least studied biomes on Earth. The microbes inhabiting these locales require physiological adaptations to handle the associated extreme environmental conditions, including high hydrostatic pressure, low temperatures, and low organic carbon. Few microbes have been successfully cultured that are capable of growth under in situ high-pressure conditions, especially at hadal depths, thanks to the relative inaccessibility of these sites, an inability to collect samples and maintain them under in situ conditions, and difficulties in culturing methodology. However, genome sequencing and high-throughput community analyses have provided insight into the prokaryotes which inhabit the deep sea and their lifestyles. This review discusses our current understanding of microbial adaptation to the deep-ocean through genomic comparisons of deep-ocean adapted microbial ecotypes and their shallow-water counterparts, including opportunistic heterotrophic microbes belonging to the Gammaproteobacteria and the fastidious taxa SAR11 and Thaumarchaea. These comparisons are addressed in the context of culture-independent metagenomics and community diversity analyses on deep, oligotrophic pelagic communities. Both culture-dependent and—independent analyses suggest the presence of bathytypes as both isolates and whole communities are distinct from those found above them. While these studies show many attributes indicative of deep-ocean genomes, including genes for particle-association, heavy-metal resistance, the loss of a UV photolyase, and increased abundances of mobile elements, they also suggest that high-pressure adaptation seems to arise from the accumulation of many small changes, such as differences in gene expression or the accumulation of compatible solutes. Genomic analyses on a larger dataset of samples and piezophilic isolates are necessary to distinguish attributes specific to deep-sea adaptation. L.M. Peoples D.H. Bartlett (&) Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0202, CA, USA e-mail: dbartlett@ucsd.edu © Springer International Publishing AG 2017 C. Chénard and F.M. Lauro (eds.), Microbial Ecology of Extreme Environments, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-51686-8_2 7
Raising the Speed Limit: U.S. Economic Growth in the Information Age

This paper examines the underpinnings of the successful performance of the US economy in the late 1990s. Relative to the early 1990s, output growth has accelerated by nearly two percentage points. We attribute this to rapid capital accumulation, a surge in hours worked, and faster growth of total factor productivity. The acceleration of productivity growth, driven by information technology, is the most remarkable feature of the US growth resurgence. We consider the implications of these developments for the future growth of the US economy . Ce document examine les facteurs qui ont contribues aux tres bonnes performances de l’economie americaine a la fin des annees 90. Par rapport au debut des annees 90, le taux de croissance a augmente de pres de deux points de pourcentage. Nous attribuons ceci a la croissance accrue du capital, une augmentation importante des heures travaillees et une croissance plus rapide de la productivite multifactorielle. Cette acceleration de la croissance de la productivite, poussee par les technologies de l’information, est l’aspect le plus remarquable de la remontee de la croissance americaine. Nous prenons en consideration les implications de ces developpements pour la croissance future de l’economie americaine .
Thinking Together: Joint Commitment and Social Epistemology

We often credit groups with reasoning well. Juries can be diligent, or committees negligent. We even credit the groups independently of crediting the members. But what are groups? How can they form beliefs, and how are those beliefs epistemically evaluated? This dissertation aims to answer these questions. The first chapter addresses a question about shared action. What does it take for some people to do something together, as a group? I defend a view based on Margaret Gilbert’s work, where joint commitment is the basic building block of togetherness. Joint commitments are directive-like representations which people direct towards themselves and others, and which they take up from themselves and others. This view avoids the problems typically attributed to Gilbert’s account while capturing its virtues. In the second chapter, I address metaphysical worries about plural subjects, or jointly-committed people. One concern is that groups are entities “over and above” their members (a view which some have endorsed). I develop a broadly reductionist theory about group ontology, where facts about group persistence are replaced with facts about the history of joint commitments. This captures the sense in which groups are nothing but their members, even though there is more to groups than facts about their members. The third chapter explains group belief, and why it matters. The view developed here largely follows Gilbert’s own theory, that group belief is a joint commitment phenomenon. However, the view that groups establish their beliefs by jointly committing to beliefs via negotiation has drawn serious criticisms, which I answer here. Finally, the fourth chapter develops a virtue-theoretic account of epistemic evaluation for group beliefs. Since we often credit groups for their epistemic responsibility, I apply the theories which take epistemic responsibly seriously – namely, virtue responsibilist theories – to group belief. What results is an account of group virtue, where well-formed beliefs flow from joint attitudes of the sort constitutive of virtue. The overall view takes joint commitment to be central at every stage of analysis: central to groups, central to their beliefs, and central to their epistemic agency. Thinking Together: Joint Commitment and Social Epistemology
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A Contextualized Intervention for Community College Developmental Reading and Writing Students. CCRC Working Paper No. 38.

Instructors in community college developmental education programs are constantly seeking new ways to improve outcomes for their students, but, to date, there has been a shortage of empirical studies on the effectiveness of such efforts. The current study provides evidence on the potential efficacy of an approach to helping students develop an important academic skill, written summarization. In two experiments, a contextualized intervention was administered to developmental reading and writing students in two community colleges. The intervention was a 10-week curricular supplement that emphasized written summarization, as well as vocabulary knowledge, question generation, reading comprehension, and persuasive writing. The intervention was based on reading passages from science textbooks, with generic text from developmental education textbooks added in the second experiment. In Experiment 1 (n = 322), greater gain was found for intervention than for comparison participants along three dimensions of written summarization: the proportion of main ideas from the source text included in the summary, accuracy, and word count (ES = 0.26–0.42). Experiment 2 (n = 246) set out to replicate and extend Experiment 1. Results were replicated for three of five summarization measures (ES = 0.36–0.70), but it was also found that intervention participants showed higher amounts of copying from the source text at posttest than the comparison group. In extending the intervention to a different text condition, it was found that students receiving science text outperformed students receiving generic text on the inclusion of main ideas, as well as on accuracy (ES = 0.32–0.33), providing moderate support for contextualization. Although summarization gains did not transfer to a standardized reading comprehension test in either experiment, the findings of this study suggest that the intervention had utility for academically underprepared postsecondary students.
A Cumulative Satisfaction Measure Model Based on Dynamic Customer Expectation

Customer cumulative satisfaction is crucial indicator of performance in the industries of continuously provided service, and the dynamic nature of expectation is especially important in this kind of satisfaction. In this paper, we establish a cumulative satisfaction measure model (CSM) based on dynamic customer expectation, which is considered as function of "adaptation" and "social comparison". We also discuss the application of CSM through optimizing the distribution of promoting resource. The results indicate that the project, which accords with incremental and pulsed distribution, can maximize customer cumulative satisfaction in a given period. The consistency between optimal project and the theory of behavior economics confirms the validity of CSM.
Oxidative Stress Induced by Zearalenone in Porcine Granulosa Cells and Its Rescue by Curcumin In Vitro

Oxidative stress (OS), as a signal of aberrant intracellular mechanisms, plays key roles in maintaining homeostasis for organisms. The occurrence of OS due to the disorder of normal cellular redox balance indicates the overproduction of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and/or deficiency of antioxidants. Once the balance is broken down, repression of oxidative stress is one of the most effective ways to alleviate it. Ongoing studies provide remarkable evidence that oxidative stress is involved in reproductive toxicity induced by various stimuli, such as environmental toxicants and food toxicity. Zearalenone (ZEA), as a toxic compound existing in contaminated food products, is found to induce mycotoxicosis that has a significant impact on the reproduction of domestic animals, especially pigs. However, there is no information about how ROS and oxidative stress is involved in the influence of ZEA on porcine granulosa cells, or whether the stress can be rescued by curcumin. In this study, ZEA-induced effect on porcine granulosa cells was investigated at low concentrations (15 μM, 30 μM and 60 μM). In vitro ROS levels, the mRNA level and activity of superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase and catalase were obtained. The results showed that in comparison with negative control, ZEA increased oxidative stress with higher ROS levels, reduced the expression and activity of antioxidative enzymes, increased the intensity of fluorogenic probes 2’, 7’-Dichlorodihydrofluorescin diacetate and dihydroethidium in flow cytometry assay and fluorescence microscopy. Meanwhile, the activity of glutathione (GSH) did not change obviously following 60 μM ZEA treatment. Furthermore, the underlying protective mechanisms of curcumin on the ZEA-treated porcine granulosa cells were investigated. The data revealed that curcumin pre-treatment significantly suppressed ZEA-induced oxidative stress. Collectively, porcine granulosa cells were sensitive to ZEA, which may induce oxidative stress. The findings from this study clearly demonstrate that curcumin is effective to reduce the dysregulation of cellular redox balance on porcine granulosa cells in vitro and should be further investigated for its protective role against ZEA in animals.
UBVI photometry of the intermediate‐age open cluster NGC 6939

ABSTRACT We present CCD UBVI photometry of the nearby, intermediate age open clusterNGC 6939. Using the synthetic Colour - Magnitude Diagrams technique we estimatethe following parameters: age between 1.3 and 1.0 Gyr (depending on whether or notovershooting is considered), reddening 0.34 ≤ E(B−V) ≤ 0.38 and distance modulus11.3 ≤ (m−M) 0 ≤ 11.4. Key words: Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram – open clusters and associations:general – open clusters and associations: individual: NGC 6939 1 INTRODUCTIONA vast amount of information on the formation and evolu-tion of our Galaxy can be gathered from the study of openclusters (OCs). In particular, old OCs may be useful to de-rive information not only on the present day situation, butalso on the time evolution of the disc, since their ages coverthe whole existence of the disc, reaching to about 10 Gyr(Friel 1995). In order to fully exploit the information pro-vided by OCs we must derive for them in a homogeneousway: accurate absolute ages (and a consistent age ranking),distances, reddenings, and metal content. With this aim weare studying a number of old OCs (see Bragaglia & Tosi2003 and Sandrelli et al. 1999 for references), and we nowadd another cluster to our sample.Given its relative proximity, NGC 6939 (C2030+604)has been the target of several studies in the past: the ﬁrstbibliographic entry is 80 years ago (Kustner 1923) but, sur-prisingly, the ﬁrst CCD data appeared only in 2002 (Rosvick& Balam 2002, hereafter RB02). As usual, the cluster pa-rameters found in literature do not agree with each other,and we present in this paper new and improved determi-nations for this intermediate age open cluster located atRA(2000) = 20:31:32, DEC(2000) = +60:39:00, or l = 95.88,b = 12.30. Photometry has been previously presented by severalauthors, but old photographic photometry only reachedabout one magnitude below the main sequence Turn-Oﬀ. Mermilliod, Huestamendia, & del Rio (1994) took UBV pho-toelectric photometry of 37 member stars all in the redclump phase, with the intent of discriminating between dif-ferent evolutionary models (with or without overshooting)by comparison with theoretical isochrones. It turned outthat most of the bright stars lying in the cluster directionare indeed cluster members (their Table 1 lists only 4 non-members among 45 objects). The recent work by Rosvick &Balam (2002) has presented the ﬁrst deep BVI CCD data.They used the 1.85m Dominion Astrophysical Observatorytelescope, covering the central part of NGC 6939 (more orless our ﬁeld A, see later). Their CMDs show considerablescatter, which they do not attribute to contamination fromﬁeld stars (even if they could not prune their diagrams onthe main sequence, since no proper motion survey on thiscluster has reached so deep), but to diﬀerential reddening[E(B−V) = 0.29 to 0.41], which also inﬂuences the distancederivation [(m−M)
Complicated grief in older adults: a randomized controlled trial of complicated grief group therapy.

PURPOSE This study compared the efficacy of complicated grief therapy (CGT; Shear, K. [2003]. Complicated grief: A guidebook for therapists [Liberty Version]. New York State Office of Mental Heath; Shear, K., Frank, E., Houck, P. R., & Reynolds, C. F. 3rd [2005]. Treatment of complicated grief: A randomized controlled trial. The Journal of the American Medical Association, 293, 2601-2608) administered as group therapy (CGGT) with standard group therapy (treatment as usual [TAU]) in older adults presenting with complicated grief (CG). METHODS The design was a 2×4, prospective, randomized controlled clinical trial. The independent variable was group type, with 1 group receiving experimental methods based on the work of Shear et al. (Shear, K., Frank, E., Houck, P. R., & Reynolds, C. F. 3rd. [2005]. Treatment of complicated grief: a randomized controlled trial. The Journal of the American Medical Association, 293, 2601-2608), CGGT versus. TAU. The dependent variable was treatment response. RESULTS CGGT participants demonstrated higher treatment response than TAU participants. Although participants in both groups showed improvement in CG measures, CGGT participants realized significantly greater improvement. More importantly, when CG was measured on Prolonged Grief Disorder Scale, nearly half of CGGT participants realized clinically significant improvement. All CGGT completers had Brief Grief Questionnaire scores upon follow-up that, had they scored at that level at pretest, would have disqualified them for study enrollment. IMPLICATIONS The high level of clinical significance suggests that CGGT participants were effectively treated for CG. This study offers evidence that CGGT holds promise for treatment of CG in older adults and merits inquiry in other populations.