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MEDIATED MODERATION IN THE RELATION BETWEEN CONTACT AND PREJUDICE REDUCTION : THE ROLE OF INTERGROUP ANXIETY

In this study we examine the process that links intergroup contact to prejudice reduction, considering the relation between Italians and immigrants. In particular, we test whether the effect of contact is moderated by group salience and mediated by intergroup anxiety, and whether this process corresponds to a mediated moderation or to a moderated mediation. Moreover, as moderators we will consider different types of group salience: comparative fit, self-prototypicality and prototypicality of the known immigrants. The results are consistent with a mediated moderation process: a frequent and positive contact is effective in reducing prejudice when the known immigrants are perceived as prototypical of their group, and this relation is mediated by intergroup anxiety. In particular, in the mediated moderation analysis, it turns out that the moderation concerns the link between contact and anxiety.
The Prevalence of Relative Afferent Pupillary Defects in Normal Subjects

Background: Observational and pupillographic studies of small numbers of normal subjects have shown that a small (<0.3 log units) relative afferent pupil defect (RAPD) is present in a minority. We have extended the investigation of the prevalence of RAPD to a larger number of normal subjects. Methods: A total of 102 subjects were examined by observation and pupillography. The swinging flashlight test was performed using neutral density filters for quantification. During the pupillographic procedure, light-emitting diodes were placed in front of each eye, alternately flashing for 2.5 seconds with a 0.5 second break. A binocular real-time pupillometer recorded the direct and consensual pupillary responses. After artefact detection and removal, the amplitudes of pupillary response were determined and plotted against stimulus intensity. The means of the direct and the consensual responses were used for automated calculation of RAPD. Results: By observation, there was no RAPD in 87 (85%) subjects; there was an RAPD of 0.15 log units in 13 (13%), and an RAPD of 0.3 log units in 2 (2%). By pupillography, there was an RAPD of 0.07 log units in 53 (52%) subjects, an RAPD between 0.08 and 0.22 log units in 43 (42%) subjects, and an RAPD between 0.23 and 0.39 log units in 6 (6%) subjects. Conclusions: Observation and pupillographic measurements of the swinging light test in a large normal subject cohort has confirmed that an RAPD is present in a small minority but that it does not exceed 0.39 log units. The RAPD in these subjects may be explained by inaccuracy of measurement or by asymmetries in the connections between visual pathways and pretectal nuclei in the midbrain.
RELATIVE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN EQUIVALENT LINEAR AND NONLINEAR SITE RESPONSE METHODS

Equivalent-linear and nonlinear analyses are the mo st c mmon approaches used to perform onedimensional seismic site response analysis. The dy namic responses computed via these methods can vary considerably due to inherent differences in the num erical approaches (frequency domain vs. time domain solutions) and differences in how the nonlinear soi l response is modeled (equivalent-linear vs. fully nonlinear). Comparisons of fully nonlinear analysi s and equivalent-linear analysis indicate that the nonlinear method predicts less amplification than t he equivalent-linear method at high frequencies (greater than 25 Hz), more amplification than the e quivalent-linear method at moderate frequencies (5 to 25 Hz), and less amplification than the equivalentinear method at the natural frequency of the site. The nonlinear method predicts less amplification at hig h frequencies due to the incoherence in the phase i n the ground motion introduced by the nonlinear stress-st rain response. The larger amplification predicted b y the nonlinear method at moderate frequencies is a r e ult of high frequency amplification generated by the instantaneous change in soil stiffness that occurs upon stress reversal in the nonlinear analysis, as well as over-damping of high frequencies in the equivalentinear analysis. The smaller amplification predicte d by the nonlinear method close to the natural freque ncy of the site is caused by the continuously chang ing soil stiffness modeled in nonlinear analysis. Addit ionally, for sites with short natural frequencies t he frequency-dependent Rayleigh damping incorporated i n the time domain solution for nonlinear analysis can significantly reduce the response at high frequ encies. In these cases, a frequency-independent Rayleigh damping formulation is recommended.
Isolation and Characterization of a Sulfate-Reducing Bacterium That Anaerobically Degrades Alkanes

ABSTRACT An alkane-degrading, sulfate-reducing bacterial strain, AK-01, was isolated from an estuarine sediment with a history of chronic petroleum contamination. The bacterium is a short, nonmotile, non-spore-forming, gram-negative rod. It is mesophilic and grows optimally at pH 6.9 to 7.0 and at an NaCl concentration of 1%. Formate, fatty acids (C4 to C16) and hydrogen were readily utilized as electron donors. Sulfate, sulfite, and thiosulfate were used as electron acceptors, but sulfur, nitrite, and nitrate were not. Phenotypic characterization and phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequence indicate that AK-01 is most closely related to the generaDesulfosarcina, Desulfonema, andDesulfococcus in the delta subdivision of the classProteobacteria. It is phenotypically and phylogenetically different from strains Hxd3 and TD3, two previously reported isolates of alkane-degrading, sulfate-reducing bacteria. The alkanes tested to support growth of AK-01 had chain lengths of C13 to C18. 1-Alkenes (C15 and C16) and 1-alkanols (C15 and C16) also supported growth. The doubling time for growth on hexadecane was 3 days, about four times longer than that for growth on hexadecanoate. Mineralization of hexadecane was indicated by the recovery of14CO2 from cultures grown on [1-14C]hexadecane. Degradation of hexadecane was dependent on sulfate reduction. The stoichiometric ratio (as moles of sulfate reduced per mole of hexadecane degraded) was 10.6, which is very close to the theoretical ratio of 12.25, assuming a complete oxidation to CO2. Anaerobic alkane degradation by sulfate reducers may be a more widespread phenomenon than was previously thought.
An airport occupational health and safety management system from the OHSAS 18001 perspective

Occupational health and safety represents a set of technical, medical, legal, psychological, pedagogical and other measures with the aim to detect and eliminate hazards that threaten the lives and health of employees. These measures should be applied in a systematic way. Therefore, the aim of this study is to review occupational health and safety legislation in Serbia and the requirements that airports should fulfill for Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series certification. Analyzing the specificity of airport activities and injuries as their outcomes, the article also proposes preventive measures for the health and safety of employees. Furthermore, the airport activities which are the most important from the standpoint of risks are defined, as the goals for occupational health and safety performance improvement.
Transition behavior in large deflection of elastically-bossed unsymmetrically layered plate under initial tension

The transition behavior of an elastically-bossed un-symmetrically layered plate in large deflection due to lateral load is studied. von Karman plate theory for large deflection is utilized and extended to the case of a pre-stressed un-symmetrically layered plate with an elastic boss. The governing equations are simplified to a modified Bessel equation for the lateral slope, by neglecting the arising nonlinear terms following a linear consideration. Analytical solution is developed by imposing the interface continuity and the clamped-end boundary condition, which is expressible via modified Bessel functions of the first and the second kinds, rather than only the first kind for a flat plate. A subsequent integration is performed to evaluate the deflection at the center of the plate for studying the transition behavior as a function of pretension. For a nearly monolithic plate with a shallow boss, the results agree well with those of a flat plate available in literature, thus validates the presented approach. For two-layered un-symmetric plates made of typical silicon based materials, various radial sizes and thickness for the center boss are implemented. The solutions show that, widening the center boss may appreciably extend the range of pretension for the plate mode and thus enlarge the pretension for transferring to a membrane behavior.
Evidence-based Management in Practice : Opening up the Decision Process , Decision-maker and Context April

April L. Wright, Raymond F. Zammuto,1 Peter W. Liesch, Stuart Middleton,2 Paul Hibbert,3 John Burke4 and Victoria Brazil5 UQ Business School, University of Queensland, Blair Drive, St Lucia, Queensland, 4072, Australia, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, USA, UnitingCare Queensland, Australia, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland, UK, Queensland Health, Australia, and Bond University, Australia Corresponding author email: a.wright@business.uq. edu.au
Color Names Across Languages: Salient Colors and Term Translation in Multilingual Color Naming Models

Color names facilitate the identiﬁcation and communication of colors, but may vary across languages. We contribute a set of human color name judgments across 14 common written languages and build probabilistic models that ﬁnd different sets of nameable (salient) colors across languages. For example, we observe that unlike English and Chinese, Russian and Korean have more than one nameable blue color among fully-saturated RGB colors. In addition, we extend these probabilistic models to translate color terms from one language to another via a shared perceptual color space. We compare Korean-English translations from our model to those from online translation tools and ﬁnd that our method better preserves perceptual similarity of the colors corresponding to the source and target terms. We conclude with implications for
TV Ads impact on consumer purchase intention

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the influence of different contents of advertisements on the consumer purchase intention in UHT Milk.The research is conducted in five major cities of Pakistan with the sample size of 400 respondents selected by the systematic probability sampling technique and responses were collected with the help of structured questionnaires Result of the study shows that, due to quality features shown in TV advertisements of product, consumer purchase intention can be increased. While it was also found that the entertaining celebrity association, content credibility of product shown in TV advertisements, effective advertisement repetition and appeals is positively correlated with consumer purchase intentions. In addition in to this, product accessibility information, emotional appeal, and effective message theme are the most individual critical elements influencing this purchase intention.Data analysis was carried out with data of the TV advertisement viewers from Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Faisalabad and Multan (five major cities of Pakistan). The companies are experiencing an intense competition and unable to entice their customers. Focusing on these aspects of ads help the promoters to make their Ads more eye-catching and achieving the allimportant goal of purchase intention.The paper is a first of its type that develops a model capturing on all areas of Advertisement features while developing its relationship with Consumer purchase intention.
The Relative Income Effect : An Experiment 1

John Stuart Mill claimed that “men do not desire merely to be rich, but richer than other men. ” Do people desire to be richer than others? Or do people desire favorable comparisons to others more generally, and being richer is merely a proxy? We conduct an online experiment in which we measure subjective well-being before and after an exogenous shock that reveals to subjects how many experimental points they and another subject receive, and whether points are monetized. We find that subjects like receiving monetized significantly more than non-monetized points but dislike being “poorer” than others in monetized and non-monetized points equally, suggesting relative money is valued only for the relative points it represents. We find no evidence that subjects like being “richer” than others. Women have a strong(er) distaste for being “richer” and “poorer” (than do men); conservatives have a strong(er) distaste for being “poorer” (than do progressives). JEL Codes: C91, D31, D63, I31
Perforated Steel Shear Walls With Frp Reinforcement Of Opening Edges

Steel shear wall is an efficient lateral force resisting system with a thin steel plate connected to adjacent beams and columns which is expected to buckle in shear and form an inclined tension field similar to slender web plate girders. Sometimes the plate blocks a necessary building functionality and an opening is needed inside the plate. Examples of such cases are windows or doors in a steel shear wall core or openings for passage of ducts. The AISC seismic provisions states that an opening should be strengthened at edges by steel stiffeners to neutralize disruption of tension field continuity and minimize stress concentrations and edge buckling. It also allows other forms of openings that can be justified by testing or analysis. This paper introduces a method to prevent behavior decline using FRP laminates as edge reinforcement for the plate. An extensive numerical program was conducted to study the effect of FRP strips on the load carrying behavior of the system. A number of FRP materials together with different strip geometries are incorporated in the model to investigate possible behavioral improvements. The FRP layer is shown to prevent stress concentration at the perforation corners, provide support and continuity for inclined tension filed and enhance stiffness and strength of the shear wall system. The system is deemed to be promising considering the difficulties of traditional steel stiffeners which typically require welding and thus the proposed system can be equally efficient regarding economical and constructional considerations.
The Medicaid Expansion and Cost-Sharing Requirements

This study examines how the Medicaid expansion has affected health coverage, medical care utilization, financial well-being, and self-reported health. This study distinguishes itself from prior literature in that it also examines how the effect of the Medicaid expansion depends upon state cost-sharing requirements. Further, the study leverages a natural experimental design based on the introduction of a policy intervention (i.e. the Medicaid expansion in 2014). A differencein-difference regression model is first used to compare states that did and did not expand Medicaid. A second difference-in-difference regression model is then used to compare states that did not expand Medicaid, states that did expand Medicaid with cost-sharing requirements, and states that did expand Medicaid without cost-sharing requirements. Results indicate that the Medicaid expansion is associated with improvements in coverage, utilization, and financial wellbeing. However, it is also associated with a worsening in self-reported health outcomes. Furthermore, states that expanded Medicaid without cost-sharing requirements outperformed states that also expanded Medicaid but with cost-sharing requirements in all outcomes including self-reported health outcomes.
Behavioral / Cognitive Development of the Visual Word Form Area Requires Visual Experience : Evidence from Blind Braille

Learning to read causes the development of a letterand word-selective region known as the visual word form area (VWFA) within the human ventral visual object stream. Why does a reading-selective region develop at this anatomical location? According to one hypothesis, the VWFA develops at the nexus of visual inputs from retinotopic cortices and linguistic input from the frontotemporal language network because reading involves extracting linguistic information from visual symbols. Surprisingly, the anatomical location of the VWFA is also active when blind individuals read Braille by touch, suggesting that vision is not required for the development of the VWFA. In this study, we tested the alternative prediction that VWFA development is in fact influenced by visual experience. We predicted that in the absence of vision, the “VWFA” is incorporated into the frontotemporal language network and participates in high-level language processing. Congenitally blind (n 10, 9 female, 1 male) and sighted control (n 15, 9 female, 6 male), male and female participants each took part in two functional magnetic resonance imaging experiments: (1) word reading (Braille for blind and print for sighted participants), and (2) listening to spoken sentences of different grammatical complexity (both groups). We find that in blind, but not sighted participants, the anatomical location of the VWFA responds both to written words and to the grammatical complexity of spoken sentences. This suggests that in blindness, this region takes on high-level linguistic functions, becoming less selective for reading. More generally, the current findings suggest that experience during development has a major effect on functional specialization in the human cortex.
The Xenopus laevis Aurora-related Protein Kinase pEg2 Associates with and Phosphorylates the Kinesin-related Protein XlEg5*

We have previously reported on the cloning of XlEg5, a Xenopus laevis kinesin-related protein from thebimC family (Le Guellec, R., Paris, J., Couturier, A., Roghi, C., and Philippe, M. (1991) Mol. Cell. Biol. 11, 3395–3408) as well as pEg2, an Aurora-related serine/threonine kinase (Roghi, C., Giet, R., Uzbekov, R., Morin, N., Chartrain, I., Le Guellec, R., Couturier, A., Dorée, M., Philippe, M., and Prigent, C. (1998) J. Cell Sci. 111, 557–572). Inhibition of either XlEg5 or pEg2 activity during mitosis in Xenopus egg extract led to monopolar spindle formation. Here, we report that inXenopus XL2 cells, pEg2 and XlEg5 are both confined to separated centrosomes in prophase, and then to the microtubule spindle poles. We also show that pEg2 co-immunoprecipitates with XlEg5 from egg extracts and XL2 cell lysates. Both proteins can directly interactin vitro, but also through the two-hybrid system. Furthermore immunoprecipitated pEg2 were found to remain active when bound to the beads and phosphorylate XlEg5 present in the precipitate. Two-dimensional mapping of XlEg5 tryptic peptides phosphorylatedin vivo first confirmed that XlEg5 was phosphorylated by p34 cdc2 and next revealed that in vitro pEg2 kinase phosphorylated XlEg5 on the same stalk domain serine residue that was phosphorylated in metabolically labeled XL2 cells. The kinesin-related XlEg5 is to our knowledge the first in vivo substrate ever reported for an Aurora-related kinase.
Vaccination with xenogeneic tumor endothelial proteins isolated in situ inhibits tumor angiogenesis and spontaneous metastasis

Angiogenesis is critical for tumor growth and metastasis. Tumor tissues induce the expression of angiogenesis‐associated proteins on endothelial surface that can be targeted for tumor immunotherapy. In our study, the rat tumor endothelial proteins (EP) were isolated in situ via biotinylation of tumor vascular endothelial luminal surface followed by streptavidin affinity chromatography. The isolated tumor EP contained numerous up‐regulated angiogenesis‐associated endothelial proteins. The administration of these tumor EP as a vaccine to mice reduced the microvessel density in subcutaneous primary LLC tumors, delayed spontaneous LLC tumor metastasis and prolonged post‐surgery life span. T lymphocytes from tumor EP‐vaccinated mice lysed human umbilical vascular endothelial cells, but not tumor cells in vitro, in a dose‐dependent manner. Furthermore, adoptive transfer of antitumor EP antibodies in vivo targeted to tumor endothelium and inhibited spontaneous LLC tumor metastasis. This study provides a successful preclinical exploration of the active immunotherapy for tumor by targeting tumor angiogenesis. © 2009 UICC
The detection of dementia and cognitive impairment in a community population of elderly people with Parkinson's disease by use of the CAMCOG neuropsychological test.

AIM To assess cognitive function in elderly subjects with clinically probable Parkinson's disease (PD). METHODS A community sample of 126 patients with probable PD completed the CAMCOG, which is the cognitive section of the Cambridge Examination for Mental Disorders, and the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). The performance of the CAMCOG and the MMSE in detecting dementia in this subject group was compared with the results of applying the DSM-IV criteria for dementia to this population. RESULTS A total of 44% of the group met DSM-IV criteria for dementia, which is higher than most previous prevalence figures for dementia in PD. The CAMCOG was more sensitive than the MMSE in detecting cognitive impairment and more specific than the MMSE in detecting dementia as defined by DSM-IV criteria. Poorer performance on the CAMCOG was related to gender, social class and age (P<0.05). Among subjects with PD, those with dementia, as defined by DSM-IV criteria, were significantly older, had greater depressive symptomatology and had greater motor deficits. A greater proportion of the group with dementia were living in residential care (P<0.05). CONCLUSION The CAMCOG appears to be a useful screening instrument for dementia and cognitive impairment in PD. Furthermore, it may prove helpful in detecting those with PD who may be at risk of developing dementia and in longitudinal studies of cognitive function in PD.
Insect Flight: Lift and Rate of Change of Incidence

Large changes in lift output result when a simulated insect wing, undergoing a downstroke, is subjected to a dynamic change of incidence. Given a large positive rate of change of incidence, transient lift values several times those realized in steady-state operation at the same angle of incidence are obtained. Thus a means exists by which insects achieve several times the lift expected by conventional quasi-steady considerations.
Teacher Training, Attitudes and Inclusion

In this study we sought to discover teachers' attitudes toward the inclusion of students with special educational needs (SEN) in the classroom, and evaluate the factors suggested by them that would make an effective inclusion process possible. We also sought to understand the nature of the difficulties they experience in promoting inclusive education and to relate these to their training and professional development. We concluded that the variables of age, length of service, level of education and academic qualifications do not influence attitudes toward inclusion, . However, it was found that age significantly influenced the teachers’ attitude variable, and specific training for working with students with SEN is more effective for younger teachers with shorter length of service With regard to the ‘type of training’ variable, we found that teachers whose initial training had included curriculum components related to SEN students did not develop more positive attitudes. In terms of continuing and specialist training, the data show that positive attitudes to inclusion are more frequent in teachers who have had continuing or specialist training in the SEN area as part of their professional development. Respondents also highlighted six categories of difficulties in the implementation of inclusion in schools: the attitudes of teachers; the attitudes of families; coordination between educational staff; the attitude of the teaching community; lack of human and physical resources; and lack of training to work with SEN students.