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Are there social benefits? Exploring the role of positive consequences in the relationship between social anxiety symptoms and negative drinking consequences

Abstract Research has shown that college students with social anxiety experience more alcohol-related negative consequences, regardless of the amount of alcohol they consume. To better understand this relationship, it is important to examine social anxiety as a multidimensional construct, as well as explore the positive outcomes these students experience from drinking. The current study sought to examine the impact of positive drinking consequences on the relationship between behavioral (i.e. interaction and performance-type) and cognitive (i.e. fear of negative evaluation) social anxiety symptoms and alcohol-related negative consequences. Participants were 544 traditional age college students who reported consuming alcohol in the past month and completed measures of social anxiety symptoms, positive drinking consequences, and alcohol-related negative consequences. Positive drinking consequences moderated the relationship between social anxiety and alcohol-related negative consequences, such that students with more fear of negative evaluation and that experienced more positive drinking consequences reported more negative drinking consequences. Future directions and implications are discussed.
An object-oriented communication library for hardware-software codesign

Implementing communication between hardware and software components can be a time-consuming task. Numerous communication protocols are available, differing greatly in their implementation details. Designers must spend much time focusing on those details. Even when libraries are available to encapsulate communication into C or VHDL routines, these routines are not consistent across protocols, making it difficult to switch to other protocols. We propose an object-oriented communication library, which provides pre-implemented channel-based send/receive communication primitives, allowing easy implementation and seamless migration across protocols and components.
Efficient Light Field Based Camera Walk

The light field rendering method is an interesting variation on achieving realism. Once authentic imagery has been acquired using a camera gantry, or a handheld camera, detailed novel views can be synthetically generated from various viewpoints. One common application of this technique is when a user “walks” through a virtual world. In this situation, only a subset of the previously stored light field is required, and considerable computation burden is encountered in processing the input light field to obtain this subset. In this paper, we show that appropriate portions of the light field can be cached at select “nodal points” that depend on the camera walk. Once spartanly and quickly cached, scenes can be rendered from any point on the walk efficiently.
Oscillation in first order nonlinear retarded argument differential equations

A result of Ladas, Lakshmikantham, and Papadakis [11 concerning oscillation caused by lag in linear first order retarded argument differential equations is generalized to the sublinear case. Examples showing that such generalization to the superlinear case is impossible are given. 0. Introduction. It is known ([1], for example) that (A) g E C(R, R), g(t) O a.e. , and (C) lim supt,. m (th) a(s) ds> 1, together imply that every solution to (1) x'(t) + a(t)x(g(t)) = 0 is oscillatory, i.e. has arbitrarily large zeros. We show in this note that this result can be generalized to the sublinear case but a corresponding generalization to the superlinear case fails. In particular we consider the more general retarded argument differential equation (2) x'(t) + a(t)f (x(g(t))) = 0 for t E [b, + oo) where (D) xf(x)>0 for x$0, f e C(R, R), f is nondecreasing with if(x)j-* + co as Ixl-*+ oo. We also assume g(t) satisfies (A) and a(t) satisfies (B). We shall call f generalized sublinear in case lim,. 0(x/f(x))=M< + cc, for s ome M. This includes the sublinear case (see [2]) f(x)=xa, 0< a< 1, as well as the linear case. Similarly, f is generalized superlinear in case lim,-0(xlf(x))= + co. For simplicity we drop the word "generalized". 1. Sublinear case. We begin with a lemma. LEMMA 1. 1. For g satisfying (A) and {t,J defined by to E R arbitrary and ti+L=g-1(ti), t-+ cc as h--cc. Received by the editors October 10, 1972 and, in revised form, March 22, 1973. AMS (MOS) subject classiflcations (1970). Primary 34K15.
A novel deterministic small-world network created by rectangle iterations

For the past few years, people have widely adopted complex network theories and methods on complex system and nonlinear dynamics, such as social network, ecological network, transportation network and so on. The complex warfare system is also no exception. Inspired by the famous OODA loop theory of military field, this paper proposes a deterministic network growth model based on the motif of rectangle. Because the clustering coefficient of network is zero, we construct small world network model through adding two non-intersect edges in the diagonal of rectangle. Combined with the characteristic of growth in real network, this paper proposes the generating algorithms of small world. Then we analyze the main topological properties, such as the degree and the degree distribution, average path length and clustering coefficient. The results show that our network has the characteristic of low average path length, high clustering and exponential degree distribution.
COMPLEMENTARITY AND SIMILARITY: RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN TEXT-MINED TERMS AND SOCIAL TAGS FOR IMAGE DESCRIPTION

In this paper, we present our results on comparing the language of social tags with textmined terms for images. We have developed a novel modification of the standard term frequency/inverse document frequency metric (tf*idf) (Salton & Buckley 1988) over tags and terms to identify and filter terms which discriminate images for searchers. Since tags serve as additional input, we refer to this modification as the T-tf*idf Measure, i.e. Tagsterm frequency as an inverse of document frequency, where “document” in this case refers to the either the tag or term dataset. We present the results of several variations on this measure, and demonstrate the impact on output. We discuss evaluation of our results on the ability of the metric to reflect human judgments through experiments which illustrate the value of the approach.
Positive illusion coping styles: adaptive denial, defensiveness, depression and the protection of self-esteem

II DECLARATION . III ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS . IV TABLE OF CONTENTS . V LIST OF TABLES . VIII LIST OF FIGURES . X LIST OF APPENDICES . XI CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION TO POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY AND THE SCIENCE OF WELLBEING: A GROWING FIELD . 1 A SPECIFIC AIM IN POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY: EMOTION REGULATION . 2 INFLUENCES UPON DEPRESSION . 3 EMPIRICAL AND LESS EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF SELF-PROTECTION MECHANISMS . 4 THE EMERGENCE OF THE CONCEPT OF POSITIVE ILLUSIONS . 5 EMPIRICAL TESTING OF THE POSITIVE ILLUSIONS CONCEPT . 6 CHAPTER 2: VULNERABILITY AND RESILIENCE TO DEPRESSION . 8 PREVALENCE OF MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER . 9 INCREASE IN DEPRESSION INCIDENCE . 10 GENDER DIFFERENCES IN DEPRESSION . 11 COMORBIDITY IN DEPRESSION . 12 AGE OF ONSET AND COURSE IN DEPRESSION . 12 IMPAIRMENTS TO FUNCTIONING . 13 CATEGORIES VERSUS DIMENSIONS IN DEPRESSION . 14 SUBTHRESHOLD PRESENTATIONS IN DEPRESSION . 15 CAUSATION FACTORS IN DEPRESSION . 16 PREVENTION OF DEPRESSION . 19 FOCUS OF THIS STUDY . 19 THE HISTORICAL MODELLING OF DEPRESSIVE VULNERABILITY . 20 ATTENTIONAL BIAS AND NEGATIVE SELF-FOCUSED ATTENTION . 21 DIATHESIS-STRESS: THE CONTRIBUTION OF NEGATIVE LIFE EXPERIENCES TO DEPRESSION . 22 SELF-ESTEEM MAINTENANCE AND HOMEOSTATIC MECHANISMS . 25 NEUROTICISM/STABILITY . 27 ATTRIBUTIONAL STYLE . 28 DEPENDENCY AND SELF-CRITICISM . 29 POSITIVE COGNITIONS . 31 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS . 32 CHAPTER 3 POSITIVE ILLUSIONS . 33 THE ORIGINS OF THE POSITIVE ILLUSIONS CONCEPT . 33 THE BENEFITS OF ILLUSIONS . 36 CRITIQUES OF TAYLOR AND BROWN’S (1988) FORMULATIONS . 38 FURTHER STUDIES ON POSITIVE ILLUSIONS: DIVERSE APPLICATIONS BUT LACK OF EMPIRICAL CONFIRMATION . 42 ILLUSIONS AND POSITIVE AFFECT . 43 POSITIVE ILLUSIONS AND SELF-ESTEEM . 44 ARE THERE OPTIMAL LEVELS FOR THE USE OF ILLUSIONS? 46 ARE POSITIVE ILLUSIONS LEARNT OR INNATE? 50 CONSTRUCTS RELATED TO POSITIVE ILLUSIONS . 50 DENIAL . 51 THE CONCEPT OF DEFENSIVENESS . 52 SEALING OVER . 53 VERY ROBUST INDIVIDUALS . 54 POSITIVE ILLUSIONS AND POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY CONSTRUCTS . 56 SUMMARY . 61 CHAPTER 4: BACKGROUND TO THE GROUP OF STUDIES . 62 EXAMINING THE POSITIVE ILLUSIONS CONSTRUCT . 62
Robust Calibration of an Improved Delta-Sigma Data Converter Using Convex Optimization

In this paper, we analyze that analog circuit imperfections in the cascaded delta-sigma modulators may lead to the incomplete noise cancellation from the earlier stages, as well as non-unit transfer function from the input signal to the output, resulting in the degradation of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) performance. It is difficult to design one digital filter to compensate the effects from both the incomplete noise cancellation and non-unit transfer function. We therefore proposed a novel architecture of cascaded delta-sigma modulators which consist of feedforward and feedback loops. Under this structure, the transfer function from the input signal to the output is always unit even though there exist analog circuit imperfections. The rest of the design therefore, is only to consider to reduce the effect of the incomplete noise cancellation as small as possible, which is formed as a robust H2 optimization problem. This problem can be recast as a convex optimization problem by the change of variables, congruence transformations and Schur complement, which is easily solved by reliable and efficient numerical algorithms. To prove the advantages of the architecture and the design method, we conduct numerical simulations on 2-2 cascaded delta-sigma modulators. Simulation results for a range of parameter excursions show that our proposed filter improves SNR performance over the nominal filter greatly.
Cosmological Topology in Paris 1998

Quel est, ou pourrait \^etre, la topologie globale de la partie spatiale de l'Univers ? L'Univers entier (pr\'ecis\'ement, l'hypersurface spatiale de celui-ci) est-il observable ? Les math\'ematiciens, les physiciens et les cosmologistes observationnels ont des approches diff\'erentes pour aborder ces questions qui restent ouvertes. What is, or could be, the global topology of spatial sections of the Universe? Is the entire Universe (spatial hypersurface thereof) observable ? Mathematicians, physicists and observational cosmologists have different strategies to approaching these questions which are not yet fully answered.
International Journal on Digital Libraries Manuscript No. Infomonitor: Unobtrusively Archiving a World Wide Web Server ? Infomonitor: Unobtrusively Archiving a World Wide Web Server Infomonitor: Unobtrusively Archiving a World Wide Web Server

It is important to provide long-term preservation of digital data even when that data is stored in an unreliable system, such as a lesystem, a legacy database, or even the World Wide Web. In this paper we focus on the problem of archiving the contents of a web site without disrupting users who maintain the site. We propose an archival storage system, the InfoMonitor, in which a reliable archive is integrated with an unmodied existing store. Implementing such a system presents various challenges related to the mismatch of features between the components, such as di erences in naming and data manipulation operations. We examine each of these issues as well as solutions for the con icts that arise. We also discuss our experience using the InfoMonitor to archive the Stanford Database Group's web site.
Structural white matter changes in descending motor tracts correlate with improvements in motor impairment after undergoing a treatment course of tDCS and physical therapy

Motor impairment after stroke has been related to the structural and functional integrity of corticospinal tracts including multisynaptic motor fibers and tracts such as the cortico-rubral-spinal and the cortico-tegmental-spinal tract. Furthermore, studies have shown that the concurrent use of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) with peripheral sensorimotor activities can improve motor impairment. We examined microstructural effects of concurrent non-invasive bihemispheric stimulation and physical/occupational therapy for 10 days on the structural components of the CST as well as other descending motor tracts which will be referred to here as alternate motor fibers (aMF). In this pilot study, ten chronic patients with a uni-hemispheric stroke underwent Upper-Extremity Fugl-Meyer assessments (UE-FM) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) for determining diffusivity measures such as fractional anisotropy (FA) before and after treatment in a section of the CST and aMF that spanned between the lower end of the internal capsule (below each patient’s lesion) and the upper pons region on the affected and unaffected hemisphere. The treated group (tDCS + PT/OT) showed significant increases in the proportional UE-FM scores (+21%; SD 10%), while no significant changes were observed in an untreated comparison group. Significant increases in FA (+0.007; SD 0.0065) were found in the ipsilesional aMF in the treated group while no significant changes were found in the contralesional aMF, in either CST, or in any tracts in the untreated group. The FA changes in the ipsilesional aMF significantly correlated with the proportional change in the UE-FM (r = 0.65; p < 0.05). The increase in FA might indicate an increase in motor fiber alignment, myelination, and overall fiber integrity. Crossed and uncrossed fibers from multiple cortical regions might be one reason why the aMF fiber system showed more plastic structural changes that correlate with motor improvements than the CST.
The Approximate Sum Capacity of the Symmetric Gaussian  $K$ -User Interference Channel

Interference alignment has emerged as a powerful tool in the analysis of multiuser networks. Despite considerable recent progress, the capacity region of the Gaussian K-user interference channel is still unknown in general, in part due to the challenges associated with alignment on the signal scale using lattice codes. This paper develops a new framework for lattice interference alignment, based on the compute-and-forward approach. Within this framework, each receiver decodes by first recovering two or more linear combinations of the transmitted codewords with integer-valued coefficients and then solving these linear combinations for its desired codeword. For the special case of symmetric channel gains, this framework is used to derive the approximate sum capacity of the Gaussian interference channel, up to an explicitly defined outage set of the channel gains. The key contributions are the capacity lower bounds for the weak through strong interference regimes, where each receiver should jointly decode its own codeword along with part of the interfering codewords. As part of the analysis, it is shown that decoding K linear combinations of the codewords can approach the sum capacity of the K-user Gaussian multiple-access channel up to a gap of no more than K/2 log K bits.
Specific Extracellular Matrix Remodeling Signature of Colon Hepatic Metastases

To identify genes implicated in metastatic colonization of the liver in colorectal cancer, we collected pairs of primary tumors and hepatic metastases before chemotherapy in 13 patients. We compared mRNA expression in the pairs of patients to identify genes deregulated during metastatic evolution. We then validated the identified genes using data obtained by different groups. The 33-gene signature was able to classify 87% of hepatic metastases, 98% of primary tumors, 97% of normal colon mucosa, and 95% of normal liver tissues in six datasets obtained using five different microarray platforms. The identified genes are specific to colon cancer and hepatic metastases since other metastatic locations and hepatic metastases originating from breast cancer were not classified by the signature. Gene Ontology term analysis showed that 50% of the genes are implicated in extracellular matrix remodeling, and more precisely in cell adhesion, extracellular matrix organization and angiogenesis. Because of the high efficiency of the signature to classify colon hepatic metastases, the identified genes represent promising targets to develop new therapies that will specifically affect hepatic metastasis microenvironment.
Preliminary evidence for cachexia in patients with well-established ankylosing spondylitis.

OBJECTIVES Cachexia, defined as an accelerated loss of skeletal muscle in the context of a chronic inflammatory response, is common in rheumatoid arthritis but it has not been demonstrated in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS). The aim of this study was to determine muscle wasting and its functional consequences in a group of patients with well-established AS. METHODS Nineteen male patients (mean age 53 yrs) with long-standing AS (mean disease duration 19 yrs) and radiological changes (84% had one or more syndesmophytes) were compared with 19 age-matched healthy males with similar levels of habitual physical activity. Body composition was assessed by dual energy X-ray absorptiometry. Muscle strength was measured by isokinetic knee extension and hand grip dynamometry, and by 30 s arm curl and chair sit-to-stand tests. RESULTS AS patients showed a statistically and clinically significant 12% reduction in arms and legs lean mass, a proxy measure of total body skeletal muscle mass, compared with healthy controls (P < 0.05). This muscle loss was significantly associated with reduced upper and lower body strength (correlation coefficients ranging between 0.37 and 0.79, P < 0.05). CONCLUSION These results provide preliminary evidence that cachexia is a functionally relevant systemic complication of AS, particularly in patients with long-standing disease and radiological changes. Progressive resistance training and other interventions aimed at stimulating skeletal muscle growth might be beneficial in this population, and further studies on the pathophysiology of cachexia in AS patients are needed.
The Opacity of Spiral Galaxy Disks. III. Automating the Synthetic Field Method

Dust extinction in spiral disks can be estimated from the counts of background field galaxies, provided the deleterious effects of confusion introduced by structure in the image of the foreground spiral disk can be calibrated. González et al. developed a method for this calibration, the Synthetic Field Method (SFM), and applied this concept to a Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 image of NGC 4536. The SFM estimates the total extinction through the disk without requiring assumptions about the distribution of absorbers or disk light. The poor statistics, however, result in large errors in individual measurements. We report on improvements to and automation of the SFM that render it suitable for application to large archival data sets. To illustrate the strengths and weaknesses of this new method, the results on NGC 1365, an SBb galaxy, and NGC 4536, an SABbc, are presented. The extinction estimate for NGC 1365 is AI = 0.6 at 0.45R25, and for NGC 4536 it is AI = 1.6 at 0.75R25. The results for NGC 4536 are compared with those of González et al. The automation is found to limit the maximum depth to which field galaxies can be found. Taking this into account, our results agree with those of González et al. We conclude that this method can only give an inaccurate measure of extinction for a field covering a small solid angle. An improved measurement of disk extinction can be done by averaging the results over a series of HST fields, thereby improving the statistics. This can be achieved with the automated method, trading some completeness limit for speed. The results from this set of fields are reported in a companion paper by Holwerda et al.
Molecular Systems Biology Peer Review Process File Nucleotide Degradation and Ribose Salvage in Yeast Transaction Report

(Note: With the exception of the correction of typographical or spelling errors that could be a source of ambiguity, letters and reports are not edited. The original formatting of letters and referee reports may not be reflected in this compilation.) Thank you again for submitting your work to Molecular Systems Biology. We have now heard back from the three referees who accepted to evaluate the study. As you will see, the referees find the topic of your study of potential interest and are supportive. However, they raise a series of concerns and make suggestions for modifications, which we would ask you to carefully address in a revision of the present work. The additional analyses proposed by reviewer #2, while not mandatory, would certainly add to the completeness of the study. On a more editorial level, I would kindly ask you to include the metabolomics data in the Supplementary Information or to deposit them in the appropriate public database. (Additional information is available in the "Guide for Authors" section in our website Furthermore, I would like to ask you to include the links and accession numbers in the "Data Availability" section of your manuscript. This Ms. is about the endogenous nucleotide degradation pathways in yeast in (mainly) carbon starvation: the identification of Phm8 as a major player in mononucleotide dephosphorylation and particularly interesting findings of sedoheptulose-7-P (S7P) as a major accumulated intermediate and its dissipation in part involving sedoheptulose-1,7-P2 (SBP). This strong and interesting, if overstated, work deserves a careful rewrite, and not just attention to the items below. 1 Introduction. Mention here rather than later the Nakahigashi et al. 2009 discovery of a S7P to SBP pathway allowing E. coli transaldolase mutants to grow on xylose, so as to make clear the new work is addressing the opposite reaction to the authors' nice report of SBPase (Clasquin et al. 2012). Put in the Introduction instead of p. 10 the motivation of exploring nucleotide turnover. Clarify whether S7P is already known as an abundant intermediate (p.3) or discovered here. Etc.
The Potential of Mindfulness in Managing Emotions in Libraries

Abstract This study investigates the potential of utilizing mindfulness practices to regulate emotions in libraries. Libraries are emotionally stressful environments characterized by continuous change and uncertainty. Working with the public and with colleagues can lead to emotional strain and exhaustion. Mindfulness offers librarians a means to achieve a degree of emotional control so they do not identify with emotions, allowing them to focus more fully on their work. This study examines the scientific research that has been conducted on mindfulness and the effect it has on emotions. The research is drawn from the fields of psychology and related fields such as medicine. The findings are applied to the library field to examine what the potential implications might be. Psychological studies have shown that mindfulness has the potential to effectively manage emotions in the workplace and in organizational settings. Mindfulness practices help individuals manage emotions by a process of attuning to and dis-identifying with affective content, leaving them free to concentrate on the task at hand. Psychological science has found mindfulness to be useful for managing emotions. These findings have potential implications for libraries. By applying mindfulness to the library setting, this study provides librarians with an effective strategy for regulating emotions and coping with work-related stress.