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Modeling customer perceptions of complaint handling over time: the effects of perceived justice on satisfaction and intent

Abstract This paper proposes a model of the effects of perceived justice on customer satisfaction and intent following a service or product failure and a recovery attempt. We tested the model using two field studies that captured customer perceptions over time, and the results largely support the model’s path estimates and explanatory power. Study One also supports the hypothesis that procedural and interactional justice are more influential in forming overall firm satisfaction than distributive justice. As hypothesized, satisfaction with recovery was a stronger predictor of the likelihood of spreading positive word-of-mouth (WOM intent) than overall firm satisfaction, and overall firm satisfaction was a stronger predictor of purchase intent than satisfaction with recovery. The results also suggest that satisfaction partially mediates the effects of justice on WOM intent and purchase intent. Finally, we draw on the findings of this study to offer implications for service recovery researchers and managers.
Three-Body Attachment in O 2 Using Electron Beams

The three-body attachment reaction in ${\mathrm{O}}_{2}$, $e+2{\mathrm{O}}_{2}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{{\mathrm{O}}_{2}}^{\ensuremath{-}}+{\mathrm{O}}_{2}$, is studied by electron-beam techniques. Whereas swarm experiments show a smooth variation of the attachment coefficient with energy, the present electron-beam experiment shows pronounced structure. The peaks of this structure occur at the positions of the vibrational levels of the ${\mathrm{O}}_{2}^{\ensuremath{-}}$ system, which serve as compound states and have been identified in a previous experiment. These compound states dominate the low-energy cross sections in ${\mathrm{O}}_{2}$. They can decay by autodetachment, thus accounting for the bulk of the vibrational cross sections in ${\mathrm{O}}_{2}$ at low energy; alternatively, they can be stabilized by a subsequent collision, thus leading to the formation of stable ${\mathrm{O}}_{2}^{\ensuremath{-}}$. Thus we establish clearly that three-body attachment in ${\mathrm{O}}_{2}$ is a two-stage process and that the intermediate is a vibrationally excited state of ${\mathrm{O}}_{2}^{\ensuremath{-}}$. We also obtain the temperature dependence of the three-body attachment coefficient and we discuss the anomalous behavior at higher pressures. The experimental observations are in excellent agreement with the theory of Chapman and Herzenberg.
Active and Passive Coupled-Resonator Optical Waveguides

Our on going work on active and passive Coupled-Resonator Optical Waveguides (CROWs) will be presented. I will discuss gain enhancement, noise, and tunability inactive CROWs and its relation to slowlight.
Late Presentation of Recurrent Monomorphic Ventricular Tachycardia following Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Repair due to Epicardial Injury

We report a 73-year-old male with late onset monomorphic ventricular tachycardia following mitral valve repair (MVR). Typically, injury to epicardial arteries following mitral valve repair/replacement presents immediately as ventricular tachycardia/fibrillation, difficulty weaning from cardiopulmonary bypass, worsening ECG changes, increasing cardiac biomarkers, or new wall motion abnormalities. Our case illustrates a “late complication” of a distorted circumflex artery following mitral valve repair and the importance of early diagnostic angiography and percutaneous intervention.
Crossing the next divide: A response to Andy Pickering

We are pleased to have an opportunity to respond Andy Pickering's comments (1996), partly because of the inherent intellectual stimulation of exchanging ideas with such a distinguished colleague, but partly also because of the need for much greater interchange between our two fields-the sociology of environment and technology, on the one hand, and the sociology of science on the other. Given that both those who study science and those who study environment and technology have much to learn from one another, our response will be addressed to our broader set of colleagues in the sociology of science, as well as to Dr. Pickering himself; it is a friendly response to a friendly critique. Dr. Pickering's comments raise three important points about our analysis of Iron Mountain (Freudenburg et al., 1995). First, he praises what he calls our paper's "symmetry" in noting the importance of physical/environmental as well as social factors in understanding social outcomes. Second, he argues that we have not taken this point far enough, in large part because, he believes, the social is not sufficiently "at stake" in our paper. Third, he argues that a fruitful antidote would be to trace the evolution of actual practices, in detail, over time. In essence, our response will be that, first, while we appreciate the compliment, the intent of our article was to recognize but to go beyond a symmetrical treatment, recognizing instead
Importance of body weight and skin color in determining appropriate vitamin D3 supplement doses for children and adolescents.

Importance of body weight and skin color in determining appropriate vitamin D 3 supplement doses for children and adolescents
Acetylcholine-evoked currents in cultured neurones dissociated from rat parasympathetic cardiac ganglia

1. The properties of acetylcholine (ACh)-activated ion channels of parasympathetic neurones from neonatal rat cardiac ganglia grown in tissue culture were examined using patch clamp recording techniques. Membrane currents evoked by ACh were mimicked by nicotine, attenuated by neuronal bungarotoxin, and unaffected by atropine, suggesting that the ACh-induced currents are mediated by nicotinic receptor activation. 2. The current-voltage (I-V) relationship for whole-cell ACh-evoked currents exhibited strong inward rectification and a reversal (zero current) potential of -3 mV (NaCl outside, CsCl inside). The rectification was not alleviated by changing the main permeant cation or by removal of divalent cations from the intracellular or extracellular solutions. Unitary ACh-activated currents exhibited a linear I-V relationship with slope conductances of 32 pS in cell-attached membrane patches and 38 pS in excised membrane patches with symmetrical CsCl solutions. 3. Acetylcholine-induced currents were reversibly inhibited in a dose-dependent manner by the ganglionic antagonists, mecamylamine (Kd = 37 nM) and hexamethonium (IC50 approximately 1 microM), as well as by the neuromuscular relaxant, d-tubocurarine (Kd = 3 microM). Inhibition of ACh-evoked currents by hexamethonium could not be described by a simple blocking model for drug-receptor interaction. 4. The amplitude of the ionic current through the open channel was dependent on the extracellular Na+ concentration. The direction of the shift in reversal potential upon replacement of NaCl by mannitol indicates that the neuronal nicotinic receptor channel is cation selective and the magnitude suggests a high cation to anion permeability ratio. The cation permeability (PX/PNa) followed the ionic selectivity sequence Cs+ (1.06) greater than Na+ (1.0) greater than Ca2+ (0.93). Anion substitution experiments showed a relative anion permeability, PCl/PNa less than or equal to 0.05. 5. The nicotinic ACh-activated channels described mediate the responses of postganglionic parasympathetic neurones of the mammalian heart to vagal stimulation.
Envisioning resilient electrical infrastructure: A policy framework for incorporating future climate change into electricity sector planning

Abstract Climate change needs to be incorporated in future designs of the electricity sector. This paper argues for a policy framework in which utilities take the lead by performing an electrical climate change impact assessment that evaluates to what extent utilities’ electrical assets are vulnerable to future climate change. Based on this assessment, electrical climate change adaptation plans should be formulated by the utility in cooperation with utility regulators, municipalities and supralocal governments. A collaborative process is essential, because adaptation measures need to be tailored to the regional circumstances and many types of adaptation measures require governmental approval. In order for the most sustainable and cost-efficient measures to be selected, cooperation between governments, utilities and utility regulators is necessary.
Optical imaging of the response of vascular dynamics to a cold shock

We have explored the real-time response of the forearm vasculature to a contralateral cold shock. Dual-wavelength measurements were collected at 2 Hz, and the resulting image series (300 images per wavelength) was analyzed using appropriate time-series analysis methods. This confirmed the immediate vasoconstrictive response followed by an ~15-30 sec delay of a decrease in blood oxygenation. Overall, a wealth of time-varying responses were observed throughout the cross-section.
Plasmolysis shape in relation to freeze-hardening of cabbage plants and to the effect of penetrating solutes

Abstract In conformity with earlier results, low-temperature hardening of cabbage seedlings lowered the osmotic potential and increased the permeability to thiourea of the petiole cells. It also decreased the time required for rounding-up of the protoplasts in cells plasmolysed in 1. 5 × isotonic (or higher) glucose or CaCl2 solutions. Solutions of dimethylsulphoxide (DMSO), thiourea, urea, and glycerol each accelerated the rate of rounding-up of protoplasts in plasmolysed cells, compared to the rate in glucose solution of the same hypertonicity. Each also penetrated the cell membranes as indicated by deplasmolysis. Only in the case of DMSO, in which there was very rapid deplasmolysis (5–6 min), was this rounding-up due to protoplast expansion. In the case of thiourea (deplasmolysis within 30–60 min) rounding-up occurred almost immediately (less than 2 min), before protoplast expansion was sufficient to induce it. It was concluded that the accelerated rounding-up was due to a rapid osmotic adjustment in the protoplasm by the penetrating solution, which increased its water content and decreased its viscosity.
Research residents' choices of academic radiology careers.

Purpose In 1993, the University of Virginia instituted a separate research residency program in the Residency Match (one resident per year). As part of the program, research residents took their second year away from clinical service for research under mentors and enrolled in a postgraduate educational program. This article evaluates what fraction of these residents eventually chose research careers. Methods The article reviews the career choices of 51 residents (8 research residents, 43 conventional clinical residents) who entered residency training between 1993 (the year the research residency program began) and 1999 (the last year for which postfellowship data were available) and compares the rates of research residents and conventional clinical residents choosing academic careers. Results Of the 8 research residents, 5 are currently in academic practice, but 2 of the 8 were dismissed from the program for poor clinical performance. Of the 43 clinical residents, all but 2 are in community practice; 6 of these residents either were dismissed or left the program voluntarily. Research residents had greater difficulty with board examinations than clinical residents. Conclusions A dedicated research residency can increase the rate of trainees ultimately choosing academic careers, but there are significant risks for these trainees that they will not be able to sufficiently accommodate both clinical and research training roles.
Particle Mixing Rates of Freshwater Bivalves: Anodonta grandis (Unionidae) and Sphaerium striatinum (Pisidiidae)

Abstract Sediment mixing by freshwater suspension feeding bivalves Anodonta grandis (Unionidae) and Sphaerium striatinum (Pisidiidae) was studied by adding illite clay particles with adsorbed I37 Cs as a submillimeter thick layer to the surface of silt clay sediments contained in clear rectangular cells maintained in a temperature regulated aquarium. A Nal gamma detector scanned the sediment column in each cell at 0.2 cm intervals five times over 22 days and recorded changes in I37 Cs activity over time with depth in cells containing 3 A. grandis , 4 S. striatinum , and a control cell containing no bivalves. Sediment mixing by these organisms was diffusional. The diffusion coefficient in the control cell was 0.02 cm 2 /yr, consistent with molecular diffusion of 137 Cs tracer. Whole cell biodiffusion coefficients (D b )for A. grandis and S. striatinum were 0.81–2.11 cm 2 /yr and 0.53 cm 2 /yr, respectively. Adjusting to equal population densities, the 11-27× higher sediment mixing rate of A. grandis was likely due primarily to its larger size. When D b for similar sized organisms was compared, S. striatinum was found to mix sediments at about the same rate as the marine bivalve Nucula proxima but at a 5× lower rate than the freshwater amphipod Diporeia sp. A. grandis mixes sediments 5–14× more slowly than the similar sized conveyor belt deposit feeding marine bivalve, Yoldia limatula .. While deposit feeding organisms are the dominant sediment mixers in the Great Lakes, suspension feeding bivalves can be locally significant.
Dual Regulation of Calcium Mobilization by Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate in a Living Cell

Changes in cytosolic free calcium ([Ca2+]i) often take the form of a sustained response or repetitive oscillations. The frequency and amplitude of [Ca2+]i oscillations are essential for the selective stimulation of gene expression and for enzyme activation. However, the mechanism that determines whether [Ca2+]i oscillates at a particular frequency or becomes a sustained response is poorly understood. We find that [Ca2+]i oscillations in rat megakaryocytes, as in other cells, results from a Ca2+-dependent inhibition of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3)–induced Ca2+ release. Moreover, we find that this inhibition becomes progressively less effective with higher IP3 concentrations. We suggest that disinhibition, by increasing IP3 concentration, of Ca2+-dependent inhibition is a common mechanism for the regulation of [Ca2+]i oscillations in cells containing IP3-sensitive Ca2+ stores.
AnIn Situ scanning electron microscope kossel x-ray diffraction study of the elastic aftereffect in a ferroelastic alloy

Ferromagnetism arises from the orientation of magnetic moments. Magnetic moments are due mainly to the ordering and coupling of electron spins and partly to changes in electron orbits. Ferroelectricity, a term first used to describe properties of barium titinate, arises from the orientation of electric moments associated with ions. Ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity are each accompanied by small, well-defined elastic displacements of atoms or ions, which impart a lowering of crystal symmetry to the host lattice, from cubic to tetragonal in the case of ferromagnetism in iron, for example. Such deformations are reversible and are not uncommonly referred to as “ferroelasticity. ”
Kinetic behavior of the reaction between hydroxyl radical and the SV40 minichromosome.

Abstract Aqueous solutions containing the minichromosomal form of the virus SV40 and the radical scavenger DMSO were subjected to γ -irradiation, and the resulting formation of single-strand breaks (SSB) was quantified. Under the irradiation conditions, most SSBs were produced as a consequence of hydroxyl radical ( OH) reactions. By controlling the competition between DMSO and the viral DNA substrate for OH, we are able to estimate the rate coefficient for the reaction of OH with the SV40 minichromosome. The results cannot be described adequately by homogeneous competition kinetics, but it is possible to describe the rate coefficient for the reaction as a function of the scavenging capacity of the solution. The experimentally determined rate coefficient lies in the range 1×10 9 –2×10 9 L mol −1 s −1 at 10 7 s −1 , and increases with increasing scavenging capacity.
The Economics of Architecture and Urban Design: Some Preliminary Findings

This paper makes a preliminary attempt to evaluate empirically the nature of the contribution of architectural quality to the value of buildings. An economic model is postulated that predicts equilibrium rent and vacancy behavior as a function of both design and non-design characteristics. Vacancies are created in equilibrium as a result of search and information costs and tenant heterogeneity and are observed by the landlord as price-inelastic demand behavior. Design quality is seen to influence both rent and vacancy behavior. Its effect, however, is dependent on characteristics both of the production and operating cost functions and of tenant demand for the design vs. non-design amenity. An important characteristic of the design amenity is that it is not, in general, independent of the production function for non-design amenities. The model is tested using disaggregate cross-sectional and longitudinal operating performance and amenity data from a set of 102 class A office buildings in Boston and Cambridge. Data on design quality for the set of buildings were provided by a detailed evaluation of each structure by a panel of architects. Results confirm a strong influence of design on rents; structures rated in the top 20% for design quality were predicted to extract almost 22% higher rents than those rated in the bottom 20%. In contrast, the data showed a weak relationship between vacancy behavior and design quality. Finally, good design was shown to cost more to produce on average, but not necessarily in every case. The magnitude of the point estimates of the rent, vacancy, and construction cost effects suggest that good design may not in fact be more profitable on average, but as with a lottery, may provide a small probability of a high return to the developer.
High-temperature deformation of 6061 Al

Abstract The creep behavior of powder metallurgy (PM) 6061 Al, which has been used as a metal matrix alloy in the development of discontinuous silicon carbide reinforced aluminum (SiCAl) composites, has been studied over six orders of magnitude of strain rate. The experimental data show that the steady-state stage of the creep curve is of short duration; that the stress dependence of creep rate is high and variable; and that the temperature dependence of creep rate is much higher than that for self-diffusion in aluminum. The above creep characteristics are different from those documented for aluminum based solid-solution alloys but are similar to those reported for discontinuous SiCAl composites and dispersion-strengthened (DS) alloys. Analysis of the experimental data shows that while the high stress dependence of creep rate in 6061 Al, like that in DS alloys, can be explained in terms of a threshold stress for creep, the strong temperature dependence of creep rate in the alloy is incompatible with the predictions of available threshold stress models and theoretical treatments proposed for DS alloys.
Protein intake and lumbar bone density: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).

Dietary protein has been shown to increase urinary Ca excretion in randomised controlled trials, and diets high in protein may have detrimental effects on bone health; however, studies examining the relationship between dietary protein and bone health have conflicting results. In the present study, we examined the relationship between dietary protein (total, animal and vegetable protein) and lumbar spine trabecular volumetric bone mineral density (vBMD) among participants enrolled in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (n 1658). Protein intake was assessed using a FFQ obtained at baseline examination (2000–2). Lumbar spine vBMD was measured using quantitative computed tomography (2002–5), on average 3 years later. Multivariable linear and robust regression techniques were used to examine the associations between dietary protein and vBMD. Sex and race/ethnicity jointly modified the association of dietary protein with vBMD (P for interaction = 0·03). Among white women, higher vegetable protein intake was associated with higher vBMD (P for trend = 0·03), after adjustment for age, BMI, physical activity, alcohol consumption, current smoking, educational level, hormone therapy use, menopause and additional dietary factors. There were no consistently significant associations for total and animal protein intakes among white women or other sex and racial/ethnic groups. In conclusion, data from the present large, multi-ethnic, population-based study suggest that a higher level of protein intake, when substituted for fat, is not associated with poor bone health. Differences in the relationship between protein source and race/ethnicity of study populations may in part explain the inconsistent findings reported previously.
Inefficient Lobbying, Populism, and Oligarchy

Campante and Ferreira investigate the theoretical effects of lobbying and pressure group activities on both economic efficiency and on equity. Looking at lobbying as a political activity that takes place alongside production, they find that lobbies may generate economic inefficiency as part of the process of shifting the allocation of government expenditures in their favor. Outcomes of this nonelectoral political process will always be biased toward the group with a comparative advantage in politics, rather than in production. In a context where the main political conflict is one between "the rich" and "the poor," political equilibria may be either populist (inefficiently pro-poor) or oligarchic (inefficiently pro-rich), depending on each group's lobbying effectiveness. This paper - a product of the Poverty Team, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the group to understand the political economy of income distribution.
Adiposity and Pathogen Exposure Predict C-Reactive Protein in Filipino Women

Obesity and infectious agents are both sources of inflammatory stimuli that result in increased production of C-reactive protein (CRP). Rates of overweight and obesity are increasing globally, but for many populations, gains in body fat are set against a backdrop of high levels of pathogen exposure. Our primary objective was to evaluate the extent to which adiposity and pathogenicity contribute to a double burden of inflammation in a population currently undergoing the nutrition transition. Measures of adiposity, pathogen exposure, and infectious disease symptoms were evaluated as predictors of high-sensitivity CRP concentration in plasma samples from 1875 women participating in the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey in the Philippines. Proxy measures of pathogen exposure included household crowding and cleanliness, quality of water source, mode of waste disposal, and fecal exposure. A series of maximum likelihood logistic regression models were used to predict a plasma CRP concentration > 3 mg/L. Waist circumference was the strongest anthropometric predictor of elevated CRP [odds ratio (OR) = 2.29; 95% CI = 2.00, 2.62; P < 0.001]. Presence of infectious disease symptoms (OR = 2.51; 95% CI = 1.84, 3.44; P < 0.001) and level of pathogen exposure (OR = 1.56; 95% CI = 1.15, 2.12; P < 0.01) were also associated with elevated CRP. These associations were independent of socioeconomic status and other health behaviors. Overweight/obesity and infectious exposures are associated with elevated CRP in the Philippines; it is likely that other populations undergoing the nutrition transition are experiencing comparable double burdens of inflammatory stimuli. These results underscore the need for additional research on the contributions of pathogenicity, adiposity, and inflammation to global epidemics of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.
Existence Presuppositions and Background Knowledge

When a definite noun phrase fails to refer, the statement containing it is often felt to lack a truth value, as in The king of France is bald. In other examples, however, the statement seems intuitively false, and not truth-valueless: consider the case of a speaker who points at an obviously empty chair and says The king of France is sitting in that chair. The difference appears to depend on the pragmatics of verification; we know the sentence is false because the chair is empty—the question of the existence of the king of France need not even come up. A semantics is sketched for assigning truth values to sentences relative to information states. A sentence containing a definite NP may be evaluated as false relative to a given information state rather than simply truth-valueless if, after removing the information that the NP fails to refer, the resulting information state still cannot be consistently extended to one making the sentence true. On this assumption, existing proposals for the semantics of negation in information-state semantics turn out to correspond to internal and external negation, respectively.
Biophysical Assays to Probe the Mechanical Properties of the Interphase Cell Nucleus: Substrate Strain Application and Microneedle Manipulation

In most eukaryotic cells, the nucleus is the largest organelle and is typically 2 to 10 times stiffer than the surrounding cytoskeleton; consequently, the physical properties of the nucleus contribute significantly to the overall biomechanical behavior of cells under physiological and pathological conditions. For example, in migrating neutrophils and invading cancer cells, nuclear stiffness can pose a major obstacle during extravasation or passage through narrow spaces within tissues.1 On the other hand, the nucleus of cells in mechanically active tissue such as muscle requires sufficient structural support to withstand repetitive mechanical stress. Importantly, the nucleus is tightly integrated into the cellular architecture; it is physically connected to the surrounding cytoskeleton, which is a critical requirement for the intracellular movement and positioning of the nucleus, for example, in polarized cells, synaptic nuclei at neuromuscular junctions, or in migrating cells.2 Not surprisingly, mutations in nuclear envelope proteins such as lamins and nesprins, which play a critical role in determining nuclear stiffness and nucleo-cytoskeletal coupling, have been shown recently to result in a number of human diseases, including Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy, limb-girdle muscular dystrophy, and dilated cardiomyopathy.3 To investigate the biophysical function of diverse nuclear envelope proteins and the effect of specific mutations, we have developed experimental methods to study the physical properties of the nucleus in single, living cells subjected to global or localized mechanical perturbation. Measuring induced nuclear deformations in response to precisely applied substrate strain application yields important information on the deformability of the nucleus and allows quantitative comparison between different mutations or cell lines deficient for specific nuclear envelope proteins. Localized cytoskeletal strain application with a microneedle is used to complement this assay and can yield additional information on intracellular force transmission between the nucleus and the cytoskeleton. Studying nuclear mechanics in intact living cells preserves the normal intracellular architecture and avoids potential artifacts that can arise when working with isolated nuclei. Furthermore, substrate strain application presents a good model for the physiological stress experienced by cells in muscle or other tissues (e.g., vascular smooth muscle cells exposed to vessel strain). Lastly, while these tools have been developed primarily to study nuclear mechanics, they can also be applied to investigate the function of cytoskeletal proteins and mechanotransduction signaling.
A conversation among friends

For the past ten years, working with my able Managing Editor Morag Teek, and Associate Editors Andrew Thompson, Heather Buchan, Joseph Ibrahim, Jorge Hermida and Klaus Piwernetz, I have edited this Journal. Guided and supported by the Chief Executive Officer of the International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua), Lee Tregloan, and the ISQua Board members responsible for the Publications Portfolio, Nancy Dixon and Heather Buchan, we have lived through exciting times—most notably the transfer of the Journal to joint-ownership by ISQua and the Oxford University Press (OUP) in 1998. From that date on, we have had support and guidance also from the experts at OUP, especially Mandy Hill, the Head of Science and Medical Journals in the Journals Editorial Department. Throughout, we have received valuable advice from an Editorial Committee of 30 individuals, all members of ISQua, drawn from around the world (the names of the current committee members appear on the title page of every issue). Most important of all, without the hundreds of authors and reviewers, each devoting many hours to their efforts, the Journal would not exist. So, after thousands of manuscripts submitted and reviewed and hundreds published, what has it all been for? What is all this activity about? From the author side …
Geothermal development and the Salton Sea

One of the limiting factors on energy development in the arid American West is the availability of water. Even geothermal development must take into account the hydrologic cycle of the surrounding area. In the Imperial Valley, the bloodstream of the economic body is water, and owing to the nature of the region and its water source, the mineralized Colorado River, the disposal of waste water is of major importance. The Salton Sea is presently the sump for agricultural drainage in that area. Quite incidentally, the Sea has become popular for recreational use. It is universally recognized that geothermal development in the Valley will involve the flow to the surface of large quantities of highly mineralized water. After extraction of heat, the water must be safely disposed of. Moreover. many geothermal power generation methods would require cooling water supplies. and other methods may require water for reservoir injection. The point is that geothermal development may well impact the hydrologic cycle. Conversely the requirements of the local hydrologic cycle may well impact the nature of geothermal development. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship of the Salton Sea. a key element of the Imperial Valley water system. to potential geothermal development. The author would like to acknowledge the contributions of his late colleague, Alexander Martin Rodriguez, to this work. He had formulated a method of computing the behavior of the Salton Sea under a variety of future conditions, using a pocket-sized programmable computer. His work was left unfinished at his death, and was completed by Ms. Betsy Krieg.
A High Data-Rate Digital Output Correlator Design

A high data-rate digital output correlator integrated circuit design which uses new synchronous sequential quaternary threshold logic gates is proposed and compared to the all-binary equivalent realization of this function. Substantial integrated circuit device count and die area savings are projected for the multiple valued logic realization.
Does Expressing Your Emotions Raise or Lower Your Blood Pressure? The Answer Depends on Cultural Context

Emotion-expressive behavior is often - but not always -- inversely related to physiological responding. To test the hypothesis that cultural context moderates the relationship between expressivity and physiological responding, we had Asian American and European American women engage in face-to-face conversations about a distressing film in same-ethnicity dyads. Blood pressure was measured continuously and emotional expressivity was rated from videotapes. Results indicated that emotion-expressive behavior was inversely related to blood pressure in European American dyads, but the reverse was true in Asian American dyads who showed a trend towards a positive association. These results suggest that the links between emotion-expressive behavior and physiological responding may depend upon cultural context. One possible explanation for this effect may be that cultural contexts shape the meaning individuals give to emotional expressions that occur during social interactions.
Music and Suicidality: A Quantitative Review and Extension

This article provides the first quantitative review of the literature on music and suicidality. Multivariate logistic regression techniques are applied to 90 findings from 21 studies. Investigations employing ecological data on suicide completions are 19.2 times more apt than other studies to report a link between music and suicide. More recent and studies with large samples are also more apt than their counterparts to report significant results. Further, none of the studies based on experimental research designs found a link between music and suicide ideation, prompting us to do a brief content analysis of 24 suicide songs versus 24 nonsuicide songs from the same album. Using Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count software, we found no difference in the content of the suicide songs and controls, including the percentage of sad words, negative affect, and mentions of death, thus providing an explanation for nonfindings from experimental research. In summary, ecologically based (which capture at-risk persons not in typical school-based samples) and more recent investigations (which have used superior or new methodologies) tend to demonstrate a linkage between music and suicidality. Experimental research is needed with a control group of songs from an alternative genre with low suicidogenic content.
Selective filling of nanowells in nanowell arrays fabricated using polystyrene nanosphere lithography with cytochrome P450 enzymes

This work describes an original and simple technique for protein immobilization into nanowells, fabricated using nanopatterned array fabrication methods, while ensuring the protein retains normal biological activity. Nanosphere lithography was used to fabricate a nanowell array with nanowells 100 nm in diameter with a periodicity of 500 nm. The base of the nanowells was gold and the surrounding material was silicon dioxide. The different surface chemistries of these materials were used to attach two different self-assembled monolayers (SAM) with different affinities for the protein used here, cytochrome P450 (P450). The nanowell SAM, a methyl terminated thiol, had high affinity for the P450. The surrounding SAM, a polyethylene glycol silane, displayed very little affinity toward the P450 isozyme CYP2C9, as demonstrated by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and surface plasmon resonance. The regularity of the nanopatterned array was examined by scanning electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy. P450-mediated metabolism experiments of known substrates demonstrated that the nanowell bound P450 enzyme exceeded its normal activity, as compared to P450 solutions, when bound to the methyl terminated self-assembled monolayer. The nanopatterned array chips bearing P450 display long term stability and give reproducible results making them potentially useful for high-throughput screening assays or as nanoelectrode arrays.
Molecular Engineering toward Stabilized Interface: An Electrolyte Additive for High-Performance Li-Ion Battery

A novel electrolyte additive, 3-oxabicyclo[3.1.0]hexane-2,4-dione (OHD), has been discovered and evaluated in Li1.1(Mn1/3 Ni1/3Co1/3)0.9O2/graphite cells under elevated temperature. When an appropriate amount of OHD is used, the cell capacity retention is improved from 60% (Gen 2 electrolyte alone) to 82% (Gen 2 electrolyte plus OHD) after 200 cycles with no obvious impedance increase. The amount of OHD added is the key to achieving the superior cell performance. The effect of OHD additive was investigated by means of electrochemical analysis, fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and density functional theory computation.
Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama. By Wendy Wall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002; pp. xiv + 292. $60 hardcover

Wendy Wall's book analyzes domestic scenes in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century drama by blending the methods of recent cultural studies with the caveats of recent literary theory. Examining such plays as Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Shoemaker's Holiday, The English Traveller, Gammer Gurton's Needle, and The Knight of the Burning Pestle, she argues that the scenes of everyday life become uncanny, shifting their meaning so that the familiar becomes strange. These moments challenge the usual associations their original audiences might have harbored regarding everyday tasks. A kitchen scene might invert class relations, blur gender stereotypes, suggest illicit sexual attraction, and so forth. The book considers such domestic activities as wet-nursing, housecleaning, food preparation, medical care, and butchering. For each activity, Wall examines contemporary texts, especially books of household advice and manuscript collections, to understand the culture of the early-modern householder. She then considers how popular drama fits into such a householder's assumptions and beliefs, and she discusses what such scenes offered to early-modern viewers.
Some covering and embedding theorems for inverse semigroups

An inverse semigroup S is called E-unitary if the equations ea = e = e2 together imply a2 = a. In a previous paper the author showed that every inverse semigroup is an idempotent separating homomorphic image of an E-unitary inverse semigroup. The main question considered in this paper is the following. Given an inverse semigroup S give a method for constructing E-unitary inverse semigroups P and idempotent separating homomorphisms φ P → S in such a way that the structure of P as a P-semigroup is evident.
The Persistence of Memory Online: Digital Memorials, Fantasy, and Grief as Entertainment

This chapter will discuss the ways in which various new technologies have been incorporated into the pedestrian mourning practices of survivors over time, focusing on how today’s technologically-evolved memorials—digital content posted, shared and viewed through social media and online memorial sites—occupy a new, uneasy place in media culture that sees every topic, no matter how solemn, as a possible form of entertainment. Aspects of fantasy and fictionalization come into play, similar to what is seen in Victorian postmortem photos that portrayed the subject as resting peacefully, creating a permanent visual record that appeared to deny the reality of the death. Historically the bereaved have yearned to maintain an ongoing relationship with the dead and the ability to interact with or contact them, illusions that become more believable than ever before when experienced through digital content. Mourning the dead online has moved a private and intimate ritual once limited to intimates of the deceased into a public realm with a wide and unspecified audience, who may have a far wider range of motivations to seek out the memorials in the first place. Facebook RIP pages and other online memorial sites appear to represent a safe common ground where people from different parts of the deceased’s life can gather to mourn together. Yet these sites can become populated with comments from those who had no real-life contact with the deceased, and with upsetting, inappropriate content posted by trolls deliberately seeking to cause mischief and emotional harm.
Stratified Approach to Health: Integration of Science and Education at the Right Time for Each Individual.

![Figure][1] Over the past 20 years, a plethora of new health care delivery models have been proposed, including personalized medicine, precision medicine, patient-centered medical home, and accountable care organizations—many of which have been recommended by policy makers or politicians
Personal and Environmental Exposure Assessment Measurements at Fernald

The research is directed to developing state-of-the-art personal and environmental exposure assessment for inhaled radionuclides at Fernald during D&D. An additional objective is the radiochemical analyses of soil samples taken around the radium (K-65) silos before and after removal of the material. Lead-210, the long lived decay product of radon released during the removal, provides a sensitive tracer to determine the entire inventory of radon released.
Imagining the She/Male: Pornography and the Transsexualization of the Heterosexual Male: Psychoanalytic Reflections

In his essay “Imagining the She/Male: Pornography and the Transsexualization of the Heterosexual Male,” Escoffier (this issue) brings a particular type of pornography to our attention. He asks our ...
Living mulch cover crops for weed control in small-scale applications

A primary challenge of managing vegetable production on a small land base is the maintenance and building of soil quality. Previous studies have demonstrated the benefits of cover crops for improved soil quality; however, small growers struggle to fit cover crops into rotations. Small-scale growers with limited available land are under significant pressure to maximize their saleable yield and often work to maximize output by using intensive cropping practices that may include both early and late season crops, thus limiting the typical shoulder season windows in which cover crops can be grown. In-season living mulches may be an effective strategy to provide small-scale growers the benefits of cover crops with less land commitment than cover crops used in typical rotations. However, research on living mulches is generally not suited to small-scale organic production systems due to the typical reliance on chemical herbicide to suppress mulches. An experiment was designed with the goal of evaluating living mulch systems for space-limited organic vegetable production. In a 2-year study, four living mulch crops (buckwheat ( Fagopyrum esculentum ), field pea ( Pisum sativum ), crimson clover ( Trifolium incarnatum ) and medium red clover ( Trifolium pratense )) and a cultivated control with no mulch cover were planted in early spring each year. Snap beans ( Phaseolus vulgaris var. Tavera), transplanted bell peppers ( Capsicum annuum var. Revolution), and transplanted fall broccoli ( Brassica oleracea var. Imperial) were then planted directly into living mulches. During each summer growing season, living mulches and weeds were mown between-rows and hand-weeded in-row approximately every 10–14 days as needed for management. Labor times for mowing and cultivation were found to be higher in all treatments relative to the cultivated control. An inverse relationship between living mulch biomass and weed biomass was observed, demonstrating that living mulches may contribute to weed suppression. However, lower vegetable yields were seen in the living mulch treatments, most likely due to resource competition among vegetables, living mulches and weeds. High pre-existing weed seedbank and drought conditions likely increased competition and contributed to reduced vegetable yield.
Post-translational Regulation of Cas9 during G1 Enhances Homology-Directed Repair

CRISPR/Cas9 induces DNA double-strand breaks that are repaired by cell-autonomous repair pathways, namely, non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ), or homology-directed repair (HDR). While HDR is absent in G1, NHEJ is active throughout the cell cycle and, thus, is largely favored over HDR. We devised a strategy to increase HDR by directly synchronizing the expression of Cas9 with cell-cycle progression. Fusion of Cas9 to the N-terminal region of human Geminin converted this gene-editing protein into a substrate for the E3 ubiquitin ligase complex APC/Cdh1, resulting in a cell-cycle-tailored expression with low levels in G1 but high expression in S/G2/M. Importantly, Cas9-hGem(1/110) increased the rate of HDR by up to 87% compared to wild-type Cas9. Future developments may enable high-resolution expression of genome engineering proteins, which might increase HDR rates further, and may contribute to a better understanding of DNA repair pathways due to spatiotemporal control of DNA damage induction.
Productive murine leukemia virus (MuLV) infection of EL4 T-lymphoblastoid cells: selective elevation of H-2 surface expression and possible association of Thy-1 antigen with viruses.

This study evaluated differences in the expression of three surface antigens (H-2Kb, H-2Db, and Thy 1.2) of two EL4 T-lymphoblastoid cell lines. The two cell lines, EL4(G-) which is not virus infected and the MuLV-producing subline EL4G+, had the same cytographic size distribution and a doubling time of twenty-four hours. Reflective of the morphological similarities, the expression of the T-cell specific alloantigen Thy 1.2 for the two lines did not differ. In contrast to the Thy 1.2 expression, antibody-detectable H-2Kb and H-2Db activity was much greater on the MuLV-producing EL4G+ subline as indicated by fewer cells needed to remove 50% of the cytotoxic activity of the antibody (AD50). Comparison of the EL4(G-)AD50 /EL4G+AD50 ratio indicated an increase in H-2b antigen expression on EL4G+ of 15.6 fold for H-2Kb and 7.81 fold for H-2Db. To investigate the possibility of a selective association between MuLV and EL4G+ H-2 antigens, the specific activity for H-2Kb, H-2Db and Thy 1.2 of EL4G+ membrane and MuLV preparations obtained from EL4G+ cultures was compared. The relative proportion of (Thy 1: H-2Kb: H-2Db) in membrane preparation was (1.14:2.45:1.95) compared to the proportion (0.31:3.15:0.95) in virus preparations. Although the amount of Thy-1 activity was markedly elevated in the virus preparation, H-2b antigenic activities were not significantly different in the two preparations. These data are consistent with an active association of lymphoid surface glycoproteins and MuLV, and suggest an association between productive MuLV infection and an increase in the expression of H-2 antigens in the EL4G+ cell cultures.
The Role of Private and Public Real Estate in Pension Plan Portfolio Allocation Choices

Executive Summary. This article examines the portfolio allocation decision within an asset/liability framework. Here portfolio weights are chosen not just by an asset’s return and variance but also...