In this article, I present a theoretical perspective on the nature of "optimal" self-esteem. One of my major goals is to show that optimal and high self-esteem are different from each other. High self-esteem can be fragile or secure depending upon the extent to which it is defensive or genuine, contingent or true, unstable or stable, and discrepant or congruent with implicit (nonconscious) feelings of self-worth. Optimal self-esteem is characterized by qualities associated with genuine, true, stable, and congruent (with implicit self-esteem) high self-esteem. A second major goal is to present a conceptualization of the construct of authenticity. I propose that authenticity as an individual difference construct may be particularly important in delineating the adaptive features of optimal self-esteem. Authenticity can be characterized as the unobstructed operation of one's true, or core, self in one's daily enterprise. I argue that authenticity has 4 components: awareness, unbiased processing, action, and r...

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Toward a Conceptualization of Optimal Self-Esteem.

Some properties of the fractional Schrodinger equation are studied. We prove the Hermiticity of the fractional Hamilton operator and establish the parity conservation law for fractional quantum mechanics. As physical applications of the fractional Schrodinger equation we find the energy spectra of a hydrogenlike atom (fractional "Bohr atom") and of a fractional oscillator in the semiclassical approximation. An equation for the fractional probability current density is developed and discussed. We also discuss the relationships between the fractional and standard Schrodinger equations.

Fractional Schrödinger equation.

Aqueous ion-containing interfaces are ubiquitous and play a key role in a plethora of physical, chemical, atmospheric, and biological processes, from which we mention just a few illustrative examples: (i) Ions at the air/water interface are important for atmospheric chemistry involving ocean surfaces and seawater aerosols, 1-5 as well as that of the Arctic snowpack covered by sea spray. 6,7 (ii) Many salts (such as NaCl) tend to inhibit bubble coalescence, 8-12 which is one of the reasons why foam is formed when waves break in the ocean but not in freshwater lakes. (iii) Brine rejection occurring at the seawater/ice interface has profound climatic effects in polar regions. 13 (iv) The aqueous electrolyte/metal interface is involved in electrode and corrosion processes. 14,15

Specific ion effects at the air/water interface.

This paper reviews the corpus of research on feedback, with a particular focus on formative feedback—defined as information communicated to the learner that is intended to modify the learner's thinking or behavior for the purpose of improving learning. According to researchers in the area, formative feedback should be multidimensional, nonevaluative, supportive, timely, specific, credible, infrequent, and genuine (e.g., Brophy, 1981; Schwartz & White, 2000). Formative feedback is usually presented as information to a learner in response to some action on the learner's part. It comes in a variety of types (e.g., verification of response accuracy, explanation of the correct answer, hints, worked examples) and can be administered at various times during the learning process (e.g., immediately following an answer, after some period of time has elapsed). Finally, there are a number of variables that have been shown to interact with formative feedback's success at promoting learning (e.g., individual characteristics of the learner and aspects of the task). All of these issues will be discussed in this paper. This review concludes with a set of guidelines for generating formative feedback.

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Focus on formative feedback

Part 1 Foundations: introduction the era of decentralization. Part 2 Constructions: constructionism LEGO/logo StarLogo objects and parallelism. Part 3 Explorations: simulations and stimulations slime mould artificial ants traffic jams termites turtles and frogs turtle ecology new turtle geometry forest fire recursive trees. Part 4 Reflections: the centralized mindset beyond the centralized mindset. Part 5 Projections: growing up. Appendices: student participants StarLogo overview.

Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds

This is a review of Collected Works of John Tate. Parts I, II, edited by Barry Mazur and Jean-Pierre Serre. American Mathematical Society, Providence, Rhode Island, 2016. For several decades it has been clear to the friends and colleagues of John Tate that a “Collected Works” was merited. The award of the Abel Prize to Tate in 2010 added impetus, and finally, in Tate’s ninety-second year we have these two magnificent volumes, edited by Barry Mazur and Jean-Pierre Serre. Beyond Tate’s published articles, they include five unpublished articles and a selection of his letters, most accompanied by Tate’s comments, and a collection of photographs of Tate. For an overview of Tate’s work, the editors refer the reader to [4]. Before discussing the volumes, I describe some of Tate’s work. 1. Hecke L-series and Tate’s thesis Like many budding number theorists, Tate’s favorite theorem when young was Gauss’s law of quadratic reciprocity. When he arrived at Princeton as a graduate student in 1946, he was fortunate to find there the person, Emil Artin, who had discovered the most general reciprocity law, so solving Hilbert’s ninth problem. By 1920, the German school of algebraic number theorists (Hilbert, Weber, . . .) together with its brilliant student Takagi had succeeded in classifying the abelian extensions of a number field K: to each group I of ideal classes in K, there is attached an extension L of K (the class field of I); the group I determines the arithmetic of the extension L/K, and the Galois group of L/K is isomorphic to I. Artin’s contribution was to prove (in 1927) that there is a natural isomorphism from I to the Galois group of L/K. When the base field contains an appropriate root of 1, Artin’s isomorphism gives a reciprocity law, and all possible reciprocity laws arise this way. In the 1930s, Chevalley reworked abelian class field theory. In particular, he replaced “ideals” with his “idèles” which greatly clarified the relation between the local and global aspects of the theory. For his thesis, Artin suggested that Tate do the same for Hecke L-series. When Hecke proved that the abelian L-functions of number fields (generalizations of Dirichlet’s L-functions) have an analytic continuation throughout the plane with a functional equation of the expected type, he saw that his methods applied even to a new kind of L-function, now named after him. Once Tate had developed his harmonic analysis of local fields and of the idèle group, he was able prove analytic continuation and functional equations for all the relevant L-series without Hecke’s complicated theta-formulas. Received by the editors September 5, 2016. 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 01A75, 11-06, 14-06. c ©2017 American Mathematical Society

The collected works

1. Introduction Paul Henry Lang 2. The first opera in Paris: a study in the politics of art Neal Zaslaw 3. Michel Lambert and Jean-Baptiste Lully: the stakes of a collaboration Catherine Massif 4. Chronology and evolution of the grand motet at the court of Louis XFV evidence from the Livres du Rol' and the works of Perrin, the sous-maitres and Lully Lionel Sawkins 5. The sources of Lully's grands motets John Hajdu Heyer 6. Some notes on Lully's orchestra Jerome De La Gorce 7. The Amsterdam editions of Lully's orchestral suites Herbert Schneider 8. Parnassus revisited: the musical vantage point of Titon du Tiller Julie Ann Sadie 9. The residences of Monsieur de Lully: a west side story Marcelle Benoit 10. The geographical spread of Lully's operas during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries: new evidence from the Burets Carl B. Schmidt 11. How eighteenth-century Parisians heard Lully's operas: the case of Armide's fourth act Lois Rosow 12. La Mariee: the history of a French court dance Rebecca Harris-Warrick 13. A re-examination of Rameau's self-borrowings Graham Sadler 14. A musician's view of the French baroque after the advent of Gluck: Gretry's Les trois rages de l'opera and its context M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet 15. A bibliography of writings by James R. Anthony Dorman Smith.

Jean Baptiste Lully

Papers

The collected works

Jean-Baptiste Lully and the Music of the French Baroque: Essays in Honor of James R. Anthony