Showing papers by "Saint Anselm College published in 2010"
TL;DR: The value of non-invasive quantification of macular pigment levels and distributions to identify individuals potentially at risk for visual disability or catastrophic vision loss from age-related macular degeneration is assessed.
137 citations
TL;DR: The results suggest the BSES-SF could be used to identify women at risk for prematurely discontinuing breastfeeding, and the psychometric characteristics were consistent with previous studies, including internal consistency, comparison with contrasted groups, and correlation with the construct of breastfeeding network support.
Abstract: The benefits of breastfeeding increase with duration and exclusivity, but significant racial disparities exist in breastfeeding rates. Breastfeeding self-efficacy, as measured by the Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy Scale Short-Form (BSES-SF), is a significant predictor of breastfeeding outcomes in diverse samples. The purpose of this study was to assess the psychometric properties of the BSES-SF in Black women in the US. The psychometric characteristics were consistent with previous studies, including internal consistency, comparison with contrasted groups, and correlation with the construct of breastfeeding network support. Breastfeeding self-efficacy significantly predicted breastfeeding at 4 and 24 weeks postpartum. The results are consistent with previous research, and they suggest the BSES-SF could be used to identify women at risk for prematurely discontinuing breastfeeding.
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TL;DR: This study supports the use of a model of adjustment that includes demographic, illness, and appraisal variables for women with recurrent ovarian cancer and indicates that symptom distress and poor performance status were the most significant predictors of adjustment.
Abstract: PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To analyze predictors of adjustment and growth in women who had experienced recurrent ovarian cancer using components of the Resiliency Model of Family Stress, Adjustment, and Adaptation as a conceptual framework. DESIGN Cross-sectional. SETTING Participants were recruited from national cancer advocacy groups. SAMPLE 60 married or partnered women with recurrent ovarian cancer. METHODS Participants completed an online or paper survey. MAIN RESEARCH VARIABLES Independent variables included demographic and illness variables and meaning of illness. Outcome variables were psychological adjustment and post-traumatic growth. FINDINGS A model of five predictor variables (younger age, fewer years in the relationship, poorer performance status, greater symptom distress, and more negative meaning) accounted for 64% of the variance in adjustment but did not predict post-traumatic growth. CONCLUSIONS This study supports the use of a model of adjustment that includes demographic, illness, and appraisal variables for women with recurrent ovarian cancer. Symptom distress and poorer performance status were the most significant predictors of adjustment. Younger age and fewer years in the relationship also predicted poorer adjustment. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING Nurses have the knowledge and skills to influence the predictors of adjustment to recurrent ovarian cancer, particularly symptom distress and poor performance status. Nurses who recognize the predictors of poorer adjustment can anticipate problems and intervene to improve adjustment for women.
32 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the vapor pressure of TATP and DADP was determined using a modified Knudsen effusion apparatus, where the Clausius-Clapeyron plot of log10(p(Pa)) with 1/T provided a straight line for each material.
Abstract: The vapor pressures of TATP over the temperature range 269.85–306.95 K and DADP over the temperature range 265.85–294.85 K were determined using a modified Knudsen effusion apparatus. The Clausius-Clapeyron plot of log10(p(Pa)) with 1/T provided a straight line for each material. This expression for TATP is log10(p(Pa))=−(4497±80)/T(K)+(15.86±0.28) (error limits are 95 % confidence limits) and for DADP it is log10(p(Pa))=−(4417±137)/T(K)+(16.31±0.48). These expressions yield values of the vapor pressure at 298.15 K of 6 Pa for TATP and 17 Pa for DADP, and heats of sublimation of 86.2±1.5 kJ mol−1 for TATP and 84.6±2.6 kJ mol−1 for DADP. Attempts were made to determine the vapor pressure of HMTD but it appears to have a vapor pressure too low for our system to reliably determine. A two month experiment did provide an upper limit estimate for the vapor pressure of HMTD of approximately 0.04 Pa at room temperature. Melting point and melting point range were used as verification of the identity and purity of the TATP and DADP used in these experiments, but this was not possible with HMTD since it detonates prior to melting.
23 citations
TL;DR: This study described the nature and meaning of the father-daughter relationship throughout the daughter's life from the perspective of the daughter, who has been in a 2-year recovery from anorexia nervosa (AN).
Abstract: PURPOSE. The study described the nature and meaning of the father–daughter relationship throughout the daughter's (N = 11) life from the perspective of the daughter, who has been in a 2-year recovery from anorexia nervosa (AN). Particular consideration was given to the changes over time.
DESIGN AND METHODS. A narrative analysis method was used to examine the daughter's stories.
FINDINGS. Several patterns emerged. This study is an exploration of the paths and processes that lead to, through, and into recovery from AN with regard to the father–daughter relationship.
PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS. The results have implications for nursing practice, research, and health policy.
19 citations
TL;DR: A portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometer was used to collect elemental data on various mortars and hydraulic cements at an excavation site near Orvieto, Italy as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: A portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometer was used to collect elemental data on various mortars and hydraulic cements at an excavation site near Orvieto, Italy. Four cases are presented that use X-ray fluorescence data to differentiate among mortars: (1) comparison of two mortars on one locus; (2) comparison of two layers of hydraulic cement on one locus; (3) comparison of two hydraulic cement floors; (4) comparison among mortars on five walls from four trenches. The conclusions made from the comparisons aided the site archaeologists in their assessment of the relationships of various loci at the site and establishment of phasing. Elements found in measureable amounts in the mortars and hydraulic cements were Ca, Ti, Mn, Fe, Zn, As, Rb, Sr, Zr, Pb, and Bi. Elements found to be different in the samples and used to differentiate among mortars were Ca, Fe, Zn, Pb, Zr, and Rb. Graphical and statistical data evaluations are presented. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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TL;DR: Data demonstrate that discriminative control by two distinct drug states can transfer and modulate a topographically different free-operant response and, as is true for exteroceptive stimuli, drug states that function as antecedents embedded within the operant three-term contingency have differing relationships with the response and the primary reinforcer.
Abstract: Transfer of the discriminative stimulus effects of two drugs from one operant (original-response) to a topographically different response (transfer-response) that was spared drug discrimination training was investigated. Eight rats were trained in a counterbalanced one manipulandum (lever press and nose poke) drug discrimination procedure. Counterbalanced IP administered nicotine (0.3 mg/kg) or Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (3.0 mg/kg) functioned as discriminative stimuli. SD drugs occasioned sessions of food-reinforcement (variable-interval 30-s schedule); SΔ drugs occasioned non-reinforcement. The original-response (lever-pressing or nose-poking) was initially reinforced during 30-min SD drug sessions, and non-reinforced on the other alternating SΔ-drug sessions. Two separate 5-min non-reinforcement tests, counterbalanced by drug order, revealed stimulus control over the original-response by both drugs, which transferred to the transfer-response. Subsequent extinction training of the transfer-response attenuated the original-response response rates with the SD drug conditions but had little impact on discriminative control. Discriminative control was reversed for the transfer-response but had little impact on the original-response but, again, reduced response rate. These data demonstrate that (a) discriminative control by two distinct drug states can transfer and modulate a topographically different free-operant response and, (b) as is true for exteroceptive stimuli, drug states that function as antecedents embedded within the operant three-term contingency have differing relationships with the response and the primary reinforcer.
17 citations
TL;DR: Stochastic processes are proposed whose master equations coincide with classical wave, telegraph, and Klein-Gordon equations, and a new ingredient is that transitions into a given velocity state depend on spatial derivatives of other states populations, rather than on populations themselves.
Abstract: Stochastic processes are proposed whose master equations coincide with classical wave, telegraph, and Klein-Gordon equations. Similar to predecessors based on the Goldstein-Kac telegraph process, the model describes the motion of particles with constant speed and transitions between discreet allowed velocity directions. A new ingredient is that transitions into a given velocity state depend on spatial derivatives of other states populations, rather than on populations themselves. This feature requires the sacrifice of the single-particle character of the model, but allows to imitate the Huygens' principle and to recover wave equations in arbitrary dimensions.
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TL;DR: This article explored the origins of Fingo identity in South Africa's Eastern Cape and argued that Fingo-ness developed out of a lifestyle and worldview that emphasised agriculture and trade, and rejected established systems of Xhosa authority.
Abstract: This article explores the origins of Fingo (Mfengu) identity in South Africa's Eastern Cape. While observers have generally understood the Fingo as an ethnic group, this article argues that Fingo-ness developed out of a lifestyle and worldview that emphasised agriculture and trade, and rejected established systems of Xhosa authority. The participation of men in farming activities, as well as attempts to engage in trade outside the control of chiefs, constituted a significant break with social practice by those who identified as Fingo, who, in challenging widely accepted standards of Xhosa-ness, were perceived by many Xhosa (and especially Xhosa chiefs) as anti-social and supernaturally dangerous. The idiom of witchcraft therefore became essential in marking out the distinctions between Fingo and Xhosa identities. While the 1835 frontier war saw the movement of the Fingo into the Cape Colony, the contours of Fingo-ness had already been established in the context of Xhosaland.
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TL;DR: This paper examined the relationship between aspects of faith (religiosity and spirituality) and generativity (concern and action) in a sample of 94 undergraduates from a religiously affiliated college were recruited through door-to-door invitation and were surveyed using a new measure of religiosity.
Abstract: Generativity investigations have explored the manner by which adults derive meaning and fulfillment from their life activities (e.g., Erikson in Identity, youth, and crisis W.W. Norton & Company Inc.,NY, 1968; McAdams and Logan in American Psychological Association, 15–31, 2004). Faith and religious practice have often been central features of adult meaning making, yet the relationship between one’s spiritual identity and one’s generative concern or activities has received only limited investigation. Lesser still has been investigated examining the degree to which young adults demonstrate generative concern. The current study examined the relationship between aspects of faith (religiosity and spirituality) and generativity (concern and action). A sample of 94 undergraduates from a religiously affiliated college were recruited through door-to-door invitation and were surveyed using a new measure of religiosity (Steger and Frazier in Journal of Counseling Psychology 52(4):574–582, 2005) and two measures of generativity (Loyola Generativity Scale and Generative Behavior Checklist, McAdams et al. 1992). Support was found for a relationship between spirituality and generative concern. These findings are discussed in relation to recent demographic shifts and are compared with earlier work investigating secular spiritual trends on generativity (e.g., Dillon and Wink in The generative society American Psychological Association Press, Washington, DC, 153–174, 2004).
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TL;DR: Analysis of the spectrum of the peroxyacetate anion shows that the observed spectral features arise almost exclusively from transitions between the trans-conformer of the anion and the X˜22A″ and Ã2A′ states of the corresponding radical.
Abstract: The 351.1 nm photoelectron spectrum of the peroxyacetate anion, (CH(3)C(O)OO(-)) was measured. Analysis of the spectrum shows that the observed spectral features arise almost exclusively from transitions between the trans-conformer of the anion and the X(2)A'' and A (2)A' states of the corresponding radical. The electron affinity of trans-CH(3)C(O)OO is 2.381+/- 0.007 eV and the term energy splitting of the A (2)A' state is 0.691 +/- 0.009 eV, in excellent agreement with two prior values [Zalyubovsky et al. J. Phys. Chem. A 107, 7704 (2003); Hu et al. J. Phys. Chem. 124, 114305/1 (2006); Hu et al. J. Phys. Chem. 110, 2629 (2006)]. The gas-phase acidity of trans-peroxyacetic acid was bracketed between the acidity of acetic acid and tert-butylthiol at Delta(a)G(298)(trans-CH(3)C(O)OOH)=1439 +/- 14 kJ mol(-1) and Delta(a)H(298)(trans-CH(3)C(O)OOH)=1467+/-14 kJ mol(-1). The acidity of cis-CH(3)C(O)OOH was found by adding a calculated energy correction to the acidity of the trans-conformer; Delta(a)G(298)[cis-CH(3)C(O)OOH] = 1461 +/- 14 kJ mol(-1) and Delta(a)H(298)[cis- CH(3)C(O)OOH]=1490+/-14 kJ mol(-1). The O-H bond dissociation energies for both conformers were determined using a negative ion thermodynamic cycle to be D(0)[trans- CH(3)C(O)OOH]=381+/-14 kJ mol(-1) and D(0)[cis- CH(3)C(O)OOH]=403+/-14 kJ mol(-1). The atmospheric implications of these results and relations to the thermochemistry of peroxyacetyl nitrate are discussed briefly.
TL;DR: The final path analysis explained 60% of homeless people's intentions to screen for HIV and implications include health provider recommendations for screening and increasing awareness of HIV risk behaviors for this vulnerable population.
TL;DR: Observations and photographs made during field studies in Fortin de las Flores, Veracruz, Mexico represent the first report of kleptoparasitic Argyrodes apparently utilizing a prey item stolen from a host spider as a nuptial gift.
Abstract: The presentation of nutritional resources as nuptial gifts before or during the mating process is well known among insects, but has only rarely been documented in spiders. Here, we report on observations and a series of photographs made during field studies in Fortin de las Flores, Veracruz, Mexico, which, although a single anecdotal report, represent a potentially significant finding. A male of the kleptoparasitic spider Argyrodes elevatus Taczanowski 1873 (Araneae, Theridiidae) was observed stealing a prey item from within a communal web of its host, the colonial orb-weaver Metepeira incrassata F.O. Pickard-Cambridge 1903 (Araneae, Araneidae). The male A. elevatus then carried and presented the prey item to a female, waited nearby until she began feeding, and copulated with her as she fed upon it. As far as is known, this is the first report of kleptoparasitic Argyrodes apparently utilizing a prey item stolen from a host spider as a nuptial gift.
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TL;DR: The authors compared men and women lobbyists who work in the American states and found that the breakdown of men versus women state lobbyists was 73.2% male and 26.8% female; in 2005, 71.3% and 28.7%.
Abstract: This paper compares men and women lobbyists who work in the American states. Both in 1995 and 2005, systematic random samples were selected from official lists of lobbyists in each of the fifty states. Two USPS mailings each year produced sample sizes of 1,559 in 1995 (return rate of 51.4%) and 1,545 (return rate of 49.6%). In 1995, the breakdown of men versus women state lobbyists was 73.2% male and 26.8% female; in 2005, 71.3% and 28.7%. Using appropriate data analysis techniques (regression, crosstabs, analysis of variance) men and women are contrasted across three dimensions. First, the tracks to lobbying are examined, such as prior political office and years of experience lobbying. Second, differences between tactics employed (grassroots, campaign contributions, etc.) by men and women are investigated. Finally, the paper draws a distinction between the attitudes of men and women lobbyists toward lobbying, as well as one social psychological variable, Machiavellianism. Differences between men and women within the three dimensions are found in both sets of data, with changes over time in some instances.
TL;DR: In this article, the rate constant for the reaction of Si with O 2 (a -1 Δ g ) was measured in a selected ion flow tube (SIFT) between 200 and 500 K.
Abstract: [1] The rate constant for the reaction of Si with O 2 (a -1 Δ g ) was measured in a selected ion flow tube (SIFT) between 200 and 500 K. The temperature dependence is T -(2.2±0.8) . The rate constant at 500 K is below the detection limit (<1 × 10 -11 cm 3 molecule -1 s 1 ) while the rate constant at 200 K is 3.6 × 10 -11 cm 3 molecule -1 s - 1 . The product is SiO - , in accord with potential energy surfaces. These surfaces also show that the reaction of Si with O 2 ( 3 Σ g ) only yields association products, SiOO ⊥ or OSiO ⊥ ions. An upper mesosphere/lower thermosphere model predicts that reaction with O 2 (a -1 Δ g ) is the most important removal process for Si + during the day between 87 and 107 km, which may explain the depletion of this ion relative to other ions of meteoric origin, such as Fe and Mg + . The reaction therefore has an important influence on the composition and lifetimes of sporadic E layers during daytime.
TL;DR: This paper presents a probabilistic analysis of the response of the immune system to the presence of carbon dioxide in response to high- Resolution Resolution TSPs, which is a proxy for planktonic resolution.
TL;DR: It is found that the monitor ion CH(3)I(+) reacts with O atoms to produce CHIOH(+), which is the likely cause of error in the previous experiments.
Abstract: The quenching of vibrationally excited NO(+) by O(2)(a (1)Delta(g)) has been examined using the monitor ion technique and chemical generation of O(2)(a (1)Delta(g)). In contrast to previous results which showed that the rate constant was much larger than for ground state O(2), this study finds that the rate constant for quenching is below the detection limit (<10(-11) cm(3) s(-1)) of this experiment. The previous experiments produced O(2)(a (1)Delta(g)) in a discharge, which would also produces O atoms. We found that the monitor ion CH(3)I(+) reacts with O atoms to produce CHIOH(+). This is the likely cause of error in the previous experiments.
01 Jan 2010
TL;DR: Penney et al. as mentioned in this paper presented an analysis of Penney's work at the Shoals Marine Laboratory in the US territory of Puerto Rico, which is a part of the University of Hawaii's Oceanography program.
Abstract: Brian K. Penney1, Lori H. LaPlante1, Jason R. Friedman2,3 and Maria Ocasio Torres2,4 Biology Department, Saint Anselm College, 100 Saint Anselm Drive, Manchester, NH 03102, USA; Shoals Marine Laboratory, c/o G-14 Stimson Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA; Present address: Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii, 1000 Pope Rd, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA; and Present address: Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico, PO Box 23360, San Juan, PR 00931-3360, USA
TL;DR: In the baseline comparison, RCi women were younger, had greater drug addiction severity but better mental health than NCI women, and in the over-time analysis, RCI and NCI 6-month clinical outcome scores improved irrespective of intervention type.
Abstract: Aims: To investigate criminal involvement in relation to treatment outcome in a multisite study. We compared 381 women with recent criminal involvement (RCI, n = 381; past 3 months) to 681 women with no lifetime history of criminal involvement (NCI, n = 681) at baseline and at 6 months from start of treatment (RCI 6 mos: n = 282; NCI 6 mos: n = 556). Methods: Outcome measures were alcohol severity, drug severity, general mental health, and PTSD symptoms. We compared RCI versus NCI women at baseline and compared RCI versus NCI women from baseline to 6 months by treatment condition. Treatment conditions were integrated care for co-occurring disorders versus treatment-as-usual. Age and baseline scores were covariates. Results: In the baseline comparison, RCI women were younger, had greater drug addiction severity but better mental health than NCI women. In the over-time analysis, RCI and NCI 6-month clinical outcome scores improved irrespective of intervention type.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the symbolic effect of a female challenger on bill sponsorship and cosponsorship of women's issue legislation in the US House of Representatives and found that those who ran against female challengers in the previous election were more likely to respond to that constituency through their legislative activities.
Abstract: How do congressional incumbents respond to challengers, particularly female challengers? This article extends recent research on the effect of congressional challengers on legislative agenda setting by analyzing the symbolic effect of a female challenger on bill sponsorship and cosponsorship of women's issue legislation. The results indicate incumbents who ran against female challengers in the previous election are more likely to respond to that constituency through their legislative activities. However, in practice, there may be few significant policy effects, as incumbents challenged by female opponents are more likely to cosponsor, rather than sponsor, women's issue legislation.
?Como responden los miembros del Congreso a los candidatos y especialmente a las candidatas que les disputan su reeleccion? Este articulo amplia investigaciones recientes sobre el efecto de la presion electoral sobre distritos seguros en la definicion de la agenda. Lo hace analizando el efecto simbolico que produce la presion electoral de candidatas femeninas en distritos cuyo representante actual ha sido reelegido varias veces enfocandose en que tanto dicho representante patrocina o copatrocina proyectos de ley favorables a las mujeres. Los resultados indican que los representantes que contendieron contra mujeres en elecciones previas estan mas inclinados a responder al electorado femenino a traves de sus actividades legislativas. En la practica, sin embargo, puede haber pocos efectos politicos significativos, ya que los representantes estan mas inclinados a copatrocinar que a patrocinar leyes que favorecen a las mujeres.
19 Jun 2010
TL;DR: Novel implementations of the Fast Fourier Transform on the massively parallel Connex Array#8482;(CA) circuit are presented, and the estimated performance is 19 GFlops of parallel computing 64 FFTs of size 1024, using 5 Watts.
Abstract: We present novel implementations of the Fast Fourier Transform on the massively parallel Connex Array™(CA) circuit. The estimated performance is 19 GFlops (BenchFFT metric) of parallel computing 64 FFTs of size 1024, using 5 Watts. We compare the CA and NVIDIA's GTX 285 GPU performance. The CA is not a direct NVIDIA competitor, targeting a different application area. Considering its low power dissipation, the CA is a good solution for low cost mobile computing equipment, video processing, and multi-channel high-sampling audio processing.
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TL;DR: Anita Brookner has enjoyed several successful careers as a British academic teaching art history at the Courtauld Institute and Cambridge University, as a scholar writing on French Romanticism, and most notably as a novelist.
Abstract: Anita Brookner has enjoyed several successful careers—as a British academic teaching art history at the Courtauld Institute and Cambridge University, as a scholar writing on French Romanticism, and, most notably, as a novelist. Since 1981, she has published twenty-five novels, with the latest of these appearing in 2009, and every one of them has found readers on both sides of the Atlantic. Despite the acclaim she has received (including Britain’s coveted Booker Prize) and the diverse audiences she has attracted, she has often been described in print, by journalists and critics alike, as a writer whose concerns are narrow and whose talents are those of a miniaturist. Much of this characterization has borne with it a taint of gender bias, expressed through adjectives such as “limited” and even “spinsterish” that traditionally have plagued the careers of women novelists. The year 2008 saw the arrival of her eightieth birthday, a milestone that seemed to call out for a new appraisal of her achievements and a new framework in which to evaluate them in order to bring attention to the unacknowledged breadth and ambition of her fiction. With that end in mind, the three of us—feminist academics specializing in women’s literature and, moreover, unapologetic admirers of Brookner’s novels—began the process by proposing a special session for the 2008 Modern Language Association convention held in San Francisco. This collaborative effort— the first MLA panel ever devoted to her work—took as its title “Anita Brookner in the World: Relocating the Writer at Eighty.” Our intention was not merely to celebrate Brookner’s long career but to recontextualize it. Through our papers, we would reconsider some of the standard ways in which she has been categorized—as a novelist of manners, a psychological realist, and a creator of tragi-comic romances. But most of all, we would re-examine the assumption that hers was a narrow set of interests, realized in a small and claustrophobic fictional sphere. Ultimately, we chose to reframe her work by looking at its engagement with the larger worlds of geography, politics, history, culture, and media. The figure who emerged from this conversation was not an English miniaturist but a transnational writer, crossing borders of gender and genre, as well as of place and location, and addressing expansively the most serious questions of morality, social justice, and art.
TL;DR: Fortea Perez as discussed by the authors, Las Cortes de Castilla y Leon bajo los Austrias: Una interpretación (Valladolid: Junta De Castilla and Leon, 2008), Paperback €25, 384 pp., ISBN 978-84-9718-561-5
Abstract: Jose Ignacio Fortea Perez, Las Cortes de Castilla y Leon bajo los Austrias: Una interpretacion (Valladolid: Junta de Castilla y Leon, 2008), Paperback €25, 384 pp., ISBN 978-84-9718-561-5 In this v...
TL;DR: In this article, the moral character of contraceptive use for non-contraceptive reasons is often difficult to determine and the most serious problem is that the contra-life argument seems to fail to show adequately what is wrong with impeding new human life, and this article neutralizes that problem by showing that choices to impede human life are wrong because they involve unreasonable self-preference.
Abstract: The contra-life argument against contraception by Germain Grisez, Joseph Boyle, John Finnis, and William May maintains that contraception is always and everywhere morally wrong because it involves a contra-life choice to impede new human life. This article develops four problems that people might have with the contra-life argument and then shows that none of those problems undercut the argument. The most serious problem is that the contra-life argument seems to fail to show adequately what is wrong with impeding new human life, and this article neutralizes that problem by showing that choices to impede new human life are wrong because they involve unreasonable self-preference. Finally, this article shows that the moral character of contraceptive use for non-contraceptive reasons is often difficult to determine.
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TL;DR: The authors explores the role of articulation in this particularly vexing problem and ultimately addresses the question of whether the language and mathematics we use to describe the universe is sufficient in its present form and application.
Abstract: What is physics? What are the limits of what physics can say about the world? In seeking ever-broader theoretical `umbrellas' for physical phenomena, we are seeking unifying principles. Emergent phenomena have turned out to be some of the most difficult to explain, causing a `clash of umbrellas' so-to-speak, at the interface between the quantum and classical domains. This essay explores the role of articulation in this particularly vexing problem and ultimately addresses the question of whether the language and mathematics we use to describe the universe is sufficient in its present form and application.
18 Oct 2010
TL;DR: In this article, a sample of early high achieving women publicly honored for college contributions were examined between 1 and 50 years post award to determine their personality and social clock projects, examine the degree to which the women remained politically and civically involved over their later adulthood; and to understand the impact early achievement may have had on feminist attitudes.
Abstract: Seventy nine women from a sample of early high achieving women publicly honored for college contributions were examined between 1 and 50 years post award to determine their personality and social clock projects, examine the degree to which the women remained politically and civically involved over their later adulthood; and to understand the impact early achievement may have had on feminist attitudes. Utilizing a series of personality, political ideology, feminist attitude and generative concern and action scales along with life history data, women’s feminine social clock projects were compared with personality variables and descriptively compared with earlier published reports on mid century women’s social clock projects (Helson et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 46:1079–1096, 1984). With the exception of 1970 era winners, women’s social clock projects across multiple eras remain consistent with earlier findings. Regression analyses indicate political ideology predicts feminist attitudes and political behaviors, whereas identity achievement personality variables predict generative concern.