University of Rhode Island

About: University of Rhode Island is a education organization based out in Kingston, Rhode Island, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Bay. The organization has 11464 authors who have published 22770 publications receiving 841066 citations. The organization is also known as: URI & Rhode Island College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts.

Greater strengths of character and recovery from illness

Abstract: How are character strengths related to recovery? A retrospective web-based study of 2087 adults found small but reliable associations between a history of physical illness and the character strengths of appreciation of beauty, bravery, curiosity, fairness, forgiveness, gratitude, humor, kindness, love of learning, and spirituality. A history of psychological disorder and the character strengths of appreciation of beauty, creativity, curiosity, gratitude, and love of learning were also associated. A history of problems was linked to decreased life satisfaction, but only among those who had not recovered. In the case of physical illness, less of a toll on life satisfaction was found among those with the character strengths of bravery, kindness, and humor, and in the case of psychological disorder, less of a toll on life satisfaction was found among those with the character strengths of appreciation of beauty and love of learning. We suggest that recovery from illness and disorder may benefit character. 'Tis...

Food limitation of production by adult Acartia tonsa in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island1

Abstract: Egg production, dry weight, cephalothorax length, and condition factor were measured for adult Acartia tonsa females collected twice weekly from Narragansett Bay, R.I., during summer 1979 and incubated in ambient bay water and in ambient bay water enriched with laboratorycultured algae. Egg production, dry weight, and condition factor of copepods in the ambient bay water fluctuated considerably (ranges 1.6-51.6 eggsafemale-‘*d-l, 7.37-16.60 fig dry wt, and 1.09-2.37 condition factor) and closely followed the seasonal trends in Chl a and particulate carbon and nitrogen. Cephalothorax length remained fairly constant during the study. The overall mean egg production rate, dry weight, and cephalothorax length of the copepods after incubation for 48 h in the algae-enriched water were significantly greater than for copepods incubated in ambient bay water (mean values 45.9 vs. 25.3 eggsafemale-‘*d-l, 13.2 vs. 11.8 kg dry wt, and 901.7 vs. 891.8 pm long). Since body size and egg production in adult A. tonsa responded rapidly to a change in food availability, the copepods must have been continuously food limited in Narragansett Bay during summer.