Some approaches in social psychology to disability

Résumé de l\u27ouvrage : This book focuses on the latest developments in psychology research. Chapter One discusses current advances on cognitive rehabilitation in fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. Chapter Two examines the nature of clinical reasoning in terms of critical thinking. Chapter Three presents some theoretical directions in social psychology that have served as a basis for research into disability. Chapter Four reviews a challenging approach concerning the cognitive strategies used in problem solving situations by boys with and without intellectual disabilities using Markov chains. Chapter Five reviews the advances that have been made in research on callous-unemotional traits. Chapter Six analyzes gender risks in Developmental Coordination Disorder. Chapter Seven provides a complex trait-based approach to the understanding of narcissism. Chapter Eight contributes to a better understanding of the limits of an important group decision model. Chapter Nine highlights and discusses unique challenges to the implementation of advance directives, as well as other issues that may arise during the care of patients with terminal dementia. Chapter Ten provides the reader with a selective overview of the intervention options available in the literature within the last sixteen years for assessing and recovering post-coma persons in a vegetative state. Chapter Eleven concludes with a structural analyses of members\u27 relationships in a Selective Mutism family

Wood and Lead and Wind and Tin

These are the ingredients that Jeffrey Dexter ’85 uses to shape the magnificent sounds of a Schantz pipe organ

Systolic geometry of translation surfaces

Let $S$ be a translation surface of genus $g > 1$ with $n$ cone points $(p_i)_{i=1,\ldots,n}$ with cone angle $2\pi \cdot (k_i+1)$ at $p_i$, where $k_i \in \mathbb{N}$. In this paper we investigate the systolic landscape of these translation surfaces for fixed genus.Comment: 25 pages, 4 figures. Added explicit computations of systoles in the graph of saddle connections for origamis in H(1,1) and a criterion to decide whether such systoles define systoles on the translation surfac

Mary H. Gibbon: teamwork of the heart.

Mary Maly Hopkinson Gibbon was born on September 25, 1903, to an affluent New England family who encouraged her to embrace her intelligence and to follow that by which she was intrigued. In doing this, Maly pursued work in scientific research, where she ultimately met her first husband, Dr. John ‘‘Jack’’ H. Gibbon. Jack and Maly were partners in every sense of the word. Their collaboration, both within and beyond the walls of the research laboratory, made it possible for the Gibbon dream of the heart–lung machine to be realized

An Exploration of Modes in Polyphonic Compositions of the Sixteenth Century

Modes in the Renaissance era were vital to understand the inner workings of a piece. Modal theory implies every Renaissance composition should have a distinct mode in which it belongs. The mode of any piece from this era is theoretically obvious by the first or last note of the piece as well as the range given, but researchers have argued the validity of this claim. Complications arise in the case of pieces with two or more voices. Polyphonic music causes uncertainty regarding the method of identifying the mode of a piece. This paper will look deeply at the Missa Papae Marcelli by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina in an attempt to decipher the process used to find the mode in polyphonic music. The Missa Papae Marcelli is a work scored for six independent voices, with some movements being reduced to only four voices. Analysis of this piece will be done to prove that a mode can be established in polyphonic works, and to explain the validity of modal theory in deeply complex, polyphonic musical structures

Precision metering of microliter volumes of biological fluids in micro-gravity

Concepts were demonstrated and investigated for transferring accurately known and reproducible microliter volumes of biological fluids from sample container onto dry chemistry slides in microgravity environment. Specific liquid transfer tip designs were compared. Information was obtained for design of a liquid sample handling system to enable clinical chemical analysis in microgravity. Disposable pipet tips and pipet devices that were designed to transfer microliter volumes of biological fluid from a (test tube) sample container in 1-G environment were used during microgravity periods of parabolic trajectories of the KC-135 aircraft. The transfer process was recorded using charge coupled device camera and video cassette equipment. Metering behavior of water, a synthetic aqueous protein solution, and anticoagulated human blood was compared. Transfer of these liquids to 2 substrate materials representative of rapidly wettable and slowly wettable dry chemistry slide surface was compared

Nomenclatural Changes for Some Grasses in California. II.

Two additional nomenclatural changes are required for Poaceae treatments that will appear in the second edition of The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California. They are Elymus x gouldii and Festuca temulenta. The former corrects a violation of the rule in the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature involving the naming of hybrids, and the latter involves a widely occurring non-native grass in California traditionally assigned to Lolium

The Chromosome Number of Schaffnerella Gracilis (Gramineae, Chloridoideae)

The first ever chromosome report for the monotypic genus Schaffnerella (Grarnineae, Chloridoideae) is 2n = 20 (10 II) from pollen parent cells at diakinesis, which indicates diploidy and a base number of 10. The close relative Lycurus likewise has x = 10, but is tetraploid (2n = 4x = 40)

Phylogenetics of Andropogoneae (Poaceae: Panicoideae) Based on Nuclear Ribosomal Internal Transcribed Spacer and Chloroplast trnL–F Sequences

Phylogenetic relationships among 85 species representing 35 genera in the grass tribe Andropogoneae were estimated from maximum parsimony and Bayesian analyses of nuclear ITS and chloroplast trnL–F DNA sequences. Ten of the 11 subtribes recognized by Clayton and Renvoize (1986) were sampled. Independent analyses of ITS and trnL–F yielded mostly congruent, though not well resolved, topologies. Arundinella is sister to Andropogoneae in the trnL–F phylogeny and is nested within the tribe in the ITS and combined data trees. Tristachya is sister to Andropogoneae + Arundinella in the ITS phylogeny. Four clades are common to the ITS and trnL–F phylogenies and the trees from the combined data set. Clade A consists of Andropogon, Diectomis, Hyparrhenia, Hyperthelia, and Schizachyrium. Within this clade, Andropogon distachyos, Hyparrhenia, and Hyperthelia form clade C. Clade B consists of Bothriochloa, Capillipedium, and Dichanthium, and clade D includes Chrysopogon and Vetiveria. Analysis of the combined data resulted in an unsupported larger clade comprising clades A and B plus Cymbopogon, and a sister clade of Heteropogon, Iseilema, and Themeda. This larger clade is similar to the core Andropogoneae clade previously reported (Spangler et al. 1999; Mathews et al. 2002). Based on our sample, which represents 41% of the tribe’s genera, most of Clayton and Renvoize’s (1986) subtribes are not monophyletic