Plate motions recorded in tectonostratigraphic terranes of the Franciscan Complex and evolution of the Mendocino triple junction, northwestern California

The Mendocino triple junction area of northern California is underlain by the Coastal belt of the Franciscan complex, flanked on the east by the Central and Eastern belts of the Franciscan Complex. The coastal belt is further divided into three tectonostratigraphic terranes. Upper Cretaceous through middle Miocene rocks included in these terranes were accreted to the North American plate margin partly during normal convergence with the Farallon plate between 49 and 25 Ma at poleward rates of 2 to 5cm /yr, and partly during translation with the Pacific plate between 14 and 2 Ma at poleward rates of 3 to 6cm/yr. The evolution of the triple junction is discussed. -from Author

Memento Mori: The development and validation of the Death Reflection Scale

Despite its potential for advancing organizational behavior (OB) research, the topic of death awareness has been vastly understudied. Moreover, research on death awareness has predominantly focused on the anxiety‐provoking aspect of death‐related cognitions, thus overlooking the positive aspect of death awareness, death reflection. This gap is exacerbated by the lack of a valid research instrument to measure death reflection. To address this issue, we offer a systematic conceptualization of death reflection, develop the Death Reflection Scale, and assess its psychometric properties across four studies. Further, using a sample of 268 firefighters, we examine whether death reflection buffers the detrimental impact of mortality cues at work on employee well‐being and safety performance. Results provide strong support for the psychometric properties of the Death Reflection Scale. Further, moderation analysis indicates death reflection weakens the negative effect of mortality cues on firefighters' safety performance. Overall, these findings suggest the newly developed Death Reflection Scale will prove useful in future research on death‐related cognitions

A Phylogeny of Genera of the Fish Family Nemipteridae (Percoidei) Based on the Cytochrome \u3ci\u3eB\u3c/i\u3e Gene

The species level taxonomy of the Nemipteridae is well understood but existing morphological data is insufficient to hypothesize a phylogeny of the five genera of this family of percoid fishes. Furthermore, there are three distinct and widely disparate habitat requirements within nemipterids and little is known how these evolved. Species in the genera Pentapodus, Scaevius and Scolopsis are typically found around shallow reefs. Nemipterus species are also found in shallow-water, but they inhabit strictly soft sediment bottoms. Parascolopsis is the only deep-water genus and its species are also found over soft sediments. Complete cytochrome b gene sequences (1140 base pairs) for 15 species of Nemipteridae, including representatives of all genera, and for two outgroup species were used to infer a phylogeny. There is strong support for a monophyletic Nemipteridae. In addition, two major clades within Nemipteridae are well supported. One of these clades exclusively contains shallow, soft sediment Nemipterus species while the other clade comprises the shallow, reef and the deep, soft sediment genera. The deepwater soft bottom Parascolopsis is nested deep within the other major clade and not sister to Nemipterus. The closest relatives of nemipterids, the sparoid fishes, are primarily reef species and the most parsimonious explanation is that the common ancestor to all these families is also a hard bottom inhabitant. The radiation of soft sediment species within the monophyletic Nemipteridae therefore represents two independent acquisitions

The Risk of Being Uninformed

The focus of this paper will be on a specific type of risk – within the context of sharing of information, or the lack there of - the risk of being uninformed

The site of protonation of a distorted bicyclic lactam: Nitrogen vs oxygen

Protonation of typical unstrained amides and lactams is favored at oxygen. Protonation of highly distorted lactams such as 1-azabicyclo[2.2.2]octan-2-one is favored at nitrogen. Density function theory calculations at the B3LYP/6-31G* level, as well as QCISD(T)/6-31G* calculations, predict that 1-azabicyclo[3.3.1]nonan-2-one favors protonation at nitrogen only very slightly (\u3c2.0 kcal/mol; gas phase ) over protonation at oxygen. 1H and 13C NMR as well as ultraviolet (UV) studies of this lactam, confirm the lactam is primarily protonated at the nitrogen. Experimental spectra clearly support the N-protonated boat-chair, in contrast the calculations show the N-protonated chair-chair conformation is lower in energy. Broadened resonances in the 13C NMR spectrum suggest an exchange phenomenon. Variable-temperature studies of the 13C NMR spectra support dynamic exchange between the major tautomer (N-protonated) and the minor tautomer (O-protonated) in a roughly 4:1 mixture

Three inner-neritic recent foraminifers from southern California

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Shell-Material Variation in the Agglutinated Foraminifer Trochammina Pacifica Cushman

Test construction, reproduction, and rate of growth in specimens of Trochammina pacifica cultured without mineral grains are analogous to those of specimens supplied with sediment. Newly formed test chambers consist of fragile, organic membranes. Control specimens show selectivity for grain size but not for mineral composition. The median grain size of disaggregated control specimens agreed closely with the median grain size of the supplied sediment. The grain size in a test, however, increases gradually as individuals become larger during ontogenetic development. These findings are applicable to taxonomic analyses and to the paleoecological interpretation of fluctuating, shallow-water, marine environments and their depositional history

'Techno-Risk - The Perils of Learning and Sharing Everything' from a Criminal Information Sharing Perspective

The author has extensive law enforcement experience and the paper is intended to provoke thought on the use of technology as it pertains to information sharing between the police and the private sector. As the world edges closer and closer to the convergence of man and machine, the human capacity to retrieve information is increasing by leaps and bounds. We are on the verge of knowing everything and anything there is to know, and literally in the blink of an eye! This means that police will have the capacity to learn everything about everyone with the only restriction being privacy legislation. But it also means that those involved in immoral, unlawful or illegal activity will have that same capacity and with no such restriction. ‘Bad Brother’ may be far more dangerous than ‘Big Brother!' The global community requires a secure and credible system to retrieve and assess all of the information ‘generally available to the public.' A system that will strive to keep ‘Big Brother’ in check and ‘Bad Brother’ out, all the while providing a means of alerting citizens to genuine risks or to dangerous people. Such as system would help diffuse the systemic inaccurate and harmful profiling that is often based on rumours and innuendo. There is an identified public-private partnership opportunity. A chance to work with privacy advocate groups and background checking private companies to define, design and deliver on something that will be of immense benefit to citizens around the globe. We have an opportunity to create something that will work to ensure that only the best information gets used and in a moralistic, lawful and legal way! Technology continues to move forward at incomprehensible speeds – failure to act could have serious consequences

Treatment Barriers and Stages of Change Among Adolescents in Psychotherapy

One in five children and adolescents meet the criteria for psychiatric disorders each year. Of those who meet the criteria and are referred for treatment, forty to sixty percent will terminate prematurely (Nock and Kazdin, 2001). While some researchers studying this phenomenon have focused on how a client progresses through treatment and others look at dropout risk factors, no one has explored the relationship between the two. The specific purpose of this study is to provide information to the existing pool of research focusing on treatment effectiveness and completion to help provide better services to the mentally ill adolescent population already being seriously underserved in this country. A client\u27s readiness to change a behavior in treatment, as studied by James Prochaska (1993), and barriers one faces throughout treatment, as researched by Alan Kazdin (1997) are two variables that have been developed for the purpose of understanding the dynamics of change in the therapeutic setting. Specifically, Prochaska has developed the Transtheoretical Model of Change including five stages (Precontemplation, Contemplation, Preparation, Action and Maintenance) through which one progresses while in treatment, from a lack of intention to change, to the recognition of a problem but an unwillingness to do anything about it, to a decision and commitment to change. Prochaska believes that change must occur for individual development and that his Transtheoretical Model provides a balance of empiricism and theory for utility among various populations (Petrocelli, 2002). Kazdin (1997) has found that child and adolescent dropouts in treatment showed higher levels of barriers than did completers based on parent and therapist total barriers scores. His term barriers to participation in treatment explore factors that might impact a client\u27s ability to successfully complete a treatment program, including socioeconomic disadvantage, family stress and life events. Data for this study were gathered at a community mental health agen

Treatment Barriers and Stages of Change Among Adolescents in Psychotherapy

One in five children and adolescents meet the criteria for psychiatric disorders each year. Of those who meet the criteria and are referred for treatment, forty to sixty percent will terminate prematurely (Nock and Kazdin, 2001). While some researchers studying this phenomenon have focused on how a client progresses through treatment and others look at dropout risk factors, no one has explored the relationship between the two. The specific purpose of this study is to provide information to the existing pool of research focusing on treatment effectiveness and completion to help provide better services to the mentally ill adolescent population already being seriously underserved in this country. A client\u27s readiness to change a behavior in treatment, as studied by James Prochaska (1993), and barriers one faces throughout treatment, as researched by Alan Kazdin (1997) are two variables that have been developed for the purpose of understanding the dynamics of change in the therapeutic setting. Specifically, Prochaska has developed the Transtheoretical Model of Change including five stages (Precontemplation, Contemplation, Preparation, Action and Maintenance) through which one progresses while in treatment, from a lack of intention to change, to the recognition of a problem but an unwillingness to do anything about it, to a decision and commitment to change. Prochaska believes that change must occur for individual development and that his Transtheoretical Model provides a balance of empiricism and theory for utility among various populations (Petrocelli, 2002). Kazdin (1997) has found that child and adolescent dropouts in treatment showed higher levels of barriers than did completers based on parent and therapist total barriers scores. His term barriers to participation in treatment explore factors that might impact a client\u27s ability to successfully complete a treatment program, including socioeconomic disadvantage, family stress and life events. Data for this study were gathered at a community mental health agen