Friendship and Social Emotions in Young Adult Finns' Drinking Diaries

In the article we examine the management of social emotions and friendship bonds by analysing the young adults� pub and drinking diaries. We assume that emotions that are embodied in the management of friendship ties can be reduced to the emotions of pride and shame. According to Scheff, as primary social emotions, they are present in all communication and action. They express for the participants of interaction the actual "temperature" of social relations. Pride refers to a strong and safe involvement in interaction, in which individuals feel themselves fine and respectful. In a shameful state, individuals, in turn, experience themselves negatively in the eyes of others, which imply that social bonds are intimidated. The analysis of drinking experiences from the viewpoint of pride and shame brings expressively forth how drinking strengthens or weakens different kinds of social relations and dynamics and how actors try to attach to them or secede from them. In the diary narratives, the pride and shame of drinking is most strongly associated with reinforcement and bonding efforts of ties of friendship that are considered laid-back and like-minded. In relation to them the status, competition, the emphasis of one's self and indulging in love affairs occur in the narratives considerably more seldom, and if they occur, they rather contribute to shameful experiences or remain subordinate to friendship.Friendship, Management of Social Emotions, Pride, Shame, Diary

Progress in Behavioral Game Theory

Is game theory meant to describe actual choices by people and institutions or not? It is remarkable how much game theory has been done while largely ignoring this question. The seminal book by von Neumann and Morgenstern, The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, was clearly about how rational players would play against others they knew were rational. In more recent work, game theorists are not always explicit about what they aim to describe or advise. At one extreme, highly mathematical analyses have proposed rationality requirements that people and firms are probably not smart enough to satisfy in everyday decisions. At the other extreme, adaptive and evolutionary approaches use very simple models-mostly developed to describe nonhuman animals-in which players may not realize they are playing a game at all. When game theory does aim to describe behavior, it often proceeds with a disturbingly low ratio of careful observation to theorizing

Optimasi Berat Struktur Rangka Batang Pada Jembatan Baja Terhadap Variasi Bentang

This research was compared some types of trusses for some length of stellbridges. To support an equal loads, each type of truss have most optimal dimension to the each type. Aspect that compared at this research is weight of stell that required to a type of truss. Types of trusses that compared at this research are Pratt, Howe, Warren (with verticals), Parker, and K-Truss. From this research we can know that the most optimal trussfor each length of stell bridge. Parker is a type of truss that able to be used for all length of stell bridge that evaluated in this research, that are 30 m, 50 m, 70 m, and 100 m. This type of truss have the lightest own weight for all length if compared with other types of trusses

Desain Fly Over Pada Perlintasan Sebidang Jalan Kereta Api Di Jalan Slamet Riyadi Surakarta

Perencanaan fly over di Daerah Purwosari tepatnya Jalan Slamet Riyadi ini didasarkan oleh perlintasan sebidang dengan jalan kereta api yang menyebabkan lalu lintas di persilangan tersebut berhenti total ketika ada kereta api melintas. Dengan adanya pembangunan fly over pada perlintasan tersebut, diperhitungkan bahwa arus lalu lintas di Jalan Slamet Riyadi akan menjadi semakin lancar, hal ini dapat dilihat dari nilai derajat kejenuhan ruas jalan tersebut yang dihitung berdasarkan Manual Kapasitas Jalan Indonesia (MKJI) 1997, yang berkurang dari 1,26 menjadi 0,62 setelah direncanakannya fly over. Fly over ini direncanakan dengan tipe 2 lajur 2 arah tak terbagi dengan lebar 11 m dan panjang 410,8 m. Struktur atas fly over menggunakan balok prategang dengan profil I. Struktur bawah fly over menggunakan dua buah abutment, sembilan buah pilar dan pondasi jenis bore pile dengan diameter 0,6 m dan kedalaman 18 m

Qualituy of life of hearing impaired adolesents

В данной статье излагаются результаты исследования качества жизни подростков с нарушением слуха и их сверстников с нормальным слухом. Выявлены особенности восприятия различных аспектов жизни подростками в зависимости от их состояния здоровья и пола

Corneal topographic changes in premenopausal and postmenopausal women

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>To asses the effect of menopause on the corneal curvature changes using corneal computerized videokeratography (CVK) in premenopausal and postmenopausal healthy women.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Thirty-six postmenopausal women with mean ages of 49.2 (range 39 to 57) were enrolled in this randomized, prospective study, comparing with 26 healthy controls with mean ages of 38.5 +/- 4.9 (range 32 to 49). Subjects were determined to be postmenopausal, by the Gynecology and Obstetrics Department, based on blood Follicular Stimulating Hormone (FSH), Luteinizing Hormone (LH), Estradiol, Progesterone levels and clinical complaints. Complete ophthalmic examination and CVK using Haag-Streit System was performed in both premenopausal and postmenopausal women.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Mean horizontal curvature and vertical curvature of central corneal power in premenopausal women were 43.5 +/- 1.25 Diopter (D), and 44.1 +/- 1.53 D. Mean horizontal curvature and vertical curvature of central corneal power in postmenopausal women were 43.9 +/- 1.4 D, and 44.6 +/- 1.3 D. The mean keratometric astigmatisms of premenopausal and postmenopausal women were 0.81 +/- 0.57 D (4–179 degrees), 0.74 degrees +/- 0.5 D (1–180 degrees) respectively. No significant corneal curvature changes were detected between premenopausal and postmenopausal groups (P > 0.05). On the other hand, we only found negative but significant correlation between horizontal corneal curvature and estrogen level of postmenopausal women (r = -0.346, p = 0.038).</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Menopause is physiologic process and may also affect corneal topographic changes. In postmenopausal women, corneal steeping was observed minimally compared to premenopausal women. The results suggest that changes in estrogen level of women with menopause are associated with slightly alteration of horizontal curvature of cornea.</p

Southwinds - Spring 2010

THE LITERARY AND ARTS MAGAZINE OF MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SPRING 2010 Southwinds is sponsored by the Department of English & Technical Communicatio

Ecologies of Practice in Musical Performance

This article presents an ecological model of musical performance drawn from the field of Gibsonian Ecological Psychology and the techniques of Actor-Network Theory as explicated by Bruno Latour and others. Citing a wide body of empirical research, it is argued that musicians and their musical instruments exist in an ecological relationship at the level of embodied gesture. Furthermore, it is proposed that every act of musicking amounts to a construction of a network of actors that define an “Ecology of Practice,” a thick description more fully encompassing the complexities of musicking than traditional notions of performance practice.Cet article présente un modèle écologique de l’interprétation musicale inspiré du champ de la psychologie écologique gibsonienne et des techniques de la théorie de l’acteur- réseau telle que définie par Bruno Latour et d’autres. Sur la base d’un large corpus de recherche empirique, il avance que les musiciens et leurs instruments existent dans une relation écologique au niveau du geste incarné. En outre, il propose que chaque acte consistant à jouer de la musique corresponde à la construction d’un réseau d’acteurs qui définissent une « écologie de la pratique », description dense qui englobe plus pleinement les complexités du fait de jouer de la musique que les notions de pratiques performancielles