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The impact of an emotionally expressive writing intervention on eating pathology in female students
© 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.Introduction: Previous research demonstrating emotional influences on eating and weight suggest that emotionally expressive writing may have a significant impact on reducing risk of eating pathology. This study examined the effects of writing about Intensely Positive Experiences on weight and disordered eating during a naturalistic stressor. Method: Seventy-one female students completed an expressive or a control writing task before a period of exams. Both groups were compared on BMI (kg/m2) and the Eating Disorder Examination – Questionnaire (EDE-Q) before the writing task and at 8-week follow-up. A number of secondary analyses were also examined (to identify potential mediators) including measures of attachment, social rank, self-criticism and self-reassurance, stress and mood. Results: There was a significant effect of intervention on changes in the subscales of the EDE-Q (p = .03). Specifically, expressive writers significantly reduced their dietary restraint while those in the control group did not. There was no significant effect of the intervention on changes in BMI or the other subscales of the EDE-Q (Eating, Weight and Shape Concern). There was also no effect of writing on any of the potential mediators in the secondary analyses. Discussion: Emotionally expressive writing may reduce the risk of dietary restraint in women but these findings should be accepted with caution. It is a simple and light touch intervention that has the potential to be widely applied. However, it remains for future research to replicate these results and to identify the mechanisms of action.Peer reviewedFinal Published versio
Some effects of topography, soil moisture, and sea-surface temperature on continental precipitation as computed with the GISS coarse mesh climate model
The effects of terrain elevation, soil moisture, and zonal variations in sea/surface temperature on the mean daily precipitation rates over Australia, Africa, and South America in January were evaluated. It is suggested that evaporation of soil moisture may either increase or decrease the model generated precipitation, depending on the surface albedo. It was found that a flat, dry continent model best simulates the January rainfall over Australia and South America, while over Africa the simulation is improved by the inclusion of surface physics, specifically soil moisture and albedo variations
N-body Monte Carlo simulation of specific lunar orbiter missions
N-body Monte Carlo simulation of specific lunar orbiter mission
Narrow band microwave radiation from a biased single-Cooper-pair transistor
We show that a single-Cooper-pair transistor (SCPT) electrometer emits
narrow-band microwave radiation when biased in its sub-gap region. Photo
activation of quasiparticle tunneling in a nearby SCPT is used to
spectroscopically detect this radiation, in a configuration that closely mimics
a qubit-electrometer integrated circuit. We identify emission lines due to
Josephson radiation and radiative transport processes in the electrometer, and
argue that a dissipative superconducting electrometer can severely disrupt the
system it attempts to measure.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Measurement of the ac Stark shift with a guided matter-wave interferometer
We demonstrate the effectiveness of a guided-wave Bose-Einstein condensate
interferometer for practical measurements. Taking advantage of the large arm
separations obtainable in our interferometer, the energy levels of the 87Rb
atoms in one arm of the interferometer are shifted by a calibrated laser beam.
The resulting phase shifts are used to determine the ac polarizability at a
range of frequencies near and at the atomic resonance. The measured values are
in good agreement with theoretical expectations. However, we observe a
broadening of the transition near the resonance, an indication of collective
light scattering effects. This nonlinearity may prove useful for the production
and control of squeezed quantum states.Comment: 5 pages, three figure
Tree-level electron-photon interactions in graphene
Graphene's low-energy electronic excitations obey a 2+1 dimensional Dirac
Hamiltonian. After extending this Hamiltonian to include interactions with a
quantized electromagnetic field, we calculate the amplitude associated with the
simplest, tree-level Feynman diagram: the vertex connecting a photon with two
electrons. This amplitude leads to analytic expressions for the 3D angular
dependence of photon emission, the photon-mediated electron-hole recombination
rate, and corrections to graphene's opacity and dynamic
conductivity for situations away from thermal equilibrium, as
would occur in a graphene laser. We find that Ohmic dissipation in perfect
graphene can be attributed to spontaneous emission.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
The thermal influence of continents on a model-generated January climate
Two climate simulations were compared. Both climate computations were initialized with the same horizontally uniform state of rest. However, one is carried out on a water planet (without continents), while the second is repeated on a planet with geographically realistic but flat (sea level) continents. The continents in this experiment have a uniform albedo of 0.14, except where snow accumulates, a uniform roughness height of 0.3 m, and zero water storage capacity. Both runs were carried out for a 'perpetual January' with solar declination fixed at January 15
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