Minority Stress and Life Role Saliency among Sexual Minorities

This study explored the influence of minority stress on the career and life-space developmental trajectory (Super, 1990) with a sample of gay, bisexual, and queer men. Approximately 202 self-identifying sexual minority males were recruited across the United States via the internet. The study tested a model in which dyadic adjustment and career satisfaction mediated the relationship between three specific minority stressors (internalized homophobia, concealment motivation, and stigma sensitivity) and four specific life roles (partner, occupational, homemaker, and parental life roles). A measured variable path analysis (MVPA) was conducted with the following measures: the Internalized Homophobia Scale (Martin & Dean, 1987); Stigma Sensitivity Scale (Mohr & Kendra, 2011); Concealment Motivation Scale (Mohr & Kendra, 2011); Dyadic Adjustment Scale (Sharpley & Rogers, 1984); Career Satisfaction Scale (Greenhaus, Parasuraman, & Wormley, 1990); and the Life Role Salience Scales (Amatea, Cross, Clark, & Bobby, 1986). The data fit the proposed model well. Internalized homophobia and stigma sensitivity significantly contributed to dyadic adjustment, while dyadic adjustment significantly contributed to partner role saliency. Dyadic adjustment partially mediated the relationship between internalized homophobia and partner role saliency, as internalized homophobia directly contributed to ratings of partner role saliency and parental role saliency. Dyadic adjustment fully mediated the relationship between stigma sensitivity and partner role saliency. None of the minority stressors significantly contributed to ratings of career satisfaction, nor did career satisfaction mediate the relationship between minority and the life role saliency measures. Implication for practitioners, recommendations for social justice, as well as limitation and directions for future research were provided

Planar coupling to high-Q lithium niobate disk resonators

We demonstrate optical coupling to high-Q lithium niobate disks from an integrated lithium niobate waveguide. The waveguides are made by proton exchange in X-cut lithium niobate substrate. The disks with diameter of 4.7 mm and thickness of 1 mm are made from commercial Z-cut lithium niobate wafers by polishing the edges into a spheroidal profile. Both resonance linewidth and cavity ringdown measurements were performed to calculate the Q factor of the resonator, which is in excess of 10(8). Planar coupling represents the most promising technique for practical applications of whispering gallery mode resonators

A GaN on SiC process with high power density and efficiency

In this contribution, a high power density and efficiency C-Band hybrid power amplifier (PA), employing the GaN process developed at Selex ES, is presented. Thanks to technological improvements in the actual process, the current collapse and knee voltage shift problems are mitigated, showing 5W/mm power density at 20 V, with a linear output power increase as function of drain bias, up to 9.5W/mm at 35V. In order to assess the actual performances of the GaN HEMTs, the most representative active device has been characterized and modeled, and a PA at 5.5 GHz has been designed. The amplifier is designed utilizing second harmonic tuning strategy for high efficiency operation, thus exploiting the high-breakdown voltage peculiarity of GaN-based devices employing Field Plate technology. The PA shows an output power of 36.5 dBm with a power added efficiency (PAE) of 65 % and an associated gain of 12 dB while the preliminary evaluation estimate a MTTF of 107h

Data for: Enhancing the Seeking Safety Group Intervention with Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Practice: A Program Evaluation

Seeking Safety is an evidence-based manualized group counseling intervention designed to address trauma and addiction as co-occurring conditions. This qualitative utilization-focused program evaluation analyzed the effectiveness of enhancing Seeking Safety with a Trauma-Sensitive (TA) yoga practice integrated into the Seeking Safety group intervention. Data were generated from key informant interviews, and focus groups. A research team then analyzed all data sources using narrative analysis of transcripts and documents to assess the efficacy of Seek-ing Safety with the yoga enhanced intervention. Implications and recommendations for further research on the use of TS yoga with Seeking Safety are discussed. Code books, subjectivity statements and memos are included in the data set

Endoscopic Sinus Surgery Associated with Rhinoseptoplasty: A Case-control Study

Objective:. To examine the difference between outcomes in the administration of concurrent endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS), septoplasty (SP), and rhinoplasty (RP) and concurrent ESS and SP in 1 single surgical session. Methods:. Patients who underwent concurrent ESS and SP from September 2004 to July 2015 were identified. Furthermore, patients among them who underwent functional primary RP were selected. Subjects who had been administered concurrent ESS, SP, and RP (primary RP) were matched for sex, age, sinonasal surgical procedures for treatment of chronic rhinosinusitis with patients underwent concurrent ESS and SP, used as control subjects. A literature review was performed to find previous articles describing results of concurrent procedures among ESS, SP, and RP. Results:. Twenty subjects, who underwent concurrent ESS, SP, and RP, were compared with a matched control group made of 20 patients who underwent concurrent ESS and SP, evaluating different postoperative outcomes (postoperative complications, postoperative improvement of respiratory symptoms, persistence of chronic rhinosinusitis symptoms 6 months to 1 year postoperative, need of revision surgery, satisfaction of the patient). Obtained P values showed that there was no statistically significant difference (P > 0.05) as regards the different outcomes, except for postoperative complications, increased because of the invasiveness proper of RP (P < 0.05). Conclusions:. Therefore, execution of concurrent ESS, SP, and RP seems to be safe and effective, and additional RP does not modify postoperative outcomes of concurrent ESS and SP except for a little increase of postoperative complications, even if most of them had low impact on result of procedures