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What arithmetic do children use in their out of school life?

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1939. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive

Fostering positive emotion through self-compassion in individuals with chronic pain.

Previous research in chronic pain has established that reducing or removing negative aspects of functioning, such as negative emotion, maladaptive thoughts and behaviors are associated with better outcomes in this population. More limited is the research on the role of positive aspects of functioning in those with chronic pain, specifically exploring the benefits of positive emotion and how this can be bolstered in individuals with chronic pain. Limited research to date has explored strategies to promote positive aspects of functioning, including savoring, gratitude, and mindfulness, but even more limited is research exploring the role of self-compassion as a resource for promoting positive emotion in those with chronic pain. This study had three main aims and an exploratory aim. In Aim 1, the basic relationships between self-compassion, positive and negative emotion, pain and functional variables were examined in order to establish criterion validity for their measures in a unique and diverse pain sample; Aim 2 addressed the need for an alternative measure of positive emotion that better aligns with self-compassion; and Aim 3 explored the unique role that self-compassion has in relation to positive emotion and adaptive functioning in individuals with chronic pain when compared to other important resilience factors, mindfulness and acceptance. In an v . exploratory aim, this study also explored the potential role for self-compassion to moderate the relationship between pain severity and affect, as well as disability and quality of life. 84 patients with chronic pain at the Pain Management Center were recruited during the time of their appointments to participate in the study. Participants filled out self-report measures assessing sociodemographic, pain and psychological characteristics; rates of positive and negative emotion over the last week; levels of pain severity; rates of self-compassion, pain acceptance and mindfulness; as well as pain disability and current physical and mental components of quality of life (QoL). Results demonstrated that higher self-compassion was associated with higher positive emotion, lower negative emotion, lower pain severity and disability, and higher QoL. Multiple regression analyses demonstrated that self-compassion was a significant and unique predictor of change in positive and negative emotion, pain disability and mental components of QoL, independent of contributions made by mindfulness, pain acceptance, and covariates (income, gender, and age). Further, moderation analyses indicated that self-compassion significantly moderated the relationship between pain severity and negative affect as well as physical components of QoL. These results added to the burgeoning literature on the role of self-compassion as a unique resilience factor in promoting positive emotion in those with chronic pain independent of sociodemographic variables and other similar resilience factors, such as mindfulness and acceptance. While this study was cross-sectional in nature and thus inferences about causality are limited, it suggests enough evidence to pursue future research with experimental or longitudinal, interventional designs on the role of selfvi . compassion in promoting positive emotion as well as other elements of adaptive functioning in those with chronic pain

Letter from Ralph Ellsworth to Marc T. Campbell regarding Dr. Ellsworth\u27s recommendations

A letter from Dr. Ralph E. Ellsworth, Director of Libraries at University of Colorado, Boulder, to Marc T. Campbell, Director of Forsyth Library indicating that Dr. Ellsworth was not retained as a consultant and therefore had no recommendations regarding a new building for Forsyth Library.https://scholars.fhsu.edu/library_bldg/1086/thumbnail.jp

Analog studies of the effects of pumping on ground water levels in the high plains area of eastern Colorado

CER65REG35.Includes bibliographical references (pages 11-12)

A Twenty Years Phenological Record of the Spring Flowering Plants of Henry County

Each spring since 1915 a record of the date of the first appearance of flowers of our seed bearing plants has been kept. This has been handled through a contest with the students in the botany classes. Reports on the comparative dates for some of the more representative species were made in 1918 and in 1924

Dynamic heterogeneities versus fixed heterogeneities in earthquake models

A debate has raged over whether fixed material and geometrical heterogeneities, or alternatively dynamic stress heterogeneities, arising through frictional instabilities dominate earthquake complexity. It may also be that both types of heterogeneities interact and are important. This paper makes a first step in examining this interaction, combining two previously separate lines of research. One line examined friction, which has attractors (the subset of the phase space that the system evolves towards in the long run) on homogeneous faults, which are simple, and then added fixed heterogeneities to the faults to obtain complex attractors. Another line examined frictions, which produced complex attractors on homogeneous faults. Here, we examine frictions, which produce complex attractors on homogeneous faults, and study them on heterogeneous faults, in order to study the interaction of dynamic stress heterogeneities and fixed fault heterogeneities. We consider two types of fixed heterogeneities: an additive noise and a multiplicative noise to the frictional strength of the fault. Because of the linearity of the bulk elastodynamics, the attractor is unaffected by additive fixed noise in the strength of the fault: adding an arbitrary function of space, fixed in time, to the friction leaves the resulting attractor unchanged. In contrast, multiplicative fixed noise multiplying the friction can have a profound effect on the resulting attractor. In the small multiplicative noise amplitude limit, the frictional weakening attractor is little perturbed; at finite amplitudes, fixed heterogeneities substantially alter the attractor. We see, as one consequence, a shift toward longer length events at larger amplitudes. Fixed heterogeneities are seen to reduce the irregularities created by the frictional instability we study, but by no means destroy them. We quantify this by examining a measure of variability of the importance in hazard estimates, the coefficient of variation of large event recurrence times. The coefficient of variation is seen to remain substantial even for large fixed heterogeneities. For friction that weakens with time, so the underlying uniform fault attractor is simple, fixed heterogeneities increase irregularity. For all frictions examined, at low fixed heterogeneity the stress concentrations left over by the ends of the large events dominate where most of the small events occur, while at higher heterogeneity the stress irregularities left over by fixed fault heterogeneities begin to dominate where the small events occur. This may be the strongest signature of fixed heterogeneities, and should be examined further in the Earth. Finally, in what may have important implications for more sophisticated estimates of earthquake hazard, we see a correlation of locations with lower strength drop having higher variation in large event repeat times