Attentional breadth and proximity seeking in romantic attachment relationships

The present study provides first evidence that attentional breadth responses can be influenced by proximity-distance goals in adult attachment relationships. In a sample of young couples, we measured attachment differences in the breadth of attentional focus in response to attachment-related cues. Results showed that priming with a negative attachment scenario broadens attention when confronted with pictures of the attachment figure in highly avoidant men. In women, we found that attachment anxiety was associated with a more narrow attentional focus on the attachment figure, yet only at an early stage of information processing. We also found that women showed a broader attentional focus around the attachment figure when their partner was more avoidantly attached. This pattern of results reflects the underlying action of attachment strategies and provides insight into the complex and dynamic influence of attachment on attentional processing in a dyadic context

Model-based Methods of Classification: Using the mclust Software in Chemometrics

Due to recent advances in methods and software for model-based clustering, and to the interpretability of the results, clustering procedures based on probability models are increasingly preferred over heuristic methods. The clustering process estimates a model for the data that allows for overlapping clusters, producing a probabilistic clustering that quantifies the uncertainty of observations belonging to components of the mixture. The resulting clustering model can also be used for some other important problems in multivariate analysis, including density estimation and discriminant analysis. Examples of the use of model-based clustering and classification techniques in chemometric studies include multivariate image analysis, magnetic resonance imaging, microarray image segmentation, statistical process control, and food authenticity. We review model-based clustering and related methods for density estimation and discriminant analysis, and show how the R package mclust can be applied in each instance.

Evasive maneuver subsequent to CSM/LM ejection from the S-4B in earth orbit - Project Apollo

Apollo 9 evasive maneuver after command service module/lunar module ejection from Saturn S-4B stage in earth orbi

High-Throughput 3-D Cellular Assays Using Destabilized Green Fluorescence Protein

Cell assays for high-throughput screening (HTS) of potential drug candidates are important tools in the process of drug discovery. Most cellular assays are currently based on 2-D monolayer cell cultures, but 3-D cell cultures could better mimic the in vivo characteristics of actual organism tissues. Unfortunately, assays using 3-D culture models usually require significant manual manipulation and are therefore not suitable for HTS. Research under Dr. Shang-Tian Yang has resulted in a functioning system for high-throughput 3-D cellular assays using engineered cells to express enhanced green fluorescence protein (EGFP) quantifiable through fluorometry. System improvement to allow rapid assessment of cellular events, such as specific gene expression or cell cycle progress may be limited by the relatively long persistence of the currently used reporter protein in the cells. In this study a new fluorescence reporting cell line was established using a destabilized EGFP (d4EGFP) expressed in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. Correlating the fluorescence response with cell number for the d4EGFP expressing cell line in 2-D assays indicated that the fluorescence expression of d4EGFP may be too low for use in reporting cell number in a high-throughput manner. The fluorescence and cell number correlation in 3-D assays indicated that slightly better performance could be achieved with the d4EGFP reporter in 3-D but further testing is needed to demonstrate whether this improvement would be sufficient. Future work investigating growth and environmental conditions or further genetic modification of the cell line is recommended to possibly improve the fluorescence expression.The College of Engineering at The Ohio State UniversityA one-year embargo was granted for this item

The Impact of State Partisanship on Affordable Care Act Implementation and Access to Health Insurance

In this project, I use a mediation analysis to examine how the partisanship of a state affects how the state implements the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and, as a result, constituents’ access to health insurance. I construct an annual panel dataset from 2010 to 2015. Controlling for state demographic variables, states with Democrat governors and legislatures are more likely to implement the Medicaid expansion component of the law and a state-based exchange. States that implement the Medicaid expansion experience additional pre to post-ACA decreases in the uninsured rate and the proportion of people who get their insurance through a direct purchase and additional increases in the proportion of people covered through Medicaid than non-expansion states. Partisanship does not have a direct effect on pre to post-ACA health insurance outcomes changes; any effect partisanship has strictly comes indirectly through its effect on implementation of the ACA

Re-examining Acts of God

Applying recent critiques of the construction of nature as distinct from and excluding all that is human, this article examines the concept of an act of God, which exculpates defendants when a disaster is “solely caused” by a “natural” event. The doctrine incorporates a classical separation of the human from the natural—a separation that is now refuted in geography and philosophy. While other areas of law such as patents, food and drug law, and land use policy have begun to acknowledge our changing understandings of human and nature, we have yet to re-examine the acts of god doctrine, which is foundationally built on this classically constructed separation. The neglect is particularly significant in light of the developing modern cultural understanding of climate change and even individual weather events as human-generated. This article suggests that by claiming a pure separation of human and natural, the acts of god doctrine embraces a fiction without indeed admitting it and thereby does damage to public confidence in the law

Design and Construction of the Audrey II Puppet Series for the Play \u3cem\u3eLittle Shop of Horrors\u3c/em\u3e.

This project\u27s objective was to design and build 4 stages of the Audrey II puppet for the East Tennessee State University production of Little Shop of Horrors (Ashman, 1982). The puppets were to be created with consideration for the production space, budget, and operator ease, along with audience impact. This paper will present the design and construction in a step by step-bystep fashion using illustrations and photographic examples. Each puppet in the series was originally conceived using references to living plants and animals combined with an artistic vision of the designer. The puppets were built with light, modern materials using new and traditional techniques for puppet construction. Construction techniques and materials resulted in light, maneuverable puppets that can be manipulated with ease and with high audience impact

Fostering Women’s Leadership in the Classroom

Women in college suffer from what Elizabeth J. Allen and Mary Madden refer to as “the chilly classroom”: a set of subtle behaviors from both faculty and students that silence and marginalize women in the classroom and prohibit them from developing leadership skills (2006). Without realizing it, faculty can unwittingly impede the development of leadership skills in women.https://fuse.franklin.edu/ss2018/1068/thumbnail.jp

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