A Narrative Exploration of 'Unhealthy' Attitudes Towards 'Healthy' Eating.

This qualitative research study employed a narrative method, in order to explore how individuals who consider themselves to have an ‘unhealthy’ approach to ‘healthy’ eating make sense of this experience through the stories they tell. Narrative interviews were undertaken with four research participants and the data was subsequently subjected to a six stage Critical Narrative Analysis. This allowed for a multi-layered analytical approach that identified narrative tone and function, the creation of identity through narrative, dominant narrative themes and the opportunity to interrogate the texts further from a feminist standpoint. In particular, attention was paid to the impact of broader sociocultural influences on the narratives. Implications for therapeutic practice with eating disordered individuals are subsequently explored and suggestions are made for the direction of future research

Graduate recruitment at professional entry level: clinical judgements and empirically derived methods of selection

This research provides evidence to support the argument that selection procedures dependent upon clinical judgements, being used in the chartered accountancy profession, may well provide results not significantly different from those obtained by chance. Research has suggested that personality type, choice of vocation and performance are predictable from personal histories (Holland, 1976; Owens and Schoenfeldt, 1979; Eberhardt and Muchinsky, 1982a; Super, 1980; Wernimont and Campbell, 1968) and using a predictive model approach to scoring biographical data (biodata) is explored here as a means of improving the selection function. Part I of this study develops predictive models for scoring the biodata of applicants to the profession. An original contribution is made by carefully comparing two empirical model-building methodologies: the generally accepted, non-parametric, Weighted Application Blank technique and the parametric, logistic regression technique. The validity of both are explicitly tested using information from a sample of 23 training offices from 22 medium size chartered accountancy firms. The sample trainees were all non-accounting graduates entrants entering between 1985 and 1987 (N=665). Evidence is provided of the superiority of the results of the parametric models, in terms of true predictive validity. Relevant theory and the important implications of the results for related biodata studies generally are discussed. The result of applying the models to applicants, rather than recruits, is examined in a pilot study. An original approach to scoring applications is presented. Specifically developed software is provided to minimise both processing time and error margins. The biodata logit scores of the applicants and their likely success as trainees as indicated by that score, are compared with the firm's decision whether to accept or reject. Severe problems inherent in the judgemental approach to selection are revealed and the superior performance of the model-based approach demonstrated. Part II addresses the crucial issue of long term validation of biodata models by scoring a sample of recruits from 3 representative firms' 1988-90 entrants (N=323). The evidence does not support criticism of long term validity, as the logit models demonstrate effective performance, measured interms of the probability of correct classification, successfully predicting the criteria on those entering the profession up to 5 years after subjects used in model development. It is suggested that poor methodology may be responsible for excessive loss of validity over time in other studies and their lack of use of hard data. In addition, original evidence is provided to support the hypothesis of the generalizability of such models (i) across organizations and (ii) across samples significantly different from the development sample. This evidence suggests that, not only may the models be used to score applicants accounting firms of different sizes (and are therefore not organization-specific) but they may be used to score accounting graduates, who differ considerably from the original development sample (indicating that they, are not sample specific). The appropriateness of using these models in a manner similar to psychometric tests is considered. An assessment of approximate net profit associated with successful, failing or partially successful trainees is made. Accounting graduate trainees are more financially viable than non-accounting graduate

The association between body mass index and mood state

The weight of an individual appears to have an influence on mood state. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to evaluate this potential relationship. It was found that body mass index (BMI) does not have an association with the emotions of this sample (N = 206).This paper was initially delivered at the Annual Congress of the Biological Sciences Division of the South African Academy for Science and Art, ARC-Plant Protection Research Institute, Roodeplaat, Pretoria, South Africa on 01 October 2010.http://www.satnt.ac.zaam2014ay201

Green Currents for Meromorphic Maps of Compact K\"ahler Manifolds

We consider the dynamics of meromorphic maps of compact K\"ahler manifolds. In this work, our goal is to locate the non-nef locus of invariant classes and provide necessary and sufficient conditions for existence of Green currents in codimension one.Comment: Statement of Theorem 1.5 is slightly improved. Proposition 5.2 and Theorem 5.3 are adde

Radiative Seesaw Mechanism at Weak Scale

We investigate an alternative seesaw mechanism for neutrino mass generation. Neutrino mass is generated at loop level but the basic concept of usual seesaw mechanism is kept. One simple model is constructed to show how this mechanism is realized. The applications of this seesaw mechanism at weak scale to cosmology and neutrino physics are discussed.Comment: 12 Pages, latex, no figure

Notes on Exact Multi-Soliton Solutions of Noncommutative Integrable Hierarchies

We study exact multi-soliton solutions of integrable hierarchies on noncommutative space-times which are represented in terms of quasi-determinants of Wronski matrices by Etingof, Gelfand and Retakh. We analyze the asymptotic behavior of the multi-soliton solutions and found that the asymptotic configurations in soliton scattering process can be all the same as commutative ones, that is, the configuration of N-soliton solution has N isolated localized energy densities and the each solitary wave-packet preserves its shape and velocity in the scattering process. The phase shifts are also the same as commutative ones. Furthermore noncommutative toroidal Gelfand-Dickey hierarchy is introduced and the exact multi-soliton solutions are given.Comment: 18 pages, v3: references added, version to appear in JHE

Recent Progress at SLAC Extracting High Charge from Highly-Polarized Photocathodes for Future-Collider Applications

Future colliders such as NLC and JLC will require a highly-polarized macropulse with charge that is more than an order of magnitude beyond that which could be produced for the SLC. The maximum charge from the SLC uniformly-doped GaAs photocathode was limited by the surface charge limit (SCL). The SCL effect can be overcome by using an extremely high (>1019 cm-3) surface dopant concentration. When combined with a medium dopant concentration in the majority of the active layer (to avoid depolarization), the surface concentration has been found to degrade during normal heat cleaning (1 hour at 600 C). The Be dopant as typically used in an MBE-grown superlattice cathode is especially susceptible to this effect compared to Zn or C dopant. Some relief can be found by lowering the cleaning temperature, but the long-term general solution appears to be atomic hydrogen cleaning.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, contributed to 10th Workshop on Polarized Sources and Targets, Novosibirsk, Sept. 22-26, 2003, to be submitted to Nucl. Instrum. and Meth.

Triggering an eruptive flare by emerging flux in a solar active-region complex

A flare and fast coronal mass ejection originated between solar active regions NOAA 11514 and 11515 on July 1, 2012 in response to flux emergence in front of the leading sunspot of the trailing region 11515. Analyzing the evolution of the photospheric magnetic flux and the coronal structure, we find that the flux emergence triggered the eruption by interaction with overlying flux in a non-standard way. The new flux neither had the opposite orientation nor a location near the polarity inversion line, which are favorable for strong reconnection with the arcade flux under which it emerged. Moreover, its flux content remained significantly smaller than that of the arcade (approximately 40 %). However, a loop system rooted in the trailing active region ran in part under the arcade between the active regions, passing over the site of flux emergence. The reconnection with the emerging flux, leading to a series of jet emissions into the loop system, caused a strong but confined rise of the loop system. This lifted the arcade between the two active regions, weakening its downward tension force and thus destabilizing the considerably sheared flux under the arcade. The complex event was also associated with supporting precursor activity in an enhanced network near the active regions, acting on the large-scale overlying flux, and with two simultaneous confined flares within the active regions.Comment: Accepted for publication in Topical Issue of Solar Physics: Solar and Stellar Flares. 25 pages, 12 figure

The Final Fate of the Rolling Tachyon

We propose an alternative interpretation of the boundary state for the rolling tachyon, which may depict the time evolution of unstable D-branes in string theory. Splitting the string variable in the temporal direction into the classical part, which we may call "time" and the quantum one, we observe the time dependent behaviour of the boundary. Using the fermion representation of the rolling tachyon boundary state, we show that the boundary state correctly describes the time-dependent decay process of the unstable D-brane into a S-brane at the classical level.Comment: 9 pages, revte