Personal History of Violence and Response to Violence: A Quantitative and Free-Response Study Focusing on College-Age Students

This study examined the relationship between people’s history with violence and how they responded to a graphically violent real-life video. A review of the literature revealed there had been extensive research done about the effects of media and violence on individuals, yet there is a lack of evidence about the effect that violent home footage can have on college-aged students. This relational study utilized a questionnaire that included both a Likert scale and a free-response portion with 25 undergraduate students rating their relationship with violence in the past and their response to a violent video. Greater prior exposure to violence was associated with more extreme responses to violent videos. Suggestions are made for further research involving a larger study utilizing different types of violence recorded in real-life situations

High-energy astrophysics - II. Compact binary stars

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Hubble Space Telescope Observations of the Black Hole X-ray Transient GRO J0422+32 Near Quiescence

We present HST/FOS ultraviolet and optical spectroscopy of the black hole X-ray transient GRO J0422+32 shortly before the system reached quiescence. We find that the accretion spectrum from 2500-9000A can be very well fit by a self-absorbed synchrotron model, with superposed HI and MgII emission lines. The explanations we suggest for this spectrum are that it is either due to active coronal regions above a geometrically thin accretion disc, or that the disc is evaporated into an advective flow.Comment: 7 pages with 7 postscript figures included, uses mn.sty. Accepted for publication in MNRA