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The stability of the ways of coping (revised) questionnaire over time in parents of children with Downs-Syndrome:a research note
The stability of the Ways of Coping (Revised) Questionnaire over time was assessed by comparing the scores of 68 mothers and 53 fathers of school-aged children with Down's syndrome over a 3-year time interval on the five coping strategy subscales described by Knussen et al. (1992). For this analysis, mothers' and fathers' scores were analysed separately. It was shown by t tests that mothers' and fathers' scores on the coping strategy subscales had not significantly changed over the three-year period. Time 1 and Time 2 scores on all of the coping subscales were strongly positively associated, with the exception of fathers' scores on the Stoicism subscale. Test-retest reliability was adequate for all subscales except mothers' scores on the Passive Acceptance subscale and fathers' scores on the Stoicism subscale. These results, by demonstrating the stability of the Ways of Coping (Revised) Questionnaire over a 3-year time period, further illustrate the utility of this instrument for investigating coping in families with special problems
PERFORMANCE OF THE GROUT CURTAIN AT THE KENTUCKY RIVER LOCK AND DAM NO. 8
Karst bedrock conditions and deterioration of the lock and dam structures have resulted in significant leakage through, underneath, and around Lock and Dam No. 8 on the Kentucky River. During severe droughts, the water surface in Pool No. 8 has been observed to drop below the crest of the dam, resulting in water supply shortages and water quality issues for surrounding communities reliant on the pool. Presently, the primary purpose of Lock and Dam No. 8 is water supply. Pool No. 8 is currently where the cities of Nicholasville (Jessamine County, KY) and Lancaster (Garrard County, KY) draw their water. Due to the age and condition of the structures, and the criticality of the retained water supply, the project Owner commissioned a replacement dam to be built. One major component of the replacement dam was a foundation improvement program. The foundation improvement program was designed to address the karst bedrock conditions at the site. The foundation improvements included a secant pile cutoff wall and a double-row grout curtain. The grout curtain at Lock and Dam No. 8 was evaluated based on the metrics presently available
Life after Harry: creating a reader\u27s advisory model based on the literary archetypes of J.K. Rowling\u27s Harry Potter series
The purpose of this study was to develop and test a method of Reader\u27s Advisory based on archetypal character analysis in place of genre, author, or mood advisory. The study used J. K. Rowling\u27s popular Harry Potter fiction series as a base for developing this strategy. After identifying four character archetypes in the Harry Potter series, the researcher consulted Bowker\u27s Fiction Connection database to find other award winning young adult fiction that contained at least two of the archetypes identified in the Harry Potter series. Upon identifying ten novels that fit the criteria, the researcher read and analyzed each of the novels to see if they did, indeed, contain archetypes similar to ones found in the Rowling series. Of the ten young adult novels, eight were found to meet the established criteria
First phylogenetic analyses of galaxy evolution
The Hubble tuning fork diagram, based on morphology, has always been the
preferred scheme for classification of galaxies and is still the only one
originally built from historical/evolutionary relationships. At the opposite,
biologists have long taken into account the parenthood links of living entities
for classification purposes. Assuming branching evolution of galaxies as a
"descent with modification", we show that the concepts and tools of
phylogenetic systematics widely used in biology can be heuristically transposed
to the case of galaxies. This approach that we call "astrocladistics" has been
first applied to Dwarf Galaxies of the Local Group and provides the first
evolutionary galaxy tree. The cladogram is sufficiently solid to support the
existence of a hierarchical organization in the diversity of galaxies, making
it possible to track ancestral types of galaxies. We also find that morphology
is a summary of more fundamental properties. Astrocladistics applied to
cosmology simulated galaxies can, unsurprisingly, reconstruct the correct
"genealogy". It reveals evolutionary lineages, divergences from common
ancestors, character evolution behaviours and shows how mergers organize galaxy
diversity. Application to real normal galaxies is in progress. Astrocladistics
opens a new way to analyse galaxy evolution and a path towards a new
systematics of galaxies
PTU-095 UK qualitative focus group study investigating current provision of care for people with microscopic colitis
Charmonium properties from lattice QCD + QED: hyperfine splitting, leptonic width, charm quark mass and
We have performed the first lattice QCD computations of the
properties (masses and decay constants) of ground-state charmonium mesons. Our
calculation uses the HISQ action to generate quark-line connected two-point
correlation functions on MILC gluon field configurations that include
quark masses going down to the physical point, tuning the quark mass from
and including the effect of the quark's electric charge
through quenched QED. We obtain (connected) =
120.3(1.1) MeV and interpret the difference with experiment as the impact on
of its decay to gluons, missing from the lattice calculation. This
allows us to determine =+7.3(1.2) MeV,
giving its value for the first time. Our result of 0.4104(17)
GeV, gives =5.637(49) keV, in agreement
with, but now more accurate than experiment. At the same time we have improved
the determination of the quark mass, including the impact of quenched QED
to give = 0.9841(51) GeV. We have also used
the time-moments of the vector charmonium current-current correlators to
improve the lattice QCD result for the quark HVP contribution to the
anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. We obtain , which is 2.5 higher than the value derived using moments
extracted from some sets of experimental data on . This value for includes our determination of
the effect of QED on this quantity, .Comment: Added extra discussion on QED setup, some new results to study the
effects of strong isospin breaking in the sea (including new Fig. 1) and a
fit stability plot for the hyperfine splitting (new Fig. 7). Version accepted
for publication in PR
A Review of Electrospun Carbon Fibers as Electrode Materials for Energy Storage
The applications of electrospun carbon fiber webs to the development of energy storages devices, including both supercapacitors and lithium ion batteries (LIB) , are reviewed. Following a brief discussion of the fabrication process and characterization methods for ultrafine electrospun carbon fibers, recent advances in their performance as supercapacitors and LIBs anode materials are summarized. Optimization of the overall electrochemical properties of these materials through choice of thermal treatment conditions, incorporation of additional active components (such as carbon nanotubes, metal oxides, and catalysts), and generation of novel fibrous structures (such as core-shell, multi-channel or porous fibers) is highlighted. Further challenges related to improving the conductivity, surface area, and mechanical properties of the carbon nanofiber webs, as well as the scale-up ability of the fabrication technique, are discussed.United States. Dept. of Energ
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