Verbal Reward & Punishment & Need for Approval in Schizophrenics

The current study was designed to further examine the effects of verbal reward and punishment on task performance of schizophrenics. The relationship of need for approval of schizophrenics (as measured by the M-C SDS) to performance and to reward and punishment was also examined. Verbal reward and punishment along with need for approval served as independent variables. Task performance was the dependent variable. The following major questions were asked: Does verbal reward and punishment significantly influence performance of schizophrenics? How is the personality construct, need for approval, related to performance of tasks by schizophrenics? Is there a significant interaction between verbal reward and punishment and need for approval in schizophrenics

"Graniteville-type" Proterozoic igneous intrusions mapped in southeast Kansas

On detailed total-intensity aeromagnetic maps of southeastern Kansas (Sumner, Sedgwick, Butler, Elk, and Greenwood counties), it is possible to recognize individual basement plutons within the area designated as "granitic to quartz-monzonitic intrusive rocks" by Bickford et al. (1979) and dated as 1.4 to 1.7 b.y. in age. Cross-cutting relationships of several plutons are apparent on the magnetic maps, thus establishing relative ages between them. The youngest and largest individual intrusion mapped, the northwesterly trending Wichita Pluton in southeastern Sedgwick County, measures 20 x 13 mi (32 x 21 km). On the south and west, it cuts an older complex of north-north east-trending basement blocks, possibly meta-sedimentary or meta-igneous units. On the northeast, it truncates the smaller (7 x 5 mi; 11 x 8 km) Rose Hill Pluton. Farther east in southwestern Greenwood County, another individual intrusion of nearly the same dimensions as the Wichita Pluton has been recognized. The plutons appear on the magnetic map as magnetic lows with ringing magnetic highs and are therefore similar to the series of intrusions in southeast Missouri of nearly the same age described by Gay (1976) and later studied in more detail by Kisvarsanyi (1981). The pluton cropping out at Graniteville, Missouri, is considered the type intrusive. In Missouri the intrusions are clean, quartz-feldspar granites with few mafics, the mafics apparently having been precipitated in the host rocks, thus forming the ringing magnetic highs. Probably the same relationships will hold true for the southeastern Kansas intrusions after more basement-rock intercepts have been studied. Age dating of these intercepts should also establish absolute ages for the different units which have been dated only in relative fashion by the aeromagnetic studies. On the residual magnetic maps which outline basement features of shorter wavelengths presumably located at the basement subcrop, a series of north-northeasterly trending horsts and grabens cutting the Wichita Pluton is indicated. The bounding faults may have formed during the midcontinent rifting event at 1,100 m.y. B.P. and been reactivated during the Nemaha event in Pennsylvanian time. A left-lateral movement of 3 mi (4.8 km) or more is well documented along one of these faults, which also shows down-to-the-west post-Kinderhook throw from well studies (Shawver, 1965)

Tip cap for a rotor blade

A replaceable tip cap for attachment to the end of a rotor blade is described. The tip cap includes a plurality of walls defining a compartment which, if desired, can be divided into a plurality of subcompartments. The tip cap can include inlet and outlet holes in walls thereof to permit fluid communication of a cooling fluid there through. Abrasive material can be attached with the radially outer wall of the tip cap

Rub tolerant shroud

A seal structure between first and second relatively moveable members for preventing gas flow in the space between the members and transverse to their general direction of motion is disclosed. The seal structure includes a plurality of substantially parallel strips within 30.degree. of normal to the radial plane generally containing these first and second relatively moveable members. The strips are thin and closely spaced and arranged so that one strip edge is attached to the first member and another edge is free to resiliently deflect when in rubbing contact with the second member

Effects of Nitrogen Fertilization on Native Vegetation under the Conditions of Clipping, Grazing, and Burning

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Is Schr\"{o}dinger's Conjecture for the Hydrogen Atom Coherent States Attainable

We construct the most general SO(4,2) hydrogen atom coherent states which are the counterpart of Schr\"{o}dinger's harmonic oscillator coherent states. We show that these states cannot be localized and cannot follow the classical orbits. Thus, Schr\"{o}dinger's conjecture for the hydrogen atom coherent states is unattainable.Comment: 10 pages, report

Dynamic Simulation of Animal Growth and Reproduction

A rather unique systems analysis approach has been made to simulate the utilization of dry matter by ruminant animals, and the natural breeding and reproduction process within a herd. Physiological factors occurring over time and the time related effects of these factors are simulated

Absence of detectable HIV-1 viremia after treatment cessation in an infant

An infant born to a woman with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection began receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) 30 hours after birth owing to high-risk exposure. ART was continued when detection of HIV-1 DNA and RNA on repeat testing met the standard diagnostic criteria for infection. After therapy was discontinued (when the child was 18 months of age), levels of plasma HIV-1 RNA, proviral DNA in peripheral-blood mononuclear cells, and HIV-1 antibodies, as assessed by means of clinical assays, remained undetectable in the child through 30 months of age. This case suggests that very early ART in infants may alter the establishment and long-term persistence of HIV-1 infection