Masculine Discrepancy Stress and Health Behavior Outcomes

INTRODUCTION: Research suggests men feel a high demand to uphold masculine gender norms and masculine discrepancy stress (MDS), is the strain a man feels when he believes he is or thinks he is perceived to be inadequately masculine.It is reasonable to suspect men with MDS would be more likely to act in the stereotypical masculine ways, to confirm masculinity and avoid social repercussions. AIMs: (a) Examine if the latent constructs demonstrate significant and moderately large correlations reflecting an underlying psychosocial adjustment factor. (b)Assess if utilizing structural equation modeling methods, in place of univariate methods, demonstrate significant correlations between MDS, GRD, and the superordinate factor psychosocial adjustment. (c)Assess if utilizing MDS as a mediator rather than a moderator in a structural equation model demonstrate a significant positive direct effect on psychosocial adjustment, while demonstrating a negative direct effect on psychosocial maladjustment. METHODS: A three phased plan was conducted; (a) assessing measurement models, (b) assessing the measurement model for the superordinate factor psychosocial adjustment, (c) and assessing a full model. The fit of the measurement models will determine which full model will be examined, the superordinate factor model or a model that does not include superordinate factor, which allows for all outcomes to be regressed independently on each predictor. RESULTS: No statistically significant results were found. DISCUSSION: Possible explanations for results are; misrepresentation of the latent, absence of statistical methodologies needed to assess the latent variables, deficiency in necessary power to detect effects, and measuring GRD and MDS independently of each other does not predispose one to experience maladaptive behavior. Thusly, indicating that future research should focus on a model that utilizes MDS as a mediator and a moderator

Neoproterozoic continental arc volcanism at the northern edge of the Arabian Plate, SE Turkey

New geochemical, Sr/Nd isotope and zircon U–Pb LA-ICP-MS data from the Derik Volcanics in the Southeast Anatolian Autochthone Belt of Turkey are consistent with an Andean-type Cadomian arc that developed along the northern edge of the Arabian Plate during the Late Neoproterozoic. The Derik Volcanics represent a volcanic complex including andesites, rhyolites and basalts, with volcanoclastic and fluvial sediments. They are unconformably overlain by playa sediments with Early Cambrian ichno-fossils, followed by Middle Cambrian-Silurian shallow marine deposits.Geochemically, the Derik Volcanics (DV) display transitional-calcalkaline affinities. On Th/Nb–Ti/Zr diagram, DV display negative trends from rhyolites to late to early-stage andesites and mafic dykes, respectively. The REE patterns are highly to moderately fractionated, with [(La/Yb)N=5.20–6.77 in late-stage andesites, 4.38–10.51 in rhyolites, 2.58–4.65 in the early-stage andesites, and 2.51–4.21 in mafic dykes]. Normalized trace element and REE diagrams display Th, La, Ce, Sm enrichment and depletion of Nb, Ti and Eu as is typical for Andean-type active continental margin igneous rocks. The enrichment of LILE and LREE, combined with depletion of HREE also suggests that the Derik Volcanic rocks were formed in relation with a subduction zone. Negative Eu anomalies (Eu/Eu)N, range from 0.50 to 1.81, indicates fractional crystallization of feldspar. The DV have positive ɛNd (+0.15 to +4.20) and mean model ages of 1.28Ga for the early-stage andesites, 1.34Ga for rhyolites, 1.35 for late-stage andesites, and 1.36Ga for mafic dykes. The positive ɛNd(T)data show that DV are product of mantle-derived magmas. Lower143Nd/144Nd isotope ratios than the depleted MORB mantle (DMM) source indicate that the DV may have been contaminated by crustal material during magma genesis. Geochemical modeling shows that all four volcanic rock types may have been formed by different percentages of batch melting of DMM and subducting slab sources.Zircon LA-ICP-MS data give crystallization ages of 581.4±3.5Ma (n=7) and 559.2±3.2Ma (n=3) for the early and late-stage andesitic rocks, as well as ages of 569.6±1.6Ma (n=17), 571.6±1.9Ma (n=18), 575.4±4.3Ma (n=6) for the rhyolites.The geological and geochemical features together with the new age data suggest that the Derik Volcanics formed along a continental arc in the course of the southward subduction of Prototethys oceanic lithosphere along the northern margin of the Arabian Plate, which is attributed to a late-stage phase of the Cadomian Orogeny of the Pan-African cycle

Analysis of Outcomes in Ischemic vs Nonischemic Cardiomyopathy in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation A Report From the GARFIELD-AF Registry

IMPORTANCE Congestive heart failure (CHF) is commonly associated with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (AF), and their combination may affect treatment strategies and outcomes