Pathways Thinking as a Mediator between Positive Emotions and General Life Satisfaction in Middle School Students

Informed by the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions, we tested a model of the origins of life satisfaction with a sample of 567 middle school students from the Southeastern United States. The pathways thinking domain of hope was proposed to mediate the relation between positive emotions and general life satisfaction at a single time point, as well as over one year. At Time 1, pathways thinking was a significant mediator of positive emotions and life satisfaction. In the longitudinal model, pathways thinking did not significantly mediate this relation between positive emotions and later life satisfaction. These findings have implications for understanding the role of positive emotions in early adolescents

The Producers\u27 Stake in the Bioeconomy: A Survey of Oklahoma Producers\u27 Knowledge and Willingness to Grow Dedicated Biofuel Crops

The study reported here found that producers were familiar with the biofuel industry through mass media channels and were willing to convert cropland to energy crops. Producers were motivated by patriotic reasons, but overall profitability was the greater motive for converting cropland to dedicated biofuel crops such as switchgrass. Barriers to energy crop production were a lack of markets (biorefineries) and information about biofuel crop production. It is recommended that an educational campaign regarding biofuel crop production best practices, especially cellulosic crops (switchgrass) and marketing, be implemented. A statewide leadership campaign to attract biorefineries to the state is also recommended

Life Satisfaction In Adolescents With High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder

The present study was informed by the Emerging Disability Paradigm, which emphasizes the importance of research regarding positive experiences, personality, and social relationships for individuals with disabilities (Schalock, 2004). The purpose of this study was to provide preliminary evidence regarding the reliability and validity of measures of self-reported psychosocial assets and life satisfaction (LS) for adolescents with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (HFA). Additional purposes included identifying the overall levels of general and domain-specific LS within adolescents with HFA, comparing these levels to those of a sample of typically developing adolescents, and describing the relation between psychosocial assets and LS for this sample. Sixty-four adolescents with HFA and their caregivers completed a series of questionnaires assessing LS and psychosocial assets. The results of this study provide preliminary support for the internal consistency reliability and validity of some positive psychology measures in adolescents with HFA. Additionally, the results indicated that youth with HFA reported moderate to high levels of LS, although these levels were significantly lower than those reported by their typically developing peers. Finally, adolescent age significantly moderated the relation between self-reported LS and self-reported Self-Awareness, Persistence, Empathy, and Family Coherence. However, age did not moderate the relationship between self-reported LS and caregiver-reported assets for youth with HFA. Implications for research and clinical practice are discussed

Image-based dynamic phenotyping reveals genetic determinants of filamentation-mediated beta-lactam tolerance

Antibiotic tolerance characterized by slow killing of bacteria in response to a drug can lead to treatment failure and promote the emergence of resistance. beta-lactam antibiotics inhibit cell wall growth in bacteria and many of them cause filamentation followed by cell lysis. Hence delayed cell lysis can lead to beta-lactam tolerance. Systematic discovery of genetic factors that affect beta-lactam killing kinetics has not been performed before due to challenges in high-throughput, dynamic analysis of viability of filamented cells during bactericidal action. We implemented a high-throughput time-resolved microscopy approach in a gene deletion library of Escherichia coli to monitor the response of mutants to the beta-lactam cephalexin. Changes in frequency of lysed and intact cells due to the antibiotic action uncovered several strains with atypical lysis kinetics. Filamentation confers tolerance because antibiotic removal before lysis leads to recovery through numerous concurrent divisions of filamented cells. Filamentation-mediated tolerance was not associated with resistance, and therefore this phenotype is not discernible through most antibiotic susceptibility methods. We find that deletion of Tol-Pal proteins TolQ, TolR, or Pal but not TolA, TolB, or CpoB leads to rapid killing by beta-lactams. We also show that the timing of cell wall degradation determines the lysis and killing kinetics after beta-lactam treatment. Altogether, this study uncovers numerous genetic determinants of hitherto unappreciated filamentation-mediated beta-lactam tolerance and support the growing call for considering antibiotic tolerance in clinical evaluation of pathogens. More generally, the microscopy screening methodology described here can easily be adapted to study lysis in large numbers of strains

Competence Management: A Study on the Perception of Pharmaceutical Representatives in Rio Grande do Sul

Este artigo tem como objetivo verificar a percepção que representantes da indústria farmacêutica possuem sobre a gestão das suas competências, analisando também opiniões e necessidades em relação ao treinamento fornecido por essas empresas. Aspectos teóricos e metodológicos da literatura nacional e estrangeira que abordam administração foram utilizados para desenvolver a discussão proposta, sendo que dados quantitativos e qualitativos foram coletados através de 100 questionários aplicados a representantes farmacêuticos atuantes no estado do Rio Grande do Sul, e tratados através dos softwares SPSS e Excel. Os resultados indicam que a percepção do representante farmacêutico sobre competências está relacionada a fatores que contribuem de forma direta para seu trabalho e presentes, com maior frequência, na seguinte ordem de importância: conhecimento, proatividade, comprometimento, produtividade, organização, motivação e otimismo. Em relação às soft e hard competencies, o representante valoriza predominantemente as hard competencies. Os treinamentos oferecidos pelas empresas foram entendidos como essenciais para melhoria de performance no trabalho, apesar de ser massificado. Outro resultado aponta que, atualmente, apenas 15% dos respondentes entendem que um bom vendedor não necessita de treinamento e 13% acreditam que o treinamento não é capaz de tornar qualquer pessoa em um vendedor de alta performance.The objective of this article is to verify how representatives of the Brazilian pharmaceutical industry see their competence management, as well as analyzing opinions and needs about the training offered to them by those companies. The theory and methodology utilized in this article refers to both national and international literature covering business administration, and the quantitative and qualitative data was collected from 100 surveys which were applied to pharmaceutical representatives from Rio Grande do Sul, compiled with two softwares: SPSS and Excel. The results indicate that the perception of pharmaceutical representatives about competences is related to factors that contribute directly to their work and are present more frequently, in order of importance: knowledge, pro-activity, compromise, productivity, organization, motivation and optimism. Regarding soft and hard competencies, the representatives favour mainly hard competencies. The training offered by the companies is considered essential to achieve better performance at work despite being mass-implemented nowadays, only 15% of the subjects answered that a good salesman does not need training and 13% believe that training is not capable of turning any person into a high performance salesperson

Pest management needs assessment for Oklahoma cotton producers

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Pest management needs assessment for Oklahoma canola producers

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Pest management needs assessment for Oklahoma corn producers

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Pest management needs assessment for Oklahoma peanut producers

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Pest management needs assessment for Oklahoma grain sorghum producers

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