"She was asking for it": An experimental investigation of mental contamination, perceived responsibility, and workplace harassment

Background and Objectives: Mental contamination (i.e., contamination concerns that arise in the absence of direct contact with a contaminant) is a common symptom in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Cognitive theories suggest that it results from individuals’ misinterpretations of perceived violations. Cognitive theories of OCD also highlight the importance of appraisals of inflated responsibility in the maintenance of other OCD symptoms. However, the role of responsibility in mental contamination has not yet been examined experimentally. The present study examined the role of perceived responsibility on the relationship between workplace sexual harassment imagery and subsequent mental contamination. Methods: One hundred and forty-nine participants listened to a workplace sexual harassment imagery task, wherein responsibility was manipulated. Participants were randomly assigned to one of three conditions (high responsibility (HR), low responsibility (LR), no responsibility (NR)). Participants completed questionnaires assessing mental contamination and completed a hand washing task. Results: Those in the NR condition reported significantly lower levels of responsibility than those in the LR or HR conditions. Accordingly, those in the NR condition also reported significantly lower levels of anxiety and dirtiness than in the LR condition. There were no significant differences between the LR and HR condition on variables of interest. Limitations: The nature of the victim blaming used for the responsibility induction may have elicited compensatory responses from participants. Conclusions: Findings may highlight the central role of perceptions of violation in the understanding and treatment of mental contamination

Fazer educaçao do espírito com Paul Valéry

O texto-ensaio FAZER EDUCAÇAO DO ESPIRITO COM PAUL VALERY investiga o fazer múltiplo de uma criatura de pensamento, o escritor Paul Valéry. O texto atua e opera uma comédia do espírito, através de um método do informe, em cruzamentos imaginativos, com a filosofia, com a literatura e com a educaçao. A escrita, que opera com a leitura -escrileitura- é aqui tratada a partir da perspectiva valéryana, pesquisa um meio possível para um proceder potente em educaçao. A escrileitura é vista como uma atividade espiritual possível e permissiva às operaçoes de consciência para ampliar o uso das faculdades intelectivas, com vistas a uma educaçao espiritual potente, oriundas de uma self-variance disciplinada e rigorosa. Este fazer corpo-espírito- mundo; produz tipos de personagens, extraídos de espiritografias de produçao singular, que cultuam o intelecto na busca do Eu puro -senhor de si- e transitam aventureiramente por diversas áreas do saber. Sao arquiteturas de um Método que busca experimentar, movimentar pensamentos, utilizando o conhecimento como invençao para um fazer compositivo de escrita e com eles produzir meios, para possibilidades criadoras em educaçao. Estas operaçoes de método do informe têm suas experimentaçoes e pesquisas cultivadas dentro do projeto Escrileituras: um modo de ler-escrever em meio à vida do Observatório da Educaçao/CAPES/INEP - 2010. Terreno fértil e aberto ao esforço da criaçao, à variaçao espiritual, onde o serpensamento transforma-se e arrisca um novo olhar diante do espetáculo do mundo; para assim dizer- se, autoeducar-se, explorando as potências da linguagem dentro de um processo de escrileitura

Bound Governance - Theorie der zivilen Moderne

Gleich und frei nach gemeinsam anerkannten Regeln (Bound Governance) So koordiniert sich die zivile Moderne - ein Muster, das bis in die Antike zurückreicht und Wurzeln in allen Kulturen hat. Dazu tragen transparente faire Verfahren nicht nur in Recht und Politik, sondern in allen Bereichen der Gesellschaft bis hin zu Spiel und Sport bei. Dem stehen Macht- und einseitige Interessenlogik entgegen, vor allem aber Freund/Feind-Denken - ein grundlegender Konflikt der Menschheit gerade in unserer Zeit. Das Buch liefert Ideen zu einer Theorie der Zivilität, zum Staat in der zivilen Moderne, zu zivil-modernen Handlungskalkülen und einen Diskurs über Gleichstellung und Freiheit. Schließlich wird dokumentiert, wie sich die Bound-Governance-Theorie entwickelt hat.Geänderte Auflage, Dezember 201

Interpersonal responses to facial expressions of disgust, anger, and happiness in individuals with varying levels of social anxiety

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Facial expression recognition has been studied extensively, including in relation to social anxiety. Nonetheless, a limited number of studies examined recognition of disgust expressions. Results suggest that disgust is perceived as more threatening than anger, and thus may invite more extreme responses. However, few studies have examined responses to facial expressions. These studies have focused on approach-avoidance responses. Our primary aim was to examine to what extent anger and disgust expressions might invite interpersonal responses in terms of quarrelsomeness-agreeableness and dominance-submissiveness. As social anxiety has been previously associated with a heightened sensitivity to anger and disgust expressions, as well as with alterations in quarrelsomeness-agreeableness and dominance-submissiveness, our secondary aim was to examine whether social anxiety would moderate these responses. METHODS: Participants were 55 women and 43 men who completed social anxiety measures, including the Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation scale, and two tasks that involved “targets” expressing anger, disgust, or happiness at 0%, 50%, or 100%. Participants first indicated how quarrelsome or agreeable and how dominant or submissive they would be towards each target, and then how much they would avoid or approach each target. RESULTS: While 100% disgust and anger expressions invited similar levels of quarrelsomeness and avoidance, 50% disgust invited more quarrelsomeness and stronger avoidance than 50% anger. While these patterns were not meaningfully moderated by social anxiety, individuals with higher BFNE scores showed a relatively strong approach of happy faces. LIMITATIONS: Actual interpersonal behaviour in response to facial expressions was not assessed. CONCLUSIONS: Findings support the relevance of disgust as an interpersonal signal and suggest that, especially at mild intensity, disgust may have a stronger impact than anger on people’s quarrelsomeness and avoidance responses. Findings provided no support for the view that people with social anxiety would be particularly responsive to disgust (or anger) expressions

The Iowa Homemaker vol.39, no.6

Winter Party, Sandra Cruickshank, page 5 Multiple Farrowing, Ken Krause, page 7 ISC Greenhouse, Staff, page 8 I Was A Househusband, Norm Engle, page 12 What’s An Ag, Eldean Borg, page 14 What’s A Home Ec, Martha Keeney, page 15 Meet The German People, Sandra Cruickshank, page 16 Create Beauty With Simplicity, Jill Gaylord and Jackie Andre, page 18 Marketing Research Aids You, Ken Krause, page 20 Please Pass The Popcorn, Donna Read, page 26 New Uses For Ag Products, Jim Stayner, page 29 Their Classroom is Iowa, Gail Devens, page 3

Enamel Ultrastructure of Multituberculate Mammals: An Investigation of Variability

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Fraseologias de gênero em resumos científicos de Linguística, Engenharia de Materiais e Ciências Econômicas

In this work, a study on the phraseologies used in abstracts of scientific articles written in Portuguese in the areas of Linguistics, Materials Engineering and Economics is shown. Phraseologies not linked to a particular theme, but typically used in scientific writing, have been investigated and denominated genre phraseologies. Two types of procedures were used: an analysis of essential parts of the macrostructure, which are identified with functions; and the use of automatic language processing. Based on the most frequent metascientific words in corpora, recurring combinations were sought. These combinations were then grouped, according to their informative function in the text. The selected phraseologies were not fixed expressions, but they had a relative stability, and, in their majority, they were common to the three areas studied. The results show some differences in relation to ways of expressing ideas in each area, which should be taken into account when writing texts and elaborating teaching materials for developing this academic skill.Neste trabalho, apresentamos um estudo sobre as fraseologias empregadas em resumos de artigos científicos em português nas áreas de Linguística, Engenharia de Materiais e Economia. Investigamos as fraseologias utilizadas que não estão vinculadas a uma temática específica, mas que são típicas do gênero científico, as quais denominamos fraseologias de gênero. Dois tipos de procedimentos são utilizados: uma análise das partes essenciais da macroestrutura, que são identificadas com funções; e o uso de processamento automático da linguagem. A partir das palavras metacientíficas mais frequentes nos corpora, buscamos as combinatórias recorrentes, estas são então agrupadas em torno da função informativa que desempenham no texto. As fraseologias selecionadas não se configuram como expressões fixas, mas apresentam uma estabilidade relativa, e são, em sua maioria, comuns às três áreas estudadas. Os resultados encontrados apontam para certas diferenças em relação aos modos de dizer de cada área, o que deve ser levado em conta na produção dos textos e na elaboração de material didático destinado ao desenvolvimento de habilidades e competências de leitura e produção textual no contexto acadêmico

High marker density GWAS provides novel insights into the genomic architecture of terpene oil yield in Eucalyptus

Terpenoid based essential oils are economically important commodities, yet beyond their biosynthetic pathways, little is known about the genetic architecture of terpene oil yield from plants. Transport, storage, evaporative loss, transcriptional regulation and precursor competition may be important contributors to this complex trait. Here, we associate 2.39 M single nucleotide polymorphisms derived from shallow whole genome sequencing of 468 Eucalyptus polybractea individuals with 12 traits related to the overall terpene yield, eight direct measures of terpene concentration and four biomass‐related traits. Our results show that in addition to terpene biosynthesis, development of secretory cavities where terpenes are both synthesised and stored, and transport of terpenes were important components of terpene yield. For sesquiterpene concentrations, the availability of precursors in the cytosol was important. Candidate terpene synthase genes for the production of 1,8‐cineole and α‐pinene, and β‐pinene, (which made up more than 80% of the total terpenes) were functionally characterised as a 1,8‐cineole synthase and a β / α‐pinene synthase. Our results provide novel insights of the genomic architecture of terpene yield and we provide candidate genes for breeding or engineering of crops for biofuels or the production of industrially valuable terpenes

Lost and not Found: An Investigation of Recovery Methods for Multi-Factor Authentication

Multi-Factor Authentication is intended to strengthen the security of password-based authentication by adding another factor, such as hardware tokens or one-time passwords using mobile apps. However, this increased authentication security comes with potential drawbacks that can lead to account and asset loss. If users lose access to their additional authentication factors for any reason, they will be locked out of their accounts. Consequently, services that provide Multi-Factor Authentication should deploy procedures to allow their users to recover from losing access to their additional factor that are both secure and easy-to-use. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to first-hand investigate the security and user experience of deployed Multi-Factor Authentication recovery procedures. We first evaluate the official help and support pages of 1,303 websites that provide Multi-Factor Authentication and collect documented information about their recovery procedures. Second, we select a subset of 71 websites, create accounts, set up Multi-Factor Authentication, and perform an in-depth investigation of their recovery procedure security and user experience. We find that many websites deploy insecure Multi-Factor Authentication recovery procedures and allowed us to circumvent and disable Multi-Factor Authentication when having access to the accounts' associated email addresses. Furthermore, we commonly observed discrepancies between our in-depth analysis and the official help and support pages, implying that information meant to aid users is often either incorrect or outdated

Mild cognitive impairment, degenerative and vascular dementia as predictors of intra-hospital, short- and long-term mortality in the oldest old

Background and aims: The relative weight of various etiologies of dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) as predictors of intra-hospital, short- and long-term mortality in very old acutely ill patients suffering from multiple comorbid conditions remains unclear. We investigated intra-hospital, 1- and 5-year mortality risk associated with dementia and its various etiologies in a very old population after discharge from acute care. Methods: Prospective cohort study of 444 patients (mean age 85 years; 74% female) discharged from the acute geriatric unit of Geneva University Hospital. On admission, each subject underwent standardized evaluation of cognitive and comorbid conditions. Patients were followed yearly by the same team. Predictive variables were age, sex, cognitive diagnosis, dementia etiology and severity. Survival during hospitalization, at 1- and 5-year follow-ups was the outcome of interest evaluated with Cox proportional hazard models. Results: Two hundred and six patients were cognitively normal, 48 had MCI, and 190 had dementia: of these, there were 75 cases of Alzheimer's disease (AD), 20 of vascular dementia (VaD), 82 of mixed dementia (MD) and 13 of other types of dementia. The groups compared were statistically similar in age, sex, education level and comorbidity score. After 5 years of follow-up, 60% of the patients had died. Regarding intra-hospital mortality, none of the predictive variables was associated with mortality. MCI, AD and MD were not predictive of short- or long-term mortality. Features significantly associated with reduced survival at 1 and 5 years were being older, male, and having vascular or severe dementia. When all the variables were added in the multiple model, the dementia effect completely disappeared. Conclusions: Dementia (all etiologies) is not predictive of mortality. The observed VaD effect is probably linked to cardiovascular risk comorbidities: hypertension, stroke and hyperlipidemi