Exercise and mental health - implications for treatment: A review of the literature

This paper reviews the literature regarding the positive effects of exercise and physical activity on the human psyche. In particular, the focus of this paper is to examine mental health benefits of exercise in clinical and nonclinical populations. Exercise as treatment for mental illness is thoroughly examined. Exercise interventions have been found to be effective in alleviating symptoms of depression, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder. General physical activity and aerobic exercise have potential to be used as alternative or adjunctive treatments for mental disorders in addition to or instead of medications. Green exercise—exercising in nature—is also explored. The use of psychotherapy combined with exercise and other types of physiologically-based health interventions are explored. Suggestions for future research are provided

How Locals Take Control on Their Federal Aid Projects

This session will highlight opportunities for local agencies to better deliver federal aid projects, including the LPA Certification process for local design standards and the Utility Relocation Inspection Contracts that are now eligible for federal aid reimbursement

Emotional Intelligence and Conflict Resolution

Conflict in the workplace is inevitable. This session will discuss emotional intelligence—what it is, how you can improve your skill, and how a high EQ can better facilitate conflict resolution in the workplace

Before Breaking Bad News: Relationships Among Topic, Reasons for Sharing, Messenger Concerns, and the Reluctance to Share the News

Messengers are reluctant to reveal bad news, and this reluctance can hamper effective communication. With this investigation, we explore linkages among the topic of the news, messengers’ reasons for sharing, messenger concerns about sharing, the locus of the news, and whether these variables associate systematically with messenger reluctance to share the news. Retrospective self-reports (n = 330) revealed that bad news occurred in reliable topic categories, which in turn related to reasons for sharing, how extreme the news was perceived to be, and the concerns messengers had before sharing the bad news. Messengers reported more reluctance to share the news when they were also the locus of the news than when they were not, and they felt reluctance was greater when the topic was seen as more extreme. Theoretical implications and limitations are discussed

Phloem of Primitive Angiosperms. III. Phloem of Petioles of Drimys granadensis (Winteraceae)

Drimys granadensis (Winteraceae) was chosen for study because of its primitive evolutionary position among angiosperms. Mature sieve elements of the primary phloem of petioles are enucleate and have what we interpret as crystalline P-protein in addition to the more common tubular and fibrillar forms. Companion cells associated with sieve elements retain normal-appearing nuclei and possess bodies of flocculent material within the cytoplasm. The pores connecting mature adjacent sieve elements are of much smaller diameter than those typically encountered in angiosperms. The possession of P-protein and companion cells in Drimys argues for the early evolution of these traits in angiosperm phloem

Analytical energy gradient in variational calculations of the two lowest 3P states of the carbon atom with explicitly correlated Gaussian basis functions

Variational calculations of ground and excited bound states on atomic and molecular systems performed with basis functions that explicitly depend on the interparticle distances can generate very accurate results provided that the basis function parameters are thoroughly optimized by the minimization of the energy. In this work we have derived the algorithm for the gradient of the energy determined with respect to the nonlinear exponential parameters of explicitly correlated Gaussian functions used in calculating n-electron atomic systems with two p-electrons and n−2 s-electrons. The atomic Hamiltonian we used was obtained by rigorously separating out the kinetic energy of the center of mass motion from the laboratory-frame Hamiltonian and explicitly depends on the finite mass of the nucleus. The advantage of having the gradient available in the variational minimization of the energy is demonstrated in the calculations of the ground and the first excited 3P state of the carbon atom. For the former the lowest energy upper bound ever obtained is reporte

Lower Rydberg 2D states of the lithium atom: Finite-nuclear-mass calculations with explicitly correlated Gaussian functions

Very accurate variational nonrelativistic calculations are performed for the five lowest Rydberg 2D states (1s2nd1, n = 3, . . . ,7) of the lithium atom (7Li). The finite-nuclear-mass approach is employed and the wave functions of the states are expanded in terms of all-electron explicitly correlated Gaussian function. Four thousand Gaussians are used for each state. The calculated relative energies of the states determined with respect to the 2S 1s22s1 ground state are systematically lower than the experimental values by about 2.5 cm−1. As this value is about the same as the difference between the experimental relative energy between 7Li+ and 7Li in their ground-state energy and the corresponding calculated nonrelativistic relative energy, we attribute it to the relativistic effects not included in the present calculation