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Intentionally fabricated autobiographical memories
Participants generated both autobiographical memories (AMs) that they believed to be true and intentionally fabricated autobiographical memories (IFAMs). Memories were constructed while a concurrent memory load (random 8-digit sequence) was held in mind or while there was no concurrent load. Amount and accuracy of recall of the concurrent memory load was reliably poorer following generation of IFAMs relative to AMs. There was, however, no reliable effect of load on memory generation times however IFAMs always took longer to construct than AMs. Finally, replicating previous findings, fewer IFAMs had a field perspective than AMs, IFAMs were less vivid than AMs, and IFAMs contained more motion words (indicative of increased cognitive load). Taken together these findings show a pattern of systematic differences that mark out IFAMs and they also show that IFAMs can be identified indirectly by lowered performance on concurrent tasks that increase cognitive load
Information Literacy and Student Engagement: Cultivating Student Learning through Critical Pedagogy and Critical Reflection
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Observation of liquid–liquid phase transitions in ethane at 300 K
We have conducted Raman spectroscopy
experiments on liquid ethane (C2H6) at 300 K, obtaining a
large amount of data at very high resolution. This has enabled
the observation of Raman peaks expected but not previously
observed in liquid ethane and a detailed experimental study of
the liquid that was not previously possible. We have observed a
transition between rigid and nonrigid liquid states in liquid
ethane at ca. 250 MPa corresponding to the recently proposed
Frenkel line, a dynamic transition between rigid liquid
(liquidlike) and nonrigid liquid (gaslike) states beginning in
the subcritical region and extending to arbitrarily high pressure
and temperature. The observation of this transition in liquid
(subcritical) ethane allows a clear differentiation to be made
between the Frenkel line (beginning in the subcritical region at
higher density than the boiling line) and the Widom lines (emanating from the critical point and not existing in the subcritical
region). Furthermore, we observe a narrow transition at ca. 1000 MPa to a second rigid liquid state. We propose that this
corresponds to a state in which orientational order must exist to achieve the expected density and can view the transition in
analogy to the transition in the solid state away from the orientationally disordered phase I to the orientationally ordered phases
II and III
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Amnesia and future thinking: Exploring the role of memory in the quantity and quality of episodic future thoughts.
OBJECTIVES: To examine the impact of memory accessibility on episodic future thinking. DESIGN: Single-case study of neurological patient HCM and an age-matched comparison group of neurologically Healthy Controls. METHODS: We administered a full battery of tests assessing general intelligence, memory, and executive functioning. To assess autobiographical memory, the Autobiographical Memory Interview (Kopelman, Wilson, & Baddeley, 1990. The Autobiographical Memory Interview. Bury St. Edmunds, UK: Thames Valley Test Company) was administered. The Past Episodic and Future Episodic sections of Dalla Barba's Confabulation Battery (Dalla Barba, 1993, Cogn. Neuropsychol., 1, 1) and a specifically tailored Mental Time Travel Questionnaire were administered to assess future thinking in HCM and age-matched controls. RESULTS: HCM presented with a deficit in forming new memories (anterograde amnesia) and recalling events from before the onset of neurological impairment (retrograde amnesia). HCM's autobiographical memory impairments are characterized by a paucity of memories from Recent Life. In comparison with controls, two features of his future thoughts are apparent: Reduced episodic future thinking and outdated content of his episodic future thoughts. CONCLUSIONS: This article suggests neuropsychologists should look beyond popular conceptualizations of the past-future relation in amnesia via focussing on reduced future thinking. Investigating both the quantity and quality of future thoughts produced by amnesic patients may lead to developments in understanding the complex nature of future thinking disorders resulting from memory impairments. PRACTITIONER POINTS: We highlight the clinical importance of examining the content of future thoughts in amnesic patients, rather than only its quantitative reduction. We propose an explanation of how quantitative and qualitative aspects of future thinking could be affected by amnesia. This could provide a useful approach to understand clinical cases of impaired prospection. LIMITATIONS: Systematic group investigations are required to fully examine our hypothesis. Although the current study utilized typical future thinking measures, these may be limited and we highlight the need to develop clinically relevant measures of prospection
Laser Spectroscopic Measurement of Helium Isotope Ratios
A sensitive laser spectroscopic method has been applied to the quantitative
determination of the isotope ratio of helium at the level of 3He/4He = 10^-7 -
10^-5. The resonant absorption of 1083 nm laser light by the metastable 3He
atoms in a discharge cell was measured with the frequency modulation saturation
spectroscopy technique while the abundance of 4He was measured by a direct
absorption technique. The results on three different samples extracted from the
atmosphere and commercial helium gas were in good agreement with values
obtained with mass spectrometry. The achieved 3-sigma detection limit of 3He in
helium is 4 x 10^-9. This demonstration required a 200 micro-L STP sample of
He. The sensitivity can be further improved, and the required sample size
reduced, by several orders of magnitude with the addition of cavity enhanced
spectroscopy
Modeling Count Outcomes from HIV Risk Reduction Interventions: A Comparison of Competing Statistical Models for Count Responses
Modeling count data from sexual behavioral outcomes involves many challenges, especially when the data exhibit a preponderance of zeros and overdispersion. In particular, the popular Poisson log-linear model is not appropriate for modeling such outcomes. Although alternatives exist for addressing both issues, they are not widely and effectively used in sex health research, especially in HIV prevention intervention and related studies. In this paper, we discuss how to analyze count outcomes distributed with excess of zeros and overdispersion and introduce appropriate model-fit indices for comparing the performance of competing models, using data from a real study on HIV prevention intervention. The in-depth look at these common issues arising from studies involving behavioral outcomes will promote sound statistical analyses and facilitate research in this and other related areas
A Disc-Corona Model for a Rotating Black Hole
We propose a disc-corona model in which a geometrically thin, optically thick
disc surrounds a Kerr black hole, and magnetic fields exert a time-steady
torque on the inner edge of the accretion disc. The analytical expression of
the total gravitational power is derived from the thin-disc dynamics equations
by using this new boundary condition. It is shown that the magnetic torque can
considerably enhance the amount of energy released in the disc-corona system.
Furthermore, the global solutions of this disc-corona system are obtained
numerically. We find that the fraction of the power dissipated into the corona
in the total for such disc-corona system increases with the increasing
dimensionless black hole spin parameter , but is insensitive on the
which is the additional radiative efficiency parameter
relevant to magnetic torque, for . In addition, the
emerged spectra from this disc-corona system are simulated by using Monte-Carlo
method, and the effect of the different parameters on the output spectra is
discussed
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