The Role of Family and Academic Support in the Relationship between Gender Role Beliefs and Psychosocial Distress among Latina College Students

College is a time marked by a significant level of stress, especially for Latina students. One of the changes that often occurs during an individual's time in college involves one's gender role beliefs, shifting from traditional gender role beliefs to more liberal beliefs. Though a great deal of research has been done to show that college attendance plays an important role in the liberalization of gender role beliefs, little is known about this relationship for Latina students. This is particularly problematic as Latina students face unique challenges on the college campus, including issues relating to acculturation. Because the Latino cultural norms often dictate women to be dependent on their family, a move towards nontraditionalism can create family conflict and intragroup marginalization, both of which can contribute to psychosocial distress in ethnic minority groups. As Latina students face unique educational challenges, and may develop family conflicts, a supportive academic environment may serve to buffer some negative effects. This study conceptualizes this supportive environment as "academic families" which foster family like relationships in the college setting. This study examined the relationships between gender role beliefs, family conflict, family intragroup marginalization, academic family support, and psychosocial distress among a sample of 170 Latina college students to get a clearer picture of how changing gender roles impact this population. A statistically significant relationship was found between gender role beliefs and family intragroup marginalization, as well as between gender role beliefs and family conflict, though different from initially hypothesized. A statistically significant relationship was also found between family conflict and psychosocial distress, though academic family support was not shown to moderate this relationship. Implications for researchers and educators are also discussed

The intangibility of tangible objects: re-telling artefact stories through spatial multimedia annotations and 3D objects

An interdisciplinary team at the University of Cologne just released Kompakkt, an open-source online-tool for linking 3D objects to multimedia content and for gathering information through annotations in 3D space more generally. It enables users to share, explore, and collaboratively annotate objects in standard modern web browsers. The 3D representation of an object serves as the hub of an open-ended collection of heterogeneous information established through the use of multimedia annotations. The annotations are flexible (meta)data complementing what one usually finds in collection management systems in the GLAM sector. Through personalised and group level collections of 3D models, images, sounds and videos Kompakkt enables a novel solution for gathering and generating artefact information. The third dimension of objects highlights the perspective of annotations in a new way: annotations are not only linked to a specific location in space, the corresponding point of view chosen by the user is also relevant. Linking and ranking annotations leads to moving from one annotation (and a specific perspective) to another, which implies a movement through space in time. That allows new ways of annotation-based storytelling, where annotations can be used for presentations in which movement in VR- and AR-applications is embedded

Evaluation of hydrogen sulfide supply to biostimulate the nutritive and phytochemical quality and the antioxidant capacity of Cabbage (<i>Brassica oleracea</i> L. ‘Bronco’)

The potential effects of the hydrogen sulfide on shoot biomass, nutritional quality and antioxidant capacity of Brassica oleracea, were investigated through the application of increasing doses of NaHS (H2S donor NaHS; 0.5, 1, 2.5, and 5 mM). The results showed that the 0.5 and 1 mM NaHS treatments increased biomass and the quality composition of ‘Bronco’ cabbage (i.e. chlorophylls, carotenoids, anthocyanins, flavonols, total phenolics and sinigrin). On the other hand, there was an increase in lipid peroxidation and hydrogen peroxide content with the application of doses higher than 2.5 mM NaHS. Therefore, we selected the 0.5 and 1 mM NaHS dosages as optimal for cabbage. The 2.5 and 5 mM NaHS produced an excessive lipid peroxidation, decreases in plant biomass and losses of chlorophylls, being all considered negative effects, and clear evidences of stressful situation for the plants. For practical purposes, this study suggested that exogenous application of H2S donor NaHS at 0.5 and 1 mM may be useful as bio-stimulant to boost the yield and the health-promoting composition of ‘Bronco’ cabbage (Brassica oleracea L.).   The online version of theis article (doi: 10.5073/JABFQ.2016.089.038) contains a supplementary file

Effect of reservoir tillage on rainwater harvesting and soil erosion control under a developed rainfall simulator.

Soil erosion is a serious environmental threat in the Mediterranean region due to torrential rainfalls, and it contributes to the degradation of agricultural land. Techniques such as rainwater harvesting may improve soil water storage and increase agricultural productivity, which could result in more effective land usage. Reservoir tillage is an effective system of harvesting rainwater, but it has not been scientifically evaluated like other tillage systems. Its suitability for the conditions in Spain has not been determined. To investigate and quantify water storage from reservoir tillage and how it could be adapted to improve infiltration of harvested rainwater, a laboratory-scale rainfall simulator was developed. Rainfall characteristics, including rainfall intensity, spatial uniformity and raindrop size, confirm that natural rainfall conditions are simulated with sufficient accuracy. The simulator was auto-controlled by a solenoid valve and three pressure nozzles were used to spray water corresponding to five rainfall intensities ranging from 36 to 112 mm h-1 for 3 to 101-year return period with uniformity coefficients between 83 and 94%. In order to assess the reservoir tillage method under surface slopes of 0, 5, and 10%, three soil scooping devices with identical volume were used to make depressions in the following forms: a) truncated square pyramid, b) triangular prism, and c) truncated cone. These depressions were compared to a control soil surface with no depression. For the loam soil used in this study, results show that reservoir tillage was able to reduce soil erosion and surface runoff and significantly increase infiltration. There was significant difference between the depressions and the control. Compared to the control, depression (a) reduced surface runoff by about 61% and the sediment yield concentration by about 79%

Novel insights into an old controversy: Is coronary artery ectasia a variant of coronary atherosclerosis?

Coronary artery ectasia (CAE) is defined as a localized or diffuse non-obstructive lesion of the epicardial coronary arteries with a luminal dilation exceeding 1.5-fold the diameter of the normal adjacent arterial segment. The incidence of CAE has been reported to range between 2% and 4%, which might be an overestimation of the true frequency. The coincidence of CAE with other systemic vascular dilatations has suggested that the mechanism underlying CAE is not only localized to coronary arteries, but also to other vascular compartments such as aorta or peripheral veins. Although the pathophysiology of CAE remains largely unknown, it was supposed to represent a variant of coronary atherosclerosis. This review focuses on this controversy of whether CAE and coronary artery disease (CAD) are two manifestations of the same underlying process. There are clear differences between CAD and CAE with respect to cardiovascular risk factors such as diabetes mellitus, and pathogenic steps in disease progress such as inflammation or extracellular matrix remodeling. As this review will underscore, the current knowledge of the field is insufficient to finally clarify the causative interrelation between CAE and CAD. The clinical course and treatment of CAE mainly depends on its coexistence with CAD. When coexisting with CAD, the prognosis and treatment of CAE are the same as for CAD alone. In isolated CAE, prognosis is better and anti-platelet drugs are the mainstay of treatment. Surgical treatment can be considered in selected patients. For clarifying the mechanism underlying CAE, additional clinical, histopathological and pathophysiological investigations are required. In fact, every patient with CAE should be evaluated systematically for pathological changes in other vascular territories, both in the arterial system as well as in the venous system, which might occur in the disease process

Considering Soil Potassium Pools with Dissimilar Plant Availability

Soil potassium (K) has traditionally been portrayed as residing in four functional pools: solution K, exchangeable K, interlayer (sometimes referred to as “fixed” or “nonexchangeable”) K, and structural K in primary minerals. However, this four-pool model and associated terminology have created confusion in understanding the dynamics of K supply to plants and the fate of K returned to the soil in fertilizers, residues, or waste products. This chapter presents an alternative framework to depict soil K pools. The framework distinguishes between micas and feldspars as K-bearing primary minerals, based on the presence of K in interlayer positions or three-dimensional framework structures, respectively; identifies a pool of K in neoformed secondary minerals that can include fertilizer reaction products; and replaces the “exchangeable” K pool with a pool defined as “surface-adsorbed” K, identifying where the K is located and the mechanism by which it is held rather than identification based on particular soil testing procedures. In this chapter, we discuss these K pools and their behavior in relation to plant K acquisition and soil K dynamics

Armand Louant, conservateur des Archives de l’État à Mons (1941-1970), et la reconstitution des collections après l’incendie du dépôt en 1940

Né à Drogenbos le 18 février 1905, Armand Louant étudie à l’université catholique de Louvain et obtient le diplôme de docteur en histoire moderne en juillet 1927 et en philologie romane en 1929. Membre de l’Institut historique belge de Rome, il travaille aux Archives vaticanes de septembre 1929 à décembre 1930. Il entre aux Archives générales du Royaume en qualité de stagiaire le 1er janvier 1931, se marie le 19 septembre à Woluwé-Saint-Lambert et est nommé archiviste paléographe aux archives..

L’activité de la justice de paix cantonale dans l’arrondissement de Mons de la fin de l’Empire au Royaume-Uni des Pays-Bas (1814-1815)

Note portant sur l’auteur 1. Introduction L’objet de cette communication est l’étude de l’activité de la justice de paix cantonale au début du xixe siècle. Le cadre géographique défini est la province de Hainaut à l’époque de la fin de son existence en tant que département de Jemappes, de 1814 à 1815. Les actes de la pratique produits durant cette période de transition par les justices de paix des cantons de Dour et Pâturages, situés dans l’actuel arrondissement judiciaire de Mons, ont été sp..