The Oswald Clergy Burnout Scale: reliability, factor structure and preliminary application among Australian clergy

This study assesses the Oswald Clergy Burnout Scale (OCBI), the psychometric properties of which have not been previously described. Analysis of responses from a large number (N  = 3,012) of ministers in charge of Australian congregations showed that the scale’s internal reliability was satisfactory, and that the scale could be represented by two factors, identified, respectively, as the personal and social aspects of burnout. This structure was supported by confirmatory factor analysis. Several demographic and job-related variables that might relate to burnout were regressed on the total, personal and social factor scores. Age is the predominant (negative) predictor of burnout as measured by the total scale and the personal factor scores. All variables predict burnout as measured by the social factor. However, in all models, the predictor variables account for no more than 5% of the total variance. These findings suggest that demographic factors and working conditions are poor predictors of burnout among clergy

Face distortion aftereffects in personally familiar, famous, and unfamiliar faces

The internal face prototype is thought to be a construction of the average of every previously viewed face (Schwaninger et al., 2003). However, the influence of the most frequently encountered faces (i.e., personally familiar faces) has been generally understated. The current research explored the face distortion aftereffect in unfamiliar, famous, and personally familiar (each subject’s parent) faces. Forty-eight adult participants reported whether faces were distorted or not (distorted by shifting the eyes in the vertical axis) of a series of images that included unfamiliar, famous, and personally familiar faces. The number of faces perceived to be “odd” was measured pre- and post-adaptation to the most extreme distortion. Participants were adapted to either an unfamiliar, famous, or personally familiar face. The results indicate that adaptation transferred from unfamiliar faces to personally familiar faces more so than the converse and aftereffects did not transfer from famous faces to unfamiliar faces. These results are indicative of representation differences between unfamiliar, famous, and personally familiar faces, whereby personally familiar faces share representations of both unfamiliar and famous faces

Community mobilization and the environment in Hong Kong

Includes bibliographical references.Revised and extended version of Limited gains: grassroofs mobilization and the environment in Hong Kong.published_or_final_versionContributing authors xiiiCh.XI The social and psychological procession in community education : towards attitudinal and behavioural change in environmental management Chan, Cecilia Chan, Cecilia 233Ch.XII Environmental education : the contribution of green groups Ng, Mei Ng, Mei Wong, Francis Wong, Francis 249Ch.XIII Business and the environment in Hong Kong Howroyd, Sarah Howroyd, Sarah 261Ch.XIV Environmental education : strategies and roles of children and youth services units Wong, Yu-cheung Wong, Yu-cheung Lai, Wing-hoi Lai, Wing-hoi 289Ch.XV Community mobilization and the environment : a changing context Hills, Peter Hills, Peter Chan, Cecilia Chan, Cecilia 307Preface ixCh.I Community and the environment in Hong Kong Chan, Cecilia Chan, Cecilia Hills, Peter Hills, Peter 1Ch.II Community, environment and sustainable development - a socio-political interpretation Lai, On- kwok Lai, On-kwok 19Ch.III Urban poverty and environmental management : a comparative analysis of community activation in asian cities Douglass, Mike Douglass, Mike 53Ch.IV Decision making, community values and the environment in Hong Kong Barron, William F. Barron, William F. 97Ch.V The politics of the environment in Hong Kong Hung, Wing-tat Hung, Wing-tat 113Ch.VI Housing, environment and the community : an overview Chiu, Rebecca L.H. Chiu, Rebecca L.H. 139Ch.VII Mobilizing Tsing Yi residents against environmental hazards Li, Chi-fai Li, Chi-fai Ng, Hang- sau Ng, Hang-sau 161Ch.VIII Grassroots participation of squatters in environment management Chan, Cecilia Chan, Cecilia Cheung, Regina Cheung, Regina Chang, Fiona Chang, Fiona 183Ch.IX Health and safety at work : a neglected environmental concern Yu, Ignatius T.S. Yu, Ignatius T.S. Chan, Kan-kam Chan, Kan-kam 203Ch.X Heritage conservation and conflicting community iterests : heritage held hostage in the New Territories and beyond Lung, David Lung, David Friedman, Ann Friedman, Ann 21

Environmental planning, management and technology in Hong Kong

Proceedings of a seminar held at the University of Hong Kong, May 1987.Published in association with the Hong Kong Institute of Planners and the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers.published_or_final_versionPt.2 Air pollution and radiation in Hong Kong 53Preface Wong, David O.Y. Wong, David O.Y. Hills, Peter Hills, Peter viiTown planning and the environment Pun, K.S. Pun, K.S. 23Mathematical and experimental modelling of some environmental problems Lee, J.H.W. Lee, J.H.W. Jayawardena, A.W. Jayawardena, A.W. Chan, K.T. Chan, K.T. 153Treatment of wastewater from small and medium-sized bleaching and dyeing factories Chiu, H. Chiu, H. Tsang, K.L. Tsang, K.L. Lee, M.L. Lee, M.L. 137Acknowledgements viEnteric bacteria decay in seawater and outfall design Wong, S.H. Wong, S.H. 127Need pig wastes pollute? Hodgkiss, I.J. Hodgkiss, I.J. Griffiths, D.A. Griffiths, D.A. 115Fishermens' children and lead poisoning Yeung, C.Y. Yeung, C.Y. Yu, C.L. Yu, C.L. Fung, K.W. Fung, K.W. Ho, K.S. Ho, K.S. 107Safety disposing of Hong Kong's Hazardous wastes Keen, C.Y. Keen, C.Y. Palmer, W.A. Palmer, W.A. 89Pt.3 Waste disposal and water pollution in Hong Kong 87Research findings on traffic-related air pollution near the entrance of the Hong Kong Cross Harbour Tunnel Chan, L.Y. Chan, L.Y. Chiu, H.M. Chiu, H.M. Palmer, W.A. Palmer, W.A. 67Gamma radiations from soil in Hong Kong Lau, S.Y. Lau, S.Y. Leung, K.C. Leung, K.C. Tang, C.H. Tang, C.H. 75Impact assessment of major air pollution sources in Hong Kong Fung, Y.S. Fung, Y.S. 55The contributors vEnvironmental protection - Hong Kong 1987 Reed, Stuart B. Reed, Stuart B. 3Pt.1 Environmental planning and management 1Law and the control of the Hong Kong environment Downey, M. Downey, M. 35Keynote speech Barnes, G. Barnes, G. i

Limited gains: grassroots mobilization and the environment in Hong Kong

Includes bibliographical references.published_or_final_versionThe Contributors8 The Environment and Grassroots Participation in Squatter Areas Ng Yiu Fai Fai, Ng Yiu 999 Environmental Improvement Efforts in Temporary Housing Areas Chui Wing Tak Chui, Wing Tak 11710 Combatting Urban Blight Fung Ho Lup Lup, Fung Ho 13711 Tackling Environmental Pollution in Sham Tseng Fiona Chang Chang, Fiona 14912 Attitudinal and Behavioural Change in Environmental Protection Cecilia Chan Chan, Cecilia 16113 Environmental Education for the Public: A Rubbish Recycling Scheme in a Middle Class Housing Estate Mok Hing Luen Luen, Mok Hing Lau Kwong Kit Kit, Lau Kwong 17714 The Campaign Approach in Grassroots Mobilization Regina Cheung Cheung, Regina 18715 Towards a Healthier Working Environment in Hong Kong K.K. Chan Chan, K. K. 1955 The Role of District Boards in Community-based Environmental Management Hung Wing Tat Hung, Wing Tat 516 Mobilizing Tsing Yi Residents Against Environmental Hazards Ng Hang Sau Sau, Ng Hang 634 The Politicization of the Environment Hung Wing Tat Hung, Wing Tat 413 Environmental Protection in Hong Kong: An Historical Account Pauline Choi Choi, Pauline 292 Grassroots Mobilization for Environmental Protection: Tactics and Dilemmas Cecilia Chan Chan, Cecilia 151 The Context Cecilia Chan Chan, Cecilia Peter Hills Hills, Peter 116 Conclusions Peter Hills Hills, Peter Cecilia Chan Chan, Cecilia 201Preface7 Creating a Decent Environment for the Poor: Housing for Low-income Groups Pauline Choi Choi, Pauline 8

The development of the Meaning in Life Index (MILI) and its relationship with personality and religious behaviours and beliefs among UK undergraduate students

The scales available for assessing meaning in life appear to be confounded with several related constructs, including purpose in life, satisfaction with life, and goal-directed behaviour. The Meaning in Life Index (MILI), a new instrument devised as a specific measure of meaning in life, was developed from responses to a pool of 22 items rated by a sample of 501 undergraduate students in Wales. The nine-item scale demonstrated sufficient face validity, internal consistency, and scale reliability to commend the instrument for future use. With respect to personality, the MILI scores were most strongly predicted by neuroticism (negatively), and less strongly by extraversion (positively) and psychoticism (negatively). With respect to several religious behavioural variables, those who attended church at least weekly returned significantly higher MILI scores than those who attended church less frequently. Intrinsic religiosity was the only orientation to be significantly associated with the MILI scale scores, although the magnitude of the association was smaller than anticipated. These results suggest that meaning in life is associated more strongly with individual differences in personality than with specific religious behaviours and attitudes. The implications of these results are discussed in terms of individual's personal values and attitudes that might underlie their experience of a meaning in life

Evolutionary conservation of ABA signaling for stomatal closure in ferns

ABA-driven stomatal regulation reportedly evolved after the divergence of ferns, during the early evolution of seed plants approximately 360 Mya. This hypothesis is based on the observation that the stomata of certain fern species are unresponsive to ABA, but exhibit passive hydraulic control. However, ABA-induced stomatal closure was detected in some mosses and lycophytes. Here, we observed that a number of ABA signaling and membrane transporter protein families diversified over the evolutionary history of land plants. The aquatic ferns Azolla filiculoides and Salvinia cucullata have representatives of 23 families of proteins orthologous to those of Arabidopsis thaliana and all other land plant species studied. Phylogenetic analysis of the key ABA signaling proteins indicates an evolutionarily conserved stomatal response to ABA. Moreover, comparative transcriptomic analysis has identified a suite of ABA responsive genes that differentially expressed in a terrestrial fern species, Polystichum proliferum. These genes encode proteins associated with ABA biosynthesis, transport, reception, transcription, signaling, and ion and sugar transport, which fit the general ABA signaling pathway constructed from Arabidopsis thaliana and Hordeum vulgare. The retention of these key ABA-responsive genes could have had a profound effect on the adaptation of ferns to dry conditions. Furthermore, stomatal assays have shown the primary evidence for ABA-induced closure of stomata in two terrestrial fern species P. proliferum and Nephrolepis exaltata. In summary, we report new molecular and physiological evidence for the presence of active stomatal control in ferns

The central Blue Straggler population in four outer-halo globular clusters

Using HST/WFPC2 data, we have performed a comparative study of the Blue Straggler Star (BSS) populations in the central regions of the globular clusters AM 1, Eridanus, Palomar 3, and Palomar 4. Located at distances RGC > 50 kpc from the Galactic Centre, these are (together with Palomar 14 and NGC 2419) the most distant clusters in the Halo. We determine their colour-magnitude diagrams and centres of gravity. The four clusters turn out to have similar ages (10.5-11 Gyr), significantly smaller than those of the inner-Halo globulars, and similar metallicities. By exploiting wide field ground based data, we build the most extended radial density profiles from resolved star counts ever published for these systems. These are well reproduced by isotropic King models of relatively low concentration. BSSs appear to be significantly more centrally segregated than red giants in all globular clusters, in agreement with the estimated core and half-mass relaxation times which are smaller than the cluster ages. Assuming that this is a signature of mass segregation, we conclude that AM 1 and Eridanus are slightly dynamically more evolved than Pal 3 and Pal 4.Comment: Accepted for publication in ApJ, references update

History and Status of ALSEP and the Apollo Lunar Data Project

A suite of automated scientific instruments (the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Package, or ALSEP) was installed at each of the landing sites of Apollo 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17 from 1969 to 1972. They operated from deployment until decommissioning on 30 September 1977. These data were continuously transmitted to Earth and saved on the Range Tapes, which were recorded at the Manned Space Flight Network stations. These data were also broken out by experiment and sent to the experiment Principal Investigators on what were called the P.I. Tapes. Starting in April 1973 the Range Tape data were stored in digital format on 7-track magnetic tapes, the ARCSAV Tapes. In February 1976, the handling of the Range Tapes was transferred to UT Galveston. They produced 9-track tapes referred to as the Work Tapes. Following the Apollo program the Range and ARCSAV tapes, which were never archived, were lost. The Work Tapes were archived at the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC). Some investigators archived their individual experiment data with NSSDC as well, but much of the data had minimal documentation, were not in digital form, or were stored in difficult to translate formats. Data from many experiments were never delivered to the NSSDC. The Lunar Data Project was started to address the problem of both missing and not readily usable data. Our effort has resulted in recovery of some of the ARCSAV tapes, recovery and digitization of a large volume of Apollo scientific and technical documentation, and restoration of many ALSEP and other Apollo data collections. Restoration involves deciphering formats, assembling necessary ancillary data (metadata), and packaging data in digital format to be archived with the Planetary Data System (PDS). Recovery of the data from the ARCSAV tapes involved having the tapes read on special equipment and extracting the individual experiment data out of the integrated data stream. We will report on the history and status of the various recovery efforts

Consent, wantedness, and pleasure: Three dimensions affecting the perceived stress of and judgements of rape in sexual encounters

Participants conflate consent and wantedness when judging situations as rape (Peterson & Muehlenhard, 2007). Pleasure might also affect how such situations might be appraised by victims, perpetrators, and jurors. In four experiments, participants read vignettes describing sexual encounters that were consensual or not, wanted or unwanted, and pleasurable or not pleasurable. Participants judged whether they thought each situation described rape and how distressing they thought the encounter would be. Wantedness affected perceived distress when consent was given. Wantedness and pleasure also influenced whether participants considered the situation rape in non-consensual scenarios. In additional experiments, we analysed the results by gender, manipulated perspective (being the subject or initiator of the encounter), levels of aggression, and compared the results to a group of participants who had viewed an anti-abuse campaign. Male participants and those higher in benevolent sexism were more likely than women to utilise pleasure and wantedness in judging whether situations described rape. Perspective and viewing the media campaign did not significantly affect judgements of rape. Our results have implications for models of the consequences of consent, wantedness, and pleasure of sex, and important implications for educational programmes aimed at reducing sexual assault and training for those involved in criminal justice