139 research outputs found
Note on Comparability of MicroCog Test Forms
This study investigated the differences between the Standard and Short forms of MicroCog by comparing Domain scores for a clinical sample of 351 substance abusers which gave a significant difference between scores on the Spatial Processing Domain. Implications for research and clinical use are discussed
The Northwest Tropical Atlantic Station (NTAS) : NTAS-15 Mooring Turnaround Cruise Report cruise on board RV Endeavor January 25 - February 13, 2016 Narragansett RI, USA - San Juan, Puerto Rico
The Northwest Tropical Atlantic Station (NTAS) was established to address the need for
accurate air-sea flux estimates and upper ocean measurements in a region with strong sea surface
temperature anomalies and the likelihood of significant local airâsea interaction on interannual to
decadal timescales. The approach is to maintain a surface mooring outfitted for meteorological
and oceanographic measurements at a site near 15°N, 51°W by successive mooring turnarounds.
These observations are used to investigate airâsea interaction processes related to climate
variability. The NTAS Ocean Reference Station (ORS NTAS) is supported by the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrationâs (NOAA) Climate Observation Program.
This report documents recovery of the NTAS-14 mooring and deployment of the NTAS-15
mooring at the same site. Both moorings used Surlyn foam buoys as the surface element. These
buoys were outfitted with two AirâSea Interaction Meteorology (ASIMET) systems. Each
system measures, records, and transmits via Argos satellite the surface meteorological variables
necessary to compute airâsea fluxes of heat, moisture and momentum. The upper 160 m of the
mooring line were outfitted with oceanographic sensors for the measurement of temperature,
salinity and velocity.
The mooring turnaround was done by the Upper Ocean Processes Group of the Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), onboard R/V Endeavor, Cruise EN573. The cruise took
place between January 25 and February 13 2016. The NTAS-15 mooring was deployed on
February 2, and the NTAS-14 mooring was recovered on February 4. A 24-hour intercomparison
period was conducted on February 5, during which data from the buoy, telemetered
through Argos satellite system, and the shipâs meteorological and oceanographic data were
monitored while the ship was stationed 0.2 nm downwind of NTAS-15 buoy. A similar
procedure was done at NTAS-14 but for only about 10 hours on the morning of February 4. This
report describes these operations, as well as other work done on the cruise and some of the precruise
buoy preparations.
Other operations during EN573 consisted in the recovery and deployment of the Meridional
Overturning Variability Experiment (MOVE) subsurface moorings array (MOVE 1 in the east,
and MOVE 3 and 4 in the west near Guadeloupe). Acoustic download of data from Pressure
Inverted Echo Sounders (PIES) was also conducted. MOVE is designed to monitor the integrated
deep meridional flow in the tropical North Atlantic.Funding was provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
under Grant No. NA14OAR4320158
A Positive Relationship Between Religious Faith and Forgiveness: Faith in the Absence of Data?
Religious faith and beliefs appear to play an important role in the lives of many individuals and are the topic of much research. The present study investigated the relationship between religious faith and forgiveness in a sample (n = 196) of college students. Students were asked to complete the Heartland Forgiveness Scale and the Santa Clara Strength of Religious Faith Questionnaire. Analyses of scores on both measures revealed a positive, significant correlation between these constructs, suggesting that there is a meaningful relationship between religious faith and the tendency to forgive. Implications and directions for further research are discussed
The Engagement Model of Person-Environment Interaction
This article focuses on growth-promoting aspects in the environment, and the authors propose a strength-based, dynamic model of person-environment interaction. The authors begin by briefly discussing the typical recognition of contextual variables in models that rely on the concept of person-environment fit. This is followed by a review of recent approaches to incorporating positive environmental factors in conceptualizations of human functioning. These approaches lead to an alternative model of person-environment interaction in which the engagement construct (i.e., the quality of a person-environment relationship determined by the extent to which negotiation, participation, and evaluation processes occur during the interaction) replaces the static notion of fit. Finally, the authors outline recommendations for overcoming environmental neglect in research, practice, and training
The Northwest Tropical Atlantic Station (NTAS) : NTAS-3 mooring turnaround cruise report
The Northwest Tropical Atlantic Station (NTAS) was established to address the
need for accurate air-sea flux estimates and upper ocean measurements in a region with
strong sea surface temperature anomalies and the likelihood of significant local airâsea
interaction on interannual to decadal timescales. The approach is to maintain a surface
mooring outfitted for meteorological and oceanographic measurements at a site near
15°N, 51°W by successive mooring turnarounds. These observations will be used to
investigate airâsea interaction processes related to climate variability.
Deployment of the first (NTAS-1) and second (NTAS-2) moorings were
documented in previous reports (Plueddemann et al., 2001, 2002). This report documents
recovery of the NTAS-2 mooring and deployment of the NTAS-3 mooring at the same
site. Both moorings used 3-meter discus buoys as the surface element. These buoys were
outfitted with two AirâSea Interaction Meteorology (ASIMET) systems. Each system
measures, records, and transmits via Argos satellite the surface meteorological variables
necessary to compute airâsea fluxes of heat, moisture and momentum. The upper 150 m
of the mooring line were outfitted with oceanographic sensors for the measurement of
temperature and velocity.
The mooring turnaround was done on the WHOI R/V Oceanus, Cruise OC-385-5,
by the Upper Ocean Processes Group of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The
cruise took place between 12 and 23 February 2003. Deployment of the NTAS-3 mooring
was on 15 February at approximately 14°49.5¹ N, 51°01.3¹ W in 4977 m of water. A 24-
hour intercomparison period followed, after which the NTAS-2 mooring was recovered.
This report describes these operations, as well as some of the pre-cruise buoy
preparations.Funding was provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
under Grant Number NA17RJ1223
Stratus Ocean Reference Station (20ËS, 85ËW), mooring recovery and deployment cruise R/V Revelle cruise dana 03, November 10 - November 26, 2003
The Ocean Reference Station at 20°S, 85°W under the stratus clouds west of northern
Chile and Peru is being maintained to provide ongoing, climate-quality records of surface
meteorology, of air-sea fluxes of heat, freshwater, and momentum, and of upper ocean
temperature, salinity, and velocity variability. The Stratus Ocean Reference Station,
hereafter ORS Stratus, is supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administrations (NOAA) Climate Observation Program. It is recovered and redeployed
annually, with cruises that have come in October or November.
During the November 2003 cruise of Scripps Institution of Oceanography's R/V Roger
Revelle to the ORS Stratus site, the primary activities where the recovery of the WHOI
surface mooring that had been deployed in October 2002, the deployment of a new WHOI
surface mooring at that site, the in-situ calibration of the buoy meteorological sensors by
comparison with instrumentation put on board by Chris Fairall of the NOAA
Environmental Technology Laboratory (ETL), and observations of the stratus clouds and
lower atmosphere by NOAA ETL and Jason Tomlinson from Texas A&M.
The ORS Stratus buoys are equipped with two Improved Meteorological systems, which
provide surface wind speed and direction, air temperature, relative humidity, barometric
pressure, incoming shortwave radiation, incoming longwave radiation, precipitation rate,
and sea surface temperature. The IMET data are made available in near real time using
satellite telemetry. The mooring line carries instruments to measure ocean salinity,
temperature, and currents. On some deployments, additional instrumentation is attached to
the mooring to measure rainfall and bio-optical variability. The ETL instrumentation used
during the 2003 cruise included a cloud radar, radiosonde balloons, and sensors for mean
and turbulent surface meteorology.
In addition to this work, buoy work was done in support of the Ecuadorian Navy Institute
of Oceanography (INOCAR) and of the Chilean Navy Hydrographic and Oceanographic
Service (SHOA). The surface buoy, oceanographic instrumentation, and upper 500 m of
an INOCAR surface mooring at 2°S, 84°W that had been vandalized were recovered and
transferred to the Ecuadorian Navy vessel B. A. E. Calicuchima. A tsunami warning
mooring was installed at 75°W, 20°S for SHOA. SHOA personnel onboard were trained
during the cruise by staff from the NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
(PMEL) and National Data Buoy Center (NDBC). The cruise hosted two teachers
participating in NOAA's Teacher at Sea Program, Deb Brice from San Marcos, California
and Viviana Zamorano from Arica, Chile.Funding was provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration uncer Contract Number NA17RJ1223
Testing the methodological utility of trace element analysis for detetecting dietary differences in fossil fauna from Turkana
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Epigenome Wide Association Study of SNPâCpG Interactions on Changes in Triglyceride Levels after Pharmaceutical Intervention: A GAW20 Analysis
In the search for an understanding of how genetic variation contributes to the heritability of common human disease, the potential role of epigenetic factors, such as methylation, is being explored with increasing frequency. Although standard analyses test for associations between methylation levels at individual cytosine-phosphateguanine (CpG) sites and phenotypes of interest, some investigators have begun testing for methylation and how methylation may modulate the effects of genetic polymorphisms on phenotypes. In our analysis, we used both a genome-wide and candidate gene approach to investigate potential single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)âCpG interactions on changes in triglyceride levels. Although we were able to identify numerous loci of interest when using an exploratory significance threshold, we did not identify any significant interactions using a strict genomewide significance threshold. We were also able to identify numerous loci using the candidate gene approach, in which we focused on 18 genes with prior evidence of association of triglyceride levels. In particular, we identified GALNT2 loci as containing potential CpG sites that moderate the impact of genetic polymorphisms on triglyceride levels. Further work is needed to provide clear guidance on analytic strategies for testing SNPâCpG interactions, although leveraging prior biological understanding may be needed to improve statistical power in data sets with smaller sample sizes
Evaluating the Performance of Gene-Based Tests of Genetic Association when Testing for Association Between Methylation and Change in Triglyceride Levels at GAW20
Although methylation data continues to rise in popularity, much is still unknown about how to best analyze methylation data in genome-wide analysis contexts. Given continuing interest in gene-based tests for next-generation sequencing data, we evaluated the performance of novel gene-based test statistics on simulated data from GAW20. Our analysis suggests that most of the gene-based tests are detecting real signals and maintaining the Type I error rate. The minimum pvalue and threshold-based tests performed well compared to single-marker tests in many cases, especially when the number of variants was relatively large with few true causal variants in the set
Constraints on Type Ib/c and GRB Progenitors
Although there is strong support for the collapsar engine as the power source
of long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), we still do not definitively know the
progenitor of these explosions. Here we review the current set of progenitor
scenarios for long-duration GRBs and the observational constraints on these
scenarios. Examining these, we find that single-star models cannot be the only
progenitor for long-duration GRBs. Several binary progenitors can match the
solid observational constraints and also have the potential to match the trends
we are currently seeing in the observations. Type Ib/c supernovae are also
likely to be produced primarily in binaries; we discuss the relationship
between the progenitors of these explosions and those of the long-duration
GRBs.Comment: 36 pages, 6 figure
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