Plate motions recorded in tectonostratigraphic terranes of the Franciscan Complex and evolution of the Mendocino triple junction, northwestern California

The Mendocino triple junction area of northern California is underlain by the Coastal belt of the Franciscan complex, flanked on the east by the Central and Eastern belts of the Franciscan Complex. The coastal belt is further divided into three tectonostratigraphic terranes. Upper Cretaceous through middle Miocene rocks included in these terranes were accreted to the North American plate margin partly during normal convergence with the Farallon plate between 49 and 25 Ma at poleward rates of 2 to 5cm /yr, and partly during translation with the Pacific plate between 14 and 2 Ma at poleward rates of 3 to 6cm/yr. The evolution of the triple junction is discussed. -from Author

The Risk of Being Uninformed

The focus of this paper will be on a specific type of risk – within the context of sharing of information, or the lack there of - the risk of being uninformed

The site of protonation of a distorted bicyclic lactam: Nitrogen vs oxygen

Protonation of typical unstrained amides and lactams is favored at oxygen. Protonation of highly distorted lactams such as 1-azabicyclo[2.2.2]octan-2-one is favored at nitrogen. Density function theory calculations at the B3LYP/6-31G* level, as well as QCISD(T)/6-31G* calculations, predict that 1-azabicyclo[3.3.1]nonan-2-one favors protonation at nitrogen only very slightly (\u3c2.0 kcal/mol; gas phase ) over protonation at oxygen. 1H and 13C NMR as well as ultraviolet (UV) studies of this lactam, confirm the lactam is primarily protonated at the nitrogen. Experimental spectra clearly support the N-protonated boat-chair, in contrast the calculations show the N-protonated chair-chair conformation is lower in energy. Broadened resonances in the 13C NMR spectrum suggest an exchange phenomenon. Variable-temperature studies of the 13C NMR spectra support dynamic exchange between the major tautomer (N-protonated) and the minor tautomer (O-protonated) in a roughly 4:1 mixture

Three inner-neritic recent foraminifers from southern California

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Treatment Barriers and Stages of Change Among Adolescents in Psychotherapy

One in five children and adolescents meet the criteria for psychiatric disorders each year. Of those who meet the criteria and are referred for treatment, forty to sixty percent will terminate prematurely (Nock and Kazdin, 2001). While some researchers studying this phenomenon have focused on how a client progresses through treatment and others look at dropout risk factors, no one has explored the relationship between the two. The specific purpose of this study is to provide information to the existing pool of research focusing on treatment effectiveness and completion to help provide better services to the mentally ill adolescent population already being seriously underserved in this country. A client\u27s readiness to change a behavior in treatment, as studied by James Prochaska (1993), and barriers one faces throughout treatment, as researched by Alan Kazdin (1997) are two variables that have been developed for the purpose of understanding the dynamics of change in the therapeutic setting. Specifically, Prochaska has developed the Transtheoretical Model of Change including five stages (Precontemplation, Contemplation, Preparation, Action and Maintenance) through which one progresses while in treatment, from a lack of intention to change, to the recognition of a problem but an unwillingness to do anything about it, to a decision and commitment to change. Prochaska believes that change must occur for individual development and that his Transtheoretical Model provides a balance of empiricism and theory for utility among various populations (Petrocelli, 2002). Kazdin (1997) has found that child and adolescent dropouts in treatment showed higher levels of barriers than did completers based on parent and therapist total barriers scores. His term barriers to participation in treatment explore factors that might impact a client\u27s ability to successfully complete a treatment program, including socioeconomic disadvantage, family stress and life events. Data for this study were gathered at a community mental health agen

Treatment Barriers and Stages of Change Among Adolescents in Psychotherapy

One in five children and adolescents meet the criteria for psychiatric disorders each year. Of those who meet the criteria and are referred for treatment, forty to sixty percent will terminate prematurely (Nock and Kazdin, 2001). While some researchers studying this phenomenon have focused on how a client progresses through treatment and others look at dropout risk factors, no one has explored the relationship between the two. The specific purpose of this study is to provide information to the existing pool of research focusing on treatment effectiveness and completion to help provide better services to the mentally ill adolescent population already being seriously underserved in this country. A client\u27s readiness to change a behavior in treatment, as studied by James Prochaska (1993), and barriers one faces throughout treatment, as researched by Alan Kazdin (1997) are two variables that have been developed for the purpose of understanding the dynamics of change in the therapeutic setting. Specifically, Prochaska has developed the Transtheoretical Model of Change including five stages (Precontemplation, Contemplation, Preparation, Action and Maintenance) through which one progresses while in treatment, from a lack of intention to change, to the recognition of a problem but an unwillingness to do anything about it, to a decision and commitment to change. Prochaska believes that change must occur for individual development and that his Transtheoretical Model provides a balance of empiricism and theory for utility among various populations (Petrocelli, 2002). Kazdin (1997) has found that child and adolescent dropouts in treatment showed higher levels of barriers than did completers based on parent and therapist total barriers scores. His term barriers to participation in treatment explore factors that might impact a client\u27s ability to successfully complete a treatment program, including socioeconomic disadvantage, family stress and life events. Data for this study were gathered at a community mental health agen

'Techno-Risk - The Perils of Learning and Sharing Everything' from a Criminal Information Sharing Perspective

The author has extensive law enforcement experience and the paper is intended to provoke thought on the use of technology as it pertains to information sharing between the police and the private sector. As the world edges closer and closer to the convergence of man and machine, the human capacity to retrieve information is increasing by leaps and bounds. We are on the verge of knowing everything and anything there is to know, and literally in the blink of an eye! This means that police will have the capacity to learn everything about everyone with the only restriction being privacy legislation. But it also means that those involved in immoral, unlawful or illegal activity will have that same capacity and with no such restriction. ‘Bad Brother’ may be far more dangerous than ‘Big Brother!' The global community requires a secure and credible system to retrieve and assess all of the information ‘generally available to the public.' A system that will strive to keep ‘Big Brother’ in check and ‘Bad Brother’ out, all the while providing a means of alerting citizens to genuine risks or to dangerous people. Such as system would help diffuse the systemic inaccurate and harmful profiling that is often based on rumours and innuendo. There is an identified public-private partnership opportunity. A chance to work with privacy advocate groups and background checking private companies to define, design and deliver on something that will be of immense benefit to citizens around the globe. We have an opportunity to create something that will work to ensure that only the best information gets used and in a moralistic, lawful and legal way! Technology continues to move forward at incomprehensible speeds – failure to act could have serious consequences

Memento Mori: The development and validation of the Death Reflection Scale

Despite its potential for advancing organizational behavior (OB) research, the topic of death awareness has been vastly understudied. Moreover, research on death awareness has predominantly focused on the anxiety‐provoking aspect of death‐related cognitions, thus overlooking the positive aspect of death awareness, death reflection. This gap is exacerbated by the lack of a valid research instrument to measure death reflection. To address this issue, we offer a systematic conceptualization of death reflection, develop the Death Reflection Scale, and assess its psychometric properties across four studies. Further, using a sample of 268 firefighters, we examine whether death reflection buffers the detrimental impact of mortality cues at work on employee well‐being and safety performance. Results provide strong support for the psychometric properties of the Death Reflection Scale. Further, moderation analysis indicates death reflection weakens the negative effect of mortality cues on firefighters' safety performance. Overall, these findings suggest the newly developed Death Reflection Scale will prove useful in future research on death‐related cognitions

Job burnout in mental health providers: A meta-analysis of 35 years of intervention research.

Burnout is prevalent among mental health providers and is associated with significant employee, consumer, and organizational costs. Over the past 35 years, numerous intervention studies have been conducted but have yet to be reviewed and synthesized using a quantitative approach. To fill this gap, we performed a meta-analysis on the effectiveness of burnout interventions for mental health workers. We completed a systematic literature search of burnout intervention studies that spanned more than 3 decades (1980 to 2015). Each eligible study was independently coded by 2 researchers, and data were analyzed using a random-effects model with effect sizes based on the Hedges’ g statistic. We computed an overall intervention effect size and performed moderator analyses. Twenty-seven unique samples were included in the meta-analysis, representing 1,894 mental health workers. Interventions had a small but positive effect on provider burnout (Hedges’ g = .13, p = .006). Moderator analyses suggested that person-directed interventions were more effective than organization-directed interventions at reducing emotional exhaustion (Qbetween = 6.70, p = .010) and that job training/education was the most effective organizational intervention subtype (Qbetween = 12.50, p < .001). Lower baseline burnout levels were associated with smaller intervention effects and accounted for a significant proportion of effect size variability. The field has made limited progress in ameliorating mental health provider burnout. Based on our findings, we suggest that researchers implement a wider breadth of interventions that are tailored to address unique organizational and staff needs and that incorporate longer follow-up periods