Intact Physiological Response to Arousal with Impaired Emotional Recognition in Alexithymia

Background: The purpose of the present study was to clarify the relationship between the recognition of emotion and physiological response to emotion (i.e. arousal) in alexithymia. Methods: This study investigated differences in physiological arousal state, as measured by continuous heart rate, electrodermal activity (EDA) and self-reported emotional intensity before and after exposure to an emotionally arousing or neutral videotape among 41 high- or low-alexithymic young adult participants. Results: Across subjects, emotionally negative stimuli produced increased physiological arousal. However, high-alexithymic participants exposed to the arousing videotape did not report increased subjective emotional intensity, as did low-alexithymic participants. In addition, the baseline EDA of high-alexithymic participants was significantly higher than that of the low-alexithymic participants. Conclusions: Results support the prediction that alexithymia leads to a decoupling between subjective and physiological arousal when exposed to emotionally negative stimuli. This decoupling may increase alexithymic individuals’ risks for stress-related illness

Supporting Culture Change: Working Toward Smarter State Nursing Home Regulation

Examines how the legalistic and enforcement-based regulatory approach affects nursing homes' efforts to implement culture change. Highlights regulatory partnership models that promote high performance and outlines organizational and training issues

Women who have a graduate school education who have chosen to make mothering the major focus of their time : a descriptive study

This is a descriptive study of 33 graduate school educated women who have chosen to stay home with their children. The study includes a discussion of five major areas: personality characteristics, decision-making process, level of job satisfaction, peer and family relationships, and self-image.;The Methodology for this study involved four data gathering procedures: the demographic data form, the structural interview, the California Psychological Inventory (CPI), and the Bems Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI). Participants were obtained by sending fliers home with children at five preschools in the Richmond, Virginia Metropolitan area.;Demographic Data. The mean age for the group was 34. All were part of an intact two parent family. Fourteen graduate majors were represented. Ninety percent had held jobs which were directly related to their advanced degree. Seventy-six percent are actively involved in a career-related activity.;Personality Characteristics. This high functioning group has a composite profile that shows the ability to achieve independently and they prefer their own judgement. They have strength intellectually. The composite personality is someone who has successfully combined some of the best parts of traditional masculine and feminine qualities.;Decision-making Process. The reasons for choosing to stay home related to feeling that their family was their main priority and they didn\u27t want someone else raising their children.;Job Satisfaction. Neither level of status nor dissatisfaction with their last job was the primary reason for choosing to stay home at the time.;Peer and Family Relationships. Support systems were extremely important to this group. Husbands were also very involved in decision-making, child care, and emotional support.;Self-image. These women generally feel good about their choices and believe this is the right role for them at this time. They are aware of what they have given up, but believe they and their children have gained much more than they could ever give up

Jacobus Vrel’s Dutch Neighborhood Scenes

Jacobus Vrel’s mid-seventeenth-century paintings of close-up street scenes pictorially engage the intimate physical parameters and ambiance of the Dutch neighborhood rather than the city, as scholars have previously suggested. Close-up renderings of the elements of a neighborhood—part of a street, a row of houses and shops, quotidian activities—signify its characteristic insularity. Each neighborhood, with its own colorful name and official organization, which required membership of all residents, sought social control as well as the shared goals of friendship, brotherhood, unity, and honor. Vrel’s paintings idealistically embody and reinforce that paradigm

Drawing on the Neighbourhood in Rembrandt’s Inscription on a Drawing

In the undisputed hand of Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, the intriguing inscription that appears beneath the drawing of an Old Testament scene, The Departure of Rebecca, c. 1637, has generated various studies. The rarity of the artist’s annotations, in general, has served to intensify scholarly interest in them. Discussions of the inscription have examined its relationship to the drawing’s attribution, the artist’s teaching methods, and his instructional intent. This study posits that the inscription’s specific wording raises additional significant questions, which have yet to be considered

Doctor of Pharmacy

dissertationMoxalactam is a semi-synthetic beta-lactam antimicrobial agent currently undergoing Phase III clinical trials in human subjects. In vitro studies demonstrate that moxalactam is effective against most gram-positive and gram-negative organisms, except Streptococcus, Group D. The drug is excreted almost entirely by renal mechanisms. Moxalactam is 38-to-50% plasma protein bound, based on in vitro studies. the elimination half-life of moxalactam is two to three hours in patients with normal renal function, and 19 hours in patients with end-stage renal disease. No investigations thus far have determined the hemodialyzability of moxalactam. Pharmacokinetic data of moxalactam in renal failure patients are important not only to provide adequte dosage guidelines for therapeutic efficacy, but also to prevent potential dose-related neurologic, hematologic, and renal toxicities that have been reported with other cephalosporins. The purpose of this study was: 1.) To determine the pharmacokinetic parameters of moxalactam in patients with severe renal impairment undergoing hemodialysis therapy; 2.) To determine the effect of hemodialysis on the pharmacokinetic parameters; and 3.) To develop appropriate guidelines for dosing moxalactam in hemodialysis patients

The Engagement of Carel Fabritius's Goldfinch of 1654 With the Dutch Window, A Significant Site of Neighborhood Social Exchange

This article posits that Carel Fabritius’s illusionistic painting The Goldfinch, 1654, cleverly traded on the experience of a passerby standing on an actual neighborhood street before a household window. In daily discourse, the window functioned as a significant site of neighborhood social exchange and social control, which official neighborhood regulations mandated. I suggest that Fabritius’s panel engaged the window’s prominent role in two possible ways. First, the trompe l’oeil painting may have been affixed to the inner jamb of an actual street-side window, where goldfinches frequently perched in both paintings and in contemporary households. Second, at another point in time, The Goldfinch appears to have functioned as a hinged protective shutter attached to an interior painting of possibly a domestic scene. Together with the encased picture, Fabritius’s panel would have hung on a household wall. In such a capacity, The Goldfinch would have evoked the viewer’s inquisitiveness, as if he or she were a passerby on a neighborhood street before an actual domestic window with an alternatively open and closed shutter

The Economic Impacts of Aquatic Invasive Species: A Review of the Literature

Invasive species are a growing threat in the United States, causing losses in biodiversity, changes in ecosystems, and impacts on economic enterprises such as agriculture, fisheries, and international trade. The costs of preventing and controlling invasive species are not well understood or documented, but estimates indicate that the costs are quite high. The costs of aquatic invasive species are even less well understood than those for terrestrial species. A systematic approach is needed to develop a consistent method to estimate the national costs of aquatic invasives. This review of the economic literature on aquatic invasive species is the first stage in the development of that estimate. We reviewed over sixty sources and include both empirical papers that present cost estimates as well as theoretical papers on preventing and mitigating the impacts of aquatic invasive species. Species-specific estimates are included for both animals and plants.aquatic invasive species, costs, literature review, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,