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Sexual Objectification Increases Rape Victim Blame and Decreases Perceived Suffering
Sexual objectification changes the way people view women by reducing them to sexual objects—denied humanity and an internal mental life, as well as deemed unworthy of moral concern. However, the subsequent consequences of sexually objectifying others remain underresearched. In the current study, we examined the impact of objectification in the domain of sexual assault. Sixty British undergraduate students were recruited to complete an impression formation task. We manipulated objectification by presenting participants with either a sexualized or nonsexualized woman. Participants rated the woman’s mind and the extent to which they felt moral concern for her. They then learned that she was the victim of an acquaintance rape and reported victim blame and both blatant and subtle perceptions of her suffering. Consistent with prior research, sexualized women were objectified through a denial of mental states and moral concern. Further, compared with nonobjectified women, the objectified were perceived to be more responsible for being raped. Interestingly, although no difference emerged for blatant measures of suffering, participants tacitly denied the victims’ suffering by exhibiting changes in moral concern for the victim. We conclude that objectification has important consequences for how people view victims of sexual assault. Our findings reveal that sexual objectification can have serious consequences and we discuss how these might influence how victims cope and recover from sexual assault
Rapport du Commissaire aux Comptes de la Communaute europeenne du charbon et de l'acier relatif au treizieme exercice financier de la C.E.C.A. (1 juillet 1964 au 30 juin 1965) et a l'exercice 1964 (ler janvier au 31 decembre 1964) des institutions communes. Avant-propos: Evolution des principaux elements de la situation financiere de la Communaute au cours des treize premiers exercices. Premiere partie: Analyse des operations financiere de la Haute Autorite. Deuxieme partie: Depenses administratives de la Haute Autorite = Report of the Auditor of the European Coal and Steel Community on the thirteenth fiscal year of the ECSC (1 July 1964 to 30 June 1965) and the year 1964 (1st January to 31 December 1964) for common institutions. Foreword: Evolution of the principal elements of the financial situation of the Community over the first thirteen financial years. Part I: Analysis of the financial operations of the High Authority. Part II: Administrative expenses of the High Authority. 23 December 1965
The Mean Field Ensemble Kalman Filter: Near-Gaussian Setting
The ensemble Kalman filter is widely used in applications because, for high
dimensional filtering problems, it has a robustness that is not shared for
example by the particle filter; in particular it does not suffer from weight
collapse. However, there is no theory which quantifies its accuracy as an
approximation of the true filtering distribution, except in the Gaussian
setting. To address this issue we provide the first analysis of the accuracy of
the ensemble Kalman filter beyond the Gaussian setting. Our analysis is
developed for the mean field ensemble Kalman filter. We rewrite the update
equations for this filter, and for the true filtering distribution, in terms of
maps on probability measures. We introduce a weighted total variation metric to
estimate the distance between the two filters and we prove various stability
estimates for the maps defining the evolution of the two filters, in this
metric. Using these stability estimates we demonstrate that if the true
filtering distribution is close to Gaussian in the joint space of state and
data, in the weighted total variation metric, then the true-filter is well
approximated by the ensemble Kalman filter, in the same metric. Finally, we
provide a generalization of these results to the Gaussian projected filter,
which can be viewed as a mean field description of the unscented Kalman filter
Determination of liposome/water partition coefficients of organic acids and bases by solid-phase microextraction
The extraction of two methylated anilines and three chlorinated phenols by solid-phase microextraction (SPME) fibers coated with polyacrylate was investigated as a function of pH. Only the neutral species of the acids and bases partitioned into the polymer. Extraction kinetics were accelerated for the hydrophobic phenols at pH values around their acidity constant. This is presumably due to a reconstitution of the neutral species in the unstirred aqueous layer adjacent to the polymer surface by the charged species through the fast acid-base equilibrium. Although the charged species is not taken up into the polymer. liposome/water distribution ratios could be measured up to a pH value, where 99% of the compounds were present as charged species. The partition coefficients of the neutral and charged species were extrapolated from the pH profiles of the liposome/water distribution ratios. The resulting values were slightly lower than those measured with equilibrium dialysis. The discrepancies are discussed with respect to differences in the experimental conditions and the possibility of matrix effects during SPME measurements
Management of headache disorders: design of a randomised clinical trial screening for prognostic patient characteristics
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51576.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)BACKGROUND: Treatment of headache disorders is not always optimal. Patients are treated in multiple ways, and the lack of scientific arguments for referral and the insufficient implementation of guidelines result in unclear treatment strategies. The coexistence of headache and neck pain can lead to the referral to a musculoskeletal physiotherapist. This treatment can only be successful if an underlying cervical segmental dysfunction is present. In such cases a physical treatment can be a valuable option that should be considered. The aim of this study is to identify prognostic therapeutic patient characteristics and to increase the number of correct physiotherapy referrals. METHODS/DESIGN: This trial is designed to identify patient characteristics which can influence the prognosis of the patient. Patients with recurrent headache and co-existent neck pain are recruited via a multicenter setup. After screening for eligibility, subjects are tested at baseline and randomly allocated to one of two treatment groups. Testing includes the administering of questionnaires (a Headache Diagnosis Questionnaire, Headache Inventory List and the Headache Impact Test (HIT-6)) and physical tests (Thermal Stimuli, Manual Cervical Spine Examination and Pressure Algometry). Treatment groups are a usual care group (UC) administered by the General Practitioner (GP) and a usual care plus musculoskeletal physiotherapy treatment group (UCMT). UC is based on the Dutch GP Guideline for Headache. UCMT consists of the UC plus a combination of exercises and spinal cervical mobilisations. Follow-up measurements consist of the completion of the Headache Inventory List, the HIT-6 and scoring of the global perceived effect (GPE). The latter allowing the distinction between responders (positive effect) and non-responders (no effect or worse). Logistic regression analysis will be used to identify the specific patient characteristics of the responders and the non-responders. The additional value of the musculoskeletal physiotherapy will be examined. Follow-up measurements up to 52 weeks are scheduled. DISCUSSION: This trial aims to identify prognostic patient characteristics, in order to supply a useful diagnostic tool for all health care workers, dealing with headache sufferers
Monitoring Home-Based Activity of Stroke Patients: A Digital Solution for Visuo-Spatial Neglect Evaluation
The possibility to prescribe home-based rehabilitation activity after stroke strongly increases the amount of exercises to perform, thus helping the maintenance of relearned skills, the completion of the rehabilitation program, the practice of physical and mental concentration. Even more important is the monitoring of the patient activity at home, as it is provided by the Remote Monitoring Validation Engineering System (ReMoVES) platform [1]. The present work refers to the implementation and integration in ReMoVES platform of a digital and web-based version of Albert\u2019s [2] and Line Bisection [3] tests devoted to visuo-spatial neglect evaluation and its remote monitoring. A statistical analysis devoted to validating test-retest reliability is proposed. Concurrent correlation between digital and traditional administration of the tests is presented, in order to evaluate the validity of the remote monitoring of the home-administration through ReMoVES platform
Equivariant comparison of quantum homogeneous spaces
We prove the deformation invariance of the quantum homogeneous spaces of the
q-deformation of simply connected simple compact Lie groups over the
Poisson-Lie quantum subgroups, in the equivariant KK-theory with respect to the
translation action by maximal tori. This extends a result of Neshveyev-Tuset to
the equivariant setting. As applications, we prove the ring isomorphism of the
K-group of Gq with respect to the coproduct of C(Gq), and an analogue of the
Borsuk-Ulam theorem for quantum spheres.Comment: 21 page
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