Addressing the Midlife Happiness ‘Dip’: An Evidence-informed, Mindfulness-based Approach to Support & Promote Women’s Well-being

This work articulates the need for and introduces a novel model of supportive care: a mindfulness-based wellness intervention that holistically addresses the unique implications and stressors of middle-aged women. Midlife remains the most poorly understood and understudied period of the lifespan. Research suggests that not only are middle-aged people less happy, they have the lowest levels of life satisfaction and experience the most anxiety and stress compared to both younger and older age groups. This marks a trend currently being analyzed: Happiness dips gradually in early adult life until it reaches its lowest point, approximately around a person’s mid-40s to early 50s, and seemingly starts to rebound in older age. This well-being and happiness ‘U-curve’ pattern is now referred to as the ‘midlife slump,’ and it’s especially intriguing due to its consistency across individuals, countries, and cultures. While midlife is undoubtedly a period fraught with chronic stress for all genders, a number of physiological, psychological, and psychosocial factors may mean this midlife low, or ‘dip,’ is seemingly more pronounced for women. This work clearly demonstrates the need for targeted well-being interventions for middle-aged women. While it’s encouraging that the happiness U-curve seemingly rebounds in older age, it would also be encouraging to think midlife malaise could be improved with a specifically targeted mindfulness and wellness protocol informed by evidence-based best practices. Considering the unique, well-documented pressures and stressors to midlife well-being, this area represents a rich opportunity for future study and potential. Introduced in this work, the Midlife Mindfulness Reappraisal Model (MMRM) may potentially fill the gap here — taking the edge off of the lowest point of the dip, thereby enhancing women’s midlife health, happiness, and well-being

Populist voting demographics in Australia and New Zealand : an aggregate level analysis

Do populist supporters in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) share commonalities or does each country possess its own unique form of populist supporter? To consider this question this study uses aggregate level data to create a quantitative analysis of populist support in ANZ and is divided into five sections. Section 1 establishes what populism is in a theoretical context and Section 2 addresses the factors that cause and sustain populism. Section 3 applies these principles to four political parties deemed to be populist in ANZ; Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, United Australia Party, Association of Consumers and Taxpayers and New Zealand First. Section 4 uses simple linear regression to compare vote share from the 2019 Australian Federal election and the 2020 New Zealand General election to the most recent census data in each country determining demographic support. Multiple regression models then present the strongest demographic variables supporting each party. Section 5 discusses two significant findings. First, there is no single variable determining populist support across ANZ but there are commonalities within the variable categories of education and employment type. Second, two distinct types of populism are present in New Zealand compared to a single competing populist presence in Australia

A Technique for Making Nuclear Fusion in Solids

A technique is described for making nuclear fusion at room temperature by compressing a powder mixture comprising a deuteride and catalytic material. The result is explosive beyond known chemical reaction for the materials. This record was migrated from the OpenDepot repository service in June, 2017 before shutting down

ON GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE

Abstract: Gravitational collapse of diffuse material has been investigated using a new solution of Einstein's equations of general relativity. This replaces the theory of black-hole formation developed for the standard vacuum solution of Schwarzschild. The bodies which now form have reasonable physical properties, such as nuclear hard core density in collapsed stars, or 104kg/l in galactic centres, and only 1kg/l in quasars. Accreting material converts to kinetic energy and radiation, so that a singularity cannot be produced. This record was migrated from the OpenDepot repository service in June, 2017 before shutting down

On the Periodic Redshifts of Galaxies and Associated QSOs

Abstract: The observed periodicity of intrinsic-redshift in galaxies and associated QSOs has been explained by using the previous theory of a gravito-cordic field for galaxies. The quantisation period is a function of the atomic fine structure constant and it depends upon an action principle operating around galactic orbits and QSOs, or between field galaxies. The calculated separations of many QSO-galaxy pairs have been found to fit a diffusion law distribution, which suggests that associated QSOs were ejected from parent galaxies. This record was migrated from the OpenDepot repository service in June, 2017 before shutting down

The application of the scanning electron microscope to studies of current multiplication, avalanche breakdown and thermal runaway. Part 2 - General studies, mainly non-thermal

Scanning electron microscope applications in study of current multiplication, avalanche breakdown, and thermal runaway - Nonthermal effects in Read diode

A Comparative Study of the I. Q. and Grade Differences between Music Students and Other High School Students in the Okanogan Schools for 1958-1959

The primary purpose of this study was to determine whether or not there is any significant difference in academic achievement and intelligence quotient rating between two main groups of high school students: (1) those students enrolled in music classes and (2) those students not enrolled in music classes