SES gradient in psychological distress revisited: a dynamic perspective on the mediating effect of financial strain and mastery

There is a well-established literature that both psychological distress and mental disorders are linked to the gradient of socioeconomic status (SES). According to the stress process model or the life stress paradigm, SES could affect mental health in at least two ways: first, by creating situations where lower SES people tend to experience stressors in greater quantity; second, by enhancing (e.g., due to underexposure of stress for high SES people) or undermining (e.g., due to overexposure of stress for low SES people) coping resources that are beneficial to psychological wellbeing. While the stress process model or the life stress paradigm underscores an intra-personal process where changes in stress, resources, and distress are hypothesized to be inter-correlated within the same individual over time, most previous research on testing relevant hypotheses has been cross-sectional by design, focusing on between-person differences in stress, resources, and distress across the SES spectrum. Even among those exceptions that have collected data at multiple occasions in time, the prevailing analytic approaches have failed to take into account individual variations in the trajectories (either growth or decline) of stress, resources, and distress across time. This study extends previous research by using panel data and latent growth curve (LGC) modeling to examine the extent to which intra-individual changes in depressive symptoms are related to fluctuations in financial strain and mastery, which in turn, are conditioned by chronic level of income as a relatively stable SES attribute. This study also adds to previous research by investigating the causal sequence between psychological distress as indexed by depressive symptoms and a major form of personal resources as reflected in one\u27s sense of mastery, since they have appeared to be causally reciprocal in their strong inverse correlation with each other as part of the general sense of demoralization

Mean Teacher DETR with Masked Feature Alignment: A Robust Domain Adaptive Detection Transformer Framework

Unsupervised domain adaptation object detection (UDAOD) research on Detection Transformer(DETR) mainly focuses on feature alignment and existing methods can be divided into two kinds, each of which has its unresolved issues. One-stage feature alignment methods can easily lead to performance fluctuation and training stagnation. Two-stage feature alignment method based on mean teacher comprises a pretraining stage followed by a self-training stage, each facing problems in obtaining reliable pretrained model and achieving consistent performance gains. Methods mentioned above have not yet explore how to utilize the third related domain such as target-like domain to assist adaptation. To address these issues, we propose a two-stage framework named MTM, i.e. Mean Teacher-DETR with Masked Feature Alignment. In the pretraining stage, we utilize labeled target-like images produced by image style transfer to avoid performance fluctuation. In the self-training stage, we leverage unlabeled target images by pseudo labels based on mean teacher and propose a module called Object Queries Knowledge Transfer (OQKT) to ensure consistent performance gains of the student model. Most importantly, we propose masked feature alignment methods including Masked Domain Query-based Feature Alignment (MDQFA) and Masked Token-wise Feature Alignment (MTWFA) to alleviate domain shift in a more robust way, which not only prevent training stagnation and lead to a robust pretrained model in the pretraining stage, but also enhance the model's target performance in the self-training stage. Experiments on three challenging scenarios and a theoretical analysis verify the effectiveness of MTM.Comment: AAAI202

Comparison of two efficient methods for calculating partition functions

In the long-time pursuit of the solution to calculate the partition function (or free energy) of condensed matter, Monte-Carlo-based nested sampling should be the state-of-the-art method, and very recently, we established a direct integral approach that works at least four orders faster. In present work, the above two methods were applied to solid argon at temperatures up to $300$K, and the derived internal energy and pressure were compared with the molecular dynamics simulation as well as experimental measurements, showing that the calculation precision of our approach is about 10 times higher than that of the nested sampling method.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure

Environmental Footprint Assessment of Methylene Blue Photodegradation using Graphene-based Titanium Dioxide

To date, photocatalysis has received much attention in terms of the degradation of organic pollutants in wastewater. Various studies have shown that graphene-based photocatalysts are one of the impressive options owing to their intriguing features, including high surface area, good conductivity, low recombination rate of electron-hole pair, and fast charge separation and transfer. However, the environmental impacts of the photocatalysts synthesis and their photodegradation activity remain unclear. Thus, this report aims to identify the environmental impacts associated with the photodegradation of methylene blue (MB) over reduced graphene oxide/titanium oxide photocatalyst (TiO2/rGO) using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). The life cycle impacts were assessed using ReCiPe 2016 v1.1 midpoint method, Hierachist version in Gabi software. A cradle-to-gate approach and a functional unit of 1 kg TiO2/rGOwere adopted in the study. Several important parameters, such as the solvent type (ultrapure water, ethanol, and isopropanol), with/without silver ion doping, and visible light power consumption (150, 300, and 500 W) were evaluated in this study. In terms of the selection of solvent, ultrapure water is certainly a better choice since it contributed the least negative impact on the environment. Furthermore, it is not advisable to dope the photocatalyst with silver ions since the increment in performance is insufficient to offset the environmental impact that it caused. The results of different power of visible light for MB degradation showed that the minimum power level, 150 W, could give a comparable photodegradation efficiency and better environmental impacts compared to higher power light sources. Copyright © 2023 by Authors, Published by BCREC Group. This is an open access article under the CC BY-SA License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

Disodium 4,4′-oxydibenzoate

The crystal structure of the title compound, 2Na+·C14H8O5 2−, consists of alternating layers of sodium cations and 4,4′-oxydibenzoate anions; the layers are perpendicular to the a axis, with the distance between the layers of cations (or anions) being half this axial length. The Na atoms are disordered over three sites [occupancies 0.775 (4), 0.781 (6) 0.444 (6)]

3-(2-Amino­ethyl)-2-anilinoquinazolin-4(3H)-one methanol hemisolvate

The title methanol hemisolvated quinazolin-(3H)-one, C16H16N4O·0.5CH3OH, has an anilino substituent in the 2-position and an amino­ethyl substituent in the 3-position of the planar fused-ring system (r.m.s. deviation = 0.019 Å). The anilino N atom donates an intramolecular hydrogen bond to the amino­ethyl N atom. The mol­ecule and the solvent methanol mol­ecule are linked by N—H⋯N, N—H⋯O and O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds. The methanol mol­ecule is disordered over two equally occupied positions about a twofold rotation axis

Perillartine

The chiral title compound [systematic name: 4-(1-methyl­vinyl)cyclo­hexene-1-carbaldehyde oxime], C10H15NO, crystallizes with two mol­ecules in the asymmetric unit, one of which shows disorder of its propenyl substituent over two sets of sites in a 50:50 ratio. In both mol­ecules, the six-membered carbaldehyde oxime ring adopts an approximate envelope conformation in which the C atom bearing the propenyl substituent represents the flap position. In both mol­ecules, the plane passing through the propenyl substituent is nearly perpendicular to the mean plane of the six-membered ring [dihedral angles = 84.6 (6) and 87.4 (3)°]. In the crystal, the two independent mol­ecules are linked by a pair O—H⋯N hydrogen bonds across a pseudo-inversion centre, generating a dimer. The unit cell of the known racemate of the title compound is similar to the cell found here, but with space group P