The Role of Emotional Overcontrol in Acceptance of Counselor Training Feedback

Effective feedback is a critical component of counselor training. The degree to which a recipient is able or willing to accept feedback can impact learning and skill development significantly. Recognizing individual trait differences can help the field of counseling understand feedback receptivity in counseling students. This study examined the possible relationship between feedback receptivity and the individual trait of emotional overcontrol. Results indicate that overcontrol accounted for variance in scores on a measure of feedback receptivity in a sample of counseling students, suggesting that individual trait differences meaningfully affect feedback receptivity

Comparability of macroinvertebrate biomonitoring indices of river health derived from semi-quantitative and quantitative methodologies

Aquatic macroinvertebrates have been the basis for one of the primary indicators and a cornerstone of lotic biomonitoring for over 40 years. Despite the widespread use of lotic invertebrates in statutory biomonitoring networks, scientific research and citizen science projects, the sampling methodologies employed frequently vary between studies. Routine statutory biomonitoring has historically relied on semi-quantitative sampling methods (timed kick sampling), while much academic research has favoured fully quantitative methods (e.g. Surber sampling). There is an untested assumption that data derived using quantitative and semi-quantitative samples are not comparable for biomonitoring purposes. As a result, data derived from the same site, but using different sampling techniques, have typically not been analysed together or directly compared. Here, we test this assumption by comparing a range of biomonitoring metrics derived from data collected using timed semi-quantitative kick samples and quantitative Surber samples from the same sites simultaneously. In total, 39 pairs of samples from 7 rivers in the UK were compared for two seasons (spring and autumn). We found a strong positive correlation (rs = +0.84) between estimates of taxa richness based on ten Surber sub-samples and a single kick sample. The majority of biomonitoring metrics were comparable between techniques, although only fully quantitative sampling allows the density of the community (individual m−2) to be determined. However, this advantage needs to be balanced alongside the greater total sampling time and effort associated with the fully quantitative methodology used here. Kick samples did not provide a good estimate of relative abundance of a number of species/taxa and, therefore, the quantitative method has the potential to provide important additional information which may support the interpretation of the biological metrics

Hydrogeology of Formations Used for Deep-Well Injection, Texas Gulf Coast

This research program was conducted to investigate fluid migration potential, fluid direction, and velocities in the regional hydrologic environment of the Texas Gulf Coast Tertiary formations in the context of deep-well injection of hazardous chemical wastes. The study focused on the Frio Formation due to its significant waste injection and the availability of a large database on formation pressures and water chemistry in the Frio. Pressure data collected from drill-stem tests and bottomhole pressure measurements in onshore oil and gas wells were used to evaluate pressure regimes. Pressure-depth profiles and potentiometric surfaces constructed from this data revealed three hydrologic regimes: a shallow section with fresh to moderately saline water in the upper 3,000-4,000 ft, an essentially saline hydrostatic section 4,000-5,000 ft thick, and a deeper overpressured section with moderate to high salinities. The hydrologic complexity is further compounded by extensive depressurization in the 4,000-8,000 ft depth interval, likely resulting from the production of over 10 billion barrels of oil equivalent and associated brines over the past 50 years. It was not possible to construct a composite potentiometric surface of the entire Frio to determine "natural" flow gradients or "natural" points of discharge. Potentiometric surfaces representing discrete depth intervals were mapped, and these values, along with flow gradients determined from potentiometric surfaces and published permeability and porosity data, were used to compute linear fluid flow velocities ranging from 0.01 ft/year to 105 ft/year in the lateral direction. The potential for vertical fluid migration was investigated using equivalent environmental hydraulic head maps. The presence of widespread pockets of depressured formations significantly affects the direction and value of fluid gradients, as these depressured oil and gas fields may become potential sinks for the injected chemical wastes. Published water chemistry data were supplemented by field sampling of waters from 32 oil fields. Active recharge of the Frio by continental waters does not seem to be occurring. All sampled waters appear to be in isotopic equilibrium with the rock matrix. Salt dome dissolution is the primary reaction controlling water chemistry in the northern section, while brines from the deeper geopressured section may be leaking into the hydrostatic section of the central and southern Gulf Coast Frio. The absence of organic acids and the alteration of Frio oils from samples shallower than approximately 7,000 ft suggest biodegradation, which has useful implications for the degradation of injected chemical wastes. A detailed analysis of the localized hydrodynamics in Victoria County, Texas, as a case study demonstrates the applicability of the developed techniques to injection facility siting and monitoring processes, particularly where depressurization was observed on a local, county-size scale.Bureau of Economic Geolog

Antibodies against Lagos Bat Virus in Megachiroptera from West Africa

To investigate the presence of Lagos bat virus (LBV)–specific antibodies in megachiroptera from West Africa, we conducted fluorescent antibody virus neutralization tests. Neutralizing antibodies were detected in Eidolon helvum (37%), Epomophorus gambianus (3%), and Epomops buettikoferi (33%, 2/6) from Ghana. These findings confirm the presence of LBV in West Africa

Assessing direct contributions of morphological awareness and prosodic sensitivity to children’s word reading and reading comprehension

We examined the independent contributions of prosodic sensitivity and morphological awareness to word reading, text reading accuracy, and reading comprehension. We did so in a longitudinal study of English-speaking children (N = 70). At 5 to 7 years of age, children completed the metalinguistic measures along with control measures of phonological awareness and vocabulary. Children completed the reading measures two years later. Morphological awareness, but not prosodic sensitivity made a significant independent contribution to word reading, text reading accuracy and reading comprehension. The effects of morphological awareness on reading comprehension remained after controls for word reading. These results suggest that morphological awareness needs to be considered seriously in models of reading development and that prosodic sensitivity might have primarily indirect relations to reading outcomes. Keywords: Morphological Awareness; Prosody; Word Reading; Reading Comprehension

Disentangling serology to elucidate henipa- and filovirus transmission in Madagascar fruit bats.

Bats are reservoirs for emerging human pathogens, including Hendra and Nipah henipaviruses and Ebola and Marburg filoviruses. These viruses demonstrate predictable patterns in seasonality and age structure across multiple systems; previous work suggests that they may circulate in Madagascar's endemic fruit bats, which are widely consumed as human food. We aimed to (a) document the extent of henipa- and filovirus exposure among Malagasy fruit bats, (b) explore seasonality in seroprevalence and serostatus in these bat populations and (c) compare mechanistic hypotheses for possible transmission dynamics underlying these data. To this end, we amassed and analysed a unique dataset documenting longitudinal serological henipa- and filovirus dynamics in three Madagascar fruit bat species. We uncovered serological evidence of exposure to Hendra-/Nipah-related henipaviruses in Eidolon dupreanum, Pteropus rufus and Rousettus madagascariensis, to Cedar-related henipaviruses in E. dupreanum and R. madagascariensis and to Ebola-related filoviruses in P. rufus and R. madagascariensis. We demonstrated significant seasonality in population-level seroprevalence and individual serostatus for multiple viruses across these species, linked to the female reproductive calendar. An age-structured subset of the data highlighted evidence of waning maternal antibodies in neonates, increasing seroprevalence in young and decreasing seroprevalence late in life. Comparison of mechanistic epidemiological models fit to these data offered support for transmission hypotheses permitting waning antibodies but retained immunity in adult-age bats. Our findings suggest that bats may seasonally modulate mechanisms of pathogen control, with consequences for population-level transmission. Additionally, we narrow the field of candidate transmission hypotheses by which bats are presumed to host and transmit potentially zoonotic viruses globally.National Geographic Society (Young Explorer’s and Waitt grants to CEB) PIVOT (research grant to CEB) National Science Foundation (Dissertation Improvement Grant and Graduate Research Fellowship to CEB) Princeton University (Walbridge Research Fund Grant to CEB; Center for Health and Well-being Grant to CJM) a Biological Defense Research Directorate of the Naval Medical Research Center and the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health (research grant AI054715 to CCB) Queensland Government Accelerate Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to AJP The Alborada Trust (JLNW

Infrared Nonlinear Optics

Contains report on one research project.U. S. Air Force - Office of Scientific Research (Grant AFOSR-76-2894

New Ediacaran biota from the oldest Nama Group, Namibia (Tsaus Mountains), and re-definition of the Nama Assemblage

The Nama Group, Namibia (≥550.5 to <538 million years ago, Ma), preserves one of the most diverse metazoan fossil records of the terminal Ediacaran Period. We report numerous features that may be biological in origin from the shallow marine, siliciclastic, lowermost Mara Member (older than ca. 550.5 Ma) from the Tsaus Mountains. These include forms that potentially represent body fossils, Beltanelliformis and an indeterminate juvenile uniterminal rangeomorph or arboreomorph frond, plug trace fossils, Bergaueria, as well as sedimentary surface textures, which are possibly microbially induced. These are the oldest documented macrofossils in the Nama Group. They represent taxa that persist from the Avalon or White Sea assemblages prior to the later appearance of new biota, including calcified metazoans, calcified and soft-bodied tubular taxa including all cloudinids, as well as more complex trace fossils.Using a new age model that allows more accurate stratigraphic placement of major Ediacaran macrofossil morphogroups and taxa, we propose a re-definition of the Nama Assemblage following the practice for Phanerozoic evolutionary faunas to include only new morphogroups of soft-bodied tubular, calcified taxa and complex trace fossils, defined by first appearance of Cloudina, which postdates deposition of the Kanies and lower Mara members and first appears ca. 550 Ma and persists until at least 539 Ma.Finally, the Tsaus Mountain environment is pristine, unspoilt by geologists and naturalists. Following World Heritage Convention, we suggest a pledge of non-destructive excavation that all future scientists should be able to make in publications of work that involve research in this area