Creating a Tanned Body with or without a U.V Risk and its Implication to Behavioral Alternatives and Body Stigmatization

Commonly stigmatized behaviors such as tattooing or piercing, often associated with low socioeconomic groups, may be significantly higher among tanners who risk skin cancer. Therefore, it is conceptualized that appearance management behaviors differ among those who tan with UV exposure risk and those who tan without UV exposure risk. An accurate understanding of UV-induced tanning behavior in relation to other stigmatized behaviors will be an important tool in correcting the idealized images of tanners in our society. The goal of this study is to understand the relationship between college students\u27 engagement of tanning methods and risky appearance management behaviors, and to stigmatize unhealthy behaviors. It is interesting to note that while safer tanners are invested in their appearance, they are more concerned with the visibility of certain behavioral outcomes that connect with negative stereotypes

Influences of Parental Attachment and Life Satisfaction on Social Tanning Behaviors among College Students

The goal of this study is to assess the effect of parental attachment and life satisfaction on social tanning behaviors. Due to the perceived attractiveness of tanned skin, body-tanning behavior via outdoor and indoor tanning bed use is increasingly popular. The evidence supporting appearance-motive tanning indicates that indoor UV tanning is highly motivated by social influences (Hillhouse, Turrisi, Holwiski, & McVeigh, 1999). Previous studies have identified the significance of social tanning (i.e., tanning with others) in that people define the self-concept in terms of groups with whom individuals associate (Rubin, Bukowski, & Parker, 2007). An in-depth analysis of factors influencing social tanning behavior is critical for the development of effective, yet novel interventions designed to reduce harmful tanning behaviors. Therefore, the specific questions are addressed as follows: “What influences do parental attachment and life satisfaction have on college students’ social tanning behavior?

Propensity to Undergo Cosmetic Surgery and Risky Body Modification among Indoor Tanning Bed Users: An Illustration from Female College Students

The goal of this research is to identify the motivation to undergo cosmetic surgery and to engage in specific types of risky body-modification behaviors that counteract the well-being of frequent tanning bed users. Individuals who engage in indoor tanning bed use are more likely to engage in risky, yet voluntary, body modification such as plastic surgery and risky weight management behaviors. These findings are in line with the previous research that body shape and weight concerns have been associated with frequent indoor tanning, perhaps due to individuals\u27 belief that a tanned appearance makes one’s body shape appear more attractive. Presently, tanning and plastic surgery are perceived by many as body modification behaviors. Given their apparent increase and interconnection, identification of the characteristics of people who engage in tanning and other risky body modification is important to develop the comprehensive understanding of body-tanners

Hydraulic and ecological changes under drainage gate operations with coupled model SCHISM-CoSiNE in Saemangeum basin, Korea

The drainage gates have been controlled for desalination under normal conditions and flood defense in  Saemangeum basin, Korea. Recently, it became an issue that the gates have been opened not to deteriorate water quality in the lake. It is, thus, necessary to precisely estimate the changes of water quality characteristics, especially DO, phosphate and nitrate, in the lake according to various gate operations. In this study, Semi-implicit Cross-scale Hydroscience Integrated System Model and Carbon, Silicate, Nitrogen Ecosystem model (SCHISM-CoSiNE) which is cable to simulate dynamic exchange such as gate operation conditions was utilized to obtain reliable and reasonable results including hydrodyanamic and environmental variables. For the verification, the measured data at 6 locations in Saemangeum basin was used to compare  incluidng temperatue and salintiy from 2016 and each relative error became small enough to show high accurary. Also, under various scenarios by changing the designated water surface elevation on flood seasons, this model has been applied to present the best designated water surface elevation in terms of both water quality and water supply in the Saemangeum basin. It becomes possbile to show reliable guidance for dynamic operations and environmental changes with this model as requested in near future

Selection of Elevation Models for Flood Inundation Map Generation in Small Urban Stream: Case Study of Anyang Stream

To reduce flood damages, the Ministry of Environment in Korea has provided a flood inundation map so that people can expediently identify flood-prone areas. However, the current flood inundation maps have been produced based on the DEM which makes it difficult to represent realistic situations due to the lack of reproduction of land surface conditions. This study aims to provide more accurate and detailed flood inundation maps for flooding events due to river overflow in small urban areas. In this study, flood inundation analysis is performed using the river analysis system, HEC-RAS 2D, with the DSM and the DEM of urban areas in the Anyang Stream Basin, Korea to examine the differences in terms of terrain data and flooded area. Finally, for urban areas with dense buildings and congested road networks, the flood inundation analysis based on DSM can represent a more realistic flood situation and create an appropriate flood inundation map

The first Irish genome and ways of improving sequence accuracy

Whole-genome sequencing of an Irish person reveals hundreds of thousands of novel genomic variants. Imputation using previous known information improves the accuracy of low-read-depth sequencing

Optimal Multilayer Adaptation of SVC Video over Heterogeneous Environments

Scalable video coding (SVC) is a new video coding format which provides scalability in three-dimensional (spatio-temporal-SNR) space. In this paper, we focus on the adaptation in SNR dimension. Usually, an SVC bitstream may contain multiple spatial layers, and each spatial layer may be enhanced by several FGS layers. To meet a bitrate constraint, the fine-grained scalability (FGS) data of different spatial layers can be truncated in various manners. However, the contributions of FGS layers to the overall/collective video quality are different. In this work, we propose an optimized framework to control the SNR scalability across multiple spatial layers. Our proposed framework has the flexibility in allocating the resource (i.e., bitrate) among spatial layers, where the overall quality is defined as a function of all spatial layers' qualities and can be modified on the fly