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The Development of a Measure of Men\u27s Objectification of Women
Objectification is any action that separates a woman\u27s body, body parts, or sexual functions from her person, or regards her as if her body were capable of representing her. This study aimed to develop a measure of men\u27s objectifying attitudes and behaviors towards women. Based on research in areas of sexual harassment and self-objectification, items for this measure were developed across six categories: exclusion of face and emphasis on body, independence from attraction, disempathy/ disrespect, anonymity, surveillance, and social behaviors. Sixty items were created across these categories, and the measure was distributed to 93 Illinois Wesleyan University male students. Internal consistencies were high for the original 60 items (a=.89), the refined 44-item pool (a=.92), and the 25 items extracted from a factor analysis (a=.89). A factor analysis with 4 factors produced the most interpretable groupings of items. The item groups produced by the factor analysis supported 3 of the proposed categories of objectification: exclusion of face and emphasis of body, independence from attraction, and disempathy. The development of this measure should be continued in other studies by examining the factors identified by this study, as well as testing the measure\u27s reliability over time and its construct validity
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Analysis of Fuel Cell Vehicles Hybridization and Implications for Energy Storage Devices
Presents an analysis of hybridization and implications energy storage devices concerning fuel cell vehicles
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Battery Usage and Thermal Performance of the Toyota Prius and Honda Insight for Various Chassis Dynamometer Test Procedures: Preprint
This study describes the results from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL) chassis dynamometer testing of a 2000 model year Honda Insight and 2001 model year Toyota Prius. The tests were conducted for the purpose of evaluating the battery thermal performance, assessing the impact of air conditioning on fuel economy and emissions, and providing information for NREL's Advanced Vehicle Simulator (ADVISOR)
Mid-infrared frequency comb spanning an octave based on an Er fiber laser and difference-frequency generation
We describe a coherent mid-infrared continuum source with 700 cm-1 usable
bandwidth, readily tuned within 600 - 2500 cm-1 (4 - 17 \mum) and thus covering
much of the infrared "fingerprint" molecular vibration region. It is based on
nonlinear frequency conversion in GaSe using a compact commercial 100-fs-pulsed
Er fiber laser system providing two amplified near-infrared beams, one of them
broadened by a nonlinear optical fiber. The resulting collimated mid-infrared
continuum beam of 1 mW quasi-cw power represents a coherent infrared frequency
comb with zero carrier-envelope phase, containing about 500,000 modes that are
exact multiples of the pulse repetition rate of 40 MHz. The beam's
diffraction-limited performance enables long-distance spectroscopic probing as
well as maximal focusability for classical and ultraresolving near-field
microscopies. Applications are foreseen also in studies of transient chemical
phenomena even at ultrafast pump-probe scale, and in high-resolution gas
spectroscopy for e.g. breath analysis.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures revised version, added reference
Spectroscopy of the Methane {\nu}3 Band with an Accurate Mid-Infrared Coherent Dual- Comb Spectrometer
We demonstrate a high-accuracy dual-comb spectrometer centered at 3.4 \mu m.
The amplitude and phase spectra of the P, Q, and partial R-branch of the
methane {\nu}3 band are measured at 25 MHz to 100 MHz point spacing with ~kHz
resolution and a signal-to-noise ratio of up to 3500. A fit of the absorbance
and phase spectra yield the center frequency of 132 rovibrational lines. The
systematic uncertainty is estimated to be 300 kHz, which is 10-3 of the Doppler
width and a tenfold improvement over Fourier transform spectroscopy. These data
are the first high- accuracy molecular spectra obtained with a direct comb
spectrometer.Comment: journal articl
Acetaminophen-cysteine adducts during therapeutic dosing and following overdose
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Acetaminophen-cysteine adducts (APAP-CYS) are a specific biomarker of acetaminophen exposure. APAP-CYS concentrations have been described in the setting of acute overdose, and a concentration >1.1 nmol/ml has been suggested as a marker of hepatic injury from acetaminophen overdose in patients with an ALT >1000 IU/L. However, the concentrations of APAP-CYS during therapeutic dosing, in cases of acetaminophen toxicity from repeated dosing and in cases of hepatic injury from non-acetaminophen hepatotoxins have not been well characterized. The objective of this study is to describe APAP-CYS concentrations in these clinical settings as well as to further characterize the concentrations observed following acetaminophen overdose.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Samples were collected during three clinical trials in which subjects received 4 g/day of acetaminophen and during an observational study of acetaminophen overdose patients. Trial 1 consisted of non-drinkers who received APAP for 10 days, Trial 2 consisted of moderate drinkers dosed for 10 days and Trial 3 included subjects who chronically abuse alcohol dosed for 5 days. Patients in the observational study were categorized by type of acetaminophen exposure (single or repeated). Serum APAP-CYS was measured using high pressure liquid chromatography with electrochemical detection.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Trial 1 included 144 samples from 24 subjects; Trial 2 included 182 samples from 91 subjects and Trial 3 included 200 samples from 40 subjects. In addition, we collected samples from 19 subjects with acute acetaminophen ingestion, 7 subjects with repeated acetaminophen exposure and 4 subjects who ingested another hepatotoxin. The mean (SD) peak APAP-CYS concentrations for the Trials were: Trial 1- 0.4 (0.20) nmol/ml, Trial 2- 0.1 (0.09) nmol/ml and Trial 3- 0.3 (0.12) nmol/ml. APAP-CYS concentrations varied substantially among the patients with acetaminophen toxicity (0.10 to 27.3 nmol/ml). No subject had detectable APAP-CYS following exposure to a non-acetaminophen hepatotoxin.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>Lower concentrations of APAP-CYS are detectable after exposure to therapeutic doses of acetaminophen and higher concentrations are detected after acute acetaminophen overdose and in patients with acetaminophen toxicity following repeated exposure.</p
Adaptive real-time dual-comb spectroscopy
With the advent of laser frequency combs, coherent light sources that offer
equally-spaced sharp lines over a broad spectral bandwidth have become
available. One decade after revolutionizing optical frequency metrology,
frequency combs hold much promise for significant advances in a growing number
of applications including molecular spectroscopy. Despite its intriguing
potential for the measurement of molecular spectra spanning tens of nanometers
within tens of microseconds at Doppler-limited resolution, the development of
dual-comb spectroscopy is hindered by the extremely demanding high-bandwidth
servo-control conditions of the laser combs. Here we overcome this difficulty.
We experimentally demonstrate a straightforward concept of real-time dual-comb
spectroscopy, which only uses free-running mode-locked lasers without any
phase-lock electronics, a posteriori data-processing, or the need for expertise
in frequency metrology. The resulting simplicity and versatility of our new
technique of adaptive dual-comb spectroscopy offer a powerful transdisciplinary
instrument that may spark off new discoveries in molecular sciences.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figure
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