The Relationship Between Neurotic Perfectionism and Symptoms of Eating Disorders in College-Age Women

This study was designed to examine the relationship between neurotic perfectionism and symptoms of eating disorders in college-age women. There is minimal published research addressing this relationship, and only one study has been conducted in which eating-disordered subjects were compared to non-eating-disordered subjects. Sixty-five female participants completed survey materials including the Eating Disorder Inventory-2 (EDI-2) and the Neurotic Perfectionism Questionnaire (NPQ.) Participants were recruited from the Pavilion, the Eastern Illinois University Counseling Center, and from introductory psychology classes at Eastern Illinois University. Results suggest that there is a direct relationship between neurotic perfectionism and symptoms of eating disorders in college-age females. Participants with eating disorders and those who had disturbed eating behaviors (undiagnosed eating disorders) had stronger correlations between neurotic perfectionism and eating disorder symptomology than did the comparison group, and the eating-disordered and undiagnosed participants had higher NPQ scores than the comparison group. Implications and suggestions for future research are discussed

Secure postal voting

There has been several recent attempts to enhance postal voting systems with the technologies of end-to-end voting systems to obtain the best of both worlds. Our contribution is two fold. We rst propose a postal voting protocol that uses ballots interpretable by the voters, and then we give a security model in a simpler variant of the universally composable model (SUC) for which our protocol is provably secure

Darron Devillez: What Forensics Did For Me

ALUMNI CORNER: The forensic community is filled with alumni who will tout the benefits they received through their participation in intercollegiate speech and debate activities. As directors of forensics programs face battles for budgets and sometimes for their program’s very existence, having a collection of published testimonies about the positive influence of forensics can be a tremendous help. To that end, Speaker & Gavel is setting aside space in each issue for our alumni to talk about how forensics has helped them in their professional life. These are our alumni’s stories

The Relationship Between Neurotic Perfectionism and Symptoms of Eating Disorders in College-Age Women

This study was designed to examine the relationship between neurotic perfectionism and symptoms of eating disorders in college-age women. There is minimal published research addressing this relationship, and only one study has been conducted in which eating-disordered subjects were compared to non-eating-disordered subjects. Sixty-five female participants completed survey materials including the Eating Disorder Inventory-2 (EDI-2) and the Neurotic Perfectionism Questionnaire (NPQ.) Participants were recruited from the Pavilion, the Eastern Illinois University Counseling Center, and from introductory psychology classes at Eastern Illinois University. Results suggest that there is a direct relationship between neurotic perfectionism and symptoms of eating disorders in college-age females. Participants with eating disorders and those who had disturbed eating behaviors (undiagnosed eating disorders) had stronger correlations between neurotic perfectionism and eating disorder symptomology than did the comparison group, and the eating-disordered and undiagnosed participants had higher NPQ scores than the comparison group. Implications and suggestions for future research are discussed

How a distractor influences fixations during the exploration of natural scenes

The distractor effect is a well-established means of studying different aspects of fixation pro-gramming during the exploration of visual scenes. In this study, we present a task-irrelevant distractor to participants during the free exploration of natural scenes. We investigate the con-trol and programming of fixations by analyzing fixation durations and locations, and the link between the two. We also propose a simple mixture model evaluated using the Expectation-Maximization algorithm to test the distractor effect on fixation locations, including fixations which did not land on the distractor. The model allows us to quantify the influence of a visual distractor on fixation location relative to scene saliency for all fixations, at distractor onset and during all subsequent exploration. The distractor effect is not just limited to the current fixa-tion, it continues to influence fixations during subsequent exploration. An abrupt change in the stimulus not only increases the duration of the current fixation, it also influences the location of the fixation which occurs immediately afterwards and to some extent, in function of the length of the change, the duration and location of any subsequent fixations. Overall, results from the eye movement analysis and the statistical model suggest that fixation durations and locations are both controlled by direct and indirect mechanisms

Discharge coefficient of an orifice jet in cross flow: influence of inlet conditions and optimum velocity ratio

International audienceThe present work aims to characterize the discharge performance of aircraft door vent flaps. For this purpose, three different configurations with increasing complexity are studied with a RANS and a LES solver. The first configuration consists of an orifice plate in a duct for which experimental pressure loss data are available in the literature. This configuration is used as a reference for the validation of the RANS and LES setups. The duct placed downstream of the orifice is then removed to produce an unconfined geometry in which the orifice jet discharges either into an open atmosphere or a transverse flow. Finally, a classic jet in cross flow is also studied. The main objective is to analyze the discharge coefficient variations depending on three key parameters: (i) the jet Reynolds number, (ii) the inlet velocity profile, and (iii) the velocity ratio between the jet and the cross flow. Results show that for cases without cross flow, the jet Reynolds number has no influence on the discharge performance whereas a steady decrease of the orifice pressure loss is observed as the duct inlet velocity profile is deformed from that of a flat profile. The Poiseuille profile is found to minimize the pressure loss. In addition, numerical data of the reference configuration compare well with experimental values when such a profile is prescribed. Finally, simulations with a cross flow evidence an optimal velocity ratio for which the discharge coefficient is maximum and exceeds the freejet value