Two Essays on Time Perceptions and Patience

My dissertation examines how the properties inherent to time can affect perception of wait time and, consequently, patience. Patience, or the willingness to forgo a smaller reward in the present in order to obtain a larger reward in the future, is an important construct in the consumer behavior literature. I focus on how consumers perceive wait time when faced with an intertemporal choice between a smaller-sooner option and a larger-later one (e.g., receive less money earlier vs. more money later). In this type of situation, wait time is standing between the individual and a better option. I argue that the properties of time itself can affect wait time perception, which in turn can affect patience for a larger-later reward. There exists scant research on how the properties of time itself can affect time perception and patience, and said research focuses on quantitative properties of time (duration, numeric labels of time, etc.). The focus of my dissertation is on qualitative properties of time—how the anthropomorphic properties of time (essay 1) and the linguistic properties of time (essay 2) can affect time perception and, in turn, patience. Essay 1 introduces time anthropomorphism: a tendency to attribute time with humanlike mental states (e.g., time has intentions; it has a will of its own). I find that when time is anthropomorphized, it affects patience through a potency process. That is, for low power (but not high power) individuals, wait time is perceived to be more aversive when anthropomorphized, leading to a preference for a larger-later option versus a smaller-sooner one. v Essay 2 explores the notion that the language used in frames describing time may affect patience. In intertemporal settings, patience is influenced by the size of the later reward relative to the sooner one—a much-larger (vs. larger) later reward induces more patience. I show that this effect is moderated by the frame of wait time—the effect of reward size is stronger in far (vs. long) frames. Conceptualizing the later reward as a “destination” at the end of a wait time, I argue that destinations are associated more with far (vs. long) frames. Consequently, increasing the size of the destination (i.e., later reward) leads to relatively contracted time perception, and higher patience in far (vs. long) frames

THE CHANGING FACE OF PHYSICAL MEDICINE1 1Presidentia1 address (abudged) read at the ninth annual meeting of the Australasian Association of Physical Medicine, March, 1954

For many centuries some form of physical therapy has been practised by one individual on another–for example, poultices, foments, rubbing, sunbathing and exercises, to mention the most commonplace. Hippocrates and Herodotus advised the use of the sun's rays. There is ample evidence from Roman times in Britain that heat treatment was used, and many of the spas of England and the Continent have their origin in the Roman expansion Not so many years ago rubbing and beating with bones fashioned to a suitable shape were methods of producing an erythema or skin reaction, with histamine release by friction. With the discovery of electricity further interest was aroused, and from this developed the era of electro-medical treatment. Twenty years ago, when I first interested myself in the subject of physical therapy, many of the British workers, known as electrotherapists, were mostly interested in treatment by electrical means

Mathematical modelling of glass melting fumace design with regard to ΝΟₓ formation

Α three-dimensional mathematical model for turbulent flow and combustion on the basis of turbulence/chemistry interactions and radiative heat transfer taking into account spectral effects of surrounding walls and combustion gases is described. For this the transport equation for radiative intensity was split into different wavelength ranges. Α block-structured finite volume grid with local refmements was used to solve the governing equations. The calculation domain is subdivided into a number of subdomains which are linked within the solver based on the Message Passing Interface library Computed distributions of velocity, temperature, and heat fluxes are given. Results of a parametric study in a producing horseshoe furnace by increasing the height of the furnace with regard to ΝΟₓ concentration distributions are presented

Bimetric gravity is cosmologically viable

Bimetric theory describes gravitational interactions in the presence of an extra spin-2 field. Previous work has suggested that its cosmological solutions are generically plagued by instabilities. We show that by taking the Planck mass for the second metric, $M_f$, to be small, these instabilities can be pushed back to unobservably early times. In this limit, the theory approaches general relativity with an effective cosmological constant which is, remarkably, determined by the spin-2 interaction scale. This provides a late-time expansion history which is extremely close to $\Lambda$CDM, but with a technically-natural value for the cosmological constant. We find $M_f$ should be no larger than the electroweak scale in order for cosmological perturbations to be stable by big-bang nucleosynthesis. We further show that in this limit the helicity-0 mode is no longer strongly-coupled at low energy scales.Comment: 8+2 pages, 2 tables. Version published in PLB. Minor typo corrections from v

What Am I Supposed To Do

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An implicit finite difference approximation to the one-dimensional transport equation

The properties of an implicit three-level finite difference scheme are investigated. The modified equivalent partial differential equation is used to determine the speed and amplitude characteristics of the scheme, and these are used to determine the optimal value of the weighting between a central difference and an upwind biased difference. Results of numerical experiments that confirm that the predicted value of the weight does minimise the error are presented

Peritonsillar Abscess with Uvular Hydrops

The use of ultrasound by emergency physicians has improved the evaluation of pharyngeal infections. We present a unique case of concomitant peritonsillar abscess and uvular hydrops in which ultrasound provided accurate, timely information in the evaluation

Ultrafast heterogeneous electron transfer reactions Comparative theoretical studies on time and frequency domain data

Recent theoretical studies on linear absorption spectra of dye semiconductor systems perylene attached to nanostructured TiO2, L. Wang et al., J. Phys. Chem. B 109, 9589 2005 are extended here in different respects. Since the systems show ultrafast photoinduced heterogeneous electron transfer the time dependent formulation used to compute the absorbance is also applied to calculate the temporal evolution of the sub 100 fs charge injection dynamics after a 10 fs laser pulse excitation. These studies complement our recent absorption spectra fit for two perylene bridge anchor group TiO2 systems. Moreover, the time dependent formulation of the absorbance is confronted with a frequency domain description. The latter underlines the central importance of the self energy caused by the coupling of the dye levels to the semiconductor band continuum. The used model is further applied to study the effect of different parameters such as 1 the dependence on the reorganization energies of the involved intramolecular transitions, 2 the effect of changing the transfer integral which couples the excited dye state with the band continuum, and 3 the effect of the concrete form of the semiconductor band density of states. Emphasis is also put on the case where the charge injection level of the dye is near or somewhat below the band edge. This nicely demonstrates the change from a structureless absorption to a well resolved vibrational progression including characteristic shifts of the absorption lines which are a direct measure for the dye semiconductor couplin

Factors that promote or inhibit the implementation of e-health systems: an explanatory systematic review

OBJECTIVE: To systematically review the literature on the implementation of e-health to identify: (i) barriers and facilitators to e-health implementation, and (ii) outstanding gaps in research on the subject.METHODS: MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, PSYCINFO and the Cochrane Library were searched for reviews published between 1 January 1995 and 17 March 2009. Studies had to be systematic reviews, narrative reviews, qualitative metasyntheses or meta-ethnographies of e-health implementation. Abstracts and papers were double screened and data were extracted on country of origin; e-health domain; publication date; aims and methods; databases searched; inclusion and exclusion criteria and number of papers included. Data were analysed qualitatively using normalization process theory as an explanatory coding framework.FINDINGS: Inclusion criteria were met by 37 papers; 20 had been published between 1995 and 2007 and 17 between 2008 and 2009. Methodological quality was poor: 19 papers did not specify the inclusion and exclusion criteria and 13 did not indicate the precise number of articles screened. The use of normalization process theory as a conceptual framework revealed that relatively little attention was paid to: (i) work directed at making sense of e-health systems, specifying their purposes and benefits, establishing their value to users and planning their implementation; (ii) factors promoting or inhibiting engagement and participation; (iii) effects on roles and responsibilities; (iv) risk management, and (v) ways in which implementation processes might be reconfigured by user-produced knowledge.CONCLUSION: The published literature focused on organizational issues, neglecting the wider social framework that must be considered when introducing new technologies.<br/

Sing A Little Song

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