Evaluating psychometric properties of the Emotional Eating Scale Adapted for Children and Adolescents (EES-C) in a clinical sample of children seeking treatment for obesity: a case for the unidimensional model.

BackgroundThe Emotional Eating Scale - Adapted for Children and Adolescents (EES-C) assesses children's urge to eat in response to experiences of negative affect. Prior psychometric studies have demonstrated the high reliability, concurrent validity, and test-retest reliability of theoretically defined subconstructs among non-clinical samples of children and adolescents who were primarily healthy weight; however, no psychometric studies exist investigating the EES-C among clinical samples of children with overweight/obesity (OW/OB). Furthermore, studies conducted in different contexts have suggested a discordant number of subconstructs of emotions related to eating. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the validity of the EES-C in a clinical sample of children seeking weight-loss treatment.MethodUsing a hierarchical bi-factor approach, we evaluated the validity of the EES-C to measure a single general construct, a set of two separate correlated subconstructs, or a hierarchical arrangement of two constructs, and determined reliability in a clinical sample of treatment-seeking children with OW/OB aged 8-12 years (N = 147, mean age = 10.4 years.; mean BMI z = 2.0; female = 66%; Hispanic = 32%, White and other = 68%).ResultsComparison of factor-extraction methods suggested a single primary construct underlying EES-C in this clinical sample. The bi-factor indices provided clear evidence that most of the reliable variance in the total score (90.8 for bi-factor model with three grouping factors and 95.2 for bi-factor model with five grouping factors) was attributed to the general construct. After adjusting for relationships with the primary construct, remaining correlations among sets of items did not suggest additional reliable constructs.ConclusionResults suggest that the primary interpretive emphasis of the EES-C among treatment-seeking children with overweight or obesity should be placed on a single general construct, not on the 3- or 5- subconstructs as was previously suggested

Housing metadata for the common physicist using a relational database

SAM was developed as a data handling system for Run II at Fermilab. SAM is a collection of services, each described by metadata. The metadata are modeled on a relational database, and implemented in ORACLE. SAM, originally deployed in production for the D0 Run II experiment, has now been also deployed at CDF and is being commissioned at MINOS. This illustrates that the metadata decomposition of its services has a broader applicability than just one experiment. A joint working group on metadata with representatives from ATLAS, BaBar, CDF, CMS, D0, and LHCB in cooperation with EGEE has examined this metadata decomposition in the light of general HEP user requirements. Greater understanding of the required services of a performant data handling system has emerged from Run II experience. This experience is being merged with the understanding being developed in the course of LHC experience with data challenges and user case discussions. We describe the SAM schema and the commonalities of function and service support between this schema and proposals for the LHC experiments. We describe the support structure required for SAM schema updates, the use of development, integration, and production instances. We are also looking at the LHC proposals for the evolution of schema using keyword-value pairs that are then transformed into a normalized, performant database schema

Analiza przebiegów trajektorii fazowych w badaniach wypracowania tarczy wychylnej pompy wielotłoczkowej

Test of assessing a suitability of the phase trajectory pattern for diagnostics of condition changes of axial piston pumps is undertaken in the presented paper. Accomplishment reasons of investigations together with their laboratory realizations are given. They concerned the experimental comparison of changes in the phase trajectory patterns of the hydraulic pump working with a constant output pressure, in which an element of swash plate was degraded. The performed tests confirmed the suitability of phase trajectories in the recognition of degradation changes in axial piston pumps. The paper signals the usefulness of considering the introduction of phase trajectory patterns of the monitored vibration signals into processes of the diagnostic inspection of the hydraulic pump structural elements.W artykule podjęto próbę oceny przydatności obrazów trajektorii fazowych w procesie diagnozowania zmian stanu pompy wyporowej. Przedstawiono cele podjętych badań i ich laboratoryjną realizację. Dotyczyła ona eksperymentalnego sprawdzenia zmian trajektorii fazowych sprawnej pompy wyporowej pracującej, ze stałą wydajnością i przy stałym ciśnieniu, z pompą, w której element tarczy wychylnej uległ procesowi degradacji. Badania wykazały przydatność trajektorii fazowych do rozpoznawania zmian degradacyjnych w pompie wyporowej. Artykuł sygnalizuje celowość rozważenia wprowadzenia portretów fazowych monitorowanych sygnałów drganiowych do procedur nadzoru diagnostycznego stanu elementów konstrukcji pompy wyporowej

Model dynamiczny pompy tłokowej w diagnostyce zużycia jej elementów składowych

The possibility of distinguishing and assessing the influences of defects in particular pump elements by registering vibration signals at characteristic points of the pump body would be a valuable way for obtaining diagnostic information. An effective tool facilitating this task could be a well designed and identified dynamic model of the pump. When applied for a specific type of the pump, such model could additionally help to improve its construction. This paper presents model of axial piston positive displacement pump worked out by the authors. After taking the simplifying assumptions and dividing the pump into three sets of elements, it was possible to build a discrete dynamic model with 13 degrees of freedom. According to the authors' intention, the developed dynamic model of the multi-piston pump should be used for damage simulation in its individual elements. By gradual change in values of selected construction parameters of the object (for example: stiffness coefficients, damping coefficients), it is possible to perform simulation of wear in the pump. Initial verification of performance of the created model was done to examine the effect of abrasive wear on the swash plate surface. The phase trajectory runs estimated at characteristics points of the pump body were used as a useful tool to determine wear of pump elements.Możliwość rozróżnienia i oceny wpływu poszczególnych uszkodzeń elementów pompy w rejestrowanym przebiegu drgań jej korpusu stanowiłaby cenne źródło informacji diagnostycznej. Efektywnym narzędziem do osiągnięcia tego celu może być dobrze zaprojektowany i zidentyfikowany model dynamiczny, który zastosowany do konkretnego typu pompy mógłby dodatkowo pomóc w ulepszeniu jej konstrukcji. W prezentowanym artykule przedstawiono opracowany model dynamiczny osiowej pompy tłokowej. Przyjęte założenia upraszczające wraz z dokonanym podziałem pompy na zespoły pozwoliły na opis jej działania modelem dyskretnym o 13-stu stopniach swobody. Zbudowany model dynamiczny pompy - w założeniach autorów - posłużyć ma do symulacji uszkodzeń jej poszczególnych elementów. Poprzez stopniową zmianę wartości wybranych parametrów konstrukcyjnych pompy (np. współczynników sztywności, tłumienia) możliwa jest symulacja rozwoju zużycia całej pompy, jak i poszczególnych jej elementów. W pracy przedstawiono wstępną weryfikację poprawności działania opracowanego modelu na przykładzie symulacji zużycia ściernego powierzchni tarczy wychylnej. Jako źródło informacji diagnostycznej o stanie zużycia elementu składowego wykorzystano przebiegi trajektorii fazowych w punktach charakterystycznych korpusu pompy

Phase trajectory as a tool for assessing degradation processes in a displacement pump

W artykule podjęto próbę oceny przydatności obrazów trajektorii fazowych dla procesu diagnozowania zmian stanu pomp wyporowych. Przedstawiono przesłanki realizacyjne podjętych badań i ich laboratoryjną realizację. Dotyczyły one eksperymentalnego sprawdzenia zmian obrazów trajektorii fazowych sprawnej pompy wyporowej - pracującej z stałą wydajnością, z pompą w której element tarcz rozrządczych pompy wielotłoczkowej uległ procesom degradacji. Wykazały one ich informacyjną przydatność do rozpoznawania zmian degradacyjnych w pompie wyporowej. Artykuł sygnalizuje celowość rozważenia wprowadzenia portretów fazowych monitorowanych sygnałów drganiowych do procedur nadzoru diagnostycznego stanu elementów konstrukcji pompy wyporowej.A test of assessing a suitability of the phase trajectory pattern for diagnostics of condition changes of displacement pumps - is undertaken in the presented paper. Accomplishment reasons of investigations together with their laboratory realizations are given. They concerned the experimental comparison of changes in the phase trajectory patterns of the efficient displacement pump - working with a constant output - with the multi-piston pump, in which an element of the gear disc plate was degraded. The performed tests confirmed the suitability of phase trajectories in the recognition of degradation changes in displacement pumps. The paper signals the usefulness of considering the introduction of phase trajectory patterns of the monitored vibration signals into processes of the diagnostic inspection of the displacement pump structural elements

Energy spectra of electrons in the extensive air showers of ultra-high energy Energy spectra of electrons in the extensive air showers of ultra-high energy

Abstract We show that the shape of the energy spectrum of electrons in an extensive air shower with an ultra-high energy (E 10 19 eV) at a given level in the atmosphere depends only on the shower age at this level. It depends practically neither on the primary particle mass nor on its energy. This fact considerably simplifies interpretation of data from the experiments (e.g., Fly's Eye, HiRes and Auger) determining cascade curves of single showers by the fluorescence technique. In particular, the contribution of the scattered Cherenkov light to the total flux produced by a shower can be easily taken into account. Our conclusion has been drawn by analysing results of Monte Carlo simulations of showers with the CORSIKA (Heck et al 1998 Report FZKA 6019) program, using the QGSJet interaction model