The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: Report of a 25-Year Study.

This follow-up study of 131 children, who were 3-18 years old when their parents divorced in the early 1970s, marks the culmination of 25 years of research. The use of extensive clinical interviews allowed for exploration in great depth of their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors as they negotiated childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, and adulthood. At the 25-year follow-up, a comparison group of their peers from the same community was added. Described in rich clinical detail, the findings highlight the unexpected gulf between growing up in intact versus divorced families, and the difficulties children of divorce encounter in achieving love, sexual intimacy, and commitment to marriage and parenthood. These findings have significant implications for new clinical and educational interventions. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

CARBON ADSORBENTS PREPARED WITH THE USE OF PETROLEUM RESIDUES

The article describes the prepamtian method and pmperties of carbonadsorbents prepared from coal with additions of petroleum asphaltites (asphaltene concentrates) or the semicokes Adsorbents prepared according to a commercial scheme have properties of selective adsorbents for silver hydrometallurgy     

Prediction of eating problems: An 8-year study of adolescent girls.

Little prospective work has charted the onset and predictors of subclinical or clinical eating problems. Eating problems were studied in 116 adolescent girls drawn from a normal population of students enrolled in private schools in a major metropolitan area who have been followed longitudinally over an 8-yr period from young adolescence to young adulthood. Over a quarter of the sample scored above the level identifying a serious eating problem at each of the 3 times of assessment. Examination of the adolescent pattern of eating problems over young and mid-adolescence indicated that pattern was associated with (1) earlier pubertal maturation and higher body fat, (2) concurrent psychological disturbances, (3) subsequent eating problems, and (4) other long-term adjustment outcomes such as depressive affect in young adulthood. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

A randomized clinical trial of a manual-guided risk reduction intervention for HIV-positive injection drug users.

This study randomized 90 HIV-seropositive, methadone-maintained injection drug users (IDUs) to an HIV Harm Reduction Program (HHRP+) or to an active control that included harm reduction components recommended by the National AIDS Demonstration Research Project. The treatment phase lasted 6 months, with follow-ups at 6 and 9 months after treatment entry. Patients in both treatments showed reductions in risk behaviors. However, patients assigned to HHRP+ were less likely to use illicit opiates and were more likely to adhere to antiretroviral medications during treatment; at follow-up, they had lower addiction severity scores and were less likely to have engaged in high risk behavior. Findings suggest that enhancing methadone maintenance with an intervention targeting HIV-seropositive IDUs increases both harm reduction and health promotion behaviors. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Decolorization and mineralization of commercial reactive dyes under solar light assisted photo-Fenton conditions

The degradation of different commercial reactive dyes: a monoreactive dye (Procion Red H-E7B), an hetero-bireactive dye (Red Cibacron FN-R) and a Standard Trichromatic System, by using solar light assisted Fenton and photo-Fenton reaction is investigated. The reaction efficiencies have been compared with the ones obtained for the same system in the dark or under the assistance of an artificial light source. The use of solar light is clearly beneficial for the removal of color, aromatic compounds (UV₂₅₄), total organic carbon (TOC), and the increase of the BOD₅/COD ratio. The possibility of a combined advanced oxidation process (AOP)/biological treatment based on the use of sunlight is suggested.     

Wanting, having, and needing: Integrating motive disposition theory and self-determination theory.

Four studies explored the motivational and experiential dynamics of psychological needs, applying both self-determination theory and motive disposition theory. In all 4 studies, motive dispositions toward achievement and affiliation (“wanting” particular experiences) predicted corresponding feelings of competence and relatedness (“having” those experiences). Competence and relatedness in turn predicted well-being, again indicating that these 2 experiences may really be “needed.” Illuminating how wanting gets to having, in Studies 2 and 3, participants reported greater self-concordance for motive-congruent goals, which, in longitudinal Study 3, predicted greater attainment of those goals and thus enhanced well-being. Study 4 replicated selected earlier results using an implicit as well as an explicit motive disposition measure. Supporting the presumed universality of competence and relatedness needs, in no studies did motive dispositions moderate the effects of corresponding need-satisfaction on well-being. Discussion focuses on a “sequential process” model of psychological needs that views needs as both motives that instigate and outcomes that reward behavior. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)     

Three-dimensional profiling with binary fringes using phase-shifting interferometry algorithms

Three-dimensional shape measurements by sinusoidal fringe projection using phase-shifting interferometry algorithms are distorted by the nonlinear response in intensity of commercial video projectors and digital cameras. To solve the problem, we present a method that consists in projecting and acquiring a temporal sequence of strictly binary patterns, whose (adequately weighted) average leads to a sinusoidal fringe pattern with the required number of bits. Since binary patterns consist of "ones" and "zeros"--and no half-tones are involved--the nonlinear response of the projector and the camera will not play a role, and a nearly unit contrast gray-level sinusoidal fringe pattern is obtained. Validation experiments are presented.