A clinical psychology minor.

Survey results from 80 directors of clinical psychology (CLP) programs show that 17 Ss permitted graduate students majoring in other areas to take a minor in CLP. Five programs did not meet the definition of a minor in CLP, but the other 12 programs admitted nonclinical students into a CLP minor complete with practica. Such minor programs may warrant attention during review for accreditation from the American Psychological Association. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Daily Fluctuations in Self-Control Demands and Alcohol Intake.

Predictions made by the self-control strength model were tested in a sample of underage social drinkers using ecological momentary assessment methodology. On days that participants experienced more self-control demands than average, they were more likely to violate their self-imposed drinking limit after controlling for mood and urge to drink. There was no relationship between self-control demands and urge or intention to drink, nor were self-control demands related to plans to limit drinking. When individuals planned to limit their alcohol intake, they were more affected by self-control demands than when they did not plan to limit their alcohol intake. Trait self-control moderated these relationships. Consistent with the self-control strength model, it appears that exerting self-control in nondrinking areas undermines individuals' capacity to exert self-control of drinking in daily life. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Semi-Markovian approach for modelling seismic aftershocks

In this paper, we present an approach, based on a Markov process, for modelling earthquake aftershocks. From our earthquake aftershock swarm files, we first show our preliminary observations on the phenomenon. Then we present the theoretical basis of a semi-Markovian approach and develop a parametric study of the proposed model. Finally, we discuss the results obtained to date, together with possible improvements of the model.     

Chemical preparation of spherical lithium tantalate powder

Spherical, micron size lithium tantalate powder was prepared by spray drying a lithium tantalate precursor using a mini spray dryer. Three chemical routes were used to prepare the lithium tantalate precursors, using lithium acetate and tantalum ethoxide as starting materials. The affects of processing parameters, such as solvent, drying temperature, and water, on the properties of the resulting powders were investigated. The as-dried powders were amorphous and became crystalline at a temperature as low as 450° C.     

Sensory quality and internal atmosphere of fresh-cut Golden Delicious apples

The sensory shelf‐life of Golden Delicious fresh‐cut apples, dipped in 10 g L^?1 ascorbic acid and 5 g L^?1 calcium chloride and packaged under different modified atmosphere conditions, was assessed throughout refrigerated storage. An initial atmosphere of 0 kPa O₂ and plastic packages of an O₂ permeability of 15 cm³ m^?2 bar^?1 day^?1 were very effective in preserving the initial colour and firmness of apple cubes during at least 3 weeks of storage. These conditions resulted in increased respiration coefficients, which curbed the product consumer acceptance beyond the second week of storage. However, reduced ethylene and CO₂ production limited the appearance of fermentative metabolites during this period.     

General Reversibility

The first and the second author introduced reversible CCS (RCCS) in order to model concurrent computations where certain actions are allowed to be reversed. Here we show that the core of the construction can be analysed at an abstract level, yielding a theorem of pure category theory which underlies the previous results. This opens the way to several new examples; in particular we demonstrate an application to Petri nets.     

A two-level computable equilibrium model to assess the strategic allocation of emission allowances within the European union

This paper deals with the modeling of the strategic allocation of greenhouse gases emission allowances in the EU-wide trading market that results from Kyoto agreement implementation. An M-matrix game is formulated where the players are countries or groups of countries that may have a strategic influence through their allocation of emission allowances and the payoffs are the welfare gains of these countries, evaluated from a multi-country computable general equilibrium model. To solve the matrix game one uses the concept of correlated equilibrium which makes sense in the context of EU negotiations. One studies several formulations of that two-level game structure and, in all these instances, we obtain a unique equilibrium solution that can be given an interesting interpretation for establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the community.     

Optimisation of cobalt-based hardfacing in carbon steel using the fuzzy analysis for the robust design

In this paper, we present the application of the fuzzy logic analysis to a Taguchi orthogonal experiment for developing a robust model with high efficiency in multiple performance characteristics (MPCs) of the plasma transfer arc welding (PTAW) hardfacing process. It eliminates uncertain information and is a simple, effective, and efficient approach. A fuzzy logic system is used to simultaneously investigate relationships between various MPCs and to determine the efficiency of each trial of the Taguchi experiments. From the fuzzy inference process, we are able to determine the optimal setting of factor-levels for the MPCs. In addition, we also use the analysis of variance (ANOVA) to identify the significant factors, which coincide with findings from the fuzzy logic analysis and are found to account for about 79% of the total variance. Furthermore, a confirmation experiment of the optimal process is conducted, and it verifies that both individual performance characteristics and MPCs are successfully optimized and satisfy our desired levels of MPCs.