Psychoanalysis, feminism, and the politics of exclusion: A rejoinder.

In a book review published in this journal, Fine (see record 2003-05429-013) criticized Lerner's (see record 2006-00700-000) The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships and raised broader concerns about the popularization of psychological ideas and about feminist psychoanalytic theory. This rejoinder takes issue with his criticisms, arguing that there is a legitimate place for careful popular presentation of psychological knowledge and that feminist psychoanalytic writings represent a serious and thoughtful body of theoretical work. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Magnesium global development: Outcomes from the TMS 2007 annual meeting

The magnesium industry is experiencing dramatic growth, due in part to the demands of the automotive industry to improve fuel economy and emissions. As a result, the TMS annual magnesium symposium is one of the fastest-growing subject areas at TMS. In addition, TMS is recognized as the global light metals community’s preeminent forum for the presentation of magnesium science and technological issues. As a focal point of the 2007 TMS Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida, the TMS Magnesium Committee held its first plenary session with expert representatives from around the world. In order to address the surge in magnesium technology in recent years, the TMS Magnesium Globalization plenary session included a variety of subjects that ranged from economic to technical.     

Consistency-motivated reason maintenance in hypothetical reasoning

We present a general framework for logic-based hypothetical reasoning, which introduces truth maintenance, as a collection of truth tables, to Theorist-like hypothetical reasoning systems. This framework uses full first-order logic, performs nonmonotonic reasoning by maintaining refutable theories, and incrementally identifies and records information (similar to the TMS-like caching mechanism) about inconsistencies and derived implicit knowledge, to improve overall search efficiency. The proposed framework retains the simplicity of hypothetical reasoning and adds the advantage of an incremental dynamic truth maintenance system. Experimental results provide evidence for efficiency advantages of the proposed framework.     

Design of a commercial solar-powered greenhouse

A completely solar-powered greenhouse complex has been designed for climate controlled food production in hot, humid environments. The concept uses passive design features to provide irrigation water from saline water sources. This paper discusses the overall system concept and the solar still subsystem which has been designed to provide a continuous fresh water supply. While incorporating many innovative features, the use of proven technologies and passive design results in a system that should compete economically with current, more traditional designs.     

Effortful touch with minimum movement: Revisited.

The ecological static moment-torque model proposed by C. Carello, P. Fitzpatrick, I. Domaniewicz, T. C. Chan, and M. T. Turvey (see record 1992-18467-001) does not uniquely explain the perception of rod length by static holding. Guided by a mechanical analysis of the gravitational forces and torques produced in the hand as it statically holds rods of different lengths and materials at different orientations, we offer 2 additional theoretical explanations, the force-torque and weight-percept models. Experiment 1 demonstrates that all 3 models predict perceived rod length with considerable success. Experiment 2 provides clear experimental support for the force-torque and weight-percept models over the static moment-torque model. Experiment 3 pits the former 2 models against each other. Current results favor the weight-percept model. Implications for theories of haptic weight perception and design of a new tactile sensor are also considered. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Age and sex effects for emotional intensity.

Examined age and sex trends in emotional intensity in 432 Ss from adopting and nonadopting biological families. It was hypothesized that younger adults and females would report greater average levels of both positive and negative affect over time, as has been demonstrated in past research. 242 Ss (parents and offspring) completed a battery of mood scales. 190 Ss completed an affect intensity measure and a general behavior inventory. In support of the hypothesis, women scored higher on measures reflecting emotional intensity and manifestation of cyclothymic symptoms, and the scores on these measures decreased through the adult life span for both males and females. Potential reasons for the differences in emotional intensity are discussed. These include biological causes, cultural expectations, and current life experiences. (35 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Female adolescents' identity development: Age comparisons and perceived child-rearing experience.

82 females from 10th, 11th, and 12th grades in a rural high school provided responses on identity status development (diffusion, foreclosure, moratorium, and identity achievement status) and perceived parental socialization styles using the Objective Measure of Ego-Identity Status Scales and a questionnaire on parental socialization. Psychometric reevaluation of the identity status instrument (originally normed with older adolescents) and the perceived childrearing items indicated appropriateness with middle-adolescent-female samples. Age difference comparisons show that although the onset of a foreclosed status may begin during the high school years, middle adolescence is not a period of dramatic age differences. The relationship between socialization styles and identity status comparisons reveals evidence for perceived socialization practices by mothers and fathers that significantly differentiate the identity status groups. (26 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

On-line recognition (OLREC): A novel approach to visual pattern recognition

A pattern recognition system has been developed which is capable of recognizing high contrast two-dimensional visual patterns and which is insensitive to the translation, rotation and size of a pattern. The unique characteristics of the system are its speed, its low cost and the fact that it is completely self-contained.

A new technique for image recognition, suitable for applications such as industrial robotics, is presented. The technique provides invariance to rotation, translation and magnification of the image. An intelligent camera system is used to input an image, to center it, to normalize it with respect to size and to convert it into polar coordinate form. The image is then integrated over r and θ to provide two orthogonal profiles. The input profiles are compared to the reference images using a threshold comparison technique designed to provide a simple hardware implementation. Rotation of the image is handled by a one-dimensional shifting of the radial profile.

Seven experiments were performed to test the system. The results of these experiments are discussed and possible improvements to the system are suggested.     

Knowledge and beliefs regarding the consequences of cigarette smoking and their relationships to smoking status in a biracial sample.

198 men and 413 women responded to random telephone surveys in Fargo, North Dakota and Memphis, Tennessee. Each S was given the Smoking Attitudes Survey, which assesses generalized health beliefs and health-related problems associated with smoking. Ss' knowledge of smoking-associated diseases and diseases not associated with smoking was also assessed. Stepwise regression analysis of composite knowledge scores revealed 4 predictors of the health consequences of smoking: education, race, smoking status, and income. Smokers reported less knowledge and less concern about health consequences of smoking, were more likely to be male, and were more concerned about health consequences of cholesterol. The best predictor of smokers who had never attempted cessation was their greater concern over weight control, compared with smokers with a history of smoking-cessation attempts. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)