Androgyny and the art of loving.

Argues that truly fulfilling sexual, loving relationships require the development of an intrapsychic self, best described as "androgynous." The maturest form of intimacy then would involve an ability to identify with and positively value those aspects of the self that have been culturally labeled "feminine" or "masculine" to allow for a more complete empathic connection with those "feminine" or "masculine" aspects of a love partner. Clinical examples are cited to demonstrate the inherent limitations of sex-appropriate gender/role identifications that are often pointed to as criteria for successful therapeutic outcomes in traditional schools of psychotherapy. (16 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Belle-DIRAC Setup for Using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

The Distributed Infrastructure with Remote Agent Control (DIRAC) software framework allows a user community to manage computing activities in a distributed environment. DIRAC has been developed within the Large Hadron Collider Beauty (LHCb) collaboration. After successful usage over several years, it is the final solution adopted by the experiment. The Belle experiment at the Japanese High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) has the purpose of studying matter/anti-matter asymmetries using B mesons. During its lifetime, Belle detector has collected about 5,000 terabytes of real and simulated data. The analysis of this data requires an enormous amount of computing intensive Monte Carlo simulation. The Belle II experiment, which recently published its technical design report, will produce 50 times more data. Therefore it is interested to determine if commercial computing clouds can reduce the total cost of the experiment’s computing solution. This paper describes the setup prepared to evaluate the performance and cost of this approach using real 2010 simulation tasks of the Belle experiment. The setup has been developed using DIRAC as the overall management tool to control both the tasks to be executed and the deployment of virtual machines using the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud as service provider. At the same time, DIRAC is also used to monitor the execution, collect the necessary statistical data, and finally upload the results of the simulation to Belle resources on the Grid. The results of a first test using over 2000 days of cpu time show that over 90% efficiency in the use of the resources can easily be achieved.     

Lipogenesis in iron-deficient adult rats

Iron-deficient (5 ppm Fe) or control (307 ppm Fe) diets were fed ad libitum to female rats for 7 weeks, and then meal-fed for 4 weeks. Body weights, hemoglobin levels, and hematocrits were lower (p<0.01) in deficient group (184±7, 7.1±0.4, 32.7±0.6) than in the control group (220±10, 16.9±0.3, 51.8±0.8) at the end of the 11-week experiment. Animals were killed 1 hr after meal feeding, and liver slices, mesenteric adipose tissue, and segments of mid-jejunum were incubated in vitro with [U-¹⁴C] glucose or³H₂O. Adipose tissue from deficient rats had incorporation of [U-¹⁴C] glucose into triglycerides two to three times greater than control rats (p<0.01). Release of¹⁴CO₂ from glucose was greater in adipose tissue of deficient rats than controls (p<0.05). Incorporation of³H₂O into triglycerides was also two to three times greater in deficient adipose tissue than in controls (p<0.02). In liver slices, incorporation of glucose in polar lipids was slightly higher in deficient rats than in control rats (p<0.05). No significant differences were found in incorporation of³H₂O or [U-¹⁴C] glucose into lipids or CO₂ in jejunum. Thus, iron- deficient adult rats have greater lipid synthesis from³H₂O and glucose in adipose tissue than rats fed adequate levels of iron.