Administrative crisis consultation after 9/11: A university's systems response.

This case study involves application of program-centered and consultee-centered administrative consultation as an emergency mental health intervention to enhance the response of an eastern seaboard university to the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001. The university had provisions for many forms of emergency in its action plan, but not for the provision of psychological first aid in response to wide spread trauma. Key components of the administrative consultation were the need to rapidly scan the organization, to engage key personnel as consultees, and to support the creation of an effective action plan. Major problems encountered in the consultation included resistance through psychological reactance, and managing differences in expectation and coping needs between students, faculty, and administrators. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Crossover of workplace aggression experiences in dual-earner couples.

This study investigates whether workplace aggression experienced by one or both members of a couple accounts for increases in the psychological distress of the victim's partner. Viewing the work-family interface and stress-strain processes as dyadic, and open to interindividual and interdomain contagion, analyses were conducted on matched data from a large-scale population health survey containing information on both working adults from 2,904 couples. Multilevel analysis of bidirectional crossover, while controlling for common stressors, supports the proposition of a crossover of stress resulting from workplace aggression. This finding highlights the complexities of work-family dynamics and of the deep penetration of workplace aggression into the lives of dual-earner partners. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Network planning with random demand

We study a planning problem associated with networks for private line services. In these networks, demands are known to exhibit considerable variability, and as such, they should be treated as random variables. The proposed planning model is a two-stage stochastic linear program (SLP) with recourse. Due to the enormous size of the deterministic equivalent, we choose a sampling based algorithm calledstochastic decomposition (SD). For very large-scale SLPs, such as the ones solved in this application, SD provides an effective methodology. The model presented in this paper is validated by using a detailed simulation of the network. We report results with a network that has 86 demand pairs, 89 links and 706 potential routes.This work was supported in part by Grant No. NSF-DDM-9114352 from the National Science Foundation.     

Ideas to Minimize Exam Anxiety

The debilitation score from the Alpert‐Haber Anxiety Achievement Test was used to identify students suffering from exam anxiety. Principal component Analysis was then used to show that the debilitation score was strongly related to short‐term and long‐term anxiety and self‐image and not, as expected, to study skills, problem‐solving skills, or avoidance to engage in solving difficult problems. Required workshops to help students address low self‐image and high short‐term and long‐term anxiety were introduced, but they had modest short‐term success. However, significant improvement in student performance occurred when faculty included measures of student performance other than the final exam (such as term work, projects, and self‐assessment) and when students contracted for the weighting that the final exam would contribute to their final grade. The use of self‐assessment was effective for all students regardless of their level of exam anxiety.     

Preparing and writing a failure analysis report

Afailure analysis report is the summation of all of the tests and analyses performed during the course of an investigation. The report coalesces the results and presents them in a concise and logical format that describes the particulars of the subject being studied, conveys pertinent information gathered from testing and analysis, and logically and accurately interprets and explains the data and results.     

The effects of NO passivation on the radiation response of SiO2/4H-SiC MOS capacitors

The radiation response of SiO₂ gate oxides grown on 4H-SiC to NO passivation is presented for the first time. The effects of gamma radiation on Q_eff are similar for n-4H-SiC MOS capacitors both with and without NO passivation, but are different in sign (negative) compared to SiO₂ on Si. The variation in D_it with total dose, however, is different for the passivated versus the unpassivated samples. Comparisons between Si SOI and 4H-SiC suggest that properly passivated SiC MOSFETs should have good radiation tolerance.     

Selective attention: A reevaluation of the implications of negative priming.

The notion that inhibitory processes play a critical role in selective attention has gained wide support. Much of this support derives from studies of negative priming. The authors note that the attribution of negative priming to an inhibitory mechanism of attention draws its support from a common assumption underlying priming procedures, together with the procedure that has been used to measure negative priming. The results from a series of experiments demonstrate that selection between 2 competing prime items is not required to observe negative priming. This result is demonstrated across several experiments in which participants named 1 of 2 items in a second display following presentation of a single-item prime. The implications of these results for existing theories of negative priming are discussed, and a theoretical framework for interpreting negative priming and several related phenomena is forwarded. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

USB设计常见错误分析

USB已经问世11年了，但人们每天都还是不断发现创新的方法来利用这套通讯协议；与此同时，他们也在成千种的设计方案中重复着相同的错误。USB和其他协议有着众多相似之处，这比工程师在PS／2与RS-232领域时一再犯下相同错误的程度还要不可思议。此外，面对严格的标准规范，工程师所犯的错误可能会造成不符USB规范的代价。     

The parabrachial nucleus is essential for acquisition of a conditioned odor aversion in rats.

Rats with bilateral ibotenic acid lesions of the gustatory zone of the parabrachial nuclei (PBN) failed to acquire a conditioned taste aversion (CTA) in Exp 1. They also failed to acquire a conditioned odor aversion (COA) when the olfactory cue was presented on an odor disk in Exp 2 or when it was presented in water in Exp 3. The failure to acquire the COA was not due to an inability to detect or use olfactory stimuli because the lesioned rats displayed neophobia to a novel odor in Exp 3 and used an olfactory cue to predict the availability of an aversive capsaicin solution in Exp 4. Together, the results demonstrate that, as with CTA learning, PBN cell bodies are essential for the establishment of a specific association between an olfactory conditioned stimulus and a lithium chloride unconditioned stimulus. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)