Love and sex in 45 minutes: Transference love as self- and mutual regulation.

Patients who express intense, erotic attraction to their analysts pose special treatment challenges that may not respond well to the analyst's interpretive efforts. A detailed case presentation is offered, describing one such patient, who demanded that her analyst convey his interest in her concretely, insisting that he offer her gifts, tell her he loved her, and even engage her sexually. It is argued that such concrete conveyances reflect, in part, the patient's attempt to self- and mutually regulate intense, affect-laden experience. The wish that the analyst demonstrate love for the patient expressed in modulated form her history of deeply painful and frustrated longings, as well as her hope for a different outcome within the treatment relationship. Finally, their spontaneous, shared playfulness evolved into a form of ongoing relatedness that provided the patient significant understanding and acceptance while providing the analyst an appropriate means of responding to the patient's erotic demands. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

An active-architecture approach to COTS integration

COTS software products are increasingly becoming standard components for building integrated information systems. At the same time, the growth of electronic trading, turbulent market conditions, and a project-style approach to business have created a demand for information systems that can be rapidly adapted to changing business process demands. However, the ongoing development of COTS products is unpredictable as their developers and source code are rarely available. Flexible information systems use COTS components because they cost-effectively supply required component functionality. A software architecture can capture a system design as a set of interacting components and capture the role of COTS software in "implementing" certain components.     

A cognitive approach to intelligence: Attention, coding and planning.

Reviews the progress of the planning-attention-simultaneous-successive (PASS) theory, described by J. P. Dass (1972, 1973). The theory describes behavior as the result of the interdependent functioning of planning, attention (arousal), and coding (either simultaneous or successive) systems. Most research conducted to 1979 concerned simultaneous and successive coding in working memory and relied on principle components analyses. Research since 1980 has examined the roles of arousal, especially in attention, and of the planning system; experimental studies and confirmatory analyses have also been conducted. Relationships of PASS theory to other theories and approaches are considered. Three areas of application are examined: understanding achievement skills and learning problems, theory-based assessment of cognitive processes, and instructional design. (French abstract) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Cover Image,Volume 97, Issue 11

The cover image, by Hannah C Wells et al., is based on the Research Article Deer leather: analysis of the microstructure affecting pebble, DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.8199 .

     

The effect of water-to-cement ratio on the hydration kinetics of tricalcium silicate cements: Testing the two-step hydration hypothesis

Recent efforts to model tricalcium silicate based cements assume a two-step hydration mechanism where, in the first step, the empty space between cement particles rapidly fills with a low density calcium silicate hydrate (C-S-H) and in the second step, the thus formed C-S-H densifies slowly. This gives rise to models that nicely mimic the shape of experimentally observed hydration calorimetry curves and explains the transition between Stage 3 (acceleration) and Stage 4 (decreasing rate) hydration as well as post Stage 4 continued slow reaction. If this mechanism is correct, however, one would expect that the amount of heat energy released should increase with available space between particles, i.e. with water-to-cement ratio. A series of experiments, wherein the water-to-cement ratio was systematically varied showed little or no increase in total heat released when the water-to-cement ratio was doubled or tripled suggesting that the two-step mechanism may need revision.     

Laser transfer of sol-gel ferroelectric thin films using an ITO release layer

A new laser transfer process is reported which allows damage-free transfer of ferroelectric thin films from a growth substrate directly to a target substrate. The thin film ferroelectric material is deposited on a fused silica growth substrate with a sacrificial release layer of ITO (indium tin oxide). Regions of the film that are to be transferred are then selectively metallised, and bonded to the target substrate. Separation from the growth substrate is achieved by laser ablation of the ITO release layer by a single pulse from a KrF excimer laser, with the laser light being incident through the growth substrate. The residual ITO on the transferred ferroelectric layer is electrically conducting, and may be suitable for incorporation into the final device, depending on the application. The new process has been demonstrated for 500 nm-thick layers of sol-gel PZT which were thermosonically bonded to a silicon target substrate prior to laser release. The transferred films show ferroelectric behaviour and have a slightly reduced permittivity compared to the as-deposited material.     

Perceptions of Antarctic tourism: A question of tolerance

Perceptions of tourism held by a sample of New Zealand's Antarctic community are explored, and the small, mixed group of scientists and support workers that populate Scott Base (New Zealand's research base in the Ross Dependency, Antarctica) are treated as proxy for a ‘host’ community. This exploration is part of a wider study that set out to investigate the nature and meanings of Antarctic heritage. Although the research did not explicitly set out to survey perceptions of tourism, approximately one-half of those interviewed in the wider study gave an insight into this topic. The qualitative data reported were gathered during two visits to Scott Base in 1999. From the responses a three-fold classification was derived, indicating degrees of tolerance toward tourism: cautious, complex and comfortable tolerance.     

Thinking about Antarctic Heritage: Kaleidoscopes and filters

The preliminary results of a project that is currently investigating the nature and range of meanings of Antarctic heritage are explored. The project involves two visits to Scott Base, and the subjects of the qualitative research are the members of the New Zealand Antarctic community. Work so far suggests that different meanings do exist, and a four-fold typology of meanings is suggested which needs to be considered in decisions affecting the future of Antarctica.