Dissociative states in eating disorders: An empirical Rorschach study.

The study explores the DSM-IV-TR classification of eating disorders that is constituted of four subtypes, two of them defined as anorexia (restricting and binge eating/purging) and two as bulimia (purging and non-purging). This classification is based on body weight as the distinguishing criterion. However, psychoanalytic thinking substantially distinguishes between restricting anorexia and the other three subtypes, all of them involving binge eating. Accordingly, binge eating patients are assumed to present different personality characteristics and different dynamics including dissociation proneness as a core component of the disturbance. The dissociative component of binge eating is examined by using the Rorschach Reality-Fantasy Scale (RFS; Tibon, Handelzalts, & Weinberger, 2005) and other Rorschach measures in a sample of 61 female adolescent inpatients diagnosed with eating disorders. This sample was divided into two groups by using the criterion of whether or not the symptoms involve binge eating behavior. The results support the view that dissociation between reality and fantasy is an important facet of binge eating disorders. A case study that demonstrates the utility of the RFS is presented. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

如何评估和挑选企业外部的CIO人选

企业内部缺乏CIO人选或继任者,常常促使其求助于猎头公司;当企业希望CIO能够推动领导层、战略和文化的革新与变革时,通常倾向于从外面寻找候选人;传统的职位描述通常过于战术化、太强调任务,而对于人选的个性特征和职位预期绩效的描述并不多。以上是Gartner一项调查的关键结果。挑选诸如CIO这种新任高管是一个至关重要的决定,它将对企业的战略发展、运营和财务绩效产生重要影响。     

Laboratory investigation of bitumen based on round robin DSC and AFM tests

In the past years a wide discussion has been held among asphalt researchers regarding the existence and interpretation of observed microstructures on bitumen surfaces. To investigate this, the RILEM technical committee on nano bituminous materials 231-NBM has conducted a round robin study combining differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM). From this, methods for performing DSC and AFM tests on bitumen samples and determination of the influence of wax on the observed phases, taking into account thermal history, sample preparation and annealing procedure, are presented and critically discussed. DSC is used to measure various properties and phenomena that indicate physical changes such as glass transition temperature (T _g) and phase transition such as melting and crystallization. In the case of existence of wax, either natural or synthetic, it can further indicate the melting point of wax, that could be used to determine wax content. The results from seven laboratories show that T _g temperatures obtained from the heating scans are more repeatable and easier to obtain in comparison to the cooling scans. No significant difference was noted for T _g’s obtained from the first and second heating scans. AFM is an imaging tool used to characterize the microstructures on a bituminous surface. Using AFM three phases in the materials with wax could be distinguished. The changes in the phases observed with AFM for increases in temperature were correlated with the DSC curve, and it could be established that the so called “Bee” structure disappeared around the melting peak in the DSC curve. Thus, this research has confirmed the relation between the microstructures on a bitumen surface and the wax content.     

乙基纤维素-艾叶粉溶液微胶囊的制备及缓释性能研究

文章首次以乙摹纤维素为壁材,采用溶剂蒸发法制得艾叶粉水溶液微胶囊.正交实验得出制备微胶囊的最佳工艺条件为:乙基纤维索:芯材:乙酸乙酯:水相=1:2.5:13:130(质量比),搅拌速度:1500 r/min,乳化时间:15 mim,水油两相混合搅拌时间:10 min.通过扫描电镜表征结果显示,所得微胶囊固体颗粒呈球形,分散性好,粒径在20～200 μm范围内.实验制得微胶囊最大载药量为48.07%,具有良好的包覆效果.透析缓释实验表明,微胶囊在37.0℃恒温生理盐水浸泡60 h后,仍有艾叶药理活性成分存在,较好地延长了储藏时间和药物有效作用时限.     

No place, new places: death and its rituals in urban Asia

In many land-scarce Asian cities, planning agencies have sought to reduce space for the dead to release land for the living, encouraging conversion from burial to cremation over several decades. This has caused secular principles privileging efficient land use to conflict with symbolic values invested in burial spaces. Over time, not only has cremation become more accepted, even columbaria have become overcrowded, and new forms of burials (sea and woodland burials) have emerged. As burial methods change, so too do commemorative rituals, including new on-line and mobile phone rituals. This paper traces the ways in which physical spaces for the dead in several east Asian cities have diminished and changed over time, the growth of virtual space for them, the accompanying discourses that influence these dynamics and the new rituals that emerge concomitantly with the contraction of land space.