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- Contextual Variability in Personality From Significant–Other Knowledge and Relational Selves.Susan M. Andersen,Rugile Tuskeviciute,Elizabeth Przybylinski,Janet N. Ahn &Joy H. Xu -2015 -Frontiers in Psychology 6.
- Statements, sentences and states of affairs in McTaggart and in general.Joy H. Roberts -1980 -Erkenntnis 15 (1):73-89.
- Neglect of Identification In the First Person.Joy H. Roberts -1986 -Idealistic Studies 16 (3):219-227.Roderick Chisholm has proposed a novel theory of reference and belief involving the undefined notion of directly attributing a property. He uses direct attribution to account for Castañeda’s “he, himself” puzzle and for beliefs de re. He affirms as an axiom of his theory principle P1: if x directly attributes z to y, then x is identical to y. I shall argue that principle P1 is defective in that it prevents the identification of x with y and thus renders Chisholm’s (...) theory incapable of expressing a wide range of psychological phenomena. Thus the theory is an inadequate model of psychological reality. (shrink)
- The nature and function of porous concepts.Joy H. Roberts -1975 -Southern Journal of Philosophy 13 (3):369-381.No categories
- An Error in Searle’s Criticism of Russell’s Theory of Descriptions.Joy H. Roberts -1976 -Southwestern Journal of Philosophy 7 (1):15-19.
- Egocentrics and historical discourse.Joy H. Roberts -1982 -Australasian Journal of Philosophy 60 (4):331 – 337.No categories
- (1 other version)On Russell's rejection of akoluthic sensations.Joy H. Roberts -1985 -Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 45 (June):595-600.
- Two Kinds of Knowledge in Croce's Philosophy of History.Joy H. Roberts -1982 -International Studies in Philosophy 14 (1):35-47.Export citation
Bookmark - Activities and performances considered as objects and events.Joy H. Roberts -1979 -Philosophical Studies 35 (2):171 - 185.
- A new metastable precipitate phase in Mg–Gd–Y–Zr alloy.H. Zhou,W. Z. Xu,W. W. Jian,G. M. Cheng,X. L. Ma,W. Guo,S. N. Mathaudhu,Q. D. Wang &Y. T. Zhu -2014 -Philosophical Magazine 94 (21):2403-2409.
- Transmission electron microscopy investigation of domains and boundaries in bulk La2/3Ca1/3MnO3.D. D. Liang,C. H. Lei,Q. Y. Xu &Y. Ding -2003 -Philosophical Magazine 83 (25):2915-2927.No categories
- Finding Structure in Time: Visualizing and Analyzing Behavioral Time Series.Tian Linger Xu,Kaya de Barbaro,Drew H. Abney &Ralf F. A. Cox -2020 -Frontiers in Psychology 11:521451.The temporal structure of behavior contains a rich source of information about its dynamic organization, origins, and development. Today, advances in sensing and data storage allow researchers to collect multiple dimensions of behavioral data at a fine temporal scale both in and out of the laboratory, leading to the curation of massive multimodal corpora of behavior. However, along with these new opportunities come new challenges. Theories are often underspecified as to the exact nature of these unfolding interactions, and psychologists have (...) limited ready-to-use methods and training for quantifying structures and patterns in behavioral time series. In this paper, we will introduce four techniques to interpret and analyze high-density multi-modal behavior data, namely, to: (1) visualize the raw time series, (2) describe the overall distributional structure of temporal events (Burstiness calculation), (3) characterize the nonlinear dynamics over multiple timescales with Chromatic and Anisotropic Cross-Recurrence Quantification Analysis (CRQA), (4) and quantify the directional relations among a set of interdependent multimodal behavioral variables with Granger Causality. Each technique is introduced in a module with conceptual background, sample data drawn from empirical studies and ready-to-use Matlab scripts. The code modules showcase each technique’s application with detailed documentation to allow more advanced users to adapt them to their own datasets. Additionally, to make our modules more accessible to beginner programmers, we provide a “Programming Basics” module that introduces common functions for working with behavioral timeseries data in Matlab. Together, the materials provide a practical introduction to a range of analyses that psychologists can use to discover temporal structure in high-density behavioral data. (shrink)
- Openness to Changing Religious Views Is Related to Radial Diffusivity in the Genu of the Corpus Callosum in an Initial Study of Healthy Young Adults.Jiansong Xu,Clayton H. McClintock,Iris M. Balodis,Lisa Miller &Marc N. Potenza -2018 -Frontiers in Psychology 9.
- Monoamine Oxidase A (MAOA) Gene and Personality Traits from Late Adolescence through Early Adulthood: A Latent Variable Investigation.Man K. Xu,Darya Gaysina,Roula Tsonaka,Alexandre J. S. Morin,Tim J. Croudace,Jennifer H. Barnett,Jeanine Houwing-Duistermaat,Marcus Richards &Peter B. Jones -2017 -Frontiers in Psychology 8.
- Measuring Perseverance and Passion in Distance Education Students: Psychometric Properties of the Grit Questionnaire and Associations With Academic Performance.Kate M. Xu,Celeste Meijs,Hieronymus J. M. Gijselaers,Joyce Neroni &Renate H. M. de Groot -2020 -Frontiers in Psychology 11.With modern technological advances, distance education has become an increasingly important education delivery medium for, for example, the higher education provided by open universities. Among predictive factors of successful learning in distance education, the effects of non-cognitive skills are less explored. Grit, the dispositional tendency to sustain trait-level passion and long-term goals, has raised much research interest and gained importance for predicting academic achievement. The Grit Questionnaire, measuring Perseverance of Effort and Consistency of Interests, has been shown to be a (...) reliable instrument in traditional university student populations. However, the measurement and predictive validity of this questionnaire is still unknown for adult distance education university students who differ from traditional students in various ways. Based on a sample of 2,027 students from a distance education university, this study assessed the psychometric properties of the two-factor structure grit measured by the Grit Questionnaire. The findings suggest that the short form of the Grit Questionnaire is a potentially useful assessment tool for measuring the grit construct for distance learning higher education and that the Consistency of Interests factor is especially relevant to consider the improvement of learning performance for distance education in terms of courses credit and exam attempts. The measurement precision of the Perseverance of Effort factor, however, should be improved in future research to provide higher measurement accuracy and broader item coverage. (shrink)
- Estimation of residual stresses from elastic recovery of nanoindentation.Z. -H. Xu &X. Li -2006 -Philosophical Magazine 86 (19):2835-2846.No categories
- Factors that Drive Chinese Listed Companies in Voluntary Disclosure of Environmental Information.S. X. Zeng,X. D. Xu,H. T. Yin &C. M. Tam -2012 -Journal of Business Ethics 109 (3):309-321.Based on the institutional theory, this article attempts to examine two consecutive questions regarding the impact of various factors on corporate decision in environmental information disclosure (EID): (1) whether or not to disclose; and (2) the level of disclosure. The relevance of these factors is empirically tested using data collected from publicly listed manufacturing companies from 2006 to 2008 in China. Some interesting findings appear. We find that firms that are state-owned, those that operate in environmentally sensitive industries, those having (...) more industrial peers engaged in EID, and those with better reputation are more likely to disclose environmental information. When it comes to the content of EID, variables that attempt to capture external institutional pressures exhibit either no or weak explanatory power. Only the variable of organizational image and reputation is demonstrated to have a significant impact on both the act and the content of EID. This study provides a snapshot of the dialogues between constituencies in the organizational field and EID development. (shrink)
- A Whole, a Fragment.Kurt H. Wolff &Joy Gordon -2002 - Lexington Books.In this extended prose poem—a text that reads as much as a work of art as important scholarship—Kurt H. Wolff has created a work of phenomenology that goes far beyond the typical methods of empirical social science to embrace field work as an extraordinary openness to being. Including personal letters to Wolff from Hannah Arendt and Hermann Bloch, the book portrays a fertile mind's reckoning with pre-phenomenal being in a way that dances between the realms of intellectual consideration and the (...) surrender of will to the intoxication of lived experience. (shrink)
- Antibiotic use and abuse: A threat to mitochondria and chloroplasts with impact on research, health, and environment.Xu Wang,Dongryeol Ryu,Riekelt H. Houtkooper &Johan Auwerx -2015 -Bioessays 37 (10):1045-1053.Recently, several studies have demonstrated that tetracyclines, the antibiotics most intensively used in livestock and that are also widely applied in biomedical research, interrupt mitochondrial proteostasis and physiology in animals ranging from round worms, fruit flies, and mice to human cell lines. Importantly, plant chloroplasts, like their mitochondria, are also under certain conditions vulnerable to these and other antibiotics that are leached into our environment. Together these endosymbiotic organelles are not only essential for cellular and organismal homeostasis stricto sensu, but (...) also have an important role to play in the sustainability of our ecosystem as they maintain the delicate balance between autotrophs and heterotrophs, which fix and utilize energy, respectively. Therefore, stricter policies on antibiotic usage are absolutely required as their use in research confounds experimental outcomes, and their uncontrolled applications in medicine and agriculture pose a significant threat to a balanced ecosystem and the well‐being of these endosymbionts that are essential to sustain health.Also watch theVideo Abstract. (shrink)
- Preference for Object Relative Clauses in Chinese Sentence Comprehension: Evidence From Online Self-Paced Reading Time.Kunyu Xu,Jeng-Ren Duann,Daisy L. Hung &Denise H. Wu -2019 -Frontiers in Psychology 10:476094.Most prior studies have reported that subject-extracted relative clauses (SRCs) are easier to process than object-extracted relative clauses (ORCs). However, whether such an SRC preference is universal across different languages remains an open question. Several reports from Chinese have provided conflicting results; thus, in the present study, we conducted two self-paced reading experiments to examine the comprehension of Chinese relative clauses. The results demonstrated a clear ORC preference that Chinese ORCs were easier to comprehend than Chinese SRCs. These findings were (...) most compatible with the prediction of the integration cost account, which claims that the processing difference between SRCs and ORCs arises at the point of dependency formation. The ORC preference in Chinese poses a challenge to the universality of the SRC preference assumed by the structural distance hypothesis and highlights the values of cross-linguistic research. (shrink)
- Defect kinetics on experimental timescales using atomistic simulations.H. Wang,D. Rodney,D. S. Xu,R. Yang &P. Veyssière -2013 -Philosophical Magazine 93 (1-3):186-202.No categories
- Assessing the impact of digital education and the role of the big data analytics course to enhance the skills and employability of engineering students.Lin Xu,Jingxiao Zhang,Yiying Ding,Gangzhu Sun,Wei Zhang,Simon P. Philbin &Brian H. W. Guo -2022 -Frontiers in Psychology 13.This study aims to explore the role of digital education in the development of skills and employability for engineering students through researching the role of big data analytics courses. The empirical study proposes the hypothesis that both soft and hard skills have positive effects on human capital, individual attributes, and the career development dimensions of engineering students. This is achieved through constructing a framework of three dimensions of engineering students’ employability and two competency development dimensions of big data analytics courses. (...) A questionnaire survey was conducted with 155 college engineering students and a structural equation model was used to test the hypotheses. The results found that courses on big data analytics have a positive impact on engineering students’ abilities in both hard skills and soft skills dimensions, while soft skills have a more significant impact on engineering students’ employability. The study has practical and theoretical implications that further enriches the knowledge base on engineering education and broadens our understanding of the role of digitalization in enhancing the skills and employability of engineering students. (shrink)
- Educational Innovation in China: Tracing the Impact of the 1985 Reforms.H. Xu,J. Zhang,K. M. Lewin &A. W. Little -1996 -British Journal of Educational Studies 44:133-134.Export citation Bookmark
- Effect of sample tilt on nanoindentation behaviour of materials.Z. -H. Xu &X. Li -2007 -Philosophical Magazine 87 (16):2299-2312.No categories
- Comparing embodiment experiences in expert meditators and non-meditators using the rubber hand illusion.A. Xu,B. H. Cullen,C. Penner,C. Zimmerman,C. E. Kerr &L. Schmalzl -2018 -Consciousness and Cognition 65:325-333.
- Alloying effect on grain-size dependent deformation twinning in nanocrystalline Cu–Zn alloys.X. L. Ma,W. Z. Xu,H. Zhou,J. A. Moering,J. Narayan &Y. T. Zhu -2015 -Philosophical Magazine 95 (3):301-310.No categories
- Top-Down Predictions of Familiarity and Congruency in Audio-Visual Speech Perception at Neural Level.Orsolya B. Kolozsvári,Weiyong Xu,Paavo H. T. Leppänen &Jarmo A. Hämäläinen -2019 -Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 13.
- Algorithm runtime prediction: Methods & evaluation.Frank Hutter,Lin Xu,Holger H. Hoos &Kevin Leyton-Brown -2014 -Artificial Intelligence 206 (C):79-111.
- Translating the ICAP Theory of Cognitive Engagement Into Practice.Michelene T. H. Chi,Joshua Adams,Emily B. Bogusch,Christiana Bruchok,Seokmin Kang,Matthew Lancaster,Roy Levy,Na Li,Katherine L. McEldoon,Glenda S. Stump,Ruth Wylie,Dongchen Xu &David L. Yaghmourian -2018 -Cognitive Science 42 (6):1777-1832.ICAP is a theory of active learning that differentiates students’ engagement based on their behaviors. ICAP postulates that Interactive engagement, demonstrated by co‐generative collaborative behaviors, is superior for learning to Constructive engagement, indicated by generative behaviors. Both kinds of engagement exceed the benefits of Active or Passive engagement, marked by manipulative and attentive behaviors, respectively. This paper discusses a 5‐year project that attempted to translate ICAP into a theory of instruction using five successive measures: (a) teachers’ understanding of ICAP after (...) completing an online module, (b) their success at designing lesson plans using different ICAP modes, (c) fidelity of teachers’ classroom implementation, (d) modes of students’ enacted behaviors, and (e) students’ learning outcomes. Although teachers had minimal success in designing Constructive and Interactive activities, students nevertheless learned significantly more in the context of Constructive than Active activities. We discuss reasons for teachers’ overall difficulty in designing and eliciting Interactive engagement. (shrink)No categories
- On" Joy" as Aesthetic Value: Based on Wang Jiucheng's Stamp Cartoons.Wang Xu-Xiao -2011 -Journal of Aesthetic Education (Misc) 3:013.
- SATenstein: Automatically building local search SAT solvers from components.Ashiqur R. KhudaBukhsh,Lin Xu,Holger H. Hoos &Kevin Leyton-Brown -2016 -Artificial Intelligence 232 (C):20-42.
- Whether Top Executives' Turnover Influences Environmental Responsibility: From the Perspective of Environmental Information Disclosure. [REVIEW]X. H. Meng,S. X. Zeng,C. M. Tam &X. D. Xu -2013 -Journal of Business Ethics 114 (2):341-353.We have empirically examined the relationship between top executives’ turnover and the corporate environmental responsibility by identifying the influence of ten specific turnover reasons resulting in the chairman’s departure and two important types of chairman’s succession. Using a sample of 782 manufacturing listed companies across 3 years in China, we find that the corporate environmental responsibility is negatively associated with the involuntary and negative turnover (i.e., dismissal, health and death, and forced resignation) and positively associated with improving corporate governance, and (...) not associated with the normal turnover (i.e., retirement and contract expiration) and the types of chairman’s succession (i.e., independence, and internal or external promotion). Our study significantly contributes to research in environmental disclosure by revealing the relationship between chairman’s turnover and the corporate environmental responsibility. A feasible way is suggested to regulators and other stakeholders in monitoring or assessing the possible abnormality of environmental responsibility when firms experience involuntary and negative chairman’s turnover in the emerging economies. (shrink)
- Central inhibitory dysfunctions: Mechanisms and clinical implications.Z. Wiesenfeld-Hallin,H. Aldskogius,G. Grant,J.-X. Hao,T. Hökfelt &X.-J. Xu -1997 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 20 (3):420-425.Injury to the central or peripheral nervous system is often associated with persistent pain. After ischemic injury to the spinal cord, rats develop severe mechanical allodynia-like symptoms, expressed as a pain-like response to innocuous stimuli. In its short-lasting phase the allodynia can be relieved with the [gamma]-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-B receptor agonist baclofen, which also reverses the hyperexcitability of dorsal horn interneurons to mechanical stimuli. Furthermore, there is a reduction in GABA immunoreactivity in the dorsal horn of allodynic rats. Clinical neuropathic (...) pain of peripheral and central origin often cannot be relieved by opiates at doses that do not cause side effects. The loss of sensitivity to opiates may be associated with the up-regulation of endogenous antiopioid substances, such as the neuropeptide cholecystokinin (CCK). CCK and its receptor (CCK-R) protein is normally not detectable in rat dorsal root ganglion cells. After peripheral nerve section, both CCK and CCK-R are up-regulated in the dorsal root ganglia. Furthermore, CI 988, an antagonist of the CCK-B receptor, chronically coadministered with morphine, reduces autotomy, a behavior that may be a sign of neuropathic pain following peripheral nerve section. Thus, opiate insensitivity may be due to the release of CCK from injured primary afferents. Similarly, in the chronic phase of the spinal ischemic model of central pain, the allodynia-like symptom is not relieved by systemic morphine, but is significantly reversed by the CCK-B antagonist. Consequently, up-regulation of CCK and CCK-R in the CNS may also underlie opiate drug insensitivity following CNS injury. Thus, dysfunction of central inhibition involving GABA and endogenous opioids may be a factor underlying the development of sensory abnormalities and/or pain following injury to neural tissue. (shrink)
- The Relation Between Cognitively Measured Executive Functions and Reported Self-Regulated Learning Strategy Use in Adult Online Distance Education.Celeste Meijs,Hieronymus J. M. Gijselaers,Kate M. Xu,Paul A. Kirschner &Renate H. M. De Groot -2021 -Frontiers in Psychology 12.While executive functions and self-regulated learning strategy use have been found to be related in several populations, this relationship has not been studied in adult online distance education. This is surprising as self-regulation, and thus using such strategies, is very important here. In this setting, we studied the relation between basic executive functions and reported SRL-strategy use within a correlational design with 889 adult online distance students. In this study, we performed regression analyses and took age and processing speed into (...) consideration, as processing speed and EFs decrease with age, whereas self-regulation is reported to increase with age. Cognitively measured working memory was not related to reported SRL-strategy use in adult ODE students. Thus, even though the SRL-components within the strategies seem to elicit working memory, reported SRL-strategy use is not related to the functioning of this basic EF. This means that if SRL-strategy use needs to be increased in adult ODE students, training of working memory might not be an effective manner for achieving that goal. Better shifting and processing speed were related to less reported SRL-strategy use, which might suggest that SRL-strategies might be used to compensate for lower shifting and lower processing speed. With increasing age, the number of contacts with peers or teachers decreases. This latter finding might be of relevance during the pandemic since contacts with others is importance during lockdown. (shrink)
- Factors Predicting Detrimental Change in Declarative Memory Among Women With HIV: A Study of Heterogeneity in Cognition.Kathryn C. Fitzgerald,Pauline M. Maki,Yanxun Xu,Wei Jin,Raha Dastgheyb,Dionna W. Williams,Gayle Springer,Kathryn Anastos,Deborah Gustafson,Amanda B. Spence,Adaora A. Adimora,Drenna Waldrop,David E. Vance,Hector Bolivar,Victor G. Valcour &Leah H. Rubin -2020 -Frontiers in Psychology 11.
- Effect of temperature-dependent surface heat transfer coefficient on the maximum surface stress in ceramics during quenching.Y. F. Shao,F. Song,C. P. Jiang,X. H. Xu,J. C. Wei &Z. L. Zhou -2016 -Philosophical Magazine 96 (4):387-398.No categories
- Introduction to Cardinal H. E. Manning's "Christ Preached in Any Way a Cause of Joy".H. E. Manning -2003 -Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 6 (2):151-166.
- Rifle Shooting for Athletes With Vision Impairment: Does One Class Fit All?Peter M. Allen,Keziah Latham,Rianne H. J. C. Ravensbergen,Joy Myint &David L. Mann -2019 -Frontiers in Psychology 10.
- The Theoretical and Methodological Opportunities Afforded by Guided Play With Young Children.Yue Yu,Patrick Shafto,Elizabeth Bonawitz,Scott C.-H. Yang,Roberta M. Golinkoff,Kathleen H. Corriveau,Kathy Hirsh-Pasek &Fei Xu -2018 -Frontiers in Psychology 9.
- Physicians’ Voices: What Skills and Supports Are Needed for Effective Practice in an Integrated Delivery System? A Case Study of Kaiser Permanente.Benjamin Chesluk,Laura Tollen,Joy Lewis,Samantha DuPont &Marc H. Klau -2017 -Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing 54:004695801771176.No categories
- The “Trade-Off” of Student Well-Being and Academic Achievement: A Perspective of Multidimensional Student Well-Being.Xiaojun Ling,Junjun Chen,Daniel H. K. Chow,Wendan Xu &Yingxiu Li -2022 -Frontiers in Psychology 13.Student well-being and its relationships with academic achievement in China have not been well-investigated. This study aimed at investigating student well-being and the trade-off of the well-being and academic achievement with a sample of 1,353 Chinese high-school students from four cities in China during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic period. The six dimensions of well-being were utilised to test the relationships with three subjects including Mathematics, English, and Chinese using a quantitative analysis. In this study, the relationships between six dimensions of (...) well-being and three academic subject achievements were tested in one statistical model. Results showed that spiritual well-being was ranked the highest, followed by psychological, physical, self, and social well-being. Students gave the lowest ranking to academic well-being. The two significant paths identified were between spiritual well-being and two subjects, namely, Chinese and Mathematics. It is interesting to note that the other five dimensions of well-being were significantly associated with any subjects and English was not significantly related to any dimensions of well-being in this study. Our findings suggested that policymakers and other stakeholders should avoid an “all or nothing” mindset on practice when considering well-being as a multidimensional construct. (shrink)
- Contrast Sensitivity Is a Significant Predictor of Performance in Rifle Shooting for Athletes With Vision Impairment.Peter M. Allen,Rianne H. J. C. Ravensbergen,Keziah Latham,Amy Rose,Joy Myint &David L. Mann -2018 -Frontiers in Psychology 9:363277._Purpose:_ In order to develop an evidence-based, sport-specific minimum impairment criteria (MIC) for the sport of vision-impaired (VI) shooting, this study aimed to determine the relative influence of losses in visual acuity (VA) and contrast sensitivity (CS) on shooting performance. Presently, VA but not CS is used to determine eligibility to compete in VI shooting. _Methods:_ Elite able-sighted athletes ( n = 27) shot under standard conditions with their habitual vision, and with their vision impaired by the use of simulation (...) spectacles (filters which reduce both VA and CS) and refractive blur (lenses which reduce VA with less effect on CS). Habitual shooting scores were used to establish a cut-off in order to determine when shooting performance was ‘below expected’ in the presence of vision impairment. Logistic regression and decision tree analyses were then used to assess the relationship between visual function and shooting performance. _Results:_ Mild reductions in VA and/or CS did not alter shooting performance, with greater reductions required for shooting performance to fall below habitual levels (below 87% of normalized performance). Stepwise logistic regression selected CS as the most significant predictor of shooting performance, with VA subsequently improving the validity of the model. In an unconstrained decision tree analysis, CS was selected as the sole criterion (80%) for predicting ‘below expected’ shooting score. _Conclusion:_ Shooting performance is better predicted by losses in CS than by VA. Given that it is not presently tested during classification, the results suggest that CS is an important measure to include in testing for the classification of vision impairment for athletes competing in VI shooting. (shrink)
- Is There a Processing Preference for Object Relative Clauses in Chinese? Evidence From ERPs.Talat Bulut,Shih-Kuen Cheng,Kun-Yu Xu,Daisy L. Hung &Denise H. Wu -2018 -Frontiers in Psychology 9.
- Case Studies: The Doctor, the Patient, & the DRG.Jeffrey Wasserman,J. Joel May,Daniel H. Schwartz &Joy Hinson Penticuff -1983 -Hastings Center Report 13 (5):23.
- A Hybrid Heuristic Algorithm for the Intelligent Transportation Scheduling Problem of the BRT System.Xu Haitao,Lin Fei,Chen Tao &Zheng Ning -2015 -Journal of Intelligent Systems 24 (4):437-448.This work proposes a hybrid heuristic algorithm to solve the bus rapid transit intelligent scheduling problem, which is a combination of the genetic algorithm, simulated annealing algorithm, and fitness scaling method. The simulated annealing algorithm can increase the local search ability of the genetic algorithm, so as to accelerate its convergence speed. Fitness scaling can reduce the differences between individuals in the early stage of the algorithm, to prevent the genetic algorithm from falling into a local optimum through increasing the (...) diversity of the population. It can also increase the selection probability of outstanding individuals, and speed up the convergence at the late stage of the algorithm, by increasing the differences between individuals. Using real operational data of BRT Line 1 in a city of Zhejiang province, the new scheduling scheme can be obtained through algorithm simulation. The passengers’ total waiting time in a single way will be reduced by 40 h on average under the same operating cost compared with the original schedule scheme in a day. (shrink)No categories
- Dimension limit for thermal shock failure.Y. F. Shao,Q. N. Liu,H. J. Tian,Z. K. Lin,X. H. Xu &F. Song -2014 -Philosophical Magazine 94 (23):2647-2655.
- Breast Cancer Stigma Scale: A Reliable and Valid Stigma Measure for Patients With Breast Cancer.Xiaofan Bu,Shuangshuang Li,Andy S. K. Cheng,Peter H. F. Ng,Xianghua Xu,Yimin Xia &Xiangyu Liu -2022 -Frontiers in Psychology 13.PurposeThis study aims to develop and validate a stigma scale for Chinese patients with breast cancer.MethodsPatients admitted to the Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, for breast cancer treatment participated in this study. Development of the Breast Cancer Stigma Scale involved the following procedures: literature review, interview, and applying a theoretical model to generate items; the Breast Cancer Stigma Scale’s content validity was assessed by a Delphi study and feedback from patients with breast cancer ; (...) exploratory factor analysis was used to assess the construct validity; convergent validity was assessed with the Social Impact Scale ; internal consistency Cronbach’s α, split-half reliability, and test–retest reliability were used to identify the reliability of the scale.ResultsThe final version of the Breast Cancer Stigma Scale consisted of 15 items and showed positive correlations with the Social Impact Scale. Exploratory factor analysis revealed four components of the Breast Cancer Stigma Scale: self-image impairment, social isolation, discrimination, and internalized stigma, which were strongly related to our perceived breast cancer stigma model and accounted for 69.443% of the total variance. Cronbach’s α for the total scale was 0.86, and each subscale was 0.75–0.882. The test–retest reliability with intra-class correlation coefficients of the total scale was 0.947, and split-half reliability with intra-class correlation coefficients of the total scale was 0.911. The content validity index was 0.73–1.0.ConclusionThe newly developed Breast Cancer Stigma Scale offers a valid and reliable instrument for assessing the perceived stigma of patients with breast cancer in clinical and research settings. It may be helpful for stigma prevention in China. (shrink)
- Probing the evolution of water clusters during hydration of the solid acid catalyst H-ZSM-5.Kenneth D. M. Harris,Mingcan Xu &John Meurig Thomas -2009 -Philosophical Magazine 89 (33):3001-3012.No categories
- Associations of prostate cancer risk variants with disease aggressiveness: results of the NCI-SPORE Genetics Working Group analysis of 18,343 cases. [REVIEW]Brian T. Helfand,Kimberly A. Roehl,Phillip R. Cooper,Barry B. McGuire,Liesel M. Fitzgerald,Geraldine Cancel-Tassin,Jean-Nicolas Cornu,Scott Bauer,Erin L. Van Blarigan,Xin Chen,David Duggan,Elaine A. Ostrander,Mary Gwo-Shu,Zuo-Feng Zhang,Shen-Chih Chang,Somee Jeong,Elizabeth T. H. Fontham,Gary Smith,James L. Mohler,Sonja I. Berndt,Shannon K. McDonnell,Rick Kittles,Benjamin A. Rybicki,Matthew Freedman,Philip W. Kantoff,Mark Pomerantz,Joan P. Breyer,Jeffrey R. Smith,Timothy R. Rebbeck,Dan Mercola,William B. Isaacs,Fredrick Wiklund,Olivier Cussenot,Stephen N. Thibodeau,Daniel J. Schaid,Lisa Cannon-Albright,Kathleen A. Cooney,Stephen J. Chanock,Janet L. Stanford,June M. Chan,John Witte,Jianfeng Xu,Jeannette T. Bensen,Jack A. Taylor &William J. Catalona -unknown© 2015, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.Genetic studies have identified single nucleotide polymorphisms associated with the risk of prostate cancer. It remains unclear whether such genetic variants are associated with disease aggressiveness. The NCI-SPORE Genetics Working Group retrospectively collected clinicopathologic information and genotype data for 36 SNPs which at the time had been validated to be associated with PC risk from 25,674 cases with PC. Cases were grouped according to race, Gleason score and aggressiveness. Statistical analyses were used to compare the frequency (...) of the SNPs between different disease cohorts. After adjusting for multiple testing, only PC-risk SNP rs2735839 was significantly and inversely associated with aggressive and high-grade disease in European men. Similar associations with aggressive and high-grade disease were documented in African-American subjects. The G allele of rs2735839 was associated with disease aggressiveness even at low PSA levels in both European and African-American men. Our results provide further support that a PC-risk SNP rs2735839 near the KLK3 gene on chromosome 19q13 may be associated with aggressive and high-grade PC. Future prospectively designed, case-case GWAS are needed to identify additional SNPs associated with PC aggressiveness. (shrink)No categories
- Effects of Cell Phone Dependence on Mental Health Among College Students During the Pandemic of COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Survey of a Medical University in Shanghai.Ting Xu,Xiaoting Sun,Ping Jiang,Minjie Chen,Yan Yue &Enhong Dong -2022 -Frontiers in Psychology 13.ObjectiveTo investigate the effects of cell phone dependence on mental health among undergraduates during the COVID-19 pandemic and further identify the determinants that may affect their mental health in China.MethodsThe data were collected from 602 students at a medical school in Shanghai via an online survey conducted from December 2021 to February 2022. The Mobile Phone Addiction Index and Depression Anxiety Stress Scale were applied to evaluate CPD and mental health, respectively. Independent sample t-test and one-way analysis of variance were (...) employed to compare the means of continuous variables among categorical groups. Correlations between continuous variables were detected using Pearson's correlation analysis. Univariable and multivariable logistic regressions were employed to identify the determinants of mental health.ResultsAmong the 402 eligible students, 73.88% were women with an average age of 20.19 ± 2.36 years. On average, the DASS score was 32.20 ± 11.07, the CPD score was 36.23 ± 11.89, and the cell phone use duration was 7.67 ± 3.61 h/day. CPD was found to have a negative effect on mental health among college students in Shanghai. Additionally, cell phone use duration, age, being senior students, faculty-student relationship, insomnia, tobacco use, obesity, and life satisfaction were clarified as contributing factors to mental health among college students.ConclusionHigh degree of CPD could have a negative effect on college students' mental health, which might lead to some psychological problems. Appropriate actions and effective interventions are highly needed to prevent severe psychological injuries among college students in China. (shrink)
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