The structuring role of free-floating plants on the fish community in a tropical shallow lake: an experimental approach with natural and artificial plants

Communal coping has been linked to better psychological and physical health across a variety of stressful contexts. However, there has been no experimental work causally linking communal coping to relationship and health outcomes. In addition, research has emphasized the collaboration over the shared appraisal component of communal coping. The present study sought to isolate the role of appraisal by manipulating whether dyads viewed a stressor as shared or individual. Friend dyads (n = 64 dyads; 128 participants) were randomly assigned to view a stressor as either a shared or an individual problem, but both groups were allowed to work together. Across self-report and observational measures dyads reported more collaboration and support, better relationship outcomes, and more positive mood after the stressor in the shared than the individual appraisal group. This is the first laboratory evidence to establish causal links of communal coping—specifically shared appraisal—to positive relationship and health outcomes.

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Assessing the role of bed sediments in the persistence of red mud pollution in a shallow lake (Kinghorn Loch, UK)

Water Research ◽

10.1016/j.watres.2017.07.009 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 123 ◽

pp. 569-577 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Justyna P. Olszewska ◽

Kate V. Heal ◽

Ian J. Winfield ◽

Lorna J. Eades ◽

Bryan M. Spears

Keyword(s):

Shallow Lake ◽

Red Mud ◽

Bed Sediments

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Comprehending the role of Homeopathic Preparations of Rauwolfia serpentina on oxidative stress parameters of cardiac tissue of DOCA-salt induced hypertensive male rats: An Experimental approach

Phytomedicine Plus ◽

10.1016/j.phyplu.2021.100115 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 100115

Author(s):

Sandeep Kumar ◽

Gagan Bihari Nityananda Chainy ◽

Jagneshwar Dandapat ◽

Akshaya Kumar Hati ◽

Laxmikanta Nanda

Keyword(s):

Oxidative Stress ◽

Cardiac Tissue ◽

Experimental Approach ◽

Male Rats ◽

Oxidative Stress Parameters ◽

Rauwolfia Serpentina ◽

Stress Parameters

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“No me des el pescado, enséñame a pescar” “Do not hand me fish, teach me how to fish” Community Lawyering in Puerto Rico: Promoting empowerment and self-help

International Journal of Clinical Legal Education ◽

10.19164/ijcle.v12i0.71 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

pp. 83

Author(s):

Myrta Morales-Cruz

Keyword(s):

Community Development ◽

Fish Community ◽

Legal Aid ◽

Self Help ◽

Development Section ◽

The People ◽

The University ◽

Insight Into ◽

Special Meaning

<p>Law 232 of August 27, 2004 has a special meaning to the people residing in some of Puerto Rico's poorest communities. It was the result of the hard work, during a period of a year and a half, of leaders from some of these communities and my students, the students of the community development section of the Legal Aid Clinic of the University of Puerto Rico’s School of Law. The story of Law 232 can provide insight into what the role of a lawyer can be in the battle against poverty. To understand the story of this Puerto Rican law, one has to go back to August of 2002. During that month the University of Puerto Rico's School of Law Legal Aid Clinic inaugurated its community development section.</p>

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Function words and polarity

10.1093/oso/9780198871217.003.0004 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 66-85

Author(s):

Matteo Greco

Keyword(s):

Experimental Approach ◽

The Other ◽

Function Words ◽

Closed Class ◽

Other Hand ◽

Truth Value ◽

The One ◽

Syntactic Derivation

Function words are commonly considered to be a small and closed class of words in which each element is associated with a specific and fixed logical meaning. Unfortunately, this is not always true as witnessed by negation: on the one hand, negation does reverse the truth-value conditions of a proposition, and the other hand, it does not, realizing what is called Expletive Negation. This chapter aims to investigate whether a word that is established on the basis of its function can be ambiguous by discussing the role of the syntactic derivation in some instances of so-called Expletive Negation clauses, a case in which negation seems to lose its capacity to deny the proposition associated with its sentence. Both a theoretical and an experimental approach has been adopted.

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