Visual Mental Rotation: Different Processes Used by Pilots

Air Force pilots and control subjects were tested on a visual “mental rotation” task. Nine of the 16 pilots, as well as all of the 16 control subjects, required more time to rotate greater angular distances. The performance of the other 7 pilots was unique: their response time did not increase with greater angular rotations. The results suggest that visual mental rotation can be accomplished by at least two different processes. One process involves incremental object rotations in a multi-step mapping –like an actual physical rotation of an object– going through intermediate stages. This process requires more time to rotate greater angular distances. The other process involves direct translation in a single-step mapping. In this process, the starting position transforms into the final position in one mapping without any intermediate steps, and thus does not require more time to rotate greater angular rotation. The lack of intermediate stages, which may allow small perturbations in location to be corrected, affects the accuracy of this process; this is particularly apparent when more complex stimuli are rotated. The pilots who did not show incremental rotation effects had different and distinct error patterns, their errors increased when rotating the more complex stimuli.

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Body Image Disturbance in Dysmorphophobia

The British Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.1192/bjp.141.2.181 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 141 (2) ◽

pp. 181-185 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

G. E. Hardy

Keyword(s):

Body Image ◽

Interpersonal Relationships ◽

The Other ◽

Body Image Disturbance ◽

Self Concept ◽

Control Subjects ◽

Repertory Grids ◽

And Control

SummaryTwo repertory grids relating to body image and interpersonal relationships were administered to dysmorphophobic, psoriatic and control subjects. Both dysmorphophobics and psoriatics expressed dissatisfaction with their body image and, in addition, dysmorphophobics were dissatisfied with their interpersonal relationships. The dysmorphophobic group were also less happy with their self-concept than the other two groups.

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Cross-Script and Within-Script Priming in Alcoholic Korsakoff Patients

Perceptual and Motor Skills ◽

10.2466/pms.2003.96.2.495 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 96 (2) ◽

pp. 495-509 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Shin-Ichi Komatsu ◽

Masaru Mimura ◽

Motoichiro Kato ◽

Haruo Kashima

Keyword(s):

Recognition Memory ◽

Repetition Priming ◽

The Other ◽

Word Fragment ◽

Implicit Processes ◽

Word Fragment Completion ◽

Control Subjects ◽

Baseline Performance ◽

Abstract Level ◽

And Control

In two experiments, alcoholic Korsakoff patients and control subjects studied a list of Japanese nouns written in either Hiragana or Kanji script. Word-fragment completion and recognition tests were then administered in Hiragana. When the writing script was changed between study and test phases, repetition priming in word-fragment completion was significantly attenuated but was still reliable against baseline performance. This was confirmed for both Korsakoff patients and control subjects. In contrast, the script change had little effect on recognition memory, which was severely impaired in Korsakoff patients. The results suggest that repetition priming is mediated by two different implicit processes, one that is script-specific and the other that is assumed to operate at a more abstract level.

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The Effects of a Neutral Stimulus (Buzzer) on Motor Responses and Disfluencies in Normal Speakers

Journal of Speech and Hearing Research ◽

10.1044/jshr.1201.179 ◽

1969 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 179-184 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Richard R. Martin ◽

Gerald M. Siegel

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Neutral Stimulus ◽

Motor Responses ◽

Control Subjects ◽

And Control ◽

Speaking Task

Seventy-two college students were divided into three groups: Button Push-Speech (BP-S), Speech-Button Push (S-BP), and Control. BP-S subjects pushed one of two buttons on signal for 8 min. During the last 4 min, depression of the criterion button caused a buzzer to sound. After the button-push task, subjects spoke spontaneously for 30 min. During the last 20 min, the buzzer was presented contingent upon each disfluency. S-BP subjects were run under the same procedures, but the order of button-push and speech tasks was reversed. Control subjects followed the same procedures as S-BP subjects, but no buzzer signal was presented at any time. Both S-BP and BP-S subjects emitted significantly fewer disfluencies during the last 20 min (Conditioning) than during the first 10 min (Baserate) of the speaking task. The frequency of disfluencies for Control subjects did not change significantly from Baserate to Conditioning. In none of the three groups did the frequency of pushes on the criterion button change significantly from minute to minute throughout the 8-min button-push session.

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Tests for Platelet Changes, Acute Phase Reactants and Serum Lipids in Diabetes mellitus and Peripheral Vascular Disease

Thrombosis and Haemostasis ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1657283 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 48 (03) ◽

pp. 289-293 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

B A van Oost ◽

B F E Veldhuyzen ◽

H C van Houwelingen ◽

A P M Timmermans ◽

J J Sixma

Keyword(s):

Diabetes Mellitus ◽

Vascular Disease ◽

Peripheral Vascular Disease ◽

Acute Phase ◽

Serum Lipids ◽

Diabetic Patients ◽

Peripheral Vascular ◽

Acute Phase Reactants ◽

Control Subjects ◽

And Control

SummaryPlatelets tests, acute phase reactants and serum lipids were measured in patients with diabetes mellitus and patients with peripheral vascular disease. Patients frequently had abnormal platelet tests and significantly increased acute phase reactants and serum lipids, compared to young healthy control subjects. These differences were compared with multidiscriminant analysis. Patients could be separated in part from the control subjects with variables derived from the measurement of acute phase proteins and serum lipids. Platelet test results improved the separation between diabetics and control subjects, but not between patients with peripheral vascular disease and control subjects. Diabetic patients with severe retinopathy frequently had evidence of platelet activation. They also had increased acute phase reactants and serum lipids compared to diabetics with absent or nonproliferative retinopathy. In patients with peripheral vascular disease, only the fibrinogen concentration was related to the degree of vessel damage by arteriography.

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Prothrombin Time Standardization: Report of the Expert Panel on Oral Anticoagulant Control

Thrombosis and Haemostasis ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1657004 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 42 (04) ◽

pp. 1073-1114 ◽

Cited By ~ 31

Keyword(s):

Prothrombin Time ◽

Expert Panel ◽

The Other ◽

Rabbit Brain ◽

Calibration Constant ◽

Freeze Dried ◽

The Mean ◽

Point Of Intersection ◽

And Control ◽

Standardization Report

SummaryIn collaborative experiments in 199 laboratories, nine commercial thromboplastins, four thromboplastins held by the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (NIBS & C), London and the British Comparative Thromboplastin were tested on fresh normal and coumarin plasmas, and on three series of freeze-dried plasmas. One of these was made from coumarin plasmas and the other two were prepared from normal plasmas; in each series, one plasma was normal and the other two represented different degrees of coumarin defect.Each thromboplastin was calibrated against NIBS&C rabbit brain 70/178, from the slope of the line joining the origin to the point of intersection of the mean ratios of coumarin/normal prothrombin times when the ratios obtained with the two thromboplastins on the same fresh plasmas were plotted against each other. From previous evidence, the slopes were calculated which would have been obtained against the NIBS&C “research standard” thromboplastin 67/40, and termed the “calibration constant” of each thromboplastin. Values obtained from the freeze-dried coumarin plasmas gave generally similar results to those from fresh plasmas for all thromboplastins, whereas values from the artificial plasmas agreed with those from fresh plasmas only when similar thromboplastins were being compared.Taking into account the slopes of the calibration lines and the variation between laboratories, precision in obtaining a patient’s prothrombin time was similar for all thromboplastins.

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Dry chip feedrate control using online chip moisture

TAPPI Journal ◽

10.32964/tj17.05.295 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 17 (05) ◽

pp. 295-305

Author(s):

Wesley Gilbert ◽

Ivan Trush ◽

Bruce Allison ◽

Randy Reimer ◽

Howard Mason

Keyword(s):

Production Rate ◽

Control Strategy ◽

Rate Control ◽

Near Infrared ◽

Dry Mass ◽

The Other ◽

Process Variability ◽

Moisture Sensor ◽

Feedback Control Strategy ◽

And Control

Normal practice in continuous digester operation is to set the production rate through the chip meter speed. This speed is seldom, if ever, adjusted except to change production, and most of the other digester inputs are ratioed to it. The inherent assumption is that constant chip meter speed equates to constant dry mass flow of chips. This is seldom, if ever, true. As a result, the actual production rate, effective alkali (EA)-to-wood and liquor-to-wood ratios may vary substantially from assumed values. This increases process variability and decreases profits. In this report, a new continuous digester production rate control strategy is developed that addresses this shortcoming. A new noncontacting near infrared–based chip moisture sensor is combined with the existing weightometer signal to estimate the actual dry chip mass feedrate entering the digester. The estimated feedrate is then used to implement a novel feedback control strategy that adjusts the chip meter speed to maintain the dry chip feedrate at the target value. The report details the results of applying the new measurements and control strategy to a dual vessel continuous digester.

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From Container to Claustrum: Projective Identification in Couples

Couple and Family Psychoanalysis ◽

10.33212/cfp.v4n2.2014.136 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Tamara Feldman

Keyword(s):

Psychological Health ◽

Projective Identification ◽

The Self ◽

The Other ◽

Intimate Partners ◽

And Control ◽

The Relationship ◽

As If

This paper is a contribution to the growing literature on the role of projective identification in understanding couples' dynamics. Projective identification as a defence is well suited to couples, as intimate partners provide an ideal location to deposit unwanted parts of the self. This paper illustrates how projective identification functions differently depending on the psychological health of the couple. It elucidates how healthier couples use projective identification more as a form of communication, whereas disturbed couples are inclined to employ it to invade and control the other, as captured by Meltzer's concept of "intrusive identification". These different uses of projective identification affect couples' capacities to provide what Bion called "containment". In disturbed couples, partners serve as what Meltzer termed "claustrums" whereby projections are not contained, but imprisoned or entombed in the other. Applying the concept of claustrum helps illuminate common feelings these couples express, such as feeling suffocated, stifled, trapped, held hostage, or feeling as if the relationship is killing them. Finally, this paper presents treatment challenges in working with more disturbed couples.

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Joint Action on cancer iPAAC - building on experience and streamlining recommendations for the future

European Journal of Public Health ◽

10.1093/eurpub/ckaa165.1429 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽

Author(s):

M Jelenc ◽

T Albreht

Keyword(s):

Cancer Care ◽

National Level ◽

Cancer Control ◽

Professional Community ◽

The Other ◽

Consensus Building ◽

Good Practices ◽

Policy Initiatives ◽

European Code ◽

And Control

Abstract Background Policy initiatives, proposals and projects often end up proposing solutions and/or measures that are eventually either not or only partially implemented or they are lacking a system, which would consistently evaluate their implementation and/or impact. Good solutions are often not visible enough to the broader professional community and it is important to identify certain outstanding challenges in cancer control and policy. Driven by the need to better use the outputs from projects on cancer policy, European Commission was trying to address two challenges - one was in solving the problems with the implementation and use of the solutions that have already been proposed and the other one in identifying the outstanding challenges in cancer policy. Results We have decided to follow the structure to develop a series of recommendations and examples of good practices at the national level by selected areas. These would be streamlined into a roadmap to support policymakers at the national and EU level in formulating their cancer policies. Three pairs of targeted recommendations have been identified: Cancer prevention, including health promotion, implementation of the European Code Against Cancer and the reshaping and extension of cancer registriesGenomics and immunotherapy in cancerChallenges in cancer care and governance of cancer control Conclusions Multinational collaboration can bring about important consensual solutions, which build on the existing good practices in the countries. This can be combined well with the existing work on specific areas, carried out both internationally and nationally. Consensus building on jointly defined challenges represents a task that appears to be resolved rather pragmatically. Key message It is important that advance in cancer care and control are quickly analysed and that policymakers receive up-to-date recommendations to improve their policies on cancer control.

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Metals in Calluna vulgaris, Empetrum nigrum, Festuca vivipara and Thymus praecox ssp. arcticus in the geothermal areas of Iceland

Environmental Science and Pollution Research ◽

10.1007/s11356-021-15046-3 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Adam Rajsz ◽

Bronisław Wojtuń ◽

Aleksandra Samecka-Cymerman ◽

Paweł Wąsowicz ◽

Lucyna Mróz ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Active Sites ◽

Calluna Vulgaris ◽

Bioaccumulation Factor ◽

The Other ◽

Extreme Situation ◽

Empetrum Nigrum ◽

Geothermal Activity ◽

High Concentrations ◽

And Control ◽

Festuca Vivipara

AbstractThis investigation was conducted to identify the content of metals in Calluna vulgaris (family Ericaceae), Empetrum nigrum (family Ericaceae), Festuca vivipara (family Poaceae) and Thymus praecox subsp. arcticus (family Lamiaceae), as well as in the soils where they were growing in eight geothermal heathlands in Iceland. Investigation into the vegetation of geothermal areas is crucial and may contribute to their proper protection in the future and bring more understanding under what conditions the plants respond to an ecologically more extreme situation. Plants from geothermally active sites were enriched with metals as compared to the same species from non-geothermal control sites (at an average from about 150 m from geothermal activity). The enriched metals consisted of Cd, Co, Cu, Fe and Ni in C. vulgaris; Cd, Mn and Ti in E. nigrum; Hg and Pb in F. vivipara; and Cd, Fe and Hg in T. praecox. Notably, C. vulgaris, E. nigrum, F. vivipara and T. praecox had remarkably high concentrations of Ti at levels typical of toxicity thresholds. Cd and Pb (except for C. vulgaris and F. vivipara) were not accumulated in the shoots of geothermal plants. C. vulgaris from geothermal and control sites was characterised by the highest bioaccumulation factor (BF) of Ti and Mn; E. nigrum and F. vivipara by the highest BF of Ti and Cr; and T. praecox by the highest BF of Ti and Zn compared to the other elements. In comparison with the other examined species, F. vivipara from geothermal sites had the highest concentration of Ti in above-ground parts at any concentration of plant-available Ti in soil.

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