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Rank-based alternatives to mean-based ensemble models of satisfaction with earnings : comment on Putnam-Farr and Morewedge (2020)
No full textHow much satisfaction do we derive from a new salary or from receiving a bonus payment in an experiment? People do not judge monetary amounts in isolation but compare them to other amounts—judgments are context sensitive. A key question is, however, how context affects judgment. Across eight experiments, Putnam-Farr and Morewedge (2020) showed that people’s self-reported satisfaction with a sum of money is predicted by the difference between that amount and the highest or lowest amount received by others. The authors found no evidence that people’s judgments are sensitive to the ranked position of a monetary amount among other rewards. Putnam-Farr and Morewedge explained their results with reference to the ensemble representation literature, which shows that people can accurately estimate summary statistics, such as the maximum or mean, of stimulus distributions. In this commentary, we argue that their proposed interpretation is inconsistent with extensive theoretical and empirical research showing that judgments of stimuli reflect the relative ranked position of those stimuli within a comparison context. Building on this research, we show that the experimental results reported by Putnam-Farr and Morewedge can be explained on the assumption that people use contextual information to infer a distribution of monetary amounts and judge individual amounts by their relative ranked position within that inferred distribution. This inferred distribution theory accounts for empirical results reported in the original study while remaining consistent with the general and well-established principle of rank-based judgment. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved
LGBTQ+ Parent Adoption: Processes and outcomes (Symposium)
No full textMany LGBTQ+ adults worldwide desire to be or are already adoptive parents (Goldberg & Conron, 2018; Patterson & Tornello, 2011). The international research literature, however, shows that despite numerous countries awarding statutory rights to adopt, LGBTQ+ adults continue to report facing ongoing difficulties when trying to adopt children. In addition, research demonstrates comparable adjustment among sexual minority and heterosexual parent adoptive families (e.g., Farr, 2017; Golombok et al., 2018), yet we know less about how LGBTQ+ parents talk with children about adoption and other unique family processes. Thus, this symposium extends this literature through five papers, offering a range of perspectives on challenges encountered by LGBTQ+ parents when navigating the adoption process as well as about family socialization and communication in LGBTQ+ adoptive parent families. The first paper explores the perceived barriers by trans parents in the U.S. and the second uniquely explores the role of lawyers - a professional group not yet empirically explored before in relation to LGBTQ+ adoption - as possible barriers. The third paper examines adoption socialization and outcomes among racially diverse sexual minority and heterosexual parent families and preadolescent adoptees. The fourth paper also investigates experiences among sexual minority and heterosexual adoptive parent families, particularly how heterosexism relates to early adolescent outcomes. The fifth and final paper explores adoptees’ perspectives on birth and adoptive (sexual minority and heterosexual parent) family connections. A key strength of this symposium is surfacing common threads about the value of LGBTQ+ adoptive parenting, emerging from diverse, international and cross-cultural locations.
Topics
• Family relationships
• Identity
• Open adoptio
A reciprocity formula from abelian BF and Turaev–Viro theories
No full textAbstractIn this article we show that the use of Deligne–Beilinson cohomology in the context of the U(1) BF theory on a closed 3-manifold M yields a discrete ZN BF theory whose partition function is an abelian TV invariant of M. By comparing the expectation values of the U(1) and ZN holonomies in both BF theories we obtain a reciprocity formula
The Bar BF Ranch
No full textThe area of investigation concerns the possible uses of the Bar BF Ranch in Smithville, Missouri. The business that will ultimately lead to the greatest growth potential is sought. Two possibilities are outlined. The major finding for a growth industry is that of breeding extremely rare straight Egyptian Arabian horses. They are unequaled in classic beauty and thus possess a high profit potential as a genetic pool for the Arabian market world wide. The alternate growth concept for the Bar BF Ranch would be as a quest ranch specializing in horseback riding. The site has been approved for this use by the Dude Ranchers Association of America. The author concludes that the breeding of straight Egyptian Arabian horses will be the primary objective of the Bar BF Ranch, based upon industry findings and return of investment potential
THE INFRARED SPECTRA OF BF CATION AND BFOH CATION TRAPPED IN SOLID NEON
No full textAuthor Institution: Optical Technology Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8441New, more detailed studies of the photoionization and Penning ionization of BF trapped in solid neon have confirmed the earlier{} infrared spectroscopic identification of BF and BF cation and have yielded a revised assignment for the infrared absorptions of BF cation. The position of the absorption attributed to of that molecule is consistent with the distortion of the ground-state cation from D symmetry because of strong vibronic interaction between levels of the \~{B} E state and E levels of the \~{X} A ground state, as predicted by Haller and co-workers.{ppel, L.~S.~Cederbaum, W.~von~Niessen, and G.~Bieri, J.~Chem.~Phys. 78, 1359 (1983).}} The facile reaction of BF with traces of HO desorbed from the walls of the vacuum system leads to the stabilization of sufficient BFOH for the identification of two vibrational fundamentals of BFOH cation
Low Complexity BF scheme for downlink MISO-NOMA systems
No full textIn this study, the authors investigate the user selection (US), beamforming (BF) and power allocation (PA) problems for the downlink multiple-input-single-output-based non-orthogonal multiple-access system. For the US problem, they matched the BF and PA schemes with different US schemes to achieve the best spectral efficiency performance. For the BF and PA problems, they derive a non-normalised BF scheme to accomplish the BF and PA problems jointly. The non-normalised BF scheme requires much lower computational complexity than the duality BF scheme. According to their simulation results, the non-normalised BF scheme can achieve the same or better spectral efficiency performance than the duality BF scheme. When the number of users sharing the same time-frequency resource is large, both the duality BF scheme and the singular value decomposition (SVD)-based BF scheme cannot obtain spectral efficiency advantage over the OMA scheme. However, the non-normalised BF scheme can maintain the advantage over the OMA scheme.SCI(E)ARTICLE101566-15731
COHERENT RAMAN SPECTRA OF THE MODE OF BF AND BF
No full textAuthor Institution: Department of Chemistry, Oregon State University, 153 Gilbert Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331-4003; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P. O. Box 999, Mail Stop K8-88, Richland, WA 99532; National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899High resolution (0.001 cm) coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy (CARS) was used to directly examine the symmetric stretching mode of the D molecules BF and BF. Calculated spectra were constructed using rovibrational parameters deduced from published infrared hot band, combination band, and difference band studies, and the similarity to the experimental CARS spectra confirms the validity of the constants. No significant perturbations by Fermi resonance or Coriolis interactions with nearby states are observed, in marked contrast to the case of sulfur trioxide, a similar D molecule recently studied. Since the boron nucleus is at the center of mass, the BF and BF Q-branches are the same according to the harmonic oscillator model. Interestingly, the observed frequency of BF is 0.198 cm higher than that of BF. This result is reproduced almost exactly (0.200 cm) using {\it ab initio} calculations (B3LYP/cc-pVTZ) that included evaluation of cubic and quartic force constants and x anharmonicity constants. {\it Ab initio} methods also predict to within 1\% the B and C changes in the rotational constants in going from the ground state to the v = 1 vibrational level
THE ELECTRONIC SPECTRUM OF BF
No full textAuthor Institution: Division of Pure Physics, National Research Council of CanadaThe electronic spectrum of BF has been photographed in absorption at high resolution in the region from to . The emission spectrum has been investigated between and . Several new singlet states, which lie 75,000 to above the ground state, were found in absorption. Rotational constants have been determined for nearly 20 states, including the previously well-known X, A, B, C, and D states. Analysis of the emission and absorption spectra has permitted the reassignment of several transitions which had been seen previously only in emission. A discussion of the nature of the excited electronic states of BF will be presented
FLUORESCENCE SPECTRA OF PN AND BF
No full textAuthor Institution: Department of Chemistry, University of PennsylvaniaResonance fluorescence has been observed from the states of PN and BF. The species are produced in a microwave discharge and flowed into a fluorescence cell where they are optically excited by both molecular and atomic lamps. Vibronic transition probabilities for the PN system are obtained from observed band intensities and are compared with calculated Franck-Condon factors
Sweeping has no effect on renormalized turbulent viscosity
No full textWe perform renormalization group analysis (RG) of the Navier-Stokes equation in the presence of constant mean velocity field , and show that the renormalized viscosity is unaffected by , thus negating the ``sweeping effect", proposed by Kraichnan [Phys. Fluids {\bf 7}, 1723 (1964)] using random Galilean invariance. Using direct numerical simulation, we show that the correlation functions for and differ from each other, but the renormalized viscosity for the two cases are the same. Our numerical results are consistent with the RG calculations
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