2,042 research outputs found
Agronomy Career Influence Survey
No full textA survey instrument to assess assess perceptions of women in agronomy careers.
The 2015 "Perceptions of women in agronomy careers" by Litke, Graham Ross (M.S., Tarleton State University, 2015, 28; ProQuest UMI Pub. No. 1589553; ISBN: 9781321773545) reports a dataset utilizing this instrument. Creation of this instrument was made possible in part by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) through the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) grant 2012-38503-20278.Peer-review publication of data collected with this instrument is in submission
Some Welsh etymologies
No full textThe author proposes etymologies for the Welsh forms gwartheg cattle , bustach bullock , tayawc villein , Maiuc, personal name, and discusses the relationships of the forms (y)ryngof, (y)rof etc., between me... etc.Quelques étymologies galloises.
L'auteur propose des étymologies pour les formes galloises gwartheg «bétail», bustach «taurillon», tayawc «villain», Maiuc, nom propre, et il discute la parenté des formes (y)ryngof, (y)rof etc., «entre moi... » etc.Isaac Graham R. Some Welsh etymologies. In: Etudes Celtiques, vol. 30, 1994. pp. 229-231
The sexual excitation/sexual inhibition inventory for women: psychometric properties
No full textThis is a post-print version of the article. The official published version can be found at the link below.This article reports on the development of a new questionnaire designed to assess the propensity for sexual excitation and sexual inhibition in women: The Sexual Excitation/Sexual Inhibition Inventory for Women (SESII-W). The theoretical model underlying this research, the Dual Control Model, postulates that sexual response depends on a balance between excitatory and inhibitory mechanisms and that individuals vary in their propensity for excitation and inhibition. This study describes the development and initial validation of the SESII-W in a sample of 655 women (M age, 33.9 years). Factor analysis identified eight factors and two higher-order factors: one related to sexual excitation and one to sexual inhibition. The measure demonstrated good test-retest reliability and discriminant and convergent validity. Our data underscore that a number of factors affect women's sexual arousal and these appear to be related to opposing processes of sexual excitation and sexual inhibition. Theoretical issues, possible gender differences, and the value of using qualitative data to inform questionnaire development are discussed.This study was funded, in part, by a grant from the Lilly Centre for Women‟s Health
Turning on and turning off: A focus group study of the factors that affect women's sexual arousal
No full textThis is a post print version of the article. The official published version can be accessed from the link below.The aim of this study was to inform the development of a questionnaire to assess a woman's tendency to respond with sexual excitation/inhibition in different situations. Nine focus groups, involving 80 women (M age = 34.3 years; range, 18-84), were conducted. Women described a wide range of physical (genital and nongenital), cognitive/emotional, and behavioral cues to arousal. The relationship between sexual interest (desire) and sexual arousal was complex; sexual interest was reported as sometimes preceding arousal, but at other times following it. Many women did not clearly differentiate between arousal and interest. Qualitative data on the factors that women perceived as enhancers and inhibitors of sexual arousal are presented, with a focus on the following themes: feelings about one's body; concern about reputation; unwanted pregnancy/ contraception; feeling desired versus feeling used by a partner; feeling accepted by a partner; style of approach/initiation; and negative mood. The findings can help inform conceptualizations of sexual arousal in women.This research was funded (in part) by a grant from the Lilly Centre for Women‟s Health
The DSM diagnostic criteria for Female Sexual Arousal Disorder
No full textThis article reviews and critiques the DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria for Female Sexual Arousal Disorder (FSAD). An overview of how the diagnostic criteria for FSAD have evolved over previous editions of the DSM is presented and research on prevalence and etiology of FSAD is briefly reviewed. Problems with the essential feature of the DSM-IV-TR diagnosis — “an inability to attain, or to maintain…an adequate lubrication-swelling response of sexual excitement” — are identified. The significant overlap between “arousal” and “desire” disorders is highlighted. Finally, specific recommendations for revision of the criteria for DSM-V are made, including use of a polythetic approach to the diagnosis and the addition of duration and severity criteria
Formation of indolizines by the addition of α-chloroacrylonitrile to pyridinium ylides: regioselectivity and Hammett correlation
No full textPT: J; CR: BENSASSON R, 1971, T FARADAY SOC, V67, P1904 BONNEAU R, 1989, J CHEM SOC CHEM COMM, P510 CARMICHAEL I, 1986, J PHYS CHEM REF DATA, V15, P1 GRAHAM WH, 1965, J AM CHEM SOC, V87, P4396 LIU MTH, 1987, CHEM DIAZIRINES, CH5 LIU MTH, 1987, TETRAHEDRON LETT, P1011 PUGMIRE RJ, 1971, J AM CHEM SOC, V98, P1887 SOUNDARAJAN N, 1988, TETRAHEDRON LETT, P3419 TURRO NJ, 1980, J AM CHEM SOC, V102, P7578 UCHIDA T, 1976, SYNTHESIS-STUTTGART, P209; NR: 10; TC: 10; J9: J CHEM SOC PERKIN TRANS 1; PG: 2; GA: AL500Source type: Electronic(1
Geodesic X-Ray Transform on Asymptotically Hyperbolic Manifolds
No full textThesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2020This dissertation contains work of the author and joint work with C. Robin Graham concerning the geodesic X-ray transform in the setting of asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds. It is divided into three self contained chapters, each addressing a different question. The topic of the first chapter is the local injectivity of the X-ray transform, extending a result proved by Uhlmann and Vasy on compact manifolds with boundary. Assuming knowledge of the X-ray transform for geodesics contained in a small neighborhood of a boundary point we show local injectivity for asymptotically hyperbolic metrics even modulo O(\rho^5) in dimension 3 and higher. In the second chapter we construct examples of asymptotically hyperbolic metrics demonstrating that in the asymptotically hyperbolic setting absence of conjugate points does not suffice to exclude boundary conjugate points. The construction uses techniques developed by Gulliver and clarifies the definition of a simple asymptotically hyperbolic manifold, formulated by Graham, Guillarmou, Stefanov and Uhlmann. In the third chapter we show a stability estimate for the X-ray transform on simple asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds, extending to this setting the work of Stefanov and Uhlmann on simple compact manifolds with boundary
The DSM diagnostic criteria for female orgasmic disorder
No full textThis is the post-print version of the article. The official published version can be found at the link below.This article reviews the DSM diagnostic criteria for Female Orgasmic Disorder (FOD). Following an overview of the concept of female orgasm, research on the prevalence and associated features of FOD is briefly reviewed. Specific aspects of the DSM-IV-TR criteria for FOD are critically reviewed and key issues that should be considered for DSM-V are discussed. The DSM-IV-TR text on FOD focused on the physiological changes that may (or may not) accompany orgasm in women; one of the major recommendations here is that greater emphasis be given to the subjective aspects of the experience of orgasm. Additional specific recommendations are made for revision of diagnostic criteria, including the use of minimum severity and duration criteria, and better acknowledgment of the crucial role of relationship factors in FOD
Discovery of an optical counterpart to the hyperluminous X-ray source in ESO 243-49
No full textThe existence of black holes of masses similar to 10(2)-10(5)M(circle dot) has important implications for the formation and evolution of star clusters and supermassive black holes. One of the strongest candidates to date is the hyperluminous X-ray source (HLX1), possibly located in the S0- a galaxy ESO 243-49, but the lack of an identifiable optical counterpart had hampered its interpretation. Using the Magellan telescope, we have discovered an unresolved optical source with R = 23.80 +/- 0.25 mag and V = 24.5 +/- 0.3 mag within HLX1's positional error circle. This implies an average X-ray/optical flux ratio similar to 500. Taking the same distance as ESO 243-49, we obtain an intrinsic brightness M-R = -11.0 +/- 0.3 mag, comparable to that of a massive globular cluster. Alternatively, the optical source is consistent with a main-sequence M star in the Galactic halo (for example an M4.4 star at approximate to 2.5 kpc). We also examined the properties of ESO 243-49 by combining Swift/Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) observations with stellar population modelling. We found that the overall emission is dominated by a similar to 5-Gyr-old stellar population, but the UV emission at approximate to 2000 angstrom is mostly due to ongoing star formation at a rate of similar to 0.03M(circle dot) yr(-1). The UV emission is more intense (at least a 9 sigma enhancement above the mean) north-east of the nucleus, in the same quadrant as HLX1. With the combined optical and X-ray measurements, we put constraints on the nature of HLX1. We rule out a foreground star and a background AGN. Two alternative scenarios are still viable. HLX1 could be an accreting intermediate mass black hole in a star cluster, which may itself be the stripped nucleus of a dwarf galaxy that passed through ESO 243-49, an event which might have caused the current episode of star formation. Or, it could be a neutron star in the Galactic halo, accreting from an M4-M5 donor star
Asexuality: Classification and characterization
No full textThis is a post-print version of the article. The official published version can be obtaineed at the link below.The term “asexual” has been defined in many different ways and asexuality has received very little research attention. In a small qualitative study (N = 4), individuals who self-identified as asexual were interviewed to help formulate hypotheses for a larger study. The second larger study was an online survey drawn from a convenience sample designed to better characterize asexuality and to test predictors of asexual identity. A convenience sample of 1,146 individuals (N = 41 self-identified asexual) completed online questionnaires assessing sexual history, sexual inhibition and excitation, sexual desire, and an open-response questionnaire concerning asexual identity. Asexuals reported significantly less desire for sex with a partner, lower sexual arousability, and lower sexual excitation but did not differ consistently from non-asexuals in their sexual inhibition scores or their desire to masturbate. Content analyses supported the idea that low sexual desire is the primary feature predicting asexual identity
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