Ss who receive information about a person's traits and behaviors in a social context are likely to focus their attention on the pragmatic implications of this information (i.e., why the information was conveyed). To examine this hypothesis, Ss listened to a taped conversation in which a male target (T) and another speaker (O) exchanged anecdotal accounts of T's behavior. Ss typically used O's t...

After hearing the punch line of the joke, the teenager falls to the floor, almost as if actually punched. She remains there, completely unable to move. She hears her parents reassure her friends that they need not worry about her because she will be all right in a few minutes. She is embarrassed and frustrated as the episode continues, and her friends begin to leave. They bid her goodbye, but s...

This report describes activity at a workshop on New Measurement Technology for Polymer Processing which was held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology on December 3-4,1990. The workshop was attended by 19 industry scientists and engineers from polymer processing and instrumentation manufacturing companies. The objective was to seek industry responses to the question: what in-lin...

OBJECTIVE To test whether there are differences in diet diversity between children still being partly breast-fed at 9 months and those completely weaned at the same age. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Cross-sectional study (SKOT cohort) in the area of Copenhagen, Denmark. SUBJECTS Healthy term infants (n 312) at 9 months of age (mean 9·1 (SD 0·3) months). RESULTS The infants part...

Emotional stimuli often attract attention, but at what cost to the processing of other stimuli? Given the potential costs, to what degree can people override emotion-based attentional biases? In Experiment 1, participants searched for a single target within a rapid serial visual presentation of pictures; an irrelevant, emotionally negative or neutral picture preceded the target by either two or...

The transition from vegetative to reproductive development establishes new growth patterns required for flowering. This switch is controlled by environmental and/or intrinsic developmental cues that converge at the shoot apical meristem (SAM). During this developmental transition, floral inductive signals cause the vegetative meristem to undergo morphological changes that are essential for flow...

A longitudinal prospective surveillance for acute adenolymphagitis (ADL) was carried out in three villages in Rufiji district. A sample population of 3000 individuals aged 10 years and above was monitored fortnightly for a period of 12 months. The annual incidence of ADL was found to be 33 per 1000 population and was significantly higher in males than females (52.7/1000 and 18.7/1000 respective...

Spring Term 2006 ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS There are many people who I wish to acknowledge and thank for their timeless support and help. First, thank you to Dr. ElAarag for guiding me throughout the process and providing thoughtful insight. Thank you also to all of the professors who spoke with me while I tried to decide my topic. Next, thank you to my friends, who have remained on amicable terms wit...

Approaches to the post-retirement phase of life have undergone considerable change during the last decades. Until the 1970s most people worked until age 65; early exit was due to physical or mental impairment. Retirement marked the beginning of old age, a stage of life characterized by disengagement and loss (Covey, 1988) and by a role-less state (Burgess, 1960). Older persons needed to accept ...

The diagnosis of severe retardation offers little difficulty. The behavior of the infant in the office and the developmental history will establish the diagnosis. The imbecile and idiot (I.Q. below 50) are unable to do what the average child half their age can do. It takes them 2, 3, 4, or more years to learn what the normal infant learns in 1 year. Motor development is retarded and efforts at ...