Picture-story exercise (PSE) measures of implicit motives provide objective, stable, and valid scores. However, PSE scores are also characterized by substantial variability from one picture to the next, resulting in low internal consistency estimates. We argue that this variability is a critical source of the PSE’s validity because it reveals stable if-then contingencies between the situational...

Utilizing a screening method designed for the identification of genes involved with enhanced protein secretion in Saccharomyces cerevisiae we identified a gene, which we named PSE-1 (Protein Secretion Enhancer). Overexpression of PSE-1 in a multi-copy plasmid, as shown by Northern hybridization, gave a fourfold enhancement in total protein secretion. The repertoire of proteins that are found to...

The aim of this work was to study the sarcomeric organization of muscles with PSE-like zones and normal muscle (control), focusing on the SHG signal pattern of myosin (single or double band). Second harmonic generation microscopy has been applied on pork Semimembranosus samples fixed at 24 hours post mortem. Electronic microscopy was applied on the same samples to improve SHG images interpretat...

Chronic severe liver disease (i.e., cirrhosis) is a common complication of chronic alcohol abuse. Cirrhosis can cause brain dysfunction, most notably the disorder portal­systemic encephalopathy (PSE), which is characterized by cognitive and motor dysfunction and, eventually, by hepatic coma. Restoration of normal liver function—for example, through liver transplantation—can reverse some of the ...

Process systems engineering (PSE) has been an active research field for almost 50 years. Its major achievements includemethodologies and tools to support processmodeling, simulation and optimization (MSO). Mature, commercially available technologies have been penetrating all fields of chemical engineering in academia as well as in industrial practice. MSO technologies have become a commodity, t...

A spectrophotometric method was developed for simultaneous quantification of pseudoephedrine hydrochloride (PSE) triprolidine hydrochloride (TRI) using second derivative method (zero-crossing technique). The second derivative amplitudes of PSE and TRI were measured at 271 and 321 nm, respectively. The calibration curves were linear in the range of 200 to 1,000 g/ml for PSE and 10 to 50 g/ml for...

A spectrophotometric method was developed for simultaneous quantification of pseudoephedrine hydrochloride (PSE) triprolidine hydrochloride (TRI) using second derivative method (zero-crossing technique). The second derivative amplitudes of PSE and TRI were measured at 271 and 321 nm, respectively. The calibration curves were linear in the range of 200 to 1,000 g/ml for PSE and 10 to 50 g/ml for...

The use of Pfizer selective enterococcus (PSE) agar with the membrane filter technique for the enumeration of fecal streptococci is limited due to the inability of the characteristic black precipitate, indicative of esculin hydrolysis, to diffuse from the medium through the membrane. A modification of the membrane filter technique that consisted of placing the membrane on PSE agar and overlayin...

The Linear System Analyzer (LSA) is a component-based problem-solving environment (PSE) for the manipulation and solution of large sparse linear systems of equations. Both the underlying component infrastructure and its application to the problem area of linear systems are introduced. Initial results indicate the utility of clearly separating the PSE infrastructure from the particular problem d...

The Linear System Analyzer (LSA) is a component-based problem-solving environment (PSE) for the manipulation and solution of large sparse linear systems of equations. Both the underlying component infrastructure and its application to the problem area of linear systems are introduced. Initial results indicate the utility of clearly separating the PSE infrastructure from the particular problem d...