Recent growth in the number of adults surviving to advanced ages raises questions about the quality of life associated with increased longevity. Psychosocial factors have received relatively little attention in research on quality of life among the oldest-old. This study uses nationally representative data on older US adults to examine how social relationships, feelings of loneliness, and satis...

A mixed microbial population naturally presents in seawater was used as active anodic biofilm of two Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs), employing either a 2D commercial carbon felt or 3D carbon-coated Berl saddles as anode electrodes, with the aim to compare their electrochemical behavior under continuous operation. After an initial increase of the maximum power density, the felt-based cell reduced i...

BUltTON and colleagues' suggested recently that stretching the venous wall in limbs elicits a local reflex resulting in constriction of local arteriols. They felt that this "veni-vasomotor" reflex supplemented the central buffer reflexes in controlling blood flow through extremities during change in posture. Utilizing methods permitting direct measurement of small and large vessel resistance in...

BUltTON and colleagues' suggested recently that stretching the venous wall in limbs elicits a local reflex resulting in constriction of local arteriols. They felt that this "veni-vasomotor" reflex supplemented the central buffer reflexes in controlling blood flow through extremities during change in posture. Utilizing methods permitting direct measurement of small and large vessel resistance in...

Understanding others' behavior often involves attributing mental states to them by using one's "theory of mind." We argue that using theory of mind to recognize differences between one's own perspective and another's perspective is a deliberate process of inference that may be influenced by incidental mood. Because sadness is associated with more systematic and deliberate processing whereas hap...

Some children who bully others are also victimized themselves ("bully-victims") whereas others are not victimized themselves ("bullies"). These subgroups have been shown to differ in their social functioning as early as in kindergarten. What is less clear are the motives that underlie the bullying behavior of young bullies and bully-victims. The present study examined whether bullies have proac...