OBJECTIVE The present study explored the role of the emotional experience of God (i.e., positive and negative God images) in the happiness of chronic pain (CP) patients. Framed in the transactional model of stress, we tested a model in which God images would influence happiness partially through its influence on disease interpretation as a mediating mechanism. We expected God images to have bot...

Recent advances in our knowledge of mental illness have not lr*ade it any easier to reconcile this suffering with a belief in Cod. As long as all mental illness could be ascribed to evil spirits the Question of God's responsibility was not so great. The dichotomy of ^?d and the devil did give, as it were, a working solution to the problem although it did not give any final answer. The very idea of

Trevor Wood-Harper Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester Email: [email protected] This research is part of a wider study that seeks to understand the nature of significant stakeholder perceptions as situated in the South Australian (SA) wine industry supply chain (SC) context. The focus is the small and medium enterprise (SME including micro) wine producers....

COMPARISONS WITH OLYMPUS MONS LAVA FANS, MARS. J.E. Bleacher, W.B. Garry, J.R. Zimbelman, P.W. Richardson. Planetary Geodynamics Laboratory, Code 698, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, [email protected], Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, Smithsonian Institution, PO Box 37012, National Air and Space Museum MRC 315, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012, Earth and Space Sciences, University of...

Religiosity and participation in religious activities have been linked with decreased risky behavior. In the current research, we hypothesized that exposure to the concept of God can actually increase people's willingness to engage in certain types of risks. Across seven studies, reminders of God increased risk taking in nonmoral domains. This effect was mediated by the perceived danger of a ri...

Anthropomorphism is a default strategy for making the unfamiliar familiar, but is it a uniform strategy? Do all dimensions of anthropomorphism “hang together”? We explored this question by involving adults (n = 99) in a speeded property-attribution task in which they decided, as quickly as possible, whether properties of two types— psychological and physiological—could be attributed to God. Par...

Body dissatisfaction is a well-replicated risk factor for disordered eating, yet not all individuals with body dissatisfaction exhibit disordered eating. This study examined the role of perceptions of social norms on the relationship between body dissatisfaction and disordered eating. Perceptions of descriptive and injunctive peer norms, body dissatisfaction, and disordered eating were examined...

In many instances, it is useful to release a part or all of the oligosaccharide chains from a glycoconjugate before analyzing their structure, and the units presented in this section describe a variety of ways in which this can be achieved. Some of the methods described here (particularly the enzymatic ones) can also be applied to the study of free oligosaccharides or to oligosaccharides that a...