Coordination networks of Cu2+ ions with 1,3-bis[2-(4-pyridyl)ethyl]benzene : strong structure-directing role of the counter ion (nitrate, acetate and sulphate), leading to clusters, sheets and chains

Date of Acceptance: 16/10/2015

Petroleum taxation contingent on counter-factual investment behaviour

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We thank the referees for constructive suggestions. Thanks are due to Norwegian Research Council (Petrosam 2) for financial support.

Coordination networks of Cu2+ ions with 1,3-bis[2-(4-pyridyl)ethyl]benzene : strong structure-directing role of the counter ion (nitrate, acetate and sulphate), leading to clusters, sheets and chains

Date of Acceptance: 16/10/2015

Historical cohort study examining comparative effectiveness of albuterol inhalers with and without integrated dose counter for patients with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

This study was supported financially by an unrestricted grant from Teva Pharmaceuticals, Frazer, PA, USA. The authors thank Jenny Fanstone of Fanstone Medical Communications Ltd., UK, and Elizabeth V Hillyer for medical writing support, funded by Research in Real-Life. We acknowledge with gratitude Dr Ruchir Parikh for his review of and contributions to the manuscript.

A study of the situations, features, and coping mechanisms experienced by Irish psychiatric nurses experiencing moral distress

Purpose: The purpose of this study was toinvestigate moral distress in Irish psychiatric nurses. Design: A qualitative descriptive methodology was used. Findings: The study confirmed the presence of moral distress and the situations that gave rise to moral distress within psychiatric nurses working in acute care settings. Practice Implications: The findings indicate that while multidisciplinary teams appear to function well on the surface, situations that give rise to moral distress are not always acknowledged or dealt with effectively. Furthermore, unresolved moral conflict impacts upon the quality of clinical decision-making by not allowing open and transparent discussions that allow clinicians the opportunity to address their concerns adequately.

Spaces of Visibility for the Migrants of Lampedusa: The Counter Narrative of the Aesthetic Discourse

Political, legal, and media discourse around ‘boat-migrants’ arriving in Lampedusa share a tendency to focus on an unnamed and anonymous mass of people in order to build and sustain a Border Spectacle revolving around immigration to Italy. In this context, where very little space is usually left to individual migrant voices, this article challenges this common understanding of immigration to Lampedusa by showing a different side of the story, a story told by the real actors of the Mediterranean passage, the migrants themselves, who, by relying on the realm of aesthetics, have managed to gain visibility and to become ‘subjects of power.’

Secure & Trusted Communication in Emergency Situations

In this paper we propose SETS, a protocol with main aim to provide secure and private communication during emergency situations. SETS achieves security of the exchanged information, attack resilience and user's privacy. In addition, SETS can be easily adapted for mobile devices, since field experimental results show the effectiveness of the protocol on actual smart-phone platforms.

Cooperative Mapping and Exploration using Counter-rotational Potential Fields

This paper presents a novel technique for mapping and exploration using cooperating autonomous underwater vehicles. Rather than using the typical lawnmower sweep pattern to search an entire area, the proposed navigational plan involves guiding the formation directly towards each object of interest in turn, before arriving at a final goal position. This is achieved by the use of traditional artificial potential fields alongside counter-rotational potential fields. These clockwise and counter-clockwise fields are employed simultaneously by vehicles to ensure that the entire object is scanned rather than simply avoided as is the case with traditional collision avoidance techniques. The proposed methodology allows a formation to have fluid-like motion whilst a separation distance between cooperating agents (free of angular constraints) is maintained with a greater degree of flexibility than traditional formation control approaches. Owing to its nature, this technique is suited for applications such as exploration, mapping and underwater inspection to name a few. Simulation results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed approach.

Memory Bias for Anxiety Prior to Academic Achievement Situations: Influences of Time, Mood, Personality and Post-Event-Processing

The current thesis examines memory bias for state anxiety prior to academic achievement situations like writing an exam and giving a speech. The thesis relies on the reconstruction principle, which assumes that memories for past emotions are reconstructed rather than stored permanently and accurately. This makes them prone to memory bias, which is af-fected by several influencing factors. A major aim is to include four important influencing factors simultaneously. Early research on mood and emotional autobiographical memory found evidence for the existence of a propositional associative network (Bower, 1981; Col-lins & Loftus, 1975), leading to mood congruent recall. But empirical findings gave also strong evidence for the existence of mood incongruent recall for one’s own emotions, which was for example linked to mood regulation via mood repair (e.g. Clark & Isen, 1982), which seems to be associated to the personality traits extraversion and neuroticism (Lischetzke & Eid, 2006; Ng & Diener, 2009). Moreover, neuroticism and trait anxiety are related to rumination, which is seen as negative post-event-processing (e.g. Wells & Clark, 1997). Overall, the elapsed time since the emotional event happened should have an impact on recall of emotions. Following the affect infusion model by Robinson and Clore (2002a), the influence of personality on memory bias should increase over time. Therefore, three longitudinal studies were realized, using naturally occurring as well as laboratory settings. The used paradigm was equivalent in all studies. Subjects were asked about their actual state anxiety prior to an academic achievement situation. Directly after the situation, cur-rent mood and recall of former anxiety were assessed. The same procedure was repeated a few weeks later. Personality traits and post-event-processing were also assessed. The results suggest a need to have a differentiated view on predicting memory bias. Study 1 (N = 131) as well as study 3 (N = 53) found evidence for mood incongruent memory in the sense of mood repair and downward regulation as a function of personality. Rumination was found to cause stable overestimation of pre-event anxiety in study 2 (N = 141) as well as in study 3. Although the relevance of the influencing factors changed over time, an increasing relevance of personality could not consistently be observed. The tremendously different effects of the laboratory study 2 indicated that such settings are not appropriate to study current issues. Theoretical and psychotherapeutically relevant conclusions are drawn and several limitations are discussed.

The Influence of Informational and Emotional Advertising Appeals on Advertising Effectiveness – Consumers’ Perspective on the Over-the-Counter Product Advertisements in Finland

Consumers face enormous amounts of promotional messages daily whereas the pharmaceutical companies among other industries spend considerable time and money developing effective advertising strategies. There are multiple possible ways to appeal the target customer in order to increase the effectiveness of the advertisement. In spite of the various possibilities to categorize persuasive communication, the informational and the emotional appeals are the typical approaches. This study assesses the influence of the informational and emotional advertising appeals on the advertising effectiveness in the context of OTCs in Finland. The research method applied in this study is a quantitative survey. The data consists of 461 responses from the target population of 18–80 years old Finnish speaking consumers. The results from the marketing research indicate that the positive correlations of the emotional appeals are much stronger than the positive correlations of the informational appeals relating to the advertising effectiveness. However, on average the Finnish consumers experience the OTC advertisements relying on the informational appeals more effective than the OTC advertisements relying on the emotional appeals. Furthermore, within emotional appeals there is a much greater variety in the experienced advertising effectiveness not providing as stabile and consistent experienced advertising effectiveness compared to the informational appeals. Thus, the OTC advertisement relying more on the emotional appeals are much more risky in terms of advertising effectiveness. There are also differences with the experienced advertising effectiveness between the Finnish consumer groups and the information can be utilised when designing tailored OTC advertisements. The Finnish men consider humorous advertisements more effective than the Finnish women. In addition, the people living outside Uusimaa Region experience higher advertising effectiveness with the advertisements relying more on the informational advertisements compared to the people living in Uusimaa Region. In similar vein, the people with lower education experience higher advertising effectiveness with the advertisements relying more on the informational advertisements compared to the people with high education. Additionally, the older generation perceive an OTC advertisement with a middle-aged celebrity more effective than the younger consumers

Élaboration d'un protocole opérationnel d'entrevue visant à diagnostiquer les situations de non-insertion socioprofessionnelle.

La situation actuelle du marché du travail fait en sorte que de plus en plus de personnes nécessitent de l'aide pour leur insertion ou leur réinsertion socioprofessionnelle. Cette demande qui continue d'accroître exige beaucoup de la part des professionnelles ou professionnels engagés pour intervenir auprès de cette clientèle. Ces ressources souvent limitées en nombre et en temps, doivent être capable de faire une évaluation fiable et rapide afin de réaliser des interventions ajustées. Une équipe de recherche actuellement en cours, a conçu un outil permettant d'établir le diagnostic de l'état d'employabilité. Le défi de cette étude est de valider l'instrument à l'aide d'un autre test. Ceci nous mène au contexte du présent essai, qui sera décrit en première partie afin de situer le problème. En deuxième partie, nous présenterons l'ensemble des étapes qui a conduit à l'élaboration du protocole d'entrevue. La troisième partie sera consacrée à la vérification de la fiabilité de ce protocole. Enfin, quelques recommandations quant à son utilisation finaliseront le présent travail.

Élaboration et standardisation d'un test d'attitudes : le QACSS (Questionnaire sur les attributions causales en situations scolaires)

Croyant que la connaissance approfondie du style attributionnel des élèves inscrits au cégep pourrait être un pas de plus vers la connaissance des processus psycho-cognitifs de l'élève en situations d'apprentissage scolaire et également une piste d'intervention pour réduire les abandons et les échecs au collégial, nous avons élaboré et validé un questionnaire étudiant les attributions causales reliées à des situations scolaires, le QACSS. La présente recherche correspond à la première étape d'une étude portant sur le style attributionnel des cégépiens. Nous basant sur la théorie des attributions de Weiner et sur l'étude expérimentale de l'ASQ (Attributionnal Style Questionnaire) de Peterson et al. (1982), nous avons élaboré et procédé à l'expérimentation du QACSS auprès de 317 élèves de niveau collégial, inscrits dans divers programmes collégiaux, au secteur régulier. Nous présentons et analysons, dans ce rapport, les résultats obtenus lors de notre étude de validité et de fidélité et nous discutons des principales questions surgies lors de cette analyse. En conclusion, nous affirmons que le QACSS peut être considéré comme un outil fiable de la mesure des attributions causales reliées aux situations scolaires.

Perspectives de stagiaires et d'experts de l'enseignement secondaire sur des situations d'indiscipline

Le thème de cette recherche porte sur des perspectives de stagiaires et d'experts de l'enseignement secondaire sur des situations d'indiscipline. Nous avons d'abord élaboré un contexte théorique. À la lumière de Kounin (1970), Martin (1981), Charles (1981), Charles (1989) et Bournot-Trites (in Safty dir., 1990), nous avons retrouvé une description de huit modèles de discipline. Cependant, le contenu de ces écrits ne fournit pas suffisamment d'information afin de développer le thème de notre recherche. Inspirée par Brophy et Evertson (1976), Moskowitz et Hayman (1976), Saunders (1979), Johnson (1980), Ramsey (1981), Fitzpatrick (1981), Jones et Jones (1981), Me Daniel (1982), Gagné (1985), Melvin (1985), Schloss et Sedlack (1986), Doyle (1986) et Barton et Morrison (1988), nous avons recensé des caractéristiques des maîtres efficaces. Ainsi, la littérature des modèles de discipline et celle des caractéristiques des maîtres efficaces nous ont amenée à définir les objectifs de notre recherche. Cette recherche qualitative exploratoire nous a permis d'interviewer des participants, c'est-à-dire des stagiaires et des maîtres experts de différentes écoles secondaires. Dans un premier temps, nous avons construit notre instrument de recherche qui se définit par des mises en situation (trois situations d'indiscipline) accompagné d'un questionnaire. Cet instrument fut pré-expérimenté dans le but d'en vérifier la validité. Par la suite, cet instrument fut présenté aux participants de notre recherche. Il s'agit principalement de trois stagiaires et de trois maîtres experts. Le contenu des entrevues des participants nous a permis de concevoir un modèle d'analyse appelé un discipli-cube. Ce modèle tridimensionnel comporte des composantes (savoir, savoir-être, savoir-faire), des moments (avant, pendant, après ou indéterminé) et des situations d'indiscipline. C'est donc à partir du discipli-cube que nous avons classé les données des participants. Finalement, les résultats de cette recherche nous conduisent à prétendre que, face à une situation d'indiscipline, les stagiaires interviennent en ayant plutôt recours à leur savoir (connaissances) et avec l'intention de sévir vis-à-vis l'élève ou le groupe alors que les maîtres experts interviennent en se référant davantage au savoir-faire dans le but de fournir de l'aide à l'élève ou au groupe. Ils s'interrogent et prennent le temps de considérer globalement la situation problématique ce qu'omettent de faire les stagiaires. Cette recherche comporte des limites parce que la nature de cette recherche et en particulier la situation de simulation ne permettent pas d'inférer les résultats aux situations d'enseignement réelles.

Motivational factors for language learning classroom situations : the self-determination theory in practice

Tesis (Licenciado en Lenguas Castellana, Inglés y Francés).--Universidad de La Salle. Facultad de Ciencias de La Educación. Licenciatura en Lengua Castellana, Inglés y Francés, 2014