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The Political Personality Of Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin, Aubrey Immelman, Joseph V. Trenzeluk

Psychology Faculty Publications

This paper presents the results of an indirect assessment of the personality of Vladimir Putin, president of the Russian Federation, from the conceptual perspective of personologist Theodore Millon.

Psychodiagnostically relevant data regarding President Putin were extracted from open-source intelligence and synthesized into a personality profile using the Millon Inventory of Diagnostic Criteria (MIDC), which yields 34 normal and maladaptive personality classifications congruent with Axis II of DSM-IV.

The personality profile yielded by the MIDC was analyzed on the basis of interpretive guidelines provided in the MIDC and Millon Index of Personality Styles manuals. Putin’s primary personality patterns were found …

Comparison Of Two Bpt Models And Their Effects On Parental Skill Acquisition, Leah E. Ward

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

This study examined the effectiveness of two behavioral parent-training teaching models on the acquisition of six parenting skills (play, praise, tangible rewards, effective commands, ignoring, and time-out). One method focused more on didactic instruction with video modeling using the Incredible Years manualized treatment, while the other method focused more exclusively on rehearsal and structured feedback. Participants were 32 parents with children aged between I month and 20 years from the Central Valley region of California that participated in a group parent-training program. Structured role-plays with corresponding task analyses were used to assess parent skill integrity. Baseline scores were compared to …

Psychometric Properties Of The Behavioural Outcomes Of Anxiety Questionnaire In Stroke Patients With Aphasia, Alicia Eccles, Reg Morris, Ian Kneebone

School of Psychology

Objective: To evaluate the psychometric properties of an observational, carer-completed anxiety screen for aphasic stroke patients. Design: Phase 1: A cross-sectional questionnaire design to establish psychometric properties. Phase 2: A randomized longitudinal design with treatment and control to evaluate sensitivity to change and repeatability/reliability. Subjects: Phase 1: 111 patient-carer dyads were recruited through stroke charities: patient mean age 69.7(10. 7), 6.2(5. 2) years since stroke, 76 male; carer mean age 64.7(12. 2), 27 male. Phase 2. A subsample of 50 dyads (29 completed). Measures: All patients completed the Tension Rating Circles and the Frenchay Aphasia Screening Test. Carers completed the …

The Effect Of Wastewater Effluent Derived Ligands On Copper And Zinc Complexation, C. Constantino, S. D.W. Comber, M. D. Scrimshaw

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

The Neural Correlates Of Similarity- And Rule-Based Generalization, Fraser Milton, Pippa Bealing, Kathryn L. Carpenter, Abdelmalek Bennattayallah, Andy J. Wills

School of Psychology

No abstract provided.

Novel Use Of Field-Portable-Xrf For The Direct Analysis Of Trace Elements In Marine Macroalgae., Annie Bull, Murray T. Brown, Andrew Turner

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Samples of dried marine macroalgae (Fucus serratus, Palmaria palmata and Ulva lactuca) have been analysed for trace elements by a novel, non-destructive approach involving a Niton field-portable-X-ray fluorescence (FP-XRF) spectrometer configured in a low density plastics mode with thickness correction. Detection limits for a 200-s counting time ranged from <5 μg g(-1) for As and Pb in F. serratus and As in P. palmata to several tens of μg g(-1) for Cd, Sb and Sn in all species tested. Arsenic, Cu, Pb and Zn were detected by the XRF in samples collected from a protected beach (n = 18) and in samples therefrom that had been exposed to additional aqueous elements in combination (n = 72) with concentrations returned (in μg g(-1)) ranging from 3.9 to 39.7 for As, 13.0 to 307 for Cu, 6.1 to 14.7 for Pb and 12.5 to 522 for Zn. Independent measurements of trace elements in the macroalgae by ICP-MS following nitric acid digestion revealed a direct and significant proportionality with concentrations returned by the XRF, with slopes of the XRF-ICP relationships (As = 1.0; Cu = 2.3; Pb = 2.4; Zn = 1.7) that can be used to calibrate the instrument for direct measurements. The approach shows potential for the in situ monitoring of macroalgae in coastal regions that is currently being investigated.

The Effect Of Gaze Angle On Visual Acuity In Infantile Nystagmus, Mj Dunn, D Wiggins, Jm Woodhouse, Th Margrain, Cm Harris, Jt Erichsen

School of Psychology

No abstract provided.

Drug Cue Reactivity Involves Hierarchical Instrumental Learning: Evidence From A Biconditional Pavlovian To Instrumental Transfer Task, Lorna Hardy, Chris Mitchell, Tina Seabrooke, Lee Hogarth

School of Psychology

No abstract provided.

Infants' First Words Are Not Phonetically Specified: Own Name Recognition In British English-Learning 5-Month-Olds, Luche C Delle, Caroline Floccia, Lionel Granjon, Thierry Nazzi

School of Psychology

No abstract provided.

Lifestyle Factors And Alzheimer's Disease In People With Down Syndrome, Athena V. Kenshole, Deanna Gallichan, Sabine Pahl, John Clibbens

School of Psychology

No abstract provided.

Does Study Duration Have Opposite Effects On Recognition And Repetition Priming?, Christopher J. Berry, Emma V. Ward, David R. Shanks

School of Psychology

No abstract provided.

Cultural Differences In Attention: Eye Movement Evidence From A Comparative Visual Search Task., Albandri Alotaibi, Geoffrey Underwood, Alastair D. Smith

School of Psychology

Individual differences in visual attention have been linked to thinking style: analytic thinking (common in individualistic cultures) is thought to promote attention to detail and focus on the most important part of a scene, whereas holistic thinking (common in collectivist cultures) promotes attention to the global structure of a scene and the relationship between its parts. However, this theory is primarily based on relatively simple judgement tasks. We compared groups from Great Britain (an individualist culture) and Saudi Arabia (a collectivist culture) on a more complex comparative visual search task, using simple natural scenes. A higher overall number of fixations …

On The Hindered Settling Of Sand-Mud Suspensions, J Spearman, Aj Manning

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

Numerical Study Of Fixed Oscillating Water Column With Rans-Type Two-Phase Cfd Model, Thomas Vyzikas, Samy Deshoulières, Olivier Giroux, Matthew Barton, Deborah Greaves

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.

Optimisation Of Focused Wave Group Runup On A Plane Beach, C. N. Whittaker, C. J. Fitzgerald, A. C. Raby, P. H. Taylor, J. Orszaghova, A. G.L. Borthwick

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.

Wave Energy Absorption By A Floating Air Bag, A. Kurniawan, J. R. Chaplin, D. M. Greaves, M. Hann

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.

Signals Of Opportunity Geolocation Methods For Urban And Indoor Environments, T. O. Mansfield, B. V. Ghita, M. A. Ambroze

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.

Teleoperation Control Of Baxter Robot Using Kalman Filter-Based Sensor Fusion, Chunxu Li, Chenguang Yang, Jian Wan, Andy S.K. Annamalai, Angelo Cangelosi

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.

Neural Correlates Of Evidence Accumulation During Value-Based Decisions Revealed Via Simultaneous Eeg-Fmri, M. Andrea Pisauro, Elsa Fouragnan, Chris Retzler, Marios G. Philiastides

School of Psychology

AbstractCurrent computational accounts posit that, in simple binary choices, humans accumulate evidence in favour of the different alternatives before committing to a decision. Neural correlates of this accumulating activity have been found during perceptual decisions in parietal and prefrontal cortex; however the source of such activity in value-based choices remains unknown. Here we use simultaneous EEG–fMRI and computational modelling to identify EEG signals reflecting an accumulation process and demonstrate that the within- and across-trial variability in these signals explains fMRI responses in posterior-medial frontal cortex. Consistent with its role in integrating the evidence prior to reaching a decision, this region …

Investigations Of Offshore Breaking Wave Impacts On A Large Offshore Structure, Zheng Zheng Hu, Tri Mai, Deborah Greaves, Alison Raby

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.

Measuring Treatment Satisfaction In Ms: Is The Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire For Medication Fit For Purpose?, Patrick Vermersch, Jeremy Hobart, Catherine Dive-Pouletty, Sylvie Bozzi, Steven Hass, Patricia K. Coyle

Peninsula Medical School

Background: The Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire for Medication (TSQM) was designed to assess patient treatment satisfaction in chronic diseases. Its performance has not been examined in multiple sclerosis (MS). The 14 items of the TSQM cover four domains: Effectiveness, Side Effects, Convenience, and Global Satisfaction. Objective: To evaluate performance of the TSQM in patients with relapsing MS, using data collected from the TENERE study (NCT00883337), in which 324 patients received oral teriflunomide or subcutaneous interferon beta-1a for ≥48 weeks. Methods: Five measurement properties were examined using traditional psychometric methods: data completeness, scale-to-sample targeting, scaling assumptions, reliability (including test-retest), and construct validity …

Composite Higgs Dynamics On The Lattice, Claudio Pica, Vincent Drach, Martin Hansen, Francesco Sannino

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.

Human-Robot Sensor Interface For Cardiac Rehabilitation, Js Lara, J Casas, A Aguirre, M Munera, M Rincon-Roncancio, B Irfan, E Senft, T Belpaeme, Ca Cifuentes

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.

A Methodology Pruning The Search Space Of Six Compiler Transformations By Addressing Them Together As One Problem And By Exploiting The Hardware Architecture Details, Vasilios Kelefouras

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.

How To Use Metrics, Measures & Insights To Commission Person Centred Coordinated Care: A Guide For Commissioners., H Lloyd, J Close, J Horrell, H Wheat, J Valeras

School of Psychology

No abstract provided.

Complexity Confers Stability: Climate Variability, Vegetation Response And Sand Transport On Longitudinal Sand Dunes In Australia’S Deserts, Paul P. Hesse, Matt W. Telfer, Will Farebrother

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Abstract The relationship between antecedent precipitation, vegetation cover and sand movement on sand dunes in the Simpson and Strzelecki Deserts was investigated by repeated (up to four) surveys of dune crest plots (≈25 × 25 m) over a drought cycle (2002–2012) in both winter (low wind) and spring (high wind). Vegetation varied dramatically between surveys on vegetated and active dune crests. Indices of sand movement had significant correlations with vegetation cover: the depth of loose sand has a strong inverse relationship with crust (cyanobacterial and/or physical) while the area covered by ripples has a strong inverse relationship with the areal …

Neural Signatures Of Spatial Statistical Learning: Characterizing The Extraction Of Structure From Complex Visual Scenes, Elisabeth A. Karuza, Lauren L. Emberson, Matthew E. Roser, Daniel Cole, Richard N. Aslin, Jozsef Fiser

School of Psychology

No abstract provided.

The Semiotics Of Minority Language Branding: A Study Of The Celtic Languages, J Tredinnick-Rowe

Peninsula Medical School

This paper investigates the role of minority language commodification in alcoholic drinks' branding, with a specific focus on Celtic languages and a particular emphasis on Cornish. The topic is introduced by exploring the ongoing and significant connection between language, culture and food, taking phrases and rhymes from historical sources and comparing their use. The aim is to establish cross-disciplinary synergies between semiotics and cultural analysis and to shed new light on marketing issues in the alcoholic drinks sector. The methodology section features the first ever analysis of alcoholic drinks' labels from four Celtic national minorities (N = 1.937) that illustrates …

Storm Overwash Of A Gravel Barrier: Field Measurements And Xbeach-G Modelling, Luis Pedro Almeida, Gerd Masselink, Robert Mccall, Paul Russell

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

Multiaxial Fatigue Assessment Of Friction Stir Welded Tubular Joints Of Al 6082-T6, L Susmel, Dg Hattingh, Mn James, R Tovo

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

The present paper addresses the problem of designing aluminium friction stir (FS) welded joints against multiaxial fatigue. After developing a bespoke FS welding technology suitable for joining aluminium tubes, some one hundred welded tubular specimens of Al 6082-T6 were tested under pure axial, pure torsional and biaxial tension-torsion loading. The influence was explored of two independent variables, namely the proportional or non-proportional nature of the biaxial loading and the effect of axial and torsional non-zero mean stresses. The experimental results were re-analysed using the Modified Wöhler Curve Method (MWCM), with this bi-parametrical critical plane approach being applied in terms of …