Positive Tendency Research Articles

Perspective of explosive cyclones with three shapes of upper-level potential vorticity over the northern Atlantic Ocean

The characteristics of explosive cyclones (ECs) with three shapes of upper-level potential vorticity (PV), namely “streamer”, “hook”, and “treble clef” shapes were jointly examined by composite and diagnostic approaches, by using the fifth-generation global atmospheric reanalysis data (ERA5) issued by European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). Totally, 48 ECs over the northern Atlantic Ocean with typical evolution from “streamer” to “hook”, and then to “treble clef” shape of PV were selected for composite analyses. It turns out that the upper-level PV exhibits “streamer”, “hook” and “treble clef” features at early, rapid deepening and mature stages of EC, respectively. The intrinsic essences of three shapes of upper-level PV associated with different stages of EC were linked. In the upper troposphere, positive PV tendency is mainly derived from positive horizontal advection of PV (HADV), which is essentially generated by high-PV air trapped in upper-level jet and cyclonic circulation. Positive HADV is the main factor driving the evolution of upper-level PV from “streamer” to “hook”, and then to “treble clef”. In the middle troposphere, positive PV tendency is primarily associated with positive vertical advection of PV (VADV). This is due to the upper-level high-PV anomalies from stratospheric intrusion and the lower-level high-PV anomalies generated by diabatic heating both extend vertically to the middle troposphere. In the lower troposphere, diabatic heating (DIAB) overwhelmingly produce positive PV tendency. These three PV anomalies are usually vertically overlain and connected to form PV “tower” that runs through the whole troposphere. The formation of PV “tower” may strengthen cyclonic circulation, which is in turn conducive to the explosive deepening of cyclone.

The Impact of Multidimensional Perceived Value on Purchase Intentions for Prepared Dishes in China: The Mediating Role of Behavioral Attitudes and the Moderating Effect of Time Pressure

Accompanied by the flourishing development of China’s prepared dishes industry, understanding consumer purchasing decisions helps companies clarify market needs and expectations. This study analyzed consumers’ willingness to purchase prepared dishes and the moderating role of time pressure using the Theory of Planned Behavior and Structural Equation Modeling. Four hundred and three completed respondents were collected through an online survey of consumers in Beijing, the Capital of China. Our results showed that: (1) Respondents of various demographics (e.g., age, education, occupation, and marital status) had significant differences in willingness to buy. (2) All dimensions of value (functional, emotional, and convenience) had a notable positive effect on behavioral attitudes. However, behavioral attitudes only served as a full mediator between functional value, emotional value, and purchase intentions. (3) Time pressure played a positive moderating role in the effect of perceived value on behavioral attitudes, with positive tendencies in behavioral attitudes increasing as time pressure increased. The study concludes with recommendations for consumers, enterprises, and the government and provides an additional reference for the policy of “Strengthening Food Safety Regulation of Prepared Dishes”.

Si Maqian's Sense of Revenge from the Biography of Wu Zixu

Abstract: In literary history, Si Maqian often appears as the image of a loyal and patriotic character who endures humiliation. The positive tendencies in his personal emotions are infinitely magnified under human control, but the negatively inclined emotions are always shunned because they do not conform to the Confucian laws used by the king for ruling. If we look at Si Maqian as a complete human being, it is impossible for him not to resent the fact that he was alienated by the king and tortured in the palace. This paper mainly discusses Si Maqian's sense of revenge as revealed in the Biography of Wu Zixu, and this study has made the character of Si Maqian more vivid and concrete, taking him away from the saintly state of melancholic concern for his country. It provides a more choice and reference for the future analysis of Si Maqian's authorship; it provides more possibilities for the future analysis of the cultural environment of the Han Dynasty.

Foundational Aspects for Incorporating Dependencies in Copula-Based Bayesian Networks Using Structured Expert Judgments, Exemplified by the Ice Sheet-Sea Level Rise Elicitation.

The work presented here marks a further advance in expert uncertainty quantification. In a recent probabilistic evaluation of ice sheet process contributions to sea level rise, tail dependence was elicited and propagated through an uncertainty analysis for the first time. The elicited correlations and tail dependencies concerned pairings of three processes: Accumulation, Discharge and Run-off, which operate on major ice sheets in the West and East Antarctic and in Greenland. The elicitation enumerated dependencies between these processes under selected global temperature change scenarios over different future time horizons. These expert judgments allowed us to populate a Paired Copula Bayesian network model to obtain the estimated contributions of these ice sheets for future sea level rise. Including positive central tendency dependence and tail dependence increases the fatness of the upper tails of projected sea level rise distributions, an amplification important for designing and evaluating possible mitigation strategies. Detailing and jointly computing distributional dependencies and tail dependencies can be crucial components of good practice for assessing the influence of uncertainties on extreme values when modelling stochastic multifactorial processes.

The European Union and Central Asian Countries’ Activities in the Field of Human Rights: Peculiarities and Directions

This research aims to identify the features and characteristics of the policies of the European Union and Central Asian countries in the sphere of human rights by examining the main vectors and elements of governance at the national and international levels. The research methodology consists of system analysis, which reviews the general situation in the field of civil rights, outlines the problems of protection activities in individual states and regions, and identifies key areas for improvement. The basic elements and components of the activity of the European Union countries in the sphere of protection of fundamental human rights are considered, and the distinctive features of this type of activity in the Central Asian countries are outlined. Positive and negative tendencies of the legal protection of human rights in separate Central Asian states as well as probable scenarios of further development of the sphere in the region are presented. The uniqueness and peculiarities of the Republic of Kazakhstan’s policy in the sphere of human rights protection as a key vector in the process of development of a democratic state are studied. Based on the results, practical recommendations are presented to improve the process of formation of the activity of the Republic in the sphere of human rights and freedoms.

Long-Term Changes in Composition and Distribution of Bumblebees in Urban Areas

Abstract The distribution of bumblebee species in Wrocław (SW Poland) was studied based on data from ten UTM grid squares between 1879 and 2018, and the composition and abundance of bumblebee species between 2011 and 2018. The results were compared with historical data available for the last 139 years, including published materials and collections of the Museum of Natural History (University of Wrocław). Twenty-six bumblebee species,including six species of cuckoo bumblebees of the subgenus Psithyrus, were recorded. One species was not confirmed during the later period, nine were strongly decreasing both in the range of distribution, seven other were expanding significantly in Wrocław and three were new in the Wrocław city boundaries. Negative and positive tendencies resulted from both anthropogenic and natural factors. All bumblebees that appeared in the city of Wrocław and increased their abundance were species that prefered forest and shrub areas, while species that disappeared from the city and decreased in numbers were species who prefered open areas.

Central tendency and serial dependence in vestibular path integration.

Path integration, the process of updating one's position using successive self-motion signals, has previously been studied with visual distance reproduction tasks in which optic flow patterns provide information about traveled distance. These studies have reported that reproduced distances show two types of systematic biases: central tendency and serial dependence. In the present study, we investigated whether these biases are also present in vestibular path integration. Participants were seated on a linear motion platform and performed a distance reproduction task in total darkness. The platform first passively moved the participant a predefined stimulus distance, which they then actively reproduced by steering the platform back the same distance. Stimulus distances were sampled from short- and long-distance probability distributions and presented either in a randomized order or in separate blocks to study the effect of presentation context. Similar to the effects observed in visual path integration, we found that reproduced distances showed an overall positive central tendency effect as well as a positive, attractive serial dependence effect. Furthermore, reproduction behavior was affected by presentation context. These results were mostly consistent with predictions of a Bayesian Kalman filter model, originally proposed for visual path integration.NEW & NOTEWORTHY Distance reproduction tasks based on visual information about the traveled distance have shown that reproductions are biased by central tendency and serial dependence effects. Here, we show that distance reproductions based on vestibular signals show similar biases and that the reproductions are affected by the presentation order of the stimulus distances.

Digitalization as a determinant of transformations in the cognitive subsystem of the psyche

Introduction. The purpose of the work was to study the theoretically and practically urgent problem of transformations of the cognitive and metacognitive spheres of personality under the influence of digitalization factors, as well as to identify and explain the psychological consequences to which they lead in relation to educational activities. Materials and methods of research. The most valid and reliable methods developed in modern metacognitivism were used – the “Metacognitive Awareness of Activity” technique (G. Schrow, R. Denison); MAI method D. Everson; a method for diagnosing an individual measure of the development of reflexivity (A.V. Karpov, V.V. Ponomareva), as well as the author’s methods for diagnosing an individual measure of the development of metathinking and metamemory. Methods of mathematical and statistical processing (ANOVA) and methods based on the methodology of structural psychological analysis were used. The study involved 192 students from different universities in Yaroslavl. Research results. For the first time, it has been established that the determinative influence of digitalization factors on the metacognitive sphere of the individual is fundamentally diversified, since it combines both positive and negative tendencies. In relation to 5 of the 8 parameters studied, it is negative, in relation to 1 – positive and statistically significant at a fairly high level of significance – not lower than p < 0.05, in relation to 2 – neutral. As a result, a fundamentally new, hitherto undescribed phenomenon is established, which is designated as a syndrome of decreased metacognition. Discussion of results and conclusion. A number of new data have been obtained that reveal and explain the general pattern consisting in the existence of a significant determinative influence of digitalization factors on the metacognitive sphere of the individual, both in general and in the context of educational activities. The discovered influence is also fundamentally diversified – complex, since it is carried out at two main levels – analytical and structural. The essence of the analytical level of determination is that there is a significant and quite significant decrease in the degree of development of individual components of the metacognitive sphere – the main secondary cognitive processes and their corresponding qualities. The specificity of the structural level of determination is that similar – also significant and significant transformations occur in terms of general organization – the structuring and integration of these components into integrity.

Lexicon-Based Approach in Sentiment Analysis of Yemeni Dialect for Social Media Network

Recently, the number of Yemeni users has been expanding quickly on social media platforms. Most research in Arabic sentiment analysis has gained on Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and some specific dialects, such as Egyptian, Levantine, and Gulf. However, there is a noticeable gap in Yemeni dialect sentiment analysis research. The reason for that is the lack of reliable Yemeni lexical and corpus and a real dataset for social media sentiment analysis. This research addresses this lack by presenting the Yemeni Dialect sentiment lexicon and corpus. This lexicon and corpus provide valuable resources for researchers and practitioners seeking to analyze sentiment in Yemeni dialect social media content, contributing to a better understanding of Yemeni public opinion, social media monitoring, marketing, cultural understanding, and assisting in efforts to respond to crises in Yemen. The Yemeni Dialect sentiment lexicon is enriched with a reasonable number of words and phrases categorized according to their positive and negative sentiment tendencies. Moreover, we constructed a corpus dataset of more than 54,000 comments built from the Facebook platform. A large dataset of unlabeled comments from the main Yemeni telecommunications companies in Yemen (Yemen Telecom, Yemen Mobile, YOU, and Sabafon), are people commenting on a public issue related to the services provided by those companies. The lexicon-based approach is used to extract the sentiment’s polarity and label each of the provided comments to formulate a corpus dataset as being either positive, negative, or neutral. The evaluation metrics of experiments are accuracy, recall, precision, f-measure, and the confusion matrix. The accuracy result of the lexicon-based labeling approach was calculated through a comparison between the achieved results and the ones achieved through manually labeled comments by three Yemeni experts. Evaluation results using a lexicon-based approach achieved an accuracy of 90.05%.

Banking service recovery and consumer loyalty: The mediating role of satisfaction

This study aims to prove the effect of justice-based service recovery on satisfaction and its impact on loyalty. The related justices intended are distributive, procedural, and interactive. Also, proving satisfaction as mediated by the Sobel test becomes another purpose. Then, to achieve these purposes, this study employs banking customers in a few areas in West Java (Bandung and Cirebon Cities, as well as the Purwakarta Regency) as the population and samples them by snowball sampling. Fortunately, 230 collected responses exist; hence, the structural equation based on covariance is applicable to examine hypotheses. As a result, this study finds a positive tendency of distributive, procedural, and interactive justice on satisfaction, and distributive justice has a leading influence. A similar sign occurs in the association between satisfaction and loyalty. According to the mediating test, customer satisfaction can mediate the relationship between the three justices and loyalty. Based on these facts, this study recommends that banks compensate the users for the disappointing situation and handle their complaints by providing procedures and responsive and skilled staff to help. Importantly, banks should give the gift as a sign of appreciation for complaints. These actions can encourage banking users to share positive information with their friends, family, and workmates based on their experience.

The Effects of Adding Hempseed Cake on Sperm Traits, Body Weight, Haematological and Biochemical Parameters in Rabbit Males.

Incorporating of agro-industrial co-products into animal nutrition could represent an opportunity to lessen the environmental impact of the food production chain. One such co-product is a hempseed cake originating from cold pressing hemp seeds to extract oil for human consumption. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the action of hempseed cake in the diet on male rabbit reproductive and some non-reproductive indexes. Male rabbits were fed either a standard diet (control group; C; n = 10) or a diet enriched with hempseed cake (experimental group E5 with 5% of a hempseed cake; n = 10, and experimental group E10 with 10% of a hempseed cake; n = 10) in 100 kg of the milled complete feed mixture. Rabbit weight gain, sperm concentration, motility, progressive motility, and sperm quality were evaluated using CASA and flow cytometry. Feeding with a hempseed cake, given at both tested concentrations, had no effect on weight gain per week and the total average weight gain compared to the control group (p > 0.05). Hempseed cake addition had no effect on sperm concentration in ejaculate, sperm motility, and progressive motility (p > 0.05). Selected haematological and biochemical indexes were examined. The E5 group showed positive tendencies in hepatic profile parameters, while in the E10 group the tendencies were opposite, though within the reference values. Based on our results, no negative effects of hempseed cake feeding on rabbit reproduction and health status were found, and we can recommend the use of hempseed cake at doses up to 10% in the nutrition and feeding of rabbits. Therefore, agro-industrial co-products can decrease the feeding cost.

Function-based risk reduction intervention for lifestyle-related disorders among inactive 40-year-old people: a pilot randomised controlled trial

Background Interventions for preventing or reducing the development of lifestyle-related disorders should be investigated as these conditions are becoming increasingly prevalent and having large effects on quality of life and life expectancy globally. The aim of this pilot study was to prepare for a full-scale randomised controlled trial by evaluating the short-term changes resulting from a function-based preventive intervention aimed at lifestyle-related disorders on a small group of physically inactive 40-year-old people. Change in objectively measured physical activity, functional capacity according to a risk profile, and goal attainment were main outcomes.MethodsParticipants (n = 27) underwent functional examinations including tests of fitness, strength, mobility, balance, and posture as well as standard medical examinations including weight measures, blood pressure and blood tests and were randomised to two groups. The intervention group (n = 15) received feedback from all the examinations and lifestyle counselling based on a functional profile. The control group (n = 12) received feedback only from the standard medical examination. Follow-up was at 3–4 months. Changes in physical activity measured with accelerometers, functional levels on the functional profile, goal attainment and subjective assessments of health-related quality of life, motivation, function, and physical activity were examined, as were standard medical parameters.ResultsChange in mean time in moderate or more intense physical activity was 9 min higher in the intervention group (95% confidence interval -6.35, 24.51) and change in sedentary time was 42 min lower (-95.24, 11.32). The intervention group showed a higher increase in motivation for change 1.58 on 10-point scale (0.20, 2.97) and indicated more improvement on the functional risk levels concerning fitness (-0.06, 0.90). Correlation between objectively measured and self-assessed physical activity and function increased after the intervention. Most participants in the intervention group achieved some or all of their goals.ConclusionsThis small-scale pilot intervention with functional examinations and lifestyle counselling showed positive tendencies for change in short-term physical activity level. It seemed to lead to better understanding of personal functional capacity and increased motivation for lifestyle changes. Setting and fulfilling meaningful goals for lifestyle-related changes seemed to influence levels on the functional profile in positive directions. Research on larger and more diverse populations will be necessary to better understand the implications of the intervention.Trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov: NCT05535296 first posted on 10/09/2022.

The Roles of Moat Width and Outer Eyewall Contraction in Affecting the Timescale of Eyewall Replacement Cycle

AbstractThe timescale of eyewall replacement cycle (ERC) is critical for the prediction of intensity and structure changes of tropical cyclones (TCs) with concentric eyewall (CE) structures. Previous studies have indicated that the moat width can regulate the interaction between the inner and outer eyewalls and has a salient relationship with the ERC timescale. In this study, a series of sensitivity experiments are carried out to investigate the essential mechanisms resulting in the diversity of the duration of CEs using both simple and full‐physics models. Results reveal that a larger moat can induce stronger inflow under the same inner eyewall intensity by providing a longer distance for air parcels to accelerate in the boundary layer. Thus, there is greater inward absolute vorticity flux to sustain the inner eyewall. Besides, the equivalent potential temperature (θe) budget indicates that the vertical advection and surface flux of moist entropy can overbalance the negative contribution from the horizontal advection and lead to an increasing trend of θe in the inner eyewall. This suggests that the thermodynamic process in the boundary layer is not indispensable to the inner eyewall weakening. It is also found that the contraction rate of the secondary eyewall, which directly influences the moat width, is subject to the activity of outer spiral rainbands. By directly introducing positive wind tendency outside the eyewall and indirectly promoting a vertically tilted eyewall structure, active convection in the outer region will impede or even suspend the contraction of the outer eyewall and hence extend the ERC timescale.

Parameterization of Vertical Turbulent Transport in the Inner Core of Tropical Cyclones and Its Impact on Storm Intensification. Part II: Understanding TC Intensification in a Generalized Sawyer–Eliassen Diagnostic Framework

Abstract An analytical method for diagnosing the interaction between the primary and secondary circulations of a tropical cyclone (TC) and vortex intensification is developed. It includes a diagnostic equation describing the mean secondary circulation of a TC in an unbalanced framework by including the radial eddy forcing in the analytical system. It is an extension of the Sawyer–Eliassen equation (SEE) developed from the strict gradient-wind balance. This generalized SEE (GSEE) remediates some of the limitations of SEE and can be used to diagnose both balanced and unbalanced dynamical processes during the TC evolution. Using GSEE, this study investigates how the tangential and radial eddy forcing affects the TC intensification simulated by the Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting Model (HWRF) with differently parameterized turbulent mixing. The diagnostic results show that the supergradient component of radial eddy forcing contributes positively to the acceleration of the peak tangential wind, whereas the subgradient component of the radial eddy forcing tends to lower the height of peak tangential wind. The relative importance of negative and positive effects of tangential eddy forcing on TC intensification varies depending on the details of turbulence parameterization. For a turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) scheme used in this study, a large sloping curvature of mixing length in the low troposphere causes the tangential eddy forcing to produce a net positive tangential wind tendency near the location of the peak tangential wind. In contrast, a small sloping curvature of mixing length generates a net negative tangential wind tendency at the peak tangential wind. Significance Statement The interaction between the primary and secondary circulations of a tropical cyclone (TC) plays a key role in TC evolution. Historically, the secondary circulation induced by turbulence and convection is often described by a so-called Sawyer–Eliassen equation (SEE). While SEE has provided much insight into the TC dynamics in the past, the assumption of gradient-wind balance used by SEE prevents it from understanding TC unbalanced dynamics. To remediate the limitation, we extended the analytical framework into the unbalanced regime by including radial eddy forcing in the analytical system and derived a generalized SEE (GSEE). Using GSEE, this study investigates how tangential and radial eddy forcing affects TC intensification. The result highlights the importance of multiple roles that turbulence plays in the intensification of TCs.

The Impact of Consumer Trust on Purchase Intentions in China

This paper aims to explore the impact of consumer trust on purchase intentions in the Chinese market. Consumer trust plays a critical role in purchasing decisions, especially in the complex and rapidly changing environment of China. This study first defines the core concept of consumer trust and constructs a theoretical framework linking trust with purchase intentions. By analyzing the unique cultural, market, and policy context of China, the research examines how these factors influence consumer trust and its impact on purchasing decision mechanisms. The paper further employs empirical research methods to analyze data on the relationship between consumer trust and purchase intentions and offers recommendations for businesses and policymakers. The findings indicate that consumer trust significantly affects purchase intentions, and enhancing consumer trust can effectively increase positive purchasing tendencies. Finally, the paper summarizes the main findings, discusses their theoretical and practical implications, and outlines directions for future research.

Legal Regulation, Financial Incentives and Professional Autonomy in the Prioritisation of Norwegian Specialist Health Services.

To study hospital physicians' awareness and perceptions of the legal and financial regulations, and their impact on professional discretion regarding equity in access to treatment and quality of care. A sample of 637 physicians in the Norwegian specialist healthcare services selected from a survey conducted by the Institute for Studies of the Medical Profession. The paper investigates how legal and financial policy instruments affect the application of professional discretion regarding the prioritisation of specialist health services. Descriptive statistics and regressions were conducted for the analyses. Compared with financial incentives, legal regulations (laws, priority rules and guidelines) were assessed to be less negative external interventions in the exercise of medical and professional judgement. The empirical analyses revealed a positive tendency in physicians' assessments of the impact of legal regulations on treatment equity and healthcare quality, but negative attitudes towards financial instruments. The variations revealed are attributable to various structural and epistemic features of the legal-bureaucratic and economic models of administration in this area of the welfare state. Legal and financial regulations are imposed to achieve certain social goals and values. The findings of this study can provide further insight for the health authorities in other countries concerning implementation of such regulations in the specialist healthcare services.

Granular correlation-based label-specific feature augmentation for multi-label classification

Multi-label classification is an extension of single-label classification with generations of multi-output for unseen instances. Label correlation is an essential component in constructing multi-label classifiers. How to optimize the representation of label correlation while preserving the semantics of label-specific remains an uncertain issue. Instead of estimating label correlation by a holistic feature representation, we present an augmented label correlation model by generating multi-granularity label-specific features. Firstly, we devise a mixture distance measure to characterize the closeness of an instance by weighing the Pearson correlation coefficient with cosine similarity. Secondly, we explore the local label-specific relative discrimination by leveraging from both the instance-level and class-level correlation distribution within k nearest neighborhood. Finally, we conduct an information fusion strategy to comprehensively integrate the positive and the negative tendencies at the neighborhood level. Instances with salient positive tendency and compact neighborhood structure receive larger values while receiving smaller values with salient negative tendency and sparse neighborhood structure. With the concatenation of original features and augmented features, we examine the classification performance of the proposed granule correlation-based feature augmentation (GOFA) on well-established second-order multi-label classification methods. Extensive comparisons on thirteen benchmarks demonstrate the statistical superiority of GOFA over state-of-the-art multi-label classifications.

The Reverse Effect of Reviewers’ Sentiment Tendency: The Role of Readers’ Empathy and Trust

Streamers have become a crucial component of consumers’ live shopping experience. Reviewers will transfer their emotions about the streamer to the product-after review. We innovatively verified the reverse effect of reviewers’ sentiment tendency toward streamer on the product sustained sale in the streamer’s live streaming. Results from a field data set and three lab experiments show that reviewers’ positive sentiment tendency toward the streamer has a negative effect on the readers’ purchase intention when the streamer resale this product in his live streaming. While reviewers’ negative sentiment tendency toward the streamer can enhance readers’ purchase intention to the product resold in the streamer’s live streaming. These effects are separately mediated by readers’ trust in the review and their empathy to the streamer. And the two mediators are moderated by the streamer’s expertise. Our findings expand the literatures about reviews’ emotions and suggest implications for streamers, retailers, and review platforms faced with the task of managing live-shopping reviews.

A plant-based diet is feasible in patients with Crohn's disease

BackgroundIncorporating plant-based diets as a supplement to medical treatment may have a beneficial impact on patients with Crohn's disease, however, research with intervention studies is required. ObjectiveTo investigate the feasibility of a plant-based diet intervention. Secondly, the purpose was to investigate whether such diet may reduce disease activity and enhance quality of life. Materials and methodsThis study was designed as a single arm feasibility study. Outpatients with Crohn’s disease in biological therapy were guided over twelve weeks towards a dietary lifestyle change. Outcome measuresFeasibility concerning recruitment, retention rate and compliance. Secondary outcomes were measures of patient reported outcome questionnaires (PROMS). Paired t-tests were used to examine changes in CO2 emissions, anthropology, biomarkers, and patient-reported data. Δ-values were used to investigate difference between dietary intake and requirements. Linear regression analyses examined the association between biomarkers and PROMS. ResultsIn total, 15 participants completed the intervention with easy recruitment and a retention rate at 87.6%. A clinically positive tendency was seen towards improved symptom scores for disease (HBI; p=0.028 and IBDQ; p=0.006) but not for fatigue (IBD-F; p=0.097), although none of these were statistically significant. Adverse effects were decreased protein intake (p=0.69) and slightly reduced muscle mass. It remains unclear to what extent the intervention contributed to the improved self-reported effects although perception of disease activity was improved. ConclusionThis study demonstrates that it is possible to retain patients following a plant-based diet. However, the dietary change required ongoing dietetic support with a focus on anti-inflammatory agents and the still unattainable protein requirements.

Influence of Positive/Negative Emotions Towards Autobiographical Memories on Impressions of the Conversation and Conversation Partner During Nostalgic Memory Sharing

ABSTRACTWe investigated the effects of positive/negative emotions towards autobiographical memories on impressions of the conversation and conversation partner during memory sharing in a reminiscence therapy setting. Fifty‐six older (Mage = 69.3) and 60 younger (Mage = 20.7) participants' net emotional tendency (positive/negative) towards autobiographical memories and depressive symptoms were evaluated using validated rating scales. Positive/positive and positive/negative age‐matched random pairs shared a nostalgic memory through free conversation. Participants with a negative emotional tendency towards autobiographical memories in positive/negative pairs tended to feel less “easy” about the conversation. Participants with a positive emotional tendency towards autobiographical memories in positive/negative pairs had a more negative impression of their partners. Our data provide insight into the relationship between net emotional tendency towards autobiographical memories and depression and suggest that an individual's net emotional tendency towards autobiographical memories potentially affects the outcome of group reminiscence therapy.