Value Of Self Research Articles

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CHELATION VALUE OF SEVENTEEN PERCENT SELF DEVELOPED AND COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE ROOT CANAL LUBRICANTS

The main objective of this study i s to compar e chelation values of 17% self developed & commerciall y available root canal Lubricants or dental chelating gel s as well as to see whether their performance depends on the chelation value or not. The Chelating agent bounds Ca 2+ ions of the smear layer & th e extent of chelate formation between chelating agent and metal ion is nothing but Chelation Value. S odium carbonate indicator method is used for determinations of chelation value. Commercially available gel incorporated in this study wa s File Rite which h as little bit higher chelation value. Self developed chelating gel or root canal lubricants have comparatively lower chelation value. Root canal lubricants having higher chelation value should perform better in shaping & cleaning of root canal better . Howe ver because of slight difference in chelation value of self developed & commercially available gel, no significant difference was found out as root canal lubricants , when applied in root canal for 5 minutes.

Disinclusion of unerupted teeth by mean of self-ligating brackets: Effect of blood contamination on shear bond strength

Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess the effect of blood contamination on the shear bond strength and failure site of three different orthodontic self-ligating brackets. Study Design: 240 bovine permanent mandibular incisors were randomly divided into 12 groups of 20 specimens each. Orthodontic self-ligating brackets were tested under four different enamel surface conditions: a) dry, b) blood contamination before priming, c) blood contamination after priming, d) blood contamination before and after priming. Brackets were bonded to the teeth and subsequently tested using a Instron universal testing machine. Shear bond strength values and adhesive failure rate were recorded. Statistical analysis was performed using ANOVA and Tukey tests (strength values), and Chi squared test (ARI Scores). Results: Non-contaminated enamel surfaces showed highest bond strengths for all self ligating brackets. Under blood-contamination shear bond strengths lowered for all brackets tested. Groups contaminated before and after primer application showed the lowest shear bond strength. Significant differences in debond locations were found among the groups under the various enamel surface conditions. Conclusions: Blood contamination of enamel during the bonding procedure lowers bond strength values of self ligating brackets, expecially when contamination occur in different times of the bonding procedure. Key words:Disinclusion, self ligating brackets, blood, contamination, enamel, orthodontics, oral surgery.

Charlotte Wilson, the “Woman Question”, and the Meanings of Anarchist Socialism in Late Victorian Radicalism

SummaryRecent literature on radical movements in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has re-cast this period as a key stage of contemporary globalization, one in which ideological formulations and radical alliances were fluid and did not fall neatly into the categories traditionally assigned by political history. The following analysis of Charlotte Wilson's anarchist political ideas and activism in late Victorian Britain is an intervention in this new historiography that both supports the thesis of global ideological heterogeneity and supplements it by revealing the challenge to sexual hierarchy that coursed through many of these radical cross-currents. The unexpected alliances Wilson formed in pursuit of her understanding of anarchist socialism underscore the protean nature of radical politics but also show an over-arching consensus that united these disparate groups, a common vision of the socialist future in which the fundamental but oppositional values of self and society would merge. This consensus arguably allowed Wilson's gendered definition of anarchism to adapt to new terms as she and other socialist women pursued their radical vision as activists in the pre-war women's movement.

The Evolution of Family Process: Contexts and Transformations1,2

The Evolution of Family Process: Contexts and Transformations1,2

Aesthetic Engagements

Living with advanced cancer can present an overwhelming challenge. It may impact the everyday life of the individual with respect to an array of psychological, physical, social, and existential issues. We focus on ways in which people with advanced cancer experience and use their engagement in daily activities when confronting nearing death. Through a phenomenological analysis based on Heidegger's thinking, we illuminate the complexities of "being toward death" and the human striving for authentic being through engagement in daily living. The main findings demonstrate how sensory experiences support being through an appreciation of everyday aesthetics. Furthermore, the making of material things was identified as a means to express the value of self and others in relation to the involved individual's past, present, and future.

The Co-Evolution of Sexual Desire, Narcissistic Vulnerability, and Adaptations for Reproductive Advantage

According to evolutionary psychologists humans possess a variety of "sexual ornaments," physical as well as psychological traits that have evolved as adaptations for reproductive advantage. These sexual ornaments serve as sexually selected indicators of fitness that are automatically assessed, inspire attentional adhesion, and evoke sexual desire in those searching for a mate. Mate choice is therefore determined by the relative presence or absence of these sexually selected indicators of fitness in comparison to the competition. Mate value of self and others is assessed through social comparison according to these sexually selected indicators of fitness. Narcissistic equilibrium is to a significant extent regulated by one's self-perceived survival and reproductive fitness. Implications for psychoanalytic theory of concepts and research findings from the field of evolutionary psychology are discussed.

P03-79 - The value of self and object organization in the divelopment of SCH process - case report

ObjectivesWe observe the schizophrenia process through specific structural terms - specific models and shapes of the internalisation deficit and consequental structural variability.MethodWe describe the specific influence of the developmental deficit on the schizophrenic process by presenting the case of a 17 year old female patient diagnosed with schizophrenic psychosis hebefrenic form. By observing the patient's life history, we interpreted her psychological development throug early introjective configurations, identification process, the phase of forming realistic images of the self and the outher world and the forming of the Ego identity. The current state is explained throug deficit Ego functions.ResultThe bringing up of the patient in an unstable and disturbing primary family group, with the mother suffering from Sch psychosis and a grandmother addicted to alchocol, caused pathological modifications in the introjective process and forming of a confused Ego identity. Fragility, non-differentiality and polar exclusiveness of mental representations, which is dependant on the characteristics of the primary object relationschipts, form an insecure mental structure which the patient uses to schape her perception of herself and the world, which can be phenomenologically recognised in the direct and inner presentation of the devil and god as clear and utterly scharp opposites.ConclusionThe schizophrenic process is connected to the developmental deficit which is conditioned by the failure to organize and integrate the inherent structures forming the core of individual self organization. This essentialy directs development toward the schizophrenic process.

Calculation and Measurement Method for Elongation Value of Self Anchored Posttensioning Prestressed Steel Bars

Calculation and Measurement Method for Elongation Value of Self Anchored Posttensioning Prestressed Steel Bars

Third round FATF mutual evaluations indicate declining compliance

PurposeTo review the reported compliance levels of third round mutual evaluations with a view to determining any change or differences in compliance levels for Financial Action Task Force (FATF) member countries following the updating of FATF's Forty Recommendations in 2003 and the introduction of the Nine Special Recommendations relating to the financing of terrorism.Design/methodology/approachA comparison of pre‐ and post‐2003 compliance with the FATF's Forty Recommendations and Nine Special Recommendations is made using both self‐assessment and mutual assessment data.FindingsThere are significant differences in compliance levels pre and post 2003. Since, the FATF updated their Forty Recommendations in 2003 compliance with those Recommendations has declined. With regard to the Nine Special Recommendations which have not changed since their introduction there is a significant difference between self‐assessment compliance levels in 2003 and compliance determined using independent mutual evaluations, casting doubt on the value of self assessment.Research limitations/implicationsIn using an analytical approach it has been necessary to put numerical values on compliance levels used by the FATF. Given that these are very broad, substituting a single value for each compliance level will provide only a crude measure of compliance for comparisons to be made. The results should therefore be used as a guide to the ranking and compliance of countries rather than some exact measurement of compliance.Practical implicationsThe value of self assessment by FATF members should be re‐evaluated.Originality/valuePublication of the third round of FATF mutual evaluations provides an opportunity, not previously available, to analyse the compliance levels amongst FATF members.

Effective potential and thermodynamics for a coupled two-field Bose-gas model

We study the thermodynamics of a two-species homogeneous and dilute Bose gas that is self-interacting and quadratically coupled to each other. We make use of field theoretical functional integral techniques and evaluate the one-loop finite temperature effective potential for this system considering the resummation of the leading order temperature dependent as well as infrared contributions. The symmetry breaking pattern associated to the model is then studied by considering different values of self and inter-species couplings. We pay special attention to the eventual appearance of reentrant phases and/or shifts in the observed critical temperatures as compared to the monoatomic (one-field Bose) case.

Hematuria and dysuria in the self-diagnosis of urinary chistosomiasis among school-children in Northern Cameroon

The present study was designed to assess the value of self reported hematuria and dysuria in the diagnosis of urinary schistosomiasis at the individual level. A sample of 964 school children of grade 5 and 6 from 15 schools of the French speaking educational system in the Sudano-sahelian zone of northern Cameroon were submitted to a questionnaire related to hematuria and dysuria, and provided a urine sample each. The urine samples were processed using the dip stick and sedimentation methods, and the degree of microhematuria and oviuria determined. In all 964 questionnaires were collected, 843 urine samples examined for microhematuria and 871 for oviuria. The percentage of children reporting hematuria increased with the degree of microhematuria and the intensity of infection. Among the various indicators of urinary schistosome infection, microhematuria had the highest sensitivity (76%), followed by self reported hematuria or dysuria (65%), and dysuria (52%). The specificity was highest for self reported hematuria, and lowest for self reported hematuria or dysuria. The efficiency of self reported hematuria or dysuria increased with the intensity of infection and was highest (100%) for heavy infections (> 400 eggs/ml g urine). We advocate the use of self reported hematuria or dysuria for the assessment of S. haematobium at the individual level.

Heritability of morphophysiological traits and inbreeding effects in grazing-type lucerne

To estimate heritability and inbreeding in grazing-type lucerne, 14 parent genotypes and their half-sib and selfed progeny were grown under spaced-plant conditions. Dry-matter weight (four cuts), plant height, basal plant diameter, stem density, and late-autumn vegetation were recorded on a plant basis. Genetic coefficients of variation for the three germplasm groups, and broad-sense heritability on a plot basis for parents were computed from variance component estimates; narrow-sense heritability was estimated from progeny-parent regression. Genetic variation was generally greater among selfed than half-sib progeny. Broad-sense heritability was high, while narrow-sense heritability was much lower for all traits except plant diameter. Inbreeding effects, assessed with comparison between parents and selfed progeny, were notable for plant weight and late-autumn vegetation only. The high correlation coefficients computed between parents and either progeny suggested the equivalent value of self- and polycross-progeny tests for selecting superior parents.

Five-factor model prototypes for personality disorders: the utility of self-reports and observer ratings.

The current study examined the prototype-matching technique for using the five-factor model (FFM) of personality to assess personality disorders (PDs) and their correlates. The sample was composed of 69 psychiatric patients, most of whom suffered from affective or anxiety disorders. The participants were predominantly outpatients (78%), Caucasian (94%), and women (58%). NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI) data from these patients and informants were available for deriving PD prototype scores. The results supported four conclusions. First, the FFM prototype-matching method is useful for clinical samples. Second, agreement between self-reports and information from significant others (SOs) using this method is good compared to previous results. Third, this agreement varies systematically with the observability of the PD criteria. Fourth, the value of self- and other-reported personality information depends on the rating source of the outcome variables. Other-reported information provides incremental utility in predicting impairment and interpersonal distress rated by clinicians and significant others.

Value correlates of ambivalent attitudes toward gender relations.

This study related measures of hostile sexism, benevolent sexism, hostility toward men, and benevolence toward men to value priorities. It was predicted that these variables would be positively related to the importance of power values for self and negatively related to universalism and benevolence values and that measures of benevolent sexism and benevolence toward men would be positively related to tradition values and negatively related to self-direction values. These predictions were supported in a study in which student participants in Adelaide, South Australia, completed the Glick and Fiske Ambivalent Sexism Inventory, the Ambivalence Toward Men Inventory, and the Schwartz Value Survey. The results demonstrate how values influence attitudes toward gender relations and provide an additional perspective on current discussions of prejudice.

Therapists' sexual values for self and clients: Implications for practice and training.

Therapists may be confronted with clients whose sexual values and behaviors are different from their own. To understand more about therapists' sexual values and how these values may affect therapy, the current study assessed therapists' sexual values for both themselves and their clients in the areas of premarital, casual, and extramarital sex, open marriages, sexual orientation, and sex in adolescence and late adulthood. Therapists differed selectively in their sexual values depending on their gender, religious involvement, and political affiliation. Therapists appeared comfortable working with a variety of sexual issues in therapy, and it appears that training in sexual issues is helpful in clinical work.

Therapists' sexual values for self and clients: Implications for practice and training.

Therapists' sexual values for self and clients: Implications for practice and training.

Self, friends, and lovers: structural relations among Beck Depression Inventory scores and perceived mate values

Background: We used an economic model based on evolutionary theory to guide an examination of relations among self-reported depressive symptoms and ratings of mate values of self, social, and sexual partners. This model treats assortative mating as a form of social exchange between partners of socially and sexually desirable traits. Methods: Two studies used variants of the Mate Value Inventory (MVI), a multivariate assessment of attributes desired in social or sexual partners. For study 1, 115 male and 124 female undergraduates provided self reports on four forms of the MVI-11 and on the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI); for study 2, 208 male and 277 female undergraduates provided self reports on seven forms of the MVI-7 and on the BDI-II. Results: Both multisample structural equations models indicated that the parameters were statistically equivalent between female and male subsamples and provided an adequate fit to the data. The models revealed significant relations between the mate values ascribed to the self and those ascribed to short- and long-term partners as well as best friends. Furthermore, greater BDI scores significantly predicted lesser ratings of mate value for the self, and hence indirectly predicted lesser ratings of mate value for all types of partners evaluated. Limitations: Although the data obtained from the MVI demonstrated good psychometric validity, external validity has not yet been established. Conclusions: The results are consistent with models predicting: (1) assortative mating by mate value, (2) differential exchange rates of mate value for different types of partners, (3) a negative relation between depressive symptoms and assessment of one’s own mate value, and (4) a possibly consequential mismatch of mate values when one partner exhibits or recovers from significant depressive symptoms. The results are inconsistent with models predicting (5) a generalized negativity bias due to depression.

The Right to Physician–Assisted Suicide On Demand

This article argues for the right to physician–assisted suicide under any circumstance defined by the client or individual making the request. Its perspective is oriented within the field of social welfare. It examines conflicts between values of autonomy and the preservation of life and compares Dutch and United States right–to–die legislation. The article also discusses responsibilities of both the individual and society toward each other within the scope of physician–assisted suicide, socio–economic causes of suicide, suggestions for suicide prevention, and promotes physician–assisted suicide on demand based on the literature and the social work value of self–determination.

The predictive value of self assessed general, physical, and mental health on functional decline and mortality in older adults

OBJECTIVETo examine the extent to which older people's self assessments of general health, physical health, and mental health predict functional decline and mortality.DESIGNThe study uses population-based secondary data from the...

Professional development of women and the executive MBA

This study demonstrated that women EMBA graduates experience broadened perspectives. They “think more broadly”, “understand more comprehensively” and report the “life changing” outcomes expected by their sponsoring organizations. The focus was on the development of women managers from specialist perspectives to a more integrated generalist perspective. Personal development, and career development literatures provided the theoretical basis for this study. Data were collected using invited essays, and semi‐structured interviews. Evidence of change appeared in the essays and the interviews. The essays indicated graduates experienced increased confidence, cognitive flexibility, and broadened perspectives. The interviews indicated: greater self‐determination, more flexible approaches to roles, greater value of self and time, more process‐oriented, increased understanding of self and others, the meaning of success was competence, and that competence was valued over political gamesmanship.