The Impact of Research Culture on Mental Health & Diversity in STEM

The onset of COVID-19, coupled with the finer lens placed on systemic racial disparities within our society, has resulted in increased discussions around mental health. Despite this, mental health struggles in research are still often viewed as individual weaknesses and not the result of a larger dysfunctional research culture. Mental health interventions in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) academic community often focus on what individuals can do to improve their mental health instead of focusing on improving the research environment. In this paper, we present four aspects of research that may heavily impact mental health based on our experiences as research scientists: bullying and harassment; precarity of contracts; diversity, inclusion, and accessibility; and the competitive research landscape. Based on these aspects, we propose systemic changes that institutions must adopt to ensure their research culture is supportive and allows everyone to thrive.     

电感耦合等离子体质谱法同时测定蔬菜中13种痕量元素

采用电感耦合等离子体质谱法同时测定蔬菜中锶、铜、硒、钼、锰、锌、钴、铬、镉、铅、镍、砷和铝等13种痕量元素。对质谱干扰和非质谱干扰进行了校正。13种重金属元素在一定的质量浓度范围内与其信号强度呈线性关系,方法的检出限(3s)在0.000 4~1.5μg·L-1之间。方法应用于蔬菜标准物质的分析,测定值与认定值相符。对芦笋样品平行测定6次,测定值的相对标准偏差在5.3%~9.6%之间。     

Studies of Mental “Noise”

Successive tests of subjects' performance in reaction time tasks were treated as time series and submitted to spectrum analysis. Rather than revealing the white noise expected by the view that variability is due to random error (equivalent power across frequency), the power spectra revealed colored noise. The slopes of the power spectra did not vary much for tasks differing in memory requirements. Spectrum analysis of time series from the logistic map also showed colored noise in regions on the edge of chaos, showing that the presence of colored noise in cognitive data need not oblige a theoretical account based on a complex, high-dimensional, system.     

基本养老保险缴费心理活动维度的实证研究:个人心理账户视角

本文从心理账户理论视角,通过问卷调查,运用非集计模型,对个人基本养老保险缴费心理活动维度进行了实证研究。研究结果表明,受教育程度、非常规的额外收入、经营性收入、安全型保障账户和风险型存储账户是影响缴费的关键性因素,进而提出引导设立特定缴费心理账户、增强缴费制度弹性,改变缴费者的选择框架, 提升缴费遵从度。     

刀锋伪影校正技术在精神疾病患者海马MRI检查中的应用

为探讨磁共振刀锋伪影校正（BLADE）技术提升精神疾病患者海马磁共振图像质量的效果，本文分别使用结合了BLADE技术的BLADE T₂WI TSE、BLADE T₂WI FLAIR及传统T₂WI TSE、T₂WI FLAIR四种序列，对47例精神疾病患者和美国放射学院（ACR）标准模体在3.0 T磁共振成像（MRI）设备上分别进行常规海马斜冠状位扫描和ACR标准检测.患者的磁共振图像由2名放射科医师采用5分法对运动伪影、搏动伪影、颗粒度、海马磁共振图像质量进行评价，并应用Wilcoxon符号秩检验进行数据分析.模体图像通过识别图像的钻孔阵列和轮辐的数目，半定量评价各序列的高对比空间分辨力（HCSR）和低对比物体探测能力（LCD）.结果表明相比传统序列，结合BLADE技术的序列能够明显改善海马磁共振图像的运动伪影、搏动伪影（p<0.001），提高图像质量（p<0.05）；但在图像颗粒度方面，传统序列表现更优（p<0.001）.ACR模体半定量分析显示，结合BLADE技术序列与传统序列相比，在LCD检测方面结果更优、在HCSR检测方面结果相同或略逊.本文推荐将BLADE技术应用于不合作的精神疾病患者海马的MRI检查.     

A health insurance pricing model based on prevalence rates: Application to critical illness insurance

The Italian health insurance market is currently undersized. The paucity of assured data and the discontinuous statistical surveys carried out by the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) represent one of the main obstacles to the insurance market development. The paper sets forth a parametric model to estimate technical basis for health insurance policies when data are limited and only aggregated information on mortality and morbidity is available. The probabilistic framework is based on a multiple state continuous and time inhomogeneous Markov model. We provide an estimate of transition intensities from the healthy state to the sickness state when only prevalence rates of sickness are available, according to an extension and modification of the methodology proposed in Olivieri (1996) for Long Term Care insurance. We assume that mortality intensity of both healthy and sick lives is modelled by two independent Gompertz–Makeham models.     

Evaluating nonlinear variability of mental fatigue behavioral indices during long‐term attentive task

This study investigates the behavioral indices of attention. A simple repetitive attentive task that resulted in mental fatigue was used consecutively in four trials. In the first step, reaction time and error responses were recorded to evaluate differences among trials. During the task, subjects showed different responses to stimulations. In the second part, to recognize the strategies, multiple clustering methods such as k‐means and fuzzy c‐means were performed in which behavioral indices and nonlinear features were used. In the last section, mental behavior was identified as a result of the chaotic properties of variations in reaction time. Therefore, the Lyapunov exponent of reaction times was evaluated. Results revealed that behavioral indices could distinguish attention from the occurrence of mental fatigue in trials. In addition, the three strategies used by subjects during the test protocol were assessed. Finally, variation of indices extracted from nonlinear analysis, that is, decrease in degree of chaotic behavior determined the transition from attention to mental fatigue. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Complexity, 2012     

中国高校教师薪酬心理与管理策略研究:基于心理账户的视角

本文基于心理账户的视角,根据问卷调查资料实证检验了中国高校教师的薪酬心理账户。研究结果表明,高校教师具有稳定的薪酬心理维度和目录编码,对学校各类薪酬激励反映出不同的满意度和重要性。高校教师不仅非常看重学校各种津贴补助、教师住房和绩效工资等货币性薪酬,而且也比较注重学校能够提供进修培训及学术交流的机会、加强实验室建设和改善教学办公环境等非货币性薪酬。此外,高校教师要求提高非货币性薪酬的期望意愿与货币性薪酬水平相关,只是在一定的货币性薪酬水平条件下,高校教师才具有强烈的提高非货币性薪酬的意愿;若货币性薪酬超过一定水平,这种意愿强度会逐渐减弱。     

EVALUATION OF DEGENERATE SCALE FOR N-GON CONFIGURATION IN ANTIPLANE ELASTICITY

This paper provides a solution for the degenerate scale for N-gon configuration in antiplane elasticity using the conformal mapping function, and the lower and upper bounds for the degenerate scale for N = 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 100, 150 and 200, are evaluated.     

黄铁矿处理重金属废水的光谱表征

将反射光谱和吸收光谱用于黄铁矿处理酸性重金属废水的研究,探讨了黄铁矿的表面反应以及黄铁矿与重金属的相互作用。漫反射红外光谱分析证实,在处理废水过程中,黄铁矿中表面羟基与重金属离子发生反应;并通过考察黄铁矿中碳酸盐,合理解释了黄铁矿处理酸性重金属废水后的溶液自然均趋于中性(pH 7)的现象。可见区的反射光谱用于表征处理过程中的黄铁矿的颗粒及比表面变化,解释了黄铁矿在重复使用时其活性反而增强的原因。吸收光谱及XPS表征表明,黄铁矿处理含Cr(Ⅵ)废水,是一个由Cr(Ⅵ)到Cr3+再到Cr(OH)₃的吸附沉淀过程。