Osteoporosis is characterised by low bone mass and microarchitectural deterioration of bone tissue, with a consequent increase in bone fragility and susceptibility to fracture.1 Osteoporosis is more common in older people, and complications of fragility fractures are associated with high morbidity and mortality. Although there was a slight decline in the age-specific incidence of hip fracture f...

Improving our understanding of the key drivers and implications of population change New mobilities across the lifecourse: A framework for analysing demographically-linked drivers of migration I ABSTRACT Migration, along with fertility and mortality, is one of the fundamental drivers of population change. Taking the lifecourse as the central concern, the authors set out a theoretical framework ...

O-Alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase (AGT) repairs mutagenic O-alkylguanine and O-alkylthymine adducts in DNA, protecting the genome and also contributing to the resistance of tumors to chemotherapeutic alkylating agents. AGT binds DNA cooperatively, and cooperative interactions are likely to be important in lesion search and repair. We examined morphologies of complexes on long, unmodified DNAs...

According to construal level theory (N. Liberman, Y. Trope, & E. Stephan, in press; Y. Trope & N. Liberman, 2003), people use a more abstract, high construal level when judging, perceiving, and predicting more psychologically distal targets, and they judge more abstract targets as being more psychologically distal. The present research demonstrated that associations between more distance and hi...

We examined the inXuence of extrapersonal associations (Olson & Fazio, 2004)—associations that neither form the basis of the attitude nor become activated automatically in response to the object—on the Implicit Association Test (Greenwald, McGhee, & Schwartz, 1998) by experimentally creating both attitudes and extrapersonal associations. The results revealed that participants who were given ext...

The Implicit Association Test (IAT; Greenwald, McGhee, and Schwartz, 1998) has become a widely used method of measuring individuals’ implicit preferences based on the speed of sorting words or images into respective categories in a computerized task. Age IATs have been used to ascertain implicit preference judgments towards young and old faces and to compare these ratings with explicit, self-re...

Trypanosomatids are increasingly recognized as prevalent in European honey bees (Apis mellifera) and by default are attributed to one recognized species, Crithidia mellificae Langridge and McGhee, 1967. We provide reference genetic and ultrastructural data for type isolates of C. mellificae (ATCC 30254 and 30862) in comparison with two recent isolates from A. mellifera (BRL and SF). Phylogeneti...

Title of Document: THE DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF AN IMPLICIT LIE DETECTION SYSTEM. Scott Roberts, Doctor of Philosophy, 2008 Directed By: Professor Harold Sigall, Ph.D. Department of Psychology University of Maryland A series of five experiments were conducted to explore whether Greenwald, McGhee, & Schwartz’s (1998) Implicit Association Test (IAT), which purportedly measures implicit affectiv...

The current study shows that people's ability to inhibit implicit associations that run counter to their explicit views varies in a circadian pattern. The presence of this rhythmic variation suggests the involvement of a biological process in regulating automatic associations--specifically, with the current data, associations that form undesirable social biases. In 1998, Greenwald, McGhee, and ...

Implicit associations of the self to concepts like "calm" have been shown to be weaker in persons with social anxiety than in non-anxious healthy controls. However, other implicit self associations, such as those to acceptance or rejection, have been less studied in social anxiety, and none of this work has been conducted with clinical samples. Furthermore, the importance of depression in these...