This research places self-handicapping and defensive pessimism (comprising defensive expectations and reflectivity) into a single conceptual and analytic framework that models the full self-protective process across time. Data on two occasions collected during students (n 1⁄4 328) first two years at university show: performance orientation positively predicts self-handicapping, defensive expect...

Over the last few years reflectivity methods have emerged as key tools for the investigation of polymer surfaces and interfaces. The high spatial resolution of these techniques, of the order of 5 A, has provided a means of probing density gradients in polymers on a submolecular level. This resolution, coupled with selective labeling of all or parts of polymer chains has permitted the examinatio...

Recently, the authors have succeeded in realizing X-ray reflectivity imaging of heterogeneous ultrathin films at specific wavevector transfers by applying a wide parallel beam and an area detector. By combining in-plane angle and grazing-incidence angle scans, it is possible to reconstruct a series of interface-sensitive X-ray reflectivity images at different grazing-incidence angles (proportio...

The soft X-ray reflectivity characterization of Mo/Si multilayer deposited by electron beam evaporation is discussed. The measurements are performed on Indus-1 synchrotron storage ring. The interdiffusion of two-layer materials in multilayer leads to the formation of interlayers. To understand the influence of interlayers and interfacial roughness on soft X-ray reflectivity profile, simulation ...

Multiparameter radar measurements of rainfall, namely, reflectivity factor ZH , differential reflectivity ZDR , and specific differential phase KDP lie in a constrained threedimensional (3-D) space and therefore measurement of ZH , ZDR , or KDP should be consistent with the other two. This selfconsistency relationship between ZH , ZDR , and KDP is valid when the radar resolution volume is homog...

Summary White reflectivity is not a fundamental assumption in the convolutional models. However the deconvolution algorithms should be modified slightly to honour color in the reflectivity series. This color correction is just possible when enough well-log information is available to build a mathematical model for the regional reflectivity. A method for correcting reflectivity color effects in ...

One prevailing assumption in reflection seismology is that the observed trace can be described as a convolution of a source wavelet with the Earth’s reflectivity plus some noise. In a conventional deconvolution approach one thus estimates a linear deconvolution filter to retrieve the reflectivity series from the observed data. This amounts to taking linear combinations of noisy observations and...

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BACKGROUND Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an invaluable diagnostic tool for the detection and follow-up of retinal pathology in patients and experimental disease models. However, as morphological structures and layering in health as well as their alterations in disease are complex, segmentation procedures have not yet reached a satisfactory level of performance. Therefore, raw images and...

We present a simple closed-form expression for the reflectivity horn a multilayer which includes the effects of absorption, refraction, surface and substrate reflections but neglects dynamical effects. This expression reproduces the exact dynamical calculation except for the regions near the critical angle and for intense Bragg reflections. The expression is generalized to include cumulative in...