Few studies have investigated the imagery experiences that occur during scale responses on the mental imagery vividness scale. The current study examined and categorizes such imagery experiences. A ...total of 68 adults were presented with visual items of the Japanese version of the Plymouth Sensory Imagery Questionnaire (Psi-Q) online. They were then asked to write freely about the imagery experiences. The results of the KJ method revealed three major categories of such experiences: cases in which i) only visual imagery, ii) unspecified sensory modality imagery, and iii) an emotional experience occurred. Next, the visual imagery was classified along six axes (movement, source, realism, presence, perspective, and range of imagined objects). According to these results, various imagery experiences occurred during the scale responses. Future studies should examine the influence of such experiences on vividness measures.
We revisit the theory connecting chlorophyll a fluorescence to photosynthesis in the spatiotemporal context of remote sensing. Physical, physiological, and methodological factors are discussed, and a ...roadmap to future research presented.
Derribar las fronteras mentales Almirón Sabá, María de los Ángeles
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En este trabajo se explora la interpelación ideológica en discursos contemporáneos en cuya materialidad aparece la idea de frontera en torno de la presencia de un sujeto empresario-de-sí-mismo. Se ...analiza así cómo es fabricado el sujeto en discursos psicologistas del yo en tanto “creador de realidades deseadas” y “administrador de vínculos deseables”, interpelándoselo como individuo dotado de la potencia y del deber de transformar su vida gestionando sus relaciones con los otros, y atribuyéndose sus determinaciones al plano inmaterial de lo mental en dicha interpelación.
We investigate some solitary wave results of time fractional evolution equations. By employing the extended rational
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Despite the hype surrounding Artificial Intelligence (AI), the potential of AI in customer relationship management (CRM) remains underexplored in academia. A between-subjects experiment examined the ...effects of the type of relationship (virtual assistantship versus virtual friendship) consumers build with AI-enabled chatbots on brand personality perception, parasocial interaction (PSI), and CRM. The main effects of the relationship type on brand personality perception appeared for competent brand personality, but not for sincere brand personality. The consumer-chatbot relationship type had effects on CRM-related outcomes (behavioral intention, satisfaction, and trust) through competent brand personality. Consumers who interacted with a friend chatbot experienced stronger PSI with the chatbot, and the relationship type had an influence on brand personality perception through PSI. This mediating effect of PSI was observed for both brand personalities - competence and sincerity. The moderating role of ideological views (technopians versus luddites) in explaining the effect of the relationship type on brand personality perception was detected for sincere brand personality. AI designers and marketers need to develop AI user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) along with marketing strategies that not only can appeal to technopians ready to adopt innovative AI customer representatives but also can ultimately help alleviate luddites’ AI anxiety in the emerging “feeling economy” envisioned by Rust and Huang.
•Chatbots can form virtual assistantship versus virtual friendship with customers.•Chatbots can represent a brand in customer relationship management (CRM).•Brand personality perception and parasocial interaction (PSI) affect CRM.•Virtual friend chatbots induce stronger PSI than virtual assistant chatbots.•Technopians and luddites respond differently to AI-manifested brand personality.
This study aims to assess the agreement between three Road Safety Performance Indicators (RSPIs) used to evaluate road surface condition, namely Pavement Condition Distress Index (PCI), Present ...Serviceability Index (PSI), and International Road Assessment Program star ratings scores (iRAP). To achieve this, the study conducted field survey to gather pavement functional condition data on 12 roads that are known for having a higher frequency of accidents in the city of Kuching, Malaysia. The results indicated a significant correlation between PSI and PCI, with a moderately strong correlation coefficient (R2) of 0.7354. This suggests that PSI can be used as a surrogate for PCI when resources and time are limited. However, the correlation between PCI and iRAP star rating scores for vehicle occupants and motorcyclists was not satisfactory, with R2 values of 0.167 and 0.3611, respectively.
Interpretation of the fast chlorophyll a fluorescence induction is still a subject of continuing discussion. One of the contentious issues is the influence of photosystem I (PSI) activity on the ...kinetics of the thermal JIP-phase of OJIP rise. To demonstrate this influence, we realized a series of measurements in wheat leaves subjected to PSI photoinactivation by the sequence of red saturation pulses (15,000μmolphotonsm−2s−1 for 0.3s, every 10s) applied in darkness. Such a treatment led to a moderate decrease of maximum quantum efficiency of PSII (by ~8%), but a strong decrease of the number of oxidizable PSI (by ~55%), which considerably limited linear electron transport and CO2 assimilation. Surprisingly, the PSI photoinactivation had low effects on OJIP kinetics of variable fluorescence. In particular, the amplitude of variable fluorescence of IP-step (ΔVIP), which has been considered to be a measure of PSI content, was not decreased, despite the low content of photooxidizable PSI. On the other hand, the slower relaxation of chlorophyll fluorescence after saturation pulse as well as the results of the double-hit method suggest that PSI inactivation treatment led to an increase of the fraction of QB-nonreducing PSII reaction centers. Our results somewhat challenge the mainstream interpretations of JIP-thermal phase, and at least suggest that the IP amplitude cannot serve to estimate reliably the PSI content or the PSI to PSII ratio. Moreover, these results recommend the use of the novel method of PSI inactivation, which might help clarify some important issues needed for the correct understanding of the OJIP fluorescence rise.
•Saturation pulse treatment led to a severe inactivation of photosystem I (PSI).•Low content of active PSI strongly limited linear electron flow and CO2 assimilation.•PSI inactivation caused only minor changes of OJIP kinetics of variable fluorescence.•Amplitude of IP-phase of OJIP rise seemed to be independent of PSI content.•PSI inactivation led to a higher fraction of QB-non-reducing PSII reaction centers.
The use of styrene-maleic acid copolymers (SMAs) to produce membrane protein-containing nanodiscs without the initial detergent isolation has gained significant interest over the last decade. We have ...previously shown that a Photosystem I SMALP from the thermophilic cyanobacterium, Thermosynechococcus elongatus (PSI-SMALP), has much more rapid energy transfer and charge separation in vitro than detergent isolated PSI complexes. In this study, we have utilized small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) to better understand the geometry of these SMALPs. These techniques allow us to investigate the size and shape of these particles in their fully solvated state. Further, the particle's proteolipid core and detergent shell or copolymer belt can be interrogated separately using contrast variation, a capability unique to SANS. Here we report the dimensions of the Thermosynechococcus elongatus PSI-SMALP containing a PSI trimer. At ~1.5 MDa, PSI-SMALP is the largest SMALP to be isolated; our lipidomic analysis indicates it contains ~1300 lipids/per trimeric particle, >40-fold more than the PSI-DDM particle and > 100 fold more than identified in the 1JB0 crystal structure. Interestingly, the lipid composition to the PSI trimer in the PSI-SMALP differs significantly from bulk thylakoid composition, being enriched ~50 % in the anionic sulfolipid, SQDG. Finally, utilizing the contrast match point for the SMA 1440 copolymer, we also can observe the ~1 nm SMA copolymer belt surrounding this SMALP for the first time, consistent with most models of SMA organization.
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•SANS analysis of the largest membrane protein isolated via a SMALP.•Lipidomics reveal PSI-SMALP contains ~1200 lipids per PSI trimer.•Large lipid annulus agrees with the preliminary model based on SANS.•The membrane environment within and surrounding PSI is enriched in SQDG.•The inclusion of the anionic SQDG may explain the faster photochemistry observed in the PSI-SMALP.
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