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Kushizaki, Masashi. "Highly sensitive person and spirituality." Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association 83 (September 11, 2019): 1B—004–1B—004. http://dx.doi.org/10.4992/pacjpa.83.0_1b-004.

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Pereira, Henrique, and Samuel Monteiro. "PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES AND VALIDATION OF THE PORTUGUESE VERSION - HIGHLY SENSITIVE PERSON SCALE." Psicologia, Saúde & Doença 21, no. 02 (June 2020): 377–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.15309/20psd210212.

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Natalia, Jovanka Ris, and Joshualdi Bernathsius. "Highly Sensitive Person dan Dampaknya terhadap Kesehatan Mental." Jurnal Keperawatan Jiwa 7, no. 3 (November 26, 2019): 317. http://dx.doi.org/10.26714/jkj.7.3.2019.317-322.

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Highly Sensitive Person atau HSP adalah sifat yang diasosiasikan dengan sensitivitas dan responsitivitas yang lebih tinggi terhadap stimulus dari internal maupun eksternal, lingkungan maupun sosial. Sifat ini dimiliki oleh 20% populasi manusia dan diturunkan secara gentik. Faktor yang berperan dalam terjadinya HSP diketahui adalah genetik dan lingkungan. Aktivitas otak pada HSP lebih tinggi daripada non-HSP hal ini akan menyebabkan overstimulasi pada otak sehingga pada HSP membutuhkan periode istirahat, dan overstimulasi ini seringkali diikuti oleh ketidakmampuan mengontrol emosi sehingga menyebabkan HSP lebih mudah mengalami gangguan kesehatan mental diantaranya adalah depresi, ansietas, dan stress. Tujuan dari artikel literature review ini adalah untuk mengenal tentang HSP, apa perbedaan HSP dengan non-HSP, bagaimana cara mengetahui individu dengan HSP, dan pengaruh HSP terhadap kesehatan mental. Metode yang digunakan dalam artikel ini adalah penelusuran artikel melalui database NCBI dan Google Scholar, lalu artikel dipilih dengan meninjau judul dan abstrak artikel. Tahun penerbitan sumber pustaka adalah dari tahun 2011 sampai 2019. Hasil dari berbagai artikel yang dicantumkan dalam artikel ini untuk menunjukkan adanya hubungan antara HSP dengan gangguan kesehatan mental seperti depresi, ansietas, dan stres. Kata kunci : highly sensitive person, depresi, ansietas, stres HIGHLY SENSITIVE PERSON AND ITS EFFECT ON MENTAL HEALTH ABSTRACTHighly Sensitive Person or HSP is a trait associated with higher sensitivity and responsiveness to internal and external stimuli, environmental and social. This trait found in 20% of human population and genetically inherited. Factors that play a role in the occurrence of HSP are known to be genetic and environmental. Brain activity in HSP is higher than non-HSP, this will cause overstimulation of the brain so the HSP requires resting period, and this overstimulation often followed by inability to control emotion that cause HSP more vulnerable to mental health problem such as depression, anxiety, and stress. The purpose of this literature review article is to get to know about HSP, the difference between HSP and non-HSP, how to know the individuals with HSP, and HSPs effects on mental health. The method used in this article uses a review of articles from NCBI and Google Scholar databases, then the article are selected by reviewing the article titles and abstracts. The year of publication of these articles are from 2011 to 2019. The results of various articles included in this article are to show the correlations between HSP and mental health disorders such as depression, anxiety, and stress. Keywords : highly sensitive person, depression, anxiety, stress
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Takahashi, Aki. "Development of Japanese version of the 19-item Highly Sensitive Person Scale (HSPS-J19)." JAPANESE JOURNAL OF RESEARCH ON EMOTIONS 23, no. 2 (2016): 68–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.4092/jsre.23.2_68.

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Benham, Grant. "The Highly Sensitive Person: Stress and physical symptom reports." Personality and Individual Differences 40, no. 7 (May 2006): 1433–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2005.11.021.

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Iimura, Shuhei, Kosuke Yano, Aki Takahashi, Masashi Kushizaki, Chieko Kibe, and Mari Hirano. "Research Trends in Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) in Japan." Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association 84 (September 8, 2020): SS—035—SS—035. http://dx.doi.org/10.4992/pacjpa.84.0_ss-035.

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Bröhl, Anne Sophie, Karla Van Leeuwen, Michael Pluess, Filip De Fruyt, Elke Van Hoof, Sofie Weyn, and Patricia Bijttebier. "Personality Profile of the Self-Identified Highly Sensitive Person." Journal of Individual Differences 43, no. 2 (April 2022): 95–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1614-0001/a000363.

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Abstract. The current paper presents a detailed examination of a lay theory perspective on the Sensory-Processing-Sensitivity (SPS) personality profile within the Five-Factor Model (FFM) of personality. The lay SPS personality profile was assessed by asking self-identified highly sensitive people to rate themselves on a Five-Factor Model questionnaire (NEO-PI-3). We applied the NEO-PI-3 norms (domains and facets) and examined the inter-rater agreement of the facets. The sample consisted of 560 (female: 86.43%, Mage = 37.36 years, SDage = 6.64 years, 18.17–47.42 years) self-identified highly sensitive adults. Six facets, in particular, stood out with good and very good inter-rater agreement: participants fell within the highest 23% of the population on facets Fantasy, Aesthetics, Feelings (Openness to Experience); Anxiety, Depression (Neuroticism); and the lowest 23% of the population on the facet Gregariousness (Extraversion).
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Smith, Heather L., Julie Sriken, and Bradley T. Erford. "Clinical and Research Utility of the Highly Sensitive Person Scale." Journal of Mental Health Counseling 41, no. 3 (July 1, 2019): 221–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.17744/mehc.41.3.03.

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This psychometric synthesis reviewed all 29 articles meeting criteria and possessing psychometric results from the 20-year history (1997 to 2017) of the Highly Sensitive Person Scale (HSPS). Aggregated internal consistency (coefficient alpha) was .874. Convergent comparisons were provided between the HSPS total score and 12 measures of constructs similar to the sensory processing sensitivity construct. Structural validity primarily supported both the original one- and three-factor models, as did the pattern of high intra-subscale and total scale correlations, but a unidimensional interpretation is suggested given the low reliabilities for subscale scores. The HSPS performed adequately for a screening-level instrument. Mental health counselors are well suited to use the HSPS within their regular practice of assessing and valuing normal human development in addition to diagnosing and treating mental health disorders.
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Ershova, R. V., E. V. Yarmotz, T. M. Koryagina, D. A. Shlyakhta, and E. Tarnow. "Operationalization of the Russian Version of Highly Sensitive Person Scale." RUDN Journal of Psychology and Pedagogics 15, no. 1 (2018): 22–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2313-1683-2018-15-1-22-37.

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Mochizuki, Naoto, and Masashi Kushizaki. "A discriminability of highly sensitive person and autism spectrum disorder." Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association 84 (September 8, 2020): PB—001—PB—001. http://dx.doi.org/10.4992/pacjpa.84.0_pb-001.

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Svalmark, Per. "Extra känslig? : En kvantitativ studie om studenter och vaccination mot svininfluensan." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för ekonomi, kommunikation och IT, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-7594.

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Syftet med den här studien är att undersöka vad som skiljer i personlighet mellan studenter som vaccinerade sig mot svininfluensan och studenter som inte vaccinerade sig. Studien genomfördes genom en kvantitativ enkätundersökning på 194 studenter från ett universitet i Svealand. Deltagarna fick besvara psykometriska personlighetstester som mätte känslighet, ångest, depression, sympati och pålitlighet. Därefter utfördes statistiska test i SPSS för att i huvudsak beräkna medelvärdesskillnader. Resultaten visar att vaccinerade studenter är signifikant känsligare än ovaccinerade studenter. Vaccinerade studenter är också mer ångestfyllda men skillnaderna är inte signifikanta. Det finns inga nämnvärda skillnader i depression, sympati eller pålitlighet. Typ av utbildning och kön predicerar heller inte vaccinering. Sammanfattningsvis ska känslighet därmed ses som den viktigaste prediktorn för vilka personer som vaccinerar sig vid pandemier. Resultatet kan generaliseras till den svenska befolkningen eftersom studiens andel vaccinerade motsvarar befolkningens andel vaccinerade. Studiens urval motsvarar däremot inte den svenska populationens genomsnittliga utbildningsnivå. Å andra sidan har utbildningsnivå inte visat sig vara en betydande faktor för hälsoskyddande beteenden i tidigare forskning, varför mitt resultat bör betraktas som betydelsefullt.
The purpose of this study is to examine which personality aspects that are differing from students who got vaccinated against the swine flu, to students who did not get vaccinated. This study carried out a quantitative survey on 194 students from a mid-region university in Sweden. The participants were to answer psychometric personality tests on sensitivity, anxiety, depression, sympathy and dependability. Thereafter, statistical tests were conducted through SPSS, mainly to calculate mean differences. The results conclude that vaccinated students are significantly more sensitive than un-vaccinated students. Vaccinated students are also more anxious but these differences are not significant. There are no notable differences in depression, sympathy or dependability. Type of education and sex do not either predict vaccination. Finally, sensitivity shall be viewed as the most important predictor in a person’s likeliness to get vaccinated at pandemics. The findings can be generalized to the Swedish population because the proportion of vaccinated students in this study corresponds to the proportion of vaccinated people of the Swedish population. However, the sample of this study does not correspond to the educational level of the Swedish population. On the other hand, educational level has not been shown as an important determinant in health protective behaviors in former research literature, why my result should be considered as meaningful.
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Axelsson, Antonia, and Mikaela Hansson. "Högkänslighet : en begränsning eller tillgång i arbetslivet?" Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen för Pedagogik, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-17650.

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En kvalitativ studie har gjorts där personer med en högre känslighet än genomsnittetintervjuats. Fokus för studien har varit att undersöka hur dessa så kallat högkänsliga individer möter de krav och utmaningar som arbetslivet ställer, samt hur de kan använda sin högkänslighet som ett verktyg i sitt arbete. Syftet med studien var att få en djupare förståelse för, samt öka medvetenheten kring egenskapen högkänslighet och hur den kan påverka individen i arbetslivet.Vi var även intresserade av hur självbilden hos dessa individer ser - och har sett ut.Detta ville vi göra genom att gå ut och möta människor som har egenskapen och sedan skildra deras berättelser. Tematisk analys användes för att behandla data. Undersökningens resultat visade att högkänslighet många gånger är en tillgång i yrket, samtidigt som det kan vara svårtför högkänsliga att hitta rätt i arbetslivet. Genom rätt resurser och en ökad medvetenhet kring egenskapen, skulle högkänsliga ges större möjligheter att nå framgång och bidra med sin kompetens.
Program: Organisations- och personalutvecklare i samhället
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Larsson, Frida, and Maria Kainulainen. ""Att inte alltid orka" : En grundad teori om högkänslighet och moderskap." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-46202.

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Högkänslighet (HSP) är ett för vår tid relativt nytt begrepp som flera människor kommit att identifiera sig med. Intresseområdet för den här studien har varit högkänsliga mödrar och med hjälp av grundad teori som metodansats ämnade vi upptäcka högkänsliga mödrars huvudangelägenhet. Ämnet är aktuellt och knyter an till samhällets ökade behov av självkännedom och självförverkligande. Vår grundade teori belyser ett tidigare outforskat område inom vetenskapen vilket bidrar till en ökad förståelse och kunskap kring det högkänsliga moderskapet och vad det innebär för mödrarna själva. Tio intervjuer genomfördes med mödrar som identifierade sig själva som högkänsliga. Under studien formades en forskningsfråga som löd: hur gör högkänsliga mödrar för att orka vara närvarande i sina barns liv? Forskningsfrågan belyser mödrarnas huvudangelägenhet Att inte alltid orka. Studien resulterade i en grundad teori som beskriver hur mödrarna hanterar Att inte alltid orka genom kärnkategorin Anpassning och underkategorierna Avläsningsförmåga, Samhällelig kunskapslucka, Ökad självkännedom, Egentid och Ett annorlunda moderskap. Den grundade teori som genererats i den här studien har placerats inom ett teoretiskt ramverk bestående av narrativ teori för att ge en djupare förståelse inför de berättelser som mödrarna har delgett oss.
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Eriksson, Emma. "Stress och högkänslighet hos studenter : En jämförande studie mellan kvinnor och män." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för sociala och psykologiska studier, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-33147.

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Syftet var att undersöka högkänslighet och stress hos studenter. Metoden var en kvantitativ jämförande studie mellan grupper (kvinnor och män). Undersökningen genomfördes genom en elektronisk enkät. Urvalet var ett tillfällighetsurval av kvinnor och män i åldrarna 19 – 56 som studerade vid ett universitet, totalt 122 stycken deltagare, 31 män och 91 kvinnor. Deltagarna besvarade en enkät som bestod av bakgrundsfrågor och mätinstrument som mätte stress och högkänslighet. Resultatet visade på att högkänslighet och stress var skattad högst bland kvinnorna. Slutsatsen är att kvinnor och män skiljer sig i högkänslighet och stress samt att stress och högkänslighet korrelerar med varandra.
The aim was to investigate high sensitivity and stress among students. The method was a quantitative comparative study between groups (women and men). The survey was conducted through an electronic questionnaire. The selection was an opportunity sample of women and men who studied at a university and was between the ages of 19-56, a total of 122 participants 31 men and 91 women. The participants answered a questionnaire that consisted of background questions and instruments to measure stress and high sensitivity. The results showed that high sensitivity and stress was underestimated highest among women. The conclusion is that women and men differ in high sensitivity and stress, and that stress and high sensitivity correlate.
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Lutvica, Nina. "Den högkänsliga personens hälsa och koppling till naturen." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för sociala och psykologiska studier, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-36995.

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Högkänslighet, eller så kallad sensory-processing sensitivity (SPS), har beskrivits som ett personlighetsdrag där individen bearbetar sensorisk information på ett djupare och starkare sätt än personer som inte är högkänsliga. Syftet med den aktuella studien var att, med hjälp av självskattningsformuläret ”the Highly Sensitive Person Scale” (HSP), undersöka högkänslighet mot skattningar av naturen (NR, NR-Self, NR-Perspective, NR-Experience), grubbleri (RRQ-Rumination) och självreflektion (RRQ-Reflection), subjektivt välbefinnande (WHO) och upplevelser av mindfulness (MAAS). Undersökningen skedde via en webb-baserad enkät och omfattade 213 deltagare. Resultatet visade att individer som är mer högkänsliga värderar naturen högre, samt grubblar och reflekterar mer kring sig själva, än mindre högkänsliga personer. Inga signifikanta skillnader förelåg mellan grupperna vad gäller mindfulness eller välbefinnande. Resultatet tyder på att både en interaktion med naturen och mindfulness kan vara gynnsamt för högkänsliga individer. Denna studie kan utgöra en startpunkt för framtida forskning, där experimentella studier med upprepad mätning kan genomföras för att undersöka naturens roll för högkänsliga personer.
Sensory-processing sensitivity (SPS) has been described as a personality trait where the individual process sensory information in a deeper and stronger way than people who are not highly sensitive. The aim of the present study was to, with the self-assessment form ”the Highly Sensitive Person Scale” (HSP), examine sensory-processing sensitivity against evaluations of nature (NR, NR-Self, NR-Perspective, NR-Experience), rumination (RRQ-Rumination) and self-reflection (RRQ-Reflection), subjective well-being (WHO) and experiences of mindfulness (MAAS). The survey was done through a web-based questionnaire and included 213 participants. The results showed that individuals who are more highly sensitive value nature higher, and also ruminate and reflect more on themselves, than people who are less highly sensitive. No significant differences existed between the groups concerning mindfulness or subjective well-being. The results suggest that both an interaction with nature and mindfulness can be favourable for highly sensitive persons. This study can serve as a starting point for future research, where experimental studies with repeated measures can be conducted to investigate the role of nature for highly sensitive persons.
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Wendt, Angelica, and Sara Bäcksbacka. "Att vara HSP i ett socialt samhälle : En kvalitativ studie om högkänsligas upplevelser av sociala relationer." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för psykologi (PSY), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-101036.

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Studiens syfte var att få en fördjupad förståelse för hur högkänsliga personer upplever att personlighetsdraget påverkar olika relationer och sociala situationer i dagens sociala samhälle. Data samlades in genom semistrukturerade intervjuer med nio personer som definierar sig som högkänsliga. Informanternas svar analyserades sedan i en tematisk analys för att få fram en överblick över deras upplevelser. Resultatet indikerar att personlighetsdraget påverkar relationerna med andra på många olika sätt, bland annat genom högkänsligas förmåga att läsa av andra, deras djupa bearbetning och deras behov av att undvika överstimulering. Det framkom även att högkänsligas egenskaper inte alltid accepteras eller förstås av omgivningen.
The aim of this study was to get an immersed understanding of how highly sensitive people experience that the personality trait affects various relationships and social situations in today’s social society. Data were collected through semi structured interviews with nine people defining themselves as HSP. The answers from the informants were thereafter analyzed using thematic content analysis to get an overview of their experiences. The result indicates that the personality trait affects the relationships with others in various ways, for example by the ability of the highly sensitive to understand others, their deep processing and their need to avoid overstimulation. It also emerged that the characteristics of the highly sensitive people were not always accepted or understood by the surroundings.
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Brongers, Rosalinde. "Livskvalitet hos högkänsliga personer : en studie om högkänslighet, självmedkänsla och personlighet." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Avd för psykologi och organisationsstudier, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-7348.

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Tjugo procent av alla människor är högkänsliga (HSP = Highly Sensitive Person), vilket innebär att de är födda med ett känsligt nervsystem. Många HSP upplever negativa konsekvenser i sin vardag som påverkar livskvaliteten. Eftersom gruppen HSP är så stor och kopplingen HSP, livskvalitet och självmedkänsla inte specifikt har undersökts, var det relevant att göra den här enkätundersökningen. De undersökta frågeställningar är: Finns det inom gruppen HSP angående variablerna: Livskvalitet, Självmedkänsla, Högkänslighet, BIS, BAS, Extraversion och Neuroticism (a) signifikanta samband mellan samtliga variablerna? (b) Till vilken grad förklarar variablerna Livskvalitet och Högkänslighet? (c) Finns det könsskillnader angående samtliga variablerna? (d) Finns det ett positivt samband mellan Högkänslighet och Ålder? De 111 deltagare var medlemmar i Sveriges Förening för Högkänsliga och samtliga var enligt självskattning HSP, som bekräftades av insamlade data. Deltagargruppen bestod av 93 kvinnor (84%) och 18 män (16%) och genomsnittsålder var 50 år, där lägsta åldern var 35 år och högsta 70. Samtliga frågeställningar har besvarats genom analysmetoderna: Pearsons korrelationsanalys, Standard Multipel Linjär Regression och T-test. Det viktigaste resultatet var att kopplingen mellan HSP och självmedkänsla bidrog med ny kunskap, där slutsatsen blev att utövandet av självmedkänsla kan bidra till att aktivt öka graden av livskvalitet för HSP. Det starkaste sambandet i studien förelåg mellan BIS och neuroticism, vilket betyder att vid en ökning av BIS, ökar graden av negativ affekt och vice versa; resultatet låg i linje med tidigare forskning. Två oväntade resultat var att (a) drivkraften (BASDrive) predicerade högkänslighet mest till skillnad från litteraturen som pekar åt BIS och neuroticism som skulle ha starkast koppling och (b) att graden av högkänslighet sjönk vid ökad ålder; vilket talar emot tidigare forskning. Uppsatsen är en relevant informationskälla för HSP och alla andra som interagerar med HSP.
Twenty percent of all people are highly sensitive (HSP = Highly Sensitive Person) which means that they are born with a sensitive nervous system. Many HSP's are experiencing negative consequences in their everyday lives that affect their quality of life. As the group HSP is large and the correlation between HSP, quality of life and self-compassion is not specifically is investigated, the present study was relevant. The examined questions are: Is there within the group of HSP regarding Quality of Life, Self-compassion, High sensitivity, BIS, BAS, Extraversion and Neuroticism (a) significant correlations between the variables? (b) To what extend do the variables explain Quality of Life and High Sensitivity? (c) Are there gender differences regarding the variables? (d) Is there a positive correlation between High Sensitivity and Age? The 111 participants were members of the Sveriges Förening för Högkänsliga and all were HSP according to self-assessment, which also was confirmed by the data collected. The group of participants consisted of 93 women (84%) and 18 men (16%) and the average age was 50, where the lowest age was 35 years and the highest 70. All questions were answered by these analytical methods: Pearson's correlation analysis, Standard Multiple Linear Regression and T-test. The main outcome was that the link between HSP and self-compassion contributed to new knowledge, which concluded that the practice of Self-compassion can help to actively increase the level of quality of life for HSP's. The strongest correlation in the study was between BIS and neuroticism, which means that at an increase of BIS, the degree of negative affect also increased and vice versa; the result was in line with previous research. Two unexpected results were that (a) the driving force (BASDrive) predicted high sensitivity most, unlike the literature suggesting that BIS and neuroticism would have the strongest connection and (b) the degree of high sensitivity decreased with increase in age; which contradicts earlier research. The essay is a relevant source of information for the HSP and all others who are interacting with HSP.
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Michalowski, Jaroslaw [Verfasser]. "Sensory processing in high anxiety sensitive persons and spider phobic individuals / presented by Michalowski Jaroslaw." 2007. http://d-nb.info/989462064/34.

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Trojan, Wojciech. "Od Czeczenii do Somalilandu. Idea ochrony uchodźców w kontekście kultury organizacyjnej i prawnej urzędu Wysokiego Komisarza ds. Uchodźców." Doctoral thesis, 2017. https://depotuw.ceon.pl/handle/item/2503.

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Books on the topic "Highly sensitive person"

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Aron, Elaine. The highly sensitive person: How to thrive when the world overwhelms you. New York: Carol Pub. Group, 1996.

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Aron, Elaine. The highly sensitive person: How to thrive when the world overwhelms you. New York: Broadway Books, 1997.

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Psychotherapy and the highly sensitive person: Improving outcomes for that minority of people who are the majority of clients. New York, NY: Brunner-Routledge, 2010.

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Aron, Elaine N. The Highly Sensitive Person. Recorded Books, 2004.

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Aron, Elaine. The Highly Sensitive Person. Gioi, 2019.

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Psychotherapy and the highly sensitive person. New York, Broadway Books, 1996.

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The Highly Sensitive Person in Love. New York: Broadway Books, 2009.

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Aron, Elaine N. Psychotherapy and the Highly Sensitive Person. Routledge, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203879085.

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Making Work Work for the Highly Sensitive Person. McGraw-Hill, 2005.

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Jaeger, Barrie S. Making Work Work for the Highly Sensitive Person. McGraw-Hill, 2003.

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Gearhart, Christopher C. "Highly Sensitive Person Scale (HSPS)." In The Sourcebook of Listening Research, 299–305. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119102991.ch28.

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Saha, Nabarun, and Arun Kumar. "Highly Sensitive Temperature Sensor Based on Mode Transition in a Long Period Waveguide Grating." In Springer Proceedings in Physics, 223–26. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9259-1_50.

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Nordberg, Ana. "Biobank and Biomedical Research: Responsibilities of Controllers and Processors Under the EU General Data Protection Regulation." In GDPR and Biobanking, 61–89. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49388-2_5.

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AbstractBiobanks are essential infrastructures in current health and biomedical research. Advanced scientific research increasingly relies on processing and correlating large amounts of genetic, clinical and behavioural data. These data are particularly sensitive in nature and the risk of privacy invasion and misuse is high. The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) developed and increased harmonisation, resulting in a framework in which the specific duties and obligations of entities processing personal data—controllers and processors—were defined. Biobanks, in the exercise of their functions, assume the role of controllers and/or processors and as such need to comply with a number of complex rules. This chapter analyses these rules in the light of Article 89 GDPR, which creates safeguards and derogations relating to ‘processing for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes’. It identifies key compliance challenges faced by biobanks as data controllers and processors, such as determining whether the GDPR is applicable and its intersection with other regulations; when a biobank should be considered controller and processor; and what are the main duties of biobanks as data controllers and processors and options for compliance.
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"The Sensitive Person in the Workplace." In Psychotherapy and the Highly Sensitive Person, 181–98. Routledge, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203879085-12.

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"Personality Variation in Highly Sensitive Persons." In Psychotherapy and the Highly Sensitive Person, 199–206. Routledge, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203879085-13.

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"Adapting Treatment to the Highly Sensitive Patient." In Psychotherapy and the Highly Sensitive Person, 115–36. Routledge, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203879085-9.

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"Helping Them Establish Relationships: Meeting Others, Shyness, and Fears of Commitment." In Psychotherapy and the Highly Sensitive Person, 137–52. Routledge, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203879085-10.

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"Helping Long-Term Relationships: Working With Conflicts, Degree of Temperament Similarity, and Sensitive Sexuality." In Psychotherapy and the Highly Sensitive Person, 153–80. Routledge, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203879085-11.

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"Highly Sensitive Patients: Who They Are, Who They Aren’t, and Why It Matters." In Psychotherapy and the Highly Sensitive Person, 13–34. Routledge, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203879085-5.

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"Assessing for High Sensitivity." In Psychotherapy and the Highly Sensitive Person, 35–58. Routledge, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203879085-6.

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Conference papers on the topic "Highly sensitive person"

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Wang, Guan'an, Yang Yang, Jian Cheng, Jinqiao Wang, and Zengguang Hou. "Color-Sensitive Person Re-Identification." In Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-19}. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/131.

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Recent deep Re-ID models mainly focus on learning high-level semantic features, while failing to explicitly explore color information which is one of the most important cues for person Re-ID. In this paper, we propose a novel Color-Sensitive Re-ID to take full advantage of color information. On one hand, we train our model with real and fake images. By using the extra fake images, more color information can be exploited and it can avoid overfitting during training. On the other hand, we also train our model with images of the same person with different colors. By doing so, features can be forced to focus on the color difference in regions. To generate fake images with specified colors, we propose a novel Color Translation GAN (CTGAN) to learn mappings between different clothing colors and preserve identity consistency among the same clothing color. Extensive evaluations on two benchmark datasets show that our approach significantly outperforms state-of-the-art Re-ID models.
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Liu, Shun-Yee, Hwa-Yaw Tam, and M. Suleyman Demokan. "Highly sensitive long-period fiber grating temperature sensor." In International Symposium on Photonics and Applications, edited by Yakov S. Sidorin and Ding Y. Tang. SPIE, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.446627.

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Bresciani, Sabrina, and Sebastian Kernbach. "Insights from Neuroscience: Exploring Highly Sensitive Persons’ Use of Knowledge Visualization." In 2021 25th International Conference Information Visualisation (IV). IEEE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/iv53921.2021.00051.

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Liu, Shun-Yee, Hwa-Yaw Tam, and M. Suleyman Demokan. "Highly sensitive temperature sensor using long-period fiber grating." In Symposium on Applied Photonics, edited by Alan J. Rogers. SPIE, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.397888.

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Zhang, Nancy Meng Ying, Xinyong Dong, Perry Ping Shum, Dora Juan Juan Hu, Haibin Su, Wen Siang Lew, and Lei Wei. "Highly sensitive magnetic field sensor using long-period fiber grating." In 2015 11th Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR). IEEE, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/cleopr.2015.7376430.

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Smietana, Mateusz, Wojtek J. Bock, Predrag Mikulic, and Jiahua Chen. "Highly sensitive pressure sensor based on cascaded long-period gratings." In 2012 IEEE Sensors. IEEE, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icsens.2012.6411512.

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Davies, Edward, Kyriacos Kalli, Charalambos Koutsides, and Lin Zhang. "Highly refractive index sensitive femtosecond laser inscribed long period gratings." In 21st International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors (OFS21). SPIE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.885993.

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Lee, Jon, Corey A. Hahn, Sung-Hyun Nam, Bo Wang, Karl M. Reichard, David H. Ditto, Drew Glista, Qing Wang, and Shizhuo Yin. "Highly sensitive harsh-environment sensor based on innovative long-period gratings." In Optics East, edited by Michael A. Marcus, Brian Culshaw, and John P. Dakin. SPIE, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.572596.

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Pilla, P., A. Iadicicco, L. Contessa, S. Campopiano, A. Cusano, A. Cutolo, and M. Giordano. "Long period gratings coated with syndiotactic polystirene as highly sensitive chemical sensors." In Bruges, Belgium - Deadline Past. SPIE, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.623835.

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Kim, Young Ho, Myoung Jin Kim, Byung Sup Rho, Hae Yong Choi, Min-su Park, Jae-Hyung Jang, and Byeong Ha Lee. "Ultra-high sensitive sensitive hydrogen sensor using higher order cladding mode coupled by a palladium-coated long-period fiber grating." In 20th International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors, edited by Julian D. C. Jones. SPIE, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.835379.

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Halevy, Orna, Sandra Velleman, and Shlomo Yahav. Early post-hatch thermal stress effects on broiler muscle development and performance. United States Department of Agriculture, January 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.32747/2013.7597933.bard.

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In broilers, the immediate post-hatch handling period exposes chicks to cold or hot thermal stress, with potentially harmful consequences to product quantity and quality that could threaten poultry meat marketability as a healthy, low-fat food. This lower performance includes adverse effects on muscle growth and damage to muscle structure (e.g., less protein and more fat deposition). A leading candidate for mediating the effects of thermal stress on muscle growth and development is a unique group of skeletal muscle cells known as adult myoblasts (satellite cells). Satellite cells are multipotential stem cells that can be stimulated to follow other developmental pathways, especially adipogenesis in lieu of muscle formation. They are most active during the first week of age in broilers and have been shown to be sensitive to environmental conditions and nutritional status. The hypothesis of the present study was that immediate post-hatch thermal stress would harm broiler growth and performance. In particular, growth characteristics and gene expression of muscle progenitor cells (i.e., satellite cells) will be affected, leading to increased fat deposition, resulting in long-term changes in muscle structure and a reduction in meat yield. The in vitro studies on cultured satellite cells derived from different muscle, have demonstrated that, anaerobic pectoralis major satellite cells are more predisposed to adipogenic conversion and more sensitive during myogenic proliferation and differentiation than aerobic biceps femoris cells when challenged to both hot and cold thermal stress. These results corroborated the in vivo studies, establishing that chronic heat exposure of broiler chicks at their first two week of life leads to impaired myogenicity of the satellite cells, and increased fat deposition in the muscle. Moreover, chronic exposure of chicks to inaccurate temperature, in particular to heat vs. cold, during their early posthatch periods has long-term effects of BW, absolute muscle growth and muscle morphology and meat quality. The latter is manifested by higher lipid and collagen deposition and may lead to the white striping occurrence. The results of this study emphasize the high sensitivity of muscle progenitor cells in the early posthatch period at a time when they are highly active and therefore the importance of rearing broiler chicks under accurate ambient temperatures. From an agricultural point of view, this research clearly demonstrates the immediate and long-term adverse effects on broiler muscling and fat formation due to chronic exposure to hot stress vs. cold temperatures at early age posthatch. These findings will aid in developing management strategies to improve broiler performance in Israel and the USA. BARD Report - Project4592 Page 2 of 29
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Douglas, Thomas, Merritt Turetsky, and Charles Koven. Increased rainfall stimulates permafrost thaw across a variety of Interior Alaskan boreal ecosystems. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), June 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/41050.

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Earth’s high latitudes are projected to experience warmer and wetter summers in the future but ramifications for soil thermal processes and permafrost thaw are poorly understood. Here we present 2750 end of summer thaw depths representing a range of vegetation characteristics in Interior Alaska measured over a 5-year period. This included the top and third wettest summers in the 91-year record and three summers with precipitation close to mean historical values. Increased rainfall led to deeper thaw across all sites with an increase of 0.7 ± 0.1 cm of thaw per cm of additional rain. Disturbed and wetland sites were the most vulnerable to rain-induced thaw with ~1 cm of surface thaw per additional 1 cm of rain. Permafrost in tussock tundra, mixed forest, and conifer forest was less sensitive to rain-induced thaw. A simple energy budget model yields seasonal thaw values smaller than the linear regression of our measurements but provides a first-order estimate of the role of rain-driven sensible heat fluxes in high-latitude terrestrial permafrost. This study demonstrates substantial permafrost thaw from the projected increasing summer precipitation across most of the Arctic region.
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Weissinger, Rebecca, and Dana Witwicki. Riparian monitoring of wadeable streams at Courthouse Wash, Arches National Park: Summary report, 2010–2019. Edited by Alice Wondrak Biel. National Park Service, November 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36967/nrr-2287907.

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The goal of Northern Colorado Plateau Network (NCPN) riparian monitoring is to determine long-term trends in hydrologic, geomorphic, and vegetative properties of wadeable streams in the context of changes in other ecological drivers, stressors, and processes. This information is intended to provide early warning of resource degradation and determine natural variability of wadeable streams. This report summarizes NCPN monitoring of Courthouse Wash in Arches National Park (NP) from 2010 to 2019. The focus of this report is to (1) present geomorphology and vegetation data from five reaches monitored in Courthouse Wash from 2010 to 2015, and (2) examine patterns in water availability at one monitoring reach from November 2010 to December 2019. Vegetation sampling and geomorphology surveys were suspended in 2016 due to budget cuts; this report presents baseline data for future comparisons. The NCPN has five monitoring reaches located between the inflow of Sevenmile Canyon, a major tributary, and the terminus of Courthouse Wash, at the Colorado River. Two reaches (2, 5) are located in Upper Courthouse Wash, and three (1, 4, 7) in Lower Courthouse Wash. Hydrologic monitoring wells are installed only at Reach 1. During our monitoring period, which included drought years in 2012 and 2018 and a wetter-than-average period from fall 2013 to 2014, groundwater levels showed steep declines corresponding to the start of the growing season each year. Hot, dry summers and falls in 2012, 2018, and 2019 showed the deepest troughs in groundwater levels. Active monsoon years helped elevate summer and fall groundwater levels in 2013 and 2014. Continued monitoring will help us better understand the relationship of climate and water availability at this reach. A geomorphic survey was completed once for reaches 2, 4, and 7, and twice for reaches 5 and 1. Powerful floods during our monitoring period resulted in aggradation of the channel in reaches 5 and 1, which were first surveyed in March 2013. Flooding in September 2013 resulted in an average of 0.24 meters of deposition found in the channel thalweg at Reach 1 in March 2014. Storm events in May 2014 caused additional aggradation. In March 2015, an average of 0.41 meters of deposition was recorded in the channel thalweg at Reach 5, with 0.32 meters of deposition between the vegetation transect headpins compared to the 2013 data. The riparian vegetation recorded at our monitoring reaches is consistent with an open-canopy Fremont cottonwood woodland with a diverse understory. Canopy closure ranged from 29% to 52%. Measurements were sensitive enough to detect a 10% reduction in canopy closure at Reach 5 during a pest infestation in June 2013. Canopy closure subsequently rebounded at the reach by 2015. Total obligate and facultative wetland cover ranged from 7% to 26%. Fremont cottonwood seedlings, saplings, and overstory trees were present at all reaches, indicating good potential for future regeneration of the canopy structure. These data can serve as a baseline for comparison with future monitoring efforts. One area of management concern is that exotic-plant frequency and cover were relatively high in all monitoring reaches. Exotic cover ranged from 2% to 30%. High exotic cover was related to years with high cover of annual brome grasses. High cover of exotic grasses is associated with increased wildfire risk in southwestern riparian systems, which are not well-adapted to fire. Managers should be prepared for this increased risk following wet winters that promote annual brome grass cover. Beaver activity was noted throughout bedrock-constrained reaches in Courthouse Wash. Beaver activity can reduce adjacent woody riparian vegetation cover, but it also contributes to maintaining a higher water table and persistent surface water. Climate change is likely to be an increasingly significant stressor in Courthouse Wash, as hotter, drier conditions decrease water levels and increase drought stress...
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Shapira, Roni, Judith Grizzle, Nachman Paster, Mark Pines, and Chamindrani Mendis-Handagama. Novel Approach to Mycotoxin Detoxification in Farm Animals Using Probiotics Added to Feed Stuffs. United States Department of Agriculture, May 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.32747/2010.7592115.bard.

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T-2 toxin, a toxic product belongs to the trichothecene mycotoxins, attracts major interest because of its severe detrimental effects on the health of human and farm animals. The occurrence of trichothecenes contamination is global and they are very resistant to physical or chemical detoxification techniques. Trichothecenes are absorbed in the small intestine into the blood stream. The hypothesis of this project was to develop a protecting system using probiotic bacteria that will express trichothecene 3-O-acetyltransferase (Tri101) that convert T-2 to a less toxic intermediate to reduce ingested levels in-situ. The major obstacle that we had faced during the project is the absence of stable and efficient expression vectors in probiotics. Most of the project period was invested to screen and isolate strong promoter to express high amounts of the detoxify enzyme on one hand and to stabilize the expression vector on the other hand. In order to estimate the detoxification capacity of the isolated promoters we had developed two very sensitive bioassays.The first system was based on Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells expressing the green fluorescent protein (GFP). Human liver cells proliferation was used as the second bioassay system.Using both systems we were able to prove actual detoxification on living cells by probiotic bacteria expressing Tri101. The first step was the isolation of already discovered strong promoters from lactic acid bacteria, cloning them downstream the Tri101 gene and transformed vectors to E. coli, a lactic acid bacteria strain Lactococcuslactis MG1363, and a probiotic strain of Lactobacillus casei. All plasmid constructs transformed to L. casei were unstable. The promoter designated lacA found to be the most efficient in reducing T-2 from the growth media of E. coli and L. lactis. A prompter library was generated from L. casei in order to isolate authentic probiotic promoters. Seven promoters were isolated, cloned downstream Tri101, transformed to bacteria and their detoxification capability was compared. One of those prompters, designated P201 showed a relatively high efficiency in detoxification. Sequence analysis of the promoter region of P201 and another promoter, P41, revealed the consensus region recognized by the sigma factor. We further attempted to isolate an inducible, strong promoter by comparing the protein profiles of L. casei grown in the presence of 0.3% bile salt (mimicking intestine conditions). Six spots that were consistently overexpressed in the presence of bile salts were isolated and identified. Their promoter reigns are now under investigation and characterization.
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Zhou, Ting, Roni Shapira, Peter Pauls, Nachman Paster, and Mark Pines. Biological Detoxification of the Mycotoxin Deoxynivalenol (DON) to Improve Safety of Animal Feed and Food. United States Department of Agriculture, July 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.32747/2010.7613885.bard.

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The trichothecene deoxynivalenol (DON, vomitoxin), one of the most common mycotoxin contaminants of grains, is produced by members of the Fusarium genus. DON poses a health risk to consumers and impairs livestock performance because it causes feed refusal, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, hemolytic effects and cellular injury. The occurrence of trichothecenes contamination is global and they are very resistant to physical or chemical detoxification techniques. Trichothecenes are absorbed in the small intestine into the blood stream. The overall objective of this project was to develop a protecting system using probiotic bacteria that will express trichothecene 3-O-acetyltransferase (Tri101) that convert T-2 to a less toxic intermediate to reduce ingested levels in-situ. The major obstacle that we had faced during the project is the absence of stable and efficient expression vectors in probiotics. Most of the project period was invested to screen and isolate strong promoter to express high amounts of the detoxify enzyme on one hand and to stabilize the expression vector on the other hand. In order to estimate the detoxification capacity of the isolated promoters we had developed two very sensitive bioassays.The first system was based on Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells expressing the green fluorescent protein (GFP). Human liver cells proliferation was used as the second bioassay system.Using both systems we were able to prove actual detoxification on living cells by probiotic bacteria expressing Tri101. The first step was the isolation of already discovered strong promoters from lactic acid bacteria, cloning them downstream the Tri101 gene and transformed vectors to E. coli, a lactic acid bacteria strain Lactococcuslactis MG1363, and a probiotic strain of Lactobacillus casei. All plasmid constructs transformed to L. casei were unstable. The promoter designated lacA found to be the most efficient in reducing T-2 from the growth media of E. coli and L. lactis. A prompter library was generated from L. casei in order to isolate authentic probiotic promoters. Seven promoters were isolated, cloned downstream Tri101, transformed to bacteria and their detoxification capability was compared. One of those prompters, designated P201 showed a relatively high efficiency in detoxification. Sequence analysis of the promoter region of P201 and another promoter, P41, revealed the consensus region recognized by the sigma factor. We further attempted to isolate an inducible, strong promoter by comparing the protein profiles of L. casei grown in the presence of 0.3% bile salt (mimicking intestine conditions). Six spots that were consistently overexpressed in the presence of bile salts were isolated and identified. Their promoter reigns are now under investigation and characterization.
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Boisclair, Yves R., and Arieh Gertler. Development and Use of Leptin Receptor Antagonists to Increase Appetite and Adaptive Metabolism in Ruminants. United States Department of Agriculture, January 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.32747/2012.7697120.bard.

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Objectives The original project had 2 major objectives: (1) To determine the effects of centrally administered leptin antagonist on appetite and adaptive metabolism in the sheep; (2) To develop and prepare second-generation leptin antagonists combining high binding affinity and prolonged in vivo half-life. Background Periods of suboptimal nutrition or exaggerated metabolic activity demands lead to a state of chronic energy insufficiency. Ruminants remain productive for a surprisingly long period of time under these circumstances by evoking adaptations sparing available energy and nutrients. The mechanism driving these adaptations in ruminant remains unknown, but could involve a reduction in plasma leptin, a hormone acting predominantly in the brain. In laboratory animals, reduced leptin signaling promotes survival during nutritional insufficiency by triggering energy sparing adaptations such as reduced thyroid hormone production and insulin resistance. Our overall hypothesis is that similar adaptations are triggered by reduced leptin signaling in the brain of ruminants. Testing of this hypothesis in ruminants has not been possible due to inability to block the actions of endogenous leptin and access to ruminant models where leptin antagonistic therapy is feasible and effective. Major achievements and conclusions The Israeli team had previously mutated 3 residues in ovine leptin, with no effect on receptor binding. This mutant was renamed ovine leptin antagonist (OLA) because it cannot activate signaling and therefore antagonizes the ability of wild type leptin to activate its receptor. To transform OLA into an effective in vivo antagonist, the Israeli made 2 important technical advances. First, it incorporated an additional mutation into OLA, increasing its binding affinity and thus transforming it into a super ovine leptin antagonist (SOLA). Second, the Israeli team developed a method whereby polyethylene glycol is covalently attached to SOLA (PEG-SOLA) with the goal of extending its half-life in vivo. The US team used OLA and PEG-SOLA in 2 separate animal models. First, OLA was chronically administered directly into the brain of mature sheep via a cannula implanted into the 3rdcerebroventricule. Unexpectedly, OLA had no effect of voluntary feed intake or various indicators of peripheral insulin action but reduced the plasma concentration of thyroid hormones. Second, the US team tested the effect of peripheral PEG-SOLA administration in an energy sensitive, rapidly growing lamb model. PEG-SOLA was administered for 14 consecutive days after birth or for 5 consecutive days before sacrifice on day 40 of life. Plasma PEG-SOLA had a half-life of over 16 h and circulated in 225- to 288-fold excess over endogenous leptin. PEG-SOLA administration reduced plasma thyroid hormones and resulted in a higher fat content in the carcass at slaughter, but had no effects on feed intake, body weight, plasma glucose or insulin. These results show that the team succeeded in developing a leptin antagonist with a long in vivo half-life. Moreover, in vivo results show that reduced leptin signaling promotes energy sparing in ruminants by repressing thyroid hormone production. Scientific and agricultural implications The physiological role of leptin in ruminants has been difficult to resolve because peripheral administration of wild type leptin causes little effects. Our work with leptin antagonists show for the first time in ruminants that reduced leptin signaling induces energy sparing mechanisms involving thyroid hormone production with little effect on peripheral insulin action. Additional work is needed to develop even more potent leptin antagonists, to establish optimal administration protocols and to narrow down phases of the ruminant life cycle when their use will improve productivity.
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Galili, Naftali, Roger P. Rohrbach, Itzhak Shmulevich, Yoram Fuchs, and Giora Zauberman. Non-Destructive Quality Sensing of High-Value Agricultural Commodities Through Response Analysis. United States Department of Agriculture, October 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.32747/1994.7570549.bard.

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The objectives of this project were to develop nondestructive methods for detection of internal properties and firmness of fruits and vegetables. One method was based on a soft piezoelectric film transducer developed in the Technion, for analysis of fruit response to low-energy excitation. The second method was a dot-matrix piezoelectric transducer of North Carolina State University, developed for contact-pressure analysis of fruit during impact. Two research teams, one in Israel and the other in North Carolina, coordinated their research effort according to the specific objectives of the project, to develop and apply the two complementary methods for quality control of agricultural commodities. In Israel: An improved firmness testing system was developed and tested with tropical fruits. The new system included an instrumented fruit-bed of three flexible piezoelectric sensors and miniature electromagnetic hammers, which served as fruit support and low-energy excitation device, respectively. Resonant frequencies were detected for determination of firmness index. Two new acoustic parameters were developed for evaluation of fruit firmness and maturity: a dumping-ratio and a centeroid of the frequency response. Experiments were performed with avocado and mango fruits. The internal damping ratio, which may indicate fruit ripeness, increased monotonically with time, while resonant frequencies and firmness indices decreased with time. Fruit samples were tested daily by destructive penetration test. A fairy high correlation was found in tropical fruits between the penetration force and the new acoustic parameters; a lower correlation was found between this parameter and the conventional firmness index. Improved table-top firmness testing units, Firmalon, with data-logging system and on-line data analysis capacity have been built. The new device was used for the full-scale experiments in the next two years, ahead of the original program and BARD timetable. Close cooperation was initiated with local industry for development of both off-line and on-line sorting and quality control of more agricultural commodities. Firmalon units were produced and operated in major packaging houses in Israel, Belgium and Washington State, on mango and avocado, apples, pears, tomatoes, melons and some other fruits, to gain field experience with the new method. The accumulated experimental data from all these activities is still analyzed, to improve firmness sorting criteria and shelf-life predicting curves for the different fruits. The test program in commercial CA storage facilities in Washington State included seven apple varieties: Fuji, Braeburn, Gala, Granny Smith, Jonagold, Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, and D'Anjou pear variety. FI master-curves could be developed for the Braeburn, Gala, Granny Smith and Jonagold apples. These fruits showed a steady ripening process during the test period. Yet, more work should be conducted to reduce scattering of the data and to determine the confidence limits of the method. Nearly constant FI in Red Delicious and the fluctuations of FI in the Fuji apples should be re-examined. Three sets of experiment were performed with Flandria tomatoes. Despite the complex structure of the tomatoes, the acoustic method could be used for firmness evaluation and to follow the ripening evolution with time. Close agreement was achieved between the auction expert evaluation and that of the nondestructive acoustic test, where firmness index of 4.0 and more indicated grade-A tomatoes. More work is performed to refine the sorting algorithm and to develop a general ripening scale for automatic grading of tomatoes for the fresh fruit market. Galia melons were tested in Israel, in simulated export conditions. It was concluded that the Firmalon is capable of detecting the ripening of melons nondestructively, and sorted out the defective fruits from the export shipment. The cooperation with local industry resulted in development of automatic on-line prototype of the acoustic sensor, that may be incorporated with the export quality control system for melons. More interesting is the development of the remote firmness sensing method for sealed CA cool-rooms, where most of the full-year fruit yield in stored for off-season consumption. Hundreds of ripening monitor systems have been installed in major fruit storage facilities, and being evaluated now by the consumers. If successful, the new method may cause a major change in long-term fruit storage technology. More uses of the acoustic test method have been considered, for monitoring fruit maturity and harvest time, testing fruit samples or each individual fruit when entering the storage facilities, packaging house and auction, and in the supermarket. This approach may result in a full line of equipment for nondestructive quality control of fruits and vegetables, from the orchard or the greenhouse, through the entire sorting, grading and storage process, up to the consumer table. The developed technology offers a tool to determine the maturity of the fruits nondestructively by monitoring their acoustic response to mechanical impulse on the tree. A special device was built and preliminary tested in mango fruit. More development is needed to develop a portable, hand operated sensing method for this purpose. In North Carolina: Analysis method based on an Auto-Regressive (AR) model was developed for detecting the first resonance of fruit from their response to mechanical impulse. The algorithm included a routine that detects the first resonant frequency from as many sensors as possible. Experiments on Red Delicious apples were performed and their firmness was determined. The AR method allowed the detection of the first resonance. The method could be fast enough to be utilized in a real time sorting machine. Yet, further study is needed to look for improvement of the search algorithm of the methods. An impact contact-pressure measurement system and Neural Network (NN) identification method were developed to investigate the relationships between surface pressure distributions on selected fruits and their respective internal textural qualities. A piezoelectric dot-matrix pressure transducer was developed for the purpose of acquiring time-sampled pressure profiles during impact. The acquired data was transferred into a personal computer and accurate visualization of animated data were presented. Preliminary test with 10 apples has been performed. Measurement were made by the contact-pressure transducer in two different positions. Complementary measurements were made on the same apples by using the Firmalon and Magness Taylor (MT) testers. Three-layer neural network was designed. 2/3 of the contact-pressure data were used as training input data and corresponding MT data as training target data. The remaining data were used as NN checking data. Six samples randomly chosen from the ten measured samples and their corresponding Firmalon values were used as the NN training and target data, respectively. The remaining four samples' data were input to the NN. The NN results consistent with the Firmness Tester values. So, if more training data would be obtained, the output should be more accurate. In addition, the Firmness Tester values do not consistent with MT firmness tester values. The NN method developed in this study appears to be a useful tool to emulate the MT Firmness test results without destroying the apple samples. To get more accurate estimation of MT firmness a much larger training data set is required. When the larger sensitive area of the pressure sensor being developed in this project becomes available, the entire contact 'shape' will provide additional information and the neural network results would be more accurate. It has been shown that the impact information can be utilized in the determination of internal quality factors of fruit. Until now,
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An exploratory study of the psycho-social stress associated with abortions in Egypt. Population Council, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.31899/rh1995.1027.

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An operations research study was conducted to investigate the concerns of postabortion patients in Egypt to improve counseling that women receive. A corollary use of the study results is the development of sensitive survey research questions for measuring incidence of induced abortion. This study utilized qualitative research methods by conducting in-depth interviews with postabortion patients in El Galaa and El Menia University Hospitals and focus group discussions with family planning clients and noncontracepting women. For all types of postabortion patients the most salient issue was physical survival of an extremely painful experience. All postabortion patients were acutely concerned about their ability to recover from the abortion, which requires a lengthy convalescence. Their ability to ensure such a rest was highly unlikely. Use of a contraceptive immediately postabortion was not viewed as advisable by the women. The women's husbands need to be informed regarding their wives’ health, return to fertility, and need for a recuperation period. In addition, the postabortion patients require explanations about the return to fertility using popular concepts, some of which are indicated in the body of this report.
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