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An increasing number of studies have examined the effects of video game contents (e.g. violence) or excessive playing (e.g. addiction). Recently, a multimodal and holistic framework was developed, the Game Transfer Phenomena (GTP) framework. It investigates the relation between in-game elements (e.g. structural characteristics, in-game phenomena) involved in everyday involuntary phenomena or intrusions with game contents, and the subsequent implications of these phenomena on gamers’ well-being. This paper aims to overview research on GTP for explaining the development of the framework and discuss its potential applications. The GTP framework was developed based on studies conducted with over 3,500 gamers collected via interviews, online forums and surveys. Confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the factorial structure and demonstrated good reliability and validity of the items in the scale used for assessing GTP. The GTP experiences were classified in three main modalities: (i) altered sensorial perceptions comprising perceptions and/or sensations in all sensorial channels, cross-sensory or multisensory. These were further subdivided into: altered visual perceptions (e.g. visual hallucinations), altered auditory perceptions (e.g. auditory imagery), and altered body/other perceptions (e.g. illusion of body motion). (ii) Automatic mental processes comprising thoughts, urges and automatic mental actions, and (iii) behaviors and actions comprising simple actions or more elaborate behaviors (e.g. verbal outburst). The GTP framework can assist in identifying an underlying mechanism of the virtual immersion either for reducing potential unwanted effects or for promoting desirable cognitions and behaviors with educative, therapeutic and entertainment means.

The Tibesti Volcanic Province (TVP) in northwest Chad represents the second largest of the five Gharyan-Tibesti volcanic provinces and covers an area around 29,000 km 2. The other four provinces are in Libya, but all five provinces are from late Miocene to Quaternary and may have a common mantle source. The TVP, however, differs from the other four as regards volcano-tectonic processes, eruption style, and production of volcanic materials. The volcanic products of the TVP were erupted from the end of Miocene to late Pleistocene, range from basaltic to acidic, and suggest a double magma source-a shallow chamber fed by a deeper and larger reservoir. More specifically, field observations and numerical modelling results suggest that the basaltic magmas forming scoria cones, primarily at the periphery of magma in a deep-seated reservoir, triggered the formation of a ring-fault and the injection of a ring-dyke above the lateral margins of a shallow crustal magma chamber. Subsequently, the piston-like caldera subsidence helped to squeeze magma out of the shallow chamber resulting in large eruptions.

Intrusive thoughts about negative events are core symptoms of several psychiatric disorders. Because current instruments for the assessment of thought suppression are unsatisfactory, we developed and evaluated the dimensionality and validity of a questionnaire that distinguishes between three major facets of thought suppression – intrusions, suppression attempts, and effective suppression – that affect psychopathology distinctly. Participants (N = 784) divided over three age groups, 25 years and younger (n = 351), between 26 and 50 years (n = 202), and 51 years or older (n = 231), completed the Thought Suppression Inventory-Revised. The data were analyzed with sophisticated nonparametric item response theory. Exploratory Mokken scale analysis revealed a three-factor structure, which was affirmed with confirmatory analyses. The Suppression Attempts scale appeared to be a weak scale, specifically in the two older age groups. Since suppression most likely depends on inhibitory ability – which declines with age – suppression attempts probably have increasingly variable outcomes (i.e., failure or success), which complicates measuring this factor. Overall, our findings suggest that three facets of thought suppression can be measured especially in younger individuals, but that for individual measurements particularly in the older age groups the Suppression Attempts scale has to be used with caution.

I filed and served the above document today on landlord's attorney, one Jeff S. Bennett, Esq. who served the subject Motion to Dismiss (MTD) on me yesterday afternoon by email. The more he lags, the faster I get. In it you will find a summary of current Oregon law addressing common landlord-tenant issues as they apply to MOBILE HOME OWNERS on someone else's land, in this case the land is owned by a corporation and that corporation employs various minions each of whom does some compartmentalized task. All is well until there is a breach, then it becomes and adventure "through the looking glass" to get any human being to communicate in a meaningful way with this legally deaf tenant. The dialogue between is colorful and informative as this is not a typical eviction suit, in fact there is no eviction or defect to be corrected at this point, I only seek to prevent future harm. Defendant seeks attorneys' fees, of course!

The Samchampi-Samteran alkaline complex occurs as a plug-like pluton within the Precambrian granite gneisses of Mikir Hills, Assam, northeastern India and it is genetically related to Sylhet Traps. The intrusive complex is marked by dominant development of syenite within which ijolitemelteigite suite of rocks is emplaced with an arcuate outcrop pattern. Inliers of alkali pyroxenite and alkali gabbro occur within this ijolite-melteigite suite of rocks. The pluton is also traversed by younger intrusives of nepheline syenite and carbonatite. Development of sporadic, lumpy magnetite ore bodies is also recorded within the pluton. Petrographic details of the constituent lithomembers of the pluton have been presented following standard nomenclatorial rules. Overall pyroxene compositions range from diopside to aegirine augite while alkali feldspars are typically orthoclase and plagioclase in syenite corresponds to oligoclase species. Phase chemistry of nepheline is suggestive of Na-rich alkaline character of the complex. Biotite compositions are typically restricted to a uniform compositional range and they belong to ‘biotite’ field in the relevant classification scheme. Garnets (developed in syenite and melteigite) typically tend to be Ti-rich andradite, which on a closer scan can be further designated as melanites. Opaque minerals mostly correspond to magnetite. Use of Lindsley’s pyroxene thermometric method suggests an equilibration temperature from ∼450°–600°C for melteigite/alkali gabbro and ∼400°C for syenite. Critical assessment of other thermometric methods reveals a temperature of equilibration of ∼700°–1350°C for ijolite-melteigite suite of rocks in contrast to a relatively lower equilibration temperature of ∼600°C for syenite. Geobarometric data based on pyroxene chemistry yield an equilibration pressure of 5.32–7.72 kb for ijolite, melteigite, alkali pyroxenite, alkali gabbro and nepheline syenite. The dominant syenite member of the intrusive plug records a much higher (∼11 kb) equilibration pressure indicating a deeper level of intrusion. Major oxide variations of constituent lithomembers with respect to differentiation index (D.I.) corroborate a normal magmatic differentiation. A prominent role of liquid immiscibility is envisaged from field geological, petrographic and petrochemical evidences. Tectonic discrimination diagrams involving clinopyroxene chemistry strongly suggest within plate alkaline affinity for the parental magma which is in conformity with the regional plume tectonics.

Abstract[1] Crustal structure in Kenya and Ethiopia has been investigated using receiver function analysis of broadband seismic data to determine the extent to which the Cenozoic rifting and magmatism has modified the thickness and composition of the Proterozoic crust in which the East African rift system developed. Data for this study come from broadband seismic experiments conducted in Ethiopia between 2000 and 2002 and in Kenya between 2001 and 2002. Two methods have been used to analyze the receiver functions, the H-κ method, and direct stacks of the waveforms, yielding consistent results. Crustal thickness to the east of the Kenya rift varies between 39 and 42 km, and Poisson's ratios for the crust vary between 0.24 and 0.27. To the west of the Kenya rift, Moho depths vary between 37 and 38 km, and Poisson's ratios vary between 0.24 and 0.27. These findings support previous studies showing that crust away from the Kenya rift has not been modified extensively by Cenozoic rifting and magmatism. Beneath the Ethiopian Plateau on either side of the Main Ethiopian Rift, crustal thickness ranges from 33 to 44 km, and Poisson's ratios vary from 0.23 to 0.28. Within the Main Ethiopian Rift, Moho depths vary from 27 to 38 km, and Poisson's ratios range from 0.27 to 0.35. A crustal thickness of 25 km and a Poisson's ratio of 0.36 were obtained for a single station in the Afar Depression. These results indicate that the crust beneath the Ethiopian Plateau has not been modified significantly by the Cenozoic rifting and magmatism, even though up to a few kilometers of flood basalts have been added, and that the crust beneath the rifted regions in Ethiopia has been thinned in many places and extensively modified by the addition of mafic rock. The latter finding is consistent with models for rift evolution, suggesting that magmatic segments with the Main Ethiopian Rift, characterized by dike intrusion and Quaternary volcanism, act now as the locus of extension rather than the rift border faults.

Information processing theories of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) state that intrusive images emerge due to a lack of integration of perceptual trauma representations in autobiographical memory. To test this hypothesis experimentally, participants were shown an aversive film to elicit intrusive images. After viewing, they received a recognition test for just one part of the film. The test contained neutrally formulated items to rehearse information from the film. Participants reported intrusive images for the film in an intrusion diary during one week after viewing. In line with expectations, the number of intrusive images decreased only for the part of the film for which the recognition test was given. Furthermore, deliberate cued-recall memory after one week was selectively enhanced for the film part that was in the recognition test a week before. The findings provide new evidence supporting information processing models of PTSD and have potential implications for early interventions after trauma.

Petrographic studies and mineral chemical analyses support the hypothesis that garnet lherzolites and websterites from Oahu, Hawaii were produced by mechanical disintegration (stoping), chemical alteration (metasomatism) and mechanical mixing of spinel lherzolite wall rock (i.e., lithosphere) with intrusive clinopyroxenite veins. This conclusion is inconsistent with two prevalent hypotheses concerning the origin of these rocks, one of which proposes that the garnet lherzolites represent the upper mantle source for Hawaiian tholeiitic magmas, and the other that invokes origin of these xenolith lithologies by high-pressure crystallization of Hawaiian alkalic magmas. Although the undepleted mantle source of Hawaiian tholeiitic magmas may be chemically similar to some of the garnet lherzolite xenoliths, it is physically impossible for these xenoliths to represent actual source rocks.

bThe Kulgera Dyke Swarm consists of olivine tholeiites which have intruded late Proterozoic transitional-granulite gneisses and granites of the eastern Musgrave Block, in central Australia. Preliminary Rb/Sr results suggest that the dolerites were emplaced at 1054 ± 14 Ma. In addition, a Rb/Sr age of 1060 ± 10 Ma on a biotite from a pegmatite indicates thermal resetting of the country rock minerals during dyke emplacement. Palaeomagnetic investigations of the dykes yield a primary thermoremanent magnetization direction corresponding to a palaeomagnetic pole at 17d̀S, 266d̀E (A95= 12d̀). In addition to this primary magnetization, an overprint component was present in many of the samples, providing a palaeomagnetic pole at 30d̀S, 138d̀E (A95= 24d̀), which is similar to previous results from other central Australian rocks affected by the Alice Springs Orogeny. The results extend the area of influence of the Carboniferous Alice Springs Orogeny southward into the Musgrave Block. Further, the results provide no evidence for an earlier, Late Proterozoic, Petermann Orogeny affecting the Musgrave Block in the Kulgera region. However, the possibility that a Petermann Orogeny thermal overprint has been erased by the Alice Springs Orogeny cannot be dismissed.