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I McGregor

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PubMed2001

Compensatory conviction in the face of personal uncertainty: going to extremes and being oneself.

Study 1 participants' self-integrity (C. M. Steele. 1988) was threatened by deliberative mind-set (S. E. Taylor & P. M. Gollwitzer, 1995) induced uncertainty. They masked the uncertainty with more extreme conviction about social issues. An integrity-repair exercise after the threat, however, eliminated uncertainty and the conviction response. In Study 2, the same threat caused clarified values and more self-consistent personal goals. Two other uncertainty-related threats, mortality salience and temporal discontinuity, caused similar responses: more extreme intergroup bias in Study 3, and more self-consistent personal goals and identifications in Study 4. Going to extremes and being oneself are seen as 2 modes of compensatory conviction used to defend against personal uncertainty. Relevance to cognitive dissonance and authoritarianism theories is discussed, and a new perspective on terror managenment theory (J. Greenberg, S. Solomom, & T. Pyszczynski, 1997) is proposed.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1998

Personal projects, happiness, and meaning: on doing well and being yourself.

Personal Projects Analysis (B. R. Little, 1983) was adapted to examine relations between participants' appraisals of their goal characteristics and orthogonal happiness and meaning factors that emerged from factor analyses of diverse well-being measures. In two studies with 146 and 179 university students, goal efficacy was associated with happiness and goal integrity was associated with meaning. A new technique for classifying participants according to emergent identity themes is introduced. In both studies, identity-compensatory predictors of happiness were apparent. Agentic participants were happiest if their goals were supported by others, communal participants were happiest if their goals were fun, and hedonistic participants were happiest if their goals were being accomplished. The distinction between happiness and meaning is emphasized, and the tension between efficacy and integrity is discussed. Developmental implications are discussed with reference to results from archival data from a sample of senior managers.

Achievement↗
PubMed1989

Glucosinolate uptake by developing rapeseed embryos.

Embryos excised from the seed of rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) accumulated glucosinolate from the culture medium. Uptake was saturable, subject to inhibition, varied with the developmental stage of the embryo but correlated with the time of accumulation of glucosinolates in situ. It is suggested that a carrier-mediated transport system is operating in the developing embryo.

Journal Article↗
PubMed1986

Assessment of collagen film for use in urinary tract surgery.

This investigation assessed a biodegradable collagen membrane which can be sutured around the ureter to prevent urine leakage, thus permitting healing to proceed more rapidly while the membrane itself is resorbed. Following an early in vitro investigation in which collagen was assessed, a more comprehensive survey has now been carried out. Tissue compatibility and biodegradation were assessed by implanting the film into the lumbar muscles of rats; it was then used to cover experimental ureterotomies in New Zealand White rabbits. The data obtained from the rabbits confirmed that a collagen membrane can prevent leakage of urine from the ureter during healing while it itself is biodegraded, indicating that a collagen membrane could be used to repair the injured urinary tract.

Animals↗
PubMed1984

Streptococcal infection in a regional burns centre and a plastic surgery unit.

An outbreak of infection due to group A streptococci of M-type 49 involved first a regional burns centre followed by spread to the intensive care ward of the plastic surgery unit in an associated hospital. Eleven patients and two staff were involved: two of the infected patients developed septicaemia. Serological tests demonstrated marked antibody response to DNAase B(ADB) and there were lesser reactions to other extracellular streptococcal products. Screening of patients and staff identified the likely source of the epidemic which was rapidly controlled by penicillin prophylaxis and other measures.

Adult↗
PubMed1983

Molecular relationships between pseudomonas INC P-9 degradative plasmids TOL, NAH, and SAL.

We have examined the extent to which the degradative plasmids SAL, NAH, and TOL of the Inc P-9 incompatibility group share common DNA sequences. The homology we observe using 32P-labeled SAL and NAH DNA probes can be assigned to six regions of the TOL (pWWO) restriction endonuclease cleavage map. At least three of these regions are probably related to transfer and replication functions, whereas a fourth region is related to the common metacleavage pathway. Restriction endonuclease maps of the SAL and NAH plasmids are derived and the relationships between these plasmids discussed.

Base Sequence↗
PubMedDate not supplied

Omentopexy for reconstruction of the perineum following a radical vulvectomy: a case report.

Colorectal surgeons have used omentum based on the left gastric epiploic vessels after any major operation in the pelvis(1). Omental flaps reach very well into the pelvis by the retrocolic route and have been used in the past for better and quicker healing of perineal defects following abdominoperineal resections(2,3). Omentum has excellent healing properties, which can be, used even as free flaps(4).

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