Efficient Nickel and Cobalt Recovery by Metal-Organic Framework-Based Mixed Matrix Membranes (MMM-MOFs).

Green energy transition has supposed to give a huge boost to the electric vehicle rechargeable battery market. This has generated a compelling demand for raw materials, such as cobalt and nickel, which are key common constituents in lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). However, their existing mining protocols and the concentrated localization of such ores have made cobalt and nickel mineral conundrums, and their supplies experience shortages, which threaten to slow the progress of the renewable energy transition.

Shape Memory Alloy-Polymer Composites: Static and Fatigue Pullout Strength under Thermo-Mechanical Loading.

This work was carried out within the context of an R&D project on morphable polymer matrix composites (PMC), actuated by shape memory alloys (SMA), to be used for active aerodynamic systems in automotives. Critical issues for SMA-polymer integration are analyzed that are mostly related to the limited strength of metal-polymer interfaces. To this aim, materials with suitable thermo-mechanical properties were first selected to avoid premature activation of SMA elements during polymer setting as well as to avoid polymer damage during thermal activation of SMAs.

High-Resolution 3D Fabrication of Glass Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Nanocomposite (FRPN) Objects by Two-Photon Direct Laser Writing.

This paper reports on the nanofabrication of a fiber-reinforced polymer nanocomposite (FRPN) by two-photon direct laser writing (TP-DLW) using silica nanowires (SiO NWs) as nanofillers, since they feature a refractive index very close to that of the photoresist used as a polymeric matrix. This allows for the best resolution offered by the TP-DLW technique, even with high loads of SiO NWs, up to 70 wt %. The FRPN presented an increase of approximately 4 times in Young's modulus (8.

Personality types and hetero- versus auto-hypnosis.

The Multivariate Personality Inventory (MPI; Magaro & Smith, 1981), the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility (HGSHS; Shor & Orne, 1962), and the Inventory of Self-Hypnosis (ISH; Shor, 1970) were used to investigate the relationship between personality style and hypnotic procedure in the determination of hypnotic susceptibility. On the basis of MPI scores, a normal college population was segregated into 5 personality styles: hysteric, manic, depressive, character disorder, and compulsive. The hysteric personality was found significantly more hypnotizable than the other personality types in the HGSHS induction context, whereas the compulsive personality was found significantly more hypnotizable in the ISH induction context.

The effect of analytic versus holistic encoding instructions on hemispheric superiority.

A modification of the tachistoscopic letter detection task employed by Neisser (1963) was utilized to examine hemispheric differences in employing analytic and holistic processing strategies. Stimulus arrays designed to elicit either serial or parallel processing sets were presented to the right hemisphere-left visual field (RH-LVF) or to the left hemisphere-right visual field (LH-RVF). Subjects were explicitly directed to perform an analytic or holistic encoding process on both types of stimulus arrays.

Developmental functions in a chronic psychiatric population: diagnosis.

The research in psychopathology has revealed little interest in distinguishing between types of chronic mental patients. Chronics have usually been treated as a homogeneous group, and other possible subtypes have remained undefined because of the "melting-pot" effects of extensive hospitalization. Recently, there has been a renewed interest in the chronic patient, as well as in a differentiation of the largest group of such patients, the chronic schizophrenic.

Hemispheric preference of paranoid and nonparanoid schizophrenics.

Recent evidence indicates that paranoid and nonparanoid schizophrenics exhibit differential hemispheric deficits in specific types of processing tasks which may reflect a preference of one hemisphere over another. To test this hypothesis, face and letter-recognition tasks were tachistoscopically presented, both bilaterally and unilaterally, to paranoid and nonparanoid schizophrenics, nonschizophrenic psychiatric controls, and normal controls. In the unilateral presentation of letters, all groups exhibited right visual field superiority, producing no group differences.

Personality style differences in visual search performance.

The present study continues the examination of the personality styles in normal populations that have been described in the clinical literature. Earlier work has focused on behavioral, attitudinal, and cognitive components of the personality styles. The present study extends our exploration of the cognitive domain by examining the performance of different personality groups on a visual scanning task.

Clinical types in a normal population: concurrent and construct validity.

Examined the relationship between personality and psychopathology through the use of the Multivariate Personality Inventory (MPI) (N = 100). The concurrent validity study compared the factors of the MPI with those of the Lazare-Klerman Personality Inventory, which was developed for a pathological population. Factor analysis of these two inventories yielded three factors that correspond to the three predicted personality styles: Hysteric, Compulsive, and Character Disorder.

Brain disconnection, schizophrenia, and paranoia.

A lateral deficit explanation of schizophrenic cognition maintains that a left hemisphere deficit is characteristic of nonparanoid schizophrenia whereas right hemispheric deficits may be common in paranoid schizophrenia. An alternate explanation postulates an interhemispheric deficit in schizophrenic functioning. A major piece of evidence for this position is Beaumont and Dimond's oft-cited experiment matching pairs of stimuli presented to left, right, and both hemispheres (Beaumont, J.

Information processing and lateralization in schizophrenia.

This experiment investigated two current approaches in the study of schizophrenic thought, information processing and hemispheric specialization. Ten paranoid and ten nonparanoid schizophrenics, ten nonschizophrenic psychiatric controls, and ten normal controls were presented three tasks tachistoscopically. The tasks, letter-naming and dot enumeration of unstructured and structured arrays, were designed to elicit left and right hemisphere functioning through automatic and controlled information-processing strategies.

Icon thresholds in paranoid and non-paranoid schizophrenics.

Recent work in information processing points to two processes being active when a stimulus produces a short-term memory trace, the icon. Previous work in schizophrenia seems to have blurred this important distinction and as a result the processing of the icon has been confused with the strength of icon. The present paper reviews current work with this distinction in mind and presents data on the icon strength of acute paranoid and non-paranoid schizophrenics, chronic schizophrenics, and two control groups as determined by the method of stimulus exposure time.

Personality styles, manifest needs, and the perception of time in college women.

Reports the continued development of a multivariate theory of personality styles and a scale, the Multivariate Personality Inventory, designed to measure these styles in both pathological and normal populations. In a sample of college women, theory-generated predictions of the manifest needs of each personality style were examined with the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule. Results supported the validity of the Multivariate Personality Inventory in regard to the need profile of each personality style group.

Personality styles and psychopathy.

Administered the Multivariate Personality Inventory (MPI) and established measures of psychopathy to students (N = 71) to determine the relationship between the Character Disorder Style subscale of the MPI and psychopathy. Results clearly showed the independence of the Character Disorder Style subscale and psychopathy. Additionally, the Manic Style subscale was shown to be independent from both psychopathy and the Character Disorder Style subscale.

The personality of clinical types: an empirically derived taxonomy.

Studied the development of a theory of multivariate personality styles that are considered to correspond to the character of specific diagnostic types. Theoretical descriptions of the personality styles of the hysteric, compulsive, character disorder, manic, and depressive were operationalized by predicting specific combinations of personality dimensions measured by previously validated personality measures. A test battery composed of scales hypothesized to operationalize these characteristics was administered to samples of male and female college students (N = 95).

The paranoid and the schizophrenic: the case for distinct cognitive style.

The paranoid has traditionally been considered schizophrenic except for some rare cases which exhibit delusions but none of the other signs such as cognitive disorganization. We attempt to show that considering the paranoid as independent of schizophrenia and exhibiting varying degrees of pathology is more consistent with current research. Furthermore, we believe that there is enough description of the underlying cognitive process unique to the paranoid and distinct from the schizophrenic to warrant a separate inclusive category, and possibly the consideration of a particular personality, at least in terms of cognitive processes.

A developmental treatment program for the chronic patient.

The need exists for a prescriptive treatment program for chronic mental patients within the state hospital. The community mental health center has not met the needs of the chronic patient, and the state hospital has developed neither the diagnostic nor treatment system to qualify as a viable aspect of the overall mental health delivery system. This article presents a diagnostic system based upon developmental stages which considers the whole person and allows prescriptive treatment for the chronic patient.