Meaning Matters: A Person-Centered Investigation of Meaning in Life, Future Time Perspective, and Well-Being in Young Adults.

Within the framework of positive psychology, this study aims to investigate whether meaning in life, optimism and future orientation have acted together as a psychological resource in coping with a non-normative challenge such as the Covid-19 pandemic. 389 respondents participated in this study. Future time perspective, presence/search for meaning in life, life orientation and dimensions of well-being (anxiety, depression, stress and aggressive behavior) were assessed.

Exploring the adolescents' career development and career-related teacher support: the NEFELE career guidance model.

Introduction: In today's dynamic landscape, navigating career paths in the midst of economic, societal, and technological changes has become increasingly challenging. The developmental psychology studies (see the career construction theory framework) and European educational standards consistently support the crucial role of teachers in supporting students' career choices. However, teachers do not seem to be trained for this role, and the NEFELE project aims to fill this gap.

Long-Range Supramolecular Assembly of a Pyrene-Derivatized Polythiophene/MWCNT Hybrid for Resilient Flexible Electrochromic Displays.

Organic electrochromic polymers hold great potential for integration into low-power flexible electrochromic displays (F-ECDs) due to their wide range of colors and simple processing. However, challenges such as inefficient charge transfer and degradation upon device integration hinder their practical applications. Herein, we report an innovative, general approach that utilizes template-induced supramolecular nanostructuring to engineer established electrochromic polymers, enhancing their performance and durability.

Exploring the Role of Sustainable Development Goals in Enhancing Courage, Proactive Career Behaviors, and Life Satisfaction.

Understanding the current challenges addressed in the goals of the 2030 United Nations Agenda can influence career choices, encouraging individuals to pursue careers that contribute positively to addressing them. This study examines the association between the propensity to consider the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in relation to future educational and career paths, courage, proactive career behaviors and life satisfaction, and the mediating role of courage and proactive career behaviors on the association between the propensity to consider the SDGs in relation to future educational and career paths and life satisfaction. The study sample consisted of 314 Italian university students.

Correspondence on "Visible-Light-Switchable Chalcone-Flavylium Photochromic Systems in Aqueous Media".

In a recent Communication in this journal, Bandyopadhyay and co-workers proposed a rational design of chalcone photoswitches that are claimed to convert into the respective flavylium cations upon irradiation with blue, green, and red light in aqueous media. Here we argue that the reported improvements on the optical/photochemical properties of the new chalcone photoswitches are not substantiated and that the proposed design and data interpretation rely on assumptions that have yet to be validated. We also identify a series of control experiments that can be performed to verify the hypotheses and better support the conclusions presented by the authors.

Italian university students' future time perspective and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Introduction: During the COVID-19 pandemic, young adults worldwide showed signs of distress as they were affected in their specific developmental tasks, including the construction of personal and professional futures.

Methods: The present study aimed to assess the situational future time perspective of Italian university students during the second pandemic wave, as measured by an constructed instrument, to explore its interaction with some dispositional traits relevant in future construction, such as optimism, sense of life, aggression, and dispositional future time perspective, and to test their effect on psychological well-being. The total sample consisted of 389 subjects (18-35 years,  = 23.

Synthesis and Photovoltaic Performance of β-Amino-Substituted Porphyrin Derivatives.

New β-amino-substituted porphyrin derivatives bearing carboxy groups were synthesized and their performance as sensitizers in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) was evaluated. The new compounds were obtained in good yields (63-74%) through nucleophilic aromatic substitution reactions with 3-sulfanyl- and 4-sulfanylbenzoic acids. Although the electrochemical studies indicated suitable HOMO and LUMO energy levels for use in DSSC, the devices fabricated with these compounds revealed a low power conversion efficiency (PCE) that is primarily due to the low open-circuit voltage (V) and short-circuit current density (J) values.

Profiles of Career Indecision: A Person-Centered Approach with Italian Late Adolescents.

Choosing career paths in today's contemporary labor market complexity is becoming more and more challenging for adolescents and young people. Career indecision could take over, and assessing its facets could guide career interventions to support the career decision-making process. To create increasingly tailored career guidance interventions, using a person-centered approach, this study aimed to understand whether profiles of late adolescents based on their career decision-making difficulties might be circumscribed.

Comparing the Chemistry of Malvidin-3--glucoside and Malvidin-3,5--diglucoside Networks: A Holistic Approach to the Acidic and Basic Paradigms with Implications in Biological Studies.

The kinetics, thermodynamics, and degradation of malvidin mono- and diglucosides were studied following a holistic approach by extending to the basic medium. In acidic conditions, the reversible kinetics of the flavylium cation toward the equilibrium is controlled by the hydration and - isomerization steps, while in the basic medium, the OH nucleophilic addition to the anionic quinoidal bases is the slowest step. There is a pH range (transition pHs), between the acidic and basic paradigms, that includes physiological pH (7.

Alexithymia and Loneliness in Women with Endometriosis. Testing the Factorial Structure of the Italian Endometriosis Health Profile (EHP-30) and a Mediation Model.

Objective: Endometriosis is a pathological condition characterized by endometrial-like tissue outside the uterus, chronic inflammatory reaction, and pelvic pain that dramatically decrease women's health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Furthermore, this invisible and difficultly diagnosable disease might lead women to experience alexithymia, loneliness, and consequent impairment of perceived quality of life. Firstly, the present study aimed at validating the Italian EHP-30 version which is the most used specific questionnaire for HRQoL measurement.

Variance analysis of dynamic light scattering data.

We propose a novel method alternative to the classical Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS) technique for performing particle sizing on diluted dispersions of nanosized particles. Differently from DLS, which works by determining the correlation function of the intensity scattered by the sample, our method does not require the use of a correlator because it exploits the behavior of the variance (VAR) of the scattered signal as a function of the sampling time Δt. By using a wide range of sampling times Δtmin ≪ τc ≪ Δtmax, it is possible to recover the correlation time τc of the scattered field and, in turn (by using the Stokes-Einstein relation), the hydrodynamic diameter of the particles.

Identifying Medications Underlying Communication Atypicalities in Psychotic and Affective Disorders: A Pharmacovigilance Study Within the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System.

Purpose: Communication atypicalities are considered promising markers of a broad range of clinical conditions. However, little is known about the mechanisms and confounders underlying them. Medications might have a crucial, relatively unknown role both as potential confounders and offering an insight on the mechanisms at work.

Development of communicative-pragmatic abilities in children with early cochlear implants.

Cochlear Implants (CIs) enhance linguistic skills in deaf or hard of hearing children (D/HH). However, the benefits of CIs have not been sufficiently studied, especially with regard to communicative-pragmatics, i.e.

Naphthalimide-Dyes Bearing Phosphine and Phosphorylamide Moieties: Synthesis and Optical Properties.

1,8-Naphthalimides (NIs) represent a class of organic dyes with interesting optical properties that has been extensively explored in the last decades in lighting devices, chemosensors, optical probes or medicinal chemistry. However, despite their remarkable potential, reports on organometallic dyes bearing NIs are scarce and virtually inexistent regarding palladium(II) complexes. Herein, we report the synthesis of NIs bearing phosphine and amine chelating moieties and the characterization of their optical properties both as single molecules and when complexed on Pd(II) ions.

Linguistic markers of psychosis in Mandarin Chinese: Relations to theory of mind.

Disorganized and impoverished language is a key feature of schizophrenia (Sz), but whether and which linguistic changes previously observed in Indo-European languages generalize to other languages remains unclear. Targeting Mandarin Chinese, we aimed to profile aspects of grammatical complexity that we hypothesized would be reduced in schizophrenia in a task of verbalizing social events. 51 individuals with Sz and 39 controls participated in the animated triangles task, a standardized measure of theory of mind (ToM), in which participants describe triangles moving in either a random or an 'intentional' condition.

Career Calling, Courage, Flourishing and Satisfaction with Life in Italian University Students.

Career calling is defined as a positive resource promoting vocational development and well-being. The present study focuses on the relationships between career calling, courage and two indicators of well-being, i.e.

Voice Patterns as Markers of Schizophrenia: Building a Cumulative Generalizable Approach Via a Cross-Linguistic and Meta-analysis Based Investigation.

Background And Hypothesis: Voice atypicalities are potential markers of clinical features of schizophrenia (eg, negative symptoms). A recent meta-analysis identified an acoustic profile associated with schizophrenia (reduced pitch variability and increased pauses), but also highlighted shortcomings in the field: small sample sizes, little attention to the heterogeneity of the disorder, and to generalizing findings to diverse samples and languages.

Study Design: We provide a critical cumulative approach to vocal atypicalities in schizophrenia, where we conceptually and statistically build on previous studies.

Natural Language Processing Markers for Psychosis and Other Psychiatric Disorders: Emerging Themes and Research Agenda From a Cross-Linguistic Workshop.

This workshop summary on natural language processing (NLP) markers for psychosis and other psychiatric disorders presents some of the clinical and research issues that NLP markers might address and some of the activities needed to move in that direction. We propose that the optimal development of NLP markers would occur in the context of research efforts to map out the underlying mechanisms of psychosis and other disorders. In this workshop, we identified some of the challenges to be addressed in developing and implementing NLP markers-based Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSSs) in psychiatric practice, especially with respect to psychosis.

Phototransduction in a supramolecular cascade: a mimic for essential features of the vision process.

The tailored design of a light-triggered supramolecular cascade results in an artificial machinery that assimilates the transduction of photons into chemical communication and the final release of a neurotransmitter. This is reminiscent of key steps in the natural vision process.

Macroinvertebrate assemblages from a stream-wetland complex: a case study with implications for assessing restored hydrologic functions.

Legacies of past land use persist today in the form of incised, single-threaded stream channels with dramatically different hydrologic functions of pre-colonial stream valleys. Restoration practices that aim to return lost hydrologic functions by re-establishing floodplain and groundwater connections should result in stream habitat and biological assemblages that differ from modern, single-threaded channels. The aim of this case study was to identify attributes of macroinvertebrate assemblages that might serve as biological indicators of improved hydrologic functions following the restoration of a stream-wetland complex, similar to a Stage 0 restoration, of a headwater valley in the Western Allegheny region of the USA.