15 women with functional secondary amenorrhoea and 15 controls (matched closely in age and educational status) were compared as to their knowledge of menstruation, their attitude towards those parts of the body likely to be associated with sexuality, and the amount of life events over the 6-month period preceding the onset of amenorrhoea, or an analogue time-span for control subjects. Comparison of means confirmed the research hypotheses: Knowledge of menstruation proved to be significantly lower and attitude towards sexuality-related body parts was significantly more negative in women with amenorrhoea than in control women (p < 0.01 each). Also, in agreement with our expectations, subjects with amenorrhoea showed more problems in their partner-related sexuality than control subjects did (p < 0.05), and had experienced more negative life events before the onset of amenorrhoea than the healthy group had over an analogue period of time (p < 0.05).
Beginning in 2018, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory restarted exposure campaigns on new and archived samples as part of a multiyear project, some with outdoor exposure for more than a decade. By resuming exposure and collecting and analyzing data on thousands of samples going back decades, several goals can be advanced that can be difficult to determine within the timeline of most projects: 1) correlating an accelerated exposure campaign to outdoor aging, specifically with xenon arc lamp exposure chambers; 2) drawing conclusions between specific corrosion mechanisms and weather patterns; and 3) finding novel relationships between mirror composition and performance.
In addition to building and mining a database, we will experiment with new characterization techniques, primarily focused on macroscopic and microscopic imaging. In introducing these techniques more broadly, it may be possible to reveal a more direct line between optical performance and exposure campaigns by better understanding the degradation mechanisms occurring.
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