The case notes of 280 patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder were examined retrospectively; 16 of the 151 females had a past history of anorexia nervosa. Not one male obsessive-compulsive had such a history, nor did any of 100 agoraphobics (83% female) studied as a contrasting anxiety disorder. Compared to nonanorexic cases of obsessive-compulsive disorder, the anorexics' were younger, their obsessive-compulsive problems began earlier, and they were more often single. No significant phenomenological differences were detected compared to nonanorexic obsessive-compulsive women. In conclusion, a history of anorexia is frequent among women (but not men) with obsessive-compulsive disorder but not agoraphobia.


A generalized canonical formulation of the theory of the electromagnetic Fokker interaction for a system of two particles is proposed. The functional integral on the generalized phase space is defined as the initial one in quantum theory. After integration over the momenta, the measure of integration in the generalized configuration space of world particle lines is determined. The problem of dynamic interpretation of the Feynman propagator for a system of particles with independent proper time parameters is discussed. A modification of the propagator is proposed, in which the role of independent time parameters is taken by the time coordinates of the particles in Minkowski space.


This paper begins by presenting a model of competences for the telecollaborative teacher, which has been developed and verified by this author (2013) using the Delphi technique. The paper then presents UNICollaboration (www.unicollaboration.eu), an online platform, which has been developed reflecting these competences and a sociocultural approach to teacher education. Following that, the findings of four qualitative case studies of novice telecollaborators are used to inform the design of tools and training courses for educators in this complex activity of online foreign language education.


The immune response to streptococcus in 40 patients with acute guttate psoriasis (AGP) and 10 patients with chronic plaque psoriasis (CPP) has been studied using immunoblotting technique (IBT). The immune responses to staphylococcus and Candida albicans in patients with AGP were also studied using this technique. Patients with AGP had a significantly higher (P 0.05). No statistical differences in the anti.staphylococcal and anti-Candida albicans antibody score were observed between AGP and control group (P>0.05). The immune reponse to streptococcus in patients with AGP using intradermal test of inactivated streptococci was also studied, 26 of 40 patients presented positive results. Our results prove that streptococcal infections are closely correlated with the onset of acute guttate psoriasis.

Key words:
Psoriasis; Streptococcal infections; Immunoblotting


A questionnaire concerning the number of symptoms experienced during one week was administered to 100 neurotic patients and 100 normal subjects, first in England and then in New Mexico. The rank order of frequency of symptoms was similar on both sides of the Atlantic, but neurotics and normals had different rank orders. Both groups reported a high prevalence of symptoms, with neurotics reporting a significantly greater number of almost all symptoms.


Genetics is one of the scientific topical aspects in the current society, but it hasbeen shown that it is one of the most difficult contents to learn and to teach in the formaleducation. The main aim of this paper is to find out whether the genetic concepts conveyedby films could generate or encourage students' misconceptions in this area. To that end,three sources of conceptions were compared: students' previous ideas, concepts presented byteachers and concepts conveyed by films. The study reveals that the concepts conveyed byfilms can reinforce students' misconceptions and become learning barriers.


Fishbone well is of advantage for increasing the contact area of wellbore and reservoir and effectively improving development effect of low permeability fractured reservoirs.But affected by the well-type structure,the well pattern,etc.,its water drive characteristic is complex and presents many problems,for instance,the water breakthrough time is difficult to determine and the water cut rises quickly.Based on numerical simulation technique,this paper presents the water drive development effect of low permeability fractured reservoir with vertical injector plus fishbone producer well pattern,including drawing water flood streamline distribution and water cut changing chart,and summarizes the regularity of the water cut rising by using such a pattern,being of a certain significance to actual reservoir development.


How to evaluate students' learning results is important to their development.In order to achieve the teaching aim of cultivating comprehensive-quality students,we need to construct a learning evaluation model suitable for the very aim.The present thesis analyses the construction rules and constructs a learning evaluation model for the selective physique class under the guidance of the teaching aim of cultivating comprehensive quality.


The objective of the present study was to design, validate and obtain the reliability of the Maternal Self-efficacy Scale for the Prevention of Overweight. From an exploratory research where the role of mothers in childhood obesity was studied, 25 items were written, after an assessment by a panel of judges. The validation was carried out twice with different samples. The first one were 400 mothers (Mage = 33.1, SD = 6.8) of children aged 3-6 years (M = 5.0, SD = 0.6) and 18 items were obtained, divided into four factors: Food, Programming, Solutions, and Prohibition, with a Cronbach's alpha (α) between .62 .88 and omega (ω) coefficients of .76 .94. The second validation was with 369 participants, 97% were mothers (Medad = 32.4, DS = 7.9) of children aged 3-6 years (M = 5.0, DS = 0.6) and 3% were grandmothers. The scale was one-dimensional composed by 11 items, with α = .90, ω = .92, and explaining 52% of the variance that evaluates the perceived self-efficacy in the prevention of body weight excess. The proposed scale showed to be suitable and, therefore, its use will promote a greater understanding of childhood obesity.


In the field of traffic-light signal identification, most technologies are based on image recognition, which have high requirements for image quality. Such technologies will be invalid when encountering the Line-of-Sight interference or bad weather problems. Based on road vehicle cooperative technology, a traffic-light signal recognition algorithm is proposed, which can identify the corresponding traffic-light information through the multiple traffic-lights at the intersection. In the algorithm, the auxiliary point is used to improve the fault tolerance of positioning drift. The traffic-light signal recognition system is designed and implemented based on the algorithm. The system is tested in our campus, and results show that the recognition time is less than 2 seconds, which is consistent with the sliding window configuration and can guarantee the security because the maximum speed of urban road vehicles is less than 70km/h.


Dyes D35 and XY1 for solar cells have been investigated theoretically with the quantum chemistry method and visualized 3D cube representation. Some important information (such as absorption spectra, molecular orbitals, reorganization energy, chemical reactivity, driving force of electron injection, light-harvesting efficiency, as well as the dipole moment, etc.) has been studied to explain the efficiency of dyes, and the visualized intramolecular and intermolecular charge transfer process and fast dynamic process of the interface electron transfer have been studied to estimate the strength of electron transfer in cosensitization. Calculated results indicated that the improved absorption spectra range, fast electron injection, and the larger dipole moment significantly promote the cosensitized solar cell efficiency in comparison with isolated Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs).


The global function on finite systems is a new concept defined by Gurevich in [1] and discussed in [2] and [3]. In the last ten years this concept has become more and more useful in computer science and logic. Gurevich also pointed out the importance of global functionals on finite systems. In this paper we will give a brief introduction to the concepts of global functions and global functionals on finite systems. In studying the natural number system N = 〈N, +,0〉 we often refer to its functions and functionals. There are a lot of books and papers in this area. Kleene in [4] gave a detailed introduction to the recursive functions of N. The functionals of N are normally very difficult to compute because here we need to tell the machine what the input function is, which is not very easy to do. In developing the theory of finite systems the functions and functionals are also very useful. For computing the functionals in finite systems we can take the entire graph of a function as the input, which is not possible in N. We will discuss recursive functions and functionals for finite systems. The definitions of recursive functions are very similar to the case in N, but we will have a very different situation. In N the number of elements is infinite. The number of all possible functions from N to N is the continuum. In a finite system the number of all possible functions is finite. It seems that there is no necessity to define the global functions.


Considering the growth and the potential gravity of the phenomenon of discrimination, on one hand, and its presence in the sphere of public social services, on the other hand, this paper is focused on the analysis of the discrimination perceived in the scholar field. The target group was represented by the college students from Timisoarathat had to answer to the following open question: "Please illustrate by an example the main form of discrimination that you know" We investigated a group of 347 participants coming from theoretical colleges, aged between 14/15 and 18/19 years old, both sexes. The centralization of the registered answers have generated the following categories: physical appearance, teachers' preferential treatment, marks, responsibility-consciousness, interpersonal relationships in group, social status, management roles, sport activities, ethnic discrimination, traffic discrimination, professional integration, which constitute an illustrative picture of the modalities of generating and maintenance of gender inequalities


Species profiles are literature summaries of the taxonomy, morphology, range, life history, and environmental requirements of coastal aquatic species. They are prepared to assist in environmental impact assessment. The sandworm (Nereis virens) is a commercially valuable baitworm, reaching lengths of 30 cm. Most worms live 4 or 5 years. Males swarm in the water column before spawning in the females' burrows. Both males and females die after spawning. A planktonic larval phase is either brief or lacking. Sandworms are omnivorous. They can significantly reduce the abundance of smaller infaunal organisms. Predators on sandworms include bloodworms and gulls. Physiological tolerances are broad although most worms are found in fine sand with water of high salinity. Sandworms have been the subject of much toxicological research and readily adapt to laboratory conditions. The bloodworm (Glycera dibranchiata), attaining lengths of 40 cm, is also an important baitworm. Its maximum life span is 5 years. Spawning occurs in the water column with both males and females dying after spawning. Bloodworms are primarily predators, preying on certain species of polychaetes and crustaceans, although they are capable of digesting detritus. Bloodworms appear to have few predators. Bloodworms possess at least two types of hemoglobin, permitting them tomore » tolerate a wide range of oxygen tensions. 177 refs., 4 figs.« less


This study presents a theoretical method that can quickly and accurately identify the locations and strengths of multiple constant contaminant sources indoors by using a single or a limited number of ideal sensors. The method was numerically demonstrated and validated by case studies of sixteen scenarios of contaminant releases in a three-dimensional office. The effects of the number and positions of sensors used, total sampling time, and sampling intervals on the performance of identification were thoroughly studied. This study can help to develop methods for identifying multiple sources by using real sensors as well as optimizing the layout of sensors.


and in a host of United Nations documents on human rights, professional education, and ecological concerns that impact daily life. Arguing that human rights need to be put front and centre to occupational therapy education, we approached WFOT for funding to support an IAG working party to rework the Minimum standards. What eventuated is a vision for educational reform to support the radical paradigm shift required to truly engage in occupation-based, client-centred practice. In addition to producing occupational therapists imbued in occupation and its relationship to health, which is the focus of the current standards, we envisioned practitioners skilled in recognizing and responding to occupational injustices in every practice context. To achieve that, we proposed a new standard: that all educational programmes state their commitment to contribute to societal change. That is, students, educators, and practitioners would be very clear about what occupational therapists bring to the task of making their society more inclusive by addressing the needs of its most vulnerable members. One aspect of achieving that goal will be making the environmental component of all major occupational therapy models more explicit, in order to attract funding from outside the health services. Depending on the context, a commitment to improving the lives of vulnerable people might focus on the profession's tradition of working with people with disabilities to reduce barriers to education, employment, housing, and health services. In other contexts, it might mean redressing the negative impact of colonialism, which is plainly visible in statistics for life expectancy, incidence of preventable disease and injury, poor health outcomes, high rates of poverty, addiction and imprisonment, and low educational achievement of indigenous peoples. In the United Kingdom (UK), it might mean practicing 'social occupational therapy' that makes a point of attending to the occupational injustices associated with growing up in poverty, intergenerational unemployment, homelessness, and human trafficking. Whatever the focus, the intent is that occupational therapists champion their expertise in bringing an occupational perspective to deep-seated societal issues. Communities and governments should have no doubt about the contribution occupational therapists are making to achieving a fair and inclusive society.


Background Stroke is a leading cause of long‐term disability worldwide. However, current therapies that promote functional recovery from stroke are limited to physical rehabilitation. No pharmacological therapy is available. Thus, understanding the role of histone deacetylase 2 (HDAC2) in the pathophysiological process of stroke‐induced functional loss may provide a novel strategy for stroke recovery. Methods and Results Focal stroke was induced by photothrombosis. LV‐HDAC2‐shRNA‐GFP, LV‐GFP, Ad‐HDAC2‐Flag, or Ad‐inactive‐HDAC2‐Flag was microinjected into the peri‐infarct area immediately after stroke. HDAC inhibitors were microinjected into the peri‐infarct area 4 to 10 days after stroke. Grid‐walking task and cylinder task were conducted to assess motor function. Golgi‐Cox staining, chromatin immunoprecipitation, and electrophysiology were used to reveal the mechanisms underlying stroke recovery. Knockdown or knockout of HDAC2 promoted stroke recovery, whereas overexpression of HDAC2 worsened stroke‐induced functional impairment. More importantly, trichostatin A, a pan‐HDAC inhibitor, promoted functional recovery from stroke in WT mice when used in the delayed phase, but it was ineffective in Hdac2 conditional knockout (Hdac2 CKO) mice. Treatment with suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid, a selective HDAC1 and HDAC2 inhibitor, in the delayed phase of stroke produced sustained functional recovery in mice via epigenetically enhancing neuroplasticity of surviving neurons in the peri‐infarct zone. Conclusions Our novel findings provide evidence that HDAC2 is a crucial target for functional recovery from stroke. As there are clinically available HDAC inhibitors, our findings could be directly translated into clinical research of stroke.


Reaction of a seventeen-year old borosilicate glass containing 4 wt% ThO{sub 2} with a bicarbonate-carbonate solution was investigated for times from a few minutes up to approximately one year. For the untreated glass, the initial 228-Th leach rate was enhanced relative to the initial 232-Th leach rate by 15--45%. This incongruent dissolution occurs due to the selective removal of radiogenic 228-Th nuclides from 228-Ra-recoil tracks, damaged regions in the aperiodic glass. Heating the glass at 650 C in air prior to leaching eliminates the 228-Th/232-Th fractionation. Similar enhanced dissolution of alpha-decay products may occur in nuclear waste glasses/groundwater systems; thus, actinide-containing glasses should be examined for alpha-recoil damage effects in order to insure satisfactory prediction of the long-term release of actinides from the nuclear waste glass.


Thank you very much for reading foundations of business telecommunications management. Maybe you have knowledge that, people have search hundreds times for their favorite novels like this foundations of business telecommunications management, but end up in infectious downloads. Rather than reading a good book with a cup of tea in the afternoon, instead they juggled with some infectious bugs inside their computer.


Atomic scale logic gates integrated at a surface of a semi-conductor can be designed based on classical, semi classical or quantum design rules. They are surface interconnected using multiple surface atomic scale dangling bond wires. We are looking for a post-doctoral fellow with a strong background in quantum chemistry to work on the design of atomic Boolean logic gates using our NESQC semi-empirical code able to encompass a large number of atomic scale interconnecting pads and to take into account the atomic scale surface relaxation of the circuit. In parallel with the design activity, the accepted fellow will work on the development of a new time depend code to describe single molecule latching input in the prospect of simulating the real time functioning of a surface atomic scale circuit.


textabstractDuring the last century the attention paid in higher education to the development of
professional skills has progressively increased. In the first half of the last century the
term 'skill' mainly referred to motor or technical actions, for instance driving a car or
operating a machine (Murphy, Murphy & Newcomb, 1937). However, during the
second half of the last century this term also came into vogue for describing social
interactions between humans (Argyle, 1981). Social skills can be defined as "useful
distinctive behavior components for social interaction, which are in the user's repertoire,
a repertoire from which the user can choose" (Lang & Van der Molen, 2004, p.
38). These skills cover a broad scale of interpersonal behavior, for instance criticizing,
speaking in public or guiding a group discussion. Special examples of social skills are
communication skills. These skills are intended to deal adequately with professional
conversations, for instance a doctor interviewing a patient or a psychologist counseling
a client. This dissertation focuses on the training of counseling communication
skills for psychology students.