How Voice Hearers Develop More Positive Relationships with Their Voices and the Role of Encountering Books Aligned with the Hearing Voices Movement

Section A Presented is a systematic literature review exploring how voice hearers have been able to develop more positive relationships with their voices. A thematic synthesis approach was used to synthesis 27 papers including qualitative studies, mixed methods studies, and narrative case reports. Quality assessment was guided by the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme, Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool: Mixed Methods Checklist, and the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool: Qualitative Studies Checklists, respectively. Five interconnected but not sequentially related superordinate themes emerged: ‘coming to see voices as less threatening’; ‘developing new ways of responding to voices’, ‘becoming more accepting and less fearful of voices’; ‘beyond voices’ and ‘facilitators’. The implications for clinical practice and future research are discussed. Section B Presented is a qualitative study exploring the experiences of voice hearers who have read books associated with the Hearing Voices Movement. The study explored how such reading featured voice hearers’ life stories from the perspectives of ten voice hearers, using Narrative Analysis. Results suggested that encountering alternative narratives about voice hearing, including through reading, can act as a turning point where stigmatising dominant cultural narratives of voice hearing are challenged, and more positive identities constructed. Clinical implications and directions for future research are discussed

Contribution à l’étude de la radioactivité gamma du sable des plages de Ramena et d’Orangea, Antsiranana, Madagascar

Les familles de l’Uranium -238, de l’Uranium -235, du Thorium -232 et du Potassium -40 sont d’origines telluriques et contribuent de manière générale aux expositions internes et externes d’un individu. Ce travail a pour objectif de mesurer la radioactivité du sable de deux plages de la baie de Diego-Suarez, à savoir celles de ramena et d’orangea. Différents échantillons ont été collectés pour avoir une représentation fidèle de ces sites. Les analyses par spectrométrie gamma de ces échantillons nous permettent de déterminer les activités des familles de l’Uranium -238, du Thorium -232 et du Potassium -40. Les analyses effectuées avec le détecteur NaI (Tl) de marque ORTEC et de modèle 905-4 série ont donné des résultats fiables. En effet, les activités varient de (66 ± 22) Bq.kg-1 à (180 ± 32) Bq.kg-1 pour la famille de l’Uranium-238, de (54 ± 14) Bq.kg-1 à (95 ± 16) Bq.kg-1 pour celle du Thorium-232 et de (107 ± 22) Bq.kg-1 à (321 ± 49) Bq.kg-1 pour le Potassium -40. Ainsi le radium équivalent varie de (174 ± 26) Bq.kg-1 à (319±37) Bq.kg-1 avec une moyenne de (235 32) Bq.kg-1.Mots-clés: radioactivité, spectrométrie gamma, radium équivalent.Contribution of the Measurements of beach sand radioactivities of Ramena and Orangea in Antsiranana, Madagascar Uranium -238, uranium -235 and Thorium -232 series are from telluric elements and with Potassium -40, they contribute to the internal and external exposure of the public. This work is essentially based on the measurement of beach sand radioactivities of Ramena and Orangea in Antsiranana. Enough samples have been collected in such way to have a good image of the two areas of interest. The samples analyses by gamma spectrometry system using ORTEC NaI(Tl) detector, 905-4 serie, allow us to determine the activities of Uranium -238, Thorium -232 series and the Potasium -40. The results show that the uranium -238, the thorium-232 series and the potassium-40 activities ranges are respectively from (66±22) Bq.kg-1 to (180 ± 32) Bq.kg-1, from (54 ± 14) Bq.kg-1 to (95 ± 16) Bq.kg-1 and from (107 ± 22) Bq.kg-1 to (321 ± 49) Bq.kg-1. Thus, the estimated radium equivalent ranges are between (174 ± 26) Bq.kg-1 to (319 ± 37) Bq.kg-1, with an average for about (235 32) Bq.kg-1.Keywords: radioactivity, gamma spectrometry, radium equivalent

Non-invasive anaerobic threshold measurement using fuzzy model interpolation

The interface between skeletal muscle activation through aerobic and anaerobic glycolysis is of key interest to sportspeople and athletes who participate in medium to long distance sports, such as middle- and long-distance running, cycling, swimming, rowing, kayaking and a variety of other events. To date, the gold standard for measuring anaerobic threshold (AT) is a structured test to exhaustion where blood lactate concentration is measured at regular intervals. However, the need for invasive testing, requiring trained personnel and specialist equipment, limits the availability of such tests. This paper proposes a non-invasive AT measurement method, which validates well against AT measured using lactate analysis. In addition, the proposed test has a relatively loose set of requirements on the exercise test protocol required and just requires a measure of exercise intensity and heart-rate. While the test is applicable to a range of sports, usage is demonstrated in this paper for a set of cyclists, using velocity as a measure of exercise intensity

Two-dimensional imaging of edge-localized modes in KSTAR plasmas unperturbed and perturbed by n=1 external magnetic fields

The temporal evolution of edge-localized modes (ELMs) has been studied using a 2-D electron cyclotron emission imaging system in the KSTAR tokamak. The ELMs are observed to evolve in three distinctive stages: the initial linear growth of multiple filamentary structures having a net poloidal rotation, the interim state of regularly spaced saturated filaments, and the final crash through a short transient phase characterized by abrupt changes in the relative amplitudes and distance among filaments. The crash phase, typically consisted of multiple bursts of a single filament, involves a complex dynamics, poloidal elongation of the bursting filament, development of a fingerlike bulge, and fast localized burst through the finger. Substantial alterations of the ELM dynamics, such as mode number, poloidal rotation, and crash time scale, have been observed under external magnetic perturbations with the toroidal mode number n = 1. (C) 2012 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3694842]X1125sciescopu

state of the art and perspectives of inorganic photovoltaics

In the last decade, the fast increase of the global energy consumption, mainly related to the strong economic growth in the Far East, and the progressive depletion of the fossil fuels induced a run-up in the world oil price. Both these economic concerns and the growing global pollution pointed out that a transition toward renewable energies is mandatory. Among renewables, the conversion of sunlight into electricity by photovoltaic (PV) devices is a reliable choice to cope the growing energy consumption, due to the huge potentially extractable power (up to 120000 TW). The most important classes of inorganic PV devices developed in the last sixty years will be reviewed in this paper, in order to depict the state of the art of the technologies which dominate the PV market. Some novel concepts which could have an important role in the future of PV will be also described

Conduit dynamics and post-explosion degassing on Stromboli:a combined UV camera and 1 numerical modelling treatment

Recent gas flux measurements have shown that strombolian explosions are often followed by periods of elevated flux, or ‘gas codas’, with durations of order a minute. Here, we present UV camera data from 200 events recorded at Stromboli volcano to constrain the nature of these codas for the first time, providing estimates for combined explosion plus coda SO2 masses of ≈ 18 – 225 kg. Numerical simulations of gas slug ascent show that substantial proportions of the initial gas mass can be distributed into a train of ‘daughter bubbles’ released from the base of the slug, which we suggest, generate the codas, on bursting at the surface. This process could also cause transitioning of slugs into cap bubbles, significantly reducing explosivity. This study is the first attempt to combine high temporal resolution gas flux data with numerical simulations of conduit gas flow to investigate volcanic degassing dynamics

Wigs, disguises and child's play : solidarity in teacher education

It is generally acknowledged that much contemporary education takes place within a dominant audit culture, in which accountability becomes a powerful driver of educational practices. In this culture both pupils and teachers risk being configured as a means to an assessment and target-driven end: pupils are schooled within a particular paradigm of education. The article discusses some ethical issues raised by such schooling, particularly the tensions arising for teachers, and by implication, teacher educators who prepare and support teachers for work in situations where vocational aims and beliefs may be in in conflict with instrumentalist aims. The article offers De Certeau’s concept of ‘la perruque’ to suggest an opening to playful engagement for human ends in education, as a way of contending with and managing the tensions generated. I use the concept to recover a concept of solidarity for teacher educators and teachers to enable ethical teaching in difficult times