Calmer: Your favorite tools for managing anxiety, in one convenient location

This application is a portable toolkit for aggregating and storing references to or reminders to use tools and techniques chosen by the individual that are helpful in managing anxiety, and the depression that often accompanies. Users will be able to import and/or record his/her favorite tools, putting them on a mobile phone in a particular order for use in case of an “anxiety attack.” The users for this application are individuals with high anxiety, clinically determined or not, and have a set of tools they use to manage anxiety. These tools may take the form of experience with EMDR, DBT, CBT, meditation, mantras, images, sounds, writings that soothe, breathing exercises, pranayama, visualizations, self-talk, mindfulness practices, and more, which may be used in conjunction with medications and therapy. This application is a toolkit for aggregating, creating and storing references to, and/or reminders to use the portable tools determined by the individual to be helpful in managing anxiety, and often related depression (Schmidt et al, 1998). Each user will be able to import and/or record, order his/her favorite tools, for later expedient uses when she/he is away from home. Being able to quickly access the various preferred tools by having them readily available could help with reinforcing their use as a training method. “…Extensive training of emergency procedures can make these a dominant habit, readily available to long-term memory when needed. Second, generic training of emergency stress management can focus both on guidelines, like inhibiting the tendency to respond immediately…and on techniques such as breathing control, to reduce the level of arousal to a more optimal value.” Such stress training has been validated to have some degree of success and to transfer from one stressor to another (Johnston & Cannon-Bowers, 1996, and Driskell et al., 2001, as cited in Wickens, 2003, p 333). Wickens, C.D., Lee, J.D., Liu, Y., Gordon Becker, S.E. (2004). An Introduction to Human Factors Engineering, Second Edition, p 50, p 146, p 149. p 407. New Jersey, Pearson Prentice Hall. From Wickens et all above: Carroll, J. S. (1994). The organizational context for decision making in high-hazard industries. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society (pp. 922-925). Santa Monica, CA:HFES. Johnston, J.A., & Cannon-Bowers, J.A. (1996) Training for stress exposure. In J.E. Driskall & E. Salas (eds.) Stress and human performance. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum Schmidt, N.B., Lerew, RD.R., Joiner, T.E. (1998)— Anxiety sensitivity and the pathogenesis of anxiety and depression: evidence for symptom specificity. Behavior Research and Therapy, 36, 165-177

THE IDENTIFICATION OF SELECTED CONSONANTS BY CHILDREN

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Calmer: Your favorite tools for managing anxiety, in one convenient location

This application is a portable toolkit for aggregating and storing references to or reminders to use tools and techniques chosen by the individual that are helpful in managing anxiety, and the depression that often accompanies. Users will be able to import and/or record his/her favorite tools, putting them on a mobile phone in a particular order for use in case of an “anxiety attack.” The users for this application are individuals with high anxiety, clinically determined or not, and have a set of tools they use to manage anxiety. These tools may take the form of experience with EMDR, DBT, CBT, meditation, mantras, images, sounds, writings that soothe, breathing exercises, pranayama, visualizations, self-talk, mindfulness practices, and more, which may be used in conjunction with medications and therapy. This application is a toolkit for aggregating, creating and storing references to, and/or reminders to use the portable tools determined by the individual to be helpful in managing anxiety, and often related depression (Schmidt et al, 1998). Each user will be able to import and/or record, order his/her favorite tools, for later expedient uses when she/he is away from home. Being able to quickly access the various preferred tools by having them readily available could help with reinforcing their use as a training method. “…Extensive training of emergency procedures can make these a dominant habit, readily available to long-term memory when needed. Second, generic training of emergency stress management can focus both on guidelines, like inhibiting the tendency to respond immediately…and on techniques such as breathing control, to reduce the level of arousal to a more optimal value.” Such stress training has been validated to have some degree of success and to transfer from one stressor to another (Johnston & Cannon-Bowers, 1996, and Driskell et al., 2001, as cited in Wickens, 2003, p 333). Wickens, C.D., Lee, J.D., Liu, Y., Gordon Becker, S.E. (2004). An Introduction to Human Factors Engineering, Second Edition, p 50, p 146, p 149. p 407. New Jersey, Pearson Prentice Hall. From Wickens et all above: Carroll, J. S. (1994). The organizational context for decision making in high-hazard industries. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society (pp. 922-925). Santa Monica, CA:HFES. Johnston, J.A., & Cannon-Bowers, J.A. (1996) Training for stress exposure. In J.E. Driskall & E. Salas (eds.) Stress and human performance. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum Schmidt, N.B., Lerew, RD.R., Joiner, T.E. (1998)— Anxiety sensitivity and the pathogenesis of anxiety and depression: evidence for symptom specificity. Behavior Research and Therapy, 36, 165-177.</p

Occult infections of ventriculoatrial shunts

✓ Organisms usually considered nonpathogens have been implicated with increasing frequency as the cause of infected ventriculoatrial shunts. Often the signs of infection are minimal, with no evidence of inflammation; but there may be low-grade fever, anemia, leukocystosis, and variably present hepatosplenomegaly. By routinely culturing all shunts electively revised, a form of infection completely unapparent clinically has been recognized. Coagulasenegative staphylococcus or diphthenoids were grown from the cardiac or ventricular catheters of each patient. Pre- and postoperative spinal fluid and blood cultures were sterile, and there was no other clinical or laboratory evidence of infection. Six such cases are discussed in detail. It is suggested that prophylactic use of appropriate antibiotics at the time of surgery may have a place in the control of the problem.</jats:p

The Elusive / Illusive Syllable

Abstract A common phonological reduction in casual speech is vowel loss in unstressed syllables as in s ‘pose. How the phonetic detail of this reduction is implemented in production and how it is perceived is the focus of the study. Three types of test words were selected for investigation, initial /sp/ and /sk/ clusters, two- and three-syllable words beginning with an unstressed /s/ plus vowel followed by /p/ or /k/ in the stressed syllable, and words with a cluster created by the loss of the vowel. A representative triad is sport, support, and s ‘port. Some speakers differentiated between real clusters and created clusters while others did not. The relationships between production characteristics and word identification were complex in that there were no invariant acoustic cues determining syllabicity.</jats:p