Multisystemic assessment and intervention: Effects of joining systems in the process of family therapy

The purpose of this study was to investigate multi-systemic training of counselors on families who participated in counseling to determine differences in the family\u27s social functioning and in children\u27s behaviors within home and school settings. The sample of counselors (n = 10) and families (n = 29) were from the New Horizon\u27s Family Counseling Center, affiliated with the School of Education at the College of William and Mary.;Systemic theory as it relates to family therapy possesses two major tenets: the family is best understood as a system of mutually interacting and interdependent parts, and interventions should include the whole family (Minuchin & Fishman, 1979). A multi-systemic model asks counselors to view the family\u27s behavior as a function of the family and its relationship with each other and with other systems (e.g. schools, social agencies, extracurricular groups and the workplace). Evaluating patterns which emerge between families and larger systems provides information regarding possible replication of unsatisfactory relationships and clarifies interactions among professionals (Imber-Black, 1988).;A non-equivalent, quasi-experimental design with pre and post tests was employed. The dependent measures included: Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) and Teacher Report Form (TRF) and Family Environment Scale (FES). Data was analyzed using multivariate and univariate repeated measures analysis of variance statistical procedures. to supplement the standard analyses, a multi-systemic orientation questionnaire and interviews were completed.;Results indicate that counseling in general resulted in improvement on the FES, CBCL and TRF, and on CBCL subscales Internal and External. However, there were no significant differences between families served by the experimental and comparison groups. In addition to a multitude of confounding variables, the outstanding factors which may have affected results include pretest differences between groups, and training which may not have provided a significant enough change to result in the anticipated hypotheses.;The author concluded that, despite statistical results, which reflect more upon numerous limitations in the design and implementation, the concept of a multi-systemic approach to assessment and intervention is one which possesses a practical significance and continues to warrant further investigation

Minutes from a meeting discussing the 1971 prize: Part 1

Minutes of a Management Committee meeting held on 6 Jul 197

Notes of a meeting held 6 Nov 1969

Papers relating to Booker Prize Publicity Committee, 12 Sep-12 Nov 196

A comparison of tenses with past reference in native Spanish and non-native English Discussion sections of dentistry research reports and an error analysis of tenses, non-finite verbs and sentence connectors in the English subcorpus

Treball Final de Màster Universitari en Traducció Medicosanitària. Codi: SBA032. Curs: 2020/2021Researchers need to publish in English in international journals, which requires non-native speakers to have their texts translated or to write in English and have the texts edited by a native speaker. Identifying areas of native language influence or interference and suggesting solutions to errors may help non-native speakers to write dental research reports and other scientific prose more naturally in the target language, reducing the editing time and cost. It may also assist English teachers in planning coursework and give translators and editors pointers to some syntactic and lexical calques to avoid. This study compares the use of tenses in English and Spanish subcorpora of pre-translation and pre-editing Discussion sections of dental research reports and analyses errors in tenses, non-finite constructions and sentence connectors in the English subcorpus. Despite the limited size of the comparable bilingual corpus, it confirms the hypothesis of native language interference or influence in connectors and non-finite constructions and, to a lesser extent, in voice and tenses. POS tagging and concordancing is an objective, fast and successful method for finding pre-defined patterns but is not totally error-free and some manual processing may be needed. Error tagging is slow and more dependent on the examiner’s judgement and experience but unearths phenomena that might not have been contemplated initially. The information on corpus tools and technical know-how in the appendices may also prove useful to other researchers.La necesidad de publicar en inglés en las revistas internacionales obliga a los investigadores que no sean nativos de este idioma a enviar sus trabajos a traducir o a escribir en inglés y confiar la revisión lingüística a un hablante nativo. La identificación de áreas que presentan problemas debido a la influencia o interferencia del idioma nativo puede ayudarles a conseguir una redacción más natural y fluida en el idioma meta de artículos de investigación odontológica y de otras categorías de prosa científica, rebajando el tiempo y costes de la revisión. Igualmente, podría resultar útil para los docentes de inglés en la preparación de tareas y proporcionar a los traductores y revisores lingüísticos algunas indicaciones para evitar los calcos léxicos y sintácticos y vencer cualquier inercia. En este estudio comparo el uso de tiempos verbales en dos subcorpus, uno en inglés y el otro en español, compuestos de apartados de discusión de artículos de investigación odontológica en los textos originales anteriores a la traducción o revisión lingüística, y analizo los errores identificados en los tiempos verbales, verbos no personales y conectores interoracionales del subcorpus inglés. A pesar del tamaño reducido del corpus bilingüe comparable, se confirma la hipótesis de interferencias o influencias del idioma nativo en los conectores interoracionales y formas no personales del verbo así como, en menor medida, en tiempos verbales y la voz pasiva. El etiquetado de categorías gramaticales y la búsqueda automática de concordancias presentan un método objetivo y rápido para identificar con éxito las secuencias preestablecidas, aunque puede precisar un cribado manual al no resultar totalmente exento de errores. La técnica de etiquetado de errores es laborioso y depende en mayor medida del juicio y experiencia del examinador; sin embargo, puede revelar algunos fenómenos que no se habían contemplado inicialmente. La información sobre las herramientas para procesar los corpus y procedimientos técnicos, recopilada en los anexos, puede resultar útil para otros investigadores

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Flow visualization and flow field measurements of a 1/12 scale tilt rotor aircraft in hover

The results are given of flow visualization studies and inflow velocity field measurements performed on a 1/12 scale model of the XV-15 tilt rotor aircraft in the hover mode. The complex recirculating flow due to the rotor-wake-body interactions characteristic of tilt rotors was studied visually using neutrally buoyant soap bubbles and quantitatively using hot wire anemometry. Still and video photography were used to record the flow patterns. Analysis of the photos and video provided information on the physical dimensions of the recirculating fountain flow and on details of the flow including the relative unsteadiness and turbulence characteristics of the flow. Recirculating flows were also observed along the length of the fuselage. Hot wire anemometry results indicate that the wing under the rotor acts to obstruct the inflow causing a deficit in the inflow velocities over the inboard region of the model. Hot wire anemometry also shows that the turbulence intensities in the inflow are much higher in the recirculating fountain reingestion zone

Full dynamic range quantification using loop-mediated amplification (LAMP) by combining analysis of amplification timing and variance between replicates at low copy number

Quantification of nucleic acid targets at low copy number is problematic with the limit of detection at 95 percent confidence predicted to be 3 molecules or higher for quantitative PCR. Conversely the accuracy of digital PCR is diminished at higher concentrations of template approaching 100 percent positive partitions, with the Poisson distribution showing that an average of only 3 molecules per partition represents an amplification frequency of greater than 95 percent. Therefore a full range of template concentrations cannot be quantified accurately with these methods alone without dilution. Here we report the development of quantification metrics for use with loop-mediated amplification (LAMP) as a bridge between concentrated and dilute template concentrations. The basis for this is that real-time monitoring of LAMP reactions either by bioluminescent reporting (BART) or by fluorescent dye binding shows increasing variation in timings between replicates at low copy number due to the LAMP amplification mechanism. This effect increases with decreasing copy number, closely associated with the amplification frequency. The use of an artificial template showed that the increasing variation is not linked to the use of displacement primers during the initiation of amplification and is therefore a fundamental feature of the LAMP initiation event. Quantification between 1 and 10 copies of a template was successfully achieved with a number of methods with a low number of replicates with the strongest correlation to timing variance. These ultra-quantification methods for LAMP amplification either singularly or in combination have potential in a full dynamic range quantification strategy based on LAMP, in a closed tube, undiluted sample molecular diagnostic

Identity, Self and Shadow in 'Little Dorrit'

Harvey Sucksmith says in his introduction to the World's Classics edition of Little Dorrit that Dickens like no other writer 'devastatingly exposed the "persona-culture" of Victorian England and its shortcomings'. Sucksmith defines persona as a 'conformist' identity (conforming, that is, to mid-Victorian notions of the self) that 'constrains genuine responses' (p.xii); a social mask that deceives its wearer as well as the others who behold it. In this essay I want to examine Dickens's formal and thematic approach to the notion of identity, to look at the way he sets it up, and then to suggest that in those terms Dickens's exposition of what Sucksmith calls 'persona' may be seen not so much as devastating as contradictory. I want to explore this contradiction through the ambiguous relationship between the key images of darkness and light in the novel, as well as through the difficulty of naming in the text. At the centre of this difficulty I shall, finally, place the figure of Little Dorrit

Low copy number quantification of DNA utilising Loop-mediated Amplification (LAMP) with Bioluminescent Assay in Real-Time (BART) reporter

iv Abstract Low Copy Number Quantification of DNA Utilising Loop - mediated Amplification (LAMP) with Biolumines cent Assay in Real - Time (BART) Reporter Real time quantitative PCR is the benchmark technology of molecular diagnostics in a wide range of fields including forensic science, clinical diagnosis and the detection of genetically modified (GM) c rops. T here is a requirement for rapid, cheap and simple portable quantitative and specific diagnostics . Quantitative PCR is limited by a number of factors in this regard: t he complex hardware is often expensive and largely laboratory limited. Bioluminescent Assay in Re al Time (BART) is a nucleic acid amplification detection system that converts inorganic pyrophosphate (PPi) , a by - product of DNA synthesis , into light output. The pyrophosphate is converted into ATP which is utilised by a thermostable luciferase to convert luciferin to oxyluciferin with the emission of light. The development of isothermal amplification techniques that use the strand displacement properties of certain DNA polymerases enables the BART detection to be utilised in simple and cheap hardware at a single temperature. Loop - mediated amplification (LAMP) is an isothermal amplification method which is highly specific to the DNA target sequence and produ ces high concentrations of PPi