Anxiety and depression: a model for assessment and therapy in primary care

Patients who feel anxious and depressed often turn to primary care for initial professional help. However, systematic service evaluations allege poor standards of diagnosis and treatment, resulting in disappointing clinical outcomes. All the same, special educational and quality improvement initiatives have not raised standards significantly. Why this should be so and possible remedies are suggested by this article, on the basis that the empirical evidence base for criticising primary care standards is weaker than commonly acknowledged. Systematic clinical trials are often premised by assumptions that are not relevant to primary care, they tend to select subject populations unrepresentative of those typically seen by general practitioners and results are often compromised by a series of methodological flaws. This article proposes an alternative conceptualisation of anxiety and depression apposite to primary care assessment and therapy. It draws on an emergent evidence base within psychobiology that recognises that these reactions have two adaptive functions. Firstly, they are responses evoked by actual personal adversity, secondly they have the function of prompting communication to self and to others of the need for practical remedial action to be taken independently, or with assistance, to improve the quality of the recovery environment. A table summarises the phased stages of anxiety and depression and lists their adaptive and communicative functions along with some phase-appropriate primary care interventions. This new model of assessment and therapy is offered to stimulate discussion and inspire future research that is appropriate for primary care service improvement

A study of certain factors affecting survival of vegetative cells of Bacillus popilliae preserved by lyophilization

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1966 L756Master of Scienc

Non-uniform transition conductivity of superconducting ceramic

The effects of microstructural variations on the superconducting properties of SmBa2Cu3Ox are investigated. A scanning eddy current probe revealed the onset and growth of a normal conducting region. Resistance versus temperature measurements taken at different regions of the sample support the concept of a physically mixed state system. Regional variations in porosity and grain size distributions affect the observed superconducting transition

The Appeal of One Act Play

The appeal of the one act play has become so universal that today the force and vigor of the movement is seen and felt throughout the civilized world, from far off Japan even to the southern republics of the Americas. As strong in its appeal as the longer drama, this new art, if such it may be called, is rapidly gaining such favor that we can look with gratitude upon the wide achievement it has made by the media of the \u27Little Theatre movement which has sponsored this new form of entertainment till it now has almost attained its full growth. The \u27Little Theatre movement in America has not attained the prominence that it has due to it but gradually, through the media of college and university activity throughout the nation, it is becoming daily a force in our social life at the side of the legitimate drama

Faktor Faktor yang Mempengaruhi Struktur Modal (Studi Empiris pada Perusahaan Property dan Real Estate yang Terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia Tahun 2010-2014)

The aims of this research is to understand the factors affecting the capitalstructure for Property and Real Estate companies enlisted in Indonesian Stock Exchange period 2010-2014. Samples are 31 Property and Real Estate company in Indonesian Stock Exchange, where the method used is purposive sampling is a sampling method by specifying certain criteria for 5 years so the amount of data as much as 155. The method of data analysis using multiple linear regression and using software Eviews 7. This research have five variables : four independent variables: profitability, asset structure, company size, growth asset and one dependent variable: capital structure. The result of this research shows that Profitability, Asset Structure, Company Size, and Growth Asset simultaneous significant effect on Capital Structure. The result also showed that Asset Structure partially significant negative effect on Capital Structure, while the Profitability, Company Size and Growth Asset partially no significant effect on Capital Structure

The electron transport chain in anaerobically functioning eukaryotes

AbstractMany lower eukaryotes can survive anaerobic conditions via a fermentation pathway that involves the use of the reduction of endogenously produced fumarate as electron sink. This fumarate reduction is linked to electron transport in an especially adapted, anaerobically functioning electron-transport chain.An aerobic energy metabolism with Krebs cycle activity is accompanied by electron transfer from succinate to ubiquinone via complex II of the respiratory chain. On the other hand, in an anaerobic metabolism, where fumarate functions as terminal electron acceptor, electrons are transferred from rhodoquinone to fumarate, which is the reversed direction. Ubiquinone cannot replace rhodoquinone in the process of fumarate reduction in vivo, as ubiquinone can only accept electrons from complex II and cannot donate them to fumarate. Rhodoquinone, with its lower redox potential than ubiquinone, is capable of donating electrons to fumarate. Eukaryotic fumarate reductases were shown to interact with rhodoquinone (a benzoquinone), whereas most prokaryotic fumarate reductases interact with the naphtoquinones menaquinone and demethylmenaquinone.Fumarate reductase, the enzyme essential for the anaerobic functioning of many eukaryotes, is structurally very similar to succinate dehydrogenase, the Krebs cycle enzyme catalysing the reverse reaction. In prokaryotes these enzymes are differentially expressed depending on the external conditions. Evidence is now emerging that also in eukaryotes two different enzymes exist for succinate oxidation and fumarate reduction that are differentially expressed