Adult-Child Sexual Contact: Examining Mental Health Trainees’ Perception of the Impact on Adult Psychological-Emotional Status

Thirty-eight graduate students enrolled in mental health-related programs completed the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) indicating anticipated impact of adult-child sexual contact on the psychological status of a young adult woman from positive family environment and one from a negative family environment. BSI subscale scores were significantly higher than the BSI general population’s mean scores in both cases. Multiple regression analyses found that: in the healthy family scenario, practitioners’ background variables (parent education, family of origin climate, prior childhood sexual contact with an adult, and education) did not contribute significantly to the variance in their prediction of expectation of client’s overall psychological distress; and, in the dysfunctional family case, practitioners’ background (childhood experience with adult sexual contact, education level, and professional experience) contributed to 40% of the variance in their prediction of the client’s emotional state. Results of qualitative analyses are presented, and implications for training and service delivery discussed

Scenarios and enhanced, strategies, Case study The Hague Region, the Netherlands

In the PLUREL Analysis report on The Hague Region (Aalbers et al 2009), the region is described with respect to history, landuse, planning context, actors and their strategies regarding developments in the urban fringe. Three strategies are described in more depth. In the current phase of the research, these strategies are assessed with respect to their performance in governance

Nursing Personnel Employment Patterns in Iowa’s Health Care Facilities

The purpose of this study was to determine the current and projected staffing patterns for nursing personnel in Iowa’s hospitals and long term care facilities. Questionnaires were mailed to all hospitals and long term care facilities licensed in Iowa. Current information about employment trends for licensed practical nurses, registered nurses, nurse aides/orderlies, and medication aides was obtained to serve as a basis for planning and to provide current information to counselors, potential students, and the public. The findings of this study are in agreement with the Report of the 1986 National Hospital Nursing Supply Survey as well as other recent reports that reveal our health care delivery system again faces a shortage of nursing personnel

On Principal Admissible Representations and Conformal Field Theory

The principal admissible representations of affine Kac-Moody algebras are studied, with a view to their use in conformal field theory. We discuss the generation of the set of principal admissible highest weights, concentrating mainly on $A_r^{(1)}$ at rational level $k$. A related algorithm is described that produces the Malikov-Feigen-Fuchs null vectors of these representations. With the principal admissible description of the highest weights, we are able to prove that field identifications (including maverick ones) lead to the canonical description of the primary fields of the nonunitary diagonal coset theories.Comment: Harvmac (b mode : 32 p; l mode: 36 p), 5 figures, some minor reformulations, references added and typos correcte

Anisotropic flows from colour strings: Monte-Carlo simulations

By direct Monte-Carlo simulations it is shown that the anisotropic flows can be successfully described in the colour string picture with fusion and percolation provided anisotropy of particle emission from the fused string is taken into account. Quenching of produced particles in the strong colour field of the string is the basic mechanism for this anisotropy. The concrete realization of this mechanism is borrowed from the QED. Due to dependence of this mechanism on the external field strength the found flows grow with energy, with values for $v_2$ at LHC energies greater by ~15% than at RHIC energies.Comment: New version with a non-static distribution of string

Fusion in coset CFT from admissible singular-vector decoupling

Fusion rules for Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) models at fractional level can be defined in two ways, with distinct results. The Verlinde formula yields fusion coefficients that can be negative. These signs cancel in coset fusion rules, however. On the other hand, the fusion coefficients calculated from decoupling of singular vectors are non-negative. They produce incorrect coset fusion rules, however, when factorisation is assumed. Here we give two prescriptions that yield the correct coset fusion rules from those found for the WZW models by the decoupling method. We restrict to the Virasoro minimal models for simplicity, and because decoupling results are only complete in the \su(2) case.Comment: 22 pages, harvma