Braid read-only memory

Transformer-type memory is fault-tolerant array of independent read-only memory units. Information pattern in each unit is written by weaving wires through array of linear (nonswitching) transformers. Presence or absence of a bit is determined by whether a given wire threads or bypasses given transformer

A fault-tolerant clock

Computers must operate correctly even though one or more of components have failed. Electronic clock has been designed to be insensitive to occurrence of faults; it is substantial advance over any known clock

Examining the perceptions of stigma in self-harming clients in general hospital settings and clinical research portfolio

Objectives: Previous research has identified negative staff attitudes towards patients who self-harm, as well as stigma towards mental health problems in general hospital settings. This study extended this existing research to patients who present to general hospital settings with self-harm by measuring their perceptions of stigma in comparison with a control group of other hospital patients. The study also examined whether perceived stigma was related to aspects of current psychological distress. Method: Ten patients who were admitted to hospital following an episode of self-harm and ten hospital control patients completed a demographic questionnaire, the SCL-90-R measure of current psychological distress and a purpose-designed measure of perceived stigma. Results: Mann-Whitney U-tests revealed significant differences on SCL-90-R Interpersonal Sensitivity (U=17.50, p=0.011), Paranoid Ideation (U=21.00, p=0.029) and Psychoticism (U=23.00, p=0.043), together with marginally significant differences on Depression (U=24.50, p=0.052) and Hostility (U=24.50, p=0.052), between the two groups. A significant difference in perceived stigma scores (U=16.00, p=0.009) was also identified. One-tailed Spearman’s correlations highlighted positive associations between perceived stigma and SCL-90-R Interpersonal Sensitivity (ρ=0.685, p=0.014) and Depression (ρ=0.723, p=0.009) in the self-harm group, and SCL-90-R Depression (ρ=0.596, p=0.035) and Phobic Anxiety (ρ=0.595, p=0.035) in the control group. Conclusions: The results suggested that patients who self-harm perceive higher levels of stigma in general hospital settings compared to patients presenting with other types of injury. These differences appeared to relate to aspects of current psychological distress. Further research employing larger samples would help clarify this association

Alien Registration- Mckenna, Ralph F. (Rumford, Oxford County)

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Vincent de Paul: What Moved Him? And What Moved Him Toward Those Who Are Poor?

As a young man, Vincent de Paul was primarily interested in making his fortune. Over time, his focus shifted to evangelizing persons who were poor. Thomas McKenna explores the interior nature of this change and asks why Vincent’s attention was captivated by the poor. Vincent was caught up in God’s love and wanted to be part of it. He saw that love as primarily directed toward the marginalized of society, so loving the poor became the motivation behind his actions

Facial emotion processing in schizophrenia : a non-specific neuropsychological deficit?

Original article can be found at : http://journals.cambridge.org/ Copyright Cambridge University PressBackground: Identification of facial emotions has been found to be impaired in schizophrenia but there are uncertainties about the neuropsychological specificity of the finding. Method: Twenty-two patients with schizophrenia and 20 healthy controls were given tests requiring identification of facial emotion, judgement of the intensity of emotional expressions without identification, familiar face recognition and the Benton Facial Recognition Test (BFRT). The schizophrenia patients were selected to be relatively intellectually preserved. Results: The patients with schizophrenia showed no deficit in identifying facial emotion, although they were slower than the controls. They were, however, impaired on judging the intensity of emotional expression without identification. They showed impairment in recognizing familiar faces but not on the BFRT. Conclusions: When steps are taken to reduce the effects of general intellectual impairment, there is no deficit in identifying facial emotions in schizophrenia. There may, however, be a deficit in judging emotional intensity. The impairment found in naming familiar faces is consistent with other evidence of semantic memory impairment in the disorder.Peer reviewe

Response: Systems of Human and Intellectual Capital

This essay reviews Orly Lobel\u27s article The New Cognitive Property: Human Capital Law and the Reach of Intellectual Property. It commends Professor Lobel for outlining the contours of the “new” field of human capital law, and for emphasizing the potential consequences of the growing enclosure of cognitive capacities in contemporary markets. From this starting point the essay makes two modest suggestions for researchers. First, it suggests that those building on Lobel’s work consider more contextual description and evaluation of human and intellectual capital production systems. Doing so would avoid overly abstract, macro-level analysis that is often divorced from reality and from the critical nuances that shape actors’ individual and collective motivations and behavior. It would also avoid excessive reliance on overly specific, micro-level analysis, which can be anecdotal. Second, the essay emphasizes the importance of establishing normative baselines prior to evaluating or prescribing reform

People of the Scarred Coin

In Vincent de Paul’s metaphor, persons who are poor are like badly scarred coins; they have their humanity on one side and Christ’s face on the other. We are to see God in them and that is “the basis of human dignity.” This also motivates Vincentian work in education. As Thomas McKenna writes, education “nourishes” dignity, both by teaching poor persons themselves and “by sensitizing everyone else to their dignity and worth.” McKenna emphasizes the need for Vincentian institutions to exercise transparency, or simplicity, as Vincent called it and explains transparency’s particular application to education