Increasing compliance with wearing a medical device in children with autism

Health professionals often recommend the use of medical devices to assess the health, monitor the well-being, or improve the quality of life of their patients. Children with autism may present challenges in these situations as their sensory peculiarities may increase refusals to wear such devices. To address this issue, we systematically replicated prior research by examining the effects of differential reinforcement of other behavior (DRO) to increase compliance with wearing a heart rate monitor in 2 children with autism. The intervention increased compliance to 100% for both participants when an edible reinforcer was delivered every 90 s. The results indicate that DRO does not require the implementation of extinction to increase compliance with wearing a medical device. More research is needed to examine whether the reinforcement schedule can be further thinned

Does Deep Tectonic Tremor Occur in the Central‐Eastern Mediterranean Basin?

Tectonic tremor has been observed at the roots of many fault systems around the Pacific rim, including convergent and transform plate boundaries. The extent to which deep tremor signals are prevalent along fault systems elsewhere, including the Mediterranean basin, has not yet been documented in detail. A body of evidence suggests that tremor triggered during the surface waves of teleseismic events may commonly occur where ambient tremor during episodic tremor and slip episodes occur, suggesting triggered tremor provides a useful tool to identify regions with ambient tremor. We perform a systematic search of triggered tremor associated with large teleseismic events between 2010 and 2020 at four major fault systems within the central-eastern Mediterranean basin, namely the Hellenic and Calabrian subduction zones, and the North Anatolian and Kefalonia transform faults. In addition, we search for ambient tremor during a slow slip event in the eastern Sea of Marmara along a secondary branch of the North Anatolian Fault, and two slow slip events beneath western Peloponnese (Hellenic Subduction Zone). We find no unambiguous evidence for deep triggered tremor, nor ambient tremor. The absence of triggered tremor at the Hellenic and Calabrian subduction zones supports an interpretation of less favorable conditions for tremorgenesis in the presence of old and cold slabs. The absence of tremor along the transform faults may be due to an absence of the conditions commonly promoting tremorgenesis in such settings, including high-fluid pressures and low-differential stresses between the down-dip limit of the seismogenic layer and the continental Moho

1954: Abilene Christian College Bible Lectures - Full Text

Preface The 1954 Abilene Christian College Lectureship was one of the best attended and most successful in the history of the school. Considerable interest was manifested in the timely theme, “Overcoming Dangerous Tendencies,” and in the two special topics, “Ways and Means of Doing Mission Work,” and “Caring For Widows and Orphans.” The reports from the mission fields were highly stimulating, and all in all, the speeches were unusually high caliber. The Panel Discussions were also on timely subjects and well presented. They received a warm response, as did also the thirty classes that were conducted each day. These classes were taught by persons expert in their particular fields, and covered a wide range of interests to the faithful, working Christian. We at Abilene Christian College predict for this book of Lectures a wide and hearty reception, and believe that its reading will issue in profit to the individual and to the church at large. J. D. Thomas Lectureship Directo

Outcomes from elective colorectal cancer surgery during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

This study aimed to describe the change in surgical practice and the impact of SARS-CoV-2 on mortality after surgical resection of colorectal cancer during the initial phases of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

LEUKOKINETIC STUDIES. IV. THE TOTAL BLOOD, CIRCULATING AND MARGINAL GRANULOCYTE POOLS AND THE GRANULOCYTE TURNOVER RATE IN NORMAL SUBJECTS

When granulocytes are labeled with diisopropylfluorophosphate (DFP32) and then returned to the circulation of the donor, the labeled granulocytes are distributed in a pool of cells which is approximately two times larger than that calculated from the blood volume and the concentration of granulocytes in the circulating venous blood (1, 2). This pool has been referred to as the total blood granulocyte pool (TBGP) and it consists of two subcompartments or pools. These pools have been designated the circulating granulocyte pool (CGP) and the marginal granulocyte pool (MGP). The size of the CGP can be calculated from the blood volume and the absolute granulocyte count. Equilibration between the granulocytes in the CGP and in the "noncirculating" or MGP is sufficiently rapid and complete to allow these two pools to be considered as one kinetically, and the size of the TBGP can be determined by the isotope dilution principle. Since the cells are removed from the TBGP in an exponential fashion with a mean half-time disappearance (Ti) of 6.6 hours, the granulocyte turnover rate (GTR), that is, the number of granulocytes turned over through the blood in a unit of time, can be calculated. The purpose of this paper is to present data on the GTR in normal subjects, as well as additional data on the size of the TBGP, CGP and MGP in normal subjects. The influence of steroids, physical exercise, epinephrine and bacterial endotoxin on these parameters in normal subjects has also been studied

Leukokinetic Studies. X. Blood Granulocyte Kinetics in Chronic Myelocytic Leukemia

By the transfusion of granulocytes labeled in vitro with diisopropyl fluorophosphate (DFP32), it is possible to measure the size of the total blood granulocyte pool (TBGP), the distribution of granulocytes in the two subcompartments thereof, the blood granulocyte half disappearance time (tj), and the blood granulocyte turnover rate (GTR) (1-3). In preliminary reports from this labora-tory (4-6) and in reports from other laboratories (7, 8) an increase in TBGP size, prolongation of blood granulocyte ti, and an increase in GTR have been described in a few patients with chronic mye-locytic leukemia. In the present report 43 studies carried out on 29 patients with chronic myelocytic leukemia (CML) in various stages of their disease have been analyzed in an attempt to gain an under-standing of these deviations from normal granulo-cyte kinetics. In addition, several studies designed to evaluate the cause of the long t4 values in pa-tients with CML are presented. Similar studies of granulocyte kinetics in patients with polycy-themia vera, subacute or chronic infections, mye-lofibrosis, or diseases of other kinds are presented in a companion paper. Methods In vitro labeled (1), autologous granulocytes were infused in 43 studies on patients with CML. Of these, 23 studies were performed on patients with a blood granulocyte concentration greater than 30,000 per mm' *Submitted for publication November 9, 1964; ac

The narcissism of depression or the depression of narcissism and adolescence

Abstract Despite the fact that it has long been recognised that narcissism can contribute to depression, we have become accustomed to referring to depression mostly in terms of a neurotic disturbance. The author highlights the difference between the narcissistic elements in depression, which is based on guilt, and the graver narcissistic depression, which is governed by shame. He attempts to define the elements that constitute 'narcissistic depression' where primal psychic mechanisms rule, and stresses the importance of recognising this form of depression if it is to be dealt with appropriately. The author focuses on adolescence, during which, he believes, this type of narcissistic depression is predominant. In the presentation of two cases of psychoanalytic psychotherapy of adolescents, he seeks to analyse this psychopathology, looking particularly at how it affects therapeutic techniques