The Interplay Between Post-Critical Beliefs and Anxiety: An Exploratory Study in a Polish Sample

The present research investigates the relationship between anxiety and the religiosity dimensions that Wulff (Psychology of religion: classic and contemporary views, Wiley, New York, 1991; Psychology of religion. Classic and contemporary views, Wiley, New York, 1997; Psychologia religii. Klasyczna i współczesna, Wydawnictwo Szkolne i Pedagogiczne, Warszawa, 1999) described as Exclusion vs. Inclusion of Transcendence and Literal vs. Symbolic. The researchers used the Post-Critical Belief scale (Hutsebaut in J Empir Theol 9(2):48–66, 1996; J Empir Theol 10(1):39–54, 1997) to measure Wulff’s religiosity dimensions and the IPAT scale (Krug et al. 1967) to measure anxiety. Results from an adult sample (N = 83) suggest that three dimensions show significant relations with anxiety. Orthodoxy correlated negatively with suspiciousness (L) and positively with guilt proneness (O) factor—in the whole sample. Among women, Historical Relativism negatively correlated with suspiciousness (L), lack of integration (Q3), general anxiety and covert anxiety. Among men, Historical Relativism positively correlated with tension (Q4) and emotional instability (C), general anxiety, covert anxiety and overt anxiety. External Critique was correlated with suspiciousness (L) by men

Het bloedend feochromocytoom : van supersnelle diagnostiek tot superselectieve embolisatie

Het feochromocytoom is een zeldzame catecholaminesecreterende tumor die ontstaat uit de chromaffiene cellen van het bijniermerg of de sympathische ganglia. In de praktijk spreekt men respectievelijk van feochromocytoom en paraganglioom. Het klassieke feochromocytoom presenteert zich vaak als een solitaire bijniermergtumor. Bij het functionele feochromocytoom beschrijft men onder meer klachten van hoofdpijn, zweten, tachycardie en hypertensie. Zelden presenteert het zich rupturerend en is het daarbij door massieve catecholaminevrijstelling en bloeding mogelijk letaal. De ziektegeschiedenis wordt beschreven van een 51-jarige patiënte die zich aanbood op de spoedgevallendienst met acuut ontstane pijnklachten in de rechterflank en met labiele hypertensie. Computertomografisch onderzoek toonde een retroperitoneale bloeding vanuit de rechter bijnierloge. Onmiddellijke transarteriële embolisatie met coiling leidde tot hemodynamische stabilisatie waarna verdere investigatie een onderliggend feochromocytoom aan het licht bracht. In 2e tijd werd een electieve adrenalectomie uitgevoerd. Het rupturerend feochromocytoom presenteert zich vaak atypisch als een acuut abdomen. De triade van tachycardie, vasoconstrictie en labiele hypertensie is niet altijd aanwezig. Nochtans zijn snelle diagnostiek en hemodynamische stabilisatie van primordiaal belang. Met een transarteriële embolisatie kon in dit geval een urgente adrenalectomie vermeden worden, wat bijdroeg tot een goede afloop

A Robotic Assistant for Ambient Intelligent Meeting Rooms

This paper reports on a robotic assistant for ambient intelligent meeting rooms and also for human-centred environments in general. The usefulness of such an "embodied" assistant as a video conferencing tool for sites not possessing an intelligent meeting room and as a mobile extension of an "intelliroom" is discussed, along with possible scenarios. The most important benefit is probably the more natural interaction between the human and the intelligent environment through this "embodied" assistant. This paper also proposes a hybrid approach for moving around in human-centred environments

Anuria, microcephaly and behaviour changes in a neonate with intrauterine perindopril exposure

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MR enterography in children with Crohn's disease: results from the Belgian Pediatric Crohn registry (Belcro)

Abstract INTRODUCTION: Magnetic Resonance enterography (MRE) is an imaging modality avoiding ionizing radiation and the discomfort associated with enteroclysis. The results of MRE at diagnosis in the patients of the Belgian pediatric Crohn registry (Belcro) are compared to endoscopical and histological results. METHODS: Results of MRE, endoscopy and histology were obtained from the medical charts and assigned to one of the following segments: jejunum, ileum, ascending colon, transverse colon, descending colon or rectosigmoid. MRE images were reviewed in a blinded way by 4 radiologists with specific interest in pediatric MRE. RESULTS: From the Belcro registry, twenty-two patients underwent a MRE during their work-up for Crohn disease. The results of endoscopy, histology and MRE were concordant (either all negative or positive) in the ileum in 16/18 patients and in the rectosigmoid, descending colon, transverse colon and ascending colon in resp 9, 8, 8 and 8/22 patients. In the non-concordant cases (MRE colon negative but endoscopy and/or histology positive), MRE could not reflect the subtle endoscopic or histologic lesions such as erosions that were described.In 4 cases where ileocaecal valve intubation was impossible ileal MRE findings were abnormal. MRE detected ileal stenosis, jejunal lesions and fistula in resp 4/22, 3/22 en 2/22 patients. The 100% and 75% interobserver agreement was resp 50-82% and 773-100% according to the different intestinal segments. CONCLUSIONS: MRE is a promising imaging modality avoiding radiation in Crohn disease. It should probably become the technique of first choice for the evaluation of extensive small bowel disease in children with Crohn disease

An experimental investigation of transitivity in set ranking

Set ranking, Complete uncertainty, Transitivity, Choice, Decision making, Axiom test,

A Review of Fuzzy Sets in Decision Sciences: Achievements, Limitations and Perspectives

International audienceWe try to provide a tentative assessment of the role of fuzzy sets in decision analysis. We discuss membership functions, aggregation operations, linguistic variables, fuzzy intervals and valued preference relations. The importance of the notion of bipolarity and the potential of qualitative evaluation methods are also pointed out. We take a critical standpoint on the state of the art, in order to highlight the actual achievements and try to better assess what is often considered debatable by decision scientists observing the fuzzy decision analysis literature

Religion, spirituality, and positive psychology in adulthood : a developmental view

For decades, psychologists have been interested in the question whether, and how, religious and spiritual behavior, in terms of beliefs, attitudes, practices, and belonging, could be scientifically studied and assessed in terms of their relative good, or ill, for human well-being. This article considers contributions of religious commitment and spiritual practice to well-being and cognitive-developmental theoretical models and related bodies of empirical and clinical research regarding religious and spiritual development across the life cycle, with particular attention to questions related to positive adult development