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Acute stress
A number of case stories of aircraft accidents caused by pilot stress are related
Analogue and digital linear modulation techniques for mobile satellite
The choice of modulation format for a mobile satellite service is complex. The subjective performance is summarized of candidate schemes and voice coder technologies. It is shown that good performance can be achieved with both analogue and digital voice systems, although the analogue system gives superior performance in fading. The results highlight the need for flexibility in the choice of signaling format. Linear transceiver technology capable of using many forms of narrowband modulation is described
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Capacitors can radiate - some consequences of the two-capacitor problem with radiation
We fill a gap in the arguments of Boykin et al [American Journal of Physics,
Vol 70 No. 4, pp 415-420 (2002)] by not invoking an electric current loop (i.e.
magnetic dipole model) to account for the radiation energy loss, since an
obvious corollary of their results is that the capacitors should radiate
directly even if the connecting wires are shrunk to zero length. That this is
so is shown here by a direct derivation of capacitor radiation using an
oscillating electric dipole radiator model for the capacitors as well as the
alternative less widely known magnetic 'charge' current loop representation for
an electric dipole [see for example "Electromagnetic Waves" by S.A.Schlekunoff,
van Nostrand (1948)]. Implications for Electromagnetic Compliance (EMC) issues
as well as novel antenna designs further motivate the purpose of this paper.Comment: 5 Pages with No figure
Adversity, attachment, and mentalizing.
The papers in this special issue offer evidence of personality disorder as a dysfunction of higher-order cognition, which is conceptualized variously as a disorder of mentalizing, metacognition, mindfulness, social cognition and reflective function. While there may be differences in the scope of these concepts, they all imply that higher-order mental processing is at the core of personality function. In this commentary, the authors use mentalizing as an umbrella term for these concepts, and argue that it is the complex interaction of adversity, attachment and mentalizing that leads to the characteristic symptoms of borderline personality disorder and other personality disorders. Evidence is provided from the papers in this special issue, comments made on the findings and further avenues for research are recommended
Mentalization-Based Treatment
The concept of mentalizing has captured the interest and imagination of an astonishing range of people—from psychoanalysts to neuroscientists, from child development researchers to geneticists, from existential philosophers to phenomenologists—all of whom seem to have found it useful. According to the Thompson Reuter maintained Web of Science, the use of the term in titles and abstracts of scientific papers increased from 10 to 2,750 between 1991 and 2011. Clinicians in particular have enthusiastically embraced the idea, and have put it to innovative use in their practices. Mentalization-based treatment (MBT)—making mentalizing a core focus of therapy—was initially developed for the treatment of borderline personality disorder (BPD) in routine clinical services delivered in group and individual modalities. Therapy with mentalizing as a central component is currently being developed for treatment of numerous groups, including people with antisocial personality disorder, substance abuse, eating disorders, and at-risk mothers with infants and children (A. Bateman & Fonagy, 2011). It is also being used with families and adolescents, in schools, and in managing social groups (Asen & Fonagy, 2011; Fonagy et al., 2009; Twemlow, Fonagy, & Sacco, 2005a, 2005b). In this article, we focus on MBT in the treatment of BPD
Novel relations and new properties of confluent Heun's functions and their derivatives of arbitrary order
The present article reveals important properties of the confluent Heun's
functions. We derive a set of novel relations for confluent Heun's functions
and their derivatives of arbitrary order. Specific new subclasses of confluent
Heun's functions are introduced and studied. A new alternative derivation of
confluent Heun's polynomials is presented.Comment: 8 pages, no figures, LaTeX file, final versio
Closed-orbit theory for spatial density oscillations
We briefly review a recently developed semiclassical theory for quantum
oscillations in the spatial (particle and kinetic energy) densities of finite
fermion systems and present some examples of its results. We then discuss the
inclusion of correlations (finite temperatures, pairing correlations) in the
semiclassical theory.Comment: LaTeX, 10pp., 2 figure
A randomized controlled trial of a mentalization-based intervention (MBT-FACTS) for families of people with borderline personality disorder
This article reports a delayed-treatment randomized controlled trial of a mentalization-based intervention for families or significant others living with or supporting a person with borderline personality disorder (BPD). In all, 56 family members/significant others living with/supporting people with a diagnosis of BPD were randomized either to immediate mentalization-based Families and Carers Training and Support, a supportive and skills-based program consisting of five 1.5- to 2-hr evening meetings, delivered by trained family members, or to delayed intervention. The primary outcome was adverse incidents reported by the family member in relation to the person with BPD. Secondary outcomes included self-reported family well-being, empowerment, burden, and levels of anxiety and depression. Family members randomized to immediate intervention showed a significant reduction in reported adverse incidents between themselves and the identified patient in the second phase of treatment compared with those randomized to delayed intervention. Analysis of the rate of change indicated a significantly steeper decline for the immediate-treatment group compared with the delayed-intervention group (β = −1.07, 95% confidence interval [−1.40, −0.74], z = −6.3, p < .000). Secondary outcome measures showed family functioning and well-being improved more in the immediate-treatment group; changes were maintained at follow-up. There were no differences in depression, total anxiety, and total burden; both groups showed improvement on all these measures. Findings show that the mentalization-based Families and Carers Training and Support program delivered by families to families supporting a person with BPD reduces reported adverse incidents within the family. Further studies are needed to show whether this reduction improves outcomes for the individual with BPD
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