Prevalence and experience of harassment of people with mental health problems living in the community

<i>Declaration</i> <i>of</i> <i>interest</i>: This study was funded by the Communities Fund and was the result of a partnership between the Nuffield Centre for Community Care Studies, University of Glasgow, the National Schizophrenia Fellowship (Scotland) and the Scottish users' network. <i>Background</i>: The levels and experiences of harassment of people with mental health problems in the community compared with those of the general population have not been explored. <i>Aims</i>: To measure the levels and experience of harassment experienced by people with mental health problems in the community in Scotland and compare them with the general population. <i>Method</i>: Experiences of harassment were collected by interviewing 165 individuals with mental health problems and a control group of 165 people from the general population. <i>Results</i>: Harassment in the community was found to be twice as common for individuals with mental health problems (41%) than for those in the general population (15%). The harassment commonly involved verbal abuse referring to the individual's mental health problems and was committed primarily by teenagers and neighbours. <i>Conclusions</i>: Harassment has a significantly higher prevalence among individuals with mental health problems living in the community and is believed to have a detrimental effect on mental health

THE TREATMENT OF ASYMMETRIC JURISDICTION CLAUSES IN FINANCIAL CONTRACTS IN FRANCE AND ENGLAND

Recent case law demonstrates a significant difference in approach to the construction and validity of asymmetric jurisdiction clauses under the Brussels 1 bis regulation (Regulation 1215/2012), and its predecessors, by the courts in England and France. In this paper, the compatibility of such clauses with Article 25 of Regulation 1215/2012 is considered. The relevant case law of the French courts and the English courts is then analysed. The paper concludes that there are good commercial and legal reasons to uphold such clauses in a commercial context between parties of presumptively equal bargaining power. The doubts expressed by the French courts should therefore be set aside

Image degradation in a diffusion transfer process

The Diffusion Transfer Process is now widely used in the Graphic Arts industry, and it is important to determine to what length different factors affect the optimum use of it. The effects of exposure, age of the processing solution, and line frequently on the image quality of the Kodak PMT system were studied. Exposure was varied by exposing the material to a standard illuminance for different amounts of time; the processing solution was aged by bubbling air through it for varied amounts of time; line frequency was varied by using a Kodak sinusoidal target and examining the images of two different frequencies. Data was obtained from microdensitometer traces of the images produced and statistically analyzed to determine the significance of the factors involved. It was found that line frequency was the most signficant factor, followed by exposure and finally by the age of the processing solution. The interaction of line frequency and age of the processing solution was also found to be statistically significant

Aducanumab for Alzheimer’s disease: the never‐ending story that nurses should know

In October 2019, the American pharmaceutical company Biogen stated intention to apply to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the candidate drug aducanumab to be licenced as a therapeutic agent for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD). If approved, aducanumab would become the first new medication licenced specifically for the treatment of AD in the past decade; and approval in the US may be a precipitant for approval elsewhere

ベシクルの細孔透過過程

Tohoku University川勝年洋課

ベシクルの細孔透過過程

Tohoku University川勝年洋課