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Cross-border collaboration, future for young professionals
Background: The international working visit of a Dutch delegation of 45 clinical psychologists (in training) and science-practitioners in September 2022 to their colleagues in Lisbon, Portugal as part of their post academic education program inspired young psychologists to realize a masterclass.Purpose: Exchanging information on specific treatment between the Dutch psychologists and the colleagues from the Portuguese Psychiatric Hospital Júlio de Matos. Method: A digital masterclass on EMDR treatment.Results: A mutual ambition for a long-term cooperation over the borders and exchange of knowledge which provides more uniformity and positive solutions for future challenges.Conclusion: Digital opportunities create positive implications for cooperation between countries which can lead to innovation and creative solutions.<br/
Mechanics of cooling liquids by forced evaporation in bubbles
Injecting a non-dissolvable gas into a saturated liquid results in
sub-cooling of the liquid due to forced evaporation into the bubble. Previous
studies assumed the rate of evaporation of liquid into the bubble to be
independent of the degree of sub-cooling. In our study we quantify the bubble
growth by direct observation using high speed imaging and prove that this
hypothesis is not true. A phenomenological model of the bubble growth as a
function of the degree of sub-cooling is developed and we find excellent
agreement between the measurements and theory. This bubble cooling process is
employed in cooling a liquid. By identification of all heat flows, we can well
describe the cool down curve using bubble cooling. Bubble cooling provides an
alternative cooling method for liquids without the use of complicated cooling
techniques
Development and validation of the characteristics of resilience in sports teams inventory
This multi-study paper reports the development and initial validation of an inventory for the Characteristics of Resilience in Sports Teams (CREST). In four related studies, 1225 athletes from Belgium and the United Kingdom were sampled. The first study provided content validity for an initial item set. The second study explored the factor structure of the CREST, yielding initial evidence but no conclusive results. In contrast, the third and fourth study provided evidence for a two-factor measure, reflecting (a) the team’s ability to display resilient characteristics and (b) the vulnerabilities being displayed under pressure. Overall, the CREST was shown to be reliable at the between-players and the between-teams level, as well as over time. Moreover, its concurrent validity was verified by linking the characteristics of team resilience with various relevant team processes. Its discriminant validity was established by comparing the CREST measures with individual athletes’ resilient traits. In conclusion, the CREST was argued to be a usable state-like measure of team-level resilient characteristics and vulnerabilities. To gain further understanding of team resilience as a process, this measurement could be used in future process-oriented research examining adverse events and sports team’s pre- and post-adversity functioning
Geographical distribution of selected and putatively neutral SNPs in Southeast Asian malaria parasites.
Loci targeted by directional selection are expected to show elevated geographical population structure relative to neutral loci, and a flurry of recent papers have used this rationale to search for genome regions involved in adaptation. Studies of functional mutations that are known to be under selection are particularly useful for assessing the utility of this approach. Antimalarial drug treatment regimes vary considerably between countries in Southeast Asia selecting for local adaptation at parasite loci underlying resistance. We compared the population structure revealed by 10 nonsynonymous mutations (nonsynonymous single-nucleotide polymorphisms [nsSNPs]) in four loci that are known to be involved in antimalarial drug resistance, with patterns revealed by 10 synonymous mutations (synonymous single-nucleotide polymorphisms [sSNPs]) in housekeeping genes or genes of unknown function in 755 Plasmodium falciparum infections collected from 13 populations in six Southeast Asian countries. Allele frequencies at known nsSNPs underlying resistance varied markedly between locations (F(ST) = 0.18-0.66), with the highest frequencies on the Thailand-Burma border and the lowest frequencies in neighboring Lao PDR. In contrast, we found weak but significant geographic structure (F(ST) = 0-0.14) for 8 of 10 sSNPs. Importantly, all 10 nsSNPs showed significantly higher F(ST) (P < 8 x 10(-5)) than simulated neutral expectations based on observed F(ST) values in the putatively neutral sSNPs. This result was unaffected by the methods used to estimate allele frequencies or the number of populations used in the simulations. Given that dense single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) maps and rapid SNP assay methods are now available for P. falciparum, comparing genetic differentiation across the genome may provide a valuable aid to identifying parasite loci underlying local adaptation to drug treatment regimes or other selective forces. However, the high proportion of polymorphic sites that appear to be under balancing selection (or linked to selected sites) in the P. falciparum genome violates the central assumption that selected sites are rare, which complicates identification of outlier loci, and suggests that caution is needed when using this approach
Meta-Stable Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking Near Points of Enhanced Symmetry
We show that metastable supersymmetry breaking is generic near certain
enhanced symmetry points of gauge theory moduli spaces. Our model consists of
two sectors coupled by a singlet and combines dynamical supersymmetry breaking
with an O'Raifeartaigh mechanism in terms of confined variables. All relevant
mass parameters, including the supersymmetry breaking scale, are generated
dynamically. The metastable vacua appear as a result of a balance between
non-perturbative and perturbative quantum effects along a pseudo-runaway
direction.Comment: 27 pages, harvmac, 6 figure
Bloch-Wall Phase Transition in the Spherical Model
The temperature-induced second-order phase transition from Bloch to linear
(Ising-like) domain walls in uniaxial ferromagnets is investigated for the
model of D-component classical spin vectors in the limit D \to \infty. This
exactly soluble model is equivalent to the standard spherical model in the
homogeneous case, but deviates from it and is free from unphysical behavior in
a general inhomogeneous situation. It is shown that the thermal fluctuations of
the transverse magnetization in the wall (the Bloch-wall order parameter)
result in the diminishing of the wall transition temperature T_B in comparison
to its mean-field value, thus favouring the existence of linear walls. For
finite values of T_B an additional anisotropy in the basis plane x,y is
required; in purely uniaxial ferromagnets a domain wall behaves like a
2-dimensional system with a continuous spin symmetry and does not order into
the Bloch one.Comment: 16 pages, 2 figure
The Merging System Am 2049-691
Spectroscopic and photometric observations of the peculiar object AM 2049-691
are presented here. Its systemic velocity is V(GSR) = (10956 +-30) km/s, and
the derived distance (H(0) = 75 km/s/Mpc) results 146 Mpc. A bridge is observed
between two very distinct nuclei whose separation is about 10 kpc, as well as
two tails that emerge from the extremes SW and NE of the main body and extend
up to 41 and 58 kpc respectively. The spectral characteristics of the all
observed zones are typical of H II regions of low excitation. The internal
reddening is quit high, particularly in the NE nucleus. All the derived
equivalent widths of the H(alpha)+[N II] lines indicate enhanced star formation
compared with isolated galaxies, specially in the NE nucleus; the equivalent
width corresponding to the integrated spectrum reflects starburst activity in
the whole object, and is compatible with a merger of two disk galaxies. All the
observed characteristics of AM 2049-691 indicate it is a merger, where a
overabundance of nitrogen is detected in one of the nuclei, which has the most
evolved population and would be the most massive one. The detected total IR
emission is not very high. The integrated total color B - V corresponds to a
Sc-Scd galaxy and its average integrated population is about F7 type.
Indicative B - V colors of the nuclei, corrected for internal absorption, are
in agreement with the spectroscopic results. The central radial velocity
dispersions at the nuclei suggest that the most massive galaxy would be the
progenitor of the SW component. The observed radial velocity curve shows the
presence of two subsystems, each one associated with a different nucleus.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Post-neonatal Mortality, Morbidity, and Developmental Outcome after Ultrasound-Dated Preterm Birth in Rural Malawi: A Community-Based Cohort Study
Using data collected as a follow-up to a randomized trial, Melissa Gladstone and colleagues show that during the first two years of life, infants born preterm in southern Malawi are disadvantaged in terms of mortality, growth, and development
Tasmania's aquaculture industry: a ten-year review of improved diving safety
Tasmania possesses a rich maritime heritage. Since European settlement, the Tasmanian economy has been reliant on its close links with the sea for trade. The unpolluted waters off its coastline support a substantial wild fishing industry.
Tasmanians have always enjoyed access to quality seafood. Until the 1970s, wild fisheries were the only significant source of revenue from fishing in the State. A natural progression of the Tasmanian's close relationship with the sea has been the development of marine aquaculture. After initial success with oyster and mussel farming in the 1970s, Atlantic salmon farming commenced in 1986. More recently, marine farming ventures have explored scallop, abalone and striped trumpeter aquaculture
Exact ground states for a class of one-dimensional frustrated quantum spin models
We have found the exact ground state for two frustrated quantum spin-1/2
models on a linear chain. The first model describes ferromagnet-
antiferromagnet transition point. The singlet state at this point has
double-spiral ordering. The second model is equivalent to special case of the
spin-1/2 ladder. It has non-degenerate singlet ground state with exponentially
decaying spin correlations and there is an energy gap. The exact ground state
wave function of these models is presented in a special recurrent form and
recurrence technics of expectation value calculations is developed.Comment: 16 pages, 3 figures, RevTe
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