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Investigating the effectiveness of emotion regulation skills groups and service user perspectives
Background and aims: People with emotional intensity difficulties experience difficulties regulating their emotions without meeting the threshold for a borderline personality disorder diagnosis. Managing group relationships with a population that experience emotion dysregulation has been linked to chaotic group environments. This study explored the experiences of people living with emotional intensity difficulties and their relationship to other group members and facilitators within STEPPS-EI. It also looked at any other meaning the group may have and the impact on people’s existing relationships.
Design and method: Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) was utilised to explore the idiographic understanding of participants’ experiences. Participants were recruited through a NHS trust and interviewed using a semi-structured interview. These were subsequently transcribed and analysed using IPA.
Results: Three superordinate themes emerged: An emotional journey, developing group relationships and developing and understanding self.
Conclusion: The findings suggest individuals are on an ongoing emotional journey and experiences within STEPPS-EI becomes a part of this. Relationships within the group environment were impacted by differences between group members and require active management by group facilitators. Joining the journey of other group members appeared to improve people’s understanding of themselves, their ability to regulate emotions and the relationships with others
Inclusion of new LHC data in MMHT PDFs
I consider the effects of including a variety of new LHC data sets into the
MMHT approach for PDF determination. I consider the impact of fitting new LHC
and Tevatron data, which leads to clear improvements in some PDF uncertainties.
There are specific issues with ATLAS 7 TeV jet data and I include a discussion
of the treatment of correlated uncertainties and briefly the effects of NNLO
corrections. I also present preliminary results with the inclusion of the high
precison final ATLAS 7 TeV rapidity-dependent data.Comment: 6 pages. To appear in proceedings of DIS2017 Worksho
Updates of PDFs for the 2nd LHC run
I present results on continuing updates in PDFs within the framework now
called MMHT14 due to both theory improvements and the inclusion of new data
sets, including most of the up-to-date LHC data. A new set of PDFs is
essentially finalised, with no changes expected to the PDFs presented here.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures. Proceedings of the 37th International Conference
of High-Energy Physics (ICHEP2014), 2-9 July 2014, Valencia, Spai
Updates of PDFs in the MSTW framework
I present results on updates on PDFs which are obtained within the general
framework which led to the MSTW2008 PDF sets. There are some theory and
procedural improvements and a variety of new data sets, including many relevant
up-to-date LHC data. A new set of PDFs is very close to being finalised, with
no significant changes expected to the preliminary PDFs shown here.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures,Published in PoS DIS (2014
Reasoning about preferences in BDI agent systems
BDI agents often have to make decisions about which plan is used to achieve a goal, and in which order goals are to be achieved. In this paper we describe how to incorporate preferences (based on the LPP language) into the BDI execution model
Acoustic characterization of crack damage evolution in sandstone deformed under conventional and true triaxial loading
We thank the Associate Editor, Michelle Cooke, and the reviewers, Ze'ev Reches and Yves Guéguen, for useful comments which helped to improve the manuscript. We thank J.G. Van Munster for providing access to the true triaxial apparatus at KSEPL and for technical support during the experimental program. We thank R. Pricci for assistance with technical drawings of the apparatus. This work was partly funded by NERC award NE/N002938/1 and by a NERC Doctoral Studentship, which we gratefully acknowledge. Supporting data are included in a supporting information file; any additional data may be obtained from J.B. (e-mail: [email protected]).Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Effective Heisenberg model and exchange interaction for strongly correlated systems
We consider the extended Hubbard model and introduce a corresponding
Heisenberg-like problem written in terms of spin operators. The derived
formalism is reminiscent of Anderson's idea of the effective exchange
interaction and takes into account nonlocal correlation effects. The results
for the exchange interaction and magnetic susceptibility are expressed in terms
of single-particle quantities, which can be obtained efficiently in realistic
calculations of multiband systems. In the strongly spin-polarized limit, when
the local magnetic moment is well-defined, the exchange interaction reduces to
a standard expression of the density functional theory that has been
successfully used in practical calculations of magnetic properties of real
materials.Comment: Accepted to Physical Review Letter
Tackling organised crime through a partnership approach: a process evaluation.
Background
In 2010 the Home Office set up an initiative to engage
Community Safety Partnerships (CSPs) across England
and Wales in exploring how local partnership working
could be used to more effectively tackle organised crime.
This report presents the main findings from a process
evaluation undertaken of the 12 pilot sites included in
this initiative
Taking boys seriously: Utilising participatory action research to tackle compounded educational disadvantage
This paper presents successive phases of Taking Boys Seriously (TBS), a longitudinal participatory action research initiative bringing together diverse educational bodies and indigenous educators across a highly stratified education system in a contested society. The voices and everyday life and school experiences of adolescent boys are positioned firmly at the centre of a research methodology aimed at re-engaging, empowering, and learning from marginalised boys. We discuss how a collaborative and reflexive process co-produced with a committed steering group has been vital in pursuit of systemic change. New concepts of compounded educational disadvantage, relational education, and an educational ecosystem have been co-theorised and applied in practical ways to counter deficit narratives and support holistic approaches and new partnerships across educational settings in Northern Ireland. Strengths and limitations of our participatory approach are considered, particularly in relation to the role and participation of boys in the research process
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