Outcome studies in group psychotherapy

The treatment manual is intended to serve more than one purpose. It is designed to be a research tool, making possible the standardization and validation of a treatment method. It is also a highly condensed primer and a practicum, offering a description of psychoanalytic group therapy which will act as a handbook for the beginner and as an aide-memoirefor the more experienced therapist. Many therapists will have had some experience with individual patients but wonder how they are to convert that knowledge into the practicalities of running a group, in which seven or eight patients are seen simultaneously. For young practitioners in a National Health Service setting, this can be a daunting prospect. It is difficult to do group therapy well, yet when it is done well it provides an invaluable therapeutic medium for a collection of patients it might be neither possible nor wise nor even necessary to see in individual treatment. In other words, there are many patients for whom a group is the treatment of choice

Questionnaire surveys to discover academic staff and library staff perceptions of a National Union catalogue

During the feasibility study into a National Union catalogue for the UK (UKNUC), a questionnaire survey was undertaken of the needs of both academic staff in higher education and library staff. A response rate of 40-50 per cent was achieved, 846 questionnaires being returned for academics and 724 for librarians. The analysis suggests that a UKNUC would be highly valued and heavily used by all categories. Academics felt it would have a positive effect on their information searching, and wished to include the holdings of the British Library, and libraries of both the major research universities and the ``traditional’’ universities. They wanted it to be comprehensive and easy to use, to include locations of both books and journals, and to facilitate subject collection searching. Library staff have similar priorities to academics, although there are more variations by sector and a recognition of a UKNUC’s value as a potential source of bibliographic records

Serious religion and the improvement of public manners : the scope and limitations of Evangelicalism in Hull 1770-1914.

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The churches and the iron and steel industry in Middlesbrough 1890-1914

This thesis surveys the rapid, growth of Middlesbrough, its basic Industry, and the establishment and growth of the Christian churches in the town between 1830 and 1914; but the work is particularly concerned with the years I89O-I9I4. It aims to discover the church's understanding of its mission in relation to the iron and steel industry and the society which it produced, in order to evaluate the church's successes and failures. The thesis begins with a summary of Christian social teaching in the second half of the nineteenth century to establish what ideas were current at national level (Chapter l). It proceeds to a study of Middlesbrough and its iron industry, as the environment with which the local churches had to contend (Chapter 2). The attitudes and activities of the churches are then examined in two chapters. The first of these (Chapter 3), discusses their institutional response in church extension, schools, hospitals, church life, missionary activity, and the 1904 religious census. The second (Chapter 4), considers the churches’ concern for personal morality, temperance, gambling, Sunday observance, the 1912 Church Congress, and the churches’ reactions to the iron and steel industry as the determining factor in the life of the community. The concluding chapter (Chapter 5), uses Richard Niebuhr's study, Christ and Culture, as a framework for a theological assessment of the church's work in Middlesbrough on the basis of what, in the earlier chapters, has been established historically

Design and rheological performance of microgel suspensions and microgel stabilised emulsions

This thesis describes the fabrication, characterization and applications of pectin based microgels. A variety of techniques commonly used to characterize colloidal and soft matter systems (i.e., particle size analysis, microscopy techniques and shear rheometry) were used throughout. Microgel suspensions were prepared in large quantities using a simple and scalable ‘top-down’ technique. This involved the fabrication of crosslinked ‘parent’ pectin hydrogels which were subsequently combined with a suitable solvent and subjected to mechanical disruption to yield microgel suspensions. Such systems are promising candidates as novel food additives for purposes of rheology modification and emulsification. It was shown that the rheological properties (viscosity and elasticity) of microgel suspensions can be tailored by varying the elasticity and effective volume fraction of microgel particles. The former is easily controlled via the elasticity of parent hydrogels, which in turn depends on the crosslinking density. The use of microgel suspensions as rheology modifiers is shown to provide distinct benefits over native polymer solutions and crosslinked polymer gels respectively. The ability to engineer desirable flow behaviour is likely to be a significant advantage to the manufacturerwhen developing new products or processes. Converting pectin to pectin microgels also improved their functional properties when such systems were used as stabilizers of oil-in-water emulsions. Microgel stabilized emulsions were more resistant against droplet coarsening on prolonged storage and when subjected to temperature cycling as compared to native pectin stabilized emulsions. Furthermore, the particulate nature of the microgels resulted in emulsions with enhanced rheological properties at the same overall biopolymer concentration

Going back to Sumter, again: tracing a stringband's experience in the folk revival

Going Back to Sumter, Again examines the ideologies and inner workings of the folk revival, through the experience of a South Carolina stringband. The Poplin Family of Sumter, South Carolina met with partial success in the folk revival of the 1960s. After a brief period of national exposure, their national career faded and they returned to local performances. Through archival research and ethnographic research with musicians, record producers, and family and community members, this thesis traces their career, and identifies the processes by which their music was edited and reframed as folk. Beyond the story of a single band, this research illuminates the flows of power within the folk revival, and draws conclusions about the ideological underpinnings of the revival.Master of Art

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Applied to a Glass Vaporization Chamber for Introduction of Micro- or Nano-Size Samples into Lab-Based ICPs and to a CFD-Derived (and Rapidly Prototyped Via 3D Printing) Smaller-Size Chamber for Portable Microplasmas

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is used extensively in many industries ranging from aerospace engineering to automobile design. We applied CFDs to simulate flows inside vaporization chambers designed for micro- or nano-sample introduction into conventional, lab-based inductively coupled plasmas (ICPs). Simulation results were confirmed using smoke visualization experiments (akin to those used in wind tunnels) and were verified experimentally using an ICP-optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) system with a fast-response photomultiplier tube (PMT) detector, an ICP-OES system with a slower-response charge injection device (CID) detector, and an ICP-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) system. A pressure pulse (defined as a momentary decrease of the optical emission intensity of ICP background) was not observed when employing widely used ICPs either with a CID detector or with ICP-MS. Overall, the simulations proved to be highly beneficial, for example, detection limits improved by as much as five times. Using CFD simulations as a guide, a rapidly prototyped, 3D-printed and smaller-size vaporization chamber (a scaled-down version of that used with ICPs) is being evaluated for potential use with a portable, battery-operated microplasma. Details are provided in this chapter