Childhood Maltreatment and Suicidal Ideation: The Role of Insecure Attachment, Alexithymia, and Negative Urgency.

Suicide is a significant cause of preventable death, especially among young adults. Survivors of childhood maltreatment are at heightened risk of experiencing suicidal ideation and following through on suicide-related thoughts. Insecure attachment, alexithymia, and impulsivity (negative urgency) are known risk factors for suicidal ideation. However, the combined role of these variables in association with suicidal ideation is not fully understood. The current study tested the role of insecure attachment, alexithymia, and negative urgency in the relationship between child maltreatment and ideation via a path model in young adults between 18 and 29 (N = 441). We hypothesized that maltreatment would be directly associated with ideation and indirectly via three paths: one sequentially via anxious attachment and impulsivity; second via avoidant attachment and alexithymia; and through avoidant attachment, alexithymia, and impulsivity. We also predicted that negative urgency would mediate the link between alexithymia and ideation. Results indicate that child maltreatment was associated with suicidal ideation directly and indirectly via 1) alexithymia and negative urgency and 2) anxious attachment, alexithymia, and negative urgency. The effect of maltreatment on alexithymia was mediated by both anxious and avoidant attachment, and multiple paths mediated the maltreatment-urgency link. The effect of alexithymia on ideation was, indeed, indirect via negative urgency. These findings highlight the importance of maltreatment, attachment, and particularly negative urgency to prevent suicidal ideation. The results also reveal the need for interventions that target emotion regulation and impulse control deficits

Design of a half ton dehydrator for fish

A half-ton capacity artificial dryer has been designed at the Central Institute of Fisheries Technology for drying fish like Mackerel, Sardine, White bait etc. The dryer is a hot air recirculation type. 80 KW thermostatically controlled heating coils are made use of for heating the air. The air is circulated by means of an axial flow pattern fan. Drying takes place at a temperature of 115 degrees F. The structure of the dryer comes to about Rs. 20,000

The Central Institute of Fisheries Nautical and Engineering Training

The Central Institute of Fisheries Nautical & Engineering Training (CIFNET) was established at Cochin in 1963 by the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India. The Institute is the only one of its kind in India providing technical courses to train personnel for Ministry of Transport examinations for the various certificates of competency in the Fisheries, Navigation and Marine Engineering branches. Subsequently, to meet the increased demand of trained manpower for manning oceangoing fishing vessels, two units were started, one at Madras (1968) and the other at Visakhapatnam (1981)

Man-power needs for marine fisheries by 2000 AD

Formal training of operatives for marine fishing industry started in late forties when the erstwhile Deep Sea Fishing Station commenced training activities. However, organised training for fisheries personnel commenced with the establishment of CIFNET (erstwhile CIFO) and CIFE in the early sixties. The former catered to the manpower needs for operating the fishing vessels while the latter produced the managerial/administrative personnel for shore support. Today a number of fishery colleges and Agricultural colleges supplement the training activities of these two training establishments in fisheries-related disciplines. Accent on innovations of harvest and post harvest technologies of marine capture fisheries has necessitated upgradation and modernisation of training processes of CIFNET. This has been done following a series of studies and evaluations commensurate with the type and kind of technologies, breed and nature of craft and gear Introduced etc. In addition to meeting the domestic needs, the trained manpower is the national wealth which is spared (or development of industry in friendly developing countries to our advantage due to the inflow of foreign exchange. Reckoning the present pace of growth of our marine fishing Industry a projection of the manpower needs for 2000 AD Is attempted In the present paper. The nature and specialities of the human resources that would be needed that time have t)een attempted to be Identified and the innovation to be made in the production process are outlined

Mechanical Design Optimization of a Piping Inspection Robot

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The Course of SARS-COV2 Infection Was Not Severe in a Crohn\u27s Patient Who Administered Maintenance Anti-TNF Therapy Overlapping the Early Pre-Symptomatic Period of Infection.

The Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) population, which may require treatment with immunosuppressive medications, may be uniquely vulnerable to COVID-19 infection. In fact, there is some evidence these medications may inhibit the cytokine storm that is theorized to cause a rapid decline seen in COVID-19. In addition, the digestive symptoms of COVID-19 can be difficult to distinguish from the activation of IBD. We present an interesting case of a Crohn\u27s patient inadvertently administering anti-cytokine therapy during the pre-symptomatic period of COVID-19 infection. Immune suppression during early infection with SARS-COV2 risks a poor immune response to the virus and could theoretically result in a more severe course of infection

Use of methotrexate in inflammatory bowel disease in 2014: A User\u27s Guide

Methotrexate has been used an immunomodulator in many autoimmune diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease. However, many physicians are unfamiliar or uncomfortable with its use in the management of inflammatory bowel disease. We summarize the data for use of methotrexate in common clinical scenarios: (1) steroid dependant Crohn\u27s disease (CD); (2) maintenance of remission in steroid free CD; (3) azathioprine failures in CD; (4) in combination therapy with Anti-TNF agents in CD; (5) decreasing antibody formation to Anti-TNF therapy in CD; (6) management of fistulizing disease in CD; and (7) as well as induction and maintenance of remission in ulcerative colitis. An easy to use algorithm is provided for the busy clinician to access and safely prescribe methotrexate for their inflammatory bowel disease patients