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Self Management and Telehealth: Lessons Learnt from the Evaluation of a Dorset Telehealth Program
Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group
Bridging the empathy gap: or not? Reactions to ingroup and outgroup facial expressions
Prior research suggests that group membership impacts behavioral and self-reported responses to others’ facial expressions of emotion. In this paper, we examine how the mere labelling of a face as an ingroup or outgroup member affects facial mimicry (Study 1) and judgments of genuineness (Study 2). In addition, we test whether the effects of group membership on facial mimicry and perceived genuineness are moderated by the presence of tears (Study 1) and the motivation to cooperate (Study 2). Results from both studies revealed group-specific biases in facial mimicry and judgments of genuineness. However, introducing cooperative goals abolished differences in judgments of genuineness of facial expressions displayed by ingroup and outgroup members. Together, the findings provide insights into how intergroup biases in emotion perception operate and how they can be reduced by introducing cooperative goals
Aspects of Axion Phenomenology in a slice of AdS_5
Motivated by multi-throat considerations, we study the phenomenological
implications of a bulk axion in a slice of AdS_5 with a large extra dimension:
k~0.01 eV, kR > 1. In particular, we compare axion physics with a warped
geometry to axions in flat compactifications. As in flat compactification
scenarios, we find that the mass of the axion can become independent from the
underlying Peccei-Quinn scale. Surprisingly, we find that in warped extra
dimensions the axion's invisibility, cosmological viability, and basic
phenomenology remain essentially unaltered in comparison to axions in flat
compactifications.Comment: 25 pages, 9 figure
Perturbations of nuclear C*-algebras
Kadison and Kastler introduced a natural metric on the collection of all
C*-subalgebras of the bounded operators on a separable Hilbert space. They
conjectured that sufficiently close algebras are unitarily conjugate. We
establish this conjecture when one algebra is separable and nuclear. We also
consider one-sided versions of these notions, and we obtain embeddings from
certain near inclusions involving separable nuclear C*-algebras. At the end of
the paper we demonstrate how our methods lead to improved characterisations of
some of the types of algebras that are of current interest in the
classification programme.Comment: 45 page
Understanding psychosis complexity through a syndemic framework: A systematic review.
Psychotic conditions pose significant challenges due to their complex aetiology and impact on individuals and communities. Syndemic theory offers a promising framework to understand the interconnectedness of various health and social problems in the context of psychosis. This systematic review aims to examine existing literature on testing whether psychosis is better understood as a component of a syndemic. We conducted a systematic search of 7 databases, resulting in the inclusion of five original articles. Findings from these studies indicate a syndemic characterized by the coexistence of various health and social conditions, are associated with a greater risk of psychosis, adverse health outcomes, and disparities, especially among ethnic minorities and deprived populations. This review underscores the compelling need for a new paradigm and datasets that can investigate how psychosis emerges in the context of a syndemic, ultimately guiding more effective preventive and care interventions as well as policies to improve the health of marginalised communities living in precarity
The conceptual and practical ethical dilemmas of using health discussion board posts as research data.
Increasing numbers of people living with a long-term health condition are putting personal health information online, including on discussion boards. Many discussion boards contain material of potential use to researchers; however, it is unclear how this information can and should be used by researchers. To date there has been no evaluation of the views of those individuals sharing health information online regarding the use of their shared information for research purposes
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