1,456 research outputs found
The intersubjective arena of the psychotherapy for psychosis: a phenomenological account of therapists’ experiences
New exciting literature that points to the significance of considering intersubjective processes in therapeutic work with people diagnosed with psychosis has been recently developed in the realms of phenomenological psychology and psychiatry. However, the research literature reveals an emphasis towards the exploration of clients’ processes and an underestimated inclination towards the in-depth exploration of therapists’ experiences that work from an intersubjective/interrelational perspective with this client group. Given this particular limitation, we therefore need a more detailed exploration of what this work is like, and how therapists make sense of this work considering this intersubjective turn. This project has therefore attempted to shed light on the intersubjective processes of psychotherapy for psychosis from the therapists’ point of view while emphasising how the therapeutic praxis can be grounded upon firm existential-phenomenological principles. The study explored the subjective experiences of six counselling psychologists and/or therapists who identified themselves as working intersubjectively with psychosis. After careful consideration, Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was employed as the most suitable methodology in order to explore the interviews and to gain insight into participants’ lived experiences of their relationships with clients. The analysis of data revealed four key themes: the primacy of sense-making, a relational approach to therapy, therapists’ processes in the rupture of relatedness and the lived experience of being-with. Despite the congruence with the limited literature on therapists’ lived experiences of their intersubjective work with psychosis, the results of this study also shed light on some neglected areas of consideration with regards to the therapeutic process, while encouraging the consideration of existential/phenomenological contributions towards both the understanding and clinical praxis of the psychotherapy for psychosis. This piece of work consists therefore of a significant contribution to the limited literature on phenomenological and intersubjective work with psychosis and is an essential addition to counselling psychology literature
Using the Balance Function to study the charge correlations of hadrons
We present the recent Balance Function (BF) results obtained by the NA49
collaboration for the pseudo-rapidity dependence of non-identified charged
particle correlations for two SPS energies. Experimental results indicate a
clear centrality dependence only in the mid-rapidity region. The results of an
energy dependence study of the BF throughout the whole SPS energy range will
also be discussed. In addition, the correlation of identified hadrons is
studied and presented for the first time. The study of hadron correlation has
also been extended in order to cope with the high multiplicity environment that
is expected to be seen at LHC. We will present the latest results from
simulations concerning the extension of these studies to the ALICE experiment.Comment: To appear in the proccedings of the "Quark Confinement and Hadron
Spectrum VII" conferenc
Scaling of transverse nuclear magnetic relaxation due to magnetic nanoparticle aggregation
The aggregation of superparamagnetic iron oxide (SPIO) nanoparticles
decreases the transverse nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxation time T2 of
adjacent water molecules measured by a Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill (CPMG)
pulse-echo sequence. This effect is commonly used to measure the concentrations
of a variety of small molecules. We perform extensive Monte Carlo simulations
of water diffusing around SPIO nanoparticle aggregates to determine the
relationship between T2 and details of the aggregate. We find that in the
motional averaging regime T2 scales as a power law with the number N of
nanoparticles in an aggregate. The specific scaling is dependent on the fractal
dimension d of the aggregates. We find T2 N^{-0.44} for aggregates with d=2.2,
a value typical of diffusion limited aggregation. We also find that in
two-nanoparticle systems, T2 is strongly dependent on the orientation of the
two nanoparticles relative to the external magnetic field, which implies that
it may be possible to sense the orientation of a two-nanoparticle aggregate. To
optimize the sensitivity of SPIO nanoparticle sensors, we propose that it is
best to have aggregates with few nanoparticles, close together, measured with
long pulse-echo times.Comment: 20 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic
Material
System Size and Centrality Dependence of the Electric Charge Correlations in A+A and p+p Collisions at the SPS Energies
The Balance Function analysis method was developed in order to study the long
range correlations in pseudo-rapidity of charged particle. The final results on
p+p, C+C, Si+Si and centrality selected Pb+Pb collisions at GeV and the preliminary data at GeV are presented.
The width of the Balance Function decreases with increasing system size and
centrality of the collisions. This could suggest a delayed hadronization
scenario.Comment: To appear in the proceedings of NPDC18, Prague, Czech Republic, 23-28
Aug. 200
`Third' Quantization of Vacuum Einstein Gravity and Free Yang-Mills Theories
Based on the algebraico-categorical (:sheaf-theoretic and sheaf
cohomological) conceptual and technical machinery of Abstract Differential
Geometry, a new, genuinely background spacetime manifold independent, field
quantization scenario for vacuum Einstein gravity and free Yang-Mills theories
is introduced. The scheme is coined `third quantization' and, although it
formally appears to follow a canonical route, it is fully covariant, because it
is an expressly functorial `procedure'. Various current and future Quantum
Gravity research issues are discussed under the light of 3rd-quantization. A
postscript gives a brief account of this author's personal encounters with
Rafael Sorkin and his work.Comment: 43 pages; latest version contributed to a fest-volume celebrating
Rafael Sorkin's 60th birthday (Erratum: in earlier versions I had wrongly
written that the Editor for this volume is Daniele Oriti, with CUP as
publisher. I apologize for the mistake.
Atypical case of post-partum cardiomyopathy: an overlap syndrome with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy?
A middle-aged female patient presented with increasing dyspnoea following delivery of her second child. Echocardiography showed left ventricular (LV) dilatation and severe global impairment of systolic function (ejection fraction < 10%) but normal right ventricular (RV) dimensions. Plasma B-type natriuretic peptide level was elevated. Post-partum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) was considered and after initiating appropriate heart failure pharmacotherapy, her symptoms improved significantly. Cardiovascular MR showed RV free wall dyskinesia and aneurysms at the LV apex, RV free wall and RV outflow tract. Genetic analysis showed a C11842T substitution in the titin gene (TTN). This is the first case to propose an overlap syndrome of PPCM and arrhythmogenic RV cardiomyopathy.published_or_final_versio
USING RESTRICTED NATURAL LANGUAGE FOR DATA RETRIEVAL: A PLAN FOR FIELD EVALUATION
One strategy that has been proposed for dealing with the
growing backlog for development of applications is to give
casual users languages for interacting directly with databases.
Yet, there is little agreement on the form such
languages should take. Should they be natural-like, conforming
closely to a user's native tongue or should they be
structured to take advantage of the characteristics of
formal languages?
This paper presents the rationale for and design of a
field evaluation of natural language for data retrieval.
The natural language system and application are described
along with the research design of the project. The results
of the first part of the study, a laboratory experiment
to investigate whether users perform better with an artificial or natural language, suggest that after equal
amounts of training no difference in subject performance
is found between languages using a paper and pencil test .
The insights gained to date are summarized.Information Systems Working Papers Serie
- …