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Impulsive Behaviors in Patients With Pathological Buying
Aim To investigate impulsive behaviors in pathological buying (PB). Methods The study included three groups matched for age and gender: treatment seeking outpatients with PB (PB+), treatment seeking psychiatric inpatients without PB (PBβ), and a healthy control group (HC). PB was assessed by means of the Compulsive Buying Scale and by the impulse control disorder (ICD) module of the research version of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID-ICD). All participants answered questionnaires concerning symptoms of borderline personality disorder, self-harming behaviors, binge eating and symptoms of attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In addition, comorbid ICDs were assessed using the SCID-ICD. Results The PB+ and PBβ groups did not differ with regard to borderline personality disorder or ADHD symptoms, but both groups reported significantly more symptoms than the HC group. Frequencies of self-harming behaviors did not differ between the three groups. Patients with PB were more often diagnosed with any current ICD (excluding PB) compared to those without PB and the HC group (38.7% vs. 12.9% vs. 12.9%, respectively, p=.017). Discussion Our findings confirm prior research suggesting more impulsive behaviors in patients with and without PB compared to healthy controls. The results of the questionnaire-based assessment indicate that outpatients with PB perceive themselves equally impulsive and self-harm as frequently as inpatients without PB; but they seem to suffer more often from an ICD as assessed by means of an interview
Lagrangian Statistics and Temporal Intermittency in a Shell Model of Turbulence
We study the statistics of single particle Lagrangian velocity in a shell
model of turbulence. We show that the small scale velocity fluctuations are
intermittent, with scaling exponents connected to the Eulerian structure
function scaling exponents. The observed reduced scaling range is interpreted
as a manifestation of the intermediate dissipative range, as it disappears in a
Gaussian model of turbulence.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
The Old Bailey proceedings and the representation of crime and criminal justice in eighteenth-century London
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, published accounts of felony trials held at Londonβs central criminal court, were a remarkable publishing phenomenon. First published in 1674, they quickly became a regular periodical, with editions published eight times a year following each session of the court. Despite the huge number of trial reports (some 50,000 in the eighteenth century), the Proceedings, also known as the βSessions Papersβ, have formed the basis of several important studies in social history, dating back to Dorothy Georgeβs seminal London Life in the Eighteenth Century (1925). Their recent publication online, however, has not only made them more widely available, but also changed the way historians consult them, leading to greater use of both quantitative analysis, using the statistics function, and qualitative examination of their language, through keyword searching. In the context of recent renewed interest in the history of crime and criminal justice, for which this is the most important source available in this period, the growing use of the Proceedings raises questions about their reliability, and, by extension, the motivations for their original publication. Historians generally consider the Proceedings to present accurate, if often incomplete, accounts of courtroom proceedings. From this source, along with manuscript judicial records, criminal biographies (including the Ordinaryβs Accounts), polemical pamphlets such as Henry Fieldingβs Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers (1751), and of course the satirical prints of William Hogarth, they have constructed a picture of eighteenth-century London as a city overwhelmed by periodic crime waves and of a policing and judicial system which was forced into wide-ranging reforms in order to meet this challenge
O uso do software IRAMUTEQ na anΓ‘lise de dados em pesquisas qualitativas
Objective: To describe the use of IRAMUTEQ software in qualitative data analysis. Method: A description for using a software program as a tool to support data processing in qualitative research, carried out in 2015. Data collection was done through interviews using a semi-structured script. Results: Twenty-one (21) companions participated in the study. The five classes resulting from data processing by the software allowed for analysis and interpretation of the nursing performance with the parturient as an active participant in the process of labor and delivery, and in the role of companion in this period. Conclusion: The use of IRAMUTEQ software as a tool for processing qualitative data through the Descending Hierarchical Classification emerged classes and a connection between them, which further allowed for secure and credible data analysis. It is necessary to explore the other possibilities of using this tool in greater depth
Effective interactions between inclusions in complex fluids driven out of equilibrium
The concept of fluctuation-induced effective interactions is extended to
systems driven out of equilibrium. We compute the forces experienced by
macroscopic objects immersed in a soft material driven by external shaking
sources. We show that, in contrast with equilibrium Casimir forces induced by
thermal fluctuations, their sign, range and amplitude depends on specifics of
the shaking and can thus be tuned. We also comment upon the dispersion of these
shaking-induced forces, and discuss their potential application to phase
ordering in soft-materials.Comment: 10 pages, 8 figures, to appear in PR
Atenção Γ s mulheres em situação de violΓͺncia: construção de modelo de educação permanente em saΓΊde
Objetivo: Propor um Modelo de Educação Permanente em SaΓΊde com estratΓ©gias vinculadas ao referencial das Cinco Disciplinas para o desenvolvimento de competΓͺncias dos profissionais que atuam na atenção direta Γ s mulheres em situação de violΓͺncia.MΓ©todo: Pesquisa qualitativa realizada pela tΓ©cnica de grupo focal, com 16 profissionais que integram uma rede intersetorial em Curitiba-PR, de agosto a outubro de 2019. Dados analisados por anΓ‘lise de conteΓΊdo na modalidade temΓ‘tica, Γ luz do referencial teΓ³rico das Cinco Disciplinas: domΓnio pessoal; modelo mental; visΓ£o compartilhada; aprendizagem em equipe; e, pensamento sistΓͺmico.Resultados: As Cinco Disciplinas foram evidenciadas nas categorias, bem como estratΓ©gias a serem utilizadas para desenvolvimento de competΓͺncias. Utilizou-se uma representação diagramΓ‘tica a ser percorrida durante processo de aprendizagem.ConclusΓ£o: As estratΓ©gias sugeridas pelos profissionais que atuam na atenção Γ s mulheres em situação de violΓͺncia apoiaram a proposição de um Modelo de Educação Permanente em SaΓΊde baseado no referencial teΓ³rico adotado.
Palavras-chave: Sistema de aprendizagem em saΓΊde. Educação baseada em competΓͺncias. Educação continuada. Educação interprofissional. ViolΓͺncia contra a mulher
Project finance as a driver of economic growth in low-income countries
This study investigates the role of project finance as a driver of economic growth. We hypothesize that project finance is beneficial to the least developed economies as it is able to compensate for a lack of domestic financial development. The contractual structure unique to project finance leads to better investment management and governance. Investigating 90 countries from 1991 to 2005, we find support for our hypothesis. Results show that project finance fosters economic growth and that its effect is strongest in low-income countries, where financial development and governance is weakest
Mycobacterium tuberculosis Responds to Chloride and pH as Synergistic Cues to the Immune Status of its Host Cell
PubMed ID: 23592993This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
Transcriptional analysis of temporal gene expression in germinating Clostridium difficile 630 endospores.
Clostridium difficile is the leading cause of hospital acquired diarrhoea in industrialised countries. Under conditions that are not favourable for growth, the pathogen produces metabolically dormant endospores via asymmetric cell division. These are extremely resistant to both chemical and physical stress and provide the mechanism by which C. difficile can evade the potentially fatal consequences of exposure to heat, oxygen, alcohol, and certain disinfectants. Spores are the primary infective agent and must germinate to allow for vegetative cell growth and toxin production. While spore germination in Bacillus is well understood, little is known about C. difficile germination and outgrowth. Here we use genome-wide transcriptional analysis to elucidate the temporal gene expression patterns in C. difficile 630 endospore germination. We have optimized methods for large scale production and purification of spores. The germination characteristics of purified spores have been characterized and RNA extraction protocols have been optimized. Gene expression was highly dynamic during germination and outgrowth, and was found to involve a large number of genes. Using this genome-wide, microarray approach we have identified 511 genes that are significantly up- or down-regulated during C. difficile germination (pβ€0.01). A number of functional groups of genes appeared to be co-regulated. These included transport, protein synthesis and secretion, motility and chemotaxis as well as cell wall biogenesis. These data give insight into how C. difficile re-establishes its metabolism, re-builds the basic structures of the vegetative cell and resumes growth
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