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Mental Health Malingering and the Fraudulent Motor Insurance Claimant

Malingering is the intentional production of false or grossly exaggerated symptoms in order to obtain an advantage. Although it has been estimated that over 800,000 claims for personal injury in Road Traffic Accidents (RTA) were filed in the UK in 2012, no approximation exists forhow many involved malingering. This study attempts to understand what influences a psychiatrist to conclude that a claimant’s symptoms are not caused by an RTA and thus suggests the claimant is malingering. This article describes a study of Personality Assessment Inventory scores alongside collateral forms of evidence for 100 RTA claimants; all individuals seeking compensation for damages to their mental health. The results suggest that up to 40% of these claims could be cate-gorised as not being the result of the RTA. Significant differences emerged between those claimants diagnosed as having a mental disorder as a result of the RTA and those claimants who were classified as not having a mental disorder as a result of the RTA in regards to: employment status, level of injuries and scores on the paranoia scales of the PAI.The study emphasises how the assessment process is idiosyncratic and in need of further researc

Recent earthquakes near Whittier, California

This paper deals with recent earthquakes noted in a small area near and to the south of Whittier, California, culminating in a shock at 8:46 a.m., P.S.T., on July 8, 1929, which just barely attained destructive intensity. Since the establishment of the Seismological Laboratory and the first group of auxiliary stations of the coordinated network in southern California, installed in 1926 and 1927, earthquakes emanating from this district have been registered as follows: a sharp shock at 11:14 a.m., P.S.T., on October 8, 1927; a swarm of small shocks on December 30 and 31, 1928; and a group in May, 1929. Also, following the main shock, many aftershocks occurred within a few hours, and since then shocks have continued to occur, at increasingly long and irregular intervals, down to the time of writing

Hydrodynamic Separation of Solids from Solid-Liquid Mixtures

Several schemes for separating solid pollutants from water flowing in a closed conduit were examined. Separation based on the momentum differential between the solids and liquids and the centrifugal movement of a conveying liquid were both examined under turbulent flow conditions. The study indicated these processes to have limited applications, primarily due to the difficulties in withdrawing a significant fraction of separated flow and the deleterious effects of turbulent mixing. However, utilization of the differential momentum of solid particles and water when flowing laminarly through a pipe was found to be a viable separation scheme. Significant experimental separations (greater than 50 percent for pulverized coal and fly ash) were achieved. The experimental situation was modeled theoretically using particles approaching a sink located in a uniform stream. The theory closely predicted observed results for low velocity flows, with increasing flow velocity being the most significant contribution to deviations between experimental results and theory. The ratio of separated flow to flow passing the outlet was also found to affect the separation, but to a lesser degree than flow velocity. An application using small separator pipes in conjunction with a tank was shown to have potential advantages over using a settling tank alone. A second phenomenon which showed promise was based on the settling of solid particles which occurs in a slurry flowing laminarly through an inclined pipe. A flowing particle bed develops on the bottom of the pipe which can be efficiently and continuously removed. A theoretical model based on discrete particle settling was developed in this study which accurately predicted the substantial separations for fly ash particles flowing laminarly through a one inch diameter pipe. The most significant variable in determining the separation for a given solid in a given experimental situation was the velocity of flow, with higher flow velocities and associated increased turbulence resulting in poorer separations. Utilizing the information from this data, a design was postulated for a pipe settling system which has significant advantages over existing gravity settling systems

A study of dynamic forces in aircraft landing gear struts with relation to the optimum angle of suspension

This thesis document was issued under the authority of another institution, not NPS. At the time it was written, a copy was added to the NPS Library collection for reasons not now known. It has been included in the digital archive for its historical value to NPS. Not believed to be a CIVINS (Civilian Institutions) title.In the more recent years the problem in the design of aircraft landing gear have demanded more attention. One of these problems has been the optimum angle for suspending a landing gear strut in such a manner as to gain the most benefit from the spring system incorporated in the landing gear strut, The study of this optimum angle appears to warrant further analytical and experimental work, and, therefore, was chosen as an appropriate subject for this thesis.http://www.archive.org/details/studyofdynamicfo00woo

Experiments testing seismographic methods for determining crustal structure

This paper sets forth the results of experiments executed with a view to ascertaining the effectiveness of seismographic methods in the determination of the structure of both the more superficial and the deeper parts of the earth's crust