Clinical Treatment Provider Attitudes Toward Sexual Offender Management within an Outpatient Treatment Center : Treatment Provider Attitude Survey

The present study\u27s foundation is based on research suggesting that the attitudes of clinicians regarding their clients have profound effects on therapeutic alliances, empathy, and staff burnouts, which may contribute to treatment barriers. Because professionally appropriate behavior often conceals stigma, misconceptions, and negative feelings that clinicians may have toward sexual offenders, an anonymous survey of attitudes, job burnout, and empathy was conducted in an outpatient setting. The survey instruments tap into some latent factors concerning the attitudes of clinicians, their perceptions of burnout, and their abilities to empathize with their clients. This research focused on describing a population of clinicians who work with sexual offenders in an outpatient setting in Pennsylvania. In this study, using anonymous surveys, data was collected from clinical staff who work with sexual offenders. Each packet of surveys contained a demographics questionnaire, a survey developed for this study entitled, Attitudes Regarding Sexual Offenders, the Balanced Emotional Empathy Scale, and the Maslach Burnout Inventory. Using SPSS statistical software, frequency distributions and item percentages were calculated for each of the survey question as a descriptive measure of this population. The results are descriptive in nature of the staff at this particular agency. Significant finding are presented and treatment implications are discussed

Complex Investigation of Successful Weightlifting Exercises

The examination of weightlifting movements has great significance in the contemporary research of training methodology from a number of aspects. One must mention here that -on the one hand, weightlifting is a separate field of sports, as a result, the examination of its movements contributes to the enrichment of the knowledge accumulated by the specific theories of various fields of sports; -on the other hand, weightlifting, is «the lifting of a weight» is the most widely used method in the process of developing different abilities in all fields of sports. Of course, the technical exercises used in competition, and those used in developing different abilities, are by no means equal. It is, however, beyond doubt, that the efficiency of both training and competitive performance can be increased only by biomechanical perfect, properly executed exercises

COMPUTER AIDED BIOMECHANICAL FILM ANALYSIS PROGRAM

It is a very big problem to analyzing high s eed films that researchers and coaches had made their athletes. Now we know a lot of very good filmanalyzing computer programs that made anywhere but these programs many times is on1 for research work not to sell. Big software houses (f.e. Microsoft, Borland, ...) have not any interesting this very special and narrow market. We accepted this but we need these pro rams. We decided to make ourselves a new program in 1991 and we think that we never will finish developing because new methods and aspects we will see tomorrow again. The program was written Turbo Pascal 6.0. It needs an IBM compatible XT or AT computer with 640 Kb RAM and minimum one flopp driver. The program automatically detected the screen driver and it has six main menu points. The first main menu point is DATA MANAGEMENT. We have choice to read data from a digitizer, from keyboard, from files. In this point we can see data on the screen or can print them (with velocities and accelerations). Here we can calculate the center of gravities of body segments and the total center of gravities of human body and weights of body parts by Dempster and Walton. The second main menu points is the graphics on the screen and on the plotter. We have to visualise the body as a little figure and any points of the human body that we digitalized before. The third point we can calculate some smoothing procedures. The fourth main menu point we have to compare two curves and the program calculate the difference between this two curves. The fifth point we have to calculate some angels and the velocities and accelerations of these angels. The sixth point program calculates some forces and torques if we know the mass of any body parts ( by Dempster)

STABILOMETRY OF THE FLAMINGO BALANCE TEST

INTRODUCTION - The Flamingo balance test achieves the requirements of simplicity, low cost and it is capable for mass investigations. In this test the subject is standing on his preferred foot, bends his free leg backwards and grips the back of the foot with hand on the same side, standing like a flamingo. The aim of this work was to characterise the Flamingo test using electronic stabilometry equipment, recording stabilograms, time functions in frontal and sagittal directions, as well as Fourier spec-tra, while solving this test. SUBJECTS AND METHODS - Ten physical education major university students I aged 21-23 years I took part in the investigation. We used "Adam-type" stabilometer for the measurements and a rotating chair for vestibular stimulation of the subject. The measurements started with testing in Romberg position, with opened and closed eyes. After these tests the subjects were rotated 10 times I n = 40 r.p.m. I and the investigations have been continued with Romberg and Flamingo tests. RESULTS - Figures demonstrate the stabilogram of the Flamingo test with time functions and Fourier spectra, with quasi-losing of the balance IN of Subject: 101. Excerpts of results, using the characterising radius of stabilogram: Romberg tests before rotating: R = 6.5 mm /opened eyes/, R = 10.1 mm /closed eyes/ . after rotating: R = 12 mm /closed eyes/, R = 6.5 mm /opened eyes/. Flamingo test R = 11.2 mm /opened eyes/We found significant correlation between the Romberg test data /after rotating1 and the Flamingo test: r = 0.811. CONCLUSION In summary, the results suggest the improving effect of the vestibular training on the balance of sport students and the applicability of the Flamingo test, completed with electronic stabilometry methods

THE CHANGING OF ROWING TECHNIQUE AS A FUNCTION OF EXERTION

In our paper we examine the effect of the added exertion on the changing of technique in the rowing motion under laboratory conditions, usin4 an ergometer. The Hungarian National Junior team of four helped us at the examinations, which consisted of an anthropometrical measurement and five steps of exertion on the rowing ergometer, where the spreading of the motions during the exertion period was determined by a computer (SELSPOT system), meanwhile the level of tiredness by the measurement of pulse and the acidity of blood in the intervals between these periods. The comparison of the levels of tiredness shown by the physiological characteristics and of the changings in the motion of rowing can help us not only in the detection of unique errors, but also of some constant technical ones, which are dealt with thoroughly in my lecture

Reduced Incidence of Slowly Progressive Heymann Nephritis in Rats Immunized With a Modified Vaccination Technique

A slowly progressive Heymann nephritis (SPHN) was induced in three groups of rats by weekly injections of a chemically modified renal tubular antigen in an aqueous medium. A control group of rats received the chemically unmodified version of the antigen in an aqueous solution. One group of SPHN rats were pre- and post-treated with weekly injections of IC made up of rKF3 and rarKF3 IgM antibody at antigen excess (MIC) (immune complexes [ICs] containing sonicated ultracentrifuged [u/c] rat kidney fraction 3 [rKF3] antigen and IgM antibodies specific against the antigen, at slight antigen excess). One group of SPHN rats were post-treated with MIC 3 weeks after the induction of the disease and one group of SPHN animals received no treatment. The control group of rats received pre- and post-treatment with sonicated u/c rKF3

KINEMATIC ANALYSIS OF SURFACE AND UNDERWATER FIN-SWIMMING

The aim of the study was to perform a comparative kinematic analysis of surface and underwater fin-swimming. Results of the experiments were obtained in terms of motion as well as maximum and minimum differences between the technique of surface and underwater fin-swimming

The transpleurodiaphragmatic laparoscopic approach of liver hydatid cysts of VII TH segment

Clinica Chirurgie II, Spitalul Clnic de Urgență, Sibiu, Spitalul Militar de Urgență, Sibiu, Departamentul de Imagistică Medicală, Spitalul Clnic de Urgență, Sibiu, Clinica ATI I, Spitalul Clnic de Urgență, Sibiu, Al XI-lea Congres al Asociației Chirurgilor „Nicolae Anestiadi” din Republica Moldova și cea de-a XXXIII-a Reuniune a Chirurgilor din Moldova „Iacomi-Răzeșu” 27-30 septembrie 2011Localizarile chistelor hepatice, cu precadere a chistelor hidatice hepatice în sectorul posterior, respectiv, segmentul VII, dificil de abordat în chirurgia „conventionaăa” deschisă sau laparoscopică, care frecvent necesită sacrificii parietale semnificative, uneori adevarate „demolări”, poate beneficia de un abord laparoscopic atipic, securizat, cu rezultate bune atât pentru pacient cât și pentru chirurg, cu un impact minimal, ce favorizeaza o vindecare repidă și o reintegrare socioprofesională precoce. Abordul transpleurodiafragmatic utilizand „Dispozitivul pentru aspirația chistului hidatic hepatic sau al chistului de ovar” (OSIM Brevet 120809/30.04.2008, Inventator – Dan Sabau) în asociere cu dispozitivul de fragmentare a continutului chistic, cu performanțe deosebite (OSIM Brevet no. 120810/30.04.2008, INventator - Dan Sabau) este cea mai adecvată metodă de soluționare a problemelor generate de această localizare posterioară, care devine astfel accesibilă pentru chirurgi, chiar și cu o minimă experiență în chirurgia laparoscopică sau toracoscopică. Numarul relatic redus de cazuri (3), nu permite decât formularea unor concluzii preliminare asupra metodei, care rămâne să fie validată de rezultate ulterioare.The localizations of liver cysts, and particularly of hydatid cysts, in the posterior hepatic dome (segment VII), difficult to approach in “conventional” open or laparoscopic surgery, with significant parietal sacrifices and “demolition”, require a secure atypical laparoscopic approach, with positive results for both patient and surgeon, with minimal impact, with social and professional reintegration and faster healing. Transpleurodiaphragmatic laparoscopic approach using the “Device for aspiration of liver hydatid cyst or ovarian cyst” (OSIM 120809/30.04.2008 Patent – Dan Sabau) associated with the remarkable performances of the fragmentation device for hydatid cyst content (OSIM Patent no. 120810/30.04.2008 - Dan Sabau) is the best way to approach these problems, accessible for surgeons with minimum experience in laparoscopic and thoracic surgery. The relatively low number of cases allows only the formulation of preliminary positive conclusions on the method; they are to be validated by subsequent results

Transposase-DNA complex structures reveal mechanisms for conjugative transposition of antibiotic resistance

Conjugative transposition drives the emergence of multidrug resistance in diverse bacterial pathogens, yet the mechanisms are poorly characterized. The Tn1549 conjugative transposon propagates resistance to the antibiotic vancomycin used for severe drug-resistant infections. Here, we present four high-resolution structures of the conserved Y-transposase of Tn1549 complexed with circular transposon DNA intermediates. The structures reveal individual transposition steps and explain how specific DNA distortion and cleavage mechanisms enable DNA strand exchange with an absolute minimum homology requirement. This appears to uniquely allow Tn916-like conjugative transposons to bypass DNA homology and insert into diverse genomic sites, expanding gene transfer. We further uncover a structural regulatory mechanism that prevents premature cleavage of the transposon DNA before a suitable target DNA is found and generate a peptide antagonist that interferes with the transposase-DNA structure to block transposition. Our results reveal mechanistic principles of conjugative transposition that could help control the spread of antibiotic resistance genes