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    Nexus: The Next Test of RICO\u27s Text

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    Expert Testimony in Child Sexual Abuse Cases in Montana: A Proposal for Change

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    Expert Testimony in Child Sexual Abuse Cases in Montana: A proposal for chang

    Expert Testimony in Child Sexual Abuse Cases in Montana: A Proposal for Change

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    Expert Testimony in Child Sexual Abuse Cases in Montana: A proposal for chang

    A Qualitative Service Evaluation of the Usefulness of a Group Based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Programme for Chronic Pain

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    Background In recent years Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) has gained increasing status as a promising approach to treating chronic pain physical functioning and psychological well-being. The basic premise of ACT as applied to chronic pain is that while pain hurts, it is the struggle with pain that causes suffering. This approach aims to restore effective and adaptive functioning for an individual within a context of continuing pain so that the individual can live a more vital and meaningful life. There is a growing empirical support for the effectiveness of ACT however research has relied on self-reported quantitative outcomes, focused on addressing changes in pain intensity and the physical and psychological impact of chronic pain. There appears to be a gap in the literature on the exploration of the experience of attending an ACT programme for chronic pain from the patient’s perspective. Aim This study sought to explore the experience of attending an ACT programme for chronic pain within an outpatient NHS hospital setting. Furthermore the study sought to explore the modulating factors influencing clients learning and understanding of the construct of acceptance from the perspective of the participants. Additionally, the experience of attending a group based ACT intervention was explored. Methodology A qualitative methodology was chosen for the project. The study used a purposive sample of twelve participants, who had all attended the Luton & Dunstable Hospital ACT 8 week outpatient programme for chronic pain. The participants were interviewed through the use of a semi structured interviews, and the transcripts were transcribed and then analysed using Thematic Analysis. Identified themes were further organised using the tool of Thematic Network Analysis. Results Three global themes emerged from the analysis of the data. The first global theme encompassed the participant’s pre-programme expectations and this theme highlighted the participant’s feelings of hope and hopelessness prior to attending the programme. The second global theme demonstrated the on-going process of living with chronic pain and highlighted the benefits and barriers to adopting and ACT based approach to chronic pain. Finally the third global theme addressed the experience of a group based intervention and included the positive and negative aspects of this experience for the participants. Clinical Implications & Conclusion Based on the results of this study a number of clinical implications were highlighted in relation to the future development of ACT programmes for chronic pain. These included suggestions in relation to engaging participants in such programmes. Notably, timing issues, validation of physical symptoms, and consideration of the potential barriers to acceptance and understanding of the benefits of adopting and ACT group based pain management approach were discussed

    The Evolution of Montana\u27s Privacy-Enhanced Search and Seizure Analysis: A Return to First Principles

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    The Evolution of Montana\u27s Privacy-Enhanced Search and Seizure Analysi

    The Effect of Optional Retrieval Practice on Long Term Retention

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    Retrieval practice is a well-researched cognitive strategy for improving memory for target information. A substantial amount of empirical research from several decades shows that retrieval practice has a positive effect on long-term retention of information. The current study aims to assess the effects of review activities using retrieval practice on long-term retention of course materials, and to examine their effect on test anxiety. Although some research has examined the impact of retrieval practice in course settings, there have been few controlled experiments and little research looking at the impacts on test anxiety. A multi-session exam review activity will be administered to participants taking a Cognitive Psychology course. Course content will be reviewed using a retrieval task and a restudying task. We hypothesize that participants will retain more information learned during the retrieval task than the restudying task, and engaging in these tasks may also reduce test anxiety. This study will use a within-subjects experimental design in addition to survey questions to assess those effects. Data collection is currently in progress

    Voices/Voces in the Borderlands: A Colloquy on Re/Constructing Identities in Re/Constructed Legal Spaces

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    While we believe that the work of healing our cultural dyslexia is partly cognitive, in and through this paper we have tried to enact the experiential aspect. We may approach the entrances of the borderlands through reading and thinking, however we believe that the borderlands is a phenomenon of living, a phenomenon of well-intentioned people interacting in deliberate and thoughtful ways with those who are simultaneously like and unlike us/them. The borderlands require that we bring our critical faculties to bear on life\u27s experiences, but, more often than not, we must suspend them in favor of more charitable and affiliative impulses. In the borderlands we eschew mind-knowing for feeling thought so that we can come to appreciate the joys and tribulations of those around us in a way that makes a difference that matters

    The Hunley

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    This travel article from the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism highlights the Confederate H.L. Hunley submarine. Resurrected from the harbor floor just four years ago, the Hunley is now stationed at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center in North Charleston

    An island full of tennis

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    This travel article from the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism describes the Family Circle Cup. Every April, 100,000 sports enthusiasts converge on Daniel Island’s Family Circle Tennis Center for one of the hottest professional women’s tennis tournaments around
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