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Where did that come from? Countertransference and the Oedipal triangle in family therapy
Family systems therapists are uncomfortable using psychoanalytic terms. This reluctance restricts discussion of therapeutic process. How does one describe, for example, the therapistâs subjective experiences of the patient or
family? Psychoanalysts call this countertransference yet there is no equivalent word commonly used in systemic practice. Therapists who avoid the word may also avoid the experience and thereby risk losing sight of fundamental clinical events
Where is our humanity?
Consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr Sebastian Kraemer challenges assumptions and prejudices about claimants
Improved relay optical element for spectroradiometer using cryogenically cooled detector
By coating half of one element in the relay optical system of a spectroradiometer with a very high emissivity paint, the effect of the reflected radiation from the back of the filter wheel is eliminated optically. This causes the detector to view a constant level of radiation, regardless of how the reflectivity of the back of the filter wheel changes
The Cult of Statistical Significance
This article takes issue with a recent book by Ziliak and McCloskey (2008) of the same title. Ziliak and McCloskey argue that statistical significance testing is a barrier rather than a booster for empirical research in many fields and should therefore be abandoned altogether. The present article argues that this is good advice in some research areas but not in others. Taking all issues which have appeared so far of the German Economic Review and a recent epidemiological meta-analysis as examples, it shows that there has indeed been a lot of misleading work in the context of significance testing, and that at the same time many promising avenues for fruitfully employing statistical significance tests, disregarded by Ziliak and McCloskey, have not been used.significance testing
Observations of Outflowing UV Absorbers in NGC 4051 with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph
We present new Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/Cosmic Origins Spectrograph
observations of the Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4051. These data were
obtained as part of a coordinated observing program including X-ray
observations with the Chandra/High Energy Transmission Grating (HETG)
Spectrometer and Suzaku. We detected nine kinematic components of UV
absorption, which were previously identified using the HST/Space Telescope
Imaging Spectrograph. None of the absorption components showed evidence for
changes in column density or profile within the \sim 10 yr between the STIS and
COS observations, which we interpret as evidence of 1) saturation, for the
stronger components, or 2) very low densities, i.e., n_H < 1 cm^-3, for the
weaker components. After applying a +200 km s^-1 offset to the HETG spectrum,
we found that the radial velocities of the UV absorbers lay within the O VII
profile. Based on photoionization models, we suggest that, while UV components
2, 5 and 7 produce significant O VII absorption, the bulk of the X-ray
absorption detected in the HETG analysis occurs in more highly ionized gas.
Moreover, the mass loss rate is dominated by high ionization gas which lacks a
significant UV footprint.Comment: 41 pages, 10 Figures; accepted for publication in the Astrophysical
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