Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Making Diagnosis Meaningful: Enhancing Evaluation and Treatment of Psychological Disorders

DSM-IV and its Antecedents - Enhancing Syndromal Diagnosis Meaning and Melancholia - Why DSM Cannot Ignore the Patient's Intentional System A Psychodynamic Approach to the Diagnosis of Psychopathology Case Formulation and Personality Diagnosis - Two Processes or One? The Role of Ego Mechanisms of Defence in the Diagnosis of Personality Disorders Assessment in Transitional Family Therapy - the Importance of Context Relationship, Subjectivity and Inference in Diagnosis Psychological Testing, Psychodiagnosis and Psychotherapy An Experiential Psychoanalytic Approach to the Assessment Process Depression - Intervention as Assessment Assessment of the Borderline Patient for Psychodynamic Treatment Re-Assessing a Person With Schizophrenia and Developing a New Treatment Plan.
Krylov subspace methods and the sign function: multishifts and deflation in the non-Hermitian case

Rational approximations of the matrix sign function lead to multishift methods. For non-Hermitian matrices long recurrences can cause storage problems, which can be circumvented with restarts. Together with deflation we obtain efficient iterative methods, as we show in numerical experiments for the overlap Dirac operator at non-vanishing quark chemical potential for lattices up to size 10^4.
Limite da validade de um instrumento de avaliacao docente

Este trabalho descreve e discute as qualidades psicometricas do instrumento de avaliacao docente de uma instituicao de ensino superior. As medias dos escores atribuidos pelos estudantes aos professores da instituicao foram analisadas pelas seguintes tecnicas estatisticas: analise fatorial exploratoria, metodo dos eixos principais e analise paralela por permutacao. Os resultados indicam que um unico fator explica 78,8% da variância comum dos itens, e que o coeficiente alfa de Cronbach e 0,98. Os resultados indicam um unico fator explicando 78,8% da variância comum dos itens. O coeficiente alfa de Cronbach encontrado foi 0,98. Tais resultados indicaram um instrumento confiavel e unidimensional que acessa a avaliacao socialmente compartilhada pelos estudantes concernente ao seu grau de satisfacao em relacao ao trabalho docente. Como uma das implicacoes, destacamos a necessidade de elaboracao de um instrumento de avaliacao docente mais adequado, capaz de identificar uma ampla variedade de acoes e comportamentos docentes dando enfase na percepcao delas pelos estudantes e nao na avaliacao dos docentes.
Emotion: The Self-regulatory Sense

While emotion is a central component of human health and well-being, traditional approaches to understanding its biological function have been wanting. A dynamic systems model, however, broadly redefines and recasts emotion as a primary sensory system—perhaps the first sensory system to have emerged, serving the ancient autopoietic function of “self-regulation. ” Drawing upon molecular biology and revelations from the field of epigenetics, the model suggests that human emotional perceptions provide an ongoing stream of “self-relevant” sensory information concerning optimally adaptive states between the organism and its immediate environment, along with coupled behavioral corrections that honor a universal self-regulatory logic, one still encoded within cellular signaling and immune functions. Exemplified by the fundamental molecular circuitry of sensorimotor control in the E coli bacterium, the model suggests that the hedonic (affective) categories emerge directly from positive and negative feedback processes, their good/bad binary appraisals relating to dual self-regulatory behavioral regimes—evolutionary purposes, through which organisms actively participate in natural selection, and through which humans can interpret optimal or deficit states of balanced being and becoming. The self-regulatory sensory paradigm transcends anthropomorphism, unites divergent theoretical perspectives and isolated bodies of literature, while challenging time-honored assumptions. While suppressive regulatory strategies abound, it suggests that emotions are better understood as regulating us, providing a service crucial to all semantic language, learning systems, evaluative decision-making, and fundamental to optimal physical, mental, and social health.
School-Based Interventions for Students With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Current Status and Future Directions

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is a relatively common childhood behavior disorder that typically is treated with psychotropic medication (e.g., methylphenidate), behavioral strategies, or their combination. This article provides an overview of the school-related difficulties associated with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. School-based intervention strategies including behavioral interventions, modifications to academic instruction, and home-school communication programs are described briefly. Several important gaps in the school-based intervention literature are identified with particular attention to the need for feasible, effective strategies that can be used in general education settings with a variety of age groups. An overview of the purpose and content of the special series is provided.
Are There Biologic Factors of Good Prognosis after a Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Injection for Tendinopathies

Libertiaux V1, Sancerne A2, Le Goff C3, Crielaard JM2,4 and Kaux JF2,4* 1Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium 2Department of Motricity Sciences, University of Liège, Allée des Sports, B21, 4000 Liège, Belgium 3Department of Clinical Chemistry, University and University Hospital of Liège, Belgium. 4Department of Physical Medicine and Sports Traumatology, FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence, CHU Liège, Avenue de l’Hôpital, B35, 4000 Liège, Belgium Journal of Exercise, Sports & Orthopedics Open Access Short communication
Cambios neuropsicológicos asociados a estimulación cerebral profunda en enfermedad de parkinson: revisión teórica

Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder attributable to midbrain dopaminergic cell loss within the substantia nigra. This causes a dysfunction of the basal ganglia manifested by motor symptoms such as tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia among others. With Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS), neurosurgery has emerged as a therapeutic option, being the subthalamic nucleus its main target area. Studies show significant improvement in motor deficits, but there is no knowledge on the neuropsychological changes in patients after DBS. A review of several studies that have researched the cognitive, emotional and behavioral changes concluded that most cognitive skills are either maintained or improved after DBS, but there may be adverse emotional and behavioral changes that are related to the core brain where the electrode is implanted and with its premorbid personality characteristics.
Acoustic‐phonetic features for stop consonant place detection in clean and telephone speech

This work classifies voiceless stop consonant place in CV tokens of English using burst release cues for clean (TIMIT) and telephone speech (NTIMIT). We compared the performance of cepstral coefficients to acoustic phonetics‐motivated features such as center of gravity, burst amplitude and relative difference of formant amplitudes. In clean speech, cepstral coefficients resulted in better classification. However, for test data from NTIMIT, acoustic phonetic‐based features outperformed cepstral coefficients, particularly if models were trained on clean speech. In addition, augmenting cepstral coefficients with acoustic phonetic‐based measurements resulted in the best performance. These findings suggest that cepstral coefficients are able to model speech in a given environment in finer detail, whereas acoustic phonetic‐based features are more robust to changes in environment, so that combining both types of measurements leads to the best performance.
Developmental Differences in the Use of Tense Aspect Modality in Narratives

Bu calismanin amaci, 3-9 yas arasi ve 13 yas grubu cocuklarin urettigi anlatilarda, Turkce’deki Zaman-GorunusKiplik isaretleyicilerinin kullanim sikligi ve islevinde bir farkliligin olup olmadigini, varsa, farklarin neler oldugunu arastirmaktir. Veri, Mayer’in (1969), bir cocuk ile kopeginin, kaybolan bir evcil kurbagayi ararken baslarindan gecen macerayi betimleyen, yazisiz, resimli, “Frog, where are you? ” baslikli kitabi kullanilarak, 112 Turkce tekdilli cocuktan ve 14 yetiskinden toplanmistir. Verinin nicel analizi, Zaman-Gorunus-Kiplik isaretleyicilerinin kullaniminda, yasa bagli olarak onemli farklarin bulundugunu gostermistir. Kucuk yastaki denekler anlati zaman isaretleyicisi olarak daha cok –mIs’i tercih ederken, artan yas ile birlikte tercih –(I)yor’a kaymaktadir. Verinin nitel analizi ise, Zaman-Gorunus-Kiplik isaretleyicilerinin tumcecik icindeki islevleri ile metin boyutundaki islevleri arasinda onemli farklarin oldugunu gostermistir
Le néo-institutionnalisme à l'épreuve de quelques faits historiques

Cet article se donne pour but de dresser un bilan des investigations néo-institutionnalistes concernant les économies «primitives» ou «archaïques». Cette littérature est en effet importante, notamment pour le néolithique, la Mésopotamie antique, la Grèce ancienne et l’économie médiévale européenne. Les contributions de J. Adams, D. North, M. Silver et C. Lyttkens sont ainsi privilégiées ici. Bien que la démarche de North ait évolué, il ne semble pas toutefois que celui-ci puisse produire des énoncés falsifiables comme il pensait pouvoir le faire en 1977. Si les explications fortement fondées sur l’efficience avaient une certaine cohérence, en dépit de faiblesses méthodologiques que cet article souligne, les résultats néo-institutionnalistes ne semblent pas avoir un fort contenu empirique. Les recherches ultérieures, et parfois assez différentes, des autres auteurs de notre étude, ne semblent pas donner une conclusion très différente.
Inhibition of Mengo Virus by Interferon

Gauntt, Charles J. (The University of Texas, Austin), and Royce Z. Lockart, Jr. Inhibition of Mengo virus by interferon. J. Bacteriol. 91:176–182. 1966. —The inhibition of Mengo virus replication in L cells resulting from interferon was studied quantitatively. Interferon was titrated on L cells with Western equine encephalomyelitis (WEE) virus as the challenge virus. One protective unit (PU) of interferon is the least amount of interferon which prevents cytopathic effects when a large multiplicity of WEE virus is added subsequent to overnight incubation with interferon. Ten PU of interferon reduced the yields of Mengo virus by about 90%. Larger doses of interferon, up to 220 PU, caused no further reduction in the amount of virus produced. Plaque formation by Mengo virus was also reduced in number by about 85 to 90%, but could not be further reduced. The plaques which formed on interferon-treated cells were reduced in size. We were unable to obtain a virus population with increased resistance to interferon action by use of five successive growth cycles in interferon-treated cultures. Analysis of the cell population for the proportion of cells able to act as infectious centers revealed that incubation of cells with 10 PU of interferon decreased the proportion of virus-yielding cells by 80%. The yield of virus per virus-producing cell was decreased by 40 to 60%. Despite the reduction in yields, plaques, and infectious centers resulting from interferon, all doses of interferon failed to prevent the complete destruction of the cells. Experiments with puromycin indicated that the cytopathic effects observed in L cells infected with Mengo virus required that a virus-directed protein be synthesized between 4 and 5 hr postinfection. The evidence suggested, therefore, that the Mengo virus genome was able to code for new protein synthesis in the absence of the production of infectious virus.
A Missing Data Imputation Algorithm in Wireless Sensor Network Based on Minimized Similarity Distortion

This paper presents a novel wireless sensor network data imputation algorithm based on minimized similarity distortion (MSD). Firstly, the MSD algorithm considers attributes of the sensor datasets besides spatial and temporal to achieve complete dimensional data segmentations. It improves the problem of ignoring both the relationship of different attributes and the similar details in local data area. After that, it computes the distance between data units to get the k-nearest neighbors of the data units with missing values. For every missing value, MSD gives K preliminary predictive values with linear regression. Finally, MSD take the weighted K values as the final predictive values. Experimental results on real public wireless sensor data sets are provided to illustrate the efficiency and the robustness of the proposed algorithm.
Circadian desynchronization triggers premature cellular aging in a diurnal rodent

Chronic jet lag or shift work is deleterious to human metabolic health, in that such circadian desynchronization is associated with being overweight and the prevalence of altered glucose metabolism. Similar metabolic changes are observed with age, suggesting that chronic jet lag and accelerated cell aging are intimately related, but the association remains to be determined. We addressed whether jet lag induces metabolic and cell aging impairments in young grass rats (2–3 mo old), using control old grass rats (12–18 mo old) as an aging reference. Desynchronized young and control old subjects had impaired glucose tolerance (+60 and +280%) when compared with control young animals. Despite no significant variation in liver DNA damage, shorter telomeres were characterized, not only in old animal liver cells (–18%), but also at an intermediate level in desynchronized young rats (–9%). The same pattern was found for deacetylase sirtuin (SIRT)‐1 (–57 and –29%), confirming that jet‐lagged young rats have an intermediate aging profile. Our data indicate that an experimental circadian desynchronization in young animals is associated with a precocious aging profile based on 3 well‐known markers, as well as a prediabetic phenotype. Such chronic jet lag‐induced alterations observed in a diurnal species constitute proof of principle of the need to develop preventive treatments in jet‐lagged persons and shift workers. —Grosbellet, E. , Zahn, S. , Arrivé, M. , Dumont, S. , Gourmelen, S. , Pévet, P., Challet, E. , Criscuolo, F. Circadian desynchronization triggers premature cellular aging in a diurnal rodent. FASEB J. 29, 4794–4803 (2015). www.fasebj. org
Effect of analysis strategy on reproducibility of detected fMRI activations

The primary goal of image analysis in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) activation studies is usually to detect and delineate the image areas that have a signal intensity time course, which can be related to the experimental parameters. The task is challenging because the images are noisy and often corrupted by motion. The problem is typically solved using a statistical testing procedure. First, a statistical parametric map (SPM) is created. Thereafter, either a non-active or active state is assigned to each voxel. We will call this the segmentation phase, as the goal of this step is to divide the statistical parametric map into non-active and active regions. The statistical parametric maps are often computed using the general linear model that subsume for example the simple t test [1, 2]. A commonly used segmentation method is intensity thresholding. The voxels whose statistical value is larger than a predefined threshold, directly related to the significance level of a statistical test, are classified as active. One way to improve the segmentation is to utilize an assumption that the probability of the activation is related to the existence of activation in the spatial neighborhood of a voxel. This a priori assumption can be incorporated into the classification procedure by using so called contextual methods. Previously, a computationally efficient contextual clustering algorithm for the segmentation of statistical parametric maps was introduced [3]. In the contextual clustering algorithm, both statistical parametric values and classification information from the neighborhood of each voxel are iteratively used to make a decision whether a voxel is active or not. The goal of the present study was to analyze the reproducibility of segmentation. Especially, the effect of contextual information on the reproducibility was studied. Additionally, we studied if a reproducibility index could be used to choose the segmentation parameters in an objective way. 2 Materials and Methods
Synchronous electrogastrographic and manometric study of the stomach as an esophageal substitute.

AIM To investigate the electric and contractile mechanisms involved in the deranged function of the transposed stomach in relation to the course of the symptoms and the changes in contractile and electrical parameters over time. METHODS Twenty-one patients after subtotal esophagectomy and 18 healthy volunteers were studied. Complaints were compiled by using a questionnaire, and a symptom score was formed. Synchronous electrogastrography and gastric manometry were performed in the fasting state and postprandially. RESULTS Eight of the operated patients were symptom-free and 13 had symptoms. The durations of the postoperative periods for the symptomatic (9.1+/-6.5 mo) and the asymptomatic (28.3+/-8.8 mo) patients were significantly different. The symptom score correlated negatively with the time that had elapsed since the operation. The percentages of the dominant frequency in the normogastric, bradygastric and tachygastric ranges differed significantly between the controls and the patients. A significant difference was detected between the power ratio of the controls and that of the patients. The occurrence of tachygastria in the symptomatic and the symptom-free patients correlated negatively both with the time that had elapsed and with the symptom score. There was a significant increase in motility index after feeding in the controls, but not in the patients. The contractile activity of the stomach increased both in the controls and in the symptom-free patients. In contrast, in the group of symptomatic patients, the contractile activity decreased postprandially as compared with the fasting state. CONCLUSION The patients' post-operative complaints and symptoms change during the post-operative period and correlate with the parameters of the myoelectric and contractile activities of the stomach. Tachygastria seems to be the major pathogenetic factor involved in the contractile dysfunction.
Undertreatment of rhinitis symptoms in Europe: findings from a cross‐sectional questionnaire survey

Background: Allergic rhinitis is a frequent disease affecting one in five Europeans with a significant impact on patient quality of life, health‐care costs, and economic productivity. Although effective treatments exist, the disease often remains undiagnosed and not correctly treated, despite clear diagnostic and therapeutic guidelines from WHO, EAACI (European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology), and GA2LEN (Global Allergy and Asthma European Network). This study elucidates the reasons for this discrepancy from the patients’ point of view.
Endovascular intervention of intradural hemorrhage from ruptured spontaneous vertebral artery dissection.

OBJECTIVE To study the therapeutic effect of endovascular treatment for intradural hemorrhage from ruptured spontaneous vertebral artery dissections (SVAD) using Guglielmi detachable coils and mechanical coils. METHODS The retrospective study was carried out in the Department of Interventional Radiology, Rizhao People`s Hospital, Rizhao, China from January 2008 to December 2011. Twelve patients with intradural hemorrhage from ruptured SVAD underwent endovascular embolization treatment after imaging and clinical evaluation. The aneurysm lumen and the parent artery were embolized with Guglielmi detachable coils and mechanical coils. Guglielmi detachable coils were used to embolize the aneurysm lumen and the parent artery adjacent to the aneurysm. Mechanical coils were used to embolize the parent artery. RESULTS All lesions were proximal to the posterior inferior cerebellar artery origin. All patients had successful outcomes without any other complications. Angiograms immediately after embolization demonstrated complete occlusions. There were no patient deaths during the study. All cases resulted in complete occlusions, and no rebleeding or ischemia occurred during the 6-36 month follow-up period. CONCLUSION Endovascular intervention with Guglielmi detachable coils and mechanical coils is a safe and efficacious method for treating intradural hemorrhage from ruptured SVAD.
Revisão de uma escala para avaliar atitudes de estudantes de medicina

espanolEl objetivo del presente estudio fue revisar una escala para medir actitudes de estudiantes de medicina y verificar evidencias de validez de constructo y consistencia interna en la escala revisada. La escala original, compuesta por 102 items, fue aplicada a una muestra de 310 estudiantes de diferentes semestres del curso de medicina, con edades de entre 18 y 47 anos (M=23,2 e DP=3,6), siendo el 54,2% de sexo femenino. A fin de investigar la estructura del instrumento, fue realizado el procedimiento de Analisis de Componentes Principales con rotacion Promax. El numero de componentes extraido fue definido mediante Analisis Paralelo. La solucion final con seis componentes principales explico 39,2% de la variancia total. Los indices de consistencia interna (Alfa de Cronbach) de los componentes variaron entre 0,65 y 0,87. A escala revisada, compuesta por 50 items, presenta evidencias satisfactorias de validez de constructo y de consistencia interna en la muestra investigada. EnglishThe objective of the present study was to revise a scale to measure attitudes of medical students and to verify internal consistency and construct validity evidence of the revised scale. The original scale, consisting of 102 items, was administered to a sample of 310 students in different phases of medical school with ages varying between 18 and 47 years (M=23.2 and DP=3.6), 54.2% being female. To investigate the internal structure of the instrument, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) with Promax rotation was performed. Parallel Analysis was used to define the number of components to extract. The final solution of six principal components explained 39.2% of the total variance. The internal consistency indices (Cronbach’s Alpha) of the six components varied between 0.65 and 0.87. The revised scale, consisting of 50 items, presents satisfactory internal consistency and construct validity evidence in the studied sample. portuguesO objetivo do presente estudo foi revisar uma escala para avaliar atitudes de estudantes de medicina, verificando evidencias de validade de construto e consistencia interna. A escala original com 102 itens foi administrada em amostra de 310 estudantes de diferentes fases do curso de medicina, com idades entre 18 e 47 anos (M=23,2 e DP=3,6), sendo 54,2% do sexo feminino. Para investigar a estrutura do instrumento, foi realizada analise de componentes principais com rotacao Promax. O numero de componentes extraidos foi definido por analise paralela. A solucao final com seis componentes principais explicou 39,2% da variância total. Os indices de consistencia interna (alfa de Cronbach) dos seis componentes variaram entre 0,65 e 0,87. A escala revisada de 50 itens apresenta evidencias satisfatorias de validade de construto e de consistencia interna na amostra pesquisada.