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Prolonged Exposure: An Effective Treatment for PTSD in Military Personnel
No full textAbstract This paper describes prolonged exposure therapy, an empirically supported treatment for PTSD. The treatment has been applied with success in reducing PTSD symptoms in civilians and military personnel. After presenting the theoretical foundation for the treatment, the core elements of in vivo and imaginal forms of prolonged exposure therapy are presented. Empirical studies are cited that either lend support to or identify limitations of administering prolonged exposure therapy to military personnel. Research on the cross-cultural usefulness of prolonged exposure therapy with military personnel is needed
LANGUAGE IN INDIA Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow Insight through Body Language and Non-verbal Communication References In Tirukkural
No full textAbstract Nonverbal Communication may be defined as transfer of messages without words. It comprises visible expressions like touching, eye contacts and gazes, facial expressions and intonations, as well as less noticeable messages like dress, posture and space between human beings. There are clear distinctions between the meanings we offer in words and the meanings we give off in nonverbal signs. Senders and receivers simultaneously encode and decode the meanings of the messages in non-verbal communication and it can be considered as an interactive medium in human communication. Around sixty five percent of the social meanings of the messages are exchanged with others non-verbally. Human emotions can effectively be transformed through nonverbal communication and are likely to influence others' perceptions
Inclusion of meal from Artocarpus altilis fruit in diets for pre-fattening pigs
No full textAbstrAct In the Baracoa and Maisí municipalities, Guantánamo province, the bromatological composition of the meal from Artocarpus altilis (breadfruit) fruit and its inclusion in diets for pre-fattening pigs was evaluated. Forty eight Yorkland x Duroc hybrid animals, 33 days old and with 6 kg of live weight as average, were used. The design was completely randomized, of simple classification and with four replications, each of them constituted by three animals. The treatments consisted in: a control in which only concentrate feed, composed by corn and soybean meal, was consumed (T1); inclusion of 10 % meal from A. altilis fruit (MFBT) in the concentrate as substitute of corn (T2); 20 % of MFBT (T3) and 30 % of MFBT (T4). It was found that the meal from A. altilis fruit is a source rich in starch, sucrose, glucose and fructose; in addition, it is very poor in lipids (0,71 %) and has a moderate protein (5,80 %) and fiber content (7,74 %). The tannin and saponin concentrations were high. Equal values of viability (100 %) and intake (34,5 kg) were obtained in all the treatments. Only the diet that included 10 % of the MFBT did not differ significantly with regards to the control in the other evaluated indicators. The economic impact obtained with this diet allowed to save US $23,19 per ton of live weight produced as compared with the control. To include 10 % of the MFBT as maximum limit in the diets for pre-fattening pigs is recommended
Paper 2-5 by the HWWI Research Programme International Trade and Development HWWI Research Institutional and Structural Problems of China's Foreign Exchange Market and the RMB's Role in East Asia Institutional and Structural Problems of China's Foreign Ex
No full textOctober 2006 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the publisher. Institutional and Structural Problems of China's Foreign Exchange Market and the RMB's Role in East Asia Zhang Jikang and Liang Yuanyuan* Abstract This paper examines the structural characteristics of China's inter-bank foreign exchange market and evaluates the prospects for the renminbi to become a regional lead currency. While China has made considerable progress in reforming her foreign exchange market and thereby set the preconditions for gradually moving toward more flexibility in her exchange regime, the foreign exchange market is still hampered by several structural and institutional problems that will continue to put a constraint on the renminbi's role in East Asia
Incorporating the Sympson-Hetter Exposure Control Method into the a-Stratified Method with Content Blocking
No full textshown that the astratified method with content blocking (STR_C) performed well in content balancing constrained computerized adaptive tests (CATs). It effectively reduced the exposure rates of highly discriminating items, produced more balanced item usage within a pool, and maintained measurement precision. This method, however, does not have a mechanism that can fix (prespecify) the maximum item exposure rate. In the current study, the Sympson-Hetter exposure control procedur
[AMT13] Photodimerization and photocycloaddition of 2-cyclohexenone in confined space of cation-exchanged Y zeolites
No full textExact Dipole Radiation for an Oblate Spheroidal Cavity Filled With Isorefractive Material and Aperture-Coupled to a Half Space
No full textAbstract-An oblate semi-spheroidal cavity flush-mounted under a metal plane and coupled to the half-space above it via its circular interfocal aperture is considered. The cavity is filled with a material isorefractive to the medium that occupies the half-space above it. An exact solution is obtained for the radiation of an electric or magnetic dipole located on the symmetry axis of the structure, either outside or inside the cavity, and axially oriented. Numerical results are provided
THE BOGOLUBOV REPRESENTATION OF THE POLARON MODEL AND ITS COMPLETELY INTEGRABLE RPA-APPROXIMATION PART 1
No full textAbstract The polaron model in ionic crystal is studied in the N. Bogolubov representation using a special RPA-approximation. A new exactly solvable approximated polaron model is derived and described in detail. Its free energy at finite temperature is calculated analytically. The polaron free energy in the constant magnetic field at finite temperature is also discussed. Based on the structure of the N. Bogolubov unitary transformed polaron Hamiltonian a very important new result is stated: the full polaron model is exactly solvable
Antinociceptive Activity of Methanol Extract of Muntingia calabura Leaves and the Mechanisms of Action Involved
No full textMuntingia calabura L. (family Elaeocarpaceae) has been traditionally used to relieve various pain-related ailments. The present study aimed to determine the antinociceptive activity of methanol extract of M. calabura leaves (MEMC) and to elucidate the possible mechanism of antinociception involved. The in vivo chemicals (acetic acid-induced abdominal constriction and formalin-, capsaicin-, glutamate-, serotonin-induced paw licking test) and thermal (hot plate test) models of nociception were used to evaluate the extract antinociceptive activity. The extract (100, 250, and 500 mg/kg) was administered orally 60 min prior to subjection to the respective test. The results obtained demonstrated that MEMC produced significant (P < 0.05) antinociceptive response in all the chemical-and thermal-induced nociception models, which was reversed after pretreatment with 5 mg/kg naloxone, a non-selective opioid antagonist. Furthermore, pretreatment with L-arginine (a nitric oxide (NO) donor), N G -nitro-L-arginine methyl esters (L-NAME; an inhibitor of NO synthase (NOS)), methylene blue (MB; an inhibitor of cyclic-guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) pathway), or their combination also caused significant (P < 0.05) change in the intensity of the MEMC antinociception. In conclusion, the MEMC antinociceptive activity involves activation of the peripheral and central mechanisms, and modulation via, partly, the opioid receptors and NO/cGMP pathway