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TD_Supplement_Final – Supplemental material for A Hierarchical Integration of Normal and Abnormal Personality Dimensions: Structure and Predictive Validity in a Heterogeneous Sample of Psychiatric Outpatients
No full textSupplemental material, TD_Supplement_Final for A Hierarchical Integration of Normal and Abnormal Personality Dimensions: Structure and Predictive Validity in a Heterogeneous Sample of Psychiatric Outpatients by Timothy A. Allen, Colin G. DeYoung, R. Michael Bagby, Bruce G. Pollock and Lena C. Quilty in Assessment</p
Contract, Race, and Freedom of Labor in the Constitutional Law of “Involuntary Servitude”
No full textThe Supreme Court has yet to adopt and apply a standard for assessing labor rights claims under the Involuntary Servitude Clause of the Thirteenth Amendment. This Article suggests that one may be found in the leading decision of Pollock v. Williams (1944), which contains the Court’s most thorough discussion of the interpretive issues. Under Pollock, a claimed right should be protected if it is necessary to provide workers with the “power below” and employers the “incentive above” to prevent “a harsh overlordship or unwholesome conditions of work.” Although this is not the only conceivable standard, it does fit well with the text, history, and case law of the Amendment. The absence of any racial element, which might appear dishonest in light of the fact that most of the leading cases involved workers of color, nevertheless corresponds to the Amendment’s original meaning and appears to have important advantages from a doctrinal point of view. The Article discusses the legal and philosophical justifications of various labor rights in relation to the Pollock standard, including the right to quit, the right to change employers, the right to name the wages for which one is willing to work, and the right to strike.Peer reviewe
Supplementary.Tables_CitAD.Sex.MinorRev.May.16.2018 - Sex Differences in the Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Patients With Alzheimer’s Disease
No full textSupplementary.Tables_CitAD.Sex.MinorRev.May.16.2018 for Sex Differences in the Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Patients With Alzheimer’s Disease by Ye Tao, Matthew E. Peters, Lea T. Drye, Davangere P. Devanand, Jacobo E. Mintzer, Bruce G. Pollock, Anton P. Porsteinsson, Paul B. Rosenberg, Lon S. Schneider, David M. Shade, Daniel Weintraub, Jerome Yesavage, Constantine G. Lyketsos, and Cynthia A. Munro; for the CitAD Research Group in American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease & Other Dementias</p
Simulation of a Mixer - Settler Liquid Extraction Column
No full textTitle: Simulation of a Mixer - Settler Liquid Extraction Column, Author: Gary G. Pollock, Location: ThodeLagrangian interpolation and the Fibonacci search scheme were used in the steady - state simulation of a Scheibel extraction column on the IBM 7040 computer. The first technique allowed easy representation of graphical data in a form suitable for the digital computer while the second provided a powerful sequential search plan to carry out the trial and error
material balance calculation. The features of equilibrium and non-equilibrium models which utilized the above techniques are discussed and compared. The non-equilibrium model was also used to calculate the transient response which was then compared with experimental results. The Runge-Kutta-Gill process was used to integrate the transient
equations while Lagrangian interpolation was used to remove the restriction of a linear equilibrium relationship. Steady - state and transient experimental results used in the above calculations were obtained from the Scheibel extraction column in the Operations Laboratory.ThesisMaster of Engineering (ME
Characteristics of trypsin from the pyloric ceca of walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma)
No full textTrypsin was purified from the pyloric ceca of walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) by gel filtration on Sephacryl S-200 and Sephadex G-50. The final enzyme preparation was nearly homogeneous in sodium dodecyl sulfate–polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS–PAGE) and the molecular mass of the enzyme was estimated to be 24 kDa by SDS–PAGE. Trypsin activity was effectively inhibited by serine protease inhibitors, such as soybean trypsin inhibitor and TLCK. Trypsin had maximal activities at around pH 8.0 and 50 °C for the hydrolysis of Nα-p-tosyl-l-arginine methyl ester hydrochloride. Trypsin was unstable above 30 °C and below pH 5.0, and was stabilized by calcium ions. Walleye pollock trypsin was more thermally unstable than trypsin from the Temperate Zone fish and Tropical Zone fish. The N-terminal amino acid sequence of the trypsin, IVGGYECTKHSQAHQVSLNS, was found, and the sequential identity between the walleye pollock trypsin and Frigid Zone fish trypsin was higher (85–100%) than with Temperate Zone fish trypsin (75–90%), Tropical Zone fish trypsin (75–85%), or mammalian trypsin (60–65%)
User involvement in a Cochrane systematic review: using structured methods to enhance the clinical relevance, usefulness and usability of a systematic review update
No full textBackground: This paper describes the structured methods used to involve patients, carers and health professionals in an update of a Cochrane systematic review relating to physiotherapy after stroke and explores the perceived impact of involvement.Methods: We sought funding and ethical approval for our user involvement. We recruited a stakeholder group comprising stroke survivors, carers, physiotherapists and educators and held three pre-planned meetings during the course of updating a Cochrane systematic review. Within these meetings, we used formal group consensus methods, based on nominal group techniques, to reach consensus decisions on key issues relating to the structure and methods of the review.Results: The stakeholder group comprised 13 people, including stroke survivors, carers and physiotherapists with a range of different experience, and either 12 or 13 participated in each meeting. At meeting 1, there was consensus that methods of categorising interventions that were used in the original Cochrane review were no longer appropriate or clinically relevant (11/13 participants disagreed or strongly disagreed with previous categories) and that international trials (which had not fitted into the original method of categorisation) ought to be included within the review (12/12 participants agreed or strongly agreed these should be included). At meeting 2, the group members reached consensus over 27 clearly defined treatment components, which were to be used to categorise interventions within the review (12/12 agreed or strongly agreed), and at meeting 3, they agreed on the key messages emerging from the completed review. All participants strongly agreed that the views of the group impacted on the review update, that the review benefited from the involvement of the stakeholder group, and that they believed other Cochrane reviews would benefit from the involvement of similar stakeholder groups.Conclusions: We involved a stakeholder group in the update of a Cochrane systematic review, using clearly described structured methods to reach consensus decisions. The involvement of stakeholders impacted substantially on the review, with the inclusion of international studies, and changes to classification of treatments, comparisons and subgroup comparisons explored within the meta-analysis. We argue that the structured approach which we adopted has implications for other systematic reviews.</p
Art and the unconscious : a semiotic case study of the painting process
No full textThis dissertation is an attempt to design an interpretation model for the comprehension of unconscious content in artworks, as well as to find painting techniques to free the unconscious mind, allowing it to be expressed through artwork. The interpretation model, still in its infancy, is ripe for further development. The unconscious mind is a fascinating subject—in art production as well as in many scientific fields. This hidden part of the mind, being the source of creativity, constitutes an important foundation for many possible and valuable inquiries in multiple areas of knowledge. In the present study, the unconscious is approached from an art-educational perspective.
The nature of the unconscious is addressed through the theories of Carl Gustav Jung and Charles Sanders Peirce, as well as through the information gained from data the author produced herself during the experimental painting process she devised for this study. For psychological distinctions not addressed by Jung, the theories of Sigmund Freud are used to forward this inquiry into the unconscious mind.
A research method was created to bring Peirce’s theories into consonance with Jung’s amplification method. Since Peirce’s theories are challenging to read, to avoid misinterpretation, the author used Phyllis Chiasson’s 2001 book Peirce’s Pragmatism: The Design for Thinking as a secondary source. Peirce’s three modes of reality—firstness, secondness, and thirdness—were utilized to interpret artworks. This three-mode reality allows interpreters to reflect on their subjective feelings and then to compare them to collected data. The interpreters’ intuitive self-interpretations often correlate well with the more objective data.
In this approach to interpretation, the work of art is seen as a sign, in the Jungian as well as in the Peircean sense, and interpretation seeks to discover a sign’s objects—icon, index, and symbol. Additionally, the objects are studied in combination with Peirce’s designation of the sign’s character elements—sinsign, qualisign, and legisign. Peirce’s theory offers a logical and productive structure for approaching a variety of signs and reaching a multiplicity of interpretations.
Jungian theories inculcated a combined psychological and artistic perspective for the interpretation of artworks. Jung’s method of amplification is an effort to bring a symbol to life, and it is used as a technique to discover—through the seeking of parallels—a possible context for any unconscious content that an image might have. In amplification, a word or element—from a fantasy, dream, or, in this study, artwork—is associated, through use of what Jung called the active imagination, with another context where it also occurs. It must be remembered that unconscious images in artworks do not easily open themselves up for interpretation. One way to interpret possibly unconscious images is for the interpreter to become vulnerable by employing his or her own unconscious mind to interpret an artwork; such use of the active imagination can enable a subjective experience of the artwork on the part of the interpreter, who might thereby uncover unconscious content.
Moreover, in this study, Jung’s theory of archetypes is employed, in parallel with Peirce’s and Jung’s theories of the sign, to illuminate an artwork’s images by connecting them with collective unconscious archetypes. The author relied upon The Book of Symbols: Reflections on Archetypal Images (Ronnberg and Martin 2010) as the main source for interpreting possibly unconscious elements in the artworks. This approach is especially powerful when artists interpret their own artwork—possibly leading to a galvanizing self-discovery as they revisit past encounters, personal highlights, and other pieces of unconscious content that might reveal previously unknown meaning important to their life. By comparing archetypes to the unconscious content in their own lives, people can discover themselves.
Unconscious phenomena were approached on both the theoretical and empirical levels. Different methods and ideas were used to stimulate the author’s unconscious thinking while performing artwork analyses of three paintings: surrealist Salvador Dalí’s (1904–1989) Assumpta Corpuscularia Lapislazulina; abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock’s (1912-1956) The Deep; and one painting by the author herself, and for which the process of painting is videorecorded (www.astagallery.com/academic.html).
With regard to the third painting interpreted, the author is the study subject, and her artistic production is used as an opportunity to explore the unconscious mind. During the act of painting, an attempt is made to free unconscious thinking by fusing Dalí’s and Pollock’s methods as well as by testing multiple other methods. The author’s artistic production was conjoined with use of a technique that is called the verbal protocol method, which generates additional data not necessarily visible in the final artwork. This method unseals the artist’s tacit knowledge, which in normal circumstances remains silent.
In the verbal protocol method, the author, while engaged in the act of painting, speaks aloud the stream of consciousness that accompanies and guides the art-making activity; the recorded and transcribed monologue from the artistic production is supplied, in both Finnish and English, in appendices. This thinking-aloud technique allows a person to become more self-aware and to create more solutions while struggling with emergent artistic problems. Such narratives can reveal more about the painting than the completed artwork alone can convey. Along with the artist’s finished painting and the videorecorded material, narratives produced during the painting activity were interpreted. Moreover, the discoveries arising from the author’s interpretation of her own artwork are correlated with some of the latest research on the unconscious.
This study allows the reader-viewer an intimate glimpse into the author’s subjective painting experience and demonstrates the participation of the unconscious in an artwork’s creation. The interpretations methodology constitutes an interpretation model suitable for other artists and art educators to follow.
Keywords: unconscious, art, archetype, mandalaei tietoa saavutettavuudest
Correction: Global Burden Disease Estimates for Major Depressive Disorders (MDD): A review of diagnostic instruments used in studies of prevalence (Community Mental Health Journal, (2024), 10.1007/s10597-024-01302-6)
No full text\ua9 The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2024.The original version of this article unfortunately contained error in co-authors’ affiliation. The affiliations of authors Elia Abi-Jaoude and Allyson M. Pollock are swapped. The author Elia Abi-Jaoude is affiliated with The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, ON M5G 1
7 8, Canada and the author Allyson M. Pollock is affiliated with Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, Baddiley-Clark Bldg, NE2 4AX, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. Now, the authors are listed with their correct affiliations. The original article has been corrected
Heat Transfer to Sprays and Flowing Gases
No full textTitle: Heat Transfer to Sprays and Flowing Gases, Author: Kenneth G. Pollock, Location: ThodeAn experimental investigation of an Atomized Suspension Technique
system was carried out in an experimental apparatus of semi-pilot plant
scale. The complex gas flow patterns which occur in such systems as the
result of the interaction of natural convection and forced convection
prevented a quantitative analysis of the system. The problem was then approached by dividing the overall process into
a number of idealized studies; these were convection in the entrance region,
radiation to a gas, radiation to a cloud of droplets. A theoretical model was developed to predict heat-transfer rates
and gas temperature profiles in the entrance region (x/D < 2) of a
cylindrical coolumn. The model was verified experimentally. A theoretical gas- radiation model was developed using the zoning
technique of Hottel. Experimental gas-temperature measurerrents qualitatively
verified the model. An investigation of the established immersion cell technique for
the determination of drop-size distributions in sprays indicated that
this technique could not be used with any confidence in systems where
the spray is moving at low velocities. Several experimental devices and techniques were developed
throughout the course of this study.ThesisDoctor of Philosophy (PhD
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