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Low intensity CBT by mail
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There are many low intensity (LI) cognitive behavoural therapy (CBT) solutions to the problem of limited service access. In this chapter, we aim to discuss a relatively low-technology approach to access using standard postal services-CBT by mail, or M-CBT. Bibliotherapies including M-CBT teach key concepts and self-management techniques, together with screening tools and forms to structure home practice. M-CBT differs from other bibliotherapies by segmenting interventions and mailing them at regular intervals. Most involve participants returning copies of monitoring forms or completed handouts. Therapist feedback is provided, often in personal letters that accompany the printed materials. Participants may also be given access to telephone or email support. ----- ----- \ud
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M-CBT clearly fulfills criteria for an LI CBT (see Bennett-Levy et al., Chapter 1, for a definition of LI interventions). Once written, they involve little therapist time and rely heavily on self-management. However, content and overall treatment duration need not be compromised. Long-term interventions with multiple components can be delivered via this method, provided their content can be communicated in letters and engagement is maintained
Defining E-Novation
No full text"E-Novation" is defined as a combination innovation and e-marketing enabled by new collaborative platforms that are being developed and released using Web 2.0 methodologies, allowing for a different level of connectivity around the world. This chapter explores innovation and its contribution to firm performance, links to market orientation-and development of a new collaborative information platform to support innovation. E-marketing is also defined in terms of marketing in computer-mediated environments with emphasis on service-dominant logic (SDL) and collaborative value creation approaches. Aspects of the evolving new collaborative information platform such as the Semantic Web and Web 2.0 applications are discussed from e-marketing and innovation perspectives. Will "e-novation" challenge businesses to rethink how their employees will create or participate in collaborative groups with others where future revenue prospects appear to mainly from service development? This question is also explored through subsequent chapters in the book
Next generation collaborative information platforms
No full textCurrent new and next generation e-novation collaborative platforms are explored through a "Day-In-The-Life-Of" scenario in 2020 based on key semantic concepts drawn from chapters within the E-Novation book. Key themes for an emerging e-novation collaborative platform include: triple convergence (before and after), Web 3.0/4.0 – the Web is a brain, redefined collaborative communication, virtual/augmented reality, service-dominant logic (SDL), marketing and innovation, open-source creation, development and distribution, digital branding, CRM redefined, complexity and SMEs, e-novation office, e-novation curriculum, social graphing e-novation, and sustainability platforms and innovation. These themes are discussed both in relation to the current new collaborative platform and how they may develop from 2010-2020. E-novation will be the innovation and marketing social and business service
The David and Goliath principle: Cultural, ideological and attitudinal underpinnings of the normative protection of low status groups from criticism.
No full textTwo studies documented the “David and Goliath” rule – the tendency for people to perceive criticism of “David” groups (groups with low power and status) as less normatively permissible than criticism of “Goliath” groups (groups with high power and status). We confirmed the existence of the David and Goliath rule across five national samples (Study 1). However the rule was endorsed more strongly in Western than in Chinese cultures, an effect mediated by cultural differences in power distance. Study 2 identified the psychological underpinnings of this rule in an Australian sample. Lower social dominance orientation (SDO) was associated with greater endorsement of the rule, an effect mediated through the differential attribution of stereotypes. Specifically, those low in SDO were more likely to attribute traits of warmth and incompetence to David versus Goliath groups, a pattern of stereotypes that was related to the protection of David groups from criticism
Histoire naturelle-agricole des animaux domestiques de l'Europe : races de la Grande-Bretagne
No full texttexte de David Low ; traduit de l'anglais et annoté par M. Royer ; publiée par les fondateurs du moniteur de la propriété et de l'agricultureExlibrisstempel: "Schweizerische Bundeskanzlei" 000185777_0001 Exemplar der ETH-BI
Low-mass eclipsing binaries in the WFCAM Transit Survey: the persistence of the M-dwarf radius inflation problem
No full textWe present the characterization of five new short-period low-mass eclipsing binaries (LMEBs) from the WFCAM Transit Survey. The analysis was performed by using the photometric WFCAM J-mag data and additional low- and intermediate-resolution spectroscopic data to obtain both orbital and physical properties of the studied sample. The light curves and the measured radial velocity curves were modelled simultaneously with the JKTEBOP code, with Markov chain Monte Carlo simulations for the error estimates. The best-model fit have revealed that the investigated detached binaries are in very close orbits, with orbital separations of 2.9 ≤ a ≤ 6.7 R⊙ and short periods of 0.59 ≤ Porb ≤ 1.72 d, approximately. We have derived stellar masses between 0.24 and 0.72 M⊙ and radii ranging from 0.42 to 0.67 R⊙. The great majority of the LMEBs in our sample has an estimated radius far from the predicted values according to evolutionary models. The components with derived masses of M < 0.6 M⊙ present a radius inflation of ∼9 per cent∼9 per cent or more. This general behaviour follows the trend of inflation for partially radiative stars proposed previously. These systems add to the increasing sample of low-mass stellar radii that are not well-reproduced by stellar models. They further highlight the need to understand the magnetic activity and physical state of small stars. Missions like TESS will provide many such systems to perform high-precision radius measurements to tightly constrain low-mass stellar evolution models
Penetration of magnetosheath plasma to low altitudes through the dayside magnetospheric cusps
No full textThesis (Ph. D.)--Texas A & M University (in cooperation with the University of Texas at Dallas) 1970Daytime high-latitude fluxes of low energy (10������� cm����������� ster����������� sec����������� with typical energy fluxes in the range 0.01 to 0.1 ergs cm����������� ster����������� sec�����������. It is concluded that solar wind plasma can penetrate to low altitudes through the high-latitude cusp in the magnetopause, often referred to as the neutral point. This flux is related to a number of geophysical phenomena, including magnetospheric surface currents, day time auroras, VLF and LF emissions, ionospheric irregularities, and geomagnetic fluctuations
Emerging low-carbon urban mega-projects
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Springer via the DOI in this recordThis chapter focuses on the recent trend in some geographical locations (particularly China and the United Arab Emirates) towards building large-scale low-carbon city projects. These low-carbon cities are increasingly being described as mega-projects due to their scale and involvement of large-scale experimental approaches to ways of organizing the low-carbon city. The chapter discusses some of the main trends towards the development of low-carbon eco-city projects since 2000, and then introduces the two main low-carbon city mega-projects currently being developed
Performance and Impact of Process Variations in Tunnel-FET Ultra-Low Voltage Digital Circuits
No full textIn this paper, the potential of Tunnel FETs (TFETs) for ultra-low power operation is investigated in the context of digital circuits operating below 500 mV. A comparative analysis of TFETs and SOI CMOS in 32 nm technology is performed through deviceand circuit-level simulations, based on a unitary simulation framework where all devices are fairly designed for the same (low) voltage range and the same device-level targets. The performance is evaluated through figures of merit at device and circuit level, quantifying the impact of each device parameter on the performance. The analysis considers both the nominal corner and the impact of the variations of various device parameters, which is evaluated through sensitivity analysis. The results permit to identify the most critical TFET parameters subject to variations that require finer control at process level, to keep circuit-level variations within reasonable bounds. From the perspective of technology scaling, the analysis shows that TFETs can significantly relax the physical-level constraints on gate pitch, thereby mitigating the printability issues in 32-nm technologies and beyond. Copyright is held by the owner/author(s)
A solver for clustered low-rank SDPs arising from multivariate polynomial (matrix) programs
No full textIn this thesis, we give a primal-dual interior point method specialized to clustered low-rank semidefinite programs. We introduce multivariate polynomial matrix programs, and we reduce these to clustered low-rank semidefinite programs. This extends the work of Simmons-Duffin [J. High Energ. Phys. 1506, no. 174 (2015)] from univariate to multivariate polynomial matrix programs, and to more general clustered low-rank semidefinite programs. Clustered low-rank semidefinite programs are programs with low-rank constraint matrices where the positive semidefinite variables are only used within clusters of constraints. The free variables can be used in any constraint, and can be used to connect clusters. The solver uses this structure to speed up the computations in two ways. First, the low rank structure is used to reduce matrix products to products of the form uT M v, where M is a matrix and u and v are vectors, as already suggested by Löfberg and Parrilo in [43rd IEEE CDC (2004)]. Second, an additional block-diagonal structure is introduced due to the clusters. This gives the possibility to do operations such as the Cholesky decomposition block-wise. We apply this to sphere packing and spherical cap packing. For sphere packing, the speed of the solver is compared to the often used arbitrary precision solver SDPA-GMP, showing the theoretical speedup in time complexity. We give a new three-point bound for the maximum density when packing spherical caps of sizes on the unit sphere. https://github.com/nanleij/Clustered-Low-Rank-SDP-solver Repository link Github repository with the Julia code of the solverApplied Mathematics | Optimizatio
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