64 research outputs found
Review: Adding clopidogrel to ASA reduces CV morbidity but increases bleeding in patients at high risk for CV events
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Het ontwerp voor een temperatuurafhankelijke batterijlader en -bewaking
No full textIn deze thesis wordt geschreven over de mogelijke realisatie van een temperatuuronafhankelijke lader voor NiMH batterijen. Vanweze het temperatuur- alsmede ladingsafhankelijke ladingsprofiel van een Ni-MH batterij is dit noodzakelijk maakt voor optimaal gebruik.Electrical engineringElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
The relationship between depression and self-mutilation in adolescence
No full textPlan BThe importance of the relationship between depression and self-mutilation in the adolescent population is becoming more apparent. Analysis of these two variables demonstrates that they are correlated with one another in the adolescent population. The present study examines the relationship between depression and self-mutilation. Two scales, the Beck Depression Inventory II (Beck, 1996) and the Self-Harm Survey (Conterio, Lader, & Bloom, 1998) were administered to participants and the scores were correlated to determine whether a relationship existed between the two variables. Participants were residents from a residential treatment center for adolescents. Data analysis using Pearson’s r correlation coefficients were used to determine if there was a positive correlation between depression and self-mutilation. The t-test for independent means was utilized to determine if there was a difference between gender and self-mutilation, age and self-mutilation, as well as length of stay in the residential treatment facility and self-mutilation. The means and standard deviations were also determined for these variables. Statistical differences were indicated based on these findings. Implications of this study as well as recommendations for future studies on depression and self-mutilation were discussed in detail
Registering with an OJS Journal
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PKP-OJS (Author) Niels Erik Frederiksen (Editor of this Journal)
Vejledning i hvordan du lader mig registrere som bruger i OJS.Bemærk: Videoen er lavet inden det nye registreringsfelt ORCID iD kom med, så vær venligst opmærksom på, at få udfyldt dette. Kræver, at du opretter dig hos ORCID.
PKP-OJS (Forfatter) Niels Erik Frederiksen (Redaktør af dette tidsskrift
Book Review: Abortion
No full textThis work undertakes an examination of the social and legal problems associated with abortion in the United States today. Lader begins by discussing an incident which attracted considerable newspaper coverage in 1962-Sherri Finkbine\u27s futile efforts to obtain a legal abortion in America after taking the drug thalidomide, which gravely deforms the fetus in a high percentage of cases.The author expresses regret that an American doctor did not perform an abortion upon Mrs. Finkbine and then inform the authorities of his action, thereby making the matter a test case. Lader feels that much good would have been accomplished by having the question argued before a judge and jury
People with insomnia: experiences with sedative hypnotics and risk perception
No full textBackground - Sedative hypnotics form an important part of managing insomnia and are recommended for short-term use. It is standard practice for clinicians to inform the patient to use medications only ‘when required’, but the use of these medications is often chronic. Little is known about the impact of standard labelling/instructions on promoting appropriate medication use for managing insomnia.
Objective - To explore patient medication-taking beliefs, experiences and behavioural practices relating to the use of pharmacological/complementary sleep aids for insomnia.
Setting and Participants - Specialist sleep/psychology clinics and the general community in Sydney, Australia.
Method - Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 51 people with insomnia using a schedule of questions to gauge their experiences, beliefs and current practices relating to insomnia medication use. Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim and subjected to Framework Analysis to identify emergent themes.
Results - Participants held distinctive views about the safety and efficacy of complementary and pharmacological agents but do not intuitively turn to medications to resolve their sleep complaint. Medication use was affirmed through tangible medication-taking cues due to the ambivalence in current instructions and labelling. Practices such as dosage modification, medication substitution and delaying medication use might be important drivers for psychological dependence.
Conclusion - Current labelling and instructions do not necessarily promote the quality use of sedative hypnotics due to the variability in patient interpretations. Clarifying the timing, quantity and frequency of medication administration as well as insomnia symptom recognition would play a significant role in optimizing the role of pharmacotherapy in the management of insomnia
Improving Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles: A Method to Optimize Locations for Fast chargers
No full textIn tijden van eindige olievoorraden, stijgende olieprijzen en een stijgende aandacht voor duurzame mobiliteit worden alternatieve brandstoffen steeds aantrekkelijker. Elektrische voertuigen (EVs) zijn een alternatief voor de huidige voertuigen. Elektrische voertuigen kunnen zowel onderweg als thuis worden opgeladen door middel een laadpaal. Met een volle batterij kan in de praktijk ongeveer 80-100 kilometer worden gereden: de actieradius. Dit betekent dat als er afstanden langer dan deze afstand moet worden afgelegd, een tussentijdse laadbeurt nodig zal zijn. Hiervoor zijn snelladers ideaal, deze kunnen de batterij tot 80% opladen in ongeveer dertig minuten. Dit is veel sneller dan de 8 uur die nodig is als met een gewone (langzaam)lader word geladen. Een optimaal netwerk van snelladers is zodanig ruimtelijk opgebouwd dat, gegeven het aantal laadpunten, zoveel mogelijk autoverplaatsingen met een elektrische auto kunnen worden gemaakt. Met andere woorden, het faciliteert maximaal het gebruik van elektrische auto’s en stimuleert daarmee maximaal de transitie naar elektrische auto´s. Het doel van dit onderzoek is om de optimale locaties voor snelladers te bepalen zodat het geïnvesteerde geld zo goed mogelijk wordt besteed. In mijn thesis heb ik een methode ontwikkeld die voor een willekeurig gebied de optimale configuratie van snelladers kan bepalen.Transport & PlanningCivil Engineering and Geoscience
The multitasking framework: the effects of increasing workload on acute psychobiological stress reactivity
No full textA variety of techniques exist for eliciting acute psychological stress in the laboratory; however, they vary in terms of their ease of use, reliability to elicit consistent responses and the extent to which they represent the stressors encountered in everyday life. There is, therefore, a need to develop simple laboratory techniques that reliably elicit psychobiological stress reactivity that are representative of the types of stressors encountered in everyday life. The multitasking framework is a performance-based, cognitively demanding stressor, representative of environments where individuals are required to attend and respond to several different stimuli simultaneously with varying levels of workload. Psychological (mood and perceived workload) and physiological (heart rate and blood pressure) stress reactivity was observed in response to a 15-min period of multitasking at different levels of workload intensity in a sample of 20 healthy participants. Multitasking stress elicited increases in heart rate and blood pressure, and increased workload intensity elicited dose–response increases in levels of perceived workload and mood. As individuals rarely attend to single tasks in real life, the multitasking framework provides an alternative technique for modelling acute stress and workload in the laboratory
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