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Functional bowel disorders in primary care: factors associated with health-related quality of life and doctor consultation
No full textBackground: The role of psychological factors in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) remains unclear, particularly in a primary care setting, where relatively little research on this common and costly condition has been carried out. The aim of this study was to investigate the relative contribution of physical and psychological factors to health-related quality of life and health-care utilization in patients with functional bowel disease (IBS-like symptoms) in primary care. We also wished to establish the relevance of formal diagnostic criteria to IBS in the primary care setting. Methods: This study used a cross-sectional design. Four hundred twenty patients with functional bowel disorders in primary care completed a series of measures, including bowel symptom status and severity, severity of psychological distress, personality, and quality of life. The number of visits to a general practitioner (GP) in the previous 12 months was recorded. Results: The following variables were independently and highly significantly associated with health-related quality of life in patients with functional bowel disorders in primary care: total psychological symptom score, diarrhea severity, abdominal pain for >12 weeks, and abdominal distension. A similar pattern emerged between patients who met meet Rome II criteria for IBS and patients who did not meet Rome II criteria for IBS. Relatively few variables (either physical or psychological) had a major impact on the number of GP consultations, with the exception of frequency of bowel movements. Conclusion: This study confirms that psychological factors are significantly associated with health-related quality of life in patients with IBS in primary care. Physical symptom severity is also important. Relatively few symptom measures, either physical or psychological, have a major impact on doctor consultation rates in primary care. © 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved
Francis Guthrie : a colourful life
No full textThe original publication is available at http://www.springerlink.comPublication of this article was funded by the Stellenbosch University Open Access Fund.In 1852, in London, Francis Guthrie posed the question of colouring a map with four colours only, the question that eventually became known as the Four Colour Problem. The problem is famous, but what else do we know of Guthrie's work and life? Don't try to track him in London; come to South Africa instead.Publishers' Versio
Guthrie
No full textPhotograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "I could't do anything else with that 45 in my face.
Letter to Jan Else signed by Antigone Kotsiopulos and Ginny Webster
No full textThank you letter to Friends of the Gustafson Gallery member and department faculty member, Janet J. Else, signed by Department Head, Antigone Kotsiopulos, and Friends of the Gustafson Gallery President, Ginny (Virginia) Webster
A comparison of intertemporal choices for oneself versus someone else based on Tsallis’ statistics
No full textImpulsivity and inconsistency in intertemporal choice (discounting) have drawn attention in econophysics and neuroeconomics. Although it is well established that most people often show irrational discounting (e.g., hyperbolic discounting), little is known regarding whether the irrationality is mitigated or not, when the choice was performed by someone else instead of subject herself. This point is important for economic policy-making. In order to compare consistency and impulsivity in choices for oneself versus someone else, we experimentally estimated the consistency parameter q in Tsallis’ statistics-based discount function for oneself and someone else, by assessing the points of subjective equality (indifference points) at 7 delays (1 week to 25 years) in humans. We observed that (i) most people are more inconsistent when the outcomes of intertemporal choice are only relevant to someone else (q ¼ 8.89) than when relevant to oneself (q ¼ 2.63), and (ii) impulsivity, distinguished from inconsistency by utilizing the Tsallis statistics-based q-exponential discount function, is also larger in the choice for someone else than for oneself. Our results indicate that (i) leaving decision-making processes with some others may neither reduce impulsivity nor correct inconsistency and (ii) when q-exponential discounting is utilized, the definition range of q-parameter should be extended to qo0, and smaller (qo1) and larger (q41) values indicate more inconsistent discounting. Together, the usefulness of the q-exponential discounting for analyzing the dynamic consistency of economic policy was demonstrated in the present study
Fräulein Else : Textanalyse aus psychologischer und epochentypischer Perspektive
No full textThis literary work has been chosen to focus on a novel called Fräulein Else and is written by Arthur Schnitzler. The author has chosen to focus the work on comparing the work with theera of the time the book was written and analyze the plot and character Else from apsychoanalytic perspective. The title of the paper is therefore ”Fräulein Else-Textanalyse aus epochentypischer Perspektive und Analyse der Hauptfigur auspsychologischer Sicht”. By collecting and reading student literature that touches on factsabout literature of the era: the millennium literature and literature on psychoanalysis, theauthor has been able to begin the analysis of the book, Fräulein Else and then be able toanswer her questions. The sources for the work come mainly from student literature but alsofrom copywriters who intend to spread knowledge. This study results in a deep characteristicanalysis of the main character as well as a comparison of the book and epoch-makingfeatures
Brief Therapy: Myths, Methods and Metaphors. Edited by Jeffrey K. Zeig and Stephen G. Gilligan New York: Brunner/Mazel Publishers. 492 pp. $42.50.
No full textAristotelian studies in nineteenth century philosophy
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.The series publishes monographs and essay collections devoted to the history of philosophy as well as studies in the theory of writing the history of philosophy. A special emphasis is placed on the contextualization of philosophical historiography into the areas of the history of science, culture, and the wider scope of intellectual history.Hartung, Gerald / King, Colin Guthrie / Rapp, Christof -- King, Colin Guthrie -- Pluder, Valentin -- Buchheim, Thomas -- Hartung, Gerald -- Pfeiffer, Christian -- Ziche, Paul -- Jacquette, Dale -- Rapp, Christof -- Brüllmann, Philipp -- Thouard, Denis -- Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Contours of Aristotelian Studies in the 19th Century / Aristotle's Categories in the 19th Century / Aristotle's and Hegel's Logic / "Aristotle, to whom more than anyone else the world owes the insight that only the individual exists". -- On the driving force of Aristotelian notions in the later Schelling / What are Logical Investigations? Aristotelian Research in Trendelenburg and Husserl / Negation and Judgment in Joseph Geyser. Aristotelian Research in the 19th Century / "Aristoteles und Mephistopheles" -- Debates about the Formation of Scientific Concepts in the 19th Century / Brentano on Aristotle's Psychology of the Active Intellect / The German Chancellor, Confessional Struggles, therein Aristotle & his Allegedly Individual Forms. Georg von Hertling as an Interpreter of Aristotle / The Concrete Universal: Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg on Kant, Aristotle and the Ethical Principle / War on Rhetoric? Aristotle's Rhetoric in the 19th Century / Annex: Ernest Havet on Enthymema, topoi and eide (1843, 37-40) -- On the contributors -- Index1 online resource (vi, 265 pages
Two Sides of a Coin: Fluxus and the Something Else Press
No full textAfter briefly outlining the process by which the Fluxus community coalesced, the author proceeds to recount the birthing of Something Else Press, Inc., and the transformation of aspects of the Press’ objectives into Printed Editions. In the process, the essay discusses many of the parallel concerns shared by both Something Else Press and Fluxus publication activities as well as their divergent agendas and strategies
Ein Leben in Schönheit: Oskar Wilde kalender für das jahr 1908.
No full textBound in original paper covers, with portrait of author on front cover.Edited by Leo Colze; stories translated by Else Otten.Title and text within blue-gray ornamental borders; initials.Kalender.--Die Nachtigall und die Rose.--Der treue Freund.Mode of access: Internet
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