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The Norwegian species of Copidosoma Ratzeburg (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Encyrtidae)
No full textJaposhvili, George, Hansen, Lars Ove, Guerrieri, Emilio (2013): The Norwegian species of Copidosoma Ratzeburg (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Encyrtidae). Zootaxa 3619 (2): 145-153, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3619.2.
Cognitive therapy for psychosis
No full textCognitive therapy has established itself as an effective intervention for psychosis and is now a requirement in the NICE schizophrenia guidelines. The evidence is strongest for positive resistant to medication alone. There is also now support for its use with negative symptoms, early intervention and comorbid substance misuse. Therapy involves a focus on successful engagement, assessment and formulation as the basis for the use of specific techniques for delusions, hallucinations and negative symptoms. Tracing the antecedents of psychotic breakdown, building a picture of the prodromal period, and understanding beliefs about the events and perceptions allow re-evaluation of these beliefs. These can then be debated constructively and alternative explanations explored. This enhances engagement and, where conviction is less than absolute, may lead to their modification. Where conviction is high, techniques can be used to access key underlying issues and show sufficient doubt for patients’ behaviour and subsequently beliefs to change. Work with hallucinations involves understanding external attributions and then discussing them and normalizing the experiences. Coping strategies would be developed or reinforced and the content of voices, often very negative, questioned. Negative symptoms were conceptualized as often protective, sometimes a consequence of depression, anxiety or positive symptoms, and frequently accompanied by demoralization and even feelings of being under pressure. Techniques to manage such issues have proved successful in research and clinical practice
Data associated with stress-relaxation experiments on Aheim dunite
No full text.xlsx and .ods sheets contain metadata for the analysis of mechanical, EBSD, and BSE data, including the analyses of composition and decorated dislocations. Raw .tdms output files of the DAQ system of PI-10. EBSD data.zip contains the .cpr .ctf, and .crc files of the processed and unprocessed EBSD data. Decorated-dislocation images are backscatter electron images (.tif files) and annotated versions of the images as vector graphics files (.svg files). Point counting analyses contains stitched backscatter electron images (.tif files) of sections of starting materials and annotated versions of the images as vector graphics files (.svg files). XRD results contains .raw files. An example Matlab (.m) script for the analysis of the raw mechanical data of one experiment is included.This DRUM entry contains all observational data associated with stress relaxation experiments performed on Aheim dunite. It contains raw mechanical data measured by the deformation apparatus, raw and processed electron-backscatter diffraction data, annotated vector graphics files of sections of sample materials and decorated dislocations in select samples. Finally, it also contains a spreadsheet containing the required metadata to go along with these data as well as an example Matlab(R) script that was used in analyzing the mechanical data of the experiments. All details pertaining to the experiments and data processing are provided in the accompanying manuscript titled 'Mimicking postseismic creep in the laboratory: testing dislocation-based models for transient creep in the upper mantle', which will be submitted for publication in Fall 2025.Parts of this work were carried out in the Characterization Facility, University of Minnesota, which receives partial support from the NSF through the MRSEC (Award Number DMR-2011401) and the NNCI (Award Number ECCS-2025124) programs.This work was supported by National Science Foundation (NSF) awards EAR-2218305 (to L.N.H.), EAR-2022433 (to L.N.H.), and EAR-2023061 (to L.N.H.).Hein, Diede; Hansen, Lars; Dillman, Amanda. (2025). Data associated with stress-relaxation experiments on Aheim dunite. Retrieved from the Data Repository for the University of Minnesota (DRUM), https://doi.org/10.13020/2eyy-sx48
Ambiguity aversion and model misspecification: an economic perspective
No full textWe discuss a paper published in Statistical Science by focusing on model misspecification
Significant Difference in Knowledge between English and Danish Psychiatrists
No full textThe purpose of the study was to investigate if differences in levels of knowledge existed between Danish and English training and specialist psychiatrists. This is important in the context of the free (and growing) movement of the medical workforce across European Union (EU) countries’ boarders
The influence of cognitive-behavioural therapy on suicidality in schizophrenia
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Significant difference in knowledge between English and Danish psychiatrists
Full text linkPurpose: The purpose of the study was to investigate if differences in levels of knowledge existed between Danish and English training and specialist psychiatrists. This is important in the context of the free (and growing) movement of the medical workforce across European Union (EU) countries’ borders.Methods: A complete balanced two-way factorial study design was used. Ten training and ten specialist psychiatrists were recruited in each country from reputable, university hospitals. They answered 50 multiple choice questions (MCQs), translated into the appropriate language, consisting of four subcategories of questions: psychology (15 MCQs), psychopharmacology (10 MCQs), neuroscience (five MCQs) and psychopathology (20 MCQs). No memory or other types of aids were allowed at the knowledge test. A two-way analysis of variance was used to analyse the total knowledge score (number of correct answers) and the component subscores. Levene’s test of equality of error variances was used to test for variance homogeneity.Results: There were significant differences in total knowledge and psychology knowledge by country and level of training. UK doctors scored 3.10 points higher than Danish doctors, with 95% confidence interval (0.97, 5.23). The knowledge of the specialists was also significantly superior to that of the training psychiatrists, with 2.30 higher score, 95% confidence interval (0.17, 4.43). In the sub-categories only the scores in the psychology section were significantly different. UK doctors scored 2.30 higher than Danish doctors, with 95% confidence interval (1.15, 3.45). Specialists scored 1.20 higher than non-specialists with 95% confidence interval (0.05, 2.35).Conclusions: The results indicate that there is a significant difference in level of knowledge between psychiatrists in these two EU-countries, England and Denmark. This difference seemed to be chiefly the result of different knowledge of psychology. The disparity could be a result of the fundamentally different post-graduate training system in psychiatry in the two countries. Surprisingly, the differences in total knowledge and psychology knowledge between countries were larger than the differences between levels of training. The difference in knowledge is worrying taking into consideration that there is free movement of the workforce, including doctors, across the EU. The results here need further confirmation in future studies with greater numbers, more countries involved and perhaps additional measurements to MCQs
Clinical. The ABCs of cognitive-behavioral therapy for schizophrenia
No full textCognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) in schizophrenia was originally developed to provide additional treatment for residual symptoms, drawing on the principles and intervention strategies previously developed for anxiety and depression. In the 1950s, Aaron Beck1 had already treated a psychotic patient with a cognitive approach, but thereafter the research in this specific area lay dormant for decades. Only after cognitive therapy had been firmly established for depression and anxiety, in the 1990s, did the research into psychological treatments for psychotic conditions gather force—again, with Beck in the forefront.Pharmacologic therapy can leave as many as 60% of psychotic patients with persistent positive and negative symptoms, even when the patients are compliant with their medication instructions.2 Furthermore, medication compliance remains a major problem despite the introduction of modern atypical antipsychotics. Studies have shown treatment discontinuation in an estimated 74% of patients in both outpatient and inpatient settings.3The evidence for the efficacy of CBT in treating patients with persistent symptoms of schizophrenia has progressed from case studies, case series, and uncontrolled trials to methodologically rigorous, randomized, controlled trials that include patients from both the acute4 and the chronic end of the schizophrenia spectrum.5-7 Subsequent meta-analysis8 and systematic reviews have further strengthened the evidence base.CBT is now recognized as an effective intervention for schizophrenia in clinical guidelines developed in the United States9 and in Europe.10 In spite of the evidence base and absence of side effects, however, the general availability of this treatment approach within community settings is still low.11 This article will examine the procedure of CBT for psychosis, the evidence for its use, and the implications for practicing psychiatrists
Copidosoma aithyia Walker 1837
No full textC. aithyia (Walker, 1837) Material examined: 1 Ƥ BUSKERUD Western [BV], ROLLAG: Tråen saga [N 60.0222 ° E09.2806° ± 50m] 1–30 June 1994, Malaise-trap, leg. Bjørn A. SAGVOLDEN. Biology: Parasitoid of Lepidoptera (Depressaridae and Pyralidae) (Guerrieri & Noyes 2005). Distribution: Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom.Published as part of Japoshvili, George, Hansen, Lars Ove & Guerrieri, Emilio, 2013, The Norwegian species of Copidosoma Ratzeburg (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Encyrtidae), pp. 145-153 in Zootaxa 3619 (2) on page 146, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3619.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/21925
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