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Maternal antecedents to adolescent girls’ neural regulation of emotion
No full textCurrent research on adolescent brain development has uncovered individual differences in patterns of functional connectivity during the regulation of emotions, reflecting differences in psychological and emotional functioning. The purpose of this study was to identify possible contributors to these individual differences by investigating the role of maternal emotional resources, in the form of adult attachment and emotional awareness. Participants included 35 adolescent girls (M age = 15.51, SD = 0.37) who completed an implicit emotion regulation task (Lieberman et al., 2007) during an fMRI scan following 9th grade. Mothers reported on the quality of their adult attachment when youth were in 3rd and 4th grades and reported on their emotional awareness when youth were in 4th and 5th grades. We found that higher levels of maternal anxious attachment and lower levels of maternal emotional awareness were significantly correlated with more positive (i.e., ineffective) amygdala-right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (rVLPFC) connectivity. Further, path analysis revealed that there was an indirect effect of maternal anxious attachment on adolescent functional connectivity through maternal emotional awareness. These results suggest that exposure to compromised maternal emotional resources in childhood may be linked to the development of ineffective neural processing of emotions, highlighting one pathway for the intergenerational transmission of disrupted emotion processing.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2020-12-01The student, Haina Modi, accepted the attached license on 2018-11-19 at 09:33.The student, Haina Modi, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2018-11-19 at 09:42.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2018-11-26 at 11:59.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #13098 on 2019-02-07 at 14:17:36Made available in DSpace on 2019-02-07T20:35:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Psychological treatments in schizophrenia: II. Meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials of social skills training and cognitive remediation
No full textBackground. Social skills training and cognitive remediation are psychological techniques with considerable face validity for the treatment of negative symptoms of schizophrenia and their consequences. This paper provides a meta-analytical review of these treatments. It includes an appreciable number of randomized controlled trials, using comparisons against both standard care and other active interventions. However, the assessment of particular outcomes sometimes had to be based on single studies.Method. A detailed search strategy was used to identify randomized controlled trials of social skills training and cognitive remediation, primarily employing electronic databases. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that met predefined criteria were then subjected to meta-analysis on a variety of outcome measures.Results. There was no clear evidence for any benefits of social skills training on relapse rate, global adjustment, social functioning, quality of life or treatment compliance. Cognitive remediation had no benefit on attention, verbal memory, visual memory, planning, cognitive flexibility or mental state.Conclusions. Social skills training and cognitive remediation do not appear to confer reliable benefits for patients with schizophrenia and cannot be recommended for clinical practice
Study of the optical response of Si-rich a-SiN<sub>x</sub> : H thin film near Si L<sub>2,3</sub>-edge using soft x-ray reflectivity
No full textAngle-dependent soft x-ray reflectivity measurements in the photon energy range 82.67–248 eV near the Si L
2,3 absorption edge have been performed on Si-rich a-SiN
x
: H (SRSN) thin film deposited by the Hg-sensitized photo-chemical vapour deposition technique. It is found that experimentally obtained δ (dispersion) values of the SRSN film lie in between that of pure silicon (Si) and silicon nitride (Si3N4). X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy measurements suggest that excess silicon is responsible for reducing optical constants values and hence by controlling the silicon amount one can tune the optical constants to desired values. We further compare the soft x-ray optical spectrum of the SRSN film with those of other silicon compounds such as silicon carbide (SiC) and silicon monoxide (SiO) near the Si L
2,3 edge region to shows its possibility as a prospective material for the next generation 13.5 nm (91.85 eV) node extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology.</jats:p
Depth resolved compositional analysis of aluminium oxide thin film using non-destructive soft x-ray reflectivity technique
No full textEvaluation of the educational policies of the Sudan, 1972-1992 : impact and implications on educational development in the Southern Sudan
No full textThe education policy development in the Sudan should be understood within the context of Islamic general policy orientation and the specific goals and aims of education as
perceived by the national policy-makers in the Central Government. The policy orientation has been in line with how the Islamic leaders in the country defined Sudanese society. The framework of educational policies showed a consistent trend towards the building of an Arab-Islamic society. The government's determination to uphold this trend was showed by the persistent policy of centralisation of education policy development. There was in all of
this a lack of political will on the part of the central government to meet the real educational needs of the South Sudan.
For practical and security reasons as well. as for the fact that the Sudan Government censors research on policy issues it was not feasible to carry out the investigation in the
Sudan. The researcher however was motivated and influenced by the availability of resource persons and the convenience of carrying out the empirical work within the LJK.
The study puts into proper perspective the impact of the educational policies on educational development in the South Sudan which, to some extent, was compounded by
the lack of unity among the southern politicians. The research has filled in some of the gaps in the existing knowledge about education in the South Sudan. It provides a vital insight upon which future action regarding the direction for educational development in the South Sudan could unfold
Study of soft x-ray optical properties of niobium carbide (NbC) thin film in 6–15 nm wavelength region
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