390 research outputs found
sj-docx-1-cpc-10.1177_10556656221093292 - Supplemental material for YouTube as a Source of Patient Education for Transcranial Craniosynostosis Procedures
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-cpc-10.1177_10556656221093292 for YouTube as a Source of Patient Education for Transcranial Craniosynostosis Procedures by Catrin Stallwood-Hall, Andrew May and Mark Moore in The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal</p
A quantitative analysis of the prevalence of clinical depression and anxiety in patients with prostate cancer undergoing active surveillance
No full textObjective: To quantitatively determine the prevalence of anxiety and depression in men on active surveillance (AS).Design: Cross-sectional questionnaire survey.Setting: Secondary care prostate cancer (PCa) clinics across South, Central and Western England.Participants: 313 men from a total sample of 426 with a histological diagnosis of PCa currently managed with AS were identified from seven UK urology departments. The mean age of respondents was 70 (51–86) years with the majority (76%) being married or in civil partnerships. 94% of responders were of white British ethnicity.Primary outcome measures: The prevalence of clinically meaningful depression and anxiety as assessed by the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS; score ?8/21).Secondary outcome measures: Patient demographic data (age, employment, relationship, ethnic and educational status). Each demographic variable was cross-tabulated against patients identified as depressed or anxious to allow for the identification of variables that were significantly associated with depression and anxiety. In order to determine predictors for depression and anxiety among the demographic variables, logistic regression analyses were conducted, with p<0.05 considered as indicating statistical significance.Results: The prevalence of clinical anxiety and depression as determined via the HADS (HADS ?8) was 23% (n=73) and 12.5% (n=39), respectively. Published data from men in the general population of similar age has shown prevalence rates of 8% and 6%, respectively, indicating a twofold increase in depression and a threefold increase in anxiety among AS patients. Our findings also suggest that AS patients experience substantially greater levels of anxiety than patients with PCa treated radically. The only demographic predictor for anxiety or depression was divorce.Conclusions: Patients with PCa managed with AS experienced substantially higher rates of anxiety and depression than that expected in the general population. Strategies to address this are needed to improve the management of this population and their quality of life.<br/
Heterogenella bigibbata Mamaev & Berest 1991
No full textHeterogenella bigibbata Mamaev & Berest, 1991 Fig. 8 A This species, previously known only from the type locality in Ukraine (Mamaev & Berest 1991), is here reported from two sites in south and central Sweden. Swedish specimens of H. bigibbata are in line with the redescription of this species by Jaschhof (1998) as well as with an unpublished drawing of the genitalia of the male holotype, which the senior author made in 2007. Heterogenella biggibata is distinguished from the congeneric species by short, almost circular gonostyli (↓); the ninth tergite lacking a T-shaped sclerotization (as is present in H. linearis Yukawa); and the ventral emargination of gonocoxae bordered by small, densely setulose swellings (↓). Material. 3 males (CEC 33–35), Sweden, Skåne, Simrishamn, Stenshuvud National Park, 16 June– 31 July 2009, M. & C. Jaschhof; 9 males (CEC 24–32), Uppland, Uppsala, Fiby Nature Reserve, 23 June– 28 July 2009, 9 June– 23 July 2010, M. & C. Jaschhof.Published as part of Jaschhof, Mathias & Jaschhof, Catrin, 2015, New species and new distribution records of Lestremiinae, Micromyinae and Porricondylinae (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) in Sweden, pp. 159-174 in Zootaxa 3973 (1) on page 171, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3973.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/23421
How to Express Self-Referential Probability. A Kripkean Proposal
No full textWe present a semantics for a language that includes sentences that can talk about their own probabilities. This semantics applies a fixed point construction to possible world style structures. One feature of the construction is that some sentences only have their probability given as a range of values. We develop a corresponding axiomatic theory and show by a canonical model construction that it is complete in the presence of the ω-rule. By considering this semantics we argue that principles such as introspection, which lead to paradoxical contradictions if naively formulated, should be expressed by using a truth predicate to do the job of quotation and disquotation and observe that in the case of introspection the principle is then consistent
RESIST2: Policy
No full textHave we made progress in understanding and using modelling for AMR policy? COVID-19 has affected AMR in many different ways. Are there lessons to be learnt for modelling AMR
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No full textTh1 and Th2 chemokines, vaccine induced 1 immunity and allergic disease in infants after maternal ω-3 fatty acid supplementation during pregnancy and lactatio
Indeterminate Truth and Credences
No full textWhen one allows truth to be indeterminate, “fixed point” interpretations can be found even when the language includes sentences such as the liar paradox. In this chapter this kind of account is applied to rational credences, to find non-undermining indeterminate epistemic states even in certain situations which have been discussed as challenges for rationality. In the process of doing this, a deeper understanding of how the supervaluational account of truth works is obtained, especially when one focuses on sets of precisifications
Accuracy, Estimates, and Representation Results
No full textMeasures of accuracy usually score how accurate a specified credence depending on whether the proposition is true or false. A key requirement for such measures is strict propriety; that probabilities expect themselves to be most accurate. We discuss characterisation results for strictly proper measures of accuracy.
By making some restrictive assumptions, we present the proof of the characterisation result of Schervish (1989) in an accessible way. We will also present the characterisation in terms of Bregman divergences and the relationship between the two characterisations.
The new contribution of the paper is to show that the Schervish form characterises proper measures of accuracy for estimates of random variables more generally, by offering a converse to Schervish, Seidenfeld, and Kadane (2014, Lemma 1). We also provide a Bregman divergence characterisation in the estimates setting, using the close relationship between the two forms
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