Active Supervision: Preventing Behavioral Problems Before They Occur

Sudden gains in cognitive behavioral treatment for depression: when do they occur and do they matter?

Despite the use of efficacious treatments for depression, individuals differ in both the degree to which they recover and the rate at which recovery occurs. Tang and colleagues found that depressed patients who had sudden improvements in their symptomatology not only maintained these gains, but also enjoyed more improvement and higher rates of recovery than those without sudden gains (J. Consul...

Find Problems before They Find You with AnnotatorPro's Monitoring Functionalities

English. We present a tool for annotation of linguistic data. ANNOTATORPRO offers both complete monitoring functionalities (e.g. inter-annotator agreement and agreement with respect to a gold standard) and highly flexible task design (e.g. token and document level annotation, adjudication and reconciliation procedures). We teste ANNOTATORPRO in several industrial annotation scenarios, coupled w...

Did parkinsonism occur before 1817?

Monocular microsaccades: Do they really occur?

Small saccades, known as microsaccades, occur frequently during fixation. Several recent studies have argued that a considerable fraction of these movements are present in the traces from one eye only. This claim contrasts with the findings of older reports, which concluded that microsaccades, like larger saccades, are virtually always binocular events. Here we examined the characteristics of s...

Medication errors: do they occur in isolation?

To cite: Franklin BD. BMJ Qual Saf Published Online First: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bmjqs-2014-002924 Medication error research typically focuses on just one stage of the medication use process: prescribing, transcribing, dispensing, administration or monitoring. Such simplification is required so that manageable boundaries can be set around the research, and to make it easi...