Health Concerns over Time: The Apparent Stability

Responding to safety concerns and chronic needs: trends over time

Background For the past 20 years, the Ontario child welfare sector has made significant legislative and policy changes. Changes to legislation and policy can impact the public and sector's response to child maltreatment and inform identified trends. Using an investigative taxonomy of urgent protection and chronic need this paper examines the shift in the nature of investigated maltreatment over...

Persistence and stability of delusions over time.

Traditional descriptions of delusions have emphasized the conviction with which they are held and their resistance to change. This study utilizes data from a large cohort of delusional subjects to assess the persistence and stability of delusional beliefs, and the predictors of change. Data were collected from 1,136 acutely hospitalized psychiatric patients, reinterviewed at 10-week intervals f...

Bayesian perspective over time

Thomas Bayes, the founder of Bayesian vision, entered the University of Edinburgh in 1719 to study logic and theology. Returning in 1722, he worked with his father in a small church. He also was a mathematician and in 1740 he made a novel discovery which he never published, but his friend Richard Price found it in his notes after his death in 1761, reedited it and published it. But until L...

Language Change over the Lifespan: A Test of the Apparent Time Construct

v o l v i n g t h i n g s l i k e b r a i n t r a u m a s , a n d a t l e a s t i m p l i c i t l y a s s u m e t h a t s m a l l c h a n g e s i n s i t u a t i o n , s u c h a s m o v i n g a b l o c k ( a s o p p o s e d t o t h o u s a n d s o f m i l e s ) a w a y f r o m

Pediatric Mental Health Concerns.