This study examined Three Wishes (a projective technique commonly used with children) in boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a fatal, progressive illness (n = 74). A reliable and parsimonious scoring system was developed to code wish type. Probands' responses were compared with unaffected siblings (n = 32) and a male comparison group (n = 43). Contrary to what was expected, the DMD gro...

One hundred and fifty-eight clinical psychologists practising in Britain completed a questionnaire concerning their use of and views about psychological assessment. The respondents reported spending on average slightly more than 50% of their working day on face-to-face clinical work and 13% of their time with clients on individual assessment. The results were compared to those of a similar surv...

This study examines whether coding open answers in a picture-based test, as to the extent they reflect the fear of being laughed at (i.e., gelotophobia), demonstrates sufficient validity to construct a semi-projective test for the assessment of gelotophobia. Previous findings indicate that cartoon stimuli depicting laughter situations (i.e., in the pilot version of the Picture-Geloph; Ruch et a...

We define and study the set E(ρ) of end invariants of a SL(2,C) character ρ of the one-holed torus T . We show that the set E(ρ) is the entire projective lamination space PL of T if and only if (i) ρ corresponds to the dihedral representation, or (ii) ρ is real and corresponds to a SU(2) representation; and that otherwise, E(ρ) is closed and has empty interior in PL . For real characters ρ, we ...

We define and study the set E(ρ) of end invariants of a SL(2,C) character ρ of the one-holed torus T . We show that the set E(ρ) is the entire projective lamination space PL of T if and only if (i) ρ corresponds to the dihedral representation, or (ii) ρ is real and corresponds to a SU(2) representation; and that otherwise, E(ρ) is closed and has empty interior in PL . For real characters ρ, we ...

The Schur multiplier M(Ḡ1) ≅4 of the maximal subgroup Ḡ1 = 2⁶˙G₂(2)of Rudvalis sporadic simple group Ru is a cyclic order 4. Hence full representative R type 4.(2⁶˙G₂(2)) exists for Ḡ1. Furthermore, will have four sets IrrProj(Ḡ1;αi) irreducible projective characters, where associated factor α1, α2, α3 and α4, orders 1, 2, 4 4, respectively. In this paper, we deal with 2-fold cover 2. which can...

Pseudo Ricci symmetric real hypersurfaces of a complex projective space are classified and it is proved that there are no pseudo Ricci symmetric real hypersurfaces of the complex projective space CPn for which the vector field ξ from the almost contact metric structure (φ, ξ, η, g) is a principal curvature vector field.

a projective parameter of a geodesic as solution of certain ode is defined to be a parameter which is invariant under projective change of metric. using projective parameter and poincaré metric, an intrinsic projectively invariant pseudo-distance can be constructed. in the present work, solutions of the above ode are characterized with respect to the sign of parallel ricci tensor on a finsler s...

pseudo ricci symmetric real hypersurfaces of a complex projective space are classified and it is proved that there are no pseudo ricci symmetric real hypersurfaces of the complex projective space cpn for which the vector field ξ from the almost contact metric structure (φ, ξ, η, g) is a principal curvature vector field.

the triple factorization of a group $g$ has been studied recently showing that $g=aba$ for some proper subgroups $a$ and $b$ of $g$, the definition of rank-two geometry and rank-two coset geometry which is closely related to the triple factorization was defined and calculated for abelian groups. in this paper we study two infinite classes of non-abelian finite groups $d_{2n}$ and $psl(2,2^{n})$...