BACKGROUND Treatment guidelines for major depressive disorder (MDD) are based on results from randomized clinical trials, among others in psychotherapy efficacy trials. However, patients in these trials differ from routine practice patients since trials use stringent criteria for patient selection. It is unknown whether the exclusion criteria used in psychotherapy efficacy trials (PETs) influen...

Research on domestic violence has established a substantial association between intimate partner abuse and the abuse of children within the home. It is only recently however, that researchers have demonstrated the correlation between non-accidental injury in animals, and abuse of women by their intimate male partners. A growing body of evidence suggests that animal abuse can be an early indicat...

The list of zoonoses is long and continues to grow as people travel to more remote parts of the world and bring diseases back with them, and as animals that carry diseases are imported. The first human outbreak of monkeypox, a rare smallpox-like disease, occurred in the United States in May 2003. The disease was believed to have been brought into the country in April by a shipment of rodents an...

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In two studies, we investigated to what extent typicalities in conjunctive concepts phrased as relative clauses--such as pets that are also birds--can be predicted from simple functions of constituent typicalities and from extensions of such functions. In a first study, analyses of a large aggregated data set, based on seven different experiments, showed that a calibrated minimum rule model and...

Privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) are regarded as an important building block for implementing privacy guarantees. However, the maturity of different PETs varies and is not easy to determine. In this paper, we present an assessment framework that allows to compare the maturity of PETs. This framework combines two rating scales: one for technology readiness and one for privacy enhancement qu...