Therapist ratings of patients' achievement of objectives in psychotherapy were used to examine the impact of drugs on psychotherapy, to identify attributes of patients who achieve therapy objectives, and to assess the importance of the implementation of a crisis-oriented model of therapy. Patients were part of a project investigating the long-acting phenothiazine fluphenazine enanthate and cris...

Molecular dynamics simulations have been used to study mixtures of acetone/methanol, acetonitrile/ methanol, and acetone/acetonitrile over their entire composition range. Using the effective pair potentials of the neat liquids, the simulations reproduce much of the experimental spectra presented in the previous paper @D. S. Venables, A. Chiu, and C. A. Schmuttenmaer, J. Chem. Phys. 113, 3243 ~2...

Rural areas are not blessed with—indeed they are largely defined by the absence of—the advantages of urban areas: dense environments of customers and suppliers, knowledge spill overs, urban agglomeration advantages, such as rich labor markets, transportation accessibility, capital (particularly venture capital), information, and the “buzz” of face-to-face contact (Storper and Venables, 2002; Ac...

Welcome to this first regular issue of R News in 2002, following the special issue on applications of R in medical statistics. In the future, it is planned to have two non-patch releases of R per year around the beginning of April and October, and to have regular issues of R News within 6 weeks after these releases. This also means that R fans should have enough reading material for their summe...

The HAQ-II is a psychometrically improved 10-item version of the standard HAQ functional questionnaire. It is simpler and faster to administer and score, thereby reducing patient burden. HAQ-II is better correlated with clinical measures than the HAQ and is sensitive to change. The HAQ-II is suitable for use in the clinic and research studies.

In order to determine the relationship between diary and questionnaire on measuring listeningstrategies, 25 students were selected. All the subjects who were the researchers’ ownstudents, study English as a second language. They wrote diaries about their use of listening.Strategies within 8 weeks. They also took the listening strategy questionnaire at the end of theterm. The students’ questionn...