T here is increasing demand for physicians in pediatric settings to address not only the physical but also the psychosocial health of their child and adolescent patients. Brief interventions (BIs), and in particular Motivational interviewing (MI), offer an efficient means of targeting behavioral, developmental, and social problems within the context of pediatric practice. This review addresses ...

used in a controversial way. There is a very useful introductory chapter which gives some cautionary advice on pitfalls to be avoided in psychoanalytical literature, such as the fallacy of 'explanation by labelling'. The ideas of other related authors, apart from actual psychoanalysts, are also included (but not Harry Stack Sullivan). Therefore, it might have been useful to give a brief index o...

Alcohol-related health problems place a significant burden on general hospitals. Statistics indicate that one in seven acute hospital admissions is a result of alcohol misuse and that one in six attendances at A&E is alcohol related, rising to eight out of 10 at peak times on weekend evenings. Nurses have a role to play in estimating a patient's alcohol use and, if appropriate, providing 'brief...

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Background Problems with recruitment at both practice and patient level frequently lead to low response rates in primary care trials that can compromise study results. As part of a trial feasibility study of the effectiveness of brief advice from general practitioners to encourage daily walking, we examined the association between practice characteristics and the recruitment of practices and pa...

The literature of the last 50 years abounds with research papers and reviews of how floral biodiversity might affect the numbers and impact of indigenous natural enemies. However, it is only relatively recently that practical advice is available to any farmer who might wish to exploit such biodiversity in an economically viable fashion. “Practice” in the title of this paper is therefore used in...

Experimental studies on decision making based on advice received from others find that the weight put on the advice is negatively related to the distance between the advice and the decisionmaker’s initial opinion. In this paper, we show that the distance effect can follow from rational signal extraction when the decisionmaker has imperfect knowledge about the advisor’s competence. What drives t...

Both TCP and ICMP are applied in network measurement, while investigating differences between the measured results of them is important but has been less addressed. To compare the differences between TCP and ICMP when they are used in measuring host connectivity, RTT, and packet loss rate, we designed two groups of comparison programs, after careful evaluating of the program parameters, we exec...

Drawing upon James Carey’s ritual model of communication as a framework, we argue that rituals, especially religious rituals, are important resources for technology design. We suggest that a ritual view of ICT interaction represents an alternative and significant model for ICT development and evaluation, and that the observance of religious rituals affords researchers the opportunity to see cul...

Acknowledgments I would like to thank both my promoters Peter van Roy and Sabri Skhiri for their insightful comments, critics and advices about my work during the whole academic year. I also want to thank Boris Mejias for his continuous support and for pushing me to make a talk at FOSDEM 2011. This talk really helped moved forward my work by making it more public and brought back a lot of inter...