Participants Participants were 131 people diagnosed with PTSD (DSM-IV criteria); 81% men; 90% Caucasian; 47% exposed to combat-related traumatic events; mean age 38 years; mean duration between trauma and start of trial 5 years. Exclusion criteria were serious comorbid illness; concomitant psychotherapy; suicide risk or serious risk to others; Axis I psychiatric disorder 5 years before traumati...

This study provided a comparison between the American and Singaporean students identified with dyscalculia, also known as mathematics learning disability, in their performance based on the administration of the Test of Mathematical Abilities-2nd Edition (TOMA-2). TOMA-2 has been normed on 2082 American students, aged between 8-0 through 18-11, representing 26 states between 1990 and 1992. Among...

The structure multivector is an operator for analysing the local structure of an image. It combines ideas from the structure tensor, steerable filters, and quadrature filters where the advantages of all three approaches are brought into a single method by means of geometric algebra. The proposed operator is efficient to implement and linear up to a final steering operation. In this paper we der...

The contribution of social partnership to Ireland’s economic boom remains the subject of controversy. This paper analyses at a theoretical level how a multi-period deal on wages and taxation of the type struck in the late 1980s could enhance competitiveness and facilitate an economy in escaping from fiscal crisis. Such a deal would not be possible in a spot labour market. The high unemployment ...

This paper investigates the factors that determine job-to-job mobility in Ireland over the period 1995 to 2001. It finds that labour market experience, working in the public sector, whether a person is overskilled, the sector they work in and their occupation are important determinants of voluntary job change. The paper finds the rate of voluntary job mobility in Ireland trebled over the period...