Oldershaw et al (pp. 140–144) conducted a qualitative study to obtain parental perspectives on adolescent self-harm. Using an interpretative phenomenological approach, they identified four key themes relating to: the process of discovery of the behaviour; making sense of the behaviour; the psychological impact of selfharm on parents; and the effect of adolescent self-harm on parenting and famil...

Two papers in the Journal this month examine factors that influence rates of suicide and suicidal behaviour, considering both individual and societal determinants. O’Reilly et al (pp. 106– 111) assessed the role of area-level factors in their 5-year followup study of the population in Northern Ireland. They found that suicide rates were higher in the more deprived areas of the country, as previ...

Background: There are limited data worldwide on the behavior of SARSCOV2 in patients with Spondyloarthritis (SpA). Objectives: To describe incidence and severity COVID-19 disease SpA Argentina. Methods: Patients axial spondyloarthritis (AxSpA) radiological (EA) non-radiological (AxSpA-nr) peripheral (according to ASAS criteria) psoriatic arthritis (PsA) CASPAR were included. Sociodemographic da...

Resolving community noise problems demands not just accurate data about noise impacts but also requires an effective means of communicating this information to decision makers. The Interactive Sound Information System (ISIS) is a “new media” package designed to explain and de-mystify the complex metrics used to describe noise impacts. Central to the ISIS package is the idea that “real” noise ex...

We analyzed the mechanism of recombination-dependent DNA replication in bacteriophage T4-infected Escherichia coli using plasmids that have sequence homology to the infecting phage chromosome. Consistent with prior studies, a pBR322 plasmid, initially resident in the infected host cell, does not replicate following infection by T4. However, the resident plasmid can be induced to replicate when ...

GISELA TROMMSDORFF Technische Hochschule, Aachen HELMUT LAMM Universitat, Koln The present study is an analysis of the relationship between delinquency, institutionalization and future orientation, based on a social-learning theoretical framework. Two hundred and forty male adolescents (institutionalized and noninstitutionalized delinquents and nondelinquents) answered open and structured quest...

We dedicate this work to Wolfgang Pompe, a very good friend and a good friend of the Materials Faculty at UCSB where he and his wife, Gisela, shared their lives and fellowship. Three different zirconia–alumina laminates, AZ50, AZ80, and AZ95, were fabricated via tape-casting thick Zr(3Y)O2 layers, dip-coating the zirconia tapes in a slurry containing a mixture of zirconia and alumina, stacking ...

After 10 years of follow-up of a cohort of adolescents and young adults living in Munich, Tijssen et al (pp. 102–108) found that the persistence of affective symptoms earlier in life predicted later development of bipolar disorder in a dose–response fashion. They confirmed that although hypomanic symptoms are relatively common in adolescence, most resolve with time. In a Swedish national cohort...