On February 8th, the Minister of Health announced the composition of the new Committees on Clinical Psychiatry and on the Epideminology of Mental Disorders under the chairmanship respectively of Professor Sir George Pickering and Professor Sir Aubrey Lewis. Each Committee, the Minister said, had appointed working parties to study special aspects of its field, such as the psychopathic personalit...

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Based on the executive-attention theory of working memory capacity (WMC; e.g., Kane, Conway, Hambrick, & Engle, 2007) we tested the relations among WMC, mind wandering, and goal neglect in a sustained-attention-to-response task (SART; a go/no-go task). In three SART versions, making conceptual versus perceptual processing demands, subjects periodically indicated their thought content when probe...

The potential of hand shape and hand texture-based biometry is investigated and algorithms are developed. Feature extraction stage is preceded by meticulous registration of the deformable shape of the hand. Alternative features addressing hand shape and hand texture are compared. Independent component analysis features prove to be the best performing in the identification and verification tasks...

At the recent ISUOG meeting in Los Angeles, there was great debate about the current cut-off s we use to defi ne miscarriage using transvaginal ultrasound. In particular, the guidelines used by both the RCOG and ASUM are not conservative enough and may lead to false positive diagnosis of miscarriage. In routine practice, when there is a suspicion of a non-viable pregnancy, we rely on the measur...

system". Is/ September. The Daily Telegraph reported a statement by Dr. E. G. Gray that the electron microscope could explore the structure of the brain and, in the end, reveal the significant changes underlying conditions such as psychosis, mental deficiency and epilepsy. 4th September. The opening in the Portobello Road of the second "worry clinic" for teenagers run by the Youth Studies and R...

This paper reconciles two widely used decompositions of GDP into trend and cycle that yield starkly different results. The BeveridgeNelson (BN) decomposition implies that a stochastic trend accounts for most of the variation in output, whereas the unobserved-components (UC) implies cyclical variation is dominant. Which is correct has broad implications for the relative importance of real versus...

This paper presents a critical study of the mechanical and electrical properties of the PHANToM haptic interface and improvements to overcome its limitations for applications requiring high-performance control. Target applications share the common requirements of low-noise/granularity/latency measurements, an accurate system model, high bandwidth, the need for an open architecture, and the abil...