Scattering in 3D layered rough media can be evaluated resorting to the Boundary Perturbation Theory (BPT). The primary aim of this paper is to show how the pertinent analytical results of the BPT are rigorously susceptible of a powerful physical interpretation, so that the fundamental interactions contemplated by the BPT can be revealed, gaining a coherent explanation and a neat picture of the ...

Limited access to evidence-based behavioral parent training (BPT) for addressing attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been a growing concern internationally. Models to improve access to BPT are needed, particularly those that can be readily implemented in community settings and that leverage the potential workforce to increase capacity to deliver BPT. The purpose of this study wa...

To investigate the relationship between blood rheology and endothelial function in patients with coronary risk factors, brachial arterial flow-mediated vasodilatation (FMD), an index of endothelial function and blood passage time (BPT), an index of blood rheology, and fasting blood cell count, glucose metabolism, and plasma fibrinogen, lipid, C-reactive protein, and whole blood viscosity levels...

This paper presents GraphBPT, a tool for hierarchical representation of images based on binary partition trees. It relies on a new BPT construction algorithm that have interesting tuning properties. Besides, access to image pixels from the tree is achieved efficiently with data compression techniques, and a textual representation of BPT is also provided for interoperability. Finally, we illustr...

Benchmarked algorithms. For each scene we show images rendered with (1) path tracing (PT), (2) bidirectional path tracing (BPT), (3) stochastic progressive photon mapping (PPM), (4) a combination of BPT and PPM based on a heuristic caustic path classification (BPT-PPM), two variants of Metropolis light transport: (5) MLTVeach [Veach and Guibas 1997]) and (6) MLT-Kelemen [Kelemen et al. 2002], a...

AIM To investigate the effect of basic periodontal therapy (BPT) with antimicrobials (AM) on the parameters of metabolic syndrome (MetS) (waist circumference, systolic/diastolic blood pressure [BP], HDL-cholesterol, triglycerides, glucose). METHODS One hundred and ten periodontitis patients without known comorbidities and unaware of possible MetS were randomly assigned to BPT (n = 56) or BPT+...

Behavioral parent training (BPT) is an evidence-based intervention for the treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and related disruptive behavioral disorders of childhood. Despite convincing data on effectiveness, engagement to BPT, particularly for high-risk families, has been a long standing, yet understudied, issue. Data from a clinical trial of a comprehensive BPT appr...

OBJECTIVE Negative symptoms of patients with Schizophrenia are resistant to medical treatment or conventional group therapy. Understanding schizophrenia as a form of disembodiment of the self, a number of scientists have argued that the approach of embodiment and associated embodied therapies, such as Dance and Movement Therapy (DMT) or Body Psychotherapy (BPT), may be more suitable to explain ...

The present study examines the potential of sequencing a neurocognitive intervention with behavioral parent training (BPT) to improve executive functions (EFs), psychiatric symptoms, and multiple indices of functional impairment in school-age children aged 7 to 11 years who have been diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Specifically, in a randomized controlled trial d...

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) and substance use disorders often co-occur. Both disorders are heritable and family studies showed that there are familial factors that increase the risk for BPD as well as substance use/abuse. This is the first study that investigates whether the association of borderline personality traits (BPT) with substance use reflects an underlying genetic vulnerabil...