BACKGROUND Chronic major depressive disorder and dysthymia are associated with a high burden and substantial care costs. New and more effective treatments are required. This is the first randomized controlled trial designed to evaluate the effectiveness of Body Psychotherapy (BPT) in patients with chronic depression. METHODS Patients with chronic depressive syndromes (more than 2 years sympto...

◆ People with asthma are excluded from some occupations, including service in the Australian Defence Force, and asthma can be exacerbated by some occupations, making it desirable to identify currently active asthma and assess its severity in potential entrants. ◆ Objective testing of asthma is by bronchial provocation test (BPT). There are two types of BPT: direct and indirect. Pharmacological ...

This paper proposes a new spectral transformation for speaker normalization. We use the Bilinear Transformation (BLT) to introduce a new frequency warping resulting from a mapping of a prototype Band-Pass (BP) filter into a general BP filter. This new transformation called “Band-Pass Transform” (BPT) offers two degrees of freedom enabling complex warpings of the frequency axis and different fro...

In the mol-ecular structure of the centrosymmetric mononuclear complex [Ni(2-bpt)(2)(H(2)O)(2)](ClO(4))(2) [2-bpt = 4-amino-3,5-di-2-pyridyl-1,2,4-triazole, (C(12)H(10)N(6))], the central Ni(II) atom is six-coordinated by a pair of chelating 2-bpt ligands and two water mol-ecules. Inter-molecular O-H⋯N inter-actions link the monomeric units into a two-dimensional hydrogen-bonded (4,4) network, ...

There is great variability in the degree to which children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) improve through behavioral treatments. This study investigates the influence of the dopamine transporter gene (SCL6A3/DAT1) on outcome of behavioral parent training (BPT). Study subjects were a subsample (n = 50, for whom DAT1 genotypes were available) of a randomized controlled BPT e...

OBJECTIVE To investigate predictors and moderators of outcome of behavioral parent training (BPT) as adjunct to ongoing routine clinical care (RCC), versus RCC alone. METHODS We randomly assigned 94 referred children (4-12 years) with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) to BPT plus RCC or RCC alone. Outcome was based on parent-reported behavioral problems and ADHD symptoms. Predic...

Binary Partition Trees are hierarchical region-based representations of images. They define a reduced set of regions that covers the image support and that spans various levels of resolution. They are attractive for object detection as they tremendously reduce the search space. In this paper, several issues related to the use of BPT for object detection are studied. Concerning the tree construc...

A pro-aromatic bisphenaleno-thieno[3,2-b]thiophene (BPT-TIPS) was synthesized and compared with an anti-aromatic bisindeno-thieno[3,2-b]thiophene (S2-TIPS). BPT-TIPS showed larger diradical character, stronger absorption, longer excited state lifetime and better redox amphotericity than S2-TIPS.

BACKGROUND In order to improve the treatment of medication-resistant negative symptoms in schizophrenia, new interventions are needed. Neuropsychological considerations and older reports in the literature point towards a potential benefit of body-oriented psychological therapy (BPT). This is the first randomized controlled trial specifically designed to test the effectiveness of manualized BPT ...

Bidirectional path tracing (BPT) and photon mapping (PM) are probably the two most versatile physically based rendering algorithms available today. It has been acknowledged that BPT and PM are complementary in terms of the types of light transport effects they can efficiently capture. Our recently proposed vertex connection and merging (VCM) algorithm aims to leverage the advantages of both met...