Materials and methods The sample included 90 male participants (64 of which completed follow-up) and seven counselor participants (i.e., four females and three males) from communitybased treatment in a Midwestern metropolitan area. Hierarchical linear modeling was conducted to examine the influence of victimization and violence history, psychiatric disorders (i.e., anxiety, depression), social ...

conclusions project management may benefit both the managerial and scientific aspects of medical projects and reduce fund waste. however, little has been written to date on project management in the context of clinical research. the suggestions represent the views of the individual authors. to provide a high level of evidence in this regard, we recommend that a randomized controlled trial be pe...

This paper introduces the audio part of the 2010 communitybased Signal Separation Evaluation Campaign (SiSEC2010). Seven speech and music datasets were contributed, which include datasets recorded in noisy or dynamic environments, in addition to the SiSEC2008 datasets. The source separation problems were split into five tasks, and the results for each task were evaluated using different objecti...

Background As psychiatric treatment shifts from the hospital to the community, policy debates have increasingly focused on the use of legal compulsion to mandate treatment in the community. In service provision, however, it is apparent that legal compulsion is just one form of leverage used to engage patients in community treatment. Research from the USA indicates that approximately half of com...

Holly Hatton, M.s., is a professional researcher and evaluator working for the Northern California Training Academy at the University of California, Davis. She has 9 years of experience designing and conducting evaluations of communitybased programs that serve children, families, and communities. She also maintains a career in academic research related to child and family development. Ms. Hatto...

We introduce and describe scientific workflows, i.e., executable descriptions of automatable scientific processes such as computational science simulations and data analyses. Scientific workflows are often expressed in terms of tasks and their (dataflow) dependencies. This chapter first provides an overview of the characteristic features of scientific workflows and outlines their life cycle. A ...

In this paper, we describe the musebot and the musebot ensemble, and our creation of the first implementations of these novel creative forms. We discuss the need of new opportunities for practitioners in the field of musical metacreation to explore collaborative methodologies in order to make meaningful creative and technical contributions in the field. With the release of the musebot specifica...

With increasing popularity of communitybased question answering services such as Yahoo! Answers, huge amounts of user generated questions are available. In this paper, we propose using these data along with search engine query logs to create a question generation shared task that aims to automatically generate questions given a query. At least two benefits could result from such a task. First, ...

Community-based systems of care (SOC) provide a range of services to students with significant emotional and behavioral difficulties and their families. However, little is known about the educational characteristics and functioning of students at enrollment in SOC. The purpose of this study was to replicate and extend previous research by examining the educational characteristics and predictors...

Ceylon Medical Journal (CMJ) is a peer-reviewed, open access journal published quarterly by the Sri Lanka Association in last week of March, June, September and December each year. The mission CMJ to promote science art medicine betterment public health. publishes original papers commentaries which have relevance allied sciences. committed maintaining conforming editorial ethical standards reco...