The present study assessed potential gender differences between the two prevailing PTSD models - the emotional numbing (King, Leskin, King, & Weathers, 1998) and dysphoria (Simms, Watson, & Doebbelling, 2002) models - in order to establish whether one model is superior with regard to its cross-gender generalizability. The sample included 188 female and 690 male trauma-exposed United States Vete...

This chapter presents a review of research on the use and role of interactive simulations for learning. Contemporary theories of learning, instruction, and media, suggest that learning involves a complex relationship and dependency between a learner’s prior knowledge, a learner’s motivation, the context, the task, and the resources (e.g., simulations) provided to, and used by the learner to sup...

Phylogenetic analysis depends on inferential methodology estimating accurately the degree of divergence between sequences. Inaccurate estimates can lead to misleading evolutionary inferences, including incorrect tree topology estimates and poor dating of historical species divergence. Protein coding sequences are ubiquitous in phylogenetic inference, but many of the standard methods commonly us...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of establishing a surveillance system for diabetes mellitus in the elderly using data sources on morbidity (hospital and outpatient data) and mortality and the capture-recapture methodology. Log-linear models were adjusted for the entire sample and for gender and age strata. Seven hundred and forty patients were identified in the three c...

The time course and dose dependency of the incidence of bone-sarcomas among 900 German patients treated with high doses of radium-224 is analysed in terms of a proportional hazards model with a log-normal dependency of time to tumor and a linear-quadratic dose relation. The deduced dose dependency agrees well with a previous analysis in terms of a non-parametric proportional hazards model, and ...

In this paper we demonstrate how the emotional state of the speaker in uences his or her speech. We show that recognition accuracy varies signi cantly depending on the emotional state of the speaker. Our system models the pronunciation variation of emotional speech both at the acoustic and prosodic level. We show that using emotion-speci c acoustic and prosodic models allows the system to discr...

Regarding psychological responses to exercise, this study aimed to analyze the mediating effects of motivational regulations and intensity in the association between basic psychological needs satisfaction and emotional responses. This was a cross-sectional study of 495 health club members (M = 40.50 years; SD = 13.54); of these, 186 were women (37.6%) and 309 men (62.4%), with an average attend...