A group of hands on child sexual abusers were diagnosed according to DSM-IVR criteria within a routinely performed risk assessment process in the Austrian prison system. Actuarials showed moderate to good predictive accuracy, and a combination of static and stable risk factors (Static-99 and Stable-2007) significantly improved the predictive power for sexual reoffense. In addition, the clinical...

Purpose. The aim of this study was to evaluate the possibility of using static posturography in the assessment of sensorimotor gating. Subjects and Methods. Fourteen subjects took part in the experiment. The inhibitory mechanisms of startle reflex were used as the measure of sensorimotor gating. It was evoked by a strong acoustic stimulus (106 dB SPL, 40 ms) which was preceded by the weaker sim...

[Purpose] The purpose of this case series was to examination the effects of trunk and neck stabilization exercise on the static, dynamic trunk balance abilities of children with cerebral palsy. [Subjects and Methods] The study included 11 school aged children diagnosed with paraplegia due to a premature birth. Each child engaged in exercise treatments twice per week for eight weeks; each treatm...

In this paper we define a model-based risk assessment procedure that integrates automatic risk assessment by static analysis, semiautomatic risk assessment and guided manual risk assessment. In this process probability and impact criteria are determined by metrics which are combined to estimate the risk of specific system development artifacts. The risk values are propagated to the assigned tes...

In this work fragility analysis of reinforced concrete and steel structures withinfill walls is performed.For this purpose a fuzzy-based fragility assessment framework for evaluating 3D framed structures is proposed taking into account various sources of uncertainty. In particular, randomness on the material properties and on the seismic demand is considered. The proposed framework requires the...

Inclusion of clouds in an initial condition has been a long-term goal of many numerical weather prediction systems. The work with the ARPS model and ADAS initialization has been a notable example (Xue, et al., 2000). Work by Crook and Sun, 1997 has taken this even into the realm of the model adjoint. What we seek in this work is an a 3-D static analysis that can provide the kind of sophisticati...

Derived from the emerging paradigm shift in English language teaching and assessment, there has been a renewal of interest in dynamic assessment (DA) to be used as an alternative to the traditional static testing in language classrooms. However, to date, DA practice has been mostly limited to clinical treatments of children with learning disabilities, and it has not been widely incorporated int...