Psychiatric inpatients were treated with either implosive therapy or a desensitization procedure using free association. Patients receiving only hospital milieu treatment served as controls. Ratings of achievement of individualized behavioral goals, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, and the Mooney Problem Checklist were administered before and after treatment and at 6 mo. followi...

purpose: to examine the effectiveness of group cognitive-behavioral therapy (cbt) based on schema on impulsiveness of substance abusers in karaj. materials and methods: this study was quasi-experimental with pre-test, post-test and control group. the statistical population of this study consisted of male substance abusers who referred to addiction treatment clinics of karaj in 2010. the sample ...

This paper reports an analysis of the production of implosive and prenasalized sounds by 6 children (3 Fulfulde and 3 Bambara) from the onset of babbling to the end of their first year. It shows that the production of implosive consonant-like sounds by the children is very early on language-specific i.e related to the presence of these consonants in the language the children are exposed to. Unl...

A new method of splicing high voltage conductors has been making its way into the electrical utility industry, displacing the conventional method at an ever-increasing pace. While conventional technology uses a hydraulic compression process, this new method uses implosive energy to make the splice. This paper describes the basic principals behind this new technology and compares the implosive m...

I consider spherically symmetric scalar waves of two types: explosive waves in an infinite medium generated by a spherically symmetric source, and implosive waves in which the medium is contained inside a spherically symmetric source. The explosive waves travel outward, the implosive waves inward. Although there are exceptional cases, in general there are, at any time, shells in which the energ...

In this case, an old man was diagnosed as lung cancer, clinical stage IV. In order to alleviate cancer, this patient was treated with gefitinib. Three months later, symptoms such as a significant weakness, chest tightness and shortness of breath after sports arised and intensifying. Implosive therapy with high dose methylprednisolone is used to control the weakness caused by gefitinib. Eight da...