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Kinds of Edition Selected AbstractsGENERAL RULES FOR RECORDING ENDOSCOPIC FINDINGS OF ESOPHAGOGASTRIC VARICES (2ND EDITION)DIGESTIVE ENDOSCOPY, Issue 1 2010Takashi Tajiri General rules for recording endoscopic findings of esophageal varices were initially proposed in 1980 and revised in 1991. These rules have widely been used in Japan and other countries. Recently, portal hypertensive gastropathy has been recognized as a distinct histological and functional entity. Endoscopic ultrasonography can clearly depict vascular structures around the esophageal wall in patients with portal hypertension. Owing to progress in medicine, we have updated and slightly modified the former rules. The revised rules are simpler and more straightforward than the former rules and include newly recognized findings of portal hypertensive gastropathy and a new classification for endoscopic ultrasonographic findings. [source] Towards an autonomic approach for edge computingCONCURRENCY AND COMPUTATION: PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE, Issue 14 2007Mikael Desertot Abstract Nowadays, one of the biggest challenges for companies is to cope with the high cost of their information technologies infrastructure. Edge computing is a new computing paradigm designed to allocate on-demand computing and storage resources. Those resources are Web cache servers scattered over the ISP backbones. We argue that this paradigm could be applied for on-demand full application hosting, helping to reduce costs. In this paper, we present a J2EE (Java Enterprise Edition) dynamic server able to deploy/host J2EE applications on demand and its autonomic manager. For this, we reengineer and experiment with JOnAS, an open-source J2EE static server. Two management policies of the autonomic manager were stressed by a simulation of a worldwide ISP network. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Psychometric properties of the Beck Depression Inventory-II with incarcerated male offenders aged 18,21 yearsCRIMINAL BEHAVIOUR AND MENTAL HEALTH, Issue 4 2008Emma J. Palmer Background,The Beck Depression Inventory , Second Edition (BDI-II) is a self-report measure of depression. Studies have shown it to have good psychometric properties with adult and adolescent clinical and non-clinical populations. However, this research has mostly been conducted with North American samples. Aims/hypotheses,To examine the psychometric characteristics of the BDI-II with male young adult offenders in the UK. Methods,The BDI-II was administered to 117 incarcerated male young adult offenders aged 18,21 years from the UK. Results,The BDI-II showed good internal consistency and concurrent validity. Factor analysis revealed two factors, relating to cognitive-affective items and somatic items. The items loading on the two factors were very similar to those found in a North American adolescent (13,17 years) psychiatric inpatient sample. Conclusions and implications for future research,The findings suggest that the BDI-II can be used with confidence in young adult male offenders. It would be useful to confirm its psychometric properties in other offender samples and establish offender population norms. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Hardwood-Nuss' Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine, Fifth EditionACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, Issue 6 2010EMT-P, Michelle McLean MD No abstract is available for this article. [source] Cognitive Behavioral Therapies for Trauma (2nd Edition) Edited by Victoria M. Follette and Joseph I. Ruzek.DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY, Issue 3 20092006., New York: The Guilford Press No abstract is available for this article. [source] Atlas of Rhinoplasty: Open and Endonasal Approaches, 2nd EditionDERMATOLOGIC SURGERY, Issue 9 2005Steven H. Dayan MD No abstract is available for this article. [source] Staged Diabetes Management, 2nd EditionDIABETIC MEDICINE, Issue 7 2005A. Kilvert No abstract is available for this article. [source] Blood banking and transfusion medicine: basic principles and practice,Second EditionEUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HAEMATOLOGY, Issue 3 2007Morten Bagge Hansen No abstract is available for this article. [source] Neurology of Hereditary Metabolic Diseases of Children , Third EditionEUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY, Issue 1 2007K. A. Jellinger No abstract is available for this article. [source] Validation of the deCODE Migraine Questionnaire (DMQ3) for use in genetic studiesEUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY, Issue 11 2006M. Kirchmann We assessed the reliability of the diagnosis of migraine with aura (MA) and migraine without aura (MO) based on the third edition of the deCODE Migraine Questionnaire (DMQ3) using a physician-conducted interview as an empirical index of validity. Amongst Danish migraine families recruited from specialist practice we selected 200 cases diagnosed according to the International Classification of Headache Disorders 2nd Edition in a validated physician-conducted telephone interview: 50 patients with exclusively MA, 50 with both MA and MO, 50 with exclusively MO and 50 controls. A written copy of the DMQ3 was mailed to the participant. The DMQ3-based diagnosis was compared with the interview-based diagnosis. Overall, the DMQ3 diagnosed migraine (MA, MO or both) with a sensitivity of 99% (109/110), a specificity of 86% (32/37) and a kappa statistic of 0.89. The most reliable subtype of migraine was MA (with or without co-occurring attacks of MO) which was diagnosed with a sensitivity of 92% (71/77), a specificity of 93% (65/70) and a kappa statistic of 0.85. Exclusively MO was diagnosed with a sensitivity of 91% (30/33), a specificity of 93% (106/114) and a kappa statistic of 0.80. Weakest was the diagnosis of both MO and MA which was diagnosed with a sensitivity of 63% (24/38), a specificity of 92% (100/109) and a kappa statistic of 0.57. In conclusion, the DMQ3 is a valid tool for diagnosing patients with migraine for genetic studies. [source] Clinical Neuropsychology, Fourth EditionEUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY, Issue 5 2003K.M. Heilman No abstract is available for this article. [source] Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 4th EditionACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, Issue 7 2000Article first published online: 8 JAN 200 No abstract is available for this article. [source] A genome-wide quantitative trait loci scan of neurocognitive performances in families with schizophreniaGENES, BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR, Issue 7 2010Y.-J. Lien Patients with schizophrenia frequently display neurocognitive dysfunction, and genetic studies suggest it to be an endophenotype for schizophrenia. Genetic studies of such traits may thus help elucidate the biological pathways underlying genetic susceptibility to schizophrenia. This study aimed to identify loci influencing neurocognitive performance in schizophrenia. The sample comprised of 1207 affected individuals and 1035 unaffected individuals of Han Chinese ethnicity from 557 sib-pair families co-affected with DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Fourth Edition) schizophrenia. Subjects completed a face-to-face semi-structured interview, the continuous performance test (CPT) and the Wisconsin card sorting test (WCST), and were genotyped with 386 microsatellite markers across the genome. A series of autosomal genome-wide multipoint nonparametric quantitative trait loci (QTL) linkage analysis were performed in affected individuals only. Determination of genome-wide empirical significance was performed using 1000 simulated genome scans. One linkage peak attaining genome-wide significance was identified: 12q24.32 for undegraded CPT hit rate [nonparametric linkage z (NPL-Z) scores = 3.32, genome-wide empirical P = 0.03]. This result was higher than the peak linkage signal obtained in the previous genome-wide scan using a dichotomous diagnosis of schizophrenia. The identification of 12q24.32 as a QTL has not been consistently implicated in previous linkage studies on schizophrenia, which suggests that the analysis of endophenotypes provides additional information from what is seen in analyses that rely on diagnoses. This region with linkage to a particular neurocognitive feature may inform functional hypotheses for further genetic studies for schizophrenia. [source] Fundamentals of Biogeography, 2nd EditionGEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH, Issue 4 2005M. Meadows No abstract is available for this article. [source] Learning from research on the information behaviour of healthcare professionals: a review of the literature 2004,2008 with a focus on emotionHEALTH INFORMATION & LIBRARIES JOURNAL, Issue 3 2009Ina Fourie Objective:, A review, focusing on emotion, was conducted of reported studies on the information behaviour of healthcare professionals (2004,2008). Findings were intended to offer guidelines on information services and information literacy training, to note gaps in research and to raise research interest. Method:, Databases were searched for literature published from January 2004 to December 2008 and indexed on eric, Library and Information Science Abstracts, medline, PsycINFO, Social Services Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition; Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts; Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection; Social Work Abstracts; SocINDEX with Full Text; SPORTDiscus; cinhal; and the ISI Web of Knowledge databases. Key journals were manually scanned and citations followed. Literature was included if reporting on issues concerning emotion. Results:, Emotion in information behaviour in healthcare contexts is scantily addressed. This review, however, offers some insight into the difficulty in identifying and expressing information needs; sense making and the need to fill knowledge gaps; uncertainty; personality and coping skills; motivation to seeking information; emotional experiences during information seeking; self-confidence and attitude; emotional factors in the selection of information channels; and seeking information for psychological or emotional reasons. Conclusion:, Suggestions following findings, address information literacy programs, information services and research gaps. [source] Religious Involvement and the Use of Mental Health CareHEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH, Issue 2 2006Katherine M. Harris Objectives. To examine the association between religious involvement and mental health care use by adults age 18 or older with mental health problems. Methods. We used data from the 2001,2003 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health. We defined two subgroups with moderate (n=49,902) and serious mental or emotional distress (n=14,548). For each subgroup, we estimated a series of bivariate probit models of past year use of outpatient care and prescription medications using indicators of the frequency of religious service attendance and two measures of the strength and influence of religious beliefs as independent variables. Covariates included common Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition, disorders symptoms, substance use and related disorders, self-rated health status, and sociodemographic characteristics. Results. Among those with moderate distress, we found some evidence of a positive relationship between religious service attendance and outpatient mental health care use and of a negative relationship between the importance of religious beliefs and outpatient use. Among those with serious distress, use of outpatient care and medication was more strongly associated with service attendance and with the importance of religious beliefs. By contrast, we found a negative association between outpatient use and the influence of religious beliefs on decisions. Conclusion. The positive relationship between religious service participation and service use for those with serious distress suggests that policy initiatives aimed at increasing the timely and appropriate use of mental health care may be able to build upon structures and referral processes that currently exist in many religious organizations. [source] Guidelines for the Management of Helicobacter pylori Infection in Japan: 2009 Revised EditionHELICOBACTER, Issue 1 2010Masahiro Asaka Abstract Background:, Over the past few years, the profile of Helicobacter pylori infection has changed in Japan. In particular, the relationship between H. pylori and gastric cancer has been demonstrated more clearly. Accordingly, the committee of the Japanese Society for Helicobacter Research has revised the guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of H. pylori infection in Japan. Materials and Methods:, Four meetings of guidelines preparation committee were held from July 2007 to December 2008. In the new guidelines, recommendations for treatment have been classified into five grades according to the Minds Recommendation Grades, while the level of evidence has been classified into six grades. The Japanese national health insurance system was not taken into consideration when preparing these guidelines. Results:,Helicobacter pylori eradication therapy achieved a Grade A recommendation, being useful for the treatment of gastric or duodenal ulcer, for the treatment and prevention of H. pylori -associated diseases such as gastric cancer, and for inhibiting the spread of H. pylori infection. Levels of evidence were determined for each disease associated with H. pylori infection. For the diagnosis of H. pylori infection, measurement of H. pylori antigen in the feces was added to the tests not requiring biopsy. One week of proton-pump inhibitor-based triple therapy (including amoxicillin and metronidazole) was recommended as second-line therapy after failure of first-line eradication therapy. Conclusion:, The revised Japanese guidelines for H. pylori are based on scientific evidence and avoid the administrative restraints that applied to earlier versions. [source] Cecil Medicine, 23rd edition (Premium Edition). -.by W. P. Arend, J. O. Armitage, D. R. Clemmons, J. M. Drazen, R. C. Griggs and N. LarussoINTERNAL MEDICINE JOURNAL, Issue 12 2008G. Macdonald No abstract is available for this article. [source] Endodontics Volume I (First Edition)INTERNATIONAL ENDODONTIC JOURNAL, Issue 12 2005Nicola Evans No abstract is available for this article. [source] Television and Violence in the Economy of MemoryINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF JAPANESE SOCIOLOGY, Issue 1 2002Mamoru Ito The present paper aims to consider the cultural function of television as a technology for the creation of a public memory. The television system records past images, preserves them, and broadcasts various historical programs. A viewer owns the public memory jointly, through watching/consuming programs. However, the process of production and consumption of programs is linked with the exclusion of other historical memories from the public space. After all, the creation of public memories in depth is related to social power. Through the analysis in concrete terms of a series of programs of Project X and the second episode of the Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK; Japan Broadcasting Corporation) series, Special Edition: Judging War, the relationship between the organization of public memories and social power is explored. Project X depicts the challenges of engineers of middle standing who initiated new industrial and technological developments in the 1960s and 1970s. Special Edition: Judging War is based on coverage of the Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery. This program was subjected to revision on the eve of its broadcast. What forms of expression were eliminated? These two programs should help us define more clearly what the Japanese media selects for incorporation into the public memory. [source] A Multidisciplinary Handbook of Child and Adolescent Mental Health for Front-line Professionals, 2nd EditionINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH NURSING, Issue 3 2009Article first published online: 6 MAY 200 No abstract is available for this article. [source] The structure of common mental disorders: A replication study in a community sample of adolescents and young adultsINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF METHODS IN PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH, Issue 4 2009Katja Beesdo-baum Abstract Previous research suggests that patterns of comorbidity of common mental disorders among adults are best reflected by a hierarchical three-factor structure with two correlated factors (,anxious-misery' and ,fear') summarized in a second-order ,internalizing' factor and one ,externalizing' factor. This three-factor structure has not been examined yet in a sample of adolescents and young adults. A representative sample of 3021 adolescents and young adults (baseline age 14,24) were prospectively followed over 10 years. Mental disorders were assessed according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) by using the standardized Munich Composite International Diagnostic Interview. Ten mental disorders (major depressive episode, dysthymia, generalized anxiety disorder, social phobia, specific phobia, agoraphobia, panic disorder, alcohol dependence, drug dependence, antisocial personality) were fitted to a series of Confirmatory Factor Analysis models using: (1) 12-month data, and (2) lifetime data from a person-year data set. The three-factor model showed good fit to the observed data in our sample both when 12-month diagnoses and lifetime-to-date diagnoses from a person-year data file were used; yet the higher-order ,internalizing' factor summarizing ,anxious misery' and ,fear' had to be omitted. The three-factor model could be replicated in a sample of adolescents and young adults with the exception that the second-order ,internalizing' factor was not consistent with the data. Further research is necessary to provide more complete insight into the structure of mental disorders by examining the stability of the structure of mental disorders in different developmental stages (ages) and by using a more extensive set of mental disorders. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] The performance of the Japanese version of the K6 and K10 in the World Mental Health Survey JapanINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF METHODS IN PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH, Issue 3 2008Toshi A. Furukawa Abstract Two new screening scales for psychological distress, the K6 and K10, have been developed using the item response theory and shown to outperform existing screeners in English. We developed their Japanese versions using the standard backtranslaton method and included them in the World Mental Health Survey Japan (WMH-J), which is a psychiatric epidemiologic study conducted in seven communities across Japan with 2436 participants. The WMH-J used the WMH Survey Initiative version of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) to assess the 30-day Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders , Fourth Edition (DSM-IV). Performance of the two screening scales in detecting DSM-IV mood and anxiety disorders, as assessed by the areas under receiver operating characteristic curves (AUCs), was excellent, with values as high as 0.94 (95% confidence interval = 0.88 to 0.99) for K6 and 0.94 (0.88 to 0.995) for K10. Stratum-specific likelihood ratios (SSLRs), which express screening test characteristics and can be used to produce individual-level predicted probabilities of being a case from screening scale scores and pretest probabilities in other samples, were strikingly similar between the Japanese and the original versions. The Japanese versions of the K6 and K10 thus demonstrated screening performances essentially equivalent to those of the original English versions. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] DSM categories and dimensions in clinical and research contextsINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF METHODS IN PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH, Issue S1 2007Helena Chmura Kraemer Abstract An enhancement to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-V) is currently under consideration, one that would enhance both the reliability and validity of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) diagnoses: the addition of a dimensional adjunct to each of the traditional categorical diagnoses of the DSM. We first review the history and context of this proposal and define the concepts on which this dimensional proposal is based. The advantages of dimensional measures over categorical measures have long been known, but we here illustrate what is known with a theoretical and a practical demonstration of the potential effects of this addition. Possible objections to the proposal are discussed, concluding with some general criteria for implementing this proposal. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] A dimensional option for the diagnosis of substance dependence in DSM-VINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF METHODS IN PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH, Issue S1 2007John E. Helzer Abstract In this paper we discuss the creation of dimensional equivalents for categorically defined substance use disorders (SUDs) in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-V), which now is being created. We begin with a review of the considerable literature that has accumulated on the dimensional properties of the SUDs. These studies have primarily examined the alcohol use disorders, but work relevant to other substances is reviewed as well. The weight of evidence indicates that SUDs fit well into a unidimensional concept. We next discuss potential advantages, drawbacks, and challenges in developing a dimensional alternative for the SUDs and highlight some issues for an ongoing research agenda to further explore the challenges. Finally we offer a specific proposal for a SUDs dimensional option for DSM-V. The model we propose is based on, and would relate directly back to, the categorical criteria that will be created for the SUDs by the substance use diagnostic workgroup. It is our contention that offering a dimensional equivalent for the DSM-V categories would be of great value, but that the categorical and dimensional definitions should be based on the same symptoms and closely linked. A dimensional scale that does not related directly to the categorical definition would be counterproductive. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] The National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R): background and aimsINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF METHODS IN PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH, Issue 2 2004Ronald C. Kessler Abstract The National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R) is a new nationally representative community household survey of the prevalence and correlates of mental disorders in the US. The NCS-R was carried out a decade after the original NCS. The NCS-R repeats many of the questions from the NCS and also expands the NCS questioning to include assessments based on the more recent Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) diagnostics system (American Psychiatric Association, 1994). The NCS-R was designed to (1) investigate time trends and their correlates over the decade of the 1990s and (2) expand the assessment of the prevalence and correlates of mental disorders beyond the assessment in the baseline NCS in order to address a number of important substantive and methodological issues that were raised by the NCS. This paper presents a brief review of these aims. Copyright © 2004 Whurr Publishers Ltd. [source] An Introduction to Orthodontics, Second EditionINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PAEDIATRIC DENTISTRY, Issue 5 2001Article first published online: 21 DEC 200 [source] Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for bladder cancer (Summary , JUA 2009 Edition)INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF UROLOGY, Issue 2 2010The Committee for Establishment of the Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Bladder Cancer, the Japanese Urological Association Abstract In Japan, until now, the treatment of bladder cancer has been based on guidelines from overseas. The problem with this practice is that the options recommended in overseas guidelines are not necessarily suitable for Japanese clinical practice. A relatively large number of clinical trials have been conducted in Japan in the field of bladder cancer, and the Japanese Urological Association (JUA) considered it appropriate to formulate their own guidelines. These Guidelines present an overview of bladder cancer at each clinical stage, followed by clinical questions that address problems frequently faced in everyday clinical practice. In this English translation of a shortened version of the original Guidelines, we have abridged each overview, summarized each clinical question and its answer, and only included the references we considered of particular importance. [source] Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for renal cell carcinoma (Summary , JUA 2007 Edition)INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF UROLOGY, Issue 4 2009Tomoaki Fujioka Abstract: The text of these guidelines was published for general clinicians, general urologists, and patients, with the aim of providing a system of effective and efficient clinical practices for managing renal cell carcinoma based on evidence-based medicine,intended techniques. The guidelines contain the answers to a total of 21 clinical questions (CQ) that were formulated under the headings of ,risk factors and prophylaxis,',diagnosis,',surgical treatment and local treatment,' and ,systemic treatment,' along with the recommendation grades and systems/algorithms for clinical practice based on structured abstracts prepared through critical reviews of the relevant published reports; the literature search was conducted using the key words for each CQ. An abridged edition of these guidelines can be found on the web pages of the Japan Society of Clinical Oncology and the Medical Information Network Distribution Service. [source] Evidence-based Clinical Practice Guidelines for Prostate Cancer (Summary , JUA 2006 Edition)INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF UROLOGY, Issue 1 2008Sadao Kamidono First page of article [source] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||