BACKGROUND Research suggests that levels of discrimination against people using mental health services are high; however, reports of these people's experiences are rare. AIMS To determine whether the Time to Change (TTC) programme target of 5% reduction in discrimination has been achieved. METHOD Separate samples of people using mental health services were interviewed annually from 2008 to ...

Although the effectiveness of mass screening for gastric cancer remains controversial, several countries with a high prevalence of gastric cancer have implemented nationwide gastric cancer screening programs. This study was conducted to assess trends in the use of either upper gastrointestinal series (UGIS) or endoscopy to screen for gastric cancer, as well as to assess factors strongly associa...

Teen birth rates fell steeply in the United States from 2007 through 2011, resuming a decline that began in 1991 but was briefly interrupted in 2006 and 2007. The overall rate declined 25% from 41.5 per 1,000 teenagers aged 15-19 in 2007 to 31.3 in 2011--a record low. The number of births to teenagers aged 15-19 also fell from 2007 to 2011, by 26% to 329,797 in 2011. Births to teenagers are at ...

This article provides an integrative introduction to a PCSP journal issue on using case studies to develop theory. The case studies explore a variety of conceptual models, including two-person relational theory in psychoanalysis (Messer, 2011); interpersonal defense theory (Westerman, 2011); and assimilation theory (Schlieke, Stiles, et al. [2011]; and Gray & Stiles [2011]). In addition, the ca...

" Liveness detection " , a technique used to determine the vitality of a submitted biometric, has been implemented in fingerprint scanners in recent years. The goal for the LivDet 2011 competition is to compare software-based fingerprint liveness detection methodologies (Part 1), as well as fingerprint systems which incorporate liveness detection capabilities (Part 2), using a standardized test...

Reusing a code fragment by copying and pasting with or without minor modifications is a technique frequently used by programmers, and thus software systems often have duplicate fragments of code in them. Such duplicated fragments are called code clones or simply clones. Although cloning is beneficial in some cases and often programmers intentionally use it, it can be detrimental to software mai...

Long-term wildlife monitoring involves collecting time series data, often using the same observers over multiple years. Aging-related changes to these observers may be an important, under-recognized source of error that can bias management decisions. In this study, we used data from two large, independent bird surveys, the Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Ontario ("OBBA") and the North American B...

This pape r i s a d d r e s s e d t o the v iew o f Schank and B i r n baum (1981) t h a t s y n t a x has no " p r i v i l e g e d ' p o s i t i o n i n p a r s i n g . E v i d e n t l y what i s meant i s ( a ) t h a t s y n t a c t i c p a r s i n g has no logical or temporal priority over semantic processing, and (b)that syntax has been as@igned attention far out of proportion to its intere...

Over the last few years the efficiency of search equilibria has been examined by a number of authors. In a series of papers, Diamond (1981; 1982a; 1982b; 1984) has studied this issue in depth. Diamond (1981) shows that in a market with a distribution of match specific mobility costs, an unemployment insurance programme can improve the ex ante welfare of all workers by inducing each of them to f...

The acanthocephalan Echinorhynchus bothniensis Zdzitowiecki and Valtonen, 1987 differs from most other species in the genus Echinorhynchus Zoega in Müller, 1776 by infecting mysids (order Mysida) instead of amphipods (order Amphipoda) as intermediate hosts. Here we report on the occurrence of E. bothniensis in mysids (Mysis segerstralei Audzijonytė et Väinölä) and in its fish definitive hosts i...