Background: The negative impacts of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)outbreak on public mental health are enhancing the number of individuals requiring psychotherapy. Besides, anxiety is becoming more frequent than any other mental health issue among individuals. Similar to other anxiety types, coronavirus anxiety is associated with elevated attentional bias. The present study aimed to ex...

[Purpose] The purpose of the present study was to verify the effects of intrinsic foot flexor strength training. [Subjects] The subjects were 12 healthy males without motor system disease. [Methods] A training method that involved flexion of all toe interphalangeal and metatarsophalangeal joints against a 3-kg load was implemented and was performed for 200 repetitions once per day, three times ...

Deluded people differ from nondeluded controls on attributional style questionnaires and probabilistic-reasoning and theory-of-mind (ToM) tasks. No study to date has examined the relations between these 3 reasoning anomalies in the same individuals so as to evaluate their functional independence and potentially inform theories of delusion formation. We did so in 35 schizophrenic patients with a...

BACKGROUND It has been consistently demonstrated that delusions are related to jumping to conclusions (JTC), a data-gathering bias and potential candidate endophenotype of psychosis. Recent research suggests that JTC may be a marker of treatment response. However, we know little about the factors contributing to the occurrence of this reasoning bias. This study investigated the relationship bet...

We have shown, how a schedulability analysis, including a codesign approach for periodic tasks, can be extended for the analysis of sporadic tasks and dependencies between tasks, what often occurs in SDL/MSC specified systems. To allow this we extended the classical task model with starting points for each task. To calculate the response times of sporadic tasks we consider instances of tasks. T...

Let P be a simple polygon of n vertices and let S be a set of n points called sites lying in the interior of P. The geodesic-distance between two sites x and y in P is defined as the length of the shortest polygonal path connecting x and y constrained to lie in P. It is a useful notion in graphics problems concerning visibility between objects, computer vision problems concerned with the descri...

We introduce a new jump strategy for look-ahead based satisfiability (Sat) solvers that aims to boost their performance on satisfiable formulae, while maintaining their behavior on unsatisfiable instances. Direction heuristics select which Boolean value to assign to a decision variable. They are used in various state-of-the-art Sat solvers and may bias the distribution of solutions in the searc...

This paper presents a new hardware-software co-design methodology for resource constrained SoC realized in a deep submicron process (DSM). The methodology is useful for multimedia applications optimized for latency. The approach addresses layout and hardware aspects relevant to system design: it considers the dependency of task communication speed on interconnect parasitic, as well as the possi...

were made for get_file operations on a disk to memory basis, i.e. the files were requested from the file servers disk and discarded on the receivers side. Thus we where able to neglect the influence of local disk write operations upon the results. This resembles a scenario where a user requests a certain file (e.g. a drawing) for viewing. Since drawings are typically stored as bitmaps (binary) ...

BACKGROUND Several recent studies have reported that serious violence towards self and others is more common in the first episode of psychosis than after treatment. AIM To estimate the proportion of survivors of suicide attempts during psychotic illness by jumping from a height who had not previously received treatment with antipsychotic medication. METHODS An audit of the medical records o...