This study assessed attachment security in adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders, using the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI; George, Kaplan, & Main, 1996). Of 20 participants, three were classified as securely attached, the same proportion as would be expected in a general clinical sample. Participants' AAIs were less coherent and lower in reflective function than those of cont...

The present study illustrates the application of analytical hierarchy process (AHP) to a decision-making problem. AHP is a popular and powerful method for solving multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) problems. An attempt is made here to initialize the use of multicriteria decision-making methods for ranking alternatives that curb student absenteeism. Through the expert opinions, the criteri...

OBJECTIVES 1) To describe characteristics of patient transport protocols in those U.S. cities that sanction EMS-initiated refusal of transport; and 2) to describe the frequency and type of alternatives to emergency ambulance transport. METHODS EMS systems in every one of the 200 largest cities in the United States were surveyed by telephone regarding EMS-initiated refusal policies, involvemen...

Superior vena cava syndrome is a clear sign for clinicians of infiltrative mediastinal involvement, usually caused by neoplasms in this location, and it is an indicator of poor prognosis. However, other diseases of benign origin can also cause these alterations. We present the case of a 34-year-old patient who debuted with symptoms of superior vena cava syndrome due to idiopathic mediastinal fi...

Ensuring realism in Information Retrieval (IR) experiments (whether laboratory or user based) is always a difficult problem. Obtaining relevance assessments of high quality is of pivotal importance to most studies and a significant challenge. In element retrieval from structured documents, where both whole documents but also parts of documents (elements) may be retrieved as answers, the type of...

Purpose: This paper investigates the potential of virtual reality (VR) technologies—specifically, building information modeling (BIM) (“Autodesk Revit”) and game engines (“Unreal Engine”)—to enhance public involvement in design execution architecture urban projects. The main research question focuses on comparing effectiveness these two methods creating an interactive model for participatory sp...

After a decade of war, there is a great need for treatment and alternatives to incarceration for justice-involved veterans. U.S. military service members are returning from combat with substantial mental health challenges, which increase the potential for justice involvement. Veteran Treatment Courts are starting across the nation to meet this need for therapeutic justice. These problem solving...

Even though the majority of abdominal aortic aneurysm s(AAAs) are asymptomatic, they can occasionally manifest as a result of adjacent structures involvement. Although the most frequent venous complication of AAA is rupture into the inferior vena cava (IVC), venous compression can infrequently occur. The authors report a particularly rare case of compression and thrombosis of the IVC by AAA. Pa...

This paper examines the notion of ‘irrelevant’alternatives in the context of social choice problems. It is shown that seemingly irrelevant alternatives could be relevant because of their information content. This leads to a consideration of aggregation rules where an endogenous condition of independence of irrelevant alternatives is imposed. The analysis leads to the characterization of a uniqu...

PERSONAL ATTENTION for each student—not a cliché but a reality in any size school enrollment —is the missing link in the overwhelming number of cases of youth who are labeled “unmotivated.” For most, a successful reversal to “motivated” requires a search for a confluence of mind, spirit, and body. Evaluating only cognitive growth through language and math scores begs the question, for almost al...