BACKGROUND Many people experience varying levels of discomfort when confronted with the prospect of dental treatment. Dental treatment can be a traumatic experience, especially for children and adolescents with dental anxiety. In this age group, dental fear causes a significant problem in dental management and has been related to severe dental caries and dental pain. The Dental Fear Survey ( DF...

Dr. Martin T. Stein Developmental surveillance, the process of monitoring behavior and development in the context of the child, family, and social environment over time, is a major focus of preventive pediatrics.1 The primary care pediatric setting is well suited for this task because it assumes responsibility for continuity of health care throughout childhood and adolescence. The challenge to ...

This special issue of the Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology was created to honor Ralph Reitan and his accomplishments. His death marks the end of an era in clinical neuropsychology and the loss of a major neuroscientist and psychologist. It has been said with good reason that Reitan is the founder of clinical neuropsychology, and his long career extended from its birth to the present period ...

Using vertex algebra techniques, we determine a set of generators for the cohomology ring of the Hilbert schemes of points on an arbitrary smooth projective surface X over the field of complex numbers.

In this chapter we discuss the theory of complex projective structures on compact surfaces and its connections with Teichmüller theory, 2-and 3-dimensional hyperbolic geometry, and representations of surface groups into PSL 2 (C). Roughly speaking, a complex projective structure is a type of 2-dimensional geometry in which Möbius transformations play the role of geometric congru-ences (this is ...

This paper describes a family of factorization-based algorithms that recover 3D projective structure and motion from multiple uncalibrated perspective images of 3D points and lines. They can be viewed as generalizations of the Tomasi-Kanade algorithm from affine to fully perspective cameras, and from points to lines. They make no restrictive assumptions about scene or camera geometry, and unlik...

A general framework for integration over certain innnite dimensional spaces is rst developed using projective limits of a projective family of compact Hausdorr spaces. The procedure is then applied to gauge theories to carry out integration over the non-linear, innnite dimensional spaces of connections modulo gauge transformations. This method of evaluating functional integrals can be used eith...

Perceptual derailment and confabulations often appear in a subtle way, being processes addressable to the field of inner world, conditioning the diagnostic process. The present clinical report aims to explore the role of Rorschach projective technique in eliciting processes otherwise unsearchable. Psycho-diagnostics data were compared to other psychometric tests such as the MMPI-2 (Minnesota Mu...

The present study attempts to investigate the existence of psychic pain in young learners experiencing chronic school failure/learning disabilities. Using a projective technique, the participants were asked to express the thoughts, feelings, dreams and wishes of an ‘imaginary’ child of their own age. LD individuals: a mentioned terrifying nightmares, and b. did not ‘admit’ their LD, even though...

The present study seeks to identify psychological differences between extrafamilial adult adoptees and a non-adopted comparison group through projective tests and life history interviews. Two demographically matched groups (18 adoptees and 16 non-adoptees) were administered the Thematic Apperception Test and Loevinger's Sentence Completion Test (a measure of Ego Stage). The TAT was scored thema...