BACKGROUND Internet-based self-help psychotherapy (IBT) could be an important alternative or supplement to ordinary face-to-face therapy. The findings of randomised controlled trials indicate that the effects of various IBT programmes for anxiety disorders seem better than no intervention and in some instances are equivalent to usual therapy. In Denmark, IBT is part of future treatment plans in...

Background neffective esophageal motility (IEM), or frequent failed peristalsis in the Chicago Classification, is a common motility abnormality describing a non-specific manometric pattern of peristaltic failure. With the addition of multichannel intraluminal impedance technology to high resolution esophageal manometry (HRM), evaluation of bolus transit simultaneously with esophageal contractio...

MAROBELA·RABOROKGWE. C., NICHOlAS, R. , AYLING , R. & BASHIRUOOIN, J .S. 2003. Comparison of complement fixation test, Irrmunoblotting, indirect ELISA, and compelitive ELISA for detecting antibodies to Mycoplasma mycoldes subspecies mycokJes small colony (SC) in naturally Infected cattle from the 1995 outbreak in Botswana. Onderstepoort Journal of veterinary Research, 70:21 27 Four serological ...

Auditory graphs are important tools for the display of information for those with visual impairments and in situations with a reduced opportunity for visual displays. The first annual Auditory Graph Symposium provides an important and unique opportunity for auditory graph researchers and designers to come together and discuss the current state of the field, what we would like to see happen over...

Reagent production: selecting the strain, preparing the antigen and controlling quality The choice of the strain to use is an extremely critical point. The use of the B103 strain, the reference strain used by Regalla et al. in 1999 to develop the IBT method, is highly recommended and should be used to ensure consistent results among laboratories. The antigen is then prepared from a culture grow...

The present study investigated the factor structure of a field trial sample of the Test of English as a Foreign LanguageTM Internet-based test (TOEFL iBT). An item-level confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted for a polychoric correlation matrix of items on a test form completed by 2,720 participants in the 2003–2004 TOEFL iBT Field Study. CFA-based multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) analys...