This prospective longitudinal study investigated the role of the personality dimensions of dependency and self-criticism in the course of depressive symptoms in a sample of inpatient severely postpartum depressed mothers (n = 55). Depressive symptoms and personality were measured during hospitalization and on average 3 1/2 years later. In line with previous research, a considerable subgroup of ...

medical practice; rather in significant part it is engaged in special interest advocacy, pursuing and preserving social power. The concept of excellence is a component of the ideological justification of that role’ [ 3 , p. 11]. Holman identified a decline in intellectual freedom as a major source of the ‘excellence deception’, which perpetuates prevailing practices, deflects criticism and insu...

The well-known discussion on an engine consisting of a ratchet and a pawl in R.9] is shown to contain some misguided aspects: since the engine is simultaneously in contact with reservoirs at diierent temperatures , it can never work in a reversible way. As a consequence, the engine can never achieve the eeciency of a Carnot cycle, not even in the limit of zero power (innnitely slow motion), in ...

We put forward a theory on the optical force exerted upon a dipolar particle by a stationary and ergodic partially coherent light field. We show through a rigorous analysis that the ensemble averaged electromagnetic force is given in terms of a partial gradient of the space-variable diagonal elements of the coherence tensor. Further, by following this result we characterize the conservative and...

This paper first poses some criticism against conventional business game processing methods. This criticism is based on the extensive changes in almost any business environment within the last two decades. On the basis of this criticism some new ideas are represented for a better way to construct an interactive business game. Finally, a new business game construction is set forth.