Schizophrenia is an I am illness--one that may overtake and redefine the identity of the person. This essay explores concepts of personhood and subjectivity from social science that are useful in understanding the experiencing subject in schizophrenia. Relationships between the self and sickness have not been investigated adequately with reference to their influence on prognosis. Chronicity is ...

This study focused on cognitive representations of low back pain patients receiving chiropractic (n = 213) versus physiotherapy treatment (n = 125). Variables assessed included satisfaction with care, illness perceptions, beliefs about pain and medicines, attitudes towards doctors and medicine, suffering, adherence and functional incapacity. In the chiropractic treatment, functional incapacity ...

Knowledge representation, defined as the way individuals structure their knowledge and cognitive processing of events and the associated sense-making processes, is believed to influence teachers’ reasoning/thinking skills. While extensively researched in mainstream teacher education, this line of inquiry is essentially lacking in the L2 teacher education literature. To fill some of the void, th...

Using the formalism of Hamaker et al. (1996), I derive a method for the polarization calibration of observations made with a single radio telescope. This method is particularly appropriate for observations of pulsars, where the sign and magnitude of the circular polarization are useful for understanding the emission processes at work. I apply the method to observations of PSR J1359–6038 made us...

Densities in molten KCl, RbCI, T1C1, KC1-T1C1 and RbCl -TlCl at various temperatures (t °C) were measured to within ±0.1% by iridium pyknometry. For the pure melts the results fit empirical equations of the form Q=a—bt . The molar volumes at the melting points were derived and tested against other melting-point data for thermodynamic consistency. In the mixtures the volumes deviate from additiv...

At present, due to the lack of sufficient treatment institutions as well professional psychotherapists, numerous patients with mental illnesses do not receive help from psychiatrists, thus worsening their conditions. In order determine condition illness at an early stage, this paper applies natural language processing technology psychological field and proposes a text-based deep learning model ...