psychosomatic disorders may occasionally present in the upper extremity and their diagnosis and treatment may prove to be extremely difficult. herein, we describe one such patient and review the literature on this subject.

Objectives: Mental health organizations are strongly encouraged to implement empirically supported treatments (ESTs), however little is known about their working environments. The present study investigated how provider demographics, workplace environment and whether ESTs were used affected the worker morale. Methods: Front-line workers (N = 1,273) from 55 different programs in a single, large ...

This research addresses the problem of prediction of protein-protein interactions (PPI) when integrating diverse kinds of biological information. This task has been commonly viewed as a binary classification problem (whether any two proteins do or do not interact) and several different machine learning techniques have been employed to solve this task. However the nature of the data creates two ...

Two non-linear interpolation techniques are introduced for enhancing speech reproduction in Prototype Waveform Interpolation (PWI) and similar encoders. A Temporal Differential Rate (TDR) vector is used to characterise the non-uniform evolution of pitch cycle temporal structure during interpolation. Experimental results show a clear improvement in the accuracy of decoded pitch cycle lengths and...

One-class classification (OCC) algorithms aim to build classification models when the negative class is either absent, poorly sampled or not well defined. This unique situation constrains the learning of efficient classifiers by defining class boundary just with the knowledge of positive class. The OCC problem has been considered and applied under many research themes, such as outlier/ novelty ...

Computational models of emotion are useful in a variety of domains such as for development of believable agents, video games, virtual environments, etc. Most of the existing models are inspired by appraisal theory and focus on an agent’s cognitive behavior, for which they often generate emotions according to static rules or pre-determined domain knowledge. The OCC taxonomy [4] is one of the mos...

A calculus is presented which allows an efficient treatment of the following components: Tenses, temporal conjunctions, temporal adverbials (of "definite" type), temporal quantifications and phases. The phases are a means for structuring the set of time-points t where a certain proposition is valid. For one proposition there may exist several "phase"-perspectives. The calculus has integrative p...

Emotions and feelings (i.e. affects) are a central feature of human behavior. Due to complexity and interdisciplinarity of affective phenomena, attempts to define them have often been unsatisfactory. This article provides a simple logical structure, in which affective concepts can be defined. The set of affects defined is similar to the set of emotions covered in the OCC model [1], but the mode...

Serpentinization of ultramafic rocks during hydrothermal alteration at mid-ocean ridges profoundly changes the physical, chemical, rheological, and magnetic properties of the oceanic lithosphere. There is renewed interest in this process following the discovery of widespread exposures of serpentinized mantle on the seafloor in slow spreading oceans. Unroofing of mantle rocks in these settings i...