UNLABELLED The purpose of this study was to determine whether session-specific measures of negative pain-related affect would account for longitudinal variability in the ratings of the evoked thermal pain. Pain-free subjects rated pain evoked on the posterior leg using thermal stimuli of 45 degrees , 47 degrees , 49 degrees , and 51 degrees C on 3 occasions, each separated by 2 weeks. Session-s...

Objective To make evidence-based treatment recommendations for patients with Parkinson disease (PD) with dementia, depression and psychosis based on these questions: 1) What tools are effective to screen for depression, psychosis and dementia in PD? 2) What are effective treatments for depression and psychosis in PD? 3) What are effective treatments for PD dementia or dementia with Lewy bodies ...

OBJECTIVE To make evidence-based treatment recommendations for patients with Parkinson disease (PD) with dementia, depression, and psychosis based on these questions: 1) What tools are effective to screen for depression, psychosis, and dementia in PD? 2) What are effective treatments for depression and psychosis in PD? 3) What are effective treatments for PD dementia or dementia with Lewy bodie...

OBJECTIVE To conduct a 1-year follow-up of anxious-depressed school-refusing adolescents who participated in an 8-week study of imipramine versus placebo, each in combination with cognitive-behavioral therapy. METHOD Sixty-five percent (41 of 63) of the randomly assigned subjects returned for follow-up evaluation, which consisted of diagnostic interviews, clinician rating scales for anxiety a...

1. Introduction This independent study is about the predictive power of Elo rating systems and other ranking procedures in sports. Rating system has been a topic of interest. One reason is that a reasonable rating system could provide appropriate seeding, grouping players of similar skill levels. Besides, many rating systems also yield prediction on a specific match, which could be used in bett...

This paper describes Levels of conceptual interoperability model as the method and model towards enhancing interoperability among mobile apps. The LCIM is used in both descriptive and prescriptive form. In descriptive form LCIM is used to reduce the discrepancies in rating mobile apps based on content by suggesting a rating system that is completely based on interoperability. In the prescriptiv...

The paper discusses the utility of existing qualitative governance ratings for comparing the performance of democracies in Central and Eastern Europe. Four different indicators are compared: These are the “Governance Indicators” developed by the World Bank Institute, the “Nations in Transit” study by Freedom House, the “Progress in Transition” rating by the European Bank for Reconstruction and ...

Multi level inverters are becoming very attractive for industries due to their high power rating, high voltage rating and high efficiency is achieved without transformer. These also improves the overall performance of the system as these produces fewer harmonics. As the number of levels increases the quality of voltage waveform is also increases. In this paper the analysis of Three Phase Diode ...

Focal dystonia is a debilitating movement disorder which occurs as a result of many repetitions of a specific task and typically manifests in involuntary muscle contractions. In pianists, an incoordination occurs between fingers, making it impossible to play at concert level. Three pianists with focal hand dystonia participated in a retraining program based on a biomechanically sound way of pla...

Research on personalization, including recommender systems, focuses on applications such as in online shopping malls and simple information systems. These systems consider user profile and item information obtained from data explicitly entered by users. There it is possible to classify items involved and to personalize based on a direct mapping from user or user group to item or item group. How...