OBJECTIVE To determine the diagnostic accuracy of confrontation visual field testing and to compare the accuracy of confrontation tests both individually and in combination. METHODS Patients were prospectively recruited from ophthalmology clinics over a 6-month period. All patients underwent SITA-standard 24-2 Humphrey visual field analysis. Two examiners, masked to the automated perimetry re...

Dopamine (DA) and serotonin have been implicated in the regulation of aggressive behavior, but it has remained challenging to assess the dynamic changes in these neurotransmitters while aggressive behavior is in progress. The objective of this study was to learn about ongoing monoamine activity in corticolimbic areas during aggressive confrontations in rats. Male Long-Evans rats were implanted ...

Ridicule can be used in order to create concurrence as well as to enhance antagonism. This paper deals with ridicule that is used by a critic when he is responding to a standpoint or to a reason advanced in support of a standpoint. Ridicule profits from humor’s good reputation, and correctly so, even when it is used in argumentative contexts. However, ridicule can be harmful to a discussion. Th...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Direct cortical stimulation studies suggest that responsive naming is more widely distributed within the temporal lobe than confrontation naming and involves anterior temporal regions typically resected in a standard temporal lobectomy. The aim of the current study was to further demonstrate the anatomic dissociation between confrontation and responsive naming by using fu...

The characteristics and purposes of confrontation techniques have been variously described by different authors. Devereux (5), a psychoanalyst, perhaps the first to write on the subject, defines confrontation as "a device whereby the patient's attention is directed to the bare factual content of his actions or statements, or to a coincidence which he has perceived but has not, or professes to h...

Like the Coxeter graph became reattached into the Klein graph in [3], the Levi graphs of the 93 and 103 self-dual configurations, known as the Pappus and Desargues (k-transitive) graphs P and D (where k = 3), also admit reattachments of the distance-(k − 1) graphs of half of their oriented shortest cycles via orientation assignments on their common (k−1)-arcs, concurrent for P and opposite for ...

Much has been written about the flight of Hong Kong residents to various western countries in the past few years. The popular fear of political instability, which has caused this flight, stems from the anticipated transfer of Hong Kong's sovereignty from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China ("PRC" or "China") in 1997. If present emigration figures' are used to predict the future...

Table of contentsSection 1: Introduction1.1 Civil-military co-operation1.2 Objective, problem definition and research questions1.3 Developing the process-based partnership model1.4 Applying the process-based partnership model in practice1.5 Structure of the reportSection 2: Background caseSection 3: Case study designSection 4: Decision to cooperate4.1...