The current study examines the relationship of affect and eating disorder behavior in anorexia nervosa (AN) using ecological momentary assessment. Participants were 118 adult females recruited at three sites from eating disorder treatment centers and community advertisements. All participants met full Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (4th ed.) criteria or subthreshold crite...

BACKGROUND It is important for clinicians to assess their patients' purging behavior. Various methods of purging, such as self-induced vomiting are well-known. Because patients do not always report their purging behavior, knowing the clinical signs that indicate the behavior is useful. However, we have experienced patients who did not have the reported physical signs of self-induced vomiting be...

Purging plugs are widely used in the secondary refining process, and its service life determines downtime usage efficiency of whole ladle. This study focuses on comparing heat transfer thermomechanical behaviour purging plug with different slits to obtain reason for long by thermal-structure coupling method. The numerical results showed that moderation temperature distribution is achieved chang...

OBJECTIVE Negative affect precedes binge eating and purging in bulimia nervosa (BN), but little is known about factors that precipitate negative affect in relation to these behaviors. We aimed to assess the temporal relation among stressful events, negative affect, and bulimic events in the natural environment using ecological momentary assessment. METHOD A total of 133 women with current BN ...

BACKGROUND The perception that eating disorders occur predominantly in young white upper-class women has been challenged. This study examined temporal differences to the demographic correlates of eating disorder behaviors over a 10-year period. METHODS Data from cross-sectional general population surveys in 1998 (n = 3010) and 2008 (n = 3034) were collected on demographics (sex, age, income, ...

OBJECTIVES To investigate clinical and psychological features of patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) with a previous history of bulimia nervosa. METHOD Three hundred thirty-three patients with a full diagnosis of AN were assessed by the Structured Clinical Interview for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, the Eating Disorders Inventory, and the Hopkins S...

Both nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) and purging behaviour are thought to involve harm to the self. The acquired capability for self-harm model holds that engaging in one self-harming behaviour increases the capability to tolerate harm to the self, thus increasing risk for engaging on other such behaviours. In addition, both behaviours are thought to serve the similar function of relief from dis...

The bimodal distribution of fitness effects of new mutations and standing genetic variation, due to early-acting strongly deleterious recessive mutations and late-acting mildly deleterious mutations, is analyzed using the Kondrashov model for lethals (K), with either the infinitesimal model for selfing (IMS) or the Gaussian allele model (GAM) for quantitative genetic variance under stabilizing ...

INTRODUCTION During hygienic-microbiological monitoring of the water quality in dental units, the total bacterial colony count was found to exceed the limits for drinking water quality; in addition, mold contamination was detected. The presumed cause was irregular decontamination of the units through purging and intensive decontamination. METHODS To decontaminate the units, the manufacturer's...

Alkyl-lysophospholipids are anticancer agents that are selectively toxic to leukemic cells and relatively sparing of normal bone marrow cells. Thus, they would be likely candidates for purging remission marrows before autologous bone marrow transplant. One of the more promising agents is edelfosine, which could be safely used for purging without prolonging marrow recovery. Assays for marrow pro...