Posttraumatic stress reactions related to the Madrid March 11, 2004, terrorist attacks were examined in a sample of Madrid residents (N = 503) 18-25 days after the attacks, using multiple diagnostic criteria and different cut-off scores. Based on the symptoms covered by the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist-Civilian (PCL-C; Weathers, Litz, Herman, Huska, and Keane, 1993), rates of probabl...

This study assessed the longitudinal association between clinician and patient ratings of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms over the course of 2 different randomized clinical trials of veterans with chronic PTSD. One trial, the Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study 420 (CSP 420; N = 360) compared trauma-focused and present-centered group therapies, and the 2nd trial compa...

As part of a larger longitudinal investigation, 522 U.S. peacekeepers who served in Somalia were administered a comprehensive psychosocial questionnaire. The questionnaire included the PTSD Checklist [PCL; Weathers, F. W., Litz, B. T., Herman, D. S., Huska, J. A., & Keane, T. M. (1993, November). The PTSD Checklist (PCL): reliability, validity, and diagnostic utility. Paper presented at the ann...

WEATHERS, WESLEY W., AND FRED N. WHITE. Physiological thermoregulafion in turtles. Am. J. Physiol. 22 l(3) : 704-7 10. 17 I. .The physiological capacity of turtles for altering rates of heat exchange was partially assessed by measuring rates of change of body temperature (Tb) during heating from 10 C to 30 C, and during cooling from 30 C to 10 C, in both air and water. In water, turtles heated ...

The quality of outdoor surveillance videos are always degraded by bad weathers, such as fog, haze, and snowing. The degraded videos not only provide poor visualizations, but also increase the difficulty of vision-based analysis such as foreground/background segmentation. However, haze/fog removal has never been an easy task, and is often very time consuming. Most of the existing methods only co...

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is assessed across many different populations and assessment contexts. However, measures of PTSD symptomatology often are not tailored to meet the needs and demands of these different populations and settings. In order to develop population- and context-specific measures of PTSD it is useful first to examine the item-level functioning of existing assessment ...

Wave energy is a renewable resource with high potential. This research work proposes low power piezoelectric harvesting system based on the heave motion of ocean buoys. Piezoelectric Energy Harvester (PEH) composed diaphragms coupled superballs to enhance output sensor. The PEH setup designed within floating buoy and tested in wave flume by varying frequency regular waves. heaving causes superb...

Abstract Deficit irrigation is a management strategy to improve crop water productivity, especially in arid and semi-arid regions. Soil characteristics weather parameters are among the factors affecting productivity stress conditions. Due spatial changes soil temporal variations meteorological parameters, it can be expected that will also have variations. In this study, by combining Geographic ...

Influenced by climate change, extreme weather events occur frequently, and bring huge impacts to urban areas, including waterlogging. Conducting risk assessments of waterlogging is a critical step diagnose problems, improve infrastructure achieve sustainable development facing weathers. This study takes Ningbo, typical coastal city in the Yangtze River Delta, as an example conduct assessment wi...

Purpose Electromagnetic interference (EMI) on communication systems of unban rail transit can hardly be clarified because complicated factors around railways. This paper aims to target this issue and extend experimental theoretical analysis. Design/methodology/approach take the Nanjing Dashengguan Bridge as an example, it carries most tracks in world bears three kinds trains running through, pr...