Item Level Improvements for Use of the MMPI With Adolescents

The decision to develop a separate adolescent form of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (i.e., the MMPI-A) raised questions about continued use of 20 original items that seemed unnecessarily ambiguous in content when employed with younger students (Ss). The responses of 362 academically gifted boys, aged 14 to 17 years, from an urban Catholic high school were compared on the experimental 704-item Form TX of the MMPI and a form containing 20 rewritten and 9 control items. The psychometric properties of the rewritten items indicated the same or better performance than that on the original versions while improving the items' face validity and reducing item ambiguity. Responses from 321 Ss to a follow-up questionnaire suggested eliminating offensive or irrelevant items and reducing the test's length would increase acceptance of the MMPI-A.     

论医疗纠纷人民调解机制的完善

针对现有医疗纠纷解决机制存在的缺陷,论述了医疗纠纷人民调解机制在我国的运用情况,分析了人民调解机制在医疗纠纷解决中的优劣势,并借鉴其他国家和地区的实践,对人民调解机制的完善提出一些建议.通过合理的完善,使人民调解机制在实践中成为一种切实可行的纠纷解决方式.     

义和团运动110周年祭

义和团运动110周年之际,历史学家们又举办了例行的学术讨论会。去年12月7日发表于《中国社会科学报》的《德国新教传教士站在舆论尖上》一文,引起了本刊的注意。该文指出,义和团运动一开始,德国自由派媒体就指出,正是基督教、特别是新教     

iSTART 2: Improvements for efficiency and effectiveness

iSTART (interactive strategy training for active reading and thinking) is a Web-based reading strategy trainer that develops students’ ability to self-explain difficult text as a means to improving reading comprehension. Its curriculum consists of modules presented interactively by pedagogical agents: an introduction to the basics of using reading strategies in the context of self-explanation, a demonstration of self-explanation, and a practice module in which the trainee generates self-explanations with feedback on the quality of reading strategies contained in the self-explanations. We discuss the objectives that guided the development of the second version of iSTART toward the goals of increased efficiency for the experimenters and effectiveness in the training. The more pedagogically challenging high school audience is accommodated by (1) a new introduction that increases interactivity, (2) a new demonstration with more and better focused scaffolding, and (3) a new practice module that provides improved feedback and includes a less intense but more extended regimen. Version 2 also benefits experimenters, who can set up and evaluate experiments with less time and effort, because pre- and posttesting has been fully computerized and the process of preparing a text for the practice module has been reduced from more than 1 person-week to about an hour’s time.     

Improvements in the community-reinforcement approach to alcoholism

This study evaluated a modified Community-Reinforcement program for treating alcoholics. The previously tested Community-Reinforcement program included special job. family, social and recreational procedures and was shown to reduce alcoholism. To increase the effectiveness of the program further, the present study incorporated a Buddy system, a daily report procedure, group counseling, and a special social motivation program to ensure the self-administration of Disulfiram (Antabuse). The alcoholics who received the improved Community-Reinforcement program drank less. worked more, spent more time at home and less time institutionalized than did their matched controls who received the standard hospital treatment including Antabuse in the usual manner. These results were stable over a 2-year period. The program appeared even more effective and less time-consuming than the previous program. The present results replicate the effectiveness of the Community-Reinforcement program for reducing alcoholism and indicate the usefulness of the additions to the program.     

A day unit for families

The Family Day Unit at the Maryborough Hospital, London, carries out an intensive treatment programme for highly dysfunctional families. Up to ten families attend the Unit five days per week from nine a.m. to three p.m. They stay for a period of at least three months and not longer than fifteen months. Normally some twenty to thirty patients, adults and children, attend every day. This paper gives the reasons for setting up this Family Day Unit. The aims and structure of the Unit are described, the treatment method outlined and some preliminary results are discussed.     

Simulated unit pulses for calibrating

A small battery-powered instrument generates sinusoidal pulses of approximately the shape of neuronal pulses. The output consists of alternate positive and negative pulses across a 10 k ohm source resistance. Such a signal allows a quick assessment of the amplification system and indicates possible losses through shunt capacitances along the connections between S and amplifier input.     

Prayer,Hij # b and the Intif # da : The influence of the Islamic movement on Palestinian women

As Islamic movements are often perceived as only political movements, their effects on society are often overlooked. Based on empirical evidence, this article attempts to show the nature of the influence the Islamist movement in Palestine had on Palestinian women in particular. It formulates such questions as how do the Islamists view the role of women in society according to their political programs and how did Palestinian women respond to these demands in the decade between 1986 and 1996. In personal interviews conducted 1995/96 in the West Bank and Gaza the author asked women from different areas and social backgrounds about their religious attitudes, the importance of religion and their views of the Islamic movement especially during the Intif # da .     

新《医疗广告管理办法》的立法成就与不足

采用条文比较与法理分析方法,探讨新《办法》在调整范围、广告发布主体、广告内容、审查监督机制和处罚制度等方面对旧《办法》的改进与完善;并将新《办法》置于整个医药广告法律法规体系框架之内,结合我国医疗广告实际状况,反思新《办法》的一些整体缺陷与不足。     

新《医疗广告管理办法》的立法成就与不足

采用条文比较与法理分析方法,探讨新《办法》在调整范围、广告发布主体、广告内容、审查监督机制和处罚制度等方面对旧《办法》的改进与完善;并将新《办法》置于整个医药广告法律法规体系框架之内,结合我国医疗广告实际状况,反思新《办法》的一些整体缺陷与不足.     

An additional unit for the "Minicoma" electroconvulsator

Discussion of the necessity of unilateral ECT with discontinuous stimulation current and report on an add-on unit to the electroconvulsator "Minicoma" realizing the required stimulation parameters.     

An aversive conditioning unit for ants

An apparatus is described for studying aversive conditioning in ants. The aversive stimulus is mechanically produced vibration. Responses are recorded automatically by an infrared photocell system.