Attentional biases are a core characteristic of social anxiety (SA). However, research has yielded conflicting findings and failed to investigate these biases in real, face-to-face social situations. Therefore, this study examined attentional biases in SA by measuring participants' eye gaze within a novel eye-tracking paradigm during a real-life social situation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSocial attentional biases are a core component of social anxiety disorder, but research has not yet determined their direction due to methodological limitations. Here we present preliminary findings from a novel, dynamic eye-tracking paradigm allowing spatial-temporal measurement of attention and gaze-following, a mechanism previously unexplored in social anxiety. 105 participants took part, with those high ( = 27) and low ( = 25) in social anxiety traits (HSA and LSA respectively) entered into the analyses.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFResearch has shown that people's gaze is biased away from faces in the real world but towards them when they are viewed onscreen. Non-equivalent stimulus conditions may have represented a confound in this research, however, as participants viewed onscreen stimuli as pre-recordings where interaction was not possible compared with real-world stimuli which were viewed in real time where interaction was possible. We assessed the independent contributions of online social presence and ability for interaction on social gaze by developing the "live lab" paradigm.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSpontaneous dissection of the renal artery is a rare phenomenon, and is more common amongst men. It is not a frequent cause of abdominal pain², which is why diagnosis is often late. The case under study is a 45 year old patient that presented sudden pain in the left renal fossa of 12 hours evolution, with no findings from the basic laboratory tests (lab testing, urinary sediment and ultrasound), an abdominal CAT was therefore carried out, which showed areas of renal infarction, as well as an emergency arteriogram, which gave findings of a possible Fibromuscular Dysplasia of the left intrarenal artery as the first diagnostic probability with a partially thrombosed focal dissection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRev Esp Sanid Penit
December 2016
Objective: Pilot project focusing on the implementation and evaluation of a health education (HE) program for inmates of the prison of Ocaña I (Spain). The objective was to analyze the intentions for change in health habits and perceptions, and to assess whether the HE-program had differential effects depending on whether the participants belonged to the PAIEM or not and their socio-demographic characteristics.
Methodology: The participants were 65 men, who answered an ad hoc questionnaire at the end of each session.
This paper presents a multipurpose and low cost sensor for temperature control over the wine fermentation process, in order to steadily communicate data through wireless modules in real time to a viticulturist's mobile or fixed device. The advantage of our prototype is due to the fact that it will be used by small winemakers in the "Ribera del Duero" area, and as it is a cheaper sensor and easy to use for the control and monitoring of the grape fermentation process, it will probably be used by other business men with the same necessities in the region. The microcontroller MSP430G2553 is among the components that make up the sensor, that are integrated onto a motherboard.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOn the basis of a density-based quantification of the steric effect [Liu, S. B. J.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Fisher-Shannon and LMC shape complexities and the Shannon-disequilibrium, Fisher-Shannon and Fisher-disequilibrium information planes, which consist of two localization-delocalization factors, are computed in both position and momentum spaces for the one-particle densities of 90 selected molecules of various chemical types, at the CISD/6-311++G(3df,2p) level of theory. We found that while the two measures of complexity show general trends only, the localization-delocalization planes clearly exhibit chemically significant patterns. Several molecular properties (energy, ionization potential, total dipole moment, hardness, electrophilicity) are analyzed and used to interpret and understand the chemical nature of the composite information-theoretic measures above mentioned.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFQuantifying the dissimilarity among two or more many-electron systems by means of their one-particle densities is a hot topic within the physical applications of the information theory. This is a relevant achievement of the so-called "divergence measures," for which several definitions have been considered, each one with its own advantages and difficulties. Nevertheless, all of them are considered in order to disclose the differences among the involved systems, neutral atoms in the present work, according to their densities in the position and momentum spaces.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe utility of the Fisher information measure is analyzed to detect the transition state, the stationary points of a chemical reaction, and the bond breaking/forming regions of elementary reactions such as the simplest hydrogen abstraction and the identity SN2 exchange ones. This is performed by following the intrinsic reaction path calculated at the MP2 and QCISD(T) levels of theory with a 6-311++G(3df, 2p) basis set. Selected descriptors of both position and momentum space densities are utilized to support the observations, such as the molecular electrostatic potential (MEP), the hardness, the dipole moment, along with geometrical parameters.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInformation-theoretic measures are employed to describe the course of a three-center chemical reaction in terms of detecting the transition state and the stationary points unfolding the bond-forming and bond-breaking regions which are not revealed in the energy profile. The information entropy profiles for the selected reactions are generated by following the intrinsic-reaction-coordinate (IRC) path calculated at the MP2 level of theory from which Shannon entropies in position and momentum spaces at the QCISD(T)/6-311++G(3df,2p) level are determined. Several complementary reactivity descriptors are also determined, such as the dipole moment, the molecular electrostatic potential (MEP) obtained through a multipole expansion (DMA), the atomic charges and electric potentials fitted to the MEP, the hardness and softness DFT descriptors, and several geometrical parameters which support the information-theoretic analysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Fisher divergence (FD) and Jensen-Shannon divergence (JSD) are used in this work with the aim of providing quantitative measures of the discrepancies between two arbitrary D-dimensional distribution functions, the FD being of local character and the JSD of global one. In doing so, the concepts of Fisher information and Shannon entropy associated to a distribution are the essential quantities for building up these comparative functionals. This kind of relative measures are here applied to the study of the one-particle densities in both conjugated spaces (position and momentum) of neutral atoms, discussing the results as compared to those provided by other previous functional measures.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe present a case of tuberculous peritonitis in a woman with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), treated with adalimumab, and we review the association between anti-tumour necrosis factor (anti-TNF) therapy and tuberculosis. There have been only 2 case reports of peritoneal tuberculosis associated with anti-TNF and only 1 with adalimumab.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEndocarditis due to Listeria monocytogenes is a very uncommon and very serious disease that may lead to valve dysfunction and cardiac arrest. We report two cases of endocarditis caused by L. monocytogenes and review the papers previously published on the subject.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFisher-Shannon (FS) and Lopez-Ruiz, Mancini, and Calbet (LMC) complexity measures, detecting not only randomness but also structure, are computed by using near Hartree-Fock wave functions for neutral atoms with nuclear charge Z=1-103 in position, momentum, and product spaces. It is shown that FS and LMC complexities are qualitatively and numerically equivalent for these systems. New complexity candidates are defined, computed, and compared by using the following information-theoretic magnitudes: Shannon entropy, Fisher information, disequilibrium, and variance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFQuantum similarity for atoms is investigated using electron densities in position and momentum spaces. Contrary to the results in position space, the analysis in the momentum space shows how the momentum density carries fundamental information about periodicity and structure of the system and reveals the pattern of Mendeleev's table. A global analysis in the joint r-p space keeps this result.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFScand J Infect Dis
October 2004
We describe the first case reported in the literature of liver abscess due to Lactococcus lactis cremoris in an immunocompetent adult patient. The patient was treated with catheter drainage and antibiotics, which resulted in improvement and resolution.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: We aimed to study the presence of anti-2-glycoprotein I antibodies (anti-2GPI) in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) analyzing their relationship with anticardiolipin antibodies (aCL).
Patients And Method: 63 patients with SLE and 54 healthy volunteers. Detection of anti-2GPI antibodies was performed by ELISA.
An Med Interna
February 2002
Objectives: a) to determine the prevalence of anti-ribosomal P antibodies in patients with ESL in our setting; b) to determine if there are associations between clinical signs of ESL and these autoantibodies; c) to analyze if there is any correlation between the presence of anti-P in patients with ESL and the results of other routine lab tests; and d) to assess the usefulness of implementing as routine test the determination of anti-P antibodies.
Material And Methods: The study included 60 patients diagnosed of ESL and 61 healthy subjects as the control group. ELISA was used to determine anti-ribosomal antibodies.
We analysed the prevalence of clinical manifestations and immunological parameters in 194 patients with SLE and classified them in subgroups according to age at onset, gender and type of antibodies: we detected significant differences in the various subgroups. In SLE that initiated before the age of 20 years, the most frequent manifestation at onset was malar rash (25% vs 14%). During the course of the disease, this group had a greater prevalence of malar rash (70% vs 45%), mouth ulcers (48% vs 29%), and convulsions or psychosis (35% vs.
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