The Power of Beliefs in Recovery-Oriented Practice: A Brief Report from the STIGMAPRO Survey.

Despite the international incentives and the worldwide development of recovery-oriented policies, it has proven challenging to establish recovery-oriented mental health services that take into account users' subjectivity and perspectives (Slade et al., World Psychiatry 13(1):12-20, 2014. https://doi.

Humanizing neuropsychological assessment: The role of empathy.

Context: Recent research and the majority of neuropsychological testing manuals emphasize the importance of establishing a proper relationship between the evaluator and the evaluatee. However, there is relatively little empirical research on this point.

Objectives: The objective of this study was to operationalize empathy in the evaluator/evaluatee relationship during neuropsychological assessment.

Stigmatizing intimate relationships in schizophrenia: a study comparing mental health professionals, health students and the general population.

Background: Discrimination in intimate relationships (IR) is frequently reported among persons with schizophrenia. Despite ongoing effort of international organizations to combat mental illness stigma, there remain a limited understanding of specific IR-related stereotypes.

Aims: The study aimed to i) identify the stereotypes related to IR of persons with schizophrenia held by Mental Health Professionals (MHP), health students and the general population, and ii) explore the effects of several factors associated with these stereotypes.

Personal recovery self-report outcome measures in serious mental illness: A systematic review of measurement properties.

Background: Personal recovery represents a paradigm shift in mental healthcare. Validated self-report outcome measures (PROMs) are needed to facilitate the transformation towards recovery-oriented practices and services. Objectives were to identify published measures and analyze their measurement properties using a standardized methodology.

Characterizing personal recovery in severe mental illness: French psychometric validation of the Questionnaire about the Process of Recovery (QPR-Fr).

Objective: The support of the personal recovery of people with lived experience of mental illness is a major issue in clinical practice. Thus, a valid instrument to assess personal recovery is needed. The present study aimed to validate the French translation of the 22-item Questionnaire about the Process of Recovery (QPR-Fr).

Directivity of horns mounted in finite enclosures: A multimodal formulation.

The beamwidth is a primary directivity metric for the design of a constant directivity horn. To date, investigations on this property have predominantly been restricted to the half-space radiation or idealized geometries. This paper examines the beamwidth behavior of an axisymmetric horn mounted in a finite cylindrical enclosure by proposing an elegant multimodal solution to the far-field directivity pattern.

Spatial patterning controls neuron numbers in the Drosophila visual system.

Neurons must be made in the correct proportions to communicate with the appropriate synaptic partners and form functional circuits. In the Drosophila visual system, multiple subtypes of distal medulla (Dm) inhibitory interneurons are made in distinct, reproducible numbers-from 5 to 800 per optic lobe. These neurons are born from a crescent-shaped neuroepithelium called the outer proliferation center (OPC), which can be subdivided into specific domains based on transcription factor and growth factor expression.

High-throughput identification of the spatial origins of optic lobe neurons using single-cell mRNA-sequencing.

The medulla is the largest neuropil of the optic lobe. It contains about 100 neuronal types that have been comprehensively characterized morphologically and molecularly. These neuronal types are specified from a larval neuroepithelium called the Outer Proliferation Center (OPC) via the integration of temporal, spatial, and Notch-driven mechanisms.

Promoting Intimate Relationships in Mental Illness: A Systematic Review of Interventions.

Although persons with Serious Mental Illness (SMI) express a need for intimate relations with others, they still suffer from a severe lack of social participation in this domain. However, these unmet needs have received little attention until recently. This study reviews interventions that aim to facilitate the development and the maintenance of intimate relationships (IR) of persons with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression.

Maximum directivity of flanged open-ended waveguides.

Directional beams have extensive applications in communication and sound reproduction. This paper investigates the theoretical maximum directivity of infinitely flanged open-ended waveguides and the radiation pattern synthesis. We derive a rigorous solution for the maximum directivity factor of a flanged aperture with arbitrary shape by projecting its surface velocity on the waveguide modes, enabling the creation of a directional beam in any desired direction.

Exceptional Points of PT-Symmetric Reflectionless States in Complex Scattering Systems.

We investigate experimentally and analytically the coalescence of reflectionless (RL) states in symmetric complex wave-scattering systems. We observe RL exceptional points (EPs), first with a conventional Fabry-Perot system for which the scattering strength within the system is tuned symmetrically and then with single- and multichannel symmetric disordered systems. We confirm that an EP of the parity-time (PT)-symmetric RL operator is obtained for two isolated quasinormal modes when the spacing between central frequencies is equal to the decay rate into incoming and outgoing channels.

A complete temporal transcription factor series in the fly visual system.

The brain consists of thousands of neuronal types that are generated by stem cells producing different neuronal types as they age. In Drosophila, this temporal patterning is driven by the successive expression of temporal transcription factors (tTFs). Here we used single-cell mRNA sequencing to identify the complete series of tTFs that specify most Drosophila optic lobe neurons.

Single-cell transcriptomics in the Drosophila visual system: Advances and perspectives on cell identity regulation, connectivity, and neuronal diversity evolution.

The Drosophila visual system supports complex behaviors and shares many of its anatomical and molecular features with the vertebrate brain. Yet, it contains a much more manageable number of neurons and neuronal types. In addition to the extensive Drosophila genetic toolbox, this relative simplicity has allowed decades of work to yield a detailed account of its neuronal type diversity, morphology, connectivity and specification mechanisms.

Improved multimodal formulation of the wave propagation in a 3D waveguide with varying cross-section and curvature.

An efficient method is proposed to solve the multimodal wave propagation within a three-dimensional waveguide bounded by a hard wall with varying cross section and curvature. This is achieved by first turning the original problem, in a complex-shaped waveguide, into a cylindrical waveguide with unit radius, by means of an adapted and flexible geometrical transformation. Then supplementary modes are defined to enrich the standard modal basis that is usually considered in such methods and to help restore the right boundary condition.

Beyond (Mis)Representation: Visuals in COVID-19 Misinformation.

This article provides one of the first analyses of visuals in misinformation concerning COVID-19. A mixed-methods analysis of ninety-six examples of visuals in misinformation rated false or misleading by independent professional fact-checkers from the first three months of 2020 identifies and examines six frames and three distinct functions of visuals in pieces of misinformation: how visuals illustrate and selectively emphasize arguments and claims, purport to present evidence for claims, and impersonate supposedly authoritative sources for claims. Notably, visuals in more than half of the pieces of misinformation analyzed explicitly serve as evidence for false claims, most of which are mislabelled rather than manipulated.

Neuronal diversity and convergence in a visual system developmental atlas.

Deciphering how neuronal diversity is established and maintained requires a detailed knowledge of neuronal gene expression throughout development. In contrast to mammalian brains, the large neuronal diversity of the Drosophila optic lobe and its connectome are almost completely characterized. However, a molecular characterization of this neuronal diversity, particularly during development, has been lacking.

Sensitivity to losses and defects of the symmetry-induced transmission enhancement through diffusive slabs.

We inspect the robustness to absorption and to symmetry defects of the symmetry-induced broadband enhancement through opaque barriers in disordered slabs. The sensitivity of this phenomenon to symmetry defects is found to be strongly related to the distance from to barrier to the nearest defect, and, following, we propose a probabilistic model to estimate the conductance of a medium with an arbitrary number of randomly distributed defects. Also, the conductance enhancement is shown to be robust to absorption in the disordered medium, though being of course weakened.

Hybridized Love Waves in a Guiding Layer Supporting an Array of Plates with Decorative Endings.

This study follows from Maurel et al., Phys. Rev.

Broadband-Enhanced Transmission through Symmetric Diffusive Slabs.

We report on a significant and broadband enhancement of the transmission through an opaque barrier, when placed between symmetric diffusive disordered slabs. The transmission enhancement is accompanied by a bimodal distribution of the transmission eigenvalues, and, for a given transmittance of the barrier, it finds an optimal value for a particular length of the disordered slabs. A simple model allows us to quantify the scalings between the parameters that show that the stronger the barrier, the stronger the maximum possible enhancement.

Modeling of the multimodal radiation from an open-ended waveguide.

The multimodal radiation from the open end of a cylindrical waveguide with arbitrary wall thickness is solved by deriving algebraic solutions of the radiation impedance matrix, without restrictive hypothesis on the frequency range. The basic idea of the method is to turn the original unbounded problem into the problem of a cylindrical waveguide embedded in an infinite waveguide with an annular perfectly matched layer (PML) on its wall. Then, using a multimodal formalism of the guided wave propagation and a complex coordinate stretching PML, algebraic expressions are derived for the continuity and radiation conditions in this coupled system.

Modal method for the 2D wave propagation in heterogeneous anisotropic media.

A multimodal method based on a generalization of the admittance matrix is used to analyze wave propagation in heterogeneous two-dimensional anisotropic media. The heterogeneity of the medium can be due to the presence of anisotropic inclusions with arbitrary shapes, to a succession of anisotropic media with complex interfaces between them, or both. Using a modal expansion of the wave field, the problem is reduced to a system of two sets of first-order differential equations for the modal components of the field, similar to the system obtained in the rigorous coupled wave analysis.

Wave propagation in a waveguide containing restrictions with circular arc shape.

A multimodal method is used to analyze the wave propagation in waveguides containing restrictions (or corrugations) with circular arc shapes. This is done using a geometrical transformation which transforms the waveguide with complex geometry in the real space to a straight waveguide in the transformed space, or virtual space. In this virtual space, the Helmholtz equation has a modified structure which encapsulates the complexity of the geometry.

Three-dimensional parabolic equation model for low frequency sound propagation in irregular urban canyons.

A three-dimensional wide-angle parabolic equation (3DPE) is used to model low frequency sound propagation in irregular urban canyons at low computational cost. This one-way wave equation is solved using the Alternating Direction Implicit method. A finite difference scheme adapted to the geometry of the urban environment is then developed.

Local transformation leading to an efficient Fourier modal method for perfectly conducting gratings.

We present an efficient Fourier modal method for wave scattering by perfectly conducting gratings (in the two polarizations). The method uses a geometrical transformation, similar to the one used in the C-method, that transforms the grating surface into a flat surface, thus avoiding to question the Rayleigh hypothesis; also, the transformation only affects a bounded inner region that naturally matches the outer region; this allows applying a simple criterion to select the ingoing and outgoing waves. The method is shown to satisfy reciprocity and energy conservation, and it has an exponential rate of convergence for regular groove shapes.

Extraordinary transmission through subwavelength dielectric gratings in the microwave range.

We address the problem of the transmission through subwavelength dielectric gratings. Following Maurel et al. [Phys.