Brief psychodynamic psychotherapy: interrater agreement and reliability of individually specified outcomes.

We tested Malan's method of constructing outcome criteria in brief dynamic psychotherapy by positing a core neurotic problem, psychodynamic outcome criteria, and psychodynamically oriented target criteria for 41 neurotic outpatients receiving either psychotherapy or behavioral therapy. We found that trained raters could assess psychodynamic problems and outcomes with high interrater reliability and agreement. Using these measures with behavioral therapy as well as psychodynamic therapy patients, we found that the psychodynamic ratings could be extended to patients not treated psychodynamically.

FDA's new vending code: a review.

The concept of developing and promoting the nationwide adoption of uniform sanitation regulations for food and beverage vending was agreed upon by the U.S. Public Health Service and industry leaders more than 20 years ago.

The effects of reinforcement and strategy training on impulsive responding.

Impulsive second-grade children received strategy training or strategy training combined with primary or secondary reinforcement. All training groups showed significantly longer response latencies and significantly fewer errors on the Matching Familiar Figures test immediately following training. The reinforcement groups had significantly longer latencies than the training-only group, and there was some indication that primary reinforcement was more effective than secondary reinforcement in producing response delay.

Focused, multiple-pass cell for Raman scattering.

A simple optical system is described that makes use of a unique property of ellipsoidal mirrors, viz., light brought to one focus will be reflected alternately through the two foci and collapse to the major axis. This system consists of an on-axis ellipsoidal mirror facing a coaxial flat-spherical mirror assembly that is positioned at the minor axis.