Do values and political attitudes affect help-seeking? Exploring reported help-seeking for mental health problems in a general population sample using a milieu framework.

Aims: Help-seeking for mental health problems is facilitated and hindered by several factors at the individual, interpersonal and community level. The most frequently researched factors contributing to differences in help-seeking behaviour are based on classical socio-demographic variables, such as age, gender and education, but explanations for the observed differences are often absent or remain vague. The present study complements traditional approaches in help-seeking research by introducing a milieu approach, focusing on values and political attitudes as a possible explanation for differences in help-seeking for emotional mental health problems.

Space environment simulation and sensor calibration facility.

The Mumbo space environment simulation chamber discussed here comprises a set of tools to calibrate a variety of low flux, low energy electron and ion detectors used in satellite-mounted particle sensors. The chamber features electron and ion beam sources, a Lyman-alpha ultraviolet lamp, a gimbal table sensor mounting system, cryogenic sample mount and chamber shroud, and beam characterization hardware and software. The design of the electron and ion sources presented here offers a number of unique capabilities for space weather sensor calibration.

A molecular editor program.

A program called MOLEDITOR has been developed for manipulating images of molecules and various geometric objects in real time and in three dimensions using Evans and Sutherland PS300 graphics displays and Digital VAX computers. In addition to the normal viewing operations of rotation, translation, clipping and scaling, the program allows molecules and objects to be placed in local frames for motion relative to other molecules or objects and allows several modes of motion about individual bonds. MOLEDITOR also allows the display and manipulation of molecules and objects within crystal lattices and of the lattices themselves via manipulation of the unit cell parameters.

Hereditary pancreatitis presenting in childhood: case report with family studies.

A 12-year-old boy presented with recurrent abdominal pain and failure to thrive and was shown to have chronic calcific pancreatitis. Investigations failed to show any of the demonstrable causes of pancreatitis, but on family study four close paternal relatives were found to have had chronic pancreatitis, three with radiological calcification. No definable cause for pancreatitis had been determined in any of these relatives.