Supplemental Material for Cognition and Community Functioning in Schizophrenia: The Nature of the Relationship

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Community Functioning ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Catholic Communities and Kinship Networks of the Elizabethan Midlands

Perichoresis ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-97
Author(s):  
Laura Verner
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Integral Method ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Community Functioning ◽  
Material Support ◽  
Kinship Networks ◽  
And Function ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract An integral method of keeping a non-conforming community functioning is the construction and up keep of networks, as this web of connections provided security and protection with other non-conformists against the persecuting authorities. The non-conforming Catholic community of Elizabethan England (1558-1603) established various networks within England and abroad. This article is based on research that examines the network of Catholics in the Elizabethan Midlands in order to understand both its effectiveness and the relationship of the local and extended Catholic community with one another. The construction, function and result of these networks will be surveyed over several categories of networks, such as local, underground, clerical and exile. Members of the Midland Catholic community travelled to others areas of the British Isles and Europe to gather spiritual and material support for their faith, sent their children abroad for religious education, and resettled abroad creating in this wake a larger and complex international network. The main objective of this exercise is to show the dynamic and function of the network, and understand the impact it had at the local level for Midland Catholics.

scholarly journals Cognition and community functioning in schizophrenia: The nature of the relationship.

2018 ◽  
Vol 127 (2) ◽  
pp. 216-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan S. Kuo ◽  
Laura Almasy ◽  
Ruben C. Gur ◽  
Konasale Prasad ◽  
David R. Roalf ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Functioning ◽  
The Relationship

Comparison of computational methods for the evaluation of learning potential in schizophrenia

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 613-620 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOANNA M. FISZDON ◽  
JASON K. JOHANNESEN
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Schizophrenia ◽  
Learning Task ◽  
Learning Potential ◽  
Community Functioning ◽  
Measurement Issues ◽  
Test Version ◽  
List Learning ◽  
Evaluation Of Learning ◽  
Test Retest Reliability ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractLearning potential (LP) refers to the ability to improve cognitive performance as a result of training. It is typically assessed by test-train-test administrations of a task, wherein changes in pre-post performance are an index of LP. In schizophrenia research, LP has been suggested as a mediator of the relationship between static neurocognition and functional outcome. While a number of studies do indicate that LP assessment improves prediction of functioning beyond standard administrations of the same task, multiple approaches of computing LP indices have been used in this work. Multiple psychometric issues have been raised with respect to computation of change scores, but have not been widely recognized in LP assessment. To address this issue, the current study aimed to evaluate the test-retest reliability, interrelatedness, construct, and criterion validity of several conventional indices of LP, obtained from a test-train-test version of a list-learning task administered to 43 individuals with chronic schizophrenia. Overall, test-retest and intercorrelation coefficients indicated variable reliability and convergence across methods. While LP indices generally correlated more highly with independent measures of neurocognition and community functioning than pretraining list learning scores, coefficients were comparably small. Recommendations and measurement issues inherent to the LP construct are discussed. (JINS, 2010, 16, 613–620.)

scholarly journals The diversity of interaction types drives the functioning of ecological communities

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent Miele ◽  
Christian Guill ◽  
Rodrigo Ramos-Jiliberto ◽  
Sonia Kéfi
Keyword(s):  
Species Diversity ◽  
Ecological Communities ◽  
Community Functioning ◽  
Extinction Rates ◽  
Predator Interference ◽  
Interaction Types ◽  
Multiple Interaction ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Diverse Interactions

AbstractEcological communities are undeniably diverse, both in terms of the species that compose them as well as the type of interactions that link species to each other. Despite this long-recognition of the coexistence of multiple interaction types in nature, little is known about the consequences of this diversity for community functioning. In the ongoing context of global change and increasing species extinction rates, it seems crucial to improve our understanding of the drivers of the relationship between species diversity and ecosystem functioning.Here, using a multispecies dynamical model of ecological communities including various interaction types (e.g. competition for space, predator interference, recruitment facilitation), we studied the role of the presence and the intensity of these interactions for species diversity, community functioning (biomass and production) and the relationship between diversity and functioning.Taken jointly, the diverse interactions have significant effects on species diversity, whose amplitude and sign depend on the type of interactions involved and their relative abundance. They however consistently increase the slope of the relationship between diversity and functioning, suggesting that species losses might have stronger effects on community functioning than expected when ignoring the diversity of interaction types and focusing on feeding interactions only.

scholarly journals Social cognition moderates the relationship between neurocognition and community functioning in bipolar disorder

2018 ◽  
Vol 235 ◽  
pp. 7-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
L.H. Ospina ◽  
G.C. Nitzburg ◽  
M. Shanahan ◽  
M.M. Perez-Rodriguez ◽  
E. Larsen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bipolar Disorder ◽  
Social Cognition ◽  
Community Functioning ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Functional diversity, soil features and community functioning: a test in a cerrado site

2012 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 463-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
JR. Freitas ◽  
MV. Cianciaruso ◽  
MA. Batalha
Keyword(s):  
Functional Diversity ◽  
Decomposition Rate ◽  
Woody Species ◽  
Experimental Manipulation ◽  
Southeastern Brazil ◽  
Phosphorus Concentration ◽  
Fine Scale ◽  
Community Functioning ◽  
Soil Features ◽  
The Relationship

Community functioning may be affected by functional diversity, which measures the extent of complementarity in resource use. We tested whether there was a relationship between functional diversity of woody species and community functioning on a fine scale, using FD as a measure of functional diversity and litter decomposition rate as a surrogate for community functioning. We measured eight functional traits from a woodland cerrado community in southeastern Brazil. Then, we tested the correlation between FD and the decomposition rate taking into account differences in soil features and between decomposition rate and each trait separately. The decomposition rate was related to the aluminium and phosphorus concentration in soil, but not to FD, pointing out that functional diversity was not a good predictor of community functioning. There was a non-significant relationship between FD and the decomposition rate even when we considered each trait separately. Most studies in the relationships between biodiversity and community functioning on fine scales were carried out by experimental manipulation of diversity and in temperate regions. We carried out this fine scale study as a mensurative experiment and in a tropical savanna. Our findings indicated that the relationship between biodiversity and community functioning is not as straightforward as usually assumed.

scholarly journals The effect of sex on social cognition and functioning in schizophrenia

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Ferrer-Quintero ◽  
Michael F. Green ◽  
William P. Horan ◽  
David L. Penn ◽  
Robert S. Kern ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Social Cognition ◽  
Functional Capacity ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Reactivity Index ◽  
Objective Measures ◽  
Subjective Measure ◽  
Community Functioning ◽  
Biological Variables ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractSocial cognitive impairment is a core feature of schizophrenia and plays a critical role in poor community functioning in the disorder. However, our understanding of the relationship between key biological variables and social cognitive impairment in schizophrenia is limited. This study examined the effect of sex on the levels of social cognitive impairment and the relationship between social cognitive impairment and social functioning in schizophrenia. Two hundred forty-eight patients with schizophrenia (61 female) and 87 healthy controls (31 female) completed five objective measures and one subjective measure of social cognition. The objective measures included the Facial Affect Identification, Emotion in Biological Motion, Self-Referential Memory, MSCEIT Branch 4, and Empathic Accuracy tasks. The subjective measure was the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI), which includes four subscales. Patients completed measures of social and non-social functional capacity and community functioning. For objective social cognitive tasks, we found a significant sex difference only on one measure, the MSCEIT Branch 4, which in both patient and control groups, females performed better than males. Regarding the IRI, females endorsed higher empathy-related items on one subscale. The moderating role of sex was found only for the association between objective social cognition and non-social functional capacity. The relationship was stronger in male patients than female patients. In this study, we found minimal evidence of a sex effect on social cognition in schizophrenia across subjective and objective measures. Sex does not appear to moderate the association between social cognition and functioning in schizophrenia.

Interstellar gas in the central region of the Galaxy

1967 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 239-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. J. Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Central Region ◽  
Galactic Plane ◽  
Neutral Hydrogen ◽  
Continuum Emission ◽  
Galactic Centre ◽  
Interstellar Gas ◽  
Hydrogen Recombination ◽  
The Galaxy ◽  
Centre Region ◽  
The Relationship

A review is given of information on the galactic-centre region obtained from recent observations of the 21-cm line from neutral hydrogen, the 18-cm group of OH lines, a hydrogen recombination line at 6 cm wavelength, and the continuum emission from ionized hydrogen.Both inward and outward motions are important in this region, in addition to rotation. Several types of observation indicate the presence of material in features inclined to the galactic plane. The relationship between the H and OH concentrations is not yet clear, but a rough picture of the central region can be proposed.

The relationship of the scleractinian corals to the rugose corals

Paleobiology ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 6 (02) ◽  
pp. 146-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Oliver
Keyword(s):  
Critical Points ◽  
Scleractinian Corals ◽  
Convincing Evidence ◽  
Early Triassic ◽  
Rugose Corals ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Biologic Factors

The Mesozoic-Cenozoic coral Order Scleractinia has been suggested to have originated or evolved (1) by direct descent from the Paleozoic Order Rugosa or (2) by the development of a skeleton in members of one of the anemone groups that probably have existed throughout Phanerozoic time. In spite of much work on the subject, advocates of the direct descent hypothesis have failed to find convincing evidence of this relationship. Critical points are:(1) Rugosan septal insertion is serial; Scleractinian insertion is cyclic; no intermediate stages have been demonstrated. Apparent intermediates are Scleractinia having bilateral cyclic insertion or teratological Rugosa.(2) There is convincing evidence that the skeletons of many Rugosa were calcitic and none are known to be or to have been aragonitic. In contrast, the skeletons of all living Scleractinia are aragonitic and there is evidence that fossil Scleractinia were aragonitic also. The mineralogic difference is almost certainly due to intrinsic biologic factors.(3) No early Triassic corals of either group are known. This fact is not compelling (by itself) but is important in connection with points 1 and 2, because, given direct descent, both changes took place during this only stage in the history of the two groups in which there are no known corals.

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