Some Phenomena Affecting Handwriting Analysis

1965 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 211-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Calvin J. Frederick
Keyword(s):  
Present State ◽  
Present Status ◽  
Clinical Skill ◽  
Handwriting Analysis ◽  
Projective Techniques ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Rule Out

In this investigation designed to explore some of the phenomenological aspects of the present status of handwriting analysis, as an expressive technique largely, the results indicate that the technique is of value although it needs considerable refinement. The significant clues which one uses at this stage in analyzing the handwriting are apt to be something in the content, rather than the actual handwriting itself. Many handwriting specialists may be laboring under a false impression that they are picking up cues from the handwriting which really stem from other sources, principally the content of the material. The most significant results thus far seem to depend on clinical skill stemming from assaying content of the writing productions, more than the handwriting itself. The results cannot be said to rule out the value of cues from the handwriting per se, but at the present state of refinement, handwriting is largely still in the realm of many projective techniques in that objective and measurable clues currently employed for handwriting analysis do not seem reliable.

Validation of Graphoanalysis by “Global” or “Holistic” Method

1977 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 403-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
James C. Crumbaugh ◽  
Emilie Stockholm
Keyword(s):  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Statistical Study ◽  
Handwriting Analysis ◽  
Expressive Movement ◽  
Projective Techniques ◽  
Matching Technique ◽  
Total Data ◽  
Holistic Method

Graphoanalysis is the most systematically developed and best researched of all methods of handwriting analysis (generically called graphology). This is a projective expressive movement that is neither better nor more poorly validated than most projective techniques as a means of personality assessment, which is inadequate because their subjectivity makes statistical study difficult. With all projective techniques “sign” or trait validation has been minimal, and the best validation has come from “global” or “holistic” methods. The present study presents a paradigm for the latter type of approach to handwriting analysis, using a matching technique with probabilities of 1/5, wherein five subjects were matched by people who knew them to one of five blind Graphoanalyses of the subjects' writing. This design is herein replicated five times, with total data significantly different from chance expectation ( p < .001), supporting the hypothesis that it is possible to evaluate personality through analysis of handwriting.

Present status of Sicariidae (Arachnida: Araneae) in the Afrotropical region

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3522 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. N. LOTZ
Keyword(s):  
Present State ◽  
Present Status ◽  
The Family ◽  
Afrotropical Region

In this paper the present state of knowledge of the family Sicariidae in the Afrotropical region is discussed. The Sicariidaein the Afrotropical region, as it stands at present, consists of two genera, viz. Sicarius Walckenaer, 1847 (subfamilySicariinae) with six species: S. albospinosus Purcell, 1908, S. damarensis Lawrence, 1928, S. dolichocephalus Lawrence,1928, S. hahni (Karsch, 1878), S. spatulatus Pocock, 1900, and S. testaceus Purcell, 1908 and Loxosceles Heineken &Lowe, 1835 (subfamily Loxoscelinae) with 13 species: L. fontainei Millot, 1941, L. foutadjalloni Millot, 1941, L. lacroixiMillot, 1941, L. meruensis Tullgren, 1910, L. neuvillei Simon, 1909, L. pallidecolorata (Strand, 1906), L. parramiNewlands, 1981, L. rufecens (Dufour, 1820), L. smithi Simon, 1897, L. speluncarum Simon, 1893, L. spinulosa Purcell,1904, L. valida Lawrence, 1964 and L. vonwredei Newlands, 1980. Loxosceles parrami Newlands, 1981 is here renamedto L. parramae (Newlands, 1981), as it was named for a Miss Parram. Loxosceles valida Lawrence, 1964 is heretransferred to the genus Drymusa Simon, 1893 (Drymusidae) and three species of Loxosceles is revalidated (L. bergeri Strand, 1906, L. pilosa Purcell, 1908 and L. simillima Lawrence, 1927).

THEORY OF QUANTUM LIQUIDS: WHERE WE ARE AND WHERE WE ARE GOING

1999 ◽  
Vol 13 (05n06) ◽  
pp. 579-594
Author(s):  
E. KROTSCHECK
Keyword(s):  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Present State ◽  
Present Status ◽  
Microscopic Theory ◽  
Simulation Methods ◽  
Conservative Approach ◽  
Open Problems ◽  
Quantum Liquids

The present status of the microscopic understanding of quantum liquids is reviewed. We take a conservative approach and focus thoroughly on two examples: the neutral quantum liquids 4 He and 3 He . The first part of this contribution reviews the present state of the microscopic theory of these systems. Results of both simulation methods and semi-analytic theories are discussed and compared. Quantum liquids in non-uniform geometries lead, due to symmetry breaking, to a number of new and interesting effects and also to new experimental possibilities and theoretical challenges. Finally, we highlight a number of yet open problems where present microscopic approaches have so far been unsuccessful.

scholarly journals Serum silicon concentrations in pregnant women and newborn babies

2013 ◽  
Vol 110 (11) ◽  
pp. 2004-2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ravin Jugdaohsingh ◽  
Simon H. C. Anderson ◽  
Lorin Lakasing ◽  
Supannee Sripanyakorn ◽  
Sarah Ratcliffe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Umbilical Cord ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Full Term ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Fasting Serum ◽  
Connective Tissues ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Forearm Vein ◽  
Rule Out

Earlier studies in animals have suggested an essential role for Si in connective tissues, but such works have not been replicated per se. Nonetheless, a study conducted in 2000 has reported that Si may be essential during pregnancy for the growing fetus, since serum Si concentrations in infants were approximately 300 % higher than those in older children and adults and serum Si concentrations in pregnant women were approximately 300 % lower than those in age-matched non-pregnant controls. To reproduce these potentially important findings, in the present study, serum Si concentrations were measured in fourteen pregnant women (15–24 weeks of gestation) and compared with those of seventeen non-pregnant, non-lactating female controls. Serum Si concentrations were also measured in fourteen full-term mothers at the time of delivery and in the umbilical cord (UC) vein and artery where possible. Fasting serum Si concentrations in pregnant women were not significantly different from those of the female controls and showed little change with advancing gestation (r 0·2). Mean serum Si concentrations in the UC vein samples were 52 % higher, while those in the UC artery samples were 235 % higher than those in the maternal forearm vein samples, although data were widely spread and differences were not significant. Mean maternal forearm vein Si concentrations at delivery were 50 % lower than those of pregnant women and female controls, but, again, these were not significant. Overall, we note that there are significant analytical challenges in comparing baseline Si levels between different groups; notwithstanding, our findings cannot confirm a reduction in fasting serum Si levels during pregnancy, but, equally, we cannot rule out higher serum Si levels in newborns than in their mothers, and further work is required.

EFFECTS OF AMIODARONE ON THYROID IODINE METABOLISM IN VITRO1)

1977 ◽  
Vol 85 (4) ◽  
pp. 781-790 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernardo E. Gluzman ◽  
Aldo H. Coleoni ◽  
Héctor M. Targovnik ◽  
Hugo Niepomniszcze
Keyword(s):  
Thyroid Gland ◽  
Direct Action ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Thyroid ◽  
Thyroid Peroxidase ◽  
Iodide Transport ◽  
Iodine Metabolism ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Rule Out

ABSTRACT Since alterations of thyroid function have been reported in patients treated with amiodarone, 2-butyl,3-(4-diethylaminoethoxy-3,5- diiodo, benzoyl) benzofuran, the effects of this drug on the active iodide transport, organic iodine formation, thyroid peroxidase and the enzymatic iodotyrosine deiodination, were studied. In pig thyroid slices the iodide transport was affected by amiodarone at concentrations of 10−4 m and 10−5 M, showing a decrease of T/M (tissue/medium) ratios of 20% and 23%, respectively. Lower concentrations produced no significant differences from the controls. Iodotyrosine synthesis was only, but poorly, affected by 10−4 m and 10−5 m amiodarone. Inhibition of the DIT formation was greater than that produced for MIT. Thyroid peroxidase activity, as measured by the tyrosine-iodinase assay, showed a 20% decrease at 10−3 m amiodarone. None of the other concentrations have affected the activity of the enzyme, except for 7% at a concentration of 10−4 m. The iodotyrosine deiodination was affected by amiodarone only at a concentration of 10−3 m and 10−4 m. The inhibitions were of 22.5% and 16.8%, respectively. We have concluded that, under the conditions of our study, amiodarone per se does not affect the intrathyroidal iodine metabolism in concentrations which are usually present in the sera of patients treated with this drug. However, it is not possible to rule out an in vivo direct action, if amiodarone is substantially concentrated in the human thyroid gland.

scholarly journals Ecology-driven stereotypes override race stereotypes

2015 ◽  
Vol 113 (2) ◽  
pp. 310-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keelah E. G. Williams ◽  
Oliver Sng ◽  
Steven L. Neuberg
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Life History ◽  
Life History Theory ◽  
The United States ◽  
Life History Strategies ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Lay Understanding ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Rule Out

Why do race stereotypes take the forms they do? Life history theory posits that features of the ecology shape individuals’ behavior. Harsh and unpredictable (“desperate”) ecologies induce fast strategy behaviors such as impulsivity, whereas resource-sufficient and predictable (“hopeful”) ecologies induce slow strategy behaviors such as future focus. We suggest that individuals possess a lay understanding of ecology’s influence on behavior, resulting in ecology-driven stereotypes. Importantly, because race is confounded with ecology in the United States, we propose that Americans’ stereotypes about racial groups actually reflect stereotypes about these groups’ presumed home ecologies. Study 1 demonstrates that individuals hold ecology stereotypes, stereotyping people from desperate ecologies as possessing faster life history strategies than people from hopeful ecologies. Studies 2–4 rule out alternative explanations for those findings. Study 5, which independently manipulates race and ecology information, demonstrates that when provided with information about a person’s race (but not ecology), individuals’ inferences about blacks track stereotypes of people from desperate ecologies, and individuals’ inferences about whites track stereotypes of people from hopeful ecologies. However, when provided with information about both the race and ecology of others, individuals’ inferences reflect the targets’ ecology rather than their race: black and white targets from desperate ecologies are stereotyped as equally fast life history strategists, whereas black and white targets from hopeful ecologies are stereotyped as equally slow life history strategists. These findings suggest that the content of several predominant race stereotypes may not reflect race, per se, but rather inferences about how one’s ecology influences behavior.

Manufacturing Nanocomposite Parts: Present Status and Future Challenges

MRS Bulletin ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Seal ◽  
S.C. Kuiry ◽  
P. Georgieva ◽  
A. Agarwal
Keyword(s):  
Nanostructured Materials ◽  
Present State ◽  
Present Status ◽  
Nanocomposite Materials ◽  
Future Challenges

AbstractThe promises of nanotechnology are mostly based upon the ability to produce nanostructured materials with novel properties. Nanocomposites are defined here as a class of materials that contain at least one phase with constituents in the nanometer domain. This article describes the present state of knowledge of the fabrication of nanocomposite materials, with special emphasis on plasma forming of bulk parts. Future challenges facing the development of methods for consolidating nanocomposites with retained nanostructures are also highlighted.

scholarly journals THE HISTORY OF THE S PROCESS AND ITS PRESENT STATE

2013 ◽  
Vol 53 (A) ◽  
pp. 538-544
Author(s):  
Giora Shaviv
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Present State ◽  
Present Status ◽  
History Of

We review the history and the present status of the s-process and point to problems in need of clarification. In some cases it has to do with lack of experimental data and in other the theory is missing.

Commonly Misused Musculoskeletal and Medicolegal Terms

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
Charles N. Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Magnetic Resonance Image ◽  
Shoulder Girdle ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Mri Scan ◽  
Disc Bulge ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Musculoskeletal Pathology ◽  
Rule Out

Abstract The misuse of medical and legal terminology can be confusing and frustrating and also introduces the potential for errors; this article focuses on some of the most often misused terms applicable to injury and illness. A common example of anatomical imprecision involves the shoulder, and patients who complain of “shoulder pain” sometimes localize their discomfort in the trapezius or scapula rather than on the shoulder per se. The distinction between shoulder and upper back or shoulder girdle pain is not merely terminological nitpicking but rather is of clinical significance. Similarly, no terms are more commonly misused than “arm” and “leg.” The most misused terms in musculoskeletal pathology are those related to disc lesions, and one commonly hears that a magnetic resonance image (MRI) scan was ordered “to rule out a disc,” but having a disc is neither an indication for MRI nor surgery. Further imprecise terminology leads to semantic imprecision when terminology is incorrectly used, including intervertebral disc, bulge, protrusion, extrusion, sequestered fragment, hernia, rupture, and even fracture. Physician evaluators and health care providers must understand that—by virtue of the authority vested in them and the weight given to their opinions by claims personnel, attorneys, judges, and others—errors and injustices may occur if they do not understand or correctly use medicolegal terms.

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