Multivariate Prediction of Third Grade Academic Performance from De Hirsch Index Score

1975 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 735-739
Author(s):  
George R. Holmes ◽  
Anna L. Stout ◽  
Arthur L. Rosenkrantz ◽  
D. Wayne Bickham ◽  
Robert C. Schnackenberg
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Function Analysis ◽  
Hirsch Index ◽  
Predictive Index ◽  
Academic Risk ◽  
Follow Up Study ◽  
Multivariate Prediction ◽  
High Risk Children

A 3-yr. follow-up study, using 5 dependent measures of academic performance, was accomplished on 42 of the original 50 5 1/2-yr.-old youngsters used in the Adkins, et al. (1971) study. A preliminary comparison of the de Hirsch method of classification of children as of potentially high academic risk clearly suggests the possibility of using discriminant function analysis with the de Hirsch Predictive Index. A strategy for evaluating interventions on high-risk children is suggested.

The twelve-month outcome of patients with neurotic illness in general practice

1981 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 535-550 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. H. Mann ◽  
R. Jenkins ◽  
E. Belsey
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Function Analysis ◽  
Psychiatric Morbidity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Assessment Measures ◽  
Psychiatric State ◽  
One Year

SYNOPSISOne hundred patients, selected to be representative of those attending general practitioners with non-psychotic psychiatric disorders were followed up for one year. standard assessments of mental state, personality, social stresses and supports were carried out for each patient at the outset and after a year.The outcome for this cohort determined both by the level of psychiatric morbidity at interview after one year and by the pattern of the psychiatric morbidity during the year has been analysed with reference to the assessment measures. Discriminant function analysis indicates that the initial estimate of the severity of the psychiatric morbidity and a rating of the quality of the social life at the time of follow-up are the only factors that significantly predict the psychiatric state after one year. Social measures also predict a pattern of illness charactorized by a rapid recovery after the initial assessemtn. Patients who reported continuous psychiatric morbidity during the year were, older, physically ill and very likely to have recevied psychotropic drugs. Receipt of this medication during the year was associated with initial assessments of abnormality of personality, older age, and a diagnosis of depression.The findings of this study are seen to support a triaxial assessment and classification of non-psychotic psychiatirc disorders, with symptoms, personality and social state being rated independently.

Genus-level taxonomical changes in the Lepanthes affinity (Orchidaceae, Pleurothallidinae)

Phytotaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 340 (2) ◽  
pp. 128 ◽  
Author(s):  
DIEGO BOGARÍN ◽  
ADAM P. KARREMANS ◽  
MELANIA FERNÁNDEZ
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Inference ◽  
Morphological Characterization ◽  
New Classification ◽  
Follow Up Study ◽  
Genus Level

We propose a new classification of the Lepanthes affinity based on previous studies and our ongoing phylogenetic re-evaluation of the Pleurothallidinae. Fourteen genera are recognized as belonging to the affinity. They are found highly supported in a DNA-based phylogenetic inference of combined plastid (matK) and nuclear (nrITS) datasets. The necessary changes, including four novel generic concepts, needed to reorganize the Lepanthes affinity, are proposed here to insure monophyly. The integral discussion on the phylogenetics and biogeography of the group, together with morphological characterization of each clade will be presented in a follow up study.

A Follow Up Study of Schizophrenia and Depression in Young Adults

1963 ◽  
Vol 109 (461) ◽  
pp. 491-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Clark ◽  
Bernard L. Mallett
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Differential Diagnosis ◽  
Dementia Praecox ◽  
Follow Up Study ◽  
Functional Psychoses ◽  
Prognostic Implications

The differential diagnosis of schizophrenia and depression is clinically important in so far as these diagnoses carry therapeutic and prognostic implications. The Kraepelinian dichotomy was foreshadowed in Griesinger's recognition that “a state of vague, objectless emotion, be it sad or cheerful, and vague general delirium, is always more favourable than the appearance and continuance of fixed ideas … In melancholia, too, the appearance of hallucinations is decidedly unfavourable; those especially which refer the malady to external agencies (to other persons, to witchcraft, etc.) are remarkably persistent, and introduce at a later period a condition of dementia” (Griesinger, 1861). Kraepelin's descriptions of maniacal-depressive conditions and of dementia praecox remain the basis of contemporary systems of classification of the functional psychoses.

The Bearing of Treatment on the Classification of the Affective Disorders

1970 ◽  
Vol 117 (538) ◽  
pp. 251-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clair Gurney ◽  
Martin Roth ◽  
T. A. Kerr ◽  
Kurt Schapira
Keyword(s):  
Forearm Blood Flow ◽  
Function Analysis ◽  
Depressive Illness ◽  
Anxiety State ◽  
Flow Measurements ◽  
Clinical Indices ◽  
Blood Flow Measurements ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between anxiety state and depressive illness has been debated for many years. On clinical grounds, Mapother (1926) and Lewis (1966) expressed the view that the various forms of anxiety and depressive states merge imperceptibly into one another, while Garmany (1956, 1958) and Stenback (1963) considered that they were fundamentally different disorders. Gurney, Roth and Garside (1970) showed that the two conditions differ significantly in respect of a large number of biographical, personality and clinical indices. They also demonstrated that the disorders could be separated by means of a discriminant function analysis and that the distribution of the patients' scores was clearly bimodal. In a four year follow-up study of the same group of patients, Kerr, Gurney, Schapira and Roth (1970) showed that depressive illnesses carry a significantly better prognosis. Moreover, physiological evidence based on forearm blood-flow measurements has also given tentative support to the differentiation of the disorders (Kelly and Walter, 1969).

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