Small noncleaved cell lymphoma associated with florid epithelioid granulomatous response. A clinicopathologic study of seven patients

Hypertension has its roots in childhood. Electrocardiographic, echocardiographic, and exercise testing in young patients point to early abnormalities of cardiovascular status in children with early hypertensive disease. Altered morphology of the cardiovascular system and vascular reactivity is also seen in the hypertensive or prehypertensive child. Perhaps investigation and preventive tactics may be best applied to the pediatric population.     

Review of Custody disputes: Evaluation and intervention.

Reviews the book, Custody disputes: Evaluation and intervention edited by Ruth Parry, E. A. Broder, E. A. G. Schmitt, E. B. Saunders, and E. Hood (see record 1986-97757-000). The editors of this book have brought together a decade's worth of clinical experience in developing and administering the Custody Project associated with the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto and the Toronto Family Court Clinic. The Project, which was the first of its kind in Canada, brought together a number of different mental health professionals (psychiatrists, social workers and psychologists) who dedicated themselves to developing principles, guidelines, and a more consistent standard of practice in helping families and their lawyers settle custody and access disputes after parental separation. The book makes an attempt to share this experience in a very candid fashion so that other clinicians can more clearly formulate their roles and avoid the most common pitfalls. The book is divided into nine chapters that cover a general introduction, a legal perspective on custody disputes, a mental health perspective on these disputes, the development of the Custody Project, analysis of data related to 116 families referred to the Project, intervention techniques from an assessment and treatment perspective, special issues in custody disputes, and a focus on access disputes. This book is a well-written book that offers many insights and practical advice to mental health professionals involved directly or indirectly in resolving custody and access conflicts between separating parents. It provides a range of comprehensive solutions that require skill, patience, knowledge of the legal system, a support group, and individualized plans for each family. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Critical issues in the development of custody and access dispute resolution services.

Outlines the development and working assumptions of the London Custody and Access Project in the context of the needs of separated families involved in the legal process. Clinical issues (psychological parent, bonding, adjustment problems, interrupted development, and sexual abuse) are overviewed, and 3 types of service (assessment, mediation, and arbitration) are described. Data are presented on a sample of 68 cases outlining the nature of the issues involved, factors considered during the assessment, and clinical/legal recommendations. Future issues in research and practice are suggested. (French abstract) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Maximal selection in tandem networks with symmetric hearing range

We consider an infinite tandem network in which every node is capable of hearing its neighbors up to a given distancen. At any moment of time every node may contain in the top of its queue a message destined to one of its neighbors. This network can be used as a model for a microwave or optic link with many users. For small and largen we investigate the maximal selection of nodes in the network, for which their transmissions are collision-free. For a large hearing range we show that the upper bound on the maximal selection, which is found herein, is asymptotically achievable. For small hearing ranges we show that a greedy selection is better but not asymptotically optimal. We also specify a sequence of upper bounds which converge to the maximal throughput.     

Attenuating anterograde amnesia in Korsakoff's Psychosis.

Attempted to attenuate the severe anterograde amnesia of a 52-yr-old male patient with Korsakoff's Psychosis through the imposition of cues to assist memory. Categorized word list recall was dramatically increased only when cues at both storage and retrieval were employed. Information necessary to independent functioning on the ward was also learned by providing storage and retrieval cues. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Arrangement: a spatial relation between parts for evaluatingsimilarity of tomographic section

Medical tomographic images are formed by the intersection of the image plane and an object. As the image plane changes, different parts of the object come in view or drop out of view. However, for small changes of the image plane, most parts continue to remain visible and their qualitative embedding in the image remains similar. Therefore, similarity of part embeddings can be used to infer similarity of image planes. Part embeddings are useful features for other vision applications as well. In view of this, a spatial relation called “arrangement” is proposed to describe part embeddings. The relation describes how each part is surrounded by its neighbors. Further, a metric for arrangements is formulated by expressing arrangements in terms of the Voronoi diagram of the parts. Arrangements and their metric are used to retrieve images by image plane similarity in a cardiac magnetic resonance image database. Experiments with the database are reported which (1) validate the observation that similarity of image planes can be inferred from similarity of part embeddings, and (2) compare the performance of arrangement based image retrieval with that of expert radiologists