Syndrome co-occurrence and treatment outcomes in youth mental health clinics.

Despite widespread speculation that syndrome co-occurrence undermines treatment outcomes, this hypothesis has not been fully examined within clinical care settings. To address this gap, the authors investigated the relation between syndrome co-occurrence and outcome among 325 clinically referred youths. For every syndrome, higher initial severity was predictive of greater treatment gains and higher posttreatment symptom levels; contrary to speculation in the literature, co-occurrence effects were rare and modest in size, accounting for 0.6% of outcome variance on average. The results suggest that co-occurrence, though common in youth clinical care, is not an obstacle to treatment success in most cases. In addition to its substantive findings, the study illustrates how a dimensional approach can be used to shed new light on co-occurrence in clinical care. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Multistrategy Learning and Theory Revision

This article presents the system WHY, which learns and updates a diagnostic knowledge base using domain knowledge and a set of examples. The a priori knowledge consists of a causal model of the domain that states the relationships among basic phenomena, and a body of phenomenological theory that describes the links between abstract concepts and their possible manifestations in the world. The phenomenological knowledge is used deductively, the causal model is used abductively, and the examples are used inductively. The problems of imperfection and intractability of the theory are handled by allowing the system to make assumptions during its reasoning. In this way, robust knowledge can be learned with limited complexity and a small number of examples. The system works in a first-order logic environment and has been applied in a real domain.     

红外热像的初始化诊断法

简述通常采用的热平衡后摄取红外热像进行故障诊断所带来的问题和针对该问题所作的试验，试验结果表明初始化诊断法可以有效地抑制通过热传导、热辐射、热对流方式对被测元器件相互间的影响，从而使诊断准确、迅速。     

Self-vibration mode-based diagnostics of damages in structural components

Vibrodiagnostics of elastic bodies based on their self-vibration modes as a diagnostic criterion is described. The results of experimental investigations to detect damages of elastic bodies are presented. __________ Translated from Problemy Prochnosti, No. 5, pp. 121–128, September–October, 2008.     

Influence of four types of data on diagnostic conceptualization in psychological testing.

"… judges were called upon to specify certain behaviors, characteristics and interests of a subject (a) on the basis of biographical facts alone and then (b) on the basis of either observation of roleplaying situations, interpretation of a Rorschach protocol, or study of a battery of objective and projective tests… . The judges… did not differ significantly in over-all accuracy regardless of the type of information on which their judgments were based… [and] roleplaying situations, and… the subject's Rorschach protocol… [permitted of] no greater accuracy… than had been achieved by study of biographical facts alone." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

基于模糊理论与覆盖技术的诊断模型

本文提出了一个基于模糊理论与覆盖技术的模糊覆盖集诊断模型,并解决了模糊覆盖程度的度量、广义节约准则的选择以及同时性诊断问题与序贯诊断问题的求解算法等关键技术.最后,讨论了诊断解的不完全覆盖问题.     

Production of horse radish peroxidase by plant cell culture

Calluses were induced from the stem and the root tissues of horse radish plantlets. Cell aggregate selections were carried out on them to obtain a cell line with higher peroxidase activity, and the isozyme patterns of the peroxidases from the cultured cells and their utility values as a clinical diagnostic reagent were investigated. The repetition of the cell aggregate selection resulted in increases in peroxidase activities in each generation of selection; about eleven fold in the 13th generation of selection from the stem tissues and about nine fold in the 13th generation from the root tissues. One of the cell lines (N5K6-S), originally derived from the stem tissues, after selectin showed a tenfold increase in peroxidase activity within two weeks of culture in a liquid medium. The value as a clinical diagnostic reagent of peroxidases extracted from the N5K6-S cells was estimated to be equivalent to those already commercially available for the same purpose. There were significant differences in the isoenzyme patterns of the peroxidases from root tissues and those from cultured cells. From these results, the possibility of commercial production of peroxidase utilizing plant tissue and cell culture techniques was discussed.     

Research with the Wechsler Intelligence Scales for Adults.

The past 5 years of research with the adult Wechsler scales is critically reviewed. Most investigators used the most recently developed scale, the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale. Topical coverage includes: comparative validity; short forms; special populations and applications; refinements and critiques; personality correlates; investigations of diagnostic value; special diagnostic groups; and scatter, patterns, and diagnosis. The 197 articles reviewed show that there is no diminution in the number of researches in the area. While the quality of the research has improved, too many investigators repeat the errors contained in earlier studies, despite the periodic publication of these critical reviews. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The usefulness of two scoring systems for the Bender Gestalt Test for identifying brain damage.

The Peek-Quast and Hain scoring systems for the Bender Gestalt Test (BGT) were employed in an attempt to discriminate 142 brain-damaged patients from 120 control patients. While 12 of the 30 individual signs and the Peek-Quast and Hain BGT scores differentiated between the groups at a better-than-chance level of significance, diagnostic errors were so frequent as to preclude the BGT's being useful for individual diagnosis. It was suggested that the use of the BGT may increase the number of diagnostic errors when the base rates are low. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)