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Veterans with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder experience high levels of disability and poor community outcome, and these poor functional outcomes constitute a major public health concern. The treatment of schizophrenia spectrum disorders has shifted fundamentally from a focus on symptom reduction to a focus on recovery and improving aspects of functioning. Needed improvements in community outcome for patients with these disorders will not occur simply through better control of clinical symptoms. Instead, it is necessary to find new treatments that address the key determinants of poor functional outcome, including social cognition. Both basic (non-social) cognition and social cognition are considered key determinants of functional outcome for schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. Basic cognition includes the domains of: learning and memory, vigilance / attention, speed of processing, reasoning and problem solving, and working memory. Social cognition generally refers to mental operations that underlie social interactions, including perceiving, interpreting, managing, and generating responses to socially relevant stimuli, including the intentions and behaviors of others. As part of the investigators' previous Merit grant, they have developed a training program for social cognition and are in the process of validating it. Initial results suggest that the program improves performance on measures of social cognition and functional capacity.
In this study, the investigators will evaluate whether adding an in vivo component (training activities that occur in the community) to the current social cognition intervention facilitates generalization of training effects to community outcome and subjective satisfaction. Outcome measures of social cognition and functional capacity will be examined during the 12 week training program, and durability of benefits will be assessed at a 3-month follow up. Generalization to community functioning and subjective satisfaction will be assessed at the end of training and at the 3-month follow up. The investigators will enroll 105 patients across the 5 years of the study with random assignment to training group (social cognition intervention with in vivo exercises, social cognition intervention without in vivo exercises and control). Subjects will receive assessments at baseline, 6 weeks (mid-point), completion of training (12 weeks), and the 3-month follow up.
Behavioral: social cognitive training with in vivo augmentation
Behavioral: social cognitive training
Behavioral: non-social skills training
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Augmenting Social Cognitive Intervention for Veterans With Schizophrenia
- MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery (MCCB) [ Time Frame: Baseline, 6 weeks, 12 weeks, and 3 months. ]
- Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT) [ Time Frame: baseline, 6 weeks, 12 weeks, and 3 months. ]
- The Awareness of Social Inference Test (TASIT) [ Time Frame: baseline, 6 weeks, 12 weeks, and 3 months. ]
- Profile of Nonverbal Sensitivity (PONS) [ Time Frame: baseline, 6 weeks, 12 weeks, and 3 months. ]
- The Maryland Assessment of Social Competence (MASC). [ Time Frame: Baseline, 6 weeks, 12 weeks, and 3 months. ]
|Study Start Date:
|February 2011
|Study Completion Date:
|December 2015
|Primary Completion Date:
|December 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Arm 1: vivo augmentation
social cognitive training with in vivo augmentation
Behavioral: social cognitive training with in vivo augmentation
24 sessions of social cognitive training plus 6 sessions of in vivo exercises
Active Comparator: Arm 2: social cognitive
social cognitive training
Behavioral: social cognitive training
30 sessions of social cognitive training without in vivo exercises
Active Comparator: Arm 3: non-social skills
non-social skills training
Behavioral: non-social skills training
30 sessions of skills training that has no specific social content
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 60 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
All patients must be diagnosed with Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, or Psychosis NOS according to DSM-IV criteria. In addition, the subjects will meet the following criteria:
- Between 18 and 60 years of age
- Estimated premorbid IQ > 70 (based on reading ability)
- Understand spoken English sufficiently to comprehend testing procedures
- Clinically stable (e.g., no inpatient hospitalization in the 8 weeks prior to enrollment, no significant changes in medication in the 4 weeks prior to enrollment, and none anticipated for the 3 months of participation)
- In sufficient health to be able to walk outdoors unaided for at least 15 minutes.
Exclusion Criteria:
- No clinically significant neurological disease as determined by medical history
- No history of serious head injury (e.g., loss of consciousness longer than 1 hour)
- No physical, cognitive, or language impairment of such severity as to adversely affect the validity of data
- No evidence of drug or alcohol dependence in the past six months, and not intoxicated at time of testing based on urine toxicology screen and saliva alcohol test strip. Subjects who test positive will not be disqualified but instead will be asked to return for testing on a different day. However, subjects who test positive on 3 consecutive occasions will be disqualified from the study.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01267019
|United States, California
|VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, West Los Angeles, CA
|West Los Angeles, California, United States, 90073
|Principal Investigator:
|Michael F Green, PhD
|VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, West Los Angeles, CA
|Responsible Party:
|VA Office of Research and Development
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01267019 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|December 23, 2010
|Last Updated:
|April 22, 2016
Keywords provided by VA Office of Research and Development:
social cognition
training intervention
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on February 23, 2017


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The proposed revision for Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—Fifth Edition (DSM-5) represents a shift from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR). As the proposed DSM-5 criteria require a higher minimum number of symptoms to be present compared to DSM-IV-TR, there have been some concerns about the impact that this will have on diagnostic outcomes. Therefore, the current study aimed to compare diagnostic outcomes using both DSM-IV-TR and DSM-5 criteria for 132 children. Of the 111 participants who received an ASD diagnosis under DSM-IV-TR, 26 did not meet DSM-5 criteria. The majority of these had received a DSM-IV-TR PDD-NOS diagnosis. Implications of the results and the proposed DSM-5 changes to the ASD criteria are discussed.


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Quick customization of the WPMU Wordpress Plugin: Affiliates
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The WPMU plugin "Affiliates" has some great functionality built in. However, many of the functions are not available via shortcodes or automated through the WP admin dashboard.
For example, there are several shortcodes which define and display functions from elsewhere in the plugin. There are also a few functions which are not available as shortcodes. The code is already written, they just need to be defined in the [url removed, login to view]
Additionally, I would like to call the hash function that generates a cookie hash from the users section of the wp dashboard.
I am looking for this project to be done tonight since it is SO easy. If you have the skills, this is less than an hours worth of work. Don't bid unless you know what you are doing. I will reject outrageous bids and people who obviously auto post.
This is the code from the plugin main file. As you can see, it calls the short odes and the function php, so these can be referenced easily:
here are the db rows in wp_usermeta for user # 9, named georgejetson:
446 9 enable_affiliate yes
447 9 affiliate_paypal
448 9 affiliate_reference georgejetson-44
449 9 affiliate_hash aff5cad61afb6ef626590c5c260fb41e437
446 is yes or no
447 is found in the database in another table/field
448, is a number after username-
449, the plugin has code already that I think uses MD5 and salt to create the hash here
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A family who lost everything in an explosion in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, have said they are finding it hard to come to terms with what happened, four weeks after the blast.
The suspected gas blast in Rosehill Street destroyed three properties, and an elderly woman was rescued from one of the wrecked houses.
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ST. LOUIS -- This time, the San Francisco Giants survived a ninth-inning scare.
Two days after the Giants blew a four-run lead against St. Louis, the Cardinals had the tying runs on base Sunday and sent up pinch-hitters Larry Walker and Albert Pujols. But Armando Benitez struck out So Taguchi to preserve a 4-2 win.
"They had a shot at winning the game in the ninth," Giants manager Felipe Alou said. "They sent Walker and Pujols up to the plate with the potential tying and winning runs, but today they didn't take advantage. But the other night they did."
Jason Schmidt allowed four hits in seven shutout innings, and the Giants capitalized on four St. Louis errors.
Scott Seabol's bases-empty, two-out error at third base in the fourth led to three runs, hours after the Cardinals learned that All-Star third baseman Scott Rolen will have shoulder surgery and miss the rest of the season.
Schmidt (10-6) struck out three and walked two in his third straight win. Every Giants starter except J.T. Snow and Mike Matheny had a hit.
Benitez made his second appearance after missing nearly four months with an injured right hamstring. It was his fifth save in seven chances, but his first since April 23.
With two on and none out, he struck out Walker and got David Eckstein to fly out. Pujols, pinch hitting on a rare day off, singled home a run for his NL-best 96th RBI, before Taguchi struck out.
On Friday night, Tyler Walker gave up four straight hits to open the ninth in a game the Cardinals rallied to win 5-4.
Despite missing a number of injured starters in the second half of the season, St. Louis has maintained a double-digit lead over second-place Houston in the NL Central because its reserves have played well -- except for Sunday.
Schmidt said facing a makeshift lineup is, in some ways, harder than facing the regulars.
"That can be the worst thing, when you get a bunch of guys up there you haven't seen a lot," he said.
The Cardinals didn't get a runner to third base off Schmidt and the four errors tied a season high for the team that ranks third in the National League in fielding percentage.
Filling in for Rolen, Seabol struck out twice and was robbed of a double leading off the second when his liner down the third-base line landed between the legs of umpire Eric Cooper. Jumping to get out of the way, Cooper called the ball foul. Replays clearly showed the ball landing fair by a couple of inches.
Seabol's error came on a lazy chopper off the bat of Moises Alou with two outs and nobody on in the fourth. Alou was barely running as Seabol gloved the ball and threw well above the outstretched glove of first baseman John Mabry.
"You give them an extra out, which we did, and you pay for it," Cardinals manager Tony La Russa said.
Seabol called it a "stupid play."
"It was bad. It turned out to be the play that cost us the game. It's a stupid play and I've got to do better than that," he said.
Ray Durham followed with a single off starter Jeff Suppan (12-9) and Pedro Feliz hit a ground-rule double to make it 1-0. Edgardo Alfonzo blooped a single to right to make it 3-0.
The Giants added a run in the seventh on an RBI single by Randy Winn.
Seabol drove in the first St. Louis run with an eighth-inning single.
Suppan pitched six innings, allowing four runs -- one earned -- and seven hits. He struck out four and walked two.
The only opening-day starters in Sunday's lineup for St. Louis were shortstop Eckstein and center fielder Jim Edmonds, and Edmonds lasted only half the game -- he was ejected in the middle of the fifth while arguing that his throw to second got Omar Vizquel, who went to second after Edmonds overran his bloop single.
Besides the errors by Seabol and Edmonds, second baseman Abraham Nunez allowed a liner to glance off his glove in the fourth and right fielder Taguchi whiffed while fielding a single in the second, allowing Alou to advance to second.
Retired outfielder Ray Lankford, the career home run leader at Busch Stadium with 123, tore down No. 16 in the countdown of games remaining at the stadium, which gives way to a new ballpark in 2006. ... Sunday's game was the last at Busch Stadium for the Giants. San Francisco was 102-124 in the regular season and 3-3 in the postseason (1-3 in the 1987 NL championship series and 2-0 in the 2002 NLCS). ... Cardinals manager Tony La Russa needs two wins to match Sparky Anderson for third on the all-time list (2,194). ... Alou leads the majors with a .417 average in day games.


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It's hard not to suspect a degree of political opportunism in the Prime Minister's decision to turn up the heat on internet companies over images of child abuse. Taking a swipe at Google – a sitting duck in PR terms following the storm over its derisory tax payments – David Cameron warns of tough new laws if big search companies don't block access to what he has called depraved and disgusting images. And Google has been quick to come to heel.
It sounds like game, set and match to Mr Cameron. After all, except for a small, sick and malignant minority, everyone agrees that generating or collecting sexually explicit images of children is a depraved activity.
It is, however, worth noting that it is illegal already and that the police devote significant time and resources to hunting down merchants in child abuse. If they needed more resources, they should say so, as public opinion would ensure they got them.
It is also worth looking at the practicality and implications of what Mr Cameron wants, which is that search companies should block internet access to a blacklist of terms to be drawn up and regularly updated by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre.
It sounds commendable, until you remember that the introduction of a blacklist is not likely to deter the determined fraternity of child abuse addicts who clearly do not rely on tapping in a few obvious-sounding combinations to their keyboards in order to get hold of the material they want.
It will be easy for those involved in trading such images to come up with new, innocuous-looking verbal combinations that will serve as gateways to the sites in question. At most, a blacklist of terms will deter some confused and curious individuals from pursuing their wrong-headed searches. That is all well and good. However, these pathetic people are the least threatening element in this twilight world.
At the same time, the threatened introduction of censorship to the internet sets a disturbing precedent, calling to mind the blocks on certain terms that the Chinese and other authoritarian governments impose. It is hardly likely that Britain will go from trying to block internet access to pornographic sites to blocking access to religious and political material, as is the case in China. Still, it is a step in the wrong direction and not one that any defender of civil liberties should welcome.
Meanwhile questions remain about the timing of this campaign. On the surface, the Prime Minister has been galvanised into action by his recent emotive meeting with the parents of Tia Sharp and April Jones, whose killers stored caches of sexually explicit images.
Still, it is difficult not to see the sudden fit of moral indignation as containing a political element. Taking a pot shot at internet companies over this issue wrong-foots Labour – who can hardly fail to back Mr Cameron's demand for greater state regulation, while finding their own campaign against Mr Cameron's adviser, Lynton Crosby, suddenly sidelined.
At same time, a war on child abuse will mollify backbench Tory MPs who still feel angry about Mr Cameron's support for gay marriage and can reassure their constituents that the Tory party leader is now sounding the trumpet on behalf of the kind of moral crusade that they feel much more comfortable with.
And of course it will do Mr Cameron no harm to cross swords with Google at a time when he is accused of caving in to lobbyists of big corporations. He can, therefore, hardly lose on this one – even if, as is likely, his apparent success in bringing the internet giants to heel does little to curb the evil he decries.Reuse content


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No matter how much we try to compare players to him, there will never be another Michael Jordan. The way he transcended the game of basketball onto a global platform is unique to that of any individual athlete. Michael Jordan is the reason many of us love the game of basketball today. But aside from us basketball junkies, Jordan did the exact same for sneakerheads across the globe. With his legendary career & Tinker Hatfield's mastermind design skills, Michael Jordan changed the shoe game forever. Through a span of about 15 years Jordan Brand emerged as the pinnacle of sneaker excellence.
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The Wilmer Eye Institute is one of the world leaders in vision research. Its research programs range from basic/fundamental studies on the mechanisms of eye development and vision, to studies of the genetics and pathogenesis of eye disease, to translational studies, to clinical trials, to epidemiological and international studies of the world-wide causes of vision loss and disability. Wilmer has been fortunate to have been funded through an NEI Core Grant for Vision Research for over thirty years, and this funding has provided the infrastructure and core support for a wide variety of these studies. The support that the Core grant has provided has been a tremendous aid in facilitating Wilmer's diverse research programs and it has also encouraged a number of collaborative research projects. In this competitive renewal application, we are seeking support to continue these essential infrastructure and core activities. We are proposing both continuation of past services, but also modifying and re-directing some cores so as to better adapt to changing research needs, technologies, and priorities. The modules for which funding is requested are cores for Imaging, Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, Animal Modeling, and an Instrument Shop. Instead of having a separate computer module as we had in the past, information technology support is incorporated into the specific cores for which it is needed. We feel that this modernized module structure, together with a rigorous administration support structure, will best serve and facilitate the vision research programs at Wilmer.
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Minimum-Cost Portfolio Insurance
Minimum-cost portfolio insurance is an investment strategy that enables an investor to avoid losses while still capturing gains of a payoff of a portfolio at minimum cost. If derivative markets are complete, then holding a put option in conjunction with the reference portfolio provides minimum-cost insurance at arbitrary arbitrage-free security prices. We derive a characterization of incomplete derivative markets in which the minimum-cost portfolio insurance is independent of arbitrage-free security prices. Our characterization relies on the theory of lattice-subspaces. We establish that a necessary and sufficient condition for price-independent minimum-cost portfolio insurance is that the asset span is a lattice-subspace of the space of contingent claims. If the asset span is a lattice-subspace, then the minimum-cost portfolio insurance can be easily calculated as a portfolio that replicates the targeted payoff in a subset of states which is the same for every reference portfolio.
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Book DescriptionThe course of modern European History has been influenced greatly by the challenge of Communism. In theory it promised equality and freedom for all. In practice it spawned inegalitarian, authoritarian and, in some instances, monstrous regimes in the former Soviet Union and East Europe. This study re-examines the history of European Communism from its theoretical origins in the work of Marx and Engels in the mid-nineteenth century until the dramatic collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Ronald Kowalski reappraises Marx's thinking and points out that his intellectual legacy was open to a variety of interpretations often at odds with his own views. Kowalski also questions Lenin's professed Marxist credentials and the extent to which his additions to Marxist theory were central to the key issue in the history of Communism: why did the egalitarian and libertarian dreams raised by the Russian Revolution degenerate into Stalinist authoritarianism and terror? Furthermore, why did Communism fail in West Europe while it was able to come to power in East Europe? Concluding with an analysis of the revolutions which swept away the Communist regimes in East Europe and two years later in the Soviet Union itself, this is an essential introduction to the history of a political force that dominated parts of Europe until the end of the twentieth century.
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Book DetailsISBN: 9780333684580
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Publish Date: 13-Apr-2006
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Communism has had a profound impact on Europe. In theory, it promised equality and freedom for all. In practice, it spawned inegalitarian, authoritarian and, in some instances, monstrous regimes in East Europe. Ronald Kowalski re-examines the history of European Communism and explains why it failed to come to power in West Europe.
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A collection of documents and sources, this volume reviews the ever-changing debate on the nature of the Russian revolution. Perspectives arising from the final collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 are also incorporated into the text.
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RONALD KOWALSKI was one time Senior Lecturer in Contemporary European History at the University of Worcester, UK.
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BRASLETON, Ga., April 18 - The TRV Motorsport team of Jeret Schroeder and Tom Volk were as high as fifth at one point in the American Le Mans Series race at Road Atlanta Sunday afternoon, and with 15 minutes to go in the 2-hour, 45-minute enduro the Toledo, Ohio-based team was a solid eighth overall. Unfortunately the Supreme Exhaust System Products/Purity Farms Chevy Riley & Scott No. 95 developed an electrical problem at that point, fell off the pace and had to make several unscheduled pitstops. The team ended up 24th overall and 14th in the top class (Prototype) in the race, which was called the Grand Prix at Road Atlanta presented by Lease Plan.
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WASHINGTON, D.C.— Today Chairman Miller will introduce the VA Accountability Act, which would give the Department of Veterans Affairs secretary sweeping new authority to fire corrupt or incompetent employees for cause.
The bill comes in response to VA's long and well documented history of not holding problem employees accountable. This trend is underscored by the fact that in response to the VA scandal, which centered around medical appointment wait time manipulation, VA has not fired any employees at all for wait time manipulation. In fact, VA has only attempted to discipline eight people for wait time manipulation. At the epicenter of the scandal in Phoenix, two facility leaders have been on paid leave for nearly a year.
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"IAVA supports Chairman Miller's legislation that gives VA Secretary Bob McDonald increased authority to remove employees that are not serving our veterans to the standards they have earned. This expands upon the legislation that increased accountability at the Department through the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014, which IAVA supported to enact reforms to ensure our veterans can receive the highest level of care possible." – IAVA Chief Policy Officer Matthew Miller
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VA official out as head of troubled Reno office
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March 31, 2015
Nashville VA employee resigned before facing disciplinary measures
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What ever ye taught us,
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Ignoring other problems that arises.
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