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Includes a directory of 100 birds, describing their migration, habitat, scientific name, and physical characteristics.
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Spiral and near-spiral growth patterns of the peripheral crossed-lamellar shell microstructure of the bivalve Corbicula cf. fluminea have been discovered. This is the first report of spiral microstructures outside of nacreous and "foliated calcite" deposits. The spiral growth surface in this corbiculid is underlain by a conical crossed-lamellar microstructure. This form of lath deposition is usually associated with high concentrations of organic material located beneath the undertucked periostracum along the valve's periphery. These structures can offer the bivalve additional resistance against predators that enter the valves through the shell's edge. Similar spiral structures have not been found in all "white" forms of North American Corbicula, in the "purple" form of North American Corbicula, nor in the corbiculids Polymesoda caroliniana and P. (Geloina) erosa.
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Trigant Burrow and Robert Mearns Yerkes were two important behavioral scientists whose papers have recently been processed in Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. Burrow was a pioneer American psychoanalyst and initiator of group analysis, while Yerkes was a prominent psychologist who is best known for his intelligence testing experiments in World War I and his studies of primate behavior. The paper discusses the lives and careers of both men; the research value of the two collections; the processing, arranging, and describing of the papers; and concludes with thoughts on access and the importance of finding aids to researchers and the institution that produces them. © 1986 by The Haworth Press, Inc.
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The Lane Medical Library staff, working with a physician at Stanford University Medical Center, has developed a successful end user MEDLINE training program. 80th DIALOG and the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) MEDLARS system are taught. Upon completion of the NLM course, students are eligible to receive academic credit and an NLM password. Several factors are identified as having been crucial to this success: (1) a strong working alliance between library staff and an enthusiastic physician, (2) early and ongoing support from influential leaders in the medical center, (3) minimization of barriers confronting potential end user searchers, and (4) strong emphasis on demonstration and hands-on practice. Costs and personnel support to achieve and maintain the program are discussed, and future plans outlined. © 1986 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved.
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This paper describes an approach to cognitive assessment that involves a synthesis of the traditional psychometric approach and the more recent information-processing approaches. In this combined approach, psychometric tests arc supplemented by tasks adapted from information-processing research. The paper focuses on the use of the approach with disabled readers, although the approach may be generalized to many different populations. The Test of Syllable and Phoneme Counting, a measure of awareness of the sound structure of speech, is described, as an example of an information-processing task that would be useful with younger disabled readers. Guidelines for using information-processing measures are also discussed. © 1986 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved.
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The Mini‐Mult and MMPI were administered in random order to 60 blind male veterans admitted to a residential rehabilitation program. Mini‐Mult scores predicted the presence or absence of MMPI pathology in 81.7% of the cases. Correlations between the individual Mini‐Mult and MMPI scales were significant at the p < .01 level, but not of sufficient magnitude to permit their interchangeability or to allow for profile diagnosis on the basis of Mini‐Mult scores. Analysis of the false negatives raises questions about the clinical significance of an abnormal MMPI in the population studied. The results support the value of the Mini‐Mult as a screening device, but not as a substitute for a detailed psychological assessment of the blind. Copyright © 1986 Wiley Periodicals, Inc., A Wiley Company
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The relation between premorbid social competence and outcome was examined in 448 (228 male and 220 female) first-admission, nonschizophrenic, state-hospital patients. For both sexes, higher social competence was related to more favorable outcome as reflected in shorter initial hospitalizations and shorter rehospitalizations. Consistent with a developmental formulation, these results provide further evidence that the relation between premorbid competence and outcome is not unique to schizophrenia but can be found for patients of both sexes across a range of diagnoses. © 1986 American Psychological Association.
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