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Report of Recommendations to the Iowa Department of Public Defense, June 30, 2004

State Audit Reports

Validation française d'un questionnaire de stress post-traumatique destiné aux parents d'enfants présentant un risque périnatal élevé = French validation of the "Perinatal PTSD Questionnaire" assessing parent's posttraumatic stress reactions following the birth of a high risk infant.

(from the journal abstract) Objectives: The birth of a high risk infant--such as a very or extremely premature infant--can represent an important traumatic experience for parents. R. DeMier, M. Hynan et al's "Perinatal PTSD Questionnaire" aims at exploring, retrospectively, parent's posttraumatic stress reactions following the birth of a high risk infant. This paper describes the French validation of this questionnaire. Methods: Fifty-two families with a very or extremely premature infant and 25 families with a full term infant responded to the "Perinatal PTSD Questionnaire" and the "Impact of Event Scale" when children were 18 months old. Results: Parents of high risk infants can present posttraumatic stress reactions such as intrusion, avoidance or arousal symptoms. The French version of the "Perinatal PTSD Questionnaire" has satisfactory psychometric properties. Conclusions: As posttraumatic reactions are not directly related to objective descriptions of the stressful event, it may be essential to the liaison child psychiatrist to consider individual posttraumatic reactions in order to optimise preventive intervention with the parents. A questionnaire should not replace a clinical interview, however it may represent a useful screening tool. Also, this questionnaire should be useful for research purposes. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved)

Differential contribution of transcription factors to Arabidopsis thaliana defense against Spodoptera littoralis

In response to insect herbivory, Arabidopsis plants activate the synthesis of the phytohor- mone jasmonate-isoleucine, which binds to a complex consisting of the receptor COI1 and JAZ repressors. Upon proteasome-mediated JAZ degradation, basic helix-loop-helix tran- scription factors (TFs) MYC2, MYC3, and MYC4 become activated and this results in the expression of defense genes. Although the jasmonate (JA) pathway is known to be essen- tial for the massive transcriptional reprogramming that follows herbivory, there is however little information on other TFs that are required for defense against herbivores and whether they contribute significantly to JA-dependent defense gene expression. By transcriptome profiling, we identified 41TFs that were induced in response to herbivory by the generalist Spodoptera littoralis. Among them, nine genes, including WRKY18, WRKY40, ANAC019, ANAC055, ZAT10, ZAT12, AZF2, ERF13, and RRTF1, were found to play a significant role in resistance to S. littoralis herbivory. Compared to the triple mutant myc234 that is as sensitive as coi1-1 to herbivory, knockout lines of these nine TFs were only partially more sensitive to S. littoralis but, however, some displayed distinct gene expression changes at the whole-genome level. Data thus reveal that MYC2, MYC3, and MYC4 are master regu- lators of Arabidopsis resistance to a generalist herbivore and identify new genes involved in insect defense.

Report of Recommendations to the Iowa Department of Public Defense, June 30, 2005

State Audit Reports

Reconciliation of metabolites and biochemical reactions for metabolic networks.

Genome-scale metabolic network reconstructions are now routinely used in the study of metabolic pathways, their evolution and design. The development of such reconstructions involves the integration of information on reactions and metabolites from the scientific literature as well as public databases and existing genome-scale metabolic models. The reconciliation of discrepancies between data from these sources generally requires significant manual curation, which constitutes a major obstacle in efforts to develop and apply genome-scale metabolic network reconstructions. In this work, we discuss some of the major difficulties encountered in the mapping and reconciliation of metabolic resources and review three recent initiatives that aim to accelerate this process, namely BKM-react, MetRxn and MNXref (presented in this article). Each of these resources provides a pre-compiled reconciliation of many of the most commonly used metabolic resources. By reducing the time required for manual curation of metabolite and reaction discrepancies, these resources aim to accelerate the development and application of high-quality genome-scale metabolic network reconstructions and models.

Department Public Defense Performance Report, FY 2007

Agency Performance Report

Audit report on the Iowa Department of Public Defense for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on the Iowa Department of Public Defense for the year ended June 30, 2006

Wireless E911 Emergency Communications Fund Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management Division of the Iowa Department of Public Defense independent auditor's reports, basic financial statements and supplementary information, June 30, 2006.

Audit report on the Wireless E911 Emergency Communication Fund of the Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management Division of the Iowa Department of Public Defense for the year ended June 30, 2006

Wireless E911 Emergency Communications Fund Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management Division of the Iowa Department of Public Defense independent auditor's reports, basic financial statements and supplementary information, June 30, 2007.

Audit report on the Wireless E911 Emergency Communication Fund of the Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management Division of the Iowa Department of Public Defense for the year ended June 30, 2007

Psychothérapie et mécanismes de défense = Psychotherapy and defense mechanisms

Dans cet article, les auteurs mettent en dialogue deux facettes des mécanismes de défense en situation psychothérapeutique : la psychopathologie et le changement. Pour commencer, les instruments de mesure les plus utilisés sont présentés, avec un accent sur les échelles d'évaluation par un juge externe. Les conceptions de Vaillant et de Perry sont présentées et discutées. L'article se continue avec une synthèse des travaux empiriques de recherche en psychothérapie se focalisant sur les changements des mécanismes de défense au cours des psychothérapies, principalement d'orientation psychanalytique. Une réflexion autour du lien avec le concept d'alliance thérapeutique, ainsi qu'avec celui du coping complète cette synthèse. Des travaux récents concernant des psychothérapies de courte et de longue durée sont ensuite abordés. Les défenses sont également discutées du point de vue de la psychopathologie, à travers deux exemples d'études empiriques mettant en évidence des spécificités dans des troubles psychiatriques. Les retombées de ces résultats de recherche pour la pratique psychanalytique sont mentionnées tout au long de cet article de synthèse. With the present article, we aim to develop a dialogue between two aspects of defense mechanisms in psychotherapy : psychopathology and change. First, the most frequently used instruments will be presented, with a particular focus on observer-rated scales, and Vaillant's and Perry's models are sketched and discussed. Then, we review empirical research on changes in defense mechanisms over the course of psychotherapy, mainly psychoanalytic. An elaboration on the links with the concept of therapeutic alliance and the concept of coping completes this overview. Recent studies on change in short- and long-term psychotherapy are then discussed. Defense mechanisms are then examined from a psychopathology point of view, using two examples of empirical studies pointing to distinctive characteristics of mental disorders. Clinical implications for psychoanalytic practice are discussed throughout the article.

Report on the Iowa Department of Public Defense for the year ended June 30, 2007

Report on the Iowa Department of Public Defense for the year ended June 30, 2007

Neural control of vascular reactions: impact of emotion and attention.

This study investigated the neural regions involved in blood pressure reactions to negative stimuli and their possible modulation by attention. Twenty-four healthy human subjects (11 females; age = 24.75 ± 2.49 years) participated in an affective perceptual load task that manipulated attention to negative/neutral distractor pictures. fMRI data were collected simultaneously with continuous recording of peripheral arterial blood pressure. A parametric modulation analysis examined the impact of attention and emotion on the relation between neural activation and blood pressure reactivity during the task. When attention was available for processing the distractor pictures, negative pictures resulted in behavioral interference, neural activation in brain regions previously related to emotion, a transient decrease of blood pressure, and a positive correlation between blood pressure response and activation in a network including prefrontal and parietal regions, the amygdala, caudate, and mid-brain. These effects were modulated by attention; behavioral and neural responses to highly negative distractor pictures (compared with neutral pictures) were smaller or diminished, as was the negative blood pressure response when the central task involved high perceptual load. Furthermore, comparing high and low load revealed enhanced activation in frontoparietal regions implicated in attention control. Our results fit theories emphasizing the role of attention in the control of behavioral and neural reactions to irrelevant emotional distracting information. Our findings furthermore extend the function of attention to the control of autonomous reactions associated with negative emotions by showing altered blood pressure reactions to emotional stimuli, the latter being of potential clinical relevance.