一种4自由度混合型并联平台机器人

提出一种用水平导轨上4个滑块作为原动件的混合型4自由度并联平台机器人，该机器人的动平台能够实现两个方向的移动以及绕两个方向轴线的转动。研究了该机器人的运动学建模方法，给出了运动学正、逆解，用Grassman几何法分析了该机器人在其工作空间内不会出现奇异形位。基于该4自由度并联平台机器人可以非常方便地开发具有大工作空间的5轴联动数控机床。

鲁西晚中生代基性脉岩的成因和源区性质：岩石学和地球化学

本文从岩石学和地球化学方面对鲁西地区淄博盆地几个岩区的基性脉岩的成因和源区性质进行了探讨。脉岩的K-Ar年龄(72．2～116．3 Ma)表明其为晚中生代(白垩纪)岩浆作用的产物。主量元素显示该脉岩总体属钙碱性系列。微量元素特征表明脉岩为交代富集地幔部分熔融作用的产物，成岩过程可能同时经历了橄榄石、单斜辉石、Ti-Fe氧化物以及少量斜长石的分离结晶作用。Pb同位素组成：^208Pb／^204Pb=36．308～38．329；^207Pb／^204Pb=15．170～15．632；^206Pb／^204Pb=16．658～18．470，可以和下地壳组成相比，暗示成岩过程中存在大量下地壳物质的参与。岩浆在构造上受控于燕山造山带坍塌和沂沭断裂带(郯庐断裂山东段)的活动(左行平移和伸展)，但在上升侵位过程中没有遭受地壳物质的混染，且具有大陆边缘弧玄武岩的特性。这暗示岩浆早期鲁西地区存在古大洋板块(苏-鲁洋)的俯冲作用(即古俯冲作用)。

Code warriors and code-a-phobes: a study in attitude and pair programming

Thomas, L., Ratcliffe, M., and Robertson, A. 2003. Code warriors and code-a-phobes: a study in attitude and pair programming. SIGCSE Bull. 35, 1 (Jan. 2003), 363-367.

‘It was almost like the opposite of what I needed’: a qualitative exploration of client experiences of unhelpful therapy

Background: The issue of unhelpful and harmful therapy outcome has received an increasing amount of attention within the research literature in recent years. However, little research exists on the client's perspective of what constitutes unhelpful therapy. Aim: The aim of this study was to explore clients’ experiences of unhelpful therapy. Method: Semi-structured interviews were carried out with ten therapists who, as clients, experienced unhelpful therapy. Interview transcripts were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Findings: Participants recounted therapy episodes characterised by an absence of negotiation, collaboration and care; pivotal moments when they knew that they would not return; and ongoing negative effects. Conclusions: The findings of this study have implications for training and strategies for supporting clients who have been harmed by therapy.

Carta de color.

26 hojas : fotografías a color.

The missionary nature of the church; a survey of the Biblical theology of mission.

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A cross-site, comparative effectiveness study of an integrated HIV and substance use treatment program.

Co-occurrence of HIV and substance abuse is associated with poor outcomes for HIV-related health and substance use. Integration of substance use and medical care holds promise for HIV patients, yet few integrated treatment models have been reported. Most of the reported models lack data on treatment outcomes in diverse settings. This study examined the substance use outcomes of an integrated treatment model for patients with both HIV and substance use at three different clinics. Sites differed by type and degree of integration, with one integrated academic medical center, one co-located academic medical center, and one co-located community health center. Participants (n=286) received integrated substance use and HIV treatment for 12 months and were interviewed at 6-month intervals. We used linear generalized estimating equation regression analysis to examine changes in Addiction Severity Index (ASI) alcohol and drug severity scores. To test whether our treatment was differentially effective across sites, we compared a full model including site by time point interaction terms to a reduced model including only site fixed effects. Alcohol severity scores decreased significantly at 6 and 12 months. Drug severity scores decreased significantly at 12 months. Once baseline severity variation was incorporated into the model, there was no evidence of variation in alcohol or drug score changes by site. Substance use outcomes did not differ by age, gender, income, or race. This integrated treatment model offers an option for treating diverse patients with HIV and substance use in a variety of clinic settings. Studies with control groups are needed to confirm these findings.

Knowledge and perceptions among overweight and obese employees about lifestyle-related health benefit changes.

We investigated perceptions among overweight and obese state employees about changes to health insurance that were designed to reduce the scope of health benefits for employees who are obese or who smoke. Before implementation of health benefit plan changes, 658 state employees who were overweight (ie, those with a body mass index [BMI] of 25-29.9) or obese (ie, those with a BMI of > or = 30) enrolled in a weight-loss intervention study were asked about their attitudes and beliefs concerning the new benefit plan changes. Thirty-one percent of employees with a measured BMI of 40 or greater self-reported a BMI of less than 40, suggesting they were unaware that their current BMI would place them in a higher-risk benefit plan. More than half of all respondents reported that the new benefit changes would motivate them to make behavioral changes, but fewer than half felt confident in their ability to make changes. Respondents with a BMI of 40 or greater were more likely than respondents in lower BMI categories to oppose the new changes focused on obesity (P < .001). Current smokers were more likely than former smokers and nonsmokers to oppose the new benefit changes focused on tobacco use (P < .01). Participants represented a sample of employees enrolled in a weight-loss study, limiting generalizability to the larger population of state employees. Benefit plan changes that require employees who are obese and smoke to pay more for health care may motivate some, but not all, individuals to change their behaviors. Since confidence to lose weight was lowest among individuals in the highest BMI categories, more-intense intervention options may be needed to achieve desired health behavior changes.

A theory of hypoellipticity and unique ergodicity for semilinear stochastic PDEs

We present a theory of hypoellipticity and unique ergodicity for semilinear parabolic stochastic PDEs with "polynomial" nonlinearities and additive noise, considered as abstract evolution equations in some Hilbert space. It is shown that if Hörmander's bracket condition holds at every point of this Hilbert space, then a lower bound on the Malliavin covariance operatorμt can be obtained. Informally, this bound can be read as "Fix any finite-dimensional projection on a subspace of sufficiently regular functions. Then the eigenfunctions of μt with small eigenvalues have only a very small component in the image of Π." We also show how to use a priori bounds on the solutions to the equation to obtain good control on the dependency of the bounds on the Malliavin matrix on the initial condition. These bounds are sufficient in many cases to obtain the asymptotic strong Feller property introduced in [HM06]. One of the main novel technical tools is an almost sure bound from below on the size of "Wiener polynomials," where the coefficients are possibly non-adapted stochastic processes satisfying a Lips chitz condition. By exploiting the polynomial structure of the equations, this result can be used to replace Norris' lemma, which is unavailable in the present context. We conclude by showing that the two-dimensional stochastic Navier-Stokes equations and a large class of reaction-diffusion equations fit the framework of our theory.

Preface [Special Issue: International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimisation (CO2000)]

Preface [Special Issue containing a selection of papers presented at the International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimisation (CO2000) held at the University of Greenwich, London, from 12-14 July 2000.