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Open AccessMultisite randomised controlled trial of trauma-focused cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis to reduce post-traumatic stress symptoms in people with co-morbid post-traumatic stress disorder and psychosis, compared to treatment as usual: study protocol for the STAR (Study of Trauma And Recovery) trial
People with psychosis have high rates of trauma, with a post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) prevalence rate of approximately 15%, which exacerbates psychotic symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations. Pi...
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Open AccessDo Positive Psychology Interventions Impact on the Subjective Wellbeing and Depression of Clients? A Systematic Methodological Review
Mental health services are placing a greater emphasis on wellbeing and recovery. The current research investigated if positive psychology interventions (PPIs) increase peoples’ subjective wellbeing and reduce ...
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Feeding in Birds: Thriving in Terrestrial, Aquatic, and Aerial Niches
We start with a general description of the structure of the feeding apparatus in birds (Sect. 17.1), then we describe the biomechanics of those parts (Sect. 17.2), including a review of contemporary approaches to...
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Open AccessThe biomechanical origin of extreme wing allometry in hummingbirds
Flying animals of different masses vary widely in body proportions, but the functional implications of this variation are often unclear. We address this ambiguity by develo** an integrative allometric approa...
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Open AccessDesign and protocol for the Focusing on Clozapine Unresponsive Symptoms (FOCUS) trial: a randomised controlled trial
For around a third of people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, the condition proves to respond poorly to treatment with many typical and atypical antipsychotics. This is commonly referred to as treatment-resi...
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Open AccessRationale and protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis on reduced data gathering in people with delusions
The tendency to form conclusions based on limited evidence is known as the ‘jum** to conclusions’ (JTC) bias, and has been a much studied phenomena in individuals with psychosis. Previous reviews have suppor...
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Open AccessSpiderweb deformation induced by electrostatically charged insects
Capture success of spider webs has been associated with their microstructure, ornamentation and wind-induced vibrations. Indirect evidence suggests that statically charged objects can attract silk thread, but ...
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Ethanol and Methanol as Possible Odor Cues for Egyptian Fruit Bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus)
Frugivorous bats from the Old and New World use odor cues to locate and assess fruit condition. We hypothesized that Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus) use as odor cues those volatile compounds that incr...
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Directed aerial descent in canopy ants
Many tree-dwelling animals use gliding flight to get from tree to tree, for example flying squirrels, gliders and lemurs. Now similar behaviour has been observed in a wingless insect — the ants of tropical rai...
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Limits to vertebrate locomotor energetics suggested by hummingbirds hovering in heliox
OXYGEN consumption1 and muscle power output2 of hovering hummingbirds are among the highest recorded for vertebrates. Maximum performance of hummingbirds thus approaches the upper limits of vertebrate aerobic loc...
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Dispersal and speciation of skinks among archipelagos in the tropical Pacific Ocean
We examined the potential effects of geography on the distribution and speciation of skinks on tropical Pacific archipelagos. The entire tropical Pacific skink fauna was divided into continental (found also in...
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Quantitative analysis of oil removal from cotton fabrics through thein situ formation of microemulsions by solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance
Solubilization and subsequent removal of soybean oil from cotton fabrics through thein situ formation of microemulsions were evaluated by solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometry. Regions of wate...
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Implications of the late Palaeozoic oxygen pulse for physiology and evolution
The late Palaeozoic was marked by significant changes in atmospheric chemistry and biotic composition. Geochemical models suggest a marked increase and then decline of atmospheric oxygen and associated shifts ...
