...ARTICLE IN PRESS Behaviour Research and Therapy 46 (2008) 836– 844 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Behaviour Research and Therapy journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/brat Prevalence and correlates of hoarding behavior in a community-based sample Jack F. Samuels a,Ã, O. Joseph Bienvenu a, Marco A. Grados a, Bernadette Cullen a, Mark A. Riddle a, Kung-yee Liang b, William W. Eaton c, Gerald Nestadt a a Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 N. Wolfe Street, Meyer 109, Baltimore, MD 21287-7228, USA Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA c Department of Mental Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA b a r t i c l e in fo Article history: Received 14 February 2008 Received in revised form 7 April 2008 Accepted 8 April 2008 Keywords: Hoarding Prevalence Risk factors Personality disorders Comorbidity abstract Little is known about the prevalence and correlates of hoarding behavior in the community. We estimated the prevalence and evaluated correlates of hoarding in 742 participants in the Hopkins Epidemiology of Personality Disorder Study. The prevalence of hoarding was nearly 4% (5.3%, weighted) and was greater in older than younger age groups, greater in men than women, and inversely related to household income. Hoarding was associated with alcohol dependence;...
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...Literature Review There is a great deal of evidence based literature on many of the symptoms associated with the term hoarding and its relation to trauma. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM IV, listed hoarding as a symptom of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), known as “compulsive hoarding” (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). However, throughout the years research has shown “compulsive hoarding” did not respond to OCD treatments, thus redefining hoarding in the [DSM-V-TR] as a psychiatric disorder (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Until more recently hoarding was a very secretive and shameful disorder. Research suggest that 3-5% of the U.S. population suffers from a hoarding disorder. To put this into perspective, the state of Delaware has 900, 000 residences, 3-5% have hoarding disorder, which amounts to 18, 000- 45, 000 individuals. There are 300 million people in the United States, of that population 6-15 million people are affected by a hoarding disorder. (Cohn, 2012). To address and conceptualize Susan’s co-morbidities of her psychopathological mental distress and manifestations of behaviors I will use three evidence-based theoretical frameworks as...
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...Courtney Hottowe October 23, 2012 Com 345.002 Informative Speech Outline General Purpose: To Inform Specific Purpose: Create awareness among the audience Central Idea: Animal Abuse is a constantly growing issue and today I am going to provide you with some information on where it stems from and how to prevent it. Introduction I. Attention Material a. “We are coming up on our 6 month anniversary of the day we brought Lola home from Homeward Pet. She is an amazing addition to our family; I cannot imagine a better dog for us. We are so grateful for our experience with Homeward Pets, our lives are changed forever.” That is a direct quote from the Miles family, who adopted their dog from an animal shelter. b. Raise your hand if you have had either a pet dog or cat at one point in your life. c. About 62% of households in the United States has a pet, this includes 78.2 million dogs and 86.4 million cats are owned in the United States. d. Based on those statistics, think about this. According to the yearly animal abuse report, of the 1160 reported cases in 2010, 64.5% involved Dogs and 18% involved cats. II. Orienting Material e. Central Idea: Animal abuse is a constantly growing issue, and today I am going to provide you with some information on where it stems from, as well as how to prevent it. f. The slide show that I will show may be graphic, but are pictures from real life abusive households. These pictures are not meant...
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...ranging between 9.5% and 11.5% (Deutsche Bundesbank) with almost 39 million people employed all over the country (see appendix 2). Until the beginning of 2003, the governmental support to unemployed people consisted of three main patterns: unemployment insurance, unemployment assistance, and supplementary social welfare. Supporting these three pillars, Germany was suffering high costs with long-term unemployment benefits, low job acceptance rate and bigger proportion of low-skilled labor. Between 2003 and 2006, the German federal government implemented series of reforms aiming to impact the supply side of labor by increasing incentives for unemployed workers to accept jobs and reducing the level and duration of their benefits. With this research paper, we will analyze the impact of these reforms in the unemployment rate. The Agenda 2010: The agenda 2010 was a series of reforms organized and executed by the federal government SPD and B’90/Greens collation of Germany on March 2003. The goal was to reform the German social system and, even more important, the labor market. Focusing on the labor market, the reform was called after the man who created this, Mr. Hartz (Uhlig, 2011). The key change of the reform was the merger between unemployment assistance and supplementary social welfare. The target was to pay unemployment...
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...troubling repetitive rituals. There are more than 200,000 cases in America per year. There is no cure for OCD; however, there are different types of treatments that may help the chronic behaviors associated with this disorder. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder can last for many years and even an entire life span with some people. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a heterogeneous condition characterized by a wide range of symptoms that can be distilled down to a smaller number of unique symptom dimensions (Cordeiro, Sharma, Thennarasu, & Reddy 2015). People with obsessive-compulsive disorder ten to be classified into one of the four major symptom dimensions: symmetry, forbidden thoughts, cleaning, and hoarding. A person’s personality trait significantly contributes to how severe someone’s obsessive compulsive disorder will become (Alonso, 2008). Symmetry – related to obsessive compulsive disorder – is just another way to classify someone as a perfectionist. Most people who fall in this symptom dimension tend to have anxiety when objects aren’t placed where they believe it should be placed. Also, these individuals may have a habitual habit of counting before they do something. An example of this would be a man who cannot brush his teeth in the morning before he counts from one to ten and then from ten back to one. This may cause...
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...IMPACT: International Journal of Research in Business Management (IMPACT: IJRBM) ISSN(E): 2321-886X; ISSN(P): 2347-4572 Vol. 2, Issue 2, Feb 2014, 23-32 © Impact Journals THE IMPACT OF UNCONVENTIONAL MEDIA ON RURAL MASSES SWATI PRIYA1 & POOJA BHATIA2 1 Senior Lecturer, Department of Humanities, Babu Banarsi Das National Institute of Technology and Management, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India 2 Professor and Head, Department of MBA, Babu Banarsi Das National Institute of Technology and Management, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India ABSTRACT The paper discusses the impact of unconventional media on the buying behavior of rural consumers. It also studies the problems and challenges of rural communication in rural Uttar Pradesh and highlights the relevance of non conventional media in rural markets. Non conventional media are effective tools for raising hype about new products or for re-launching existing products. This is particularly true in the case of FMCG products, where the hype generated can propel sales volumes, provided the advertising campaign is appealing and is backed by a good distribution system. The paper elucidates the fall outs of conventional media by highlighting some national advertisement campaigns carried out by corporate giants to communicate with the target audience in rural markets. The authors take up the empirical views in highlighting the relevance of non conventional media by analyzing the national campaigns from secondary data sources. KEYWORDS:...
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...------------------------------------------------- Top of Form | | Bottom of Form * * * Charles Arthur * The Guardian, Wednesday 16 June 2010 15.30 EDT * Jump to comments (99) Why Minority Report was spot on It's only eight years since Steven Spielberg's Minority Report amazed audiences with its futuristic technology. But now science is fast catching up Tom Cruise as John Anderton in Minority Report - an early adopter of gesture-based computing. Photograph: 20th Century Fox The launch of Microsoft's new Kinect games system, which allows players to run, jump, punch and shoot without having to wear strange clothing or hold any kind of controller, has got technology and cinema buffs alike thinking of Tom Cruise again. Specifically, the moment in the film Minority Report when Cruise, playing police chief John Anderton, tries to figure out film footage and computer data by waving his hands around in mid-air to manipulate it: turning it, shrinking it, pushing it aside, revolving it. Give it time: in a few years, we'll more than likely be controlling our computers in a similar way. 1. Minority Report 2. Production year: 2002 3. Country: USA 4. Cert (UK): 12 5. Runtime: 145 mins 6. Directors: Steven Spielberg 7. Cast: Colin Farrell, Max von Sydow, Samantha Morton, Tom Cruise 8. More on this film When Minority Report came out in the summer of 2002 – the iPod was less than a year old and the iPhone and iPad...
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...Analyses for the Market research “Marketing research is the systemic design, collection, analysis and reporting of data relevant to a specific marketing situation facing an organization” -Philip kotler. Marketing is a composes process in a society by which demand structure for economic goods and services anticipated or enlarged and satisfied marketing research is the scientific and controlled process of gathering of non routing marketing information problem. Employee’s marketing efforts starts and ends with customers marketing research is tool to optimize the marketing effort so that we have minimum of waste and maximum of waste and maximum of advantages. It enables identification and analysis of consumer market. Each component of the marketing mix is formulated on the basic of Marketing information and distribution. Marketing research contains steps in it. Que. Are you user of pump or pipe? Table:- |Answer |No. |Percentage | |Yes |35 |87.50 | |No |5 |12.50 | Chart:- [pic] Interpretation:- From the above chart I can say that 87.50% people use the pump or pipe and 12.50% people do not use the...
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...WP/09/173 Counterparty Risk, Impact on Collateral Flows, and Role for Central Counterparties Manmohan Singh and James Aitken © 2009 International Monetary Fund WP/09/173 IMF Working Paper Monetary and Capital Markets Department Counterparty Risk, Impact on Collateral Flows and Role for Central Counterparties Prepared by Manmohan Singh and James Aitken 1 Authorized for distribution by Inci Ötker-Robe August 2009 Abstract This Working Paper should not be reported as representing the views of the IMF. The views expressed in this Working Paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the IMF or IMF policy. Working Papers describe research in progress by the author(s) and are published to elicit comments and to further debate. Counterparty risk in the United States stemming from exposures to OTC derivatives payables (after netting) is now concentrated in five banks―Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and Citi. This note analyzes how such risks have shifted over the past year. We estimate that the adverse impact of counterparty risk on high-grade collateral flows and global liquidity due to decrease in rehypothecation, reduced securities lending, and hoarding of cash by major banks is at least $5 trillion. In order to mitigate counterparty risk, there have been regulatory initiatives to establish central counterparties (CCPs). From a policy perspective, counterparty risk remains large at present and recent experience...
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...on Bangladesh becomes apparent when the Bangladesh Development Forum (previously known as Paris Consortium) meeting is held. This year this meeting was held on May 16 and 17 in Dhaka. In these meetings Finance Minister, Saifur Rahman, met the so-called ‘development partners’ (IMF/World Bank and others) who gathered to pledge money (loan and aid) to help develop the nation. The meetings were hailed a great success as $2 billion in aid were promised to Bangladesh over 3 years. Our governments boast at the amount of funds they can manage from the donor agencies. They present their ability to get money from these donor agencies as a sign of their brinkmanship and claim that this is the only way to solve the nation’s economic problems. In this paper, Hizb ut-Tahrir, Bangladesh exposes the oppressive capitalist nature of the budget and shows how the entire economy of Bangladesh, through a complex package of measures, is being brought under the total grip of the imperialists. ! " # $ % & ' Every year when the budget is presented, one of the most common discussions is that revenue target has not been achieved. Tax is the main source of revenue in Bangladesh (around 95% of total Government of Bangladesh GOB revenue), especially import duties (around 66% of tax revenue). Contribution of VAT (including import) currently stands above 40%. In the name of reform of tax regimes and restructuring of the tax administration, the GOB reduces the duties on luxury items such as new cars...
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...Study of Promotional Strategies for Cars in India 1 Table of Contents 1. Objective 2. Scope of Work 3. Rationale 4. Theoretical Framework and Review of Literature i. ii. iii. iv. Promotional Strategy Promotional Mix Message and Media Strategy Communication Model- AIDA 5. Promotion Process For Cars i. ii. iii. iv. v. vi. vii. viii. ix. Selecting the target market Product and Brand Positioning Promotional Decisions Advertising Direct Marketing Interactive/Interactive Marketing Sales Promotion Publicity/Public Relation Personal Selling 6. Ford Fiesta and its Promotions i. Target Market 2 ii. Adopting offer to suit target segment iii. iv. Market Competition Strategic Promotion of Ford 7. Questionnaire 8. Analyzed Survey Report of the Questionnaire 9. SWOT Analysis 10. SWOT Analysis of Ford Fiesta 11. Conclusion 12. Bibliography 3 Chapter 1 Introduction 4 Objective To study and analyze the elements of Promotional Strategies. Study and analysis of promotional strategies of Ford India for its product Ford Fiesta. Study the customer response regarding the promotions of cars in India. Scope of the Project Study the basic aspects of Promotional Strategies such as Sales Promotion, Personal Selling, Advertising and Publicity. Studying the customer response regarding promotions of cars in India through a questionnaire. Study the promotional strategies of Ford Fiesta with all the tools of promotion. Analyze and interpret the...
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...Drug Profile Paper 5/17/16 PSY/425 Chemical Dependency in the Workplace Stacey Lederberg Explain the psychological and physiology of addiction: Simply put phycology is the understanding of human behavior and physiology is the study of the physical function of humans. In the following paragraphs I will discuss the psychological and physiological issues of addiction. According to psychologists there are a few different causes for addiction. Some people get into an addiction or harmful behavior because of an abnormality. Another reason people get into an unhealthy addiction because of the environment they are in. The last one is someone’s beliefs or thoughts create feelings that cause addiction because these feelings are not realistic. When you think about addiction there are actually quite a few definitions. This is because there are so many substances that are addictive and each one has its own disorder. Addiction can be many things from illegal drugs, prescriptions, inhalants to gambling, hoarding, sex etc. The cause of an addiction has many factors that encompass it including biological, psychological and environmental. Because humans are wired to seek out reward and avoid discomfort it makes sense that addictions pacify the seeking of pleasure and erase pain. In the brain of an addicted person drugs, alcohol or any other substance target the CNS (central nervous system). The substance causes a hostile takeover in the pain-pleasure...
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...Professional Development: Critiquing Research The ability to critique (critically analyse and evaluate) research from both the qualitative and quantitative paradigms is an essential skill for occupational therapists. It is this skill, integrated with expertise gained from clinical practice that underpins evidence based practice (EBP). Although there are many definitions of EBP, Muir Gray (1997) defines it as “an approach to decision making in which the clinician uses the best evidence available, in consultation with the patient, to decide upon the option which suits the patient best." The purpose of this assignment is to enable the development of skills in critical analysis by critiquing a research article, which will contribute to further development of knowledge and skills in using EBP in clinical settings. A framework developed by Hek and Moule (2006) (see pages 3- ) has been used to guide the critique of a research article. A framework was used as Caldwell et al (2010 pg e1) argue that “ frameworks assist the novice healthcare practitioner with learning about approaches to research by giving consideration to aspects of the similarities and differences between the qualitative and quantitative research paradigms.” This framework was chosen as it is comprehensive and covers points/questions raised during the critiquing process, although it is important to remember that it is not a definitive checklist and other...
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...Marketing Plan for Nokia Mobile Phone. [pic] Introduction: Nokia’s Code of Conduct defines the company’s overall principles and commitment towards legal compliance, ethical conduct, human rights, anti-corruption work and environmental protection. These high expectations extend to Nokia partners, subcontractors and suppliers, whom we encourage to strive beyond merely fulfilling legal compliance. This Policy provides further clarification to the principles of the Code of Conduct and Nokia Human Rights Approach regarding illegal trade of natural resources. This policy has been approved by Nokia Corporate Responsibility Steering Group, chaired by Nokia’s Executive Vice President of Corporate Relations and Responsibility. We are concerned about the link between the illegal extraction and trade of natural resources, and associated human rights violations, conflict and environmental degradation. Currently these issues are acute in the Eastern provinces of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the extraction and trade of ores of tantalum, tin, tungsten and gold, which flow to world markets through the DRC and adjoining countries. Once refined, these metals are commonly used within electronic products and by many other industries. Nokia does not procure metals directly and only a fraction of the world’s minerals produce originates from the DRC, but we are taking action to increase transparency, ensure responsible procurement by our suppliers and sub-suppliers, and drive positive...
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...watched the previous year called Beyond the Blackboard and while researching this subject, I found out about how homelessness can affect children’s educational development while they are homeless. At the time, I did not even understand that homelessness can affect children since I had thought only adults were homeless. Looking back, it seems very thoughtless that I only thought adults were affected and my research into this subject led me to see that whole families can be affected by homelessness. Throughout this paper, I plan on talking about the causes of homelessness, the prevalence of homeless, signs that children might be homeless,...
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