A population study comparing screening performance of prototypes for depression and anxiety with standard scales

Abstract Background Screening instruments for mental disorders need to be short, engaging, and valid.Current screening instruments are usually questionnaire-based and may be opaque to the user.A prototype approach where individuals identify with a description of an individual with typical symptoms of depression, anxiety, social phobia or panic may

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Kick Control: Using the Attracting States Arising Within the Sensorimotor Loop of Self-Organized Robots as Motor Primitives

Self-organized robots may develop attracting states within the sensorimotor loop, that is within the phase space of neural activity, body and environmental Glasses variables.Fixpoints, limit cycles and chaotic attractors correspond in this setting to a non-moving robot, to directed, and to irregular locomotion respectively.Short higher-order contro

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The impact of oil on the economic situation in Iraq 1918-1945

The oil policy of the Iraqi government after 1921 was characterized by confusion, confusion, and lack of clarity.The foreign oil company controlled Iraqi oil through the sharing of Iraqi oil between the governments of Western countries through what was given to it by the San Remo conference in 1920.Where the Turkish Douches Oil Company got a percen

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