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Setting phenotypes in a mutual help organization: expanding behavior setting theory.

Expands Barker's theory of behavior settings by proposing an additional method of classifying settings based on their functional/behavioral aspects--the setting phenotype. Although behavior setting theory has been widely hailed as a revolutionary contribution to behavioral science, it has had limited impact on general psychology. This may be due in part to a reliance on a purely structural method of classifying behavior settings--the setting genotype. Behavioral data were collected from 510 meetings of 13 self-help groups from a mutual help organization for persons with problems in living. A cluster analysis was performed to uncover meaningful behavioral patterns among the groups. Four phenotypes were identified: personal, impersonal, small talk, and advising. Mutual help group phenotype was found to be related to a set of setting characteristics as well as to overall rated change of group members. The results are discussed in light of the significance of the phenotype construct for making behavior setting theory more relevant for social scientists.

Activities of Daily Living

National standard setting for quality of care in general practice: attitudes of general practitioners and response to a set of standards.

The Nederlands Huisartsen Genootschap (NHG), the college of general practitioners in the Netherlands, has begun a national programme of standard setting for the quality of care in general practice. When the standards have been drawn up and assessed they are disseminated via the journal Huisarts en Wetenschap. In a survey, carried out among a randomized sample of 10% of all general practitioners, attitudes towards national standard setting in general and to the first set of standards (diabetes care) were studied. The response was 70% (453 doctors). A majority of the respondents said they were well informed about the national standard setting initiatives instigated by the NHG (71%) and about the content of the first standards (77%). The general practitioners had a positive attitude towards the setting of national standards for quality of care, and this was particularly true for doctors who were members of the NHG. Although a large majority of doctors said they agreed with most of the guidelines in the diabetes standards fewer respondents were actually working to the guidelines and some of the standards are certain to meet with a lot of resistance. A better knowledge of the standards and a more positive attitude to the process of national standard setting correlated with a more positive attitude to the guidelines formulated in the diabetes standards. The results could serve as a starting point for an exchange of views about standard setting in general practice in other countries.

Attitude of Health Personnel

Determination of phenotypes of esterases (Set) in fresh saliva and saliva stains by disc electrophoresis and the distribution of Set phenotypes in the Japanese population.

A rapid and simple disc electrophoretic technique for the determination of saliva esterase (Set) types is described. The frequency of Set types was F 16.4%, FS 49.8% and S 33.8%. The estimated gene frequency of Set-1F was 0.413 and of Set-1S was 0.587. An accurate determination of Set types was possible in 5--7 week-old saliva stains. This system may be useful in medicolegal applications.

Electrophoresis, Disc

Effect of single setting versus multiple setting training on learning to shop in a department store.

The effects of single versus multiple setting training on the generalization of shopping skills to untrained department stores were analyzed. One group received training in a single department store and the other, in three different stores. Measures were taken on operational behaviors, social behaviors, number of settings in which criterion performance was achieved, and number of sessions required to achieve criterion within the training settings. No differences between groups were found as a result of training condition. We concluded that for some individuals with mental retardation, training in either single or multiple settings may be sufficient for generalization.

Adolescent

Freedom Set II--a Y-set CAPD system with a novel design.

The Freedom Set II is designed with a three-way valve to control the direction of dialysate flow thus simplifying the procedure and decreasing training time. Twenty-four patients from two centers were trained on the Freedom Set II and were observed for ninety patient months. Five patients who had been on other bagless systems expressed their preference for the Freedom Set II. The peritonitis rate for the observation period was one episode every 21 patient months. We conclude that the Freedom Set II provides safe, cost-effective dialysis and simplifies the CAPD procedure.

Consumer Behavior

Effects of changes in articulator settings on generated occlusal tracings. Part II: Immediate side shift, intercondylar distance, and rear and top wall settings.

An occlusal scribing device attached to a fully adjustable articulator was used to generate occlusal tracings. The tracings were analyzed to determine the effect changes in immediate side shift, intercondylar distance, and rear and top wall settings had on molar occlusal morphology. When ranked from greatest to least effect, a 0.2 mm change in the immediate side shift setting had the greatest effect on the occlusion, whereas a 5-degree change in the rear and top wall settings had the least effect.

Centric Relation

Immunoregulatory circuits among T-cell sets. I. T-helper cells induce other T-cell sets to exert feedback inhibition.

These experiments test the hypothesis that cells carrying the Ly1+23- surface phenotype are programmed exclusively for helper and not suppressive activity regardless of external conditions such as the mode or type of antigen stimulation. To this end, we have stimulated purified populations of Ly1 cells with antigen in vitro using conditions devised to induce unselected T cells to express optimal levels of antigen specific T-suppressor activity. We find that after such stimulation, Ly1 cells generate SRBC-specific T-helper activity but not T-suppressive activity. These findings establish that the Ly1.2+,2.2/3.2- surface phenotype is a stable, and probably invariant, marker of T cells that are programmed to express only helper activity and have lost the capacity to directly suppress the antibody response. These findings support the concept that the genetic program for a single differentiated set of cells combines information for cell surface phenotype and function. We also demonstrate that antigen-stimulated Ly1 cells, in addition to inducing B cells to secrete antibody, can induce or activate other sets of resting T cells to develop profound suppressive effects. The surface phenotype of this feedback suppressive T-cell set is shown to be: Ly1+2+3+Qa1+. These findings, taken together, indicate that activation of resting Ly123 cells by immune Ly1 TH cells may represent an important homeostatic immunoregulatory mechanism.

Animals

[Comparative studies on the setting time of various phosphate cements and on the effect of differentiated powder-fluid ratios and air humidity on the setting time].

A comparative experimental study served to determine the standard consistency and setting time of various phosphate cements (according to DIN 13903). One of the products under investigation did not comply with standard specifications; therefore, from the viewpoint of setting behaviour, it cannot be recommended for cementing fixed tooth-restorations. It was shown that variations in the powder-liquid ratio affected the setting time, whereas variations in air humidity in the range from 50 to 100% exerted no signficant effects, which might lead to a simplication of material testing and quality control.

Humidity

Unimpaired first-set and second-set skin graft rejection in agammaglobulinemic mice.

B cell and antibody-deprived B10.BR chronically suppressed by rabbit antimouse IgM serum rejected first-set allogeneic skin grafts as rapidly as control mice. We confirmed this finding using BALB/c mice born from B cell-deprived mothers and chronically treated with anti-IgM antibodies. Such mice had previously been shown to be agammaglobulinemic except for the suppressing monoclonal rat antimouse IgM antibody in their serum. These results indicate that in mice neither first nor accelerated second-set skin graft rejection reactions depend upon preexisting natural or specifically induced antibodies.

Agammaglobulinemia

Anxiogenic properties of yohimbine. II. Influence of experimental set and setting.

To study the pharmacological induction of stress along with psychological stress and their possible interaction, 20 mg yohimbine and placebo orally were administered to 8 panic patients on placebo treatment, 7 panic patients on alprazolam treatment and 12 controls in a double-blind crossover design. Two structured situations which can be considered as 'neutral' stressors were included: a mental arithmetic task and a continuous performance task. Mental arithmetic induced robust increases in ratings of panicky, anxiety, nervousness, heart rate and electrodermal activity, while the continuous performance task induced increases exclusively in skin conductance reaction. Patients responded to these tasks less than controls with regard to subjective ratings and electrodermal activity. Yohimbine did not potentiate the response to the tasks in the patients. In controls, heart rate during the mental arithmetic task, but not during rest, was increased after yohimbine. In contrast to other yohimbine challenge studies no panic attacks were observed. It is hypothesized that the experimental design together with an instructional set that reduces expectancy factors and the inclusion of structured and time-limited tasks in a challenge paradigm is able to reduce the anxiogenic effects of yohimbine.

Adaptation, Psychological

Effects of changes in articulator settings on generated occlusal tracings. Part I: Condylar inclination and progressive side shift settings.

An occlusal scribing device attached to a fully adjustable articulator was used to generate occlusal tracings. The tracings were analyzed to determine the effect changes in progressive side shift and condylar inclination settings had on molar occlusal morphology. The progressive side shift adjustment affected the cusp height and ridge and groove position, primarily in the nonworking excursion. The condylar inclination adjustment affected the cusp heights in the protrusive and nonworking excursion without affecting the working excursion.

Dental Articulators

Experimental research of a set as a means of a set as a means of understanding specific characteristics of psychological constitutions.

Primary specific characteristics of psychological reactions, typical of the individual and undoubtedly influencing the formation and dynamics of his character, can be defined as "psychological constitution." Experimental study of peculiarities of an individual's set by the method elaborated by D.N. Uznadze and his school was chosen as a way to elicit psychological constitution. The manner in which the subject creates a model of the situation and the rate at which this model is destroyed when it fails to correspond to the perceptual data, appear to be the central question. A conceptual approach is suggested for evaluation of experimental data as characteristics of the individual's psychological constitution. It turns out thereby to be possible, theoretically and experimentally, to single out 8 basic types of psychological constitutions, or "primary psychotypes."

Humans

Immunoregulatory circuits among T cell sets: effect of mode of immunization on determining which Lyl T cell sets will be activated.

Lyl T cells are able to induce B cells to make antibody and also to induce a resting Lyl23 T cell set to exert potent feedback suppression. Which of these two pathways Lyl T cells take can be influenced by the mode of immunization. In particular, in vitro immunized Lyl T cells are more likely to induce suppression than are Lyl T cells immunized in vivo even when both populations deliver the same amount of help to purified B cells. The feedback suppression induced by the Lyl T cells immunized in vitro can be distinguished from suppression mediated by Ly2+ T cells; in the former case suppression is preceded by a precocious antibody response, whereas suppression mediated by Ly2+ T cells is apparent throughout the entire period of observation.

Animals