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M Gini

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PubMed2000

Emotional availability in the mother-infant dyad as related to the quality of infant-mother attachment relationship.

Dyadic emotional availability and infant-mother attachment relationship were examined in 687 Israeli dyads. Concurrent assessments used the Strange Situation procedure (Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters, & Wall, 1978) for evaluating infants' attachment relationship, and the Emotional Availability Scales (Biringen, Robinson, & Emde, 1993) for evaluating the quality of mother-child interaction. It was found that higher scores on the Emotional Availability Scales were associated with infant attachment security. In addition, it was found that the Emotional Availability Scales discriminated between insecure-ambivalent and secure attachment classification, but were not informative about unique characteristics of emotional availability in dyads with avoidant and disorganized infants. Our findings contribute to the cross-cultural validation of Emotional Availability Scales against infants' attachment security.

Emotions↗
PubMed1997

Diagnosing congenital heart defects using the Fallot computational model.

This paper describes a computational model developed for the diagnosis of multiple defects. If multiple defects interact, meaning that the cues observable for multiple defects are not a sum of the cues observable for the component defects, diagnosis is particularly difficult. We developed a description and classification of the ways cues change when defects interact. A computational model (named Fallot) was implemented and a knowledge-base was constructed for the diagnosis of congenital heart defects. On each case, Fallot performs recognition-based reasoning followed by solution construction and evaluation with the cue combination methods. Fallot was tested on cases from hospital files and correctly diagnoses cases with multiple interacting defects for which conventional methods are not applicable or fail.

Abnormalities, Multiple↗
PubMed1985

Use of a combination of an anti-inflammatory corticosteroid, an antibacterial agent and an antifungal in the local post-operative treatment of cutaneo-mucosal diseases following cryosurgery.

Forty-two patients undergoing cryosurgery for skin diseases were treated by means of the simultaneous application of three creams, the respective bases of which were beclomethasone dipropionate, sodium fusidate and ketoconazole. The treatment produced excellent results, preventing bacterial and/or mycotic superinfections and relieving the edema and erythema caused by the operation in 97.6% of cases. Local tolerance was optimal in all cases; no adverse reactions of any kind being reported.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1980

A serial model for computer assisted medical diagnosis.

In this paper we discuss a simple model for an interactive consultation system for medical applications. That system was developed to provide consultative advice on diagnosis of arthritis, but it could be easily applied to a different class of diseases. We examine in particular how the determination of the appropriate sequence of diagnostic tests that have to be performed on the patient can be optimised by the use of a decision table, in which the medical knowledge is shown. We begin with a review of features which were seen to be essential to a consultation system for medical applications and we suggest how these requirements imply program design criteria. This is followed by a formal explanation of the proposed model and its fundamental assumptions. The last part of the paper is then devoted to a report of our experience with the experimental computer system.

Arthritis↗