Diagnostic Categories: Provisional, Not Otherwise Classified, or Place-holder?

Descarto-ackermanno-filkornised systems: Why?, How?, Why not otherwise? or Why not, otherwise!

This paper is a result of more than 3 decades of intensive research and development. It exhibits several keys to understanding and conceiving technologies considered or even proved by the standards of modern science as impossible to produce, such as, for instance, the automated synthesis of recursive programs. The paper shows a direction that allows to escape from limits of contemporary science...

The DSM diagnostic criteria for paraphilia not otherwise specified.

The category of "Not Otherwise Specified" (NOS) for DSM-based psychiatric diagnosis has typically retained diagnoses whose rarity, empirical criterion validation or symptomatic expression has been insufficient to be codified. This article reviews the literature on Telephone Scatologia, Necrophilia, Zoophilia, Urophilia, Coprophilia, and Partialism. Based on extant data, no changes are suggested...

Market Oriented or Not: A Gender Situation Analyses of Small Holder Sweet potato Farmers in South East Nigeria

Farmers can only be market oriented if his/her production plan follows market signals and produce commodities that is more marketable. In other to achieve this, this study provided empirical evidence on the Gender analyses of market orientation in South Eastern, Nigeria. A stratified sampling design was used to select 360 sample respondents in 2017. Market Orientation Index (MOI) and Heckit sel...

trigeminal neuralgia-divided but not classified

Diagnostic categories in rheumatology.

There is an increasing trend for the development of rheumatological 'diagnostic criteria'. This trend is based on the view that we can get progressively closer to ideal patient classification by refining such criteria. I would like to argue that this approach is futile and must be replaced by a method which allows efficient data handling, both for practical clinical management and for scientifi...