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“Diogenes Syndrome” Revisited

Diogenes syndrome refers to a condition with distinct self hoarding behaviours, severe self-neglect, filthy personal appearance and surroundings and social isolation. A broad range of co-morbidities exist, from Parkinson’s disease and frontal lobe dementia to learning disability, schizophrenia, depression and obsessive compulsive disorder amongst others. Recognition of the condition is importan...

Diogenes Syndrome: A Case Report

Cessation of normal skin cleansing seen in geriatric or self-neglected patients can cause accumulation of keratinous crusts on the skin. In the extreme end of this spectrum is a condition known as Diogenes syndrome (DS). These patients may have psychiatric disorders like paranoid disorders, mood affection, or temporofrontal dementia. Subjects are mainly the elderly but few cases in younger age ...

2-absorbing $I$-prime and 2-absorbing $I$-second submodules

Let $R$ be a commutative ring and let $I$ be an ideal of $R$. In this paper, we will introduce the notions of 2-absorbing $I$-prime and 2-absorbing $I$-second submodules of an $R$-module $M$ as a generalization of 2-absorbing and strongly 2-absorbing second submodules of $M$ and explore some basic properties of these classes of modules.

DIOGENES: A Distributed Search Agent

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