Suffering Like a Broken Toy

Mental Suffering in Protracted Political Conflict: Feeling Broken or Destroyed

PURPOSE This mixed-methods exploratory study identified and then developed and validated a quantitative measure of a new construct of mental suffering in the occupied Palestinian territory: feeling broken or destroyed. METHODS Group interviews were conducted in 2011 with 68 Palestinians, most aged 30-40, in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip to discern local definitions of func...

A Broken Metallic Tracheostomy Tube

Exocrine pancreatic adenocarcinoma in a toy breed dog

A 4-year-old female miniature pincher with a 40-day history of weight loss, lethargy and vomiting was referred to Small Animal Hospital, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran. The case also had severe jaundice, chronic diarrhoea and steatorrhoea. The efforts for saving the life of the case were not successful and finally the animal died of hypovolaemic shock and electrolyte imbal...

A toy climbing robot

We built a simple toy climbing robot in order to explore problems related to minimalist grasping, path planning, and robot control. The robot is capable of climbing a wall of pegs either under remote control, or on the basis of a set of pre-recorded keyframes. In addition, the robot can climb certain peg configurations using a cyclic gait. All communications are sent through an infrared connect...

Broken Symmetry and Josephson-like Tunneling in Quantum Hall Bilayers

The various quantum Hall effects are among the most remarkable many-body phenomena discovered in the second half of the twentieth century. 2, 3, 4 The fractional effect has yielded fractional charge, spin and statistics, as well as unprecedented order parameters. There are beautiful connections with a variety of different topological and conformal field theories of interest in nuclear and high ...