background and aims: students experience some degrees of mental disorders during their life. therefore, the present study was conducted to determine the prevalence and risk factors of mental disorders among the secondary school students in ilam, iran. methods: this is a cross sectional study, carried out among the secondary school students in ilam, iran. we assessed 841 students including 446 m...

BACKGROUND A lack of an aetiologically based nosology classification has contributed to instability in psychiatric diagnoses over time. This study aimed to examine the diagnostic stability of psychosis diagnoses using data from an incidence sample of psychosis cases, followed up after 10 years and to examine those baseline variables which were associated with diagnostic change. METHOD Data we...

AIMS Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is of great clinical importance not only because of its high prevalence but also due to the frequent comorbid illnesses that are connected with this disorder. Several studies were able to demonstrate that ADHD constitutes a significant risk factor for the exacerbation of habit-forming illnesses, i.e. addictions. METHODS We conducted a study...

1 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Institute for Astronomy, K.U.Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200B, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium e-mail: [email protected] 2 Sterrenkundig Instituut Anton Pannekoek, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 403 1098 Amsterdam, The Netherlands 3 Institut für Astronomie, ETH Hönggerberg, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 16, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland e-mail: isabelle.chechnneff@ph...

The information published annually by the National Science Foundation on its Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) awardees was used to create an Awardees in Ocean Sciences (AOS) data set. This set shows that women have been successful receiving fellowship award ocean sciences, overall 69% of awards from 1996 through 2021 (458 among 659 awardees). Women comprised at least 50% six sciences...

Pathological gamblers (PG), because of their high level of stress, depression, and alcohol or nicotine consumption may be overexposed to coronary heart disease (CHD). To test this association, we assessed pathological gambling (DSM-IV-TR criteria and South Oaks Gambling Screen scale) among 73 patients hospitalized in cardiology for CHD and 61 in-patients from the same department hospitalized fo...

The rigidity of frameworks examines points constrained by fixed distances between pairs of points, using vocabulary and linear techniques drawn from structural engineering: bars and joints, first-order rigidity and first-order flexes, and static rigidity and static self-stresses (Section 61.1. Section 61.2 describes some extended structures and their applications. Scene analysis and the dual co...

Background/Study Context: Age-related deficits in inhibitory control are well established in some areas of cognition, but evidence remains inconclusive in episodic memory. Two studies examined the extent to which a loss in inhibitory effectiveness-as measured by the extent of retrieval-induced forgetting (RIF)-is only detectable in (1) the very old, and (2) that a failure to control for noninhi...