I venture the opinion that in the past twenty-five years pediatrics, both in knowledge and in practice, has made as marked progress as have any of the older services of the Johns Hopkins Hospital in the half century now being celebrated. Without making any attempt to prove this assertion, I should like to assemble certain pertinent facts most of which could be demonstrated easily from data in t...

Using an open ended question along with Holme's and Rahe's Social Readjustment Rating Schedule on a sample of two hundred adult subjects, a suitable scale of stressful life events experienced by the Indian population was constructed and standardized for two time spaces, that is, last one year and life time. Analysis of various demographic variables for this population revealed no differences on...

Emotional disturbances in children and adolescents may be explained basing on different aetiological theories. One of them is the attachment theory created by Bowlby. It stresses the relationships between the characteristic of children's relations with caregivers and their behaviours, which might be described as symptoms in certain circumstances. Attachment behaviours should not be treated as t...

perfectionism, anxiety sensitivity and sleep disturbance are among the main causes of generalizing anxiety disorder. this study aims to compare perfectionism, anxiety sensitivity and sleep disturbance between patients with generalizing anxiety disorder (gad) and control group. the present study was a cross-sectional and ex-post facto investigation (causal comparative method). statistical univer...

quality of sleep and its correlating factors in residents of kahrizak nursing home     aliasgharpoor m [1] , eybpoosh s [2] *     received: 15may, 2011 accepted: 27july, 2011     abstract   background & aims : information on sleep quality of elderly people and its correlating factors helps to develop proper strategies to minimize or maximize their effect. this study was conducted as little is k...

[Purpose] This study aimed to determine whether or not problems with gait and balance occur when incorrect information is given visually. [Subjects and Methods] Fifty healthy adults wore goggles that caused visual distortion and viewing angle reduction, and their balance and gait velocities were measured in an upright position. The goggles could be set to three different levels of visual distor...

in this paper, a nonlinear model of the underactuated six degrees of freedom (6 dof) quadrotor helicopter was derived based on the newton-euler formalism. a new nonlinear robust control strategy was proposed to solve the stabilizing and path following problems in presence of external disturbances and parametric uncertainties. the proposed control structure consist of a sliding mode control base...

abstract background: the prevalence of disordered eating behaviors has been reported to increase in recent decades; therefore, the search for specific psychological variables that may contribute to the etiology of this disorder is of great importance. the current study examined the mediating role of the emotion regulation difficulties on the relationship between body image disturbance and disor...