The patients' perspective of antipsychotic treatment was largely neglected for a long period. It has only been during the last 10 years, with the development of atypical antipsychotics, that scientific interest in this issue has markedly increased. Numerous studies have shown that the majority of schizophrenic patients are able to fill out a self-rating scale in a meaningful way, and several se...

Abstract Background: Teachers' conceptions of learning and teaching are important for faculty development to result in enduring changes in teaching practices. Until now, studies on these conceptions have mostly focused on traditional, lecture-based curricula rather than on small-group student-centred educational formats, which are gaining ground worldwide. Aim: To explore which factors predict ...

Treatment satisfaction of different mental disorders is still poorly understood, but of high clinical interest. Inpatients of a general psychiatric care hospital were asked to fill out questionnaires on satisfaction and clinical variables at admission and discharge. On the basis of an exploratory approach, differences in treatment satisfaction among diagnostic groups were examined by means of o...

an experiment was carried out in 2008 to investigate the effects of different irrigation regimes, and chickpea cultivars on chickpea production in the khorramabad lorestan. the experiment was split–plot in a randomized complete block design with 3 replications. supplementary irrigation at 8 levels (1-rainfed without irrigation, 2-irrigation after sowing, 3-irrigation at flowering, 4-irrigation ...

The main goal of a congestion avoidance algorithm is to maximize throughput and minimize delay (Jain & Ramakrishnan 1988). While TCP Reno achieves high throughput, it tends to consume all of the bu er space at the bottleneck router, causing large delays. In this paper we propose a simple scheme that modi es TCP Reno's congestion avoidance algorithm by throttling back the opening of the congesti...

The bottleneck in a production-inventory network is commonly taken to be the facility that most limits flow through the network and thus the most highly utilized facility. A further connotation of “bottleneck,” however, is the facility that most constrains system-wide performance or the facility at which additional resources would have the greatest impact. Adopting this broader sense of the ter...

This paper presents an algorithm for nding parallel elimination orders for Gaussian elimination Viewing a system of equations as a graph the algorithm can be applied directly to interval graphs and chordal graphs For general graphs the algorithm can be used to paral lelize the order produced by some other heuristic such as minimum degree In this case the algorithm is ap plied to the chordal com...

In this paper, we analyzed parasitic coupling capacitance coming from dummy metal fill and its impact on timing. Based on the modeling, we proposed two approaches to minimize the timing impact from dummy metal fill. The first approach applies more spacing between critical nets and metal fill, while the second approach leverages the shielding effects of reference nets. Experimental results show ...

Recent advances in polymer solar cell (PSC) performance have resulted from compressing the bandgap to enhance the short-circuit current while lowering the highest occupied molecular orbital to increase the open-circuit voltage. Nevertheless, PSC power conversion efficiencies are still constrained by low fill factors, typically below 70%. Here, we report PSCs with exceptionally high fill factors...