Although Superintendent of Lingfield Colony for 30 years, Dr. Fox was always firm in his belief that colony life was only essential for a minority of patients, and even for them that it should only be regarded as a period for stabilization and drug adjustment. It was one of his greatest satisfactions that the last 10 or 15 years showed such startling changes in drug therapy. He often said that ...

When faculty member Pol ly Fordyce was 6, she liked to take a journey across 40 orders of magnitude. Her father, who worked for NASA at the time, would take her to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., where together they would watch a 1977 short film called Powers of Ten. The film begins with a couple having a picnic at a lakeside park in Chicago. An overhead view zooms out so...

Polyp bailout is an established but understudied coral stress response that involves the detachment of individual polyps from the colonial form as means of escaping unfavourable conditions. This may influence both the mortality and asexual recruitment of coral genotypes across a range of species. It was first described by Goreau & Goreau (1959) and has been observed in response to numerous stre...

Commentary I f one were to ask pet owners what kind of life they wanted for their pets, the answer invariably would be a happy and healthy one. 1 With today' s increasingly sophisticated clinical services and the proliferation of veterinary specialists, we have effectively addressed the " healthy " aspect of pet owners' desires. But veterinary medicine has not addressed the " happy " aspect. 2 ...

Some of the workers in the dustier parts of a cotton mill (cardand blow-rooms) develop byssinosis. They experience tightness of the chest and breathlessness on Mondays or on the first day at work after an absence; these symptoms come on gradually, reaching a peak during the afternoon or early evening. In the early stages (Grade I) the workers feel quite fit by the next day; in the more severely...

BACKGROUND Birth of a child with cleft lip and palate, as a crisis, can affect family relationships and interactions seriously and hence self-esteem in family members. The present study was conducted to investigate the effect of a happiness training program on self-esteem in the mothers of children with cleft lip and palate. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this quasi-experimental study, 64 mothers o...

Objectives: This work aims to test the hypothesis that PhD students are more at risk oflarge fluctuations in the normalized happiness index. Methods: A retrospective cohort study of one male PhD student born in 1981 was con-ducted. The normalized happiness index of the PhD student was monitored during fiveyears and compared to a control group where none of the objects had been expos...