Schizophrenia has baffled psychiatrists since its nosological identification by Kraepelin in 1896. In the study of schizophrenia, adherents of biochemical, psychophysiological, and psychological etiologies have vied to exert the primacy of their orientations. Different explanatory levels are not in conflict when a general systems approach is used as suggested by Grinker (I969 and in press). Gen...

A lab-scale SBR equipped with a flat sheet membrane in submerged configuration that is named MSBR was used for the treatment of composting leachate. It was fed by biologically treated leachate with overall 70-1360 mg/L Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD). The values of pH, Electrical Conductivity (EC), and Dissolved Oxygen (DO) were monitored r...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effects of integrated treatment for patients with a first episode of psychotic illness. DESIGN Randomised clinical trial. SETTING Copenhagen Hospital Corporation and Psychiatric Hospital Aarhus, Denmark. PARTICIPANTS 547 patients with first episode of schizophrenia spectrum disorder. INTERVENTIONS Integrated treatment and standard treatment. The integrated tre...

Delhi, the capital city of India is facing many problems of water shortage which are exacerbated by the population growth, urbanization, industrialization and migration. As part of the WP 7.9 of the TECHNEAU integrated project, the feasibility of the OBM process combined with river bank filtration to provide a sustainable and safe drinking water supply for Delhi is investigated within this repo...

Reclamation and reuse programs are an indispensable part of integrated water resource management, particularly in arid and semi arid regions. Yet, the feasibility of sustainable application not only is relied on design, operation and maintenance of wastewater treatment plants, but also could be influenced by the economical and environmental aspects of reuse demands. This study is aimed to illus...

Integrated treatment planning for cancer patients has high importance in intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT). Direct aperture optimization (DAO) is one of the prominent approaches used in recent years to attain this goal. Considering a set of beam directions, DAO is an integrated approach to optimize the intensity and leaf position of apertures in each direction. In this paper, first, ...

BACKGROUND Because early illness course and outcome may affect the long-term outcome of schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, it is especially important to address poor outcome in this early critical period. AIMS To evaluate whether integrated treatment compared with standard treatment reduced the proportion of patients with poor clinical and social outcome after 1 year. METHOD A total of 547 p...

the present study was conducted to investigate the yield and some morphological characteristics of echinacea purpurea. the experiment was conducted in research farm of the ramin agriculture and natural resources university of khuzestan during 2013- 2014. the experiment was performed as a split plot factorial based on a randomized complete block design (rcbd) with four replications. the foliar a...

The objective was to study how integrated therapy with Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and Western medicine regulated the immune function of the body by analysing its effects on lymphocytes and T-lymphocyte subpopulations in patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Forty-seven patients with SARS were randomly allocated to either the integrated treatment group or the group trea...