BACKGROUND Repetition of deliberate self-harm (DSH) is a risk factor for suicide. Little information is available on the risk for specific groups of people who deliberately harm themselves repeatedly. AIMS To investigate the long-term risk of suicide associated with repetition of DSH by gender, age and frequency of repetition. METHOD A mortality follow-up study to the year 2000 was conducte...

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a term that describes a variant of a Strong AI revival in the mind sciences. Irrespective of its definition limits, and leaving aside the non-scientific metaphysical or philosophical aspirations, AGI studies the feasibility and implementation aspects of artificial systems that would have the capacity of domain non-specific (domaingeneral) human-level int...

OBJECTIVE Rates of hospital presentation for self-harm in England were compared using different national and local data sources. DESIGN The study was descriptive and compared bespoke data collection methods for recording self-harm presentations to hospital with routinely collected hospital data. SETTING Local area data on self-harm from the 3 centres of the Multicentre Study of Self-harm in...

Why Do Individuals Choose Self-Employment? This paper undertakes an analysis of the motivating factors cited by the self-employed in the UK as reasons for choosing self-employment. Very limited previous research has addressed the question of why individuals report that they have chosen self-employment. Two questions are addressed using large scale labour force survey data for the UK. The first ...

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a debilitating disease which can affect general health and life' satisfaction. This study aimed to determine dimensions of adaptation, general health, and life satisfaction in MS patients. This study was a cross-sectional that samples were selected from MS patients in 2015. Data was collected by using a demographic questionnaire, Roy Adaptation Model (RAM), General He...

OBJECTIVE The specific objectives of this study were to examine variation in the care of self-harm patients in hospital settings and to identify the factors that predict recommended next care following self-harm. METHODS Data on consecutive presentations to Irish emergency departments (EDs) involving self-harm from the National Self-Harm Registry Ireland from 2004 to 2012 were utilised. Univa...

BACKGROUND Older adults have elevated suicide rates. Self-harm is the most important risk factor for suicide. There are few population-based studies of self-harm in older adults. AIMS To calculate self-harm rates, risk factors for repetition and rates of suicide following self-harm in adults aged 60 years and over. METHOD We studied a prospective, population-based self-harm cohort presentin...

in this paper, we find explicit solution to the operator equation$txs^* -sx^*t^*=a$ in the general setting of the adjointable operators between hilbert $c^*$-modules, when$t,s$ have closed ranges and $s$ is a self adjoint operator.