In his recent book ”Test-Driven Development” [1], Kent Beck describes briefly the concept of ”Acceptance-Test Driven Development”, and is broadly sceptical to whether it will work. After a successful project that used this technique, we wish to argue in favour of it and the TextTest [7] tool that we have built up around it. We have found that a working XP process can be built based around using...

METHODS: Seventy-five women aged between 18 and 65 years were enrolled. Patients had undergone conservative surgery for breast cancer with immediate breast reconstruction (n = 25) or without breast reconstruction (n = 25) at least one year before the study. The control group consisted of 25 women without cancer, but of similar age and educational level distribution as the other two groups. The ...

Present investigation is an attempt to examine the affective components i.e. anxiety and depression among the heroin addicts (N=50) and its comparison with their normal counterparts (N=50). Anxiety Scale and Beck-Depression Inventory (BDI) tests were administered on both the samples of heroin addicts and normal groups. Test Scores were analysed using one way ANOVA. The results showed significan...

aChange in Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS) (A) and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) (B) mixed-model analysis results are noted on figures, with *P < .05 and **P < .01 on a last-observationcarried-forward paired t test (gray bar represents remission cut-off). The relationship between acute improvement after ketamine (day 1) vs improvement after 8 weeks of d-cycloserine treatment (C) is sh...

The aim of this study was to explore the role of body image, posttraumatic growth, and emotional state in recovery after transplantation. A total of 53 kidney transplant patients were assessed using our Self-Test and Organ Drawing Test, the Spielberger Anxiety Inventory, the Beck Depression Inventory, and the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory in a 3-year follow-up. Logistic regression analysis sho...

BACKGROUND Studies conducted on infertile women in the literature investigated some features such as depression, anxiety, loneliness, and social support. However, there has been no study examining the relationship between levels of perceived social support and depression in infertile women. Considering this deficiency, the study was conducted to determine the relationship between perceived soci...

In the late sixties F. W. LAWVERE showed that the logical connectives and quantifiers were examples of the categorical notion of adjointness. In [9] and [lo] he amplified this notion by a more thorough discussion of the structure of a hyperdoctrine, which had much of the flavour of intuitionistic logic with equality. In this eontext it was natural to “stratify” formulae and proofs according to ...

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AIM To determine overall and subgroup prevalence of depressive symptomatology among university students in Denizli, Turkey during the 1999-2000 academic year, and to investigate whether sociodemographic factors were associated with depressive symptoms in university students. METHODS A stratified probability sample of 504 Turkish university students (296 male, 208 female) was used in a cross-s...