This is a book out of the common run, for it deals with the obvious. Such a statement may seem a paradox, but is not really so, for English-speaking peoples are disinclined to dissect their own feelings or to criticise what custom had ordained as most suitable for them. Mr. Popenoe is somewhat of a casuist, but he makes out a good case for monogamy and a large family, the latter an ideal which ...

a cne vulgaris is a ubiquitous disease, and its potential to cause significant psychological repercussions was first described over 55 years ago. “There is no single disease which causes more psychic trauma, more maladjustment between parents and children, more general insecurity and feelings of inferiority and greater sums of psychic suffering than does acne vulgaris.” Acne is the leading caus...

CONTEXT Research on adolescent condom use often focuses on the influence of parents, peers and environmental factors. Although most sexually active teenagers have sex within dating relationships, little is known about associations between the characteristics of these relationships and consistency of condom use. METHODS Data on 269 participants in Wave 1 of the Toledo Adolescent Relationships ...

During the American war in Vietnam, huge quantities of the highly toxic herbicide dioxin ('Agent Orange'), were sprayed over large areas of central and south Vietnam. In addition to polluting the environment and causing cancers and other diseases in those directly exposed to it, dioxin has caused high rates of pregnancy loss, congenital birth defects and other health problems in their children....

BACKGROUND Despite years of experience with vitamin K antagonist-associated bleeding events, there is still no evidence to help identify the optimal treatment with prothrombin complex concentrates. Variable dosing and fixed dose strategies are being used. In this observational prospective two-cohort study, we aimed to assess the non-inferiority of a low fixed PCC dose (1,040 IU Factor IX) compa...

AIM We aimed to investigate the non-inferiority of PA21 (sucroferric oxyhydroxide) to sevelamer hydrochloride (sevelamer) in terms of efficacy and safety in Japanese haemodialysis patients with hyperphosphataemia. METHODS In this Phase III, open-label, multicentre study, 213 haemodialysis patients with hyperphosphataemia were randomized to PA21 or sevelamer treatment for 12 weeks. The primary...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to measure the effect of an iPad-based asynchronous curriculum on emergency medicine resident performance on the in-training exam (ITE). We hypothesized that the implementation of an asynchronous curriculum (replacing 1 hour of weekly didactic time) would result in non-inferior ITE scores compared to the historical scores of residents who had participated in th...

Individuals are recruited during an accrual period of R years (or months or days). They are followed for an additional period of time until a total of T years is reached. Hence, the follow-up period is T-R years. At the end of the study, the non-inferiority logrank test is conducted at significance level α with power 1− β . Under the proportion hazards assumption, the hazard ratio HR = h2 / h1 ...

Objective: For decades, both theory and research have focused on the role of self-esteem and shame in constructing narcissistic traits. However, studies on the exact relationship between these two and overt and covert facets of narcissism have been equivocal.  Methods: The current study is correlational. It examined these relationships among 308 Iranian college students (155 males, 153 femal...