Since prehistoric times, left-handed individuals have been ubiquitous in human populations, exhibiting geographical frequency variations. Evolutionary explanations have been proposed for the persistence of the handedness polymorphism. Left-handedness could be favoured by negative frequency-dependent selection. Data have suggested that left-handedness, as the rare hand preference, could represen...

OBJECTIVE To provide some general recommendations for psychiatric assessment of depression among Chinese patients within a predominately Western society. METHOD A literature review is provided with interpretive comments. RESULTS The prevalence of depression reported in community studies undertaken in Chinese communities is very low. To what extent Chinese people experience and seek help for...

There is a small but important group of epileptics who live in the epileptic colonies and also at St Faith's Hospital, Brentwood, which is the sole remaining National Health Service Hospital dealing exclusively with epileptic patients. St David's Hospital, Edmonton, was a similar hospital for male epileptics, but it was amalgamated with St Faith's Hospital several years ago. Altogether about 30...

Today, it is rightly considered that issues related to the selection and use of tools and methods with which the resocialization (treatment) is realized, has increasingly become the main issue of penology. The issues that occur as most actual and typical will be examin edhere in shortlines. Usually, when it comes to general principles the notion treatment, deals with all criminal sanctions, but...

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Acute rheumatic fever is a major cause of heart disease in large parts of the world, but it remains unknown why only a small fraction of those who are infected with rheumatogenic group A streptococci develop an abnormal immune response that leads to acute rheumatic fever. An understanding of the mechanisms underlying host susceptibility can provide important insights into pathogenesis that in t...

This paper reports the results of a study of college students in the US that examined specific learner characteristics affecting satisfaction with e-learning courses. It finds that satisfaction is largely governed by the degree to which one is confident in one’s ability to regulate the factors that influence course work and one’s goals in taking them. These goals can be both in terms of grades ...