The Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (SADS), Part I, and the Present State Examination (PSE) are both structured interviews to assess the present psychiatric condition. The present article attempts to provide researchers with information that may help them to decide which of the two instruments would be most suitable for their purposes. We describe the similarities and differe...

Species abundance distributions (SADs) describe community structure and are a key component of biodiversity theory research. Although different have been proposed to represent SADs at scales, systematic empirical assessment how SAD shape varies across wide scale gradients is lacking. Here, we examined 11 large-scale datasets for range taxa used maximum likelihood methods compare the fit logseri...

Senescent cells have a case of the SADS C ells unravel their centro-meres as they enter senes-cence, Swanson et al. reveal. Senescent cells are metabolically active but no longer capable of dividing. This permanent exit from the cell cycle can be induced by the telomere shortening associated with aging or by other stresses such as the expression of active onco-genes. Despite the importance of s...

BACKGROUND: Several studies have demonstrated that South African children and adolescents are exposed to high levels of violent trauma with a significant proportion developing PTSD, however, limited resources make it difficult to accurately identify traumatized children. METHODS: A clinical interview (K-SADS-PL, selected modules) and self-report scale (CATS) were compared to determine if these ...

BACKGROUND Resuscitation guidelines recommend that chest compressions should continue throughout attempts to place airway devices. Few data support the use of the tracheal tube over supraglottic airway devices (SADs) during cardiopulmonary arrest. This study was designed to evaluate the speed with which different airway devices could be placed with and without interrupting chest compressions. ...

Face recognition is important in human identification. The biological recognition technique acts as a good method and broad applications in security areas. This work presents a method to improve the face recognition accuracy using a combination of Principal Component Analysis (PCA), and Wavelet Transform. Wavelet Transform is used to decompose the input image with different levels and rearrange...

Adsorption isotherms and specific retention volumes of benzene on MCM41C16 mesoporous silica and F4O porous carbon were determined at different temperatures by employing inverse gas chromatography. The differential isosteric enthalpies, -∆Hads , and entropies, -∆Sads , of adsorption were calculated from the retention time data and compared with the results obtained from the adsorption second vi...

Species abundance distributions (SADs) have played a historical role in the development of community ecology. They summarize information about the number and the relative abundance of the species encountered in a sample from a given community. For years ecologists have developed theory to characterize species abundance patterns, and the study of these patterns has received special attention in ...