Morbid obesity is a disease of modern society. Surgery is indicated when there is no endocrinopathy, medical treatment failed and Body Mass index (W/H2) is more than 40 (III degree obesity of Garrow). Many different methods were suggested in connection with the type of obesity, the associated diseases and the psychical state of the patient. Jejuno-ileal by-pass intend to produce a generic malab...

The current investigation sought to examine the learning and target needs of mechanical engineering (ME) students based on the learners and instructors’ attitudes though an explanatory mixed-method design. To elicit learners’ perceptions of English for Science and Technology (EST), 114 ME undergraduate students and 13 EST instructors from four Iranian state universities took part in a large qua...

BACKGROUND Workplace aggression constitutes a serious problem in individual, organizational and social cause-effect relations. The aim is to determine the prevalence of such aggression on the pilot sample to test the appropriateness of the research design for the further conduct of a national survey on the specified topic. SUBJECTS AND METHODS The sample included 113 employees in the city of ...

paintings, complemented by quotations of the artist, are a highlight of the book. Patrick Lacoste's discussion of psychoanalytic approaches to pain is dense and difficult. He discusses three separate phenomena-psychogenic bodily pain, neurotic psychical pain and psychotic suffering. He depicts psychogenic pain as a defence, an avoidance of an encounter with something even more unbearable. His t...